World Trade Center bombing | ... international terrorists, possibly the same group that had carried out the | two years earlier. The FBI also thought that a drug cartel might have been ... |
Fable III | ... nd The Movies; in addition, the studio may potentially have been working on | and The Dimitri Project |
September 11 attacks | ... ni Hanjour could pilot and crash the plane into the Pentagon as part of the | . The crash killed all 64 passengers aboard the aircraft and 125 in the Pe ... |
AIDS | ... al health and vaccination initiatives against global epidemics such as HIV, | and tuberculosis, and to increase the support after emergencies and disast ... |
Greece | ... changed Calumet's name to Laurium, after the famous mining town in ancient | . Laurium is located in the center of the Copper Country, the first major ... |
King Lear | ... d and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet (1935), Richard II (1937, 1953), | (1950, 1955), Much Ado About Nothing (1952, 1955, 1959) and his signature ... |
2001 anthrax attacks | ... as able to save Weston). He also was the Congressional spokesman during the | |
Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 | On June 23, 1967, | crashed outside of Blossburg with a loss of all 34 passengers and crew. Fl ... |
Indiana Gas Boom | ... ed there. On March 31, 1887, natural gas was discovered in Anderson. As the | began, this discovery led new businesses that could use natural gas, such ... |
plague | ... before that time. Over one-third of the population of Norwich died during a | epidemic in 1579. By the 16th century Norwich had grown to become the seco ... |
Battle of Beaver Dam Creek | The first was the | , which began on June 26, 1862. Confederate Gen. Gideon E. Martin launched ... |
California Gold Rush | ... ning "I have found it!" This exuberant statement of successful (or hopeful) | miners is also the official Motto of the State of California |
Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris | A year after the divorce, | on 31 August 1997. At the time, the Duke was on holiday at Balmoral with t ... |
French Revolution | During the | , Fontainebleau was temporarily renamed Fontaine-la-Montagne, meaning "Fou ... |
German reunification | ... ron Cross as the official emblem of West Germany's Bundeswehr. Today, after | , it appears in the colours blue and silver as the symbol of the "new" Bun ... |
American Revolution | ... s, and Quakers through to the period of English rule, and beyond. After the | , the Mid-Atlantic region hosted each of the historic capitals of the Unit ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... tagon, was erected outside the Shanksville firehouse near the crash site of | |
Macbeth | ... out Nothing which he first played in 1930 and revived throughout the 1950s, | and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and King ... |
Mukden Incident | ... ded his influence to Northern China around Beijing and Hebei. Following the | of 1931, when the Japanese invaded and took full and direct control over M ... |
attacks on September 11, 2001 | ... on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event. After the | , the NCAA ordered all football games scheduled for the weekend after the ... |
Great Plague | ... ich had grown to become the second largest city in England, but in 1665 the | again killed around one third of the population. During the English Civil ... |
Shannon wavelet | ... relation to the signal size. A wavelet without compact support such as the | would require O(N^2). (For instance, a logarithmic Fourier Transform also ... |
reunification of Ireland | ... nce been revealed that Mountbatten had been favourable towards the eventual | |
The Times | ... th artists such as Eric Clapton and David Gilmour. He has been described by | as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundarie ... |
French Revolution | ... e of the manuscripts at Anchin Abbey and annotated many of them. During the | his manuscripts passed to the library at Douai |
Transfiguration | ... y Beveridge suggest that it was of European origin, and possibly showed the | . Wherever it came from, and whatever it represented, it was clear that a ... |
Panic of 1893 | ... laid gravel roads, and dammed Turtle Creek, forming Exall Lake, before the | brought a blow to his fortunes, halting development. Afterwards, he began ... |
October 2005 | ... risis between the two countries. Delhi again witnessed terrorist attacks in | and September 2008 resulting in the deaths of 62 and 30 civilians respecti ... |
Klein–Gordon equation | ... ld and pointed out connections to the Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau equation and the | |
Quake III Arena | ... anks. He sucks at Quake, even once managing to die at the startup screen in | ; in addition, he manages to die by falling into lava in any game that con ... |
California Gold Rush | Secondarily to the | in the Sierras, prospectors discovered gold in the nearby Trinity region ( ... |
American Revolution | By the time of the | , it was the most populous county in Virginia. During the War of 1812, imp ... |
People Power Revolution | ... neral Fidel V. Ramos took a stand against Marcos, ushering in the bloodless | that removed Marcos from power and installed Corazon Aquino as the new pre ... |
FWHM | ... rating at 532 nm with a repetition rate of ~15 to 30 Hz and a pulse power ( | ) in the tens of megawatts range, which was coupled to a 0.6 meter Cassegr ... |
September 11 attacks | ... owever, a similar referendum, called for before, but held shortly after the | in 2001 in the US, was defeated by over 77% of voters |
Battle of Wilmington | ... Fort Fisher (the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy) and the | . The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and its establishment of Jim Crow la ... |
French Revolution | In the 1790s, new conflicts arose on the French border, due to the | and the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1808, during the Napoleonic Wars, Ca ... |
Russian Revolution | ... rted to slowly return to normal, until the industry was rocked again by the | and American Prohibition, which closed off two of Madeira's biggest market ... |
French Revolution | ... e original 83 departments of France, created on February 9, 1790 during the | . It was made of territories that had been part of the province of Lorrain ... |
September 11 attacks | ... as "It's a good day to bury bad news"), in an email sent on the day of the | in 2001. The furor caused when this email was reported in the press eventu ... |
Macbeth | ... o years later. At the Kotopouli-Rex Theatre, Mercouri starred in plays like | by William Shakespeare and L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh |
revolutionary incidents | Doppler's research in Prague was interrupted by the | of March 1848, when he fled to Vienna. There he was appointed head of the ... |
de Broglie hypothesis | ... edly; de Broglie was awarded his doctorate. This research culminated in the | stating that any moving particle or object had an associated wave. De Brog ... |
Greece | ... dian Telephone Company, Ltd. The company was licensed to sell telephones in | , Turkey, South Africa, India, Japan, China, and other Asian countries. |
Second Battle of Bull Run | At the | (Second Manassas), Stuart's cavalry followed the massive assault by Longst ... |
Greece | ... hythm guitar. This tour marked the first time the band performed in Turkey, | , and the Slovak Republic |
Cuban Revolution | In Latin America, following the 1959 | and the introduction of communism, over a million people have left Cuba |
AIDS | ... 2009 album The Spirit of Apollo. Also in 2009, David Byrne appeared on HIV/ | charity album Dark Was the Night for Red Hot Organization. He collaborated ... |
only crash | ... were subsidised by their governments to buy them. As a result of the type’s | on 25 July 2000 and other factors, its retirement flight was on 26 Novembe ... |
Revolution | ... 2 to "the memory of the old soldiers of Carter County since the days of the | ." It is in the form of an obelisk, constructed primarily from river rock ... |
JPEG 2000 | ... e fees, and they have secured appropriate license rights for their upcoming | standard from over 20 large organizations |
Greece | ... onalists advocated Italy's domination of the Mediterranean Sea by occupying | as well as the Adriatic coastal region of Dalmatia |
Gulf of Tonkin Incident | ... hnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the | (less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had ... |
1849 gold rush | ... d in several diaries. Emigration to California spiked considerably with the | . Following the discovery of gold, California remained the destination of ... |
Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt | ... y 1916. Ten minutes prior to zero hour, an officer detonated a mine beneath | . Originally the mine was supposed to be set off at zero hour but as the V ... |
AIDS | ... he appeared in two different productions of playwright Larry Kramer's early | -era drama The Normal Heart. In 1992, he starred in a Shakespeare Theatre ... |
Italian unification | ... he Papal States failed; and its wish to be left out of Giuseppe Garibaldi's | in the mid-nineteenth century was granted, since it had offered a safe ref ... |
Oktoberfest | Every autumn the St. Bernardine Church hosts an | and the Village hosts a Rib-fest |
Battle of Hampton Roads | ... SS Merrimack. Virginia engaged the Union ironclad USS Monitor in the famous | during the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Confederates burned the sh ... |
AIDS | The advent of | helped build a more favorable view of abstinence. However, a review of 13 ... |
Gulf Stream | ... t on eastern and southeastern coastal areas of the state. Influenced by the | , coastal weather is subject to hurricanes, most pronouncedly near the mou ... |
French Revolution | ... southern Italy early in the 19th century. Inspired by the principles of the | , its members were mainly drawn from the middle class and intellectuals. A ... |
September 11 attacks | ... eadquarters for the Department of Defense. It was one of the targets of the | ; 189 people died at the site when a jet passenger plane crashed into the ... |
American Revolution | ... designed to defend neutral shipping from the British Royal Navy during the | |
Second Battle of Fort Fisher | ... e closing battles of the American Civil War happened in the county with the | (the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy) and the Battle of W ... |
Elizabethan | ... ction. The Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to | times and the Harleian library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford. The ... |
Richardson Affair | The Anglo-Satsuma War of 1863, along with the | and the September 1863 coup d'état in Kyoto convinced Ōkubo that the tobak ... |
American Airlines Flight 77 | ... The next morning, Nawaf al-Hazmi, along with four other terrorists, boarded | and hijacked the plane so that Hani Hanjour could pilot and crash the plan ... |
Mexicana Flight 940 | ... gned to resemble an air traffic control tower. In March 1986, a Boeing 727, | , en route to caught fire in-flight and crashed in the mountains of wester ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... t Kennedy was the other; he donated all his paychecks to charity). When the | struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat ... |
Black Death | ... hism, then under the popes of Rome ruling via legates and vice-legates. The | appeared at Avignon in 1348; killing almost two-thirds of the city's popul ... |
American Revolution | ... r empires and controls over smuggling) were a major irritant leading to the | |
Velvet Revolution | ... Central European country to be canonized by Pope John Paul II before the " | " later that year. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 (the "V ... |
AIDS | ... d granted in June 2001 an additional credit of $20 million to fight against | and poverty |
July Revolution | ... s that foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 | , so the foreign legion was created to allow the government a way around t ... |
Columbine High School massacre | ... ed to publish the story "Shoot", about high school shootings, following the | , despite the fact it had been written and submitted prior to the event. T ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | On September 11, 2001, during the terrorist attacks on the United States, | crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township, north of the town of Shanksvill ... |
American Revolution | ... settled large parts of Nova Scotia before 1775, and were neutral during the | . At the end of the Revolution, about 75,000 Loyalists moved out of the ne ... |
French Revolution | Orne is one of the original 83 departments created during the | , on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of N ... |
AIDS | Robert Wallace writes that the pattern of the | outbreak during the '80s was affected by the outcomes of a program of "pla ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the | |
Italian economic miracle | ... period of rapid modernization and sustained economic growth, the so called | . The country, coming back to international politics among Western democra ... |
state lottery | ... aware allows slot machines at three horse tracks; they are regulated by the | commission. In Wisconsin, bars and taverns are allowed to have up to five ... |
Heaven's Gate | After the financial failure of | , the studio put The Right Stuff in turnaround and The Ladd Company steppe ... |
French Revolution | ... kstore, called the Librairie France, specialized in books and papers on the | and was frequented by many notable writers and scholars of the day. Anatol ... |
American Revolution | ... t and block house was located on the site of the future village. During the | it was known for its smuggling and was called the "Blockhouse. |
Green Revolution | ... e the 1960s in developed and developing countries, often referred to as the | , was closely tied to progress made in selecting and improving crops and a ... |
American Revolution | ... o Spain's other colonies in the Americas. The ideas from the French and the | influenced the efforts. All of the colonies, except Cuba and Puerto Rico, ... |
Munich air disaster | ... lan, one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the | of 6 February 1958, was born locally on 1 April 1935. He is buried in the ... |
September 11 attacks | ... e Voice and Time Out New York, who asked rhetorically in a reference to the | , "Can there be another movie that speaks as resonantly — if unwittingly — ... |
second homes | ... rivatized and Russia is now the nation with the largest number of owners of | . The growth of living standards in recent years allowed many dacha owners ... |
1979 Islamic Revolution | ... eza Pahlavi, the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the | , Egypt's relations with Iran have been mostly strained. Egypt is the only ... |
rapid economic developments | ... the Western world's confrontation of the Soviet Union in East Asia. In the | in the 1960s and 1970s, Japan recovered its influences and became regarded ... |
Great Fire of Rome | ... the 2nd century BC the area was densely inhabited. It was devastated by the | in AD 64, following which Nero seized much of the area to add to his perso ... |
crescent | Hilāl (the | ) is typically a day (or more) after the astronomical new moon. Since the ... |
Greece | 28 nations sent athletes to compete in Germany. Australia, Bulgaria, | , Liechtenstein, Spain, and Turkey all made their Winter Olympic debut in ... |
Greece | From Syria her worship extended to | and to the furthest West. Lucian and Apuleius give descriptions of the beg ... |
Escape from Monkey Island | ... aracters. After Grim Fandango, a slightly improved GrimE engine was used in | , the fourth game in the Monkey Island series. So far, these are the only ... |
Marriage at Cana | ... the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the | at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superi ... |
Think (About It) | ... ied his "house style". Songs such as "I Know You Got Soul" by Bobby Byrd, " | " by Lyn Collins and "Doing It to Death" by Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s are c ... |
United Airlines Flight 175 | ... d as Alshehhi) (May 9, 1978 – September 11, 2001) was the hijacker-pilot of | , crashing the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center as par ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... . It would also see the introduction of space based telescopes, such as the | . Operating outside the atmosphere’s turbulence, scattered ambient light a ... |
Panic of 1873 | ... on reached nearly 1,300. Within a few years, a collapse of trade due to the | and additional rail lines in the area sent Loachapoka into economic declin ... |
French Revolution | Puy-de-Dôme is one of the original 83 departments created during the | on March 4, 1790. It was created from the former province of Auvergne. Ori ... |
Greece | ... Ancient/Katharevousa: - Eleusis) is a town and municipality in West Attica, | . It is situated about 18 km northwest from the centre of Athens. It is lo ... |
July Revolution | ... in the 4th Hussars two years later. The role played by his regiment in the | of 1830 was regarded as insubordination, and Fialin was dismissed from the ... |
American Revolution | ... to move westward. Later, their leaders allied with the colonists during the | in hopes of regaining former lands, but that was never realized |
16th Street Baptist Church bombing | ... public library on Sunday afternoon, September 15, 1963 (the same day as the | in Birmingham), further violence ensued and two black ministers, N.Q. Reyn ... |
Celtic Tiger | ... city was at the forefront of Ireland's rapid economic expansion during the | period, with enormous private sector and state development of housing, tra ... |
Greece | In 2010, Carrefour and Marinopoulos Group, the largest group of retail in | , established a franchise company MSC Bulgaria to develop hypermarkets and ... |
French Revolution | The | gave the English language three politically descriptive words denoting ant ... |
The Ledger | The local newspaper is | , owned by The New York Times |
French Revolution | Inspired by the | of 1789 and principles of the rights of men, free people of colour and sla ... |
Battle of South Mountain | ... ac (the I Corps and IX Corps) at the start of the Maryland Campaign for the | , but McClellan separated the two corps at the Battle of Antietam, placing ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... sville came to international attention during the September 11 attacks when | crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township |
American Revolution | ... evolutionary War, leading Hoppus to describe himself as "a proud Son of the | ." His father works for the Department of Defense, designing missiles. His ... |
Battle of Gettysburg | The 111th New York was present at, among others, the | , the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Appomatt ... |
Revolutionary | ... was so renamed in 1799 when the department became the first to pay the new | taxes |
Iraqi insurgency | ... 23 senators voting against the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002. As the | grew in subsequent years, Kennedy pronounced that the conflict was "Bush's ... |
Flight 175 | ... l Airport, accompanied by an unknown man, where he purchased his ticket for | . On September 9, the motel manager cleaning the room Shehhi had vacated f ... |
1997 Asian Financial Crisis | ... nd-rescue operations. However, at the time the carrier entered service, the | prevented the necessary funding to operate the ship from being available. ... |
French Revolution | In the wars following the | , the city was alternately occupied by French and Austrian forces, with th ... |
Battle of Manassas/Bull Run | ... ent, led by Col. Egbert J. Jones of Huntsville, distinguished itself at the | , the first major encounter of the American Civil War. The Fourth Alabama ... |
AIDS | ... eagan's actions and preserve and improve the Voting Rights Act, funding for | treatment, and equal funding for women's sports under Title IX. To combat ... |
French Revolution | ... n), seemed well poised to take advantage of the levée en masse. Because the | and Napoleon's reign witnessed the first application of the lessons of the ... |
Free Officers Movement | ... University was renamed Cairo University after a coup was carried out by the | overthrowing King Farouk I. By that time, Arafat had graduated with a bach ... |
Russian Revolution | ... velopment, which Benedict XV had foreseen in his first encyclical. With the | , the Vatican was faced with a new, so far unknown, situation |
Greece | ... he Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of | , by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called atten ... |
Baudette Fire of 1910 | The town of Baudette was largely destroyed by the | , but was quickly rebuilt |
September 11 attacks | ... burgh, Pennsylvania. Shanksville came to international attention during the | when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township |
Battle of Cold Harbor | ... , among others, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, the | and the Appomattox Campaign. During the Battle of Gettysburg, the 111th to ... |
Battle of Fort Blakely | ... ruction following the Union victories at the Battle of Spanish Fort and the | . Ironically, on 25 May 1865, the city suffered loss when some three hundr ... |
Battle of Antietam | ... the Battle of South Mountain, but McClellan separated the two corps at the | , placing them on opposite ends of the Union battle line, returning Burnsi ... |
Iran hostage crisis | ... who is an Iranian immigrant living in the United States at the time of the | . The film was written and directed by Ramin Serry. Mariam Parris plays th ... |
Marriage at Cana | ... the use of wine symbolism in the Gospel of John, including the story of the | at which Jesus turns water into wine, was intended to show Jesus as superi ... |
American Revolution | ... was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the | |
Air France Concorde crash | The | of 2000 was attributed to a fragment of titanium that fell from the thrust ... |
Greece | Belgium , Switzerland , Sweden , Norway , | , Austria and Liechtenstein also condemned the war. The Czech Republic, Cr ... |
American Revolution | The struggle for religious toleration erupted and was played out during the | , as the Baptists worked to disestablish the Anglican church. Beeman (1978 ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... an available 491. Göring was elected as a representative from Bavaria. The | led to a disastrous downturn in the German economy, and in the next electi ... |
Three Mile Island accident | Daniel Dennett uses the case of the | as an example of the difficulty in calculating happiness. Was the near-mel ... |
Old Globe Theatre | A musical stage adaptation, titled "Dancing in the Dark," premiered at The | (San Diego) March 4-April 20, 2008, with plans to bring the show to Broadw ... |
Eric Hainstock | ... the school, was killed in the attack after a recently expelled 9th grader, | , fired a handgun at him. A janitor had already taken a shotgun away from ... |
Fort Sumter | ... e Union) rejected secession as illegal. Following a Confederate attack upon | , a federal fort in the Confederate state of South Carolina, the U.S. used ... |
American 11 | ... r control as pilot, and at 9:03 a.m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed | into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the S ... |
planets | ... f tables called an ephemeris, which lists the location of the Sun, Moon and | for a particular year, date and sidereal time, with respect to the norther ... |
Oktoberfest | ... n the Straße des 17. Juni and around the Brandenburg Gate. Furthermore, the | beer festival in Munich, which traditionally runs until the first Sunday i ... |
May 1968 | Despite the involvement of many of his students in the events of | , Althusser initially greeted these developments with silence. He was late ... |
