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Envy is an emotion, evoked when one person strongly desires what another has.
Envy may also refer to:
Books
Envy (novel) (Zavist'), a 1927 novel by Yuri Olesha
Envy, a Fullmetal Alchemist character
Films
Envy (2004 film), an American comedy film
Envy (2009 film), a Turkish drama film
Music
DJ Envy (born 1977), an A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Sony Ericsson W950i is the third UIQ 3 smartphone based on Symbian OS v9.1. It was announced on February 13, 2006, a week after the announcement of the Sony Ericsson M600.
Background
The W950 is Sony Ericsson's sixth 'Walkman'-series phone. One of its distinguishing features is the 4 GB internal flash memory, per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Ericsson%20W950 |
Prometeo (Prometheus) is an "opera" by Luigi Nono, written between 1981 and 1984 and revised in 1985. Here the word "opera" carries the generic Italian meaning of "works", as in work of art, and not its usual meaning. Indeed, Nono scornfully labels Prometeo a "tragedia dell'ascolto", a tragedy of listening. Objectivel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometeo |
David Joseph Macpherson (January 12, 1854 – October 16, 1927) was a Canadian-born civil engineer, mainly known for his work on railroads in North America.
Early career
Macpherson was born in Canada West, and graduated from Cornell University. His first work was as a city planner for San Antonio, Texas, but he is more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Macpherson%20%28engineer%29 |
Janie Lou Gibbs (née Hickox; December 25, 1932 – February 7, 2010) was an American serial killer from Cordele, Georgia, who killed her three sons, a grandson, and her husband, by poisoning them with arsenic in 1966 and 1967.
Background
Gibbs was born in Georgia on Christmas Day, 1932. She operated a daycare from her h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janie%20Lou%20Gibbs |
Think Twice is a weekend primetime PBS game show hosted by Monteria Ivey and produced by and taped at WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts which ran from October 10, 1994 to March 6, 1995.
Gameplay
Two teams of two compete in a game that challenges their information, imagination, and intuition.
The Main Game
Round 1 (In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think%20Twice%20%28game%20show%29 |
The (, ; ; also spelled , , and occasionally simply ; ) is a traditional bowed string instrument of Thailand. It is in the family of Thai fiddles, which also includes the saw u and saw duang, but unlike the other two, it has three strings and a bow that is separate from the instrument.
The is made up of three parts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw%20sam%20sai |
Gwendolyn Gail Graham (born August 6, 1963) and Catherine May Wood (born March 7, 1962) are American serial killers convicted of killing five elderly women in Walker, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids, in 1987. They committed their crimes in the Alpine Manor nursing home, where they both worked as nurse's aides.
Crim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn%20Graham%20and%20Cathy%20Wood |
Sport name(), real name Genevieve ( born February 1970 year, Varna, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian biathlete. She took up the biathlon in 1992. She made the national team in 1993 and came in 29th in the 15-kilometer competition at the Lillehammer Olympics the following year. She won a gold Olympic medal at the 15 km Individ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina%20Dafovska |
Patrick Devlin may refer to:
Pat Devlin (American football) (born 1988), American football quarterback
Pat Devlin (footballer) (born 1953), Irish footballer and manager
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin (1905–1992), British law lord
L. Patrick Devlin, professor of communication at the University of Rhode Island
Paddy Devli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Devlin |
In crystallography, a Frenkel defect is a type of point defect in crystalline solids, named after its discoverer Yakov Frenkel. The defect forms when an atom or smaller ion (usually cation) leaves its place in the lattice, creating a vacancy and becomes an interstitial by lodging in a nearby location. In elemental syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenkel%20defect |
Jeff Galloway (born July 12, 1945 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American Olympian and the author of Galloway's Book on Running.
A lifetime runner, Galloway was an All-American collegiate athlete and a 1972 US Olympic Team member in the 10,000 meters. He remains a competitive athlete, continuing through a successf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Galloway |
Mendota is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in Washington County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Virginia, at an elevation of approximately 1411 feet. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 135.
There is a medical clinic there, a post office, two churche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendota%2C%20Virginia |
Caroline Grills (née Mickelson; between 1888 and 1890 – 6 October 1960) was an Australian serial killer who poisoned her victims. She was predominantly a comfort killer, who murdered well-off members of her extended family to maintain a respectable lifestyle, but her later murders had more unclear motives.
