title: "St Mawes Castle" content: threat from France passed and a lasting peace was made in 1558, but the Spanish threat to the south-west of England grew in importance to the government. War broke out in 1569, with the threat of invasion and the garrison at St Mawes was strengthened: in 1578 it comprised 100 soldiers. An additional battery of guns was built to allow the fort to fire further upriver. Fears of a Spanish attack continued especially after the failed Armada of 1597; two earth and timber bastions were built out from the original stone castle to hold guns, eventually becoming the main batteries


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: for the castle. By 1623 the castle held two brass culverins, six iron culverins, one demi-culverin and one saker, with a small garrison of 14 men, overseen by a captain and a lieutenant. A survey in 1634 indicated structural problems, and suggested that £534 was needed for repairs. When civil war broke out in 1642 between King Charles I and Parliament, St Mawes and the south-west of England was held by the Royalists. The growing town of Falmouth was a strategically important part of their supply routes to the Continent, while Carrick Roads formed a base for Royalist piracy in


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: the English Channel. The war turned in favour of the Parliamentarians and, by March 1646, Thomas Fairfax had entered Cornwall with a substantial army. The captain of the castle, Major Hannibal Bonithon, was invited by Colonel John Arundell to retreat to the stronger fortress of Pendennis, but Bonithon and his men surrendered immediately without putting up resistance. This decision has been put down to a result of war-weariness, the large numbers of Parliamentary troops facing them and the generous surrender terms on offer, although the 19th-century historian Samuel Oliver also suspected that Bonithon might have had Parliamentarian sympathies. 160 small


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: arms and 13 artillery pieces were captured: the castle's guns were removed and redeployed in the siege of Pendennis, which fell that August. The castle was placed on a "care and maintenance" footing, with a skeleton garrison. Parliament appointed George Kekewich as the new captain and he probably remained in post until the restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, when Sir Richard Vyvyan, Sir Francis's son, took over command. Richard inherited a garrison of 13 men, which he considered insufficient. Richard's son, Sir Vyel Vyvyan, became captain in turn on his father's death, but he had no


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: heirs and separated the castle's lands from the captaincy, selling them to John Granville, the Earl of Bath. The castle continued in use as a fort through the 18th and 19th centuries under the command of successive captains, still operating in conjunction with Pendennis. A review by Colonel Christian Lilly in 1714 reported that the fortification was in a satisfactory condition, and in the 1730s, St Mawes was equipped with 17 artillery pieces, including six 24-pounder (11 kg) cannons, mostly positioned in the batteries beneath the Henrician castle. Britain's wars with France in the late-18th century made the defence of


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: Falmouth critical and from 1775 until 1780 the local militia was called up to defend St Mawes. By the 1780s, the castle was equipped with over 30 pieces of heavy artillery. There were repeated concerns emerged about its ordnance, however, and an inspection in 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars found that only one 24-pounder gun was serviceable. In 1796, a new gun battery was created at St Anthony Head, just along the coast from St Mawes. For a period this battery became the primary defensive position on the east side of the estuary, although in 1805 St Mawes was


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: still armed with ten 24-pounder guns. The poet Lord Byron, visiting in 1809, complained that St Mawes was "extremely well calculated for annoying every body except an enemy", and commented that the fort was garrisoned by only one, elderly man. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the St Anthony's battery was closed but St Mawes remained in use, albeit being operated once again on a "care and maintenance" basis in the post-war years. Falmouth Harbour became one of the most important ports in England during the 19th century, attracting much of the transatlantic shipping trade. The Tudor


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: office of the captaincy was abolished in 1849, with the death of the final incumbent, Sir George Nugent, and the command of the garrison became a regular military appointment. In the early 1850s, fears of a conflict with France led to a review of the state of the harbour's defences. The development of ironclad warships equipped with rifled guns meant that St Mawes required a comprehensive overhaul. A new Grand Sea Battery and magazine was built beneath the Henrician castle, linked with deep passages, and equipped with eight 56-pound (25 kg) and four 64-pounder (29 kg) rifled muzzle loader guns.


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: The old castle was used as a barracks but, since it could only hold 30 men, St Mawes was typically used as a training base and manned by militia and volunteer units. Fresh concerns about France rose in the 1880s and an electrically-operated minefield was laid across Carrick Roads in 1885, jointly controlled from St Mawes and Pendennis. Additional contact mines were added, forcing incoming vessels to sail into a channel alongside St Mawes, illuminated with electric search lights. As part of this transformation, the castle's 64-pounder guns were partially replaced with light, quick-firing guns in the 1890s, able to


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: engage any torpedo boats or mine sweepers attempting to break through the defences. The batteries for these were found to be poorly sited, and an additional battery was therefore built above the Henrician castle between 1900 and 1901, again for housing quick-firing guns. A 1905 review of the Falmouth defences concluded that the naval artillery at St Mawes had become superfluous, as the necessary guns could be mounted at combination of Pendennis and the recently re-established battery at St Anthony's instead. Disarmed, St Mawes was then used as a barracks in the First World War. In 1920 the castle was


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: transferred to the control of the government's Office of Works, and was opened to visitors, being promoted as a tourist destination by the Great Western Railway company who hoped to profit by increased numbers of visitors to Falmouth. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, St Mawes was reoccupied by the British Army. In late 1941, the No 173 Coast Battery took over running a new, twin 6-pounder (2.7 kg) battery positioned just north-west of the castle, combined with a Bofors gun closer to the castle for anti-aircraft protection, and searchlights along the base of the Grand


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: Sea Magazine. Some of the 115-strong garrison lived in a local Nissen hut, with the remainder housed in St Mawes itself. The castle was removed from active service in January 1945 and reopened to the public the following year. The Second World War gun battery was finally closed in 1956 after several years of use as a training site. Between 1945 and 1970, much of the Victorian earthwork and concrete defences were cleared from the Grand Sea Battery, and the 1941 battery was completely destroyed. In the 21st century, St Mawes Castle is operated by English Heritage as a tourist


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: attraction, receiving 21,104 visitors in 2010. It is protected under UK law as a Scheduled Monument. St Mawes Castle is situated on a headland over the Carrock Roads, overlooked by higher land to the rear. At the top of the site is the entrance to the castle, the high-level gun batteries and the 16th-century Henrician Castle; the terraced site slopes down to the water, where gun batteries and the 16th-century blockhouse look out across the water. The central castle is built from slatestone rubble, with granite features and detailing; it has a clover leaf design with a central, four-storey circular


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: tower, or keep, at its core, and three circular bastions emerging from it. The design allowed for multiple levels of artillery, and may have been influenced by the contemporary work of the Moravian engineer, Stefan von Haschenperg, on some of the other Device Forts constructed during this period. It had little protection to the landward side, and would have depended upon the local militia providing protection against such an attack. The castle has been little altered since its original construction, and the historian Paul Pattison considers it to be "arguably the most perfect survivor of all Henry's forts". The castle


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: is extensively decorated with carvings and inscriptions in stone and wood, praising Henry VIII and his lineage, leading the historian A. L. Rowse to describe the castle as the most decorative of all of Henry's building works. These include Latin verses, such as "Henry, thy honour and praises will remain forever", written by the antiquarian John Leland, and "Let fortunate Cornwall rejoice that Edward is now her Duke", referring to Henry's eldest son and heir. Carved sea monsters and gargoyles also feature around the fortification, along with heraldic shields which would originally have been painted and visible from the river.


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: The castle is entered through the gatehouse, a polygonal, stone building approximately across. The gatehouse has gunloops, murder holes and slots for a drawbridge, although it is uncertain if one was ever fitted; it would originally have formed a sort of protective barbican. The yard behind it is approximately and dates from before 1735, originally being used a stable. This leads to a stone bridge that crosses a wide moat, cut out of the rock, to the main castle. The central tower is across and high, with thick walls. The basement was originally a kitchen and storerooms, with the first


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: floor was subdivided and used by the garrison, before being later converted for storing gunpowder. The bridge across the moat leads into the second storey, which originally had four chambers with fireplaces and windows, linked by a central corridor; this area may have been used by the castle's officers, and to house an enlarged garrison in an emergency. The third floor forms a single, large room with gun embrasures, and was probably used by the garrison as living accommodation. Above it, the parapetted gun platform on the fourth floor could support up to seven guns and incorporates a lookout turret,


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: topped by a 17th-century cupola, designed as a daymark to guide passing ships. The central tower is linked to the forward bastion, in diameter, which in turn has steps leading to the side bastions, each across. Each of the bastions forms a gun platform, with embrasures for larger artillery pieces - five in the forward bastion, three on each of the sides - as well as swivel mounts for lighter guns, and parapets for protection. The forward bastion's roof is modern and was added after an archaeological debate in the 1960s as to whether the bastions would originally have been


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: covered. The bastions have various 18th- and 19th-century artillery pieces on display, as well as a bronze saker dating from 1560 called the Albergheti gun, recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Devon. Gun batteries and other auxiliary buildings stretch across the St Mawes Castle site. Above the Henrician castle is the 12-pounder quick-firing high-level battery, dating from the start of the 20th century. Its four concrete platforms and earth parapets have survived, along with an underground magazine just behind the site. A small bungalow from this period at the entrance to the battery is still in use, serving


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: as the English Heritage custodian's house. Alongside the Henrician castle is the Engine House, approximately square and dating from around 1902. It originally contained an internal combustion engine, generating power for the castle's searchlights, but was later converted into a storeroom. Beneath the Henrician castle is a complex of artillery positions, cut out of the rock from around 1854 onwards, and collectively known as the Grand Sea Battery. The Grand Sea Battery was served by a 19th-century magazine for holding gunpowder, approximately with stone walls and bomb-proof brick roof, topped with turf to help to protect against incoming shells. For


