question: what is the setting of the book hoot

answers: Florida

title: Hoot (novel)

text: The themes in the novel are friendship, teamwork, growing up, corruption, parental love, kinship, environmentalism and integrity. The character goes through different adventures to get here. A film adaptation of the book was released in May 2006, starring Luke Wilson as Officer Delinko, Logan Lerman as Roy Eberhart, Brie Larson as Beatrice Leep, Tim Blake Nelson as Leroy Brannit, Neil Flynn as Mr. Eberhart, Robert Wagner as Mayor Grandy, Cody Linley as Napoleon Leep, and Clark Gregg as Chuck Muckle. Hiaasen and Wil Shriner, the director and script-writer, "fought long and hard to stay truthful to the book." Hoot (novel)

title: Hoot (film)

text: Hoot (film) Hoot is a 2006 American family comedy film, based on Carl Hiaasen's novel of the same name. It was written and directed by Wil Shriner, and produced by New Line Cinema and Walden Media. The film stars Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Neil Flynn and Robert Wagner. The film was released on May 5, 2006. The film was a box office bomb in its initial theatrical run, and received largely mixed to negative reviews from notable film critics and film-review websites. The film is about a group of children trying to save a burrowing

title: Hoot (novel)

text: very valuable toe ring. They believe her, and he's sent to a juvenile detention center where he escapes. In the last chapter, Roy discovers that Mullet Fingers's real name is Napoleon Bridger Leep. Carl Hiaasen started writing children's books when he realized that the other novels that he had written were too adult for his nieces and nephews. In writing his first young adult novel, Hiaasen faced some challenges: "The biggest challenge was trying not to subconsciously 'write down' for young readers." Hiaasen said, "When I was creating the character in "Hoot", I'm sure I stole liberally from my pre-adolescence."

title: Hoot (novel)

text: running boy is the vandal known as "Mullet Fingers", and they become friends. Mullet Fingers vandalizes and delays construction overseen by Chuck Muckle to save an endangered species—the burrowing owl—that live on the site. The construction foreman, named Leroy "Curly" Branitt, denies the owls' existence. Roy helps Mullet Fingers prove otherwise and tells his class about the owls, how construction will kill the endangered species, and encourages them to join him in protests. Roy and his classmates attend the ground breaking and expose the truth. This includes the company's illegal removal of an environmental impact statement from their files. This

title: The Mount (novel)

text: efficiently. Most Hoots have never developed their leg muscles and use either mounts or small bicycle devices to move about. Hoots have very large and strong hands which were evolved for strangling predators. They also have large eyes and very large ears. The ears are used as a way of expressing emotions. For example, when a Hoot laughs, their ears flap up and down. Peter Cannon praised the novel in his review for the magazine " Publishers Weekly", saying that it was "Brilliantly conceived and painfully acute in its delineation of the complex relationships between masters and slaves, pets and

title: Hoot (novel)

text: revelation saves the owls and their habitat. Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House blames former employees and promises to preserve the property as an owl sanctuary. Muckle is sent to anger management for attacking a reporter. Dana is later arrested and sentenced to a detention camp. Mullet Fingers's mother sees him protesting with Roy and his classmates and goes in front of all the cameras and attempts to hog all the attention. Two days later, Mullet Fingers climbs out his home's bathroom window and is mistaken for a burglar. Mullet Fingers's mother lies to the police and says he stole a

title: Hoot (novel)

text: outside. Roy tries to leave the bus, but Dana viciously chokes and strangles him. He escapes after punching Dana in the face, breaking his nose, and then exiting the bus. But Roy can't catch the running boy because a golf ball hits Roy in the head. Vice-Principal Viola Hennepin suspends him from the bus for two weeks and orders Roy to write an apology to Dana. Roy calls for a truce, but Dana refuses to accept. A cafe called Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House decides to build a franchise in Coconut Cove, but vandalism delays the work. Roy learns the

title: The Mount (novel)

text: is used as a riding mount (e.g. horses) for an alien race known as Hoots. Humans in Charley's world, a pastoral Earth, have existed in a master-slave relationship with the Hoots for centuries. The Hoots, who have no way to return to their home planet, maintain the natural systems that keep the world running. Escaped mounts like Charley's father, formerly the Guards' Mount known as Heron, lead assaults on the stables where humans are kept and seek to unify their own people against the Hoots. When Charley (mount name Smiley) meets his father for the first time (Heron and Merry

title: The Mount (novel)

text: Mary were mated and separated by the Hoots soon after Charley was born), he resists betraying either his Master, the Hoot heir apparent, or anything that might help the resisting humans because his life as a mount (breed Seattle) is the only one he's ever known. The Hoots are a race that have evolved from prey. They are herbivores who have developed a set of very keen senses which allowed them to tame and use predators as mounts. The need for mounts is due to the fact that Hoots have very weak leg muscles, which prevents them from moving about

title: Hoot (film)

text: and pop songs (covers and originals) sung by Jimmy Buffett. The original score "Happy Ending" was composed by Mac McAnally, Michael Utley and Phil Marshall. The pop songs sung by a variety of artists are: The songs sung by Jimmy Buffett are: Hoot (film) Hoot is a 2006 American family comedy film, based on Carl Hiaasen's novel of the same name. It was written and directed by Wil Shriner, and produced by New Line Cinema and Walden Media. The film stars Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Neil Flynn and Robert Wagner. The film was released on

title: Giggle and Hoot

text: Hoot is "flying" across land of "Giggle and Hoot" to "ensure everyone is tucked up in bed". Hootabelle helps him by lighting up the stars with her 'Star Twinkler', so he can see his way in the 'Nighty Night' sky. Hoot and Hootabelle often meet up after "The Night Watch" to fly and play everywhere in the land of "Giggle and Hoot". Later seasons included an impudent, purple female owl named Hootabelle. She was created as a companion and close friend for Hoot. In the series, she lives in a 'Purple Button Tree', and has a toy cat called "Gigglepaws";

title: Hoot (comics)

text: Hoot (comics) Hoot was a British comic book magazine that ran from (issues dates) 26 October 1985 to 25 October 1986, when it merged with "The Dandy". Its cover price was 20p, represented by a stylized graphic depiction of a 20p coin. Throughout its run, it billed itself as "Britain's bubbling new comic!", a reference to the title masthead being made up of steam-billowing pipes (hence the title). The comic was the last new humour anthology comic from DC Thomson which mostly featured original characters. Strips throughout its 53 issue run included. Listed in order of appearance. All numbers refer

title: Hoot N Holler

text: coaster is operated with one five-car train with one row per car. Riders are seated two per row for a total of ten riders per train. When the ride is used at full capacity it can take 600 riders per hour. The ride's train has an owl theme. Hoot N Holler Hoot N Holler is a steel family roller coaster manufactured by Zierer of Germany, formerly known as Ladybug from 1981 to 1988, Nessie the Dreamy Dragon from 1988 to 1997 and Brain Teaser from 1997 to 2012. The coaster is currently located at Darien Lake in New York. When

title: Scat (novel)

text: Scat (novel) Scat is a teenage novel by Carl Hiaasen, published in 2009. "Scat", Hiaassen's third young adult novel, tells the mystery of a missing teacher named Mrs. Bunny Starch, and how two of her students, Nick Waters and Marta Gonzalez, will do everything they can to find her. The book is available in over 1,000 libraries and was well-received when it came out, with a positive review in the "New York Times". Carl Hiaasen is the author of other notable children's fiction novels, including "Flush", in over 2,500 libraries. and "Hoot", in over 3,200 libraries. He received the Newbery

title: Hoot (song)

text: English words such as "trouble, trouble, trouble". Rino Nakasone Razalan was the choreographer for the song. According to a poll by Gallup Korea, "Hoot" was voted as the most popular song in South Korea in 2010. The music video contains two settings: a white room and a black room. Throughout the video, there are scenes of the girls dancing in the black room dressed in black short suits with pink belts and high boots and in the white room dressed in golden suits with silver boots, but also in the beginning the girls are seen dancing in an elevator. In

title: Hoot N Holler

text: Hoot N Holler Hoot N Holler is a steel family roller coaster manufactured by Zierer of Germany, formerly known as Ladybug from 1981 to 1988, Nessie the Dreamy Dragon from 1988 to 1997 and Brain Teaser from 1997 to 2012. The coaster is currently located at Darien Lake in New York. When constructed in 1981, it was the first roller coaster at the park. The coaster was originally called Ladybug for its ladybug shaped trains. The coaster was located in the vicinity of the Giant Wheel from 1981-1988. It was later moved to Adventure Land for Kids (created in 1988)

title: Hoot (song)

text: a female artist or group". The song demo was written and recorded in the UK, with Nina Woodford singing the vocal, and then finished and mixed in Denmark. Their publisher, Pelle Lidell of Universal Music Publishing Group, successfully pitched the song to S.M. Entertainment for Girls' Generation. Jensen later told HitQuarters: "We knew it was a strong record and a lot of the time you have to be patient until you find the right artist to cut it at the right time. Girls' Generation were that match." The song was then translated into Korean, but incorporated some of the original

title: Cynthia Leitich Smith

text: Press, for ages 14 and up. Fantasy elements include angels, vampires and shapeshifters. The novel is a genre bender, employing elements of mystery, suspense, comedy, romance, and Gothic fantasy. It also was published by Listening Library/Random House, Walker Books U.K., Walker Books Australia and New Zealand, and Amber in Poland. The U.S. paperback edition debuted at #5 on the New York Times best-seller list (children's paperbacks) and #13 on the Publishers Weekly best-seller list. "Holler Loudly", illustrated by Barry Gott, is a humorous tall tale picture book, published in 2010 by Dutton, for ages 4 and up. Holler Loudly was

