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2009 24 Hours of Le Mans The 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: "24 Heures du Mans 2009" ) was the 77th Grand Prix of Endurance, an endurance auto race run over 24 hours. It took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France, and was organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) over 13–14 June 2009 and was sta...
Fiat Automobili Srbija FIAT Chrysler Automobiles Serbia (Serbian: "FIAT Krajsler Automobili Srbija" ) is an automobile assembly plant in Kragujevac, Serbia and a subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles — previously the headquarters and assembly plant of Zastava Automobiles.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (abbreviated as FCA) is an Italian-controlled multinational corporation incorporated in the Netherlands, and currently the world’s seventh-largest auto maker. The group was established in late 2014 by merging Fiat S.p.A. into a new holding company, FCA (with head...
Arthur Millard Arthur Arnold Millard (1869 – after 1891) was an English professional footballer born in Birmingham who played in the Football Alliance for Small Heath. Millard had a good goalscoring record before joining Small Heath. In his three games in the Football Alliance and one in the FA Cup Millard scored three...
William McCourty William McCourty (1884 – 10 December 1917) was an English professional footballer born in Morpeth, Northumberland, who played in the Football League for Birmingham. McCourty, a former coal miner who played at left half, joined Birmingham in May 1909. He made his debut in the Second Division on 13 Septe...
Charlie Leatherbarrow Charles Leatherbarrow (born Letherbarrow) (16 January 1870 – 26 December 1940) was an English professional footballer born in Banbury who played in the Football League for Rotherham Town, Walsall Town Swifts and Small Heath. He played at inside right or centre forward.
Walter Ward (footballer) Walter Ward (1869 – after 1890) was an English professional footballer born in Birmingham who played in the Football Alliance for Small Heath. During the 1890–91 season, Ward deputised for regular goalkeeper Chris Charsley when Charsley's duties as a serving police officer demanded his absence ...
Jack Price (footballer, born 1918) John "Jack" Price (29 August 1918 – 18 April 2013) was an English professional footballer born in Horden, County Durham, who played in the Football League in the 1930s for Hartlepools United and York City. He played as a forward.
Wilton Lines Wilton Lines (fl. 1889–1890) was an English professional footballer born in Birmingham. Lines played seven games for Small Heath in the inaugural 1889–90 season of the Football Alliance, covering a variety of forward positions, but was unable to displace the established forwards.
Josiah Preston Josiah Preston (1885 – after 1909) was an English professional footballer born in Derby who played in the Football League for Birmingham.
Tommy Bell (footballer, born 1906) Thomas Bell (9 November 1906 – 1983) was an English professional footballer born in Seaham Harbour. He could play at inside right, centre forward and right half and was a regular goalscorer throughout his professional career.
Billy Morgan (footballer, born 1891) William Albert L. Morgan (3 November 1891 – after 1927) was an English professional footballer born in Old Hill, Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, who played either at outside left or inside left. He played for Birmingham, Coventry City and Crystal Palace in the Football League, and was...
John Logan (footballer, born 1912) John William Logan (16 August 1912 – October 1980) was an English professional footballer born in Horden, near Peterlee, County Durham who played in the Football League for Darlington, Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday. He played as a wing half.
7 Lives 7 Lives is a 2011 British film directed by Paul Wilkins starring Danny Dyer, Kate Ashfield and Martin Compston.
About a Dog About a Dog was Debbie Barham's last comedy proposal before she died in 2003. The programme stars Alan Davies, playing a dog, Jack, with his owner, Sarah, played by Kate Ashfield in the first series and Claire Goose in the second, in a sitcom told through the eyes of a canine.
The Best Man (2005 film) The Best Man (known in the US as Best Man, Worst Friend (on television) and Unhitched, may the best man win (on home video) is a comedy film starring Stuart Townsend, Amy Smart, Seth Green and Kate Ashfield. It was directed by Stefan Schwartz from a script by Schwartz and Ed Roe.
Kate Ashfield Kate Ashfield (born 28 May 1972) is an English actress, best known for her award-winning roles as Jody in the Anglo-German film "Late Night Shopping", as Sadie MacGregor in the British film "This Little Life" and as Liz in the 2004 film, "Shaun of the Dead".
