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The Renaissance in Poland (; literally: the Rebirth) lasted from the late 15th to the late 16th century and is widely considered to have been the Golden Age of Polish culture. Ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (from 1569 part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) actively participat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20in%20Poland |
Agnes of Bavaria (1335 – 11 November 1352) was a Bavarian nun from Munich and a member of the House of Wittelsbach.
The daughter of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was brought up in a monastery of Clarissan nuns. She rejected a marriage with a nobleman chosen by her relatives and instead entered a cloister. Always sickl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20of%20Bavaria%20%28nun%29 |
Muhammet Kızılarslan (born July 23, 1986) is an Olympic skier competing in the cross-country discipline.
Born 1986 in Sungurlu, a town in the province of Çorum Province, Turkey, Kızılarslan started skiing in Ankara, where he lives now. He entered the Turkish national ski team in 2003. Thanks to the 108.18 FIS points h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammet%20K%C4%B1z%C4%B1larslan |
Terry Woods is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale, played by Billy Hartman. He was one of the longest-serving characters in the show up until he was killed off alongside Viv Hope (Deena Payne) in early 2011, after 16 years.
Development
Hartman said he found his audition for the role... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Woods%20%28Emmerdale%29 |
The Dabie Mountains () are a major mountain range located in central China. Running northwest-to-southeast, they form the main watershed between the Huai and Yangtze rivers. The range also marks the boundary between Hubei Province and its neighbors of Henan (to the north) and Anhui (to the east). During the late 1920s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabie%20Mountains |
The Bevaix boat is a 1st-century Gallo-Roman wreck from the Bay of Bevaix, Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland. The remains of the ship, and a modern reconstruction, are on display at the Laténium archeology museum.
The boat
The Bevaix boat was built from large oak planks and measured in length and around in beam. It is ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevaix%20boat |
John Kirtland Wright (1891–1969) was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and the brother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright. He marr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Kirtland%20Wright |
Nickel (III) oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Ni2O3. It is not well characterized, and is sometimes referred to as black nickel oxide. Traces of Ni2O3 on nickel surfaces have been mentioned.
Nickel (III) oxide has been studied theoretically since the early thirties, supporting its unstable nature at st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%28III%29%20oxide |
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt (February 5, 1892 – June 27, 1989) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. A radio and television pioneer, she founded King Broadcasting Company, a major owner of broadcast stations in Seattle, Washington. She was the first woman in the United States to buy and manage a television stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Bullitt |
Electric Banana Band is a Swedish children's music/rock music band formed in 1980.
History
Electric Banana Band was formed as a response to the success of Trazan & Banarne, a highly acclaimed Swedish children's television programme, also produced by two of the band members, Lasse Åberg and Klasse Möllberg. The band ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20Banana%20Band |
Bruneck (; or Ladin: Bornech or Burnech; or Brunopolis) is the largest town in the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol.
Geography
Bruneck rises up in the middle of a wide valley (perhaps an ancient lake basin) and lies at the confluence of the Ahr with the Rienz, which itself flows into the Eisac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruneck |
The Gilman Paper Company was an American paper producer founded by Isaac Gilman in the 1880s in the village of Fitzdale, Vermont, which would later be renamed Gilman, Vermont.
History
Gilman Paper Company's founder, Isaac Gilman, emigrated from Ukraine and began working in the paper manufacturing business in 1881. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman%20Paper%20Company |
Irving "Sully" Boyar (December 14, 1923 – March 23, 2001) was an American actor of Russian-Jewish descent.
Boyar was one of seven children, some of whom grew up to become lawyers and businessmen. He also worked as a lawyer before turning to acting. He had a twin brother named Samuel.
A life member of the Actors Stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully%20Boyar |
Canadiana Suite is a 1964 album by Oscar Peterson.
Composition
Peterson envisioned Canadiana Suite as a tribute to the diverse landscapes of Canada, drawing inspiration from his travels by rail across southern Canada. Beginning in the Maritime provinces with "Ballad to the East", the suite travels west through the La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadiana%20Suite |
Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveland%20State%20Historic%20Site |
Rydberg ionization spectroscopy is a spectroscopy technique in which multiple photons are absorbed by an atom causing the removal of an electron to form an ion.
