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The original version of Syndicate is a tactical shooter developed by Bullfrog Productions and produced by Peter Molyneux in 1993 Electronic Arts had wanted to make a new Syndicate game for several years but had not found an opportunity to do so They hoped to bring new elements and drastically altered gameplay concepts that would suit the franchise s universe They eventually partnered with Starbreeze which they recognized as an excellent studio for making first person video games with distinctive styling Pre production of the game began in 2007 it was carried out by a small team of staff members after the studio completed work on The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena However mid way through the game s development there were also many creative differences between the developer and the publisher and the two companies suffered from an inharmonious relationship
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In March 1996 Goldstone was named chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg He served for two terms stepping down in September 2006 In October 2003 Goldstone gave a lecture entitled Preventing Deadly Conflict at the University of San Diego s Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace Justice Distinguished Lecture Series He was a Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University School of Law in spring 2004 and in the fall he was the William Hughes Mulligan Visiting Professor at Fordham University School of Law In spring 2005 he was the Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor Law at Harvard Law School Goldstone participated as guest faculty in the Oxford George Washington International Human Rights Program in 2005
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Belgrade is the financial centre of Serbia and Southeast Europe with total 17 000 000 m office space and is home to the country s central bank Currently over 600 000 people are employed in 120 286 companies 22 600 enterprises and 50 000 shops City of Belgrade owns 267 147 m office space available for rent
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Shinji Mikami the creator of the Resident Evil franchise released his new survival horror game The Evil Within in 2014 Mikami stated that his goal was to bring survival horror back to its roots even though this is his last directorial work as he was disappointed by recent survival horror games for having too much action
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The species was first described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1896 under the name Boletus tabacinus Peck collected the type specimens in red clay on the bank of a roadside ditch in Alabama William Alphonso Murrill transferred the species to his then newly described genus Ceriomyces in 1909 this genus has since been subsumed into Boletus Rolf Singer moved the species to Tylopilus in 1944 Although Singer considered B tabacinus to be the same species as Boletus pisciodorus this opinion was contested by William Alphonso Murrill who after examining the type specimens of both species considered them to be distinct Murrill s conclusion was later corroborated by Alexander H Smith and Harry D Thiers in the 1971 monograph of boletes In 1945 Singer defined the varieties amarus and dubius that he collected in Florida
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Henry was born in Silsbee Texas As a child he was a big wrestling fan and Andr the Giant was his favorite wrestler While attending a wrestling show in Beaumont Texas young Henry tried to touch Andr as he was walking down the aisle but tripped over the barricade Andr picked him up out of the crowd and put him back behind the barricade Henry played football in high school until his senior year when he strained ligaments in his wrist during the first game of the year and scored below 700 on the SAT When Henry was 12 years old his father Ernest died of complications from diabetes When he was 14 years old Henry was diagnosed with dyslexia
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After the bill s passage Johnson was appointed by Governor Stevenson to the institution s inaugural Board of Regents which convened in Wheeling on April 20 1870 Johnson and his fellow board members began a competition among West Virginia municipalities for the location of the new institution for the deaf and blind the three finalists were Wheeling Parkersburg and Romney The board selected Wheeling which offered its Female College campus However after the board s adjournment Female College supporters unwilling to see the school closed pressured city authorities to rescind their offer At the board s June 23 1870 meeting Johnson and his colleagues unanimously selected Romney s proposal offering the Romney Classical Institute campus and an adjoining 15 acres 6 1 ha of property on behalf of the Romney Literary Society When the institution s site was finalized the board reconvened on July 20 1870 in Romney at the old Romney Classical Institute campus and selected its academic faculty and personnel H H Hollister of the Ohio Institution for the Deaf and Blind was chosen as the school s first principal and Johnson was appointed principal teacher of its School for the Blind
