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Ewald Meltzer (11 August 1869 in Auerbach/Vogtland - 30 January 1940 in Herrnhut, Oberlausitz) was a German director of an asylum in Saxony whose work had an influence on the Nazis to justify their T-4 Euthanasia Program.
Meltzer was a vocal critic of Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding, whose polemic about "life unworthy o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewald%20Meltzer |
Dallol () is a locality in the Dallol woreda of northern Ethiopia. Located in Kilbet Rasu, Afar Region in the Afar Depression, it has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of about below sea level. The Central Statistical Agency has not published an estimate for the 2005 population of the village, which has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallol%20%28ghost%20town%29 |
The documented history of Madrid dates to the 9th century, even though the area has been inhabited since the Stone Age. The primitive nucleus of Madrid, a walled military outpost in the left bank of the Manzanares, dates back to the second half of the 9th century, during the rule of the Emirate of Córdoba. Conquered by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Madrid |
XForms is a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for the X Window System. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, scrollbars, and menus etc. In addition, the library is extensible and new objects can easily be created and added to the library. It also includes the fdesign tool as a graphical user interface builder.
D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms%20%28toolkit%29 |
Paul Andrew Schneider (born March 16, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Mark Brendanawicz on the first two seasons of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation and Dick Liddil in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He won a Best Actor in a Narrative Feature award at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Schneider%20%28actor%29 |
Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust or Chalkie (born 1940 in Chaguaramas, Trinidad), is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. He has been singing calypso since 1967 and has recorded more than 300 calypsos.
Awards
He is a nine-time winner of Trinidad's Calypso Monarch competition, most re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkdust |
So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2002 is a various artists compilation album. It was released on 3 December 2001.
Track listing
CD 1
Alien Ant Farm – "Smooth Criminal" (3:28)
Eve featuring Gwen Stefani – "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" (3:47)
City High – "What Would You Do?" (2:56)
Afroman – "Because I Got High" (3:20)
Gabrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20Fresh%3A%20The%20Hits%20of%20Summer%202002 |
Red Dog Mine can refer to either of two places in the U.S. state of Alaska:
Red Dog mine, a mine in the northwestern part of the state
Red Dog Mine, Alaska, the census-designated place that includes the mine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Dog%20Mine |
Value City was an American discount department store chain with 113 locations. It was founded in 1917 by Ephraim Schottenstein, a travelling salesman in central Ohio. The store was an off-price retailer that sold clothing, jewelry, and home goods below the manufacturer suggested retail price. The chain focused on buyou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20City |
Paul Schneider (August 4, 1923 – October 13, 2008) was an American screenwriter who worked in television and film between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Star Trek
Schneider is probably best remembered for two episodes of the original Star Trek series: "Balance of Terror" and "The Squire of Gothos". The first of these intro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Schneider%20%28writer%29 |
Cú Chuimne (died 747 AD) was a monk and scholar of Iona. Cú Chuimne, along with Ruben of Dairinis, was responsible for the great compendium known as Collectio canonum Hibernensis (Irish collection of Canon law), which is the first systematic western collection of canon law.
Cú Chuimne is credited with composing the hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%BA%20Chuimne |
The name sharpshooter is used to refer to any of various genera and species of large leafhoppers in the tribe Proconiini of the family Cicadellidae. As with all cicadellids, they have piercing-sucking mouthparts and closely spaced rows of fine spines on their hind legs. The nymphs feed by inserting their needle-like mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpshooter%20%28insect%29 |
The Independent Socialist Party was a far left political party in Ireland. It was founded in 1976 as a split from the Irish Republican Socialist Party named the Irish Committee for a Socialist Programme, calling for more prominent socialist politics and less emphasis on paramilitary activity. The following year, it ren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Socialist%20Party%20%28Ireland%29 |
Actor Paul Schneider initially made a name for himself as flawed, but relatable characters in several small films before moving into more mainstream fare on television. A friend and classmate of David Gordon Green while attending the North Carolina School for the Arts, it was a natural progression for Schneider to appe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Schneider%20%28director%29 |
The MAPK/ERK pathway (also known as the Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK pathway) is a chain of proteins in the cell that communicates a signal from a receptor on the surface of the cell to the DNA in the nucleus of the cell.
