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The Progressive Bloc () is an electoral alliance in the Dominican Republic. The alliance is led by the Dominican Liberation Party and gained an absolute majority in the 16 May 2006 legislative election.
Political party alliances in the Dominican Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20Bloc |
Gignac may refer to:
Places
Gignac, Hérault
Gignac, Lot
Gignac, Vaucluse
Gignac-la-Nerthe, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département
People
André-Pierre Gignac, French football striker playing for Tigres
Anthony Gignac, incarcerated Columbian-American con-artist and fraudster
Clément Gignac, Canadian politician in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gignac |
Taco soup is a type of soup composed of a broth with similar ingredients to those used inside a taco: ground beef, tomatoes, chopped green chilis, onions, corn, beans and a packet of taco seasoning. Vegetarian versions combine beans with the other ingredients, except for the ground beef. Once cooked, the soup may be to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco%20soup |
The Odesa Numismatics Museum () is a currency museum in Ukraine. The museum preserves and exhibits ancient relics from the Northern Black Sea Region and Rus-Ukraine.
The museum is located in the center of Odesa: at 33 Hretska Str. () — Exhibition of ancient and medieval coins, old and modern Ukrainian banknotes; antiq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odesa%20Numismatics%20Museum |
The anterior segment or anterior cavity is the front third of the eye that includes the structures in front of the vitreous humour: the cornea, iris, ciliary body, and lens.
Within the anterior segment are two fluid-filled spaces:
the anterior chamber between the posterior surface of the cornea (i.e. the corneal endo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20segment%20of%20eyeball |
Sand Ridge Golf Club, was designed by Tom Fazio and is located in Munson Township, Geauga County, Ohio, near Chardon. Construction on the course started in late 1995 and opened for its private members on May 18, 1998. The course was built on of woods, pastures and wetlands located next to the Fairmount Minerals sandst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%20Ridge%20Golf%20Club |
A fuel line is a hose or pipe used to transfer fuel from one point in a vehicle to another. The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines a fuel line as "all hoses or tubing designed to contain liquid fuel or fuel vapor. This includes all hoses or tubing for the filler neck, for connections between dual fue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel%20line |
Prospect Hall is a historic mansion, built beginning around 1787 on what was known at the time as "Red Hill", the highest elevation in the area of Frederick, Maryland.
Description
A major Frederick County landowner and colonial civic leader, Daniel Dulaney, built the original home on the property, which is southwest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect%20Hall%20%28Frederick%2C%20Maryland%29 |
Petit Wasmes is a hamlet of Wallonia, located in the district of Wasmes, municipality of Colfontaine, province of Hainaut, Belgium. It was once the home of Vincent van Gogh.
Main sights
Temple of Petit-Wasmes
In the first half of 1800, after recognising freedom of worship to Protestant communities, institutions found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit%20Wasmes |
A syringe filter (sometimes called a wheel filter if it has a wheel-like shape) is a single-use filter cartridge. It is attached to the end of a syringe for use. Syringe filters may have Luer lock fittings, though not universally so. The use of a needle is optional; where desired it may be fitted to the end of the syri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringe%20filter |
War of the Worlds: New Millennium is a science fiction novel by Douglas Niles, released in 2005 by Tor Books.
After the most recent uncrewed mission to Mars inexplicably fails, interest in the Red Planet is still high. The whole world watches as a bright spot of light appears daily on the Martian surface. As they con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Worlds%3A%20New%20Millennium |
Cuesmes (; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Mons, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
History
Cuesmes was and originally is a coal mining village, as many of the residents who live there are descendants of coal miners from the 19th and 18th centuries. Coal mining is such a big... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuesmes |
John Douglas (6 March 1828 – 23 July 1904) was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland.
Early life
Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwath. His father, the third son of Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Douglas%20%28Queensland%20politician%29 |
Matthews v Chicory Marketing Board (Vic), is a High Court of Australia case that considered section 90 of the Australian Constitution, which prohibits States from levying excise (taxes). Although the meaning of excise was considered in Peterswald v Bartley, this case significantly broadened its reach.