Biography
C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Grills |
Rolling circle replication (RCR) is a process of unidirectional nucleic acid replication that can rapidly synthesize multiple copies of circular molecules of DNA or RNA, such as plasmids, the genomes of bacteriophages, and the circular RNA genome of viroids. Some eukaryotic viruses also replicate their DNA or RNA via t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20circle%20replication |
Westminster Abbey is a community of Benedictine monks in Mission, British Columbia, established in 1939 from the Abbey of Mount Angel, Oregon. The abbey is home to the Seminary of Christ the King and is a member of the Swiss American Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation.
The abbey's official name is the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster%20Abbey%20%28British%20Columbia%29 |
The tro Khmer () is a traditional bowed string instrument from Cambodia. Its body is made from a special type of coconut covered on one end with snake skin, and it has three strings. Instruments are not standardized, and coconuts vary in size; however the instrument's sound bowl may have dimensions 16.5 cm by 14 cm. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tro%20Khmer |
Andrija Zmajević (; 6 June 1628 - 7 September 1694) was a Baroque poet, the Archbishop of Antivari and a theologian.
Biography
The Zmajević family hailed from Vrba, a village from the region of the Njeguši tribe; when the last members of the Crnojević family left the Principality of Zeta, Nikola Zmajević and his cousi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija%20Zmajevi%C4%87 |
Whiteshell Provincial Park is a provincial park in southeast Manitoba, approximately east of the city of Winnipeg. The park is considered to be a Class II protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. It is in size.
The park protects areas representative of the Lake of the Woods Ecoregion with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteshell%20Provincial%20Park |
Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin, PC, FBA (25 November 1905 – 9 August 1992) was a British judge and legal philosopher. The second-youngest English High Court judge in the 20th century, he served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1960 to 1964.
In 1959, Devlin headed the Devlin Commission, which reported on the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Devlin%2C%20Baron%20Devlin |
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) may refer to the process or the result of sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA. In many cases, the input set of query sequences are assumed to have an evolutionary relationship by which they share a linkage and are descended from a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20sequence%20alignment |
The Whiteshell River is one of the major rivers in Whiteshell Provincial Park, in southeastern Manitoba, Canada, near the Ontario border. This river is close to some petroform sites that are about 2000 years old or older. The name "whiteshell" is in reference to the Meegis or cowry shells used by Ojibwa peoples in thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteshell%20River |
The koudi (Chinese: 口笛; pinyin: kǒudí; also spelled kou di) is a very small Chinese flute made from bamboo. It is the smallest flute in the Chinese flute family. Its original shape derives from prehistorical instruments made with animal bone, but the modern koudi is made with wood, bamboo or PVC. It was invented in 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koudi |
The Chicken Ranch was an illegal brothel in the U.S. state of Texas that operated from 1905 until 1973. It was located in Fayette County, about east of downtown La Grange. The business served as the basis for the 1973 ZZ Top song "La Grange", and the 1978 Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, as well a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20Ranch%20%28Texas%29 |
Johann Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp (27 February 1575 – 31 March 1616) was a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.
Life
He was a third son of Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife Christine of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). He became the first Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck (1586–1607) and the Admin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Adolf%2C%20Duke%20of%20Holstein-Gottorp |
Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, and Waltraud Wagner were four Austrian women who worked as nurse's aides at the Geriatriezentrum am Wienerwald in Lainz, Vienna, and who murdered scores of patients between 1983 and 1989. The group killed their victims with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lainz%20Angels%20of%20Death |
Chicken Ranch may refer to:
Chicken Ranch (Texas), a former brothel in Texas
Chicken Ranch (Nevada), an operating brothel in Nevada, inspired by the original Texas brothel
Chicken Ranch (film), a 1983 documentary film about the brothel in Nevada
Chicken Ranch Rancheria, an Indian reservation or rancheria in Toulumne C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20Ranch |
The Dos Palmas kidnappings was a hostage crisis in southern Philippines that began with the seizing of twenty hostages from the affluent Dos Palmas Resort on a private island in Honda Bay, Palawan, by members of Abu Sayyaf on May 27, 2001, and resulted in the deaths of at least five of the original hostages. Three of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos%20Palmas%20kidnappings |
Fierabras (from French: , "brave/formidable arm") or Ferumbras is a fictional Saracen knight (sometimes of gigantic stature) appearing in several chansons de geste and other material relating to the Matter of France. He is the son of Balan, king of Spain, and is frequently shown in conflict with Roland and the Twelve P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierabras |
is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. From 2002 to 2007, she skated with Jean-Sébastien Fecteau as a pair skater for Canada, winning the silver medal at the 2006 Four Continents Championships. Earlier in her career, she competed in single skating for Japan.
