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In honour of Lord Rayleigh, the Institute of Acoustics sponsors the Rayleigh Medal (established in 1970) and the Institute of Physics sponsors the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize (established in 2008). Many of the papers that he wrote on lubrication [31] are now recognized as early classical contributions to the field of ...
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to 1865.
Comparative rates of homicides involving family members between 1980 and 2008. Killing by a spouse or ex-spouse exceeds the rate of all other categories. In proportion to the total number of family homicides, killing by spouses and ex-spouses fell from 52% to 37% during this period. Meanwhile, murder of the children went up 57%. [60]
A Blessed Life; A Child's Hope; A Classic Tour; A Dance of Moths; A Gesture Life; A Head Full of Dreams Tour; A Land Imagined; A Life of Hope; A Many-Splendoured Thing
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
In the immediate area are West Virginia State University in Institute and the South Charleston campus of both the BridgeValley Community and Technical College and Marshall University. The region is also home to the Charleston Branch of the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing, an independent program administered by ...
Lee's daughter Lee Wei Ling, a neurologist and epileptologist, was director of the National Neuroscience Institute. Lee's daughter-in-law Ho Ching, was executive director and CEO of Temasek Holdings. [404] [405] His wife Kwa Geok Choo, died on 2 October 2010, at the age of 89.
The Supreme Court rules in favor of recognizing any divorce obtained by Filipinos from foreign spouses overseas for as along as the proceeding is valid under the law of the foreign spouse's country. [262] September 23 – President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 12021 or the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers. [263]