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Edward Riou FRS (20 November 17622 April 1801) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary Wars under several of the most distinguished naval officers of his age and won fame and honour for two incidents in particular. Riou entered the navy at 12 years of age, and after a period spent in... |
The Kongka Pass or Kongka La () is a low mountain pass on the Line of Actual Control between India and China in eastern Ladakh. It lies on a spur of the Karakoram range that intrudes into the Chang Chenmo Valley adjacent to the disputed Aksai Chin region. China claimed the location as its border in a 1956 map, and atta... |
Kingsway Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from five communities in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Kingsway Regional School District. The school serves students from East Greenwich Township, ... |
thumb|250px|Rally for Marriage Equality in Melbourne, August 2017 This article details the history of the LGBT rights movement in Australia, from the colonial era to the present day. == The Indigenous experience == Whilst identifying as LGBT is not uncommon amongst Indigenous Australians today there is no record of it ... |
thumb|right|Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov (; 22 March 1905 – 26 August 1996)Lexicon Grammaticorum: A bio-bibliographical companion to the history of linguistics was a Soviet Turkologist, linguist, and ethnologist. He created a systematization model of the Turkic language family (Baskak... |
Bitches Brew is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was recorded from August 19 to 21, 1969, at Columbia's Studio B in New York City and released on March 30, 1970 by Columbia Records. It marked his continuing experimentation with electric instruments that he had featured... |
The Palace of Lunéville ( ) is a residence of the Duke of Lorraine since the 13th century in Lunéville, about 35 kilometers east of Nancy, capital of Lorraine. The palace is owned by the Department Meurthe-et-Moselle since 2017. Many people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Lunéville every year, making it one of th... |
This a list of elementary schools in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The TDSB is Canada's largest school board and was created in 1998 by the merger of the Board of Education for the City of York, the East York Board of Education, the North York Board of Education, the Scarborough Board of Education, the Etob... |
Salman Mumtaz (; May 20, 1884, Nukha – September 6, 1941, Oryol) — Azerbaijani poet, literature historian, bibliographer, and collector of medieval manuscripts. He was a member of the Union of Azerbaijani writers since 1934, a researcher in the 1st category of the literature sector of the Azerbaijani Branch of the Acad... |
COVID-19 affects men and women differently both in terms of the outcome of infection and the effect of the disease upon society. The mortality due to COVID-19 is higher in men. Slightly more men than women contract COVID with a ratio of 10:9. When looking at the socio-cultural impacts of the response to the pandemic: s... |
{{Infobox video game | title = The Sims 4 | image = Sims4 Rebrand.png | caption = Cover art since 2019 | developer = Maxis | publisher = Electronic Arts | series = The Sims | platforms = | released = WindowsOS XPlayStation 4, Xbox One | genre = Social simulation | modes = Single-player | director = | producer = | desig... |
Elmer Boyd Staats (June 6, 1914 - July 23, 2011) was an American public servant whose career from the late 1930s to the early 1980s was primarily associated with the Bureau of the Budget (BOB) (now the Office of Management and Budget [OMB]) and the GAO. Staats was born to Wesley F. and Maude (Goodall) Staats. Staats re... |
The Central European Football League (CEFL) is a European organization of American football which hosts two international competitions, CEFL Championship and CEFL Cup. The final game of the CEFL Championship playoffs is dubbed CEFL Bowl. Until the formation of the CEFL Cup in 2017 the name of the organization was synon... |
The David di Donatello Award for Best Producer (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior produttore) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding production efforts by producers or production companies who have worked within the Ital... |
thumb|right|330px|Mernet Larsen, Intersection (after El Lissitzky), acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 46.75" x 63", 2020. Mernet Larsen (born 1940) is an American artist known for idiosyncratic, disorienting narrative paintings that depict a highly abstracted, parallel world of enigmatic and mundane scenarios.Smith, R... |
"Finale" is the title of the two-episode series finale of the superhero television series Smallville. The episodes are the 21st and 22nd of the 10th season, and the 216th and 217th episodes overall. The finale originally aired on The CW in the United States on May 13, 2011. The first half was written by Al Septien and ... |