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: many years the magazine was protected by an additional concrete fortification, but this was removed in 1970. There are two gun platforms along the west and east sides of the complex, and across respectively and known as the Lower Gun Battery. The current design of the western platform dates from the 1890s, with two raised concrete platforms for rotating guns and a brick-vaulted magazine just behind the battery. The eastern platform has pivots and racers for mounting four traversing gun carriages, one of which now houses a 12-pound smooth-bore artillery piece dating from 1815, mounted on a replica carriage. Just


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: below the Grand Sea Battery is the 16th-century blockhouse, positioned by the water's edge, from the Henrician castle. The blockhouse is semi-circular in shape, with wide with thick stone walls facing the sea, but much thinner walls to the rear. It originally had four gunports, one of which has since been blocked up, along with an upper gun platform and battlements. The upper storey was later destroyed to turn it into a solid gun platform, although this has since been re-excavated. Beside the blockhouse are the foundations of four searchlight emplacements dating from the Second World War. To the west


title: "St Mawes Castle" content: of the Grand Sea Battery are landscaped gardens, built on top of earlier gun positions along the site. Five 19th-century smooth-bore guns from the Napoleonic period are on display, forming a saluting battery. Beyond the gardens is the site of the Second World War 6 pounder battery, but little now remains of this position. St Mawes Castle St Mawes Castle () is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads


title: "Jules Engel" content: could claim responsibility for the choreography (timing) for the final sequence, but to this day, animation scholars and former students alike continue to debate the issue. The director of "Bambi", David Hand, asked Engel to do color work for the film, which was released in 1942. He worked on the timing for the sequence where Bambi first encounters his childhood playmate, Faline, which required a lot of movement analysis. After completing the sequence, he became committed to the entirety of the project after hearing the score for the film, which he thought had a lot of abstraction and movement. He


title: "Lego Creator (video game)" content: features of the program. Lego Creator (video game) Lego Creator is a sandbox game for Microsoft Windows, which involves building with virtual Lego elements. The game has no missions, objectives, challenges, or money constraints. The game was released in November 1998. "Lego Creator" was initially conceived of as an 'Evergreen' replication of the physical toy. Starting with the 'Town' range, the game would expand at each release with the addition of further product themes. Functionality would also be enhanced with each 'content pack'. Ultimately, individual ranges remained independent, and emphasis shifted to a play experience, with reduced emphasis on freeform


title: "Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984)" content: Alex Scott (footballer, born 1984) Alexandra Virina Scott, (born 14 October 1984) is an English former footballer who mostly played as a right-back for Arsenal in the FA WSL. She made 140 appearances for the English national team and also represented Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics. At club level, Scott has had three separate spells with Arsenal, punctuated with a season at Birmingham City in 2004–05 and three years in the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) with Boston Breakers. She scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup Final. Scott signed on with Arsenal


title: "Finnish nobility" content: genealogy ensued. The feudal system of maintaining a cavalry soldier as the requisite of nobility vanished gradually at same time in the 16th century when nobility became an established and restricted class and now officially hereditary, not allowing for example marriages with commoners withous loss of nobility of children. "Frälse" grew gradually more restricted as a class, and also economically less feasible to be granted just for one cavalryman. In the 16th century, Finland had a relatively high number of recognized noble families (derived often from the Middle Ages), whereas in Sweden proper, the proportionally much rarer nobility often was


title: Cyblade content: again shown in her role as commander, though she steps down for the resurrected Heatwave. Cyblade has the mutant ability to create and manipulate electromagnetic energy from her fingers, where she can manipulate them in to varying functions such as blades. She can psionically control this power at any distance from herself, as long as the target is within her line of sight. Her only limitation is that the power dissipates as it travels through the air. Her blades generate heat up to 5000° Celsius, so they are able to cut through many materials. Cyblade has also had years of


title: Posthomerica content: Iliad" of Lesches, span from the contest between Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, the death of Aias of suicide after his loss, the exploits of Neoptolemus, Eurypylus and Deiphobus, the deaths of Paris and Oenone, to the building of the wooden horse. The remaining books, covering the same ground as Arctinus' "Destruction of Troy", relate the capture of Troy by means of the wooden horse, the sacrifice of Polyxena at the grave of Achilles, the departure of the Greeks, and their dispersal by the storm. Penthesileia, a daughter of Ares, arrives at Troy with a group of


title: "Rosa nutkana" content: Rosa nutkana Rosa nutkana, the Nootka rose, bristly rose, or wild rose is a tall perennial shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae). The species name "nootka" comes from the Nootka Sound of Vancouver Island, where the plant was first described. This plant is native to Western North America. There are 2 varieties: "hispida" grows in the Intermountain West, from east of the Cascades to the Rocky Mountains, and "nutkana" grows in coastal areas from Alaska to California, east to the Cascades. The Jepson Interchange (Flora of California) considers other varieties to be part of the "nutkana" variety. "Rosa nutkana" grows


title: "Rosa nutkana" content: to as much as 3 meters, often in thickets. It has light green paired leaflets with toothed edges and sharp prickles at the base. The prickles are straight and paired and generally appear at nodes. The 2-3 inch pink (5–8 cm) flowers usually occur singly, but may appear in groups of 2 or 3. The flowers, which appear in early summer, can have a pleasantly strong fragrance. The sepals are very long, longer than the petals, and are constricted in the middle. The fruits (hips) of Nootka rose are somewhat bitter but edible. It is reported that bletting will greatly


title: "Rosa nutkana" content: mitigate the bitterness and make the hips much more palatable. Only the rind should be eaten as the seeds are irritating. Nootka rose grows in a wide variety of habitats, from sea level to mid elevations. It needs sun but will tolerate some shade, often growing along forest edges. It grows in moist riparian soils and in dry glacial till soils. It grows in fencerows, hedgerows, pastures, shrubby wetlands, woodlands, prairies, and meadows. Nootka rose thickets provide habitat and food for birds and small wildlife. Deer browse the flowers, young stems, and hips. They are used in wetland mitigation buffers


title: "Rosa nutkana" content: and in native plant landscaping. "R. nutkana" hosts gall-making wasps of the family Cynipidae, genus "Diplolepis", in the insect class Hymenoptera. Two species are "D. polita", which makes bristly round red or green galls on leaves, and "D. rosae", the mossy rose gall, which makes large, mossy, feathery, greenish or yellowish growths on stems. "Rosa nutkana" was used medicinally by a great number of indigenous peoples to treat a wide variety of ailments, and also ceremonially, in handcrafts, and as a food source. Nootka rose serves as the larval host of the mourning cloak and grey hairstreak butterflies. Nootka rose


title: "Rosa nutkana" content: can be propagated from seed, although germination is spotty. Hardwood cuttings and root suckers can also be used. There are several ornamental rose cultivars of "R. nutkana", including 'Cantab' (Hurst 1939), 'Mander's Nutkana #1' (1983), 'Moore's Nutkana', and 'Schoener's Nutkana' (1930). Rosa nutkana Rosa nutkana, the Nootka rose, bristly rose, or wild rose is a tall perennial shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae). The species name "nootka" comes from the Nootka Sound of Vancouver Island, where the plant was first described. This plant is native to Western North America. There are 2 varieties: "hispida" grows in the Intermountain West, from


title: Fairyfly content: depending on the species, it can range from three to 11 days. Each fertilized (or parthenogenic) female can lay a maximum of only about 100 eggs. Access to food can prolong lifespans and increase fecundity. In "Gonatocerus", with the absence of hosts, females can resorb eggs, retaining energy to live longer and increase the chances of finding hosts. After emerging, females search rapidly for suitable host eggs by tapping their antennae over stems or barks of plants. When a telltale scar left by egg-laying insects is found, they will insert their antennae into the recess and check to see if


title: "Allium validum" content: Allium validum Allium validum, known by several common names including swamp onion, wild onion, Pacific onion, and Pacific mountain onion, is native to the Cascade Range, to the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains, and other high-elevation regions in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho and British Columbia. The "Allium validum" bulb is three to five centimeters long, ovoid and clustered on the short end. The outer coat of the stout rhizome is brown or gray in color, fibrous, and vertically lined. The stem is 50 to 100 centimeters long and angled. There are three to six leaves more or less equal


title: "Allium validum" content: to the stem and the leaves are flat or more or less keeled. There are 15 to 40 flowers with pedicels being seven to twelve millimeters in length. The flower itself is six to ten millimeters, its perianth parts are more or less erect, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, and entire with a rose to white color. The stamens are longer than the tepals, and there is no ovary crest. This is a common plant in California often found in wet meadows at elevations of . "A. validum" prefers sandy and loamy soils and requires well-drained soil. The plant will grow in


title: "Allium validum" content: acid, basic, or alkaline soils, but only in areas with plenty of moisture and sun. The bulb "A. validum" can be used as a flavoring for soups and stews although it is somewhat fibrous. The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked and the flowers can be used as garnish on salads. There are no noted medicinal uses, but it is believed to have the same beneficial effects on health as other members of the genus. The sulfur compounds help reduce blood cholesterol levels, act as a tonic to the digestive system and help get the circulatory system moving. It


title: "Allium validum" content: can also be used as a moth repellant. The whole plant is said to repel insects and moles. Allium validum Allium validum, known by several common names including swamp onion, wild onion, Pacific onion, and Pacific mountain onion, is native to the Cascade Range, to the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains, and other high-elevation regions in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho and British Columbia. The "Allium validum" bulb is three to five centimeters long, ovoid and clustered on the short end. The outer coat of the stout rhizome is brown or gray in color, fibrous, and vertically lined. The stem


title: "Howick Island" content: published in 1927 and is semi-autobiographical based on the author's experiences on Howick Island. Howick Island The Howick Island is the southernmost and a now uninhabited island in the Howick group that is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Far North Queensland, Australia. It fell within the territory of the Ithu people in pre-colonial times. The island is located in the Coral Sea and is situated about south-east of Cape Melville. The area of the island is approximately . The island group was named by Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys RN, captain of HMS "Kangaroo", in 1815, possibly after


title: Erasmusbrug content: Erasmusbrug Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam. The bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan". The southernmost span of the bridge has an bascule bridge for ships


