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Aurora Australis was the "first book ever written, printed, illustrated and bound in the Antarctic".
Bibliographic details
Aurora Australis was written during the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition or the Nimrod Expedition (1908–09) led by Ernest Shackleton. Produced entirely by members of the expedition, the boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20Australis%20%28book%29 |
WLRH (89.3 FM), branded as "WLRH 89.3 FM/HD Huntsville," is an American public radio station located in Huntsville, Alabama, the state's first such broadcaster. It offers music, news, cultural and entertainment programming from American Public Media, Public Radio Exchange, National Public Radio, and other nationally-re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLRH |
Samalga Island (; ) is the westernmost island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is long and is situated at the southwestern tip of Umnak Island. It has a land area of and is uninhabited. It is separated from the Islands of Four Mountains group to the west by the Samalga Pass.
Sama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samalga%20Island |
St. George's Independent School was founded in 1959 and now has campuses in Collierville, Germantown, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Athletics
St. George's competes in the Division II-A (71 Teams 6th-12th grade), West Region A of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA).
References
Educational institutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20George%27s%20Independent%20School |
Giorgos (George) Theofanous (, ) (born in Larnaca, Cyprus on 9 January 1968) is a Greek Cypriot composer and producer. He has sold more than two million records and written more than 500 songs in the 1990s and 2000s. Recording artists for whom he has written and produced for include Nana Mouskouri, George Dalaras. His ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Theofanous |
Herbert Spencer Zim (July 12, 1909 – December 5, 1994) was a naturalist, author, editor and educator best known as the founder (1945) and editor-in-chief of the Golden Guides series of nature books.
Biography
Zim was born 1909 in New York City, but spent his childhood years in southern California. At the age of fourte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Zim |
Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813), born in Estadilla, Spain, was a Benedictine monk and the first historian to extensively document Puerto Rico's history, nationality, and culture.
Biography
Abbad arrived in Puerto Rico in 1771 at age 26 as confessor and personal secretary of the bishop of the diocese of Puerto ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray%20%C3%8D%C3%B1igo%20Abbad%20y%20Lasierra |
The Raspberry Jams: A Collection Of Demos, Songs, And Ideas On Guitar is the third album by Jason Becker, released on October 19, 1999.
Track listing
All songs written by Jason Becker except where noted:
See also
Cacophony
References
External links
Jason Becker official website
1999 compilation albums
Jason Becker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Raspberry%20Jams |
"There Goes the Neighborhood" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. The song was released as the second single from her third studio album, The Globe Sessions (1998), on November 23, 1998, and won an award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2001.
Commercially, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20Goes%20the%20Neighborhood%20%28Sheryl%20Crow%20song%29 |
José Jiménez may refer to:
Entertainment
José Jiménez (character), fictional character created by U.S. comedian Bill Dana
José Ximénez (1601–1672), Spanish organist
José Julián Jiménez (1823–1880), Cuban violinist and composer
José Alfredo Jiménez (1926–1973), Mexican singer-songwriter in the ranchera style
José ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Jim%C3%A9nez |
Twisted Records is a British record label that specialises in psychedelic trance music. The label was founded by musician Simon Posford, who performs and records under the name Hallucinogen.
See also
List of electronic music record labels
List of record labels
External links
Psychedelic trance record labels
Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20Records%20%28UK%29 |
Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm at first known as "BackRub" in 1996, with the help of Scott Hassan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Google |
Sedanka Island () is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is long and is situated off the northeast coast of Unalaska Island. It has a land area of and no permanent population.
References
Sedanka Island: Block 2001, Census Tract 2, Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedanka%20Island |
PortMidi is a computer library for real time input and output of MIDI data. It is designed to be portable to many different operating systems. PortMidi is part of the PortMusic project.
