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William Henry Francis Kenneth Horton (Brentford, Middlesex 25 April 1906 – Hove, Sussex 31 October 1986) was an English cricketer.
William Horton was educated at Stonyhurst for whom he represented the 1st XI. As a right-handed batsman, he represented Middlesex in two matches in 1927 and the Europeans in India in two m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Horton%20%28cricketer%29 |
Aladdin is a 1992 animated fantasy film. It is based on the classic Arabian Nights story Aladdin, translated by Antoine Galland. Aladdin was produced by Golden Films and the American Film Investment Corporation. Like all other Golden Films productions, the film featured a single song, "Rub the Lamp", written and compos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin%20%281992%20Golden%20Films%20film%29 |
Knife sharpening is the process of making a knife or similar tool sharp by grinding against a hard, rough surface, typically a stone, or a flexible surface with hard particles, such as sandpaper. Additionally, a leather razor strop, or strop, is often used to straighten and polish an edge.
Overview
The smaller the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife%20sharpening |
An ejecta blanket is a generally symmetrical apron of ejecta that surrounds an impact crater; it is layered thickly at the crater's rim and thin to discontinuous at the blanket's outer edge. The impact cratering is one of the basic surface formation mechanisms of the solar system bodies (including the Earth) and the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejecta%20blanket |
Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble is a skateboarding themed action/adventure video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Unlike the NES port of the original Skate or Die!, which was developed by Konami and published by their Ultra Games subsidiary, the sequel was developed internally and published by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate%20or%20Die%202%3A%20The%20Search%20for%20Double%20Trouble |
Sogndal is a former municipality and small seaport (ladested) in Rogaland county, Norway. The municipality is located on the coast in the traditional district of Dalane. The municipality existed from 1845 until its dissolution in 1944 when it was merged into the municipality of Sokndal. It comprised the two harbor vil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogndal%2C%20Rogaland |
Haga is a city district in Gothenburg, Sweden, renowned for its picturesque wooden houses, 19th century-atmosphere and cafés. Originally a working class suburb of the city with a rather bad reputation, it was gradually transformed into a popular visiting place for tourists and Gothenburgers. A major renovation of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haga%2C%20Gothenburg |
Brian C. Stiller (born 1942) is Global Ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance, the global association which represents some 600 million Evangelical Protestants. He is the author of fourteen books.
Education
Stiller was raised in a Pentecostal minister's home on the prairies. Educated at the University of Toronto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Stiller |
Muhammad Rafiq Mugal (born 1936) is a Pakistani archaeologist, engaged in investigating of ethnoarchaeological research in Chitral, northern Pakistan. He has been responsible for the direction, technical support and supervision for restoration and conservation of more than thirty monuments and excavated remains of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Rafique%20Mughal |
Edna Amy Iles (18 May 190529 January 2003) was an English classical pianist.
Edna Iles was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham in 1905. She began her studies in Birmingham with Appleby Matthews, making her debut as soloist with the City of Birmingham Orchestra at age 15 in the Liszt E-flat Concerto. She made her Wigmore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna%20Iles |
West Cheshire College was a further education, vocational college in the North West of England. It had over 20,000 students at its two main campuses in Ellesmere Port and Chester as well as in workplaces and community venues. In March 2017 it was merged with South Cheshire College, based in Crewe, to form Cheshire Coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Cheshire%20College |
"Do I Do" is a song written and performed by American singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder, first released in 1982 on the compilation album, Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I (1982). The single peaked at #2 on the US Billboard soul chart and #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. On the Billboard dance chart, "Do I Do" went... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%20I%20Do |
The Williamson-Balfour Company (or Williamson, Balfour and Company) was a Scottish owned Chilean company. Its successor company, Williamson Balfour Motors S.A., is a subsidiary of the British company Inchcape plc.
The company was founded in Valparaiso in 1863 as a subsidiary of the Liverpool shipping company Balfour ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson-Balfour%20Company |
Luisa Castro (born 1966, in Foz, Lugo) is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish. She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Naples and Bordeaux. She is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin, Ireland.
