title: "Common box turtle" content: of the tortoises. One specimen lived to be at least 138 years of age. Although the common box turtle has a wide range and was once considered common, many populations are in decline as a result of a number of diverse threats. Agricultural and urban development is destroying habitat, while human fire management is degrading it. Development brings with it an additional threat in the form of increased infrastructure, as common box turtles are frequently killed on roads and highways. Collection for the international pet trade may also impact populations in some areas. The life history characteristics of the common


title: "Common box turtle" content: box turtle (long lifespan and slow reproductive rate) make it particularly vulnerable to such threats. The common box turtle is therefore classified as a Vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List. The common box turtle is also listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meaning that international trade in this species should be carefully monitored to ensure it is compatible with the species’ survival. In addition, many U.S. states now regulate or prohibit the taking of this species. This species also occurs in a number of protected areas, some of which are large


title: "Common box turtle" content: enough to protect populations from the threat of development, while it may also occur in the Sierra del Abra Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Conservation recommendations for the common box turtle include establishing management practices during urban developments that are sympathic to this species, as well as further research into its life history and the monitoring of populations. Common box turtles are official state reptiles of four U.S. states. North Carolina and Tennessee honor the eastern box turtle, Missouri names the three-toed box turtle, and Kansas adopted the ornate box turtle in 1986. In Pennsylvania, the eastern box turtle made it


title: "Common box turtle" content: through one house of the legislature, but failed to win final naming in 2009. In Virginia, bills to honor the eastern box turtle failed in 1999 and then in 2009. For the most recent failure, a Republican legislator characterized the creature as being cowardly because of its shell. However, the main problem in Virginia was that the creature was too closely linked to neighbor state North Carolina. Common box turtle The common box turtle ("Terrapene carolina") is a species of box turtle with six existing subspecies. It is found throughout the eastern United States and Mexico. The box turtle has


title: "Terrapene ornata" content: Terrapene ornata Terrapene ornata is a species of North American box turtle sometimes referred to as the western box turtle or ornate box turtle. There are two subspecies of "T. ornata": "T. ornata" have a shell that is less domed than other species of box turtle, appearing to be slightly flattened. Their coloration is generally black or dark brown, with yellow striping. "T. o. luteola" tends to have more striping than "T. o. ornata". "T. ornata ornata" is found in the central United States from western Indiana, to eastern Texas and into Louisiana. "T. ornata luteola" inhabits the driest areas


title: "Terrapene ornata" content: of all the box turtle species, and is found in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjoining areas of northern Mexico. In Indiana, the ornate box turtle is listed as an endangered species. The species became the official state reptile of Kansas in 1986. Terrapene ornata Terrapene ornata is a species of North American box turtle sometimes referred to as the western box turtle or ornate box turtle. There are two subspecies of "T. ornata": "T. ornata" have a shell that is less domed than other species of box turtle, appearing to be slightly flattened. Their coloration is generally black


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: Mariazell Basilica Mariazell Basilica, also known as Basilica Mariä Geburt (Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary), is a Marian basilica in Mariazell, Austria. It is the most important pilgrimage destination in Austria and one of the most visited shrines in Europe. In the church, a miraculous wooden image of the Virgin Mary is honored. The territory around Mariazell was given to the Monastery of St. Lambrecht around 1103, and the monks built cells there in order to serve the local residents. Legends give the town's founding day as December 21, 1157, but it is first documented in 1243.


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: A Marian altar was dedicated there in 1266. In the fourteenth century, a gothic church stood at Mariazell with a 90 m high spire and an ogive portal. In 1420 and 1474, the church was destroyed by fire. The church building was later expanded and redesigned in the Baroque style by Domenico Sciassia from 1644 to 1683. To the left and right of the gothic spire, a baroque tower was built, the nave was lengthened and widened, and a dome was added on the eastern side. The high altar, consecrated in 1704, was designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: The twelve side chapels each contain a baroque altar. The plaster stucco work of the organ gallery and the 1737 organ console was created by the Viennese sculptor Johann Wagner in 1740. In front of the main entrance are two life-sized lead statues created by Balthasar Moll in 1757. To the left stands King Ludwig I of Hungary and to the right is Heinrich, Margrave of Moravia. In 1907, the pilgrimage church was elevated to a basilica minor. The basilica has been undergoing a general restoration since 1992, which was completed in 2007. The older part of the building, built


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: in 1690, contains the Gnadenkapelle. This chapel sits on the site of the first "cell" and holds a Late Romanesque miraculous image of the Virgin Mary - the "Magna Mater Austria" - a 48 cm tall statuette made of linden. Pilgrims were already making their way to the Marian sanctuary in the 12th century. Larger numbers of pilgrims are documented beginning around 1330, when a secular court imposed a "Zellfahrt" ("'Zell journey") as atonement for its criminals. In the following years increasing numbers of pilgrims came from neighboring lands. After the Counter-Reformation, the Habsburgs made Mariazell a national sanctuary. However,


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: in 1783, Emperor Joseph II dissolved the monastery in Mariazell, and in 1787, he completely banned pilgrimages there. After the early withdrawal of the restrictions, today around a million pilgrims visit Mariazell each year. In May 2004, the Central European Catholic Day ("mitteleuropäische Katholikentag") took place there. There are three basic legends about the founding of Mariazell and its development. The legend of the towns founding says that in 1157, the St. Lambrecht Monk Magnus was sent to the area of the current town as a minister. When his way was blocked by a rock, he set down the Marian


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: figurine he had brought with him, whereby the rock broke apart and left Magnus' way clear. On a nearby bank, he settled down, placed the figurine on a tree trunk, and built a cell out of wood, which served as both his chapel and his living quarters. The second legend relates how Henry Margrave of Moravia and his wife, having been healed of severe gout through the help of Our Lady of Mariazell made a pilgrimage to that place around 1200. There they built the first stone church on the site of the wooden chapel. The third legend recounts a


title: "Mariazell Basilica" content: victorious battle of the Hungarian King Ludwig I over a numerically superior Turkish army. Out of thanks he built the gothic church and endowed it with the "Schatzkammerbild" (""treasury image"") that he saw laid upon his chest in a dream. The Mariazell Basilica was recently selected as the main motif of a collectors' coin: the Austrian Mariazell Basilica commemorative coin, minted on May 9, 2007. The coin shows the facade of the basilica with its characteristic central gothic tower flanked by two baroque towers. Mariazell Basilica Mariazell Basilica, also known as Basilica Mariä Geburt (Basilica of the Birth of the


title: "Mertensia virginica" content: Mertensia virginica Mertensia virginica (common names Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip, lungwort oysterleaf, Roanoke bells) is a spring ephemeral plant with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America. Virginia bluebells have rounded and gray-green leaves, borne on stems up to tall. They are petiolate at the bottom of the flower stem and sessile at the top. Flowerbuds are pink. Flowers have five petals fused into a tube, five stamens, and a central pistil (carpel). They are borne in mid-spring in nodding spiral-shaped cymes at the end of arched stems. Flowers are usually blue, but white or pink flowers occur rarely.


title: "Mertensia virginica" content: The stamens and stigma are spaced too far apart for self-fertilization. The flower can be pollinated by bumblebees but, due to its funnel shape bumblebees must hover, making the bumblebee a rare pollinator. Butterflies are the most common pollinators because they can easily perch on the edges and still enjoy the nectar. In early summer, each fertilized flower produces four seeds within wrinkled nuts, and the plant goes dormant till the next spring. Plants are hardy to hardiness zone 3: . In cultivation, "M. virginica" has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. "Mertensia virginica" is the type


title: "Mertensia virginica" content: species for the genus "Mertensia" and was first described by Linnaeus in 1753 as "Pulmonaria virginica". The genus "Pulmonaria" is today restricted to 19 species in the tribe Boragineae. When Albrecht Wilhelm Roth erected the genus "Mertensia" in 1797, he named the Virginia bluebell as "Mertensia pulmonarioides", apparently unaware that Linnaeus had already named it in his "Species Plantarum". Roth's name is a superfluous synonym and has been used in recent literature. Mertensia virginica Mertensia virginica (common names Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip, lungwort oysterleaf, Roanoke bells) is a spring ephemeral plant with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America.


title: "Greg X. Volz" content: "Back to the Rock" featuring new material and re-recordings of hits from that era. Greg X. Volz Gregory Xavier Volz (born January 12, 1950) is a Christian rock singer. He is most noted for being the former lead singer of Petra from 1979 to 1985. He also fronted the reincarnated version of the band called Classic Petra from 2010 to 2012. A self-taught musician by age 13, he started his own band called The Wombats. As he grew up, he went on to share the stage with the likes of Janis Joplin, Chicago and others. He formed a band called


title: "Tongan music notation" content: to learn international music notation. But due to the limited number of consonants in the Tongan language, the note names were localised into to-le-mi… Unfortunately the word 'tole' is a vulgar expression for the Female genital area, and as such not to be used. Moulton then developed a system where the main notes were indicated with the numbers 3 to 9, while a strike to the digits was used to sharpen them, for example: 7, being 7# or 8b. At the end the full 12 notes of the octave became: 3-3-4-4-5-6-6-7-7-8-8-9, which are pronounced as: to-lu-fa-ma-ni-o-no-tu-fi-va-a-hi, (variants of the Tongan


title: "George W. Cotton" content: land reform. Cotton developed a working men's blocks scheme in which the government would offer blocks of up to of crown land at low rents. The hope was that income from such blocks would eventually be adequate to support a family, forming the basis of a new society of independent producers and co-operative associations. In 1885 the South Australian government began to implement Cotton's plan. Blocks were surveyed and occupied in many parts of the colony, from Adelaide suburbs and country town fringes to the open country. In 1896 about 12,900 people, or nearly 4 per cent of the population,


