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Destrehan Plantation () is an antebellum mansion, in the French Colonial style, modified with Greek Revival architectural elements. It is located in southeast Louisiana, near the town of the same name, Destrehan.
During the 19th century, the plantation was a major producer of indigo and then sugarcane. The home is mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destrehan%20Plantation |
Sigurd Anderson (January 22, 1904December 21, 1990) was the 19th Governor of South Dakota. Anderson, a Republican from Webster, South Dakota, served in that office from 1951 to 1955.
Early life and education
Anderson was born at Frolands Verk, a rural community near Arendal, in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd%20Anderson |
John Thomas O'Sullivan (born August 25, 1979) is an American former professional gridiron football quarterback who played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL), two seasons in NFL Europe and one season in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for UC Davis, where he was a three-year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20T.%20O%27Sullivan |
WBVC may refer to:
WBVC (The CW Plus), a cable/satellite television station in Traverse City, Michigan, United States
WBVC (FM), a defunct radio station (91.1 FM) formerly licensed to Pomfret, Connecticut, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBVC |
2EL is an Australian radio station, owned by Bill Caralis's Broadcast Operations Group. It is licensed to Orange, New South Wales,
and transmits on 1089kHz on the AM band. BOG purchased the station from AMI during 2005.
The station was opened as 2GZ on 31 October 1935, and vacated by 2GZ on 14 September 1996. 2EL is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2EL |
Baiyin () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Gansu province, People's Republic of China. Established in the 1950s as a base for mining non-ferrous metals, its mines are becoming exhausted in recent decades, requiring the city to reinvent its economy. Located around from Gansu's capital Lanzhou, it is part of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiyin |
The Officer Cadet School, Portsea (sometimes referred to as OCS Portsea) was an officer training establishment of the Australian Army. Established at Portsea in Victoria, Australia, in 1951 to provide training to officer cadets prior to commissioning, for many years OCS provided the Australian Regular Army with the bul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer%20Cadet%20School%2C%20Portsea |
Ultimate Breaks and Beats (also commonly abbreviated as UBB) was a series of 25 compilation albums released from 1986 to 1991 by Street Beat Records edited by "BreakBeat Lou" Flores. Featured on the albums were tracks from 1966 to 1984 that included drum breaks.
The albums found high popularity with hip hop producers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Breaks%20and%20Beats |
Gleem is an American brand of oral hygiene products, including toothpastes and electric toothbrushes, owned by the Procter & Gamble. It was introduced as a toothpaste in the United States in 1952 and discontinued in 2014. Procter & Gamble later revived Gleem toothpaste as a flavor variant of Crest toothpaste (Crest Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleem |
Word of Mouth is the fifth album by heavy metal band Vicious Rumors, released on the Rising Sun label in 1994.
"Thunder and Rain Pt. 2" is dedicated to the memory of late Criss Oliva, of Savatage.
Track listing
"Against the Grain" - 4:21
"All Rights Reserved" - 4:42
"The Voice" - 4:13
"Thinking of You" - 4:56
"Thunde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20of%20Mouth%20%28Vicious%20Rumors%20album%29 |
Frank Leroy Farrar (April 2, 1929 – October 31, 2021) was an American politician who was the 24th governor of South Dakota. A Republican from Britton, he served as the state's attorney general from 1963 to 1969, and as governor from 1969 to 1971. After leaving office, he chaired several holding companies and became the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Farrar |
"White Key" is the fourth single released by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki under music label Sony Music in December 1998.
Information
The main song of the single was also at the TV commercial of the Japanese product "Kissmark", in the same way that "all night long" was used before. The full single was produced by Tetsuya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Key |
Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865) were military orders issued during the American Civil War, on January 16, 1865, by General William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi of the United States Army. They provided for the confiscation of of land along the Atlantic coast of Sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Field%20Orders%20No.%2015 |
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Romania.
