title: "Saint Michael's Castle" content: Saint Michael's Castle St. Michael's Castle (, "Mikhailovsky zamok"), also called the Mikhailovsky Castle or the Engineers' Castle (, "Inzhenerny zamok"), is a former royal residence in the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia. St. Michael's Castle was built as a residence for Emperor Paul I by architects Vincenzo Brenna and Vasili Bazhenov in 1797-1801. The castle looks different from each side, as the architects used motifs of various architectural styles such as French Classicism, Italian Renaissance and Gothic. St. Michael's Castle was built to the south of the Summer Garden and replaced the small wooden palace of Empress Elizabeth


title: "Rocky Rodent" content: Rocky Rodent Rocky Rodent is a video game for Super Nintendo Entertainment System, released in 1993. It is known as in Japan. When Rocky begins eating at Pie Face Balboa's restaurant, he unintentionally eats an envelope with Balboa's protection money. As a result, mobsters take Balboa's daughter. Balboa asks Rocky to rescue his daughter, promising him an All-You-Can-Eat buffet for her return. As Rocky Rodent, the player plays a rodent who must use four various hairstyles to rescue the daughter of the owner of Rocky's favorite eatery. Rocky Rodent is a platform game with six levels with multiple stages, similar


title: "Kiev metropolitan area" content: general aviation. According to the UN 2011 evaluation, there were no risks of natural disasters in the Kiev metropolitan area Kiev metropolitan area The Kiev (Kyiv) metropolitan area (, ) is an unofficially-designated urban agglomeration in Ukraine within the Kiev Oblast, consisting of the country's capital city of Kiev, its satellite settlements and nearest rural areas closely bound to the city by employment and commerce. According to different sources, it is ranked among 20 largest metropolitan areas in Europe. The metropolitan area includes the following cities: Kiev, Berezan, Boryspil, Brovary, Vasylkiv, Irpin, Rzhyschiv, and Fastiv. The city of Kiev also


title: "Into the Great Wide Open (song)" content: a new tattoo artist (Depp). Tom Petty then closes the video with the classic fairy tale ending, sardonically, that "they all lived happily ever after". Tom Petty took the line "a rebel without a clue" from the 1989 single "I'll Be You" by Minneapolis rock band The Replacements with whom he toured. The term was coined by Jim Steinman, who wrote "Rebel Without a Clue" for Bonnie Tyler on her 1986 release "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire". Petty himself appears in the video playing multiple roles, including the narrator, the tattoo artist, Eddie's roadie Bart and a reporter. The other


title: "Poplar River First Nation" content: violence and spousal abuse are common-place. Historically, cross-cultural influence by early European settlers and their governments are believed to have been the source of many problems for aboriginal peoples. The attempted assimilation of aboriginals is a well-known failure, and the loss of the traditional culture and religious beliefs has created a strong sense of hostility, loss and hopelessness within many aboriginal communities. More importantly, in more recent decades the sudden change to mainstream diet could also have negative side-effects, not just with members of this community, but for all First Nation people; on or off reserve. The introduction of additives


title: "Xiang'er" content: a wide audience, the "Xiang’er" also contains advice that could be used for rulers. These rulers were encouraged to remake society on the model of the Dao. Such a society would not be based on desire for wealth and fame, but on the fear and the respect of heaven. Hopefully when people learn to be respectful and fearful towards heaven, they will act morally. Xiang'er The Xiang’er (Simplified Chinese: 想尔, Traditional Chinese: 想爾) is a commentary to the "Dao De Jing" that is best known for being one of the earliest surviving texts from the Way of the Celestial Master


title: "Poloniny National Park" content: of the Bukovské vrchy mountain range are common. Many species found in the park are endemic and rare. Altogether, 800 fungi and 100 lichens are native to Poloniny. Poloniny National Park contains about 5,981 known species of invertebrates (for example, 91 molluscs, 1,472 true bugs, 819 butterflies, and 403 spiders) and 294 vertebrates. Among the vertebrates are 13 species of amphibians, 8 reptiles, 198 birds, 55 mammals, including the Eurasian lynx, bear, and others. About 1,000 species of vascular plants have been found in the park. Many of them are endangered and protected. A small herd of wisent (Bison Bonasus)


title: "Marvin Ayres" content: arrangements to bands and artists. Marvin collaborated with and produced Sonja Kristina (Curved Air) between 2000 and 2008 in a project called MASK. Their 2006 hit single "Waking The Dream" came from their debut dual-disc album "Heavy Petal". In 2010 MASK released their second album "Technopia" on Rare / Repertoire Records. Ayres subsequently produced and performed two tracks (Melinda and Elfin Boy) on the 2008 Curved Air album "Reborn". Three MASK tracks were included as bonus tracks on the 2010 anthology of Curved Air's work "Retrospective". Continuing the association with Curved Air he produced their critically acclaimed 2012 live album


title: "Christmas Do-Over" content: he's content with living the same day over as long as he can spend time with his family. Jill is touched and the two kiss, and as Midnight strikes, Kevin finds the cycle broken: he no longer has to relive Christmas. During the end credits, Jill and Kevin get back together. The couple drive out of town together, with Ben; Kevin now a reformed man. Christmas Do-Over Christmas Do-Over is a TV movie starring Jay Mohr and Daphne Zuniga. It premiered on ABC Family in 2006 on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block. It is a remake of a


title: "Floyd Central High School (Indiana)" content: Floyd Central High School (Indiana) Floyd Central High School is a public high school in the New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation and is located in Southern Indiana, in Floyds Knobs, an unincorporated area in Floyd County, Indiana. In addition to Floyds Knobs, the school serves Galena, Georgetown and Greenville. The school was built in 1967 and has had many expansions since then, including an auditorium. The school was formerly called "Floyd Central Junior-Senior High School" until the opening of Highland Hills Middle School in 2004. The girls' cross country team is the most decorated, with four state titles from


title: "Ulmus 'Rubra'" content: Ulmus 'Rubra' The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Rubra' was reputedly cloned from a tree found by Vilmorin in a wood near Verrières-le-Buisson in the 1830s. It was listed in the 1869 Catalogue of Simon-Louis, Metz, France, as "Ulmus campestris rubra", and by Planchon in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" (1873) as "Ulmus libero-rubra": 'Orme à liber rouge' [:elm with red inner bark]. Elwes and Henry (1913) and Bean (1936) listed it as "Ulmus montana" [:"U. glabra" ] var. "libro-rubro", the former stating that the tree appeared "identical" to Simon-Louis's "Ulmus campestris rubra". A specimen in the Zuiderpark, The Hague,


title: "Ulmus 'Rubra'" content: was identified in 1940 as a wych elm cultivar, "U. glabra" "libero rubro". "Ulmus campestris rubra" was distributed by the Louis van Houtte nursery of Ghent from the late 19th century, and by the Späth nursery of Berlin in the early 20th century. Krüssmann, in "Handbuch der Laubgehölze" 2: 535, 1962 confirmed it as a cultivar, "Ulmus glabra" 'Rubra'. Henry regarded the tree as a form of wych elm, distinguished solely by the deep red or purplish-red colouring of the inner bark of young branchlets. No specimens are known to survive. The tree was propagated by grafting. A specimen obtained


title: "Ulmus 'Rubra'" content: from van Houtte in 1871 stood in Kew Gardens in the early 20th century, and one obtained from Späth before 1914, and planted in that year, stood in the Ryston Hall arboretum, Norfolk. Ulmus 'Rubra' The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Rubra' was reputedly cloned from a tree found by Vilmorin in a wood near Verrières-le-Buisson in the 1830s. It was listed in the 1869 Catalogue of Simon-Louis, Metz, France, as "Ulmus campestris rubra", and by Planchon in de Candolle's "Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis" (1873) as "Ulmus libero-rubra": 'Orme à liber rouge' [:elm with red inner bark]. Elwes and Henry (1913)


title: "Bruce Lindsey" content: of the Office of Presidential Personnel where he supervised the selection and approval of political appointees in the Cabinet departments and to Presidential boards and commissions. In 1996, in the midst of the Whitewater controversy, Lindsey was named as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a lawsuit involving Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hill, the co-owners of the Arkansas-based Perry County Bank, which financed Clinton's fifth gubernatorial campaign in 1990. When the bankers were cleared, his case fell into abeyance. By 1998, in the midst of the Bill Clinton sexual misconduct allegations, which led to his impeachment, Lindsey was subpoenaed by


