What did the crowds in Tiananmen Square do after the moment of silence?

The Chinese version of MSN, cn.msn.com, also displayed banner ads about the earthquake and the relief efforts.


What year was research completed to demonstrate humans benefited by having dogs hunt with them?

The relationship between the presence of a dog and success in the hunt is often mentioned as a primary reason for the domestication of the wolf, and a 2004 study of hunter groups with and without a dog gives quantitative support to the hypothesis that the benefits of cooperative hunting was an important factor in wolf domestication.


Why do migrating land birds avoid large water bodies or mountain ranges?

Often, the migration route of a long-distance migrator bird doesn't follow a straight line between breeding and wintering grounds.


Therapsids descended from pelycosaurs in the Middle Permian, about 265 million years ago, and became the dominant land vertebrates.


David Friedrich Wiser amassed a collection of 8000 crystals that he studied and documented.


In what year did News International begin producing The Times in both broadsheet in tabloid sizes?

Since 1 November 2004, the paper has been printed solely in tabloid format.


What was discovered in long term studies?

Animal trials showed very good inhibitory effect as in clinical trials, however a long term study in dogs found toxic effects at higher doses and as a result mevastatin was believed to be too toxic for human use.


What era saw an increase in metal tool use?

Traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period and commenced with the beginning of farming, which produced the "Neolithic Revolution".


What happens if an NPO does not abide by the tax laws?

Failure to maintain operations in conformity to the laws may result in an organization losing its tax exempt status.


The plan spanned 3 years, and cost no less than one percent of the province or municipality's budget.


Who was the most discussed singer in American Idols sixth season?

Teenager Sanjaya Malakar was the season's most talked-about contestant for his unusual hairdo, and for managing to survive elimination for many weeks due in part to the weblog Vote for the Worst and satellite radio personality Howard Stern, who both encouraged fans to vote for him.


What did CBC air during the NHL lockout?

During the NHL lockout and subsequent cancellation of the 2004-2005 hockey season, CBC instead aired various recent and classic movies, branded as Movie Night in Canada, on Saturday nights.


How do larger capacitors present their electrical characteristics?

Larger capacitors like electrolytics usually display the actual capacitance together with the unit (for example, 220 μF).


What ethnicity of actors are mainly used for shows in Brazil?

The Brazilian media has been accused of hiding or overlooking the nation's Black, Indigenous, Multiracial and East Asian populations.


How many Jews were forced to live within the Warsaw Ghetto?

In the winter of 1939–40, about 100,000 Jews were thus deported to Poland.


In 1956, the British and French prime ministers, Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet, discussed the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth.


In 1991 a mummy of a neolithic body, known as Ötzi the Iceman, was discovered by hikers on the Similaun glacier.


Movements were influenced by philosophical thought within the Vedic tradition such as what?

The shramanas rejected the Veda, and the authority of the brahmans, who claimed they possessed revealed truths not knowable by any ordinary human means.


Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born south of the 60th parallel south (the continental limit according to the Antarctic Treaty), as well as the first one born on the Antarctic mainland, in 1978 at Base Esperanza, on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula; his parents were sent there along with seven other families by the Argentine government to determine if the continent was suitable for family life.


What process converts solar energy into storable and transportable fuels?

These processes offset energy that would otherwise come from a fossil fuel source and can also convert solar energy into storable and transportable fuels.


What does the standard ReplayGain allow a player to automatically adjust?

MP3Gain may be used to reversibly modify files based on ReplayGain measurements so that adjusted playback can be achieved on players without ReplayGain capability.


What was the unsanctioned alternative relay called?

Argentine activists told a news conference that they would not try to snuff out the torch's flame as demonstrators had in Paris and London.


What group was Nigeria a founding member of?

Nigeria was also a founding member of the Organisation for African Unity (now the African Union), and has tremendous influence in West Africa and Africa on the whole.


When were recording standards officially released?

A number of 78 rpm record producers as well as early LP makers also cut their records to the NAB/NARTB lateral standard.


What leads from the salivary glands to the reservoirs?

The mixture of saliva and food then travels through the salivary tubes into the mouth, where it begins to break down.


What is the arid measurement in Namibia?

Temperature maxima are limited by the overall elevation of the entire region: only in the far south, Warmbad for instance, are mid-40 °C maxima recorded.


When did Dien Bien Phu fall to the communists?

After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes.


What is the largest mall in the carolinas?

North Carolina has a variety of shopping choices.


When was the Premier League established?

They are one of seven teams to have played all 22 seasons of the Premier League since its inception in August 1992 – the others being Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur.


When were anti-miscegenation laws passed?

Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them.


What type of research was Princess Elizabeth station built to study?

On 6 September 2007, Belgian-based International Polar Foundation unveiled the Princess Elisabeth station, the world's first zero-emissions polar science station in Antarctica to research climate change.


How much net worth did Americans lose between June 2007 and November 2008?

Between June 2007 and November 2008, Americans lost an estimated average of more than a quarter of their collective net worth.[citation needed]


What are Jehovah Witnesses allowed to accept at their discretion?

The Watch Tower Society provides pre-formatted durable power of attorney documents prohibiting major blood components, in which members can specify which allowable fractions and treatments they will personally accept.


On what day was the Richard Gilder Boathouse established?

October 21, 2000, marked the dedication of Yale's fourth new boathouse in 157 years of collegiate rowing.


Masonic lodges existed in Iraq as early as 1917, when the first lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) was opened.


What are later added to the landing by advanced gymnasts?

The gymnast is allowed to choose where they start on the runway.


How many people died as a result of the fighting betwen Armenia and Azerbaijan?

By the time both Azerbaijan and Armenia had finally agreed to a ceasefire in 1994, an estimated 30,000 people had been killed and over a million had been displaced.


The black hole (with zero electric charge) is an elegant example of a region completely "filled" with vacuum, but still showing a strong curvature.


Besides installation cost, why are private flush toilets too expensive for most residents in Namibia?

Private flush toilets are too expensive for virtually all residents in townships due to their water consumption and installation cost.


Who was elected as chief minister of the state of India?

Governments have seen alternates between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC), no third front ever has become significant.


How many days did people carry the Olympic torch before the 2008 Summer Olympics?

The relay, also called by the organizers as the "Journey of Harmony", lasted 129 days and carried the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi


With the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll; "there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught... that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time...".


What will a fifth place Premier League team qualify for?

If the Premier League has one of the three highest Fair Play rankings in Europe, the highest ranked team in the Premier League Fair Play standings which has not already qualified for Europe will automatically qualify for the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.


What methods, applied to the study of history, led to the perception of the Middle Ages as a time of recession and crisis?

As economic and demographic methods were applied to the study of history, the trend was increasingly to see the late Middle Ages as a period of recession and crisis.


The law required that all drugs introduced between 1938 and 1962 had to be effective.


What are probably the primary forces of nature which shaped human races?

This is not surprising since the selective forces of climate are probably the primary forces of nature that have shaped human races with regard not only to skin color and hair form but also the underlying bony structures of the nose, cheekbones, etc.


What do some polychaetes eat that has been causing problems?

Ragworms are commercially important as bait and as food sources for aquaculture, and there have been proposals to farm them in order to reduce over-fishing of their natural populations.


Who was the actual party that requested the critical sites be taken down?

Later, it was clarified that lawyers from the Church of Scientology had demanded the removal and that the site owners did not want their material removed.


What is the literal translation of the Dutch phrase, "Kun jij je pen niet vinden?"


What are the types of international duties of the PR mission?

It is the ability of the US government and its international partners to effect the recovery of isolated personnel across the ROMO and return those personnel to duty.


What were the two western towers built from?

Purbeck marble was used for the walls and the floors of Westminster Abbey, even though the various tombstones are made of different types of marble.


The Xinhai Revolution led to the founding of the Republic of China in January 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as the first provisional president and Nanking was selected as its new capital.


If paper is over 160g what is it considered as?

In Europe, and other regions using the ISO 216 paper sizing system, the weight is expressed in grammes per square metre (g/m2 or usually just g) of the paper.


When did Charles Town become the fourth largest colonial port?

By 1770, it was the fourth-largest port in the colonies, after Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, with a population of 11,000—slightly more than half of them slaves.


Who was the first distinctive Whig party that emerged from the chaos?

Out of this chaos, the first distinctive parties emerged.


What museum has a branch at the Santa Fe Depot?

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is located in La Jolla and has a branch located at the Santa Fe Depot downtown.


When was the last time royal assent was enacted?

The last Stuart monarch, Anne, similarly withheld on 11 March 1708, on the advice of her ministers, her assent from a bill for the settling of Militia in Scotland.


What group declared itself to be anti-music of any kind?

Public Image and other acts such as the Pop Group and the Slits had begun experimenting with dance music, dub production techniques and the avant-garde, while punk-indebted Manchester acts such as Joy Division, The Fall and A Certain Ratio developed unique styles which drew on a similarly disparate range of influences across music and modernist literature.


What work is Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī known for as it regards to earth?

Heliocentric theories were also discussed by several other Muslim astronomers such as Al-Biruni, Al-Sijzi, Qotb al-Din Shirazi, and Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī.