Career
Until 2002, Wakamatsu competed in single sk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utako%20Wakamatsu |
Gunboat Vale was a Vale-class Rendel gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Karljohansvern Naval Yard in 1874. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Brage, Nor, Uller and Vidar.
Vale was, in addition to the heavy, muzzle-loading main gun, armed with a small 'Quick Fire' gun ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS%20Vale%20%281874%29 |
UnixWorld (Unixworld: McGraw-Hill's magazine of open systems computing.) is a defunct magazine about Unix systems, published from May 1984 until December 1995.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1984
Magazines disestablished in 1995
Magazines published in Cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWorld |
The Juno Award for "International Entertainer of the Year" was awarded from 1989 - 1993, as recognition for the best international musicians, from a Canadian perspective.
Winners
References
International Entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno%20Award%20for%20International%20Entertainer%20of%20the%20Year |
Jean-Sébastien Fecteau (born May 7, 1975) is a Canadian former pair skater. He is a two-time World Junior silver medallist with Caroline Haddad, the 2001 Nebelhorn Trophy silver medallist with Valerie Saurette, and the 2006 Four Continents silver medallist with Utako Wakamatsu.
Career
From 1990 to 1994, Fecteau compe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-S%C3%A9bastien%20Fecteau |
In the United States public school system, released time or release time is time set aside during school hours, typically an hour a day or a week, for students to receive off-campus private religious education. There were challenges, but the concept was upheld and a defined implementation resulted, blocking hostility t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Released%20time |
A dogcart (also dog-cart or dog cart) is a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle pulled by a single horse in shafts, or driven tandem. With seating for four, it was designed for sporting shooters and their gun dogs, with a louvred box under the driver's seat to contain dogs. It was developed in the early 1800s to afford more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcart |
Elizabeth Gale Putnam (born November 28, 1984) is a Canadian former competitive pair skater. With Sean Wirtz, she is the 2006 Four Continents bronze medalist and a two-time (2003–04) Canadian national bronze medalist.
Personal life
Elizabeth Gale Putnam was born on November 28, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Putnam%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Sean Wirtz (also Sean Kelly and Sean Kelly-Wirtz; born October 31, 1979, in Marathon, Ontario) is a Canadian figure skater who competed in pair skating and single skating. He teamed up with Elizabeth Putnam in the summer of 2002. They are the 2006 Four Continents bronze medalists and two-time (2003, 2004) Canadian nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Wirtz |
The Meowstro Sings — Guster's Keep It Together is an album created by the band Guster. It features all but one of the tracks from their release Keep It Together, with the vocals replaced by simulated cat meows. According to the band, the meows were sung by Guster's monitor engineer at the time, Matt Peskie. The tracks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Meowstro%20Sings%20%E2%80%93%20Guster%27s%20Keep%20It%20Together |
The Hajigak Pass ( hajji gak 'little pilgrim') is a mountain pass of Afghanistan. It is situated at a height of above sea-level in the northern part of Maidan Wardak province, connecting it with Bamyan province to the northwest. It is one of the two main routes from Kabul to Bamyan in Hazarajat, leading across the Koh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajigak%20Pass |
Tetracycline-controlled transcriptional activation is a method of inducible gene expression where transcription is reversibly turned on or off in the presence of the antibiotic tetracycline or one of its derivatives (e.g. doxycycline).
Tetracycline-controlled gene expression is based upon the mechanism of resistance t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracycline-controlled%20transcriptional%20activation |
The Journal of Library Administration is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers library management. It was established in 1980 and is published 8 times a year by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Gary M. Pitkin (University of Northern Colorado).