Nineteenth century
The principality of Moldavia issued stamps immediately upon gaining autonomy in 1858, with the first cap de bour stamps being issued in July 1858. These were produced by handstamping on laid paper, and are now quite rare. The ini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage%20stamps%20and%20postal%20history%20of%20Romania |
The Italian war of 15361538 was a conflict between King Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. The objective was to achieve control over territories in Northern Italy, in particular the Duchy of Milan. The war saw French troops invading Northern Italy, and Spanish troops invading Franc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20War%20of%201536%E2%80%931538 |
Nicolás Bautista Monardes (1493 – 10 October 1588) was a Spanish physician and botanist.
Monardes published several books of varying importance. In Diálogo llamado pharmacodilosis (1536), he examines humanism and suggests studying several classical authors, principally Pedanius Dioscorides.
He discusses the importanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s%20Monardes |
Hants East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Its Member of the Legislative Assembly since 2013 has been Margaret Miller of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
The district has existed since 1949. Earlier, it and Hants West were together ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hants%20East |
In mathematics, in the area of complex analysis, Carlson's theorem is a uniqueness theorem which was discovered by Fritz David Carlson. Informally, it states that two different analytic functions which do not grow very fast at infinity can not coincide at the integers. The theorem may be obtained from the Phragmén–Lind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson%27s%20theorem |
Arthur Yoria is an American musician based in Houston, Texas, United States.
Born in Chicago on September 5, 1969, as Alvaro Arturo Guzman, Yoria started to play guitar very late while he was attending the University of Houston. After stints in the Houston-based bands, The Jeepneys and Lavendula, Arthur decided to set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Yoria |
Hants West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
The district has existed since 1949. Earlier, it and Hants East were together in Hants.
Geography
Hants West has a landmass.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hants%20West |
Serbian traditional clothing, also called as Serbian national costume or Serbian dress (, plural: / ), refers to the traditional clothing worn by Serbs living in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and the extended Serbian diaspora communities in Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian%20traditional%20clothing |
Harvey Lowell Wollman (May 14, 1935 – October 18, 2022) was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of South Dakota from 1978 to 1979. He was the first Lieutenant Governor in the history of South Dakota to succeed to the governorship. To date, he is also the most recent Democrat to have held the office o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Wollman |
The costal cartilages are bars of hyaline cartilage that serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax. Costal cartilage is only found at the anterior ends of the ribs, providing medial extension.
Differences from Ribs 1-12
The first seven pairs are connected with the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costal%20cartilage |
James Stevens may refer to:
James Stevens (Connecticut politician) (1768–1835), United States Representative from Connecticut
James G. Stevens (1822–1906), Scottish-born lawyer, judge and political figure in New Brunswick
James Stevens (New York politician) (1836–1912), New York state politician
J. A. Stevens (James A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Stevens |
Scott Matthew Olsen (born January 12, 1984) is an American former pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Florida Marlins and Washington Nationals between 2005 and 2010.
Early life
Olsen was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended Crystal Lake South High School in Crystal Lake, Illinois, for high school ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Olsen |
Virginia Marlita "Penny" Toler (born March 24, 1966) is an American basketball executive and former player who served most recently as the general manager of the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Toler holds the distinction of scoring the first basket in WNBA history.
College ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny%20Toler |
Erythemis collocata, the western pondhawk, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to western Canada, the western United States, and Mexico.
Food Resources
Erythemis collocata is known to feed on the western malaria mosquito, Anopheles freeborni. This predation primarily occurs at dusk, when A. freeborni ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythemis%20collocata |
The Étoile Nord-Africaine or ENA (French for North African Star) was an early Algerian nationalist organization founded in 1926. It was dissolved first in 1929, then reorganised in 1933 but was later finally dissolved in 1937. It can be considered a forerunner of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN), who fought Fran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89toile%20Nord-Africaine |
Radium Springs is an unincorporated community located on the southeast outskirts of Albany in Dougherty County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Albany Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Radium Springs is best known as the location of one of the "Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia": the largest natural spring in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium%20Springs%2C%20Georgia |
William Beattie "Big Chief" Feathers (August 20, 1909 – March 11, 1979) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He played college football and college basketball at the University of Tennessee.