title: "Australian pub" content: the UK, Europe and many other regions. Each Australian state has its own set of liquor licensing laws which regulate the times that pubs could open and close. Until recently these laws were relatively strict, a legacy of the influence of the 'reformist' Christian Temperance groups in the late 19th and early 20th century. The concerns of these groups were in some areas well-founded. Alcohol abuse was an endemic social problem in most western countries and, as the local brewing and distilling industry expanded, it quickly became a serious problem in Australia. However, the Temperance movements were driven by a


title: "In or Out" content: In or Out "In or Out" is an episode from the dramedy series "Ugly Betty", the thirteenth in the series overall, which aired on January 18, 2007. It was written by Myra Jo Martino and directed by Michael Spiller. The episode title itself is an allusion to the film with the similar name. In the weeks that have passed since Sofia's deception, we find the Suarezes at a Mexican restaurant, where in the midst of a conversation between Betty, Justin and Ignacio, Hilda runs in and informs her family that Herbalux has been recalled by the FDA and she is


title: "American Eats" content: for food's place in American history and its impact on culture. The show is known for its nostalgia and general quirkiness, often including facts such as "Did you know Teddy Roosevelt took over 500 gallons of beer on an African safari?" Marathons of "American Eats" aired regularly on Thanksgiving from 2006 through 2009. Some American foods that have been featured are: American Eats American Eats is an American reality television show that aired on The History Channel from June to November 2006. The program follows in the footsteps of the earlier reality television shows "American Eats: History on a Bun"


title: "History of cricket in South Africa to 1918" content: teams were able to challenge for the championship, including Eastern Province, Griqualand West, Natal, Transvaal and Western Province. South Africa became increasingly involved in international cricket and the national team undertook six overseas tours (five to England and one to Australia) before 1914. Eight teams, seven English and one Australian, toured South Africa during the period. European colonisation of southern Africa began on Tuesday, 6 April 1652 when the Dutch East India Company established a settlement called the Cape Colony on Table Bay, near present-day Cape Town. Cape Colony slowly expanded along the coast and into the hinterland throughout the


title: "Angus & Julia Stone" content: the UK to sold-out venues, Katy Ratican of Contactmusic.com caught their performance at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester, "a set led primarily by Julia, she had the greater presence of the duo throughout. With Angus appearing the most shy of the two, it was left to Julia to engage the audience with chat and it wasn't until later in the set that Angus' seemingly gentle nature was fully accepted". Alexander Gunz described their gig in Berlin "[they] look exactly as they do in the press photos: a slightly pot-smoking Neo-Hippie couple. He with artfully excellent and fluffy hair under his


title: "John Yates (police officer)" content: detectives investigating the allegations that life peerages were awarded in return for loans, and it was a member of his team who interviewed the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair in December 2006. Yates's team handed its main file on the cash for peerages inquiry to the Crown Prosecution Service on Friday 20 April 2007. On 20 July 2007, the CPS announced that no charges would be brought as a result of the investigation for lack of direct evidence of an agreement that would have violated the law forbidding the sale of honours. In mid-2009, Yates conducted a review of the


title: "William Wells (1908–1990)" content: William Wells (1908–1990) William Thomas Wells QC (10 August 1908 – 3 January 1990) was an English barrister and Labour Party politician. Wells was from an upper-class background and went to the Public School Lancing College near Brighton, and to Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1932. During World War II, Wells served in the army on the General Staff to the War Office, being promoted to the rank of Major. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall in the 1945 general election. Although never taking Ministerial office,


title: "Recognition of same-sex unions in Tasmania" content: announced that Tasmania would pass new laws allowing same-sex couples to marry. However, although the same-sex marriage bill passed 13-11 in the lower house, the Legislative Council rejected the bill 6-8 on 27 September 2012. Same-sex marriage became legal in Tasmania, and in the rest of Australia, in December 2017, after the Federal Parliament passed a law legalising same-sex marriage. Recognition of same-sex unions in Tasmania Tasmania's "Relationships Act 2003" provided for registration and recognition of a type of registered partnership in two distinct categories: "Significant Relationships" and "Caring Relationships". The same Act also amended 73 pieces of legislation to


title: "La Huasteca" content: Luis Potosí, coffee plantations in Huauchinango and the United States. Like most rural indigenous, the economy is based on agriculture, especially the growing of corn. Other important aspects include cattle, the processing of sugar cane, coffee and the growing of citrus as a cash crop although most of this is under the control of mestizos. Piloncillo from sugar cane is an important processed product, most of which is shipped to Jalisco for the tequila industry. Handcrafts of the area include ceramics in Huejutla, ixtle items, quechquemitls, cross stitch decorated garments in the region on the Hidalgo-Veracruz border, musical instruments and


title: "Elliott 803" content: 1 computer, where the A-line represented the accumulator and the B-line an instruction modifier, both displayed on a Williams tube). Setting the B digit has the effect of adding the contents of the memory address of the first instruction to the second instruction at execution time, enabling indirect addressing and other run-time instruction modifications. The bit time is 6 microseconds, jumps execute in 288 microseconds and simple arithmetic instructions in 576 microseconds. Floating point operations take several milliseconds. IO is direct and there are no interrupts. In the following descriptions, A and N represent the accumulator and the literal address,


title: "Antoine Labelle" content: also named after him. Curé-Antoine-Labelle School currently has more than 2,600 students and more than 200 staff members. Many other sites and landmarks were named in honour of Curé Labelle. They include: Antoine Labelle François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle (November 24, 1833 – January 4, 1891) was a Roman Catholic priest and the person principally responsible for the settlement (or "colonization") of the Laurentians. He is also referred to as "Curé Labelle" and sometimes, the "King of the North." He was born Antoine Labelle in Sainte-Rose-de-Lima, the son of Angélique Maher (documents vary as some have Mayer and others have Maillet) and Antoine


title: "Blood of the Beasts" content: when he decided to make the film, but the location around the building was the Ourcq Canal, allowing him to make a documentary film. Franju stated by using a documentary film format, he was able to use both locations as lyrical counterpoints and "to explain it as a realist while remaining a surrealist by displacing the object in another context. In this new setting, the object rediscovers its quality as an object". The film marked the debut of documentary photographer Patrice Molinard who took stills during the shoot. "Blood of the Beasts" was made as a black and white film


title: "Lovesighs – An Entertainment" content: Lovesighs – An Entertainment Lovesighs – An Entertainment was No-Man's first mini-album, released in 1992 on the One Little Indian label. It comprised a collection of the band's singles and b-sides from 1990 and 1991. An ambitious and diverse collection of sensual songs and innovative instrumentals, the album combined influences from dub, dream pop, classical and hip-hop music. Both "Colours" and "Days In The Trees" were singles of the week in "Melody Maker", "Sounds" and on Channel Four's teletext. "Lovesighs" was trailed by a further single "Ocean Song". "Days in the Trees" shares its main melody with the Porcupine Tree


title: "Assassination of Orlando Letelier" content: In 1971, Letelier was appointed ambassador to the United States by Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile. Letelier had lived in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s and had supported Allende's campaign for the presidency. Allende believed Letelier's experience and connections in international banking would be highly beneficial to developing US–Chile diplomatic relations. During 1973, Letelier served successively as Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Interior Minister, and, finally, Defense Minister. After the Chilean coup of 1973 that brought Augusto Pinochet to power, Letelier was one of the first members of the Allende administration to be arrested by the Chilean government


title: "Landskrona Citadel" content: new one, "Sofia Albertina", was built some decades later. The castle was used as a women's prison from the late 19th century and some decades later. Today the castle is both a kind of museum (guided tours only, but not expensive, daily during the summer) and can be rented for private parties. Landskrona Citadel Landskrona Citadel ( or "Landskrona slott") is situated in Landskrona, Scania, southern Sweden. Much of the original work is intact, and exaples remain of major parts of all the fortification, which is uncommon in such an accessible area. The moat around the central fortification is intact,


title: "Stjärnorp Castle" content: build their own castles, Stjärnorp Castle and Löfstad Castle, so high that from the top floor, they could see and send greeting messages to each other. Carl Fredric Broocman, writing in the mid-18th century on "Stiernarp": All the Stjärnorp buildings were destroyed during a fire on May 12, 1789, but the chapel was restored in the same year. Although the wings were built up again within a few years after the fire, the funds were lacking for the repair of the main building, which is still in ruins. When Stjärnorp parish was formed in 1810, the castle chapel became the


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: Micrurus fulvius Micrurus fulvius, commonly known as the eastern coral snake, common coral snake, American cobra, and more, is a species of venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to the southeastern United States. It should not be confused with the scarlet snake ("Cemophora coccinea") or scarlet kingsnake ("Lampropeltis elapsoides"), which are harmless mimics. No subspecies are currently recognized. "Micrurus fulvius" is generally less than in total length (including tail). The maximum reported total lengths are for a specimen in Florida (Neill, 1958) and (Roze, 1996). Males have longer tails than females, but females reach a


