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Crowland Abbey (historically often spelled Croyland Abbey; Latin: Croilandia) is a Church of England parish church, formerly part of a Benedictine abbey church, in Crowland in the English county of Lincolnshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
History
A monk named Guthlac came to what was then an island in the Fens ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowland%20Abbey |
William of Hauteville ( 1027 – 1080) was one of the younger sons of Tancred of Hauteville by his second wife Fressenda. He is usually called Willermus instead of Wilelmus in Latin annals and so is often called Guillerm instead of Guillaume in French.
Life
William left Normandy around 1053 with his elder half-brother ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20of%20the%20Principate |
Benedito José Nascimento (born February 3, 1968), better known as Joe Bennett, is a Brazilian comic book artist.
Career
Joe Bennett was born in Belém.
In the 1990s he used to publish horror comics for two major Brazilian horror comics magazines: Calafrio and Mestres do Terror.
His first major work in comics was for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Bennett%20%28artist%29 |
The lex specialis doctrine, also referred to as generalia specialibus non derogant ("the general does not derogate from the specific"), states that if two laws govern the same factual situation, a law governing a specific subject matter (lex specialis) overrides a law governing only general matters (lex generalis). The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex%20specialis |
The Diocese of Varaždin () is a Latin ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Croatia. The diocese is centred in the city of Varaždin. It is a new diocese, having only been erected on July 5, 1997 from the Archdiocese of Zagreb. Bishop Marko Culej was the first to be head of the diocese. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Diocese%20of%20Vara%C5%BEdin |
The cinema of Thailand dates back to the early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Bern, Switzerland was recorded by François-Henri Lavancy-Clarke. The film was then brought to Bangkok, where it was exhibited. This sparked more interest in film by the Thai Royal Family and local businessmen, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Thailand |
Lucan Bridge () is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland. It joins Lucan's Main Street to the Lower Lucan Road, carrying traffic towards Clonsilla and the north, and the Strawberry Beds to the east. Designed by George Knowles (architect of Dublin's Fr. Mathew and O'Donovan Rossa Brid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan%20Bridge |
In the United States, a Class II railroad, sometimes referred to as a regional railroad, is a railroad company that is not Class I, but still has a substantial amount of traffic or trackage (and is thus not a short line). The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has defined the lower bound as of track or $40 millio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20Class%20II%20railroads |
The 2006–07 season was the 110th season of competitive football in Scotland.
Notable events
2006
9 July: Rangers defender Fernando Ricksen is banned for the club's pre-season trip to South Africa, following an incident on the outbound flight. Manager Paul Le Guen cited "wholly inappropriate and unacceptable" behaviou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20in%20Scottish%20football |
Portlethen railway station serves the town of Portlethen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is sited from Carlisle via Perth, and is between Stonehaven and Aberdeen, on the Dundee to Aberdeen line.
History
The station was opened on 1 April 1850. After closure in 1956, the station was reopened nearly 30 years later on 17... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlethen%20railway%20station |
The Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League (VIJHL) is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a junior "A" ice hockey league of 11 franchised member clubs, all of which are currently located in Canada, on Vancouver Island. The Brent Patterson Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the league playoff ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%20Island%20Junior%20Hockey%20League |
There have been several liturgical books used in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Presently, the primary liturgical book of the Presbyterian Church (USA) is The Book of Common Worship of 1993, published in cooperation with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
These books are not commonly used in the pews, but are resourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical%20books%20of%20the%20Presbyterian%20Church%20%28USA%29 |
Island Bridge (), formerly Sarah or Sarah's Bridge, is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey, in Dublin, Ireland which joins the South Circular Road to Conyngham Road at the Phoenix Park.
Island Bridge and the surrounding area (often known as Islandbridge) are so named because of the island formed here by the creati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islandbridge |
Lyudmila Yevgenyevna Titova () (born 26 March 1946) is a retired Russian speed skater.
Short biography
After winning three national titles in 1966, she made her international debut at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships of 1966. She finished 18th overall, not having qualified for the final distance, but wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila%20Titova |
WMKC (102.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Indian River, Michigan. It airs a country music format called Big Country 102.9. The station is owned by Black Diamond Broadcast Holdings, LLC.
