title: "Wolfgang Fikentscher" content: Thinking, Munich; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar/Netherlands (1971/72); Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, N.M. (1992/93, 1995/96, 2002); Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Portola Valley, Calif. (since 1992). Guest professorships: Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (1962, 1966); University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor, Mich. (1955, 1987); Yale Law School and Yale's Department of Anthropology, New Haven, Conn. 1986; University of Nanjing (1993); University of California School of Law, Berkeley, Calif. (1980/81, 1988; 1992, 1996–2000). Fikentscher was married with Irmgard, née van den Berge, and has four children and four


title: "Grupo Vidanta" content: Vidanta is an international symposium organized by Grupo Vidanta. It exists with an aim to initiate a dialogue between industry leaders and experts from around the world in order to establish recommendations on how to responsibly use tourism as an engine of positive change. The forum is supported by the College of Mexico, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics. Foro Vidanta's inaugural event was held in May 2018 in Nuevo Vallarta. Some of the presenters and speakers at the event included Mexico’s Commissioner of Protected Areas Alejandro del Mazo Maza,


title: "Wallace McCutcheon Sr." content: the Paper Print Collection at the Library of Congress. McCutcheon was responsible for a number of films notable for innovative camerawork, early story-telling vehicles, the first comedy "chase" films and a small measure of work in animation. "The Pioneers" and "Kit Carson" (both 1903) were early, multi-shot story films and perhaps the first actual Westerns in American film, released only a month or two before Porter's The Great Train Robbery. Biograph's decision to market the individual scenes from these films as Mutoscope subjects may have diluted their impact, and it is possible that the two titles may have shared some


title: "Great Flood (China)" content: Mount Tai as the beginning of his tour of inspection of the flood-ravaged realm. Here, at Taishan, he met with the princes of the eastern regions; and, after certain religious ceremonies, he standardized weights, measures, and ritual. Then he went on to do the same to the south, the west, and the north, meeting at the sacred mountains of each region with the princes and leaders of each region, and standardizing their rules, measures, and practices. All of these acts can be seen as preparatory to the fighting of the flood, as this was an effort requiring extraordinary levels of


title: "Glenn Brookes" content: Glenn Brookes Glenn Edward Brookes, an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing East Hills for the Liberal Party from 2011 to 2016. In 2016, he resigned from the Liberal Party after questions were raised about his 2015 campaign, but he rejoined the party in 2017. Brookes was born at Bankstown Hospital and attended East Hills Primary and High Schools. Leaving school at a young age, he built a successful large business, Sydney Signs, in a monopoly market. He now manages several companies. In 2004, Brookes was elected to serve as a councillor on


title: "Ghost Manor (comics)" content: its run along with the rest of the company's remaining titles. Ghost Manor (comics) Ghost Manor was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics (in two volumes) from 1968 to 1984 (though it was primarily a reprint title from 1978 onward). Volume one was "hosted" by the Old Witch (not to be confused with the Old Witch who hosted the 1950s EC title, "Haunt of Fear"), while volume two was hosted by Mr. Bones. "Ghost Manor" was part of a wave of new horror and suspense comics published by Charlton during this period. Its sister titles, with


title: "King Rice" content: and state honors as a starter on both of those teams. In 1986, he earned the honor of being named Parade All-American 4th Team. In 1987, he was named Parade All-American 2nd Team, New York Mr. Basketball, as well as being named a McDonald's High School All-American. Rice played point guard with the University of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team under coach Dean Smith from the 1987-88 season until the 1990-91 season. He played in 140 games finishing his career with 629 assists, which placed him at 3rd most all time for the Tar Heels, and 11th all-time


title: "1969 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship" content: there was a brief weather delay due to a thunderstorm and she returned with a birdie for a final round 69 (−4). "Sunday, June 29, 1969" 1969 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship The 1969 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was the 24th U.S. Women's Open, held June 26–29 at Scenic Hills Country Club in Pensacola, Florida. Donna Caponi, age 24, won the first of her two consecutive U.S. Women's Opens, one stroke ahead of runner-up Peggy Wilson. It was the first of four major titles for Caponi and the first of 24 victories on the LPGA Tour. Caponi was five


title: "Evelyn Millard" content: Her last known role was a brief appearance as Calpurnia in "Julius Caesar" during the Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration in 1916. Following her retirement Millard lived in Abingdon Court in Kensington where she died on 9 March 1941 aged 70. Evelyn Millard Evelyn Mary Millard (18 September 1869 – 9 March 1941) was an English Shakespearean actress, actor-manager and "stage beauty" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries perhaps best known for creating the role of Cecily Cardew in the 1895 premiere of Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest". Millard was born in Kensington in London in 1869,


title: "Artists Trade Union of Russia" content: Artists Trade Union of Russia Artists Trade Union of Russia () is an All-Russian trade union of artists (painters, graphic artists, sculptors, masters of decorative and applied arts etc.), art historians, museum and gallery workers etc. Artists Trade Union of Russia was registered in 1999. Its main purpose is the protection of creators’ rights. Artists Trade Union of Russia acts in 55 regions of Russia and 9 foreign countries. It unites more than 5300 of artists and other art workers. It consists of 11 profile sections, exhibition committees and organizations, PR-service, legal service, the protection service of historic-cultural and architectural


title: "Goffstown (CDP), New Hampshire" content: below the poverty line, along with 2.7% of people under the age of 18 and 3.4% of people 65 or older. Goffstown (CDP), New Hampshire Goffstown is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Goffstown in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the CDP was 3,196 at the 2010 census, out of 17,651 people in the entire town of Goffstown. The CDP is in the center of the western part of the town of Goffstown, on both sides of the Piscataquog River. The CDP extends north beyond Parsons Road, 3rd Avenue, Whipple


title: Kalikkalam content: cum newspaper publisher Ambalakkadan(Ambalakkadu Krishnan) creates problems, as false news regarding the SI and also his family gets published in the newspaper. Shekhar slaps Ambalakkadan for this, which ultimately leads to his suspension. As Annie takes the romance seriously, Tony finally reveals his actual identity and moves away from her life. Situations makes Shekhar falsely accused as the murderer of Ambalakkadan, and Shekhar is sent to jail. At this stage, only Sankar can help Shekharan to prove his innocence. For this, Sankar had to confess his crimes and surrender in front of the law. The movie was a blockbuster at


title: "Mythology of Fringe" content: heavy metal poisoning to maintain themselves, otherwise exhibiting translucent skin. In "Novation", they are described as being even more human-like than Walternate's versions and being able to switch between every identity they've ever taken, making detection of them nearly impossible without invasive surgery to locate the data disc. "Enemy of My Enemy" shows these shapeshifters to be of David Robert Jones' creation, with a goal to infiltrate the highest levels of government to help execute his plans. Due to Walter's crossing, the parallel universe (and the prime universe, to a limited extent), suffers from weaknesses in the fabric of space-time,


title: "Roger Locher" content: from the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, to Locher's position."Locher's flare went unseen, and Stovall overflew his position and had to double back. Spotting the flash from Locher's signal mirror, Stovall hovered over the steep slope, rotors dangerously close to the trees, and lowered a jungle penetrator under enemy fire. Only when Locher rose out of the jungle canopy riding the jungle penetrator were all of the Americans sure it was him. Despite their proximity to Yen Bai air base, no aircraft were lost during Locher's rescue. "We shut down the war to go get Roger Locher," Stovall later


title: "United States regulation of point source water pollution" content: in 1991. The Phase II rule required that all municipalities, construction sites of 1 acre (4,000 m) or more, and other large property owners (such as school districts) have NPDES permits for their stormwater discharges. EPA published the Phase II regulation in 1999. About 855 Phase I MS4s and 6,695 Phase II MS4s are regulated by the permit system, as of 2017. Most construction sites are covered by general permits. Other industrial sites that only discharge stormwater are typically covered by general permits. Industrial stormwater dischargers that are otherwise required to have individual permits (due to their process wastewater and/or


title: "Philip Altbach" content: for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries, and World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America. Altbach's contribution to the field of international education has been widely recognized, particularly in relation to topics such as the academic profession, internationalization of higher education, academic mobility, and linking academic research to policy practice. Moreover, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on student politics and activism in the 20th century. Philip Altbach Philip G. Altbach is an American author, researcher and former professor at Boston College, and the founding director of the Boston College Center for International Higher


title: "Space Camp Spain" content: Longer list of Space Camps can be found at list of summer camps. Provide a place for the kids to experiment and learn about the implications of living in Space and how that knowledge they achieve can help them here on earth. Values as tolerance and respect are taught, as well as the technological benefits from space technology ( E.g. Solar Cells, Water Purification Systems or Air Purification Systems ) The International Space Station is used as reference for the Space Camp not only or being one of the largest scientific and technological projects in history but also because it


title: "2011 Nafusa Mountains campaign" content: intelligence head Nasar al-Mabout lives there. Later, it was confirmed that, during the two days of heavy fighting, loyalist forces had managed to advance through the village of Al Rayayan and break through two rebel defence lines outside Zintan, despite NATO bombing runs on government troops and ammunition depots in the area. By 22 May, the town of al-Galaa, with a population of 16,000 people, was reported to be on the verge of being overrun by loyalist forces. Also, government troops had managed to captured the western part of Yafran, which includes the hospital, while rebels were still holding on


title: "Borgio Verezzi Caves" content: of various minerals. Main colors are white, yellow, red and related shades. Some prehistoric bone remains, dated between 500,000 and 750,000 years ago, have been found in various hollows. Borgio Verezzi Caves The Borgio Verezzi Caves (Italian: Grotte di Borgio Verezzi), also named Valdemino, are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Borgio Verezzi, in the province of Savona, Liguria. They are a show cave. Located in the outskirts of Borgio, the main town and seat of the municipality, the cavese were discovered in 1933. The touristic route, opened in 1970, is 800m long and counts some little


