Oxytropis pilosa, otherwise very sparsely outside of Gotland. Sights. Vadstena Castle. Vadstena Abbey. The Vadstena Hospital area and museum with buildings from the 16th century to the 20th


stealth technology. The first ship in the class is named after Visby, the main city on the island of Gotland. The ships are designed by Swedish Defence Materiel

island and historical province in Sweden


at the Domo Polideportivo from June 2 to June 8 2008. Crime. In 2008, Approximately 40 murders a week were reported in Guatemala City alone. While the vast majority of

day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar


House of Assembly replaced the Legislative Council in 1963, and the first House of Assembly opened on June 8, 1964. In 1972, the name of the territory was


the priesthood. He was probably consecrated on June 8, 536. He opposed the restoration of the monophysite heretic, former patriarch of Constantinople Anthimus, whom Agapetus had deposed, and thus brought upon


to operate mills in South Paris, and the village grew up around them. The opening of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad on June 8, 1850 further spurred development of the


The Magnificent, Major-General Charles George Gordon and Maharaja Duleep Singh. Family and early biography. Samuel White Baker was born on June 8, 1821 in London as the offspring of


(d. 1930). June 8 – Mary Cholmondeley, English writer (d. 1925). August 4 - Knut Hamsun, Nobel-Prize-winning author (d. 1952). September 26 - Irving Bacheller, journalist and writer (d. 1950). October 18


later in the Western Front. Battle. On June 8, forces of the Southwestern Front took Lutsk. The Austrian commander, Archduke Josef Ferdinand, barely managed to escape the city


Lee Hill (June 8, 1892-?) was an African American sharecropper from eastern Arkansas and founder of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. Robert Lee Hill was born


defeated on June 8, 218, at Antioch, Diadumenian followed his father's death. External links. (Historia Augusta at LacusCurtius: Latin text and English translation).


at a roadside tavern near Albany, NY. Births. June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (died 1792). September 27 - Anton Friedrich Busching, German geographer (died 1793). Eva


Buteur Métayer (c. 1970–June 8, 2005) was a rebel


of Koror on Koror Island. Koror is the former capital and the present capital is Melekeok on the bigger but less developed island of Babeldaob--the second-largest island in

primary governing city of a top-level (country) or first-level subdivision (country, state, province, etc) political entity


The District of Yamoussoukro is the official capital city of Côte d'Ivoire. A city of 200,659 inhabitants as of 2005, and located north


Stayton is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States, located southeast of the state capital, Salem, on Oregon Route 22. It


Lazarević, a true European-style knight as well as poet, and his cousin Đurađ Branković, who moved the capital north to the newly built fortified town of Smederevo. The Ottomans


assault on Colonia Agrippina (Cologne) resulted in the deaths of Saloninus and the prefect. In the confusion that followed, an independent state known as the Gallic Empire emerged. Its capital


Colony of New Zealand was founded in that year, Hobson was reluctant to choose Kororareka as his capital, due to its bad reputation. Instead he purchased land at Okiato, situated nine


is not the new value added to the output of products, but rather the amount of the increase in the value of capital upon investment in production,

assets used for the production of goods and services


world of Middle-earth, the Pelennor Fields were the townlands and fields of Minas Tirith, the second capital city of Gondor. The name Pelennor means fenced land in Sindarin.


is located at a very favourable position near Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It lures a lot of moderately wealthy people who like the balance between the small


the city of Camagüey. It was part of the Camaguey province until 1976, when Fidel Castro's government made Ciego de Ávila the capital of the newly created Ciego de Avila

side-wheel steamboat in 19th century San Francisco


factors of production (along with capital, and labor). Income derived from ownership or control of natural resources is referred to as rent. Land was sometimes defined in classical and


settled at Henley-on-Thames. Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit he did not see his father again until

civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England


by a tour. Kershaw performed at Fairports Cropredy Convention on the 15 August 2009 and the Rewind Festival on 23 August 2009, on Temple Island Meadows at Henley-on-Thames. Kershaw will


village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, about five miles west of High Wycombe, five miles north of Henley-on-Thames. The village


to have been Orwell's main driver. Bibliography. Novels. Burmese Days (1934). A Clergyman's Daughter (1935). Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). Coming Up for Air (1939). Animal Farm (1945).


The first Bundestag elections were held in the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany") on August 14, 1949. Following reunification, elections for the first all-German Bundestag were held on December


June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: Ilghazi, the ruler of Aleppo, wipes out a Crusader army from the Principality of Antioch. August 14 – Battle of Hab: Baldwin


1457). Kettil Karlsson, regent of Sweden. Deaths. April 14 – Saint Lidwina (b. 1380). August 14 – King John I of Portugal (b. 1357). August 17 – Jan z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman


of Norway (b. 1270). May 19 – Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276). August 12 – Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1274). August 14 –


or 1093). April 12—Charles VII, king of Sweden since 1161 (b. c. 1130). August 14—Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 1120) (of epidemic after accompanying Frederick


valuable during the blackout that occurred throughout the entire NE United States on August 14 2003. Romeo was one of the many areas in the Detroit Metropolitan area to have


accept the demand, insisting that Cyprus must remain a unitary state. Despite efforts to break the deadlock, the two sides refused to budge. On August 14, Turkey demanded from Clerides acceptance


June 15 - Thomas Campbell, poet (b. 1777). July 11 - Evgeny Baratynsky, poet and philosopher (b. 1800). August 14 - Henry Cary, author and translator (b. 1772). September 18 - John


Delbert Ray Fulkerson (August 14, 1924 – January 10, 1976) was a mathematician who co-developed the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm, one of


by Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Count Pons at the Battle of Hab on August 14, and Baldwin took over the regency of Antioch. Subsequently, Baldwin recovered some of the lost


August 14, 1834 he departed Boston aboard the brig Pilgrim bound for California, at that time still a part of Mexico. This voyage would bring Dana to a


watch which his son, Vincent, claimed and wore the rest of his life. Astor was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City. On August 14, 1912, Madeleine Astor gave


Musine Kokalari (February 10, 1917 Adana, Turkey - August 14, 1983) of Gjirokastër, Albania was probably the most interesting


between Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed on August 31, 1922 in Belgrade. The mentioned conventions encompassed almost identical terms as the treaty from August 14, 1920. Again,


the ground. July 23, 2003 - Othniel Askew shoots to death political rival City Council member James E. Davis in the City Hall chambers of the New York City Council. August 14,


held on November 21-November 25, and December 8-December 12. 1775 sessions. July 26 -August 14 and December 7, 1775-January 28, 1776. Declaration of the Association of the Freemen of Maryland.


1824—August 14, 1858) was the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office for only 5 years, from 1853 to 1858. He was physically weak and therefore unfit to


1966, but his ambitions turned political. By that time, Bush had become a millionaire. Political career (1964–1980). Congressional years. Bush served as Chairman of the Republican Party for Harris

individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency


1919. That play had, indeed, been financed by the Ruth sale to the Yankees. Synopsis. Jimmy Smith, a millionaire due to his Bible publishing business, is married to


if his wife, Kitty, were raped and murdered. Dukakis's response of no, as well as the Willie Horton ad, contributed toward Bush's characterization of him as "soft on crime.".


is made up of dark matter, a substance which is not directly observable, and does not interact through any means except gravity. Halo stars are typically much older and have much lower

mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe


models the lightest neutralino can be produced thermally in the hot early universe and leave approximately the right relic abundance to account for the observed dark matter. A lightest


also an important test of cosmology (see Dark matter). Many other important uses of the neutrino may be imagined in the future. It is clear that the astrophysical

2013 documentary film directed by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti


of the Earth, the sun, and dark matter at the center of the galaxy. Other interactions. A few physicists think that Einstein's theory of gravity will have to


physics, engineering and mathematical modelling. They are the only way we currently have of detecting black holes and the dark matter of the universe, via the phenomenon of


the premature aging of stars caused by a dark matter life-form named photino birds and, as a consequence, the end of baryonic life within the universe. Although the reason


22:33:00 UTC. Duration: 0 hours, 49 minutes. Collins - EVA 2. Start: July 20, 1966, 23:01:00 UTC. End: July 20, 1966, 23:40:00 UTC. Duration: 0 hours, 39 minutes. Objectives.


Shen Kuo, renowned polymath scientist of the Song Dynasty in China (d. 1095). Deaths. July 20—King Robert II of France (b. 972). September 2—Saint Emeric of Hungary. Gang


__NOTOC__. Events. By place. Europe. July 20 – Rollo besieged Chartres. Autumn—Charles


until the year 2019. Operations were terminated on August 17, 1980 after 1485 orbits. Lander. The lander and its aeroshell separated from the orbiter on July 20 08:51 UT. At the time


from New York. The land originally was contested by Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Netherlands, but it remained undelineated until July 20, 1764 when King George III established


the 2d Brigade, Bartlett's Division, 22d Corps, from June 30, 1865; and, under Col. Horace Boughton, it was honorably discharged and mustered out July 20, 1865, at and near


July 20, 2008 at the Readercon Conference on Imaginative Literature in Burlington, Massachusetts. The jurors were John Langan, Sarah Langan, Paul G. Tremblay and F. Brett Cox. The winners were:


Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 — April 8, 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was


win came almost a month later, on July 20, against Johnny Lewis, via a knockout in round three. Conn built a record of 47 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw (tie), with


On July 20, a 23-year-old activist Carlo Giuliani of Genoa, was shot dead by Mario Placanica, a Carabinieri officer, during clashes with police. Images show him throwing a fire


(December 26, 1853 – July 20, 1932) was a French novelist. Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became professor of law in the Catholic


by 23,517 votes. Carr served as the Labour MP for Bootle for just 57 days before he died of a heart attack on July 20, 1990. Clappison contested Bootle again at


Medal for geology - Waldemar Lindgren. Births. Deaths. July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), inventor.