title: Hoot (film)

text: "" and "An American Haunting" were opening wide that weekend. The gambit failed and "Hoot" opened at #10 at the U.S. and Canadian box office on 3,018 screens. The film's opening U.S. and Canadian box office was $3.4 million. "Hoot" held on at #10 for its second week then the movie broke a record set by "Gigli" for biggest drop in cinemas screening the film as it lost 2200 screens and came in at #19 on its third weekend. The film grossed $8,224,998 worldwide. In 2007, Walden Media's "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" nudged "Hoot" into second place in

title: The Books of Abarat

text: things, which are then wafted through the air until they arrive at some suitable habitat. She is mentioned in the first book and seen in the second book by characters Malingo and Candy. Hobarookus is a small, rocky, swampy island inhabited by pirates and buccaneers. The food produced there is prepared by the best cooks in the Abarat, because of the hour's use as a lunch time. Kalukwa birds, a species of bird whose eggs "hatch downy human babies every ninth year", are common throughout the swampy areas, called the Sinks. These babies are commonly taken and raised by the

title: Hoot (torpedo)

text: Hoot (torpedo) The Hoot (; "Whale") is an Iranian supercavitation torpedo claimed to travel at approximately , several times faster than a conventional torpedo. It was claimed to have been successfully test-fired from a surface ship against a dummy submarine during the Iranian military exercise "Great Prophet" ) on 2 April 2006 and 3 April 2006. Iran test-fired the torpedo within its territorial waters in the Strait of Hormuz in May 2017. The official Iranian news agency IRNA claims the torpedo was produced and developed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (). Most military and industry analysts have concluded that

title: Giggle and Hoot

text: to him being awake at daytime, he is often undoubtedly prone to falling asleep. Hoot lives in a chest of drawers that he has fashioned as his own personal apartment. Hoot also plays the harmonica and triangle. Hoot's interests include bird snacks, the colour blue, "owl" naps, hootball (a portmanteau of "hoot" and "football") and his favourite toy "Mini-Hoot". He and his best friend Jimmy Giggle enjoy playing, singing and hanging out together. They also play dress-up; seen acting as kings, astronauts, pirates, shopkeepers and magicians. At the end of each airing, a sequence called the "Night Watch" happens when

title: Hoot (film)

text: terms of 'biggest theatre drops'. "Hoot" topped "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" in reaching number one in the "worst super-saturated (3000 plus screens)" openings in the US and Canada: "Hoot" opened in almost 42% of all screens. The film's production budget was $15 million, although the costs for such a wide opening would probably have made the film considerably more expensive to distribute than it was to produce - "the cost of its prints would have been twice as much" as the production budget, according to respected industry opinions. "Hoot" entered the collection of the Museum of Modern Art

title: Hoot (film)

text: 4) saying that "...the lame plot centers around a greedy developer who wants to bulldoze a lot inhabited by rare burrowing owls" and "though I'd like to root for 'Hoot', its entertainment value is moot". Logan Lerman, who played the lead role of Roy Eberhardt, won a Young Artist Award for his performance in "Hoot". He received the nomination & win in early 2007 for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actor. The soundtrack of "Hoot" (as appears on the accompanying soundtrack CD) has three elements: an original score, pop songs sung by a variety of artists,

title: Hoot (film)

text: a hundred "s."" "San Francisco Chronicle"s Ruthe Stein gave the film a positive review (3 stars out of 4) and said, "...the film does nothing to dilute the save-the-Earth-and-every-creature-on-it message of Carl Hiaasen's ingeniously plotted award-winning children's book." Roger Ebert gave "Hoot" 1.5 stars (out of 4) and included "Hoot" in his 2007 book - "Your Movie Sucks" - where he says "'Hoot' has its heart in the right place, but I have been unable to locate its brain" and "... the kids (especially Mullet Fingers) are likeable but not remotely believable". Michael Medved panned "Hoot" (2 stars out of

title: The Seeker (film)

text: of "Hoot". (Most wide releases are contractually obliged to stay at a particular screen for two weeks and can be dropped by a theatre only at the beginning of the third week.) Critical reception to the film has been largely negative, with movie-review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes finding only 14% of critics gave the movie a positive review earning the film a "Rotten" rating on the site. Metacritic, a similar review aggregation site, calculates the movie as having a score of 39/100. The only positive feedback from most critics went toward Christopher Eccleston's performance. Criticism was varied. The "New York Post"’s

title: Hoot (song)

text: Hoot (song) "Hoot" () is the lead single from "Hoot", the third EP of South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. It became the ninth hit song for the group, topping various off- and online charts. "Hoot" was released on October 25, 2010. A Japanese-language version was also released on their first Japanese album, "Girls' Generation" on June 1, 2011. "Hoot" was originally titled "Bulletproof" and written with English lyrics. It was composed by Danish songwriter-producers Martin Michael Larsson and Lars Halvor Jensen, of Deekay, together with British songwriter Alex James, with the intention of creating an "exciting up-tempo record for

title: Giggle and Hoot

text: are also brought to life in animated form through various songs in the show, such as "Go Giggleosaurus", "On A Mini-Adventure" and "Hoot! Hoot! It's A Lovely Day". Additional puppet characters that have appeared on the show include: The Day Time Block is between 7–9 am and 1:45–2:40 pm, and there are a number of music video clips shown in this time, including: When Jimmy Giggle, Hoot and Hootabelle press a button on the side of their vegetable box it 'magically' transforms into "The Gigglearium" — a musical theatre where three vegetables — Tommy Tomato (Hamish Fletcher/Nicholas Richard), Bessie Broccoli

title: Hobo (book)

text: Hobo (book) Hobo: A Young Man's Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America, () is non-fiction, autobiographical book written by Eddy Joe Cotton (though this is a nickname, with his real name being Zebu Recchia). The book was first published in 2002 and describes the adventures of the author as he travels under the disguise of a hobo for over a year, keeping a detailed journal of his experiences and the lingo he learns along the way. His journey begins in Denver, Colorado and conclude in Las Vegas, Nevada, but he also passes through California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming,

title: Hoot (novel)

text: Hoot is a 2002 young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen. The setting takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site.  The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003. A film adaptation of the book was released in May 2006, starring Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, and Cody Linley. Hiaasen and Wil Shriner, the director and script-writer, "fought long and hard to stay truthful to the book."

title: Hoot (novel)


question: what is the system of government in japan

answers: constitutional monarchy

title: Government of Japan

text: is appointed by the Emperor, after being nominated by the Cabinet; which in practice, known to be under the recommendation of the former Chief Justice. The Legal system in Japan has been historically influenced by Chinese law; developing independently during the Edo period through texts such as "Kujikata Osadamegaki". It has, however, changed during the Meiji Restoration, and is now largely based on the European civil law; notably, the civil code based on the German model still remains in effect. A quasi-jury system has recently came into use, and the legal system also includes a bill of rights since May

title: Politics of Japan

text: system of civil law. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Japan as a "flawed democracy" in 2016. The Constitution of Japan defines the Emperor to be "the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people". He performs ceremonial duties and holds no real power. Political power is held mainly by the Prime Minister and other elected members of the Diet. The Imperial Throne is succeeded by a member of the Imperial House as designated by the Imperial Household Law. The chief of the executive branch, the Prime Minister, is appointed by the Emperor as directed by the Diet.

title: Elections in Japan

text: Elections in Japan The Japanese political process has three types of elections: general elections to the House of Representatives held every four years (unless the lower house is dissolved earlier), elections to the House of Councillors held every three years to choose one-half of its members, and local elections held every four years for offices in prefectures, cities, and villages. Elections are supervised by election committees at each administrative level under the general direction of the Central Election Administration Committee, an attached organization to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC). The minimum voting age in Japan's non-compulsory electoral

title: Law of Japan

text: indigenous Japanese and Chinese characteristics. While historical aspects remain active in the present, Japanese law also represents a dynamic system that has undergone major reforms and changes in the past two decades as well. The present national authorities and legal system are constituted upon the adoption of the Constitution of Japan in 1947. The Constitution contains thirty-three articles relating to human rights and articles providing for the separation of powers vested into three independent bodies: the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The National Diet is the bicameral supreme legislative body of Japan, consisting of the House of Councillors (upper house) and

title: Prefectures of Japan

text: merge several groups of prefectures, creating a subnational administrative division system consisting of between nine and 13 states, and giving these states more local autonomy than the prefectures currently enjoy. , no reorganization has been scheduled. Japan is a unitary state. The central government delegates many functions (such as education and the police force) to the prefectures and municipalities, but retains the overall right to control them. Although local government expenditure accounts for 70 percent of overall government expenditure, the central government controls local budgets, tax rates, and borrowing. Historically, during the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate established around the

title: Administrative divisions of Japan

text: Law and is unique to Tokyo. A is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. Although the details of local administration have changed dramatically over time, the basic outline of the current two-tiered system since the abolition of the han system by the Meiji government in 1871 are similar. Before the abolition of the han system, Japan was divided into then subdivided into and then at the bottom. Administrative divisions of Japan The bureaucratic administration of Japan is divided into three basic levels; national, prefectural, and municipal. Below the

