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Al Mohammad Moniruzzaman (born 25 October 1976) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has played in two One Day Internationals in 2003. He is now an umpire and stood in matches in the 2016–17 National Cricket League in Bangladesh. He also standing as an on-field umpire in BPL matches since 2015 Bangladesh Premier League.
He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moniruzzaman%20%28cricketer%29 |
The Second Symphony was written by Charles Ives between 1897 and 1902. It consists of five movements and lasts approximately 40 minutes.
Scoring
The piece is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, snare drum, bass drum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%202%20%28Ives%29 |
The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is a professional school within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. QS World University Rankings ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 24th in the world, 10th in North America and 2nd in Canada in Computer Science in 2014. U.S. Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20R.%20Cheriton%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science |
A United States military "jury" (or "members", in military parlance) serves a function similar to an American civilian jury, but with several notable differences. Only a general court-martial (which may impose any sentences, from dishonorable discharge to death) or special court-martial (which can impose sentences of u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20military%20jury |
Atwal () is a Jat clan and a family name of Sikhs.
Notable people
Notable people with the surname, who may or may not be affiliated with the clan, include:
Arjun Atwal, Indian golfer
A. S. Atwal, Indian police officer
Charanjit Singh Atwal, Indian politician
Harjeet Atwal, British Punjabi writer
Inder Iqbal Singh Atw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwal |
Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) was an American manufacturer of tape libraries and storage management software which is now part of Quantum Corp. Their product line included both hardware, such as the Scalar line of robotic tape libraries, and software, such as the StorNext File System and the StorNext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Digital%20Information%20Corporation |
The Medellín Metro (Spanish: Metro de Medellín) is a rapid transit system that crosses the Metropolitan Area of Medellín from North to South and from Centre to West. It first opened for service on 30 November 1995. As one of the first implementations of modern mass transportation in Colombia and the only metro system i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn%20Metro |
Circle of Death may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Circle of Death (album), by Dance Club Massacre, 2008
The Circle of Death, a 1922 German silent film directed by William Karfiol
The Circle of Death, a 1935 American film directed by Yakima Canutt
Sports and recreation
Circle of death (boating), a hazardous phenome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%20of%20Death |
John Pitann Kinsella (born August 26, 1952) is an American former competition swimmer, an Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in multiple events.
Kinsella was a standout at Illinois swimming powerhouse Hinsdale Central High School in the late 1960s. As a 16-year-old, he was the silver medalist in the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Kinsella%20%28swimmer%29 |
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park east of Port Salerno on the northern end of Jupiter Island and is accessible only by boat. Activities include snorkeling and scuba diving, swimming, sunbathing, fishing, and picnicking and wildlife viewing.
Among the wildlife of the park are migratory birds ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lucie%20Inlet%20Preserve%20State%20Park |
The Absence is an American melodic death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their style has been described as aggressive thrash metal with Scandinavian metal influences. They were previously signed to Metal Blade Records and are now signed to M-Theory Audio.
History
The band released a self-titled EP in 2004 and followe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Absence%20%28band%29 |
Fena may refer to:
FENA, the Federal News Agency of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), a medical parameter representing the fraction of sodium in urine relative to the fraction of sodium in circulation
Fena Lake, the largest lake on the island of Guam
Jack Fena (1923-2010)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fena |
A thermodynamic free entropy is an entropic thermodynamic potential analogous to the free energy. Also known as a Massieu, Planck, or Massieu–Planck potentials (or functions), or (rarely) free information. In statistical mechanics, free entropies frequently appear as the logarithm of a partition function. The Onsager r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20entropy |
F. B. Stearns and Company, later known as F. B. Stearns Company was an American manufacturer of luxury cars in Cleveland, Ohio marketed under the brand names Stearns from 1900 to 1911 then Stearns-Knight from 1911 until 1929.
History
Frank Ballou Stearns (1879–1955) left school at age 14 in 1893 in his freshman year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearns-Knight |
The Eye in the Door is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the Regeneration trilogy.