Born to Kill (miniseries) Born to Kill is a British television miniseries, produced by World Productions, that was first broadcast on Channel 4 from 20 April to 11 May 2017. The four-part serial stars Jack Rowan as Sam Woodford, a seemingly ordinary 16-year-old schoolboy who appears to harbouring secret psychopathic te...
Secret Smile Secret Smile is a British drama serial in two parts shown by ITV in December 2005. It is set in Acton, London and is based on the Nicci French book of the same name, directed by Christopher Menaul and starring David Tennant, Claire Goose and Kate Ashfield.
Storm Damage Storm Damage is a 2000 British television drama film directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Lennie James, and stars Adrian Lester, Mona Hammond and Kate Ashfield. The film is about a young teacher who returns to the children's care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troub...
After Death After Death is a 1988 Italian zombie film. The film is set on a remote island where a voodoo curse that raises the dead from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living. When a boat containing a group of explorers which includes a young girl who experienced the zombie uprising years earlier, makes an e...
Shaun of the Dead Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British horror comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to get some kind of focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend, his mother and stepfather. At the same time, he...
The Baker (film) The Baker is a 2007 British comedy thriller film written and directed by Gareth Lewis and starring Damian Lewis, Kate Ashfield and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. An ex-assassin retires to a small Welsh village and opens a bakery but is unable to escape his former associates. It was known in the USA by the alte...
Spring soup Spring soup is a soup made with ingredients that are only in season for a short period during spring. Although asparagus largely characterizes spring soup, spring soup may include just about any spring vegetable added to a broth, chowder, or bisque. Spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh i...
Avocado soup Avocado soup is a fruit soup prepared using avocados as a primary ingredient. Ingredients used in its preparation in addition to ripe avocados can include milk, cream, half-and-half or buttermilk, soup stock or broth, water, lime juice, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Additional ingredients used can include ...
Spinach soup Spinach soup is a soup prepared using spinach as a primary ingredient. The soup can be prepared as a broth-based or cream-based soup, and the latter can be referred to as "cream of spinach soup." Fresh, canned or frozen spinach can be used, and the spinach can be used whole, puréed or chopped. Additional i...
1996 PW 1996 PW is an exceptionally eccentric small Solar System body on an orbit typical of long-period comets but that has shown no sign of cometary activity around the time it was discovered. Simulations indicate that it has most likely come from the Oort cloud, with a roughly equal probability of being an extinct c...
Watercress soup Watercress soup is a soup prepared using the leaf vegetable watercress as a primary ingredient. It may be prepared as a cream soup or as a broth/stock-based soup using vegetable or chicken stock. Additional ingredients used can include vegetables such as potato, leeks, spinach, celery and turnips, chees...
Atama soup Atama soup is a vegetable and palm nut soup that originates from the Ibibio People of Akwa Ibom State in South South Nigeria. It is popularly known amongst the Akwa Ibom and Cross River People of Nigeria. The soup is made from palm kernel, the extract of oil gotten from the palm kernel is what is used to mak...
Lettuce soup Lettuce soup is a soup prepared with lettuce as a primary ingredient. It may be prepared with myriad lettuces and other ingredients, and some lettuce soups may use several cultivars of lettuce in their preparation. It is a part of French cuisine and Chinese cuisine. Cream of lettuce soup is a type of lettu...
Peanut soup Peanut soup or groundnut soup is a soup made from peanuts, often with various other ingredients. It is a staple of African cuisine but is also eaten in East Asia (Taiwan), the United States (mainly in Virginia) and other areas around the world. In Ghana it is often eaten with fufu. Groundnut soup is also a ...
Syodon This extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid lived approximately 267-260 million years ago during the middle Permian period of the Paleozoic era. These reptiles, located in Russia were initially believed to be mammals. Syodon was first named by Stephan Kutorga in 1838. The fossils of these Synapsids were first ...
She-crab soup She-crab soup is a rich soup, similar to bisque, made of milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and (traditionally) crab roe, and a small amount of dry sherry added as it is plated. It may be thickened either by heat reduction or with a purée of boiled rice; it may also include ...
