title: "Iancu Sasul" content: Iancu Sasul Iancu Sasul ("John the Saxon") or Ioan Vodă V ("Voivode John V"; d. September 28, 1582 in Lviv) was the bastard son of Petru Rareş from his relationship with the wife of Braşov Transylvanian Saxon Iorg (Jürgen) Weiss, and Prince of Moldavia between November 1579 and September 1582. Let in on the secret of his lineage by his mother, Iancu renounced the inheritance of his stepfamily and moved to Istanbul, in order to bid for his father's throne. Marrying into the Palaeologus family of former Byzantine Emperors (to Maria), and taking advantage of the weakened position of Moldavian


title: "Dmitry Medvedev" content: of the Audit Directorate of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Konstantin Chuychenko, to probe state corporations, a new highly privileged form of organisation earlier promoted by President Putin, to question their appropriateness. In June 2010, he visited the Twitter headquarters in Silicon Valley declaring a mission to bring more high-tech innovation and investment to the country. Medvedev made reforming Russia's law enforcement one of his top agendas, the reason for which was a shooting started by a police officer in April 2009 in one of Moscow's supermarkets. Medvedev initiated the reform at the end of 2009, with a presidential decree


title: "Chippokes Plantation State Park" content: Chippokes Plantation State Park Chippokes Plantation State Park is located at 695 Chippokes Park Road, Surry, Virginia. It is in a rural, agricultural area off the James River and Route 10 in Surry County, and is protected under the state park system. Chippokes Plantation was established in 1617 by Captain William Powell of the Jamestown Settlement in the Virginia Colony. In 1967, the plantation was donated to the Commonwealth by Mrs. Victor Stewart for use as a state park. One of the oldest working farms in the nation, Chippokes has kept its boundaries since the 17th century. The structures and


title: "Chippokes Plantation State Park" content: artifacts on the property reflect plantation life from the early 17th century to the present. The antebellum Chippokes Mansion and the Chippokes Farm & Forestry Museum both offer scenic tours of the estate, cultivated formal gardens and woodlands. Noted for its continuous agricultural production and modern recreational facilities, amenities include fishing, trails, camping and cabin rentals. The annual community event, the Steam and Gas Festival, is usually the weekend after Memorial Day and offers a wide variety of arts, crafts and music along with tractor and saw milling demonstrations. The Pork Peanut & Pine Festival is held annually the third


title: "Chippokes Plantation State Park" content: full weekend in July and celebrates the regions three most celebrated resources - pork, pine and peanuts. The festival includes arts & crafts, food vendors, and entertainment. Opened in June 1990, the Chippokes Farm & Forestry Museum, one of the oldest continually farmed plantations in the country, is an agriculture museum with many exhibits and displays of farm tools and tools used by craftsmen such as the blacksmith, wheelwright, cooper and cobbler. Others exhibits focus on farm animals, processing, preserving, small tools and housewares and farm techniques. There is also a working sawmill. The seven building complex is open for


title: "Chippokes Plantation State Park" content: self-guided tours. The museum is operated by the Chippokes Plantation Farm Foundation. Chippokes Plantation State Park Chippokes Plantation State Park is located at 695 Chippokes Park Road, Surry, Virginia. It is in a rural, agricultural area off the James River and Route 10 in Surry County, and is protected under the state park system. Chippokes Plantation was established in 1617 by Captain William Powell of the Jamestown Settlement in the Virginia Colony. In 1967, the plantation was donated to the Commonwealth by Mrs. Victor Stewart for use as a state park. One of the oldest working farms in the nation,


title: "Hans Folz" content: in the opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". Folz is also the author of a fechtbuch of c. 1480, preserved in Weimar as MS Q566. Hans Folz Hans Folz ( 1437 – January 1513) was a German author of the late medieval or early Renaissance period. Folz was born in Worms. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486. Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been allowed by the twelve "Alten Meister" (old masters) up to that point. His


title: "MS Crown Iris" content: was increased in the process, and Birka therefore refused to take delivery. Instead, the build contact was sold to Majesty Cruise Line, who took delivery of the ship on July 2, 1992, renaming her "Royal Majesty". Due to her past, the ship has some features uncommon for cruise ships, such as the highest Finnish-Swedish ice class. Following delivery, "Royal Majesty" set on her maiden voyage, a transatlantic crossing from Southampton to New York City, on July 7, 1992. She was officially christened in New York City on July 21, 1992. She was christened by Liza Minnelli. Following this, she was


title: "Mercer Island School District" content: an alternative branch). Mercer Island School District The Mercer Island School District is a public U.S. school district in Washington. Located in an affluent bedroom community of Seattle, Mercer Island, it has a strong academic reputation. The six schools on Mercer Island provide approximately 4,000 students with primary and secondary education. Mercer Island High School won the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) and Washington Army National Guard 2015-16 Scholastic Cup Champions for the 3A classification. MIHS has held this title for the past 8 years. The school district is made up of four elementary schools, one middle school, and one


title: "Uganda Martyrs" content: a religious orientation, and wished to reform Ganda society. The German annexation of what is now Tanzania sparked further alarm. A year after becoming king he ordered the execution of Yusufu Rugarama, Makko Kakumba, and Nuwa/Noah Serwanga, who had converted to Christianity. Encouraged by his prime minister, on 29 October 1885 he had the incoming Anglican bishop James Hannington assassinated on the eastern border of his kingdom. This may have been deliberately intended to ward off a potential British invasion. Mwanga did, however, subsequently appoint several Christians to important military positions. In 1886 Mwanga ordered the executions of a number


title: "Joel Santana" content: Joel Santana Joel Natalino Santana (born December 25, 1948) is a Brazilian football head coach and former football player. The last team he coached was Vasco da Gama, in 2014. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Santana played his entire career as a central defender in his native Brazil in the 1970s. He became best known as a player at Vasco da Gama, but failed to earn a cap with the national team. In 1980, he retired as a player and moved on to club management with Al Wasl in the United Arab Emirates. While much of his management career has


title: "FICON project" content: continue the experiments by incorporating an automatic flight control system. Meanwhile, as the modifications proceeded, additional test flights were made, including night flights. The automatic flight control modifications were ready for testing in March 1953, and a number of hookups were made with only one or the other of the F-84s while attempting to sort continuing electrical issues. On 24 April 1953, the left-hand F-84 hooked up and the automatic system was activated. The F-84 immediately flipped over onto the wing of the B-29 and both crashed with loss of all on board. The pilot of the right-hand F-84D, Major


title: "Parish meeting" content: meeting may provide and maintain a bus shelter (s. 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 and s.179 of the 1972 Act); Burials: a parish meeting is a burial authority. It may therefore provide burial grounds and may contribute towards the cost of burial facilities provided by others(Para 1(c) of schedule 26 to the 1972 Act); Cemeteries and crematoria: power to adopt byelaws made by a district or London borough council or the City of London (Para11(1) of schedule 26 to the 1972 Act); Charities: a parish meeting has the same powers as a parish council to appoint


title: "Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras" content: effort of the local Greeks to resist. The eminent historian of Frankish Greece, William Miller, likened the battle to a "Hastings of the Morea", writing that the "fate of the Morea, like that of Saxon England, was decided by a single pitched battle". After their victory, the Crusaders rested for a while in the rich plain of Messenia. Champlitte called a council of war to determine their future strategy, and sent the fleet, which until then had accompanied them, home. In late 1205 or 1206, the Crusaders went on to capture Arkadia, whose siege lasted for some time, as well


title: Elecampane content: Elecampane Elecampane (), Inula helenium, also called horse-heal or elfdock, is a widespread plant species in the sunflower family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Asia from Spain to Xinjiang Province in western China, and naturalized in parts of North America. Elecampane is a rather rigid herb, the stem of which attains a height of about . The leaves are large and toothed, the lower ones stalked, the rest embracing the stem; blades egg-shaped, elliptical, or lance-shaped, as big as long and wide. Leaves are green on the upper side with light, scattered hairs, but whitish on the underside


title: Elecampane content: because of a thick layer of wool. The flower heads up to 5 cm (2 inches) broad, each head containing 50-100 yellow ray flowers and 100-250 yellow disc flowers. The root is thick, branching and mucilaginous, and has a bitter taste and a camphoraceous odour with sweet floral (similar to violet) undertones. The plant's specific name, "helenium", derives from Helen of Troy; elecampane is said to have sprung up from where her tears fell. It was sacred to the ancient Celts, and once had the name "elfwort". In France and Switzerland it is used in the manufacture of absinthe. The


title: Elecampane content: root was employed by the ancients, mentioned in Pliny, "Natural History" 19.29 both as a medicine and as a condiment, and in England it was formerly in great repute as an aromatic tonic and stimulant of the secretory organs. It is mentioned in an 1817 New-England almanack as a cure for hydrophobia when the root is bruised and used with a strong decoction of milk. It is used in herbal medicine as an expectorant and for water retention. Besides the storage polysaccharide inulin (CHO[CHO]), a polymer of fructose, the root contains helenin (CHO), a stearoptene, which may be prepared in


title: Elecampane content: white acicular crystals, insoluble in water, but freely soluble in alcohol. When freed from the accompanying inula-camphor by repeated crystallization from alcohol, helenin melts at 110 °C. Elecampane Elecampane (), Inula helenium, also called horse-heal or elfdock, is a widespread plant species in the sunflower family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Asia from Spain to Xinjiang Province in western China, and naturalized in parts of North America. Elecampane is a rather rigid herb, the stem of which attains a height of about . The leaves are large and toothed, the lower ones stalked, the rest embracing the stem;


title: Hypertelorism content: with syndromes like Apert, hypertelorism is often seen in combination with midface dysplasia. If this is the case, facial bipartition can be combined with distraction osteogenesis. The aim of distraction osteogenesis of the midface is to normalize the relationship between orbital rim to eye and also normalize the position of zygomas, nose and maxilla in relation to the mandible. To create an acceptable aesthetic result in the correction of orbital hypertelorism, it is also important to take soft-tissue reconstruction in consideration. In this context, correction of the nasal deformities is one of the more difficult procedures. Bone and cartilage grafts


