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The NatFilm Festival, staged annually across 16 cinemas in Copenhagen, in addition to several in Odense, Aalborg (replaced by Kolding in 2007) and Århus, shows the widest programme of films to the largest festival audience in Denmark. Established in 1990, it rivals the more recently established Copenhagen International... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatFilm%20Festival |
Juan Bautista Comes (ca. 1582 – 5 January 1643), aka per Valencian spelling Joan Baptista Comes, was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia.
It is known that before 1613 he held posts as Maestro de Capilla in Lleida at its cathedral and in Valencia at the Colegio del Patriarca. Also in Valencia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Bautista%20Comes |
The Dandenong Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows Dandenong Creek through the outer eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Route
The trail can be divided into three sections (from north to south):
Upper Dandenong CreekChandlers Lane (Kilsyth So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandenong%20Creek%20Trail |
Max Isaac Dimont (August 12, 1912 – March 25, 1992) was a Finnish American Jewish historian, lecturer, publicist, and writer.
Early life
Dimont was born into a Jewish family on August 12, 1912, in Helsinki, Finland, one of five children. Some sources claim he was born in Lithuania due to passenger lists on the ship on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Dimont |
The Rabble are a New Zealand punk band from Auckland, New Zealand, with a street punk aesthetic that was formed by brothers Charles Hill-Hayr (Chazz Rabble) and Rupert Hill-Hayr in the 2000 while still attending Orewa College. Their official Myspace page went live on 29 February 2004. They collaborated with Mark Unsee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rabble |
Karl Petter "Kalle" Løken (born Karl Petter Löken; 14 August 1966) is a Norwegian businessman and former footballer. He became the CEO of Kværner ASA in May 2018.
Løken played 243 matches in the Norwegian top division, most of them for Rosenborg, Trondheim, earning seven league titles and four cup championships. Løke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Petter%20L%C3%B8ken |
Yuen Long Park, formerly called Yuen Long Town Park, is located in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is managed by Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
History
The park was a natural woodland at Shui Ngau Ling, Yuen Long. The existing geographical pattern and trees was preserved as much as possible. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen%20Long%20Park |
Sir John Hubert Plunkett Murray (29 December 1861 – 27 February 1940) was a judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua from 1908 until his death at Samarai.
Early life
Murray was born in Sydney, the son of Irish-born Terence Aubrey Murray (1810–73), and his second wife Agnes Ann, née Edwards; he was named after Terence M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Murray |
Anton Sergiyovych Korobov (; born 25 June 1985) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. Korobov is a four-time Ukrainian champion. He was voted the best male chess player of Ukraine of 2012.
Chess career
Korobov won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2002, 2012, 2018, 2020 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Korobov |
John Dark (7 April 1927 – 29 June 2015) was a British film and television producer.
Dark produced Half a Sixpence in 1967 and a series of Edgar Rice Burroughs films, including The Land That Time Forgot and At the Earth's Core, in the 1970s.
Earlier work included associate producer on the Charles K. Feldman spoofs Wha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dark |
Frédéric-Yves Jeannet () is a writer and professor of French origin who emigrated to Mexico in his youth. He was born in Grenoble, France, in 1959 and left it in 1975. Jeannet earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in comparative literature at the University of Grenoble. He then lived in London until 1977 before moving to Mexic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-Yves%20Jeannet |
Action of the Tiger is a 1957 British CinemaScope action film directed by Terence Young and starring Van Johnson and Martine Carol. It was distributed by MGM.
The plot is about the rescue of a political prisoner held in Albania. Carson, played by Van Johnson, is an American contraband runner approached by Tracy, a Fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20of%20the%20Tiger |
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser (; born Meier Abramovich Trilisser) (1 April 1883 – 2 February 1940), also known by the pseudonym Moskvin (), was a Soviet chief of the Foreign Department of the Cheka and the OGPU. Later, he worked for the NKVD as a covert bureau chief and Comintern leader.
