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Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas is the Lithuanian Presidential Award which was re-instituted to honour the citizens of Lithuania for outstanding performance in civil and public offices. Foreign nationals may also be awarded this Order. The Order of the Lithu...
Family of Gediminas The family of Gediminas is a group of family members of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania (ca. 1275–1341), who interacted in the 14th century. The family included the siblings, children, and grandchildren of the Grand Duke and played the pivotal role in the history of Lithuania for the period as th...
Jonas Acus-Acukas Jonas Asevicius-Acus-Acukas (July 29, 1885 in Jieznas – July 11, 1976 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian army officer and chemist. From 1909 to 1918, he served in the Imperial Russian Army at Kaunas Fortress. He fought in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he returned to Lithuania and was...
Petras Kunca Petras Kunca (born 1942) is a Lithuanian violinist, awarded the National Prize of Lithuania (1979) and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. For 31 years he performed with the Vilnius Quartet.
Arvydas Každailis Arvydas Stanislavas Každailis (born 4 April 1939, in Baisogala) is a Lithuanian artist, best known as the creator of many coat of arms for cities and towns of Lithuania. For his achievements in Lithuanian art, he was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas in 1999.
Mūza Rubackytė Mūza Rubackytė (born May 19, 1959) is a Lithuanian pianist, currently residing in Vilnius and Paris. Rubackytė has been awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Lithuanian Muzes, and has been named as the National Artist of Lithuania.
Antanas Sutkus Antanas Sutkus (born 27 June 1939) is a Lithuanian photographer. He is a recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts and Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. Sutkus was one of the co-founders and a president of the Lithuanian Association of Art Photographers (Lithuanian: "Lie...
Chapel of St Mary and St Nathalan The Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan is a ruined chapel overlooking the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven, in the Mearns of Scotland, along the northern shoreline of Stonehaven Bay. (Watt, 1985) The founding of this Christian place of worship is associated with St. Nathalan....
Bervie Water Bervie Water (Scottish Gaelic: "Uisge Bhiorbhaigh" ) is a river in Aberdeenshire, Scotland which rises in the Drumtochty Forest and flows across The Mearns to reach the North Sea at Inverbervie. Approximately two kilometres upstream of the North Sea, the Bervie Water flows through the grounds of Allardice ...
Allardice Castle Allardice Castle (also spelled Allardyce) is a sixteenth-century manor house in Kincardineshire, Scotland. This monument is occupied by the Cowie family and is approximately 1.5 kilometres northwest of the town of Inverbervie. The Bervie Water flows around Allardice Castle on both sides. Allardice may ...
Stonehaven Bay Stonehaven Bay is a natural harbour in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The town of Stonehaven is built along the shore of Stonehaven Bay. Nearby historical features include Fetteresso Castle, Stonehaven Tolbooth, Dunottar Castle and Muchalls Castle.
Inverallochy Castle Inverallochy Castle is a ruined courtyard castle near the village of Inverallochy in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland. It lies 0.5 mi south of Cairnbulg Castle near Fraserburgh. It was described by W. Douglas Simpson as one of the nine castles of the Knuckle, referring to the rocky headland of...
Cowie Castle Cowie Castle is a ruined fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site lies at the northern end of Stonehaven on the North Sea coast. To the immediate south is the Cowie Bridge crossing of the Cowie Water. Evidence of prehistoric man exists in the vicinity dating to the Iron Age in the form of ring cairns.
Cowie Water The Cowie Water (Scottish Gaelic: "Uisge Chollaidh" ) is a river rising in the Grampian Mountains in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that discharges to the North Sea in the northern part of Stonehaven. south of the ruined Cowie Castle. Tributaries of the Cowie Water include the Burn of Monboys, which drains the are...
Mearns FM Mearns FM is a community run radio station based in the North East of Scotland. There are transmitters in Laurencekirk, Inverbervie and Stonehaven leading to a coverage area stretching from St Cyrus to Newtonhill. The studio is located in Stonehaven Town Hall.
Cowie Bridge Cowie Bridge is a roadway bridge across the Cowie Water in Stonehaven, Scotland near the river's mouth at the North Sea. This construction is a listed historical structure in Aberdeenshire. Historically the area in the vicinity of the Cowie Bridge site has been an old fishing village known as Cowie Village...
