Kai Tak International Airport - to the Kowloon location was spectacular. The aircraft was literally landing in the city, and people on the plane could see the flicker of televisions in apartment windows. The pilots used a checkerboard on a hillside to guide them to the ground. As well as the difficult and potentially dangerous landing, Hong Kong's growth stretched the airport's capacity. Moreover, the clearance requirements for aircraft takeoffs and landings enforced a limit on the height of the buildings that could be built on expensive Kowloon real estate. As a result, Hong Kong International Airport, also known as "Chek Lap Kok International Airport" was built near Lantau Island. All of the supplies were transported to Chek Lap Kok in a massive move, and planes stopped landing at Kai Tak. Its IATA Airport Code was.
Kimaris - Kimaris Kimaris, also known by the alternate names Cimeies, Cimejes and Cimeries, is most widely known as the 66th daimon of the third part of the Lemegeton (popularly known as the Ars Goetia). He is described as a goodly warrior riding a black horse, and his resume includes the ability to locate lost or hidden treasures, teach trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and make a man into a warrior of his own likeness. He holds the rank of marquis, and is served by 20 legions. He also rules over all the spirits of Africa. Much the same description is found in the earlier text of Johann Weyer's catalog of demons, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (published 1563). Earlier still is the Munich Handbook of Necromancy: Clm 849 (published by Richard Kieckhefer, as.
Korean Buddhism - and monks not only devoted unusually large portions of their time and energy toward the resolution of sectarian debates and apparent doctrinal inconsistencies; they produced a strain of Buddhism of a significantly new character from that which had been initially transmitted to them. This Korean ethnic color of Buddhism, termed by its most important exponent Weonhyo (617-686) as Tongbulgyo ("interpenetrated Buddhism") remanifests itself in various forms in the works of one major Korean thinker after another throughout the history of the tradition. Being geographically contiguous with China, the history and development of culture on the Korean peninsula is strongly influenced by that of the continent, especially during earlier periods when Chinese culture was so advanced as compared with that of its neighbors. The transmission of Buddhism to Korea from China happened.
Kragujevac - 20.92° East(The World Gazetteer). Its name stems from word "sparrow-hawk" in Serbian language. Kragujevac is known for its weapons munitions and car factory, Zastava, which produces Yugo automobiles. The University of Kragujevac (f. 1976) is also located there. The first University in Serbia was founded in this city in 1838, as well as the first Grammar school(Gymnasium), Printworks (both in 1833), Theatre (1834) and Military school (1837). During the period of 1818- 1839, Kragujevac was the capital of a Domain of Serbia, during the reign of the Serbian prince Milos Obrenovic. City insignia Kragujevac experienced a lot of historical turbulence, not always without severe casulties.First mentioned in Turkish documents from the 15th century as a "village of Kragujevdza" (the name comes after the bird griphon - "kraguj" in Serbian), Kragujevac has.
Japan - Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本, literally "the origin of thesun") is a country in Far East Asia located between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, and east of the Korean peninsula. Japan is also known as "The Land of the Rising Sun." Japan comprises a chain of islands, the largest of which are, from south to north, Shikoku (四国), Kyushu (九州), Honshu (本州, the largest island), and Hokkaido (北海道). The Japanese name Nippon is used on stamps and for international sporting events, while Nihon is used more often within Japan. It is from the Chinese version of the name that the English Japan was derived. The early Mandarin Chinese word for Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. In Malay the Chinese word became Japang and was thus encountered by.
Vilnius - Population Data 2 History 3 Vilnius Coat of Arms 4 The Origin of the Vilnius Name 5 Tourism Information 6 Climate 7 Transport Geographic and Population Data City situated in South-Eastern Lithuania (54°41" north latitude and 25°17" east longitude) at the confluence of the River Vilnele and the River Neris. This non-central location can be attributed to the changing shape of the nation through the past centuries; Vilnius was once not only culturally, but geographically the center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The distance from Vilnius to the Baltic Sea and Klaipeda, main Lithuania seaport, is about 312 km. The distance is rather large, but other cities such as Kaunas, Siauliai, and Panevezys can be reached quickly and easily. They are 102, 214 and 135 km from the capital respectively..
