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FEPs

Features, events, and processes, which are terms used in the field of radioactive waste management to define relevant scenarios for safety assessment studies.


2006 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Men race as individuals, pairs and quads over 200 m, 500 m and 1000 m in both Canoe (Canadian) (C) and Kayak (K) events, giving a total of 18 gold medals.

A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

Alan Lodge

Since the events at Stonehenge, Lodge has covered a range of issues including the Travellers movement, Reclaim the Streets, the road protests in the mid 90s and the campaign against the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.

Almas Bawar Zakhilwal

He frequently appears as a current events commentator on various Canadian media outlets, including CBC Television, CTV, CPAC, Global National and TVOntario.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez.

Bernhard Schaub

Since then he has been a speaker at events, both domestically and internationally, in the far-right extremist scene (e.g. Germany's NPD party).

Bravo 2

As Player, they added exclusive coverage of the FIA GT Championship to its portfolio of sports events.

Brother Power the Geek

In addition, it is also established that the events of the original series had taken place in Gotham City (they had previously been explicitly set in San Francisco with "the governor" clearly drawn as Reagan).

Chris Rice

But frequent invitations to speak and lead music at his church's youth group events led to more such invitations throughout his college years at the University of Maryland, Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, and Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.

Clark Natwick

Clark Natwick competed in several road racing events; he won Mt. Hamilton Road Race racing with Greg LeMond

Comics Fest India

Raj Comics organized the initial events at Rtoonz Studios (Burari).

Cueritos

In Acatlán, Hidalgo the feast in honor of the Archangel Michael is held from the 20-29 of September, with religious events, traditional dances and traditional foods such as cueritos made with chili pepper sauce and varieties of pulque.

Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Daniel Viotto

He joined CNN in 1997, and since covered many events such as the Kosovo War, the liberation of Augusto Pinochet in London, and the return of Cuban boy Elián González to his country.

Darcy Robertson

Since then, she has won two World Curling Tour events: the 2012 DEKALB Superspiel, where she just happened to beat her sister's team in the final and the 2013 Atkins Curling Supplies Women's Classic where she beat Jill Thurston's rink.

First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson

Johnson also asked Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers, and Liz Carpenter to write a brief statement for him to read on the day's events, which he then edited slightly himself.

Fred Humphreys

He attended University of Western Australia, where he participated in track and running events.

Grady Gaines

As of January 2013, Gaines continues to perform with his Texas Upsetters for private parties and wedding receptions and for public events, such as the Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club in Houston's Rice Village neighborhood.

Holly Rowe

Other broadcasts that Rowe has been a part of with her time at ESPN include play-by-play for Women's World Cup matches, coverage of the Running of the Bulls, coverage of swimming, and broadcasts of track & field events.

International Sign

International Sign (IS) is an international auxiliary language sometimes used at international meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) congress, events such as the Deaflympics, and informally when travelling and socialising.

Joseph Muscat

As an MEP he supported a reduction in the tax for Satellite television, the right for customers to watch sport events for free, and a number of issues related to environmental protection in Malta.

Karabar High School

"Over the years the band has performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra. The first performances were at Anzac Day and the Highland Gathering in 1991. Since then they have performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra Festivals, numerous sporting events such as Canberra Raiders, Queanbeyan Tigers and North Melbourne matches, local netball march pasts, Masters Games, polo cross and many school and community events such as Floriade, the Uniting Church Fete, the Burra Fair and the Canberra Show."

Kentucky State Fair

The Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show is one of the fair's most prestigious events, where attendees and horses travel from various continents.

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

On 19 September 2011, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Seconds From Disaster exploring the chain of events that had led up to the collision.

Limited geography model

These models, developed in an effort to reconcile claims in the Book of Mormon with archaeology and geography, have situated the book's events in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Great Lakes area.

Luigi Lucheni

Luigi Lucheni is a prominent character in the Michael Kunze/Sylvester Levay musical Elisabeth, where he serves as a bitter, sarcastic narrator of the events of Elisabeth's life and in the end becomes her executioner.

