title: Absinthe content: impact to the flavour of absinthe, it is generally desired to preserve the original colour, which requires that naturally coloured absinthe be bottled in dark, light resistant bottles. Absinthe intended for decades of storage should be kept in a cool (room temperature), dry place, away from light and heat. Absinthe should not be stored in the refrigerator or freezer, as the anethole may polymerise inside the bottle, creating an irreversible precipitate, and adversely impacting the original flavour. Absinthe has been frequently and improperly described in modern times as being hallucinogenic. No peer-reviewed scientific study has demonstrated absinthe to possess hallucinogenic


title: Absinthe content: properties. The belief that absinthe induces hallucinogenic effects is at least partly rooted in the fact that following some ten years of experiments with wormwood oil in the 19th century, the French psychiatrist Valentin Magnan studied 250 cases of alcoholism, and claimed that those who drank absinthe were worse off than those drinking ordinary alcohol, having experienced rapid-onset hallucinations. Such accounts by opponents of absinthe (like Magnan) were cheerfully embraced by famous absinthe drinkers, many of whom were bohemian artists or writers. Two famous artists who helped popularise the notion that absinthe had powerful psychoactive properties were Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent


title: Absinthe content: van Gogh. In one of the best-known written accounts of absinthe drinking, an inebriated Oscar Wilde described a phantom sensation of having tulips brush against his legs after leaving a bar at closing time. Notions of absinthe's alleged hallucinogenic properties were again fuelled in the 1970s, when a scientific paper suggested that thujone's structural similarity to THC, the active chemical in cannabis, presented the possibility of THC receptor affinity. This theory was conclusively disproven in 1999. The debate over whether absinthe produces effects on the human mind in addition to those of alcohol has not been conclusively resolved. The effects


title: Absinthe content: of absinthe have been described by some as mind opening. The most commonly reported experience is a "clear-headed" feeling of inebriation—a form of "lucid drunkenness". Chemist, historian and absinthe distiller Ted Breaux has claimed that the alleged secondary effects of absinthe may be caused by the fact that some of the herbal compounds in the drink act as stimulants, while others act as sedatives, creating an overall lucid effect of awakening. The long-term effects of moderate absinthe consumption in humans remain unknown, although herbs traditionally used in the production of absinthe are reported to have both painkilling and antiparasitic properties.


title: Absinthe content: Today it is known that absinthe does not cause hallucinations. It is widely accepted that reports of hallucinogenic effects of absinthe were attributable to the poisonous adulterants being added to cheaper versions of the drink in the 19th century, such as oil of wormwood, impure alcohol, and poisonous colouring matter (e.g. copper salts). It was once widely promoted that excessive absinthe drinking caused effects that were discernible from those associated with alcoholism, a belief that led to the coining of the term "absinthism". One of the first vilifications of absinthe followed an 1864 experiment in which Magnan simultaneously exposed one


title: Absinthe content: guinea pig to large doses of pure wormwood vapour, and another to alcohol vapours. The guinea pig exposed to wormwood vapour experienced convulsive seizures, while the animal exposed to alcohol did not. Magnan would later blame the naturally occurring (in wormwood) chemical thujone for these effects. Thujone, once widely believed to be an active chemical in absinthe, is a GABA antagonist, and while it can produce muscle spasms in large doses, there is no direct evidence to suggest it causes hallucinations. Past reports estimated thujone concentrations in absinthe as being up to 260 mg/kg. More recently, published scientific analyses of


title: Absinthe content: samples of various original absinthes have disproved previous estimates, and demonstrated that only a trace of the thujone present in wormwood actually makes it into a properly distilled absinthe when historical methods and materials are employed to create the spirit. As such, most traditionally crafted absinthes, both vintage and modern, fall within the current EU standards. Tests conducted on mice to study toxicity showed an oral of about 45 mg thujone per kg of body weight, which represents far more absinthe than could be realistically consumed. The high percentage of alcohol in absinthe would result in mortality long before thujone


title: Absinthe content: could become a factor. In documented cases of acute thujone poisoning as a result of oral ingestion, the source of thujone was not commercial absinthe, but rather non-absinthe-related sources, such as common essential oils (which may contain as much as 50% thujone). One study published in the "Journal of Studies on Alcohol" concluded that high doses (0.28 mg/kg) of thujone in alcohol had negative effects on attention performance in a clinical setting. It delayed reaction time, and caused subjects to concentrate their attention into the central field of vision. Low doses (0.028 mg/kg) did not produce an effect noticeably different


title: Absinthe content: from the plain alcohol control. While the effects of the high dose samples were statistically significant in a double blind test, the test subjects themselves were unable to reliably identify which samples contained thujone. For the average man, the high dose samples in the study would equate to 18.2 mg of thujone. The EU limit of 35 mg/L of thujone in absinthe means that given the highest permitted thujone content, that individual would need to consume approximately 0.5 litres of high proof (e.g. 50%+ ABV) spirit before the thujone could be metabolized in order to display effects detectable in a


title: Absinthe content: clinical setting, which would result in a potentially lethal BAC of >0.4%. Most countries (except Switzerland) at present do not possess a legal definition of absinthe (unlike Scotch whisky or cognac). Accordingly, producers are free to label a product "absinthe" or "absinth", whether or not it bears any resemblance to the traditional spirit. Absinthe is readily available in many bottle shops. Bitters may contain a maximum 35 mg/kg thujone, while other alcoholic beverages can contain a maximum 10 mg/kg. The domestic production and sale of absinthe is regulated by state licensing laws. Until July 13, 2013, the import and sale


title: Absinthe content: of absinthe technically required a special permit, since "oil of wormwood, being an essential oil obtained from plants of the genus "Artemisia", and preparations containing oil of wormwood" were listed as item 12A, Schedule 8, Regulation 5H of the "Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956" (Cth). These controls have now been repealed, and permission is no longer required. Absinthe was prohibited in Brazil until 1999 and was brought by entrepreneur Lalo Zanini and legalised in the same year. Presently, absinthe sold in Brazil must abide by the national law that restricts all spirits to a maximum of 54.0% ABV. While this


title: Absinthe content: regulation is enforced throughout channels of legal distribution, it may be possible to find absinthe containing alcohol in excess of the legal limit in some restaurants or food fairs. In Canada, liquor laws concerning the production, distribution, and sale of spirits are written and enforced by individual provincial government monopolies. Each product is subject to the approval of a respective individual provincial liquor board before it can be sold in that province. Importation is a federal matter, and is enforced by the Canada Border Services Agency. The importation of a nominal amount of liquor by individuals for personal use is


title: Absinthe content: permitted, provided that conditions for the individual's duration of stay outside the country are satisfied. In 2007, Canada's first genuine absinthe (Taboo Absinthe) was created by Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery in British Columbia. The European Union permits a maximum thujone level of 35 mg/kg in alcoholic beverages where "Artemisia" species is a listed ingredient, and 10 mg/kg in other alcoholic beverages. Member countries regulate absinthe production within this framework. The sale of absinthe is permitted in all EU countries unless they further regulate it. The sale and production of absinthe was prohibited in Finland from 1919 to 1932; no current


title: Absinthe content: prohibitions exist. The government-owned chain of liquor stores (Alko) is the only outlet that may sell alcoholic beverages containing over 5.5% ABV, although national law bans the sale of alcoholic beverages containing over 60% ABV. Despite adopting sweeping EU food and beverage regulations in 1988 that effectively re-legalised absinthe, a decree was passed that same year that preserved the prohibition on products explicitly labelled as "absinthe", while placing strict limits on fenchone (fennel) and pinocamphone (hyssop) in an obvious, but failed, attempt to thwart a possible return of absinthe-like products. French producers circumvented this regulatory obstacle by labelling absinthe as


title: Absinthe content: "spiritueux à base de plantes d'absinthe" ('wormwood-based spirits'), with many either reducing or omitting fennel and hyssop altogether from their products. A legal challenge to the scientific basis of this decree resulted in its repeal (2009), which opened the door for the official French re-legalisation of absinthe for the first time since 1915. The French Senate voted to repeal the prohibition in mid-April 2011. It is legal to produce and sell absinthe in the Republic of Georgia, which has claimed to possess several producers of absinthe. A ban on absinthe was enacted in Germany on 27 March 1923. In addition


title: Absinthe content: to banning the production of and commercial trade in absinthe, the law went so far as to prohibit the distribution of printed matter that provided details of its production. The original ban was lifted in 1981, but the use of "Artemisia absinthium" as a flavouring agent remained prohibited. On 27 September 1991, Germany adopted the European Union's standards of 1988, which effectively re-legalised absinthe. The Fascist regime in 1926 banned the production, import, transport and sale of any liquor named ""Assenzio"". The ban was reinforced in 1931 with harsher penalties for transgressors, and remained in force until 1992 when the


title: Absinthe content: Italian government amended its laws to comply with the EU directive 88/388/EEC. Although absinthe is not prohibited at national level, some local authorities have banned it. The latest is Mataura in Southland. The ban came in August 2008 after several issues of misuse drew public and police attention. One incident resulted in breathing difficulties and hospitalisation of a 17-year-old for alcohol poisoning. The particular brand of absinthe that caused these effects was bottled at an unusually high 89.9% ABV. The sale and production of absinthe has never been prohibited in Sweden or Norway. However, the only outlet that may sell


title: Absinthe content: alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5% ABV in Sweden and 4.75% ABV in Norway, is the government-owned chain of liquor stores known as Systembolaget in Sweden and Vinmonopolet in Norway. Systembolaget and Vinmonopolet did not import or sell absinthe for many years after the ban in France; however, today several absinthes are available for purchase in Systembolaget stores, including Swedish made distilled absinthe. In Norway, on the other hand, one is less likely to find many absinthes since Norwegian alcohol law prohibits the sale and importation of alcoholic beverages above 60% abv, which eliminates most absinthes. In Switzerland, the sale


