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Antioch on the Maeander or Antiochia on the Maeander (; ), earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence. Though it was the site of a bridge over the Maeander, it had "little or no individual history". The scanty ruins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch%20on%20the%20Maeander |
Alien Autopsy is a 2006 British comedy film with elements of science fiction directed by Jonny Campbell. Written by William Davies, it relates the events surrounding the famous "alien autopsy" film promoted by Ray Santilli and stars Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, also known as Ant & Dec, as Santilli and Gary Shoefi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20Autopsy%20%282006%20film%29 |
Hugh Holmes QC (17 February 1840 – 18 April 1916) was an Irish Conservative Party, then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal in Ireland.
Background and education
Holmes was born in Dungannon, County Tyrone, the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Holmes |
Nacrite Al2Si2O5(OH)4 is a clay mineral that is polymorphous (or polytypic) with kaolinite. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system. X-ray diffraction analysis is required for positive identification.
Nacrite was first described in 1807 for an occurrence in Saxony, Germany. The name is from nacre in reference to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacrite |
The Hoople is the seventh studio album by British rock band Mott the Hoople. The album peaked in the UK Albums Chart at No. 11, whilst its highest chart rating in the US was No. 28. It was the 85th best selling album of 1974 and was voted 16th best album of 1974 by the readers of Creem magazine. A remastered and expand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hoople |
The history of the Calvinist–Arminian debate begins in early 17th century in the Netherlands with a Christian theological dispute between the followers of John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius, and continues today among some Protestants, particularly evangelicals. The debate centers around soteriology, or the study of salva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Calvinist%E2%80%93Arminian%20debate |
Lichtenau is a municipality in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Lichtenau is situated on the western slope of the Eggegebirge, approx. 15 km south-east of Paderborn.
Division of the town
After the local government reforms of 1975 Lichtenau consists of the following 15 district... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenau%2C%20Westphalia |
The Carnegie Deli is a small Jewish delicatessen, formerly a chain, based in New York City. Its main branch, opened in 1937 near Carnegie Hall, was located at 854 7th Avenue (between 54th and 55th Streets) in Midtown Manhattan. It closed on December 31, 2016. There is one branch still in operation at Madison Square Gar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20Deli |
Robot Arena is an action video game series focused on robot building and fighting. It is based on television shows such as Robot Wars and Battlebots. There are three games in the series, Robot Arena released in 2001, Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy released in 2003, and Robot Arena 3 released in 2016.
Games
Robot A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Arena |
The TVR Griffith, later models being referred to as the Griffith 500, is a sports car designed and built by TVR, starting production in 1990, and ending production in 2002. The Griffith name appeared again on a sports car introduced under a revived TVR brand in 2017.
First generation (1990–2002)
Like its forerunner ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVR%20Griffith |
Talgat Safich Tadzetdinov, better known as Tadzhuddin (, , Tälğät Safa ulı Tacetdinev; born 12 October 1948, in Kazan) is a Russian Shaykh al-Islām. He is Grand Mufti of Russia and Chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Russia, from 1992 to the present. Tadzhuddin is a polarizing figure in R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talgat%20Tadzhuddin |
Henry of Scotland (Eanric mac Dabíd, 1114 – 12 June 1152) was heir apparent to the Kingdom of Alba. He was also the 3rd Earl of Northumbria and the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. He was the son of King David I of Scotland and Queen Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon.
Earldom
David I of Scotland, Henry's father, invaded England... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20of%20Scotland |
Elizabeth Harman may refer to:
Elizabeth Harman (philosopher), daughter of Gilbert Harman
Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), née Elizabeth Harman, British author
Elizabeth Harman (vice-chancellor), vice-chancellor of Victoria University, Australia
Elizabeth M. Harman (born 1973), U.S. federal official | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Harman |
Altenbeken () is a municipality in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Altenbeken is situated in the Eggegebirge, approx. 15 km northeast of Paderborn. To the west of the town is the Altenbeken Viaduct, a railway bridge that spans the Beke valley.