What had the festival done for the past three years when the statement by Cara Cusumano was made?

Cara Cusumano, director of the Tribeca Film Festival, stated in April 2014: "Piracy is less about people not wanting to pay and more about just wanting the immediacy – people saying, 'I want to watch Spiderman right now' and downloading it".


What percentage of people in Greece had never used the Internet as of 2013?

Greece has tended to lag behind its European Union partners in terms of Internet use, with the gap closing rapidly in recent years.


When did personnel first start thinking about using lasers in combat?

Although air planners have imagined lasers in combat since the late 1960s, only the most modern laser systems are currently reaching what could be considered "experimental usefulness".


Along with Mother of God, Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary, what is the other Catholic dogma related to Mary?

Catholic teachings make clear that Mary is not considered divine and prayers to her are not answered by her, they are answered by God.


What organization does Jay Cross belong to?

The test will be to see if governments and corporations that control critical systems such as energy, communications and other information will be able to prevent attacks before they occur.


What year were the expulsions from England?

Over this period of several hundred years, some have suggested, Jewish economic activity was focused on trade, business management, and financial services, due to several presumed factors: Christian European prohibitions restricting certain activities by Jews, preventing certain financial activities (such as "usurious" loans) between Christians, high rates of literacy, near universal male education, and ability of merchants to rely upon and trust family members living in different regions and countries.


Thousands more employees work in Midtown, north of the central business district.


What were many post-punk artists originally inspired by?

Many of these artists, initially inspired by punk's DIY ethic and energy, ultimately became disillusioned with the style and movement, feeling that it had fallen into commercial formula, rock convention and self-parody.


Who was in control of the Danubian Principalities?

Shortly after he learned of the failure of Menshikov's diplomacy toward the end of June 1853, the Tsar sent armies under the commands of Field Marshal Ivan Paskevich and General Mikhail Gorchakov across the Pruth River into the Ottoman-controlled Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.


What broke away from the Armenian Apostolic Church?

These include the Armenian Catholic Church (which follows its own liturgy but recognizes the Roman Catholic Pope), the Armenian Evangelical Church, which started as a reformation in the Mother church but later broke away, and the Armenian Brotherhood Church, which was born in the Armenian Evangelical Church, but later broke apart from it.


What identifier allows a player to activate a PlayStation 3?

PlayStation 3 also limits the transfer of copy protected videos downloaded from its store to other machines and states that copy protected video "may not restore correctly" following certain actions after making a backup such as downloading a new copy protected movie.


Between 1904 and 2004, what shipbuilding company employed a large portion of Southampton?

During the Middle Ages, shipbuilding became an important industry for the town.


Attempting to use Gregorian dates for earlier events  on the Julian calendar should be used with what action?

For ordinary purposes, the dates of events occurring prior to 15 October 1582 are generally shown as they appeared in the Julian calendar, with the year starting on 1 January, and no conversion to their Gregorian equivalents.


During what years was the Duke of Wellington at Eton?

The Duke of Wellington is often incorrectly quoted as saying that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton".


In what 1806 proclamation did Napoleon begin to impose the Continental System?

The scale of their defeat convinced the Russians to make peace with the French.


Athanasius began his leading role at what age?

Three years after that council, Athanasius succeeded his mentor as archbishop of Alexandria.


What causes an alloy to form a solid solution?

If the metals remain soluble when solid, the alloy forms a solid solution, becoming a homogeneous structure consisting of identical crystals, called a phase.


What kind of mines are found in Khetri and Jhunjhunu ?

Several prominent chemical and engineering companies are located in the city of Kota, in southern Rajasthan.


Who was the first confederate soldier to be killed in the civil war?

The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861.


For some the appointment of Peter des Roches as justiciar was an important factor, as he was considered an "abrasive foreigner" by many of the barons.


What were Jehovah's Witnesses identified by in Nazi concentration camps?

In Canada, Jehovah's Witnesses were interned in camps along with political dissidents and people of Chinese and Japanese descent.


Which district has the farmers market in the city?

The Kerrytown Shops, Main Street Business District, the State Street Business District, and the South University Business District are commercial areas in downtown Ann Arbor.


In one of his works who affirmed the popularity of Chopin as a child?

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, in his dramatic eclogue, "Nasze Przebiegi" ("Our Discourses", 1818), attested to "little Chopin's" popularity.


Which Chinese suffix means "area, district, region, ward"?

The modern Standard Chinese exonym for the ethnic Tibetan region is Zangqu (Chinese: 藏区; pinyin: Zàngqū), which derives by metonymy from the Tsang region around Shigatse plus the addition of a Chinese suffix, 区 qū, which means "area, district, region, ward".


Nasser's biographers Robert Stephens and Said Aburish wrote that Nasser's family believed strongly in the "Arab notion of glory", since the name of Nasser's brother, Izz al-Arab, translates to "Glory of the Arabs"—a rare name in Egypt.


This group of skyscrapers was an attempt to keep businesses in downtown.


What type of cell forms when macrophages clump together trying to kill off the TB infection?

However, more recent evidence suggests that the bacteria use the granulomas to avoid destruction by the host's immune system.


What weapon posed a significant threat to US navy ships?

During most of the war, the UN navies patrolled the west and east coasts of North Korea, sinking supply and ammunition ships and denying the North Koreans the ability to resupply from the sea.


Thousands of prayer flags are hoisted up from the top of the stupa downwards and dot the perimeter of the complex.


In contrast to his father, Joseph I was fond of de Melo, and with the Queen Mother's approval, he appointed Melo as Minister of Foreign Affairs.


Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Khemi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.


What is the toughest footrace around the world?

Namibia is the home for one of the toughest footraces in the world, the Namibian ultra marathon.


What involves lowering income taxes while raising levies?

It involves lowering income taxes while raising levies on environmentally destructive activities, in order to create a more responsive market.


Sanskrit linguist Madhav Deshpande says that when the term "Sanskrit" arose it was not thought of as a specific language set apart from other languages, but rather as a particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking.


While Knickebein was used my most German crews who used the X-Gerat system?

While Knickebein was used by German crews en masse, X-Gerät use was limited to specially trained pathfinder crews.


Targets for non-ManPAD SAMs will usually be acquired by air-search radar, then tracked before/while a SAM is "locked-on" and then fired.


What was the original plan for the Xiang Army?

Being a classically educated official, he took his blueprint for the Xiang Army from the Ming general Qi Jiguang, who, because of the weakness of regular Ming troops, had decided to form his own "private" army to repel raiding Japanese pirates in the mid-16th century.


What can regarded as the study of symmetry?

Symmetry groups are groups consisting of symmetries of given mathematical objects—be they of geometric nature, such as the introductory symmetry group of the square, or of algebraic nature, such as polynomial equations and their solutions.


What is included in or accompanies in "critical edition"?

The critical apparatus presents the author's work in three parts: first, a list or description of the evidence that the editor used (names of manuscripts, or abbreviations called sigla); second, the editor's analysis of that evidence (sometimes a simple likelihood rating),[citation needed]; and third, a record of rejected variants of the text (often in order of preference).[citation needed]


Fluidity of racial categories aside, the "biologification" of race in Brazil referred above would match contemporary concepts of race in the United States quite closely, though, if Brazilians are supposed to choose their race as one among, Asian and Indigenous apart, three IBGE's census categories.


Which Swiss motorcycle racer won the 2005 MotoGP World Championship in the 125cc category?

Swiss motorcycle racer Thomas Lüthi won the 2005 MotoGP World Championship in the 125cc category.


What does it mean to say that God is omnipotent?

Because God is conceived as not being a corporeal being, God cannot(some say should not) be portrayed in a literal visual image; some religious groups use a man (sometimes old and bearded) to symbolize God because of His deed of creating man's mind in the image of His own.


How do larger capacitors present their electrical characteristics?

Most capacitors have numbers printed on their bodies to indicate their electrical characteristics.


How much money did videoconferencing help this rural area save?

Rural areas can use this technology for diagnostic purposes, thus saving lives and making more efficient use of health care money.


During what ceremony were shots fired at the Queen?

Police later discovered that the shots were blanks.


What group ruled the empire until the 15th century?

In the late 19th century, the non-Muslim population of the empire began to fall considerably, not only due to secession, but also because of migratory movements.


In addition, Israel is home to over 5,000 members of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem movement that are descendants of African Americans who emigrated to Israel in the 20th century, and who reside mainly in a distinct neighborhood in the Negev town of Dimona.


Why is Chan suing the Hong Kong government?

Political activist and Legislative Council member Leung Kwok-hung (Longhair) also joined the protest, saying "I'm very proud that in Hong Kong we still have people brave enough to speak out.


How many people worked for the Bell Boatyard?

Bell also built the Bell Boatyard on the estate, employing up to 40 people building experimental craft as well as wartime lifeboats and workboats for the Royal Canadian Navy and pleasure craft for the Bell family.


What could have affected Medieval Europe's embracing of the pointed arch?

Increasing military and cultural contacts with the Muslim world, including the Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily in 1090, the Crusades, beginning 1096, and the Islamic presence in Spain, may have influenced Medieval Europe's adoption of the pointed arch, although this hypothesis remains controversial.


What designation does the Globalization and World Cities Study Group give Houston?

