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100 | "Ras Sedr"
Ras Sedr Ras Sedr (Also spelled: Ras Sidr, Ras Sudr, or Ras Sudar; """" ) is an Egyptian town located on the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea coast. It is a part of the South Sinai Governorate, and consists of three areas: Wadi Sidr, Abu Sidr and Soerp. The region has been known since ancient biblical times. Ras Sidr is 200 km from Cairo and approx 60 km from the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel crossing in Suez, on the western side of the Sinai Peninsula, and almost opposite the resort of El Ayn An Sokhna on the opposite Red |
101 | "Yury of Zvenigorod"
year, Kosoy and Shemyaka defeated Vasily II on the banks of the Kus River. The grand prince was informed that Yury's troops had been seen among his enemies and decided to punish him for this treachery. In winter 1434, he set Galich ablaze, but Yury had escaped northward to Belozersk. On 16 March, the armies of the uncle and the nephew clashed between Rostov and Pereslavl. Vasily's army was roundly defeated and he sought refuge in Nizhny Novgorod. On 31 March 1434, on the Bright Week Wednesday, Yury again entered Moscow, where he captured Vasily's family and treasury. He was |
102 | "Yury of Zvenigorod"
preparing a new campaign against Vasily when he died suddenly, on 5 July 1434, succeeded by his eldest son, Vasily Kosoy. Yury of Zvenigorod Yury Dmitrievich (26 November 1374, Pereslavl-Zalessky — 5 June 1434), also known as George II of Moscow, Yury of Zvenigorod and Jurij Zwenihorodski, was the second son of Dmitri Donskoi. He was the Duke of Zvenigorod and Galich from 1389 until his death. During the reign of his brother Vasily I, he took part in the campaigns against Torzhok (1392), Zhukotin (1414), and Novgorod (1417). He was the chief orchestrator of the Muscovite Civil War against |
103 | "2017 National League Division Series"
with Murphy to third base. However, Taylor singled up the middle to score Murphy, cutting the Cubs lead to one. In the bottom of the ninth, Davis returned to the mound, trying to get the seven out save. He got it, retiring Turner and striking out Werth and Harper swinging to end the game and series, Cubs winning the game 9-8. Davis recorded his record-tying third save of the series (Aroldis Chapman was the last closer to do accomplish this, doing this in the 2016 NLDS). He is only the third reliever to have gone 3-for-3 in save opportunities in |
104 | "Last Man on Earth (album)"
reflect upon Wainwright's troubled relationship with his father, Loudon Wainwright, Jr., a subject that has populated many of his earlier recordings. ""Last Man on Earth"" can be seen as a companion piece to his 1992 album, ""History"", written after the death of his father. In 1997, following his mother's funeral, Wainwright stayed in her home in Katonah, Westchester County for eighteen months. During this time, Wainwright wrote much of the album's material. ""Last Man on Earth"" was released four years after Wainwright's mother's death. The working title for the album was ""Missing You"", named after the album's opening track. However, |
105 | "David Grubbs"
post-punk power trio Bastro, which released and EP and two albums on Homestead. In 1991 Bastro morphed into the more avant-garde Gastr del Sol. This project soon became essentially a partnership between Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke after the band's first album. The albums released by the duo include ""Crookt, Crackt, or Fly"", ""Upgrade & Afterlife"", and ""Camoufleur"". In this period, Grubbs also contributed to other projects, including guitar for two tracks on Codeine's 1994 album ""The White Birch"" and guitar, piano, and harmonium on recordings by Palace Music, Will Oldham, Royal Trux, Dirty Three, Matmos, Richard Buckner, Tony Conrad, Pauline |
106 | "2011 in CONCACAF"
open to all divisions of each nation's respective pyramid. 2011 in CONCACAF The year of 2011 in CONCACAF marked the 48th year of CONCACAF competitions. From 5 June through 25 June, CONCACAF hosted its eleventh biannual regional tournament, the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Hosted in the United States, it was the fourth-consecutive tournament that the Gold Cup was solely held in the United States. The Gold Cup saw Mexico earn their sixth Gold Cup honor, by defeating tournament hosts, and longtime rivals, the United States, by a 4–2 scoreline. The Mexican team earned their way into the finals through the virtue |
107 | "Dancer in a Café"
refined sensibility of Metzinger himself, the playfulness and grace of whom he compares to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, while singling out Metzinger as 'certainly ... the man of our time who knows best how to paint'. In a review of the exhibition published in ""Le Petit Parisien"", art critic Jean Claude writes of entries by Léger, Gleizes and Metzinger: ""Mr. Léger walked his brush on the canvas after having dipped them in blue, black, red and brown. It is stupefying to look at. The catalog says it's a Woman in blue. Poor woman. Man on a Balcony, by Mr. Gleizes, is more |
108 | "Dancer in a Café"
comprehensible. At least in the chaos of cubes and trapezoids we find a man. I will say as much for the entry of Mr. Metzinger, Dancers. It has the effect of a puzzle that is not assembled properly"". Dancer in a Café Danseuse au café (also known as Dancer in a Café or Au Café Concert and Danseuse) is a large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne of 1912, entitled ""Danseuse"". The Cubist contribution to the 1912 Salon d'Automne created a controversy |
109 | "White Africans of European ancestry"
were Sephardi Jews whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492, while most of the other Jews in North Africa were Mizrahi Jews whose ancestors never settled in Europe. Today only around 6,000 Jews remain. There is a substantial, mostly Ashkenazic Jewish community in South Africa. These Jews arrived mostly from Lithuania prior to World War II. Although the Jewish community peaked in the 1970s, about 80,000 remain in South Africa. Serbs and people of Serbian descent constitute a fairly large population in South Africa, accounting for 25-30,000 people, mostly residing in Gauteng. Over 22 Serbian folklore groups are active |
110 | "Edlington railway station"
for a waiting shelter. The large station sign was removed in the late 1920s and replaced by a simple ""Edlington"". The station was opened for passengers on 3 June 1912 and ceased on 10 September 1951. The passenger service was originally operated by a Hughes-designed 'railmotor' which was fitted with vacuum-operated retractable steps, thus saving on platform building. At first, trains were operated on behalf of the DVR by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; when that company amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922, the combined organisation (also known as the London and North Western |
111 | "Caladenia oreophila"
Caladenia oreophila Caladenia oreophila is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a ground orchid with a single leaf and a single greenish-cream flower with pale red stripes a red labellum with a greenish-cream base. ""Caladenia oreophila"" is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with a spherical underground tuber and a single leaf, long and wide. A single greenish-cream flower with pale red stripes is borne on a spike tall. The sepals have dark red, club-like glandular tips long and are long and wide whilst the petals are slightly shorter. The sepals and |
112 | "The Alcoa Hour"
The Alcoa Hour The Alcoa Hour is an American anthology television series that was aired live on NBC from 1955 to 1957. The series was sponsored by Alcoa. Like the ""Philco Television Playhouse"" and ""Goodyear Television Playhouse"" that had preceded it, ""The Alcoa Hour"" was a one-hour live dramatic anthology series presenting both original stories and adaptations of popular works. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. The series alternated weeks in the same time slot with the ""Goodyear Television Playhouse"" until both series ended in 1957. One of |
