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Matthew Luckiesh | Early life and family | to design better types of lamps. During World War I he studied camouflage, and later invented artificial sunlight and germicidal lamps. Luckiesh produced eleven U.S. patents, 28 books and about 860 scientific and technical articles, published between 1911 and 1960.
Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "My name is pronounced as if it were spelled loo'kish. The u in the first syllable is the u in rude, and the second syllable rimes with dish." Early life and family After growing up in Cleveland and attending universities in Iowa, Luckiesh returned to Cleveland to start work for |
Maxim Kalashnikov | Ideology and criticism | Maxim Kalashnikov Ideology and criticism Maxim Kalashnikov is a Russian nationalistic agitator. As an expert in Russian history, economics, and military, he criticizes modern Russia and praises the Soviet system, or more precisely what it was under Joseph Stalin and what it could have become without Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev. He is an advocate of "a federated Russian Empire" consisting of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, parts of Belarus, Moldova's breakaway Transnistria, and Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He has described himself as a supporter of "dismemberment" of Georgia and creation of Russian-allied enclaves in its territory.
Kalashnikov has often been |
Martin Mason Hazeltine | Early life & Relocation to the West and early career | Martin Mason Hazeltine Early life Martin Mason Hazeltine was born on July 31, 1827 in Vermont. His mother was Fanny Bancroft and his father, Asa Hazeltine. Relocation to the West and early career Hazeltine moved to California in 1850 to be a gold miner. In 1852, he returned to Vermont, where he would learn photography, specifically how to make daguerreotypes, alongside his brother, George Irving Hazeltine. The two brothers left Vermont in 1853, taking a ship from New York, arriving in San Francisco two months later, where they would open a photography studio. In 1855, the brothers closed their studio |
Manichaean Painting of the Buddha Jesus | History | Christian object in Japan. No written records, only legend at Seiunji Temple, suggests that the painting belonged to an executed Christian daimyō Arima Harunobu, before it ended up in the Buddhist temple. The most recent, which has lasted approximately four hundred years, when the scroll has been used as a Buddhist work of art in the Seiunji Temple in Japan. The Japanese Buddhists considered it a depiction of Ākāśagarbha (Japanese: 虚空蔵菩薩), a celestial bodhisattva worshipped in Esoteric Buddhism. |
McLaren v Caldwell | Appeal to the Privy Council | McLaren v Caldwell Appeal to the Privy Council The Privy Council held in favour of Caldwell, ruling that the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal (stating that the Upper Canada Act had been misconstrued as to its effect in Boale v. Dickson) was correct. After reviewing Upper Canada's laws in the matter that had been enacted as early as 1828, it further declared:
And their Lordships agree with the Judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in thinking that there is nothing to justify any Court in construing the words "all streams" as meaning such streams only as are |
Liston (square) | Venice | a walk" in the Venetian dialect is still andare al liston.
Later the term liston was used for the Piazza San Marco, described as "the general rendezvous of the promenaders and ... the fashionable lounge of Venice".
Writing of 18th century Venice, Giovanni Rossi (1776–1852) describes the liston in the fashionable area near the San Stefano Church. During the carnival young nobles strutted there like peacocks wearing tabàro capes and the "most civilized mask", the baùta.
Although the common people could walk there, according to Rossi, "their education was such that commoners left the nobles their space in liberty."Giacomo Favretto depicted El |
Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli | Deputy and senator | that like in 1872, the act was introduction to Carlist insurgency, he nevertheless signed a letter lambasting the turnista system as corrupted and unsustainable. The same year he took part in ambiguous gatherings hailing general Moore and in 1898 he presented Carlos VII with an enigmatic gift. His actual involvement in La Octubrada, a series of minor Catalan Carlist 1900 revolts, is highly unclear. Though scholars do not list him among those involved and at the time of the disturbances he was together with other Carlist leaders in Paris, contemporary press noted that Badalona raid originated from Torre Baró estate |
Mark Kellar | Professional career & Personal life | 19 receptions for 181 yards. The Winds folded only a few months into the 1975 season. He then signed with the San Antonio Wings of the WFL and played for them during the remainder of the 1975 season. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings in 1976 and played in 33 games for the team from 1976 to 1978. Kellar then retired from football. Personal life Kellar's brother Scott also played football at Northern Illinois University and in the National Football League. |
Madhire Ravinder Reddy | Hotel Beautifool | Madhire Ravinder Reddy Madhire Ravinder Reddy is a Bollywood producer and the owner of Madhire FIlm Corporation. Its latest production is Hotel Beautifool. The film stars Rejith Menon, Johny Lever, Brijendra Kala, Jia Sharma, Shaanti, Sagarika Chettri, Vishavpreet Kaur, Alisha Farrer, Imam Siddique and Sandeep Ghosh. Hotel Beautifool Hotel Beautifool is based on the popular Hindi play Baat Baat mein Bigdey haalaat, written and directed by Sameer Iqbal Patel. Patel was planning to make it into a film when Mohammed Aslam Shaikh and Madhire Ravinder Reddy saw the play and decided to join with Patel in making it into a |
Marina Cárdenas | Biography | Marina Cárdenas Biography Emma Marina Baltodano Espinales was born on 26 December 1946 in the neighborhood of La Tejera in Managua, Nicaragua to Victoria Espinales. She attended primary school at the Colegio “Evita Perón”, singing pastorals and studying with José Santamaría. She had an opportunity to go to university, but she decided to pursue singing. Her parents were not in favor of that career choice, until her sister intervened and helped her get a job for a radio performance on Radio Managua. After singing in several shows and winning several awards, her parents changed their views. By the early 1960s, |
Lois Wilfred Griffiths | Early life | Lois Wilfred Griffiths Early life Lois Wilfred Griffiths was born on June 27, 1899, to Frederick William Griffiths, a minister, and Lena Jones Griffiths, a schoolteacher, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Frederick Griffiths had emigrated to the United States in 1880 from Wales. In the United States, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College in 1893 and a Bachelor of Divinity from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1896. Lena Jones Griffiths was born in the United States and studied at Kansas State Normal School. In 1898, they moved to Ohio where Lena gave birth to Harold F. Griffiths in |
Medieval metal | Origins | the wave of what is known as medieval rock."