The Houston area is the top U.S. market for exports, surpassing New York City in 2013, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration.


Who wrote the Histoire naturelle des insectes?

Works of natural history include René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur's Histoire naturelle des insectes and Jacques Gautier d'Agoty's La Myologie complète, ou description de tous les muscles du corps humain (1746).


A checkered cloth on a table was used in medieval Europe to help count what?

Since then, many other forms of reckoning boards or tables have been invented.


When did Seibu, located in Jakarta, re-open?

This department store is targeting middle up market with price range from affordable to luxury, poised to be the largest upscale department store.


Which contestant suffered from ulcerative colitis?

One of the more prominent contestants this year was Chris Medina, whose story of caring for his brain-damaged fiancée received widespread coverage.


How did Victoria describe the physical appearance of Alexander?

William IV, however, disapproved of any match with the Coburgs, and instead favoured the suit of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, second son of the Prince of Orange.


What did Humbert use to teach even weak members of the Dominican Order?

Again, they should learn that if they lack the grace of compunction or devotion they should not think they are not in the state of grace as long as they have good will, which is all that God regards".


Population growth was stagnant for the first half of the 17th century due to civil wars and epidemics, but prosperity and internal stability gradually reversed this trend.


It is not clear how much the early Ming court understood the civil war going on in Tibet between rival religious sects, but the first emperor was anxious to avoid the same trouble that Tibet had caused for the Tang dynasty.


On what date did Frédéric begin his journey into Western Europe?

" When in September 1831 he learned, while travelling from Vienna to Paris, that the uprising had been crushed, he expressed his anguish in the pages of his private journal: "Oh God! ...


What sort of dualist is Plato regarded as?

Arne Grøn calls this doctrine "the classic example of a metaphysical idealism as a transcendent idealism", while Simone Klein calls Plato "the earliest representative of metaphysical objective idealism".


What place did the game take in Nintendo's Official list of 100 Greatest Nintendo Games of All Time?

Nintendo Power ranked the game as the third-best game to be released on a Nintendo system in the 2000s decade.


In what year was an England football match aired only via the internet for the first time?

As a result of Setanta Sports's demise, England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on 10 October 2009 was shown in the United Kingdom on a pay-per-view basis via the internet only.


What did VLP stand for in English-speaking countries?

Philips' preferred name for the format was "VLP", after the Dutch words Video Langspeel-Plaat ("Video long-play disc"), which in English-speaking countries stood for Video Long-Play.


Are there many product available from farm cultivation on the Greek lands ?

The sea and trade were natural outlets for Greeks since the Greek peninsula is rocky and does not offer good prospects for agriculture.


What property of T cells caused modification of CST?

On the basis of CST, Burnet developed a theory of how an immune response is triggered according to the self/nonself distinction: "self" constituents (constituents of the body) do not trigger destructive immune responses, while "nonself" entities (e.g., pathogens, an allograft) trigger a destructive immune response.


How many people attended the Monet exhibit?

Unlike most prominent public museums, the North Carolina Museum of Art acquired a large number of the works in its permanent collection through purchases with public funds.


In which year was the Warsaw Pact activated in a joint action?

The multi-national Communist armed forces' sole joint action was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.


A logic problem arises when noting that the four truths constitute what?

The mentioning of the four truths as constituting "liberating insight" introduces a logical problem, since the four truths depict a linear path of practice, the knowledge of which is in itself not depicted as being liberating.[note 34]


What groups invaded and damaged the Mughals?

The Mughals suffered several blows due to invasions from Marathas and Afghans.


Besides Georgia, what other state primary did Edwards win?

Edwards finished only slightly behind Kerry in Georgia, but, failing to win a single state other than South Carolina, chose to withdraw from the presidential race.


Who is the Dean of the Olin Business School?

Graduate students are able to pursue an MBA either full-time or part-time.


What was bolstered by the the final downward spiral of the Empire of Trebizond ?

A distinct Greek political identity re-emerged in the 11th century in educated circles and became more forceful after the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, so that when the empire was revived in 1261, it became in many ways a Greek national state.


What had Darwin wanted to name his book?

Darwin had initially decided to call his book


What date were the official numbers of students killed in the earthquake released?

According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the earthquake killed 5,335 students and left another 546 children disabled.


Along with German immigrants, immigrants of what nationality supported Tammany Hall?

In the 19th century, the city was transformed by development relating to its status as a trading center, as well as by European immigration.


What do some historians think made Wallace's concept of natural selection different from Darwin's?

While Darwin considered Wallace's idea to be identical to his concept of natural selection, historians have pointed out differences.


About how many Somalis moved to Minnesota ten years ago?

An estimated 20,000 Somalis emigrated to the U.S. state of Minnesota some ten years ago and the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) now have the highest population of Somalis in North America.


What is the process by which green plants convert solar energy to stored energy?

Solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's land surface, oceans – which cover about 71% of the globe – and atmosphere.


What nationality were the rock groups that influenced Queen?

Queen drew artistic influence from British rock acts of the 1960s and early 1970s, such as the Beatles, the Kinks, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Who, Black Sabbath, Slade, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Genesis and Yes, in addition to American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, with Mercury also inspired by the gospel singer Aretha Franklin.


Lieutenant General Timothy Maude was the highest-ranking military official killed at the Pentagon, and the most senior U.S. Army officer killed by foreign action since the death of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, Jr. on June 18, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.


What is the model for luxury Parisian restaurants?

A luxury restaurant, La Taverne Anglaise, opened in 1786 in the arcades of the Palais-Royal by Antoine Beauvilliers; it featured an elegant dining room, an extensive menu, linen tablecloths, a large wine list and well-trained waiters; it became a model for future Paris restaurants.


There was a shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the two new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.


Arthur Hutchings stated that Chopin's lack of what made him special?

Jones comments that "Chopin's unique position as a composer, despite the fact that virtually everything he wrote was for the piano, has rarely been questioned."


What numbered meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets occurred on January 25, 1918?

On January 25, 1918, at the third meeting of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the unrecognized state was renamed the Soviet Russian Republic.


What is the new name of the Tucson Sidewinders?


What is Elizabeth's ranking in the Church of England?

Aside from her official religious role as Supreme Governor of the established Church of England, she is personally a member of that church and the national Church of Scotland.


What areas do at-large council members represent?

At-large council members represent the entire city.


" That is, if two witnesses have a number of errors in common, it may be presumed that they were derived from a common intermediate source, called a hyparchetype.


What chemical defense is used by the Monarch butterfly?

A predator who has previously eaten a poisonous lepidopteran may avoid other species with similar markings in the future, thus saving many other species as well.


What did biology textbooks drop altogether?

In contrast, biology textbooks did not undergo such a reversal but many instead dropped their discussion of race altogether.


What artist did Kanye West lose "Best New Artist" to at the 2004 AMAs?

At the American Music Awards of 2004, West stormed out of the auditorium after losing Best New Artist to country singer Gretchen Wilson.


In 2012-3, what number of people saw a show on Broadway?

Attendance in 2013–2014 stood at 12.21 million, representing a 5.5% increase from the 2012–2013 season's 11.57 million.


For how many years did the socialists governed the region?

The Socialists had governed the region for seventeen years.


Who argued that the Quran inspired the first practitioners of the scientific method we use today?

Mohammad Hashim Kamali has the stated that "scientific observation, experimental knowledge and rationality" are the primary tools with which humanity can achieve the goals laid out for it in the Quran.


All LAtin characters required by POJ can be represented by what?

All Latin characters required by Pe̍h-ōe-jī can be represented using Unicode (or the corresponding ISO/IEC 10646: Universal Character Set), using precomposed or combining (diacritics) characters.


What do the low corruption countries have solidly established?

The argument that corruption necessarily follows from the opportunity is weakened by the existence of countries with low to non-existent corruption but large public sectors, like the Nordic countries.


The motivation for the reform was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of the year in which it was celebrated when it was introduced by the early Church.


When the UK changes their clocks forward in the spring, what do they call the time they're then observing?

In the United Kingdom, the standard term for UK time when advanced by one hour is British Summer Time (BST), and British English typically inserts summer into other time zone names, e.g. Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST).


What story was written by Child in 1842?

The figure of the "tragic octoroon" was a stock character of abolitionist literature: a mixed-race woman raised as if a white woman in her white father's household, until his bankruptcy or death has her reduced to a menial position She may even be unaware of her status before being reduced to victimization.


In what countries was the hunting for trophies frowned upon, back in the day and in modern times?

In Nordic countries, hunting for trophies was—and still is—frowned upon.


The term Pre-Columbian technically refers to which era?

While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus' voyages of 1492 to 1504, in practice the term usually includes the history of American indigenous cultures until Europeans either conquered or significantly influenced them, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus' initial landing.


What was excessive religio equated with in Rome?

The famous tirade of Lucretius, the Epicurean rationalist, against what is usually translated as "superstition" was in fact aimed at excessive religio.


What is the possible cause of the upper Cretaceous extinction event ?

The upper (Cretaceous) boundary is set at the Cretaceous–Tertiary (KT) extinction event (now more accurately called the Cretaceous–Paleogene (or K–Pg) extinction event), which may have been caused by the impactor that created Chicxulub Crater on the Yucatán Peninsula.