In this case, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthews%20v%20Chicory%20Marketing%20Board%20%28Vic%29 |
Jeff Van Camp Sr. (born April 3, 1962) is an American police officer and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Association and Southeast Championship Wrestling in the mid-1980s under his real name and the ring name Lord Humongous.
Early life
Van Camp attended the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Van%20Camp%20Sr. |
The posterior segment or posterior cavity is the back two-thirds of the eye that includes the anterior hyaloid membrane and all of the optical structures behind it: the vitreous humor, retina, choroid, and optic nerve. The portion of the posterior segment visible during ophthalmoscopy (or fundoscopy) is sometimes refer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20segment%20of%20eyeball |
John Harwood (born November 5, 1956) is an American journalist who worked as White House Correspondent for CNN from February 2021 until September 2022. Harwood was formerly an editor-at-large for CNBC. He was the chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a contributor for The New York Times. He wrote a weekly colum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Harwood%20%28journalist%29 |
Back in the Day may refer to:
Film, television, theatre and comics
Back in the Day (2005 film), an American crime drama starring Ja Rule
Back in the Day (2014 film), an American comedy starring and directed by Michael Rosenbaum
Back in the Day (2016 film), an American sports drama film starring William DeMeo
Back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20in%20the%20Day |
Perfect (also known as a in French or in Latin) was the name given by Bernard of Clairvaux to the leaders of the mediaeval Christian religious movement in southern France and northern Italy commonly referred to as the Cathars. The were not clerics in any way, but merely members who had become 'adepts' in the teachin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar%20Perfect |
Jacobo Árbenz Vilanova (born 13 November 1946) is a politician in Guatemala. He is the son of former progressive Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, who was overthrown in a CIA sponsored coup d'état in 1954. Arbenz Vilanova fled the country following the ouster of his father's government and spent almost 50 year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo%20%C3%81rbenz%20Vilanova |
Allister Haddon Sparks (10 March 1933 – 19 September 2016) was a South African writer, journalist, and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects.
Early life
He was born in Cathcart, Eastern Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allister%20Sparks |
Telshe Yeshiva (Chicago) (or Telshe Chicago or Telz Chicago) is a Yeshiva (Jewish Talmudical and Rabbinical School) in Chicago, Illinois. In 1960, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz, Rosh Yeshiva of the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio, established Telshe Chicago as a branch of the Telshe Yeshiva (named after the Lithuanian t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telshe%20Yeshiva%20%28Chicago%29 |
Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir) is an American actress. She is known for roles in the film The Right Stuff (1983) and the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991).
Life and career
Deschanel was born as Mary Josephine Weir. Her ancestry includes Irish, French, Swiss, Dutch, and English. After small television appearances,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Jo%20Deschanel |
Eugen Heinrich Eduad Ernst Brodhun (15 October 1860 – 19 September 1938) was a German physicist.
He developed the "Lummer-Brodhun-Würfel" (Lummer-Brodhun spectro-photometer) with Otto Lummer in 1889.
External links
L6 Reflection of light at kr.cs.ait.ac.th
1860 births
1938 deaths
19th-century German physicists
20t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20Brodhun |
Brot may refer to:
Brot (TV series), Icelandic 2019 TV series
Brot., abbreviation in botanical name citations for Portuguese botanist Félix de Avelar Brotero
Bernd das Brot, "Berndt the Bread", a puppet character on the German children's television channel KI.KA
Das Brot, a short story by Wolfgang Borchert
Surname
Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brot |
David McCooey (born 1967 in London), poet, critic, musician, and academic. He is Personal Chair in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong.
Early life and education
David McCooey was born in London in 1967. He moved to Perth, Western Australia, with his family in 1970. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McCooey |
Grigory Silovich Ostrovsky (1756–1814) was a Russian portrait painter active during the 18th century in the Kostroma Governorate.