stock market crash of 1929 | ... y later lived in Chicago, where George Stevens was an accountant before the | instigated the Great Depression, ending his job. Around this time, when Te ... |
Quake II | ... ne, and the Unreal game itself was considered to be technically superior to | , which was out on the market at the same time (between December 1997 and ... |
Paris Peace conference | ... solved Roman Question, contributed to the exclusion of the Vatican from the | of 1919 (although it was also part of a historical pattern of political an ... |
September 11 attacks | ... the city in 2006, one in ten of the population. In 2001, shortly after the | , teenager Ross Parker was murdered by a gang of Muslims of Pakistani orig ... |
American Revolution | ... sh for popular sovereignty that surfaced with the French Revolution and the | in the late 18th century and culminated with the ethnic/national revolutio ... |
Russian Revolution | ... ery. She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the | and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an ... |
King Lear | ... cbeth and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and | four times (as well as taking on the part for a final time in a radio broa ... |
Multiresolution analysis | ... olution trade-off. Wavelets often give a better signal representation using | , with balanced resolution at any time and frequency |
September 11 attacks | ... in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security after the | , and may be used to refer to the actions of that department, the United S ... |
Forrestal fire | ... 9, 1967, McCain, by then a lieutenant commander, was near the center of the | . He escaped from his burning jet and was trying to help another pilot esc ... |
Battle of Shiloh | Wallace's most controversial command came at the | , where he continued as the 3rd Division commander under Grant. Wallace's ... |
Japanese Red Army | ... nd at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel. The PFLP and the | carried out a shooting rampage at the same airport, killing twenty-four ci ... |
French Revolution | ... y was impossible, but he was fully occupied with his great chronicle of the | , Geschichte der Revolutionszeit 1789–1800, for which he had made prolonge ... |
Leeuwin Current | The Houtman Abrolhos lies almost directly in the path of the | , which draws warm, low-saline water of tropical origin southwards along t ... |
Polish Round Table Negotiations | ... he late 1980s the government was forced to negotiate with Solidarity in the | . The resulting Polish legislative election in 1989 became one of the impo ... |
Panic of 1893 | ... e town site on June 7, 1890 which consisted of only four square blocks. The | would stave off any further development of the town site until the turn of ... |
Enigma Variations | ... aused controversy during the 2008 Proms season by conducting Edward Elgar's | , and the Last Night of the Proms, in non-vibrato style, which he calls pu ... |
STAT2 | ... s and, following receptor engagement with IFN, phosphorylate both STAT1 and | . As a result, an IFN-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3) complex forms—this ... |
French Revolution | ... en regarded with suspicion for the sympathy many felt for the ideals of the | , whose collapse and replacement with the dictatorship of Napoleon was, as ... |
Second Industrial Revolution | As the public familiarity with electricity as the lifeblood of the | grew, its wielders were more often cast in a positive light, such as the w ... |
First Battle of Bull Run | ... of Northeast Virginia. He commanded the brigade without distinction at the | in July, committing his troops piecemeal, and took over division command t ... |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... erican astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the | |
American Revolution | ... raising taxes. He also advocated loans to finance French involvement in the | |
Unreal Tournament 2004 | ... one for Unreal Tournament for $150,000 in cash and prizes, and another for | for one million in cash and prizes |
2008 Gërdec explosions | ... this occasion, a central Tirana street was named to his honor. In 2008, the | were especially felt in the capital as windows were shattered and citizens ... |
Second Industrial Revolution | ... ted machinery. Adoption of these techniques coincided with the birth of the | in the USA and its emergence as the dominant industrial superpower in the ... |
Spanish American wars of independence | ... ies won their independence in the first quarter of the 19th century, in the | . Simón Bolívar (Greater Colombia, Peru, Bolivia), José de San Martín (Uni ... |
Grand Mosque Seizure | ... up were rushed to assist Saudi forces in Mecca to lead the operation of the | . In 1991 Pakistan got involved with the Gulf War and sent 5,000 troops as ... |
French Revolution | ... he modern state and the push for popular sovereignty that surfaced with the | and the American Revolution in the late 18th century and culminated with t ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... ed by the London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 shortly after the | |
American Airlines Flight 191 | In 1979, it was the site of the | disaster, in which a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 lost an engine and wing mater ... |
Battle of South Mountain | ... te US 40, and west of Burkittsville, lie the sites of three episodes in the | : the battles of Crampton's (September 14, 1862), Fox's, and Turner's gaps ... |
Halo 3 | ... (2000), Max Payne (2001), Valhalla Knights (2006), Final Fantasy XI (2002), | (2007), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011). Amusement park attractions named ... |
Reichstag fire | The | occurred on the night of 27 February 1933. Göring was one of the first to ... |
American Revolution | ... e, which would have put the writing back in U.S. colonial times, before the | (a war which offended his Anglophilia). He explained that he thought that ... |
Revolution of 1688 | ... argely from the north of Ireland, to settle here. Some were veterans of the | . Named for Lord Charles Townshend, this settlement survived and was incor ... |
North Atlantic Drift | The Gulf Stream and its northern extension towards Europe, the | , for example, warms the atmosphere of the British Isles and north-western ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... an film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands (1973), | (1979), Wall Street (1987), The Departed (2006), his role as The Illusive ... |
Witwatersrand Gold Rush | ... Hope, becoming the economic and cultural hub of the Cape Colony. Until the | and the development of Johannesburg, Cape Town was the largest city in Sou ... |
Flupirtine | | is a centrally acting K+ channel opener with weak NMDA antagonist properti ... |
Battle of Hampton Roads | ... and Civil War significance. The first modern duel of ironclad warships, the | , took place not far off Newport News Point in 1862. *Milton, Keith. "Duel ... |
French Revolution | ... e. This birth of public opinion and interest plays an important role in the | . The statistics given in the Compte rendu were completely false and misle ... |
French Revolution | ... ians point specifically to the ultra-nationalist party in France during the | |
Great Awakening | ... forming the religious climate in American. Chronicling the First and Second | s, Wolfe comes to describe the "Me decade as the "Third Great Awakening. |
American Revolution | ... alist forces of the British commander Ferguson at Kings Mountain, SC in the | , rather than waiting for him to come to them, militiamen throughout the B ... |
fall of communism | ... legislative election in 1989 became one of the important events marking the | in Poland |
Spring of Nations | ... ns and in other parts of Europe, soon took place in the context of the 1848 | revolutions. In particular, the events in Berlin precipitated the Greater ... |
Battle of South Mountain | ... infantry of Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill to defend the South Mountain passes in the | . His horse artillery bombarded the flank of the Union army as it opened i ... |
Greece | The early history of the catapult and the crossbow in | are closely intertwined. Primitive catapults were essentially “the product ... |
great plague | ... f Antioch and the transportation of its inhabitants to Mesopotamia, and the | that devastated Constantinople in 542. They also cover the early career of ... |
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior | ... he Pacific was controversial in the 1980s, in 1985 French agents caused the | in Auckland to prevent it from arriving at the test site in Moruroa. In Se ... |
American Revolution | ... tgomery is the name of a fortification built on the Hudson River during the | . It was one of the first major investments by the Americans in strategic ... |
targeted killings | ... Secretary General of the PFLP, by the Israeli Air Force under its policy of | |
Black Death | ... lord of Urbino. The city went into a deep decline through the plague of the | in 1348 |
Macbeth | ... d States. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, | , Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. He is also a popular guest-host of Sat ... |
American Revolution | At the outset of the | , the American revolutionaries hoped the French Canadians in Quebec and th ... |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... ibertarian conservative, and Republican causes in America. A week after the | , on The O'Reilly Factor, Clancy stated that left-wing politicians in the ... |
ill-fated STS-107 mission | ... n January 16, 2003, Chawla finally returned to space aboard Columbia on the | . Chawla's responsibilities included the microgravity experiments, for whi ... |
Battle of Cold Harbor | The other major clash near Mechanicsville was the | , the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland C ... |
Clerks II | ... cularly in Chasing Amy (in which Silent Bob gave his longest speech) and in | . In , Bob is called "Blutarsky", but according to Smith, it was only a jo ... |
Second Industrial Revolution | ... rst Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, merged into the | around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with ... |
Greece | At the time of the coup d'état in | by a group of colonels of the Greek military on 21 April 1967, she was in ... |
Super Mario Bros. 2 | ... f Nintendo's NES game, , which, for Western audiences, was transformed into | . In Japan, the character is known to his Japanese name as Mamu (マム, Mamū) |
Skullmonkeys | ... r Dreamworks, he created for The Neverhood for the PC. The sequel, entitled | , followed in 1998 |
Black Death | Some research studies indicate that the | , which devastated Europe in the late 1340s, may have reached from Central ... |
Swissair Flight 111 | ... cer. In September 1998, his younger son Joseph LaMotta died in the crash of | off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada |
American Revolution | ... ave many settlements that were founded by Scots-Irish immigrants before the | . There are also sizable numbers of people of German descent in the northw ... |
spectrum | Tornadoes emit widely on the acoustics | and the sounds are caused by multiple mechanisms. Various sounds of tornad ... |
Zoo Tycoon 2 | ... s available in the Marine Mania expansion pack of Zoo Tycoon and its sequel | |
Revolution of 1830 | With the | and the establishment of the July Monarchy, the status of Versailles chang ... |
Seven Days Battles | The Battle of Gaines' Mill was the third of the | , occurring just east of Mechanicsville |
First Manassas | ... of Kentucky and Missouri). However, during the First Battle of Bull Run, ( | ) it sometimes proved difficult to distinguish the Stars and Bars from the ... |
July Revolution | ... endar. It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the | , the Belgian Revolution and the November Uprising taking place in respect ... |
September 11 attacks | ... don had accumulated in her name while they were married. In the wake of the | Jackson was moved to compose "Free the World". She performed the song for ... |
Round Table Agreement | ... talks with the opposition began in February 1989. These talks produced the | in April for partly open National Assembly elections. The failure of the c ... |
Spanish Revolution | ... their leadership, are criticised for their alleged role in suppressing the | . An example of a modern work which promotes this view is Ken Loach's film ... |
French Revolution | ... rendering it all but impregnable to attack. After its capture following the | , it was used as a barracks and prison for many years but it is now a muse ... |
American Revolution | ... dia Britannica identifies the movement's genesis with the late-18th century | and French Revolution; other historians point specifically to the ultra-na ... |
Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire | The | provides a stark example of disoriented rescuers perishing when their air ... |
Battle of Gaines' Mill | The | was the third of the Seven Days Battles, occurring just east of Mechanicsv ... |
Quake II | ... ns of 3D graphics considerably. Compared to its peers in the genre, such as | , Unreal brought to life not only highly-detailed indoor environments, but ... |
French Revolution | ... s the movement's genesis with the late-18th century American Revolution and | ; other historians point specifically to the ultra-nationalist party in Fr ... |
Elizabethan era | The English term is first attested in the | , via Middle French from Late Latin (6th century) patriota "countryman", u ... |
Revolution of 1848 | ... Czech movement, but many of these reforms were later rescinded. During the | , many Czech nationalists called for autonomy for Bohemia from Habsburg Au ... |
Transfiguration | ... are by God the Father, when during the Baptism of Jesus and then during the | as a voice from Heaven. On several occasions the disciples call Jesus the ... |
Paris Commune | ... istics of socialism (particularly as conceived by Marx and Engels after the | of 1871) are that the proletariat will control the means of production thr ... |
Khobar Towers bombing | The suspected driver of the reconnaissance vehicle involved in the | fled to Canada where he was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ... |
Titus Andronicus | ... s that Shakespeare was able to refer to it in the second scene of Act IV of | , quote from it in the first scene of Act II of Henry IV, Part 1 ("Homo is ... |
Indonesian Throughflow | ... 83 km². It is of significant biodiversity value as it is in the flow of the | ocean current from the Pacific Ocean through the Malay archipelago to the ... |
Battle of Dinwiddie Court House | ==Civil War Battles==*Battle of Peebles' Farm*Battle of Lewis's Farm* | *Battle of White Oak Road*Battle of Five Forks*Battle of Sutherland's Stat ... |
Southern American English | ... mont region is one of the most famous for its dialect's strong influence on | . While a more homogenized American English is found in urban areas, vario ... |
Wreck of the Old 97 | ... n Locust Lane and North Main Street at the train crash site. A mural of the | is painted on a downtown Danville building in memory of the historic wreck |
French Revolution | ... n French service from Cham. The melody soon became the rallying call to the | and was adopted as La Marseillaise after the melody was first sung on the ... |
revolution | After the | of 1917, the railway served as the vital line of communication for the Cze ... |
Minamata disease | ... ercury poisoning in humans occurred this way in Minamata, Japan, now called | |
French Revolution | ... -Louis David resurrected a style already known as "Poussinesque" during the | in part because the leaders of the Revolution looked to replace the frivol ... |
Greece | ... rom the natural spiral of the ovule of a common species of clover native to | . Alternatively, it may simply be of geometrical origins |
revolution of 1830 | ... ian of that generation". But it was generally neglected in France until the | . Then, in the 1830s, there was a surge of interest, and asphalt became wi ... |
Revolutions of 1989 | ... ceful anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe known as the | (Jesień Ludów). Solidarity's example was repeated in various ways by oppos ... |
National Lottery | ... e floods of 1998, but have been restored and improved with funding from the | . The other side of the River Leam, on Priory Terrace features a 19th-cent ... |
Battle of Antietam | ... illery bombarded the flank of the Union army as it opened its attack in the | . By mid-afternoon, Stonewall Jackson ordered Stuart to command a turning ... |
Oktoberfest | ... rtained more than 375,000 people in four days during 2007. In 2006, Tulsa's | was named one of the top 10 in the world by USA Today and one of the top G ... |
Battle of White Oak Road | ... le of Peebles' Farm*Battle of Lewis's Farm*Battle of Dinwiddie Court House* | *Battle of Five Forks*Battle of Sutherland's Statio |
German reunification | ... brated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of | in 1990, when the goal of a unity of Germany that originated in the middle ... |
The Times | Raymond Keene's column appears daily in | and Sunday Times. Ex-world championship finalist Nigel Short wrote each Su ... |
Wind-generated waves | ... es or surface waves while internal gravity waves are called internal waves. | on the water surface are examples of gravity waves, and tsunamis and ocean ... |
plague | Approximately one-third of East Prussia's population died in the | and famine of 1709–1711, including the last speakers of Old Prussian. The ... |
terrorist attack | On September 11, 2001, during the | s on the United States, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in St ... |
American Revolution | ... ca founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1733 (Georgia). They revolted in the | , starting in 1775, and in 1776 declared their independence from the Briti ... |
Revolution | ... um in 1892. Nolhac began to restore the palace to its appearance before the | . Nolhac also organized events aimed at raising the awareness of potential ... |
Green Revolution | ... ct on wheat yields world-wide, and were major factors in the success of the | in Mexico and Asia. Dwarfing genes enable the carbon that is fixed in the ... |
Battle of Peebles' Farm | ==Civil War Battles==* | *Battle of Lewis's Farm*Battle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oa ... |
Macbeth | ... th Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of | with Ralph Richardson in 1952 |
7 July 2005 London bombings | ... ormer senior police officer Andy Hayman, who sat on the committee after the | and at other intervals from 2005–2007, was highly critical of its workings ... |
IRF3 | ... NA). After binding dsRNA, this receptor activates the transcription factors | and NF-κB, which are important for initiating synthesis of many inflammato ... |
Greece | ... ve land he occupied himself with natural philosophy. He traveled throughout | to acquire a knowledge of its culture. He mentions many Greek philosophers ... |
washboard | ... t when traveling out of major populations, a high number of roads are dirt, | and mud in the rainy seasons |
Battle of Lewis's Farm | ==Civil War Battles==*Battle of Peebles' Farm* | *Battle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oak Road*Battle of Five F ... |
Greece | ... im to Italy and through Yugoslavia ("I felt a madness there, even then") to | |
French Revolution | ... Avignon belonged to the Papacy until 1791, when, during the disorder of the | , it was reincorporated with France |
AIDS | ... nce, gay rights, anti-Semitism, gay parenting, drug abuse, teenage suicide, | , teenage pregnancy, bulimia and abortion |
Revolutions of 1848 in the German states | ... ion of the Bavarian government in the work of German freedom and unity (see | ). To the spirit of this Maximilian was faithful, accepting the authority ... |
NF-κB | ... r binding dsRNA, this receptor activates the transcription factors IRF3 and | , which are important for initiating synthesis of many inflammatory protei ... |
The Times | On 16 August 2006, | reported that the NTL Incorporated group could become the subject of a £10 ... |
Space Shuttle Challenger | ... as the Challenger Deep, the Challenger Society for Marine Science, and the | |
Seven Days Battles | ... ent was the second in the series of American Civil War battles known as the | . A small portion of the battlefield has been preserved as part of the Ric ... |
Battle of Fredericksburg | In the December 1862 | , Stuart and his cavalry—most notably his horse artillery under Major John ... |
American Revolution | ... mous for the capture of the British spy Major John André in 1780 during the | . André was on a mission carrying secret papers from Benedict Arnold when ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... st daughter of King James II (d. 1701), born after he lost his crown in the | , was given the title of Princess Royal during James's exile at Saint-Germ ... |
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Glorious Revolution | ... with the utmost violence'. Nor did the city accept the outcome of the 1688 | with a unified voice. The pre-eminent citizen, Bishop William Lloyd, would ... |
Leeuwin Current | ... ean currents, there is no large-scale coastal upwelling associated with the | . There is limited evidence for some sporadic, localised upwelling in the ... |
Iran hostage crisis | ... perdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 25, 1981, five days after the | ended. The game was thus held under patriotic fervor, as the pregame cerem ... |
French Revolution | ... y the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the | and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as ... |
11 September | ... y" (Stockhausen 2002, 76). The same journalist then asked how the events of | had affected him, and how he viewed reports of the attack in connection wi ... |
Greece | ... of the earliest instruments of this type, predates the 5th century classic | . This indicates the possibility that the lyre might have existed in one o ... |
11 September 2001 attacks in the USA | ... in racial vilification towards them after a number of events including the | , the Bali bombings, and these rapes |
French Revolution | ... st the Age of Enlightenment, is generally accepted. Its relationship to the | which began in 1789 in the very early stages of the period, is clearly imp ... |
Tuve landslide | ... exist. The largest occurred in the years 1150, 1648, 1950, 1957 and 1977 ( | ) |
Battle of Five Forks | ... e of Lewis's Farm*Battle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oak Road* | *Battle of Sutherland's Statio |
proclamation of the German Republic | ... all came down—November 9, 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the | in 1918 and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923. However, 9 November ... |
Morgan's Raid | ... rn access to the trans-Mississippi West. July brought short-lived counters, | into Ohio and the New York City draft riots. Robert E. Lee’s strike into P ... |
Musicalische Sterbens-Gedancken | ... lague. Pachelbel's first published work, a set of chorale variations called | ("Musical Thoughts on Death", Erfurt, 1683), was probably influenced by th ... |
Black Death | ... ightly grim story of Florence during the 1350s bubonic plague, known as the | , when some people fled the ravaged city to an isolated country mansion, a ... |
Braathens SAFE Flight 139 | When | was hijacked, the hijacker demanded to speak with Willoch |
Custer Creek train wreck | ... wn as the Pacific Extension through the town in the early 20th century. The | , the worst rail disaster in Montana history, occurred near Terry along th ... |
ATX | The main difference between the | -format AmigaOne SE and XE was that the AmigaOne SE had a soldered-on 600 ... |
Zolotarev's lemma | ... on-squares, it can be uniformly interpreted as the sign of a permutation by | |