title: WAIF content: WAIF WAIF (88.3 FM) is a community radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio. WAIF is an all-volunteer community radio station, one of only a handful in the USA. WAIF reception varies because of the hilly local terrain, but it can be heard over the air within the Cincinnati-area I-275 belt in Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana. WAIF also broadcasts over the Internet. Organizing for the station began in 1973. WAIF went on the air in 1975. Rather than wait for an open frequency, the organizers decided to share the 88.3 MHz frequency with the local vocational school's station,


title: "Abra Kadabra (comics)" content: but Wally is able to return by using the Titans as his own lightning rod after talking with a representation of his memories of Linda in the Speed Force, which assures him that he can still win Linda back. With Abra Kadabra defeated and sending him to the timestream, Lilith notes that she cannot understand Abra Kadabra's madness, but picked up a key word in his thoughts; "Manhattan". Abra Kadabra is a powerful sorcerer and can achieve virtually any feat with his spells. Originally his powers were all due to 64th century scientific technology that appeared magical to residents of


title: "Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna" content: game, and clerics capable of resurrecting Werdna's fallen adversaries. Like the previous trilogy, mapping out levels is vital to avoid becoming lost. But the difficulty of mapping out levels is increased exponentially. While the previous games included occasional traps that could throw the player's maps off, such as dark areas, teleporters, pits, chutes, and rotating floors, these traps and many more are abundant in "The Return of Werdna". An early level contains a minefield, with an invisible safe path that can only be discovered through exhaustive trial and error. Another level is a series of seemingly identical intersecting pathways, with


title: "Helix pomatia" content: Helix pomatia Helix pomatia, common names the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod terrestrial mollusc in the family Helicidae. It is a European species. In the English language it is called by the French name "escargot" when used in cooking ("escargot" simply means 'snail'). Although this species is highly prized as a food, it is difficult to cultivate and rarely farmed commercially. Distribution of "Helix pomatia" includes: Southeastern and central Europe: Western Europe: Northern Europe: Eastern Europe: southern Europe: The shell is creamy white to light


title: "Helix pomatia" content: brownish, often with indistinct brown colour bands. The shell has five to six whorls. The aperture is large. The apertural margin is white and slightly reflected in adult snails. The umbilicus is narrow and partly covered by the reflected columellar margin. The width of the shell is 30–50 mm. The height of the shell is 30–45 mm. In southeastern Europe, "H. pomatia" lives in forests, open habitats, gardens, vineyards, especially along rivers, confined to calcareous substrate. In central Europe, it occurs in open forests and shrubland on calcareous substrate. It prefers high humidity and lower temperatures, and needs loose soil


title: "Helix pomatia" content: for burrowing to hibernate and lay its eggs. It lives up to 2100 m above sea level in the Alps, but usually below 2000 m. In the south of England, it is restricted to undisturbed grassy or bushy wastelands, usually not in gardens; it has a low reproduction rate and low powers of dispersal. Average distance of migration reaches 3.5–6.0 m. This snail is hermaphroditic. Reproduction in central Europe begins at the end of May. Eggs are laid in June and July, in clutches of 40–65 eggs. The size of the egg is 5.5–6.5 mm or 8.6 × 7.2 mm.


title: "Helix pomatia" content: Juveniles hatch after three to four weeks, and may consume their siblings under unfavourable climate conditions. Maturity is reached after two to five years. The life span is up to 20 years, but snails die faster often because of drying in summer and freezing in winter. Ten-year-old individuals are probably not uncommon in natural populations. The maximum lifespan is 35 years. During estivation or hibernation, this species creates a calcareous epiphragm to seal the opening of the shell. This species is listed in IUCN Red List, and in European Red List of Non-marine Molluscs as Least Concern. "Helix pomatia" is


title: "Helix pomatia" content: threatened by continuous habitat destructions and drainage, usually less threatened by commercial collections. Many unsuccessful attempts have been made to establish the species in various parts of England, Scotland and Ireland; it only survived in natural habitats in southern England, and is threatened by intensive farming and habitat destruction. It is of lower concern in Switzerland and Austria, but many regions restrict commercial collecting. This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. Helix pomatia Helix pomatia, common names the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod


title: "Tim Freedman" content: Gough Whitlam—after whom his band is named. Tim Freedman was born in 1964 in Sydney and was raised in Collaroy, in Sydney's Northern Beaches region, and was educated at the Shore School in North Sydney. Prior to co-founding The Whitlams, Freedman was the front man of ska band Itchy Feet, and later the indie pop bands Penguins on Safari and The Olive Branch. In an interview, which aired on 612 ABC Brisbane on Friday 29 September 2006, Freedman said he became a pianist "by mistake" after quitting law school. He later completed a Bachelor of Arts at The University of


title: "Alvin Francis Poussaint" content: that called for Poussaint and his skills. The FBI, the White House and the Department of Health all summoned him for counsel. He continued his interest in media and founded the Media Center of the Judge Baker's Children's Center in 1994. In addition, he was the co- executive producer of Willoughby's Wonders. The children's show won a New England Emmy Award in 1997 and was praised for showing an urban soccer team that showed skills that children should exhibit like teamwork and inclusion. During this highlight of his career, Poussaint married Tina Young. The two had a daughter in 1999.


title: "John Menlove Edwards" content: John Menlove Edwards John Menlove Edwards was born at Ainsdale, near Liverpool, England, the son of a politically radical vicar. He attended Fettes College, trained as a doctor at Liverpool University to be near his family home and assist with the care of his ailing father, and went on to qualify as a psychiatrist, afterwards setting up in private practise on Rodney Street, Liverpool. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, and worked as a child psychiatrist in London, at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the Tavistock Institute. Edwards was homosexual and was for many years


title: "Jefferson County Public Schools (Colorado)" content: Golden and Vasquez (roughly today's Wheat Ridge/Arvada area), were organized in 1863. That September the first public school in the county opened in Golden. Over time, as the population grew and spread across the county, more and more school districts were organized, each with its own elected board to govern them. They were a diverse variety of schools, from the stately brick edifices of urban Golden which operated through the traditional school year, to the rural one-room wooden schoolhouses that operated during the summer months because winter in the mountains made it difficult for students to attend. Some school districts


title: "Seiz Breur" content: Salmon de la Godelinais, Gaston Sébilleau. The Seiz Breur made a name for themselves at Parisian exhibitions in 1925 and 1937 and at Brittany's pavilions. One faction within the group, led by the architect Olier Mordrel and the sculptor Yann Goulet had moved from the politically neutral statement "neither red nor white, just Breton" to outright nationalism, fascism and collaboration, hoping that a German victory would bring independence to Brittany. Both became members of the Breton National Party, which declared its support for Germany on the outbreak of war. During the occupation of France, Mordrel and others were involved in


title: Iberdrola content: of the world’s largest utilities by market capitalisation. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Iberdrola was created on November 1, 1992 as a result of the merge between Hidroeléctrica Española and Iberduero. Hidroeléctrica Española, also known as "Hidrola" had started activity in 1907, while Iberduero started in 1944 as the result of the merge between Hidroeléctrica Ibérica (1901) and Saltos del Duero. The origin of Iberdrola lies in the Spanish industrialisation in the early 20th century, when Hidroeléctrica Ibérica was formed. As of 2011 and with the integration of Scottish Power and Energy


title: "Abies pindrow" content: Abies pindrow Abies pindrow, the pindrow fir or west Himalayan fir, is a fir native to the western Himalaya and adjacent mountains, from northeast Afghanistan east through northern Pakistan and India to central Nepal. It is a large evergreen tree growing to tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to . It has a conical crown with level branches. The shoots are greyish-pink to buff-brown, smooth and glabrous (hairless). The leaves are needle-like, among the longest of any fir, long, flattened in cross-section, glossy dark green above, with two whitish stomatal bands on the underside; they are arranged spirally


title: "Abies pindrow" content: on the shoots, but twisted at the base to lie in a flat plane either side of the shoot. The cones are broad cylindric-conic, long and broad, dark purple when young, disintegrating when mature to release the seeds 5–7 months after pollination. The closely related Gamble's fir occurs in the same area but on somewhat drier sites; it differs in shorter leaves 2–4 cm long with less obvious stomatal bands and arranged more radially round the shoot. The cones are very similar. Recent research, however, has shown that "Abies gamblei" is not related to "Abies pindrow". At West Himalayan locations


title: "Abies pindrow" content: in Himachal state in India visited by members of the Dendrological Atlas team, at around 3000 m the latter species is replaced by "Abies gamblei", showing no intermediate forms. Such areas included Churdhar and the upper Sangla Valley at elevations between 3000 and 3400 m where these species have morphologically and ecologically clearly separated. Elevation-wise, pindrow fir occurs between (although mostly between 2400 and 3000 m) and "Abies gamblei" from . Some references of naming (in error) ""Abies spectabilis"" in the western Himalayas, most probably are true for "Abies gamblei", but to confirm this would require further research. "A. pindrow"


title: "Abies pindrow" content: grows at altitudes of in forests together with Cedrus deodara, Picea smithiana and Pinus wallichiana typically occupying cooler, moister north-facing slopes. The pindrow fir is used to a small extent for timber in its native range. It is occasionally grown as an ornamental tree in large gardens in western Europe, but demands high humidity and rainfall to grow well. The name "pindrow" derives from the tree's name in Nepali. Abies pindrow Abies pindrow, the pindrow fir or west Himalayan fir, is a fir native to the western Himalaya and adjacent mountains, from northeast Afghanistan east through northern Pakistan and India


title: "Lump sum" content: payments the risk of them squandering the money was greater. "The Financial Times" reported in July 2011 that research by Prudential had found that 79% of polled pensioners collecting a company or private pension that year took a lump sum at their retirement, as compared to 76% in 2008. Prudential was of the view that for many retirees, a lump sum at the time of retirement was the most tax efficient option. However, Prudential's head of business development, Vince Smith Hughes, said "some pensioners are beginning to regret the way they used the tax-free cash. The days of buying a


