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The Pokljuka Plateau () is a forested karst plateau at an elevation of around , located in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia.
The plateau is known for its forests, mountain pastures (Javornik, Lipanca, Uskovnica, Zajamniki, etc.), and winter sports facilities. It is also a common starting point for mountain hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokljuka |
Wang Yeu-tzuoo (), who also goes by Jimmy Wang, (born February 8, 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Taiwan. Until the emergence of Lu Yen-hsun, Wang was the highest ranked player from Taiwan. The right-hander stands 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 141 pounds. Wang's trademark look is his wearing a white ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Wang%20%28tennis%29 |
The Netball at the 2006 Commonwealth Games was the third Commonwealth Games tournament. The preliminary matches were held at the State Netball and Hockey Centre with the finals being held at the multi-purpose Melbourne Park in the inner city.
Netball was among the most popular sports with viewers at this Games, with m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball%20at%20the%202006%20Commonwealth%20Games |
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is the United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.
DHS operates an extensive healthcare network throughout Los Angeles County, inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20County%20Department%20of%20Health%20Services |
Vance Estate is a large industrial subdivision located in Leeton, New South Wales. The estate houses both large and small businesses including:
Leetoria
Southern Central Engineering
Hi-Marq Engineering
Market Express
Teerman's Transport
Leeton Shire Council Depot
Celair Malmet
Riverina Cheese
In late 2016, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance%20Industrial%20Estate |
Sleeping Gods Lie was a first-person adventure game released on the Amiga, DOS and Atari ST, published by Empire Interactive in 1989.
Gameplay
It was set in the world of Tessera, a land created by the Gods, which had fallen into the control of an evil Archmage who terrorised the populace with the aid of evil demons. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping%20Gods%20Lie |
Tajja Isen (born June 29, 1991) is a Canadian writer, editor, and voice actor. Her first book, the essay collection Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, was published in April 2022. As an actress, she is best known for voicing the title character in the television series Atomic Betty. She has several other v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajja%20Isen |
Iowa Highway 136 (Iowa 136) is a state highway maintained by the Iowa Department of Transportation. It runs for in eastern Iowa. It begins at the Mississippi River in Clinton on the Mark Morris Memorial Bridge, where it continues as Illinois Route 136. It ends at an interchange with U.S. Highway 20 (US 20) and US 52 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa%20Highway%20136 |
Willem Coucheron (also recorded as Willum or Wyllem Coucheron) was a Dutch-born Danish-Norwegian quartermaster general.
Biography
Willem Coucheron was born in the Netherlands and came to Norway in June 1657.
Coucheron came to Norway as an engineer and quartermaster general for the region south of the Dovrefjell moun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem%20Coucheron |
John A. Ferguson Senior High School is a certified magnet and academy high school located at 15900 SW 56th Street in Kendall West, Florida, United States (Miami postal address). This Miami-Dade County public school mainly serves the outer portion of Kendall West, a suburb of Miami. The school's principal was Rafael Vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Ferguson%20Senior%20High%20School |
Lazyboy TV is the 2004 album by pop music/spoken word project Lazyboy (known as Lazy B in the UK). The album contains trivia, philosophical advice, stand-up comedy and social commentary on American society spoken over contemporary hip hop-esque beats. The project was initiated by producers Soren Rasted (of the bands Aq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazyboy%20TV |
Henry John Burnett (5 January 1942 – 15 August 1963) was the last man to be hanged in Scotland, and the first in Aberdeen since 1891. He was tried at the high court in Aberdeen from 23 to 25 July 1963 for the murder of merchant seaman Thomas Guyan. His execution, at HM Prison, Craiginches, Aberdeen, was performed by ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20John%20Burnett |
Donald E. Freeman (born July 18, 1944) is an American former professional basketball player. He spent eight seasons (1967–1975) in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and one season (1975–1976) in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Freeman was the youngest of four children.