July 20 2001 by Paul McKeever (then a member of the executive of the Freedom Party of Ontario) and Robert Metz (President and co-founder of Freedom Party of Ontario). It has not registered


race surrender, or face total annihilation. Godzilla attacks New York City, Rodan invades Moscow, Mothra lays waste to Beijing, Gorosaurus destroys Paris, and Manda attacks London, which

kaiju who first appeared in Toho's 1961 film Mothra


control of the monsters. Their leader demands that the human race surrender, or face total annihilation. Godzilla attacks New York City, Rodan invades Moscow, Mothra lays waste


is the 18th installment in the Godzilla series of films. This is the fifth film to feature King Ghidorah and the only film to feature Mecha-King Ghidorah. The movie was released


UFO sighting coincides with Godzilla's awakening in the ocean. Later, two army helicopters on a routine patrol come across the UFO, but are destroyed when they try to

2014 American science fiction monster movie directed by Gareth Edwards


space monster is dispatched to protect the alien stronghold at Mt. Fuji, and battles Godzilla, Minilla, Mothra, Rodan, Gorosaurus, Anguirus or Angilas, Kumonga, Manda, Baragon, and Varan. While


announces that he wishes to write non-fiction stories, and proceeds to investigate a dinosaur that was sighted during the Pacific War. That same day, the UFO sighting coincides with Godzilla's awakening

clade of reptiles including prehistoric, now-extinct non-avian dinosaurs and modern birds


Crichton novel Jurassic Park, features dinosaurs that were genetically altered so they could not produce lysine. This was known as the "lysine contingency," and was supposed to prevent the cloned dinosaurs


Upper Jurassic. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order Multituberculata. It was a resident of Portugal during the "age of the dinosaurs." It's


the effect of the Permian extinction on diapsids (the "reptile" group from which lizards, snakes, crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds evolved). Possible explanations of these patterns. The most


this association with the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur, it shows no evidence that it was fed on by the dinosaur. The bone came from an individual


claims) to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and he never appears in public without sunglasses. History. Lineups. The original lineup came together


and was theorized to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, or contributed to it as a fragment of the Chicxulub meteor, until tests by the U.S. Geological Survey in


Farmingdale include: Jim Gary (1939-2006), sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. References. External links. , National Center for Education


Cretaceous of Europe. It was a relatively early member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. Members of this genus lived alongside such dinosaurs as Allosaurus. It belongs to


an extinct mammal which lived during the Upper Cretaceous, at the same time as many dinosaurs. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata.


lived in North America during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". The genus Glirodon has been described by Engelmann G.F. and Callison G. (1999) from a


dinosaurs. Although they were primarily carnivorous, a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory, omnivory, and insectivory. Theropods first appeared during the Carnian age of the late Triassic


Also during this time, the Chihuahua trough formed as the Gulf of Mexico opened, which resulted in east-west striking normal faulting. As a result of this depositional time, there are dinosaur


order Multituberculata and shared the world with dinosaurs. It lies within the suborder "Plagiaulacida" and family Pinheirodontidae. The genus Ecprepaulax was named by Hahn G. and Hahn

2000 American computer-animated adventure film directed by Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag


same time as dinosaurs. It is placed in the suborder Plagiaulacida and family Plagiaulacidae. The genus Bolodon was named by Owen R. in 1871. Material has also been


commercially available road maps. Making the border with Sakhon Nakhon Province is the Phu Phan mountain range, which is preserved as a national park. Kalasin is famous for the dinosaur


It was a member of the also extinct order Multituberculata, and led its obscure and plant-eating existence in the company of dinosaurs. It lies within the suborder "Plagiaulacida"

town in Moffat County, Colorado, United States


showed up in the Triassic Period (225 to 190 Ma) around the same time as the dinosaurs, which also sprouted from the reptilian line. Birds first diverged


of all species, including all of the dinosaurs. His book, T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, details the discovery of the K-T extinction event. In addition to his interest


categories of human reason. Fichte saw the rigorous and systematic separation of "things in themselves" (noumena) and things "as they appear to us" (phenomena) as an invitation

the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information


Königsberg. He was known by the epithet Magus im Norden ("Magus of the North"). Philosophical arguments. His distrust of reason and the Enlightenment ("I look upon logical proofs the way a


been closely associated with reason, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols. In Ancient Greek philosophical terminology, the same word, logos, was used as a


true to the Romantic ideal, to the belief that real understanding comes not only from mere thinking (reason), but also from intuitive insight. This combination of thinking


from various camps. Some people have developed models of bounded rationality, which hope to be more psychologically plausible without completely abandoning the idea that reason underlies decision-making processes. For


people can know things with certainty. See metaphysics, epistemology, reason and logic. In theology. Christianity. A standard work, "The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", defines infallibility as 'Inability to


much or that they talk about useless topics for no reason (an example of this would be like saying, "Blah blah blah, he just goes on and on").


we should throw out the notion of a noumenal world and instead accept the fact that consciousness does not have a grounding in a so-called "real world". In fact, Fichte

the state or quality of sentience or awareness of internal or external existence


A general anaesthetic (or anesthetic, see spelling differences) drug is an anaesthetic drug that brings about a reversible loss of consciousness. These drugs are generally administered by an


Petzoldt (1862-1929). William James. James propounded the notion in his essay "Does Consciousness Exist?" in 1904 (reprinted in Essays in Radical Empiricism in 1912). Some subset of these


absence of intracranial blood flow can be used to confirm the diagnosis without performing EEGs. Consciousness. Medical science argues that a permanent cessation of electrical activity indicates the end of consciousness


God to the world of the conditioned. Consciousness, itself a conditioned phenomenon, must derive from or depend on some different thing prior to or behind material phenomena. Curiously enough,


the character of language and meaning, of the individual and consciousness, of truth and reality. It has consequences for the understanding of the sciences and also accounts


a book by futurist Ray Kurzweil about the future course of humanity, particularly relating to the development of artificial intelligence and its impact on human consciousness. It is also a


a theory of consciousness from quantum effects, such as Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff. Tegmark has also formulated the "Ultimate ensemble theory of everything", whose only postulate


physician, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs,


best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. American best


consciousness from cognition, it would establish the theoretical possibility of a simulated reality. However, the relationship between cognition and phenomenal consciousness is disputed. It is possible that consciousness requires a

scientific article (publication date:  July 2001)


by an Embassy in Ottawa. Since 2003, Canada has also been working with Gabon in the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, which Canada co-chairs, in support


the Airbus A380 in February 2006. Canadian North serves Iqaluit from Ottawa and other Canadian cities as well as First Air. In the middle of summer, a few ships — generally


Corners region of Ottawa. The school was established in 1962 by the Carleton Board of Education as a public high school, and named after Richard E. Bell. It


Track and Field Championships in Ottawa won medals (two gold, one silver and one bronze). Putting this into perspective, excluding this year, there has only been three athletes


Brookfield Road (Ottawa Road #51) is a short, but important connecting street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from Riverside Drive (as a continuation of Hog's Back


in Ottawa (1891). Sir John Sparrow David Thompson died of a heart attack at Windsor Castle (1894). Thompson, Tupper and Bennett are the only Prime Ministers to have died


at 10,000, Telus Field is the second largest minor league baseball stadium in Canada after the Ottawa Baseball Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario and the second largest park


at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Tonica is mainly farmland, with a few businesses. It has its own grade school, Tonica Grade School (K-8),


Figure Skating Championships, making her a Canadian national heroine. Subsequent to her victory, her hometown of Ottawa gave her a new convertible automobile but she had to turn down the gift

former provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada


Calgary, Alberta, Canada. St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Église St. Bonaventure (French Catholic Church) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. St Bonaventure's Catholic

human settlement in Toledo, Ohio, United States of America


Winterlude (Bal de neige in French) is an annual festival in Ottawa


an all economy configuration of 159 seats. In Canada, it operated from Toronto to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. In addition, it operated non-stop


Nation River. It is a small village on the Trans-Canada Highway 417 between Ottawa and Montreal at the crossroads of Regional Road 7. Highway 138 to Cornwall and


offices in Ottawa and Vancouver. History. Pink Triangle Press' roots trace back to 1971 (although not in name) in Toronto, when a group of volunteers began to produce The


in Toronto and Ottawa. He left for Manitoba in 1870 as part of the Wolseley Expedition, which was formed to put down Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion.


Post Office. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography. Bureau Junction is located at (41.289155, -89.367837). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village


free radicals". 1971 Royal Medal from Royal Society of London. 1973-1980 Chancellor of Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). 1992 Sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. 1999

unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia


Department of Finance Canada operates under the Minister of Finance. The department is headquartered in the Esplanade Laurier building in downtown Ottawa at the corner of O'Connor


Marshall Blount Fulford, O.C., (born February 13, 1932) is a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, and essayist. He lives in Toronto. Personal life. Fulford was born in Ottawa.


hockey career in 1916, playing for several Canadian amateur teams in Ottawa and Iroquois Falls, Ontario. In 1922, however, Joliat was awarded to the Montreal Canadiens in compensation for the Saskatoon


in Ottawa, Ontario and is married to Nadine Wielgopolski of Hull, Quebec. They have three children. He enjoys hiking, canoeing, flying, parachuting and gymnastics. He currently lives in


Ottawa. With the impetus of World War II, the NRC grew rapidly and for all practical purposes became a military science and weapons research organization. It undertook a


Earlville is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,778 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area.


population was 707 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Putnam County. Hennepin is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography. Hennepin is located


Rideau Hall, officially the Queen's royal residence in Ottawa. However, the hall was far from the splendour of British royal residences, and, as each viceregal couple decorated the hall with


Rockcliffe Park is the wealthiest neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, and is one of the most prosperous enclaves in Canada. From 1926 until 2001 it was an


the Prime Minister of Canada, Sheila Martin's work in Ottawa included serving on a committee called Politics and the Pen, and on this committee she helped give prizes and money to


group of businessmen which included future Ottawa mayor C.W. Bangs formed the Dominion Springs Company to build a spa-hotel. The spa-hotel allowed visitors to drink the mineral waters and


39. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Originally platted in 1837 over one square mile, the city has grown to. City boundaries extend from the Illinois


Sea port of Poti. The other, smaller naval base is in Batumi. Besides the naval force, the navy also includes a Special Counter-terrorist Detachment force. Georgia is also


demographic features of the population of Ghana, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Demographic trends.

