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The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby the British formally recognised the independence of the Boers in the area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, which had previously been known as the Orange River Sovereignty. This resulted in the formation of the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20River%20Convention |
Parangatu is a town in Goiás state, Brazil.
Geography
Parangatu is in its own microregion, Porangatu Microregion, of 226,766 inhabitants in an area of 35.287 km2; 426 km from the state capital, Goiânia. This microregion serves as a nucleus for eighteen municipalities in the north of Goiás state. The municipal seat i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porangatu |
Hugo Meynell (June 1735 – 14 December 1808) was an English country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1762 and 1780. He is generally seen as the father of modern fox hunting, became Master of Fox Hounds for the Quorn Hunt in Leicestershire in 1753 and continued in that role for another for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20Meynell |
Echinodorus uruguayensis or Echinodorus osiris is a plant species in the Alismataceae. It is native to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile).
Description
Submersed leaves (5)-30-50 cm long, blades ribbon-shaped, green or darkly red-brown having undulate margins, (9)-20-30 cm long x 1 - 2 - (3) cm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinodorus%20uruguayensis |
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (), also known as Story of Ricky, is a 1991 Hong Kong martial arts splatter film written and directed by Lam Nai-Choi. The film is loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Masahiko Takajo and Tetsuya Saruwatari. Saruwatari also co-wrote the film. The film stars Fan Siu-wong, F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh%3A%20The%20Story%20of%20Ricky |
Russian submarine K-336 Pskov ) is a attack submarine of the Russian Navy. She is named after the Russian city Pskov.
History
This ship, originally named Okun (Perch), was laid down as the last Sierra II-class submarine in 1990 at the Krasnoye Soromovo factory in Nizhny Novgorod. After the hull was launched in 1992,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20submarine%20Pskov%20%28K-336%29 |
Service with a Smile is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 15 October 1961 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 17 August 1962 by Herbert Jenkins, London. A condensed version of the story had previously been published in two parts in the Toronto Star Weekly,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20with%20a%20Smile |
LHX may refer to:
Light Helicopter Experimental, a 1980s United States Army project to replace old helicopter models, and whose helicopter candidates included a Bell/McDonnell Douglas design and the prototype Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche
LHX Attack Chopper, a 1990 computer game that includes a simulation of a Lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHX |
Thomas Fulton Bourdillon (1 May 1849, Madras – 19 December 1930, Bexhill-on-Sea) was a British-Indian botanist, who worked as a Conservator of Forests in the princely state of Travancore.
He came to Travancore (at present Southern Kerala) as a planter in 1871 and was appointed by the Travancore Durbar in 1886 as a spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20F.%20Bourdillon |
General elections were held in South Africa on 12 June 1929. The National Party under James Barry Munnik Hertzog won an outright majority in the House of Assembly. Hertzog had the opportunity to form a government without the aid of the Labour Party. In fact the Pact government continued, with two ministers from the Cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929%20South%20African%20general%20election |
Shakthi TV () is the first Tamil television service of Sri Lanka. It is the number one Tamil station in Sri Lanka. This general entertainment channel broadcasts serials, films, sports, current affairs, news and children's programs. It mainly airs programs from Sun TV (India). Shakthi TV is available worldwide through Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakthi%20TV |
Robert John Maguire (14 September 1934 – 19 April 2023), also known as Robert John Thomas Maguire and commonly known as Father Bob, was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, community worker, and media personality from South Melbourne. From 1973 to 2012, Maguire was parish priest of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church in Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Maguire |
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA; sometimes also called Windows Imaging Architecture) is a proprietary Microsoft driver model and application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows Me and later Windows operating systems that enables graphics software to communicate with imaging hardware such as scanners, digit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Image%20Acquisition |
Frozen Assets is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 14 July 1964 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title Biffen's Millions, and in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1964 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
Set in the publishing world, Frozen Assets is a romantic comedy revolving arou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen%20Assets%20%28novel%29 |
A pannenkoek (; plural pannenkoeken ) or Dutch pancake is a style of pancake with origins in the Netherlands. Pannenkoeken are usually larger (up to a foot in diameter) and much thinner than their American or Scotch pancake counterparts, but not as thin as crêpes. They may incorporate slices of bacon, apples, cheese, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannenkoek |
David Glass (July 20, 1829 – July 17, 1906) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament representing Middlesex East from 1872 to 1874.