title: Erasmusbrug content: that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world. After costing more than 165 million Euros to construct, the bridge was officially opened by Queen Beatrix on September 6, 1996. Shortly after the bridge opened to traffic in October 1996, it was discovered the bridge would swing under particularly strong wind conditions. To reduce the trembling, stronger shock dampers were installed. The bridge featured in the 1998 Jackie Chan film "Who Am I?". In 2005, several planes flew underneath the bridge


title: Erasmusbrug content: as part of the "Red Bull Air Race". The bridge is also part of The World Port Days in Rotterdam. In 2005, the bridge served as the backdrop for a performance by DJ Tiësto titled "Tiësto @ The Bridge, Rotterdam". The performance featured fire-fighting ships spraying jets of water into the air in front of the bridge, a fireworks barge launching fireworks beside the bridge, and multi colored spot/search lights attached to the bridge itself. The bridge was crossed during the prologue and the opening stage of the 2010 Tour de France. Erasmusbrug Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined


title: "Shoals Marine Laboratory" content: office phone and fax needs. VHF channel 80A is monitored for boat to island communication. The lab is served by two US Coast Guard inspected research vessels: the , 34.49 gross ton "R/V John M. Kingsbury" and the , 13 gross ton "R/V John B. Heiser". Both boats are used to transport goods and people to the island and for research/education. The "R/V John M. Kingsbury" has a winch and a one-ton crane for the deployment of research equipment and for the movement of heavy materials from the mainland to the island. The lab also operates various smaller vessels, including


title: "Jal Mahal" content: Jal Mahal Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") is a palace in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur city, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, India. The palace and the lake around it were renovated and enlarged in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber. The Jal Mahal palace is an architectural showcase of the Rajput style of architecture (common in Rajasthan) on a grand scale. The building has a picturesque view of the lake itself but owing to its seclusion from land is equally the focus of a viewpoint from the Man Sagar


title: "Jal Mahal" content: Dam on the eastern side of the lake in front of the backdrop of the surrounding Nahargarh ("tiger-abode") hills. The palace, built in red sandstone, is a five storied building, of which four floors remain underwater when the lake is full and the top floor is exposed. One rectangular Chhatri on the roof is of the Bengal type. The chhatris on the four corners are octagonal. The palace had suffered subsidence in the past and also partial seepage (plasterwork and wall damage equivalent to rising damp) because of waterlogging, which have been repaired under a restoration project of the Government


title: "Jal Mahal" content: of Rajasthan. The hills surrounding the lake area, towards the north east of Jaipur, have quartzite rock formations (with a thin layer of soil cover), which is part of Aravalli hills range. Rock exposures on the surface in some parts of the project area have also been used for constructing buildings. From the north east, the Kanak Vrindavan valley, where a temple complex sits, the hills slope gently towards the lake edge. Within the lake area, the ground area is made up of a thick mantle of soil, blown sand and alluvium. Forest denudation, particularly in the hilly areas, has


title: "Jal Mahal" content: caused soil erosion, compounded by wind and water action. As a result, silt built up in the lake incrementally raises the lake bed. On the terrace of the palace, a garden was built with arched passages. At each corner of this palace semi-octagonal towers were built with an elegant cupola. The restoration works of the early 2000s were not satisfactory and an expert in the field of similar architectural restoration works of Rajasthan palaces carefully examined the designs that could decipher the originally existing designs on the walls, after removing the recent plaster work. Based on this finding, restoration works


title: "Jal Mahal" content: were re-done with traditional materials for plastering – the plaster consists of a partly organic material: a mortar mix of lime, sand and surkhi mixed with jaggery, guggal and methi powder. It was also noticed that there was hardly any water seepage, except for a little dampness, in the floors below the water level. But the original garden, which existed on the terrace had been lost. Now, a new terrace is being created based on a similar roof garden of the Amer palace. The building is located near the shoreline of a lake with a maximum depth of 15 ft.


title: "Jal Mahal" content: Though 4 stories of the building are under the surface of the water, they would be build into the bed of the lake. At Gaitore opposite the lake are chhatris and cenotaphs erected over cremation platforms of some of the Kachwaha rulers of Jaipur. They were built by Jai Singh II within landscaped gardens. The cenotaphs are in honor of Pratap Singh, Madho Singh II and Jai Singh II among others. Jai Singh II's cenotaph is made of marble and has impressive intricate carvings. It has a dome with 20 carved pillars. In the year 2000, Government of Rajasthan entrused


title: "Jal Mahal" content: to IL&FS the task of finding a permanent solution to the development requirements of the Man Sagar Lake and the palace. In 2001, Government of Rajasthan initiated a project for the 'Ecological Restoration of Man Sagar Lake' and the palace in its midst to its past glory and to enhance the tourism potential of the precincts, through the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) as the nodal agency. It was also recommended that private developers should also be involved in this effort. In the year 2002, the Ministry of Environment and Forests sanctioned through its National Lake Conservation Programme (NLCP), Rs247.2 million


title: "Jal Mahal" content: (about US$5 million) and released Rs173 million (about US $3.46 million) as grant-in-aid with the proviso that the balance amount shall be raised by JDA. JDA initiated steps for restoration and completed tourist trail and a long promenade, apart from other works. In 2004, the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation took matters in its hands and decided to try and restore the monument to its original glory. They signed an agreement with Jal Mahal Resorts, granting it a 99-year lease to develop 100 acres along the Man Sagar Lake (in the middle of which Jal Mahal stands) and the palace. The


title: "Jal Mahal" content: 99-year lease was given out to a business tycoon, Navratan Kothari. For the past 9 years, he has worked on the cleaning of the lake and restoration of the Palace. Now there are many inhabitants of the area and it has created a great job opportunity for the people of Jaipur and Rajasthan. For the future, Navratan plans to build a few hotels around Jal Mahal and make it a very popular tourist destination. The Lake restoration project of the Man Sagar Lake area with an estimated investment of Rs1.5 billion (considered as one of the largest and unique such


title: "Jal Mahal" content: projects in India) has evolved a plan that has diverse project components. Consequently, there are many project stakeholders and beneficiaries. The project stake holders are: the Government of Rajasthan and their subordinate organizations such as the Public Works Department (PWD), Rajasthan Urban Development Authority (RUIDP), the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA – the nodal agency for implementation of all aspects of the project), the Department of Tourism, Rajasthan Project Development Fund (RPDF) and the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC) and an Empowered Committee on Infrastructure Development (ECID); the Central Government organizations associated for planning and financing are the Ministry of Environment


title: "Jal Mahal" content: and Forests (MOE&F) through its National River Conservation Program (NRCP) and ILFS. The Private Sector Developer (PSD) appointed was M/s KGK Consortium. Under the public–private sector partnership model approved by the EICD, PDCOR had prepared the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the restoration of Man Sagar Lake, Jal Mahal restoration and lake precincts development. The total project area for restoration and development approved by ECID was comprising the lake with water spread, the lake precincts area of , which subsumed of submerged land) for tourism development under joint sector cooperation and for lake promenade and tertiary treatment facility and related


title: "Jal Mahal" content: works. The studies indicated two approaches to tackle the environmental degradation that had occurred in the lake, namely, dealing with natural catchment area and concurrently addressing the serious problem of municipal sewerage emerging from large scale urbanisation or human settlement. Keeping this broad planning approach in view, under the lake restoration project, the works undertaken involved were: the re-alignment of city drains, de-silting of the lake, construction of artery road from Amber to Man Sagar Dam (about ), construction of check dam in a length with silt removed from the lake, creation of three nesting islands for migratory birds, lake


title: "Jal Mahal" content: front promenade in), afforestation and treatment of forest area portion of lake catchment, plantation to stabilise the slopes of bank formation. Afforestation envisaged plantation of local plant species such as "Acacia arabica" (desi babool) and "Tamarix indica" (planting close to the water edge where they can grow well), "Terminalia arjuna" (arjun) poplar, neem and all species of "Ficus", which would provide diversity in vegetation and also better habitat diversity for feeding by birds and wild life. In addition, to remove eutriphication of the lake water and improve its water quality, in-situ Bioremediation process with 140 diffusers & 5 air compressors


title: "Jal Mahal" content: to aerate and create inversion of the lake bed and stored water was also envisaged. The city sewage, which supplied 7.0 MLD of untreated sewage was treated with Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) and then led to the lake to maintain its water level, after due removal of nutrients through tertiary treatment. This process involved diversion of the Brahampuri Nala into the Nagtalai Nala by a lined channel to its south. This was then lead through a treatment plant on site to generate secondary level effluent, which was then discharged into an artificial wetland through a hyacinth channel. For this purpose,


title: "Jal Mahal" content: a Physico Chemical Treatment Plant was also envisaged and the effluent from this plant was taken through artificially created wetlands in an area of ) (not only to treat the water but also to serve as natural habitat for birds) and through this process the entire eco-system is being re-generated. Vegetation generated in this process is disposed in a composite pit near the lake. It is also reported that about 500,000 cubic metres of silt was removed from the lake. This silt was then put to use for strengthening of embankment and building of islands as wintering grounds for migratory


title: "Jal Mahal" content: birds. After the above initial restoration works of the lake and its feeder system were mostly completed by the JDA, during 2003, private sector developers were invited to develop identified tourism components on the land adjoining the lake. After following the due process, a joint sector undertaking called the PDCOR was formed between the JDA of the Rajasthan Government and the consortia of private developers with lead provided by M/s. KGK Enterprises. The project for tourism development was entrusted to this joint group. The tourism project entailed development of Convention Centre and Art Gallery, Multiplex and Entertainment Centre, Craft Bazaar,


title: "Jal Mahal" content: Arts and Craft Village, Resort Hotels, restaurants and food courts, public park and gardens including responsibility for restoration and maintenance of the Jal Mahal. The Jal Mahal palace within the Maan Sagar Lake is accessible from the Jaipur-Delhi National Highway No 8, over a road distance of ) from Jaipur. Delhi is a further ) away. Jaipur city being centrally located in Rajasthan, the National Highway No.8 not only links to Delhi but also to Mumbai. NH No.11 is a road link of ) from Bikaner to Agra via Jaipur. Flights are available into the Jaipur International Airport. The lake


