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Biography Dale Houston

1 biography 1.1 years 1.2 partnership grace broussard 1.3 death 1.4 honors biography early years robert dale houston born claude , essie (née walters) houston in seminary, small town in covington county, mississippi. delivered midwife on family s kitchen table. houstons thereafter moved nearby collins, county seat, claude houston entered christian ministry. young dale began piano lessons in sixth grade, family financial difficulties halted training after 3 months , self-taught on, honing skills playing , singing in church. at age 18, recorded lonely man . in 1960, while performing in baton rouge, record executive sam montel (sam montalbano) caught act in local bar. montel declared him pretty writer , signed him compose exclusively label. houston wrote , recorded lonely man , bird broken wing , , s . none successful. partnership grace broussard in 1963, houston working in bar in ferriday, louisiana, town near natchez, mississippi. montel approached houston teaming female singer, g...

Economy Poole

the sunseeker shipyards opposite poole quay the service sector principal economy of poole; large number of employees work service economy of local residents or tourist economy. during 1970s, poole s less restrictive regional planning policies attracted businesses wishing relocate london. these included employers in banking , financial sector, such barclays bank (who operate regional headquarters in poole), american express bank , corporate trust division of bank of new york mellon. other important service sector employers include national headquarters , college of royal national lifeboat institution (rnli), uk headquarters of fitness first, bournemouth university , arts university bournemouth. poole headquarters clothing company animal, cosmetics manufacturer, lush, , merlin entertainments, world s second-largest theme park operator after disney. dolphin shopping centre poole s main retail area, , largest indoor shopping centre in dorset. opened in 1969 arndale centre, , underwent 3 ma...

Geography Alcoa, Tennessee

maryville-alcoa greenway sunset the city situated in foothills of great smoky mountains, outermost of which, chilhowee mountain, rises few miles south. large sections of north-central , northeastern parts of range visible alcoa highway. little river, rises near heart of smokies, flows through eastern section of alcoa before emptying tennessee river near louisville. according united states census bureau, city has total area of 15.6 square miles (40.5 km), of 14.7 square miles (38.2 km) land , 0.93 square miles (2.4 km), or 5.90%, water.

Venues Coventry

warwick arts centre in warwick university campus theatre, art , music venues in coventry include: warwick arts centre: situated @ university of warwick, warwick arts centre includes art gallery, theatre, concert hall , cinema. warwick art centre largest art centre in midlands, , second largest arts centre in uk, after london s barbican. albany theatre: city s main community theatre. housed @ used butts centre of city college coventry. known butts or college theatre, closed in 2009 sale of college private developers. theatre re-opened in 2013 albany theatre, part of premier inn hotel on site of former butts technical college , run charitable trust support council. belgrade theatre: 1 of largest producing theatres in britain, 858-seat belgrade first civic theatre opened in uk following second world war. theatre underwent huge redevelopment , reopened in september 2007; in addition refurbishing existing theatre redevelopment included new 250-seat studio auditorium known b2, variety of reh...

History Tirpitz Museum (Denmark)

model of 1 of turrets. the tirpitz bunker started construction in 1944, , build part of defense around city of esbjerg. following surrender of german forces, construction halted, , bunker therefore never completed. bunker designed house 2 turrets 2 38 cm sk c/34 naval guns each. after war, bunker abandoned , later turned small museum. in 2012, decided expand , redesign museum, bjarke ingels group being chosen designer new museum. new museum features open spaces , build dunes. on 29 june 2017, opening ceremony held, crown prince , minister of culture attending.

Access and service quality Water supply in Afghanistan

1 access , service quality 1.1 overview 1.2 kabul 1.3 kandahar 1.4 herat 1.5 kunduz 1.6 lashkar gah access , service quality overview a dug along road in faryab province of afghanistan. because of risk of contamination open wells such 1 not considered improved water source, measure used un measure achievement of millennium development goals. in 2015, 55% of population had access improved water, 78% , 47%, in urban , rural areas, respectively. still, in year, 14 million people without access improved water. access improved water source not mean water safe drink. example, protected shallow wells in urban areas contaminated bacteria. piped water supply can contaminated. households without access improved source take water streams , rivers, open wells , unprotected springs, of polluted. in rural areas women , girls walk long distances fetch water. a hand pump in parwan province, common in parts of afghanistan. there have been considerable improvements in access water supply in last sev...