title: Government of Japan

text: the Diet. of the Constitution of Japan and the Board of Audit Act of 1947 gives this body substantial independence from both controls. The Legislative branch organ of Japan is the National Diet (国会). It is a bicameral legislature, composing of a lower house, the House of Representatives, and an upper house, the House of Councillors. Empowered by the Constitution to be "the highest organ of State power" and the only "sole law-making organ of the State", its houses are both directly elected under a parallel voting system and is ensured by the Constitution to have no discrimination on the

title: Government of Japan

text: High Courts. The Penal system of Japan (矯正施設) is operated by the Ministry of Justice. It is part of the criminal justice system, and is intended to resocialize, reform, and rehabilitate offenders. The ministry's Correctional Bureau administers the adult prison system, the juvenile correctional system, and three of the women's guidance homes, while the Rehabilitation Bureau operates the probation and the parole systems. The local governments of Japan (地方公共団体) are unitary, in which local jurisdictions largely depend on the national government both administratively and financially. They are established as an act of devolution. Under the Constitution, all matters pertaining to

title: Local government

text: span of five years. The Israeli Ministry of Interior recognizes four types of local government in Israel: Since the Meiji restoration, Japan has had a local government system based on prefectures. The national government oversees much of the country. Municipal governments were historical villages. Now mergers are common for cost effective administration. There are 47 prefectures. They have two main responsibilities. One is mediation between national and municipal governments. The other is area wide administration. Local government is the lowest level in the system of government in Malaysia—after federal and state. It has the power to collect taxes (in the

title: Constitution of Japan

text: decision making). The constitution establishes a parliamentary system of government in which legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Diet. Although a bicameral Diet existed under the existing constitution, the new constitution abolished the upper House of Peers, which consisted of members of the nobility (similar to the British House of Lords). The new constitution provides that both chambers be directly elected, with a lower House of Representatives and an upper House of Councillors. The House of Representatives has the sole ability to pass a vote of no confidence in the Cabinet, can override the House of Councillors' veto

title: Government of Japan

text: Ministers of State and the Prime Minister, that directs and controls the Government. The Cabinet is the source of power of the Executive branch, and is formed by the Prime Minister, who is the head of government. He or she is designated by the National Diet and appointed to office by the Emperor. The National Diet is the legislature, the organ of the Legislative branch. It is bicameral, consisting of two houses with the House of Councillors being the upper house, and the House of Representatives being the lower house. Its members are directly elected from the people, who are

title: Government of Japan

text: by the Emperor. A short speech is, however, usually first made by the Speaker of the House of Representatives before the Emperor proceeds to convoke the Diet with his Speech from the throne. The Judicial branch of Japan consists of the Supreme Court, and four other lower courts; the High Courts, District Courts, Family Courts and Summary Courts. Divided into four basic tiers, the Court's independence from the executive and legislative branches are guaranteed by the Constitution, and is stated as: "no extraordinary tribunal shall be established, nor shall any organ or agency of the Executive be given final judicial

title: Elections in Japan

text: system was reduced from twenty to eighteen years in June 2016. Voters must satisfy a three-month residency requirement before being allowed to cast a ballot. For those seeking office, there are two sets of age requirements: twenty-five years of age for admission to the House of Representatives and most local offices, and thirty years of age for admission to the House of Councillors and the prefectural governorship. Each deposit for candidacy is 3 million yen (30 thousand dollars) for single-seat constituency and 6 million yen (60 thousand dollars) for proportional representation. The "National Diet " ("Kokkai") has two chambers. The

title: Government of Japan

text: of each house, and all other matters pertaining to the method of election of the each members, and are thus, allowed to be determined for by law. Under the provisions of the Constitution and by law, all adults aged over 18 are eligible to vote, with a secret ballot and a universal suffrage, and those elected have certain protections from apprehension while the Diet is in session. Speeches, debates, and votes cast in the Diet also enjoy parliamentary privileges. Each house is responsible for disciplining its own members, and all deliberations are public unless two-thirds or more of those members

title: Government of Japan

text: The House of Representatives is the more powerful house out of the two, it is able to override vetoes on bills imposed by the House of Councillors with a two-thirds majority. It can, however, be dissolved by the Prime Minister at will. Members of the house must be of Japanese nationality; those aged 18 years and older may vote, while those aged 25 years and older may run for office in the lower house. The legislative powers of the House of Representatives is considered to be more powerful than that of the House of Councillors. While the House of Councillors

title: Government of Japan

text: the source of sovereignty. The Supreme Court and other inferior courts make up the Judicial branch, and they are independent from the executive and the legislative branches. Prior to the Meiji Restoration, Japan was ruled by successive military "shōguns". During this period, effective power of the government resided in the Shōgun, who officially ruled the country in the name of the Emperor. The Shoguns were the hereditary military governors, with their modern rank equivalent to a generalissimo. Although the Emperor was the sovereign who appointed the Shōgun, his roles were ceremonial and he took no part in governing the country.

title: Constitution of Japan

text: advocate changes to increase the prestige of the Emperor (though not granting him political powers) and to allow a more aggressive stance of the JSDF by turning it officially into a military. Other areas of the Constitution and connected laws discussed for potential revision related to the status of women, the education system and the system of public corporations (including social welfare, non-profit and religious organizations as well as foundations), and structural reform of the election process, e.g. to allow for direct election of the prime minister. Numerous grassroots groups, associations, NGOs, think tanks, scholars, and politicians speak out on

title: Government of Japan

text: the local self-government is allowed to be determined for by law; more specifically, the Local Autonomy Law. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications intervenes significantly in local government, as do other ministries. This is done chiefly financially because many local government jobs need funding initiated by national ministries. This is dubbed as the "thirty-percent autonomy". The result of this power is a high level of organizational and policy standardization among the different local jurisdictions allowing them to preserve the uniqueness of their prefecture, city, or town. Some of the more collectivist jurisdictions, such as Tokyo and Kyoto, have experimented

title: Law of Japan

text: House of Representatives (lower house). Article 41 of the Constitution provides that "the Diet shall be the highest organ of State power, and shall be the sole law-making organ of the State." Statutory law originates from the National Diet, with the approval of the Emperor as a formality. Under the current constitution, the Emperor does not have the power to veto or otherwise refuse to approve a law passed by the Diet. The judicial system of Japan consists of the Supreme Court, eight high courts and fifty district and family courts. For more serious crimes long terms of confinement or

title: Constitution of Japan

text: Constitution of Japan The is the fundamental law of Japan. It was enacted on 3 May 1947, as a new constitution for a post-war Japan. The constitution provides for a parliamentary system of government and guarantees certain fundamental rights. Under its terms, the Emperor of Japan is "the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people" and exercises a purely ceremonial role without the possession of sovereignty. The constitution, also known as the or the , is best known for its Article 9, by which Japan renounces its right to wage war; and to a lesser extent,

title: Government of Japan

text: with policies in such areas as social welfare that later were adopted by the national government. Japan is divided into forty-seven administrative divisions, the prefectures are: one metropolitan district (Tokyo), two urban prefectures (Kyoto and Osaka), forty-three rural prefectures, and one "district", Hokkaidō. Large cities are subdivided into wards, and further split into towns, or precincts, or subprefectures and counties. Cities are self-governing units administered independently of the larger jurisdictions within which they are located. In order to attain city status, a jurisdiction must have at least 500,000 inhabitants, 60 percent of whom are engaged in urban occupations. There are

title: Government of Meiji Japan

text: of bureaucracy dating back to Nara period. A central governmental structure, or "Daijōkan", was established. The "Daijōkan" had seven departments: A separate Justice Ministry was established to create a form of separation of powers in imitation of the western countries. The government instigated Fuhanken Sanchisei, dividing territory into urban prefectures or municipalities ("fu") and rural prefectures ("ken"). Local government in Japan consisted of area confiscated from the Tokugawa, administered from the Department of Civil Affairs, and 273 semi-independent domains. Agents from the central government were sent to each of the domains to work towards administrative uniformity and conformation to the

title: Law of Japan

text: legal systems—especially the civil law of Germany and France—were the primary models for the Japanese judicial and legal systems. After the Second World War, the Japanese legal system underwent major reform under the guidance and direction of Occupation authorities. American law was the strongest influence, at times replacing and at times overlaid onto existing rules and structures. The Constitution, criminal procedure law, and labor law, all crucial for the protection of human rights, and corporate law were substantially revised. Therefore, the Japanese legal system today is essentially a hybrid of continental and Anglo-American legal structures, with strong underlying "flavors" from

title: Administrative divisions of Japan

text: Administrative divisions of Japan The bureaucratic administration of Japan is divided into three basic levels; national, prefectural, and municipal. Below the national government there are 47 prefectures, six of which are further subdivided into subprefectures to better service large geographical areas or remote islands. The municipalities (cities, towns and villages) are the lowest level of government; the twenty most-populated cities outside Tokyo are known as designated cities and are subdivided into wards. The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 proper, two , one , and one . Although different in name, they are functionally the

title: Government of Japan

text: . Both the executive and assembly are elected by popular vote every four years. Local governments follow a modified version of the separation of powers used in the national government. An assembly may pass a vote of no confidence in the executive, in which case the executive must either dissolve the assembly within ten days or automatically lose their office. Following the next election, however, the executive remains in office unless the new assembly again passes a no confidence resolution. The primary methods of local lawmaking are and . Ordinances, similar to statutes in the national system, are passed by

title: Municipalities of Japan

text: name. Municipalities of Japan Japan has three levels of government: national, prefectural, and municipal. The nation is divided into 47 prefectures. Each prefecture consists of numerous municipalities, with 1,719 in total (January 2013 figures) . There are four types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns, villages and special wards (the "ku" of Tokyo). In Japanese, this system is known as , where each kanji in the word represents one of the four types of municipalities. Some designated cities also have further administrative subdivisions, also known as wards. But, unlike the Special wards of Tokyo, these wards are not municipalities. The