In the year 1994, a concert was organised in Berlin that featured a collaboration between a rock band known as Noah and members of the aforementioned medieval group Corvus Corax. The result of this mix of medieval and rock music saw the group Noah turning into In Extremo. They began with two acoustic medieval albums before releasing a metal album Weckt die Toten! in 1998. They have since found chart success in Germany with their "medieval style stage garb and unashamed usage of such bizarre instruments as the Scottish bagpipes."
Corvus Corax also |
Limerick to Foynes Railway Line | History & Future | Limerick to Foynes Railway Line The Limerick to Foynes Railway is a 40km mothballed line in County Limerick. History The railway was opened in April 1858 by the Great Southern and Western Railway. The line was both freight and passenger however passenger traffic ceased in 1963. During around 2000, freight traffic started to decrease and on the 9th of January 2003, the last train, an inspection car, moved on the line. In 2006 the line was disconnected at Limerick check. Future There are plans to potentially reopen the line. In December 2018, Irish Rail had sought permission to replace the |
Mary Higgins Clark | Popular reception | that she has met people with genuine ESP powers. Nora Higgins, on looking at a photo of her eighteen-year-old son in his brand new Navy dress blues told Mary that "He has death in his eyes", and the young man died shortly after. A psychic Higgins Clark visited just as her second novel, Where Are the Children, was being published in paperback told her that she would become very famous and make a great deal of money. Although at the time she laughed off the prediction, the following week her novel reached the bestseller lists and she sold the movie |
Martin O. May | Medal of Honor citation | fire from counterattacking Japanese. He repulsed this assault by sweeping the enemy with accurate bursts while explosions and ricocheting bullets threw blinding dust and dirt about him. He broke up a second counterattack by hurling grenades into the midst of the enemy forces, and then refused to withdraw, volunteering to maintain his post and cover the movement of American riflemen as they reorganized to meet any further hostile action. The major effort of the enemy did not develop until the morning of 21 April. It found Pfc. May still supporting the rifle company in the face of devastating rifle, machinegun, |
Littoral cone | null | the coast of Hawaii, where the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Kilauea face the sea. They were named "littoral cones" by Wentworth in 1938. About 50 large cones are found on these two volcanoes and only three of them were formed during historical times; no such cones have been found on the other Hawaiian volcanoes. The Puu Oo and Mauna Ulu eruptions of Kilauea have also formed small littoral cones.
Examples of littoral cones include Sand Hills (1840 eruption) on Kilauea in Hawaii, 'Au'au, Nā Pu'u a Pele, Pu'u Hou (1868 eruption) and Pu'u Kī (eruption 1300 years ago) at Mauna Loa |
Le Crapouillot | Muckraking and satirical period & Political period | 1964 it was published four issues per year. Until its close in 1990 the frequency of the magazine was irregular. Political period After France was liberated from the German occupation in 1944, the magazine took a stand against the purges conducted against collaborators among the nationalist intelligentsia, such as the trial and execution of Robert Brasillach. Throughout the Fourth and early French Fifth Republics, and until its creator's death in 1966, the publication gradually became a forum for articles, reports and editorials written by French nationalists, including ex-Vichy collaborators, Holocaust deniers, right-wing anarchists, and neo-fascists, culminating in its final years, |
Martin McGartland | Film | film, stating, "The film is as near to the truth as Earth is to Pluto." |
Liverpool Hope University | Founding colleges | Liverpool Hope University Founding colleges Two of the university's founding colleges, Saint Katherine's (1844) and Notre Dame (1856) were established in the 19th century. These colleges were in Warrington and Liverpool City Centre respectively. These were among the first to provide opportunities for higher education to women. They were supplemented on Merseyside when a second Catholic teacher education college, Christ's College, on a site adjacent to St Katharine's, admitted its first students in 1964. (Christ's was the first Catholic co-educational teachers' training college in England.)
In 1980, these three colleges joined in an ecumenical federation under the holding title of Liverpool |
Major League Baseball All-Star Game | Tie games, rain delays, and home-field advantage in World Series | date was scheduled, but it would be extremely difficult to find such a make-up date in any event as Major League Baseball would have to postpone one or more days of the regular season and/or schedule the make-up date on a travel day during the postseason, the latter which would be unfair to teams involved in the upcoming series. Since 2012, there have been off days for all teams on the Wednesday and Thursday after the All-Star Game, and if necessary, the game could be finished in the morning or afternoon on Wednesday/Thursday if the situation warranted it.
Furthermore, various writers |
Los Jaivas | Name & Homage | fact that bass (the musical instrument) rhymes with base and lace in English, as opposed to the word bass (the fish) which rhymes with cass and lass, which is how the syllable vas is pronounced in the band's name. The spelling of Jaivas is a misspelling of the word jaibas, which means crabs in Spanish. Homage A homage was made to Los Jaivas on the occasion of their 50th anniversary, at the Festival del Huaso de Olmué realised in Olmué, Chile, on 23–26 January 2014. |
John Pendlebury | The archaeologist & Student at the British School | of the British School at Athens. Wace remembered him as a boy who wished "to see things for himself". The visit solidified his determination to become an archaeologist. Student at the British School On leaving university in 1927 Pendlebury won the Cambridge University Studentship to the British School at Athens. Unable to decide between Egyptian and Greek archaeology, he decided to do both and study Egyptian artefacts found in Greece. This study resulted in his Catalogue of Egyptian Objects in the Aegean area, published in 1930.
In Athens, Pendlebury stayed at the British School's student hostel, which also provided lodging for |
Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli | Early political activity & Deputy and senator | 1888 the Nocedalista daily El Siglo Futuro publicized Llanza's solidarity with Nocedal, in the moment of choice he decided to stand by the claimant; in 1889 the same newspaper already ridiculed the duke. Deputy and senator Following the Integrist secession the new Carlist political leader, marqués de Cerralbo, embarked on institutional build-up of the movement. The emergent nationwide structures were originally set up to celebrate the centenary of conversion of Recaredo, but they gave rise to firm party organization. As the Aragón Carlist leader Francisco Cavero withdrew from politics it was Solferino, resident of Barcelona but one of major landholders |
Lou Barletta | Healthcare | because he wanted the repeal legislation to prohibit undocumented immigrants from applying for health insurance tax credits. After meeting with President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, Barletta said that they had promised to bring up separate legislation to prohibit undocumented immigrants from accessing health insurance tax credits. In 2018, Barletta said that the repeal of the Affordable Care Act would not have weakened protections for individuals with preexisting conditions; experts said that the repeal would have given states the option to seek waivers whereby insurers would be allowed to raise prices for individuals with preexisting conditions who did not |
Mai Shiranui | Critical reception and popularity | Chun Li, Mai Shiranui, Michelle Chang (Tekken) and Jill Valentine (Resident Evil) as "video game characters who have marked the near absurd level of popularity of females in video games." Mexican publication Chilango grouped "Lara Croft/Chun Li/Mai Shiranui" together at the top of their list of "the women we have dreamed of in the nineties." Sara Sundman of ScrewAttack Magazine used Mai as an example of well-animated fan service breasts that move around realistically as she moves in games, unlike in some other cases such as that of DOA's Kasumi, and GamePro likened her with Taki from Soulcalibur as "a |
Melford Okilo | Early career | Melford Okilo Early career Okilo was born on 30 November 1933 at Emakalakala, Ogbia, Bayelsa State, and was of Ijaw origin.
