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David Barnes may refer to:
Dave Barnes (born 1978), American singer-songwriter
David Barnes (archer) (born 1986), Australian archer
David Barnes (boxer) (born 1981), British boxer
David Barnes (cricketer) (born 1982), English cricketer
David Barnes (footballer) (born 1961), English footballer
David Barnes (polit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Barnes |
Paramecium bursaria is a species of ciliate found in marine and brackish waters. It has a mutualistic endosymbiotic relationship with green algae called Zoochlorella. About 700 Chlorella cells live inside the protist's cytoplasm and provide it with food, while the Paramecium provides the algae with movement and protect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium%20bursaria |
Cuauhtémoc is a municipality in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It was named after the Aztec Indian ruler Cuauhtémoc, which means "águila que cae" (fallen eagle). The municipality's seat is Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua. The municipality is located to the west of the Chihuahua's capital city, Chihuahua. There is a close relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc%20Municipality%2C%20Chihuahua |
The biological terrain assessment or BTA is a set of tests used to measure the pH, resistivity, and redox of a person's urine, blood, and saliva. The measurements were first used by L.C. Vincent, a French hydrologist, in the early 1900s. It is often associated with homeopathy and holistic health. The usefulness of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20terrain%20assessment |
Ugamak Island () is one of the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Ugamak is an Aleut word transcribed by Father Veniaminov (1840) which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, may mean "ceremony island". It is long and is located east of Akutan Island. Ugamak Bay is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugamak%20Island |
Clear Creek Baptist Bible College (CCBBC) is a private Baptist Bible college in Pineville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist Convention). CCBBC provides a Bible-based education focusing on Christian service. The college is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear%20Creek%20Baptist%20Bible%20College |
Jonathan Fahn is an American voice actor, the brother of Melissa Fahn and Tom Fahn, the brother-in-law of Tom's wife, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, and the husband of Jennie Fahn.
Filmography
Anime dubbing
Ambassador Magma as Mamoru Murakami
Battle Athletes Victory as Kannoji, Operator
Blue Dragon as Marumaro's Father
Cowb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Fahn |
Wrigley is a group of neighborhoods in Long Beach, California. It includes the neighborhoods North Wrigley, South Wrigley, Southeast Wrigley and Wrigley Heights. Its name derives from William Wrigley Jr., the owner and founder of the famed Wrigley Spearmint Gum Empire in Chicago. It was one of the first communities es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley%2C%20Long%20Beach |
Although the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol is 21 in all U.S. states and most territories (see National Minimum Drinking Age Act), the legal details for consumption vary greatly. Although some states completely ban alcohol usage for people under 18, the majority have exceptions that permit consumption.
Underage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol%20consumption%20by%20youth%20in%20the%20United%20States |
The Advocacy Campaign Team for Mining (ACT) is the National Mining Association's national network which provides tools to communicate with legislators at all levels of government to shape and influence public policies governing the United States mining industry.
Projects
Federal Issue: National Environmental Policy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy%20Campaign%20Team%20for%20Mining |
The Northern League is an ice hockey league in the United Kingdom, contested by teams from England, Wales and Scotland. Named for the Northern League which existed in the 1960s and 1970s, it was founded in 2005 in the same format as the defunct Border League. The English and Welsh teams also play in the English Natio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20League%20%28ice%20hockey%2C%202005%E2%80%93%29 |
North Carolina Highway 104 (NC 104) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It connects northeast Surry County with downtown Mount Airy following Riverside Drive.
Route description
NC 104 begins at NC 103 in downtown Mount Airy (also known as Pine Street) and immediately heads north along River... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Highway%20104 |
The 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 28, 2004 and ended on December 4, 2004. The postseason concluded on January 4, 2005 with the Orange B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20NCAA%20Division%20I-A%20football%20season |
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology is a 1978 book by American philosopher Daniel Dennett. The book is a collection of seventeen essays in which Dennett reflects on the early achievements of artificial intelligence to develop his ideas on consciousness, theory of mind, and free will.