The signal starts when a signaling molecule binds to the receptor on the cell surface and ends when the DNA in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPK/ERK%20pathway |
Jason Blake may refer to:
Jason Blake (ice hockey) (born 1973), American former ice hockey player
Jason Blake (footballer) (born 1981), Australian rules footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Blake |
Love Deluxe is the fourth studio album by English band Sade, released by Epic Records in the United Kingdom on 26 October 1992 and in the United States on 3 November 1992.
Critical reception
In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau felt that half of the album cannot qualify with S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Deluxe |
Hilton High School is part of the 4,450-student Hilton Central School District, a public school system based in Hilton, a suburb of Rochester, New York. Hilton High School offers an International Baccalaureate Diploma, and the school has made Newsweek 's Top 1,200 schools in the United States each year since ranking a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton%20High%20School |
Half Magic may refer to:
Half Magic, a 1954 novel by Edward Eager
Half Magic (film), an American film released in February 2018
Half Magic, the alternate title of the 2020 animated film Onward in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half%20Magic |
Echelon Corporation was an American company which designed control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. Echelon is now owned by Adesto Technologies.
History
Echelon was founded in February 1988 in Palo Alto, California by Clifford "Mike" Markk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon%20Corporation |
Cornelius Jakhelln (born 31 August 1977 in Kristiansand), né Cornelius Brastad, also known under the nom de plume Cornelius von Jackhelln, is a Norwegian vocalist, guitarist, musician, writer and poet.
Biography
Musician
Born as Cornelius Brastad in Oslo to parents Arvid Brastad, an accountant, and Harriet Qvenild, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20Jakhelln |
Wendy Sue Kopp (born June 29, 1967) is the CEO and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations working to expand educational opportunity in their own countries and the Founder of Teach For America (TFA), a national teaching corps.
Background
Wendy Kopp attended Highland Park Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy%20Kopp |
ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections) was established in 2005 by a group of computer scientists, psychologists and policy experts to address problems with electronic voting. The organization was funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) thru 2012, and published resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCURATE |
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre was an English performance art collective in the United Kingdom made up of about 14 musicians, poets, dancers, and sound and lighting technicians. It existed between 1968 and 1971, after which core members formed a more conventional rock band under the shortened name Principal Edwards.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20Edwards%20Magic%20Theatre |
The Naughty Nineties is a 1945 American film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is noteworthy for containing a filmed version of the duo's famous "Who's on First?" routine. This version is shown at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Plot
The time is the 1890s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Naughty%20Nineties |
Tirrenia is a privately-owned Italian shipping company contracted by the Ministry of Transportation to run ferry services between Italy's mainland and its major islands. It currently operates a fleet of seven vessels.
History
Tirrenia Società Anonima di Navigazione was founded in 1936, resulting from the nationalizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirrenia%20%28company%29 |
Roger de Beaumont (died 1202) was a 12th and 13th century Bishop of St Andrews.
Life
He was the son of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester. Roger's position as a younger son of the Earl of Leicester meant that Roger had to seek a fortune elsewhere, and did so within the church. Robert was a second cousin of Will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20de%20Beaumont%20%28bishop%29 |
North Brisbane Rugby Club or Norths is an Australian rugby union club. The club plays in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition, and fields teams for males and females in several other grades and age-group competitions.