He qualified as a lawyer, but entered politics at the age of 23.
Okilo was a member of Parliament between 1956 and 1959. In December 1959 he was re-elected to represent the Brass constituency on the Niger Delta Congress platform.
The Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, later appointed him Parliamentary Secretary and Minister.
He played a significant role in the enactment of the Niger Delta Development Board (1961), which sought to address problems of the neglected Niger Delta region.
While visiting New York |
Maurice Martel | Early life and career | Maurice Martel Maurice Martel (born October 29, 1936) is a former politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1966 to 1970 and again from 1976 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of René Lévesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson. Early life and career Martel was born in Quebec City. He studied pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Montreal, receiving certification in 1963. In the same year, he opened a drugstore in Sorel. He also worked as a news editor for the weekly journal, La Voix métropolitaine. Martel was politically |
Kyiv International Short Film Festival | Jury | Kyiv International Short Film Festival Jury The festival jury is elected by administration of the festival. Usually there are several foreign guests and representatives of Ukrainian cinema. The jury members are prominent directors, producers and filmmakers that have received international awards. |
Kütahya | Traditional ceramics & Culture | he reviewed the history of pottery production in the region and proposed that 'Abraham of Kütahya' ware was produced from 1490 until around 1525, 'Damascus' and 'Golden Horn' ware were produced from 1525 until 1555 and 'Rhodian' ware from around 1555 until the demise of the İznik pottery industry at the beginning of the 18th century. This chronology has been generally accepted. Culture Kütahya's old neighbourhoods are dominated by traditional Ottoman houses made of wood and stucco, some of the best examples being found along Germiyan Caddesi. It has many historical mosques such as Ulu Camii, Cinili Camii, Balikli Camii |
Melford Okilo | Early career & Second republic | in 1965, he came across a book about Walter Russell, The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe, which had a profound influence on his thought. Walter Russell's University of Science and Philosophy later published his books, and in the late 1990s he served as president of the university.
During the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon, Okilo served in the government in Rivers State first as Commissioner of Education, and then of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Resources (1971–1975). Second republic During General Olusegun Obasanjo's regime, he was a member of the Constituent Assembly (1977–78) leading to the Nigerian Second |
Lenkunya | Description & Etymology | Lenkunya Description The genus Lenkunya is characterized by having body that is broadly convex dorsally and flat ventrally. The creeping sole occupies 70–80% of the body width. The eyes form a single row around the anterior tip, are crowded antero-laterally and continue posteriorly in a staggered row. The parenchymal musculature is strong and includes a ring zone of circulo-oblique fibers. The copulatory apparatus has a well-developed penis papilla and lacks adenodactyls or other accessory glands. Etymology The name Lenkunya comes from an aboriginal word meaning beautiful. |
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | Constitution of 1793 | of deputies as official constitutional draftsmen. Saint-Just was among the five elected members. In recognition of the importance of their mission, the draftsmen were all added to the powerful new Committee of Public Safety.
The Convention had given the Committee extraordinary authority to provide for state security since the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War in early 1793. Committee members were originally intended to serve for periods of only thirty days before replacements were elected, so they needed to work quickly. Saint-Just took charge of the issue and led the development of the French Constitution of 1793. Before the end of |
Mapleton, Iowa | 2000 census | population was spread out with 18.7% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 18.9% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 36.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 50 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,479, and the median income for a family was $38,063. Males had a median income of $27,344 versus $18,158 for females. The per capita income for the city was |
Marinism | Similitude and metaphor | adapting it freely to create a huge number of memorable word-pictures: "gems, minerals, and precious metals [...] flowers (especially the rose and the lily), birds, fire, snow, the seasons, the sea, and, above all, sun and stars [...] milk, ivory, parturition, the arts and sciences, and a variety of actions and emotions useful for personification." |
Mayya (song) | Music video & Cover version | The video was filmed as a seductive Turkish themed dance by Mallika Sherawat. This was after a long time that Mallika did such an exotic dance performance in a music video. Cover version The track Mayya was sampled by Serbian artist Jelena Karleuša in her 2008 album JK Revolution. The track "Mala" and its Teatro Mix were credited to Rahman.
Additionally, Mayya was performed and popularized by Saregamapa contestant Mauli Dave and has become her signature track. |
Martin McGartland | Shooting | life, Fifty Dead Men Walking. The title indicates the number of lives he considers he saved through his activities. The following year he won his lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, publishers of The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard and This is London web site, which had published an article alleging the shooting might be related to connections with local criminal gangs.
McGartland criticized the police for inadequate protection, but offered to testify on their behalf, saying: "There are people who have been the victims of terrorist attacks, who've lost loved ones, and some of them haven't been compensated. It's a scandal. I |
Martin Schwartz (mercenary) | null | suppress the Flemish rebellion. Schwartz commanded 200 Swiss mercenaries in the campaign.
