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Linda Vista University (Spanish: Universidad Linda Vista) is a private university in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Linda Vista is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
History
Linda ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Vista%20University |
The Clérigos Church (, ; "Church of the Clergymen") is a Baroque church in the city of Porto, in Portugal. Its 75-meter-tall bell tower, the Torre dos Clérigos, can be seen from various points of the city and is one of its most characteristic symbols.
History
The church was built for the Brotherhood of the Clérigos (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9rigos%20Church |
Robert Lee Nichols (born November 25, 1944) is an American politician who represents the 3rd District of the Texas Senate. A Republican, he was the Senate President Pro Tempore of the 85th legislative session. According to his voting records, Nichols is the least conservative Republican member of the state Senate.
Ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Nichols%20%28politician%29 |
Boston railway station serves the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, England. It is on the Poacher Line.
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway who provide all rail services.
History
The station opened for service on 17 October 1848 with the opening of the Great Northern Railway E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20railway%20station |
Yavarí may refer to:
Yavari (ship), a ship commissioned by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca
Yavarí or Javary River, a tributary of the Amazon that forms the boundary between Brazil and Peru for more than | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavar%C3%AD |
Adrian Oxaal (born 20 March 1965) is an American-born English musician and music educator, best known for being the lead guitarist in James 1997–2002 and 2015–present. He has also played with the bands Sharkboy, Oysterband and Goat.
Biography
Early years, and work with Goat
Adrian Oxaal was born in California, United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Oxaal |
Pampisford is a village, south of Cambridge, on the A505 road near Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England.
The remaining section of a defensive ditch, dug to close the gap between forest and marsh, is known as Brent Ditch, which runs between Abington Park and Dickman's Grove, and is most clearly seen in the park of Pampisfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampisford |
Eisosomes ('eis' meaning into or portal and 'soma', meaning body) are large, heterodimeric, immobile protein complexes at the plasma membrane which mark the site of endocytosis in some eukaryotes, and were discovered in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 2006. Currently, seven genes: Pil1, Lsp1 and Sur7, Eis1, Seg1 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisosome |
The GMT800 was a General Motors full-size truck platform used from the 1999 through 2006 model years. It is the foundation for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups; and the derivative GMT820 and GMT830 versions for the Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon and the Chevrolet Suburban/GMC Yukon XL full-size SUVs, respectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT800 |
A red star is an important ideological and religious symbol.
Red Star may also refer to:
Astronomy
Red dwarf, a small and relatively cool star
Red giant, a large, cool non-main sequence star
Books
Krasnaya Zvezda, or Red Star, a Soviet and Russian military newspaper
Red Star (publication), a 1970–1971 series of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20star%20%28disambiguation%29 |
HyperCourseware is a prototype electronic educational environment developed in 1990 by Kent Norman at the University of Maryland, College Park, to be used in an electronic classroom called the "Teaching Theater." The goal was to rehost electronically all of the things that go into education: the materials, (e.g., textb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCourseware |
Peter David Mosses (born 1948) is a British computer scientist.
Peter Mosses studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to undertake a DPhil supervised by Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group while at Wolfson College, Oxford in the early 1970s. He was the last stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mosses |
Hanukkah or Chanukkah ben Obadiah was a hypothetical Khazar ruler who probably reigned during the mid to late ninth century CE. Hanukkah was the son of Obadiah and succeeded his nephew Manasseh I to the throne. No contemporary records from his reign survive; however, he is known from the Khazar Correspondence between H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah%20ben%20Obadiah |
Bolderwood is an area of the New Forest in Hampshire. Bolderwood hosts a deer sanctuary with a public deer observation platform. As a result, the public car park at Bolderwood is the most visited in the New Forest. From here the Bolderwood Arboretum Ornamental Drive links to the A35 passing close to the Knightwood Oa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolderwood%2C%20Hampshire |
Rory Peck (13 December 1956 – 3 October 1993) was a Northern-Irish freelance war cameraman who was killed while covering the events of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.
