What treatment did the milk that was fed to infants undergo to control bacterial disease?

Pasteurisation was effective against bacteria, but it destroyed the vitamin C.


Later research has discovered that the Viceroy is, in fact more toxic than the Monarch and this resemblance should be considered as a case of Müllerian mimicry.


In the UK, linters are referred to as "cotton wool".


How are the electrical contents of a USB connector protected?

The electrical contacts in a USB connector are protected by an adjacent plastic tongue, and the entire connecting assembly is usually protected by an enclosing metal sheath.


Who led the new Liberal National Party of Queensland through the election in March 2012?

In March 2011, the New South Wales Liberal-National Coalition led by Barry O'Farrell won government with the largest election victory in post-war Australian history at the State Election.


What are the districts of Germany considered?

The state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen consists of two urban districts, while Berlin and Hamburg are states and urban districts at the same time.


In what province of Canada is the Athabasca Basin?

High-grade ores found in Athabasca Basin deposits in Saskatchewan, Canada can contain up to 23% uranium oxides on average.


What was the kingdom of Kenneth MacAlpin?

By the middle of the 10th century, Alfred's successors had conquered Northumbria, and restored English control over most of the southern part of Great Britain.


How did both gay and straight men react to pictures of both naked men and women?

The only significant group difference between these orientations was found in the amygdala, a brain region known to be involved in regulating fear.


Visits to The Times website have decreased by how much since October 2011?

Visits to the websites have decreased by 87% since the paywall was introduced, from 21 million unique users per month to 2.7 million.


What kind of occupation do Hindu scriptures describe hunting as being?

Hindu scriptures describe hunting as an acceptable occupation, as well as a sport of the kingly.


What 3 mountain sports are among the most popular in Switzerland?

Winter sports are practiced by the natives and tourists since the second half of the 19th century with the invention of bobsleigh in St. Moritz.


Spielberg then revisited his Close Encounters project and, with financial backing from Columbia Pictures, released Close Encounters: The Special Edition in 1980.


What item did Lee give the actor Gregory Peck after portraying Atticus Finch?

Lee's father died before the film's release, and Lee was so impressed with Peck's performance that she gave him her father's pocketwatch, which he had with him the evening he was awarded the Oscar for best actor.


What country joined Canada, the UK, and Ireland in continuing to observe Daylight Saving Time after the war?

Broadly speaking, Daylight Saving Time was abandoned in the years after the war (with some notable exceptions including Canada, the UK, France, and Ireland for example).


North Carolina offers fall colors, freshwater and saltwater fishing, hunting, birdwatching, agritourism, ATV trails, ballooning, rock climbing, biking, hiking, skiing, boating and sailing, camping, canoeing, caving (spelunking), gardens, and arboretums.


Germany used to have a number of department stores; nowadays only a few of them remain.


Who came up with the name for Apple's portable mp3 player?

The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public.


When was the LEO 1 computer first operational?

The LEO I computer became operational in April 1951  and ran the world's first regular routine office computer job.


What type of legal system is the Philippines officially?

Even as the body of Philippine laws remain mostly codified, the Philippine Civil Code expressly recognizes that decisions of the Supreme Court "form part of the law of the land", belonging to the same class as statutes.


Who did Frick remove from the police force?

He also ensured that whenever an important position came up within Thuringia, he used his power to ensure that a Nazi was given that post.


What non party affiliated voters are critical for party to attract in elections?

If he or she is able to attract the required 218 signatures on a discharge petition by attracting majority party supporters, he or she can force minority initiatives to the floor over the opposition of the majority leadership.


What supports a scenario of dual origin for Paleo-Indians?

2012 state that "The similarities in ages and geographical distributions for C4c and the previously analyzed X2a lineage provide support to the scenario of a dual origin for Paleo-Indians.


What major department store operates in Berlin?

The design and function of department stores in Germany followed the lead of London, Paris and New York.


What were the tesserae usually set in for miniature mosaic icons?

A striking technical innovation of the Komnenian period was the production of very precious, miniature mosaic icons.


Church and state have been officially separated in Uruguay since what year?

The religion with most followers in Montevideo is Roman Catholicism and has been so since the foundation of the city.


What never precedes cause because of causality?

Because of causality, cause precedes effect, or cause and effect may appear together in a single item, but effect never precedes cause.


Who had the biggest fraud case settlement?

Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the False Claims Act, most commonly under the qui tam provisions which rewards an individual for being a "whistleblower", or relator (law).


What operating system is used on Wayback Machine's servers?

The intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down.


When was the official tally of students killed in the earthquake released?

The official tally of students killed in the earthquake was not released until May 7, 2009, almost a year after the earthquake.


During the mid-2000s, the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s.


In what year was a special edition of the iPod produced?

In 2006 Apple presented a special edition for iPod 5G of Irish rock band U2.


Who said the Baptism of Jesus was Univeral Assent?

The baptism of Jesus and his crucifixion are considered to be two historically certain facts about Jesus.


In 2014, millionaires made up what percentage of New York City's population?

In 2013, New York City had the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, higher than the next five U.S. cities combined, including former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.


What is another name for the Circuit Recardo Tormo?

Once a year between 2008–2012 the European Formula One Grand Prix took place in the Valencia Street Circuit.


What were the Fertile Crescent and Ancient India ?

As the number and size of agricultural societies increased, they expanded into lands traditionally used by hunter-gatherers.


What was a recommendations brought about from the report?

Others have argued that excessive regulation suppresses therapeutic innovation, and that the current cost of regulator-required clinical trials prevents the full exploitation of new genetic and biological knowledge for the treatment of human disease.


What two entities was the foundation divided into

The foundation explains on its website that its trustees divided the organization into two entities: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (trust).


What style of music did Haydn and Mozart share?

Handel, for example, epitomized this with his highly public musical activities in London.


What interstate highways cross the Grand Division in Tennessee?

Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) and Chattanooga's Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA), as well as the Tri-Cities' Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI), provide air service to numerous destinations. I-24, I-81, I-40, I-75, and I-26 along with numerous state highways and other important roads, traverse the Grand Division and connect Chattanooga, Knoxville, and the Tri-Cities, along with other cities and towns such as Cleveland, Athens, and Sevierville.


How many factories were in Eritrea by 1939?

The number of Italians residing in the territory increased from 4,600 to 75,000 in five years; and with the involvement of Eritreans in the industries, trade and fruit plantation was expanded across the nation, while some of the plantations were owned by Eritreans.


It is used for understanding and evaluating educational curriculum under the assumption that the purpose of education is to "help a person become whole.


How long after the natives were cured did it take for people to figure out the reason that brown rice cured them?

Over two decades later, nutritionists learned that the outer rice bran contains vitamin B1, also known as thiamine.


The Greek historian Herodotus listed the Jews as the levied naval forces in service to whom?

The history of Jews in Greece goes back to at least the Archaic Era of Greece, when the classical culture of Greece was undergoing a process of formalization after the Greek Dark Age.


When was Napoleon crowned King of Italy?

Two separate crowns were brought for the ceremony: a golden laurel wreath recalling the Roman Empire and a replica of Charlemagne's crown.


What is the incremental compensation required by investors for taking on addition risk called?

Several scholars have argued that a lack of transparency about banks' risk exposures prevented markets from correctly pricing risk before the crisis, enabled the mortgage market to grow larger than it otherwise would have, and made the financial crisis far more disruptive than it would have been if risk levels had been disclosed in a straightforward, readily understandable format.


What decoration did Eisenhower receive as a result of his First World War service?

Completely missing out on the warfront left him depressed and bitter for a time, despite being given the Distinguished Service Medal for his work at home.[citation needed]


What is another alternative for power for an external hard and optical disk drive?

Such devices can use an external power supply, which is allowed by the standard, or use a dual-input USB cable, one input of which is used for power and data transfer, the other solely for power, which makes the device a non-standard USB device.


What instrument did artist Bill Monroe use?

However, The "Loar" became the defining instrument of bluegrass music when Bill Monroe purchased F-5 S/N 73987 in a Florida barbershop in 1943 and popularized it as his main instrument.


What subtypes of polychaetes were useless classifications, according to the 2007 study?

In 2007 Torsten Struck and colleagues compared 3 genes in 81 taxa, of which 9 were outgroups, in other words not considered closely related to annelids but included to give an indication of where the organisms under study are placed on the larger tree of life.


What have some studies found patients reluctant to accept in medical practice?

Some studies have found that patients are reluctant to accept racial categorization in medical practice.


Which candidate withdrew from the presidential race in January of 2008?

Giuliani dropped out of the presidential race on January 30, 2008, largely because of a poor showing in Florida, and endorsed McCain.


The early courts' military conscription broke down around what year?

Under the early courts, when military conscription had been centrally controlled, military affairs had been taken out of the hands of the provincial aristocracy.


In 2001, the WTO adopted the Doha Declaration, which indicates that the TRIPS agreement should be read with the goals of public health in mind, and allows some methods for circumventing pharmaceutical monopolies: via compulsory licensing or parallel imports, even before patent expiration.


How many Freemasons were killed under the Nazi regime?

The preserved records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (the Reich Security Main Office) show the persecution of Freemasons during the Holocaust.


What elementary force can some specialized fabrics generate?

