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Deborah Simpson Deborah L. Simpson is an American politician from Maine. Simpson served as a Democratic State Senator from Maine's 15th District, representing part of Androscoggin County, including her residence in Auburn from 2008 to 2010. She was elected to the Maine House of Representatives, representing Auburn, in ...
Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 1960 The 1960 Labour Party leadership election was held when, for the first time since 1935, the incumbent leader Hugh Gaitskell was challenged for re-election. Normally the annual re-election of the leader had been a formality. Gaitskell had lost the 1959 general election and had...
Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District is located in the central and northeast regions of the state. The district was one of the 12 original districts created prior to the 4th Congress. It is currently represented by Republican Tom Marino, who defeated Democratic incumbent...
R. J. Harris Richard Jason Satawk "R. J." Harris (born November 16, 1972) is a United States Army National Guard warrant officer, politician, law student and former Air Traffic Controller. He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party's 2012 nomination for President of the United States. In 2010, he unsuccessfully chall...
Patricia Godchaux Patricia "Pan" Godchaux is a moderate Republican who ran for the United States Congress for the 9th federal congressional district in the state of Michigan. She challenged seven-term incumbent Joe Knollenberg in the Republican primary and hoped to get Democratic support, as the Democrats' challenger, ...
Spruce Grove municipal election, 2007 The 2007 Spruce Grove municipal election was held Monday, October 15, 2007. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold triennial elections. The citizens of Spruce Grove, Alberta, elected one mayor, six aldermen (all at large), and two of the seven tr...
Stayce Harris Stayce D. Harris is a United States Air Force Lieutenant General. She currently serves as the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff, Headquarters, United States Air Force. She also serves as Deputy Chairman of the Air Force Council, and is the Air Force accreditation official for the inter...
Irene Griffin Irene T. Griffin (July 25, 1899 – April 1983) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly. She served one year in the Legislature, but became a bit of a perennial candidate, losing three races for the Assembly, two for the Senate, and one for Congress. Griffin...
Israelites of the New Universal Pact The Israelites of the New Universal Pact are a South American religious sect, mostly concentrated in Peru. The evangelical Christian sect was founded in the Junin province of Peru in 1960 by Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, following a break with the Seventh Day Adventist church of which ...
Erik Wickberg Erik Wickberg (July 6, 1904 – April 26, 1996) was the 9th General of The Salvation Army (1969-1974).
Restoration Branches The Restoration Branches movement is a Christian/Latter Day Saint religious sect which was formed in the 1980s by members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) in a reaction against the events of the RLDS 1984 world conference. The movement holds in the traditional R...
Healing Church in Rhode Island The Healing Church in Rhode Island is a Rhode Island-based religious sect whose adherents believe that cannabis (or marijuana) is a "holy herb" and use it in religious rituals. Leaders of the group attracted attention in 2015 for attempting to smoke marijuana in front of the Roger William...
Nittai-ji Kakuouzan Nittai-ji (Japanese:覚王山日泰寺, Japan-Thailand Temple) is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, Japan. Nittai-ji was built in 1904 in order to keep the ashes of Buddha, which the Kingdom of Thailand gave to Japan. ”覚王” means Buddha and “日泰” means Japan and the Kingdom of Tha...
Church of the Highest Supreme The Church of the Highest Supreme (太上会 "Tàishànghuì"; or "Most Supreme", "Most High"; also known as 太上门 "Tàishàngmén", the "Gate of the Highest Supreme") is a Chinese folk religious sect of northern China. The origins of the sect are obscure, although Thomas David Dubois traces it to the t...
Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard was a group of 18th-century French religious pilgrims who exhibited convulsions and later constituted a religious sect and a political movement. This practice originated at the tomb of François de Pâris, an ascetic Jansenist deacon who was buried at the ...
Korpela movement The Korpela movement, or Siikavaara sect, was a religious sect started by Laestadian preacher Toivo Korpela in Sweden during the 1920s. It saw its decline later during the next decade as its practices involved heavy drinking and unconventional sexual activities toward the end of its existence, which su...
