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Nick Catoggio, who previously used the pseudonym Allahpundit, is a blogger and former senior editor for the American political news and commentary website Hot Air from its founding in 2006 through his resignation on September 2, 2022. After moving to The Dispatch, Catoggio writes a daily newsletter, "Boiling Frogs", u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allahpundit |
Huabeisaurus (, meaning "North China lizard") was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Maastrichtian stages, around 99.7–70.6 million years ago). It was a sauropod which lived in what is present-day northern China. The type species, Huabeisaurus allocotus, was first described by Pang Qiqing and C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huabeisaurus |
Shamans is the seventh album by the Azeri jazz artist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, released in 2002. In the liner notes, Zadeh left a comment about each song. The artwork contains a number of paintings by her. Around 2,000,000 copies of this album were sold worldwide.
Track listing
"Holiday Blessings" – 4:30
Life is the grea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamans%20%28album%29 |
Gilles Vaillancourt (born January 9, 1941) is a former Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Laval, Quebec, from June 8, 1989 until November 9, 2012, when he was charged, and ultimately found guilty, with corruption and fraud. During this time Vaillancourt was also the leader of the Parti PRO des Lavallois.
C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Vaillancourt |
Paul Neu (born July 9, 1966) is an American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his stints in World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling under the ring name P. N. News .
Professional wrestling career
Early career (1987–1991)
After debuting in 1987 and a two-year run in the Don Owe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20N.%20News |
Hugh Owen Thomas (23 August 1834 – 6 January 1891) was a Welsh orthopaedic surgeon. He and his nephew Robert Jones have been called "the Fathers of orthopaedic surgery".
Thomas was descended from a line of Welsh bone setters and placed great importance on rest in treatment of fractures. He is responsible for a number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Owen%20Thomas |
Summit is an unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States on US 60 just west of Ashland. Summit serves as a suburb to the city of Ashland and shares the city's ZIP code. Summit is sometimes spelled with two "T's" at the end, although the most common spelling contains only one "T" but either variatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit%2C%20Kentucky |
Marco Frascari (1945 – June 2, 2013) was an Italian architect and architectural theorist. He was born in Mantua, in northern Italy, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at Università Iuav di Venezia and received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught for several years at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Frascari |
The Council of Ministers (, ) is a collegial executive body within the Government of Portugal. It is presided over by the Prime Minister, but the President of Portugal can take on this role at the Prime Minister's request. All senior ministers are members of the Council of Ministers, and when the prime minister finds i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Ministers%20%28Portugal%29 |
Linda Marie Fedigan, (born 1949) is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Primatology and Bioanthropology at the University of Calgary, Alberta. In addition, Fedigan is also the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Primatology and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prior to accepting her current posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Marie%20Fedigan |
The genus Calyptra is a group of moths in subfamily Calpinae of the family Erebidae. They are a member of the Calpini tribe, whose precise circumscription is uncertain but which includes a number of other fruit-piercing or eye-frequenting genera currently classified in Calpinae.
Calyptra is a small, brown, white butte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyptra%20%28moth%29 |
The Edinburgh Vaults or South Bridge Vaults are a series of chambers formed in the nineteen arches of the South Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, was part of the South Bridge Act 1785 and was completed in 1788. For around 30 years, the vaults were used to house taverns, workshops for cobblers and other tradesmen, as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Vaults |
Enrico Boselli (born 7 January 1957) is an Italian politician. He has been Vice President of Alliance for Italy, and is the former leader of the Italian Democratic Socialists and the modern-day Socialist Party, and former President of Emilia-Romagna.
Biography
A former member of the historical Italian Socialist Party ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%20Boselli |
Aniksosaurus (meaning "spring lizard", from Modern Greek Άνοιξη, "Spring", referring to the fact it was found on 21 September 1995, the onset of Spring on the Southern Hemisphere) is a genus of dinosaur from what is now Chubut Province, Argentina. It was a theropod, specifically a coelurosaur, which lived in the Cenoma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniksosaurus |
D'Wayne Lavoris Bates (born December 4, 1975) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). Bates played three seasons with the Chicago Bears (1999-2001) and two with the Minnesota Vikings (2002-2003). Bates is best known for his achievements as a collegiate player at Northwestern U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Wayne%20Bates |
The community of Thornhill is an unincorporated settlement of over 5,000 people on the east side of the Skeena River immediately across from the City of Terrace, British Columbia. Terrace is connected to Thornhill by the Old Skeena Bridge and the Dudley Little Bridge, also known as the "New Bridge."