Researchers in scientific labs have been developing prototypes for fabrics that can serve functional purposes well beyond their traditional roles, for example, clothes that can automatically adjust their temperature, repel bullets, project images, and generate electricity.


The Supreme Court restricted registration of some vehicles with engines of 2000 cc and over until what date?

Among the measures, the court ordered to stop registrations of diesel cars and sport utility vehicles with an engine capacity of 2,000 cc and over until March 31, 2016.


How far is St. John's International Airport from the downtown core?

In 2011, roughly 1,400,000 passengers travelled through the airport making it the second busiest airport in Atlantic Canada in passenger volume.


In which type of warfare did the French best utilize the Chassepot?

French tactics emphasised the defensive use of the Chassepot rifle in trench-warfare style fighting—the so-called feu de bataillon.


What did financial institutions do prior to the crisis?

These instruments also made it virtually impossible to reorganize financial institutions in bankruptcy, and contributed to the need for government bailouts.


Who originally discovered these parts of the immune system?

When health conditions worsen to emergency status, portions of immune system organs including the thymus, spleen, bone marrow, lymph nodes and other lymphatic tissues can be surgically excised for examination while patients are still alive.


How much did Beyoncé get for a deal with a soft drink company in 2012?

In 2012, Beyoncé signed a $50 million deal to endorse Pepsi.


Who ranked New York as the most walkable large US city in 2015?

In both its 2011 and 2015 rankings, Walk Score named New York City the most walkable large city in the United States.


What ocean influinces the climate of North Carolinas coastal plain?

Temperatures in the coastal plain only occasionally drop below the freezing point at night.


From that point until 1918, the legal status of the nobility was essentially dependent upon the policies of the three partitioning powers: the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Monarchy.


In approximately what year did revitalization most recently begin to occur in downtown New Haven?

In addition, downtown's growing residential population will be served by two new supermarkets, a Stop & Shop just outside downtown and Elm City Market located one block from the Green.


Where did Galeries Lafayette open in 2013, inside Indonesia?

2007 saw the re-opening of Jakarta's Seibu, poised to be the largest and second most upscale department store in Indonesia after Harvey Nichols, which the latter closed in 2010 and yet plans to return.


When did the WIPO adopt 'The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization'?

In 2004 the General Assembly of WIPO adopted The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization which argues that WIPO should "focus more on the needs of developing countries, and to view IP as one of many tools for development—not as an end in itself".


What does a language need to share with the group in order to be classified as Germanic?

Within the Indo-European language tree, Dutch is grouped within the Germanic languages, which means it shares a common ancestor with languages such as English, German, and Scandinavian languages.


How much is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute worth?

In the United States, two of the wealthiest nonprofit organizations are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has an endowment of US$38 billion, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute originally funded by Hughes Aircraft prior to divestiture, which has an endowment of approximately $14.8 billion.


What does Darwin believe about the differences between species and varieties?

In Chapter II, Darwin specifies that the distinction between species and varieties is arbitrary, with experts disagreeing and changing their decisions when new forms were found.


Patassé purged many of the Kolingba elements from the government and Kolingba supporters accused Patassé's government of conducting a "witch hunt" against the Yakoma.


What is a developing field of time related study?

Time-use research is a developing field of study.


Sometimes "culture" is also used to describe specific practices within a subgroup of a society, a subculture (e.g. "bro culture"), or a counter culture.


What is the planned size of the Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone?

The zone has attracted investors and developers from more than 20 countries to carry out their projects there.


When was the laws of the Game of Asscociation Football published?

In 1863, the newly founded Football Association (the FA) published the Laws of the Game of Association Football, unifying the various different rules in use before then.


What did Burke think had disgraced Britain in India?

As a consequence of this opinion, Burke objected to the opium trade, which he called a "smuggling adventure" and condemned "the great Disgrace of the British character in India".


What is Whitehead's belief regarding the importance of relations?

A second problem with materialism is that it obscures the importance of relations.


What does the 51st State Party advocate?

The party advocates New Zealand becoming the 51st state of the United States of America.


What is the legal status of secondary liability?

The decentralised structure of peer-to-peer networks, in particular, does not sit easily with existing laws on online intermediaries' liability.


What is prohibited in all zones of the marine reserve at St. Barts?

Saint-Barthélemy has a marine nature reserve, known as the Reserve Naturelle that covers 1.200 ha, and is divided into 5 zones all around the island to form a network of protected areas.


What comprehensive school was established in Anglesey?

Other early examples of comprehensive schools included Woodlands Boys School in Coventry (opened in 1954) and Tividale Comprehensive School in Tipton.


When might an individual experience shortness of breath?

Shortness of breath occurs when the damage to the heart limits the output of the left ventricle, causing left ventricular failure and consequent pulmonary edema.


When was the Behmani Sultanate established?

The Kakatiya dynasty was reduced to a vassal of the Khilji dynasty in 1310 after its defeat by Sultan Alauddin Khilji of the Delhi Sultanate.


What did the Republic of Letters support?

It was a forum that supported "free public examination of questions regarding religion or legislation".


Where does the majority of Everton's matchday support hail from?

Within the city of Liverpool support for Everton and city rivals Liverpool is not determined by geographical basis with supporters mixed across the city.


When was the term kirishitan used by the Japanese?

Today, Christians are referred to in Standard Japanese as キリスト教徒, Kirisuto-kyōto or the English-derived term クリスチャン kurisuchan.


What are some of the diverse range of fields scholars come to Anthrozoology from?

A major focus of anthrozoologic research is the quantifying of the positive effects of human-animal relationships on either party and the study of their interactions.


Along with David Eyre, who took over the Eagle pub?

The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben took over The Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London.


What was the US military's counterpart to the British Stooge to counter the attacks by Kamikazes?

The Germans missile research was the most advanced of the war as the Germans put considerable effort in the research and development of rocket systems for all purposes.


Who does the Secretary of the Air Force report to?

The senior officials in the Office of the Secretary are the Under Secretary of the Air Force, four Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force and the General Counsel, all of whom are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.


With the passage of time what particular things phonemic in a language are known to change?

At one time, [f] and [v], two sounds that have the same place and manner of articulation and differ in voicing only, were allophones of the same phoneme in English, but later came to belong to separate phonemes.


In what city did Daniel Craig have minor surgery to repair his knee?

Following filming in Mexico, and during a scheduled break, Craig was flown to New York to undergo minor surgery to fix his knee injury.


According to the census of 2000, what percentage of Swiss are pentecostal?

21.4% in 2012 declared themselves as unchurched i.e. not affiliated with any church or other religious body (Agnostic, Atheist, or just not related to any official religion).


What did Eisenhower want to be done to the Eisenhower Pine?

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, an Augusta National member, hit the tree so many times that, at a 1956 club meeting, he proposed that it be cut down.


Of all of Estonian's language reformers who is the most well known?

In Aavik’s dictionary (1921), which lists approximately 4000 words, there are many words which were (allegedly) created ex nihilo, many of which are in common use today.


How many football teams compete in Canadian Interuniversity Sport?

There are 20 junior teams in three divisions in the Canadian Junior Football League competing for the Canadian Bowl.


How many kilometers of sewer lines exist in Richmond?

The wastewater utility also operates and maintains 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of sanitary sewer and pumping stations, 38 miles (61 km) of intercepting sewer lines, and the Shockoe Retention Basin, a 44-million-gallon stormwater reservoir used during heavy rains.


Other performing arts venues in Miami include the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Colony Theatre, Lincoln Theatre, New World Center, Actor's Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Jackie Gleason Theatre, Manuel Artime Theater, Ring Theatre, Playground Theatre, Wertheim Performing Arts Center, the Fair Expo Center and the Bayfront Park Amphitheater for outdoor music events.


What annelids' jaws are being studied by engineers?

Ragworms' jaws are now being studied by engineers as they offer an exceptional combination of lightness and strength.


Which Foreign Minister proposed that the Soviets should join this agreement of axis powers?

After Germany entered a Tripartite Pact with Japan and Italy, Ribbentrop wrote to Stalin, inviting Molotov to Berlin for negotiations aimed to create a 'continental bloc' of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR that would oppose Britain and the USA.


While they operate a wide variety of combat support vehicles, one of the most common types centers on the family of HEMTT vehicles.


What percentage of the city's population is Caucasian?

The city's population in 2010 was 44% white (33.3% non-Hispanic white), 25.5% black (23% non-Hispanic black), 0.7% Native American, and 12.7% Asian.


Until what century was brain studying mostly anatomical?

Neuroanatomists study the large-scale structure of the brain as well as the microscopic structure of neurons and their components, especially synapses.


Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Gujarati have a four-way distinction in stops: voiceless, aspirated, voiced, and breathy-voiced or voiced aspirated, such as /p pʰ b bʱ/. Punjabi has lost breathy-voiced consonants, which resulted in a tone system, and therefore has a distinction between voiceless, aspirated, and voiced: /p pʰ b/.


What year did former Everton player Joe Royle take over managing the club?

Howard Kendall had returned in 1990 but could not repeat his previous success, while his successor, Mike Walker, was statistically the least successful Everton manager to date.


What directive in 2001 let European Union countries to enact laws that allowed making copies for personal use?

