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401 | "Before the statue was toppled, Marine Corporal Edward Chin of 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division (attached to 3rd Battalion 4th Marines) climbed the ladder and placed a U.S. flag over the statue's face. According to the book ""Shooter"", by Coughlin, Kuhlman, and Davis, other Marines of the 3/4 realized the PR di... |
402 | "The event was widely publicized, but allegations that it had been staged were soon published. One picture from the event, published in the ""Evening Standard"", was digitally altered to suggest a larger crowd. A report by the ""Los Angeles Times"" stated it was an unnamed Marine colonel, not Iraqi civilians who had de... |
403 | "Robert Fisk described the event as ""the most staged photo opportunity since Iwo Jima.""" |
404 | "Kadhim Sharif Hassan Al-Jabbouri said in 2016 that he regrets playing a part in the destruction of the statue and wants it replaced. Kadhim used to repair the motorcycles of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before falling out of favor and being jailed for a year and a half and says that 14–15 members of his fami... |
405 | "Khadhim says that after the invasion, ""[things] started to get worse every year. There was infighting, corruption, killing, looting. Saddam has gone, but now in his place, we have 1,000 Saddams. I feel like Iraq has been stolen from us. Bush and Blair are definitely liars. They destroyed Iraq and took us back to zero... |
406 | "I'd like to put it back up, to rebuild it. I'd put it back up but I'm afraid I would be killed.""" |
407 | Stefan Dercon, CMG, is a Belgian economist and a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. In 2011-2017, Dercon was the chief economist of the UK Department for... |
408 | Between 2000 and 2002 he was a Programme Director at the World Institute of Development Economics (WIDER), United Nations University, where he led their research programme on “Insurance against Poverty”. Prior to this, between 1993 and 2000, he was a tenured professor of development economics at the Katholieke Universi... |
409 | His research as focused on a range of subjects including: |
410 | Together with political economist Chris Blattman he ran a randomized controlled trial in Ethiopia that investigated the impact of low-skill industrial jobs on the welfare of the workers. The research was covered by Our World in Data and the Financial Times. |
411 | Hajj Dr Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri (born 1 July 1944) is an Arabic journalist, author and academic based in the United Kingdom. His father was Sheikh Abbas of the Al-Juaber tribal confederation. |
412 | Born in Nasiriyah in 1944, al-Nasiri is an Arab scholar, author and journalist of Shiite descent. In his published works he has dealt with a range of subject areas, but particularly Arabic literature, language and history and Islamic studies. He is currently a member of the Islamic Dawa Party of Iraq in the United King... |
413 | After working as a secondary school teacher in both Algeria and Iraq for twenty years he went on to complete his Masters in the philosophy of Islamic Law in London in 1999 before completing his Doctorate in Islamic Studies in 2002. |
414 | Monywa District () (formerly Lower Chindwin District) |
415 | Monywa District consists of the following townships: Monywa District also consisted of the following townships, which formed to become Yinmabin District: Also, it had a township that has recently annexed into Shwebo District: |
416 | Argentina participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore and competed with 59 athletes in 18 sports. |
417 | Boys Group Stage Quarterfinals 5th-8th Place |
418 | Group Stage Semi-Finals Gold Medal Match |
419 | 15 August 16 August 17 August |
420 | Belgium participated in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. The Belgian squad consisted of 52 athletes competing in 16 sports: aquatics (swimming), archery, athletics, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, gymnastics, hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon and volleyball. |
421 | "The Flintstone Primetime Specials (onscreen title: The Flintstone Special) is a four-episode limited-run prime time television revival of ""The Flintstones"" produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September 26, 1980 to October 11, 1981." |
422 | """The Flintstones' New Neighbors"" and ""Jogging Fever"" were animated at Filman, an animation studio in Madrid, Spain (headed by Carlos Alfonso and Juan Pina) who did a lot of animation work for Hanna-Barbera between the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. Among their credits were such series as ""Yogi's Space Race"",... |
423 | All specials utilized an inferior laugh track created by the studio, the last production to do so. |
424 | On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released all four specials on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection in a release entitled The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 2. |