Resonance ionization spectroscopy
The ionization threshold energy of atoms and small molecules are typically larger than the photon energies that are most eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg%20ionization%20spectroscopy |
The Fall of the King () is a novel by Danish author Johannes V. Jensen, published in three parts from 1900 to 1901. It tells the story of Mikkel Thøgersen and the social entanglements which bring him into the service of king Christian II of Denmark.
Summary
The Death of Spring (Foraarets Død)
Begins at around 1497 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fall%20of%20the%20King |
Bergen (Eastphalian: Bargen) is a town in the north of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Administratively it acts as a municipal borough divided into 12 subordinate parishes based on the town and its surrounding villages: Becklingen, Belsen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Diesten, Dohnsen, Eversen, Hag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen%2C%20Lower%20Saxony |
Theres Abbey () was a Benedictine monastery in the village of Theres in the district of Hassberge, in Franconia in the north of Bavaria, Germany.
History
The monastery, dedicated to Saint Stephen and Saint Vitus, was founded in about 1045 by Bishop Suidger of Bamberg. It was dissolved in 1802 during the secularisation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theres%20Abbey |
John David Ashton (born February 22, 1948) is an American actor, known for his roles in Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Some Kind of Wonderful and Midnight Run.
Life and career
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Ashton attended Defiance College in Ohio and is a graduate of the University of Southern Califor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ashton%20%28actor%29 |
John Geza Ashton (born 30 November 1957) is an English musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer, with a career spanning more than 40 years. He is best known as the guitarist of the Psychedelic Furs.
Early life
John Geza Ashton was born on 30 November 1957 in Whipps Cross Hospital, Forest Gate, London, and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ashton%20%28musician%29 |
Maloney Hall is the home of the Busch School of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America. It is located in the southeast corner of Catholic University’s main campus, near the Brookland–CUA station. It has been described as "Harvard on the outside, Google on the inside" and "one of the premier academ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maloney%20Hall |
Sandip Burman is a tabla player from Durgapur, West Bengal, India.
After his initial training with Shri Sudhir Roy, he began a long discipleship with Pandit Shymal Bose. Sandip's performances are marked with spontaneous innovation and tonal purity even when he is delivering complex rhythmic patterns at high speed. His... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandip%20Burman |
This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This article contains terms starting with A – C. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other articles.
0-9
.edu
"dot-edu"
The generic top-level domain for educational institutions, primarily ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20education%20terms%20%28A%E2%80%93C%29 |
Now That's What I Call Music! 61 or Now 61 refers to at least two Now That's What I Call Music! series albums, including
Now That's What I Call Music! 61 (UK series)
Now That's What I Call Music! 61 (U.S. series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20That%27s%20What%20I%20Call%20Music%21%2061 |
The New England Adolescent Research Institute (NEARI) is a therapeutic educational organization operating in Easthampton, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1984 by Steven Bengis and Penny Cuninggim to treat extremely challenged youth with learning disabilities, mental illness, and/or neurological disorders. NEARI oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20England%20Adolescent%20Research%20Institute |
The Naga-Manipuri-Chin hills moist forests is an ecoregion of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, designated by the World Wide Fund for Nature as one of the world's outstanding Global 200 ecoregions.
The Global 200 ecoregion includes several ecoregions:
Northern Triangle subtropical forests
Mizoram–Manipur–Kachin rain for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga-Manipuri-Chin%20hills%20moist%20forests |
Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões, GOSE (19 December 1924, in Lisbon – 21 August 1986, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese writer and poet of Irish descent.
Family
He was born at 39 Fontes Pereira de Melo Avenue the son of José António Pereira de Eça O'Neill (Lisbon, c. 1890 – ?), a bank worker, and wife Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre%20O%27Neill |
An exchange offer in finance, corporate law and securities law, is a form of tender offer in which securities are offered as consideration instead of cash.
In a bond exchange offer, bondholders may consensually exchange their existing bonds for another class of debt or equity securities. Companies will often seek to e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange%20offer |
The Al Muhaidib Group (Arabic:مجموعة المهيدب) is an international private group of companies based in Saudi Arabia that was founded in 1946 by Abdul Kadir bin Abdul Muhsin Al-Muhaidib. The current chairman of the board of directors is Sulaiman A. K. Al-Muhaidib.
History
The first company was founded in 1946- under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muhaidib |
The Provostry of St. Michael () is a monastery in Langquaid in the district of Kelheim in Bavaria, Germany.