title: "George Schneeman" content: George Schneeman George Schneeman (March 11, 1934 – January 27, 2009) was an American painter who lived in Tuscany, Italy, and New York City. George Schneeman was born on March 11, 1934 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received a B.A. in Philosophy and English Literature from St Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota, and then began graduate work in English Literature at the University of Minnesota. He then enlisted in the army. Having shown an aptitude for languages, he was posted to Verona, Italy. The following excerpt is from an autobiographical statement Schneeman wrote in 2007 on the occasion of an exhibition


title: "Harry Rosenberg" content: Cincinnati Reds. In that game, he made two plate appearances, getting one walk. In nine games with the Giants, he never got a hit. In those games, he had five at-bats, striking out four times. Defensively, he played two games in center field, and one game in right field. His last MLB game would prove to be on September 20, 1930, against Cincinnati. Before the 1931 season, the New York Giants gave Rosenberg a US$250 a month raise to go with his US$750 a month salary. The reason for the salary increase, it was announced, was due to Rosenberg's appeal


title: "Hair (Lady Gaga song)" content: is also included in the set list of her the 2012 Born This Way Ball Tour. To Kwaak Je-yup of "The Korea Times" was positive about the performance of the song during the tour saying that, "The highlight of the night was her first slow jam 'Hair,' which she introduced as her favorite track on the 'Born This Way' album... Playing the guitar-shaped keyboard, she flubbed her line once and admitted it right away — 'I'm getting too excited (that) I forgot my lines,' she said — but the moment made the experience personal." On the second night of Gaga's


title: "Twin Rivers (film)" content: of Twin Rivers lasted for four years. All cast and crew were volunteers, which contributed to its long production period. It had no financial backing and all costs were paid for by its director, Matthew Holmes. During this time, the script was constantly rewritten and many scenes had to re-filmed when the plot changed quite dramatically from its original concept. By 2005, Twin Rivers had grown into a 2-hour feature film. The project went into hiatus as it looked for financial backing or a distribution deal to complete the editing, sound and music. Both private investors and Australian film funding


title: "Brit Andresen" content: Architecture at Bond University, Queensland. Brit Andresen Brit Andresen is a Norwegian born Australian architect and was the first female recipient of the RAIA Gold Medal, awarded in 2002, for her sustained contribution to architecture through teaching, scholarship and practice. Andresen was born in Norway and moved back and forth to Australia where her father, an engineer, was working on hydroelectric projects between 1951-1963. She studied architecture at Trondheim in Norway, graduating in 1969. In 1971 she moved to Cambridge, where she began teaching architecture part-time at Cambridge University and established her own practice. In 1972 Andresen in collaboration with


title: "Richard Dagley" content: drawing manual in 1818 and a second volume on gems in 1822, with poems by George Croly. He produced some humorous illustrations for Isaac D'Israeli's "Flim-Flams" (1805) and a poem called "Takings" by Thomas Gaspey (1821), for which he wrote an introductory essay entitled 'Miscellaneous Observations on the Ludicrous in Art'. In a preface he noted:... nearly twenty years since, while selecting and drawing from the casts of antique gems, for a publication that has since appeared, I was called upon to, make designs for the "Flim-Flams," a work of an entirely opposite character. Having never paid any attention to


title: "Kadua parvula" content: texture. The flowers may be bisexual or functionally female with fleshy white lobes sometimes tinged pink at the tips. The plants grow on cliffs and ledges in moist areas of the Waianae Mountains. There are only two known populations extant. One is located on the Mākua Military Reservation, and the other is at Halona. Together they contain at least 263 individual plants. Threats to the plant include habitat degradation and destruction by feral pigs and goats and non-native plants such as "Ageratina riparia", "Erigeron karvinskianus", "Grevillea robusta", "Melinis minutiflora", "Rubus argutus", and "Schinus terebinthifolius". Kadua parvula Kadua parvula (formerly "Hedyotis


title: "Abraham Bolden" content: of Rowley to state: "I think the record should show, Mr. Chairman, that we were never advised that he wanted to testify, nor had we any inquiry or anything about the matter, until after we learned about it in the newspapers. And, even then, he didn't ask to testify. And we asked the FBI to check into it, and he had counsel and they refused to tell anything about the matter at that time." Rowley later stated that there was "no truth to the charges of misconduct". He added that Bolden had leveled eleven charges and that there was partial


title: "Abraham Bolden" content: appeal was pending, Bolden was employed in Chicago by the Ingersoll Products Division of the Borg-Warner Corporation as an assembly line inspector of government ordered helmets and canteens. At Ingersoll, he was credited with starting a collection among fellow employees that raised enough money to send 75,000 cigarettes to American military forces in South Vietnam. During that time, he was also an official for Local 333 of the United Automobile Workers. In January 1965, five months after Bolden's trial and sentencing, Spagnoli was found guilty on counterfeiting charges and sentenced to fifteen years. At his trial, Spagnoli said his livelihood


title: "Suni Paz" content: included Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan and Phil Ochs. Born into a talented Argentine Italian-Catalan family of writers, musicians, linguists and poets, Suni Paz started playing the guitar, writing songs, singing in choirs, and at family parties at age 12. From 1960 to 1963 she lived in Chile. From 1963 to 1965 she raised her two children alone, making a living by writing and singing advertising jingles for various companies and becoming a copywriter trainee for McCann Erickson-Chile. In 1967, Suni moved to California with her two children. There, she designed curriculum for elementary schools presenting Latin American culture


title: "František R. Kraus" content: The Ak-1 transport was a normal, passenger train, not cattle wagons as it was common later. As there is no railroad connection to Terezín from the main corridor, the group was transported to nearby Bohušovice nad Ohří and from there had to walk, escorted by Czech gendarmerie, to Terezín. In November 1941 he was placed in the very first transport to Terezin. It was designated with "Ak-1", which was the abbreviation for "Aufbaukommando Eins", ie. "The First Commando for Construction". This group was to take part in the conversion of the city of Terezin to the Jewish ghetto. Kraus received


title: "Mortal Kombat: Legacy" content: a reinterpretation of the franchise in live-action form that we'd like to explore as different concepts and see what approach works best." Episode two aired with considerably less attention, possessing only a quarter of views when compared with the first episode. The release of the fifth episode garnered only 424,000 views in the first 24 hours. One day after the release of episode five, the total views for the entire series to date surpassed 30,000,000. IGN described "Legacy" as the "most elegantly produced web series", giving particular mention to episode one for "effective action sequences and some great cinematography". It


title: "Pakistan Locomotive Factory" content: Pakistan Locomotive Factory Pakistan Locomotive Factory (, or PLF), is a manufacturer of locomotives for Pakistan Railways, located in Risalpur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The company was established in 1993. A total of 2130 coaches have been manufactured at Carriage Factory Islamabad since 1971. The factory has also rehabilitated (overhauled) 1039 coaches up to 30 June 2015. The factory was established in Risalpur in 1993 at a total cost of . Its function is to manufacture indigenous diesel electric locomotives and electric locomotives, thus allowing Pakistan Railways to have less dependency on foreign technology. In January 2016, the Minister for Railways,


title: "Rick Haselton" content: Rick Haselton Rick T. Haselton (born 1953) is a Judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, having been appointed to the post in 1994. Since 2012, he has served as Chief Judge of the Court. Born in Oregon, Haselton received a high school diploma from West Albany High School in 1972 and an A.B. in political science from Stanford University in 1976. While at West Albany and Stanford, he worked as a farmworker, carpenter's helper, and teaching assistant. He received a J.D. in 1979 from Yale Law School, where he was a classmate and friend of future U.S. Supreme Court


title: "Galrigs Loch, Ayrshire" content: Galrigs Loch, Ayrshire The Galrigs Loch was a substantial freshwater loch situated in low lying area between Newfield and Dundonald in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was drained in the early 18th century. The loch was a natural feature, a post-glacial 'Kettle Hole' once of a substantial extent, fed mainly by the Broomhill Burn, rainfall, and field drainage. It is recorded in the placenames of Lochend, Lochside, and Mosside. The Broomhill Burn has been diverted away from the site which however remains dominated by rushes ("Juncus" species) and constitutes poor quality grazing. The loch site still floods in winter. No open


title: "Rules of netball" content: The job of the Goal Defence and Goal Keeper is to block the Goal Attack and Goal Shooter from shooting; however, they must be three feet or more away from the landing foot of the shooter, otherwise it is called an obstruction. In this penalty situation, the Goal Keeper or Goal Defence must stand by the shooter's side for a penalty pass or shot, and must remain out of play until the ball is thrown. A ball that passes through the hoop, but has been thrown either from outside the circle or by a player other than the two shooters,


title: "Linden Gardens Trust Ltd v Lenesta Sludge Disposals Ltd" content: the affirmative respectively. In summary, the first case was not brought by the original owner who commissioned the works (the new owner of the building should have considered the old asbestos contractor in his purchase transaction), the second case was brought by the original owner, still in business, at the behest of the new owner and in a case where both the original parties knew the development would very likely be assigned and relied on by third parties. Stock Conversions Ltd, the original lessee of a building, used a JCT standard form contract to hire Lenesta to remove asbestos. Clause


title: "Cybercrime countermeasures" content: subcategories: detection of “known or hypothetical target scenarios,” prioritization of these target scenarios, and interpretation “of the resulting detection.” The optimal level of cyber-security depends largely on the incentives facing providers and the incentives facing perpetrators. Providers make their decision based on the economic payoff and cost of increased security whereas perpetrators decisions are based on the economic gain and cost of cyber-crime. Potential prisoner’s dilemma, public goods, and negative externalities become sources of cyber-security market failure when private returns to security are less than the social returns. Therefore, the higher the ratio of public to private benefit the stronger


