Infobox single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Almost Persuaded Cover Artist David Houston singer David Houston from Album Almost Persuaded B side We Got Love Released June 1966 small United States U.S. small Format 7 inch single 7 Recorded January 1966 Genre Country music Country Length 2 56 Label Epic Records Epic Writer Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton Producer Billy Sherrill Last single Sammy br 1966 This single Almost Persuaded br 1966 Next single Where Could I Go? But to Her br 1966 Almost Persuaded is a song written by Glenn Sutton and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Muscle Shoals songwriter Billy Sherrill and first recorded by David Houston singer David Houston in 1966. It is not to be confused with the Christian hymn of the same name. ref cite web url http hymntime.com tch htm a l m almostpe.htm title ALMOST PERSUADED at the Cyber Hymnal accessdate 2010 02 16 ref The song is about a married man who, while patronizing a tavern, sees a beautiful young woman and is instantly smitten. Forgetting that he is married, he nearly succumbs to temptation. However, when the two share a slow dance on the floor, he sees the reflection of his wedding band and, remembering his vows to his wife, leaves. Legacy Almost Persuaded spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs Hot Country Singles chart starting in August 1966 ref cite book title The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits 1944 2006, Second edition last Whitburn first Joel authorlink Joel Whitburn year 2004 publisher Record Research page 162 ref and has since gone on to become a country standard. The song was also a moderate Billboard Hot 100 pop hit, reaching twenty four on the Billboard pop chart and was David Houston s only Top 40 entry on the pop charts. ref cite book title The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits Eighth Edition last Whitburn first Joel authorlink Joel Whitburn year 2004 publisher ... Persuaded, although two songs 1999 s Amazed by Lonestar and 2003 s It s Five O Clock Somewhere ... more details
Infobox Single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name I Could Be Persuaded Cover Artist The Bellamy Brothers Album Reality Check B side Released 1990 Format Recorded Genre Country music Country Length Label MCA Records MCA Curb Records Curb Writer David Bellamy, Howard Bellamy, Don Schlitz Producer Emory Gordy, Jr. Last single The Center of My Universe br 1989 This single I Could Be Persuaded br 1990 Next single She Don t Know That She s Perfect br 1991 Misc I Could Be Persuaded is a single by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers . Released in 1990, it was the first single from the album Reality Check . The song reached 7 on the Billboard magazine Billboard Hot Country Songs Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. ref cite book title The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits 1944 2006, Second edition last Whitburn first Joel authorlink Joel Whitburn year 2004 publisher Record Research page 43 ref It was their duo s last Top 10 hit. Chart performance class wikitable sortable align left Chart 1990 align center Peak br position align left U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks align center 7 align left Canadian RPM Country Tracks align center 11 References reflist Category 1990 singles Category The Bellamy Brothers songs Category Songs written by Don Schlitz Category Songs produced by Emory Gordy, Jr. 1990s country song stub ... more details
Win loss may refer to Win loss analytics , analysis of the reasons why a visitor to a website was or wasn t persuaded to engage in a desired action Win loss record pitching , the number of wins and losses a pitcher has accumulated either in his career or a single season disambig ... more details
unreferenced date October 2006 The Tariff of 1792 was the third of Alexander Hamilton s protective tariff s in the United States first was the Hamilton tariff of 1789, second was the Tariff of 1790 . Hamilton had persuaded the United States Congress to raise duties slightly in 1790, and he persuaded them to raise rates again in 1792, although still not to his satisfaction. Protectionism was one of the fulfillments of Hamilton s Report on Manufactures . US tax acts Category 1792 in law Category 1792 in the United States Category United States federal taxation legislation Category United States federal trade legislation 1792 ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2010 The Roche Institute of Molecular Biology was created on July 14, 1967 when Jim Burns, then the vice president of research at Hoffman La Roche , persuaded biochemist Sidney Udenfriend to leave the National Institutes of Health and help him create a basic science institute at the Hoffman La Roche, Nutley, New Jersey facility. It lasted for 28 years and was associated with a number of well known and regarded scientists. Category Biological research institutes Category Research institutes established in 1967 ... more details
