The criteria date back to the 1930's, when it had been discovered that a few patients with hypoglycemic symptoms (such as shakiness, syncope or sweating) due to hypoglycemia could be cured by surgery to remove an insulinoma. However, it had also become apparent that a large proportion of people with symptoms suggestive of hypoglycemia had no need of surgery. Diagnostic testing was rudimentary: beyond a crude assay for reducing substances as an indirect measure of blood glucose, there was no way to measure hormones and metabolites such as insulin, and no imaging procedure ...

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Whipple's triad, Whipple's triad - History, Whipple's triad - Current use of the triad

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One of the first commercial airports in the South, Maynard Field was dedicated on December 6, 1919. With its two intersecting runways measuring 1890 feet and 1249 feet, hangar space and even an early day equivalent of a Fixed Base Operator that made sure the torches were lit at dusk, Maynard Field was named to honor a young North Carolinian pilot named Lt. Belvin Maynard. Maynard Field was located east of Winston-Salem in the Sedge Garden area, but by 1922 it had competition to the west with Charles Field, a single airstrip that was used mainly for barnst ...

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Piedmont Triad International Airport, Piedmont Triad International Airport - History, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Airport Terminal, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Cargo Operators and Destinations, Piedmont Triad International Airport - FedEx future hub, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Fixed Base Operators FBOs

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Triad (Simplified: 三合会; Traditional: 三合會; Hanyu Pinyin: Sānhéhuì; literally "Triad Society") is a collective term that describes many branches of an underground society and organizations based in Hong Kong and also operating in Mainland China, Macao, and Chinatowns in Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. There are about 50 triad groups that are active in modern Hong Kong; many of them are no more than small, local street gangs. The larger groups, including t ...

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• Triad - History of triads
• Triad - Precursor to triads—Tian Di Hui
• Triad - Post-imperial developments
• Triad - Migration to Hong Kong
• Triad - Sustenance from 1980s
• Triad - Activities overseas
• Triad - Recent developments
• Triad - Triad groups
• Triad - The 14K Triad
• Triad - The Sun Yee On
• Triad - The Wo Group
• Triad - Triad culture
• Triad - Triad organizational structure
• Triad - Gang fighting
• Triad - Organized crime
• Triad - Dealing with triad problems in schools
• Triad - How triads are tackled in Hong Kong
• Triad - Portrayal of triad societies in popular culture
• Triad - Public figures alleged to have or have had triad ties
• Triad - List of Triads Tongs and Chinese Gangs
• Triad - Triads
• Triad - Tongs
• Triad - Chinese Gangs
• Triad - Miscellaneous information

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Triad - Triads. 14K Group 14K Chung 14K Chung Yee Tang 14K Hau 14K Kia 14K Lun 14K Mui 14K Ngai 14K Sai Yee Tong 14K Shun 14K Tak 14K Yee 14K Yung Wo Group Wo Shing Wo Wo Shing Yee Wo On Lok (Shui Fong) Wo Hop To Wo Lee Kwan Wo Kao Chi Wo Kwan Lok Wo Lee Wo Wo Sing Tong Wo Yau Wo Wo ...

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Triad, Triad - History of triads, Triad - Precursor to triads—Tian Di Hui, Triad - Post-imperial developments, Triad - Migration to Hong Kong, Triad - Sustenance from 1980s, Triad - Activities overseas, Triad - Recent developments, Triad - Triad groups, Triad - The 14K Triad, Triad - The Sun Yee On, Triad - The Wo Group, Triad - Triad culture, Triad - Triad organizational structure, Triad - Gang fighting, Triad - Organized crime, Triad - Dealing with triad problems in schools, Triad - How triads are tackled in Hong Kong, Triad - Portrayal of triad societies in popular culture, Triad - Public figures alleged to have or have had triad ties, Triad - List of Triads, Tongs and Chinese Gangs, Triad - Triads, Triad - Tongs, Triad - Chinese Gangs, Triad - Miscellaneous information

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The Welsh Triads (Welsh Trioedd Ynys Prydein, literally "triads of the island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three. Welsh Triads - Earliest surviving collection. The earliest surviving collection of the Welsh Triads is bound in the manuscript Peniarth 16, now at the National Library of Wales, which has been dated to the third quarter of the 13th century and conta ...