title: "Illicit drug use in Ireland" content: abusers were victims of their own choices, rather than their socio-economic circumstances. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1984 was enacted to provide for tougher punishments than the 1977 Act. The 1980s also saw the rise of community groups which organised themselves to rid their local areas of drugs. Priests, politicians and even Provisional IRA members took part in residents' associations in areas of Dublin such as Fatima Mansions, the Hardwicke Street flats, St. Teresa's Gardens, and Dolphin House. Groups met to name and shame drug dealers, giving them the choice either to stop dealing or leave the area. Actions broadened


title: "1929 New Zealand rugby league season" content: 1929 New Zealand rugby league season The 1929 New Zealand rugby league season was the 22nd season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand. New Zealand played in no international matches in 1929. The New South Wales Rugby Football League's South Sydney Rabbitohs toured the country late in the season. They played two matches against Marist, with both sides securing one win. South Sydney also defeated Huntly. Souths were without five Kangaroos who were on a tour of Great Britain. Marist won the first match 10-9 at Carlaw Park while Souths won the second 21-5 in front


title: "Unpleasant Horse" content: Unpleasant Horse Unpleasant Horse is a sidescroller platformer video game developed by 4th and Battery for iOS, a subsidiary of PopCap Games. The protagonist of the game is a black "horse" (though technically a pegasus), which the user must direct across the level by having the horse bounce on clouds, and on the backs of white horses. This causes the white horses to fall onto meat grinders at the bottom of the level; if the user misdirects the black horse when trying to hit a cloud or a white horse, then the black horse itself falls onto the meat grinders.


title: "Michelle Linn-Gust" content: around the suicide bereaved. That year she also won the National Alliance on Mental Illness - DuPage County Chapter Supporter of the Year Award for her columns in The Naperville Sun newspaper about mental illness. In the summer of 1993, Linn had a communications internship with USA Boxing at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While there, she befriended LaRita Archibald of the HEARTBEAT survivors of suicide loss support groups and became interested in how such groups help families. Linn-Gust finished her B.S. degree at Ball State in May 1994. That fall she began graduate work


title: "Presbyterian Association of Musicians" content: 2006 which granted authorization for the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation to research, develop, and produce a new hymnal. Presbyterian Association of Musicians Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM) is a national organization of the Presbyterian Church (USA) for people who are involved in the areas of Reformed Christian worship, Church music, and liturgical arts. The national offices for this 1,600 member organization are located in Louisville at the National Office of the Presbyterian Church (USA). "Members of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM) include choir directors, organists, ministers, and other persons interested in the quality and integrity of music in the worship


title: "Leena Manimekalai" content: contested the case legally for several months and finally got it cleared by July 2011 without any cuts. Leena Manimekalai's "White Van Stories" is a 70 minutes documentary feature on enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka inspired by voices of those in search of their loved ones. Leena has a fresh set of challenges at her hand. She is now trying to get across the documentary, shot undercover in parts evading the constant gaze of the military, to a global audience. Leena was inspired to work on the subject of enforced disappearances when she visited Sri Lanka for a literary festival


title: "Polites vibex" content: Polites vibex Polites vibex, or the whirlabout, is a grass skipper in the family Hesperiidae. The whirlabout gets its name from the landing and take off flight patterns of the adult – a circular or vortex or whirling motion. It is resident from the southeastern U.S. and West Indies to eastern Mexico through the tropics down to Argentina. During the warmer North American months, it can sometimes be found as far north as Ohio, Connecticut, and northeast Iowa. The wingspan is . North of the equator, it flies all year and migrates north in late summer and fall. The larvae


title: "Polites vibex" content: feed on grasses mainly at night. Eggs are white and laid one at a time on the host plants. The whirlabout exhibits sexual dimorphism. Although the two sexes are about the same size with a wingspan of , they vary greatly in coloring and pattern. Both have elongated wings but the male is orange and yellow and the female is dark brown. From above, the forewing is orange with a black stigma and nearby scales that form a dark, four-sided patch. The forewing also has a jagged black border. The hindwing has a black margin that is smooth inwardly. From


title: "Polites vibex" content: below, the hindwing is golden orange with large, dark, smudged spots. From above, the forewing is dark brown with light colored spots. From below, the hindwing is a greyish yellow-brown with a couple of bands of large brown spots and light central patch with dark scales at edges. The whirlabout butterfly is resident from the southeastern U.S. and West Indies to eastern Mexico through the tropics down to Argentina. During the warmer months it can sometimes be found as far north as Ohio, Connecticut, and northeast Iowa. Coastal plain grassy areas, fields, dunes, pinewoods, roadsides, disturbed areas, vacant lots, open


title: "Polites vibex" content: woodlots, forest edges, parks, lawns, and gardens. Caterpillars eat various grasses. Adults eat the nectar of flowers. Polites vibex Polites vibex, or the whirlabout, is a grass skipper in the family Hesperiidae. The whirlabout gets its name from the landing and take off flight patterns of the adult – a circular or vortex or whirling motion. It is resident from the southeastern U.S. and West Indies to eastern Mexico through the tropics down to Argentina. During the warmer North American months, it can sometimes be found as far north as Ohio, Connecticut, and northeast Iowa. The wingspan is . North


title: "Jack Clapper" content: to fly about a mile, leaving Muller and the paramedic on the ground, before crashing into a meadow. The second Jolly Green landed, picked up the crew and flew them safely away. King called in several flights of F-4 fighter jets to bomb and strafe the area. Stormy remained at the scene to help the F-4 pilots deliver their weapons near the downed pilots without actually hitting them. After about 45 minutes of bombing and strafing by the F-4s, the original Stormys were out of fuel and two new A-1s arrived as replacements. The second rescue attempt by a new


title: "Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint" content: with the winner of two races declared the winner. Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint The men's 200m Sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics (Cycling) was an event that consisted of cyclists making three laps around the track. Only the time for the last 200 metres of the 750 metres covered was counted as official time. The races were held on Monday, 18 September, Tuesday, 19 September, and Wednesday, 20 September 2000 at the Dunc Gray Velodrome. Held Monday, 18 September. <br> Times and average speeds are listed. The faster 18 riders advanced to the first round.


title: "Marika Gombitová discography" content: as her own debut single issued on OPUS Records in 1977. Her solo breakthrough came along with the second single release "Študentská láska." The song won two awards at the Bratislavská lýra, being classified as the most selling SP in Slovakia in July 1978. By the end of next year, Gombitová issued a debut album called "Dievča do dažďa" (1979), of which total sale surpassed 200,000 copies. In addition, the set would be ranked in a critics' survey published by "Nový čas" as the 20th Best Slovak Album of All Time. Furthermore, the album's lead single "Vyznanie," received several music


title: "Toru Miura" content: Toru Miura Toru Miura Studied with Kiyoshi Ohishi at the Conservatory of Music of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1971. He completed a masters in 1973, studying with Ray Young at the University of Southern Mississippi. This was followed by studies at the Eastman School of Music in New York, where he played in the Eastman Wind Ensemble under Donald Hunsberger, and also studied with Cherry Beauregard. Miura attended the first TUBA International Symposium in 1973. After returning to Japan, he went on to become a euphonium soloist with the Tokyo Kosei Wind


title: "Jean-Claude Casadesus" content: Jean-Claude Casadesus Jean-Claude Casadesus (born Jean-Claude Probst) is a French conductor. Casadesus was born in Paris on 7 December 1935, the son of actress Gisèle Casadesus and her husband Lucien Pascal. He began his career as a percussionist before studying composition and conducting with Pierre Dervaux and Pierre Boulez. In 1969 he was hired as assistant conductor at the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique. In 1971 he co-founded the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire with Pierre Dervaux, and acted as Dervaux's deputy there until 1976. In 1976 he became principal conductor of the Orchestre national de Lille, performing


title: "The Nationalist" content: to the paper being shut down by Séamus Robinson during the Irish Civil War. The paper is currently owned by Iconic Newspapers, who acquired Johnston Press' titles in the Republic of Ireland in 2014. A more recent set of figures, for Jan-June 2011 can be found here. The Nationalist The Nationalist is a newspaper based in Clonmel in County Tipperary, Ireland which was established in 1890. It is a broadsheet newspaper that appears weekly, covering news, events, and sport in both Clonmel town and south Tipperary. It has a circulation of over fourteen thousand in 2010. It was formed to


title: "Tanks in the British Army" content: design. In 1939, most tanks had maximum armour of 30 mm or less, with guns no heavier than 37–47 mm. Medium tanks of 1939 weighed around 20 tons. Also if the tank's gun was to be used to engage both unarmoured and armoured targets, then it needed to be as large and powerful as possible, making one large gun with an all-round field of fire vital. Also, mounting the gun in a turret ensured that the tank could fire from behind some cover. Hull-mounted guns required that most of the vehicle be exposed to enemy fire. Multiple-turreted or multi-gun designs


title: "Huang E" content: E traveled with Yang Shen to Yunnan to help him and share his hardships. They returned to Sichuan in 1529 to attend Yang Tinghe’s funeral. Afterwards, Huang E stayed to take care of the house as Yang Shen returned to Yunnan. In 1559, tragedy fell as Yang Shen died at the age of 71 at the barracks where he had been exiled. Huang E traveled to Huzhou, Yunnan to take her husband’s remains to their family tomb in Xingdu. It was said that the tragedy was too great for Huang E and she became ill as a result. She died