The Eye in the Door is set in London, beginning in mid-April 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration. It ends... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eye%20in%20the%20Door |
Mark Douglas Norman (1960s to present) is a scientist living in southern Australia. He works as a Chief Conservation Scientist with Parks Victoria.
Prior to 2016 he worked as a curator and marine biologist through the University of Melbourne and Museum Victoria. For over a decade in this role, Norman worked exclusiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Norman%20%28marine%20biologist%29 |
Perizoma flavofasciata, the sandy carpet or sandy rivulet, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1792. It is found in most of Europe and northern Africa and east across the Palearctic to the Urals and the Altai Mountains. The species prefers meadow valleys, flood... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20carpet |
Headline Events of the Year
First Major League Baseball All-Star Game, July 6 at Comiskey Park: American League, 4–2.
First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game, September 10, also at Comiskey Park: West, 11–7.
Champions
Major League Baseball
World Series: New York Giants over Washington Senators (4–1)
First All-S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933%20in%20baseball |
Lüliang (), also spelled as Lvliang or Lyuliang, is a prefecture-level city in the western Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It borders Shaanxi province across the Yellow River to the west, Jinzhong and the provincial capital of Taiyuan to the east, Linfen to the south, and Xinzhou to the north. It has a tot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCliang |
Marina Prior (born 18 October 1963) is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre. From 1990 to 1993, she starred as the original Christine Daaé in the Australian premiere of The Phantom of the Opera, opposite Anthony Warlow and later Rob Guest.
Early life
Prior was born in Port Mores... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Prior |
Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee. In the eighteenth century, when the people were primarily organized by clans and towns, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Principal%20Chiefs%20of%20the%20Cherokee |
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School (ABRHS) is an open-enrollment high school in Acton, Massachusetts, United States. A part of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District, it serves the Massachusetts towns of Acton and Boxborough and has students in grades 9 through 12. It is situated downhill from the Raymond J. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acton-Boxborough%20Regional%20High%20School |
Wei (), known in historiography as Zhai Wei (), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Dingling people that existed from 388 to 392, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Its founder Zhai Liao had previously been vacillating between being a vassal of the Later Yan, Western Yan, and Eastern Jin dyna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhai%20Wei |
Winter Equinox were a post-rock/experimental band hailing from Dundas & Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, formed in May 2004.
The band was a mainly instrumental quartet that created music with elements of post-rock, electronic, glitch, and experimental sounds. The band placed an emphasis on heavily layered arrangements to cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20Equinox |
The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is placed after a run-up of 13 metres from the starting line. The next 9 hurdl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20metres%20hurdles |
Belinda Snell (born 10 January 1981) is an Australian women's basketball player. She is a member of the Australia women's national basketball team, and has won two silver medals in basketball at the 2004 & 2008 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda%20Snell |
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park is a Florida State Park located in White Springs off U.S. 41, along the Suwannee River in north Florida.
Stephen Foster is famous for having written the song "Old Folks At Home," also known as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River." The song, referring nostalgically to "home ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Foster%20Folk%20Culture%20Center%20State%20Park |
"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" is a song by American boy band Backstreet Boys, taken from their third studio album, Millennium (1999). It was written by Max Martin and Herbie Crichlow, with production by Martin and Kristian Lundin.
Jive Records selected the track to be released as the third single from the albu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Me%20the%20Meaning%20of%20Being%20Lonely |
Birthright citizenship may refer to:
Jus soli (the right of the soil or the land), a Latin term meaning that one's nationality is determined by the place of one's birth
Jus sanguinis (the right of blood), a Latin term meaning that one may acquire nationality of a state at birth if either or both of their parents hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright%20citizenship |
The Mexican National Tequila Fair is held every year in Tequila, Jalisco from November 30 to December 12. It includes parades, charreadas (Mexican rodeos), cock fights, serenades with mariachis, and firework displays.
See also
The Cabo Corrientes Regional Tequila Fair is held on the last Saturday of November at the Va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Tequila%20Fair |
Sowerby ( ) is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Pennines, contiguous with Sowerby Bridge, west-southwest of Halifax.
