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Live Bait is the second book by author P. J. Tracy. It follows on from her first book, Monkeewrench and has the same principal characters. This book starts with the death of an elderly man, which at closer inspection looks like an execution.
Reception
Kirkus Reviews wrote of it: "Tracy returns in surprising detail to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Bait%20%28novel%29 |
Doonesbury, also known as Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, is a 1983 musical with a book and lyrics by Garry Trudeau and music by Elizabeth Swados.
Based on Trudeau's comic strip of the same name, it served to change the format of the strip from an episodic satire of college campus life that existed on a floating timelin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doonesbury%20%28musical%29 |
Norberto "Bert" Joya Marcelo Sr. (June 6, 1936 – December 16, 1995) was a Filipino actor and television personality. His trademark high-pitched infectious laughter earned him the popular moniker "Tawa", the Tagalog word for laughter.
Background
Born in Baliuag, Bulacan, Marcelo's persona as the Filipino everyman, enha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Marcelo |
The ITU vegetation model is a radio propagation model that estimates the path loss encountered due to the presence of one or more trees inside a point to point telecommunication link. The predictions found from this model is congruent to those found from Weissberger’s modified exponential decay model in low frequencies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20ITU%20model |
The Van Wagoner was an American electric automobile manufactured between 1899 and 1903 in Syracuse, New York, by the Syracuse Automobile Company. It was advertised as "built on a simple plan that does away with several levers and push buttons" and could purportedly be "controlled with one hand."
During 1900 the model ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Wagoner%20%28automobile%29 |
Caledonian Airways Flight 153 was a multi-leg nonscheduled passenger service from Luxembourg via Khartoum, Lorenzo Marques (nowadays Maputo), Douala and Lisbon, before heading back to Luxembourg.
On 4 March 1962 a Douglas DC-7C flying the route, registration G-ARUD, crashed shortly after takeoff from Douala Internatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian%20Airways%20Flight%20153 |
In 1991 the Shakespeare Theatre Company, under Artistic Director Michael Kahn, initiated its annual Free For All performances in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. Each year the Company performed a show free to the public, usually from a previous season. In 2009 the Free For All was moved indoors to Sidney Harman Hall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%20Theatre%20Company%20Free%20For%20All |
Éric Poulat (born 8 September 1963 in Bron, Rhône) is a French retired football referee and computer scientist. Appointed as a referee on 1 January 1999, he made his international debut in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 28 March 2001 between (Poland and Armenia). He went on to officiate at the 2004 Olympic Tourname... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric%20Poulat |
The Van Gink was a Dutch automobile manufactured between 1899 and around 1903. Powered by two separate 2½ hp De Dion-Bouton-engines mounted at its rear, the tubular-framed voiturette was the product of a cycle maker from Amsterdam.
References
Car manufacturers of the Netherlands
Dutch companies established in 1899
V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Gink |
Ralph Lucas (1876-1955) was an entrepreneur and inventor, involved in the design and manufacturing of early motor cars. He was born in Greenwich, the son of telegraph engineer Francis Robert Lucas (1849-1931) and his wife Katherine. After studying at Jesus College, Cambridge, Lucas began his career as a draughtsman. Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Lucas |
The Valveless was an English automobile manufactured, after lengthy development, from 1908 until 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. The successor to the Ralph Lucas Valveless, the car marked the entry of the David Brown & Sons group into the manufacture of motors. Its engine was a 20 or 25 hp duplex two-stroke model whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valveless |
ANSI/ISA-95, or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred, is an international standard from the International Society of Automation for developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems. This standard has been developed for global manufacturers. It was developed to be applied in all industries, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/ISA-95 |
Rhoda Scott (born July 3, 1938) is an American soul jazz organist and singer. She is nicknamed "The Barefoot Lady".
Biography and musical career
Scott was born and raised in the Dorothy neighborhood of Weymouth Township, New Jersey, the first child to a Black travelling minister father and a white mother. She has six... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda%20Scott |
The Rába was a Hungarian automobile manufactured from 1912 to 1914. Rába automobile was a subsidiary of the Rába (company) in Győr. A product of the Rába company in the city of Győr, the engine of the car was the 4.2-liter 58 hp (44 kW) Praga "Grand". The car was built in limited numbers, under the Praga license. Rab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1ba%20%28automobile%29 |
The Pungs-Finch was an American automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan from 1904 to 1910. They were powerful touring cars built by a factory which primarily made marine gas engines.