First Great Awakening | The | democratized religion by redressing the balance of power between the minis ... |
Gettysburg | ... . The next day, Paradine receives orders that the army is going to march to | |
terrorist attacks | ... in East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Following the September 11, 2001 | on the United States, Egypt, which has itself been the target of terrorist ... |
Battle of Sutherland's Station | ... tle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oak Road*Battle of Five Forks* | |
STAT1 | ... N receptors and, following receptor engagement with IFN, phosphorylate both | and STAT2. As a result, an IFN-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3) complex fo ... |
Macbeth | ... Jeux de massacre (1971), Macbett (1972, a free adaptation of Shakespeare's | ) and Ce formidable bordel (1973) |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... States Lieutenant Colonel (USAF) and NASA astronaut, who was killed in the | when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere |
thirty glorious years | ... mic downturn that followed the 1973 energy crisis, marking the end of the " | " after World War II, combined with the official discourse that the "end o ... |
The Times | ... d to have a lot of faith in what we were doing." In an interview he gave to | in 2010, he elaborated |
September 11 attacks | ... y of Operations Plan has seen a return to relevance in the 2000s. After the | , many speculated that terrorists might attempt to destroy a large part of ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... m. He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the | but not to "a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions ... |
Diabetic ketoacidosis | | (DKA), if it progresses and worsens without treatment, can eventually caus ... |
first terrorist attack on | ... of the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions in 1977. He faced the | a Swissair plane in Zarqa, Jordan in 1970. After retiring, he gave his opi ... |
Battle of Wapping | ... ping in 1986, resulting in a trade union dispute that became known as the " | " |
September 11 attacks | ... ican Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the | |
shooting rampage at the same airport | ... al Airport in Lod, Israel. The PFLP and the Japanese Red Army carried out a | , killing twenty-four civilians. Israel later claimed that the assassinati ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... eat prosperity in the United States, and to a lesser degree Canada. But the | combined with drought ushered in a period of economic hardship in the Unit ... |
Altaigate Scandal | ... species have been alleged, together with accusations of corruption, in the | . The incident arose from the death of several Russian VIPs in a helicopte ... |
Hubble Telescope | ... ades have sent space probes to study other planets in addition to using the | to probe the origins of the Universe some 14 billion years ago. Microwave ... |
American Revolution | ... . He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the | and settled in Halifax |
King David Hotel bombing | ... General in Jerusalem, wrote in response to a pro-Irgun commemoration of the | : "We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to ... |
Southern Airways Flight 932 | The city is also near the location of the | aviation disaster. On November 14, 1970, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane ... |
explosion | ... he city suffered loss when some three hundred people died as a result of an | at a federal ammunition depot on Beauregard Street. The explosion left a d ... |
Glorious Revolution | The theory of divine right was abandoned in England during the | of 1688–89. The American and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth cen ... |
Greece | ... parents. They passed through Egypt both ways and on the way back stopped in | . The tour was almost immediately followed by a trip to Spain for the wedd ... |
Great Vowel Shift | ... the spelling patterns usually follow certain conventions. In addition, the | , a historical linguistic process in which the quality of many vowels in E ... |
Greece | ... vina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, | , Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, ... |
Battle of Chancellorsville | At the | , Stuart accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march of May ... |
Greek economic miracle | ... post-World War II development has largely been connected with the so-called | . During that period, Greece saw growth rates second only to those of Japa ... |
Chancellorsville | ... in Virginia than anywhere else, including Bull Run, the Seven Days Battles, | , and the concluding Battle of Appomattox Court House. After the capture o ... |
Greece | ... horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient | , where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, lik ... |
Quake III Arena | There are six games that can still be played online. | and Maximum Pool are still accessible via various servers. 4x4 Evolution a ... |
Cuban Revolution | ... bbean saw the beginnings of decolonization, while on the largest island the | introduced Cold War rivalries into Latin America |
Trigo Fire | The | in April, 2008 threatened the area, and Tajique was later evacuated due to ... |
Saur Revolution | ... ng with the Military of Egypt. In April 1978 there was a coup, known as the | , orchestrated by the Soviets and members of the government loyal to the P ... |
full circle ringing | ... have only been 26 bells at the Stump. 15 carillon bells, 10 bells hung for | , and the sanctuary bell. (27 if you count the old ships bell. |
Battle of Five Forks | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | . Several other engagements were fought in Dinwiddie County, including the ... |
Shohola Train Wreck | ... n the location of twelve railroad accidents. By far the worst was the Great | of the United States Civil War on Friday, July 15, 1864. More than 300 sol ... |
Challenger | ... 1984, Discovery became the third operational orbiter following Columbia and | , and made its final touchdown at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011 at ... |
Diabetic ketoacidosis | # | advanced enough to result in unconsciousness from a combination of severe ... |
Battle of Gettysburg | ... troop movements and arguably contributing to the Confederate defeat at the | . Stuart received significant criticism from the Southern press as well as ... |
King David Hotel bombing | ... wish Resistance Movement, the Irgun was asked to speed up the plans for the | of July 22. The hotel was where the documents were located, the base for t ... |
September 11 attacks | ... f cameras. Filming of the season was also suspended during the onset of the | |
Sea Venture | ... alter Raleigh. The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the | , was wrecked off Bermuda (as depicted on the territory's coat of arms), l ... |
phase of the moon | ... release is triggered by lighting conditions such as sunrise, sunset or the | . Many species of Cnidaria may spawn simultaneously in the same location, ... |
typhoid fever mortality rate in Chicago | ... Union soldiers died of typhoid or dysentery. In the late 19th century, the | averaged 65 per 100,000 people a year. The worst year was 1891, when the t ... |
Second Great Awakening | In the United States and Europe during the | of the 19th century and thereafter, many radical religious groups formed u ... |
Titus Andronicus | ... me Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain." from the second act of | . Shakespeare also references the annual migration of the species poetical ... |
bombing of the King David Hotel | Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the | in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre, carried out tog ... |
Green Revolution | ... vester'), tractor-drawn cultivators and planters, and better varieties (see | and Norin 10 wheat). Great expansions of wheat production occurred as new ... |
Greece | ... ased 16 Longbow helicopters. Egypt also uses the Apache. In September 2003, | ordered 12 AH-64D in addition to existing fleet of 20 AH-64A+. Singapore p ... |
Neolithic revolution | ... ergen, 12 grave mounds were found from 2400 BC, which brought the so-called | to the area of Arnhem, i.e. the rise of the farmers |
Vegemite | ... riscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max movies, the Australian beer XXXX, | , thongs, cork hats, the Peach Nellie, and the popular Australian songs "W ... |
Flight 548 | ... craft became the first Boeing 707 to crash while in commercial service when | crashed while preparing to land at Brussels on 15 February 1961. The Unite ... |
1997 Asian Financial Crisis | ... t has not been internationalised since September 1998, an effect due to the | in which the central bank impose capital controls on the currency. As a pa ... |
Battle of Dinwiddie Court House | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | , Battle of Sutherland's Station, and Battle of White Oak Road.The Dinwidd ... |
The Times | ... y favourable reviews from publications both in the UK and the US, including | , Catholic World and The New York Post. C. S. Lewis, friend of Tolkien (an ... |
March Revolution | ... been interpreted as a promotion of the idea of a united Slovenia, which the | in 1848 elevated into a national political programme |
Battle of Memphis | ... positioned south along the Mississippi River to Memphis, where at the naval | its River Defense Fleet was sunk and Confederates then withdrew from north ... |
French Revolution | ... stocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., who rescued French aristocrats from the | : The Scarlet Pimpernel. She submitted her novelization of the story under ... |
slave revolution | ... in the Americas when it gained independence in 1804 as part of a successful | lasting nearly a decade. In 2012, Haiti announced its intention to seek as ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ropped, which was attributed by Kodak to the financial shocks preceding the | . Executives hoped that Kodak might be able to slow the shift to digital t ... |
Russian Revolution of 1917 | ... f a Dry Law was introduced in 1914. It continued through the turmoil of the | and the Russian Civil War into the period of Soviet Russia and the until 1 ... |
French Revolution | Before the | , France gained territory gradually through the annexation of a mosaic of ... |
reunification | ... he 1936 Winter Olympics that Germany competed with a unified team after the | |
Arabic parts | ... ascendant, etc. Many astrologers also use what are commonly referred to as | (or Greek Lots), the most common of which is the Part of Fortune (Pars For ... |
Baltic Tiger | ... ome, such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, underwent an economic boom (see | ), although all have suffered from the 2009 recession |
French Revolution | ... in Rome ruling the Papal States in the area of central Italy. Following the | , a French army under Napoleon invaded Italy in 1796, entering Rome almost ... |
variations | ... lay a three-voice canon based on a simple theme, the violins' parts form 28 | of the melody. The gigue which originally accompanied the canon is a simpl ... |
Battle of Sutherland's Station | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | , and Battle of White Oak Road.The Dinwiddie County Historical Society cur ... |
French Revolution | The nature of nationalism changed dramatically, however, after the | with the rise of Napoleon, and the reactions in other nations. Napoleonic ... |
Nonketotic hyperosmolar coma | | usually develops more insidiously than DKA because the principal symptom i ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... was to prove dangerous, and Germany was one of the worst hit nations in the | |
Great Chicago Fire | ... White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the | had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment. The White ... |
Flag football | ... d Twenty20 level. It competes in Division Five of the World Cricket League. | (CIFFA) has men's, women's and co-ed leagues |
Battle of Yellow Tavern | ... lry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the | |
Diablo III | In the yet-to-be released | , a travelling scholar named "Abd al-Hazir" functions as the fictional nar ... |
Great Awakening | ... n as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the | in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was ... |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | On March 25, 1911, the | in Greenwich Village killed 146 garment workers. The disaster eventually l ... |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | ... quarter of them women, marched on Washington Square Park to commemorate the | , which killed 146 workers on March 25, 1911. Many of the women wore fitte ... |
Greece | ... three years later, light poured from all sides on the prehistoric period of | . It was recognized that the character of both the fabric and the decorati ... |
French Revolution | ... many shōjo manga, many of which are based on historical events, such as the | or the Russian Revolution. Her use of foreign settings and androgynous the ... |
wildfire | On December 27, 2005, a grass/range | destroyed 116 homes in and around Cross Plains. On December 29, 2005 the T ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... drell Bank using their stellar intensity interferometer. In 2005, using the | , astronomers determined that Sirius B has nearly the diameter of the Eart ... |
Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 | ... ent to Bermuda in the 19th century, including participants in the ill-fated | and Nationalist journalist and politician John Mitchel. Alongside English ... |
Greece | ... Sheffield. Between 1968 and 1970, Renfrew directed excavations at Sitagroi, | . In 1968 he unsuccessfully contested the Sheffield Brightside parliamenta ... |
left-wing rebels | ... erests widened on later recordings. The title of Sandinista! celebrated the | who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan despot Anastasio Somoza Debayle, an ... |
Centennial Olympic Park bombing | The Atlanta Olympics were marred by the | on July 27. Security Guard Richard Jewell discovered the pipe bomb and imm ... |
Orange Revolution | ... d vowed that Belarus would never have its own version of the 2004 Ukrainian | and Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution |
American Airlines Flight 77 | ... l-Makki) (August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001) was one of five hijackers of | , which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks |
Greek economic miracle | ... economic growth that followed throughout the 1950s to 1970s are dubbed the | . Since the turn of the millennium, Greece saw high levels of GDP growth a ... |
French Revolution | ... a justification of his treatment of the case. He was enthusiastic about the | and became a member of the Council of Five Hundred and then of the conserv ... |
American Revolution | ... settlement took place slowly in the early 18th century. By the time of the | , the tiny community was an important manufacturing center from its variou ... |
AIDS | Frist supports programs to fight | and African poverty. He travels to Africa frequently to provide medical ca ... |
de Broglie hypothesis | ... antum mechanics, particles also behave as waves with complex phases. By the | , we see tha |
American Revolution | ... politics and plantation economy. Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the | and joined the Confederacy in the American Civil War, during which Richmon ... |
September 11 attacks | ... nity and American economic and cultural power. It suffered the brunt of the | , along with two other places in the Mid-Atlantic, Arlington, Virginia and ... |
September 11 attacks | ... Trade Center site (ZIP code: 10048), also known as "Ground Zero" after the | , sits on in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The World Trade Center comp ... |
Bugaboo scrub fire | The city was threatened in April and May 2007 by the | , the largest wildfire in Georgia's history |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... timately materialized into the world's first space-based optical telescope, | , which was launched on April 20, 1990 by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS ... |
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Gold Rush | Amador County is home of the | era in California. Many century-old gold-mining places in the county are n ... |
Battle of Chancellorsville | ... he Potomac, bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. At the | , he distinguished himself as a temporary commander of the wounded Stonewa ... |
Italian unification | ... century, which was however quickly overturned by the incipient movement of | |
The Times | The critic writing for | thought that Bond was "backed up by sound writing" by Fleming. Although th ... |
Hexachordum Apollinis | ... man composers, he knew the northern German school, because he dedicated the | to Dieterich Buxtehude. Also composed in the final years were Italian-infl ... |
plague | ... sewhere. In 1636 about 7,000 out of 20,000 inhabitants of Newcastle died of | |
Battle of Palmito Ranch | ... a month after the surrender had been signed at Appomattox Court House, the | was fought and won by the Confederates. Ulysses S. Grant sent Union Genera ... |
California Gold Rush | ... shall discovered a small nugget of gold in the American River, sparking the | . It is estimated that about two-thirds of the male population in Oregon w ... |
Chunky Creek Train Wreck of 1863 | ... Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War; the wreck is called the | . A Confederate regiment of Choctaw Indians camping nearby saved many live ... |
Greece | ... as also become the primary attack helicopter of multiple nations, including | , Japan, Israel, the Netherlands and Singapore; as well as being produced ... |
Gettysburg | ... . The Army of the Potomac, which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks prior to | , went on to fight several major battles. The National Museum of Civil War ... |
French Revolution | ... inistration of the entire country from Paris. During the early years of the | , in an attempt to centralize the administration of the whole country, and ... |
Reds | Half a century later, Warren Beatty made the 1981 film | , based on the life of John Reed. Beatty starred as Reed, while Diane Keat ... |
Descent 3 | ... stances would appear to mix together when overlapping. This was overcome in | with the use of opaque wall brushes and lighting closely matching that fou ... |
Iranian Revolution | After the | of 1979, the new Islamic government of Iran began an international campaig ... |
Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake | ... e War of 1812 between Britain and the United States, the British attacks on | (which prompted the writing of The Star-Spangled Banner) were planned and ... |
Kingdom Hearts II | ... Station and for the PlayStation 2. Stitch is also a summonable character in | , and appears along with his homeworld in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep fo ... |
The Times | After Nightingale sent a plea to | for the government to produce a solution to the poor condition of the faci ... |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... uld remain the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the | . The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the ag ... |
Rose Revolution | ... its own version of the 2004 Ukrainian Orange Revolution and Georgia's 2003 | |
American Revolution | The influence of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on the coming of the | has been variously interpreted. Many historians argue that the proclamatio ... |
California Gold Rush | ... d was established by Mormons in 1848 as Coonsville. It prospered during the | largely due to the grain mill on Keg Creek. Coonsville was the scene of an ... |
Greece | Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos , is a mountain of limestone in central | that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic ... |
1967 USS Forrestal fire | ... from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the | . In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down ... |
Battle of White Oak Road | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | .The Dinwiddie County Historical Society currently occupies the historic D ... |
Greece | ... ελλῆς) of Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient | . Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Na ... |
Greece | ... excavations at Quanterness in Orkney and Phylakopi on the island of Milos, | . In 1973 Renfrew published Before Civilisation: The Radiocarbon Revolutio ... |
Revolution of 1789 | ... he sixteenth century, followed by closure and partial demolition during the | and onwards has left only a much-damaged facade, and part of the nave, alt ... |
overdose | ... on. Then, in February 23, 1942, the Zweigs were found dead of a barbiturate | in their house in the city of Petrópolis, holding hands. He had been despa ... |
Stirling number | ... al theorem, factorial, fundamental theorem of arithmetic, birthday paradox, | , König's theorem, binomial type, difference operator, Pochhammer symbol, ... |
German reunification | ... litz became part of the Dresden District, but the states were restored upon | in 1990 |
Descent 3 | ... ered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: Descent II and | |
Sterling Hall bombing | ... 1950s to the radical antiwar protests at UW-Madison that culminated in the | in August 1970. Recent politics have been comparatively moderate, but the ... |
October 1987 stock market crash | Until 1987, most trading occurred via the telephone, but during the | , market makers often didn't answer their phones. To counteract this, the ... |
1890s | The story is set in New York in the | . A bawdy singer, Lady Lou (Mae West), works in the Bowery barroom saloon ... |
Greece | ... r in Normandy, the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division was stationed in | on internal security duties and anti-partisan operations. On 10 June they ... |
French Revolution | ... oire, bishop of Blois, to describe the destruction of artwork following the | . The term was quickly adopted across Europe. This new use of the term was ... |
New York Times Co. v. United States | ... freedom of speech could be curtailed on national security grounds. Thus, in | (1971), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers despit ... |
French Revolution | ... ailles also known as Lady Oscar in Europe. This manga, loosely based on the | , has been made into several Takarazuka musicals and into an anime series ... |
French Revolution | During the | , Giuseppe Cambini published Patriotic Airs for Two Violins, in which the ... |
Revolutions of 1989 | ... that swept the Eastern Bloc, starting in Poland. Collectively known as the | , they heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later and th ... |
Southern Airways Flight 932 | The city is also near the site of the | aviation disaster. In 1970, a plane carrying the Marshall University footb ... |
heart attack | ... had been commissioned, but was abandoned after Horne's untimely death of a | in February 1969 at the Bafta Awards ceremony. Horne was presenting an awa ... |
AIDS | ... e Rose on January 23, 1987 in Las Vegas, after confiding to her that he had | |
Westport | ... terial, it had little long-term benefit as Price was ultimately defeated at | a week later, bringing his campaign in Missouri to an end |
September 11 attacks | In the aftermath of the | , the stadium became a staging area for rescuers, its parking lots filled ... |
1997 Asian Financial Crisis | ... ls and force projection in Thai waters, a lack of funding brought on by the | means that the carrier has spent much of her career docked at the Sattahip ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | Short sellers were blamed for the | . Regulations governing short selling were implemented in the United State ... |