History
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Sowerby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was an important settlement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sowerby%2C%20West%20Yorkshire |
Grands Prix (GPs) are professional Magic: The Gathering tournaments, awarding cash prizes, Pro Points and invitations to Pro Tours. They are open to all players and are usually the biggest Magic tournaments. The first Grand Prix was held on 22–23 March 1997 in Amsterdam (Netherlands). By the end of 2018, 654 Grand Prix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Prix%20%28Magic%3A%20The%20Gathering%29 |
Firearms regulation in Mexico is governed by legislation which sets the legality by which members of the armed forces, law enforcement and private citizens may acquire, own, possess and carry firearms; covering rights and limitations to individuals—including hunting and shooting sport participants, property and persona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms%20regulation%20in%20Mexico |
Louis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger (23 October 187614 December 1970) was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) who served as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Judges' Trial in Nuremberg.
Early life
Schlegelberger was born into a Protestant sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Schlegelberger |
The Giant Viper was a trailer-mounted, vehicle-pulled, mine clearance system, designed to be deployed in areas containing land mines. It was developed for the British Army in the 1950s. It was designed to be towed behind a Centurion gun tank, FV4003, AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers); and also the FV432 Armoured ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20Viper |
Jack D. Dale was the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, the public school system for Fairfax County, Virginia and the twelfth largest school system in the United States from 2004 to 2013.
Dale had previously served as the Superintendent of Frederick County, Maryland Public Schools from 1996 to 2004, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20D.%20Dale |
The Trammell Bridge is long and carries State Road 20 over the Apalachicola River in the Florida Panhandle between Blountstown and Bristol. It is named for three members of the Trammell family: (1) U.S. Senator from Florida and former governor Park M. Trammell, who died in office in 1936; (2) his brother, John D. Tram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trammell%20Bridge |
Mark Gardner may refer to:
Mark Gardner (baseball) (born 1962), former pitcher in Major League Baseball
Mark Gardner (inventor) (born 1955), American inventor
Mark Gardner (footballer) (1884–1949), Australian rules footballer
Mark Gardner (murderer) (1956–1999), murderer executed by the State of Arkansas
Mark Gardner ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Gardner |
Anthony Walton White Evans (October 31, 1817 – November 28, 1886), known as Walton Evans, was an American civil engineer whose work included countless railroad and canal commissions in North and South America during the mid-nineteenth century.
Birth
He was born on October 31, 1817, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to Tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton%20Evans |
Manseok Park is a large public park in the Jeongja-dong area of Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Facilities
The centrepiece of the park is a man-made reservoir around which there is a 1200 m track used for walking, running, rollerblading and cycling. There is a huge paved area and permanent stage on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manseok%20Park |
A snow emergency is the active response plan when a snow storm severely impacts a city, county or town in the United States or Canada. Schools, universities, government offices, airports and public buildings may close during a snow emergency to prevent injuries during attempted travel; parking restrictions also usually... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20emergency |
Anderson W. Clark Magnet High School is a high school located in Glendale, California, United States. The school is managed as a part of the Glendale Unified School District.
History
The school was conceived from the recommendations of the "Vision of the Future" Task Force, created by the Glendale Unified School Distr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%20Magnet%20High%20School |
Exocet is a typeface designed by the British typographer Jonathan Barnbrook for the Emigre foundry in 1991. It was originally designed for the European annual series Illustration Now.
The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet%20%28typeface%29 |
The Korea Development Institute (KDI) is a Korean government agency established in 1971 to conduct policy research. KDI has conducted research on a broad range of economic and social issues, including macroeconomics policy, fiscal policy, and labor.
Timeline
31 December 1970: Promulgation of Act establishing KDI (La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea%20Development%20Institute |
The Japanese Bantam or Chabo () is a Japanese breed of ornamental chicken. It is a true bantam breed, meaning that it has no large fowl counterpart. It characterised by very short legs (the result of hereditary chondrodystrophy) and a large upright tail that reaches much higher than the head of the bird.