High school and college caree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie%20Freeman |
Mandrill is a fictional mutant supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Mandrill first appeared in Shanna the She-Devil #4 (June 1973). He was created by writer Carole Seuling and artist Ross Andru. Steve Gerber dialogued his first appearance and wrote several sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrill%20%28comics%29 |
The Coat of arms of Peru is the national symbolic emblem of Peru. Four variants are used: the Coat of arms per se (); the National Coat of arms, or National Shield (); the Great Seal of the State (); and the Naval Coat of arms ().
Official description
Peruvian law describes the coat of arms as follows:
"The arms of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Peru |
Donald Jay Ohl (born April 18, 1936) is an American former professional basketball player who spent 10 seasons (1960–1970) in the National Basketball Association (NBA). His nickname was Waxie because of his crew cut.
College career
Ohl attended Edwardsville High School in Edwardsville, Illinois, and the University of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Ohl |
Port MacDonnell, originally known as Ngaranga is the southernmost town in South Australia. The small port located in the Limestone Coast region about southeast of Adelaide and south of Mount Gambier in the District Council of Grant local government area. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20MacDonnell%2C%20South%20Australia |
The men's 200 metre freestyle was a sprint swimming event in the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics program in Paris. It was the shortest of the three freestyle events. It was held on 11 August and 12 August 1900. 26 swimmers from 10 nations competed. The event was won by Frederick Lane of Australia, with Zoltán Halm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20200%20metre%20freestyle |
Country Music News was a Canadian monthly periodical published in Ottawa by Larry Delaney and Joanne Delaney. It calls itself "The Voice Of Country Music in Canada".
Overview
Country Music News was first published on 1 April 1980. The magazine, published monthly, was started with the name Capital Country News which w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20Music%20News |
Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet and critic. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb and since 2020 is the ongoing artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches. He is also a senior editor of PennSound at the University of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Goldsmith |
Kid gloves may refer to:
Clothing
Gloves made from kidskin, leather from young goats
Music
Kid Gloves, a British production duo consisting of Roy Kerr and Anu Pillai
Kid Gloves, a 1992 album by Larry Carlton
"Kid Gloves", by Doomtree from the 2008 album Doomtree
"Kid Gloves", by Fountains of Wayne from the 2005 alb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20gloves |
The Mount Adams Incline was a funicular, or inclined railway, located in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mount Adams. Completed in 1872, it was the longest-running of the city's five inclines, closing in 1948. It has since been demolished.
The incline was long and carried streetcars and automobiles.It began carrying h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Adams%20Incline |
Discovery Bay is an open oceanic embayment lying along the coast of eastern South Australia and western Victoria in south-eastern Australia.
Location and features
Facing the Southern Ocean, Discovery Bay extends approximately from Cape Northumberland, near Port MacDonnell, South Australia in the northwest, to Cape Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Bay%20%28Australia%29 |
Tiffany Ariana Trump (born October 13, 1993) is the fourth child of former U.S. President Donald Trump and his only child with his second wife, Marla Maples.
Early life and education
Tiffany Ariana Trump was born on October 13, 1993, at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, two months before her paren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany%20Trump |
Charles Thomas Scott, also known as Shaheed Abdul-Aleem, (born December 15, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Scott was an Olympic Gold Medalist and was inducted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Scott%20%28basketball%29 |
Ergo Proxy is a Japanese cyberpunk anime television series, produced by Manglobe, directed by Shūkō Murase and written by Dai Satō. The series ran for 23 episodes from February to August 2006 on the Wowow satellite network. It is set in a post-apocalyptic future where humans and AutoReiv androids coexist peacefully unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo%20Proxy |
Talisman of Death is a single-player role-playing gamebook written by Jamie Thomson and Mark Smith, illustrated by Bob Harvey and originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2006. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 11th i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisman%20of%20Death |
The three-volley salute is a ceremonial act performed at military funerals and sometimes also police funerals. The custom originates from European dynastic wars, in which the fighting ceased so that the dead and wounded could be removed. After this was accomplished, three shots were fired into the air to signal that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-volley%20salute |
The men's 1000 metre freestyle was an event on the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was the middle length of the three freestyle events. It was held on 11 August and 12 August 1900. 16 swimmers from 6 nations competed. The event was won by John Arthur Jarvis of Great Britain. Otto Wahle of Aus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%201000%20metre%20freestyle |
Thalagavara Narayanarao Seetharam (born 6 December 1948) is a prominent Kannada film and TV serial director, actor and screenwriter. He has become a cultural icon in Karnataka, India, through his work in several art mediums. Seetharam has written, directed, and produced plays, movies, and top-rated television series w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20N.%20Seetharam |
Chapar is a town under the Dhubri district in the state of Assam. It is located at . It has an average elevation of 22 metres (72 feet). Like the rest of Assam, Chapar frequently has problems with flooding. The town is situated on the bank of the Champabati River.