113 | "David Grubbs"
Vandermark, Damon Locks, and Ian Williams) profiled in Augusto Contento's 2012 documentary film ""Parallax Sounds"". Grubbs lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Cathy Bowman, and their son Emmett Bowman-Grubbs. David Grubbs David Grubbs (born September 21, 1967), composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. He has also played in Codeine, The Red Krayola, Bitch Magnet and The Wingdale Community Singers. Grubbs' first band was a brief-lived punk/new wave group called The Happy Cadavers that released the four-song 7"" record ""With Illustrations"" in 1982. Grubbs then formed a hardcore punk band |
114 | "The Alcoa Hour"
performance in an episode titled ""Tragedy in a Temporary Town"", directed by Sidney Lumet. During the performance, Bridges inadvertently slipped some profanity in while ad-libbing. Although the slip of the lip generated hundreds of complaints, the episode won a Robert E. Sherwood Television Award, with Bridges' slip being defended even by some members of the clergy. The episode, during which an innocent Puerto Rican man is targeted by a mob for a sexual crime, was cited by the Anti-Defamation League as ""the best dramatic program of the year dealing with interethnic group relations."" <nowiki>*</nowiki>No information found for this episode. The |
115 | "Berit Svendsen"
her appointment in 2000 as technology director for all of Telenor's departments, a post she held for the next five years. In 2005, she became Vice President and Head of Telenor Nordic Fixed. From 2002 to 2007, Svendsen was a member of the European Commission's ISTAG, an advisory group on information society technologies. In 2008, she spent a short period as CEO of Conax which at the time was owned by Telenor. She returned to Telenor in September 2011 as Executive Vice President Telenor Group and CEO of Telenor Norway, a position she continues to hold. Svendsen also serves on |
116 | "Khlong Khuean District"
further subdivided into 32 administrative villages (""muban""). There are five sub-district administrative organizations (SAO) in the district: Khlong Khuean District Khlong Khuean (, ) is a district (""amphoe"") of Chachoengsao Province, central Thailand. The district was created on 31 May 1993 by splitting it from Bang Khla District. On 15 May 2007, all 81 minor districts were upgraded to full districts. With publication in the ""Royal Gazette"" on 24 August the upgrade became official. Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise) Bang Khla, Mueang Chachoengsao, and Bang Nam Priao of Chachoengsao Province and Ban Sang of Prachinburi Province. The important |
117 | "White Africans of European ancestry"
the population. In Rhodesia (and later Zimbabwe), Afrikaans wasn't as common and the country was dominated by English throughout its history. There were however a few Afrikaans inhabitants, mostly from South Africa. Afrikaans was also very limited culturally in Rhodesia and so only a few Afrikaans place names existed, most notably Enkeldoorn (renamed Chivhu in 1982). Most Afrikaners in Zimbabwe have now immigrated to South Africa or European countries. English is the second most spoken language among white Africans, spoken by 39% of South Africa's, 7% of Namibia's, and 90% of Zimbabwe's white population. In South Africa they remain the |
118 | "Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film)"
last day of filming on October 23, 2011. Whedon explained his initial interest in the project, saying: He elaborated on that sentiment, and said ""It’s a very cynically romantic text about love, and how we behave, and how we’re expected to behave. It’s a party, but there’s something darker there as well"". Inspired by the exposing nature of film, Whedon decided to infuse a recurring motif of sexuality, ""...because it’s a visual medium. You can say it or you can show it. [...] There’s an element to it, of debauchery, that was fun for a time but then it was |
119 | "Operation Jupiter (Norway)"
in Norway was ""sufficient to make a successful invasion improbable"". The idea for an attack on northern Norway might be traced to Joseph Stalin's first wartime message to Churchill on 18 July 1941, in which he requested that Britain mount two offensives against the coast of German-held Europe, one in northern France and the other in the Arctic. Hinting that this might be a joint Anglo-Soviet operation, the idea was again put to the JPS, who stated that they were averse to the proposal because of the large naval and air commitment required. Churchill was not discouraged and wrote to |
120 | "Antoine-Olivier Berthelet"
Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal East in an 1832 by-election; he opposed the Ninety-Two Resolutions. Berthelet was a member of the Fils de la Liberté, but opposed the use of force. He served on the municipal council for Montreal from 1840 to 1842. He was named to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada in 1841 but did not accept his nomination. He was a member of the Institut canadien de Montréal, leaving the organization when it was condemned by Bishop Ignace Bourget in 1858. He died in Montreal in 1872. Antoine-Olivier Berthelet Antoine-Olivier Berthelet (May 25, 1798 |
121 | "26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot"
fought at a number of sieges during the later part of the year, including at Ath, where a party of Cameronians managed to break into the fortress walls four days before it surrendered. The 1707 campaign was uneventful, but the regiment suffered extensively from fatigue and illness, being reduced at one point to a hundred men able to fight. In 1708 the regiment was briefly placed on notice to return to Great Britain, which was threatened with invasion, but was stood down after the French fleet was dispersed without making a landing. In July they fought at the Battle of |
122 | "Fábio Laguna"
in a small professional night band and for 4 years he toured the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais in a VW Transporter (commonly known in Brazil as ""Kombi"", short form of ""Kombinationfahrzeug""). After a tough decision of studying law, along with the college he played in other small rock bands, arranged and produced his first records and worked as a freelancer in several other bands too only for money. In 1999 Fábio started playing with heavy metal bands, and he recorded his first solo album, ""All Night Party at Gallamauaka's Land"", which he used as a curriculum vitae |
123 | "Fábio Laguna"
for his 8 years of music by the time he was finishing college. Record company Mega Hard contacted Hangar and Fábio recorded the ""Inside Your Soul"" album. By 2001, the famous Brazilian band Angra had been split and reformed with Hangar's drummer Aquiles Priester. Aquiles asked Fábio to join them for the Rebirth tour. Of course he accepted, dropping all other professional commitments in order to become ""a heavy-metal keyboardist in the land of samba"". He played a 100 concerts in 17 countries in this tour. In 2001 he also released ""All Night Party at Gallamauaka's Land"". 2003 had Fábio |
124 | "Lørenskog Upper Secondary School"
of students had reached 750. The number of applicants for the General Education programme was initially so great that the school had to reject a great number of students from Lørenskog. This meant that a large number of the youth in Lørenskog had to travel to Oslo for their secondary education. The school introduced in 1996 a two-year programme for adult-education, designed for adults to complete their high-school diploma, or take new courses. The school currently offers the following programmes at 1st 2nd and 3rd year level: General Studies, Sports studies, Restaurant and food processing studies, Design-and crafts studies, and |
125 | "Peter Kierkegaard"