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: greater total length. The dorsal scales are smooth, and are in 15 rows at midbody. The ventral scales number 197-217 in males and 219-233 in females. There are 40-47 subcaudals in males and 30-37 in females. The anal plate is divided. The color pattern consists of a series of rings that encircle the body: wide red and black rings separated by narrow yellow rings. The head is black from the rostral to just behind the eyes. The red rings are usually speckled with black. People who live in its natural range are often taught a folk rhyme as children such


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: as: "Red next to black, safe from attack; red next to yellow, you're a dead fellow," or "Red touching black, friend of Jack; red touching yellow, you're a dead fellow", or simply "red and yellow kill a fellow". These rhymes are useful in teaching children to distinguish king snakes ("Lampropeltis" ssp.), which are considered helpful predators of vermin such as rats and mice, from this much more dangerous snake that should only be handled by an experienced biologist or herpetologist. However, this rhyme is only applicable to the United States species, and cannot be used reliably in the Caribbean, or


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: Central or South America. Among the many common names for "M. fulvius" are eastern coral snake, American cobra, candy-stick snake, common coral snake, coral adder, Elaps harlequin snake, Florida coral snake, harlequin coral snake, North American coral snake, red bead snake, thunder-and-lightning snake, and, in Spanish, "serpiente-coralillo arlequín" (literally "harlequin coral snake"). "M. fulvius" is found in the Southeastern United States from southeastern North Carolina, south through South Carolina and peninsular Florida, and westward through southern Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to southeastern Louisiana. Coralsnakes in Texas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Arkansas are now considered to be a different species, "Micrurus


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: tener", which was previously considered a subspecies of "M. fulvius". "M. fulvius" may be found at altitudes of near sea level to about . "Micrurus fulvius" occurs in upland mesophytic and tropical hammocks in Florida, as well as glade land, high pine, scrub oak and live oak hammock, slash pine and wiregrass flatwoods. In southern Georgia and Florida, it is found in dry areas with open ground that are bushy but not heavily vegetated. It is associated with sandy ridges in Mississippi and sandy creek bottoms in Louisiana. It is rarer in North and South Carolina, but is more typically


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: found there in the scrub oak forests and pitch pine habitats near the coast, as well as the coastal plain of the southeast. "M. fulvius" eats lizards, frogs, and smaller snakes, including other coral snakes. Females of "M. fulvius" are reported to lay 3-12 eggs in June that hatch in September. Neonates are in length. "Micrurus fulvius" bites and fatalities are very rare. Only two documented fatalities were attributed to this species in the 1950s, and only one has been reported since Wyeth antivenin became available for it in the 1960s. The most recent fatality attributed to the eastern coral


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: snake occurred in 2006 (confirmed in 2009 report). The victim failed to seek proper medical attention and died several hours after being bitten, becoming the first fatality caused by "M. fulvius" in over 40 years. "M. fulvius" does not account for many cases of snakebite in the U.S., with only about 100 bites each year. The snake is considered secretive and generally reluctant to bite (its venomous potential was still being debated in the 1880s), and envenomation (i.e., secretion of venom during a strike) is thought to occur in only 40% of all bites. But unlike New World pit vipers,


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: this New World coral snake cannot control the amount of primarily neurotoxic venom injected. Dry bites often result from a near miss or deflection; although the venom an adult coral snake holds is enough to kill up to five adults, it cannot release all its venom in a single bite. Historically, however, the mortality rate was estimated to be about 10–20%, with death occurring in as little as one to two hours, or as much as 26 hours after the bite. This is not that surprising, since the LD for humans is estimated to be 4–5 mg of dried venom,


title: "Micrurus fulvius" content: while the average venom yield is 2–6 mg with a maximum of more than 12 mg. This is probably why current standard hospital procedure in the U.S. is to start with antivenin therapy for coral snake bites, even if there are no symptoms yet (since there may not be any noticeable, localized symptoms). Wyeth discontinued the manufacture of coral snake antivenin in 2010, citing a lack of profitability. Pfizer has also decided to halt production of its antivenin for similar reasons (see Coral snake antivenom shortage). Micrurus fulvius Micrurus fulvius, commonly known as the eastern coral snake, common coral snake,


title: "John H. Brodie" content: in peer-review journals, many of which have proven to be influential. In 2002, Brodie had a psychotic episode and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He tried taking medication, but searched for an alternative to mainstream medicine. In 2004, Brodie took a leave of absence from research and publication in disciplinary journals to teach at the Monteverde Friends School in Costa Rica. Traveling to Nicaragua, he helped construct housing for the poor with Habitat for Humanity. After his ID was stolen in Panama authorities stopped him on a bus and Brodie was held in jail. In September 2005, after hiking much


title: "Carly Phillips" content: Carly Phillips "Carly Phillips" is the pen name which novelist Karen Drogin (born July 7, 1965 in New York) has used as her by-line for over twenty-three best-selling contemporary romance novels that she has written. According to CarlyPhillips.com, her net-site, Drogin is a former attorney who was unhappy with her practice of law. UNRELEASED Starting in 2011 an internet meme featuring a picture of Phillips spread online called the Sheltering Suburban Mom; the captions on the image typically illustrated the perceived out-of-touch double standards suburban mothers hold against their children or their peers. Phillips herself was initially unaware of the


title: "Dark Frontier" content: her questions about the Collective, Seven hallucinates that the Borg have accessed her neural transceiver and know about Janeway's plan. Further research of her parents' mission lead Seven to conclude her parents underestimated the Borg, which eventually led to their assimilation. It was during this research that Seven discovered the Hansens' description of a bio-damper in their notes, which they used to move around undetected in a Borg vessel while conducting their field research. The Voyager team replicates the technology for use in their raid on the Borg sphere. Asserting that she is willing to risk her own well-being for


title: "Evelin Jahl" content: Evelin Jahl Evelin Jahl ( Schlaak and later Herberg, born 28 March 1956 in Annaberg-Buchholz, Saxony, East Germany) is a German former discus thrower, who won two Olympic gold medals representing East Germany. In 1976 she won the women's discus throwing event at the Montreal Summer Olympics defeating favourite and world record holder Faina Melnik. In 1978 she set a new world record and also won the European Championships. Two years later Jahl defended the Olympic title in Moscow, again relegating Vergova, also competing under her married name (Petkova), into second place. From 1980 until 2016 Jahl was the only


title: "Keith Peters (physician)" content: of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1995and was the President of the Academy of Medical Sciences from 2002 to 2006 He was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Peters is an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has received Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships from the University of Wales College of Medicine and the following universities: Wales, Swansea, Aberdeen, Nottingham, Paris, Birmingham, Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Sussex, Bristol, Keele, Warwick, UCL, Kings College, Imperial College and Cardiff.At the Royal College of Physicians he delivered the Goulstonian Lecture in 1976, the Bradshaw Lecture


title: "Coronet Blue" content: Travanty (Raffie), Cely Carrillo (Tomoyo). Alden becomes caught up in a karate group with links to the Mafia when he recognizes a young Asian woman. Episode #8 – Man Running Originally aired: July 17, 1967 on CBS Production Code: 008 Writer: Art Wallace • Director: Sam Wanamaker • Regulars: Frank Converse (Michael Alden), Joe Silver (Max Spier). Guests: Juliet Mills (Margaret Crowell), Denholm Elliott (Roger Crowell, Imposter), Bramwell Fletcher (Roger Crowell), Carlos Montalbán (Raul Estrada), Rene Enriquez (Sanchez), Alan Ansara (Gomez), Ralph Thomas (Detective), Colleen Kelly (Waitress). Alden unwittingly gets caught up in a plot to kill a political figure


title: "Ben Cauley" content: the MGs. As such they appeared as the backing band on numerous recordings for Stax artists such as Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, and Sam and Dave. In fact, Otis Redding took such a liking to the band that he chose them to be his touring back-up band in the summer of 1967. On December 8, 1967, Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays flew in Redding's twin engine Beechcraft H18 plane to Nashville, Tennessee for three weekend gigs and used that city as a base to commute to additional gigs. The following day, December 9, they took the Beechcraft to Cleveland where


title: "Pittsford Mendon High School" content: Pittsford Mendon High School Pittsford Mendon High School is a public high school in suburban Rochester, Monroe County, upstate New York. It is one of two high schools in the Pittsford Central School District, the other being Pittsford Sutherland High School. Pittsford Mendon is located at 472 Mendon Road (from which the school gets its name) in the town of Pittsford, near the town of Mendon, New York. As of the 2012–13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,018 students and 82 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.4. In 2017, Pittsford Mendon


title: "Sesame Street international co-productions" content: in 1987, the improvement of "the overall quality of a country's television". He added, "We give a country a model of how television can be used effectively to address people's needs". US cast members Kevin Clash and Marty Robinson have cast and trained the international puppeteers. At first, Muppet builder Kermit Love constructed the puppets for the new shows in the US. According to Gikow in 2009, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, overseen by Connie Peterson, has taken over puppet creation. The producers of "Sisimpur", the Bangladesh co-production, created their own traditional puppets because their puppet-making craft is thousands of years