425 | Intraretinal microvascular abnormalities (IRMA) are abnormalities of the blood vessels that supply the retina of the eye, a sign of diabetic retinopathy. IRMA can be difficult to distinguish from and is likely a precursor to retinal neovascularization. One way to distinguish IRMA from retinal neovascularization is to p... |
426 | Mount Mercer is a locality in the Western District of the Australian state of Victoria. It is named after a nearby scoria cone with crater. The scoria cone was developed on a broad lava shield and the rim of the cone is asymmetric, being higher around the south and open towards the north. The scoria cone is approximate... |
427 | "Constenze ""Stanley"" Valenti (February 8, 1926 – February 23, 2001) was boss of the criminal organization known as the Rochester crime family in the 1950s. As the head of the organization he oversaw gambling, prostitution and extortion rackets operating in the city of Rochester, New York. Constenze and his brother Fr... |
428 | He was married to the daughter of Antonio Ripepi, a very powerful capo in the Pittsburgh crime family. In 1958 Valenti refused to cooperate with law enforcement regarding questioning about the Apalachin Meeting. As a result, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison, during which time Jake Russo took the opportunity to s... |
429 | Government House is the official residence of the Governor-General of Saint Lucia. The house is located on the crest of Morne Fortune, near Castries. The first Government House that was built on this site was destroyed by a hurricane in 1817, before its completion. A second house, built of timber, was completed on the ... |
430 | It was originally used as the home and office of the Commissioners of Saint Lucia until 1958, then for the Administratiors of the island. From 1967, Government House was used by the Governors of Saint Lucia, and since Saint Lucia became an independent state in 1979 it has been used by Governors-General. |
431 | Lal R. Jayawardena (Sinhala:ලාල් ජයවර්ධන) (1935–2004) was a noted Sri Lankan economist and diplomat. He was the first director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) (1985–1993) and Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary in the 1970s. Jayawardena had served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium... |
432 | He was also the Second Vice-Chairman of the Group of 24. Born to N. U. Jayawardena the former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon and Amybelle Millicent Jayawardena; he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, where he was a contemporary of Gamini Seneviratne and Chris Pinto. Jayawardena graduated from King's Col... |
433 | Kumari Jayawardene. |
434 | "Alfred John ""Alf"" Hooke (February 25, 1905 – February 17, 1992) was a teacher, politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit Party. He held numerous cabinet portfolios in the government of Ernest Manning from 1943 to 19... |
435 | Alfred John Hooke was born on February 25, 1905, in Whitecroft, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. His family moved to the province of Alberta in Canada in 1913. At the age of 13 Hooke left school and joined the work force as a hired hand. He returned to school and completed his studies three years later. He became a tea... |
436 | Hooke joined the Social Credit movement at its beginning; he was familiar with William Aberhart through his work as a school teacher and became involved with Aberhart as a speaker on Social Credit theory. Although reluctant at first, he was urged by people in the town of Rocky Mountain House to put his name up for the ... |
437 | Hooke defeated incumbent MLA William Payne and three other candidates with a large majority. Redistribution in 1940 created a separate electoral district for Rocky Mountain House. Hooke ran there in the election held that year and won a clear majority on the first ballot, defeating two other candidates. |
438 | "After leaving office in 1971 Hooke wrote the book ""30+5 I Know, I was There"" about his early life and his political career. In 1980 Hooke wrote """"Looking Backward to Go Forward"" about economic activity in the 1930s and how the downfall of the economy is repeating itself in modern times. He died in 1992 from cance... |
439 | KZSO-LP (94.9 FM) was a radio station broadcasting a variety music format. Licensed to Sisters, Oregon, United States, the station was owned by Sisters School District #6, Deschutes County. KZSO-LP was run by students at Sisters High School. The students ran a daily radio show that focused on news from all across the g... |
440 | "Lintgasse is an alley () in the Old town of Cologne, Germany between the two squares of ""Alter Markt"" and ""Fischmarkt"". It is a pedestrian zone and only some 130 metres long, nevertheless famous for its medieval history. The Lintgasse was first mentioned in the 12th century as »""in Lintgazzin""«, which may have d... |
