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The Tribes of Arabia () or Arab tribes () denote ethnic Arab tribes originating in the Arabian Peninsula. These tribes trace their ancestry to one of the two Arab forefathers, Adnan or Qahtan.
Historically, Arab tribes have inhabited the Arabian Peninsula. However, with the spread of Islam, they started migrating and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribes%20of%20Arabia |
David Farrington Thornton (born June 12, 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in John Q, Home Alone 3 as Earl Unger, Law & Order, The Notebook, and The Other Woman, among other roles. He is the husband of singer songwriter Cyndi Lauper.
Personal life
Thornton was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. He is the son of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Thornton%20%28actor%29 |
The Ésagila or Esangil ( , "temple whose top is lofty") was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki.
Description
In this temple was the statue of Marduk, surrounded by cult images of the cities that had fallen under the hegemony of the Babylonian Empire from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esagila |
George Newman may refer to:
George Newman (MP) (c. 1562–1627), Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Dover
George Newman (cricketer) (1904–1982), English cricketer
George Newman (physician) (1870–1948), English public health physician
George Newman, a fictional character played by “Weird Al” Yankovic in the film U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Newman |
Friedrich Müller (6 March 1834 25 May 1898) was an Austrian linguist and ethnologist who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages for what are now called the Afro-Asiatic languages.
Biography
He studied at the University of Göttingen. His studies were completed at the University of Vienna (1853–1857), where he wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20M%C3%BCller%20%28linguist%29 |
Source code escrow is the deposit of the source code of software with a third-party escrow agent. Escrow is typically requested by a party licensing software (the licensee), to ensure maintenance of the software instead of abandonment or orphaning. The software's source code is released to the licensee if the licensor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20code%20escrow |
The Sugar Creek Slavic Festival is an annual two-day event held in Sugar Creek, Missouri. The next Festival is Friday & Saturday, 11–12 June in 2021, as 2020 went on hiatus.
The Sugar Creek Fair and Festival Board sponsors the Slavic Festival. The board consists of area civic and service organization members. In 2005,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20Creek%20Slavic%20Festival |
Fotbal Club Gaz Metan Târgu Mureș was a Romanian football club from Târgu Mureș, Mureș County.
In its history, Gaz Metan has played for eight seasons in Liga III, between 2000 and 2009.
History
Gaz Metan achieved promotion to the Divizia C, Romanian's third division, at the end of the 1999–2000 season, winning Divizi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Gaz%20Metan%20T%C3%A2rgu%20Mure%C8%99 |
Germany competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. In terms of gold medals, Germany finished ranking second with 12 gold medals. Meanwhile, the 36 total medals won by German athletes were the most of any nation at these Games, as well at any Winter Olympics, until this record was broken by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%20at%20the%202002%20Winter%20Olympics |
Ofer Bar-Yosef (; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020) was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period.
From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the institution where he originally studied archaeology at undergradua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer%20Bar-Yosef |
Wallace Augustus Rayfield (1874–1941), was an American architect and educator. He was the second formally educated practicing African American architect in the United States.
Biography
Wallace Augustus Rayfield was born around May 10, 1874 in Bibb County near Macon, Georgia. Rayfield attended schools in Macon, Georgia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20Rayfield |
Steiger is a tractor brand that is manufactured in the United States. The Steiger Tractor Company was founded in the 1950s by Douglass Steiger and Maurice Steiger, brothers who were farmers near Red Lake Falls, Minnesota. The Steigers first built a tractor in their workshop for their own use out of truck components, be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiger%20Tractor |
Pigs Have Wings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared as a serial in Collier's Weekly between 16 August and 20 September 1952. It was first published as a book in the United States on 16 October 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs%20Have%20Wings |
The 1972–73 season was the 93rd season of competitive football in England.
Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition
Football League
The Football League announced that a three-up, three-down system would operate between the top three div... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%E2%80%9373%20in%20English%20football |
Britânia is a municipality in northwestern Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 5,797 (2020) in a total area of 1461.2 km2.
