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This Is 40 This Is 40 is a 2012 American comedy film written, co-produced and directed by Judd Apatow, and starring Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. It is the spin-off sequel of "Knocked Up", which starred Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl. Filming was conducted in mid-2011, and the film was released in North America on Decembe...
Jeremy Theobald Jeremy Theobald is a British actor best known for his portrayal of "The Young Man", the main character in Christopher Nolan's 1998 major picture debut "Following", and for which Theobald was also a producer, Filming was scheduled around their day jobs. Jonathan Romney, writing in the "New Statesman", no...
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine is a documentary film about Steve Jobs directed and produced by Alex Gibney. After a few festival showings, the film was released to the Internet on September 4, 2015 and in limited release to theaters on September 19, 2015.
Gyara Hazar Ladkian Gyara Hazar Ladkian (Eleven Thousand Girls ) is a 1962 Hindi romantic social drama film directed by K. A. Abbas. The film was co-produced by the poet Ali Sardar Jafri, who also helped co-write the story with Abbas.
Salaryman Salaryman (サラリーマン, , "Sararīman" , salaried man) refers to a man whose income is salary based, particularly those working for corporations. It has gradually become accepted in Anglophone countries as a noun for a Japanese white-collar worker or businessman. The term salaryman refers exclusively to men; for wo...
Mary Agnes Donoghue Mary Agnes Donoghue (born 1942/1943) is an American screenwriter and director. Following early jobs as a secretary and short story writer, Donoghue's first writing credit was the 1984 film "The Buddy System". She went on to pen the screenplays for "Beaches" (1988) and "Paradise" (1991), which was al...
The Lobster The Lobster is a 2015 absurdist dystopian black comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos, co-produced by Ceci Dempsy, Ed Guiney, and Lee Magiday, and co-written by Efthimis Filippou. In the film's setting, single people are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise b...
Nader Ebrahimi Nader Ebrahimi (Persian: نادر ابراهیمی‎ ‎ ; April 3, 1936 – June 5, 2008) was an Iranian writer, screenwriter, photographer, director and actor. Son to Ata-ol-molk Ebrahimi, who was a descendant of one of the biggest families of Kerman, he got his diploma in Persian literature, and then went on get a lic...
Women in Belgium Women in Belgium are European women who live in or are from Belgium. Generation after generation, Belgian women are able to close the "occupational gender gap". In younger generations, this is due to the increasing availability of "part-time jobs in services" for women. In 1999, the average earnings of...
Kapfenberger SV Kapfenberger SV is an Austrian association football club from Kapfenberg. They won the 2007–08 Austrian Football First League and advanced to the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1919 as "Kapfenberger SC". The club was renamed into Kapfenberger SV in 1947 and currently play in the Austrian F...
Raphael Holzhauser Raphael Holzhauser (born 16 February 1993 in Wiener Neustadt) is an Austrian football midfielder who plays for Austria Wien.
SK Vorwärts Steyr SK Vorwärts Steyr is an Austrian association football club based in Steyr. It was founded in 1919. They play at the Vorwärts Stadium. Currently the club has about 300 members. The club is one of the oldest football clubs in Upper Austria. In 1999 the club went bankrupt and reformed in lower leagues la...
1. Simmeringer SC 1. Simmeringer SC is an Austrian association football club based in Vienna. Established in 1901, it played in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.
First Vienna FC First Vienna FC is an Austrian association football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there. It is familiarly known to Austrians by the English name "Vienna".
SC Ostbahn XI SC Ostbahn XI are an Austrian association football club based in the Simmering ("XI") district of Vienna. Founded in 1921 by employees of the East railway line, they are playing in the Austrian Regional League East since 2008/2009 season after promotion the season before.
FC Liefering FC Liefering is an Austrian association football club. It currently plays in the First League, the second tier of Austrian football. Since 2012, Liefering has been a feeder club for Austrian Football Bundesliga side FC Red Bull Salzburg.
LASK Linz Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as LASK Linz (] ) or simply LASK, is an Austrian association football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club hailing from that region, and currently plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of Austrian football...