See also
PortAudio
External links
portmidi.h – definition of the API and contains the documentation for PortMidi
Audio libraries
C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PortMidi |
One Love may refer to:
Music
One Love (record producer), Timothy Sommers, American record producer, half of the duo Kinetics & One Love
One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, a 2015 stage musical
Albums
One Love (Blue album) or the title song (see below), 2002
One Love (David Guetta album) or the title song (see below... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Love |
I Spy (commonly styled I-SPY) is a 2002 American buddy spy comedy film directed by Betty Thomas, and starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. The film is based on the television series of the same name that aired in the 1960s and starred Robert Culp and Bill Cosby. The plot follows a spy and a famous civilian boxer who g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Spy%20%282002%20film%29 |
Cheviot is a locality in Victoria, Australia in the Shire of Murrindindi local government area.
History
The locality was named after a nearby pastoral run called Cheviot Hills, which in turn was named after the locality on the English-Scottish border. It was also called Ross Creek.
From 1889 until 1978 there was an ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheviot%2C%20Victoria |
A musical clinic is an informal meeting with a guest musician, where a small-to-medium-sized audience questions the musician's styles and techniques and also how to improve their own skill. The musician might perform an entire piece, or demonstrate certain techniques for the audience to observe.
The objective is for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic%20%28music%29 |
This is a list of aesthetic principles of music. It enumerates the various qualities by which music is judged aesthetically.
Blues, an African American musical genre and quality of music that reflects an emotionally genuine soul and expresses melancholy, loneliness and tragedy
Conyach, a musical quality that provokes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20culturally%20linked%20qualities%20of%20music |
President Mir Qanbar is a 2005 Iranian documentary film directed by Mohammad Shirvani. The film follows Mir Qanbar, an elderly Iranian man, as he campaigns in the country's presidential election.
The film won the Award of Excellence at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2005 and in 2007 won the Au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20Mir%20Qanbar |
"Anything but Down" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. Released as the third single from her third studio album, The Globe Sessions (1998), it fared better than its predecessor "There Goes the Neighborhood" in the United States, reaching number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seven on the Billb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything%20but%20Down |
Ring of Fire is a jukebox musical based on the music of Johnny Cash.
Productions
Ring of Fire was conceived by William Meade and created and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. The musical played a "discreet and well-reviewed test run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre in fall 2005".
The musical contains 38 of Johnny Cash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20of%20Fire%20%28musical%29 |
Fred Ludwig Rexer, Jr. (November 30, 1946 - August 27, 2021) was a U.S. Army Vietnam combat veteran and Hollywood actor and screenwriter.
Biography
He was best known as the military advisor for Apocalypse Now and as Spiritual Advisor for Conan the Barbarian. (Rexor, the Ben Davidson character in Conan, was named after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Rexer |
LMT, Grupo Límite, or Límite, is a Mexican Norteño and Tejano band formed in Monterrey, Mexico in 1994. The group was led by singer Alicia Villarreal until she left to pursue a solo career.
History
The band debuted in 1995 with the record, Por Puro Amor (sung by Beatriz Alejo Jimenez)
, which sold over a million copie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo%20L%C3%ADmite |
Capt. Bolesław Zajączkowski (1891 in Kraków – August 17, 1920 in Zadwórze) was a Polish lawyer and reserve officer of the Polish Army.
Polish-Ukrainian War
A former reserve NCO of the Austro-Hungarian Army, he volunteered for the Polish forces fighting in the battle of Lwów in the Polish-Ukrainian War. During the fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw%20Zaj%C4%85czkowski |
Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman Schocken as Schocken Verlag in Berlin, the company later moved to Palestine and then the United States, and was acquired by Random House in 1987.
History
Schocken Book... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schocken%20Books |
The Sankoty aquifer is an aquifer in the U.S. state of Illinois that provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois. It is an unconsolidated deposit lying in a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River.
Type locality
The sand which forms the Sankoty aq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankoty%20Aquifer |
Dameon Porter (born May 21, 1975) is a former wide receiver/defensive back in the Arena Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).