National Highway 17 passes through Chapar. Chapar Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapar%2C%20Dhubri |
Mark David Bailey (born 26 November 1970) is a former New Zealand international cricketer who played in one One Day International for the New Zealand national cricket team.
Bailey was born at Hamilton in 1970. He played 89 first-class and 114 list A matches, mainly for Northern Districts in a career which lasted betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Bailey%20%28cricketer%29 |
Roydon Leslie Hayes (born 9 May 1971) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played one One Day International in 1995.
References
1971 births
Living people
New Zealand One Day International cricketers
New Zealand cricketers
Northern Districts cricketers
People from Paeroa
Cricketers from Waikato | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roydon%20Hayes |
The Brisbane Rugby League (otherwise known as the CAOS BRL Premier A Grade due to sponsorship purposes; formerly known as the Quest Cup, Mixwell Cup, FOGS Cup and In Safe Hands Cup) is a ten-team competition, expanded from a six-team competition in 2020. It is the division below the Queensland Cup and is generally reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Rugby%20League%20%282001%29 |
Gals Panic was an Austin, Texas ska-punk band, formed in 1992 and active in the '90s. The band's name comes from the Kaneko arcade game of the same name. The band and their music were featured in the 1995 Steven Soderbergh movie The Underneath.
History
Founding members Lance Myers and Jeremy "Jerm" Pollet met while wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gals%20Panic%20%28band%29 |
Lulu Schwartz (born Stephen Schwartz, September 9, 1948) is an American Sufi journalist, columnist, and author. She has been published in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal. Schwartz worked as a senior policy consultant and held the role of director of "Islam and Democracy Project" at the Foundation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu%20Schwartz |
Dartmoor is a rural township on the Princes Highway and the Glenelg River between Heywood and the South Australian border, in southwestern Victoria. At the 2011 census, Dartmoor had a population of 263.
History
Before the township was established the location was known as Woodford Inn.
The township was settled in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor%2C%20Victoria |
Below is the list of current satellite television channels in Kannada language, a Dravidian language widely spoken in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Apart from those in the below list, many other Kannada channels exist that are limited to certain cities or districts, run by local cable TV operators.
State Owned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kannada-language%20television%20channels |
Gath can refer to:
Gath (surname)
Gath (city), the biblical city and home of Goliath. Main site is Gath of the Philistines, but there are also other locations Gath Gittaim and Gath Carmel
Gath-hepher, a border town in ancient Israel
Gath (magazine), the successor to Gairm, the most significant Scottish Gaelic magazi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gath |
An unavailable funds fee is a penalty fee applied by a bank on a transaction account when a transaction is posted to an account that has negative available balance even though it has a positive physical balance. The fee is distinct from a non-sufficient funds fee as there is a positive physical balance but some or all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unavailable%20funds%20fee |
Stuart James Roberts (born 22 March 1965) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played two One Day Internationals in 1990.
