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was awarded a second Navy Cross. Puller led American Marines and Nicaraguan National Guardsmen into battle against Sandinista rebels in the last major engagement of the Sandino Rebellion near El Sauce on December 26, 1932. After his service in Nicaragua, Puller was assigned to the Marine detachment at the American Lega... |
February 1, 1944, and by the end of the month had been named commander of the 1st Marine Regiment. In September and October 1944, Puller led the 1st Marine Regiment into the protracted battle on Peleliu, one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, and received his first of two Legion of Merit awards. The 1st ... |
Lewis Jr. won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography, Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet. He committed suicide in 1994. Puller was father-in-law to Colonel William H. Dabney, USMC (retired), a Virginia Military Institute (VMI) graduate, who was the commanding officer (then Captain) of two heavily reinforc... |
by a flanking movement forced from the high ground to the left and finally were scattered in confusion with a loss of ten killed and many wounded by the persistent and well-directed attack of the patrol. The numerous casualties suffered by the enemy and the Guardia losses of two killed and four wounded are indicative o... |
the care and prompt evacuation of all casualties. By his unflagging determination, he served to inspire his men to heroic efforts in defense of their positions and assured the safety of much valuable equipment which would otherwise have been lost to the enemy. His skilled leadership, superb courage and valiant devotion... |
he." U.S. Marines, while doing push-ups, will tell each other to "do one for Chesty!" Puller insisted upon good equipment and discipline; once he came upon a second lieutenant who had ordered an enlisted man to salute him 100 times for missing a salute. Puller told the lieutenant, "You were absolutely correct in making... |
City Hall, Dordrecht The City Hall in Dordrecht is a renaissance building decorated in neoclassic style on the Stadhuisplein and over one of the city harbors; the Voorstraat haven. It is the seat of the city's government, which first received city rights in 1220, and today it is still the place where residents often ho... |
Samuel Yaw Samuel Yaw (born 2 February 1945) is a Ghanaian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics. References Category:1945 births Category:Living people Category:Ghanaian footballers Category:Ghana international footballers Category:Olympic footballers of Ghana Category:Footballers... |
Hansborough, South Australia Hansborough is a locality along the former Morgan railway line adjacent to the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region. It is situated 9 kilometres south-west of Eudunda and 18 kilometres north-east of Kapunda. The Light River runs through the locality. A town was surveyed in ... |
Roman Sadovsky Roman Sadovsky (born May 31, 1999) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2020 Canadian national champion, the 2019 NHK Trophy bronze medalist, and a three-time ISU Challenger Series medalist. He also won five medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, including two gold medals. Personal life Sadovsky w... |
the silver medal at the 2018 Inge Solar Memorial. Sadovsky placed fifth in the short program at the 2019 Canadian Championships, executing his open quadruple Salchow-triple toe loop combination cleanly, but popping a planned quad toe loop and receiving a negative Grade of Execution on his triple Axel. He dropped to sev... |
Glaphyria oriola Glaphyria oriola is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914. It is found in Panama. References Category:Moths described in 1914 Category:Glaphyriini |
Dryden Water Aerodrome Dryden Water Aerodrome, , is located south of Dryden, Ontario, Canada. See also Dryden Regional Airport References Category:Registered aerodromes in Kenora District Category:Transport in Dryden, Ontario Category:Seaplane bases in Ontario |
Frederico Tadewald Frederico Tadewald (born 19 January 1908, date of death unknown) was a Brazilian rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. References Category:1908 births Category:Year of death missing Category:Brazilian male rowers Category:Olympic rowers of Brazil Category:Rowers at ... |
Columbus Post Office The Columbus Post Office is the main post office in Columbus, Wisconsin. The post office was built in 1938 by the Public Works Administration and opened in 1939. The brick building was designed in the Art Moderne style. Arnold Blanch painted a mural in the post office in 1940 to honor the founding ... |
The Harvest Shall Come The Harvest Shall Come is a 1942 British documentary film about agricultural work between 1900 and World War II, using the story of a farm laborer to illustrate the importance of agriculture, and the importance of supporting workers in this occupation. The film, produced by Basil Wright and direc... |
Squire Richard George: Farmer Edmund Willard: Commentator Bruce Belfrage: Commentator See also The Battle of the Harvests, a 1942 Canadian documentary References Citations Sources External links Category:1942 films Category:1940s documentary films Category:British films Category:English-language films Category:Black-an... |