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: Confederate States dollar The Confederate States dollar was first issued just before the outbreak of the American Civil War by the newly formed Confederacy. It was not backed by hard assets, but simply by a promise to pay the bearer after the war, on the prospect of Southern victory and independence. As the war began to tilt against the Confederates, confidence in the currency diminished, and the government inflated the currency by continuing to print the unbacked banknotes. By the end of 1863, the Confederate dollar (or "Greyback", to distinguish it from the then-new "Greenback" paper US dollar, which was


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: likewise put into circulation during the war) was quoted at just six cents in gold, and fell further still. The Greyback is now a prized collector's item, in its many versions, including those issued by individual states and local banks. The various engravings of leading Confederates, gods and goddesses and scenes of slave-life, on these hastily printed banknotes, sometimes cut with scissors and signed by clerks, continue to stimulate debate among antique dealers, with even some of the counterfeit notes commanding high prices. The Confederate dollar, often called a "Greyback", was first issued into circulation in April 1861, when the


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: Confederacy was only two months old, and on the eve of the outbreak of the Civil War. At first, Confederate currency was accepted throughout the South as a medium of exchange with high purchasing power. As the war progressed, however, confidence in the ultimate success waned, the amount of paper money increased, and their dates of redemption were extended further into the future. Most Confederate currency carried the phrase across the top of the bill: then across the middle, the " [amount of bill] " (or " [amount of bill]" or " [amount of bill]"). As the war progressed, the


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: currency underwent the depreciation and soaring prices characteristic of inflation. For example, by the end of the war, a cake of soap could sell for as much as $50 and an ordinary suit of clothes was $2,700. Near the end of the war, the currency became practically worthless as a medium of exchange. This was because Confederate currency were bills of credit, as in the Revolutionary War, not secured or backed by any assets. Just as the currency issued by the Continental Congress was deemed worthless (witness the phrase "not worth a Continental;" and see "The Federalist Papers", which also


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: addressed this issue in the run-up to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution) because they were not backed by any hard assets, so, too, this became the case with Confederate currency. Even though both gold and silver may have been scarce, some economic historians have suggested that the currency would have retained a relatively material degree of value, and for a longer period of time, had it been backed by hard goods the Confederacy did have, perhaps such as cotton, or tobacco. When the Confederacy ceased to exist as a political entity at the end of the war, the money


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: lost all value as fiat currency. The Confederacy, being limited in skilled engravers and printers as well as secure printing facilities, often had to make do with unrelated designs in early banknote issues. Some such were abstract depictions of mythological gods and goddesses, such as the Goddess of Liberty. Confederate themes did prevail with designs of black slaves, naval ships and historical figures, including George Washington. Images of slaves often had them depicted as carrying about their work. Since most of the engravers and bank plates were in the Northern states, Confederate printers had to lift by offset or lithographic


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: process scenes that had been used on whatever notes they had access to. Many variations in plates, printing and papers also appear in most of the issues, due in large part to the limits on commerce resulting from the Union embargo of Confederate ports. Some of the people featured on banknotes include Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Christopher Memminger, Robert M. T. Hunter, Alexander H. Stephens, Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Clement Clay, George W. Randolph, and Lucy Holcombe Pickens, the wife of the Governor of South Carolina. There was also a bill featuring George Washington. Confederate Treasury Notes were


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: hand signed by various clerks, with exception of the 50 cent issues that had the printed signatures of Robert Tyler and Edward C. Elmore. The first six notes issued were hand signed by the Register and Treasurer themselves. While hand signatures were considered an anti-counterfeiting tool, the sheer number of bills being produced could not reasonably be signed individually by two men each. Women were often hired as clerks to sign "for Register" and "for Treasurer"; up to 200 clerks were eventually hired for each. As the Civil War continued, the cost of the war loomed large. Any precious metals


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: available in the South often made their way to Europe to procure war goods. But the CSA did manage to mint a few coins. In 1861, Mr. Robert Lovett Jr. of Philadelphia was commissioned to design, engrave and make a one cent piece for the Confederacy. On the obverse (front), he used the head of Minerva (French Liberty Head), which he had used on several store cards. The coins were struck using the then Federal standard of cupronickel for cent pieces. He made a few samples, of which only 12 are said to exist by the popular stories but research


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: has shown that 14 are currently known to exist. Fearing prosecution for aiding the enemy, he stopped his work and hid the coins and dies in his cellar. The original dies were purchased later and used to make restrikes, first by John W. Haseltine and later by Robert S. Bashlow. The dies were donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Bashlow in 1962. In the aftermath of secession, the Confederacy seized U.S. Mint facilities at Charlotte, North Carolina, Dahlonega, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. After seizing and appropriating the bullion reserves stored at the facilities, the Confederate Treasury, led by C.


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: G. Memminger, determined that the cost of minting coins far outweighed the benefits. Circulating specie would be virtually nonexistent in the Confederacy throughout the entirety of the war. A wide variety of local token and scrip would attempt to fill this void, to little avail. In late April 1861, four Confederate half dollars were struck on a hand press by certain employees of the New Orleans Mint. Because of the high relief of the coin die, a test striking was made to see if coins would release from the Confederate die. The die was made by a printing plate engraver


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: (A.H.M. Peterson) in New Orleans who was unfamiliar with techniques required to engrave coining dies. These coins were struck using a U.S. obverse die (Seated Liberty) and the Confederate die made by Peterson. These coins are known as "originals", and the location of all four of the coins is known today. As the result of an 1879 article about the Confederate cent printed in a New York City newspaper, Benjamin F. Taylor, M.D. (Chief Coiner, New Orleans Mint, CSA) contacted coin dealer Ebenezer Mason. Taylor informed Mason of the existence of the Confederate half dollar and the die. Mason bought


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: the die and coin from Taylor and sold them to J.W. Scott Co. of New York City, a coin and stamp dealer. Scott bought 500 1861 United States half dollars from a New York bank that were supposedly struck at the New Orleans Mint. Scott had the reverse of the half dollars planed down and performed a one-sided strike using the Confederate half dollar die. The Seated Liberty obverse of the coins were flattened some because of the one-sided strike. In addition, Scott struck 500 half dollar sized tokens in white metal using the Confederate die and a newly made


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: die to commemorate the restrikes of the Confederate half dollars. The Confederate half dollar die went missing during the 1920s and has not been seen since. Popular stories claim one of the Confederate half dollars was given to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. This story has no basis in fact. In an 1879 letter to Ebenezer Mason, Davis confirmed that a Union soldier (actually a Federal Officer) stole a coin from one of his wife’s trunks, but could not confirm that it was like the then known Confederate half dollar. It is very possible that the coin was a gold so-called


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: Jefferson Davis dime struck at the Paris (France) Mint, which Davis described to coin dealer Ed Frossard in an 1880 letter. All known Jefferson Davis dimes were struck in silver at the Paris Mint. The Davis letter is the only known reference to a gold specimen, which was likely a special presentation piece made for Davis. Confederate Treasury Notes (banknotes) were ultimately issued in 50-cent, $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000 denominations with a variety of designs, issuers and redeemable obligations. The amount of currency issued under the various acts of the Confederate Congress totaled $1.7


title: "Confederate States dollar" content: billion. Bills were released in 72 different note "types" in seven "series" from 1861 through 1864. Since there were many types of Confederate notes as well as notes issued by the states of the Confederacy, and since banks could issue their own notes, counterfeiting was a major problem for the Confederacy. Many of these contemporary counterfeits are identifiable today and they can be as valuable to a collector as a real note. Confederate dollars and coins remain the subject of a lively trade, with careful grading of damage and deterioration similar to booksellers' gradings. Confederate States dollar The Confederate States


title: "Misericordia University" content: Middle Atlantic Conferences. Women's sports include basketball, soccer, field hockey, volleyball, swimming, softball, cross-country, cheerleading, lacrosse, tennis and track and field. Men's sports include basketball, football, soccer, swimming, cross-country, baseball, golf, lacrosse, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. The school has had an athletics program since 1932, when it introduced intramural sports. 41 clubs, service organizations and special interest organizations. Special Organizations: Assistive Technology Research Institute; Diversity Institute; Ethics Institute of Northeast Pennsylvania; Institute of Gerontology (Aging Religious); Institute of Law and Religious Life; Institute of Sacred Scripture. Special Programs: Alternative Learner's Project (ALP) for students who learn differently; Center


title: "Only You (2005 TV series)" content: stubborn and proud 20-year-old girl who has a passion for cooking. Because she does not have an interest in studying, she runs away to Vicenza in Italy before she graduates from high school to enroll in a cooking school. Her high school friend, who loves her dearly and shares her passion for cooking, comes along with her. Han Yi-joon (Jo Hyun-jae) is from a wealthy family who owns a large hotel and various restaurants. He travels to Italy in search of his mother that abandoned his family when he was young and there he runs into Eun Jae. Coincidentally, Eun


title: "Ames High School" content: for the first time in 2017. The Ames High Girls Tennis team won the 2A State title four years in a row. Since 1941 Ames High has won 20 state championships in track and field. The Ultimate Frisbee team has been runner-up at the state tournament from 2013 to 2015, with a championship in 2012. The school rests on a campus which includes a natural prairie reserve. The building has been recently renovated to incorporate new lockers, a wrestling room, a larger cafeteria, a modernized gym, and new weight room equipment. Plans for a new facility at the same site


title: "Malus sieversii" content: Malus sieversii Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of Central Asia in southern Kazakhstan. It has recently been shown to be the primary ancestor of most cultivars of the domesticated apple ("Malus pumila"). It was first described (as Pyrus sieversii) in 1833 by Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, a German naturalist who saw them growing in the Altai Mountains. It is a deciduous tree growing to , very similar in appearance to the domestic apple. Its fruit is the largest of any species of "Malus" except "pumila", up to 7 cm diameter, equal in size to many