Career
Almost nothing is known of Ostrovsky's life, and little is known about his career; the only paintings which can be definitively traced to him are 17 signed and dated portraits which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%20Ostrovsky |
A collaborative working environment (CWE) supports people, such as e-professionals, in their individual and cooperative work. Research in CWE involves focusing on organizational, technical, and social issues.
Background
Working practices in a collaborative working environment evolved from the traditional or geographic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20working%20environment |
The Lea Valley, the valley of the River Lea, has been used as a transport corridor, a source of sand and gravel, an industrial area, a water supply for London, and a recreational area. The London 2012 Summer Olympics were based in Stratford, in the Lower Lea Valley. It is important for London's water supply, as the sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea%20Valley |
Communicating Doors is a play written in 1994 by Alan Ayckbourn. The setting is a hotel suite that moves through time from 1974 to 2014. The central character, Poopay, must save herself from the murderous Julian by preventing the murders of Reece's two wives.
Cast and Characters
Characters
Reece (A businessman, aged ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating%20Doors |
The Mount Carmel Center was a large group of buildings used by the Branch Davidian religious group located near Axtell, Texas, north-east of Waco. The Branch Davidians were established by Benjamin Roden in 1959 as a breakaway sect from Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, and was later led by David Koresh starting in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Carmel%20Center |
Jerry Fincher Hough (April 26, 1935 – May 24, 2020) was an American political scientist. Hough was the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University and his research focused on domestic American politics, the Soviet Union, the democratization of Russia, and American efforts at nation-building. Hough i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20F.%20Hough |
Raster passes are the most basic of all machining strategies for the finishing or semi-finishing of a part during computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). In raster passes machining the milling cutter moves along curves on the cutter location surface (CL surface) obtained by intersecting the CL surface with vertical, parall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster%20passes |
Saxondale is a British sitcom television series, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Coogan and Neil Maclennan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage and depicts middle-class suburban life.
Produced by Bab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxondale |
See Trygve Henrik Hoff for the singer, composer and artist.
Trygve J. B. Hoff (12 November 1895 – 4 January 1982) born in Kristiana, Norway was a Norwegian businessman, writer and editor of Farmand, the Norwegian business magazine.
Background
Hoff was born in Oslo as a son of lawyer Alf Eid Rosenberg Hoff and Margret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve%20Hoff |
Shao Jiayi (; born 10 April 1980) is a Chinese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented Beijing Guoan (two spells), TSV 1860 Munich, Energie Cottbus and MSV Duisburg as well as the China national team with which he participated in the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 AFC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shao%20Jiayi |
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The NZR LA class was a class of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department and the New Zealand Midland Railway Company. They were built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in 1887 for New Zealand Midland Railway Company, and were taken over by NZR in 1900, when the governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR%20LA%20class |
Generation "П"/P is the third novel by Russian author Victor Pelevin. Published in 1999, it tells the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a Moscow 'creative' and advertising copywriter. The story deals with themes of post-Soviet Russia, consumerism, recreational drug use, and Mesopotamian mythology.
An English translation by A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation%20%22%D0%9F%22 |
Georgi Atanasov () (May 6, 1882 – November 17, 1931), was a Bulgarian composer.
A native of Plovdiv, Atanasov began formal musical studies in Bucharest at the age of 14. From 1901 until 1903 he studied composition at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with Pietro Mascagni. Upon receiving his diploma with the title of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi%20Atanasov%20%28composer%29 |
James Ashton (4 April 1859 – 2 August 1935) was an artist and arts educator in South Australia.
