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Michael MacKenlagh () was Bishop of Galloway or Whithorn (1355–58). He had previously been Prior of Whithorn, head of the cathedral's monastery and leader of the local religious elite. He was elected to the episcopate sometime between March 1354, the death date of his predecessor, and June 1355, when it was recorded th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20MacKenlagh |
La Cumbre is a shield volcano on Fernandina Island in the Galápagos Islands. La Cumbre is also the youngest volcano in the Galápagos Islands.
History
On 14 February 1825, while anchored in Banks Bay, Captain Benjamin Morrell recorded one of the largest eruptions in Galápagos' history at Fernandina Volcano. His ship e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Cumbre%20%28Gal%C3%A1pagos%20Islands%29 |
Michael James Nazir-Ali (; born 19 August 1949) is a Pakistani-born British Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop who served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He is currently the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Nazir-Ali |
A class of locomotives is a group of locomotives built to a common design, typically for a single railroad or railway. Often members of a particular class had detail variations between individual examples, and these could lead to subclasses. Sometimes technical alterations (especially rebuilding, superheating, re-engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20%28locomotive%29 |
Barley Marketing Board (NSW) v Norman is a High Court of Australia case that deals with the question of whether State-run marketing boards are permissible under Section 92 of the Constitution of Australia, which deals with the freedom of interstate trade and commerce.
Background
By a proclamation under the Marketing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley%20Marketing%20Board%20%28NSW%29%20v%20Norman |
Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer (28 December 1819 – 20 March 1898) was an Irish-Australian politician who served as the fifth Premier of Queensland, in office from 1870 to 1874. He later held ministerial office in Thomas McIlwraith's ministry from 1879 to 1881, before serving as President of the Queensland Legislative Counci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Hunter%20Palmer |
Arthur Palmer may refer to:
Arthur Palmer (politician) (1912–1994), British politician
Arthur Palmer (priest) (1807–1881), Anglican priest
Arthur Palmer (scholar) (1841–1897), Canadian-Irish classical scholar
Arthur Hunter Palmer (1819–1898), Australian politician and Premier of Queensland
Arthur Power Palmer (18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Palmer |
Skyline High School is a public magnet school in the Buckner Terrace area of Dallas, in the U.S. state of Texas. Skyline is a part of the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and serves grades 9 through 12.
In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
History
In the mid-1960s, B.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline%20High%20School%20%28Texas%29 |
The Rangitikei by-election of 1978 was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of , a predominantly rural district in the middle of New Zealand's North Island. The by-election occurred on 18 February 1978, and was precipitated by the death of sitting National Party member of parliament Sir Roy Jack in December 1977... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%20Rangitikei%20by-election |
The most widely spoken language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese.
In addition to the Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20Japan |
Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (28 December 1828 – 15 April 1899) was a German psychiatrist.
Life and career
In 1855 he received his medical doctorate at Berlin, and subsequently worked as a physician at the mental asylum in Wehlau. For a period he was also a lecturer at the University of Königsberg (1863–66), and from 1867 wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Ludwig%20Kahlbaum |
Ballarat railway station is located on the Serviceton line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the city of Ballarat, and opened on 11 April 1862 as Ballarat West. It was renamed Ballarat in 1865.
Located about from the state capital, Melbourne, it is a major station on the Serviceton line. The extensive building comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat%20railway%20station |
T-bar may refer to:
T with bar (Ŧ, ŧ)
T-bar lift
T-Bar (wrestler) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-bar |
BMP2 or BMP-2 may refer to:
Bone morphogenetic protein 2
Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (BMP-2), a Soviet infantry fighting vehicle
See also
BMP (disambiguation)
BMP1 (disambiguation)
BMP3 (disambiguation)
BMP2K, BMP-2-inducible protein kinase | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP2 |
Melvin Athol Brieseman (13 June 1934 – 25 October 2010) was a New Zealand public health official, surgeon, obstetrician and missionary to India.