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Serrano v. Priest Serrano v. Priest refers to three cases regarding the financing of public schools in California that were decided by the California Supreme Court: Serrano v. Priest, (1971) (Serrano I); Serrano v. Priest, (1976) (Serrano II); and Serrano v. Priest, (1977) (Serrano III). The Serrano cases Serrano I (19... |
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List of tourist attractions in Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton, Ontario has a large variety of historical sites and cultural and educational institutions. Historical sites and museums 31 Service Battalion Museum, accredited military museum, Heritage Museum; dedicated to documenting Combat Service Support in Hamilton; larges... |
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before and after concerts. (The noted British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who guest-conducted the CSO there in 1940, referred to Ravinia as "the only railway station with a resident orchestra.") Visitors get dropped off and picked up right at the front gate. Attendance often tops 600,000 annually. Artistic leadership... |
Robert Courtney Robert Ray Courtney (born September 15, 1952) is an American former pharmacist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to intentionally diluting several doses of chemotherapy drugs and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. He is currently serving his sentence at Big Spring Federal ... |
count of adulterating and misbranding medication. Investigators reported that before turning himself in, Courtney gave $80,000 in cash, and more than 100 doses of Prozac to his wife. Faced with the evidence, Courtney gave investigators a list of three medications that he diluted, and a list of 34 affected patients. He ... |
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Marcia Joanne Bennett Marcia Joanne Bennett (born June 9, 1945, sometimes credited as M.J. Bennett), is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction novels, including the Ni-Lach series and the novel Yaril's Children. Biography Born in Norwich, NY, daughter of Richard (a carpenter) and Reatha (née Albright). After... |
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Dieter Lehnhoff Sonata Porteña for flute and piano, Op. 35 (2013) Bohuslav Martinů Sonata for flute and piano, Halbreich 306 (1945) Peter Mieg Sonata for flute and piano (1963) Darius Milhaud Sonatina for flute and piano, Op. 76 (1922) Ignaz Moscheles Sonata for flute and piano in A, Op. 44 (1819) Sonata for flute and ... |
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fitted with RPC. Close in anti-aircraft armament was standardised as a single Mk V twin and two single 40 mm Bofors mounts. The ships were also fitted with new bridges; the post-refit bridge differed between the first four conversions (Cavendish, Carron, Cavalier and Carysfort), with open bridges and the later four (Ca... |
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James Warrior, David Jackson, Eva Stuart, Timothy Carlton and Andrew Reardon. Episode Four: There Are Fairy Cakes At The Bottom Of My Garden. Brian Wilde, Trevor Bannister, Anne Ridler, April Walker, James Warrior, David Jackson, Robin Parkinson, Julie Morgan and Diana Fulker. Episode Five: Just Act Natural. Brian Wild... |
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Telstra Corporation Ltd v Commonwealth Telstra Corporation Limited v The Commonwealth was an important case decided in the High Court of Australia on 6 March 2008. It concerned a dispute between Telstra Corporation Ltd and the Commonwealth of Australia, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and elev... |
on just terms contrary to Section 51(xxxi) of the Constitution. Thus, Telstra began proceedings in the High Court of Australia against the Commonwealth, the ACCC, and eleven of its competitors, seeking adequate compensation and the ability to charge its competitors more for access. The eleven competitors involved were ... |
final provision of Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act, acts to save that law from invalidity, via reasonable compensation by the Commonwealth. Telstra argued that this provision did not save the impugned provisions from invalidity stating that relevant acquisitions "occur by the imposition of the standard access oblig... |
own customers or customers of competing carriers. These same defendants pointed to the fact that end-users, the customers, can and do chose which service provider connects equipment to the local loops entering their premises, and as long as that choice is not Telstra, then Telstra have no use for that local loop. The d... |
and SSL been upheld, Telstra would be able to charge monopoly-inflated prices for access to its network, thus reducing competition and increasing consumer access fees. Exploitation of such monopoly control would result in increased access costs for competitors, their private and business customers, and eventually, all ... |
Jewels of Desire Jewels of Desire is a 1927 silent film directed by Paul Powell and starring Priscilla Dean. It was released through Producers Distributing Corporation. A print is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Cast Priscilla Dean - Margarita Solano John Bowers - Maclyn Mills Walter Long - Pedro Luk... |
