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Villa Cañás is a small city in the south of the , some 370 km from the provincial capital and not far from Venado Tuerto. It has about 9,400 inhabitants as per the .
The city was founded in 1902 by Juan Cañás, and acknowledged as a comuna (a minor municipality) on 1903-03-07.
People
Legrand sisters - film star twin a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Ca%C3%B1%C3%A1s |
Succoth-benoth or Succoth Benoth (, Booths of Daughters) was a Babylonian deity, one of the deities brought to the former kingdom of Samaria by the men of Babylon. In the ninth year of Hoshea, "the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succoth-benoth |
The King of Fighters Neowave (KOF Neowave, or KOF NW) is a 2D fighting game produced by SNK Playmore and released as a coin-operated arcade game for Sammys Atomiswave hardware in 2004. It was the first game SNK Playmore produced for the Atomiswave. This is a remake of The King of Fighters 2002 with a major change of ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20King%20of%20Fighters%20Neowave |
Samurai Shodown VI, known as in Japan, is the tenth iteration in the Samurai Shodown series.
On December 17, 2014, the game was released as a PS2 Classic for the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network, although only on the Japanese Store. On November 22, 2016, the game was released for the PlayStation 4 in Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai%20Shodown%20VI |
Steve The Second was a four-part comedy series that was broadcast Saturday mornings on CBC Radio One, running from 11:30 - 12:00pm (half an hour later in Newfoundland). The successor series to Steve, The First, this bleak comedy was set 25 years after the original story. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, it details the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%2C%20The%20Second |
In mathematics, the vertical bundle and the horizontal bundle are vector bundles associated to a smooth fiber bundle. More precisely, given a smooth fiber bundle , the vertical bundle and horizontal bundle are subbundles of the tangent bundle of whose Whitney sum satisfies . This means that, over each point , the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20and%20horizontal%20bundles |
Hugh May (1621 – 21 February 1684) was an English architect in the period after the Restoration of King Charles II. He worked in the era which fell between the first introduction of Palladianism into England by Inigo Jones, and the full flowering of English Baroque under John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. His own wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20May |
Berkeley House may refer to:
Berkeley House, London, a classical mansion in London that was destroyed by fire in 1733 and replaced by Devonshire House
Berkeley House, York, Upper Canada, a large home occupied by two Clerks of the Executive Council
Berkeley House is an alternate name for the Whitehall Museum House, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20House |
Chemman Chaalai (The Gravel Road) is a 2005 Malaysian family drama film directed by Indian-Malaysian director Deepak Kumaran Menon. This film is notable as being one of the first Malaysian feature films to be made almost entirely in Tamil.
Plot
Set in the late 1960s, the film is about Shantha, an impoverished Malaysia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemman%20Chaalai |
SG Wannabe () is a South Korean vocal group consisting of members Kim Yong-jun, Kim Jin-ho and Lee Seok-hoon. The group debuted in January 2004 with the single, "Timeless", from the album SG Wanna Be+, and won Best New Artist at the Golden Disc Awards, Seoul Music Awards, and SBS Gayo Daejeon. The group's second album,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SG%20Wannabe |
"The Debut of Battling Billson" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the June 1923 issue of Cosmopolitan and in the United Kingdom in the July 1923 Strand. It features the irrepressible Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, and was included in the collection Ukridge, published ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Debut%20of%20Battling%20Billson |
The Torsa River (also spelt Torsha and also known as Kambu Maqu, Machu and Amo Chhu) rises from the Chumbi Valley in Tibet, China, where it is known as Machu. Its course continues into Bhutan, India, and Bangladesh before joining the Brahmaputra River into the Bay of Bengal.
Course
From Tibet, Torsa flows into Bhutan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsa%20River |
The Suba of Tanzania are a community of people in Rorya District, Mara Region, Tanzania speaking mutually intelligible varieties of the Suba language. They are mainly located in Nyancha, Luo-Imbo and Suba Divisions of Rorya District. The groups commonly listed as being part of the Suba community are the Hacha, Kine, Ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suba%20people%20%28Tanzania%29 |
The Movie Monster Game is a computer game released by Epyx for the Apple II and Commodore 64 in 1986. The game offers a variety of scenarios, playable monsters, and cities to demolish (complete with famous landmarks, such as Tokyo Tower, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Saint Basil's Cathedral and B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Movie%20Monster%20Game |
Damian is the name of a Christian saint formerly included in the Roman Martyrology under 12 February. The saint was removed when the Martyrology was revised in 2004. It appears that two early martyrs—one a soldier killed in Alexandria or Roman Africa, the other one whose relics were found in the catacomb of Callixtus—w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian%20%28martyrs%2C%20February%2012%29 |
Ron Steward is a filming TV critic and film reviewer, who started his career in the industry in the 1940s, and he packed films on trains going out to Paramount Pictures, he retired from this role in 1999.