Jowane Masowe Chishanu Originated in Zimbabwe in 1931, Jowane Masowe Chishanu is a religious sect formed in 1931 by Shonhiwa Masedza. The sect has approximately six million followers.
Huazhaidao Huazhaidao (华斋道 "Way of Flowers and Fasting") is a Chinese folk religious sect of Henan that as of the 1980s was a proscribed religion in China as testified by the arrest of various Communist Party members who joined the sect in those years.
170th Fighter Squadron The 170th Fighter Squadron (170 FS) is an inactive unit of the Air National Guard. It was last assigned to the 183d Fighter Wing located of the Illinois Air National Guard at Capital Airport Air National Guard Station, Springfield, Illinois. The 170th last flew the Block 30 General Dynamics F-16 ...
131st Bomb Wing The 131st Bomb Wing is a unit of the Missouri Air National Guard, stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri. If activated to federal service, the wing is gained by the United States Air Force Global Strike Command. It is an associate unit of the active-duty 509th Bomb Wing, which falls...
509th Bomb Wing The 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Force Global Strike Command, Eighth Air Force. It is stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
509th Operations Group The 509th Operations Group (509 OG) is the flying component of the United States Air Force 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW), assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It is equipped with all 20 of the USAF's B-2 Spirit stealth bombers. Its 394th CTS also uses T-38 Talon trainers.
George G. Finch Maj. Gen. George G. Finch became the Senior Leader of the US Air National Guard; (Chief of the Air Division National Guard Bureau) (1948-1950) In June 1953 it was reported that Gen. Mark W. Clark would retire and be replaced by Maj. Gen George G. Finch on the UN command delegation to the Korean armistic...
Pease Air National Guard Base Pease Air National Guard Base is a New Hampshire Air National Guard base located at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in New Hampshire. It occupies a portion of what was once Pease Air Force Base, a former Strategic Air Command facility with a base-related population of 10,000 and ...
Robert I. Gruber Major General Robert I. Gruber is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as an assistant to the director, Air National Guard, for special projects, as the Air National Guard assistant to the judge advocate general and as principal advisor on Air National Guard legal services matters to th...
110th Bomb Squadron The 110th Bomb Squadron (110 BS) is a unit of the Missouri Air National Guard 131st Bomb Wing located at Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri. The 110th is equipped with the B-2 Spirit.
B-52 Memorial Park B-52 Memorial Park is located within the Orlando International Airport just off the Beachline Expressway formerly the Bee Line near runway 18L. It is a small, relatively hidden park under the control of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) and features a retired B-52D Stratofortress, Air For...
489th Bomb Group The 489th Bomb Group is a unit of the United States Air Force. Its is assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing, and is stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The group is a reserve associate unit of the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess.
Lost and Found: You've Got to Earn It (1962–1968) Lost and Found: You've Got To Earn It (1962–1968) is a compilation album by The Temptations. Released by Motown Records in 1999, it includes twenty unreleased Temptations records alongside unreleased mixes of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and "You've Got to Earn It". Most of...
Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)", also referred to as "Bring It (Snakes on a Plane)", is the debut single by Cobra Starship, released in 2006 from the soundtrack album "". The song features William Beckett of The Academy Is..., Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds...
She's a Machine! She's a Machine! is the third studio album by Swedish electronic band Alice in Videoland, released in Sweden on 20 April 2008 by National Records. German pressings of the album include a bonus disc titled "A Different Perspective", which contains reworked versions of the songs on the original disc. The...
Felix Cartal Taelor Deitcher, (better known by his stage name Felix Cartal) is a Canadian DJ and EDM producer. He released his first EP "Skeleton" in 2009 once he signed with Dim Mak Records. Since then he has gone on to release two full-length albums, 2010's "Popular Music" and 2012's "Different Faces" and tour around...
