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The Employment Standards Act of British Columbia (Canada), is legislation enacted by the provincial government of British Columbia to protect the rights of working people. Sections within the act outline the employers responsibility to their employees, notably things such as minimum wage, meal breaks, and parental leav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment%20Standards%20Act%20of%20British%20Columbia |
Belle Gunness, born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth (November 11, 1859 – possibly April 28, 1908), nicknamed Hell's Belle, was a Norwegian-American serial killer who was active in Illinois and Indiana between 1884 and 1908. Gunness is thought to have killed at least fourteen people, most of whom were men she enticed to v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20Gunness |
Ledbury Town Football Club is a football club based in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at New Street.
History
Ledbury Town joined the West Midlands (Regional) League in 1974. Four years later, despite only finishing fifth, they were promoted to the Premier Division ahead of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledbury%20Town%20F.C. |
Lye Town Football Club is a football club based in the Black Country town of Lye, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Sports Ground.
History
The club was established in 1930 as Lye & Wollescote Amateur Football Club and joined the Worcestershire Combination. They wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lye%20Town%20F.C. |
Transformus is a regional Burning Man art festival hosted on Marvin's Mountaintop in Masontown, West Virginia. The community forms a temporary city called Mysteria during the third weekend in July which includes art installations, neighborhoods, lively nightlife and camps which offer services to the community. Since 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformus |
Anna Marie Hahn (born Filser; July 7, 1906 – December 7, 1938) was a German-born American serial killer.
Biography
Early life
Anna Hahn was the youngest of twelve children though five of her siblings had died by the time Anna was born. Her father, George Filser, was a furniture manufacturer, and the family was consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Marie%20Hahn |
Market Drayton Town Football Club is a football club based in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Greenfields Sports Ground.
History
The club was established in 1969 as Little Drayton Rangers. They became members of the Shropshire County League and were champions in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20Drayton%20Town%20F.C. |
Ko Jum (เกาะจำ, also Koh Jum) or Ko Pu (เกาะปู) is a part of Nuea Khlong district in Krabi province, Thailand. Ko Jum consists of three villages: Ban Ko Pu, Ban Ting Rai, and Ban Ko Jum. Ko Jum is approximately south of Krabi town on the Andaman Sea.
External links
Geography of Krabi province | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%20Jum |
The adjective hygrophanous refers to the color change of mushroom tissue (especially the pileus surface) as it loses or absorbs water, which causes the pileipellis to become more transparent when wet and opaque when dry.
When identifying hygrophanous species, one needs to be careful when matching colors to photograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophanous |
Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming and includes 16,807 acres (68 km2). The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, both agencies within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The refuge is divided into four sections adjacent to P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder%20National%20Wildlife%20Refuge |
Pelsall Villa F.C. was a football club based in the village of Pelsall, near Walsall, West Midlands, England. The team kit consisted of black and red striped shirts, black shorts and black socks.
History
Records from the Walsall Observer newspaper show that football was played in Pelsall as long ago as 1898. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelsall%20Villa%20F.C. |
Sentul City (previously Bukit Sentul) is a modern housing area situated at Sentul, Babakan Madang, Bogor Regency, in West Java, Indonesia. Its geographical coordinates are 6 52' 0" South, 112 26' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Sentul. Located near Bogor, it is about 48 km south of Indonesia's capita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentul%20City%2C%20Indonesia |
Léonie Fuller Adams (December 9, 1899 – June 27, 1988) was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.
Biography
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in an unusually strict environment. She was not allowed on the subway until she wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onie%20Adams |
Shawbury United Football Club are a football club originally from Shawbury, Shropshire, but currently based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. They were established in 1992. They are members of the , having been relegated from the Midland Football League Premier Division at the end of the 2017-18 season.
History
Shaw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawbury%20United%20F.C. |
Empress Wang Shen'ai (; 384 – 3 October 412), formally Empress Anxi (安僖皇后, literally "the peaceful and careful empress") was an empress of Jin Dynasty (266–420). Her husband was the developmentally disabled Emperor An.