Steward went on to make regular appearance's Rove Live presenting a movie review segment. in 2005 and 2006
Ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Steward |
In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, the Diploma in Digital Applications (DiDA) was an optional information and communication technology (ICT) course, usually studied by Key Stage 4 or equivalent school students (aged 14–16). DiDA was introduced in 2005 (after a pilot starting in 2004) as a creation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma%20in%20Digital%20Applications |
Middle () is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.
It is located on the east of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) and consists of the four historic parishes of Braddan, Marown, Onchan and Santon. Historically, from 1796 until 1986 Marown was in the sheading of Glenfaba, and before 1796 On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20%28sheading%29 |
Jamie Haskell (née Johnson; born July 18, 1980) is an American curler. Haskell was born in Bemidji, Minnesota. She was a member of the United States women's curling team at the 2006 Winter Olympics and is the older sister of skip Cassandra Potter.
Career
Haskell usually plays third on her sister's team, and together t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Haskell |
Sierra Point is an elevated viewpoint on a rocky outcropping of Yosemite National Park, at the eastern end of the valley, below Grizzly Peak, which was accessible through a now-closed trail.
History
The trail used to be quite popular, but was closed after a rock slide in the 1970s. This was John Muir's favorite trail.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Point%20%28Yosemite%29 |
Heritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK or HIT is a self-financed institute in the state of the West Bengal. The campus is situated on the southern fringes of Kolkata. It is affiliated with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology Kolkata.
History
Heritage Institute of Technology was set up ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage%20Institute%20of%20Technology%2C%20Kolkata |
Martina of Rome, a patron saint of Rome, was martyred in 226, according to some authorities, more probably in 228, under the pontificate of Pope Urban I, according to others. Her feast day is January 30.
Biography
The daughter of an ex-consul and orphaned at an early age, she was described as a noble and beautiful vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina%20of%20Rome |
Prospero Farinacci (1 November 1554 – 31 December 1618) was an Italian Renaissance jurist, lawyer and judge. His Praxis et Theorica Criminalis (Practice and Theory of Criminal Law) was the strongest influence on criminal law in Civil law countries until the Age of Enlightenment. Farinacci defended Beatrice Cenci who wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero%20Farinacci |
Oscar Fredrik Church () is a church in Olivedal in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was drawn by Helgo Zetterwall and erected in the 1890s. Belonging to the Gothenburg Oscar Fredrik Parish of the Church of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska Kyrkan), it was opened on Easter Sunday 1893. The style is Neo Gothic, but the influence is not the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Fredrik%20Church |
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, known as in Japan, is a 1991 head-to-head fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. Fatal Fury was SNK's first fighting game for the Neo Geo system and served as the inaugural game in their Fatal Fury series, as well as the first game to depict the fictional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal%20Fury%3A%20King%20of%20Fighters |
Art of Fighting 2 is fighting game developed and released by SNK in 1994. It is a direct sequel to Art of Fighting involving both new and returning characters fighting each other in the King of Fighters tournament.
Gameplay
The second installment in the Art of Fighting series added the "rage gauge"; similar to the "s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20of%20Fighting%202 |
The King of Fighters '94 (KOF 94) is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system in 1994, as the first in The King of Fighters series. The game was also released for the Neo Geo home console systems, including the Neo Geo AES and Neo Geo CD. In 2008, KOF 94 was one of sixteen games included in SNK... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20King%20of%20Fighters%20%2794 |
is a 1994 fighting arcade game developed and published by ADK with the assistance of SNK. It was originally released for the Neo Geo MVS arcade cabinet on April 26, 1994. It is the sequel to the 1993 fighting arcade game World Heroes 2, as well as the third title of the World Heroes series.