Municipal boundaries
Municipal boundaries:
North: Aruanã
South: Jussara
East: Itapirapuã and Aruanã
West: the state of Mato Grosso
Highway connections
A paved highway connects Britânia wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit%C3%A2nia |
Anjuna () is a village located on the coast of North Goa, India. It is a Census Town, one of the twelve Brahmin comunidades of Bardez. It is mostly a tourist destination.
Its church, St. Michael's Church, Anjuna, founded in 1595, is dedicated to S. Miguel, and celebrates the feasts of S. Miguel (29 September) and Noss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjuna |
Joseph Wright FBA (31 October 1855 – 27 February 1930)
was an English Germanic philologist who rose from humble origins to become Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford.
Early life
Wright was born in Idle, near Bradford in the former West Riding of Yorkshire, the second son of Dufton Wright, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Wright%20%28linguist%29 |
Banu Amr bin Auf () are an Arabian tribe in Quba, on the outskirts of Medina. Umar and his companions stayed with them during the hijra from Mecca.
Its descendants today consist of the Harb tribe.
See also
Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad
References
Tribes of Arabia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu%20Amr |
The United States Air Force Academy is an undergraduate college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Air Force and United States Space Force. The Academy was established in 1954, entered its first class in 1955, and graduated its first class in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20Air%20Force%20Academy%20alumni |
In computer science, the terms TBox and ABox are used to describe two different types of statements in knowledge bases. TBox statements are the "terminology component", and describe a domain of interest by defining classes and properties as a domain vocabulary. ABox statements are the "assertion component" — facts asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abox |
Plaisance () is an administrative district of Seychelles located on the island of Mahé.
See also
Bernard Adonis
References
Districts of Seychelles
Victoria, Seychelles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaisance%2C%20Seychelles |
Broadford may refer to:
Places
Broadford, Victoria, Australia, a small town
Broadford, County Clare, Republic of Ireland, a village
Broadford, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, a village
Broadford, Skye, Scotland, a village
Broadford, Pennsylvania, United States
Broadford, Virginia, United States
Shire of Broa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadford |
Broadford ( ), together with nearby Harrapool, is the second-largest settlement on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Lying in the shadow of the Red Cuillin mountains, Broadford is within the parish of Strath. A long meandering village historically consisting of a few buildings on either side of the Broadford River, the many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadford%2C%20Skye |
Santa Balbina is a Roman Catholic basilica church in located in the Aventine rione, adjacent to the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.
History
A church at the site initially was built in the 4th century over the house of consul Lucius Fabius Cilo. Possibly the ancient Titulus Tigridae, the basilica was consecrated to St Balb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Balbina |
ToonTalk is a computer programming system intended to be programmed by children. The "Toon" part stands for cartoon. The system's presentation is in the form of animated characters, including robots that can be trained by example. It is one of the few successful implementations outside academia of the concurrent cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToonTalk |
Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and journalist.
Educated at St. Dunstan's College, Durham University and the London School of Economics, he has collaborated with Anthony Seldon on a number of books, including the authorised biography of John Major, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), Blair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Snowdon |
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (known as Kramer Levin) is an American law firm headquartered in New York City with branch offices in Silicon Valley, California; Washington, D.C.; and Paris, France. The firm has 324 lawyers.
History
The firm was founded in New York City in 1968, as Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen & Kam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer%20Levin%20Naftalis%20%26%20Frankel |
Embrace is a 2001 novel by South African author Mark Behr.