Background
Trilisser was born M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Trilisser |
Dimitri Tikovoï is a French, Grammy-nominated record producer and DJ who has worked with bands including Placebo, Purple Disco Machine, Ghost, The Horrors, Charli XCX, Black Honey, Mikky Ekko, Marianne Faithfull, Becky Hill, Blondie and Nicola Roberts. In 2002, Tikovoi released an album under the name "Trash Palace" (P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri%20Tikovo%C3%AF |
Saidu Sharif Airport is an airport in Pakistan. It is situated near the Swat River and between the villages of Dherai and Kanju in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The airport was built in 1978, and two daily flights were available to Peshawar and Islamabad before the airport was shut down during the First Battle of Swat in 2007.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saidu%20Sharif%20Airport |
The Ponte Conde de Linhares (), often shortened to Ponte de Linhares is a long causeway connecting Ribandar to the main city of Panjim (now Panaji) in Goa, India. It runs along the flood plains of the Mandovi River and is surrounded by various salt pans. There are ducts which act as tide controls. The Ponte Conde de L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte%20Conde%20de%20Linhares |
Kandyan dance (Sinhala: උඩරට නැටුම්) encompasses various dance forms popular and native to the area called Kandy of the Central Hills region known as Udarata in Sri Lanka, which have today spread to other parts of the country.
It is an example of Sinhalese culture in Sri Lanka.
History
Ves Dance
According to the lege... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandyan%20dance |
This is a list of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards. The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the humanities, natural sciences, culture, and peace on an internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Balzan%20Prize%20recipients |
The fleshfish (Dermatopsis macrodon), also known as the eastern yellow blindfish, is a species of viviparous brotula found in reefs of southern Australia and around New Zealand. This species grows to a length of TL.
References
Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleshfish |
CPH:DOX is the official name for the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, an international documentary film festival established in 2003 and held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. CPH:DOX has since grown to become one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe with 114,408 admissions in 2019.
De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%20International%20Documentary%20Film%20Festival |
Bodenstown Graveyard () is a cemetery located in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Containing a ruined medieval church, it is best known as the burial place of the Irish patriot Wolfe Tone (1763–1798).
History
The stone church dates to before 1352, in which year it belonged to Great Connell Priory, and measures b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodenstown%20Graveyard |
The Romanian Special Operations Forces Command () is the special forces command of the Romanian Army formed on 01 March 2018 from the former 6th Special Operations Brigade. The Special Forces Command is headquartered in Târgu Mureș, and it is the structure through which the Chief of the General Staff exercises the cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20Special%20Operations%20Forces%20Command |
The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, to honor films released between August 1, 1932 and December 31, 1933, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers, who also presented the awards.
When Rogers presented Best Director, he opened the envelope and simply announced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Academy%20Awards |
The Pattern 1908 cavalry trooper's sword (and the 1912 Pattern, the equivalent for officers) was the last service sword issued to the cavalry of the British Army. It has been called the most effective cavalry sword ever designed, although its introduction occurred as swords finally became obsolete as military weapons. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%201908%20cavalry%20sword |
Hamilcar (, ) was a general who succeeded to the command of the Carthaginians in the First Punic War. He defeated Rome's allies at the Battle of Thermae in 259 BC and killed 4,000–6,000 of them with the help of surprise and good use of military intelligence. He then captured the towns of Enna and Camarina that same y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilcar%20%28fortifier%20of%20Drepanum%29 |
René Berger (April 29, 1915, Brussels – January 29, 2009, Lausanne) was a Swiss writer, philosopher and a historian of art.
Titles
"Docteur ès lettres" of the University of Paris (Sorbonne)
Honorary professor at the University of Lausanne and the École des Beaux-Arts.
Former Director-Curator of the Musée des Beaux-Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9%20Berger |
Jazmin Benitez (born November 17, 1980) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Mercedes Martinez. She also appears for AEW's sister promotion, Ring of Honor (ROH), where she is a former ROH Women's World Champion. She is also known for her time in WWE, pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes%20Martinez |
Dean Allan DeBlois ( ; born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker and animator. He is best known for writing and directing the Oscar-nominated animated feature films Lilo & Stitch for Walt Disney Animation Studios (with Chris Sanders), the How to Train Your Dragon film trilogy for DreamWorks Animation (the first film a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20DeBlois |
Antares is a star in the constellation Scorpius.
