Woochi - Wine Encyclopaedia - Woochi - Wine Encyclopaedia Woochi is an online encyclopedia related to Wine, and the aims to be the largest of its kind. It is built on the ISWN (International Standard Wine Number) global reference database of wine producers and wines worldwide. Open Source forums allows wine lovers to add text notes, images, and links. Woochi went online in August 2002 and is still in Alpha test. Major improvements can be expected for 2003..
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Kohen - local authority, has the sole responsibility in making such a p'sak, decision. One position of the CJLS is that daughters of Kohanim and Leviyim can be accorded the same aliyot that are normally accorded to Kohanim and Leviyim, whether they are single or married. Their status regarding being called to the Torah should not be determined by the lineage of their husbands, but by their own paternal lineage. (Rabbi Joel Roth "The status of daughters of Kohanim and Leviyim for aliyot" 11/15/89) Another position is that women do not receive such aliyot. The law committee of the Masorti movement (Conservative Judaism in Israel) has also ruled that women do not receive such aliyot. (Rabbi Robert Harris, 5748) In regards to the ritual of pidyon ha'ben women may perform it on a.
John Cheke - September 3 1554, and granted permission to travel abroad. He went first to Basel, then visited Italy, giving lectures in Greek at Padua, where he entertained Sir Philip Hoby. He finally settled at Strasbourg, teaching Greek for his living. In the spring of 1556 he visited Brussels to see his wife; on his way back, between Brussels and Antwerp, he and Sir Peter Carew were seized (May 15) by order of Philip II of Spain, taken to England, and imprisoned in the Tower. Cheke was visited by two priests and by Dr John Feckenham, dean of St Paul's, whom he had formerly tried to convert to Protestantism, and, terrified by the prospect of being burned at the stake, he agreed to be received into the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pole..
Hussite Wars - arrived at Usti, one of the earliest meeting-places of the Hussites. Not considering its situation sufficiently strong, he moved to the neighbouring new settlement of the Hussites, called by the biblical name of Tabor. Tabor soon became the centre of the advanced Hussites, who differed from the Utraquists by recognizing only two sacraments - Baptism and Communion - and by rejecting most of the ceremonial of the Roman Church. The ecclesiastical organization of Tabor had a somewhat puritanic character, and the government was established on a thoroughly democratic basis. Four captains of the people (hejtmane) were elected, one of whom was Zizka; and a very strictly military discipline was instituted. The First Anti-Hussite Crusade Sigismund, king of the Romans, had, by the death of his brother Wenceslaus without issue, acquired a.
Gilding - employed for coating baser metals, as in button-making, in the gilt toy trade, in electro-gilt reproductions and in electro-plating; and it is also a characteristic feature in the decoration of pottery, porcelain and glass. The various processes fall under one or other of two headings; mechanical gilding and chemical gilding. Mechanical Gilding embraces all the operations by which goldleaf is prepared (see GOLDBEATING), and the several processes by which it is mechanically attached to the surfaces it is intended to cover. It thus embraces the burnish or water-gilding and the oil-gilding of the carver and gilder, and the gilding operations of the house decorator, the sign-painter, the bookbinder, the paperstainer and several others. Polished iron, steel and other metals are gilt mechanically by applying gold-leaf to the metallic surface at a.
Absinthe - condition absinthisme. The wormwood extract is responsible for the drink containing a compound called thujone, which is an epileptic in extremely high doses, but far more than could be consumed by normal drinking. Most of the thujone is removed during the distillation process, but can remain in higher amounts in oils or when macerated, especially the plant stems, where thujone content is the highest. No modern scientific studies have been carried out to back the validity of 19th century medical claims to absinthe's supposed dangers as a drink, apart from its high alcohol content. Legal status After publicity about several violent crimes supposedly committed under the direct influence of the drink, along with a general tendency toward hard liquor consumption due to the wine shortage in France during the 1880s and.