Fetteresso Castle Fetteresso Castle is a 14th-century towerhouse, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site. It is situated immediately west of the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire slightly to the west of the A90 dual carriageway. Other notable h...
Nemanja Cerovac Nemanja Cerovac (born November 16, 1991) is a Serbian middle-distance runner. He ran in the youth races at the European Cross Country Championships in 2010 and 2013. He has competed in various cross country distances, but specializes in the middle-distances, particularly in the 1500 meters.
James Fraser Mustard James Fraser Mustard, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (October 16, 1927 – November 16, 2011) was a Canadian doctor and renowned researcher in early childhood development. Born, raised and educated in Toronto, Ontario, Mustard began his career as a research fellow at the University of Toronto where...
Ruth May Fox Ruth May Fox (November 16, 1853 – April 12, 1958) was a nineteenth-century English-born women's rights activist in the Territory of Utah. Fox was a poet, hymn writer, and a leader of youth in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Cyclone Tia Severe Tropical Cyclone Tia was the first of six tropical cyclones to affect Vanuatu, during the 1991–92 South Pacific cyclone season. The system was first noted within the South Pacific convergence zone as a small tropical depression on November 13, to the northeast of the Solomon Islands. Over the next fe...
C'Mon (Kesha song) "C'Mon" is a song by American singer Kesha from her second studio album, "Warrior" (2012). It was released as the album's second single on November 16, 2012, the same day of being released as a promotional single. The song was written by Kesha, Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco, Max Martin, Cirkut, and fellow p...
Saji Kazunari Saji Kazunari (佐治一成 , 1569 – November 16, 1634) was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period and Edo period.
Park Hyung-sik Park Hyung-Sik (born November 16, 1991), known mononymously as Hyungsik, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy group, and its sub-group ZE:A Five. Apart from his singing career, he is most well known for his work in "The Heirs" (2013), "High Society" (2015), "" (2016)...
Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth () is a South Korean television series starring Park Seo-joon, Go A-ra, and Park Hyung-sik. It evolves around an elite group of young men called "Hwarang" who discover their passions, love and friendship in the turmoil of the Silla Kingdom (57 B.C. - A.D. ...
Youth Engagement Summit The Youth Engagement Summit (YES) is the gathering of Southeast Asian youths with well-known global icons of change. The 2009 Youth Engagement Summit took place on November 16–17 at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Ultimate Warrior Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig; June 16, 1959 – April 8, 2014) was an American professional wrestler, who most famously wrestled under the ring name The Ultimate Warrior for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from 1987 to 1991 and again in 1992 and 1996. During his 1998 stint in World...
Coke Kahani Coke Kahani (Urdu: کوک کہانی‎ ) is a 2012 Pakistani comedy drama sitcom directed by Mehreen Jabbar broadcasting on Broadcast syndication. Sitcom is written by Syed Mohammad Ahmed and Yasir Rana, starring Sonia Rehman, Faisal Rehman, Syra Yousuf, Syed Mohammad Ahmed, Yasir Hussain, Ahmed Zeb, Shamim Hilali. ...
Adnan Siddiqui Adnan Siddiqui (Urdu: ‎ ) is a Pakistani actor and model who has worked in Lollywood and Hollywood and also made his debut in Bollywood with the Hindi film "Mom" (2017). He has appeared in many commercials and drama serials, including "Uroosa", "Pal Do Pal", "Meri Adhoori Mohabbat", "Meri Zaat Zara-e-Ben...
Family Front Family Front (Urdu: فیملی فرنٹ‎ ) was a 1997 Pakistani comedy drama sitcom. It was broadcast by the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV World, now PTV News). Sitcom was directed by Waseem Abbas and written by Muhammad Younis Butt, starring Saba Hameed, Samina Ahmad, Waseem Abbas, Mira Hashmi, "Iram Hassan...