History
E. B. Finch was an engineer who had studied at the University of Michigan and who had built his first automobile in 1902.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungs-Finch |
Joe Temperley (20 September 1929 – 11 May 2016) was a Scottish jazz saxophonist. He performed with various instruments, but was most associated with the baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, and bass clarinet.
Life
Temperley was born in Cowdenbeath, Scotland, and grew up in Lochgelly. His father was a bus driver.
Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Temperley |
Leon Terence Anthony Cort (born 11 September 1979) is a former footballer who played as a defender. He is the younger brother of Carl Cort and the older half-brother of Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
Cort began his career as at non-league side Dulwich Hamlet before turning professional with Millwall in 1998. He was unable to bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Cort |
California is the most populous U.S. state; as a result, it has the most representation in the United States House of Representatives, with 52 Representatives. Each Representative represents one congressional district.
Per the 2020 United States census, California lost a new congressional seat, reducing its total seat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s%20congressional%20districts |
WUOA may refer to:
WUOA-LD, a low-power television station (channel 28, virtual 46) licensed to serve Birmingham, Alabama, United States
WVUA (TV), a television station (channel 6, virtual 23) licensed to serve Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which held the call sign WUOA from 2005 to 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WUOA |
Richard Edward Pasco, (18 July 1926 – 12 November 2014) was a British stage, screen and TV actor.
Early life
Pasco was born in Barnes, London, the only child of insurance company clerk Cecil George Pasco (1897-1982) and milliner Phyllis Irene (1895-1989; née Widdison). He was educated at the King's College School, Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Pasco |
António Teixeira Carneiro Júnior (16 September 1872 – 31 March 1930) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, poet and art professor.
Biography
Born into a working-class family, at the age of seven, he was abandoned by his father and lost his mother not long after. In 1879, he was placed in an orphanage operated by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio%20Carneiro |
The Jags were a British rock band formed in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, in 1978, composed of Nicole Watkinson (vocals), John Alder (guitar/backing vocals), Steve Prudence (bass), firstly Neil Whittaker and then Alex Baird (drums), Michael Cotton (bass/backing vocals) and Patrick O'Toole (piano/keyboard).
A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jags |
The sociology of law, legal sociology, or law and society is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, but others tend to consider it a field of research caught up between the di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology%20of%20law |
Paddy J. McLogan () (1899 – 21/22 July 1964) was President of Sinn Féin from 1950–52 and again from 1954 to 1962.
Biography
Born in Markethill, County Armagh, he spent some time in Scotland. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1913 and the Irish Volunteers. The same year he was imprisoned by the British auth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20McLogan |
The Foot Book is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1968. Intended for young children, it seeks to convey the concept of opposites through depictions of different kinds of feet. The text of The Foot Book is highly stylized, containing the rhymes, repetitions, and cadences typical of Dr. Seuss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Foot%20Book |
Cyclohexanecarboxylic acid is the organic compound with the formula C6H11CO2H. It is the carboxylic acid of cyclohexane. It is a colorless oil that crystallizes near room temperature.
Preparation and reactions
It is prepared by hydrogenation of benzoic acid.
Cyclohexanecarboxylic acid is a precursor to the nylon-6 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclohexanecarboxylic%20acid |
The Theory of Deadly Initials was an hypothesis published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1999, which proposed that there is a link between the lifespan of human males and their initials. The research, carried out by psychologists Nicholas Christenfeld, David Phillips and Laura Glynn, and published in the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20Deadly%20Initials |
Bill Sweetman (born 1956 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK) is a former editor for Jane's and currently an editor for Aviation Week group. He is a writer of more than 50 books on military aircraft. He lives in Oakdale, Minnesota. He is noted for his dogged pursuit of the Aurora project. He appeared as an Aerospace Consult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Sweetman |
Soldier Boy may refer to:
Soldier Boy, the English title of an operetta by Emmerich Kálmán
Soldier Boy, three comic book superheroes from The Boys and its television adaptation
"Soldier Boy" (1915 song), a World War I era song
Soldier Boy (film), a 2019 Russian film about World War II
"Soldier Boy" (The Shirelles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier%20Boy%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Queen was a Canadian automobile manufactured in Toronto between 1901 and 1903 by the Queen City Cycle & Motor Works. The car was a 4-seater runabout powered by an 823cc single-cylinder engine mounted under the front seat.