Early life and education
He played college football at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska.
Career
He played for the Green Bay Packers 2001-2002, Iowa Barnstormers (1998... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dameon%20Porter |
Hương Điền is a former district of Thừa Thiên province (now Thừa Thiên–Huế Province) in South Vietnam. Here, according to North Vietnamese sources was the site of the Huong Dien massacre in July 1955 by Ngo Dinh Diem troops, killing 92 local villagers.
In mid-1972, the Republic of Vietnam Marine Division established i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C6%B0%C6%A1ng%20%C4%90i%E1%BB%81n%20district |
Yanga may refer to:
People
Yanga (singer), South African singer-songwriter
Yanga people, an Aboriginal Australian people
Yanga Chief, South African musician
Gaspar Yanga, leader of a slave revolt in Spanish colonial Mexico
Yanga R. Fernández (born 1971), astronomer at the University of Hawaii
Places
Yanga, Burk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanga |
John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles (1352–1421) was an English soldier and noble. The son of John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles and Maud de Ros. He married Eleanor de Mowbray, daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray, and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave.
He was summoned to parliament between 20 January 137... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Welles%2C%205th%20Baron%20Welles |
Boman Irani (born 2 December 1959) is an Indian actor, photographer and voice artist who predominantly works in Hindi-language films. One of the most notable character actors in Hindi cinema, he has featured in over 100 films, many of which were financially successful. He has also worked in a few Telugu, Marathi and Ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boman%20Irani |
Countdown is a 1967 science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the 1964 novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls. Made before M*A*S*H, the film was subject to re-editing by the studio. Countdown stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown%20%281967%20film%29 |
Quandary Peak is the highest summit of the Tenmile Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America and is the most commonly climbed fourteener in Colorado. It has nearly the same elevation as Castle Peak and Mount Blue Sky. It lies in Summit County and within the White River National Forest about south-southwest of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quandary%20Peak |
Dary Myricks (born September 27, 1976 in Jackson, Georgia) is a former Arena Football League offensive lineman/defensive lineman. He played for the Carolina Cobras, the Detroit Fury, and the Georgia Force. Myricks became the head football coach for his alma mater, Jackson High, in 2013.
High school years
Myricks atten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dary%20Myricks |
Tom DeLay, a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas from 1979–83, and from 1985–2006 and the House Majority Leader from 2003–05, was convicted in 2010 of money laundering and conspiracy charges related to illegal campaign finance activities aimed at helping Republican candidates for Texas state office in the 2002 el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20DeLay%20campaign%20finance%20trial |
Bay Knoll is a neighborhood located within the master-planned community of Clear Lake City in Houston, Texas, USA. The neighborhood was developed in the mid-1980 and borders the neighborhoods of Bay Glen, Bay Pointe, Bay Oaks, Meadowgreen, and Oak Brook West. Bay Knoll, along with Bay Glen, is a member of the Pineloch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Knoll%2C%20Houston |
Lorna is a feminine given name. The name is said to have been first coined by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone, which appeared in 1869. Blackmore appears to have derived this name from the Scottish placename Lorn/Lorne. In the U.S., according to the 1990 census, the name ranks 572 of 4275, and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorna |
Duelo "El Desafio Musical" is a Mexican norteño band from Roma, Texas, United States. The band is also known as Grupo Duelo and originally known as Duelo Norteño. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s and continues to record to the present day.
Discography
Studio albums
As Duelo Norteño
Si acaso me escu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duelo |
Murong Long () (died 397), formally Prince Kang of Gaoyang (高陽康王), 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), and when his brother's empire was under threat from the rival No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murong%20Long |
James Michael Lachey (born June 4, 1963) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Raiders, and Washington Redskins. He was drafted by the Chargers in the first round of the 1985 NFL Draft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Lachey |
Dual-covenant or two-covenant theology is a school of thought in Christian theology regarding the relevance of the Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament.