title: Absinthe content: and production of absinthe was prohibited from 1910 to March 1, 2005. This was based on a vote in 1908. To be legally made or sold in Switzerland, absinthe must be distilled, must not contain certain additives, and must be either naturally coloured or left uncoloured. In 2014, the Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland invalidated a governmental decision of 2010 which allowed only absinthe made in the Val-de-Travers region to be labeled as absinthe in Switzerland. The court found that absinthe was a label for a product and was not tied to a geographic origin. In 2007, the Alcohol and


title: Absinthe content: Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) effectively lifted the long-standing absinthe ban, and it has since approved many brands for sale in the US market. This was made possible partly through the TTB's clarification of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) thujone content regulations, which specify that finished food and beverages that contain "Artemisia" species must be thujone-free. In this context, the TTB considers a product thujone-free if the thujone content is less than 10 ppm (equal to 10 mg/kg). This is verified through the use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The brands Kübler and Lucid and their lawyers did most


title: Absinthe content: of the work to get absinthe legalized in the U.S., over the 2004-2007 time period. In the U.S., March 5 sometimes is referred to as "National Absinthe Day" as it was the day the 95 year ban on absinthe was finally lifted. The import, distribution, and sale of absinthe is permitted subject to the following restrictions: Absinthe imported in violation of these regulations is subject to seizure at the discretion of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Beginning in 2000, a product called Absente was sold legally in the United States under the marketing tagline "Absinthe Refined," but as the product


title: Absinthe content: contained sugar, and was made with "southernwood" ("Artemisia abrotanum") and not grande wormwood ("Artemisia absinthium") (prior to 2009), the TTB classified it as a liqueur. The Absinthe (Prohibition) Act 1915, passed in the New Hebrides, has never been repealed, is included in the 2006 Vanuatu consolidated legislation, and contains the following all-encompassing restriction: "The manufacture, importation, circulation and sale wholesale or by retail of absinthe or similar liquors in Vanuatu shall be prohibited." Numerous artists and writers living in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were noted absinthe drinkers, and featured absinthe in their work. Some of


title: Absinthe content: these included Édouard Manet, Guy de Maupassant, Amedeo Modigliani, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Verlaine, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, and Émile Zola. Many other renowned artists and writers similarly drew from this cultural well, including Aleister Crowley, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and August Strindberg. The aura of illicitness and mystery surrounding absinthe has played into literature, movies, music, and television, where it is often portrayed as a mysterious, addictive, and mind-altering drink. Absinthe has served as the subject of numerous works of fine art, films, video, music, and literature since the mid-19th-century. Some of the earliest film references


title: Absinthe content: include "The Hasher's Delirium" (1910) by Émile Cohl, an early pioneer in the art of animation, as well as two different silent films, each entitled "Absinthe", from 1913 and 1914 respectively. On November 9, 2018, the alternative rock band I Don't Know How But They Found Me released a song titled "Absinthe" as part of their 1981 Extended Play. Absinthe Absinthe (; ) is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic beverage (45–74% ABV / 90–148 U.S. proof). It is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from botanicals, including the flowers and leaves of "Artemisia absinthium" ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise,


title: "Becherbach bei Kirn" content: and each denomination had its own schoolteacher. As at 31 July 2013, there are 388 full-time residents in Becherbach bei Kirn, and of those, 290 are Evangelical (74.742%), 51 are Catholic (13.144%), one is Lutheran (0.258%), 2 (0.515%) belong to other religious groups and 44 (11.34%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation. The Jewish families in Becherbach bei Kirn established not so much a synagogue as a "Betstube" (“praying parlour”). In a great fire that struck the village on 9 September 1854, leaving 29 of the village’s families homeless, the “praying parlour” – it was


title: Hergenfeld content: is now to be found at the Diocesan Museum in Trier. It is a painted tablet with portraits of Christ and the Twelve Apostles from about 1500, a Middle Rhine work akin to the 1506 altar at the "Liebfrauenkirche" (Church of Our Lady) at Oberwesel. The organ at the church was built by the first organ builder of a family of organ builders, Stumm. Hergenfeld’s population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data: As at 30 September 2013, there are 502 full-time residents


title: Partenheim content: all at the fess point an inescutcheon of the second charged with two axes in saltire of the third, the one bendwise sinister surmounting the other. The charges on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side represent the two noble families who held the village jointly in the Middle Ages, while on the sinister (armsbearer’s left, viewer’s right) side are three lozenges representing the old overlordship held by the Church at Trier. They are said to be an attribute of Saint Matthew, who is furthermore said to be buried at Trier. Then there is the inescutcheon, which shows two crossed


title: Neuleiningen content: in the "Verbandsgemeinde". The hamlet of Neuleiningen-Tal ("Tal" means “dale” or “valley” in German), administratively part of Neuleiningen and consisting of only a few houses, lies south of the main centre at an elevation of 183 m, making it quite a bit lower than the main centre. Neuleiningen-Tal lies on the Eckbach. Downstream the valley opens onto a hilly landscape planted with vineyards on the western edge of the Upper Rhine Plain. It abuts the neighbouring municipality of Kleinkarlbach just to the east. Neuleiningen – as with neighbouring Altleiningen a few kilometres away – draws its name from the noble


title: Pfaffen-Schwabenheim content: then given over to vineyards was slightly less at 141 ha. Among Pfaffen-Schwabenheim's other "Weingüter" (wineries) are these: Pfaffen-Schwabenheim lies at the junction of "Landesstraße" 413 and "Kreisstraße" 91 (which becomes "Kreisstraße" 3 just southeast of the village at the boundary with the Mainz-Bingen district). Less than 2 km along "Landesstraße" 413 northeast of the village are interchanges with both "Bundesstraße" 50 and the Autobahn A 61 (Koblenz–Ludwigshafen). Serving neighbouring Sprendlingen is a railway station on the "Rheinhessenbahn". Another serves neighbouring Bad Kreuznach with a variety of rail services. The "Kreuznacher Straßen- und Vorortbahnen" ("Kreuznach Tramways and Suburban Railways") ran


title: "Australian rules football in Europe" content: August 2012, permanent goal posts were erected, believed to be only the second permanent set of goal posts in Europe. Since 2014 the Amsterdam Devils train and play their home matches at Sportpark de Eendracht in Amsterdam West, which is also the home of the Dutch National Rugby team. The Netherlands National Australian Football Team, The Flying Dutchmen, compete regularly in international friendlies, and participate in the annual Eurocup tournament. In 2013 and 2014 they also competed in the Algarve Cup in Portugal, winning the tournament in 2013. EuroCup Results: 2005, London, England: Third place 2006: No competition held. 2007,


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: Carya tomentosa Carya tomentosa, (mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut) is a tree in the Juglandaceae or walnut family. The most abundant of the hickories, common in the eastern half of the US, it is long lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight-growing hickory, a high percentage of its wood is used for products where strength, hardness, and flexibility are needed. The wood makes an excellent fuelwood, as well. The species' name comes from the Latin word "tomentum", meaning "covered with dense short hairs," referring to the underside of the leaves which help identify


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: the species. Also called the white hickory due to the light color of the wood, the common name mockernut comes from the large, thick-shelled fruit with very small kernels of meat inside. Mockernut hickory, a true hickory, grows from Massachusetts and New York west to southern Ontario, southern Michigan, and northern Illinois; then to southeastern Iowa, Missouri, and eastern Kansas, south to eastern Texas and east to northern Florida. This species is not present in New Hampshire and Vermont as previously mapped by Little. Mockernut hickory is most abundant southward through Virginia, North Carolina and Florida where it is the


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: most common of the hickories. It is also abundant in the lower Mississippi Valley and grows largest in the lower Ohio River Basin and in Missouri and Arkansas. The climate where mockernut hickory grows is usually humid. Within its range the mean annual precipitation measures from in the north to in the south. During the growing season (April through September), annual precipitation varies from . About of annual snowfall is common in the northern part of the range, but it seldom snows in the southern portion. Annual temperatures range from 10° to 21 °C (50° to 70 °F). Monthly average


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: temperatures range from 21° to 27° C (70° to 80 °F) in July and from -7° to 16 °C (20° to 60 °F) in January. Temperature extremes are well above and below . The growing season is approximately 160 days in the northern part of the range and up to 320 days in the southern part of the range. In the north, mockernut hickory is found on drier soils of ridges and hillsides and less frequently on moist woodlands and alluvial bottoms. The species grows and develops best on deep, fertile soils. In the Cumberland Mountains and hills of southern


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: Indiana, it grows on dry sites such as south and west slopes or dry ridges mockernut grows in Alabama and Mississippi on sandy soils with shortleaf pine ("Pinus echinata") and loblolly pine ("P taeda"). However, most of the merchantable mockernut grows on moderately fertile upland soils. Mockernut hickory grows primarily on Ultisols occurring on an estimated 65 percent of its range, including much of the southern to northeastern United States. These soils are low in nutrients and usually moist, but during the warm season, they are dry part of the time. Along the mid-Atlantic and in the southern and western


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: range, mockernut hickory grows on a variety of soils on slopes of 25 percent or less, including combinations of fine to coarse loams, clays, and well-drained quartz sands. On slopes steeper than 25 percent, mockernut often grows on coarse loams. Mockernut grows on Inceptisols in an estimated 15 percent of its range. These clayey soils are moderate to high in nutrients and are primarily in the Appalachians on gentle to moderate slopes where water is available to plants during the growing season. In the northern Appalachians on slopes of 25 percent or less, mockernut hickory grows on poorly drained loams


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: with a fragipan. In the central and southern Appalachians on slopes 25 percent or less, mockernut hickory grows on fine loams. On steeper slopes it grows on coarse loams. In the northwestern part of the range, mockernut grows on mollisols. These soils have a deep, fertile surface horizon greater than thick. Mollisols characteristically form under grass in climates with moderate to high seasonal precipitation. Mockernut grows on a variety of soils including wet, fine loams, sandy textured soils that often have been burned, plowed, and pastured. Alfisols are also present in these areas and contain a medium to high supply