Controversy
In March 2013, the editor-in-chief Damon Jaggars (Colu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Library%20Administration |
Audrey Marie Hilley (née Frazier, later Homan; June 4, 1933 – February 26, 1987), also known by the aliases Robbi Hannon and Teri Martin, was an American murderer and suspected serial killer. She was suspected in the death by poisoning of her husband and the attempted murder of her daughter, and spent three years as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey%20Marie%20Hilley |
Anabelle Langlois (born July 21, 1981) is a Canadian pair skater. She is the 2008 Canadian Figure Skating Championships with Cody Hay and the 2002 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships silver medallist with Patrice Archetto.
Career
Langlois teamed up with Patrice Archetto in 1998. She fractured her skull as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabelle%20Langlois |
Michael Howard (born 1965) is a software security expert from Microsoft. He is the author of several computer security books, the most famous being Michael Howard is a frequent speaker at security-related conferences and frequently publishes articles on the subject.
Books
Michael Howard, David LeBlanc : Writing Sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Howard%20%28Microsoft%29 |
USS Somerset may refer to:
, a side wheel ferryboat launched and purchased in 1862 and sold in 1865; the rejuvenated Somerset began a career as a New York ferryboat until 1914
USS Somerset (ID-2162), a Maryland State Fisheries Force motor boat that served in World War I
, an , launched in January 1945 and struck in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Somerset |
California 26th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California currently represented by .
The district is located on the South Coast, comprising most of Ventura County as well as a small portion of Los Angeles County. Cities in the district include Camarillo, Oxnard, Santa Paula, Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s%2026th%20congressional%20district |
Abu Sabaya ( ; July 18, 1962 – June 21, 2002), born Aldam Tilao, was one of the leaders of the Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines until he was killed by soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 2002.
Life
Abu Sabaya was a former engineering student and police trainee in Zamboanga City. He had lived in Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Sabaya |
The Kpelle people (also known as the Guerze, Kpwesi, Kpessi, Sprd, Mpessi, Berlu, Gbelle, Bere, Gizima, or Buni) are the largest ethnic group in Liberia. They are located primarily in an area of central Liberia, extending into Guinea. They speak the Kpelle language, which belongs to the Mande language family.
Despite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpelle%20people |
The Committee may refer to any of the following:
The Committee (improv group), a San Francisco-based improvisational comedy group
The Committee (film), a 1968 independent film directed by Peter Sykes
The Committee (racehorse), fell at the first fence in the 1995 Grand National
The Committee (fan group), a group of Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Committee |
Storyland (or Story Land) can refer to:
Storyland, a theme park in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
Story Land, a theme park in Glen, New Hampshire
Storyland, a theme park in Fresno, California
Storyland, a children's theme park at the New Orleans City Park in Louisiana, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyland |
Verve Energy was a Western Australian Government owned corporation responsible for operating the state's electricity generators on the state's South West Interconnected System (SWIS).
It was split from the then vertically integrated Western Power Corporation in 2006, during reforms to the state's electricity sector. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve%20Energy |
Waneta Ethel (Nixon) Hoyt (May 13, 1946 – August 13, 1998) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing all five of her biological children.
Early life
Hoyt was born in Richford, New York. She dropped out of Newark Valley High School in the 10th grade to marry Tim Hoyt on January 11, 1964.
Deaths of chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waneta%20Hoyt |
Kottarakkara (IAST: Koṭṭārakkara), also transliterated as Kottarakara, is a town and municipality in the Kollam district of the Kerala, India. The town is close to Kollam Port, which has a rich history linked to the early medieval period as well as the reputation as an important commercial, industrial and trading cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottarakkara |
There are several companies with Digital Research Labs in their name or that are otherwise similarly named:
Digital Research, a defunct microcomputer operating system (CP/M, DR-DOS) vendor founded by Gary Kildall
Threshold Digital Research Labs, a digital animation studio
DEC Systems Research Center, the research arm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Research%20Labs |
A batizado (literally "baptism" in Portuguese, and borrowed from the religious tradition) is normally an annual event for a capoeira group in a region or country. The practice originates from capoeira regional, but has been widely used by capoeira contemporânea groups.
