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Punk (Chai album). Punk (stylized in all caps) is the second studio album by Japanese band Chai. The album was released on February 13, 2019, by Otemoyan Records.[14] It was released on March 15, 2019, in North America and Europe by Burger Records and Heavenly Recordings, respectively.[14] AllMusics Tim Sendra felt the...
Robert Nihon. Robert Alexis Nihon (born July 4, 1950 – August 10, 2007) was a Canadian businessman, one of the heirs of the Nihon family fortune and former wrestler. He was Alexis Nihons son along with his brother Alexis Nihon Jr., and eventually inherited a part of his fathers fortune. Robert Nihon lived in Lyford Ca...
Alexis Nihon. Alexis Louis Nihon, OBE (15 May 1902 – 8 April 1980) was a Belgian-born Canadian inventor and businessman. Alexis was born in Liège, Belgium, the son of Alexis Laurent Nihon and Marie Florentine Thiry, he moved to Canada when he was eighteen years old[citation needed]. In 1940, he started the glass manuf...
Kinship. In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what humans do with these basic...
Alexis Nihon Jr.. Alexis Joseph Nihon Jr. (January 10, 1946 – February 24, 2013)[1] was an Olympic wrestler for the Bahamas. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2] His brother Robert Nihon, who was also a wrestler also competed at the same Olympics.[3] This biographical article ...
Nihon University. Nihon University (日本大学, Nihon Daigaku; lit. Japan University), abbreviated as Nichidai (日大), is a private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice, in 1889.[6] The universitys name is der...
Pinyin. Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語) literally means Han language—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means spelled sounds. Pinyin is the of...
Nippon (aircraft). Nippon (ニッポン, Nippon) was a converted Mitsubishi G3M2 Model 21 bomber operated by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and used to make a round-the-world flight in 1939. Nippon took off from Haneda airport[2] in the district of Kamata in Tokyo on 25 August 1939, flew around the globe and returned to Toky...
God emperor. God-Emperor or God Emperor may refer to:
Warhammer Fantasy (setting). Warhammer Fantasy (later renamed Warhammer: The Old World) is a fictional fantasy universe created by Games Workshop and used in many of its games, including the table top wargame Warhammer, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) pen-and-paper role-playing game, and a number of video games:...
Nippon Paint. Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd. (日本ペイントホールディングス株式会社, Nippon Peinto Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese paint and paint products manufacturing company.[4] It is the worlds fourth largest paint manufacturer, as measured by revenue in 2020.[3] The company was founded in 1881 by Jujiro Motegi under t...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. They allow a better visual as...
Absolutism (European history). Absolutism or the Age of Absolutism (c. 1610 – c. 1789) is a historiographical term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by all other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites.[1] The term absolutism is typically used in conjunction with...
Nippon (song). Nippon is a song by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena. It was released as a single on June 11, 2014, two weeks after her self-cover album Gyakuyunyū: Kōwankyoku and a year after her previous solo single Irohanihoheto / Kodoku no Akatsuki.[1] The song is being used as the 2014 soccer theme song for NHK.,[2] ...
Legalism (Chinese philosophy). Fajia (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: fǎjiā), or the School of fa (law, method), often translated Legalism,[1][2] was a school of thought representing a broader collection of primarily Warring States period classical Chinese philosophy, incorporating more administrative works traditionally said to...
Seiyu Group. Seiyu KK (株式会社西友, Kabushiki-gaisha Seiyū; lit. Friend of Seibu Department Stores or Friend of West), or Seiyu Group (西友グループ, Seiyū Gurūpu), is a Japanese group of supermarkets, shopping centers and department stores, headquartered in Akabane (赤羽), Kita, Tokyo.[1][4] On May 8, 2023, the Akabane headquarte...
