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is a manga created by Naoko Takeuchi. The series revolves around the character Minako Aino, a cheerful schoolgirl who finds out that she has magical powers that she must use to protect the people of the Earth. Codename: Sailor V is the basis for its sequel, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon.
Plot
Minako Aino is a 13-year-old... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename%3A%20Sailor%20V |
Jann Browne (born March 14, 1954) is an American country music singer. She moved to Southern California in 1978 where she performed in a number of Orange County country bars. From 1981 through 1983, before her solo career, she was a vocalist with the Western swing group Asleep at the Wheel. She has recorded four studio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann%20Browne |
Sanjay Raul (born 6 October 1976) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.
Sanjay Raul is a strokeful middle order batsman who started his international debut as part of India 'A' tour of Pakistan in early 1998. He played both of his ODIs against Pakistan at Skating & Curl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20Raul |
Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche of modern south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, did not have a writing system when the Spanish arrived. There have been a number of proposals for orthographies or Mapudungun alphabets, all of them using Latin script, but no consensus has yet been achieved between author... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapudungun%20alphabet |
The Meta Sudans (Latin: "sweating turning post") was a large monumental conical fountain in ancient Rome.
The Meta Sudans was built some time between 89 and 96 under the Flavian emperors, a few years after the completion of the nearby Colosseum. It was built between the Colosseum and the Temple of Venus and Roma, clo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20Sudans |
Llano Estacado Winery is a winery located in Lubbock, Texas. It is one of the oldest wineries in Texas.
History
In 1976, Llano Estacado Winery was established in southeast Lubbock County, Texas, while it was still a dry county. The state legislature passed a bill two years later permitting wine production in dry count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano%20Estacado%20Winery |
East Charlotte is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Charlotte, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
The village is in southwestern Chittenden County, in the eastern part of the town of Charlotte, at the intersection o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Charlotte%2C%20Vermont |
Claude Alphonso Alvares is an Indian environmentalist based in Goa. Alvares is the editor of the Other India Press and Director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring action group that has filed successful public interest litigation cases.
Alvares is a member of the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Alvares |
Henry Gonzalez may refer to:
Henry B. González (1916–2000), politician from the state of Texas
Henry C. Gonzalez, city council member in South Gate, California, USA
Henry Gonzalez Vega (born 1993), Costa Rican gymnast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Gonzalez |
Olga Talamante (born 1950) is a Chicana political activist and the past executive director of the California-based Chicana/Latina Foundation.
Early life
Talamante was born in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, to Eduardo and Refugio Talamante. Her father was Mexican and her mother was a Mexican-American from Lompoc, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Talamante |
Tell Me Why is the début studio album by American country music artist Jann Browne. Three singles from the album rose to positions on the Billboard Country Singles charts: "You Ain't Down Home" at #19, "Tell Me Why" at #18, and "Louisville" at #75. Also featured on the album is a cover of The Davis Sisters' "I Forgot M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell%20Me%20Why%20%28Jann%20Browne%20album%29 |
Arnold Herbert Johnson (November 15, 1921 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor who played the lead role in the film Putney Swope (1969); in the film, his voice was dubbed by Robert Downey, Sr., allegedly because Johnson could never remember his lines. Johnson appeared in Shaft (1971) as Cul, a friend of John Shaft a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Johnson%20%28actor%29 |
KKFS (103.9 MHz The Fish) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Lincoln, California, and serving the Sacramento metropolitan area. The station carries a Christian contemporary radio format and is owned by the Salem Media Group, which also owns KFIA, KTKZ and KSAC-FM. Salem uses "The Fish" as its branding for C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKFS |
Sergio Cervato (; 22 March 1929 – 9 October 2005) was an Italian footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
Cervato was born in Carmignano di Brenta, province of Padua. Playing for Fiorentina, he formed a formidable defensive partnership with Ardico Magnini; despite being a left-back, however, Cervato often cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Cervato |