Erdington Erdington is a suburb and ward of Birmingham that is historically part of Warwickshire. Its postcodes include B23, B24 and B72. It is 5 mi northeast of central Birmingham, England and borders Sutton Coldfield. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The formal council constit...
Korean regional cuisine Korean regional cuisines (향토요리/향토료리 ; 鄕土料理 ) are characterized by local specialties and distinctive styles within Korean cuisine. The divisions reflected historical boundaries of the provinces where these food and culinary traditions were preserved until modern times.
Gastown Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia. Today, it a national historic site, at the northeast end of Downtown Vancouver, adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Columbia...
Fua Mulaku Havitta Fua Mulaku Havitta (historically referred as Dhadimagi Havitta) is the ruin of a Buddhist chaitya whose main feature is its ruined stupa. The Havitta is located at the northeastern end of Fuvahmulah, Maldives in the area of the historical boundaries of Dhadimagu ward of the island. Starting from the ...
Ural (region) The Urals (Russian: Ура́л ) are a geographical region located around the Ural Mountains, between the East European and West Siberian plains. It extends approximately from north to south, from the Arctic Ocean to the bend of Ural River near Orsk city. The boundary between Europe and Asia runs along the eas...
Similkameen Country The Similkameen Country, also referred to as the Similkameen Valley or Similkameen District, but generally referred to simply as The Similkameen or more archaically, Similkameen, is a region roughly coinciding with the basin of the river of the same name in the Southern Interior of British Columbia....
Tokyo City Tokyo City (東京市 , "Tōkyō-shi" ) was a municipality in Japan and part of Tokyo-fu which existed from 1 May 1889 until its merger with its prefecture on 1 July 1943. The historical boundaries of Tokyo City are now occupied by the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo. The new merged government became what is now Tokyo, al...
Cherokee Outlet The Cherokee Outlet, often mistakenly referred to as the Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma, in the United States. It was a sixty-mile (97 km) wide strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians. It was about 225 miles (362 km) long a...
Styria (Slovenia) Styria (Slovene: "Štajerska" ), also Slovenian Styria ("Slovenska Štajerska") or Lower Styria ("Spodnja Štajerska"; German: "Untersteiermark" ), is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of Styria. The population of Styria in its historical bou...
List of municipal electoral districts in Montreal The following is a list of municipal electoral districts in Montreal. They were created for electoral purposes and are based on historical boundaries of neighborhoods and former towns or cities.
Bjarte Hjelmeland Bjarte Hjelmeland (born 24 February 1970) is a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He was born in Bergen. He made his stage debut in 1991 at Oslo Nye Teater, and also had notable roles at the National Theatre, Rogaland Teater, Torshovteatret, Den Nationale Scene and Chateau Neuf. In 2008 he was hire...
Morten Borgersen Morten Borgersen (born 12 October 1950) is a Norwegian actor, theatre director, artistic director and writer. He has worked for various theatres, including Trøndelag Teater, Rogaland Teater, Riksteatret, Teatret Vårt, Teater Ibsen, Oslo Nye Teater,Det Norske Teatret, Nationaltheatret, Fjernsynsteatret ...
Thomas Thomassen Thomas Thomassen (1878 – 1962) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He made his stage debut in 1900 at Centralteatret. He served as theatre director of Stavanger Faste Scene from 1918 to 1921, and of Den Nationale Scene in Bergen from 1925 to 1931.
Gustav Thomassen Gustav Thomassen (1862 – 1929) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He made his stage debut in 1881 at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen. He worked at Den Nationale Scene until 1905, and served as theatre director from 1900 to 1905. From 1905 to 1929 he worked as an actor and instructor at Nationalt...
Kolbjørn Buøen Kolbjørn Buøen (20 January 1895 – 5 October 1975) was a Norwegian actor. He was born in Flå. He made his stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen in 1920. He played "the hangman" in the first stage adaptation of Pär Lagerkvist's "Bödeln" in 1934, a play that received much attention. Buøen was appoint...
Den Nationale Scene Den Nationale Scene (English: National Theater ) is the largest theatre in Bergen, Norway. Den Nationale Scene is also one of the oldest permanent theatres in Norway.
