The Whig-Radical amalgam could not become a true modern political party, however, while it was dominated by aristocrats, and it was not until the departure of the " Two Terrible Old Men ", Russell and Palmerston, that Gladstone could become the first leader of the modern Liberal Party.

Davy was trying to isolate calcium ; when he heard that Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Pontin prepared calcium amalgam by electrolyzing lime in mercury, he tried it himself.

In China, performances of Hamlet often have political significance: Gu Wuwei's 1916 The Usurper of State Power, an amalgam of Hamlet and Macbeth, was an attack on Yuan Shikai's attempt to overthrow the republic.

The Odyssey was written in a poetic dialect of Greek — a literary amalgam of Aeolic Greek, Ionic Greek, and other Ancient Greek dialects — and comprises 12, 110 lines of dactylic hexameter.

Their debut album was strongly influenced by British blues rock: an amalgam of sounds and styles from such rock bands as Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.

Ireland in the 9th century was organised into an amalgam of small kingdoms, called tuatha.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

The Expedition was led by Chiang Kai-shek and the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), an amalgam of earlier military forces with significant guidance from Russian military advisors and numerous Communists as both commanding and political officers.

In 1974, a Time magazine article entitled " Return of a Supergroup " quipped that the supergroup was a " potent but short-lived rock phenomenon " which was an " amalgam formed by the talented malcontents of other bands.

But in a larger sense, " Kuparisaari " was an amalgam of geographic location and cultural identity, particularly for the Finns.

:" The cooperation that was built up with Canada during the war was an amalgam compounded of diverse elements of which the air and land routes to Alaska, the Canol project, and the CRYSTAL and CRIMSON activities were the most costly in point of effort and funds expended.

" Upon questioning, the freelance writer indicated the column was based on an amalgam of three restaurants and could not verify the prices ," the paper noted.

Its binomial scientific name was first used by Erxleben in 1777 ; it is an amalgam of Pallas ' generic designation ( 1766 ) and Linnaeus ' specific conferral ( 1758 ).

In 1808, Seebeck was first to produce and describe the amalgam of potassium.

Citizens chose to name their new community " Hermlin " ( an amalgam of the surnames of the two landowners ) but this name was rejected by postal officials as being too close to the nearby town of Hamlin, potentially causing confusion between the two communities.

And the Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing " a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them " and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.

While this was a successful attempt to re-create the amalgam of styles found on the previous album, the band once again depended almost exclusively on cover material.

Electrum, a rare amalgam of gold and silver, was used by Tertullian as an example of a tertium quid, by which he meant a mixture with composite properties.

Sir John Mandeville declared in 1357 that he had seen the blade of the Holy Lance both at Paris and at Constantinople, and that the latter was a much larger relic than the former ; it is worth adding that Mandeville is not generally regarded as one of the Middle Ages ' most reliable witnesses, and his supposed travels are usually treated as an eclectic amalgam of myths, legends and other fictions.

Evidence of the 1289 fire was discovered in the form of pieces of fused metal – an amalgam of lead, silver and iron that had melted and penetrated the floor of the building in the heat of the fire.

Kleine's new combine, V-L-S-E, was an amalgam of the Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig, and Essanay companies.

Fire-gilding or Wash-gilding is a process by which an amalgam of gold is applied to metallic surfaces, the mercury being subsequently volatilized, leaving a film of gold or an amalgam containing from 13 to 16 % of mercury.

When the metal to be gilded is wrought or chased, it ought to be covered with mercury before the amalgam is applied, that this may be more easily spread ; but when the surface of the metal is plain, the amalgam may be applied to it directly.

An amalgam of mercury and the precious metal is prepared and applied to the object which is then heated, sometimes in oil, vaporizing most of the mercury.

The manufacture of true ormolu employs a process known as mercury-gilding or fire-gilding, in which a solution of nitrate of mercury is applied to a piece of copper, brass, or bronze, followed by the application of an amalgam of gold and mercury.

To make dental amalgam, a mixture of powdered silver and other metals is mixed with mercury to make a stiff paste that can be adapted to the shape of a cavity.

The anode is a cadmium mercury amalgam, the cathode is made of pure mercury, the electrolyte is a ( saturated ) solution of cadmium sulfate and the depolarizer is a paste of mercurous sulfate.

