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8800 | Kumbhoj
microscopic Jain community, predominantly agrarian, called Kambhoj living near Nanded in Maharashtra. Kumbhoj was very ancient village where Devi Shakambari has visited. There is a temple of Devi Shakambari which has close relation from Banashankari near Badami. This village was mainly ruled by Brahmins whose s... |
8801 | Kumbhoj
to have lived somewhere on the banks of river Godavari, in southwest India during Ramayana times. Seems like sage Kambhoja originally belonged to northwest and had migrated to south of Vindhya on river Godawri. The Shakambari Madir needs cultivation through Archaeological Survey of India. Kumbhoj is nowadays fa... |
8802 | Kumbhoj
modern facilities This Tirth has small scale replicas of Gajpantha, Taranga, Mangi-Tungi, Sonagiri and Pavagiri on left and Kailash Parvat, Shikharji and Girnarji on right side. Jal Mandir, Ratnatraya temple, Shantinath Temple, Chandaprabhu Temple, Adinath Temple and Samavsharan Mandir are also built near main ... |
8803 | Kumbhoj
is identical to the Bahubali of Shravanabelagola known as Gomateshwar to the south in Karnataka Mahamastakabhishek Mahamastakabhisheka (Maha-mastak-abhishek = Grand religious ablution from head) happens in every 12 years. This pious event runs for continuous 7 days with witnessing thousands of pilgrims across t... |
8804 | "Kosher animals"
Kosher animals Kosher animals are animals that comply with the regulations of kashrut and are considered kosher foods. These dietary laws ultimately derive from various passages in the Torah with various modifications, additions and clarifications added to these rules by Halakha. Various other animal-r... |
8805 | Kumbhoj
4 km from Kumbhoj. Few trains going towards Kolhapur stop at Hatkanangale. For trains running on the Pune-Miraj-Hubli mainline, one can travel from Miraj junction. Vegetarian jain food is served at Miraj junction by Miraj Jain Temple for people travelling via Miraj junction. From Mumbai or Bangalore you can rea... |
8806 | "Kosher animals"
Deuteronomy 14:4-8 also explicitly names 10 animals considered ritually clean: The Deuteronomic passages mention no further land beasts as being clean or unclean, seemingly suggesting that the status of the remaining land beasts can be extrapolated from the given rules. By contrast, the Levitical rules... |
8807 | "Kosher animals"
that naturally live in Canaan, except for primates, and equids (horses, zebras, etc.), which are not mentioned in Leviticus as being either ritually clean or unclean, despite their importance in warfare and society, and their mention elsewhere in Leviticus. In an attempt to help identify animals of amb... |
8808 | "Kosher animals"
(which, like the other ruminant even-toed ungulates, is apparently 'without upper teeth' though some citations.), even though the skulls clearly have both front and rear upper teeth. The Talmud also argues that the meat from the legs of clean animals can be torn lengthwise as well as across, unlike tha... |
8809 | "Kosher animals"
of totemism, that the unclean animals were declared so because they were worshipped by other cultures. Due to comparatively recent discoveries about the cultures adjacent to the Israelites, it has become possible to investigate whether such principles could underlie some of the food laws. Egyptian prie... |
8810 | WTVH
changed that station's call letters to WHEN (AM); it also switched the station's network affiliation to CBS Radio in 1956 matching it with other Meredith-owned outlets. The station became a primary CBS affiliate on January 1, 1949, and also carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC, and DuMont. When the origina... |
8811 | WTVH
1961, WHEN-TV moved to channel 5 swapping channel locations with WROC-TV in Rochester as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revised its Upstate New York allocation table to provide more VHF service in the two cities. In 1963, the WHEN stations moved from their original Court Street studios into a new stat... |
8812 | Asaf-ud-Daula
the Asaf-ud-Dowlah, will receive it from Ali-Moula"" (""Jisko de Moula, usko kya de Asaf-ud-Doula""). The Rumi Darwaza, which stands sixty feet tall, was modeled (1784) after the Sublime Porte (Bab-iHümayun) in Istanbul, is one of the very important examples of the exchange between the two cultures. He di... |
8813 | "Kosher animals"
as crustaceans (lobster, crab, prawn, shrimp, barnacle, etc.), molluscs (squid, octopus, oyster, periwinkle, etc.), sea cucumbers, and jellyfish. Other creatures living in the sea and rivers that would be prohibited by the rules, but are not normally considered seafood, include the cetaceans (dolphin, ... |
8814 | "The Prophecy 3: The Ascent"