Gol Chakkar Gol Chakkar is a 2012 Pakistani comedy film directed by Shahbaz Shigri, produced and written by Aisha Linnea Akhtar. Film features Ali Rehman Khan, Hasan Bruun Akhtar, Usman Mukhtar, Salmaan Ahmed Shaukat, Uzair Jaswal, Adil Gul, Saboor Pasha, Asad Ali Shigri and special appearance by Shahana Khan Khalil. T...
Yasir Hussain Yasir Hussain is a Pakistani actor and writer from Islamabad best known for his comic roles.
As the City Sleeps As the City Sleeps is the debut album by gothic rock band Mary and the Black Lamb. The album is about different experiences the band members have gone through. Most of which are based on true stories. All the songs on the album were written by Lindz Riot with the exception of, Stranger where Matt Kel...
Lahori Gate (TV series) Lahori Gate (Urdu: لاہوری گیٹ‎ ) was a Pakistani comedy drama serial, aired on PTV Home. Serial's stars were Iftikhar Thakur, Sardar Kamal, Naseem Vicky, Abid Kashmiri, Waseem Abbas and Qavi Khan. This show is written by Waseem Abbas who also acts in it. He is a son of Pakistan's late famous fil...
Raju Rocket Raju Rocket is a 2012 Pakistani comedy drama serial aired on the Hum TV. Serial was first aired on 27 August 2012; and is directed by "Saima Waseem" and written by "Imran Ali Safir", starring Danish Taimoor, Sumbul Iqbal, Madiha Rizvi, Rubina Ashraf, Nadia Afghan and Qazi Wajid.
Pakistani English literature Pakistani English literature refers to English literature that has been developed and evolved in Pakistan, as well as by members of the Pakistani diaspora who write in the English language. English is one of the official languages of Pakistan (the other being Urdu) and has a history going b...
Googly Mohalla Googly Mohalla was a 36-episodic Cricket World Cup 2015 special Pakistani comedy drama with a Romantic glimpse. It starred "Jahanzeb Khan" and "Aimen Khan" as main leads, while "Hina Dilpazir" played a supporting role.
Reek Sunday Reek Sunday (Irish: "Domhnach na Cruaiche" ) or Garland Sunday is an annual day of pilgrimage in Ireland. On the last Sunday in July, pilgrims climb Ireland's holiest mountain, Croagh Patrick (764 metres) in County Mayo. It is held in honour of Saint Patrick who, in the year 441, spent 40 days fasting on th...
Kristian Birkeland Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland (13 December 1867 – 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist. He is best remembered as the person whose theories of atmospheric electric currents elucidated the nature of the aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic...
Wesley Silcox Wesley Silcox (born May 30, 1985, in Santaquin, Utah) is an American professional bull rider. He is of English descent. He competes in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Championship Bull Riding (CBR) tour. He has qualified for the PRCA's National Finals Rodeo seven times (2005-2008, 20...
Robert K. Yin Robert K. Yin is an American social scientist and President of COSMOS Corporation, known for his work on case study research as well as on qualitative research. Over the years, his work on case study research has been frequently cited. Google Scholar listed it as the second highest methodological work (se...
Rumford Medal The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by Britain's Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe". First awarded during 1800, it was created after a 1796 donation of $5000...
Simon Poelman Simon Poelman (born 27 May 1963) is a former New Zealand decathlete, who has been described as New Zealand's best ever all-round athlete. In the decathlon, his personal best of 8359 points (which is adjusted from 8366 points as it was hand timed) is still a New Zealand national record. This was set at the...
Celina Seghi Celina Seghi (born 6 March 1920) is a former Italian alpine skier. Born in Abetone, Tuscany, she was the youngest child in a family of nine and earned her first Italian championship medal, a bronze in the slalom, in 1934. In 1937 she earned three national titles, her first victories at that level, by winni...
Dysosmia Dysosmia is a disorder described as any qualitative alteration or distortion of the perception of smell. Qualitative alterations differ from quantitative alterations, which include anosmia and hyposmia. Dysosmia can be classified as either parosmia (also called troposmia) or phantosmia. Parosmia refers to a di...
Substorm A substorm, sometimes referred to as a magnetospheric substorm or an auroral substorm, is a brief disturbance in the Earth's magnetosphere that causes energy to be released from the "tail" of the magnetosphere and injected into the high latitude ionosphere. Visually, a substorm is seen as a sudden brightening ...
