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wikipedia_2018-4200 | Unlike other girl detectives , Nancy does not go to school ( for reasons that are never explained , but assuming because she has finished ) , and she thus has complete autonomy . Similar characters , such as Kay Tracey , do go to school , and not only lose a degree of independence but also of authority . The fact of a ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4201 | The third season begins with Magnus forcing Wexford to step down as head of the Sanctuary Network , thereby putting herself back in command , while the rest of the team deal with the tsunami . Though they are not happy that Big Bertha is still alive , the other Sanctuary house heads decide to keep Magnus in charge , wh... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4202 | Kain 's appearance undergoes " pretty dramatic changes " throughout the games as he ages , but core personality attributes cited by Defiance 's developers include his intelligence and cynicism , arrogance and regality , and his defiant nature . In the series ' fictional universe , he is described as the guardian of bal... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4203 | The first nontrivial example with i > n concerns mappings from the 3 @-@ sphere to the ordinary 2 @-@ sphere , and was discovered by Heinz Hopf , who constructed a nontrivial map from S3 to S2 , now known as the Hopf fibration ( Hopf 1931 ) . This map generates the homotopy group π3 ( S2 ) = Z. | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4204 | The Andersons sold their intellectual and profit participation rights to Thunderbirds and their other productions in the 1970s . As a result , they had no developmental control over subsequent adaptations of their works . Thunderbirds was first remade for TV in the early 1980s as Thunderbirds 2086 . In this anime re @-... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4205 | Although the United States Navy was prevented from developing fortifications on the Aleutian Islands due to the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty , the Navy believed that at some point the United States ' treaty obligations would no longer apply , and began to scout the Aleutians for possible naval bases . In 1923 ,... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4206 | In addition to developing the atomic bomb , the Manhattan Project was charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project . It was believed that the Japanese nuclear weapons program was not far advanced because Japan had little access to uranium ore , but it was initially feared that Germany was ve... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4207 | The first phase of the battle lasted about one hour , and cost Burgoyne nearly 400 men , including the capture of most of the grenadiers ' command , and six of the ten field pieces brought to the action . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4208 | Hollywood used skyscrapers extensively in popular films . The Skyscrapers of New York in 1906 became the first of many , and in the 1920s Harold Lloyd produced his five " skyscraper films " , most prominently Safety Last ! , in which the hero dangles from a clock on the side of a Los Angeles building . In these early s... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4209 | Littlewood , Thomas B. ( 1990 ) . Arch : A Promoter , not a Poet : The Story of Arch Ward . Ames , IA : Iowa State University Press . ISBN 0 @-@ <unk> @-@ <unk> @-@ 6 | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4210 | In Kamal Jit Singh v. Minister for Home Affairs ( 1992 ) , the statutory provision in question was section 30 of the Criminal Law ( Temporary Provisions ) Act ( " CLTPA " ) , which states as follows : | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4211 | Operation of a transformer at its designed voltage but at a higher frequency than intended will lead to reduced magnetizing current . At a lower frequency , the magnetizing current will increase . Operation of a transformer at other than its design frequency may require assessment of voltages , losses , and cooling to ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4212 | In addition to walking or running on four limbs and climbing , Geoffroy 's spider monkey uses several forms of suspensory locomotion . <unk> , or swinging from the arms with assistance from the prehensile tail , is the most common form of suspensory locomotion . Less common forms include swinging while suspended by the... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4213 | The opening track , " Give Life Back to Music " , features guitar work by Rodgers and Paul Jackson , Jr . , drums by John " J.R. " Robinson , and lyrics performed by Daft Punk using vocoders . The song reflects the duo 's goal to create a light yet polished and elegant record . As stated by NME , the album begins with ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4214 | Smyth 's early research was in spectroscopy , focusing on ionization of gases by impact with electrons as a means to study the gases ' critical energy levels . He published his first research article , on the radiating potentials of nitrogen gas , in 1919 ; this became the basis of his first dissertation . In a 1922 ar... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4215 | When Longacre began work on the two new coins in early 1849 , he had no assistants . He completed work on the gold dollar first , anxious to show that he could create a coin design . In May , he requested that Patterson hire another engraver to assist him . The director declined , willing only to have engraving work co... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4216 | Apart from the more conventional ironclads , which the Brazilian navy could order from Britain or France , as noted the Americans had invented the monitor , an armoured , shallow draft , turreted vessel that presented little superstructure to enemy fire ; monitors could be and were built in Brazil . Thus by the time Lo... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4217 | The Financial Times describes Millennium Park as " an extraordinary public park that is set to create new iconic images of the city " , and further notes that it is " a genuinely 21st @-@ century interactive park [ that ] could trigger a new way of thinking about public outdoor spaces " . Time magazine views both Cloud... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4218 | Stone 's first wife Maria died in Washington , D.C. , shortly after Stone 's release from Fort Hamilton . While serving in New Orleans during 1863 , Stone fell in love with Jeanne Stone and they had two daughters and a son , John Stone Stone , who later became a pioneer in the field of wireless telegraphy . Stone was a... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4219 | During the Middle Ages , much of what became Greater Manchester lay within the hundred of Salfordshire – an ancient division of the county of Lancashire . Salfordshire encompassed several parishes and townships , some of which , like Rochdale , were important market towns and centres of England 's woollen trade . The d... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4220 | Biden became the 47th Vice President of the United States on January 20 , 2009 , when he was inaugurated alongside President Barack Obama . Biden is the first United States Vice President from Delaware and the first Roman Catholic to attain that office . Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens administered the oath of ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4221 | Thoroughbreds born in the Northern Hemisphere are officially considered a year older on the first of January each year ; those born in the Southern Hemisphere officially are one year older on the first of August . These artificial dates have been set to enable the standardization of races and other competitions for hor... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4222 | Trail Blazers broadcasts have been criticized on several fronts . The broadcast personalities , all of whom are Trail Blazers employees , have been criticized in the media for being " homers " ; further it has been alleged that the 2005 departure of Steve Jones was due in part to team displeasure with Jones ' sometimes... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4223 | One further proposal was made to rebury Lody in the 1960s . In 1959 the British and German governments agreed to move German war dead who had been buried in various locations around the UK to a new central cemetery at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire . The German War Graves Commission ( VDK ) asked if it would be possibl... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4224 | Following the 2006 live release I 'm Going to Tell You a Secret , Madonna released her second live album , The Confessions Tour . The album was recorded at Wembley Arena on August 15 and 16 , 2006 , during the London stop of her 2006 Confessions Tour , which was promoting her 2005 studio album Confessions on a Dance Fl... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4225 | The Roman Senate also gave to Hasekura the honorary title of Roman Noble and Roman Citizen , in a document he brought back to Japan , and which is preserved today in Sendai . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4226 | Shawn Michaels became involved in a feud with his former tag team partner , Marty Jannetty . The team had split up earlier in the year when Michaels attacked Jannetty . Michaels defeated Jannetty at Royal Rumble 1993 , but the two traded the Intercontinental Championship back and forth in subsequent rematches . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4227 | The Lesser Antillean macaw or Guadeloupe macaw ( Ara guadeloupensis ) is a hypothetical extinct species of macaw that is thought to have been endemic to the Lesser Antillean island region of Guadeloupe . In spite of the absence of conserved specimens , many details about the Lesser Antillean macaw are known from severa... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4228 | The nature of the longer @-@ wavelength afterglow emission ( ranging from X @-@ ray through radio ) that follows gamma @-@ ray bursts is better understood . Any energy released by the explosion not radiated away in the burst itself takes the form of matter or energy moving outward at nearly the speed of light . As this... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4229 | The third highest grossing film of its decade , Mom and Dad was claimed by Babb to have made $ 63 @,@ 000 for every $ 1 @,@ 000 the original investors contributed , and the Los Angeles Times estimated that it grossed anywhere from $ 40 million to $ 100 million . Its success spawned a number of imitations , such as Stre... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4230 | In July 1950 , there were about 20 @,@ 000 Hispanics in the armed forces . Over the next three years , nearly 148 @,@ 000 Hispanic @-@ Americans volunteered for or were drafted into military service . As in other conflicts , Hispanics fought as members of the Armed Forces , most Hispanic @-@ Americans served in the Arm... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4231 | In the spring of 1979 , Eaton started a feud with Chris Colt , designed to establish Eaton as more than just a good tag team competitor . The feud between the two was so heated that it saw Colt suspended for <unk> Eaton on the concrete floor , making it appear Eaton had been seriously injured . Eaton suffered no injuri... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4232 | Transfer speculation linked Kisnorbo to Wigan Athletic at the end of the 2005 – 06 season , but he decided to extend his stay with Leicester by signing a new three @-@ year contract , less than 12 months after joining the club . Kisnorbo began the 2006 – 07 season well , scoring two goals and putting in fine rear @-@ g... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4233 | Hovering effects : When the user moves his or her mouse over the smiley face 's nose , it turns blue . This is called a hovering effect , and while it has traditionally been used for hyperlinks , it should work on a wide variety of HTML elements . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4234 | The revolt was led by 28 @-@ year @-@ old Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông , a northerner , who had fought with the French Union forces against the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War . Later trained at Fort Leavenworth in the United States , Đông was regarded by American military advisers as a brilliant tacticia... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4235 | The recitative for tenor , " Der Heiland ist <unk> " ( The Saviour has come ) , begins secco but continues as an arioso , with tenor and continuo imitating one another . This more lyrical style of recitative derives from early Italian operas and cantatas , where it was known as <unk> <unk> – half aria . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4236 | Carbonaceous asteroids , as their name suggests , are carbon @-@ rich . They dominate the asteroid belt 's outer regions . Together they comprise over 75 % of the visible asteroids . They are more red in hue than the other asteroids and have a very low albedo . Their surface composition is similar to carbonaceous chond... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4237 | When the compacted mass of the inert core exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit of about 1 @.@ 4 M ☉ , electron degeneracy is no longer sufficient to counter the gravitational compression . A cataclysmic implosion of the core takes place within seconds . Without the support of the now @-@ imploded inner core , the outer core... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4238 | Brooks began writing The Sword of Shannara in 1967 when he was twenty @-@ three years old . He started writing the novel to challenge himself and as a way of staying " sane " while he attended law school at Washington and Lee University . Brooks had been a writer since high school , but he had never found ' his ' genre... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4239 | Music in early modern Scotland includes all forms of musical production in Scotland between the early sixteenth century and the mid @-@ eighteenth century . In this period the court followed the European trend for instrumental accompaniment and playing . Scottish monarchs of the sixteenth century were patrons of religi... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4240 | In 1974 , Tattersall spotted what he thought was a color variant of the silky sifaka north of Vohemar in northeast Madagascar . Describing it as such eight years later in The Primates of Madagascar , he not only cited its mostly white fur , but also uncharacteristic traits such as a patch of orange on its crown and tuf... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4241 | The song makes direct reference to FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) , the two main characters of the popular sci @-@ fi TV series The X @-@ Files who work on cases linked to the paranormal , called X @-@ Files . Although the title and refrain reference the popular sh... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4242 | Progress was slow . There were not enough mules to transport all of the supplies , and many of the teamsters , all civilians , quit when their pay was delayed . The large number of <unk> – women and children who followed the army – consumed much of the already scarce supplies . The soldiers were soon reduced to partial... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4243 | By the beginning of 1526 , Charles was faced with demands from Venice and the Pope to restore Francesco II Sforza to the throne of the Duchy of Milan , and had become anxious to achieve a settlement with the French before another war began . Francis , having argued to retain Burgundy without result , was prepared to su... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4244 | The commercial exploitation of the series for the home video market achieved record sales and remained strong over a decade later . The fame of the show has grown through home video sales , which exceeded two or three times the sales of other contemporary anime series and films . The series contributed significantly to... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4245 | Geoffrey A. Landis . Laser @-@ powered Interstellar Probe on the Geoffrey A. Landis : <unk> papers available on the web | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4246 | The 5th Avenue Theatre ( often referred to as 5th Avenue or the 5th ) is a landmark theatre building located in Seattle , Washington . It has hosted a variety of theatre productions and motion pictures since it opened in 1926 . The building and land is owned by the University of Washington and was once part of the orig... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4247 | Sir George Ralph Collier , 1st Baronet KCB ( 1774 – 24 March 1824 ) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , and the War of 1812 . He had an eventful early life , being shipwrecked early in his career and later captured by the French . Nevertheless , he saw enough service t... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4248 | 1956 , Bengal <unk> , vol 1 , 2 & 3 . Comilla Academy ( now the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development ) , Comilla , Bangladesh . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4249 | In August 1969 Drake recorded five songs , only three of which ( " Cello Song " , " Three Hours " , and " Time of No Reply " ) were broadcast – for the BBC 's John Peel show . Two months later , he opened for Fairport Convention at the Royal Festival Hall in London , followed by appearances at folk clubs in Birmingham ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4250 | Radar measurements show that , immediately before the crash , Lidle 's aircraft was flying at 112 mph ( 180 km / h ) at 700 feet ( 210 m ) altitude in the East River VFR corridor , an area which former NTSB official Peter Goelz described as " very tricky " due to its narrow width and frequent congestion . The VFR corri... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4251 | Born in Waukegan , Illinois , Graham 's first interest growing up was music . Encouraged by his parents , both of whom were music teachers , he took up several instruments : the piano , violin , cornet and French horn . Graham also excelled in athletics , and attended Northwestern University on a basketball scholarship... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4252 | The government emergency plan for an eruption therefore assumes that the worst case will be an eruption of similar size and type to the 1631 VEI 4 one . In this scenario the slopes of the mountain , extending out to about 7 kilometres ( 4 @.@ 3 mi ) from the vent , may be exposed to pyroclastic flows sweeping down them... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4253 | Wail checked in together with Waleed at the Park Inn Hotel in Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts on September 5 , 2001 , staying in room 432 . While staying at the Park Inn , Wail and Waleed al @-@ Shehri may have called a prostitute . Wail al @-@ Shehri accompanied his brother on September 9 to the <unk> at Logan Internati... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4254 | Mouton 's proposals were taken seriously by , amongst others , the seventeenth @-@ century scientists Jean Picard and Christiaan Huygens , but a hundred years were to elapse before the French again took interest in the underlying theory of the development of systems of measure . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4255 | Helena Wayne is the biological daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle of an alternate universe established in the early 1960s ( Multiverse ) where the Golden Age stories took place . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4256 | Gay references have been made to the relationship between the two characters of the show . House has made a comment about the relationship ( " I 'm gay ! ... Oh that 's not what you meant . It would explain a lot , though : no girlfriend , always with Wilson , the obsession with sneakers ... " ) . Barbara Barnett said ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4257 | Starting at 09 : 30 , Enterprise landed many of the damaged and fuel @-@ depleted CAP fighters and returning scout aircraft from both carriers . However , with her flight deck full , and the second wave of Japanese aircraft inbound , which was detected on radar at 09 : 30 , Enterprise ceased landing operations at 10 : ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4258 | New York City Police Department Commissioner William J. Bratton and author of Fixing Broken Windows , George L. Kelling , however , stated the police played an " important , even central , role " in the declining crime rates . The trend continued and Giuliani 's successor , Michael Bloomberg , stated in a November 2004... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4259 | Trigg and his wife had three sons and two daughters . His daughter Mary married General David Logan , and was the mother of was Stephen Trigg Logan , who would serve in the Illinois state legislature and become Abraham Lincoln law partner in Springfield , Illinois . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4260 | Several species coined in genera other than Allosaurus are also now thought to be synonymous with A. fragilis . Labrosaurus ferox was named in 1884 by Marsh for an oddly formed partial lower jaw , with a prominent gap in the tooth row at the tip of the jaw , and a rear section greatly expanded and turned down . Later r... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4261 | Artillery and long @-@ range machine gun fire continued to riddle the wrecks and the combined crews were ordered to evacuate as the officers set the scuttling charges which would sink the blockships in their current , useless locations . As men scrambled down the side of the cruisers into Coastal Motor Boats which woul... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4262 | On the 3rd of April , the Pakistani government declared victory and the end of the operation after clearing 640 square kilometers in Shawal , killing some 250 terrorists . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4263 | The Medal of Honor confers special privileges on its recipients . By law , recipients have several benefits : | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4264 | " Mothers of the Disappeared " was performed again on the fourth leg of the Vertigo Tour , on 26 February 2006 in Santiago and 2 March in Buenos Aires . Although it was rehearsed by the full band , it was played only by Bono and the Edge in an arrangement similar to the one from the PopMart Tour . The Edge performed th... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4265 | Marshall sought reelection in 1810 , but was defeated by George Adams by a margin of 76 votes . From 1812 to 1813 , he served on the Board of Trustees for the city of Frankfort . He made another unsuccessful run for the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1813 , losing to John Arnold . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4266 | " You Know My Name " , performed by Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell , is the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film , Casino Royale . Cornell wrote it jointly with David Arnold , the soundtrack 's composer . The film producers went after Cornell because they wanted a strong male singer . Cornell and Arnold tried to ma... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4267 | The miniseries made its international debut on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand on January 18 , and concluded airing on January 21 , 2016 . Stakes premiered on Cartoon Network UK and Ireland on March 14 , 2016 , and concluded on March 17 , 2016 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4268 | Rudra and Agni have a close relationship . The identification between Agni and Rudra in the Vedic literature was an important factor in the process of Rudra 's gradual development into the later character as Rudra @-@ Shiva . The identification of Agni with Rudra is explicitly noted in the <unk> , an important early te... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4269 | Combining the strengths of the both companies was not successful in bus chassis production because of strategic mistakes by SAT . The Vanaja LK @-@ series with a large , centrally mounted engine was discontinued , which led to the loss of the main customer , Väinö <unk> Oy . SAT offered Sisu chassis to replace the Vana... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4270 | The city , which already had a strong volunteering tradition with the annual Calgary Stampede , also relied heavily on volunteers to run the Olympics . Over 22 @,@ 000 people signed up to fill 9 @,@ 400 positions , no matter how inglorious : doctors , lawyers and executives offered to clean manure dropped by horses at ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4271 | The Industrial Revolution brought large @-@ scale steel making to Sheffield in the 18th century . Much of the medieval town was gradually replaced by a mix of Georgian and Victorian buildings . Large areas of Sheffield 's city centre have been rebuilt in recent years , but among the modern buildings , some old building... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4272 | By January 10 , Marvel Studios had commissioned screenwriter Robert Rodat to rewrite the sequel and Hiddleston stated that filming was expected to begin in London in the summer of 2012 . Hemsworth later confirmed that filming was scheduled to begin in August . Hemsworth also revealed that the film would have a more Vik... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4273 | Facilities in the area include the St Georges Centre , a multi @-@ use building that houses health services including a minor injuries unit and drop @-@ in centre , a library , and a neighbourhood housing office . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4274 | In his book Drawn to Television – Prime @-@ time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy , Keith Booker wrote : " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [ ... ] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4275 | By spring 1918 , Transylvanian @-@ Bukovinan prisoners held in France and Italy proceeded to form their own abjurers ' units , based upon the existing Romanian Corps . Luciano ( Lucian ) <unk> became Commander of the newly formed Romanian Legion in Italy ( Legione <unk> d 'Italia ) which took its ceremonial flag from t... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4276 | Jack Black as Jeff Portnoy : A drug @-@ addicted comedian @-@ actor well known for portraying multiple parts in films that rely on toilet humor , particularly jokes about flatulence . In the film @-@ within @-@ a @-@ film , he plays a raspy @-@ voiced soldier named Fats . He fears he is only considered an actor because... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4277 | Participants in est are told that they cannot take notes during the course , and at the end of the seminar the instructor declines to go over a review of the training . In order to participate in the course , trainees must adhere to agreements which include : they may not exit the course facility except during specifie... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4278 | Since the British Nationality Act 1948 and the subsequent mass immigration to the United Kingdom from the Commonwealth and elsewhere in the world , " the expression and experience of cultural life in Britain has become fragmented and reshaped by the influences of gender , ethnicity , class and region " . Furthermore , ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4279 | Selfe 's contempt for the liberal arts tradition and the priority he accorded practical skill have certain implications which cannot be commended . These reflected and augmented ... one of the less attractive features of the Australian ethos – indifference to higher learning and advanced attainments , an indifference s... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4280 | William Allen " Bill " Stein ( born January 21 , 1947 in Battle Creek , Michigan ) is a retired professional baseball player and manager . His playing career spanned 17 seasons , 14 of which were spent in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) with the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1972 – 73 ) , the Chicago White Sox ( 1974 – 76 ) , th... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4281 | A number of customers have reported safety problems with the <unk> brakes : after an emergency braking event , and once the driver has released the brake pedal , the brakes remain in full force for some amount of time , increasing the risk of rear collisions . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4282 | Director Rob Bowman made bold decisions in designing the confrontation sequence . The scripted version showed the fight between Worf and Korris taking place entirely on the first deck of the engineering section . Instead , Bowman had them fight on the upper deck and , using camera angles never before seen the show , fi... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4283 | In Shinkai 's previous films , the music was produced by Tenmon ; however , The Garden of Words features music by Daisuke Kashiwa . Kashiwa had been a fan of Shinkai 's 5 Centimeters Per Second and had sent him several of his albums . Shinkai listened to these albums while writing the screenplay and then elected to bas... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4284 | The band headlined the 2008 Lollapalooza festival , the 2008 Virgin Festival , and the first Pemberton Music Festival . In May 2008 , Nine Inch Nails announced that premium seating for all the upcoming 2008 tour shows would be offered in a pre @-@ sale for fans who registered at the official Nine Inch Nails website . I... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4285 | The similar OR.230 required a " long range bomber " with a 2 @,@ 000 nautical miles ( 2 @,@ 300 mi ; 3 @,@ 700 km ) radius of action at a height of 50 @,@ 000 ft ( 15 @,@ 000 m ) , a cruise speed of 575 mph ( 925 km / h ) , and a maximum weight of 200 @,@ 000 lb ( 91 @,@ 000 kg ) when fully loaded . Responses to OR.230... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4286 | On 23 October , the BBC said it was " too early " to confirm how much more airtime would be given to the BNP in the future ; The Times reported on 24 October that the BBC had " no plans " to have Griffin on Question Time before the next general election . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4287 | The Tom Swift of this third series is less of an inventor than his predecessors , and his inventions are rarely the main feature of the plot . Still , according to Molson , " Tom the inventor is not ignored . Perhaps the most impressive of his inventions and the one essential to the series as a whole is the robot he de... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4288 | His autobiographical pieces , marked by acid comments on Greek @-@ language education , and , in this respect , similar to the writings of his friend Costache Negruzzi , also display a dose of self @-@ irony . The enduring polemic with Grigore Alexandrescu , as well as his quarrel with Bolliac , formed the basis of his... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4289 | Groves did not relish the prospect of explaining the loss of a billion dollars worth of plutonium to a Senate committee , so a cylindrical containment vessel codenamed " Jumbo " was constructed to recover the active material in the event of a failure . Measuring 25 feet ( 7 @.@ 6 m ) long and 12 feet ( 3 @.@ 7 m ) wide... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4290 | The long delay strained Broussard and Miller 's relationship , and by the end of 2006 , Broussard appeared to become serious about shipping the title . On January 25 and May 22 , 2007 , Broussard posted two Gamasutra job ads with small screenshots of Duke Nukem and an enemy , which he later confirmed were real in @-@ g... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4291 | Forests cover about 57 % of the Potlatch River watershed , while about 38 % is used for agriculture and ranching . 78 % of the land is privately owned while 14 % lie within national forests . 7 % is owned by the state , while the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs each have a 1 % share . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4292 | Of equal profile was Rutherford 's government 's management of the province 's railways . Alberta 's early years were optimistic ones , which manifested itself in a pronounced enthusiasm for the construction of new railway lines . Every town wanted to be a railway centre , and the government had great confidence in the... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4293 | Antananarivo was founded from about 1610 to 1625 , when the Merina king Andrianjaka ( 1612 – 1630 ) expelled the Vazimba inhabitants of the village of Analamanga at the highest meeting point of two forested ridges rising above the surrounding highland plains . Declaring it the site of his capital , Andrianjaka built a ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4294 | In its operatic context the lament takes the form of an extended recitative of more than 70 vocal lines , delivered in five sections divided by choral comments . Some of the wording is prefigured in the immediately preceding scene in which the First Envoy describes Arianna 's plight to a sympathetic chorus of fishermen... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4295 | According to the French magazine L <unk> nouvelle , apart from several non @-@ sensitive components sourced from the United States , the Rafale is manufactured almost entirely in France . Different elements are produced in numerous factories across the country , and final assembly takes place near Bordeaux – Mérignac A... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4296 | That October , a meeting concerning Sandwedge was arranged between Haldeman , Mitchell , Magruder and Strachan . As a result of this meeting , control of the operation was passed along to G. Gordon Liddy , because Mitchell wished to have a lawyer in charge of the campaign 's intelligence @-@ gathering . Another factor ... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4297 | Matt Groening first conceived Maggie and the rest of the Simpson family in 1986 in the lobby of James L. Brooks 's office . Groening had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show , and had intended to present an adaptation of his Life in Hell comic strip . When he realized that anim... | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4298 | Roberts also includes the motif of jealousy . Dee is given a rival for Travis 's affections – an over @-@ sophisticated woman who is essentially Dee 's antithesis . Roberts reused this plot point in other novels , including Song of the West . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4299 | The new construction project attracted hundreds of <unk> ( <unk> ) , traditional Japanese construction workers who specialized in the construction of high @-@ rise structures . The Takenaka Corporation broke ground in June 1957 and each day at least 400 laborers worked on the tower . It was constructed of steel , a thi... | wikipedia-2018 |
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