Badalona - river Besós, and on the Mediterranean sea. Population 208,994 (2001). See also List of municipalities in Barcelona. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Please update as needed. Badalona has a station on the coast railway from Barcelona to Perpignan in France, and a small harbour, chiefly important for its fishing and boat-building trades. There are gas, chemical and mineral-oil works in the town, which also manufactures woollen? and cotton goods, glass, biscuits, sugar and brandy; while the surrounding fertile plains produce an abundance of grain, wine and fruit. Badalona thus largely contributes to the export trade of Barcelona, and may, in fact, be regarded as its industrial suburb..
Charles Collé - Collé his reader. It was for the duke and his associates that Collé composed the greater part of his Théâtre de société. In 1763 Collé produced at the Théâtre Français Dupuis et Desronais, a successful sentimental comedy, which was followed in 1771 by La Veuve, which was a complete failure. In 1774 appeared La Partie de chasse de Henri Quatre (partly taken from Dodsley's King and the Miller of Mansfield), Collé's last and best play. From 1748 to 1772, besides these and a multitude of songs, Collé was writing his Journal, a curious collection of literary and personal strictures on his boon companions as well as on their enemies, on Piron as on Voltaire, on La Harpe as on Corneille. Collé's lyrics are frank and jovial, though often licentious. The subjects.
Cottabus - 5th centuries B.C. It is frequently alluded to by the classical writers of the period, and not seldom depicted on ancient vases. The object of the player was to cast a portion of wine left in his drinking cup in such a way that, without breaking bulk in its passage through the air, it should reach a certain object set up as a mark, and there produce a distinct noise by its impact. Both the wine thrown and the noise made were called Xivra~. The thrower, in the ordinary form of the game, was expected to retain the recumbent position that was usual at table, and, in flinging the cottabus, to make use of his right hand only. To succeed in the aim no small amount of dexterity was required, and.
Stereometry - deals with the measurements of volumes of various solid figuress: cylinder, circular cone, truncated cone, sphere, prisms, blades, wine casks. History The Pythagoreans had dealt with the sphere and regular solids, but the pyramid, prism, cone and cylinder were but little known until the Platonistss took them in hand. Eudoxus established their mensuration, proving the pyramid and cone to have one-third the content of a prism and cylinder on the same base and of the same height, and was probably the discoverer of a proof that the volumes of spheres are as the cubes of their radii. See also: Archimedes, Demiurge, Johannes Kepler, planimetry, Plato, Plato's Timaeus ...partly from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Sydney Thompson Dobell - poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook, Kent. His father was a wine merchant, his mother a daughter of Samuel Thompson (1766-1837), a London political reformer. The family moved to Cheltenham when Dobell was twelve years old. He was educated privately, and never attended either school or university. He refers to this in some lines on Cheltenham College in imitation of Chaucer, written in his eighteenth year. After a five years engagement he married, in 1844, Emily Fordham, a lady of good family. An acquaintance with Mr (subsequently Sir James) Stansfeld and with the Birmingham preacher-politician, George Dawson (1821-1876), which afterwards led to the foundation of the Society of the Friends of Italy, fed the young enthusiast's ardour for the liberalism of the day. Meanwhile, Dobell wrote a number of minor.
Quintus Hortensius - successfully defended Appius Claudius Pulcher when accused of treason and corrupt practices by P. Cornelius Dolabella, afterwards Cicero's son-in-law. Hortensius's speeches are not extant. His oratory, according to Cicero, was of the Asiatic style, a florid rhetoric, better to hear than to read. He had a wonderfully tenacious memory (Cicero, Brutus, 88, 95), and could retain every single point in his opponent's argument. His action was highly artificial, and his manner of folding his toga was noted by tragic actors of the day (Macrobius, Sat. iii. 13. 4). He also possessed a fine musical voice, which he could skilfully command. The vast wealth he had accumulated he spent on splendid villas, parks, fish-ponds and costly entertainments. He was the first to introduce peacocks as a table delicacy at Rome. He was.