FK Austria Wien Fußballklub Austria Wien (] ; known in English as Austria Vienna, and usually shortened to Austria in German-speaking countries), is an Austrian association football club from the capital city of Vienna. It has won the second most Austrian Bundesliga titles - counting 24 since the introduction of the Au...
SV Wienerberg SV Wienerberg is an Austrian association football club from Vienna. The club was founded as "ASV Wienerberg" (Arbeiter Sportverein, "Workers' Sports Club") in 1921 by Czech immigrants, primarily labourers from the local brickworks - today's global construction material producer Wienerberger - at the hill ...
Peñabot Peñabots is the name given to what analysts believe to be a network of automated accounts on social media used by Mexican government to spread pro-government propaganda and to marginalize dissenting opinions in social media. The bots were first noticed in the 2012 elections when they were used to disseminate op...
Social network (sociolinguistics) In the field of sociolinguistics, social network describes the structure of a particular speech community. Social networks are composed of a "web of ties" (Lesley Milroy) between individuals, and the structure of a network will vary depending on the types of connections it is composed ...
Three degrees of influence Three Degrees of Influence is a theory in the realm of social networks, proposed by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler in 2007. Christakis and Fowler found that social networks have great influence on individuals' behavior. But social influence does not end with the people to whom a p...
Dynamic network analysis Dynamic network analysis (DNA) is an emergent scientific field that brings together traditional social network analysis (SNA), link analysis (LA), social simulation and multi-agent systems (MAS) within network science and network theory. There are two aspects of this field. The first is the sta...
Evolving networks Evolving Networks are networks that change as a function of time. They are a natural extension of network science since almost all real world networks evolve over time, either by adding or removing nodes or links over time. Often all of these processes occur simultaneously, such as in social networks ...
Structural inequality in education Structural inequality has been identified as the bias that is built into the structure of organizations, institutions, governments, or social networks. Structural inequality occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social networks contains an embedded bias...
Opportunistic mobile social network Opportunistic mobile social networks are a form of mobile ad hoc networks that exploit the human social characteristics, such as similarities, daily routines, mobility patterns, and interests to perform the message routing and data sharing. In such networks, the users with mobile dev...
Role of networks in electoral behavior Networks in electoral behavior, as a part of political science, refers to the relevance of networks in forming citizens’ voting behavior at parliamentary, presidential or local elections. There are several theories emphasizing different factors which may shape citizens' voting beh...
Geosocial networking Geosocial networking is a type of social networking in which geographic services and capabilities such as geocoding and geotagging are used to enable additional social dynamics. User-submitted location data or geolocation techniques can allow social networks to connect and coordinate users with loc...
International Network for Social Network Analysis The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a professional academic association of researchers and practitioners of social network analysis. Members have interests in social networks as a new theoretical paradigm, in methodological developments, and...
Sporting Lucas Terrier The Sporting Lucas Terrier is a small breed of dog of the terrier type. The breed is named for Jocelyn Lucas.
In personam In personam is a Latin phrase meaning "directed toward a particular person". In a lawsuit in which the case is against a specific individual, that person must be served with a summons and complaint to give the court jurisdiction to try the case, and the judgment applies to that person and is called an "in p...
Referent A referent is a person or thing to which a linguistic expression or other symbol refers. For example, in the sentence "Mary saw me", the referent of the word "Mary" is the particular person called Mary who is being spoken of, while the referent of the word "me" is the person uttering the sentence.
American Russell Terrier Club The American Russell Terrier Club (formerly named the English Jack Russell Terrier Club), founded by JoAnn Stoll in 1995, was the first registry in the United States to maintain the Russell Terrier as a separate breed from the Parson Russell Terrier. The American Jack Russell Terrier Club ...
Jemmy Shaw Jemmy Shaw, also known as Jimmy Shaw, was one of the pioneer fanciers of the early dog show days, a promoter of dog fighting and rat-baiting contests and a breeder of Old English bulldogs, Bull Terriers, and Toy Terriers. According to the "Sporting Chronicle Annual", Jem owned a black and tan Bull and Terrie...
Cultural safety Cultural safety can be defined as the effective nursing practice of a person or family from another culture that is determined by that person or family [from Nursing Council of New Zealand, Guidelines for Cultural Safety, the Treaty of Waitangi and Māori Health in Nursing Education and Practice, 2011, p...