Thornhill has an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornhill%2C%20British%20Columbia |
James Atwater Contner (born June 12, 1947) is an American film, television director and cinematographer. His work includes episodes of such television series as Miami Vice, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The X-Files and Star Trek: Enterprise. He has also directed several films, including One Hot Summer Night... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20A.%20Contner |
Valley of Death may refer to:
Places
Valley of Death (Bydgoszcz), the site of a 1939 Nazi mass murder and mass grave site in northern Poland
Valley of Death (Crimea), the site of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the 1854 Battle of Balaclava
Valley of Death (Gettysburg), the 1863 Gettysburg Battlefield landform of Pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20of%20Death |
A Cadbury Snack is a shortcake biscuit square or two biscuits with chocolate filling, covered with milk chocolate.
History
Three versions of Cadbury Snack are available in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Snack Shortcake (chocolate-coated shortbread in a yellow wrapper), Snack Wafer (chocolate-covered wafer fingers i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury%20Snack |
The Liberal Party of Canada fielded a full slate of 295 candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election, and won 177 seats to form a majority government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
Alberta
Bill Richards (Calgary Southwest)
Richards was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20Party%20of%20Canada%20candidates%20in%20the%201993%20Canadian%20federal%20election |
Barney Lewis Chavous ( ; born March 22, 1951) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the second round (36th overall) of the 1973 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos after playing college football for South Carolina State University. He was selected by the Assoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Chavous |
A translator is a linguist who translates documents from one language to another.
Translator may also refer to:
Music
Translator (band), a San Francisco new wave band active during the 1980s
Translator (album), a 1985 album of the band Translator
Other uses
A Translator, a 2018 Cuban film
Translator (computing), a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translator%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Tourism in Tokyo is a major industry. In 2006, there were 420 million visits by Japanese people and 4.81 million visits by foreigners. The economic value of tourist visits to Tokyo totaled ¥9.4 trillion yen. Many tourists visit the various urban districts, stores, and entertainment districts throughout the neighborhoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20Tokyo |
Oliviero Diliberto (born 13 October 1956 in Cagliari) is an Italian politician. He has been leader of the Party of Italian Communists.
Early life
Oliviero Diliberto was born in a family of public servants (his father Marco was employed as attorney in the Administration of the Region of Sardinia, his mother Lella was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliviero%20Diliberto |
Gunbalanya (also spelt Kunbarlanja, and historically referred to as Oenpelli) is an Aboriginal Australian town in west Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, about east of Darwin. The main language spoken in the community is Kunwinjku (a dialect of Bininj Kunwok). At the 2021 Australian census, Gunbalanya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunbalanya%2C%20Northern%20Territory |
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand or Open Polytechnic (Māori: Kuratini Tuwhera) is a government-owned tertiary education institution operating as the specialist national provider of open and distance learning (ODL). On 1 April 2020, The Open Polytechnic became a subsidiary of New Zealand Institute of Skills & Technol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Polytechnic%20of%20New%20Zealand |
The Convention concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation or Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (ILO Convention No.111) is an International Labour Organization Convention on anti-discrimination. It is one of eight ILO fundamental conventions. The convention requires states to e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination%20%28Employment%20and%20Occupation%29%20Convention |
This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
List of Lord Lieutenants
From 1642 until 1660 the position was vacant, however after the Restoration, a separate lieutenant was appointed for each of the three ridings; see Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Lord Lieutenant of the Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Lieutenant%20of%20Yorkshire |
Benedict Hyman Gross is an American mathematician who is a professor at the University of California San Diego, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College.
He is known for his work in number theory, particularly the Gross–Zagier theorem on L-f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20Gross |
Cold Comfort may refer to:
Film and television
Cold Comfort (film), 1989 film directed by Vic Sarin
"Cold Comfort" (Are You Being Served?), a 1974 episode of Are You Being Served?