Antares may also refer to:
Arts and media
Fiction
Antares (film), a 2004 Austrian film
Antares, a spaceship in Defying Gravity
Antares (comics), a Franc-Belgian graphic novel
Antares, a character in the anime Galaxy Express 999
Music
Antares (band), a Eurodance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Spyker D8 Peking-to-Paris is a mid-size luxury crossover SUV produced by the Dutch car manufacturer Spyker Cars. The car was designed by Michiel van den Brink and introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show as the D12. With a change in proposed engine to a V8, the Peking-to-Paris was renamed D8.
The name Peking-to-Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyker%20D8 |
William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw (born 9 September 1936), commonly known as Bill Bradshaw, is a British academic and politician. A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, he was formerly also a County Councillor in Oxfordshire from 1993 until his resignation in January 2008.
Biography
The son of Leonard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bradshaw%2C%20Baron%20Bradshaw |
The 2nd Infantry Division Getica is one of the major units of the Romanian Land Forces. The 2nd Infantry Division is the heraldic successor of the Second Army. It was active during the Cold War with its headquarters first in Bucharest, and after 1980, in Buzău.
Structure 2023
2nd Infantry Division "Getica", in Buză... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Infantry%20Division%20%28Romania%29 |
The grey brotula or orange cuskeel (Bidenichthys consobrinus) is a rare species of viviparous brotula found around northern New Zealand. It inhabits rocky areas at 30–178 m depth.
References
Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20brotula |
"Thugs Get Lonely Too" is a song by rapper Tupac Shakur. The song was released as a 12" promo single for his 2004 posthumous album Loyal to the Game. The song was also used as the b-side to the album's lead single "Ghetto Gospel". The song features singer Nate Dogg and was produced by Eminem.
It charted at number 55 o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thugs%20Get%20Lonely%20Too |
Chowk may refer to:
Website
Chowk.com, a website about current affairs, politics and cultural aspects of India and Pakistan
Localities
In Bangladesh
Chowk Bazaar, a bazaar in Lalbagh
In India
Chowk, Allahabad, a locality/township of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Ashram Chowk, an intersection in Delhi
Chandni Chowk, a ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chowk |
Sudermann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Heinrich Sudermann (1520–1591), German jurist and official of the Hanseatic League
Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928), German dramatist and novelist
See also
Suderman
Low German surnames
Russian Mennonite surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudermann |
The Kutub al-Sitta () are six (originally five) books containing collections of hadith (sayings or acts of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) compiled by six Sunni Muslim scholars in the ninth century CE, approximately two centuries after the death of Prophet Muhammad. They are sometimes referred to as al-Sihah al-Sittah, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutub%20al-Sittah |
Football Club Lorient Bretagne Sud (; commonly referred to FC Lorient or simply Lorient) is a French professional association football club based in Lorient, Brittany. The club was founded in 1926 and currently competes in Ligue 1, the top flight of French football, following promotion from Ligue 2 in the 2019–20 seaso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Lorient |
Mottled moray may refer to three species of eels:
Echidna delicatula, or the fine-speckled moray
Gymnothorax prionodon, or the Australian mottled moray
Gymnothorax undulatus, or the undulated moray | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottled%20moray |
Ethel Gordon Fenwick (née Manson; 26 January 1857 – 13 March 1947) was a British nurse who played a major role in the History of Nursing in the United Kingdom. She campaigned to procure a nationally recognised certificate for nursing, to safeguard the title "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament to pass a law to control nursi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20Gordon%20Fenwick |
Nigel Cox (13 January 1951 – 28 July 2006) was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006.
Childhood and early career
Born in 1951 in Pahiatua, Cox grew up in the Wairarapa and Lower Hutt area. He worked in various jobs up until 1977; in the words of his author page on the Vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Cox%20%28author%29 |
The Milton Keynes redway system (locally known as redways) is an over network of shared use paths for cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is generally surfaced with red tarmac, and criss-crosses most of the city.