title: "Malus sieversii" content: modern apple cultivars. Unlike domesticated varieties its leaves go red in autumn: 62.2% of the trees in the wild do this compared to only 2.8% of the regular apple plant or the 2,170 English cultivated varieties. The species is now considered vulnerable to extinction. "Malus sieversii" has previously been identified as the main contributor to the genome of the cultivated apple ("Malus pumila"), on the basis of morphological, molecular, and historical evidence. A DNA analysis in 2010 confirmed "M. sieversii" as the progenitor of the cultivated apple. A third species that has been thought to have made contributions to the


title: "Malus sieversii" content: genome of the domestic apples is "Malus baccata", but there is no evidence for this in older apple cultivars. Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, and formerly its capital, derives its name from the Kazakh word for "apple" (Alma), and is often translated as "full of apples" (the region surrounding Almaty is home to forests of "Malus sieversii"); "alma" is also "apple" in other Turkic languages, as well as in Hungarian. The Soviet-era name, Alma-Ata, is Kazakh for "Father of Apples". These and other "Malus" species have been used in some recent breeding programmes to develop apples suitable for growing


title: "Malus sieversii" content: in harsh climates unsuitable for "M. pumila", mainly for increased cold tolerance. "Malus sieversii" has recently been cultivated by the United States Agricultural Research Service, in hopes of finding genetic information of value in the breeding of the modern apple plant. Some, but not all, of the resulting trees show unusual disease resistance. The variation in their response to disease on an individual basis is, itself, a sign of how much more genetically diverse they are than their domesticated descendants. Malus sieversii Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of Central Asia in southern Kazakhstan. It has


title: "Invensys Rail Group" content: Invensys Rail Group Invensys Rail Group was a division of Invensys, a UK-based multinational engineering company. It was a designer, manufacturer and integrator of railway equipment, including automation, signalling and controls. The group was headquartered in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and , had over 2750 employees in 14 locations internationally. It operated through four companies: Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (WRSL) (UK) was previously known as Westinghouse Signals Ltd and before that was part of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, named after inventor George Westinghouse. The other part of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, Westinghouse Brakes Ltd, was sold by Invensys to Knorr-Bremse,


title: "Scouts of Syria" content: and most leadership training are carried out jointly, however most local units are single-sex. The Scout branch of Scouts of Syria had 9,358 members in 2008 (1,170 Cub Scouts, 4,500 Scouts, 3,000 Advanced Scouts, 250 Rovers and 438 Adult Leaders). The Guide branch numbered 1,020 members. In 1959, during the period when the "Boy Scouts de Syrie" was recognized as a unified Scout federation with Egypt, the Levantine nation had 17,900 Scouts, and in 1990 membership stood at 11,073. The association is divided in four sections according to age: The Scout Motto is "Kun Musta'idan" (), translating as "Be Prepared",


title: "The Beverly Hills Hotel" content: 1990, a private pool and Jacuzzi were added to Bungalow No. 5 to accommodate businessman Walter Annenberg. No.5 had been a favorite of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton who had "a standing room service order for two bottles of vodka at breakfast, and two more at lunch". Taylor also liked No.3, where she stayed during her marriage to Eddie Fisher. Marilyn Monroe favored No. 1 and No. 7. No.1, the most secluded of the bungalows, features an interior described by CNN as "creamy, lush and traditional, decorated in the manner of one's wealthy grandparents". No. 7 has become known as


title: "Dan Balan" content: were completely different to those dictating the Romanian music industry at that time. The song became a commercial success and reached number one on Romania Airplay Top 100, where it stayed for seventeen consecutive weeks. The next year, O-Zone won two more MTV Romania Music Awards, for Best Song and Best Dance. The band was also nominated for Best Romanian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The song "Dragostea Din Tei", also known as the "Numa Numa Song", which was released in 2003, brought the group to global prominence. The single, written and produced by Balan, reached the number


title: "Kristan Bromley" content: is ,married to Shelley Rudman, who won the silver medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 games in Turin. Rudman received her medal while Bromley was competing in the men's skeleton event. He has two daughters with Rudman, Ella Rudman, born in October 2007, and Sofia Rudman-Bromley, born January 2015. Bromley is sponsored by the global marketing agency, GyroHSR. He was previously sponsored by King of Shaves. Kristan Bromley Kristan Bromley (born 7 March 1972 in Rossendale) is a retired British skeleton racer who has competed since 1996. He won the gold medal in the men's event at


title: "Bleak House (2005 TV serial)" content: legal fees. Richard collapses, overcome by tuberculosis, and soon dies. Allan professes his love for Esther, who rebuffs him out of obligation to John, and a pregnant Ada returns to Bleak House. John releases Esther from their engagement, knowing that she really loves Allan. Esther and Allan marry, with all in attendance. The adaptation is eight hours in length and covers most of the characters and storylines in the novel. Characters from the book who are not present include the wife of Snagsby, the law stationer; the wife and grandson of the moneylender Smallweed; the law clerk Tony Jobling; the


title: "Mick Stevens (musician)" content: Englishman", were re-released in late 2005 (USA and Europe) and early 2006 (UK). "Lady Sunrise", recorded in 1972 but previously unissued, was released on heavyweight vinyl in spring 2007. Mick Stevens (musician) Mick Stevens (1953–1987) was born in Chelmsford, England. He was a musician, guitar player, singer, and songwriter. Mainly a solo artist, he also played in a number of bands and toured in the late 1970s with Richard and Linda Thompson, The Albion Band and June Tabor. He produced four solo LPs - the first two, "See the Morning" (1972) and "No Savage Word" (1975), now collector's items, were


title: "Spatial analysis" content: in spatial analysis; more detail is available at the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) topic entry. Landscape ecologists developed a series of scale invariant metrics for aspects of ecology that are fractal in nature. In more general terms, no scale independent method of analysis is widely agreed upon for spatial statistics. Spatial sampling involves determining a limited number of locations in geographic space for faithfully measuring phenomena that are subject to dependency and heterogeneity. Dependency suggests that since one location can predict the value of another location, we do not need observations in both places. But heterogeneity suggests that this


title: "Clogwyn Du'r Arddu" content: Redhead and finally Dawes. No other cliff has a comparable sequence of serious climbs. Clogwyn Du'r Arddu Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (), on the north flank of Snowdon, is considered by many to be one of the best climbing cliffs in Britain. It is north-facing and comparatively remote ( above sea level). It lends its name to Clogwyn station on the Snowdon Mountain Railway which overlooks it. "Clogwyn Du'r Arddu" translates as "Dark, Black Cliff" Climbers who have contributed to the many high-quality routes on the cliff included John Streetly Jack Longland, Ron James, Colin Kirkus, Joe Brown, Don Whillans, and


title: "John Curran (Irish politician)" content: John Curran (Irish politician) John Noel Curran (born 17 June 1960) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2016 and previously between 2002 to 2011 for the Dublin Mid-West constituency. He previously served as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Defence from 2010 to 2011, Minister of State for Integration and Community from 2009 to 2010 and Minister of State for Drugs Strategy and Community Affairs from 2008 to 2009. Since his re-election in 2016, he has Chaired the all-party Oireachtas Housing and Homelessness Committee. This Committee launched


title: "Apportionment (politics)" content: primarily in how they handle rounding of fractional representatives. The schemes can produce different results in terms of seats for the relevant party or sector. Additionally, all methods are subject to one or more anomalies. The article on the largest remainder method presents several schemes and discusses their trade-offs, with examples. Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives. For example, if one single-member district has 10,000 voters and another has 100,000 voters, voters in the former district have ten times the influence, per person, over the governing body. Malapportionment may be deliberate, for


title: "Samar Sea" content: denuded mountains that choke coral reefs. Only some 5% of reefs are considered to be in a healthy condition. Another result of the increased silt are red tides, causing paralytic shellfish poisonings. The first red tide in the Philippines occurred in the Samar Sea in 1983 and thereafter continued to occur at irregular intervals. Samar Sea The Samar Sea is a small sea within the Philippine archipelago, situated between the Bicol Region of Luzon and the Eastern Visayas. It is bordered by the islands of Samar to the east, Leyte to the south, Masbate to the west, and Luzon to


title: "Les Murray (poet)" content: is "now routinely mentioned among the three or four leading English-language poets". Murray is now being talked of as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Les Murray has published around 30 volumes of poetry and is often called Australia's Bush-bard. Academic David McCooey described Murray in 2002 as "a traditional poet whose work is radically original". His poetry is rich and diverse, while also exhibiting "an obvious unity and wholeness" based on "his consistent commitment to the ideals and values of what he sees as the real Australia". He is almost universally praised for his linguistic dexterity,


title: Goda-ikka content: president of the seventh generation Goda-ikka. Based in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, the Goda-ikka has its known offices in two other prefectures. The Goda-ikka is the largest yakuza group in Yamaguchi Prefecture followed by the Yamaguchi-gumi, and as of 2008, about 64% of yakuza members in Yamaguchi Prefecture belong to the Goda-ikka. Since 1996, the Goda-ikka has been a member of an anti-Yamaguchi federation named the Gosha-kai, along with three other Chugoku-based organizations, the Kyosei-kai, the Kyodo-kai, the Asano-gumi, and the Shikoku-based Shinwa-kai. Goda-ikka The is a yakuza group based in Yamaguchi, Japan. The Goda-ikka is a designated yakuza group and Yamaguchi


title: "Rhus typhina" content: Rhus typhina Rhus typhina, the staghorn sumac, is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to eastern North America. It is primarily found in southeastern Canada, the northeastern and midwestern United States and the Appalachian Mountains, but is widely cultivated as an ornamental throughout the temperate world. The specific epithet "typhina" is explained in Linnaeus's and Ericus Torner's description of the plant with the phrase "Ramis hirtis uti typhi cervini" meaning "the branches are rough like antlers in velvet". "Rhus typhina" is a dioecious, deciduous shrub or small tree growing up to tall by broad. It has