History In the 1880 hymn Aberystwyth , Joseph Parry made reference to the Penrhos Knights as terrwyn llaes boneddigaidd , or brave and noble . In 1981 Aberystwyth University then called the University of Wales, Aberystwyth published excerpts of Parry s diary, claiming that Parry himself may have been a Penrhos Knight. Principles and activities Penrhos Knights are believed to have had a large influence on the historical socio political spectrum of Aberystwyth. In 1636 the group persuaded Charles I to open a Royal Mint in the grounds of Aberystwyth Castle . The mint was opened the following year but, during the English Civil War, the Knights allowed Oliver Cromwell to slight the entire castle in 1649 in the understanding that the townspeople could use the stone to build new homes. An article published in 2005 by a local newspaper, the http www.cambrian news.co.uk Cambrian News claimed that the Penrhos Knights had persuaded the British Government to choose Aberystwyth as a location to store the crown jewels during World War II . Category Secret societies Category Organisations based in Wales ... more details
unreferenced date November 2007 Win loss analytics involves identifying and analyzing the reasons why a visitor to a website was or wasn t persuaded to engage in a desired action conversion marketing conversion . This information allows web teams to improve the website s navigation and content, identify individuals that are more likely to convert, to improve marketing efforts History Determining why one person engaged in a desired action and another did not has long been a topic of interest in sales, where measurement of conversion has always been possible through sales data. In contrast, marketing has been mostly concerned with targeting with the masses, and the results of marketing have traditionally been more difficult to accurately measure. With the internet, it is much easier for marketers to collect data for analysis and evaluation in order to understand and demonstrate the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of their efforts and to make changes to improve them. Win loss analytics vs. web analytics Web analytics tools have existed since the early days of the internet and are now ubiquitous. These tools provide a bird s eye view of a website s traffic. The information that is gathered allows webmasters to make informed decisions about making changes in order to improve a website. Win loss analytics tools track the individual perspectives of each visitor, uncovering who the visitor was, what products they were qualified for, how well they were persuaded, and why they did or didn t convert. Category World Wide Web Category Business intelligence Category Web analytics ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2009 In Greek mythology , Pandorus was a son of Erichthonius II of Athens and Praxithea . Pandorus was also the sibling of Metion and Cecrops . Pandorus was a very accomplished archer who fought in Homer s Iliad . Typically archers were seen as inferior soldiers compared to swordsmen. In Book IV, he was persuaded by Minerva to break the truce by firing an arrow at Menalaus . He did his job, and incited Agamemnon to rouse his troops. He is later wounded in Book XI when Ajax goes on a great rampage. References Iliad Category Greek mythology greek myth stub bn el fr Pandoros ru ... more details
Birbal Dhar was a leader in the Kashmir i resistance to Afghan people Afghan rule in the early 19th century. He led a deputation which persuaded Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh to invade Kashmir in 1819, which ended Afghan rule. ref cite book title Kashmir history and people first S. R. last Bakshi publisher Sarup & Sons year 1997 pages 116, 144 isbn 9788185431963 url http books.google.co.uk books?id U1LEY1yWmagC accessdate 2012 01 30 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Dhar, Birbal ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Dhar, Birbal Category History of Jammu and Kashmir Category Kashmiri people India bio stub ... more details
In Greek mythology , Nomos is the Daemon mythology daemon of laws, statutes, and ordinances. By one account, Nomos wife is Eusebeia Eusebia Piety , and their daughter is Dike mythology Dike Justice . The Nomos is also the making of the human law in the Ancient Greek. The Sophists were persuaded that the Nomos wasn t especially the best in Greek but had as first the idea that it was equal but different of other cultures External links http www.theoi.com Daimon Nomos.html Category Greek mythology Category Greek gods Greek deity stub es Nomos he pt Nomos mitologia ... more details
Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick or Burd Bell Child ballad 257 Roud Folk Song Index Roud 107 is a traditional folk song framed with explicit warnings about loving above your station. Synopsis Burd Isabel, a servant, becomes pregnant. When she bears a son, Earl Patrick, the boy s father, resolves to marry her, but is persuaded not to, by his family. Soon, he marries a duke s daughter. He resolves to bring his son to his home, but first he sends his aunt or great aunt and then goes himself, to the same effect Burd Isabel refuses to give her son up. External links http www.sacred texts.com neu eng child ch257.htm Burd Isabel and Earl Patrick Category Child Ballads Folk song stub ... more details
The Bergthal Colony was a Mennonite settlement in the southern part of the former Russian Empire , now Ukraine that emigrated to Manitoba , Canada . The colony consisted of five villages Schoenfeld, Heuboden, Bergthal, Schoenthal, and Friedrichsthal. The villages were settled during the years 1836 to 1852 by 149 landless families from the Chortitza Colony. The settlement was located on the Bodni, a small tributary of the Berda River about 200 km southeast of Zaporizhia . During the 1870s, bishop Gerhard Wiebe persuaded the entire colony consisting of about 500 families, to emigrate to Manitoba. References Schroeder, William. The Bergthal Colony. 2nd ed. Winnipeg CMBS, 1986. Category Mennonitism in Ukraine Category History of Ukraine ... more details
Rumangabo is a military base of the Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo located north of Goma in Nord Kivu province. 3.5 km south of the military base is the headquarters of the Virunga National Park . On October 7, 2008, it was captured from the FARDC Congolese Army by members of Laurent Nkunda s faction, the National Congress for the Defense of the People . On the 10th, Nkunda s forces were persuaded by MONUC to withdraw from the military base. The fighting severely threatened the lives of the rangers at the nearby park station. Again on October 26, it was again captured by rebels. They are further advancing both in north and south axis toward Rutshuru and Goma. Category North Kivu Category Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... more details
Bartholdy may refer to People Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1776 1835 , German Jewish banker and philanthropist Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1809 1847 , German composer, pianist, organist and conductor son of Abraham Jakob Salomon Bartholdy 1779 1825 , Prussian diplomat educated at the University of Halle Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1841 1880 , German chemist and a pioneer in the manufacture of aniline dye son of Felix Jakob Salomon took the additional surname Bartholdy from a property owned by his family on his conversion to Christianity. He persuaded his sister s husband Abraham Mendelssohn to do the same. Places Mendelssohn Bartholdy Park Berlin U Bahn , Berlin U Bahn station located on the U2 See also Mendelssohn Mendelssohn family surname Category Surnames ... more details
The First Congregational Church of Manistee, Michigan , United Church of Christ , was founded on July 20, 1862 with ten charter members. The Rev. George Thompson who had recently returned to Michigan following missionary work in Africa was persuaded to preach the first sermon and organize the new church. One of the first churches to be organized in the community, the wikt congregation congregation worshiped in the fire hall and eventually purchased the building for their own meeting space. References Reflist External links http www.uccmanistee.org First Congregational Church Michigan struct stub coord missing Michigan Category Religious organizations established in 1862 Category United Church of Christ churches in Michigan ... more details
Cape Douglas Coord 80 55 S 160 52 E source GNIS display inline,title is an ice covered cape marking the south side of the entrance to Matterson Inlet , on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf . It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition expedition 1901 04 and named for Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas , Lord of the Admiralty , who persuaded the Admiralty to assign naval seamen to the expedition. ref name gnis References Reflist refs ref name gnis cite gnis type antarid id 4019 name Douglas, Cape accessdate 2012 01 27 ref usgs gazetteer id 4019 name Douglas, Cape DEFAULTSORT Douglas, Cape Category Headlands of the Ross Dependency Category Shackleton Coast ShackletonCoast geo stub ... more details
refimprove date February 2011 Henry Nicol 1845 1880 was a philologist specialized in French phonology. ref cite journal journal Modern English biography volume 2 year 1897 title Nicol, Henry pages p. 1146 url http books.google.com books?id IVmAAAAMAAJ ref Cousin of Henry Sweet , Nicol was persuaded in 1871 by Frederick James Furnivall to take over the editorship of OED but was prevented by ill health and other problems to do so. References reflist Lexicography and the OED pioneers in the untrodden forest. Lynda Mugglestone. External links Wikisource author inline Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1845 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1880 PLACE OF DEATH Category 1845 births Category 1880 deaths ... more details