History: A Dentist's Dream
Beginnings
WMKC ("MacKinaC"), owned by Mighty-Mac Broadcasting Corp., signed on in January 1982 by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMKC |
Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment (GMROII) is a ratio in microeconomics that describes a seller's return on every unit of currency spent on inventory. It is one way to determine how profitable the seller's inventory is, and describes the relationship between the profit earned from total sales, and the amount ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%20margin%20return%20on%20inventory%20investment |
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and Navarre.
Marie Antoinette may also refer to:
Marie Antoinette (TV series), a drama series for Canal+, BBC and PBS
Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King, a 1922 German film directed by Rudolf Meinert
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Antoinette%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Einheits-Elektrolokomotive (translates as standard electric locomotive) is a German railroad term for the Class E10, Class E40, Class E41 and Class E50 locomotives that were commissioned after World War II by the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany. The goal of the Einheits-Elektrolokomotive was to present a common pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20electric%20locomotive |
Beyond Divinity is an action role-playing game by Larian Studios released in 2004. It is a sequel to Divine Divinity.
A Deluxe Edition was also released that same year, containing copies of both Beyond Divinity and Divine Divinity. In 2009 a digital download version was released, equivalent to the updated disc version... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Divinity |
No Greater Love (NGL) is an American humanitarian, non-profit organization founded in 1971 by Carmella Laspada and is dedicated to providing programs such as wreath-layings, remembrance tributes, and memorial dedications, for those who have lost a loved one in the service to the country or by an act of terrorism. To da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Greater%20Love%20%28charity%29 |
The Anna Livia Bridge (), formerly Chapelizod Bridge (), is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Chapelizod, Dublin, Ireland which joins the Lucan Road to Chapelizod Road.
History
As the Liffey flows into the town of Chapelizod, a weir divides the course to form a large mill race. Split by the two bodies of wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Livia%20Bridge |
The Foul King () is a 2000 South Korean comedy-drama film, written and directed by Kim Jee-woon. It was Kim's second feature-length film after The Quiet Family. Like the director's debut film, The Foul King also stars Song Kang-ho, this time as an incompetent bank clerk who takes up a career in professional wrestling, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Foul%20King |
The Farmleigh Bridge (), also known as the Silver Bridge, Guinness Bridge or Strawberry Beds Bridge, is a disused bridge spanning the River Liffey and the Lower Lucan Road in the Strawberry Beds, Dublin, Ireland.
Form
Farmleigh Bridge is a single-span cast iron box truss bridge. It is about long and is supported by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmleigh%20Bridge |
Jan Crawford Greenburg is an American television journalist, author, and attorney. She serves as a political correspondent and chief legal correspondent for CBS News and previously for ABC News. She appears regularly on the CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, CBS This Morning, and CBS News Sunday Morning. She led CBS Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Crawford |
The Central Emergency Response Fund (, CERF/FCIU) is a humanitarian fund established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 2005 and launched in March 2006. With CERF’s objectives to 1) promote early action and response to reduce loss of life; 2) enhance response to time-critical requirements; and 3) st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Emergency%20Response%20Fund |
The Liffey Railway Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the River Liffey near Heuston railway station in Dublin in Ireland.
It is a wrought iron box truss structure, and joins lines from Heuston Station to Connolly Station through the Phoenix Park Tunnel.
Historically used primarily for freight traffic, in November 2016,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liffey%20Railway%20Bridge |
Scott Wilson (January 11, 1870 – October 22, 1942) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Education and career
Born on January 11, 1870, in Falmouth, Maine, Wilson attended the University of Pennsylvania and then received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1892 fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Wilson%20%28judge%29 |
A tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is often associated with mental illness.
Background
The trope of the tortured artist is thought to have been started by Plato.