title: Japan

text: in the lower house and 125 seats in the upper house. The Prime Minister of Japan is the head of government and is appointed by the Emperor after being designated by the Diet from among its members. The Prime Minister is the head of the Cabinet, and appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State. Following the LDP's landslide victory in the 2012 general election, Shinzō Abe replaced Yoshihiko Noda as the Prime Minister on December 26, 2012. Historically influenced by Chinese law, the Japanese legal system developed independently during the Edo period through texts such as "Kujikata Osadamegaki". However, since

title: Judicial system of Japan

text: Judicial system of Japan In the judicial system of Japan, the Constitution of Japan guarantees that "all judges shall be independent in the exercise of their conscience and shall be bound only by this constitution and the Laws" (Article 76). They cannot be removed from the bench "unless judicially declared mentally or physically incompetent to perform official duties," and they cannot be disciplined by executive agencies (Article 78). Supreme Court judges, however, may be removed by a majority of voters in a referendum that occurs at the first general election following the judge's appointment and every ten years thereafter. The

title: Law of Japan

text: the old patriarchal family system that was the basis of Japanese feudalism. It was in these sections that most of the postwar revisions were made. At that time it was considered no longer necessary or desirable to pay such homage to the past, and the sections dealing with family law and succession were brought closer to European civil law. It has had a significant role in the development of civil law in several East Asian nations including the Republic of Korea and the Republic of China (Taiwan). It remained substantially unchanged even after the American occupation in 1945 except for

title: Government of Japan

text: The government of Japan is a constitutional monarchy in which the power of the Emperor is limited and is relegated primarily to ceremonial duties.  As in many other states, the Government is divided into three branches: the Executive branch, the Legislative branch and the Judicial branch.

title: Government of Japan


question: what was the code name of the us program to develop an atomic bomb

answers: Manhattan

answers: Development of Substitute Materials

answers: The Manhattan Project

title: Canada and weapons of mass destruction

text: United Kingdom and the United States agreed to develop the "Tube Alloys" Project and created a committee to manage the project which included C. D. Howe, the Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supply. This was the code name for the British Uranium Committee project which had worked on a theoretical design for an atomic bomb. One significant contribution was a calculation of the critical mass of uranium. The mass was less than earlier estimates and suggested that development of a fission bomb was practical. "Tube Alloys" was part of a shipment of the most secret scientific research in Great Britain

title: Tube Alloys

text: a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction might be possible. The term "atomic bomb" was already familiar to the British public through the writings of H. G. Wells, in his 1913 novel "The World Set Free". It was immediately apparent to many scientists that, in theory at least, an extremely powerful explosive could be created, although most still considered an atomic bomb was an impossibility. Perrin defined a critical mass of uranium to be the smallest amount that could sustain a chain reaction. The neutrons used to cause fission in uranium are considered slow neutrons, but when neutrons are released during a

title: S-50 (Manhattan Project)

text: atomic bomb project would develop nuclear weapons, especially among scientists who were refugees from Nazi Germany and other fascist countries, were expressed in the Einstein-Szilard letter. This prompted preliminary research in the United States in late 1939. Niels Bohr and John Archibald Wheeler applied the liquid drop model of the atomic nucleus to explain the mechanism of nuclear fission. As the experimental physicists studied fission, they uncovered puzzling results. George Placzek asked Bohr why uranium seemed to fission with both fast and slow neutrons. Walking to a meeting with Wheeler, Bohr had an insight that the fission at low energies

title: Soviet atomic bomb project

text: Soviet atomic bomb project The Soviet atomic bomb project (Russian: Советский проект атомной бомбы, "Sovetskiy proyekt atomnoy bomby") was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. Although the Soviet scientific community discussed the possibility of an atomic bomb throughout the 1930s, going as far as making a concrete proposal to develop such a weapon in 1940, the full-scale program was initiated during World War II. Because of the conspicuous silence of the scientific publications on the subject of nuclear fission by German, American,

title: RDS-1

text: to be in possession of the atomic bomb, pressure mounted to develop the first hydrogen bomb. RDS-1 The RDS-1 (), also known as Izdeliye 501 (device 501) and First Lightning (), was the nuclear bomb used in the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test. The United States assigned it the code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at 7:00 a.m., at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, after top-secret research and development as part of the Soviet atomic bomb project. The weapon was designed at the Kurchatov Institute — at the time officially known as "Laboratory

title: Trinity (nuclear test)

text: Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, asking if he had chosen it because it was a name common to rivers and peaks in the West and would not attract attention, and elicited this reply: In March 1944, planning for the test was assigned to Kenneth Bainbridge, a professor of physics at Harvard University, working under explosives expert George Kistiakowsky. Bainbridge's group was known as the E-9 (Explosives Development) Group. Stanley Kershaw, formerly from the National Safety Council, was made responsible for safety. Captain Samuel P. Davalos, the assistant post engineer at Los Alamos, was placed in

title: Myrtle Bachelder

text: the code name for the special military division dedicated to developing an atomic weapon. In the clandestine laboratory at the remote Los Alamos desert site, Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium isotopes. Since the uranium-235 isotope is fissile, whereas the uranium-238 isotope is not, Bachelder's role in the project was a crucial task: to ensure the purity of the sub-critical material, and therefore the nuclear explosion, of the world's first atomic bombs. These methods were used during the preparation of plutonium-239, the fissile material used in the construction of the atomic bomb for the Trinity

title: British contribution to the Manhattan Project

text: Britain to create an atomic bomb project, known as Tube Alloys. Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist working in Britain, was instrumental in making the results of the British MAUD Report known in the United States in 1941 by a visit in person. Initially the British project was larger and more advanced, but after the United States entered the war, the American project soon outstripped and dwarfed its British counterpart. The British government then decided to shelve its own nuclear ambitions, and participate in the American project. In August 1943, the prime minister, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed

title: Project Y

text: and remained until 12 April 1947. The British Mission ended when he departed. In 1943, development efforts were directed to a gun-type fission weapon using plutonium called Thin Man. The names for all three atomic bomb design projects—Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy—were created by Serber, who chose them based on their design shapes. Thin Man was a long device, and its name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel and series of movies of the same name. The Fat Man was round and fat, and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's "Kasper Gutman" character in "The Maltese Falcon". Little

title: Project Y

text: in 1938, and its theoretical explanation (and naming) by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch soon after, opened up the possibility of a controlled nuclear chain reaction using uranium. At the time, few scientists in the United States thought that an atomic bomb was practical, but the possibility that a German atomic bomb project would develop atomic weapons sufficiently concerned scientists who were refugees from Nazi Germany and other fascist countries, that they drafted the Einstein–Szilard letter to warn President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This prompted preliminary research in the United States, beginning in late 1939. Progress was slow in the United

title: Operation Totem

text: status, the British government restarted its own development effort, which was given the cover name "High Explosive Research". The first British atomic bomb was tested in Operation Hurricane at the Montebello Islands in Western Australia on 3 October 1952. The main purpose of the trial was to determine the acceptable limit on the amount of plutonium-240 which could be present in a bomb. The plutonium used in the original Hurricane device was produced in the nuclear reactor at Windscale, but the Windscale Piles did not have anything like the capacity to provide sufficient material for the British government's planned weapons

title: Manhattan Project

text: a scientific panel consisting of Arthur Compton, Fermi, Lawrence and Oppenheimer to advise it on scientific issues. In its presentation to the Interim Committee, the scientific panel offered its opinion not just on the likely physical effects of an atomic bomb, but on its probable military and political impact. At the Potsdam Conference in Germany, Truman was informed that the Trinity test had been successful. He told Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, that the US had a new superweapon, without giving any details. This was the first official communication to the Soviet Union about the bomb, but Stalin

title: Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

text: the United States founds covertly Los Alamos National Laboratory and other cities to create nuclear weapons. The scientists and their families are sworn to secrecy. Soon, the scientists at Los Alamos discover how to create a nuclear chain reaction, leading to the development of the first atomic weapons: Little Boy and Fat Man. Soon, the day of the Trinity test arrives, and President Truman receives notice at the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. Although it has ended in Europe, the war continues in the Pacific, with Japan refusing to surrender even after the aerial raid of Tokyo. The author briefly

title: Soviet atomic bomb project

text: CIA. RDS-3 was the third Soviet atomic bomb. On October 18, 1951, the 41.2 kiloton device was detonated - a boosted weapon using a composite construction of levitated plutonium core and a uranium-235 shell. Code named "Joe 3" in the USA, this was the first Soviet air-dropped bomb test. Released at an altitude of 10 km, it detonated 400 meters above the ground. RDS-4 represented a branch of research on small tactical weapons. It was a boosted fission device using plutonium in a "levitated" core design. The first test was an air drop on August 23, 1953, yielding 28 kilotons.