Dennis Locorriere Dennis Michael Locorriere (born June 13, 1949; Union City, New Jersey, United States) is the American former lead vocalist and guitarist of the soft rock group Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, later Dr. Hook. He continues as a solo artist, session musician and songwriter.
John Poulos John Poulos (born March 31, 1947) was the original drummer for The Buckinghams. He was a founding member of the Chicago area band in 1965. His mother Ann and his father John Sr.,were very proud of their youngest child in a family of solid Greek heritage. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in the Albany...
Sev Lewkowicz Sev Lewkowicz (born 15 February 1951, London, England) is a musical composer, producer, arranger and keyboard player based in the United Kingdom. He has played and recorded with Mungo Jerry, Dennis Locorriere, Any Trouble, Tim Smit, Sarah Miles, Jeff Duff and Tony Clarke.
Maja Ivarsson Maja Ivarsson, (] , born 2 October 1979) is a Swedish singer and lead vocalist of the Swedish indie rock band The Sounds.
Dying to Say This to You Dying to Say This to You is the second studio album in English by Swedish new wave group The Sounds. It was released on 15 March 2006 in Sweden and 21 March 2006 in the United States. The album blends Swedish-influenced new wave music with a sassy and spunky delivery by vocalist Maja Ivarsson, ...
Na jastuku za dvoje "Na jastuku za dvoje" (English translation: "On A Pillow For Two") was the Bosnian and Herzegovinian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in Serbian and English by Maja Tatić. The song is often attested as Fairytales About Love, however this is the title of the English translation an...
Dawn Lyn Dawn Lyn Nervik (born January 11, 1963) is a retired American actress best known for her role as Dodie Douglas during the last three seasons of the long-running family comedy television series "My Three Sons". Her brother, Leif Garrett, is also a former actor.
Meredith MacRae Meredith Lynn MacRae (May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000) was an American actress and singer known for her roles as Sally Morrison on "My Three Sons" (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley on "Petticoat Junction" (1966–1970).
Linda Marshall Linda Marshall is an American actress. She started her television career in the 1963 situation comedy "My Three Sons", and in 1965 appeared in her first movie, "The Girls on the Beach".
List of Amy Adams performances Amy Adams is an American actress who made her film debut in the 1999 black comedy "Drop Dead Gorgeous". She went on to guest star in a variety of television shows, including "That '70s Show", "Charmed", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "The Office", and also appeared in minor film roles. I...
Lorraine Pilkington Lorraine Pilkington (born 18 April 1974) is an Irish actress from Dublin, who is best known for her role as Katrina Finlay from "Monarch of the Glen". Trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Pilkington began her career at the age of 15 when she appeared in "The Miracle" directed by Neil Jordan. She ...
Maurice Sanford Fox Maurice S. Fox (born New York, October 11, 1924) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist, and professor Emeritus of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served as department chair between 1985 and 1989. His pioneering investigations of bacterial transformati...
Ronne Troup Ronne Troup (born June 10, 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and educator best known for her 1970–72 role as "Polly Williams Douglas" on the long-running sitcom "My Three Sons".
Jill Taylor Jillian "Jill" Patterson Taylor is a character in the TV sitcom "Home Improvement" played by Patricia Richardson. Jill is Tim Taylor's wife. Jill helps Tim raise their three sons (Brad, Randy, and Mark). Jill Taylor has appeared on critics' lists of "top TV" or "most memorable" moms. For this role, Richards...
Julia Benjamin Julia Benjamin (born February 21, 1957) is a retired American film and television actress of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. She is best remembered for her character role as Susie Baxter, the daughter of Steve and Barbara Baxter and the first cousin of Harold "Sport" Baxter on the 1960s sitcom "Hazel." Benja...
Tina Cole Tina Cole (born August 4, 1943) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Katie Miller Douglas on the 1960s sitcom "My Three Sons" (1967–72), but she previously had a recurring role as Sunny Day in the detective series "Hawaiian Eye" (1963). She was also a member of the Four King Co...