North Brisbane has undergone several mergers and name changes since being founded in 1933 as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Brisbane%20Rugby%20Club |
Mijo Mirković (; 28 September 1898 – 17 February 1963), also known by his pen names Miho and Mate Balota, was a prominent Croatian poet, novelist and economist. Considered one of the most prominent Croatian poets of the 20th century and often credited as the greatest Istrian poet, he was called "the greatest Istrian af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate%20Balota |
Duke University Chapel is a chapel located at the center of the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. It is an ecumenical Christian chapel and the center of religion at Duke, and has connections to the United Methodist Church. Constructed from 1930 to 1932, the chapel seats about 1,800 peo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Chapel |
The Bronfman Jewish Education Centre (BJEC) is the planning and coordinating agency for Jewish community educational needs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Description
A constituent agency of the Federation CJA, BJEC strives to respond to the educational needs of 20 elementary schools, 14 secondary schools, 900 educators,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronfman%20Jewish%20Education%20Centre |
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan () (4 April 1979, Mombasa, Kenya – 14 September 2009, near Baraawe, Somalia) was the leader of al-Qaeda in Somalia. He was listed on the FBI's third major "wanted" list, the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list, for his association with multiple attacks in Kenya in 2002, as well as his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleh%20Ali%20Saleh%20Nabhan |
Samuel Humphreys (23 November 1778 – 16 August 1846) was a noted American naval architect and shipbuilder in the early 19th century. He served the United States Navy as the Chief Constructor for the Navy from 1826 to 1846.
Naval architect
Samuel Humphreys supervised the construction of the frigate , which was laid d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Humphreys |
Viktor Car Emin (Kraj at Mošćenička Draga, 1 November 1870 – Opatija, 17 April 1963) was a prominent Croatian writer. He graduated from Teachers School in Kopar. He was expelled from the Italian controlled Istria first to settle in Sušak, and after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia in 1945 he moved to Opatija where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Car%20Emin |
Boom! Studios (styled BOOM! Studios) is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
History
2000s
In the early 2000s, Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby had been working in Hollywood, helping to option comic book projects as producers and working to develop t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom%21%20Studios |
Augustin "Augie" Rodriguez (May 13, 1928 – July 18, 2014) and Margo Bartolomei Rodriguez (April 6, 1929 - January 29, 2019) were American dancers who helped popularize the Mambo.
Both were born in New York City. They married in 1950 and opened shows for Sammy Davis, Jr. and other stars throughout North America, and Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augie%20and%20Margo%20Rodriguez |
Doku Khamatovich Umarov (, ; ; 13 April 1964 – 7 September 2013), also known as Dokka Umarov as well as by his Arabized name of Dokka Abu Umar, was a Chechen mujahid in North Caucasus. Umarov was a major military figure in both wars in Chechnya during the 1990s and 2000s, before becoming the leader of the greater insur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokka%20Umarov |
Frisch's Big Boy is a regional Big Boy restaurant chain with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. For many years a Big Boy franchisee, in 2001, Frisch's became the exclusive owner of the Big Boy trademark in Indiana, Kentucky, and most of Ohio and Tennessee, and is no longer affiliated with Big Boy Restaurant Group. In Ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch%27s |
Florian Habicht is a New Zealand film director. Florian was born in Berlin, Germany and moved with his family to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, when he was eight. He went to high school in Kerikeri before attending the University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts.
There he began to make films using his classma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian%20Habicht |
Sprang is an ancient method of constructing fabric that has a natural elasticity. Its appearance is similar to netting, but unlike netting sprang is constructed entirely from warp threads. Archaeological evidence indicates that sprang predates knitting; the two needlework forms bear a visible resemblance and serve si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprang |
Croatian realist writer, dramatist and a music historian.
Vjenceslav Novak (11 September 1859 in Senj – 20 September 1905 in Zagreb) was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian.
Biography
Vjenceslav Novak grew up in Senj, where he graduated from elementary school and first two grades of gymnasium,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vjenceslav%20Novak |
Amps For Christ is the current music project of Man Is the Bastard and Bastard Noise veteran and metal/noise pioneer Henry Barnes. The project is based out of Claremont, California.
Concept
Conceptually, Amps for Christ originated in 1996, when Barnes met recording enthusiast and The Dull band member Enid Snare. Bar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amps%20for%20Christ |
Comets on Fire is the debut album from Santa Cruz psychedelic rock band Comets on Fire. It was released in 2001 by Alternative Tentacles.