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During the late 1920s and 1930s Dlenenga was dominated by the Workers Sports Federation AIF and served as its main stadium in Oslo AIF s Grnerlkka chapter was established at Dlenenga and used it as its training ground Dlenenga was used for major AIF tournaments and the largest tournament took place 5 July 1929 with 500 participants It also served as the terminus of many of AIF s and other labor movement parades Each May Day the stadium would be packed From the early 1930s AIF moved its largest tournaments to Jordal The local AIF club was particularly good at boxing and in 1937 gathered thousands of spectators to watch a boxing match at Dlenenga
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Eric Goldman of IGN gave the season a 7 5 out of 10 calling it a fun lighthearted but fairly disposable piece of entertainment noting that it improved through the season especially following the Captain America The Winter Soldier tie in and that by the end of the season the series was starting to come into its own Though he found the main cast s performances to all be good and praised the strong guest and recurring stars Goldman found the main characterizations to be weak during the first half of the season and he also criticized the pacing of certain overarching plotlines noting the mystery of Coulson s return Skye s parentage etc moved far too slow with relatively minor revelations treated as though they were big reveals
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AV Club s Noel Murray graded it with a B SFScope contributor Sarah Stegall wrote Tightly written well acted and directed with a sure hand this second episode of the season bears out my original prediction this year is going to rock Andrew Hanson from the Los Angeles Times praised the episode s use of a Harold in which three separate plots working off a central theme converge together He also loved the climatic scene involving a gunshot induced deaf Peter and the subway I hope more people were watching this episode for so many reasons To see how good Fringe has become to get addicted to the show and most important to see that they quoted my blog in the promo for next week Thursday night has become Fringe night
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Russian forces present at the battle included 180 infantry battalions 164 cavalry squadrons 20 Cossack regiments and 55 artillery batteries 637 artillery pieces In total the Russians fielded 155 200 troops There were 10 000 Cossacks as well as 33 000 Russian militiamen in the area who did not participate in the battle After the battle the militia units were broken up to provide reinforcements to depleted regular infantry battalions Of the 637 Russian artillery pieces 300 were held in reserve and many of these were never committed to the battle
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Willamette University College of Law is a private law school located in Salem Oregon United States Founded in 1842 Willamette University is the oldest university in the Western United States The College of Law which was founded in 1883 and is the oldest law school in the Pacific Northwest has approximately 30 law professors and enrolls about 300 students with about 125 of those of students enrolled in their first year of law school The campus is located across the street from the Oregon State Capitol and the Oregon Supreme Court Building
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All populations are migratory and most birds winter in Africa south of the Sahara with just a few records from Pakistan Morocco and Israel Migration is mainly at night singly or in loose groups of up to twenty birds European breeders cross the Mediterranean and North Africa whereas eastern populations move through the Middle East and East Africa Some Asian birds may therefore cross 100 of longitude on their travels Most birds winter in eastern or southeastern Africa although individuals of the nominate race have been recently discovered wintering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo records elsewhere in West Africa may be wintering birds of this subspecies or C e meridionalis Most autumn migration takes place from August to September and the birds return to the breeding grounds by May Vagrants have occurred in Iceland the Faroe Islands the Seychelles the Azores Madeira and the Canary Islands
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In the aftermath of the Great Revolt Henry held negotiations at Montlouis offering a lenient peace on the basis of the pre war status quo Henry and Young Henry swore not to take revenge on each other s followers Young Henry agreed to the transfer of the disputed castles to John but in exchange the elder Henry agreed to give the younger Henry two castles in Normandy and 15 000 Angevin pounds Richard and Geoffrey were granted half the revenues from Aquitaine and Brittany respectively Eleanor however was kept under effective house arrest until the 1180s The rebel barons were kept imprisoned for a short time and in some cases fined then restored to their lands The rebel castles in England and Aquitaine were destroyed Henry was less generous to William of Scotland who was not released until he had agreed to the Treaty of Falaise in December 1174 under which he publicly gave homage to Henry and surrendered five key Scottish castles to Henry s men Philip of Flanders declared his neutrality towards Henry in return for which the King agreed to provide him with regular financial support