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: of nutrients. Water is available to plants more than half the year or more than 3 consecutive months during the growing season. On slopes 25 percent or less, mockernut grows on wet to moist, fine loam soils with a high carbonate content. Mockernut hickory is associated with the eastern Oak-hickory forest and the beech-maple forest. The species does not exist in sufficient amounts to be included as a title species in the Society of American Foresters forest cover types. Nevertheless, it is identified as an associated species in eight cover types. Three of the upland oak types and the bottom


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: land type are subclimax to climax. The types are: Central Forest Region (upland oaks)-Post Oak-Blackjack Oak (Type 40), White Oak-Black Oak-Northern Red Oak (Type 52), White Oak (Type 53), Black Oak (Type 110). Southern Forest Region (southern yellow pines) Shortleaf Pine (Type 75), Loblolly Pine-Shortleaf Pine (Type 80); (oak-pine type) Loblolly Pine-Hardwood (Type 82); (bottom-land type) Swamp Chestnut Oak-Cherrybark Oak (Type 91). Mockernut hickory is monoecious - male and female flowers are produced on the same tree. Mockernut male flowers are catkins about long and may be produced on branches from axils of leaves of the previous season or from


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: the inner scales of the terminal buds at the base of the current growth. The female flowers appear in short spikes on peduncles terminating in shoots of the current year. Flowers bloom in the spring from April to May, depending on latitude and weather. Usually the male flowers emerge before the female flowers. Hickories produce very large amounts of pollen that is dispersed by the wind. Fruits are solitary or paired and globose, ripening in September and October, and are about long with a short necklike base. The fruit has a thick, four-ribbed husk thick that usually splits from the


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: middle to the base. The nut is distinctly four-angled with a reddish-brown, very hard shell thick containing a small edible kernel. The seed is dispersed from September through December. Mockernut hickory requires a minimum of 25 years to reach commercial seed-bearing age. Optimum seed production occurs from 40 to 125 years, and the maximum age listed for commercial seed production is 200 years. Good seed crops occur every 2 to 3 years with light seed crops in intervening years. Approximately 50 to 75 percent of fresh seed will germinate. Fourteen mockernut hickory trees in southeastern Ohio produced an average annual


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: crop of 6,285 nuts for 6 years; about 39 percent were sound, 48 percent aborted, and 13 percent had insect damage. Hickory shuckworm ("Laspeyresia caryana") is probably a major factor in reducing germination. Mockernut hickory produces one of the heaviest seeds of the hickory species; cleaned seeds range from 70 to 250 seeds/kg (32 to 113/lb). Seed is disseminated mainly by gravity and wildlife, particularly squirrels. Birds also help disperse seed. Wildlife such as squirrels and chipmunks often bury the seed at some distance from the seed-bearing tree. Hickory seeds show embryo dormancy that can be overcome by stratification in


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: a moist medium at 1° to 4 °C (33° to 40 °F) for 30 to 150 days. When stored for a year or more, seed may require stratification for only 30 to 60 days. Hickory nuts seldom remain viable in the ground for more than I year. Hickory species normally require a moderately moist seedbed for satisfactory seed germination, and mockernut hickory seems to reproduce best in moist duff. Germination is hypogeal. Mockernut seedlings are not fast-growing. The height growth of mockernut seedlings observed in the Ohio Valley in the open or under light shade on red clay soil was


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: as follows: True hickories sprout prolifically from stumps after cutting and fire. As the stumps increase in size, the number of stumps that produce sprouts decreases; age is probably directly correlated to stump size and sprouting. Coppice management is a possibility with true hickories. True hickories are difficult to reproduce from cuttings. Madden discussed the techniques for selecting, packing, and storing hickory propagation wood. Reed indicated that the most tested hickory species for root stock for pecan hickory grafts were mockernut and water hickory ("Carya aquatica"). However, mockernut root stock grew slowly and reduced the growth of pecan tops. Also,


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: this graft seldom produced a tree that bore well or yielded large nuts. Mockernut hickory is a large, true hickory with a dense crown. This species occasionally grows to about tall and in d.b.h., but heights and diameters usually range from about , respectively. The relation of height to age is as follows: The current annual growth of mockernut hickory on dry sites is estimated at about 1.0 m³/ha (15 ft³/acre). In fully stocked stands on moderately fertile soil2.1 m³ /ha (30 ft³ /acre) is estimated, though annual growth rates of 3.1 m³/ha (44 ft³/acre) were reported in Ohio (26).


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: Greenwood and bark weights for commercial-size mockernut trees from mixed hardwoods in Georgia are available for total tree and saw-log stems to a 4-inch top for trees 5 to 22 inches d.b.h.. Available growth data and other research information is summarized for hickory species, not for individual species. Trimble compared growth rates of various Appalachian hardwoods including a hickory species category Dominant-codominant hickory trees in d.b.h. on good oak sites grew slowly compared to northern red oak, yellow-poplar, black cherry ("Prunus serotina"), and sugar maple ("Acer saccharum"). Hickories were in the white oak, sweet birch ("Betula lenta"), and American beech


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: ("Fagus grandifolia") growth-rate category. Dominant-codominant hickory trees grew about d.b.h. per year compared to for the moderate-growth species (black cherry) and for the faster-growing species (yellow-poplar and red oak). Equations are available for predicting merchantable gross volumes from hickory stump diameters in Ohio. Also, procedures are described for predicting diameters and heights and for developing volume tables to any merchantable top diameter for hickory species in southern Illinois and West Virginia. Generally, epicormic branching is not a problem with hickory species, but a few branches do occur. True hickories such as mockernut develop a long taproot with few laterals. The


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: species is windfirm. Early root growth is primarily into the taproot, which typically reaches a depth of during the first year. Small laterals originate along the taproot, but many die back during the fall. During the second year, the taproot may reach a depth of , and the laterals grow rapidly. After 5 years, the root system attains its maximum depth, and the horizontal spread of the roots is about double that of the crown. By age 10, the height is 4 times the depth of the taproot. At certain times during its life, mockernut hickory may be variously classified


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: as tolerant to intolerant. Overall it is classified as intolerant of shade. It recovers rapidly from suppression and is probably a climax species on moist sites. Silvicultural practices for managing the oak-hickory type have been summarized. Establishing the seedling origin of hickory trees is difficult because of seed predators. Although infrequent bumper seed crops usually provide some seedlings, seedling survival is poor under a dense canopy. Because of prolific sprouting ability, hickory reproduction can survive browsing, breakage, drought, and fire. Top dieback and resprouting may occur several times, each successive shoot reaching a larger size and developing a stronger root


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: system than its predecessors. By this process, hickory reproduction gradually accumulates and grows under moderately dense canopies, especially on sites dry enough to restrict reproduction of more tolerant but more fire or drought-sensitive species. Wherever adequate hickory advance reproduction occurs, clearcutting results in new sapling stands containing some hickories. It is difficult to attain reproduction if advance hickory regeneration is inadequate, however; then clearcutting will eliminate hickories except for stump sprouts. In theory, light thinnings or shelterwood cuts can be used to create advance hickory regeneration, but this has not been demonstrated. Mockernut hickory is extremely sensitive to fire because


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: of the low insulating capacity of the hard, flinty bark. Mockernut is not subject to severe loss from disease. The main fungus of hickory is "Poria spiculosa", a trunk rot. This fungus kills the bark, which produces a canker, causes heart rot and decay, and can seriously degrade the tree. Mineral streaks and sapsucker-induced streaks also degrade the lumber. In general, the hard, strong, and durable wood of hickories makes them relatively resistant to decay fungi. Most fungi cause little, if any, decay in small, young trees. Common foliage diseases include leaf mildew and witches' broom ("Microstroma juglandis"), leaf blotch


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: ("Mycosphaerella dendroides"), and pecan scab ("Cladosporium effusum"). Mockernut hickory is host to anthracnose ("Gnomonia caryae"). Nuts of all hickory species are susceptible to attack by the hickory nut weevil ("Curculio caryae"). Another weevil ("Conotrachelus aratus") attacks young shoots and leaf petioles. The "Curculio" species are the most damaging and can destroy 65 percent of the hickory nut crop. Hickory shuckworms also damage nuts. The bark beetle ("Scolytus quadrispinosus") attacks mockernut hickory, especially in drought years and where hickory species are growing rapidly. The hickory spiral borer ("Argilus arcuatus torquatus") and the pecan carpenterworm ("Cossula magnifica") are also serious insect enemies


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: of mockernut. The hickory bark beetle probably destroys more sawtimber-size mockernut trees than any other insect. The hickory spiral borer kills many seedlings and young trees, and the pecan carpenterworm degrades both trees and logs. The twig girdler ("Oncideres cingulata") attacks both small and large trees; it seriously deforms trees by sawing branches. Sometimes these girdlers cut hickory seedlings near ground level. Two casebearers ("Acrobasis caryivorella" and "A. juglandis") feed on buds and leaves; later they bore into succulent hickory shoots. Larvae of "A. caryivorella" may destroy entire nut sets. The living-hickory borer ("Goes pulcher") feeds on hickory boles and


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: branches throughout the East. Borers commonly found on dying or dead hickory trees or cut logs include: Severe damage to hickory lumber and manufactured hickory products is caused by powderpost beetles ("Lyctus" spp. and "Polycanon stoutii"). Gall insects ("Caryomyia" spp.) commonly infest leaves. The fruit-tree leafroller ("Archips argyrospila") and the hickory leafroller ("Argyrotaenia juglandana") are the most common leaf feeders. The giant bark aphid ("Longistigma caryae") is common on hickory bark. This aphid usually feeds on twigs and can cause branch mortality. The European fruit lecanium ("Parthnolecanium corni") is common on hickories. Mockernut is not easily injured by ice glaze


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: or snow, but young seedlings are very susceptible to frost damage. Many birds and animals feed on the nuts of mockernut hickory. This feeding combined with insect and disease problems eliminates the annual nut production, except during bumper seed crop years. Mockernuts are preferred mast for wildlife, particularly squirrels, which eat green nuts. Black bears, foxes, rabbits, beavers, and white-footed mice feed on the nuts, and sometimes the bark. The white-tailed deer browse on foliage and twigs and also feed on nuts. Hickory nuts are a minor source of food for ducks, quail, and turkey. Mockernut hickory nuts are consumed