The clutch and gearbox were so rough that passengers were sometimes thrown out. In 1903 comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20%28Canadian%20automobile%29 |
"Hot Love" is a song by English glam rock band T. Rex, released as a standalone single on 12 February 1971 by record label Fly. It was the group's first number one placing on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained at the top for six weeks beginning on 20 March 1971.
The two performances of the song on Top of the Pops... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Love%20%28T.%20Rex%20song%29 |
Harriet A. Roche (née Mills, later Boomer) (1835–1921) was a Canadian author. Harriet, her sister, and her mother first came to Canada from England in 1851, after Mrs. Mills accepted a teaching position in the Red River Colony.
Harriet and her mother returned to England in 1857. In 1858, Harriet Mills married Alfred R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20A.%20Roche |
The Queen was an English automobile produced from 1904 to 1905. "The car for the million or the millionaire", it was sold by Horner & Sons of Mitre Square, London. Models of 12 and 16 hp were offered; prices ranged from 235 guineas to 275 guineas.
See also
List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
References... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20%28English%20automobile%29 |
The Honda CT series was a group of Honda trail bike motorcycles made since 1964. The CT designation is a slight exception in Honda nomenclature in that "CT" does not indicate a series of mechanically related bikes, but rather a group of different bikes that are all for casual off-road use.
Overview
A description of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20CT%20series |
The Queen was a Brass Era American automobile manufactured between 1904 and 1907 in Detroit, Michigan.
History
Carl H. Blomstrom was an engineer who built his first experimental car in 1897 and a second one in 1899.
Blomstrom (1902-1903)
Blomstrom became a manufacturer in 1902 of a small single-cylinder runabout. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20%28American%20automobile%29 |
Smokey's Family Robinson is an album by Smokey Robinson, released in 1976. The title is a pun on The Swiss Family Robinson.
The album peaked at No. 57 on the Billboard 200.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Smokey Robinson; except where indicated.
"When You Came" - 5:24
"Get Out of Town" (Smokey Robinson, Rose Ell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey%27s%20Family%20Robinson |
Benzoates (salts of benzoic acid) can refer to:
Ammonium benzoate
Calcium benzoate
Magnesium benzoate
Potassium benzoate
Sodium benzoate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzoates |
Władysław Cyganiewicz (November 20, 1891 – June 10, 1968), better known by the ring name Władek Zbyszko (), was a Polish catch wrestler, professional wrestler and strongman. "Zbyszko" was his older brother Stanislaus's childhood nickname, borrowed from a fictional medieval knight in the novel Krzyżacy; both brothers us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wladek%20Zbyszko |
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published by Random House in 1970.
Plot
The story follows a man named Mr. Brown, who can make a wide variety of sounds, imitating the sounds of animals and inanimate objects. The narrator r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Brown%20Can%20Moo%21%20Can%20You%3F |
WOTM-LD (channel 19) is a low-power independent television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Broadway Communications, LLC.
WOTM-LD carries a number of locally produced television shows such as View Point, Central Alabama Sports Show, Sportz Blitz, and the Pelham High School Footbal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOTM-LD |
A Bucket of Blood (also known as The Death Artist) is a 1995 American comedy horror television film. A remake of the 1959 film of the same name, it follows the original closely, adapting it to a contemporary setting. The film was directed by comedian Michael McDonald, produced by Roger Corman (who produced and directed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Bucket%20of%20Blood%20%281995%20film%29 |
James Wandesford Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, (15 July 1774 – 18 May 1838) was an Irish nobleman and politician. He was the second son of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde and Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford. He was born at Kilkenny castle on 15 July 1774.
Butler was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilkenny Ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Butler%2C%201st%20Marquess%20of%20Ormonde |
Halica: Bliss Out v.11, often referred to as just Halica is the debut album from experimental pop group Sweet Trip, and was released by Darla Records in November 1998. It was the eleventh entry in the label's Bliss Out series of ambient-style records.