Embrace is the story of the sexual awakening of Karl De Man, a 13-year-old pupil at the Berg, an exclusive boys' school in South Africa in the 1970s. Karl's time at school is interwoven with descriptions of his time at home with his loving, but traditional, fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%20%28novel%29 |
Ożarów (; ) is a town in Poland, in the province of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in Opatów county (Powiat of Opatów), historic Lesser Poland, with 10,399 inhabitants as of December 31, 2021. Ożarów received its town charter in 1569, during the Polish Golden Age, lost it in 1869, and regained in 1988. The town lies in ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C5%BCar%C3%B3w |
In celestial navigation, lunar distance, also called a lunar, is the angular distance between the Moon and another celestial body. The lunar distances method uses this angle and a nautical almanac to calculate Greenwich time if so desired, or by extension any other time. That calculated time can be used in solving a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20distance%20%28navigation%29 |
The wooden churches of southern Lesser Poland () of the UNESCO inscription are located in Binarowa, Blizne, Dębno, Haczów, Lipnica Murowana, and Sękowa (Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Małopolska). There are in fact many others of the region which fit the description: "The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden%20churches%20of%20Southern%20Lesser%20Poland |
Empress Xiaocigao (1575 – 31 October 1603), of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan, personal name Monggo Jerjer, was a consort of Nurhaci. She was 16 years his junior.
Life
Family background
Father: Yangginu (; d. 1584), held the title of a third rank prince ()
Paternal grandfather: Taicu (), held the title of a third rank p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress%20Xiaocigao%20%28Qing%20dynasty%29 |
De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi was written by Italian fencing master Filippo Vadi between 1482 and 1487. It consists of an opening prologue describing the art of fencing followed by colored plates illustrating specific techniques for the longsword, dagger, pollaxe, spear and club. While much of what he describes closely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Arte%20Gladiatoria%20Dimicandi |
Hutton is a small civil parish about west of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria. The parish contains the small mansion and former pele tower of Hutton John, the seat of the Hudleston family.
At the UK census 2011 the parish had a population of 438.
The parish of Hutton was created in 1934 from the merger of H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton%2C%20Cumbria |
Gary P. Naftalis (born November 23, 1941) is an American trial lawyer, and head of the litigation department and co-chair of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, a New York City law firm.
Education
Naftalis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University (A.B. 1963), earned a master's degree in history at Brown Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20P.%20Naftalis |
"She Shook Me Cold" is a song written by David Bowie in 1970 for the album The Man Who Sold the World. Mick Ronson's solo guitar is influenced by hard rock as played by Cream, Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck. Although solely credited to Bowie, this and other songs from the album were constructed around jams by all of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%20Shook%20Me%20Cold |
Brønshøj, part of the municipality of Copenhagen, forms, together with Husum, the administrative city district (bydel) of Brønshøj-Husum, in Denmark.
History
The first mention of the village Brønshøj (Brunshoga), is in a letter dated October 21, 1186 from Pope Urban III to Archbishop Absalon. Brønshøj Church dates fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%B8nsh%C3%B8j |
Buriti Alegre is a municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 9,484 inhabitants (2020) in a total area of 897.4 km2. Buriti Alegre is a large producer of poultry products.
Location and communications
Buriti is located in the extreme south of the state between Morrinhos and Itumbiara. It is part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buriti%20Alegre |
The Banu Makhzum () was one of the wealthy clans of the Quraysh. They are regarded as being among the three most powerful and influential clans in Mecca before the advent of Islam, the other two being the Banu Hashim (the tribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) and the Banu Umayya.
History
Pre-Islamic era
The Banu Mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu%20Makhzum |
Palm Pictures is a US-based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell. Palm Pictures produces, acquires and distributes music and film projects with a particular focus on the DVD-Video format. Palm places an emphasis on such projects as music documentaries, arthouse, foreign cinema and music videos. Palm P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm%20Pictures |
Derek Arthur Roe (31 August 1937 – 24 September 2014) was a British archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.
Roe was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and grew up in Kent.
Educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, he undertook his National Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Roe |
Adirondack Life is a bi-monthly magazine based in Jay, New York that covers the Adirondack region of the state. It has been published since 1969 when it began as a supplement to a Warrensburg, New York newspaper.