title: "Red-billed pigeon" content: Red-billed pigeon The red-billed pigeon ("Patagioenas flavirostris") is a relatively large, girthy pigeon which breeds from southern Texas, United States, and northwestern Mexico south to Costa Rica. It belongs to a clade of "Patagioenas" which generally lack iridescent display plumage, except some vestiges in the pale-vented pigeon. It is found in open country with some trees, large clearings and cultivation in lowlands and middle altitudes to . It builds a rudimentary platform nest out of twigs in a tree about above the ground, usually on a horizontal branch or on a palm crown, and lays one white egg. The red-billed


title: "Red-billed pigeon" content: pigeon is mid or large-sized pigeon, at in length and a weight of . It is mainly wine-purple, becoming browner on the back, and with a grey tail, lower belly and flight feathers. The bill is white with a red base, and the legs and eyes are red. Juvenile birds are duller than adults and the plumage is brown-tinged. It is normally seen alone or in pairs and rarely forms flocks. It feeds on the ground, seeking acorns, berries and buds. It is often thought to be brown. However, it is actually a dark shade of maroon. The red-billed pigeon


title: "Red-billed pigeon" content: has a loud "kuk c'c'coooo" call that is given in rows; the initial short "kuk" is characteristic for this group of "Patagioenas". Red-billed pigeon The red-billed pigeon ("Patagioenas flavirostris") is a relatively large, girthy pigeon which breeds from southern Texas, United States, and northwestern Mexico south to Costa Rica. It belongs to a clade of "Patagioenas" which generally lack iridescent display plumage, except some vestiges in the pale-vented pigeon. It is found in open country with some trees, large clearings and cultivation in lowlands and middle altitudes to . It builds a rudimentary platform nest out of twigs in a


title: "Banksia brownii" content: plan is being developed. There is also a translocation project underway. The main threat to "B. brownii" is dieback caused by the introduced plant pathogen "P. cinnamomi", a soil-borne water mould that causes root rot. Studies of the effect of "P. cinnamomi" on "B. brownii" have found it to be "highly susceptible" to dieback, with specimens "frequently and consistently killed in the wild". As of 2007, all major populations of "B. brownii", and all but one minor population, are suffering from dieback. Moreover, all populations are in an area vulnerable to dieback, so even the uninfected population is considered under


title: "Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex" content: Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex The Open Air Ethnographic Museum «Etar» (, usually referred to as Етъра, Etara) is an open-air museum and a neighbourhood of Gabrovo (8 km south of its center) in northern Bulgaria. It is located on the northern edge of the Bulgarka Nature Park, between the park and the city of Gabrovo. It presents the Bulgarian customs, culture and craftsmanship. It spans over an area of 7 ha and contains a total of 50 objects, including water installations and houses with craftsmen's workshops attached. As a whole, the complex's goal is to illustrate the architecture, way of life


title: "Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex" content: and economy of Gabrovo and the region during the Bulgarian National Revival. The museum's construction started in 1963 under the direction and project of Lazar Donkov. The pre-existing Karadzheyka water-mill, built around 1780, was thoroughly reconstructed, with the other objects being constructed later. The complex was opened on 7 September 1964 and proclaimed a national park in 1967, as well as a monument of culture in 1971. The park features typical Bulgarian revival houses with two floors, bay windows, a clock tower, and a beautifully decorated house by Saakov featuring 21 windows. Using original instruments and following the old traditions,


title: "Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex" content: locals represent around 20 characteristics of the regional crafts such as wood-carving, pottery, coppersmith crafts, furriery, cutlery making, needlework etc. There are shops for souvenirs. There are numerous restaurants in the park where tourist could consume local Bulgarian cuisine. There are visitors to the park, from all over the world, all the year round, especially during the annual Christian festivals celebrated in the park, namely, Palm Sunday and Easter. Sokolski Monastery is situated several kilometers away from Etar. Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex The Open Air Ethnographic Museum «Etar» (, usually referred to as Етъра, Etara) is an open-air museum and a


title: HAVELSAN content: 1985, Havelsan was separated from the foreign shareholders and incorporated as a national company with a share of 98% owned by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation. In 1997, Havelsan added command control system (C4ISR), training and simulations system and management information systems to its functions. As the "Informatics and System House of Turkey" Havelsan has been designing and planning critical defense systems such as management information system, homeland security system, simulation and training system and C4ISR. Although Havelsan has generally been involved in military software projects, it has also taken responsibilities on e-government projects and successfully implemented them. Havelsan is


title: "Second Malaysia Plan" content: cooperatives, farmers' associations, and government agricultural agencies. Growth in small-scale agriculture was viewed as crucial to creating jobs and reducing rural poverty, and government agencies such as FELDA (the Federal Land Development Authority) vastly increased the scope and size of their development programs. RISDA (Rubber Industries Smallholder Development Agency) was given the task of diversifying smallholder estates; RISDA set itself the ambitious goal of developing during the Second Malaysia Plan. The main aim was to diversify into palm oil through the planting of oil palms. The Malaysian economy relied heavily on rubber at the time—at its peak, Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia)


title: Unadon content: named of Sakai-machi (in present-day Nihonbashi Ningyōchō, Chūo-ku, Tokyo), and became a hit in the neighborhood, where the Nakamura-za and Ichimura-za once stood. The first eatery to sell it as a business is claimed to be , in (adjacent to Sakai-chō) at some indeterminate time, but presumably before the theaters burnt down in 1841 and moved off. After the great famine of 1844, it started selling the "unadon" for one oblong Tenpō-sen coin, and became a hit. As for "unajū", where the eel and rice is stuffed in "jūbako" boxes, one theory ascribes its originator to one , who started


title: "Derek Shulman" content: He also re-established the careers of AC/DC and Bad Company, both of whom sold multi-platinum albums under his watch. He then went on to become president of Roadrunner Records overseeing signings like Slipknot and Nickelback. In March 2010, Shulman established a new venture with international music impresario Leonardo Pavkovic called 2PLUS Music & Entertainment. Derek Shulman Derek Shulman (born Derek Victor Shulman; 11 February 1947 in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish musician and singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record executive. From 1970 to 1980, he was lead vocalist for the band Gentle Giant. Shulman began his recording career as the


title: "Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium" content: Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium The IX Gymnasium "Mihailo Petrović-Alas" (Serbian: "Deveta gimnazija "Mihailo Petrović-Alas; Девета гимназија "Михајло Петровић-Алас")" is a gymnasium located in New Belgrade, Serbia, established in 1961, and named after the Serbian mathematician Mihailo Petrović-Alas. The school has a reputation of being very academically demanding, with high entry standards: for example, in 2005, an applicant needed a score of at least 96 out of 100 points on the Serbian High school examination to enroll in the school, the highest score of any high school in Belgrade that year. The school has earned an excellent reputation over many decades and


title: "Athalia (Handel)" content: Handel's part, combining solos with chorus in new ways. Its vivid characterisation through music contributed to its immense success at its premiere. Citations Sources Athalia (Handel) Athalia (HWV 52) is an English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Samuel Humphreys based on the play "Athalie" by Jean Racine. The work was commissioned in 1733 for the Publick Act in Oxford – a commencement ceremony of the local colleges, one of which had offered Handel an honorary doctorate (an honour he declined). The story is based on that of the Biblical queen Athaliah. "Athalia", Handel's third oratorio


title: "End Conscription Campaign" content: court in 1988 revealed that the SADF itself had been running a disinformation campaign against the ECC. Political and military figures adopted varying and sometimes contradictory methods and messages to try and contain the threat of conscientious objection. National Party politicians characterised ECC activists as naive, malevolent in intent, in league with 'communist revolutionaries' and also as sexually deviant (i.e. homosexual) and cowardly. However, there is evidence that sentencing magistrates and even state prosecutors came to admire objectors for their stand. In order to get out of forced conscription into the SADF, many conscripts allowed themselves to be labeled as


title: "Paeonia californica" content: Paeonia californica Paeonia californica is a perennial herbaceous plant of 35–70 cm high, that retreats underground in summer, and reoccurs with the arrival of the winter rains. It has lobed leaves, elliptic (cup-shaped) drooping flowers with dark maroon-colored petals, and many yellow anthers. It flowers mostly from January to March (or sometimes as early as December or as late as May), and later develops two to five fruits per flower. Its common name is California peony and it is sometimes also referred to as wild peony. This peony is an endemic of southwestern California (USA), where it is not rare,


title: "Paeonia californica" content: and northernmost Baja California (Mexico). It grows on dry hillsides in the coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities of the coastal mountains of Southern and Central California, often as an understory plant. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the other "Paeonia" species native to North America, "Paeonia brownii". The California peony is a summer-deciduous perennial herbaceous plant of 35–75 cm high. Each shoot usually carries seven to twelve compound leaves, each primary segment is 3–9 cm long and 1–6 cm wide, and the finest divisions are linear to spade-shaped. The base of the leaflet blade narrows gradually into the


title: "Paeonia californica" content: leaflet stalk, which is short or may be absent. The tips of the leaflets are usually pointy, and the surface of the leaf is green and not particularly glaucous. The bisexual flowers occur at the tip of the stem and are nodding. The petals are dark red or purplish, sometimes almost black, while the margins are lighter, elliptic in shape and 1½–2½ cm long, usually longer than the sepals. The numerous stamens consist of filaments of ½–¾ cm topped by anthers of ⅓–⅔ cm long, containing yellow pollen. Two to five carpels eventually develop into follicles of 3–4 cm long.