title: High Explosive Research

text: High Explosive Research High Explosive Research was the British project to independently develop atomic bombs after the Second World War. This decision was taken by a cabinet sub-committee on 8 January 1947, in response to apprehension of an American return to isolationism, fears that Britain might lose its great power status, and the actions by the United States to unilaterally withdraw from sharing of nuclear technology under the 1943 Quebec Agreement. The decision was publicly announced in the House of Commons on 12 May 1948. The project was a civil, not a military, one. Staff were drawn from and recruited

title: Operation Hurricane

text: the Americans ended cooperation on nuclear weapons. In January 1947, a cabinet sub-committee decided, in response to an apprehension of American isolationism and fears of Britain losing its great power status, to resume British efforts to build nuclear weapons. The project was called High Explosive Research, and was directed by Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, with William Penney in charge of bomb design. Implicit in the decision to develop atomic bombs was the need to test them. The preferred site was the Pacific Proving Grounds in the US-controlled Marshall Islands. As a fallback, sites in Canada and Australia

title: Project E

text: was only "in the field of basic scientific research". The United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) ended technical cooperation. Its control of "restricted data" prevented US allies from receiving any information. Fearing a resurgence of American isolationism, and Britain losing its great power status, the UK government restarted its own development effort, now codenamed High Explosive Research. In 1949, the Americans offered to make atomic bombs in the US available for Britain to use if the British agreed to curtail their atomic bomb programme. This would have given Britain nuclear weapons much sooner than its own target

title: Japanese nuclear weapon program

text: these results as being nuclear fission and Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939. Physicists around the world immediately realized that chain reactions could be produced and notified their governments of the possibility of developing nuclear weapons. The leading figure in the Japanese atomic program was Dr. Yoshio Nishina, a close associate of Niels Bohr and a contemporary of Albert Einstein. Nishina had co-authored the Klein–Nishina formula. Nishina had established his own Nuclear Research Laboratory to study high-energy physics in 1931 at RIKEN Institute (the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research), which had been established in 1917 in Tokyo

title: Trinity (nuclear test)

text: components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test. The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the

title: High Explosive Research

text: that an atomic bomb was not only technically feasible, but could be produced before the war ended, perhaps in as little as two years. The Committee unanimously recommended pursuing the development of an atomic bomb as a matter of urgency, although it recognised that the resources required might be beyond those available to Britain. A new directorate known by the deliberately misleading name of Tube Alloys was created to coordinate this effort. Sir John Anderson, the Lord President of the Council, became the minister responsible, and Wallace Akers from Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was appointed the director of Tube Alloys.

text: Alamos on 12 April 1947. Britain then proceeded with High Explosive Research, its own nuclear weapons programme, and became the third country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon in October 1952. The 1938 discovery of nuclear fission in uranium, by Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, raised the possibility that an extremely powerful atomic bomb could be created. Refugees from Nazi Germany and other fascist countries were particularly alarmed by the notion of a German nuclear weapon project. In the United States, three of them, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner and Albert Einstein, were moved to write the Einstein–Szilárd letter to

title: V bomber

text: its influence in world affairs. It therefore restarted its own nuclear weapons development effort, which was now codenamed High Explosive Research. The first British atomic bomb was tested in Operation Hurricane on 3 October 1952. In November 1946, the Air Ministry issued an operational requirement (OR230) for an advanced jet bomber capable of carrying a bomb to a target from a base anywhere in the world with a cruising speed of and at an altitude of between . The bomb weight arose from an earlier operational requirement for an atomic bomb (OR1001), which specified a maximum weight of . The

title: Project Y

text: it on to George Paget Thomson, to whom the CSSAW had delegated responsibility for uranium research. CSSAW created the MAUD Committee to investigate. In its final report in July 1941, the MAUD Committee concluded that an atomic bomb was not only feasible, but might be produced as early as 1943. In response, the British government created a nuclear weapons project known as Tube Alloys. There was still little urgency in the United States, which unlike Britain was not yet engaged in World War II, so Oliphant flew there in late August 1941, and spoke to American scientists including his friend

title: Munir Ahmad Khan

text: and Riazuddin of TPG, it was decided to established the secretive Directorate for Technical Development (DTD) which would conduct engineering calculations for the physical development to make the bomb. During the meeting the word ""bomb"" was never used, but the participants fully understood what was being discussed. The next day, Salam, Riazuddin and Khan chaired a last meeting with Lieutenant-General Qamar Ali Mirza and the Engineer-in-Chief of the Corps of Engineers to handle its part in atomic bomb project, with first starting the construction of the Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab). Meanwhile, the DTD busied itself to developed the chemical explosive

title: Manhattan Project

text: The Top Policy Group in turn sent it to the President on 17 June 1942 and he approved it by writing "OK FDR" on the document. Compton asked theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer of the University of California, Berkeley, to take over research into fast neutron calculations—the key to calculations of critical mass and weapon detonation—from Gregory Breit, who had quit on 18 May 1942 because of concerns over lax operational security. John H. Manley, a physicist at the Metallurgical Laboratory, was assigned to assist Oppenheimer by contacting and coordinating experimental physics groups scattered across the country. Oppenheimer and Robert

title: J. Robert Oppenheimer

text: entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a crash program to develop an atomic bomb. In May 1942, National Defense Research Committee Chairman James B. Conant, who had been one of Oppenheimer's lecturers at Harvard, invited Oppenheimer to take over work on fast neutron calculations, a task that Oppenheimer threw himself into with full vigor. He was given the title "Coordinator of Rapid Rupture", specifically referring to the propagation of a fast neutron chain reaction in an atomic bomb. One of his first acts was to host a summer school for bomb theory at his building in Berkeley.

title: High Explosive Research

text: Operational Requirement (OR229) called for a high-altitude jet bomber with a range of carrying an atomic bomb. The 9 August 1946 requirement for an atomic bomb (OR1001) specified that it be not more than in length or in diameter, and weigh no more than . OR229 was approved by the Operational Requirements Committee on 17 December 1946, and the Ministry of Supply sent out letters inviting tenders on 8 January 1947. Three bombers resulted from OR229: the Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor, known as the V bombers. The high priority accorded to the atomic bomb programme was

title: Werner Heisenberg

text: MI6. During their detention, their conversations were recorded. Conversations thought to be of intelligence value were transcribed and translated into English. The transcripts were released in 1992. On the 6th of August 1945 the scientists at Farm Hall learned from media reports that the USA had dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. At first there was disbelief that a bomb had been built and dropped. In the weeks that followed, the German scientists discussed how the USA may have built the bomb. The Farm Hall transcripts reveal that Heisenberg, along with other physicists interned at Farm Hall including Otto

title: Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom

text: weapons to be a joint discovery, but the American Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) restricted other countries, including the UK, from access to information about nuclear weapons. Fearing the loss of Britain's great power status, the UK resumed its own project, now codenamed High Explosive Research. On 3 October 1952, it detonated an atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands of Western Australia in Operation Hurricane. Eleven more British nuclear weapons tests in Australia were carried out over the following decade, including seven British nuclear tests at Maralinga in 1956 and 1957. The British hydrogen bomb programme demonstrated

title: Manhattan Project

title: Manhattan Project

long_answer: The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs. The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District; "Manhattan" gradually superseded the official codename, Development of Substitute Materials, for the entire project. Along the way, the project absorbed its earlier British counterpart, Tube Alloys. The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US $2 billion (about $22 billion in 2016 dollars). Over 90% of the cost was for building factories and to produce fissile material, with less than 10% for development and production of the weapons. Research and production took place at more than 30 sites across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

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Development of Substitute Materials
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question: who shot first in the shot heard around the world

answers: Americans acting under orders

title: Shot heard round the world

text: Shot heard round the world "The shot heard round the world" is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, particularly the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord. Historically, no single shot can be cited as the first shot of the battle or the war.

title: Shot heard round the world

text: The phrase "shot heard round the world" (alternatively "shots heard round the world" or "shot heard around the world") has also become associated with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, an event considered to be one of the immediate causes of World War I. Serbian Gavrilo Princip fired two shots, the first hitting Franz Ferdinand's wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and the second hitting the Archduke himself. The death of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, propelled Austria-Hungary and the rest of Europe into World War I. The phrase "Shot heard

title: Shot heard round the world

text: the World Series to the Yankees. Shot heard round the world "The shot heard round the world" is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, particularly the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers fell in the battles of Lexington and Concord. Historically, no single shot can be cited as the first shot

title: Shot heard round the world (soccer)

text: Germany. Yorke and Latapy (survivors of the qualifying campaign of 1989) were part of that Trinidadian team, which in that World Cup draw against Sweden 0–0 and lost against England 2–0 and Paraguay 2–0, being eliminated in the first round. Shot heard round the world (soccer) The 'Shot heard round the world' is a term used in reference to one of the most historic goals in American soccer history, which allowed the national team to make it to the 1990 FIFA World Cup after 36 years of failed attempts to qualify. This goal was scored in the qualification game between

title: Tevarit Majchacheep

text: of their shorter Air Rifle match, but he remained the sole holder of the men's world record until 2008. Tevarit Majchacheep Tevarit Majchacheep (; ) (born February 22, 1975) in Thailand, was the first 10 m Air Rifle shooter to raise a world record to the maximum level, hitting the 0.5-millimeter dot with 60 consecutive shots. He was fairly unknown to the shooting community (although he had finished fifth at an ISSF World Cup) when he accomplished this at the 2000 Asian Championships in Langkawi. Since then, he has been a regular finalist at world-level competitions, but has so far

title: Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)

text: Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL) pennant. Thomson's dramatic three-run homer came in the ninth inning of the decisive third game of a three-game playoff for the pennant in which the Giants trailed, 4–2. The game—the first ever televised nationally—was seen by millions of viewers across America and heard on radio by millions

title: Ashley Adams

text: first in the Spanish .22 event and second in the Turkish air rifle event. In Spain, he also picked up fourth place in the men's R7 50m rifle 3 position SH1 event and seventh in the R1 10m air rifle SH1 event. In 2011, he was ranked first in the world in two different shooting events. In that year, he was also ranked as one of the top able-bodied open shooters in Australia. He was ranked in the top ten in the world for three events at the end of 2014. Adams first represented Australia at an international level in