Life
Wang Shen'ai was the daughter of the official Wang Xianzhi, the son of the famed official and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Shen%27ai |
Tividale Football Club is a football club based in Tividale, near Dudley, West Midlands, England. They were established in 1954. In the 2011–12 season, under the management of Dean Whitehouse, they reached the 5th round of the FA Vase, the furthest the club has progressed in the competition. They won the Midland Footba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tividale%20F.C. |
Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek (born Otylia Gburek; 1876 – November 20, 1936) was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago. According to accounts, she pretended to have precognitive dreams, accurately predicting the dates of death of her victims, when in reality she was merely scheduling their deaths.
Biography
Kli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie%20Klimek |
Wednesfield Football Club are a football club based in Wednesfield, West Midlands, England. They were established in 1961. They have reached the 3rd round of the FA Vase twice in their history. They are members of the .
History
The club was originally formed in 1961 as Wednesfield Social FC, changing its name in 1989.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesfield%20F.C. |
Wolverhampton Casuals Football Club are a football club based in Featherstone, near Wolverhampton, England. Established in 1899, they are currently members of the . They play their home games at Brinsford Lane, and also compete in the Walsall Senior Cup – a competition they last won in 2000–01.
History
Wolverhampton C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverhampton%20Casuals%20F.C. |
tsclient (Terminal Server Client) is a discontinued frontend for rdesktop and other remote desktop tools, which allow remotely controlling one computer from another. It is a GNOME application. Notable visual options include color depth, screen size, and motion blocking.
Features include: a GNOME panel applet to quick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsclient |
Gunn Margit Aas Andreassen (born 23 July 1973 in Kristiansand) is a former Norwegian biathlete.
Biathlon career
She won two Olympic medals, bronze in Nagano 1998 and silver in Salt Lake City 2002, both in the relay. From the World Championships she has the following results:
1995 - 1.pl (Team)
1995 - 3.pl (Relay)
1997... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunn%20Margit%20Andreassen |
Ravikant Shukla (born 9 July 1987) is an Indian first class cricketer.
Career
He played at the U-16 and U-19 cricket for Uttar Pradesh cricket team. He captained the India U19 national cricket team at the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup where India emerged as runners-up to Pakistan in the final. During the tournament, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravikant%20Shukla |
Wyrley Rangers F.C. was a football club based in Essington, Wolverhampton, England. The club was established in 1988. In 1998, they joined the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One North and gained promotion to the Premier Division in 2005. The club folded in 2007.
History
Wyrley Rangers Football Club was found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrley%20Rangers%20F.C. |
Kevin Lyman is the founder and operator of the Kevin Lyman Group, formerly known as 4Fini, Inc., a live event production company and brand strategy firm. His most notable live production is the live music festival series Vans Warped Tour, which attracted about 750,000 people annually and was the longest-running North A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Lyman |
Saladin the Victorious, also known as Saladin and the Great Crusades (, ), is a 1963 Egyptian epic film directed by Youssef Chahine. It is written by Yusuf Sibai and others, based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film features an ensemble cast, It stars Ahmed Mazhar as Saladin, Salah Zulfikar as Issa El Awwam, Nadia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin%20the%20Victorious |
Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the current captain of India national cricket team in all formats. Considered one of the best batsmen of his generation. Sharma is known for his timing, elegance, six-hitting abilities and leadership skills. He plays as a right-handed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohit%20Sharma |
A cystidium (: cystidia) is a relatively large cell found on the sporocarp of a basidiomycete (for example, on the surface of a mushroom gill), often between clusters of basidia. Since cystidia have highly varied and distinct shapes that are often unique to a particular species or genus, they are a useful micromorpholo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystidium |
Bamforth National Wildlife Refuge is located in southern Albany County in the U.S. state of Wyoming and includes 1,116 acres (4.5 km2). The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The refuge is divided into three sections adjacent to Bamforth Reservo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamforth%20National%20Wildlife%20Refuge |
Hotman Paris Hutapea (born 20 October 1959) is an Indonesian lawyer, presenter and businessman. He is known for his flamboyant style, high-profile clients, luxurious lifestyle, and mistresses.