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groupings are not adequate on empirical grounds, since a very unorthodox left-branching structure is necessary, or if one rejects the canonical groupings and positions the subject inside a VP-like constituent, then one has to assume that the subject NP and copula verb can form a type of VP to the exclusion of the predi... |
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Heart development Heart development (also known as cardiogenesis) refers to the prenatal development of the human heart. This begins with the formation of two endocardial tubes which merge to form the tubular heart, also called the primitive heart tube, that loops and septates into the four chambers and paired arterial... |
front of the oropharyngeal membrane and the neural plate. The growth of the brain and the cephalic folds push the oropharyngeal membrane forward, while the heart and the pericardial cavity move first to the cervical region and then into the chest. The curved portion of the horseshoe-shaped area expands to form the futu... |
and split light into two separate conduits. Tissue masses called endocardial cushions develop into atrioventricular and conotroncal regions. In these places, the cushions will help in the formation of auricular septum, ventricular conduits, atrio-ventricular valves and aortic and pulmonary channels. Atria At the end of... |
muscle spontaneously and are then responsible for transmitting signals from cell to cell. Myocytes that were obtained in the primitive heart tube, start beating as they connect together by their walls in a syncytium. Myocytes initiate rhythmic electrical activity, before the fusion of the endocardial tubes. The heartbe... |
and ends at 149 bpm Week 8 starts at 149 and ends at 172 bpm At week 9 the embryonic heart tends to beat within a range of 155 to 195 bpm. By the end of week 9, the embryonic heart has developed septa and valves, and has all four chambers. At this point, the fetal heart rate begins to decrease, and generally falls with... |
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Billie Jean King Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She won the singles title at the inaugural WTA Tour Championships. She often represented the... |
graduating in 1961, she attended Los Angeles State College now California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). She did not graduate, leaving school in 1964 to focus on tennis. While attending Cal State, she met Larry King in a library in 1963. The pair became engaged while still in school when Billie Jean was ... |
round match by attacking Court's forehand This was the first time in Wimbledon history that the women's top seed had lost her first match. That same year, King and Hantze repeated their doubles victory at Wimbledon. In 1963, King again faced Margaret Court at Wimbledon. This time they met in the finals with Court preva... |
these years. One or both of these women played 35 of the 40 Grand Slam singles tournaments held during this period, and together they won 24 of them. During this period, Court won 31 of her career 64 Grand Slam titles, including 12 of her 24 Grand Slam singles titles, 11 of her 19 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and... |
King injured her left knee in the second game of the third set of that match. However, King won the Victorian Championships in Melbourne the following week, defeating Dalton, Reid, and Lesley Turner Bowrey in the last three rounds. At a team event in Adelaide, King won all three of her singles and doubles matches to he... |
winning her fourth consecutive singles title there. The week after, King again defeated Wade to win the Irish Open for the second time in her career. In the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, King lost in the quarterfinals of the US Open to Nancy Richey Gunter 6–4, 8–6. This was the first year since 1965 that Kin... |
Evert after splitting the first two sets was necessary because of leg cramps. But in early 1972, King admitted that cramps associated with the abortion caused the retirement. At the tournament in Hurlingham, United Kingdom in early May, King lost a second round match to an old rival, Christine Truman Janes (now 30 year... |
defeated Virginia Wade in the quarterfinals, Helga Niessen Masthoff in the semifinals, and Goolagong in the final. On grass, King then won the Wimbledon warm-up tournaments in Nottingham and Bristol and won Wimbledon itself for the fourth time. She lost only one set during the tournament, to Wade in the quarterfinals. ... |
Riggs match, and then lost the following day to Casals in the semifinals 7–6, 6–1. According to King, "I had nothing left to give." To end the year, King won tournaments in Phoenix, Hawaii, and Tokyo and was the runner-up in Baltimore. Battle of the Sexes In 1973, King defeated Bobby Riggs in an exhibition match, winni... |
great shots but they just kept coming back at me." Looking back at that match, King said, "I probably played so well because I had to, for the money. Out of frustration comes creativity. Right?" Two months later, Wade defeated King in the semifinals of the Philadelphia tournament. At the Austin, Texas tournament in Apr... |
is a bad girl pouting. She made a bad decision. She's mad because she could not get what she wanted." Stöve said that if King had wanted the competition, "[T]here are plenty of men around here she could've played with. She didn't have to choose a 'disputed' tournament." The draw in San Antonio called for King to play R... |