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: Angelokastro (Corfu) Angelokastro ( (Castle of Angelos or Castle of the Angel); ) is a Byzantine castle on the island of Corfu, Greece. It is located at the top of the highest peak of the island's shoreline in the northwest coast near Palaiokastritsa and built on particularly precipitous and rocky terrain. It stands on a steep cliff above the sea and surveys the City of Corfu and the mountains of mainland Greece to the southeast and a wide area of Corfu toward the northeast and northwest. Angelokastro is one of the most important fortified complexes of Corfu. It was an


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: acropolis which surveyed the region all the way to the southern Adriatic and presented a formidable strategic vantage point to the occupant of the castle. Angelokastro formed a defensive triangle with the castles of Gardiki and Kassiopi, which covered Corfu's defences to the south, northwest and northeast. The castle never fell, despite frequent sieges and attempts at conquering it through the centuries, and played a decisive role in defending the island against pirate incursions and during three sieges of Corfu by the Ottomans, significantly contributing to their defeat. During invasions it helped shelter the local peasant population. The villagers also


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: fought against the invaders playing an active role in the defence of the castle. The exact period of the building of the castle is not known, but it has often been attributed to the reigns of Michael I Komnenos and his son Michael II Komnenos. The first documentary evidence for the fortress dates to 1272, when Giordano di San Felice took possession of it for Charles of Anjou, who had seized Corfu from Manfred, King of Sicily in 1267. From 1387 to the end of the 16th century, Angelokastro was the official capital of Corfu and the seat of the


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: "Provveditore Generale del Levante", governor of the Ionian islands and commander of the Venetian fleet, which was stationed in Corfu. The governor of the castle (the castellan) was normally appointed by the City council of Corfu and was chosen amongst the noblemen of the island. Angelokastro is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands, along with Kassiopi Castle, Gardiki Castle and the two Venetian Fortresses of Corfu City, the Citadel and the New Fort. The name may be related to the Komnenoi Angeloi, Despots of Epirus. The earliest textual reference to the castle is in


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: an Angevin document of 1272, which refers to it as "Castrum Sancti Angeli" or "Castrum S. Angeli", 'Castle of the Holy Angel'. Venetian documents of the 17th century call it "Castel" or "Castello Sant' Angelo". Angelokastro is one of the most important fortified complexes of Corfu. It forms an acropolis that surveyed the region all the way to the southern Adriatic and therefore presented a formidable strategic vantage point to the occupant of the castle. Situated at an impregnable and strategic position, Angelokastro became important to the island's fortunes for many centuries. Angelokastro was one of three castles which defended


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: the island before the Venetian era (1401–1797). The castles formed a defensive triangle, with Gardiki Castle guarding the island's south, Kassiopi Castle the northeast and Angelokastro the northwest. In peacetime it was also a centre of commerce and development. One of the reasons the castle was built was to defend Corfu against piracy and warn Corfu city of any approaching danger. The city of Corfu lies to the southeast of the Castle and it is visible from Angelokastro. The garrison at the fortress would signal to the city the approach of any enemy. During excavations in 1999 by the 8th


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of Greece, two Early Christian closure slabs and other findings were unearthed at the top of the acropolis indicating that the site was occupied and perhaps fortified by the early Byzantine period between 5th-7th century AD. Byzantine ruins were found at the Patima location near Angelokastro, indicating a settlement in the area whose population could have used fortifications on the Angelokastro hill during times of crisis. After Byzantium lost its dominion over southern Italy in 1071, Corfu became the new Byzantine frontier to the West serving to separate Byzantium from its enemies to the west, making


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: the island strategic to the Komnenoi who had the incentive to build fortifications to safeguard Corfu from the frequent invasions of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, which had caused continuing upheaval in the island. The exact time of the building of the castle is not known. and there are estimates that it was built during the reign of Manuel I Komnenos, or by Michael I Komnenos Doukas also known as Michael I Angelos, the Despot of Epirus, who took Corfu in 1214. His son Michael II Angelos, further fortified the area of the castle, and there is mention of him


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: as the builder of the fortress. Following the takeover of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, Corfu was governed by a variety of rulers, including the Despots of Epirus, until 1267 when it was occupied by the Angevins of Naples. In 1272 Giordano di San Felice took ownership of the fortress on behalf of Charles I of Naples, king of the Angevins. The Angevins occupied Corfu from 1267 to 1386 and a document related to their takeover of the fortress is the earliest written record attesting to the existence of the castle. In 1386, after the violent death of king


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: Charles III of Naples, the occupants of the castle, still loyal to Charles' successor king Ladislaus of Naples, resisted for a brief time the Venetian takeover but the transfer of power to the Venetians occurred with virtually no loss of life. Before the Venetians conquered Corfu, there were three castles which defended the island from attacks: Kassiopi Castle in the northeast of the island, Angelokastro, defending the northwest side of Corfu, and Gardiki in the south of the island. In 1386, with the departure of the Angevins, the castle came under the ownership of the Most Serene Republic of Venice


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: (Venetian: "Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta"). A special Venetian officer assumed the responsibility for Angelokastro, a strong castle which never fell, despite frequent attempts to conquer it. Under the dominion of Venice, Corfu was defended throughout the period of her occupation. However invasions and associated destruction still occurred during this time, especially at the undefended areas of the island. The Venetians, being the prominent maritime power of the era, used Angelokastro to monitor the shipping lanes in the southern Adriatic and the Ionian sea. Throughout the period of Venetian rule the castle enjoyed great prominence because it offered protection to the locals


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: from foes such as the Genoan pirates to the west as well as the Ottomans to the east. Neither the Genoans nor the Ottomans were ever able to penetrate its defences. In 1403, a Genoese fleet carrying a force of about 10,000 Genoan mercenaries landed at Palaiokastritsa. The Genoans were on their way to the Holy Land to take part in the crusades and they were under the command of French marshal Jean Le Maingre known as Boucicault. Following their landing, they laid siege to Angelokastro for a year. The Genoans burned and pillaged the surrounding area. Then they attempted


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: to occupy the castle. After furious battles with the Corfiot garrison, under the leadership of a Corfiote nobleman, they were ultimately repulsed. In 1406, the Venetian Senate received a petition by Corfiote representatives to Venice under the "capitoli", i.e. political privileges granted by Venice to Corfu upon entering the Venetian state, who had asked that positions of public officials in Corfu be filled locally for a year. Two years later, in 1408, the Senate replied and informed the local government of Corfu that certain public positions such as the "comestabelaria", the Castellan or Governor of Angelokastro, the Castellan of Porto


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: Ferro, and the salt official were exempt from the "capitoli" and they were to be filled by the Venetian "bailo". Later, the Corfiote representations to Venice succeeded in their demands that the Castellan of Angelokastro be appointed locally by the city of Corfu. Subsequently, the Castellan was chosen amongst the noblemen of the island. Occasionally, the Venetians provided funds for the repair and maintenance of old rural castles such as Angelokastro as a means of protecting the peasants and their livestock during times of crisis. The Venetians applied a similar policy to the old castles located in the mountain ranges


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: of northern Cyprus. From 1387 until late in the sixteenth century, Angelokastro was the capital of Corfu and, in early sixteenth century, became the seat of the "Provveditore Generale del Levante", who was the governor of the Ionian islands and also the commander of the Venetian fleet which was stationed in Corfu. Angelokastro was instrumental in repulsing the Ottomans in three sieges of Corfu: in the first great siege of Corfu in 1537, in the siege of 1571 and the second great siege of Corfu in 1716. In 1537, during the first great siege of Corfu, Suleyman the Magnificent dispatched


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: a force of 25,000 men under the command of admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa to attack Corfu. The Ottomans landed at Govino Bay, present day Gouvia, and proceeded toward Corfu town, destroying the village of Potamos as they made their way toward the City. The Old Fort, Corfu city's only fortification during that period, and Angelokastro were the only two places on the island not in the hands of the invaders at the time. In undefended parts of the island, people where killed or taken away as slaves by the army of the Sultan. Even at the Old Fortress in the City