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• Welsh Triads - Earliest surviving collection
• Welsh Triads - Later collections

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The United Bamboo Gang (竹聯幫, or Chu Lien Pang) is a triad society based in Taiwan. It is sometimes referred to as the Bamboo Union or the Bamboo Alliance. It is the largest of Taiwan's three main triads (the others being the Four Seas and the Celestial Way). United Bamboo Gang - History. The United Bamboo Gang was founded in 1957 in Taipei by sons of Kuomintang army members who had escaped to Taiwan. The name comes from their original territory, Bamboo Forest Road. < ...

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• United Bamboo Gang - History
• United Bamboo Gang - Activities & Membership
• United Bamboo Gang - The United Bamboo Gang's Code

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Warren Wilson College is a small liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina, about ten miles east of Asheville on Black Mountain Highway. It is known for its curriculum of work, study, and service, called "the Triad." The Triad requires every student to have at least one campus job, perform one hundred hours of community service over four years and complete a requisite course of academic work in order to graduate. Wilson is one of only seven colleges in the United States requiring students to work for the institution in ...

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• Warren Wilson College - History
• Warren Wilson College - Sources

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Cassivellaunus was a historical British chieftain who led the defence against Julius Caesar's second expedition to Britain in 54 BC. He also appears in British legend as Cassibelanus, one of Geoffrey of Monmouth's kings of Britain, and in the Mabinogion and Welsh Triads as Caswallawn, son of Beli. Cassivellaunus - History. Cassivellaunus is the first British individual known to history. He appears in Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico, having been given command of the combined British forces opp ...

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• Cassivellaunus - History
• Cassivellaunus - Legend

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Bonneville International Corporation, managed by Deseret Management Corporation, is a broadcasting company wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church). Headquartered in the Triad Center Broadcast House in Salt Lake City, Utah, Bonneville's name alludes to the prehistoric Lake Bonneville which once covered much of modern-day Utah. Bonneville owns about 30 radio stations and one television station. Additionally, the Bonneville Communications arm provides broadcast distribution services to non- ...

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• Bonneville International - History

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Babylonian and Assyrian religion was a series of belief systems in places in the early civilisations of the Euphrates valley. This article examines the period of c. 3500 BCE to c. 300 CE. The development of the religion of Babylonia was important in the history of the people who practiced it, and in many ways was a direct reflection of developments in their society. Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The impact of Hammurabi. Leaving aside the primitive phases of the religion as lying beyond historical inves ...

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• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The impact of Hammurabi
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The old regional gods
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The rise of Marduk
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The cult of Anu
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The triads
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - The rivalry between Assur and Marduk
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - Chronology
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - Astral theology
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - Religious practice and rituals
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - Ethics
• Babylonian and Assyrian religion - Later influence

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Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna Aeneas Romulus Numa Early Kings Pontifex Maximus Rex Sacrorum Vestal Virgins Flamen Dialis The Fl ...

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• Jupiter god - Jupiter and Roman sovereignty
• Jupiter god - Capitoline Jupiter
• Jupiter god - In language

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The Capitoline Hill (Capitolinus Mons), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the most famous and highest of the seven hills of Rome, the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad: the gods Jupiter, his wife Juno and their daughter Minerva. The temple was started by Rome's last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and was considered one of the largest and the most beautiful temples in the city. When the Celtic Gauls raided Rome in 390 BC, the Capitoline Hill was the one s ...

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• Capitoline Hill - External link

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FedEx Express ("FedEx") chose Piedmont Triad International Airport for its new Mid-Atlantic hub in 1998 over competing proposals from airports in Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Columbia, Greenville-Spartanburg and Kinston, NC. This will be the 5th major FedEx hub. A third runway will be constructed to accommodate the hub operation. It will parallel the current 5/23. The hub is expected to open in 2009. This date has been pushed back considerably, amid complaints of noise from homeowners in the area, since most of the FedEx flights are expected to take place ...