title: "Jal Mahal" content: is ) from Amer palace on the Amber – Man Sagar Dam road to the north. The Jal Mahal palace is not open to visitors. Jal Mahal Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") is a palace in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur city, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, India. The palace and the lake around it were renovated and enlarged in the 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber. The Jal Mahal palace is an architectural showcase of the Rajput style of architecture (common in Rajasthan) on a grand scale. The building has


title: Tobacconist content: Tobacconist A tobacconist, also called a tobacco shop, a "tobacconist's shop" or a smoke shop, is a retailer of tobacco products in various forms and the related accoutrements, such as pipes, lighters, matches, pipe cleaners, pipe tampers. More specialized retailers might sell: ashtrays, humidification devices, hygrometers, humidors, cigar cutters, and more. Books and magazines, especially ones related to tobacco are commonly offered. Items irrelevant to tobacco such as puzzles, games, figurines, hip flasks, walking sticks, and confectionery are sometimes sold. In the United States, a tobacconist shop is traditionally represented by a wooden Indian positioned nearby. Most retailers of tobacco


title: Tobacconist content: sell other types of product; today supermarkets, in many countries with a special counter, are usually the main sellers of the common brands of cigarette. In the United Kingdom, a common combination in small corner shops has been a newsagent selling newspapers and magazines, as well as confectionery and tobacco. In UK retailing this sector is referred to as "CONTOB" ("confectionery and tobacco"). Specialist tobacconists are in theory educated and practiced in all things related to tobacco including its different forms, colors, scents, textures and tastes. They employ this knowledge to provide information regarding customers about the tobacco products. Due


title: Tobacconist content: to the decline in the tobacco industry in recent decades and widespread use of mass-produced tobacco products, tobacconists have become scarce, though many smokers still prefer to buy their products from a tobacco shop with a tobacconist behind the counter. Standard tobacco shops in the United States generally specialize in cigarettes, roll-your-own supplies, smokeless tobacco such as dipping tobacco and chewing tobacco, cigars, and pipe tobacco. More recently, these smoke shops may also carry vaping supplies, and some may also double as head shops. More upscale tobacco shops tend to have a much larger emphasis on cigars and pipe tobacco.


title: Tobacconist content: Many of these establishments will have a walk-in humidor, as well as a smoking lounge or even a bar. These stores, often categorizing themselves specifically as a cigar store generally have limited amounts of the other commonplace forms of tobacco. Tobacco stores in Australia are normally franchised stores these days, as privately owned tobacconists generally don't or won't comply with the big tobacco companies. Then there are now smaller online tobacconists calling themselves Boutique Online Stores these stores are 24 hour operated stores, these stores are more specialized with emphasis on service and knowledge. In countries where tobacco control laws


title: Tobacconist content: are strong, tobacconists may have their trade limited. In the United States, it is common for retail pharmacies to sell cigarettes and similar products on the same premises as over-the-counter drugs and prescription medication. Campaigners in the USA advocate the removal of tobacco from pharmacies due to the health risks associated with smoking and the apparent contradiction of selling cigarettes alongside smoking cessation products and asthma medication. Pharmaceutical retailers counter this argument by reasoning that by selling tobacco, they are more readily able to offer to customers advice and products for quitting smoking. The Tobacconist, Victorian Walk is a featured


title: Tobacconist content: exhibit at the Museum of London. It showcases shops in an effort to recreate the late 19th century. Tobacconist A tobacconist, also called a tobacco shop, a "tobacconist's shop" or a smoke shop, is a retailer of tobacco products in various forms and the related accoutrements, such as pipes, lighters, matches, pipe cleaners, pipe tampers. More specialized retailers might sell: ashtrays, humidification devices, hygrometers, humidors, cigar cutters, and more. Books and magazines, especially ones related to tobacco are commonly offered. Items irrelevant to tobacco such as puzzles, games, figurines, hip flasks, walking sticks, and confectionery are sometimes sold. In the


title: "Python syntax and semantics" content: be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it", from "The Zen of Python". This mantra is deliberately opposed to the Perl and Ruby mantra, "there's more than one way to do it". Python has the following keywords or "reserved words"; they cannot be used as identifiers. Python uses whitespace to delimit control flow blocks (following the off-side rule). Python borrows this feature from its predecessor ABC: instead of punctuation or keywords, it uses indentation to indicate the run of a block. In so-called "free-format" languages — that use the block structure derived from ALGOL — blocks of code are


title: "Common genet" content: Common genet The common genet ("Genetta genetta") is a small viverrid indigenous to Africa that was introduced to southwestern Europe and the Balearic Islands. As it is widely distributed north of the Sahara, in savanna zones south of the Sahara to southern Africa and along the coast of Arabia, Yemen and Oman, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. The common genet has a slender, cat-like body, a small head with a pointed muzzle, large oval ears, large eyes and well-developed whiskers up to in length. Its legs are short, with cat-like feet and semi-retractile claws.


title: "Common genet" content: Its fur is dense and soft, and the coat is pale grey, with numerous black markings. The back and flanks are marked with about five rows of black spots, and a long black stripe runs along the middle of the back from the shoulders to the rump. There is also a black stripe on the forehead, and dark patches beneath the eyes, which are offset against the white fur of the chin and throat. The tail is striped, with anything from eight to thirteen rings along its length. Its body is long with a tail measuring . Males average on


title: "Common genet" content: weight at and are about 10% larger than females. It has an erectile crest of hair from the shoulder to the base of the tail, a white tail tip and black hind feet. In North Africa, the common genet occurs along the western Mediterranean coast, and in a broad band from Senegal and Mauritania in the west throughout the savannah zone south of the Sahara to Somalia and Tanzania in the east. On the Arabian Peninsula, it was recorded in coastal regions of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman. Another discontinuous population inhabits Southern Africa, from southern Angola across Zambia, Zimbabwe


title: "Common genet" content: to Mozambique. It inhabits a wide range of deciduous and evergreen habitats that provide plentiful shelter such as rocky terrain with caves and dense scrub land, but also come close to settlements and agricultural land. It is common in Morocco, but rare in Libya, Egypt and Zambia. In South Africa, it is common in west-central KwaZulu-Natal, in the Cape Province, and in QwaQwa National Park in the Free State province. It was brought to the Mediterranean region from Maghreb as a semi-domestic animal about 1,000 to 1,500 years ago. It spread from the Iberian Peninsula to the Balearic Islands and


title: "Common genet" content: southern France. In Italy, individuals were sighted in mountainous areas in the Piedmont region and in the Aosta Valley. Individuals sighted in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands are considered to have escaped or been released from captivity. In southwestern Europe, they thrive in oak and pine forests, but also live in olive groves, riparian zones, ash groves, rocky areas, and shrublands. They are rare in open areas, marshes, and cereal croplands. Despite their abundance along watercourses, presence of water is not considered essential. It prefers to live in areas with dense vegetation, such as bushes, thickets, and evergreen oak forests.


title: "Common genet" content: As resting sites it uses trees with dense foliage in the canopy and dense thickets overgrown with climbing plants. In northern areas, it prefers low altitudes with high temperatures and low rainfall. In the Manzanares Park in central Spain, it lives foremost in areas of elevation with lots of rocks and shrubs. It tolerates proximity to settlements. The common genet and wood mouse share the same habitats and niches, specifically Mediterranean forests. In the East Sudanian Savanna, it was recorded in the transboundary Dinder–Alatash protected area complex during surveys between 2015 and 2018. The common genet is solitary. Adults are


title: "Common genet" content: nocturnal and crepuscular, with their highest levels of activity following sunset and just prior to sunrise; juveniles may be active during the day. They rest during the day in hollow trees or among thickets, and frequently use the same resting sites. In southern Spain, adult individuals occupy home ranges of about in average. The ranges of males and females overlap, but those of members of the same sex do not. In northern Spain, home ranges of three females ranged from . During a study in northeastern Spain, males have been found to be more active than females at night because


title: "Common genet" content: of their greater size, which indicates that males have greater energy requirements to satisfy their physiological needs. Females typically weigh less, and they have been found to be less active overall. Females' home ranges are also smaller than those of males. Males had a mean annual home range of , and females of . While males have larger home ranges in all seasons, the differences between males' and females' territories are most significant during the winter. Their home ranges are slightly larger during the spring because they are more active, not only nocturnally, but in seeking a mate. Because of


title: "Common genet" content: their increased activity, they require more energy and are more active to acquire the necessary sustenance. Both male and females scent mark in their home ranges. Females mark their territory using scent glands on their flanks, hind legs, and perineum. Males mark less frequently than females, often spraying urine, rather than using their scent glands, and do so primarily during the breeding season. Scent marks by both sexes allow individuals to identify the reproductive and social status of other genets. Common genets also defecate at specific latrine sites, which are often located at the edge of their territories, and perform


title: "Common genet" content: a similar function to other scent marks. Five communication calls have been reported. The hiccup call is used by males during the mating period and by females to call the litter. Kits purr during their first week of life and, during their dependent weeks, moan or mew. Kits also growl after the complete development of predatory behavior and during aggressive interactions. Finally, genets utter a "click" as a threat. Threatening behavior consists of erection of the dark central dorsal band of hair, an arched-back stance, opening the mouth, and baring the teeth. The common genet uses five distinct calls. The


title: "Common genet" content: "hiccup" call is used to indicate friendly interactions, such as between a mother and her young, or between males and females prior to mating. Conversely, clicks, or, in younger individuals, growls, are used to indicate aggression. The remaining two calls, a "mew" and a purr, are used only by young still dependant on their mother. It has a varied diet comprising small mammals, lizards, birds, bird eggs, amphibians, centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, insects and fruit, including figs and olives. The wood mouse is a favourite prey item, It also prey on red squirrels ("Sciurus vulgaris") and dormice ("Eliomys quercinus"). Genets locate