In capoeira regional, the tradition of the batiza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batizado |
Frank Knopfelmacher (Vienna, 3 February 1923 – Melbourne, 17 May 1995) was a Czech Jew who migrated to Australia in 1955 and became a psychology lecturer and anticommunist political commentator at the University of Melbourne. He engaged in vigorous polemics with many members of the left-wing intelligentsia from the Vie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Knopfelmacher |
Gley may refer to:
Eugène Gley (1857–1930), French physiologist and endocrinologist
Gleysol, a type of hydric soil
See also
Glay (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gley |
Operation Daisy was a military operation conducted from November 1–20, 1981 by the South African Defence Force and South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) in Angola during the South African Border War and Angolan Civil War. This conflict was sparked when the South African Defence Force decided to try to halt the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Daisy |
The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is a National Monument in southern California. It includes portions of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountain ranges, the northernmost ones of the Peninsular Ranges system. The national monument covers portions of Riverside County, west of the Coachella Valley... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Rosa%20and%20San%20Jacinto%20Mountains%20National%20Monument |
The Bridge of Arta () is a stone bridge that crosses the Arachthos river (Άραχθος) in the west of the city of Arta (Άρτα) in Greece. It has been rebuilt many times over the centuries, starting with Roman or perhaps older foundations; the current bridge is probably a 17th-century Ottoman construction.
The folk ballad "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20of%20Arta |
Operation Displace was a military operation by the South African Defence Force during the South African Border War and Angolan Civil War. It involved maintaining the illusion that the SADF had remained in brigade strength east of Cuito Cuanavale at the end of April 1988 and the eventual withdrawal of all South African ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Displace |
Martha Ann Johnson (also known as Martha Ann Bowen) (born 1955) is an American suspected serial killer from Georgia convicted of smothering to death one of her children in 1982, and suspected of smothering to death three of her other children between 1977 and 1982.
Murders
By the age of 22, Johnson was on her third ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Ann%20Johnson |
There are many uses of water in industry and, in most cases, the used water also needs treatment to render it fit for re-use or disposal. Raw water entering an industrial plant often needs treatment to meet tight quality specifications to be of use in specific industrial processes. Industrial water treatment encompasse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20water%20treatment |
The Tikar (also Tikari, Tika, Tikali, Tige, Tigare and Tigre) are a Central African people who inhabit the Adamawa Region and Northwest Region of Cameroon. They are known as great artists, artisans and storytellers. Once a nomadic people, some oral traditions trace the origin of the Tikar people to Northern Nigeria, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikar%20people |
The Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov (), is a (Project 1164) of the Russian Navy. The Russian name for the ship type is Raketnyy Kreyser (RKR), meaning "Missile Cruiser". The ship is named after Dmitriy Ustinov, a former Soviet Minister of Defence. Marshal Ustinov was assigned to the 43rd Missile Ship Division of the R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20cruiser%20Marshal%20Ustinov |
Blenstrup, is a village with a population of 517 (1 January 2023) located about 25 km south of Aalborg, near the main road between Aalborg and Hadsund. It was a part of the former Skørping Municipality, but after Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), it is now part of the new Rebild Municipality.
Referenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenstrup |
Pierre Pay-Pay wa Syakasighe (born 10 July 1946, in Bukavu), is an economist and politician of the Democratic Republic of Congo. During his career, he held several positions relating to the Economy and Finance. He has served as Minister of Economy, Industry and Foreign Trade, Minister of Portfolio, Minister of Finance,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Pay-Pay%20wa%20Syakasighe |
Boiler water is liquid water within a boiler, or in associated piping, pumps and other equipment, that is intended for evaporation into steam. The term may also be applied to raw water intended for use in boilers, treated boiler feedwater, steam condensate being returned to a boiler, or boiler blowdown being removed f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler%20water |
Lee Arthur Horsley (born May 15, 1955) is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series Nero Wolfe (1981), Matt Houston (1982–1985), and Paradise (1988–1991). He starred in the 1982 film The Sword and the Sorcerer and recorded the audiobook edition of Lonesome Dove.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Horsley |
Horizon Power is a commercially focused, state government-owned, power company that provides power supplies to Western Australia. It is responsible for generating, procuring, distributing and retailing electricity to residential, industrial and commercial customers and resource developments in its service area.