title: "Paeonia californica" content: The seeds are about 1½ cm long, slightly curved, and have a dull, coarsely wrinkled surface. "P. californica" has ten chromosomes (2n=10), as all other diploid peonies. The California peony is most related to, and close in appearance to Brown's peony, with which it constitutes the section "Onaepia". Common characters include having rather small drooping flowers, with small petals and a very prominent disk which usually consists of separate segments, while the seeds are cylindrical rather than ovoid. It can still be easily distinguished from "P. browniii" however by 35–75 cm high stems bearing seven to twelve leaves which are


title: "Paeonia californica" content: green, while the leaflet blade gradually eases into the leaflet stalk or lacks such a stalk all together, and the finest lobes are lanceolate or narrowly elliptic. "P. brownii" is only 20–40 cm high, has six to eight glaucous leaves per stem that suddenly narrow at their base and the finest segments are egg-shaped. In "P. californica" the petals are egg-shaped, and about 1½-2½ cm long, reaching beyond the sepals, while in "P. brownii" the petals are circular or wider than long, and about ¾-1½ cm long, definitely shorter than the sepals. "Paeonia californica" was first described in 1838 by


title: "Paeonia californica" content: Thomas Nuttall in the Flora of North America which was edited by John Torrey and Asa Gray. Several later authors considered it a subtaxon of "P. brownii": a subspecies (Abrams in 1944, and Halda in 1997) or a variety (Lynch, 1890). There are however several morphological differences, the environmental circumstances in which each grows are different and the distributions of both species do not overlap, so currently there seems to be consensus that both need to be regarded as separate species. "P. brownii" and "P. californica" together make up the section "Onaepia" of the genus "Paeonia". Precise relationships between the


title: "Paeonia californica" content: three sections remain ambiguous, and can be represented by the following phylogenetic tree. California peonies have a native distribution in southwestern California (Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties) and in neighboring Mexico (northern Baja California), although distribution in Mexico is poorly known. It grows on dry hillsides in the coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities of the coastal mountains of Southern and Central California, often as an understory plant between sea level and 1500 m elevation. The California peony has entered limited cultivation in native plant landscaping and xeriscaping.


title: "Paeonia californica" content: It is drought-tolerant and is moisture sensitive in the summer, when its swollen root will rot if watered. It prefers partial sun and tolerates a variety of soil types. Deer seem to avoid eating this plant. Paeonia californica Paeonia californica is a perennial herbaceous plant of 35–70 cm high, that retreats underground in summer, and reoccurs with the arrival of the winter rains. It has lobed leaves, elliptic (cup-shaped) drooping flowers with dark maroon-colored petals, and many yellow anthers. It flowers mostly from January to March (or sometimes as early as December or as late as May), and later develops


title: Kinopanorama content: premiered on 28 February 1958, at the Mir Kino Theatre in Moscow. The event was profiled in the "New York Times". "The Enchanted Mirror", the second Kinopanorama film, received a special prize at the Brussels World's Fair known as Expo '58. Eight Kinopanorama travelogues were produced in the original three-lens format (plus an additional seven in single-negative Kinopanorama 70) until 1966. "Opasniye Povoroty", the first dramatic film (released internationally in 1962) was produced with an improved Kinopanorama camera, known as the PSO-1960. This redesigned camera, of which six were manufactured, allowed for the use of interchangeable lens kits of focal


title: "Frederick Nicholson Betts" content: Frederick Nicholson Betts Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholson Betts (1906 – 22 August 1973) was a British Indian Army officer and an ornithologist. F. N. Betts (known to friends and family as 'Tim'), was born in Launceston, Cornwall in UK. He studied at Winchester College 1920-24. He went to Ceylon and worked in the tea plantations there and later in the coffee plantations in Coorg. He was commissioned in India as a Captain in the Punjab Regiment and in 1940, was posted to Eritrea. He was later posted Lt. Col. (Intelligence) in the V Force in the Burma Campaign, a guerrilla and


title: "Chuhar Chak" content: as Khalsa High School in 1904. There is an ITI for Girls. Most of the students from the village go to Government College, Dhudike for their graduation. Chuhar Chak Chuhar Chak is a town located in the Moga district of Punjab, India. This village is surrounded by Dhudike (1 km), Daudhar (5 km), Daangian (5 km), Kaonke Kalan (4 km), Nanaksar Kaleran (6 km), Galib Kalan (7 km), Killi Chahlan (4 km). Ajitwal is the nearest railway station at 4 km. The village has total population of 1,636 with 277 households, 893 males and 743 females. Punjabi is the mother


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: Telegraph Hill, San Francisco Telegraph Hill (elev. ) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". The "San Francisco Chronicle" defines the Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill areas as bounded by Sacramento Street, Taylor Street, Bay Street, and the water. The neighborhood is bounded by Vallejo Street to the south, Sansome Street to the east, Francisco Street to the north and Powell Street and Columbus Avenue to the west, where the northwestern corner of Telegraph Hill overlaps with the North Beach neighborhood. Originally named Loma


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: Alta ("High Hill") by the Spaniards, the hill was then familiarly known as Goat Hill by the early San Franciscans, and became the neighborhood of choice for many Irish immigrants. From 1825 through 1847, the area between Sansome and Battery, Broadway and Vallejo streets was used as a burial ground for foreign non-Catholic seamen. The hill owes its name to a semaphore, a windmill-like structure erected in September 1849, for the purpose of signaling to the rest of the city the nature of the ships entering the Golden Gate. Atop the newly built house, the marine telegraph consisted of a


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: pole with two raisable arms that could form various configurations, each corresponding to a specific meaning: steamer, sailing boat, etc. The information was used by observers operating for financiers, merchants, wholesalers and speculators. Knowing the nature of the cargo carried by the ship they could predict the upcoming (generally lower) local prices for those goods and commodities carried. Those who did not have advance information on the cargo might pay a too-high price from a merchant unloading his stock of a commodity—a price that was about to drop. On October 18, 1850, the ship "Oregon" signaled to the hill as


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: it was entering the Golden Gate the news of California's recently acquired statehood. The pole-and-arm signals on the Telegraph Hill semaphore became so well known to townspeople that, according to one story, during a play in a San Francisco theater, an actor held his arms aloft and cried, "Oh God, what does this mean?", prompting a rogue in the gallery to shout, "Sidewheel steamer!", which brought down the house. Sailing ships brought cargo to San Francisco, but needed ballast when leaving. Rocks for ballast were quarried from the bay side of Telegraph Hill. Exposed rock from this quarrying is still


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: visible from the Filbert Steps and from Broadway, where there was a large landslide on February 27, 2007 that damaged property and forced the evacuation of many residents. A second semaphore system was built at Point Lobos in 1853, which communicated with Telegraph Hill. However, with the advent of the electrical telegraph in 1862, both became obsolete. Telegraph Hill retained its name and is now registered as California Historical Landmark #91, marking the location of the original signal station. In the 1920s, Telegraph Hill became with North Beach a destination for poets and bohemian intellectuals, dreaming of turning it into


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: a West Coast West Village. Telegraph Hill is primarily a residential area, much quieter than adjoining North Beach with its bustling cafés and nightlife. Aside from Coit Tower, it is well known for its gardens flowing down Filbert Street down to Levi Plaza. Today Telegraph Hill is known for supporting a flock of feral parrots, primarily red-masked parakeets ("Aratinga erythrogenys"), descended from escaped or released pets. The flock was popularized by a book and subsequent documentary (2003), both titled "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill". The birds, known in the bird trade as cherry-headed conures, are native to Peru and


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: Ecuador; they have established a breeding colony, with the support of some residents, as reported in the film "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill", and through the help of volunteers with Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue. They range widely, including along The Embarcadero and in the Presidio. A controversial San Francisco city ordinance passed on June 5, 2007, prohibits the feeding of parrots in public spaces. The feeding ban was championed by Mark Bittner, the birds' most outspoken supporter who fed them for years and wrote the book "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill". Other local conservationists also supported the ban,


title: "Telegraph Hill, San Francisco" content: though some residents continue to object. Telegraph Hill, San Francisco Telegraph Hill (elev. ) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". The "San Francisco Chronicle" defines the Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill areas as bounded by Sacramento Street, Taylor Street, Bay Street, and the water. The neighborhood is bounded by Vallejo Street to the south, Sansome Street to the east, Francisco Street to the north and Powell Street and Columbus Avenue to the west, where the northwestern corner of Telegraph Hill overlaps with the


title: "Sheila Matthews Allen" content: death. She also served as a producer on the 2002 television remake of "The Time Tunnel" and as Executive Producer of the film "Poseidon". She died on November 15, 2013 at her home in Malibu, California, after an extended battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Sheila Matthews Allen Sheila Mathews Allen (February 2, 1929 – November 15, 2013) was an American actress. Born Sheila Marie Mathews in New York City to Christopher Joseph and Elizabeth (née McCloskey) Mathews, both immigrants from Ireland. She was married to producer Irwin Allen until his death in 1991. She appeared in several of her husband's TV


title: "FK Vlasina" content: were unexpectedly eliminated on penalties by FK Kolubara after eliminating top league clubs such as FK Budućnost Podgorica and Belgrade's FK Rad in the previous rounds. In 2006-07 they reached the 1/8 finals where they lost again on a penalty shoot-out after a 0-0 draw against top league FK Bežanija. Until the season 2007-08 the club successfully competed in the second league but that year they ended relegated to the Serbian League East. On November 17, 2010 the club celebrated its 90th anniversary with a match against Red Star Belgrade. The most famous supporters group of FK Vlasina, the Poplaws


title: "Peter Primrose" content: and for five years as Chair of the Macarthur Health Services Board. Peter Primrose Peter Thomas Primrose (born 26 September 1955) is an Australian politician. He has been an Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 1996 and currently serves as Shadow Minister for Local Government and Shadow Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation. He served as Shadow Minister of State and Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader on Western Sydney prior to the 2015 State Election. He was also the President of the Legislative Council (8 May 2007 – 17 November 2009), Minister for Disability Services


title: "Black marlin" content: Black marlin The black marlin ("Istiompax indica") is a species of marlin found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. With a maximum published length of and weight of , it is one of the largest marlins and also one of the largest bony fish. It is one of the fastest fish species as well, having been recorded unwinding fishing line at . Black marlin are fished commercially and are also a highly prized game fish. Compared to striped or white marlins and sailfish, black marlins are more solid than their blue counterparts. They have a