Some of these redways run next to the grid roads and local roads, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Keynes%20redway%20system |
Henmaru Machino (町野 変丸 Machino Henmaru, sometimes given as 'Hanmaru', born 1969, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese artist, described as the Magritte of the eromanga world, whose works prominently feature themes of bestiality, dysmorphia, hermaphrodism, and body transformation, as well as dozens of other sexual paraphili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henmaru%20Machino |
Byberry Creek is a tributary of Poquessing Creek in northeastern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Byberry Creek is formed from two branches that flow through Northeast Philadelphia, Wilsons Run and Waltons Run.
Waltons Run, the western stream, flows across land of the Northeast Philadelphia Airport.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byberry%20Creek |
Yugoslavia competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States which took place from 29 July to 12 August 1984. Yugoslav athletes had competed in every Summer Olympic Games since their official debut in 1920. The Yugoslav Olympic Committee (JOK) sent a delegation of 139 athletes, 105 men and 34 women, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Stade Brestois 29, commonly known as Stade Brestois or simply Brest, is a French professional football club based in Brest. It was founded in 1950 following the merger of five local patronages, including Armoricaine de Brest, founded in 1903.
In its early years, the club made a rapid rise in the hierarchy of regional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stade%20Brestois%2029 |
Stourbridge Junction is one of two railway stations serving the town of Stourbridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. It lies on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line and is the junction for the Stourbridge Town Branch Line, said to be the shortest operational branch lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stourbridge%20Junction%20railway%20station |
Gila is a genus of fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, native to the United States and Mexico. Species of Gila are collectively referred to as western chubs. The chiselmouth is a close relative (Simons & Mayden 1997), as are members of the genus Siphateles. Several members of the genus are endangered or extinct d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gila%20%28fish%29 |
George Strange Boulton (September 11, 1797 – February 13, 1869) was a lawyer and political figure in Upper Canada.
Life and career
He was born near Albany, New York, in 1797, the son of D’Arcy Boulton, and came to Upper Canada with his family around 1800. He studied at John Strachan's school in Cornwall. He served dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Strange%20Boulton |
Cucurbita moschata is a species originating in either Central America or northern South America. It includes cultivars known as squash or pumpkin. C. moschata cultivars are generally more tolerant of hot, humid weather than cultivars of C. maxima or C. pepo. They also generally display a greater resistance to disease a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbita%20moschata |
The Dumaresq River ; (Indigenous Bigambul: Karaula) a perennial stream of the Macintyre catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales and the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
Part of the course of the river marks the boun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumaresq%20River |
VRX is an acronym for Virtual Resource eXecutive, a proprietary operating system on the NCR Criterion series, and later the V-8000 series of mainframe computers manufactured by NCR Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s. It replaced the B3 Operating System originally distributed with the Century series, and inherited m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR%20VRX |
Charles I. Halt (born 1939) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20I.%20Halt |
Radclyffe (real name Dr. Lenora Ruth Barot, born 1950) is an American author of lesbian romance, paranormal romance, erotica, and mystery. She has authored multiple short stories, written fan fiction, and edited numerous anthologies. Radclyffe is a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame and has won nume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe |
Athletes from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. This was the last time that the SFR Yugoslavia competed in the Summer Olympics. 155 competitors, 117 men and 38 women, took part in 72 events in 18 sports.
Medalists
Competitors
The following is the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics |
Edward Daly may refer to:
Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) (1891–1916), Irish nationalist and rebel officer in the Easter Rising
Ed Daly, US entrepreneur behind World Airways
Edward Daly (bishop) (1933–2016), Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, Northern Ireland
Edward Celestin Daly (1894–1964), Roman Catholic Bishop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Daly |
The New Zealand smelt (Retropinna retropinna), also known as the New Zealand common smelt, New Zealand cucumber fish, or silveries is a smelt of the family Retropinnidae, found only in New Zealand at shallow depths in estuaries and rivers. Their length is between 8 and 13 cm.