Horizo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon%20Power |
Alain Giletti (born 11 September 1939 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) is a French figure skater. He is the 1960 World champion, the 1955-1957 & 1960-1961 European champion and is a ten-time (1951–1957, 1959–1961) French national champion. At the age of 12, he represented France at the 1952 Winter Olympics, where he placed 7t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Giletti |
John R. Anderson may refer to:
John R. Anderson (minister) (1818–1863), founder and minister of African Baptist Churches
John Robert Anderson (chemist) (1928–2007), Australian chemist/materials scientist
John Robert Anderson (psychologist) (born 1947), Canadian psychologist and computer scientist
John Rogers Anderson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Anderson |
The Königsberg Castle (, ) was one of the landmarks of the East Prussian capital Königsberg, Germany (since 1946 Kaliningrad, Russia).
History
The site of the castle was originally an Old Prussian fort known as Tuwangste near the Pregel River at an important waypoint in Prussian territory. Nearby were three Prussian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg%20Castle |
The photosynthetic efficiency is the fraction of light energy converted into chemical energy during photosynthesis in green plants and algae. Photosynthesis can be described by the simplified chemical reaction
6 H2O + 6 CO2 + energy → C6H12O6 + 6 O2
where C6H12O6 is glucose (which is subsequently transformed into oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic%20efficiency |
Misterjaw is a 34-episode cartoon television series, produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1976 for The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show television series on NBC. Reruns continued on the Think Pink Panther Show on NBC through September 3, 1978.
Plot
Misterjaw (voiced by Arte Johnson) was a blue-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misterjaw |
The Federalist Christian Democracy-Convention of Federalists for Christian Democracy () is a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pierre Pay-Pay wa Syakasighe, the party's presidential candidate in the 2006 general election came seventh with 1.5% of the vote, and the party gained 8 seats in the Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist%20Christian%20Democracy%20%E2%80%93%20Convention%20of%20Federalists%20for%20Christian%20Democracy |
Operation Bruilof () was a planned military operation in 1978 by the South African Defence Force during the South African Border War and Angolan Civil War.
Background
The operation was planned for May 1978, to be conducted by 61 Mechanised Infantry Battalion Group and paratroops. This was to be the first mechanised ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Bruilof |
Victor Ling, (; born 1943) is a Canadian researcher in the field of medicine. Ling's research focuses on drug resistance in cancer. He is best known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein, one of the proteins responsible for multidrug resistance.
Early life
Ling was born in Shanghai, China in 1943, and is of Teochew anc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Ling |
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar (1 June 1951) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He also represented the 14th Lok Sabha. He represents the Bagalkot constituency of Karnataka since 2004 and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
Early life
Parvatagouda Gaddigoudar was born on 1 June 1951 at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20C.%20Gaddigoudar |
David Ogden Watkins (June 8, 1862June 20, 1938) was the acting governor of New Jersey from 1898 to 1899.
Biography
Watkins was born in Woodbury, New Jersey. He studied law and was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1893. Watkins' first political foray was mayor of Woodbury, New Jersey, from 1886 to 1890. He later s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Ogden%20Watkins |
1920s
On August 5, 1921, the first Major League Baseball game was broadcast on the radio by Harold Arlin. Harold Arlin was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Arlin was offered an announcer's job for the KDKA radio station. At the time, this was one of the few radio stations in the cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%20broadcasting%20firsts |
Kach Gandava or Kachi is a low-lying flat region in Balochistan, Pakistan separating the Bugti hills from those of Kalat. Until the end of the 15th century the district had been a dependency of Sindh Around 1500 it was taken by Shah Beg of the Arghun dynasty from the Samma dynasty of Sultan of Sindh and so came under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach%20Gandava |
Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani (1959 – December 18, 1998) was a Filipino Islamist militant who was the chief founder and leader of the Abu Sayyaf organization until his death in 1998 by Filipino police. Upon his death his brother, Khadaffy Janjalani, took control of the organization.
Janjalani was born on the Philippine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdurajak%20Abubakar%20Janjalani |
The Kachhi () is a geographical region of Punjab, Pakistan. It lies between the Thal Desert and the part of Chenab which flows after its confluence with the Jhelum River at Atharan Hazari in Jhang District. Parts of the districts of Kot Addu District and Layyah form this region.
See also
Kacchi Plain
Regions of Punj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachhi%20%28Punjab%29 |
Joan Metelerkamp (born 1956), is a South African poet. She was born in Pretoria in 1956 and grew up in Kwazulu-Natal. She was the editor of the poetry journal New Coin from 2000 to 2003.