title: "Black marlin" content: shorter bill and a rounder and lower dorsal fin. Black marlin may be distinguished from all other marlin species by their rigid pectoral fins, which, especially from a weight of around 150 lb (75 kg) or so, are unable to be pressed flat against their sides. Diet mostly consists of various fish and cephalopods. Many people see the black marlin as the premier game fish for sport fisherman. Because of their size and physique, these marlins are popularly fished. Research off the coast of Australia suggests the large creature is much easier to catch around the full moon and the


title: "Black marlin" content: week afterwards due to its prey moving to the surface layers, which in turn forces the marlin to hunt in a wider area. In addition to the Australian coast, black marlin can also be found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific waters. They can also be found from Southern California to the Gulf of California to Chile, including the coast of all oceanic islands in between. They tend to stay in warmer waters and hunt the surface. In addition to warmer waters, they also are found close to land masses as opposed to wide-open water. Black marlin The black marlin ("Istiompax indica")


title: "Paddy Kirk" content: Aaron blames Tess, she is furious and reminds Paddy that she can take everything away from him in an instant. In February 2016, Paddy and the Dingles are informed by Cain, that Aaron was sexually abused as a child by his father, Gordon. Tess and Paddy's affair comes to an abrupt end when a drunken Kirin Kotecha accidentally kills her. Tess dies in Paddy's arms. Rhona learns about the affair after Paddy goes to Tess's funeral but is spotted by Megan Macey. After a series of rows, which includes Paddy telling Rhona about Aaron and Robert's affair, nearly dying in


title: "Grand Theft Auto clone" content: Grand Theft Auto clone "Grand Theft Auto" clone is a controversial subgenre of open world action-adventure video games, characterized by their likeness to the "Grand Theft Auto" series in either gameplay, or overall design. In these types of open world games, players may find and use a variety of vehicles and weapons while roaming freely in an open world setting. The objective of "Grand Theft Auto" clones is to complete a sequence of core missions involving driving and shooting, but often side-missions and minigames are added to improve replay value. The storylines of games in this subgenre typically have strong


title: "Gene Hickerson" content: later in the season while watching a game from the sidelines. After missing two games in 1962, he recovered from the injury and never missed another game in his professional tenure. Hickerson only earned accolades after Jim Brown had retired and he was blocking for Leroy Kelly, but he earned first-team all-NFL honors five straight seasons from 1966 to 1970 and was voted to six consecutive Pro Bowls from 1966 to 1971. During his career, Hickerson's Browns never experienced a losing season and was a starter in four NFL title games, including a 1964 NFL Championship win over the Baltimore


title: "Trance (comics)" content: Trance (comics) Trance (Hope Abbott) is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by the Marvel Comics. A mutant, Hope attended the Xavier Institute before its closing. She retained her powers after M-Day and is a member of the X-Men's training squad. Hope was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. When Hope's powers manifested, it appeared as if a ghost had come out of her body, giving her father a heart attack. She was then sent to the Xavier Institute by her parents believing that she would be "cured." While at the Institute, Hope was put in the Paragons Squad


title: "Banana Wars" content: the railroads (and other utilities) that they had been using along with the plantation. Therefore, one might argue that the exchange of services between the government and the companies was not always respected. The ultimate goal in the acquisition of a contract was to control the process from production to distribution of the bananas. Therefore, the companies would finance guerrilla fighters, presidential campaigns and governments. According to Rivera and Carranza, the indirect participation of American companies in the country's armed conflicts worsened the situation. They argued that the presence of more dangerous and modern weapons gave place to more dangerous


title: "1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners" content: Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to try the men involved "for one of the worst single human rights atrocities since the Second World War." On 4 December 2018 Amnesty International asked the government of Iran to bring to light what has happened to the political detainees in the country. Amnesty asked United nations to set up an investigation group to find the facts of crimes against humanity in Iran. A 2018 research by Amnesty International found that Ruhollah Khomeini had ordered the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners through a secret fatwa. In 2016, an audio recording was posted online


title: "Highlander III: The Sorcerer" content: domination by eliminating MacLeod. It grossed between $12.3 and $13.7 million in the US. Some time after the death of his wife Heather in the 16th century, Connor travels to Japan to request training from the Immortal Japanese sorcerer Nakano. Nakano lives in a cave of Mount Niri, and has a reputation as a master of Illusion. Another Immortal, Kane, is also interested in mastering the power of Illusion and is making his way across Asia, with two henchmen in tow (Khabul Khan and Senghi Khan). They burn a village, massacre its population and eventually reach the cave. Kane defeats


title: KSFH content: spirit of the 1970s and similar to the famed "Home Brew" Computer Clubs that were frequented by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. The station's transmitters, mixing boards and primary "on air" components were almost all entirely built from scratch, few items were "off the shelf" ready bought. KSFH was hand crafted, built and engineered by students and former students (Primarily engineered thru the diligence of James O'Malley), the station's equipment was built from spares and electronic components purchased from Quement, Haltec and Radio Shack electronics stores. Long cold nights building the station (the rooms had no heat) were fueled by


title: "Cyclone Larry" content: schools and other public buildings, and to make private dwellings habitable. The Queensland Government also investigated how many trusted prisoners could be organised for work-gangs. Media outlets reported that rental agents were working to find accommodation for displaced persons, after the already tight accommodation market was exacerbated by the severe damage done to homes in the affected areas. Many tenants and owners of severely damaged homes had little chance of finding accommodation in the area, and many were expected to move to Cairns for several months. Many people were sheltered in town halls while the defence force built additional temporary


title: "Conceptual economy" content: produce, with the result that a significant proportion of households have begun to look for more than just the basic necessities. Families now look for goods which extend beyond the basic norm such as organic foods or sophisticated digital television sets, mobile phones and cars with four-wheel drive, cruise control or integrated navigation systems. Given the low costs of labour in developing countries such as China, India and the Philippines, American and European companies are now outsourcing or offshoring an ever-increasing proportion of their production, manufacturing or service tasks to foreign countries. As a result, job opportunities in the West


title: "Muhammad Zahid Al-Kawthari" content: Muhammad Zahid Al-Kawthari Muhammad Zahid b. Hasan al-Kawthari (1296 AH – 1371 AH/1879–1952) was the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, a Hanafi Ash'ari scholar and a polymath. He was born in 1879 in Düzce, now in Turkey (back then in the Ottoman Empire), to family of Circassian descent. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Kemalists began a violent crackdown on the religious scholarly class. Fearing that his life maybe in danger, Kawthari fled to Cairo, then to Syria and finally returning to Cairo. There, he edited classical works of Fiqh, Hadith and Usul,


title: "Tufa Wugu" content: Tufa Wugu Tufa Wugu (; died 399), formally Prince Wu of Wuwei (武威武王), was the founding prince of the Xianbei state Southern Liang. He was initially a vassal of Later Liang's emperor Lü Guang, but seeing how Lü Guang was misruling his people, declared independence in 397. He ruled for only two years before he died from injuries suffered in a horse-riding accident. Tufa Wugu's father Tufa Sifujian (禿髮思復鞬) was a great-grandnephew of the early Jin Dynasty (265-420) Xianbei general Tufa Shujineng (禿髮樹機能), who had been a menace to Jin forces during the reign of Emperor Wu. Tufa Sifujian became


title: "Wandering tattler" content: Wandering tattler The wandering tattler ("Tringa incana") (formerly "Heteroscelus incanus": Pereira & Baker, 2005; Banks "et al.", 2006), is a medium-sized wading bird. It is similar in appearance to the closely related gray-tailed tattler, "T. brevipes". The tattlers are unique among the species of "Tringa" for having unpatterned, greyish wings and backs, and a scaly breast pattern extending more or less onto the belly in breeding plumage, in which both also have a rather prominent supercilium. These birds have stocky bodies with gray upperparts, underwings, face and neck and a white belly. They have short dark yellow legs and a


title: "Wandering tattler" content: dark gray bill. Adults in breeding plumage are heavily barred underneath. In summer, they are found in far-eastern Russia, Alaska, portions of the California coast and northwestern Canada. They nest in rocky areas along mountain streams. At other times, they are found on rocky islands in the southwest Pacific and on rocky Pacific coasts from California to South America and as far as Australia. They feed on aquatic invertebrates such as crustaceans and marine worms. During breeding season, they also eat insects. While wading, they forage actively, making jerky bobbing movements. Feeding behaviors can include repeated returns to the same


title: "Wandering tattler" content: location over short periods of time. They can be seen flying low over a rocky coastline or along a jetty. The female lays 4 olive-colored eggs in a shallow depression. Both parents incubate and help feed the young, who are soon able to forage for themselves. The call is a rapid trill of accelerating, descending notes of decreasing volume. Wandering tattler The wandering tattler ("Tringa incana") (formerly "Heteroscelus incanus": Pereira & Baker, 2005; Banks "et al.", 2006), is a medium-sized wading bird. It is similar in appearance to the closely related gray-tailed tattler, "T. brevipes". The tattlers are unique among


title: "Taking the Long Way" content: husband, who affords her an island of quiet companionship and love in the midst of turmoil. The third track, and first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice", offers an angry statement of purpose and resolve, and makes direct reference to isolated incidents the Chicks encountered following Maines' comments. The fourth track "Everybody Knows" is a return to the classic Chicks sound, but enmeshed in an aura of vulnerabilities and ambivalences. Track 6 "Lullaby" was featured prominently in the Medium Episode "Twice Upon a Time," Season 2 Episode 22, which first aired on May 22, 2006, the night before the album


title: "Sofia Synagogue" content: Sofia Synagogue The Sofia Synagogue (, "Sofiyska sinagoga") is the largest synagogue in Southeastern Europe, one of two functioning in Bulgaria (with the one in Plovdiv) and the third-largest in Europe. Constructed for the needs of the Bulgarian capital Sofia's mainly Sephardic Jewish community after a project by the Austrian architect Friedrich Grünanger, it resembles the old Moorish Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna and was officially opened on 9 September 1909 in the presence of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. The first preparations for the synagogue's construction date to 1903, while the construction itself had begun on 13 November 1905. The