History
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Bantam |
Ali Fawzi Rebaine () (born 24 January 1955 in Algiers) is the leader of the Ahd 54 political party in Algeria.
He is an optician and human rights-activist, and claims to have founded Algeria's first independent human rights association. In 1983-84 and again in 1985–87, he was imprisoned by the Algerian government for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Fawzi%20Rebaine |
Tankei (湛慶 1173 – June 13, 1256) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period. He was the student of and eldest son of the master sculptor Unkei.
Famous works
Statue of Sahasrabhuja-arya-avalokiteśvara in the temple known as Sanjusangen-dō in Kyoto.
The statue of Ugyō, one of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankei |
The Blue Line is a light rail line on the TRAX system in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, in the United States, operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It is the first line of the TRAX system completed. The line opened on December 4, 1999, one year ahead of schedule after two years of construction. In addition to Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28TRAX%29 |
Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (; 12 September 1904 – 17 February 1972) was a Soviet composer.
Life and career
Popov studied at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1922 until 1930 with Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Vladimir Shcherbachov, and Maximilian Steinberg. He was considered to have the raw talent of his slightly you... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavriil%20Popov%20%28composer%29 |
Idle animations are animations within video games that occur when the player character is not performing any actions. They serve to give games personality, as an Easter Egg for the player, or for realism.
History
One of the earliest games to feature an idle animation was Android Nim in 1978. The androids blink, look ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle%20animation |
Charles Nelson Herreid (October 20, 1857 – July 6, 1928) was the fourth Governor of South Dakota.
Biography
Charles Herreid was born in Dane County, Wisconsin. His parents, Nels Olson Herreid (1832–1902) and Thone Kittelson Herreid (1833–1908), were both Norwegian immigrants. He attended Galesville University in Wisco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20N.%20Herreid |
Anthony Henderson may refer to:
Anthony M. Henderson (born 1966), U.S. Marine Corps general
Tony Henderson (born 1954), English footballer
Krayzie Bone (Anthony Henderson, born 1973), American rapper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Henderson |
Zhai Liao (; died 391) was a leader of the western Dingling horde and the founder of the Dingling-led Zhai Wei dynasty of China. During his reign, he used the monarchical title of Heavenly King.
Early career
Zhai Liao, a royal family member of the West Ding Ling, followed the horde migrate from Kazakhstan into China, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhai%20Liao |
NASCAR on Fox, also known as Fox NASCAR, is the branding used for broadcasts of NASCAR races produced by Fox Sports and have aired on the Fox television network in the United States since 2001. Speed, a motorsports-focused cable channel owned by Fox, began broadcasting NASCAR-related events in February 2002, with its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20on%20Fox |
State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta (Indonesian: Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Arabic: جامعة شريف هداية الله الإسلامية الحكومية جاكرتا) is a public university in Indonesia, located in Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten.
Campuses
Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syarif%20Hidayatullah%20State%20Islamic%20University%20Jakarta |
John Robert Brown may refer to:
John Robert Brown (Virginia politician) (1842–1927), United States representative from Virginia
John Robert Brown (judge) (1909–1993), member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights
John Robert Brown (British Colu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Robert%20Brown |
The Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is the international governing body for the sport of women's flat track roller derby. It sets the international standards for rankings, rules, and competition in the sport, and provides guidance and resources to aid development of roller derby.
The organization was foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Flat%20Track%20Derby%20Association |
Hyneria is a genus of large prehistoric predatory lobe-finned fish which lived in freshwater during the Devonian period (Famennian).