Poul Egede Kierkegaard. From 4 September 1867, to 6 March 1868, he was in the Cabinet of Frijs. Peter Kierkegaard Peter Christian Kierkegaard (6 July 1805 – 24 February 1888), was a Danish theologian, politician and Lutheran bishop of Aalborg from 1857 until 1875, and brother of Søren Kierkegaard. As a theologian of the official church, he had on several occasions criticized his brother's works, notably at the Roskilde Ecclesiastical Conventions in 1849 and 1855. However, he delivered the eulogy for his brother at the Church of Our Lady. Peter Kierkegaard married Elise Marie Boisen in 1836, who died childless |
126 | "Lucy Filippini"
June 1930. Her statue can be seen in the south nave of St. Peter's Basilica. Her feast day is March 25. Lucy Filippini Lucy Filippini () (13 January 1672 – 25 March 1732) is venerated as a Roman Catholic saint. Lucy Filippini was born on 13 January 1672 in Corneto-Tarquinia. She was the fifth and youngest child of Filippo Filippini and Maddalena Picchi. She orphaned at an early age. At the age of six, she went to live with her aristocratic aunt and uncle who encouraged her religious inclination by entrusting her education to the Benedictine nuns at Santa Lucia. |
127 | "26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot"
force present, was beaten back with heavy losses. A further three regiments arrived the next day, and the Jacobite force, now surrounded, surrendered unconditionally. The regiment took ninety-two casualties in the Battle of Preston, including three of its senior officers, who were wounded. Following the suppression of the rebellion, the Cameronians returned to Ireland in 1716. Philip Anstruther was promoted colonel of the regiment in May 1720. In 1726, they left Ireland to serve as marines aboard naval ships, and were then sent as reinforcements to the garrison at Gibraltar during the war with Spain in 1727. They did not |
128 | "Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film)"
evoked a ""timeless romanticism"", which was additionally enhanced by the ""lightly applied score"". The ""Daily Mail""s Chris Tookey said that the film was ""the first five-star movie of the summer"". Chris Nashawaty of ""Entertainment Weekly""—despite commending it for being ""both daring and delightfully daffy""—admits, ""The film isn't as fast and funny as it could be"". ""Much Ado About Nothing"" was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on October 8, 2013. The film's US Blu-ray Disc features 1080p video, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround, an UltraViolet digital copy, a music video for ""Sigh No More"" (one of the songs from the |
129 | Missguided
introduced tall and petite lines which each featured around 70 pieces each, following its plus size collection in November 2014. For Winter 2015 the company launched a range of collections including lingerie, nightwear, a new denim collection as well as a premium collection called Peace & Love. In November 2015, Missguided launched a 'social TV' campaign with Mediacom Manchester.. Missguided launched a shopping app for iOS in March 2016, which included a Tinder-inspired tab called 'swipe to hype'. In May 2016, Missguided launched a range of wedding dresses. The collection was made up of 19 pieces for brides and bridesmaids.In |
130 | "Mardi Gras World"
Mardi Gras World Mardi Gras World (also known as Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World, MGW) is a tourist attraction located in New Orleans. Guests tour the 300,000 square foot working warehouse where floats are made for Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. Mardi Gras World is located along the Mississippi River, next to the Morial Convention Center. Their events venue, the River City Complex, also hosts festivals, weddings, private parties and corporate events. In 1946, Blaine Kern, Sr. founded Blaine Kern Artists. Kern came from a family of float builders, but began creating floats after 1947, when a surgeon and |
131 | "Peter Mayer"
Peter Mayer Peter Michael Mayer (March 28, 1936 – May 11, 2018) was a British-born American independent publisher who was president of The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a Woodstock, New York-based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971. At the time of Overlook’s founding, Mayer was head of Avon Books, a large New York-based paperback publisher. From 1978 to 1996, Mayer was CEO of Penguin Books, where he introduced a flexible style in editorial, marketing, and production. During his tenure, he was credited with reviving the company into ""the most formidable and admired publisher in the English |
132 | "Rubén López García-Madrid"
in June 2006. López returned to Terrassa in July 2006, receiving his marching orders in his first two matches, home fixtures against CD Alcoyano (1–0 win) and UE Lleida (1–1). He left at the end of the division three campaign, and continued to compete in the third tier in the following three years, with UD Vecindario and UD Melilla. In January 2011, López signed for Austrian Football Bundesliga club LASK Linz. He made his debut for his new team on 12 February, against SV Mattersburg. López started in all his league appearances during his short stint, with the side being |
133 | "Tottenham South (UK Parliament constituency)"
Tottenham South (UK Parliament constituency) Tottenham South was a parliamentary constituency in Tottenham, in North London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election. The Urban District of Tottenham wards of Harringay, High Cross, and St Ann's. General Election 1939/40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following |
134 | "Central Plan Scheme Monitoring System"
intended purpose, and provide an accounting of same. CPSMS' purpose is to provide greater transparency and accountability to social sector monitoring that has not existed until now. Financial utilization can be put in the public domain, and fund transfers to grassroots entities and utilization by them can be accessed by interested individuals and organizations. Only about 20% of these funds are routed to states through the Treasury route and 80% of funds are sent through Special Purpose Vehicles, which have weaker intrinsic internal control mechanisms available in the Treasury mechanism. The current program-specific MISs operate with time lags and do |
135 | "Central Plan Scheme Monitoring System"
not give a clear picture of funds remaining unutilized in each fiscal year. While funds released by the central government are immediately booked as expenditure in the Central Government accounts, utilization in the field takes time and while commercial banks enjoy the float, the Central Government must borrow to meet its fiscal deficit. This is attributable to the absence of a system that could quickly provide consolidated or granular information on utilization, advances, fund transfers or bank balances across schemes, districts, blocks or institutions. By the time utilization reports reach the State and Central level, the data is already historical, |
136 | "Central Plan Scheme Monitoring System"
significantly limiting its utility. CPSMS will aid in better fiscal deficit management, and to ultimately move to a system of flow of authorization as against the actual flow of funds, whereby banks will first meet the expenses of the implementing agencies and then seek reimbursement from the Central Government. MISs based on post facto data feeding suffer from drawbacks of inefficiencies, inconsistencies, gaps and perennial reconciliations, as they are not integrated with the process flow. CPSMS attempts to address this, and the associated issues of transparency and accountability related to the SPV mode of implementation, keeping all the advantages of |
137 | "26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot"
of July, where they were heavily reinforced from men who had been recruited under the Army of Reserve Act. Over thirteen hundred new men were enlisted, and the regiment was able to raise a second battalion, both having about equal proportions of new and old recruits. The first battalion moved to Ulster in December, with the second following later in the month. In August 1804 they both moved to the Curragh, where they took part in large-scale maneuvers for two months before returning to winter quarters. In December the battalions were reorganised, with the first battalion taking all the men |