title: "Sofia Synagogue" content: construction of a grand new synagogue was part of the reorganization efforts of the Bulgarian Jewish community under Lemberg-born Chief Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis and local leaders Ezra Tadjer and Avram Davidjon Levy. Prior to the construction of the new synagogue, the lot in central Sofia had been occupied by an older synagogue. One of the architectural monuments of Sofia, the synagogue, located in the very centre of the city near the Central Market Hall, can accommodate 1,300 worshippers. The Sofia Synagogue's main chandelier weighs 1.7 tons and is the largest in the country. Despite the building's size, the services are


title: "Sofia Synagogue" content: normally only attended by some 50 to 60 worshippers due to the "aliyah" of most of Bulgaria's Jews to Israel and the secularity of the local Jewish population. The architectural style is essentially Moorish Revival, with elements of the Vienna Secession and, in the facade, Venetian architecture. The main premise has a diameter of 20 m and is 31 m high. It is topped by an octagonal dome. The interior is richly decorated, featuring columns of Carrara marble and multicoloured Venetian mosaics, as well as decorative woodcarving. The entire building takes up 659 m². The biggest chandeliere in the Balkans


title: "Sofia Synagogue" content: is there and the rumor said it is made from gold from Ancient Palestine. Since 8 May 1992 the Sofia Synagogue also houses the Jewish Museum of History, which includes the Jewish Communities in Bulgaria and the Holocaust and the Salvation of the Jews in Bulgaria expositions. A souvenir shop is also in operation. Sofia Synagogue The Sofia Synagogue (, "Sofiyska sinagoga") is the largest synagogue in Southeastern Europe, one of two functioning in Bulgaria (with the one in Plovdiv) and the third-largest in Europe. Constructed for the needs of the Bulgarian capital Sofia's mainly Sephardic Jewish community after a


title: "Houssine Kharja" content: appeals, FIGC's court decided that Kharja was a free agent, and so, on 20 March 2007 he signed a three-year contract with Serie B team Piacenza. On January 2008, he was loaned to Siena for the second half of the season, with this deal being turned a permanent one on 11 July. In June 2009, Genoa announced the club was reaching an agreement to sign the player and on 2 July the transfer from Siena was completed. Genoa got Kharja for €6.5 million, while Siena signed the remain 50% registration rights of Manuel Coppola for €1.5 million and the full


title: "Red Rice, Hampshire" content: of Major Miller Mundy, the main entity of Redrice was divided into two main parts, the house and immediate grounds, and Home Farm. The H-shaped estate workshop buildings and most of the stable block perimeter wall were removed. The stable yard was reconstructed to provide three classrooms and two day-rooms, together with changing rooms, ablutions and a housemaster's study below, and upstairs dormitories for 28 and studies for 30, as well as bathrooms and three master's rooms. The courtyard was floored with paving and chippings. A refectory area was created and roofed in over the old backyard of the house,


title: "R v Hydro-Québec" content: enacting criminal law. As well, the provinces can be exempt from the Act if they have regulated their own similar law, even though provinces cannot enact criminal law. Lamer then considered whether the law would fall under "national dimension" of the federal peace, order and good government power. To apply the law must concern a "new" subject "must have a singleness, distinctiveness and indivisibility that clearly distinguishes it from matters of provincial concern and a scale of impact on provincial jurisdiction that is reconcilable with the fundamental distribution of legislative power under the Constitution" Lamer held that the definition of


title: "John Cavil" content: nature as a machine, and abandon her emotions. Natalie survives the attack, and a civil war ensues. D'Anna is unboxed by Cavil in "The Hub". Cavil hopes she will be able to mediate peace between the warring Cylon factions, but she kills him and escapes with Helo and a Number Eight. In "No Exit", it is revealed Ellen Tigh was involved in the creation of Cavil, modelling him after the image of her own father, John. Cavil was the first of a new generation of Cylons, and he assisted in the creation of models Two to Eight. Because Ellen Tigh


title: "Death of a Scoundrel" content: Miss Kelly as she makes off with ship passenger Leonard Wilson's (Victor Jory) wallet. Sabourin makes a romantic play for Kelly, only to steal the wallet when her back is turned. Kelly's estranged husband Chuck (Bob Morgan) pursues and shoots Sabourin in the street, but Sabourin escapes by pushing Chuck into the path of an oncoming car. On a tip from the doctor who removes the bullet, Sabourin invests in a company that manufactures the drug penicillin. He fraudulently uses a $20,000 cashier's check from inside the stolen wallet to purchase the stock. Encountering the wealthy Mrs. Ryan (Zsa Zsa


title: "Shorncliffe, Queensland" content: Shorncliffe, Queensland Shorncliffe is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is situated northeast of Brisbane and is the neighbouring suburb of Sandgate. The suburb comes under the jurisdiction of the Brisbane City Council. At the 2016 Australian Census, the suburb recorded a population of 1,870. It is a small community with a village atmosphere. At times Shorncliffe has different festivals, including The Blue Water Festival whereby that start of the Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race begins from the opening of The Cabbage Tree Creek. Aboriginals called the area Warra, meaning an expanse of water. The Sandgate Golf Club commenced in


title: "Shorncliffe, Queensland" content: 1921 with the official opening of its 9-hole course on 25 November 1922, having obtained a 21-year lease of the site from the Sandgate Town Council for a nominal rental as the Council believed that the golf course would be of lasting benefit. In March 2012, the Shorncliffe pier was closed off to the public by the council due to fears of structural failure. It was rebuilt and reopened in April 2016. Shorncliffe has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Shorncliffe includes one primary schools; Shorncliffe State School and one private boys school; St Patrick's College. Both these schools are


title: "Shorncliffe, Queensland" content: situated on neighbouring blocks of land to each other. Shorncliffe also includes one railway station, which is the terminus of the Shorncliffe railway line. The Sandgate Golf Club is located in Allpass Parade. In the , the population of Shorncliffe was 1,914, 49.3% female and 50.7% male. The median age of the Shorncliffe population was 41 years, 4 years above the Australian median. 78% of people living in Shorncliffe were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were England 5.6%, New Zealand 5%, Scotland 0.8%, United States of America 0.7%,


title: "Shorncliffe, Queensland" content: Ireland 0.7%. 92.4% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.8% German, 0.5% French, 0.4% Japanese, 0.3% Dutch, 0.3% Serbian. Shorncliffe, Queensland Shorncliffe is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is situated northeast of Brisbane and is the neighbouring suburb of Sandgate. The suburb comes under the jurisdiction of the Brisbane City Council. At the 2016 Australian Census, the suburb recorded a population of 1,870. It is a small community with a village atmosphere. At times Shorncliffe has different festivals, including The Blue Water Festival whereby that start of the Brisbane to Gladstone yacht


title: "The House That Dripped Blood" content: into the house while starring in a vampire film being shot nearby. He buys a black cloak from a peculiar shopkeeper (Geoffrey Bayldon) to use as his film character's costume. The cloak seems to instill in its wearer strange powers, something Paul's co-star (Ingrid Pitt) quickly discovers. "Framework" "Method For Murder" "Waxworks" "Sweets to the Sweet" "The Cloak" Freddie Francis was wanted for the director's chair but he had prior commitments to a film in Hollywood, California that ultimately fell through. Originally, director Peter Duffell wanted to have the title "Death and the Maiden" as he used Franz Schubert's composition


title: "Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet" content: relative; the family owned several other houses: Moore's Grove and Moore's Fort. Sir William Moore's mother was Sidney Blanche Fuller. In 1888 he married Helen Wilson, the daughter of a Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh. Sir William went on to become a Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim and a Justice of the Peace. Sir William was schooled at Marlborough College, then attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he was President of the prestigious University Philosophical Society. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1887, to the English bar in 1899, and became an Irish Queen's Counsel the same year. He


title: "Clare Christian" content: from 1991 to 1996. Christian became an MHK at her first attempt for the Ayre constituency in March 1980, but failed to be re-elected in 1986. She was, however, appointed an MLC in 1993 and was appointed Health Minister in 1996, overseeing the construction of the new Noble's Hospital. In 2011, she was elected to the position of President of Tynwald. Christian was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to the Isle of Man. She was appointed as Captain of the Parish of Maughold in early 2018. Clare


title: "Compass Tours" content: numbers 45690 Leander and 45699 Galatea. In its 12-year history, Compass Tours never owned any rolling stock but hired in coaches and locomotives from a train operating company or locomotive preservation group as required. In recent years they have used West Coast Railway Company, based in Carnforth to provide both locomotives and rolling stock, but have also used DB Schenker (previously EWS), Cotswold Rail, FM Rail (previously Fragonset and Merlin Rail), Direct Rail Services, Freightliner, Riviera Trains, Class 40 Preservation Group and AC Loco Group in the past. The Compass Tours archive shows a full list of previously used locomotives.


title: Popaganda content: was released for "Lying Through Your Teeth". On October 13, a new music video was released for "Lying Through Your Teeth". "Lying Through Your Teeth" was released to radio on October 17, 2006. Two days later, it was announced that drummer Larry Gorman was kicked out of the group. Gorman explained that it was mostly in part to "the fact that the relationship between Daryl and I has slowly been deteriorating over the last couple of years." In October and November, the band went on the MTV$2 Bill Tour alongside Thirty Seconds to Mars. In February 2007, the band supported


title: "Incremental backup" content: stored in a persistent system, which allows the system to assemble a point in time backup from these chunks at restore time. There is no need to refactor tape. This method backs up only the blocks within the file that changed. This requires a higher level of integration between the sender and receiver. These backup technologies are similar to the "block level incremental" backup method; however, the byte (or binary) incremental backup method is based on a binary variation of the files compared to the previous backup: while the block-based technologies work with heavy changing units (blocks of 8K, 4K


title: "Dragonlance Nexus" content: other areas of Dragonlance material, beyond its traditional magic focus. Eventually, the site was spun off into a new site called "The World of Krynn," which went online in November 1997. The following month, the products and Fifth Age sections were added by Paladin, and the site moved off of GeoCities to a dedicated web host. Late the following year, the site's back end was upgraded to support the then-popular Netscape Communicator 4.0 to simplify some of the site's maintenance. The World of Krynn was continually expanded and updated, and outgrew several web hosts between December 1997 and August 1999.