Format Snooker Shoot-Out

^ rules . worldsnooker.com. world professional billiards , snooker association. archived original on 9 june 2012. retrieved 20 january 2011.  ^ rules . worldsnooker.com. world professional billiards , snooker association. archived original on 14 april 2013. retrieved 24 january 2013. 

2008 version Sakura no Hanabiratachi

the team k , team b members invited join in creating new 2008 version of song, sakura no habiratachi 2008 (桜の花びらたち2008). poster given purchase of version of single @ akb48 theater café. since 1 member akb48 featured on each poster, 44 different types of posters available. these posters handed out randomly purchaser. had collected 44 types had been invited spring festival akb48. defstar records later announced, however, offer cancelled, due apparent scandal of attracting purchasers buy special reward spending inordinate amount of money chasing down 44 versions of poster. a special b-side featured on type b limited edition, song rearranged form of school choir performance.

History Coldplay

1 history 1.1 1996–1999: formation , first years 1.2 1999–2001: parachutes 1.3 2002–2004: rush of blood head 1.4 2004–2007: x&y 1.5 2007–2010: viva la vida or death , friends 1.6 2010–2012: mylo xyloto 1.7 2013–2014: ghost stories 1.8 2014–2017: head full of dreams history 1996–1999: formation , first years chris martin , jonny buckland first met during orientation week @ university college london (ucl) in september 1996. pair spent rest of university year planning band, forming group called pectoralz. guy berryman, classmate of martin , buckland, later joined group. 1997, group, had renamed starfish, performed gigs local camden promoters @ small clubs. martin had recruited longtime school friend phil harvey, studying classics @ university of oxford, band s manager. coldplay have since accepted harvey fifth member of group. band s line-up completed when champion joined take percussion duties. champion had grown playing piano, guitar, bass, , tin whistle; learned drums (despite havi...

T Glossary of rail transport terms

a track tamping machine generally, locomotive used in track maintenance , equipped track lifting facilities, , paddles enabling ballast pushed beneath rail track assure level , cant tank car a type of rolling stock designed transport liquid , gaseous commodities team track a spur or siding loading freight, used firms not having own direct rail access tender a specialized rail car attached steam locomotive carry fuel , water supplies, along tools , flagging equipment terminal railroad (or terminal railway) a company in united states owns no cars of own , transports railroad cars of other companies around specific terminal station texas type the texas wheel arrangement a steam locomotive 2-10-4 wheel arrangement third rail an electrified rail runs along tracks, giving power trains. used in subways , rapid transit systems. through coach a passenger coach disconnected 1 train , attached before continuing on journey, avoiding need passengers switch trains through platform the standard platf...

Withdrew Wilmington mayoral election, 2012

^ wilmington nonprofit director run mayor . associated press. wcau. november 29, 2011. retrieved september 7, 2012.  ^ mayoral candidate withdraws wilmington race . associated press. realclearpolitics. december 19, 2011. retrieved september 7, 2012.  ^ cite error: named reference nw1 invoked never defined (see page). ^ cherry, amy (july 10, 2012). gatewood out, republican in race wilmington mayor . wdel. retrieved september 7, 2012.  ^ cite error: named reference nw2 invoked never defined (see page). ^ gerace, frank (june 12, 2012). pastor d drops out of wilmington mayor s race . wdel. retrieved september 7, 2012.  ^ state senator launches campaign wilmington mayor . newsworks. october 4, 2010. retrieved september 7, 2012. 

