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2004 NFL draft. The 2004 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held from April 24–25, 2004, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.[1][2][3] No te... |
Neritic zone. The neritic zone (or sublittoral zone) is the relatively shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately 200 meters (660 ft) in depth.[1][2] From the point of view of marine biology it forms a relatively stable and well-illuminated environment for marine life, from pl... |
Oklahoma Sooners football. The Oklahoma Sooners football team represents the University of Oklahoma (OU) in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The program began in 1895 and is one of the most successful in history, having won 950 games[4] and p... |
Continental shelf. A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods. The shelf surrounding an island is known as an insular shelf. The continental margin, be... |
Classical Chinese. Classical Chinese[a] is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE.[2] For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary Chinese, which was used for almost... |
Kelp forest. Kelp forests are underwater areas with a high density of kelp, which covers a large part of the worlds coastlines. Smaller areas of anchored kelp are called kelp beds. They are recognized as one of the most productive and dynamic ecosystems on Earth.[1][2] Although algal kelp forest combined with coral ree... |
Peter Andrikidis. Peter Andrikidis is an Australian film and television director, and producer. Andrikidis went to the Sydney high school Drummoyne Boys High School in the mid-1970s, where he made a small film called Nemesis. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Film Direction i... |
Kristen Dunphy. Kristen Dunphy is an Australian television screenwriter and producer. She is best known as creator, co-writer and co-executive producer of Wakefield, which screened on ABC TV in 2021. Dunphys career in film and television began when producer Sandra Levy employed her to work as assistant to Gillian Arms... |
Rachel Ward. Rachel Claire Ward AM (born 12 September 1957) is an English-Australian actress, theatre director and filmmaker.[1] Ward was born in Oxfordshire near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, the daughter of Claire Leonora (née Baring) and the Hon. Peter Alistair Ward. Her grandfathers were William Ward, 3rd... |
Prominence (disambiguation). Prominence in topography is a measure of the independence of a summit. Prominence or Prominent may also refer to: |
Künten. Künten is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It lies on the Reuss River and includes the previously independent community of Sulz, which merged with Künten in 1973. Various finds point to an early settlement. Coins, shards, bronze and iron tools from a Roman settlem... |
Writing system. A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. The earliest writing appeared during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each independently invented writing system gradually emerged from a system of prot... |
Aaron Faaoso. Aaron Faaoso is an Australian actor, screenwriter and producer, known for his roles in East West 101, The Straits (which he also wrote and produced) and Black Comedy. He established Lonestar Productions in 2013, which brings stories of the people of the Torres Strait Islands and north Queensland to the s... |
Seagrass meadow. A seagrass meadow or seagrass bed is an underwater ecosystem formed by seagrasses. Seagrasses are marine (saltwater) plants found in shallow coastal waters and in the brackish waters of estuaries. Seagrasses are flowering plants with stems and long green, grass-like leaves. They produce seeds and poll... |
Topographic isolation. The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum horizontal distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountain peaks and can even be calculated for ... |
Los Angeles. Los Angeles,[a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3.88 million residents within the city limits as of 2024[update],[8] it is the second-most populou... |
Rowan Woods. Rowan Woods is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, best known for the 1998 film The Boys and the 2016 television drama series The Kettering Incident. Woods directed The Boys in 1998[1] and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction.[2] The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin ... |
Contour line. A contour line (also isoline, isopleth, isoquant or isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value, so that the curve joins points of equal value.[1][2] It is a plane section of the three-dimensional graph of the function f ( x , y ) {\displaystyle ... |
Massachusetts. Masshole (colloquial)[8][9][10][11][12][13] Massachusettsan (recommended by the U.S. GPO)[14] Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ ⓘ /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,[b] is a state in the New England region of the... |
Topography. Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces. The topography of an area may refer to the landforms and features themselves, or a description or depiction in maps. Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary science and is concerned with local detail in general, including not only... |
Fujiyama (surname). Fujiyama (written: 藤山) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
Austin, Texas. Austin (/ˈɔːstɪn/ ⓘ AW-stin)[8] is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. With a population of 961,855 at the 2020 census,[9] it is the 13th-most populous city in the U.S., fifth-most populous city in Texas, and second-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona), while the Austin met... |
Japanese warship Fujiyama. Fujiyama (富士山) was a Japanese steam frigate acquired by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period immediately prior to the Meiji Restoration. She was built in New York City, United States, in 1864. Ordered in 1862 as part of an arms package consisting of two steam frigates and one gu... |
Blues rock. Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock and blues music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.[3] It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, drums, and sometimes with k... |
