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The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.
They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.
He was so inspired by the short film The Perfect Human directed by Jørgen Leth that he challenged Leth to redo the short five times in feature film The Five Obstructions.
In October 2009, ExxonMobil licensed the brand to Forbes magazine, which retitled the guide's various designations, e. g., Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes Five Stars, and so on.
" Five years after the publication of Hitler's Pope, Cornwell stated: " I would now argue, in the light of the debates and evidence following Hitler's Pope, that Pius XII had so little scope of action that it is impossible to judge the motives for his silence during the war, while Rome was under the heel of Mussolini and later occupied by Germany ".
The spin-off idea was cancelled after Five pulled out of the deal, which meant that the show could potentially screen on a rival UK channel, so Five requested that the new show developed as a stand-alone series and not feed off a series they own a stake in.
Five Council Committees would be made up from the membership of the Legislative Council and civil servants so that at any time there would always be a majority of elected members.
Five years later, in 1864, Ludwig Boltzmann, a young student in Vienna, came across Maxwell ’ s paper and was so inspired by it that he spent much of his life developing the subject further.
The Five Ks, or panj kakaar / kakke, are five articles of faith that all baptized Sikhs ( also called Khalsa Sikhs ) are typically obliged to wear at all times, as commanded by the tenth Sikh Guru, who so ordered on the day of Baisakhi Amrit Sanskar in 1699.
Five of the leading conspirators wrote letters to the Allobroges so that the envoys could show their people that there was hope in a real conspiracy.
In his novels the Potteries are referred to as " the Five Towns "; Bennett felt that the name was more euphonious than " the Six Towns " so Fenton was omitted.
In 942 Edmund struck back with a recapture of Mercia and the Five Boroughs of Danelaw, which so impressed contemporaries that a poem was written in honour of the achievement and included in the Chronicle.
Between 938 and 941, that is roughly between the Battle of Brunanburh ( 937 ) and the recovery of the Five Boroughs ( 942 ), the archbishop did not attest any royal charters, but he began to do so during or after the negotiations of 942.
* Biblia Hebraica Quinta, revision of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia ; only three volumes ( Five Megilloth, Ezra and Nehemiah, Deuteronomy ) have been published so far.
* Ephialtes, with the support of Pericles, reduces the power of the Athenian Council of Areopagus ( filled with ex-archons and so a stronghold of oligarchy ) and transfers them to the people, i. e. the Council of Five Hundred, the Assembly and the popular law courts.
Five years later, she was ready to give her first Theremin concert, which marked the beginning of a musical career that has so far led to more than 500 theatre, radio and television performances throughout the world.
" Other architects, well known ( Frank Lloyd Wright, for example ) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today ... New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form ", according to an online description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by William D. Earls.
To achieve this he believed that China must develop a " China-nationalism ," Zhonghua Minzu, as opposed to an " ethnic-nationalism ," so as to unite all of the different ethnicities of China, mainly composed by the five major groups of Han, Mongols, Tibetans, Manchus, and the Muslims ( such as the Uyghurs ), which together are symbolized by the Five Color Flag of the First Republic ( 1911 – 1928 ).
That Borodin did so in the company of The Five, who were hostile to chamber music, speaks to his independence.
Cui's works are not so nationalistic as those of the other members of The Five ; with the exception of Pushkin, his operas do not display a strong attraction to Russian sources.
Macdonald writes that Stasov and the patriotic group of composers known as The Five or The Mighty Handful, went so far as to hail Mikhail Glinka's Kamarinskaya as " a prototype of Russian descriptive music "; despite the fact that Glinka himself denied the piece had any program, he called the work, which is based entirely on Russian folk music, " picturesque music.
According to Buffy creator Joss Whedon, the introduction of Dawn in Season Five was partly so protagonist Buffy Summers could experience a " really important, intense emotional relationship " with someone other than a boyfriend.
Five other R & B top ten singles followed over the next year or so: " I Want You To Be My Girl ", " I Promise To Remember ", " Who Can Explain?

Five and minutes
Five minutes later they reached the horses.
Five racing minutes later we pulled into the driveway of this typical two-story house, and when the Jaguar stopped I managed to swallow.
Five minutes later, before Haney could make his break, the stranger stood up and nodded farewell.
Five deleted scenes, a total of 13 minutes, including the controversial " Otto ", were first made available in 1997 on the Criterion Collection Laserdisc.
* 06: 12 UT Five minutes into the flight and the Vostok rocket core stage has used up its propellant, shuts down and falls away from the Vostok spacecraft and final rocket stage.
Five minutes of four-on-four sudden-death overtime are played, with the first goal winning the game.
Five minutes after the shooting began, police arrived outside the school.
Five riders stayed together until nearly the last control, Emile Georget finally pulling away from Ernest Paul to finish in 50 hours and 13 minutes.
Five minutes after arriving at the depot, Colfax died of a heart attack brought on by the extreme cold and exhaustion.
Five minutes later, after some debate over whether or not to mention it, Cronkite relayed the following information to the viewing audience:
Five animated shorts of about 20 minutes each were released between 1967 and 1971, and combined into a single 96-minute feature film in 1973.
Five minutes before full-time, Gary Sundgren scored AIK's title-winning goal, on his twenty fifth birthday and all.
* November 27 – Five minutes after takeoff from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia.
Five minutes before the program was to finish running, Earth was destroyed by the Vogons, allegedly to make way for a hyperspace bypass but in fact to prevent the Ultimate Question being discovered, as it was seen as a threat to the psychiatric industry.
Five of the Ox and Bucks's gliders landed as close as 47 yards from their objectives from 16 minutes past midnight.
Five minutes later, Bender scored for a 1-2 result.
Five minutes before that decision, a Continental Airlines DC-10 departing for Newark, New Jersey, had lost a titanium alloy strip, long and about to wide, during takeoff from the same runway.
Five minutes from the final whistle, he was sent off for a blatant knee-high foul on the Norwegian in what was seen by many as an act of revenge.
On rare occasions, " Five Good Minutes " runs long, such as on June 8, 2005 when NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus's interview ran 11 minutes, forcing the cancellation of the following segment ( Role Play ), on March 23, 2007 when USC basketball coach Tim Floyd's interview ran 9 minutes as he talked about O. J. Mayo, and on October 22, 2009, as reporter Jackie MacMullan discussed the Magic Johnson / Isiah Thomas controversy, forcing the cancellation of the segment Report Card.
Five minutes later, traveling a distance of one and one-half miles ( 2. 4 km ) at an average speed of 18 miles per hour, it demolished the heavy concrete Power Plant Number Two ( a hydroelectric power plant ) and took the lives of 65 of the other 67 workmen and their families who lived nearby.
Five minutes into the game Best received the ball wide on the left.
Famous examples of these include " Vicarious " ( 2006 ) by Tool at 7 minutes and 6 seconds, " Hey Jude " ( 1968 ) by The Beatles at 7 minutes and 11 seconds long, " You're the Voice " ( 1985 / 86 ) by John Farnham at 7 minutes and 9 seconds long, " Stairway to Heaven " ( 1971 ) by Led Zeppelin at 8 minutes and 3 seconds, " The Message " ( 1982 ) by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five at 7 minutes and 10 seconds, " One " ( 1989 ) by Metallica at 7 minutes and 24 seconds, and " American Pie " by Don McLean with a length of 8 minutes and 32 seconds.

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