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is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago i...
Edom, Virginia Edom is an unincorporated community located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located along State Route 42 at the crossroads with State Route 721, north of Harrisonburg and southeast of Singers Glen. Linville Creek flows through the village. Near Edom on January 14, 1794, Dr. Jes...
first time since the 1931 World Series that a Game 7 occurred in a Series with both teams having won at least 100 games during the season. Besides, this was the first time since the 2001 World Series and 2002 World Series that back-to-back Fall Classics had a Game 7. The starting pitchers for this game were the same as...
The Onion Song ""The Onion Song"" was a hit for soul singers Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in 1969. It reached the top ten overseas, and was a more modest hit in the U.S. The song, which reflected social consciousness, became Gaye & Terrell's biggest hit in the United Kingdom, entering the singles chart on 15 November ...
Ben Chifley lived the least of all former prime ministers, as he died one year and six months after his term as prime minister. All other deceased former prime ministers have lived at least another 10 years, with the longest surviving former prime minister being Gough Whitlam, who lived 38 years and 11 months after off...
to 24. The first eight semifinalists will be announced after the deliberation round, with the others to be revealed gradually as the semifinal rounds progress. The semifinal rounds were taped on December 6, 10, and 13, 2018 at the same studio as the judges' auditions. Asia's Got Talent (season 3) The third season of ""...
are not considered addictive and are somewhat preferable to the monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). The side effects of the TCAs usually come to prominence before the therapeutic benefits against depression and/or anxiety do, and for this reason, they may potentially be somewhat dangerous, as volition can be increase...
. After practising law for a few years, he was soon drawn into the strengthening movement for India's independence. Syed Mahmud was one of the young Muslim leaders who played a role in crafting the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League. He participated in the Indian Home Rule Movement in 1916 and...
champion, and a two-time Triple Crown winner. He finished his playing career with a .344 batting average, 521 home runs, and a .482 on-base percentage, the highest of all time. His career batting average is the highest of any MLB player whose career was played primarily in the live-ball era, and ranks tied for 7th all-...
Yamadera and Masakazu Morita also return as Beerus and Whis, respectively. The first preview of the series aired on June 14, 2015, following episode 164 of ""Dragon Ball Z Kai"". The next day, the main promotional image for ""Dragon Ball Super"" was added to its official website and unveiled two new characters, who wer...
jackets, disguised as Unknown No. 1 and Unknown No. 2 respectively, with another character named Winfred, propagating bizarre sexual practices. This skit became popular that it resulted in more skits called ""Popo Club"" featuring Unknown No. 1 & 2, with occasional appearances by Winfred. The film ""It's a Wonderful Li...
the mid 1920's , when Walter Knott and his family began selling berry products at a roadside stand along State Route 39 in California. By the 1940s, a restaurant, several shops, and other attractions had been constructed on the property to entertain a growing number of visitors, including a replica ghost town. The site...
Beauty & the Beast (season 3) The third season of ""Beauty & the Beast"" (an American television series developed by Sherri Cooper-Landsman and Jennifer Levin and very loosely inspired by the 1987 CBS television series of the same name) consisted of 13 episodes. It aired in the United States on The CW starting June 11,...
Flack and series 6 runner-up Olly Murs co-presented the spin-off show ""The Xtra Factor"" on ITV2, replacing Konnie Huq from the previous year. Louis Walsh returned to the judging panel and was joined by Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland and Tulisa. Barlow, Rowland and Tulisa joined the panel as replacements for former judges...
the video. Credits and personnel adapted from ""American Pie"" single liner notes. American Pie (song) ""American Pie"" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the ""American Pie"" album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the cha...
History of the Houston Astros The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston,Texas that competes in Major League Baseball (MLB). The Astros are a member of the MLB's American League, having moved from the National League in 2013. The Astros are one of two MLB teams based out of Texas, th...
High Life (Frankie Miller album) High Life is the second album by Frankie Miller. It was produced by Allen Toussaint, who also composed seven songs on the album. ""Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)"" was released by Three Dog Night the same year as Miller's, and ""Shoo Rah"" was covered by Betty Wright -- and both...
total of more than twelve billion times, her Instagram account had accumulated more than 130 million followers, ranking her as the 3rd most followed person on Instagram, her Twitter account had more than 55 million followers, making it the 12th most followed Twitter account, and her Facebook page had more than 30 milli...