title: 1977 IPSC Handgun World Shoot

text: 1977 IPSC Handgun World Shoot The 1977 IPSC Handgun World Shoot III was held in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at the end of August, and was the third IPSC Handgun World Shoot, and was won by Dave Westerhout in front of his Rhodesian teammate and second place winner Peter Maunder by 116.403 points and third place winner Raul Walters of United States with further 41.741 points. After the World Shoot, Westerhout was also honoured as the Rhodesian Sportsman of the Year for 1977 and was awarded the John Hopley Memorial Trophy. Up till 1977 the World Shoots had been held

title: Trent Kelly

text: adjacent to the third base dugout. At the time of the shooting, Kelly was playing third base and was roughly ten yards away from Hodgkinson. As Hodgkinson opened fire, Kelly is reported to be the first person to be shot at and the first to alert the rest of the team there was an active shooter by yelling "shooter, active shooter" as he evacuated himself from the field. Officers shot Hodgkinson, who died from his wounds later that day at George Washington University Hospital. Scalise and Mika were taken to nearby hospitals, where they underwent surgery. Scalise is the first

title: First Shot (2002 film)

text: First Shot (2002 film) First Shot is a 2002 American made-for-television action film and is third film in the Alex McGregor film series: "First Daughter" (1999) and "First Target" (2000). Mariel Hemingway reprises her role she originated in "First Daughter". After an explosion at an army base that kills several soldiers, President Jonathan Hayes (Gregory Harrison) attends a memorial service and is shot while speaking. It is revealed that a militia rebel group has resurfaced with a vengeance to assassinate President Jonathan Hayes for the death of their brothers. Agent Alex McGregor (Mariel Hemingway), now the Director of the United

title: Zoe Bruce

text: Women's 50m Prone Rifle Team event with teammates Jennifer McIntosh and Seonaid McIntosh. This was the first Senior World Championship Medal won by Great Britain in a 50Metre Rifle event since 1982. Zoe Bruce Zoe Anne Bruce (born 15 October 1975) is a British sport shooter, World Championship medallist and former British Record Holder. In May 2017, Bruce won the Women's 50m prone Rifle at the International Shooting Competition of Hannover, setting a new British and English Record of 624.3. The British Record was broken less than a month later by Scot Seonaid McIntosh, but Bruce retains the English Record

title: Iosif Sîrbu

text: alone. Alone with himself. Soccer’s trumpets are left far behind, beyond the wall of adolescence. In shooting, everything is serious and profound…”(from Iosif Sârbu’s essay, “The Olympics of the Year 2000”, 1960) Iosif Sîrbu Iosif Sârbu (25 September 1925 – c. 6 September 1964) was a Romanian sports shooter and Romania’s first ever Olympic champion. He competed in six 50 m rifle events in total at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in the 50 m rifle prone in 1952, setting a world record. He served as the flag bearer for Romania at the 1956

title: Shot heard round the world

text: round the world" continues to be a stock phrase in the 21st century, widely used to refer to extraordinary events in general. The phrase has been applied to several dramatic moments in sports history, for example. In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" refers to the game-winning walk-off home run by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca to win the National League pennant on October 3, 1951. The Giants won the game 5-4 as a result of the home run, defeating their traditional rivals in the pennant playoff series, although they eventually lost

title: Luke Cain

text: when he shot 599 at the same event at the 2010 World Cup in France. He came in first at the 2010 Oceania Shooting Federation Continental Championship. At the 2010 IPC World Shooting Championships in Zagreb, he came in first in the SH-2 prone air event by setting a world record of 600 points, a perfect score. At the 2011 Great Britain International, he finished second in the 10m air rifle prone event. He competed in the United States-hosted International Paralympic Committee World Cup in 2011, finishing fourth in the R5 Air Rifle Prone event with a score of 599.

title: First Shot Live

text: musicians First Shot Live First Shot Live is a 1979 live mini-album by Danish rock band Warm Guns. It was the band's first release, recorded at their first-ever live performance. At the concert, Warm Guns supported Danish punk band Lost Kids, whose female vocalist, Pussi Punk, guested on the song "Invisible Man". Per Møller left Warm Guns in 1979 and later recorded "Killing For Fun" with Anne Linnet Band on the album "Cha Cha Cha" (1982). Lars Muhl recorded "Elevator" on his solo album "When Angels Fall" (1991). All songs by Lars Muhl, except "Killing For Fun" by Per Møller

title: Malcolm Cooper

text: as well as holding the World record for a period. Cooper died in June 2001 after an eight-month battle with cancer. He died at his home in Eastergate, West Sussex. Malcolm Cooper Malcolm Douglas Cooper, MBE, (20 December 1947 – 9 June 2001) was a British sport shooter and founder of Accuracy International. He was the first shooter to win two consecutive gold medals in the Olympic 50 metre rifle three positions event, a feat which stood unrivalled for 28 years until the 2016 Rio Olympics, when Italian shooter Niccolò Campriani matched the record by successfully defending his three position

title: 1976 IPSC Handgun World Shoot

text: 1976 IPSC Handgun World Shoot The 1976 IPSC Handgun World Shoot II held in Salzburg, Austria was the second IPSC Handgun World Shoot, and was won by Jan Foss of Norway in front of Ray Chapman of United States by a small margin. Foss had been unknown before the championship and did not participate internationally afterwards. Jan Foss used a 9x19mm single stack SIG P210 in minor power factor with an 8 round capacity, while Ray Chapman used a 7 round capacity 1911 in major caliber .45 ACP. The Rhodesian teammates Dave Westerhout, Peter Maunder and Dave Arnold were handicapped

title: Shot heard round the world (soccer)

text: Shot heard round the world (soccer) The 'Shot heard round the world' is a term used in reference to one of the most historic goals in American soccer history, which allowed the national team to make it to the 1990 FIFA World Cup after 36 years of failed attempts to qualify. This goal was scored in the qualification game between United States and Trinidad and Tobago on November 19, 1989 in Port of Spain. The U.S. team hadn't qualified for a FIFA World Cup since 1950, and the U.S. (having being elected by FIFA in 1988 to host the 1994

title: George Digweed

text: filmed for a programme for Fieldsports Channel TV and using standard cartridges, he broke a clay at 130 yards, breaking his own previous record set in America of 118 yards. Digweed won his 16th World Championship title at the World Sporting Championship in Texas, USA on 25 and 26 April 2009, an event created in 2007 to find out who is the best all-round Shooting Champion in the world. In 2009 he won the World Sporting Championship, the European Championship, the Mitsubishi World Series, the Pan African and the Italian Grand Prix. In July 2010, he became the first sportsman

title: Hector Pieterson

text: to shoot, but soon children were turning and running in all directions, leaving some children lying wounded on the road. Although the media often named Hector as the first child to die that fateful day, another boy, Hastings Ndlovu, was actually the first child to be shot. But in the case of Hastings, there were no photographers on the scene, and his name was not immediately known. When Hector was shot, he fell on the corner of Moema and Vilakazi Streets, he was picked up by Mbuyisa Makhubo who together with Hector's sister, Antoinette (then 17 years old), ran towards

title: James Miller (filmmaker)

text: They had walked about 20 metres from the veranda when the first shot rang out. For 13 seconds, there was silence broken only by Shah's cry: "We are British journalists." Then came the second shot, which killed Miller. He was shot in the front of his neck. The soldiers who shot him were members of the Bedouin Desert Reconnaissance Battalion. According to a forensic expert, the fatal shot was fired from less than 200 metres away. Immediately after the shooting, the IDF said that Miller had been shot in the back during crossfire. It later retracted the assertion that he

title: Tevarit Majchacheep

text: Tevarit Majchacheep Tevarit Majchacheep (; ) (born February 22, 1975) in Thailand, was the first 10 m Air Rifle shooter to raise a world record to the maximum level, hitting the 0.5-millimeter dot with 60 consecutive shots. He was fairly unknown to the shooting community (although he had finished fifth at an ISSF World Cup) when he accomplished this at the 2000 Asian Championships in Langkawi. Since then, he has been a regular finalist at world-level competitions, but has so far failed to win any of the large championships. Since Tevarit's 600, several women have reached the maximum 400 points

title: Shot heard round the world (soccer)

text: as an homage to the "Strike Squad" as the Trinidad and Tobago team was then known as. In the first minutes, John Harkes tried unsuccessfully to score. Trinidad and Tobago's Elliot Allen had two attempts on goal. At 30', Bruce Murray passed the ball to Paul Caligiuri, who dodged a rival defender and with a left-footed shot scored 1–0 for the United States. Trinidadian goalkeeper Michael Maurice waited for the ball practically standing on the goal-line, but he couldn't see it, arguing that the sun had blinded him. In the second half, the Trinidadian team went into attack in order

title: Gary Anderson (sport shooter)

text: to shooting by besting his own world record and winning a second gold medal in the 300 meter free-rifle event at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Anderson retired from active international competition after the 1969 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, where his 50-meter, three-position score of 1182 was the highest score ever fired in international competition. In ten years, his two Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship gold medals, six world records, and 12 national titles were and continue to be the most major international shooting titles ever won by an American. Following retirement from active competition, he continued