The Jeremy Kyle Show is a British tabloid talk show presented by Jeremy Kyle and produced by ITV Studios. It premiered on the ITV network on 4 July 2005, and ran for seventeen series until its cancellation on 10 May 2019. It was the most popular programme in ITV's daytime schedule, broadcast on weekday mornings and rea... |
Adam Air (incorporated as PT. Adam SkyConnection Airlines) was a privately owned airline based in West Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia."Cover." Adam Air. Retrieved on 22 June 2009. It operated scheduled domestic services to over 20 cities and international services to Penang and Singapore. Its main base was Soekarno-Hatta ... |
thumb|A schematic map showing the tourist places in Mangalore city. The city of Mangalore is proclaimed as the gateway to Karnataka and lies nestled between the blue waters of the Arabian Sea and the green, towering hills of the Western Ghats. The 184 square km city is spread out over the backwaters of the two rivers, ... |
Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas (January 7, 1906 – January 27, 1990) was an artist and poet. He was born in Fürth, Germany, but lived most of his adult life in Atlanta, Georgia. His most notable pieces are public monuments; however, he also worked in other media (including, but not limited to painting, sculpture, mosaic... |
Bees can suffer serious effects from toxic chemicals in their environments. These include various synthetic chemicals, particularly insecticides, as well as a variety of naturally occurring chemicals from plants, such as ethanol resulting from the fermentation of organic materials. Bee intoxication can result from expo... |
Heraclitus (; ; ) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. Little is known of Heraclitus's life. He wrote a single work, only fragments of which have survived. Most of the ancient stories about him are thought to be later fabrications based on in... |
thumb|right|Erdem Gunduz during the Standing Man protest Erdem Gündüz is a Turkish dancer, actor, performance artist, choreographer, and teacher who, as a result of his actions during the 2013–14 protests in Turkey, has become "the face of the protest movement against the Turkish government." He became internationally ... |
thumb|Map of the Southern African coastline showing some of the landmarks referred to in species range statements The list of reptiles of South Africa is a list of species that form a part of the reptilian fauna of South Africa. The list follows the SANBI listing. == Crocodylia == Order Crocodylia === Crocodylidae === ... |
Bis ( ) (stylised as bis) are a Scottish indie pop band composed of Steven Clark (Sci-Fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), and Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin), formed in 1994. The band's name, rhyming with 'this', derives from "black iron skyline", a lyric from the song "Twilight of a Champion" by The The. After releasing... |
{{Infobox publisher | name = Rip Off Press | image = RipOffPress-logo.jpg | company_slogan = | founded = 1969 | founders = Fred Todd, Dave Moriaty, Gilbert Shelton, Jack Jackson | imprints = Iguana Comics"Newswatch: Show Them Your Lizard", The Comics Journal #160 (June 1993), p. 17. (changed to Magnecom in 1993)"Newswa... |
thumb|300px|right|A diversity of corals Coral reef protection is the process of modifying human activities to avoid damage to healthy coral reefs and to help damaged reefs recover. The key strategies used in reef protection include defining measurable goals and introducing active management and community involvement to... |
This is a list of the main characters from the manga series Kare Kano and its anime adaptation. Kare Kano is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Tsuda. It was serialized in LaLa from 1996 to 2005 and collected in 21 tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha. ==Miyazawa family== ===Yukino Miyazawa=== thumb|Yu... |
right|380px|thumb|The "Large Dragons", China's first postage stamps, 1878, of the post office The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. In modern times, postal delivery is... |
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s.: "Jerome John Garcia, ("JERRY"), U.S. mus... |
Serine proteases (or serine endopeptidases) are enzymes that cleave peptide bonds in proteins. Serine serves as the nucleophilic amino acid at the (enzyme's) active site. They are found ubiquitously in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Serine proteases fall into two broad categories based on their structure: chymotrypsi... |
In Jyotiṣa or Indian astrology, the term Upagrāha (Sanskrit: उपग्रह) refers to the so-called "shadow planets" (Sanskrit: छायाग्राह, chāyāgrāha) that are actually mathematical points, that are used for astrological evaluation. Upagrāha is a generic term used for two distinct and different calculations. One type of Upagr... |
The existence of rhinoceroses in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by references in ancient Chinese literature. Depictions of rhinoceroses in ancient Chinese art are typically very accurate and lifelike, suggesting that they were modelled first-hand by the artist on living rhinoceroses rathe... |
