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French Ancien Régime Roman Catholic dioceses and ecclesiastical provinces were heirs of Late Roman civitates (themselves created out of Gaulish tribes) and provinces.
Historical sketch
Most of them were created during the first Christianization of Gaul, in the 3rd to 5th centuries.
But, at several occasions during th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ancien%20R%C3%A9gime%20dioceses%20of%20France |
Peter Karran (born 20 May 1960) is a Manx politician, who is a former leader of the Liberal Vannin Party and former Minister of Education and Children. He was a Member of the House of Keys for Middle, and then for Onchan, from 1985 to 2016.
He was a member of the Manx Labour Party from 1981 but left in 2004. In August... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Karran |
Grand Monster Slam is a video game for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and DOS. It is somewhat based on the 1985 arcade game Penguin Wars. In Amiga Power'''s first All Time Top One Hundred in the inaugural 'Issue 0', it was declared to be the 100th best Amiga game of all time. It never reappeared in the top 100 and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Monster%20Slam |
Demons Don't Dream is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony published in 1993, the sixteenth book in the Xanth series.
The Companions of Xanth computer game was marketed in a box set along with the novel. The game and novel share a storyline in which Kim and Dug, two Mundane teenagers, play a mysterious com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons%20Don%27t%20Dream |
Harpy Thyme is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the seventeenth book of the Xanth series.
Plot summary
Gloha Goblin-Harpy is searching for love, and decides to ask the Magician Humfrey where she can find it. He tells her to ask his second son Crombie the Soldier. Gloha goes on a quest for love, accom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy%20Thyme |
The Waco Custom Cabins were a series of up-market single-engined four-to-five-seat cabin sesquiplanes of the late 1930s produced by the Waco Aircraft Company of the United States. "Custom Cabin" was Waco's own description of the aircraft which despite minor differences, were all fabric-covered biplanes.
Design
Nearly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco%20Custom%20Cabin%20series |
Walter David Baker, (August 22, 1930 – November 13, 1983) was a Canadian parliamentarian and lawyer.
Baker is best known for having been Government House Leader during the short-lived minority government of Joe Clark. He received much of the popular blame for the defeat of the government in a Motion of no confidence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Baker%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 |
"Lovely Head" is an electronic song performed by British group Goldfrapp. The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo's debut album Felt Mountain (2000). It was released as the album's first single in May 2000 but did not chart. In November 2001, the song was re-issued as a double... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovely%20Head |
Geis of the Gargoyle is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the eighteenth book of the Xanth series.
Plot
Seeking a spell that will restore the polluted river Swan Knee to a state of purity, guardian Gary Gargoyle finds himself face-to-face with the Magician Humfrey. Humfrey tells Gary to go and find the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geis%20of%20the%20Gargoyle |
Roc and a Hard Place is the nineteenth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Plot
One year after the events of Geis of the Gargoyle, Demoness Metria, whilst making her husband Veleno deliriously happy, finds that the stork will not acknowledge her summons. Seeking to summon the stork, Metria (and her worse half, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc%20and%20a%20Hard%20Place |
Sierra Leone competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Results by event
Athletics
Men
Track and road events
Women
Track and road events
Field events
Combined events – Heptathlon
Boxing
Swimming
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics |
Lulsgate may refer to several places in North Somerset, England:
Bristol Airport, an airport formerly known as Lulsgate
Lulsgate Plateau, an outlier of the Mendip Hills
Lulsgate Quarry, a Site of Special Scientific Interest
Lulsgate Aerodrome, a motor racing circuit
Lulsgate Bottom, a settlement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulsgate |
Faun & Games is the twenty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Plot
A young faun discovers his friend has gone missing into the Void and thus, the tree that nymph is bound to will wither and die. The hero wishes to save his friend's tree but in doing so, he risks his own tree. After visiting the Good Mag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun%20%26%20Games |
The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club (founded 1916) is a fraternal organization in New Orleans, Louisiana which puts on the Zulu parade each year on Mardi Gras Day. Zulu is New Orleans' largest predominantly African American carnival organization known for its blackfaced krewe members wearing grass skirts and its uniqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu%20Social%20Aid%20%26%20Pleasure%20Club |
Sierra Leone competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Results by event
Athletics
Men's 800 metres
Prince Amara
Heat — 1:51.76 (→ did not advance)
Men's 110m Hurdles
Benjamin Grant
