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"Sneakers" is a short story by American author Stephen King. It was published in the compilation book Dark Visions and in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
Plot summary
Recording studio executive John Tell notices a pair of old dirty sneakers in an adjacent stall while using the restroom at work. He, at first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers%20%28short%20story%29 |
Lotus Island is a 0.2-mile-long (320 m) island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska. It lies within the Aleutians West Census Area. Located at in the Semichi Islands group of the Near Islands, it is the least prominent of the two islands in the Shemya Pass, which separates Nizki and Shemya islands... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20Island |
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes us Human is a 2003 book by Matt Ridley, in which Ridley discusses the interaction between environment and genes and how they affect human development. It was the 2003 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20via%20Nurture |
PACA or Paca may refer to:
Paca, either of two large rodent species
Paca, a shortening of the Spanish name Francisca
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930 (US)
People
William Paca, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
Paca Blanco, Spanish environmentalist
Paca Navas, Honduran journalist
Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACA |
Matthew "Atlanta Bliss" Blistan (born c. 1952) is an American jazz trumpeter. He is best known for his work with Prince from 1985–1991. He won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the 1986 single "Kiss" by Prince.
Life and career
A native of Peters Township, Pennsylvania, Blistan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta%20Bliss |
"Sorry, Right Number" is a teleplay written by author Stephen King for an episode of the horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside. It is the ninth episode of the fourth season. It was later included in King's 1993 short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes, and is the only such work that King has included i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry%2C%20Right%20Number |
Prayopavesa (, IAST prāyopaveśanam, literally resolving to die through fasting) is a practice in Hinduism that denotes the death by fasting of a person who has no desire or ambition left, and no responsibilities remaining in life. It is also allowed in cases of terminal disease or great disability. A similar practice e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayopavesa |
165P/LINEAR is a periodic comet in the Solar System. 165P/LINEAR has a perihelion distance of 6.8 AU, and is a Chiron-type comet with (TJupiter smaller than 3 and a semi-major axis larger than Jupiter's).
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
165P on Seiichi Yoshida's co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/165P/LINEAR |
Arcenio James Advincula is a martial artist and a first-generation student of the founder of Isshin-ryū Karate, Tatsuo Shimabuku. He also has an extensive background in Largo Mano Eskrima, Hindiandi Gung Fu, Ryukyu Kobudo and Combat Judo. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who served for 22 years, 6 mont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcenio%20James%20Advincula |
"It Grows on You" is a short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in Marshroots, volume 3, no. 1, Fall 1973, later revised and published in August 1982 in Whispers, and again revised for the 1993 short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. "It Grows on You" was nominated for the 1993 Locus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Grows%20on%20You |
Sfakianakis Group is a Greek company that primarily focuses on the import, distribution, and trading of automobiles, trucks, and buses employing over 2800 in 6 countries in 2014.. The company has been in operation for several decades and has established itself as a prominent player in the Greek automotive market. It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sfakianakis%20S.A. |
"The Doctor's Case" is a short story by American author Stephen King, originally published in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a 1987 centennial collection, and reprinted in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
This story is King's foray into Sherlockiana, a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes story, using Arthur ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doctor%27s%20Case |
Henry Leland Bowles (January 6, 1866 – May 17, 1932) was an American politician who served as a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography
Bowles was born in Athens, Vermont on January 6, 1866. He attended the district schools at Kendricks Corner and Vermont Academy. At the age of eighteen, he moved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20L.%20Bowles |
"The House on Maple Street" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stephen King, published in his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. The first volume of the anthology’s audiobook includes the story, read by the author's wife, Tabitha King.
Background
The story was inspired by one of the drawings includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20House%20on%20Maple%20Street |
Jonathan Reuven Rotem is a South African-born American record producer, songwriter and music publisher.
Biography
Early life
Rotem was born in South Africa to Jewish Israeli immigrant parents. He moved to Canada at the age of two and to Moraga, California at the age of twelve.