In 1876 at Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts, Harvard persuaded Princeton and Columbia to adopt an amalgam of rugby's laws and the rules that they were then playing, thus forming the Intercollegiate Football Association ( IFA ).

Hesiod's myth of Pandora's jar, then, could be an amalgam of many variant early myths.

The amalgam being equally spread over the prepared surface of the metal, the mercury is then sublimed by a heat just sufficient for that purpose ; for, if it is too great, part of the gold may be driven off, or it may run together and leave some of the surface of the metal bare.

Spectrum Fantastic Art, an art exhibit project of which the couple were general managers, confirmed Leo's death on its website The New York Times obituary, written by Margalit Fox, praised Dillon as " one of the world ’ s pre-eminent illustrators for young people, producing artwork — praised for its vibrancy, ecumenicalism and sheer sumptuous beauty — that was a seamless amalgam of both their hands ," also noting the ethnoracial diversity of characters in the Dillons ' work in the 1970s, " until then, the smiling faces portrayed in picture books had been overwhelmingly white.

The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture notes that " the Armenians according to Diakonoff, are then an amalgam of the Hurrian ( and Urartians ), Luvians and the Proto-Armenian Mushki ( or Armeno-Phrygians ) who carried their IE language eastwards across Anatolia.

Jones then argues against the common hypothesis that dragon myths might be motivated by primitive discoveries of dinosaur fossils ( he argues that there are widespread traits of dragons in folklore which are not observable from fossils ), and claims that the common traits of dragons seem to be an amalgam of the principal predators of our ancestral hominids, which he names as the raptors, elephants, horses, great cats ( especially leopards ) and pythons.

An amalgam of long-standing national housing programs and lending facilities previously managed by the National Mortgage Bank, FONAVI helped coordinate slum-clearance efforts and, since then, has put up over 25, 000 housing units a year ( both single-family and multi-family types ).

This is related to a mercury electrode where a metal can be reduced, the metal will often then dissolve in the mercury to form an amalgam that modifies its electrochemistry greatly.

Though the story depicts McKee as little more than an amalgam of hack clichés on the subject of screen writing, Charlie's slacker brother Donald uses the knowledge obtained attending the famous seminar to write a spec script he then sells for a large amount of money through his brother's agent.

The image in a daguerreotype is often described as being formed by the amalgam, or alloy, of mercury and silver because mercury vapor from a pool of heated mercury is used to develop the plate ; but using the Becquerel process ( using a red filter and two-and-a-half stops extra exposure ) daguerreotypes can be produced without mercury, and chemical analysis shows that there is no mercury in the final image with the Bequerel process.

In the preparation of the amalgam the gold must first be reduced to thin plates or grains, which are heated red hot, and thrown into previously heated mercury, until it begins to smoke.

Sodium amalgam reduces it to dihydroresorcin, which when heated to 150 to 160 ° C with concentrated barium hydroxide solution gives γ-acetylbutyric acid ( D. Vorlgnder ); when fused with potassium hydroxide, resorcinol yields phloroglucin, pyrocatechol, and diresorcin.

It is not until after he and Tifa fall into the Lifestream that he, with her encouragement, can piece his past back together, and restore his own personality from underneath the amalgam where he had subconsciously hidden it, ultimately dismissing Sephiroth's deceit that he is an artificially-constructed Sephiroth-clone.

In 1845, the ASDS had members sign a mandatory pledge promising not to use mercury fillings because of fear of mercury poisoning in patients and dentists ( at the time, dentists made amalgam by mixing liquid mercury and the other components of amalgam themselves in their office, a practice which continued until pre-filled amalgam capsules became generally available in the 1960s ).

The ADA maintained until 1984 that mercury was bound in amalgam and did not release mercury vapor.

Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with a Million Young, who according to Victor Tugelbend tortures his victims to death by showing them pictures of his grandchildren until their brains implode, is an amalgam reference to Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, and Tsathoggua, often described as " toad-like ".

Alternatively, she may be an amalgam of Wataru's buried memories of his sisters, forgotten until he experienced a time of great stress and lost the way he'd set out on in Tokyo, allowing her to manifest again.

These used coatings of mercury-containing tin amalgam ; coatings of silver or aluminum were not available until the 19th century.

" In addition to these efforts, Clarridge's " dispatches — an amalgam of fact, rumor, analysis and uncorroborated reports — have been sent to military officials who, until last spring at least, found some credible enough to be used in planning strikes against militants in Afghanistan.