He was born in Westminster Township, Middlesex County, Upper Canada in 1829, the son of Samuel Glass, who had come to Upper Canada from Irela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Glass%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 |
Chris Bigler (born February 11, 1949 in Zurich) is a Swiss retired businessman and poker player.
Bigler began playing poker in 1997 on a trip to Las Vegas and studied the game. He made the final table of the 1999 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit hold'em main event, earning $212,420 for his 5th-place finis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Bigler |
Mutien-Marie Wiaux (also known as Mutien-Marie of Malonne; 20 March 1841 – 30 January 1917) was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, who spent his life as a teacher and is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
Life
Early life
He was born Louis-Joseph Wiaux in the small village of Mellet, now pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutien-Marie%20Wiaux |
Cross Timbers State Park is a state park in Woodson County, Kansas, United States. It is located immediately south of Toronto.
The park is settled within the hills of Verdigris River valley in southeast Kansas. Comprising in the northern region known to early pioneers as the Cross Timbers, the park is adjacent Toro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20Timbers%20State%20Park |
London Buses route 7 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between East Acton and Oxford Circus, it is operated by Metroline.
It is currently London's only bus route along with routes 245 and N7 to run on hydrogen.
History
Route 7's history can be traced back to 1 November 1908, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Buses%20route%207 |
Wadi Salih is a province of Central Darfur state of Sudan. On March 5, 2004, at least 145 people were killed by Janjaweed forces. It is South of Zalingei.
It is between Mukjar and Habillah regions.
External links
Geography of Sudan
Central Darfur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi%20Salih |
Saint Savina () (died 311) was a Milanese martyr under Diocletian. Her feast day is the 30th of January. She gave aid to Christian prisoners and also ensured that they received proper burials after their executions, and for this reason she was martyred. Tradition states that she died while praying at the tomb of Saints... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savina%20of%20Milan |
Myra Tanner Weiss (May 17, 1917 – September 13, 1997) was an American Communist following Trotskyism, and a three time U.S. vice presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
Biography
Myra Tanner was recruited to the American Trotskyist movement in 1935, while at the University of Utah in Salt Lake Cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra%20Tanner%20Weiss |
Hans Moser may refer to:
Hans Gmoser (1932–2006), Canadian mountaineer, whose name is often misspelled
Hans Heinz Moser (1936–2017), Swiss actor
Hans Joachim Moser (1889–1967), German composer and musicologist
Hans Möser (1906–1948), SS concentration camp officer
Hans Moser (actor) (1880–1964), Austrian actor
Hans Mose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Moser |
CNEC Christian College (Chinese: 中華傳道會安柱中學) is a subsidised English Medium of Instruction school located in Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1973, it is a Christian school.
Campus
The school, with a floor area 100,000 square feet (9,300 square metre), comprises three teaching blocks (namely Hoi Tak ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNEC%20Christian%20College |
Montaquila is a town and comune in the province of Isernia, in the Molise region of southern Italy.
References
External links
Montaquila | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montaquila |
Santa Maria Antiqua () is a Roman Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy, built in the 5th century in the Forum Romanum, and for a long time the monumental access to the Palatine imperial palaces.
Located at the foot of the Palatine Hill, Santa Maria Antiqua is the oldest Christian monument in the Roman Forum. The chur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Maria%20Antiqua |
The Hound of the Baskervilles () is a 1981 Soviet television film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third instalment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
Production
The film features an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hound%20of%20the%20Baskervilles%20%281981%20film%29 |
Philips GoGear is a series of small flash memory and hard drive-based personal electronic devices from Philips. The line includes digital cameras, digital audio players, and audio recorders. The GoGear line is named for the size of its products, all of which are rather small and portable. The digital audio players in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20GoGear |
John Henry George Forgeham (14 May 1941 – 10 March 2017) was an English actor known for his television work, notably the role of businessman Frank Laslett in the ITV series Footballers' Wives.