Most Christians hold that the Old Testament has been superseded by the New Covenant, although the moral law continues to apply (cf. covenant theology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-covenant%20theology |
Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ruefle |
See also Margaret Stewart.
Margaret Stewart (; 25 December 1424 – 16 August 1445) was a princess of Scotland and the dauphine of France. She was the firstborn child of King James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort.
She married the eldest son of the king of France, Louis, Dauphin of France, at the age of eleven. Their ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Stewart%2C%20Dauphine%20of%20France |
Wislow Island is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is across and situated in Reese Bay midway between Capes Wislow and Cheerful on the north coast of Unalaska Island, 11.3 miles (18.2 km) northwest of Dutch Harbor. It was named in 1888 by the U.S. Bureau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wislow%20Island |
Los Fugitivos (The Fugitives) is an American grupero band. They formed the band in 1985 as Grupo Kariño with brothers Jaime and Edi Espinoza. But in 1991, with the addition singer/guitarist Roberto Nieto, the band became Los Fugitivos. The band's first hits were covers, including "Esperando Por Ti," which was a Spanish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Fugitivos |
Christian G. Hanburger, Jr. (born August 13, 1941) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire 14-year career with the Washington Redskins, from 1965 through 1978, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
Early li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hanburger |
Robert S. Ross (born April 9, 1954) is a professor of political science at Boston College, associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, senior advisor of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Ross |
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was a mathematician who received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 1960. His work helped lead to a proof of the Ramanujan conjecture which partly follows from the proof of the Weil conjectures by .
In 1963–1964, he introduced Kuga fiber varieties in a book published by the University of Chicago Press. In the summe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio%20Kuga |
Piloña () is a municipality in the province and autonomous community of Asturias, northwestern Spain. Its capital is the town of Infiesto. Piloña is bounded to the north by Villaviciosa and Colunga, to the east by Parres, to the west by Nava and Cabranes, and to the south by Ponga, Caso, Sobrescobio and Laviana. The ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilo%C3%B1a |
WBHM (90.3 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station in Birmingham, Alabama. The station is licensed to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where it maintains its radio studios on 11th Street South. WBHM features programming from National Public Radio, American Public Media and Public Radio Exchange. On w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBHM |
Leopoldo Dante Tévez (born March 22, 1942), known as Leo Dan, is an Argentine composer and singer born in Villa Atamisqui, Santiago del Estero Province. He recorded more than 20 albums during his long career during the late 20th century between Argentina and Mexico. His appreciation for Mexican music led him to record... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Dan |
The Ferguson Left (also known as the "Soft Left" in New South Wales) is a political sub-faction in New South Wales within the Australian Labor Party (ALP) founded by Jack Ferguson.
In New South Wales, the Soft Left traces its roots to the supporters of Peter Baldwin, who led the Steering Committee (previous name for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson%20Left |
Ann Elizabeth Mayer is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography
Ann E. Mayer has taught law courses on subjects comprising law and policy in international business, globalization and human rights, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Elizabeth%20Mayer |
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the geographical region of Oceania. Although it is mostly ocean and spans many tectonic plates, Oceania is occasionally listed as one of the continents.
Most of this list follows the boundaries of geopolitical Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sovereign%20states%20and%20dependent%20territories%20in%20Oceania |
Anthony Coucheron (also recorded as Anton Coucheron or Anthony Willemsen; c.1650 – 14 March 1689) was an engineering officer. Coucheron played an important role in the history of Norwegian and Danish fortifications. As Sweden grew to be a great power in the 17th century, there were frequent wars in the Baltic region, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Coucheron |
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 43, commonly referred to as Highway 43, is a major highway in northern and central Alberta, Canada that connects Edmonton to the British Columbia border via the Peace Country, forming the northernmost portion of the CANAMEX Corridor in Alberta. It stretches approximately from Highway 16... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Highway%2043 |
The Asian Academy for Sports and Fitness Professionals (AASFP) is a fitness instructors certification body founded in Hong Kong in 1992. The academy provides professional education and training programs in Asia.