Ride experience Disneyland Railroad

the drr s water tower @ new orleans square station beginning @ main street, u.s.a. station adjacent disneyland s entrance, pump-style handcar built kalamazoo manufacturing company can seen on siding, trains of disneyland railroad travel along single track in clockwise direction on circular route. train take around 18 minutes complete round trip on main line when 3 trains running, , 20 minutes when 4 trains running; on given day, between 2 , 4 trains run, 3 trains running on average. engineer accompanied fireman operates locomotive, while conductors @ each end of train supervise passengers. prior departing main street, u.s.a. station, engineer must confirm whether signal light in locomotive s cab green, indicating track segment ahead clear, or red, indicating track segment ahead occupied train. drr s route divided eleven such segments, or blocks, , each locomotive has block signal in cab communicate status of each block. prior installation of cab signalling in locomotives around 2005, s...

Reception The Thief and the Cobbler

1 reception 1.1 influence 1.2 restoration attempts 1.3 academy preservation 1.4 documentary reception the miramax version of film commercial failure , received mixed-to-negative reviews. film website rotten tomatoes gave film score of 50% based on 8 reviews. carn james of new york times criticised songs sung princess, calling lyrics horrible , melodies forgettable , though did praise williams s animation among glorious , lively ever created . animation historian jerry beck felt added voiceovers of jonathan winters , matthew broderick unnecessary , unfunny, , fred calvert s new footage didn t meet standards of original williams scenes. however, in 2003, online film critics society ranked film 81st greatest animated film of time. in addition, film won 1995 academy of family films award. alex williams, son of original director, criticized changes made calvert , miramax, called finished film more or less unwatchable , found hard find spirit of film conceived . years, richard william...

Players coming out Homosexuality in American football

selected st. louis rams in 2014, michael sam first publicly gay player drafted nfl. division ii college football player brian sims came out team in 2000 while playing bloomsburg university of pennsylvania, , publicly told story in 2009. alan gendreau open middle tennessee blue raiders football team 2008 through 2011, made no mention of media. otherwise, have been first publicly out gay active player in division college football. outsports, web site specializing in gays , sports, released story being gay football player on april 23, 2013. in january 2014, conner mertens of division iii willamette bearcats publicly came out bisexual, becoming first active college football player @ level publicly come out. after retired, nfl player david kopay in 1975 first major professional team-sport athlete come out. many experts believe first openly gay active nfl player not current athlete comes out, instead out high school or college player ends in nfl. cbssports.com reported in april 2013 1 nfl te...

Applications Conformal symmetry

1 applications 1.1 conformal field theory 1.2 second-order phase transitions 1.3 high-energy physics applications conformal field theory the largest possible global symmetry group of non-supersymmetric interacting field theory direct product of conformal group internal group. such theories known conformal field theories. second-order phase transitions one particular application critical phenomena in systems local interactions. fluctuations in such systems conformally invariant @ critical point. allows classification of universality classes of phase transitions in terms of conformal field theories conformal invariance present in two-dimensional turbulence @ high reynolds number. high-energy physics many theories studied in high-energy physics admit conformal symmetry. famous example n=4 supersymmetric yang-mills theory. also, worldsheet in string theory described two-dimensional conformal field theory coupled two-dimensional gravity.

Early years of Russian rule Georgia within the Russian Empire

1 years of russian rule 1.1 integration empire 1.2 georgian society 1.3 emancipation of serfs 1.4 immigration early years of russian rule integration empire during first decades of russian rule, georgia placed under military governorship. land @ frontline of russia s war against turkey , persia , commander-in-chief of russian army of region governor. russia gradually expanded territory in transcaucasia @ expense of rivals, taking large areas of land in rest of region, comprising of modern-day armenia , azerbaijan qajar persia through russo-persian war (1826-1828) , resulting treaty of turkmenchay. @ same time russian authorities aimed integrate georgia rest of empire. russian , georgian society had in common: main religion orthodox christianity , in both countries land-owning aristocracy ruled on population of serfs. initially, russian rule proved high-handed, arbitrary , insensitive local law , customs. in 1811, autocephaly (i.e. independent status) of georgian orthodox church abolish...