The Copyright Directive was not intended to legitimize file-sharing, but rather the common practice of space shifting copyright-protected content from a legally purchased CD (for example) to certain kinds of devices and media, provided rights holders are compensated and no copy protection measures are circumvented.


How many square miles of territory were added to the British Empire between 1815 and 1914?

Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, around 10,000,000 square miles (26,000,000 km2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire.


How many students were executed in January of 1977?

In January 1977, two dissenting students and a number of army officers were publicly hanged; Amnesty International condemned it as the first time in Gaddafist Libya that dissenters had been executed for purely political crimes.


What is the name of the activity of explaining what Quranic verses mean?

Tafsir is one of the earliest academic activities of Muslims.


What have doctors noted about some medical conditions in certain racial groups?

Doctors have noted that some medical conditions are more prevalent in certain racial or ethnic groups than in others, without being sure of the cause of those differences.


What are some classical societies whose literature is still studied today?

Lyric poetry (as opposed to epic poetry) was often the speciality of courts and aristocratic circles, particularly in East Asia where songs were collected by the Chinese aristocracy as poems, the most notable being the Shijing or Book of Songs.


What is it called when someone dies from inhaling vomit?

A BAC from 0.25% to 0.40% causes stupor, unconsciousness, anterograde amnesia, vomiting (death may occur due to inhalation of vomit (pulmonary aspiration) while unconscious and respiratory depression (potentially life-threatening).


Name another saint associated with Galicia.

The patron saint of Galicia is Saint James the Greater, whose body was discovered – according to the Catholic tradition – in 814 near Compostela.


In what work did Ferguson explain how humans advanced from a hunting and gathering society to a commercial and civil society without "signing" a social contract?

Hume's essay Of the Original Contract argues that governments derived from consent are rarely seen, and civil government is grounded in a ruler's habitual authority and force.


What were the titles of Delaunay's paintings in 1912?

Apollinaire supported these early developments of abstract Cubism in Les Peintres cubistes (1913), writing of a new "pure" painting in which the subject was vacated.


What led the National Hockey League to cancel the 2004-2005 season?

Although the Arenafootball2 league played its tenth season in 2009, a conference call in December 2008 resulted in enough votes from owners and cooperation from the AFLPA for the AFL to suspend the entire 2009 season in order to create "a long-term plan to improve its economic model".


RIBA Bookshops, which operates online and at 66 Portland Place, is also part of RIBA Enterprises.


Why would zinc possibly be derived from the German word zinke?

The word is probably derived from the German zinke, and supposedly meant "tooth-like, pointed or jagged" (metallic zinc crystals have a needle-like appearance).


Who was the Old Prussians ethnic group related to?

The Old Prussians were an ethnic group related to the Latvian and Lithuanian Baltic peoples.


What year were professional players allowed to play in the  Summer Olympics?

In the past the Olympics have allowed a restricted number of over-age players per team.


For which company did C. Robert Fine work for?

The first record, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance of Pictures at an Exhibition, conducted by Rafael Kubelik, was described as "being in the living presence of the orchestra" by The New York Times music critic.


What scientific field tries to understand the mind and behavior?

The field of neuroscience encompasses all approaches that seek to understand the brain and the rest of the nervous system.


The shadow banking system could not provide funds to mortgage firms and other corporations without the ability to obtain which funds?

Economist Paul Krugman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner explain the credit crisis via the implosion of the shadow banking system, which had grown to nearly equal the importance of the traditional commercial banking sector as described above.


Shell Oil Company's United States business throughout its early history is described as what?

However, in 1984, Royal Dutch Shell made a bid to purchase those shares of Shell Oil Company it did not own (around 30%) and despite opposition from some minority shareholders, which led to a court case, Shell completed the buyout for a sum of $5.7 billion.


Who allied with the Nabatean Kingdom to fight against the Seleucids?

The Nabateans resisted the attacks of Antigonous and were allies of the Hasmoneans in their struggle against the Seleucids, but later fought against Herod the great.


What is considered landmark Architecture

The Centraal Museum has many exhibitions on the arts, including a permanent exhibition on the works of Utrecht resident illustrator Dick Bruna, who is best known for creating Miffy ("Nijntje", in Dutch).


What states comprise of the southern Appalachian mountains?

The term is often used more restrictively to refer to regions in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, usually including areas in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina, as well as sometimes extending as far south as northern Alabama, Georgia and western South Carolina, and as far north as Pennsylvania, southern Ohio and parts of southern upstate New York.


What magazines provided reviews for audio equipment?

After 1949 a variety of improvements in recording and playback technologies, especially stereo recordings, which became widely available in 1958, gave a boost to the "hi-fi" classification of products, leading to sales of individual components for the home such as amplifiers, loudspeakers, phonographs, and tape players.


What came to be valued over previous convolutions?

The movement to translate English and European texts transformed the Arabic and Ottoman Turkish languages, and new words, simplified syntax, and directness came to be valued over the previous convolutions.


Which war transformed many colleges, including Northwestern?

Like other American research universities, Northwestern was transformed by World War II.


In which of John Locke's works are natural rights most famously defined and discussed?

The most famous natural right formulation comes from John Locke in his Second Treatise, when he introduces the state of nature.


Neighbours, Kath & Kim, Winners and Losers, Offspring, and Underbelly are examples of what kind of media produced in Melbourne?

Reality television productions such as Dancing with the Stars, MasterChef, The Block and The Real Housewives of Melbourne are all filmed in and around Melbourne.


What does the all caps word LORD used in some bibles represent?

In many translations of the Bible, when the word LORD is in all capitals, it signifies that the word represents the tetragrammaton.


The Encyclopedie was comprised of how many volumes?

It was published between 1751 and 1772 in thirty-five volumes, and spread the ideas of the Enlightenment across Europe and beyond.


What professions made up the buld on middle class under Nasser?

Doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, journalists, constituted the bulk of the swelling middle class in Egypt under Nasser.


In which three years did England fail to qualify for the World Cup?

The team's earliest exit in the competition itself was its elimination in the first round in 1950, 1958 and most recently in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, after being defeated in both their opening two matches for the first time, versus Italy and Uruguay in Group D.


What percentage of students at Qur'anic schools are female?

The Qur'anic system, which teaches the greatest number of students relative to other educational sub-sectors, is oftentimes the only system accessible to Somalis in nomadic as compared to urban areas.


What street is mentioned in the movie Taxi Driver as the location where a cab driver is assaulted?

122nd Street is mentioned in the movie Taxi Driver by main character Travis Bickle as the location where a fellow cab driver is assaulted with a knife.


After an approval in the United States, when does an approval occur in the United Kingdom and other countries?

Normally an approval in the UK and other European countries comes later than one in the USA.


On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen as her carriage left Windsor railway station.


When did Wales outlaw smoking in public?

Wales followed suit in April 2007, with England introducing the ban in July 2007.


In the 1988 federal election, the Liberals asserted that the proposed Free Trade Agreement amounted to an American takeover of Canada—notably, the party ran an ad in which Progressive Conservative (PC) strategists, upon the adoption of the agreement, slowly erased the Canada-U.S. border from a desktop map of North America.


She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could not be so.


The capital city, Washington, District of Columbia, is a federal district located on land donated by the state of Maryland.


What is educational psychology concerned with?

Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.


On the same day, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR adopted a statute to change Russia's legal name from "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic" to "Russian Federation," showing that it was now a sovereign state.


What scholarship is awarded in New Haven by Yale University to public school students meeting specified criteria?

The initiative was launched in 2010 and there are currently more than 500 Scholars enrolled in qualifying Connecticut colleges and universities.


What is a factor that hurt Bermuda's merchant shipping?

The war had removed Bermuda's primary trading partners, the American colonies, from the empire, and dealt a harsh blow to Bermuda's merchant shipping trade.


Are modern day teenagers exposed to more or less media than other generations?

As such, modern day adolescents are exposed to many representations of ideal, societal beauty.


Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?

During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834.


Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird?

The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County.


Besides the geometrical constraints of Neptune's dynamo generator, what is another result of the quadrupole moment?

The large quadrupole moment of Neptune may be the result of offset from the planet's centre and geometrical constraints of the field's dynamo generator.


In what current country is Trier located?

It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.


When is the head of Charles Regatta held?

Another major annual event is the Head of the Charles Regatta, held in October.


What is the only medal Bermuda has ever won?

In those Olympics, Bermuda's Katura Horton-Perinchief made history by becoming the first black female diver to compete in the Olympic Games.


What obvious improvement does clothing bestow upon the wearer?

The most obvious function of clothing is to improve the comfort of the wearer, by protecting the wearer from the elements.


What was the last number Chopin gave to an opus?

At the request of the composer's mother and sisters, however, his musical executor Julian Fontana selected 23 unpublished piano pieces and grouped them into eight further opus numbers (Opp.


What percentage of the French vote approved Napoleon's new constitution?

There was no secret ballot in 1802 and few people wanted to openly defy the regime; the constitution gained approval with over 99% of the vote.


Where was it rumored that the Cubs could home their home games?

The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.


Why did living standards decline in 1980s Libya?

Such high standards declined during the 1980s, as a result of economic stagnation.


When did the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum changed locations?

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, established in 1881, is one of the oldest teaching museums in the country.


Which agency regulates safety of pesticides in Canada?

Each use of a pesticide carries some associated risk.