It Only Hurts When I Laugh is the second album by Jann Browne. Among its highlights are a cover of Nanci Griffith's "I Wish It Would Rain," the title song "It Only Hurts When I Laugh" (penned by Kostas and Marty Stuart), "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (later recorded by George Strait for the soundtrack to his acting debut i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Only%20Hurts%20When%20I%20Laugh%20%28album%29 |
The Sendai International Music Competition is a triennial violin and piano music competition held in Sendai, Japan, presented in association with the Sendai International Music Competition Organizing Committee, City of Sendai and the Sendai Cultural Foundation. In the competition there is no overall winner, rather ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai%20International%20Music%20Competition |
Arianna may refer to:
Ariana (name), a given name
Opera
L'Arianna, (English: Arianna), by Monteverdi, first performed 1608
Arianna (Marcello), by Benedetto Marcello, first concert performance 1727
Arianna in Creta, by Handel, first performed 1734
Arianna (Goehr), by Alexander Goehr, first performed 1995
Other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna |
Maurice Deebank is a classically trained English guitarist. He was the co-founder and lead guitarist of the British indie band Felt from its debut album until 1985, and was responsible for the ornate, atmospheric guitar work found on many of the band's early recordings. During his tenure in Felt he co-wrote most of it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Deebank |
The Cedar Forest (Sumerian: 𒄑𒂞𒄑𒌁giš eren giš tir) is the glorious realm of the gods of Mesopotamian mythology. It is guarded by the demigod Humbaba and was once entered by the hero Gilgamesh who dared cut down trees from its virgin stands during his quest for fame. The Cedar Forest is described in Tablets 46 of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar%20Forest |
The name Stanbridge, Quebec could refer to one of the following locations in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Parishes
Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Quebec
Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge, Quebec
Municipalities
Stanbridge East, Quebec, known as the township of Stanbridge before 1997
Stanbridge Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanbridge%2C%20Quebec |
Stanbridge may refer to:
Places
Stanbridge, Bedfordshire
Stanbridge, Dorset
Stanbridge, Quebec (disambiguation)
Stanbridge, New South Wales
People with the surname
Aleah Stanbridge (1976–2016), South African singer-songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanbridge |
Sir John Madden, (16 May 1844 – 10 March 1918) was an Australian judge and politician who was the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of Victoria, in office from 1893 until his death. He was acting governor on a number of occasions.
Background and early years
Madden was born in the village of Cloyne, near Cork, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Madden%20%28judge%29 |
Juana Maria (died October 19, 1853), better known to history as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island (her Native American name is unknown), was a Native Californian woman who was the last surviving member of her tribe, the Nicoleño. She lived alone on San Nicolas Island off the coast of Alta California from 1835 until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana%20Maria |
12th Infantry Regiment may refer to:
12th Infantry Regiment (Poland)
12th Infantry Regiment (South Korea)
12th Infantry Regiment (United States)
12th Regiment of Foot | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th%20Infantry%20Regiment |
Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (September 14, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was a policeman and Cuban exile who served in the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow the communist Cuban regime in 1961. He later became the nominal leader and founder of The Corporation, also known as the Cuban Mafia, and he invested in the gamb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Miguel%20Battle%20Sr. |
The Rosary is a novel by Florence L. Barclay. It was first published in 1909 by G.P. Putnam's Sons and was a bestselling novel for many years running, reaching the number one spot in 1910. It was adapted into five films. Two of these films are Le Rosaire, directed by Tony Lekain (France, 1934) and El rosario, directed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rosary%20%28novel%29 |
Damian () may refer to:
Damian (given name)
Damian (surname)
Damian Subdistrict, in Longquanyi District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
See also
Damiani, an Italian surname
Damiano (disambiguation)
Damien (disambiguation)
Damon (disambiguation)
Damion (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian |
Márta Károlyi (; ; born August 29, 1942) is a Hungarian-American gymnastics coach and the former national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics. She and her husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania, Romania, who trained athletes in Romania before defecting to the United States in 1981. Béla and Márta Károly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta%20K%C3%A1rolyi |
Ama Benyiwa-Doe aka Ama Chavez (born 1950 – 19 September 2021) was a Ghanaian politician who served as Regional Minister for Central Region.