Early life and college career
Feathers attended Virginia High School, in Bristol, Virginia, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beattie%20Feathers |
Kings North is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
The electoral district was formed through redistribution in 1956. It was previously part of the district of Kings.
District profile
Agriculture is a major industry in Kings North. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20North |
Concordia Preparatory School (CPS) is a co-educational parochial secondary school serving grades 6-12. Originally known as Baltimore Lutheran School, the school is located in Towson, Maryland, United States. CPS is operated by the Baltimore Lutheran High School Association, Inc., an association of Lutheran churches in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia%20Preparatory%20School%20%28Maryland%29 |
Upper Carniola (; ; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The centre of the region is Kranj, while other urban centers include Jesenice, Tržič, Škofja Loka, Kamnik, and Domžale. It has around 300,000 inhabitants or 14% of the population of Slovenia.
Histori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Carniola |
Ron Obvious (born Ron Obvious Vermeulen) is a New Zealand born - studio designer, acoustic consultant, recording engineer and producer.
After completing an electronics degree in Toronto, He started working in the recording industry, September 1976 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. Working as a technical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Obvious |
Lower Carniola (; ) is a traditional region in Slovenia, the southeastern part of the historical Carniola region.
Geography
Lower Carniola is delineated by the Ljubljana Basin with the city of Ljubljana to the northwest, by the Kolpa River and the border with Croatia with the Gorjanci Mountains to the south and southe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Carniola |
Kings South is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It includes the town of Wolfville, the village of New Minas, the community of Coldbrook, and Glooscap First Nation.
Geography
Kings South has a landmass of .
Members of the Legislative A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20South |
Philippine Idol is the first version of the Idol series in the Philippines, the 35th country in the world to air a local Idol adaptation and the sixth in Asia broadcast by ABC 5 (now TV5). Similar to the premise of original show Pop Idol, Philippine Idol aims to find the best singer in the country who can be defined as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20Idol |
Pictou Centre is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
1949 general election
1953 general election
1956 gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictou%20Centre |
Judias Anna Lou "Judy" Buenoano (born Judias Welty, also known as Judias Goodyear and Judias Morris; April 4, 1943 – March 30, 1998) was an American serial killer who was executed for the 1971 murder of her husband James Goodyear. She was also convicted for the 1980 murder of her son, Michael Buenoano, and of the 1983 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Buenoano |
Pictou East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2013 election is Tim Houston of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia who replaced Clarrie MacKinnon of the New De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictou%20East |
Christ Church or Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
History
In 1701 English minister Thomas Bray formed the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to minister to the new English settlers. In 1711 a group of Anglicans were ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20Church%2C%20New%20Brunswick%2C%20New%20Jersey |
Palacio Salvo () is a building at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was designed by the architect Mario Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, who used a similar design for his Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Finished in 1928, Palacio Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio%20Salvo |
Pictou West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2013 has been Karla MacFarlane of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia (PC).
Geography
The geography of Pictou West ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictou%20West |
The Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia are considered to be:
Amicalola Falls
Okefenokee Swamp
Providence Canyon
Radium Springs
Stone Mountain
Tallulah Gorge
Warm Springs
The first list of natural wonders was compiled by state librarian Ella May Thornton and published in the Atlanta Georgian magazine on December 26, 192... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20seven%20natural%20wonders%20of%20Georgia%20%28U.S.%20state%29 |
Carol Mary Bundy (née Peters; August 26, 1942 – December 9, 2003) was an American serial killer. Bundy and Doug Clark became collectively known as the Sunset Strip Killers after being convicted of a series of lust murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980.
Early life
Bundy had a troubled c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20M.%20Bundy |
Kwai Tsing Container Terminals is the main port facilities in the reclamation along Rambler Channel between Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. It evolved from four berths of Kwai Chung Container Port () completed in the 1970s. It later expanded with two berths in the 1980s. Two additional terminals are added ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwai%20Tsing%20Container%20Terminals |
Hadashville is a small, unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Reynolds, in eastern Manitoba, Canada.