Articles are primarily oriented towards features on the history and culture of the region, as well as recr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adirondack%20Life |
Wings () was the first Russian novel centred on homosexuality. Written by Mikhail Kuzmin, it was printed in 1906 to the consternation of a conservative literary establishment.
Plot
The novel deals with teenager Vanya Smurov's attachment to his older, urbane mentor, Larion Stroop, a pederast who initiates him into the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings%20%28Kuzmin%20novel%29 |
Philip Lewis Clarke (September 8, 1938 – April 23, 2013) was an American voice actor.
He provided voices in several TV series, films, and video games, including his leading role as Malcolm Betruger in Doom 3.
Roles
Oliver Twist - Additional Voices
Devlin - Additional Voices
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
Cataclysm -... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20L.%20Clarke |
Cascadia Con was the eighth North American Science Fiction Convention, held in SeaTac, Washington, on September 1–5, 2005, at the Seattle Airport Hilton and Conference Center. This NASFiC was held because Glasgow, Scotland, was selected as the location for the 2005 Worldcon.
Guests of honor
Fred Saberhagen, writer (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia%20Con |
Krylya may refer to:
Wings (Kuzmin novel), a 1906 Russian novel by Mikhail Kuzmin
Krylya (album), a 2005 album by Catharsis
Krylya (Wings), Russia's winning entry in the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krylya |
Pickering Public Library is the library system of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. The library was operational in separate branches since 1841, but officially launched as the Main Library in 1990 at the Central Branch. There are also the George Ashe (formerly Petticoat) and Claremont branches which remain part of the Picker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering%20Public%20Library |
Eunice Wyatt (also Gardner, Twining and Martin) is a fictional character from the American soap opera Search for Tomorrow. The role was originated by Marion Brash from 1957 to 1961, and then portrayed by Ann Williams from 1966 until the character's death in November 1976.
Portrayal
The role of Eunice was originated by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice%20Gardner%20Wyatt |
Mistral may refer to:
Mistral (wind) in southern France and Sardinia
Automobiles
Maserati Mistral, a Maserati grand tourer produced from 1963 until 1970
Nissan Mistral, or Terrano II, a Nissan 4×4 produced from 1993 until 2006
Microplas Mistral, a kit car from the 1950s produced in England, United States, and New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral |
First Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism. It also publishes graphic non-fiction for young readers, including the Science C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Second%20Books |
Teachers is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes from March 28 until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a 2001 UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical comedy Scrubs.
Overview
Set in New Jersey, T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers%20%282006%20TV%20series%29 |
Blame It on Me is the debut album by singer-songwriter Alana Davis. It was released in 1997 and contained her two most popular singles, "32 Flavors" and "Crazy". The album peaked at No. 157 on the U.S. Billboard 200.
Track listing
References
1997 debut albums
Alana Davis albums
Elektra Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame%20It%20on%20Me%20%28album%29 |
Alvah Robert "Al" Holbert (November 11, 1946 – September 30, 1988) was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series and the fifth driver to complete the informal triple Crown of endurance racing. He once held the record with the most IMSA race wins at 49.
Life and caree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Holbert |
The Rhythm Pigs were an American punk band, originally from El Paso, Texas, United States, later relocated to San Francisco. Their first two albums were among the first to be released by the influential independent Mordam Records label. Their first 7-inch EP is a classic example of early hardcore, welding driving roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20Pigs |
Fortune Cookies is the second album by Alana Davis, released in 2001. It peaked at #34 on Billboard's Heatseekers Album chart.
Track listing
References
2001 albums
Elektra Records albums
Alana Davis albums
Albums produced by the Neptunes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%20Cookies%20%28album%29 |
The Smell of Apples is a 1993 debut novel by South African Mark Behr, published in Afrikaans as Die Reuk van Appels then published in 1995 in English.
Mark Behr describes the Afrikaner mentality in apartheid South Africa as seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy called Marnus, the son of an Army General. The nove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Smell%20of%20Apples |
The Taiwanese Cultural Association (TCA; ) was an important organization during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. It was founded by Chiang Wei-shui on 17 October 1921, in Daitōtei, a district in modern-day Taipei.
