Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (January 12, 1929 – August 12, 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician, one of the most significant of the 20th century. He was born in Helsingin maalaiskunta (now Vantaa).
After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he ended his career as a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He wrote 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles. Hintikka worked in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science.
IND Eighth Avenue Line
The IND Eighth Avenue Line is one of the lines of the New York City Subway. It opened in 1932. About 1 million people ride on it every day. The line is 23 km (14 mi) long. Services that use the line are colored blue.
There are three services using the line. They are:
Insolvency
Insolvency means that a person or organisation does not have enough money to pay all of the people who they owe money. Different countries have different definitions of exactly what insolvency means, but usually it means either that:
When a person or a business is insolvent, then people whom they owe money to may apply to court to put then into bankruptcy.
People often confuse the terms bankruptcy and insolvency, and sometimes they use one word when they really mean the other. Insolvency usually just means that a someone does not have enough money to pay their debts or (sometimes) that the total amount of their debts is worth more than the total amount of their assets. Bankruptcy is a formal legal process in front of the courts. Although the two terms are connected, just because a person is insolvent does not necessarily mean that they will go into bankruptcy.
Apart from being put into bankruptcy there are other risks to being insolvent. Many countries have laws to protect the public which means that the directors of a company who continue to trade whilst the company is insolvent may have to pay compensation to creditors, and in some cases may even be convicted of a crime.
Wrecking ball
A wrecking ball is a heavy steel ball used for demolishing large buildings. It is usually hung from a crane. A crane operator swings the ball back and forth like a pendulum. It works best tearing down masonry buildings. Early round shapes would sometimes get stuck in walls and roofs. The modern wrecking ball is pear-shaped to avoid this problem. It is not clear when the wrecking ball was invented. They were commonly in use by 1936 in New York City. Today they are no longer used as much in demolition. The wrecking ball has largely been replaced by the more efficient High reach excavator. "Think of a long-reach excavator as a demolition scalpel, compared to the mallet of a wrecking ball".
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Agustín Cejas
Agustín Mario Cejas (22 March 1945 – 14 August 2015) was a former Argentine football goalkeeper. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina and Brazil and has the all-time record number of appearances for Racing Club de Avellaneda. He was born in Buenos Aires. Cejas played for Argentina at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Cejas died of Alzheimer's disease on August 14, 2015 in Brazil, aged 70.
Stella Hackel Sims
Stella Hackel Sims (born December 27, 1926) was an American civil servant. She was the Vermont State Treasurer from 1975 through 1977. She later served as Director of the United States Mint from 1977 to 1981. She was a Democrat.
Sims was born in Burlington, Vermont.
Ben Crane
Benjamin McCully "Ben" Crane (born March 6, 1976) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He attended Baylor University. He was born in Portland, Oregon.
Bagdad, Florida
Bagdad is a town in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
Chumuckla, Florida
Chumuckla, Florida is a town in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
Dixonville, Pennsylvania
Dixonville is an unincorporated community in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States.
IND Sixth Avenue Line
The IND Sixth Avenue Line is one of the lines of the New York City Subway. It was finished in 1940. About 669,000 people ride on it every day. Services using this line have their bullets colored bright orange.
2047 (number)
2047 is a natural number that comes before 2048 and after 2046. It is a Mersenne number, but not a Mersenne prime because 2047 =23×89.
Colleges and universities in Hawaii
This is a list of colleges and universities in Hawaii.
Wikitravel
Wikitravel is a project to create a travel guide using open content from editors worldwide. It is based on wiki technology.
Wikitravel was created in July 2003 by Evan Prodromou and Michele Ann Jenkins. It is inspired in part by Wikipedia. The project uses MediaWiki, like the Wikipedia, but it is not a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikitravel formerly used a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0, but since January 1, 2010 uses a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Among other things, this facilitates the reprinting of pages.
Chevrolet Uplander
The Chevrolet Uplander was a minivan sold by the Chevrolet division of General Motorsf(GM)rom 2005-2009. The minivan replaced both the Venture minivan and the truck designed Astro. 2005 was the only model year for all-wheel drive this is due to the engine changing to a 3L V6 enging. GM said the AWD could not handle the torque. The Uplander was considered an imprpvement over its predecessor. It earned a Good in the IIHS' offset test and a Poor in side impact tests (without air bags, with air bags it earned an acceptable). While it was initially a decent seller compared to the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna the Uplander's sales were poor. In 2008 GM announced that it would shut down Doraville Assembly which manufactured the minivans and decided to focus on crossover SUVs and introduced the Traverse.
Juba II
Juba II was a king of Numidia. He lived from 52 or 50 BC to AD 23.
His wife was Cleopatra Selene II. She was the daughter of Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony.
He died in Mauretania.
Ian Woosnam
Ian Woosnam (born 2 March 1958) is a Welsh golfer. He was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. He won the Masters once.
Empire of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy of the nineteenth century that covered the areas of modern Brazil and Uruguay. Brazil was
originally a colony of the Portuguese Empire but became its center when the Prince Regent João VI fled the French invasion of Portugal in 1808. When João returned to Portugal he left his son Pedro as regent of the autonomous Kingdom of Brazil.
On 7 September 1822, Pedro declared Brazil to be an independent Empire and was acclaimed by the people as emperor. However, in 1831 he was able to return to Portugal. He abdicated the Brazilian throne and left his young son Pedro II as emperor. His reign saw three international wars and decades of economic prosperity and political stability.
Pedro I, Pedro II and the imperial family of Brazil wanted the abolition of slavery, and on 13 May 1888 the imperial princess regent, Isabel de Bragança and Bourbon signed the "Golden Law" on behalf of her father, ending slavery in Brazil. By that time, Brazil had become the last major nation to have slavery. Former plantation owners, dissatisfied with the abolition of slavery, joined the republican movement led by Deodoro da Fonseca, an elderly Marshal, to carry out a Coup d'etat and install a republic which became Brazil's first dictatorship on November 15, 1889. The imperial family was exiled, and the Republican government persecuted, tortured and killed all those who opposed the regime.
IND Crosstown Line
The IND Crosstown Line is one of the lines of the New York City Subway. Only one service operates on this line, and this is the G service, which runs from Court Square to Church Avenue. Services using this line are colored lime green.
BMT Canarsie Line