Fourteen Points - Fourteen Points President Woodrow Wilson delivered a speech to Congress on January 8, 1918 outlining Fourteen Points for reconstructing a new Europe following World War I. While many of the points were specific, others were more general, including freedom of the seas, abolishing secret treaties, disarmament, and the right of national sovreignty. The speech reached for the highest ideals, and was a precursor to the League of Nations (see point 14). However, history shows that despite the idealism, the post - World War I reconstruction of Europe adopted only a few of the points. An excerpt from the speech outlining the 14 points is given below: Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but.
Fourteen - Fourteen Fourteen (14) is the natural number following thirteen and preceding fifteen. Fourteen is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 7. In base fifteen and higher bases (such as hexadecimal), fourteen is represented as E. This number is the lowest even n for which the equation φ(x) = n has no solution (see Euler's totient function. Fourteen is also: The atomic number of silicon. The number of days in a fortnight. In traditional British units of weight, the number of pounds in a stone. A number 'encoded' in a lot of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach may have considered this number a sort of signature, since given A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc., then B +.
Fourteen Holy Helpers - Fourteen Holy Helpers The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints formerly venerated together in Roman Catholicism because prayer to them was thought to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This cult originated in the thirteenth century, largely as a result of the epidemic (probably of bubonic plague) that became known as the Black Death. The saints included were: Achatius, invoked against headache Barbara, against fever and sudden death Blaise, against illness of the throat Catherine of Alexandria, against sudden death Christopher, against bubonic plague Cyriacus, against temptation on the death-bed Denis, against headache Erasmus, against intestinal ailments Eustachius, against family discord George, for the health of domestic animals Giles, against plague, for a good confession Margaret of Antioch, for childbirth Pantaleon, for physicians.
Karsten Niebuhr - sailed from Suez to Jeddah, journeying thence overland to Mocha. Here in May 1763 the philologist of the expedition, van Haven, died, and was followed shortly after by the naturalist Forsskål. Sana, the capital of Yemen, was visited, but the remaining members of the expedition suffered so much from the climate or from the mode of life that they returned to Mocha. Niebuhr seems to have saved his own life and restored his health by adopting the native habits as to dress and food. From Mocha the ship was taken to Bombay, the artist of the expedition dying on the passage, and the surgeon soon after landing. Niebuhr was now the only surviving member of the expedition. He stayed fourteen months at Bombay, and then returned home by Muscat, Bushire, Shiraz.
Kazuo Umezu - only comic available in English translation is Orochi: Blood. Bibliography: Orochi: Blood Drifting Classroom My Name is Shingo Makotochan Again Iara\ Baptism of Blood Fourteen Years Left Hand of God, Right Hand of the Devil Filmography Drifting Classroom (movie) Blood Baptism (movie) Long Love Letter: Drifting Classroom (TV Drama).
Katmai National Park and Preserve - of Anchorage. Originally, on September 24, 1918, the area was designated a national monument to protect the area around the major 1912 volcanic eruption of Novarupta, which formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. There are at least fourteen active volcanoes within the national park. Katmai is also well known for brown bears and the salmon which attract both bears and people. Bears are especially likely to congregate at Brooks Falls, where there is a viewing platform. Many well known photographs of brown bears have been taken at Brooks Falls. See also: National parks (United States).
Kevin Millwood - League. In 2002, after having another eighteen-win season, the Braves traded Millwood to the Phillies for the catcher Johnny Estrada, probably in order to cut their payroll in the midst of economic difficulties. In 2003, Millwood fared reasonably with the Phillies, winning fourteen games. In that year, he also pitched a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants..
King Tawhiao - over the rest of the country. However the Pakeha population was increasing fast while the Maori population was either static or declining. This was also the period when the British felt they had a manifest destiny to rule the world. The presence of an independent native state was seen by many as intolerable partuclarly as it occupied most of the territory of the islands. In 1863 on very slim pretexts and in defiance of the Treaty of Waitangi the Pakeha Government backed by some fourteen thousand Imperial Troops invaded the Waikato, King Tawhio's territory. The Waikato people maded a strong defence but ineviatbly were forced to retreat. The conquered land was confiscated, altogether about a million acres, four hundred thousand hectares. Tawhiao and his people moved southwards, into the territory of.
