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wikipedia_2018-4900 | On 12 March , High Court judge Mr Justice Stamp ruled in McCartney 's favour , appointing London accountant James Spooner as Apple Corps ' official receiver . While Lennon reportedly unleashed his anger that day by throwing two bricks through the windows of McCartney 's St John 's Wood home , Harrison channelled his frustration into a new composition , " Sue Me , Sue You Blues " . Harrison biographer Simon Leng suggests that the song " takes a nearly impersonal overview of the Beatles ' self @-@ <unk> legal wounds " . In his 1980 autobiography , I , Me , Mine , Harrison describes the opening verse as being " vaguely based on the Square dance type of fiddle lyric " : | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4901 | The species is aplacental viviparous , with the developing embryos sustained to term by histotroph ( " uterine milk " ) produced by the mother . Females bear litters of up to four pups every other year , after a gestation period of at least six months . This species is closely related to , and may hybridize with , the yellowback stingaree ( U. <unk> ) . The venomous sting of the crossback stingaree is potentially injurious to humans . This common species is seldom caught by commercial fisheries other than in the northernmost extent of its range . Thus , its population is largely secure and the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has listed it under Least Concern . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4902 | Adjusting to post @-@ injury changes in the body 's sensation is difficult enough to cause some to give up on the idea of satisfying sex at first . But changes in sensitivity above and at the level of injury occur over time ; people may find erogenous zones like the nipples or ears have become more sensitive , enough to be sexually satisfying . They may discover new erogenous zones that were not erotic before the injury ; care providers can help direct this discovery . These erogenous areas can even lead to orgasm when stimulated . Such changes may result from " remapping " of sensory areas in the brain due to neuroplasticity , particularly when sensation in the genitals is completely lost . Commonly there is an area on the body between the areas where sensation is lost and those where is preserved called a " transition zone " that has increased sensitivity and is often sexually pleasurable when stimulated . Also known as a " border zone " , this area may feel the way the penis or clitoris did before injury , and can even give orgasmic sensation . Due to such changes in sensation , people are encouraged to explore their bodies to discover what areas are pleasurable . Masturbation is a useful way to learn about the body 's new responses . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4903 | The town is first recorded in Edward I 's charter of the 13th century , as " <unk> " . Scholars have generally considered the name to be from the Old English , meaning " farm where cheese is made " , the word deriving from " <unk> " ( cheese ) with a Scandinavian initial " k " and " <unk> " ( special place or dwelling ) , although not all academics agree . George Flom of the University of Illinois ( 1919 ) rejected that derivation on the grounds that a town in the heart of Viking @-@ settled areas , as Keswick was , would not have been given a Saxon name ; he proposed instead that the word is of Danish or Norse origin , and means " Kell 's place at the bend of the river " . Among the later scholars supporting the " cheese farm " toponymy are Eilert Ekwall ( 1960 ) and A D Mills ( 2011 ) ( both Oxford University Press ) , and Diana Whaley ( 2006 ) , for the English Place @-@ Name Society . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4904 | Early in 548 , King Gubazes of Lazica , having found Persian protection oppressive , asked Justinian to restore the Roman protectorate . The emperor seized the chance , and in 548 – 549 combined Roman and Lazic forces won a series of victories against Persian armies , although they failed to take the key garrison of Petra . The city was finally subjugated in 551 , but in the same year a Persian offensive led by Mihr @-@ Mihroe occupied eastern Lazica . The truce that had been established in 545 was renewed outside Lazica for a further five years on condition that the Romans pay 2 @,@ 000 lb of gold each year . In Lazica the war dragged on inconclusively for several years , with neither side able to make any major gains . Khosrau , who now had to deal with the White Huns , renewed the truce in 557 , this time without excluding Lazica ; negotiations continued for a definite peace treaty . Finally , in 562 , the envoys of Justinian and Khosrau put together the Fifty @-@ Year Peace Treaty . The Persians agreed to evacuate Lazica and received an annual subsidy of 30 @,@ 000 nomismata ( solidi ) . Both sides agreed not to build new fortifications near the frontier and to ease restrictions on diplomacy and trade . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4905 | From 2006 to 2008 , M.I.A. lived in the Bedford @-@ Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn , New York , where she met Benjamin Bronfman ( a.k.a. Benjamin Brewer ) , an environmentalist , founder of Green Owl , musician and member of the Bronfman family and Lehman family . They became engaged and she gave birth to their son , <unk> Edgar Arular Bronfman , on 13 February 2009 , just three days after performing at the Grammy Awards . In February 2012 , it was announced that she and Bronfman had split . In a 2013 interview with Ferrari Sheppard , M.I.A. commented on her relationship with Bronfman and his family 's wealth : " I think it ’ s weird . It ’ s not that I got with Ben and then suddenly I was a billionaire . You know ? I got with Ben , and I realised that we do come from different worlds , but it ’ s interesting that it is more about the concepts of , again , elitism and power . Who Ben is on paper sounds way more powerful than who I am because of where he comes from . " | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4906 | Psittacosaurus is known from hundreds of individual specimens , of which over 75 have been assigned to the type species , P. mongoliensis . All Psittacosaurus fossils discovered so far have been found in Early Cretaceous sediments in Asia , from southern Siberia to northern China , and possibly as far south as Thailand . The most common age of geologic formations bearing Psittacosaurus fossils is from the late Barremian through Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous , or approximately 123 to 100 mya ( million years ago ) . Many terrestrial sedimentary formations of this age in Mongolia and northern China have produced fossils of Psittacosaurus , leading to the definition of this time period in the region as the Psittacosaurus <unk> . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4907 | He gained national prominence in 1915 , when he identified deranged former Harvard German instructor and wife @-@ poisoner Eric Muenter as the dynamite @-@ wielding intruder who had shot J. P. Morgan , Jr. and bombed the US Senate . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4908 | As promised , Trek counter @-@ sued and stopped producing bicycles under the LeMond brand . After nearly two years of litigation , in February 2010 , LeMond reached an out @-@ of @-@ court settlement with Trek in their breach @-@ of @-@ contract dispute , the terms of which were confidential . The settlement permitted the case to be dismissed with prejudice , meaning , " neither side can produce the same claims against one another in a future lawsuit . " And although settlement terms were not disclosed , LeMond reportedly obtained full control over the LeMond Bicycles name , while Trek made a donation of $ 200 @,@ 000 USD to the charity <unk> , of which LeMond was a founding member of the board of directors . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4909 | Upon return to No. 60 Squadron in France , Ball scored morning and evening victories on 15 September , flying two different Nieuports . On the evening mission , he armed his plane with eight Le <unk> rockets on the outer struts , set to fire electrically . He intended to use them on an observation balloon . As it happened , he spotted three German Roland <unk> and broke their formation by <unk> his rockets at them , then picked off one of the confused pilots with machine @-@ gun fire . After this he settled into an improved aeroplane , Nieuport 17 no . A213 . He had it rigged to fly tail @-@ heavy to facilitate his changing of ammunition drums in the machine @-@ gun , and had a holster built into the cockpit for the Colt automatic that he habitually carried . Three times during September he scored triple victories in a day , ending the month with his total score standing at 31 , making him Britain 's top @-@ scoring ace . By this time he had told his commanding officer that he had to have a rest and that he was taking unnecessary risks because of his nerves . On 3 October , he was sent on leave , en route to a posting at the Home Establishment in England . A French semi @-@ official report of Ball 's successes was issued the same day ; it was picked up and repeated in the British aviation journal Flight nine days later . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4910 | Today , Main Street is a four @-@ lane road running east @-@ west through Snyder connecting Williamsville ( the other side of Interstate 290 , known as the Youngman Expressway ) to points westward such as the neighboring hamlet of Eggertsville and downtown Buffalo . The entranceway is located proximate to large residential areas of trees and grass , 1920s @-@ built subdivisions flanking a wide central median . It is situated three blocks east of Harlem Road ( New York State Route 240 ) . Across Main Street and northeast from the Entranceway is the Eggertsville @-@ Snyder Branch Library of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library located at 4622 Main Street . Each side of the median serves one @-@ way traffic . The entranceways sit on the two south side corners of this T @-@ junction intersection . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4911 | There are three additional classes , S11 , <unk> and S13 , for visually impaired swimmers . The lower number indicates a greater degree of impairment : class S11 swimmers are blind or nearly blind , and compete in blacked @-@ out goggles . They each have a " tapper " who uses a pole or " <unk> " to warn the swimmer that they are approaching the end of the pool . The visual classifications are based on medical classification , and not on functional mobility . A final class , S14 , is for intellectually disabled swimmers . This class was dropped for the 2004 Summer Paralympics and the 2008 Summer Paralympics , but was restored for the 2012 Summer Paralympics . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4912 | Despite its humanitarian principles , some of IR 's operations are necessitated not by misadventure but deliberate sabotage motivated by greed for power and wealth . For missions that require criminal investigation , the organisation incorporates a network of undercover agents headed by English aristocrat Lady Penelope Creighton @-@ Ward and her butler Aloysius Parker . Based at Creighton @-@ Ward Mansion in Kent , Penelope and Parker 's primary mode of transport is FAB 1 , a specially @-@ modified Rolls @-@ Royce . The most persistent of IR 's adversaries is the criminal known only as the " Hood " . Operating from a temple in the Malaysian jungle , and possessing abilities of hypnosis and dark magic , he exerts a powerful telepathic control over Kyrano , his estranged half @-@ brother , and manipulates the Tracys into missions that unfold according to his nefarious designs . This allows him to spy on the Thunderbird machines and , by selling their secrets , make himself rich . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4913 | Darin Cortland Ruf ( born July 28 , 1986 ) is an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball . He was born in Omaha , Nebraska , and played at Westside High School . Subsequently , he attended Creighton University , and excelled playing baseball there before the Phillies drafted him in 2009 . In the minor leagues , he initially hit for a high batting average , but in 2011 combined that with power numbers to become one of the Phillies ' top prospects . He made his major league debut in September 2012 , after having hit 38 home runs to lead the Eastern League . In 2013 , he split time between Triple @-@ A and the major league Phillies , and was among the league 's top rookies during the season . He was embroiled in a roster battle for a bench spot entering 2014 , but hurt his oblique , and landed on the disabled list prior to the season . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4914 | The Black Hawk War marked the end of Native armed resistance to U.S. expansion in the Old Northwest The war provided an opportunity for American officials such as Andrew Jackson , Lewis Cass , and John Reynolds to compel Native American tribes to sell their lands east of the Mississippi River and move to the West , a policy known as Indian removal . Officials conducted a number of treaties after the war to purchase the remaining Native American land claims in the Old Northwest . The Dakotas and Menominees , who won approval from American officials for their role in the war , largely avoided postwar removal pressure until later decades . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4915 | In June 2001 Neil Smith of BBC Films called it " a film that only gets better with age " . In 2004 , Total Film magazine named it the ninth @-@ greatest British film of all time , making it the only James Bond film to appear on the list . In 2006 , Jay <unk> of Filmcritic praised the film 's " impressive staging of action scenes " , while IGN listed it as second @-@ best Bond film ever , behind only Goldfinger . That same year , Entertainment Weekly put the film at ninth among Bond films , criticising the slow pace . When the " James Bond Ultimate Collector 's Set " was released in November 2007 by MGM , Norman Wilner of MSN chose From Russia with Love as the best Bond film . Conversely , in his book about the Bond phenomenon , The Man With the Golden Touch , British author Sinclair McKay states " I know it is heresy to say so , and that some enthusiasts regard From Russia With Love as the Holy Grail of Bond , but let 's be searingly honest – some of it is <unk> dull . " In 2014 Time Out polled several film critics , directors , actors and stunt actors to list their top action films ; From Russia With Love was listed at 69 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4916 | John Collins Covell was born on December 19 , 1823 , in Newport , Rhode Island , and was the son of Episcopal minister , Reverend Joseph S. Covell . Covell was named for his maternal grandfather , Rhode Island Governor John Collins . He spent his childhood in Princess Anne , Maryland , where he received his education from the common schools for eight years before attending an academy in Connecticut . Covell then worked as a store clerk for three years . Seeking to further his education , Covell attended Trinity College in Hartford , Connecticut , and graduated from the institution in 1847 . After graduating from Trinity College , Covell was recommended as a candidate for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and received the orders of a deacon in the Episcopal Church . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4917 | Wagner 's operas , writings , politics , beliefs and unorthodox lifestyle made him a controversial figure during his lifetime . Following his death , debate about his ideas and their interpretation , particularly in Germany during the 20th century , has continued . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4918 | Laid down on 18 October 1913 at the <unk> Dockyard as Admiral Lazarev for the Imperial Russian Navy as a cruiser of the Svetlana class , she was launched on 8 June 1916 . Construction was abandoned in 1917 during the October Revolution when the ship was 63 % complete . In the second half of 1918 , the Marine Department of Hetman Pavlo <unk> was engaged in completion of ship . On 25 January 1919 , the ship was formally renamed in " Hetman Petro Doroshenko " , but Mykolaiv was captured shortly afterward by the Entente . The hull was relatively undamaged and the Soviets decided to finish the ship to a modified design . She was renamed Krasnyi Kavkaz on 14 December 1926 , and completed to a modernized design , being commissioned on 25 January 1932 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4919 | The Quadrophenia film was released that year . It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature @-@ directing début , and had straightforward acting rather than musical numbers as in Tommy . John Lydon was considered as Jimmy , but the role went to Phil Daniels . Sting played Jimmy 's friend and fellow mod , the Ace Face . The soundtrack was Jones ' first appearance on a Who record , performing on newly written material not on the original album . The film was a critical and box office success in the UK and appealed to the growing mod revival movement . The Jam were influenced by the Who , and critics noticed a similarity between Townshend and the group 's leader , Paul Weller . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4920 | Raw returned to lead No. 2 Squadron on 18 December 1953 . During this month the unit became the RAAF 's first jet bomber @-@ equipped squadron when it replaced its Avro Lincoln aircraft with Canberras ; in doing so the squadron was built around a nucleus of personnel who had served with No. 1 Long Range Flight . Later in December a Canberra piloted by Raw established a new speed record for a flight between New Zealand and Australia , completing the crossing between Auckland and Sydney in two hours and 49 minutes . On 31 December 1953 Raw was awarded the Air Force Cross for his role in the London to Christchurch air race ; the decoration was presented to him by Queen Elizabeth II at Brisbane on 10 March 1954 . A September 1954 story in The Courier @-@ Mail described Raw as being a " shy young commander " . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4921 | Shot on location at an orphanage and two factories in central Java , Panggilan Darah was a modest commercial success in the Indies and Singapore . Its soundtrack , which featured nine kroncong songs , received popular acclaim , and the film 's acting received critical praise . Despite this success , Oriental was unable to recoup its expenses , and merged into Multi Film soon afterwards . Panggilan Darah , which was screened as late as 1952 , may now be lost . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4922 | The purpose of the Yucca Mountain project is to comply with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and develop a national site for spent nuclear fuel and high @-@ level radioactive waste storage . The management and operating contractor as of April 1 , 2009 for the project is USA Repository Services , a consortium of government contractors , URS Corporation , Shaw Corporation and Areva Federal Services LLC . After the layoff of 800 employees on March 31 , 2009 , about 100 employees remained on the project until all technical staff were laid off by the end of FY 2010 due to zero funding in the 2011 budget for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management . Sandia National Laboratories had the responsibility for post closure analysis and ensuring compliance with the NWPA . The main tunnel of the Exploratory Studies Facility is U @-@ shaped , 5 mi ( 8 @.@ 0 km ) long and 25 ft ( 7 @.@ 6 m ) wide . There are also several cathedral @-@ like alcoves that branch from the main tunnel . It is in these alcoves that most of the scientific experiments were conducted . The emplacement drifts ( smaller diameter tunnels branching off the main tunnel ) where waste would have been stored were not constructed since they required a construction authorization by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . The repository has a statutory limit of 77 @,@ 000 metric tons ( 85 @,@ 000 short tons ) . To store this amount of waste would have required 40 miles ( 64 km ) of tunnels . The Nuclear Waste Policy Act further limits the capacity of the repository to 63 @,@ 000 metric tons ( 62 @,@ 000 long tons ; 69 @,@ 000 short tons ) of initial heavy metal in commercial spent fuel . The 104 U.S. commercial reactors currently operating will produce this quantity of spent fuel by 2014 , assuming that the spent fuel rods are not reprocessed . Currently , the US has no civil reprocessing plant . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4923 | Thomas de Buittle [ <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> ] ( died c . 1420 – 1422 ) was a Scottish prelate , clerk and papal auditor active in the late 14th and early 15th centuries . Probably originating in Galloway , Scotland , Thomas took a university career in canon law in England and France , before taking up service at the court of Avignon Pope Benedict XIII . He obtained a number of benefices in the meantime , including the position of Archdeacon of Galloway , and is the earliest known and probably first provost of the collegiate church of Maybole . The height of his career came however when the Pope provided him to the bishopric of Galloway , a position he held from 1415 until his death sometime between 1420 and 1422 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4924 | Because of warnings received earlier that Brant was planning an attack , Colonel Bellinger had been sending out scouts in the direction of Unadilla to gather intelligence . On September 16 Brant 's company overwhelmed a scouting party of nine , killing a few and scattering the rest . One of the survivors was Adam Helmer , who ran 26 miles ( 42 km ) ahead of the advancing force to warn German Flatts . Colonel Bellinger sounded the call to arms of his regiment and sent an urgent request to Colonel Jacob Klock for the assistance of his regiment , while the settlers took refuge in the forts . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4925 | Mississippi Highway 444 ( MS 444 ) is a short highway in western Mississippi . Its western terminus is at MS 1 , and travels eastward through six miles ( 9 @.@ 7 km ) of farmland . The route enters Duncan , and ends at U.S. Route 61 ( US 61 ) and US 278 , its eastern terminus . MS 444 was designated in 1958 , and became paved two years later . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4926 | The cholera epidemic struck Warsaw between 16 May and 20 August ; 4 @,@ 734 people fell ill and 2 @,@ 524 died . On 15 August a riot broke out in the city , with up to 3 @,@ 000 civilians and soldiers killing suspected spies and traitors . Between 36 and 60 people were killed . Order was restored , but the situation in the besieged city remained fragile . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4927 | Filming began in Rome in 1956 . The film was a low budget production as Lombardo did not care for horror films . Freda and his crew utilized mostly existing sets with only a single scene at the <unk> river filmed outside the studio . The film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Mario Bava , who felt that that style would better suit the special effects in the film and keep the budget down . Bava worked on the special effects on the film without credit . One of his effects involved Gianna Maria Canale aging make @-@ up that would only be revealed when certain coloured lights were revealed on her . This effect had been done previously in older films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and contemporary films including The Man Who Turned to Stone ( 1957 ) . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4928 | One of the main weaknesses of the see of York was its lack of suffragan bishops . Thurstan managed to secure the resurrection of the Diocese of Galloway , or Whithorn , in 1125 . It is possible that he compromised with Fergus of Galloway , who was the lord or sub @-@ king of Galloway , in what is now Scotland . In this Thurstan secured another suffragan , and Fergus gained a bishop in his lordship , where previously ecclesiastical matters in his subkingdom had been handled by Scottish bishops . The first bishop was the native Galwegian – Gilla Aldan . This provoked the wrath of <unk> , Bishop of the Isles , who had previously had jurisdiction over Galloway ; but the new bishopric survived , and York had a new suffragan , an important step in the battle between York and Canterbury over the primacy , which was mainly a battle over the prestige of their respective sees . The number of bishops subject to either archbishop was an important factor in the reputation of each . In 1133 , Thurstan , who had received papal permission to found an entirely new diocese , consecrated Æthelwold as the first bishop of the new see of Carlisle . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4929 | The symbolic value of the head changed over time . While it was spiked on a pole above the London skyline , it gave a potent warning to spectators . In the 18th century , the head became a curiosity and a relic . The head has been admired , reviled , and dismissed as a fake throughout the centuries . After Thomas Carlyle dismissed the head as " fraudulent moonshine " , and after the emergence of a rival claimant to the true head of Oliver Cromwell , scientific and archaeological analysis was carried out to prove the identity . <unk> tests culminated in a detailed scientific study by Karl Pearson and Geoffrey Morant , which concluded , based on a study of the head and other evidence , that there was a " moral certainty " that the head belonged to Oliver Cromwell . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4930 | Upon the army 's transfer of power to Rajoelina , Malagasy navy troops called for his resignation by 25 March , threatening to use force otherwise to protect the constitution of Madagascar and denouncing Rajoelina for the " civil war occurring in Madagascar " . The navy troops claimed there was " irrefutable " evidence that Rajoelina had paid the army corps hundreds of millions of ariary and that they should face trial in accordance with military law , but called for other nations not to get involved in what they considered a purely domestic affair . Rajoelina was sworn in as President on 21 March at Mahamasina stadium before a crowd of 40 @,@ 000 supporters . He was 35 years of age when sworn in , making him the youngest president in the country 's history and the youngest head of government in the world at that time . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4931 | Queen Victoria had given Beatrice the task of editing the journals for publication , which meant removing private material as well as passages that , if published , might be hurtful to living people . Beatrice deleted so much material that the edited journals are only a third as long as the originals . The destruction of such large passages of Queen Victoria 's diaries distressed Beatrice 's nephew , King George V , and his wife Queen Mary , who were powerless to intervene . Beatrice copied a draft from the original and then copied her draft into a set of blue notebooks . Both the originals and her first drafts were destroyed as she progressed . The task took thirty years and was finished in 1931 . The surviving 111 notebooks are kept in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4932 | Since around 1910 , many modern revivals of Garamond and related typefaces have been developed . Among these , the roman ( regular ; upright ) versions of Adobe Garamond , Granjon , Sabon , and Stempel Garamond are directly based on Garamond 's work . It is common to pair these with italics based on those created by his contemporary Robert Granjon , who was well known for his proficiency in this genre . However , many ' Garamond ' revivals are actually based on the work of a later punch @-@ cutter , Jean Jannon , whose work was for some years misattributed to Garamond . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4933 | New investment triggered within the city , with new construction including numerous condo projects , hotels , and a new office high @-@ rise all filling in the freed space . Despite new investment , poverty remains an entrenched problem as it does in most post @-@ industrial New England cities . Approximately 27 @.@ 9 percent of the city population is living below the poverty line . Recent increases in real estate values further exacerbate problems for those at marginal income levels , as Providence had the highest rise in median housing price of any city in the United States from 2004 to 2005 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4934 | Destination Moon ( French : <unk> Lune ) is the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé . The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium 's Tintin magazine from March to September 1950 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953 . The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia , where Calculus is working on a top @-@ secret project in a secure government facility to plan a manned mission to the Moon . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4935 | The evening draw , which consisted of men 's team play , saw Team North America extending their lead to five points . Heath McCormick dominated against Thomas Ulsrud , who lost second Christoffer Svae in the middle of the game due to illness . Kevin Martin established an early lead in the first half of the game versus Niklas Edin and held his lead to win . Glenn Howard had a chance to make the draw a North America sweep , starting off with a small lead against Tom Brewster , but a mistake in the eighth end from Brent Laing led to a chance for Brewster to come back and tie the game , which he did . At the end of the day , Team North America led Team World 13 – 8 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4936 | A third possible species , preliminarily called Manta sp. cf. birostris , reaches at least 6 m ( 20 ft ) in width , and inhabits the tropical west Atlantic , including the Caribbean . It and M. birostris occur in sympatry . A 2010 study on mantas around Japan confirmed the morphological and genetic differences between M. birostris and M. alfredi . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4937 | Tago Mago has been critically well received and is credited with pioneering various modern musical styles . Raggett called Tago Mago a " rarity of the early ' 70s , a double album without a wasted note " . In the book Kraftwerk : Man , Machine and Music , Pascal Bussy described the double LP as " hugely influential " . The album is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in which it stated , " Even after 30 years Tago Mago sounds refreshingly contemporary and gloriously extreme . " Many critics , particularly in the UK , were eager to praise the album , and by the end of 1971 Can played their first show in the UK . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4938 | Bouldering problems are assigned numerical difficulty ratings by <unk> and climbers . The two most widely used rating systems are the V @-@ scale and the Fontainebleau system . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4939 | A commission headed by Lew Allen , director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , was established to determine how the error could have arisen . The Allen Commission found that the main null corrector , a testing device used to achieve a properly shaped non @-@ spherical mirror , had been incorrectly assembled — one lens was out of position by 1 @.@ 3 mm . During the initial grinding and polishing of the mirror , Perkin @-@ Elmer analyzed its surface with two conventional null correctors . However , for the final manufacturing step ( figuring ) , they switched to a custom @-@ built null corrector , designed explicitly to meet very strict tolerances . The incorrect assembly of the device resulted in the mirror being ground very precisely but to the wrong shape . There was one later opportunity to catch the error , since for technical reasons a few of the final tests needed to use the two conventional null correctors . These tests correctly reported spherical aberration , but were dismissed since the reflective null corrector was considered more accurate . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4940 | Before the release of Ef : The First Tale , a manga based on the overall story was serialized between 2005 and 2015 starting in Dengeki Comic Gao , but later transferred to Dengeki Daioh . In addition , a light novel was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten 's Comptiq from July 2006 to July 2008 . A 12 @-@ episode anime adaptation titled Ef : A Tale of Memories was produced by Shaft and aired between October and December 2007 . A second season of the anime titled Ef : A Tale of Melodies aired 12 episodes between October and December 2008 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4941 | " ... it was one of the most freshly funny and crisply innovative comedies for years . The humour was all based in the character , not the situation . The story lines were negligible ; there were no catch phrases ; it was surreal in a way we hadn ’ t seen since Monty Python ; and the cast were actors being funny from inside a characterization , not stand @-@ up comics bolting a cartoon persona onto the back of gags . " | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4942 | We had some surprises . Some actors were terrific by themselves but not in concert with others . Each actor read the same scene . Everyone got the same chance . We were looking for actors who could make us laugh by being loyal to the characters . Then we matched them up . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4943 | Strategic bomber aircraft , B.1 updated with Red Steer tail warning radar and ECM suite , 24 converted . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4944 | In 2006 , Maryland returned to a bowl game and finished with a 9 – 4 record . During the season , the Terrapins upset 19th @-@ ranked Clemson , 13 – 12 , and five of their games were won by four points or less . In the Champs Sports Bowl , Maryland beat Purdue , 24 – 7 . In 2007 , Maryland overcame extensive injuries to again secure a postseason appearance . During the season , unranked Maryland tallied two shocking upsets against 10th @-@ ranked Rutgers , 34 – 24 , and eighth @-@ ranked Boston College , 42 – 35 . They finished the season with a rout of NC State to attain bowl eligibility , 37 – 0 , but lost to Oregon State in the Emerald Bowl , 21 – 14 . According to the final Sagarin computer @-@ generated rankings , Maryland had the second @-@ hardest schedule in the ACC and the 27th @-@ hardest schedule among Division I teams . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4945 | This antelope is highly sporadic in distribution ; it occurs mainly in eastern , southern and western Africa , ranging from Nigeria and Senegal in the west to Ethiopia and Eritrea in the east and southward to Angola and the Eastern Cape ( South Africa ) . It is feared to be extinct in Burundi . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4946 | Skrepenak ran for re @-@ election in the November 6 , 2007 election . Skrepenak ran jointly with County Controller Maryanne <unk> and the pair easily outdistanced the competition in the primary to gain the two nominations . Among the controversies during campaign were the use of debit cards for the commissioners based on a new policy effective September 2005 . Skrepenak 's expenses totalled $ 22 @,@ 139 @.@ 93 , including $ 3 @,@ 743 for gang @-@ related training in Los Angeles , California , $ 524 @.@ 08 for an accounting standards manual and $ 798 @.@ 63 for communications equipment . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4947 | The Army of the Potomac , initially under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker ( Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Hooker in command on June 28 ) , consisted of more than 100 @,@ 000 men in the following organization : | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4948 | Nine plans for a Baltimore city freeway system were put together by Baltimore city planners between 1942 and 1957 . The most influential of these plans was portrayed in the Smith Report of 1945 , which heavily influenced future proposals , including the proposal that would be included in the General Location of National System of Interstate Highways , also known as the Yellow Book , in 1955 . None of the plans gained traction due to either decision makers figuring the freeways were not needed or opposition to the east – west freeway passing straight through the central business district or immediately to the north of the central business district . For instance , a 1957 proposal had the east – west freeway following Biddle Street through the northern part of downtown Baltimore . However , by the late 1950s , Baltimore was starting to suffer from the flight of its commercial and industrial concerns and residents to the suburbs in response to the easy access provided by the developing Baltimore Beltway . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4949 | The sound of " Son of Three " has been described as " dark punk " , and elsewhere as a " garage symphony of bubblegum grunge , woo @-@ woo <unk> harmonies and body @-@ snatching sci @-@ fi eeriness " . One interviewer in 2002 described the lyrics of " Son of Three " as " <unk> " , noting the numerous references to driving in the song and throughout the Title TK album . The song 's lyrics include lines such as " No more time on the meter " , " Cross another county line " , and " Are we there ? " | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4950 | Prior to becoming a subtropical depression , Babe produced scattered rainfall in Florida , with peak amounts near 3 in ( 76 mm ) falling around Lake Okeechobee . Widespread rain fell in relation to Babe throughout the Southern United States . In Louisiana , rain was confined to eastern parts of the state , with up to 10 in ( 250 mm ) being measured near the Mississippi border . The remnants of the hurricane continued to produce heavy rain through its dissipation over North Carolina . A storm peak of 10 @.@ 99 in ( 279 mm ) fell in Lafayette , Georgia . Most of North Carolina received between 3 and 5 in ( 76 and 127 mm ) of rain with isolated areas exceeding 7 in ( 180 mm ) . A state maximum of 8 @.@ 99 in ( 228 mm ) fell in Lake <unk> , North Carolina , 7 @.@ 05 in ( 179 mm ) in Caesars Head , South Carolina and 6 @.@ 62 in ( 168 mm ) in Chattanooga , Tennessee . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4951 | The identity of the first European explorer is unknown , but it was likely the Dutch explorer Adrian Block who sailed through Long Island Sound around 1614 . The United States government credits Block as the discoverer . Early English settlers called it " Falcon Island " , likely stemming from the Native American name . <unk> writes that the island was probably named for the osprey , but the English translation to " Falcon " suggesting the presence of the peregrine falcon was one of " simple ignorance " . The island 's name on Dutch maps was " <unk> Eylandt " . The name later evolved to Faulkner Island , perhaps as a result of the Faulkner family who lived on the island in the 1700s . When the island was transferred to the U.S. government in 1801 , the deed states the name as " <unk> " . The U.S. Board on Geographic Names changed and established " Falkner Island " as its name in 1891 . However , the name change is not universally recognized and " popular usage " and the Faulkner 's Light Brigade that conserves the island 's lighthouse use " Faulkner " ; including publications . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4952 | Bottlenose dolphins have the second largest encephalization levels of any mammal on Earth ( humans have the largest ) , sharing close ratios with those of humans and other great apes , which more than likely attributes to their incredibly high intelligence and emotional intelligence . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4953 | The CFM56 @-@ 2 series is the original variant of the CFM56 . It is most widely used in military applications where it is known as the <unk> ; specifically in the KC @-@ 135 , the E @-@ 6 Mercury and some E @-@ 3 Sentry aircraft . The CFM56 @-@ 2 comprises a single @-@ stage fan with 44 blades , with a three @-@ stage LP compressor driven by a four @-@ stage LP turbine , and a nine @-@ stage HP compressor driven by a single @-@ stage HP turbine . The combustor is annular . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4954 | The first scandal to taint the Grant administration in 1869 was Black Friday , also known as the Gold Panic , which was an attempt by two aggressive financiers to corner the price of gold without regard to the nation 's economic welfare . The intricate financial scheme was primarily conceived and administered by Wall Street manipulators Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk . Their plan was to convince President Grant not to sell Treasury gold , in order to increase the sales of agriculture products overseas and increase the shipping business of Gould 's Erie Railroad . Gould and Fisk were able to get Grant 's brother in law Abel Rathbone Corbin involved with the scheme as a way to get access to Grant himself . Gould had also given a $ 10 @,@ 000 bribe to the assistant secretary of the treasury , Daniel Butterfield , in exchange for inside information . On June 5 , 1869 while Grant was traveling from New York to Boston , on The Providence , a ship owned by both Gould and Fisk , the two speculators urged Grant not to sell any gold from the Treasury and attempted to convince Grant that a high price of gold helped farmers and the Erie Railroad . President Grant , however , was stoic , and did not agree to Fisk and Gould 's suggestion to stop releasing Treasury Gold into the market . Grant 's Secretary of Treasury , George S. Boutwell , continued to sell Treasury gold on the open market . In late August 1869 President Grant consulted with businessman , A. T. Stewart , Grant 's initial Cabinet nominee , for Secretary of Treasury , concerning the Treasury selling gold . Stewart advised Grant that the Treasury should not sell gold in order that the Government would not be involved in the Gold market . Grant , accepted Stewart 's advise , and wrote to Boutwell that selling extra Treasury gold would upset agriculture sales . Boutwell on September 1 , had originally ordered $ 9 @,@ 000 @,@ 000 in gold to be sold from the Treasury in order to buy up U.S. Bonds with greenbacks . However , after receiving a letter from Grant , Boutwell cancelled the order to sell gold . Previously Secretary Boutwell had been selling gold regularly at $ 1 @,@ 000 @,@ 000 of gold each week . On September 6 , 1869 , Gould had bought the Tenth National Bank that was used as a buying house for gold , and Gould and Fisk began buying gold in earnest . As the price of gold began to rise , Grant became suspicious of gold manipulation and wrote a letter to Secretary Boutwell on September 12 , " The fact is , a desperate struggle is now taking place ... I write this letter to advise you of what I think you may expect , to put you on your guard . " However , President Grant 's personal associations with Gould and Fisk gave them the clout needed to continue their financial scam on Wall Street . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4955 | Varanasi is located at an elevation of 80 @.@ 71 metres ( 264 @.@ 8 ft ) in the centre of the Ganges valley of North India , in the Eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh , along the left crescent @-@ shaped bank of the Ganges , averaging between 15 metres ( 50 ft ) and 21 metres ( 70 ft ) above the river . The city is the headquarters of Varanasi district . By road , Varanasi is located 797 kilometres ( 495 mi ) south @-@ east of New Delhi , 320 kilometres ( 200 mi ) south @-@ east of Lucknow , 121 kilometres ( 75 mi ) east of Allahabad , and 63 kilometres ( 39 mi ) south of Jaunpur . The " Varanasi Urban Agglomeration " – an agglomeration of seven urban sub @-@ units – covers an area of 112 @.@ 26 km 2 ( approximately 43 mi ² ) . Neighbourhoods of the city include <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> Tola , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , Chowk , <unk> , <unk> , Gandhinagar , Gautam Nagar , Giri Nagar , Gopal Vihar , Guru Nanak Nagar , <unk> , Kail <unk> , Khanna , Kotwali , Lanka <unk> , Luxa , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , <unk> , and Sigra . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4956 | In May and June 1978 , Dunham was a short @-@ term consultant in the office of the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) in Jakarta , writing recommendations on village industries and other non @-@ agricultural enterprises for the Indonesian government 's third five @-@ year development plan ( <unk> III ) . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4957 | In September 2015 , in the context of the European migrant crisis , Labour Party leadership candidate Yvette Cooper called for an increase in the number of refugees resettled in the UK to 10 @,@ 000 . The prime minister , David Cameron , subsequently announced that the UK would resettle 20 @,@ 000 refugees from camps in countries bordering Syria over the period to 2020 under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme , which was established in early 2014 and is distinct from , but modelled on , the Gateway Protection Programme . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4958 | Alongside many other British and Irish actors , Nesbitt was cast in Peter Jackson 's three @-@ part film The Hobbit , as the dwarf Bofur . Nesbitt had not read J.R.R. Tolkien 's novel but accepted the role immediately . As the film was scheduled to take over 12 months to make in New Zealand , Nesbitt 's wife and daughters moved with him , and his daughters were enrolled in a New Zealand school . Filming commenced in March 2011 . The first part , The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey , was released in December 2012 , the second part , The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug , in December 2013 , and the third and final part , The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies , in December 2014 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4959 | As Cardiff were in the Football League they played one more round than Liverpool who received a bye in the first round . Therefore , Cardiff progressed through six rounds to reach the final , whereas Liverpool progressed through five . Matches up to the semi @-@ final were contested on a one @-@ off basis with the exception of the semi @-@ finals which were contested over two @-@ legs , with a match at each team 's home ground . Both Liverpool and Cardiff 's matches were close affairs ; their biggest margins of victory was by two goals . Liverpool beat Manchester City to reach the final , whereas Cardiff progressed via a penalty shoot @-@ out against Crystal Palace . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4960 | The band began work on the album two years before entering the studio to record on April 1 , 2000 . During this period , the group members met five days a week to write new songs and rehearse old ones , with Tre Cool observing , " We 've been practicing and writing songs and playing them and playing them and writing new songs and playing them and playing them ... People think we 're off in Hawaii kicking back and shit , but we 're in Oakland playing our jams . " The album was recorded at Studio 880 in Oakland . Cool noted of the band 's work ethic in the studio , " We 're not really sprinting . We 're working at the same pace , but it 's a pretty fast pace for recording . We 're faster than every other band , pretty much . That 's what I 've been told . " With the record , the band aimed to construct a solid list of tracks where " each song could be its own album " . The group also made sure to make each song " well thought out and well placed " with regard to the album 's track listing . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4961 | " [ Madonna ] arrived at my Broadway studio in New York with a small bag of clothes and jewelery , and no entourage . Then , in front of the camera she was explosive , like a great model , but with her own unique style . She came over the next day to see some prints and the proofs , and there was shot after shot to choose from . We agreed on every choice and whittled it down to the album cover images . I had no idea what I had just been a party to . " | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4962 | Tryon Creek begins slightly north of Interstate 5 ( I @-@ 5 ) and Oregon Route 99W near Multnomah Village and flows southeast for 4 @.@ 85 miles ( 7 @.@ 81 km ) through Portland residential neighborhoods as well as Marshall Park and the Tryon Creek State Natural Area to its confluence with the Willamette River in the city of Lake Oswego . Not far from its source , the main stem runs through three closely spaced culverts with a combined length of 260 feet ( 79 m ) then flows on the surface before entering another culvert , 160 feet ( 49 m ) long under Southwest 30th Avenue at river mile ( RM ) 4 @.@ 56 or river kilometer ( RK ) 7 @.@ 34 . Shortly thereafter , the stream passes under Route 99W ( Barbur Boulevard ) and I @-@ 5 through another culvert , 560 feet ( 170 m ) long . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4963 | Kepler @-@ 8b is the only planet that has been discovered in the orbit of Kepler @-@ 8 . With a mass of .603 MJ and a radius of 1 @.@ 419 RJ , the planet is 60 % the mass of , but 42 % larger than planet Jupiter . The planet is diffuse , with a density of .261 grams / cc , especially in comparison to Jupiter and its density of 5 @.@ 515 grams / cc . At a distance of <unk> AU , Kepler @-@ 8b orbits its star every 3 @.@ <unk> days . The eccentricity of Kepler @-@ 8 is assumed to be 0 , which would give the planet a circular orbit . In comparison , planet Mercury orbits the Sun at .3871 AU every 87 @.@ 97 days . Mercury also has an elliptical orbit , with an eccentricity of <unk> . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4964 | A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated to Hendrix on November 14 , 1991 , at <unk> Hollywood Boulevard . The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 , and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 . In 1999 , readers of Rolling Stone and Guitar World ranked Hendrix among the most important musicians of the 20th century . In 2005 , his debut album , Are You Experienced , was one of 50 recordings added that year to the United States National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress , " [ to ] be preserved for all time ... [ as ] part of the nation 's audio legacy " . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4965 | The Corporation was determined to learn from the mistakes made in the earlier new towns and revisit the Garden City ideals . They set in place the characteristic grid roads that run between districts , the Redway system of independent cycle / pedestrian paths , and the intensive planting , lakes and parkland that are so appreciated today . Central Milton Keynes was not intended to be a traditional town centre but a business and shopping district that supplemented the Local Centres in most of the Grid Squares . This non @-@ hierarchical devolved city plan was a departure from the English New Towns tradition and envisaged a wide range of industry and diversity of housing styles and tenures across the city . The radical grid plan was inspired by the work of Californian urban theorist Melvin M Webber ( 1921 – 2006 ) , described by the founding architect of Milton Keynes , Derek Walker , as the city 's " father " . Webber thought that telecommunications meant that the old idea of a city as a concentric cluster was out of date and that cities that enabled people to travel around them readily would be the thing of the future , achieving " community without <unk> " for residents . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4966 | It was originally intended that the VCs would be cast from the cascabels of two cannon that were captured from the Russians at the siege of Sevastopol . In 1990 Creagh and Ashton conducted a metallurgical examination of the VCs in the custody of the Australian War Memorial . Later , the historian John Glanfield , wrote that , through the use of x @-@ ray studies of older Victoria Crosses , it was determined that the metal used for VCs is from antique Chinese guns and not of Russian origin . Theories abound . One theory is that the cannon were originally Chinese weapons but the Russians captured them and deployed them at Sevastopol . However , there had been no hostilities between Russia and China for nearly 200 years before 1855 and no ready explanation of how such cannons would come to be in Sebastopol . They are indeed Chinese cannon : Creagh noted the existence of Chinese inscriptions on the cannon which are now barely legible due to corrosion . A more likely explanation is that these cannons were taken as trophies during Britain 's military intervention in China in the 1840s and held in the Woolwich repository . Whilst it had been suggested that the new medal be made of Sebastopol cannons , the Hancocks employees who went to cut metal picked the Chinese guns instead . There is no evidence that the VC guns have ever been near Sebastopol . It was also thought that some medals made during the First World War were composed of metal captured from different Chinese guns during the Boxer Rebellion . This is not so , however . The VCs examined by Creagh and Ashton both in Australia ( 58 ) and at the QE II Army Memorial Museum in New Zealand ( 14 ) spanned the entire time during which VCs have been issued and no compositional inconsistencies were found . It was also believed that another source of metal was used between 1942 and 1945 to create five Second World War VCs when the Sevastopol metal " went missing " . Creagh accessed the Army records at MoD Donnington in 1991 and did not find any gaps in the custodial record . The composition found in the WW2 VCs , amongst them those for Edwards ( Australia ) and Upham ( New Zealand ) , is similar to that for the early <unk> medals . This is likely to be due to the reuse of material from earlier <unk> , casting sprues , defective medals , etc . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4967 | As attorney @-@ general , Lymburn was involved in many of the Brownlee government 's most important initiatives . He was a major figure in securing the transfer of resource rights from the federal government to the Alberta government . Once the Great Depression proved fertile breeding ground for labour militancy , at Brownlee 's request he prepared a list of Communist leaders so that the government could take action to deport the non @-@ naturalized residents among them , ( although no deportations were ordered ) . Alberta was the only provincial government to support the appellants in the " Persons case " , and Lymburn was responsible for its submission . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4968 | The short story Puthiya Nandan by Pudhumaipithan ( 1906 @-@ 1948 ) places the classical tale of the Nayanar in a contemporary setting . While retelling Nandan 's ancient tale , it also alludes to the Dalit rights movements of Mahatma Gandhi and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy ( see Self @-@ Respect Movement ) . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4969 | Gebhard 's supporter , Adolf von Neuenahr , surrounded Neuss in March 1586 , and persuaded Ernst 's small garrison to capitulate . He refortified and restocked the city and placed young Friedrich Cloedt in command of a garrison of 1600 men , mostly Germans and Dutch soldiers . The town 's fortifications were substantial ; 100 years earlier it had resisted a lengthy siege by Charles the Bold ( 1433 – 1477 ) of Burgundy , and between the fortifications , the natural defenses of rivers , and the garrison , it could withstand all but the most determined assaults . In July 1586 , the Duke of Parma approached and surrounded the city ; by some irony , Agnes ' cousin , Karl von Mansfeld and his troops were a part of the Spanish force assembled against Neuss . Parma had an impressive force at his command ; in addition to Mansfeld 's 2000 troops , he had another 6000 or so foot and <unk> , 2000 well @-@ mounted , experienced Italian , Spanish and German soldiers , and some 45 cannons , which he distributed on the redoubt across the river and on the heights a short distance from the city walls . According to the protocols of war generally accepted in 1586 , Parma requested the capitulation of the city prior to the cannonade . Cloedt declined to capitulate , politely . The next day , being the feast of St. James , and the patron day for the Spanish , the bombardment was not initiated , although mendacious reports circulated in the Spanish camp that the Protestants had roasted two Spanish soldiers alive on the Catholic Holy day , a desecration which fanned their enthusiasm for the impending battle . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4970 | Ibari Ōzora ( 大空 <unk> , Ōzora Ibari ) is the boss of the Ōzora Group , a yakuza <unk> 1 As the father of Tsugumi , Tsubame , Hibari and Suzume , he wants the Ōzora Group to be family @-@ <unk> 4 Ibari is extremely distressed by Hibari 's usual behavior , partly because Hibari is his only choice to inherit the Ōzora <unk> 2 He has a weak heart and frequently gets attacks whenever he is overly excited or shocked by <unk> 2 , 4 , 8 , 28 Ibari had been in love with Kōsaku 's mother , but she ended up marrying a <unk> <unk> 19 Ibari is voiced by <unk> <unk> . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4971 | At 15 : 00 , with the detached division rapidly approaching from astern , Hallowell turned his ship towards the ships sailing ahead of Swiftsure and attempted to pass across the stern of the rearmost ship in an effort to rake and disable it , creating enough confusion to mask an escape . The manoeuvere was recognised by the French captains , and all three vessels turned to face the British ship as it approached . By 15 : 30 the ships of the line had opened a mutual fire , during which the faster French warships were able to easily <unk> the lumbering Swiftsure . At 16 : 37 , after more than an hour of fruitless firing at long range , the arrival of Jean Bart and Constitution within gunshot convinced Hallowell that further resistance was hopeless and he struck his flag to signal his surrender . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4972 | One probable reason for the British clergy 's refusal to cooperate with the Gregorian missionaries was the ongoing conflict between the natives and the Anglo @-@ Saxons , who still were encroaching upon British lands at the time of the mission . The British were unwilling to preach to the invaders of their country , and the invaders saw the natives as second @-@ class citizens , and would have been unwilling to listen to any conversion efforts . There was also a political dimension , as the missionaries could be seen as agents of the invaders ; because Augustine was protected by Æthelberht , submitting to Augustine would have been seen as submitting to Æthelberht 's authority , which the British bishops would have been unwilling to do . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4973 | Bad weather plagued the practice and build @-@ up to the race : Heavy fog caused the postponement of at least one outing . The Times rowing correspondent described Cambridge 's style as " so easy as to be almost sluggish " while Oxford were " lively to the point of punishing their boat " . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4974 | Torres ' twelve Olympic medals tied the all @-@ time medal record for a female Olympic swimmer set by fellow American Jenny Thompson in 2004 ; American Natalie Coughlin subsequently equaled the record in 2012 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4975 | Bronchopulmonary dysplasia was first described by Northway in 1967 , who outlined the conditions that would lead to the diagnosis . This was later expanded by <unk> and in 1988 by Shennan , who suggested the need for supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks could predict long @-@ term outcomes . Nevertheless , <unk> et al. in 1998 concluded that radiographic evidence was the most accurate predictor of long @-@ term effects . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4976 | A mandatory order is an order of the High Court which commands a public body to perform a public duty , and is usually employed to compel public bodies to exercise the powers given to them . It may be used in combination with another remedy , most commonly a quashing order . In such a case , the quashing order will set aside the unlawful decision , and the mandatory order will require the public body to reconsider the matter . A person who complies with a mandatory order cannot have legal proceedings taken against him or her for doing so . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4977 | This is the final straw for Jody . When he finds Ben alone , he pulls a gun on him and threatens to kill him . Ben talks his way out by telling Jody about buried Civil War @-@ era treasure he has supposedly found on a property that Will gave him , a down payment to seal their bargain over Clara . Ben and Jody head to the property , where they start digging . When the two men find a bag of coins , Jody is elated , thinking he might finally get free of his father 's domination ; he buys the land from Ben . Late that night , Will finds his son , still digging . After examining one of the coins , Will notices that it was minted in 1910 . Jody is shattered . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4978 | Several types of RNA can downregulate gene expression by being complementary to a part of an mRNA or a gene 's DNA . MicroRNAs ( miRNA ; 21 @-@ 22 nt ) are found in eukaryotes and act through RNA interference ( RNAi ) , where an effector complex of miRNA and enzymes can cleave complementary mRNA , block the mRNA from being translated , or accelerate its degradation . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4979 | " Double bagging " , using two condoms at once , is often believed to cause a higher rate of failure due to the friction of rubber on rubber . This claim is not supported by research . The limited studies that have been done on the subject support that double bagging is likely not harmful and possibly beneficial . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4980 | 1915 : On March 3 , Navy , Marine Corps , and Coast Guard officers became eligible for the Medal of Honor . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4981 | Zhang was given great honors in life and in death . The philosopher and poet Fu Xuan ( 217 – 278 ) of the Wei and Jin dynasties once lamented in an essay over the fact that Zhang Heng was never placed in the Ministry of Works . Writing highly of Zhang and the 3rd @-@ century mechanical engineer Ma Jun , Fu Xuan wrote , " Neither of them was ever an official of the Ministry of Works , and their ingenuity did not benefit the world . When ( authorities ) employ personnel with no regard to special talent , and having heard of genius neglect even to test it — is this not hateful and disastrous ? " | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4982 | When Hooper was 14 , his film Bomber Jacket came runner @-@ up in a BBC younger filmmakers ' competition . The short starred Hooper 's brother as a boy who discovers a bomber jacket and a photograph hidden in a cupboard and learns his grandfather died in World War II . Another of Hooper 's short films , entitled Countryside , depicts a nuclear holocaust . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4983 | The slouch hat was the preferred choice of many soldiers , including officers . The hat was normally a floppy , wide brimmed , woolen body head @-@ cover , meant to protect the individual from the sun , and inclement weather . It was normally a civilian hat , of brown , gray , or black wool . This simple hat saw widespread use throughout the Confederate Armies , and even with U.S. Army personnel . Occasionally , the hat was adorned with insignia of the wearer 's preference , and may have been pinned up for the drill in the use of the regular weapon of the time , the Rifled @-@ musket . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4984 | In the opening chorus , " Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam " ( Christ our Lord came to the Jordan ) , the tenor has the melody as a cantus firmus , while the other voices sing free counterpoint . In the first cantata of the chorale cantata cycle , O Ewigkeit , du Donnerwort , BWV 20 , Bach had given the cantus firmus of the chorale tune to the soprano , and in the second , Ach Gott , vom Himmel <unk> <unk> , BWV 2 , to the alto . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4985 | As an unrestricted free agent , on the opening day of free agency , Lucic agreed to a 7 @-@ year $ 42 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on July 1 , 2016 . Lucic will wear # 27 with the Oilers , as # 17 was retired by the Oilers . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4986 | Before 1832 , Sleaford was in the Lincolnshire parliamentary constituency , which encompassed all of the county except for four boroughs . In the 1818 election , 49 of the 2 @,@ 000 people living in New and Old Sleaford and Quarrington qualified to vote . In 1832 , the Reform Act widened the franchise and divided Lincolnshire . Sleaford was in the South Lincolnshire constituency that elected two members to parliament . Following the 1867 reforms , the South Lincolnshire constituency 's borders were redrawn , but Sleaford remained within it . The franchise was widened by the reforms so that roughly 15 % ( 202 ) of males in Sleaford and Quarrington could vote in 1868 . The constituency was abolished in 1885 and the Sleaford constituency was formed . It merged with the Grantham seat in 1918 . In 1997 , Sleaford was reorganised into Sleaford and North Hykeham . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4987 | The idea that the children should go to a camp run by Krusty was first suggested by David M. Stern . The animators were enthusiastic about making this episode because they had all gone to summer camps as children and thought it would be a fun episode to write for . The writers also thought that " it would be fun if while the kids are gone Homer and Marge find that as the kids are miserable their marriage is better than ever . " The layout for Bart and Lisa 's cabin was influenced by the director , Mark Kirkland , who as a child went to a Boy Scout camp that had exposed wires and other similar faults . Kirkland was also sure that the character Mr. Black was going to reappear later in the series , but he never did . Al Jean commented , " I guess that the hydrofoil really got Mr. Black out of the show forever . " | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4988 | Cerys Matthews and the band were extremely pleased with the final product , calling it a " better song " than " All Around the World " by Oasis , the single 's main competitor at the time . Matthews later said that the lyrics for " Mulder and Scully " were " good , top to bottom " . Catatonia later released the song as part of their 2002 greatest hits album , And the song was later included on various Britpop compilations , including the Common People : The Britpop Story album , and the 100 Hits of the 90s album , released by the BBC . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4989 | Many of the mountainous and forested sections of the drainage basin lie protected under national forest lands . There are several campgrounds overseen by the U.S. Forest Service in the headwaters of the Potlatch River watershed . Fishing is also good in the Potlatch River and many of its tributaries . Anglers are only permitted to catch brook trout , cutthroat trout , and rainbow and steelhead trout . The Department of Fish and Game annually stocks fish in the river . Fishing is permitted on the Potlatch from its mouth upstream to where Moose Creek joins the river near Bovill , as well as on the East Fork . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4990 | Due to the small size of brachytherapy sources and low control in early decades , there is a risk that some of these have escaped into the environment to become orphaned sources . A radium needle was found in a Prague playground in 2011 , radiating 500 µSv / h from one metre away . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4991 | The Canadian attack on San Leonardo by the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada began late on 5 December 1943 with A Company establishing a bridgehead across the Moro , taking heavy casualties . In the early morning of 6 December , A Company was withdrawn and two additional Seaforth companies resumed the offensive . As PPCLI secured and held their bridgehead over the Moro River , the Seaforth Highlanders were struggling to enter San Leonardo . By 07 : 15 , a single objective had been taken , with Canadian units pinned down by well @-@ coordinated defensive fire from several companies of the 361st Regiment . Simultaneously , small arms fire prevented C Company from moving up the road from the Moro to San Leonardo , while D Company remained on the southern banks of the Moro throughout the early morning . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4992 | 2 is green @-@ blue in aqueous solution , in which it behaves as a strong Lewis acid . It is a stable ion and is the most common form of neptunium in aqueous solutions . Unlike its neighboring homologues UO + | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4993 | The British government , however , was in some turmoil , and in August 1710 , the ministry of Lord Godolphin fell . Queen Anne replaced him with Robert Harley , a political opponent of the Duke of Marlborough , who had also fallen out of favour . Harley wanted to change Britain 's military strategy , implementing a " blue water " policy that emphasized strength at sea , at the cost of a reduced army . He also sought to blunt Marlborough 's continuing influence with a victory of his own devising . To these ends , he authorised expeditions by land and sea to capture Quebec ; however , he fell ill , so most of the work of organisation was done by his Secretary of State , Henry St. John ( the future Lord Bolingbroke ) . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4994 | A second manga was later produced under the name Blue Dragon Ral Ω Grad , also known as Ral Grad . This adaptation was done by Tsuneo Takano and Takeshi Obata , the illustrator of Death Note . Ral Grad began serialization in issue 1 , 2007 of Weekly Shōnen Jump . Viz Media later began releasing the manga as simply " Ral Grad " in February 2008 . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4995 | A Slate article reports that the concept of 0 @.@ 999 … is " hotly disputed on websites ranging from World of Warcraft message boards to Ayn Rand forums " . In the same vein , the question of 0 @.@ 999 … proved such a popular topic in the first seven years of Blizzard Entertainment 's Battle.net forums that the company issued a " press release " on April Fools ' Day 2004 that it is 1 : | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4996 | The New Zealand Labour Party leadership election , 2011 was held on 13 December 2011 to choose the thirteenth leader of the New Zealand Labour Party . A deputy leader and a senior and a junior whip were also elected . Following the Labour Party 's loss in the 2011 general election , leader Phil Goff and deputy leader Annette King resigned , prompting the leadership election , which was conducted as a secret ballot of the Labour caucus . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4997 | Smaller guns were carried for close @-@ range defence against torpedo boats . These included fourteen 50 @-@ calibre Canet QF 75 @-@ millimetre ( 3 @.@ 0 in ) guns : four in hull embrasures and the remaining 10 mounted on the superstructure . The ship carried 300 shells for each gun . They fired an 11 @-@ pound ( 4 @.@ 9 kg ) shell at a muzzle velocity of 2 @,@ 700 ft / s ( 820 m / s ) to a maximum range of 7 @,@ 005 yards ( 6 @,@ 405 m ) . She also mounted six 47 @-@ millimetre ( 1 @.@ 9 in ) Hotchkiss guns . Four of these were mounted in the fighting top and two on the superstructure . They fired a 2 @.@ 2 @-@ pound ( 1 @.@ 00 kg ) shell at a muzzle velocity of 1 @,@ 400 ft / s ( 430 m / s ) . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4998 | Habitat loss has occurred through commercial harvesting of the sago , or conversion to rice cultivation and fishponds . The rail is a prized food for local people who catch it with traps made from strings of bark and hunt it with dogs . The only described nest was in an area well @-@ used by local villagers , and the rail may be more adaptable to habitat changes than had been thought . There were also several sightings in northeast Halmahera in 2008 and 2011 , extending the area in which this bird has been seen in recent years . | wikipedia-2018 |
wikipedia_2018-4999 | Lewis argues that Applewhite effectively controlled his followers by packaging his teachings in familiar terms . Richard Hecht of the University of California , Santa Barbara , echoes this sentiment , arguing that members of the group killed themselves because they believed the narrative that he had constructed , rather than because he psychologically controlled them . In his 2000 study of apocalyptic movements , John R. Hall posits that they were motivated to commit suicide because they saw it as a way to demonstrate that they had conquered the fear of death and truly believed Applewhite . | wikipedia-2018 |
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