Australian contribution to the Allied Intervention in Russia 1918–1919 The Russian Civil War (1917–1921) began after the provisional government collapsed and the Bolshevik party assumed power in Russia in October 1917. The principal fighting occurred between the Bolshevik Red Army and the forces of the White Army, bein...
Delhi – the capital of the Mughals (see History of Delhi) was the epicenter of the uprising, which began in the army units posted around Delhi. While initially successful, the revolt subsequently withered away, due to many reasons, including lack of leadership and coordination, spying by local Indians for the British, ...
Police Helicopter. Short 2-5 minute films produced by M2 Films and Lego were released on the Lego website in 2011. New films are released every year. Lego City Lego City is a theme under which Lego building sets are released. As the name suggests, Lego City sets are based on city life, with the models depicting city an...
were held within Manchester, Blackpool and London, with two of these cities holding open auditions in 2017, alongside a number of locations within the United Kingdom and Ireland, including Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dublin, and Inverness. The series was won by stand-up comedian Lost Voice Guy, with co...
dam, called ""Sampong"" (meaning ""to close""), blocked the flow of Balanan River, turning it into a lake. Lake Balanan Lake Balanan is a lake situated in Siaton, Negros Oriental in the Philippines. It is a freshwater lake in the forested mountains of the southern portion of the island of Negros, with a shape resemblin...
""V"" is the seismic wave velocity and ""ρ"" (Greek ""rho"") is the density of the rock. When a seismic wave travelling through the Earth encounters an interface between two materials with different acoustic impedances, some of the wave energy will reflect off the interface and some will refract through the interface. ...
head was sculpted by Jay Hall Carpenter and the stonecarver was Patrick J. Plunkett. The Darth Vader grotesque is difficult to see with the naked eye, and binoculars are generally needed to spot it. Darth Vader grotesque The Darth Vader grotesque is a limestone grotesque by Jay Hall Carpenter. It is located at the Wash...
a motion on behalf of the Lovings in the Virginia Caroline County Circuit Court, that requested the court to vacate the criminal judgments and set aside the Lovings' sentences on the grounds that the Virginia miscegenation statutes ran counter to the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. On October 28, 1964, ...
Wilson's Creek Confederate order of battle The following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek of the American Civil War, fought on August 10, 1861 near Springfield, Missouri. Though identified with the Confederates, the Missouri State Guard were technically an independent ...
of films announced after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012. It was produced by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman, with ""Force Awakens"" director J. J. Abrams as an executive producer. John Williams, composer for the previous films, returned to compose the score. A number of scenes we...
the Lord Chancellor, also Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom) The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a ministerial department of the British Government headed by the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor (a combined position). The department is also responsible for areas of const...
gold by Music Canada and by Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON). , the album has sold five million copies worldwide. With sales of over 2.942 million copies, it remains the best-selling Latin album of all-time in the U.S . In the 1960s, Selena's father Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. beca...
head. Tina made her final appearance on 2 June 2014, where she died in hospital. Carla was considered a prime murder suspect, as Tina had been her husband's mistress; while Peter was also a possible suspect because Tina had threatened to reveal their affair to Carla. A few weeks after Tina's death, it was announced tha...
Socorro and Albuquerque, with some financing obtained through crowdfunding campaigns at IndieGoGo and Kickstarter. In July 2012, ""Indiewire"" listed the project as its ""Project of the Day"". The film had its world premiere on June 11, 2014 at the Champs-Elysees Film Festival. and its New Mexico premiere October 18, 2...
letter ""I"" and the letter ""J"" are capitalized, for example in the countryname ""IJsland"". In English, medial capitals are usually only found in Scottish or Irish ""Mac-"" or ""Mc-"" names, where for example ""MacDonald, McDonald,"" and ""Macdonald"" are common spelling variants of the same name, and in Anglo-Norma...
47 Meters Down: Uncaged 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is an upcoming British-American survival horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and written by Ernest Riera. It is a sequel to the 2017 film ""47 Meters Down"". The film will be released on June 28, 2019 by Entertainment Studios. The film follows the story of four teen ...
fertilization treatment at a clinic in California. At the time of the delivery, Bousada was the world's oldest documented mother, surpassing the record established in 2005 by Romanian mother Adriana Iliescu, who was also 66. Two years later, Omkari Panwar, a 70-year-old woman from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, gav...