Yellowstone fires of 1988 | ... t a remote site and sent via overnight mail to the fire manager. During the | , a data station was established in West Yellowstone, permitting the deliv ... |
Black Death | The | repeatedly returned to haunt Italy throughout the 14th to 17th centuries. ... |
Mykonos restaurant assassinations | ... hip of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This campaign came to an end after the | , because a German court publicly implicated senior members of the governm ... |
Moscow theater hostage crisis | ... derivative), as a precursor to an assault on Chechen terrorists, ending the | . All 42 of the terrorists and 120 of the hostages were killed during the ... |
Greece | ... tance, consecutive episodes feature appearances in Venice, Morocco, London, | , India, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, and Scotland. Furthermore, another inconsi ... |
Greece | Gruyère cheeses are very popular in | , where the local varieties are known as γραβιέρα (graviéra). Some Greek g ... |
agricultural revolution | Some historical village greens have been lost as a result of the | and urban development. Greens are now most likely to be found in the older ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... ved from power was James VII and II, who fled into exile in 1688 during the | |
Iran hostage crisis | ... crisis zones. In addition to the Vietnam War, he has also been through the | and the Gulf War, plus a number of missions in the Soviet Union, and claim ... |
Neolithic Revolution | ... aleolithic period, beginning with the rise of farming, which produced the " | ", and ending when metal tools became widespread in the Copper Age (chalco ... |
Bull Run | ... the war, more battles were fought in Virginia than anywhere else, including | , the Seven Days Battles, Chancellorsville, and the concluding Battle of A ... |
Greece | In | and Cyprus, the term halvas (χαλβάς) is used for both varieties of the des ... |
September 11 attacks | ... rnett, a San Ramon resident, and other victims from Flight 93 killed in the | of 2001. A plaque was installed at the base of a lighted flagpole dedicate ... |
French Revolution | ... , and at Croix-sous-Bois his corps inflicted a reverse on the troops of the | . In the Netherlands, he commanded the center at the Battle of Jemappes on ... |
Descent II | ... meplay and garnered several expansion packs. It spawned two direct sequels: | and Descent 3 |
American Revolution | ... of Knox was established in 1822 from part of the Town of Berne. During the | loyalties of the inhabitants was split, but the issue was resolved when To ... |
Hexachordum Apollinis | ... e chamber music collection Musicalische Ergötzung, and, most important, the | (Nuremberg, 1699), a set of six keyboard arias with variations. Though mos ... |
AIDS | ... eful in treating macular degeneration and other diseases. This effect helps | patients with Kaposi's sarcoma, although there are better and cheaper drug ... |
Mukden Incident | ... ts colonial empire. In 1931, 21 years later, Japan invaded Manchuria in the | . This culminated in the invasion of East, Southeast and South Asia in Wor ... |
1960 U-2 incident | ... ch activists wanted. Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the | and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadersh ... |
1923 Great Kantō earthquake | ... imed his design could withstand earthquakes with twice the intensity of the | or typhoons with wind speeds of up to |
Greece | is both an archaeological site and a modern town in | on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis |
September 11, 2001, attacks | ... nnedy was in his Senate offices meeting with First Lady Laura Bush when the | took place. Two of the airplanes involved had taken off from Boston, and i ... |
American Revolution | ... tory that includes anecdotal tales from both the American Civil War and the | . The mascot is a live Dorset ram named Rameses, a tradition that dates ba ... |
United Airlines Flight 175 | ... 0 Aon employees present at the time managed to evacuate the building before | struck it twenty stories below them |
Electromagnetic spectrum | ... equency signals fall into the VHF (very high frequency) or lower bands. See | and Radio spectrum for a full listing of frequency bands |
American Revolution | ... e" were names used in designating the present village of Suffern before the | . The area originally was inhabited by the Ramapough (Monsey (Minsi)) Indi ... |
Storegga Slide | ... nd on the Norwegian continental shelf in the northern headwall flank of the | . Clathrates can also exist as permafrost, as at the Mallik gas hydrate fi ... |
French Revolution | ... France that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the | . The region is vaguely defined and the distinction between Guyenne and Ga ... |
Mann Gulch fire | ... , which can make fires particularly dangerous. For example, during the 1949 | in Montana, USA, thirteen smokejumpers died when they lost their communica ... |
Laika | ... volutionized the treatment of diabetes. On November 3, 1957, a Russian dog, | , became the first of many animals to orbit the earth. In the 1970s, antib ... |
Audio frequency | ... d resonant transformer for generating very high voltages at high frequency. | transformers ("repeating coils") were used by early experimenters in the d ... |
French Revolution | Some leaders of the | admired the Declaration of Independence but were more interested in the ne ... |
1997 Asian Financial Crisis | ... ablished in 1961 was instrumental in steering Malaysia to recovery from the | . The unit is an agency under the Prime Minister's Department responsible ... |
AIDS | ... act with bodily fluids of a person infected with HIV, the virus that causes | , poses a risk of infection. The risk from most of these types of infectio ... |
Crampton's, Fox's and Turner's Gaps | ... his light infantry division through Frederick on his way to the battles of | and Antietam in September 1862. An incident with Pennsylvania Dutch reside ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... *H. With the Vietnam War, the tide of balance turned and its films, notably | , Good Morning, Vietnam, Go Tell the Spartans, Born on the Fourth of July, ... |
Donkey Kong 64 | ... e.g. a Wii in Pokémon Black and White versions. The Nintendo 64 video game | also had this system, at one part of the game when playing as Donkey Kong, ... |
Irminger Current | ... climate, although a minority have disputed this. Other branches include the | and the Norwegian Current. Driven by the global thermohaline circulation ( ... |
Gabor atom | ... h Haar's work in the early 20th century. Later work by Dennis Gabor yielded | s (1946), which are constructed similarly to wavelets, and applied to simi ... |
Scientific Revolution | ... actors have been suggested, including education, technological changes (see | in Europe), "modern" government, "modern" work attitudes, ecology, and cul ... |
Hypertensive crises | ... emic (opiates or paracetamol) or locally applied (such as a cold compress). | are treated with anxiolytics and vasodilators |
Greece | The economy of | is the 32nd or 37th largest in the world at $312 or $309 billion by nomina ... |
Iran hostage crisis | The pregame festivities honored the end of the | (which was announced 5 days before the game), which featured a performance ... |
French Revolution | ... e and political autonomy. This right was maintained up until the eve of the | . Later he conquered Vaud, Bugey, and Carignano. He supported the Hohensta ... |
Norwegian Current | ... ity have disputed this. Other branches include the Irminger Current and the | . Driven by the global thermohaline circulation (THC), the North Atlantic ... |
Battle of Spanish Fort | ... to the Union army to avoid destruction following the Union victories at the | and the Battle of Fort Blakely. Ironically, on 25 May 1865, the city suffe ... |
Stevens–Johnson syndrome | ... s de pointes), pseudomembranous colitis, rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown), | , as well as concurrent usage of NSAIDs contributing to the severity of th ... |
Air Florida Flight 90 | ... r with Pan Am. Air Florida ceased operations in 1982 following the crash of | |
Castle Bravo | ... rshall Islands, including the largest nuclear test the U.S. ever conducted, | . In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission regarded the Marshall Islands as " ... |
Deir Yassin massacre | ... re the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the | , carried out together with Lehi on 9 April 1948 |
United 175 | ... n, where he stayed at the Milner Hotel up until September 11. Upon boarding | , Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make t ... |
French Revolution | The | of 1789 had a significant impact throughout Europe, which only increased w ... |
American Revolution | ... ned strong ties with the American colonies until the sudden outbreak of the | |
Battle of Saltville | ... he past, the town served as a stopover for Union troops on their way to the | . The town is also noteworthy for its flood control project, where the mou ... |
Iranian Revolution | ... 's King. Morocco has cut relations with Iran once before in 1980, after the | |
Hubble Space Telescope | The Dawn Mission team was granted viewing time on the | in September 2007 for a once-in-twenty-year opportunity to view the astero ... |
Dawson's Field | ... 5 September 1970, the PFLP hijacked five planes and landed three of them at | , located east of Amman. After the passengers were moved to other location ... |
Second Manassas | ... attacked overland from the north only to be repulsed at Second Bull Run, ( | ). Lee’s strike north was turned back at Antietam MD, then Burnside’s offe ... |
California Gold Rush | In 1849 and 1850, several parties of gold seekers bound for the | panned small amounts of gold from various streams in the South Platte Rive ... |
Elizabethan Age | ... and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the | . His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poetry (also know ... |
Project 4.1 | ... ll Islands are ongoing, and health effects from these nuclear tests linger. | was a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of t ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | Two months before the | , he became one of the sponsors of the first round-the-world voyage in an ... |
Black Death | ... of the rest of Great Britain. The economy was in decline by the time of the | , which dramatically reduced the population in 1349; suffice to say that t ... |
Red Army Faction | Like her partner Bernward Vesper and other members of the | (such as Ulrike Meinhof and Horst Mahler) Ensslin had excellent exam score ... |
Battle of Perryville | During the American Civil War, the | took place here on October 8, 1862, fought between the Confederate Army of ... |
Oktoberfest | ... rgest marksmen's festival, and the Oktoberfest Hannover, the second largest | in the world. In 2000, Hanover hosted the world fair Expo 2000. The Hanove ... |
September 11 attacks | ... e assassination of Massoud is considered to have a strong connection to the | in 2001 on U.S. soil which killed nearly 3,000 people and which appeared t ... |
1986 Challenger disaster | ... een twice chosen as the "Return To Flight" Orbiter, first in 1988 after the | , and then for the twin "Return To Flight" missions in July 2005 and July ... |
French Revolution | ... a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the | where he rose through the ranks |
American Revolution | ... such as Spanish sailors from a wrecked galleon or British troops during the | . John Godwin argued that, given the apparent size and complexity of the p ... |
Ixodidae | ... l activities against the adult of Haemaphysalis bispinosa Neumann (Acarina: | ) and hematophagous fly Hippobosca maculata Leach (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) |
American Revolution | ... les XII in particular using it to great effect until the 1720s). During the | , pikes called "trench spears" made by local blacksmiths saw limited use u ... |
French Revolution | Corrèze is one of the original 83 departments created during the | on 4 March 1790. It includes part of the former province of Limousin (the ... |
Battle of Glasgow | The | was fought on October 15, 1864, in and near Glasgow as part of Price's Mis ... |
Chancellorsville | ... he would be replacing General Joseph Hooker after the latter's disaster at | in May. The Army of the Potomac, which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks p ... |
AIDS | ... otable human retroviruses include HIV-1 and HIV-2, the cause of the disease | |
Mukden Incident | ... vince and the customs revenues from the port city of Tianjin. Following the | and the Japanese invasion of Zhang's own domain of Manchuria in 1931, Zhan ... |
AIDS | ... ain cases of metastatic cancer, severe hepatitis or pancreatitis, end-stage | HIV infection, marked bone marrow depression, urea cycle disorders, and co ... |
Greece | ... s until around the 3rd century BCE. The use of molds was first developed in | and Egypt during the 3rd century BCE. In Roman times, stone, clay, or plas ... |
American Revolution | A veteran of the | ary War was the first settler in Moreland Township. Colonel George Smith m ... |
French Revolution | ... rth and finance minister of Louis XVI, a post he held in the lead-up to the | in 1789 |
Quake 4 | ... air in the computer game Icewind Dale 2, and the voice of Johann Strauss in | . In February 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen's VDub series of ... |
September 11 attacks | ... s to extend it another . Security here was further tightened after the 2001 | . The U.S. Border Patrol credits the wall and better surveillance technolo ... |
Greece | ... opulation was 7,702 at the 2010 census. The town is named after a region in | |
Greece | ... rely dead, even today; variations of the lyra are still played in Bulgaria, | , Italy and Turkey; a notable example is Crete, where the Cretan lyra is c ... |
Greece | ... 0 BC – ca. 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace, | . He was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of Leucippus, w ... |
Canary Current | ... he Gulf Stream northeast. West of Ireland it splits in two; one branch, the | , goes south, while the other continues north along the coast of northwest ... |
Black Death | During this period the village grew. In 1349, the | , which wiped out a third of the population of England, attacked the villa ... |
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan | ... ve assumed that it was unconstitutional. In the seminal free speech case of | , the Court declared, "Although the Sedition Act was never tested in this ... |
Gulf Stream | ... ons in the world at a similar latitude, due to the warming influence of the | (via the North Atlantic Drift). Being in the rain shadow of the North Penn ... |
Mukden Incident | ... henzing Iron Ore Company Unlimited was started in Anshan in 1918. After the | in 1931, Japan occupied the northeast of China. The mills were turned into ... |
Carnation Revolution | Following a 1974 coup (the " | "), the new government favoured a gradual decolonisation process for Portu ... |
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | ... blications. Steve was also a character in four of the Tony Hawk games, from | to Tony Hawk's Underground |
American Revolution | ... fork did not become popular in the North America until near the time of the | . The curved fork that is used in most parts of the world today, was devel ... |
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks | ... ted at his sentencing hearing in 2006 that Reid was a co-conspirator in the | on the United States, and that Moussaoui and Reid had intended to hijack a ... |
August financial crisis | ... n 1998 with a 2.5% decline in GDP growth due to slumping oil prices and the | in Russia. A bright spot in 1999 was the recovery of international petrole ... |
Paris Peace Conference | ... World War I. In 1919, Wilson asked Baruch to serve as a staff member at the | . Baruch did not approve of the reparations France and Britain demanded of ... |
Soviet invasion of Hungary | ... Party. He left the party in 1956, with many other intellectuals, after the | when one of his reports was rejected |
Iranian Revolution | ... tt al-Arab during the later Pahlavi period, and continue to do so after the | of 1979 |
Kent State shootings | ... ecame a partisan political organization following the Spock case. After the | in 1970, ACLU leaders took another step towards politics by passing a reso ... |
French Revolution | ... ed by the Reformation, the rise of nation-states and the Enlightenment. The | , the failed radical Revolutions of 1848 and the loss of the Papal States ... |
Behenian fixed star | ... oki", or "Loki's torch"). In the astrology of the Middle Ages, Sirius was a | , associated with beryl and juniper. Its astrological symbol was listed by ... |
Seveso | ... nsion, leading to ecological disasters like the Vajont Dam collapse and the | chemical accident. The boom had also a huge impact on Italian society and ... |
Coastal Road massacre | ... inst Israel grew during the late 1970s. One of the most severe—known as the | —occurred on 11 March 1978. A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters lande ... |
Heritage Lottery Fund | ... In December 2011, Pittencrieff Park was awarded nearly £710,000 through the | 's Parks for People programme for essential maintenance work. A previous s ... |
Lethal Xcess | ... and often contained sampled speech examples of which are Wings of Death and | |
Revolutions of 1848 | ... ion-states and the Enlightenment. The French Revolution, the failed radical | and the loss of the Papal States traumatized many Catholic leaders, who he ... |
JPEG 2000 | ... code the transformed data, resulting in effective compression. For example, | is an image compression standard that uses biorthogonal wavelets. This mea ... |
Velvet Revolution | ... unced it in 1977-78 as a "genocide", but the practice continued through the | of 1989. A 2005 report by the Czech government's independent ombudsman, Ot ... |
American Revolution | ... e fledgling United States as an independent nation. In the beginning of the | , American merchant ships were subject to attack by the Barbary Pirates wh ... |
Greek | ... tius (; , Diogenes Laertios; fl. c. 3rd century AD) was a biographer of the | philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and ... |
MV Tampa | ... of Nauru's income has been in the form of aid from Australia. In 2001, the | , a Norwegian ship that had rescued 433 refugees (from various countries i ... |
French May | ... the fermenting atmosphere that evolved into 1968's cultural revolution (the | ), he moved with his family to Paris in 1967, setting up home in a villa i ... |
Greece | In the early 1990s, Albania had 240 microwave circuits to Italy and 180 to | carrying international calls. The Albanian telephone company had also inst ... |
New York Times Co. v. United States | ... to publish the Pentagon papers. The court upheld the Times and ACLU in the | ruling, which held that the government could not preemptively prohibit the ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... become a stock broker and managed to lose approximately $50,000 during the | . His father bailed him out of his losses, and Bell continued to work, or ... |
Gilded Age | ... ning Bennett's hotel and its guests' activities, as it was vogue during the | for newspapers to report on daily happenings at upper class and upper-midd ... |
Project Justice | ... Japan, with releases of network compatible games such as Tech Romancer and | . Web browsers were developed by independent companies such as Planetweb t ... |
scapegoat | ... publicly burned alive. Emperor Justinian I (527–565 CE) made homosexuals a | for problems such as "famines, earthquakes, and pestilences. |
Great Awakening | ... ield hollers and, following Christianization, hymns. In the 19th century, a | of religious fervor gripped people across the country, especially in the S ... |
Gulf Stream | ... Atlantic Sea Movement) is a powerful warm ocean current that continues the | northeast. West of Ireland it splits in two; one branch, the Canary Curren ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... g Marlon Brando as Dracula and Martin Sheen as Jonathan Harker. (Yes, it is | , complete with all the famous quotes and mishaps during filming, albeit i ... |
AIDS | By that time, Althea has contracted HIV, which proceeds to | . Some time later in 1987, Flynt finds her dead in the bathtub, having dro ... |
Exxon Valdez oil spill | ... terminal was the point of departure for the Exxon Valdez just prior to the | |
Port Hudson | ... the Mississippi River following the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and | in July, ending Southern access to the trans-Mississippi West. July brough ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... nternational Space Station (ISS) assembly missions. Discovery also flew the | into orbit. Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, fol ... |
variation | ... mposition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for | on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short r ... |
Gulf Stream | ... ropical climate on the border of tropical climate. It's warmed by the neaby | , due to the westerlies, which carry warm, humid air eastwards over Bermud ... |
Hungarian Uprising | ... oviet communist regime in the Eastern Bloc, which had quelled both the 1956 | and the 1968 Prague Spring with Soviet-led invasions |
Revolution | In the early days of the post- | era, Union City boasted the nation's largest Cuban population, second only ... |
Heaven's Gate | Walken's first film of the 1980s was the controversial | , helmed by Deer Hunter director Cimino. Walken also starred in the 1981 a ... |
Battle of Lewis's Farm | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | was fought along Quaker Road [Rt. 660]. It took place on 29 March 1865. Th ... |
Iranian Revolution | ... political Islam that swept the Middle East in the 1970s culminating in the | in 1979 was to have profound implications for Bahrain's social and politic ... |
Battle of Mobile Bay | ... uilt in Mobile. One of the most famous naval engagements of the war was the | , resulting in the Union taking possession of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864. ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... wavelength of light, and D is the diameter of the lens or mirror. Were the | , with a 2.4 m telescope, designed for photographing Earth, it would be di ... |
British Agricultural Revolution | ... ignificantly, leading to a larger workforce. The Enclosure movement and the | made food production more efficient and less labour-intensive, forcing the ... |
Kuwaiti oil fires | ... ossible reasons for this are discussed in more detail in the article on the | |
Black Death | ... tributed to various causes, including the absence of skilled craftsmen (the | having been gone only twelve years prior to the spire's completion), the u ... |
American Revolution | Although several American universities which predate the | purport to hold royal charters, in a number of cases they were in fact cre ... |
September 11 attacks | ... city's first memorial to honor the four Union City citizens who died in the | was a sculpture placed in Doric Park, in whose courtyard citizens gathered ... |
32 Variations in C minor | ... period, the chaconne fell into decline during the 19th century, though the | by Beethoven suggest its continuing influence. However, the form saw a ver ... |
California Gold Rush | The Pike's Peak Gold Rush, which followed the | by approximately one decade, produced a dramatic but temporary influx of i ... |
Locomotion No 1 | ... and Robert Stephenson, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814) | ;(1825); and the Lancashire Witch (1828) |
Hubble Space Telescope | data from the | obtained in 2007 as well as the observations by the Keck telescope in 2003 ... |
major wild fires and house burnings | In October 2007 the winds fueled | in Escondido, Malibu, Rainbow, San Marcos, Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo, Powa ... |