Background
In Sweet Trip's early years as a three piece, the band ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halica%3A%20Bliss%20Out%20v.11 |
Fenestration or fenestrate may refer to:
Fenestration (architecture), relating to openings in a building
Fenestra, in anatomy, medicine, and biology, any small opening in an anatomical structure
Leaf window, or fenestration, a translucent or transparent area in a plant leaf
Perforate leaf, sometimes described as f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenestration |
The Practica della mercatura (Italian for "The Practice of Commerce"), also known as the Merchant's Handbook, is a comprehensive guide to international trade in 14th-century Eurasia and North Africa as known to its compiler, the Florentine banker Francesco Balducci Pegolotti. It was written sometime between 1335 and 13... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratica%20della%20mercatura |
The Quadrant Cycle Company was a company in Birmingham, England that was established in 1890 as a bicycle manufacturer. They advanced to make motorcycles from 1899 until their demise in 1928. They also made a tricar called Carette in 1899 and a small number of cars for about two years around 1906.
The company exhibite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrant%20Cycle%20Company |
Scott Allen Lindroth (born 1958) is an American composer and teacher based near Durham, North Carolina.
Lindroth joined the faculty of Duke University in 1990, where he is the Vice-Provost for the Arts and the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Music; his colleagues at Duke include composers Stephen Jaffe, John Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Lindroth |
Maximum security prisons and supermax prisons are grades of high security level used by prison systems in various countries, which pose a higher level of security to prevent prisoners from escaping and/or doing harm to other inmates or security guards.
For the United States, see Incarceration in the United States § Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20security%20prison |
Wayne Wesolowski is builder of miniature models.
Wesolowski's models have been exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln Home Site, the West Chicago City Museum, RailAmerican, and the National Railroad Museum.
One of his more noted works is a model of Abraham Lincoln'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Wesolowski |
The Quick was a Veteran Era American automobile produced from 1899 to 1900 in Patterson and Newark, New Jersey.
History
H. M. Quick developed the two-seat runabout over a two-year period. F. A. Phelps, Jr. developed the horizontal two-cylinder, chain-driven overhead camshaft engine rated at 4 horsepower. Although... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick%20%28automobile%29 |
The Quinby was an American automobile manufactured in 1899 in Newark, New Jersey.
History
The Horseless Age magazine of March 1899 reported "'It is an unfailing sign of the times, when one of the oldest carriage-building firms in the country, noted for more than half a century for the excellence of their product, emb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinby%20%28automobile%29 |
Arizona Onstage Productions is a non-profit theater company in Tucson, Arizona. The company was founded by former touring actor Kevin Johnson and is mainly known for producing unusual, thought-provoking and often controversial musicals. Although the small company lacks the resources or theater space of comparativel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20Onstage%20Productions |
Sword of Sherwood Forest is a 1960 British Eastman Color adventure film in MegaScope directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions. Richard Greene reprises the role of Robin Hood, which he played in The Adventures of Robin Hood on TV from 1955 to 1959.
Plot
The Sheriff of Nottingham plans to confiscate the es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword%20of%20Sherwood%20Forest |
Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin (26 March 1898 – 28 November 1990) was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man (Sinanthropus pekinensis). In the 1950s, the scientific designation of Peking Man was changed whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger%20Bohlin |
The Quo Vadis was a French cyclecar manufactured in Courbevoie from 1921 until 1923. It featured a twin-cylinder Train engine.
References
David Burgess Wise, The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles.
Cyclecars
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo%20Vadis%20%28automobile%29 |
An autoloader is a mechanical aid or replacement for the personnel that load ordnance into crew-served weapons, such as tanks and artillery.
Autoloader may also refer to:
A jargon term for a self-loading firearm.
Autoloader (data storage device), sometimes called a stacker or a jukebox, a data storage device contai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoloader%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Ḥ-R-M (Modern ; ) is the triconsonantal root of many Semitic words, and many of those words are used as names. The basic meaning expressed by the root translates as "forbidden".