"Cold Comfort" (X-Men), a 1995 episode of X-Men
"Cold Comfort" (The New Batman Adventures), a 1997 episode of The New Batman Adventures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Comfort |
Dreros (), also (representing Modern Greek pronunciation) Driros, near Neapoli in the regional unit of Lasithi, Crete, is a post-Minoan archaeological site, 16 km northwest of Agios Nikolaos. Known only by a chance remark of the 9th-century Byzantine grammarian Theognostus (De orthographia), archaeology of the site sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreros |
"Stutter Rap (No Sleep til Bedtime)" is a song by Morris Minor and the Majors, led by Tony Hawks. The song is a stylistic parody of the Beastie Boys, and the subtitle plays on their 1987 single "No Sleep till Brooklyn". The record sold 220,000 copies.
Hawks started out as a songwriter but was not successful, and inste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutter%20Rap%20%28No%20Sleep%20til%20Bedtime%29 |
Józef Tomasz Rostafiński (14 August 1850 – 5 May 1928) was a Polish botanist.
Life
He was born in Warsaw, and studied in (1866–1869), Jena, Halle, and Strasbourg, where he achieved his PhD before being appointed lecturer at the university of Kraków.
One of his books, the Przewodnik do oznaczania roślin w Polsce dz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef%20Rostafi%C5%84ski |
Dexter Keith McCleon (born October 9, 1973) is a former American football safety who played in the National Football League. He played for the St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs, and Houston Texans in his ten-year career that started in 1997. In addition to his career in the NFL, McCleon was a volunteer assistant footb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20McCleon |
The Medical Examination (Fishermen) Convention, 1959 is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1959, with the preamble stating "Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the medical examination of fishermen,..."
Ratifications
As of 2022, the convention has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20Examination%20%28Fishermen%29%20Convention%2C%201959 |
Lost Consonants is a comic collage series created by Graham Rawle, appearing in Britain's Guardian newspaper from 1990 to 2005. The text and image word play series illustrates a sentence from which one vital letter has been removed, altering its meaning. For example: "Youths addicted to drugs" becomes "youths addicted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Consonants |
"McNamara's Band" (originally "MacNamara's Band") is a popular song composed in 1889 by Shamus O'Connor (music) and John J. Stamford (lyrics). The song was performed as a music hall routine by William J. "Billy" Ashcroft. It has been recorded by a number of artists, most notably Bing Crosby. The song is associated wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara%27s%20Band |
Mario Clemente Mastella (born 5 February 1947) is an Italian politician who has been the mayor of Benevento since 20 June 2016. He is the leader of Union of Democrats for Europe, a minor centrist Italian party. He was Minister of Labour in the Berlusconi government from 10 May 1994 to 17 January 1995 and Minister of Ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemente%20Mastella |
Rufus Reid (born February 10, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer.
Biography
Reid was raised in Sacramento, California, where he played the trumpet through junior high and high school. Upon graduation from Sacramento High School, he entered the United States Air Force as a tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus%20Reid |
John Smedley Ltd is an English luxury clothing brand specialising in knitwear like polo shirts and sweaters for men and women. The company applies a “Made in England” tag to every garment made. John Smedley has remained a family business since 1784, and is now managed by the 8th generation of the Smedley family. Histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Smedley%20%28brand%29 |
The Nukak people (also Nukak-Makú) live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukak |
Monster Worldwide, Inc. is an American provider of employment services, the largest of which is Monster.com. Through online media sites and services, the company delivers targeted audiences to advertisers. In 2010, these operating segments represented approximately 46%, 40% and 14% of its consolidated revenue, respec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Worldwide |
Wang Xuan (; February 5, 1937 – February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, was a Chinese computer scientist. He was a computer application specialist and innovator of the Chinese printing industry, as well as an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the vice-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Xuan |
Dewayne Staats (born August 8, 1952) is an American sports broadcaster who has been the television play-by-play commentator for the Tampa Bay Rays since their inception in 1998. He is currently teamed with color commentator Brian Anderson.
Staats has been a broadcaster for several teams over his 40+ year career.