Etymology
The genus name Hyneria is a reference to the village of Hyner, Pennsylvania, near where the first specimen was found. The species epiphet H. lindae is derived from the name of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyneria |
Richard Dykstra (born April 10, 1966) is a Canadian politician. He served as president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 2016 to 2018. He also served as the MP for the Ontario riding of St. Catharines from 2006 to 2015. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2006 federal elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Dykstra |
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick is an action hack and slash video game developed by VIS Entertainment and published by THQ. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and based on the film trilogy The Evil Dead. It is set eleven years after the events of Army of Darkness, and three years after Jenny (Ash's girlf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20Dead%3A%20A%20Fistful%20of%20Boomstick |
North Texas Regional Airport / Perrin Field is a county-owned airport in Grayson County, Texas between Sherman and Denison. Formerly Grayson County Airport, the airport was renamed in November 2007. Several buildings are occupied by businesses, Grayson County government agencies, and Grayson County College.
Most U.S.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Texas%20Regional%20Airport |
The University Line is an obsolete designation to a light rail line of Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system in Salt Lake City. It was the second TRAX line opened by UTA, after the Sandy/Salt Lake Line opened in 1999. The original line ran from the Delta Center (now Arena) Station to the Stadium Station, which is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Line%20%28TRAX%29 |
Samuel Harrison Elrod (May 1, 1856 – July 13, 1935) was an American attorney and the fifth Governor of South Dakota. Elrod, a Republican from Clark, South Dakota, served from 1905 to 1907.
Biography
Elrod was born in Coatesville, Indiana. He attended public school in Coatesville and graduated from DePauw University i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20H.%20Elrod |
The Driskill, a Romanesque-style building completed in 1886, is the oldest operating hotel in Austin, Texas, United States, and one of the best-known hotels in Texas generally. The Driskill was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune constructing "the finest hotel south of St. Loui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driskill%20Hotel |
Farmer's lung (not to be confused with silo-filler's disease) is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by the inhalation of biologic dusts coming from hay dust or mold spores or any other agricultural products. It results in a type III hypersensitivity inflammatory response and can progress to become a chronic conditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer%27s%20lung |
Poetin (1997 - December 2005) was a world-class dressage horse that was the 2003 World Young Dressage Horse Champion in the six-year-old division, and sold for a record amount at the PSI Auction in Germany.
Breeding
Poetin was of excellent bloodlines, sired by Sandro Hit, the Winner of 1999 six-year-old Dressage World... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetin |
Coe Isaac Crawford (January 14, 1858 – April 25, 1944) was an American attorney and politician from South Dakota. He served as the sixth Governor and as a U.S. Senator.
Biography
A native of Volney, Iowa, Crawford graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1882 and practiced law in Independence, Iowa bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coe%20I.%20Crawford |
Zhai Zhao (; died 393) was the second and last monarch of the Dingling-led Chinese Zhai Wei dynasty. During his reign, he used the monarchical title of Heavenly King.
Zhai Zhao's father Zhai Liao had, after rebelling against Eastern Jin dynasty in 386, held a swath of territory near the Yellow River in modern Henan. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhai%20Zhao |
Roman Aleksandrovich Rusinov (, born 21 October 1981 in Moscow) is a Russian auto racing driver who competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship with G-Drive Racing from the Championship's first season in 2012 until 2021 and the European Le Mans Series from 2018 until 2021. He has four titles in international endur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Rusinov |
Robert Scadden Vessey (May 16, 1858 – October 18, 1929) was the seventh Governor of South Dakota. Vessey, a Republican from Wessington Springs, served from 1909 to 1913.
Biography
Vessey was born to Charles and Jane Elizabeth Vessey in Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. His father was a Methodist lay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Vessey |
Liliana Allen Doll (born March 24, 1970) is a track and field athlete, who started competing for Mexico in 1998. She previously represented Cuba. She won a bronze medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 60 metres.
Career
She has participated in the 1992, 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics. At the Pan Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana%20Allen |
The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute refers to two antecedents of the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts:
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (New York)
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (Rhode Island) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostal%20Collegiate%20Institute |
The National Liberation Army or ALN (; ) was the armed wing of the nationalist National Liberation Front of Algeria during the Algerian War. After Algeria won its independence from France in 1962, the ALN was converted into the regular Algerian People's National Armed Forces.