Work
Rory Peck covered the first Gulf War; the wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, the many armed conflicts that followed the dissolution of the Sov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory%20Peck |
Beat Crazy is the third album by Joe Jackson, released in October 1980 and credited to the Joe Jackson Band. It was a relative disappointment commercially, peaking outside the Top 40 in both the UK and the United States, with its singles failing to chart. One reason for the reduced sales in the U.S. may have been that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20Crazy |
Westside High School is a public high school located in Macon, Georgia, United States. The school opened in 1997 and serves grades 9 through 12. It is the largest school in the Bibb County School District.
Athletics
The Westside Seminoles has competed in Division AAAA Region 2 of the Georgia High School Association si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westside%20High%20School%20%28Macon%2C%20Georgia%29 |
Finger vibrato is vibrato produced on a string instrument by cyclic hand movements. Despite the name, normally the entire hand moves, and sometimes the entire upper arm. It can also refer to vibrato on some woodwind instruments, achieved by lowering one or more fingers over one of the uncovered holes in a trill-like ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20vibrato |
City of Parks is a municipal project to create a continuous paved pedestrian and biking trail around the city of Louisville, Kentucky while also adding a large amount of park land. The project was announced on February 22, 2005. Current plans call for making approximately of the Floyds Fork floodplain in eastern Jeffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Parks |
Thorpe Culvert railway station serves the village of Thorpe St Peter in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated from Skegness and from Boston.
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway who provide all rail services.
A signal box is present at the West end of the station to supervis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe%20Culvert%20railway%20station |
The Parliament House (, ) is the seat of the Parliament of Finland. It is located in the Finnish capital Helsinki, in the district of Töölö.
History
In 1923 a competition was held to choose a site for a new parliament house. Arkadianmäki, a hill beside what is now Mannerheimintie, was chosen as the best site.
The arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20House%2C%20Helsinki |
Jonathan Watson is a Scottish actor best known for his comedy sketch show Only an Excuse?, which parodied people and events from the world of Scottish football, as well as roles in the BBC comedies Bob Servant Independent in which he appears with Brian Cox, and as Colin in the acclaimed Two Doors Down (2013–present). I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Watson |
The Charaxinae, the leafwings, are a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China, and southern Australia. Significant variations exist between the species. For example, some are m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charaxinae |
In Mexican linguistics, saltillo (Spanish, meaning "little skip") is the word for a glottal stop consonant (IPA: ). The name was given by the early grammarians of Classical Nahuatl. In a number of other Nahuan languages, the sound cognate to the glottal stop of Classical Nahuatl is , and the term saltillo is applied to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltillo%20%28linguistics%29 |
A token economy is a system of contingency management based on the systematic reinforcement of target behavior. The reinforcers are symbols or tokens that can be exchanged for other reinforcers. A token economy is based on the principles of operant conditioning and behavioral economics and can be situated within applie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token%20economy |
David Anthony Watt (born 5 November 1946) is a British computer scientist.
Watt is a professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. With Peter Mosses he developed action semantics, a combination of denotational semantics, operational and algebraic semantics. He currently teaches a third year programming languages c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Watt%20%28computer%20scientist%29 |
The Clausius theorem (1855), also known as the Clausius inequality, states that for a thermodynamic system (e.g. heat engine or heat pump) exchanging heat with external thermal reservoirs and undergoing a thermodynamic cycle, the following inequality holds.
where is the total entropy change in the external thermal re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%20theorem |
Mission Omega is a computer game published in 1986 by Argus Press Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers. It was programmed by Stephen Ward.
Gameplay
The United States of Europe vessel, Windwraith, has been sent to intercept a mysterious object the size of a small moon which is spee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20Omega |
Bodington Hall was the largest hall of residence of the University of Leeds, in Leeds, England. It was opened in 1961 and closed in 2013. The site still contains the university's main playing fields. Known as Bod within the university, it was located between Lawnswood and Adel, approximately 4 miles north of the main c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodington%20Hall |
Only an Excuse? is an annual Scottish comedy sketch show that was broadcast on BBC One Scotland on Hogmanay from 1993 to 2020.
It starred the actor and comedian Jonathan Watson and featured impressions of some of Scottish football's great characters such as Denis Law, Tommy Burns, Barry Ferguson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only%20an%20Excuse%3F |
Wainfleet railway station serves the town of Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire, England. The station has its own signal box at the east end of the platforms, which is next to the level crossing. Wainfleet station is west of Skegness on the Skegness - Grantham - Nottingham Poacher Line.