Lucas Terrier The Lucas Terrier is a small breed of dog of the terrier type which originated in England in the late 1940s. The breed was named by Sir Jocelyn Lucas, 4th Baronet and all living Lucas Terriers in the UK can trace their ancestry back to a small number of his original Lucas Terriers.
Imagini Imagini is a London-based software firm founded in 2006. It uses images instead of questions to do marketing tasks such as psychographic marketing research and social networking. Using Imagini's "VisualDNA" technology, Web visitors respond to queries such as "My biggest vice is..." or "My idea of love is..." by...
Social undermining Social undermining is the expression of negative emotions directed towards a particular person or negative evaluations of the person as a way to prevent the person from achieving his or her goals. This behavior can often be attributed to certain feelings, such as dislike or anger. The negative evalua...
Peace bond In Canadian law, a peace bond is an order from a criminal court that requires a person to keep the peace and be on good behaviour for a period of time. This essentially means that the person who signs a peace bond must not be charged with any additional criminal offences during its duration. Peace bonds ofte...
1997–98 SC Bastia season The French football club SC Bastia in its 1997–98 season finished in the 13th place in the league. The top scorer of the season, scoring 9 goals in 5 league matches, wasn Ermin Šiljak. The club was eliminated from the Coupe de France round of 64. In the Coupe de la Ligue it was able to reach th...
Patrick Valéry Patrick Valéry (born 3 July 1969) is a French footballer born in Brignoles who spent the majority of his playing career playing for AS Monaco. He also had spells with Toulouse FC and SC Bastia before joining Blackburn Rovers on a free transfer in June 1997. After an unsuccessful spell at Rovers he return...
Lilian Nalis Lilian Bernard Pierre Nalis (born 29 September 1971) is a French former footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, he played in Ligue 1 for Caen, Guingamp, Le Havre and SC Bastia, Serie A for Chievo, the Premier League for Leicester City, and the Football League for Leicester, Sheffie...
2006–07 SC Bastia season French football club SC Bastia's 2006–07 season. Finished 9th place in league. Top scorer of the season, including 10 goals in 9 league matches have been Pierre-Yves André. Was eliminated to Coupe de France end of 64, the Coupe de la Ligue was able to be among the 2. tour.
2003–04 SC Bastia season French football club SC Bastia's 2003–04 season. Finished 17th place in league. Top scorer of the season, including 9 goals in 8 league matches have been Florian Maurice. Was eliminated to Coupe de France end of 64, the Coupe de la Ligue was able to be among the final 16 teams.
Éric Cubilier Éric Cubilier (born May 9, 1979 in Nice) is a French retired footballer. He played in the position of right defender and last played for SC Bastia. He was a member of the County of Nice national football team at the 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup.
Régis Laguesse Régis Laguesse (born Montreuil-Bellay 6 January 1950) is a French football coach and former player. He played for Angers SCO, SC Bastia and Stade Lavallois in the 1970s. He coached Thailand Premier League side BEC Tero Sasana in 2007, until he was replaced by another Frenchman Christophe Larrouilh. As of...
Thomas Vincensini Thomas Vincensini (born 12 September 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for SC Bastia in Ligue 1.
Yannick Zambernardi Yannick Zambernardi (born September 3, 1977, in Ajaccio, France) is a French former professional football player. During his career, Zambernardi played for French clubs SC Bastia, Gazélec Ajaccio, AC Ajaccio, Troyes and FC Istres, as well as Hibernian and Dunfermline Athletic in Football in Scotland...
SC Bastia Reserves and Academy The SC Bastia Reserves and Academy are the reserve team and academy of French football club Bastia. The Plaine de l’Igesa serves as the home facility for the club's Reserves and Academy sides, which play their home matches at the Stade Erbajolo and Stade Armand Cesari. It is located in th...
Ganjam Kewda Rooh Ganjam Kewda Rooh (Screw pine, IPA:/Kia /, "Pandanus fascicularis") is a plant native to the Indian state of Odisha primarily in the Ganjam district. Kewda has been identified as a Geographical Indications in India.