Creativity and mental illness ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortured%20artist |
Cichyrus (, Kichyros), earlier called Ephyra (Ἐφύρα or Ἐφύρη), was the capital of ancient Thesprotia, according to the myth built by the Arcadian leader Thesprotos. Thucydides describes it as situated in the district Elaeatis in Thesprotia, away from the sea. At its site is the famous Necromanteion (Νεκρομαντεῖον, "Ora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichyrus |
Shadow Dancer may refer to:
Shadow Dancer (1989 video game), side-scrolling action game produced by Sega originally released as an arcade game in 1989
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi, side-scrolling action game produced by Sega originally released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990
Shadow Dancer (band), Britis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20Dancer |
Logical Design Works, Inc. was a US-based video game developer that developed games between 1983 and 1993. The name comes from the initials of the founder Lucjan Daniel Wencel.
Games
1985 Phantasie
1987 Phantasie III
1987 Vegas Gambler
1988 TrianGO
1989 Blockout
1989 Street Rod
1989 Tunnels of Armageddon
1991... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20Design%20Works |
Carlos Heber Bueno Suárez (born 10 May 1980) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Artigas F.C. as a striker.
Club career
Born in Artigas, Artigas Department, Bueno started his career at C.A. Peñarol. He moved abroad in 2005, signing for French club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and being rarely used during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Bueno |
Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, concluding its original run on 9 March 2015, exactly nine years after the broadcast of the first episode.
In September 2021, the show was recommissioned for an eleventh series,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%20Road%20%28TV%20series%29 |
Hog Island was the name of two islands near Long Island, New York until the 1890s. One is the present day Barnum Island, which includes the villages of Island Park and Harbor Isle in Nassau County. The other was a mile-long (1600 m) barrier island that existed to the south of Rockaway Beach in Queens before being most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog%20Island%20%28New%20York%29 |
The Hyde Park Herald is a weekly newspaper that serves the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Overview
The newspaper was founded in 1882. For the Herald'''s first seven years, it was a suburban newspaper covering affairs in an independent unit of local government; after Hyde Park was annexed by Chicago in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde%20Park%20Herald |
Reza Pahlavi may refer to:
Reza Shah (1878–1944), Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran from 1925 until 1941
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979, son of Reza Shah
Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (born 1960), son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza%20Pahlavi |
Intertidal ecology is the study of intertidal ecosystems, where organisms live between the low and high tide lines. At low tide, the intertidal is exposed whereas at high tide, the intertidal is underwater. Intertidal ecologists therefore study the interactions between intertidal organisms and their environment, as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertidal%20ecology |
Leon Rutherford Taylor (October 26, 1883 – April 1, 1924) was an American politician who was the acting governor of New Jersey from October 28, 1913, to January 20, 1914. Taylor took office upon the resignation of James Fairman Fielder, who had stepped down to create a vacancy in the governorship and avoid constitution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Rutherford%20Taylor |
Right Bank generally refers to the bank of a river or other body of water that is on the right side when facing downstream. It may specifically refer to:
Right Bank (Biscay), the right bank of the Nervión in Biscay, Spain
Right-bank Ukraine, a historical region in Ukraine
Right Bank (Bordeaux), a wine region in Fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20Bank |
Morton Aaron Brody (June 12, 1933 – March 25, 2000) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine from 1991 to 2000.
Education and career
Brody was born in Lewiston, Maine. He graduated from Bates College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955 and University of Chic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%20A.%20Brody |
Édouard Léopold Cissé (born 30 March 1978) is a French former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Early life
Cissé was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in southwest France.
Club career
Cissé made his breakthrough at his boyhood club Pau FC in 1997.
Cissé previously played for AS Monaco FC in France and West Ham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20Ciss%C3%A9 |
Peter Jenkins is a former British diplomat.
Early career
Born in 1950 in Buckinghamshire, England. Education: Downside School, Somerset (five A Levels); Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (M.A.); Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Peter joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1973... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Jenkins%20%28diplomat%29 |
Fiji is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
Fiji may also refer to:
Crown Colony-class cruiser, Royal Navy class of light cruiser, the first eight vessels are known as Fiji class
HMS Fiji (58), vessel of the above class
Fiji Airways, the flag carrier airline of Fiji
Fiji Water, a bottled water company
Fiji, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Colbert de Torcy is a secondary school in Sable-sur-Sarthe, France.