Early life
Hotman was born on 20 October 1959 in Laguboti village, North Sumatra. He was the sixth of 10 children in a Protes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotman%20Paris%20Hutapea |
HNoMS Æger was a Rendel gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Karljohansvern Naval Yard in 1894, as the last of the 2. class gunboats. Larger than the other, older 2. class gunboats, Æger had a 38 mm (1.5 inch) armoured deck.
She was known as Padda ("The Toad") due to the way she looked, and was kept in the fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS%20%C3%86ger%20%281894%29 |
Sammy Leung Chi Kin is an actor under TVB, DJ, singer, and host for Commercial Radio Hong Kong.
Life and career
Leung was raised in Kwai Shing Estate, and received his secondary education at St. Stephen's College and La Salle College, graduating with a score of 25 (1A5B) in the HKCEE. He graduated from Chinese Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy%20Leung |
Operation Savannah was the South African code name for their military incursion into Angola in 1975–1976. It was part of the South African Border War and arose due to the Angolan War of Independence. The operation also materially influenced the subsequent Angolan Civil War. South African forces invaded deep into Angol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Savannah%20%28Angola%29 |
An ashik (, ; ; —all from ) or ashugh (; ) is traditionally a singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan (traditional epic story, also known as hikaye) or a shorter original composition—with a long-necked lute (usually a bağlama or saz) in Turkic (primarily Turkish and Azerbaijani cultures, including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashik |
Leon Petrażycki (; ; born 13 April 1867, in Kołłątajewo, Mogilev Governorate, now in Belarus – 15 May 1931, in Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, legal scholar, and sociologist. He is considered an important forerunner of the sociology of law.
Life
Leon Petrażycki was born into the Polish gentry of the Mogilev Govern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Petra%C5%BCycki |
PCCTS may refer to:
Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set, the predecessor of the ANTLR parser generator
Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici, the Knights Templar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCCTS |
Hutton Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in southern Albany County in the U.S. state of Wyoming and includes 1,968 acres (8 km2). The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The refuge is located at higher altitudes over 7,000 feet (2,133 m) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton%20Lake%20National%20Wildlife%20Refuge |
Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen.
Plot summary
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy-Long-Legs%20%28novel%29 |
Louise Peete (September 20, 1880 – April 11, 1947) was a convicted American serial killer. Peete was first convicted of the 1920 murder of wealthy mining engineer Jacob C. Denton, and was sentenced to life in prison in 1921. She was paroled in April 1939. In May 1945, Peete was convicted a second time for murdering her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Peete |
Darkness, also known as World at War, is a series of six fantasy novels by Harry Turtledove.
Though a fantasy, its general history, geography, and combatants are analogs of World War II, called the "Derlavai War" in this universe. Many of its characters are also the equivalents of historical people. Magic and other fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Darkness%20Series |
Preethi Nair (born 1971) is a British author of Indian heritage. Born in Kerala, India, she came to the United Kingdom as a child. She worked as a management consultant, but gave up her job to become a writer.
Preethi Nair's first novel, Gypsy Masala, was rejected by several publishers. She then set up her own publish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preethi%20Nair |
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Here Come the Mummies (HCTM) is an American funk rock band best known for its live performances and anonymous band members.
The band consists of various professional musicians based in Nashville, Tennessee. There are rumored to be several Grammy awards among the members, though this is difficult to verify, as the iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20Come%20the%20Mummies |
Sympetally (fused petals) is a flower characteristic that historically was used to classify a grouping of plants termed Sympetalae, but this term has been abandoned in newer molecular based classifications, although the grouping has similarity to the modern term asterids.
History
Sympetalae Rchb. (1828), meaning “wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympetalae |
The Artsakh Defence Army () was the defence force of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh. Established in 1992, it united previously disorganized self-defence units which were formed in the early 1990s with the goal of protecting the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh from attacks by Soviet and Azerbaijani arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artsakh%20Defence%20Army |
The Hive is a recording studio in North Hollywood, Los Angeles at 5500 Cahuenga Blvd, owned and run by the members of the alternative rock band 311.