Postpartum depression (PPD), also called postnatal depression, is a type of mood disorder associated after childbirth, which can affect both sexes. Symptoms may include extreme sadness, low energy, anxiety, crying episodes, irritability, and changes in sleeping or eating patterns. PPD can also negatively affect the new... |
Luis Daoíz y Torres (10 February 1767 – 2 May 1808) was a Spanish artillery officer and one of the leaders of the Dos de Mayo Uprising that signalled the start of the Spanish War of Independence. Daoíz's surname is derived from the town of Aoiz in Navarre and he was descended from a long line of Spanish gentry with sol... |
This is a list of all main and recurring characters of BBC television's sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! that ran 85 episodes from 1982–1992. == Overview == Character Nationality Actor Series 1 (1982–1984) Series 2 (1985) Series 3 (1986–1987) Series 4 (1987) Series 5 (1988–1989) Series 6 (1989) Series 7 (1991) Series 8 (1991–1992) ... |
Harry Dahl is a former East German police officer who switched to homeland security in 1956. Within the Ministry for State Security hierarchy he achieved rapid promotion, reaching the rank of “colonel”. Between 1975 and 1985 he was in charge at the service's “Department XXII”, a specialist section dealing with counter-... |
Coronation Street is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2015, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Stuart Blackburn. Beth Tinker's (Lisa George) grandmother, Agnes Tinker (Juliette Kaplan), and Hamish ... |
Peter Kaufmann-Bohren (June 23, 1886, in Grindelwald – June 23, 1971, in Thun, at age 85) was a Swiss ski instructor and mountain guide, climbing in the Swiss Alps and the Canadian Rockies. == Family and early life (1886–1905) == thumb|left| Gerald Fox (right), who encouraged Peter's uncles to ski, brought the sport to... |
Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 independentHOW THE SECRET OF NIMH PROVED DON BLUTH COULD BEAT DISNEY - Nerdist live-action/animated musical comedy film produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Goldcrest Films. Loosely based on Edmond Rostand's 1910 comedy play Chantecler, Rock-a-Doodle was directed by Don Bluth and written by Da... |
The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) is the governing Masonic lodge for the majority of freemasons in England, Wales and the Commonwealth of Nations. Claiming descent from the Masonic grand lodge formed 24 June 1717 at the Goose & Gridiron Tavern in London, it is considered to be the oldest Masonic Grand Lodge in t... |
This article lists motorcycle riders who have died competing at motorcycle racing events. This article lists rider deaths in all series, at any level. ==Isle of Man TT, Manx Grand Prix and Southern 100 == There have been over 275 recorded competitor deaths in the Isle of Man since 1910. Some Isle of Man deaths are incl... |
Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. ==Origin of the name== Guttannen is the name of a meadow, which became the name of the municipality. It comes from the phrase ze den guoten tannen (by the good firs). ==History== thumb|left|The Gelmerse... |
thumb|right|200px|Popp in 2007 Dieter Popp (24 November 1938 – 27 November 2020) was a West German insurance agent who worked as a spy between 1969 and 1990. He was based in Bonn, at that time the so-called provisional capital of the German Federal Republic (West Germany). His espionage work was undertaken on behalf of... |
Hrvoje Slovenc (born 1976, Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian-American fine art photographer based in New York City. He holds an MS in biochemistry from the University of Zagreb and an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art. His photographs have been exhibited in dozens of shows nationally and internationall... |
Futuwwa (Arabic: فتوة, "young-manliness" or "chivalry") was a conception of adolescent moral behavior around which myriad institutions of Medieval confraternity developed. With characteristics similar to chivalry and virtue, these communal associations of Arab men gained significant influence as stable social units tha... |
thumb|Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text "this is an example of a huffman tree". The frequencies and codes of each character are below. Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were used. (This assumes t... |
Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the French Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars. This list does not include documentaries, short films.Leger Grindon, "Hollywood history and the French Revolution: from The Bastille to The Black Book." Velvet Light T... |
Pedro Almodóvar awards and nominations 235px Almodóvar in 2017. {| class="collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;" Award Wins Nominations Totals ;Academy Awards ;BAFTA Awards ;Berlin Film Festival ;Cannes Film Festival ;César Awards ;Critics' Choice Movie Awards ;Golden Globe Awards ;Goya Awards ;European Film Awards... |
The Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey team plays for the University of Minnesota Duluth at the AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota. The team is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the Division I tier. The Bulldogs h... |
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A masque involved music, dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage des... |
The following is a list of animated television series originating in the United States of America. ==American animated television series== For shows produced by entities that have since been re-organized, their former names are listed in brackets. All channels listed are American unless otherwise noted. Title Episodes ... |
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a product line of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) intelligent business applications announced by Microsoft in July 2016 and released on November 1, 2016. It was formerly Microsoft Dynamics. == Applications == Microsoft Dynamics is largely made up o... |
Opposition to the Second Boer War occurred both within and outside of the British Empire. Among the British public, there was initially much support for the war, though it declined considerably as the conflict dragged on. Internationally, condemnation of Britain came from many sources, predominately left-wing and anti-... |
Operational Training Units (OTU) and Replacement Training Units (RTU) were training organizations of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Unlike the schools of the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC), OTU- RTU units were operational units of the four domestic numbered air forces along with I Troo... |
Aaron Rosser Titlow (November 22, 1857 – January 6, 1923) was a Washington state lawyer and politician. Titlow served as a prosecuting attorney for Pierce County from 1896 to 1898 and was the Democratic National Committeeman from the state of Washington from 1920 to 1923. As of 2020, he's best remembered for Titlow Bea... |
Antonio Sabàto Jr. (born February 29, 1972) is an Italian-born American model and actor. Sabàto first found fame in the 1990s as an underwear model for Calvin Klein and playing Jagger Cates on the soap opera General Hospital from 1992 to 1995. By the early 2000s, most of his acting credits were guest appearances, reali... |
Mel Burton is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Hollyoaks, played by actress Cassie Powney. She made her first appearance during the episode broadcast on 23 September 2003. Powney joined the cast along with her twin Connie Powney, who plays Mel's twin sister Sophie Burton. They auditioned for... |
The Ecuadorian Armed Forces () is the national military force of Ecuador. The commander-in-chief is the President of Ecuador. The military is generally under civilian control, specifically the Ministry of National Defence. The Ecuadorian military of Ecuador has been involved in border disputes with Peru (Ecuadorian–Per... |
Kaeloo is a French computer-animated comedy television series. The first season, comprising 52 episodes, each seven minutes long, it is created by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative associated with Blue Spirit. The series has been airing from June 6, 2010, on Canal+, Canal+ Kids and Tél... |
Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the alternative rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores. He has been named one of the greatest guitarists by publications including Rolling Stone. Along with his elder brother, th... |
Copenhagen Consensus is a project that seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics, using cost–benefit analysis. It was conceived and organized around 2004 by Bjørn Lomborg, the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and the then director of ... |
Thado Minsaw (, ; 20 May 1531 – May 1584) was viceroy of Ava (Inwa) from 1555 to 1584 during the reigns of kings Bayinnaung and Nanda of Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). He fought alongside his brothers Bayinnaung, Minye Sithu, Thado Dhamma Yaza II and Minkhaung II, and his nephew Nanda in nearly every campaign from... |
thumbnail|right|upright=1.25|Birth rate in China, 1950–2015 The one-child policy (Simplified Chinese: ) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. The program had wide-ranging social, cultural, e... |
This is a timeline of the history of chart shows on UK radio. == 1950s == * 1952 ** 14 November – The very first UK Singles Chart is compiled, by New Musical Express. * 1953 ** No events. * 1954 ** No events. * 1955 ** 4 October – Pick of the Pops is broadcast on the BBC Light Programme for the first time * 1956 ** No ... |
The following is a list of media available in the Irish language. ==Television== ===Current channels=== ==== TG4 ==== TG4, originally known as Teilifís na Gaeilge (TnaG), broadcasts on terrestrial television in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It has an annual budget of €34.5 million. The station has ... |