138 | "Old Indian Meeting House"
Old Indian Meeting House The Old Indian Meeting House (also known as the Old Indian Church) is a historic meeting house at 410 Meetinghouse Road in Mashpee, Massachusetts. Built in 1684, the meetinghouse is the oldest Native American church in the eastern United States and the oldest church on Cape Cod. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The Old Indian Meeting House stands on the east side of Meetinghouse Road, north of its junction with Falmouth Street. It is located at the western end of a cemetery which extends between the two roads, |
139 | "26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot"
Netherlands for the Walcheren Campaign. It returned to the Peninsula in June 1811 but, following much sickness in the ranks, then took up garrison duties in Gibraltar until the end of the war. A second battalion was raised in 1804, and served in the United Kingdom. It was disbanded in Scotland in 1813, having not seen active service. The Cameronians were originally ordered to return from Gibraltar in May 1821, but this order was countermanded, and it was not until November 1822 that the regiment was finally transferred to its new posting in Fermoy, County Cork, moving into Cork proper |
140 | "Old Indian Meeting House"
the site of the first by Deacon John Hinckley. That building was moved about 1717 to another site in Mashpee. In 1758, a meeting house is described as being at the present site; it is unclear whether this was an altered version of the 1684 building, moved to this site and enlarged, or whether it was a new construction. It was used by the Wampanoag Native Americans as a Christian church. In 1717 the church was moved from its original location in the town to its current one, and the building was remodeled. The building also served as a school. |
141 | "Old Indian Meeting House"
In the late eighteenth century, a cemetery (""burial ground"") was founded on the church grounds. With almost four centuries of Native American leadership and ministry, the Old Meeting House is a place of historic and spiritual significance to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe. In 1833 it was the site of the famous Mashpee Revolt, when tribal members and their minister, William Apess (Pequot), protested state intrusions on their self-governance, and white settlers' theft of wood from tribal lands. The site was re-dedicated in 1923 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In 2009, the Mashpee tribe |
142 | "26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot"
postings around Waterford. They were ordered to England late in the year to prepare for colonial service, arriving in Chatham in November, where older men were discharged. The 26th was not embarked for India until May 1828, arriving in Fort St. George, Madras, in September; this was the first time the regiment had seen service in India. It took on a draft of men from the 30th Regiment of Foot in November, and settled into a peaceful and mostly healthy period as part of the city's garrison. The regiment was ordered to Calcutta in July 1830, though plans were made |
143 | "Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse"
Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse The Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (DMHSA, ) is a government agency of Guam. The agency's main facility is located in Tamuning, across from Guam Memorial Hospital. Guam Senator M.K. Hartsock introduced a bill that would create the DMHSA. Hartsock's bill became public law 17-21, and the DMHSA was established on August 19, 1983. Prior to that date, the Guam Memorial Hospital provided mental health services. Later, Guam Memorial Hospital closed their psychiatric unit and Guam Department of Mental Health became the only location for adult inpatient psychiatric services. |
144 | "Johann Michael Feder"
publications, 1795. After the reorganization of the University of Würzburg, 1803-4, he was appointed chief librarian, resigning the professorship of theology in 1805. Shortly after his removal from office as librarian, November, 1811, he suffered a stroke of apoplexy, from which he never fully recovered. Feder was a prolific writer, editor, and translator, imbued with the liberal views of his time. His revision of Dr. Heinrich Braun's German translation of the Bible (1803), 2 vols., served as the basis for Joseph Franz Allioli's translation. He also translated widely: He was editor of the ""Magazin zur Beförderung des Schulwesens"" (1791–97), 3 |
145 | "Johann Michael Feder"
vols., of the ""Prakt.-theol. Magazin für katholische Geistliche"" (1798–1800), and of the ""Würzburger Gelehrten Anzeigen"" (1788–92). He also wrote several volumes of sermons. Johann Michael Feder Johann Michael Feder (25 May 1753 at Oellingen in Bavaria – 26 July 1824 at Würzburg) was a German Roman Catholic theologian. He studied in the episcopal seminary of Würzburg from 1772–1777; in the latter year he was ordained priest and promoted to the licentiate in theology. For several years Feder was chaplain of the Julius hospital; in 1785 he was appointed extraordinary professor of theology and Oriental languages at the University of Würzburg. |
146 | "Forum theatre"
the Teatro de Arena de São Paulo travelled through some of the poorest places in Brazil, staging productions which urged action against various injustices and oppressors. These performances often ended with the actors exhorting their audiences of peasants to spill their own blood in this struggle. This continued until an encounter with a peasant who extended an invitation to the actors to take up arms against an oppressive landowner. The actors explained that their guns were fake, and that they would only be a hindrance, to which the peasant left after realising the actors weren’t willing to take the risks |
147 | "Forum theatre"
they were asking others to take. Realising he was not prepared to take the same risks he was asking others to, Boal decided to never again write plays which gave advice or sent ‘messages’. Later in 1973, while working within a theatre literacy project in Peru based on the teachings of Paulo Freire, Boal applied a form of theatre he titled 'simultaneous dramaturgy'. These plays were based around finding the solution to a problem posed at a moment of crisis for the protagonist. At this moment, the audience would be invited to suggest actions for the actor to perform to |
148 | "Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre"
his father's death, he succeeded to his father's military posts and titles: On 2 July 1733 at the age of eight, he was made a ""maréchal de camp"" (field marshal) and the next year, a ""lieutenant général"" (lieutenant general). In 1740, he received the ""Ordre de la Toison d'or"" from his Bourbon cousin, the King of Spain. In 1742, King Louis XV conferred upon him the ""Order of the Holy Spirit"". He served in the military under his maternal uncle, the maréchal-duc de Noailles, and fought brilliantly at Dettingen in 1743 and Fontenoy in 1745. As the possessor of one |
149 | "The Holocaust in Serbia"
German Military Commander in Serbia appointed a Serbian civil puppet government to carry out administrative tasks in accordance with German direction and supervision. The police and army of the puppet government were placed under German commanders. In July 1941, a major uprising began in Serbia against the German occupiers, which included the establishment of the Republic of Užice, the first liberated territory in World War II Europe. To assist in quelling the rebellion the Nazi occupiers in August 1941 put in place the puppet government of Milan Nedic, which was also given responsibility for many Holocaust-related activities, including the registration |
150 | "Gau Halle-Merseburg"
Gauleiter, Ernst and Hinkler, both died in the final month of the war, the former killed in action, the latter through suicide. Jordan, the third Gauleiter, was sentenced to 25 years prison in the Soviet Union after the war but released in 1955 and died in 1988. He published his autobiography about his time as Gauleiter and in captivity which showed no indication that he was willing to take responsibility for the events in Nazi Germany. Eggeling, attempting to prevent the city of Halle from destruction, unsuccessfully petitioned the Nazi leadership in April 1945 to be permitted to not defend |