Early life
Born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, Forgeham moved to Erdington, Birmingham as a child, and trained at the Royal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Forgeham |
Telegraphic Transfer or telex transfer, often abbreviated to TT, is a term used to refer to an electronic funds transfer. Although the term is historic and the technology it describes is no longer in use, the telegraphic transfer name is still used today in several countries where it has become synonymous with an inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphic%20transfer |
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. He was raised by an uncle, who tried to persuade the youngster to become an accountant or parson; Maugham instead trained a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20works%20by%20W.%20Somerset%20Maugham |
Ske is an Icelandic band whose origins can be traced back to 1992, when a band called Skárren ekkert was founded by Eiríkur Þorleifsson, Frank Hall and Guðmundur Steingrímsson, and joined by Hrannar Ingimarsson in 1998.
History
In 1999, they wrote the music for NPK, a dance performance by the Icelandic Dance Company. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ske |
Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir (; born 28 July 1982) is an Icelandic actress and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of the controversial character Silvía Night in the television series Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt and during the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.
Life and career
Acting
Ágústa Eva studied acting at the École... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81g%C3%BAsta%20Eva%20Erlendsd%C3%B3ttir |
The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) is an open architecture framework that defines a standard way for radios to instantiate, configure, and manage waveform applications running on their platform. The SCA separates waveform software from the underlying hardware platform, facilitating waveform software portab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Communications%20Architecture |
Paradiski is a ski-area in the Tarentaise Valley of France that offers uninterrupted skiing in between the areas of Les Arcs, Peisey-Vallandry and La Plagne. The area is linked, since December 2003, by the Vanoise Express lift. In total over the three resorts there are 160 lifts and of pistes, with 152 green/blue (beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradiski |
Cajvana () is a town in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Cajvana is the twelfth-largest urban settlement in the county, with a population of 9,139 inhabitants, according to the 2021 census. It was declared a town in 2004, along with seven other localities in Suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajvana |
Neil Mullarkey is an English actor, writer and comedian.
Early life and education
From 1972—1979, Mullarkey was educated at Kingston Grammar School, an independent school for boys (now coeducational), in Kingston upon Thames, followed by Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Mullarkey |
Alderetes is a city in the Cruz Alta Department, Tucumán Province, Argentina. It is bordered in the north by the Burruyacu Department, in the east by the "comunas rurales" of La Florida-Luisiana, Delfín Gallo and Colombres; in the south by the city of Banda del Río Salí (The Cruz Alta Department seat), and in the west ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderetes |
Cristián Andrés de la Fuente Sabarots (; born March 10, 1974) is a Chilean actor, presenter, model and producer.
Early life
Cristian De la Fuente was born in Santiago, Chile, the only child of chemist Hugo de la Fuente (died 1996) and Adriana Sabarots, a homemaker of French descent. He served in the Chilean Air Force ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristi%C3%A1n%20de%20la%20Fuente |
Toni Hallio is the former drummer for and one of the founding members of melodic death metal band Norther. He left the band in October 2005 to pursue other interests. However, he still recorded the drums for Norther's Till Death Unites Us instead of the band's current drummer Heikki Saari.
Discography
Studio albums
D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20Hallio |
The rue de la Harpe is a street in Paris' Latin Quarter. Relatively calm and cobblestoned along much of its length, it runs in a south-easterly direction between the rue de la Huchette and the rue Saint-Séverin, where it turns south-west to where it ends at the boulevard Saint-Germain. It is a largely residential stree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue%20de%20la%20Harpe |
Das (translation: "devotee of God") is a common last name in South Asia, among adherents of Hinduism and Sikhism, as well as those who converted to Islam or Christianity. It is a derived from the Sanskrit word Dasa (Sanskrit: दास) meaning servant, devotee, or votary. "Das" may be inferred to be one who has surrendered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das%20%28surname%29 |
Klingenberg am Main is a town in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of around 6,200 and is located on both banks of the river Main.