Species description
Retropinna retropinna ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20smelt |
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (also known as Marshmallow Moon in the U.K. and the Philippines and Härkiä, heiniä ja hakkailua in Finland) is a 1952 Paramount Pictures hillbilly musical film directed by Claude Binyon and produced by William Perlberg and George Seaton. It is based on a popular 1919 play by Walter Benjami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Slick%20from%20Punkin%20Crick |
Banksia integrifolia, commonly known as the coast banksia, is a species of tree that grows along the east coast of Australia. One of the most widely distributed Banksia species, it occurs between Victoria and Central Queensland in a broad range of habitats, from coastal dunes to mountains. It is highly variable in form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20integrifolia |
Kiekko.tk is a java-based ice hockey game, which has over 31,000 registered accounts (a majority of them are Finnish ). The game is developed by Jouko and Mikko Pynnönen. The game is free to play, but some features such as starting a team have to be paid for with either SMS-messages, Credit card or Phone call.
History... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiekko.tk |
Coast banksia is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Banksia attenuata, commonly known as candlestick banksia, coast banksia or slender banksia;
Banksia integrifolia, commonly known as coast banksia or white honeysuckle.
Banksia taxa by common name | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast%20banksia |
The Guinness share-trading fraud was a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinness shares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers. Four businessmen were convicted of criminal offence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness%20share-trading%20fraud |
Edith Pattou is an American writer of fantasy fiction, including the novel East, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults for 2004. She was born in Evanston, Illinois, and she graduated from the Francis W. Parker School, Scripps College (B.A., English), Claremont Graduate School (M.A., English) and UCLA (M.L.I.S.). Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Pattou |
Athletes from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 69 competitors, 59 men and 10 women, took part in 54 events in 11 sports.
Medalists
Athletics
Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Cycling
Four male cyclists represented Yugoslavia in 1968.
Individual r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Compensated emancipation was a method of ending slavery, under which the enslaved person's owner received compensation from the government in exchange for manumitting the slave. This could be monetary, and it could allow the owner to retain the slave for a period of labor as an indentured servant. Cash compensation rar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated%20emancipation |
Major General Peter Maurice Arnison, (born 21 October 1940) is a retired Australian Army officer who served as the 23rd Governor of Queensland, in office from July 1997 until July 2003. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1962, and served as Land Commander Australia from 1994 until he retired fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Arnison |
Edward William Barton-Wright CE, FRSA, MJS (member of the Japan Society) (8 November 186013 September 1951) was an English entrepreneur specialising in both self defence training and physical therapy. He is remembered today as one of the first Europeans to both learn and teach Japanese martial arts and as a pioneer of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20William%20Barton-Wright |
Flop was an American rock band from Seattle. The band formed in 1990, released recordings on the Frontier and Sony 550 record labels, and made a brief appearance in Doug Pray's motion picture documentary Hype!.
History
The Beginning (1990–1991)
Flop's original four members consisted of lead singer, guitarist and song... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flop%20%28band%29 |
The 1983 Labour Party leadership election was an election in the United Kingdom for the leadership of the Labour Party. It occurred when then leader Michael Foot resigned after winning only 209 seats at the 1983 general election, a loss of 60 seats compared to their performance at the previous election four years earli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%20Labour%20Party%20leadership%20election%20%28UK%29 |
CHIN Radio/TV International (legally known as Radio 1540 Limited) is a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which owns and operates four radio stations and a television program production unit, all targeting multilingual communities. The company also holds the annual CHIN Picnic. CHIN's studios are locat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIN%20Radio/TV%20International |
Athletes from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Medalists
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
John Wesley Bailey Jr. (September 15, 1907 – February 1, 1980) was an American actor and daytime game show host. He was born in Hampton, Iowa, and died in Santa Monica, California.
Career
A former vaudeville musician and World's Fair barker, Bailey is best remembered as the host of Queen for a Day, a daytime game show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Bailey%20%28actor%29 |
Claude Binyon (October 17, 1905 Chicago, Illinois – February 14, 1978 Glendale, California) was a screenwriter and director. His genres were comedy, musicals, and romances.