Early life
Ashton was born on the Isle of Man, grew up in York and was educated at the Blue Coat School, London. After being apprenticed to a pharmacist, he studied art at the South Kensington School of Art, London and at P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Ashton%20%28artist%29 |
America West Airlines Flight 556 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami, Florida, to Phoenix, Arizona, operated by an America West Airlines Airbus A319. On July 1, 2002, the plane was ordered back to the terminal after the pilots were suspected of being drunk beyond the legal limit. The pilots were ultimately conv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20West%20Airlines%20Flight%20556 |
NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) is a media art gallery in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It was established by NTT to commemorate the 100th anniversary of telephone service in Japan and opened in 1997. In addition to permanent and temporary exhibitions featuring international and Japanese artists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTT%20InterCommunication%20Center |
Black Jays is a Canadian independent record label, production company, and musical collective, specializing in hip-hop, R&B, and reggae music. Founded in 2000 by rappers Kardinal Offishall and Solitair, it was originally known as Silver House and the Girl (S.H.A.G.). In 2004, the group came to prominence after releasin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Jays |
Columbia Gorge Regional Airport , also referred to as The Dalles Municipal Airport, is a public use airport in Klickitat County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located near Dallesport, Washington and two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the city of The Dalles in the state of Oregon. The airport is jointly owne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Gorge%20Regional%20Airport |
Les Gilbert (born 10 January 1946 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian musician who was a founding member of the 1960s band, Wild Cherries. He appeared on their early recordings, which, together with the band's four singles for Festival, have been picked up for a compilation album by the Half a Cow record company.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Gilbert |
Bozhidar Spasov (Cyrillic: Божидар Спасов) (born 1949) is a Bulgarian composer.
Born in Sofia, Spasov went to Moscow to study music, graduating in composition from the Moscow Conservatory in 1975. He then became a research associate with the Musicology Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His music shows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozhidar%20Spasov |
Lord Charles George Francis Fitzmaurice MVO (12 February 1874 – 30 October 1914) was an English soldier and courtier. For the last few months of his life he was known as Lord Charles Mercer Nairne.
Early life
Fitzmaurice was the younger son of the former Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton and Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Charles%20Fitzmaurice |
Lobby Loyde (born John Baslington Lyde, 18 May 1941 – 21 April 2007), also known as John Barrie Lyde or Barry Lyde, was an Australian rock music guitarist, songwriter and producer.
He was a member of two 1960s groups: Purple Hearts, which had a Top 40 hit with "Early in the Morning" in 1966, and Wild Cherries with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby%20Loyde |
The Katz Group of Companies is a Canadian privately-owned enterprise, with operations in sports and entertainment and real estate development. Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG), a subsidiary of the Katz Group, owns the National Hockey League five-time Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers, as well as professional hockey ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz%20Group%20of%20Companies |
Shao (; Cantonese Romanisation: Shiu; Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shaw) is a common Chinese family name. It is the 86th most populous family name in China. It corresponds to last name So in Korean; "Thiệu" or "Thiều" in Vietnamese; “Zau” in Wu Chinese/Shanghainese and Siu, Chow, or Sho in other Chinese romanisations. The origin o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shao |
A Russian doll (or Matryoshka) is a type of nested, wooden toy.
Russian Doll or Russian Dolls may also refer to:
Television series
Russian Doll (TV series), a 2019 American drama series on Netflix
Russian Dolls (2011 TV series), a 2011 American reality series on Lifetime
Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (), a 2005 Flemish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Doll%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Freezing Atlantic is Aberdeen City's debut album. Its first single is "God Is Going to Get Sick of Me." It was produced by Nic Hard (Jesse Malin, The Church, The Bravery) for the 2005 release on Dovecote Records. Select tracks from the album were re-recorded and remixed with Steve Lillywhite for the 2006 re-releas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Freezing%20Atlantic |
The Cinematograph Act 1909 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (9 Edw. 7. c. 30). It was the first primary legislation in the UK which specifically regulated the film industry. It unintentionally provided the legal basis for film censorship, leading to the establishment of the British Board of Film Censo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematograph%20Act%201909 |
Drummer Keith Barber (17 April 1947 – 1 May 2005) was born in Kilburn, North West London, England, moved to Melbourne when he was 10 years old and later joined a local band, the Wild Cherries in early 1966. Together with founding member Les Gilbert, he put together a second incarnation of the group that recorded four s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Barber%20%28drummer%29 |
HMCS Rainbow was an protected cruiser built for Great Britain's Royal Navy as HMS Rainbow entering service in 1892. Rainbow saw time in Asian waters before being placed in reserve in 1909. In 1910 the cruiser was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy for service on the west coast. At the outbreak of the First World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS%20Rainbow%20%281891%29 |
Riotuerto (Rutuertu in Cantabrian) is one of the municipalities of Cantabria, lying between the North Coast of the Cantábrican Sea and the mountains of the Cantabrian Sierra. It is part of the ancient merindad (shire) of Trasmiera. The centre of Riotuerto is La Cavada, once the home of the famed Royal Artillery Factory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riotuerto |
A heijunka box is a visual scheduling tool used in heijunka, a method originally created by Toyota for achieving a smoother production flow. While heijunka is the smoothing of production, the heijunka box is the name of a specific tool used in achieving the aims of heijunka.