Biog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewayne%20Staats |
Annia Portuondo Hatch (born June 14, 1978, in Guantánamo, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artistic gymnast who competed for the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Career in Cuba
Hatch began gymnastics in her native Cuba at the age of four. She won her first Cuban National Championships when she was ten; over the co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annia%20Hatch |
ContiGroup Companies, Inc (CGC) was founded by Simon Fribourg in Arlon, Belgium, in 1813 as a grain-trading firm. Formerly known as Continental Grain, ContiGroup has expanded into a multinational corporation with offices and facilities in 10 countries while employing more than 13,500 people worldwide. Today, CGC is one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContiGroup%20Companies |
Alumni Hall is one of the 32 Residence Halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of the 16 male dorms. It is located on South Quad adjacent to "Main Circle", across from the law school building, and it hosts 234 undergraduates.
It was built in 1931 by the architectural firm Maginnis & Walsh in colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumni%20Hall%20%28University%20of%20Notre%20Dame%29 |
Da Vinci's Challenge is a board game distributed by Briarpatch.
Background
Da Vinci's Challenge is a game of patterns inspired by a geometric construction drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. The player's objective is to score the most points by using pieces to create patterns worth different point values. This is complicated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%20Vinci%27s%20Challenge |
Andrzej Krzysztof Tarkowski (; 4 May 1933 – 23 September 2016) was a Polish embryologist and a professor at Warsaw University. He is best known for his pioneering researches on embryos and blastomeres, which have created theoretical and practical basis for achievements of biology and medicine of the twentieth century -... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Tarkowski |
Dodgem is a simple abstract strategy game invented by Colin Vout in 1972 while he was a mathematics student at the University of Cambridge as described in the book Winning Ways. It is played on an n×n board with n-1 cars for each player—two cars each on a 3×3 board is enough for an interesting game, but larger sizes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgem |
Tinnsjå (also known as Tinnsjø or Tinnsjøen; ) is one of the largest lakes in Norway measuring about . It is also one of the deepest lakes in Europe, reaching a depth of . Tinnsjå is located in the municipalities of Tinn and Notodden in Vestfold og Telemark county. At its source in the west, the Måna river flows out of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnsj%C3%A5 |
James Augustine (born February 27, 1984) is a retired American professional basketball player who played as a forward. During the career he played college basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini before being drafted 41st overall in the 2006 NBA draft by the Orlando Magic. Later he relocated in Europe and concluded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Augustine |
Blade Runner is a 1982 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, which stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. Written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, the film is an adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Its 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Blade%20Runner%20characters |
Joseph David Magrane (born July 2, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, California Angels, and Chicago White Sox between 1987 and 1996, and is currently a color commentary broadcaster for the MLB Network.
Playing career
Amateur
In 1984, Magrane playe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Magrane |
Repatriation is the return of the cultural property, often referring to ancient or looted art, to their country of origin or former owners (or their heirs).
The disputed cultural property items are physical artifacts of a group or society taken by another group, usually in the act of looting, whether in the context of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation%20%28cultural%20property%29 |
The Pousette-Dart Band [poo-sette] (also known as PDB) was an American soft rock group active in the 1970s and early 1980s. Conceived in 1973 as a string band from Cambridge, Massachusetts, PDB comprised Jon Pousette-Dart, John Troy and John Curtis. With a shift to a more commercially oriented sound and a steady succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pousette-Dart%20Band |
Cocio is a chocolate milk drink produced in Esbjerg, Denmark. It is moderately popular in the rest of Scandinavia and, to a lesser extent in some US regions, namely New England. It is also available in the Philippines, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands and Poland.
The new factory in Esbjerg was first used in 2002. The fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocio |
William Arthur Torrey (June 23, 1934 – May 2, 2018) was a Canadian hockey executive. He served as a general manager in the National Hockey League for the Oakland Seals, New York Islanders, and Florida Panthers. He developed the Islanders into a dynasty that won four consecutive Stanley Cups. He was often called "The A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Torrey |
WSBX (94.5 FM) is a radio station based in Mackinaw City, Michigan.