title: "Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge" content: neutral/calcareous grassland amongst the 110+ species identified. At least 35 species of bird, 23 species of butterflies and several species of mammal have also been reported, including the European dormouse and weasel. Biographies of some of those people interred in the cemetery and images of their graves or monuments can be found on: Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge Mill Road Cemetery is a cemetery off Mill Road in the Petersfield area of Cambridge, England. Since 2001 the cemetery has been protected as a Grade II Listed site, and several of the tombs are also listed as of


title: "Straw polls for the 2012 Republican Party presidential primaries" content: 59 votes were canvassed in the straw poll (all rounded-percentages above are multiples of 1.69%). Source of results: "Republican Leadership Conference" Source of results: "Politico" Source of results: Source of results: Source of results: "Washington Examiner" and National Journal Source of results: Source of results: "Hampton-NorthHamptonPatch Source of results: Politico Source of results: Republican Party of Maryland A straw poll was held at the September 12 Republican debate, to find out who the debate audience thought were the front runners, both before and after the debate. Before the debate, Ron Paul came first, Rick Perry came second, and Michele Bachmann


title: "Polistes metricus" content: Polistes metricus Polistes metricus (metricus paper wasp) is a wasp native to North America. In the United States, it ranges throughout the southern Midwest, the South, and as far northeast as New York, but has recently been spotted in southwest Ontario. A single female specimen has also been reported from Dryden, Maine. "Polistes metricus" is dark colored, with yellow tarsi and black tibia. Nests of" Polistes metricus" can be found attached to the sides of buildings, trees, and shrubbery. Like other "Polistes "species, "P. metricus", has evolved eusociality and demonstrates behaviors including nestmate discrimination and local mate competition. Like the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: other members of the order Hymenoptera, "Polistes metricus" has a haplodiploid genetic system. Nests of "P. metricus" have distinct characteristics like the ability to share nests with other "Polistes" species and reuse nests multiple seasons. Another distinction is that "Polistes metricus" foragers take off from their nests depending on how long their trip will be. For short flights, they exit the nest flying horizontally, while for long flights, they exit the nest flying straight up into a high altitude before pursuing their direction. "P. metricus" prefers to consume soft-bodied prey, especially caterpillars. Less common names that "P. metricus" is known


title: "Polistes metricus" content: by are "P. pallipes "and "P. metricus" Say. "P. metricus" is found to be most closely related to "P. carolina." The most recent phylogenetic analysis shows that both share a common ancestor with "P. bellicosus." "P. metricus" belongs to the kingdom Animalia (animals), the phylum Arthropoda (arthropods), the subphylum Hexapoda (having six legs), the class Insecta (insects), the order Hymenoptera (which includes ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies), the taxon Aculeata (which includes stinging wasps, bees, and ants), the superfamily Vespoidea (which includes hornets, yellowjackets, paper wasps, potter wasps, mason wasps, and pollen wasps), the family Vespidae, the subfamily Polistinae (paper


title: "Polistes metricus" content: wasps), the genus "Polistes", and the species "metricus". "P. metricus" has a dark ferruginous (rusty) color with black markings on its thorax and a mostly black abdomen. Its tibia is black, and the tarsi are yellow. A black spot, separate from the antennae, contains the three ocelli. Females bear six abdominal segments, while males bear seven. Swelled parts of the abdomen of this species are a key defining element. In the female, extensive rust-red coloration occurs on her head and mesosoma. Female "P. metricus"' yellow markings are very limited in area. The mesosoma has a large spread of red color,


title: "Polistes metricus" content: and the metasoma shows black coloration. "P. metricus" also has an especially marked outward bend in sternum 2; however, this is often a very subtle characteristic. In the male, the red coloring takes up less area, but black coloration takes up more area. The male has more yellow markings than the female and a yellow color on his entire face and the pronotal carina. The yellow coloration on the legs of the male is highly variable in this species. The smallest of the larvae can be told apart from eggs by noticing the darker anterior end of larvae. In the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: nests of "P. metricus", cells that are capped are most likely cells that contain pupae. After pupae emerge from their cocoons, they leave behind evidence of their metamorphosis in the form of cocoon shavings. The distribution of "P. metricus" is largely limited to North America. "P. metricus" has been spotted in the far southwestern reaches of Ontario, Canada. In the eastern United States, one female was seen in Dryden, Maine and recorded by the Canadian Nursery Certification Institute for pest control. This was a novel sighting for Maine, and probably indicated the beginnings of the spread of "P. metricus" into


title: "Polistes metricus" content: Maine. Other states where "P. metricus" is known to be located are on the east coast of the US, including New York, Pennsylvania, and the area from the southern part of Michigan all the way south to Florida; and the area westward to Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the eastern part of Texas. Specifically, "P. metricus" has been studied in Brazos Bend State Park in Texas along with other wasp species, including "Polistes bellicosus". "P. metricus" chooses its nesting sites based on shelter from the elements, size, lighting, and sources of water. It tends to build its nests in sheds and


title: "Polistes metricus" content: barns and on the underside of eaves. It especially prefers large and well-lit nesting locations. Its nests are mixed with those of "P. fuscatus" on a regular basis, and locations where one of them is present tend to also contain the nests of the other species, in close proximity to each other. "P. metricus" likes to use large bodies of water, such as ponds, as sources of water. In the summer, they frequently make trips to water sources for hydration. The colony cycle begins in May and ends by October. The establishment of new "P. metricus "nests begins in early


title: "Polistes metricus" content: May, and this is typically performed by only one female; however, observed cases of colonies initiated by an association of foundresses have been observed. The colony slowly and gradually increases in size, and the average date for the first worker of the nest to emerge from its cocoon is in middle July. In July, the entire brood of workers emerges from its cocoons and this is also when the maximum rate of egg-laying of the year occurs. The next brood develops into males and reproductive females, and in September, these individuals also emerge from their cocoons. The survival of broods


title: "Polistes metricus" content: is reduced by parasitism from pyralid moths. The colony cycle typically ends by October. At this point, reproductive females leave their nests for hibernacula, locations where they spend the winter, and all males die. Before July, nest construction surges ahead rapidly and the count of brood cells and the size of the nest both increase significantly. This period of speedy growth coincides with the emergence of the first brood of workers. Therefore, construction requires the input of workers. After July, the rate of cell building falls. It is rare to observe any vacant cells in the nest until late June.


title: "Polistes metricus" content: This is perhaps due to the queen's rate of oviposition being high enough to ensure all new cells get filled. However, due to the more rapid rate of construction between June and July, vacant cells begin to appear and become more numerous. This higher construction rate produces new cells faster than the queen's rate of oviposition. Then, in July and August, the number of vacant cells stays approximately constant. The rate of cell construction is the same as the queen's rate of oviposition. After August, vacant cell number increases significantly as the queen's oviposition slows down. The rate of egg


title: "Polistes metricus" content: production fluctuates throughout the colony cycle. In May, the median egg count is greater than in early June. The yearly maximum point for the egg count occurs in July; egg production then decreases steadily to zero by September. Once the first brood of worker eggs has been laid, the queen decreases her rate of oviposition as this brood matures. Once they are mature, the queen stops laying eggs. In late June and July, the queen recommences laying eggs and her rate of oviposition increases once more. If the queen is killed, removed, or dies, workers can take over the responsibility


title: "Polistes metricus" content: of oviposition. In fact, 22% of an emerging brood comes from eggs that were not laid by the initial queen. Surprisingly, the final period of decreasing oviposition rate is not due to old age or mortality of the queen. It is actually due to ovarian diapause that occurs throughout the entire female population of the colony. Two peaks occur in the number of larvae present in the colony. The first peak occurs in early June, coming right after the peak egg count. The second, highest peak of the larval population happens in July at exactly the same time as the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: highest peak in the egg count. This is probably so closely matching because eggs hatch into larvae very quickly in July, when the temperature is high. The median count of larvae decreases slightly in August and then rapidly decreases to nothing (zero) in September. The speedy fall in larval population happens because larvae pupate, and late in the season there is increased parasitism of larvae and brood destruction wrought by the adult wasps. In early June, the first pupae appear. Compared to eggs and larvae, the pupal population seems to only have one maximum. The pupal instar has a duration


title: "Polistes metricus" content: of 18–26 days for "P. metricus". In the beginning of the nesting season, the adult population typically contains only one adult female, the reproductive foundress. Cooperative co-founding of nests was once considered to be rare for "P. metricus", but it now appears that this is becoming more common. Like eggs and larvae, the adult wasp population of "P. metricus" has two maxima. The first peak occurs in July and corresponds to the emergence of the first brood of workers. These workers used to be pupae in late June, and were also the first peaks of the eggs and larvae. The


title: "Polistes metricus" content: year's maximum count of adult females and males is in September. This is the last brood of adults and the females in this group become the next season's foundresses and overwinter in hibernacula. "P. metricus" has a very distinctive foraging behavior compared to other wasps. Adults search for prey in low-level vegetation, shrubs, and trees. When they embark on long flights, they tend to have trees as their destination. Their pattern of flight when leaving the nest reflects the nature of their journey, as if they already know in advance the distance that their flight will take. When they wish


title: "Polistes metricus" content: to fly short distances, they exit the nest with a horizontal trajectory, just above the upper edges of the vegetation, and usually between 1.0 and 1.5 m above the ground level. When their flight involves greater distances, they leave the nest, flying 3 to 4 m above the ground when flight distance is about 10–15 m. Extremely long flights greater than or 100 m involve the wasp flying at high altitude, measured at 17 m, and these wasps make their climb very quickly upon taking off from the nest. In the summer, reproductive females (gynes) fly significantly shorter distances to


title: "Polistes metricus" content: forage then do their worker counterparts. When a "P. metricus" wasp locates prey, she typically will return to the same location and search the same sites at the location on future foraging trips. This is probably because predation by "P. metricus" is not sufficient to dramatically reduce the prey population at the site. Compared to other paper wasps, "P. metricus" tends to forage over longer distances. This may be due to less tolerance of "P. metricus" for prey scarcity, or that when prey is scarce, "P. metricus" is inefficient at capturing prey. On a longer flight, once an abundant source


title: "Polistes metricus" content: of prey is detected, "P. metricus" can efficiently forage for the long-distance prey. Longer flights are facilitated by the greater average size of "P. metricus" compared to other paper wasp species. Malaxation is an act performed by an adult wasp that involves grabbing an insect or piece of an insect, then chewing and crushing it with the mandibles (typically at the same time inverting it and spinning it with the fore legs) until it is a pulpy consistency. This final product is usually then fed directly to larvae. In "P. metricus", females mix fructose into the morsel that they malaxate.