The heijunka box is generally a wall schedu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heijunka%20box |
Dan Robinson (born 15 March 1947 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia) is a singer who fronted the second incarnation of Melbourne Sixties band, The Wild Cherries and was later a member of the vocal trio The Virgil Brothers.
He attended Melbourne Grammar School where he was a boarder and played the bass in the School O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Robinson%20%28singer%29 |
Ice Cold is the debut studio album of Canadian rapper Choclair, released November 2, 1999 in Canada and March 14, 2000 in the United States. It was released on major label Virgin/Priority Records. The album's early success was driven by the first single, "Let's Ride", which reached #37 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Cold |
Zyll is a text-based role-playing video game published by IBM for the IBM PCjr in 1984. It was written by Marshal Linder and Scott Edwards, two IBM employees, and marketed as an adventure game.
Plot
The story begins in the "Land of Magic and Enchantment" where a young man named Zyll was unsuccessfully attempting to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyll |
BEFLIX is the name of the first embedded domain-specific language for computer animation, invented by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs in 1963.
The name derives from a combination of Bell Flicks.
Ken Knowlton used BEFLIX to create animated films for educational and engineering purposes.
He also collaborated with the artist St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEFLIX |
The West Coast Group Representation Constituency is a five-member Group Representation Constituency (GRC) located in the western as well as the central area of Singapore. The five divisions consists: Ayer Rajah-Gek Poh, West Coast, Boon Lay, Nanyang and Telok Blangah. West Coast GRC covers the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Coast%20Group%20Representation%20Constituency |
Gangseo District (literally west of river district) is a gu on the west side of Nakdong River in Busan, South Korea. It has an area of 179.05 km², and a population of about 66,000; it has a lower population density than Gijang county of Busan. Gangseo-gu was part of Buk-gu from its creation in 1978 to 1989 when it beca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangseo%20District%2C%20Busan |
Ira Robert Byock ( ; born February 13, 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is an American physician, author, and advocate for palliative care. He is founder and chief medical officer of the Providence St. Joseph Health Institute for Human Caring in Torrance, California, and holds appointments as active emeritus professor of medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira%20Byock |
The Apollo class were second-class protected cruisers designed by Sir William White and built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. Twenty-one ships of this class were built, making it the largest single class of steel cruisers ever built for the Royal Navy to the same design.
Design and construction
The design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo-class%20cruiser |
Lower Lake may refer to
Lower Lake, California, a census-designated place in the United States
Lower Lake, Bhopal, a lake in India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Lake |
Andrew Hickenlooper (August 10, 1837 – May 12, 1904) was an Ohioan civil engineer, politician, industrialist, and a Union Army lieutenant colonel of artillery and engineers. In recognition of his service, in 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Hickenlooper |
Racing colors or racing colours may refer to:
Motor-racing colours, formerly used to indicate a driver or car's country of origin
Horse-racing colours, worn by jockeys to indicate the horse's owner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing%20colors |
Gangseo-gu (), or "west of river district," is the name of a gu in 2 South Korean cities:
Gangseo-gu, Busan
Gangseo-gu, Seoul
See also
Kangso-guyok, district of Nampo, North Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangseo-gu |
Alan Henry Kirton (22 February 1933 – 25 July 2001) was a New Zealand agricultural scientist.