How many square meters of office space does Manhattan have?

Many of the world's largest media conglomerates are also based in the city.


120th Street turns into Paladino Avenue and into a pedestrian bridge across what road?

It then continues east, eventually running along the southern edge of Marcus Garvey Park, passing by 58 West, the former residence of Maya Angelou.


What two forts fell on the same day in 1758?

On 13 September 1759, following a three-month siege of Quebec, General James Wolfe defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham outside the city.


What type of climate was normal in the Ordovician period?

The most-commonly accepted theory is that these events were triggered by the onset of an ice age, in the Hirnantian faunal stage that ended the long, stable greenhouse conditions typical of the Ordovician.


The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the Secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


What division ensures the Air Force's information integrity and availability?

Cyberspace Support is foundational, continuous, or responsive operations ensuring information integrity and availability in, through, and from Air Force-controlled infrastructure and its interconnected analog and digital portion of the battle space.


Who holds a majority of the shares in the Everton FC?

The club's overdraft with Barclays Bank is secured against the Premier League's "Basic Award Fund", a guaranteed sum given to clubs for competing in the Premier League.


Alexander Hamilton, writing in "Federalist No. 28," suggested that both levels of government would exercise authority to the citizens' benefit: "If their [the peoples'] rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress.


What is a popular business for international Asian countries in Burma ?

The country has close relations with neighbouring India and China with several Indian and Chinese companies operating in the country.


When were humanism beliefs mixed with another philosophy by a Taoist thinker?

Taoist and Confucian secularism contain elements of moral thought devoid of religious authority or deism however they only partly resembled our modern concept of secularism.


Local chemist William Cookworthy established his somewhat short-lived Plymouth Porcelain venture in 1768 to exploit the recently discovered deposits of local China Clay - an industry which continues to make up a portion of the city income.


What cause different paleogeographic regions in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?

The Alpine orogeny occurred in ongoing cycles through to the Paleogene causing differences in nappe structures, with a late-stage orogeny causing the development of the Jura Mountains.


What terrorist bombing was Gaddafi's Libya supposedly involved in?

NATO intervened militarily on the side of the NTC, bringing about the government's downfall.


According to what school does it refer to the innate qualities of the mind that express themselves as omniscience?

According to the Gelug school, it is the potential for sentient beings to awaken since they are empty (i.e. dependently originated).


What instruments do pilots use to find the runway and fly the correct approach, even if they cannot see the ground?

There are a number of aids available to pilots, though not all airports are equipped with them.


What famous NY city landmark is made from copper?

The German scientist Gottfried Osann invented powder metallurgy in 1830 while determining the metal's atomic mass; around then it was discovered that the amount and type of alloying element (e.g., tin) to copper would affect bell tones.


What was the highest ranked person in the Ottoman Empire until the 19th century?

Before the reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries, the state organisation of the Ottoman Empire was a simple system that had two main dimensions, which were the military administration and the civil administration.


Who was most influential in Islamic philosophy?

His two most notable works in medicine are the Kitāb al-shifāʾ ("Book of Healing") and The Canon of Medicine, both of which were used as standard medicinal texts in both the Muslim world and in Europe well into the 17th century.


After World War II, two new competing formats came onto the market and gradually replaced the standard "78": the 33 1⁄3 rpm (often just referred to as the 33 rpm), and the 45 rpm (see above).


In what century did the term Enlightenment emerge in English?

The term "Enlightenment" emerged in English in the later part of the 19th century, with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of the French term 'Lumières' (used first by Dubos in 1733 and already well established by 1751).


How old was the mummified man discovered at the Austrian-Italian bored?

A mummified man, determined to be 5,000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian–Italian border in 1991.


What city did Hitler give a speech where he said he would erase British cities?

On 4 September 1940, in a long address at the Sportspalast, Hitler declared: "And should the Royal Air Force drop two thousand, or three thousand [kilograms ...] then we will now drop [...] 300,000, 400,000, yes one million kilograms in a single night.


What type of stimuli do nociceptors response to?

Some sensory fibers do not differentiate between noxious and non-noxious stimuli, while others, nociceptors, respond only to noxious, high intensity stimuli.


Ronald Reagan had a nickname, what was it?

The song also was prominent in the movie Rudy, with Sean Astin as Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles.


Nasser ceased all military activities and began a program to build a network of internal defenses, while receiving the financial backing of various Arab states.


What years did the Yongle Emperor reign?

Despite these missions on behalf of the Hongwu Emperor, Morris Rossabi writes that the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) "was the first Ming ruler actively to seek an extension of relations with Tibet."


Where is the headquarters for the Prefecture of Police of Paris?

The security of Paris is mainly the responsibility of the Prefecture of Police of Paris, a subdivision of the Ministry of the Interior of France.


What types of birds does Oklahoma have a lot of?

In prairie ecosystems, American bison, greater prairie chickens, badgers, and armadillo are common, and some of the nation's largest prairie dog towns inhabit shortgrass prairie in the state's panhandle.


Babangida's reaction to the election results caused violent protests for how long?

Babangida annulled the elections, leading to mass civilian violent protests which effectively shut down the country for weeks.


Name the two women present with Mary at the Crucifixion of Jesus?

Mary is also depicted as being present among the women at the crucifixion during the crucifixion standing near "the disciple whom Jesus loved" along with Mary of Clopas and Mary Magdalene,[Jn 19:25-26] to which list Matthew 27:56 adds "the mother of the sons of Zebedee", presumably the Salome mentioned in Mark 15:40.


What doctor did Donda West ignore the recommendation of to invest her heart condition?

Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Andre Aboolian had refused to do the surgery because West had a health condition that placed her at risk for a heart attack.


During what decade did some British pubs provide "a pie and a pint"?

In the 1950s some British pubs would offer "a pie and a pint", with hot individual steak and ale pies made easily on the premises by the proprietor's wife during the lunchtime opening hours.


What pigment did 19th century artists use that was deemed unfavorably?

Bitumen was the nemesis of many artists during the 19th century.


Who disagreed vocally about the demonstrations being permitted?

No one had ever addressed the Party leader so brazenly in front of the Central Committee since Leon Trotsky in the 1920s.


Meteoric iron could be forged from a red heat to make objects such as tools, weapons, and nails.


What institution is in charge of tracking volcanic activity in the Galápagos Islands?

The Geophysics Institute  monitors over the country`s seismic, tectonic and volcanic activity in the continental territory and in the Galápagos Islands.


Who said America hyperbolizes the samurai?


First used in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, the gun proved to be one of the best anti-aircraft guns in the world, as well as particularly deadly against light, medium, and even early heavy tanks.


The structure of poetry may have existed before what?

Prior to the nineteenth century, poetry was commonly understood to be something set in metrical lines; accordingly, in 1658 a definition of poetry is "any kind of subject consisting of Rythm or Verses".


Due to increased unemployment, who mainly opposed the Shah's regime?

By 1975 and 1976, an economic recession led to increased unemployment, especially among millions of youth who had migrated to the cities of Iran looking for construction jobs during the boom years of the early 1970s.


Boston is the only state capital in the contiguous US to have what type of coastline?

The highest point in Boston is Bellevue Hill at 330 feet (100 m) above sea level, and the lowest point is at sea level.


What is the maximum percentage of seats a single party can control?

As such, the PRD was not assigned any plurinominal seat to comply with the law that prevents over-representation.


The Internet was developed as a network between government research laboratories and participating departments of universities.


A large part of the reason for this was that much prose was expected to adhere to the rules of sec (سجع, also transliterated as seci), or rhymed prose, a type of writing descended from the Arabic saj' and which prescribed that between each adjective and noun in a string of words, such as a sentence, there must be a rhyme.


What were one of  Metzingers two showings in 1912's Salon des Independants?

Juan Gris, a new addition to the Salon scene, exhibited his Portrait of Picasso (Art Institute of Chicago), while Metzinger's two showings included La Femme au Cheval (Woman with a horse) 1911-1912 (National Gallery of Denmark).


Nearly half of Americam high school girls hope to achieve what goal with their diet?

In addition, girls may have to deal with sexual advances from older boys before they are emotionally and mentally mature.


Mutual funds and insurance are what type of industry?

Other important industries are financial services, especially mutual funds and insurance.


Which part of Sichuan has the worst weather and subjected to natural disasters?

Thus, significant minorities of Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and Nakhi people reside in the western portion that are impacted by inclement weather and natural disasters, environmentally fragile, and impoverished.


Despite a mid-season deal for Nomar Garciaparra, misfortune struck the Cubs again.


When was the construction of an airport in Saint Helena announced?

After a long period of rumour and consultation, the British government announced plans to construct an airport in Saint Helena in March 2005.


What did the Prussian and German victory mark?

The Franco-Prussian War was a conflict between France and Prussia, while Prussia was backed up by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria.


More importantly than their language aspect how do the Seto and Võro dialects set themselves apart from each other?

Also, Seto and Võro distinguish themselves from each other less by language and more by their culture and their respective Christian confession.


With heavy air support, Army units pushed inland, taking Clark Field, 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Manila, in the last week of January.


What is increased in male dogs with neutering?

However, neutering increases the risk of urinary incontinence in female dogs, and prostate cancer in males, as well as osteosarcoma, hemangiosarcoma, cruciate ligament rupture, obesity, and diabetes mellitus in either sex.