Gabriel (who became a human at the end of ""The Prophecy II""). Gabriel acts as Danyael's guardian while Zophael (Vincent Spano) seeks out Danyael. The fate of humankind hangs in the balance as Danyael sets out to confront Pyriel and fulfill his destiny. Danyael Rosales is a street preacher... |
8815 | "The Prophecy 3: The Ascent"
if his heart is removed. One night, a blind assassin shoots Danyael as he preaches before a crowd, but the assassin is driven off before he can take out Danyael's heart. The assassin is then compelled to commit suicide by an unseen force. The angel Zophael goes after Danyael himself with a ... |
8816 | WTVH
WTVH's signal was restored even though, as late as November 12, over-the-air viewers continued to experience breakup of the signal. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WSTM-TV and WSTQ-LP, to Sinclair Broadcast Group. The existing LMA for WTVH was include... |
8817 | WTVH
as of April 2016 pending legal action on the JSA regulations. The group deal also resulted in Sinclair selling its existing Syracuse market station (Fox affiliate WSYT, channel 68) and the LMA and purchase option for MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYS-TV (channel 43) to its sidecar company, Cunningham Broadcasting. Howeve... |
8818 | WTVH
the sale of KSEE to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group in February 2013 and the announced sales of most of Granite's remaining stations to the E. W. Scripps Company and Quincy Newspapers in February 2014, along with the surrender of San Francisco independent station KOFY-TV's spectrum in the 2017 incentive auction, WT... |
8819 | WTVH
2015, when WKTV affiliated its second digital subchannel with the network, WTVH served as the ""de facto"" affiliate for the majority of the Utica market, namely Herkimer County and that area's portion of Oneida County (Otsego County had former sister station WBNG as its default). WTVH was extremely protective of ... |
8820 | WTVH
was sufficient (WTUV would sign on in 1986 as a Fox affiliate). Under Granite's ownership, WTVH did not take advantage of this status in terms of targeted advertising and news coverage focusing on the Utica area. Portions of that market lost access to WTVH's over-the-air broadcasts as a result of the 2009 digital ... |
8821 | WTVH
significantly-viewed status should be removed as it provides no over-the-air coverage to Watertown after the transition to digital. The FCC decided in United's favor, and WWNY-TV is now allowed to black out network and duplicate syndicated programming on WTVH's feed on local cable providers. In 1997, CBS gained th... |
8822 | WTVH
the Syracuse market and it has bounced between the Syracuse and Rochester markets a couple of times. Therefore, WTVH is forced to black out Buffalo Bills games if they do not sell out before a 72-hour deadline prior to kickoff. While WTVH was the default CBS affiliate for the Utica market, unless the Bills hosted ... |
8823 | "Kosher animals"
latter bird in place of the former. Because ""strouthos"" (ostrich) was also used in Greek for the sparrow, a few translations have placed the sparrow among the list. In Arabic, the Egyptian vulture is often referred to as ""rachami"", and therefore a number of translations render ""racham"" as ""gier ... |
8824 | "Kosher animals"
the Syriac Peshitta has owl rather than ""ibis"". Other variations arise from attempting to base translations primarily on the Masoretic Text; these translations generally interpret some of the more ambiguous birds as being various different kinds of vulture and owl. All of these variations mean that m... |
8825 | "Kosher animals"
upon the ground, and animals which dwell in water – not according to modern scientific classification). Most of the remaining animals on the list are either birds of prey or birds living on water, and the majority of the latter in the list also eat fish or other seafood. The Septuagint's version of the... |
8826 | "Kosher animals"
is uncertain of there being a general rule, and instead gives detailed descriptions of the features that distinguish a bird as being ritually clean. The Talmud argues that clean birds would have craws, an easily separated ""double-skin"", and would eat food by placing it on the ground (rather than hold... |
8827 | "Kosher animals"
of the laws against eating certain birds focused on symbolic interpretations; the first indication of this view can be found in the 1st century BC Letter of Aristeas, which argues that this prohibition is a lesson to teach justice, and is also about not injuring others. Such allegorical explanations we... |
8828 | WTVH