The station is now owned by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainfleet%20railway%20station |
The Apaturinae are a subfamily of butterflies that includes many species commonly called emperors.
Description
Strikingly-coloured, with cryptic underwing. A distinguishing character of the subfamily is the green proboscis.
Genera
Apaturinae consists of 20 genera and shows separate distributions and uncommon host–pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apaturinae |
Leadbelly is a 1976 film chronicling the life of folk singer Huddie Ledbetter (better known as "Lead Belly"). The film was directed by Gordon Parks, and starred Roger E. Mosley in the title role. The film focuses on the troubles of Lead Belly's youth in the segregated South including his time in prison, and his effort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadbelly%20%28film%29 |
Havenhouse railway station is situated south-west of Skegness in Lincolnshire, England. The station was originally called 'Croft Bank'. There was formerly a Seacroft railway station between Havenhouse and Skegness, but it is now closed.
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havenhouse%20railway%20station |
Nu-Flow is the debut studio album by British R&B/hip hop group Big Brovaz, originally released on 4 November 2002. The album features five singles, of which four were UK top-10 singles—the title track "Nu Flow", which was a hit across Europe; "OK"; "Favourite Things" (the highest charting hit from the album) and "Baby ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu-Flow |
William Louis Wallace (born December 1, 1945), nicknamed "Superfoot", is an American karateka, actor, and former professional kickboxer. Considered one of the first American superstars of kickboxing, he was the Professional Karate Association (PKA) World Full-Contact Champion, and the Middleweight Kickboxing Champion f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Wallace%20%28martial%20artist%29 |
Clarence Edward Dutton (May 15, 1841 – January 4, 1912) was an American geologist and US Army officer. Dutton was born in Wallingford, Connecticut on May 15, 1841. He graduated from Yale College in 1860 and took postgraduate courses there until 1862, when he enlisted in the 21st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; he fough... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Dutton |
Skegness railway station serves the seaside resort of Skegness in Lincolnshire, England at the terminus of the Poacher Line.
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, who provide all rail services that run to and from Nottingham.
History
The line to Wainfleet was opened in August... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skegness%20railway%20station |
So Far is the fourth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, their third as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the first compilation album released by the group. Shipping as a gold record and peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, it was the band's third chart-topping album in a row. It has been certified six t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%20Far%20%28Crosby%2C%20Stills%2C%20Nash%20%26%20Young%20album%29 |
Gary Croft (born 17 February 1974) is an English former professional footballer and co-commentator for BBC Radio Humberside.
As a player he was a left back from 1992 until 2008, as well as briefly coming out of retirement in 2015. He notably played for Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Ipswich Town, having also had s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Croft |
Inventory is a list of goods and materials held available in stock by a business.
Inventory may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Inventory (artists), a group of British artists
Inventory (film), a 1989 Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
Inventory, item storage available to a character in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventory%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Vila de Rei (; "Royal City") is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,452, in an area of 191.55 km2.
A small municipality covered with pinewoods, located precisely at the centre of Portugal, as marked by the Picoto da Melriça, a monument indicating the geodesic cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila%20de%20Rei |
WKC may refer to:
WKC Stahl- und Metallwarenfabrik of Solingen, Germany
WKC (Baltimore), a Baltimore, Maryland AM radio station licensed from 1922 to 1923
West Kent College
West Kowloon Corridor, a highway in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Weyersberg, Kirschbaum, and Cie of Solingen, Germany
World Kendo Championship
White Knight C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKC |
Martingale may refer to:
Martingale (probability theory), a stochastic process in which the conditional expectation of the next value, given the current and preceding values, is the current value
Martingale (tack) for horses
Martingale (collar) for dogs and other animals
Martingale (betting system), in 18th century Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale |
State Highway 142, abbreviated SH-142, is a highway in southern Oklahoma. It serves as a short truck route and bypass around the northern and eastern sections of Ardmore.