441 | At Lintgasse 15 once stood the Parish of St. Brigiden, which became an elementary school during the 19th century. During this time, the Lintgasse was called »Stink-Linkgaß«, as the alley was unpopular for its poor air quality. |
442 | "4-Hydroxy-α-methyltryptamine (4-HO-αMT) is a psychedelic drug of the tryptamine class. It is a close structural analogue of α-methyltryptamine (αMT) and produces similar effects to it, but with exacerbated side effects similarly to 5-MeO-αMT. Alexander Shulgin describes 4-HO-αMT briefly in his book ""TiHKAL"":" |
443 | Yasin C is a Turkish bulk carrier, captured by Somali pirates on 7 April 2010 while on its way to Mombasa. The crew locked themselves in the engine room, and the ship was released without ransom on 10 April 2010. |
444 | William J. Butler was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He later played minor league ball in the Texas League from 1902-1906. |
445 | "The Festival de Beaune: ""Festival international d’opéra baroque"" is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments. More recently the town has also become host, in a different week, to the ""... |
446 | "In addition to recitals by individual performers. The festival also runs classes and voice workshops, the ""Académie de Chant baroque""." |
447 | The concerts take place in the Hospices de Beaune, 15th century, and in the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Beaune, 12th century, over four weekends in July. |
448 | "The following includes only major revivals and premières: George Frideric Handel: ""Flavio"". dir. René Jacobs George Frideric Handel: ""Scipione"". dir. Christophe Rousset" |
449 | The Ryland Inn is a restaurant in Readington Township, New Jersey that won the James Beard Mid-Atlantic region top prize. It achieved great success, winning several awards and being visited during then-president Ronald Reagan. |
450 | The building was built sometime in the late 1700s by Colonel David Sanderson. Craig Shelton took over as chef and managing partner in 1991 at the age of 30. In 2000 Craig Shelton won the James Beard Mid-Atlantic region top prize for the restaurant. The restaurant, located at 111 Old Highway 28, Whitehouse Station, NJ, ... |
451 | Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski (May 5, 1950 in Mazury – April 10, 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash. |
452 | He was awarded numerous civil and military awards including the Order of Polonia Restituta. |
453 | Marshall Pinkney Wilder Locke (March 12, 1857 – March 6, 1940) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. |
454 | Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski (7 May 1955 in Rudołowice – 10 April 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure and Commander of the Warsaw Garrison. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash. |
455 | He was awarded several top Polish civil and military awards: |
456 | Stickney is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Stickney is located on West Virginia Route 3 south of Whitesville. |
457 | Challenger was an extreme clipper ship built in East Boston in 1853. She sailed in the San Francisco trade, and later in the guano trade in Peru. |
458 | "Between 1854 and 1863, ""Challenger"" made two voyages from Boston to San Francisco, in 112 and 134 days, and five voyages from New York to San Francisco, in 115 to 133 days. In 1861, she ""collided with the ship ""Roswell Sprague"" in a gale in the roadstead of Bremerhaven""." |
459 | "In 1863, ""Challenger"" was sold to the Peruvian Government, and renamed ""Camille Cavour"". She was ""used in the transport of Chinese coolies to the guano islands"". In 1875, she was ""damaged in a gale on voyage from Port Discovery to Peru and was abandoned off the coast of Mexico. The wreck drifted ashore at Manza... |
460 | Joanna Agacka-Indecka (18 December 1964 in Łódź – 10 April 2010) was a Polish attorney, President of the Polish Bar Council from 2007 until 2010. |
461 | Joanna Agacka-Indecka graduated from the University of Łódź and then was assistant professor at the Chair of Penal Procedure of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the same university (1988–2001). Between 1992 and 1993 she worked in law firms in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as at DePaul Univer... |
462 | She was elected Vice President of the Polish Bar Council in 2004, and served as its President from 2007 until 2010. Joanna Agacka-Indecka was a legislation expert at the Sejm and was involved in lawmaking as representative of the Polish Bar. |
463 | Frank W. Monroe (1855 – July 2, 1908) was a Major League Baseball player, who played in two games for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He played catcher in one game and outfielder in the other. He was hitless in eight at-bats in the two games. He played for the Chattanooga Lookouts in the Southern League in 1885. |
464 | Naoma is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Naoma is located on West Virginia Route 3 south-southeast of Whitesville. Naoma has a post office with ZIP code 25140. The community was named after Naoma Pettry. |