Division of the municipality
Alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenbeken |
Borchen is a municipality in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Location
Borchen is situated in the Paderborn tableland, approximately 5 km south of Paderborn. The municipality also contains a small part of the eastern Hellweg area. At the north-western border of Borchen the Alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borchen |
The Gotthard railway (; ) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino. The line forms a major part of an important international railway link between northern and southern Europe, especially on the Rotterdam-Basel-Genoa corridor. The Gotthard Railway Company () was the forme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard%20railway |
Fredrik Ullén (born 1968) is a Swedish pianist. He has made recordings for the BIS, BMG Classics, Caprice, Danacord, dbProductions, and Phono Suecia labels.
Born in 1968 in Västerås, Ullén studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, where his teachers included Gunnar Hallhagen and Irène Mannheimer. Later studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik%20Ull%C3%A9n |
Rami Said Malek (; , ; born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami%20Malek |
Go Chuck Yourself (released as Happy Live Surprise in Japan) is a live album by Canadian rock band Sum 41 recorded in London, Ontario in April 2005.
It was first released on December 21, 2005, in Japan, and was packaged with a bonus DVD featuring five songs from the show and Basketball Butcher. The US and European ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%20Chuck%20Yourself |
Dork is a pejorative term for a person (compare with "dweeb" and "fool").
Dork may also refer to:
People
Dork Sahagian, Armenian-American climate scientist
Arts, entertainment, and media
Dork (EP), an album by AFI
Dork (magazine), a UK music monthly
Dork, a common unofficial name for the higher-definition posabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dork |
"Gump" is a song by American musical parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Lump" by alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America and also parodies the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. It is one of a handful of Yankovic songs describing the events of a movie, such as "Jurassic Park" and "The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gump%20%28song%29 |
Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy is a robot combat action video game developed by Gabriel Entertainment and published by Infogrames. It is the sequel to Robot Arena, in the Robot Arena videogame series. Compared to its predecessor, it has many new features, such as the Havok physics engine and fully 3-D environments.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Arena%202%3A%20Design%20and%20Destroy |
Kee Business College is the former name of a for-profit college with branches in Chesapeake and Newport News, Virginia. Kee became a part of the Everest College system of colleges. Everest Institute offers classes in Business Accounting, Homeland Security, Massage Therapy, Medical Assisting, Medical Insurance Billing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee%20Business%20College |
The Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty also known as the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Board of Admiralty was a position on the Board of Admiralty and a civil officer of the British Royal Navy. It was usually filled by a Member of Parliament. Although he attended Board of Admiralty ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary%20and%20Financial%20Secretary%20to%20the%20Admiralty |
The Main Building of University College London, facing onto Gower Street, Bloomsbury, includes the Octagon, Quad, Cloisters, Main Library, Flaxman Gallery and the Wilkins Building. The North Wing, South Wing, Chadwick Building and Pearson Building are also considered part of the main UCL building.
History
In 1827, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCL%20Main%20Building |
Centinela Avenue is a 10.2 mile major street in the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California.
Geography
Centinela Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Culver City, Inglewood, Ladera Heights, Mar Vista, Santa Monica, and West Los Angeles.
It is named after the 19th century Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela, whose si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centinela%20Avenue |
Ḥabīb ibn Zayd al-Anṣārī (Arabic: حبيب بن زيد الأنصاري) sahaba and martyr of Islam.
Biography
His father, Zayd ibn Asim, was one of the first in Yathrib to accept Islam and his mother, Nusaybah bint Kab(Umm Ammarah) was the first woman to fight in defence of Islam. Habib accompanied his parents, aunt and brother to Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib%20ibn%20Zayd%20al-Ansari |
Redding is an American indie rock band from Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. Redding take their name from the character Ellis Redding (played by Morgan Freeman) in the film The Shawshank Redemption.
