eAlmanac | A Unique Online Reference Source » Fifteen http://www.ealmanac.com A whole new association Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:36:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Fifteen Minutes of Fame http://www.ealmanac.com/3346/numbers/fifteen-minutes-of-fame/ http://www.ealmanac.com/3346/numbers/fifteen-minutes-of-fame/#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:31:26 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/?p=3346 http://www.ealmanac.com/3346/numbers/fifteen-minutes-of-fame/feed/ 0 Fifteen (restaurant) http://www.ealmanac.com/2182/numbers/fifteen-restaurant/ http://www.ealmanac.com/2182/numbers/fifteen-restaurant/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:31:13 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/?p=2182 Fifteen is a London, England restaurant founded by British chef Jamie Oliver in 2002. It gets its name from the fifteen disadvantaged, young people that Mr. Oliver trained to work in the restaurant. A television documentary, “Jamie’s Kitchen,” was made about the founding of the restaurant and the training of the young people.

As of 2009, the foundation that Mr. Oliver created to own and operate Fifteen has opened three addition “Fifteen” restaurants: one in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2004); one in Watergate Bay (Cornwall), England (2006); and one in Melbourne, Australia (2006). All of these restaurants follow the model of the original by training disadvantaged, young people to work in them.

]]> http://www.ealmanac.com/2182/numbers/fifteen-restaurant/feed/ 0 Freshman Fifteen http://www.ealmanac.com/1953/numbers/freshman-fifteen/ http://www.ealmanac.com/1953/numbers/freshman-fifteen/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:18:27 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/?p=1953 “Freshman fifteen” is an expression used in the United States to describe the belief that students gain weight—15 pounds or 6.8 kilograms—during their first year at college or university. Recent studies have shown this to be a myth with most freshman gaining significantly less than 15 pounds.

]]> http://www.ealmanac.com/1953/numbers/freshman-fifteen/feed/ 0 The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World http://www.ealmanac.com/1946/numbers/the-fifteen-decisive-battles-of-the-world/ http://www.ealmanac.com/1946/numbers/the-fifteen-decisive-battles-of-the-world/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:24:37 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/?p=1946
  • The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC
  • Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413 BC
  • The Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BC
  • The Battle of the Metaurus, 207 BC
  • Victory of Arminius over the Roman Legions under Varus, AD 9
  • The Battle of Chalons, AD 451
  • The Battle of Tours, AD 732
  • The Battle of Hastings, AD 1066
  • Joan of Arc‘s Victory over the English at Orléans, AD 1429
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada, AD 1588
  • The Battle of Blenheim, AD 1704
  • The Battle of Pultowa, AD 1709
  • Victory of the Americans over Burgoyne at Saratoga, AD 1777
  • The Battle of Valmy, AD 1792
  • The Battle of Waterloo, AD 1815

    • Source: Wikipedia

    “The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World” is a book written by British historian Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812-1878) and published in 1851. Creasy intended for the book to describe the circumstances of the fifteen battles that he determined had the greatest impact on world history. Historians today view the book as too focused on European and, more specifically, British history, neglecting to include battles elsewhere that had significant impacts on world history. The impact of the book though has been large in military history with several books published since attempting to add to or amend Creasy’s list or simply following the structure of Creasy’s book, such as Victor Davis Hanson‘s Carnage and Culture (2001).

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