long-time journalists in Nancy Duffy died after a long illness. Duffy began her television career at channel 5. Throughout her career, Duffy led the way for women in journalism. She became the first woman police reporter in Central New York after joining the ""Syracuse Herald-Journal"" in 1966. She was Syracuse's ... |
8829 | "Kosher animals"
passed down a tradition of permissibility from generation to generation. Birds for which there has been a tradition of their being kosher include: As a general principle, scavenging birds such as vultures and birds of prey such as hawks and eagles (which opportunistically eat carrion) are unclean. The ... |
8830 | "Kosher animals"
may be kosher in theory, but are not eaten in kosher homes as there is no tradition of them being eaten as such. Pigeons and doves are known to be kosher based on their permissible status as sacrificial offerings in the Temple of Jerusalem. The Orthodox Union of America considers that neither the peafo... |
8831 | "Kosher animals"
kosher bird species. Unlike with land creatures and fish, the Torah doesn't give signs for determining kosher birds; instead it gives a list of unkosher birds, The Talmud also offers signs for determining whether a bird is kosher or not. If a bird kills other animals to get its food, eats meat, or is a... |
8832 | "Kosher animals"
magpies and ravens are not ""kosher"". The storks, kingfishers, penguins and other fish-eating birds are not ""kosher."" specifies that all ""flying creeping things"" were to be considered ritually unclean and goes further, describing all flying creeping things as filth, Hebrew ""sheqets"". Leviticus g... |
8833 | "Kosher animals"
The Mishnah argues that the ritually clean locusts could be distinguished as they would all have four feet, jumping with two of them, and have four wings which are of sufficient size to cover the entire locust's body. The Mishnah also goes on to state that any species of locust could only be considered... |
8834 | "Kosher animals"
all of which are native to the Arabian Peninsula. Due to the difficulties in establishing the validity of such traditions, later rabbinical authorities forbade contact with all types of locust to ensure that the ritually unclean locusts were avoided. specifies that whatever ""goes on its belly, and wha... |
8835 | "Eric Woodward"
née Reid. He and attended Toowoomba Grammar School. At school he did well academically, becoming Captain of the swimming team and playing in the First XV Rugby Team. However, due to his family's financial concerns, he was unable to attend university. Therefore, in 1917 he entered the Royal Military Coll... |
8836 | "Bank myna"
Bank myna Bank myna (""Acridotheres ginginianus"") is a myna found in northern parts of South Asia. It is smaller but similar in colouration to the common myna but differs in having a brick red bare skin behind the eye in place of yellow. It is greyer on the underside and in this and in the presence of a sl... |
8837 | "Bank myna"
from their habit of nesting almost exclusively in the earthen banks of rivers where they excavate holes and breed in large colonies. The head is black on the crown and sides and the upper plumage is slaty grey while the underside is lighter grey with pale pink plumage towards the centre of the abdomen. The ... |
8838 | "Bank myna"
The sexes are indistinguishable in the field. Young birds have a browner head and neck. The species is evolutionarily closest to the common myna. The native range of the bank myna is almost restricted to the Indian subcontinent from the Indus valley in the West, to the Gangetic delta in the East and south o... |
8839 | "Bank myna"
They make use of food scrap disposed by humans, even following catering vehicles at airports to standing aircraft. The distribution was formerly noted to be restricted north roughly of a line between Bombay and Balasore in Orissa, but the species may be expanding its range. They are also common in Pakistan ... |
8840 | "Bank myna"
the name given by Latham from a description by Pierre Sonnerat who described ""Le petit Martin de Gingi"" in 1782, referring to Gingee near Pondicherry in southern India. Thomas C. Jerdon noted in 1863 that the species did not occur in southern India however the species was recorded in the region in 1914 at... |
8841 | "Bank myna"
are gregarious foraging in flocks, breeding colonially and roosting together in trees. They perch on livestock and live in crowded towns allowing close approach, often picking up scraps in markets and dumps. They are vociferous and use a wide range of calls that include clucks, croaks, screeches, whistles a... |
8842 | "Bank myna"
some that are crop pests such as ""Achaea janata"" whose caterpillars feed on castor. Bank mynas have a nesting season from April to July or August, most birds breeding in May and June. The nest is always built in earth walls, on the banks of rivers, embankments or the sides of open wells. They will sometim... |