The Interchurch Center is the start of which street?

It begins on Riverside Drive at the Interchurch Center.


What is long-distance running as a food hunting-gathering technique?

According to the endurance running hypothesis, long-distance running as in persistence hunting, a method still practiced by some hunter-gatherer groups in modern times, was likely the driving evolutionary force leading to the evolution of certain human characteristics.


The Islamic Prophet Muhammad carried out a siege against what tribe in February 624?

Muhammad ordered his followers to attack the Banu Qaynuqa Jews for allegedly breaking the treaty known as the Constitution of Medina by pinning the clothes of a Muslim woman, which led to her being stripped naked As a result, a Muslim killed a Jew in retaliation, and the Jews in turn killed the Muslim man.


What do caged birds display that corresponds with migratory direction in nature?

Caged birds display a preferential flight direction that corresponds with the migratory direction they would take in nature, changing their preferential direction at roughly the same time their wild conspecifics change course.


A popular 70s rock band group once played in New Haven, which result in an accident with one of it member, the man name was?

" This was the first time a rock star had ever been arrested in concert.[citation needed]


When did President Reagan withdraw marines from Lebanon?

Subsequently the US Navy engaged in bombing of militia positions inside Lebanon.


What area copied Bismarck's social programs the most?

These programs, too, were copied by many other nations, particularly in the Western world.


Central park, in 1857, became the first park in America to become what?

Public-minded members of the contemporaneous business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city.


Oxygen from what kind of fossil were used to date the Hirnantian faunal stage?

The ice age was probably not as long-lasting as once thought; study of oxygen isotopes in fossil brachiopods shows that it was probably no longer than 0.5 to 1.5 million years.


What are the 2 titular names of God in the Jewish religion?

In Judaism, it is common to refer to God by the titular names Elohim or Adonai, the latter of which is believed by some scholars to descend from the Egyptian Aten.


It is covered by mountains of the Pamir range, and more than fifty percent of the country is over 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) above sea level.


Where did the factories of Mexico City move to most commonly?

This led to decentralization and a shift in Mexico City's economic base, from manufacturing to services, as most factories moved away to either the State of Mexico, or more commonly to the northern border.


When did the festivities acquire their violent tendencies?

During the early 20th century it consisted partying and parading, while in the second half of the 20th century it acquired violent characteristics that continued.


Liberal writer Tawfiq al-Hakim described Nasser as a "confused Sultan" who employed stirring rhetoric, but had no actual plan to achieve his stated goals.


Who were the adversaries of the Soviets during the Cold War?

Compromising, Malta's government continued allowing NATO use of the island, but only on the condition that they would not use it for launching attacks on Arab territory.


Through Molecular studies, what was used to suggest new relationships among mammal families?

Classification systems based on molecular studies reveal three major groups or lineages of placental mammals- Afrotheria, Xenarthra, and Boreoeutheria- which diverged from early common ancestors in the Cretaceous.


It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo to the south and Cameroon to the west.


What are the two categories of public funding?

There are two broad categories of public funding, direct, which entails a monetary transfer to a party, and indirect, which includes broadcasting time on state media, use of the mail service or supplies.


When did the High Court of Malawi gave the right for Madonna to adopt her second son?

Madonna appealed, and on June 12, 2009, the Supreme Court of Malawi granted Madonna the right to adopt Mercy James.


What award did Spielberg receive on Jul 15, 2006?

On July 15, 2006, Spielberg was also awarded the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Summer Gala of the Chicago International Film Festival, and also was awarded a Kennedy Center honour on December 3.


Whose real story is 'Awakenings' based on?

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.


When did the Paris and Berne administrative secretariats merge?

When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention (1883) and the Berne Convention (1886) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.


How much did the Ukrainians make up in population as a percentage in East Prussia?

Subsequently Polish expatriates from Polish lands annexed by the Soviet Union as well as Ukrainians and Lemkos from southern Poland, expelled in Operation Vistula in 1947, were settled in the southern part of East Prussia, now the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.


What other terms might be used to refer to a treaty?

The terminology can also be confusing because a treaty may and usually is named something other than a treaty, such as a convention, protocol, or simply agreement.


What percentage of the population was 65 or older?

According to the 2010 revison of the UN World Population Prospects, Guinea-Bissau's population was 1,515,000 in 2010, compared to 518,000 in 1950.


What was the birth date of John Von Neumann?


The element was probably named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke (prong, tooth).


What year is considered the transition between the classical period and the Middle Ages?

The Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin in a vast empire based on Roman law and Roman legions.


What right in a court is denied and considered a human right violation?

It also alleged harsh and life-threatening conditions in prisons and detention centers, arbitrary arrest, prolonged pretrial detention and denial of a fair trial, restrictions on freedom of movement, official corruption, and restrictions on workers' rights.


How many Finnish people lost their homes?

Finland ceded southeastern areas of Karelia (10% of Finnish territory), which resulted in approximately 422,000 Karelians (12% of Finland's population) losing their homes.


What was William Cookworthy's profession?

As an associate and host of engineer John Smeaton he was indirectly involved with the development of the Eddystone Lighthouse.


What modern religion sometimes uses Old English?

A number of websites devoted to Neo-Paganism and Historical re-enactment offer reference material and forums promoting the active use of Old English.


Who was the most famous prose writer in early Estonian history?

Among the most popular writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries are Tõnu Õnnepalu and Andrus Kivirähk, who uses elements of Estonian folklore and mythology, deforming them into absurd and grotesque.


Who was accused of being mean and cruel on American Idol?

Others focused on the personalities in the show; Ramin Setoodeh of Newsweek accused judge Simon Cowell's cruel critiques in the show of helping to establish in the wider world a culture of meanness, that "Simon Cowell has dragged the rest of us in the mud with him."


Who calculated the Global Value Development Index?

The Global Value Development Index, calculated by Tausch, relies on the World Values Survey dimensions such as trust in the state of law, no support for shadow economy, postmaterial activism, support for democracy, a non-acceptance of violence, xenophobia and racism, trust in transnational capital and Universities, confidence in the market economy, supporting gender justice, and engaging in environmental activism, etc.


Slavery and slaves were part of the social order; there were slave markets where they could be bought and sold.


What did most of the development of the mandolin revolve around?

Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard (the top).


What was the name of Kanye's 2008 music tour?

West had previously experimented with the technology on his debut album The College Dropout for the background vocals of "Jesus Walks" and "Never Let Me Down."


The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.


Where was Washington University located?

Later the university divided into three departments: the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute.


What does the "NCD" in "NCD files" mean?

Drill bits must also remain sharp so as not to mar or tear the traces.


One of the emirates was led by Osman I (1258–1326), from whom the name Ottoman is derived.


In what region of modern-day France did the Vikings settle?

In 911, the Viking chieftain Rollo (d. c. 931) received permission from the Frankish King Charles the Simple (r. 898–922) to settle in what became Normandy.[Q]


What percentage of the population in 2011 were millenials?

As of 2011[update] the median age was 35.6; more than a quarter of residents were under age 20 and 11% were over age 65.


When were audio curves described by Richard Ehmer?

In 1894, the American physicist Alfred M. Mayer reported that a tone could be rendered inaudible by another tone of lower frequency.


What instrument did Marsyas know how to play?

As Apollo played the lyre, this was easy to do.


When did Armenia and Turkey initiate an attempt to reopen their border?

Despite this, the process stopped, as Turkey continuously added more preconditions to its ratification and also "delayed it beyond any reasonable time-period".


On what date did the peace conference on Staten Island occur?

The only attempt at a peaceful solution to the war took place at the Conference House on Staten Island between American delegates, including Benjamin Franklin, and British general Lord Howe on September 11, 1776.


Side-effects range from mild to very serious depending on the antibiotics used, the microbial organisms targeted, and the individual patient.


What is often considered valuable for generating a new set of philosophical problems?

These and other communitarians (such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Daniel A. Bell) argue that, contra liberalism, communities are prior to individuals and therefore should be the center of political focus.


What is the more strict program that the USAF adopted in 2010 called?

Additionally, only meeting the minimum standards on each one of these tests will not get you a passing score of 75%, and failing any one component will result in a failure for the entire test.


About how many people died in 2010 carrying both HIV and TB?

Of these 1.45 million deaths, about 0.35 million occur in those also infected with HIV.


Explaining the choice of the 38th parallel, Rusk observed, "even though it was further north than could be realistically reached by U.S. forces, in the event of Soviet disagreement...we felt it important to include the capital of Korea in the area of responsibility of American troops".


What is the only other sacrament of the Protestants that the Catholic Church recognizes?

However, as the ordination of Protestant ministers is not recognized due to the lack of apostolic succession and the disunity from Catholic Church, all other sacraments (except marriage) performed by Protestant denominations and ministers are not recognized as valid.


What county in England was named after Hampton?

It is from this town that the county of Hampshire gets its name.


A further line in the directive stressed the need to inflict the heaviest losses possible, but also to intensify the air war in order to create the impression an amphibious assault on Britain was planned for 1941.