Route description
SH-142 in Ardmore is locally designated as Veterans Boulevard. The highway's western terminus is at I-35 (milemarker 33) in Ardm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20State%20Highway%20142 |
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rogues%20%28TV%20series%29 |
Toivo Kostia Salonen (21 May 1933 – 28 October 2019) was a former speed skater from Finland. He was born in Pälkäne.
Medals
Toivo Salonen had most of his successes on a national level, becoming Finnish Allround Champion in 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, winning Finnish silver in 1953, 1955, and 1962, and taking b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo%20Salonen |
Jamie Doran is an Irish-Scottish independent documentary filmmaker and former BBC producer. He founded the multi award-winning company Clover Films, based in Windsor, in 2008. He is also the Club President of Datchet Village FC, which he founded in 1986.
Doran's films are shown worldwide and on flagship series such as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Doran |
Grapefruit mercaptan is the common name for a natural organic compound found in grapefruit. It is a monoterpenoid that contains a thiol (also known as a mercaptan) functional group. Structurally a hydroxy group of terpineol is replaced by the thiol in grapefruit mercaptan, so it also called thioterpineol. Volatile thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%20mercaptan |
"Nu Flow" is the debut single of British R&B collective Big Brovaz. It was released as the first single from their debut album, Nu-Flow (2002), on 14 October 2002. "Nu Flow" peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart and spent 19 weeks inside the UK top 100. The single was also successful in New Zealand and Norway,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%20Flow |
The Buckwalter Arabic transliteration was developed as part of the ALPNET Arabic Project being run by Ken Beesley in 1988.
Start
The first Arabic language analyst for the project was a BYU undergraduate student named Derek Foxley, hired as part-time. Foxley was in 4th year Arabic courses at the time at BYU.
Tim Buckw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwalter%20transliteration |
The Dhol Foundation is both a dhol drum institute in London and a musical group. The dhol school was founded in 1989 by former Alaap member Johnny Kalsi when several musicians asked him to be their teacher, and a first album was released by Kalsi and his students in 2001.
Dhol drums are a traditional percussion instr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dhol%20Foundation |
Cytochrome P450 1A2 (abbreviated CYP1A2), a member of the cytochrome P450 mixed-function oxidase system, is involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics in the human body. In humans, the CYP1A2 enzyme is encoded by the CYP1A2 gene.
Function
CYP1A2 is a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes. The cytochrom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP1A2 |
Volunteering Matters is a UK charity focused on "the advancement of citizenship and community development for the public benefit through the promotion of volunteering". It was founded in 1962 as Community Service Volunteers (CSV) by Mora and Alec Dickson. In the 2018/2019 financial year, Volunteering Matters engaged ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteering%20Matters |
The STU-II (Standard Telephone Unit II) is a secure telephone developed by the U.S. National Security Agency. It permitted up to six users to have secure communications, on a time-shared (e.g.: rotating) basis. It was made by ITT Defense Communications, Nutley, New Jersey. An OEM partner was Northern Telecom.
Accor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STU-II |
The Legacy is a 1992 fantasy novel by American writer R. A. Salvatore. It is the first book in his series Legacy of the Drow.
Plot summary
The Legacy continues the plot-line of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, with Wulfgar and Catti-brie preparing for their marriage and Drizzt returning from the first of many visits to Lady ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legacy%20%28Forgotten%20Realms%20novel%29 |
Roman Zentsov (, ) (born September 10, 1973 in Bryansk) is a retired Russian heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter who has competed in the PRIDE Fighting Championships, a major MMA organization based in Japan, and BodogFIGHT. Zentsov has an overall 18-12-0 record in mixed martial arts, and 2-1-0 record in boxing.
Mix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Zentsov |
Clinton Jones (born 24 May 1945) is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings and the San Diego Chargers. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was drafted by the Vikings in the first round (2nd overall) of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton%20Jones%20%28American%20football%29 |
The Drouth is an American-format quarterly periodical published in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 2001 by Mitchell Miller and Johnny Rodger.