Rotem's entry point into music was in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20R.%20Rotem |
Yle Teema was a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcasting company Yle. The channel was dedicated to culture, sciences and learning. The channel was known for its "Theme Saturday" (Teemalauantai/Tema Lördag) which typically consisted of documentaries and classic international films.
Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yle%20Teema |
María del Carmen Aristegui Flores (; born January 18, 1964) is a Mexican journalist and anchorwoman. She is widely regarded as one of Mexico's leading journalists and opinion leaders, and is best known for her critical investigations of the Mexican government. She is the anchor of the news program Aristegui on CNN en E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen%20Aristegui |
YLE24 was a Finnish language TV channel broadcast by Yle. The unit was founded in 2000, and it was active from 2001 to 2007.
See also
SVT24
External links
yle.fi/yle24
References
Yle television channels
Defunct television channels in Finland
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television channe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YLE24 |
The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature.
Living organists
Australia
David Drury (born 1961)
Douglas Lawrence (born 1943)
Graeme Morton
Christopher Wrench (born 1958)
Austria
Martin Haselböck (born 1954)
Brett Leighton (born 1955)
Matthias Maierhofer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20organists |
Jewish resistance under Nazi rule took various forms of organized underground activities conducted against German occupation regimes in Europe by Jews during World War II. According to historian Yehuda Bauer, Jewish resistance was defined as actions that were taken against all laws and actions acted by Germans. The ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20resistance%20in%20German-occupied%20Europe |
"Gramma" is a short horror story by American author Stephen King. It was first published in Weirdbook magazine in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection called Skeleton Crew. Certain characters/creatures/unearthly powers featured in the works of H. P. Lovecraft also appear in this story, making it a story set in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramma%20%28short%20story%29 |
William Kirk Kaynor (November 29, 1884 – December 20, 1929) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Sanborn, Iowa, Kaynor attended the common schools of Spencer and Clear Lake. In his early youth, he was employed as a drug store clerk in Clear Lake. He later moved to Gann Valley, South Dakota an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Kirk%20Kaynor |
Earth, Sun, Moon is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggars Banquet.
The album was remastered, but not expanded (unlike their previous albums), in 2001. Most of the tracks that would have appeared on an expanded edition were included on disc 5 of their 2013... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%2C%20Sun%2C%20Moon |
William Joseph Granfield (December 18, 1889 – May 28, 1959) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Granfield was born in Springfield on December 18, 1889. He attended elementary and high school in Springfield, and graduated from Williston Academy in 1910. In 1913 he received his law degree from the No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Granfield |
10 Play could refer to:
10Play, the video on demand and catch up TV service for Australia's Network 10
Gamer.tv, a weekly British television show produced by the company of the same name | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Play |
Grand Hustle Records (formerly Grand Hustle Entertainment), also known as Hustle Gang Music, is an Atlanta, Georgia–based hip hop record label, founded in 2003, by American rapper T.I. and his manager Jason Geter. The label was distributed by Atlantic Records until December 2012. It currently operates as an independent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Hustle%20Records |
167P/CINEOS () is a large periodic comet and active, grey centaur, approximately in diameter, orbiting the Sun outside the orbit of Saturn. It was discovered on August 10, 2004, by astronomers with the CINEOS survey at Gran Sasso in Italy. It is one of only a handful known Chiron-type comets.
The comet nucleus (~66 k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/167P/CINEOS |
The James T. Vaughn Correctional Center (JTVCC), formerly the Delaware Correctional Center (DCC), is a state prison for men in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, USA, near Smyrna. It is the Delaware Department of Correction's largest correctional facility.
JTVCC houses some 2,500 minimum, medium, and maximum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20T.%20Vaughn%20Correctional%20Center |
Arakaka is a community in the Barima-Waini region of Guyana, standing on the Barima River and 12 miles southerly of Port Kaituma, at an altitude of 63 metres (209 feet).