History
The station's original call sign was WSSW (for the station's founder, Sonora S. Wray), which was first issued in October 1986. WSSW first signed on at 94.3 on September 6, 1989, with an automated MOR format, but went dark not long after that. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYPV |
WGFM (105.1 FM) in Cheboygan, Michigan and is an American radio station that airs a mainstream rock format branded as Rock 105 & 95.5. WGFM boasts a 43,000-watt signal which easily covers most of northern Lower Michigan from Grayling northward and extends into the eastern Upper Peninsula. WGFE's signal serves primaril... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGFM |
Adolf Joszt (; born 1889 in Lviv - 1957 in Gliwice) was a Polish chemist, considered to be a significant precursor to the practices of biotechnology and environmental protection.
References
1889 births
1957 deaths
Scientists from Lviv
Polish chemists
Lviv Polytechnic alumni
Lviv Polytechnic rectors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Joszt |
Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. (SPS) is a loan servicing company founded in 1989 as Fairbanks Capital Corp. with operations in Salt Lake City, Utah and Jacksonville, Florida.
History
Select Portfolio Servicing was created as a Utah company in 1989. Filings with both the Utah Secretary of State and the U.S. Securit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select%20Portfolio%20Servicing |
Wayne Farms LLC is an American producer and processor of poultry based in Oakwood, Georgia.
As a subsidiary of ContiGroup, Wayne Farms operates hatcheries, feed mills, finishing farms, and processing facilities to supply poultry to retail and foodservice customers worldwide. Its 13 processing facilities span the south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Farms |
Aryan religion may refer to:
Ancient Hinduism
Historical Indian religions more generally Hinduism
The reconstructed Proto-Indo-Iranian religion
The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion
In early 20th century occultism, religions considered native to the "Aryan race", se Ariosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan%20religion |
WCKC (107.1 FM, "The Drive") is a radio station in Cadillac, Michigan, owned by Up North Radio, LLC. WCKC airs a classic rock format.
History
In 1985 Donald "Doc" Benson, then-owner of WMKC-FM/WIDG-AM in St. Ignace, obtained the CP (Construction Permit) for a new FM in Cadillac at 107.1. Cadillac previously had a WITW... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKC |
Philip Zaleski is the author and editor of several books on religion and spirituality, including The Recollected Heart, The Benedictines of Petersham, and Gifts of the Spirit. In addition, he is coauthor with his wife Carol Zaleski of The Book of Heaven, Prayer: A History, and The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Zaleski |
White Tiger is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first incarnation of White Tiger, Hector Ayala, first appeared in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #19 (December 1975). The second incarnation, an actual white Bengal tigress, debuted in Heroes for Hire #1 (July 1997... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Tiger%20%28comics%29 |
D.B. Gilles is an American screenwriter, playwright, academic, script consultant and writing coach specializing in screenplays, TV pilots, plays and novels.
Career
Gilles' plays Inadmissible and Sparkling Object had their world premieres at The Canal Park Playhouse, a new theater in Tribeca in New York City. Four of h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20B.%20Gilles |
Cisco NAC Appliance, formerly Cisco Clean Access (CCA), was a network admission control (NAC) system developed by Cisco Systems designed to produce a secure and clean computer network environment. Originally developed by Perfigo and marketed under the name of Perfigo SmartEnforcer, this network admission control device... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20NAC%20Appliance |
Warhawk was a multiplayer third-person shooter video game developed by Incognito Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It was a remake of an aerial warfare game of the same name, which was an early title on the original PlayStation. Santa Monica Studio assisted on development. It was the first PlayStation 3 game to be a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhawk%20%282007%20video%20game%29 |
Bride Live! Volume I is a limited edition live album by Bride. This item is rare, as only 2,500 were produced.
Track listing
"Intro." – 0:34
"I Aint Coming Down" – 2:35
"If I told You It Was The End Of The World" – 4:20
"The Worm" – 4:47
"I Found God" – 4:48
"Under The Blood" – 4:48
"Day By Day" – 4:13
"If I L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%20Live%21%20Volume%20I |
Dead of Winter is a 1987 American horror thriller film, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Mary Steenburgen, who plays three roles. It is a loose remake of the 1945 film My Name Is Julia Ross, itself inspired by the 1941 novel The Woman in Red.