Reception
Dou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorms |
The Other Side is a Chris Hillman album, released in 2005. It contains a countryfied version of The Byrds 1966 single, "Eight Miles High."
Track listing
"Eight Miles High" (Clark, Crosby, McGuinn) – 4:05
"True Love" (Hill, Hillman) – 2:23
"Drifting" (Hill, Hillman) – 3:22
"The Other Side" (Hill, Hillman) – 3:04
"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Other%20Side%20%28Chris%20Hillman%20album%29 |
The Lockheed Senior Prom was a classified black project conducted by the United States Air Force in conjunction with the Lockheed Corporation's Skunk Works for the development and testing of a cruise missile using stealth technology. Based on the company's Have Blue demonstrator, the six Senior Prom vehicles proved suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Senior%20Prom |
Moosburg may refer to:
Moosburg an der Isar, a town in Bavaria, Germany
Moosburg, Baden-Württemberg, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Moosburg, Austria, a market town in Carinthia, Austria
Przedecz, a town in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Zalavár, a municipality in Zala County, Hungary
People:
Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moosburg%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 23 June 1926) is an Italian sculptor. He was born in Morciano, Romagna, and lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro (1930–2002) was also a sculptor.
Pomodoro designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The piece i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo%20Pomodoro |
Sir Ziauddin Ahmad (born Ziauddin Ahmed Zuberi; 13 February 1873 – 23 December 1947) was an Indian mathematician, parliamentarian, logician, natural philosopher, politician, political theorist, educationist and a scholar. He was a member of the Aligarh Movement and was a professor, principal of MAO College, first pro ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziauddin%20Ahmad |
Inside Time is the national newspaper for prisoners and detainees distributed throughout the prison estate of the United Kingdom including Immigration Removal Centres and special hospitals. The newspaper launched in 1990 and is published by Inside Time Limited, a not-for-profit organisation and a wholly owned subsidiar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Time |
Bixby Knolls is a neighborhood in Long Beach, California, named after the Bixby family.
Location
Bixby Knolls is an area of Long Beach adjoining North Long Beach to the north, California Heights on the southeast, Wrigley on the southwest. Its approximate boundaries are the 405 Freeway to the south (or Wardlow Avenue)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixby%20Knolls%2C%20Long%20Beach |
Aminorex (Menocil, Apiquel, aminoxaphen, aminoxafen, McN-742) is a weight loss (anorectic) stimulant drug. It was withdrawn from the market after it was found to cause pulmonary hypertension. In the U.S., it is an illegal Schedule I drug, meaning it has high abuse potential, no accepted medical use, and a poor safety p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminorex |
Deduce, You Say is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released on September 29, 1956, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. The title is a play on the exclamation, "The deuce, you say!"
The cartoon features Daffy Duck as the dim-witted detectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deduce%2C%20You%20Say%21 |
Circle of Magic is a quartet of fantasy novels by Tamora Pierce, set in Emelan, a fictional realm in a pseudo-medieval and renaissance era. It revolves around four young mages, each specializing in a different kind of magic, as they learn to control their extraordinary and strong powers and put them to use. It is follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20of%20Magic |
Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off is a BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby and Graeme Garden, produced by Pozzitive Television.
Format and history
The show follows the travel adventures of title character Giles Wemmbley-Hogg ("Two Ms, two Gs", full name: Giles Peter St John David Habakkuk St John... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles%20Wemmbley-Hogg%20Goes%20Off |
Radox is a brand of personal care products, best known for their range of bubble bath and shower gels. The brand was founded in the United Kingdom in 1908, and is now also available in Ireland, Czech Republic, Australia, Malaysia and South Africa. In September 2009 it was bought by Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radox |
David John Barnes (27 April 1958 – 23 October 2020) was a New Zealand America's Cup sailor, and three-time 470 world champion.
Early years
Born in Wellington, Barnes was educated at Tawa College. He married Karen in 1986, and the couple had three children.
