Balıkesir is the capital city of Balıkesir Province in Turkey and has a population of 215,436. Its main exports are olive-based products. It is a popular tourist destination for Turkish holidaymakers, who use it as a base to explore the nearly countryside which is renowned for its beauty, especially the nearby mountain of Kazdagi.
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Aydın is the capital city of Aydın Province in Turkey. It was known in the Roman and Byzantine Empires as Tralles. The population of the city is 143,267 (2000 census).
Aydin was named after the successful Ottoman general Aydin Pasha who placed large swathes of the Byzantine sea coast of Asia Minor under his rule. By 1918, the majority of the population of Aydın and its surrounding districts consisted of Greeks. The retreating Ottoman armies massacred or deported the Greek population, after which time it was occupied b
Atonement (2001) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction, an award that McEwan had already won for his previous novel, Amsterdam.
Atonement is a complex novel that presents an intricate story told from several points of view. The plot follows a terrible crime that is committed at an English manor house in 1935 and the consequences that follow for all involved. The events of the novel take place in both England and France, over the span of several decades.
McEwan utilizes several important stylistic techniques in ...
Barakhel or Barakel ("blessed by El") was a king of Ammon in the 670s BCE. He is known from a small (15.9x16.9 mm) black clay bulla bearing his seal impression. A groove and several dots around the impression demonstrate that the seal likely took the form of a metal ring. Fingerprints found around the edge of the bulla may belong to Barakel himself.
His name, which invokes the name of the god El (as do the names of his fellow Ammonite kings Pado'el and Barakel suggests that El was worshipped in Ammon alo ...
Bastinado, originally, was a Spanish word for the act of caning in the literal sense of beating with a stick or similar implement.
It is specifically used to refer to a form of torture or corporal punishment which consists of beating the soles of the offender's bare feet with a hard object, like a cane or rod, a club, or a piece of wood, or a whip. This torture is effective owing to the clustering of nerve endings in the feet, and the structure of the foot, with numerous small bones and tendons. The feet were often tied togethe ...
Björn Olof Lennartson Kurtén (1924 – 1988) was a distinguished vertebrate paleontologist. He belonged to the Finland-Swedish minority in Finland. He was also the author of an acclaimed series of books about modern man's encounter with Neanderthals, such as Dance of the Tiger (1978, 1980). When asked what genre these works belonged in, Kurten coined the term paleofiction to describe his oeuvre. (This genre was popularized by Jean Auel in her Earth's Children series of books.)
In the 1980s, Kurtén also hosted a 6-part TV series about the Ice ...
Bitlis is a city in Turkey, capital of Bitlis Province. Population 38,130 as of 1990.
William Saroyan's family was originally from Bitlis.
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At Bertram's Hotel (published in 1965) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie featuring the detective Miss Marple.
At Bertram's Hotel - Plot.
When Jane Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: a restored London hotel with traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. But what she doesn't realize is that a number of the people in the entrance hall a ...
Bartopian Theory - The Bartopian Theory.
A theory first proposed by the Russian Dr.S.Lunskaya in 1972, that humans were actually created as the result of Aliens copulating with Monkeys thousands upon thousands of years ago.
The basis of this theory is studies of the Bible and other ancient religious manuscripts with the idea that the stories of angels coming down from the skies are actually descriptions of aliens and their space crafts.
More of an expansion on the theory as put forward b ...
The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, commonly known as AGTS, is a denominationally-funded seminary in Springfield, Missouri.
AGTS serves as the only seminary endorsed by the Assemblies of God for the graduate-level education of ministers. It is one of the world's leading Pentecostal seminaries and has one of the ten largest doctor of ministry programs in America.
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Albert Hustin (1882-1967) was a Belgian medical doctor. He was the first to successfully practice non-direct blood transfusions after discovering that sodium citrate could be used as an anticoagulant.
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Afro-Filipino refers to people of African/African-American and Filipino descent. There is a good population living in both the United States and the Philippines.
Famous Afro-Filipinos
Allen Pineda
Joe Bataan
Elizabeth Ramsey
Erin Jennae
Jaya
Luke Mejares
Prince (artist)
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ShapeShifter is a Preference Pane for Mac OS X developed by Unsanity that applies themes to the operating system.
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Vermin is a term given to animals which are considered by humans to be pests or nuisances, most associated with the carrying of disease. Disease-carrying rodents and insects are the usual case but the term can also apply to larger animals, on the basis that they exist out of ecological balance with their environment, consuming excessive resources. Pigeons, which have been widely introduced in urban environments, may be consid ...
Amora, plural Amoraim, (from the Hebrew root amar "to say" or "tell over"), were renowned Jewish scholars who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and Israel.Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara.
The first and foremost Babylonian Amora was Abba Arika, respectfully referred to as Rav. His contemporary and frequent debate partner was Samuel of Nehardea. The foremost Amoraim in Israel were Johanan bar Nappaha and Simeon ...
Angeltheow, also spelled Angletheow, Engengenthe, or Angenwit (? - c. 477) was the great-great-great-grandfather of Creoda of Mercia and the son of the first Offa of Mercia.
It is claimed that he may be a 45th-great-grandfather of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and a 41st-great grandfather of Louis XVII of France. Angeltheow's son was Eomer. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Angeltheow is a fourth-generation descendant of ...
Asko Parpola, professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland has specialized on the Indus script.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aparpola/
http://www.harappa.com/script/parpola0.html
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Anomalous operation, also known as anomalous perturbation, is a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects that can best be described as subject A stating an intent or goal to influence system B, and system B then changing appropriately through unknown or unverifiable means. System B can be literally anything, though the common experiment is one or more subjects working to influence the output of a random system such as an electronic noise source. It covers phenomena as psychokinesis, micro-psychokinesis, pyrokinesis, faith healing, poltergeist activity, and other manipulative parapsy ...
An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or animated segment for a live-action film. This may include directing the character design, background animation, and any other aspect of animation.
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Oracle bones were first fully excavated from the Anyang site in Henan Province China in 1899.
They are mostly ox scapulae (shoulder blades) and turtle shells or plastrons, used for scapulomancy: after being heated (such as having a heated rod inserted through the bone), they would crack, and the priest in charge of the ceremony would read the cracks to learn the answer to a question written on the bone. He looked both for the presence of a crack or the absence of a crack to assay the relative strength of one question's answer t ...