It is the centre of the gold-bearing district, featuring lateritic-saprolitic deposits. Gold mining in the area has attracted international mining co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arakaka |
Elections to Restormel Borough Council were held on 6 May 1999. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party lost overall control of the council.
Results
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References
1999 English local elections
1999
1990s in Cornwall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Restormel%20Borough%20Council%20election |
Vila Verde () is a municipality in the district of Braga in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 46,446, in an area of 228.67 km².
Vila Verde's current mayor, as of 26 September 2021, is Júlia Fernandes of the Social Democratic Party. She succeeded António Vilela of the same party. The municipal holiday is 13 June.
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila%20Verde |
New Plymouth Airport serves the city of New Plymouth, and the surrounding region of Taranaki. It is located on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island and is 11 km from the city centre, on State Highway 3 north to Auckland, and 4 km from the outer suburb/satellite town of Bell Block.
New Plymouth Airport is ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Plymouth%20Airport |
The blue dot triplefin (Notoclinops caerulepunctus) is a fish in the genus Notoclinops, found around offshore islands and exposed headlands of the eastern side of Northland, and the Bay of Plenty, on the North Island of New Zealand from depths of a metre or so to about 30 m, most common in reef areas of broken rock. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20dot%20triplefin |
The Grenville Whigs (or Grenvillites) were a name given to several British political factions of the 18th and the early 19th centuries, all of which were associated with the important Grenville family of Buckinghamshire.
Background
The Grenville family interest, led by Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenvillite |
In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is verifiable if auxiliary information is included that allows players to verify their shares as consistent. More formally, verifiable secret sharing ensures that even if the dealer is malicious there is a well-defined secret that the players can later reconstruct. (In standard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verifiable%20secret%20sharing |
Breast examination, also known as clinical breast examination, is a physical examination performed by a medical professional on an individual presenting with signs and symptoms in a breast, periodically on some people with a family history of breast disease, or on a person with an incidental abnormal finding on imaging... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20examination |
168P/Hergenrother is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet originally named P/1998 W2 returned in 2005 and got the temporary name P/2005 N2. The comet was last observed in January 2020, and may have continued fragmenting after the 2012 outburst.
2012 outburst
The comet came to perihelion on October 1, 2012,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/168P/Hergenrother |
Colin Anthony Greenall (born 30 December 1963) is an English former professional footballer who made over 600 Football League appearances between 1980 and 1999. Starting his career at Blackpool as an apprentice, Greenall had spells at Gillingham, Oxford United, Bury, Preston North End, Chester City and Lincoln City bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Greenall |
Stormy Waters may refer to:
Stormy Waters (1941 film), a French drama film
Stormy Waters (1928 film), an American silent drama film
"Stormy Waters", a 2017 episode of Splash and Bubbles
"Stormy Waters", B-side of the 1998 single "Wildsurf" by Ash
"Stormy Waters", a song by The Hollies from the 1979 album Five Three O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormy%20Waters |
William Herskovic (June 1914 – March 3, 2006) was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II, and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps. Bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Herskovic |
Mission San Juan Capistrano (originally christened in 1716 as La Misión San José de los Nazonis and located in South Central Texas) was founded in 1731 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order, on the eastern banks of the San Antonio River in present-day San Antonio, Texas. The new settlement (part of a chain of Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20San%20Juan%20Capistrano%20%28Texas%29 |
Jewel box is a term sometimes used in reference to the group of Major League Baseball ballparks built (or re-built) primarily between 1909 and 1915, after the wooden ballpark era and before the modern multipurpose stadium era. These parks featured two-tier grandstand design to take advantage of the steel structural sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20jewel%20box%20baseball%20parks |
Bronx Community Board 12 is a local government unit of the New York City borough of the Bronx, encompassing the neighborhoods of Edenwald, Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Woodlawn Heights, Fish Bay, Eastchester, Olinville and Baychester.