Certification Programs
AASFP runs a variety of fitness programs which include instructor certification cour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Academy%20for%20Sports%20and%20Fitness%20Professionals |
Theophylact or Theophylaktos (d. 845 AD) became bishop of Nicomedia in Asia Minor following the Iconoclastic Controversy of the eighth century.
He was well known for having built churches, hospices, and homes for wanderers. He generously distributed alms, was the guardian of orphans, widows and the sick, and personall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophylact%20of%20Nicomedia |
The Catocalinae are a subfamily of noctuoid moths, placed in family Noctuidae.
In the alternative arrangement, where the Noctuidae are reduced to the core group around the Noctuinae, the present lineage is abolished, the upranked Catocalini being merged with the Erebini and becoming a subfamily of the reestablished fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catocalinae |
Nizki Island (Avayax̂ in Aleut; ) is an uninhabited island in the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at , it is the middle island of the Semichi Islands group of the Near Islands. Flanked by Shemya to the east and Alaid to the west, three-mile-long (5 km) Nizki is periodically joined to Alaid by a sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizki%20Island |
Tyrone "Butterfly" Crawley (November 2, 1958 – January 15, 2021) was a former professional boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Career
During his professional boxing career he was known for his hand and foot speed, and the ability to switch effortlessly from the orthodox stance to the southpaw stance. Many opponents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone%20Crawley |
The Electronic Filing System (or EFS) is the Singapore Judiciary's electronic platform for filing and service of documents within the litigation process. In addition, it provides the registries of the Supreme Court and the Subordinate Courts with an electronic registry and workflow system; and an electronic case file. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Filing%20System |
Randy Vasquez (born October 16, 1961) is an American actor and director.
Early life
Vasquez was born in Escondido, California. He attended Escondido High School and is a cousin of actor and director James Vasquez, who also grew up in Escondido. His father, a school teacher and accountant, is of Mexican ancestry and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Vasquez |
Ralph Pomeroy (October 12, 1926 – November 18, 1999) was an American poet.
Biography
Born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised in Winnetka, Illinois. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois. At eighteen he had already published poems in "Poetry", which was one of the leadin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Pomeroy%20%28poet%29 |
MIRAS or Miras may refer to:
Miras, village and administrative unit of the Devoll municipality, Korçë County, southeastern Albania
Miras (TV channel), a state-owned channel in Turkmenistan
Mortgage Interest Relief At Source, tax relief for mortgages in the UK
Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis
M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRAS |
Michael Rapada (born August 28, 1964) best known as "The Colorado Kid" Mike Rapada is an American professional wrestler.
Professional wrestling career
Mike Rapada started out in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It took three months, but eventually he convinced Jeff Jarrett to hire him. After Jarrett left for the WWF, Rapa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Rapada |
The Branch Rickey Award was given annually to an individual in Major League Baseball (MLB) in recognition of his exceptional community service from 1992 to 2014. The award was named in honor of former player and executive Branch Rickey, who broke the major league color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, while presiden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20Rickey%20Award |
Porsche Design is a German product design studio and brand founded in 1972 by F. A. Porsche, the designer of the original Porsche 911, known for its high-end accessories including sunglasses, pens, and watches.
The current legal instantiation of the company, Porsche Lizenz- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, based... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche%20Design |
Joseph Fiévée (9 April 1767 - 9 May 1839) was a French journalist, novelist, essayist, playwright, civil servant (haut fonctionnaire) and secret agent. He also lived in an openly gay relationship with the writer Théodore Leclercq (1777-1851), with whom he was buried after his death.
Career
Fiévée was born and died i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Fi%C3%A9v%C3%A9e |
Robert J. Knapik (born 1970) is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Robbie Rage and as a part of the tag team High Voltage with Kenny Kaos.