When John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln fled the English court, having decided to promote the cause of the pretender Simnel, his aunt, Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, contracted Martin Schwartz to provide 2,000 troops for an invasion. Both Lincoln and Schwartz died at the Battle of Stoke Field, when this invasion force was defeated by the army of Henry Tudor. |
Manhattan, Colorado | History | Manhattan, Colorado Manhattan is a ghost town located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Rustic in Larimer County, Colorado, United States at an elevation of 8,474 feet (2,583 m). It became a mining town after discovery of gold in the area in September 1886. The area was difficult to mine and produced small quantities of gold, and the population dropped off by the turn of the century. The land was acquired by the United States Forest Service and burned down in the 1930s, but a cemetery remains. History The town was founded as a gold mining camp, after a "rich strike" was |
Matt Simmons (Criminal Minds) | In Criminal Minds & Character development and casting | season 14 episode "Rule 34", it is revealed that Kristy had been going for therapy due to trauma from the hostage incident. Their son David is suspended from school after physically lashing out at a friend over a comment regarding cop shows. He admits to his parents that his classmate losing her mother brought about fears for his own parents' safety, especially his father's, given the dangerous nature of his job. Character development and casting Henney stated that he had accepted the role as it was a departure from Asian stereotypes perpetuated by Hollywood and the American entertainment industry. In |
Medical education in the United Kingdom | Assessments | Medical education in the United Kingdom Assessments Like many other university degrees, UK medical schools design and deliver their own in-house assessments. This practice is different from, for example, the United States, where a national licensing examination has been in place for over 20 years. Each UK undergraduate summative assessment in medicine is subject to the scrutiny of a formally appointed external examiner.
In 2003 a number of UK medical schools began to work together to increase quality assurance activities in the area of assessment as part of the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership (UMAP). UMAP is a collaborative item banking project |
Matthew Xia | DJ Excalibah & Journalism | work includes BBC Radio 1, 6Music and Radio 4. Journalism Xia has written for The Stage, Hip Hop Connection, The Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian. |
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center | Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station & Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service & Crop adaptability | in Rosepine; Southeast in Franklinton; and Sweet Potato in Chase. Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service includes offices in all of Louisiana's 64 parishes. Educational opportunities offered through these offices include online and in-person classes, seminars, workshops, field days, publications and news releases. In addition, extension agents provide one-on-one advice and, increasingly, use the Internet to disseminate educational information. Topics covered include agriculture and natural resources; lawns and gardens; environmental protection and resource conservation; family life; health and nutrition; housing and emergency preparedness; and youth development through the 4-H program. Crop adaptability The subtropical climate replete with |
MS Island Escape | History | MS Island Escape History She was built in 1982 by Dubigeon-Normandie S.A., Nantes, France for Scandinavian World Cruises (a subsidiary of DFDS) as the cruiseferry MS Scandinavia. At the time of her construction, she was the largest cruiseferry in the world. After being withdrawn from Scandinavian World Cruises, she briefly sailed for DFDS Seaways. Between 1985 and 1990, she sailed for Sundance Cruises and Admiral Cruises as MS Stardancer. In 1990, the ship was sold to Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and renamed MS Viking Serenade. Between January and June 1991, she was converted into a genuine cruise ship at the |
Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli | Last years | Huesca province and one of the wealthiest Barcelona residents Solferino was involved in numerous economic activities, especially those related to agriculture: from taking part in fairs and competitions to animating mutual insurance associations, landholders' organizations, lobbying and drafting banking real estate credit regulations; he was member of Instituto Agrícola Catalán de San Isidro. At one point he was heavily engaged in an attempt to launch an engineering high school in Barcelona; his "Politécnico de Barcelona" company donated part of the Torre Baró estate to host the facilities, but Escuela de ingenieros electricistas idea has ultimately failed to take shape. He |
José Cecilio del Valle | Politics & Correspondence & Death | second round and Arce was declared winner. Following his defeat, Valle retired from politics and devoted himself to writing.
In 1830 President Francisco Morazán offered him to be ambassador to France, and or the Vice presidency. He declined both and instead went on to become Director of the Economic Society and Director of San Carlos University's Fine Arts department. Correspondence Jeremy Bentham and Valle corresponded. Before his death, Bentham sent a lock of his hair to Valle. Death In 1834 he defeated incumbent Francisco Morazán in the general election but never took over the presidency. He died on the road |
Kelly Gunther | Skating career | recalled. "It was heartbreaking."
A few months later, in March 2010, Gunther slipped during a 500-meter race at the Utah Olympic Oval. She crashed into the pads, causing a double-compound fracture in her ankle that nearly severed her foot from her leg. "2010 was definitely not one of my better years on the ice," she later reflected. "But it was the year that helped shape who I am". Most people who saw the injury felt Gunther would never skate again, let alone compete at a high level.
After surgery to repair her ankle, Gunther moved to Colorado Springs to |
McLaughlin Planetarium | Zeiss-Jena planetarium projector & Renovations in the late 1970s and early 1980s | were built around themes such as space travel, the mythical stories behind the constellations, and around Christmas-time, a show that investigated theories on stellar explanations for the Star of Bethlehem. A listing from 1970 includes shows titled The Story of Eclipses, which looked at how solar eclipses occur and their scientific importance, Man and the Zodiac which explored the history of mythology and astrology with regard to the night sky, and The Planet Venus which surveyed the history of the planet in mythology, the planet's motion across the sky and featured imagined views from its surface. Renovations in the late |
Joachim Dyfvermark | Reporting | bribed their way to these markets was published, which after several subsequent reports led to the resignation of many top official, among them the company’s CEO Lars Nyberg (2013) and the board. In 2015 Telia Sonera declared that they were selling all its assets in "Eurasia". The recipient of Telia Soneras payments for Uzbek licenses, Gulnara Karimova - the daughter to the longtime dictator Islam Karimov - was deposed by her father because of the international scandal following the publication. In 2013 the trio was awarded another "Guldspaden" by Swedish Investigative Editors and Reporters and with a third Stora journalistpriset |
John Cavallaro | Career | from the Academy of Oral Rehabilitation at NYU. |
Love of Life | Broadcast history | moved Love of Life ahead 30 minutes to 11:30/10:30, which put it against the highly popular Hollywood Squares. As such, Love of Life's audience share dropped from fifth place in the 1968/1969 Nielsens to 11th in the 1969/1970 season. This led to a major win for NBC in 1971 by having Hollywood Squares, Jeopardy!, and the serial Days of Our Lives reach the top five of all daytime programs. From this date, episodes again had a full 30-minute duration. On March 26, 1973, episodes were again reduced to fit a 25-minute slot to accommodate a newscast. By this time, |
Meradong District | null | Institute (Malay: Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia) Rajang Campus is also situated at about 17 kilometres from Bintangor town. |
Melian pithamphora | Shape and decoration | patterns. Between the vents, the foot is mostly decorated with double volutes, bordered above and below by geometric bands. An aureola follows as a conclusion. The figural images are usually quite graceful and elegant; the painters used opaque watercolours in very great quantities. Late examples depict figures in the Black figure style and others imitate the late animal frieze style. |
Mark (currency) | Early use | market of Cologne (Cologne mark: 233,856 g) was used to define the value of the official gold and siver currencies of the Holy Roman Empire including the Reichsthaler silver coin. In 1566, a Reichsthaler was introduced of which 9 were to be minted from a Cologne mark of fine silver.