{{Infobox book | name = Heidi | image = Spyri Heidi Cover 1887.jpg | caption = | author = Johanna Spyri | title_orig = Originally published in two parts- Part 1: Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning, Part 2 Heidi: How She Used What She Learned | translator = Helen Bennett Dole | illustrator = | cover_artist = | c... |
The following is a list of fictional government agencies, comic book organizations that have been published by DC Comics and their imprints. ==A== ===Agency=== The Agency was formed by Amanda Waller to serve as a small, quasi-independent branch of Task Force X. It performed global operations which were vital to the sec... |
The Varga Katalin Secondary School (since 2007 officially Varga Katalin Gimnázium – Varga Katalin Secondary School) is a secondary school in Szolnok, Hungary established in 1930, which was named after Katalin Bánffy between 1936 and 1951. It is located in the former Obermayer-Hubay apartment house, which is one of the ... |
The English ceremonial county of Somerset contains a wide range of museums, defined here as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhi... |
We Are the Tigers is a pop rock musical with book, lyrics, and music by Preston Max Allen. The musical follows a cheerleading captain and her team trying to survive the annual cheer sleepover when a serial killer strikes. The show premiered in Los Angeles at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in 2015, and an Off-Broadway pro... |
Rice v. Cayetano, 528 U.S. 495 (2000), was a case filed in 1996 by Big Island rancher Harold "Freddy" Rice against the state of Hawaii and argued before the United States Supreme Court. In 2000, the Court ruled that the state could not restrict eligibility to vote in elections for the Board of Trustees of the Office of... |
Edward Plunket Taylor, CMG (January 29, 1901 – May 14, 1989) was a Canadian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist. He was a famous breeder of Thoroughbred race horses, and a major force behind the evolution of the Canadian horse-racing industry. Known to his friends as "Eddie", he is all but universally recorded... |
Riparian-zone restoration is the ecological restoration of riparian-zone habitats of streams, rivers, springs, lakes, floodplains, and other hydrologic ecologies. A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. Riparian is also the proper nomenclature for one of the fifteen terrest... |
Jeffrey John Denham (born July 29, 1967) is an American politician, United States Air Force veteran, and businessman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2019. Denham first won election to the U.S. House in 2010, representing for one term before redistricting led him ... |
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in... |
The Philadelphia Sports Writers Association (PSWA)For the PSWA logo, see: was founded on May 12, 1904, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.About webpage. PSWA Dinner official website. Retrieved 2010-12-16. The first of what would become an annual Awards Dinner was held on February 15, 1905. ==Awards== Each year, awards are p... |
Tidal (stylized in all caps) is a Norwegian-American music streaming service, launched in 2014 by Swedish public company Aspiro. Tidal is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company. With distribution agreements with all three major record labels and many independent labels, Tidal claims t... |
Gerry Lester "Bubba" Watson Jr. (born November 5, 1978) is an American professional golfer. He has two major championships, with victories at the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014, and a total 12 PGA Tour wins. In February 2015, Watson reached a career-high 2nd place in the Official World Golf Ranking. Watson plays i... |
The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. Fuller built three experimental prototypes with naval architect Starling Burgess - using donated money as well as a family inheritance - to explore not an autom... |
In mathematics, a module is a generalization of the notion of vector space in which the field of scalars is replaced by a ring. The concept of module generalizes also the notion of abelian group, since the abelian groups are exactly the modules over the ring of integers. Like a vector space, a module is an additive abe... |
thumb|Rocco Di Pietro Rocco Di Pietro (born 1949) is composer, pianist, author, teacher, and habilitationist whose work crosses multiple disciplinary boundaries. "His work has a literary and visual component linking him with the romantic tradition."https://www.amc.net/Rocco%20Di%20Pietro He is based in Columbus, Ohio, ... |
Turkmenistan's declaration of "permanent neutrality" was formally recognized by the United Nations in 1995. Former President Niyazov stated that the neutrality would prevent Turkmenistan from participating in multi-national defense organizations, but allows military assistance. Its neutral foreign policy has an importa... |