Plot
On New Year's Eve, a woman retrieves a satchel full of cash from a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20of%20Winter%20%28film%29 |
Edward Sucharda (18 June 1891 – 26 July 1947) was a renowned Polish chemist and engineer. He was rector of Lwów University of Technology from 1938 to 1939 and vice-rector of Wrocław University of Technology from 1945 to 1947.
Scientific activity
Edward Sucharda's work was distinguished by four main areas of interest:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Sucharda |
Pipe Dream is the student newspaper of Binghamton University (State University of New York at Binghamton) in Vestal, N.Y. Content is published online throughout the week at bupipedream.com, as well as in print every Tuesday.
Printed as a tabloid until spring 2012, Pipe Dream now prints as a broadsheet paper with full-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe%20Dream%20%28newspaper%29 |
William Augustus Newell (September 5, 1817August 8, 1901), was an American physician and politician who served as the 18th Governor of New Jersey and 11th Governor of the Washington Territory.
He also represented New Jersey for three terms in the United States House of Representatives, where he is probably best known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Newell |
Felice Casorati (December 4, 1883 – March 1, 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects.
Life and work
Casorati was born in Novara. He showed an ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice%20Casorati |
Thistle is a ghost town in Spanish Fork Canyon in southeastern Utah County, Utah, United States. During the era of steam locomotives, the town's primary industry was servicing trains for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (often shortened to D&RG, D&RGW, or Rio Grande). The fortunes of the town were closely lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle%2C%20Utah |
Dmitry Anatolyevich Dorofeyev (, born 13 November 1976) is a speed skater. Dorofeyev won a silver medal in the 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics. His second-place finish was Russia's first Olympic speed skating medal since 1994. He placed tenth in the 1,000 m event. Earlier that year, he won silver at the World Sprint ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Dorofeyev |
Drop is the seventh album by the band Bride, released in 1995. The album was the only Bride release on Rugged Records. Its sound was a departure from their earlier efforts, using an alternative rock sound, highlighted by banjo and mandolin, which was well received by critics though not by fans. On later releases, Bride... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20%28Bride%20album%29 |
Krzysztof Arciszewski (9 December 1592 in Rogalin – 7 April 1656 near Gdańsk, Poland) was a Polish nobleman, military officer, engineer, and ethnographer. Arciszewski also served as a general of artillery for the Netherlands and Poland.
He was brought up in a family of devout members of the Polish Brethren Church - hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof%20Arciszewski |
The Karusha Kingdom is one of the Yadava kingdoms of the Mahabharata epic. It is placed to the south of Chedi. Karusha king Dantavakra supported Chedi king Shishupala and was killed by Vasudeva Krishna. Karusha Kingdom is identified as modern Datia district of Madhya Pradesh.
References in Mahabharata
Karusha was m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karusha%20Kingdom |
Chedi () was a kingdom which fell roughly in the Bundelkhand division of Madhya Pradesh regions to the south of river Yamuna along the river Ken. Its capital city was called Suktimati in Sanskrit.
According to the Mahabharata, the Chedi Kingdom was ruled by Shishupala, an ally of Jarasandha of Magadha and Duryodhana o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chedi%20Kingdom |
The Government of Portugal, also referred to as the Government of the Portuguese Republic, the Portuguese Government or simply the Government, is one of the four of the Portuguese Republic, together with the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic and the courts. It is both the body of sovereignty that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20of%20Portugal |
The history of quilting, the stitching together of layers of padding and fabric, may date back as far as 3400 BCE.