A variety of zinc compounds are commonly used, such as zinc carbonate and zinc gluconate (as dietary supplements), zinc chloride (in deodorants), zinc pyrithione (anti-dandruff shampoos), zinc sulfide (in luminescent paints), and zinc methyl or zinc diethyl in the organic laboratory.


Where is there a growing presence of Theravada?


How many plant species are close to extinction?

This figure indicates unsustainable ecological practices, because few species emerge each year.[citation needed]


What does Oklahoma spend per student in public schools as of 2008?

Oklahoma has the highest enrollment of Native American students in the nation with 126,078 students in the 2009-10 school year.


Who did Bell ask to get a patent in Britain?

Since he had agreed to share U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, Bell requested that an associate in Ontario, George Brown, attempt to patent it in Britain, instructing his lawyers to apply for a patent in the U.S. only after they received word from Britain (Britain would issue patents only for discoveries not previously patented elsewhere).


North of Lake Okeechobee, the prevalent climate is humid subtropical (Köppen: Cfa), while areas south of the lake (including the Florida Keys) have a true tropical climate (Köppen: Aw).


What is the estimated total cost of the Chinook helicopter project?

The MoD has been criticised for an ongoing fiasco, having spent £240m on eight Chinook HC3 helicopters which only started to enter service in 2010, years after they were ordered in 1995 and delivered in 2001.


What type of mountains compose the Cascades?

The Cascades consist of largely intermittent, volcanic mountains, many rising prominently from the surrounding landscape.


After a flood in what year did Hyderabad expand?

In 2012, the government of India declared Hyderabad the first "Best heritage city of India".


Who united the two previously separated principalities?

In 1199, Prince Roman Mstislavich united the two previously separate principalities.


What was Pickford's group lacking to make it more like other research schools?

Pickford's group was successful in spite of her lack of departmental or institutional position or power.


Which University did research of cultural studies take place under CCCS?

This emerges in the writings of early British cultural-studies scholars and their influences: see the work of (for example)


How long had Atlantic City held a monopoly on casino gambling?

With casino revenue declining from $5.2 billion in 2006 to $2.9 billion in 2013, the state saw a drop in money from its 8% tax on those earnings, which is used to fund programs for senior citizens and the disabled.


From where does Serbo-Croatian derive its grammar?

It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards.


When was the central body of the Grand Orient de France reconstituted?

His successor, the Duke of Orléans, reconstituted the central body as the Grand Orient de France in 1773.


What other city merged with Southampton after the 2001 census?

In the 2001 census Southampton and Portsmouth were recorded as being parts of separate urban areas, however by the time of the 2011 census they had merged to become the sixth largest built-up area in England with a population of 855,569.


Other than in Hanover, where else can you find a Blind Man Museum?

The Blind Man Museum is a rarity in Germany, another one is only in Berlin.


Melbourne has sustained the highest population increase and economic growth rate in any Australian city according to what organization?

Since the mid-1990s, Melbourne has maintained significant population and employment growth.


How many people did Ireland lose to the potato blight?

The story that she donated only £5 in aid to the Irish, and on the same day gave the same amount to Battersea Dogs Home, was a myth generated towards the end of the 19th century.


How can showing the second equality yields the first prove the concept of isomorphic groups?

From an abstract point of view, isomorphic groups carry the same information.


How often does Namibia conduct a census?

Namibia conducts a census every ten years.


Which parts of the city of Detroit are densely populated?

There were 49,982 housing units at an average density of 1,748.0 per square mile (675.0/km²), making it less densely populated than inner-ring Detroit suburbs like Oak Park and Ferndale (and than Detroit proper), but more densely populated than outer-ring suburbs like Livonia or Troy.


Where is the medieval St. Bartholomew Chapel located?

In Germany, the medieval St. Bartholomew's chapel was built on the south side of the Königssee, accessible only by boat or by climbing over the abutting peaks.


In what year was a group of independent schools found guilty of price-sharing?

In 2005, the Office of Fair Trading found fifty independent schools, including Eton, to have breached the Competition Act by "regularly and systematically" exchanging information about planned increases in school fees, which was collated and distributed among the schools by the bursar at Sevenoaks School.


What term did Microsoft give to its exception privilige for web browsing?

The user's default browser can distribute a Metro-style web browser in same package as the desktop version, which has access to functionality unavailable to other apps, such as being able to permanently run in the background, use multiple background processes, and use Windows API code instead of WinRT (allowing for code to be re-used with the desktop version, while still taking advantage of features available to Windows Store apps, such as charms).


What kind of bacteria can form interspecies hydrogen transfer?

Only the intimate association with the hydrogen-consuming Archaea keeps the hydrogen concentration low enough to allow the bacteria to grow.


Whose rise to power motivated Popper to publish his work in hopes of obtaining an academic position abroad?

Fearing the rise of Nazism and the threat of the Anschluss, he started to use the evenings and the nights to write his first book Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie (The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge).


What can citizens use to introduce amendments to the federal constitution?

When both houses are in joint session, they are known collectively as the Federal Assembly.


In 1950, what country got involved in the war?

At this point, in October 1950, Chinese forces crossed the Yalu and entered the war.


Who was the architect that design the New Haven Free Public Library?

The Yale School of Architecture has fostered this important component of the city's economy.


Parque Rodo was originally conceived as what?

The park was conceived as a French-style city park.


The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards.


What is a feature of sweatshops beyond lack of benefits and representation?

Though mechanization transformed most aspects of human industry by the mid-20th century, garment workers have continued to labor under challenging conditions that demand repetitive manual labor.


Five months later, she performed for four nights at Revel Atlantic City's Ovation Hall to celebrate the resort's opening, her first performances since giving birth to Blue Ivy.


Who was incorrctly quoted in saying "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton"?

According to Nevill (citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, "There grows the stuff that won Waterloo", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to "the manly character induced by games and sport" amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.


Advances in what construction trade helped to increase global navigation?

The compass, along with other innovations such as the cross-staff, the mariner's astrolabe, and advances in shipbuilding, enabled the navigation of the World Oceans, and the early phases of colonialism.


In what year did the supreme court determine that delegating powers by congress was unconstitutional?

It was not until the 1930s that the Supreme Court held a delegation of authority unconstitutional.


Which theology did everyone agree science was a part of in the 19th century?

There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology.


Who rules with Jesus Christ in heaven according to Jehovah Witnesses?

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God's kingdom is a literal government in heaven, ruled by Jesus Christ and 144,000 "spirit-anointed" Christians drawn from the earth, which they associate with Jesus' reference to a "new covenant".


What were the net profit margins of IBM in 2004?

IBM's operating margin expanded from 16.8% in 2004 to 24.3% in 2013, and net profit margins expanded from 9.0% in 2004 to 16.5% in 2013.


On what date did the Eastern Han dynasty begin?

The Eastern Han, also known as the Later Han, formally began on 5 August 25, when Liu Xiu became Emperor Guangwu of Han.


What was the per capita income for the city?

The median income for a household in the city was $26,969, and the median income for a family was $31,997.


What is the move called where all limbs are incapicitated?

A wrestler may voluntarily submit by verbally informing the referee (usually used in moves such as the Mexican Surfboard, where all four limbs are incapacitated, making tapping impossible).


When was the last expansion of Les Corts?

This led to several expansion projects: the grandstand in 1944, the southern stand in 1946, and finally the northern stand in 1950.


There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.


Although this banquet was probably never common, it reflected an appreciation by Han Chinese for Manchu culinary customs.


Serialization of comics became less popular when?

Smaller publishers such as L'Association that published longer works in non-traditional formats by auteur-istic creators also became common.


What did the big and small Schanze protect?

It was, in turn, succeeded by the Christoffelturm (formerly located close to the site of the modern-day railway station) until 1622.


How much of a decrease in sales have Windows devices experienced?

The market research firm IDC reported an overall drop in PC sales for the quarter, and said the drop may have been partly due to consumer reluctance to embrace the new features of the OS and poor support from OEM for these features.


What year should the streetcar become operable?

modern streetcar in downtown Oklahoma City and the establishment of a transit hub.


How much of Charleston is covered by water?

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 127.5 square miles (330.2 km2), of which 109.0 square miles (282.2 km2) is land and 18.5 square miles (47.9 km2) is covered by water.


What is the Tibetan goverment referred to as?

With Güshi Khan as a largely uninvolved overlord, the 5th Dalai Lama and his intimates established a civil administration which is referred to by historians as the Lhasa state.


With what method is royal assent generally granted?

However, royal assent is usually granted less ceremonially by letters patent.


Where is the Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College located?

The Christian Brothers of Ireland Stella Maris College is a private, co-educational, not-for-profit Catholic school located in the wealthy residential southeastern neighbourhood of Carrasco.


What is the term for the amount of uranium-235 needed to sustain a nuclear chain reaction?

The concentration and amount of uranium-235 needed to achieve this is called a 'critical mass'.


Who described the process of making verdigris in ancient times?

The process of making verdigris was described in ancient times by Pliny.


What major event did The Times reluctantly support in the nineteenth century despite being initially opposed?

During the American Civil War, The Times represented the view of the wealthy classes, favouring the secessionists, but it was not a supporter of slavery.