1999 compilation album by The Mountain Goats


break away faction of Dagbon under Na Nyanse. The colonial borders, demarcated during the Scramble for Africa, placed them in northwestern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, as


studies point to oral literature which tells that the Dagaaba periodically, and ultimately successfully, resisted attempts at conquest by states in the south of modern Ghana, as well as the


Ewe (name used by native speakers: Eʋe, Eʋegbe) is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by over three million people. Ewe is part of a cluster


The Military of Ghana consists of


September 23, 1986, a group of some 70 armed Togolese dissidents crossed into Lomé from Ghana in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Eyadéma government. The Opposition. In


In addition, VSO: supports a number of national volunteering programmes (including schemes in India, Ghana, Kenya and others); acts as a 'knowledge broker', bringing local grassroots organisations together


school students the opportunity to experience life in other lands. There are currently seven active twinning committees in Ramapo: African Twinning Committee (Ghana). Chinese Twinning Committee (China). Indian


in other African countries such as Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria, however a recording was played on the BBC World Service (on the day of his death)


spoken in Ghana and the Côte d'Ivoire: Akan languages. Twi. Akuapem Twi. Asante Twi (Ashanti). Fante (Fanti, Mfantse). Brong. Bia languages. North Bia. Anyin. Baoulé. Chakosi (Anufo). Sefwi. South Bia. Nzema.


every member nation (also two). Originally Ghana and Guinea were the only members, but in May 1959 the third star was added to represent Mali. Nowhere specified how the stars


British Gold Coast. In December 1956, the residents of British Togoland voted to join the Gold Coast as part of the new independent nation of Ghana. By statute in


36% of these immigrants came from the Philippines, while 18% came from Ghana, 9% from Vietnam, 7% from the United States, and 5% came from China. Almost 73%


of modern-day Ghana—by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese, the Ejisuhene (ruler of Ejisu). In 1900 she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool


The Dagaaba people (singular Dagao)) are an ethnic group in the West African nations of Ghana and Burkina Faso. They


a Ghanaian father and English mother. He left the United States when his family left for the United Kingdom when he was two and a half years


from southern Mali and the extreme western corner of Burkina Faso to Katiola in Côte d'Ivoire. One group, the Nafana, is found in north-western Ghana. The Senufo number


Super Featherweight /Jr. Lightweight division twice. Limon shares his nickname, Bazooka, with at least two other known world boxing champions: Puerto Rico's Wilfredo "Bazooka" Gómez and Ghana's Ike "Bazooka" Quartey.


Albania, Romania and Serbia): 5.37%, followed by sub-saharan Africa (mostly from Ghana): 1.65%, and North African: 0.77%. Approximately 1 in 5 babies born in Udine has at least


leading troops in the field. The Ministry of Defence and Central Defence Headquarters are both located in Accra. Accra, in the British colony of the Gold Coast, was also the location


and Taylor's government controlled only a third of the country: Monrovia and central Liberia. On June 4, 2003, ECOWAS organized peace talks in Accra, Ghana, among the Government of Liberia, civil


the FLAG cable system were established and along with microwave links to Morocco giving Gibraltar a resilient communications infrastructure. Gibtelecom is also a partner in the EIG cable


Morocco. As such, the economical activity of Western Sahara happens in the framework of the economy of Morocco. In the Moroccan-administered territory, fishing and phosphate mining are the principal


been employed by Denmark's Foreign Ministry since 1969. He has served in Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Chile and Peru. In 1993 he completed a bicycle pilgrimage to Mecca.


the same countries. Participants starting in Europe normally must go to Tarifa in Southern Spain. Then the course runs through Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and finally


the assumption that there would be little to no resistance. Nevertheless, Vichy French forces put up a strong and bloody resistance to Allied forces in Oran and Morocco


Habib Chatty (Tunisia): (1979-1984). Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada (Pakistan): (1985-1988). Dr. Hamid Algabid (Niger): (1989-1996). Dr. Azeddine Laraki (Morocco): (1997-2000). Dr. Abdelouahed Belkeziz (Morocco): (2001-2004). Prof.Dr. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (Turkey): (2005 to present).


names (e.g. saints' names), and names of Greek, Armenian, or Assyrian / Aramaic origin. Adoption of European names, especially French and Greek ones (to the lesser extent, Spanish ones, in Morocco


hawk breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, but avoids the rain forests of the Congo basin. There is a small and declining isolated population in Morocco. It is a resident species of


& Trab.; Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) Manetti ex Carrière). Atlas mountains in Morocco & Algeria. Leaves dark green to glaucous blue-green, 10–25 mm. The treatment of the Turkish, Cyprus and Atlas Cedars as


Islands) is a Spanish archipelago. A group of three small islets located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Morocco with an aggregate area of 0.525 km², 45 km to


passed on her maternal donkey genes). Instead, Dragon Foal's gene pair combination was donkey-donkey/donkey-horse. Her hinny mother passed along a combination of maternal and paternal genes. In Morocco


in Arabic) is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near its border with Western Sahara, directly east of the Canary Islands. During the period from


in Tartu, Estonia, Taagepera fled from occupied Estonia in 1944. Taagepera graduated from high school in Marrakech, Morocco and then studied physics in Canada and the United States. He


Allied forces everywhere (in Dakar, Syria, Madagascar, Oran and Morocco), in line with his commitments in the 1940 armistice. He also received German forces without any resistance


sisters; his father had died in 1988. Saint Laurent's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in Marrakech, Morocco in the Majorelle Garden, a botanical garden that he often


east through central Europe to Ukraine, north to southern Sweden, Latvia and the UK, and south to southern Italy. There is also a population in northern Morocco. Northern


all-year resident subspecies harterti inhabits Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Vagrants have reached Iceland, the Azores, Malaysia and Sumatra. The first documented (but unconfirmed) record for the Americas was


Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram[sattur]. Global units. Africa: South Africa, Morocco. Asia (outside India): Bahrain, TCS China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,


الشعبية, French: Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires) is a left-of-centre political party in Morocco. It was originally formed as a breakaway from the UNFP, a Socialist opposition party which had


in Morocco and Algeria on 8 November 1942. It was commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Anderson. First Army headquarters was formally activated on 9 November 1942 when Anderson arrived in Algiers


in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of Morocco (whose


are rather places of reflection and inspiration for the pious. Morocco. Sidi Ali el Goumi. Sidi Allal el Behraoui. Sidi Abdelah ben Hassoun. Sidi Moulay Idriss. Sidi fath. Sidi

1930 film by Josef von Sternberg and Henry Hathaway


Morocco and other parts of North Africa, a spice blend called Ras el hanout included cantharides in its list of ingredients at one time. However, the sale of


taking part. Only Malta, Monaco and Morocco failed to compete out of all the countries which had previously entered the contest in the past. Individual Entries. Results. Score


worldwide including Austria, Spain, Scotland, the Ural Mountains, South Africa, Namibia, Morocco, Argentina, Mexico, and the US states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Structure. Vanadinite is a lead


Jupiter with 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years, even under the most favorable conditions. It would

collection of short stories by Larry Niven


(NIB) magnet has a field of about 2,000 gauss, a big electromagnet has a field of about 15,000 gauss, and the surface of a neutron star has a


of an atom, about 1018 kg/m³; neutron stars also reach this density), such an accumulation would fall within its own Schwarzschild radius at about 3 solar masses and thus would be


binaries that consist of a Be star and a neutron star. The neutron star is usually in a wide highly elliptical orbit around the Be star. The Be stellar wind forms a


pressure. Even at non-zero temperatures, such a pressure can exist. This degeneracy pressure is responsible for keeping certain massive stars from collapsing due to gravity. See white dwarf, neutron star


(in particular, string theory) attempt to address this issue. In string theory, gravitons (as well as the other particles) are states of strings rather than point particles, and


Evans Peters Award from Educause, ARL, and CNI. He has published physics papers in the areas of quantum field theory, string theory, conformal field theory, and quantum gravity.


closed form, an interpolation function for continuous values of: The beta function was the first known scattering amplitude in string theory, first conjectured by Gabriele Veneziano. It also occurs


this, and methods from string theory, to prove the monstrous moonshine conjecture by Conway and Norton, relating the monster group to the coefficients of the q-expansion of the j


Agency, United States Department of Defense, Albert Einstein, Ufology, Lucid Dreaming, paranormal, string theory, near-death experience, ghosts, electronic voice phenomena, Dannion Brinkley, Carl Sagan, solar system, Peak Oil,


or another: Higher polytopes can obviously not exist in a three-dimensional world. However this might not rule them out altogether. In cosmology and in string theory, physicists commonly model


the graviton. For example, if gravitational waves were observed to propagate slower than c (the speed of light in a vacuum), that would imply that the graviton has mass. Comparison with other

speed at which all massless particles and associated fields travel in a vacuum


defined in terms of the Boltzmann constant as: where: is the Boltzmann constant; is the Planck constant; is the reduced Planck constant; is the speed of light in vacuum. The


observer, is the rest mass (the observed mass of the body at zero velocity relative to the observer), and is the speed of light. When the velocity is zero, the


than the speed of light in the local medium, proved to be of great importance in subsequent experimental work in nuclear physics, and for the study of cosmic rays.


