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unusual facts about necessity



4-string banjo

The Brazilian 4-string banjo was first introduced by musician Almir Guineto in the late 1970s and early 1980s, attending on one hand the necessity for a louder instrument similar to the cavaco, and on the other, the drive for innovation.

Abkhazian parliamentary election, 2007

Sergei Bagapsh, the President of Abkhazia, stressed the necessity of having a multiethnic parliament, where all the minorities were represented.

Alexander Mack

In 1708—having become convinced of the necessity of Believer's baptism—the group decided to baptize themselves, using a lottery system to choose who would baptize one another in the Eder.

Amy Miller

After her arrest, Miller and her co-defendants mounted a defence which consisted of necessity and Colour of right.

Ananke

Ananke (mythology), in Greek mythology, the mother of the Moirai and Adrasteia, Goddess of destiny, necessity, and fate

Anne Balsamo

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) argues that Balsamo "portrays both the necessity and the challenge of cultivating the technological imagination in all of us...Her insights into expanding the traditional considerations of socio-technical design to consider issues of culture are coming at a critical time."

Barry Commoner

This is can also be seen in the study of India and contraceptives, in which family planning failed to reduce the birthrate because the people felt that “in order to advance their economic situation”, independent children were a necessity to gain better opportunities.

Canada Act 1982

The Canada Act 1982 (1982 c. 11) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was passed at the request of the Canadian federal government to "patriate" Canada's constitution, ending the necessity for the country to request certain types of amendment to the Constitution of Canada to be made by the British parliament.

Chrysler A57 multibank

Created in 1941 as America entered World War II, the A57 Multibank engine was born out of the necessity for a rear-mount tank engine to be developed and produced, in the shortest time possible for use in M4A4 Medium tank.

Contesting technology

Another necessity is the ability to switch or mix audio from two different radios to a single pair of headphones.

Continental Congress

Benjamin Franklin had put forth the idea of such a meeting the year before but was unable to convince the colonies of its necessity until the British placed a blockade at the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

D-Day -1

Opening with a statement by Gen. Barney M. Giles, reminding the audience that the war can't be won without money to pay for armaments and equipment, the film turns to an overview of Operation Overlord and the necessity for breaking the Atlantic wall.

Doctrine of necessity

No provision of the Nigerian constitution empowering the National Assembly to pass any such resolution, causing Senate President David Mark to assert that the Senate had been guided by the "doctrine of necessity" in arriving at its decision.

Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation

This was partly out of necessity because of the destruction of some archives in the post-Soviet period, notably that of Soyuzmultfilm.

Firmilian

The letter of the third council says he was too easily persuaded that Paul of Samosata would amend; hence the necessity of another council (Eusebius, VII, iii-v).

Frederick Paul Keppel

Before the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in 1930, he insisted upon the importance to the United States of knowledge of Asian culture, and upon the necessity of including Asian languages in American curricula.

Frederick William II of Prussia

On 9 July 1788 the famous religious edict was issued, which forbade Evangelical ministers from teaching anything not contained in the letter of their official books, proclaimed the necessity of protecting the Christian religion against the "enlighteners" (Aufklärer), and placed educational establishments under the supervision of the orthodox clergy.

Gerhard Ritter

Ritter accused Fischer of manufacturing the quote he attributed to the German general Moltke, Chief of the General Staff, during a meeting with the Austro-Hungarian War Minister, Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf, about the necessity of a "speedy attack" on Serbia.

Ghazi Abdel Baki

He began his music career in 1985, as a drummer, and played with many bands in Lebanon and in the USA, namely: Amnesia (Lebanon 1983 - 1987), Munir Khawli Group (Lebanon, 1988 and 1995), Nobody's Fault (New York, 1988–1991), Forcado (Lebanon, 1992), Bare Necessity (New-York, 1993–1995), Ziad Rahbani (Lebanon, 1995–1996), Virus (Lebanon, 1997–1999), Grand Prix with Ziad Rahbani (2007).

Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by York and later refined in a minor way by Gibbons and Hawking.

Groudle Glen Railway

In addition to the two steam locomotive being in operation providing a top-and-tail train service (this ensures speedy turnaround and removes the necessity for locomotives to run round their trains at either end of the line), the Easter Bunny is on hand to distribute chocolate eggs at the outer terminus, second only to the Santa Trains these services which operate on Easter Sunday and Monday are the line's busiest and provide a bump start to each summer season.

Henry of Langenstein

In his Epistola concilii pacis, composed in 1381, and based on a similar work, the Epistola Concordiæ of Conrad of Gelnhausen, he urges still more strongly the necessity of a general council and severely criticises the many abuses that were permitted to go on within the Church.