Iranian Revolution | ... ensely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan in November 1970; The | of 1979 transformed Iran from an autocratic pro-western monarchy to a theo ... |
Ramstein airshow disaster | ... eir songs are inspired by real life events. These songs include Rammstein ( | ), Mein Teil (The Meiwes Case), Wiener Blut (Fritzl case), and Donaukinder ... |
Operation Provide Comfort | During the post war periods called Operation Desert Calm and | , Fort Hood units continued to serve in the Persian Gulf area. From Decemb ... |
1964 Alaska earthquake | ... on added additional benefits. A tectonic tsunami struck the city during the | with waves that killed 15 people and caused $11 million in damages. It als ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... t launched in 1976, was made by Lockheed, the same contractor who built the | . HST has a 2.4 metre telescope mirror and is believed to have had a simil ... |
disastrous fire | A | on June 20, 1877 destroyed a large portion of the central business distric ... |
Battle of Nashville | ... nel of the 17th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops and led the regiment at the | |
variation form | Pachelbel's apparent affinity for | is evident from his organ works that explore the genre: chaconnes, chorale ... |
Greece | Maria Amalia Mercouri was born in Athens, | in 1920, the daughter of Stamatis Mercouris, a former cavalry officer, mem ... |
Fable III | ... ngsley has worked voicing a character named Sabine in Lionhead Studios game | , and starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, directed by M ... |
Cleveland School massacre | ... e event received national news coverage and is sometimes referred to as the | |
French Revolution | ... pecimens in the collections of museums worldwide) on Oak Island. During the | , when the Palace of Versailles was stormed by revolutionaries in 1789, Ma ... |
King Lear | ... themes of blind and unnatural fatherhood and the retribution it invokes, in | ) and in ruling out the comic element. The fact that, let us say, Act II s ... |
Greece | ... Turkey, parts of which make up that ancient state. From India, it spread to | (where it was called "σίκυον", síkyon) and Italy (where the Romans were es ... |
Gulf Stream | Bermuda is very susceptible to hurricanes. Its position along the | means that it is often directly in the path of hurricanes recurving in the ... |
Red Army Faction | ... 5 August 1940 – 18 October 1977) was a founder of the German militant group | (Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang). Afte ... |
American Revolution | ... t of western New York. The founder John L. Hardenbergh was a veteran of the | who, like many other migrants, came to the area for the chance of land. He ... |
plague | ... d to Nova Scotia, they brought along with them diseases, such as small pox, | , measles and other illnesses that depopulated entire villages, killing be ... |
heart attack | Verdon died in her sleep in 2000 of a | at the home of her daughter, Nicole, in Woodstock, Vermont, at the age of ... |
Neolithic Revolution | ... onset of early agricultural practices in the Neolithic have been called the | , a term coined in the 1920s by the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon C ... |
medium | ... ck-to-back connection eliminates the effects of the transmission channel or | |
Battle of Saltville I | ... d that an ancestor who served in the American Civil War lost his leg at the | , Virginia, and not at Andersonville prison, as she previously believed |
Gaza flotilla raid | ... eva reported that tensions caused by differences of opinion over the recent | , had caused Arab residents of the village to threaten to expel the Jewish ... |
widespread political unrest | ... from New Orleans. These came in search of their own land, and to escape the | in Germany at the time. Many of the city's buildings, its citizens, and es ... |
Laguna Fire | ... ncluding the state's largest fire on record, the Cedar Fire, as well as the | , Old Fire, Esperanza Fire, Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 and the Witch Fir ... |
Mitcham tram stop | ... was a railway station, that closed after the last train ran on 31 May 1997. | replaced the station, and is located on the same site |
9/11 | ... on the allegation he was an enemy combatant. The Court held that the post- | congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) amounted ... |
Battle of Gettysburg | ... The inconclusive battle delayed the Confederate cavalry on their way to the | . Three days before the battle, another detachment of Virginia cavalry had ... |
Battle of Cove Mountain | ... rginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. During the Civil War the | was fought in the county |
Greece | ... n the Liguria and Puglia regions of Italy and also in Catalonia (Spain), in | and in Turkey. In Ligurian cuisine the wild chicory leaves are an ingredie ... |
Battle of Dry Wood Creek | ... over the fort occurred in August 1861 just across the Missouri line in the | . The battle was a pro-South victory for Sterling Price and his Missouri S ... |
American Revolution | ... in the town provided muskets and cannon for the Colonial armies during the | . There was more residential development in the late 19th century and earl ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... nesses indicated these companions resembled Ziad Jarrah, the later pilot on | , and Said Bahaji, a then 26-year-old German-Moroccan member of the al-Qae ... |
Cedar Fire | ... and deadliest wildfires, including the state's largest fire on record, the | , as well as the Laguna Fire, Old Fire, Esperanza Fire, Santiago Canyon Fi ... |
September 11 attacks | ... meland Security, as part of a major government reorganization following the | of 2001. These three components include U.S. Citizenship and Immigration S ... |
storm tides | ... always been a strong influence of the sea in the region. In medieval times | made life in what is now Nordfriesland quite dangerous. Only in modern tim ... |
Four Asian Tigers | ... ty. Taiwan's phenomenal economic development earned it a spot as one of the | |
Othello | ... turned to the West End for Robeson's starring role in William Shakespeare's | , opposite Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. Essie's Paul Robeson, Negro was pu ... |
French revolution | ... at the inhabitants be kept continually in mind of the obligations which the | imposed on them". It was later renamed Port-au-Prince by Jacques I, empero ... |
Oktoberfest | ... f Vandalia boasts several seasonal festivals and events, such as the annual | in the autumn, the Homecoming parade in the fall, and the Air Show & Parad ... |
French Revolution | ... t released a song entitled "The Palace of Versailles", a song detailing the | , The Terror, and the military coup of Napoléon Bonaparte, from the perspe ... |
Asian financial crisis | ... rowth, which had slowed in 1997 and 1998 due to the negative effects of the | and two successive years of drought, rebounded in 1999. A low New Zealand ... |
American Airlines Flight 191 | The DC-10 experienced another major accident with the crash of | on May 25, 1979. Flight 191 lost its number one (left wing) engine after t ... |
Greece | ... ed by 1840. A century later, when the Treaty of Lausanne was signed between | and Turkey in 1923, the two countries agreed to use religion as the determ ... |
AIDS | ... , counseling, de-stigmatization, antiretroviral drugs and condoms to combat | . Sample testing had shown that those who were HIV positive were 20 percen ... |
heart attack | ... f his extramarital affairs. She held him in her arms as he suffered a fatal | on the sidewalk outside the Washington theatre where Sweet Charity was bei ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... eption is the exoplanet Fomalhaut b, observed at visible wavelengths by the | . That planet was found to be surprisingly bright in visible light, possib ... |
Warrington bomb attacks | ... in recognition of the humanitarian role adopted by the choir following the | . Since then, he has appeared with the choir for performances in prisons i ... |
Greece | ... tions dating back to 2000 BC, fishing rods go back to ancient Egypt, China, | , Trinidad and Tobago, Rome and medieval England, where they were called " ... |
Greece | In | , there is a doughnut-like snack, called loukoumas (λουκουμάς), which is a ... |
Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 | ... cord, the Cedar Fire, as well as the Laguna Fire, Old Fire, Esperanza Fire, | and the Witch Fire |
Sharpsburg | ... it. Following the Confederate incursion halted at the Battle of Antietam, ( | ), in October 1862 generals proposed concentrating forces from state comma ... |
California Gold Rush | Chinese Camp is the remnant of a notable | mining town. The settlement was first known as "Camp Washington" or "Washi ... |
Gulf Stream | ... and May 1873, sailing from Bermuda north to Halifax and back, crossing the | twice with the reverse journey crossing further to the east |
Gettysburg | ... later transferred to another unit, missing the regiment's famous defense at | . His son Wesley, who had enlisted with his father, was killed in the batt ... |
TBR1 | ... ared aspect between NR2B and RELN is that they both can be regulated by the | transcription factor |
Esperanza Fire | ... rgest fire on record, the Cedar Fire, as well as the Laguna Fire, Old Fire, | , Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 and the Witch Fire |
1997 Asian Financial Crisis | ... follow a low interest rate policy. The Malaysian economy recovered from the | sooner than neighbouring countries, and has since recovered to the levels ... |
Greece | ... s, also known as the Hellenes (, ), are a nation and ethnic group native to | , Cyprus and other regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Gr ... |
an air crash at Ostend | ... and Duke of Hesse), her two young sons and her mother-in-law were killed in | ; Philip, then only sixteen years of age, attended the funeral in Darmstad ... |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | ... made international headlines in February 2003, after receiving much of the | debris |
Second Battle of Bull Run | ... Cavalry in the American Civil War. The colonel was mortally wounded at the | in 1862 |
Greece | ... producer of kiwifruit in the world, followed by New Zealand, Chile, France, | , Japan and the United States. In China, kiwifruit was traditionally colle ... |
frequencies | ... gnal, additional harmonics are generated at the sums and differences of the | of the harmonics of those notes |
November 2008 California wildfires | ... o, San Diego and Los Angeles. The Santa Ana winds were also a factor in the | |
Fredericksburg | ... g the Civil War, including the battles of Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, | , and Spotsylvania Court House |
MV Tampa | ... ed upon an ONA assessment to support his claims about asylum seekers on the | , in an incident which became known as the "Tampa affair". The ONA assessm ... |
Labrador Current | ... e Grand Banks off the island of Newfoundland, the meeting place of the cold | from the north and the much warmer Gulf Stream from the south. Some of the ... |
Great Kantō Earthquake | ... again in the emergency crisis "earthquake cabinet" (1923–24) following the | . He showed leadership in the restoration of Tokyo which had been heavily ... |
Pike's Peak Gold Rush | With the onset of the | in 1858, an ancient Native American trail along the Smoky Hill River provi ... |
Greece | ... irect flights to dozens of countries which include France, Russia, Germany, | , United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, Czech Republ ... |
About.com | ... s one of the pioneers of the Mafioso rap sub-genre. In 2007, The editors of | placed him on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007). The Mi ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... rently active space missions dedicated to searching for extrasolar planets. | and MOST have also found or confirmed a few planets. The Gaia mission, to ... |
French Revolution | ... f the Kings of France, was opened to the public as an art museum during the | . Most modern public museums and art education programs for children in sc ... |
Great Awakening | ... sermon is one of the most famous sermons ever scripted. It was part of the | Revival that struck New England in the mid-18th century and spread through ... |
California Gold Rush | ... y of whose vineyards are still in use by wineries today. The decline of the | coupled with the onset of Prohibition devastated the wine-making region of ... |
AIDS | ... he state of Georgia. At one time it offered hospice to those afflicted with | . Local detractors, with unfounded fears of casual communicability of AIDS ... |
Yellowstone fires of 1988 | ... shment than those regions that have not been influenced by fire. Though the | had minimal impact on Grand Teton National Park, studies conducted before ... |
1789 revolution | ... istinctions adopted by the moderate, liberal, Girondist movement during the | |
Roundtable Talks | In Poland, the | between the government and Solidarity-led opposition led to semi-free elec ... |
Chancellorsville | ... s were fought in this county during the Civil War, including the battles of | , the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House |
French Revolution | ... rney from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1790 (one year after the start of the | ) and warned of uprisings because of the deplorable social conditions of t ... |
Battle of Gettysburg | ... the dark, his exhausted men reached Dover on the morning of July 1, as the | was commencing without them |
The Times | ... eclared in favour of repeal. On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared in | that the government had decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 t ... |
Celtic Tiger | ... d was at the forefront of the country's rapid economic expansion during the | period. In 2009, Dublin was listed as the fourth richest city in the world ... |
Gulf Stream | ... eting place of the cold Labrador Current from the north and the much warmer | from the south. Some of the foggiest land areas in the world include Argen ... |
Mukden Incident | ... Qing Empire in China. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the | and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with Puyi, the last ... |
1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary | In 1957, disillusioned by the | , Calvino left the Italian Communist Party. In his letter of resignation p ... |
French Revolution | ... ace VIII in 1303 and famed as a seat of legal studies, flourished until the | . The memory of St. Eucherius still clings to three vast caves near the vi ... |
Black Hills Gold Rush | ... near present-day Custer, South Dakota. Custer's announcement triggered the | and gave rise to the lawless town of Deadwood, which quickly reached a pop ... |
Carnation Revolution | Salazarist Portugal persecuted the language from 1936 until the | of 1975 |
1848 Revolutions | ... embly was held there. In 1849, during the Palatinate-Baden rebellion of the | , Heidelberg was the headquarters of a revolutionary army. It was defeated ... |
Reds | ... ter Louise Bryant. O'Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film | about the life of John Reed |
Cannibal Holocaust | ... r Go Video, the distributors of the already-controversial 1980 Italian film | , in an effort to boost publicity and generate sales that ultimately backf ... |
The Charge of the Light Brigade | ... tically. The eight films in which they co-starred are Captain Blood (1935), | (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood and Four's a Crowd (1938), Dodge City ... |
Battle of Fredericksburg | ... gns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous | and Battle of the Crater, earning his reputation as one of the most incomp ... |
Macbeth | ... The film was directed by Vishal Bhardwaj who earlier adapted Shakespeare's | as Maqbool. All characters in the film share the same letter or sound in t ... |
King Lear | ... his final radio performances in the title role of an All Star production of | in 1994 that was mounted to celebrate his 90th birthday. The cast included ... |
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | ... Vietnam War. (Lucier also believed that survivors of the 1983 shoot-down of | were being held prisoner by the Soviets.) Helms stated that the "deeper st ... |
Bull Run | ... colonel and eventually "Brigadier General of Volunteers". After fighting at | and in eight other battles, Miller became ill and later transferred to ano ... |
Apollo 13 | ... he Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center's Space Works, who also restored the | Command Module. Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were ... |
Julius Caesar | ... Merchant of Venice (1937), Angelo in Measure for Measure (1950), Cassius in | (1950) (which he immortalised in the 1953 film), Leontes in The Winter's T ... |
Revolutions of 1848 | In the | , 30,000 citizens of Nassau assembled in Wiesbaden on March 4. They demand ... |
revival | ... his year of isolation, while living underground. He later led a short-lived | ist ministry called Eldridge Cleaver Crusades |
American Revolution | ... joined in treaties with the English in 1763, followed by the events of the | |
American Revolution | ... g independence, the text of the Declaration was initially ignored after the | . Since then, it has come to be considered a major statement on human righ ... |
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 | On March 3, 1974, an almost identical cargo door blow-out caused | to crash into a forest near the town of Ermenonville, France shortly after ... |
Green Revolution | In agriculture and animal husbandry, the | popularized the use of conventional hybridization to increase yield. Often ... |
Cedar Revolution | ... the resulting Mehlis report that there was Syrian involvement, prompted the | , which drove Syrian troops out of Lebanon |
Kent State shootings | ... ring the early 1970s. One of the best-known anti-war demonstrations was the | . In 1970, university students were protesting the war and the draft. Riot ... |
American Revolution | ... was only nine years old when he was a spy for George Washington during the | . Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley came to the Western Reserve of O ... |
French Revolution | ... of the Holocaust. In 1989, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the | , Seymour appeared in the television film La révolution française, filmed ... |
Shankill Road bombing | ... ysteel massacre. The UFF claimed the attack was in retaliation to the IRA's | which killed nine, seven days earlier |
Descent 4 | Around that time, Volition also began work on | , but development was canceled in 2000, owing mostly to disappointing sale ... |
French Revolution | ... one God. Deistic ideas also influenced several leaders of the American and | s |
Kyshtym | After World War II, Hoover's mining work in the | area of Russia proved invaluable to American intelligence agencies. They h ... |
Battle of the Crater | ... t Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and | , earning his reputation as one of the most incompetent generals of the wa ... |
Wien Air Alaska Flight 99 | On August 30, 1975, | crashed when trying to land in Gambell. 10 of the 32 passengers and crew o ... |
Round Table Talks | The | between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition led to semi-free ... |
Revolution of 1789 | ... of socialists, to the Jacobins who tended to look back nostalgically to the | |
California Gold Rush | ... e main technique used in the early years of many gold rushes, including the | . Types of placer deposits include alluvium, eluvium, beach placers, and p ... |
California Gold Rush | ... ockton were fished and navigated by Miwok Indians for centuries. During the | , the San Joaquin River was navigable by ocean-going vessels, making Stock ... |
The Times | ... had obtained a copy of Hill’s booklet or if he had simply read about it in | newspaper, which had, on two occasions, on 25 March 1837 and on 20 Decembe ... |
Phoenix Program | ... n an extensive program of psychological warfare during the Vietnam War. The | had the dual aim of assassinating Viet Cong personnel and terrorizing any ... |
French Revolution | ... ns that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the | of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unpreced ... |
NPAS3 | ... teraction with risk genes. One example is the neuronal transcription factor | , disruption of which is linked to schizophrenia and learning disability. ... |
Saints Row 2 | In the video game | , the Ronin were a "Yakuza"-style with traits from the Bōsōzoku with the b ... |
Battle of Walkerton | On March 2, 1864, the | , an engagement of the American Civil War took place here, resulting in a ... |
plague | ... fire, caused by negligence, destroyed 137 of the town's 251 houses. In 1620 | broke out and, in 1621, there was another big fire in the town. The town a ... |
September 11 attacks | ... to be removed from the exhibit following criticism of elements based on the | in the United States. A French street artist known as Invader made a name ... |
Greece | ... articularly those of Asia Minor, Georgia, Armenia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, | , and Thrace |
Mass Effect 2 | ... , he played the role of the Illusive Man in the highly acclaimed video game | , and the sequel, Mass Effect 3 |
Black Saturday | ... e of the "Sound Relief" charity concerts, in honour of the victims of the " | " fires and the "Queensland floods" |
Revolution of 1848 | ... Germany was generally liberal in nature, and many Turners took part in the | . After its defeat, the movement was suppressed and many Turners left Germ ... |
Paris Peace Conference | ... uncil of Heidelberg in 1918. He then served in the German delegation to the | and as advisor to the Confidential Committee for Constitutional Reform, wh ... |
AIDS | ... male stars of Private Pleasures, including Holmes, eventually succumbed to | |
Tatra Tiger | ... ntries, the Slovak economy has been considered a tiger economy known as the | . Slovakia has been an EU member state since 2004 and adopted the euro cur ... |
Greece | ... onian Sea near the city of Actium, at the Roman province of Epirus vetus in | . Octavian's fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, while Antony ... |
NPAS1 | ... and learning disability. Knockout mice lacking NPAS3 or the similar protein | have significantly lower levels of reelin; the precise mechanism behind th ... |
Trent Affair | ... vy in seizing a British ship outraged Britain and led to a war scare in the | . Recognition of the Confederacy seemed at hand, but Lincoln released the ... |
Columbine massacre | ... Is Your Time" (about Cassie Bernall, one of the students killed during the | ). In the music video for this song, the beginning shows a real video of B ... |
American Airlines Flight 96 | ... tward-opening cargo door first became publicly known on June 12, 1972, when | lost its aft cargo door shortly after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan. Befo ... |
The Times | In 2004, along with six others, Lawson wrote a letter to | criticising the Kyoto Protocol and claiming that there were substantial sc ... |
Battle of Fort Sumter | ... irginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the | and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined th ... |
spectral | ... y a body radiates per unit of time. The word "luminosity" may also refer to | luminosity, measured either in W/Hz or W/nm |
Great Chicago Fire | A fire (possibly related to the | or Great Michigan Fire) destroyed the village in October 1871. About that ... |
French Revolution | ... ts, written by Jeremy Bentham, an argument which he would repeat during the | . Both pamphlets asked how the American slaveholders in Congress could pro ... |