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: of Corfu, the weaker segments of the civilian population, women, children and the elderly, called the "inutili" (useless) by the Venetians, were not allowed to enter the fort and were forced to remain outside its walls. The Ottomans killed many among them or enslaved them. The rejection of the people at the gates, and its consequences, angered the Corfiots who lost faith in Venice's defensive measures. When the Ottomans attacked Angelokastro, 3,000 villagers had retreated inside the safety of the walls of the castle. The invading army was repulsed four times by the Corfiote garrison and was unable to breach


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: the defences of the castle. In the account of the Ottoman invasion contained in the History of Paolo Giovio published in 1555, the author mentions Angelokastro, out of all the other castles of Corfu, and praises the bravery of its defenders. As it was retreating from Corfu, the Ottoman army devastated the undefended areas of both Corfu city and the island. In total about 20,000 people who were unable to find shelter in either castle were either killed or taken away as slaves. In August 1571, the Ottomans made another of many attempts at conquering Corfu. Having seized Parga and


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: Mourtos from the Greek mainland side they attacked the Paxi islands, landing a force there. Subsequently they landed on Corfu's southeast shore and established a large beachhead all the way from the southern tip of the island at Lefkimi to Ipsos in Corfu's midsection of the eastern part of the island. These areas were thoroughly pillaged and burnt as in past encounters. An Ottoman force, on its way to the city, first occupied and destroyed the village of Potamos. Although the Corfu city castle stood firm, the rest of Corfu was destroyed and the general population outside the castles was


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: defenceless and suffered heavy casualties, while homes, churches and public buildings were burned in the city suburbs. Admiral Kilich Ali Pasha was dispatched to Corfu by the Ottoman Empire as head of an invasion force in 1571 and deployed two-thirds of his men to lay siege to and attempt to conquer Angelokastro, while the rest of his army attacked the city of Corfu. The Angelokastro garrison, composed of about 4,000 peasants from the nearby villages, successfully resisted the invading force and the Ottomans were not successful at establishing a beachhead in the northwestern flank of the island. After their unsuccessful


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: siege, the Ottoman army retreated from Angelokastro and they set a course for Corfu city through the mountains intent on continuing their siege of the city. The garrison of Angelokastro scuttled their plans by exiting the castle and rolling boulders at them as they were passing through the mountains. Following these events, Kilich ended the siege of the island destroying vineyards and fruit trees during his retreat, and finally departing with his fleet. These Ottoman defeats both at the city castle in the east and Angelokastro in the west proved decisive and the Ottomans abandoned their attempts at conquering Corfu.


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: Angelokastro protected the population of the region again during the second Great Siege of Corfu by the Ottomans in 1716. With the advent of modern warfare the castle's importance declined and gradually it fell into a state of disrepair. The passage of time did to the castle what no aspiring conqueror could. From 1999, however, the Corfu office of the 8th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of Greece has undertaken a restoration programme under the co-sponsorship of the Greek Ministry of Culture and the European Union. The castle was closed to the public for excavations and reconstruction starting in 1999. As


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: of 25 May 2009 the castle was open with an admission fee of 2 Euros, but like most of the Greek cultural sites on the Island it is closed on Mondays. Angelokastro is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands along with four other fortifications of Corfu such as Gardiki Castle, the Kassiopi Castle built by the Angevins and the two Venetian Fortresses of Corfu City, the Citadel and the New Fort. The castle's west, northwest and south sides are protected by the terrain that slopes precipitously. Its foundation may have been Byzantine but, given


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: its size, the incorporation of its extraordinary natural surroundings into the design of the fortifications is not typically Byzantine and follows the tradition of small but practically impregnable fortresses which incorporate outstanding natural elements into their design. In contrast to the purely Byzantine style of Gardiki Castle which was also constructed in a single form, Angelokastro's architectural style may not have been purely Byzantine and could have been influenced by Frankish or South Italian architectural elements, although the details of such influence are not discernible today due to its current state of ruin. French scholar Jean Alexandre Buchon, who visited


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: the site in the 19th century, noted that the construction of its walls seemed rushed. The acropolis is located at the highest point with a church at the southern side. The church is dedicated to Archangel Michael and it is built at the site of an Early Christian three-aisled church. The main gate points to the north and is protected by a circular tower. The ruins opposite the main gate formed the garrison's quarters. There were three underground cisterns that supplied water to the castle occupants. Battlements survive only on the northeastern side of the castle. A small gate also


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: existed at the southern side. There is a cemetery on the western side with seven graves carved out of the rock in the shape of the human body as in a sarcophagus. The origin of the anthropomorphic graves has not yet been determined. At the east side there exists a tiny chapel, dedicated to St. Kyriaki, that also served as a hermitage. The chapel was created by digging into the rock formation and as such it is a cave-like structure. There are paintings inside the chapel that date back to the 18th century. A hermit also resided in the same


title: "Angelokastro (Corfu)" content: area. Edward Lear created a drawing of Angelokastro in one of his Views of the Ionian Islands. Angelokastro (Corfu) Angelokastro ( (Castle of Angelos or Castle of the Angel); ) is a Byzantine castle on the island of Corfu, Greece. It is located at the top of the highest peak of the island's shoreline in the northwest coast near Palaiokastritsa and built on particularly precipitous and rocky terrain. It stands on a steep cliff above the sea and surveys the City of Corfu and the mountains of mainland Greece to the southeast and a wide area of Corfu toward the


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title: "Adenanthera pavonina" content: Adenanthera pavonina Adenanthera pavonina is a perennial and non-climbing species of leguminous tree. Its uses include food and drink, traditional medicine, and timber. "Adenanthera pavonina" is commonly called Red Lucky Seed. Other common names for the tree include Acacia Coral, Arbre À Église, Bead Tree, Circassian Seed, Corail Végétale, Coral Wood, Coralitos, Curly Bean, Deleite, Delicia, Dilmawi, Graine-réglisse, Jumbi-Bead, L'Église, Peronías, Peonía, Peonía Extranjera, Piriquiti, Red Bead Tree, and Réglisse. Barbados pride, Peacock flower fence, Sandalwood tree, Saga, and Manchadi are additional common names. Synonyms for the tree include "Adenanthera gersenii" Scheff., "Adenanthera polita" Miq., and "Corallaria parvifolia" Rumph. In


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title: "Adenanthera pavonina" content: parks. However, it is also known for producing lots of litter in the form of leaves, twigs and especially seed pods which crack open while still on the branch, so releasing their seeds, before themselves falling to the ground. In traditional medicine, a decoction of the young leaves and bark of "Adenanthera pavonina" is used to treat diarrhoea. Also, the ground seeds are used to treat inflammation. Preliminary scientific studies appear to support these traditional uses. "In vitro" studies show that "Adenanthera pavonina" leaf extract has antibacterial activity against the intestinal pathogen "Campylobacter jejuni". Also, high doses of seed extract


title: "Adenanthera pavonina" content: have an anti-inflammatory effect in studies in rats and mice. "Adenanthera pavonina" is a source of aliphatic natural products ("O"-acetylethanolamine and 1-octacosanol), carbohydrate (galactitol), simple aromatic natural products (2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid), flavonoids (ampelopsin, butein, dihydrorobinetin, and robinetin), terpenoids (echinocystic acid and oleanolic acid), steroids (daucosterol, β-sitosterol, and stigmasterol), amino acids and peptides (2-amino-4-ethylidenepentanedioic acid and γ-methyleneglutamine), and alkaloids ("O"-acetylethanolamine and 1"H"-imidazole). Adenanthera pavonina Adenanthera pavonina is a perennial and non-climbing species of leguminous tree. Its uses include food and drink, traditional medicine, and timber. "Adenanthera pavonina" is commonly called Red Lucky Seed. Other common names for the tree include Acacia Coral,


title: "Count Campau" content: and compiled a .310 batting average with three home runs. [[File:Charles C. Campau.png|right|thumb|175px|Charles C. Campau on the front page of "The Sporting Life", October 4, 1890]] After beginning the 1890 season with Detroit, Campau returned to the major leagues with the [[St. Louis Browns (NL)|St. Louis Browns]] of the [[American Association (19th century)|American Association]]. He appeared in 75 games for the Browns, all but one in the outfield. Campau led the league with nine home runs and was among the league leaders with a .513 slugging percentage (2nd), .322 batting average (9th), 12 triples (8th), and 75 RBIs (9th). He