Bifurcation theory Bifurcation theory is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations. Most commonly applied to the mathematical study of dynamical system...
Tatiana Nikolayeva Tatyana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татья́на Петро́вна Никола́ева , "Tat'jana Petrovna Nikolaeva"; May 4, 1924November 22, 1993) was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.
Ministry of Finance (RSFSR) Ministry of Finance of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian: Министерство финансов РСФСР ), known prior to 1946 as the People's Commissariat for Finance (Russian: Народный комиссариат финансов ), or shorten to Narkomfin was part of the government of the Russian Soviet Fe...
Nikolai Ryzhkov Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (Ukrainian: Рижков Микола Іванович, Russian: Николай Иванович Рыжков, "Nikolaj Ivanovič Ryžkov"; born 28 September 1929) is a former Soviet official who became a Russian politician following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He served as the last Chairman of the Council of M...
Nikolai Lugansky Nikolai Lugansky (Russian: Никола́й Льво́вич Луга́нский ; born 26 April 1972) is a Russian pianist from Moscow. At the age of five, before he had learned to read music, he played a Beethoven piano sonata learned completely by ear. He studied piano at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Conse...
Maria Grinberg Maria Grinberg (Russian: Mария Израилевна Гринберг, "Marija Israilevna Grinberg") (September 6, 1908 – July 14, 1978), was a Soviet pianist. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Her father was a Hebrew scholar and her mother taught piano privately. Until the age of 18, Maria ...
Valentin Pavlov Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (Russian: Валентин Серге́евич Павлов ; 27 September 1937 – 30 March 2003) was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the city of Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Pavlov began h...
Russian Soviet Government Bureau The Russian Soviet Government Bureau (1919-1921), sometimes known as the "Soviet Bureau," was an unofficial diplomatic organization established by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the United States during the Russian Civil War. The Soviet Bureau primarily functioned a...
Nikolai Sidelnikov Nikolai Nikolayevich Sidelnikov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Сиде́льников ; June 5, 1930, Tver – June 20, 1992) was a Russian Soviet composer.
Russia Day Russia Day (Russian: День России, "Den' Rossii" ) is the national holiday of the Russian Federation. It has been celebrated annually on June 12 since 1992. It commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on June 12, 1990. The pa...
Nikolai Krylenko Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Крыле́нко ; May 2, 1885 – July 29, 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Krylenko served in a variety of posts in the Soviet legal system, rising to become People's Commissar for Justice and Prosecutor General of...
Dover Street Dover Street is a street in Mayfair, London. The street is notable for its Georgian architecture as well as the location of historic London clubs and hotels, which have been frequented by world leaders and historic figures in the arts. It also hosts a number of contemporary art galleries. An equestrian scu...
Larry Tee Larry Tee (born October 12, 1959) is a Berlin-based DJ, club promoter, and music producer who coined the musical genre term electroclash and helped launch the careers of such artists as RuPaul, Scissor Sisters, Fischerspooner, Peaches, W.I.T., and Avenue D, and has written songs for and collaborated with Afro...
Petticoat Lane Market Petticoat Lane Market is a fashion and clothing market in the East End of London. It consists of two adjacent street markets. Wentworth Street Market is open six days a week and Middlesex Street Market is open on Sunday only.
Comme des Garçons Comme des Garçons, French for "like boys", is a Japanese fashion label founded by and headed by Rei Kawakubo. Comme des Garçons is based in Tokyo and also in the prestigious Place Vendôme in Paris, the city in which they show their main collections during Paris Fashion Week and Paris Men's Fashion Wee...
Bath Club The Bath Club was a sports-themed London gentlemen's club in the 20th century. It was established in 1894 at 34 Dover Street. Its swimming pool was a noted feature, and it is thought that the swimming pool of the fictional Drones Club (also on Dover Street) was based on this. Sir Henry "Chips" Channon was a m...
Rei Kawakubo Rei Kawakubo (川久保玲 , Kawakubo Rei ) (b. 1942) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. In recognition of the notable design contributions of Kawakubo, an exhibition of her designs entitled "Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garçons, Ar...