8843 | "Bank myna"
sloughs. About four of five pale sky blue or greenish-blue eggs is the usual clutch. Two broods may be raised in the same season. The eggs hatch after about 13 to 14 days. Nestlings open their eyes after about 5 days and fledge in about 21 days. About 38% of the eggs hatched into young that fledged in one s... |
8844 | "Amador Valley High School"
Amador Valley High School Amador Valley High School is a comprehensive public high school in Pleasanton, California, United States, a city east of Oakland. The school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School (AVJUHS), which graduated its first class in 1923. The school has been n... |
8845 | "USS Mahopac (1864)"
Yard. She was decommissioned in June and laid up there. ""Mahopac"" was recommissioned on 15 January 1866 and served on the East Coast. Renamed ""Castor"" on 15 June 1869, she resumed her original name on 10 August. The ship was placed in reserve on 11 March 1872 at Hampton Roads, but was recommiss... |
8846 | "USS Mahopac (1864)"
at Richmond from 1889 to 1895. The ship was transferred to League Island, Philadelphia in 1895. She was struck from the Navy List on 14 January 1902 and was sold on 25 March 1902. USS Mahopac (1864) USS ""Mahopac"" was a single-turreted built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The ve... |
8847 | "Bobby Vitale"
Bobby Vitale Bobby Vitale, also known as ""Jerry Forde"" (born June 30, 1965) is an American pornographic actor of Mexican/ Irish descent. He entered the adult film industry in 1995 and had performed in over 418 titles. His filmography included films directed by John Leslie (porn actor). Vitale has direc... |
8848 | "Bobby Vitale"
2004 that left him with a smashed pelvis, crushed urethra and having to use a wheelchair and a colostomy bag temporarily. Having retired in the mid 2000s, Vitale ran a body shop in Southern California for several years. He claimed to be ready to make a comeback to the porn industry in 2011, but nothing e... |
8849 | Maryannu
Maryannu Maryannu is an ancient word for the caste of chariot-mounted hereditary warrior nobility which existed in many of the societies of the Middle East during the Bronze Age. The term is attested in the Amarna letters written by Haapi. Robert Drews writes that the name 'maryannu' although plural takes the ... |
8850 | Maryannu
names. Maryannu Maryannu is an ancient word for the caste of chariot-mounted hereditary warrior nobility which existed in many of the societies of the Middle East during the Bronze Age. The term is attested in the Amarna letters written by Haapi. Robert Drews writes that the name 'maryannu' although plural tak... |
8851 | "The Prophecy II"
chase movie."" Witney Seibold of CraveOnline wrote that the sequel suffers from overfamiliarity and thus becomes ""a pretty rote action thriller"". Nicholas Sylvain of DVD Verdict wrote, ""If you aren't a Walken fan, then you have my sympathies, because there's not much else here for you."" The Prophe... |
8852 | "J. P. Stern"
J. P. Stern Joseph Peter Maria Stern, FBA (25 December 1920 – 18 November 1991), usually cited as J. P. Stern, was an authority on German literature. Born into a Jewish family, he was educated in Prague, Vienna and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took his MA in 1947. During the war he served in th... |
8853 | "J. P. Stern"
German literature, he wrote on Nietzsche, Kafka, Jünger, Rilke and Mann, and edited the series ""Landmarks in World Literature"". One of his most influential works was ""On Realism"" (1973). He was also known for his study ""Hitler: The Führer and the People"", which was translated into several languages.... |
8854 | "Charley Winner"
the end of November, including three consecutive shutouts over the Houston Oilers (44-0), Boston Patriots (31-0) and Dallas Cowboys (38-0 on Monday Night Football in Dallas). With the NFC East championship in sight, however, the Cardinals stumbled in December, losing to the Detroit Lions, New York Gian... |
8855 | "Amador Valley High School"
pans, and a newly hired cook prepared lunches, to be eaten at new tables and benches. The tables and benches were constructed by the custodian and the music teacher from wood of horse stalls formerly on the campus. This project led to the formation of a Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) chapt... |
8856 | "Gregory Widen"
"""", tie-in novels and video games. Widen worked as a firefighter for three years while still an undergraduate at UCLA. He witnessed a person being killed by an explosive backdraft, which became the basis for the screenplay he wrote for the movie ""Backdraft,"" directed by Ron Howard and starring Kurt ... |
8857 | BallenIsles