The band consists of:
Joey Graves: lead vocals, guitar
Jeff McCullough: bass guitar, piano/keyboard, back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding%20%28band%29 |
Lasallian educational institutions are educational institutions affiliated with the De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic religious teaching order founded by French priest Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, who was canonized in 1900 and proclaimed by Pope Pius XII as patron saint of all teachers of youth on May 15, 1950. In r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasallian%20educational%20institutions |
The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a free jazz music festival held annually in June at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. The first festival was held in 1989 on the open lawn in the center of the city, and has grown into the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast. The event is held to keep alive the mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Brown%20Jazz%20Festival |
"Spy Hard" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic used as the theme song to the film of the same name. The song was originally released as a B-side on the "Gump" single, and was later re-released as its own single. It has never appeared on one of Yankovic's studio albums, but was included as a track on the Medium Rarities di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy%20Hard%20%28song%29 |
Pancake Mountain is a children's television show created by filmmaker Scott Stuckey (of the famous Stuckey's family). Described as an “alt-rock guerrilla kids' dance party, forged in the crucible of Washington, D.C. cable-access television”, it is notable for featuring many punk rock/indie rock musicians like The White... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake%20Mountain |
Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler (born 17 August 1941) is a German businesswoman and one of the owners of Schaeffler Group, one of the world's largest producers of rolling bearings. The other owner is her son Georg F. W. Schaeffler.
Early life
Schaeffler was born in Prague in 1941, which was then in the Protectorate of Bohe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria-Elisabeth%20Schaeffler |
Robert McAfee Brown (1920–2001) was an American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and activist.
Life
Born on May 28, 1920, in Carthage, Illinois, Brown was the son of a Presbyterian minister and the grandson of theologian and Presbyterian minister Cleland Boyd McAfee. He earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst Colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20McAfee%20Brown |
The Women's 15 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 13 February, at Cesana San Sicario. Competitors raced over five loops of a 3.0 kilometre skiing course, shooting twenty times, ten prone and ten standing. Each miss resulted in one minute being added to a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon%20at%20the%202006%20Winter%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20individual |
An octagon is an eight-sided polygon.
Octagon may also refer to:
Buildings and locations
Octagon Barn (disambiguation)
Octagon Building (disambiguation)
Octagon Centre, at the University of Sheffield, England
Octagon house, a unique house style
Octagon House (disambiguation)
Octagonal Schoolhouse (disambiguation)
Oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Swedish Railway Museum, (), in Gävle, Gästrikland, Sweden is the national museum for Sweden's railway history.
The Swedish Railway Museum is tasked with acquiring, preserving and supplying knowledge about Swedish railway history on the basis of the national collection. The museum is owned by Trafikverket (Swedish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20Railway%20Museum |
Canada Songs is the debut studio album by American rock band Daughters, released on August 12, 2003 through Robotic Empire.
Re-release
In 2016 Robotic Empire reissued a limited edition version of Canada Songs on cassette. The track list also included the four tracks from Daughters' debut EP, Daughters as bonus tracks.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Songs |
A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions. The following is a list of night deities in various mythologies.
Arabian
Al-Qaum, Nabatean god of war and the night, and guardian of caravans
Aztec
Lords of the Night, a group of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20night%20deities |
Distinction, the fundamental philosophical abstraction, involves the recognition of difference.
In classical philosophy, there were various ways in which things could be distinguished. The merely logical or virtual distinction, such as the difference between concavity and convexity, involves the mental apprehension of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction%20%28philosophy%29 |
"The Night Santa Went Crazy" is an original song performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The black comedy Christmas song is performed as a pastiche of "Black Gold" by Soul Asylum. It has melodic references to "Black Gold", "Mama, I'm Coming Home" by Ozzy Osbourne, and "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake.
It is the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Night%20Santa%20Went%20Crazy |
Brett Palin (born June 23, 1984 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Playing career
Palin played junior hockey with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League (WHL), winning the league championship in 2003 and 2005, and the Memorial Cup in 2004. He was a prospect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20Palin |
Carlos Agustín Ahumada Kurtz (born 1964) is an entrepreneur of dual Argentine-Mexican nationality. His main areas of business are mining, construction and football. He founded the El Independiente newspaper in Mexico and was a partner and founding member of Colegio de Imagen Pública A.C.
