Gang of Four (China) - Gang of Four (China) Here are the members of the gang at trial in 1981 () The Gang of Four (四人帮, pinyin: sì rén bāng) in the People's Republic of China was a group of Communist Party leaders who were arrested and removed from their positions in 1976, following the death of Mao Zedong. They included Mao's widow (his fourth wife) Jiang Qing, and three of his close associates, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen. After their removal, two other men who were already dead in 1976, Kang Sheng and Xie Fuzhi, were named as having been part of the "Gang." The removal of this group from power marked the end of the Cultural Revolution, which had been launched by Mao in 1966 as part of.
Ken Livingstone - of the Greater London Council in 1973 and served as Vice-Chair of Housing Mangement in 1974-1975. He also served on the Camden council from 1978 to 1982 and unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in the 1979 general election. Livingstone was re-admitted to the Labour Party in January 2004 following a five year suspension (curtailed to four years) after he stood against the official Labour Party candidate as an independent in the first mayoral election. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 GLC leadership 2 Livingstone in Parliament 3 London's first Mayor 4 Recent events GLC leadership In the election of May 7 1981, the Labour Party won control of the GLC, with moderate Labourite Andrew McIntosh (later Lord McIntosh) as leader. The day after the election, Livingstone challenged McIntosh for the leadership, defeating him.
King Xian of Zhou - Chinese Zhou Dynasty and the twenty-third of Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Personal information Family name Ji (姬 jī) in Chinese Given name Bian (扁 bĭan) in Chinese Era name none Father King An of Zhou Mother unknown Wife unknown Children King Shenjing of Zhou Duration of reign 368 BC-321 BC Tomb unknown Temple name unknown Courtesy name unknown Posthumous name 顯 (pinyin xĭan), literary meaning: "remarkable" or "illustrious" Preceded by: King Lie of Zhou Zhou Dynasty Succeeded by: King Shenjing of Zhou.
King Tawhiao - Potata was installed as the first Maori kIng, his pupose being to promote unity among the Maori people in the face of Pakeha encroachment. Poatau died in 1860 and was succeeded by Tawhiao who reigned for thirty four years during one of the most difficult and discouraging periods of Maori history. In New Zealand during this period there were two governments. English Law and Govenance prevailed within the settlenments and Maori Law or Custom 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.
Knuth -yllion - to save space; but to emphasize the pattern, this group is separate.) 100 to 9999 are divided before the 2nd-last digit and named "blah hundred blah". (eg 1234 is "twelve hundred thirty-four"; 7623 is "seventy-six hundred twenty-three") 104 to 108-1 are divided before the 4th-last digit and named "blah myriad blah". Knuth also introduces at this level a grouping symbol (comma) for the numeral. So, 382,1902 is "382 myriad 19 hundred 2". 108 to 1016-1 are divided before the 8th-last digit and named "blah myllion blah", and a semicolon separates the digits. So 1,0002;0003,0004 is "1 myriad 2 myllion 3 myriad 4" 1016 to 1032-1 are divided before the 16th-last digit and named "blah byllion blah", and a colon separates the digits. So 12:0003,0004;0506,7089 is "12 byllion 3 myriad 4 myllion.
Kohen - pallium (I Sam. ii. 18 et seq., iii. 1). The kings of Israel ordained as priest whomever they chose (I Kings xli); David, too, invested his own sons, as well as the Jairite Ira, of the tribe of Manasseh, with the priestly office. Since, in pre-exilic times, the whole tribe of Levi was chosen "to stand before God in order to minister unto Him," It is but consistent that the office "of blessing in God's name" (which in the Priestly Code is assigned to Aaron and his sons—Num. vi. 23) should, in the Deuteronomic code, pertain to all the Levites (comp. Deut. x. 8, xxi. 8). A strong proof that all members of the Levitical tribe were entitled to priesthood is furnished in the provision which was made by the Deuteronomic.
Korean Buddhism - would end up becoming extremely popular in Korea, not only as a pervasive mode of practice for the common people, but as a major topic of inquiry for many of Korea's most influential scholar-monks. Because later histories were usually written by and for educated aristocrats who were adherents of the scholarly schools of Buddhism, the deep and widespread interest that Pure Land held in the Korean religious consciousness tended to be ignored in these historical works, a practice which has influence down to the present. The Silla is characterized by Buddhist historians as having two distinct periods which closely correspond to the political fortunes of the dynasty. The first, which is the period of the flowering of intellectual brilliance, is directly correlated to the period of political stability, when members of.