It was followed by a sequel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Heroes%202%20Jet |
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory is a 1995 head-to-head fighting game released by SNK for the Neo-Geo arcade and home platforms. It is the fourth game in the Fatal Fury series after Fatal Fury Special (which was an updated version of Fatal Fury 2). Console versions of Fatal Fury 3 were released for the Neo Geo C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal%20Fury%203%3A%20Road%20to%20the%20Final%20Victory |
The Last Blade 2 is a video game developed and released by SNK in 1998. Like its predecessor, The Last Blade, it is a weapons-based versus fighting game originally released to arcades via the Neo Geo MVS arcade system, although it has since been released for various other platforms.
Gameplay
Gameplay elements remain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Blade%202 |
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers (リアルバウト餓狼伝説2 THE NEWCOMERS) is a 1998 fighting game developed by SNK for the Neo Geo platform. It is the seventh game in the Fatal Fury series and the third game in the Real Bout sub-series, following Real Bout Fatal Fury and Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. The game uses the same gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Bout%20Fatal%20Fury%202%3A%20The%20Newcomers |
Samurai Shodown V Special is the ninth entry in SNK's Samurai Shodown series of fighting games. It is an upgraded version of the game Samurai Shodown V and is the last official game for the Neo Geo platform. A further upgraded version of the game called Samurai Shodown V Perfect was location-tested in late 2004, but no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai%20Shodown%20V%20Special |
Lyndall Ryan, (born 1943) is an Australian academic and historian. She has held positions in Australian studies and women's studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and was the foundation professor of Australian studies and head of the School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle from 1998 to 2005... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndall%20Ryan |
Charles A. Hepburn (1891 – 16 July 1971) was a Scottish businessman, a joint founder, along with Herbert Ross, of the Hepburn and Ross whisky blending company, which was the first to blend the popular Red Hackle whisky (blended today by Lang Brothers). The prosperity that Hepburn and Ross' enterprise brought Charles H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20A.%20Hepburn |
Rebecca Ann Quinn Dussault (born November 14, 1980) is an American cross-country skier who was born and raised in Gunnison, Colorado. She is married with five children. She participated in the 2006 Winter Olympics and was featured on EWTN's Life on the Rock Catholic TV show for her zeal of her faith and her active Cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Dussault |
Rushen ( ; ) is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.
It is located in the south of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) and consists of the three historic parishes of Arbory, Malew and (Kirk Christ) Rushen.
Administratively, the sheading of Rushen also includes the town of Castletown and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushen%20%28sheading%29 |
Jill Bakken (born January 25, 1977) is an American Olympic bobsledder who has competed since 1994. As the driver, she and partner Vonetta Flowers won the gold medal in Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics for the U.S. Bakken's best Bobsleigh World Cup season finish was second in the two-woman event in 1999–2000. Bak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Bakken |
Rodolfo Fernandez (December 5, 1947 – January 2, 2022), commonly known as Rudy and referred to as the "Iron Man of Asia", was a multi-awarded, one-legged Filipino triathlete from Iloilo who had finished a degree in Physical Education at the University of Baguio.
Sports career
Fernandez competed in running, swimming, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy%20Fernandez%20%28triathlete%29 |
Amy Lee Nixon (born September 29, 1977) is a Canadian retired curler and lawyer from Calgary, Alberta. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning 2006 Winter Olympic women's curling team, skipped by Shannon Kleibrink. Nixon was also the chair of the board of governors of Curling Canada from 2021 to 2022.
Curling car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Nixon |
Ned Dixon "Dickie" Hemric (August 29, 1933 – August 3, 2017) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player for Wake Forest University (1952–1955) and the NBA's Boston Celtics (1955–1957).
Hemric played the first two college years at Wake Forest when the school was a member of the Southern Conference. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickie%20Hemric |
The following is a list of Australians who have attained general officer rank within the Australian Army; that is, officers who have held the rank of field marshal (five-star rank), general (four-star rank), lieutenant general (three-star rank), major general (two-star rank) or brigadier general (one-star rank).
Ranks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Australian%20Army%20generals |
Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police%20misconduct |
Ayre ( ; ) is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.
It is located in the north of the island (part of the traditional North Side division) and consists of the three historic parishes of Andreas, Bride and (Kirk Christ) Lezayre.