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: by many species of birds and other animals, including wood duck, red-bellied woodpecker, red fox, squirrels, beaver, eastern cottontail, eastern chipmunk, turkey, white-tailed deer, white-footed mice, and others. Many insect pests eat hickory leaves and bark. Mockernut hickories also provide cavities for animals to live in, such as woodpeckers, black rat snakes, raccoons, Carolina chickadees, and more. They are also good nesting trees, providing cover for birds with their thick foliage. Animals help disperse seeds so that new hickories can grow elsewhere. Chipmunks, squirrels, and birds do this best. Some fungi grow on mockernut hickory roots, sharing nutrients from the


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: soil. True hickories provide a very large portion of the high-grade hickory used by industry. Mockernut is used for lumber, pulpwood, charcoal, and other fuelwood products. Hickory species are preferred species for fuelwood consumption. Mockernut has the second highest heating value among the species of hickories. It can be used for veneer, but the low supply of logs of veneer quality is a limiting factor. Mockernut hickory is used for tool handles requiring high shock resistance. It is used for ladder rungs, athletic goods, agricultural implements, dowels, gymnasium apparatus, poles, shafts, well pumps, and furniture. Lower grade lumber is used


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: for pallets, blocking, and so on. Hickory sawdust, chips, and some solid wood are often used by packing companies to smoke meats, and mockernut is the preferred wood for smoking hams. Though mockernut kernels are edible, because of their size they are rarely eaten by humans. Mockernut hickory is used for smoking meats such as ham. Mockernut is a 64 chromosome species and therefore rarely crosses with 32 chromosome species such as pecan or shellbark hickory. There is no published information concerning population or other genetic studies of this species. Efforts are currently underway to map the genome of pecan


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: in a collaborative effort. The genome map at some point may expand to cover other hickory species. Hickories are noted for their variability with many natural hybrids known among North American Carya species. Hickories usually can be crossed successfully within the genus. Geneticists recognize that mockernut hickory hybridizes naturally with: C. illinoensis ("Carya" x "schneckii" Sarg.) and C. ovata ("Carya" x "collina" Laughlin). Mockernut readily hybridizes with tetraploid C. texana. Hybrids generally are shy nut producers or produce nuts that are not filled with a kernel. There are numerous exceptions to this rule. ("Silvics of North America; volume 2: Hardwoods",


title: "Carya tomentosa" content: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Agriculture Handbook 654, 1990). Carya tomentosa Carya tomentosa, (mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut) is a tree in the Juglandaceae or walnut family. The most abundant of the hickories, common in the eastern half of the US, it is long lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight-growing hickory, a high percentage of its wood is used for products where strength, hardness, and flexibility are needed. The wood makes an excellent fuelwood, as well. The species' name comes from the Latin word "tomentum", meaning "covered with dense short


title: "Petia (singer)" content: Bulgaria for 2007 and her album "Runaway" was nominated for Album of the Year by MM TV. In December 2007 Petia was nominated for a Woman of the Year Award by Grazia Magazine. In 2013 Petia confirmed in various media interviews that she is working on her fourth studio album. Petia began to take professional acting, singing and dancing lessons at very young age and during her school years was part of various acting and singing troupes in her country. Later, while living in London, she continued her acting activities. As an actress Petia appears with Sacha Baron Cohen in


title: "The Pirate Loop" content: are promptly resurrected and the Doctor convinces the captain, Georgina Wet-Eleven, to let them pass. Observing the pirate vessel on the wall screens, the Doctor realises that it has been frozen in time by the starship's drive, preventing the other pirate capsules from reaching them. The three badgers then invade the bridge and attack the crew, with everyone other than the Doctor and Martha being killed. The Doctor alters the electrical barrier so that it separates the resurrected crew and badgers. He lets the badgers out after they promise to behave, but the crew initially refuse to co-operate. Archibald offers


title: "2009 UEFA Champions League Final" content: match off, but Manchester United showed their intent from the outset, forcing goalkeeper Víctor Valdés to concede a throw-in after just 10 seconds. Further pressure on the attack resulted in Yaya Touré fouling Anderson within Cristiano Ronaldo's shooting range. Ronaldo fired the free kick directly at Valdés, but the Spanish goalkeeper could only parry the ball and Gerard Piqué did well to divert Park Ji-sung's follow-up effort over the bar. The resulting corner was cleared, but only as far as Wayne Rooney, whose snap-shot was wayward and went out for a goal kick. Both teams struggled to put a flowing


title: "Geranium molle" content: Geranium molle Geranium molle, the Dove's-foot Crane's-bill or Dovesfoot Geranium, is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Geraniaceae family. "Geranium molle" is a small plant reaching on average in height. It is a very branched plant, quite hairy, with several ascending stems. The leaves are palmate, cut 5 to 9 times. The basal leaves are arranged in a rosette, the upper ones are sessile, rounded and hairy, with a long petiole of about . The flowers are pinkish-purple, 8–12 mm in diameter, with very jagged petals. It blooms from April to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite and mainly pollinated


title: "Geranium molle" content: by Hymenoptera. Fruits are glabrous, usually with 6-9 transverse ridges. It is native to the Mediterranean and sub-Mediterranean areas, but has naturalized in other parts of Europe, in southwestern and central Asia and in North Africa, though it may have already been in those parts areas, just not properly identified. It is considered an introduced species in North America, where it is known as Dovefoot Geranium or Awnless Geranium. Although non-native in parts of its range, this species poses little threat to native ecosystems. It is found in dry meadows, hedges, banks and forest edges. It prefers sunny places on


title: "Geranium molle" content: sandy and relatively dry soils, at an altitude of above sea level. Nicholas Culpeper in his herbal of 1652 suggested a variety of uses for "G. molle", including the treatment of internal and external injuries. A note was made that the bruised leaf healed external injuries faster. A decoction in wine was said to relieve gout and other joint pains. Geranium molle Geranium molle, the Dove's-foot Crane's-bill or Dovesfoot Geranium, is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Geraniaceae family. "Geranium molle" is a small plant reaching on average in height. It is a very branched plant, quite hairy, with


title: "Cardamine impatiens" content: Cardamine impatiens Cardamine impatiens, the narrowleaf bittercress or narrow-leaved bitter-cress, is a plant species of the genus "Cardamine" belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It is a slender, biennial herb, that produces sterile leaves in the first year, one to several flowering stems during the next. Its leaves are pinnate with several pairs of lanceolate, dentate leaflets and a terminal, slightly longer leaflet. The short petals surpass the calyx by half of its length. The seeds are arranged in one row on each side of the central membrane of the narrow pod and are ejected out in a shower due to


title: "Cardamine impatiens" content: the tension formed as the seed pod (silique) dries. It grows on walls, open ground in shady places in forests usually disturbed by man. Cardamine impatiens Cardamine impatiens, the narrowleaf bittercress or narrow-leaved bitter-cress, is a plant species of the genus "Cardamine" belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It is a slender, biennial herb, that produces sterile leaves in the first year, one to several flowering stems during the next. Its leaves are pinnate with several pairs of lanceolate, dentate leaflets and a terminal, slightly longer leaflet. The short petals surpass the calyx by half of its length. The seeds are


title: "Spergularia rubra" content: Spergularia rubra Spergularia rubra, the red sandspurry or red sand-spurrey, is a plant species in the pink family. It is native to Europe and Asia, and it is present on other continents, including North and South America and Australia, as an introduced species and in many areas a common weed. It grows in a wide variety of habitat types. It is an annual or perennial herb producing a slender, glandular stem up to about 25 centimeters long. It is lined with slightly fleshy linear or threadlike leaves each under 2 centimeters long. The leaves may be tipped with hard points


title: "Spergularia rubra" content: or spines, and they are accompanied by shiny white lance-shaped stipules. Flowers occur in the leaf axils and at the tips of the stems. They have hairy, glandular sepals and five round-oval pink petals. Spergularia rubra Spergularia rubra, the red sandspurry or red sand-spurrey, is a plant species in the pink family. It is native to Europe and Asia, and it is present on other continents, including North and South America and Australia, as an introduced species and in many areas a common weed. It grows in a wide variety of habitat types. It is an annual or perennial herb


title: "Urtica urens" content: Urtica urens Urtica urens, commonly known as annual nettle, dwarf nettle, small nettle, dog nettle or burning nettle, is a herbaceous annual flowering plant species in the nettle family Urticaceae. It is native to Eurasia and it can be found in North America and New Zealand as an introduced species. It is reputed to sting more strongly than the Common Nettle/Stinging Nettle. In Europe, "Urtica urens" is one of the food plants of the small tortoiseshell butterfly ("Aglais urticae"). In New Zealand it is also a food plant for the New Zealand red admiral butterfly ("Bassaris gonerilla", syn. "Vanessa gonerilla",


title: "Urtica urens" content: syn. "Papilio gonerilla"), and the Australian/New Zealand yellow admiral butterfly ("Vanessa itea"). Urtica urens Urtica urens, commonly known as annual nettle, dwarf nettle, small nettle, dog nettle or burning nettle, is a herbaceous annual flowering plant species in the nettle family Urticaceae. It is native to Eurasia and it can be found in North America and New Zealand as an introduced species. It is reputed to sting more strongly than the Common Nettle/Stinging Nettle. In Europe, "Urtica urens" is one of the food plants of the small tortoiseshell butterfly ("Aglais urticae"). In New Zealand it is also a food plant


title: "Jordan EJ13" content: under extraordinary circumstances in the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix which took place in torrential weather conditions. Following a massive accident on the start / finish straight, the race was red flagged and stopped. After some initial confusion, Giancarlo Fisichella was initially ruled to have finished a still remarkable second behind Kimi Räikkönen who took the top step on the podium. However, an FIA inquiry several days later led to Fisichella being officially declared the winner of his first F1 race. Fisichella was, therefore, unable to celebrate his first career victory on the top step of the podium, although he and