Her first collection of poems, O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa%20Castro |
George Franklin Dales Jr. (August 13, 1927 – April 25, 1992), was an archaeology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and later the University of California, Berkeley, where he chaired the South and Southeast Asian Studies department. He was considered a leading expert on Indus valley peoples and their language... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20F.%20Dales |
The Reason is the second studio album by rapper Beanie Sigel, released on Roc-A-Fella Records. Orginally scheduled for a June 12, 2001 release, the album was ultimately released June 26, 2001. The album contains 14 tracks, and special guests include Memphis Bleek, Jay-Z, Freeway, Omillio Sparks, Scarface, Daz, Kurupt, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Reason%20%28Beanie%20Sigel%20album%29 |
Margrave Philibert of Baden (22 January 1536 in Baden-Baden – 3 October 1569 in Montcontour) ruled the Margraviate of Baden-Baden from 1554 to 1569. Philibert was the son of the Margrave Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Franziska of Luxembourg, daughter of Charles I, Count of Ligny.
Philibert spent part of h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert%2C%20Margrave%20of%20Baden-Baden |
LaBradford Corvey Smith (born April 3, 1969) is an American retired professional basketball player.
Career
Smith went to Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas. He played collegiately at the University of Louisville before being selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1st round (19th overall) of the 1991 NBA draft.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBradford%20Smith |
Ignacio is a male Spanish and Galician name originating the Latin name "Ignatius" from ignis "fire". This was the name of several saints, including the third bishop of Antioch (who was thrown to wild beasts by emperor Trajan) and Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Variants include the archaic Iñacio, the Italian Ignazio, the Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio |
James A. Duke (4 April 1929 – 10 December 2017) was an American botanist. He was the author of numerous publications on botanical medicine, including the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. He was well known for his 1997 bestseller, The Green Pharmacy. He developed the Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20Duke |
The Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons is the regular Grand Lodge with authority over Freemasons in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was consecrated on November 1, 1997, with 32 lodges, of which 28 are still extant as of 2020, by the United Grand Lodge of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Lodge%20of%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador |
"Tonight I Wanna Cry" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released in November 2005 as the fifth and final single from his 2004 album Be Here. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Urban wrote this song with Monty Powell.
Music ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20I%20Wanna%20Cry |
Extended-hours trading (or electronic trading hours, ETH) is stock trading that happens either before or after the trading day of a stock exchange, i.e., pre-market trading or after-hours trading.
After-hours trading is the name for buying and selling of securities when the major markets are closed. Since 1985, the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended-hours%20trading |
Monkeewrench (released later in the United Kingdom as Want to Play?), is the first novel by author team P. J. Tracy. It revolves around the search for a copycat killer, who is recreating murders found in a new computer game. It also seems that the killer is linked to the computer programmers who made the game.
This bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeewrench |
Lurita Alexis Doan (born Lurita Alexis; January 4, 1958) is a businesswoman, political commentator, and former Republican appointee who was the administrator of the United States General Services Administration, the government's contracting agency, from May 31, 2006, to April 29, 2008, during the administration of Repu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurita%20Doan |
Jataveda () is a Vedic Sanskrit term for a particular form/epithet of Agni, the Vedic god of fire.
Description
In a tradition originating in the late Vedic period, but already alluded to in the Rigveda, Agni has three forms: a celestial form (fire of the sun and the stars), an aerial form (lightning and the life-forc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataveda |
Jordan Michael Lewis (born 24 April 1986) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
AFL career
Hawthorn
Lewis was drafted by Hawthorn with Pick 7 in the 2004 AFL Draft. Hawthorn originally had intended to draf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Lewis |
The Crime Club was an imprint of the Doubleday publishing company, which later spawned a 1946-47 anthology radio series, and a 1937-1939 film series.
Literature
Many classic and popular works of detective and mystery fiction had their first U.S. editions published via the Crime Club, including all 50 books of The Sain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crime%20Club |
Phoenix House is a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization operating in ten states with 150 programs. Programs serve individuals, families, and communities affected by substance abuse and dependency.