For much of its history, quilting was primarily a practical technique to provide physical protection and insulation. However, decorative elements were often also present, and many quilts are now primarily ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20quilting |
Baby Burlesks was a series of Pre-Code short films produced by Educational Pictures in the early 1930s. The series featured three-year-old Shirley Temple in her first screen appearances. In her autobiography, Temple describes the Baby Burlesks series as "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence," and that the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20Burlesks |
Geoffrey of Hauteville (also Gottfried, Godfrey, Godefroi, Goffredo, or Gaufrido; about 1020-1071) was a Norman military leader, the second youngest son of Tancred of Hauteville by his first wife Muriella. He joined his brothers in the Mezzogiorno around 1053, arriving with his half-brothers Mauger and William. He wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20of%20Hauteville |
The Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL), formerly Pacific International Junior Hockey League, (PIJHL) until 2012, is a Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey league which operates in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Although the PJHL has included American teams in the past, the league's fifthteen franchises all currentl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Junior%20Hockey%20League |
Patricia Albjerg Graham is a historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia, and went on to become a lecturer at Indiana University, professor of history and education at Barnard College and TC, Columbia University, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and of Harvard Graduate School ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Graham |
Fritz Coleman (born May 27, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a retired weathercaster, who worked for NBC Channel 4 (KNBC) in Los Angeles, California from 1982 until 2020. He began hosting Media Path Podcast with Louise Palanker in 2020.
Background
Coleman and was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Radnor, Pennsylv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Coleman |
Graham Whitfield Houghton (22 September 1937 – 14 February 2022) was a Christian historian and educator from New Zealand. He was the founding principal of the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS).
Personal life
Graham Houghton was born on 22 September 1937 to Clarence Noel and Francis Winnifred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Houghton |
Dasarna Kingdom was one of the many kingdoms ruled by Yadava kings in ancient central and western India. It lay to the south of the Chedi and Panchala kingdoms, in northern Madhya Pradesh. The Panchala prince Sikhandi married a princess from Dasarna. Sikhandin was alleged to be 'one of the neuter-gender'. This led to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasarna%20Kingdom |
Jerzy Dąbrowski (September 8, 1899 – September 17, 1967) was a Polish aeronautical engineer. He was the lead designer of the famed PZL.37 Łoś medium bomber.
Dąbrowski was born in Nieborów, west of Warsaw to a railway clerk family. He studied architecture and then transferred to mechanical engineering at the Warsaw Tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20D%C4%85browski |
Jamea Jackson ( ; born September 7, 1986) is an American former Women's Tennis Association (WTA) player and current United States Tennis Association (USTA) coach. She reached a singles ranking of 45 in the world at the end of 2006.
Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia and attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamea%20Jackson |
The historical Avanti Kingdom of ancient India is described in the Mahabharata epic.
Avanti was divided into north and south by river Vetravati. Initially, Mahissati (Sanskrit Mahishamati) was the capital of Southern Avanti, and Ujjaini (Sanskrit Ujjayini) was of northern Avanti, but at the times of Mahavira and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avanti%20Kingdom%20%28Mahabharata%29 |
Smudging, or other rites involving the burning of sacred herbs (e.g., white sage) or resins, is a ceremony practiced by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas. While it bears some resemblance to other ceremonies and rituals involving smoke (e.g., Australian smoking ceremony, some types of saining) from other world cul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging |
Armored infantry (Commonwealth English: Armoured infantry) can refer to:
Historical heavy infantry
Modern infantry of an armored brigade, see Armor infantry
Modern mechanized infantry
Modern mechanized infantry of an armored brigade
Modern mechanized infantry designated for infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored%20infantry |
Adolf Dygasiński (March 7, 1839, Niegosławice – June 3, 1902, Grodzisk Mazowiecki) was a Polish novelist, publicist and educator. In Polish literature, he was one of the leading representatives of Naturalism.
Life
During his literary career, Dygasiński wrote forty-two short stories and novels.
Since 1884 his works we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf%20Dygasi%C5%84ski |
The William D. Walsh Family Library is a library located at Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus in the Bronx, New York City. In its 2004 edition of The Best 351 Colleges, the Princeton Review ranked Fordham's William D. Walsh Family Library fifth in the country, ahead of Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.
History
The Will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20D.%20Walsh%20Family%20Library |
Matteo Anesi (born 16 August 1984) is an Italian speed skater who won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He placed 29th in the 1500 m event. After his active career he became one of the coaches of the Italian speed skating team.
Personal records
Personal life
Anesi is married to Dutch forme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo%20Anesi |
Henry Ashton Highet, commonly known as Harry Highet, (27 January 1892 – 2 February 1989) was a New Zealand civil engineer famous for his P-class yacht design. This class is famous for being the sailing trainer vessel for many new entrants into the sport, and virtually every famous New Zealand yachtsman, including Sir P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Highet |
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