Early life and education
Brieseman was born in Stratford, New Zealand on 13 June 1934, and after completing his primary and secondary schooling in Taranaki left for the Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Brieseman |
The Atlantis Casino Resort Spa (formerly Golden Road Motor Inn, Travelodge, Quality Inn and Clarion) is a hotel and casino located in Reno, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. Its three hotel towers have a combined 824 guest rooms and suites. The casino floor spans 64,814 sq ft. Often kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis%20Casino%20Resort%20Spa |
An hydrological transport model is a mathematical model used to simulate the flow of rivers, streams, groundwater movement or drainage front displacement, and calculate water quality parameters. These models generally came into use in the 1960s and 1970s when demand for numerical forecasting of water quality and draina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20transport%20model |
A gatra ("embryo" or "semantic unit") is a unit of melody in Indonesian Javanese gamelan music, analogous to a measure in Western music. It is often considered the smallest unit of a gamelan composition.
A gatra consists of a sequence of four beats (keteg), which are filled with notes (or rests, pin) from the balunga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatra%20%28music%29 |
Snoqualmie Mountain is the tallest peak in the immediate vicinity of Snoqualmie Pass in the North Cascade Range of Washington state, U.S. Its shape is often described as "amorphous" or "blob-like", although it does display a steep north face dropping down to the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River. The boundary of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoqualmie%20Mountain |
The Rutland-8 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. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland-8%20Vermont%20Representative%20District%2C%202002%E2%80%932012 |
Hatim may refer to:
Hatim ibn Ibrahim (died 1199), Yemeni Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Taiyabi Musta'lī Bohra Islam
Hatim al-Tai (6th century), ruling prince and poet of the Tayyi tribe of Arabia
Hatim (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
Hatim (TV series), an Indian TV series based on a Persian story which purports to reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatim |
La Vanguardia Airport is an airport serving the city of Villavicencio in the Meta Department of Colombia. It serves regular passenger, charter and cargo airlines as well as private sectors. The airport is just north of the city.
Airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
On 6 June 1985, Douglas C-53D HK-1340 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Vanguardia%20Airport |
The YG'z was an American East Coast hip hop group that recorded the EP Street Nigga in 1993.
Four out of the six songs on Street Nigga were produced by Pete Rock, who took the group under his wing and helped them get a record deal with Reprise/Warner Bros. Records, a sister label of Elektra Records within the WEA fami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YG%27z |
The Mudginberri abattoir was the focus of a major industrial relations dispute from 1983 to 1985 in Australia's Northern Territory which was notable for being the first successful use of legal sanctions against a union since the gaoling of Victorian Tramways union leader Clarrie O'Shea in 1969. The successful prosecuti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudginberri%20dispute |
Karine Saporta is a French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director. She is one of the most prominent figures in French dance.
Saporta was born in France to a mother of Russian ancestry and a Spanish father. She began dancing at the age of five, studying ballet at first, and attending the National... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine%20Saporta |
Mordecai George Sheftall is an American author and scholar living in Japan since 1987.
He is a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication in the Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University, a branch campus of the Japanese national university system. Sheftall's writing and research activities foc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20G.%20Sheftall |
Governor Bush may refer to:
George W. Bush (born 1946), 46th Governor of Texas (1995–2000) and 43rd President of the United States. (2001-2009)
Jeb Bush (born 1953), 43rd Governor of Florida (1999–2007)
See also
Grattan Bushe, Governor of Barbados from 1941 to 1946
Bush (disambiguation)
President Bush (disambigua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20Bush |
Tech trance, is a subgenre within electronic music that draws upon the techno and trance genres as the name suggests.
History
Tech trance was pioneered by Oliver Lieb among others in the late 1990s. Other early examples of tech-trance producers are Humate, Chris Cowie and Marmion. Tech trance evolved in a new directio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech%20trance |
Sturmgeist is an experimental black/thrash metal band formed by Cornelius Jakhelln in 2002.