Track listing
"All I Need" – 2:56
"Graverobbers" – 4:40
"One Foot" – 5:57
"Got a Feelin" – 2:03
"Rimbaud Blues" – 0:41
"Let's Take It All" – 3:57
"The Way Down" – 3:29
"Come... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comets%20on%20Fire%20%28album%29 |
Cumméne Fota or Fada, anglicised Cummian (fl. c. 591 – 12 November 661 or 662), was an Irish bishop and fer léignid (lector) of Cluain Ferta Brénainn (Clonfert). He was an important theological writer in the early to mid 7th century.
Life
Cumméne Fota was son to Fiachna, king of West Munster. He early embraced a mona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumm%C3%A9ne%20Fota |
The Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors (CJCS) is a constituent agency of Federation CJA in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It offers a fully integrated service system that assists Jewish seniors in Montreal, promoting positive attitudes towards aging, encouraging independent living, and enhancing the quality of life.
CJCS o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummings%20Jewish%20Centre%20for%20Seniors |
1956 presidential election may refer to:
1956 Bolivian presidential election
1956 Salvadoran presidential election
1956 Finnish presidential election
1956 Icelandic presidential election
1956 South Korean presidential election
1956 United States presidential election | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20presidential%20election |
Rugby union is the national sport of Tonga. Tonga are considered to be a tier 2 rugby nation by the International Rugby Board.
Tonga has four main rugby playing islands, Vava'u (which produced players like Epi Taione), Ha'apai (which produced players like Jonah Lomu), ʻEua (which produced the Vunipola family, eight br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20union%20in%20Tonga |
Haroldo González was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1941. Up to date he has made nineteen solo exhibitions and he has participated in fifty six collective exhibitions. His artworks have been exhibited at several cities of America, Europe, Japan and Africa.
Collections
González's work is a part of the following mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroldo%20Gonz%C3%A1lez |
The 2006 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 28th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy, an annual international men's field hockey tournament organized by the FIH. It was held in Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain from 22–30 July 2006.
The Netherlands won the tournament after beating Germany 2–1 in the final.
Squads
Hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Men%27s%20Hockey%20Champions%20Trophy |
Field Recordings from the Sun is the second studio album from indie/noise rock group Comets on Fire, released in 2002 on Ba Da Bing Records.
Track listing
"Beneath the Ice Age" - 9:20
"Return to Heaven" - 6:29
"The Unicorn" - 3:51
"ESP" - 6:42
"The Black Poodle" - 10:22
References
2002 albums
Comets on Fire alb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20Recordings%20from%20the%20Sun |
Hamid Ekrem Šahinović (1879/1882 – 30 December 1936) was a Bosnian writer and dramatist. He was editor of Muslimanska svijest (), a Bosnian-language newspaper supporting the Young Turks political reform movement, and Novi Behar, the 1920s revival of the Bosnian Muslim political magazine Behar.
Šahinović was born in ei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Ekrem%20%C5%A0ahinovi%C4%87 |
Sound and Fury is a documentary film released in 2000 about two American families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.
Accolades
The film won th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20and%20Fury%20%28film%29 |
The Howard Steamboat Museum, or the Howard National Steamboat Museum, is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. House in the Howard Family mansion, it features items related to steamboat history and specifically, the Howard Shipyards of Jeffersonville, IN. The building is listed on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Steamboat%20Museum |
Graham Rothwell Gordon (10 December 1927 – 29 February 2004) was a New Zealand general practitioner and surgeon.
Biography
Gordon was born in Stratford in 1927, the third son of William Patteson Pollock Gordon and Doris Clifton Gordon (née Jolly), who ran a medical practice and the small Marire private hospital in Str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Gordon |
The Jewish Public Library or JPL (, ) is a public library in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1914. The library contains the largest circulating collection of Judaica in North America. The JPL has close to 4000 members, and receives 700 to 800 visitors weekly. A constituent agency of Federation CJA, the Jewish Publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Public%20Library%20%28Montreal%29 |
Jordan Todosey ( , born February 8, 1995) is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Adam Torres, the first transgender character on the long-running TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation, and as Lizzie McDonald on Life with Derek.