Sailing career
Barnes skippered the KZ1 yacht which lost to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Barnes%20%28sailor%29 |
Central Park is a shopping complex in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with 166 businesses. The complex is located near the intersection of Interstate 95 and State Route 3. Many national big-box stores, restaurants, and smaller local businesses occupy the Central Park complex. The complex has of leased retail space. The c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Park%20%28shopping%20complex%29 |
Aurabela "Belita" Moreno (born November 1, 1949) is an American actress best known for her roles as Benita "Benny" Lopez on the ABC sitcom George Lopez and Edwina Twinkacetti and Lydia Markham on Perfect Strangers.
Early life
Aurabela Moreno was born in Dallas, Texas, to mother, Aurora Rodriguez, a high school Spanish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belita%20Moreno |
The Broadway business corridor in Long Beach, California is loosely defined as a three-mile stretch of East Broadway between Downtown Long Beach and Belmont Shore. It includes the area around Bixby Park sometimes referred to as a "gayborhood" because of the concentration of gay-owned and/or gay-friendly businesses. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway%20Corridor%2C%20Long%20Beach%2C%20California |
The Daily News is a newspaper covering Longview Kelso, Washington, and Cowlitz County, Washington in the United States. Apart from a brief period in the 1990s when, prior to ceasing publication, the Cowlitz County Advocate was published in Longview, the Daily News has been Longview's only newspaper since its inception.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Daily%20News%20%28Longview%2C%20Washington%29 |
"Too Much Information" is a song by English new wave band Duran Duran, released in August 1993 as the third single from their seventh studio album, Duran Duran (1993). The song's lyrics deal mainly with the commercialisation of the music industry. In the United Kingdom, it became the band's third top-40 single from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Much%20Information |
Riddel may refer to:
Riddels, or riddel curtains, posts, rails etc, curtains at the sides of a church altar.
Peter Riddel (died 1641), English politician
Eliza and Isabella Riddel, who endowed Riddel Hall to Queen's University Belfast in 1913
Riddel (Chrono Cross), a fictional character
See also
Riddell (disambi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddel |
Tasman station is an at-grade light rail station located in the center median of First Street at its intersection with Tasman Drive, after which the station is named, in San Jose, California. The station is owned by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) and is served by the Blue Line and the Green Line of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman%20station |
Sandra Galef (; born May 7, 1940) is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly for 30 years.
Early life and career
Galef was born Sandra Risk in LaCrosse, Wisconsin on May 7, 1940. In 1944, she moved with her family to Westchester County in New York. She received a B.A. from Purdue U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Galef |
T.I.P. is the second independent album by rapper Young Buck. It was released on November 8, 2005, through the independent label, Mass Appeal Entertainment. Guest appearances on the album include D-Tay, Rizin Sun, First Born and Bun B.
The album was recorded before Young Buck signed with G-Unit in 2002, but it was not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.I.P.%20%28album%29 |
Ilse Huizinga (15 October 1966) is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.
History
She lived in Australia for a year and attended the University of Amsterdam, where she received a degree in public administration. From 1993 to 1996 she studied music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and took master class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse%20Huizinga |
Elsing Green Plantation, a National Historic Landmark and wildlife refuge, rests upon nearly along the Pamunkey River in King William County, Virginia, a rural county on the western end of the state's middle peninsula, approximately northeast of the Richmond. The 18th-century plantation, now owned by the Lafferty fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsing%20Green |
The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a grade 1 competitive pipe band from Campbellville, Ontario, Canada.
History
The band was formed in 1982 by members of the disbanded General Motors Pipe Band with support from a 78th Fraser Highlanders re-enactment group, but the band was allowed to keep the name after support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th%20Fraser%20Highlanders%20Pipe%20Band |
Susie Scott may refer to:
Susie Scott (model) (1960 Playboy Playmate)
Susie Scott Krabacher (1983 Playboy Playmate) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie%20Scott |
SRC (Street Records Corporation) was an American record label created by former Loud Records CEO Steve Rifkind. It was a subsidiary of Universal Music Group and was distributed through Republic Records.