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Fire control technology advanced quickly during the years immediately preceding World War I and the development of the director firing system was a major advance This consisted of a fire control director mounted high in the ship which electrically provided gun data to the turrets via pointers which the turret crewmen only had to follow The director officer fired the guns simultaneously which aided in spotting the shell splashes and minimized the effects of the roll on the dispersion of the shells Lion received her system in early 1915 while undergoing repairs after the Battle of Dogger Bank and Princess Royal got hers in early 1916 A second director was added to each ship in 1918
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The incident occurred with 1 15 remaining in the Knicks home game at Madison Square Garden where the Nuggets were leading 119 100 The Knicks Mardy Collins fouled the Nuggets J R Smith on a fast break by slapping his arms around Smith s neck knocking him to the ground As Smith stood up to confront Collins Nate Robinson pulled Smith away and then began pushing and shouting at him David Lee tried to hold Smith back but Smith broke free and charged into Robinson causing both players to fall into the photographers and front row courtside seats before they were quickly separated by teammates
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In 1921 his daughter Elenore Stratton graduated from Berkeley That August she married Harvard graduate Edward Russell Dewey of New York at her father s house and moved to the city where she had done social settlement work following graduation The same year his son attended Berkeley The Berkeley department of psychology officially split from the department of philosophy with Stratton as its first chair on July 1 1922 His second daughter Florence graduated from Berkeley with a BA in 1929
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The central Buddha Hall is tall with a large paved courtyard A porch leads to the open courtyard which is two concentric circles with two temples one in the outer circle and another in the inner circle The outer circle has a circular path with a number of large prayer wheels unk this path leads to the main shrine which is surrounded by chapels Only one of the temple murals remains depicting the arrival of Queen Wencheng and an image of the Buddha The image brought by the king s Nepalese wife and initially kept at Ramoche was moved to Jokhang and kept in the rear center of the inner temple This Buddha has remained on a platform since the eighth century on a number of occasions it was moved for safekeeping The image amidst those of the king and his two consorts has been gilded several times In the main hall on the ground floor is a gilded bronze statue of Jowo Sakyamuni 1 5 metres 4 ft 11 in tall representing the Buddha at age twelve The image has a bejeweled crown cover around its shoulder a diamond on its forehead and wears a pearl studded garment The Buddha is seated in a lotus position on a three tiered lotus throne with his left hand on his lap and his right hand touching the earth A number of chapels surround the Jowo unk dedicated to gods and unk The most important bodhisattva here is the Avalokiteshwara the patron saint of Tibet with a thousand eyes and a thousand arms Flanking the main hall are halls for Amitabha the Buddha of the past and unk the Buddha of the future Incarnations of Sakyamuni are enshrined on either side of a central axis and the Buddha s warrior guard is in the middle of the halls on the left side
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In its original broadcast Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala Annoyed Grunt cious finished 38th in ratings for the week of February 3 9 1997 with a Nielsen rating of 8 8 equivalent to approximately 8 5 million viewing households It was the third highest rated show on the Fox network that week following The X files and King of the Hill
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The second episode The Writer was released on 12 October 2010 Erik Brudvig of IGN called it a must buy for anyone that already purchased The Signal and said it satisfyingly closed out the game s story He did feel that both DLCs were pricey for the amount of content they provided
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Dantidurga s successor Krishna I brought major portions of present day Karnataka and Konkan under his control During the rule of Dhruva Dharavarsha who took control in 780 the kingdom expanded into an empire that encompassed all of the territory between the Kaveri River and Central India He led successful expeditions to Kannauj the seat of northern Indian power where he defeated the Gurjara Pratiharas and the Palas of Bengal gaining him fame and vast booty but not more territory He also brought the Eastern Chalukyas and Gangas of Talakad under his control According to unk and Sen the Rashtrakutas became a pan India power during his rule
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Circa 1875 the Montauk tribe began renting out Montauk Point for pasturage through the Proprietors Company the company took possession of the grazing allotments and paid the tribe an annuity Circa 1880 the shareholders of the company disagreed over whether the lands should continue to be leased or whether they should be re apportioned In 1878 Robert M Grinnell sued Edward M Baker et al for partition and division of the allotments In Grinnell v Baker unreported the court ordered the lands sold at public auction subject to the Montauk claim with the proceeds distributed equally among the non Indian lessees rather than the Montauk tribe