New Zealand wool boom | ... 's exports. Due to the high demand for these primary products – such as the | of 1951 – New Zealand enjoyed high standards of living. However, commodity ... |
1998 embassy bombings | ... Agency (CIA), consisted of an effort to trace Osama bin Laden following the | . The U.S. and the European Union provided no support to Massoud for the f ... |
The Times | In 2008, | ranked Kingsley Amis ninth on their list of the 50 greatest British writer ... |
Chernobyl disaster | ... t on 5 June that year. He toured Australia and South Africa. After the 1986 | , a hospice was named in his honour. In 1995 he was given the Freedom of t ... |
taking of hostages | ... imitz in 1980 after she had deployed to the Indian Ocean in response to the | in the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Although initially part of the U.S. Atlanti ... |
holiday homes | ... are popular locations for people from the conurbations to purchase weekend | . Arthur Conan Doyle first conceived the idea for The Hound Of The Baskerv ... |
American Revolution | ... ated on the Lumber River. Founded in 1787 by John Willis, an officer in the | , Lumberton was originally a shipping point for lumber used by the Navy, w ... |
Hungarian Revolution | c.The Soviet leadership, which had previously ordered the | and the Prague Spring crushed, now became worried about the demoralization ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... ent's authority in the colonies. The orthodox British view, dating from the | of 1688, was that Parliament was the supreme authority throughout the empi ... |
American Revolution | ... sne during the French and Indian War. To control this crossroads during the | , the British garrisoned a Hessian regiment in the town during Afterward, ... |
French Revolution | After the | , Napoléon I reorganized the police in Paris and other cities with more th ... |
Battle of the Crater | ... ise breakthrough. The fort was destroyed on July 30 in what is known as the | . Because of interference from Meade, Burnside was ordered, only hours bef ... |
American Revolution | In the aftermath of the | , the British government was sensitive to unrest in its remaining colonies ... |
plague | ... terior. Of all the states in the region, Norway suffered the most from this | . Depending on the parish, sixty to seventy-six percent of the northern No ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... the monarch was all but extinguished by the Whig revolution of 1688-89 (see | ). The king or queen of the United Kingdom is one of the last monarchs sti ... |
Greece | ... countries such as Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Australia, and | . Titles included the official Amstrad Computer User publication, as well ... |
Soyuz 11 | ... ons. This would have problems of its own, especially the tragic loss of the | crew in July 1971 and the near-loss of the Soyuz 18a crew during launch in ... |
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome | ... ukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma), and certain chronic infections such as | (AIDS). The unwanted effect in non-deliberate immunosuppression is immunod ... |
hijacked airplanes crashed | ... cal television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two | into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers. Transmitter maintenance ... |
Kingdom Hearts II | ... has provided Piglet's voice since Fielder's death. He has voiced Piglet in | , Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (only for the newest material since muc ... |
Sharpsburg | ... st mediation of the war. But the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, ( | ) combined with internal British abolitionist opposition, and Britain did ... |
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | ... mples include Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Paganini and Rachmaninoff's | |
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 | ... concern due to aircraft accidents caused by microburst wind shear, such as | . Microburst radar was developed as an aid to safety during landing, givin ... |
French Revolution | ... (played by Robbie Coltrane), William Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne), the | (featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pim ... |
Operation Provide Comfort | ... oosevelt flew patrols in support of the Kurds over northern Iraq as part of | in 1991. In 1996, George Washington played a peacekeeping role in Operatio ... |
Texas Oil Boom | ... to form the flood-control lake, Lake Travis. In the early 20th century, the | took hold, creating tremendous economic opportunities in Southeast Texas a ... |
French Revolution | ... is first names later, from Julius Caesar, in the classicizing spirit of the | |
Great Kantō Earthquake | His death came immediately before the | of 1923, and therefore Japan was without a prime minister during that disa ... |
Great Michigan Fire | A fire (possibly related to the Great Chicago Fire or | ) destroyed the village in October 1871. About that time, the paperwork (t ... |
American Revolution | ... ill the king of France and had aided the Continentals during the successful | . Development of the city began later, and its state buildings were comple ... |
Revolutions of 1848 | After the | , the apparent leader of the Italian unification movement was Italian nati ... |
Stock Market Crash of 1929 | Although the RCA Thereminvox (released immediately following the | ), was not a commercial success, it fascinated audiences in America and ab ... |
2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak | ... it was held for 94 years. It finally closed in 2006 in the aftermath of the | . A building on the site then continued to be used for a general auction u ... |
USS Cole bombing | ... q bin Attash, one of the Yemenis, and others who were later involved in the | . Hazmi and Mihdhar also met with Fahad al-Quso, who was later involved in ... |
Tampa affair | ... asylum seekers on the MV Tampa, in an incident which became known as the " | ". The ONA assessment was later leaked to the public in its entirety, show ... |
AIDS | ... ible to some degree. Individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( | ) are more frequently infected with Shigella. Shigellosis is a more common ... |
K-129 | ... l is likely from events surrounding the sinking and subsequent salvaging of | |
Paris Commune | ... core he composed for the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon (set during the | ), where it is juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous "Can-can" from Of ... |
French Revolution | ... by the archbishop Pey Berland in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the | , before reappearing in 1808 with Napoleon I. Bordeaux accommodates approx ... |
TBR1 | ... er of factors besides the sheer number of Cajal-Retzius cells. For example, | transcription factor regulates RELN along with other T-element-containing ... |
Regina Pats | Other sports teams in Regina include the | of the Western Hockey League, the Regina Thunder of the Canadian Junior Fo ... |
Gulf Stream | The | and its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, for e ... |
Italian economic miracle | ... dramatic rise in the standard of living of ordinary Italians. The so called | lasted almost uninterrupted until the "Hot Autumn's" massive strikes and s ... |
Descent 3 | ... and the Descent Mission Builder 2. There was also a preview of the upcoming | |
Amen break | ... name of Luke Viberts project Amen Andrews is a word play on the name of the | and Eamonn Andrews |
11 September 2001 attacks | After the | "Only Time" was used as a soundtrack in many radio and television reports ... |
Hexachordum Apollinis | ... include the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the | , a set of keyboard variations |
Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt | ... lmost a replay of 1 July, even down to another mine being detonated beneath | west of Beaumont Hamel. The 31st Division had attacked Serre on 1 July and ... |
HELLP syndrome | ... ssociated with some serious diseases of pregnancy, including pre-eclampsia, | and acute fatty liver of pregnancy. These cause DI by activating hepatic v ... |
1979 Revolution | Iran began restricting alcohol consumption and production soon after the | , with harsh penalties meted out for violations of the law. However, becau ... |
Black Death | ... years after this devastation the town for the first time was struck by the | . In order to prevent the regrowth of Portsmouth as a threat, the French a ... |
Battle of Brown's Mill | ... nta Campaign, Confederate cavalry badly defeated Union forces at the nearby | |
Chernobyl disaster | ... the danger of graphite in power reactors (graphite fires in part led to the | ) has led to the discontinuation of graphite in standard reactor design |
Battle of Chustenahlah | ... ip to Russia), Skiatook Museum, The Healing Rock, Civil War Battle Marker ( | ), Captain's Cemetery, Hillside Cemetery, View from Javine Hill, Horse and ... |
American Revolution | ... Church prospered. The community built a second structure in 1709. After the | , the Anglican Church was disestablished in the US. Parishioners rallied t ... |
apparition | ... ated with the Palmar de Troya movement, which had its origins in an alleged | of the Blessed Virgin Mary on March 30, 1968 in El Palmar de Troya, a litt ... |
Descent II | ... f Skinny Puppy), prerendered cinematics (using the same cinematic engine as | ), and radiosity colored lighting effects |
Doodlebug Disaster | On July 3, 1940 the | train wreck killed 43 people; the worst disaster in the history of the cit ... |
XYZ Affair | ... S. envoys unless substantial bribes and concessions were paid, known as the | , led in part to an exponential increase in popular support and federal fu ... |
2001 anthrax attacks | ... ated threat is mail containing unidentified powders or chemicals, as in the | |
About.com | March 18, 2005 – The company acquired | , an online provider of consumer information for US$410 million. In 2005, ... |
September 11 attacks | After the | in 2001 in New York, Bush launched the War on Terrorism, in which the Unit ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. During the | in 2001 he was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93. Bingham die ... |
Love Canal | ... nsas with the fear of industrial pollution, similar to how New Yorkers view | |
Greece | ... s used as a location for the ocean scene (in the film portrayed as being in | ) in For Your Eyes Only, where Kristatos (Julian Glover) attempted to elim ... |
ROKS Cheonan sinking | Some trade was cut off after the | , for which South Korea blamed North Korea |
Greece | ... n Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, | , Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hung ... |
French Revolution | ... recognising a Right of Return was enacted in France in 1790, as part of the | putting a decisive end to the centuries-long persecution and discriminatio ... |
Great Fire of London | ... his premises were one of the most westerly buildings to be engulfed in the | |
French Revolution | ... tandard, and with a white background was the French national flag until the | , when it was replaced by the tricolor of modern-day France. The fleur-de- ... |
Chappaquiddick incident | ... lobotomy, the assassinations of brothers John and Robert, the controversial | , and four airplane crashes (Joe, Jr., Kathleen, Ted and John, Jr.; all bu ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... Group. During the September 11 attacks in 2001 he was a passenger on board | . Bingham died when the plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Penns ... |
Dee bridge disaster | In late 1847 the | occurred when a bridge span collapsed as a train passed over the River Dee ... |
The Times | Wright, in an interview with | , expressed belief that computers extend the imagination, and posits the e ... |
Testicular torsion | | can severely affect fertility if it occurs. One study on a rat model indic ... |
Réveil | Dunant grew up during the period of religious awakening known as the | , and at age 18 he joined the Geneva Society for Alms giving. In the follo ... |
Greece | ... f Greeks lived in Lycia until the 1920s when they were forced to migrate to | after the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey following the Grec ... |
Macbeth | The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in | by William Shakespeare (1605) |
ascension | ... nd resurrection. The Harrowing of hell, combined with the theme of Christ's | into heaven, became a favourite motif in medieval art and dram |
French Revolution | The Scarlet Pimpernel is set in 1792, during the early stages of the | . Marguerite St. Just, a beautiful French actress, is the wife of wealthy ... |
Wood Green ricin plot | ... ed police raided the building as part of the investigation into the alleged | . was eventually jailed for seven years in 2006 after being convicted of i ... |
French Revolution | ... destined to result from the subversion of old ideas and institutions in the | . In 1793 he expounded his political sentiments in a longer pamphlet, Apol ... |
Mexican Drug War | As a result of the | , the Los Zetas drug cartel members overtook much of the department and oc ... |
American Revolution | ... Virginia was a focal point in conflicts from the French and Indian War, the | and the Civil War, to the Cold War and the War on Terrorism. Stories about ... |
1997 Asian Financial Crisis | Prior to the | , the Malaysian ringgit was an internationalized currency, which was freel ... |
English Revolution | ... adise Lost are intimately linked to the political questions at stake in the | (1640–1660) and Restoration, but the connection is by no means simple or s ... |
Russian Revolution | ... d locals to join the movement towards self-rule. Tilak was impressed by the | , and expressed his admiration for Lenin |
Panic of 1893 | ... nley promised that high tariffs would end the severe hardship caused by the | , and that the GOP would guarantee a sort of pluralism in which all groups ... |
plagues | ... approximately 65,000 inhabitants, a number that could have been reduced by | that struck the city in 1517, 1530, 1564–68, and 1597–1601, the last one b ... |
Portuguese Liberal Revolution | ... politically to the status of Kingdom. These events also contributed to the | in 1820 and the Independence of Brazil in 1822 |
American Revolution | ... s a hard time. Edgecombe County residents came down hard on the side of the | , many serving as officers in the Continental Army. One such was Thomas Bl ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... Catholic - a law which dates from the Act of Settlement 1701, following the | of 1688. However, since the monarch is also the Supreme Governor of the Ch ... |
spilling up to four tonnes of oil | ... 3 April 2010, bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1 ran aground on Douglas Shoals, | into the water and causing extensive damage to the reef |
Paris Peace Conference | ... 1918, internationally recognized in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. The | and the Versailles treaty that followed resolved the issue of Poland's wes ... |
Apollo 13 | ... er uses. The moon landings continued through 1972, but the near loss of the | astronauts in April 1970 served to further anti-NASA feelings. Plans for m ... |
Carnation Revolution | Following the 1974 | , Portugal began a process of decolonisation and began a withdrawal from P ... |
AIDS | Pedro Zamora struggled with | . He succumbed to the disease on November 11, 1994, hours after the season ... |
Southern accent | ... have a unique Tidewater accent which sounds different than a stereotypical | . Vowels have a longer pronunciation than in a typical southern accent |
postwar boom | ... of transmitting to the entire region. Furthermore, because of the country's | in the 1950s, Japan was searching for a monument to symbolize its ascendan ... |
Flight 93 | ... ial Park to honor Tom Burnett, a San Ramon resident, and other victims from | killed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. A plaque was installed at the ... |
American Revolution | After the | , the Royal Navy began improving the harbours and in 1811 started building ... |
Greece | ... ns and Eastern Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, | , Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia), a ... |
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... ously he condemned the brutal Soviet invasion of Hungary in response to the | . Therefore he publicly disavowed his allies at the United Nations, and us ... |
September 11 attacks | ... Continuity of Operations Plan, Sabato said it "failed outright" during the | |
September 11 attacks | On September 9, 2001, two days before the | in the United States, Massoud was assassinated in Takhar Province of Afgha ... |
Apocalypse Now | The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture | , which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the ... |
United Airlines Flight 232 | Another major DC-10 crash was | disaster at Sioux City, Iowa, USA, on July 19, 1989. The number two (tail) ... |
SARS | ... to serious disease outbreaks in recent years, such as the 2003 outbreak of | , although this has since been largely contained |
AIDS | ... en interpreted to argue that homosexuals should be punished with death, and | has been portrayed by some small fringe sects such as Fred Phelps and Jerr ... |
The Times | ... lication is included in style guides issued by various publishers including | newspaper, the Oxford University Press and the Cambridge University Press, ... |
slave revolution | ... iti's is the only country in the Western Hemisphere to undergo a successful | , but a long history of oppression by dictators – including François Duval ... |
Kent State shootings | ... t appearance in print, as it happened, occurred during the same week as the | . Groovy remained with the strip, off and on until his death in 1984 (at t ... |
Greece | ... The qualifications imposed by some countries is much greater. In France and | , for example, a practitioner must choose to be either a solicitor or a no ... |
California Gold Rush | Acapulco’s importance as a port recovered during the | in the mid 19th century, with ships going to and coming from Panama stoppi ... |
French Revolution | ... d was after eight years promoted to sergeant. Following the outbreak of the | , his eminent military qualities brought him speedy promotion. He was prom ... |
2001 anthrax attacks | In its February 19, 2010, investigative summary on the | , the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that Bruce Edwards Ivins wa ... |
Greece | ... h tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in | , and Homer, an American tourist from Middletown, Connecticut — a classica ... |
AIDS | After Eazy-E's | -related death on March 26, 1995, all bad blood between the group ceased. ... |
Great Fire of New York | ... America for the remainder of the war. Manhattan was greatly damaged by the | during the British military rule that followed. British occupation lasted ... |
September 11 attacks | ... the deadliest act of terrorism against the U.S. on American soil until the | . However, the deadliest act of terror against the U.S. prior to September ... |
rapid economic growth | ... marginalisation of the left in the political and social spheres but also by | , propelled in part by the Marshall Plan |
Macbeth | ... roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in | . She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising New ... |
French Revolution | Calvados is one of the original 83 departments created during the | on 4 March 1790. It was created from a part of the former province of Norm ... |
Ball's Bluff | ... the Union Army's 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the battles of | and Fair Oaks. He was wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks and later receive ... |
sexually assaulted | In March 1968, Donald Voorhees reported to his father that Gacy had | him. Voorhees Sr. immediately informed the police and Gacy was arrested an ... |
American Revolution | ... to the Continental Congress, the convention of delegates who organized the | . The same city was the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence in 1 ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... Rider, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, Groundhog Day, | , Badlands, and Blade Runner also have existentialist qualities. Notable d ... |
American Revolution | ... blics during the Dutch Revolt (1568–1609) , English Civil War (1642–1651) , | (1775–1783) , and the French Revolution (1789–1799) |
broke up during re-entry | On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia | , depositing debris across Texas. Much of the debris landed in Nacogdoches ... |
Trente Glorieuses | ... ion sharply increased with the baby boom following World War II. During the | (1945–1974), the country's reconstruction and steady economic growth led t ... |
Battle of Chustenahlah | The | was fought just west of Skiatook, on December 26, 1861, during the . A ban ... |
Funky Drummer | ... ions but other samples have had a significant impact, including the Apache, | , "Soul Pride", "Scorpio" and "Think (About It)" breaks |
French Revolution | ... a result of the Women's March on Versailles. During the early years of the | , preservation of the palace was largely in the hands of the citizens of V ... |
Apollo 13 | Astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise are launched aboard | for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an onboard explosion d ... |
Cold Harbor | ... the frontal assaults that characterized these battles. After North Anna and | , he took his place in the siege lines at Petersburg |
reunification | ... of the German government to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin after the | in 1991 resulted in generous compensation for the city of Bonn. The compen ... |
Greece | ... ere Census figures are available, they show around 3 million Greeks outside | and Cyprus. Estimates provided by the SAE - World Council of Hellenes Abro ... |
French Revolution | ... ss Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the | . The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorr ... |
Seven Days Battles | ... battles were fought in Virginia than anywhere else, including Bull Run, the | , Chancellorsville, and the concluding Battle of Appomattox Court House. A ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... icies of the decade seemed to produce an unprecedented prosperity until the | heralded the Great Depression |
Battle of Campbell's Station | ... led at Marye's Heights. Burnside skillfully outmaneuvered Longstreet at the | and was able to reach his entrenchments and safety in Knoxville, where he ... |
Cuban Revolution | ... nationalism include Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement that launched the | ousting the American-backed Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Ireland's Sinn Féin ... |
Cyclic permutation | where v and so β are now in the z-direction. These are easily obtained by | s of x, y, z. If we couldn't do this - it would imply the laws of physics ... |
Greece | ... Lesotho, New Orleans, and Thailand, and has previously operated programs in | , Macau, and |
Greece | ... and, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Switzerland, | , Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, the Czech Republic, ... |
Islamic Revolution | Bey left Iran during the | . In the 1980s, his ideas evolved from a kind of Guénonist neo-traditional ... |
Exxon Valdez oil spill | The 1989 | occurred as the oil tanker Exxon Valdez was leaving the terminal at Valdez ... |
Battle of Fair Oaks | ... a's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the | . Shafter also played a prominent part as a major general in the Spanish-A ... |
Bull Run | ... Civil War and was defeated by the Confederates in the first major battle of | (or Manassas). After he retired, he moved to California and died in 1885 o ... |