Klaus Fuchs - He was present at the Trinity test. Fuchs passed detailed information on the project to the Russians through Harry Gold in 1945 and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1947. But it was not until 1948 that it was discovered that the Manhattan Project security had been breached and not until 1949, when Fuchs had returned to England and the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, that he was confronted by intelligence officers as a result of the cracking of Soviet ciphers known as theVENONA project. Fuchs was prosecuted by Sir Hartley Shawcross. Fuchs confessed in January 1950 and was convicted on March 1, 1950 and sentenced the next day to fourteen years in prison, the maximum possible for passing military secrets to a friendly nation. On June 23, 1959 Fuchs.
Komsomol - organisation served as the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the youngest members being fourteen years old, the eldest being in their mid twenties. Younger children could join the allied Pioneers organisation. Komsomol had little direct influence on the Communist Party, and so the government of the soviet union, but as a mechanism for teaching the values of the CPSU in the young, and as an organ for introducing the young to the political domain, Komsomol fulfilled an important role in Soviet government. Along with these purposes, the organisation served as a highly mobile pool of labour and political activism, with the ability to move to areas of high-priority at short notice. Members received privileges and preferment in promotion. For example, Yuri Andropov, CPSU General Secretary.
Kurukshetra - eldest of the Kaurava brothers, Duryodhana, refused to return the kingdom to the Pandavas. In order to regain the kingdom, the Pandavas fought the war. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 1.1 The Pandava Army 1.2 The Kaurava Army 1.3 Weapons 1.4 Divisions and Formations 1.5 The Rules 2 The War 2.6 Before the War 2.7 Day One 2.8 Days Two to Nine 2.9 Day Ten 2.10 Day Eleven 2.11 Day Twelve 2.12 Day Thirteen 2.13 Day Fourteen 2.14 Day Fifteen 2.15 Day Sixteen 2.16 Day Seventeen 2.17 Day Eighteen 2.18 After the War Introduction The Pandava Army The Pandava Brothers: Prince Yudhistira, Eldest son of Pandu Prince Bhima, Second son of Pandu Prince Arjuna, Third son of Pandu Twin Princes Nakula and Sahadeva, Youngest sons of Pandu The Kingdom of.
J. Robert Janes - later geology at Brock University until he dedicated himself to writing full time. Janes has published fourteen novels, five mystery novels for children, and textbooks on geology. His St.Cyr & Kohler mysteries, set in occupied France during World War II, are his most popular works and critically acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, amongst others, for their historic accuracy. The American based Western Society for French History, used his writings as a study of the convergence of fiction with history. Works Gypsy Sandman Carousel Kaleidoscope Mayhem The Alice Factor The Hiding Place The Third Story The Toy Shop The Watcher Dollmaker Mannequin Salamander Stonekiller.
January 8 - patent for his electric tabulating machine. 1894 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage. 1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule. 1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains. 1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli. 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia. 1935 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer. 1953 - René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France 1958 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess.
Jacob - Haran, 400 miles or more, to find a wife among his cousins, the family of Laban, the Syrian (28). There he met with Rachel (29). Laban would not consent to give him his daughter in marriage till he had served seven years; but to Jacob these years "seemed but a few days, for the love he had to her." But when the seven years were expired, Laban craftily deceived Jacob, and gave him his daughter Leah. Other seven years of service had to be completed probably before he obtained the beloved Rachel. But "life-long sorrow, disgrace, and trials, in the retributive providence of God, followed as a consequence of this double union." At the close of the fourteen years of service, Jacob desired to return to his parents, but at the.