BallenIsles BallenIsles is a gated community in Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. Three golf courses and a country club are located within the BallenIsles community. The subdivision is bordered on the north by PGA Boulevard, on the east by Military Trail, the south by Northlake ... |
8858 | "Amador Valley High School"
its goals. As selected by the community, six character traits (responsibility, compassion, self-discipline, honesty, respect, and integrity) were listed as ""expected behaviors"" for Pleasanton. In 2004, Amador Valley and the school district won national recognition (National School of Chara... |
8859 | BallenIsles
Bates Golf Design, are reserved for members and their guests. The current PGA National Golf Club is adjacent to the west. There are four golf associations, MGA (Men's Golf Assoc). MSGA (Men's Seniors), WNGA (Women's Nine Hole) and the WGA (Women's Golf). The WGA also holds an annual event on behalf of Play ... |
8860 | "Amador Valley High School"
Valley students are involved in special education, three percent qualify for English language learner support, and two percent qualify for free or reduced price lunch. The school has been deemed a three-time California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a two-time Nati... |
8861 | BallenIsles
variety of dining options, event rooms, card rooms and meeting rooms. Outside the development, the PGA park is near the south gate, and has soccer and track fields for public use. The Palm Beach Gardens Municipal Building park is located near the east gate and has baseball fields for public use as well as p... |
8862 | "Amador Valley High School"
social sciences and visual and performing arts. The school offers specialized instruction through vocational education as part of the valley-wide Regional Occupational Program. Courses offered include computer-assisted drafting, electronics, welding, medical training, and auto body repair. T... |
8863 | "Amador Valley High School"
physical and biological components that allow these organisms (in the creek) to coexist,"" said Eric Thiel, an Amador Valley Biology teacher and a co-founder of the project. ""I hope they walk away able to see how complex ecosystems are."" In 1999, the project received a Golden Bell Award fo... |
8864 | "Alun Owen"
two years during the Second World War, he worked in a coal mine as a ""Bevin Boy"", before moving into repertory theatre as an assistant stage manager. From there he moved into acting, first with the Birmingham Repertory Company and then various other companies, appearing in small roles in films and to a gr... |
8865 | "Alun Owen"
Park"", was produced by the Theatre Royal, Stratford East following its radio debut, and later in the West End. A second play, ""The Rough and Ready Lot"", received its stage debut on 1 June 1959 in a production by the 59 Theatre Company at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith directed by Caspar Wrede and wit... |
8866 | "Alun Owen"
was his first to be written directly for television. Titled ""No Trams to Lime Street"" (1959), the Liverpool-set piece was presented in ABC Television's ""Armchair Theatre"" anthology strand, for which Owen continued to write plays into the 1960s. He also made his feature film scriptwriting debut in 1960, ... |
8867 | "Alun Owen"
television programme ""The Dick Lester Show"" in 1955. The Beatles were keen on Owen, impressed with his depiction of Liverpool in ""No Trams to Lime Street""; Owen spent some time associating with the band's four members to gain an ear for their characters and manners of speech. His resulting script for ""... |
8868 | "Alun Owen"
his main medium, however, and he concentrated on single plays in anthology series such as BBC2's ""Theatre 625"". An episode of ITV's ""Saturday Night Theatre"", three linked plays under the title ""The Male of the Species"" (1969). His 1974 play ""Lucky"" was a rare television representation of Britain's n... |
8869 | "John Northcott"
with the 12th Infantry Battalion on the transport A2, HMAT ""Geelong"" on 20 October 1914. This was one of the first battalions ashore in the landing at Anzac Cove on the first Anzac Day, 25 April 1915. Northcott's part in the battle was brief, for that day he was wounded in the chest by a Turkish bull... |
8870 | "Robert Watt"
Robert Watt Robert Douglas Watt, (born 1945) is a former Canadian museum curator and officer of arms who served as the first Chief Herald of Canada. He was appointed at the foundation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority in 1988, and he was succeeded by Claire Boudreau in 2007. Watt was born in Picton, Onta... |
8871 | "John Northcott"