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (Margriet Francisca; born 19 January 1943) is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. As an aunt of the reigning monarch, King Willem-Alexander, she is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently eighth and last in the line o...
1972 California Proposition 17 Proposition 17 of 1972 was a measure enacted by California voters to reintroduce the death penalty in that state. The California Supreme Court had ruled on February 17, 1972, that capital punishment was contrary to the state constitution. Proposition 17 amended the Constitution of Califor...
was informed by her brother that their parents were throwing a cotillion for her. She was angry as she did not want to have people perceive her as spoiled, rich, or glamorous. When Amanda told Rachel that she didn't want the party (mere hours before it was to be held), Rachel was crushed because all she wanted was to g...
Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV series) Little Lord Fauntleroy, also known as , is a Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation in 1988 and was broadcast on the ""World Masterpiece Theater"", an animation staple that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story. The series is based ...
creation of a permanent body for Strategic military intelligence. In January 1810, The Expedition for Secret Affairs under the War Ministry was formed. Two years later it was renamed the Special Bureau. In 1815, the bureau became the First Department under the General Chief of Staff. In 1836 the intelligence functions ...
to champions West Germany in the semi-final. They also finished in fourth place in 2018. The team also reached the quarter-final stage in 1954, 1962, 1970, 1986, 2002 and 2006. England failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1974, 1978 and 1994. The team's earliest exit in the finals tournament was its elimination in th...
2008–09 season, but the problem was not serious and he quickly returned to training. He scored what appeared to be his hundredth career Liverpool goal against Stoke City on 20 September, but it was disallowed after Dirk Kuyt was ruled offside. He achieved the milestone eleven days later in a 3–1 Champions League group ...
most of western Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Egypt. Beginning with the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate in the late 7th century, Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic as the lingua franca of the Middle East. However, Aramaic remains a spoken, literary, and liturgical language for local Christians ...
With 40 points against the Washington Wizards on November 2, DeRozan tied Mike James' franchise record with four consecutive 30-point games. He passed that mark two days later, scoring 34 points in a 96–87 win over the Miami Heat. His five straight 30-point games set the best such start to a season since Michael Jordan...
October 1981 episode of ""Soul Train"". Stay the Night (Billy Ocean song) ""Stay the Night"" is a 1980 song by Billy Ocean taken from his album ""City Limit"". It was released as the follow-up to his hit single ""Are You Ready?"", and was also released as the b-side to this single in some countries. The song has been c...
have been undergoing design changes to foil forgery in recent years, although the notes implemented more stringent security long before the US's recent redesign of their notes. All banknotes are the same physical size, like the US dollar but unlike the euro. The latest counterfeit-proof formula is the ""Counterfeit Res...
legality of seat belts varies from state to state, with the first state to pass the law requiring all passengers to wear a seat belt being New York on December 1, 1984. Currently, there are no countries whose automobiles do not offer seat belts and it is a standardized practice worldwide. During the development of the ...
the Liberal Democrats on 20 January 1999, departing on 9 August that year after 11 years in the role, and was succeeded by Charles Kennedy. In the Summer of 1999, there was speculation that he would be appointed the new Secretary General of NATO; however, his lack of governmental experience meant that doubts were raise...
exhibits some nuclear resources. In addition to coal reserves, Nigeria contains natural gas and oil resources. “In Guinea, West Africa, the US is making significant input in the area of environmental protection.” These progressive steps will improve agricultural production technologies and exchange trade opportunities....
this era, the country is in the midst of a civil war. Among the groups fighting, three leaders stand out: Cao Cao of Wei, Liu Bei of Shu, and Sun Quan of Wu. In this game, players can choose to join any of the three warring factions (Wei, Shu, or Wu). Upon creating a character and entering the game, your character has ...
MGM employee in the art department. Eddie and Aiko Imazu raised two daughters, Joyce and Darleen. On 7 December 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, purportedly for security reasons. The Order required all Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants to evacuate...
In May 1854 the Bombay–Thane line was extended to Kalyan by building India's first railway bridge, the Dapoorie viaduct, over Ulhas river. The line was extended to Khopoli in 1855. In August 1855, EIR Express and Fairy Queen steam locomotives started hauling trains. The first passenger train in South India ran from Roy...