title: "Polistes metricus" content: During the process of malaxation, adults feed themselves from the liquid or semisolid material that they extract from the provision morsel. For most wasps, malaxating prey is rare and only occurs when not enough nectar or honeydew is in the environment. Since "P. metricus" has a longer lifespan than other wasps and engage in an exceptionally lengthy period of reproduction, it malaxates prey and consumes the protein for its metabolic needs. Malaxation typically takes place on the order of one to several minutes. A specific routine sequence of larval provisioning behavior occurs in females of "P. metricus". First, the female


title: "Polistes metricus" content: malaxates the morsel to be fed to the larva. During this process, solid and liquid materials from the morsel are extracted by the female and stored in her crop, from where it can be regurgitated to larvae during mouth-to-mouth trophallaxis. The female regurgitates the solid extractions from the morsel directly into the mouth of the larva. She then grooms for a period. After grooming, she resumes feeding the larva and regurgitates the liquid portions of the morsel into the larval mouth, after which she once again grooms. During regurgitation, most of the contents of the crop may be released, or


title: "Polistes metricus" content: the female can choose to withhold a significant portion of it. The female thereby simultaneously feeds both the larva and herself during malaxation. Males also can feed larvae in "P. metricus". At the end of the nesting season, known as the “late season”, "P. metricus" females destroy both the nest and the brood, including eggs, larvae, and pupae. While late-season brood termination is normal for "P. metricus", it is less common to see brood termination in the middle of the nesting season. This occurs in response to parasitic infections. Not all of the brood is destroyed. In this case, the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: adults females malaxate the brood that they destroy and feed it to the remaining brood. During one of these events. somewhat astonishingly, an adult male "P. metricus" was observed to malaxate a larva and feed a fragment of this to a surviving larva. More commonly, males of "P. metricus" have the general habits of malaxating pieces of food and consuming some of these pieces while discarding the rest without feeding any larvae. Having excess honey has effects on individuals in a colony. If colonies are supplemented with extra honey, offspring tend to emerge from pupation earlier than usual. They also


title: "Polistes metricus" content: tend to have greater percentages of noncuticular body fat. When wasps have a higher noncuticular fat content, it also means that they have higher capacities for reproduction. In fact, some experiments show that increasing noncuticular body fat directly results in increased reproductive potential. While in nature, the first emerging broods of "P. metricus" are known to have relatively skimpy amounts of body fat, surprisingly, after honey supplementation, the first brood of workers exhibits even higher body fat than their foundresses. This suggests that in nature, colonies are typically restricted by limits on food availability during the pre-emergence phase of the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: nesting cycle, when only the single foundress and possible co-foundresses are available to forage for provisions for the worker brood. In general, it is common for "P. metricus" to store honey over the winter. The amount of honey stored and the length of time for which it is stored show variation in different years, providing evidence that honey storage depends on changing factors in the environment. If a colony is supplemented with extra honey, it will not affect its long-term survival, but it will change the colony's demographics. Colonies that receive extra honey tend to build more cells in their


title: "Polistes metricus" content: nests and produce more pupae. However, the total count of adult females does not show significant change. Honey-supplemented colonies produce more offspring overall, but more of these offspring become reproductives due to their high fat content and thus leave the nest, leaving behind a smaller number of workers than normal at the nest. The biggest changes in colony demographics occur if there are significant changes in the early and middle periods of the nesting cycle. When nourishment is systematically decreased for a brood in the larval stage, the entire colony changes as response. After two weeks of larval starvation, the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: foundress tends to abandon the colony, resulting in the failure and death of the colony. In response to larval starvation, most colonies cease nest construction. Fewer larvae reach the pupal stage than normal. Whenever foundresses are present, workers are restricted from producing male eggs. The most dominant foundress in an association of co-foundresses is known as the α-foundress, who shares a portion of reproduction with the other β-foundresses. The α-foundresses takes the lion's share of reproduction, laying 78% of the colony females and 87% of the males. All foundresses are known to mate with males at least twice in their


title: "Polistes metricus" content: lifetimes, and they use the sperm from these two males in a 9:1 ratio with the majority of fertilizations provided by one male's set of sperm. If all of a nest's foundresses are dead or eliminated, two workers take up the responsibility of laying male eggs. One of these two workers is dominant over the other and lays 19 times more male eggs. No parental care is necessary for pupae, and pupae develop into adults on their own. In "P. metricus", inbreeding is exceedingly rare. Associations of co-foundresses are generally composed of half or full sisters that came from the


title: "Polistes metricus" content: same natal nest the previous season. Once the first brood of workers emerges from the nest, foundresses stop leaving the nest. There is a two-day refractory period in which no work is done, and then the workers take over the responsibility of foraging for the nest. From this point forward, foundress mortality is zero for the rest of the egg-laying season. However, if one starts to observe that only males are emerging from the nest, it can be assumed that all the foundresses of the colony have died approximately 47 days earlier. These males would not have been produced by


title: "Polistes metricus" content: the foundresses, but instead by their worker daughters, who have since taken over egg-laying and produce only male eggs. On the condition that the foundresses die after the first brood of workers has already become pupae, then there is still a good chance that the colony will survive, since pupae do not require any adult maintenance or feeding and will develop on their own. If the foundresses die before pupation of any workers, then the colony is doomed to failure because the brood will die of starvation. In the event of foundress mortality, the overall productivity of the nest declines,


title: "Polistes metricus" content: most likely because of the loss of parental care from the foundresses before worker care begins. In general, foundress mortality tends to be great in the period between nest initiation and the emergence of the first brood of workers. The death of any one foundress results in the proportional increase in the contribution of the other foundresses to the colony's reproduction. "P. metricus" is subject to predation by birds, spiders, ants, and deer mice. Birds attack the "P. metricus" nest by puncturing its lateral margin and taking out their pupae and larger larvae. "Polistes" wasps including "Polistes metricus" prey on


title: "Polistes metricus" content: Lepidopteran larvae (i.e. caterpillars) most frequently. They are considered generalist predators. "Polistes" also eat other insects. "P. metricus" prefers to eat soft-bodied prey such as caterpillars and the larvae of tenthredinids and chrysomelids. Manipulation by parental feedings has been hypothesized to play a role in the development of larvae. The proponents of the hypothesis argue that the well fed larvae grow to be reproductive adults. However, it was found that parent manipulation of the brood is not done in "Polistes metricus". Parasitoids and parasites of "Polistes metricus" tend to affect the colony at different stages in their development. It has


title: "Polistes metricus" content: been shown that "C. pegasalis" is able to infect a colony at any stage except the egg stage. "C. pegasalis" prefers to infect colonies that have larvae and pupae. "X. peckii" is similar because it prefers to parasitize larvae and pupae. In contrast, "X. peckii" can infect any stage of development. Infestations of "Xenos" parasites happen frequently in Georgia. Another parasite of "P. metricus" is the pyralid moth, "Chalcoela iphitalis". In order to differentiate female workers from female reproductive wasps in "Polistes metricus", behavior must be studied since they are morphologically similar. Female reproductives are referred to as queens or


title: "Polistes metricus" content: foundresses. The reproductive queens have more developed ovaries compared to the workers. Consequently, female "Polistes" have the ability to be reproductive depending on the social and physical environment they occupy. "Polistes metricus" is considered to be a eusocial organism, characterized by sterile castes, overlapping generations, and cooperative care for offspring. "Polistes metricus", like "Polistes dominula" and "Polistes annularis", differs from many other advanced eusocial insects in that the distinction between reproductive females and non-reproductive females is subtle. "Polistes metricus" has been shown to demonstrate a deviation from Fisher's prediction of a 1:1 male to female sex ratio. Despite the equal


title: "Polistes metricus" content: parental investment in the sexes, the average frequency for females in "Polistes metricus" is approximately .55. In most species that deviate from a 1:1 sex ratio, there is a degree of sexual dimorphism, with the more common sex being smaller. "Polistes metricus" follows this trend, with females being smaller than males on average. Like other insects of the order Hymenoptera, "Polistes metricus" has a haplodiploid genetic system. When a queen's eggs are fertilized, they produce diploid daughters; unfertilized eggs produce haploid male offspring. Consequently, in colonies with a monogamous queen, females are more closely related to their sisters than to


title: "Polistes metricus" content: their brothers, mothers, or future offspring. It has been argued that, due to the 3/4 relatedness between haplodiploid sisters, there exists a conflict between the queen and her female offspring. Robert A. Metcalf argues that data on the skewed sex ratios does not prove or disprove the hypothesis of parent-offspring conflict over male production and parental investment. Metcalf's study shows that the foundresses control the production of males by restricting sperm availability to workers. The importance of haplodiploidy in terms of the evolution of eusocialty was brought into question using a phylogenetic study of "Polistes "by Pickett et al. The