E-COM E-COM, short for Electronic Computer Originated Mail, was a hybrid mail process used from 1982 to 1985 by the U.S. Postal Service to print electronically originated mail, and deliver it in envelopes to customers within two days of transmission. The E-COM service allowed customers to transmit messages of up to two...
Deep inelastic scattering Deep inelastic scattering is the name given to a process used to probe the insides of hadrons (particularly the baryons, such as protons and neutrons), using electrons, muons and neutrinos. It provided the first convincing evidence of the reality of quarks, which up until that point had been c...
United States Phonograph Company The United States Phonograph Company was a manufacturer of cylinder phonograph records and supplies in the 1890s. It was formed in the Spring of 1893 by Victor Emerson, manager of the New Jersey Phonograph Company. Simon S. Ott and George E. Tewkesbury, heads of the Kansas Phonograph Co...
Union process The Union process was an above ground shale oil extraction technology for production of shale oil, a type of synthetic crude oil. The process used a vertical retort where heating causes decomposition of oil shale into shale oil, oil shale gas and spent residue. The particularity of this process is that oi...
New Jersey v. Delaware New Jersey v. Delaware, 552 U.S. 597 (2008), is a United States Supreme Court case in which New Jersey sued Delaware, invoking the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction under  /1251 § 1251 (a), following Delaware's denial of oil company BP's petition to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline and...
Induction programme An induction programme is the process used within many businesses to welcome new employees to the company and prepare them for their new role. Its helps in the effective integration of the employee into the organisation.
Sour mash Sour mash is a process used in the distilling industry that uses material from an older batch of mash to start the fermentation of a new batch, analogous to the making sourdough bread with a starter. The term "sour mash" can also be used as the name of the type of mash used in that process, and a whiskey made...
New Jersey State Opera The New Jersey State Opera is an opera company based in Newark, New Jersey. It was established in 1964 as the Opera Theater of Westfield, and shortly after opening the great Alfredo Silipigni was hired as Artistic Director. The name was changed to the Opera Theatre of New Jersey in 1965, and in 1...
Joint application design Joint application design (JAD) is a process used in the life cycle area of the dynamic systems development method (DSDM) to collect business requirements while developing new information systems for a company. "The JAD process also includes approaches for enhancing user participation, expeditin...
Haskelite Haskell invented a process for making glue from blood-albumin. The process used slaughterhouse blood from the Chicago stock yards. The inexpensive waterproof adhesive was called "black albumin glue." It was used to bond wood pieces. One product Haskell made from this was a lightweight waterproof plywood, firs...
Food Lion Food Lion LLC is a grocery store company headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina, that operates more than 1,100 supermarkets in 10 states of the Southeastern United States under the Food Lion banner. With about 63,000 employees, Food Lion, LLC. is currently owned by Ahold Delhaize after it was acquired by ...
Albert Heijn Albert Heijn B.V. is the largest Dutch supermarket chain, founded in 1887 in Oostzaan, Netherlands. It is named after Albert Heijn, Sr., the founder of the first store in Oostzaan.
Ahold Czech Republic Ahold Czech Republic, a. s. is a division of the Netherlands-based Ahold Delhaize group, operating in the Czech republic. The company entered the market in 1990 as Euronova a. s. Ahold Czech Republic is responsible for running the supermarket chain Albert, with about 330 locations.
Cora (hypermarket) Cora is a retail group of hypermarkets located in France and elsewhere in Europe. Cora was founded in 1974 by the supermarket holding Louis Delhaize Group after taking over three Carrefour hypermarkets located in Belgium. These three were originally established around 1969 as a joint venture franchis...
Delhaize Group Delhaize Le Lion / De Leeuw (] ) was a food retailer headquartered in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels, Belgium, and operating in seven countries and on three continents. The principal activity of Delhaize Group is the operation of food supermarkets. On June 24, 2015, Delhaize reached an agreement with Ahol...
Louis Delhaize Group The Louis Delhaize Group is a Belgian retail group established in 1875 by Louis Delhaize. The principal activity is the operation of food supermarkets and hypermarkets in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Romania.