151 | "The Darling Buds of May (TV series)"
on to Executive Produce the show, alongside Vernon Lawrence of Yorkshire Television. Bates had originally considered Bob Hoskins as ideal for the role of Pop, but Lawrence was of the view his increasing fame as a film actor would create problems. Jason was cast first, followed by Ferris and Franks. Finding an actor to fit with the novel's description of Mariette as a black-haired and olive-skinned beauty proved difficult, with over 300 rejected until Zeta-Jones was cast. With filming due to start, she had been spotted appearing in ""42nd Street"" at the Drury Lane Theatre. Each one-hour episode took two |
152 | "Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain"
Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain (Hindi: हम आपके घर में रहते हैं English: We live in your house) is an Indian drama television series, which premiered on 10 August 2015 and broadcast on SAB TV. The series is produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions of Shashi Mittal and Sumeet H. Mittal. The series airs on every Monday to Friday nights. The story of the series is about love-hate relationship between two neighboring families. The story is about a former dacoit, who has surrendered and has turned into a peaceful lady, still, the people still |
153 | "National Academy of Design"
1824. and Silas Dustin was a curator. In 1824, the instructors at the National Academy of the Fine Arts included: Some of the Academy's better-known members include: National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design – known simply as the ""National Academy"" and abbreviated ""NA"" or ""NAD"" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright and others ""to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition."" The original founders of the National Academy of Design were students |
154 | "The Darling Buds of May (TV series)"
Nicholas Church in the village. The cricket scenes were filmed at Little Chart Cricket Club, a village north east of Pluckley. Further afield, in and around Tenterden, Kent, Halden Place in Halden Lane, Cranbrook, served as Mrs Kinthley's hop garden, Wentwood Cottage in Swain Road served as Charley and Mariette's cottage, and the Kent & East Sussex Railway was the location of Charley's arrival in Kent, and the station used by Ma, Charley and Mariette shopping for her wedding dress. Other scenes shot in Kent included the exteriors of ""Bristow's Brewery"", filmed at Shepherd Neame Brewery in Faversham, and scenes |
155 | "Effects of the 2008–10 automotive industry crisis on the United States"
Since the automotive crisis abated, all three American automakers have increased sales of vehicles and have posted a profit. As of 2012, the industry has recovered to some extent. GM had 2011 sales of more than 9 million vehicles, more than Toyota. According to a May 2011 report by the White House National Economic Council, however, the US government may have to write off about $14 billion of its $80 billion loan. By 2012, polls from Pew Research Center and Quinnipiac University Polling Institute show that the American public now believes that the bailouts have been helpful for the American |
156 | "The Darling Buds of May (TV series)"
various film locations and other local attractions and Kent food. The series' music producer Pip Burley wrote the title theme, ""Perfick!"". He had submitted the piece anonymously, having deemed the submissions received from a shortlist of composers missed the point of the essential romanticism of the show. Although it also featured lyrics, drawn from the words used in the novels, the theme music for the series did not feature them. The song with lyrics was later sung by David Jason for the radio adaptation of the last book in the Larkin series, ""A Little of What You Fancy"". After the |
157 | "Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre"
whom he inherited the Hôtel de Toulouse in Paris, and the château de Rambouillet surrounded by the game-rich Rambouillet forest. The ""Hôtel de Toulouse"" was the family's residence in Paris. The duc de Penthièvre willed it to his daughter, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon. It was located opposite the Palais-Royal. Over the years, the duc de Penthièvre also acquired other estates: Because his male heir, the prince de Lamballe, predeceased him in 1768, his only surviving child, his daughter, became the sole heir to his fortune. In 1769, she had married the Duke of Chartres, future duc d'Orléans, known to |
158 | "Effects of the 2008–10 automotive industry crisis on the United States"
suffered from considerably higher labor costs than their non-unionized counterparts, including salaries, benefits, healthcare, and pensions. In return for labor peace, management granted concessions to its unions that resulted in uncompetitive cost structures and significant legacy costs. Further, the volume of cars sold in the U.S. was significantly tied to home equity lines of credit, with 24% of sales financed this way in 2006. When the availability of these loans suddenly dried up in 2008 due to the subprime mortgage crisis, vehicle sales declined dramatically, from 17 million in 2006 to 10.6 million in 2009. In 2006, ""Consumer Reports"" reported |
159 | "The Holocaust in Serbia"
10,600 Serbs and uncounted Romani (see Sajmište concentration camp) The SS-commander Harald Turner, Chief of the German military administration in Serbia described how the Nazis carried out the genocide of Serbian Jews: While the Nazis were exclusively responsible for attempted extermination the Jews of Serbia proper, they were assisted by local quislings in the Nedic government and others, who helped round up the Jews, Romani and Serbs who opposed the Nazi occupation. Dimitrije Ljotić, who was a leading Serbian Nazi ideologist founded a pan-Serbian, pro-Nazi and Fascist party Zbor. It was very active organization that published a large number extreme |
160 | "The Darling Buds of May (TV series)"
in series one reveals her middle name to be Jane. Mariette and Charlie continue the family penchant for elaborate naming by christening their son John Marlborough Churchill Blenheim. The first episode was transmitted on the ITV channel at 8pm on a Sunday night. When the series was first released on video, it sold £1m worth of copies in the first four days. DVD releases: Note: The 2008 and 2011 DVD sets from ITV Studios list that there are 11 episodes; this is due to the fact that all episodes in series 1–3 (not including the specials) contain two parts making |
161 | Culebrita
mile in length. It is roughly y-shaped with three branches extending from the island's center. There are six beaches on Culebrita, the chief one being ""Playa Tortuga"" (Turtle Beach) on the north side of the island. The beach is named for the many sea turtles that use the beach for breeding grounds and the surrounding waters for grazing. Sea turtles Tina and Ike call Playa Tortuga home. The other two large beaches are Trash Beach and West Beach. Because Trash Beach is located on the windward side of the island, debris is often blown onto this beach. This is how |
162 | "Linda Thompson (actress)"
Linda Thompson (actress) Linda Diane Thompson (born May 23, 1950) is an American songwriter/lyricist, former actress and beauty pageant winner. She was married to Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner (now known as Caitlyn Jenner), and David Foster, musician, record producer, composer, songwriter and arranger. Thompson was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Margie (née White) and Sanford Abel Thompson. Her older brother, Sam, was one of Elvis Presley's bodyguards. Thompson was Miss Shelby County (1969) In September 1970, she was named ""Miss Mid-South Fair"" at Memphis. Some of her other titles are, ""Miss Liberty Bowl"", ""Memphis State's |