Heats — 14.27 (→ did not advance)
Men... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone%20at%20the%201992%20Summer%20Olympics |
América Televisión is a Peruvian television network, founded in 1958. The network is owned by Plural TV, which is a joint venture of the El Comercio and La República daily newspapers. It was the second television channel to be founded in Peru, the first commercial station with regular broadcasts, and Peru's highest-rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica%20Televisi%C3%B3n |
Xone of Contention is the twenty-third book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Plot introduction
Dug, the Mundane who had had an adventure in Xanth through the Companions of Xanth computer game, is now happily married to Kim. His friend Edsel on the other hand is on the rock with his marriage to Pia, Dug's old gi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xone%20of%20Contention |
Sierra Leone competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Twelve competitors, eleven men and one woman, took part in fourteen events in four sports.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Track and road events
Field events
Women
Track and road even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Dastard is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fourth book of the Xanth series.
The Dastard is a vile, loathsome man with the power to travel back in time. He uses this to neutralize people's joyous moments and if this includes removing the existence of sentient beings, so be it. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dastard |
Swell Foop is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series.
The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first) spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.
Plo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swell%20Foop |
Up In A Heaval is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-sixth book of the Xanth series.
Plot
Characters
Umlaut
Sesame
Magician Humfrey
Demoness Metria
Sammy Cat
The Demon Jupiter
References
External links
26
2002 American novels
Tor Books books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%20in%20a%20Heaval |
Sierra Leone competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
Results by event
Athletics
Women's 100 metres
Eugenia Osho-Williams
First Heat — 12.83s (→ did not advance)
Boxing
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
Israel Cole
First Round – Bye
Second Round – Defeated Victor Claudio (PUR), RSC-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Cube Route is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series.
Pangrammatic window
The shortest known published pangrammatic window, a stretch of naturally occurring text that contains all the letters in the alphabet, is found on page 98 of the 2004 First Mass Mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube%20Route |
Currant Events is a 2004 fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-eighth book of the Xanth series and the first book in the second Xanth trilogy.
Plot introduction
The plot follows Clio, the Muse of History, as she finally leaves the mountain where she and her sisters live, to find the curran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currant%20Events |
Stork Naked is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the thirtieth book of the Xanth series.
Plot
Surprise summons the stork with Umlaut, only to discover with dismay that the stork refuses to deliver her baby due to a clerical error. Off on an adventure to find her child, she seeks the aid of Pyra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stork%20Naked |
Air Apparent is the thirty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, which was first mentioned in the "Author's Note" in Currant Events. Piers Anthony stated that notions from his readers have already been set aside for use in this installment in the same "Author's Note."
Plot introduction
Piers Anthony has st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Apparent |
Sierra Leone competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
Athletics
Men
Field events
Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael, (18 March 1859 – 16 January 1926), known as Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 11th Baronet, between 1891 and 1912, was a Scottish Liberal politician and colonial administrator. He was also a keen naturalist.
Background and education
Born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Carm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Gibson-Carmichael%2C%201st%20Baron%20Carmichael |
"Utopia" is an electronic song performed by British group Goldfrapp. The song was written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo's debut album Felt Mountain (2000). It was released as the album's second single in November 2000. Although the song did not appear on the UK Singles Chart initially, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia%20%28Goldfrapp%20song%29 |
Victory Square is a park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The square is bordered by West Hastings Street to the northeast, West Pender Street to the southwest, Cambie Street to the southeast, and Hamilton Street to the northwest. The term is also used to refer to the neighbourhood immediately surrounding the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory%20Square%2C%20Vancouver |
The Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 was a mobile Italian anti-aircraft gun used during World War II. The designation means it had a caliber of 75 mm, the barrel was 46 caliber-lengths long and it was accepted in service in 1934.