In northern Germany (especially Hamburg and Lübeck) as well as in much of trade in the Baltic region, the customary unit of account was the Mark valued at 1/3 of a Reichsthaler. Marks were rarely minted, though. Instead, Schilling coins were minted with 48 Schillings representing one Reichsthaler; i.e. 16 |
Liu Yijun (guitarist) | Musical style | – an approach similar to hybrid picking. His solo work heavily utilizes the acoustic guitar, on which he often takes a guqin-inspired approach, and incorporates extended techniques such as tapped harmonics and drumming on the guitar's body. Liu was notably one of the first guitarists in China to make use of a seven-string guitar, which can be heard in his solo work. As early as 1992, Liu expressed a desire to "come up with something that goes beyond the boundaries" through reconnecting with Chinese musical traditions. He stated that "[Modern] Chinese culture has never lived up to the tradition because |
Magnification (album) | Recording | arrangements on the soundtrack to the drama film The Contender (2000) and enjoyed his musical style and use of harmonies. After several meetings with management Groupe finally met the band who after several days observing their work in the studio, supplied him a digital audio tape of three demos they had recorded and returned ten days later with orchestrations he had written for them using computer and keyboard samples at his home studio. It was a success, and Groupé worked on the remainder of the album, "doing more new things, adding different harmonies, Moog counterpoints, putting overtures in front of |
Men, Women, and Money | Plot | Men, Women, and Money Plot As described in a film magazine, left an orphan with $2,000 in cash, Marcel Middleton (Clayton) goes to visit some friends in New York City, where her phenomenal luck in bridge nets her funds for her support. Innocently, she falls in with a fast crowd and finds making ends meet a difficult task. Cleveland Buchanan (Cody) and Julian Chadwick (Cummings) become suitors, but their proposals do not include matrimony. With her luck at cards failing, she becomes indebted to Buchanan. When she refuses his attentions, he resolves to make himself worthy of her honest love |
Love and Goodbye and Hawaii | Plot | Love and Goodbye and Hawaii Plot Rinko and Isamo are separated, living together in the same apartment. In finalising their separation, Rinko is still not quite ready to give up on the relationship, and perhaps Isamo is showing signs as well. Until Isamo's workmate starts to show signs of interest in him. The story is centred around the pair's attendance to a wedding in Hawaii, which brings matters to a head. |
Mario Pugliese | Club career | Piacenza to play in the 2016-17 Lega Pro.
On 6 July 2017 Pugliese was loaned out to Serie B side Pro Vercelli.
On 31 January 2019 he joined Cavese on loan.
On 6 August 2019 he signed a 1-year contract with Vibonese. |
Manor House in Mošovce | Manor house park | YET YOUNGER THAN I SEEM. After World War II, the greenhouse was in a critical condition. People were disassembling the precious stone material and using it for construction of their own houses. Today, no trace can be found of the greenhouse. |
Mary Higgins Clark | Early career | Their first child, Marilyn, was born nine months after their wedding, with Warren Jr. arriving thirteen months later. A third child, David was born two years after his brother. Two months after Higgins Clark's short story sold, the fourth baby made her appearance and was promptly named Carol, after the heroine in her mother's story. After selling that first short story, Higgins Clark began regularly finding homes for her works. Through the writer's workshop she met an agent, Patricia Schartle Myrer, who represented Higgins Clark for twenty years until her retirement. They became such good friends that Higgins Clark named her fifth and last child |
Le Laudi | History & Scoring | Le Laudi History Suter composed the oratorio to mark the 100th anniversary of the Basler Gesangverein (Basel Choral Society), to whom the work is dedicated. He was a central figure in the musical life of Basel, as the director of the symphony concerts of the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft, director of the Liedertafel, of the municipal music school and the conservatory. He was director of the choir from 1902. The composition emerged in the summer of 1923 in Sils in the Engadine where Suter spent his holidays. The Italian text is the Cantico del Sole of Francis of Assisi. Scoring The oratorio |
Grahame-White Type VI | Design and development | the rectangular section nacelle behind a specially made curved radiator, with two crew members seated either side and the pilot seated behind them.
The control wires for the tail surfaces were carried inside the upper boom, an arrangement credited to Horatio Barber, for whose Aeronautical Syndicate Ltd North had worked. The aircraft was armed with a Colt .30-calibre machine gun on a flexible mounting at the front of the nacelle.
While it was originally intended to be powered by a 120 hp (89 kW) Austro-Daimler 6 cylinder inline, it was shown at the 1913 Olympia Aero Exhibition fitted temporarily with a 90 hp (67 kW) |
Kia Stevens | World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE (2010–2012) | broke down crying.
The following week, Kharma spoke for the first time to reveal she was pregnant and thus forced to take a leave of absence from WWE. During her absence, she was included as a downloadable playable character in the WWE '12 video game.
Kharma made a surprise return in the 2012 Royal Rumble match as the twenty-first entrant. She intimidated Michael Cole into eliminating himself before eliminating Hunico only to be thrown out by Dolph Ziggler. With her entrance, she became the third female, after Chyna and Beth Phoenix, to participate in a Royal Rumble match. This also marked |
Maria Kipp | Life | Maria Kipp Life Born in Germany, Kipp was the first woman to study at the Staatliche Fachschule für Texitilindustrie (State Academy for the Textile Industry), from where she graduated in 1923 as a textile engineer. In 1924, Kipp and her husband emigrated to the United States without sponsorship. They settled in Los Angeles where Kipp opened a successful studio, Maria Kipp Handweaves, specializing in handwoven furnishing fabrics for 60 years.
Modernist architects such as Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra sought out her designs for their interiors.
Neutra used Kipp's designs in his own home, as did other prominent Southern California |
Marus | Ottoman era & British Mandate era | paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruits as well as on goats. All the villagers were Muslim.