It has also had tie-in merchandise marketed, such as a series of paperback books. A sequel series, ""Fuller House"", premiered on Netflix on February 26, 2016. After the death of his wife Pam, sports anchor Danny Tanner recruits his brother-in-law Jesse (John Stamos), a rock musician; and his best friend since childhoo...
built a national network of supporters that emerged about 1792–93 as the Federalist Party. In response, Jefferson and James Madison built a network of supporters of the republic in Congress and in the states that emerged in 1792–93 as the Democratic-Republican Party. The elections of 1792 were the first contested on an...
which was won by Charlotte. After Charlotte defeated Ms. Money in the Bank Carmella on the September 26 episode, she was confronted by Natalya, who said she was glad that Ric Flair was doing better so that he could see his daughter fail at Hell in a Cell. The following week, Natalya and Carmella teamed up to face Charl...
Heflin remained the last member of the Democratic Party to win a Senate seat in Republican-turning Alabama (his colleague, Richard Shelby, elected twice as a Democrat, switched to Republican in 1994 and still remains in the Senate). 1996 United States Senate election in Alabama The 1996 United States Senate election in...
(Chris Van Etten), a war veteran who was wounded in action. When Amy lands a book deal, he agrees to help her out so she can pay Chet's medical bills. Maxie returns, and aims to expose Ask Man Landers' identity forcing Nathan to lie. Amy gives Nathan her blessing to tell Maxie the truth just as Maxie begins to suspect ...
critical for nerves and muscles, as action potentials in these tissues are produced by the exchange of electrolytes between the extracellular fluid and the cytosol. Electrolytes enter and leave cells through proteins in the cell membrane called ion channels. For example, muscle contraction depends upon the movement of ...
1980s, Sylvester Stallone's cop-thriller ""Cobra"" (1986) is a thinly-veiled slasher film advertised as an action movie, and sold 13.2 million tickets. The home video market made stars out of character actors such as Terry O'Quinn and Bruce Campbell, whose respective independent horror-thrillers ""The Stepfather"" (198...
of the ""Monthly Shōnen Sirius"" magazine on March 25, 2014. In the June 2016 issue, published on May 9, Nakagawa commented that the manga would be ending soon; the final chapter was published in the magazine's August issue, on July 9, 2016. Three more chapters were published between June and August 2018. The series wa...
for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid"". Sven Furberg Sven Verner Furberg (16 April 1920 – 15 March 1983) was a Norwegian chemist, biologist and crystallographer who first proposed the helical structure of DNA. Furberg suggested this structure in 1949, which he referred to as a ""zig-zag"" chain. In 1952, his structure of DNA w...
Girl"", and Berg on her 2011 album ""The Dreaming Fields"". Carter told Taste of Country that Berg was inspired to write the song after having been out on the town. According to Carter, the two began talking about relationships, when Carter said, ""Yeah, it's just like men… they get in your blood!"" Also, Carter added ...
the best overall performance in World Cup history in both proportional and absolute terms with a record of 73 victories in 109 matches played, 124 goal difference, 237 points and only 18 losses. Traditionally, Brazil's greatest rival is Argentina. The two countries have met each other four times in the history of the F...
But sadly it's never too long before Flo Rida turns up again to spoil things."" Simon Vozick-Levinson of ""Entertainment Weekly"" called the song ""a horrendous rap remake of Dead or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).'"" Noting that the song was, at the time, the number-one single on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100,...
along with Elizabeth Cantillon, Banks and Handelman, while Banks and Jay Basu wrote the screenplay with the early drafts by Craig Mazin and Semi Chellas. In September, Patrick Stewart was cast to play Bosley, with the film featuring multiple characters named Bosley. That same month, Luis Gerardo Méndez and Jonathan Tuc...
Officiant An officiant is someone who officiates (i.e. leads) at a service or ceremony, such as marriage, burial, or namegiving/baptism. Religious Officiants are usually ordained by a religious denomination as members of the clergy. Some officiants work within congregations in some denominations and for specified cerem...
fiery dragons as one possible meaning for ""Ice and Fire"", whereas the word ""song"" had previously appeared in Martin's book titles ""A Song for Lya"" and ""Songs the Dead Men Sing"", stemming from his obsessions with songs. Martin also named Robert Frost's 1920 poem ""Fire and Ice"" and cultural associations such as...
reserved to the pope, all agree that ignorance does excuse from it; if reserved to a bishop, it is controversial. Some moralists hold that ignorance excuses from all reservations, whether with or without censure. It is certain, however, that a bishop has authority to declare that ignorance of a reservation does not pre...
games. In May 2016, CBS announced at its annual upfront presentation that the series would begin its tenth season on Mondays, before returning to the Thursday slot once the football games ended. Filming for the tenth season began on August 16, 2016, according to posts on Instagram and Twitter by several of the cast mem...