Jafari - the Sunni schools of thought (madhab) Hanafi, Maliki, Shafai and Hanbali. The difference in Sunni and Shia Sharia results from; (1) Alternate interpretations of the Quran, (2) Alternate interpretation of the Hadith from which the Sunnah is derived, (3) Disagreement on the veracity of several Hadith, (4) The Shia non-acceptance of the "examples" and verdicts of the three first Caliphs, Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman, (5) the concept of the Infallibility (masuum) of the Twelve Imams, or the Fourteen Infallibles (including Muhammad and his daughter Fatima Zahra), hence the Shia accept their examples and verdicts as is, if they can be proven to have been authentically related from any of them. Some examples of Jafari jurispudence differing from Sunni (This list is not exhaustive nor representative of the sunni/shia dispute on.
James Murray - He had no formal education after the age of fourteen but became a respected scholar by private study. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879. He had eleven children, the eldest Harold James Ruthven Murray becoming a prominent chess historian. His biography was written by his granddaughter: Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary, K. M. Elisabeth Murray, Yale University Press, 2001, trade paperback, ISBN 0300089198 He is the professor in the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (US title The Professor and the Madman). Dr. William Chester Minor, a volunteer who worked on the dictionary was the madman..
Jack Johnson - the former champion Bob Fitzsimmons in July 1907 and knocked him out in two rounds. He eventually won the World Heavyweight Title on December 26, 1908 when he fought the World Heavyweight Champion, Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia, after following him there. The fight lasted fourteen rounds before being stopped by the police. The title was awarded to Johnson on a referee's decision as a T.K.O. As title holder he had to face a series of fights with "great white hopes", often as exhibition matches. In 1909 he beat Victor McLaglen, Frank Moran, Jack O'Brien, Tony Ross, Al Kaufman, and the middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel. But on July 4, 1910 he defeated James J. Jeffries, a champion who had earlier turned him down, with a K.O. in the fifteenth round.
Jack Lang (Australia) - and eventually Mayor. He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of New South Wales in 1913 for the electorate of Granville, serving as a backbencher in the Labor Party government led by William Holman. His high levels of financial acumen and self-made wealth made him the ideal choice to become Treasurer of New South Wales in Premier Storey's Labor Government from 1920 to 1922. Due to the post-WW1 financial recession the State's accounts were in a persistent deficit, and Lang managed to cut this deficit significantly. After the ALP lost government in 1922, Lang was relegated to the Opposition benches, where he was elected as Opposition Leader in 1923 by his fellow Labor Party MPs. He led the ALP to victory in the 1925 NSW.
January 2003 - 2003 Tom Ridge is unanimously recommended by a United States Senate subcommittee to be confirmed by the full Senate as head of the new United States Department of Homeland Security which is scheduled to begin operation on January 24.[1] (RealAudio stream) A 1.3-mile tunnel, representing the latest major piece of Boston, Massachusetts' Big Dig, opened, connecting the Massachusetts Turnpike to Logan International Airport. The tunnel will reduce the trip from downtown Boston from 45 minutes in traffic to 8 minutes. The next phase, taking the elevated Interstate 93 and putting it underground, should be finished by early 2004. Gertrude Janeway, the last widow of a Union veteran from the American Civil War, died at the age of 93, in Blaine, Tennessee. Gertrude married John Janeway in 1927, when she was 18.
Janez Vajkard Valvasor - Graduating in 1658 at the age of seventeen, he did not choose to continue his studies at a university but decided to broaden his horizons by meeting learned men on a journey across Europe. This journey lasted fourteen years and it even took him to northern Africa. During this period, he joined the army in the Austrian-Turkish war, where he became closely acquainted with the conditions in the region of Vojna Krajina (Borderland, German Militärgrenze) in Croatia. Shortly after marrying Anna Rosina Grafenweger in 1672, Janez Vajkard acquired the Bogenšperk castle near Litija, where he arranged for a writing, drawing and printing workshop. Valvasor spent a fortune on writing and publishing books to the extent that towards the end of his life he was forced to sell the Bogenšperk Castle, his.
