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University Hospital Center "Mother Teresa" (QSUT) (Albanian: Qendra Spitalore Universitare "Nënë Tereza") is a central hospital in Tirana, Albania.It is currently the largest medical center hospital located in the country and is named after Mother Teresa, who was of Albanian origin.
Philip Lombardo (October 6, 1908 in New York City – April 29, 1987) also known as "Benny Squint" and "Cockeyed Phil", was the boss of the Genovese crime family from the late 1960s until the beginning of the 1980s.
Lacrimae rerum (Latin: [ˈlakrɪmae̯ ˈreːrũː] [1]) is the Latin phrase for "tears of things." It derives from Book I, line 462 of the Aeneid (c. 29–19 BC), by Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC).
The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
Variations of the theme occur in a number of Old English homilies, including one which quotes in Latin the following words, which it attributes to St. Augustine: O homo, dic mihi, ubi sunt reges, ubi sunt principes, ubi imperatores, qui fuerunt ante nos...
An example of squint caused by two differing frequencies. In a phased array or slotted waveguide antenna, squint refers to the angle that the transmission is offset from the normal of the plane of the antenna.
Latin Translation Notes qua definitione: by virtue of definition: Thus: "by definition"; variant of per definitionem; sometimes used in German-speaking countries.Occasionally misrendered as "qua definitionem".
Pacta sunt servanda [1] ("agreements must be kept.") is a brocard and a fundamental principle of law which holds that treaties or contracts are binding upon the parties that entered into the treaty or contract. [2]