Early life
Benyiwa-Doe was born in Gomoa West in the Central Region of Ghana.
She was a member of parliament for the Third Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana on the ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama%20Benyiwa-Doe |
Jessica Calvello is an American voice actress and production assistant primarily known for her anime voiceover work, particularly with ADV Films, Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks, DuArt Film and Video, Media Blasters, Funimation, Central Park Media, Headline Sound Studios, New Generation Pictures, NYAV Post, 4Kids En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Calvello |
Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá is a football stadium in San José, Costa Rica, with a seating capacity of 23,112, making it the second-largest stadium in the country.
The stadium is the home of Deportivo Saprissa, and was named in honor of the team's founder Ricardo Saprissa. The stadium's nickname "The Monster's Cave" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio%20Ricardo%20Saprissa%20Aym%C3%A1 |
Matthew Egan (born 10 July 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He served as interim senior coach at the Essendon Football Club after the resignation of James Hird for the final three rounds of the 2015 season. He served as head ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Egan |
Rosasite is a carbonate mineral with minor potential for use as a zinc and copper ore. Chemically, it is a copper zinc carbonate hydroxide with a copper to zinc ratio of 3:2, occurring in the secondary oxidation zone of copper-zinc deposits. It was originally discovered in 1908 in the Rosas mine in Sardinia, Italy, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosasite |
John Dramani Mahama (; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as president on 24 July 2012 following the death of his predecessor, John Evans Fii... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Mahama |
Malik al-Hassan Yakubu is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Ghana. He is a Ghanaian politician and a Member of parliament for the Yendi constituency. He was previously Minister of Interior, but resigned in 2002 amid accusations of backing one of the sides in a violent conflict in Yendi.
Early life and educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik%20Al-Hassan%20Yakubu |
Abraham Ossei Aidooh is a Ghanaian politician from the New Patriotic Party. As of 2008, he is the Majority Leader in the Parliament of Ghana; previously he was Deputy Majority Leader. He is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament. He also is rapporteur of the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline, one of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Ossei%20Aidooh |
Andrews Adjei-Yeboah was the member of parliament for Tano South constituency for the 5th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.
Early life and education
Adjei-Yeboah was born on 26 November 1955. He comes from Techimantia in the Ahafo Region of Ghana. He graduated from the University of Ghana with Bachelor of Sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews%20Adjei-Yeboah |
Hagen Stamm (born 12 June 1960 in Berlin) is a former water polo player from Germany, considered to be one of Germany's best in the last twenty years, having won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, and two European Championships in 1981 and 1989.
In 2000 Stamm took over the German ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen%20Stamm |
Grgo Kusić (1892 – 1918) was a Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. According to some accounts, Kusić was tall, and is frequently cited as the tallest Croat ever, as well as the tallest soldier of the Austro-Hungarian Army. However, other accounts put his height at , so the exact figure is not known for certai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grgo%20Kusi%C4%87 |
Robert Underwood Johnson (January 12, 1853 – October 14, 1937) was an American writer, poet, and diplomat.
Biography
Robert Underwood Johnson was born in Centerville, Indiana, on January 12, 1853. His brother Henry Underwood Johnson became a member of Congress from that district (1881-1889). His father, Nimrod Hoge J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Underwood%20Johnson |
South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) is the intermediary agency between the policies and strategies of the Government of South Africa and South Africa's research institutions.