History
Phoenix House was founded in 1967 by six heroin addicts who met at a detoxification program in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20House |
Paul Curran is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Thomas Davis club and for the Dublin county team. He is currently the manager of Oliver Plunkett's and was previously with the Dublin Under-21 team as part of Jim Gavin's backroom team as well as manager of Ballymun Kickhams and Clann na nGael.
On 10 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Curran%20%28Gaelic%20footballer%29 |
Harold W. Thimbleby (born 19 July 1955) is a British professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales. He is known for his works on user interface design within the realm of human computer interaction.
Overview
Harold Thimbleby held the post of director of UCLIC, University College London's Interaction Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Thimbleby |
Kylie InGold (born September 1962) is an Australian artist, a painter of the fairy and fantasy genre. Her painting career began in the early 1980s and has endured as one of Australia's most popular contemporary fairy artists. She studied fashion design at the Gold Coast Institute of TAFE.
InGold predominantly works in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie%20InGold |
In fluid mechanics, multiphase flow is the simultaneous flow of materials with two or more thermodynamic phases. Virtually all processing technologies from cavitating pumps and turbines to paper-making and the construction of plastics involve some form of multiphase flow. It is also prevalent in many natural phenomena.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphase%20flow |
Vector Synthesis is a type of audio synthesis introduced by Sequential Circuits in the Prophet VS synthesizer during 1986. The concept was subsequently used by Yamaha in the SY22/TG33 and similar instruments and by Korg in the Wavestation.
Vector synthesis provides movement in a sound by providing dynamic cross-fad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20synthesis |
Clinton Dawson Courtney (March 16, 1927 – June 16, 1975), nicknamed Scrap Iron, was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1951), St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1952–1954, 1960, 1961), Chicago White Sox (1955), Washington Senators (1955–1959)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint%20Courtney |
Obayashi may refer to:
Obayashi Corporation, one of five major Japanese construction companies
Obayashi (surname), a Japanese surname
Obayashi Station, a railway station in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obayashi |
Eugene O'Mahony (1899 - 21 June 1951) was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.
Early life
Eugene O'Mahony was born County Limerick in 1899. He moved to Dublin as a child, and due to ill health he did not attend school. He suffered from multiple neurofibromata ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20O%27Mahony |
The Letterkenny Library and Arts Centre is located on St. Oliver Plunkett Road in the County Donegal town. It is the central library in the county and is an integral part of Donegal County Council's arts provision. It is the first arts centre operated by a local authority in Ireland.
History
The Centre opened in 1995 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterkenny%20Library%20and%20Arts%20Centre |
Count Arseny Andreyevich Zakryevsky (; September 24, 1783 or 1786 in Tver Governorate – January 23, 1865 in Florence) was a Russian statesman and Minister of the Interior from April 19, 1828 to November 19, 1831.
Son of a poor Tver nobleman of distant Polish origin, Zakrevsky began his military career in a cadet corps... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arseny%20Zakrevsky |
Wuhan Foreign Languages School (), or WFLS, is a public secondary school founded in 1964 in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It now offers education from 10th grade to 12th grade. WFLS's curriculum places a particular emphasis on foreign language training and maintains rigorous standards in the arts and sciences. Languages other t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan%20Foreign%20Languages%20School |
Letterkenny Town Park () or Bernard McGlinchey Town Park, as it is officially known as, is a public park located in Letterkenny, County Donegal. It is located at University Hospital Roundabout, adjacent to St Conal's Hospital.
It was the largest public park in Letterkenny and in County Donegal from 1999 to 2009 until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterkenny%20Town%20Park |
The Ballyraine Linear Park is situated on the outskirts of Letterkenny town. It is a park that has been developed over the last few years, and currently features a stone wall along a small walkway and an area of natural wildlife and plants.
Geography of Letterkenny
Parks in County Donegal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballyraine%20Linear%20Park |
Magnum, P.I. is an American action drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator in Hawaii. The series ran on CBS, which broadcast 162 first-run episodes over eight seasons, from December 11, 1980, to May 1, 1988.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1980–81)
Season 2 (1981–82)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Magnum%2C%20P.I.%20episodes |
Madalitso Muthiya (born 8 February 1983) is a Zambian professional golfer.