Chhatrapur Chatrapur (also spelt as Chhatrapur) is a town and a notified area committee in Ganjam District in the state of Odisha, India. It is the headquarters town of Ganjam District. There are two railway stations in Chatrapur; they are Chatrapur Station and Chatrapur Court Station.
Berhampur Berhampur (IPA: /bərɵmpu:r /) is a municipal corporation located on the eastern coastline of Ganjam district of the Indian state of Odisha in East India, about 169 km south of the state capital Bhubaneshwar and 255 km north of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the oldest and largest cities of Odis...
Ganjam district Ganjam district is a district in the Indian state of Odisha. Ganjam's total area is 8,070 km² (3,116 mi²).
Eastern Ganga dynasty The Eastern Ganga dynasty or Chodaganga dynasty was a medieval Indian dynasty that reigned from Kalinga from the 11th century to the early 15th century. Their rule consisted of the whole of the modern-day Indian state of Odisha as well as parts of West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Thei...
Ganjam Ganjam is a town and a notified area council in Ganjam district in the state of Odisha, India.
Randha Randha is one of the significant village in the Kanisi Tehsil of Ganjam district in the Indian State of Odisha(ଓଡ଼ିଶା). The Pincode of Randha is 761008. The village is 31.2 km from its district main sub-division Chatrapur and is 180 km from its State capital Bhubaneswar . Randha is a suburb of the city Berhampur...
Golia, Ganjam Golia is a village located in the Ganjam District of the Indian state of Odisha. It is governed by a panchayat, which also governs several nearby villages, and is famous for the large number of turtles in Nelia Pond beside the temple of Shiva. Golia is 76 km away from the city of Brahampur and 159 km away...
Kukudakhandi Kukudakhandi popularly known as KKD is one of the significant town in the Kukudakhandi Tehsil of Ganjam district in the Indian State of Odisha. The village is 31.2 km from its district main sub-division Chatrapur and is 149 km from its State capital Bhubaneswar . KKD is more often considered as a part of t...
Ganjam Hill Tracts Agency Ganjam Hill Tracts Agency was an agency in the Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency, British India. It was created by the Act XXIV of 1839 from the 'Maliahs' or Highlands, the tribal lands inhabited by the Khonds and the Savarahs. The territory consists of the western part of Gan...
Red Deer Vipers The Red Deer Vipers are a Junior "B" Ice Hockey team based in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the North Division of the Heritage Junior B Hockey League (HJHL). They played their home games at Red Deer Arena until 2016 when it was torn down to be rebuilt. They will play their home games at...
Denver Dynamite (arena football) The Denver Dynamite were an arena football team based in Denver, Colorado. The team began play in 1987 as a charter member of the Arena Football League. The team was brought in by businessman Sidney Shlenker and the team achieved success instantly, winning the first ever ArenaBowl under...
2009 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League season The 2008–09 Canadian Major Indoor Soccer League (CMISL) season sees a different format than previous seasons. As the league has become affiliated with the Professional Arena Soccer League (PASL) in the United States, the Edmonton Drillers and Saskatoon Accelerators will p...
Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers, also known as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team began play as an expansion team in 1970, alo...
Miami Heat all-time roster The Miami Heat is an American professional basketball team based in Miami. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team joined the NBA in 1988 as an expansion team, and won the NBA championship in 2006, 2012 and 2013. The...
List of Arizona Coyotes head coaches The Arizona Coyotes are an American professional ice hockey team based in Glendale, Arizona. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The team started out as a charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA), and were name...
Lehigh Valley Steelhawks The Lehigh Valley Steelhawks are a professional indoor football team based in Allentown, Pennsylvania and are members of the National Arena League (NAL). The Steelhawks began play as an expansion team in the Indoor Football League (IFL) in 2011. The Steelhawks moved to the Professional Indoor F...
List of Miami Heat head coaches The Miami Heat is an American professional basketball team based in Miami. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team joined the NBA in 1988 as an expansion team with the Charlotte Hornets, and won its first NBA ch...
Smoothie King Center The Smoothie King Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the city's Central Business District, adjacent to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The arena opened in 1999 as New Orleans Arena and has been home to the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball ...