title: "HMS L5" content: at Falmouth, Cornwall in 1918. "L5" was assigned to the 4th Submarine Flotilla and HMS Titania in 1919 and sailed to Hong Kong, arriving on 14 April 1920. She served on the China Station with other vessels of this class in the 1920s. On 20 October 1927 off Hong Kong, L5 and rescued the crew of the merchant ship SS "Irene" from a pirate attack after firing her deck gun. HMS "L5" was sold in 1931 and broken up in Charlestown, Fife. HMS L5 HMS "L5" was a L-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War I. The


title: "History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom" content: given in unmodified form, that is, without muscle relaxants, and the seizure resulted in a full-scale convulsion. An anaesthetic was used by a few psychiatrists but most considered it unnecessary as the electric shock produced instant unconsciousness. ECT was even occasionally used to anaesthetise patients for psychosurgical operations. A rare but serious complication of unmodified ECT was fracture or dislocation of the long bones, caused by the violence of the muscular contractions during the convulsion. In the 1940s psychiatrists began to experiment with curare, the muscle-paralysing South American poison, in order to modify the convulsions. The introduction in 1951 of


title: "Halbert L. Dunn" content: coding system for deriving medical statistics. He was Chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics from 1935 through 1960, first as part of the Bureau of the Census and later under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where it eventually became the National Center for Health Statistics in 1960. In his final year with the U.S. Public Health Service he was Assistant Surgeon General for aging. He was one of the founders of the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and of the Inter-American Statistics Institute (IASI). He was Secretary General of the IASI


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: Manila Metropolitan Theater The Manila Metropolitan Theater (, or MET) is a Philippine Art Deco building found near the Mehan Garden located on Padre Burgos Avenue corner Arroceros Street, near the Manila Central Post Office. It was designed by architect Juan M. Arellano and inaugurated on December 10, 1931. In 1862, the Teatro del Príncipe Alfonso XII was built within Plaza Arroceros, near the present-day Metropolitan Theater. This theater stood until 1876, when the old theater was burnt down. It was in 1924, during the American Colonial period that the idea of constructing a theater in Manila came about. The


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: Philippine Legislature then approved Senator Alegre’s proposal to build a theater within the Mehan Garden (now Sining Kayumanggi). The construction began in 1930 under the supervision of the engineering firm Pedro Siochi and Company in a 8,239.58 square meter area of the park. It was inaugurated on December 10, 1931. This new theater housed different performances from zarzuelas, dramas to translations of foreign classics. Juan Arellano, one of the first pensionados in architecture, also known for his other major projects such as the Legislative Building and Manila Central Post Office Building, designed the Manila Metropolitan Theater in January 1930. He


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: was sent to the United States to be guided by one of the experts in designing theaters, Thomas W. Lamb of Shreve and Lamb. The theater’s roof and walls were partially destroyed during World War II. During the post-war period, it was misused as a boxing arena, low-quality motel, gay bar, basketball court and as a home for squatters. In 1978, a restoration of the theater was initiated by the then Governor of Metro Manila Imelda Marcos which was headed by Otilio, the nephew of Juan Arellano. Its prestige as a cultural center was redeemed but proved to be short-lived.


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: It closed down its doors again in 1996 because of conflicts of ownership between the Manila City Administration and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS). In 2010, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Manila mayor Alfredo Lim tried to revive the theater but to no avail. The theater was used again once for a Wolfgang concert in 2011. But since 2012, the theater was closed again due to decays inside the building. The structure continued to deteriorate and vandalism, political advertisements, promotional materials and trash now degrade the heritage theater. The theater has been protected using pieces of wood, scrap electrical wires


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: and rundown plywood. Alleged paranormal activities in the theater was also reported. Help continued to pour in at that time but lacked any concrete direction. In May 2015, the Department of Budget and Management released Php 270 Million from the National Endowment Fund for Culture and the Arts for the sale of the theater from its owner, the GSIS. In June 2015, the GSIS transferred the right of ownership of the theater to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts to start the rehabilitation process of the Met. Clean-up drives were started in December 2015, paving the way for


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: the eventual restoration of the building by 2016. It is currently undergoing renovations with Consulting Architect Gerard Lico spearheading the project. The concept of the theater was explained by Juan Arellano during one of his interviews in January 1930. "“The Philippines needed a modern cultural center for operas, concerts, and plays, and he planned to achieve a monumental one through its dimensions, elevations, and splendid decorations, and through its harmonious liens it would symbolize an organ or a cathedral.”" Arellano was influenced by early Filipino art which uses local motifs and diverse imagery of Philippine flora. Aside from his knowledge


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: on Filipino art was the factor of economy which both helped the architect in having a modern design approach to the theater. Meanwhile, the phrase “on wings of song” gave the structural configuration, a box-shaped auditorium flanked by pavilions on both sides. The mix of modernization and romanticization resulted in A. V. H. Hartendrop labeling it as modern expressionism. The Metropolitan Theater façade resembles a stage being framed by a proscenium-like central window of stained glass which carries the name “Metropolitan” with flora and fauna motif surrounding the label. This helps bring in light to the lobby. It was highlighted


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: on both ends by the curving walls with colorful decorated tiles in resemblance with the batik patterns from Southeast Asia. There are also moldings of zigzag and wavy lines that go with the sponged and painted multi-colored massive walls. The wall that framed the stained glass is a segmented arch with rows of small finials on the upper edge of the wall. Angkor Wat-inspired minarets crown the top of the concave roof which suggested its status as a theater back in its prime days. Located in the entrance are elaborate wrought iron gates which are patterned into leaf designs and


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: various lines. Accenting the ground level are Capiz lamps and banana-leaf formed pillars which go alternately with the theater’s entrances. Standing at the back is a huge vertical box decorated on the sides by geometric motifs. The ceiling profile of the auditorium was reflected in the exterior through stepped vaults. There were different artists who collaborated in this project especially inside the theater. Located at the main lobby were sculptures of Adam and Eve done by Francesco Riccardo Monti,who resided in Manila from 1930 up to his death in 1958. Isabelo Tampingco, a Filipino artist designed the Philippine plant-themed carvings


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: in the interior spaces including the lobby while National Artist Fernando Amorsolo painted the murals The Dance and The History of Music located at the ends of the balcony. The grillwork on small balconies looking out into the foyer was exceptionally elegant transitions from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, expressed by Lourdes Montinola in her book. The two black posts at the bottom of the staircases were decorated with glass mosaic tiles. The main auditorium projects a different character as compared to the building envelope’s ornamentality. A sequence of gradually lowered arches made of local wood, enhanced by panels with


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: colorful motifs. These motifs were a combination of mangoes, bananas, and foliage painted by the brother of Juan Arellano, Arcadio. On top of the proscenium are figures symbolic of Music, Tragedy, Poetry and Comedy. Resembling bamboo stalks are the tapering lamps of translucent glass which surround the theater space. The focal point is the rectangular stage adorned with mango fruits and leaves motif. The crystal lamps made from bamboo stalks which vertically light up the hall are the first in the country in terms of indirect lighting. It is also a new character of Art Deco during that period. The


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: theater, according to some people has good acoustics and lighting and a large seating capacity of 1,670 (846 orchestra, 116 in loge, and 708 in balcony) which housed performances, operas, concerts, and plays for more than a decade. It also continued up to the Japanese occupation where Zarzuelas, Filipino operas, films and stage were shown. The Manila Metropolitan Theaters housed performances by international artists like Ted Shawn, Jascha Heifetz, Amelita Galli-Curci and Fritz Kreisler and local shows such as the “Smiles of 1936,” “Querer Ranchero” and “Luisa Fernando” were all part of the decade that followed its inauguration. The first


title: "Manila Metropolitan Theater" content: cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse in the Philippines was screened in the theater and the first film of LVN Pictures, "Giliw Ko" premiered in the theater on July 29, 1939, a screening attended by then-President Manuel Quezon. It was still active during the Japanese occupation showing support even for the guerrilla underground. The concert of the Manila Symphony Orchestra was cancelled because the performers ran away from the Japanese. The Metropolitan Theater has not been used for a long time. Other shows that took place in the theater were: Manila Metropolitan Theater The Manila Metropolitan Theater (, or MET) is a


title: "Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova" content: seven quarterfinal showings. Nevertheless, she maintained her year-end ranking from the previous year, world No. 28. Pavlyuchenkova opened her 2017 season at the ASB Classic. Seeded 6th, she was defeated in the opening round by Julia Görges. She then made the quarterfinals in Sydney the following week by claiming excellent victories over Samantha Stosur and defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova before falling to Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets. Seeded 24th at the Australian Open, Pavlyuchenkova defeated a pair of Russians in Evgeniya Rodina and Natalia Vikhlyantseva to reach the third round where she saw off 11th seed Elina Svitolina in three


title: "Auxiliary function" content: Auxiliary function In mathematics, auxiliary functions are an important construction in transcendental number theory. They are functions that appear in most proofs in this area of mathematics and that have specific, desirable properties, such as taking the value zero for many arguments, or having a zero of high order at some point. Auxiliary functions are not a rigorously defined kind of function, rather they are functions which are either explicitly constructed or at least shown to exist and which provide a contradiction to some assumed hypothesis, or otherwise prove the result in question. Creating a function during the course of


title: "Philippe Apeloig" content: Livre d’Aix-en-Provence since 1997, and he has designed many other posters, among them one for the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Petit Palais in Paris in 2010. He has designed posters for numerous exhibitions, including "Bateaux sur l’eau rivières et canaux" for the Voies navigables de France, in Rouen; "Wim Crouwel, A Graphic Odyssey" dedicated to the work of the Dutch designer at the Design Museum of London; and "Bewegte Schrift", an exhibition on animated typography presented at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich. In 2013, he designed the visual identity for the Saut Hermès at the Grand Palais