Early life
Todosey was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Todosey |
Napoleon's Crimes: A Blueprint for Hitler () is a book published in 2005 by French writer Claude Ribbe, who is of Caribbean origin. In the book, Ribbe advances the thesis that Napoleon Bonaparte during the Haitian Revolution first used gas chambers as a method of mass execution, 140 years before Hitler and the Nazis. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s%20Crimes |
Cobi or COBI may refer to:
People
Cobi (musician) (Jacob Michael Schmidt, born 1986), an American musician
Cobi Crispin (born 1988), an Australian wheelchair basketball player
Cobi Hamilton (born 1990), an American football player
Cobi Jones (born 1970), an American soccer player
Other uses
Cobi (mascot), the of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobi |
Blue Cathedral is the third studio album by Comets on Fire. It was released in 2004 on the Sub Pop label.
In an interview, Comets on Fire echoplex and electronics player Noel von Harmonson stated that the album cover art for Blue Cathedral was a photograph of an elephant that suffered from a disease causing a lack of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Cathedral |
Peter Robert Bosustow (born 27 October 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer with the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Career
Bosustow commenced his footballing career with Perth in 1975 and played in two pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bosustow |
The Rutland-5-1 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland-5-1%20Vermont%20Representative%20District%2C%202002%E2%80%932012 |
WPHM (1380 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Port Huron, Michigan. The station broadcasts a News/Talk/Sports radio format. It is owned by Radio First with studios on Huron Avenue in Downtown Port Huron.
WPHM is powered at 5,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1380 AM from interference, it uses a direction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPHM |
Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum is an American professional b-boy, writer and MC, also known as JQ and JAQ. He performs with his brother, GQ, also a B-Boy professional, as the "Q Brothers."
Biography
Qaiyum was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He is of mixed ethnic background, having a Pakistani father and a European Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAQ%20%28b-boy%29 |
Arthur a Bland is, in English folklore, a member of Robin Hood's Merry Men, though his chief appearance is in the ballad in which he joins the band. Arthur a Bland is also the name of an ex British Waterways tug.
Plays
Arthur a Bland appears in "Robin Hood" by Larry Blamire, where he is there with Robin and the other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20a%20Bland |
Rainout, washout, rain delay, and rain stopped play are terms regarding an outdoor event, generally a sporting event, delayed or canceled due to rain, or the threat of rain. It is not to be confused with a type of out in baseball, though a baseball game can be rained out. Delays due to other forms of weather are named ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainout%20%28sports%29 |
Sheep Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area of within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and managed by the Angeles National Forest. It is within Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County, southern California.
The U.S. Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984, which created this wilderness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%20Mountain%20Wilderness |
Heart Lake is located in northwestern Minnesota, several miles west of Lake Itasca, which is believed to be the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
Heart Lake comprises about 206 acres (83 hectares), has a maximum depth of 55 feet (17 m), consists of 3.5 miles of shoreline, and is mostly surrounded by private cabins.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Lake%20%28Minnesota%29 |
Heart Lake is a lake located in the northern part of Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Heart Lake along with Teapot Lake (0.7 hectares / depth) are kettle lakes with the latter being a unique meromictic lake. The area was opened for public use in the 1950s.
Conservation Area
The lake itself is found in the 418 acre-Heart L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Lake%20%28Ontario%29 |
Downlands College, officially named Downlands Sacred Heart College, is a private, Primary school, secondary, coeducational, day and boarding school at Harlaxton in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Founded by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1931, the college began as a boarding school for boys with a total enro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downlands%20College |
Mammon () is a supervillain from the comic book Spawn. He is Spawn's former ally and is the second primary antagonist, having replaced Malebolgia in that role until #184, in which Malebolgia again takes back this role from Mammon.
Fictional character biography
Mammon is depicted as a handsome gentleman, suave and sop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon%20%28comics%29 |
Jayne is used both as a surname and as a given name.