title: "Rhus typhina" content: alternate, pinnately compound leaves long, each with 9–31 serrate leaflets long. Leaf petioles and stems are densely covered in rust-colored hairs. The velvety texture and the forking pattern of the branches, reminiscent of antlers, have led to the common name "stag's horn sumac". Staghorn sumac grows as female or male clones. Small, greenish-white though yellowish flowers occur in dense terminal panicles, and small, green through reddish drupes occur in dense infructescences. Flowers occur from May through July and fruit ripens from June through September in this species’ native range. Infructescences are long and broad at their bases. Fall foliage is


title: "Rhus typhina" content: brilliant shades of red, orange and yellow. Fruit can remain on plants from late summer through spring. Staghorn sumac spreads by seeds and rhizomes and forms clones often with the older shoots in the center and younger shoots around central older ones. Large clones can grow from in several years. Within Anacardiaceae, staghorn sumac is not closely related to poison sumac ("Toxicodendron vernix"), although they share the name "sumac." In late summer some shoots have galls on leaf undersides, caused by the sumac leaf gall aphid, "Melaphis rhois". The galls are not markedly harmful to the tree. Staghorn sumac is


title: "Rhus typhina" content: an ornamental plant which provides interest throughout the year; though its vigorous, suckering habit makes it unsuitable for smaller gardens. It can grow under a wide array of conditions, but is most often found in dry and poor soil on which other plants cannot survive. Some landscapers remove all but the top branches to create a "crown" effect in order to resemble a small palm tree. Numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use, of which 'Dissecta' syn. 'Laciniata' (cutleaf staghorn sumac) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. In both French and German, the common name


title: "Rhus typhina" content: of the species (sumac vinaigrier, Essigbaum) means "vinegar tree". Some beekeepers use dried sumac bobs as a source of fuel for their smokers. The fruit of sumacs can be collected, soaked and washed in cold water, strained, sweetened and made into a pink "lemonade" sometimes called "Indian lemonade". The leaves and berries of staghorn sumac have been mixed with tobacco and other herbs and smoked by Native American tribes. This practice continues to a small degree to this day. All parts of the staghorn sumac, except the roots, can be used as both a natural dye and as a mordant.


title: "Rhus typhina" content: The plant is rich in tannins and can be added to other dye baths to improve light fastness. The leaves may be harvested in the summer and the bark all year round. Rhus typhina Rhus typhina, the staghorn sumac, is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae, native to eastern North America. It is primarily found in southeastern Canada, the northeastern and midwestern United States and the Appalachian Mountains, but is widely cultivated as an ornamental throughout the temperate world. The specific epithet "typhina" is explained in Linnaeus's and Ericus Torner's description of the plant with the phrase


title: "Hybrid coronary revascularization" content: Hybrid coronary revascularization Hybrid coronary revascularization (HCR) or hybrid coronary bypass is a relatively new type of heart surgery that provides an alternative to traditional coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI or PTCA) by combining the two into one operation. It is this combining aspect that "hybrid" refers to. HCR is one of several types of hybrid cardiac surgery; it is not to be confused with a MIDCAB (minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass) procedure, which uses the smaller thoracotomy incision but does not involve coronary stenting. Hybrid bypass offers all the benefits of a MIDCAB


title: "Ismail Haron" content: Rahsia-Ku" ("Sealed With A Kiss"), "Janji Tetap Janji" ("My Girl"), "Gabus Tarbus" ("House Of Bamboo"), "Asmara", "Rahsia Di-Ayer Jerneh", "Menunggu Nasi Minyak" and "Kesah Dol dan Minah". In an interview with Malaysian daily Utusan Malaysia, Ismail Haron mentioned that he plans to migrate to Kuantan, the east-coast city of peninsular Malaysia, as a permanent resident to continue with his singing career. He died in his sleep at the residence of his sister, Hamidah, in Jurong West, at 2pm on 9 April 2012, Monday. Ismail Haron was acclaimed a celebrity by the Malaysia|Malay music buffs in Singapore & Malaysia. Because of


title: "Saya no Uta" content: how the game makes the player sympathize with the villains—"But perhaps the most fascinating thing about "The Song of Saya" is that somehow, in the middle of all the horrors it presents, it manages to make the abominable, beautiful." Gen Urobuchi noted that the popularity of his later work "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" rekindled interest in "Saya no Uta" in 2011, so much so that "Saya no Uta" "made at least as much money as if it's a new game". Saya no Uta A three-issue comic book based on "Saya no Uta", called "Song of Saya", has been produced by


title: "Cycle of erosion" content: can be hinted in the models' employment of the concept of "evolution" rather than "change", implying a predictable direction of landscape and landform change. Davis conceived the cycle of erosion model in the 1880s. More fully developed by 1900 it received wide acclaim, but was never universally accepted. The initial enthusiasm and strength of the cycle of erosion model has been attributed to various causes. First, the model provided a framework to study areas and epochs in Earth history where erosion is the dominant process. Second, the model fitted well into the grand evolutionary thought that had emerged in the


title: Austerson content: Austerson Old Hall or Old Hall Farm was moved to Alvanley in 1974. A grade-II-listed barn remains which dates from the late 16th century, and is brick nogged with a timber frame. There are no educational facilities within the civil parish. The parish falls within the catchment areas of Sound and District Primary School in Sound and Brine Leas High School in Nantwich. Austerson Austerson is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, lying immediately south of the town of Nantwich and north of the village of Audlem. Predominantly rural


title: "Mahavir Tyagi" content: the Indian Parliament. Nehru had commented : "“But, nevertheless, the fact remains that this area is a most extraordinary area in the world so far as terrain is concerned. At that rate, no tree grows anywhere in this wide area -- there may be some shrubs.”". Tyagi retorted, pointing to his own bald head: ""No hair grows on my head. Does it mean that the head has no value?"". [Discussion, 5 December 1961, Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. LX, 2-8 December 1961, cited in Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, (Second Series), Volume 73, p. 571] A tense situation that had been


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: Porcellio scaber Porcellio scaber (otherwise known as the common rough woodlouse or simply rough woodlouse), is a species of woodlouse native to Europe but with a cosmopolitan distribution. They are often found in large numbers in most regions, with many species (shrews, centipedes, toads, spiders and even some birds) preying on them. "P. scaber" is found across Central and Western Europe. In the United Kingdom, it is one of the "big five" species of woodlice. It has also colonised North America, South Africa and other regions including the remote sub-Antarctic Marion island, largely through human activity. It is also the


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: most common species of woodlice found in Australia. "P. scaber" has an oval body, can grow up to long, and is usually a grey colour, paler underneath, although brown, blue, yellow, or pinkish hues may also be observed (like many other woodlice, a red variety can often be found in coastal areas). The dorsal (upper) surface of its segmented exoskeleton is covered in a series of small tubercles hence its common name. At the head it has two pairs of antennae, with the inner pair being very small. Two compound eyes are located on the dorsal side of the head,


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: while the mouth parts are on the ventral (lower) side. There are 7 pairs of legs, corresponding to the 7 segments of the thorax. The short abdomen consists of 6 segments. On the ventral side of the abdomen there are two whitish pseudo-lungs, connected with pores to the outside air. At the rear end there are is a small telson flanked by a pair of appendages known as uropods. "P. scaber" loses water by diffusion through its permeable exoskeleton which lacks a waxy cuticle. Because of this, to avoid desiccation, it often seeks out environments with humid air and plenty


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: of ground moisture, preferably cold to minimize rate of water loss, and dark to avoid detection by predators. It lives in a wide variety of damp habitats but it is less dependent on high levels of humidity than "Oniscus asellus". "P. scaber" is a detritivore - it mainly feeds on decaying leaf litter but will consume any rotting plant matter. Living plants are of limited nutritional value for these woodlice which prefer to feed on the bacteria and fungi which cause decay. "P. scaber" has very sensitive olfactory receptors that allow it detect the smell of microbial activity and so


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: locate food. This ability to quickly detect the faintest sign of decay has led to the false belief that they harm seedlings and soft fruit. 25 to 90 fertilized eggs and the larvae are carried by the mother in a fluid-filled sac at the ventral side of the abdomen for about 40-50 days. The young are fully grown after 3 months; the adult animals have a life expectancy of about two years. "P. scaber" respond to certain stimuli with kinesis behaviour. To attempt to find an environment where they lose less moisture and then stay there, "P. scaber" alter factors


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: such as speed and rate of turning (orthokinesis and klinokinesis). When in a dry or hot environment, these woodlice have been observed increasing speed and turn more often in an attempt to leave the unfavorable environment. In a moist, dark, cool environment, they slow down dramatically and often stop altogether. To avoid desiccation, most woodlice (including "P. scaber") exhibit thigmokinesis, slowing down or stopping when in contact with multiple surfaces(such as the corner of a box or a crack between two bricks). This behaviour leads to clumping of woodlice, reducing the exposed surface area through which water can be lost.