Biography
Born in Stratford, New Zealand in 1933, Kirton was raised in a farming family who ran sheep and dairy cows on a block of land in a small settlement called Kohuratahi, approximately 90 km north-east of Stratford. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Kirton |
Ahmed Rashidi (also known as Ahmed Errachidi) is a citizen of Morocco who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Rashidi's Guantanamo ISN was 590.
The Department of Defense reports that he was born on March 17, 1966, in Tangier, Morocco.
Rashidi's lawyer, Cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Errachidi |
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Umm al-Qutuf (; ) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located in the triangle, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Pottery remains from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras have been found here, as have pottery remains from the early Muslim and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm%20al-Qutuf |
Luckey is the surname of:
People
Andy Luckey (born 1965), American television producer and author
Bud Luckey (1934–2018), American cartoonist and animator
Henry Carl Luckey (1868–1956), American politician
Hugh M. Luckey (1873–1946), American farmer and politician
Lillian Luckey (1919–2021), All-American Girls Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckey |
Sanford Arms is an American sitcom television series produced as a spin-off and continuation of Sanford and Son, that aired Fridays at 8:00-8:30 PM on NBC from September 16 to October 14, 1977.
After six seasons, Redd Foxx left Sanford and Son to star in a variety show for ABC. The producers planned to continue the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford%20Arms |
Al-Alam () is an Arabic news channel broadcasting from Iran and owned by the state-owned media corporation Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
The network's political coverage tends to be the most popular; however, other subjects, such as commentaries, analysis, business and sports also get a share of the au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Alam%20News%20Network |
Ludowici Roof Tile, LLC., based in New Lexington, Ohio, is an American manufacturer of clay roofing tiles, floor tiles, and wall cladding. The company was established in 1888 with the formation of the Celadon Terra Cotta Company in Alfred, New York. It has created tile for many prominent buildings throughout the United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludowici%20Roof%20Tile |
Cold Lake is a large lake in Central Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The lake straddles the Alberta / Saskatchewan border, and has a water area of . It is also one of the deepest lakes in Alberta with a maximum depth of . It has around 24 known species of fish and is a major ice fishing lake. Cold Lake is also major ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Lake%20%28Alberta%29 |
A formateur (French for "someone who forms, who constitutes") is a politician who is appointed to lead the formation of a coalition government, after either a general election or the collapse of a previous government. The role of the formateur is especially important in the politics of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formateur |
Lusby may refer to:
Lusby, Lincolnshire
Lusby, Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusby |
Lura (born Maria de Lurdes Assunção Pina; 31 July 1975, Lisbon) is a Portuguese singer and musician, of Cape Verdean descent. Her compositions are based on traditional Cape-Verdean music as for example the Morna, Funaná and Batuque, and influenced by African and contemporary Western music.
Biography
The Portuguese voi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lura%20%28singer%29 |
Lusk may refer to:
Places
U.S. places
Lusk, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Lusk, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
Lusk, Wyoming, a town
Elsewhere
Lusk, Dublin, a village in Ireland
Others
Lusk (surname)
Lusk (band), American psychedelic rock supergroup
Lusk Committee of the New York State legisl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusk |
Lutcher can refer to:
People
Henry J. Lutcher, a sawmiller and business partner of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company
Nellie Lutcher, an African-American jazz singer and pianist
Places
Lutcher, Louisiana, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutcher |
tempuri.org is the test default namespace URI used by Microsoft development products, like Visual Studio. It is available for XML Web services that are under development, but published XML Web services should use a more permanent namespace. The term is strictly a placeholder and all instances of it should be replaced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempuri |
Transmission Games (originally known as IR Gurus) was an Australian game development company, specialising in sports and action games. Originally, Transmission Games was established as IR Gurus Pty Ltd in 1996 by Craig Laughton, Andrew Niere, and Ian Cunliffe with the motto "Game Play is Everything". The company name w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20Games |
This is a list of the Birmingham board schools, built between the Elementary Education Act 1870 which established board schools, and the Education Act 1902, which replaced school boards with Local Education Authorities. Most of the board schools were designed by the firm Martin & Chamberlain (M&C).