title: "Abraham Moss Community School" content: colleges of the 1930s, was seen as a viable solution for the densely populated long-established communities in areas in need of urban regeneration. Manchester City Council recognised that factors in Cheetham Crumpsall made this area where the experiment could take place. Community Education envisages that the school is the centre of the community, and instead of being closed to all but its pupils, the community should be encouraged. This is done by integrating sports and cultural facilities. Shared use creates financial saving- and the shared identity binds and strengthens the community which eventually takes over the running and management of


title: "Western green mamba" content: Western green mamba The western green mamba ("Dendroaspis viridis"), also known as the West African green mamba or Hallowell's green mamba, is a long, thin, and highly venomous snake of the mamba genus, "Dendroaspis". This species was first described in 1844 by the American herpetologist Edward Hallowell. The western green mamba is a fairly large and predominantly arboreal species, capable of navigating through trees swiftly and gracefully. It will also descend to ground level to pursue prey such as rodents and other small mammals. The western green mamba is a very alert, nervous, and extremely agile snake that lives mainly


title: "Western green mamba" content: in the coastal tropical rainforest, thicket, and woodland regions of western Africa. Like all the other mambas, the western green mamba is a highly venomous elapid species. Its venom is a highly potent mixture of rapid-acting presynaptic and postsynaptic neurotoxins (dendrotoxins), cardiotoxins and fasciculins. Some consider this species to not be a particularly aggressive snake, but others have suggested that they are extremely nervous and are prone to attack aggressively when cornered. Conflict with humans is low compared to some other species found in the region. Bites to people by this species are quite uncommon. Their mortality rate, however, is


title: "Western green mamba" content: high; many of the recorded bites have been fatal. Rapid progression of severe, life-threatening symptoms are hallmarks of mamba bites. Bites with envenomation can be rapidly fatal. "Dendroaspis viridis" was first described by the American herpetologist and physician Edward Hallowell in 1844. In addition to being called the western green mamba, this species is also commonly known as the West African green mamba or Hallowell's green mamba. The generic name, "Dendroaspis", derives from Ancient Greek "dendro" ("δένδρο"), meaning "tree", and "aspis" ("ασπίς"), which is understood to mean "shield", but also denotes "cobra" or simply "snake", in particular "snake with hood


title: "Western green mamba" content: (shield)". Via Latin "aspis", it is the source of the English word "asp". In ancient texts, "aspis" or asp often referred to the Egyptian cobra ("Naja haje"), in reference to its shield-like hood. Thus, "Dendroaspis" literally means "tree asp", reflecting the arboreal nature of most of the species within the genus. The genus was first described by the German ornithologist and herpetologist Hermann Schlegel in 1848. Slowinski "et al." (1997) pointed out that the relationships of the African genus "Dendroaspis" are problematical. However, evidence suggests that "Dendroaspis", "Ophiophagus", "Bungarus", and "Hemibungarus" form a solid non-coral snake Afro-Asiatic clade. The specific


title: "Western green mamba" content: name "viridis" is of Latin origin and means "green". The western green mamba is a long and very slender bodied snake with a long tapering tail. The average length of an adult snake of this species is between and . Some specimens of this species can grow to maximum lengths of . The head is narrow and elongate, with a distinct canthus and slightly distinct from the neck. On rare occasions the neck may be flattened when the snake is aroused, but there is no hood. Eyes are medium in size with round pupils and a yellow brown iris. Dorsal


title: "Western green mamba" content: surface body colour is vivid yellowish green to green with anterior margins of the scales yellow. In many specimens the posterior body and tail are yellow. In some specimens, dorsal body scales are distinctly bordered with black forming chevron shaped markings. The black interstitial skin is clearly visible especially highlighting individual head scales and scales on the tail. Head dorsum is similar to dorsal surface anterior body colour or slightly darker green. Laterally, the head scales, particularly the labials, are distinctly black edged and colouration is usually paler than dorsum or slightly yellowish tinted. When viewed from above the black


title: "Western green mamba" content: edging of scales and black interstitial skin result in a plaited appearance. Head venter, throat, ventral and subcaudal surface colour is pale yellowish to yellowish green. The head, body and tail scalation of the western green mamba: The western green mamba is native to West Africa. Different sources give slightly different ranges but generally agree that it occurs from Gambia and southern Senegal to Benin, including the intervening countries (from west to east) Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ghana, and Togo. In Togo it has a known northern limit to its distribution in Aledjo, but it


title: "Western green mamba" content: might occur in forests of the more northerly Kara region Records from Nigeria might be unreliable, and its presence in the Central African Republic is similarly unclear. Some sources mention it also from the very southern tip of Mali along the border with Côte d'Ivoire, as well as from western Cameroon and Gabon. Western green mambas live mainly in the coastal tropical rainforest, thicket, and woodland regions of western Africa. The majority of records of the western green mamba are from within the continuous forest, but the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau records are from isolated forests. The species persists in areas


title: "Western green mamba" content: where the tree cover has been removed, providing that sufficient hedges and thicket remain. Found in some suitably vegetated suburbs and towns and parklands therein. It is largely confined to areas where rainfall exceeds . In Togo, however, its range extends into the drier open forests of the north, the Guinean savannas of the west, and the littoral zone. This species is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (v3.1, 2011). The conservation status of this species was last assessed in July 2012 and published in 2013, and it was classed as such due


title: "Western green mamba" content: to a wide distribution, fairly generalist habits, stable population and the lack of major threats. This species is mostly diurnal, but may be active at night as well. It is an arboreal snake, but it does commonly go to the ground. In fact, it is equally at home hunting and feeding on prey on the ground or in trees. When it wants to sleep it seeks out tree branches that offer dense cover. It is a very quick, extremely agile, alert, and nervous snake. When confronted it will quickly attempt to escape (usually up a tree if possible) and avoid


title: "Western green mamba" content: any sort of confrontation. If cornered, the western green mamba is highly dangerous and will show a fearsome display of aggression, loudly hissing and striking repeatedly. The western green mamba's natural prey consists mainly of birds and small mammals, including rodents such as mice, rats, and squirrels. Other mammals include bats, tree pangolins, and shrews. They also feed on lizards, frogs, and bird eggs. This snake pursues its prey, striking rapidly and often until the prey succumbs to the venom. The western green mamba, as a large and highly venomous snake, has very few natural predators, but humans and birds


title: "Western green mamba" content: of prey are this snake's main threats. The western green mamba's venom is similar to those of other members of the mamba genus ("Dendroaspis"), but differs from others in toxicity and the composition of the toxins. The venom consists mainly of both pre-synaptic and post-synaptic neurotoxins, cardiotoxins, and fasciculins. The toxicity of the venom can vary tremendously depending on various factors including diet, geographical location, age-dependent change, and other factors. The SC and IV for this species is 0.79 mg/kg and 0.71 mg/kg, respectively (Christensen and Anderson (1967)). One study determined the LD of the venom administered to mice via


title: "Western green mamba" content: the intraperitoneal (IP) route was 0.33 mg/kg. In another test using mice that were administered the western green mamba's venom via the intraperitoneal (IP) route the LD was 0.045 mg/kg. Another experimental IV LD toxicity of 0.5 mg/kg has been reported, with an average wet venom yield of 100 mg. Like other mamba species, western green mamba venom is among the most rapid-acting venom of snakes. Human fatalities as a result of bites from this species are rare due to the fact that this species does not often cross paths with humans, but bites have occurred and the majority of


title: "Western green mamba" content: the recorded bites have been fatal. The three species of green mambas, including the western green mamba, have venom toxicities that are similar to and comparable to many species of cobras, but green mamba bites often present with more severe and life-threatening symptoms in a shorter period of time. Mortality rates are also higher among green mamba bite victims than with cobra bite victims. Although bites by "Dendroaspis viridis" are not well documented and the rate of bites, envenoming and fatality is not well known, it appears that bites attributed to this species produce more severe envenomation than bites caused


title: "Western green mamba" content: by "Dendroaspis angusticeps" (eastern green mamba), but far less severe than bites caused by "Dendroaspis polylepis" (black mamba). When bitten, symptoms rapidly begin to manifest, usually within the first 15 minutes or less. The extraordinary speed with which the venom spreads through tissue and produces rapid manifestations of life-threatening symptoms is unique to mambas. Common symptoms of a bite from a western green mamba include local pain and swelling, although uncommon, local necrosis can be moderate, ataxia, headache, drowsiness, difficulty breathing, vertigo, hypotension (low blood pressure), diarrhea, dizziness, and paralysis. Left untreated, new and more severe symptoms rapidly progress. All


title: "Western green mamba" content: symptoms worsen and the victim eventually dies due to suffocation resulting from paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Bites with envenomation can be rapidly fatal, which can be possible in 30 minutes. Western green mamba The western green mamba ("Dendroaspis viridis"), also known as the West African green mamba or Hallowell's green mamba, is a long, thin, and highly venomous snake of the mamba genus, "Dendroaspis". This species was first described in 1844 by the American herpetologist Edward Hallowell. The western green mamba is a fairly large and predominantly arboreal species, capable of navigating through trees swiftly and gracefully. It will


title: "Antigonia (Paeonia)" content: Antigonia (Paeonia) Antigonia () also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia was a Hellenistic city in Paeonia, modern Republic of Macedonia, placed in the Peutinger Table between Stenea (now named Prosek, near modern Demir Kapija) and Stobi, where present day city of Negotino is located. Our written sources about Antigonia of Paeonia are quite obscure. In a description of Paeonia, Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) lists a number of tribes, regions and towns. He tells us that Stobi is a town with many Roman citizens, followed by the phrase "next comes Antigonea, Europus, upon the river Axius" and so on. Thus,


title: "Veronica persica" content: Veronica persica Veronica persica (common names: birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell) () is a flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species in the British Isles (where it was first recorded in 1825), North America, and eastern Asia, including Japan and China. "V. persica" is an annual or winter annual herb that reproduces from seed. Its cotyledons are triangular with truncated bases. The short-stalked leaves are broadly ovate with coarsely serrated margins, and measure long. The leaves are paired on the


title: "Veronica persica" content: lower stem and are alternately arranged on the upper parts. The plant has weak stems that form a dense, prostrate groundcover. The tips of stems often grow upright. The flowers are roughly wide and are sky-blue with dark stripes and white centers. They are zygomorphic, having only one vertical plane of symmetry. They are solitary on long, slender, hairy stalks in the s. The seeds are transversely rugose and measure between long. There are five to 10 seeds per locule in the fruit. "V. persica" can be distinguished from similar species by its heart-shaped fruit with two widely-separated lobes. Although


title: "Veronica persica" content: many species in the genus are used in gardens (such as "V. exalta", "V. incana", "V. gentianoides", "V. longifolia", "V. perfoliata", and "V. spicata"), this species is generally seen as a weed and has no known horticultural uses. Veronica persica Veronica persica (common names: birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell) () is a flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species in the British Isles (where it was first recorded in 1825), North America, and eastern Asia, including Japan and China. "V.