title: "Common genet" content: their prey primarily by scent, and kill with a bite to the neck, like cats. Small rodents are captured by the back and killed with a bite at the head, then eaten starting with the head. In Spain, common genets can suffer from infestation of parasitic helminths, as well as ticks, fleas ("Hippobosca"), and lice. Common genets also host the phthirapteran "Eutrichophilus genettae" and "Lorisicola (Paradoxuroecus) genettae". In Africa, predators include leopard, serval, caracal, ratel and large owl species. Potential predators are also red fox and northern goshawk. In Spain, common genets breed between January and September, with a peak


title: "Common genet" content: in February and March and another one in the summer. Mating behaviour and development of young has been studied in captive individuals. Copulation lasts about two to three minutes, and is repeated up to five times in the same night. After a gestation period of 10 to 11 weeks, up to four young are born. Newborn common genets weigh . They start eating meat at around seven weeks of age, and are fully weaned at four months of age. When five months old, they are skilled in hunting on their own. When 19 months old, they start marking, and are


title: "Common genet" content: thought to be sexually mature at the age of two years. Captive common genets have lived up to 13 years. No major threats to common genets are known. In North Africa and some localities in southern Africa, they are hunted for their fur. In Portugal, they get killed in predator traps. On Ibiza, urbanization and development of infrastructure cause loss and fragmentation of habitat. "Genetta genetta" is listed on Appendix III of the Bern Convention and in Annex V of the Habitats and Species Directive of the European Union. Along with other viverrids, genets are among living Carnivorans considered to


title: "Common genet" content: be the morphologically closest to the extinct common ancestor of the whole order. More than 30 subspecies of the common genet have been described. The following are considered valid: "Genetta felina" has been reclassified as a species based on morphological diagnoses comparing 5500 Viverrinae specimens in zoological collections. Common genet The common genet ("Genetta genetta") is a small viverrid indigenous to Africa that was introduced to southwestern Europe and the Balearic Islands. As it is widely distributed north of the Sahara, in savanna zones south of the Sahara to southern Africa and along the coast of Arabia, Yemen and Oman,


title: "Diedrich Coffee" content: Diedrich Coffee Diedrich Coffee is a coffee company based in Irvine, CA. Its first coffee house in Orange County, California, was opened in 1972. It owns the American mall-based stores for Gloria Jean's Coffees. In Oregon, it previously ran Coffee People until nearly every location was bought and closed or converted into a Starbucks (Diedrich retained ownership of the Coffee People locations inside the Portland International Airport.) The history of the company started with Charlotte Diedrich inheriting a coffee plantation in Costa Rica in 1916. Her son, Carl Diedrich joined the business in 1946 and purchased a coffee plantation in


title: "Crazy Frog Presents More Crazy Hits" content: the previous album - "Axel F" and "Popcorn". Crazy Frog Presents More Crazy Hits Crazy Frog Presents More Crazy Hits is the second album from Crazy Frog, and has been released in the UK on June 26. "We Are the Champions (Ding a Dang Dong)" was released as the first single on June 5. More Crazy Hits was released in Canada July 25. The European re-edition entitled "The Ultimate Edition" was released in December 2006 and featured few new songs (from US edition), and also the single version of "Crazy Frog In The House (Knight Rider)" and "Last Christmas 2006".


title: UltraCats content: he felt responsible for starting the group UltraCats and not being able to do much, especially for Jinny who he knew came to Japan as she wanted to become a singer, but the answer was no. So Uchimura started asking around almost all the TV stations around Tokyo if they could start a show in any form for UltraCats so that they could continue singing and selling CD's, on the condition that he would not need any salaries (he'd been popular and around for more than 15 years so it would cost a lot to just pay him) and that


title: "Pittsburgh Cultural Trust" content: involved the husband of Highmark employee, Melissa Myler, with whom Milani had been romantically connected. Veronica Corpuz, spokesperson for the PCT, informed the media that the Executive Committee had appointed attorneys Carolyn Duronio and Chuck Queenan as Milani's interim replacement until a new chairman was found. Exhibitions held in the PCT's Wood Street Galleries feature new media artists from around the world. SPACE and 707 Penn promote local artists. Recent Wood Street Galleries exhibitions featured work by artists Bill Vorn and Louis-Philippe Demers (2014); Alexandre Burton and Edwin van der Heide (2014); Erwin Redl (2014); Kurt Hentschläger (2013); Chang-Jin Lee


title: Telepass content: batteries. The OBUs communicate with the electronic toll booths by dedicated short-range communications. Telepass is used on motorways in the "open" and the "closed" systems. Toll in the open system consists of a flat fee charged for the use of a motorway or a part thereof, regardless of the distance travelled. Toll in the closed system is charged depending on the distance. In both systems, the toll varies according to the type of vehicle (car, bus, lorry etc.) and to the upkeep for the motorway. Telepass is currently available on most motorway entries and exits. At large toll stations, like


title: "24 (season 6)" content: of Hong, the Chinese show up and thank Jack for identifying the double agent they had suspected all along. Cheng Zhi then executes Hong. Additionally, an epilogue to Season 6 was released called "". It was first made available to American Express cardholders but was later released on the Season 6 DVD. The original trailer for the sixth season opens with Kiefer Sutherland breaking the fourth wall and thanking the fans. The trailer features scenes from the first four episodes and sets Jack Bauer up to be sacrificed. It was released on October 24, 2006. Eddie Izzard was cast as


title: "The Prodigal" content: "the biggest and most embarrassing failure" and "the worst film I ever supported" in his time at MGM. "The Prodigal" was satirized in "Mad" #26 (November 1955) as "The Prodigious". The Prodigal The Prodigal is a 1955 Eastmancolor biblical epic CinemaScope film made by MGM starring Edmund Purdom and Lana Turner. It was based on the New Testament parable about a selfish son who leaves his family to pursue a life of pleasure. The film also features James Mitchell, Louis Calhern, Joseph Wiseman, Cecil Kellaway and Walter Hampden. The dancer Taina Elg made her film debut. The story is loosely


title: "Clint Lowery" content: in opaque black with white binding on the body, neck, and headstock. It also features a new and exclusive inlay pattern and body shape as well as black nickel hardware for a distinct look. The SE Clint Lowery features a beveled mahogany body with white binding on the body, neck, and headstock, 24-fret, 25 ½" scale length mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and Clint Lowery designed inlays, PRS Designed SE adjustable stoptail bridge and tuners, black nickel hardware, String Gauges: 11, 18, 22p, 32, 44, 56 tuned to C#/drop "B": C#, G#, E, B, F#, B. The guitar has a


title: "Capacitance meter" content: Capacitance meter A capacitance meter is a piece of electronic test equipment used to measure capacitance, mainly of discrete capacitors. Depending on the sophistication of the meter, it may display the capacitance only, or it may also measure a number of other parameters such as leakage, equivalent series resistance (ESR), and inductance. For most purposes and in most cases the capacitor must be disconnected from circuit; ESR can usually be measured in circuit. Some checks can be made without a specialised instrument, particularly on aluminium electrolytic capacitors which tend to be of high capacitance and to be subject to poor


title: "Strecker's chorus frog" content: Strecker's chorus frog Strecker's chorus frog ("Pseudacris strecker") is a species of nocturnal tree frog native to the south central United States, from southern Kansas, through Oklahoma and east to Arkansas, the northwestern tip of Louisiana and south throughouth much of Texas. Strecker's chorus frogs can attain a size of approximately 1.5 inches (about 3.5 cm). They vary in color from light grey, brown to green with darker longitudinal blotches, and a distinctive dark spot that runs underneath the eye. Their underside is typically white in color, with yellow or orange around the groin region. Whether this name refers to


title: "Strecker's chorus frog" content: a species with two subspecies: Strecker's chorus frog, "Pseudacris streckeri streckeri" Wright & Wright, 1933 and Illinois chorus frog, "Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis" (Smith, 1951), or whether the Illinois chorus frog is split off as its own species is controversial. Collins recognized it as its own species which was followed by ASW6.0 and Amphibiaweb on the basis of its diagnosability from Pseudacris streckeri and its allopatry. The IUCNredlist 2013.2 has not incorporated this taxonomic split. Strecker's chorus frog Strecker's chorus frog ("Pseudacris strecker") is a species of nocturnal tree frog native to the south central United States, from southern Kansas, through


title: "Simcha Jacobovici" content: well as most linguistic and biblical scholars. The television show was produced for VisionTV in Canada and History International in the US and was hosted and prepared by Jacobovici and Avri Gilad. The show ultimately reviewed biblical stories and then tried to find proof for them by exploring the Holy Land looking for archaeological evidence, making personal inferences and deductions and interviewing scholars and experts. After its original run on VisionTV, it was picked up in the U.S. by The History Channel and its sister network, History International. The episode "A Nabatean by Any Other Name" won the Special Jury


title: "Centralia mine fire" content: taken through eminent domain. The Centralia mine fire also extended beneath the town of Byrnesville, a few miles to the south. The town had to be abandoned and leveled. The Centralia area has now grown to be a tourist attraction. Visitors come to see the smoke on Centralia's empty streets and the abandoned portion of PA Route 61, popularly referred to as the Graffiti Highway. The fire and its effects were featured in 2013 on "America Declassified" on the Travel Channel. Centralia mine fire The Centralia mine fire is a coal seam fire that has been burning underneath the borough


title: "Gricel Mamery" content: period film, ""Party Time"" (directed by Juanma Fernández París), as the aerobics-obsessed mother of one of the film's teenagers. Gricel became an occasional color reporter on Puerto Rican lifestyle and pop culture for Despierta América, starting in 2007. She later became an occasional guest presenter for Argentinian-born papparazo Javier Ceriani's "Papparazzi TV" program on Mega TV. The Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián (San Sebastian Street Festival) has become a popular event in the old city of San Juan, where thousands of Puerto Ricans and visitors to the city gather during a weekend every January to celebrate the feast of


title: "Lorenzo Da Ponte" content: Da Ponte's opera house was, however, the predecessor of the New York Academy of Music and of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Lorenzo Da Ponte died in 1838 in New York; an enormous funeral ceremony was held in New York's old St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mulberry Street. Some sources state that Da Ponte is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, but that cemetery did not exist before 1848. Other sources say Da Ponte was buried in lower Manhattan. Calvary Cemetery does contain a stone marker as a memorial. In 2009 the Spanish director Carlos Saura released his Italian film "Io,


title: "Ladyhawk (comics)" content: there is enough variation between their fighting styles for a trained eye (like Spider-Girl) to tell the two apart. They supplement their fighting skills with weapons, such as falcon-shaped shuriken, smoke bombs, capture rings, and sonic-throwing blades. Ladyhawk (comics) Ladyhawk (Rosetta Morgan and Regina Morgan) is the shared codename of a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters appeared in the series "Spider-Girl". Their first names were revealed to be Rosetta and Regina in "Amazing Spider-Girl" #7; their last names were revealed in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #4". Twin sisters