Miami Marine Stadium

The venue, located just south of Downtown Miami, was revered for its scenic views of Downtown and Miami Beach, hosting motorboat events, and events featuring the likes of Mitch Miller, Sammy Davis, Jr., and U.S. President Richard Nixon (whose seasonal winter residence, dubbed "the Florida White House," was on nearby Key Biscayne).

Michael Christian

Christian has also commentated on weightlifting events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

MotorStorm

The events of the game take place at the fictional MotorStorm Festival in Monument Valley.

Naseem Hameed

She won various local events after this and was then picked by Pakistan Railways as an athlete.

Native News Today

It looks at various events happening throughout Indian Country from an Indian perspective and also endeavors to show some of the good that Native Americans and Indian Tribes are doing throughout their areas.

Neil Clephane-Cameron

In 2000 Neil Clephane-Cameron wrote The 1066 Malfosse Walk, which talks about the closing events of the Battle of Hastings in which the fleeing Saxons briefly stood against a pursuing group of Norman knights and nearly succeeded in killing Duke William.

Neil Cottrill

Once John recovered, the pair quickly became one of the top pairs in the UK, winning numerous county events, Friends Provident Grand Slam Series events and reaching the National Men's Doubles final, losing to Chris Hunt & Simon Archer.

NorthWood High School

They perform at community events including the annual maple syrup festival in Wakarusa.

Ovens

Ovens Auditorium, an auditorium located in Charlotte, North Carolina where concerts and other entertainment events are held

Petoskey, Michigan

Petoskey and the surrounding area are notable for being the setting of several of the Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway, who spent his childhood summers on nearby Walloon Lake, as well as being the place where for Calliope, the protagonist of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, events take a severe and lasting turn.

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

The film deals with the reconstruction of the Piazza Fontana bombing that took place in Milan December 12, 1969, and of the tragic events that ensued, from the death of Giuseppe Pinelli, which occurred in mysterious circumstances during an interrogation, to the death of the Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, who had led the investigation.

Putney Town Rowing Club

The Men's Squad have competed in a number of events, including the Head of the Charles in Boston, MA and annually at all the major Tideway heads.

Random Hand

The band then performed at events like Morcambe's Wasted Festival and shows with The Planet Smashers, Adequate Seven, Sonic Boom Six, Bad Manners, The Beat, Skindred and Babar Luck.

Richard G. Mitchell

Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Riven Rock

It also shows, above all, how much is to be gained by giving literary treatment to historical characters and events—an exercise that Boyle repeats in The Women and other of his works.

Roland Barthes

A text can be reversible by avoiding the restrictive devices that Sarrasine suffered from such as strict timelines and exact definitions of events.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Niigata

Our Lady of Akita was formally approved in 1988 when Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave definitive judgement on the Akita events and messages as reliable and worthy of belief.

Shanghai Girls

The sisters' story is interrelated with critical historical events, famous people, and important places—the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Shanghai, internment at Angel Island, Los Angeles Chinatown, Hollywood, World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act, McCarthyism, etc.

The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Foscolo's work was also inspired by the political events that occurred in Northern Italy during the Napoleonic period, when the Treaty of Campoformio forced Foscolo to go into exile from Venice to Milan.

The Passing Parade

In both media, the series usually focused on strange-but-true historical events, both little-known and famous, as well as figures such as Catherine de' Medici and Nostradamus.

Tom Clancy's The Division

The Division is inspired by Operation Dark Winter and Directive 51, real-world events which "revealed how vulnerable we've become"; society has become "fragile" and "complex".

Whitney Tower

In 1976 Whitney Tower, along with E. Barry Ryan, founded Classic magazine, a publication dedicated to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing as well as show jumping events.

Wounded Knee incident

Afterward AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted on charges related to the events, but their 1974 case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct, a decision upheld on appeal.

Zaporozhets za Dunayem

The story depicts the events following the destruction of the island fortress of Zaporizhian Sich, the historic stronghold of the Ukrainian Cossacks on the Dnieper River.


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