Hadashville is located in the Whitemouth River watershed north of the Sandilands Provincial Forest, about east of Winnipeg on Highway 11, and miles north of the Trans-Canada Highway. It has sandy soil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadashville%2C%20Manitoba |
Inner Carniola (; ) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the southwestern part of the larger Carniola region. It comprises the Hrušica karst plateau up to Postojna Gate, bordering the Slovenian Littoral (the Gorizia region) in the west. Its administrative and economic center of the region is Postojna, and other minor c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20Carniola |
This is a list of services by MSN, the web portal and collection of Internet services by Microsoft:
Current services
MSN, the web portal and series of apps
MSN Dial-up, the Internet service provider (originally The Microsoft Network)
MSN Games, a casual gaming website
Rebranded
Bing, a web search engine (previo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20services%20by%20MSN |
The Shackled City Adventure Path (or simply Shackled City) is a role-playing game Adventure Path designed for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), originally appearing as a series of modules in Dungeon magazine, and later collected in a hardcover edition collecting all previous installments plus an additional chapter written espe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shackled%20City%20Adventure%20Path |
Mysterious Island is a "port-of-call" (themed land) at Tokyo DisneySea in the Tokyo Disney Resort. It features a large volcano and is located in the center of the park.
Theming
Mysterious Island is a recreation of the fictitious one in Jules Verne's novel, The Mysterious Island, which serves as Captain Nemo's lair. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious%20Island%20%28Tokyo%20DisneySea%29 |
The Innocence Mission is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. It was recorded in six months in several studios in Los Angeles, California, including the Kiva, Ocean Way Recording, and the Sound Castle. The album cover features the 1894 painting Impromptu Ball by Eva Roos. The album was re-released digit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Innocence%20Mission%20%28album%29 |
Tire load sensitivity describes the behaviour of tires under load. Conventional pneumatic tires do not behave as classical friction theory would suggest. The load sensitivity of most real tires in their typical operating range is such that the coefficient of friction decreases as the vertical load, Fz, increases. The m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire%20load%20sensitivity |
Orange County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Orange, in Orange County, Texas, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Orange County Airport is assigned ORG by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20County%20Airport%20%28Texas%29 |
Hollie Smith (born 17 November 1982) is a New Zealand soul singer-songwriter based in Auckland, New Zealand. Her four solo albums Long Player, Humour and the Misfortune of Others, Water or Gold, and Coming In From The Dark have all reached number one on the RIANZ albums chart, making her one of the most successful fema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollie%20Smith |
The Slovene Littoral (, ; ; ) is one of the five traditional regions of Slovenia. The littoral in its name - for a coastal-adjacent area - recalls the former Austrian Littoral (Avstrijsko Primorje), the Habsburg possessions on the upper Adriatic coast, of which the Slovene Littoral was part.
Geography
The region form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene%20Littoral |
Cynthia Lynn Coffman (born January 19, 1962) is an American serial killer convicted in the 1986 deaths of two women in California. She was convicted along with her boyfriend, James Marlow. Coffman admits to being present at the murders but insists she suffered from battered woman syndrome. She was sentenced to death an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Coffman%20%28murderer%29 |
The Dhammayietra (, "pilgrimage"; ) is an annual peace walk in Cambodia that originated during the historic repatriation of refugees along the Thai border camps during the United Nations monitored transition to democracy in 1992. The Khmer word "dhammayietra", derived from the Pāli dhamma (, "dharma") and yātrā (, "wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammayietra |
Clunia (full name Colonia Clunia Sulpicia) was an ancient Roman city. Its remains are located on Alto de Castro, at more than 1000 metres above sea level, between the villages of Peñalba de Castro and Coruña del Conde, 2 km away from the latter, in the province of Burgos in Spain. It was one of the most important Roman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clunia |
CRC Oil Storage Depot was one of five oil terminals in Hong Kong and owned by China Resources Petroleum Company Limited (CRC).