History
The gun shows the influence of contemporary Vickers designs such as the Model 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannone%20da%2075/46%20C.A.%20modello%2034 |
Deception was to be the last album released by the British new wave band The Colourfield. During the recording of the album Karl Shale left during the sessions. Terry Hall has since voiced his displeasure with the recording of the album because he did not feel he had the control of the session musicians and producers t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception%20%28album%29 |
Pekka Heino (born 17 July 1961) is a television host and presenter from Turku (Åbo). He is a Sweden Finn. Heino introduces television programmes as a continuity announcer on the Swedish channel SVT, where he has been working on and off since 1985. He has also hosted a number of Swedish television shows, including the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka%20Heino%20%28television%20presenter%29 |
Steve Weisberg (born 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is an American composer, pianist, recording artist, and producer. In the 1980s, after studying with Michael Gibbs at Berklee College in Boston, Massachusetts, he recorded the XtraWatt/ECM release "I Can't Stand Another Night Alone (In Bed With You)," produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Weisberg |
Ignazio (or Egnazio) Danti, O.P. (April 1536 – 10 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, who served as Bishop of Alatri (1583–1586).
Early life
Danti was born in Perugia in 1536 to a family of artists and scientists. As a boy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignazio%20Danti |
The Crimea Germans () were ethnic German settlers who were invited to settle in the Crimea as part of the East Colonization.
History
From 1783 onwards, there was a systematic settlement of Russians, Ukrainians, and Germans to the Crimean Peninsula (in what was then the Crimean Khanate) in order to weaken the Crimean T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea%20Germans |
Alexander the Great is a board wargame first published by Guidon Games in 1971 that simulates the Battle of Arbela in 331 BCE, also known as the Battle of Gaugamela. A revised edition was published by Avalon Hill in 1974. Both editions of the game were notable for having what one critic described as "one of the ugliest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20the%20Great%20%28board%20game%29 |
Historical institutionalism (HI) is a new institutionalist social science approach that emphasizes how timing, sequences and path dependence affect institutions, and shape social, political, economic behavior and change. Unlike functionalist theories and some rational choice approaches, historical institutionalism tend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20institutionalism |
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasankar%20Bandyopadhyay |
Several fiction, non-fiction and cinemas were based on Kolkata or depicted Kolkata from certain point of views. Some of such works are listed here.
Travelogues
The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
Following the Equator (Mark Twain)
Books
Around the World in Eighty Days
Calcutta (Geoffrey Moorhouse)
City of the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata%20in%20the%20media |
Allan Bruce McKinnon, , (11 January 1917 – 19 September 1990) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery and was officer with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. In 1945, he was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he remained in the Canadian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20McKinnon |
Rodilla is a Spain-based fast food chain that specializes in cold and hot sandwiches, salads, pastries and fried dishes for dining in or take-out.
History
About 1939 or 1940 Antonio Rodilla opened a confectionery shop in Callao Square in downtown Madrid. After some years he decided to sell a new line of products, cold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodilla |
Annual percentage yield (APY) is a normalized representation of an interest rate, based on a compounding period of one year. APY figures allow a reasonable, single-point comparison of different offerings with varying compounding schedules. However, it does not account for the possibility of account fees affecting the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20percentage%20yield |
Dental assistants are members of the dental team. They support a dental operator (such as a dentist or other treating dental auxiliary) in providing more efficient dental treatment. Dental assistants are distinguished from other groups of dental auxiliaries (such as dental therapists, dental hygienists and dental tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental%20assistant |
"Human" is a song by British electronic music duo Goldfrapp. The song was written by the group with Startled Insects' Tim Norfolk and Bob Locke, and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory for the duo's debut album Felt Mountain (2000). "Human" is the only track on Felt Mountain with additional songwriters. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20%28Goldfrapp%20song%29 |
Eben Samuel Johnson (8 February 1866 – 9 February 1939) was an English-American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1916.