References
1965 births
Living people
New Zealand One Day International cricketers
New Zealand cricketers
Canterbury cricketers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu%20Roberts |
The Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) is a U.S.-based Islamic think tank challenging Islamist interpretations of Islam. It was founded in 2004 by eight people including the Sufi Muslim author Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and officially opened on March 25, 2005. With its headquarters in Washington, D.C., today it has subs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Islamic%20Pluralism |
Michael Griffin may refer to:
Sports
Michael Griffin (American football) (born 1985), football player
Michael Griffin (footballer) (1887–?), English footballer
Mike Griffin (outfielder) (1865–1908), American baseball center fielder
Mike Griffin (pitcher) (born 1957), American baseball pitcher
Mike Griffin (basket... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Griffin |
Anna of Austria may refer to:
Anna of Austria (1275–1327), daughter of Albert I, Duke of Austria; wife of Margrave Hermann of Brandenburg-Salzwedel & Henry VI, Duke of Breslau
Anna of Austria (1318–1343), daughter of Frederick I of Austria and Isabella of Aragon, niece of previous
Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg (1432–14... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20of%20Austria |
KXFN (1380 AM) is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. It is owned by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and airs a Christian format consisting of hymns and sacred music. The station has a colorful history as a Top 40 station KWK.
KXFN employs separate daytime and nighttime transmitter sites; the daytime transmitte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXFN |
McGee or McGees may refer to:
People
McGee (surname), a surname of Irish origin, including a list of people with this surname
Places
United States
McGee, Missouri
McGees, Washington
McGee, West Virginia
Infrastructure
McGees Bridge, Tasmania, Australia
Games
McGee (video game series), a series of computer games f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGee |
Princess Tam Tam is a 1935 French black-and-white film which stars Josephine Baker as a local Tunisian girl who is educated and then introduced to Parisian high society. Baker sings two songs, "Dream Ship" and "Neath the Tropical Blue Skies", in the film, and dances a number of times.
Plot
Frustrated writer Max de Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Tam%20Tam |
The Disaster Resource Network (DRN), an initiative of the World Economic Forum, was the first non-governmental organization to donate to the United Nations' CERF. The UN CERF is a fund created to aid regions threatened by starvation and disasters, particularly African nations. DRN organizes and mobilizes business sect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster%20Resource%20Network |
Matamoros is a Spanish surname and place name meaning ‘Moor killer’. It may refer to:
Events
1999 Matamoros standoff, an armed engagement between gangsters and law enforcement in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
2011 Matamoros mass kidnapping
2023 Matamoros kidnappings
Music
"Matamoros", a song by The Afghan Whigs from Do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matamoros |
Narbacular Drop is a 2005 puzzle-platform game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It was the senior game project of students attending DigiPen Institute of Technology. The gameplay consists of navigating a dungeon using an innovative portal system. The player controls two interconnected portals that can be placed on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular%20Drop |
Richard Bruce Reid (born 3 December 1958) is a former New Zealand international cricketer, who played nine One Day Internationals between 1988 and 1991. His father, John Reid, played Test cricket for New Zealand from 1949 to 1965.
Life and career
Reid was born in Lower Hutt, Wellington. He attended Scots College, Well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Reid%20%28cricketer%29 |
The men's 4000 metre freestyle was an event on the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was the longest of the three freestyle events. It was held on 15 August and 19 August 1900. 29 swimmers from 7 nations competed. The event was won by John Arthur Jarvis of Great Britain, completing a double wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%204000%20metre%20freestyle |
Whomanfoursays is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer Dalbello, and her first concept album.
Album information
Released in 1984 by Capitol Records, the album marked a change in direction in her musical career, away from the soul R&B image of her previous studio albums and toward a more individual and avant-gar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whomanfoursays |
Portland Bay (Dhauwurdwurrung: Kardermudelar / Pathowwererer) is a small bay off the coast of Victoria, Australia. It is about west of Melbourne. The city of Portland is located on the bay. The western end of the bay is marked by the headland of Point Danger.
The bay was named after the Duke of Portland, a Secretary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Bay |
Clif Bar & Company is an American company that produces energy foods and drinks. The company's flagship product, CLIF Bar, was created by Gary Erickson and Lisa Thomas. The company is based in Emeryville, California and was privately held until 2022 when it was acquired by Mondelez International for $2.9 billion. In A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clif%20Bar |
James Andrew Boyd (November 11, 1933 – January 2, 2013) was an American actor, born in Philadelphia.
Life and career
Boyd spent four years in the Air Force and studied at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts.