History
After World War I, an epidemic of self-determination and democracy engulfed the world. Needless to say... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese%20Cultural%20Association |
Surrender Dorothy is the third album by Alana Davis. It was released in 2005 on Davis's own label, Tigress Records.
"Surrender Dorothy" is a line from the film The Wizard of Oz.
Track listing
References
2005 albums
Alana Davis albums
Rock albums by American artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender%20Dorothy%20%28album%29 |
Coastal Highway may refer to:
United States
Delaware Route 1, between the Maryland border in Fenwick Island and Milford
Parts of U.S. Route 98, Florida
Georgia State Route 25, Port Wentworth, Georgia
Maryland Route 528, Ocean City, Maryland
Parts of U.S. Route 17, Georgia and South Carolina
Elsewhere
North West... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal%20Highway |
A Girl like Me is the second studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released on April 10, 2006, by Def Jam Recordings. For the production of the album, Rihanna worked with Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken, Stargate, J. R. Rotem, and label-mate Ne-Yo, who wrote the album's second single. A Girl like Me is a pop and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Girl%20like%20Me%20%28Rihanna%20album%29 |
The letter (sometimes called sho or san) was a letter added to the Greek alphabet in order to write the Bactrian language. It was similar in appearance to the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic letter thorn (þ), which has typically been used to represent it in modern print, although both are historically quite unrelated. It pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho%20%28letter%29 |
Charlie Chalk is a British stop motion animation series produced in 1987 in the United Kingdom by Woodland Animations, who also produced the children's television programmes Postman Pat, Gran, and Bertha. Reception to the show was mostly positive. The series began airing from 20 October 1988, Thursday afternoons on BBC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Chalk |
Holiday (released in the United Kingdom as Free to Live) is a 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name.
The film tells of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancé... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday%20%281938%20film%29 |
Zeeteah Silveta Massiah (born December 24, 1956) is a Barbadian-born British singer particularly associated with reggae, jazz and house music.
In a wide-ranging career she has recorded and/or toured with artists including Robbie Williams, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Sting and Leo Sayer. She is best known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeteah%20Massiah |
Bring on the Girls! is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on 5 October 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
Subtitled "The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring%20On%20the%20Girls%21 |
HMS Raider is an patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy. Along with , Raider is part of the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron based at HMNB Clyde.
Characteristics
Raider is one of sixteen , 54-tonne P2000 patrol craft operated by the Royal Navy. She is constructed from glass-reinforced plastic. As a "batch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Raider%20%28P275%29 |
A floorcloth, or floor-cloth, is a household furnishing used for warmth, decoration, or to protect expensive carpets. They were primarily produced and used from the early 18th to the early 20th century and were also referred to as oilcloth, wax cloths, and painted canvas. Some still use floorcloths as a customizable al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorcloth |
F-16 Multirole Fighter is a combat flight simulation game, released by NovaLogic in 1998. It focuses on the F-16 Fighting Falcon, and uses the same game engine as MiG-29 Fulcrum; both were reissued together in 2001 as a double-disc edition named Jet Pack. It was re-released in 2009 on Steam.
Gameplay
Being a simulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16%20Multirole%20Fighter |
Hishult is a locality and a parish situated in Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 332 inhabitants in 2010.
The area has been a centre of iron extraction and formed a county, including parts of northern Skåne while it was Danish. The name might be related to the iron extraction as it used to be spelt Isen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hishult |
Clive Andrew Mantle (born 3 June 1957) is an English actor. He played general surgeon Mike Barratt in the BBC hospital drama series Casualty and Holby City in the 1990s, and Little John in the 1980s fantasy series Robin of Sherwood. He returned to Casualty in 2016 as Mike Barratt for the show's 30th anniversary.