title: "Polistes metricus" content: paper argues that through a phylogenetic test they found that there is little support for the idea the haplodiploidy lead to early social evolution in the genus "Polistes". In a population that has a female biased sex ratio, according to W. D. Hamilton, there could be Local Mate Competition, or LMC. Local Mate Competition occurs in female biased populations because brothers must compete with each other for mates. These mates might be their sisters; therefore, inbreeding should be higher in these populations. Robert A. Metcalf's study of inbreeding in both "Polistes metricus" and "P. variatus" using phenotypic differences found that


title: "Polistes metricus" content: there were no signs of inbreeding in either population. According to Metcalf's research, the lack of inbreeding in "Polistes metricus" makes it unlikely that LMC occurs. Additionally, there has been research that shows that some populations produce only male reproductives. This occurs when the queen dies and the workers lay eggs. The female workers are not fertilized so they produce males who are haploid. Food supplementation and access to food does not affect the number or the sizes of worker offspring. This could suggest that there is not the adaptive advantage to make larger workers. Stabilizing selection is present to


title: "Polistes metricus" content: make a fixed number of workers regardless of nest size or food availability. The selection shifts toward the production of more sexual females than larger males. The colonies that are supplemented with food also produced more reproductive females than larger reproductive females which suggests that female sexual production in resource limited conditions is very expensive. Males however, are slightly larger on average which could mean that the number of males produced is not as critical as male size. It has been proposed that larger males helps the colony by attacking foreign males, and defending nest territory. Nutrient level of certain


title: "Polistes metricus" content: macro and micronutrients varies throughout the life history of the organism. There are few large differences in nutrient levels between workers and gynes; however, gynes process lipids differently by retaining them. On the other hand, the differences in nutrient levels in reproductive larvae and non-reproductive larvae are strong. Additionally, nutrient levels does not change throughout the lifetime of both male and females "Polistes metricus." Based on these observations, the nutrient level at the larval stage tends to correlate with the reproductive ability of the larvae as it develops. Increased food resources have also been shown to lead to an increase


title: "Polistes metricus" content: in the production of gynes at the expense of worker production. In certain locations across the United States, such as eastern Kansas, individual foundresses of "Polistes metricus" can maintain more than one nest or even share a nest with another foundress. In cases where multiple nests are maintained by a single foundress, males are not produced. This phenomenon is due in part to the extensive parasitism found in eastern Kansas. "Chalcoela iphitalis" is a parasitic moth that is commonly found in the nests of "Polistes metricus". It is not known why "Polistes metricus" has evolved this behavior. It has been


title: "Polistes metricus" content: proposed that the behaviors are able to limit the chance of reproductive failure for any one foundress. In some situations, it has been observed that a nest is shared between two species of "Polistes". One case is the sharing of a nest by "Polistes metricus" and "Polistes fuscatus." The different species of wasps were seen to coexist without conflict. The evolutionary significance of joint nesting is unclear. Proposed hypotheses include the fact that it might represent the beginning stages of interspecific mutualism or exploitation. Nest reuse has been observed in "Polistes metricus" species. It is common for a foundress to


title: "Polistes metricus" content: use the nest multiple times within a reproductive season. However, it is very unlikely for foundresses of any species to return to a nest in a subsequent season. Adult female "Polistes" use their salivary enzymes to soften wood or paper products to form a nest pedicel. The adult female foundress or foundresses will then begin to build the nest cells. They will also lay eggs. In colonies with multiple foundresses, one will become dominant and lay the most eggs. Once the first worker develops, the nest moves from the founding phase into the worker phase. Following the worker phase is


title: "Polistes metricus" content: the reproductive stage, where the dominant foundress loosens her control over the other colony members and the workers lay sterile male eggs. The period in between the reproductive phase and the founding phase of the next season is the intermediate phase. Adult female gynes and adult males leave the nest to mate. It has been suggested that "Polistes metricus" females discriminate between nestmates and non-nestmates using genetically determined cues regarding food, nesting materials, or nest site. These genetically predetermined cues have been found in "Lasioglossum zephrym", a species of bee at a similar social level. "Polistes metricus" gynes can detect


title: "Polistes metricus" content: and work with former nestmates without being inside the nest in which they were born. In situations where there is no nest, nestmates are more tolerant of each other than are nestmates in "Polistes metricus". Former nestmates are often assumed to be sisters or other close relatives. Nestmate discrimination does not occur in workers or non-reproductives, which could suggest a relationship between nestmate discrimination, nutrient availability, and the environment. In "Polistes metricus", colonies with more than one queen are aptly named multiple foundress colonies. It is beneficial for a colony to have many foundresses because they can protect the nest


title: "Polistes metricus" content: from usurpers, parasites, and help rebuild the nest if it is destroyed. It has been shown that individuals in multiple foundress colonies spend less time at the nest compared to individuals in single foundress colonies. The dominance hierarchy in multiple foundress colonies consists of the dominant foundress at the top, and subordinate foundresses beneath her. Gynes and worker wasps make up the base of the hierarchy. Dominant foundresses in multiple foundress colonies forage for wood, pulp, and nectar, while subordinate foundresses take long foraging trips and return with the majority of the sustenance for the colony. Foundress mortality increases after


title: "Polistes metricus" content: the workers emerge. Also, less dominant foundresses are often kicked out of the nest prior to the laying of eggs that will become reproductive. It is improbable that subordinate foundresses will become dominant. Lastly, if a subordinate foundress lays eggs, the dominant foundress will often consume them. Based on the subordinate foundresses status in a multiple foundress colony, it may appear to be better for her to create a new colony of her own. However, creating a new colony is more difficult to do than waiting to displace the queen. It has also been proposed that natural selection favors foundresses


title: "Polistes metricus" content: that have offspring that are a mixture of dominant foundresses and workers. Polistes metricus Polistes metricus (metricus paper wasp) is a wasp native to North America. In the United States, it ranges throughout the southern Midwest, the South, and as far northeast as New York, but has recently been spotted in southwest Ontario. A single female specimen has also been reported from Dryden, Maine. "Polistes metricus" is dark colored, with yellow tarsi and black tibia. Nests of" Polistes metricus" can be found attached to the sides of buildings, trees, and shrubbery. Like other "Polistes "species, "P. metricus", has evolved eusociality


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title: "Call Your Girlfriend" content: who praised it for its lyrics and heartfelt message. The song reached number forty-three on the Sverigetopplistan chart, number eight on the Flanders Ultratip chart and number one in the Pmachinery Top 30. In the United States, it reached number one on Hot Dance Club Songs, becoming Robyn's highest-peaking song on the chart. The accompanying music video was released on 2 June 2011 and features Robyn dancing alone in a warehouse. The song has been performed on the NewNowNext Awards, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and on "Saturday Night Live". The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording


title: "Metropol Parasol" content: Metropol Parasol Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at "La Encarnación" square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. It was designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer and completed in April 2011. It has dimensions of 150 by 70 metres (490 by 230 ft) and an approximate height of and claims to be the largest wooden structure in the world. Its appearance, location, delays and cost overruns in construction resulted in much public controversy. The building is popularly known as Las Setas de la Encarnación (Incarnation's mushrooms). The structure consists of six parasols in the form of giant


title: "Metropol Parasol" content: mushrooms ("Las setas" in Spanish), whose design is inspired by the vaults of the Cathedral of Seville and the ficus trees in the nearby Plaza de Cristo de Burgos. Metropol Parasol is organized in four levels. The underground level (Level 0) houses the "Antiquarium", where Roman and Moorish remains discovered on site are displayed in a museum. Level 1 (street level) is the Central Market. The roof of Level 1 is the surface of the open-air public plaza, shaded by the wooden parasols above and designed for public events. Levels 2 and 3 are the two stages of the panoramic


title: "Metropol Parasol" content: terraces (including a restaurant), offering one of the best views of the city centre. From the 19th century a market was located in the plaza, housed in a dedicated building. The building was partially demolished in 1948 in accordance with plans for urban renewal. The market itself remained, however, until 1973, when the rest of the dilapidated building was finally demolished. The land remained dormant until 1990, when the city decided to construct underground parking with space for a market on top. However, in the midst of construction, ruins dating to the Roman and Al-Andalus eras were discovered, and construction


title: "Metropol Parasol" content: was frozen after an expenditure of 14 million euros. In 2004, the city decided to attempt to develop the area again, and opened an international competition to solicit bids. Construction began on June 26, 2005, with an estimated cost of 50 million euros and a projected completion date in June 2007. However, unknown to the public, the project soon faced difficulties. By May 2007 engineering firm Arup informed the municipal authorities that the structure was technically unfeasible as designed, given that a number of structural assumptions had not been tested and the design appeared to violate the limitations of known


title: "Metropol Parasol" content: materials. The wood used was birch, imported from Finland, because of its straight qualities. Much time was spent developing feasible alternative plans to buttress the structure, which themselves proved impractical because of the added weight. A feasible design using glue as reinforcement was finally settled on only at the beginning of 2009. By some estimates, due to delays, the total cost of the structure approached 100 million euros. Metropol Parasol Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at "La Encarnación" square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. It was designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer and completed in


title: "2012 Grand National" content: science and welfare said : "[The Grand National] has inherent risks, but, working closely with Aintree and other stakeholders, we do all we can to minimise these risks while maintaining the unique character of the race. The key data from these accidents will be collated... the BHA and Aintree review all incidents which occur during the Grand National meeting and consider what measures can be taken to address the risk of a repeat in the future. We consult and work with recognised welfare organisations such as the RSPCA, SSPCA and World Horse Welfare. It is our stated objective to continue


title: "Csóványos" content: the middle and lower basin lying in Hungarian territory. The Hungarian territory of the basin covers an area of 1521 km² formed by the hills of Nograd, Cserhat and Borzsony; Borzsony includes the Csóványos The Csóványos mountain peak as part of the Börzsöny Mountain ranges, lie in the Danube-Ipoly National Park in northern Hungary; the park is one of ten Hungarian national parks set up to "protect forested hills as well as riparian and lowland habitats." The nearby alder forest of Drégelypalánk and the red pine forest of Diósjenő have been described as "almost mystic". Common wildlife found in this