Company history
SRC was founded by Steve Rifkind in 2000. In 2002, he was ousted from his CEO position from Loud. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRC%20Records |
The Celtic Challenge Rowing Race is a 96-mile (150 km) rowing race from Arklow in Ireland to Aberystwyth in Wales. It is a biennial event which usually takes place on the first Saturday in May. Crews from Wales, Ireland, England and as far afield as Germany compete.
Description
The race is open to all 4-oared boats wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic%20Challenge%20Rowing%20Race |
Ichadon (Hanja: 異次頓), also known as Geochadon (Hanja: 居次頓), or by his courtesy name, Yeomchok (Hanja: 厭觸), or Yeomdo, (Hanja: 厭都), was a Buddhist monk and the advisor to the Silla king, Beopheung. He was born in 501 AD, Silla, and died in 527 AD.
Miracle
Early in his reign, Beopheung had desired to promulgate Buddhism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichadon |
Bill Campbell (September 7, 1923 – October 6, 2014) was a sportscaster in the Philadelphia area. He was born in the Logan section of North Philadelphia.
Campbell began his broadcasting career in high school at multi-ethnic WTEL, a Philadelphia radio station. He moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1941 as a Minor Leag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Campbell%20%28sportscaster%29 |
A test engineer is a professional who determines how to create a process that would best test a particular product in manufacturing and related disciplines, in order to assure that the product meets applicable specifications. Test engineers are also responsible for determining the best way a test can be performed in or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20engineer |
West station can refer to:
Australia
City West railway station, Perth
Concord West railway station
Cootamundra West railway station
Euabalong West railway station
Maryborough West railway station
West Leederville railway station
West Richmond railway station
Austria
Innsbruck Westbahnhof
Villach Westbahnho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20station |
Llansteffan Castle () is a privately owned castle in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales, overlooking the River Tywi estuary in Carmarthen Bay.
Iron Age
The castle sits on a much older Iron Age promontory fort, proving Llansteffan has been inhabited for several millennia. The hill where the castle stands commands the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llansteffan%20Castle |
The Ziauddin University (); abbreviated as ZU) is a private university located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The university is named after the educationist, Ziauddin Ahmad.
History
Established in 1986, Ziauddin University was founded in the memory of Sir Dr. Ziauddin Ahmad by his daughter and son-in-law. The School of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziauddin%20University |
London Road railway station can refer to:
Bicester London Road railway station (now called Bicester Village railway station)
Braunston London Road railway station
London Road (Brighton) railway station
Carlisle London Road railway station (disused)
London Road (Guildford) railway station
Leicester London Road railway ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Road%20railway%20station |
The Battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War, in which a United States Navy fleet and United States Army expeditionary force captured Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861. The sound was guarde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Port%20Royal |
Desert Blue is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Morgan J. Freeman, starring Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Sara Gilbert and John Heard.
Plot
A rising Hollywood starlet becomes "marooned" in a small desert town while on a roadtrip with her father. There, she g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert%20Blue |
A wine competition is an organized event in which trained judges or consumers competitively rate different vintages, categories, and/or brands of wine. Wine competitions generally use blind tasting of wine to prevent bias by the judges.
Types of wine competitions
The common goal of all wine competitions is to obtain v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20competition |
A status offense is an action that is prohibited only to a certain class of people, and most often applied only to offenses committed by minors.
In the United States, the term status offense also refers to an offense such as a traffic violation where motive is not a consideration in determining guilt. In the United K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status%20offense |
Greatbatch, a surname, may refer to:
Bruce Greatbatch (1917–1989), British colonial official
Mark Greatbatch (born 1963), New Zealand cricketer
Shaun Greatbatch (born 1969), English darts player
William Greatbatch, British potter
Wilson Greatbatch (1919–2011), American inventor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatbatch |
Scott L. Montgomery (born May 30, 1951) is an American author, geoscientist, public lecturer, and affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is widely known for his writings on energy matters, intellectual history, language and translation, and history of science.