As a Chicago-based journalist for the Examiner newspaper, he became city editor of the show business trade magazine Variety in the late 1920s. Acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Binyon |
Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 116 competitors, 107 men and 9 women, took part in 64 events in 14 sports.
Yugoslavia had won silver medals in Men's Football (Soccer) for the past 3 Summer Games and finally won gold in Rome.
Medalists
Ath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia%20at%20the%201960%20Summer%20Olympics |
Mauro Pagani (born 5 February 1946) is an Italian musician and singer.
Pagani was born in Chiari, Lombardy. A multi-instrumentalist, he made his debut in the music world in 1970 as violinist and founding member of the progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi. In 1977 he left the band to follow a solo career, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro%20Pagani |
Hantili I was a king of the Hittites during the Hittite Old Kingdom. His reign lasted for 30 years, from c. 1590 to c. 1560 BC (middle chronology).
Biography
Rise to power
According to the Telepinu Proclamation, Hantili was the royal cup-bearer to Mursili I, king of the Hittites. Hantili was married to Ḫarapšili, Mur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hantili%20I |
Residual-excited linear prediction (RELP) is an obsolete speech coding algorithm. It was originally proposed in the 1970s and can be seen as an ancestor of code-excited linear prediction (CELP). Unlike CELP however, RELP directly transmits the residual signal. To achieve lower rates, that residual signal is usually dow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-excited%20linear%20prediction |
Chris Senn (born December 11, 1972 in Costa Mesa, California, grew up in Grass Valley, California) is a professional skateboarder, known for his aggressive and spontaneous style. Current and past sponsors include Powell Skateboards Channel one Adrenalin Skateboards Blood Wizard Emerica, Ace, Type-S, Paradox, Kamanu Cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Senn |
Ethel Smith may refer to:
Ethel Smith (organist) (1902–1996), American organist
Ethel Smith (athlete) (1907–1979), Canadian sprinter
Ethel M. Smith (1877–1951), women's rights activist and union activist
Ethel Morgan Smith (born 1952), American author and associate professor
See also
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), Engl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20Smith |
Mark Adrian Roe (born 20 February 1963) is an English Tournament professional golfer, short game coach and golfing analyst for Sky Sports.
Roe won worldwide respect for the way he handled being disqualified from the 2003 Open Championship for a scorecard error.
Roe played for 22 years and 524 events on the European ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Roe |
The Battle of Groningen took place during the penultimate month of Second World War in Europe, from April 13 to 16, 1945, in the city of Groningen between a mixture of German soldiers, Dutch and Belgian SS troops numbering 7,000 against the entire 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, though the whole division was never in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Groningen |
Zidanta I was a king of the Hittites (Old Kingdom), ruling for 10 years, ca. 1560–1550 BC (middle chronology) or 1496–1486 BC (short chronology timeline). According to the Telepinu Proclamation, this king became a ruler by murder.
Zidanta was married to the daughter of Hantili, brother-in-law to King Mursili I. Zidant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidanta%20I |
Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 35 competitors, 32 men and 3 women, took part in 16 events in 8 sports.
Medalists
Athletics
Men's 110m Hurdles
Stanko Lorger
Heat — 14.6s
Semifinals — 14.6s
Final — 14.5s (→ 5th place)
Men's M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia%20at%20the%201956%20Summer%20Olympics |
Huzziya I was a king of the Hittites (Old Kingdom), ruling for 5 years, ca. 1530–1525 BC (middle chronology) or 1466–1461 BC (short chronology).
Biography
According to the Telepinu Proclamation, at the time of the death of Ammuna, the assassins killed Titiya and Hantili, and so Huzziya became the king. Based on this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huzziya%20I |
The Indonesia Open is the national open golf championship of Indonesia, and traditionally held in the capital, Jakarta.