163 | "Effects of the 2008–10 automotive industry crisis on the United States"
in fringe benefits. The UAW has been one of the more successful American unions in fighting for generous pensions and health benefits for its members."" Dan Ikenson of the Cato Institute argued that ""total compensation is the cost of labor to the companies, and for GM it is about $73 per hour and for Toyota about $48. The average cost differential between the Big Three and all the foreign nameplate companies is about $30 per hour. That's huge."" His computation includes all labor-related costs (e.g.., wages, healthcare, and pension—for both current workers and retirees.) Andrew Sorkin of the ""The New |
164 | "Linda Thompson (actress)"
the television series ""Hee Haw"". She later had small one-episode roles in such television series as ""CHiPs"", ""Starsky & Hutch"", ""Vega$"", ""Fantasy Island"", ""The Fall Guy"" and ""Beverly Hills, 90210"". Thompson starred in several television pilots, including ""Mars Base One"" and ""Two for Two"". She appeared in several films, including ""Rabbit Test"" (1978) and ""Original Intent"" (1991). She had a small role in ""The Bodyguard"" (1992). She appeared as Linda Jenner in a workout video by then-husband Bruce Jenner (now known as Caitlyn Jenner), four documentaries about Elvis Presley between 1997 and 2004, and in the short-lived ""Princes of Malibu"", |
165 | "Cthulhu (2000 film)"
end it's an earnest effort at weaving together different Lovecraftian motifs into a cohesive movie."" Cthulhu (2000 film) Cthulhu is a 2000 Australian low budget horror film that was directed, produced, and written by Damian Heffernan. It is mostly based on two Lovecraft stories, ""The Thing on the Doorstep"" and ""The Shadow Over Innsmouth"". It stars Adam Somes as a young student that discovers that his best friend has become involved in a cult intent on raising Cthulhu. It screened at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, after which point it was purchased by Channel 9 for screening in Australia as |
166 | "Guybrush Threepwood"
most recent game, Elaine states it was three years between Monkey Island 2 and 3. (It should be noted that she was in a poxed rage during this statement, and that Stan mentioned it was three months) ""Escape from Monkey Island"" takes place three months after ""Curse"", following Guybrush and Elaine's honeymoon, while it is stated in-game that ""Tales of Monkey Island"" takes place roughly ten years since Guybrush became a pirate, making him 27–28 years old. However, Guybrush often lies about his age, for example telling the librarian that he was 21 in the aforementioned Phatt library in ""LeChuck's |
167 | "Guybrush Threepwood"
Revenge"". Guybrush grows a beard and moustache in the second game, but is shaven in the third and fourth games. Guybrush makes a reference that he lost his beard between the second and third game but cannot remember what happened to it; in the third game however, if one tries to use the shaving cream, Guybrush says that he shaved last week. In the second game, his hair (possibly just for humorous effect) is in two scenes shown to be a wig which flies off his head when he gets frightened by two fake incarnations of LeChuck, revealing a shaven |
168 | "Vicki Sato"
Vicki Sato Vicki L. Sato is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and a professor of the practice in the department of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University. She earned her A.B. in Biology from Radcliffe College and her A.M. and Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University focusing on the genetics of photosynthesis under the guidance of Paul Levine. She then did her postdoctoral work at University of California, Berkeley with Kenneth Sauer and Stanford Medical Center with Leonard Herzenberg where she shifted fields from biophysics into immunology. Initially, she returned to Harvard as a Professor |
169 | "American English"
number of English colloquialisms from various periods are American in origin; some have lost their American flavor (from ""OK"" and ""cool"" to ""nerd"" and ""24/7),"" while others have not ""(have a nice day, for sure);"" many are now distinctly old-fashioned ""(swell, groovy)."" Some English words now in general use, such as ""hijacking, disc jockey, boost, bulldoze"" and ""jazz,"" originated as American slang. American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. Examples of nouns that are now also verbs are ""interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, bad-mouth, vacation, major,"" and |
170 | "American English"
many others. Compounds coined in the U.S. are for instance ""foothill, landslide"" (in all senses), "", teenager, brainstorm, , hitchhike, smalltime, and a huge number of others. Some are euphemistic ""(human resources, affirmative action, correctional facility)."" Many compound nouns have the verb-and-preposition combination: ""stopover, lineup, tryout, spin-off, shootout, holdup, hideout, comeback, makeover,"" and many more. Some prepositional and phrasal verbs are in fact of American origin (""win out, hold up, back up/off/down/out, face up to"" and many others). Noun endings such as ""-ee (retiree), -ery (bakery), -ster (gangster)"" and ""-cian (beautician)"" are also particularly productive in the U.S. Several verbs |
171 | "American English"
ending in ""-ize"" are of U.S. origin; for example, ""fetishize, prioritize, burglarize, accessorize, weatherize,"" etc; and so are some back-formations ""(locate, fine-tune, curate, donate, emote, upholster"" and ""enthuse)."" Among syntactical constructions that arose are ""outside of, headed for, meet up with, back of,"" etc. Americanisms formed by alteration of some existing words include notably ""pesky, phony, rambunctious, buddy, sundae, skeeter, sashay"" and ""kitty-corner."" Adjectives that arose in the U.S. are, for example, ""lengthy, bossy, cute"" and ""cutesy, punk"" (in all senses), ""sticky"" (of the weather), ""through"" (as in ""finished""), and many colloquial forms such as ""peppy"" or ""wacky"". A number |
172 | "Dale Hatcher"
over the Rams. Teammate Jim Everett threw for the only three touchdowns of the game for the Rams as the Vikings' only other points were Rich Karlis' record-tying seven field goals. After his professional football career ended, Hatcher took a job working at Freightliner Custom Chassis in Gaffney, South Carolina. Dale Hatcher Dale Hatcher (born April 5, 1963) is a former American football punter for the Los Angeles Rams and the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Clemson University In 1985, Hatcher was named Pro Bowl and AP All Pro First Team. His |
173 | "Rainbow Islands Evolution"
Rainbow Islands Evolution Rainbow Islands Evolution is a game in the ""Bubble Bobble"" series for the PSP system. It is also known as ""New Rainbow Island: Hurdy Gurdy Daibouken!!"" in Japan. It is an enhanced remake of the arcade game """". Bub and Bob, the two main characters in the series, are against an evil recording company that seeks to pollute the Rainbow Islands' atmosphere by creating constant musical noise, therefore wilting the flora and mutating the fauna. Bub and Bob use a hurdy-gurdy as a weapon to create the rainbows. The game follows the same vertical-scrolling system from the |
174 | Apolytirion
and ii) the Information Science and Services course. In ""Eniaio Lykeio"", there is the Support Teaching Programme. This programme can be attended by those pupils who wish to do so, regardless of their performance. Attendance in Eniaio Lykeio is obligatory for those students who wish to continue their education in a Greek University. The access to tertiary education (highest education) is permitted only with the system of ""Eniaio Lykeio"". Right of entrance have only the holders of the ""Apolytirio"". The written examinations in the subjects, either at school's level or at national level, count equivalently towards the Apolytirio's GPA. On |
175 | "Guybrush Threepwood"