It is delimited by Van Cortlandt Park East and Jerome Avenue to the west, Adee Avenue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx%20Community%20Board%2012 |
Cimei Township (Qimei Township, Chimei Township) () is a rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan. The island is the fifth largest in the Pescadores (Penghu) and the southernmost island in the group. It is the smallest township in Penghu County.
History
Archaeological evidence of prehistoric cultures dating back 4500 y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimei%2C%20Penghu |
169/NEAT is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is the parent body of the alpha Capricornids meteor shower in Late July. 169/NEAT may be related to comet P/2003 T12 (SOHO). It comes to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 9 July 2022. On 13 July 2022 passed from Venus. On 11 August 2026 it will pass from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/169P/NEAT |
The Privatbrauerei Erdinger Weißbräu Werner Brombach GmbH (also known as Erdinger Weißbräu) is a brewery in Erding, Germany. Its best-known products are its namesake Weißbiers (wheat beer).
History
Erdinger is the world's largest wheat beer brewery. It is widely available and popular across Germany and the European ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdinger |
A command in military terminology is an organisational unit for which a military commander is responsible. Commands, sometimes called units or formations, form the building blocks of a military. A commander is normally specifically appointed to the role in order to provide a legal framework for the authority bestowed. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20%28military%20formation%29 |
A vacuum splint is a device like a small vacuum mattress that is used in emergency medicine as a temporary splint. Vacuum splints operate by extracting air from the splint itself to enable the thousands of polystyrene balls inside the splint to mold around the injured body part similar to an orthopedic cast. Vacuum s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum%20splint |
Lindsey Erin Alley (born December 6, 1977) is an American actress and singer, who for several years lived in New York City and now resides in Los Angeles. She is known for performing as a mouseketeer on all seven seasons of the The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (1989-1994).
Early life
Alley was born in Lakeland, Florida.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey%20Alley |
The Ford EUCD platform (for "European Class D") is Ford's global midsize car automobile platform launched in 2006.
EUCD was chosen by Ford's European operations instead of the Ford CD3 platform due to the large number of components shared with the smaller C1. Another factor was reportedly the inability of the CD3 to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20EUCD%20platform |
Wadim Zudilin (Вадим Валентинович Зудилин) is a Russian mathematician and number theorist who is active in studying hypergeometric functions and zeta constants. He studied under Yuri V. Nesterenko and worked at Moscow State University, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadim%20Zudilin |
PTV4 (Paikallistelevisio) was a Finnish television channel which operated from 1990 to 1997. It was originally launched on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho) under the name of PTV, which was later changed to PTV4 in 1996 when it was bought by the Sanoma Group. It was the predecessor of the modern Finnish TV ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTV4 |
Robert Vaughan Moody, (; born November 28, 1941) is a Canadian mathematician. He is the co-discover of Kac–Moody algebra, a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined through a generalized root system.
"Almost simultaneously in 1967, Victor Kac in the USSR and Robert Moody in Canada developed what... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Moody |
170P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It came to perihelion in September 2014 at about apparent magnitude 18.
References
External links
Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
170P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list
Elements and Ephemeris for 170P/Christensen – Minor Planet Center... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/170P/Christensen |
Rhapsody in Blue, subtitled The story of George Gershwin is a 1945 American biographical film about composer and musician George Gershwin, released by Warner Brothers. Robert Alda stars as Gershwin. Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Hazel Scott, and Anne Brown also star, while Irving Rapper directs. The film was released in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody%20in%20Blue%20%28film%29 |
Vahe Maximi Hakobyan (Armenian: Վահե Մաքսիմի Հակոբյան, born May 18, 1977) is an Armenian politician and businessman who formerly served as governor of Syunik Province (2013-2014) and as a member of the National Assembly of Armenia. He is a member of the Republican Party of Armenia and serves on the party council. While... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahe%20M.%20Hakobyan |
Stratton Sclavos (born 1961) is an entrepreneur, chief executive, and venture investor in the technology, professional sports and lifestyle industries. He is currently a partner at Vision Venture Partners.