Surname
Billy Jayne, American television and film actor
Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909), American ethnologist
Erika Jayne, American dance/club music performer
Francis Jayne (1845–1921), British bishop and academic
Horace Jayne (1859–1913), American biologist, zoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne |
Jay D. Keasling is a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also associate laboratory director for biosciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and chief executive officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute. He is considered one of the foremost au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Keasling |
Cecil Poole may refer to:
Cecil F. Poole (1914–1997), American lawyer and federal judge
Cecil Poole (politician) (1902–1956), British politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20Poole |
Living 2001–2002 is a double live album from Australian jam band John Butler Trio. The album was released in February 2003 and debuted at #6 on the ARIA album charts and went on to achieve platinum sales.
Track listing
Personnel
John Butler – electrified/acoustic 11 string guitars, vocals; percussion on "Take"
Rory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%202001%E2%80%932002 |
Aquilino López Roa (born April 21, 1975) is a former professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball and the KBO League. He bats and throws right-handed.
Professional career
Lopez was first signed by the Seattle Mariners on July 3, 1997, and made his Major League debut on April 2, 2003, after being se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilino%20L%C3%B3pez |
Across Indiana is a weekly 30-minute-long television program which covers places, people, history and culture across Indiana.
Hosted by Michael Atwood, Across Indiana is a regional Emmy winning program originating on WFYI TV 20 in Indianapolis. The producer is Jim Simmons. The executive producer is Clayton Taylor. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across%20Indiana |
The Heap is the name of several fictional comic book muck-monsters, the original of which first appeared in Hillman Periodicals' Air Fighters Comics #3 (cover-dated Dec. 1942), during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. The Heap was comics' first swamp monster.
The character was created ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap%20%28comics%29 |
The Rutland-5-2 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland-5-2%20Vermont%20Representative%20District%2C%202002%E2%80%932012 |
William Bramwell Waddell (January 4, 1857—January 13, 1942) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1903 to 1910, as a member of the Conservative Party.
Waddell was born at Harrow in Essex County, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of James Waddell. He was educate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20B.%20Waddell%20%28Manitoba%20politician%29 |
"Flatlander" is an English language science fiction short story by American writer Larry Niven, published in 1967. It is the third in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Worlds of If, March 1967, and reprinted in Neutron Star, and Crashl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatlander%20%28short%20story%29 |
"Ready to Fall" is the first single by the punk rock band Rise Against from their fourth studio album, The Sufferer & The Witness (2006).
An acoustic version of this song was performed live on the CJZN Radio station in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 18, 2007, before a Billy Talent concert featuring Rise Agains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready%20to%20Fall |
Meister Mephisto is the first full-length album by Norwegian experimental black/thrash band Sturmgeist, the, then solo, project of Cornelius Jakhelln. It was released on 24 January 2005. It is the 94th release by French record label, Season Of Mist. A live drummer was originally planned to be involved with the recordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister%20Mephisto |
William Bradford Waddell (1807–1872) is often credited along with Alexander Majors and William Hepburn Russell as the founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express. He is described as "phlegmatic, stoical, inclined to sulk if displeased, a cautious penny-pincher, and unable to reach a decision without ponderous d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20B.%20Waddell%20%28Pony%20Express%20founder%29 |
John Butler is the first full-length album by the John Butler Trio, released 27 December 1998.