In the second half of the 19th century Algerian followers of Abdelkader El Djezairi have been defeated by the French in Algeria, and sought refuge in another part of the Ottoman Empire. They were given lands in various locations in Ottoman Syria, including Marus, and the close-by Dayshum, Ammuqa, Al-Husayniyya and Tulayl. British Mandate era In the British mandate period the village was classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. In the 1922 census of Palestine, |
Merlyn Rees | Member of Parliament & Retirement | once more banned by the British Government on 3 October 1975. Retirement When he retired from the House of Commons in 1992, he was created a life peer as Baron Merlyn-Rees, of Morley and South Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire and of Cilfynydd in the County of Mid Glamorgan and entered the House of Lords, having changed his name, on 23 June 1992, by deed poll to Merlyn Merlyn-Rees to allow his title to be Merlyn-Rees rather than Rees.
He was president of the Video Standards Council from 1990 and was the first Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan, |
Meradong District | null | Meradong District The Meradong District is located in Sarikei Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. The capital of Meradong District is Bintangor, Sarawak. The official census in 2006 stated Meradong as covering 719 sq km, making it the smallest district of Sarawak in terms of geographic area, and the district population from the 2010 National Census was 28,672. It is situated nearby Repok. Bintangor town has four secondary schools, SMK Meradong, SMK Bandar Bintangor, SMK Kai Chung, and SMK Tong Hua. There are also 32 primary schools, of which 18 are national schools (SK) and 14 are national type schools (SJK(c)). Malaysian Teachers Education |
Marcelle Auclair | Biography | Françoise, and Alain).
They divorced in 1938. |
Matt Simmons (Criminal Minds) | Character development and casting | Asian man can be that person in people's eyes.
— Daniel Henney
In both shows, Simmons is one of two main characters on the show who is happily married with children, the other being his supervisor Jack Garrett (Gary Sinise) on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Jennifer "JJ" Jareau on Criminal Minds. Showrunner Erica Messer noted that both Matt Simmons and Jack Garrett share similarities and, in conceiving Simmons as a younger agent with both a successful career and family life, hoped "to show that this kind of lifestyle can work". |
MA-31 | Kh-31 development & MA-31 history | MA-31 Kh-31 development The Kh-31 missile was developed by Zvezda-Strela in the Soviet Union starting in 1977 for service as a long-range anti-ship missile and anti-radiation missile, first being flown in 1982. Derived from the P-270 Moskit missile, the Kh-31 is conventional in shape, and has cruciform fins made from titanium, with a rocket-ramjet propulsion system providing thrust. MA-31 history Following the cancellation of the AQM-127 SLAT target drone program, a requirement for a new high-speed target to replace the MQM-8 Vandal still existed. In an unusual turn of events, the U.S. Navy chose to acquire examples of the Kh-31 |
Mandaloceratidae | Genera | central tube. Otherwise it is like Ovoverina.
Umbelloceras is a small breviconic mandaloceratid with a cross section ranging from slightly depressed to slightly compressed (width > height to width < height) and a T-shaped aperture in which the two lateral branches curve toward the venter.
Vesperoceras is a medium size, generally straight, breviconic mandaloceratid with a broad annular expansion to the anterior part of the phragmocone followed by a constriction at the base of the body chamber. The siphuncle is located midway between the center and venter. Segments are moderately to strongly expanded. The aperture may be open or constricted.
Mandaloceras was named |
Medical Renaissance | Medical procedures on the deceased | was from a large amount of blood that gathered around the chilic vein and the veins of the liver.
Doctors began doing autopsies on their private patients during the fifteenth century. In 1486, the Florentine patrician, Bartolomea Rinieri, was autopsied at her request so that her daughter could be treated for what caused her death. The surgeons discovered a diseased womb that had hardened. High-class members of society could request their own postmortem because they had the financial means.
Craniotomies were also used by surgeons to find the cause of death. This practice dates back to the thirteenth century. The Medici, a |
Martin McGartland | Home Secretary denial | admitting that I have been resettled and was being protected because of my service to them. I wonder how well briefed the Home Secretary is?"
May's department the Home Office oversees MI5 and she herself had signed the application in a court case brought by McGartland and his partner, both of whom are obliged to live under secret identities that were provided by MI5. McGartland additionally has a contract which was signed by MI5 after he was shot in England in which the representatives of the PSNI and Northumbria Police acknowledged his service in general terms. Because he is unable to |
Martha Scanlan Klima | Background | Martha Scanlan Klima Background Klima served in the Maryland House of Delegates for 20 years. First elected in 1982 and sworn in in 1983, she served on many committees, including: the Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee from 1983 until 1986, the Appropriations Committee from 1987 until 2003, the oversight committee on personnel from 1993 until 2003, the Joint Budget and Audit Committee from 1991 until 1994, the Special Joint Committee on Pensions from 1993 until 2003 and the Special Joint Committee on Group Homes from 1995 until 1997.
She was the Deputy Minority Whip from 1995 until 2002. She was |
Masahiko Kimura | Kimura in professional wrestling & Kimura vs. Waldemar Santana | after his wife was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and it is speculated by some that he began professional wrestling to pay for her medication. Indeed, the predicament was likely beyond the financial means of a police instructor, which was his paying job prior to professional wrestling.
In the Korean film about Rikidozan released in 2004, Kimura is portrayed by Masakatsu Funaki but his surname is written Imura rather than Kimura. Kimura vs. Waldemar Santana Kimura went to Brazil again in 1959 to conduct his last professional wrestling tour, and he was challenged by Waldemar Santana to a "real" (not choreographed) submission match. |
Mathiston, Mississippi | Education & Government | 1886. It was renamed Bennett Academy in 1897, and then Wood College in 1936. It closed in 2003. The former campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Government The Mathiston Police Department frequently conducts roadblocks on the highways running through the town in the part located in Webster County to search for and seize any and all alcohol being transported through the county. While the legality of such roadblocks are not in dispute, the ability for the police to seize alcohol from persons over 21, provided containers are unopened, will be prohibited after July |
McLaren v Caldwell | Aftermath | difficult for the federal government to disallow legislation that clearly fell under provincial jurisdiction, and led Macdonald increasingly to send matters to the courts. Essentially, disallowance was considered to be inconsistent with the rule of law, as well as being incompatible with the political conception of Canadian federalism.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in turn, increasingly ruled in favour of the provinces, with a broad interpretation of what constituted local matters. In that regard, it has been estimated that, in its history, the Judicial Committee overturned about half of all appeals from the Supreme Court of Canada, while only |
Lightning | Re-strike | or a portion of the length of the original leader. The dart leaders making connections with the ground are what cause a majority of subsequent return strokes.