Biography
Beginnings
In 2002, Cornelius Jakhelln began working on a new band. The name chosen was Sturmgeist (Stormspirit in German). The music was an experimental mix of black/thrash metal with lyrics sung in English, Norwegi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmgeist |
The 1997 military memorandum (, "28 February"; also called Post-modern darbe, "Post-modern coup") in Turkey refers to the decisions issued by the Turkish military leadership on a National Security Council meeting on 28 February 1997. This memorandum initiated the process that precipitated the resignation of Islamist pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20Turkish%20military%20memorandum |
Greenhills, formerly and still commonly known as the Greenhills Shopping Center, is a mixed-use shopping, residential, and leisure development located in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila, the Philippines.
Established by Ortigas and Company as the centerpiece shopping center of the Greenhills development in the 1970... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhills%20%28mixed-use%20development%29 |
Ferdinand Kurlbaum (4 October 1857 in Burg bei Magdeburg – 29 July 1927 in Berlin) was a German physicist.
Life and work
As the son of a magistrate, he had to follow his frequently transferred father. Problems at school were the result, and it wasn't until he was 23 that he graduated from high school. He studied math... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Kurlbaum |
Isle de Jean Charles (known locally in Louisiana French as Isle à Jean Charles) is a narrow ridge of land situated in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. For over 170 years, it has been the historical homeland and burial ground of the state-recognized tribe of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20de%20Jean%20Charles%2C%20Louisiana |
Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401) is an adversary squadron of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, flying the F-5N Tiger II. Known as the "Snipers", the squadron is the only adversary squadron in the Marine Corps, also is the first and only reserve squadron in the Marine Corps tasked to act as the oppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMFT-401 |
Thomas Patrick Coohill (born August 25, 1941) is considered one of the world's experts on the effects of light on living systems (Photobiology).
Biography
Thomas Patrick Coohill, son of Francis Coohill and Mary Donnelly, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 August 1941. He has/had four brothers, Francis, William, Edm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Patrick%20Coohill |
Anti-Indian sentiment, a form of racism against Asians, also known as Indophobia or anti-Indianism, includes negative feelings, fear and hatred towards the Republic of India, Indian people, and Indian culture. Indophobia, in the context of anti-Indian prejudice, is "a tendency to react negatively towards people of Ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Indian%20sentiment |
The Elisabethmarkt is a daily food market in Schwabing, a district of Munich, Germany.
Deep in the heart of Schwabing, the inhabitants (and of course all the visitors) have been able to supply themselves with fresh groceries for more than 100 years. This market, which was named after the Austrian Empress Sisi, offers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabethmarkt |
Bone morphogenetic protein 2 or BMP-2 belongs to the TGF-β superfamily of proteins.
Function
BMP-2 like other bone morphogenetic proteins, plays an important role in the development of bone and cartilage. It is involved in the hedgehog pathway, TGF beta signaling pathway, and in cytokine-cytokine receptor interactio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20morphogenetic%20protein%202 |
Robert Wichard Pohl (10 August 1884 – 5 June 1976) was a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. Nevill Francis Mott described him as the "father of solid state physics".
Early years and education
Robert Wichard Pohl was born in Hamburg as the son of the naval engineer Eugen Robert Pohl and his wife Martha. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wichard%20Pohl |
Eldorado Resort Casino is a hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada. It anchors a network of connected hotel-casinos in the downtown Reno core that included Circus Circus Reno and Silver Legacy Reno and are owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment.