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: Another manifestation of this is that a woodlouse in a Petri dish is unwilling to move into the center of the dish, preferring to stay near the edge. Another reflex exhibited by "P. scaber" is turn alternation. During klinokinesis, turns alternate between left and right. This helps the woodlouse escape from a harmful environment or predator more efficiently as alternating turns average to form a straight line, unlike random turns which may well become a circle back to the predator. Several mechanisms for this have been proposed, such as short-term memory or following the outside wall, but the theory with


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: most support is the BALM mechanism, which suggests that on the original turn, the legs on the outside of the turn become relatively more tired, so end up being overpowered by the legs on the inside of the turn, causing it to turn the opposite way from last time. Unlike the 'roller' species of woodlouse, such as "Armadillidium" spp., which are able to curl into a ball to defend themselves, "P. scaber" is a 'clinger' and adopts a posture of tonic immobility when faced with the threat of predation. A study of this thanatosis behaviour found that individuals of this


title: "Porcellio scaber" content: species had unique personalities with shy woodlice staying still for longer and bold woodlice staying immobile for less time. Inspired by the behaviours of "P. scaber", an algorithm for solving constrained optimization problems was proposed, called the Porcellio scaber algorithm (PSA). Porcellio scaber Porcellio scaber (otherwise known as the common rough woodlouse or simply rough woodlouse), is a species of woodlouse native to Europe but with a cosmopolitan distribution. They are often found in large numbers in most regions, with many species (shrews, centipedes, toads, spiders and even some birds) preying on them. "P. scaber" is found across Central and


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: Verbena officinalis Verbena officinalis, the common vervain or common verbena, is a perennial herb native to Europe. It grows up to a metre/yard high, with an upright habitus. The lobed leaves are toothed, the delicate spikes hold mauve flowers. This plant prefers limey soils; it is occasionally grown as an ornamental plant but perhaps more often for the powerful properties some herbalists ascribe to it. Propagation is by root cuttings or seed. It is widely naturalised outside its native range, for example in North America. It is also known as simpler's joy or holy herb, or more ambiguously as "mosquito


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: plant" or "wild hyssop". The common name "blue vervain" is also sometimes used, but also refers to "V. hastata". And of course, being the only member of its genus in much of its range, it is also simply known as "the vervain" locally. The common names of "V. officinalis" in many Central and Eastern European languages often associate it with iron, for example: Common vervain was scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus his 1753 "Species Plantarum". The scientific name references the Ancient Roman term "verbena", used for any sacrificial herb considered very powerful (as described e.g. by Pliny the Elder). "Officinalis",


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: meanwhile, is Latin for "used in medicine or herbalism". One of the few species of "Verbena" native to regions outside the Americas, it is derived from the lineage nowadays occurring widely across North America. It might be closest to a group including such species as the White Vervain ("V. urticifolia"), "V. lasiostachys" or "V. menthifolia", and perhaps the Swamp Verbena ("V. hastata"). As these, it is diploid with 14 chromosomes altogether. Numerous local varieties have been described, some of them as distinct species or subspecies. The following are often accepted today: The Texas vervain ("V. halei") is sometimes included in


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: "V. officinalis" as a subspecies or variety. But despite the outward similarity, biogeography alone strongly suggests there is really no justification to include this North American native here, and DNA sequence data agrees. Instead, "V. halei" seems to be closely related to "V. macdougalii", perhaps with some interbreeding with the "V. menthifolia" lineage which might explain its Common Vervain-like traits. Common vervain has been held in high esteem since classical antiquity; it has long been associated with divine and other supernatural forces, and it has an equally long-standing use as a medicinal plant. Herbal capsules are used as a soporific


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: drug in much the same way as for the better known valerian. "Verbena officinalis" herb has been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally (as tea or liqueur) for treatment of infections and fever. Medical use of Common Vervain is usually as a herbal tea; Nicholas Culpeper's 1652 "The English Physitian" discusses folk uses. "Vervain", presumably this species, is one of the original 38 Bach flower remedies, prescribed against "over-enthusiasm". In the modern era, it is sometimes considered a powerful "ally" of poets and writers, as its relaxing effects can relieve writer's block. It cannot be considered safe to use


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: during pregnancy as it might cause miscarriages. While common vervain is not native to North America, it has been introduced there and the Pawnee have adopted it as an entheogen enhancer and in oneiromancy, and is often referred to as the North American version of "Calea zacatechichi". In western Eurasia, the term "verbena" or "vervain" usually refers to this, the most widespread and common member of the mostly American genus occurring there. It was called "tears of Isis" in Ancient Egypt, and later on "Juno's tears". In Ancient Greece, it was dedicated to Eos Erigineia. In the early Christian era,


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: folk legend stated that Common Vervain was used to stanch Jesus' wounds after his removal from the cross; hence names like "Holy Herb" or (e.g. in Wales) "Devil's bane". Because of the association with the Passion of Christ, it came to be used in ointments to drive out and repel "demonic" illness. Vervain flowers are engraved on "cimaruta", Italian anti-"stregheria" charms. In the 1870 "The History and Practice of Magic" by "Paul Christian" (Jean-Baptiste Pitois) it is employed in the preparation of a mandragora charm. Hazlitt's "Faiths and Folklore" (1905) quotes Aubrey's "Miscellanies" (1721), to wit:""Vervain and Dill / Hinder


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: witches from their will."" A Royal Navy of the World War I era was named , and in World War II a Group 1 bore the same name; a Group 2 vessel of the latter class was called . The only "Verbena" widely found in England in a native state is common vervain, though it is just as possible that the names reference the popular ornamental verbenas, such as the garden vervain. Chemical investigations of petroleum ether and chloroform extracts led to the isolation of β-sitosterol, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, 3-epiursolic acid, 3-epioleanolic acid and minor triterpenoids of derivatives of


title: "Verbena officinalis" content: ursolic acid and oleanolic acids. Chromatographic purification of the methanol extract yield two iridoid glucosides (verbenalin and hastatoside), a phenylpropanoid glycoside, verbascoside and β-sitosterol-D-glucoside. Hastatoside and verbenalin have sleep-promoting (soporific) properties. It also contains a monoterpene alcohol called verbenol. In another study, four compounds were isolated and identified as apigenin, 4'-hydroxywogonin, verbenalin, and hastatoside. Aucubin has also been found as one the active constituents. Verbena officinalis Verbena officinalis, the common vervain or common verbena, is a perennial herb native to Europe. It grows up to a metre/yard high, with an upright habitus. The lobed leaves are toothed, the delicate spikes


title: "Rayman Raving Rabbids" content: different modes of play - 'Story mode' and 'Score mode'. In story mode the game follows fifteen days of Rayman's imprisonment by the Rabbids. Each day, Rayman must complete at least three trials, followed by one special “boss trial”, such as a first-person rail shooter using plungers, or a racing game in which the player controls a warthog and uses a flyswatter as a riding crop. Completing trials earns Rayman various costumes and matching music, including Gangsta, Raymaninho (a portmanteau of the title character's name and football star Ronaldinho), Disco, Gothic, Caramba, Rock'n'Roll, Granny, DeeJay, and Bunny. Trial completion also


title: "Fatou–Lebesgue theorem" content: limit inferior and the limit superior of the "f" are measurable and dominated in absolute value by "g", hence integrable. The first inequality follows by applying Fatou's lemma to the non-negative functions "f" + "g" and using the linearity of the Lebesgue integral. The last inequality is the reverse Fatou lemma. Since "g" also dominates the limit superior of the |"f"|, by the monotonicity of the Lebesgue integral. The same estimates hold for the limit superior of the "f". Fatou–Lebesgue theorem In mathematics, the Fatou–Lebesgue theorem establishes a chain of inequalities relating the integrals (in the sense of Lebesgue) of


title: "Edward Trickett" content: yards Trickett had passed him and was never tested for the rest of the race, winning "as he liked" by some fifteen to eighteen lengths. The time was 22m.38s which was the second best time ever recorded in Australia. Trickett had used the then new invention of swivel rowlocks. On 15 November 1880 on a decidedly raw and cold day with a drizzling rain that fell at intervals; Trickett, weighing and tall, aged 29 years rowed against the tall Edward ‘Ned’ Hanlan weighing aged 25 years of Toronto Canada over the Thames Championship Course which ran between Putney and Mortlake.


title: "Western New Mexico University" content: New Mexico is a member of the NCAA Division II Lone Star Conference, which they joined during the 2016–17 school year. Prior to joining the Lone Star Conference, Western New Mexico competed as a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) from 1967 to 1990, and then from 2006 to 2016. Prior re-joining the RMAC, WNMU also competed as an NCAA D-II Independent from 1990 to 1998, and the Pacific West Conference from 1998 to 2005, and later the Heartland Conference during the 2005–06 school year. WNMU's on campus Child Development Center is nationally recognized and accredited. The 5


title: "Nineteenth-century theatre" content: However, they also introduced significant reforms into the theatrical process. For example, William Charles Macready was the first to introduce proper rehearsals to the process. Before this lead actors would rarely rehearse their parts with the rest of the cast: Edmund Kean's most famous direction to his fellow actors being, "stand upstage of me and do your worst." Melodramas, light comedies, operas, Shakespeare and classic English drama, pantomimes, translations of French farces and, from the 1860s, French operettas, continued to be popular, together with Victorian burlesque. The most successful dramatists were James Planché and Dion Boucicault, whose penchant for making


title: "Malva moschata" content: Malva moschata Malva moschata, the musk mallow or musk-mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland, and east to southern Russia and Turkey. Growing to tall, it is a herbaceous perennial with hairy stems and foliage, and pink saucer-shaped flowers in summer. The leaves are alternate, 2–8 cm long and 2–8 cm broad, palmately lobed with five to seven lobes; basal leaves on the lower stem are very shallowly lobed, those higher on the stems are deeply divided, with narrow, acuminate lobes.