History
It was established on 1 April 1999 as an autonomous statutory body in accordance with the National Research Foundation Ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Research%20Foundation%20%28South%20Africa%29 |
Reign Over Me is a 2007 American buddy drama film written and directed by Mike Binder, produced by his brother Jack Binder, and starring Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Saffron Burrows, and Mike Binder. The film follows the story of former college roommates and old friends A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign%20Over%20Me |
Members of the genus Selenomonas (motile crescent-shaped bacteria in general) are referred to trivially as selenomonads. The genus Selenomonas constitutes a group of motile crescent-shaped bacteria and includes species living in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals, in particular the ruminants.
A number of smaller fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenomonad |
Lezayre ( ; ), formally Kirk Christ Lezayre, is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man.
It is located in the north of the island (part of the traditional North Side division) in the sheading of Ayre.
Administratively, part of the historic parish of Lezayre is now part of the town of Ramsey.
Other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lezayre |
General Sir Charles William Dunbar Staveley (18 December 1817 – 23 November 1896) was a British Army officer.
Early life
He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, the son of Lt-General William Staveley and Sarah Mather, and educated at the Scottish military and naval academy, Edinburgh.
Career
He was commissioned as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Staveley |
The following are the association football events of the year 2004 throughout the world.
Events
5 January – Manager Mark Wotte leaves Dutch club Willem II Tilburg and becomes technical director at Feyenoord Rotterdam.
29 January – Dutch club Volendam sacks manager Henk Wisman. Former player Johan Steur is named interi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20in%20association%20football |
Martha Mier is an American composer and retired independent piano teacher. Nowadays she resides in Lake City, Florida, where she moved after graduating with honors from Florida State University. She is known for composing the Jazz, Rags and Blues series for Alfred music. Many of her works appear in Canada's Royal Conse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Mier |
Roger Henri Kamiel, Knight Raveel (15 July 1921 – 30 January 2013) was a Belgian painter, whose work is often associated with pop art because of its depiction of everyday objects. Raveel's style evolved throughout his career, from abstract to figurative.
Raveel was born in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Belgium, and trained in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Raveel |
Somebody Loves You is the second studio album by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released on October 20, 1975. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, with two tracks that broke into the Top Ten Country Singles: the title song, "Somebody Loves You", peaked at #8, and Gayle scored her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody%20Loves%20You%20%28album%29 |
Mowlem was one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the United Kingdom. Carillion bought the firm in 2006.
History
The firm was founded by John Mowlem in 1822, and was continued as a partnership by successive generations of the Mowlem and Burt families, including George Burt, and Sir John Mow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowlem |
Loliondo (Mji wa Loliondo in Swahili) is an administrative town in Orgosorok ward of the Ngorongoro District in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. It is the seat of the Ngorongoro District. In northern Tanzania, Loliondo is situated along the ridges of the Great Rift Valley. It is surrounded by hundreds of kilometers of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loliondo%2C%20Ngorongoro |
The Applied Mathematics Panel (AMP) was created at the end of 1942 as a division of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) within the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) in order to solve mathematical problems related to the military effort in World War II, particularly those of the other NDRC ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Mathematics%20Panel |
The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status. In the Renaissance the fable was provided with a sequel condemning social ambition.
The fable in literature
In the ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lion%20and%20the%20Mouse |
In decision theory, a scoring rule provides a summary measure for the evaluation of probabilistic predictions or forecasts. It is applicable to tasks in which predictions assign probabilities to events, i.e. one issues a probability distribution as prediction. This includes probabilistic classification of a set of mut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring%20rule |
Bride () is one of the seventeen parishes of the Isle of Man.
It is located in the north of the island (part of the traditional North Side division) in the sheading of Ayre.
Local government
For the purposes of local government, the whole of the historic parish forms a single parish district with Commissioners.
The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%20%28parish%29 |
Hawleyite is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite. Chemically, it is cadmium sulfide, and occurs as a bright yellow coating on sphalerite or siderite in vugs, deposited by meteoric water.