Summit County Rumble The Summit County Rumble were a Continental Indoor Football League team located in Tallmadge, Ohio (near Akron) and that began play in 2007. The team played their home games at the Summit County Fairgrounds Arena Complex. The team was originally scheduled to play as the Toledo Rumble in the Toledo ...
Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry Love in Excess (1719–1720) is Eliza Haywood's best known novel. It details the amorous escapades of Count D'Elmont, a rake who becomes reformed over the course of the novel. "Love in Excess" was a huge bestseller in its time, going through multiple reissues in the four years follow...
Margerie Bonner Margerie Bonner (February 17, 1905 – September 28, 1988) was an American actress, scriptwriter, and novelist who is best known as the wife of Malcolm Lowry and for her support of the author while he wrote his best known novel, "Under the Volcano", considered one of the finest novels of the 20th century.
Vamba Born in Florence, having completed his studies Bertelli became a railway employer, working first in Rimini and later in Foggia. He later started collaborating with the Roman newspaper "Capitan Fracassa" and in 1984 he was officially employed as a journalist and caricaturist. He soon adopted the pseudonym "Vamba",...
The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. It is about a plague of blindness that befalls the entire world, allowing the rise of an aggressive species of plant. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen n...
Willard Motley Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an African-American author. Motley published a column in the "Chicago Defender" under the pen-name Bud Billiken. Motley also worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the "Hull House Magazine" and worked in the Federal Writers...
Henry Olerich Henry Olerich (1851–1927) was a utopian author from Nebraska. In his best known novel, "A Cityless and Countryless World" (1893), a Martian lands on earth to teach humans how to create paradise. The method was to build houses that could hold 1,000 people, who would collectively farm and work.
Edwin Mullhouse Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright is the critically acclaimed debut novel by American author Steven Millhauser, published in 1972 and written in the form of a biography of a fictitious person by a fictitious author. It was Millhauser's best known ...
Carole Maso Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often called postmodern. She received a B.A. in English from Vassar College in 1977. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, an NEA fellowship, and several ot...
Stephen McCauley Stephen McCauley (born June 26, 1955) is an American author. He has written six novels, including "Insignificant Others". His best known novel is "The Object of My Affection", which was made into a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.
Abdelkrim Ghallab Abdelkrim Ghallab (December 31, 1919, in Fes – August 14, 2017) was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field (editor of the Istiqlal Party daily al-Alam). He studied both at the University of Al-Karaouine in...
Vladimir Ivanovich Zakharov Vladimir Ivanovich Zakharov (born 18 October 1961 in Grodno) is a Belarusian guitarist, composer and music teacher. In 1981 he graduated from the Grodno School of Music and in 1991 from the Belarusian State Conservatory. In 1992 he received a Diploma at the VII International Guitar Competiti...
Belarusian State Medical University Belarusian State Medical University (educational establishment “Belarusian State Medical University” – BSMU; Belarusian language: установа адукацыi Belarusian: Беларускі дзяржаўны медыцынскі універсітэт — БДМУ) is a university in Minsk, Belarus. It specialises in Medicine and Dentist...
Siberian State Technological University Siberian State Technological University is the oldest university in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. It was established in 1930 as the Siberian Institute of Forest (Сибирский лесотехнический институт). Later it was known as the Siberian Technical Institute of Forest (Сибирский лесотехнически...
Belarusian State Technological University Belarusian State Technological University (Russian: Белорусский государственный технологический университет ; Belarusian: Беларускі Дзяржаўны Тэхналагічны Універсітэт ) is a University in Minsk, Belarus specialized in engineering and technology. It was established in Gomel in 1...
Belgorod Technological University "Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G.Shukhov(BSTU)" (Russian: Белгородский государственный технологический университет им. В. Г. Шухова (БГТУ им. В. Г. Шухова)) is the largest russian university with specialization in the field of the construction materials. It trai...
STANKIN Moscow State Technological University “Stankin“ (MSTU Stankin) (Russian: Московский Государственный Технологический Университет «Станкин» ) (previously Moscow State Technological Institute STANKIN or Moscow Machine-Instrument Institute) is one of the leading Russian technical institutes founded in 1930. STANKIN...