History
The Indonesia Open was founded in 1974 as an event on the Asia Golf Circuit. It remained on the circuit until the end of the 1996 season, after which it joined the rival Asian PGA's Omega Tou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia%20Open%20%28golf%29 |
Dandruff is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1974. It was the first of three LPs that Cutler released through Virgin Records in the mid-1970s; Cutler had signed to the label after an appearance on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, which Virgin had released earlier that year. Many of the album's 45 tracks are s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandruff%20%28album%29 |
Bruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and Spain's Premio Ignotus.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Holland%20Rogers |
Kuseife () or Kseifa () is a Bedouin town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel. Kuseife was founded in 1982 as part of a government project to settle Bedouins in permanent settlements. In 1996 it was declared a local council, and in it had a population of .
It is one of seven Bedouin townships in the Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuseife |
Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It encompasses traditions of writing in English, primarily, as well as in other languages, the most important of which has been Yiddish. While critics and authors generally acknowledge the notion of a distinctive corpus an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20American%20literature |
Jack Conway may refer to:
Jack Conway (footballer) (1867–1949), Australian rules footballer
Jack Conway (filmmaker) (1887–1952), American film producer and director
"Jack" (John W.) Conway (1888-1928), reviewer for Variety (magazine), credited with a many early 20th century Varietyese: baloney, bellylaugh, bimbo, hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Conway |
Kurunta (Cuneiform: ()) was younger son of the early 13th century BC Hittite king Muwatalli II and cousin of Tudhaliya IV.
Kurunta was thereby a Hittite prince and king of Tarhuntassa country. It has been suggested that he may have captured the Hittite capital for a very short time during the reign of the Hittite kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurunta |
Omer (, lit. sheaf) is an affluent town in the Southern District of Israel, bordering Beersheba. It is located on Highway 60, between Beersheba and the Shoket Junction. In it had a population of .
History
Omer, originally known as Hevrona, was founded as a kibbutz in 1949. The early residents were demobilized Palma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer%2C%20Israel |
The giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), the only member of its genus (Hylochoerus), is native to wooded habitats in Africa and is generally considered the largest wild member of the pig family, Suidae; however, a few subspecies of the wild boar can reach an even larger size. Despite its large size and relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20forest%20hog |
In Indonesia, village or subdistrict is the fourth-level subdivision and the smallest administrative division of Indonesia below a district, regency/city, and province. Similar administrative divisions outside of Indonesia include barangays in the Philippines, Muban in Thailand, civil townships and incorporated municip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villages%20of%20Indonesia |
The 2004–05 Vyshcha Liha season was the fourteenth since its establishment.
The season started on July 15, 2004, with all eight games of the first round. The last day of the competition was June 16, 2005. Shakhtar Donetsk won its second champion's title place ahead of the reigning champions Dynamo that held for the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Vyshcha%20Liha |
The Pooh Sticks were a Welsh indie pop band from Swansea, Wales, primarily recording between 1988 and 1995. They were notable for their jangly melodiousness and lyrics gently mocking the indie scene of the time, such as on "On Tape", "Indiepop Ain't Noise Pollution" and "I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pooh%20Sticks |
Dooly the Little Dinosaur () is a South Korean manhwa (comic) serialized from 1983 to 1993. It was created by cartoonist Kim Soo-jung, and features a small dinosaur as the subject. Other media featuring the same characters was created, including a television series and animated film.
Dooly is considered one of the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dooly%20the%20Little%20Dinosaur |
Hugh Ryan "Jack" Conway (July 17, 1886 – October 11, 1952) was an American film director and film producer, as well as an actor of many films in the first half of the 20th century.
Conway and director Edmund Goulding share the distinction of directing the most Best Picture-nominated films without ever being nominated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Conway%20%28filmmaker%29 |
QQ refers to Tencent QQ, a Chinese instant messaging program.
QQ may also refer to:
Q–Q plot, a plot to compare distributions in statistics
Chery QQ, two compact Chinese cars models
Alliance Airlines (IATA code QQ)
Qinetiq (LSE stock symbol QQ)
Reno Air, formerly IATA code QQ
Q. texture, an originally Taiwanese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Church of St John the Evangelist, better known as the Afghan Church, is a church of Anglican heritage, that belongs to the Mumbai diocese of the Church of North India. Located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, it was built by the British between 1847 and 1858 to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War and the dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan%20Church |
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