was not made substantive until 1 October 1923. He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1924 to 1926. On returning to Australia, Northcott served as Staff Officer, and later Director, Stores and Transport, at Army Headquarters in Victoria Barracks, Melbourne. He was appointed a Member (fourth clas... |
8872 | "Robert Watt"
has been awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal. He was made an Honorary Senior Fellow of Renison University College in 1990. He is currently the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel for 12 (Vanco... |
8873 | "Maintaining power"
Maintaining power In horology, a maintaining power is a mechanism for keeping a clock or watch going while it is being wound. The weight drive used by Christiaan Huygens in his early clocks acts as a maintaining power. In this layout, the weight which drives the clock is carried on a pulley and the ... |
8874 | "John Northcott"
Northcott was promoted to the local rank of major general on 13 October 1939, when he was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff. He accompanied Richard Casey to the Dominions' Conference in London in later that year as his military adviser. For his service as Deputy Chief of the General Staff, he... |
8875 | "Maintaining power"
arrow (or by pulling the chain), but during that time the main wheel continues to feel the driving force and the clock will not stop. The principle was later applied by the French clockmaker Robert Robin who automated the re-winding in his remontoire. The drive- and tensioning-weights were made much... |
8876 | "John Northcott"
the AIF serial number VX63396. He was attached to the British 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East to study armoured warfare, returning to Australia in December 1941 to organise the new 1st Armoured Division. The job was a challenging one that some of his subordinates felt that Northcott was not up... |
8877 | "John Northcott"
new post came with a promotion to the temporary rank of lieutenant general on 6 April 1942, which became substantive on 12 December 1945. Northcott was succeeded as commander by Major General Horace Robertson, an officer with a distinguished combat record in the desert. However, on 10 September 1942, N... |
8878 | "John Northcott"
the Master-General of the Ordnance, Major General Leslie, who would formerly have been members of the board, now came under the Lieutenant General Administration (LGA), Lieutenant General Henry Wynter. This left the CGS with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Army. His job also involved l... |
8879 | "John Northcott"
to the Army. He attempted to do so without Blamey being dragged into a political fight but this proved to be impossible. In September 1944, the government reduced the Army's monthly intake of women from 925 to 500, while it only received 420 out of 4,020 men allocated to the three services. Such a meag... |
8880 | "John Northcott"
to the three services. The relationship between Northcott as Chief of the General Staff and Blamey as Commander-in-Chief bore some similarities to the one between the RAAF's Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal George Jones, and Air Vice Marshal William Bostock, the commander of the RAAF forces in ... |
8881 | "Ganske Publishing Group"
""Die Woche"" and monthly magazine ""TEMPO"", breeding several well known journalists and experimenting with new styles that later became staples of the journalistic toolbox. Because of the group's upscale portfolio, reputation for innovation and high profitability it has been the target of se... |
8882 | "John Northcott"
condition of his acceptance that Northcott be given the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in Japan. Sturdee felt that Northcott had missed out on opportunities for active service through his being CGS and saw the BCOF post as a just reward for that se... |
8883 | "John Northcott"
Northcott was offered, and accepted, the post of Governor of New South Wales in April 1946. He remained in Japan until June though, because Prime Minister Ben Chifley wanted the changeover to coincide with his own visit to Japan in May, and because he needed to obtain consent of the other governments c... |
8884 | "John Northcott"
As such, he gave patronage and support to many charitable organisations and to youth, church and citizens' groups. Blamey was unable to secure a knighthood for Northcott for his military service, it being Australian Labor Party policy not to award knighthoods at that time. In April 1949 Northcott took ... |
8885 | "John Northcott"
1946, a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for his services as governor in 1950, and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1954 for his work with the Royal Tour of Queen Elizabeth II. He was a freemason who, during his term as governor, was Viceregal Grand Master of ... |