The town of Ramsey, which is administered separately, covers areas of two historic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayre |
is a run and gun arcade game developed by Saurus and published by SNK in 1998 for the Neo-Geo arcade and home platform. It has no connection with the first Shock Troopers game. 2nd Squad was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service in the North American region in 2012. SNK Playmore released it for iOS, Linux a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock%20Troopers%3A%202nd%20Squad |
Glenfaba ( ; ) is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.
It is located on the west of the island (part of the traditional North Side division) and consists of the two historic parishes of German and Patrick. Historically, from 1796 until some time in the twentieth century (1986) it also included the parish of Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenfaba |
Garff () is one of the six sheadings of the Isle of Man.
It is located on the east of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) and consists of the two historic parishes of Lonan and Maughold. Before 1796 it also included the parish of Onchan.
Administratively, since May 2016 the sheading of Garff has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garff |
Unseen Terror was a British extreme metal band formed by Mitch Dickinson (Heresy) and Shane Embury (later of Napalm Death), and played extreme metal with a technical edge along with elements of hardcore punk. Their most notable feat took place in March 1988, when they recorded tracks for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 program... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen%20Terror |
Ken Novack, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, is an American lawyer who currently sits on the board of BBN Technologies and is a special advisor to General Catalyst Partners. From 1998 until 2003, he served as Vice Chairman for America Online and then Time-Warner after the two companies merged. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Novack |
Higher Education GAA is the governing body overseeing the Gaelic games of hurling, camogie and Gaelic football at third level institutions. The body coordinates competitions in both Ireland and Britain, and is a part of the parent organisation, the Gaelic Athletic Association. The main competitions are the Fitzgibbon C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20Education%20GAA |
The Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (Abbreviation: SIFAS) is an organisation that teaches Indian classical arts, including Indian classical music, in Singapore.
Founding history
Founded in 1949 with a small group of dedicated music lovers from India, Malaysia and Singapore, SIFAS has now grown into an international... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Indian%20Fine%20Arts%20Society |
In numerical linear algebra, the tridiagonal matrix algorithm, also known as the Thomas algorithm (named after Llewellyn Thomas), is a simplified form of Gaussian elimination that can be used to solve tridiagonal systems of equations. A tridiagonal system for n unknowns may be written as
where and .
For such systems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridiagonal%20matrix%20algorithm |
Siobhán Hoey (born 17 July 1970) is an Irish sportswoman from Portarlington, County Laois. She has competed in both track and field and bobsleigh.
Athletics career
Hoey's junior athletics career saw her focus on sprinting and long jumping. As a senior athlete she was national junior long jump champion and record holde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siobh%C3%A1n%20Hoey |
PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground is the Stadion Aleksandar Shalamanov in Ovcha kupel with a capacity of 25,556. The team's colours are wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFC%20Slavia%20Sofia |
Elsevier Weekblad, abbreviated to EW, still known as Elsevier, is a Dutch weekly news magazine. With a circulation of over 68,000 copies as of 2018, it is the Netherlands' most popular news magazine.
Elsevier Weekblad focuses mainly on politics, international affairs and business. In terms of scope of articles it is m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier%20Weekblad |
United Sports Club Slavia () is a multi-sports club from Sofia, Bulgaria, founded in 1913. It has sections for football, ice hockey and basketball.
Departments
HC Slavia Sofia, ice hockey team
PFC Slavia Sofia, football team
WBC Slavia Sofia, women's basketball team
References
External links
Multi-sport clubs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavia%20Sofia%20%28sports%20club%29 |
Moor End Academy is a converter academy school located in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield in England. It educates students in ages 11–16. The school is operated by South Pennine Academies. The school is rated as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.
History
The school, that opened in Easter 1972, was originally known as Moor End High ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moor%20End%20Academy |
Oslov is a municipality and village in Písek District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Tukleky and the hamlet of Svatá Anna are administrative parts of Oslov.
Etymology
The village was named after its founder, who was a noble named O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslov |
Carl August Walther Sommerlath (22 January 1901 – 21 October 1990) was a German businessman and the father of Queen Silvia, consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
After World War II, Sommerlath served as president of a Brazilian subsidiary of the Swedish steel-parts manufacturer Uddeholm Tooling.