Korean calendar - Zodiac 2.2 Ten Heavenly Stems 2.3 Sixty-Year Cycle 2.4 Twenty-Four Seasons 2.5 Lunar Months Modern Calendar Traditional Calendar Chinese Zodiac (Hours and Years) Ten Heavenly Stems Sixty-Year Cycle Twenty-Four Seasons Lunar Months.
Kuniyoshi - Although arrested in the morals-based crackdown of 1842 on the print and theatre world, he escaped with a fine. In the 1850s the quality of his work started to decline, and after the great earthquake of 1855, in which he was given up for dead by his family and studio when he was late coming home, he suffered extensively from illness and depression, and produced little more. He died in Edo, in 1861. Pupils Although he had quite a few pupils, his chief pupil was Yoshitoshi, the last of the great Japanese woodblock masters. Print Series Here is a partial list of his print series, with dates: Illustrated Abridged Biography of the Founder (c. 1831) Famous Views of the Eastern Capital (c. 1834) Heroes of Our Country's Suikoden (c. 1836) Stories.
Kuru epidemic - prion. Symptoms of Kuru Gajdusek studied Kuru, and he found the condition of Kuru victims to be an upsetting sight. He explains, "...to see them, however, regularly progress to neurological degeneration in three to six months (usually three) and to death is another matter and cannot be shrugged off" (Gajdusek, 1996:10). Gajdusek reported three main stages in the progression of symptoms. The first stage is called the ambulant stage, and it includes unsteadiness of stance, gait, voice, hands, and eyes; deterioration of speech; tremor; shivering; in- coordination in lower extremities that moves slowly upward; and dysarthria (slurring of speech). The second stage is also known as the sedentary stage, and Gajdusek defines it with the following symptoms: patient can no longer walk without support, more severe tremors and ataxia (loss of.
Jainism - Digambaras and Svetambaras The two major sects of Jainism trace their origin to events that occurred ~200 years after the death of Mahavira. Bhadrabahu, chief of the Jain monks, foresaw a period of famine and led all who would follow him (~12,000 people), to southern India. Twelve years later, they returned to find that Svetambara sect had arisen. The followers of Bhadrabahu became known as the Digambaras. Jain cosmology According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist. It is eternal but not unchangeable, because it passes through an endless series of alternations or swings. Each of these upward or downward swings is divided into four world ages (yugas). The present world age is the fourth age of one of these "swings", which is.
James Clerk Maxwell - The instruments which he devised for these investigations were simple and convenient, but could not have been thought of for the purpose except by a man whose knowledge was co-extensive with his ingenuity. In 1856, Maxwell was appointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, which he held until the fusion of the two colleges there in 1860. He obtained in 1859 the Adams prize in Cambridge for an original and powerful essay, “On the Stability of Saturn’s Rings”, in which he concluded the rings could not be completely solid or fluid. Maxwell demonstrated stability could be reached only if the rings consisted of numerous small solid particles. He also mathematically disproved the nebular hypothesis (which stated that solar system formed through the progressive condensation of a purely.
Janet Gaynor - only time in Oscar history that this prestigious award was given for multiple roles. The award was given on the basis of the actor's total work over the year, and not just for one particular performance. Gaynor was one of only a handful of leading ladies who made a successful transition to sound movies over the next decade. In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born. Soon after, she left film for almost twenty years, returning one last time in 1957 in Bernardine. She died in 1984 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Filmography 1926 The Blue Eagle 1926 The Johnstown Flood 1926 The Midnight Kiss 1926 The Return of Peter Grimm.
Janet Jackson - to the Top 5 of the Pop charts, with Janet achieving her first number 1 single with "When I Think Of You". Five of the singles, except "When I Think Of You" hit #1 on the R&B charts. A&M Records co-founder and artist in his own right, Herb Alpert would record three songs with Janet and singer Lisa Keith in 1987 for his next album. Only two would make the cut, but both tracks would be released to radio. The single "Diamonds" would hit #5 on the Pop charts and #1 on the R&B charts, and "Making Love In The Rain" would hit the Top 40 on the Pop charts, and Top 10 on the R&B charts. Herb and Janet had two extra hits on their hands. It took until 1989.