465 | The Men's all events team event at the 2010 South American Games was the sum of the four previous competitions. |
466 | "Eduardo López Banzo is a Spanish harpsichordist and conductor of baroque music. Banzo was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. In 1988 Banzo founded the group Al Ayre Español, which specialises in Spanish baroque music, of composers such as Literes. They were awarded Spai... |
467 | Jonathan W. Morrison was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers and the 1887 New York Metropolitans. In between his two majors stints, he played for the Toledo Avengers and the Toronto Canucks in the minor leagues. |
468 | Jeff Hopgood (14 January 1948 – 8 November 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Hopgood spent six season at North Melbourne without ever managing to cement his spot, although he did manage 16 games in 1972. After leaving North Melbourne, Hopgoo... |
469 | "Charles Reising (August 28, 1861 – July 26, 1915), nicknamed ""Pop"", was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He appeared in two games for the Hoosiers and was hitless in eight at-bats." |
470 | Pakokku District (; also Pagukku District) is a district of the Magway Division in central Burma (Myanmar). It is situated in northern part of Magwe Region. The administrative centre is the city of Pakokku.Pakokku is a largest city of Magway Division.It is also the 13th largest city of Burma (Myanmar).The townships of ... |
471 | Pakokku district is located between north latitude 20 ° 45 ' and 21 ° 50 ' and east longitudes 94 ° 15 ' and 95 ° 20 ' . It lies in central Dry Zone of Myanmar and is situated on the western bank of Ayeyarwady River and Chindwin River . |
472 | Transportation systems are fundamental factors for all-round development of any regions. Movement of people and flow of commodities are mostly dependent upon the transportation infrastructures, Pakokku District located at the western part of Ayeyarwady River is poor in transportation system although it has two good wat... |
473 | By 1947 Construction of the union of Burma,Pakokku province was established with two districts in 1948. They are Pakokku District and Kanpetlet District (Pakokku Hill Tacts) with 11 townships. Townships are Pakokku, Mindat, Yesagyo, Pauk, Seikphyu, Myaing, Gangaw, Htilin, Saw, Kanpetlet and Matupi. Capital city is Pako... |
474 | By 1974 construction,Pakokku province was abolished and Pakokku District was added to the Magway Division and Mindat District was added to the Chin State until now. In 4th April 1996,Pakokku District was divided into two districts.Pakokku, Pauk, Yesagyo, Myaing and Seikphyu became Pakokku District and Gangaw, Saw and H... |
475 | The district contains the following eight townships: |
476 | Vampire Village is a 1983 video game published by Terminal Software. |
477 | "The game was described as ""a real-time graphic adventure"" by the publisher. Players assume the role of the Mayor of Vladsdorf, a fictional village on the bank of the River Ripple. Over the river from the village lies the Red Cliffs, above which stands a castle in which a vampire has taken up residence. The farmstead... |
478 | Trying to ford the River Ripple without a canoe will result in the volunteer drowning. The playing screen depicts an overhead view of the village, river and castle. Volunteers are directly controlled and moved into different shops within the village to purchase equipment. |
479 | TOT Stadium Chaeng Watthana () is a football stadium in Lak Si, Bangkok, Thailand. It is used for football matches at several competitions and levels and was the home stadium of TOT Sport Club, which was dissolved in 2016. The stadium holds 5,000 spectators. |
480 | "The rice moth (""Corcyra cephalonica"") is a moth of the family Pyralidae. This small moth can become a significant pest. Its caterpillars feed on dry plantstuffs such as seeds, including cereals (e.g. rice). Other recorded foods are flour and dried fruits." |
481 | "Other scientific names, now invalid, for the rice moth are: When describing his ""T. theobromae"" in 1913, Dyar established the genus ""Tineopsis"". He overlooked, however, that this had already been proposed by Cajetan Freiherr von Felder for a (presumed) arctiid moth in 1861. Nonwithstanding that Felder's species is... |
482 | Haas Wheat & Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout transactions. The firm targets specialty middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies, particularly family-controlled companies and corporate spin-outs. The firm is based in Dallas, Texas and was founded in 1992. |
483 | "Robert (Bobby) Haas formed ""Hicks & Haas"" together with Tom Hicks in 1984. Prior to 1984, Haas was a principal of a venture capital firm and a partner in a Midwest law firm specializing in corporate and securities law. The next year Hicks & Haas firm bought Hicks Communications, a radio outfit run by Hicks' brother ... |
484 | The pair split up in 1989; Hicks wanted to raise a large pool to invest, but Haas preferred to work deal by deal. Tom Hicks went on to form Hicks Muse, which in the late 1990s was one of the largest private equity firms in the US. |
