One hundred days have been identified by Getty and National Geographic to represent defining moments of the past 150 years. These moments are crystallised in images that leap from the page revealing joy, anger, despairsand triumph. An insightful text by photography historian Nick Yapp supports these images, which are accompanied by journals, excerpts and `on-site` notes that offer the backstory of the image and how it was events that have shaped our erascaptured in the book include, from the Getty historic archive, the 1848-9 revolution and riots in Europe; President Lincoln`s assassination in 1865; the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889; the Potemkin Mutiny (1905) that launched the Russians Revolution; the Easter Rising in Dublin...

ISBN: 978-1-4262-0197-4
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

2006 год прошел под знаком одной из самых заметных дат в истории нашего Отечества - 100-летия российского парламентаризма. Эта знаменательная дата связана не только с созданием в апреле 1906 года первой Государственной думы, но и значительным переустройством другого важнейшего института - Государственного совета, выполнявшего в течение почти ста лет законосовещательные и законоподготовительные функции....

ISBN: 5-373-00850-8
Издательство: ОЛМА Медиа Групп
Дата выхода: апрель 2007

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located at 311 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, houses Manhattan Center Studios (home to two recording studios), its Grand Ballroom, and the Hammerstein Ballroom, one of New York City's most renowned performance venues. In 1976, the building was purchased by its current owner, the Unification Church for $3,000,000. The Manhattan Center was built in 1906 and remains standing over 100 years after, built originally as the Manhattan Opera House By Oscar Hammerstein I. The root cause for the construction centered around boldly rivalling the established...

ISBN: 978-6-1337-4121-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alberto Entrerrios Rodriguez (* 7. November 1976 in Gijon, Spanien) ist ein spanischer Handballspieler. Er ist 1,92 m gross und wiegt 100 kg. Entrerrios, der fur den spanischen Club BM Ciudad Real (Ruckennummer 24) spielt und fur die spanische Nationalmannschaft (Ruckennummer 2) auflauft, kann im Ruckraum vielfaltig eingesetzt werden; am liebsten spielt er aber auf Ruckraum links. Alberto Entrerrios begann mit dem Handballspiel bei C. Naranco. 1998 unterschrieb Entrerrios bei seinem ersten Profiteam, Ademar Leon, mit dem er 2001 die spanische Meisterschaft gewann. 2001 wechselte er fur eine Saison zum FC...

ISBN: 978-6-1332-8296-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2006 Josh Ritter was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine. Ritter has an Americana musical style and has often been compared to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Leonard Cohen. Josh Ritter was born in Moscow, Idaho in 1976, to two neuroscientists. As a teenager, after hearing Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country” on his parents' copy of Nashville Skyline, he attempted to write songs on a lute that his father had built, before abandoning the lute and buying his first guitar at K-Mart. Ritter attended Oberlin College to study neuroscience, but later...

ISBN: 978-6-1317-2279-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Нгултрум (код ISO 4217 — BTN) — денежная единица королевства Бутан. 1 нгултрум состоит из 100 четрумов. Официальная валюта королевства с 1974 года (до этого валютой Бутана была бутанская рупия). Символ нгултрума — Nu., четрума — Ch. В обращении находятся монеты достоинством: Ch.20, Ch.25, Ch.50, и Nu.1, редко, но используются также монеты достоинством 5 и 10 четрумов. В обращении находятся банкноты...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-1965-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jason Marc Michael (born April 4, 1976 in Tampa, Florida), nicknamed "J-Mike", is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Houston Astros. He is a 1994 graduate of Jesuit High School of Tampa and received an Associate of Arts (AA) degree from Okaloosa-Walton Community College in 1996. He went on to star in baseball at the University of Miami in 1997 and 1998 and signed with the Philadelphia Phillies after they selected him in the fourth round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft. After eight years in the Phillies organization, including five seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians in January 2006. His tenure with the Phillies was marred by his July 2005 arrest for...

ISBN: 978-6-1308-8024-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Defense Industries Organization is a conglomerate of companies run by the Islamic Republic of Iran whose function is to provide the military of Iran with the necessary manufacturing capacity and technical abilities. In recent years, the DIO has attempted to become export-oriented, allowing Iran to become an exporter of weapons. According to Iranian officials, the country sold $100 million worth of military equipment in 2003 and as of 2006 had exported weapons to 57 countriesPrior to 1963, the Iranian military industry consisted of a number of independent factories. Iran's military industry was born under the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza...

ISBN: 978-6-1305-4244-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) was the British trade union and professional association for people working with those above statutory school age, and primarily concerned with providing education, training or research. In the higher education sector it was mainly concentrated in the Post 16 sector. In 2004 NATFHE celebrated 100 years since the London-based Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes was formed. ATTI grew and became NATFHE on 1 January 1976. As of 2005 it had 67,000 members. On December 2, 2005 the results of a membership ballot on a merger of AUT and NATFHE was announced. The merger was supported by 79.2% of AUT and 95.7% of...