Geography
Location
The town lies right on the boundary with the state of Hesse on the Lower Main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingenberg%20am%20Main |
Packet loss concealment (PLC) is a technique to mask the effects of packet loss in voice over IP (VoIP) communications. When the voice signal is sent as VoIP packets on an IP network, the packets may (and likely will) travel different routes. A packet therefore might arrive very late, might be corrupted, or simply migh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20loss%20concealment |
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (1654 in Mannheim – 20 December 1704 in Heidelberg) was a German Orientalist Scholar from the Electorate of the Palatinate, now best known as the author of Entdecktes Judenthum (Judaism Unmasked), which was published in two volumes in 1711 and 1714.
In this work, Eisenmenger sought to expose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Andreas%20Eisenmenger |
The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in 1922. It served in the Second World War. However following the reduction of forces at the end of the Cold War and proposals contained in the Options for Change paper, the regiment was amalgamated with the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th/7th%20Royal%20Dragoon%20Guards |
The Pop Cola Panthers were a professional basketball team that played in the Philippine Basketball Association from 1990-2001. The franchise was owned by RFM Corporation. In 2001, when RFM Corporation sold its entire stake in Cosmos Bottling Corporation to Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI), the PBA franchise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20Cola%20Panthers |
Georgios Mylonas (Greek: Γεώργιος Αλεξάνδρου Μυλωνάς; 6 April 1919 – 14 February 1998) was a Greek Center Union politician and government minister. He was a close aide to Greek statesman and premier Georgios Papandreou, and was repeatedly elected deputy for the Ioannina seat with the Center Union. Mylonas had served a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20Mylonas |
A stress ball or hand exercise ball is a malleable toy, usually not more than in diameter. It is squeezed in the hand and manipulated by the fingers, ostensibly to relieve stress and muscle tension or to exercise the muscles of the hand.
Despite the name, many stress balls are not spherical. Some are molded in amusin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20ball |
The air-to-cloth ratio is the volumetric flow rate of air (m3/minute; SI m3/second) flowing through a dust collector's inlet duct divided by the total cloth area (m2) in the filters. The result is expressed in units of velocity.
The air-to-cloth ratio is typically between 1.5 and 3.5 metres per minute, mainly dependin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-to-cloth%20ratio |
Cleopatra General Student Association Groningen () is a student association in Groningen, the Netherlands. As of 2006, the association had approximately 280 members.
History
Cleopatra was founded on December 3, 1985. At the time of its founding, all existing student associations were either traditional/conservative, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%20Algemene%20Studentenvereniging%20Groningen |
Joshua Ang Ser Kian (; born 1 March 1989) is a former Mediacorp artiste from Singapore who starred alongside Shawn Lee in the film I Not Stupid and its sequel I Not Stupid Too.
Career
Ang began acting in 2001 and was one of four child actors who were cast by Jack Neo and his team in the box office hit I Not Stupid. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Ang |
Ian Castles (20 February 1935 – 2 August 2010) was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance (1979–86), the Australian Statistician (1986–94), and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Life and career
Castles was bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Castles |
The Rose is a municipally-owned theatre located in downtown Brampton, Ontario. Originally Rose Theatre Brampton, a series of public events throughout September 2006 culminated in a grand opening on 29 September featuring Diana Krall. The theatre includes a main performance hall with seating for 880, and a smaller multi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Theatre%20Brampton |
Rabbi Mayer Schiller (born June 1951) is an American chasid based in Monsey, New York, who identifies himself as a member of Skver and Rachmastrivka groups, and is a spokesperson for the Skver community in New Square. Schiller also maintains active ties to the Modern Orthodox community. He taught at Marsha Stern Talmud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer%20Schiller |
Sue Wilkinson may refer to:
Sue Wilkinson (professor), feminist academic and advocate for same-sex marriage
Sue Wilkinson (singer), British singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%20Wilkinson |
Wycliffe College is a public school (co-educational, private, boarding and day school) in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England, founded in 1882 by G. W. Sibly. It comprises a Nursery School for ages 2–4, a Preparatory School for ages 4–13, and a Senior School for ages 13–18. In total, there are approximately 800 pupil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycliffe%20College%2C%20Gloucestershire |
This is a list of notable people hailing from the city of Istanbul.