This temple, also known as Maru Satal in the Newar language, was built in 1596 by King Laxmi Narsingh Malla.


What type of solar water heater is used to heat pools?

Solar hot water systems use sunlight to heat water.


Thus signals near the design frequency will continue to create a standing wave pattern.


What influences popular music in Cyprus?

Popular music in Cyprus is generally influenced by the Greek Laïka scene; artists who play in this genre include international platinum star Anna Vissi, Evridiki, and Sarbel.


How did Burke say we look towards nobility?

Because when such ideas are brought before our minds, it is natural to be so affected".


What is the common term that the Government of Ireland uses when documents are written jointly with the British?

Owing to political and national associations with the word British, the Government of Ireland does not use the term British Isles and in documents drawn up jointly between the British and Irish governments, the archipelago is referred to simply as "these islands".


Along with rigor, what did Cluny have a reputation for?

Monastic reform became an important issue during the 11th century, as elites began to worry that monks were not adhering to the rules binding them to a strictly religious life.


The US abolished slavery without giving what to slave owners?

Republicans were elected to the governorship until 1876, when the Red Shirts, a paramilitary organization that arose in 1874 and was allied with the Democratic Party, helped suppress black voting.


For Europe as a whole, 1500 is often considered to be the end of the Middle Ages, but there is no universally agreed upon end date.


These include the "old world dogs" (e.g., Malamute and Shar Pei), "Mastiff"-type (e.g., English Mastiff), "herding"-type (e.g., Border Collie), and "all others" (also called "modern"- or "hunting"-type).


How many soldiers did General Clinton return with?

American General Benjamin Lincoln was trapped and surrendered his entire 5,400-man force after a long fight, and the Siege of Charles Towne was the greatest American defeat of the war.


What is the more popular name of Lindbergh Field?

It is the busiest single-runway airport in the United States.


Who believed that the hiring of Molotov would result in a better deal with the western countries?

Carr argued that the Soviet Union's replacement of Foreign Minister Litvinov with Molotov on May 3, 1939 indicated not an irrevocable shift towards alignment with Germany, but rather was Stalin's way of engaging in hard bargaining with the British and the French by appointing a proverbial hard man, namely Molotov, to the Foreign Commissariat.


What percentage of the population aged 15 and over were shown to have an immigrant background as of 2012?

In 2012, resident foreigners made up 23.3% of the population.


Which 1907 piece did Picasso present in the show that introduced Cubism to the USA?

In the Armory show Pablo Picasso exhibited La Femme au pot de moutarde (1910), the sculpture Head of a Woman (Fernande) (1909–10), Les Arbres (1907) amongst other cubist works.


When was the Barcelona team become Spanish football champions for the 22nd time?

Ultimately Barcelona ended the season 15 points clear of rivals Real Madrid, despite losing 2–1 to them at the beginning of March.


How many dialects are in the eastern group?

Western Catalan comprises the two dialects of Northwestern Catalan and Valencian; the Eastern block comprises four dialects: Central Catalan, Balearic, Rossellonese, and Alguerese.


What type of art is being promoted by art institutions in Cyprus?

One of the features of Cypriot art is a tendency towards figurative painting although conceptual art is being rigorously promoted by a number of art "institutions" and most notably the Nicosia Municipal Art Centre.


What characteristic of a single witness is the most beneficial to a textual critic?

Some manuscripts show evidence that particular care was taken in their composition, for example, by including alternative readings in their margins, demonstrating that more than one prior copy (exemplar) was consulted in producing the current one.


When was the first Port of Plymouth Regatta?

The Port of Plymouth Regatta is one of the oldest regattas in the world, and has been held regularly since 1823.


What did Tsar Alexander I give to Chopin?

From September 1823 to 1826 Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year.


In June 1837 Chopin visited London incognito in the company of the piano manufacturer Camille Pleyel where he played at a musical soirée at the house of English piano maker James Broadwood.


In what year did Muhammad bin Tughluq succeed the Delhi sultanate?

Muhammad bin Tughluq succeeded to the Delhi sultanate in 1325, bringing Warangal under the rule of the Tughlaq dynasty until 1347


All 22 countries in that category are located in Africa.


What marked the beginning of the Roman Republic?

The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana; Classical Latin: [ˈreːs ˈpuːb.lɪ.ka roːˈmaː.na]) was the period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.


What number was the Tironian note visually similar to?

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⟩.


Hogarth then proceeds to say where and why in some detail, but no more mention is made of the classics.


What is the average family size in the city of Ann Arbor?

35.5% of households were made up of individuals and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.


Its GDP is the fourth largest economy in the United States.


By 1847, the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family, and consequently the new wing, designed by Edward Blore, was built by Thomas Cubitt, enclosing the central quadrangle.


Texts concerning Aksobhya Buddha were written down in what century?

Guang Xing states, "Several scholars have suggested that the Prajñāpāramitā probably developed among the Mahāsāṃghikas in southern India, in the Āndhra country, on the Kṛṣṇa River."


Due to the increasing traffic and the ancient city plan, traffic congestion is a common phenomenon in and around Utrecht, causing elevated levels of air pollutants.


Who was the first person to sequence a viral genome?

In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent (Belgium) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome (Bacteriophage MS2).


Other than the Jewish Theological Seminary, which other Seminary touches Seminary Row?

Seminary Row also runs by the Manhattan School of Music, Riverside Church, Sakura Park, Grant's Tomb, and Morningside Park.


However, when they ceased to pay tribute after Genghis Khan's death, his successor Ögedei Khan (r. 1229–1241) launched an invasion into Tibet.


How many MP did they get in the election in 1924?

The 1923 general election was fought on the Conservatives' protectionist proposals but, although they got the most votes and remained the largest party, they lost their majority in parliament, necessitating the formation of a government supporting free trade.


What is the first step of the predator-prey interaction?

The relationship between predator and prey is one that is typically beneficial to the predator, and detrimental to the prey species.


When was the first Indian appointed as a Councillor?

The civil service was increasingly filled with natives at the lower levels, with the British holding the more senior positions.


Do listing notices cross international soil?

Public notice is given through legal notices in newspapers, and communicated to state and county agencies within the species' area.


A typical vacuum cleaner produces enough suction to do what to air pressure?

The quality of a partial vacuum refers to how closely it approaches a perfect vacuum.


What did music become during the Baroque era  in comparison with earlier periods?

Music became more complex in comparison with the songs of earlier periods.


What type of independence was introduced in Namibia after independence?

Multiparty democracy was introduced and has been maintained, with local, regional and national elections held regularly.


What body enforced pubs' closing hours under the Defence of the Realm Act?

The restrictions were tightened by the Defence of the Realm Act of August 1914, which, along with the introduction of rationing and the censorship of the press for wartime purposes, restricted pubs' opening hours to 12 noon–2:30 pm and 6:30 pm–9:30 pm.


What design feature do aircraft carriers feature to aid in launching and recovering aircraft?

As "runways at sea", aircraft carriers have a flat-top flight deck, which launches and recovers aircraft.


Along with red, blue, black, yellow and green, what was a notable color of uranium tile glaze?

This waste product was diverted to the glazing industry, making uranium glazes very inexpensive and abundant.


What concept does the government currently support for education?

Government policy is currently promoting 'specialisation' whereby parents choose a secondary school appropriate for their child's interests and skills.


How many people died on the General Slocum?

In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city's worst industrial disaster, took the lives of 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and major improvements in factory safety standards.


What did the MLB All-Star winning team gain in the World Series?

The annual MLB All-Star Game, played in July between players from AL teams and players from NL teams, was long considered an exhibition match, but as of 2003 this status was questioned because the league whose team wins the All-Star game has been awarded home field advantage for the upcoming World Series.


In terms of capacity how big was the new constructed New Haven Athletic Center?

The NHAC, built adjacent to Hillhouse High School, is used for New Haven public schools athletics, as well as large-scale area and state sporting events; it is the largest high school indoor sports complex in the state.


When did Ford Park Cemetery first operate?

There is also a privately owned cemetery on the outskirts of the city, Drake Memorial Park which does not allow headstones to mark graves, but a brass plaque set into the ground.


Think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council have also argued that European legislators have pushed somewhat dogmatically for the adoption of the Basel II recommendations, adopted in 2005, transposed in European Union law through the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), effective since 2008.


In Yamamoto's plan, what northern islands were to be attacked?

Nagumo was again in tactical command but was focused on the invasion of Midway; Yamamoto's complex plan had no provision for intervention by Nimitz before the Japanese expected him.


How many copper alloys has the EPA approved as antimicrobial materials?

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the registrations of these copper alloys as "antimicrobial materials with public health benefits," which allows manufacturers to legally make claims as to the positive public health benefits of products made with registered antimicrobial copper alloys.


What notable document was authored by Thomas Jefferson in 1786?

In 1786, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (drafted by Thomas Jefferson) was passed at the temporary capitol in Richmond, providing the basis for the separation of church and state, a key element in the development of the freedom of religion in the United States.


Bond infiltrates a Spectre meeting, where he identifies the leader, Franz Oberhauser.


Composers rejected the traditions of the common practice period during what era?

Modernism (1890–1930) marked an era when many composers rejected certain values of the common practice period, such as traditional tonality, melody, instrumentation, and structure.


