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More DetailsSilvanus Bevan FRS was an apothecary, who founded the London firm of Allen & Hanburys. Biography. Early life. Silvanus Bevan was born in 1691 in Swansea, into a prosperous Welsh Quaker family. His father, a burgess was also called Silvanus. The elder Silvanus owned property at Penclawdd Llanrhi ...
Read MoreTarigan is one of the five major clans of the Karo people (Indonesia). This clan is believed to originate from the villages around Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia. They are known as a nation of Umang. This clan has fifteen subclans. ...
Read MoreThe history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora, and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of th ...
Read MoreThe Democratic Republic of the Congo , also known as the DR Congo , Congo-Kinshasa , or simply the Congo , or less often Zaire , is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 112 million, t ...
Read MoreThe Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration is a university educational program to teach medicine in Ethiopia. The Toronto-Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration was launched in 2008, as a wider program that grew from an earlier 2003 collaboration called the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program. ...
Read MoreRokkaku Yoshikata was a samurai head of the Rokkaku clan during Japan's Sengoku period. He was shugo and later daimyō of an area of southern Ōmi province, he served as castellan of Kannonji Castle. He later became a Buddhist monk, under the name Shōtei . Biography. The son of Rokkaku Sada ...
Read MoreThe Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight . They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. ...
Read MoreRight-Believing , also called under the prefix The most Orthodox , is an Orthodox saint title for monarchs who were canonized for having lived a righteous life. They do not belong to martyrs or passion bearers. The saint title was initially given to Byzantine Emperors and their wives by the Patria ...
Read MoreEvents during the year 2002 in Italy . Incumbents. * President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi * Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi Events. * 1 January — The Euro Currency officially became the legal tender for Italy, along with the other European Union (EU) Eurozone member area countries, replacing the I ...
Read MoreDoric Germain is a Canadian writer and university professor. Educated at the University of Ottawa, the Université Laval, and the Université de Hearst. His first novel was published in 1980. From 1970 until his retirement in 2012 he worked as a professor of French literature at Laurentian Univers ...
Read MoreDefective glucose-dependent cytosolic Ca2+ handling in islets of GK and nSTZ rat models of type 2 diabetes is a scholarly work, published in 2001 in ''Journal of Endocrinology''. The main subjects of the publication include glossary of medicine, type-1 diabetes, medicine, calcium, glycobiology, P- ...
Read MoreJames " Sunny Jim " Rolph Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931, until his death on June 2, 1934, at the height of the Great Depression. Previously, Rolph had been the 30th mayor o ...
Read MoreThe Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments. They were long regarded as being dated and 128 BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaids in 128 BC. If inde ...
Read MoreThe Brooklyn Rail is an American publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics, based in Brooklyn, New York. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, critics, and curators, and reviews of art, music, dance, film, books, a ...
Read MoreThe future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either per ...
Read MoreRole of the Primate Amygdala in Fear-Potentiated Startle: Effects of Chronic Lesions in the Rhesus Monkey is a scholarly work by Elena A Antoniadis, published in 2007 in ''The Journal of Neuroscience''. The main subjects of the publication include primate, central nervous system, startle response, ...
Read MoreJean Bassan was a French writer and dramatists, winner of the prix des libraires in 1958. Work. ; Novel * 1935: Le Centre du monde , éditions Gallimard * 1958: Le Mauvais Cheval , Plon * 1958: Nul ne s'évade — Prix des libraires * 1959: Les Distractions — adapted to cinema in 1960 T ...
Read MoreMary Louise Wilson is an American actress, singer, and comedian, known for her role in Grey Gardens . She is also known for her appearances on One Day at a Time . Early life. Wilson was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Work. Television. The Royal Family ...
Read MoreOn April 10, 2007, the National Football League introduced a new conduct policy to help control on and off-field behavior by its players and preserve the league's public image. The policy, introduced by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, implements a tougher, new personal-conduct policy, and under co ...
Read MoreGeorge Dewhurst may refer to: * George Dewhurst (director), British actor, screenwriter and film director * George Dewhurst (cricketer), Trinidadian cricketer * George Dewhurst (Radical and Reformer) English Radical, Reformer and Reedmaker. ...
Read MorePaul of Antioch was a Melkite Christian monk, bishop and author who lived between the 11th and 13th centuries. His best known works are defences of Christianity written for Muslims and a treatise urging the conversion of Muslims and Jews. Life. Almost all that is known of Paul is derived from his ...
Read MoreSohrevard is a city in the Central District of Khodabandeh County, Zanjan province, Iran, serving as the administrative center for Sohrevard Rural District. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Karasf, now a city. Etymology. According to Theodor Nöldeke, and later follow ...
Read More" Cell Block Tango " is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago , with music composed by John Kander and lyrics written by Fred Ebb. This song starred the six women accused of murder. Description. At the Cook County Jail women's annex, six women explain their presence in the jail, all of whom stand a ...
Read MoreJames Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome , Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time , college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following , Solomon Kane in the film of the same name, and Hap Collins in the Sund ...
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