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: Rhus integrifolia Rhus integrifolia, also known as lemonade sumac, lemonade berry, or lemonadeberry, is a shrub to small tree. It is native to the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges and the South Coast regions of Southern California. This extends from Santa Barbara County and the Channel Islands to San Diego County and extending into north-central Pacific coastal Baja California and its offshore islands such as Cedros Island. It is in height, with a sprawling form, and is a member of the chaparral plant community often found in canyons and on north-facing slopes below elevations of . "Rhus integrifolia" often hybridizes with


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: "Rhus ovata". "Rhus integrifolia" leaves are simple (unusual in a genus where most species are trifoliate), alternating, evergreen and leathery, ranging from two to four centimeters wide on reddish twigs; length of leaves is five to seven centimeters. Leaves are toothed with a waxy smooth appearance above and a paler tone below. The flowers which appear from February to May are small, clustered closely together, and may be either bisexual or pistillate. These fragrant flowers exhibit radial symmetry with five green sepals, five white to rosy-pink petals, and five stamens. The small flowers are only six millimeters across. The ovary


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: is superior and usually has a single ovule; although in pistillate flowers, the stamens are small and infertile. The mature fruit of "Rhus integrifolia" is sticky, reddish, covered with hairs, and about seven to ten millimeters in diameter. The elliptical fruit presents tight clusters at the very ends of twigs. Young plants manifest smooth reddish bark, while more mature individuals have cracked, even scaly, grayish bark with the smooth red bark displayed underneath. Twigs are rather stout and flexible, and reddish bud ends are diminutive and pointed. There is often a multi-furcate branching structure from the base of the plant.


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: A mature plant is large and thicket-like with a sprawling arrangement. The lemonade berry plant is found on dry slopes in coastal areas of southern California and especially northern Baja California; however, one colony has even been observed as far north as Santa Cruz County. In addition to occurring on dry slopes and in canyon settings, the species sometimes is found on bluffs. The lemonade berry occurs in both chaparral and coastal sage scrub communities. This plant thrives on well-drained soils and endures heat and windy conditions well. The species tolerates sandy as well as medium loam soils, and it


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: can even thrive in nutrient deficient soil. This plant tolerates mildly acid to mildly alkaline soils, but it cannot grow in shady conditions. Propagation is by seed or by runners; in the case of seed propagation bee pollination is required of vicinity female trees growing near male trees. Lemonade berry grows very well in coastal exposures. The fruits are enjoyed by many bird species including the road-runner. Many plants within this genus are considered toxic, although some reports indicate the berries of this species can be used to make lemonade flavored drinks (hence its common name). Allergic reactions may also


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: result from skin contact with sap from some of the genera. Lemonade berry leaves are rich in tannins. Even though the species is evergreen, there is some leaf fall in autumn, at which time the fallen leaves may be used as a brown dye or mordant. An oil can be extracted from lemonade berry seeds; moreover, this oil achieves a tallow consistency when left to stand. Thereafter the oil can be employed to manufacture candles, which burn brightly, albeit emitting a pungent scent. The wood of mature plants is dense and hard, making it prized for wood-burning fireplace kindling. "Rhus


title: "Rhus integrifolia" content: integrifolia" can also be used as a landscape shrub and is suitable for hedging and espalier. The plant is vulnerable to frost, but often the plant will regrow by summer, after it appears to have died from cold. The growth habit is slow to moderate and, as a garden plant, this species is quite resistant to deer, and supplies nectar and fruit for birds and nectar for butterflies. Its cultural requirements mimic its natural environment with ample drainage and little summer water. Rhus integrifolia Rhus integrifolia, also known as lemonade sumac, lemonade berry, or lemonadeberry, is a shrub to small


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: Plain chachalaca The plain chachalaca ("Ortalis vetula") is a large bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae. It breeds in tropical and subtropical environments from mezquital thickets in the Rio Grande Valley in southernmost Texas, United States to northernmost Costa Rica. In Central America, this species occurs in the Pacific lowlands from Chiapas, Mexico to northern Nicaragua and as a separate population in Costa Rica, where its range is separated by a short distance, as a disjunct population. This species frequents dry and moist forests, especially where interspersed with scrub and savanna. Usually found in groups of up


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: to 15 birds, the plain chachalaca is furtive and wary and prefers to escape from danger by running swiftly on the ground or leaping and gliding through brushy tangles. The plain chachalaca feeds in trees or on the ground on fruit (figs, palms, Sapotaceae), seeds, leaves, and flowers. It is sometimes a pest of crops such as tomatoes and cucumbers. The call is a loud, raucous "RAW-pa-haw" or "cha-cha-LAW-ka", often by several birds in a rhythmical chorus, especially in early morning and evening, usually from well up in trees. It also produces peeping whistles and cackles. Others describe chachalaca calls


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: as irritating noises mimicking a bunch of men arguing. The plain chachalaca typically breeds in the early wet season. The nest is a shallow saucer of twigs and plant fibers, lined with leaves, in thick vegetation. The clutch is 2–4 rough-shelled white to cream eggs. The plain chachalaca is related to the West Mexican chachalaca and the white-bellied chachalaca, and both of these were formerly considered a subspecies of the plain chachalaca . Today all major authorities recognize them as separate species.Their ranges slightly overlap in Mexico, but hybrids have not been reported between them. The white-bellied chachalaca may be


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: more closely related to the little chachalaca than the plain chachalaca. There are five recognized subspecies: The isolated population in Costa Rica is assigned to the nominate race of the plain chachalaca, but has also been assigned to the white-bellied chachalaca and may in fact represent a new subspecies of the plain chachalaca - its plumage is close to this species than the white-bellied. The plain chachalaca is a medium-sized galliform, around the size of a common pheasant. It measures in length, and varies in weight from for males and in females Males are on average larger but because of


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: overlap that isn't diagnostic of sex, and in appreance they are the same. It is long-necked with a small head and bare throat patch which becomes deep red in both sexes during the breeding season. Adults have a greyish head and neck with a dull olive-brown body and wings. The underbelly is pale to ochraceous and the tail is blackish with green gloss and buffy-white tip. The iris is brown and bill is black; orbital skin and the feet are dull grey. The plain chachalaca is found from Texas, in the Lower Rio Grande, through the eastern coast of Mexico,


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, northern Guatemala, northern Honduras and just into the north central part of Nicaragua, with a small population on the Nicoya Peninsula of northern Costa Rica. The species has also been introduced and established to San Patricio County in Texas and three islands, Sapelo, Blackbeard and Little St. Simons Island, on the coast of Georgia. The plain chachalaca occupies a wide range of habitats, including primary forest, secondary forest, forest edge and riverine forest, thorny bush-scrub, and shrubland. It is also found in human modified habitats such as orchards, suburban parks and gardens and croplands. Unlike other


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: cracids, it is able to adapt to the scrubland that arises after the clearing of tropical rainforest. It can be found from sea-level to The plain chachalaca is mostly diurnal and is most active in cool mornings and in the evening. It is mostly inactive during the heat of the day. Pairs or family groups roost communally in trees, usually on a branch, often touching, and facing the same way. Hunting of the plain chachalaca is restricted to subsistence hunting, for example by the Mayan people in southern Mexico. The plain chachalaca population is 500,000–5,000,000 (2006 IUCN Red List). It


title: "Plain chachalaca" content: is not threatened. However the subspecies from Útila Island, "O. v. deschauenseei", has sometimes been listed as extinct, but recent surveys have confirmed that it still survives. Plain chachalaca The plain chachalaca ("Ortalis vetula") is a large bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae. It breeds in tropical and subtropical environments from mezquital thickets in the Rio Grande Valley in southernmost Texas, United States to northernmost Costa Rica. In Central America, this species occurs in the Pacific lowlands from Chiapas, Mexico to northern Nicaragua and as a separate population in Costa Rica, where its range is separated by


title: "Feminism in Japan" content: 1921. The Red Wave's manifesto condemned capitalism, arguing that it turned women into slaves and prostitutes. Rural families were forced to contract their daughters to factories due to financial difficulties. These girls were required to live in dormitories, unable to leave except to go to work. They worked 12-hour shifts in poor conditions. Many caught brown lung, a disease caused by exposure to cotton dust in poorly ventilated working environments, and other illnesses related to working in textile factories (Ravina). The state refused to enact legislation needed to protect women in the factories. There were no on-call doctors in the


title: "HMS Saumarez (G12)" content: Andaman Sea, with the destroyers and . They found and destroyed a junk in Stewart Sound, but "Rapid" and "Volage" sustained damage and casualties from hits from a coastal gun reported to be 6 inch or larger. On 25 March, a further sweep was made. A Japanese convoy was sighted the next day and engaged. Although the destroyers attacked with gunfire and torpedoes they made few hits and, being low on ammunition, called on two Liberator bombers to sink the enemy. One of these sank one of the Japanese auxiliary, "Risui" with bombs. "Volage" sank the other auxiliary, "Teshio Maru",