Early life
Knapik grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts and played a variety of sports whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie%20Rage |
Christina the Astonishing (c.1150 – 24 July 1224), also known as Christina Mirabilis, was a Christian holy woman born in Brustem (near Sint-Truiden), Belgium. Christina is primarily known for her legendary resurrection during her funeral mass, and numerous other miracles attributed to her during her life. Thomas of Can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20the%20Astonishing |
Hai Rui Dismissed from Office () is a theatre play, written by Wu Han (1909-1969), notable for its involvement in Chinese politics during the Cultural Revolution. The play itself focused on a loyal Ming Dynasty minister named Hai Rui, who was portrayed as a savior to passive peasants for whom he reversed unjust land co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hai%20Rui%20Dismissed%20from%20Office |
Michael Troy Worth (born January 13, 1965) is an American actor, martial artist, screenwriter, and director.
Early life
Born in Philadelphia in 1965, Worth is from German and Delaware Indian Native American heritage. As a child, he grew up near the Chesapeake Bay before moving to Northern California with his parents. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Worth |
Sleep Is the Enemy is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Danko Jones. The album was released on February 17, 2006 in Europe and February 21 in Canada. The album was released in the US on May 23. "She's Drugs" was featured in the Swedish vampire film Frostbiten. "Baby Hates Me" served as the theme song for WWE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20Is%20the%20Enemy |
Johannes Matelart (also Matelart, Matellarto, Matelarte and other variations; first name sometimes Ioanne or Jean) (before 1538 – 7 June 1607) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Flanders, Bonn, and Rome.
Details of his life are relatively sparse. He came from west Flanders, and served as choirm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Matelart |
Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 (in the township of Georgian Bay) of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles over a change of height of about . It is the only marine railway (or canal inclined plane) of its kind in North Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Chute%20Marine%20Railway |
Attack trees are conceptual diagrams showing how an asset, or target, might be attacked. Attack trees have been used in a variety of applications. In the field of information technology, they have been used to describe threats on computer systems and possible attacks to realize those threats. However, their use is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20tree |
Middlemount is a rural town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Middlemount had a population of 1,841 people.
It is nicknamed the "Giant Peanut" by some locals due to its peanut-shaped road layout.
Geography
Middlemount is located inland (by road) from Mackay and Rockhamp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemount%2C%20Queensland |
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden () is a fresco by the Italian Early Renaissance artist Masaccio. The fresco is a single scene from the cycle painted around 1425 by Masaccio, Masolino and others on the walls of the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. It depicts the expulsion of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion%20from%20the%20Garden%20of%20Eden |
The People of Angkor, or Les Gens d'Angkor, is a 2003 French-Cambodian documentary film directed by Rithy Panh. It was exhibited at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2005.
The film follows a young Cambodian boy around the temples of Angkor Wat as older men tell him about the legends depicted on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20People%20of%20Angkor |
Ricardo Santana Ortiz (born November 21, 1958), better known as Ricky Santana, is an American retired professional wrestler of Cuban descent who has worked for World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation, World Wrestling Council and the National Wrestling Alliance, All Japan, IWA Japan, Consejo Mundial de ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20Santana |
Giordano (sometimes anglicized as Jordan) Pierleoni (in contemporary Latin, Jordanus filius Petrus Leonis) was the son of the Consul Pier Leoni and therefore brother of Antipope Anacletus II and leader of the Commune of Rome which the people set up in 1143. According to Gregorovius, he was a “maverick” in the great Pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano%20Pierleoni |
Benoît Jules Mure (May 15, 1809, Lyon — March 4, 1858, Cairo) was a French homeopath, naturalist, and anarcho-communist.
Biography
After his studies in medicine at the University of Montpellier, which he never finished, he travelled throughout Europe, and spent time in Sicily trying to cure his tuberculosis. In his s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt%20Jules%20Mure |
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, KG (c. 1406 – 29 March 1461) was an English peer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Joint Deputy of Calais. He was slain fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton, and was attainted on 21 December 1461. As a result of the attainder, his son, Richard Welles, 7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Welles%2C%206th%20Baron%20Welles |
Jess Lee is a Canadian Métis country music singer-songwriter.