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Youngblood was elected to NFL All Pro teams five times 1974 1975 1976 1978 1979 during his 14 years with the Rams and was an All NFC selection seven times 1974 80 In addition Youngblood was a second team All Pro in 1973 1977 and 1980 and was second team All NFC in 1973 and 1984 He was also named to seven Pro Bowls and was a first alternate to the game in 1984 his final season Youngblood was also on the 1984 All Madden team and was chosen by John Madden as the player who most exemplified the All Madden team
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Strickland s first lead role came when producer Doug Belgrad saw the dailies of her scene in Something s Gotta Give He cast her opposite Johnny Messner and Morris Chestnut in the jungle set horror film Anacondas The Hunt for the Blood Orchid the sequel to Anaconda 1997 Strickland played an accomplished research scientist who travels to Borneo as part of an expedition team searching for a species of plant rumored to have life extending properties She said she initially did not want to follow a Woody Allen film with a snake movie but that she changed her mind because the hero was a female Southerner who was not a complete idiot or a chick in shorts about to get whacked Though its box office revenue tripled its production budget Anacondas did not perform as well as its predecessor and most reviews panned the project The cast received positive comment from Variety magazine and the Chicago Sun Times s Roger Ebert but a critic for the San Diego Union Tribune said the film was so stupidly plotted and badly acted it becomes unintentionally funny and described Strickland and her co stars work as garden variety bad Other reviews focussed on the attractiveness of Strickland and her castmates Slant Magazine said populated with anonymous attractive plastic people from the Los Angeles talent pool During the same period The Florida Times Union referred to her as the pride of Patterson
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Further stadium development is expected to occur in the future Any renovation will involve replacing the old North Stand of the former National Stadium with a new stand similar to the three existing stands of the new Millennium Stadium This will make the stadium bowl shaped and will increase capacity to around 80 000 It will resolve the existing problems of deteriorating concrete quality on the old structure in the north stand
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The disposition of the substructures of the layer pyramid is extremely similar to that found in the Buried Pyramid of Sekhemket Consequently Mark Lehner and others suggest that the two pyramids must have been constructed very close in time
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On 11 June 1977 Rowland was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the military division KBE In July the same year he was awarded the National Medal with First Clasp given for diligent long service to the community Rowland s original three year term as CAS was extended by a year He retired from the Air Force in March 1979 and was succeeded by his deputy and former classmate at RAAF Staff College Air Vice Marshal Neville McNamara
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The original series was executive produced by Bullen with Granada s head of comedy Andy Harries and produced by Christine Langan Spencer Campbell and Emma Benson 32 episodes were broadcast over the original five series from 15 November 1998 to 16 March 2003 A reboot of the original series with some of the original cast is planned for 2016 The series is set in Greater Manchester and was primarily filmed there for all five years Filming occasionally went overseas to locations such as Belfast Paris and Sydney To distinguish the look of the series from regular sitcoms all episodes were shot on film stock and were overseen by directors with little television experience creating a visual style more akin to advertisements Jon Jones was nominated for a British Academy Television Craft Award for his work on the third series
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In 1928 the Zionist Organisation reported that John Chancellor High Commissioner of Palestine believed that the Western Wall should come under Jewish control and wondered why no great Jewish philanthropist had not bought it yet
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In August 2011 a leaked clip of Silas preparing to attack Theresa was posted on YouTube which led viewers to believe that Theresa would become his next victim which was confirmed in the fourth series of Hollyoaks Later Porter said that it was scary and worrying however she would not confirm whether Silas killed her character Emma Smithwick the programme s producer confirmed that the late night episodes would feature the death of a regular character
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At the start of March Stupid Girl debuted at 48th on the UK airplay chart and the band s debut album re charted at 27 on the album chart Later Stupid Girl debuted as the highest new entry on the UK Singles Chart at 4th which remains the band s highest charting single On its second week Stupid Girl dropped to 10th as Garbage broke into the albums top ten for the first time On the airplay chart Stupid Girl peaked at 5th and spent the entire following month within the top ten Stupid Girl clocked up seven weeks in the top 75 and sold 120 000 copies