Muthiya took up golf at the age of six and at fifteen he caught the attention of Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who asked an American, James Roth, to assist Muthiya in securing an athletic scholarship to a university. Roth arranged for M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalitso%20Muthiya |
The Temple of Veiovis in ancient Rome was the temple of the god Veiovis, built sometime in the early 1st century BC.
In literature
The temple was sited in the saddle of ground "inter duos lucos", between two sacred groves, one on the Arx and one on the Capitolium (the two peaks of the Capitoline Hill). The statue of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Veiovis |
Glenveagh Castle () is a large castellated mansion located in Glenveagh National Park, County Donegal,
Ireland and was built in about 1870.
History
Captain John George Adair built Glenveagh Castle between 1867 and 1873. It stands within the boundaries of Glenveagh National Park, near both Churchill and Gweedore in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenveagh%20Castle |
Rugby union in Russia is a moderately popular sport. Russia was in 2011 ranked 20th worldwide by the World Rugby, having over three hundred clubs and close to 22,000 players nationally. Russian Rugby Championship is the top-level professional competition held in Russia. Krasnoyarsk, in the middle of Siberia, is tradit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20union%20in%20Russia |
In computer science, read–modify–write is a class of atomic operations (such as test-and-set, fetch-and-add, and compare-and-swap) that both read a memory location and write a new value into it simultaneously, either with a completely new value or some function of the previous value. These operations prevent race cond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93modify%E2%80%93write |
Television in Serbia was introduced in 1958. It remains the most popular of the media in Serbia—according to 2009 survey, Serbian people watch on average 6 hours of television per day, making it the highest average in Europe.
Free-to-air terrestrial television
Digital television transition has been completed in 2015 w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20in%20Serbia |
"That's All" is a 1952 song written by Alan Brandt with music by Bob Haymes. It has been covered by many jazz and blues artists. The first recording, by Nat King Cole in 1953, achieved some popularity but was not among that year's top 20 songs. It was Bobby Darin's version from his 1959 album of the same title that int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s%20All%20%281952%20song%29 |
In chemistry, the Grimm–Sommerfeld rule predicts that binary compounds with covalent character that have an average of 4 electrons per atom will have structures where both atoms are tetrahedrally coordinated (e.g. have the wurtzite structure). Examples are silicon carbide, the III-V semiconductors indium phosphide and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%E2%80%93Sommerfeld%20rule |
The Yamaha XS750 and XS850 was a line of inline three cylinder motorcycles produced by the Yamaha Motor Corporation from 1976 to 1981 for the worldwide motorcycle market. It was publicly-voted by readers as the 1977 Motorcycle News Machine of the Year, ousting the sitting-winner of four-years, the Kawasaki Z1.
Releas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20XS750 |
Glebe House and Glebe Gallery are located just outside the town of Letterkenny near Churchill. The English portrait and landscape painter Derek Hill lived and worked there from 1954 until he presented the house and his art collection to the Irish state in 1981. Hill's former studio has been converted into a modern gall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe%20Gallery |
The MC-808 is a groovebox introduced by Roland in 2006. It is the successor to the late Roland MC-303, Roland MC-307, Roland MC-505 and Roland MC-909.
Background
Roland first announced the MC-808 at the NAMM Show in January 2006. While less expensive than the Roland MC-909, the MC-808 has a number of features the MC-9... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20MC-808 |
The Harman Center for the Arts is a complex consisting of the Michael R. Klein Theatre (450 7th Street NW) and Sidney Harman Hall (SHH; at Sixth and F Streets NW) in downtown Washington, D.C., US.
SHH is the latest addition to the existing Lansburgh Theatre to create the new "Center For the Arts". Construction began i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harman%20Center%20for%20the%20Arts |
Arborea is a town and comune in the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.
Arborea may also refer to:
Giudicato of Arborea, an historical state in Sardinia
Arborea, a village in George Enescu Commune, Botoşani County, Romania
Arborea (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional place in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arborea%20%28disambiguation%29 |
KABY may refer to:
KABY-LD, a low-power television station (channel 20, virtual 15) licensed to serve Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
KABY-TV, a defunct television station (channel 9) formerly licensed to serve Aberdeen, South Dakota
Southwest Georgia Regional Airport (ICAO code KABY)
Aliu Djaló, Portugue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KABY |
Tilt–shift photography is the use of camera movements that change the orientation or position of the lens with respect to the film or image sensor on cameras.