Career
Signed by RCA in 1980 as the lead singer of the Midnite Rodeo Band his work with Rocky Swanson earned him several awards including BCCMA Male Vocalist and Album of the Year honours.
He recorded his first solo album Honky Tonk Love Affair in 1990. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess%20Lee%20%28Canadian%20singer%29 |
The I-90 Mississippi River Bridge, or the Dresbach Bridge, consists of a pair of parallel bridges that traverse the Mississippi River, connecting the La Crosse, Wisconsin area to Dresbach in rural Winona County, Minnesota. The current bridge was fully opened to traffic in October 2016, replacing a previous 1967 plate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-90%20Mississippi%20River%20Bridge |
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanton%20Museum%20of%20Art |
Aaron L. Dixon (born January 2, 1949) is an American activist and a former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party for its initial four years. In 2006, he ran for the United States Senate in Washington state on the Green Party ticket.
Background
As an adolescent, Dixon marched with Dr. Martin Luther ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Dixon |
Edwin Edward Willis (October 2, 1904 – October 24, 1972) was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Louisiana who was affiliated with the Long political faction. A Democrat, he served in the Louisiana State Senate during 1948 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969. Willi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20E.%20Willis |
Ernie Reyes may refer to:
Ernie Reyes Jr. (born 1972), American actor and martial artist
Ernie Reyes Sr., American martial artist, actor and fight choreographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20Reyes |
is a female professional wrestling fighting game developed by Yuke's for the Xbox 360 as the sequel to the 2004 PlayStation 2 game Rumble Roses. The game was released by Konami in 2006.
Gameplay
With the exception of a simple street fighting mode, the bulk of the gameplay focuses on matches which take place in variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble%20Roses%20XX |
The Sleeping Gypsy () is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to which it was donated by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in 1939.
De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sleeping%20Gypsy |
Edwin Willis may refer to:
Edwin E. Willis (1904–1972), American politician and attorney from Louisiana
Edwin B. Willis (1893–1963), film set designer and decorator
Edwin O'Neill Willis (1935–2015), American ornithologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Willis |
Mohammad Shirvani is an Iranian alternative filmmaker. He was born in 1973 in Tehran, Iran. In 1998 He escaped from the military service to make his first short film “The circle”. In 1999 “The Circle” was selected for Critics' Week International Cannes festival. Being selected by Cannes Festival made a great impact on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Shirvani |
Nibris was a video game development company located in Kraków, Poland, developing primarily for the Nintendo DS and Wii video game consoles. Nibris was most known for its cancelled Wii project Sadness, a survival horror game. The company no longer exists; its official website closed in February 2010, making Double Bloo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibris |
Warren Tartaglia (also known as Walid al-Taha) (March 13, 1944 – November 1965) was an American jazz musician, poet and one of the six founders of the Moorish Orthodox Church of America. He died at age 21 of a heroin overdose.
Biography
He was born March 13, 1944, as Warren Tartaglia in Mt. Vernon, New York. His mater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Tartaglia |
Carol Anne Meehan (born December 17, 1956) is an Ottawa City Councillor and former news anchor at CJOH.
Biography
She is a graduate of Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) and began her career at CHRO in Pembroke, Ontario, the city where she grew up. She also worked in Sudbury, Edmonton and Calgary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Anne%20Meehan |
Phosphate nephropathy or nephrocalcinosis is an adverse renal condition that arises with a formation of phosphate crystals within the kidney's tubules. This renal insufficiency is associated with the use of oral sodium phosphate (OSP) such as C.B. Fleet's Phospho soda and Salix's Visocol, for bowel cleansing prior to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate%20nephropathy |
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