He gained public notoriety in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ahumada |
Georgia Medical Institute (GMI) is now Everest Institute a system of for-profit colleges in Georgia, United States. They offer career training programs in the health care industry.
GMI opened in 1977 as the Georgia Medical Employment Preparatory Center, in 1986 it changed its name to the Georgia Medical Institute a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Medical%20Institute |
People's Army for the Restoration of the Republic and Democracy or PARRD ( L’Armée Populaire pour la restauration de la République et démocratie) is a rebel group operating in the Central African Republic (CAR). PARRD wants to overthrow current CAR President François Bozizé. PARRD has claimed responsibility for two ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Army%20for%20the%20Restoration%20of%20the%20Republic%20and%20Democracy |
Greatheart Silver is a 1982 science fiction novel written by Philip José Farmer. It is a collection of three of Farmer's stories from the series Weird Heroes published in the 1970s with the title character, a lineal descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, working for the Acme Zeppelin Corporation as a blimp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatheart%20Silver |
Mephenytoin (marketed as Mesantoin by Novartis) is a hydantoin, used as an anticonvulsant. It was introduced approximately 10 years after phenytoin, in the late 1940s. The significant metabolite of mephenytoin is nirvanol (5-ethyl-5-phenylhydantoin), which was the first hydantoin (briefly used as a hypnotic). However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephenytoin |
Arlene Alda ( Weiss; born March 12, 1933) is an American musician, photographer and writer. She began her career playing clarinet professionally, then moved on to photography and writing children's books. She is married to actor Alan Alda.
Early life
Alda was born Arlene Weiss in the Bronx, New York City to Jewish par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene%20Alda |
The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1), and the first designed and built for continuous operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10%20Graphite%20Reactor |
Cheswardine ( ) is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England. The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton. At the 2001 Census, the parish (which also includes the villages of Chipnall and Soudley as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheswardine |
John Neville, Baron Neville (c. 1410 – 29 March 1461) was an English nobleman who fought for the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses. He belonged to a senior but impoverished branch of the Neville family of northern England, which had earlier been disinherited in favour of a younger branch headed by John's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Neville%2C%20Baron%20Neville |
The giant squid's elusive nature and fearsome appearance have long made it a popular subject of legends and folk tales. Its popularity as an image continues today with references and depictions in literature, film, television, and video games.
Often, the giant squid is represented as being in dramatic, evenly matched ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20squid%20in%20popular%20culture |
Clones is a puzzle real-time strategy by Canadian developer Tomkorp for Microsoft Windows, released on November 18, 2010 through Steam. Clones was created by independent game developer Tomkorp Computer Solutions as their first game. It features alien creatures named clones to which the player can assign a variety of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clones%20%28video%20game%29 |
Wuwei () is a prefecture-level city in northwest central Gansu province. In the north it borders Inner Mongolia, in the southwest, Qinghai. Its central location between three western capitals, Lanzhou, Xining, and Yinchuan makes it an important business and transportation hub for the area. Because of its position along... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuwei%2C%20Gansu |
Alala (Ancient Greek: (alalá); "battle-cry" or "war-cry") was the personification of the war cry in Greek mythology. Her name derives from the onomatopoeic Greek word (alalḗ), hence the verb (alalázō), "to raise the war-cry". Greek soldiers attacked the enemy with this cry in order to cause panic in their lines a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alala |
Joan Mascaró, generally known as Juan (8 December 1897 – 19 March 1987) was a Spanish translator. He used the Spanish spelling of his name (Juan) because the Catalan spelling (Joan) is the same as that of the female English name "Joan".