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title: "Laila Robins" content: "Tiny Alice". Robins is also a frequent performer at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, where she has starred in "Macbeth", "Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard". Charles Isherwood, critic for "The New York Times", assessed her stage work as Ariadne in George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" (2006). Robins played opposite Swoosie Kurtz, and Isherwood described both as such: "...this expert comic actress [Kurtz] may not fit the textbook definition of "siren," as Hesione is called, but she may just be the most seductive woman on a New York stage right now...unless that nod goes to Ms. Robins, who locates


title: "Alfred Stephens" content: just before his own death a biography of Christopher Brennan. Stephens died suddenly at Sydney, on 15 April 1933. He had married Constance Ivingsbelle Smith in 1894, who survived him with two sons and four daughters. A collection of his prose writings with an introductory memoir by Vance Palmer, "A. G. Stephens: His Life and Work", was published in 1941. An interesting collection of his manuscripts is at the Mitchell Library, Sydney. A. G. Stephens wrote a fair amount of verse, for which he claimed no more than that it was "quite good rhetorical verse". He was an excellent interviewer


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title: "Scion xD" content: Scion xD The Scion xD is a five-door subcompact hatchback marketed in the U.S. and Canada by Japanese manufacturer Toyota beginning with the 2008 model year — replacing the xA. The Scion xD and the second generation xB were first shown to the public on February 8, 2007 at the Chicago Auto Show. The xD appeared in Scion showrooms in mid-2007 in the USA and in 2011 for Canada. The Scion xD was discontinued in 2014, and was succeeded by the Toyota C-HR in 2017. The xD comes standard with power locks, mirrors, and windows, and 16" wheels. The vehicle


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title: Sandiganbayan content: Sandiganbayan has a total of fifteen departments (two head offices, twelve divisions, and one Legal Research and Technical Staff) and a total of 385 authorized positions. 335 of 385 of these positions are filled. According to the Presidential Decree No. 1606, Section 1, the Presiding Justice and all Associate Justices shall be appointed by the president, as amended by Republic Act 8249. Appointment of the Court Officials and other employees, however, is not dependent on the president. According to Rule II, Section 7 of the Revised Internal Rules of the Sandiganbayan, "The Supreme Court shall appoint the Clerk of Court,


title: "Paul v. Virginia" content: of insurance companies which sought uniform regulation across states. In an effort to promote federal regulation of the insurance industry, a number of New York insurance companies orchestrated a test case to try to invalidate state regulation. On February 3, 1866, the legislature of Virginia had passed a statute provided that an insurance company not incorporated under the laws of the state should not carry on its business within the State without previously obtaining a license for that purpose and that it should not receive such license until it had deposited with the treasurer of the state bonds in an


title: "Beyond the Wall of Sleep (short story)" content: an ordinary star and in a few months it had become barely visible to the naked eye. Lovecraft said the story was inspired by an April 27, 1919 article in the "New York Tribune". Reporting on the New York state police, the article cited a family named Slater or Slahter as representative of the backwards Catskills population. The nova mentioned at the end of Lovecraft's story is a real star, known as GK Persei; the quotation is from Garrett P. Serviss' "Astronomy with the Naked Eye" (1908). The title of the story may have been influenced by Ambrose Bierce's "Beyond


title: "317th Infantry Regiment (United States)" content: 317th Infantry Regiment (United States) The 317th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the United States Army during World War II. It was one of three infantry regiments in the 80th Infantry Division. Today, it is known as the 317th Regiment and is based in Lynchburg, Virginia as a training unit within the United States Army Reserve - currently under the 104th Training Division. The regiment was first commanded by Colonel A. Donald Cameron. In October, 1944, he was replaced by Colonel Warfield M. Lewis. The final commander of the regiment, appointed in December, 1944, was Lieutenant Colonel Henry G.


title: "Prince Takanaga" content: April those inside were reduced to eating horseflesh to survive, and almost resorted to cannibalism before surrendering. Takanaga and Nitta Yoshiaki committed suicide as the castle fell. Prince Takanaga Appointed "Seitō Shōgun" (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the East) in November 1335, he was commissioned along with Nitta Yoshisada to destroy the Northern Court leaders Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Tadayoshi. He fought a number of battles alongside Nitta and led his own force in besieging Kyoto in 1336. In 1336, he was sent along with his brother Tsunenaga to be escorted by Nitta Yoshisada to Echizen Province where, it was


title: "Conrad Models" content: their son, Michael. Thus the company has remained a family owned business, probably since about 1956 when the Conrad name was introduced when the Conrad family took control of Gescha. Conrad today has a line of over 90 separate models, mostly trucks and cranes. The appearance and finish of the diecast models themselves is similar to its competitor, NZG Models, though perhaps NZG's are slightly more adventurous in models contracted and slightly more realistic - but this is simply a perception. While NZG Modelle focuses more on construction and earth moving equipment, Conrad's line-up centers more on a variety of


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title: "Mercenaries in popular culture" content: a song entitled "Mercenaries", which first appeared on his 1977 album "Dance Band on the Titanic". A live version of the track appears on 1998's "The Bottom Line Encore Collection". In "", 'Mercenary' is one of several 'creature types' game cards can possess. The type was introduced in Ice Age, but became widely used in Mercadian Masques, in 1999. The Mercadian Masque mercenary cards were colored black, representing entropy/darkness. Many of these cards could expedite bringing smaller Mercenaries into play. In "Warhammer", Dogs of War is a mercenary army that can act independently, but it is also possible for other


title: "Sailing at the 1976 Summer Olympics" content: was constructed. This building was built to contain all facilities needed during that period. It holds for instance a large measurement hall and several exercise rooms. Only the size of the overhead doors of the measurement hall was not wide enough to bring a fully assembled Tornado in. Each had to be lifted on one side to enter diagonally. After the races in the Tempest an unprecedented incident occurred: Alan Warren and David Hunt set their Tempest on fire. With this boat they won the silver medal in 1972 but during the transport to Canada the boat called "Gift 'orse"


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title: "Vita Craft Corporation" content: Vita Craft Corporation Vita Craft Corporation is the manufacturer of multi-ply (5, 7, and 9 ply) stainless steel cookware and other cookware products. The cookware is manufactured and sold in the United States, but the majority of sales are from the Asian and European markets. In the United States, Vita Craft is sold door-to-door and at food-related events and conventions using a direct selling model. In Asia and Europe, Vita Craft is sold in various department stores. The company was founded in 1939 after research and development by two cookware specialists from Seattle University and University of Wisconsin. Vita Craft's


title: "Yelena Tregubova" content: asked for her delivery address. When she declined to provide it and asked from what telephone number he was calling, he hung up. On February 2, 2004, a bomb exploded outside the door to her Moscow apartment. No one was injured and officials claimed it to be "an act of hooliganism". Tregubova's best-selling book "The Tales of a Kremlin Digger", published in October 2003, describes her experiences as a Kremlin correspondent and criticizes the customs of the Russian political elite. In particular, she described the involvement of Putin administration in state control of the media. "The Tales of a Kremlin


title: "History of the England national football team" content: the end of David Beckham's cross to equalise. And after the majority thought it was job done Croatia scored a third, and won the game 3–2, resulting in Russia qualifying and England missing out on their first major tournament since the 1994 World Cup. The sight of a hapless and unemotional McClaren standing on the touchline in the rain during this match, became the most iconic image of his tenure, and he was labelled "The Wally with the Brolly" by the media. After the game, McClaren refused to resign as manager, but the next day, he and Terry Venables were


title: "Gary I. Wadler" content: Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. Wadler also served as Chairman and President of the Nassau County Sports Commission. Wadler died on September 12, 2017 at the age of 78. His widow Nancy stated that he had been suffering from multiple system atrophy for five years prior to his death. Gary I. Wadler Gary Irwin Wadler (January 12, 1939 – September 12, 2017) was an American internist with special expertise in the field of drug use in sports. The lead author of the book "Drugs and the Athlete", Wadler served on the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA)


title: "National Christmas Tree (United States)" content: U.S. Army Band. Over the next seven years, the annual National Community Christmas Tree lighting ceremony did not change in major ways. The lighting ceremony was pushed back to 6 p.m. in 1925 to better accommodate children's bedtimes. In 1926, a flare was fired into the air as the tree was illuminated, a tradition which occurred for several years. In 1927, a bronze marker was placed at the base of the tree, declaring it the National Community Christmas Tree. The tree was decorated with improved lighting strings (which only required 500 multi-colored bulbs) as well as with 2,000 light-scattering jewels.