Kōshinetsu region. Kōshinetsu (甲信越) is a subregion of the Chūbu region in Japan consisting of Yamanashi, Nagano, and Niigata prefectures.[1] The name Kōshinetsu is a composite formed from the names of old provinces which are adjacent to each other — Kai (now Yamanashi), Shinano (now Nagano) and Echigo (now Niigata). Th...
JPN (album). JPN is the third studio album (fourth overall) by Japanese girl group Perfume, released on November 30, 2011, by Tokuma Japan Communications, nearly two and a half years after their second studio album Triangle. The album sold a total of 268,414 after two weeks of release, making it the 24th best-selling a...
Rikken Seiyūkai. Defunct Defunct The Rikken Seiyūkai (立憲政友会; Association of Friends of Constitutional Government) was one of the main political parties in the pre-war Empire of Japan. It was also known simply as the Seiyūkai. Founded on September 15, 1900, by Itō Hirobumi,[2] the Seiyūkai was a pro-government alliance ...
Pentagon Army Heliport. Pentagon Army Heliport (ICAO: KJPN, FAA LID: JPN) is a military heliport serving the Pentagon in the U.S. state of Virginia. It consists of a single pentagon-shaped helipad and is located on the northern side of the Pentagon building.[1][2] It is used for ferrying VIPs such as military leaders ...
Toyota JPN Taxi. The Toyota JPN Taxi (Japanese: トヨタ・ジャパンタクシー, Hepburn: Toyota Japantakushī), sometimes known as the Toyota Japan Taxi,[1] is a hybrid electric taxicab built to universal design specifications mandated by the Japanese government.[2][3] Exhibited as the JPN Taxi Concept at the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show in 20...
Louis XIV. Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand [lwi lə ɡʁɑ̃]) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil [lə ʁwa sɔlɛj]), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch in history.[1]...
Heir Apparent (novel). Heir Apparent is a science fiction/fantasy novel by young adult fiction author Vivian Vande Velde, about a girl who becomes trapped inside a looping virtual reality role-playing game called Heir Apparent. The same girl appeared as a secondary character in User Unfriendly, Vande Veldes earlier bo...
Europa Universalis III. Europa Universalis III is a grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows in January 2007, and was later ported to Mac OS X by Virtual Programming in November 2007. The player controls a nation ...
Henry VIII. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate...
West Iberian languages. West Iberian is a branch of the Ibero-Romance languages that includes the Castilian languages (Spanish, Judaeo-Spanish), Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, Extremaduran (sometimes), Cantabrian),[1][2] Navarro-Aragonese and the descendants of Galician-Portuguese. Until a few centuries a...
Watershed (Opeth album). Watershed is the ninth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. Released by Roadrunner Records, Watershed is the first studio album by Opeth to feature guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and drummer Martin Axenrot, who replaced longtime guitarist Peter Lindgren and drummer Martin Lopez. Th...
Heir Apparent (band). Heir Apparent is an American heavy metal/progressive metal band from Seattle, formed in 1983. Heir Apparent was formed in 1983 in Seattle by guitarist Terry Gorle.[1] Vocalist Paul Davidson, bassist Derek Peace, and drummer Jim Kovach joined Gorle to form Heir Apparents original lineup. In July 1...
The Battle for Wesnoth. The Battle for Wesnoth is a free and open-source[a] turn-based strategy video game with a high fantasy setting (similar to J. R. R. Tolkiens legendarium), designed by Australian-American[b] developer David White and first released in June 2003. In Wesnoth, the player controls a particular facti...
Castilian Spanish. In English, Castilian Spanish can mean the variety of Peninsular Spanish spoken in northern and central Spain, the standard form of Spanish, or Spanish from Spain in general.[1][2][3][4][5][6] In Spanish, the term castellano (Castilian) can either refer to the Spanish language as a whole (to distingu...
Japan. Japan[a] is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands alo...