Who was critical of John's performance as king?

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a "hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general".


What restriction does W-VHS recordings have?

HDTV can be recorded to D-VHS (Digital-VHS or Data-VHS), W-VHS (analog only), to an HDTV-capable digital video recorder (for example DirecTV's high-definition Digital video recorder, Sky HD's set-top box, Dish Network's VIP 622 or VIP 722 high-definition Digital video recorder receivers, or TiVo's Series 3 or HD recorders), or an HDTV-ready HTPC.


What were the alphabets of Southeast Asia?

The alphabets of Southeast Asia tended to be abugidas, until the arrival of the Europeans, who used words that also ended in consonants, not just vowels.


What is the railway that runs South to North called?

Nanjing is the intersection of Yangtze River, an east-west water transport artery, and Nanjing–Beijing railway, a south-north land transport artery,


What do the frequencies for the haplotype for beta-5 hemogoblin do from specific points in Africa?

As the anthropologists Leonard Lieberman and Fatimah Linda Jackson observed, "Discordant patterns of heterogeneity falsify any description of a population as if it were genotypically or even phenotypically homogeneous".


In what decade did colleges of technology gain the University designation?

In 1956, some colleges of technology received the designation College of Advanced Technology.


Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich.


Which park does 27th Street pass through between Ninth and Tenth Avenues?

Heading east, 27th Street passes through Chelsea Park between Tenth and Ninth Avenues, with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) on the corner of Eighth.


What is the name of the company that operates The Sun?

Rupert Murdoch, head of The Sun's parent company News Corporation, speaking at a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, said that he acts as a "traditional proprietor".


When did Greg Rouse begin trying to categorize polychaetes?

Traditionally the annelids have been divided into two major groups, the polychaetes and clitellates.


The ancient nations, people and languages of the enhanced Fertile Crescent will always refer to what?

The Ancient Near East is a term of the 20th century intended to stabilize the geographical application of Near East to ancient history.[citation needed]


Power then passed a political coalition headed by who?

In 2002, when the oil tanker Prestige sank and covered the Galician coast in oil, Fraga was accused by the grassroots movement Nunca Mais ("Never again") of having been unwilling to react.


When did Fox announce the following season would be Idol's last?

The continuing decline influenced further changes for season 14, including the loss of Coca-Cola as the show's major sponsor, and a decision to only broadcast one, two-hour show per week during the top 12 rounds (with results from the previous week integrated into the performance show, rather than having a separate results show).


What dam began to provide water to Hyderabad in 2005?

As of October 2014, there were 15 fire stations in the city, operated by the Telangana State Disaster and Fire Response Department.


Among what age group in Samoa is hip hop and dance most popular?

" Dance both in its traditional form and its more modern forms has remained a central cultural currency to Samoans, especially youths.


What was the first public monumnet acquired in Melbourne in 1864?

In 1861 the Melbourne Cup was first run.


Is the male solitary wasp bigger or smaller than the female solitary wasp?

Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species.


Which Dashnak groups helped protect Armenian citizens?

During the 1890s, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, commonly known as Dashnaktsutyun, became active within the Ottoman Empire with the aim of unifying the various small groups in the empire that were advocating for reform and defending Armenian villages from massacres that were widespread in some of the Armenian-populated areas of the empire.


Name some cultural universals that exist with humans today.

Some aspects of human behavior, such as language, social practices such as kinship, gender and marriage, expressive forms such as art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies such as cooking, shelter, clothing are said to be cultural universals, found in all human societies.


What is the first purpose of air defence?

The essence of air defence is to detect hostile aircraft and destroy them.


What kind of event were given to raise money for quake survivors?

The government also opened access to the sealed ruins of the Beichuan county seat for three days, after which it will be frozen in time as a state earthquake relic museum, to remind people of the terrible disaster.


Friedrich Hayek name was commonly shortened to what?

Friedrich Hayek CH (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst ˈhaɪ̯ɛk]; 8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism.


Planned surveillance of the U.S. fleet by long range seaplane did not happen (as a result of an abortive identical operation in March), so Fletcher's carriers were able to proceed to a flanking position without being detected.


Bostons rich history attracts many what each year?

Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year.


Who was called in to watch over the presidential election in 2004?

At the invitation of the United States government, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004.


Here, on 17 April, General Elio invited the King to reclaim his absolute rights and put his troops at the King's disposition.


What were his relatives known for working on?

His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.[N 4] Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[N 5]


What type of special lanes were added to Interstate 15?

Freeway projects included expansion of Interstates 5 and 805 around "The Merge," a rush-hour spot where the two freeways meet.


Who still practices persistence hunting?

This hypothesis does not necessarily contradict the scavenging hypothesis: both subsistence strategies could have been in use – sequentially, alternating or even simultaneously.


iPods released before what year had issues with distorted bass?

For all iPods released in 2006 and earlier, some equalizer (EQ) sound settings would distort the bass sound far too easily, even on undemanding songs.


What is the name of the large southern portion of the Intermontane Plateaus?

A portion known as the Colorado Plateau, centered around the Four Corners region, is considered to have some of the most spectacular scenery in the world.


The flute, oboe and bassoon are all what type of instrument?

The Classical era stringed instruments were the four instruments which form the string section of the orchestra: the violin, viola, cello and contrabass.


In what part of the RSFSR did tundra mainly exist?

The area is rich in mineral resources, including petroleum, natural gas, and iron ore.


Who proposed that change was needed in the way business with the Greeks was to be conducted  ?

In later times, the Romioi plied the sea-lanes of the Mediterranean and controlled trade until an embargo imposed by the Roman Emperor on trade with the Caliphate opened the door for the later Italian pre-eminence in trade.


What did Darwin learn about about the characteristics of domestic animals?

However, one thing was clear: whatever the exact nature and causes of new variations, Darwin knew from observation and experiment that breeders were able to select such variations and produce huge differences in many generations of selection.


The insect orders include a number of what kind of groups?

The lack of flying vertebrates could have been another factor.


When was the British slave trade abolished?

Two years later, the Royal African Company was inaugurated, receiving from King Charles a monopoly of the trade to supply slaves to the British colonies of the Caribbean.


Who purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents?

The cemetery originated when the Englishman Mr. Thomas Samuel Hood purchased a plot of land in the name of the English residents in 1828.


In what year did the state of New York eliminate slavery?

Under New York State's gradual abolition act of 1799, children of slave mothers were born to be eventually liberated but were held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties.


What is a young bird on it's first migration compared to?

A young bird on its first migration flies in the correct direction according to the Earth's magnetic field, but does not know how far the journey will be.


A version of baseball played in city streets was nicknamed was in the 1930s?

Many sports are associated with New York's immigrant communities.


North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse, and fast-growing suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly built subdivisions and along its northern fringes.


What is the name of the main health care facility in Guam?

A private hospital, the Guam Regional Medical City opened its doors in early 2016.


What was the Catalan immigrant's speech called?


What percent of the Mexican GDP is the metropolitan area of Mexico City responsible for?

The city was responsible for generating 15.8% of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product and the metropolitan area accounted for about 22% of total national GDP.


Within days, however, the PCs responded with an ad which featured the border being drawn back on with a permanent marker, as an announcer intoned "Here's where we draw the line."


How do speech perception and articulation findings and insights affect previous and more traditional ideas?

Second, actual speech, even at a word level, is highly co-articulated, so it is problematic to expect to be able to splice words into simple segments without affecting speech perception.


According to the Hebrew Bible, he destroyed Solomon's Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylon.


Recipients of aid are concerned about what?

Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, recipients themselves are most concerned about exclusion.


How much of the glaciation in Austria disappeared?

High levels of precipitation cause the glaciers to descend to permafrost levels in some areas whereas in other, more arid regions, glaciers remain above about the 3,500 m (11,483 ft) level.


Who is the current head of KU's football program?

They are currently coached by David Beaty, who was hired in 2014.


Other terms from the late 20th century include GBAD (Ground Based AD) with related terms


In what year did Schwarzenegger speak at the Republican National Convention?

Schwarzenegger has been a registered Republican for many years.


When did Valencia surrender to the Moors?

The city had surrendered without a fight to the invading Moors (Berbers and Arabs) by 714 AD, and the cathedral of Saint Vincent was turned into a mosque.


In what year did the newer Atlantic City Convention Center open?

Boardwalk Hall, formally known as the "Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall", is an arena in Atlantic City along the boardwalk.


An alloy is a mixture of either pure or fairly pure chemical elements, which forms an impure substance (admixture) that retains the characteristics of a metal.


Rather than cells, in humoral immunology where did the molecules that cause immune response reside?

According to the cellular theory of immunity, represented in particular by Elie Metchnikoff, it was cells – more precisely, phagocytes – that were responsible for immune responses.


What Allied command replaced the British India Command in August, 1943?

The American General Joseph Stilwell, who also was deputy commander to Mountbatten and commanded U.S. forces in the China Burma India Theater, directed aid to China and prepared to construct the Ledo Road to link India and China by land.


Which cameras were first of their type to adopt the ASA scale?