Arabic
Names
Masjid al-Haram (); "The Sacred Mosque" – the mosque surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca
Al-Bayṫ al-Ḥarām (, "The Sacred House"); th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%A4-R-M |
The Thunder Bay Public Library serves the citizens of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and surrounding areas.
Services
Information and reference services
Access to full text databases
Community information
Internet access
Reader's advisory services
Programs for children, youth and adults
Delivery to homebound indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Bay%20Public%20Library |
The Skene was an American automobile manufactured from 1900 to 1901. A twin-cylinder 5-hp steam car, it was built in Lewiston, Maine.
History
J. W. Skene Cycle Company of Lewiston finished its first steam carriage in 1900. R. H. B. Warburton of Springfield, Massachusetts helped Skene organize, with a capital stock o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skene%20%28automobile%29 |
Typically Tropical were a British band comprising two Trojan Records audio engineers, Jeff Calvert and Max West. They are best known for their 1975 number one hit record "Barbados" and for writing the 1978 disco hit "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" by Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip.
History
After hearing the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typically%20Tropical |
Sociedad Deportiva Huesca, S.A.D., is a Spanish football club based in Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded on 29 March 1960, the club competes in the Segunda División, having played in the Spanish top division for the first time in the club's history in the 2018–19 season, followed by another single ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD%20Huesca |
Chester, New York may refer to:
Chester (village), New York, a village in Orange County, New York, United States
Chester, Orange County, New York, a town in Orange County, New York, United States
Chester, Warren County, New York, a town in Warren County, New York, United States
See also
Chestertown, New York, a h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester%2C%20New%20York |
The Skeoch ( ) was a Scottish cyclecar manufactured in 1921 by Skeoch Utility Car Company in Dalbeattie, Kirkudbrightshire. It was powered by a 348 cc single-cylinder Precision engine and was fitted with a two-speed Burman gearbox with chain for its final-drive.
At the Scottish Motor Show in 1921, the first Skeoch Ut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeoch |
Gondi (), natively known as Koitur (Kōī, Kōītōr), is a South-Central Dravidian language, spoken by about three million Gondi people, chiefly in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and by small minorities in neighbouring states. Although it is the language of the Gon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondi%20language |
Shaul Bakhash (in ), is an Iranian-American historian in Iranian studies at George Mason University where he is a "Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History."
Bakhash is Jewish and was born in Iran. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow as well as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul%20Bakhash |
P. J. Tracy is a pseudonym for American mother-daughter writing team Patricia (P. J.) (b. 1946 d. Stillwater December 21, 2016) and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their ten mystery thrillers include Monkeewrench (published as Want to Play? in the UK), Live Bait, Dead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20J.%20Tracy |
Nigel McGown Green (15 October 192415 May 1972) was an English character actor. Because of his strapping build, commanding height () and regimental demeanour he would often be found playing military types and men of action in such classic 1960s films as Jason and the Argonauts, Zulu, Tobruk and The Ipcress File.
Early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Green |
The thick-billed ground dove (Pampusana salamonis) is an extinct dove species of the family Columbidae.
Description
This poorly known species is only known from two specimens from 1882 and 1927. The holotype from 1882 can be seen in the Australian Museum in Sydney.
The length was about 26 cm. The head, the throat, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-billed%20ground%20dove |
"Get It On" is a song by the English rock band T. Rex, featured on their 1971 album Electric Warrior. Written by frontman Marc Bolan, "Get It On" was the second chart-topper for T. Rex on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it was retitled "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" to avoid confusion with a song of the same nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20It%20On%20%28T.%20Rex%20song%29 |
Gaston de Foix (1448 – 25 March 1500), Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges, was a French nobleman in the last decades of the Middle Ages. He was a cadet member of the important Foix family in Southern France. He was a son of John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal and Margaret Kerdeston.
Gaston succeeded as the Count of Ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20de%20Foix%2C%20Count%20of%20Candale |
George James Burke, Sr. (1886 – October 3, 1950) was one of the judges during the Nuremberg Trials.
Burke was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County, Michigan from 1911 to 1914. He is interred at St. Thomas Cemetery in Ann Arbor.
External links
Burke on Political Graveyard
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20J.%20Burke |
The Lviv tramway network (, translit.: L’vivs’kyi tramvai) is an electric tram in Lviv, Ukraine. It is one of two tram system in the Western Ukraine (the other one in Vinnytsia), and the largest among narrow-gauge tram systems in Ukraine.