Mantl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Mantle |
Joseph Robert Murrell (19 November 1879 – 15 August 1952), known as Joe Murrell''', was an English cricketer who played over 350 matches, mainly for Middlesex County Cricket Club as a wicket-keeper.
Murrell was born at Hounslow in Middlesex. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent County Cricket Club in 1899 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Murrell |
Joshua Brenner Ilika was born (September 14, 1976 in Celaya, Guanajuato) is a Mexican butterfly and freestyle swimmer, who began swimming at the age of three. He participated in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.
See also
List of Mexican records in swimming
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Mexic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Ilika%20Brenner |
Bill Johnson (born December 16, 1951) is an American actor, known for his role as Leatherface in the 1986 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
Career
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Johnson was chosen to play Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Despite negative reviews from critics due in part to the film r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Johnson%20%28film%20and%20television%20actor%29 |
MTD Products is an American manufacturer of outdoor power equipment for the mass market. Headquartered in Valley City, Ohio, the company began in 1932 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stanley Black & Decker. Prior to Stanley Black & Decker's acquisition in December 2021, MTD Products was a majority family-owned, pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTD%20Holdings |
is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly Lupin III, and most famously the 1977 series Lupin III Part II and the feature film The Castle of Cagliostro.
Early life
Born in the founding family of Atami City's Hotel Ohnoya, Ohno began playing pian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji%20Ohno |
SAP NetWeaver Application Server or SAP Web Application Server is a component of SAP NetWeaver which works as a web application server for SAP products.
All ABAP application servers including the message server represent the application layer of the multitier architecture of an ABAP-based SAP system. These application ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20NetWeaver%20Application%20Server |
"Ricky" is a 1983 song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, duetting with voice actress Tress MacNeille. It is a parody of the 1982 song "Mickey" by Toni Basil, which itself, is a cover of Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn's "Kitty" recorded by Racey. The song focuses on the sitcom I Love Lucy, and ends with a segment of the theme from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20%28song%29 |
The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is a white supremacist international Ásatrú organization, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994. Many of the assembly's doctrines, heavily criticized by most heathens, are based on ethnicity, an approach it calls "folkish". Once headquartered in Grass Valley, California, with chapters wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asatru%20Folk%20Assembly |
Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s%20teapot |
Lucius Fabius Cilo, full name Lucius Fabius Cilo Septiminus Catinius Acilianus Lepidus Fulcinianus, was a Roman senator, who was a confidant of Septimius Severus. He held a number of appointments that have been dated to the reigns of Commodus and Severus. He was twice Roman consul: the first time in 193 as a suffect, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Fabius%20Cilo |
Héctor Israel Ortiz Ortiz (born 28 July 1950 in Oaxaca) is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Tlaxcala.
Professional career
Héctor Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in law. He has been a professor of law at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (UAT) since 1974. Ortiz also served as Rector of the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor%20Ortiz%20Ortiz |
Sternomancy, from the Greek sternon (chest) is a divination practice involving reading the markings or bumps on the chest or breast bone (or the area "from the breast to the belly", according to some sources). Sternomancy may have been commonly practiced on victims of sacrifice, including human sacrifice. Sternomancy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternomancy |
The golden viscacha rat or golden vizcacha rat (Pipanacoctomys aureus) is the single species of the genus Pipanacoctomys of the rodent family Octodontidae. It has 92 chromosomes and has been regarded as tetraploid (4x = 2n). This octodontid and its sister-species, the plains viscacha rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae) (2n =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20viscacha%20rat |
"The Supermen" is a song written by English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1970 and released as the closing track on the album The Man Who Sold the World. It was one of a number of pieces on the album inspired by the works of literary figures such as Friedrich Nietzsche and H. P. Lovecraft.
Music and lyrics
The song... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Supermen |
Getinge is a locality situated in Halmstad Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 1,843 inhabitants in 2010.
Economy
Getinge Group had its headquarters in the village until 2014.
History
The local assembly, the Hallandic thing took place in Getinge.