It was recorded at Studio Couch, Fremantle and engineered by George Nikoloudis and Shaun O'Callaghan, mixed by Shaun O'Callaghan and George Nikoloudis and mastered by Shaun O'Callaghan and Richard Mahony at Studio Couch and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Butler%20%28album%29 |
KSTT may refer to:
KSTT-FM, a radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to serve Atascadero, California, United States
KERW, a radio station (101.3 FM) licensed to serve Los Osos-Baywood Park, California, which held the call sign KSTT-FM from 1990 to 2016
KBOB (AM), a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to serve Davenport, Io... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSTT |
The Rutland-5-3 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland-5-3%20Vermont%20Representative%20District%2C%202002%E2%80%932012 |
Mondo Rock are an Australian rock band, formed in November 1976 in Melbourne, Victoria. Singer-songwriter Ross Wilson founded the band, following the split of his previous band Daddy Cool. Guitarist Eric McCusker, who joined in 1980, wrote many of the band's hits, and along with Wilson formed the core of the group. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo%20Rock |
The Battle of Old Byland (also known as the Battle of Byland Abbey, the Battle of Byland Moor and the Battle of Scotch Corner) was a significant encounter between Scots and English troops in Yorkshire in October 1322, forming part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. It was a victory for the Scots, the most significa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Old%20Byland |
The American television series Charmed has generated a range of merchandise including soundtracks, DVD sets, blu-rays, novels, comic books, a magazine, video game, and board games.
Soundtracks
Four soundtrack albums of Charmed have been released and feature music that were used in the show. The first soundtrack album,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmed%20merchandise |
The Ungern-Sternberg family or von Ungern-Sternberg is an old and influential Baltic-German nobility, with branches belonging to the German, Finnish, Swedish and Russian nobility.
Notable members
Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg (1689–1763), lantmarskalk at the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates (1742, 1746)
Ann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungern-Sternberg |
The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called Thomaner, reside in a boarding school, the Thomasalumnat and attend the St. Thomas School, Leipzig, a Gymnasium sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomanerchor |
Lambertville High School, built in 1854 in Lambertville, New Jersey, US, was the former school of the Lambertville school district. A fire destroyed much of the school in 1926, but it was remodeled and rebuilt in 1927 and used until June 1960. It sat (as some from the town have stated) like a museum from then on, on to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambertville%20High%20School |
The Casinò di Campione is one of Italy's oldest Casinos, as well as Europe’s largest casino and the largest employer in the municipality of Campione d'Italia, an Italian exclave within Switzerland's Canton of Ticino, on the shores of Lake Lugano.
The casino was founded in 1917 as a site to gather information from fore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casin%C3%B2%20di%20Campione |
132524 APL, provisional designation , is a small background asteroid in the intermediate asteroid belt. It was discovered by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research in May 2002, and imaged by the New Horizons space probe on its flyby in June 2006, when it was passing through the asteroid belt. The stony S-type asteroid me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/132524%20APL |
Emily Chubbuck (later, Emily Judson; pseudonym, Fanny Forester; August 23, 1817 – June 1, 1854) was an American poet.
Biography
Emily Chubbuck was born to poor parents in Eaton, New York on August 23, 1817. In 1834 she became a teacher and joined a Baptist church. In 1840 she entered the Utica female seminary and wrot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Chubbuck |
The Rutland-5-4 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland-5-4%20Vermont%20Representative%20District%2C%202002%E2%80%932012 |
Fanny Forrester may refer to:
Emily Chubbuck (1817–1854), American poet who used the pseudonym Fanny Forrester
Fanny Forrester (English poet) (1852–1889), English poet of Irish heritage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny%20Forrester |
DLR Band is the fifth full-length studio album by David Lee Roth, the former vocalist of Van Halen, and the first and only credited to the DLR Band. It was released in 1998 and remains the only installment on Roth's own Wawazat!! label.
Information
DLR Band was recorded and mixed in ten days, a technique Roth had not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLR%20Band |
Expensive Desk Calculator by Robert A. Wagner is thought to be computing's first interactive calculation program.
The software first ran on the TX-0 computer loaned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Lincoln Laboratory. It was ported to the PDP-1 donated to MIT in 1961 by Digital Equipment Corporati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive%20Desk%20Calculator |
William Welch may refer to:
William C. Welch (born 1977), American professional wrestler for the CZW
William Welch (cricketer, born 1907) (1907–1983), Australian cricketer
William Welch (cricketer, born 1911) (1911–1940), Australian cricketer
William Welch (printer), U.S. manufacturer
William Welch II, former Chie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Welch |
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