Hrant Dink editor of an Armenian newspaper
Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist, politician
Müjde Ar, actress
Oğuz Aral, cartoonist
Bülent Arel, music producer
Duygu Asena, women's rights activist
Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist
Semiha Berksoy, opera sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Istanbul |
This is a list of Social Democratic and Labour Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Social Democratic and Labour Party. Members of the European Parliament are not listed.
1 Elected for the Republican Labour Party in 1966 and 1970; formed the SDLP s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Social%20Democratic%20and%20Labour%20Party%20MPs |
A dust collector is a system used to enhance the quality of air released from industrial and commercial processes by collecting dust and other impurities from air or gas. Designed to handle high-volume dust loads, a dust collector system consists of a blower, dust filter, a filter-cleaning system, and a dust receptacle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust%20collector |
"The Return of Battling Billson" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the August 1923 issue of Cosmopolitan and in the United Kingdom in the September 1923 Strand. It features the irrepressible Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, and was included in the collection Ukridge, pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Return%20of%20Battling%20Billson |
Shakedown or Shake Down may refer to:
Shakedown (continuum mechanics), a type of plastic deformation
Shakedown (testing) or a shakedown cruise, a period of testing undergone by a ship, airplane or other craft before being declared operational
Extortion, a criminal act of coercion or intimidation for personal gain
A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakedown |
John Paxton (May 21, 1911 – January 5, 1985) was an American screenwriter.
Some of his films include Murder, My Sweet in 1944, Cornered in 1945, Crossfire in 1947 (an adaptation of the controversial novel The Brick Foxhole that earned him his only Oscar nomination). He helped adapt the screenplay for the controversial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Paxton |
A rosette is a round, stylized flower design.
Origin
The rosette derives from the natural shape of the botanical rosette, formed by leaves radiating out from the stem of a plant and visible even after the flowers have withered.
History
The rosette design is used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity, appe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette%20%28design%29 |
Gødland is an American comic book series by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli, set in the Image Universe and published by Image Comics from 2005 to 2012.
Publication history
The series was conceived as both a homage to and a revival of the so-called "Cosmic Superhero Epic" as told by many great comic writers of the 1970s like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godland%20%28comics%29 |
The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), (); is an administrative body of senior high-ranking uniformed military leaders of the unified Pakistan Armed Forces who advises the civilian Government of Pakistan, National Security Council, Defence Minister, President and Prime minister of Pakistan on important military an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Chiefs%20of%20Staff%20Committee |
London Buses route 8 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Bow Church and Tottenham Court Road station, it is operated by Stagecoach London.
History
On 2 November 1908, the bus route number 8 was allocated to a previously un-numbered route operating between the Bush Hotel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Buses%20route%208 |
Charles Perry (7 December 1818 – 7 July 1876) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the 1st Canadian Parliament representing Peterborough West.
He was born in Cobourg, the son of Ebenezer Perry. He entered the timber trade, purchasing land in the Peterborough area and buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Perry%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 |
Warschauer Straße is the eastern terminus station of lines U1 and U3 of the Berlin U-Bahn.
History
Designed by Paul Wittig under contract with Siemens & Halske and opened on 17 August 1902 under the name Warschauer Brücke, the station was the first station of the Berlin elevated railway. The station consists of a 36... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warschauer%20Stra%C3%9Fe%20%28Berlin%20U-Bahn%29 |
The Federal Office for Information Security (, abbreviated as BSI) is the German upper-level federal agency in charge of managing computer and communication security for the German government. Its areas of expertise and responsibility include the security of computer applications, critical infrastructure protection, In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Office%20for%20Information%20Security |
Essex House can refer to:
Buildings
Essex House (London), a demolished historic house in London
JW Marriott Essex House, a luxury hotel in New York City
a building at the University of Sussex
Other
Essex House (publisher), a publisher of pulp fiction books, including A Feast Unknown by Philip Jose Farmer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex%20House |
(born 1960) is a Japanese conductor. He is currently music director of the Brussels Philharmonic and of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of New National Theatre Tokyo.