History
Plans for the Eldorado were announced in July 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldorado%20Resort%20Casino |
Indomania or Indophilia refer to the special interest that India, Indians and their cultures and traditions have generated across the world, more specifically among the cultures and civilisations of the Indian subcontinent, as well those of the Arab and Western world (particularly in Germany). The initial British inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indomania |
Arthur Korn (20 May 1870 – 21 December/22 December 1945) was a German physicist, mathematician and inventor. He was involved in the development of the fax machine, specifically the transmission of photographs or telephotography, known as the Bildtelegraph, related to early attempts at developing a practical mechanical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Korn |
Val Allen Browning (August 20, 1895 – May 16, 1994) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and third-generation gunmaker. His grandfather, Jonathan Browning, opened a gun shop in Ogden, Utah in 1852, and his father, John Browning, is regarded as one of the most successful firearms designers of the 19th and 20t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%20A.%20Browning |
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (June 10, 1870 – October 22, 1956) was a French Cubist painter and an art theoretician. Her estate has been scattered throughout the world. Paintings are trafficked in N.Y., Chicago, London, and Paris. Some works are in Parisian museums, in Blois, and in Grenoble, but especially in private collector... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20Rij-Rousseau |
The Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne (Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne or UEVE) is a French public university located in Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, and is one of the founding members of Paris-Saclay University.
The UEVE is expected to merge with the Paris-Saclay University in 2025.
This university founded in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20%C3%89vry%20Val%20d%27Essonne |
Patrick Ray McGowan (born November 27, 1954) is an American professional golf instructor and former PGA Tour player.
McGowan was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He attended Brigham Young University. He played on the golf team with fellow PGA Tour player Mike Reid and graduated in 1977.
McGowan developed his game u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20McGowan |
The Violent Men is a 1955 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, and May Wynn. Based on the 1955 novel Smoky Valley by Donald Hamilton, its storyline involves a ranch owner (Glenn Ford as John Parrish) who comes into conf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Violent%20Men |
The Continuum of Humanist Education is a project run by the Institute for Humanist Studies. It has a faculty, staff, and bookstore. It offers courses in education about the history and practise of Humanism. The introductory course is offered freely.
They adopt a commonly used motto in learning: Sapere aude.
External ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20of%20Humanist%20Education |
Fatima Faloye(born in Harlem, New York City), is of Nigerian and Barbadian descent and studied at Dalton School in New York City as well as New York University. Faloye won the coveted NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1996 for her role as Chantel Tierney in New York Undercover. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima%20Faloye |
J Resort, formerly the Sands Regency Casino Hotel, is a casino hotel in downtown Reno, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Jacobs Entertainment, Inc.
History
The property that is now the J Resort was first opened in February 1965 as the Sands Motor Inn. It was an 80-room motel, developed by Pete Cladianos and his fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%20Resort |
A caustic pencil (or silver nitrate stick) is a device for applying topical medication containing silver nitrate and potassium nitrate, used to chemically cauterize skin, providing hemostasis or permanently destroying unwanted tissue such as a wart, skin tag, aphthous ulcers, or over-production of granulation tissue. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic%20pencil |
Parfait d'amour (), or parfait amour, is a liqueur. It is often used in cocktails primarily for its purple colour, and is generally created from a curaçao liqueur base.
There are several versions of parfait d'amour. The House of Lucas Bols in the Netherlands claims to have originated the liqueur. Theirs appears to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parfait%20d%27amour |
Invincible is the third studio album by American Christian rock band Skillet. It was released on February 1, 2000 on ForeFront Records and Ardent Records. This album continues the electronic rock that was heard on Hey You, I Love Your Soul (1998). Kevin Haaland replaced original guitarist Ken Steorts, although Steorts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible%20%28Skillet%20album%29 |
Hollingworth may refer to:
Hollingworth (surname)
Hollingworth, a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester
Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, Greater Manchester
Hollingworth Reservoir near Hollingworth, Tameside
See also
Hollingsworth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollingworth%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Bone morphogenetic protein 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by BMP4 gene. BMP4 is found on chromosome 14q22-q23.
BMP4 is a member of the bone morphogenetic protein family which is part of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily. The superfamily includes large families of growth and differentiation fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20morphogenetic%20protein%204 |
In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes. A mockup may be a prototype if it provides at least part of the functionality of a system and enables testing of a design.
Mock-u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockup |
Mark Harmon is an American record producer, songwriter, and bassist, best known for his work with the rock group the 77s.