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The episode s cold open was filmed in a water tank using a replica P 51 Mustang plane which had been designed by the art director Bowman also needed to direct a scene in which Gillian Anderson would react to a memory of playing with her sister as a child the scene involved digitally compositing the children playing into Anderson s footage Bowman asked Anderson to act towards a tree as though it were her sister later telling her I m going to tell everybody I can that you just did that great reaction to a tree Bowman also reshot the episode s ending as originally Duchovny and Lea were to walk past the camera and continue off screen Feeling this was not effective he replaced this with a walking shot which continued straight towards and into the camera noting that Nick will jump in front of a truck if he think it will make a scene better
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After breaking camp in the morning the carters set out across the prairie transits of the unprotected open prairie between places of refuge were known as traverses Streams often had to be forded where the water was too deep the carts were unloaded the wheels were taken off and lashed together or affixed under the cart the assemblage was covered with hide to form a hull and the makeshift craft was reloaded and floated across The traders endeavoured to ford a stream at the end of the day rather than start the next day with the crossing to allow time to dry out overnight
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Within a year of Albert Wise s death Martha Wise though not considered a particularly good or attractive catch found new male companionship in the form of Walter Johns who worked as a farmhand on property adjacent to her farm The relationship was frowned upon by Wise s family and both Wise s mother Sophie Hasel and her aunt Lily Gienke made no secret of their desire for Wise to end the relationship By the end of 1924 Wise had acquiesced and the relationship ended Johns moved to Cleveland and the couple lost contact
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The void left by the disappearance of the old semi autonomous civic institutions was filled by the theme system which entailed dividing Asia Minor into provinces occupied by distinct armies that assumed civil authority and answered directly to the imperial administration This system may have had its roots in certain ad hoc measures taken by Heraclius but over the course of the 7th century it developed into an entirely new system of imperial governance The massive cultural and institutional restructuring of the Empire consequent on the loss of territory in the 7th century has been said to have caused a decisive break in east Mediterranean Romanness and that the Byzantine state is subsequently best understood as another successor state rather than a real continuation of the Roman Empire
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Homer and Bart are enjoying themselves until an angry mob of truckers get in a showdown with Homer and he survives without the help of the Autodrive system which had ejected itself from the truck by managing to get the truck to jump over the others The truckers briefly consider giving up scamming before deciding just to bootleg Beanie Babies Homer and Bart finish the shipment of unk and migrant workers by taking it to Atlanta but they still need transport home The Lord provides one as a freight train full of napalm headed back to Springfield needs a driver as the original driver had quit because he didn t want to deliver a train full of napalm to Springfield
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Theo Osterkamp pointed to the massed formations used by the British Big Wing and put their use down to the ineffectiveness of the 15 September raids Gring was delighted with the news that the British were committing mass formations to battle The Big Wing s use would allow the German fighters to engage and destroy RAF fighters in large numbers However the Germans had not realised this stratagem was by no means the uniform strategy in Fighter Command Nevertheless the OKL were still confident of victory It blamed the bad weather and RAF s last minute change of strategy for prolonging summer operations Still the Luftwaffe bomber crews were ordered to prepare winter quarters The campaign turned to London for the duration of 1940 It would witness some large scale daylight air battles but it gradually turned to a campaign by night It would become known as The Blitz
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The duration of warfarin treatment depends on the circumstances and underlying causes of the condition If the thrombosis developed under temporary circumstances eg pregnancy three months are regarded as sufficient If the condition was unprovoked but there are no clear causes or a mild form of thrombophilia 6 to 12 months is advised If there is a severe underlying thrombosis disorder warfarin treatment may need to continue indefinitely