any particularly nasty acts, and even goes to great lengths to help others. He has also developed a considerable amount of conscience, evident by his guilt over stealing something as simple as a coffee mug. In the years up to ""Tales of Monkey Island"", Guybrush matures significantly. He has become more consistently self-assured of his capabilities, has a sharper wit, and is able to stand up to Elaine on a number of occasions. He has also become more compassionate, allowing him to earn the friendship of Winslow (the former Captain of the Screaming Narwhal that he had bested) and Morgan |
176 | "Guybrush Threepwood"
LeFlay (the pirate hunter and his fan). Every shred of his egotism is gone, Guybrush truly and deeply loves Elaine and refuses to give up on saving her and remains immensely loyal to her, while still having the courage to stand his ground and be firm with her when he needs to be. This seems to have caused Elaine to have more respect for him and belief in his skills. His skills have also improved considerably as he is able to hold his own in a sword fight against Morgan LeFlay, the most skilled bounty hunter in all the seas, |
177 | "Raphael House"
Raphael House Raphael House is a shelter in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, that provides transitional housing and support programs for parents and children who are experiencing homelessness. Established in 1971 at Gough and McAllister Streets, Raphael House was the first shelter for homeless families in the city. It has been located on Sutter Street since 1977. It is a nonprofit organization and accepts no government funding, relying on San Francisco Bay Area philanthropy. Not all offers of support, however, are accepted. From 1978 through 1999, Raphael House also operated Brother Juniper's Restaurant, an on-site breakfast café named for Saint |
178 | "American English"
""fiber"" for ""fibre"", ""defense"" for ""defence"", ""analyze"" for ""analyse"", ""license"" for ""licence"", ""catalog"" for ""catalogue"" and ""traveling"" for ""travelling"". Noah Webster popularized such spellings in America, but he did not invent most of them. Rather, ""he chose already existing options [...] on such grounds as simplicity, analogy or etymology"". Other differences are due to the francophile tastes of the 19th century Victorian era Britain (for example they preferred ""programme"" for ""program"", ""manoeuvre"" for ""maneuver"", ""cheque"" for ""check"", etc.). AmE almost always uses ""-ize"" in words like ""realize"". BrE prefers ""-ise"", but also uses ""-ize"" on occasion (see Oxford spelling). There |
179 | "Saiju Kurup"
Saiju Kurup Saiju Kurup is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam and Tamil cinema. He debuted in the critically acclaimed movie ""Mayookham"" (2005) by Hariharan. He has starred in several films as the main lead, villain, supporting artiste and done guest appearances in several more. He has won Youth Eminence Award for his role in the popular movie Aadu 2 in the year 2018. Saiju Kurup was educated at SJC, Kamptee and SFS High School in Nagpur before obtaining a B.E.(Mining) degree from Shri Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru Engineering College, Nagpur. He worked at Birla Sunlife and then Airtel. It |
180 | "Distant Early Warning Line"
and Canada to aerial bombing attacks, and its concluding recommendation was that a ""distant early warning line"" of search radar stations be built across the Arctic border of the North American continent as rapidly as possible. Improvements in Soviet technology rendered the Pinetree Line and Mid-Canada Line inadequate to provide enough early warning and on 15 February 1954, the Canadian and American governments agreed to jointly build a third line of radar stations (Distant Early Warning), this time running across the high Arctic. The line would run roughly along the 69th parallel north, about 200 miles or 300 kilometers north |
181 | "Albert Spalding"
Albert Spalding Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company. He was born and raised in Byron, Illinois. He played major league baseball between 1871 and 1878. Spalding set a trend when he started wearing a baseball glove. After his retirement as a player, Spalding remained active with the Chicago White Stockings as president and part-owner. In the 1880s, he took players on the first world tour of baseball. With William Hulbert, Spalding organized the |
182 | "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji"
in Winfrith Newburgh, where he was permanently chairbound and received daily nursing care. In June 1988 he suffered a mild stroke, which left him slightly mentally impaired. He died of heart failure on 15 October 1988 at a little after 7 pm, at the age of 96. He was cremated in Bournemouth Crematorium on 24 October of that year, and the funeral services took place in Corfe Castle Parish Church on the same day. The Sorabji Archive (originally called The Sorabji Music Archive) was founded in 1988 by Hinton (the sole heir to Sorabji's """"), to disseminate knowledge of Sorabji's |
183 | "Dr Francisco Luis Gomes District Library"
comprises Reference Section, Audio-Visual Section, Toys and Games Section, Children’s Periodical Section and Children-Computer Section. Members can borrow books and magazines for a period of one month, after availing of membership. The regional office of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in Goa is also located at this venue. This was launched here in late November 2010. Conference hall: The conference hall has facilities for conducting workshops/ conference/seminars/ meetings or presentations. It is fitted with high quality LCD projector with LCD screen for any kind of visual presentation. It can accommodate up to 30 people at a time. Lecture Hall: |
184 | "Rajendra Singh (RSS)"
ideological lines, as well as with academics, social workers and intellectuals. 1998 saw the pragmatic shift of Indian politics when the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the largest party in the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition at the Centre. This was a crucial period for the RSS and its political wing BJP. The BJP and the RSS shared many common ideologies. He gave up the post of Sarsanghchalak on account of his failing health in February 2000 and nominated K. S. Sudarshan as his successor. During emergency he went underground and toured whole India. |
185 | "Valdemar, Duke of Finland"
and Eric to release King Birger under humiliating conditions. King Birger sought aid in Denmark after his release and the strife resumed. By 1315, Valdemar and Eric had managed to wrest large parts of the Swedish kingdom from their brother. Valdemar had gained Turku and Häme castles, with a lion's share of Finland, the castle of Stockholm, most of Uppland, Borgholm castle, and the island of Öland. Eric was in possession of Kungahälla (which he had been given during his exile by the Norwegian king) and northern Halland, which he had been given by King Eric VI of Denmark. On |
186 | "Distant Early Warning Line"
along the length of the Line to build the permanent settlements needed at each site. Much of the job of carrying mountains of supplies to the northern sites fell to military and naval units. More than 3,000 U.S. Army Transportation Corps soldiers were given special training to prepare them for the job of unloading ships in the Arctic. They went with the convoys of U.S. Navy ships and they raced time during the few weeks the ice was open to land supplies at dozens of spots on the Arctic Ocean shore during the summers of 1955, 1956, and 1957. Scores |
187 | "Distant Early Warning Line"
of military and commercial pilots, flying everything from small bush planes to four-engined turboprops, were the backbone of the operation. USAF LC-130 aircraft, operated by the 139th Airlift Squadron, provided a significant amount of airlift to sites like Dye 3 that were out on ice caps such as the ones in northern Greenland. C-124 Globemaster and C-119 Flying Boxcar transport planes also supported the project. Together, these provided the only means of access to many of the stations during the wintertime. In all, 460,000 tons of materials were moved from the US and southern Canada to the Arctic by air, |