Birth and family
Born in Warwickshire, England, he was a son of William and Catharine (née Sidwell) Johnson. His father was an English Methodist preacher. Bishop Johnson was also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben%20Samuel%20Johnson |
Creation Is Crucifixion is a technical metalcore band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group originally formed under the name Chapter in 1995, but changed the name to Creation Is Crucifixion in 1997. The band was known for its complicated sound, which varied from ambient noise to more complex pieces. Their lyrical th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation%20Is%20Crucifixion |
An aerial lift pylon is a pylon construction bearing the cables of an aerial lift such as an aerial tramway or gondola lift. Large pylons of aerial tramways usually consist of a steel framework construction, smaller pylons of gondola lifts are made of tubular steel. Early aerial tramways often had pylons of reinforced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial%20lift%20pylon |
A facial composite is a graphical representation of one or more eyewitnesses' memories of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. Facial composites are used mainly by police in their investigation of (usually serious) crimes. These images are used to reconstruct the suspect's face in hope of identifying them. Facial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20composite |
Kopanaki () is a town in northwestern Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality of Aetos and now it belongs to the municipality of Trifylia. Agriculture, specifically olive farming, is the main economic activity in the village. The community Kopanaki also includes the small villages Agio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopanaki |
The Embassy of Germany in Budapest is Germany's diplomatic mission to Hungary.
It is located at Úri utca 64–66, in the I. Várkerület district.
The building has been listed as UNESCO World Heritage and became the site of the German embassy in 1993, as a result of returning the former site of the Hungarian embassy in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy%20of%20Germany%2C%20Budapest |
The Atomic Mr. Basie (originally called Basie, also known as E=MC2 and reissued in 1994 as The Complete Atomic Basie) is a 1958 album by Count Basie, featuring the song arrangements of Neal Hefti and the Count Basie Orchestra. Allmusic gave it 5 stars, reviewer Bruce Eder saying: "it took Basie's core audience and a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Atomic%20Mr.%20Basie |
The Cannone da 75/32 modello 37 was an Italian field gun used during World War II. The designation indicates that the gun had a 75 mm caliber, the barrel was 32 caliber-lengths long and it was accepted for service in 1937.
History
The newly born 75/18 howitzers already presented major ballistic limitations, given th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannone%20da%2075/32%20modello%2037 |
Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin is a dark ride located at the Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland theme parks, based on the 1988 Disney/Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Both versions of the attraction are located in Mickey's Toontown. The Disneyland version opened on January 26, 1994, a year after the Mickey's Toontown ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Rabbit%27s%20Car%20Toon%20Spin |
The Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion of Bangladesh and India. The ecoregion covers an area of , comprising most of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar and Tripura, and extending into adjacent states of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Gangetic%20Plains%20moist%20deciduous%20forests |
"Pilots" is an electronic song written by British group Goldfrapp for their debut studio album Felt Mountain (2000). The song was produced by Goldfrapp and received a positive reception from music critics. It was released as a double A-side single with "Lovely Head" in the fourth quarter of 2001, and became the band's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilots%20%28song%29 |
Stroller (1950–1986) was a bay gelding who was the only pony to compete at the Olympics in show jumping. He stood about .