From 1880 to 1908, the trams used a horse-drawn system, converting to an electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Lviv |
KHKZ (106.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to San Benito, Texas, United States, the station serves the Rio Grande Valley. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia. It shares a studio with its sister stations, KTEX, KBFM, KQXX-FM, and KVNS, located close to the KRGV-TV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHKZ |
Clofibric acid is a biologically active metabolite of the lipid-lowering drugs clofibrate, etofibrate and with the molecular formula C10H11ClO3. It has been found in the environment following use of these drugs, for example in Swiss lakes and the North Sea.
Some derivatives of clofibric acid are in a drug class calle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clofibric%20acid |
"Robin Hood and Queen Katherine" is Child ballad 145. "Robin Hood's Chase", Child ballad 146, takes up after it.
Synopsis
Robin befriends Queen Katherine. When King Henry offers a large wager that his archers cannot be excelled, she summons Robin and his men, who come to London under assumed names. Robin's bowmen prev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hood%20and%20Queen%20Katherine |
Blueberry pie is a pie with a blueberry filling. Blueberry pie is readily made because it does not require pitting or peeling of fruit. It usually has a top and bottom crust. The top crust can be circular, but the pie can also have a crumble crust or no top crust. Blueberry pies are often eaten in the summertime when b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry%20pie |
Velocity : Design : Comfort (stylized as velocity : design : comfort.) is the second album by American experimental pop act Sweet Trip, released on June 17, 2003 by Darla Records.
Background
Velocity : Design : Comfort was recorded at the home of Sweet Trip member Roberto Burgos. According to Burgos, the album was put... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity%20%3A%20Design%20%3A%20Comfort |
Deep in My Soul is Smokey Robinson's fifth solo album. It was released in 1977.
Critical reception
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:
Track listing
"Vitamin U" (Lawrence Brown, Terri McFaddin) – 4:30
"There Will Come a Day (I'm Gonna Happen to You)" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20in%20My%20Soul |
AWOO is the fourth studio album by The Hidden Cameras, released in 2006.
The album was released on EvilEvil in Canada in August. It was released on September 4 on Rough Trade in the UK and was also released on Arts & Crafts in the United States on September 19.
Track listing
"Death of a Tune" (2:43)
"AWOO" (2:44)
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awoo |
WTJP-TV (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Gadsden, Alabama, United States, serving the Birmingham area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located on Blount Mountain near Springville, Alabama.
The station formerly operated from a studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTJP-TV |
The O-We-Go was an American Cyclecar manufactured in 1914 in Owego, New York.
History
Designed by Charles B. Hatfield, Jr. of the Hatfield Auto Truck Company in Elmira, New York, the O-We-Go prototype cyclecar was tested for 3 months before production in Owego, New York began in 1914.
The O-We-Go had a 12-hp twin-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-We-Go |
The Otro Ford was a Spanish automobile manufactured from 1922 until 1924. As its name implied, it was heavily based on the Ford Model T, and was similar to the English Maiflower.
The De Vizcaya brothers acquired several Ford Model T vehicles that were manufactured in Spain. They then added modifications to them, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otro%20Ford |
Boron compounds are compounds containing the element boron. In the most familiar compounds, boron has the formal oxidation state +3. These include oxides, sulfides, nitrides, and halides.
Halides
The trihalides adopt a planar trigonal structure. These compounds are Lewis acids in that they readily form adducts with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron%20compounds |
"Each one teach one" is an African-American proverb. It has been adopted as a motto by many organizations.
Origin
The phrase originated in the United States during the time of slavery, when Africans were denied education, including learning to read. Many if not most enslaved people were kept in a state of ignorance ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Each%20one%20teach%20one |
Carry On Henry is a 1971 British historical comedy film, the 21st release in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). It tells a fictionalised story involving Sid James as Henry VIII, who chases after Barbara Windsor's character Bettina. James and Windsor feature alongside other regulars Kenneth Williams, Charles H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry%20On%20Henry |
Mighty Samson was a comic book series published Gold Key Comics. A post-apocalyptic adventure, it was set in the area around New York City, now known as "N'Yark", on an Earth devastated by a nuclear war. The series was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Frank Thorne.