Biography
He was born in Santa Margalida, Majorca to a farming family and took int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Mascar%C3%B3 |
Bronx Community Board 3 is a local government unit in the New York City borough, of the Bronx, encompassing the neighborhoods of Crotona Park East, Claremont, Concourse Village, Melrose, and Morrisania. It is delimited by Sheridan Boulevard to the east, the Cross Bronx Expressway and Crotona Park North to the north, Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx%20Community%20Board%203 |
We™ are an illbient production and DJ collective that was formed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1991 by DJ Olive aka Gregor Asch, Lloop aka Rich Panciera and Once 11 aka Nacho aka Ignacio Platas. They have released music on Asphodel Records alongside DJ Spooky, Byzar and Sub Dub. They are now associated with the Agricul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20%28illbient%20group%29 |
Elliott Marks (3 December 1941 – 9 July 2003) was a Canadian movie stills photographer who was posthumously awarded the first Still Photographer Award by the International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards in 2004. According to the award citation: "Marks devoted 25 years of his life to capturing some of the best... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Marks |
Scott Jennings is the name of:
Scott Jennings (born 1977), a United States political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush
Scott Jennings (game designer) (born 1966), American commentator on MMORPG games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Jennings%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Xernona Clayton Brady (née Brewster, born August 30, 1930) is an American civil rights leader and broadcasting executive. During the Civil Rights Movement, she worked for the National Urban League and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where she became involved in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Later, Cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xernona%20Clayton |
Phillyblog.com was an Internet forum or virtual community whose focus was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and its surrounding communities. Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell was its honorary chairperson.
History
It was started in October 2002 by four Philadelphians who decided to create a site for productive discussion about... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillyblog |
Carrickfergus Grammar School is a controlled grammar school situated in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Since opening in 1962 with 60 pupils and 4 teachers, its pupil numbers have increased to just over 800 pupils from ages 11 to 18 in Years 8 to 14.
The school is situated on the former site of Thornfi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrickfergus%20Grammar%20School |
The Messenger of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic periodical; the print organ of the Apostleship of Prayer, a pious association founded in nineteenth century France by the Jesuits. There are many editions in various languages, promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the late 1940s, The Messenger was ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Heart |
In sociology, distinction is a social force whereby people use various strategies—consciously or not—to differentiate and distance themselves from others in society, and to assign themselves greater value in the process. In Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (La Distinction, 1979), Pierre Bourdieu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction%20%28sociology%29 |
The Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) is a decoration (medal) of the Australian honours system. It is awarded to members of the Australian Defence Force "for outstanding devotion to duty or outstanding achievement in the application of exceptional skills, judgment or dedication, in non-warlike situations". In November 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous%20Service%20Cross%20%28Australia%29 |
The Skiing Cochrans are a family of American alpine ski racers from Richmond, Vermont, a dominant force on the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and again in 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.
In 1961, parents Mickey and Ginny Cochran built a small ski area on their hillside property along the Winooski River in r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiing%20Cochrans |
The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 American musical comedy film written and produced by Norman Lear, with music and lyrics by the duo of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, and directed by William Friedkin. Based on a 1960 novel by Rowland Barber, the film is a fictional account of the invention of the striptease at M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Night%20They%20Raided%20Minsky%27s |
Punta Prieta is a desert town in the Mexican state of Baja California, on Federal Highway 1.
Parador Punta Prieta
A few kilometers north along Highway 1 is Parador Punta Prieta, where Highway 12 takes off to the east towards Bahía de los Ángeles and Punta La Gringa.
See also
Punta Prieta Airstrip
Notes
There are at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta%20Prieta%2C%20Baja%20California |
Gjergj Fishta (; 23 October 187130 December 1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, educator, politician, rilindas, translator and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century due to his epic masterpiece Lahuta e Malcís and the editor of two of the most authoritative ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjergj%20Fishta |
Anne Valerie Craine (born 30 April 1954) is a Justice of the Peace from the Isle of Man.
Early life
Craine went to primary school at Dhoon School before attending Ramsey Grammar School after which she studied at St Godric’s Secretarial College in London. Carine served as a justice of the peace in the Isle of Man from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Craine |
This is a list of high schools, also known as secondary colleges, in the state of Victoria, Australia. The list includes Government, Private, Independent and Catholic schools.