He was a member of the British team who competed in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, ridden by Marion Coakes. Bill Steinkraus and Snowbound won the Gold Medal while Marion and Stroller won the Indivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroller%20%28horse%29 |
The Global Descriptor Table (GDT) is a data structure used by Intel x86-family processors starting with the 80286 in order to define the characteristics of the various memory areas used during program execution, including the base address, the size, and access privileges like executability and writability. These memory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Descriptor%20Table |
Warren Frost (June 5, 1925 – February 17, 2017) was an American actor. His work was mainly in theater, but he worked in films and television sporadically from 1958. He is known for television roles on Matlock and Seinfeld, and particularly as Doctor Hayward on Twin Peaks, a series co-created by his son Mark Frost. He h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Frost |
Joe, Joey or Joseph Newman may refer to:
Musicians
Joe Newman (trumpeter) (1922–1992), American jazz musician
Joey Newman (born 1976), American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor
Joe Newman (born 1991), English lead singer with indie rock band Alt-J
Writers
Joseph Simon Newman (1891–1960), American p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Newman |
Yatesville Lake is a reservoir in Lawrence County, Kentucky in the far eastern part of the state, close to the town of Louisa.
The earthen dam was constructed in 1988 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 156 feet, and a length of 855 feet at its crest. It impounds Blaine Creek, a tributary o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatesville%20Lake |
Ganweriwal ( ), more commonly known as Ganweriwala, is an archaeological site in the Cholistan Desert of southern Punjab, Pakistan. It was one of the largest cities within the Indus Valley civilisation, one of the most extensive Bronze Age Civilisations, and is believed to have been a city centre within the Civilisatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganweriwal |
The term Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers is used to refer to a group of similar-looking birds in the genus Ficedula:
Atlas pied flycatcher F. speculigera which breeds in Northwest Africa
Collared flycatcher F. albicollis which breeds in Eastern Europe
European pied flycatcher F. hypoleuca which breed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Palearctic%20black-and-white%20flycatchers |
Treacher is an English surname; notable Treachers include:
Arthur Treacher (1894–1975), English actor
Bill Treacher (1930–2022), English actor
George Treacher (–1908), British architect
Sir John Treacher (1924–2018), British admiral
Sir William Treacher (1849–1919), British colonial administrator
See also
Arthur Treac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacher |
Mad Sin is a German psychobilly group that began in 1987. Their style is not "...constrained by the psychobilly tag but veer[s] into punk, country and metal influences too."
Style
Mad Sin, formed in 1987, have been inspired by horror punk and B-movie, with a theatrical style. Without abandoning the psycho-horror lyric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Sin |
The term "Maximum Leader" () has been used by, or to describe, a number of politicians, including:
Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and political leader (1959–2008); the title is not utilised in Cuba
Omar Torrijos, Panamian dictator (1968–1981); recognised as "Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution" in the 1972... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20Leader |
Cally is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series Blake's 7, played by Jan Chappell from 1978 to 1981. She is the titular subject of an audio drama released in August 2009.
Development
It was originally intended that Cally would wear black contact lenses to make her look more alien. J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cally%20%28Blake%27s%207%29 |
Asshole is the second solo studio album by Kiss's Gene Simmons and it was released in 2004 on Sanctuary Records. Its controversial title does not appear on the front cover. On the side of the CD case the title reads "asshole". "It's just another way of me saying, 'I don't care what anyone says about me," Simmons declar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole%20%28album%29 |
Joseph Dwight Newman (September 7, 1922 – July 4, 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known as a musician who worked with Count Basie during two periods.
Early life and education
Newman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Dwight, (pianist) and Louise Newman, a musical family, having ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Newman%20%28trumpeter%29 |
Robert Freeman Smith (June 16, 1931September 21, 2020), commonly known as Bob Smith, was an American Republican politician who represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999.
Early life and education
Smith was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Burns, Ore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Smith%20%28Oregon%20politician%29 |
Hyman Roth (born Hyman Suchowsky) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II. He is also a minor character in the 2004 novel The Godfather Returns. Roth is a Jewish mobster, investor and a business partner of Vito Corleone, and later his son Michael Corleone. He is based on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman%20Roth |
The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs.
Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public transport networks, all organized and financed by Île-de-France Mobilités.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATP%20bus%20network |
The Anopheles gambiae complex consists of at least seven morphologically indistinguishable species of mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles. The complex was recognised in the 1960s and includes the most important vectors of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly of the most dangerous malaria parasite, Plasmodium falc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anopheles%20gambiae |
The Farm Credit System (FCS) in the United States is a nationwide network of borrower-owned lending institutions and specialized service organizations. The Farm Credit System provides more than $343 billion (as of 2021) in loans, leases, and related services to farmers, ranchers, rural homeowners, aquatic producers, ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm%20Credit%20System |
Vanilla were a British pop girl group from Barnet, London, England, formed in 1996.
History
The band members were sisters Frances and Alison Potter, Alida Swart and Sharon Selby. They released two singles for EMI in the late 1990s.
The band's first single was "No Way, No Way", released in December 1997 and based on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla%20%28group%29 |
Rhizobium rhizogenes (formerly Agrobacterium rhizogenes) is a Gram-negative soil bacterium that produces hairy root disease in dicotyledonous plants. R. rhizogenes induces the formation of proliferative multiple-branched adventitious roots at the site of infection, so-called 'hairy roots'. It also induces galls.
In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizobium%20rhizogenes |
Mosha Pasumansky is one of the inventors of the MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) language, a query language for online analytical processing (OLAP) databases. Pasumansky is also one of the architects of the Microsoft Analysis Services, and an OLAP expert.
Mosha Pasumansky is well known in the OLAP community for his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosha%20Pasumansky |
Candel may be:
a surname related to Kandel
Sébastien Candel (born 1946), French physicist
Francesc Candel Tortajada (1925–2007), writer and journalist
Vicente Carlos Campillo Candel (born 1951), Spanish footballer and manager
a Middle English spelling of candle
Candel Astra, or simply candel, an Uruguayan brand of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candel |
The Syria Times () is an English-language Syrian daily e-newspaper.
Profile
The Syria Times was published by Tishreen Organization for Press and Publishing, a government-owned company that publishes the leading Arabic daily Tishreen. As of 2000, these two newspapers had a circulation of 5,000 and 60,000, respectively.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria%20Times |
Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges or universities with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20liberal%20arts%20colleges |
Yosef Tamir (, 5 March 1915 – 10 August 2009) was an Israeli journalist, politician, lawyer and a professional javelin thrower.
Background
Tamir was born in Berdychiv in the Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine) and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. He passed through elementary and high school in Petah Tikva ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef%20Tamir |
In France, the Concours Général is the most prestigious academic competition held every year between students of Première (11th grade) and Terminale (12th and final grade) in almost all subjects taught in both general, technological and professional high schools. Exams usually take place in March, and their results are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concours%20g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral |
Carmela Corleone (1897–1959) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather. Carmela is portrayed by Italian-American Morgana King in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film adaptation of the novel, and in The Godfather Part II (1974).
She and her husband Vito, a crime boss, have four children: Santino ("S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmela%20Corleone |
Yatesville Lake State Park in Kentucky is a recreational facility in the eastern part of the commonwealth, close to the town of Louisa, Kentucky in Lawrence County. The park occupies a peninsula on Yatesville Lake, an impoundment of Blaine Creek that covers , has three islands, and averages 40 feet in depth. The park f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatesville%20Lake%20State%20Park |
Barron Steven Wallace (born December 27, 1964) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. He has since been recognized as having helped revolutionize the position of left tack... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Wallace%20%28American%20football%29 |
St MacDara's Community College () is a secondary school situated on Wellington Lane in Templeogue, South Dublin. It is run by a board of management appointed by the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board (ETB; previously the County Dublin Vocational Education Committee (CDVEC)) and the Catholic Archdioce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Mac%20Dara%27s%20Community%20College |
The Mysore plateau, also known as the South Karnataka plateau, is a plateau that is one of the four geographically unique regions of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has many undulations and is bounded on the west and south by the Western Ghats. Most of the river Kaveri flows through Karnataka in the Mysore Plateau. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore%20plateau |
Stephen Henry Wallace A.M. (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian film and television director, screenwriter, producer, published author and acting coach. He has directed eight feature films, nine telemovies, numerous short films, worked on multiple television series and has a small theatre company.