he adapted the rotating-mirror method that Léon Foucault had applied to measure the speed of light. He further developed the rotating mirror to measure the speed of electricity in a


for the constant speed of light c expressed in units of meters per second) are not values that a theory of physics can be expected to predict. Ratios of


are called free space constants. Some common ones are as follows: The speed of light c approaches the speed of light in vacuum c0 299,792,458 m/s, but is always slower.


the electromagnetic signals travel at the speed of light, and since every path has a geometrical length possibly different from that of the other ones, there are different air travelling


always exactly equal to the speed of light. Thus all objects can be thought of as moving through spacetime at the speed of light. This provides a way of


when they are travelling below the speed of light. Typically powered by nuclear fusion reactions, impulse engines let ships travel interplanetary distances readily. For example, Starfleet Academy cadets use impulse


light source. Synchrotron radiation is electromagnetic radiation, similar to cyclotron radiation, but generated by the acceleration of ultrarelativistic (i.e., moving near the speed of light) charged particles through magnetic fields. This


of the gravitating central body, is the radial coordinate, and. is the speed of light. On the surface of the Earth: The Schwarzschild radius in Keplerian orbits. For all


unobservable regions of the universe. Background. In terms of comoving distance the particle horizon is equal to the conformal time that has passed since the Big Bang, times the speed of light.


is the speed of light, and is the rotational constant. Evaluating Spectra. The strict selection rule for the absorption of dipole radiation (the strongest component of light) is that. This


Stallions, the Nepean, Ontario Villa Marconi retirement home, the Upper East Side New York's La Scuola D'Italia, the Via Guglielmo Marconi in Bologna, and Marconi Avenue, a street on


Massachusetts in 1901 sent a message of greetings from Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, marking the first transatlantic radio transmission originating

26th president of the United States (1858–1919)

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1887-1944)


the Democratic party had fragmented. A new Progressive Party — the name had been used earlier by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in 1924


Follette's troubles in the Senate worsened when fellow Progressive Theodore Roosevelt did not seek another term and William Howard Taft became President. Opposition to American involvement in World War I. Perhaps


The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring


included important American environmental and political figures of the day, including President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1931 he became a United States citizen. Seton was associated with the Santa Fe arts and literary


of the Progressive Republican movement. A confidant of Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis chaired the platform committee for Roosevelt’s failed run for President on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912. In his most


gunfire in areas dubbed "Hell's Pocket" and/or "Bloody Ford". Kettle Hill. Many of the officers grew impatient of waiting for orders. One such officer was Col. Theodore Roosevelt, commander


President Theodore Roosevelt. The team was named after a historical division in order to comply with the tradition of the major league affiliate, the Texas Rangers, who were named after


sons founded the town. Winslow Homer, painter, was a summer visitor for several years. Theodore Roosevelt had a summer home here. Francis Donnelly was the nation's longest serving


again from July 22, 1892 to May 10, 1893. There, in 1887, he met and befriended a young visiting lecturer named Theodore Roosevelt, who would later become president of the United


the Dresdner Bank, Schacht met the famous American banker J. P. Morgan, as well as U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. During the First World War, Schacht was tasked to serve on the staff


Agriculture Subcommittee, and prominent Senators and Congressmen. After McKinley was assassinated in 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt heeded the advice of the Commissioners and further regulated the large trusts. Roosevelt became known as


Greece has, according to the International Monetary Fund, an estimated average per capita income of $30,661 for the year 2008. According


the tradition is that if a man refuses a woman's proposal on leap day, he should buy her the fabrics for a skirt. In Greece, it is believed that getting


(1922). Denmark (1875). Dominican Republic (1954). Egypt (1962). Finland (1923). France (1875). Germany (1875). Greece (2001). Hungary (1925). India (1957). Indonesia (1960). Iran (1975). Ireland (1925) (already accepted as Ireland was


result of aging, migration (to Israel, Greece, the United States and Western Europe). There is concern over the future of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, which suffers from a


1943 near Volos, Greece. Largely a self-taught musician, he purportedly began composing at the age of four. He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career


(? pre-421 BC). Burnt brick first used in Greece. (source?). Donkey-powered mills first used in Greece. (source?). Torque with lion's-head terminals, from Susa (modern Shush, Iran) was made. It is now


for instance, Feorlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards. Greece. Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece. Births. Deaths. Publius Sulpicius Rufus, Roman tribune (b. c. 121 BC). Mithridates II of


In Roman mythology, Evander (from Greek Εὔανδρος Euandros, "good man" or "strong man") or Euander was a deific culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who


-ῶνος) is a mountain range ("No corner of Kithairon echoless", Oedipus Rex 440) about 10 mi (16 km) long, in central Greece, standing between Boeotia in the north and Attica


reflect these Presidents' global challenges and proposed foreign policy solutions to them. The tradition started with the 1947 Truman Doctrine, under which the U.S. provided support to Greece


statesman and general. As the champion of Greece against Carthage he is closely connected with the history of Sicily, especially Syracuse. Early Life. When his brother Timophanes,


parts of Africa, southern Asia (coastal regions of Pakistan and India) and southern Europe (including Spain, Sardinia, Albania, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, and the Camargue region of France). Some populations


The gossamer-winged butterfly genus Apelles is nowadays included in Glaucopsyche. Apelles (Ἀπελλῆς) of Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to


with Mesapo in Greece. When Odysseus reached the city in the Odyssey, he sent three scouts to explore the island. They came across the King, a giant cannibal, who then ate


Denmark. Its members include the royal houses of Denmark and Norway, the deposed royal house of Greece, and the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom.


conquest of Greece. Member of the gens Quinctia, and brother to Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, he served as a military tribune in the Second Punic war and in 205 BC he was


Marousi (Greek, Modern: Μαρούσι, Katharevousa: Αμαρούσιον), alternative forms: Maroussi, Amarousion, and Amaroussion, is a suburban city NE of Athens, Greece, and one of the largest municipalities of


Vicky Kaya. Since the start of the show in 1991, the show has toured different parts of Greece including different areas of Athens, Heraklio on the island of Crete, Patras, Thessaloniki


most of the Venetian possessions in Greece. Modon and Coron, the "two eyes of the Republic", were lost. Turkish cavalry raids reached Venetian territory in northern Italy, and, in


in the 2nd century AD some 650 years after the project had begun. During the Roman periods it was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of


species. The related species Origanum onites (Greece, Asia Minor) and O. heracleoticum (Italy, Balkan peninsula, West Asia) have similar flavors. A closely related plant is marjoram from Asia


September 2—Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium—Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The building of Masada is completed.


20% of the labour force that works abroad, mostly in Greece and Italy. These remittances supplement GDP and help offset the large foreign trade deficit. Most agricultural land was


BC—Hittite (Anatolia) iron tools and weapons. c. 1600 BC – 1200 BC—Tiryns, Ancient Greece, is inhabited. c. 1600 BC – Kings and princes on the mainland Greece have begun building


Heraklion or Iraklion (;), is the largest city and capital of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a


In Greece, the Phaedriades


followed him through much of Greece and Asia Minor until she finally died, tired and sad. She was changed into a spring.


in 1804, the town and the county were named for the ancient center of learning, Athens, Greece. The Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Athens County. Government. Geography.


City, to the Sefardi Recanati family of Salonika, Greece. He studied at the Torah Voda'as and Mir yeshivas in Brooklyn. His major influence was Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld


Greece and Port Said, Egypt. Writing career. At first Eleanor tried to emulate her literary heroes – the Brontës, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, and Leo Tolstoy


use these as 6.5cm GebK 221(f). The gun was also used by Albania, Greece, Israel (1948 Arab-Israeli War, as Napoleonchik) and Poland. Combat history. Israel. The Canon de 65 M


Milnes travelled abroad, spending some time at the University of Bonn. From there he went to Italy and Greece, and published in 1834 a volume of Memorials of a Tour


Nadežda Petrović. Predrag Koraksić Corax. Milan Krstić. Vladislav Petković Dis. Jovan Obrenović. Bogić Risimović. Tanasko Rajić. Branko V. Radicevic. Velimir Ilić. Vera Matovic. Sister cities. Katerini, Greece. Turčianske


Greece. Drama is the capital of the prefecture of Drama which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The town (pop. 42,501 in 2001) is


Greece. Bitola in Macedonia. Kavadarci in Macedonia. Denizli in Turkey. Nilufer' in Turkey. Image Gallery. External links. Notes.


States (August 15, 1972). Korinthos Mikines Nafplio Epidavros, Greece (May 26, 1988). External links.


Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a popular television network in Greece. It is pronounced "Ant-énna"


Channel better known as Alter, is a private network in Greece. It launched in 1994 and is owned by Eleftheri Tileorasi S.A, which is headed by Andreas Kouris.