Their first playoff opponent was the Niagara Thunderhawks who gave them the rookie treatment, vanquishing the Bengals in three straight games. The Bengals returned to the playoffs in 2007 but were eliminated in the first round once again. After a 10 year wait, the Bengals returned to the playoffs in 2017 and won their ...
sound and relating it to indie rock in Los Angeles. The show was initially scheduled to premiere on Disney Channel after being greenlighted in March 2013, for a premiere in the Fall of 2014, before being switched over to Disney XD. However, on February 23, 2018, it was announced that the show would be moving to Disney ...
Smart (Shaun Mason), a car thief with a good ear for crimes taking place within the local community. When Stockwell is attacked and killed in a savage ambush on a routine call out to a domestic disturbance, Rocksavage's life is changed forever. He finds himself partnered with rookie WPC Amanda Morgan (Kerrie Hayes), wh...
Teresa Bryant Teresa Bryant (also Morton and Denmark) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, ""Coronation Street"". Portrayed by Karen Henthorn. The character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 28 March 2007. She made her final appearance on 14 May 2010, when she leaves Weatherfield...
work lands her a job with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Criminal Minds (season 10) The tenth season of ""Criminal Minds"" premiered on CBS on October 1, 2014. The series was officially renewed for a tenth season on March 13, 2014. It consists of 23 episodes. This season features Jennifer Lov...
specifically localized to the neuromuscular junction, the axon initial segment and the Nodes of Ranvier. Within the nodes of Ranvier where action potentials are actively propagated, ankyrin-G has long been thought to be the intermediate binding partner to neurofascin and voltage-gated sodium channels. The genetic delet...
where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1,039 performances. Robbins directed and choreographed, and it was co-choreographed by Peter Gennaro, with scenery by Oliver Smith. Featured performers were George Chakiris, who won an Academy Award as ...
It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew and butterwort, two of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain. The Lake District is a major sanctuary for the red squirrel and has the largest population in England (out of the estimated 140,000 red squirrels in the United Kingdom, compared with about...
President- Modern India Section of the Indian History Congress, he delivered his address at the 73rd session held in Mumbai, 2012. Prof. David R. Syiemlieh was appointed by the President of India as Member, Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi. He is married to Maxine Sohkhlet. They have two sons, Colin and Reube...
Can't You See That She's Mine ""Can't You See That She's Mine"" is the fourth single released in the United States by The Dave Clark Five. Written by Dave Clark and Mike Smith, it reached number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart for the week of 18 July 1964. It was The Dave Clark Five's fourth Gold Record. The mi...
next one aired, the first season's episodes had 3 million views on the internet. Keshet also purchased the show and ran the first season on the terrestrial Channel 2 between 18 April and 25 July 2009. All 15 episodes entered the weekly lists of the 20 most popular shows on television. On average, the Israel Audience Re...
World Series to the Florida Marlins in six games. The 2000 World Series was the last hurrah for this Mets core that consisted of Piazza, Leiter, Franco, Alfonzo, Ventura, and manager Bobby Valentine. After four consecutive seasons of competitive baseball, the Mets would average just 74 wins in the next four seasons, in...
warning regarding the graphic nature of the animal footage. Afterwards, McCartney took a sizeable break from his solo career to begin the enormous Beatles Anthology project in early 1994 with George Harrison, Ringo Starr and George Martin. This took up much of his time for the next two years, before ""Flaming Pie"" in ...
to video game characters) into a variety of forms they need to solve their problems. ""Breadwinners"" was created by Gary ""Doodles"" DiRaffaele and Steve Borst. It was conceived as a four-and-a-half minute animated short from DiRaffaele's efficiency apartment in Studio City, Los Angeles (dubbed the ""Doodle Chamber"")...