title: "When Love Gets a Hold of You" content: When Love Gets a Hold of You "When Love Gets a Hold of You" is a song written by Jon Randall, Jessi Alexander and Gary Nicholson, and recorded by American country music singer Reba McEntire. It was released in April 2011 as the third single from her album "All the Women I Am". It was released to country radio on April 11, 2011. The song has received positive reviews from critics. Blake Boldt from Engine 145 gave the song a "thumbs up," saying the "spaghetti Western-meets-"Pulp Fiction" vibe, will likely stand out in the crowd of loud summertime anthems" and


title: "Rohan Abeyaratne" content: Rohan Abeyaratne Rohan Abeyaratne () is a Sri Lankan born American academic and engineer and the Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was the CEO & Director of the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (the "SMART" Centre), and prior to that the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Born to L.B. "Malcolm" Abeyaratne, CCS former Secretary to the Treasury and Enid Abeyaratne, he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo where he won the Turnour Prize in 1967 and was Head Prefect in 1970. Thereafter he went on to


title: "Anacridium aegyptium" content: Anacridium aegyptium Anacridium aegyptium, the Egyptian locust, is a species belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. This quite common species is present in most of Europe, in the 'Afro-tropical ecozone', in eastern Palearctic ecozone, in the Near East and in North Africa. These grasshoppers inhabit trees and shrubs, scrub land, maquis and orchards in warm and bright environments, at an elevation from sea-level to 1,500m. "Anacridium aegyptium" is one of the largest European grasshoppers. The adult males grow up to long, while females reach of length. Their body is usually gray, brown or olive coloured, the antennae are relatively


title: "Anacridium aegyptium" content: short and robust. Tibiae of the hind legs are blue, while femora are orange. The hind femora have characteristic dark marks. It is easily identifiable also by the characteristic eyes with vertical black and white stripes. The pronotum shows a dorsal orange stripe and several white small spots. The wings are clear with dark marks. This species is folivore, essentially feeding on leaves of various plants. It is a solitary species, not harmful to crops. Adults can mainly be encountered in August and September, but they are active throughout the year. After mating these grasshoppers overwinter as adults. Spawning occurs


title: "Anacridium aegyptium" content: in spring just under the soil surface and the nymphs appear in April. These grasshoppers undergo several molts. The nymphs have the appearance of the adults, their color varies from yellow to bright green and ocher and the wings are absent or small, as they are gradually developed after each molting. Anacridium aegyptium Anacridium aegyptium, the Egyptian locust, is a species belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. This quite common species is present in most of Europe, in the 'Afro-tropical ecozone', in eastern Palearctic ecozone, in the Near East and in North Africa. These grasshoppers inhabit trees and shrubs,


title: "2011 Balearic regional election" content: setting the latest possible election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 26 June 2011. The President of the Government had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of the Balearic Islands and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a sixty-day period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Below is a list of the main


title: "Ian Johnson (footballer, born 1983)" content: Ian Johnson (footballer, born 1983) Ian Johnson (born 7 March 1983 in Liverpool) is an English football midfielder. He is the grandson of former Liverpool player Ronnie Moran. Johnson started his career at Wigan Athletic. He made his debut for the club on 9 January 2001 in a 3–2 away win against Oldham Athletic in the Football League Trophy, and made a further appearance in the next round of the competition in a 2–1 defeat against Walsall. He signed a one-year professional contract with the club at the end of the season, but failed to make a first-team appearance during


title: "NMC Resource" content: NMC Resource "'NMC Resource Corporation" NMC Moland Molybdenum Property is located 170 km east southeast of Seoul, South Korea. NMC Resource commenced commercial production in April 2010. Molybdenum mineralization has been known to exist on the property since 1966, and the first two adits were driven in 1973. Production from these two adits occurred in 1973 and 1988 and amounted to 1688 tonnes of MoS2. The property covers 822 hectares and is held as 3 mining licenses with each lease or claim being 274 hectares. In addition, 6.2 hectares of land were purchased to act as a buffer between the


title: "Morchella semilibera" content: Morchella semilibera Morchella semilibera, commonly called the half-free morel, is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae native to Europe and Asia. DNA analysis has shown that the half-free morels, which appear nearly identical on a macroscopic scale, are a cryptic species complex, consisting of at least three geographically isolated species. Because de Candolle originally described the species based on specimens from Europe, the scientific name "M. semilibera" should be restricted to the European species. In 2012, "Morchella populiphila" was described from western North America, while Peck's 1903 species name "Morchella punctipes" was reaffirmed for eastern North American half-free


title: "Morchella semilibera" content: morels. "M. semilibera" and the other half-free morels are closely related to the black morels ("M. elata" and others). A proposal has been made to conserve the name "Morchella semilibera" against several earlier synonyms, including "Phallus crassipes", "P. gigas" and "P. undosus". These names, sanctioned by Elias Magnus Fries, have since been shown to be the same species as "M. semilibera". Morchella semilibera Morchella semilibera, commonly called the half-free morel, is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae native to Europe and Asia. DNA analysis has shown that the half-free morels, which appear nearly identical on a macroscopic scale,


title: "The Card Players" content: The Card Players The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for "The Card Players" series. One version of "The Card Players" was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price variously estimated at between $250 million ($ million today) and possibly as high as


title: "Alla Yaroshinskaya" content: creation of "The Nuclear Encyclopedia", which became a reference for anti-nuclear NGOs around the Commonwealth of Independent States. Yaroshinskaya is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reformation of the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system. Alla Yaroshinskaya Alla Yaroshinskaya (born in Zhytomyr Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician and journalist. She was a member of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1991, Deputy to the Minister of Press and Information until 1993, and then Adviser to the Russian President Boris Yeltsin


title: "Sapardurdy Khadzhiev" content: imprisonment. Sapardurdy Khadzhiev Sapardurdy Khadzhiev is a Turkmenistani human rights activist currently serving a prison sentence in Turkmenbashi. Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience and named him a 2011 "priority case". Sapardurdy Khadzhiev is associated with Turkmenistan Helsinki Foundation (THF), an organization that publicized human rights violations in Turkmenistan. In June 2006, he was arrested along with Annakurban Amanklychev, another THF worker, and Khadzhiev's sister Ogulsapar Myradowa, a correspondent for Radio Liberty. The three were initially charged with spying for foreign intelligence services; these charges were later changed to "the illegal acquisition, possession or sale of ammunition or


title: "1990–91 National Hurling League" content: 1990–91 National Hurling League The 1990-91 National Hurling League was the 60th season of the National Hurling League, the top league for inter-county hurling teams, since its establishment in 1925. The season began on 14 October 1990 and concluded on 12 May 1991. Kilkenny came into the season as defending champions of the 1989-90 season. Clare and Waterford entered Division 1 as the two promoted teams. On 12 May 1991, Offaly won the title after a 2-6 to 0-10 win over Wexford. It was their first league title ever. Dublin were the first team to be relegated after losing all


title: "Fisher River Cree Nation" content: Fisher River in 1877 and 1888. The HBC earned $1000 in revenue by assisting with the move. In 1874, representatives of the Christian Indians of Rossville, led by Chief David Rundle, wrote the federal government requesting support to move to their southernmost hunting region around Grassy Narrows and the present day White Mud River. "In 1874, Chief David Rundle and a group of Rossville maskekomowak wrote to Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Morris stating their intention to and requesting assistance to relocate further south to Grassy Narrows/White Mud River region on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg. They had family there already, and


title: "Baumann family (architects)" content: alongside his father, but began listing his services as an architect in 1872. That year, he designed two important Knoxville landmarks, the Second Empire home of financier Charles McClung McGhee on Locust Street, and Staub's Theatre, the city's first opera house, on Gay Street. In 1875, Baumann designed Odd Fellows Hall (now called the Mall Building, or Hotel St. Oliver) for confectioner Peter Kern, as well as the Third Presbyterian Church, of which the Baumanns were members. Other major commissions during this period included the Hattie House Hotel (1879), the East Tennessee National Bank (1886), and large mansions for businessmen


title: "2007 Finnish campaign finance scandal" content: corruption should be more comprehensively taken into account in the Finnish election funding system. Information with regards to funding was not made public during the election. The persons who were elected had to give make their finance reports public no later than May, 2007. Corporate funding of the elections stunned journalists in 2007, but after 7.5.2008 it was revealed that corporate funding of the elections was much larger than publicly reported figures claimed. This became a political scandal in 2008-2010. Many additions were made to the public finance reports in May 2008, which was a year too late. This pertained


title: "Ann Li" content: clothing brand (DNA) then sponsored a charity foundation (Future Faces Manila) during their runway event where she styled the models wearing her clothing brand and walked on the runway herself. Li is named the founding ambassador of "IMPCT," where she held an online contest to let her followers take part in spreading the importance of education by taking a creative photograph and posting it on their social handles. "IMPCT" won the 2015 Hult Prize awarded by former President of the United States, Bill Clinton. Ann Li Ann Louie Li (born January 17, 1995 in Bangkok, Thailand), popularly known as Ann


title: "Vazhakku Enn 18/9" content: prison. Kumaravel with the money he got completes the construction of his house and gives nothing to Jyothi. Later it is informed to Jyothi that Velu did not commit the crime and is falsely accused in order that she must be cured. She realises that Kumaravel has cheated her and Velu, she gets to the court and throws acid on Kumaravel. Jyothi is arrested and as enquiries run course the judiciary finds Velu as innocent and releases him. Dinesh is arrested and Jyothi is sentenced for years in prison. In the final scene Velu meets Jyothi in prison and proposes