His book, The Shape of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20L.%20Montgomery |
Beerfest is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and starring the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, which comprises Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. The film co-stars Nat Faxon, Will Forte, Ralf Möller, Mo'Nique, Eric Christian Olsen, Jürgen Prochnow, and Clo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerfest |
Charley Lane Johnson (born November 22, 1938) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the New Mexico State Aggies. Johnson played in the NFL for 15 years with three teams: the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Oilers, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley%20Johnson |
The University of North Carolina School of Law, sometimes referred to as Carolina Law, is the law school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Established in 1845, it is among the oldest law schools in the United States and is the oldest law school in North Carolina.
History
19th century
On December 12,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20North%20Carolina%20School%20of%20Law |
The Hann function is named after the Austrian meteorologist Julius von Hann. It is a window function used to perform Hann smoothing. The function, with length and amplitude is given by:
For digital signal processing, the function is sampled symmetrically (with spacing and amplitude ):
which is a sequence of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hann%20function |
Down House () is a 2001 Russian comedy-gross-out film by Roman Kachanov, a modern interpretation of the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The film received the Special Jury Prize at Kinotavr.
Premise
The plot is set in modern Moscow, probably in the second half of the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20House%20%28film%29 |
Midland station may refer to:
United Kingdom
Bedford railway station, previously known as Bedford Midland Road station
Derby railway station, also known as Derby Midland station
Leyton Midland Road railway station
Nottingham station, previously known as Nottingham Midland station
Midland station, an alternative name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland%20station |
Transfer is a technique used in propaganda and advertising. Also known as association, this is a technique of projecting positive or negative qualities (praise or blame) of a person, entity, object, or value (an individual, group, organization, nation, patriotism, etc.) to another in order to make the second more accep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20%28propaganda%29 |
Mark Wystrach (born December 17, 1979) is an American country music musician and actor. Wystrach appeared in the Academy Award-winning film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. He is the lead singer of the country band Midland.
Biography
Wystrach, a native of Sonoita, Arizona, attended Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Wystrach |
Westgate station can refer to:
Westgate station (Las Vegas Monorail) in Nevada, United States
Westgate station (Metro Transit) in Minnesota, United States
Westgate-on-Sea railway station in Kent, England
Wakefield Westgate railway station in West Yorkshire, England
Rotherham Westgate railway station, a former station ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate%20station |
Vogel may refer to:
Places
Vogel (lunar crater)
Vogel (Martian crater)
11762 Vogel, a main-belt asteroid
Vogel (mountain), a mountain of Slovenia
Vogel Ski Resort
Vogel State Park, Georgia, United States
Vogel Glacier, a glacier of Antarctica
Vogel Peak, a mountain of South Georgia
Other uses
Vogel (surname)
Vogel, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogel |
Waldorf Astoria New York is a historic Manhattan hotel built in 1931.
Waldorf-Astoria may also refer to:
Waldorf-Astoria (1893–1929), the predecessor of the current Waldorf Astoria New York
Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, a hospitality hotel management firm
Waldorf Astoria Berlin, a hotel in Germany
Waldorf Ast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf-Astoria%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Hill Court Manor () is a country house built in 1700 at Hom Green, Walford near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. The house is a Grade I listed building. It is currently owned and occupied by the Rehau Group.
A Short History
Although Hill Court has only been owned by four families since its construction nearly three hun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20Court%20Manor |
Joseph Rykwert CBE (born April 5, 1926) is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and America. He has taught the history and theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Rykwert |
Adam Józef Ignacy Prażmowski (1821–1885) was a Polish astronomer and astrophysicist of the 19th century. He worked in 1839 to 1850 at the Warsaw Observatory. Among his many discoveries, he discovered the polarized emissions from the sun's corona in 1860.