Rønnaug Alten Rønnaug Alten (9 February 1910 – 20 January 2001) was a Norwegian actress and stage instructor. She was born in Tromsø. She made her stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in 1930 as "Viola" in Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night". During her career she worked for various theatres, including Det Nye Teater, Nat...
Rasmus Rasmussen (actor) He was born in Molde, a son of captain Chrispinus Martinus Rasmussen and Anna Helene Carlsen. He emigrated to the United States around 1880, where he earned his living as a logger, but returned to Norway some years later. He performed at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen from 1887 to 1910. The next...
Karl Bergmann Karl Bergmann (1882 – 1964) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He made his stage debut in 1901 at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen. He served as theatre director of Den Nationale Scene from 1931 to 1934.
Sophie Reimers Sofie Reimers (19 April 1853 – 9 April 1932) was a Norwegian stage actress. She was born in Bergen. She made her stage debut at Den Nationale Scene in 1879, performed at Christiania Theatre from 1881, and at Nationaltheatret from 1899 until her death in 1932, being this theatre's "Grand Old Lady". She pu...
Orange County Line The Orange County Line is a commuter rail line run by Metrolink from Los Angeles through Orange County to Oceanside in San Diego County, connecting with the Coaster commuter rail service to San Diego. The Orange County Line carries passengers to the primary Metrolink hub at Union Station in downtown ...
Orange County Water District The Orange County Water District (OCWD) is a California special district that manages the groundwater basin beneath central and northern Orange County, California. The groundwater basin provides a water supply to 19 municipal water agencies and special districts that serve more than 2.4 mil...
Orange County Sanitation District The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) is a wastewater treatment facility that serves Orange County, California. It consists of two operating plants, referred to as Plant No. 1 located in Fountain Valley and Plant No. 2 located in Huntington Beach. It is the third largest wastewa...
Orange County Choppers Orange County Choppers (OCC) is a motorcycle manufacturer and lifestyle brand company based in the town of Newburgh, located in Orange County, New York, that was founded in 1999 by Paul Teutul Sr., and Paul Teutul Jr. The company was featured on "American Chopper", a reality TV show that debuted ...
Leslie Segrete Leslie Segrete ( ; born February 28, 1975) is an American designer, seamstress, carpenter, and television personality. She is best known for her work on the TLC show "While You Were Out", which concluded a four-year run in 2006, She also appeared as a designer on "Trading Spaces" and "Ugliest House on th...
Troublesome Creek Ironworks Troublesome Creek Ironworks, originally called Speedwell Furnace, is a historic iron furnace and archaeological site located near Monroeton, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The ironworks were established by 1770, and remained in operation into the early 20th century. After the Battle of G...
Orange County School of the Arts Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA), colloquially called "OH-sha", which is retained from a mispronunciation of the previous acronym for the previous name of the school (respectively "Orange County High School of the Arts" and "OCHSA"), is a 7th–12th grade public charter school loca...
Paul Teutul Jr. Paul Michael Teutul (born October 2, 1974) was one of the stars of the American reality television series "American Chopper". He co-founded Orange County Choppers (OCC) with his father, Paul Teutul Sr. in 1999. Teutul was the chief designer and fabricator of OCC. Prior to this, Teutul was head of the ra...
Orange County Health Department The Florida Department of Health in Orange County is the county health department in Orange County, Florida, formerly known as Orange County Health Department, charged with protecting the health and safety of visitors and residents of that county. The estimated daytime population of Oran...
Mayor of Orange County, Florida Mayor of Orange County, Florida is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. The Mayor is elected countywide. Before the approval by voters of a 2004 charter amendment, the position of Mayor was called "Orange County Chairman", which became an elected...
Dublin City Council Dublin City Council (Irish: "Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath" ) is the authority responsible for local government in the city of Dublin in Ireland. As a city council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. Until 2001, the council was known as "Dublin Corporation". The council is resp...
Council of the District of Columbia The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch of the local government of the District of Columbia. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the District is not part of any U.S. state and is instead overseen directly by the federal government. Since 1973, th...