List of board schoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Birmingham%20board%20schools |
Apogaea (meaning "far from Earth") is an annual collaborative outdoor arts and music festival held as a Colorado regional counterpart for the Burning Man event. Typically held in late spring (scheduled for June 7–10 in 2018) in southern Colorado, Apogaea ("Apo"), establishes a temporary autonomous zone where radical s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apogaea |
Bjoneroa is a village in Gran Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the western shore of Norway's fourth largest lake, Randsfjorden. The village lies in the far northwestern part of Gran, just along the municipal border with Søndre Land. The village had about 118 residents in 2017.
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjoneroa |
Seymour Ginsburg (December 12, 1927 – December 5, 2004) was an American pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and
database theory, in particular; and computer science, in general. His work was influential in distinguishing theoretical Computer Science from the disciplines of Mathematics and Electrical E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%20Ginsburg |
A passenger name record is the detail of a passenger's travel held by an airline or transport operator.
PNR may also refer to:
Government
Regional nature parks of France (), a statutory conservation designation
Policía Nacional Revolucionaria, Cuba's national police force
Political parties
Partido Nacional Renova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNR%20%28disambiguation%29 |
A greyout is a transient loss of vision characterized by a perceived dimming of light and color, sometimes accompanied by a loss of peripheral vision. It is a precursor to fainting or a blackout and is caused by hypoxia (low brain oxygen level), often due to a loss of blood pressure.
Greyouts have a variety of possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyout |
The Battle of the Ten Kings () is a battle, first alluded to in the 7th Mandala of the Rigveda (RV), between a king of the Bharatas and a confederation of tribes. It resulted in a decisive victory for the Bharatas and subsequent formation of the Kuru polity. It is possible that the Battle of the Ten Kings, mentioned i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Ten%20Kings |
Maben may refer to:
Maben, Mississippi
Maben, West Virginia
Maben Airport, Prattsville, New York
See also
Mabyn, a medieval Cornish saint | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maben |
RMAF Butterworth () is an active Air Force Station of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) situated from Butterworth in Penang, Malaysia. It is currently home to the Headquarters Integrated Area Defence System (HQIADS), part of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA).
The airfield was originally known as RAF Stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMAF%20Butterworth%20Air%20Base |
Hand in Hand – Bridge over the Wadi (; ) is the third joint Arab-Jewish primary school in Israel, founded in 2004 by the Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish Arab Education in Israel, which also runs three other bilingual schools in Israel. It is located in Kafr Qara, an Arab village in the Wadi Ara area.
History
The ide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20in%20Hand%20%E2%80%93%20Bridge%20over%20the%20Wadi |
Madelia may refer to:
Madelia (horse), a French Thoroughbred racehorse
Madelia, Minnesota, United States
Madelia Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelia |
Madill can refer to:
Places:
Madill, Oklahoma
People:
Ellwood Madill (1915–1999), Canadian politician
Frank Madill (Canadian politician) (1852–1895)
Frank Madill (Australian politician) (born 1941), Tasmanian politician
Henry J. Madill (1829–?), US Army colonel
Jeff Madill (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey playe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madill |
Greyhound Australia is an Australian coach operator that ran services in all mainland states and territories until reduction of services in the 2000s.
It is owned by KordaMentha (85%) and the Chapman Group (15%). The company was established in 1928 and is not affiliated with similarly named companies in other countrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound%20Australia |
The 1997 Aisin fire was a fire which shut down one of the production facilities of the Toyota-subsidiary Aisin Seiki Co. on February 1, 1997, a Saturday. The event was notable as the factory was the main supplier of a motor part for Toyota cars. Due to the just in time stock keeping philosophy of the Toyota Production ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20Aisin%20fire |
True Faith is a band from the Philippines, formed in 1991. They have become one of the Philippines' most popular and accomplished bands.
The band took its name from New Order's 1987 hit single "True Faith", revealing the group's new wave origins. At first, True Faith mined mid-1980s new wave sounds for its breezy pop ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20Faith%20%28band%29 |
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