It was discovered in 1955 in the Hector-Calumet mine, Keno-Galena Hill ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawleyite |
Datsan (, , ; derived from ) is the term used for Buddhist university monasteries in the Tibetan tradition of Gelukpa located throughout Mongolia, Tibet and Siberia. As a rule, in a datsan there are two departments—philosophical and medical. Sometimes a department of tantric practices is added to them where the monks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsan |
Paul Coletti (born 1959 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish viola soloist and chamber musician. He has performed throughout the world, making solo appearances at the Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), and Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has performed Béla Bartók's Viola Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Coletti |
Gifts in kind, also referred to as in-kind donations, is a kind of charitable giving in which, instead of giving money to buy needed goods and services, the goods and services themselves are given. Gifts in kind are distinguished from gifts of cash or stock. Some types of gifts in kind are appropriate, but others are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifts%20in%20kind |
Christian Veterinary Mission is a missionary sending organization founded by Leroy Dorminy in 1979 and based in Seattle, Washington.
As stated on their website, "Christian Veterinary Mission seeks to help veterinarians serve others and live out their Christian faith through their profession. We seek to change lives an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Veterinary%20Mission |
Andreas ( or ; ) is one of the seventeen parishes of the Isle of Man. It is located in the north of the island (part of the traditional North Side division) in the sheading of Ayre. The main settlement in the parish in the village of Andreas, which is also known as Kirk Andreas.
History
There are several ancient m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20%28parish%29 |
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 2003 throughout the world.
Events
Confederations Cup: Host nation France wins a tournament marred by tragedy (see Deaths.)
UEFA Champions League: AC Milan wins 3–2 on penalties over Juventus, after a 0–0 draw at Old Trafford. This was AC Milan's 6th European C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20in%20association%20football |
Peculiar Chris is a novel which deals with gay themes by Johann S. Lee, published in Singapore by Cannon International in 1992.
Lee wrote the book, his first novel, while doing his National Service in Singapore at the age of 19. It was published a year later. The book recounts the coming of age, and coming out, of Chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peculiar%20Chris |
Mallwyd () is a small village at the most southern end of Gwynedd, Wales in the Dinas Mawddwy community, in the valley of the River Dyfi. It lies on the A470 approximately halfway between Dolgellau and Machynlleth, and forms the junction of the A458 towards Welshpool. The nearest villages are Dinas Mawddwy, two miles t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallwyd |
Real3D, Inc. was a maker of arcade graphics boards, a spin-off from Lockheed Martin. The company made several 3D hardware designs that were used by Sega, the most widely used being the graphics hardware in the Sega Model 2 and Model 3 arcade systems. A partnership with Intel and SGI led to the Intel740 graphics card, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real3D |
The Tripartite Alliance is an alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The ANC holds a majority in the South African parliament, while the SACP and COSATU have not contested any democratic election in South Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite%20Alliance |
Llanbrynmair or Llanbryn-mair () is a village, community and electoral ward in Montgomeryshire, Powys, on the A470 road between Caersws and Machynlleth. Llanbrynmair, in area, is the second largest in Powys. In 2011, it had a population of 920.
Description
The community includes several hamlets: Talerddig, Dolfach, Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanbrynmair |
Sir Frederick Hayday, CBE (26 June 1912 – 26 February 1990) was a British trade unionist who served on many public bodies.
The son of Arthur Hayday, trade unionist and Labour Member of Parliament, Frederick Hayday was born in Nottingham. He joined the Labour Party at 16 years old.
He was elected District Organiser of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Hayday |
The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is a radio astronomy observatory, located in a natural bowl of hills at Hartebeesthoek just south of the Magaliesberg mountain range, and about 50 km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is a National Research Facility run by South Africa's National Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartebeesthoek%20Radio%20Astronomy%20Observatory |
Commins Coch is a small village on the A470 in the county of Powys in Wales. It is part of the Glantwymyn community.