Harmon and 77s lead singer Michael Roe collaborated on the instrumental releases, DayDream and Orbis. Roe and Harmon also teamed up under the moniker 7&7iS to release their Fun with Sound album in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Harmon%20%28musician%29 |
Return of the Phantom is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by MicroProse in 1993. It was produced by Matt Gruson and designed/written by future James Bond novelist Raymond Benson. It is based on the 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
The game was the second graphical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20of%20the%20Phantom |
The Society of the Friends of Truth (Amis de la Verité), also known as the Social Club (French:
Cercle social), was a French revolutionary organization founded in 1790. It was "a mixture of revolutionary political club, the Masonic Lodge, and a literary salon". It also published an influential revolutionary newspaper,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20the%20Friends%20of%20Truth |
Motion camouflage is camouflage which provides a degree of concealment for a moving object, given that motion makes objects easy to detect however well their coloration matches their background or breaks up their outlines.
The principal form of motion camouflage, and the type generally meant by the term, involves an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20camouflage |
Bruce Spencer is an American drummer, drumming instructor and clinician, singer and session musician, songwriter, record producer, best known for his work with the rock and roll trio, The 77s.
Spencer has also played the drums for artists including Wynonna Judd, Charlie Peacock, Brent Bourgeois, Larry Tagg, Roger Smit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Spencer |
Peterswald v Bartley is an early High Court of Australia case that dealt with section 90 of the Australian Constitution, which prohibits States from levying excise.
Background
Bartley was a brewer of beer at Cootamundra in the state of New South Wales. He had a licence under the Commonwealth Beer Excise Act 1901 how... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterswald%20v%20Bartley |
Whitney Peak Hotel (formerly Fitzgeralds Reno and CommRow) is a hotel and former casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada. It is owned and operated by DRW Holdings LLC.
History
Fitzgeralds Reno (1976–2008)
Lincoln Fitzgerald, owner of the Nevada Club casino, began construction on a new 16-story, 347-room hotel and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney%20Peak%20Hotel |
Sultan of Turkey may refer to:
List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire
Sultan of Turkey (card game), a patience or card solitaire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20of%20Turkey |
Gustav Johann Georg Hellmann or Georg Gustav Hellmann (3 July 1854 – 21 February 1939) was a German meteorologist.
Hellmann was born in Löwen (Lewin Brzeski), Prussian Silesia. Since 1907 to 1922, he was the principal of the Preußischen Meteorologischen Institut (Prussian Meteorological Institute) in Berlin. He died i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Hellmann |
Gadia Lohars (also known as Gaduliya Lohars or Lohar) are a nomadic community of Uttar Pradesh, India. They are also found in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. They are lohar (ironsmith) by profession who move on from one place to another place on bullock carts, which in Hindi are called gadi, hence the name 'Gadia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadia%20Lohar |
Fabiola, known in Italian and Spanish as Santa Fabiola, was a physician and Roman matron of rank of the company of noble Roman women who, under the influence of the Church father Jerome, gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted themselves to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work.
Early life
Fabiola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Fabiola |
Mom, I Need to be a Girl is a work of non-fiction by "Just Evelyn", the mother of a transgender former teenager. It recounts how her daughter Danielle Lindenmuth (born Daniel) began transitioning from male to female at 15, and completed sex reassignment surgery at 18, with the support of the author and her sons. Evelyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%2C%20I%20Need%20to%20Be%20a%20Girl |
Islamic education may refer to:
Islamic studies, the academic study of Islam and Islamic culture
Madrasah, the Arabic word for any type of educational institution
Islamic Education Society, an Islamic organization in India
Education in Islam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20education |
The district of Leuk () is a district in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ).
Municipalities
It contains the following municipalities:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Griffin rampant cowed Or langued and armed Argent holding a sword of the last.
De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuk%20District |
Dragonsphere is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by MicroProse in 1994. It has graphics which were considered high-quality at the time it was published, considered a novelty. It is still a cult classic for many.
The game was the third, and last, graphical adventure game developed by Mic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonsphere |
Douglas County School District Re. 1 is a school district that serves Douglas County, Colorado. The district was formed in 1958 by the consolidation of 17 smaller school districts, adding the "Re. 1" to its name to note the district's first reorganization.