Seiyūhontō. Naruhito Fumihito Shigeru Ishiba (LDP)
UK (disambiguation). UK usually refers to the United Kingdom, a country in Europe. UK, U.K., Uk, or uk may also refer to:
United Kingdom (disambiguation). The United Kingdom (full name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a country located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. United Kingdom may also refer to:
First language. A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth[1] or within the critical period. In some countries, the term native language or mother tongue refers to the language of ones ethnic group rather than the individuals ac...
Language family. A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used ...
Second language. A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to ones first language (L1). A second language may be a neighbouring language, another language of the speakers home country, or a foreign language. A speakers dominant language, which is the language a speaker uses most or is most comfortable wit...
Japan. Japan[a] is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands alo...
Great Britain. Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island, and the ninth-largest island in...
Union Jack. The Union Jack[1][2] or Union Flag is the national flag of the United Kingdom. The flag consists of the red cross of Saint George (the patron saint of England), edged in white, superimposed on the red saltire of Saint Patrick (the patron saint of Ireland), also edged in white, superimposed on the saltire o...
Vascular plant. Vascular plants (from Latin vasculum duct), also called tracheophytes (UK: /ˈtrækiːəˌfaɪts/,[5] US: /ˈtreɪkiːəˌfaɪts/)[6] or collectively tracheophyta (/ˌtreɪkiːˈɒfɪtə/;[7][8][9] from Ancient Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία (trakheîa artēría) windpipe and φυτά (phutá) plants),[9] are plants that have lignifie...
Monorchism. Monorchism (also monorchidism) is the state of having only one testicle within the scrotum. An individual having monorchism can be referred to as monorchid. This can be due to one testicle: Although extremely rare, monorchism has been observed to be characteristic of some animal species, notably in beetles....
Gorge (disambiguation). A gorge or canyon is a deep cleft resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of rivers. Gorge may also refer to:
Constitutional monarchy. Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.[1][2][3] Constitutional monarchies differ from ab...
Monarchianism. Monarchianism is a doctrine that emphasizes God as one indivisible being,[1][2][3][4] in direct contrast to Trinitarianism, which defines the Godhead as three co-eternal, consubstantial, co-immanent, and equally divine hypostases. During the patristic period, Christian theologians attempted to clarify th...
Fandub. A fandub is a fan-made dub or redub of a live-action or animated production. Dubbing is the act of re-recording of a live-action or animated production, typically in a language other than the original. Most productions are translated from different languages, but some fandubs are for productions originally in t...
Original net animation. An original net animation (ONA), known in Japan as web anime (ウェブアニメ, webu anime), is an anime that is directly released onto the Internet.[1][2] ONAs may also have been aired on television if they were first directly released on the Internet. The name mirrors original video animation, a term th...
Canon. Canon or Canons may refer to:
Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven. Extract from Captain Stormfields Visit to Heaven is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harpers Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last st...
Storm Field. Elliott David Storm Field (born November 25, 1948)[1] is an American retired television meteorologist, most noted for his time in the New York media market. He followed his father, longtime New York weatherman Frank Field, into the business. Field was given the nickname Storm by his parents as a baby, as a...
Plant. See text Plants are the eukaryotes that comprise the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chloroph...
Canyon (disambiguation). A canyon, cañon or gorge is a geographical feature. Canyon may also refer to:
Albert Paine. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humor, and verse.[1] Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the son...
Fansub. A fansub (short for fan-subtitled) is a version of a foreign film or foreign television program, typically anime or dorama which has been translated by fans (as opposed to an officially licensed translation done by paid professionals) and subtitled into a language usually other than that of the original.[1] The...
Monocotyledon. Monocotyledons (/ˌmɒnəˌkɒtəˈliːdənz/),[d][13][14] commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants whose seeds contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. A monocot taxon has been in use for several decades, but with various ranks and under several different names...
John Mead Howells. John Mead Howells FAIA (/ˈhaʊəlz/ HOW-əlz; August 14, 1868 – September 22, 1959) was an American architect. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of author William Dean Howells, he earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1891 and completed further architectural studies there in...