Sometimes the term is used when a shallow depth of field is simulated with digital post-processing; the name may derive from a perspective control lens (or tilt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift%20photography |
KDSD may refer to:
KDSD-FM, a radio station (90.9 FM) licensed to Pierpont, South Dakota, United States
KDSD-TV, a television station (channel 17) licensed to Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDSD |
This is a list of compositions by George Gershwin, a Broadway songwriter and a classical composer. His works are grouped thematically in this list, and in chronological order according to the dates of compositions in the same group.
Classical works
Note: All orchestral/operatic pieces are orchestrated by Gershwin unl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20George%20Gershwin |
Sugano (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese noble
, Japanese astronomer
, Japanese aikidoka
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese baseball player
, Japanese footballer
See also
Sugano Station, a railway station in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Sug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugano |
Dr. Omar Bin Sulaiman is the chairman of the OBS Group, a privately held diversified group with operations across the Middle East and emerging markets.
Career
Bin Sulaiman was the former governor of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). He was the representative for DIFC for His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Bin%20Sulaiman |
KCSD may refer to:
KCSD (FM), a radio station (90.9 FM) licensed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
KCSD-TV, a television station (channel 24) licensed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Kake City School District
Keokuk Community School District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCSD |
CGGS can refer to:
Calday Grange Grammar School
Canberra Girls' Grammar School
Camberwell Girls Grammar School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGGS |
KESD may refer to:
KESD (FM), a radio station (88.3 FM) licensed to Brookings, South Dakota, United States
KESD-TV, a television station (channel 18) licensed to Brookings, South Dakota, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KESD |
A tackle is a playing position in American football. Historically, in the one-platoon system prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a tackle played on both offense and defense. In the modern system of specialized units, offensive tackle and defensive tackle are separate positions, and the stand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tackle%20%28gridiron%20football%20position%29 |
Nitrophenols are compounds of the formula HOC6H5−x(NO2)x. The conjugate bases are called nitrophenolates. Nitrophenols are more acidic than phenol itself.
Mono-nitrophenols
with the formula HOC6H4NO2. Three isomeric nitrophenols exist:
o-Nitrophenol (2-nitrophenol; OH and NO2 groups are neighboring, a yellow so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrophenol |
KPSD may refer to:
KPSD-FM, a radio station (97.1 FM) licensed to Faith, South Dakota, United States
KPSD-TV, a television station (channel 25) licensed to Eagle Butte, South Dakota, United States
KRLD-FM, a radio station that held the call letters KPSD from ? to ? licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States
Knots per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPSD |
, literally meaning "house name", is a term applied in traditional Japanese culture to names passed down within a guild, studio, or other circumstance other than blood relations. The term is synonymous with and . The term most often refers to the guild names of kabuki actors, but is also applicable to the names artist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yag%C5%8D |
Sir Robert Montgomery GCSI, KCB (2 December 1809 – 28 December 1887), was a British administrator and civil servant in colonial India. He was Chief Commissioner of Oudh during the period of 1858 to 1859 and later served as Lieutenant Governor of Punjab between 1859 and 1865.
Biography
Early life
Montgomery was born a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Montgomery%20%28civil%20servant%29 |
KQSD may refer to:
KQSD-FM, a radio station (91.9 FM) licensed to Lowry, South Dakota, United States
KQSD-TV, a television station (channel 15) licensed to Lowry, South Dakota, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQSD |
Golden hat can refer to:
Golden hat - a set of four conical shaped golden hats dating to between 1400 BC and 800 BC
Golden Hat Trophy - awarded to the winner of the Red River Shootout college football game and now one of three trophies awarded after the game | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20hat%20%28disambiguation%29 |
KTSD may refer to:
KTSD-FM, a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Reliance, South Dakota, United States
KTSD-TV, a television station (channel 10 analog/21 digital) licensed to Pierre, South Dakota, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTSD |
KZSD may refer to:
KZSD (AM), a now defunct Spanish-language radio station (1050 and 1410 kHz) licensed in Loma Linda, California, United States
KZSD-FM, a radio station (102.5 FM) licensed to Martin, South Dakota, United States
KZSD-TV, a television station licensed to Martin, South Dakota, United States
KZSD-LP,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZSD |
HMS Safari was a third batch S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Commissioned in 1942, she was assigned to operate in the Mediterranean Sea. During the course of the war, Safari sank twenty-five ships, most of which were Italian.