King Erichthonius (also written Erichthonios, Ancient Greek:) was a mythological early ruler of ancient Athens, Greece. He was, according to some legends, autochthonous (born of the soil, or Earth)


to his royal hosts. Hoping to find a treasure similar to the Venetian Homer in Greece, he returned to Paris to prepare for a journey to the east.


over the question of whether contemporary learning had surpassed what was known by those in Classical Greece and Rome. The "moderns" (epitomized by Fontenelle) took the position that the


1714. After the peace of Rastatt (1714) he spent some time in travelling in Italy, Greece, the Levant, England and Germany, and devoted much attention to the study


of Nursing. School of Psychological Sciences. School of Occupational Therapy. UIndy also has an international branch campus, named University of Indianapolis—Athens, in Greece. History. The university was chartered


Greece with a rhythmic pattern of 9/4 or else 9/8 (broken down as 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/16 + 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/16 + 1/8 + 1/8


breakdown due to overwork and resigned from the museum in March 1822. His elder sister took him to continental Europe to convalesce, and they travelled through France, Italy and Greece


"Framework nations": Belgium - France - or. Germany - Luxembourg - Poland. Spain - Other contributors: Austria. Greece. Italy. Romania. Turkey. USA. Notes. See also. European Institutions in Strasbourg. External links.


prefecture of Magnesia (east central Greece) that is formed by the Mount Pelion peninsula. It is connected with the Euboic Sea. The passage in to the Euboic Sea is narrow


Dimitrias) was an ancient Greek city in Magnesia (east central Greece), near the modern city of Volos. It was founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes, one of the successors (Diadochi)


Actium—Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. 27 BC: The Roman Senate votes Octavian the title of Augustus. Augustus eventually


__NOTOC__. Events. By place. Roman Empire. Hadrian begins to rebuild the Olympeion in Athens. During a voyage to Greece


the Olympic Oath on behalf of all competitors. The National Anthem was sung and the massed athletes turned and marched out of the stadium, led by Greece, tailed by Britain. The


tsunami devastates Crete, Alexandria and affects Italy, Greece and Palestine. September 28—Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, proclaims himself Roman emperor, and takes control of Thrace and Bithynia. Emperor


by the Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics. Events took place on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April 1896. 71 competitors from 9 nations (including 52 from Greece


the flower. Symbolism. Lilacs symbolize love (see Language of flowers). In Greece, Lebanon, and Cyprus, the lilac is strongly associated with Eastertime because it flowers around that time;


including West Africa, the Suez Canal zone, Greece, Mauritius, Cyprus, and in the areas affected by the First World War. He also initiated organizations, which have proved to be well established,


battles in Classical Greek history. It is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village of Nestani (pop. 778 in 2001). It is located in


Greece. The opening five scenarios (of eight scenarios total) focus on the rise of Greece. The story tells of the early Helladic people from Anatoly, the Trojan


eight hundred letters, in 1995.). After travelling extensively in the late 50's and early 60's, in countries including England, Belgium, Greece, France, and the Soviet Union, Spaziani


Mirambelos - Neapolis. Province of Lasithi - Tzermiado. Province of Ierapetra - Ierapetra. Province of Sitia - Sitia. Note: Provinces no longer hold any legal status in Greece. See also. Ieropotamos


used today. History. Possibly the oldest existing arch bridge is the Mycenaean Arkadiko bridge in Greece from about 1300 BC. The stone corbel arch bridge is still used by the local


charter flights to destinations in Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy. The airline also introduced the following international and domestic flights: Constanţa-Istanbul (two flights per week). Bucharest-Tirana (two flights per


Ancient and Modern Greek) is the tallest mountain in Cephallonia, Greece, with an elevation of. Most of the mountain range is designated as a park area and is covered with


West Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Greece and Turkey continued to use the Nike-Hercules for high-altitude air defense until the late 1980s. With the collapse of communism in


the United Kingdom, France, and Russia on July 6, 1827. The three main European powers had called upon Greece and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) to cease hostilities. The allied


higher educational institute. See also. Greece. Institutions of highest education in Greece. Polytechnics in Greece. Academic grading in Greece. Vocational training in Greece (I.E.K.). Apolytirio and Panhellenic examinations. Lyceum. Education.


- from 3% - to 10%, thus making (as of 2008) 32 countries qualify for inclusion in the visa-waiver program: Argentina, Bahamas, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Croatia, Greece


Orthodox Churches of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and almost all other Orthodox Churches. As a productive theologian and church historian, he was conferred an


European nationalism and has stated: "I have contacts with people all over Europe: Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Serbia, but none of these are official contacts, we


Χαλάνδρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: Χαλάνδριον), older form Chalandrion and in Ancient Greek Flya (Φλύα) is a northern suburb in Athens, Greece. It is the birthplace of Euripides. Chalandri is


which belongs to Piraeus Prefecture, Greece in the western suburbs of Athens. It is the home of the Korydallos prisons. It sits on a mountain in the west named Aegaleo. It


accompany him on a journey to Greece for the prosecution of archaeological researches. Curtius then became Otfried Müller's companion in his exploration of the Peloponnese, and on Müller's death in


supervolute vernation. Galanthus reginae-olgae, from Greece and Sicily, is quite similar in appearance to G. nivalis, but flowers in autumn before the leaves appear. The leaves, which appear


catfish found in Greece. Mythology and literature record wels catfish of astounding proportions, yet to be proven scientifically. The average size of the species is about 1.2–1.6 m (3.9–5.2 ft), and fish more


98 RN; 216 exported to 13 countries, some of them from the total allotted to the RAF). Gladiators were sold to Belgium, China, Egypt, Finland, Free France, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Latvia,


Nadežda Petrović. Predrag Koraksić Corax. Milan Krstić. Vladislav Petković Dis. Jovan Obrenović. Bogić Risimović. Tanasko Rajić. Branko V. Radicevic. Velimir Ilić. Vera Matovic. Sister cities. Katerini, Greece. Turčianske Teplice, Slovakia. Filippoi, Greece


in 1970; another story says that gyros was first introduced in the 1950s in Piraeus by a cook from Constantinople. Variations. Greece and Cyprus. In Greece and Cyprus,


Tschudi. October 31- Former President of Greece, Michail Stasinopoulos. December 5- Former Prime Minister of Myanmar, Ne Win. December 22- Former President of Guyana, Desmond Hoyte.


Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia and Palestine, and returned in 1549. A full account of his Observations on this journey, with illustrations, was published in 1553. Belon, who


the Second Macedonian War. He chased Philip V of Macedon out of most of Greece, except for a few fortresses, defeating him at the Battle of the


is a town in Greece east of Mount Hymettus and Athens and is a suburb of Athens. It has a population of 12,885 (2001 census). Until the


GDP (nominal) according to the CIA World Factbook, that of $357.5 billion in 2008. Greece's main industries are tourism, shipping, industrial products, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products, mining

extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth


carried to Zeitz, some fifty kilometers away, and buried there. See also. List of mineralogists. Metallurgy. Mining. Pliny the Elder. Shen Kuo - an 11th century Chinese statesman who


of Michigan, a 'location' is a small settlement with few if any businesses. Locations were generally inhabited by miners, people with mining-related jobs such as running the smelters, and their families.


from the precious metal content. Most modern currencies are fiat currency, allowing the coins to be made of base metal. In mining and economics, base metals refers to industrial non-ferrous


activity involved in the manufacturing of raw materials into goods and products. There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and


many things from tapestries to mining, he was engaged in the first joint stock companies in English history. The Earl also concerned himself with relieving unemployment among the


is particularly known for its old silver mines, from which roughly of silver was extracted between the discovery of silver ore seams in 1623, and the last year of mining,


from 1891 to 1895. Born in Searsport, Maine, Colcord immigrated to Nevada in the 1870s and became a successful mining engineer. He also set up a law practice and became


Gunnies or gunnis is a mining term derived from the Cornish language. It refers to open-cast mines.


History. There is a long history of human activity in the Machynlleth area. In the late-1990s, radiocarbon dating showed that copper mining was taking place in the Early Bronze Age (ca.


by metallurgy and the mining industry, as well as mechanical engineering and chemical production. The Evraz Group and an ore subsidiary Evrazruda operate iron ore mining and processing facilities along


become a major exporter of the mineral. Beginning the mining process of gaining licensure has been substantially delayed due to public opposition to the mine. Many of the


of habitation in the area comes from the 16th century, when the main economic activity was sheep farming. The village's association with mining begins in the late 17th century


the first place, including mining, oil, steel, electric power, and chemicals. Estado Novo. In 1937, while awaiting the presidential elections for January 1938, the existence of a


A recreation of an early New Zealand settlement can be found at Shantytown. Industries on the West Coast include mining for coal and alluvial gold, forestry and wood processing, and also

Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Second Edition. Rosenstock L, Cullen M, Brodkin C, Redlich C, eds., Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders, 2005 Jan; :201-214


1854 the county seat was moved to Crescent City, because of its larger population. But the western portion of the county was unrepresentative of the mining interests in the


at the centre. The original Baikonur is a mining town a few hundred kilometres northeast, near Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan's Karagandy Province. The launch site was given this name to cause


for logging, mining, dam construction, arctic exploration, etc. Sloan. Once steel cleats became unpopular on paved roads, in 1938 a limited experiment began to bridge the gap between truck and


mining; the Odin Mine, one of the oldest lead mines in the country, is situated 1.5 km (about a mile) west of the village (see also Derbyshire lead mining history).


and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products, mining and petroleum. Greece GDP growth has also, as an average, since the early-90s been higher than the EU average.

material produced by twining, weaving, felting, knotting, or otherwise processing natural or synthetic fibers


railroad station of the same name. Two grist mills and a small textile mill were built on Mill Run during the early days of Susquehanna Township. Susquehanna Township has grown somewhat


Velour or velours is a plush, knitted fabric or textile. It is usually made from


also Austrian Minister for Traffic in a coalition government headed by the People's Party. Before starting his political career he worked as manager in the textile industry (Getzner). He


and cigars & assembled electronics, textiles and apparel. The garment industry is a major job employed thousands of locals and they formed 12.9% of exports in 1999 earning US$159 million


Lindauer DORNIER GmbH is a textile machinery manufacturer located in Lindau, Germany. It was originally part of the Dornier


joke, see Shaggy dog story. Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery


battles during King George's War. Situated on the Ashuelot River, West Swanzey would develop as a textile manufacturing center, and East Swanzey would produce wooden buckets for generations.