8886 | "John Northcott"
rank of general. He was awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters by the University of Sydney in 1952 and the University of New England in 1956, and Doctor of Science by the New South Wales University of Technology in 1956. He retired in July 1957. In April 1964, Northcott and Forde represented Aus... |
8887 | "John Northcott"
honours and was cremated with his ashes interred with his wife at Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens. Like most governors of New South Wales, his papers are in the State Library of New South Wales. In 1968 the Northcott Municipal Council, comprising large areas formerly in the City of Sydney, and the El... |
8888 | "John Northcott"
1st Armoured Division, II Corps and BCOF he was ""noted neither for innovation nor conspicuous success"", especially when compared with Robertson who ""possessed the ebullience and flair that Northcott lacked"". While governor, Northcott was patron of the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children. ... |
8889 | "John Northcott"
of the houses named after him, Northcott House. He was a long-standing Freemason, and served as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. John Northcott Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott (24 March 1890 – 4 August 1966) was an Australian Army gen... |
8890 | "Auguste Vachon"
Auguste Vachon Auguste Georges Vachon, is a Canadian officer of arms. He held the post of Saint-Laurent Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the Canadian Heraldic Authority from its foundation in 1988 until his retirement in 2000. Since then, he has served as Outaouais Herald of Arms Emeritus. Auguste Vachon ... |
8891 | "Auguste Vachon"
2000. The governor general of Canada then named him Outaouais Herald Emeritus. He has advanced the knowledge of Canadian emblems by numerous publications in Canada and abroad, as a speaker at several international congresses and by doing research for exhibitions in the field. The Canadian Museum of His... |
8892 | "Massachusetts Route 4"
through town, Route 62 splits to the west, while Routes 4 and 225 turn northward, splitting themselves soon thereafter; Route 225 to the northwest and Route 4 to the north. Route 4 proceeds northward out of Bedford by itself, where it begins to parallel US-3 as it passes into Billerica. Route 4 ... |
8893 | "Massachusetts Route 4"
town. Near the center, Route 4 intersects the northern end of Route 27 at a rotary-type intersection, and then crosses Route 110, very briefly sharing pavement. Continuing to the north, Route 4 has a half-interchange with Interstate 495 at Exit 33. This interchange provides southbound-only acces... |
8894 | "Massachusetts Route 4"
northwest where it ends at an intersection with Route 3A in North Chelmsford. Recently, there have been various maps showing Route 4 being cosigned with Route 3A, extending to the nearby town of Tyngsborough (terminating at Route 113), but Route 4 has ended at Route 3A in North Chelmsford for ye... |
8895 | "Massachusetts Route 4"
is known by the following street names: Lexington Bedford Billerica Chelmsford North Chelmsford Massachusetts Route 4 Route 4 is an long state highway in northeastern Massachusetts. It runs south to north, serving many of Boston's western and northwestern suburbs, from an interchange with Route ... |
8896 | "Howie Seago"
Howie Seago Howie Seago is an American actor and director. Seago, who is deaf, was born in Tacoma, Washington. His father was hard of hearing, and that side of the family had a history of hearing problems. Howie has two brothers (both of whom have hearing loss; one is deaf) and two sisters (who have no he... |
8897 | "Howie Seago"
appearances on ""Hunter"", """" and ""The Equalizer"" as well as involvement in the children's show, ""Rainbow's End"". He has also produced some plays, using both hearing and deaf actors. He is a central figure of the American Deaf Community, especially as an author and teacher. His break-out role was in... |
8898 | "Moira, County Down"
field of slaughter) and Carnalbanagh (meaning the Scotsman's grave). After the battle a bishop by the name of Ronan Finn (who was later canonized) was alleged to have created a monastery in the area. The medieval period itself remains shrouded in mystery. It is known that the town and its hinterlan... |
8899 | "Moira, County Down"
country was thickly wooded. However the subjugation of Ulster by the victorious armies of Elizabeth I greatly reduced the clout of gaelic hierarchs, the O'Laverys included. But it was their participation in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 doomed their dominance. The English authorities crushed the rebe... |
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