Herbert von Bose

While von Bose and von Tschirschky drew up a special dossier that was to be handed over to the old von Hindenburg in late June 1934, to convince him of the necessity of mobilising the Reichswehr against the SA and NSDAP, von Papen delivered his famed address at the University of Marburg on June 17, 1934, which criticized some of the excesses of Nazi rule and called for a cessation of violence and return of the rule of laws.

Hierarchical File System

Apple introduced HFS out of necessity with its first 20 MB hard disk offering for the Macintosh in September 1985.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

FitzGibbon opposed the Irish Catholic Relief Act of 1793 personally, but apparently recommended its acceptance (Although he opposed the act personally he recommended its acceptance in the House of Lords) of 1793, being forced out of necessity when that Act had been recommended to the Irish Executive by the British Cabinet led by William Pitt the Younger.

Khan Amirzadah Khan

Both PPP and NAP considered it a necessity to work together and run the bifurcated remaining Pakistan in a democratic manner.

Kincumber, New South Wales

Boat building became an early local secondary industry after timber-getting, to meet the primary necessity of water transport.

Letter game

Novels written using or inspired by this type of letter game include Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, The Grand Tour or The Purloined Coronation Regalia, and The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After, all three by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer; Freedom and Necessity, by Steven Brust and Emma Bull; and the children's books P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin.

Li Hongzhang

Li was impressed with the necessity of strengthening the empire, and while Viceroy of Zhili he raised a large well-drilled and well-armed force, and spent vast sums both in fortifying Port Arthur and the Taku forts and in increasing the navy.

Margaret Legum

Known primarily for her globally influential 1963 book on the necessity of economic sanctions against South Africa, South Africa: Crisis for the West, which she wrote in partnership with her husband Colin, Legum had a long career as a key member of the Iona Community, the radical ecumenical movement based on the Scottish island of Iona.

Nash Buckingham

He spoke out often and eloquently about the necessity of enforcing game laws and was a staunch advocate of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

New York Hospital

The origin of the New York Hospital can be traced to the commencement address of Dr. Samuel Bard, Professor of the “Practice of Medicine”, delivered to the first two medical doctors to graduate from King’s College (Now Columbia College, Columbia University) in 1769 titled “A discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital.”

Oliver Sheldon

He was closely involved in restructuring the management and organization of the growing confectionery company at a stage where its growth meant by necessity it had to move away from the personal, family-centered management of its founder, Joseph Rowntree, towards a more professional culture.

Peabody Education Fund

Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.

Perkiomen Bridge

To avoid the necessity of curved approaches, the American Automobile Association lobbied for the removal of the old bridge in 1938, to be replaced by a steel and concrete bridge.

Peter Brachacki

Director Waris Hussein recalled in later interviews that he was never happy with Brachacki's contribution and only kept him on as designer out of necessity, as there was not the time to request a replacement.

Pity About the Abbey

They play satirised what the two writers saw as the current trend to demolish significant or beautiful structures under the pretext of necessity, for example the Euston Arch.

Queen Alliquippa

After the British defeat at the Battle of the Great Meadows and the evacuation of Fort Necessity, Alliquippa moved her band to the Aughwick Valley of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania for safety.

Small Commercial Vehicle

With the Supreme Court of India's ban of overloading of cargo vehicles and restrictions on the entry of heavy commercial vehicles into city, the necessity of an intermediate segment was observed.

St Andrew's Church, West Tarring

Smuggling was popular in the Worthing area between the early 18th and early 19th centuries — sometimes out of necessity, such as during a period of economic hardship in the 1820s which caused the developing town to stagnate.

Test Act

The necessity of receiving the sacrament as a qualification for office was repealed in 1828 under George IV and all acts requiring the taking of oaths and declarations against transubstantiation were repealed by the Catholic Relief Act 1829.

The Female Marine

A unidentified newspaper reference (found in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society) at the time suggests that Coverly “kept a poet, or ready writer, who manufactured for him all prose and verse articles which were called for by the occasions of the time.” This author, Mr. Nathaniel Hill Wright, was described as “a comical genius, who could do the grave or the gay, as necessity demanded, and with equal facility.”

The Gods Are Athirst

The title, Les dieux ont soif, is taken from the last issue of Camille Desmoulins's Le Vieux Cordelier, which criticized the Jacobins; that line in turn was supposedly taken from an Aztec explanation of the necessity of human sacrifice.

The Mandrake Root

Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother, a woman of ill repute, and her confessor Brother Timoteo (Jonathan Owen), a priest of low morals, to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan.

Timeline of ancient Greece

330 Democritus, Greek philosopher, develops Atomic theory, believes cause and necessity, nothing comes out of nothing.

Wentwood

Many stands of substantial mature Welsh Oaks were felled to meet the demand for stout oak heartwoods in Royal Navy battleships and men o' war of the Napoleonic era of the 19th century, such as HMS Victory and others, but the heart of the forest remained preserved for charcoal production, a necessity for the iron industry and local ironworks.


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