What historical significance can the book The History of Mary Prince claim?

It is thought to have contributed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.


What did the Augustan settlement signify in Rome's classes?

The Augustan settlement built upon a cultural shift in Roman society.


What was the name of the group that once utilized West Rock as a hideout, known colloquially as "The Three Judges?"

East Rock features the prominent Soldiers and Sailors war monument on its peak as well as the "Great/Giant Steps" which run up the rock's cliffside.


In what year did Fascist Italy achieve full control of Somalia?

Italy similarly faced the same opposition from Somali Sultans and armies and did not acquire full control of parts of modern Somalia until the Fascist era in late 1927.


How do New York, Illinois and California maintain civil procedure laws?

Furthermore, all three states continue to maintain most of their civil procedure laws in the form of codified statutes enacted by the state legislature, as opposed to court rules promulgated by the state supreme court, on the ground that the latter are undemocratic.


When were anti-miscegenation laws passed?

White legislators passed laws prohibiting marriage between European and Asian Americans until the 1950s.


What ancient civilization did Harold Innis use as an example of his theory?

His famous example of this is using ancient Egypt and looking at the ways they built themselves out of media with very different properties stone and papyrus.


When did Wordsworth initially attack Burke?

William Wordsworth was originally a supporter of the French Revolution and attacked Burke in 'A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff' (1793), but by the early nineteenth century he had changed his mind and came to admire Burke.


Which type of craft were two astronauts to fly in during Zond?

Chelomey gained favor with Khruschev by employing members of his family.


When were Israelis evacuated from Gaza Strip?

Approximately 7,800 Israelis lived in settlements in the Gaza Strip, until they were evacuated by the government as part of its 2005 disengagement plan.


Who did Bradley sell salt water taffy to for the first time?

Bradley's mother was in the back of the store when the sale was made, and loved the name, and so salt water taffy was born.


What type of music is Richard Hagopian famous for?

Certain Armenians settled to sing non-Armenian tunes such as the heavy metal band System of a Down (which nonetheless often incorporates traditional Armenian instrumentals and styling into their songs) or pop star Cher.


What is the origin of the Spanish word teja?

However, the Arabic element in Spanish is generally much more prevalent.


What was the name of the song that the Everton Football Club released in 1986?

When the club next reached the 2009 FA Cup Final, the tradition had passed into history and no song was released.


What kind of plants did monasteries cultivate?

Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science.


How is royal assent currently granted in the Isle of Man?

After 1765, royal assent was at first signified by letter from the Secretary of State to the governor; but, during the British Regency, the practice began of granting royal assent by Order in Council, which continues to this day, though limited to exceptional cases since 1981.


What did the partitioning of the Otto Empire bring about?

The partitioning brought the creation of the modern Arab world and the Republic of Turkey.


What law enforces digital rights management systems?

The electronic age has seen an increase in the attempt to use software-based digital rights management tools to restrict the copying and use of digitally based works.


As of 2014, how many Somalis lived in Sweden?

While the distribution of Somalis per country in Europe is hard to measure because the Somali community on the continent has grown so quickly in recent years, an official 2010 estimate reported 108,000 Somalis living in the United Kingdom.


The register, or archived copies of the letters, of Pope Gregory the Great (pope 590–604) survived, and of those more than 850 letters, the vast majority were concerned with affairs in Italy or Constantinople.


To hounour the armistice, Bismarck allowed train loads of what into Paris?

The Prussian Army, under the terms of the armistice, held a brief victory parade in Paris on 17 February; the city was silent and draped with black and the Germans quickly withdrew.


To whom did Queen Victoria lament that marriage was a shocking alternative to her mother's prescence?

When Victoria complained to Melbourne that her mother's close proximity promised "torment for many years", Melbourne sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage, which Victoria called a "schocking  [sic] alternative".


What agency failed to stem the tide of toxic mortgages contributing to the financial crisis of 2007?

It concluded that "the crisis was avoidable and was caused by: widespread failures in financial regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure to stem the tide of toxic mortgages; dramatic breakdowns in corporate governance including too many financial firms acting recklessly and taking on too much risk; an explosive mix of excessive borrowing and risk by households and Wall Street that put the financial system on a collision course with crisis; key policy makers ill prepared for the crisis, lacking a full understanding of the financial system they oversaw; and systemic breaches in accountability and ethics at all levels".


In 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, "One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition.


What writer fused humanism with the Dominican Order teachings?

It struggled against pagan tendencies in Renaissance humanism, in Italy through Dominici and Savonarola, in Germany through the theologians of Cologne but it also furnished humanism with such advanced writers as Francesco Colonna (probably the writer of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) and Matteo Bandello.


The current in non-radio communication had to go through what type of component?

Music emerging from a record player was used via suitable electronics to modulate the forward current of a GaAs diode.


Besides a referee interfering, when else is play stopped?

In game play, players attempt to create goal-scoring opportunities through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling, passing the ball to a team-mate, and by taking shots at the goal, which is guarded by the opposing goalkeeper.


What was the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews and other minority groups?

The Holocaust—the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews (and certain communities of North African Jews in European controlled North Africa) and other minority groups of Europe during World War II by Germany and its collaborators remains the most notable modern-day persecution of Jews.


The difference this made to the effectiveness of air defences is questionable.


Humans in the Balkans have been dated to what year?

The earliest evidence of the presence of human ancestors in the southern Balkans, dated to 270,000 BC, is to be found in the Petralona cave, in the Greek province of Macedonia.


What city made owing dogs illegal in 2015?

Islamic activists in Lérida, Spain, lobbied for dogs to be kept out of Muslim neighborhoods, saying their presence violated Muslims' religious freedom.


Who was responsible for getting BYU acknowledged as an official university?

Franklin S. Harris was appointed the university's president in 1921.


Beyonce's childhood home believed in what religion?

Beyoncé's younger sister Solange is also a singer and a former member of Destiny's Child.


What is reinvent the toilet trying to develop

The aim of the "Omni Processor" is to convert excreta (for example fecal sludge) into beneficial products such as energy and soil nutrients with the potential to develop local business and revenue.


How many religious proclamations did Madison issue while President?

Jefferson refused to issue Proclamations of Thanksgiving sent to him by Congress during his presidency, though he did issue a Thanksgiving and Prayer proclamation as Governor of Virginia.


What part of the leaf in a plant takes in carbon dioxide and releases oxygen?

In the leaves, stomata open to take in carbon dioxide and expel oxygen.


What was the result in the decline in sea level in the middle of the Carboniferous period?

A global drop in sea level at the end of the Devonian reversed early in the Carboniferous; this created the widespread epicontinental seas and carbonate deposition of the Mississippian.


Hipparchus measured the precession of what?

Astronomers like Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC) built upon the measurements of the Babylonian astronomers before him, to measure the precession of the Earth.


The term for a Christian in Hebrew is נוּצְרי (Notzri—"Nazarene"), a Talmudic term originally derived from the fact that Jesus came from the Galilean village of Nazareth, today in northern Israel.


However, Semmelweis' findings were not appreciated by his contemporaries and came into use only with discoveries by British surgeon Joseph Lister, who in 1865 proved the principles of antisepsis.


In Eastern Europe, Byzantium revived its fortunes under Emperor Basil I (r. 867–886) and his successors Leo VI (r. 886–912) and Constantine VII (r. 913–959), members of the Macedonian dynasty.


According to Shanghai Jiaotong University's university ranking in 2014 it is the 57th best university in the world.


When might an individual experience shortness of breath?

These symptoms are likely induced by a massive surge of catecholamines from the sympathetic nervous system, which occurs in response to pain and the blood flow abnormalities that result from dysfunction of the heart muscle.


How many different worlds or realities did Popper differentiate in Objective Knowledge?

He proposed three worlds: World One, being the physical world, or physical states; World Two, being the world of mind, or mental states, ideas, and perceptions; and World Three, being the body of human knowledge expressed in its manifold forms, or the products of the second world made manifest in the materials of the first world (i.e., books, papers, paintings, symphonies, and all the products of the human mind).


When did Philadelphia host the Constitutional Convention?

The city hosted the First Continental Congress before the American Revolutionary War; the Second Continental Congress, which signed the United States Declaration of Independence, during the war; and the Constitutional Convention (1787) after the war.


What are sulfonyureas commonly used for?

crop protection chemical was typically applied, while sulfonylureates allow as little as 1% as much material to achieve the same effect.


Why were the lands in the region the Sumerian people settled fertile?

The Sumerian people who settled here farmed the lands in this region that were made fertile by silt deposited by the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.


How many high tide peaks does Southampton Water get?

In this area the general water flow is distorted by more local conditions reaching across to France.


Along with k and z, what Latin letter was not used in Old English?

The Latin alphabet of the time still lacked the letters ⟨j⟩ and ⟨w⟩, and there was no ⟨v⟩ as distinct from ⟨u⟩; moreover native Old English spellings did not use ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩ or ⟨z⟩.


What year did the Cubs win the NL pennant?

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.


Jehovah Witnesses will allow what in the event of extreme physical abuse or absolute endangerment of spirituality?

If a divorce is obtained for any other reason, remarriage is considered adulterous unless the prior spouse has died or is since considered to have committed sexual immorality.