Origin
In 2000, after finishing touring for Soundsystem, the five members of 311 grew distraught with having to pay upwards of $2,000 a day in professional recording stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hive%20%28studio%29 |
Ernest Vincze (born 1942 in Budapest, Hungary) is a film and television cinematographer.
Among his credits are the 1986 film Biggles, the television movie Escape from Sobibor and the Sean Penn and Madonna vehicle Shanghai Surprise. In 2005 he became the director of photography on the new series of Doctor Who, photogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20Vincze |
Hong Kong Mathematical High Achievers Selection Contest (HKMHASC, Traditional Chinese: 香港青少年數學精英選拔賽) is a yearly mathematics competition for students of or below Secondary 3 in Hong Kong. It is jointly organized by Po Leung Kuk and Hong Kong Association of Science and Mathematics Education since the academic year 1998-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Mathematical%20High%20Achievers%20Selection%20Contest |
Wing Commander: Prophecy is the fifth installment in the Wing Commander science fiction space combat simulator franchise of computer games. The game was originally released in 1997 for Windows, produced by Origin Systems and distributed by Electronic Arts, and in 2003, a GBA conversion was produced by Italy-based Rayli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%20Commander%3A%20Prophecy |
Barry Long (1 August 1926 – 6 December 2003) was an Australian spiritual teacher and writer.
Early life
Barry Long was born and raised in Australia and had little formal education. In his twenties he became editor of a Sydney Sunday newspaper, The Truth and later press secretary in the New South Wales Parliament. At t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Long |
Tubiflorae is a botanical name, meaning “with tubular flowers”. It was used in the Engler system (and derived systems such as the Wettstein system) for:
an order in the Sympetalae. This order included such families as Convolvulaceae, Boraginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Solanaceae, etc. This order does not corresponds clos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubiflorae |
This List of operations of the South African Border War details the military operations conducted by the South African Defence Force during the South African Border War:
Operation Savannah (1975)
Operation Bruilof (1978)
Operation Seiljag (1978)
Operation Reindeer (1978)
Operation Rekstok (1979)
Operation Safraa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20operations%20of%20the%20South%20African%20Border%20War |
Conrad I (also Konrad) (born 915/920 - died 20 August 997) was Duke of Swabia from 983 until 997. His appointment as duke marked the return of Conradine rule over Swabia for the first time since 948.
Life
There is considerable confusion about Conrad and his family. He is often identified with Cuno of Öhningen. The ide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20I%2C%20Duke%20of%20Swabia |
The green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is prominent and curved. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-billed%20malkoha |
Operation Protea was a military operation during the South African Border War and Angolan Civil War in which South African Defence Forces (SADF) destroyed a number of South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) bases in Angola. During the operation, which took place from 23 August to 4 September 1981, up to 5,000 S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Protea |
MS NKS 1867 4° is a 1760 paper manuscript now in the Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen (section Den nye kongelige samling). It contains skaldic poetry, assorted runological information, the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, plus Sólarljóð, and 16 illustrations based on the Eddas.
References
External links
Page at Danis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Royal%20Library%2C%20MS%20NKS%201867%204%C2%B0 |
Vince Flaherty is an American producer, recording artist, writer, and political activist.
In 2014, he was a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House to represent the 33rd Congressional District of California on a platform of fulfilling 434 promises. According to his candidate statement, he promised to work to "properly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Flaherty |
Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (22 December 1597 – 10 August 1659) was a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.
He was the elder son of Duke Johann Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp and Princess Augusta of Denmark. His mother was a daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark.
He had ambitious plans concerning the development of sea trade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20III%2C%20Duke%20of%20Holstein-Gottorp |
Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in southern Albany County in the U.S. state of Wyoming and includes 1,776 acres (7.2 km2). The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Mortensen Lake NWR is a high altitude refuge and has several sma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortenson%20Lake%20National%20Wildlife%20Refuge |
Frating is a village and small civil parish of the Tendring district of Essex, England. It is about east of Colchester and northwest of Clacton-on-Sea. The parish includes the settlements of Frating Green and Hockley.