title: "Alzheimer's Association" content: to form a national organization. The groups consisted of researchers, physicians, caregivers, and other humanitarians. Together they held their first official meeting on December 4, 1979, to discuss solutions for the need for Alzheimer's information, care, and cure for the disease. The Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association was incorporated on April 10, 1980. In that year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invested $13 million in Alzheimer's disease research. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan designated the first National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Week. With sub-chapters being founded nationwide, the organization launched its own research programs. In 1980 actress and dancer


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: Green and black poison dart frog The green-and-black poison dart frog ("Dendrobates auratus"), also known as the green-and-black poison arrow frog and with numerous other names, is a brightly colored member of the order Anura native to Central America and northwestern parts of South America. This species has also been introduced to Hawaii. It is one of the most variable of all poison dart frogs next to "Dendrobates tinctorius" and some "Oophaga" spp. It is considered to be of least concern from a conservation standpoint by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The green-and-black poison dart frog has the


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: typical appearance of the members of its family. Males average , while females are slightly larger, averaging an inch or longer. The green-and-black poison frog typically has mint-green coloration; however, this pigment can also be forest, lime, emerald green, turquoise, or even cobalt blue or pale yellow. Mixed with this typically green are splotches of dark color, ranging from wood brown to black. The green-and-black poison dart frog is one of the most variable of all poison frogs in appearance; some have black or brown splotches, others are dappled, or have "splashes" of black, like "Oophaga sylvaticus". The green-and-black poison


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: dart frog is found in the humid lowlands from southeastern Nicaragua on the Atlantic slope and southeastern Costa Rica on the Pacific coast through Panama to northwestern Colombia (Chocó Department). An introduced populations exist on Oahu; the species was purposefully introduced there in 1932 for mosquito control. Later on, it seems to have also become established on Maui. The green-and-black poison dart frog, while not the most toxic poison dart frog, is still a highly toxic animal. The very small amount of poison the frog possesses is enough to make a human heart stop beating. However, like most poison dart


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: frogs, the green-and-black poison dart frog only releases its poison if it feels threatened, and wild specimens can be handled provided the human holding it is calm and relaxed. The green-and-black poison dart frog, as with all poison dart frogs, loses its toxicity in captivity due to a change in diet. This has led some scientists to believe that the green-and-black poison frog actually takes its poison from the mites and other insects on which it feeds. The green-and-black poison dart frog is semiarboreal, hunting, courting, and sleeping in the trees. However, as it is a small frog, it cannot


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: jump far enough to span the distances between trees, so it returns to the ground when it wants to travel. To assist in climbing, the frog has small, sucker-like discs on the ends of its toes, which create a slight suction as the frogs climb, making their grip mildly adhesive. Unlike all poison dart frogs, green-and-black poison dart frogs gather in large groups before mating. They squabble over territories; eventually, each individual male frog clears a small patch for himself. Females wander among the males, with the latter then attempting to impress the former with their bird-like mating calls. Once


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: a male has caught the attention of a female, he leads her to a site he has selected for egg deposition. The female lays her eggs, which he then fertilizes. In about 14 days, these hatch into tadpoles. Their parents, typically the male, then carry the tadpoles into the canopy, with the tadpoles sticking to the mucus on their parents' backs. The parents then deposit their tadpoles into the small pools of water that accumulate in the center of bromeliads, and guard the tadpoles while they feed on algae and small invertebrates that inhabit the tiny pool. Green-and-black poison dart


title: "Green and black poison dart frog" content: frogs are popular exotic pets due to their small size, bright colors, and intriguing behavior. As with all frogs, they have permeable skin and should not be handled. Green and black poison dart frog The green-and-black poison dart frog ("Dendrobates auratus"), also known as the green-and-black poison arrow frog and with numerous other names, is a brightly colored member of the order Anura native to Central America and northwestern parts of South America. This species has also been introduced to Hawaii. It is one of the most variable of all poison dart frogs next to "Dendrobates tinctorius" and some "Oophaga"


title: "Jesus Christians" content: a charity, Catalyst, which helps families of people caught up in groups with whom the family disagrees. A solicitor who "specialises in cases against cults" was hired after legal aid was acquired and the solicitor succeeded in getting an emergency High Court action to try to "rescue the schoolboy". The front page newspaper report in "The Express" was published two weeks after Bobby first met the Jesus Christians with the story that Bobby had "disappeared" after he met the group: "Within hours Bobby had forsaken his possessions and moved in with the group. The police were called and the airports


title: "Tiarella cordifolia" content: Tiarella cordifolia Tiarella cordifolia, the heartleaf foamflower, heartleaved foamflower, Allegheny foamflower, false miterwort, or coolwort, is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to North America. "Tiarella cordifolia" has a scaly horizontal rhizome and seasonal runners. The leaves are long, basal, long stalked, hairy, with 3-7 shallow lobes, and heart-shaped at the base. They are dark green usually mottled with brown, rough-hairy above and downy beneath. They have long flowering stems that can grow as tall as . The flowers are white, small and feathery and form a long terminal cluster on a leafless stalk. The inflorescences are tall,


title: "Tiarella cordifolia" content: with the flowers borne in close, erect racemes. The flowers have 5 petals (entire) and 10 stamens (long and slender), giving the flower cluster a fuzzy appearance. The two unequal seed capsules split along their inside seams, releasing several pitted seeds. This tiarella spreads well by rhizomes, unlike other cultivated tiarellas, but lacks the invasive tendencies of many more-commonly employed groundcovers. The flowers are visited by small bees, syrphus flies, and butterflies that may affect pollination. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. "Tiarella" meaning a little tiara, is a diminutive of the Greek word


title: "Tiarella cordifolia" content: "tiara" meaning turban. The genus name refers to the unequal seedpods. "Cordifolia", heart-shaped refers to the shape of the leaves. It is listed in herbology as a tonic and a diuretic. It has been used for kidney problems, liver problems, and congestion of the lungs. Tiarella cordifolia Tiarella cordifolia, the heartleaf foamflower, heartleaved foamflower, Allegheny foamflower, false miterwort, or coolwort, is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to North America. "Tiarella cordifolia" has a scaly horizontal rhizome and seasonal runners. The leaves are long, basal, long stalked, hairy, with 3-7 shallow lobes, and heart-shaped at the base. They


title: "Fernando Espuelas" content: 25 million Spanish and Portuguese speakers every month across Latin markets in America and Europe, making it one of the top sites by audience size in the world. Espuelas is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Many years before social media would play a leading role in the Arab Spring, Espuelas presaged that the Internet would provoke an "uncontrollable wave of democracy" and give "the power of information and communication to the individual, not to institutions." In 2012, Espuelas was named one of "The Nation's 100 Most Influential Hispanics" by "Poder Magazine". "Time" included Espuelas on their list


title: Jamkhed content: In Jamkhed, 14% of the population was under 6 years of age. The village Chondi, the birthplace of Punyashlok Rajmata Ahilyadevi Holkar, is in this taluka. The state government of Maharashtra has decided to develop Chondi as a national memorial. The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, was started by doctors Rajanikant and Mabelle Arole in 1970. This project resulted in a Magsaysay Award for Rajanikant and his late wife Mabelle. The CRHP has been a catalyst for social change and positive transformation in Jamkhed and the surrounding villages ever since. The approach is known as comprehensive community-based primary health care.