Laid down on 5 June 1940 at Birkenhead, Safari was launched o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Safari |
DHH can refer to:
David Heinemeier Hansson, a Danish computer programmer
Deaf and hard of hearing
Desert hedgehog (protein), a protein encoded by the Dhh gene
DHH phosphatase family
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
Dhh, a 2017 Indian children's film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHH |
Albert Russell Nichols (1859–1933 ) was an English museum curator and zoologist who worked mainly in Ireland.
Nichols was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in mathematics as 16th wrangler in 1882. Nichols came from England to Dublin in 1883 as Assistant in the Museum of Science and Art (now the Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Russell%20Nichols |
Cornelius Ubbo Ariëns Kappers (9 August 1877 – 28 July 1946) was a Dutch neurologist and anatomist.
Life
As a student, Ariëns Kappers was influenced by the work of the German neurologist Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918) and Dutch anatomist Louis Bolk (1866–1930). During his career, he amassed around 450 whole brains from ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20U.%20Ari%C3%ABns%20Kappers |
Sidney Harman Hall is a theater at Sixth and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C. It is part of the Harman Center for the Arts, along with the Lansburgh Theatre. It is the home of the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC).
Built for $89 million, the building was designed by Paul Beckmann of the DC firm Smithgroup; the theater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Harman%20Hall |
Klondike is an unincorporated residential and agricultural community in the town of Brighton, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
History
Klondike was first settled in the 19th century and was formerly known as "Klondike Corner". It is centered at Highway 75 and 52nd Street (Kenosha County Highway NN). The Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike%2C%20Kenosha%20County%2C%20Wisconsin |
Arizona Snowbowl is an alpine ski resort in the southwest United States, located on the San Francisco Peaks of northern Arizona, north of Flagstaff. The Snowbowl ski area covers approximately one percent of the San Francisco Peaks, and its slopes face west and northwest.
Starting its skiing operations in 1938, the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20Snowbowl |
Events in the year 2003 in Japan.
Incumbents
Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Junichiro Koizumi (L–Kanagawa)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuo Fukuda (L–Gunma)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Akira Machida
President of the House of Representatives: Tamisuke Watanuki (L–Toyama) until October 10, Yōhei Kōno (L–Kan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20in%20Japan |
The Pontiac Club de Mer was a purpose-built, experimental car that was built by Pontiac for the General Motors Motorama in 1956 to celebrate General Motors' commitment to futuristic design. The brainchild of GM engineer-designer, Harley Earl (Paul Gillian was also involved being the Pontiac Studio head at the time), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac%20Club%20de%20Mer |
Sports Racer may refer to:
Sports car racing, a form of circuit auto racing
Sports Racer Series, an Australian motor racing series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Racer |
The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) is a national civil rights and educational organization in the United States. SALDEF is a national 50(c)3 non-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based body.
Mission
SALDEF's mission is to protect the civil rights of Sikh Americans and ensure a fostering environm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh%20American%20Legal%20Defense%20and%20Education%20Fund |
The Temple of Vespasian and Titus (, ) is located in Rome at the western end of the Roman Forum between the Temple of Concordia and the Temple of Saturn. It is dedicated to the deified Vespasian and his son, the deified Titus. It was begun by Titus in 79 after Vespasian's death and Titus's succession. Titus’ brother... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Vespasian%20and%20Titus |
Claus Ogerman (born Klaus Ogermann; 29 April 1930 – 8 March 2016) was a German arranger, conductor, and composer best known for his work with Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, Michael Brecker, and Diana Krall.