ISBN: 978-6-1305-8269-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway in New York City that spans the East River and connects Roosevelt Island to Manhattan. Prior to the completion of the Mississippi Aerial River Transit in May 1984 and the Portland Aerial Tram in December 2006, it was the only commuter aerial tramway in North America.[1] Over 26 million passengers have used the tram since it began operation in 1976. Each cabin has a capacity of up to 125 people and makes approximately 115 trips per day. The tram moves at about 16 mph (26 km/h) and travels 3,100 feet (940 m) in 4.5 minutes. At its peak it climbs to 250 feet (76 m) above the East River as it follows its route on the north side of the Queensboro...

ISBN: 978-6-1305-2002-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Bonen (born October 28, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is the founder and publisher of the Virtual Soccer Magazine (1993–2003) and the Windy City Softball Magazine (1973–1977). He also works as a TV sportscaster for Comcast Sports Net 100 beginning in 1993. For the past ten years Tom spends most of his time being "The Beverly Handyman-Carpenter" on the city's Southside.Tom was an All-American softball player (1975) and played on the 16-inch World Champion ERV Strikers (1973 to 1976). He was inducted into the Chicago 16-Inch Softball Hall of Fame in 1995 in the Hall's first induction class. He was also inducted into the Valparaiso University Sports Hall of Fame in 2006 (as a member of the...

ISBN: 978-6-1322-0558-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a popular song by the British singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it his first number one single in United States, and #2 on the UK Singles Chart. Songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in the category Best R&B Song. In 2006, the song "I Don't Feel Like Dancin' by the American band Scissor Sisters was often compared with Sayer's song because of its tempo, arrangement and subject matter. Sayer performed the song on The Muppet Show, Season 3 (1978-1979), episode 2; he also performed The Show Must Go On and When I Need You. Sayer re-recorded the...

ISBN: 978-6-1323-5816-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jason Drew Michaels (born May 4, 1976 in Tampa, Florida), nicknamed "J-Mike", is a Major League Baseball outfielder. He is a 1994 graduate of Jesuit High School of Tampa and received an Associate of Arts (AA) degree from Okaloosa-Walton Community College in 1996. He went on to star in baseball at the University of Miami in 1997 and 1998 and signed with the Philadelphia Phillies after they selected him in the fourth round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft. After eight years in the Phillies organization, including five seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians in January 2006. His tenure with the Phillies was marred by his July 2005 arrest for assaulting a Philadelphia...

ISBN: 978-5-5105-2021-7

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author who performs and records with The Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006 he was named one of the "100 Greatest Living Songwriters" by Paste magazine.

ISBN: 978-5-5107-7952-3

Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008)was a Swiss scientist best known for having been the first to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child. On January 11, 2006, Hofmann became a centenarian, and the occasion of his 100th birthday was the focus of an international symposium on LSD. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1307-0259-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolseley (Canada 2006 Census population 782) is a town in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, approximately 100 km east of Regina on the Trans-Canada Highway.Wolseley's Provincial Court House building was constructed in 1893, and is the oldest surviving court house building in the province. The Town Hall and Opera House, built in 1906, is a classic building and is used for many community events. Canada's very first Beaver Lumber was opened in Wolseley by co-founder E. A. Banbury. Beaver Lumber is now protected by Heritage status. The Banbury House Inn, which was originally built in 1905 as the private home for E. A. Banbury, was moved from its original location on the north bank of Fairly Lake...

ISBN: 978-6-1323-3355-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Agnes Scott College is a private undergraduate college in the United States. Agnes Scott's campus lies in downtown Decatur, Georgia, nestled inside the perimeter of the bustling metro-Atlanta area. The college was founded in 1889 as Decatur Female Seminary by Presbyterian minister Frank H. Gaines. In 1890, the name was changed to Agnes Scott Institute to honor the mother of the college's primary benefactor, Col. George Washington Scott. The name was changed again to Agnes Scott College in 1906, and remains today a liberal arts women's college. Agnes Scott currently enrolls 914 students. In 2006, the student to faculty ratio was 10:1. Eighty-seven percent of the faculty are full-time, and 100%...

ISBN: 978-6-1339-5687-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Albert Hofmann (* 11. Januar 1906 in Baden, Aargau; † 29. April 2008 in Burg im Leimental) war ein Schweizer Chemiker, Autor und der Entdecker des LSD. Albert Hofmann wuchs als altestes von vier Geschwistern auf. Als sein Vater, ein Werkzeugmacher, schwer erkrankte, musste er zum Familienunterhalt beitragen und absolvierte daher eine kaufmannische Lehre. Wahrenddessen bereitete er sich auf seine Matura vor. Sein Patenonkel finanzierte das Studium. Hofmann begann 1925 sein Chemiestudium an der Universitat Zurich und promovierte vier Jahre spater mit Auszeichnung. Anschliessend war er fur mehr als vier...

ISBN: 978-6-1331-7279-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011