Bottom Dollar Food Bottom Dollar Food was an American soft-discount grocery chain. It was a subsidiary of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of international food retailer Delhaize Group. Its headquarters was in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Albert Heijn (born 1865) Albert Heijn (October 15, 1865, Oostzaan, North Holland – November 13, 1945, Amsterdam) was the original founder of what is now the largest food retailer in the Netherlands. On his wedding day in 1887, he took over the grocery store of his father, Jan Simonsz Heijn, and the supermarket chain fo...
Ahold Koninklijke Ahold N.V. was a Dutch international retailer based in Zaandam, Netherlands. It merged with Delhaize Group in 2016 to form Ahold Delhaize.
Gerrit Jan Heijn Gerrit Jan Heijn (14 February 1931, Zaandam – 9 September 1987) was a Dutch businessman, who was a top manager of "Ahold" until his death in 1987. His grandfather was Albert Heijn, who founded the family business, and his older brother was also named Albert Heijn, who was the founder of "Ahold". His so...
Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Beauty" (French: "La Belle au bois dormant" "The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood") by Charles Perrault, or "Little Briar Rose" (German: "" ), is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was ...
Cinderella Cinderella (Italian: "Cenerentola" , French: "Cendrillon" , German: "Aschenputtel" ), or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortuna...
Charles Perrault Charles Perrault (] ; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known of his tales include "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Re...
Ariane et Barbe-bleue Ariane et Barbe-bleue ("Ariadne and Bluebeard") is an opera in three acts by Paul Dukas. The French libretto is adapted (with very few changes) from the symbolist play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck, itself loosely based on the French literary tale "La Barbe bleue" by Charles Perrault.
Puss in Boots "Master Cat, or The Booted Cat" (Italian: "Il gatto con gli stivali" ; French: "Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté" ), commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his...
Histoires ou contes du temps passé Histoires ou contes du temps passé or Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals or Mother Goose Tales) is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris in 1697. The work became popular because it was written ...
The Light Princess The Light Princess is a Scottish fairy tale by George MacDonald. It was published in 1864. Drawing on inspiration from Sleeping Beauty, it tells the story of a princess afflicted by a constant weightlessness, unable to get her feet on the ground, both literally and metaphorically, until she finds a l...
Sun, Moon, and Talia Sun, Moon, and Talia ("Sole, Luna, e Talia") is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the "Pentamerone". Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as "The Sleeping Beauty" and also the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as "Little Briar Rose".
Donkeyskin Donkeyskin (French: "Peau d'Âne" ) is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's "Histoires ou contes du temps passé".
Bluebeard's Castle Bluebeard's Castle (Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára ; literally: "The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle") is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer, and is written in Hungarian, based on the French literary tale "La ...
Air Service Plus Air Service Plus was a low cost airline based in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. It operated services to destinations in Europe. Flights are currently operated by Axis Airways, a French airline. Its main base is Abruzzo International Airport, Pescara.
Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series) Come Fly with Me is a British mockumentary television comedy series created by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. Narrated by Lindsay Duncan, the series launched on 25 December 2010 on BBC One and BBC One HD. A spoof of British documentaries "Airport" and "Airline", the series...
Vágar Airport Vágar Airport (Faroese: "Vága Floghavn" ) (IATA: FAE, ICAO: EKVG) is the only airport in the Faroe Islands, and is located 1 NM east of Sørvágur. Due to the Faroe Islands' status as a self-governing territory, the airport is not subject to the rules of the European Union. It is the main operating base for...
Godrej BKC Godrej BKC (Bandra-Kurla Complex) is a project by Godrej Properties Limited developed in partnership with Jet Airways located in Mumbai, India. Of the 1.3mn sq. ft., 250,000 sq. ft. of the building would be used as the corporate headquarters of Jet Airways (India) Limited. The Architectural Partner would be ...