title: "Pepper Potts" content: fight with Spymaster during the 2006-2007 "Civil War" storyline, Pepper requests that Tony turn off Happy's life support. Happy dies in "Invincible Iron Man" (vol. 4) #14. After the events of the "Civil War" story line, Pepper joins the Fifty State Initiative as a member of The Order, a government sanctioned superhero team operating within California. She assumes the moniker of the Greek goddess Hera, and uses advanced computer-hardware and prosthetics to monitor and coordinate the team's missions. Upon the absorption of The Order into the Initiative, Tony Stark offers her a job on the special-projects team at Stark Enterprises,


title: "Sedum acre" content: Sedum acre Sedum acre, commonly known as the goldmoss stonecrop, mossy stonecrop, goldmoss sedum, biting stonecrop and wallpepper, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is native to Europe, but also naturalised in North America, Japan and New Zealand. Biting stonecrop is a tufted perennial herb that forms mat-like stands some tall. Much of the year the stems are short, semi prostrate and densely clad in leaves. At the flowering time in June and July, the stems lengthen and are erect, somewhat limp and often pinkish-brown with the leaves further apart. The leaves are alternate, fleshy and


title: "Sedum acre" content: shortly cylindrical with a rounded tip. They are also sometimes tinged with red. The starry flowers form a three to six-flowered cyme. The calyx has five fleshy sepals fused at the base, the corolla consists of five regular bright yellow petals, there are ten stamens, a separate gynoecium and five pistils. The fruit is five united, many-seeded follicles. The leaves contain an acrid fluid that can cause skin rashes. Biting stonecrop is a low-growing plant that cannot compete with more vigorous, fast-growing species. It is specially adapted for growing on thin dry soils and can be found on shingle, beaches,


title: "Sedum acre" content: drystone walls, dry banks, seashore rocks, roadside verges, wasteland and in sandy meadows near the sea. Biting stonecrop spreads when allowed to do so, but is easily controlled, being shallow-rooted. It is used in hanging baskets and container gardens, as a trailing accent, in borders, or as groundcover. This plant grows as a creeping ground cover, often in dry sandy soil, but also in the cracks of masonry. It grows well in poor soils, sand, rock gardens, and rich garden soil, under a variety of light levels. Sedum acre Sedum acre, commonly known as the goldmoss stonecrop, mossy stonecrop, goldmoss


title: "Eamon Collins" content: Collins family had no association and little interest in Irish Nationalist politics. Collins' mother was devout Catholic, and he was brought up under her influence with a sense of awe for the martyrs of that religion in Irish history, in its conflicts with Protestantism.<br>After completing his schooling, Collins worked for a time in the Ministry of Defence in a clerical capacity in London before studying Law at Queen's University, where he became influenced by Marxist political ideology. In Easter 1974, as he walked home to his parents' home in South Armagh during a break from his studies in Belfast, on


title: "Et Cetera (manga)" content: goes off with Fino and Yaghi when the gang splits up at the end. is a member of the Syndicate. He is sneaky, manipulative, and cruel. He killed Fino's parents as well as Gordy, Alternate's father, and tricked Alternate into thinking that Mingchao had done it. He used both Alternate and Baskerville to try to get his way, but ultimately did not succeed as he was later duped by Cavanaugh. He despises Cavanaugh despite her being his superior in the Syndicate. He claims she took credit for one of his reports and stole his bonus. After she tricks him he


title: "George Despot" content: George Despot George Joseph Despot (January 28, 1927 – February 14, 1991) was a businessman in his native Shreveport and a pioneer in the establishment of a competitive Republican Party in the U.S. state of Louisiana. He was the state Republican chairman from 1978 to 1985. His leadership began when the state party was so small that there was a standing joke that the Louisiana GOP could operate from a phone booth, few of which still exist, though the Republicans became the majority party in Louisiana by 2012. Despot was born to George G. Despot (1898-1969) and Katherine "Katie" Despot


title: "USS Starlight (AP-175)" content: Able, "Starlight" landed troops on the Dulag beachhead on the Philippine island of Leyte on 20 October 1944 as the invasion of Leyte began. When all troops had been disembarked from TransDiv 38, it sailed for Hollandia, New Guinea, as part of a "turn-around" resupply operation. "Starlight" returned to Leyte on 18 November 1944 with replacements for combat casualties, which she unloaded in eight hours under Japanese air attack. "Starlight" shot down two Japanese aircraft before steaming to Manus Island off New Guinea and Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville in the Solomon Islands for amphibious training of the 145th Regimental


title: "Split-radix FFT algorithm" content: not the sole factor (or even necessarily the dominant factor) in determining the time required to compute a DFT on a computer, the question of the minimum possible count is of longstanding theoretical interest. (No tight lower bound on the operation count has currently been proven.) The split-radix algorithm can only be applied when "N" is a multiple of 4, but since it breaks a DFT into smaller DFTs it can be combined with any other FFT algorithm as desired. Recall that the DFT is defined by the formula: where formula_2 is an integer ranging from formula_3 to formula_4 and


title: "Rachid Boudjedra" content: a fatwa was issued which called for his death, he felt he had to live outside of Algeria. He has routinely been called the greatest living North African writer. Boudjedra was awarded the Prix du roman arabe in 2010 for "Les Figuiers de Barbarie". Despite a dearth of English translations, two of his novels, "Les Figuiers de Barbarie" and "Les Funérailles" are currently being translated by André Naffis-Sahely. Rachid Boudjedra has also been involved in writing a number of films. "Chronique des années de braise" ("Chronicle of the Years of Fire"), (dir. by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina) which, in 1975 won the


title: "Maksim Bahdanovič" content: Maksim Bahdanovič Maksim Adamavič Bahdanovič (Belarusian language: "Максім Адамавіч Багдановіч", , , 9 December 1891 – 25 May 1917) was a Belarusian poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of literature. He is considered as one of founders of the modern Belarusian language. Bahdanovič was born in Minsk in the family of Adam Bahdanovič, an important Belarusian ethnographer who through most of his career worked as a bank clerk. Maksim was born in a family apartment at Karakazov House located at Trinity Hill where beside the Bahdanovich's apartment was located the First Parish School. His father was of unlanded peasantry


title: "Gallium(III) oxide" content: Gallium(III) oxide Gallium(III) oxide is an inorganic compound with the formula GaO. It exists as several polymorphs, all of which are white, water-insoluble solids. Although no commercial applications exist, GaO is an intermediate in the purification of gallium, which is consumed almost exclusively as gallium arsenide. Gallium oxide is precipitated in hydrated form upon neutralization of acidic or basic solution of gallium salt. Also, it is formed on heating gallium in air or by thermally decomposing gallium nitrate at 200–250 ˚C. It can occur in five different modifications, α, β, γ, δ, and ε. Of these modifications β-GaO is the


title: "Coming Home (New Found Glory album)" content: of classic guitar sound" when recording, using a Vox AC30 amp on almost the entire record. The amp, known for its "jangly" high-end sound, was used with several classic guitars in the studio including a Fender Tele, Les Paul, Gibson 335-S and a Rickenbacker. Gilbert enthused that, "It sounds huge. When you put our old records on and our new record, there's actually less guitars on our new album, but it sounds bigger." Jordan Pundik likewise accounted; "he [Panunzio] brought this classic vibe to it, especially with the tones he got. We learned we don't have to double-up 15 Mesa


title: "Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales" content: played three games for Mexico at the 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship in China. <br> Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales, dubbed "El Capi" (born March 8, 1969 in Mexico City), is a retired Mexican footballer, who played as central defender. Ramírez Perales played for nearly 15 years in Mexico's league top tier, beginning his career with UNAM in 1988. By the following year he had become a starter in central defense, and he started 41 matches in 1990–91 as Pumas won the league, overcoming Club América in the final. He remained with UNAM until 1994,


title: "Groundling Marsh" content: to annoy her by mispronouncing her name (calling her "Crispy", "Creepy", "Cookie", "Cracker", or "Christmas"). Chet (performed by Gord Robertson) is Hegdish's 2 year old cheerful and rambunctiously playful little brother. He has a high-pitched voice, wears a teal T-shirt and has shaggy purple fur, small thin black eyebrows and heavily ringed yellow eyes like Hegdish's. He was first appeared in the last episode of Season 2, He is more rambunctious than Maggie's, He likes Vilma who hangs out, He likes adventures with Vilma. Vilma (performed by Trish Leeper) is Galileo's 2 year-old rambunctious, sweet and gentle kindful little sister,


title: "Sustainable city" content: families and friends instead by eliminating part of their commute time. See also: Compact city and Pocket neighborhood Sustainable transportation emphasizes the use of a diversity of fuel-efficient transportation vehicles in order to reduce greenhouse emissions and diversity fuel demand. Due to the increasingly expensive and volatile cost of energy, this strategy has become very important because it allows a way for city residents to be less susceptible to varying highs and lows in various energy prices. Among the different modes of transportation, the use alternative energy cars and widespread installation of refueling stations has gained increasing importance, while the


title: "Sun-class cruise ship" content: are promoted as "big ship choice and small ship feel". The four ships are effectively identical, with the only notable exception being the design of the bridge wings; "Sun Princess" and "Pacific Explorer" having exterior bridge wings, "Sea Princess" and "Oceana" having enclosed bridge wings. Sun-class cruise ship The Sun class is a class of cruise ships operated primarily by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival. The class was designed and its component vessels constructed by Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani in Italy. The first Sun-class vessel, "Sun Princess", entered service in 1995 and the last, "Ocean Princess", entered service in


title: Sansevieria content: Sansevieria Sansevieria is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants, native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Common names include mother-in-law's tongue, devil's tongue, jinn's tongue, bow string hemp, snake plant and snake tongue. It is often included in the genus "Dracaena"; in the APG III classification system, both genera are placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). It has also been placed in the former family Dracaenaceae. There is great variation within the genus, and species range from succulent desert plants such as "Sansevieria pinguicula" to thinner leafed tropical plants such as "Sansevieria