He did voice work (along with Wayland Flowers and Cleavon Little) for puppets on The Surprise Show, a child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Boyd%20%28actor%29 |
Northern Electric Railway may refer to:
Northern Electric Railway (California), a predecessor of the Sacramento Northern Railway, an interurban in northern California
Scranton, Montrose and Binghamton Railroad, an interurban in northeastern Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Electric%20Railway |
The Music Summit was a channel on XM Satellite Radio located on channel 13 (previously 24). The channel was programmed out of Cincinnati, Ohio, and sold to advertisers by Premiere Radio Networks. The terrestrial version is still free to air for HD Radio listeners on HD2 or HD3 stations owned by Clear Channel Communicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Summit |
Kalangadoo, formerly Kalangadoo East, is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north of the regional centre of Mount Gambier.
History
The town was originally proclaimed as Kalangadoo East in 1891. An Aboriginal word, the name means "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalangadoo%2C%20South%20Australia |
DRN or Drn may refer to:
Dark Room Notes, a band originally from Galway, Ireland
Deoranian railway station, serving Deoranian, Uttar Pradesh, India (Indian railways code DRN)
Dirranbandi Airport, Queensland, Australia (IATA code DRN)
Disaster Resource Network, a World Economic Forum initiative
Dorsal raphe nucleus, on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRN |
Genghis Khan (c. 1162–1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Genghis Khan may also refer to:
Film and television
Genghis Khan (1950 film), a Filipino film starring Manuel Conde, Ric Bustamante
Genghis Khan (1965 film), a British film starring Omar Sharif
Genghis Khan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis%20Khan%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Norman Parker may refer to:
Norman Parker (speedway rider) (1908–1999), British international speedway rider
Norman Parker (author) (born 1944), convicted killer, author and journalist
Murray Parker (cricketer) (Norman Murray Parker, born 1948), former New Zealand cricketer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Parker |
Solina Chau Hoi Shuen (周凱旋) (born 1961) is a businesswoman in Hong Kong, a business partner in the Cheung Kong Group, and the director of the Li Ka Shing Foundation. She is also a major stockholder in Tom.com, a publication and advertising company in the People's Republic of China.
Early life and education
Chau was bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solina%20Chau |
The Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) is a New World tropical icterid bird. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Guatemala. It also occurs on the Pacific slope of Nicaragua and Honduras and northwest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma%20oropendola |
Diatomys is an extinct rodent genus known from Miocene deposits in China, Japan, Pakistan, and Thailand. The fossil range is from the late Early Miocene to the Middle Miocene (22.5–11 Ma).
Specimens
Specifically the strata and regions from which Diatomys has been collected are: Shanwang series in Shandong province, Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomys |
Gimel may mean
Gimel, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Vaud
Gimel-les-Cascades, France
Gimel (letter), a Hebrew letter
Yom Gimel, or simply Gimel, a day of sick leave in the Israel Defense Forces
Plan Gimel (Plan C), a general military plan worked out by the Zionist paramilitary organization Haganah in 1946... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimel%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Juarez Gallos de Pelea are a Mexican basketball team that has competed in various leagues in the United States and Mexico since 2000. The team won a Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional championship in 2001.
In 2003-2004, the Juarez Gallos were a Mexican franchise in the American Basketball Association (finishi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju%C3%A1rez%20Gallos%20de%20Pelea |
Mesembryanthemum tortuosum (many synonyms, including Sceletium tortuosum) is a succulent plant in the family Aizoaceae native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is known as kanna, channa, kougoed (kauwgoed/ 'kougoed', prepared from 'fermenting' M. tortuosum)—which literally means, 'chew(able) things' or 'somethi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesembryanthemum%20tortuosum |
Barry George Hadlee (born 14 December 1941) is a former cricketer from New Zealand. He was a right-handed opening batsman. In a first-class career lasting from 1961–62 to 1980–81, he represented Canterbury 84 times.