Although its title is Scots (Eng: The Thirst), the magazine is published mostly in Scottish Standard English, with features and fiction regularly appearing in languages suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Drouth |
The Highwayman is a 2004 fantasy novel by American writer R. A. Salvatore, set in his world of Corona, shared with his Demon Wars Saga. The Highwayman tells the story of a young crippled boy named Bransen Garibond. The orphaned son of the Jhesta Tu mystic Sen Wi and the Abellican priest Brother Dynard, he eventually is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Highwayman%20%28novel%29 |
The Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center is a hotel and convention center located at National Harbor, Prince George's County, in the U.S. state of Maryland. The hotel is situated along the shores of the Potomac, downriver from Washington, D.C., and across the river from Alexandria, Virginia. It is owned by Gaylo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord%20National%20Resort%20%26%20Convention%20Center |
Trial by Fire is a five-issue mini-series published in 2003 by CrossGen. The story was plotted by R. A. Salvatore and Scott Ciencin, scripted by Scott Ciencin, with art by Ron Wagner and colors by Caesar Rodriguez.
It is based on Salvatore's The DemonWars Saga and focuses on the elven trained barbarian ranger Andacana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial%20by%20Fire%20%28comics%29 |
Vestal Goodman (December 13, 1929 – December 27, 2003) was a singer who performed in the Southern gospel genre for more than half a century. She was known for her work as a solo performer and as a member of the Happy Goodman Family—which originated with her husband and his brothers and sisters—one of the pioneering gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal%20Goodman |
The DemonWars Saga is a series of high fantasy novels by R. A. Salvatore. It is set in the world of Corona, primarily in the kingdoms of Honce-the-Bear and Behren, and amongst the nomadic To-gai-ru. The series is separated into two trilogies connected by a single book, Mortalis. The saga has an accompanying roleplaying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20DemonWars%20Saga |
The Demon Apostle a 2000 fantasy novel by R. A. Salvatore. It is the third book in the first DemonWars Saga trilogy. The book is also the third out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga.
Plot summary
The final novel in the first trilogy begins with the mopping up of Bestesbulzibar's army and the battle against... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Demon%20Apostle |
Steve Larsen (born July 26, 1975) is a Canadian bobsleigher. Larsen competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Larsen was born in Langley, British Columbia.
References
1975 births
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Canadian male bobsledders
Canadian people of Norwegian descent
Living people
Olympic bobsledders for Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Larsen |
The Diocese of Middlesbrough () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church based in Middlesbrough, England and is part of the province of Liverpool. It was founded on 20 December 1878, with the splitting of the Diocese of Beverley which had covered all of Yorkshire. The Bishop's See is in Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Middlesbrough |
Mortalis is a fantasy novel by American writer R. A. Salvatore. Spanning the gap between the first and second DemonWars Saga trilogies, it is also the fourth out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga.
Plot summary
Mortalis tells of Pony's life after the war: her fight against the crushing grief of her husband... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortalis |
The Russian frigate Sankt Nikolai was sunk in the Baltic Gulf of Finland in the Battle of Svensksund in 1790. She was found in 1948 almost intact in the sea bottom outside the modern city of Kotka. Over 2300 objects have been recovered from her hull by divers.
References
Фрегат Св. Николай (in Russian)
St. Nikolai
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20frigate%20Sankt%20Nikolai |
Ascendance is the first novel in the second DemonWars Saga trilogy by R. A. Salvatore. The book is also the fifth out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga.
Plot summary
The novel Ascendance begins the tale of Aydrian Wyndon, a tortured and lonely young man raised by the Touel'alfar to be a ranger even great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendance%20%28novel%29 |
The KY-3 (TSEC/KY-3) is a secure telephone system developed by the U.S. National Security Agency in the early 1960s. It was one of the first widely accepted voice voice encryption systems. The "TSEC" prefix to the model number indicates NSA's Telecommunications Security nomenclature system.