See also
Energy in Hong Kong
External links
Texaco Oil Depot [1936-1988]. Contains a list of former oil depots in Hong Kong.
Tsing Yi
Oil terminals
Energy infrastructure in Hong Kong | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC%20Oil%20Storage%20Depot |
The Prestes Maia building, or sometimes simply Prestes Maia (), is believed to be the largest squatted highrise building in South America, with an estimated 2000 inhabitants. The complex is made up of two tower blocks, Bloco A and Bloco B, the latter of which has the address Avenida Prestes Maia, 911 near Luz Station i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestes%20Maia%20%28building%29 |
China Resources Petroleum Company Limited (), was a subsidiary of China Resources (CRC), and was a major petroleum product company in China 1991–2007. CRC was created in 1991 and had operations throughout Southeast Asia and based in Hong Kong. CR Enterprises disposed Dongguan China Resources Petrochems to Sinopec at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Resources%20Petroleum%20Company |
Port Discovery is a "port-of-call" (themed land) at Tokyo DisneySea in the Tokyo Disney Resort. It represents a "marina of the future".
Theming
Port Discovery is themed to a retrofuturistic research station inspired by the world of science fiction novels and films from the early 20th century.
The area is home to two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Discovery%20%28Tokyo%20DisneySea%29 |
"The Mermaid" is a song about a whaler falling in love with a mermaid, but despairs because the mermaid has fish parts below her waist. It was written by Shel Silverstein and recorded on his album I'm So Good That I Don't Have to Brag, in 1965. In December 1966, "The Mermaid" was published in Playboy magazine while Sil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mermaid%20%28Shel%20Silverstein%20song%29 |
Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose (conventional reuse) or to fulfill a different function (creative reuse or repurposing). It should be distinguished from recycling, which is the breaking down of used items to make raw materials for the manufacture of new products. Reuse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse |
Faye Della Copeland (née Wilson; August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) and Ray Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20and%20Faye%20Copeland |
The Commonwealth Governor's School (CGS) is one of 18 magnet Governor's Schools in Virginia. The Commonwealth Governor's School is a half-day program for gifted and highly motivated students based on a school-within-a-school model. Admissions are competitive (involving an interview, a review of school history and teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth%20Governor%27s%20School |
Bagi may refer to:
Baki, Awdal, Somaliland
Bagi, the Italian name of the titular see of Bageis
Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature, a 1984 Japanese anime film by Osamu Tezuka, or its titular character
See also
Baghi (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagi |
Baghi may refer to:
Films
Baghi (1939 film), see List of Hindi films of 1939
Baghi (1953 film), see List of Hindi films of 1953
Baghi (1956 film), a Pakistani Urdu-language film
Baghi (1964 film), a 1964 Bollywood film with Leela Naidu
Baghi (2005 film), a 2005 film with Sardool Sikander
Other uses
Baghi, Iran,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghi |
Iggwilv is a fictional wizard from the Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. She was created by Gary Gygax.
Iggwilv is characterized as a selfish, evil-aligned magic user with much power and a penchant for sexual manipulation. She is the creator of the fictional demonomicons, which lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggwilv |
Sherman Municipal Airport is a city-owned public airport located mile southeast of the central business district of Sherman, in Grayson County, Texas.
Many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but this airport is SWI to the FAA and has no IATA code.
History
The first ste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%20Municipal%20Airport |
amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, known until 2005 as the American Foundation for AIDS Research, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of AIDS-related public policy.
AmfAR is a tax-exempt corporation under Inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmfAR |
Enriqueta Martí i Ripollés (1868 – 12 May 1913) was a Spanish child serial killer, kidnapper, prostitute and procuress of children. She was called "The Vampire of carrer Ponent", "The Vampire of Barcelona" and "The Vampire of the Raval" in the press.