Early life
Somm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Sommerlath |
Ulysses Bloodstone is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an immortal monster-hunter.
Ulysses Bloodstone appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe / Disney+ television special Werewolf by Night, voiced by Richard Dixon.
Publication history
Ulysses Bloodstone first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses%20Bloodstone |
Ruth Wendy Holmes (née Langsford; born 17 March 1960) is an English television presenter. She has presented various television shows, including This Morning (1999–2022), in which she is the longest-serving presenter, Gift Wrapped (2014), How the Other Half Lives (2015–present), and Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit (2017–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Langsford |
The history of Jews in Ohio dates back to 1817, when Joseph Jonas, a pioneer, came from England and made his home in Cincinnati. He drew after him a number of English Jews, who held Orthodox-style divine service for the first time in Ohio in 1819, and, as the community grew, organized themselves in 1824 into the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Ohio |
Telford Town Park is a park and Local Nature Reserve in Telford in Shropshire. In 2015, it was voted "UK's Best Park" in the inaugural public competition organised by Fields in Trust
History
The Anglo-Saxon period saw the first real changes made to the area later to become Telford Town Park. Early settlers cleared w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford%20Town%20Park |
A royal governor is a gubernatorial official, appointed by a king or other monarch, and may refer to:
Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies
Governor
Governor-General
Viceroy
During the Kingdom of Hawaii:
Royal Governor of Oahu
Royal Governor of Kauai
Royal Governor of Maui
Royal Governor of Hawaii | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20governor |
Kim Yong-suk (born June 12, 1979, in Pyongyang, North Korea) is a North Korean figure skater. She earned fourth place at the 2003 Winter Asian Games. She represented North Korea at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where she finished 27th.
Results
External links
The People's Korea article
Torino2006 profile
1979 births
Fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Yong-suk |
William Peters Hepburn (November 4, 1833 – February 7, 1916) was an American Civil War officer and an eleven-term Republican congressman from Iowa's now-obsolete 8th congressional district, serving from 1881 to 1887, and from 1893 to 1909. According to historian Edmund Morris, "Hepburn was the House's best debater, adm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20P.%20Hepburn |
Punnathurkotta is a fort and former palace located in Kottapadi, about 3 km from the Guruvayoor Sree Krishna Temple, in Thrissur District of Kerala State in South India.
Description
Punnathurkotta was once the palace of a local ruler, but the palace grounds are now used to house the elephants belonging to the Guruv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnathurkotta |
The Welsh Language Act 1967 () was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which gave some rights to use the Welsh language in legal proceedings in Wales (including Monmouthshire) and gave the relevant Minister the right to authorise the production of a Welsh version of any documents required or allowed by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh%20Language%20Act%201967 |
Ri Hyang-mi (born August 15, 1985) is a North Korean short track speed skater. She won an individual bronze medal at short track at the 2003 Winter Asian Games. She was a competitor at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.
External links
1985 births
Living people
North Korean female short track speed skaters
Olympic sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri%20Hyang-mi |
Olga Horak (born 1926; née Rosenberger) is a Czechoslovakian-born Australian author and Holocaust survivor.
Born in 1926 in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia to Piroska (née Weiss; 1905–1945) and Hugo Rosenberger (1894–1944), she was transported by the Nazis to Auschwitz in 1944 and later, in early January 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Horak |
In numerical linear algebra, the method of successive over-relaxation (SOR) is a variant of the Gauss–Seidel method for solving a linear system of equations, resulting in faster convergence. A similar method can be used for any slowly converging iterative process.
It was devised simultaneously by David M. Young Jr. an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive%20over-relaxation |
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (28 July 1843 – 23 December 1928) was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Life and career
Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London. He was a son of William George Thiselton-Dyer (1812-1868), physician and Catherine Jane, née Fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Turner%20Thiselton-Dyer |
Lakshmi Narayanan (born 1953) is the ex-vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant and former Chairman of ICT Academy. He was the CEO and president of Cognizant until 2006.
Biography
He has played a leading role in the global information technology industry for more than 25 years, managing divisions and business units in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi%20Narayanan |
Live in America is an album by Victor Wooten, released in 2001. The double disc contains highlights of the Yin-Yang tour.