The building has an area of 7,000 m2 with three floors consisting of the basement, landing, and second floor.


How old was Schwarzenegger when he moved to the U.S.?

In 1970, at age 23, he captured his first Mr. Olympia title in New York, and would go on to win the title a total of seven times.


What prize was awarded to the winning amateur dirctor film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival?

The winning amateur director film, The Cyborg Foundation, was awarded a US$100,000 prize at the 2013 at Sundance Film Festival.[citation needed]


How much money has all of Steven Spielberg's movies grossed worldwide?

He has been associated with composer John Williams since 1974, who composed music for all save five of Spielberg's feature films.


What is an example of the body's ability to maintain homeostasis being overwhelmed?

In any case, analogous to the way modern man-made pollution may possess the potential to overwhelm the environment's ability to maintain homeostasis, the recent explosive introduction of high glycemic index and processed foods into the human diet may possess the potential to overwhelm the body's ability to maintain homeostasis and health (as evidenced by the metabolic syndrome epidemic).


From what city did Aeneas bring the lares cult?

In Vergil's Aeneid, Aeneas brought the Trojan cult of the lares and penates from Troy, along with the Palladium which was later installed in the temple of Vesta.


Some devices such as an external hard and optical disk drive can use what?

This is common for external hard and optical disc drives, and generally for devices with motors or lamps.


What does Darwin do to show that his theory can support many theories that could not be explained by individual creation of species?

The structure of Darwin's argument showed the influence of John Herschel, whose philosophy of science maintained that a mechanism could be called a vera causa (true cause) if three things could be demonstrated: its existence in nature, its ability to produce the effects of interest, and its ability to explain a wide range of observations.


When was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?

The Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back, capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937 and committed which was known as Nanking Massacre.


How does this compare an average Premier League team?

For some clubs who have failed to win immediate promotion back to the Premier League, financial problems, including in some cases administration or even liquidation have followed.


Liu’s family was later told that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion.


What dictates passenger elevator capacities?

Generally passenger elevators in buildings of eight floors or fewer are hydraulic or electric, which can reach speeds up


What fungus helps to soften heavy metal sulfides?

A sample of the fungus Aspergillus niger was found growing from gold mining solution; and was found to contain cyano metal complexes; such as gold, silver, copper iron and zinc.


What is the second question to ask in order to define the two classes?


According to a recent study, how many Dhulbahante men married women of a different Dhulbahante sub-clan?

So to extend ties of alliance, marriage is often to another ethnic Somali from a different clan.


CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name for music recordings but granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS name.


What is the name of the dog in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest lived?

On 5 December 2011, Pusuke, the world's oldest living dog recognized by Guinness Book of World Records, died aged 26 years and 9 months.


What movie sci-fi franchise returned to Marvel in 2015?

With Disney, Marvel announced in October 2013 that in January 2014 it would release its first title under their joint "Disney Kingdoms" imprint "Seekers of the Weird", a five-issue miniseries.


The promotion process repeats when for officers promoted early in the USAF?

This process will repeat at the 16 year mark (for officers previously promoted early to major and lieutenant colonel) to the 21 year mark for promotion to full colonel.


Like any plucked instrument, mandolin notes decay to silence rather than sound out continuously as with a bowed note on a violin, and mandolin notes decay faster than larger stringed instruments like the guitar.


What special wooden utensils do many people use to eat Chinese takeout?

It is also used for tool handles and cutlery, such as chopsticks, toothpicks, and other utensils, like the wooden spoon.


How was the ship carrying a predominant deity moved around during the jubilee?

A predominant deity was during this jubilee driven around in a noisy procession on a ship on wheels.


What is are kind of nuclear force is not time-reversibile?

A third type of solution to the problem of the direction of time, although much less represented, argues that the laws are not time-reversal symmetric.


In what season does New Delhi's air pollution worsen?

In an attempt to curb air pollution in New Delhi, which gets worst during the winter, a temporary alternate-day travel scheme for cars using the odd- and even-numbered license plates system was announced by Delhi government in December 2015.


Why are dogs viewed as unclean in Islam?

Islamic activists in Lérida, Spain, lobbied for dogs to be kept out of Muslim neighborhoods, saying their presence violated Muslims' religious freedom.


What is the primary flag-carrier in Portugal?

The primary flag-carrier is TAP Portugal, although many other domestic airlines provide services within and without the country.


Which year did Madonna sign a $120 million deal with Live Nation?

In 2007 she signed an unprecedented US $120 million 360 deal with Live Nation.


How do PMs rate against other types of electric motors?

Miniature motors resemble the structure in the illustration, except that they have at least three rotor poles (to ensure starting, regardless of rotor position) and their outer housing is a steel tube that magnetically links the exteriors of the curved field magnets.


Until what year did some minorities need to lie about religion or not get mandatory state issued ID?

Individuals, particularly Baha'is and atheists, wishing to include their religion (or lack thereof) on their mandatory state issued identification cards are denied this ability (see Egyptian identification card controversy), and are put in the position of either not obtaining required identification or lying about their faith.


What type of losses happen during conversion and transmission in wires and electronics?

Both the transmission and conversion of electric energy involve losses: ohmic losses in wires and power electronics, magnetic field losses in transformers and smoothing reactors (inductors).


The Racial Contract and Carole Patemen in her book


The TD Garden, formerly called the FleetCenter and built to replace the old, since-demolished Boston Garden, is adjoined to North Station and is the home of two major league teams: the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association.


The most notable of these was "Billy Cub" who worked outside of the stadium until for over 6 years until July 2013, when the club asked him to stop.


The elderly General Bligh was appointed to command a new "descent", escorted by Howe.


Where does a bill go once the President signs it into effect?

The Statutes at Large present a chronological arrangement of the laws in the exact order that they have been enacted.


There are four clubs on the island: (1) Police (2) Mariners (3) Teachers (4) Renegades.


A Theravada and Mahayana belief is that the next Buddha will be one named what?

Buddhists do not consider Siddhartha Gautama to have been the only Buddha.


Popper pointed out an important logical asymmetry between what two concepts?

Popper's account of the logical asymmetry between verification and falsifiability lies at the heart of his philosophy of science.


Soldiers still wear berets who are currently in a unit in jump status, whether the wearer is parachute-qualified, or not (maroon beret), Members of the 75th Ranger Regiment and the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade (tan beret), and Special Forces (rifle green beret) and may wear it with the Army Service Uniform for non-ceremonial functions.


The administration of Lord North (1770–1782) tried to defeat the colonist rebellion by military force.


When was it announced that Libya would be independent?

In 1951, the UN created the United Kingdom of Libya, a federal state under the leadership of a pro-western monarch, Idris, who banned political parties and established an absolute monarchy.


In what year was CU-SeeMe, a desktop-based videoconferencing tool, developed?

Finally, in the 1990s, Internet Protocol-based videoconferencing became possible, and more efficient video compression technologies were developed, permitting desktop, or personal computer (PC)-based videoconferencing.


What country did Britain convince to attack Egypt?

Another of Eisenhower's concerns was the possibility of a wider war with the Soviet Union after it threatened to intervene on the Egyptian side.


What retired police officer refused to carry the torch in India?

The noted Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi refused to participate saying "she doesn’t want to run in the event as ‘caged woman’.


On which sutras did the Vedanta school focus?

Each of these have been further categorized in terms of conditionality, completeness, confidence and possibility of error, by each sub-school of Vedanta.


What is the former name of the Qiantang River?

The province's name derives from the Zhe River (浙江, Zhè Jiāng), the former name of the Qiantang River which flows past Hangzhou and whose mouth forms Hangzhou Bay.


Previously slaves had been traded by Arabs north to the northern part of Africa and into the Middle East.


What type of antibiotics called bacterocidal?

There are many types of antibiotics and each class inhibits a process that is different in the pathogen from that found in the host.


Where is the  annual Charleston Fashion week held?

The annual Charleston Fashion Week held each spring in Marion Square brings in designers, journalists, and clients from across the nation.


In what year did Kanye West's mother pass away?

In 2008, following the death of West's mother, the foundation was rechristened "The Dr. Donda West Foundation."


Lukou Airport was opened on 28 June 1997, replacing Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport as the main airport serving Nanjing.


What community of Jews was Plymouth Synagogue built by?

The Plymouth Synagogue is a Listed Grade II* building, built in 1762 and is the oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue in the English speaking world.


A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.


A commonly seen example is the double happiness symbol 囍, formed as a ligature of 喜喜 and referred to by its disyllabic name (simplified Chinese: 双喜; traditional Chinese: 雙喜; pinyin: shuāngxǐ).


How much electricity is imported by Estonia annually?

In 2007, however, a large current account deficit and rising inflation put pressure on Estonia's currency, which was pegged to the Euro, highlighting the need for growth in export-generating industries.


Have reviews praised the PS3's hardware of software more frequently?

In addition, both Home Theater Magazine and Ultimate AV have given the system's Blu-ray playback very favorable reviews, stating that the quality of playback exceeds that of many current standalone Blu-ray Disc players.


According to QS World University Rankings where does Cairo University rank?

American University in Cairo is ranked as 360 according to QS World University Rankings and Al-Azhar University, Alexandria University and Ain Shams University fall in the 701+ range.


