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Background Plus-One system

the college football playoff (cfp) system announced in june 2012 , scheduled replace bcs system beginning 2014 season, using variation of plus-one system determine national champion ncaa division football bowl subdivision (fbs). playoffs consist of 4 teams play in 2 semifinal games, winners advancing college football championship game. system continue through @ least 2025 season, contract espn, owns rights broadcast games in playoffs.

Eastern Michigan 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team

date: october 6 location: michigan stadium ann arbor, mi game start: 12:00 pm est elapsed time: 3:13 game attendance: 108,415 game weather: 85 Â°f (29 Â°c), sunny, sw 12 mph referee: dave witvoet tv announcers (btn): mark neely (play-by-play), glen mason (color) & lisa byington (sideline)

Key moments in history Swynnerton

maria anne fitzherbert1788 the 1 real love story in life of george iv tells of marriage lady might have been wife of king. maria anne smythe, better known mrs. fitzherbert, met six-years junior then-prince of wales in 1784. had been married thomas fitzherbert of swynnerton until death in 1781, left provided for. maria fitzherbert s face 1 displayed best advantages. eyes peculiarly languishing, and, had been twice widow, , 6 years senior, had advantage on less experienced lover. likewise, catholic, , act of parliament marriage illegal. yet because of these different objections prince doubly drawn her, , willing sacrifice throne if win her. maria fitzherbert died on 27 march 1837. although marriage declared invalid under english civil law, pope pius vii declared marriage legal.

Types in flowering plants Apomixis

caribbean agave producing plantlets on old flower stem. maheshwari used following simple classification of types of apomixis in flowering plants: nonrecurrent apomixis: in type megaspore mother cell undergoes usual meiotic divisions , haploid embryo sac [megagametophyte] formed. new embryo may arise either egg (haploid parthenogenesis) or other cell of gametophyte (haploid apogamy). haploid plants have half many chromosomes mother plant, , process not repeated 1 generation (which why called nonrecurrent). see parthenogenesis , apogamy below. recurrent apomixis, more called gametophytic apomixis: in type, megagametophyte has same number of chromosomes mother plant because meiosis not completed. arises either archesporial cell or other part of nucellus. adventive embryony, called sporophytic apomixis, sporophytic budding, or nucellar embryony: here there may megagametophyte in ovule, embryos not arise cells of gametophyte; arise cells of nucellus or integument. adventive embryony imp...

Personal life and family Ernst Haas

in 1951 haas married hungarian countess antoinette wenckheim. later divorced, , in 1962 haas married cynthia buehr seneque, american editor. had 2 children, alexander , victoria. gisela minke, german-born airline stewardess, haas’s companion many years. encouraged interest in tibet, , travels resulted in book himalayan pilgrimage. 6 years before death, met takiko kawai, credited introducing him culture , traditions of japan.

September 2016 in North Korea

^ choe, sang-hun; perlez, jane (8 september 2016). north korea tests mightier nuclear bomb, raising tension . new york times. usa. archived original on 25 september 2016. retrieved 18 january 2017.  ^ forsythe, michael (9 september 2016). north korea s nuclear blasts keep getting stronger . new york times. usa. archived original on 18 january 2017. retrieved 18 january 2017. 

Background Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

1 background 1.1 life , capture 1.2 detention , legal challenge 1.3 district case 1.4 appellate case background hamdi during detention @ guantanamo bay. early life , capture yaser esam hamdi born in louisiana citizen of united states in 1980. same year, , family moved saudi arabia. according father, hamdi went afghanistan in late summer of 2001 relief worker. captured less 2 months after arrival afghan northern alliance. turned him on u.s. military authorities during u.s. invasion. classified enemy combatant u.s. armed forces , detained in connection ongoing hostilities. hamdi s father claimed hamdi had gone afghanistan relief work , trapped there when u.s. invasion began, citing young age , lack of travel experience reasons being trapped. detention , legal challenge after capture in 2001, hamdi detained , interrogated in afghanistan. in january 2002, americans transferred hamdi guantanamo bay. in april 2002, when officials discovered held u.s. (as saudi) citizenship, transferred him n...

Order: Lagomorpha .28lagomorphs.29 List of South American mammals

eastern cottontail the lagomorphs comprise 2 families, leporidae (hares , rabbits), , ochotonidae (pikas). though can resemble rodents, , classified superfamily in order until 20th century, have since been considered separate order. differ rodents in number of physical characteristics, such having 4 incisors in upper jaw rather two. south america s meager lagomorph diversity (3 species compared 18 north america north of mexico) reflects recent arrival , failure (so far) diversify much. tapeti present south of northern south america; lagomorphs absent of south america s southern cone. family: leporidae (rabbits, hares) genus: sylvilagus tapeti sylvilagus brasiliensis lc eastern cottontail sylvilagus floridanus lc venezuelan lowland rabbit sylvilagus varynaensis dd

Order: Paucituberculata .28shrew opossums.29 List of South American mammals

dusky caenolestid there 6 extant species of shrew opossum. small shrew-like marsupials confined andes. family: caenolestidae genus: caenolestes gray-bellied caenolestid caenolestes caniventer nt andean caenolestid caenolestes condorensis vu northern caenolestid caenolestes convelatus vu dusky caenolestid caenolestes fuliginosus lc genus: lestoros incan caenolestid lestoros inca lc genus: rhyncholestes long-nosed caenolestid rhyncholestes raphanurus nt monito del monte on bamboo

Subclass: Theria List of South American mammals

1 subclass: theria 1.1 infraclass: metatheria 1.1.1 superorder: ameridelphia 1.1.1.1 order: didelphimorphia (common opossums) 1.1.1.2 order: paucituberculata (shrew opossums) 1.1.2 superorder: australidelphia 1.1.2.1 order: microbiotheria (monito del monte) 1.2 infraclass: eutheria 1.2.1 superorder: afrotheria 1.2.1.1 order: sirenia (manatees , dugongs) 1.2.2 superorder: xenarthra 1.2.2.1 order: cingulata (armadillos) 1.2.2.2 order: pilosa (sloths , anteaters) 1.2.3 superorder: euarchontoglires 1.2.3.1 order: primates 1.2.3.2 order: rodentia (rodents) 1.2.3.3 order: lagomorpha (lagomorphs) 1.2.4 superorder: laurasiatheria 1.2.4.1 order: eulipotyphla (shrews, hedgehogs, moles, , solenodons) 1.2.4.2 order: chiroptera (bats) 1.2.4.3 order: carnivora (carnivorans) 1.2.4.4 order: perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) 1.2.4.5 order: artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates , cetaceans) 1.2.4.5.1 infraorder: cetacea (whales, dolphins , porpoises) subclass: theria infraclass: metatheria the infraclass ...