Track listing
Disc one
"Are You Ready, Baby?" – 2:24 w/Bootsy Collins
"What Did He Say?" – 6:54
"Hormones In The Headphones" – 6:46
"Nobody Knows My Name" – 4:50
"Hero" – 5:06
"Yinin' And Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20in%20America%20%28Victor%20Wooten%20album%29 |
Todd Alan Pratt (born February 9, 1967) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher, playing from 1992 to 2006. He primarily served as a back-up catcher for most of his career.
Pratt was the head baseball coach and athletic director at West Georgia Technical College (West Georgia Tech), a member of the Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Pratt |
The ATEX directives are two EU directives describing the minimum safety requirements for workplaces and equipment used in explosive atmospheres. The name is an initialization of the term "Appareils destinés à être utilisés en Atmosphere Explosive" (French for "Equipment intended for use in explosive atmospheres").
Dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATEX%20directive |
Charles Wesley Flint was an American bishop in the Methodist Church, elected in 1936.
Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he was involved in educational work. He was the president of Cornell College in Iowa (1915–22), then was the fifth chancellor of Syracuse University from 1922 until his election as a bishop. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Wesley%20Flint |
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (26 June 1575 – 8 April 1612) was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1597 to 1612 as the first spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark.
Life
Anne Catherine was born in Halle (Saale) and raised in Wolmirstedt. Her parents were Joachim Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg and his first wife Cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Catherine%20of%20Brandenburg |
Nigel Irens RDI is a leading yacht designer. Amongst his designs are the Adventurer, a 35m trimaran motor yacht which completed a record-breaking circumnavigation in 1998, and a 23 m sailing trimaran used by Ellen MacArthur to break the world record for solo circumnavigation in 2005.
His design portfolio is wide-ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Irens |
Lindsay Perigo (born 14 December 1951) is a New Zealand former television and radio broadcasting personality, founding member and first leader of the Libertarianz political party and an Objectivist organisation called Sense of Life Objectivists (SOLO).
In 1993 he quit television work, in the process denouncing TVNZ ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay%20Perigo |
FC Etar Veliko Tarnovo () is a former Bulgarian professional football club based in Veliko Tarnovo. They were last competing in the 2012–13 season of the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, the top tier of professional football in Bulgaria. The club replaced the old FC Etar (Veliko Tarnovo), which won the Bulgaria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Etar%201924%20Veliko%20Tarnovo |
Robert Wilks (c. 1665 – 27 September 1732) was a British actor and theatrical manager who was one of the leading managers of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in its heyday of the 1710s. He was, with Colley Cibber and Thomas Doggett, one of the "triumvirate" of actor-managers that was denounced by Alexander Pope and caricatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wilks |
Short Bull may refer to:
Arnold Short Bull (c. 1845 -1915), Sicangu Lakota (or Brulé) leader, associated with Ghost Dance
Grant Short Bull (c. 1852 -1935), Oglala Lakota leader
A fictional US tank from Panzer Front.
Surnames of Native American origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Bull |
The Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi is a palace in Rome, Italy. It was built by the Borghese family on the Quirinal Hill; its footprint occupies the site where the ruins of the baths of Constantine stood, whose remains still are part of the basement of the main building, the Casino dell'Aurora. Its first inhabitant was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo%20Pallavicini-Rospigliosi |
State Route 153 (SR 153) is a very short state highway in the U.S. state of California in El Dorado County. It extends only from the junction of Cold Springs Road and SR 49, in the town of Coloma in the heart of California's Gold Country, to the monument marking the grave of James Marshall, whose finding of gold along... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20State%20Route%20153 |
This is an incomplete list of Acts of Tynwald, made by Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man.
15th century
Customary Laws Act 1417 (I p. 3)
Customary Laws Act 1422 (I p. 8)
16th century
Churchwardens Ordinance 1577 (I p. 40)
Customary Laws Act 1577 (I p. 47)
Treasure Trove Act 1586 (I p. 60)
17th century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Acts%20of%20Tynwald |
Gwardamanġa (English: Guardamangia or sometimes incorrectly written as Gwarda Mangia) is a hamlet in Pietà, Malta. Gwardamanġa is the home of St. Luke's Hospital, Malta's former general public hospital, and Villa Guardamangia, the former home of Queen Elizabeth II. It is also the location where the Rediffusion House i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwardaman%C4%A1a |
"Renegades of Funk" is a song written by Afrika Bambaataa, Arthur Baker, John Miller & John Robie and recorded by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force. Released in 1983 as a single on the Tommy Boy label, it was also included on the 1986 album Planet Rock: The Album. The song is an eclectic fusion of electronic music and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegades%20of%20Funk |
The Route nationale 14, N14, is a trunk road (nationale) in France between Paris and Rouen, running through Pontoise, Magny-en-Vexin, Saint-Clair-sur-Epte and Fleury-sur-Andelle. Until the 1950s, it was going until Le Havre through Yvetot.