References
Populated places in Halmstad Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getinge |
I Vampiri ( The Vampires) is a 1957 Italian horror film directed by Riccardo Freda and completed by the film's cinematographer, Mario Bava. It stars Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo and Dario Michaelis. The film is about a series of murders on young women who are found with their blood drained. The newspapers report... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Vampiri |
Jacques-Cartier Park is a park in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, along the Ottawa River. The park is more than 22.68 hectares large and is located at the base of the Alexandra Bridge, facing the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It is named for French explorer Jacques Cartier, who arrived at the mouth of the Ottawa Rive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Cartier%20Park |
Card stunts are a planned, coordinated sequence of actions performed by an audience, whose members raise cards that, in the aggregate, create a recognizable image. The images they create can range widely and, through careful planning, the same cards can create a number of different images by systematically changing ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20stunt |
In cell culture biology, confluence refers to the percentage of the surface of a culture dish that is covered by adherent cells. For example, 50 percent confluence means roughly half of the surface is covered, while 100 percent confluence means the surface is completely covered by the cells, and no more room is left fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluency |
"I Love Rocky Road" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic about a man's obsession with rocky road ice cream. It is a parody of the 1981 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' cover version of the British band Arrows' 1975 song, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", originally sung and written by Alan Merrill.
Track listing
"I Love Rocky Road" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Love%20Rocky%20Road |
Argus (formerly known as Petroleum Argus Ltd) is an independent provider of price information, consultancy services, conferences, market data and business intelligence for the global petroleum, natural gas, electricity, emissions, biofuels, biomass, LPG, metals, chemicals, fertilizers, agriculture and coal industries.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus%20Media |
Simplicity Manufacturing Company is an American company based in Port Washington, Wisconsin that builds lawn and garden equipment under various brands. The company was founded by William J. Niederkorn in 1922, and started building walk-behind two-wheeled tractors in 1939. Between 1941 and 1945, due to World War II, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity%20Manufacturing%20Company |
The Agglomération du Choletais, also simply known as CAC, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Cholet and its suburbs.
It is located in the Maine-et-Loire département, in the Pays de la Loire région (France). It was formed on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération du Chol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglomeration%20community%20of%20Cholet |
Verla at Jaala, Kouvola, Finland, is a well-preserved 19th-century mill village. Situated along the northern Kymi River, the mill, nearby power plants, and residential houses were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996 due to its testimony to the lumber industry in the 19th century and the lives of the ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verla |
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI from its former name in ) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information of the country. It was created on January 25, 1983, by presidential decree of Miguel de la Madrid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Statistics%20and%20Geography |
WRIU (90.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting a college radio format. Licensed to Kingston, Rhode Island, United States, the station serves the greater Rhode Island area. The station is owned by University of Rhode Island. The broadcast area reaches almost all of Rhode Island, and portions of Connectic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRIU |
NPY may refer to:
Neuropeptide Y, a 36 amino-acid neuropeptide that is involved in various physiological and homeostatic processes in both the central and peripheral nervous systems
NPY, the IATA airport code for Mpanda Airport, Tanzania
*.npy files are binary files to store numpy arrays | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPY |
BGN/PCGN romanization are the systems for romanization and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN).
The systems have been approved by the BGN and the PCGN for application to geograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGN/PCGN%20romanization |
Luigi Verderame, usually known just as Luigi, is a Belgian singer, popular internationally in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He sang mainly in French, but he also sang in Italian, Hebrew, Turkish and English. His most well known hits are Une Maman (1964) and Pitie (1967).
Childhood
Luigi was born on July 9, 1950, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Verderame |
Polesian National Park () is a National Park in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, in the Polish part of the historical region of Polesia. Created in 1990 over an area of 48.13 square kilometres, it covers a number of former peat-bog preserves: Durne Marsh (Durne Bagno), Moszne Lake (Jezioro Moszne), Długie Lake (Jezi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polesian%20National%20Park |
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