Nabataeans - is properly spelled with i not t. Thus the history of the Nabataeans cannot certainly be carried back beyond 312 BC, at which date they were attacked without success by Antigonus I. They are described by Diodorus as being at this time a strong tribe of some 10,000 warriors, pre-eminent among the nomadic Arabs, eschewing agriculture, fixed houses and the use of wine, hut adding to pastoral pursuits a profitable trade with the seaports in myrrh and spices from Arabia Felix, as well as a trade with Egypt in bitumen from the Dead Sea. Their arid country was the best safeguard of their cherished liberty; for the bottle-shaped cisterns for rain-water which they excavated in the rocky or argillaceous soil were carefully concealed from invaders. Petra or Sela was the ancient.
Vermouth - Vermouth Vermouth is a fortified wine flavoured with aromatic herbs. There are four styles of vermouth, in order from driest to sweetest: french, dry, sweet and bianco. Vermouth, along with gin, is a key ingredient in the mixing of martiniss. Makers include Martini and Rossi (Italty) Gallo (California) Noilley Prat.
Kalimantaan - as an appendix, it does not cover all the words she uses. Enjoyment of Kalimantaan will be enhanced if one knows the following Malay words which are not in the glossary provided by the author: Malay English abang elder brother adat tradition, custom ajar to teach berani, brani brave, bold besar big, great bulan moon, month bujang bachelor buaya crocodile bulbul nightingale datin wife of a datu datu minister in traditional Malay government dayang woman of high rank hantu, antu ghost, spirit hati liver (as the seat of emotion, typically translated "heart") ikan fish ikat tie, knot jaga guard jalan street, road kain cloth (in the story, it describes a cloth belt) kaya wealthy, rich kongsi association, partnership kris stabbing dagger with flaming, or wavy, blade kuli unskilled laborer lalang a.
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense - Varnhagen von Ense; see especially her husband's Rahel, ein Buch des Andenkens (3 vols., 1834) Aus Rahels Herzens-leben (1877); E Schmidt-Weissenfels, Rahel und ihre Zeit (1857); Briefwechsel zwischen Karoline von Humboldt, Rahel und Varnhagen von Ense (1896); O Berdrow, Rahel Varnhagen (1900). Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
Karl Philipp, prince zu Schwarzenberg - pusillanimity should be sought in the political archives of Vienna rather than in the text-books of strategical theory. In any case his victory, however achieved, was as complete as Austria desired, and his rewards were many, the grand crosses of the Maria Theresa and of many foreign orders, an estate, the position of president of the Hofkriegsrath, and, as a specially remarkable honour, the right to bear the arms of Austria as an escutcheon of pretence. But shortly afterwards, having lost his sister Caroline, to whom he was deeply attached, he fell ill. A stroke of paralysis disabled him in 1817, and in 1820, when revisiting Leipzig, the scene of the Volkerschlacht that he had directed seven years before, he was attacked by a second stroke. He died there on the.
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - court needed a general to oppose the peace policy of the Archduke Charles, Mack was made quartermaster-general of the army, with instructions to prepare for a war with France. He did all that was possible within the available time to reform the army, and on the opening of the war of 1805 he was made quartermaster-general to the titular commander-in-chief in Germany, the Archduke Ferdinand. He was the real responsible commander of the army which opposed Napoleon in Bavaria, but his position was ill-defined and his authority treated with slight respect by the other general officers. For the events of the Ulm campaign and an estimate of Mack's responsibility for the disaster. After Austerlitz, Mack was tried by a court-martial, sitting from February 1806 to June 1807, and sentenced to be.
Karl Josef von Hefele - his submission to the decrees until 1871, when he explained in a pastoral letter that the dogma "referred only to doctrine given forth cx cathedra, and therein to the definitions proper only, but not to its proofs or explanations." In 1872 he took part in the congress summoned by the Ultramontanes at Fulda, and by his judicious use of minimizing tactics he kept his diocese free from any participation in the Old Catholic schism. The last four volumes of the second edition of his History of the Councils have been described as skilfully adapted to the new situation created by the Vatican decrees. During the later years of his life he undertook no further literary efforts on behalf of his church, but retired into comparative privacy. See Herzog-Hauck's ''Realencyklopädie, vii. 525..
