General Albert Sidney Johnston commanded the Confederates. Johnston's second-in-command was P. G. T. Beauregard. Beauregard came up with a plan to recapture western Tennessee. Confederate soldiers from all over the Western theater gathered in Corinth. Then, starting on April 3rd, they marched north toward Grant's army. The Confederate Army was ready to attack on the morning of the 6th.
The battle started around dawn on April 6th. The Confederates surprised the Union Army. After fighting all day, Grant's army retreated back to Pittsburg Landing. Johnston was killed during the battle, and Beauregard took over the Confederate Army.
More Union soldiers arrived at the battlefield during the night. They were part of the Army of the Ohio, commanded by Don Carlos Buell.
Grant attacked the Confederates the next morning. The two armies fought all morning and during the afternoon. By 4 p.m., Beauregard decided to retreat back to Corinth.
The Confederates lost 10,698 casualties during the battle. Union soldiers buried the Confederate dead on the battlefield. The Union Army lost about 14,500 casualties during the battle.
Panavia Tornado
The Panavia Tornado is a twin-turbojet attack and electronic warfare aircraft. It was built by three European countries: Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Its first flight was in 1974. Its introduction was in 1979. The Royal Air Force used it in the Gulf War, war in Afghanistan, and war in Libya. Saudi Arabia also uses this aircraft.
The Tornado ADV is a fighter variant.
Electronic warfare
Electronic warfare is all military techniques for aerial reconnaissance, spying, and radar jamming. In electronic warfare, missiles like AGM-45 Shrike or AGM-88 Harm can be used to destroy radar or communication systems. Examples include deciphering encrypted messages, such as the messages decoded due to the British reverse engineering of the German Enigma.
Nippon Sei Ko Kai
The Nippon Sei Ko Kai is the Japanese branch of the Anglican Communion.
Hearse
A hearse is a car used to transport a coffin. It is usually used to go to a cemetery. Hearses are usually black or gray. They are driven by a mortician.
Shfela
Shfela (, Shephelah, also called , Shfelat Yehuda, "Judean foothills") is a region in Israel. It is between the Judaean Mountains and the south coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Brunel University
Brunel University is a university in west London. It is named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Sharon plain
The Sharon plain ( "HaSharon") is a region in Israel. It is on the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Tel Aviv and Haifa. It starts at the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv and ends at Mount Carmel.
Hassan Ademov
Hassan Ahmed Ademov (), (born 24 January 1953), is a Bulgarian politician of Turkish origin.
Alice Haldeman
Sarah Alice (Addams) Haldeman (June 5, 1853 – March 19, 1915) was a United States craftswoman, banker and philanthropist. She was the sister of social activist Jane Addams.
She was born in Cedarville, Illinois. Haldeman died from pneumonia. She outlived her husband and managed his bank after his death.
Charles Brenton Huggins
Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician, physiologist, and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers.
Huggins was born on September 22, 1901 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied at Acadia University and at Harvard University. Huggins died on January 22, 1997 in Chicago, Illinois from natural causes, aged 95.
Hugh Dempster
Hugh Dempster (August 3, 1900 – April 30, 1987) was a British theatre and movie actor.
Dempster was born on August 3, 1900 in London, England.
He starred in "Vice Versa", "Anna Karenina", "The Winslow Boy", "The Fan", "Scrooge", "The House Across the Lake", and in "The Ghost Train".
Dempster died from pneumonia on April 30, 1987 in Chicago, Illinois, aged 86.
James B. Bradwell
James Bolesworth Bradwell (April 16, 1828 – November 30, 1907) was an American lawyer, judge, and a representative from Illinois.
Bradwell was born April 16, 1828, at Loughborough, England to American parents. He was raised in Utica, New York and in Jacksonville, Illinois. In 1852, he married Myra Colby. They had four children. Bradwell died on November 30, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois from pneumonia, aged 79.
Thomas Reed (architect)
Thomas Reed (1817–1878), was a Danish architect.
He was born in the 19th century in the Saint Croix Island (in the time when it was a dependent territory of the Kingdom of Denmark) in 1817.
He studied in Germany and England, and arrived to Colombia in 1847. In Bogotá he was contracted to build the Colombian National Capitol by the president Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera. He also designed the Panopticon prison which was adapted in 1975 for the Colombian National Museum.
Reed died in 1878 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, aged 61.
Reading (disambiguation)
Reading is a way of getting information that is written.
It may also refer to:
Glenn Plummer
Glenn E. Plummer (born August 18, 1961) is an American actor. He was born in Richmond, California. He has acted in many movies and TV series. He married DeMonica Santiago-Plummer in 2001. They have two children. Santiago-Plummer filed for divorce in February 2013.
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth "Jacki" Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian actress.
Weaver played in many movies, TV productions and theater performances since the 1970s. In 1971, she got an "Australian Film Institute Award" for her performance in the movie "Stork" as "Anna". She got an award in the category supporting role for her performance in "Caddie" in 1976.
In 2010, she was best known for her role as "Janine Cody" in "Animal Kingdom". She got many prizes for it, including the Australian Film Institute, the "National Board of Review Award", the "LAFCA-Award" and the "Satellite Award" in the category supporting actress.
In 2012, she played in the movie "Silver Linings Playbook". For this performance, she got an Academy Award nomination in the category supporting actress.
Glasnost
Glasnost () was a policy that called for increased openness in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. It was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s. Glasnost is often paired with Perestroika (restructuring), another reform instituted by Gorbachev at the same time. The word "glasnost" has been used in Russian at least since the end of the 18th century.
The word was often used by Gorbachev for policies he believed might reduce corruption at the top, and moderate the abuse of power by the Central Committee. Russian human rights activist and dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva explained glasnost as a word that "had been in the Russian language for centuries. It was in the dictionaries and lawbooks as long as there had been dictionaries and lawbooks. It was an ordinary, hardworking, nondescript word that was used to refer to a process, any process of justice of governance, being conducted in the open".
Glasnost can also refer to the specific period in the history of the USSR during the 1980s when there was less censorship and greater freedom of information.
Nerve cord
The nerve cord is a bundle of nerve fibres which run the length of an animal's body. In invertebrates it runs along the ventral side under the gut. In chordates it runs along the dorsal side above the gut.
In vertebrates it runs inside the backbone, and is called the spinal cord.
Ion Creangă
Ion Creangă (1 March 1837, Humulești, Romania – 31 December 1889, Iași) was a Romanian writer. He wrote all kinds of stories including his autobiography "" (English: "Childhood memories").
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (21 June 1821, Bacău – 22 August 1890, Mircești) was a Romanian poet, politician, minister, and diplomat. He founded the Romanian Academy and Romanian Theatre.