It was made by the Bendix C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KY-3 |
Re-Entry is the second album released by UK R&B/hip-hop collective Big Brovaz. After the album was delayed in May 2006, the band finally release the follow-up to "Nu Flow" on 9 April 2007. Following the first single, "Yours Fatally" and the second single "Hangin' Around", the third single from the album, "Big Bro Thang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Entry%20%28Big%20Brovaz%20album%29 |
The Minimoog Voyager or Voyager is a monophonic analog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog and released in 2002 by Moog Music. Five years earlier in 1997, the Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue was first produced by Moog Music. The Voyager was modeled after the classic Minimoog synthesizer that was popular in the 1970s, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimoog%20Voyager |
King Fahd Medical City (KFMC) is a medical facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The complex consists of four hospitals: The Obstetrics & Gynecology Hospital, The Specialist Hospital, The Rehabilitation Hospital, and The Pediatric Hospital. It was built at a cost of $633 million. KFMC's yearly operating budget is estimate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Fahd%20Medical%20City |
The 352d Tactical Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force fighter squadron. Its last assignment was with the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing at Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam, where it was inactivated on 31 July 1971.
The first predecessor of the squadron was activated in 1943 as the 372d Fighter Squadro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/352d%20Tactical%20Fighter%20Squadron |
The Witch's Daughter is a children's novel by Nina Bawden, first published in 1966. It has been dramatised for television twice, with Fiona Kennedy (1971) and Sammy Glenn (1996) in the title role.
Plot summary
On the small remote Scottish isle of Skua, Perdita has been branded "the witch's daughter" by islanders. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Witch%27s%20Daughter |
Ontario Knife Company (OKC) was an American manufacturer of knives and military tools. On August 1, 2023, OKC was acquired by Blue Ridge Knives and subsequently closed.
History
Better known as a supplier of military knives, Ontario Knife Company was founded in 1889 in Naples, New York. It is currently located in Fran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Knife%20Company |
The silver sweep (Scorpis lineolata), also known as the false pompano, sweep, trumps or windawindawi, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the subfamily Scorpidinae of the sea chub family Kyphosidae. It is native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean from Australia to New Zealand.
Description
The silver sweep has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20sweep |
The Volvo Olympian was a rear-engined 2-axle and 3-axle double decker bus chassis manufactured by Volvo at its Irvine, Scotland factory. The first was built in 1992 and entered production in March 1993, replacing the Leyland Olympian.
History
The design was based on its predecessor, the Leyland Olympian, but the chass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo%20Olympian |
Spalding railway station serves the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the Peterborough–Lincoln line.
History
Spalding gained its first rail links to Peterborough, Boston and Lincoln in 1848, courtesy of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) who built their main line from London to Doncaster through the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding%20railway%20station |
Darrin Milo Nelson (born January 2, 1959) is a former American football running back and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers. He played college football at Stanford University.
Early years
Nelson attended Pius X High School. He accepted a football sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin%20Nelson |
"Sounds and Silences" is episode 147 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on April 3, 1964 on CBS.
Opening narration
Plot
Roswell G. Flemington, owner of a model ship company and formerly a serviceman of the United States Navy, grew up in a home where his mother required ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds%20and%20Silences |
The Battle of Albert (also known as the First Battle of Albert) began on 25 September 1914, in what became known as the "Race to the Sea", during the First World War. It followed the First Battle of the Aisne as both sides moved northwards, trying to turn the northern flank of their opponent. The Second Army (Noël de C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Albert%20%281914%29 |
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) is an art museum of post-World War II art in Fort Worth, Texas with a collection of international modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1892, The Modern is located in the city's cultural district in a building designed by architect Tadao Ando whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Art%20Museum%20of%20Fort%20Worth |
is a Japanese comedy trio, consisting of , HIRO, and . The three are much less about traditional skit or story based stand-up humor (which is common in Japanese comedy), choosing instead to focus on physical humor and a loud, boisterous style that resonates with most manzai audiences. They formed in 2001, and received ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuda%20Dai%20Circus |
is a Japanese businesswoman and a former voice actress. Among her most noteworthy roles are Megu-chan in Majokko Megu-chan, Monsley in Future Boy Conan, Maria Grace Fleed in UFO Robo Grendizer, Michiru in Getter Robo, Klara in Heidi, Girl of the Alps, Rosalie Lamorliere in The Rose of Versailles, Miwa Uzuki in Steel Je... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihoko%20Yoshida |
Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd is an instrumental album of Pink Floyd songs. The album was arranged by Jaz Coleman, produced by Youth and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Peter Scholes.