The Weston Cadet (model 852 introduced in 1949), Direct Reading (model 853 introduced 1954) and Master III (models 737 and S141.3 introduced in 1956) were the first in their line of exposure meters to switch and utilize the meanwhile established ASA scale instead.


What pronunciation did the older Dutch ol/ul/al + dental evolve into?

Unique to the development of Dutch is the collaps of older ol/ul/al + dental into ol + dental, followed by vocalisation of pre-consonantal /l/ and after a short vowel, creating the diphthong


When did regular broadcasts start in Europe?

Test transmissions had been active since the IBC exhibition in September 2003, but the New Year's Day broadcast marked the official launch of the HD1 channel, and the official start of direct-to-home HDTV in Europe.


What commander of the General Staff held the expectaion of independent thinking in his officers?


In which year did Umayyad Caliphate's empire collapse?

Beginning in 711, the land that is now Portugal became part of the vast Umayyad Caliphate's empire of Damascus, which stretched from the Indus river in the Indian sub-continent (now Pakistan) up to the South of France, until its collapse in 750.


What United States territory does the Marshall Islands claim?

The islands are located about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim.


Neptune's mass of 1.0243×1026 kg, is intermediate between Earth and the larger gas giants: it is 17 times that of Earth but just 1/19th that of Jupiter.[d]


There are people of other religious beliefs as well, giving Kathmandu a cosmopolitan culture.


Aside from skills, what is required in order to have the means for building?

As human cultures developed and knowledge began to be formalized through oral traditions and practices, building became a craft, and "architecture" is the name given to the most highly formalized and respected versions of that craft.


What kind of process is the conversion of DGLA to AA?

The conversion rate of omega-6 DGLA to AA largely determines the production of the prostaglandins PGE1 and PGE2.


When did the Roman religion that is generally identified with the republic first established?

However, the Roman religion commonly associated with the republic and early empire did not begin until around 500 BC, when Romans came in contact with Greek culture, and adopted many of the Greek religious beliefs.


What are some good standard home solutions?

Clean plain water can also be one of several fluids given.


What type of capacitor absorbs radio frequency interference?

Snubber capacitors are usually employed with a low-value resistor in series, to dissipate energy and minimize RFI.


What did General Henry Guisan order a general mobilisation of during World War II?

Under General Henri Guisan central command, a general mobilisation of the armed forces was ordered.


By mid-century, Modernism had morphed into the International Style, an aesthetic epitomized in many ways by the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center designed by Minoru Yamasaki.


What city in Israel is a sister city to Philadelphia?

Dedicated in June 1976, the Sister Cities Plaza, a site of 0.5 acres (2,000 m2) located at 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, honors Philadelphia's relationships with Tel Aviv and Florence which were its first sister cities.


What is the largest Atlantic Province city?

The city is the largest in the province and the second largest in the Atlantic Provinces after Halifax, Nova Scotia.


What negative stereotypes have emerged from this understanding?

An individual homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual person may be masculine, feminine, or androgynous, and in addition, many members and supporters of lesbian and gay communities now see the "gender-conforming heterosexual" and the "gender-nonconforming homosexual" as negative stereotypes.


Who narrated a short Spielberg bio at the Kennedy Center?

On July 15, 2006, Spielberg was also awarded the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Summer Gala of the Chicago International Film Festival, and also was awarded a Kennedy Center honour on December 3.


When did CBC end its Doctor Who contributions?

Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who, for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode.


What method of execution did the Nebraska Supreme Court rule unconstitutional?

Nebraska's death penalty statute was rendered ineffective on February 8, 2008 when the required method, electrocution, was ruled unconstitutional by the Nebraska Supreme Court.


What march successfully pressured the national government to sign the ILO Convetion 169?

Lowland indigenous peoples, mostly in the east, entered national politics through the 1990 March for Territory and Dignity organized by the CIDOB confederation.


What percent of Armenias commodities were transported via rail traffic?

The initial post-Soviet years were marred by economic difficulties, which had their roots early in the Karabakh conflict when the Azerbaijani Popular Front managed to pressure the Azerbaijan SSR to instigate a railway and air blockade against Armenia.


In 2010, Beyonce released Dereon to what country?

In July 2009, Beyoncé and her mother launched a new junior apparel label, Sasha Fierce for Deréon, for back-to-school selling.


The city of Paris has sixty homeless shelters, called Centres d'hébergement et de réinsertion sociale or CHRS, which are funded by the city and operated by private charities and associations.


Who held the opinion that judiasm demands and application of torah thought to the entire realm of human experience?

Hirsch held the opinion that Judaism demands an application of Torah thought to the entire realm of human experience, including the secular disciplines.


How were the different levels of award and honour reflected the imperial system?

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all have (in increasing level of precedence)


Transferred genes enter the plant cell nucleus and effectively transform the plant cells into factories for the production of opines, which the bacteria use as carbon and energy sources.


What Carnival takes place on Laetare Sunday?

One of the best-known is Stavelot, where the Carnival de la Laetare takes place on Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent.


How long does it typically take to earn a Master's degree?

It is advised for students who want to attend the Advanced Course to have a background of the principles of immunology.


Which work established Francesco Mario Pagano as an international authority on criminal law?

Cesare Beccaria, a jurist and one of the great Enlightenment writers, became famous for his masterpiece Of Crimes and Punishments (1764), which was later translated into 22 languages.


What was responsible for bringing the language of North middle China to the Fujian region?

They brought the Middle Chinese phonology commonly spoken in Northern China into Zhangzhou.


What is an example of a country where prime ministers can be called Right Honourable solely because of their position?

In the United Kingdom the prime minister and former prime ministers may appear to also be styled Right Honourable, however this is not due to their position as head of government but as a privilege of being current members of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.


In 1836, the now largely "American" Texans, fought a war of independence from the central government of Mexico and established the Republic of Texas.


Which theory consist of cultured adopting new practices,ideas, and products?

Cultures are externally affected via contact between societies, which may also produce—or inhibit—social shifts and changes in cultural practices.


Which Chinese admiral was related to the development of Islam in Indonesia & Malaya?

Soon after that, the king of Kedah Phra Ong Mahawangsa became the first ruler to abandon the traditional Hindu faith, and converted to Islam with the Sultanate of Kedah established in year 1136.


IBM employees created a magazine in 1935, what was its name?

In 1935, the employee magazine Think was created.


Which American bands had ties to the Manchester punk scene?

In the mid 1970s, various American groups (some with ties to Downtown Manhattan's punk scene, including Television and Suicide) had begun expanding on the vocabulary of punk music.


Beginning and ending with what years does Lee argue that the rules of the Empire were incompetent?

" The main cause was a failure of leadership, as Lee argues the first 10 sultans from 1292 to 1566, with one exception, had performed admirably.


When does the spread of antibacterial resistance frequently occurs/

The spread of antibacterial resistance often occurs through vertical transmission of mutations during growth and by genetic recombination of DNA by horizontal genetic exchange.


The 6th gen iPod Classic and 3rd gen iPod nano featured which font?

Starting with the iPod Mini, the Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans.


Where is an insects dry pellet discarded through?

The rectum absorbs 90% of the water in these fecal pellets, and the dry pellet is then eliminated through the anus (element 17), completing the process of digestion.


What office is in charge of collecting foreign intelligence?

This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy and budget between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and the CIA.


What is the aggregate population of Paris?

Since the 19th century, the built-up area of Paris has grown far beyond its administrative borders; together with its suburbs, the whole agglomeration has a population of 10,550,350 (Jan. 2012 census).


What kind of bacteria can form interspecies hydrogen transfer?

One such mutualistic association, called interspecies hydrogen transfer, occurs between clusters of anaerobic bacteria that consume organic acids, such as butyric acid or propionic acid, and produce hydrogen, and methanogenic Archaea that consume hydrogen.


In which direction did the French troops who did not surrender head?

The German cavalry then failed to pursue the French and lost touch with them.


Madonna had a new 10 year, $120 million record deal with which company?

The song was available as a free download during its first week of release.


what is an example of Whitehead's ideas being counter-intuitive?

It is impossible to say exactly why Whitehead's influence has not been more widespread, but it may be partly due to his metaphysical ideas seeming somewhat counter-intuitive (such as his assertion that matter is an abstraction), or his inclusion of theistic elements in his philosophy, or the perception of metaphysics itself as passé, or simply the sheer difficulty and density of his prose.


What type of instrument was somewhat standardized int eh Baroque era?

Wind instruments became more refined in the Classical era.


How much of a drop was there in manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2010?

Paris proper manufacturing jobs dropped by 64 percent between 1990 and 2010, and the Paris region lost 48 percent during the same period.


What two cities were at war during this time?

The new emir of Hamadan, hearing of this correspondence and discovering where Ibn Sina was hiding, incarcerated him in a fortress.


What pre-preg material is designated by "FR-2"?


According to democratic rules of the 106th congress what leadership members do they appoint?

He or she is a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; names the members of the Democratic Leadership Council; chairs the Policy Committee; and heads the Steering Committee.


Which Hawaiin volcano has been erupting since 1983?

There are several active volcanoes located in the islands of Hawaii, including Kilauea in ongoing eruption since 1983, but they do not typically adversely affect the inhabitants of the islands.


