In 1765 the system of 'dual government' meant the Nawabs ruled on behalf of the British, and were puppets to the British. In 1772 the system was abolished and Bengal was brought under direct control of the British. In 1793, when the "Nizamat" (governorship) of the Nawab was also taken away from them, they remained as the pensioners of the British East India Company. The last Nawab of Bengal, Mansur Ali Khan abdicated on 1 November 1880 in favour of his eldest son, Hassan Ali Mirza.
Lessemsauridae
Lessemsauridae is a clade of early sauropod dinosaurs that lived in the Triassic and Jurassic of Argentina and South Africa.
The phylogenetic analysis performed by Apaldetti and colleagues is shown below:
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"Not to be confused with the nematode Ingenia"
Ingentia is an early sauropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic of Argentina. The type specimen of Ingentia, PVSJ 1086, was discovered in the Quebrada del Barro Formation of northwestern Argentina. The only species, "Ingentia prima", meaning "first huge one", as the taxon was one of the first very large sauropodomorphs to evolve, along with its close relative Lessemsaurus. A second specimen, PVSJ 1087, was referred, containing five tail vertebrae, both the radius and ulna, a left calfbone and a right foot.
Ledumahadi (meaning "a giant thunderclap" in Sesotho language) is a sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. A quadruped, it was one of the first giant sauropodomorphs, reaching a weight of around , despite not having evolved columnar limbs like its later huge relatives.
Lessemsaurus is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Triassic period. It is unusual because it lived about 30 million years before the long-necked plant-eaters "Diplodocus" and "Brachiosaurus" lived.
The type species, "L. sauropoides", was formally described by José Bonaparte in 1999. It was found in the Los Colorados Formation of La Rioja Province, Argentina.
This dinosaur was around long and was discovered in strata dating to the Norian stage, around 210 million years ago.
Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh said:
Cookeville, Tennessee
Cookeville is a city in Tennessee in the United States. It is the county seat of Putnam County.
Death squad
A death squad is an armed paramilitary group formed to take the lives of life of a particular person(s), especially political opponents.
Cot-caught merger
The cot-caught merger is a sound change where the vowel in the word "cot" and and the vowel in the word "caught" come to sound the same and make the words "cot" and "caught" sound alike. It is also called the lot-thought merger. This sound change occurs for many people in the United States, Canada, Scotland and Ireland.
For example, people who have the cot-caught merger say these pairs of words the same way, but people who don't have the cot-caught merger say these pairs of words differently.
Christopher Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 in Mooresburg (Pennsylvania, United States) - February 17, 1890 in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, United States) was an American inventor and politician, famous for designing the first commercial typewriter and "QWERTY" keyboard used today.
Born in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, sholes moved to nearby Danville as a teenager, where he worked as an apprentice printer. After completing his apprenticeship, Sholes moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he became editor of the newspaper "Wisconsin Enquirer." Put in politics, he was a member of the Senate and the State Assembly. He served President Abraham Lincoln. The typewriter After having patented a counting machine with Samuel W. Souléen in 1864; An amateur inventor, Carlos Glidden suggested the possibility of turning his device into a typewriter. Four years later, on June 23, 1868, he patented his idea, to which he continued to dedicate a large part of his time. In 1872 he sold the patent (US $ 79,265) of his machine for $ 12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who reached an agreement with E. Remington and Sons (then manufacturers of sewing machines) to market what was known as "Typewriter. Sholes and Glidden ». Remington began the production of his first typewriter on May 1, 1873 in Ilion (New York).
Sholes continued working on new developments for the typewriter during the sixties, among the achievements obtained are the QWERTY keyboard in 1873 and the development of the mechanism that moves the blow to the type to be printed, inspired by the operation of the keys of the piano. He also developed the roller on which the paper is placed, a counterweight for the roller and the paper to move, the lever to change the line and the spacer""'.
The Upside
The Upside is a 2019 American comedy-drama movie directed by Neil Burger and written by Jon Hartmere. It is a remake of the French 2011 movie "The Intouchables". It was inspired by the life of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo.
The movie is about a paralyzed billionaire (Bryan Cranston) who becomes friends with a recently paroled convict (Kevin Hart) who he hires to take care of him.
Nicole Kidman, Golshifteh Farahani, Tate Donovan, Aja Naomi King and Julianna Margulies also star. It is the third remake of "The Intouchables" after the Indian movie "Oopiri" and the Argentinian movie "Inseparables" (both 2016).
The movie was originally to be distributed by The Weinstein Company in March 2018, but the movie was shelved and sold off following the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations.
It was released in the United States on January 11, 2019. "The Upside" has grossed over $69 million and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Hart and Cranston's chemistry and performances but criticized the plot for being "predictable and cliché".
Kjell Bäckman
Kjell Hilding "Tjalle" Bäckman (21 February 1934 – 9 January 2019) was a Swedish speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics in the 5000 m and 10000 m events. He won a bronze medal in the 10000 m; all three medalists of that event broke the previous world record. He won four long-distance titles: in the 5000 m (1959, 1961) and 10000 m (1959, 1960).
Boo (dog)
Boo (March 16, 2006January 18, 2019) was a Pomeranian dog that became an Internet celebrity. He was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. He had a popular Facebook page and four photo books were sold. As of March 2016, Boo had over 17.5 million Likes on Facebook. Boo was owned by Irene Ahn, a Facebook employee, who was also the owner of Boo's older brother, Buddy (died September 6, 2017).
He became popular in October 2010 after singer Kesha sent a tweet that she had a new boyfriend, which showed a picture of Boo.
Boo died in his sleep on the morning of January 18, 2019 of heart failure, aged 12. His owners said that he had begun to show signs of heart trouble after Buddy's death.
Lamia Al-Gailani Werr
Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (8 March 1938 – 18 January 2019) was an Iraqi archaeologist. Her works focused in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq. She was known for maintaining links between British and Iraqi archaeology under the Saddam Hussein regime.
She worked to preserve cultural heritage in the aftermath of the Iraq War. She was closely involved in the reconstruction of the National Museum of Iraq, where she had worked as a curator in the 1960s, and the founding of the Basrah Museum.
She was awarded the fifth Gertrude Bell Memorial Gold Medal by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq in 2009.
Al-Gailani died in Amman, Jordan, on 18 January 2019 from a heart attack while en route to Iraq, aged 80.
Evloghios (Hessler)
Evloghios (Hessler) (February 21, 1935 – January 20, 2019) was a German-born Italian religious figure. He was the Archbishop of Milan and Longobardia from 1990 until his death in 2019. He was Orthodox Metropolitan of Aquileia and Western Europe and Primate of the Holy Synod of Milan.
Evloghios died of complications from a stroke in Milan on January 21, 2019 at the age of 83.
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