He served as chairman and CEO of VeriSign Inc., a security services and network infrastructure company, from 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton%20Sclavos |
Love and Rockets is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets; released in 1989 by Beggars Banquet Records on cassette, vinyl, and compact disc.
Background
Love and Rockets dismissed Earth, Sun, Moon's folk sound in favour of a stronger rock sound. Hints of the band's former psychedel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20and%20Rockets%20%28album%29 |
The māuluulu is a traditional Tongan dance, performed by a group of seated men and women; stylistically, the dance form is a direct successor of the ancient Tongan otuhaka having been synthesized with the Samoan Māuluulu which was imported during the 19th century.
The performers sit down in a row on the ground, crossl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81%CA%BBulu%CA%BBulu |
Nerodia is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as water snakes due to their aquatic behavior. The genus includes nine species, all native to North America. Five of the species have recognized subspecies.
Description
Nerodia species vary greatly, but all are relatively heavy-bodied snakes, somet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerodia |
New York State Route 9G (NY 9G) is a state highway in the Hudson Valley of New York in the United States. It runs north from U.S. Route 9 (US 9) at Poughkeepsie, starting out as Violet Avenue, then follows the Hudson River mostly along the eastern side of the US 9 to Rhinebeck, where the two routes cross just north of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%209G |
"Sam Hall" is an English language folk song about a unrepentant criminal condemned to death (Roud Folk Song Index number 369) for robbing the rich to feed the poor. Prior to the mid-19th century it was called "Jack Hall", after an infamous English thief, who was hanged in 1707 at Tyburn. Jack Hall's parents sold him as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Hall%20%28song%29 |
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award.
Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in Kevin Elyot's play Forty W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey%20Mulligan |
Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind is a documentary DVD released by Eagle Vision in March 2005, as part of the Classic Albums series. It features interviews specifically for this release with Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as Nevermind album producer Butch Vig about the recording of the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Albums%3A%20Nirvana%20%E2%80%93%20Nevermind |
The Southland was an American rock band from Los Angeles. They featured Jed Whedon on keyboards and vocals, Ethan Phillips on bass guitar, Andy Crosby on drums, Nick Gusikoff on guitar, and Danny Chaimson on keyboards.
The Southland's debut album, Influence of Geography, was released in June 2005. They toured regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Southland%20%28band%29 |
Thomas Minton (1765–1836) was an English potter. He founded Thomas Minton & Sons in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which grew into a major ceramic manufacturing company with an international reputation.
During the early 1780s Thomas Minton was an apprentice engraver at the Caughley Pottery Works in Shropshire, under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Minton |
John F. Ross may refer to:
John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute, a public secondary school in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
John F. Ross (author), American historian and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20F.%20Ross |
A multitude of languages is used in Singapore. It consists of several varieties of languages under the families of the Austronesian languages, Dravidian languages, Indo-European languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Constitution of Singapore says the national language of Singapore is Malay. This plays a symbolic ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20Singapore |
New York State Route 344 (NY 344) is a state highway located in Columbia County, New York, in the United States. The route is in length and serves primarily as an access road to the Bash Bish Falls state parks on both sides of the New York–Massachusetts border. The western terminus of NY 344 is at NY 22 in Copake Fall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%20344 |
Elbert Joseph "Bertie" Higgins (born December 8, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter. In 1982, Higgins had a top 40 album with Just Another Day in Paradise. It spawned the hit song "Key Largo", which referenced the Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film of the same name and reached No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie%20Higgins |
Dalriada can refer to:
Dál Riata, a Gaelic kingdom in western Scotland and north-east Ireland in the Early Middle Ages
Dalriada School, a co-educational, voluntary grammar school in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
Dalriada (band), Hungarian folk metal band | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalriada%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Shea Farm Halfway House is a state prison for women in New Hampshire, United States.