Known for his ey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Wallace |
AgriBank, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and a farm credit bank (FCB) to a 15-state network of local farm credit associations in a district that stretches from Ohio to Wyoming and Minnesota to Arkansas. AgriBank is the second largest of the four banks in the Farm Credit System and has o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgriBank |
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson is a 1960 studio album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, with the tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.
Reception
Writing for AllMusic, critic Stephen Cook wrote "Another fine Webster release on Verve that sees the tenor great once again backed by the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Webster%20Meets%20Oscar%20Peterson |
CDG Express is a planned railway line between Gare de l'Est in Paris and Charles de Gaulle Airport to alleviate the saturation of the RER B line. , it is scheduled to open in early 2027. and, when operational, it will take no more than 20 minutes to travel the 32-kilometre distance, for a fare of €24.
History
In June ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDG%20Express |
Pizzle is a Middle English word for penis, derived from Low German or Flemish Dutch , diminutive of , meaning 'sinew'. The word is used today to signify the penis of an animal, chiefly in Australia and New Zealand.
Original uses
The word pizzle is also known, at least since 1523, especially in the combination "bull ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzle |
Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located on the Frogue Peninsula on the northern shore of Dale Hollow Reservoir in Clinton and Cumberland counties. The park comprises .
References
External links
Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park Kentucky Department of Parks
Dale Hollow Lake U.S. Army Corps... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Hollow%20Lake%20State%20Park |
HP6 or variant, may refer to:
HP6, a postcode for Amersham, see HP postcode area
hP6, a Pearson symbol
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth Harry Potter novel
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film), the sixth Harry Potter film
Handley Page Type F aka H.P.6, an airplane
HP-6, a glider designed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP6 |
Starseed is a proposed method of launching interstellar nanoprobes at one-third light speed.
The launcher uses a 1,000 km-long small-diameter hollow wire, with electrodes lining the hollow wire, an electrostatic accelerator tube, similar to K. Eric Drexler's ideas. The launcher is designed to accelerate its probes to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starseed%20launcher |
The psychology of programming (PoP) is the field of research that deals with the psychological aspects of writing programs (often computer programs). The field has also been called the empirical studies of programming (ESP). It covers research into computer programmers' cognition, tools and methods for programming-rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology%20of%20programming |
The Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development or Agribank () is the largest commercial bank in Vietnam by total assets. It is a state-owned corporation under a special status. According to a report by the United Nations Development Programme, Agribank is also the largest corporation in Vietnam.
History
The b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam%20Bank%20for%20Agriculture%20and%20Rural%20Development |
Greenbo Lake State Resort Park in Kentucky is a resort park in the northeastern part of the commonwealth, close to the town of Greenup, Kentucky in Greenup County on Kentucky State Route 1. It features a 36-room lodge named for Greenup County resident and writer Jesse Hilton Stuart, a 63-site campground with 35 primiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbo%20Lake%20State%20Resort%20Park |
Daniel MacDonald or McDonald may refer to:
Daniel J. MacDonald (1918–1980), Canadian politician
Daniel McDonald (Nova Scotia politician) (1817–1911), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia
Daniel Macdonald (missionary) (1846–1927), missionary and linguist
Daniel McDonald (actor) (1960–2007), American actor
Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20MacDonald |
The United States national baseball team, also known as Team USA represents the United States in international-level baseball competitions. The team is currently ranked 2nd in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation. The United States has won many international tournaments, many of which are now disconti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20national%20baseball%20team |
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