title: "Rex Balsom" content: and selfishness. Perceiving Todd's consideration of his missing son as nothing more than a lost possession, Rex decides to keep the secret. Adriana and later Michael himself become part of the conspiracy to keep Tommy with the McBains. Rex goes as far as faking a death certificate for Todd's missing child to get Todd to give up the search. An unhinged Spencer Truman is murdered on January 26, 2007 and Bo catches Rex holding the murder weapon. Rex is exonerated, but Bo and later Michael's brother Detective John McBain suspect he is keeping something from them. In the wake of


title: "Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball" content: Nebraska won another conference title in 1916, after Sam Waugh replaced Stiehm as the Cornhuskers' coach for one season. Stiehm, who coached the first game of the season before giving way to Waugh, had planned to remain at Nebraska through the season before leaving to become coach and athletic director at Wisconsin, but NU's Athletic Board decided to replace him. Waugh was succeeded by E.J. Stewart, whose three Cornhusker teams had a combined record of 29–23. Nebraska was 22–2 in 1919–20 and 11–3 in 1920–21 under P.J. Schissler. After the 1920 season, Schissler challenged the University of Chicago to a


title: "Croome Court" content: Croome Court Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire, England. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry, and were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the mansion's rooms were designed by Robert Adam. The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust which operates it as a tourist attraction. The National Trust owns the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public. Croome Court is


title: "Croome Court" content: located near to Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire, near Pirton, Worcestershire. The wider estate was established on lands that were once part of the royal forest of Horewell. Traces of these older landscapes, such as unimproved commons and ancient woodlands, can be found across the former Croome Estate. The foundations and core of Croome Court, including the central chimney stack structure, date back to the early 1640s. Substantial changes to this early house were made by Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry. George Coventry, the 6th Earl, inherited the estate in 1751, along with the existing Jacobean house. He commissioned Lancelot


title: "Croome Court" content: "Capability" Brown, with the assistance of Sanderson Miller, to redesign the house and estate. It was Brown's "first flight into the realms of architecture" and a "rare example of his architectural work", and it is an important and seminal work. It was built between 1751 and 1752, and it and Hagley Hall are considered to be the finest examples of Neo-Palladian architecture in Worcestershire. Notable Neo-Palladian features incorporated into Croome Court include the plain exterior and the corner towers with pyramidal roofs (a feature first used by Inigo Jones in the design of Wilton House in Wiltshire). Robert Adam worked


title: "Croome Court" content: on the interior of the building from 1760 onwards. The house was visited by George III, as well as by Queen Victoria during summers when she was a child, and George V (when Duke of York). A jam factory was built near Pershore railway station by the 9th Earl of Coventry in about 1880, to provide a market for Vale of Evesham fruit growers in times of surplus. Although the Croome connection with jam-making had ceased, the building was leased by the Croome Estate Trust during the First World War to the Huddersfield Fruit Preserving Company as a pulping station.


title: "Croome Court" content: The First World War deeply affected Croome; there were many local casualties, although the house was not requisitioned for the war effort. This is possibly because it was the home of the Lord Lieutenant of the county, who needed a residence for his many official engagements. Croome Court was requisitioned during the Second World War by the Ministry of Works, and leased for a year to the Dutch Government as a possible refuge for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands to escape the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. However, evidence shows that they stayed for two weeks at the most, perhaps


title: "Croome Court" content: because of the noise and fear created by the proximity of Defford Aerodrome. They later emigrated to Canada. The Croome Estate Trust sold the Court in 1948, along with of land, to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, and the mansion became St Joseph's Special School, which was run by nuns from 1950 until 1979. St Joseph's Special School was not a happy place and the nuns running it were certainly not "Friends". Between 1948 and 1979 the nuns, priests and teachers committed utterly despicable acts of abuse against the special needs children, aged 7 to 11, who were in


title: "Croome Court" content: their care including kicking, beating and sexual assaulting the youngsters. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/15/national-trust-accused-hiding-abuse-history-one-stately-homes/ The period from 1948 to 1979 were very dark days indeed and should not be forgotten or blotted out from the history of the house. The house was listed on 11 August 1952; it is currently Grade I listed. In 1979, the hall was taken over by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) which used it as its UK headquarters and a training college called Chaitanya College, run by 25 members of the movement. During their tenure they repainted the Dining Room. The ISKC had to


title: "Croome Court" content: leave the estate for financial reasons in 1984. It held a festival at the hall in 2011. From 1984 onwards, various owners tried to use the property as a training centre; apartments; a restaurant and conference centre; and a hotel and golf course, before once more becoming a private family home, with outbuildings converted to private houses. The house was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust, a registered charity, in October 2007, and it is now managed by the National Trust as a tourist attraction. It opened to the public in September 2009, at which point six of the rooms


title: "Croome Court" content: had been restored, costing £400,000, including the Saloon. It was estimated that another £4 million to £4.8 million would be needed to restore the entire building. Fundraising activities for the restoration included a 2011 raffle for a Morgan sports car organised by Lord and Lady Flight. After the restoration is complete, a 999-year lease on the building will be granted to the National Trust. An oral history project to record recollections about Croome was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. As of 2009, the service wing was empty and in need of substantial repair. The mansion is faced with Bath


title: "Croome Court" content: stone, limestone ashlar, and has both north and south facing fronts. It has a basement and two stories, with three stories in the end pavilions. A slate roof, with pyramid roofs over the corner towers, tops the building, along with three pair-linked chimneys along the axis of the house. Both fronts have 11 bays, split into three central sets of three each, and one additional bay each side. The north face has a pedimented centre, with two balustraded staircases leading to a Roman Doric doorcase. The south face has a projecting Ionic tetrastyle portico and Venetian windows. It has a


title: "Croome Court" content: broad staircase, with Coade stone sphinxes on each side, leading to a south door topped with a cornice on consoles. The wings have modillion cornice and balustrade. A two-story L-shaped service wing is attached to the east side of the mansion. It is made of red brick and stone, with slate roofs. It was designed by Capability Brown in 1751-2. On the far side of the service wing, a wall connects it to a stable court. The interior of the house was designed partially by Capability Brown, with plasterwork by G. Vassalli, and partially by Robert Adam, with plasterwork by


title: "Croome Court" content: Joseph Rose, Jr. It has a central spine corridor. A stone staircase, with iron balusters, is at the east end. The entrance hall is on the north side of the building, and has four fluted Doric columns, along with moulded doorcases. To the east of the entrance hall is the dining room, which has a plaster ceiling and cornice, while to the west is a billiard room, featuring fielded panelling, a plaster cornice, and a rococo fireplace. The three rooms were probably decorated around 1758-59 by Capability Brown. The dining room was vibrantly repainted by the Hare Krishnas in the


title: "Croome Court" content: 1970s-80s. The central room on the south side is a saloon, probably by Brown and Vassalli. It has an elaborate ceiling, with three panels, deep coving, and a cornice, along with two Ionic fireplaces, and Palladian doorcases. King George III was entertained by George Coventry, the 6th Earl, in the house's Saloon. A drawing room is to the west of the saloon, and features rococo plasterwork and a marble fireplace. To the east of the saloon is the Tapestry Room. This was designed in 1763-71, based on a design by Robert Adam, and contained tapestries and furniture covers possibly designed


title: "Croome Court" content: by François Boucher and Maurice Jacques, and made by Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. Around 1902 the ninth Earl sold the tapestries and seating to a Parisian dealer. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation purchased the ceiling, floor, mantlepiece, chair rails, doors and door surrounds in 1949; they were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1958. In 1959, the Kress Foundation also helped the Metropolitan Museum acquire the chair and sofa frames, which they recovered using the original tapestry seats. A copy of the ceiling was installed in place of the original. , the room is displayed as


title: "Croome Court" content: it would have looked after the tapestries had been sold, with a jug and ewer on display as the only original decoration of the room that remains in it. The adjacent library room is used to explain what happened to the tapestry room; the former library was designed by Adam, and was dismantled except for the marble fireplace. At the west side of the building is a long gallery, which was designed by Robert Adam and installed between 1761 and 1766. It is the best preserved of the original interior (little of the rest has survived in situ). It has


title: "Croome Court" content: an octagonal panelled ceiling, and plaster reliefs of griffins. A half-hexagonal bay faces the garden. The room also contains a marble caryatid fireplace designed by J Wilton. , modern sculptures are displayed in empty niches along the Long Gallery. The first garden at Croome was developed in the late 17th century by Ann Somerset, the wife of Thomas Coventry, 2nd Earl of Coventry, along with William Shenstone. A kitchen garden was laid out in the early 18th century, at a time when Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry was making large changes to the house and garden, which subsequently became


title: "Croome Court" content: the walled garden. The earliest plan for a walled garden dates from about 1750, when George William Coventry, the heir of the 5th Earl at the time, changed the shape of the walls from square to the rhomboid shape that exists today, mentored by Sanderson Miller. This created a garden of over , which may have made it the largest 18th-century walled garden in Europe. The increase in size allowed the garden to encompass a classical greenhouse on the eastern side of the garden. The walls of the garden were under construction at the time, probably replacing hedges. The date