title: "D. LeRoy Dresser" content: of Paris respectively. He was a graduate of Columbia College in 1889 and a member of the New York Yacht Club and the Seawanhawka-Corinthian Yacht Club. He was president of the Trust Company of the Republic which failed in 1903 due to the financial failure of United States Shipbuilding Company. He was also president of the Merchants Association and of the silk commission house of Dresser & Co. In 1908, he was the leader of the Progressive Party in Rhode Island. Near the end of his life he had patented a steam generator but was unable to attract investors to


title: "Evolving networks" content: Evolving networks Evolving Networks are networks that change as a function of time. They are a natural extension of network science since almost all real world networks evolve over time, either by adding or removing nodes or links over time. Often all of these processes occur simultaneously, such as in social networks where people make and lose friends over time, thereby creating and destroying edges, and some people become part of new social networks or leave their networks, changing the nodes in the network. Evolving network concepts build on established network theory and are now being introduced into studying networks


title: "2011 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team" content: Seth Doege touchdown run to narrow the halftime lead to 24–7. However, the Cyclones scored on their opening possession of the second half, and their defense shut out the Raiders for the rest of the game as they held on for a 41–7 rout. Iowa State rang up 368 rushing yards and over 500 yards of total offense. 2011 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team The 2011 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Red Raiders were led for the second year by head coach Tommy Tuberville,


title: Inchhapuri content: In Inchhapuri Male literacy stands at 91.31 % while female literacy rate was 71.35 %. As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Inchhapuri village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who an elected representative of the village. Inchhapuri Inchhapuri is a mid-sized Yadav village located in the Pataudi tehsil of district Gurgaon in the Indian state of Haryana, known for its temples and people. The temple of the God Shiva is famous in north India. It a very ancient temple and is located in remote area of Gurgaon. Inchhapuri is surrounded by farms and the temple's trust


title: "Hattendorf Prize" content: to see maritime history as a broad field in global history that builds on insights that cut across traditional academic and national boundaries. The Hattendorf Prize Medal was designed by Anna Maria Hattendorf (AB, magna cum laude with high honors, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2002); MFA, Savannah College of Art and Design). The cast bronze medal is five inches tall and two inches wide. It depicts a stylized image of the cupola of Luce Hall, the first purpose-built building of the Naval War College, built in 1892 and first used during the College presidency of Alfred Thayer Mahan. This


title: "Shahbaz Khan Mosque" content: Shahbaz Khan Mosque Shahbaz Khan Mosque is a historic mosque located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A merchant of prince of Dhaka who built the mosque as well as his own Dargah Sharif during his lifetime in - 1086 (h).It is an Islamic architecture. Now its present condition is good. Shahbaz Khan Mosque situated in the old high court area. In 1950 the Eastern circle of the Pakistan Directorate of Archaeology (DOA) took over both the Haji khwaja Shahbaj Masjid, and the adjacent square "mazar". Shah baz khan built the "mazar" and post. This mosque and tomb, constructed in 1679 by Haji


title: "Shahbaz Khan Mosque" content: khwaja Shahbaz, a rich merchant of Dhaka, remains the city's most refined mosque. Its high fortified walls and occasional bastions were encroached upon, destruction, defacement of different structures and changes in internal spaces, had put the fort in a sorry state. The two-storied diwan block was partly damaged; bathhouse, niches were filled in, and decorative panels were mostly plastered over. The DOA accomplished a good job in restoring the structure and converting it into a museum in the first place, but the pinkish finish on the exterior, rather than the original lustrous white, fuelled debates and controversies. The elegance of


title: "Shahbaz Khan Mosque" content: its interior bespeaks the patron's wealth. The mosque's interior is divided into three bays by two lateral cusped arches supported by stone piers embedded in the east and west walls. yet the Directorate restored the dochala roof on the veranda at the south of the tomb and the decorative features like engaged corner turrets. This appears to be the first use of lateral cusped arches in a Bengali mosque's interior, and was doubtless inspired by imperial mughal architecture. The central Mihrab, particularly noteworthy, is highly ornamented with Cyprus-filled kanjuras, ornate arabesque plastic relief in the spandrels, a cusped arch, and


title: "Shahbaz Khan Mosque" content: engaged colonettes standing on bulbous floral bases. Due east of the mosque is the small, square, single-domed tomb with engaged turrets at each corner. Attached to the Southside was a low rectangular chamber with a do-chala roof, now collapsed. While the purpose of this room is not clear, it perhaps served as a prototype for the more symmetrical tomb of khwaja anwar-i shahid in Burdwan. It reconstructed the brick podium and provided adequate provision for ablution, plumbing, and sanitation services. The front façade of the mosque has three arched openings within four slender columns; it also has four corner turrets,


title: "Shahbaz Khan Mosque" content: ribbed and engaged. In a way the other two mosques built slightly later than this one bear similar features, but in an improved form. It is something that we now identify as a distinct Mughal style in Bengal. It also worked on other structures, too. It shied away from proper excavation and documentation of the intricate water supply system a network of terracotta pipes, an aqueduct, a water reservoir and several fountains, until recently. Due to its uninterrupted use and some care and maintenance since then the mosque did not require any renovation. However, in the past, the DOA have


title: "Shahbaz Khan Mosque" content: made several unacceptable modifications while carrying out periodic repairs. Like in and around many other heritage structures all over the country, the premises of Shahbaz Khan mosque is occupied by religious groups building illegal structures and extensions to the listed building, ignoring its heritage value that they abuse, building codes and rules, fiercely protecting their possessions. Shahbaz Khan Mosque Shahbaz Khan Mosque is a historic mosque located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A merchant of prince of Dhaka who built the mosque as well as his own Dargah Sharif during his lifetime in - 1086 (h).It is an Islamic architecture. Now its


title: Schrammsteine content: Schrammsteine The Schrammsteine are a long, strung-out, very jagged group of rocks in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains located east of Bad Schandau in Saxon Switzerland in East Germany. To the north they are bordered by the Kirnitzsch valley, to the south by the Elbe valley and to the east by the Affensteine rocks. The high point of the chain lies at over . The viewing point on the Schrammsteine lies at a height of . To the west the frontmost "Torstein" forms the start of the chain of rocks in the southwest. The rocks then run up to the Schrammstein


title: Schrammsteine content: viewing point, gashed by three, mighty, vertical rock openings, the "Schrammtoren" ("Toren" = gateways or openings in German, "vorderer" = before, "hinterer" = behind). This is the end of the "Vordere Schrammsteine". It is followed by the "Hinterer Schrammsteine" that run away in the direction of Schmilka. The solitary Falkenstein with a height of and the Hoher Torstein at are the most important peaks in the Schrammsteine. The other summits of the rock group are almost exclusively found on the terrace-like massif of the Schrammstein ridge. The Schrammsteine are a much frequented tourist destination; the plateau-like viewing points and the


title: Schrammsteine content: ridge being especially popular. The complex rock massif has much to offer both hikers and climbers with its multitude of trails of various levels of difficulty and its climbing rocks. The climbing trail known as the Rotkehlchenstiege ("Robin Climb") begins at the northern end of the "Falkoniergrund" near Schmilka and runs up the Schrammstein Ridgeway ("Gratweg"). It climbs a height of 150 metres over 286 steps. It is an easy "klettersteig" of grade KS1, but has several vertical rock faces. Schrammsteine The Schrammsteine are a long, strung-out, very jagged group of rocks in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains located east of


title: "Adelaide Strikers" content: record in the NYE Big Bash clashes. In season 5, Travis Head scored a brilliant century to take the Strikers home against Sydney Sixers in the NYE clash, which remains one of the most memorable NYE matches in the short history of BBL to date. Adelaide Strikers The Adelaide Strikers are an Australian men's professional Twenty20 cricket team that competes in Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash League. The Strikers are based in the state of South Australia and represent Adelaide in the Big Bash League. Their home ground is the Adelaide Oval. The Strikers wear a cornflower


title: Bhadresar content: 622 (555 AD) which may be marking Samvat 1622 (1565 AD) also. The Vasai Jain Temple is said to have been founded in the 21st year of the Vairat era, and dedicated to Vasai by Siddhasen of the race of Hari. His successors were Mahasen, Narsen, Bhojraj, Vanraj, Sarangdev, Virasen, and Harisen, who lived in the time of Vikram (57 BC). Harisen had left his kingdom to his widow Lilavati. Lilavati was succeeded by his nephew Kirtidhara. Then came Dharnipal, Devdatt and Danjiraj. In the time of Dhaniraj, the country was plundered by many chiefs. In 156, (Samvat 213), Vanraj


title: "Discovery Arcade (Disneyland Paris)" content: two covered walkways parallel to Main Street instead. In the very early days of Disneyland in Anaheim, Walt Disney had imagined two streets adjacent to Main Street, respectively named Liberty Street (themed to American values and history) and Edison Square (themed to this inventor's achievements). Although they were never made reality, these ideas became inspiration for both Arcades in Paris. As such, Imagineers came up with Liberty Arcade, themed to the lasting friendship between France and the United States and embodied by Lady Liberty, and Discovery Arcade, themed to inventions of the 19th century. The Arcade is a long walkway,


title: "Vila Assunção" content: Vila Assunção Vila Assunção (meaning "Assumption Villa" in English) is a neighbourhood ("bairro") in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959, being located on the bank of Guaíba Lake. Vila Assunção was named after José Joaquim Assunção, who lived here in his "chácara" (a rural property). When he died, his widow made a deal with the Di Primio Beck company in order to urbanize the region. The neighbourhood is predominantly residential made up of people from the upper middle class and upper