A
Academy of Mary Immaculate
Aitken College
Alamanda College
Albert Park College
Alexandra Secondary College
Alia College
Alice Miller S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20high%20schools%20in%20Victoria |
"Little" Jack Lawrence (born December 18, 1976) is an American musician from Covington, Kentucky, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee.
Career
Lawrence currently plays bass guitar in the Raconteurs, the Greenhornes, the Dead Weather and City and Colour as well as the autoharp and banjo in Blanche. He also guested... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Lawrence%20%28bass%20guitarist%29 |
MLS Cup 1996 was the inaugural edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level soccer league of the United States. Hosted at Foxboro Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1996, it was contested by D.C. United and the Los Angeles Galaxy to decide the champion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS%20Cup%201996 |
The episode list of the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World. The series ran from September 24, 1993, to May 5, 2000, with 158 episodes produced, spanning 7 seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1993–94)
Season 2 (1994–95)
Season 3 (1995–96)
Season 4 (1996–97)
Season 5 (1997–98)
Season 6 (1998–99)
Season 7 (1999–2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Boy%20Meets%20World%20episodes |
"The Secret" is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series The Office and the show's nineteenth episode overall. It was written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and directed by Dennie Gordon. The episode first aired on January 19, 2006 on NBC.
The series depicts the everyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20%28The%20Office%29 |
Paul Faure may refer to:
Paul Faure (archaeologist) (1916–2007), French archaeologist
Paul Faure (politician) (1878–1960), French politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Faure |
Deborah Compagnoni (; born 4 June 1970) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics.
Biography
Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy, and skied with the G.S. Forestale club.
Compagnoni soon attracted attention for her great talent. Her car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Compagnoni |
In mathematics, the Cartan model is a differential graded algebra that computes the equivariant cohomology of a space.
References
Stefan Cordes, Gregory Moore, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Lectures on 2D Yang-Mills Theory, Equivariant Cohomology and Topological Field Theories, , 1994.
Algebraic topology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%20model |
Robert Ferrigno (born 1947) is an American author of crime novels and of speculative fiction. Eight books published between 1990 and 2004 were additions to the detective and thriller genres, while the post 9/11 'Assassin trilogy' is set in an imagined United States dominated by Islam.
In February 2009 he was nominated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ferrigno |
Bronx Community Board 4 is a local government unit of the City of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Mount Eden, Highbridge and Concourse. It is delimited by Webster Avenue and Park Avenue to the east, Washington Bridge and the Cross Bronx Expressway to the north, the Harlem River to the west, and East 149th S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx%20Community%20Board%204 |
Heptanol may refer to any of four isomeric chemical compounds:
1-Heptanol, an alcohol with a seven carbon chain and the structural formula of CH3(CH2)6OH
2-Heptanol, a secondary alcohol with the hydroxyl on the second carbon of the straight seven-carbon chain
3-Heptanol, an organic alcohol with the chemical formula ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptanol |
Washu can refer to:
WashU, an abbreviation for Washington University in St. Louis
Washū, another name for Yamato Province, Japan
Washu Hakubi, a fictional character the manga series Tenchi Muyo! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washu |
Loop 1604 is the outer highway loop encircling San Antonio, Texas, spanning approximately . Originally constructed as a two-lane highway, the northern segment of the route, from US 90 in western San Antonio to Kitty Hawk Road in northeastern Bexar County, has been upgraded to a four-lane freeway. Loop 1604 is designate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20State%20Highway%20Loop%201604 |
The Furrow is an Irish Catholic theological periodical published monthly by Maynooth College.
History
It was founded in 1950 by James G. McGarry, Professor of Sacred Eloquence and Pastoral Theology at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. Canon McGarry was killed in a car accident in 1977. Canon McGarry was succeeded by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Furrow |
Sabahattin Oğlago (born June 25, 1984) is a four-time Olympian cross-country skier from Turkey, competing at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He is tall and weighs .