Krishna Kishore Ghosh, Jagadananda Mukhopadhyay, Peary Chand Mitra, and Sambhunath Pandit. Most of the early leaders of the British Indian Association were conservatives by tradition and temperament, although there were some progressive like Ramgopal Ghosh and Peary Chand Mitra. It was formed by the amalgamation of the...
Radar Rat Race The player guides a mouse through a large maze. The camera follows the mouse and shows only a small portion of the maze at any given time. The player is pursued by at least three rats. The goal is to eat all of the pieces of cheese, shown for the entire maze on a radar screen, without getting caught by a...
The conservation of both relativistic and invariant mass applies even to systems of particles created by pair production, where energy for new particles may come from kinetic energy of other particles, or from one or more photons as part of a system that includes other particles besides a photon. Again, neither the rel...
or so rivers, and the most significant include the Gudenå, Odense, Skjern, Suså and Vidå—a river that flows along its southern border with Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark includes two overseas territories, both well to the west of Denmark: Greenland, the world's largest island, and the Faroe Islands in the North Atlant...
were announced, revealing that Cardi B had been nominated for Best New Artist and Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, tying with DJ Khaled and Kendrick Lamar for the most nominations with nine. Although she failed to win any awards, losing to Chance the Rapper and Remy Ma, respectively, Cardi B performed at the BET Awards afte...
movie, the comedy-horror ""An American Werewolf in London"". It was perhaps Landis's most personal project; he had been planning to make it since 1969, while in Yugoslavia. On July 23, 1982, during the filming of ""Twilight Zone"", actor Vic Morrow and child extras Myca Dinh Le (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6) we...
lead to Western states being formed, which would likely be Republican, and dilute the political power of New England Federalists. When Spain later objected to the United States purchasing Louisiana from France, Madison responded that America had first approached Spain about purchasing the property, but had been told by...
Tigris and Euphrates Tigris and Euphrates () is a tabletop eurogame designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 1997 by Hans im Glück. Before its publication, it was highly anticipated by German gamers hearing rumors of a ""gamer's game"" designed by Knizia. ""Tigris and Euphrates"" won first prize in the 1998 Deu...
Ball Z Trading Card Game was released after the Dragon Ball GT game was finished. The rules of the game were changed drastically, making it incompatible with previous expansions. These cards are based on FUNimation's ""Ultimate Uncut Edition"" DVDs, and is called ""Re-Z"" by many fans. The Saiyan Saga, being the first ...
World Music Festival The Udaipur World Music Festival is a cultural event held at Udaipur city in the state of Rajasthan. In this event, artists from around the globe joins to give a variety of performances. The World Music Festival is scheduled to be an annual event, conducted every year in February. The festival feat...
SSN (hull classification symbol) An SSN is a nuclear-powered general-purpose attack submarine. ""SSN"" is the US Navy hull classification symbol for such vessels; the ""SS"" denotes a submarine and the ""N"" denotes nuclear power. The designation SSN is used for interoperability throughout NATO under STANAG 1166. thoug...
Have to Go"" has been covered by many artists. Elvis Presley recorded his version of ""He'll Have to Go"" on October 31, 1976, at his last known studio recording session; it is believed to be the final song he ever recorded in a studio setting. The song prompted the answer song ""He'll Have to Stay"" by Jeanne Black. H...
Spider-Man"" #4 (Sept. 1963), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko as an adversary of Spider-Man. The character returned in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #18 and #19, and was soon depicted in other comics, such as ""The Incredible Hulk"" and ""The Fantastic Four"". The Sandman served as the villain of the fir...
Venkaiah Naidu Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (born 1 July 1947) is an Indian politician and the current Vice President of India, in office since 11 August 2017. Previously, he served as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet. A prominen...
epidemics. Second plague pandemic The second plague pandemic is a major series of epidemics of the plague that started with the Black Death, which reached mainland Europe in 1348 and killed up to a half of the population of Eurasia in the next four years. Although it died out in most places, it became epizootic and rec...
2015 Cricket World Cup Final The final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup took place on 29 March 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. It was played between the tournament's two co-hosts, New Zealand and Australia. Australia went into the game as favourites and won by 7 wickets for a fifth World Cup ...
(There's) No Gettin' Over Me ""(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"" is a song written by Walt Aldridge and Tom Brasfield, and recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It was released in June 1981 as the first single from the album ""There's No Gettin' Over Me"". Known by many fans by its less grammatically co...