Flowering plant. Basal angiosperms Core angiosperms Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspərmiː/).[5][6] The term angiosperm is derived from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον (angeion; container, vessel) and σπέρμα (sperma; seed), meaning that the seeds are enclose...
Howells & Stokes. Howells & Stokes was an American architectural firm founded in 1897 by John Mead Howells and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. The firm dissolved in 1917. Howells & Stokes designed, among other structures, St. Pauls Chapel at Columbia University; Woodbridge Hall, part of the Hewitt Quadrangle on the campus ...
England. – in Europe (green & dark grey)– in the United Kingdom (green) England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. England shares a land border with Scotland to the north and another la...
Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon[a] is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).[6]: 902 The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Cany...
Superhero comics. Superhero comics is one of the most common genres of American comic books. The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s and became extremely popular in the 1940s and has remained the dominant form of comic book in North America since the 1960s. Superhero comics feature stories about superheroes and the ...
Action fiction. Action fiction is a genre in literature that focuses on stories involving high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range of subgenres, such as spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror, intrigue (cloak and dagger), and mysteries. These kinds of stories utilize su...
Saitama (One-Punch Man). Saitama (Japanese: サイタマ) is a fictional superhero and the titular protagonist of the Japanese manga and anime series One-Punch Man created by One. An unaffiliated superhero from Z-City who dreams of fame and performs heroic acts as a hobby. For three years straight, Saitama had trained enough...
One (manga artist). ONE (stylized in all caps) or Tomohiro is the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, who is best known for his web manga[1] series One-Punch Man, which was later remade into a digital manga illustrated by Yusuke Murata.[2][3] One serializes the One-Punch Man webcomic on his own website under no offi...
Village (United States). In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a village is a type of administrative division at the local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from legisl...
Monroe County, Missouri. Monroe County is a county in northeast Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,666.[2] Its county seat is Paris.[3] It is the birthplace of Mark Twain. The county was organized January 6, 1831[4] and named for James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States.[5] Monroe Coun...
Elmira, New York. Elmira (/ɛlˈmaɪrə/) is a city in and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County. The population was 26,523 at the 2020 census, down from 29,200 at the 2010 census, a decl...
Woodlawn Cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery is the name of several cemeteries, including: (by state then city or town)
Mark Twain (crater). Mark Twain is a crater on Mercury.[1] Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Mark Twain is named for the American author Mark Twain, who lived from 1835 to 1910.[2] Mark Twain is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury.[3] This article about geology, geography o...
Mark Twain (film). Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Clemens, produced by Ken Burns in 2001 which aired on Public Broadcasting System on January 14 and 15, 2002.[1] Burns attempted to capture both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. T...
List of counties in Missouri. There are 114 counties and one independent city in the U.S. State of Missouri. Following the Louisiana Purchase and the admittance of Louisiana into the United States in 1812, five counties were formed out of the Missouri Territory at the first general assembly: Cape Girardeau, New Madrid...
Mark Twain, St. Louis. Mark Twain is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri named after author and Missouri native Mark Twain. It is located between Interstate 70 and Bellefontaine Cemetery. In 2020 Mark Twains racial makeup was 95.1% Black, 2.4% White, 0.2% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 1.4% Two or More Races, and 0.6%...
Ray-Ban Meta. Ray-Ban Meta is a series of smartglasses created by Meta Platforms and EssilorLuxottica. They include two cameras, open-ear speakers, a microphone, and touchpad built into the frame.[1] They are the second generation of a line of smartglasses released by major companies including Snap Inc and Google and a...
U.S. state. In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignt...
Arizona. Arizona[b] is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the northwest and California to the west, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and ...
Woodlawn National Cemetery. Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery within Woodlawn Cemetery, which is in the city of Elmira, in Chemung County, New York. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 10.5 acres (4.2 ha), and as of 2021, had over 11,000 interr...
National Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal governments official list of sites, buildings, structures, districts, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or great artistic value. The enactment of the National His...
Disney riverboats. The Disney riverboats are paddle steamer watercraft attraction ride vehicles operating on a track on a series of attractions located at Disney theme parks around the world. The first was the Mark Twain Riverboat, located at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, on which passengers embark ...
Writing. Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of language. A writing system includes a particular set of symbols called a script, as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language. Every written language arises from a corresponding spoken language; while the use of language i...
Blonde (Frank Ocean album). Blonde is the second studio album by the American singer Frank Ocean.[a] It was released on August 20, 2016, as a timed exclusive on the iTunes Store and Apple Music, and followed the August 19 release of Oceans video album Endless. The album features guest vocals from André 3000, Beyoncé, ...
Snapchat. Snapchat is an American multimedia social media and instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of the app are that pictures and messages, known as snaps, are usually available for only a short time before they become inaccessible to their ...
Publishing. Publishing is the process of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge.[1] Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, ...
Missouri. Missouri (see pronunciation) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.[6] Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highla...
Epic poetry. In poetry, an epic is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.[1] With regard to oral tradition, epic poems consist of formal speech and are u...
News style. News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used in journalism, such as newspapers, radio, and broadcast news. News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, when, where, and why (the Five Ws) and often how—at the opening of the art...
Electronic media. Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical means for the audience to access the content.[1] This is in contrast to static media (mainly print media), which today are most often created digitally, but do not require electronics to be accessed by the end user in the printed for...
Equestrian statue of Israel Putnam. General Israel Putnam, also known as Putnams Escape at Horseneck, is an equestrian statue at the Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, Connecticut, United States. The statue was designed by sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington and dedicated in 1969 in honor of Connecticut native Israel P...
Legend. A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history. Narratives in this genre may demonstrate human values, and possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participant...
Filter (social media). Filters are digital image effects often used on social media. They initially simulated the effects of camera filters, and they have since developed with facial recognition technology and computer-generated augmented reality. Social media filters—especially beauty filters—are often used to alter t...
Putnam Memorial State Park. Putnam Memorial State Park is a history-oriented public recreation area in the town of Redding, Connecticut.[3] The state park preserves the site that Major General Israel Putnam chose as the winter encampment for his men in the winter of 1778/1779 during the American Revolutionary War.[4] ...
New England town. The town is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states. Most other U.S. states lack a direct counterpart to the New England town. New England towns overlie the entire area of a state, similar to civil townships in other states where they exis...
Myth. Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is totally different from the ordinary sense of the term myth, meaning a belief that is not true, as the veracity of a piece of folklore is entirely irrelevant to determining whether it co...
Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. The Western Connecticut Planning Region is a planning region and county-equivalent in Connecticut. It is served by the coterminous Western Connecticut Council of Governments (WestCOG), one of nine regional councils of governments in Connecticut. Within the region, ther...
Smartphone. A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and services, such as web browsing, email, and social media, as well as multime...
Storey (disambiguation). A storey is a level in a building. Storey may also refer to:
Instagram. Instagram[a] is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapp...
Multistorey car park. A multistorey car park[1][2] (Commonwealth English) or parking garage (American English),[1] also called a multistorey,[3] parking building, parking structure, parkade (Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck, or indoor parking, is a building designed for car, motorcycle, and bicycle parking in whi...
Facebook. Facebook is an American social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the fac...
English in the Commonwealth of Nations. The use of the English language in current and former countries of the Commonwealth was largely inherited from British colonisation, with some exceptions. English forms part of the Commonwealths common culture and serves as the medium of inter-Commonwealth relations.[1][2] Comm...
Solid ground floor. A solid ground floor consists of a layer of concrete, which in the case of a domestic building will be the surface layer brought up to ground floor level with hardcore filling under it. The advantage of a solid ground floor is the elimination of dry rot and other problems normally associated with ho...