History
Algerian Revolution
The (Nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Liberation%20Army%20%28Algeria%29 |
Whittaker is a surname of English origin, meaning 'white acre', and a given name. Variants include Whitaker and Whitacre. People with the name include:
Surname
A
Aaron Whittaker (born 1968), New Zealand rugby player
Al Whittaker (1918–2006), American business organizer
Alison Whittaker, Australian poet
Allien Whittak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker |
Carl Gunderson (June 20, 1864February 26, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 11th Governor of South Dakota. Gunderson, a Republican from Mitchell, South Dakota, served from 1925 to 1927.
Biography
Gunderson was born in a log cabin in Clay County in the Dakota Territory, near Vermillion. As a young man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Gunderson |
General Sir Hugh Arbuthnott, KCB (1780 – 11 June 1868) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament for Kincardineshire 1826–1865.
He was born the son of John Arbuthnott, 7th Viscount of Arbuthnott and the younger brother of John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott.
He entered the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Arbuthnot%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29 |
Unión Magdalena () commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) and also Los Samarios (The Samarios), is a Colombian football club from the city of Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena, founded on April 19 1953. They currently play in the Primera A, first division ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n%20Magdalena |
Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC) is the name of several independent girls' schools in Australia, affiliated with either the Presbyterian Church of Australia or the Uniting Church in Australia. Many of these schools are seen as sister schools to Scotch Colleges and The Scots College.
List of schools
Establishments kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian%20Ladies%27%20College |
Lawrence Kendall Hall (June 30, 1940 – September 24, 1997) was an American singer mostly known for his one-hit wonder song called "Sandy" in 1959. The disc reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Background
Hall was born in Hamlet, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, to Woodrow Burney Hall and Toto Sophia Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Hall |
Krakus, Krak or Grakch was a legendary Polish prince, ruler of the Vistulans (a Lechitic tribe), and the presumed founder of Kraków. Krakus is also credited with building Wawel Castle and slaying the Wawel Dragon by feeding it a dead sheep full of sulfur. The latter is how Krak the cobbler became Krakus the prince, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakus |
Epoch of Unlight is a melodic death metal band from Memphis, Tennessee. The band formed in 1990, playing under a variety of different names including Enraptured and Requiem until 1994, when they officially settled on Epoch of Unlight.
Biography
In 1994 they released their first demo as Epoch, a four song cassette ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20of%20Unlight |
(born 21 June 1974) is a Japanese snowboarder. Born in Osaka Prefecture, her career-high has so far been a 3rd-place finish in the 2005 Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup held in Canada.
She competed in the Women's Halfpipe in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Fushimi qualified for the competition's final, which wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikako%20Fushimi |
A mammary tumor is a neoplasm originating in the mammary gland. It is a common finding in older female dogs and cats that are not spayed, but they are found in other animals as well. The mammary glands in dogs and cats are associated with their nipples and extend from the underside of the chest to the groin on both sid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammary%20tumor |
Warren Everett Green (March 10, 1869 – April 27, 1945) was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of South Dakota. Green, a Republican from Hazel, South Dakota, served from 1931 to 1933. He was also a state senator from 1913 through 1915, and again from 1923 to 1927.
Biography
Green was born in Jacks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Green |
Dmitry Vladimirovich Kuzmin (, born December 12, 1968), is a Russian poet, critic, and publisher.
Biography
Kuzmin was born in Moscow, son of the architect Vladimir Legoshin and the literary critic Edwarda Kuzmina; among his grandparents were the critic Boris Kuzmin and the prominent literary translator Nora Gal. In 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Kuzmin |
"Danke Deutschland" is a song by Croatian singer Sanja Trumbić, dedicated to Germany for its role in Croatia's gaining of independence.
The lyrics, in German:
Danke Deutschland, meine Seele brennt!
Danke Deutschland, für das liebe Geschenk.