In August 2019, the Arapahoe Community College Sturm Collabora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20County%20School%20District%20RE-1 |
Ludwig Kohl-Larsen (born Ludwig Kohl; 5 April 1884 in Landau in der Pfalz – 12 November 1969 in Bodensee) was a German physician, amateur anthropologist, and explorer.
Biography
In 1911, he traveled as ship's doctor with Wilhelm Filchner to Antarctica, but did not participate in the expedition to the Weddell Sea due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Kohl-Larsen |
Christmas Tree EXEC was the first widely disruptive computer worm, which paralyzed several international computer networks in December 1987. The virus ran on the IBM VM/CMS operating system.
Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20Tree%20EXEC |
Margaret Humphreys, (born 1944) is a British social worker and author from Nottingham, England. She worked for Nottinghamshire County Council operating around Radford, Nottingham and Hyson Green in child protection and adoption services. In 1986, she received a letter from a woman in Australia who, believing she was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Humphreys |
The Ganymede Club is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, published in 1995. A mystery and a thriller, the story unravels in the same universe that Sheffield imagined in Cold as Ice. Shortly after humanity begins colonisation of the Solar System, a trade war sets off vicious civil war that kill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ganymede%20Club |
The One Percent Doctrine () is a nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ron Suskind about America's hunt for terrorists since September 11, 2001. On July 24, 2006, it reached number 3 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
It assesses the ways in which American counter-terrorism agencies are working to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20Percent%20Doctrine |
Dmitry Yuryevich Puchkov (; born August 2, 1961), also known as Goblin (), is a Russian media personality most known for his humorous English-to-Russian film and video game translations as well as his Oper.ru web blog and, from 2008 until 2022, his eponymous YouTube channel. Puchkov considers himself a Neo-Sovietist an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Puchkov |
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom. It was set up by the UK government in 2003 to protect the public from threats to their health from infectious diseases and environmental hazards.
The HPA's role was to provide an integrated approach to protecting public health... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Protection%20Agency |
Ernst Kornemann (11 October 1868, Rosenthal near Kassel – 4 December 1946, Munich) was a German classical historian.
Biography
He studied at Giessen (1878–89) and Berlin (1889–92), and took the degree of doctor of philosophy (1891); he was appointed assistant professor teaching under the faculty (1892). He became pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Kornemann |
An ideal speech situation was a term introduced in the early philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. It argues that an ideal speech situation is found when communication between individuals is governed by basic, implied rules. In an ideal speech situation, participants would be able to evaluate each other’s assertions solely on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal%20speech%20situation |
The coat of arms of Czechoslovakia were changed many times during Czechoslovakia’s history, some alongside each other. This reflects the turbulent history of the country and a wish to use appropriate territorial coats of arms.
In creation of Czechoslovakia
First (1918–1938), Second (1938–1939) and Post-War Czechoslov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Czechoslovakia |
Alfred Marie-Jeanne (; born November 15, 1936 in Rivière-Pilote, Martinique) is a French politician, a leader in the Martinican Independence Movement (MIM) since 1978. He served as mayor of the commune of Rivière-Pilote from 1971 to 2000 and served as President of the Regional Council of Martinique from March 20, 1998 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Marie-Jeanne |
Poma, incorporated as Pomagalski S.A., and sometimes referred to as the Poma Group, is a French company which manufactures cable-driven lift systems, including fixed and detachable chairlifts, gondola lifts, funiculars, aerial tramways, people movers, and surface lifts. Poma has installed about 7800 devices for 750 cus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poma |
James Samuel (21 March 1824 – 25 May 1874) was a railway engineer who was born in Glasgow on 21 March 1824. He was appointed engineer to the Eastern Counties Railway in 1846. He held two important patents but, in both cases, the invention was the work of another.
Career
He became engineer to the Eastern Counties Rail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Samuel |
Heather Sharfeddin (born 1966) is an American novelist. Her novels explore western themes based on her early life in Idaho and Montana. She lives in Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at Linfield College.
