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Louise Welsh is the author of nine novels including The Cutting Room, The Plague Times Trilogy and The Second Cut. Louise has a ten-year practice in opera with composer Stuart MacRae. She was co- director (with Jude Barber) of the Empire Café an award-winning exploration of Scotland's relationship with the North Atlantic slave trade.
Second Life is an online multimedia computing platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Francisco –based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003, it saw rapid growth for some years and ...
The ultimate in exfoliation. Hamman refers to both a place of public bathing popular in the Islamic world (sometimes also called a Turkish bath) and the actual Mozarabic ritual that combines ...
The Chief, [129] a nickname picked up at the age of 23 as a geologist surveying in the Australian Outback, that stuck for the rest of his life. The Great Engineer and the Great Humanitarian : [ 130 ] He was a civil engineer of some distinction and when the Mississippi burst its banks in 1927, engulfing thousands of acres of agricultural land ...
A dog named Lucy Marie went missing six years ago in Lorain, Ohio and last week she was found and brought into the Lorain County Dog Kennel in Elyria.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
The squash and stretch principle: rigid, non-dynamic movement of a ball is compared to a "squash" at impact and a "stretch" during the fall and after the bounce. Also, the ball moves less in the beginning and end (the "slow in and slow out" principle). The purpose of squash and stretch [ 4] is to give a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn ...
As of 2021, this is the second published print book about Toki Pona that can be ordered over the internet, the first being Lang's 2014 work, Toki Pona: The Language of Good. [26] After two failed applications for an ISO 639-3 code, a third request was filed in August 2021, which resulted in the ISO 639-3 code "tok" being adopted in January 2022 ...