title: "Malva moschata" content: The flowers are produced in clusters in the leaf axils, each flower 3.2–5 cm diameter, with five bright pink petals with a truncated to notched apex; they have a distinctive musky odour. The fruit is a disc-shaped schizocarp 3–6 mm diameter, containing 10–16 seeds, the seeds individually enclosed in a mericarp covered in whitish hairs. It has a chromosome count of 2"n"=42. It occurs on dry, but fertile soils at altitudes from sea level up to . Natural hybrids with the closely related "Malva alcea" are occasionally found. The flowers are usually pollinated by bees. "Malva moschata" is widely grown


title: "Malva moschata" content: as an ornamental plant for its attractive scented flowers, produced for a long period through the summer. Several cultivars have been selected for variation in flower colour, including 'Rosea' with dark pink flowers. The cultivar 'Alba' (white flowered) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Leaves and flowers of muskmallow are common additions to "wild" salads. The seeds are also edible. It has been introduced to and become naturalised in several areas with temperate climates away from its native range, including Scandinavia, New Zealand, and North America. Malva moschata Malva moschata, the musk mallow or musk-mallow, is


title: "Tomorrow series" content: inspired to write the character when he noticed that while many teenagers identified themselves as Christians this group was not represented at all in fiction written for them. Chris was an approximation of Marsden himself as a teen. Though unlike Chris, Marsden never used drugs. When asked why young people related to the characters in his books, Ellie in particular, Marsden speculated that, like himself, they found their strength and self-reliance inspirational. In an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Rollercoaster website he explained what inspired him to highlight these virtues in his work: Upon publication, the series was met with


title: "National Museum of Romanian History" content: National Museum of Romanian History The National Museum of Romanian History () is a museum located on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania, which contains Romanian historical artifacts from prehistoric times up to modern times. The museum is located inside the former Postal Services Palace, which also houses a philatelic museum. With a surface of over 8,000 square meters, the museum has approx. 60 valuable exhibition rooms. The permanent displays include a plaster cast of the entirety of Trajan's Column, the Romanian Crown Jewels, and the Pietroasele treasure. The building was authorized, in 1892, and the architect, Alexandru Săvulescu was sent


title: "National Museum of Romanian History" content: with the postal inspector, Ernest Sturza, to tour various postal facilities of Europe for the design. The final sketches were influenced primarily by the postal facility in Geneva. Built in an eclectic style, it is rectangular with a large porch on a high basement and three upper floors. The stone façade features a portico supported by 10 Doric columns and a platform consisting of 12 steps spanning the length of the building. There are many allegorical sculptural decorative details. , the museum is undergoing extensive restoration work and it is only partially open; a late medieval archaeological site was discovered


title: "National Museum of Romanian History" content: under the building. National Museum of Romanian History The National Museum of Romanian History () is a museum located on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania, which contains Romanian historical artifacts from prehistoric times up to modern times. The museum is located inside the former Postal Services Palace, which also houses a philatelic museum. With a surface of over 8,000 square meters, the museum has approx. 60 valuable exhibition rooms. The permanent displays include a plaster cast of the entirety of Trajan's Column, the Romanian Crown Jewels, and the Pietroasele treasure. The building was authorized, in 1892, and the architect, Alexandru


title: "Honda in Formula One" content: midfield. At a test of this car, Postlethwaite suffered a fatal heart attack, the project was later shelved and Honda decided to merely recommit as a full works engine supplier to BAR, starting in 2000. In September 2005 Honda purchased the remaining 55% share of BAR to become the sole owner. BAT continued as title sponsor with the Lucky Strike brand in 2006, but withdrew from Formula 1 for 2007. It was decided that the team would race under the name Honda Racing F1 Team from 2006. Despite showing promise pre-season (with the RA106 being considered one of the most


title: Entacapone content: with or without food. Pregnancy category C: risk is not ruled out. Although there have been animal studies that showed that entacapone was excreted into maternal rat milk, there have been no studies with human breast milk. Caution is advised for mothers taking entacapone while breastfeeding or during pregnancy. Entacapone safety and efficacy have not been assessed in infants or children. Biliary excretion is the major route of excretion for entacapone. People with liver dysfunction may require additional caution and more frequent liver function monitoring while taking entacapone. There are no significant considerations for people with poor kidney function taking


title: "Fort Magruder" content: the York River (northern) end of the line. (The site of Redoubt 12 is currently located in New Quarter Park). Redoubt # 6, near the center of the Williamsburg Line, became known as Fort Magruder. It was shaped as an elongated pentagon, with walls high and nine feet thick. The earthworks were protected by a dry moat nine feet deep. It mounted eight guns. The Williamsburg Line was unfinished when the Federals began marching up the Peninsula from Fort Monroe on April 4, 1862. As the Peninsula Campaign developed, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston moved his army east to reinforce


title: "Cuisine of Karnataka" content: Cuisine of Karnataka Among food, South Karnataka people take Ragi Mudde along with Sambar, incase of veg, muddhe has good combination with dal like bassaru, sappina saru, etc. Similarly in case of nonveg, muddhe is a must for south karnataka persons. For north karnataka, jolada rotti (Jowar Roti) has a good combination with Kempu (Red) chutney and Ucchel chutney). Places like Udupi and Kodagu like dishes of Dosa, Idli, Bonda. Mangaluru peoples worship Fish as god, their usual dish is Fish along with Rice. The cuisine of Karnataka includes many vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisines. It is one of the oldest


title: "Local cohomology" content: length of a regular "M"-sequence; also referred to as the grade of "M") provides a sharp lower bound, i.e., it is the smallest integer "n" such that These two bounds together yield a characterisation of Cohen–Macaulay modules over local rings: they are precisely those modules where formula_15 vanishes for all but one "n". The local duality theorem is a local analogue of Serre duality. For a Gorenstein ring "R", it states that the natural pairing is a perfect pairing, where ω denotes a dualising module. The initial applications were to analogues of the Lefschetz hyperplane theorems. In general such theorems


title: "Jean Laplanche" content: grew up in the Côte d'Or region of France. In his adolescence he was active in Catholic Action, a left-wing social justice organization. Laplanche attended the École Normale Supérieure in the 1940s, studying philosophy. He was a student of Jean Hyppolite, Gaston Bachelard and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In 1943, during the Vichy regime, Laplanche joined the French Resistance, and was active in Paris and Bourgogne. In 1946–47, he visited Harvard University for a year. Instead of joining that university's philosophy department, he instead studied at the Department of Social Relations, and became interested in psychoanalytic theory. After returning to France, Laplanche


title: "York River State Park" content: York River State Park York River State Park is located near the unincorporated town of Croaker in James City County, Virginia on the south bank of the York River about 10 miles downstream from West Point. The York River is formed from the confluence of the Mattaponi River and the Pamunkey River at West Point. The York River empties into the Chesapeake Bay about 30 miles downstream from Croaker Landing. In the state park, the historical Croaker Landing is an archaeological site listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1987. The name "Croaker" is believed to have derived


title: "York River State Park" content: from the abundant quantity of Atlantic croaker ("Micropogonias undulatus"), an inshore, bottom-dwelling fish found in the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the York River. The site contains evidence of Native American habitation throughout the Woodland period (c. 1000 B.C. - A.D. 1600). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The town of Croaker was known in its early history as Taskinas Plantation. It was the site of a 17th and 18th century public tobacco warehouse where local planters stored their crops to be shipped to England. York River State Park opened in 1980. It


title: "York River State Park" content: is accessed via Exit 231-B of Interstate 64, which is signed "Croaker-Norge." The old Richmond-Williamsburg Stage Road, now U.S. Route 60, also is nearby. York River State Park York River State Park is located near the unincorporated town of Croaker in James City County, Virginia on the south bank of the York River about 10 miles downstream from West Point. The York River is formed from the confluence of the Mattaponi River and the Pamunkey River at West Point. The York River empties into the Chesapeake Bay about 30 miles downstream from Croaker Landing. In the state park, the historical


title: "Christopher Crommett" content: Spanish-speaking contributing journalists. He also oversaw "CNN en Español RADIO" which is available to tens of millions of listeners in the Americas. He also served on the board of directors of "CNN+", "CNN en Español"'s sister channel in Spain. Under Crommett’s direction,"CNN en Español" personnel twice received Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, in 2001 for Outstanding Investigative Reporting and again in 2006 for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster. "CNN en Español" staff were also honored with two Peabody Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Award, and garnered many prestigious awards in numerous Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia


title: "Cooran railway station" content: temporary platform remains. Opposite the platform lies a passing loop. Queensland Rail has commenced the reconstruction of the station platform and shelter, with work on the new, permanent structure to be completed by the end of December 2018. Cooran is serviced by two daily City network services in each direction. Sunbus' route 632 to Noosa Junction serves Cooran station, but none of its services are timed to connect with train services. Cooran railway station Cooran railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the town of Cooran in the Shire of Noosa. Cooran railway


title: "Winlaton Youth Training Centre" content: control of the Winlaton superintendent. During the 1950s and 1960s, many State wards had been taken into care because of truancy (not attending school which was compulsory until the age of 15) However, once in care, children were commonly denied access to education. For example, at one point in the late 1960s, despite the population of Winbirra Remand Centre reaching about 40, the school took only 8 girls for classes. The centre had a permanent medical nurse on staff but called in doctors from outside to treat illness. For most of the centre's history the superintendent was female as was


title: "NCAA basketball tournament selection process" content: may be invited to answer factual questions regarding his or her team or teams (e.g., status of player injuries). An athletic director may be present when other schools from his or her conference are discussed, but he or she may only speak if asked. 2017-18 chairman
 2017-18 vice-chairman
 2017-18 chairperson
 The selection committee must first decide which teams will compete in the tournament. As of the 2016–17 season, thirty-two teams receive automatic bids to the tournament by winning their conference tournament. The selection committee only selects the teams (36 for men and 32 for women) who receive at-large bids. Though


title: "Peter Matera" content: 1996. 1996 also saw Matera joined at West Coast by his younger brother Phillip. A fine player in his own right, Phillip was a speedy forward pocket who emerged from his brother's shadow later in his career to be regarded as one of the better goal sneaks of his time. Affectionately known as "Fido", Phil Matera retired after the 2005 season playing 179 games and kicking 389 goals for West Coast. After four top five finishes in the strong West Coast team of the 1990s, Matera won his first Club Champion Award in 1997. Finishing two votes clear of fellow


title: Kariobangi content: and the AIPCEA Churches - all which are within a stone through distance from each other, even though a number of other churches have since established a presence in the estate. The estate is also served by the City owned and run Kariobangi South Market, which previously catered for all the residents shopping-entertainment needs, but whose stature has of late been seriously eroded by the ever upcoming and rising mini-supermarkets and roadside kiosks. As is common with most city council estates, the estate has suffered its share of maintenance neglect which coupled with uncoordinated housing extensions and new real estate


title: "Mike Bettes" content: 2014 Tornado Track. Bettes graduated with a B.S. in atmospheric sciences from Ohio State University (OSU). Prior to TWC, he worked as chief meteorologist for WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina and as weekend meteorologist at WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, Ohio and WKEF in Dayton, Ohio. Due to extremely poor decision making, Bettes attempted to core punch a HIGH RISK supercell. Whether inexperience or recklessness to produce usable footage for The Weather Channel, Bettes' decision making nearly killed everybody in his crew. The maneuver of reckless disregard for safety has become known as a "Bettes" maneuver. Recently the same behavior has been


title: "Tzipi Livni" content: the need to re-launch the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and I believe that this is part of Israel's interest to relaunch the negotiations from the point at which we stopped basically a year ago." During the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, Livni was criticized by Arab League Chairman Amre Moussa who said that "I am greatly surprised by, and I reject, the words of the Israeli foreign minister (Livni), who asks: 'Is there a humanitarian crisis? There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza'" Livni was quoted as saying "Israel has been supplying comprehensive humanitarian aid to the [Gaza] strip...