Dover Street Market Dover Street Market is a high fashion company and multi-brand retailer originally located on Dover Street, in Mayfair, London. It has stores in New York City, Tokyo, and Singapore. Dover Street Market was created by Rei Kawakubo of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons and her husband Adrian Joff...
Visvim Visvim is a Japanese menswear brand founded by Hiroki Nakamura in Ura-Harajuku in 2001. The brand is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has stores in Japan and Hong Kong. Visvim is also sold internationally in department stores and boutiques, such as Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Dover Street Market in London...
New Market and Head House New Market, as it was originally known, and later also known as Head House (or Headhouse) Market and Second Street Market, is a historic street market on South 2nd Street between Pine and Lombard Streets in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a history dating to 1...
Dock Street Market The Dock Street Market was Philadelphia’s wholesale produce market. It was located on Dock Street in Society Hill. Dock Street is three blocks long, and runs from Sansom Street to Spruce Street, and between Third and Front Streets. The market was busiest between midnight and eight in the morning when...
Jermall Charlo Jermall Charlo (born May 19, 1990) is an American professional boxer who held the IBF light middleweight title from 2015 to 2017. His identical twin brother, Jermell Charlo, is also a professional boxer and is younger by one minute. Both brothers are graduates of Hastings High School. They began boxing w...
Jermell Charlo Jermell De'Avante Charlo (born May 19, 1990) is an American professional boxer who has held the WBC super welterweight title since 2016. His identical twin brother, Jermall Charlo, is also a professional boxer and is older by one minute. Both brothers are graduates of Hastings High School in Alief, Houst...
Robert Garcia (American boxer) Roberto Garcia Cortez (born January 29, 1975), best known as Robert Garcia, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2001, and held the IBF junior lightweight title from 1998 to 1999. He has since worked as a boxing trainer, and was voted Trainer of the Year by "...
Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali ( ; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial,...
Drian Francisco Drian Francisco (born November 10, 1982 in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, Philippines), nicknamed Gintong Kamao (Golden Fist), is a Filipino professional boxer. Born in the province of Mindoro, Francisco currently resides in Agoncillo, Batangas. His younger brother Lloyd Francisco, like him, is also a pr...
Marlon Reid Marlon Reid (born 17 April 1982) is a British professional boxer who was born in Swindon and currently lives in Bath. After reaching the ABA final against George Groves as an amateur Reid made his debut as a professional boxer on 17 October 2008 against Gary Cooper and won on points.
Don Diego Poeder Don Diego Rivelino Alfredo Poeder (born 3 April 1972) is a former Dutch professional boxer. He is known as the only Dutch professional boxer that won a world title as a professional undefeated.
The Soul of a Butterfly The Soul of a Butterfly is the autobiography of Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., a former heavyweight boxer who was a three time World Heavyweight Champion and is the greatest heavyweight of all time.
David Haye David Deron Haye (born 13 October 1980) is a British professional boxer who has held world titles in two weight classes. He is the first British boxer to reach the final of the World Amateur Boxing Championships, where he won a silver medal in 2001. As a professional he became the first British boxer to beco...
Steve Ward (boxer) Steve Ward (born c. 1956) is a British professional boxer, notable for being the oldest professional boxer in the world. He was confirmed as such in 2011 at age 54. He lost the distinction in 2015, when an older fighter competed in a professional bout, but regained it later that year when he fought p...
Operation Mersad Operation Mersad (Persian: عملیات مرصاد‎ ‎ , meaning "ambush") was the last major military operation of the Iran–Iraq War, ending in a decisive victory for Iran. The operation involved a successful counterattack against a July 1988 military incursion from Iraq, by a military force of about 7,000 member...
Paul Capellani Paul Capellani (September 9, 1877 – November 7, 1960) was a noted French silent film actor. His brother was the director Albert Capellani and his uncle the film director Roger Capellani who died May 1940 at the Battle of Dunkirk.
Albert Capellani Albert Capellani (23 August 1874 – 26 September 1931) was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brother was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani. and another the film director Roger Capellani.