title: Sansevieria content: trifasciata". Plants often form dense clumps from a spreading rhizome or stolons. The leaves of "Sansevieria" are typically arranged in a rosette around the growing point, although some species are distichous. There is great variation in foliage form within the genus. All species can be divided into one of two basic categories based on their leaves: hard leaved and soft leaved species. Typically, hard leaved "Sansevieria" originate from arid climates, while the soft leaved species originate from tropical and subtropical regions. Hard leaved "Sansevieria" have a number of adaptations for surviving dry regions. These include thick, succulent leaves for storing


title: Sansevieria content: water and thick leaf cuticles for reducing moisture loss. These leaves may be cylindrical to reduce surface area and are generally shorter than those of their soft leafed tropical counterparts, which are wide and strap-like. The flowers are usually greenish-white, also rose, lilac-red, brownish, produced on a simple or branched raceme. The fruit is a red or orange berry. In nature, "Sansevieria" flowers are pollinated by moths, but both flowering and fruiting are erratic and few seeds are produced. The raceme of "Sansevieria" is derived from the apical meristem, and a flowered shoot will no longer produce new leaves. Unlike


title: Sansevieria content: plants such as agave which die after flowering, a bloomed "Sansevieria" shoot will simply cease to produce new leaves. The flowered shoot continues to grow by producing plantlets via its rhizomes or stolons. "Sansevieria" is named for the Italian scientist and inventor Raimondo di Sangro [1710-71], Prince of Sanseviero. The genus was originally named "Sanseverinia" by Vincenzo Petagna in 1787, to honor his patron Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, Count of Chiaromonte (1724-1771), in whose garden Petagna had seen the plant. In 1794, Thunberg, used the name "Sansevieria". It is not clear whether Thunberg's name was intended to be new, or was


title: Sansevieria content: a typographical error for Petagna's name. ""Sansevieria" " is a conserved name in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, notwithstanding arguments that the author should be given as Petagna. The spellings ""Sanseveria"" and ""Sanseviera"" are commonly seen as well, the confusion deriving from alternate spellings of the Italian place name. As of 2015 the genus was subdivided into three sections, one of which is further subdivided into three subsections: In Africa, the leaves are used for fiber production; in some species, e.g. "Sansevieria ehrenbergii", the plant's sap has antiseptic qualities, and the leaves are used for


title: Sansevieria content: bandages in traditional first aid. Several species are popular houseplants in temperate regions, with "Sansevieria trifasciata" the most widely sold; numerous cultivars are available. In China, the plant is usually kept potted in a pot often ornamented with dragons and phoenixes. Growth is comparatively slow and the plant will last for many years. The tall-growing plants have stiff, erect, lance-shaped leaves while the dwarf plants grow in rosettes. As houseplants, "Sansevieria" thrive on warmth and bright light, but will also tolerate shade. They can rot from over-watering, so it is important that they are potted in well-drained soil, and not


title: Sansevieria content: over-watered. They need to be re-potted or split at the root from time to time because they will sometimes grow so large that they break the pot they are growing in. In Korea, potted "Sansevieria" is commonly presented as a gift during opening ceremonies of businesses or other auspicious events. In Barbados, Sansevieria is also popularly referred to as the "money plant", with the belief that the person having it will always have money. The belief seems to be based on an association of the colour (green) with the US bills. Other "Sansevieria" species are less common in cultivation. Another


title: Sansevieria content: species is "Sansevieria cylindrica", which has leaves which look quite different from "S. trifasciata", but is equally tough. "Sansevieria" can be propagated by seed, leaf cutting, and division. Seeds are rarely used, as plants can normally be grown much faster from cuttings or divisions. As many cultivars are periclinal chimeras, they do not come true to type from leaf cuttings, and therefore must be propagated by rhizome division to retain the variegation. Sansevieria has frequently been used as a set decoration in many films and TV shows, both in Hollywood and internationally, since at least the 1930s, including A Serbian


title: Sansevieria content: Film, Being John Malkovich, Blue Velvet, Duck Soup, Groundhog Day, Homegrown, The Paper, and These Final Hours. According to a NASA Clean Air Study, along with other plants such as golden pothos ("Epipremnum aureum") and corn plant ("Dracaena fragrans"), "Sansevieria trifasciata" is capable of purifying air by removing some toxins such as formaldehyde, xylene, and toluene. "Sansevieria" use the crassulacean acid metabolism process, which absorbs carbon dioxide at night, although oxygen is released during daylight. Nighttime absorption of CO₂ purportedly makes them especially suitable bedroom plants. However, since the leaves are potentially poisonous if ingested, "Sansevieria" is not usually recommended


title: Sansevieria content: for children's bedrooms. According to feng shui, because the leaves of "Sansevieria" grow upwards, the plants can be used for feng shui purposes. Some believe that having "Sansevieria" near children helps reduce coarseness, although care must be taken to ensure the child cannot reach the plant's poisonous leaves. Others recommend placing pots near the toilet tank to counter the drain-down vibrations. Such placement appears in the 1986 film "Blue Velvet". Sansevieria Sansevieria is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants, native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia. Common names include mother-in-law's tongue, devil's tongue, jinn's tongue, bow string


title: "Thorndike Pond" content: Thorndike Pond Thorndike Pond is a water body located in Cheshire County in southwestern New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Jaffrey and Dublin. The pond is located at the base of Mount Monadnock. Water from Thorndike Pond flows north via Stanley Brook, then east via Nubanusit Brook to the Contoocook River, a tributary of the Merrimack River. Whittemore Island is centrally located on the lake and contains a looping walking trail that is maintained by The Nature Conservancy. The lake is classified as a warmwater fishery, with observed species including smallmouth and largemouth bass, chain pickerel, horned pout,


title: "Veronica americana" content: Veronica americana Veronica americana, variously called American brooklime or American speedwell, is a plant native to temperate and arctic Asia and North America where it grows in streams and bottomlands. It is a herbaceous perennial with glabrous stems 10–100 cm long that bear terminal or axillary racemes or spikes of soft violet flowers. The leaves are 1.5–8 cm long and 3 to 20 times as long as wide, short-petiolate, glabrous, serrate to almost entire. The plant can be confused with "Scutellaria" (skullcap) and other members of the mint family. Members of the mint family have square sided stems, and "Veronica"


title: "Veronica americana" content: species have rounded stems. American speedwell is used both as food and as a medicinal plant. It is rich in nutrients and is reported to have a flavor similar to that of watercress. Veronica americana Veronica americana, variously called American brooklime or American speedwell, is a plant native to temperate and arctic Asia and North America where it grows in streams and bottomlands. It is a herbaceous perennial with glabrous stems 10–100 cm long that bear terminal or axillary racemes or spikes of soft violet flowers. The leaves are 1.5–8 cm long and 3 to 20 times as long as


title: "Frontera Corozal, Chiapas" content: for sacrifice. The second stele is worked on only one side and contains four people, two men and two women. The main personage is Itzam-Balam, who is seated on a throne pointing to another man at his feet on the right. Both of these are depicted in profile. The king is richly attired in jewelry and feathers. The lower man may represent the ruler of Dos Caobas, which was under Yaxchilan’s dominion at the time. He extends his left hand to the king with something that looks like a flower. Behind the king, there are two women standing and looking


title: "Washington Report on Middle East Affairs" content: policies, the "Washington Report" has published articles belittling the magnitude of the Holocaust, listing the names of Jewish publishers of leading U.S. newspapers to demonstrate 'Zionist' control of the media, and accusing Israel of 'Nazi-style' genocide against the Arabs. Each issue is filled with wild conspiracy theories about Israel and pro-Israel lobbying groups, accusing them of orchestrating everything from the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the assassination of John F. Kennedy." During the George W. Bush administration, the Anti-Defamation League criticized the publication for hosting an essay by Paul Craig Roberts in which he writes the "fanatical neoconservatives and Israelis are


title: "Stud finder" content: Stud finder A stud finder (also stud detector or stud sensor) is a handheld device used with wood buildings to locate framing studs located behind the final walling surface, usually drywall. While there are many different stud finders available, most fall into two main categories: magnetic stud detectors and electric stud finders. Some newer technologies exist such as RF radar with 3D imaging technology. Stud finders have been in use since the early 20th century, and the first ones were all magnetic, relying on internal magnets to detect the walling fasteners presumably attached to studs. In 1977, Robert Franklin designed


title: "Stud finder" content: a revolutionary electronic stud finder that relied on an internal capacitor to measure changes in density behind the walling. His patent was put into production by the Zircon Corporation, which became the sole producer of electronic stud finders until the patent expired in 1998. While novel, these electronic stud finders did not always prove effective in locating studs. Since 1998, many developments and improvements have been made to the internal capacitor stud finders and increased their popularity. Recent innovators developed stud finders with multiple sensor plates that sense the wall in multiple places instantly. These sensors can indicate the location,


title: "Stud finder" content: width, and lack of studs simultaneously. With more sensors, these instant stud finders avoid the shortcomings of previous electronic stud finders, which require calibration and do not adapt to inconsistencies in wall construction. While the instant stud finders have made finding studs an easy and efficient task, many people still use magnetic stud detectors. A few stud finders use ultra-wideband scanners. They are based on the micropower impulse radar stud detector invented by Thomas McEwan. Magnetic stud detectors use magnets to locate metal in the walling material because the magnet is attracted to the metal. The attraction grows stronger as


title: "Stud finder" content: the magnet gets closer to the metal in the walling. The strongest attraction point, if due to a metal fastener in the wall, should indicate the location of a stud, but careless wall construction can leave many metal fasteners off the studs or towards the edge, rendering the spot useless for anchoring objects. Magnetic stud detectors can be useful in homes build with metal mesh lath and plaster. The metal mesh will confuse the signal of an electronic stud finder. Stationary magnet stud detectors use a small stationary magnet to detect the nails or screws placed into studs while putting