Some researchers have, however, asserted that she was not a killer o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriqueta%20Mart%C3%AD |
Pac-Man 2 can refer to either one of four games:
Ms. Pac-Man, the second game in the Pac-Man series
Super Pac-Man, the second game officially made by Namco
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, the side-scrolling puzzle game based on Pac-Man
Pac-Man Championship Edition, Toru Iwatani's "official" sequel to the original Pac-M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man%202 |
Birds Hill is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Manitoba located a few kilometers northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul. The community is a few kilometers east of the Red River The R.M. of East St. Paul's Administration and Finance Departments, Fire Department... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds%20Hill |
WEPA-CD, virtual channel 59 (UHF digital channel 16), was a low-power, Class A Cozi TV-affiliated television station that was licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station was owned by OTA Broadcasting.
The simulcast network gave it coverage similar to or greater than that of full-power television s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEPA-CD |
Hearne Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Hearne, a city in Robertson County, Texas, United States.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearne%20Municipal%20Airport |
Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja (, ) (1828–1878) was a Serbian poet, sometimes called "the greatest female Serbian poet of the 19th century".
Career
As her fame spread beyond the confines of Serbian culture of the Austrian Empire, Prince Mihailo Obrenović would invite her to court when she came to Belgrade and Vienna-bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milica%20Stojadinovi%C4%87-Srpkinja |
ClayFighter 2: Judgment Clay is a fighting game released for the Super NES in 1995. It is Interplay's sequel to their 1993 game ClayFighter.
Story
ClayFighter 2 revolves around the town of Mudville, where the clay meteor crashed in ClayFighter. Learning of the spectacle that took place in "Clayland", the evil Dr. Gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClayFighter%202%3A%20Judgment%20Clay |
Turner Mastin Marquett (July 19, 1831 – December 22, 1894) was a Nebraska Republican politician best known for being the first House representative for the state.
Early life
Marquett (sometimes spelled "Marquette") was born near Springfield, Ohio, in 1831 and attended Springfield High School and Wittenberg College. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner%20M.%20Marquett |
The Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Peninsular Malaysia (), abbreviated PERHILITAN, is a governmental organisation that is responsible for the protection, management and preservation of wildlife and national parks in Peninsular Malaysia.
The department was established under the Wildlife Protection Act, 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Wildlife%20and%20National%20Parks%20Peninsular%20Malaysia |
The Tripuri (also known as Tripura Tipra, Tiprasa, Twipra), are a Tibeto-Burman-speaking ethnic group of Northeast Indian state of Tripura. They are the descendants of the inhabitants of the Twipra/Tripura Kingdom in North-East India and Bangladesh. The Tripuri people through the Manikya dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripuri%20people |
Louis of Granada, OP (1504 – 31 December 1588), was a Dominican friar who was noted as theologian, writer and preacher. The cause for his canonization has been long open with the Holy See, with his current status being Venerable.
Biography
Louis was born in Granada of poor parents named Sarria. At the age of nineteen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20of%20Granada |
radio SHARK (the capitalization is a trademarked logotype) is a computer-controlled radio designed by Griffin Technology, introduced in late 2004. A second generation (radio SHARK 2) superseded it in 2007; they are distinguishable by color (the first model is white, the second is black). The radio connects the computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20SHARK |
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Africaine |
Milovan Glišić (6 January 1847 – 20 January 1908) was a Serbian writer, dramatist, translator, and literary theorist. He is sometimes referred to as the Serbian Gogol.
Legacy
Glišić is considered to be one of the best translators of his time and several of his short stories including Prva Brazda and Glava Šećera are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovan%20Gli%C5%A1i%C4%87 |
Michael James Jackson (born 4 December 1973) is an English football manager and former professional footballer. He is an under-23 coach for Burnley and served as caretaker manager for the first team.