Publication history
Mighty Samson ran for 32 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Samson |
Robin Hood's Chase is Child ballad 146 and a sequel to Child ballad 145, "Robin Hood and Queen Katherine". This song has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad. It is one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child Ballads, a comprehensive col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hood%27s%20Chase |
The Taiping Guangji (), sometimes translated as the Extensive Records of the Taiping Era, or Extensive Records of the Taiping Xinguo Period, is a collection of stories compiled in the early Song dynasty. The work was completed in 978, and printing blocks were cut, but it was prevented from publication on the grounds th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping%20Guangji |
The Maiflower was an English automobile manufactured from 1919 until 1921 in Gloucester by or for The Maiflower Motor Company. Named for the partners who built them, army captains Campbell Gwynne Price and Arthur Isaac Flower, the car was based on the Model T Ford, although a newly fabricated rear end and alterations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiflower |
Dennis Shepherd (11 October 1926 – 12 June 2006) was a South African boxer who won the silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Shepherd died at age 79 in Lichtenburg.
1948 Olympic results
Below is the record of Dennis Shepherd, a South African featherweight boxer who competed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Shepherd |
The Colombia Three are three individuals – Niall Connolly, James Monaghan, and Martin McCauley – who are currently living in the Republic of Ireland, having fled from Colombia where they had been sentenced to prison terms of seventeen years in 2003 on terrorism charges for training FARC rebels. The incident came during... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia%20Three |
Whitstone is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is roughly halfway between the towns of Bude and Launceston. The population at the 2011 census was 590.
History
The earliest mention of the village is in the Domesday Book of 1086, when Whitstone was called 'Witestan', and was held b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitstone |
Clem Seecharan (born 1950) is a Guyanese writer and historian of the Indo-Caribbean experience, and of West Indies cricket. He was born in Guyana and has been based in England since 1986.
Life and career
Seecharan grew up in East Berbice-Corentyne, and attended the Sheet Anchor Anglican School, the Berbice Educational... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clem%20Seecharan |
Sedum morganianum, the donkey tail or burro's tail, is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to southern Mexico. It is a succulent perennial producing trailing stems up to long, with fleshy blue-green leaves and terminal pink to red flowers in summer. S. morganianum has been found wild in tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedum%20morganianum |
Mr. Bloe was the name given to the musicians who performed the single "Groovin' with Mr. Bloe", which was a hit in 1970 in the UK for Dick James Music (DJM). These included Harry Pitch on harmonica, and on piano.
Background
The tune "Groovin' with Mr. Bloe" was written for the US studio group Wind, by Bo Gentry, Pau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Bloe |
Pearson Playwrights' Scheme (formerly Thames Television Theatre Writers Scheme) is a British organisation established in 1973 to support theatre writing. It runs the Pearson Award for Best New Play.
History
In 1973, Howard Thomas, then managing director of Thames Television, launched the Thames Television Theatre Wri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson%20Playwrights%27%20Scheme |
The Shad-Wyck was an American automobile manufactured from 1917 until 1918 in Frankfort, Indiana.
History
Run by the automobile dealer Shadburne Brothers of Chicago, the company's initial offerings seem to have been rebranded Bour-Davis cars. The name of the car was meant to invoke the famous Chadwick and advertisin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad-Wyck |
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}}The State of Art is on Fire is an EP by American punk rock band Rocket from the Crypt. It was released in 1995 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album was the band's f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20State%20of%20Art%20Is%20on%20Fire |
Dale Arlington Bisnauth (1936 – 4 April 2013) was a Guyanese politician, writer and member of the clergy. He was the Minister of Labour, Human Services, and Social Security in the Government of Guyana. Bisnauth served previously as the Guyanese Minister of Education.
Biography
Dale Arlington Bisnauth was born 1936 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Bisnauth |
Tom Romeo Coronel (born 5 April 1972) is a Dutch professional racing driver. Tom's twin brother Tim is also a racer, just like their father Tom Coronel Sr. His most important results are winning the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 race in 1997, the Formula Nippon championship in 1999, and the 2006 and 2009 World Touring ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Coronel |
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