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She announced her upcoming Neon Lights Tour including a Canadian leg on 29 September 2013 which began February 9 2014 and ended May 17 On October 21 she released Let It Go for the Disney film Frozen which was released in theaters on November 27 and the song was promoted as the single for the film s soundtrack The song peaked in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 38 spending twenty weeks on the chart On December 18 2013 Lovato confirmed that she would not return to the The X Factor for a fourth season On May 18 2014 Somebody to You featuring Lovato was released as the fourth single from The Vamps debut album Meet the Vamps On May 29 she announced her fourth concert tour and first world tour covering 25 cities the Demi World Tour and its first North American dates In November 2014 Lovato opened the UK shows on Enrique Iglesias s Sex and Love Tour She also worked with her longtime friend Nick Jonas on a song for his self titled album called Avalanche released November 2014 Lovato was featured on Up the second single from Olly Murs fourth studio album Never Been Better
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Over time slaves gained increased legal protection including the right to file complaints against their masters A bill of sale might contain a clause stipulating that the slave could not be employed for prostitution as prostitutes in ancient Rome were often slaves The burgeoning trade in eunuch slaves in the late 1st century AD prompted legislation that prohibited the castration of a slave against his will for lust or gain
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French casualties are harder to calculate but were significantly higher Estimates of French losses range from 2 000 to 5 000 with a suggested median point of 3 500 which includes more than 1 000 captured wounded and nearly 2 000 killed half of whom died on Orient In addition to Admiral Brueys killed and Admiral Blanquet wounded four captains died and seven others were seriously wounded The French ships suffered severe damage Two ships of the line and two frigates were destroyed as well as a bomb vessel scuttled by its crew and three other captured ships were too battered ever to sail again Of the remaining prizes only three were ever sufficiently repaired for frontline service For weeks after the battle bodies washed up along the Egyptian coast decaying slowly in the intense dry heat
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Dracula s Daughter was Gloria Holden s first starring role and reportedly she was extremely displeased at having been assigned it Like many actors Holden looked down on horror films She had also seen Bela Lugosi struggle over the years since Dracula was made to free himself from typecasting and feared that the role would lead to the same fate for her Critic Mark Clark believes that ironically it may have been Holden s disgust for the role that led to the quality of her performance Her disdain for the part translates into a kind of self loathing that perfectly suits her troubled character
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Berger s evasion of Wehrmacht imposed recruiting restrictions came to a head in June when the Chief of the OKW Operations Staff Generalmajor Alfred Jodl initiated an investigation of SS recruiting operations within the Reich The result was that around 15 000 SS inductions were held up by various Wehrmacht military district headquarters Berger became aware of Jodl s inquiry and advised Himmler that even their inquiries had underestimated his success giving the example that the Wehrmacht believed he had exceeded the June quota for SS Division Totenkopf by 900 men when in fact the true figure was 1 164 He boasted to Himmler that during the whole recruiting campaign he had signed up 15 000 men for SS Division Totenkopf when Hitler had only authorised the recruiting of 4 000 for the division in the same period To justify his actions Berger pointed to the fact that just before the French surrender Hitler had ordered the release of over age SS reservists In the SS Division Totenkopf this meant 13 246 of the 20 000 strong formation
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Clinton and Obama forged a good working relationship without power struggles she was a team player within the administration and a defender of it to the outside and was careful that neither she nor her husband would upstage the president Clinton formed an alliance with Secretary of Defense Gates as they shared similar strategic outlooks Obama and Clinton both approached foreign policy as a largely non ideological pragmatic exercise She met with him weekly but did not have the close daily relationship that some of her predecessors had had with their presidents moreover certain key areas of policymaking were kept inside the White House or Pentagon Nevertheless the president had trust in her actions
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USS Wadsworth Destroyer No 60 DD 60 was a Tucker class destroyer built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I The ship was the first US Navy vessel named for Alexander Scammel Wadsworth
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After the declaration of war on Nazi Germany by Britain and France in the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland nine months of stalemate took place along the Western Front After the Polish Campaign in October 1939 the planners of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe Luftwaffe High Command and the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Supreme Command of the Armed Forces turned their attentions to Western Europe
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