Jewish Messiah - Jews, and likely subscribed to Jewish beliefs and practices common at the time. Among these was a belief that a messiah—a descendant of King David—would restore the monarchy and Jewish independence. According to mainstream Jewish beliefs, the failure of Jesus to restore the Kingdom, and his crucifixion by Romans, negated claims that he was the messiah (since most Jews do not accept that Jesus was the messiah, they reject the use of the full (Christian) name. See the Jewish conception of the messiah for a more detailed discussion of the Jewish understanding of the messiah). Nevertheless, many of Jesus's followers—perhaps inspired by encounters with Jesus after his crucifixion and entombment, but also drawing on alternative interpretations of Biblical passages—redefined the concept of messiah to encompass the resurrection and the promise of.
Jesus Christ as the Messiah - the Father, and God himself. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Belief in the divinity 2 Life biography 2.1 Birth and childhood 2.2 The ministry and message of Jesus 2.3 Arrest, sentencing, and crucifixion 2.4 Resurrection, Ascension, and Second Coming 3 Miracles performed 4 Quotes 5 Differences in interpretation 6 See also Belief in the divinity The vast majority of self-described Christians regard belief in the divinity of Jesus to be part of what defines Christianity. According to traditional Christian theology, Jesus is one of the three persons of the Trinity, along with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, who are one and the same. Some relatively new denominations do not believe in the Trinity, believing that Jesus is in fact a separate and distinct being from God the Father and.
Jinyong - by his penname Jinyong (金庸) or Kam-yung - created by splitting the last character of his name - is one of the most influential Chinese-language novelists. He is widely regarded as the finest Chinese wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") writer. Born in mainland China, he is the founder of the popular Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao. He has published fifteen novels (mostly in wuxia style), most of which first appeared on his newspaper. His style, which contains some European elements, is widely derivated from the classic style. His Chinese martial arts novels have earned great popularity in Chinese-speaking areas. Every single of his novels has been rewritten into films, episodes on TV and radio. Characters in his novels are well-known to the public. Jinology (金庸學) is used to term the study.
Jonathan Edwards (theology) - 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. He is known as one of the greatest and most profound American evangelical theologians. His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology and the Puritan heritage. His father Timothy Edwards (1669-1758), son of a prosperous merchant of Hartford, had graduated at Harvard University, was minister at East Windsor, and eked out his salary by tutoring boys for college. His mother, a daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Mass., seems to have been a woman of unusual mental gifts and independence of character. Jonathan, the only son, was the fifth of eleven children. The boy was trained for college by his father and by his elder sisters, who all received.
John Bale - Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes, Phanisees and Papystes most wicked (pr. 1538 and again in 1562) was a morality play. The direction for the dressing of the parts is instructive: "Let Idolatry be decked like an old witch, Sodomy like a monk of all sects, Ambition like a bishop, Covetousness like a Pharisee or spiritual lawyer, False Doctrine like a popish doctor, and Hypocrisy like a gray friar." A Tragedye; or enterlude many Jesting the chief promyses of God unto Man . . . (1538, printed in Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. 1), The Temptacyon of our Lorde (ed. AB Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, vol. j., 1870), and A brefe Comedy or Enterlude of Johan Baptystes preachynge in the Wyldernesse, etc.. (Harl. Misc. vol i.) were all written.
John of Cappadocia - Joannes II, surnamed Cappadox or Cappadocia, less commonly known as John the Cappadocian, Patriarch of Constantinople, (517 - 520), appointed by Anastasius after an enforced condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon. His short patriarchate is memorable for the celebrated Acclamations of Constantinople, and the reunion of East and West after a schism of 34 years. At the death of Timothy, John of Cappadocia, whom he had designated his successor, was presbyter and chancellor of the church of Constantinople. On July 9, 518, the long reign of Anastasius came to a close, the orthodox Justin succeeding. On Sunday July 15, the new emperor entered the cathedral, and the patriarch, accompanied by twelve prelates, was making his way through the throngs that crowded every corner. As he came near the raised dais where.
John Mandeville - Jehan de Mandeville ("Sir John Mandeville"), the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of travels, written in French, and published between 1357 and 1371. By aid of translations into many other languages it acquired extraordinary popularity, while a few interpolated words in a particular edition of an English version gained for Mandeville in modern times the spurious credit of being "the father of English prose." In his preface the compiler calls himself a knight, and states that he was born and bred in England, of the town of St Albans; had crossed the sea on Michaelmas Day 1322; had travelled by way of Turkey (Asia Minor), Armenia the little (Cilicia) and the great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldaea, Amazonia,.