title: Jin Jong-oh

text: (Olympics and world championships) and the first since the 1956 Summer Olympics (fourth overall) to simultaneously hold the Olympic and World titles in the discipline. He also became the second 50-metre pistol shooter (after Ragnar Skanåker in 1993) to have won the Olympics, the world championships and the World Cup Final. Two days later he also won the 10 metre air pistol gold medal at the same world championships. On 6 August 2016, Jin placed 5th in 10 metre pistol at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro after placing second in the qualifications. On 10 August, he

title: First Shot Live

text: First Shot Live First Shot Live is a 1979 live mini-album by Danish rock band Warm Guns. It was the band's first release, recorded at their first-ever live performance. At the concert, Warm Guns supported Danish punk band Lost Kids, whose female vocalist, Pussi Punk, guested on the song "Invisible Man". Per Møller left Warm Guns in 1979 and later recorded "Killing For Fun" with Anne Linnet Band on the album "Cha Cha Cha" (1982). Lars Muhl recorded "Elevator" on his solo album "When Angels Fall" (1991). All songs by Lars Muhl, except "Killing For Fun" by Per Møller Additional

title: Moraad Ali Khan

text: team of Moraad Ali Khan, Mansher Singh & Manavjit Singh Sandhu created a new Asian Record. He was also the first shooter to represent India along with Mansher Singh at a World Cup Competition in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1995. He is the only shooter from India who has won international medals in both Trap as well as Double Trap Shooting. Kahn worked in Tata Steel & Tata Teleservices for 25 years in various positions. He started competitive shooting at the age of 31 and retired in 2006 after winning the National Shooting Championship. Kahn also produced a sports drama romance

title: Margaret Murdock

text: Margaret Murdock Margaret Thompson Murdock (born August 25, 1942) is a nurse and former United States Army officer most widely known for her success in international shooting competitions, including a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Murdock is the first woman to win a medal in Shooting at the Summer Olympics and the first to win an individual open World Shooting Championship. In international competition Murdock set four individual world records and nine team world records. She is a member of five halls of fame, including the USA Shooting Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.

title: Kelly Bachand

text: Kelly Bachand Kelly Bachand is a competitive shooter and a member of the United States National Rifle Team. He is also known for competing in the first season of History Channel's marksmen competition "Top Shot". Bachand was born in the US and lives in Kent, Washington. In 2007, Bachand won gold as a firing member of the World Champion U21 USA Young Eagles. He also won the 2009 Canadian Target Rifle Championship and finished in first place in seven other competitions. He finally won the NW International Prone Championship and WA State 600 Yard Prone Championship. In 2010, Bachand appeared

title: Shot heard round the world

text: Historically, no single shot can be cited as the first shot of the battle or the war. Shots were fired earlier at Lexington, Massachusetts where eight Americans were killed and a British soldier was slightly wounded, but accounts of that event are confused and contradictory, and it has been characterized as a massacre rather than a battle. The North Bridge skirmish did see the first shots by Americans acting under orders, the first organized volley by Americans, the first British fatalities, and the first British retreat.

title: Shot heard round the world


question: who is the owner of the crowne plaza

answers: InterContinental Hotels Group

title: Chateau Lacombe Hotel

text: and Resorts purchased Fairmont Hotels, the newer Chateau Lacombe was sold to investors and it was rebranded the Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe. It was sold again in mid-2010 for $47.8m to local company Hargate Properties who retained the affiliation with Crowne Plaza Hotels but the new owners went into receivership in November 2011. The purchase of the hotel by Kevyn Frederick in 2010 later was discovered to be part of a large mortgage fraud in the Edmonton area. The hotel was bought out of receivership by the new ownership group for $27.5m in 2012, and in May 2013 the hotel

title: Crowne Plaza

text: Rickie Fowler. Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts have been the sponsor of the British FIA World Touring Car Championship driver Andy Priaulx, a multiple touring car champion, since 2006. They now continue to support him in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), a popular European touring car championship, as an official sponsor of BMW Motorsport along with the American LeMans Series (ALMS) where Californian Joey Hand represents the brand for both series. Crowne Plaza Crowne Plaza is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels headquartered in the United Kingdom. It is catering to business travelers and to the meetings and

text: Hotel. On June 26, 2009, the Wayne County Circuit Court appointed David Findling of The Findling Law Firm, PLC, as receiver of the hotel. The hotel was again shuttered in August 2009 when Mutual Bank of Harvey, Illinois foreclosed on the mortgage. After the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation banking division declared Mutual Bank insolvent, United Central Bank of Garland, Texas, acquired Mutual Bank's assets. In March 2012, the hotel was sold by the Receiver, David Findling to an unnamed investor who reportedly planned to renovate it and enter into a management agreement with Crowne Plaza Hotels &

text: Resorts, a division of InterContinental Hotels . The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau reported that the purchaser was Mexico-based developer Gabriel Ruiz. The Hotel reopened on July 17, 2013, as the Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Convention Center. Its name was later slightly modified to Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront. Due to the quality of the renovation, the hotel was awarded "Development of the Year" by IHG Intercontinental Hotel Group during its 2013 October annual convention in Las Vegas. Ruiz intends to reopen the iconic "Top of the Pontch" restaurant and build the second tower that was included in the

text: Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront The Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront, is a 367-room, 25-story high-rise hotel opened in 1965 adjacent to Cobo Center in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The Plaza Land Company was established in 1955 to construct a modern hotel on a site adjacent to the planned Convention Hall and Exhibits Building. In 1956, the company announced a partnership with Conrad Hilton to construct a $24 million hotel, to be named the Pontchartrain Hilton. However the Hilton Hotels Board vetoed the deal in 1960, after which the Plaza Land Company turned to Samuel and Aaron Gershenson's Downtown Investment Company,

title: Crowne Plaza Belgrade

text: Crowne Plaza Belgrade Crowne Plaza Belgrade is a four-star hotel located in New Belgrade, Serbia. With its 387 rooms and 29 suites, it is the biggest hotel in the city in terms of capacity. Opened in 1979 after getting built with state funds provided through Genex foreign trade company led at the time by the state-appointed CEO Miodrag "Miki" Savićević, the hotel originally operated as Hotel Beograd InterContinental, part of the InterContinental chain. As Genex fell on hard times throughout the 1990s and especially in the 2000s, it failed to honour the hotel's franchising terms, which led to the loss

title: Crowne Plaza Beirut Hotel

text: Crowne Plaza Beirut Hotel The Crowne Plaza Beirut Hotel is a five-star Crowne Plaza hotel in Beirut, Lebanon. Inaugurated on 22 September 2001, it is the first Crowne Plaza to open in Lebanon. The modern tower makes a notable mark on the landscape, overlooking Hamra Street in the downtown Hamra district. Fady Sawaya, a hotelier with previous experience in Intercontinental Phoenicia, Beirut, and InterContinental Hotel Abu Dhabi was appointed manager early in 2012. Construction of the hotel was completed in 2002. The architect for the building, also known as the Taj Tower, was Samir Khairallah & Partners. The hotel has

title: Crowne Plaza, Christchurch

text: Crowne Plaza, Christchurch The Crowne Plaza in Christchurch, New Zealand, originally known as the Parkroyal Hotel, was a hotel of the Crowne Plaza group. Built in 1988 in the north-west corner of Victoria Square after much public protest, as it cut off the first part of Victoria Street, its construction happened at the same time and enabled the substantial redesign of Victoria Square. The building had New Zealand's largest attrium, and was one of the city's largest hotels. The building suffered significant damage in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and was demolished in April 2012. The Crowne Plaza group has secured

title: Crown Center

text: Crown Center Crown Center is a commercial complex located near Downtown Kansas City, Missouri between Gillham Road and Main Street to the east and west, and between OK/E 22nd St and E 27th St to the north and south. The shopping center is anchored by Halls, a department store which is owned and operated by Hallmark Cards. The neighborhood contains numerous residences, retail establishments, entertainment venues, and restaurants (including the American Restaurant, the only Forbes Travel Guide four-star restaurant in Missouri). It is also home to Kansas City's two largest hotels, the global headquarters of Hallmark Cards, and the headquarters

title: Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park

text: Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park, formerly the Sheraton Park Hotel & Towers, is a five-star hotel located on TTK Road in Chennai, India. Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park (formerly called Sheraton Park Hotel) was built by Adyar Gate Hotels Limited (AGHL), a hotel company which owns four hotels in India, the other three being 105 room Intercontinental Resort Mahabalipuram, 104-room Welcome Hotel Grand Bay in Vizag and 67-room Fortune Hotel Sullivan Court in Ooty. Incorporated in 1970 (as a private limited entity), the company was originally promoted by T. T. Vasu (one of the promoters

text: Crowne Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse Square The Crowne Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse Square is a 14-story Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Cleveland's Playhouse Square district, located at the intersection of Huron Road and Euclid Avenue. Originally known as the Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square, the structure helped to complete the revitalization of Playhouse Square. It changed brand names in August 2017. The site of the hotel was occupied by the Euclid Point Building (also known more simply as the "Point Building"), which began construction in 1907 at the intersection of Huron Road and Euclid Avenue (1260 Euclid Avenue). The large

title: Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park

text: acquired by Goyal family, the present promoters, for a sum of 30 million. The group then renamed the hotel as Sheraton Park Hotel & Towers with tie up with Starwood for using the Sheraton brand. All the three properties of AGHL were managed by ITC Hotels. The hotel was renamed the Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park on May 1, 2015 after it was acquired by the Intercontinental Hotel Group The hotel consists of a 6-storied building, an adjacent 8-storied tower block and a 2-storied service block. The hotel has 283 rooms including 38 suites and 5 restaurants. Of the 283