Poetry
Towing the Line (in Signs, edited by DR Skinner) (Carrefour, 1992)
Stone No More (Gecko Poetry, 1995)
Into the Day Breaki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Metelerkamp |
The bilateral relations between Germany and the United Kingdom span hundreds of years, and the countries have been aligned since the end of World War II.
Relations were very strong in the Late Middle Ages when the German cities of the Hanseatic League traded with England and Scotland.
Before the Unification of German... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93United%20Kingdom%20relations |
The Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (; ; ), historically sometimes shortened to and spelled "Goritz", was a crown land of the Habsburg dynasty within the Austrian Littoral on the Adriatic Sea, in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely%20County%20of%20Gorizia%20and%20Gradisca |
Jerome New Frank (September 10, 1889 – January 13, 1957) was an American legal philosopher and author who played a leading role in the legal realism movement. He was chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Frank |
A gleysol is a wetland soil (hydric soil) that unless drained is saturated with groundwater for long enough to develop a characteristic colour pattern. The pattern is essentially made up of reddish, brownish, or yellowish colours at surfaces of soil particles and/or in the upper soil horizons mixed with greyish/blueis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleysol |
Cobra Triangle is a 1989 racing, vehicular combat video game developed by Rare and released by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The player controls a weapon-equipped speedboat through 25 levels. Objectives include winning races, saving swimmers, and defusing bombs. The game also includes power-ups and is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra%20Triangle |
Craig Hutchinson (June 23, 1891 – February 1976) was an American director and screenwriter. He directed more than 80 films between 1915 and 1928. He also wrote for 33 films between 1914 and 1927. He was born in Austin, Minnesota.
Selected filmography
A Film Johnnie (1914)
His Favourite Pastime (1914)
Cruel, Cruel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Hutchinson |
Charles Smith Olden (February 19, 1799April 7, 1876) was an American merchant, banker, and politician who served as the 19th governor of New Jersey from 1860 to 1863 during the first part of the American Civil War. As Governor, Olden supported President Abraham Lincoln and the national war effort but favored union and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Smith%20Olden |
Darlington Provincial Park is a provincial park in Ontario, Canada. It is located just south of Highway 401 near the town of Courtice, between the cities of Bowmanville and Oshawa. A small park, the topography is dominated by gentle hills formed by a terminal moraine deposited by glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington%20Provincial%20Park |
The daggertooth pike conger (Muraenesox cinereus) also known as the darkfin pike eel in Australia, to distinguish it from the related pike-eel (Muraenesox bagio), is a species of eel in the pike conger family, Muraenesocidae. They primarily live on soft bottoms in marine and brackish waters down to a depth of , but ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daggertooth%20pike%20conger |
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 10 March 1968. The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 27 of the 52 seats. Voter turnout was just 36.6%.
Results
References
Bibliography
Political Handbook of the world, 1968. New York, 1969.
Benítez Manaut, Raúl. 1990. "El Salvador: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20Salvadoran%20legislative%20election |
Operation Seiljag was a South African 32 Battalion search and destroy campaign conducted against the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) from November 1976 to March 1977, during the South African Border War. It was carried out from November 1976 to March 1977 largely on the Yati Strip, a region patrolled by Sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Seiljag |
Thunderchild, Thunder Child or variant, may refer to:
Thunderchild First Nation, a Cree tribe and Indian reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada
HMS Thunder Child, a fictional Royal Navy ironclad torpedo steam ram in the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds
"Thunderchild", a song about the ship from the 1978 album Jeff W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderchild |
Sophie Moniotte (born 5 May 1969) is a French former ice dancer. With partner Pascal Lavanchy, she is a two-time World medalist (1994 silver, 1995 bronze) and two-time European medalist (1995 silver, 1997 bronze).
Skating career
Moniotte/Lavanchy began competing internationally in the 1980s. In 1992, they competed at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Moniotte |
Pascal Lavanchy (born 20 July 1968) is a French former ice dancer. With partner Sophie Moniotte, he is a two-time World medalist (1994 silver, 1995 bronze) and two-time European medalist (1995 silver, 1997 bronze).
Skating career
Lavanchy began skating in Morzine. He entered ice dancing immediately and partnered with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20Lavanchy |
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