Jacques Rose - violence, bombings and kidnappings, culminating in insurrection and revolution. In 1970, Jacques Rose's Chenier cell of the terrorism group kidnapped and murdered Quebec Vice Premier and Cabinet Minister, Pierre Laporte. The Chenier Cell of the FLQ terrorist group consisted of Jacques Rose, his brother, Paul Rose, the Cell's leader, Bernard Lortie, and Francis Simard. Before the end of 1970, twenty-three members of the FLQ were in jail, including four convicted murderers, and one member had been killed by his own bomb. Jacques Rose's involvement in the Quebec nationalist group began in 1968 after a meeting his brother Paul had with Jacques Lanctôt, a member of the FLQ, during an anti-Trudeau (Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau) rally at the St. Jean Baptiste parade. Jacques Rose was acquitted of both the murder.
Jacobus de Voragine - success in many parts of Italy, taught in the schools of his own fraternity. He was provincial of Lombardy from 1267 till 1286, when he was removed at the meeting of the order in Paris. He also represented his own province at the councils of Lucca (1288) and Ferrara (1290). On the last occasion he was one of the four delegates charged with signifying Nicholas IV's desire for the deposition of Munio de Zamora, who had been master of the order from 1285, and was deprived of his office by a papal bull dated April 12, 1291. In 1288 Nicholas empowered him to absolve the people of Genoa for their offence in aiding the Sicilians against Charles II. Early in 1292 the same pope, himself a Franciscan, summoned Jacobus to Rome,.
Jack Lynch - re-unification of the national territory can provide the only permanent solution for the problem, it is our intention to request the British Government to enter into early negotiations with the Irish Government to review the present constitutional position of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland. These measures which I have outlined to you seem to the Government to be those most immediately and urgently necessary. All men and women of goodwill will hope and pray that the present deplorable and distressing situation will not further deteriorate but that it will soon be ended firstly by the granting of full equality of citizenship to every man and woman in the Six Counties area regardless of class, creed or political persuasion and, eventually, by the restoration of the historic unity of our country..
Japanese battleship Yamato - at a specially prepared dock at Kure naval dockyards from November 4, 1937. She was launched on August 8, 1940 and commissioned on December 16, 1941. There were intended to be four ships of this class, but the Shinano was converted to an aircraft carrier during construction (sunk 1944) and the un-named Warship Number 111 was scrapped in 1943 when around 30% complete. The proposed super Yamato class, with 508 mm guns, was abandoned. She was the flagship of Isoroku Yamamoto from February 12, 1942. Replaced as flagship by the Musashi she spent much of 1943 in harbor at Truk. The anti-aircraft defences were greatly increased in 1943 at Kure but as she returned to Truk on December 25, 1943 she was badly damaged by a torpedo from USS Skate and.
James Gillespie Blaine - Philadelphia. During this period, also, he studied law. Settling in Augusta, Maine, in 1854, he became editor of the Kennebec Journal, and subsequently on the Portland Advertiser. But his editorial work was soon abandoned for a more active public career. He was elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1858, and served four years, the last two as speaker. He also became chairman of the Republican state committee in 1859, and for more than twenty years personally directed every campaign of his party. In 1862 he was elected to Congress, serving in the House thirteen years (December 1863 to December 1876), followed by a little over four years in the Senate. He was chosen speaker of the House in 1869 and served three terms. The House was the.
Jan Zizka - the town councillors from its windows. When a temporary armistice was concluded between the partisans of King Sigismund and the citizens of Prague, Zizka marched to Plzen with his followers, but soon left that city, and, after defeating at Sudomer the partisans of Sigismund, arrived at Tabor, the newly founded stronghold of the advanced Hussites. Zizka took a large part in the organization of the new military community and became one of the four captains of the people (hejtman) who were at its head. Meanwhile Sigismund, king of the Germans and king of Hungary, invaded Bohemia, claiming the crown as the heir of his brother Wenceslaus. Menaced by Sigismund, the citizens of Prague entreated the Taborites for assistance. Led by Zizka and their other captains, the Taborites set out to take.