Located in Concord, New Hampshire, Shea Farm is a minimum security facility which opened in 1973. It is a transitional facility used to house adult prisoners preparing for release. It can accommodate up to 40 inmates, who are usually ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shea%20Farm%20Halfway%20House |
A medical thermometer or clinical thermometer is a device used for measuring a human's or other animal's body temperature. The tip of the thermometer is inserted into the mouth under the tongue (oral or sub-lingual temperature), under the armpit (axillary temperature), into the rectum via the anus (rectal temperature),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20thermometer |
Iser Kuperman, sometimes spelled Koeperman, (; April 21, 1922 - March 6, 2006) was a player of international draughts from the USSR. He had been the seven-time world champion, the four-time Panamerican champion, and multiple USSR champion in international and Russian draughts. He was also an International Grandmaster.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iser%20Kuperman |
Spam poetry, sometimes called spoetry, is poetic verse composed primarily from the subject lines or content of spam e-mail messages.
History
Several writers have claimed to have created spam poetry, and consensus has not emerged about a single origin. Some early examples come from a spam poetry competition held in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam%20poetry |
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a 1964 British horror film produced, written and directed by Michael Carreras, starring Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark and introducing Jeanne Roland.
Plot
"Egypt in the year 1900". The mummy of Ra-Antef, son of Ramesses VIII, is discovered by three Egyptologists: Englishmen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Curse%20of%20the%20Mummy%27s%20Tomb |
Bezoardicum (bezoar of) is a term applied to multiple substances used in alchemy and other practices:
Bezoardicum joviale, or bezoar of Jupiter, is a regulus made by melting three ounces of regulus of antimony and two of block tin. This is then powdered and mixed with six ounces of corrosive sublimate and distilled of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezoardicum |
FINS, Factory Interface Network Service, is a network protocol used by Omron PLCs, over different physical networks like Ethernet, Controller Link, DeviceNet and RS-232C.
The FINS communications service was developed by Omron to provide a consistent way for PLCs and computers on various networks to communicate. Compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory%20Interface%20Network%20Service |
These are the individual stories, usually referred to as "yarns", set in Frank Miller's Sin City universe. They are listed here in order of publication.
The Hard Goodbye
First published as Sin City in Dark Horse Presents issues #51–62 and 5th Anniversary Special (June 1991–June 1992), and reprinted as Sin City (The H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sin%20City%20yarns |
County Route 536 (CR 536) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from the Commodore Barry Bridge crossing the Delaware River at Chester at the Pennsylvania state line and Logan Township, to U.S. Route 206 (US 206) in Hammonton. Much of the western portion of the route is concurrent wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Route%20536%20%28New%20Jersey%29 |
The Turmberg (German: "Tower Hill") is a hill (elevation: 256 m) located in Durlach, a suburb of Karlsruhe in Germany. It is home to a castle ruin.
The Turmberg can be reached by the Turmbergbahn, a funicular railway. The original railway used water to counterbalance the rail cars, but now it is run on electricity.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmberg |
Zook can refer to the following:
People
Chris Zook, business writer
John Zook (1947–2020), National Football League player
Frederic Zook, President of Ottawa University and former mayor of Ottawa, Kansas
George F. Zook (1885-1951), American educator
Matthew Zook, geographer
R. Harold Zook (1889-1949), American a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zook |
The economic history of Brazil covers various economic events and traces the changes in the Brazilian economy over the course of the history of Brazil. Portugal, which first colonized the area in the 16th century, enforced a colonial pact with Brazil, an imperial mercantile policy, which drove development for the subse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20history%20of%20Brazil |
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television. Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Many networks, studios, and production companies,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Christmas%20films |
The 1st Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army that draws its lineage from a line of post American Revolutionary War units and is credited with thirty-nine campaign streamers. The 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry is assigned as support to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and to f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 |
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a contemporary fantasy novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. It was published in June 2005, concurrently released on the Internet under a Creative Commons license, free for download in several formats including ASCII and PDF. It is Doctorow's third novel.