History
The monastery, dedicated to Saint Michael, was founded in 1141 by Gebhard von Roning, as a monastery of Canons Regular, which it remained until 1598. It was re-founded in 1616 by monks from Andechs Abbey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Michael%20Priory%20%28Paring%29 |
The Ansonia (formerly the Ansonia Hotel) is a condominium building at 2109 Broadway, between 73rd and 74th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The 17-story structure was designed by French architect Paul Emile Duboy in the Beaux-Arts style. It was built between 1899 and 1903 as a residential ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ansonia |
Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State (I-5)) freeways. Laurel Canyon Boulevard bypasses the city of San Fernando to the west, running parall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel%20Canyon%20Boulevard |
Heves county (, ) lies in northern Hungary, between the right bank of the river Tisza and the Mátra and Bükk mountains. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Nógrád, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok. Eger is the county seat.
Tourist sights
Lake Tisza
Bükk National Park
Bélapátfalva, abbey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heves%20County |
Kelime Aydın Çetinkaya (born 15 June 1982) is a Turkish cross-country skier. She became the first Turkish female athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics. She has competed in four Olympics as part of the Turkish national team, in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
Career
Çetinkaya has competed in international competitions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelime%20%C3%87etinkaya |
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Sadiq al-Sadr (; born 23 March 1943 – 19 February 1999) was a prominent Iraqi Shia marja'. He called for government reform and the release of detained Shia leaders. The growth of his popularity, often referred to as the followers of the Vocal Hawza, also put him in competition with other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20al-Sadr%20%28jurist%29 |
Stephen Wallace (born August 18, 1987) is an American stock car racing driver. A current super late model racer, he is the son of 1989 Winston Cup champion Rusty Wallace, the nephew of NASCAR drivers Kenny and Mike Wallace, and cousin of Chrissy Wallace. Steve has made starts in all three of NASCAR's national series as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Wallace%20%28racing%20driver%29 |
Morag () is the nickname given to a loch monster believed by many to live in Loch Morar, Scotland. After Nessie, it is among the most written about of Scotland's legendary monsters. "Morag", a Scottish female name, is a pun on the name of the loch. Reported sightings date back to 1887, and numbered 34 incidents by 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morag%20%28lake%20monster%29 |
Godman or God-man may refer to:
Godman (name)
Godman (India), a colloquial term used in India for a charismatic spiritual leader
The Godman, a 1999 Indian Malayalam film
God-Man, a recurring character in the comic Tom the Dancing Bug
Qodman, Azerbaijan - also spelled Godman
GodMen, a men's ministry founded by Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godman |
The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr. In the film, three men devise a plan to win at roulette with a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Honeymoon%20Machine |
Coppola Industria Alimentare is an Italian food company producing canned tomatoes and vegetables.
The company is based in Mercato San Severino, close to Salerno in southern Italy, within the main Italian industrial tomato processing district.
Coppola Industria Alimentare distributes the majority of its products to in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppola%20Industria%20Alimentare |
Pierre Bismuth (6 June 1963) is a French artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. His practice can be placed in the tradition of conceptual art and appropriation art. His work uses a variety of media and materials, including painting, sculpture, collage, video, architecture, performance, music, and film. He is best kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Bismuth |
Norway was the host nation for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. It was the second time that Norway had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, after the 1952 Games in Oslo. In 1994, Norway finished second in the medal ranking to Russia, with strong results in the skiing events.
During the games, Norway set a record... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%20at%20the%201994%20Winter%20Olympics |
Agnes is a female given name derived from the Greek , meaning 'pure' or 'holy'. The name passed to Italian as Agnese, to French as Agnès, to Portuguese as Inês, and to Spanish as Inés. Agnė to Lithuanian language. It is also written as Agness. The name is descended from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-, meaning 'to sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20%28name%29 |
Dave Meros (born 8 February 1956), is an American bass guitar player, best known as the bass player for progressive rock band Spock's Beard. Meros has also played or recorded with such artists as Gary Myrick, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Simon Phillips, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders and Big Big Train, Martin Or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Meros |
Assunta Spina is a 1915 Italian silent film. Outside Italy, it is sometimes known as Sangue Napolitano ("Neapolitan Blood").