Federal Assembly (Switzerland) The Federal Assembly (German: "Bundesversammlung" , French: "Assemblée fédérale" , Italian: "Assemblea federale" , Romansh: "Assamblea federala" ), is Switzerland's federal legislature. It meets in Bern in the Federal Palace.
New Jersey Tidelands Resource Council The Tidelands Resource Council is a body of twelve Governor-appointed members. The Council meets monthly and makes decisions to sell or rent state tidelands. All of the decisions must then be approved by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, the Attorney G...
Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women The Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women is an ex-service association. Formed in December 1944 from a number of existing organisations, membership of the legion is open to all ex-service personnel, including British Commonwealth and Allied personnel, and former membe...
National Council of Churches The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is the largest ecumenical body in the United States. NCC is an ecumenical partnership of 38 Christian faith groups in the United States. Its member communions include Mai...
Cork City Council Cork City Council (Irish: "Comhairle Cathrach Chorcaí" ) is the authority responsible for local government in the city of Cork in Ireland. As a city council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning ...
Federal Executive Council (Australia) In Australia's political system, the Federal Executive Council is a body established by to advise the Governor-General, and comprises, at least notionally, all current and former Commonwealth Ministers and Assistant Ministers. As the Governor-General is bound by convention to follo...
Federal Palace of Switzerland The Federal Palace (German: "Bundeshaus" , French: "Palais fédéral" , Italian: "Palazzo federale" , Romansh: "Chasa federala" , Latin: "Curia Confœderationis Helveticæ" ) refers to the building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly (legislature) and the Federal Council (executive).
Bosniac National Council The Bosniac National Council () is a representative body of the Bosniak national minority in Serbia. It was founded as the Muslim National Council of Sandžak (MNVS) on 11 May 1991. Its first and current president is Sulejman Ugljanin. Until 2003, the Bosniac National Council was called the Bosn...
Stoke Newington Common Stoke Newington Common is an open space in Stoke Newington in the London Borough of Hackney. It is east of Stoke Newington High Street, with Northwold Road to the north, and it straddles the busy Rectory Road. The Common is 2.15 ha in area.
Stoke Newington and Edmonton Railway The Stoke Newington & Edmonton Railway was built by the Great Eastern Railway, under the GER (Metropolitan Station & Railways) Act of 29 July 1864. Construction was delayed due to the financial problems of the GER. Work commenced on the Hackney Downs to Lower Edmonton section in 187...
Rose and Crown, Stoke Newington The Rose and Crown is a Grade II listed public house at 199 Stoke Newington Church Street, Stoke Newington, Hackney, London, N16 9ES.
Stoke Newington Church Street Stoke Newington Church Street is a road in north-east London of the borough of Hackney. The road links Green Lanes (A105) in the west to Stoke Newington High Street (the A10, formerly Ermine Street), in the east. Stoke Newington is one of the villages swallowed by the growth of London in t...
Tawhid Boys School Tawhid Boys School located in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney.It is the first Islamic boys school in the Stoke Newington area. The school was founded in June 2000 (Rabi-al Awwal 1421). Hadhrat Moulana Yusuf Motala, head and founder of Darul-Uloom, Bury, Greater Manchester, inaugurat...
Stoke Newington School Stoke Newington School (SNS) is a secondary school situated in Stoke Newington, in the London Borough of Hackney. The school is an amalgamation of Clissold School and Woodberry Down School, with the new school founded in 1982 in the building of the former Clissold School.
Stoke Newington Central (ward) Stoke Newington Central is a ward in the London Borough of Hackney. It corresponds roughly to Stoke Newington in London, UK and forms part of the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency of Diane Abbott MP.
Death of Colin Roach Colin Roach was a 21-year-old black British man who died from a gunshot wound inside the entrance of Stoke Newington police station, in the London Borough of Hackney, on 12 January 1983. Amid allegations of a police cover-up, the case became a cause célèbre for civil rights campaigners and black co...
Clissold Park Clissold Park is a designated community park in Stoke Newington, within the London Borough of Hackney. It is bounded by Greenway Close (to the north), Stoke Newington Church Street (to the south) and Green Lanes (west) and Queen Elizabeth's Walk (east). The park derives its name from Metropolitan Borough ...