Orange Revolution | ... large-scale protests following the election (such as those that marked the | in Ukraine). Despite that, the crowd of demonstrators rallying after the e ... |
Haitian Revolution | ... acques Dessalines (20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the | and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. I ... |
collapse | ... tinues, as does its reliance on fundamentally non-pecuniary incentives. The | of Communist governments around the world in 1991, particularly North Kore ... |
Four Asian Tigers | ... some to call Southeast Asia an economic miracle and Singapore one of the " | ". Though the Asian Financial Crisis struck in the late 1990s and left man ... |
American Revolution | Following the | , however, Provincetown grew rapidly as a fishing and whaling center. The ... |
Adria Airways | ... and is shared among several European airlines, including Austrian Airlines, | , Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, Luxair, Swiss International Air Lines, and ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... of this paper were disputed by observational astronomers, as even with the | images of the comet revealed no trace of a double nucleus. Also, while com ... |
French Revolution | ... , English Civil War (1642–1651) , American Revolution (1775–1783) , and the | (1789–1799) |
Iranian Revolution | ... Pakistan has a close relationship with Turkey. RCD became defunct after the | , and a Pakistani-Turkish initiative led to the founding of the Economic C ... |
Second Industrial Revolution | ... ty into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the | |
Funky Drummer | ... Kowert of Punch Brothers, Mama Digdown's Brass Band, Clyde Stubblefield of | fame, and musicians Roscoe Mitchell, Richard Davis, Ben Sidran, Reptile Pa ... |
Josephus problem | ... s was Josephus (this method as a mathematical problem is referred to as the | , or Roman Roulette), who surrendered to the Roman forces and became a pri ... |
Kelly's Ford | On March 17, 1863, Stuart's cavalry clashed with a Union raiding party at | . The minor victory was marred by the death of Major Pelham, which caused ... |
Greece | ... st opposite Thasos. The site now lies in the Xanthi regional unit of modern | . The municipality of Abdera, or Ávdira (, ), has 18,573 inhabitants (2001 ... |
Fear Factor | In September 2006, Garrett appeared on the celebrity edition of | . He won the grand prize of US$ 50,000. On New Year's Eve 2006, Garrett fi ... |
September 11 attacks | ... ty of Operations plan into effect for the first time directly following the | . Their implementation involved a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior offic ... |
Alfvén wave | ... ves in air. The most important types of wave are magneto-acoustic waves and | s. Magneto-acoustic waves are sound waves that have been modified by the p ... |
Battle of Fort Sanders | ... noxville, where he was briefly besieged until the Confederate defeat at the | outside the city. Tying down Longstreet's corps at Knoxville contributed t ... |
Battle of Appomattox Court House | ... ding Bull Run, the Seven Days Battles, Chancellorsville, and the concluding | . After the capture of Richmond in 1865, the capital was briefly moved to ... |
National Lottery | ... nough funding to include the North Stand in the Millennium Stadium, and the | Commission would not provide any additional funds to be used for the const ... |
Greece | ... states such as Spain under Francisco Franco, South Africa under apartheid, | under the military junta (1967–74), Chile under Pinochet, Brazil under mil ... |
Tramen | ... Sound" and Doc Scott's "Machines". A more recent commonly used break is the | , which combines the Amen break, a James Brown funk breakbeat ("Tighten Up ... |
North Atlantic Drift | ... similar latitude, due to the warming influence of the Gulf Stream (via the | ). Being in the rain shadow of the North Pennines, it is among the driest ... |
Sandinista | ... p began abandoning it in favour of the growing revolutionary sentiment. The | (FLSN) movement organized relief, began to expand its influence and assume ... |
French Revolution | ... vignon has canonic jurisdiction over the department of Vaucluse. Before the | it had as suffragan sees Carpentras, Vaison and Cavaillon, which were unit ... |
2005 Amman bombings | ... d be filmed in Jordan before the producer Moustapha Akkad was killed in the | . When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement ... |
Klondike Gold Rush | The Klondike is famed because of the | , which started in 1896 and ended the following year. Gold has been mined ... |
California Gold Rush | The | led to increased traffic along the Siskiyou Trail through Dunsmuir's site, ... |
American Revolution | May 1780 brought the | to Charleston, South Carolina, and Charleston fell. Lord Charles Cornwalli ... |
Fort Branch | ... t significant historical event of early Hamilton was the battle and fall of | , when Union vessels and troops came upriver from Plymouth (see Plymouth, ... |
The Times | ... les" have made him a noted punster. Similarly, P.G. Wodehouse was hailed by | as a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old mast ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... tely led to Francis Ford Coppola choosing him for a starring role in 1979's | , a film that gained him wide recognition. Filming in the Philippine jungl ... |
June Democracy Movement | ... triggered large pro-democracy rallies in Seoul and other cities in the 1987 | |
Panic of 1893 | ... ilroad, now part of the Plant System, had extended its tracks to Tampa. The | was the worst depression the U.S. had experienced up to that time, crushin ... |
1960 U-2 incident | ... antage of possibly being intercepted by aircraft or missiles such as in the | |
Amen break | ... hines". A more recent commonly used break is the Tramen, which combines the | , a James Brown funk breakbeat ("Tighten Up" or "Samurai" break) and an Al ... |
2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill | ... Neng 1, a Chinese ship carrying 950 tonnes of oil, ran aground, causing the | |
American Revolution | The town was first settled around 1805 by Joseph Knight, a minuteman in the | , from Oneida County. Knights Creek, which flows into the Genesee River ne ... |
Chester General rail crash | ... forms but once had fourteen. The station lost its original roof in the 1972 | . In September 2007 extensive renovations took place to improve pedestrian ... |
Britches | ... United States, with the enactment of amendments to the Animal Welfare Act. | , a macaque monkey, was born that year inside the University of California ... |
Georgia Gold Rush | ... and nation had avoided the handling of this delicate problem. Following the | in 1829, settlers ignored the Indian problems and began to move into the a ... |
1998 United States embassy bombings | Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the | case, the National Security Agency (NSA) began tracking the communications ... |
First Manassas | ... at the battles of Big Bethel, (Bethel Church) VA in June, First Bull Run, ( | ) in July and in August, Wilson’s Creek, in southwest Missouri. At all thr ... |
Greece | ... ly, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Iceland, India, Pakistan, Germany and | |
Black Death | ... need of rebuilding. To make matters worse, in May Genoese ships fleeing the | in Kaffa stopped in Constantinople. The plague soon spread from their ship ... |
Second Great Awakening | ... supporting its practice. In the two decades after the Revolution during the | , preachers abandoned their pleas that slaves be manumitted. They first at ... |
The Times | ... trial when a partial installation was made, one disgruntled patron wrote to | newspaper declaring it to be "a very ghastly and unpleasant innovation" |
Gold Rush | Following word of the | , the fort was largely deserted by the 1850s and fell into disrepair |
Battle of Antietam | ... e they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General Robert E. Lee at the | |
French Revolution | ... ained in the hands of the royal family and mercantilism continued until the | . In Germany mercantilism remained an important ideology in the 19th and e ... |
AIDS | ... other such hypotheses have arisen to speculate about the origins of HIV and | . These alternative ideas range from suggestions that AIDS was the inadver ... |
The Times | ... to warn the wanted men, who caused a stampede and escaped in the confusion. | which during the war was a pro-Unionist publication, ridiculed Dublin Cast ... |
Battle of Spring Hill | ... ring Hill. Spring Hill was the site of a Civil War battle, now known as the | , on November 29, 1864 |
Black Death | During the | that swept through England in the 14th century, Henley lost 60% of its pop ... |
New Bern | ... emainder of the war. For his successes at the battles of Roanoke Island and | , the first significant Union victories in the Eastern Theater, he was pro ... |
The Times | ... ter terrace, three hundred metres into the air"; columnist Ben Macintyre of | has stated that that was "a prescient description of the sort of totalitar ... |
Fable III | ... was to be purchased by Microsoft. Their most recent game to be released is | which was released on the 26 October 2010 |
Hubble Space Telescope | ... system has been extensively studied from ground-based observatories and the | as well. In 2002–03 the Keck telescope observed the system using adaptive ... |
Mexican oil boom | During the | , Air France flew Concorde twice weekly to Mexico City’s Benito Juárez Int ... |
Battle of Gettysburg | ... th Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army. On a single day at the | , during the assault known as Pickett's Charge, 13 of the 14 commanding of ... |
French Revolution | During the | ary and Napoleonic wars, the Netherlands was repeatedly occupied by France ... |
The House of the Dead 2 | ... ul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, Hydro Thunder, Marvel vs. Capcom, | , and NFL 2K helped Dreamcast succeed in the first year. Sega Sports title ... |
Battle of Yellow Tavern | The | occurred May 11, at an abandoned inn located six miles (10 km) north of Ri ... |
the act of healing him | ... ocation to which Jesus sent a man who had been blind from birth, as part of | |
British Agricultural Revolution | The enclosures that depopulated rural England in the | started during the Middle Ages, and similar developments in Scotland have ... |
French Revolution | ... forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the | . Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol o ... |
Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide | ... laywright, actor, director and producer Sergei Bodrov. He was killed in the | after finishing the second day of shooting of his film The Messenger |
American Revolution | ... own was used as the home of the North Carolina state legislature during the | . Hillsborough served as a military base for British General Charles Cornw ... |
Annan Plan | In the proposed | of 2004, the right of return was to be severely limited with respect to Gr ... |
revolution in Germany | ... rnment's efforts to secure an armistice were interrupted by the outbreak of | in early November. Maximilian urged Emperor William II to abdicate. Despit ... |
Roanoke Island | ... shipping for the remainder of the war. For his successes at the battles of | and New Bern, the first significant Union victories in the Eastern Theater ... |
Burning of Washington | ... roader Napoleonic War. Notably, a series of British raids, later called the | , would result in the burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Ya ... |
Black & White 2 | ... satellite developer Big Blue Box. In 2005, Lionhead released The Movies and | . On 6 April 2006, it was announced that Lionhead Studios was to be purcha ... |
9/11 | ... hter dealing with alcoholism, family dysfunction, and other issues in post- | New York City. He received Emmy nominations in 2006 and 2007 for Outstandi ... |
French Revolution | ... tried unsuccessfully to take advantage of the egalitarian atmosphere of the | to press for France's abolition of the trade, which was, in any event, to ... |
orb | A conjunction (abrv. Con) is an angle of approximately 0-10°. An | of approximately 10° is usually considered a conjunction, however if neith ... |
Amen break | ... of production on which producers can spend a very large amount of time. The | is generally acknowledged to have been the most-used (and often considered ... |
AIDS | ... oung-adulthood relevant to its core audience, such as prejudice, sexuality, | and substance abuse, but later garnered a reputation as a showcase for imm ... |
Battle of Mesilla | ... 1, and appointed Lewis Owings as the new territorial governor. They won the | and established a territorial government with Mesilla serving as its capit ... |
Korean Air Flight 007 | On September 1, 1983, the | , a South Korean civilian airliner, flew over Sakhalin and was shot down b ... |
American Revolution | During the | , Texel was used as a haven port for the USS Bonhomme Richard before it sa ... |
Black Death | ... d was under constant threat from the surrounding native clans. In 1348, the | , a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed ... |
Macbeth | ... was her performance as Lady Macbeth in 1976. Nunn's acclaimed production of | was first staged with a minimalist design at The Other Place theatre in St ... |
The Times | ... cum, A Gathering of Verses by Manley Hopkins (1892). He reviewed poetry for | and wrote one novel. Catherine (Smith) Hopkins was the daughter of a Londo ... |
American Revolution | ... rt soldiers to North America to help defeat the colonial militia during the | . Mather offered to return the ageing Lord Sandwich to military service, b ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... terwards King William III) landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, during the | , and issued his famous declaration "The Liberties of England and The Prot ... |
9/11 | ... opean tour of 2001 was canceled, largely due to security concerns after the | terrorist attacks, and the band flew back to the US to tour again with Aer ... |
Greece | ... ent versions of it are also found in Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, | , Montenegro and Turkey), is usually made with wheat semolina, sugar or ho ... |
a plane crash | ... tion (FIGC). Torino were declared champions in the 1948-49 season following | near the end of the season in which the entire team was killed |
Greece | ... h, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past". He was on holiday in | with his wife when the news broke and no one, not even journalists or his ... |
Christian revival | ... ad a strong temperance movement since the late 1800s, closely linked to the | movement of the late 19th century, but also to several worker organisation ... |
German reunification | After the war, and again after | , great efforts were made to rebuild some of Dresden's former landmarks, s ... |
French Revolution | ... number of former departments in territories conquered by France during the | and Napoleonic Empire that are now not part of France |
orb | ... angle of 90° (1/4 of the 360° ecliptic, or 1/2 of an opposition [180°]). An | of somewhere between 5° and 10° is usually allowed. As with the trine and ... |
Battle of Chickamauga | ... onfederates. After Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans was defeated at the | , Burnside was pursued by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, against whose troops ... |
Four Asian Tigers | ... e other hand, export-driven economic development in Asia, especially by the | (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan), resulted in rapid economi ... |
Gold Rush | ... e, directed by Robert Lewis. It was followed in 1951 by the less successful | story Paint Your Wagon |
Internal wave | | s (waves at the density boundary layer) are often produced by the strait. ... |
B-52 aircraft broke up in mid air | ... ed accidentally on the village of Faro, 12 miles north of Goldsboro after a | . The two Mark39 weapons were released after the crew abandoned a B-52 bom ... |
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... tter. He thought he had learned an important lesson from the failing of the | , believing the Kremlin would allow him a free hand in pursuing domestic r ... |
Musicalische Sterbens-Gedancken | ... r works of the latter type were published in Erfurt in 1683 under the title | ("Musical Thoughts on Death"), which might refer to Pachelbel's first wife ... |
7 July 2005 London bombings | In a widely criticized episode, initial online BBC reports of the | identified the perpetrators as terrorists, in contradiction to the BBC's i ... |
The Times | ... and was ranked 22nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to | , the Clash's debut, alongside Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pis ... |
Deir Yassin massacre | The | was carried out in a village west of Jerusalem that had signed a non-belli ... |
AIDS | ... murders in 1981, and eventually for his death from complications caused by | |
heart attack | ... n on the Three Girls and Their Buddy tour. While on tour, Miller suffered a | in Baltimore on February 19, 2009 following his performance as part of the ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | Following the | , the once-booming music industry contracted and work became more difficul ... |
plane crash | ... ucer Jerry Finn died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and Barker barely survived a | , sustaining second and third degree burns on his lower body and torso. Bo ... |
The Times | In the 1960s, in a vote publicised by | newspaper, the Robin was adopted as the unofficial national bird of the UK ... |
orb | ... n opposition (abrv. Opp) is an angle of 180° (1/2 of the 360° ecliptic). An | of somewhere between 5° and 10° is usually allowed. Oppositions are said t ... |
Azusa Street Revival | ... . Crawford, who was affiliated at that time with William J. Seymour and the | of Los Angeles, California. By 1908, Crawford and Seymour had severed ties ... |
French Revolution | ... litical climate having swung in a conservative direction in the wake of the | , and in reaction to an increase in radicalism and to slave revolts in the ... |
Locomotion | ... ocomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed | . It was followed by "Hope", "Diligence" and "Black Diamond". The Stockton ... |
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Mumbai train bombings of 2006 | ... rifles were a familiar sight throughout railway stations in India after the | and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. They are also still seen in the hand ... |
California Gold Rush | ... l Valley. The fort is famous for its association with the Donner Party, the | and the formation of Sacramento. It is notable for its proximity to the en ... |
Witwatersrand Gold Rush | The discovery of diamonds in Griqualand West in 1867, and the | in 1886, prompted a flood of immigrants to South Africa. Conflicts between ... |
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 | ... The Boy Who Destroyed The World from the All Hallows EP was featured in the | video game. All Hallow's also featured a cover of the Misfits song "Hallow ... |
French Revolution | ... a subject that Hugo had previously avoided: the Reign of Terror during the | . Though Hugo's popularity was on the decline at the time of its publicati ... |
American Revolution | ... nd churches were founded in South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia before the | . Some managed to keep their independence even after whites tried to exerc ... |
bomb exploded | ... et for terrorists. After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf, a large IRA | at South Quay on 9 February 1996. Two people died in the explosion, forty ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | ... the passengers who attempted to storm the cockpit of the hijacked airliner | to try to prevent al-Qaeda terrorists from using the plane as a part of th ... |
shock | ... scitation, defibrillation, controlling severe external bleeding, preventing | , body immobilization to prevent spinal damage, and splinting of bone frac ... |
broke up | ... the key search areas for wreckage from the Space Shuttle Columbia after it | over Texas. Search teams recovered some of the remains of the shuttle and ... |
American | ... id believe in one God. Deistic ideas also influenced several leaders of the | and French Revolutions |
Roaring Twenties | The | saw a race to the sky, with three separate buildings pursuing the world's ... |
Transfiguration | ... oday, in which you are vested with the Office of Pope, on this feast of the | on Mount Thabor,—Feastday of the Holy Face, of the Order of which you are ... |
First Battle of Bull Run | ... fter early service in the Shenandoah Valley, Stuart led his regiment in the | , and participated in the pursuit of the retreating Federals. He then comm ... |
Black Death | ... e Reformation was precipitated by earlier events within Europe, such as the | and the Western Schism—in which, over the course of almost a century, ther ... |
French Revolution | ... term "Jacobin" to link members of Jefferson's party to the radicals of the | . He blamed the newspapers for electing Jefferson; they were, he wrote, "a ... |
Fort Sumter | ... efore Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. After the Confederate attack on | April 12, 1861 and Lincoln's subsequent call for troops on April 15, four ... |
Othello | ... nce of Negro spirituals and the second black actor to portray Shakespeare's | with an otherwise all-white cast. (Ira Aldridge, who had played the role i ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... was strongest. The modern situation largely dates from 1690, when after the | the majority of Scottish bishops were non-jurors, and in response Presbyte ... |
Wall Street Crash of 1929 | ... le in the span of a year. As the stock market soared in the days before the | , two developers publicly competed for the crown. At 927 feet (282 m), 40 ... |
Azusa Street Revival | ... ic Faith Church was Florence L. Crawford. Crawford was a participant in the | . This revival began in 1906 at the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles ... |
Gulf Stream | ... ubtropical to tropical, and is moderated significantly by the waters of the | , particularly in winter. Conversely, this often proves very dangerous in ... |
September 11 attacks | ... to try to prevent al-Qaeda terrorists from using the plane as a part of the | . The target of the Flight 93 hijackers was reported to have been either t ... |
Greece | ... including the Grinnell-in-London program and study tours of China, France, | , and Russia. These study programs in Europe (including Russia), Africa, t ... |
Black and White 2 | Several products such as | and Fable had features changed or lacking in the final product |
Greece | ... graduated at New York University. He then lived for two years in Italy and | , was a student in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 18 ... |
Bristoe Station | ... ed Warren's infantry and escaped disaster. After the Confederate repulse at | and an aborted advance on Centreville, Stuart's cavalry shielded the withd ... |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... living in the area as of 2005, a jump from the 15,000 to 20,000 before the | |
California Gold Rush | ... uthenticity of the gold found in his mill, a discovery that would start the | |
German reunification | ... The park was founded in 1990 by the last government of the GDR prior to the | |
variation | ... have exact repetition, but in common usage, the term covers repetition with | and development, such as the alteration of an ostinato line to fit changin ... |
USS Liberty incident | ... on to the enemy action rule, receiving his medal for his actions during the | |
shock | ... s such as propranolol should be avoided as they may lead to hypotension and | |
Italian unification | ... he Italian Wars of Independence. All this led to a new Kingdom of Italy and | |