title: Telemeter content: devices measuring many other quantities besides distance. These included such sensors as the thermocouple (from the work of Thomas Johann Seebeck), the resistance thermometer (by William Siemens based on the work of Humphry Davy), and the electrical strain gauge (based on Lord Kelvin's discovery that conductors under mechanical strain change their resistance) and output devices such as Samuel Morse's telegraph sounder and the relay. In 1889 this led the Institution of Civil Engineers to suggest that the term for a rangefinder be replaced with tachometer. In the 1930s use of electrical telemeters grew rapidly. The electrical strain gauge was widely


title: "1976 Sabah Air GAF Nomad crash" content: at National Archives of Australia under Series no: B5535 and restriction number of 33(1)(a) because "Malaysia has not as yet publicly released their final and full report of the investigation". , 41 years after the air crash happened, the Malaysian government has not declassified the investigative reports of the crash. In 2017, the Sabah chief minister Musa Aman, in a question-and-answer session in the state assembly, said that the reports are still classified because "Sabah Civil Aviation Department has no new information on the crash". Aircraft overloading – If the Nomad aircraft is not operated within strict weight limit, it


title: "Weehawken (YTB-776)" content: Weehawken (YTB-776) The "Weehawken" (YTB-776) was a United States Navy named for Weehawken, New Jersey. The contract for "Weehawken" was awarded 31 January 1964. She was laid down on 13 August 1964 at Marinette, Wisconsin by Marinette Marine and launched 8 June 1965. "Weehawken" was delivered to the 9th Naval District in July 1965. In November 1965, she was placed in service in the 14th Naval District, which comprises the Hawaiian Islands and surrounding smaller islets. She also served at Guam. The tug conducted routine towing operations between those islands and rendered assistance to ships entering and clearing Pearl Harbor.


title: "Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance" content: an elephant brought to the house by Ernie as one of his tasks, Otto Tickingclock dies of shock leaving the university president's post vacant. Several candidates apply, but a series of freak accidents causes most of them to forfeit—all but two, one of the two being the alchemy professor Bruce Hiddenmolar whom Ernie finds disturbingly familiar-looking and who seems to dislike our hero as much as Chris Cowpatty. The alliance formed by the two allows the professor to learn about the "identity assumption" power of the Sorcerer's Appliance, which he decides to use to make his last remaining opponent step


title: "Spot-fin porcupinefish" content: Spot-fin porcupinefish The spot-fin porcupinefish ("Diodon hystrix"), also known as the spotted porcupinefish, black-spotted porcupinefish or simply porcupinefish, is a member of the family Diodontidae. The spot-fin porcupinefish is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 91 cm, but the average size mostly observed is 40 cm. Its body is elongated with a spherical head with big round protruding eyes, a large mouth rarely closed. The pectoral fins are large, the pelvic fins are absent, the anal and dorsal fins are close to the caudal peduncle. The latter move simultaneously during swimming. The skin is smooth and firm, the scales


title: "Spot-fin porcupinefish" content: are modified into spines. The body coloration is beige to sandy-yellow marbled with dark blotches and dotted with numerous small black spots. In case of danger, the porcupinefish can inflate itself by swallowing water to deter the potential predator with its larger volume and it can raise its spines. The porcupinefish concentrates tetrodotoxin, in certain parts of its body such as the liver, skin, gonads and the viscera. This defensive system constitutes an additional device to dissuade the potential predators. The porcupinefish is found in all the tropical and subtropical waters of the world, including the Mediterranean Sea. Juveniles are


title: "Spot-fin porcupinefish" content: pelagic up to the time that they are about 20 cm in length. Adults favour lagoons, top reefs and seaward coral or rocky reefs from one to 50 m depth, sheltering under ledges or in caves during the day. The porcupinefish's diet is based on Sea urchins, gastropods and crustaceans. This fish is solitary, except during mating periods, it has a nocturnal activity with a maximal activity at sunset and sunrise. As most fish, the porcupinefish is infected by a variety of parasites. Spectacular parasites are the cysts of the larvae of the trypanorhynch cestode "Molicola horridus", often found in


title: "Spot-fin porcupinefish" content: great numbers in the liver. These parasites represent no danger to humans. Spot-fin porcupinefish The spot-fin porcupinefish ("Diodon hystrix"), also known as the spotted porcupinefish, black-spotted porcupinefish or simply porcupinefish, is a member of the family Diodontidae. The spot-fin porcupinefish is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 91 cm, but the average size mostly observed is 40 cm. Its body is elongated with a spherical head with big round protruding eyes, a large mouth rarely closed. The pectoral fins are large, the pelvic fins are absent, the anal and dorsal fins are close to the caudal peduncle. The latter


title: "1st United States Sharpshooters" content: regiment's officers and 143 enlisted men were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 128 enlisted men died of disease, for a total of 282 casualties. Lieutenant Colonel William Y. W. Ripley was wounded and later received the Medal of Honor for his heroism as second in command of the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters at the Battle of Malvern Hill. 1st United States Sharpshooters The 1st United States Sharpshooters were an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During battle, the mission of the sharpshooter was to kill enemy targets of importance


title: "HMS Drake (1901)" content: The armour of the gun turrets and their barbettes was 6 inches thick while that of the casemates was 5 inches thick. The protective deck armour ranged in thickness from and the conning tower was protected by of armour. HMS "Drake", named after the Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake, was laid down at Pembroke Dock on 24 April 1899, and launched on 5 March 1901, when she was christened by Mrs. Lort Phillips, wife of local landowner F. Lort Phillips, of Lawrenny. Based at Portsmouth for her gun, torpedo and circle trials in late 1902, there was also trials with


title: "Stan Jefferson" content: Stan Jefferson Stanley Jefferson (born December 4, 1962) is a former center and left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Mets, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds from to . Jefferson, who grew up in Co-Op City in the Bronx and played many years in the Co-Op City Little League, graduated from Harry S. Truman High School in 1980, and attended Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida from 1981 to 1983. He later obtained his Bachelor's degree at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Jefferson displayed impressive


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: Macrodactylus subspinosus Macrodactylus subspinosus is a North American beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is one of at least two beetles in this family known as the "rose chafer", the other being the European "Cetonia aurata". "M. subspinosus" occurs from Eastern Canada to Colorado and is considered a pest of many crops and flowers. It is given its common name of rose chafer because it eats the leaves of roses, although it also feeds on many other plants. The rose chafer has a yellowish-tan coloured body that is about in length, with wings that do not completely cover the abdomen.


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: The beetle has six long, spiny, reddish-brown legs that gradually become darker towards the end of the appendage. It has two short lamellate antennae that end in a club of flat plates and it has chewing mouthparts. Rose chafers are covered in dull yellow hairs which give the body its characteristic colour, however with age and with normal activity the hairs are worn off the head and thorax revealing a black colour. It is thus possible to distinguish between older and younger beetles, as older beetles will have fewer hairs and thus be darker in colour. Females tend to lose


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: more hairs, especially on the thorax due to the mating process, and can also appear darker in colour. Females also tend to be more robust than the male. The eggs of the rose chafer are about 1 mm in length and are oval, white and shiny. The larvae are white C-shaped grubs that when mature develop a brown head capsule and three distinct pairs of legs. The pupae are yellowish-brown in colour and are about 15 mm in length. As a member of the order Coleoptera, the rose chafer undergoes complete metamorphosis during its development. In late May, white-bodied larvae,


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: about long, pupate after having overwintered deep in the soil. Once they have emerged from their pupal case, adults live for 3–6 weeks, during which time they will feed on plant material and mate. Their eggs are laid in sandy soils, deep, and hatch in 1–3 weeks. This new generation of larvae will feed on the roots of grasses, weeds, and some ornamental garden plants during the rest of the summer, before they burrow deep in the soil to overwinter; these larvae will emerge as adults in the following year. After adult rose chafers emerge in late May to mid-June,


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: they aggregate on leaves, buds, flowers, and fruit, in order to feed and mate. By chewing on plant tissues, the rose chafer induces the release of volatile compounds from the plant. Using their antennae, rose chafers can detect the plant compounds in the air and orient themselves in the direction of the feeding conspecific, leading to an aggregation of the beetles. Male rose chafers also orient themselves preferentially toward virgin females as opposed to mated females, though it is unknown whether they are detecting pheromones released by virgin females, or the release of plant volatiles induced by the feeding virgin


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: females. The adult beetle feeds on the foliage, flowers, and fruit of many plants including grapes, apples, peaches, chestnuts, roses, and other garden flowers and fruits. On roses it skeletonizes the leaves, which can be rather bothersome for avid gardeners. Rose chafers are also a problem for vineyards as they eat the grapes at bloom as well as skeletonize the leaves. They also tend to appear suddenly and in swarms, and vines with over 100 rose chafers per plant have been observed. This huge amount of damage can result in almost total loss of photosynthetically active leaf area as well


title: "Macrodactylus subspinosus" content: as reducing or prohibiting pollination. The larvae also cause damage as they feed on the roots of the plants, which can limit growth. Small number of beetles (2-3 per plant) can be mechanically removed (hand picking, hand held vacuum). A number of insecticides are also effective for large scale infestations. Macrodactylus subspinosus Macrodactylus subspinosus is a North American beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is one of at least two beetles in this family known as the "rose chafer", the other being the European "Cetonia aurata". "M. subspinosus" occurs from Eastern Canada to Colorado and is considered a pest of


title: "All the Lost Souls" content: the third and final single from the deluxe edition of the album. The album received mixed reviews from critics: At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 53 out of 100, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 21 reviews. Kerri Mason, reviewing for "Billboard", gave the album a positive review, saying that Blunt "shows the abandon and confidence of a long-term artist, not just a one-hit wonder". She continued "[he] still dwells on moody, introspective midtempos. In other words, he still adheres to


title: "Henry W. Barry" content: around that time, as the United States Colored Troops had been established. Stationed to defend Kentucky, Barry and his men took part in the skirmishes of Haddix's Ferry and Smithland. Barry was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General in the wave of mass actions of March 13, 1865 in the closing days of the war. In April 1865 the regiment was transferred to Texas for occupational duty. There the regiment was mustered out in February 1866, and Barry followed on May 11. After the war Barry moved to Washington, DC to study law, graduating from the law department of Columbian College