2000s Ringo Starr

starr on stage in new york city in 2005 starr inducted percussive arts society hall of fame in 2002, joining elite group including buddy rich, william f. ludwig sr. , william f. ludwig jr. on 29 november 2002 (the first anniversary of harrison s death), performed photograph , cover of carl perkins honey don t @ concert george held in royal albert hall, london. following year, starr released album ringo rama, contained song co-wrote tribute harrison, never without . in 2003, starr formed pumkinhead records all-starr band member mark hudson. label not prolific, first signing liam lynch, produced 2003 lp entitled fake songs. starr served honorary santa tracker , voice-over personality in 2003 , 2004 during london stop in father christmas s annual christmas eve journey, depicted in annual norad tracks santa program. according norad officials, starr in east helped guide north american aerospace defense command s santa-tracking tradition. starr honorary santa tracker starr s 2005 rel...

Championships and accomplishments P.N. News

^ cwa world tag team championship history .  ^ cagematch title listings .  ^ nwa pacific northwest tag team championship history .  ^ awards .  ^ cite error: named reference cage invoked never defined (see page). ^ cite error: named reference owow invoked never defined (see page).

Sansa Clip SanDisk Sansa

sansa clip beside 1 euro coin also known m300, sansa clip released on october 9, 2007. player similar in size second-generation ipod shuffle, incorporates removable clip , 4-line oled screen (one line yellow, 3 blue.) clip has fm tuner/recorder , built-in microphone. flash-based player ships in capacities of 1 gb (available in black), 2 gb (available in black, blue, red , pink), , 4 gb (silver , black). in november 2008, black , silver 8 gb versions advertised in uk. midway through production of clip, sandisk updated new hardware design based on updated austriamicrosystems soc. updated design moderately improved battery life introducing more efficient arm9e processor in place of previous arm9 core. aside requiring different firmware upgrades, there no functional changes software. updated soc form basis clip+ , clip zip products. rockbox released clip v1 on november 21, 2009, , clip v2 on may 14, 2010. firmware version 01.01.29, released in may 2008, enabled ogg vorbi...

Sample Reviews Pete Johnson (rock critic)

^ doors articles & reviews 1967 . mildequator.com. retrieved 2014-02-21.  ^ doors album reviews: doors pete johnson . archives.waiting-forthe-sun.net. retrieved 2014-02-21.  ^ into, light (2012-02-17). grateful dead sources: september 15, 1967: hollywood bowl . deadsources.blogspot.com. retrieved 2014-02-21.  ^ into, light (2012-02-17). grateful dead sources: november 10, 1967: la shrine hall . deadsources.blogspot.com. retrieved 2014-02-21.  ^ user (1968-04-15). la times, april 15th, 1968 . steve winwood. retrieved 2014-02-21.  ^ band album mines dylan vein . los angeles times: archives. 1968-07-14. archived original on ?. retrieved 2014-03-07.  check date values in: |archive-date= (help)

Air and sea attacks USS Liberty incident

liberty turns evade israeli torpedo boats as torpedo boats rapidly approached, captain mcgonagle ordered sailor proceed machine gun mount 51 , open fire. however, noticed boats appeared flying israeli flag, , realized there possibility of aircraft having been israeli , attack had been conducted in error . captain mcgonagle ordered man @ gun mount 51 hold fire, short burst fired @ torpedo boats before man able understand order. mcgonagle observed machine gun mount 53 began firing @ center torpedo boat @ same time gun mount 51 fired, , fire extremely effective , blanketed area , center torpedo boat . machine gun mount 53 located on starboard amidships side, behind pilot house. mcgonagle not see or mount 53 starboard wing of bridge . so, sent mr. lucas around port side of bridge, around skylights, see if tell [seaman] quintero, whom [he] believed gunner on machine gun 53, hold fire . ensign lucas reported in few minutes in effect saw no 1 @ mount 53 . lucas, had left command bridge d...