188 | "Distant Early Warning Line"
land, and sea. As the stacks of materials at the station sites mounted, construction went ahead rapidly. Subcontractors with a flair for tackling difficult construction projects handled the bulk of this work under the direction of Western Electric engineers. Huge quantities of gravel were produced and moved. The construction work needed to build housing, airstrips, aircraft hangars, outdoor and covered antennas, and antenna towers was done by subcontractors. In all, over 7,000 bulldozer operators, carpenters, masons, plumbers, welders, electricians, and other tradesmen from the US and southern Canada worked on the project. Concrete was poured in the middle of Arctic |
189 | "International Financial Services District"
potential, significant investment was required to create the right environment. No official boundary of the IFSD exists; notionally the term refers to the approximately 1 square kilometer area of the city centre bounded by the M8 motorway to the west, the River Clyde the south, Hope Street to the east, and Sauchiehall Street to the north - taking in most of Blythswood Hill, the south eastern fringe of Anderston and part of Charing Cross. This has given rise to the area's nicknames in the popular press the ""Square Kilometre"" (in reference to the ""square mile"" of the City of London), |
190 | "International Financial Services District"
and more the popular and widely used ""Wall Street On Clyde"". Since the start of the project, over 15,000 jobs have been created in the area, with several of the world's leading financial companies having a presence in the district. A constant stream of new buildings has appeared in the IFSD since 2001, with more in the pipeline. The Aurora building in the IFSD for example has won several UK wide awards as large scale speculative office building. The IFSD is connected by five railway stations, with routes that reach regionally and nationally. The IFSD is well connected with two |
191 | "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji"
he later wrote of the symphony's ""self-cohesive texture relying upon its own inner consistency and cohesiveness without relation to thematic or other matters"". Melodic material is treated loosely in these works, reflecting their harmonic freedom; ornamentation and textural patterns assume a preeminent position. Because of their emphasis on non-thematic processes, the nocturnes have been described as ""static"". Some examples of them are ""The Garden of Irām"", ""Anāhata Cakra"" and ""Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone"". Sorabji's fugues, the most atonal of his works, generally follow traditional methods. After a subject and between one and four countersubjects have been presented in an |
192 | "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji"
exposition, there follows a development section in which the subject (and countersubjects, particularly in the earlier fugues) are usually developed in their original form and in inversion, retrograde and retrograde inversion. The movement continues with a stretto and concludes with a section featuring augmentation and a thickening of lines into chords. His multi-subject fugues repeat this pattern for each subject, and combine thematic material from all expositions in the last section. The fugues are more conservative than most of his output, in that they rarely use polyrhythms. They can contain up to six subjects, and it is these that mark |
193 | "Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji"
Sorabji's fugues as different from most others. Some of the subjects are among his most unconventional melodic creations, lacking the frequent changes of direction that characterise most melodies; other subjects are possibly the longest ever conceived. This has led some people either to treat them with suspicion or to criticise them. Other important forms in Sorabji's mature work are the toccata and the variation set. The latter, along with his non-orchestral symphonies, are his most ambitious works and have been praised for the imagination exhibited in them. ""Sequentia cyclica super ""Dies irae"" ex Missa pro defunctis"" (1948–49), a set of |
194 | "Weyl group"
as the reader may verify, from which the above claim follows easily. Weyl groups are examples of finite reflection groups, as they are generated by reflections; the abstract groups (not considered as subgroups of a linear group) are accordingly finite Coxeter groups, which allows them to be classified by their Coxeter–Dynkin diagram. Being a Coxeter group means that a Weyl group has a special kind of presentation in which each generator ""x"" is of order two, and the relations other than ""x"" are of the form (""x""""x""). The generators are the reflections given by simple roots, and ""m"" is 2, |
195 | "Weyl group"
3, 4, or 6 depending on whether roots ""i"" and ""j"" make an angle of 90, 120, 135, or 150 degrees, i.e., whether in the Dynkin diagram they are unconnected, connected by a simple edge, connected by a double edge, or connected by a triple edge. We have already noted these relations in the bullet points above, but to say that formula_9 is a Coxeter group, we are saying that those are the ""only"" relations in formula_9. Weyl groups have a Bruhat order and length function in terms of this presentation: the ""length"" of a Weyl group element is the |
196 | "Norfolk and Western Railway class J (1941)"
donated both 611 & 1218 to the Virginia Museum of Transportation. In 2011, the Norfolk Southern brought back their steam program, under the name 21st Century Steam, leading to speculation among some about a possible restoration of 611. On February 22, 2013, the Virginia Museum of Transportation formed a campaign called ""Fire Up 611!"" to conduct a feasibility study with the goal of returning the 611 to active service. The ""Fire Up 611!"" Committee features: Chairman and Safety Consultant Preston Claytor, Virginia Museum of Transportation Executive Director Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr., an Atlanta, Georgia software consulting company owner Cheri George, |
197 | "Weyl group"
at the top of this article, namely the Weyl group of some root system associated with the object. A concrete realization of such a Weyl group usually depends on a choice – e.g. of Cartan subalgebra for a Lie algebra, of maximal torus for a Lie group. Let formula_87 be a connected compact Lie group and let formula_88 be a maximal torus in formula_87. We then introduce the normalizer of formula_88 in formula_87, denoted formula_92 and defined as We also define the centralizer of formula_88 in formula_87, denoted formula_96 and defined as The Weyl group formula_9 of formula_87 (relative to |
198 | "Sydney Lotterby"
Birds"", ""Up Pompeii!"" and ""Sykes and A..."". A sketch in ""At Last The 1948 Show"" in which four exactly alike men all called Sydney Lotterby (""The Four Sydney Lotterbies"") was written by John Cleese, because he liked the name. The men were played by Cleese, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Graham Chapman. Cleese also gave the name to the character played by Robert Lindsay in ""Fierce Creatures"" (1997). Lotterby has won four BAFTAs awards for comedy, including for ""Porridge"" (and also for a special in 1975), ""Going Straight"" (1978) and ""Yes Minister"" (1980). He has also been nominated for eleven |
199 | "American Airlines Flight 77"
ACFD Assistant Chief James Schwartz implemented an incident command system (ICS) to coordinate response efforts among multiple agencies. It took about an hour for the ICS structure to become fully operational. Firefighters from Fort Myer and Reagan National Airport arrived within minutes. Rescue and firefighting efforts were impeded by rumors of additional incoming planes. Chief Schwartz ordered two evacuations during the day in response to these rumors. As firefighters attempted to extinguish the fires, they watched the building in fear of a structural collapse. One firefighter remarked that they ""pretty much knew the building was going to collapse because it |