Each successive stroke is preceded by intermediate dart leader strokes that have a faster rise time but lower amplitude than the initial return stroke. Each subsequent stroke usually re-uses the discharge channel taken by the previous one, but the channel may be offset from its previous position as wind displaces the hot channel.
Since recoil and dart leader processes do not occur on negative leaders, subsequent return strokes very seldom utilize the same channel on |
Managed lane | HOV lanes & Bus lanes | HOV vehicles and buses to access the highway without queuing for the ramp meter. Such ramp lanes are known as HOV bypass ramps. Bus lanes Bus lanes are lanes exclusively reserved for buses. The term busway is commonly used to refer to facilities that are reserved for exclusive use by buses. A bus-lane, more commonly located on a major arterial or roadway on separate right-of-way, is usually a component of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system and as a result the terms bus-lane, busway, and BRT are sometimes used synonymously. However, there is a distinction between a lane dedicated to |
Manhattan, Kansas | Historic businesses & Education | the largest brewery in Kansas until it ceased operations in 2018. The former Dickinson Theatres chain began in Manhattan in 1920, and grew to operate in seven states before it was purchased in 2014. Education Kansas State University is the largest employer and educational institution in the city of Manhattan with nearly 24,000 students. KSU is home to Wildcat sports, as well as a host to nationally recognized academics. Kansas State University has ranked first nationally among state universities in its total of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars since 1986. Manhattanites are said to "Bleed purple" due to |
Legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction | Alaska & Arkansas & California | The state argued that Uber was misclassifying drivers as contractors instead of employees, which was illegal. Arkansas A 2015 Arkansas law requires ridesharing companies to each pay a $15,000 annual fee and to vet potential drivers. California In May 2011, Uber received a cease-and-desist letter from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, claiming it was operating an unlicensed taxi service, and another legal demand from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that it was operating an unlicensed limousine dispatch. Both claimed criminal violations and demanded that the company cease operations. In response, the company, among other things, changed its name |
Hot Spot (musical) | Production & Synopsis | opening four times, and then running for only 43 "official" performances. According to Steven Suskin, "it was one of those big-budget, big-advance-sale bonanzas which go wrong and turn into highly public busts." According to the review in Billboard, "Predictions of failure preceded the show and these were confirmed when the New York Critics Circle passed a unanimous negative judgement." Synopsis Peace Corps volunteer, hygiene teacher "Sally Hopwinder", is stationed in a fictional nation, "D'hum" with decent living conditions. She concocts a plan to obtain U.S. aid for D'hum by convincing the Pentagon that Russia is about to invade it. |
Magnification (album) | Background & Recording | good around you in order to magnify everything that is good within". Recording In early February 2001, Yes entered Santa Barbara Sound Design, a recording studio in Santa Monica, California to work on a group of demos they had come up with for the album. With Howe based in England, he arrived at the studio after the rest had settled and found they already had "industriously started writing music" in a similar fashion to when he flew over to work on Keys to Ascension (1996), which made him proud. English engineer and producer Tim Weidner, known for his association with |
Little Man, What Now? (novel) | null | The complete 1932 edition of the novel is available in German at Projekt Gutenberg-DE.
The 1933 German film Kleiner Mann - was nun? was made under Nazi censorship. Fallada had already remarked in 1932 that the script had little to do with his novel, and that the script writers "would take a different approach." In 1934 the film Little Man, What Now? was released in the United States. It clearly reflects the situation of the young German mind during that period, especially the effects of war and the economic shut down and is a little closer to the novel than |
Henry Cholmley | Family | in about 1638 Lady Katharine Twisleton, widow of Sir George Twisleton, 1st Baronet of Barley, and daughter of Henry Stapleton of Wighill. They had two sons, Hugh (1642 – 7 January 1674) and Richard (15 September 1643 – before June 1672) and a daughter Henrietta Catherine (24 May 1645 – 25 June 1680) who married Sir John Tempest of Tong, Bracewell, Yorkshire and had issue. He was the brother of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet. |
Mary Higgins Clark | Early career & Aspire to the Heavens | night, Higgins Clark lost both her husband and her mother-in-law. Aspire to the Heavens Higgins Clark's initial contract to be a radio scriptwriter obligated her to write 65 four-minute programs for the "Portrait of a Patriot" series. Her work was good enough that she was soon asked to write two other radio series. This experience of fitting an entire sketch into four minutes taught Higgins Clark how to write cleanly and succinctly, traits that are incredibly important to a suspense novel, which must advance the plot with every paragraph. Despite the security offered by her new job, money was tight in the |
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center | Functional foods & Childhood obesity | garlic, blueberries, muscadine, mayhaw, black drum, soybeans, oysters and crawfish. These products are poised to boost economic opportunity in the state and improve individual health. Childhood obesity The LSU AgCenter is attacking the societal problem of obesity by aiming at children. Through the Smart Bodies program, children all over the state are exposed to educational information about eating properly and getting exercise through a school enrichment program. By going through the Body Walk exhibit, children learn about the human anatomy and the effects food has on the body. Research indicates the comprehensive program is making a difference. Children are learning |
Melaleuca incana subsp. tenella | Taxonomy and naming & Distribution and habitat | "in moist soil, tributaries of the Phillips River".
In a review of the genus in 1998, Melaleuca tenella Benth. was reduced to the present subspecies. The subspecies name (tenella) is from the Latin tener meaning "soft", "delicate" or "tender", "in reference to the appearance of the type specimen of this plant". Distribution and habitat Melaleuca incana subsp. tenella occurs near the coast of Western Australia between the Esperance district and Cape Arid in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions. It grows in sand in swampy sites. |
LaVaughn Robinson | Club dancing & Professor of tap dancing | Robinson had the opportunity to work with John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. At the time, Robinson worked from music charts. John Coltrane said: "Oh, I can play that." But he did not play it as it was on the page. The improvisational style proved incompatible with Robinson's dancing. Robinson said to Coltrane: "Well, look, I don't need the music, because I'm dancing the way I like to dance and the way I wanted to dance." Robinson focused his repertoire on tap as music, "sound tap," that made accompaniment a redundant distraction. Professor of |
Luton/Dunstable Urban Area | Future growth | Luton/Dunstable Urban Area The Luton/Dunstable Urban Area according to the Office for National Statistics is the conurbation (continuous built up area) including the settlements of Luton, Dunstable and Houghton Regis, in Bedfordshire, East of England.