Family
Hadlee was born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the brother of fellow national c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Hadlee |
Down to Earth is a 1947 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks. It is a sequel to the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan, also directed by Hall. While Edward Everett Horton and James Gleason reprised their roles from the earlier film, Roland Culver repla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20to%20Earth%20%281947%20film%29 |
Christopher Makepeace (born April 22, 1964) is a Canadian former actor, known for his starring roles in the coming-of-age film My Bodyguard (1980) and comedy horror Vamp (1986), and supporting roles in the screwball comedy Meatballs (1979) and the dystopian sci-fi film The Last Chase (1981), during his teen and young a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Makepeace |
Angier Buchanan Duke (December 8, 1884 – September 3, 1923) was a trustee of Duke University from 1914–1923, as well as vice president and president of its Alumni Association.
Early life
Duke was born on December 8, 1884, in Durham, North Carolina. He was the only son of Sarah Pearson (née Angier) Duke (1856–1936) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angier%20Buchanan%20Duke |
Murong Lin (; died 398), Xianbei name Helin (賀驎), was a general and imperial prince of the Xianbei-led Later Yan dynasty of China. He was a son of the founding emperor Murong Chui (Emperor Wucheng) and a brother of Murong Bao (Emperor Huimin); for a while, he himself was a pretender to the Later Yan throne. He was know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murong%20Lin |
Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 American musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair. The film portrays wartime romance and tragedy in a London musical show, loosely modelled on the Windmill Theatre in Soho, that determined not to miss a single performance during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight%20and%20Every%20Night |
WSDZ (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to Belleville, Illinois, and serving the Greater St. Louis radio market. It is owned and operated by Relevant Radio, Inc. WSDZ carries a Catholic talk and teaching radio format supplied by the Relevant Radio network. WSDZ, along with 1120 KMOX, are responsible for activation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSDZ |
The New American High Schools initiative, started in 1996 under the direction of the United States Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, is a national recognition program for United States secondary schools.
Description
In 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000, a varying number of high schools were selected and honored with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20American%20High%20Schools |
The Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium is a multipurpose performing arts center at 1200 South Forest Avenue at East Apache Boulevard in Tempe, Arizona, within the main campus of Arizona State University (ASU). The auditorium, which bears the name of former ASU President Grady Gammage, is considered to be one of the last... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammage%20Memorial%20Auditorium |
My Gal Sal is a 1942 American musical film distributed by 20th Century Fox and starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s composer and songwriter Paul Dresser and singer Sally Elliot. It was based on a biographical essay, sometimes erroneously referred to as a book, by Dresser's younger bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Gal%20Sal |
The men's 200 metre backstroke was an event on the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was the first Olympic swimming event to not be a freestyle competition. It was held on 11 August and 12 August 1900. 16 swimmers from 7 nations competed. The event was won by Ernst Hoppenberg of Germany, with K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20200%20metre%20backstroke |
Russell Lee may refer to:
Russell Lee (writer), writer from Singapore, author of True Singapore Ghost Stories
Russell Lee (photographer) (1903–1986), American photographer
Russell Lee (singer), R&B singer featured in a song on They Can't Deport Us All
Russ Lee (born 1950), American basketball player
See also
Russ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Lee |
The Strawberry Blonde is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland, and featuring Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale, Jack Carson, and George Tobias. Set in New York City around 1900, it features songs of that era such as "The Band Played On", "Bill Bailey", "Meet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strawberry%20Blonde |
Ben Eldridge is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene.
Biography
Ben Eldridge was born in Richmond, Virginia. He began playing the guitar at age ten and later in 1954 the banjo. In 1957, he began his studies at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Eldridge |
The Loves of Carmen is a 1948 American adventure drama romance film directed by Charles Vidor. The film stars Rita Hayworth as the gypsy Carmen and Glenn Ford as her doomed lover Don José.
The Loves of Carmen was publicized as a dramatic adaptation of the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée and is otherwise unrelated to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Loves%20of%20Carmen%20%281948%20film%29 |
Palomar Mountain is an unincorporated community in San Diego County, California, United States.
Description
The community is located near the north-central edge of San Diego County within the Cleveland National Forest, southeast of the Palomar Mountain State Park and southwest of Palomar Mountain and the Palomar Obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar%20Mountain%2C%20California |
Jace Everett Beasley (born May 27, 1972) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Signed to Epic Records in 2005, he released his debut single "That's the Kind of Love I'm In" in 2005, which peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. He a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jace%20Everett |
Featherstone's algorithm is a technique used for computing the effects of forces applied to a structure of joints and links (an "open kinematic chain") such as a skeleton used in ragdoll physics.