The parish church (dedication not recorded) is now a private house. The living was a rectory shared... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frating |
The banded bay cuckoo or bay-banded cuckoo (Cacomantis sonneratii) is a species of small cuckoo found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Like others in the genus they have a round nostril. They are usually founded in well wooded areas mainly in the lower hills. Males sing from exposed branches during the br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded%20bay%20cuckoo |
One of the modern systems of plant taxonomy, the Dahlgren system was published by monocot specialist Rolf Dahlgren in 1975 and revised in 1977, and 1980. However, he is best known for his two treatises on monocotyledons in 1982 and revised in 1985. His wife Gertrud Dahlgren continued the work after his death.
Dahlgr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlgren%20system |
Ridgewood, New York may refer to:
Ridgewood, Queens, in the borough of Queens in New York City
Ridgewood, Niagara County, New York, a hamlet in Niagara County, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgewood%2C%20New%20York |
The American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship was the first heavyweight professional wrestling championship in the United States. The title existed from 1881 through approximately 1922.
Title history
See also
Professional wrestling in the United States
Early wrestling championships
World Catch-as-Catch-Can Champio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Heavyweight%20Championship |
Operation Askari was a military operation during 1983 in Angola by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the South African Border War.
Background
Operation Askari, launched on 6 December 1983, was the SADF's sixth large-scale cross-border operation into Angola and was intended to disrupt the logistical suppor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Askari |
SÁM 66 (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi) is an 18th-century manuscript now at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland. Reference information and a copy of this manuscript can be found online. This book was written in Iceland in 1765 and 1766. The back cover is dated 1765. The text follows that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic%20Manuscript%2C%20S%C3%81M%2066 |
Cuculus saturatus, better well known as the Himalayan cuckoo, is a brooding parasitic bird that is part of the Cuculidae family. The species breeds from the Himalayas eastward to southern China and Taiwan. It migrates to southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands for the winter.
It was formerly known as "Oriental cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan%20cuckoo |
Naas General Hospital () is a general hospital located on the Craddockstown Road at Naas in County Kildare in Ireland. It was founded in 1841 and is managed by Dublin Midlands Hospital Group.
History
The hospital has its origins in the Naas Union Workhouse and Infirmary which was designed by George Wilkinson and open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naas%20General%20Hospital |
Hückelhoven (; ) is a town in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Rur, approx. 10 km east of Heinsberg, 20 km south-west of Mönchengladbach and approximately 15 km from the border with the Netherlands.
Town parts
Altmyhl
Baal
Brachelen
Doveren
Hilfarth
Hück... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCckelhoven |
The common hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius), popularly known as the brainfever bird, is a medium-sized cuckoo resident in the Indian subcontinent. It bears a close resemblance to the Shikra, even in its style of flying and landing on a perch. The resemblance to hawks gives this group the generic name of hawk-cuckoo and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20hawk-cuckoo |
John Edward "Jack" Clarke (14 July 1933 – 3 December 2001) was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the VFL. An Essendon and Victorian champion, Clarke was one of the premier midfielders of the VFL for well over a decade, Clarke led Essendon to the flag in 1962 as captain, and also played in the victorious 1965 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Clarke%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201933%29 |
Christine Harris (born 1958) is an Australian actress and producer, born and raised in South Australia. She is currently director of HIT Productions theatre touring company.
Career
After portraying a young version of popular Australian singer Julie Anthony in a television special, Harris moved to Sydney at the end of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Harris%20%28actress%29 |
Number 19 Squadron (sometimes written as No. XIX Squadron) is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was the first squadron to operate the Supermarine Spitfire. It currently operates the UK's Control and Reporting Centre from RAF Boulmer. No. 19 Squadron delivers persistent surveillance of UK airspace, and Tactical Cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%2019%20Squadron%20RAF |
Wassenberg (; ) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands, on the river Rur, approx. 6 km north-east of Heinsberg and 15 km south-east of Roermond.