title: Crowne Plaza Eilat

text: Crowne Plaza Eilat Crowne Plaza Eilat (Hebrew: קראון פלזה אילת) is a hotel in the northern part of the city of Eilat, Israel. The hotel is managed by the Crowne Plaza chain. It features 266 rooms and suites and is rated 5-star by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. The hotel has a restaurant in the lobby and a pool buffet, also a spa service, two swimming pools, a gym, sauna and jacuzzi. It also has three halls: a carnival hall, a pomelo hall and the top pool square. In 2017 the Eilat Magistrates' court imposed a 175 thousand NIS fine

title: Victoria Square, Christchurch

text: Japanese real estate company Daikyo, the hotel was L-shaped, following the two road frontages. On the inside of the corner, a large atrium was formed facing Victoria Square; at the time, it was the largest atrium that had been built in the country. Its name changed to Crowne Plaza after a rebranding by the Bass Hotels and Resorts group in 2001. The Crowne Plaza was heavily damaged in the earthquakes and was demolished in early 2012. In late 2012, the Crown Plaza site was used by the urban regeneration initiative Gap Filler for their Pallet Pavilion, an outdoor venue built

title: Crowne Plaza Glasgow

text: location of the Glasgow auditions of "The X-Factor" (most notably 2007 winner Leon Jackson's initial audition was filmed there) before they moved to Hampden Park in 2008, and then to the neighbouring Armadillo when the show changed to a live audition format. Crowne Plaza Glasgow Crowne Plaza Glasgow is a high-rise hotel in the Finnieston area of Glasgow, Scotland. Originally opened in 1989, it is a 4-star property on the banks of the River Clyde adjacent to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) and the Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo). The building (along with the adjacent Armadillo), is frequently used as

text: a series of ethically questionable loans from Lincoln and its subsidiaries and totaled $38 million. U.S. Senator Donald W. Riegle (D-MI) later cited his arrangement as his basis for considering Keating a constituent during his involvement in the Keating Five scandal. On March 30, 2001, it reopened as the Crowne Plaza Detroit Pontchartrain, following a major renovation. In 2006, Shubh LLC purchased the hotel and it underwent a $35 million renovation, reopening as the Sheraton Detroit Riverside in November 2007. Within a year, however, Sheraton revoked its branding agreement due to poor management and the property became the Detroit Riverside

text: hotel's original plan. Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront The Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront, is a 367-room, 25-story high-rise hotel opened in 1965 adjacent to Cobo Center in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The Plaza Land Company was established in 1955 to construct a modern hotel on a site adjacent to the planned Convention Hall and Exhibits Building. In 1956, the company announced a partnership with Conrad Hilton to construct a $24 million hotel, to be named the Pontchartrain Hilton. However the Hilton Hotels Board vetoed the deal in 1960, after which the Plaza Land Company turned to Samuel and Aaron Gershenson's

title: BNIM

text: of the principals (Bob Berkebile and Tom Nelson) were members of a joint venture, PBNDML, that designed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center that was site of the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes was the formal master of the hotel. However two local Kansas City firms merged to formally design the hotel include a consortium of R. Bruce Patty, Bob Berkebile and Tom Nelson (PBN), and Duncan Monroe Lefevre (DML). Investigation of the accident determined the failure to be the fault of the structural engineer. In 1987, Patty, Berkebile and Nelson formed a new firm with David

title: Crowne Plaza, Christchurch

text: opened on 8 October 1989, with poor weather forcing the ceremony and speeches to move into the adjacent town hall. The Crowne Plaza group secured a lease in the Forsyth Barr Building at the opposite end of Victoria Square where it reopened in late 2017. Crowne Plaza, Christchurch The Crowne Plaza in Christchurch, New Zealand, originally known as the Parkroyal Hotel, was a hotel of the Crowne Plaza group. Built in 1988 in the north-west corner of Victoria Square after much public protest, as it cut off the first part of Victoria Street, its construction happened at the same time

title: Crowne Plaza Belgrade

text: Center, as well as restaurant services. In 2008, Delta Holding became the hotel's new owner, purchasing it along with two smaller properties in the hotel's vicinity for a reported €150 million. The company has since signed a new management agreement with IHG, re-branding the famous hotel as a part of the "Crown Plaza" chain. The entire investment is estimated at €35 million. In July 2012, the hotel was closed in order to prepare for reconstruction. Work began in September 2012 and the owner identified congress and convention visitors as well as visiting sports teams and foreign tourists as its target

title: InterContinental Toronto Centre

text: National Hotels from 1984 to 1988, when that chain merged with Canadian Pacific Hotels. The hotel property was transferred from CN to Canada Lands Corporation in 1988. The hotel was renamed Crowne Plaza Hotel Toronto in the early 1990s. In 2003, the IHG (owner of Crowne Plaza) decided to rebrand the hotel to their upscale InterContinental brand. The property was sold by Canada Lands in 2011 and is now owned by Oxford Properties. The hotel overlooks the tracks from Union Station (Toronto) and the south sections of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. InterContinental Toronto Centre The InterContinental Toronto Centre, is

title: Crown American

text: real estate investment trust, Crown American Realty Trust, and Crown American Hotels controlled the company's hospitality businesses. At its peak, Crown American operated 30 shopping malls, the Hess's department store chain (with 73 locations), and 20 hotels and motels. In 2003 the shopping mall development and management unit, Crown American Realty Trust, was sold to Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust. The hospitality unit, Crown American Hotels, was retained. In 2005, 22 of the company's 26 hotels were acquired by W2001 Eastern Hotel Realty, an affiliate of the Archon Group, which assumed responsibility for their management. Frank Pasquerilla died from a

text: as Fort Detroit. The hotel is named for the fort and for an earlier Hotel Pontchartrain, which was located on Cadillac Square at Woodward Avenue, before it was demolished in 1920. George H.W. Bush stayed at the hotel during the 1980 Republican National Convention. In 1985, the Crescent Hotel Group, a subsidiary of Lincoln Savings & Loan purchased the Hotel Pontchartrain for $19.5 million. Lincoln S&L Chairman Charles Keating soon thereafter arranged to buy the hotel outright from the company and set up the Hotel Pontchartrain LP, controlled by Keating, his family, and executive contacts. The sale was financed by

title: Crowne Plaza Glasgow

text: Crowne Plaza Glasgow Crowne Plaza Glasgow is a high-rise hotel in the Finnieston area of Glasgow, Scotland. Originally opened in 1989, it is a 4-star property on the banks of the River Clyde adjacent to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) and the Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo). The building (along with the adjacent Armadillo), is frequently used as one of the most recognisable images of modern Clydeside The need for a new hotel next to the SECC had been recognised since the scheme's inception - the initial plans for the building were first unveiled in 1984. The Glasgow Hoteliers' Association

title: Hodžovo námestie

text: situated towards the square, the hotel parter is facing Poštová Street and a small square (forum) is facing Obchodná Street. In 2004, the building was sold by the Slovak republic to the Dutch company "Myria Assets" for 425 million Slovak crowns. Today, the hotel is called "Crowne Plaza". After the building of Astoria Palace, the last place on the square where a structure can be placed is the trolleybus stop next to Tatracentrum, more specifically its extension over the pedestrian underpass mouth towards Poštová Street. Since its construction, the space contained benches to sit while waiting for a trolleybus and

title: Crown American

text: Own Crown American Malls as of September 2018 Crown American Crown American is a privately held American company that manages and develops commercial real estate. The corporate headquarters is in downtown Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in a building designed by architect Michael Graves. The company was founded in 1950 as Crown Construction. Frank J. Pasquerilla, who joined less than a year later, became president in 1956 and sole owner in 1961. The company's name was changed to Crown American in 1972 and in 1979 it acquired the Hess's department store chain. In 1993, the company split into two entities. The shopping mall

title: Edificio España

text: fund acquired 50% of the building for €138.6 million, committing to purchase the remaining 50% belonging to the hotel shortly thereafter. The Crowne Plaza Hotel occupying the building closed in 2006. The deal closed in early December 2007. Santander renovated the building, preserving intact the facade and the lobby as part of a project to build a hotel and apartments, but the project stalled in 2010. The building was acquired in 2014 by Wang Jianlin's Chinese real estate company Dalian Wanda for "about a third less than the €389 million that Banco Santander paid in 2005, at the height of

title: Crowne Plaza

text: a couple of years the brand was spun off as an independent chain (still owned at the time by Holiday Inn). The first Crowne Plaza Resort opened in Madeira, Portugal, in 1999. Today, the brand represents 410 hotels globally in 52 countries with 112,317 rooms (as of March 2016) and an expanding 81 hotels in the pipeline. Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts is the title sponsor of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial - a PGA Tour golf tournament held annually in Fort Worth, Texas. Starting in 2012, they are also officially sponsoring PGA Tour's 2010's Rookie of the Year,

title: Stanley Chera

text: S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. In June 2013, Chera purchased 650 Madison Avenue for $1.3 billion in partnership with Highgate Holdings from the Carlyle Group. He is an investor in the One World Trade Center and has accumulated a lot of property in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Crown is also a prominent investor (along with Albert Laboz, Joseph Jemal, and Eli Gindi) in the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn. Chera has a conservative investment strategy borrowing no more than 25 to 35% of the purchase price given that they are long term holders in assets. In 2009, Crown held 15 million square

title: Crowne Plaza

text: Crowne Plaza is a multinational chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts and Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, and operates in 52 countries with more than 400 hotels, usually located in city centers, resorts, coastal towns or near major airports.

title: Crowne Plaza