As a player, Jackson was a defender who played in the Football League for Crewe Alexandra, Bury, Preston North End, Tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Jackson%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201973%29 |
In mathematical logic, an ω-consistent (or omega-consistent, also called numerically segregative) theory is a theory (collection of sentences) that is not only (syntactically) consistent (that is, does not prove a contradiction), but also avoids proving certain infinite combinations of sentences that are intuitively co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A9-consistent%20theory |
While Denver may not be as recognized for historical musical prominence like such cities as Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago or New York City, it still manages to have a very active popular, jazz, and classical music scene, which has nurtured many artists and genres to regional, national, and even international attention.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Denver |
Al gran sole carico d'amore (In the Bright Sunshine Heavy with Love) is an opera (designated as an 'azione scenica') with music by Luigi Nono, based mainly on plays by Bertolt Brecht, but also incorporating texts of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, and Vladimir Lenin. Nono himself and Yuri Lyubimov wrote the libre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20gran%20sole%20carico%20d%27amore |
Port Vincent is a small town on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, 194 km from Adelaide by road.
History
The Narungga Aborigines inhabited the area prior to white settlement. The town was laid out by Adelaide solicitor L.M. Cullen in 1877, originally known as Surveyor's Point.
In its early days it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Vincent%2C%20South%20Australia |
"A Bug's Land" (stylized "a bug's land") was an area of Disney California Adventure themed after the 1998 Disney·Pixar film A Bug's Life. The land consisted of Flik's Fun Fair, which opened on October 7, 2002, and was set in a representation of the film's fictional universe with four rides targeted towards young child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Bug%27s%20Land |
Word of mouth is a method of communication.
Word of Mouth may also refer to:
Word of Mouth (TV series), a TV show hosted by Sandy Daza and Teacher Patty in the Philippines
Word of Mouth (DVD), a stand-up DVD by Doug Stanhope
Word of Mouth (radio programme), a BBC Radio 4 programme presented by Michael Rosen
Word of M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20of%20mouth%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Hollywoodland is a 2006 American mystery drama film directed by Allen Coulter and written by Paul Bernbaum. The story presents a fictionalized account of the circumstances surrounding the death of actor George Reeves (played by Ben Affleck), the star of the 1950s film Superman and the Mole Men and television series Adv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywoodland |
Phan Bá Vành (潘伯鑅, died March 12, 1827), a native of Minh Giám village (now Vũ Tiên, Thái Bình Province in coastal northern Vietnam), was the charismatic leader of one of Vietnam's largest peasant uprisings, the Phan Bá Vành's Rebellion, against the Emperor Minh Mạng, the second emperor of Nguyễn dynasty. At the heigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan%20B%C3%A1%20V%C3%A0nh |
Intolleranza 1960 (Intolerance 1960) is a one-act opera in two parts (azione scenica in due tempi) by Luigi Nono, and is dedicated to his father-in-law, Arnold Schoenberg. The Italian libretto was written by Nono from an idea by Angelo Maria Ripellino, using documentary texts and poetry by Julius Fučík, "Reportage unte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolleranza%201960 |
A fish curve is an ellipse negative pedal curve that is shaped like a fish. In a fish curve, the pedal point is at the focus for the special case of the squared eccentricity . The parametric equations for a fish curve correspond to those of the associated ellipse.
Equations
For an ellipse with the parametric equations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20curve |
The grandmother cell, sometimes called the "Jennifer Aniston neuron", is a hypothetical neuron that represents a complex but specific concept or object. It activates when a person "sees, hears, or otherwise sensibly discriminates" a specific entity, such as their grandmother. It contrasts with the concept of ensemble c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother%20cell |
The tro () is Cambodia's traditional spike fiddle, a bowed string instrument that is held and played vertically. Spike fiddles have a handle that passes through the resonator, often forming a spike, on the bottom side where it emerges. The family is similar or distantly related to the Chinese erhu or huqin. The instru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tro%20%28instrument%29 |
Simo Matavulj (, 14 September 1852 – 20 February 1908) was a Serbian writer.
He was a representative of lyric realism, especially in short prose. As a writer, he is best known for employing his skill in holding up to ridicule the peculiar foibles of the Dalmatian folk.
He was an honorary member of the Matica srpska ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo%20Matavulj |
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