Route
Paris to Pontoise, km 0 to km 32
The N14 begins at Paris' Porte de Clign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20nationale%2014 |
James Cossar Ewart FRS FRSE (26 November 1851 – 31 December 1933) was a Scottish zoologist. He performed breeding experiments with horses and zebras which disproved earlier theories of heredity.
Life
Ewart was born in Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland, the son of Jean Cossar and John Ewart, a joiner. He studied medicine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Cossar%20Ewart |
"Driving the Last Spike" is the third track on the Genesis album We Can't Dance, released in 1991.
The song's lyrics by Phil Collins are about the Navvies: railway workers of the 19th century, many of whom died constructing Britain's railways. The song narrates the thoughts and feelings of an unnamed railway worker in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving%20the%20Last%20Spike |
The MV Hotspur IV is a historic passenger ferry, which previously operated on the Hythe Ferry service. This service connects the town of Hythe and the city of Southampton, across Southampton Water in England.
The Hotspur IV was built by Rowhedge Ironworks in 1946. She was the last, and slightly larger, of three half-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20Hotspur%20IV |
Verónica Romero Sotoca (born 18 July 1978 in Elche, Spain), simply known as Veronica Romero, is a Spanish singer who rose to fame in 2001 after appearing on the reality singing contest Operación Triunfo, in which she finished in sixth place. Among the songs she performed on the program were "You'd Better Stop", "Un-bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica%20Romero |
Dunfermline Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The men's team currently plays in , the women's team currently plays in .
History
Established in 1893, home games are played at McKane Park.
Their strip is royal blue and white.
Honours
Men's
Edinburgh Charity Sevens
Cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunfermline%20RFC |
Säben Abbey (; ; ) was a Benedictine nunnery located near Klausen in South Tyrol, northern Italy. It was established in 1687, when it was first settled by the nuns of Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg. The last nuns left the abbey in 2021.
History
Säben (from ), situated on the "holy mountain", was for centuries a centre of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4ben%20Abbey |
Košice-Juh (literally: Košice-South; ) is a borough (city ward) of the city of Košice, Slovakia. Located in the Košice IV district, in the southern area of the city, it lies at an altitude of roughly above sea level.
Historical landmarks
The oldest building in the borough is the Holy Spirit Church, erected in 1733.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%A1ice-Juh |
Leith Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. The constituency represented the parliamentary burghs of Leith, Musselburgh and Portobello.
In 1918 Leith was included in Leith, while Musselburgh and Portobello were merged into Edinbu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith%20Burghs%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 |
East Kilbride RFC are a rugby union side who are based in East Kilbride.
History
Established in 1968, their home games are played at Torrance House. The team currently compete in the and play all their home games at the Magnificent Torrance House Arena, up at Calderglen.
EKRFC moved to the Torrance Arena in 1971, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Kilbride%20RFC |
Bruce Ellis (born 1960, nicknamed Brucee) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs during the 1980s and 90s. He was educated at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he earned First Class Honours with the University Medal. He worked there on the Basser branch of UNIX/32V.
This work continued at Bell Labs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Ellis |
Bernie Winters (born Bernie Weinstein; 6 September 1930 – 4 May 1991), was an English comedian, actor, musician & TV presenter, and the comic foil of the double act Mike and Bernie Winters with his older brother, Mike. Winters later performed solo, often with the aid of his St Bernard dog, Schnorbitz.
Biography
Bernie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie%20Winters |
Edinburgh University Rugby Football Club is a leading rugby union side based in Edinburgh, Scotland which currently plays its fixtures in the Edinburgh Regional Shield competition and the British Universities Premiership. It is one of the eight founder members of the Scottish Rugby Union. In the years prior to the SRU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20University%20RFC |
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