title: "HMS Cochrane (1905)" content: Because of the extra topweight of the turrets in comparison to their half-sisters their stability was reduced which made them very good seaboats and steady gun platforms. A single Hotchkiss QF 6-pounder anti-aircraft gun on a high-angle Mark Ic mounting was mounted on the quarterdeck in 1915. It had a maximum depression of 8° and a maximum elevation of 60°. The gun fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of at a rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute. They had a maximum ceiling of , but an effective range of only . It was replaced by a QF


title: "Plan West" content: planners correctly predicted the direction of most German thrusts, with one crucial exception: they assigned low priority to a possible deep, flanking, eastward push from Prussia and Slovakia, a push that was however assigned high priority in the German plan ("Fall Weiss"). A controversy involved the decision whether Polish forces should defend the lengthy borders, or withdraw east and south and try a defense along a shorter line, backed with rivers. Although the second plan was more militarily sound, political considerations outweighed them, as Polish politicians were concerned that Germany could be satisfied with occupation of some disputed territories (like


title: Dragonhunter content: Dragonhunter The dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus) is a clubtail dragonfly of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. It is much larger than any other North American clubtail, at , with black and yellow markings and green eyes. Males can be distinguished at a distance by their habit of curling their abdomens under while flying, forming a sideways J shape. The dragonhunter is the only member of genus Hagenius. Its closest relatives are Asian dragonflies of genus "Sieboldius", which are also sometimes called "dragonhunters". Together the two genera form the subfamily Hageniinae. The nymph is unusual, with a very flat, wide


title: Dragonhunter content: body. It is slow-moving and lives among bark and leaf litter at the edges of streams, where its dark color provides camouflage. The adult feeds on large insects, including darner and clubtail dragonflies, sometimes ambushing them from above. It also takes monarch butterflies, eating the thorax and abdomen first to avoid the greatest concentration of cardenolide toxins. Dragonhunter The dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus) is a clubtail dragonfly of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. It is much larger than any other North American clubtail, at , with black and yellow markings and green eyes. Males can be distinguished at a


title: "Ottoman–Habsburg wars" content: base at Malta. The presence of the Ottoman fleet so close to the Papacy alarmed the Spanish, who began assembling first a small expeditionary force (that arrived in time for the siege) and then a larger fleet to relieve the Island. The ultra-modern star shaped fort of St Elmo was taken only with heavy casualties including the Ottoman general Turgut Reis, and the rest of the island was too much. Even so, Barbary piracy continued and the victory at Malta had no effect on Ottoman military strength in the Mediterranean. The death of Suleiman the Magnificent in 1566 brought Selim


title: "Yoshikaze Masatsugu" content: two "yokozuna" and won special prizes for Outstanding Performance and Technique. Yoshikaze is in second place for the slowest promotion from "makuuchi" debut to the third highest "sekiwake" rank in history, behind only his stablemate Takekaze. He has won ten special prizes in total, and eight gold stars for defeating "yokozuna." He was an amateur sumo champion at Nippon Sport Science University, and won the college equivalent of the "yokozuna" title in his third year. Because he wanted to wait until after his graduation from university before joining professional sumo, he missed out on the chance to enter at the


title: "1980 Danish 1st Division" content: to the 1st Division. 1980 Danish 1st Division The 1980 Danish 1st Division season was the 35th season of the Danish 1st Division league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association. It constituted the 67th edition of the Danish football championship, and saw Kjøbenhavns Boldklub win their fifteenth and last championship title. The Danish champions qualified for the European Cup 1981-82, while the second placed teams qualified for the UEFA Cup 1981-82. The three lowest placed teams of the tournament were directly relegated to the Danish 2nd Division for the following season. Likewise, the Danish 2nd Division champions and two


title: "Beggars' Bush" content: is elected king of the beggars. Other characters also maintain disguises and have hidden identities, including the missing daughter of the Duke of Brabant. The play's plot shows the working-out of these complexities and the restoration of the rightful rulers; true lovers are also re-united. Yet the play also contains serious aspects that have caused it to be classified as a tragicomedy by some commentators; "Through mixed modes "Beggars Bush" exhibits serious sociopolitical concerns to earn a classification that at first seems incongruous — a political tragicomedy." Beggars' Bush Beggars' Bush is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy in


title: "Eriodictyon californicum" content: Eriodictyon californicum Eriodictyon californicum is a species of plant within the Boraginaceae family. It is also known as yerba santa, mountain balm, consumptive's weed and bear weed. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in several types of habitats, including chaparral and Coast redwood forests. "Eriodictyon californicum" is a shrub growing one to three meters tall, typically found in clonal stands. The smaller branches and foliage are coated in a sticky resin and are often dusted with black fungi, "Heterosporium californicum". The shrub is known to be an occasional source of nutrition for wildlife and livestock. The


title: "Eriodictyon californicum" content: narrow, long leaves are somewhat lance-shaped and up to 15 centimeters in length. They have an odor generally considered unpleasant and a bitter taste, making them unpalatable to most animals, although it does have multiple insect herbivores. For example, it is the primary nectar source for Variable Checkerspot butterflies in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in California. The inflorescence is a cluster of bell-shaped white to purplish flowers, each between one and two centimeters in length. When first described, it was placed in genus "Wigandia", so its basionym is "Wigandia californica". The leaves have historically been used to treat asthma,


title: "Eriodictyon californicum" content: upper respiratory infections and allergic rhinitis. The Concow tribe calls the plant wä-sä-got’-ō (Konkow language) The Chumash used it as a poultice for wounds, insect bites, broken bones, and sores. It was also used in a steam bath to treat hemorrhoids. Eriodictyol is one of the 4 flavanones identified in this plant by the Symrise Corporation as having taste-modifying properties, the other three being: homoeriodictyol, its sodium salt and sterubin. These compounds have potential uses in food and pharmaceutical industry to mask bitter taste. This species of shrub is used for revegetating damaged or disturbed lands, such as overgrazed rangeland.


title: "Eriodictyon californicum" content: It is, however, strongly fire-adapted, sprouting from rhizomes after wildfire and developing a waxy film of flammable resins on its foliage. "Eriodictyon californicum" is a specific "Papilio eurymedon" butterfly food and habitat plant. Eriodictyon californicum Eriodictyon californicum is a species of plant within the Boraginaceae family. It is also known as yerba santa, mountain balm, consumptive's weed and bear weed. It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in several types of habitats, including chaparral and Coast redwood forests. "Eriodictyon californicum" is a shrub growing one to three meters tall, typically found in clonal stands. The smaller branches


title: "USS Facility" content: USS Facility USS "Facility" (AM-233) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was ordered and laid down as USS "PCE-906 but was renamed and reclassified before her June 1944 launch as "Facility" (AM-233). After earning three battle stars for service in the Pacific during World War II, she was decommissioned in September 1946 and placed in reserve. While in reserve, "Facility" was reclassified as MSF-233 in February 1955 but never reactivated. In October 1962, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM "DM-04. Her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary


title: "George Thesiger" content: George Thesiger Major-General George Handcock Thesiger, CB, CMG (6 October 1868 – 27 September 1915) was a senior officer in the British Army during the First World War who was killed in action during the Battle of Loos by German shellfire. His career had encompassed military service in Egypt, South Africa, Ireland, British India and France and had been rewarded with membership in two chivalric orders. Thesiger was born in October 1868 into the Thesiger family, the son of Lieutenant General Charles Wemyss Thesiger and Charlotte Elizabeth Handcock. He was the middle of three children, with one older sister, Ethel


title: "1931 Edmonton municipal election" content: 1931 Edmonton municipal election The 1931 municipal election was held November 11, 1931 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and four trustees to sit on the public school board, while four trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board. There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already filled: James Collisson, Charles Gibbs, Frederick Keillor (SS), Donald Lake, and Charles Gerald O'Connor were all elected to two-year terms in 1930 and were still in office. There were seven trustees on the public school board, but three of the


title: Geyre content: Geyre Geyre is a small town in the District of Karacasu, Aydın Province, Turkey. Also known as "Yeni koy" (the "new village"), it was relocated around 1960, from over the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias archeological site to a new location nearby. It is about 230 km (140 mi) south-east of İzmir, and about 100 km (62 mi) inland/east from the coast. of the Aegean Sea As of 2010, it had a population of 956 people. Previously called Ninoé, Aphrodisias, and Stravopolis in the ancient Caria region, the Turkish village of "Old Geyre" emerged by the late 18th century CE


title: "1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment" content: 2705 men on its muster rolls. The regiment suffered 14 officers and 150 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 6 officers and 244 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 414 fatalities. 1st Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer. The 1st Michigan Cavalry was organized at Detroit, Michigan, between August 21 and September 6, 1861. Among


title: "Dale Murray" content: August 28, roughly a year after purchasing his contract, the Expos released Murray with a 0–1 record and 6.14 ERA at the major league level. In January , Murray signed a minor league contract with an invitation to Spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays. He began the season in triple A, but after tearing up the International League with a 1.85 ERA and sixteen saves for the Syracuse Chiefs, he earned a September call-up to the big league club. He was just as effective with the Jays, going 1–0 with a 1.17 ERA. Murray went 8–7 with a 3.16


title: "Alexis García" content: made 24 appearances for the senior Colombia national football team from 1988 to 1993, including participating in two qualifying matches for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 1993 Copa América. He also played for Colombia at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Atlético Nacional La Equidad Alexis García Alexis Enrique García Vega (born 21 July 1960) is a Colombian retired football midfielder. Along with seven more siblings, he grew up in barrio La Floresta of Medellín where he started his career playing for the Antioquia Football Selection. In 1980, he joined Once Caldas of Manizales and the same year