References
External links
Heinsberg (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenberg |
The following is a list of coaches who have coached the Essendon Football Club at a game of Australian rules football in the Australian Football League (AFL), formerly the VFL.
Key:
C = Coached
W = Won
L = Lost
D = Drew
* = Caretaker coach
References
Essendon Football Club coaches
Essendon Football Club
Essend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Essendon%20Football%20Club%20coaches |
The Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri), also known commonly as Baxter's toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. The Wyoming toad is an extremely rare amphibian that exists only in captivity and within Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming in the United States. The Wyoming toad was listed as an end... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming%20toad |
Tiny Sepuku is a syndicated weekly comic strip created by Ken Cursoe based around a character named Tiny Sepuku (usually addressed simply as "Tiny" by readers - every question starts with the salutation "Dear Tiny") who answers questions from his readers and generally dispenses love advice.
Publication history
Tiny S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny%20Sepuku |
This is a list of plants found in the wild in Caatinga vegetation of Brazil.
Acanthaceae
Anisacanthus brasiliensis Lindau
Anisacanthus trilobus Lindau
Lophostachys floribunda Ness
Ruellia asperula Benth. & Hook.f.
Ruellia geminiflora Kunth
Amaranthaceae
Alternanthera brasiliana (L.) Kuntze
Alternanthera moquin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20of%20Caatinga%20vegetation%20of%20Brazil |
The World/American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship and the World/European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship was a Greco-Roman professional wrestling championship contested for throughout the continent of Australia, Europe and North America.The title existed from 1875 through approximately 1937.
The final champ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Greco-Roman%20Heavyweight%20Championship |
Jack Clarke may refer to:
Jack Clarke (athlete) (fl. 1945–1952), New Zealand marathon runner
Jack Clarke (footballer, born 1931) (1931–1997), Australian rules footballer and Essendon player
Jack Clarke (footballer, born 1933) (1933–2001), Australian rules footballer and East Fremantle player
Jack Clarke (footballer, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Clarke |
AM 738 4to, Edda oblongata or Langa Edda, is a late 17th-century Icelandic paper manuscript currently housed in the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík. The manuscript is most notable for its distinct oblong format and the numerous colorful illustrations it contains.
Description
The manuscript ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM%20738%204to |
Philippe Nicolet (born 4 January 1953 in Lausanne), is a Swiss film director of both documentaries and fiction. Journalist and scriptwriter, he was the first editor-in-chief of the Lausanne television station before embarking on a project tracing the history of relations between Switzerland and the European Union for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Nicolet |
The Shebang was a radio show broadcast weekday mornings from 6 am to 9 am AEST in Sydney, Australia, on Triple M. It was hosted by Marty Sheargold, Fifi Box and Paul Murray with Anthony Maroon as the show anchor. The producer, Anna, was often chastised for her many mistakes.
The show mainly worked around observational... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shebang |
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi (born 28 June 1952) is an Indian politician from Karnataka and currently a member of Lok Sabha. He was Union Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation in 2016. He was member of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Lok Sabha. He was inducted into PM, Narendra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh%20Jigajinagi |
WWF WrestleMania Challenge is a professional wrestling video game based on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), released in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Acclaim Entertainment under the LJN label, and in 1992 for the Family Computer by Hot-B.
The game features nine wrestlers: Hulk Hogan, André the Gia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF%20WrestleMania%20Challenge |
Henry Glass (January 7, 1844 – September 1, 1908) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, best remembered for his role in the bloodless capture of Guam in the Spanish–American War. He was also a Union veteran of the American Civil War.
Biography
Glass was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and entered the Naval Aca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Glass%20%28admiral%29 |
Doug Richardson is an American screenwriter and novelist who writes action movies and thrillers. He is best known for writing movies like Die Hard 2, Bad Boys, and Hostage and was the first Hollywood writer to sell a spec script for a million dollars.