The term Eastern Protestant Christianity (or Eastern Reformed Christianity as well as Oriental Protestant Christianity) encompasses a range of heterogeneous Protestant Christian denominations that developed outside of the Occident, from the latter half of the nineteenth century, and yet keep elements of Eastern Christi... |
Ideas Have Consequences is a philosophical work by Richard M. Weaver, published in 1948 by the University of Chicago Press. The book is largely a treatise on the harmful effects of nominalism on Western civilization since this doctrine gained prominence in the Late Middle Ages, followed by a prescription of a course of... |
The Italian Unabomber () is the moniker referring to an unidentified terrorist who carried out a series of bombings in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of Italy between 1994 and 2006. The Italian Unabomber placed small booby-trapped objects in public spaces in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia which were des... |
Shubhashish Mazumder Bappa (born 5 February 1972), commonly known as Bappa Mazumder, is a Bangladeshi singer, lyricist and national film award winner composer. He is the lead singer of the rock band Dalchhut, which he formed in 1996. Bappa is famous for his Bengali romantic compositions and is known as The Melody King ... |
Revolutionary Suicide is an autobiography written by Huey P. Newton with assistance from J. Herman Blake originally published in 1973. Newton was a major figure in the American black liberation movement and in the wider 1960s counterculture. He was a co-founder and leader of what was then known as the Black Panther Par... |
The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I;) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorad... |
() or Mariagenspiel is a German 6-card trick-and-draw game for two players in which players score bonus points for the "marriage" of King and Queen of the same suit. The game, first documented in 1715 in Leipzig, spawned numerous offshoots throughout continental Europe and gives its name to the Marriage group of card g... |
English trust law concerns the protection of assets, usually when they are held by one party for another's benefit.JE Martin, Hanbury & Martin: Modern Equity (19th edn Sweet & Maxwell 2012) ch 2, 49 Trusts were a creation of the English law of property and obligations, and share a subsequent history with countries acro... |
The Italian protectorate of Albania, also known as the Kingdom of Albania or Greater Albania, existed as a protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy. It was practically a union between Italy and Albania, officially led by Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III and its government: Albania was led by Italian governors, after being ... |
Coke Studio is an Indian music series that features live musical performances by various artists recorded in a studio. The series showcases a diverse range of music genres from the Indian subcontinent, including Hindustani, Carnatic, Indian folk, as well as contemporary hip hop, rock, and pop music. The show's concept ... |
thumb|right|Ayahuasca pot in Ecuador AyahuascaPronounced as in the UK and in the US. Also occasionally known in English as ayaguasca (Spanish-derived), aioasca (Brazilian Portuguese-derived), or as yagé, pronounced or . Etymologically, all forms but yagé descend from the compound Quechua word ayawaska, from aya () and ... |
{{Infobox settlement | name = Iwaki | native_name = | official_name = | settlement_type = Core city | image_skyline = City of Iwaki.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Top: Iwaki Yumoto Onsen, Aquamarine Fukushima Middle: Iwaki-Taira Velodrome, Iwaki Green Stadium Bottom: Spa Resort Hawaiians, Iwaki Marin... |
Education in Guatemala is free and compulsory for six years."Guatemala" . 2001 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor (2002). Guatemala has a five-tier system of education starting with primary school, followed by secondary school and tertiary educati... |
The Gowanus Canal (originally known as the Gowanus Creek) is a canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Once a vital cargo transportation hub, the canal has seen decreasing use since the mid-20th century, parallel with the decline of domestic waterborne shipping. It con... |
Within Thelema, the Great Work is generally defined as those spiritual practices leading to the accomplishment of the True Will of one's Self in mystical union with the All. Its founder, author and occultist Aleister Crowley, based this path of mystical attainment or enlightenment on his studies in Hermetic alchemy and... |
Manchester Township is a township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 45,115, the highest recorded in any de... |
Two Sides of the Moon is the only solo studio album by the English rock musician Keith Moon, drummer for the Who. It peaked at No. 155 on the Billboard 200.AllMusic website retrieved 23 March 2016 The album title was credited to Ringo Starr. Rather than using the album as a chance to showcase his drumming skill, Moon s... |
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