Club career Thomas Guerbert

1 club career 1.1 luzenac 1.2 dijon 1.3 sochaux 1.4 clermont foot club career luzenac guerbert played luzenac 2 years, in amassed on 60 appearances. in final season luzenac in championnat national, third level of french football, guerbert named league s player of year news publication france football. dijon after signing dijon, made professional debut on 31 august 2011 in coupe de la ligue match against valenciennes. in contest, guerbert scored game-winning goal in 3–2 win. sochaux in september 2013, guerbert joined sochaux dijon undisclosed fee. on 2 november 2013, guerbert suffered double leg break , dislocated ankle result of tackle saint-Étienne defender kurt zouma, ruled him out rest of season. clermont foot in late june 2016, guerbert joined clermont foot.

See also Emergency Alert System

wireless emergency alerts (wea) common alerting protocol conelrad digital emergency alert system (deas) earthquake warning (japan) emergency broadcast system (ebs) emergency population warning emergency public warning system flash flood guidance systems handel (uk s former national attack warning system) j-alert local access alert national warning system national severe weather warning service noaa weather radio nuclear football nuclear masint radio amateur civil emergency service specific area message encoding standard emergency warning signal (australia) wartime broadcasting service weatheradio canada alert ready (canada)

Notable persons described as using mockney speech Mockney

^ [1] archived april 13, 2006, @ wayback machine. ^ sullivan, caroline (12 may 2006). lily allen, notting hill arts club, london . guardian. retrieved 28 november 2013.  ^ zuckermann, ghil ad (2003). language contact , lexical enrichment in israeli hebrew. palgrave macmillan. isbn 978-1403917232.  p. 110: british violinist nigel kennedy [...] speaks mockney , i.e. fake cockney, improve street-credibility . ^ mcnulty, bernadette (17 november 2008). let s hear british pop babes . london: telegraph. retrieved 28 november 2013.  ^ thomas, liz (21 october 2009). guy ritchie, mockney king in family . london: mail online. retrieved 28 november 2013.  ^ swann, yvonne (1 january 2010). me , school photo: johnny vaughan remembers boarding school beatings , drama classes rowan atkinson . london: mail online. retrieved 28 november 2013.  ^ [2] archived september 12, 2013, @ wayback machine.

UWS Regular Season 2016 Real Salt Lake Women season

1 uws regular season 1.1 standings 1.1.1 united women s soccer western conference table 1.2 results summary 1.3 results round 1.4 match results uws regular season standings united women s soccer western conference table results summary last updated: july 7, 2016 source: pld = matches played; pts = points; w = matches won; t = matches tied; l = matches lost; gf = goals for; ga = goals against; gd = goal difference results round last updated: july 7, 2016. source: [1] ground: = away; h = home. result: d = draw; l = loss; w = win; p = postponed. match results as of july 07, 2016

Wealth boom Helena, Montana

the st. helena cathedral. by 1888, 50 millionaires lived in helena, more per capita in city in world. had made fortunes gold. $3.6 billion (in today s dollars) of gold taken last chance gulch on 20-year period. last chance placer 1 of famous placer deposits in western united states. of production occurred before 1868. of placer under streets , buildings of helena. (as late 1970s, when repairs being made bank, vein of placer gold found under bank s foundation). this large concentration of wealth basis of developing fine residences , ambitious architecture in city; victorian neighborhoods reflect gold years. numerous miners attracted development of thriving red light district. among well-known local madams josephine chicago joe airey, built thriving business empire between 1874 , 1893, becoming 1 of largest , influential landowners in helena. brothels of helena successful part of local business community 20th century, ending 1973 death of helena s last madam, big dorothy baker. the o...

History Croatian wine

wine press in roman art 1st century ad like rest of central europe , southern europe, viticulture in present-day croatia existed hundreds of years before rise of roman empire. recent research has shown illyrians living in dalmatia during bronze age , iron age may have grown grapevines. however, true beginning of grape cultivation , wine production in croatia related ancient greeks settlers, arrived on croatian coast in 5th century bc. greek writer athenaeus wrote 18 centuries ago high quality wine produced on dalmatian islands of vis, hvar , korčula. coins period have motifs related grape cultivation , wine, demonstrating importance of wine in economics of ancient greek colonies. under roman empire, wine production grew, becoming more organized. wine exported other parts of empire. artifacts time include stone presses squeezing grapes , amphoras sunken roman galleys. decorations on numerous religious , household items bear witness wine-making culture. as croatians arrived , settled are...