Commins Coch is notable for the narrow bridge set at right angles that crosses the Afon Twymyn. The size and angle of the bridge restricts all traffic to crossing one vehicle at a time and it can be a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commins%20Coch |
Edward Bentall may refer to:
Edward Bentall, chairman of Bentalls department store
Edward Bentall (footballer) (1923–1947), English footballer
Edward Hammond Bentall (1814–1898), English manufacturer and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Bentall |
Magodro Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magodro%20%28Open%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Sassolite is a borate mineral, specifically the mineral form of boric acid. It is usually white to gray, and colourless in transmitted light. It can also take on a yellow colour from sulfur impurities, or brown from iron oxides.
History and occurrence
Its mineral form was first described in 1800, and was named after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassolite |
Thomas Gordon Bezucha (; born March 8, 1964) is an American filmmaker.
Life and career
Bezucha was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1982.
Bezucha graduated in fashion design from the Parsons School of Design, and worked as a creative services executive for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Bezucha |
The Battle of Białystok–Minsk was a German strategic operation conducted by the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre under Field Marshal Fedor von Bock during the penetration of the Soviet border region in the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa, lasting from 22 June to 9 July 1941.
The Army Group's 2nd Panzer Group under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Bia%C5%82ystok%E2%80%93Minsk |
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 1994 to September 2000, and compiled into 26 tankōbon volumes.
Plot
Jaja Uma Grooming Up! depicts the story of Shunpei Kuze, a high-school student unsure of the future until he takes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaja%20Uma%20Grooming%20Up%21 |
SKATS stands for Standard Korean Alphabet Transliteration System. It is also known as Korean Morse equivalents. Despite the name, SKATS is not a true transliteration system. SKATS maps the Hangul characters through Korean Morse code to the same codes in Morse code and back to their equivalents in the Latin script. Any ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKATS |
John Belluso (November 13, 1969 – February 10, 2006) was an American playwright best known for his works focusing on the lives of disabled people. He also directed a writing program for disabled people.
Early life and education
Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, he began using a wheelchair at the age of 13 due to a bone ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Belluso |
Gratin dauphinois ( ) is a French gratin of sliced raw potatoes baked in cream, from the Dauphiné region in south-eastern France. There are many variants of the name of the dish, including pommes de terre dauphinoise, potatoes à la dauphinoise and gratin de pommes à la dauphinoise. It is distinguished from ordinary gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratin%20dauphinois |
Hudson Whittaker (born Hudson Woodbridge; January 8, 1903March 19, 1981), known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician.
His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%20Red |
Simon Byrne (1806 – 2 June 1833), nicknamed "The Emerald Gem", was an Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money on offer and his hopes of becoming the heavyweight champion there as well. He became one of only six fighters ever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Byrne |
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 2002 throughout the world.
Events
8 January – MLS contracts league down to ten clubs by eliminating its two Florida franchises: Tampa Bay Mutiny and Miami Fusion.
13 February – Dick Advocaat is reinstated as the manager of the Netherlands, as the successor of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20association%20football |
Dinas Mawddwy () is a village in the community of Mawddwy in south-east Gwynedd, north Wales. It lies within the Snowdonia National Park, but just to the east of the main A470, and consequently many visitors pass the village by. Its population is roughly 600. The village marks the junction of the unclassified road to L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinas%20Mawddwy |
Zino Vinnikov (Russian: Зиновий Винников) (born 1943) is a Russian-Dutch violinist and one of the leading representatives of the St Petersburg violin tradition.
Biography
Vinnikov studied with Abram Shtern in Kiev, and later at the St Petersburg Conservatory (then Leningrad Conservatory) with Mikhail Vaiman (1926-1977... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zino%20Vinnikov |
Nausori Naitasiri Open is supposedly a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausori%20Naitasiri%20%28Open%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Cedar Creek is a tributary of the James River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is notable for flowing through the Natural Bridge rock formation, a National Historic Landmark.
