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1994 Minnesota Vikings season

Looking for only their third win of the season, the Bucs held off the Vikings for a 17–9 lead in the fourth until Warren Moon once again found Qadry Ismail; a two-point conversion throw to Cris Carter forced overtime tied 17–17, but the Bucs drove downfield for Michael Husted's winning field goal and the 20–17 loss, the third loss in a row and second in overtime in that span.

Anticurialism

After the Council of Trent many Catholic nations, among which Spain, adopted the Inquisition as a means of controlling religious movements and of the re-conversion to Roman orthodoxy of all the dioceses which they administered.

Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Germany

In some districts the conversion of the monarchs, e.g. Duke John Frederick of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Calenberg (1651) and Duke Christian I Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1663), brought Catholics some measure of freedom.

Artur Ekert

His subsequent work with John Rarity and Paul Tapster, from the Defence Research Agency (DRA) in Malvern, resulted in the proof-of-principle experimental quantum key distribution, introducing parametric down-conversion, phase encoding and quantum interferometry into the repertoire of cryptography.

Assembly House

The aldermen subsequently unveiled plans for its conversion into "public places of entertainment for the county and the city", appointing architect Thomas Ivory, who also built the Octagon Chapel in the city, to oversee the works, assisted by Sir James Burrough.

Barn house

Converted barn or barn conversion - An old barn remodeled for another use.

Bevois

The name change was proposed by Southampton City Council and the Liberal Democrats, the latter arguing that “the conversion of St Lukes Church to a Sikh temple has removed the sole surviving landmark bearing the former ward name," and that the new name better reflected local community ties.

Carlist Party

Between 1970 and 1972 the Carlist Party organised Congresses of the Carlist People in Arbonne, in which it adopted a program for the ideological change of Carlism towards self-management socialism and the conversion of PC into a federal and democratic party of the masses, of class, which aspired to a socialist based monarchy in a pact between the dynasty and the people.

Chrysler Executive

All Executives were built by conversion specialist ASC near St. Louis, Missouri, and began as standard LeBaron coupes.

Church of the East

But Mongol power was already waning, as the Empire dissolved into civil war, and it reached a turning point in 1295, when Ghazan, the Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate, made a formal conversion to Islam when he took the throne.

Co-operative Retail Services

In 1999, the society sold ten of these properties to Kingfisher, for conversion into Big W (Woolworth) and B&Q stores.

Craig L. Hill

Professor Hill’s research encompasses fundamental structural and reactivity studies, Catalysis, functional nanomaterials (Nanotechnology), antiviral chemotherapy and solar energy conversion (Artificial Photosynthesis).

Criminal conversion

In England and Wales, the term fraudulent conversion was superseded by the identically named offences under the Larceny Act 1901 and sections 20 and 21 of the Larceny Act 1916.

Daizang

It marked the mass conversion of the Zou community from their pagan Sakhua religion to the Christian faith.

Direct conversion

In the late nineties research was undertaken by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, The University of Florida, Texas A&M University and General Atomics to use direct conversion to extract energy from fission reactions.

Eanswith

King Eadbald, whose sister St. Ethelburga married the pagan King Edwin two or three years before, recalled that this wedding resulted in Edwin's conversion.

Edward, My Son

The screenplay closely adhered to the original script, the only major change being Arnold Boult's conversion from British to Canadian so Spencer Tracy wouldn't have to struggle with an accent.

EiffelStudio

5.4, November 2003: new conversion mechanism, major run-time performance improvements (in particular for agents), major compilation speed improvements, improved support for multithreading, major EiffelBuild enhancements, first support for new mechanisms as defined by the ECMA Eiffel committee, support for preconditions and postconditions in external (e.g. C) routines, transparent way to call overloaded .

Foreign relations of Tonga

The mass conversion of most Tongans to Christianity – and primarily to Wesleyan Methodism – resulted in strong religious ties to England as the source of most of the missionaries involved.

Fowler's Ghost

The locomotive was sold to Isaac Watt Boulton in 1865; he intended to convert it into a standard engine, and commissioned drawings for a new conventional boiler and its conversion into standard gauge.

Government Secure Intranet

GSi uses SMTP as mail transport protocol, and the conversion from the then prevalent X.400 email facilities to SMTP proved for many departments an improvement in reliability and speed.

Heliskiing

He started guiding skiers out of Alyeska Resort, Alaska, using a Hiller helicopter with a Soly conversion.

History of Goan Catholics

History of Goan Catholics recounts the history of the Goan Catholic community of the Indian state of Goa from their conversion to Christianity to date.