Biography
Ōno studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and with Wolfgang Sawallisch and Giusep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushi%20%C5%8Cno |
Operation Moduler (sometimes incorrectly called "Modular") was a military operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the South African Border War. It formed part of what has come to be called the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The Angolan objective was to advance south-east to attack the UNITA (National Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Moduler |
San Justo is a city in the center region of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, 99 km north from the provincial capital. It had about 22,000 inhabitants at the and it is the head town of the San Justo Department.
Founded in 1868 by Mariano Cabal, San Justo attained the status of a comuna (commune) on 13 July 1887 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Justo%2C%20Santa%20Fe |
The Shell Turbo Chargers were a Philippine Basketball Association team from 1985 to 2005. It won four PBA championships, two from 1998 to 1999. Shell sold its franchise to PBL team Welcoat Paints in February 2006.
Aside from being known as the Turbo Chargers, Shell was also known as Shell Azodrin Bugbusters, Shell Azo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20Turbo%20Chargers |
Droplaugarsona saga () is one of the Icelanders' sagas, probably written in the 13th century.
The saga takes place near Lagarfljót in the east of Iceland about 1000 AD.
It tells the story of Grim (Grímr) and Helge (Helgi), sons of the widow Droplaug, as grown men. Helge is killed by Helge Åsbjørnsson (Helgi Ásb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droplaugarsona%20saga |
A shakedown is a period of testing or a trial journey undergone by a ship, aircraft or other craft and its crew before being declared operational. Statistically, a proportion of the components will fail after a relatively short period of use, and those that survive this period can be expected to last for a much longer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakedown%20%28testing%29 |
San Justo is the Spanish name for Saint Justus.
As a place-name, San Justo may refer to:
San Justo, Santa Fe, the main township of San Justo Department, Argentina
San Justo Department (disambiguation), various places
San Justo, Buenos Aires, a town in La Matanza Partido, Argentina
San Justo, Entre Ríos, a town i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Justo |
Nicholas Gillingham, (born 22 January 1967) is an English former competitive swimmer, active in the 1980's and 1990's. Born in Walsall, he represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA World championships and European championships, as well as representing England in the Commonwealth Games. Medalling in two Olympic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Gillingham |
Kardinia International College is a private K–12 school located in Bell Post Hill, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is a triple campus college, residing on the site of the former Morongo Girls' College and has two other campuses, one in Lovely Banks, Geelong and another located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Enrolment across... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardinia%20International%20College |
Sandford Park School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational secondary school, located in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1922.
History
The school was founded in 1922 by Alfred Le Peton, who served as its first headmaster. Le Peton had previously served as joint headmaster of Earlsfort Hou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandford%20Park%20School |
Nuaym ibn Masud al-Ghatafani () was a companion of Muhammad hailing from Najd in the northern highlands of Arabia, belonging to the powerful Ghatafan tribe. His first exposure to the Muhammad was when Abu Sufyan sent him to Medina to convince the Muslims to not fight the Qurayshi army by exaggerating their numbers. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuaym%20ibn%20Masud |
Wadada Magic is the second studio album by the band Suns of Arqa, recorded and released in 1983 by Antler Records. The album was produced by Suns of Arqa founder Michael Wadada.
The spine of the LP reads "Suns of Arqa Vol III Wadada Magic". The style on this album is quite different from their debut album Revenge ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadada%20Magic |
Modhu Purnima (), also known as Honey Full Moon Festival or Honey-offering Festival, is a Buddhist festival celebrated in Bangladesh by the Barua and Chakma people of Chittagong and by the Mon people of Thailand. It occurs on the day of the full moon in the Bangla month of Bhadro (August/September).