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Olelbis meaning he who is above is the creator deity in Wintun mythology. The antagonist of Olelbis is Sedit . The myth According to the mythology of the Wintum tribe, Olelbis desired that the members of the human race should live together as brothers and sisters that there should be no birth and no death, that life should be agreeable and easy, and the purpose of life should be to rejoining Olelbis in heaven and live with him for all eternity. To satisfy the hunger of the human body, Olelbis created a species of nut which has no shell and falls off the tree when it is ripe this species of nut or fruit is still a staple item of the Wintum s diet . Olelbis ordered two brothers to build a paved road from earth to heaven to facilitate the tribe s reunion with their Creator. But Sedit appeared on the scene and persuaded one of the brothers that it would be better to engage in sexual intercourse and procreate the human species. The one persuaded by Sedit argued the other into agreement, so both defected from Olelbis and joined together to destroy the road they were building to heaven. Sedit, horrified when he finds he has brought death to the human race and must die himself, tries to escape his fate. He makes himself a mechanism of boughs and leaves a plane , by means of which he hopes to fly to heaven. But he crashes and is killed. Olelbis looks down from the heights of heaven and says, See. The first death From henceforth all men shall die. ref cite book last Carr first William Guy authorlink William Guy Carr coauthors editor others title Satan, Prince of this World url http www.scribd.com doc 3221212 carr william guy satan prince of this world 1959 format accessdate December 22, 2008 edition origyear 1959 year 1966 publisher Omni Publications location Palmdale, CA isbn oclc doi id page pages chapter The Devil, the World and the Flesh ref References references Theology Category Conceptions of God Category Gods of the indigenous peoples of North America Category Creator ... more details
Horatio Robinson Storer 1830 1922 was an United States American physician and campaigner against abortion . Storer was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended the Boston Latin School, Harvard College , and the Boston Harvard Medical School. After obtaining his M.D. in 1853 he traveled to Europe and spent a year studying with James Young Simpson at Edinburgh . He began medical practice in Boston in 1855 with emphasis on obstetrics and gynecology . In 1857, he started the physicians crusade against abortion both in Massachusetts and nationally, when he persuaded the American Medical Association to form a Committee on Criminal Abortion. The Committee Report was presented at the AMA meeting in Louisville, Kentucky in 1859 and accepted by the Association. As a result, the AMA petitioned the legislatures of the states and territories to strengthen their laws against elective abortions. By 1880 most states and territories had enacted such legislation. Although abortion continued, ref Horatio Storer1 some women were persuaded to refrain from abortion by these new laws, and also by physician persuasion. In 1865, Storer won an AMA prize for his essay aimed at informing women about the moral and physical problems of induced abortion. It was published as Why Not? A Book for Every Woman . It was widely sold and many physicians distributed it to their patients who requested abortion. Storer started the Gynaecological Society of Boston, the first medical society devoted exclusively to gynecology, in 1869. It quickly moved to publish the first gynecology Academic journal journal , the Journal of the Gynaecological Society of Boston . References note Horatio Storer1 Reagan, Leslie J., When Abortion Was a Crime Women, Medicine and the Law in the United States, 1867 1973, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997, p6, q.v. chapter two . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Storer, Horatio ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1830 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Billboard Top Country Hits 1966 Type Compilation Cover Artist Various artists Released August 17, 1990 Recorded Genre Country music Country Label Rhino Records Last album Billboard Top Country Hits 1965 br 1990 This album Billboard Top Country Hits 1966 br 1990 Next album Billboard Top Country Hits 1967 br 1990 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1Score Rating 4.5 5 Allmusic class album id r94944 pure url yes link Billboard Top Country Hits 1966 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1966 in music 1966 . Eight of the tracks included on this album reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Billboard Hot Country Singles chart during 1966, including the year s No. 1 song, Almost Persuaded by David Houston singer David Houston . The other two tracks You Ain t Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn and Tippy Toeing by the Harden Trio peaked at No. 2. Track listing There Goes My Everything Jack Greene I Get the Fever Bill Anderson Almost Persuaded David Houston Waitin in Your Welfare Line Buck Owens & His Buckaroos Flowers on the Wall Statler Brothers I Want to Go With You Eddy Arnold You Ain t Woman Enough Loretta Lynn Distant Drums Jim Reeves Take Good Care of Her Sonny James Tippy Toeing Harden Trio Category 1990 compilation albums Category Country albums by American artists Category Rhino Records compilation albums Category Country compilation albums 1980s compilation album stub ... more details
Virginians Against Drug Violence , or VADV, is an organization devoted to ending the Prohibition drugs drug war in the Commonwealth of Virginia . It reviews the Virginia General Assembly s bills every year, sending out emails to a network of citizens and urging them to contact their legislators on relevant issues. VADV activists persuaded the legislature to carve out an exemption in the cannabis drug marijuana cultivation law so that individuals growing cannabis for their own use would be prosecuted only for simple possession. Virginia thus has more lenient laws on cultivation than even California . In addition, VADV activists successfully lobbied the General Assembly to keep medical marijuana legal for cancer and glaucoma and put marijuana in a class by itself, as opposed to being a scheduled controlled substance. See also Legal status of cannabis in Virginia References http www.drugsense.org dpfva Virginians Against Drug Violence . Whitley, Tyler http www.pdxnorml.org 980127.html Panel Backs Marijuana, Heroin Ban , Richmond Times Dispatch, 27 Jan. 1998. US org stub Category Civic and political organizations of the United States Category Organizations based in Virginia ... more details
coord 54.570 1.733 display title region GB scale 5000 Image Langton.jpg right thumb The village in 2006 Langton is a village in County Durham , in England . It is situated to the west of Darlington , near Headlam and Ingleton, County Durham Ingleton . History Lanton was a parish in Berwickshire containing convert 7200 acre km2 . The area around the town was frequently invaded in the sixteenth century by the English. George Bowes soldier Sir George Bowes and Sir Henry Percy left the town burnt in 1558. The old town of Langton so offended the local dignitary Mr George Gavin that he persuaded the inhabitants to move the whole thing half a mile so he would not to look at the dirty town . The new town was called Gavintown and had over 400 people living there in 1801. ref http www.genuki.org.uk big sct BEW Langton index.html Gazetteer of Scotland , 1806, Edinburgh, Genuki, accessed June 2009 ref References Reflist Civil parishes in County Durham Category Villages in County Durham Durham geo stub pl Langton Durham ... more details
Charles W. Carter 1870 1961 was an Alaska n politician and the eighth list of mayors of Juneau, Alaska mayor of Juneau, Alaska , from 1913 to 1914. He was a citizen of Alaska by 1901. In 1947, along with Henry Roden and David Gross politician David Gross , he persuaded the Alaska Territorial Legislature to rename the Pioneers Trust Fund, a regional fund for elderly citizens, to the Pioneer Memorial Fund . Charles Charter is buried in Evergreen Cemetery Juneau, Alaska Evergreen Cemetery , in Juneau. References http www.juneau.org parkrec museum forms GCM readarticle.php?UID 821&newxtkey Biography at Juneau Douglas City Museum Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Carter, Charles W. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician DATE OF BIRTH 1870 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1962 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Carter, Charles W. Category 1870 births Category 1962 deaths Category Mayors of Juneau, Alaska Alaska mayor stub ... more details
japanese name H j unreferenced date December 2006 nihongo H j Ujinori 1545 March 22, 1600 was the fourth son of H j Ujiyasu . Very early in his life he became an acquaintance of Tokugawa Ieyasu , because he alike was also at the time a hostage of the Imagawa . Far later, he was persuaded to surrender when Odawara was attacked by the likes of Toyotomi Hideyoshi . He then set off to Odawara in attempts to negotiate peace. Persondata NAME H j Ujinori ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1545 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1600 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hojo, Ujinori Category Go H j clan Category 1545 births Category 1600 deaths samurai stub nl Hojo Ujinori ja zh ... more details
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