The Featherstone's algorithm uses a reduced coordinate representation. This is in contrast to the more popular Lagrange mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featherstone%27s%20algorithm |
Mercy International Centre is the original house of the Sisters of Mercy. The building began in 1824 and the house was opened on 24 September 1827. As this was the feast day of Our Lady of Mercy, the house was called the House of Mercy. The instigator and owner of the house was Catherine McAuley, it is located on Lower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy%20International%20Centre |
The AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors is a compilation of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s emission factor information on air pollution, first published in 1968. , the last edition is the 5th from 2010.
History
The AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors is a compilation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%2042%20Compilation%20of%20Air%20Pollutant%20Emission%20Factors |
Bolgatty Palace is a former palace built by the Dutch in India on Bolgatty Island in Kochi, Kerala.
History
One of the oldest existing Dutch palaces outside Holland, the palace was built in 1744 by Dutch traders and later extended and gardens were landscaped around it. The building was then the Governor's palace for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolgatty%20Palace |
George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner.
Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20Goble |
The Gunhawks is the name of a pair of fictional comic book characters in the Western genre that first appeared in a self-titled series published by Marvel Comics.
Original series
The Gunhawks were Kid Cassidy and Reno Jones. As introduced in Gunhawks #1 (1972), Cassidy was the son of a plantation-owning family in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunhawks |
Connector may refer to:
Hardware
Plumbing
Electrical connector, a device for joining electrical circuits together (sometimes known as ports, plugs, or interfaces)
Gender of connectors and fasteners
AC power plugs and sockets, devices that allow electrically operated equipment to be connected to the primary alternat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connector |
The men's underwater swimming was an event on the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was held on 12 August in the Seine. There were 14 competitors from 4 nations. The event was won by Charles Devendeville of France, with his countryman André Six taking second. Denmark's Peder Lykkeberg took thir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20underwater%20swimming |
James Macklin "Mac" Hyman (born 1950) is an applied mathematician formerly at Los Alamos National Laboratory and currently at Tulane University in the United States. He received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University and his PhD in 1976 from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences under Peter Lax with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20%28Mac%29%20Hyman |
R-406A is a refrigerant invented by George H. Goble. It is a mixture of three components: chlorodifluoromethane (R-22), isobutane (R-600a), and chlorodifluoroethane (R-142b) in the ratio 55/4/41.
This refrigerant was designed as a drop-in replacement for dichlorodifluoromethane (R-12) which is compatible with the ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-406A |
The Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism is an Australian organisation at Macquarie University formed in response to the threat of terrorism. The centre, founded in 2005, seeks to promote research, deliver postgraduate programs, and provide professional education and consultancy services.
The main f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Policing%2C%20Intelligence%20%26%20Counter%20Terrorism |
St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large Catholic teaching hospital in western Toronto, Ontario. It is located west of downtown Toronto, along the Lake Ontario shore at the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of St. Joseph order on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Joseph%27s%20Health%20Centre |
The 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment (3rd MLR) is a regiment of the United States Marine Corps that is optimized for littoral maneuver in the Indo-Pacific Theater. Based at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, the regiment falls under the command of the 3rd Marine Division and the III Marine Expeditionary Force. It was known as the 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Marine%20Littoral%20Regiment |
The men's 200 metre obstacle event was an obstacle swimming event in the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris. It was held on 11 August and 12 August 1900. Twelve swimmers from five nations competed. The event was won by Frederick Lane of Australia, with Otto Wahle of Austria second and Peter Kemp of Great Britain third.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20200%20metre%20obstacle%20event |
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1668 (XVI) was an act of the UN General Assembly that deemed the issue of Chinese representation at the UN an "important question" under the UN Charter; therefore any proposal to change of recognition either to the People's Republic of China from the Republic of China and desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly%20Resolution%201668 |
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