Thielbek | ... and 1,770 gliders sent across the river. On 3 May 1945, the Cap Arcona, the | and the Deutschland were sunk in four separate attacks by RAF Hawker Typho ... |
variations | ... er 1683 during a plague. Pachelbel's first published work, a set of chorale | called Musicalische Sterbens-Gedancken ("Musical Thoughts on Death", Erfur ... |
French Revolution | ... Communism of Karl Marx, and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the | , including, in one extreme, the German Nazi movement |
Battle of Monocacy | Wallace's most notable service came in July 1864 at the | in Maryland, part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. Although the some 5,800 ... |
AIDS | ... ntry explicitly take into account the effects of increased mortality due to | ; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and de ... |
Glorious Revolution | James's overthrow, known as the | , was one of the most important events in the long evolution of parliament ... |
Red Army Faction | ... ied out assassinations of political figures, as to a lesser extent, did the | in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s |
Dawn of the Dead | ... ch anodyne music while characters use an elevator (e.g. The Blues Brothers, | , Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Spider-Man 2) |
Iranian Revolution | Many Iranians fled the 1979 | following the fall of the Shah |
American Revolution | ... had a burgeoning family and little luck in the West Indies trade during the | , sending the family into debt. The little money the family had went into ... |
Battle of South Mountain | ... followed Jackson's men through the city a few days later on the way to the | , where Reno was killed. In July 1864, Confederate troops led by Lieutenan ... |
Second Great Awakening | ... g the 18th and 19th centuries, in the eras of the First Great Awakening and | . The early Baptist missionaries promoted equality of men and argued for m ... |
apparition | ... e Holy Face, allegedly upon instructions from the Blessed Virgin Mary in an | . Domínguez, who assumed the name Fr. Ferdinand, was ordained bishop by Ro ... |
National Lottery | ... e area and Whitlingham County Park as part of the Connect2 project from the | . The country park is currently disconnected from the main residential are ... |
gold-seekers | ... d at gold mining in late 1848, he soon discovered that serving the needs of | was a more profitable venture. As an alien, Weber could not secure a land ... |
First Great Awakening | ... throughout the South during the 18th and 19th centuries, in the eras of the | and Second Great Awakening. The early Baptist missionaries promoted equali ... |
Benxihu Colliery | ... void the medical expenditure and the world's most serious mine disaster, at | , happened in Manchukuo |
Chappaquiddick incident | ... 1964 and was reelected seven more times before his death. The controversial | on July 18, 1969, resulted in the death of his automobile passenger Mary J ... |
Black Death | ... states was the decline of nomad power, partly due to the devastation of the | and partly due to the encroachment of sedentary civilizations equipped wit ... |
Heritage Lottery Fund | ... elopment supported by a £20 million (roughly $32 million US) grant from the | to enable it to meet the demands of the next century of events and perform ... |
United Airlines Flight 93 | On September 11, 2001, he boarded | at the last minute, on his way to San Francisco to be an usher in his frat ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... general religious tolerance, this was one of the grievances that led to the | that ousted him from the throne |
Fable 2 | ... lnerable to a takeover bid. They have since finished the highly anticipated | and an unknown game, for which only subtle hints have been dropped, which ... |
Greece | ... mes were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Athens, | . They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred t ... |
AIDS | ... h as in Darfur. Damon supports the ONE Campaign, which is aimed at fighting | and poverty in Third World countries. He has appeared in their print and t ... |
Panic of 1893 | ... ot occur until the late-nineties when the country began to recover from the | . A census taken on December 23, 1897, gave the village a population of 18 ... |
Italian unification | ... part of the Kingdom of Italy only on September 20, 1870, the final date of | . The Vatican City is now, since the Lateran Treaty of 1929, an independen ... |
Fear Factor | The television show, | , used a portion of the then uncompleted highway 210 in Rialto for one of ... |
phonetic change | ... of late Middle English, with many spellings retained even after significant | . |
Haitian Revolution | ... uation only worsened when Napoleon sent an expeditionary force to crush the | . In May 1803, Britain declared war on France |
Second Bull Run | Burnside again declined command following Pope's debacle at | |
French Revolution | ... the country stood on the brink of ruin, but his actions could not stop the | . Necker put a stop to the rebellion in the Dauphiné by legalising its ass ... |
Tay Bridge disaster | ... ture maintenance costs, calculations for wind pressures made evident by the | and the effect of temperature stresses on the structure |
2001 shoe bomb plot | ... executed or planned terrorist acts of the early 2000s, most notably in the | and the 2005 London Underground bombings. Several detection devices have b ... |
Greece | ... ia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, | and Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Macedonia, Albania, Syria, ... |
Cuban revolutionary | ... Latin American intellectuals, Vargas Llosa was initially a supporter of the | government of Fidel Castro. He studied Marxism in depth as a university st ... |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | ... ssion was further delayed by the hiatus in launches that occurred after the | . New safety protocols introduced as a result of the disaster prohibited t ... |
National Guard | ... sands of Parisians were armed members of a citizens' militia known as the " | ," which had been greatly expanded to help defend the city. Guard units el ... |
B&W2 | ... e Black & White series). Lionhead proper was working on three games: Fable, | and The Movies; in addition, the studio may potentially have been working ... |
Witwatersrand Gold Rush | In 1877, before the 1886 | , Britain annexed the Transvaal. The Boers viewed this as an act of aggres ... |
Roaring Twenties | ... e notorious as a haven for prohibition dodgers during the time known as the | . Prohibition generally came to an end in the late 1920s or early 1930s in ... |
cadres | In rural areas the day-to-day work of family planning was done by | at the team and brigade levels who were responsible for women's affairs an ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... about the Vietnam War, including The Green Berets, Platoon, Hamburger Hill, | , Casualties of War, and Born on the Fourth of July. It is prominently fea ... |
Cuban Revolution | ... Saralegui, Jr., and his wife, Cristina Santamarina. In 1960, following the | , Saralegui and her family fled to Miami and settled in Key Biscayne |
Green Revolution | The | of the late 1960s brought about self sufficiency in food in many developin ... |
September 11 attacks | After an airline recession and the effects on the airline industry of the | in 2001 all airlines that flew across the Atlantic suffered badly |
September 11, 2001 attacks | ... ons, and rules against any object that could be used as a weapon. Since the | , airport security has dramatically increased |
French Revolution | ... ion of the doctrine of national sovereignty was in the constitutions of the | (1789–1799); the United States, founded in 1776 had relied more on the the ... |
benefic | ... ain aspects, like certain planets, were considered to be either favorable ( | ) or unfavorable (malefic). Modern usage places less emphasis on these fat ... |
Battle of Mill Springs | ... a within East Tennessee. After leading successful cavalry operations at the | on January 19, 1862, Carter accepted a commission as Brigadier General of ... |
Air India Flight 182 | | was an Air India flight operating on the Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay rout ... |
Revolution | Wiseman Claget moved to his substantial estates here shortly before the | . He was involved in the temporary government serving as the only Solicito ... |
Battle of Fredericksburg | ... nd, Virginia. This plan led to a humiliating and costly Union defeat at the | on December 13. His advance upon Fredericksburg was rapid, but planning in ... |
transits | ... discover Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars by observing their | across the star. The Kepler spacecraft was launched on 6 March 2009. The d ... |
Milltown massacre | ... s on Protestants. High-profile attacks carried out by the group include the | , the Castlerock killings and the Greysteel massacre. The UDA/UFF declared ... |
Asian Tiger | In the 1970s, Malaysia began to imitate the four | economies (South Korea, Taiwan, the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong ... |
Black Death | The | in 1348 inflicted a terrible blow to Italy, killing one third of the popul ... |
STS-107 | ... crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, | |
Paris Peace Conference | In 1919, at the | , Italy was denied the execution of wartime secret Treaty of London (1915) ... |
Praieira revolt | ... d involved in the slave trade. While Brazil grappled with this problem, the | erupted on 6 November 1848. This was a conflict between local political fa ... |
Green Revolution | ... world continued to make steady progress in the early 1970s, because of the | . They might have thrived and become stable in the way that Europe recover ... |
BOAC Flight 781 | ... no, the first production Comet, G-ALYP, broke up in mid-air while operating | and crashed into the Mediterranean off the Italian island of Elba with the ... |
French Revolution | ... m Paris rather than Rome for protection and favour. During the chaos of the | the university started to gradually disappear, and in 1792 the university ... |
King Lear | ... he greatest actor of the period, Edmund Kean, restored the tragic ending to | ; Coleridge said that, “Seeing him act was like reading Shakespeare by fla ... |
American Revolution | ... was part of the Central New York Military Tract used to pay soldiers of the | . "Virgil" was the name of one of the townships of the Military Tract, thi ... |
French Revolution | As prime minister, Wellington was conservative, fearing the anarchy of the | would spread to England. The highlight of his term was Catholic Emancipati ... |
Paris Peace Conference | After nine months as acting Secretary while Balfour was at the | , Curzon was appointed Foreign Secretary in October 1919. He gave his name ... |
1993 World Trade Center bombing | ... "Reflecting Absence" honors the victims of the September 11 attacks and the | . The memorial, designed by Peter Walker and Israeli-American architect Mi ... |
Greece | ... ter. The collections were supplemented by the Bassae frieze from Phigaleia, | in 1815. The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 18 ... |
1993 World Trade Center bombing | ... en undertaken by Islamic terrorists, such as those who had masterminded the | . Some responded to these reports by attacking Muslims and people of Arab ... |
Greece | ... 02, revealing their new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in | , where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks. Meteora ... |
planets | In astrology, an aspect is an angle the | make to each other in the horoscope, and also to the ascendant, midheaven, ... |
AIDS | ... r criticized for his poor personal hygiene, and his roommates, most notably | activist Pedro Zamora. As the show increased in popularity, Zamora’s life ... |
Greece | File:Foloi oak forest.JPG| The Foloi oak forest in | is a Natura 2000 protected area |
California Gold Rush | ... sence in mid 19th-century California, when miners from Chile arrived in the | (1848–51) |
Haitian Revolution | ... nts was the arrival of a significant number of French citizens, fleeing the | of 1792-1804. The effect of this mass migration was not felt significantly ... |
2005 London Underground bombings | ... st acts of the early 2000s, most notably in the 2001 shoe bomb plot and the | . Several detection devices have been designed since those events. One, fo ... |
September 11 attacks | ... match was delayed for a year, as it was due to take place shortly after the | . It was subsequently decided to hold the Ryder Cup in even-numbered years ... |
Othello | ... and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII (1959) (although his 1960 performance as | was not a success). It became rumoured that Gielgud also provided the voic ... |
Transfiguration of Jesus | ... t was a direct cousin of Jesus, while Elijah was one who was present at the | on the Mount, as mentioned in the New Testament. Zechariah, meanwhile, thr ... |
Texas Oil Boom | ... ne hit the shoreline seriously damaging the community's attractions. As the | took hold beginning in 1901, and neighboring Houston became home to many w ... |
S-wave | ... th the volcano which feed activity. Some types of seismic waves, known as " | s," cannot travel through liquid rock, so magma chambers cast 'shadows' in ... |
Jesus walks on water | In Matthew 14:33 after | , the disciples tell Jesus: "You really are the Son of God!" In , while Je ... |
shock | ... include severe increases in heart rate and blood pressure that may lead to | . Temperature may rise to above in life-threatening cases. Other abnormali ... |
Agulhas current | ... may be warmer by up to at the same moment due to the influence of the warm | , and the surface warming effects of the South Easter wind |
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | ... . Since The Oslo Agreement, violent episodes have recurred in the city. The | took place on February 25, 1994 when Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli physicia ... |
Paris Peace Conference of 1919 | ... tente powers. The United States was then able to play a crucial role at the | that shaped interwar Europe |
September 11 attacks | A memorial called "Reflecting Absence" honors the victims of the | and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The memorial, designed by Peter W ... |
Second Industrial Revolution | ... added in order to house factory workers. Its development is typical of the | - the creation of new light engineering industries on the edge of existing ... |
beam | The beam is a long, narrow | which is typically raised from the floor on a leg or stand at both ends. T ... |
Greece | Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of | around the Aegean Sea. There are three distinct but communicating and inte ... |
Difference of Gaussians | ... t decrease. In a linear model, this response profile is well described by a | and is the basis for edge detection algorithms. Beyond this simple differe ... |
Iranian Revolution | ... . He was assassinated in 1981. Political tensions in Iran exploded with the | which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and established an Islamic republic of ... |
underwater nuclear explosions | When considering water under very high pressures (typical applications are | , sonic shock lithotripsy, and sonoluminescence) the stiffened equation of ... |
Othello | ... roles which he never essayed on stage, such as Iago in a 1932 broadcast of | opposite Henry Ainley as the Moor, Buckingham (1954) and Cranmer (1977) in ... |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | ... nvironment of space. McNair's planned live performance was curtailed by the | on 28 January 1986. Consideration was given to the cancellation of the con ... |
Greece | ... en shown in Australia, Bahrain, India, New Zealand, France, Spain, Germany, | , Norway, Finland, Sweden and Brazil and the show was quite popular in Ita ... |
Coriolanus | ... assical actor. In 1959 he appeared as Sicinius opposite Laurence Olivier in | at Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Peter Hall. He then appeared in Shakes ... |
French Revolution | After the | of 1789, Catherine rejected many principles of the Enlightenment that she ... |
variations | ... cata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard | |
Revolution | ... royal library, which became the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during the | . Napoleon was more impressed with Childeric's bees and when he was lookin ... |
Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire | ... 999, six firefighters from Leary's hometown of Worcester were killed in the | . Among the dead were Leary's cousin Jerry Lucey and his close childhood f ... |
Hindenburg disaster | ... and coal dust explosions have been caused by electrostatic discharges. The | has been attributed to spark discharge igniting flammable panels tainted w ... |
Othello | ... beson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in Julius Caesar, | , sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseball and t ... |
Wyse Fork | ... General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. After the battles of Bentonville and | , Sherman's forces met with the armies of Schofield, their troops taking o ... |
Amen break | ... by The Winstons, containing a drum solo which went on to be known as the " | ", which after being extensively used in early hip hop music, went on to b ... |
American Revolution | ... ngton, who, in his capacity as Commander of the Continental Army during the | , passed through the area several times. In May 1781, George Washington sl ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... establishment of the prototype of constitutional monarchy in Britain in the | of 1688, and the emergence of a stable financial market there based on the ... |
World Trade Center attacks | ... e accident took place on 11 September 2001, which landed shortly before the | in the United States. This was not a revenue flight, as all the passengers ... |
French Revolution | As was the case for every noble family, the | diminished the family's circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defea ... |
Black Death | Of a population estimated at 94,000 before the | of 1348, about 25,000 are said to have been supported by the city's wool i ... |
Operation Clambake | ... Web-page developers have linked the words "Dianetics" and "Scientology" to | . This resulted in the anti-Scientology site having the highest Google ind ... |
Breitbach's Country Dining | ... 68 at the 2010 census, down from 73 at the 2000 census. Balltown is home to | , Iowa's oldest restaurant and bar, which was founded in 1852 and rebuilt ... |
Humboldt Current | Although located on the Equator, the | brings cold water to the islands, causing frequent drizzles during most of ... |
heart-attack | Robert Koch died on 27 May 1910 from a | in Baden-Baden, aged 66 |
AIDS | ... ng a safe sex anthology entitled Hot Living in 1985. He helped to found the | Project of Southern Maine. In the late 1980s, he discovered that he himsel ... |
Revolutions of 1989 | When the | occurred and the Wall fell, the gate symbolized freedom and the desire to ... |
Battle of Campbell's Station | ... arragut Town Hall. It is still in use as a private residence. The Civil War | was fought there on November 16, 1863 |
The New York Times Book Review | ... ck Panther Party. His book Soul On Ice is a collection of essays praised by | at the time of its publication as "brilliant and revealing. |
American Revolution | ... ncluding Captain Leonard Helm during one of the western most battles of the | . The parish rang the church bell in celebration, which has since been cal ... |
2007 Caribou Hills fire | ... lly burned nearly and destroyed 197 structures. For the main article, go to | |
Russell Street Bombing | ... ate police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the | . It was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded ... |
Hubble Space Telescope | Discovery was the shuttle that launched the | . The second and third Hubble service missions were also conducted by Disc ... |
French Revolution | The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the first days of the | . The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Es ... |
French Revolution | Gironde is one of the original 83 departments created during the | on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Guye ... |
Glorious Revolution | ... as Anne's agent after the latter's father, James II, was deposed during the | ; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, Wi ... |
The Times | ... d up spending one night inside Brixton Prison) after an article appeared in | , written by its traditionally conservative editor William (now Lord) Rees ... |
malefic | ... planets, were considered to be either favorable (benefic) or unfavorable ( | ). Modern usage places less emphasis on these fatalistic distinctions |
Europa Universalis III | In the strategy game | , the player can select 'Ecumenism' as a National Idea. This increases tol ... |
resurrection | ... he New Testament, Jesus was seen by disciples following his crucifixion and | |
AIDS | ... t it can prevent or treat numerous diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, HIV/ | , and herpes, as well as tuberculosis. Silver is not an essential mineral ... |
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | Chawla died in the | which occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle disintegrated o ... |
Velvet Revolution | During the | of 1989, he supported the Public against Violence (VPN) and the Civic Foru ... |
Panic of 1893 | ... nfortunately did not have the financial backing they needed, because of the | . Due to the Panic of 1893, the area’s visionary brothers left a strugglin ... |
French Revolution | ... nd emotion over Enlightenment rationalism, the ideologies and events of the | laid the background from which both Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenm ... |
AIDS | ... rigins of HIV and AIDS. These alternative ideas range from suggestions that | was the inadvertent result of experiments in the development of vaccines, ... |
French Revolution | Leopold's reign also saw the acceleration of the | . Although Leopold was sympathetic to the revolutionaries, he was also the ... |
Mud Run Disaster | ... agedy in 1888 when 37 inhabitants were killed in a train wreck known as the | . As is true in much of Pennsylvania, the mining of coal was a key industr ... |
Greece | ... sula, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, southern Albania and Bulgaria, Cyprus, | , Israel, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Syria, Jordan, ... |
Great Fire | ... e had to republish the book in 1668 since his property was destroyed in the | of 1666. Rebuilding in Whitefriars, he set up a printing press there from ... |
French Revolution | ... of the state. The reformist but moderate document, accused by detractors of | sympathies, soon generated strong opposition coming from the Commonwealth' ... |
Apocalypse Now | ... He was nominated twice in this category but ended up winning the award for | instead |
American Revolution | The | begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Ba ... |
September 11 attacks | ... istributed over $2 million to the families of the 343 firemen killed in the | in 2001 in addition to providing funding for necessities such as a new mob ... |
variation | ... which features exceptionally rich instrumentation. Pachelbel explored many | forms and associated techniques, which manifest themselves in various dive ... |
Paris Peace Conference | After the First World War, it was the site of the opening of the | in 1919, also on 18 January. Germany was blamed for causing the First Worl ... |
STS-107 | In 2000 she was selected for her second flight as part of the crew of | . This mission was repeatedly delayed due to scheduling conflicts and tech ... |
AIDS | ... do not do enough to help global problems e.g. debt, global warming and the | problem – due to strict medicine patent policy and other issues related to ... |