Nil Hilevich Nil Hilevich (Belarusian: "Ніл Гілевіч", "Nil Hilevič" Russian: Nil Gilevich ) (September 30, 1931 – March 29, 2016) was a Belarusian poet, a professor in the Belarusian State University, the author of more than 80 books of poetry, publications, and translations, and one of the founders of the Frantsishak ...
Belarusian State Academy of Arts The Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Belarusian: Беларуская дзяржаўная акадэмія мастацтваў Russian: Белорусская государственная академия искусств) is a state-owned institution of higher education in Minsk, Belarus. The Belarusian State Academy of Arts has status as a leading institutio...
Yuri Puntus Yuri Puntus (Belarusian: Юры Іосіфавіч Пунтус ; Russian: Юрий Иосифович Пунтус ) (born 8 October 1960) is a Soviet football player and a Belarusian football coach. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an injury. Graduated from two universities: Belarusian Technological Institute (specialty – mechanic...
Kuban State Technological University Kuban State Technological University (Russian: "Кубанский государственный технологический университет"), also referred to as the Kuban State University of Technology, located in Krasnodar, is one of the first higher educational institutions established in the southern region of Russ...
Taishanese people Sze Yap Cantonese (Chinese: 四邑廣東人; Sze Yap: Hlei Yip Gong Ong Ngin; Cantonese: Sei Yap Gwong Dong Yan; Mandarin: Sìyì guǎngdōng rén) are a Han Chinese group coming from a region in Guangdong Province in China called Sze Yap (四邑), which consisted of the four county-level cities of Taishan, Kaiping, Xin...
List of cities in China According to the administrative divisions of China including Hong Kong and Macau, there are three level of cities, namely provincial-level (consists of municipalities and SARs), prefectural-level cities, and county-level cities. As of September 2017 the PRC has a total of 662 cities: 4 municipal...
Asian Tour 2014/2015 – Event 1 The Asian Tour 2014/2015 – Event 1 (also known as the 2014 Yixing Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 17–21 June 2014 at the Yixing Sports Centre in Yixing, China.
Guzhang County Guzhang County () is a county of Hunan Province, China. The county is the 2nd least populous administrative unit of the counties or county-level cities (after Shaoshan City) in the province, it is under the administration of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture.
Yixing ware Yixing clay () is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China, used in Chinese pottery since the Song dynasty (960–1279) when Yixing clay was first mined around China's Lake Tai. From the 17th century on, Yixing wares were commonly exported to Europe. The finished stone...
Tea pet A tea pet, also known as a tea lover's pet, is a small clay figure which is kept by some tea drinkers for good luck. The history of tea pets can be traced back to the Yuan dynasty (1206–1368). They are usually made of "zisha" or Yixing clay, from the region near Yixing in Jiangsu province, China. Just like Yixi...
Shuangpai County Shuangpai County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yongzhou Prefecture-level City. Shuangpai is also the 3rd smallest administrative unit (after Shaoshan and Guzhang) by population in the counties and county-level cities of the province.
Asian Tour 2013/2014 – Event 1 The Asian Tour 2013/2014 – Event 1 (also known as the 2013 Yixing Open) was a professional minor-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 11–15 June 2013 at the Yixing Sports Centre in Yixing, China.
Mao Zedong's Former Residence Former Residence of Mao Zedong or Mao Zedong's Former Residence () was built in the late Qing Dynasty. It is located in Shaoshan Village of Shaoshan township in Shaoshan, Xiangtan, Hunan, China. The building was the birthplace and childhood home of Mao Zedong, the first leader of the Peopl...
Yixing Pumped Storage Power Station The Yixing Pumped Storage Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located Yixing city of Jiangsu Province, China. Construction on the power station began in 2003 and the first unit was commissioned in 2007, the last in 2008. The entire project cost US$490 millio...
Potato Head Blues "Potato Head Blues" is a Louis Armstrong composition regarded as one of his finest recordings. It was made by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois on May 10, 1927. It was recorded during a remarkably productive week in which Armstrong's usual Hot Five was temporarily...