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He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin ; in the former his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.
In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey ; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques ( Botstein, § 6 ).
The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 ; University of Illinois Press ; ISBN 0-252-02972-0 ( 1958 ; Hardcover, October 2004 ).
( The Orinoco Basin flows west – north – northeast into the Caribbean ; the Amazon Basin flows east into the western Atlantic in the extreme northeast of Brazil.
There are many different types of tropical moist forests, although most extensive are the lowland evergreen broad leaf rainforests, for example várzea and igapó forests and the terra firma forests of the Amazon Basin ; the peat swamp forests, dipterocarp forests of Southeast Asia ; and the high forests of the Congo Basin.
The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.
Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.
Such projects have the additional effect of constricting downstream water supply ; Toktogul deprives the lower reaches of the Syr Darya in Uzbekistan and the Aral Sea Basin of substantial amounts of water.
Considerably higher rainfall would have been required to keep such a lake full ; the draining of Lake Bungunia appears to mark the end of a wet phase in the history of the Murray-Darling Basin and the onset of widespread arid conditions similar to today.
Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive ( the fruit of Olea europaea ; family Oleaceae ), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin.
Almost all of the smaller islands of the Pacific lie between 30 ° N and 30 ° S, extending from Southeast Asia to Easter Island ; the rest of the Pacific Basin is almost entirely submerged.
The geological properties of a white silica sand found at Basin Head are unique in the province ; the sand grains cause a scrubbing noise as they rub against each other when walked on, and have been called the " singing sands ".
The upper Indus Basin includes Punjab ; the lower Indus Basin begins at the Panjnad River ( the confluence of the eastern tributaries of the Indus ) and extends south to the coast.

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Kansas City, Mo. ; ;
Kansas City, Mo. ; ;
Not long ago, I rode down with him in an elevator in Radio City ; ;
at the sun and the heat of Mediterranean lands, always much brighter and hotter to an Englishman than to an American used to summers in New York or Kansas City ; ;
The cold settled like a tangible pall over the Mile High City, locking it in an icy grip that harshened its outlines and altered its physical appearance ; ;
" On Aristotle's Politics ", in The City and Man, Chicago ; Rand McNally.
Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.
Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.
* Kathryn Gargett ; Susan Marsden, Adelaide: A Brief History Adelaide: State History Centre, History Trust of South Australia in association with Adelaide City Council, 1996 ISBN 978-0-7308-0116-0
* Susan Marsden ; Paul Stark ; Patricia Sumerling, eds, Heritage of the City of Adelaide: an illustrated guide Adelaide: Adelaide City Council, 1990, 1996 ISBN 978-0-909866-30-3
Its founders were often away as well ; in the middle of harvesting, they left for a lecture tour through Providence, Rhode Island, New York City, and New Haven, Connecticut.
Buffalo City Hall | City Hall in Buffalo, New York | Buffalo, New York ; John Wade with George Dietel, built 1929 – 1931
To secure local interest, in 1885, he gave $ 500, 000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $ 250, 000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library ; and $ 250, 000 to Edinburgh for a free library.
* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

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* The Police General Commander, and the 2nd in command ;
; Assaulting a person designated under section 43 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005: This offence is created by section 51 ( 1 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
; Assaulting a member of an international joint investigation team: This offence is created by section 57 ( 2 ) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
; Assault on a constable in the execution of his duty: Section 89 ( 1 ) of the Police Act 1996 provides that it is an offence for a person to assault either:
; Assaulting a person designated or accredited under sections 38 or 39 or 41 or 41A of the Police Reform Act 2002: This offence is created by section 46 ( 1 ) of the Police Reform Act 2002.
There are five separate U. S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the 1st Infantry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, Kansas ; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Exchange, Theater, Barracks, Franconia Inn, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing.
The budget previously dedicated to the military now is dedicated to security, education and culture ; the country maintains Police Guard forces.
On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.
* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.
Police initially suspected the boys had been raped ; however, later expert testimony disputed this finding despite trace amounts of sperm DNA found on a pair of pants recovered from the scene.
Police believed the boys were assaulted and killed at the location where they were found ; critics argued that the assault, at least, was unlikely to have occurred at the creek.
Police heard rumors that the young lovers had planned to have a child and sacrifice the infant ; based on this story, they had Echols institutionalized for psychiatric evaluation.
It includes the Presidents of the National Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice ; the ministers in charge of National Defence, Government and Police, Foreign Affairs, and Economy and Finance ; the Chief of the Joint Command, and the Chiefs of the three branches of the Armed Forces.
The first concentration camps were under the direct command of SS – Polizei-führer Globocnik, and operated by SS Police battalions and Trawnikis — volunteers from Eastern Europe ; whereas the SS-Totenkopfverbände managed the Nazi Concentration Camps such as Dachau and Ravensbrück.
) The construction of freeways and underpasses by the municipal government, the implementation of reversible lanes during peak rush hour traffic flows, as well as the establishment of the Department of Metropolitan Transit Police ( PMT ) has helped traffic flow in the city ; however, the Guatemalan metropolitan area still faces a growing transportation problem.
Campaigns for constitutional reform during the 19th century successfully called for: the replacement of lay Jurats with professional judges in the Royal Court to decide questions of law ; the establishment of a Police Court ( later known as the Magistrate's Court ); the creation of a Petty Debts Court ; a professional, salaried police force for St Helier in addition to the Honorary Police ; and the reform of " archaic procedure of the Royal Court for criminal trials ".
A month later Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in Ottawa, took political asylum in Canada and gave the Royal Canadian Mounted Police many agent names ; Philby could do nothing about this.

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