was the son of Moritz Zweig, a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida (Brettauer) Zweig, from an Italian banking family. He studied philosophy and the history of literature,


drying to make paper. Most paper is made from wood pulp, but other fiber sources such as cotton and textiles may be used. History. Papermaking is known


and, after the obligatory Grand Tour of the antiquities of Continental Europe, joined his father's textile manufacturing enterprise. He was active in Manchester intellectual life as a member of the Manchester


era of textile manufacturing in the city during the Industrial Revolution. History. See the History of Lowell, Massachusetts article for a detailed history of the city. First settled by


be set off from Amesbury in 1741, when the border between the two colonies was adjusted. In the 19th century, textile mills were built at the falls, as was


War II. Economy. In the recent past the economy of the Drama area relied heavily on the local paper and textile-clothing industries. However, these industries have either


language), Danish, English. Literacy. definition: NA. total population: 100%. male: 100%. female: 100%. note: similar to Denmark proper. See also: Greenland.

autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark

unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States


For example: Greenland is presented as having roughly as much land area as Africa, when in fact Africa's area is approximately 14 times greater than Greenland. Alaska is presented as having


predator is the arctic wolf. The Arctic hare can run up to 40 miles an hour. Range. It is distributed over the tundra regions of Greenland and the northernmost


white underneath. The breast is smeared with grey and the rump is black. Their breeding habitat is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and


ways in different places. In Greenland, Alaska, Labrador, the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories and in the western part of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, it is written


Greenland, the Independence I and Independence II cultures of northeastern Canada and Greenland, and the Dorset culture, which spread across Arctic North America. The Dorset were the


This article is about the demographic features of the population of Greenland, including

human settlement in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States of America


white patch on the head around the eye. Both adults have a white ear patch. Their breeding habitat is cold fast moving streams in north-western and north-eastern North America, Greenland, Iceland


in the mid-20s per grade. The district became part of the Greenland school district in 2004 after the Arkansas Legislature passed a state law that mandated districts with less than


City in the north to try to locate German radio bases in Greenland. After the war the meteorological station was located at Atlantic City, but moved in 1949 to


North America. Arnald becomes the first Bishop of Greenland. Middle East. July 7 – Tyre falls to the Crusaders. Births. Margrave Ottokar III of Styria. Deaths. February


intense public opposition. Denmark. The National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark is responsible for producing topographic and nautical geodata of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Finland.


and nearby inland areas: on western European coasts and south to North Africa, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland; and on the eastern seaboard of North America, though in


Island. Baffin Island. Greenland. Scoresby Sund, the largest fjords in the world. Søndre Strømfjord or Kangerlussuaq. Disko Island. Ilulissat Ice fjord, the most productive ice fjord in the world. United


of Rome (1084). The first bishop of America was appointed during Paschal II's reign, nearly four centuries before Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic. Erik Gnupsson was given the province of Greenland


the ocean from Cape Cod, the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and southern Greenland in the west, around Iceland in the centre and across in the


trading, rather than raiding, and established colonies. The Vikings discovered Iceland and establishing colonies before moving onto Greenland, where they briefly held some colonies. The Vikings also launched an unsuccessful attempt


Greenland. The vessel also influenced the design of the cog, used in the Baltic Sea by the Hanseatic League. Smaller vessels. Karves were a type of small Viking ship


western Greenland, is much darker overall, with only a very narrow white tip to the tail (broader on the other races), more black barring on its belly, and usually has an


Denmark/Greenland claim on territory to the North Pole, some of which is disputed by Canada. Foreign ships, both civilian and military are allowed the right of innocent


one of the most powerful gods of the pantheon. He is a lunar deity. In Greenland, he is known as Aningan. Story. According to Inuit mythology, Igaluk and his sister Malina


Greenland. The city is particularly known for its Danish pastries, especially kringle. Several local bakeries have been featured on the Food Network. Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built S.

island located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean


The ancient rulers of Greenland

human settlement in New South Wales, Australia


20 ice cores in Greenland. Renland. The Renland ice core was drilled in 1985. The Renland ice core from East Greenland apparently covers a full glacial cycle


Command Base at Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland. SG-19 consisted of six ships: Dorchester, two merchant ships (SS Lutz and SS Biscaya) that were leased by the United States from the Norwegian


are associated with other unusual igneous rocks such as carbonatite. Distribution. Nepheline syenites and phonolites occur in Canada, Norway, Greenland, Sweden, the Ural Mountains, the Pyrenees, Italy,


Bay, off the west coast of Greenland at a latitude of 70° North, and to the north of Disko Bay. It has an area of 8,578 square kilometers (3,312 square miles),


and Northern Whale Fishery, in which he gathers up the results of his own observations, as well as those of previous navigators. In his voyage of 1822 to Greenland

unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia


Elizabeth II is represented in Grenada by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet. The leader of the majority party serves

island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea


A general election was held in Grenada on November 27 2003. The New National Party government of Prime Minister Keith Mitchell won a third consecutive term


Curaçao, Dominica,Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, Trinidad and Tobago and United States Virgin

census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States


warber and many other migratory bird species. - Cornell Lab of Ornithology. - South Dakota Birds and Birding. - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter. (for Cuba, Grenada) with RangeMap. VIREO.


the island nations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. The larger islands of the Grenadines include: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Young Island (Grenadines). Bequia. Moonhole Rock. Petite


Guam has no railways, nor does it have

island territory of the United States of America


m: 1. 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2007 est.). Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 1. under 914 m: 1 (2007 est.). See also: Guam, List of highways


(Islands of the Thieves) during that period. Their name was changed by Spain in 1667 to "Islas de las Marianas" (Mariana Islands), which include Guam at their


Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai (China), Bangkok (Thailand), Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), and a separate route pattern that links Japan with Saipan and Guam in


to 20 years and the female carabao can deliver one calf each year. In Guam. The carabao is considered a national symbol of Guam. They were imported from


(Bubalus bubalis) found in the Philippines, Guam, and various parts of Southeast Asia. Carabaos are associated with farmers, being the farm animal of choice for pulling the


by cruiser Cowpens and destroyer John S. McCain traveled to Guam, arriving on 31 October 2008. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group returned to Japan Nov 21. 2009. In


The island, once lushly forested, is now mostly windswept grasslands. More recently, Guam's native bird and lizard species were decimated by the introduction of the Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis)


air group 31 pounded Japanese bases on Iwo Jima, Pagan, Rota, Guam, Yap and Ulithi as the carrier continued her support of the Marianas operation until 9 August. Preinvasion strikes in


steaming to Yokosuka, she departed Tokyo Bay 30 September, touched at Guam and Pearl Harbor, and arrived San Francisco 23 October. Assigned to "Magic Carpet" duty from


Ocean at Diego Garcia and the Western Pacific at Guam and Saipan. The MPS ships in each squadron have sufficient equipment, supplies and ammunition to support a Marine Corps Air Ground


First Navy Jack. Kitty Hawk set sail for a planned three-month underway period 2 March 1999, which included Exercise Tandem Thrust off Guam. Following the exercise, the Kitty Hawk/CVW-5


Pacific Fleet for a cruise as the "Great White Fleet". In company with, she went to Guam and the Philippines, through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean,


the first Delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Sumay, Guam, and worked as a teacher. He was first elected


and 144° and 146° E. longitude. The Mariana Islands have a total land area of 389 square miles (1007 km²). They are composed of two administrative units: Guam is a


between Hawaii and Guam, stopping at other FSM and Marshallese destinations on the way. Languages. The official language of Kosrae is Kosraean, although the English language may also be used


a part of COMSUBRON11. During her stay at San Diego, Louisville conducted several WestPac tours. During her 1988-89 WestPac Louisville visited Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Guam


Steaming via Pearl Harbor and Guam, she reached Manila on 5 November; joined the Asiatic Fleet as a member of Submarine Division 17 (SubDiv 17); and commenced local operations and


Three vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Guam, after the island of Guam. The


one in Hagatna and one in Agat) which serve recreational boaters. Roads are primarily paved out of a coral/oil mixture. When wet, the oil tends to float to the

marine invertebrates of the class Anthozoa

census-designated place in Indiana County, Pennsylvania


since it is the most southerly of the Caribbean islands which have coral communities. Trinidad, which is further south, has no significant coral because of low salinity and high


is important to note that they are not vegetarian. Species such as Bolbometopon muricatum include coral (polyps) in their diet. Their feeding activity is important for the production


monk seal had a breeding colony here until the 1960s. Once the home of a thriving lobster industry, Tavolara now attracts divers who come to view the coral, sponges, sea


waters developed through biotic processes dominated by corals and calcareous algae. Artificial reefs such as shipwrecks are sometimes created to enhance physical complexity on generally featureless sand


corals. Coral reefs are a significant ecosystem in terms of biodiversity and there is increased destruction of their habitat world-wide due to human causes and or natural


lumpsuckers, but is anatomically distinct: these similarities are the product of convergent evolution. Gobies can often be seen using the sucker to adhere to rocks and corals, and in aquariums they


such as mollusks and barnacles. The aptly named crown-of-thorns starfish sea star specializes in corals, and may do considerable damage to coral reefs. Many, but not all,

organic gemstone made from the skeletons of red coral (corallium rubrum)


corals, flame corals possess stinging cells called nematocysts which would normally prevent close contact. Afforded some degree of protection by their living perches, hawkfish seek the high ground of the reef


living coral, multiple species of fish and rays, and a collection of sharks. The main draw of this attraction is a shark exhibit with high curved windows, allowing visitors a


the sides of this mountain are quite steep, vertical in some places, within as little as a few hundred meters from shore. In addition to the expected coral reefs, colorful fish,


the Crown. The official residence of the Lieutenant Governor is Government House. Since 18 October 2005 the incumbent has been Vice-Admiral Sir Fabian Malbon, born in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1946

human settlement in Shelby County, Iowa, United States of America


England to retake the crown from his brother Henry. In 1101, Robert landed at Portsmouth with his army, but his lack of popular support among the English as well as Robert's