External links
Short Biography
19th-century Polish astronomer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Prazmowski |
Gloria Root (May 28, 1948 – January 8, 2006) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1969 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
Biography
Education
Root started her higher education at the University of Illinois, but later transferred to Northwestern University, to major in pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%20Root |
Ulmo Shannon "Sonny" Randle Jr. (January 6, 1936 – May 23, 2017) was an American sportscaster and football player and coach. He played wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Cardinals/St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys. Randle played college football at the Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny%20Randle |
Champions
World Series: New York Yankees over St. Louis Cardinals (4–0)
Awards and honors
League Award
Mickey Cochrane, Philadelphia Athletics, C
Jim Bottomley, St. Louis Cardinals, 1B
Statistical leaders
Major league baseball final standings
American League final standings
National League final standings
Neg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928%20in%20baseball |
Junction station usually refers to a railway station situated either on (in German this is called a Keilbahnhof) or close to a junction where lines to several destinations diverge. The usual minimum is three incoming lines. At a station with platforms running from left to right, the minimum to qualify as a junction sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction%20station |
Junction railway station was just outside the village of Crossbarry, on the Cork and Bandon Railway in County Cork, Ireland.
History
The station opened as Kinsale Junction on 27 June 1863. It was renamed Junction on 1 November 1886. It was further renamed Crossbarry on 1 July 1938.
Regular passenger services were wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction%20railway%20station |
A rigger or slinger is a skilled tradesperson who specializes in the assistance of manual mechanical advantage device comprising pulley, block and tackle or motorised such as a crane or derrick or chain hoists (chain fall) or capstan winch.
Etymology
The term comes from the days of sailing ships, when a rigger was a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigger%20%28industry%29 |
The L-series (; Linke) trains are temporary trains run by railway bureaus of the People's Republic of China at times when they are thought to be necessary, such as the Chunyun period.
History
1940–1960
The very first L-series trains appeared during the Anti-Japanese war, when the national railway network was entirel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-series%20trains |
Munjoy Hill is both a neighborhood and prominent geographical feature of Portland, Maine. It is located east of downtown and south of East Deering, the neighborhood it is connected to by Tukey's Bridge. The neighborhood historically had a large Irish and Italian American population.
The neighborhood is named for Geor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munjoy%20Hill |
Jonathan Wilson may refer to:
Jonathan Wilson (musician) (born 1974), American psychedelic folk musician
Jonathan Wilson (writer) (born 1976), British sports journalist and author
Jonathan Wilson (actor) (active since 1990), Canadian actor and playwright
Jonathan Wilson (author) (active since 1994), British-born w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Wilson |
Seleucia ( – also transliterated as Seleukeia) was originally an ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean coast of Pamphylia, in Anatolia, approximately 15 km northeast of Side; the site is about 1 km north of the village of Bucakşeyhler (also Bucakşıhler), approximately 12 km northeast of Manavgat, Antalya Province, Tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucia%20%28Pamphylia%29 |
Victor Posner (September 18, 1918 – February 11, 2002) was an American businessman. He was one of the highest-paid business executives of his generation. He was a pioneer of the leveraged buyout and became notorious for asset stripping.
Career
Of Russian-Jewish descent, he was born in Baltimore, Maryland, one of nine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Posner |
Alumni Coliseum is a multi-use sports arena located on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky.
History
Built in 1963, the Paul S. McBrayer Arena located inside Alumni Coliseum, is capable of seating around 6,500 people in both chairback seats and on wooden benches (8,000 for concerts) arranged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumni%20Coliseum |
Orneta (, Prussian: Wurmedītin) is a town in northern Poland, with a total population of 8,951 (2016). It is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and within the historical region of Warmia.
History
Orneta, said to have been a village of the ancient Old Prussians, was first mentioned in 1308. The town coat o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orneta |
Oregano is a graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is performed by the SPICE, Ngspice or Gnucap engines. It is similar to gEDA and KTechlab. It makes use of GNOME technology and is meant to run on free Unix-like operating systems such as Linux... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregano%20%28software%29 |
Dalibor Vesely (19 June 1934 – 31 March 2015) was a Czech-born architectural historian and theorist who was influential through his teaching and writing in promoting the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology as part of the discourse of architecture and of architectural design.