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Piedmont Triad International Airport, Piedmont Triad International Airport - History, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Airport Terminal, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Cargo Operators and Destinations, Piedmont Triad International Airport - FedEx future hub, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Fixed Base Operators FBOs

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Today the Hongmen is an illegal society in Hong Kong, because of its links with the Triad gangs, perceived or real. In Taiwan, by contrast, the Hongmen is not only legal, but politically influential; this came as no surprise, since Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, who founded the Republic of China, was, as mentioned before, a senior figure within the Hongmen. Moreover, the Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist Party, was formed from the Xingzhonghui and Guangfuhui, groups not unlike the Hongmen. In the People's Republic of China, the Hongmen is known as the Zhi Gong Party (致公党), a minor political party which participates in ...

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Tiandihui/Hongmen, Tiandihui/Hongmen - History, Tiandihui/Hongmen - The Hongmen today

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According to Kelvin Bechkam Chow, the modern father of China and member of the Tiandihui/Hongmen, the Tiandihui was founded during the reign of the Emperor Kangxi (1654–1722). However, independent research concludes that the Tiandihui was founded in the 1760s. The founders of the Tiandihui—Ti Xi, Li Amin, Zhu Dingyuan, and Tao Yuan—were all from Zhangpu in the prefecture of Zhangzhou in Fujian, on its border with Guangdong. They left Zhangpu for Sichuan, where they joined a cult, which did not go well. Ti Xi soon left for Guangdong, where he organized a group of followers in Huizhou. In 1761, he returned to Fujian an ...

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Tiandihui/Hongmen, Tiandihui/Hongmen - History, Tiandihui/Hongmen - The Hongmen today

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High Point is served by Piedmont Triad International Airport, which also serves Greensboro, North Carolina and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Amtrak's Crescent and Carolinian and Piedmont trains connect High Point with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. The Amtrak station is situated at 100 West High Street. Interstate 85 runs through High Point, southeast of the original interstate roadway, which is now designated Business 85. High Point is ...

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High Point North Carolina, High Point North Carolina - History and Architecture, High Point North Carolina - Geography, High Point North Carolina - Demographics, High Point North Carolina - Transportation, High Point North Carolina - Media, High Point North Carolina - Newspapers, High Point North Carolina - Television stations

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In 1998, Dr Stanley Ho Avenue in Macau was named after him, which made him the first Chinese person in Macau history to receive this honor during his lifetime. In 1995, the Portuguese government honored him the Grã-Cruz da Ordem (Great Cross of the Order) Do Infante Dom Henrique, the highest honor for a civilian for his contributions to society. In 2003, Ho was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Mr. Tung Chee Hwa, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the community, playing an important ro ...

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Stanley Ho, Stanley Ho - Current positions, Stanley Ho - Business, Stanley Ho - Community, Stanley Ho - Politics, Stanley Ho - Early life, Stanley Ho - Studies, Stanley Ho - Career, Stanley Ho - Gambling, Stanley Ho - Community, Stanley Ho - Honors, Stanley Ho - Triads and Ho, Stanley Ho - Personal life, Stanley Ho - Events in 2005

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Greensboro is served by Piedmont Triad International Airport, which also serves High Point, North Carolina and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Amtrak's Crescent and Carolinian and Piedmont trains connect Greensboro with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. Amtrak trains, taxis, local and long distance buses arrive and depart from the Depot located at 236-C East Washington Street, originally constructed during ...

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Greensboro North Carolina, Greensboro North Carolina - History, Greensboro North Carolina - Geography, Greensboro North Carolina - Demographics, Greensboro North Carolina - Famous natives and residents, Greensboro North Carolina - Transportation, Greensboro North Carolina - Structures, Greensboro North Carolina - Media, Greensboro North Carolina - Citizens Media, Greensboro North Carolina - Newspapers, Greensboro North Carolina - Television stations, Greensboro North Carolina - Colleges Schools and Universities

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Completed in 1985, the terminal currently has 17 passenger gates; 11 on the south concourse, and 6 on the north concourse. It has undergone many renovations and expansions. Currently, the northern concourse is being expanded to the current size of the south concourse. Also, new terminal areas are being built to accomodate new security equipment, and more metal detectors. Delta Air Lines, the airport's largest carrier, is expected to move to the new concourse area. In addition, it is believed that the airport is trying to bring in low-fare airlies, such as Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.

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Piedmont Triad International Airport, Piedmont Triad International Airport - History, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Airport Terminal, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Cargo Operators and Destinations, Piedmont Triad International Airport - FedEx future hub, Piedmont Triad International Airport - Fixed Base Operators FBOs

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