History
The day c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu%20Purnima |
My Mother's Castle () is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol, the second in the four-volume series Souvenirs d'enfance and the sequel to My Father's Glory. It was the subject of a film made by Yves Robert in 1990 which is faithful to the original plot but which includes material from the third book in the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Mother%27s%20Castle |
Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is a disease in which the proportion of blood volume that is occupied by red blood cells increases (polycythaemia) and there is an abnormally low level of oxygen in the blood (hypoxemia). CMS typically develops after extended time living at high altitude (over ). It is most common amongs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20mountain%20sickness |
Operation Hooper was a military operation in 1987-88 by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the South African Border War. This operation forms part of what has come to be called the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The Cubans' objective was securing the town of Cuito Cuanavale on the west of the river from capture.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Hooper |
The Tanduay Rhum Makers (1975-1987) and Tanduay Rhum Masters (1999-2001) were two basketball franchises associated with the same Tanduay Distillers liquor brand that played in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
The original franchise, owned by Elizalde & Co., Inc., was a founding member of the PBA. From 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanduay%20Rhum%20Masters |
The women's downhill of the 2006 Winter Olympics was held at San Sicario, Italy, on Wednesday, 15 February.
Defending Olympic champion Carole Montillet-Carles was nineteenth in the current season's World Cup downhill standings, headed by Michaela Dorfmeister from Austria. Janica Kostelić of Croatia was defending World... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine%20skiing%20at%20the%202006%20Winter%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20downhill |
Men of the World was a 1990s BBC1 situation comedy which starred David Threlfall and John Simm.
Production details
Written by Daniel Peacock – who also appeared as the character Gilby Watson. – Men of the World was directed by Terry Kinane and produced for Alomo Productions by Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran and Claire H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%20of%20the%20World |
Nelson W. Diebel (born November 9, 1970) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Diebel won two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. First, he won the men's 100-meter breaststroke, setting a new Olympic record of 1:01.50 in the event final. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Diebel |
Carly Binding (born 2 February 1978) is a New Zealand pop singer-songwriter, and former member of the girl group TrueBliss. In 2000 she left the group, citing personal differences, and decided to pursue a solo career. Her debut solo album Passenger peaked at #6 on the New Zealand album charts and went gold. It was also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly%20Binding |
The Bromley North line is a less than long branch line in Greater London that connects at Grove Park with the South Eastern Main Line operated by Southeastern. During the 2010s the line which has two stations of its own has been served by a non-through (shuttle) service to and from Grove Park railway station in the Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley%20North%20Line |
The St. Tropez Belt is a belt made of curved flattened metal links, popular in France as a fashion accessory in the 1960s.
The first St. Tropez belts were produced by members of a French commune and brought to the open market by Jayne Berrier and Claude Jean-Pierre LaCoudre. After a short time, the belts became an ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Tropez%20belt |
"Watching You" is a song by Australian electronic rock band Rogue Traders, released on 30 January 2006 as the third single from their second album, Here Come the Drums (2005). The song was released in the United Kingdom in October 2006. "Watching You" replays the guitar riff from the Knack's song "My Sharona".
Chart p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watching%20You%20%28Rogue%20Traders%20song%29 |
Club Classics Vol. One (US title: Keep On Movin') is the debut album by the British group Soul II Soul. Released in 1989, the album featured the group's hit singles "Keep on Movin'" and "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)", the latter of which was a UK number-one hit and the fifth best-selling single in the UK that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%20Classics%20Vol.%20One |
Billie Jenkins is a fictional character who appeared in the American television supernatural drama Charmed, which aired on The WB from 1998 to 2006. The character was created by executive producer Brad Kern and was portrayed by Kaley Cuoco. Billie was developed in response to The WB's request for a new character, and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie%20Jenkins |
Eight Track Sound Situation is the first album by Kingston upon Hull individual band Fonda 500, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). The album gained positive reviews and was awarded The Sunday Times 'Album of the Week'. The album was praised for its inventive sound, its harmonies, and its off-kilter approach to music... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight%20Track%20Sound%20System |
This is a list of Democratic Unionist Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Democratic Unionist Party. Members of the European Parliament or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed.
1 Defected from the Ulster Unionist Party.
2 Defected from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Democratic%20Unionist%20Party%20MPs |
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