Plot
Assunta Spina is a laundress living in Naples, engaged to a violent butcher named Michele Mangiafuoco. She is also courted intensely by Raffaele. When she accepts Raffaele's offer to dance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assunta%20Spina%20%281915%20film%29 |
Jakhal is a village located in the Nawalgarh tehsil of Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, India. It is located in shekhawati region, approx. 35 km south of Jhunjhunu city and 20 km east of Nawalgarh. Jakhal was founded by Salehadi Singh Shekhawat on 9 August 1732 (teej of Sravana Shukla 1789). Although hundreds of Jakha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakhal |
This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This article contains terms starting with D – F. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other articles.
D
Deemed university: ‘Deemed-to-be-University’, Status of autonomy granted to high perf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20education%20terms%20%28D%E2%80%93F%29 |
Blunted on Reality is the debut studio album released by the American hip-hop group Fugees. The album was released in February 1994 through the Ruffhouse Records label. Three singles were released from the album, including ”Boof Baf”, ”Nappy Heads” and ”Vocab”.
Blunted on Reality received generally favorable reviews f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunted%20on%20Reality |
Maynooth is a town in County Kildare, Ireland.
Maynooth may also refer to:
Maynooth, Ontario, a very small town north of Bancroft, Ontario, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynooth%20%28disambiguation%29 |
CoBank, part of the US Farm Credit System, provides loans and financial services to cooperatives, agribusinesses, rural public utilities and other farm credit associations, who collectively own CoBank. It is also an agricultural export credit agency, exclusive among banks of the Farm Credit System. This makes it an agr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoBank |
The zero-crossing rate (ZCR) is the rate at which a signal changes from positive to zero to negative or from negative to zero to positive. Its value has been widely used in both speech recognition and music information retrieval, being a key feature to classify percussive sounds.
ZCR is defined formally as
where is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-crossing%20rate |
Kisan Baburao "Anna" Hazare (; born 15 June 1937) is an Indian social activist who led movements to promote rural development, increase government transparency, and investigate and punish corruption in public life. In addition to organising and encouraging grassroots movements, Hazare frequently conducted hunger strike... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Hazare |
(One Way or Another) is a 1977 Cuban romantic drama film. Directed by Sara Gómez, the film mixes documentary-style footage with a fictional story that looks at the poor neighborhoods of Havana shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The film illustrates the history before the background of the development process i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Cierta%20Manera |
Viviers (, also Viviers-sur-Rhône; ) is a village in the department of Ardèche in southern France. It is famed for its medieval catherdral and views over the Rhone river
The administrative and religious capital of Vivarais, the town of Viviers, on the right bank of the Rhône, in southern Ardèche, retains an important ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviers%2C%20Ard%C3%A8che |
Caught Inside was a four-member punk band originally from Miami, Florida. They played a lot at Cheers, a punk rock club in Miami, Florida. They were an active band from Winter 1994 until Winter of 2000. Most notably, they were signed to Drive-Thru Records after Stephanie and Richard Reines heard their 1998 EP Bolts in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caught%20Inside%20%28band%29 |
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album released by Fugees. The album was released on March 25, 2003, by the group's former record label, Columbia Records. The album features a range of material from both of the group's studio albums, as well as previously unreleased material. The album's track listing in the Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20%28Fugees%20album%29 |
In combinatorial mathematics, the q-difference polynomials or q-harmonic polynomials are a polynomial sequence defined in terms of the q-derivative. They are a generalized type of Brenke polynomial, and generalize the Appell polynomials. See also Sheffer sequence.
Definition
The q-difference polynomials satisfy the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-difference%20polynomial |
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok (, ) is the name of an administrative county (comitatus or vármegye) in Hungary. It lies in central Hungary and shares borders with the Hungarian counties Pest, Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Hajdú-Bihar, Békés, Csongrád, and Bács-Kiskun. The rivers Tisza and Körös flow through the county. The capita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1sz-Nagykun-Szolnok%20County |
Leivatho () is a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argostoli, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies south of Argostoli, on the central south coast of the island, and has a land area of 62.626 km² and a populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leivatho |
Nimetazepam (marketed under brand name Erimin and Lavol) is an intermediate-acting hypnotic drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It was first synthesized by a team at Hoffmann-La Roche in 1964. It possesses powerful hypnotic, anxiolytic, sedative, and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. Nimetazepam is also a par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimetazepam |
Thomas Wyllie Howie, JP (8 April 1856 – 18 July 1927) was a Scottish captain of industry.