title: "Hibernation (computing)" content: hardware and BIOS are present. Since Windows 95 supports only Advanced Power Management (APM), hibernation is called Suspend-to-Disk. Windows 98 and later support ACPI. However, hibernation often caused problems since most hardware was not fully ACPI 1.0 compliant or did not have WDM drivers. There were also issues with the FAT32 file system. Windows 2000 is the first Windows to support hibernation at the operating system level (OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state) without special drivers from the hardware manufacturer. A hidden system file named "hiberfil.sys" in the root of the boot partition is used to store the contents of RAM


title: "Brian Urquhart" content: other in the Sinai Peninsula. To differentiate the peacekeepers from other soldiers, the U.N. wanted to have the soldiers wear blue berets. When that turned out to take six weeks to make, Urquhart proposed the characteristic blue helmets, which could be converted in a day by painting over regular ones. In the early 1960s, Urquhart served as the main U.N. representative in the Congo, succeeding his friend Ralph Bunche. His efforts to stabilize the war-torn country were hampered by the chaos created by innumerable warring factions. At one point, Urquhart was abducted, brutally beaten, and threatened with death by undisciplined


title: "Mikhail Kaufman" content: Mikhail Kaufman Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman (; 1897 – March 11, 1980) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. He was the younger brother of filmmaker Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and the older brother of cinematographer Boris Kaufman. He was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Białystok in Grodno Governorate, at the time when the Białystok region was a part of the Russian Empire. In 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from Russian Civil War, Vertov offered him to participate in his newsreel series "Kino-Pravda" as a cameraman. Mikhail Kaufman directed photography for several films, including Vertov's "Man with the


title: "Crystal Cave, Bermuda" content: Crystal Cave, Bermuda Crystal Cave is a cave in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. It is located in Hamilton Parish, close to Castle Harbour. The cave is approximately 500 m long, and 62 m deep. The lower 19-20 m of the cave are below water level. The cave formed at a time when the sea level was lower as the sea level rose, many cave formations which formed above water became submerged. A tourist attraction since 1907, it was discovered in 1905 by Carl Gibbons and Edgar Hollis, two 12-year-old boys searching for a lost cricket ball. Soon after,


title: "Reina (musician)" content: Reina (musician) Lori Reina Goldstein... (born in the Bronx, New York City, New York) is a female Dance-pop singer-songwriter. Reina was a backup singer for such music artists as Deborah Cox and Corina. In 1995, she released a self-titled R&B album as Lori Gold, and had a minor hit with "I Likes". In 1998, as Reina, she became an overnight sensation on the Dance/Club scene when "Find Another Woman" reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In 2003, she scored her biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when her single "No One's Gonna Change You" crossed


title: "Warner and Swasey Observatory" content: University made a deal with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) to build a new observatory at Kitt Peak National Observatory to house the Burrell Schmidt. The telescope was moved from Ohio to Arizona in May 1979, and in 1980 the 36-inch reflector on Taylor Road was moved to the Nassau Station. This meant no further astronomical work was done at the Taylor Road facility, and as a result the faculty and resources of the original observatory were moved to the main campus of Case Western Reserve University in 1982. The Taylor Road facility was sold in


title: "Necromanteion of Acheron" content: Necromanteion of Acheron The Nekromanteion () was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone. According to tradition, it was located on the banks of the Acheron river in Epirus, near the ancient city of Ephyra. This site was believed by devotees to be the door to Hades, the realm of the dead. The site is at the meeting point of the Acheron, Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus rivers, believed to flow through and water the kingdom of Hades. The meaning of the names of the rivers has been interpreted to be "joyless", "burning coals" and "lament." A site


title: "Necromanteion of Acheron" content: in Mesopotamos, Epirus was proposed as the site of the Necromanteion in 1958, but this identification is now questioned. The word "Necromanteion" means "Oracle of the Dead", and the faithful came here to talk with their dead ancestors. Although other ancient temples such as the Temple of Poseidon in Taenaron as well as those in Argolis, Cumae, and Herakleia in Pontos are known to have housed oracles of the dead, the Necromanteion of Ephyra was the most important. It belonged to the Thesprotians, the local Epirot Greek tribe. According to Herodotus' account, it was to the Necromanteion that Periander, the


title: "Necromanteion of Acheron" content: 6th century BC tyrant of Corinth, sent legates to ask questions of his dead wife, Melissa. In Homer's Odyssey, the Necromanteion was also described as the entrance by which Odysseus made his nekyia. Ritual use of the Necromanteion involved elaborate ceremonies wherein celebrants seeking to speak to the dead would start by gathering in the ziggurat-like temple and consuming a meal of broad beans, pork, barley bread, oysters, and a narcotic compound. Following a cleansing ceremony and the sacrifice of sheep, the faithful would descend through a chthonic series of meandering corridors leaving offerings as they passed through a number


title: "Necromanteion of Acheron" content: of iron gates. The nekyomanteia would pose a series of questions and chant prayers and the celebrants would then witness the priest arise from the floor and begin to fly through the temple through the use of Aeorema-like theatrical cranes. An archaeological site discovered in 1958 and excavated during 1958-64 and 1976-77 was identified as the Necromanteion by archaeologist Sotirios Dakaris based on its geographical location and its similarities to descriptions found in Herodotus and Homer. However, its topographical situation on a hill commanding the immediate neighbourhood does not fit this interpretation and the ruins dated to no earlier than


title: "Necromanteion of Acheron" content: the later 4th century BC. It is now also believed that the site was a fortified farmhouse of a sort common in the Hellenistic period. Besides quantities of household ceramics, the site produced agricultural tools and weaponry, including Roman pila from the final destruction of the site by the Romans in 167 BC. Most surprising of all were 21 washers (the distinctive bronze "modioli") from at least seven different catapults, which Dakaris had mistakenly identified as components from a crane. Necromanteion of Acheron The Nekromanteion () was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone. According to


title: "Barton, Cheshire" content: Barton, Cheshire Barton is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village is located near the Welsh border, about twelve miles south of Chester, and only about eight miles east of Wrexham in Wales. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 71, increasing to 123 at the 2011 census, a decline from a high-point of 143 in 1801. The A534 road passes through the village. The National Cycle Network Regional Route 70 passes just to the south of the village. The ancient


title: "Sheva Brachot" content: be glad in gathering her children to herself joyfully (in haste). Blessed are You, LORD, Gladdener of Zion by way of her children." Transliteration: Sameiach tesamach reiim ha-ahuvim k’sameichacha y’tzircha b’gan eden mikedem. Baruch ata Adonai, m’sameiach chatan v’chalah. Translation: "Loving companions will surely gladden, as you gladdened your creations in the Garden of Eden in the east. Blessed are You, LORD, Gladdener of groom and bride." Transliteration: Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher bara sason v’simcha chatan v’kallah, gilah rinah ditzah v’chedvah, ahavah v’achavah v’shalom v’reut. M’hera Adonai Eloheinu yishammah b’arei Yhudah uv-chutzot Y’rushalayim kol sason v’kol simcha,


title: "Barton, Preston" content: Preston electoral ward of Preston Rural North, and the Preston Rural electoral division of Lancashire County Council. It is north of Broughton. The parish church of St Lawrence was re-built in 1895 to a design by Richard Knill Freeman. It is a Grade II listed building. It is part of the Fellside Team of parishes. The civil parish of Barton was part of Preston Rural District throughout its existence from 1894 to 1974. In 1974 the parish became part of the Borough of Preston, which became a city in 2002. Barton, Preston Barton is a linear village and civil parish


title: Bawdrip content: of the parish under Puriton Hill by 1886 and until 1973 in association with the cement works at Dunball. Salt was extracted in the early 20th century. The small building on Church Road, sometimes known as "The Dwarf's House" dates from the early 19th century. It is by and high. King's Sedgemoor Drain crosses the parish from south-east to north-west. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local


title: "Oliver Ford Davies" content: Oliver Ford Davies Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born 12 August 1939) is an English actor and writer, best known for his role as Sio Bibble in "Star Wars" to . He is also known for his role as Cressen in HBO series "Game of Thrones". Davies was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England. He attended the King's School, Canterbury. From there, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. After obtaining his D Phil, he worked as a history lecturer at the University of Edinburgh before taking up


title: "Rajgarh district" content: south of India. One of the devotee from Zirapur, District Rajgarh of M.P. is Shri Om Prakash Mundra & his wife Shakuntala. When this couple reached to have darshan of Tirupati Balajee, a thought came in their mind, why not build the similar grand temple in Zirapur. It was a dream of Late Shri Kishanjee Mundra, resident of Baikunth and father of Shri O.P. Mundra to have such a grand temple at Zirapur also. Mundra couple then & their determined to construct the grand temple at Zirapur and returned to home town. Later they went with their other family members


title: "Machynlleth railway station" content: Machynlleth railway station Machynlleth railway station is a railway station on the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales, serving the historic town of Machynlleth. It was built by the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway (N&MR), and subsequently passed into the ownership of the Cambrian Railways, the Great Western Railway, British Railways (Western Region) and British Railways (London Midland Region). It is notable that there is a distance of between this station and Caersws, the longest distance between two intermediate stations in Wales. The first railway station in Machynlleth was the narrow gauge Corris Railway, which opened its station building on the north side