485 | In 1992, Robert Haas founded Haas Wheat & Harrison to focus on middle-market transactions. Among his co-founders were Thomas Harrison, who had previously worked with Haas at Hicks & Haas and Douglas Wheat, a former investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. From 1984 through 1989, Doug Wheat was a member of D... |
486 | In October 2006, Douglas Wheat announced that he was leaving Haas Wheat to found a new private equity firm, Foxbridge Partners. In 2007, Foxbridge merged with Challenger Capital Group, founded by Mark Stephens. |
487 | "Wenceslao ""Wenchesco"" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (1862–1924), also known as W.E. Retana or Wenceslao E. Retana, was a 19th-century Spanish civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biographer, political commentator, publisher, bibliophile, bibliographer, Filipiniana collector, Spanish filipinologist, and Philippine... |
488 | "Flying Fifty-Five is a 1939 British sports-drama film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Derrick De Marney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring, John Warwick and Peter Gawthorne. It was made by Admiral Films at Welwyn Studios. The film is based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace which had previously been m... |
489 | After being disinherited by his wealthy father, an amateur jockey, Bill Urquhart goes to work under an assumed name (Bill Hart) at a rural racing stables owned and run by Stella Barrington and her drunken brother, Charles, who is an old friend of Bill's. Confusion arises when Bill is mistakenly reported to have been mu... |
490 | "Ebrotidine is an H receptor antagonist with gastroprotective activity against ethanol-, aspirin- or stress-induced gastric mucosal damage. The antisecretory properties of ebrotidine are similar to those of ranitidine, and approximately 10-fold greater than those of cimetidine. Ebrotidine has anti-""Helicobacter pylori... |
491 | "Stephen Matthew Barr (born November 28, 1953) is an American physicist who is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Delaware. A member of its Bartol Research Institute, Barr does research in theoretical particle physics and cosmology. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the ... |
492 | "His notable work includes co-discovering the much studied flipped SU(5) scheme of unification, identifying the Barr–Zee diagram as an important source of electric dipole moment for basic particles such as the electron and neutron in many theories, and proposing the so-called Nelson–Barr mechanism as a solution to the ... |
493 | "He was elected director of the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware in 2011. Barr, a practicing Catholic, writes and lectures frequently on the relation of science and religion. Since 2000 he has served on the editorial advisory board (now the advisory council) of the ecumenical religious intellectu... |
494 | In 2007 he was awarded the Benemerenti Medal by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2010 he was elected a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is also president of the Society of Catholic Scientists. |
495 | He is married to Kathleen Whitney Barr. They have five children. Barr is the younger brother of William Barr, the current Attorney General of the United States, and the son of Donald Barr, an educator who served as headmaster of Dalton School and Hackley School. He graduated from Columbia College in 1974. |
496 | The first annual Altazor Awards 2000 took place on March 30, 2000, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. The nominees were announced on March 20. |
497 | Kay Lohrasp () was a legendary Iranian king who ruled Iran after Kay Khosrow. He had two brave sons Vishtaspa (also known as Gushtasp) and the younger Zarir. Vishtaspa ruled Iran after his father. One of Kay Lohrasp most notable works is the construction of Fire temple that has never It had no record until then. |
498 | Lohrasp was not really the king of Iran; he ruled only part of Iran and was the head of his great tribes. The land he occupied is called Arzan or Arzāniān, and his whereabouts are still unknown. In fact, his son Goshtāsep and his grandson Esfandiyār are very famous. The character of the Lohraspian dynasty is God-worshi... |
499 | Shahnameh reports that Kay Khosrow chose Lohrasp but is not very trusted. Lohrasp is the other land and is very far from the Kay Khosrow . In the reign, Lohrasp only quarreled with his son Gushtasp, and Gushtasp intended to take his father's place, but the father would not allow it. Finally, Gushtasp goes to Rûm. |
500 | Elevated alpha-fetoprotein refers to a state where alpha-fetoprotein levels are outside of the reference range. There are two categories of AFP tests: tests performed on serum (blood plasma), and tests performed on amniotic fluid. Tests performed on serum are further categorized by the reason for performing the test: m... |
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