Background
Howie was born in Riccarton, Ayrshire, on 8 April 1856, to Robert and Bethia (Wyllie) Howie, into a wealthy industrial family who had been active in the Covenanting movement. He was born at the family home, Newhouse, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Howie |
Cape Norman is a barren, limestone headland located at the northernmost point of insular Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Cape Norman first appeared on French maps as Cape Dordois, in 1713, and then as Cape Normand in 1744. Eventually, the name became anglicised to Cape Norman.
Cape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Norman |
The Lerman ratio, named after economist Robert I. Lerman, suggest that a government benefit to the underemployed, such as welfare, will presumably reduce their overall hours of work. The ratio of the actual increase in income compared to the benefit is the Lerman ratio, which is ordinarily between zero and one. Moffitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerman%20ratio |
Craspedacusta sowerbii or peach blossom jellyfish is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a velum on the ventral surface, attached to the bell margin. Originally from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craspedacusta%20sowerbii |
Tasia Valenza is an American actress. She is most known for her various roles in the Star Wars Universe.
Personal life
Tasia Valenza is the daughter of former actor and restaurant consultant Frank Valenza and Gloria Valenza. Her twin brother is a former television writer and now solar marketing consultant Tor Alexand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasia%20Valenza |
Bootleg Versions is a remix album released by R&B and Reggae Fusion group The Fugees. The album was released on November 26, 1996. The album features only eight tracks, including seven remixes, and one new recording. The album along with their previous album, The Score, was later re-issued in 2001, as a double album, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20Versions |
Nigeria competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
Medalists
Bronze
Isaac Ikhouria — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
Results by event
Athletics
Men's 100 metres
Benedict Majekodumni
First Heat — 10.70s (→ did not advance)
Men's 800 metres
Jaiye Abidoye
Heat — 1:52.0 (→ did not advance)
Men's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20at%20the%201972%20Summer%20Olympics |
George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, (1570 – 16 December 1634) was a Scottish nobleman and political official.
Biography
He was the second son of Peter Hay of Megginch and Margaret, daughter of Patrick Ogilvy of Inchmartin. No date is recorded for his birth, but he was baptised 4 December 1570.
Around 1588, Hay entere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hay%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Kinnoull |
Nigeria competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.
Results by event
Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
Gabriel Ogun
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Defeated Stefan Alexandrov (BUL), 4:1
Quarterfinals — Lost to Harlan Marbley (USA), 0:5
Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
Fatai Ayinla
First ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20at%20the%201968%20Summer%20Olympics |
Successor is an EP by Sonata Arctica, released through Spinefarm Records on 7 August 2000.
Track listing
Personnel
Tony Kakko – vocals, additional keyboards
Jani Liimatainen – guitars
Janne Kivilahti – bass guitar
Mikko Härkin – keyboards
Tommy Portimo – drums
Album information
Successor comprises some live versions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor%20%28EP%29 |
Nigeria competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The nation won its first Olympic medal.
Medalists
Bronze
Nojim Maiyegun Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
References
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1964 Summer Olympics
1964
1964 in Nigeria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics |
In decision theory, a decision rule is said to dominate another if the performance of the former is sometimes better, and never worse, than that of the latter.
Formally, let and be two decision rules, and let be the risk of rule for parameter . The decision rule is said to dominate the rule if for all , and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominating%20decision%20rule |
Nigeria competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1960 Summer Olympics
1960
1960 in Nigeria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20at%20the%201960%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium was a proposed open-air soccer facility in Vancouver, British Columbia that would have been privately funded and developed by the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The proposed location was north of Gastown on the central waterfront on what was then a parking lot and the site of a helicopter land... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitecaps%20Waterfront%20Stadium |
Nigeria competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
Results by event
Athletics
100 m
Edward Ajado
Round 1: in the Heat 11 (rank 1) qualified for the quarterfinals, 10.8 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.01 seconds (automatically stopped)
Quarterfinals: eliminated in the 3rd Run (rank 5), 10.9 seconds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20at%20the%201956%20Summer%20Olympics |
Nigeria competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Results by event
Athletics
Men's 100M
Edward Ajado
First Round — 11.25s DNQ
Titus Erinle
First Round — 11.12 DNQ
Men's 200M
Edward Ajado
First Round — 22.92s DNQ
Muslim Arogundade
First Roun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20at%20the%201952%20Summer%20Olympics |
This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This article contains terms starting with G – L. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other articles.