Fujiyama Station. Fujiyama Station (藤山駅, Fujiyama-eki) was a train station in Rumoi, Hokkaidō, Japan. The station closed on 1 April 2023 owing to poor patronage.[1][2] This Hokkaido rail station-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Dire Straits (disambiguation). Dire Straits were a British rock band. Dire Straits may also refer to: |
Fujiyama (roller coaster). Fujiyama (フジヤマ) is a steel roller coaster at Fuji-Q Highland, Fujiyoshida, Japan.[1] When Fujiyama opened in July 1996, it was the worlds tallest roller coaster at 259 feet (79 m),[2] and had the largest drop in the world at 230 feet (70 m).[3] Fujiyama was also the worlds fastest roller coas... |
Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji[a] (富士山・富士の山, Fujisan, Fuji no Yama[b]) is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft 3 in). It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island o... |
Roots rock. Roots rock is a genre of rock music that looks back to rocks origins in folk, blues, and country music.[1] First emerging in the late 1960s, it is seen as a response to the perceived excesses of the then dominant psychedelic and the developing progressive rock.[2] Because roots music (Americana) is often us... |
Pub rock (United Kingdom). Pub rock is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom. A back-to-basics movement, which incorporated roots rock, pub rock was a reaction against the expensively-recorded and produced progressive rock and flashy glam rock scenes at the time. Althoug... |
Opposition (astronomy). In positional astronomy, two astronomical objects are said to be in opposition when they are on opposite sides of the celestial sphere, as observed from a given body (usually Earth). A planet (or asteroid or comet) is said to be in opposition or at opposition when it is in opposition to the Sun.... |
Insular Japonic languages. The Insular Japonic languages or Japonic-Ryukyu languages are a subdivision of the Japonic languages, as opposed to the hypothetical Peninsular Japonic languages formerly spoken in central and southern Korea. This grouping, originally proposed by Vovin, has been taken up several times subsequ... |
Small Solar System body. A small Solar System body (SSSB) is an object in the Solar System that is neither a planet, a dwarf planet, nor a natural satellite. The term was first defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as follows: All other objects, except satellites, orbiting the Sun shall be refer... |
Hakone. Hakone (箱根町, Hakone-machi) is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2023[update], the town had a population of 10,965,[1][2] and total area of 92.82 km2 (35.84 sq mi). Hakone is a notable spa town and a popular tourist destination due to its many hot springs being within view of nearby Mount Fuj... |
Bussokuseki-kahi. Cultural and Modern Thinkers The Bussokuseki-kahi (仏足石歌碑) is a well-known monument in the Yakushi Temple in Nara, consisting of a traditional Buddha footprint inscribed with twenty-one poems, known as bussokusekika (also known as Bussokuseki no Uta). Numbering twenty one poems in total, they are divid... |
Hakone Ropeway. The Hakone Ropeway (箱根ロープウェイ, Hakone Rōpuwei) is the name of an aerial lift, as well as its operator. The funitel line links between Sōunzan and Tōgendai via Ōwakudani, all within Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. The line became funitel in 2002, the second of its kind in the nation, after Hashikurasan Ropeway. ... |
Mokena, Illinois. Mokena (/moʊˈkinə/ moh-KEE-nuh) is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago. The population was 19,887 at the 2020 census. The Census Bureaus 2019 estimate found that the population had increased to 20,159.[3] Mokena is a name apparently derived from a Na... |
Hot spring. A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circulation through faults to hot rock deep in the Earths crust. Hot... |
Volcano. A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.[1] On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because ... |
Sulfur. Sulfur (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphur (Commonwealth spelling)[9] is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with the chemical formula S8. Elemental s... |
ARCA Menards Series. The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three national touring series of NASCAR,[1][2] and hosts events at ... |
Comet. A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma. These phe... |
List of minor planets. The following is a list of minor planets in ascending numerical order. Minor planets are small bodies in the Solar System: asteroids, distant objects, and dwarf planets, but not comets. As of 2022, the vast majority (97.3%) are asteroids from the asteroid belt. Their discoveries are certified by... |
Col. A col in geomorphology is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks.[1] It may also be called a gap or pass.[1] Particularly rugged and forbidding cols in the terrain are usually referred to as notches. They are generally unsuitable as mountain passes, but are occasionally crossed by mule tracks or cl... |
Robert Strait. Robert Strait (born November 14, 1969) is a former American football running back. Strait is considered one of the best high-school football players in Texas history. While playing at Cuero High School from 1985 to 1988, Strait rushed for 8,411 yards on a state-record 1,131 carries, and scored 841 point... |
Highest unclimbed mountain. An unclimbed mountain is a mountain peak that has not been climbed to the top. Determining which unclimbed peak is highest is often a matter of controversy. In some parts of the world, surveying and mapping are still unreliable. There are no comprehensive records of the routes of explorers,... |
List of past presumed highest mountains. The following is a list of mountains that have been presumed, at one time, to be the highest mountain in the world. How general the following presumptions were is unclear. Before the Age of Discovery, no geographer could make any plausible assumption. |
Littoral (disambiguation). Littoral zone is an area near the coastline of a body of water. Littoral or Litoral may also refer to: |