Life and work
Born in Ratibor (Racibórz), Upper Silesia, Germany (now part of Poland), Oge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus%20Ogerman |
Piana degli Albanesi () is a with 6,128 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily. The official name of the town was Piana dei Greci until 1941. The municipality is situated on a mountainous plateau and encircled by high mountains, on the eastern side of the imposing Mount Pizzuta, the city, which is mir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piana%20degli%20Albanesi |
Unorthodox Behaviour is the first album by British jazz fusion group Brand X. It peaked at 191 on the Billboard 200 in 1976, the same year it was released.
The album combines jazz fusion with progressive rock. It shows extensive use of improvisation in the extended pieces, which is common in both genres of music.
Rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorthodox%20Behaviour |
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) () is the official organization for overseas Chinese students and scholars registered in most colleges, universities, and institutions outside of the People's Republic of China. The associations in different institutions share a common name. The stated function of CS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Students%20and%20Scholars%20Association |
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a 2005 concert film by Lian Lunson about the life and career of Leonard Cohen. It is based on a January 2005 tribute show at the Sydney Opera House titled "Came So Far for Beauty", which was presented by Sydney Festival under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, and produced by Hal Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Cohen%3A%20I%27m%20Your%20Man |
The Temple of Apollo Sosianus (previously known as the Apollinar and the temple of Apollo Medicus) is a Roman temple dedicated to Apollo in the Campus Martius, next to the Theatre of Marcellus and the Porticus Octaviae, in Rome, Italy. Its present name derives from that of its final rebuilder, Gaius Sosius.
Location
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple%20of%20Apollo%20Sosianus |
I'm Your Man is a 1992 short film which was created to showcase Loews Theatres' interactive cinema technology. Audiences used seat-mounted joysticks to vote between three options in action at six different points throughout the movie.
Production
The movie was designed as the first test of Interfilm, Bob Bejan's intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Your%20Man%20%281992%20film%29 |
Verilog-AMS is a derivative of the Verilog hardware description language that includes Analog and Mixed-Signal extensions (AMS) in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems. It extends the event-based simulator loops of Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, by a continuous-time simulator, which solves the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog-AMS |
Atwater-Donnelly is an American folk music group from Rhode Island consisting of Aubrey Atwater, Elwood Donnelly, and occasionally other musicians and dancers. They have toured throughout the United States and internationally, playing guitar, banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, tin whistle, limberjack, and other instruments. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwater-Donnelly |
Stephen Trigg Logan (February 24, 1800 – July 17, 1880) was an American lawyer and politician.
He practiced law with Abraham Lincoln from 1841 to 1843. He served as Illinois circuit court judge and in 1847 was elected to the Illinois Constitutional Convention. He also served in the Illinois House of Representatives. L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20T.%20Logan |
Arthur Derek Hill, , (6 December 1916 – 30 July 2000) was an English portrait and landscape painter and a longtime resident of Ireland.
Life and work
Early life
Hill was born at Southampton, in Hampshire, the son of a wealthy sugar trader.
Career
He first worked as a theatre designer in Leningrad in the 1930s, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Hill%20%28painter%29 |
The Universities Tests Act 1871 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished religious "Tests" and allowed Roman Catholics, non-conformists and non-Christians to take up professorships, fellowships, studentships and other lay offices at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. It also forba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities%20Tests%20Act%201871 |
The Flash: Vertical Velocity is an inverted steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. The roller coaster is themed to the DC Comics character, The Flash. Originally named Vertical Velocity, the ride received a re-theme in 2022.
Manufactured by Intamin under the trade name "Twisted Im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flash%3A%20Vertical%20Velocity%20%28Six%20Flags%20Great%20America%29 |
Gaius Calpurnius Piso was a politician and general from the Roman Republic. He became praetor urbanus in 72/71 BC. After being elected consul in 67 BC, Piso opposed Pompeius' friends, the tribunes Gaius Cornelius and Aulus Gabinius. Assigned both Gallia Narbonensis and Gallia Cisalpina, he remained as proconsul until 6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius%20Calpurnius%20Piso%20%28consul%2067%20BC%29 |
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