The album cover was painted by Roger Dean who is known for his organic paintings. He also designed alb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us%20and%20Them%3A%20Symphonic%20Pink%20Floyd |
A Scottish regiment is any regiment (or similar military unit) that at some time in its history has or had a name that referred to Scotland or some part thereof, and adopted items of Scottish dress. These regiments were created after the Acts of Union in 1707 between England and Scotland, either directly serving Britai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20regiment |
The 356th Fighter Squadron is an active United States Air Force fighter squadron. It is assigned to the 354th Fighter Wing, being stationed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. It was reactivated in 2019 to operate the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
The squadron was first activated during World War II and flew the N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/356th%20Fighter%20Squadron |
Pembroke College Boat Club (PCBC) is the rowing club for members of Pembroke College, Oxford, one of the college boat clubs in Oxford.
History
Although the exact date for foundation of PCBC is unclear, the club was competing in Eights and Torpids as early as 1842 and had adopted its modern-day flag with the "Rose Gule... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke%20College%20Boat%20Club%20%28Oxford%29 |
John Crace may refer to:
John Dibblee Crace (1838–1919), British interior designer
John Gregory Crace (designer) (1809–1889), British interior designer
Sir John Gregory Crace (1887–1968), British rear admiral
John Crace (writer) (born 1956), British journalist and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Crace |
Radio Limerick One, also called Limerick 95FM and RLO at times, was a licensed radio station serving Limerick city and county. Licensed by the Independent Radio and Television Commission in 1989, its licence was removed in 1996 for misbehaviour, although the station did not leave the airwaves. It was eventually replace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Limerick%20One |
The 353rd Combat Training Squadron is a United States Air Force training squadron responsible for Exercise RED FLAG – ALASKA held annually in Alaska.
Overview
All the activities on Alaska's three weapons training ranges – incorporating more than 68,000 square miles (180,000 km2) of airspace, 28 threat systems, and 225... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/353rd%20Combat%20Training%20Squadron |
Haidakhan Babaji, simply called Babaji by his students and devotees, was a religious teacher who appeared near the village of Haidakhan in northern India (Uttarakhand) and taught publicly from 1970 until his death in 1984. He has a following in the Western world, and two ashrams in India.
Life
According to "The Teac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidakhan%20Babaji |
Big Drum Small World is the first studio album from Johnny Kalsi and his students from the Dhol Foundation institute in London. It was released in 2001 by Shakti Records and produced by Johnny Kalsi.
Track listing
All songs written by Johnny Kalsi, except where noted.
"Eik Din" 3:48
"Eik Din II" 2:59
"Iridian" (Kal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Drum%20Small%20World |
Grace Neill's, in the town of Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, is "one of Ireland's oldest pubs" and was opened in 1611.
History
The pub was opened in 1611 as the King's Arms. According to family tradition, Grace Neill was given the pub as a wedding gift from her father. Neill was a well-known figure in Donaghadee and ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20Neill%27s |
Hartwall Ltd is a beverage company based in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 1836. Its drinks range includes Jaffa, Pommac and Novelle waters. The company also owns the licence for manufacturing and selling PepsiCo's Pepsi, 7 Up and Mountain Dew brands in Finland. Hartwall's alcoholic beverages include Upcider cide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwall |
Ertuğrul Özkök (born 8 April 1947) is a Turkish journalist and a daily columnist. Between 1990 and 2010, he was the editor-in-chief for Hürriyet, a daily newspaper published in Turkish in Turkey and some European countries. Özkök is known for advocating modernization of Turkey, globalization, women's rights and Turkey'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ertu%C4%9Frul%20%C3%96zk%C3%B6k |
Sir John Meurig Thomas (15 December 193213 November 2020), also known as JMT, was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.
He was one of the founders of solid-state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Meurig%20Thomas |
Hicham Zerouali (; 17 January 1977 – 5 December 2004), nicknamed 'Zero' or the 'Moroccan Magician', was a Moroccan footballer. He played as a forward for clubs in Morocco, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates. He played internationally for Morocco with 7 caps.
Club career
Aberdeen
After playing in his native Morocco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicham%20Zerouali |
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