Who considered this topic in the 17th century?

His experiments support an angled suspension, and a two-beamed cross, and perhaps some form of foot support, given that in an Aufbinden form of suspension from a straight stake (as used by the Nazis in the Dachau concentration camp during World War II), death comes rather quickly.


What did Liberius have to promise to do in order to return?

He assented, upon condition that he should comply with the bishops, then, at court.


What do you call the line that marks the elevation that waterfalls first appear on rivers?

The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers.


What products were exported along with indigo from the Lowcountry?

Those and naval stores were exported in an extremely profitable shipping industry.


Harper Lee's mother's maiden name was what?

The family's last name of Finch also shares Lee's mother's maiden name.


In what year did Napoleon and his troops cross the Swiss Alps and enter Italy?

In the spring of 1800, Napoleon and his troops crossed the Swiss Alps into Italy, aiming to surprise the Austrian armies that had reoccupied the peninsula when Napoleon was still in Egypt.[note 5]


How much money did overseas Nigerians send home in 2004?

On the African continent, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Libya and South Africa are important source countries of remittance flows to Nigeria, while China is the biggest remittance-sending country in Asia.


Who funded the linking of computers around the US in the 1970s?

In the 1970s, computer engineers at research institutions throughout the United States began to link their computers together using telecommunications technology.


What have been crossed for war and commerce?

In the medieval period hospices were established by religious orders at the summits of many of the main passes.


Describing his sixth studio album Yeezus (2013) as "a protest to music," West embraced an abrasive style that incorporated industrial music, acid house, dancehall, punk, electro, and Chicago drill.


What are Madhyapur Thimi, Kirtipur and Bhaktapur?

Within the districts lie VDCs (villages), 3 municipalities (Bhaktapur, Kirtipur, Madhyapur Thimi), 1 sub-metropolitan city (Lalitpur), and 1 metropolitan city (Kathmandu).


The North Carolina Symphony, founded the same year, performed in its new home.


In what European countries did the Dominican Order experience changes to how they thought?

It assumed remarkable proportions in the congregations of Lombardy and the Netherlands, and in the reforms of Savonarola in Florence.


What type of airplane was the German craft Holmes rammed into?

On 15 September 1940, known as the Battle of Britain Day, an RAF pilot, Ray Holmes of No. 504 Squadron RAF rammed a German bomber he believed was going to bomb the Palace.


Where did John Glenn land on Earth after coming back from orbit?

His Mercury-Atlas 6 mission completed three orbits in the Friendship 7 spacecraft, and splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, after a tense reentry, due to what falsely appeared from the telemetry data to be a loose heat-shield.


When homens loses /n/, it becomes what word?

In nouns and adjectives, loss of /n/ of medieval plurals in proparoxytone words.


Moreover, CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action on behalf of the President, unless the President determines that another agency is better suited for carrying out such action.


What creature is swimming in the Dutch phrase "Visc flot aftar themo uuatare"?

Probably the most famous sentence Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan, hinase hic enda tu, wat unbidan we nu (All birds have started making nests, except me and you, what are we waiting for), is dated around the year 1100, written by a Flemish monk in a convent in Rochester, England.


How far back do the Mesopotamian people go?

But their observations and measurements were seemingly taken for purposes other than for elucidating scientific laws.


These restrictions on domestic resource exploration, as well as on foreign trade, are held by some scholars as a cause of the Great Divergence, by which the Western world overtook China economically.


DeCarlo also penned a knock-off of what teen comic superstar?

Atlas, rather than innovate, took a proven route of following popular trends in television and movies—Westerns and war dramas prevailing for a time, drive-in movie monsters another time—and even other comic books, particularly the EC horror line.


Despite past animosities, the rural masses in Punjab's farms continue to use the Hindu calendar for planting and harvesting.


What kind of the wine is regularly consumed by the French?

Comparing diets among Western countries, researchers have discovered that although the French tend to eat higher levels of animal fat, the incidence of heart disease remains low in France.


What type of flight decks are aircraft carriers equipped with?

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.


In 1982, the allowed print room staff at The Times and The Sunday Times was reduced by how much?

However, direct input of text by journalists ("single stroke" input) was still not achieved, and this was to remain an interim measure until the Wapping dispute of 1986, when The Times moved from New Printing House Square in Gray's Inn Road (near Fleet Street) to new offices in Wapping.


In February 2013, Beyoncé said that Madonna inspired her to take control of her own career.


How many councillors choose the Lord Mayor?

The position is elected each year by a group of six councillors.


When was the National Gallery constructed?

It was to be William Wilkins's winning design for the public competition for Downing College, Cambridge that announced the Greek style was to be the dominant idiom in architecture.


What are the contiguous states sometimes called?

Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the eastern hemisphere.


What auditor company did Apple hire to oversee worker conditions following the controversy?

Foxconn, Apple's manufacturer, initially denied the abuses, but when an auditing team from Apple found that workers had been working longer hours than were allowed under Chinese law, they promised to prevent workers working more hours than the code allowed.


In addition to calendaring programs, what kind of programs were most impacted by the changes?

Changes to DST rules cause problems in existing computer installations.


Since which century have modern political processes forgone royal assent?

In the vast majority of contemporary monarchies, this act is considered to be little more than a formality; even in those nations which still permit their ruler to withhold the royal assent (such as the United Kingdom, Norway, and Liechtenstein), the monarch almost never does so, save in a dire political emergency or upon the advice of their government.


The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles.


What are annelids' body cavities separated from each other by?

The mesothelium is made of modified epitheliomuscular cells; in other words, their bodies form part of the epithelium but their bases extend to form muscle fibers in the body wall.


Who was the man William IV wanted Victoria to wed instead?

Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert.


Who did Russia first have issues with when moving towards the warmer ports in the Black Sea?

The goal was to promote year-round trade and a year-round navy.:11 Pursuit of this goal brought the emerging Russian state into conflict with the Ukrainian Cossacks and then with the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate and Circassians.


The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc.


What is a common chant of Arsenal supporters?

The Arse!. In addition to the usual English football chants, supporters sing "One-Nil to the Arsenal" (to the tune of "Go West").


Where is the fire department's training academy located?

The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island.


How many persons were still unaccounted for in Yingxiu?

At the start of rescue operations on May 12, 20 helicopters were deployed for the delivery of food, water, and emergency aid, and also the evacuation of the injured and reconnaissance of quake-stricken areas.


While victorious in the field, it seems Antiochus came to realise that there were advantages in the status quo (perhaps sensing that Bactria could not be governed from Syria), and married one of his daughters to Euthydemus's son, thus legitimising the Greco-Bactria dynasty.


What Asian war were the Canadian Forces involved in?

Similarly, when the United Kingdom entered into conflict with Germany in the First World War, Canadian troops were called to participate in European theatres.


When did the AFL title sponsorship deal come to an end?

It was announced on December 12, 2012, that the AFL reached a partnership agreement with NET10 Wireless to be the first non-motorsports-related professional sports league in the United States to have a title sponsor, renaming it the NET10 Wireless Arena Football League.


In what month and year did Plymouth see its highest temperature between 1971 and 2000?

Typically, the warmest day of the year (1971–2000) will achieve a temperature of 26.6 °C (80 °F), although in June 1976 the temperature reached 31.6 °C (89 °F), the site record.


Who believed the avoidance of thematic and heirarhical systems allowed free interpretation of the works and caused them to beomce an example of eglitarianism?

For Porset, the avoidance of thematic and hierarchical systems thus allows free interpretation of the works and becomes an example of egalitarianism.


What activities are popular in the mountains of Tucson?

In Summerhaven, visitors will find log houses and cabins, a general store, and various shops, as well as numerous hiking trails.


Who claimed Estonia's national resources?

Estonia's parliament also laid claim to the republic's natural resources including land, inland waters, forests, mineral deposits, and to the means of industrial production, agriculture, construction, state banks, transportation, and municipal services within the territory of Estonia's borders.


It was formerly known as the GE Building for the prominent GE logo on the roof; NBC's headquarters and main studios are also located in the building.


Routines are marked out of a maximum score of 10 points.


What is different about Chopin's waltzes versus a ballroom waltz?

His waltzes were also written specifically for the salon recital rather than the ballroom and are frequently at rather faster tempos than their dance-floor equivalents.


OCA is the preferred method of defeating what kind of attacks?

Offensive Counterair (OCA) is defined as "offensive operations to destroy, disrupt, or neutralize enemy aircraft, missiles, launch platforms, and their supporting structures and systems both before and after launch, but as close to their source as possible" (JP 1-02).


What problem can be caused by a player becoming out of alignment?

In addition, LaserDisc videos sometimes exhibit a problem known as "crosstalk".


What did Gaddafi regard his British instructors as?

British trainers reported him for insubordination and abusive behaviour, stating their suspicion that he was involved in the assassination of the military academy's commander in 1963.


What was the population of Detroit in 2010?

The city has declined in population in each census since 1950.


What year did remodeling of Buckingham House begin?

While the work was in progress, in 1826, the King decided to modify the house into a palace with the help of his architect John Nash.


What verse in the quran expresses the necessity to the appointment of the prophets?

That is Allah Must assign someone similar to prophet in his attributes and Ismah as his successor to guide the people without any deviation in religion.