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Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan
The Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan , is the president-chair of the Senate of Pakistan. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the chairman is a presiding official and that Senate must choose a chairman and deputy chairman for a time interval of three years. During the President's absence, t ...
Betsi Cadwaladr
Betsi Cadwaladr , also known as Beti Cadwaladr and Betsi Davis, worked as a nurse in the Crimean War alongside Florence Nightingale, although their different social backgrounds were a source of constant disagreement. Her name today is synonymous with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, the ...
Jean-Pierre Bel
Jean-Pierre Bel is a French retired politician who served as President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014. From the Ariège department, Bel is a member of the Socialist Party; he was elected to the Senate in September 1998 and re-elected in September 2008. Bel was President of the Socialist Group in ...
Perp walk
A perp walk , walking the perp , or frog march , is a practice in American law enforcement of taking an arrested suspect through a public place, creating an opportunity for the media to take photographs and video of the event. The defendant is typically handcuffed or otherwise restrained, and is ...
Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the ...
Sarasvati River
The Sarasvati River was one of the Rigvedic rivers mentioned in the Rig Veda and later Vedic and post-Vedic texts. The Sarasvati River played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda. The goddess Sarasvati was originally a personification of this ...
Evelyn MacGuire
Evelyn "Evie" MacGuire is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away , played by Philippa Northeast. The actress was cast in the role after a successful audition and a callback, in which she was paired with various actors to find the right one to play Evelyn's br ...
Dimer acid
Dimer acids , or dimerized fatty acids , are dicarboxylic acids prepared by dimerizing unsaturated fatty acids obtained from tall oil, usually on clay catalysts. The CAS number of the material is . Dimer acids are used primarily for synthesis of polyamide resins and polyamide hot melt adhesives. T ...
Tincomarus
Tincomarus was a king of the Iron Age Belgic tribe of the Atrebates who lived in southern central Britain shortly before the Roman invasion. His name was previously reconstructed as Tincommius , based on abbreviated coin legends and a damaged mention in Augustus's Res Gestae , but since 1996 coi ...
Darlaston
Darlaston is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It is located near Wednesbury and Willenhall. Topography. Darlaston is situated between Wednesbury and Walsall in the valley of the River Tame in the angle where the three major head-streams of the river c ...
Melina Perez
Melina Nava Perez is an American model, professional wrestler and valet. She is currently signed to the National Wrestling Alliance. She is best known for her time with WWE under the ring name Melina . In 2000, Perez began training to be a professional wrestler at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard ...
Courts of Scotland
The courts of Scotland are responsible for administration of justice in Scotland, under statutory, common law and equitable provisions within Scots law. The courts are presided over by the judiciary of Scotland, who are the various judicial office holders responsible for issuing judgments, ensurin ...
Istro-Romanian language
The Istro-Romanian language is a Balkan Romance language, spoken in a few villages and hamlets in the peninsula of Istria in Croatia, as well as in diaspora, most notably in Italy, Sweden, Germany, Northern and Southern America, and Australia. While its speakers call themselves Rumeri , Rumeni , ...
University of the Assumption
The University of the Assumption is a private archdiocesan Catholic university in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. The University of the Assumption is the first Catholic archdiocesan university in the Philippines and in Asia. It is among the top schools in the region, based on its ...
Polyvinyl toluene
Polyvinyltoluene is a synthetic polymer of alkylbenzenes with a linear formula n. Commercial vinyl toluene is a mixture of methyl styrene isomers Uses. PVT can be doped with anthracene or other wavelength-shifting dopants to produce a plastic scintillator. When subjected to ionizing radiation, th ...
Trần Văn Khiêm
Trần Văn Khiêm is the younger brother of Madame Ngô Đình Nhu, the former First Lady of South Vietnam, and a South Vietnamese politician, lawyer and public servant. He was a press officer for South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. Political career. In 1963, during the Buddhist crisi ...
Brandywine flag
The Brandywine flag was a banner carried by Captain Robert Wilson's company of the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment. The company flag received the name after it was used in the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777. The flag is red, with a red and white American flag image in the canton. Other storie ...
Middle Korean
Middle Korean is the period in the history of the Korean language succeeding Old Korean and yielding in 1600 to the Modern period. The boundary between the Old and Middle periods is traditionally identified with the establishment of Goryeo in 918, but some scholars have argued for the time of the ...
Song Reader
Song Reader is a book of sheet music by the American alternative music artist Beck released on December 11, 2012. The book includes 20 songs worth of sheet music and more than 100 pages of art. The book's publisher, McSweeney's, also announced that versions of the songs performed by other musician ...
Examples of civil disobedience
The following are examples of civil disobedience from around the world. Cuba. The movement Yo No Coopero Con La Dictadura, commonly called Yo No for short, is a civil disobedience campaign against the government in Cuba. The campaign utilizes the slogan "I do want change," and is arti ...
Buddhist Society of India
The Buddhist Society of India , known as the Bharatiya Bouddha Mahasabha , is a national Buddhist organization in India. It was founded by B. R. Ambedkar on 4 May 1955 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Ambedkar was the father of the Indian Constitution, polymath, human rights activist and Buddhism re ...
Geoffrey Archer (writer)
Geoffrey Archer is a fiction writer from London. He specialises in military adventures and spy thrillers and created the character Sam Packer. Career. Geoffrey Archer was born and grew up in north London and had an interest in fiction and drama from an early age. After several false starts in his ...
Yvonne Williams
Yvonne Williams was a stained glass artist, known for her design and creation of stained glass windows, including the windows in Chalmers United Church in Guelph, Ontario and Deer Park United Church chapel in Toronto, Ontario. Biography. Yvonne Williams was born in 1901 to Canadian parents in Por ...
Texas State Highway 294
State Highway 294 or SH 294 is a Texas state highway running from U.S. Highway 79 and U.S. Highway 84 east to Alto. The route was designated on September 26, 1939 along its current route, replacing part of State Highway 7. Route description. SH 294 begins at an intersection with U.S. Route 79 ...
Delaware
Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic region. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, north by Pennsylvania, and east by New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virgin ...