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801-1918


The Tricorn Centre was a famed Brutalist shopping, apartment, nightclub and car park complex in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It was designed by Owen Luder and

painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner


m (18 ft) statue of Nelson stands on top of a 46 m (151 ft) Foggintor granite column. The statue faces south looking towards the Admiralty and Portsmouth where Nelson's


of the South Hampshire conurbation, it lies on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour opposite the city of Portsmouth, to which it is linked by a


Beijing with Lord Amherst and Sir Henry Ellis. Between 1818 and 1852 he was MP for several English constituencies, finally for Portsmouth. He was a member of the East India Committee,


Ships Flight 1 Dragonfly HR5 Helicopter Search and Rescue. In 1958 she paid off at Portsmouth for conversion into a commando carrier. Her sister ship, HMS Albion,


and later served as a gunnery training ship at Portsmouth. The ship was sold for scrap in 1922. References. Conways All the worlds Fighting Ships 1906-1921, Conway


External links. on Jervis from the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. EB11 - http://www.aboutnelson.co.uk/jervis.htm. Chapter V, Jervis: The General Officer, as Disciplinarian and Strategist in.

city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States


at Portsmouth on 23 February 1926, launched on 14 September 1927 and completed on 31 January 1929. London served with the 1st Cruiser Squadron until March 1939,


on 20 January and entered Portsmouth on 24 January 1972. After maintenance and leave, the ship sailed from Portsmouth on 11 April 1972, embarking 848 Naval Air Squadron,


problems. The submarine departed Portsmouth on 12 October 1955 and sailed via Block Island for Key West, Florida, where she arrived on 19 October 1955 to commence

city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States


the Vela task force. When the ship returned to UK in November 2006 she had the longest deployment of an RFA in recent times. From her departure from Portsmouth


the plating on the Confederate ironclad is displayed at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth. The anchor of the Virginia sits on the lawn in front of

independent city in Virginia, United States


Nimba 1,752 m. Natural resources: bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold, uranium, hydropower, fish. Land use: arable land: 2%. permanent crops: 0%. permanent pastures: 22%. forests and woodland: 59%. other: 17% (1993


mining sector in general, and diamonds in particular, for its economic base. In the 1970s and early 1980s, economic growth rate slowed because of a decline in the


used to build these nanorobots due to the inherent strength and other characteristics of some forms of carbon (diamond/fullerene composites), and nanorobots would be fabricated in desktop

unincorporated community in Parke County, Indiana


50%, lumber, plywood, sugar, cocoa, coffee, diamonds. Exports - partners: United States 23%, Benelux 14%, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, Mainland China (1998). Imports: $770 million (f.o.b., 1999). Imports - commodities:


absence of expected properties: The object discovered in Quatermass and the Pit was made of a material of extreme hardness, such that diamond-tipped drills and acetylene torches would not


garnets from such disaggegated xenoliths are used as a kimberlite indicator minerals in diamond prospecting. At depths of about 300 to 400 km and greater, a pyroxene component is dissolved


gemstones. He refers to using one hard mineral to scratch another, the first allusion to what is now the Mohs hardness scale. Diamond sits at the top


had the Earl of Glasgow ceremoniously lay down a replacement, while in an Amsterdam-based piece, she left a diamond and a scorpion side-by-side on a pavement. She has also secretly


to a Roman Emperor; over it is thrown a magnificent cloak of Tyrian purple, with on its clasp a seven-pointed star in diamond and amethyst, and sometimes he


per hour, for freeways in many U.S. states. A common speed limit, in kilometers per hour, in urban areas in Russia. In years of marriage, the diamond wedding anniversary. The


a hardness below that of diamond and comparable with those of cubic boron nitride and boron. Since naturally occurring moissanite is so rare, lab-grown moissanite is the only


Gernon conducted a De Beers-funded Ph.D. on the volcanic eruption mechanisms of diamond-bearing rocks at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. The dissertation, The dynamics


diamond sewn into the lining of his jacket. Shortly before the airliner disappeared, it radioed ahead to report its expected arrival above Santiago in four minutes. Mystery continues

Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog, according to legend


the Yips, and Cayke the Cookie Cook has had her diamond-studded gold dishpan stolen. The advisor to the Yips, a human-sized dandy of a frog called the Frogman, hears

Smart data producer for graphite graphing package


diamond The name is derived from the Quenya nén meaning water. It is also called Ring of Adamant and Ring of Water. The ring is wielded by Galadriel of Lothlórien,


Guinea is located on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa and is bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia


recognize the result and it took a spate of street protests to bring Gbagbo to power. Guéï fled to Gouessesso, near the Liberian border, but remained a figure in the


in Bulgaria, India, Mexico, Nepal,Liberia, and the Philippines. In 1991 they reported over 33,000 members in 236 churches that were organized into 7 conferences. Currently (2003) the Convention has


arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar. 1847 – Liberia declares independence. 1861 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of

village in Bolaang Mongondow Timur, North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia


area ranging from the south-east of Liberia to the east of Côte d'Ivoire. The name Kru is of unknown origin and is according to Westermann (1952) 'used by Europeans


West Indies, and Africa. Related endeavors included a grocery chain, restaurant, publishing house, and other businesses. Convinced that Blacks should have a permanent homeland in Africa, Garvey sought to develop Liberia.


Cassius Ransom - creative founder of NAACP via The Niagra Movement concept. Bishop William Heard (1850-1937), AME minister and educator. Appointed by the U.S. government as "Minister Resident/Consul General" to Liberia


code (Top-level domain) is LR. References. See also. Liberia.

village in Serdang Bedagai Regency, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia


with the government under the then Prime Minister Julius Chan) causing the Sandline affair, in 1998 in Sierra Leone (having a contract with ousted President Kabbah) and in Liberia in 2003


The Liberian flag bears

district in Liberia canton, Guanacaste province, Costa Rica


Liberia; it is also the language traditionally spoken by these people. The Krahn are a native ethnic group who were present in the area known as Liberia before the formation of the


for the Liberian government in 1859. was an Albacore class wood screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1861. was a Quail-class destroyer launched in 1895.


than Oregon. Land boundaries: total: 3,399 km. border countries: Côte d'Ivoire 610 km, Guinea-Bissau 386 km, Liberia 563 km, Mali 858 km, Senegal 330 km, Sierra Leone


a politically autonomous religious community of the Lebou people, who live in fishing communities on the Cap-Vert peninsula, north of Dakar, Senegal. The Layene brotherhood is one of the


display at the Monino museum. Tu-114D variant. Long range version of the Tu-114, specially adapted for non-stop flights to Cuba. After US policy helped persuade West African countries like Senegal


bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident in a belt across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and The Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to


"butter seed". The species name honors Mungo Park, who learned of the tree while exploring Senegal). The tree is sometimes treated as Vitellaria paradoxa, the earlier name. References.


Phifer. 2001 Karmen Gei – Joseph Gaï Ramaka director; set in Dakar, Senegal and sung in French and Wolof. 2003 Carmen – Vicente Aranda, director; a Spanish film


to prayer or study, either based in communities, religious centers, or wandering in the larger society, are named marabouts. In Senegal and Mali, these Marabouts rely on donations to live.


Monaco, Puerto Rico, Senegal, and Virgin Islands participated in their 1st Winter Olympic Games. The Republic of China ended its boycott of the Olympic Games over the


in Dakar, Senegal. NASA decided to use Casablanca as the TAL site, but because it was not equipped for night landings, the launch had to be moved


them and take those steps that remain to be taken. Mariama Ba Boarding School (Maison D'education Mariama Ba). This is a top boarding school on Goree, an island in Senegal. It


across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia, although it has seasonal movements. It lays two or three eggs on a ground scrape. These are conspicuous and unmistakable


Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. "All states parties to the Convention against Torture and the Inter-American


Senegal. Sango. The Sango language is a lingua franca developed for intertribal trading in the Central African Republic. It is based on the Northern Ngbandi language spoken by the Sango people


Flight 411, a four-engined Ilyushin Il-62 that was departing Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow on a flight to Senegal, crashed and was destroyed by fire shortly after take-off. On 10


Kahone is a town and commune near Kaolack, Senegal. It is primarily agricultural, but


Serer-Lehar or Laalaa, spoken in a small area north of Thies. See also. Senegal. Biffeche.


or Shea nut, (syn. Vitellaria paradoxa, B. paradoxa) is a tree indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan,


Senegal to Somalia. It is a sedentary species. This is a common bird of dry open country, often at some altitude. It nests on the ground, laying


Mariama Bâ (1929 – 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist,


Trans-West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea, connecting it to Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), and when construction in Sierra Leone and Liberia is complete, to a total of 13 other nations of


Bissau. Buba. Cacheu. Farim. Merchant Marine. In 1999 no merchant vessels were operating. Airports. 30 (1999 est.). Paved runways: Over 3, 047 m: 524 to 2,437 m: 914 to 1,523 m:


Bissau, and will eventually provide a paved highway link to 11 other nations of ECOWAS. Districts. Banjul Division (Greater Banjul Area) is divided into two districts: Banjul. Kanifing. Sister cities. Ostend


- bauxite. Timeline. 2008. July 2008 - wobbles over Simandou leases. four ex-Croatian locomotives refurbished and regauged in Russia. 1994. Progress. Statistics. Highways. total: 30,500 km. paved: 5,033 km. unpaved: 25,467 km (1996


bauxite, the source ore for aluminum, which was found in abundant quantities in the area and became a source of aluminum refining (two local roads are named


affiliations and other aspects of the population. The population of Guinea-Bissau is ethnically diverse with distinct languages, customs, and social structures. Most Guineans, 99%, are blacks — mostly Fula

language of West Africa of the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family

watercourse in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo


Total: 4,400 km. Paved: 453 km. Unpaved: 3,947 km (1996 est.). The Trans-West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea-Bissau, connecting it to Banjul (The Gambia), Conakry (Guinea), and eventually


(Príncipe) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus (Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola) is sometimes


the government of neighbouring Guinea. In 1999, they emerged in northern Liberia, in April 2000 they started fighting in Lofa County in northernmost Liberia. By the spring of 2001

coin of approximately one quarter ounce of gold that was minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814


borders of Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. Average rainfall varies in this region from 0.5 m per year (20 in) around Mopti to 1.4 m (55 in) in the


Later this was changed to be a black star representing every member nation (also two). Originally Ghana and Guinea were the only members, but in May 1959 the third star


by female vocalists and dance-oriented rhythms. The ngoni lute is the most popular traditional instrument. Most of the best-known Maninka musicians are from eastern Guinea and play a type of guitar


During this period he traveled and lectured extensively throughout the world; visiting Guinea, North Vietnam, China, and Cuba. After his expulsion from the SNCC, Carmichael became more clearly identified with


Coastal Highway crosses Guinea-Bissau, connecting it to Banjul (The Gambia), Conakry (Guinea), and eventually to 11 other nations of ECOWAS. Waterways. Several rivers are accessible to coastal shipping. Seaports


in their music. The Guinean Africa Rap Festival is held in Conakry. Kenya. Madagascar. Hip hop has rapidly grown in popularity in Madagascar in the past decade.