Despite straddling district boundaries the conurbation shares many facilities including an integrated bus service and the large Luton and Dunstable General Hospital. The conurbation is located in the southern part of the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England, the current population (2011 census) is 258,018. This is an increase of 9.2% from the 2001 population of 236,318. Future growth The area is expected to grow due to |
Ma'danids | History | In 971 the Buyid amir 'Adud al-Daula, who had recently conquered the bordering province of Kerman from the Banu Ilyas, compelled the Ma'danids to recognize Buyid suzerainty. Soon after this, however, the Ma'danids switched their loyalties to the Turkish ruler of Ghazni, Sebük Tigin, beginning nearly a century of allegiance to the Ghaznavid dynasty.
In the early 11th century the ruler of Makran was Ma'dan. After Ma'dan's death in 1025/1026 a succession dispute broke out among his two sons, 'Isa and Abu'l-'Askar Husayn. The Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud negotiated a settlement between the brothers, but it broke down when 'Isa rebelled against |
Marcel Hirscher | Career & Personal life | It was Hirscher's seventh World Championship gold, tying him with compatriot Toni Sailer for the record number of Worlds golds won. Hirscher subsequently told the media that he would assess his future at the end of the season, but also stated that he thought that these were his last Worlds.
On 4 September 2019, Marcel Hirscher announced his retirement from alpine skiing. Personal life In June 2018, Hirscher married Laura Moisl, his long time girlfriend. On 7 October 2018, they celebrated the birth of their first child, a son. |
Merriton, South Australia | History | Merriton, South Australia History Merriton was originally a private subdivision of section 97 of the Hundred of Crystal Brook, County of Victoria, at the point just south of where the main road from Clements Gap to Crystal Brook crossed the Broughton River. The name and boundaries for the long-established locality were formalised in 2001. |
Manuel the Armenian | Possible life after 838 | Anzen and died shortly after. Traditional scholarship has largely accepted this account, but some modern historians have expressed doubts as to its veracity. The Belgian Byzantinist Henri Grégoire was the first to highlight its incompatibility with the narrative of Symeon Logothetes, speculating that it was a later invention, possibly carried out by the monks of the Monastery of Manuel, who venerated him as a saint and tried to mitigate his iconoclast past. Warren Treadgold, who considers Symeon Logothetes more reliable, also dismissed the reports of Manuel's post-838 survival as invented.
Other modern scholars continue to support the possibility of his continued |
Mendeleyevo Microdistrict | History | name Königin Luise (Queen Louise). Juditten developed into a garden town suburb; the conservation of the parish copse was due to the efforts of the Königsberg city councillor Theodor Krohne (1846-1925). The copse was later known as the Theodor-Krohne-Wäldchen.
As a result of the Prussian administrative reorganization following the Napoleonic Wars, Juditten was included within the rural district of Königsberg (Landkreis Königsberg i. Pr.), part of Regierungsbezirk Königsberg in East Prussia, on 1 February 1818. The Amtsbezirk Juditten, administered from Ratshof, was created north and west of Königsberg in 1874. It included Juditten proper, Lawsken, Moditten, Spittelhof, Waldthal; the estates Charlottenburg, |
Mark T. Smith | Life | his highly recognizable paintings. Corporate patronage helped Smith become an increasingly recognizable figure in the crowded New York City art world, and his patrons included the likes of MTV, Pepsi, AT&T, Budweiser, VH-1, Taco Bell, and many more. The distinctiveness of Smith’s work culminated in the national Absolut Vodka campaign in 1996, entitled "Absolut Smith".
His artwork has been displayed in the U.S. and abroad, and on the walls of discerning collectors and the collections of celebrities like Jay Leno, Neil Diamond, and Elton John. He also hand-painted a pair of PT Cruisers that were commissioned by Daimler-Chrysler that were driven |
Little Man, What Now? (novel) | null | restored sections added 'colour and atmosphere,' such as a dream like Robinson Crusoe island fantasy taking the main character away from his drab everyday life, a visit to the cinema to see a Charles Chaplin movie, and an evening at the Tanzpalast (Dance Palace).
Kleiner Mann is today considered a modern classic in Germany, with its depiction of the last days of the Weimar Republic, and was one of the first novels to be republished after the war in 1947. Its success in 1932 rescued Ernst Rowohlt's publishing house, and he made it No.1 in his numbered series of paperback novels. |
McCormick Subdivision | History | McCormick Subdivision History The route from Augusta to Greenwood was constructed by the Augusta & Knoxville railroad in 1882. In 1886 it became part of the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway and was later reorganized as the Charleston & Western Carolina Railway in 1896. The C&WC was later absorbed by the Atlantic Coast Line and passed through two more successor railroads, the Seaboard Coast Line and Seaboard System before finally being merged into CSX Transportation in 1986. Originally part of the larger Spartanburg Subdivision, the McCormick Subdivision was created in the early years following the creation of CSX. |
Manhattan, Kansas | Sites of interest & Economy | United States.
As the largest municipality in the Flint Hills region, Manhattan is host to the Flint Hills Discovery Center, a heritage and science center dedicated to the education and preservation of the Flint Hills and the remaining tall grass prairie. Economy Manhattan's economy is heavily based on public entities. Kansas State University is the largest employer in town, and its approximately 24,000 students help support the retail and entertainment venues in the city. The second-largest employer in Manhattan is the city school district. Additionally, many civilians and military personnel employed at nearby Fort Riley also live in Manhattan and support |
Margaret B. Fuller Boos | Pegmatite in the Colorado Front Range | green tourmaline. She discovered this rare mineral at the Bald Mt. pegmatite in 1939.
Margaret and her husband, Charles, were attracted to the pegmatite found in granite deposits throughout the front range. Although they were primarily working in the oil industry or "soft rocks", they spent their free time exploring their "hard rock" theory regarding pegmatite. One of the things that this couple accomplished, was the ability to distinguish all the varying types of granite that appeared throughout the front range. This included the "Sherman granite, Log Cabin granite, Longs Peak (Mt. Olympus) Vrain granite, Boulder Creek granite,Silver Plume granite, Mt.Evans |