Human equivalent

The ages of domestic cats and dogs are often referred to in terms of "cat years" or "dog years", representing a conversion to human-equivalent years.

Ivan Gagarin

Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin (born in Moscow, 1 August 1814; died in Paris, 19 July 1882) was a Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion to Catholicism.

Jaeson Ma

He is credited for leading the Chinese-Canadian film actor and rapper, Edison Chen, in a religious-conversion experience to Christianity.

Japanese aircraft carrier Chitose

The Chitose underwent conversion to a light aircraft carrier at Sasebo Navy Yard commencing on 26 January 1943, was recommissioned on 1 November 1943 as CVL (24) and completed as a carrier on 1 January 1944.

Japanese submarine tender Karasaki

At the end of 1904, Karasaki Maru was sent to the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal for conversion into a submarine tender.

Legal education in Hong Kong

However, in September 2008 it switched from a three to four year LLB, whilst overseas candidates for the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws must now take conversion exams prior to admission to the programme.

Loay, Bohol

Upon the decree of King Phillip II, after whom the Philippines was named, they retained the honors and privileges they had before their conversion and subjection to the Spanish crown.

Maidenhead Locator System

Perl supports conversion between geographical coordinates and Maidenhead locators in module Ham::Locator by Andy Smith, available on CPAN.

María del Carmen González-Valerio

She offered up her own suffering and death for the conversion of politician Manuel Azaña.

Markus Gygax

In 1973 he joined the surveillance wing flying the Hawker Hunter, and in 1978 underwent conversion to the F-5 at Williams AFB, Arizona.

New York Doll

The central focus of the film, however, is Arthur's life after conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after struggles with alcoholism, drug abuse, an attempt at suicide, and a beating with a baseball bat that, contrary to popular belief, did not happen during the Rodney King riots, but left him near death, and needing a long recovery.

Patrizius Wittman

His "Allgemeine Geschichte der katholischen Missionen" (1846 and 1850) was the first treatment of this subject in German; the second volume of the work treats mainly of the conversion of the Indian tribes in America.

Rajeevnath

The film, made with a minuscule budget of Rs. 6 lakh ($12000 as per 2012 conversion rate) was the Indian entry for Alexandria Film Festival.

Reactive flash volatilization

Reactive flash volatilization was demonstrated in 2006 in the journal Science by the high temperature (700–800 °C) conversion of soybean oil (triglycerides) and sugar (D-(+)-glucose) to synthesis gas (H2 + CO) and olefins (ethylene and propylene).

River Defense Fleet

The conversion process for the cottonclads reached completion in the month of 16 March to 17 April 1862, which was coincidentally just the time that the Union fleet under Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut began its buildup in the lower river, as they prepared for the attack on New Orleans.

Robert Warren Stewart

After graduation he studied law in London, but the spiritual crisis of his conversion occurred at Richmond, Surrey when he was just about to become a lawyer.

South African Country Districts XV

Jim Renwick, Gareth Williams, Clive Woodward and Colm Tucker scored a try each for the visitors, while Gareth Davies added 11 points through a conversion and three penalties.

Stranded asset

The Stranded Assets Programme at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment broadly defines 'stranded assets' as, 'assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities'.

Sunil Agnihotri

Subash Chouhan of the Bajrang Dal said "We will not allow the producer to shoot ... Such films will encourage the conversion of poor tribals to Christianity".

Superslow process

Stagnation zones theorems are closely related to pre-Liouville's theorems about evaluation of solutions fluctuation, which direct consequences are the different versions of the classic Liouville theorem about conversion of the entire doubly periodic function into the identical constant.

Tetley Hall

Plans and estimates were approved for the conversion and in 1951 it was resolved to accept a recommendation by the Vice-Chancellor that it might be appropriate for the new hall to be named 'Tetley Hall' in recognition of the long standing association between the Tetley's family of Leeds Brewers and the University.

ThaiURL

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Towards the conversion of England

Towards the Conversion of England was a 1945 report produced by the Church of England Commission on Evangelism, chaired by the evangelical Bishop of Rochester, Christopher Chavasse.

Two-point conversion

The NFL's developmental league, NFL Europe (and its former entity, the World League of American Football), adopted the two-point conversion rule for its entire existence from 1991 through 2007.

WMFD-TV

WMFD-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 68, on June 16, 2008, eight months before the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (February 17, 2009, before the transition date was moved to June 12); the early conversion was done as part of final upgrades to its digital transmitter facilities.


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