The novel was c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone%20Comes%20to%20Town%2C%20Someone%20Leaves%20Town |
NGC 7318 (also known as UGC 12099/UGC 12100 or HCG 92d/b) is a pair of colliding galaxies about 280 million light-years from Earth. They appear in the Constellation Pegasus and are members of Stephan's Quintet.
The Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the presence of a large intergalactic shock wave, shown by an arc produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207318 |
Newstead is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England in the borough of Gedling. It is situated between the city of Nottingham and the towns of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall.
A former coal mining village, and previously called Newstead Colliery Village. Lord Byron, the poet, lived at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newstead%2C%20Nottinghamshire |
Arthur Percival Day (10 April 1885 – 22 January 1969) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club during the period of the county's greatest success in the County Championship before World War I. He played in all four of Kent's Championship winning sides in the pre-war period and scored ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Day%20%28Kent%20cricketer%29 |
Roger Walker (born 22 December 1944 in Bristol, England) is an English actor.
He moved to Derby at an early age and was a drama teacher at Tupton Hall School in Derbyshire in the early 1970s. His first television appearance was as a replacement for Matthew Corbett as a singer on the popular children's television show,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Walker%20%28actor%29 |
Kenneth D. Peach, Sr. (March 6, 1903 – February 27, 1988) was an American cinematographer.
Biography
Kenneth D. Peach Sr. was born in El Reno, Indian Territory (in what is now Oklahoma). Peach entered the film industry in 1923 and became a director of photography in 1926. He worked with composite processes, miniatures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Peach |
The Solor Archipelago () is a group of islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, lying to the east of Flores and to the west of the Alor Strait and the Alor Archipelago. To the north is the west part of the Banda Sea, while to the south across the Savu Sea lies the island of Timor. The largest islands are, from w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solor%20Archipelago |
Duplicate is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Mahesh Bhatt. It stars Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role, with Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre playing supporting roles. The film portrays Shah Rukh Khan playing a dual role as Bablu, an aspiring chef and Manu, a notorious gangster. It marked Khan's fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate%20%281998%20film%29 |
Grunty may refer to:
A cow-like creature from the .hack series. See Grunties .
Gruntilda, the main villain of the Banjo-Kazooie series.
See also
Grunt (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunty |
Alor Strait (also Alloo Strait) divides the Solor Archipelago from the Alor Archipelago, in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. It lies mainly between the larger islands of Pantar and Lembata.
The strait connects the western part of the Banda Sea in the north to the Savu Sea in the south.
Notes
Straits of Indon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alor%20Strait |
Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with 204 approx. 22-minute episodes produced spanning 8 seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1991–92)
Season 2 (1992–93)
Season 3 (1993–94)
Season 4 (1994–95)
Season 5 (1995–96... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20Improvement%20episodes |
Asteroid hyalosis is a degenerative condition of the eye involving small white opacities in the vitreous humor. It is known to occur in humans, dogs, cats, horses, and chinchillas. Clinically, these opacities are quite refractile, giving the appearance of stars shining in the night sky—except that ocular asteroids ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid%20hyalosis |
Gilbert Clarence Monture, (August 27, 1896 – June 19, 1973) was a Canadian civil servant.
A Mohawk born on August 27, 1896, on the Six Nations of the Grand River in Brant County, Ontario, and the great grandson of Joseph Brant. Monture served with the Royal Canadian Field Artillery as a gunner during World War I. Aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Monture |
An asteroid body is a microscopic finding seen within the giant cells of granulomas in diseases such as sarcoidosis and foreign-body giant cell reactions.
There is controversy about their composition. Traditionally, they were thought to be cytoskeletal elements and to consist primarily of vimentin. However, more rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid%20body |
Genpact is an Indian professional services firm legally domiciled in Bermuda with its headquarters in New York City, New York. The company currently employs more than 100,000 people and provides services to clients in over 30 countries worldwide. Genpact is listed on the NYSE and generated revenues of US$3.71 billion i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpact |
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