What is the most commonly practiced religion in the Congo?

According to CIA World Factbook, the people of Republic of the Congo are largely a mix of Catholics (33.1%), Awakening Lutherans (22.3%) and other Protestants (19.9%).


What kingdom grew out of the duchy founded by Robert Guiscard?

Normans also settled in Sicily and southern Italy, when Robert Guiscard (d. 1085) landed there in 1059 and established a duchy that later became the Kingdom of Sicily.


How long does a wrestler have to leave the ring once they are tagged out?

In some team matches, only one entrant from each team may be designated as the "legal" or "active" wrestler at any given moment.


How old was Bell when he wrote his paper?

Ellis immediately wrote back indicating that the experiments were similar to existing work in Germany, and also lent Bell a copy of Hermann von Helmholtz's work, The Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.


During what Age was Iran the site of several of these ancient civilizations?

There are dozens of prehistoric sites across the Iranian plateau, pointing to the existence of ancient cultures and urban settlements in the 4th millennium BC.


What type of American crews came down in China following the Doolittle raid?

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, which led into World War II, much of Zhejiang was occupied by Japan and placed under the control of the Japanese puppet state known as the Reorganized National Government of China.


Who keeps classifications of different dog breeds?

While all dogs are genetically very similar, natural selection and selective breeding have reinforced certain characteristics in certain populations of dogs, giving rise to dog types and dog breeds.


In 1991, was a proposal for a new league postponed?

The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League.


The dead were buried outside the city walls in graveyards where a small mound covered the corpse, along with offerings to monsters and a small amount of food.


What were the two hit singles off of Queen's album Jazz?

The album included the hit singles "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" on a double-sided record.


Which opera director did Frédéric see works of during his stay in Berlin?

In September 1828 Chopin, while still a student, visited Berlin with a family friend, zoologist Feliks Jarocki, enjoying operas directed by Gaspare Spontini and attending concerts by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Felix Mendelssohn and other celebrities.


Sanskrit is used as a pkilsosophical language in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and which other religion?

As one of the oldest Indo-European languages for which substantial written documentation exists, Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies.


How did Boston's population change in the 1820's?

Currently, Catholics make up Boston's largest religious community, and since the early 20th century, the Irish have played a major role in Boston politics—prominent figures include the Kennedys, Tip O'Neill, and John F. Fitzgerald.


Hunting along migration routes threatens some bird species.


How does Alaska compare with other states in church membership?

According to statistics collected by the Association of Religion Data Archives from 2010, about 34% of Alaska residents were members of religious congregations.


How does Comcast's customer service stack up against its competition?

The company's customer satisfaction often ranks among the lowest in the cable industry.


When was the settlement in Bumpliz close to the medieval city?

In the Early Middle Ages, there was a settlement in Bümpliz, now a city district of Bern, some 4 km (2 mi) from the medieval city.


When was land divided into Israel and Judah?

After the fall of the United Monarchy the land was divided into Israel and Judah.


In what century did the Latin alphabet replace the runic system in Old English writing?

Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English and difficult for Modern English speakers to understand without study.


Between 1974 and 1979, how many immigrants arrived in Israel?

Israel also has a large population of Ethiopian Jews, many of whom were airlifted to Israel in the late 1980s and early 1990s.


How many words did Aavik put in his dictionary?

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.


The relationship between an albatross and a sailor is the central theme of what book?

Among the most famous of these bird artists was John James Audubon, whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success in Europe and who later lent his name to the National Audubon Society.


Who was the first African American to gradute from Vassar College?

But, most families of free people of color formed in Virginia before the American Revolution were the descendants of unions between white women and African men, who frequently worked and lived together in the looser conditions of the early colonial period.


Many of the disaffected barons came from the north of England; that faction was often labelled by contemporaries and historians as "the Northerners".


Australian anthropologist Peg LeVine coined the term "ritualcide" to describe the destruction of a group's cultural identity without necessarily destroying its members.


What movie did Spectre beat to become top movie of the year in Switzerland?

It topped the German-speaking Switzerland box office for four weeks and in the Netherlands, it has held the No. 1 spot for seven weeks straight where it has topped Minions to become the top movie of the year.


Armando Dias, for example, died in November 1913 whilst still very young, a victim of an electric shock when entering the textile industry where he worked.


The Inuplat population inhabit what areas?

The Gwich'in people of the northern Interior region are Athabaskan and primarily known today for their dependence on the caribou within the much-contested Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.


Who opened the structure in which the Royal Institute is currently housed?

In 1934, it moved to its current headquarters on Portland Place, with the building being opened by King George V and Queen Mary.


Later on, what two locations were slaves brought from?

Eventually the planters felt there were too many slaves and no more were imported after 1792.


When was the SNS-101 released in the US?

In October 1997, Nintendo released a redesigned model of the SNES (the SNS-101 model) in North America for US$99, which sometimes included the pack-in game Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.


How big is the sovereign territory of Israel?

However Israel is so narrow that the exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean is double the land area of the country.


Animal taste and smell rely on what kind of communication?

Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell.


Why did Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 accidentally fly into Israel's airspace?

In February 1973, Israeli forces shot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, which had strayed from Egyptian airspace into Israeli-held territory during a sandstorm.


Greenhouses remain an important part of horticulture today, and plastic transparent materials have also been used to similar effect in polytunnels and row covers.


When did Viking travelers establish a trading post in Cork?

Cork achieved an urban character at some point between 915 and 922 when Norseman (Viking) settlers founded a trading port.


What type of band are Backstreet Boys and Westlife?

This format often includes dance-pop (such as upbeat songs by Madonna, Cher, Gloria Estefan and Kylie Minogue), power pops (mainly by boybands such as Backstreet Boys and Westlife), and adult-oriented soft rock music that are ballad-driven (typically by Aerosmith[citation needed], The Eagles, Sting, Toto and The Moody Blues).


He is eventually able to transform between his Hylian and wolf forms at will.


How many people rode the New York City Subway in 2014?

New York's subway is notable for nearly the entire system remaining open 24 hours a day, in contrast to the overnight shutdown common to systems in most cities, including Hong Kong, London, Paris, Seoul, and Tokyo.


When did improvisation begin to lessened strongly?

Improvisation in classical music performance was common during both the Baroque and early romantic eras, yet lessened strongly during the second half of the 19th and in the 20th centuries.


The second controller possessed the START and SELECT buttons as what other device?

Some NES localizations of games, such as The Legend of Zelda, which required the use of the Famicom microphone in order to kill certain enemies, suffered from the lack of hardware to do so.


What is the name of the ecoregion to the east and southeast of the Aravalli Range?

This region is home to the Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion, with tropical dry broadleaf forests that include teak, Acacia, and other trees.


What government was not recognized by the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea?

The USAMGIK refused to recognize the provisional government of the short-lived People's Republic of Korea (PRK) because it suspected it was communist.


It is planned that the new galleries will open in 2018.


Another important research center is the Paul Scherrer Institute.


When did youtube launch its first app for the iPhone?

The mobile version is also available as an app for the Android platform.


Who commanded the armies across the Pruth River?

Fewer than half of the 80,000 Russian soldiers who crossed the Pruth in 1853 survived.


What was the name of the Dutch physicist who invented the Leyden Jar?

The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented a similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar, after the University of Leiden where he worked.


Who argue for a term other than African American to describe recent immigrants?

They suggest that the term "African-American" should refer strictly to the descendants of African slaves and free people of color who survived the slavery era in the United States.


In which year did the Tennessee General Assembly pass electoral reform laws that disenfranchised most African Americans in the state?

Over the next decade, the state legislature passed increasingly restrictive laws to control African Americans.


The concern was over what in China and Tibet?

The resolution would welcome the torch with "alarm and protest at the failure of China to meet its past solemn promises to the international community, including the citizens of San Francisco, to cease the egregious and ongoing human rights abuses in China and occupied Tibet."


When did South Africa impose the apartheid policy on Namibia?

The port of Walvis Bay and the offshore Penguin Islands had been annexed by the Cape Colony under the British crown by 1878 and had become an integral part of the new Union of South Africa at its creation in 1910.


Some such organisms, including the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and cyanobacteria, have evolved a second step in the dark reactions in which protons and electrons are reduced to form H2 gas by specialized hydrogenases in the chloroplast.


What did Mary's child avoid according to the leader of the separation ?

Martin Luther, who initiated the Protestant Reformation, said: "Mother Mary, like us, was born in sin of sinful parents, but the Holy Spirit covered her, sanctified and purified her so that this child was born of flesh and blood, but not with sinful flesh and blood.


The economy grows at what rate in the last few years?

Much of the country is self-sufficient in food crops; however, livestock development is hindered by the presence of the tsetse fly.[citation needed]


What camera style does Spielberg often use?

According to Warren Buckland, these themes are portrayed through the use of low height camera tracking shots, which have become one of Spielberg's directing trademarks.


How soon after the earthquake was Premier Wen Jiabao on his way to the area?

Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao, who has an academic background in geomechanics, flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work.


It was the first time that the Olympic torch had traveled to Macau.


Which precious metal did Biezma discover?

The absence of servants and workers forged the spirit of northern people as self-dependent, creative people that defended their European heritage.