1972 film Super Fly, while the rapper Notorious B.I.G. took his alias "Biggie Smalls" from a character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again. Origins: 1984-1990. Schoolly D. Philadelphia MC Schoolly D


to the hardcore drum machine tracks of the new school, such as was being pioneered by Philadelphia's Schoolly D. The cover of Criminal Minded was a further reflection of a move towards


accused the genre of promoting violence, profanity, homophobia, racism, promiscuity, misogyny, rape, street gangs, drive-by shootings, vandalism, thievery, drug dealing, alcohol abuse, substance abuse and materialism. Some commentators (for

negative attitudes towards and discrimination against homosexuality and LGBT people


desire for Skipper, and thus diminished the original play's critique of homophobia and sexism. Although it was very discreet in referring to the supposed homosexual themes, and although


attention and prompted some authors to write about the bearing of homophobia and transphobia on Araujo's murder, along with questioning whether transgender people were being represented fairly


and Language Across Culture. The book's writing is attributed to the "Telling It Book Collective", of which Lee was a member. The book explores issues of racism and homophobia experienced


genre, even though an art film can be in a number of genres. Genre can also be distinguished from film style, which concerns the choices made about cinematography

art or science of motion picture photography

art that is created from film making sometimes with animation or special effects (here the term means 'Art from film', whereas in western vocabularies a similar but different term describes the process)


Henry O'Neill... Father Xavier. Billy Mauch... Anthony Adverse (age 10). Principal production credits. Assistant Director... William H. Cannon. Original Music... Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Music supervision... Leo F. Forbstein. Cinematography...


of Western conventions. The screenplay is by Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. The cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond and the soundtrack


the strip was driven by an escapement disc mechanism—the first practical system for the high-speed stop-and-go film movement that would be the foundation for the next century of cinematography.


In photography and cinematography, perspective distortion is a warping or transformation of an object and its surrounding


a way that some screenwriters are able to copy elements of successful movies and pass them off in a new screenplay. It is likely that such screenplays fall

written work by screenwriters for a film or television program


noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison and Martin Milner. The screenplay


Magnani, Anthony Quinn and Anthony Franciosa. The screenplay was adapted by Arnold Schulman from the novel by Vittorio Nino Novarese. It was directed by George Cukor. The


comedy film released in 1970, directed by Marek Piwowski who also co-wrote the screenplay with Janusz Głowacki. The score was composed by Wojciech Kilar. Rejs is considered as a masterpiece by


screenplay was adapted by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson from the novel by Roy Chanslor. The film was directed by Elliot Silverstein. The novel was originally a serious Western, but was


best screenplay. The movie is based on the short story Memento Mori, written by Christopher's brother, Jonathan Nolan. It follows widower Leonard Shelby (played by English-born Australian actor Guy Pearce) who


into an interest in directing. After publishing other groundbreaking photographic collections, Clark met Harmony Korine in New York and asked Korine to write the screenplay for his


selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena. He opened the London radio station, Country 1035 and made a number of general television


Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton (born 2 August 1929, Birmingham, England), is a British author. She has written more


of Birmingham's Water Department to supply clean water to the Birmingham area, by gravity feed along an aqueduct with a gradient of 1 in 2,300. Before the construction of


Viaducts are commonly used in many cities which are railroad centers, such as Chicago (Illinois), Atlanta (Georgia), Birmingham (Alabama), Faribault, (Minnesota) and Manchester, England. These viaducts cross the large

city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, United States


large market gardens which provided food for the growing populations of nearby Birmingham and the Black Country. Today there are a number of light industrial areas predominantly in the


the Tower of London, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 some coins were produced at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, and are identified by a "H" to the


Derby or Birmingham. Overview. The village's focal point is a 15th Century Tudor Church, and has several local shops along Main Street, the(B5016) including a Post Office & book


Great Missenden, making a study of the history of the area very difficult. In the Victorian Era, Prestwood and nearby Great Missenden lay on the road between London and Birmingham.


controlled newspapers in Birmingham and Coventry, including the Birmingham Post, the Birmingham Mail and the Coventry Evening Telegraph and were also part owners of the Daily Telegraph. The first Baron also


the United Kingdom, running local and long-distance services in central England. The company’s operations were centred on Birmingham in the West Midlands. The longer-distance services were branded as

city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, United States


in Solihull near Birmingham. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990s soon after he started publishing stories, attracting critical praise and awards


theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. Personal life. Borcherds was born in Cape Town, but the family moved to Birmingham in the United


Soho House, Matthew Boulton's home (from 1766 until he died in 1809) in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is now a museum (opened


Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer and Broadway actress. She finished as the runner-up on the third season of the reality/talent-search television


a theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, at the Birmingham Rep, England. External links.


and manor house. Doune was also famous for its manufacture of pistols, but this eventually ceased due to the competition of manufacturers in, for example, Birmingham where


1819 – 22 July 1905) was an English civil servant. He was born in Birmingham, where his father, who came of an old Herefordshire family with Royalist traditions,

unincorporated community in Miami County, Indiana, United States


Birmingham, for the Congregational ministry. In 1853 he was invited to Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, as co-pastor with John Angell James, on whose death in 1859 he became sole pastor for


her fiction work Persepone. She was born in Birmingham, and studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before becoming a journalist. She has worked for the Bedfordshire

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868-1885


the gap between studio albums, Hadley also released a live album, in 1995, recorded, in just one night, at the club Ronnie Scott's, in Birmingham, called Obsession (later re-released as Obsession


Herbert Paul Grice (March 13, 1913, Birmingham, England - August 28, 1988, Berkeley, California), usually

city in Van Buren County, Iowa, United States


Tess Jaray is the artist who designed Centenary Square, Birmingham, England and the forecourt for the New British

human settlement in Pemberton Township, New Jersey, United States of America


of the same period. Model history (1998-2008). Overview. The S-Type was produced at Jaguar's Castle Bromwich facility in Birmingham, England. The car was styled by the late Geoff Lawson


Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BM&AG) () is an art gallery in Birmingham, England. Opened in 1885, it has a

2013 live album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel


Wales until the town and its neighbours grew to form the existing conurbation with nearby Birmingham. Churches. The parish of St Paul was established in 1865 as a distinct entity


Baron Bradley PC (born 17 May 1950, Birmingham) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer. He was formerly the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Withington from 1987

district in West Midlands, England, United Kingdom


Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. St Wulstan's, Bournbrook, Birmingham. St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. St Wulstan's, Warndon, Worcester. Church of Our Lady And St Wulstan, Southam, Warwickshire. Bishop Wulstan R.C. High School

settlement in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania


the first planned city in Mississippi. The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad needed a mid-point between Memphis, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama for their locomotives, and they laid


in Saltley, near Birmingham. Before becoming an MP, he was a teacher and later a head of Mathematics between 1970 and 1981, before becoming the senior vice principal of John


Saint Chad gives his name to Birmingham's Roman Catholic cathedral, where there are some relics of the saint: about eight long bones. It is the only cathedral


He was born in Birmingham, and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He gained a BSc in General Studies in 1955, and a PGCE in 1958 from the University


two solo artist, ranking third overall, as The Beatles have sold more albums than either he or Presley. The revision brought more criticism of the accuracy of the RIAA's

1968 self-titled double studio album by The Beatles


a huge market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music produced by drug-culture, influenced bands such as The Beatles, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane,


counted twice, meaning each album was certified diamond after 5 million copies were shipped. Pink Floyd's The Wall and The Beatles' White Album, both vinyl-era, are counted double


March 26, 1996 on Atlantic Records. Tiny Music displays a drastic change in the band's sound, featuring music strongly influenced by 60's rock and bands such as The Beatles. Conflict within the


same", and James I's depicted beati pacifici, Latin for "blessed are the peacemakers". Variants. The phrase was the inspiration for a joke motto by The Beatles, "Duit on Mon


pressings a faintly audible orchestral version of The Beatles's "Ticket to Ride" can be heard after "Eclipse", over the heartbeats that close the album. This may have been the consequence of


The Nashville Teens. In 1969, The Beatles used the studios while rehearsing music for their album Let It Be. A film was made of some of the sessions, and both


"Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees". Following Maurice's sudden death on 12 January 2003, Barry and Robin Gibb temporarily ended


pop recordings, including The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Neil Young's Harvest, Grace Slick's Manhole, and songs from the Thriller and Bad albums by Michael Jackson.