Mountain. A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earths crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 600 metres (2,000 ft) above th... |
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck-based stock cars. The series is one of three national divisions of NASCAR, ... |
NASCAR. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing.[1] It is considered to be one of the top-ranked motorsports organizations in the world and is one of the largest spectator sports leagues in Am... |
Mountain pass. A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since mountain ranges can present formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both human and animal migration throughout history. At lower elevations it may be called a hill pass. A mountain... |
List of highest mountains on Earth. There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of 7,200 m (23,622 ft; 4 mi) or greater above sea level. Of these, 14 are more than 8,000 m (26,247 ft; 5 mi).[1] The vast majority of these mountains are part of either the Himalayas or the Karakoram mountain ranges located ... |
List of highest mountains on Earth. There are at least 108 mountains on Earth with elevations of 7,200 m (23,622 ft; 4 mi) or greater above sea level. Of these, 14 are more than 8,000 m (26,247 ft; 5 mi).[1] The vast majority of these mountains are part of either the Himalayas or the Karakoram mountain ranges located ... |
List of mountains by elevation. This is an incomplete list of notable mountains on Earth, sorted by elevation in metres above sea level. For a complete list of mountains over 7200 m high, with at least 500 m of prominence, see List of highest mountains. See also a list of mountains ranked by prominence. There are 14 mo... |
Saline water. Saline water (more commonly known as salt water) is water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts (mainly sodium chloride). On the United States Geological Survey (USGS) salinity scale, saline water is saltier than brackish water, but less salty than brine. The salt concentration is usually ... |
Denali. Denali (/dəˈnɑːli/),[5] federally designated as Mount McKinley,[6][7] is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak on land, measuring 18,000 ft (5,500 m).[8] With a topographic promine... |
Foreshore, Cape Town. The Foreshore is an area in Cape Town, South Africa, situated in the citys central business district (CBD), between the historic city centre and the Port of Cape Town.[2] It is built on land reclaimed from Table Bay in the 1930s and 1940s, in connection with the construction of the Duncan Dock, to... |
Aquatic ecosystem. An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem found in and around a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems contain communities of organisms—aquatic life—that are dependent on each other and on their environment. The two main types of aquatic ecosystems are marine e... |
Outsourcing. Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally.[1][2][3] Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another. The term outsourcing, which came from the phrase outs... |
Freshwater ecosystem. Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earths aquatic ecosystems that include the biological communities inhabiting freshwater waterbodies such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs, bogs, and wetlands.[1] They can be contrasted with marine ecosystems, which have a much higher salinity. Freshwa... |
Hydropunctaria maura. Hydropunctaria maura, still often called by the older name Verrucaria maura and commonly known as tar lichen,[3] is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen belonging to the family Verrucariaceae.[4] A perennial species that does not experience seasonal variations, it is the type ... |
Estuary (disambiguation). An estuary is a semi-enclosed body of water flowing into the sea. Estuary may also refer to: |
Saint-Malo. Saint-Malo (UK: /sæ̃ ˈmɑːloʊ/,[3] US: /ˌsæ̃ məˈloʊ/,[4][5] French: [sɛ̃ malo] ⓘ; Gallo: Saent-Malô; Breton: Sant-Maloù) is a historic French port commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. The walled city on the English Channel coast has a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and ove... |
Río de la Plata. 27,225 m3/s (961,400 cu ft/s)[5] 22,000 m3/s (780,000 cu ft/s)[3] The Río de la Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ðe la ˈplata] ⓘ; lit. River of Silver), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Pun... |
Observations of small Solar System bodies. Observations of minor planets as well as comets and natural satellites of the Solar System are made by astronomical observatories all over the world and reported to the Minor Planet Center (MPC), a service of the International Astronomical Union. The MPC maintains a data base ... |
Biodiversity. Biodiversity is the variability of life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and phylogenetic diversity.[1] Diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth. It is greater in the tropics as a result of the warm climat... |
Mattole River. The Mattole River is a river on the north coast of California, that flows northerly, then westerly into the Pacific Ocean. The vast majority of its 62 miles (100 km) course is through southern Humboldt County, though a short section of the river flows through northern Mendocino County. Communities, from... |
Toulouse Observatory. The Toulouse Observatory (French: Observatoire de Toulouse) is located in Toulouse, France and was established in 1733.[1] It was founded by lAcadémie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse (Academy of Science, Inscriptions and the Humanities of Toulouse). It was moved 1841 and a... |
Isaac Roberts Observatory. Isaac Roberts Observatory was an observatory, installed in the private home of the British astronomer Isaac Roberts. It was in Crowborough, Sussex, and was active from 1890, when Roberts installed it, until his death in 1904. The observatory appears in the List of observatory codes of the Mi... |
Composer. A composer is a person who writes music.[1] The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music,[2] or those who are composers by occupation.[3] Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. The term is descended from Latin, compōnō; literally one who puts together.[... |
Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG;[1] known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooki... |
Emeritus. An emeritus (/ə.ˈmɛ.rɪ.təs/) or emerita (/ə.ˈmɛ.rɪ.tə/)[Note 1] is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in professor emeritus.[1] In some cases, the term is conferr... |
Walter Slaughter. Walter Alfred Slaughter (17 February 1860 – 2 March 1908) was an English conductor and composer of musical comedy, comic opera and childrens shows. He was engaged in the West End as a composer and musical director from 1883 to 1904. Slaughter was born in Fitzroy Square, London.[1] He attended the Ci... |
Earth. Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earths water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of Earths crust. The remainin... |
Through the Looking-Glass. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. It was the sequel to his Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which many of the chara... |
Libretto. A libretto (From the Italian word libretto, lit. booklet) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass, requiem and sac... |
West End theatre. West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.[1] Along with New York Citys Broadway theatre, West End theatre represents the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.[2] Seeing a West End show is a common ... |
Henry Savile Clarke. Henry Savile Clarke (14 February 1841 – 5 October 1893) was an English dramatist, journalist and critic. He produced and wrote the lyrics and book for the first professional dramatisation of Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (1886) which remained a popular childrens Chr... |
Playwright. A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term playwright and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwr... |
David Henry Hwang. David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. He has one Tony Award (M. Butterfly) and two other nominations ... |
Unsuk Chin. Unsuk Chin (Korean: 진은숙 [tɕin ɯn.suk]; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was a self-taught pianist from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as well as with György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Mu... |
Business. Business is the practice of making ones living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).[1][2][3][4] It is also any activity or enterprise entered into for profit.[5] A business entity is not necessarily separate from the owner and the creditors can hold the ow... |
Music. Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.[1][2][3] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies.[4] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach.[5] While scholars a... |
Maghreb. The Maghreb (/ˈmɑːɡrəb/;[2] Arabic: ْاَلْمَغْرِب, romanized: al-Maghrib, lit. The place where the sun sets [ælˈmaɣrɪb] ⓘ), also known as the Arab Maghreb (Arabic: اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ, romanized: al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi, lit. the Arab west) or the Greater Maghreb (Arabic: المغرب الكبير al-Maghrib al-Kabīr),... |
East West Bancorp. East West Bancorp is the parent company of East West Bank. It is a publicly owned company with over $70 billion in assets as of 2024.[1][2] The companys wholly owned subsidiary, East West Bank, is the largest state-chartered bank in California as of 2023.[3] East West earned the top spot in S&P Globa... |
Music theory. Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term music theory: The first is the rudiments, that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatur... |
France. France,[h] officially the French Republic,[i] is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it the l... |
Figurine. A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with clay, metal, wood, glass, and today plastic or resin the most significan... |
Company. A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the followin... |
East West Bank. East West Bank is an American bank that is the primary subsidiary of East West Bancorp. It is the largest publicly traded bank headquartered in Southern California.[6] The company has been ranked the #1 performing U.S. bank with more than $10 billion in assets by S&P Global Market Intelligence, and the ... |
The Japan Times. The Japan Times is Japans largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.[1][2] It is published by The Japan Times, Ltd. (株式会社ジャパンタイムズ, Kabushiki gaisha Japan Taimuzu), a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc. It is headquartered in the Kioicho Building (紀尾井町ビル, Kioicho Biru) in Kioicho, Chiyoda, To... |
Tajiri, Miyagi. Tajiri (田尻町, Tajiri-chō) was a town located in Tōda District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 13,023 and a population density of 198.55 persons per km². The total area was 65.59 km². The primary industry was rice farming. There was also a chemical plant. On Mar... |
Organization. An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. Organizations may also operate secretly or illegally in... |
Princeton University. Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered... |
National Museum of Japanese History. The National Museum of Japanese History (国立歴史民俗博物館, Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan), commonly known in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The museum was founded in 1981 as an inter-university research consortium, and opened in 1983. The collec... |
Alice in Wonderland: A Dance Fantasy. Alice in Wonderland is a 1993 ballet film with the Prague Chamber Ballet performing to a score by Viktor Kalabis performed by the Czech Philharmonic, based on Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and the 1951 Disney film. Eva Zamazalová [Wikidata] por... |
Mauritania. Mauritania,[a] officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania,[b] is a country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is ... |
Christopher Wheeldon. Christopher Peter Wheeldon OBE (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of eight. He attended the Royal Ballet School between t... |
Algeria. Algeria,[e] officially the Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria,[f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the no... |
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