Danke Deutschland, vielen Dank,
wir sind jetzt nicht allein,
und die Hoffnung... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danke%20Deutschland |
Thomas Matthew Berry (April 23, 1879 – October 30, 1951) was the 14th Governor of South Dakota. Berry, a Democrat from Belvidere, South Dakota, served from 1933 to 1937. He is noted for defeating two incumbent Democratic United States senators in the state Democratic primary and then losing the seat to the Republican... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Berry%20%28South%20Dakota%20politician%29 |
The Symphony on a French Mountain Air (), Op. 25, is written in 1886 by Vincent d'Indy.
As indicated by the title, d'Indy took the principal theme from a folk song he heard at Périer overlooking the Cévennes mountains (hence the work's alternative name, Symphonie cévenole). Originally conceived as a fantaisie for pia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20on%20a%20French%20Mountain%20Air |
Leslie Jensen (September 15, 1892 – December 14, 1964) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 15th Governor of South Dakota.
Early life and military career
Leslie Jensen was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota. In 1916 and 1917, he was a Second Lieutenant in the South Dakota National Guard 4th Infa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Jensen |
A jugular foramen is one of the two (left and right) large foramina (openings) in the base of the skull, located behind the carotid canal. It is formed by the temporal bone and the occipital bone. It allows many structures to pass, including the inferior petrosal sinus, three cranial nerves, the sigmoid sinus, and meni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugular%20foramen |
The Plot is a Patience game which is played with two decks of playing cards.
Rules
First, thirteen cards are dealt, squared up, and turned face up. This pile makes up the reserve. Then a card is placed as the first foundation. Then, below the reserve, twelve cards are dealt in three rows of four cards each.
As they b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Plot |
Harlan John Bushfield (August 6, 1882September 27, 1948) was an American politician from South Dakota. He served as the 16th governor of South Dakota and as a United States senator.
A native of Iowa, Bushfield was raised in Miller, South Dakota. He attended Dakota Wesleyan University, graduated from the University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan%20J.%20Bushfield |
The Café Wars took place during the Algerian War, as a part of the internal fighting in France between two rival Algerian nationalist movements, the Mouvement National Algérien and the Front de Libération National (which later became the ruling political party in independent Algeria).
The Café Wars are so called becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9%20Wars |
The Banu Nadir (, ) were a Jewish Arab tribe that lived in northern Arabia at the oasis of Medina until the 7th century. They were expelled by the Islamic prophet Muhammad after his defeat at Uhud against the Quraysh, who finally took decisive action against his constant marauding attacks on their trade caravans and to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu%20Nadir |
KREN-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside low-power, Class A UniMás affiliate KRNS-CD (channel 46). The two stations share studios on Wells Avenue in Reno; KREN-TV's transmitter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KREN-TV |
Clavicula may refer to:
Clavicle, a slender, S-shaped bone approximately 6 inches long bone that serves as a strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum
Mappae clavicula, a medieval Latin text containing manufacturing recipes for crafts materials, including for metals, glass, mosaics, and dyes and tints for mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavicula |
Biarmosuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived around 267 mya during the Middle Permian period. Biarmosuchus was discovered in the Perm region of Russia. The first specimen was found in channel sandstone that was deposited by flood waters originating from the young Ural Mountains.
Description
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biarmosuchus |
Merrell Quentin Sharpe (January 11, 1888 – January 22, 1962) was an American politician from Kennebec, South Dakota. Affiliated with the Republican Party, Sharpe was the attorney general of South Dakota from 1929 through 1933, and governor of South Dakota from 1943 through 1947.
Biography
Sharpe was born in Marysville... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrell%20Q.%20Sharpe |
(born November 22, 1974, in Akita, Akita, Japan) is a former J-pop idol, singer-songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, she released three albums and nine singles.
Biography
Early life
Junko Kawada graduated from Meguro Nihon University Junior High and High School and the Junior College of Kagawa Nutrition Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko%20Kawada |
Gigantiform cementoma is a rare, autosomal dental tumor. It is benign, but without intervention it can result in severe disfigurement of the jaw. The cause of this tumor is currently unknown. This is an exceedingly rare tumor with only a handful of documented cases worldwide. The most famous case is of Novemthree Sia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantiform%20cementoma |
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