Career
Richardson's first major Hollywood project was writing Die H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Richardson |
Thibault is a French personal name and surname, a form of Theobald, a Germanic name composed from the elements theod- "people" and bald "bold".
Surname
Arthur Thibault (191483), Canadian farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan
Bernard Thibault (born 1959), French trade unionist, Secretary of the Confédération G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibault |
Congressional stagnation is an American political theory that attempts to explain the high rate of incumbency re-election to the United States House of Representatives. In recent years this rate has been well over 90 per cent, with rarely more than 5-10 incumbents losing their House seats every election cycle. The theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional%20stagnation%20in%20the%20United%20States |
St. Peter's is an independent brewery founded in 1996 by John Murphy in former agricultural buildings adjacent to St. Peter’s Hall in St Peter, South Elmham, near Bungay in the English county of Suffolk.
The brewery produces cask ales, but is best known for its cold-filtered bottled beers. The oval shape of its signat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Peter%27s%20Brewery |
David R. Mayhew (born May 18, 1937) is a political scientist and Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Yale University. He is widely considered one of the leading scholars on the United States Congress, and the author of nine influential books on American politics, including Congress: The Electoral Connec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20R.%20Mayhew |
Ursula Bruhin (born 19 March 1970) is a Swiss snowboarder, World Champion in Parallel Giant Slalom in 2001 and 2003.
External links
UrsulaBruhin.ch
Interview with Ursula Bruhin
Swiss female snowboarders
Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
1970 births
Living people
Olympic snowboarders for Switzerland
21st-ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula%20Bruhin |
The Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (), commonly referred to by its transliterated Russian acronym GRAU (), is a department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. It is subordinate to the Chief of Armament and Munition of the Russian Armed Forces, a vice-minister... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Missile%20and%20Artillery%20Directorate |
D.C. is an American drama television series that ran from April 2 to 23, 2000 on The WB. The series followed five young interns in Washington, D.C. as they navigate their careers and lives in the nation's capital.
Initially titled D.C. Interns, the series was given a 13-episode order in May 1999 to debut as a midseaso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C.%20%28TV%20series%29 |
The First Malayan Five-Year Plan (1956 – 1960) was the first economic development plan launched by the Malayan government just before independence in 1957. The colonial British government had concentrated available resources on fighting the Malayan communist insurgency instead of developing the rural areas of Malaya. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Malayan%20Five-Year%20Plan |
Susan J. Isaacs (born December 18, 1946 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American professional poker player, who has been based in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1986.
Isaacs has finished in the money of six World Series of Poker (WSOP) ladies' events, and won the ladies' championship back-to-back in 1996 and 1997.
She finis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie%20Isaacs |
Sir Leo George Chiozza Money (; 13 June 1870 – 25 September 1944), born Leone Giorgio Chiozza, was an Italian-born economic theorist who moved to Britain in the 1890s, where he made his name as a politician, journalist and author. In the early years of the 20th century his views attracted the interest of two future Pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Chiozza%20Money |
Denzinger may refer to:
Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger
Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum, a compilation of Catholic documents referred to as the Denzinger after its first editor, Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger
German-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzinger |
Jan Vang Sørensen (born Jan Vang Hansen; 1960) is a retired Danish football player, turned professional poker player from Odense. He has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker.
He legally changed his name from Hansen (his father's surname) to Sørensen (his mother's maiden name) between 2002 and 2005.
Footba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Vang%20S%C3%B8rensen |
Grateful Dawg is a documentary film released in 2000 which chronicles the friendship and musical relationship of musicians Jerry Garcia and David Grisman. Director and producer Gillian Grisman uses multiple videos, as well as live recordings, to help show this bond between two friends and musicians. It gives a view of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful%20Dawg |
The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad (LOSRR) was a short-lived common carrier railroad in New York that was absorbed by the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad.
Construction
The LOSRR was chartered to be built from Suspension Bridge, New York to Oswego, New York in 1858. The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company was fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Ontario%20Shore%20Railroad |
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