round in Palm Harbor, Florida and Fromholtz Balestrat in the semifinals in Atlanta. She then won three hard court tournaments in three consecutive weeks. She defeated Navratilova and Wendy Turnbull to win in Phoenix, losing only four points to Turnbull in the third set of the final. The next week, she defeated Navratil... |
just one day after Ryan collapsed and died at Wimbledon. At the US Open, the ninth-seeded King reached the quarterfinals without dropping a set, where she upset the fourth-seeded Virginia Wade 6–3, 7–6(4). Next up was a semifinal match with the four-time defending champion and top-seeded Chris Evert; however, with King... |
the first time in her career. She had a spare pair, but they did not feel the same. King saved two match points before Navratilova broke serve to win the match. King said, "I think that may be the single match in my career that I could have won if I hadn't had bad eyes." King teamed with Navratilova to win King's 39th ... |
In her last competitive doubles match, King and her partner, Jennifer Capriati, lost a second round match to Brenda Schultz-McCarthy and Andrea Temesvári 6–3, 6–2 at the Virginia Slims of Florida tournament. King became the captain of the United States Fed Cup team and coach of its women's Olympic tennis squad. She gui... |
and major owner in 1984. King is a member of the Board of Honorary Trustees for the Sports Museum of America, which opened in 2008. The museum is the home of the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center, a comprehensive women's sports hall of fame and exhibit. Other activities King's husband Larry co-founde... |
to receive that honor. In 1975, Seventeen magazine found that King was the most admired woman in the world from a poll of its readers. Golda Meir, who had been Israel's prime minister until the previous year, finished second. In a May 19, 1975, Sports Illustrated article about King, Frank Deford noted that she had beco... |
a champion tennis player, King said, In popular culture King's friend Elton John wrote the song "Philadelphia Freedom", a nod to her World TeamTennis team, for King. The song was released New Year's Day 1975 and became a number one hit. Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was an admirer and close fri... |
King and the Revolution in Women's Sports. University of North Carolina Press. Combines biography and history in a study of the tennis player, liberal feminism, and Title IX. External links Category:Billie Jean King Category:1943 births Category:American female tennis players Category:American feminists Category:Americ... |
Cyaniris Cyaniris is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Recent molecular studies have determined that Cyaniris is a different genus from Polyommatus, where it has been included for several years. Species Two species are recognized: Cyaniris semiargus (Rottemburg, 1775) Cyaniris bellis (Freyer, 1845) Refer... |
Cedarville School Cedarville School is a historic school building located at Cedarville, Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was built in 1923, and is a two-story "T"-shaped, wood frame building with a hipped roof, measuring approximately 50 feet deep and 80 feet wide. It has striated stuccoed exterior surfaces and is on ... |
Kambatta Viswanathar Temple, Kumbakonam Kambatta Viswanathar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva located at Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Presiding deity The moolavar presiding deity, is found in his manifestation as Visveswar. His consort, Parvati, is known as Anandhanithi. Specialty 12 ... |
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Alfred Ollivant (writer) Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927) was an English novelist known best for his novel Owd Bob. Ollivant also published about a dozen other novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical stories. Alfred Ollivant was born in Nuthurst, Sussex, in 1874 and became an author after a hors... |
Illinois Reserve Militia The Illinois Reserve Militia was the state defense force of Illinois during World War I and World War II. After the Illinois National Guard was federalized, the Illinois Reserve Militia was organized to assume the stateside duties of the National Guard. History World War I Before the Illinois N... |
Ian Boyton Ian Justin Boyton (born 19 August 1974) is a former English cricketer. Boyton was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Barking, London. Boyton represented the Middlesex Cricket Board in a single List A match against Scotland in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Glouces... |
Folwarki, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Folwarki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stopnica, within Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Stopnica, east of Busko-Zdrój, and south-east of the regional capital Kielce. References Category:Villages... |
Return of the Wild Horses Return of the Wild Horses is the most important in-situ conservation project organized by Prague Zoo. Its aim is to increase the numbers and genetic diversity of Przewalski's horses in their native habitat in Mongolia. Resuming previous similar European projects, Return of the Wild Horses tran... |
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