Born in Muş on June 25, 1984, he earned h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabahattin%20O%C4%9Flago |
Gart Westerhout (15 June 1927 – 14 October 2012) was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gart%20Westerhout |
Single-rope technique (SRT) is a set of methods used to descend and ascend on the same single rope. Single-rope technique is used in caving, potholing, rock climbing, canyoning, roped access for building maintenance and by arborists for tree climbing, although to avoid confusion in the tree climbing community, many hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-rope%20technique |
UNISUR is an optical submarine telecommunications cable system in the South Atlantic Ocean linking Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
It has landing points in:
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil
Maldonado, Maldonado Department, Uruguay
Las Toninas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
It has a design transmission c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNISUR |
Kalaniyot (English: "anemones") is an Israeli song that became popular in the days leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel and has remained an Israeli classic.
The lyrics, by Nathan Alterman, describe a little girl who dreams she is gathering anemones in a basket and brings them to her mother. The music... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaniyot |
Fan-in is the number of inputs a logic gate can handle. For instance the fan-in for the AND gate shown in the figure is 3. Physical logic gates with a large fan-in tend to be slower than those with a small fan-in. This is because the complexity of the input circuitry increases the input capacitance of the device. Usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-in |
is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director and was previously married to Japanese actress Satomi Kobayashi. He was named after Taihō Kōki, the youngest sumo wrestler to become yokozuna. He studied dramatics at Nihon University.
In an attempt to add his own character to his movies, his directorial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dki%20Mitani |
The Hintze Ribeiro Bridge collapse, also known as the Entre-os-Rios tragedy (Portuguese: Tragédia de Entre-os-Rios), occurred in the evening of 4 March 2001, between Entre-os-Rios, in the municipality of Penafiel, and Castelo de Paiva, in northern Portugal. After days of heavy rain and flooding, one of the pillars of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hintze%20Ribeiro%20Bridge%20collapse |
WCIW-LP (107.7 FM, "Radio Conciencia") is an American low-power radio station licensed to serve the community of Immokalee, Florida, United States. The station is operated by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an organization representing farm workers in one of the largest winter vegetable markets in the United State... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCIW-LP |
Jill Fraser, MBE (15 April 1946 – 10 February 2006) was a British theatre owner and director.
The daughter of the actor Alec Fraser, who played the Vagabond King in New York, and the West End actress Guinevere Fraser, she co-owned (with her husband James Sargant), and was artistic director of, the Watermill Theatre fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Fraser |
Doctrine and Life is an Irish religious periodical published by the Dominican religious order. It was initially published from September 1946 as part of the Irish Rosary magazine. From February 1951 it was published as a separate periodical, under its founding editor Fr. Anselm Moynihan. From 1951 to 1961 it was publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine%20and%20Life |
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) is an agency that reports to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights within the Department of State. Under the umbrella of its general mission of developing policies and programs to combat international narcotics and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau%20of%20International%20Narcotics%20and%20Law%20Enforcement%20Affairs |
Lisa Harrow (born 25 August 1943) is a New Zealand RADA-trained actress, noted for her roles in British theatre, films and television. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Nancy Astor in the British BBC television drama Nancy Astor.
Early life
Harrow was born in the Auckland suburb of Mount Eden on 25 Augu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Harrow |
The Lotus Mark I was the first car designed and built by Colin Chapman in 1948, while Chapman was still a student at the University of London. The car was designed to compete as a trials car, and was constructed on an Austin 7 chassis and running gear and given registration number OX 9292. Chapman built the body util... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20Mark%20I |
Nothing Comes Easy is a boxed set of four CDs by the British girl singer Sandie Shaw released in 2004. It contained digitally remastered versions of every A-side and B-side of the singles she released in the UK from 1964 to 1988, plus several rare and unreleased recordings.
Track listing
Disc: 1
"As Long As You're H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%20Comes%20Easy |
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