title: "Croome Court" content: that the walls were finished is uncertain, but there is evidence that they must have been completed by 1752. Unlike the mansion and the park, the walled garden was largely unchanged by Capability Brown, but it did receive new hot houses to house melons, pineapples, peaches, and vines, and in 1766 a stone-curbed circular pool was created, with a sundial designed by Adam. In about 1806 a -high free-standing east-west hot wall was built, slightly off-centre, serviced by five furnaces. It is historically significant as it is one of the first such structures ever built. Almost the entire 18th century


title: "Croome Court" content: records of the garden survive; together with the garden they are a nationally important part of garden history, and the history of Worcestershire. The garden and its glass houses were mentioned in Gardening World in 1887. During the 20th century the garden was abandoned and fell into disrepair. They were purchased by Chris and Karen Cronin, who started restoring them in Summer 2000, including restoring many buildings and the greenhouses. They opened to the public for the first time in August 2014. They are privately operated, not being part of the National Trust. Over the last three centuries the garden


title: "Croome Court" content: has had a number of garden houses, forcing pits and framed structures recorded in Croome's archives. Today, The Walled Gardens showcases the fully restored melon and cucumber house and the peach and fig house, alongside the converted vinery house. The foundations still remain from the original tomato house, forcing beds, pineapple pits, and orchard house all which will be restored in years to come. After three years of dedicated restoration the melon and cucumber house now channels the rain water from its roof into a large storage tank under the terrace which is then pumped inside through a network of


title: "Croome Court" content: pipes to water an array of produce from vines to bananas, fully supporting the owners' ethos of sustainable and eco-friendly living. The mechanical inventions of the 18th century have been put to their test in the peach and fig house, with the creation of bespoke steel winding mechanisms to open and close groups of sash and hinging panels, mimicking the old brass rollers now replaced with oil impregnated nylon in stainless steel housings. Commissioned by the famous Capability Brown and constructed in 1764, The Dipping Pond is one of the gardens most significant features listed in the Croome Archives. It


title: "Croome Court" content: acquired its name from the function of dipping buckets to collect water to distribute around the garden, and for the nearby horse stable block. As a crucially significant element of the gardens history, The Dipping Pond has undergone extensive restoration. It has been completely rebuilt with the addition of a new pressurised water system that has been linked up to a redundant well nearby, creating a pumping station for watering the future vegetable beds within the gardens. As a by-product of capturing pure rain water, the Dipping Pond has become a new haven for various forms of wildlife, with some


title: "Croome Court" content: rare species of frogs and newts being spotted. A key phase in English garden history between the late 1700s and early 1800s saw the introduction of hot walls and heated cavity walls. This became extinct by 1845 due to the abolishment of a glass tax and emerging technology in hot houses. The hot wall at The Walled Gardens, constructed in 1806, is the largest of its kind, stretching nearly 100 metres in length and 3 metres in height. Much like the later Glass Houses and forcing beds, the purpose of creating a non-indigenous climate within the gardens was to propagate


title: "Croome Court" content: and extend the growing seasons for fruits and vegetables. The orientation to the wall is sympathetic to the rise and fall of the sun, not simply east to west, but to maximise heat and light against its southern face. However, sun was not the sole source for the heat of this wall; during the restoration five underground furnaces were discovered that spread along the northern face of the wall. The furnaces were all backfilled with cobble stones, which now make up the beautifully cobbled garden paths. Both borders have unique attributes serving very different purposes. The east-facing border boasts 150


title: "Croome Court" content: metres of length and features a curved inline to the northern end of the wall as it adjoins to the Head Gardeners Cottage. This border is significant in many respects because of its orientation to both the sun and its immediate environment. Currently this border houses an eclectic mixture of hardy shrubs and delicate flowers with Morello cherries, plums and heritage roses fighting for superiority against the wall. The south-facing border extends from the end of the old Vinery to the northeastern corner of the gardens. Traditionally this wall is used mainly for growing exotic fruits, including peaches, nectarines, apricots


title: "Croome Court" content: and pears. In 2007 it was extended to border out its full depth; unlike the east-facing border a mixture of flowers and vegetables are grown here. Curiously, the leafy plants that grow against the wall, known as Echium, are native to North Africa and are known to grow on only the extreme south-west tip of Cornwall and nowhere else in the UK. This was formerly the estate's dumping ground, and significant history has been pieced together from the materials recovered from the woodland. Several archaeological digs have been conducted revealing 200 years' worth of bottles, porcelain, masonry and iron artefacts


title: "Croome Court" content: stacked on top of each other. Croome Park has a man-made lake and river, statues, temples and other buildings with the Court as the central focus. The other buildings around the park include Gatehouses, a Grotto, a Church and buildings termed "eye-catchers". These are Pirton Castle, Panorama Tower, Dunstall Castle and Park Seat. They are set away from the core of the Park and are intended to draw the eye into the wider landscape. The park was Capability Brown's first complete landscape, and was set out from 1751 onwards. Croome and Hagley Hall have more follies and other similar features


title: "Croome Court" content: than any estate in Worcestershire. A lot of the park was designed to be viewed from the Croome Court house. Robert Adam, along with James Wyatt, designed temples and follies for the park. A family trust, Croome Estate Trustees, was set up by the George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, to manage the house and estate. In the mid-1970s the trust transferred ownership of the central core of the park to George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry; in 1981 he sold it to Sun Alliance. The National Trust bought of parkland in 1996, using heritage lottery funding along with


title: "Croome Court" content: a donation from Sun Alliance; the rest of Sun Alliance's property at the estate was sold to the Society of Merchant Venturers. The National Trust owns and has restored the core of the original 18th-century parkland, and it is open to visitors throughout the year. To visit many of the features below, you have to enter the pay-for-entry National Trust parkland. Some areas, however, are accessible via public footpaths. This Grade I listed building was built in 1763 by Capability Brown for the Earl of Coventry. A medieval church nearer the Court was demolished to make way for this church,


title: "Croome Court" content: the interior of which was designed by Robert Adam. The World War II film "Our Father" was partially filmed on location at St Mary Magdalene's Church. Described as a "garden room", the Rotunda was designed by Brown and built between 1754-7. The door and windows are pedimented and inside is a coffered ceiling and stuccowork by Francesco Vassalli in 1761. The joinery was by John Hobcroft. The Portland-stone panels above the windows and door are Robert Adam's design and were carved by Sefferin Alker and added in 1763. It is located in the shrubbery, east of the mansion, and overlooks


title: "Croome Court" content: the parkland, with views to the Park Seat to the south. It is Grade 1 listed. It was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust in 2007, at the same time as the main house, and restoration was under way in 2009, funded by a Natural England grant. Some of the cedar trees that shelter it were planted at the same time it was built. The exterior has been restored in 2010 by the National Trust. The Park Seat, also known as The Owl's Nest, was designed by Robert Adam in 1770 as a viewing station for the park. It was


title: "Croome Court" content: restored by the National Trust using a Natural England grant. London Arch is main entrance to the park. It was designed by Robert Adam in the 1770s. It gained its name from the carriages that used to pass under it from guests travelling from London. It once had railings on either side, which are thought to have been removed during the Second World War. Restoration of it started in 2013, including repairing of water damage to the central masonry, with the restoration due to last 5 years. The ha-ha was restored by the National Trust using a Natural England grant.


title: "Croome Court" content: The Ice House was restored by the National Trust using a Natural England grant. Temple Greenhouse was designed by Robert Adam. it is used as a tea room. This Grade I listed building was completed in 1763. It used to have large sash windows in the front of it, now only the grooves where they used to slide can be seen. It housed the Earl's collection of exotic plants and was heated in the winter by a fire lit in a brick bothy at the back, then the heat was channelled underneath through gaps in the floor. The grotto and


title: "Croome Court" content: various features were designed by Capability Brown. 50,000 cubic metres of silt and vegetation were removed when restoring the lake. Nearby are the Punch Bowl gates designed by Wyatt in 1793 to 1794. On one of the islands in the lake is the temple pavilion (1776–1777). Grade I listed building. Grade I listed building. Worcester Lodge was designed around 1800, probably by James Wyatt. It has been a Grade II listed building since 11 August 1952. It was built in 1801 and subsequently rebuilt in 1879. This sat on the main road to Croome from Worcester. A carriage drive used


title: "Croome Court" content: to run from the lodge directly to the Punch Bowl Gates in the Park itself and onto the Court beyond. The driveway no longer exists and the lodge is now cut off from the rest of the Park by the construction of the M5 motorway. Today, the lodge is a private residence and not part of the National Trust owned Park. Further down the road on the same side of the M5 is the keeper's house of the menagerie. A circular eyecatcher temple, the Panorama Tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1801 using design ideas by Robert Adam. The