Hostage crisis
On 9 March 2006 at 2:30 p.m., a 33-year-old former high school teacher in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe, France, took 23 people, most of them students aged 16–18, hostage with a handgun. He surrendered peacefully and no one was harmed. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert%20de%20Torcy%20%28secondary%20school%29 |
The committees of the European Parliament are designed to aid the European Commission in initiating legislation.
Standing committees are made up of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who are directly elected to the seats in the European Parliament by the electorate. Each committee has a chairman and four vice-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees%20of%20the%20European%20Parliament |
Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time is a Looney Tunes platform video game released for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows in 1999. An indirect sequel, Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters, was released for the same platforms in 2000.
Plot
The game stars Looney Tunes cartoon character Bugs Bunny who finds and activates a time trave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs%20Bunny%3A%20Lost%20in%20Time |
David Choe (born April 21, 1976) is an American artist, musician, actor, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for magazines including Hustler, Ray Gun and Vice. He has an ongoing relatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Choe |
The Noralta Junior Hockey League is a Junior "C" ice hockey league in Alberta, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada, under Hockey Alberta. It currently has 11 teams throughout the greater Edmonton area.
History
The league was founded in 1992 as a non-contact juvenile league known as the North Central Junior Hockey Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noralta%20Junior%20Hockey%20League |
Marcel Delgado (January 16, 1901 in Coahuila, Mexico - November 26, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was a sculptor and model-maker. His technique revolutionized the stop motion film industry. He is best known for his work on the 1933 film King Kong.
Prior to Delgado, stop motion models where typically made from clay,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Delgado |
Ixcatec or Ixcateco may refer to:
Ixcatecos, an ethnic group of Mexico
Ixcatec language, a language of Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec |
The Yellow Rose is an American soap opera television series that was broadcast on NBC from October 2, 1983, until May 12, 1984. The series was produced by Paul Freeman and was at least partly inspired by the more coltish elements of the soap opera Dallas, and dealt with the intrigues of the Texas-based Champion family ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Yellow%20Rose |
Hal Michael Ketchum (April 9, 1953November 23, 2020) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He released eleven studio albums from 1986 to 2014, including nine for divisions of Curb Records. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue was his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Ketchum |
Decatur Township is one of the nine townships in Marion County, Indiana, United States, and part of the consolidated city of Indianapolis. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 32,388. Located in the southwest corner of the county, the township is home to the Indianapolis International Airport main terminal. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur%20Township%2C%20Marion%20County%2C%20Indiana |
Tsukunft or Cukunft or Zukunft (צוקונפֿט, Yiddish for future) was the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Union (or Bund). It was founded in 1910, and in 1916 it was officially called Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. Their newspaper was the Yugnt veker. In 1921 Tsukunft suffered a split, in which a pro-Communist group b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukunft |
William Ernest Hewitt (October 8, 1909 – January 14, 1947) was an American football defensive end and end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played five seasons for the Chicago Bears (1932–1936), three for the Philadelphia Eagles (1937–1939), and one for the Phil-Pitt Steagles (1943). He is remembered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Hewitt%20%28American%20football%29 |
Joe Patchen (May 5, 1889 – February 18, 1917) was a Standardbred racehorse foaled in Peabody, Kansas, United States. His sire was Patchen Wilkes and his dam was Josephine Young. Though best remembered for siring the famous Dan Patch, Joe Patchen enjoyed a successful racing career of his own: he was nicknamed "the iro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Patchen |
Jeffrey Bryan Hammonds (born March 5, 1971) is an American former professional baseball player. Hammonds was an outfielder and played for the Baltimore Orioles (1993–1998), Cincinnati Reds (1998–1999), Colorado Rockies (2000), Milwaukee Brewers (2001–2003), San Francisco Giants (2003–2004) and the Washington Nationals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Hammonds |
Robin McNamara (May 5, 1947 – October 21, 2021) was an American musician, singer and songwriter.