title: Amberd content: Amberd Amberd () is a 7th-century fortress located above sea level, on the slopes of Mount Aragats at the confluence of the Arkashen and Amberd rivers in the province of Aragatsotn, Armenia. The name translates to "fortress in the clouds" in Armenian. It is also the name incorrectly attributed to Vahramashen Church, the 11th-century Armenian church near the castle. The village of Byurakan is from the site of Amberd. The site started as a Stone Age settlement. During the Bronze Age and Urartian periods, a fortress had been built that is now obsolete. Some sources say that Amberd used to


title: Amberd content: be a summer residence for kings. The castle of Amberd and some sections of walls were constructed in the 7th century as a possession of the noble House of Kamsarakan. Four centuries later the fortress and surrounding lands were purchased by the House of Pahlavuni and rebuilt by Prince Vahram Vachutian Pahlavuni, as is recorded in the manuscripts of Grigor Magistros Pahlavuni. Vahram built the Church of Surb Astvatsatsin in 1026, fortified the complex with thicker stone walls, and added three bastions along the ridge of the Arkhashen canyon. Despite being unusual for a military installation, a bath house was


title: Amberd content: built in the same period and has remained moderately intact along with the water supply system. Amberd was invaded in the 1070s by the Seljuq Turks who turned it into a military base. In 1197, a joint-army of Armenians and Georgians led by General Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli liberated the fortress. Under Zakarian control during the 12th and 13th centuries, the walls were structurally reinforced and the castle and outer buildings were renovated. The noble Vacheh Vachutian purchased Amberd in 1215, making it a key defensive site in the region. Within a short period of time, the Mongols captured and destroyed the


title: Amberd content: fortress in the year 1236. The site remained abandoned and untouched until the 20th century, when reconstruction and archaeological excavations began. The castle ruins of Amberd comprised an area of . Its walls are constructed of roughly hewn basalt blocks set in place with mortar. Tower walls are inclined to have made it easier to fire on invaders below. The interior of the castle had three-stories, each floor separated from one another by wood planks clinched on logs. There were five rooms in the first and second floor, each arranged in a row where one would enter each room through


title: Amberd content: the previous room. An irregularly shaped hallway was separate from the three internal rooms by an internal wall. On the third floor were the reception areas and private rooms for its royal inhabitants. The structural configuration is thought to have not changed since it was first built in the 7th century. Excavations have shown that the interior of the castle and rooms were quite lavish with elegantly carved decorations in the rooms, oil lamps, incense holders, and walls decorated with silks and brocades, and with bronze, gold and silver ornamentation. At Amberd, a constant water supply was crucial for its


title: Amberd content: inhabitants. The fortress' primary viaduct was a terra cotta pipeline that had been laid from the fortress to dammed reservoirs which collected sources of spring water from higher elevations and melting snow. In the event that the fortress was under attack, it was likely that the pipeline would be destroyed. Therefore, another more secret water supply would need to ensure a constant flow of water to its inhabitants to keep them from dying from thirst. A covered passageway that led from the fortifications along a steep pathway descending down a cleft in the rocks to the Arkashen River performed such


title: Amberd content: a task. The bath house south of the fortress was built between the 10th and 11th centuries. Its twin bathing rooms each with a single dome are still moderately intact. At one time it had used hypocaust heating as had originated in Roman times, to heat the floors. Pipes that ran through the floors and walls of the structure were heated by a fire built under the floor, which then forced the heat throughout the bathing rooms. Metal pipes supplied hot water to the baths. Amberd Amberd () is a 7th-century fortress located above sea level, on the slopes of


title: "The Leopard (1963 film)" content: from the Bourbons, but the mood is muted and the prospects murky. The Prince muses upon the inevitability of change, with the middle class displacing the hereditary ruling class while on the surface everything remains the same. His priest worries about the future of the church under the Garibaldini, but the Prince assures him that it is only his class who has anything to lose. Refusing to bend to the tide of necessity, the Prince departs from Palermo for his summer palace at Donnafugata. The glamour of his name is still such as to lift roadblocks and allow passage to


title: "Harry Betts" content: Harry Betts Harry Betts (15 September 1922 – 13 July 2012) was a jazz trombonist. Born in New York and raised in Fresno, California, he was active as a jazz trombonist and played with Stan Kenton's orchestrain the 1950s. He can be heard on the album "Get Happy!" (Verve, 1959) by Ella Fitzgerald. He has written and orchestrated soundtracks for several films, including "A Swingin' Summer" (1965), "The Big Mouth" (1967), "A Time for Dying" (1969), "The Fantastic Plastic Machine" (1969), "Goodnight, My Love" (1972), "Black Mama White Mama" (1972), "Little Cigars" (1973) and "Nice Dreams" (1981). Music from his


title: "Les Genevez" content: teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.7%. , there were 227 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 246 married individuals, 32 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced. , there were 199 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 56 households that consist of only one person and 22 households with five or more people. , a total of 199 apartments (83.6% of the


title: HP-19C/-29C content: of the calculator and printer mechanism. All other capabilities were the same in both models – RPN expression logic, 98 program memory locations, statistical functions, and 30 registers. Users could develop software for the HP-29C/19C, such as a prime number generator. The calculators expanded the HP-25's program capabilities by adding subroutines, increment/decrement looping, relative branching and indirect addressing (via register 0 as index). HP's internal code name for the 29C was "Bonnie", the 19C was correspondingly named "Clyde". The HP-19C and HP-29C were introduced at MSRPs of $345 and $195, respectively. HP-19C/-29C The HP-19C and HP-29C were scientific/engineering pocket calculators


title: "Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson" content: for Science and Innovation in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills on 3 October 2008 following a cabinet reshuffle. Drayson is married to Elspeth Bellhouse, the daughter of scientist Brian Bellhouse. They have five children, and live between homes in London and Nether Lypiatt Manor near Stroud in Gloucestershire, purchased for £5.75 million in 2006 from "TRH" Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. Self-described as a "car nut and I'm a Government minister", he has owned an Aston Martin Vanquish, his wife an Aston Martin DB9, and his collection includes a Lotus Elan. He has also raced a bio-ethanol


title: "John Silvester Varley" content: John Silvester Varley John Silvester Varley (born 1 April 1956) is an English banker, and the group chief executive of Barclays from 2004 to 2011. In June 2017, following a five-year investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office covering Barclays' activities during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Varley and three former colleagues, Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance. John Silvester Varley was born in Warwick. His father, Philip, was a solicitor in Coventry. Varley was educated at the Catholic Downside School at Stratton-on-the-Fosse south of


title: "Peterson Toscano" content: and the New York Coalition for Sustainability in Higher Education. and at Citizens' Climate Lobby conferences, including the Mid-Atlantic regional conference in Philadelphia and the international conference in Washington DC. He hosts the monthly podcast Citizens' Climate Radio where he "highlight[s] people's stories, [celebrates CCL members'] successes, and together [shares] strategies for talking about climate change." After the election of Donald Trump, in addition to his comic performance work he began exploring Conservative responses to climate change. Toscano also is a volunteer lobbyist for Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) and the co-leader of the Susquehanna Valley CCL Chapter. Toscano was featured


title: "Farragut Career Academy" content: Farragut Career Academy Farragut Career Academy High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. As a career academy, Farragut emphasizes a curriculum that combines academic instruction with work-study experiences and vocational training. In addition to Education-To-Careers clusters, Farragut is also home to the General Patton JROTC program which functions as a school-within-a-school. The school is named for David Farragut, a naval hero of the American Civil War who later was named the first admiral in the United States Navy. The school's service area includes North


title: "Corey Crawford" content: save percentage in 21 appearances. On December 1, 2017, the Blackhawks placed Crawford on IR after he sustained a lower-body injury the previous night. Crawford returned after missing three games, but sustained an undisclosed upper-body injury after playing in seven games. The Blackhawks stated Crawford would be out indefinitely, but were hopeful that he could return before the end of the season. However, the Blackhawks fell into last place in the Central Division, and were eliminated from playoff contention in early March. The Blackhawks left Crawford on IR for the remainder of the season. A native of Châteauguay, Quebec, Crawford


title: "40th Academy Awards" content: Sound). "The Graduate" is, as of the 90th Academy Awards, the last film to win Best Director and nothing else. Due to an all-out push by Academy President Gregory Peck, 18 of the 20 acting nominees were present at the ceremony. Only Katharine Hepburn and the late Spencer Tracy, who was nominated posthumously, were missing. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). Gregory Peck Alfred Hitchcock Arthur Freed was presented for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received


title: "Tiilikkajärvi National Park" content: is inhabited by the black-throated diver, and its beaches by the little ringed plover. Other species of the area include the lesser black-backed gull, capercaillie, willow grouse, bean goose, Eurasian golden plover, and the Siberian jay. In the summer of 1993, the pine grosbeak nested in the area. The beaver lives in the nearby rivers. Tiilikkajärvi National Park Tiilikkajärvi National Park () is a national park in the Northern Savonia and Kainuu regions of Finland. It was established in 1982 and covers . Southern and northern natural features mix in this park forming an ecotone of forest and swamp types.


title: "Mitsubishi Galant VR-4" content: it developed a cult following in several overseas territories, especially the United Kingdom and New Zealand. In 2000 MMC's motorsport partner Ralliart was contracted to type-approve Galants and Lancers for UK sales, and 200 VR-4s were officially imported before production finally ceased two years later. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 The Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 (Viscous realtime 4wd) was the range-topping version of Mitsubishi Motors' Galant model, available in the sixth (1988–92), seventh (1992–96) and eighth (1996–2002) generations of the vehicle. Originally introduced to comply with the new Group A regulations of the World Rally Championship, it was soon superseded as Mitsubishi's competition


title: Hierapolis content: Hierapolis Hierapolis (, "Holy City") was an ancient city located on hot springs in classical Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia. Its ruins are adjacent to modern Pamukkale in Turkey and currently comprise an archaeological museum designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The hot springs have been used as a spa since the 2nd century BC, with many patrons retiring or dying there. The large necropolis is filled with sarcophagi, most famously that of Marcus Aurelius Ammianos, which bears a relief depicting the earliest known example of a crank and rod mechanism. The great baths were constructed with huge stone blocks


title: Hierapolis content: without the use of cement and consisted of various closed or open sections linked together. There are deep niches in the inner section, including the bath, library, and gymnasium. Hierapolis is located in the Büyük Menderes (the classical Meander) valley adjacent to the modern Turkish cities of Pamukkale and Denizli. It is located in Turkey's inner Aegean region, which has a temperate climate for most of the year. There are only a few historical facts known about the origin of the city. No traces of the presence of Hittites or Persians have been found. The Phrygians built a temple, probably


title: Hierapolis content: in the first half of the 7th century BC. This temple, originally used by the citizens of the nearby town of Laodicea, would later form the centre of Hierapolis. Hierapolis was founded as a thermal spa early in the 2nd century BC within the sphere of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus the Great sent 2,000 Jewish families to Lydia and Phrygia from Babylon and Mesopotamia, later joined by more from Judea. The Jewish congregation grew in Hierapolis and has been estimated as high as 50,000 in 62 BC. The city was expanded with the booty from the 190 BC Battle of