Course
The creek rises at the Rockbridge-Botetourt County line near the crest of the Short Hills within the Short Hills Wildlife Management Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar%20Creek%20%28James%20River%20tributary%29 |
Richard Cobbold (1797 – 5 January 1877) was a British writer.
Life
Richard Cobbold was born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John (1746–1835) and the poet and writer Elizabeth (née Knipe) Cobbold (1764–1824). The Cobbolds were a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry.
Edu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cobbold |
Ann Jungman (born 1938) is an author of children's literature. She was born in Highgate, North London of German Jewish refugees. She studied Law at Exeter University before training as a primary school teacher.
Professional life
She founded Barn Owl Books in 1999, an independent publishing company that re-releases out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Jungman |
New College is a coeducational, sixth form college in Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England. It acquired academy status in 2017, forming a trust to open colleges in other areas, called the New Collaborative Learning Trust. At its Ofsted inspection in 2014 it was rated outstanding. In 2023 it was again rated outstanding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20College%2C%20Pontefract |
Easy is the fifth album by Kelly Willis. It was released on Rykodisc in 2002. The album went to number 29 on Top Country Albums.
Critical reception
Soon after Easy was released, NPR's Meredith Ochs said that Willis "has found her true style" on the album. Richard Harrington, a music critic for the Washington Post, ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%20%28Kelly%20Willis%20album%29 |
Alexander Frank Downie, OBE, MLC (born 1945, Douglas) is a Manx politician and former marine engineer. He is a member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man and a former Trade and Industry Minister of the Government. He was a Member of the House of Keys from 1991 until his election to the Legislative Council in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Downie |
Streethay is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Fradley and Streethay, in the Lichfield district, in the county of Staffordshire, England, adjoining the city of Lichfield, on the east side of the West Coast Main Line railway. In 2001 the parish had a population of 1111.
Village amenities
Streethay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streethay |
The 1987 Pan American Games, officially known as the X Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event held in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on August 7–23, 1987. Over 4,300 athletes from 38 countries in the Americas competed in 297 events in 30 sports, earning 1,015 medals. Events were held at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20Pan%20American%20Games |
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 15 October 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 23 February 1955 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title Bertie Wooster Sees It Through. It is the seventh novel featuring Bertie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves%20and%20the%20Feudal%20Spirit |
Joanne Rebecca Guilfoyle (born 29 May 1971), known professionally as Jo Beth Taylor, is an Australian television presenter, actress and singer most well known for hosting three weekly programs at the same time in the 1990s on the Nine Network: Australia's Funniest Home Video Show (1993–1997), Hey Hey It's Saturday (199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Beth%20Taylor |
Elford is a village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England. It is on the east bank of the River Tame, about east of the City of Lichfield and 5 miles north of Tamworth.
Origins
The village is said to have derived its name from the great number of eels with which the river here formerly aboun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elford |
A payable-through account (PTA) is a demand deposit account through which banking agencies located in the United States extend cheque writing privileges to the customers of other institutions, often foreign banks.
PTA accounts are a concern to bank regulators because the banks or agencies providing the accounts may no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payable-through%20account |
This article contains a list of useful plants, meaning a plant that has been or can be co-opted by humans to fulfill a particular need. Rather than listing all plants on one page, this page instead collects the lists and categories for the different ways in which a plant can be used; some plants may fall into several ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20useful%20plants |
Stanisław Wygodzki () (13 January 1907 in Będzin, Poland – 9 May 1992 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was a Polish writer of Jewish origin.
Life
He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which Wygodzki was first interred in the Bedzin ghetto and later in the concentration camps... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw%20Wygodzki |
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (Rühmkorff) (15 January 1803 – 20 December 1877) was a German instrument maker who commercialised the induction coil (often referred to as the Ruhmkorff coil).
Ruhmkorff was born in Hanover. He changed the "ü" to "u" in his name when living abroad. After an apprenticeship with a German mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Daniel%20Ruhmkorff |
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