John Antoine Nau - He was educated by a local schoolmaster from the age of five in Maths, Latin, Greek, Russian, and Zulu. He tried to enter university, but was refused on the grounds that his beard didn't match his eyes or coat. This is not surprising when one realises John's moustache was often three feet in width, and once arrested being "in charge of an offensive weapon". He was afterwards banned from growing facial hair in a Court of French Law (pronounced with a Southern drawl). His first book, The Bibble, (a set of contemporary values) met with little success, so the young John turned to crime writing. His first venture in this genre (La Prostitute Gothique) was an immediate success, but it was only with the introduction of his best-known characters that he.
Jubilee (Christian) - author of a treatise on the first Jubilee, that the proclamation of the Jubilee owed its origin to the statements of certain aged pilgrims who persuaded Boniface that great indulgences had been granted to all pilgrims in Rome about a hundred years before. It is also noteworthy that in the Chronicle of Alberic of Three Fountains, under the year 1208 (not, be it noted 1200), we find this brief entry: "It is said that this year was celebrated as the fiftieth year, or the year of jubilee and remission, in the Roman Court." It is beyond all dispute that on February 22, 1300, Boniface published the Bull "Antiquorum fida relatio", in which, appealing vaguely the precedent of past ages, he declares that he grants afresh and renews certain "great remissions and.
July 2003 - Chrétien and Liberal party leadership candidate Paul Martin Jr, both Roman Catholics, indicate that they will continue to advance a bill for same-sex marriage in Canada despite the Vatican's pronouncement, citing the separation of church and state. A US$3030 million payment to the informant who led U.S soldiers to Qusay and Uday Hussein was approved by the U.S. government. The informant will receive both $15 million rewards for Qusay and Uday, a spokesman for the United States Department of State said. [1] July 30, 2003 Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shi'ite Muslim and chief spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party, which was banned during Saddam's rule, is picked to be the first of nine men who will serve one-month stints leading postwar Iraq. He will hold the presidency in August. A Canadian concert,.
Victor Talking Machine Company - United States corporation, the leading American producer phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies of the world. The company was incorporated in Camden, New Jersey in October of 1901 by Eldridge R. Johnson. It was created by merger and reorganization of two existing companies, Emile Berliner's Berliner Gramophone Company which produced disc records, and Johnson's Consolidated Talking Machine Company which produced machines for playing disc records. The company was named "The Victor" in honor of legal victories by Johnson & Berliner over Zonophone and others, related to their rights to patents on and distribution of their products. Victor had the rights in the United States and Latin America to use the famous trademark of the dog Nipper listening to an early disc phonograph (see: His Master's Voice).
Ilocano - Ilokano, refers to the language and culture associated with the Ilocano people, the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. The native area of the Ilocano are in northwestern Luzon and is the defining identity for the Ilocos Region Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 People and Culture 2 Language 2.1 Orthography, Phonology & Morphology 2.2 Written Script (see Baybayin) 2.3 Common expressions 2.4 Numbers (Bilang), Days, Months 3 Related Articles 4 External Link People and Culture Ilocanos are of Malay stock, descendants of Southeast Asian migrants that settled the Philippines in successive waves for centuries. The term Ilocano come from i-, meaning "from", and loöc, meaning "cove or bay", thus "people of the bay." Ilocanos also refer to themselves as Samtoy, a contraction from the Ilocano phrase saö mi ditoy, meaning.
Imad Mugniyah - head of its security section, a senior intelligence official and as a founder of the organization. This discrepancy can be traced to the limited information known about him. He uses the name Hajj as an alias. Mugniyah has been implicated in many of the noted terrorist attacks of the 1980s and 1990s, primarily American and Israeli targets. These include the April 18, 1983 bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, which killed 60 people including 17 Americans. He was later blamed for the October 23, 1983 simultaneous truck bombings against the French paratroopers and US Marine barracks. The attacks killed 58 French soldiers and 241 Marines. Almost a year later on September 20, 1984, he attacked the US embassy annex building. The United States indicted him for the July 14,.
Investigation and the arrest of Dreyfus - Espionage 2 The anonymous letter 3 Investigation 4 Alfred Dreyfus 5 The Judicial Inquiry French Espionage Among the military services reorganized after the war of 1870 was that of the Intelligence Department (the secret service), which had as one of its principal occupations to watch the German embassy. The ambassador, Count Münster, had promised on his word of honor that in future his attachés should abstain from bribing the French officers or officials. However, it was known at the Intelligence Office that the new attaché, Colonel Schwarzkoppen, probably without the knowledge of the ambassador, continued to pay spies, being in direct correspondence with the War Office in Berlin. According to indications furnished by a former Spanish military attaché, Señor Val Carlos, Schwarzkoppen and the Italian military representative, Colonel Panizzardi, had agreed.