McNamara was born in May 1947 in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1963, while in tenth grade, he formed a rock and roll group with a few school friends; they christened their band Robin and the Hoods, performing locally in the Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20McNamara |
In business, open communication (or open access to communication resources) is the ability of anyone, on equal conditions with a transparent relation between cost and pricing, to get access to and share communication resources on one level to provide value added services on another level in a layered communication syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20communication |
No Bull is a live video released by AC/DC in November 1996, filmed on Super 16mm at Madrid's Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas on 10 July 1996 during the Ballbreaker world tour. It was directed by David Mallet, produced by Rocky Oldham, mixed by Mike Fraser, and edited by David Gardener and Simon Hilton; production company ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Bull |
"I'm Deranged" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1995 for the album Outside. Musically and lyrically, it shares many themes with "Look Back in Anger" from Lodger (1979), including the appearance of an angel figure before an artist. The two songs were frequently played together during the 1995 Outside To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Deranged |
John Wellington Kent, better known by his signature Jack Kent (March 10, 1920 – October 18, 1985), was an American cartoonist and prolific author-illustrator of 40 children's books. He is perhaps best known as the creator of King Aroo, a comic strip often compared to Walt Kelly's Pogo. In addition to his own books, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Kent%20%28illustrator%29 |
Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection is a series of three DVD box sets from MTV and Paramount Home Entertainment, each containing 40 Beavis and Butt-Head episodes chosen by series creator Mike Judge and special features such as interviews and music videos. The first entry in the series was released on Novemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis%20and%20Butt-Head%3A%20The%20Mike%20Judge%20Collection |
Howard E. Jackson (June 27, 1951 – March 7, 2006) was a former World Kickboxing Champion (W.K.A), a World Muay Thai Champion (W.K.B.A), a world rated Karate point fighter, and a world rated boxing contender.
Biography
He was born in 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four children; two brothers died violent de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Jackson%20%28kickboxer%29 |
Margo Anderson (born August 13, 1967), formerly Mark Anderson, is an American journalist and book author.
Education
Anderson has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in astrophysics.
Career
Anderson has written articles on science, history, and technology for a variety of national and international pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo%20Anderson%20%28writer%29 |
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is a 1952 comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, along with Charles Laughton, who reprised his role as the infamous pirate from the 1945 film Captain Kidd. It was the second film in SuperCineColor, a three-color version of the tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott%20and%20Costello%20Meet%20Captain%20Kidd |
The Bahama Banks are the submerged carbonate platforms that make up much of the Bahama Archipelago. The term is usually applied in referring to either the Great Bahama Bank around Andros Island, or the Little Bahama Bank of Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco, which are the largest of the platforms, and the Cay Sal Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahama%20Banks |
Clapham Junction is an urban locality around Clapham Junction railway station in London, England.
Clapham Junction may also refer to:
Clapham Junction railway station in London, England
Misraħ Għar il-Kbir, a prehistoric site on Malta
Clapham Junction rail crash of 1988, near Clapham Junction railway station
Clap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham%20Junction%20%28disambiguation%29 |
MS Jan Heweliusz was a Norwegian-built Polish ferry named after astronomer Johannes Hevelius () that served on the route Ystad–Świnoujście. It was built in Norway in 1977 and was owned by Polish Ocean Lines and operated by its subsidiary company Euroafrica Shipping Lines. In the early hours of 14 January 1993, it capsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS%20Jan%20Heweliusz |
California Dreams was a publishing label used by Logical Design Works between 1987 and 1991. All of its games were developed by its Polish in-house studio P.Z.Karen whose job was to create Polish designed games aimed at American market. It contributed to the development of computer games in the late 1980s with titles s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Dreams%20%28publishing%20label%29 |
Walter Peterhans (12 June 1897 – 12 April 1960) was a German photographer best known as a teacher and course leader of photography at the Bauhaus from 1929 until 1933, and at the Reimann School in Berlin under Hugo Häring.