Vesely was one of the most outstanding a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalibor%20Vesely |
Glenn Allen Jr. (born September 24, 1970) is the co-owner of Allen-Hock Motorsports, an American Speed Association (ASA) team. He is a former auto racer, participating in both the ASA and the NASCAR Busch Series during his career, and earning the 1996 NBS Rookie of the Year award.
Career
Busch Series
Allen participat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%20Allen%20Jr. |
Philemon Wright High School is an anglophone high school located in the Hull sector of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is administered by the Western Quebec School Board and named after Philemon Wright, founder of Hull. Philemon Wright High school also offers an Enriched French program course to students.
The school was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philemon%20Wright%20High%20School |
Chávez High School can refer to several schools in the United States:
Chávez Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy (Pueblo, Colorado)
Chávez High School (Delano, California)
Chávez High School (Houston)
César Chávez High School (Phoenix, Arizona)
Chávez High School (Santa Ana, California)
Cesar Chavez High School (Stockton,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A1vez%20High%20School |
The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843). Organized on a large scale under a joint committee of the Royal Society and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Expedition |
Friends of the Don East (FODE) is a non-governmental organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are an environmental group whose goal is to preserve and protect natural areas in the Don River watershed.
History
FODE was created in 1993 in the pre-amalgamation borough of East York. The group's original name w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20of%20the%20Don%20East |
Rhinophis phillipsi, commonly known as Phillips' earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Uropeltidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Etymology
The specific name, phillipsi, is in honor of British naturalist Major William Watt Addison Phillips (1892–1981).
See also
Genus Uropeltis.
Referenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinophis%20phillipsi |
Kuru (after Kurukullā, a Tibetan Buddhist deity) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. The genus contains only a single species, the type species Kuru kulla, which is known from a fragmentary skeleton including a partial skull.
Discovery and naming
The holoty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru%20kulla |
This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire. After 1780, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Cardiganshire. The office was abolished on 31 March 1974, and replaced by the Lord Lieutenant of Dyfed.
Lord Lieutenants of Cardiganshire to 1974
see Lord Lieutenant of Wales before 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Lieutenant%20of%20Cardiganshire |
StraitNZ (formerly Strait Shipping Limited and Bluebridge) is a New Zealand transport firm that operates roll-on/roll-off freight and passenger shipping across the Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island, as well as trucking and logistics services across New Zealand.
Original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StraitNZ |
Dennis Earl Gaubatz (born February 11, 1940) is a former American football player who played linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Colts.
Gaubatz played college football at Louisiana State University and was selected in the eighth round (111th overall) of the 1963 NF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Gaubatz |
Joseph Magliano (September 29, 1967 – October 15, 2006), better known by the ring name "Jumping" Joey Maggs, was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1991 to 1998.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (1987–1990)
In 1987, Magliano ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey%20Maggs |
A damped wave was an early method of radio transmission produced by the first radio transmitters (spark gap transmitters) which consisted of a series of damped radio waves. Information was carried on this signal by telegraphy, turning the transmitter on and off (on-off keying) to send messages in Morse code. Damped wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damped%20wave%20%28radio%20transmission%29 |
Charles H. Milby High School is a public secondary school at 1601 Broadway in the East End, Houston, Texas, United States. It serves grades 9 through 12, and is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Milby is located inside the 610 Loop in southeast Houston. The school contains Houston ISD's Science Instit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milby%20High%20School |
A postzygotic mutation (or post-zygotic mutation) is a change in an organism's genome that is acquired during its lifespan, instead of being inherited from its parent(s) through fusion of two haploid gametes. Mutations that occur after the zygote has formed can be caused by a variety of sources that fall under two clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postzygotic%20mutation |
The following is a list of Olympic medalists born in the state of Michigan, United States.
Olympic medalists
Michigan
Michigan
Sports in Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Olympic%20medalists%20from%20Michigan |
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. () is an American midstream natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas.
It acquired GulfTerra in September 2004. The company ranked No. 105 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Dan Duncan was the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20Products |
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