Roger la Honte (1913 film) Roger la Honte or A Man's Shadow is a 1913 French silent historical drama film directed by Adrien Caillard and starring Georges Dorival, Paul Capellani and Henri Collen. It is an adaption of the novel of the same title by Jules Mary, which has been filmed a further four times since.
Battle of Dunkirk The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), France, during the Second World War. The battle was fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British a...
Operation Balavegaya Operation Balavegaya (Operation Power force) was a combined military operation launched by the Sri Lankan military in Jaffna, the largest amphibious assault in its history. Operation Balavegaya was launched in response to the siege of Elephant Pass by the LTTE. It is believed that Operation Balaveg...
Roger Capellani Roger Capellani (31 January 1905 – 30 May 1940) was a French film director, the son of film director and screenwriter Albert Capellani and the nephew of the actor Paul Capellani.
La Bohème (1916 film) La Bohème (aka:La vie de Bohème) is a 1916 silent historical film directed by Albert Capellani and distributed by World Pictures. The star of this version is Alice Brady, whose father William A. Brady was the founder of World Pictures. This film is one of many silent versions, actually the third o...
Camille (1915 film) Camille is a 1915 American silent film based on the story "La Dame aux Camélias" ("The Lady of the Camellias") by Alexandre Dumas, "fils", first published in French as a novel in 1848 and as a play in 1852. Adapted for the screen by Frances Marion, "Camille" was directed by Albert Capellani and star...
Patrie (1917 film) Patrie is a 1917 French film by Albert Capellani after the drama of Victorien Sardou. The film featured Henry Krauss as the Count of Rysoor, Paul Capellani as Karloo Van der Noot, Léon Bernard as Ionas, and Maxime Desjardins as the Duke of Alba.
General Survey Act The General Survey Act was a law passed by the United States Congress in April 1824, which authorized the president to have surveys made of routes for transport roads and canals "of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of public mail." Wh...
Supreme Court of Namibia The Supreme Court of Namibia is the supreme court in all legal matters of the laws of Namibia. It is the court of last resort and the highest appellate court in the country. It is located in the centre of Namibia's capital city, Windhoek. A Supreme Court decision is supreme in that it can only ...
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 is an Act of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) which was passed to plug the hole left by the Supreme Court decision in "CC v. Ireland" which struck down as unconstitutional a seventy-year-old provision on statutory rape. The Act provide...
Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 greatly influenced the development of eugenics in the twentieth century. The act was based on model legislation written by Harry H. Laughlin and challenged by the Supreme Court decision of Buck v. Bell. The Supreme Court upheld the law; consequen...
Gibbons v. Ogden Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation. The case was argue...
Review of court decision in Indonesia Review of court decision or abbreviated PK (Indonesian: "Peninjauan Kembali" ) is a legal action that can be taken by the convict (the person subject to the penalty) in a legal case against a court decision final and binding on the judicial system in Indonesia. The court ruling has...
Taint (legal) Taint is a term used in the legal field with reference to evidence that has been "tainted" or ruined in some manner. The most common of such usage is with reference to evidence, testimony, identification by witnesses, or confessions that have been obtained by law enforcement illegally. The illegality usua...
Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court decision involving Florida voters during the 2000 presidential election. In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court requested clarification from the Florida Supreme Court regarding a de...
United States v. Masonite Corp. United States v. Masonite Corp., 316 U.S. 265 (1942), is a United States Supreme Court decision that limited the scope of the 1926 Supreme Court decision in the "General Electric" case that had exempted patent licensing agreements from antitrust law's prohibition of price fixing. The Cou...
Beck v. Ohio Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89 (1964) , is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning evidence obtained as part of an unlawful arrest. Reversing the Ohio Supreme Court's decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Ohio police arrested defendant without probable cause, so the criminally-punishable evidence...
Dustin Brown Dustin James Brown (born November 4, 1984) is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, he moved to the ZSC Lions, the hockey team from Zürich. The 13th overall pick of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, he has spe...
Ozone Journal Ozone Journal is a 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning work by Peter Balakian.
James Der Derian James Der Derian (born 1955) is the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies and Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at The University of Sydney, having taken up his appointment in January 2013. His research and teaching interests are in international security, infor...

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