Stoke Newington Stoke Newington is an area occupying the north-west part of the London Borough of Hackney in north-east London. It is 5 miles north-east of Charing Cross. Stoke Newington Church Street was the site of the original hamlet of Stoke Newington, which in turn gave its name to Stoke Newington the ancient pari...
Lady Harrington Lady Harrington is a 1926 French silent film directed by Hewitt Claypoole Grantham-Hayes and Fred LeRoy Granville and starring Claude France, Maurice de Féraudy and Warwick Ward. It is based on a novel by Maurice Level.
Arkansas literature Arkansas literature has an emerging consciousness, though it still lags behind other Southern states such as Mississippi and Georgia in the promotion of its literary culture. University of Arkansas Press is probably the state's largest publisher of books, though there do exist some notable small pre...
Potter County, Pennsylvania Potter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,457, making it the fifth-least populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Coudersport. The county was created in 1804 and later organized in 1836. It is named after Jame...
Pneumodesmus Pneumodesmus newmani is a species of millipede that lived in the Paleozoic. Its exact age is uncertain. It was originally interpreted as living  million years ago , in the Late Silurian; however, the study conducted by Suarez "et al." (2017) indicates that it actually lived in the Early Devonian (Lochkovi...
List of French Argentines French Argentines are Argentines of French descent. Most of French immigrants came to Argentina in the second half of the 1880s, though considerable immigration continued until the late 1940s. Half of these immigrants came from Southwestern France, especially from the Basque Country, Béarn (Ba...
Little Rock, Illinois Little Rock is an unincorporated community in Little Rock Township, Kendall County, Illinois. It is located in the far northwestern corner of the county. Big Rock lies to the northeast, Hinckley lies to the northwest, Plano lies to the southeast and Sandwich lies to the south of the village. The c...
List of French Americans French Americans are U.S. citizens or nationals of French descent and heritage. The majority of Franco-American families did not arrive directly from France, but rather settled French territories in the New World (primarily in the 17th and 18th centuries) before moving or being forced to move t...
The Apple (1998 film) The Apple (Persian: سیب‎ ‎ , translit. "Sib") is the 1998 directorial debut by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is based on a true story and features the real people that actually lived it. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 199...
Miohippus Miohippus (meaning "small horse") was a genus of prehistoric horse existing longer than most Equidae. "Miohippus" lived in what is now North America during the late Eocene to late Oligocene. "Miohippus" was a horse of the Oligocene. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Othniel Charles Marsh fir...
John Dufresne John Dufresne (born January 30, 1948) is an American author of French Canadian descent born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Worcester State College in 1970 and the University of Arkansas in 1984. He is a professor in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program of the English Departmen...
Major general (United States) In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8. Major general ranks above brigadier general and below lieutenant general. A major general typically commands division-sized units...
Andrew Davis Bruce Lieutenant General Andrew Davis Bruce (September 14, 1894 – July 28, 1969) was an American academic and soldier who served as the third president of the University of Houston. He retired from the United States Army in 1954 as a lieutenant general after seeing action in both World War I and World War ...
Richard E. Cavazos Richard Edward Cavazos (born January 31, 1929), a Korean War recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross as a first lieutenant, who advanced in rank to become the United States Army's first Hispanic four-star general. During the Vietnam War, as a lieutenant colonel, Cavazos was awarded a second Dist...
Distinguished Service Cross (United States) The Distinguished Service Cross is the second highest military award that can be given to a member of the United States Army (and previously, the United States Army Air Forces and the United States Air Force), for extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an ar...
Hal Moore Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr. (February 13, 1922 – February 10, 2017) was a United States Army lieutenant general and author. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, which is the U.S. military's second highest decoration for valor, and was the first of his West Point class (1945) to be promot...
Wayne W. Lambert Wayne W. Lambert (born 1936) was an Air force Brigadier General (United States). He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after already having served a year in the US Army. Lambert graduated from the Academy in 1959 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the USAF that s...
Frank A. Armstrong Frank Alton Armstrong Jr. (May 24, 1902 – August 20, 1969) was a lieutenant general of the United States Air Force. As a brigadier general in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, he was the inspiration for the main character in the novel and subsequent film, "Twelve O'Clock High." A...