In the 1930s Peterhans was a proponent of the Neues Sehen (New Vision) movement, taking close-up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Peterhans |
Environmental harmful product dumping (“environmental dumping”) is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste (household waste, industrial/nuclear waste, etc.) from one country to another. The goal is to take the waste to a country that has less strict environmental laws, or environmental laws that are not strictl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20dumping |
Amealco is a town in the Mexican state of Querétaro. Its name is thought to mean place of springs in Nahuatl. The municipality seat, also called Amealco, is located 63 km southeast of Santiago de Querétaro. Its elevation is 2,605 meters above sea level, and the annual temperature ranges from 15 to 20 °C. It is one of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amealco%20de%20Bonfil |
Thomas or Tom Chandler may refer to:
Politicians
Thomas Alberter Chandler (1871–1953), U.S Representative from Oklahoma
Thomas R. Chandler (born 1954), candidate for Congress from Ohio in the 1990s
Thomas Chandler (New Hampshire politician) (1772–1866), U.S. Representative for New Hampshire
Thomas Chandler Jr. (1740–1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Chandler |
Murong Nong () (died 398), formally Prince Huanlie of Liaoxi (遼西桓烈王), was a general and imperial prince of China's Xianbei-led Later Yan dynasty. He was a son of the founding emperor Murong Chui (Emperor Wucheng) and a brother of Murong Bao (Emperor Huimin). Throughout most of the state's history, he was admired by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murong%20Nong |
Pinal de Amoles is a town located in Pinal de Amoles Municipality in the state of Querétaro in central Mexico. It is part of the Sierra Gorda region which stretches over northern Querétaro into Guanajuato, Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí, with 88% of the municipality's land comprising the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinal%20de%20Amoles |
Lee Ashcroft (born 7 September 1972) is an English former footballer and football manager who manages North West Counties Premier Division club Longridge Town.
An England under-21 international, the striker began his playing career at Preston North End in 1987. Six years later he was sold on to West Bromwich Albion fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Ashcroft%20%28English%20footballer%29 |
Arroyo Seco is a town in Arroyo Seco Municipality located in the far north of the Mexican state of Querétaro. Its territory is part of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve of Querétaro. The municipality is centered on the small town of Arroyo Seco, which was established as a military outpost then given town status in 183... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo%20Seco%2C%20Quer%C3%A9taro |
Wire wheels, wire-spoked wheels, tension-spoked wheels, or "suspension" wheels are wheels whose rims connect to their hubs by wire spokes. Although these wires are considerably stiffer than a similar diameter wire rope, they function mechanically the same as tensioned flexible wires, keeping the rim true while supporti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20wheel |
"The Complexity of Songs" is a scholarly article by computer scientist Donald Knuth in 1977, as an in-joke about computational complexity theory. The article capitalizes on the tendency of popular songs to devolve from long and content-rich ballads to highly repetitive texts with little or no meaningful content. The ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Complexity%20of%20Songs |
Arizonasaurus was a ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic (243 million years ago). Arizonasaurus is found in the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002 by Sterling Nesbitt. The taxon has a large sailback formed by elongated neural spines of the v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizonasaurus |
Léonard Hilarion Joseph Legault, (February 19, 1935 – March 17, 2017) was a Canadian diplomat.
Biography
Born in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Léonard Legault was the son of Donat Legault and Ludivine Morin. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1959 from the University of Saskat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onard%20Legault |
A thermoscope is a device that shows changes in temperature. A typical design is a tube in which a liquid rises and falls as the temperature changes. The modern thermometer gradually evolved from it with the addition of a scale in the early 17th century and standardisation throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
Funct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoscope |
Joseph Henry Lewis (March 7, 1944 – August 31, 2012) was an American martial artist, professional kickboxer and actor. Originally a practitioner of Shōrin-ryū karate and champion in point sparring competitions, he became one of the fathers of full contact karate and kickboxing in the United States, and is credited with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Lewis%20%28martial%20artist%29 |
Les Identitaires (English: The Identitarians), formerly the Bloc identitaire (English: Identitarian Bloc), is an Identitarian nationalist movement in France. Like the French New Right, scholars generally consider the movement far-right or sometimes as a syncretic mixture of multiple ideologies across the political spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Identitaires |
Tverskaya Street (), known between 1935 and 1990 as Gorky Street (), is the main radial street in Moscow. The street runs Northwest from the central Manege Square in the direction of Saint Petersburg and terminates at the Garden Ring, giving the name to Tverskoy District. The route continues further as First Tverskaya-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tverskaya%20Street |
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is a Brazilian football team.
