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More DetailsAbel Lawrence Foster was a 19th-century American lawyer who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1841 to 1843. Biography. A. Lawrence Foster was born on September 17, 1802, in Littleton, Massachusetts. He studied law in Vernon, New York, was admitted to the bar and ...
Read MoreA Special Agent: Gay and Inside the FBI is Frank Buttino's 1993 memoir, co-authored with his brother Lou. Buttino writes about his career as a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and his dismissal once his homosexuality was made public. Buttino writes that the FBI had a policy of ...
Read MoreThe Chocolate Chase is a animated short film. It was first published on 1980. The animated short film was directed by Friz Freleng. ...
Read MorePolifemo is an opera in three acts by Nicola Porpora with a libretto by Paolo Rolli. The opera is based on a combination of two mythological stories involving the cyclops Polyphemus: His killing of Acis and his blinding by Ulysses. The last of five operas Porpora composed while residing in London, ...
Read MoreFirst Point is a cape. It is located in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and United Kingdom. ...
Read More* ASPA (car) * ASPA (gene) * Allocation de Solidarité aux Personnes Agées * American Samoa Power Authority * American Service-Members' Protection Act * American Society for Public Administration * Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 * Antarctic Specially Protected Area * Aotearoa Student Pres ...
Read MoreJudith "Judi" Richards is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. Born in Toronto, Richards is the daughter of musician Bill Richards and actress Billie Mae Richards. She has sung numerous jingles for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal and has performed in concert and on record with a ...
Read MoreThe Anglican dioceses of Mombasa are the Anglican presence in and around Mombasa and south-east Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Maseno, of Mount Kenya, and of Nakuru. Diocese of Mombasa. Mombasa is the oldest Kenyan di ...
Read MorePortrait of John Jay is a 1794 portrait painting by the American artist Gilbert Stuart. It depicts the Founding Father John Jay. At the time Jay was serving as Chief Justice of the United States. The same year he negotiated the Jay Treaty with Great Britain. Stuart had known Jay in London, and he ...
Read MoreBenefits of gene flow are mediated by individual variability in self‐compatibility in small isolated populations of an endemic plant species is a scholarly work, published in 2016 in ''Evolutionary Applications''. The main subjects of the publication include outcrossing, genetic variation, Local ...
Read MoreThe United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace was introduced by Kofi Annan in 2001. Its mandate was to coordinate the efforts undertaken by the United Nations in promoting sport in a systematic and coherent way as a means to contribute to the achievement of development and peace. Th ...
Read MoreThe Lycian alphabet was used to write the Lycian language of the Asia Minor region of Lycia. It was an extension of the Greek alphabet, with half a dozen additional letters for sounds not found in Greek. It was largely similar to the Lydian and the Phrygian alphabets. The alphabet. The Lycian alp ...
Read MoreWare was the inaugural Anglican Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness from 1889 until his death in 1909. Life. Born in 1830 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, his post until ordination was as a Fellow and Tutor at his old college. He was made deacon in 1860 and ordained priest in 1862; that year, ...
Read MoreI've Suffered For My Art…Now It's Your Turn is a live album by singer/songwriter Marshall Crenshaw. It was recorded at the noted venue The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J. on February 16, 2001. It includes many of Crenshaw's best known songs, four tunes from his most recent studio album, #447 , ...
Read MorePortrait of Fräulein Lieser is a portrait created by Gustav Klimt. Painted in 1917, the piece was left unsigned in his studio when he died in 1918. It was presumed lost or broken by experts until it was discovered in adequate condition in 2024. In April 2024, it was sold by the im Kinsky auction ...
Read MoreMartin Atanasov is a Bulgarian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Vero Volley Monza and the Bulgaria national team. Club career. For the 2024–25 season, he signed a contract with Galatasaray. Honours. Club. CEV Challenge Cup ** 2020–21 – with Ziraat Bankas ...
Read MoreWilliam Robert Timken Jr. is an American industrialist, businessman and former diplomat. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2005–2008. He has served at The Timken Company as chairman of the board of directors, president and CEO. Timken has been chairman of Securities Investor Prote ...
Read MoreUSB Implementers Forum, Inc. is a nonprofit organization created to promote and maintain USB, a set of specifications and transmission procedures for a type of cable connection that has since become used widely for electronic equipment. Its main activities are currently the promotion and marketing ...
Read MoreThe Science Policy Research Unit is a research centre based at the University of Sussex in Falmer, near Brighton, United Kingdom. Its research focuses on science policy and innovation. SPRU offers MSc courses and PhD research degrees. In 2018, SPRU ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in the UK for top ...
Read MoreHeight restriction laws are laws that restrict the maximum height of structures. There are a variety of reasons for these measures. Some restrictions serve aesthetic values, such as blending in with other housing and not obscuring important landmarks. Other restrictions may serve a practical purpo ...
Read MoreClinical impact of adaptive servoventilation compared to other ventilatory modes in patients with treatment-emergent sleep apnea, central sleep apnea and Cheyne–Stokes respiration is a scholarly work by Joaquim Moita, published in 2015 in ''Revista portuguesa de pneumologia''. The main subjects ...
Read MoreMini Motorways is a puzzle strategy game released by the New Zealand studio Dinosaur Polo Club. It is a follow-up to their 2015 video game Mini Metro . The game tasks the player with creating a network of roads to connect coloured houses to buildings. Through the use of upgrades such as traffic l ...
Read MoreLiberalization or liberalisation is a broad term that refers to the practice of making laws, systems, or opinions less severe, usually in the sense of eliminating certain government regulations or restrictions. The term is used most often in relation to economics, where it refers to economic lib ...
Read MoreGoeric of Metz , also known as Abbo I of Metz , Goericus of Metz , and Gury of Metz , was a bishop of Metz. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. Biography. He was a married man with two daughters. He recovered his eyesight at St. Stephen's in Metz. Sho ...
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