JetLite JetLite is a low-cost subsidiary of Jet Airways. It was formerly known as "Air Sahara" until the buyout by Jet Airways which rebranded the airline as JetLite.
TAESA Lineas Aéreas TAESA (Transportes Aéreos Ejecutivos) was a low cost airline with its headquarters in No. 27 of Hangar Zone C on the grounds of Mexico City International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico. The airline, owned by a business person legally represented by Alberto Abed Schekaiban, was established on April 2...
AirTran (disambiguation) AirTran Airways is a defunct North American low cost airline.
VivaColombia VivaColombia is a Colombian low-cost airline based in Medellín, Colombia. VivaColombia is the first true low cost carrier in Colombia. It is partly owned by the founders of Europe's biggest low cost airline, Ryanair.
Tuzla International Airport Tuzla International Airport (Bosnian: "Međunarodni aerodrom Tuzla/Међународни аеродром Тузла" ); (IATA: TZL, ICAO: LQTZ) is an airport near Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tuzla International Airport is second largest airport in Bosnia and Herzegovina, right after Sarajevo International Airpo...
Philadelphia International Airport Philadelphia International Airport (IATA: PHL, ICAO: KPHL, FAA LID: PHL) , often referred to just by its IATA code PHL, is a major airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and is the largest airport in the Delaware Valley region and in the state. The airport is a major in...
Linchuan District Linchuan District () is the only district the city of Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.
Nelumbo nucifera Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, Egyptian bean or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae. The Linnaean binomial "Nelumbo nucifera" (Gaertn.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been class...
List of defunct railway companies in Japan List of defunct railway companies in Japan lists defunct Japanese railway operators. The list includes all types of railways, such as handcars, horsecars, trams, light railways, heavy rails, freight rails, industrial railways, monorails, new transit systems, or funiculars. Som...
Chicago-Read Mental Health Center Chicago-Read Mental Health Center (CRMHC, often called simply Read) is a state-run inpatient JCAHO-accredited psychiatric facility with between 150 and 200 beds located in the neighborhood of Dunning on the northwest side of the city of Chicago close to O'Hare International Airport in ...
List of former Serbian exonyms in Vojvodina This is a list of former (or historical) Serbian language exonyms for towns and villages in the Vojvodina region of Serbia. List includes former names of modern settlements as well as names of former settlements that either ceased to exist either were joined with other settle...
List of former named state highways in Oregon This list contains former names used by the Oregon Department of Transportation and predecessors for state highways. It includes former names for current state highways and roads that are no longer state highways.
Safranbolu Safranbolu (Greek: Σαφράμπολις, "Saframpolis" ) is a town and district of Karabük Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is about 9 km north of the city of Karabük, 200 km north of Ankara and about 100 km south of the Black Sea coast. The town's historic names in Greek were "Theodoroupolis" (Θεοδωρού...
Toyota District (Sanuki Province) Toyota District (豊田郡 , Toyota-gun ) is a former district located in the former Sanuki Province (now Kagawa Prefecture), Japan. Former names for Toyota include Katta District (刈田郡 , Katta-gun ) and Karita District (苅田郡 , Karita-gun ) . From the Meiji period onward, it was part of Kagawa...
Muntz Street Muntz Street is the popular name of a former association football stadium situated in the Small Heath district of Birmingham, England, taken from the street on which it stood. During its lifetime the ground was known as Coventry Road; the name "Muntz Street" is a more recent adoption. It was the ground at ...
Nelumbo lutea Nelumbo lutea is a species of flowering plant in the monotypic family Nelumbonaceae. Common names include American lotus, yellow lotus, water-chinquapin, and volée. It is native to North America. The Linnaean binomial "Nelumbo lutea" (Willd.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has be...
2009 PDC World Darts Championship The 2009 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 16th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at Alexandra Palace in London from 19 December 2008 to 4 January 2009.
PDC World Darts Championship The PDC World Darts Championship, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), is one of the two World Professional Darts Championships held annually in the sport of darts. The other is the BDO World Darts Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation (BDO). The PDC cha...