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Ancient Egypt – History

By the late Paleolithic period, the arid climate of Northern Africa became increasingly hot and dry, forcing the populations of the area to concentrate along the Nile valley, and since nomadic modern human hunter-gatherers began living in the region through the end of the Middle Pleistocene some 120& thousand years ago, the Nile has been [...]

St Anne’s College, Oxford – Notable alumni

*Danny Alexander — Liberal Democrat MP (2005—), currently Chief Secretary to the Treasury. *Mary Archer, Baroness Archer — scientist specialising in solar power conversion. *Karen Armstrong, FRSL — author on comparative religion. *Jackie Ashley — broadcaster, journalist, and contributor to ”The Guardian” and ”The New Statesman”. *Louise Bagshawe — Conservative Party MP (2010—). *Wendy Beckett [...]

Exalted – History

Exalted has mechanical and thematic similarities to White Wolf’s previous game series, the old World of Darkness, but exists in its own product line, called the Age of Sorrows. The game has an excellent sales record, on par with the company’s flagship title, ”Vampire: The Masquerade”, the second edition core rulebook achieving a sales ranking [...]

Superman (Kal Kent) – Fictional character biography

”DC One Million” In the 853rd century, the progenitor of the Superman Dynasty, Superman Kal-El, is about to return from his solar Fortress of Solitude after several centuries. As part of the festivities, the Justice Legion Alpha went back in time to recruit the ancient Justice League of America. The current Legion had counter parts [...]

Angul district – History

Angul is like a bridge between western and coastal areas of Orissa where the prehistoric and protohistoric relics are found in village Bhimakund, Kankili, Kulei, Samal, Sanakerjang, Kaliakata, Paranga, Kerjang, Ogi, Tikarapara and Pallahara. The geographical location of Angul made the Bhanjas of Angulaka-pattana, the Sulkis of Kodalaka Mandala, the Nandodbhavas of Airavatta Mandala, the [...]

Shaper/Mechanist universe – Shaper/Mechanist bibliography

The works, listed by original publication date, title, “future timeframe”, and a brief summary: * 1982, ”Swarm” (set in 2248 AD) — Shaper lieutenant Simon Afriel joins a fellow researcher in an interstellar embassy: an asteroid belt inhabited by colonies of insect-like aliens. Afriel also briefly appears in “Twenty Evocations” and ”Schismatrix”. This was also [...]

Christer Fuglesang – Missions

STS-116 Fuglesang’s first spaceflight mission was as a Mission Specialist on STS-116, an assembly and crew-rotation mission to the International Space Station. This flight was called the Celsius Mission by ESA in recognition of Anders Celsius, the Swedish 18th century astronomer who invented the Celsius temperature scale. Spacewalks during STS-116 Mission * First spacewalk with [...]

History of Hydro-Québec – The 1980s and 1990s

A controversial power line to the US After two consecutive decades of sustained growth, the late 1980s and the 1990s were much more difficult for Hydro-Québec, especially on the environmental front. A new hydroelectric development and the construction of a direct current high voltage line built to export power to New England faced strong opposition [...]

1989 in Canada – Events

*January 1: The Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect. *January 21: Brian Peckford announces his resignation from politics, giving the party 2 months to find a replacement as party leader and premier. *March 1: The Canadian Space Agency is created. *March 10: An Air Ontario flight crashes near Dryden, Ontario killing 24 *March 13: [...]

Amateur radio frequency allocations – Band characteristics

Medium frequency *160 meters – 1.8-2 MHz(1800–2000 kHz) – Often taken up as a technical challenge; as long distance (DX) propagation tends to be more difficult due to higher F-layer ionospheric absorption. Long distance propagation tends to occur only at night, and the band can be notoriously noisy particularly in the summer months. 160 meters [...]

High Justice – Introduction

High Justice is a 1974 collection of science fiction short stories by Jerry Pournelle. It was republished in a omnibus edition with ”Exiles to Glory” in 2009 as ”Exile — and Glory”. A major part of the background of these stories is the final fall of the Welfare States; Russia is never mentioned, and the [...]

About-Picard law – Government and religion in France

: Freedom of religion and separation of church and state have formed part of the French idea of the state since at least the French Revolution and in some ways long before, since the 16th century period of the Reformation and of the Wars of Religion. Separation of religion and state in France takes the [...]

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