Life
Sharfeddin was born Heather Mason in remote Rosebud County, Montana to a forester father and an artis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Sharfeddin |
Susannah Meadows is an American journalist and author. She is currently a Senior Editor at The New York Times in the Opinion section.
Books
Meadows is the author of a forthcoming book about Tami Maida, who was quarterback of her high school team in 1981. She is also the author of the book "The Other Side of Impossible... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah%20Meadows |
Musgravea is a genus of rainforest tree from north-eastern Queensland.
It was published in 1890 by Ferdinand von Mueller, and named in honour of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Queensland from 1883 to 1888. Together with its closest relative Austromuellera, it lies within the subtribe Musgraveinae of tribe Banksieae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musgravea |
Wheelock is a large village in the civil parish of Sandbach which is in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is south of Sandbach on the road to Crewe. It was named after the River Wheelock.
Overview
Before its bypass was opened, among lorry drivers Wheelock was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelock%2C%20Cheshire |
Max Margules (1856-1920) was a mathematician, physicist, and chemist. In 1877 he joined the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna as a volunteer. After two years he left Vienna to study in Berlin for a year. He returned to Vienna and received his PhD in Electrodynamics. During his doctoral s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Margules |
The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) was established at the University of Oklahoma in 1989 as one of the first eleven National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers. Located at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, its mission is the development of techniques for the computer-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Analysis%20and%20Prediction%20of%20Storms |
The Camillians or Clerics Regular, Ministers to the Sick () are a Catholic religious order founded in 1582 by St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614). A large red cross was chosen by the founder as the distinguishing badge for the members of the Order to wear upon their black cassocks, which was later adopted as the interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillians |
Brod may refer to:
People
Brod (surname)
Brod Veillon, assistant adjutant general-air for Louisiana
Places
Brod is a common Slavic toponym, meaning "ford" and may refer to:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brod (Brčko), a village in Brčko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly Bosanski Bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brod |
Agarn (Walliser German: Agaru) is a municipality in the district of Leukin the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
History
Agarn is first mentioned in 1252 as Aert. In 1267 it was mentioned as Ayert and in the 16th century it was known as Agaren. Agarn was twice nearly totally burned down, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarn |
The Social Democratic Institutional Bloc (, or BIS) is a left-wing populist, democratic socialist, social democratic and left-wing nationalist political party in the Dominican Republic.
History
Established in 1989, it first contested national elections in 1994 when it was part of a Dominican Revolutionary Party-led a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Democratic%20Institutional%20Bloc |
Agarum (also transliterated as Agaru or Akarum, cuneiform: a-kà-rum or a-ga-rum) is a bronze-age Near Eastern proper name, probably a toponym for a region or island in the Eastern Arabia and Persian Gulf. Agarum has been generally identified with Kuwait's Failaka Island, known as ´KR to the Arameans and as Ikaros durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarum |
The Penang Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO; ) is an amateur orchestra funded by the state of Penang in Malaysia. The formation of the orchestra aims to build a community that enhances the standard of classical music in Penang. Established in 2010, the PPO performs a wide-ranging of music genre, mainly classical music from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang%20Philharmonic%20Orchestra |
The Alliance for Democracy ( or APD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. It first contested national elections in 2002, when it was part of the defeated Dominican Liberation Party-led alliance. In the 2006 elections it was part of the victorious Progressive Bloc.
References
Political parties in the Domini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20for%20Democracy%20%28Dominican%20Republic%29 |
Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek and in early printing. Ligatures were used in the cursive writing style and very extensively in later minuscule writing. There were dozens of conventional ligatures. Some of them stood for frequent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20ligatures |
The white-whiskered puffbird (Malacoptila panamensis), also called the white-whiskered soft-wing or brown puffbird, is a near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found from southeastern Mexico through Central America (except El Salvador), Colombia, and Ecuador into Peru.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-whiskered%20puffbird |
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