Palmeiras may also refer to:
Football teams
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (women's football), the female section of the main Palmeiras club
Palmeiras Nordeste Futebol, a Brazilian football team
Associação Atlética das Palmeiras, a defunct Brazilian footba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmeiras%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Garden is Zero 7's third studio album. It was released in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2006, and in the United States on 6 June 2006.
The album features vocal performances by José González, Sia, and Henry Binns. It sees Zero 7 take a new, more upbeat musical direction, while still essentially maintaining their ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Garden%20%28Zero%207%20album%29 |
Cadereyta de Montes () is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Querétaro, Mexico. The municipality is the second most extensive in the state.
The city was founded in 1640, and received its current name in two stages: first in 1642 in honor of Viceroy Don Lope Díez de Armendáriz, marqués de Cadereyta, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadereyta%20de%20Montes |
Henry Peter Chapman (May 3, 1915 – October 18, 1973), credited in comics under both his formal name and as Hank Chapman, was an American comic book writer for Marvel Comics' two predecessors, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics, and later for DC Comics, where he specialized in war fiction. Though much of his Timely/Atlas wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20Chapman |
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall.
Sir John Chamond ?–1544
Sir Richard Grenville 1544–1550
Sir John Arundell bef. 1558 – aft. 1558
Sir William Godolphin bef. 1562–1570
Peter Edgcumbe bef. 1573–1597
Sir Francis Godolphin 1597–1606
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke 1606–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custos%20Rotulorum%20of%20Cornwall |
Waterloo railway station is a railway station in Waterloo, Merseyside, England, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It serves a largely residential area, although there is a number of shops along South Road, where the station entrance is situated.
History
Waterloo opened in 1848 as the original terminus of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%20railway%20station%20%28Merseyside%29 |
The Boss Dr. Sample SP-303 is a discontinued digital sampler from Boss, successor of the Boss SP-202 Dr. Sample. The SP-303 was revamped and redesigned in 2005, and released as the SP-404, by Roland Corporation.
Features
While the Dr. Sample SP-303 may lack some of the features seen on other hip hop production sampler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss%20SP-303 |
Simon Ove Christian Ogilvie Spies (1 September 1921 – 16 April 1984) was a Danish tycoon, best known for founding the charter airline Spies Rejser, and its airway company Conair of Scandinavia, and for his flamboyant lifestyle and womanising, including the procurement of sexual services from young women, the morgenboll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Spies |
Augustia is a genus of cave-dwelling leiodid beetle from Herzegovina in the subtribe Bathysciina. Its type and only species is Augustia weiratheri. The first specimens of Augustia weiratheri were collected by the biospeleologist Leo Weirather, from a cave in Čvrsnica that he nicknamed "Vuk jama". Weirather obscured his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustia |
Manuel Alejandro Vela Garrido (born 28 March 1984) is a Mexican former professional footballer.
Career
He made his debut on 14 August 2004, for Chivas against Atlante. He played for fellow Liga MX team Chipas from 2006 to 2008 before moving to Cruz Azul where he would enjoy the most personal and club success, scoring ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro%20Vela |
Merle "Ted" Puffer (15 October 1928 – 22 October 2003) was an American singer, voice teacher and translator.
He taught the mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick when she was launching her career.
With his wife Deena Puffer, he translated The Merry Widow into English, producing a libretto favored by some singers.
He was the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Puffer |
Louis Albert McMillen (October 24, 1916 – May 4, 1998) was an American architect who was one of the original founding partners of The Architects Collaborative with Walter Gropius and six other architects. McMillen was part of TAC from its founding in 1945 until its demise in 1995.
Career
McMillen attended Yale Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20A.%20McMillen |
In the European Union, the Conference of Presidents is a governing body of the European Parliament. The body is responsible for the organisation of Parliament, its administrative matters and agenda.
The Conference consists of the President of Parliament, the chairmen of the political groups (who may arrange to be repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20of%20Presidents%20of%20the%20European%20Parliament |
Bashunosaurus is a genus of potentially macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation of Kaijiang, China. The type and only species is Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis.
Discovery
The holotype of Bashunosaurus, KM 20100, was discovered in sediments of the lower Shaximiao Formation in Maanping, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashunosaurus |
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