Katipunan Avenue Circumferential Road 5

katipunan avenue katipunan avenue 7.3 kilometres (4.5 mi), 10-lane divided carriageway serves main transportation corridor of balara , project 4 districts of quezon city. northern terminus of road tandang sora avenue , southern terminus epifanio de los santos avenue. 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) portion of road northern terminus intersection col. bonny serrano avenue designated portion of c-5 road. shortly before crossing bonny serrano avenue, 4-lane divided underpass descends katipunan avenue , traverses underneath col. bonny serrano avenue , ascends flyover connects e. rodriguez jr. avenue.

Versions Joint Light Tactical Vehicle

1 versions 1.1 payload category a 1.2 payload category b 1.3 payload category c versions early jltv configurations the jltv family , nomenclature evolved throughout development process , date u.s. army has allocated m designations 4 individual jltv configurations. in jltv s initial capability document (icd) there 4 payload options, later reduced three, payload categories a, b, , c. transportable externally ch-47 , ch-53 helicopters , internally c-130 aircraft. payload category a payload category vehicles fill role of battlespace awareness payload capacity of 3,500 lb (1,600 kg). general purpose mobility: general purpose mobility (jltv-a-gp) variant in payload category a, designed general purpose utility vehicle use army , marine corps, four-person capacity. unlike other variants, c-130 capable of transporting 2 vehicles @ time. payload category b payload category b vehicles fill role of force application payload capacity of 4,000–4,500 lb (1,800–2,000 kg). infant...

References George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie

glover, michael. peninsular war 1807-1814. penguin, 1974. oman, charles. wellington s army, 1809-1814. greenhill, (1913) 1993. biography @ dictionary of canadian biography online the royal military calendar, or army service , commission book, ed. john philippart. p. 248-249, vol of v, 3rd edition, london, 1820.

Novels François Garde

^ garde, françois. ce qu il advint du sauvage blanc (in french). Éditions gallimard. p. 336. isbn 2070136620.  ^ le prix giono récompense un «sauvage blanc» on nouvelobs.com 16 october 2012. ^ remise du prix hortense dufour à françois garde. ^ françois garde lauréat du prix amerigo vespucci 2012. ^ françois garde : l’essentiel, c’est d’écrire et pas d’avoir des prix… .

The Congress of Deputies Politics of Spain

façade of palace of cortes, seat of congress of deputies the congress of deputies must integrated minimum of 300 , maximum of 400 deputies (members of parliament) — 350 — elected universal, free, equal, direct , secret suffrage, four-year terms or until dissolution of cortes generales. voting system used of proportional representation closed party lists following d hondt method in province forms constituency or electoral circumscription , must assigned minimum of 2 deputies; autonomous cities of ceuta , melilla, each assigned 1 deputy. the congress of deputies can initiate legislation, , have power ratify or reject decree laws adopted executive. elect, via vote of investiture, prime minister (the president of government ), before or can formally sworn office king. congress of deputies may adopt motion of censure whereby can vote out prime minister absolute majority. on other hand, prime minister may request @ time vote of confidence congress of deputies. if or fails obtain it, cortes ...

United States Preschool

in united states, nursery school provided in variety of settings. in general, pre-school meant promote development in children through planned programs. pre-school defined as: center-based programs four-year olds or partially funded state education agencies , operated in schools or under direction of state , local education agencies . pre-schools, both private , school sponsored, available children ages 3 five. many of these programs follow similar curriculum pre-kindergarten. in united states, preschool education emphasizes individuality. children permitted choose variety of activities, using learning center approach. during these times, children draw or paint, play house, play puzzles while listen teacher read story aloud. activities vary in each session. each child assumed have particular strengths , weaknesses encouraged or ameliorated teachers. typical belief children s play work , allowing them select type of play, child meet or developmental needs. preschools adopt american i...