title: "John T. Monroe" content: surrendered. "The capture of New Orleans in April 1862 by Captain David Farragut and General Benjamin Butler brought the name of mayor Monroe before the whole country and the people of the then confederate States and the United States. It soon spread to British journalism and into British Parliament. "At the approach of the federal fleet, on the morning of April 25, Mayor Monroe, determined to hoist the flag of the State of Louisiana over the City Hall. At his request, his private secretary, Mr. Marion A. Baker, descended to the roof of the building and prepared to execute the


title: Zombie-Loan content: records and has targeted the Zombie Loan. As they progress through the world of the Ferryman, they become involved in the affairs of a Ferryman who attempts to use records to destroy the world. Michiru discovers her powers result from her being an irregularity of the records as she was meant to die as a stillborn. Using her powers, she reverses time through the Akashic records, removing its irregularities and zombies. The series ends in a new time line with Michiru witnessing Chika and Shito's accident on television and Bekko announcing the reopening of Zombie Loan. The "Zombie-Loan" manga created


title: "Drosera arcturi" content: Drosera arcturi Drosera arcturi is a perennial, insectivorous species of sub-alpine or alpine herb native to Australia and New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand's two alpine species of sundew, the other being "Drosera stenopetala". The specific epithet, which translates as "of Arthur" from Latin, is a reference to Mount Arthur, in north-eastern Tasmania, the type locality of the species. "Drosera arcturi" grows in bogs, tarns and seepages, most commonly at montane or alpine elevations and is also commonly found in "Sphagnum" bogs. It is found in alpine areas from the East Cape of the North Island, New Zealand,


title: "Drosera arcturi" content: southwards to Stewart Island, New Zealand. It is found above 1500m altitude in the North Island, descending to sea level in the South Island. It is also found in the mountains of southeastern Australia and in Tasmania, where it is occasionally found growing down to sea level in the west and south-west of the island. In New Zealand, "D. arcturi" is often found growing in clumps alongside "Utricularia dichotoma". The leaves of "D. arcturi" are linear, 1–5 cm long, undivided, and range in colour from pale green to muddy brown, to maroon if subjected to full sunlight. Like all other


title: "Drosera arcturi" content: species of "Drosera", "D. arcturi" catches insects using sticky, glandular hairs on its leaves. In "D. arcturi", these glandular hairs are red. Young leaves begin at the center of the plant and are folded along their center. Once the young leaf reaches full maturity it unfolds like a book. The plants' first upright leaves emerge in spring. After two or three leaves have formed, the nominal form produces a small, solitary white flower, 13 mm across, which is borne on a short stalk in summer, and positioned near the top of the leaves. The giant, lowland form produces 1-5 flowers


title: "Drosera arcturi" content: on a long inflorescence up to 25 cm long. Flowers are present from November to February and fruits are present in January–March. "D. arcturi" is a summer grower, and after flowering its leaves gradually reduce in size to form an elongated, horn-shaped hibernaculum. In this form it passes the cold, harsh alpine winters. The hibernaculum is normally buried near the surface of the soil or moss and is usually covered with snow for several months during winter. Drosera arcturi Drosera arcturi is a perennial, insectivorous species of sub-alpine or alpine herb native to Australia and New Zealand. It is one


title: "Paul Devereux" content: daylight in 1967. Throughout the 1970s, he exhibited his work that a critic described as «a collision between Op art and archaeology». He was also a teacher, eventually teaching an evening class in Kensington called "Earth mysteries". Interested in researching the ideas behind ley lines, he took over as editor of "The Ley Hunter" magazine in 1976. Devereux is indelibly associated with “leys", or “ley lines". In 1976, Paul Devereux took over as editor of the magazine "The Ley Hunter". His first order was an article on the mystical power of ley lines, but none of the writers could provide


title: "Louise Caire Clark" content: film industry. Her mentor was George Cukor who arranged for speech and voice lessons. At age 15, the family moved to New York where Clark developed an interest in acting. After graduating from college, she attended and graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, studying under Sanford Meisner. She went on to attend the Actors Studio, studying with Lee Strasberg. Clark married Peter Gries in 1974, son of the film director Tom Gries, and moved back to California. She did not enjoy acting in California. She and her husband started a small production company and had two sons, Mathew,


title: "Approximate Bayesian computation" content: Bayes’ theorem relates the conditional probability (or density) of a particular parameter value formula_1 given data formula_2 to the probability of formula_2 given formula_1 by the rule where formula_6 denotes the posterior, formula_7 the likelihood, formula_8 the prior, and formula_9 the evidence (also referred to as the marginal likelihood or the prior predictive probability of the data). The prior represents beliefs about formula_1 before formula_2 is available, and it is often specified by choosing a particular distribution among a set of well-known and tractable families of distributions, such that both the evaluation of prior probabilities and random generation of values


title: "South Fort George" content: Fort George, they built the Hotel Northern and applied for and received a liquor license by December 1910. Unfortunately the first Hotel Northern wouldn't operate for very long and would burn down on July 1st, 1911. However, Al Johnson wasted no time in replacing it and built the second Hotel Northern on Hamilton Avenue, on the corner of 3rd Street. At the height of rail construction, particularly throughout 1913, the Northern was one of the busiest bars in British Columbia, employing 12 - 15 bartenders who worked along a bar. During this period, the Northern often sold $7000 worth of


title: "Mary Maverick" content: John and Ann Bradley, arrived in Texas from Alabama along with their young children. Happy to be surrounded by family again, Maverick expanded her own family in April 1841 with the birth of her daughter Agatha. Later that year, Maverick's mother, Agatha Adams, planned a journey to visit them and to consider settling in Texas. She fell ill days before she was scheduled to leave, however, and died on October 2. The citizens of San Antonio received word in February 1842 that Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was again sending troops into Texas, which Mexico still did not


title: "Moonlight (runtime)" content: to create products that can read and write XAML for Silverlight." Since Moonlight is essentially a XAML reader, Debian's position is that Moonlight is safe for them to redistribute (leaving each user to agree to their own licensing for Microsoft's and others' binary codecs). Moonlight (runtime) Moonlight is a free and open source implementation of the now deprecated Microsoft Silverlight application framework for Linux and other Unix-based operating systems, developed and then abandoned by the Mono Project. Like Silverlight, Moonlight was a web application framework which provided capabilities similar to those of Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity


title: Orompoto content: horse, this opened the door for her to create a cavalry force. The first of it's kind the cavalry was a force to be reckon with in her time. She was considered a skillful warrior and was known according to Oyo tales of her inadvertent victory at the battle of Illayi. While fighting her enemies, she lost three leaders of the van, called Gbonkas in Oyo. The third, however, fell with his teeth grinding and his mouth grinning, the enemies thought he was alive and was making a mocking gesture and were overwhelmed by what they considered their inability to


title: "VC-137C SAM 26000" content: Richard Nixon in 1969, SAM 26000 underwent repairs and upgrades. Nixon and his staff were offered a key role in the redesigning of the plane, a position they took up, and indeed, the finished plane reflected the new president's persona. The interior of the plane was stripped from the nose to the tail; all minor problems were taken care of; upgrades were made on the flight management system; communications gear was slightly modified. Richard Nixon had the interior of the plane redesigned to suit his fancy. Nixon did away with the open floor plan of the Johnson era and replaced


title: "Miniatures Handbook" content: Tweet explained the initial goal behind the book: "The "Miniatures Handbook" and the D&D Miniatures line in general developed because we saw that miniatures were a big part of the D&D roleplaying experience. We wanted to support players who use miniatures in their games, as well as create easy-to-use miniatures for players who would like to use miniatures but don't. In addition, we built on the experience Wizards has with competitive games. Our D&D miniatures are designed to work in a roleplaying game, but we've also created a head-to-head skirmish system for fighting fast, tactical battles with them. The "Miniatures


title: "Argentina–Brazil relations" content: Argentina–Brazil relations Argentina and Brazil's relationship are both close and historical, and encompasses all possible dimensions: economy, trade, culture, education and tourism. From war and rivalry to friendship and alliance, this complex relationship has spanned more than two centuries. After achieving independence from the Iberian crowns in the early nineteenth century, Argentina and Brazil inherited a series of unresolved territorial disputes from their colonial powers. The most serious breach in the relationship was the Cisplatine War (1825–1828), led by the Brazilian invasion and annexation of the Banda Oriental. Despite the numerous periods of muted hostility, the Argentine–Brazilian relationship was not


title: "Tuxedo Junction" content: main soloists on that recording were Best and Bobby Hackett. The Glenn Miller recording sold 115,000 copies in the first week. It was featured in the 1953 Glenn Miller biopic "The Glenn Miller Story" starring James Stewart and Harry Morgan. The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded the song on February 5, 1940 in New York. The personnel on the Glenn Miller recording: Saxes: Hal McIntyre, Tex Beneke, Wilbur Schwartz, Jimmy Abato, Al Klink; Trumpets: Clyde Hurley, John Best, R. D. McMickle, Legh Knowles; Trombones: Glenn Miller, Tommy Mack, Paul Tanner, Frank D'Annolfo; Piano: Chummy MacGregor; String Bass: Rowland Bundock; Guitar: Richard


title: "UC Santa Barbara Gauchos" content: visual identity. As a result, the UCSB athletic program released new logos, different colors, and a unified theme across all teams. For athletic purposes, the school is known only as "UC Santa Barbara" or "UCSB". UCSB currently fields a varsity team in 10 men's sports and 9 women's sports. Potentially one of the oldest teams the Gauchos field, baseball can date back to at least 1923. They've appeared in 9 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Numerous Major League Baseball players have come through the ranks including Michael Young, Barry Zito, Larry Dierker, and Skip Schumaker. Both the UCSB men and


title: Hattgenstein content: Westerwald and Nürburg in the Eifel, that are higher. To the northeast lies Schwollen, and to the south, Oberhambach. Also belonging to Hattgenstein are the outlying homesteads of Helmhof, Waldfriede and Zur Zimmerei. The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Since 1984, Hattgenstein’s mayor has been Rudi Gordner, and his deputy is Günter Helm. The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Over a base countercompony gules and argent, gules on a mount vert