G
Gifted: (intellectual giftedness) An intellectual ability significantly higher than aver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20education%20terms%20%28G%E2%80%93L%29 |
Lilian's lovebird (Agapornis lilianae), also known as the Nyasa lovebird, is a small African parrot species of the lovebird genus. It is mainly green and has orange on its upper chest and head. It is 13 cm (5 inches) long and is the smallest parrot on mainland Africa. In captivity, it is uncommon and difficult to breed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian%27s%20lovebird |
Christopher Gregory Makin (born 8 May 1973) is an English retired professional footballer. He spent the final part of his career at Southampton, but is perhaps most famous for his spell at Sunderland. He played as a defender.
His previous clubs are Oldham Athletic, Olympique de Marseille, Sunderland, Ipswich Town, Lei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Makin |
A bus driver, bus operator, or bus captain is a person who drives buses for a living.
Description
Bus drivers must have a special license above and beyond a regular driver's licence. Bus drivers typically drive their vehicles between bus stations or stops. Bus drivers often drop off and pick up passengers on a prede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20driver |
In mathematics, the Weinstein conjecture refers to a general existence problem for periodic orbits of Hamiltonian or Reeb vector flows. More specifically, the conjecture claims that on a compact contact manifold, its Reeb vector field should carry at least one periodic orbit.
By definition, a level set of contact type... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstein%20conjecture |
Wu Yinghua (1907–1996) was a famous Chinese teacher of Wu-style tai chi. She was born in Beijing and died in Shanghai. She was the eldest daughter of Wu Jianquan, the best known teacher of Wu-style tai chi. Her older brothers were Wu Gongyi and Wu Gongzao, also well-known tai chi practitioners.
Biography
Wu Yinghua be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Yinghua |
Fort DeRussy may refer to one of four forts constructed in the United States between 1861 and 1900, named for René Edward De Russy or his younger brother Lewis Gustave DeRussy.
Fort DeRussy (Washington, D.C.), an American Civil War-era fort built to defend Washington, D.C.
Fort DeRussy (Hawaii), an active outpost of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20DeRussy |
Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 – 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. He is credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar. He performed pioneering ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20van%20Musschenbroek |
CAFB may refer to:
Canadian Association of Food Banks
Castle Air Force Base, in California
Columbus Air Force Base, in Mississippi
C.A.F.B., influential Hungarian rock group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFB |
Lefteris Fafalis () (born 17 February 1976 in Munich) is a West German-born, Greek cross-country skier who has competed since 1995. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 29th in the individual sprint event at Turin in 2006. Fafalis carried the Greek flag at the opening ceremonies of those same... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefteris%20Fafalis |
Benin competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Track and road events
Women
Track and road events
References
Sources
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics |
Benin competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Six competitors, four men and two women, took part in six events in two sports.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Women
Field events
Cycling
Two male cyclists represented Benin in 1992.
Road... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin%20at%20the%201992%20Summer%20Olympics |
Benin competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Athletics
Men
Women
Judo
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin%20at%20the%201988%20Summer%20Olympics |
Luana may refer to:
Luana, Iowa, a town in the United States
Luana, an Italian singer-songwriter, co-founder of Belladonna
Countess Luana of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, member of the Dutch royal family
Luana the Jungle Girl a.k.a. Luana, the Girl Tarzan (1968), Italian-German film with Mei Chen as Luana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luana |
The La Pointe Light is a lighthouse located on Long Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Ashland County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield.
Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Pointe%20Light |
The Sieben Steinhäuser is a group of five dolmens on the Lüneburg Heath in the NATO training area of Bergen-Hohne, in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. The stones are considered to be part of the funnelbeaker culture (3500 - 2800 B.C.). The gravesite was granted protected cultural monument status in 1923.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieben%20Steinh%C3%A4user |
Robert Maurice Jean Opron (22 February 1932 – 29 March 2021) was a French automotive designer. He created or collaborated on numerous projects that became production cars for brands that included Simca, Renault, and Fiat. He is best known for his work at Citroën, which he joined in 1962 and where he became responsable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Opron |
Benin competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
Boxing
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984
Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
Marjie Lundstrom (born 1956) is an American journalist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1991. Lundstrom has worked for The Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Denver Monthly, and The Denver Post. She was a reporter and senior writer for The Sacramento Bee. Currently, she is the deputy editor for two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjie%20Lundstrom |
Heinz Inniger (born 18 December 1980) is a Swiss snowboarder. He ranked 4th in Parallel Slalom at the World Cup 2004/2005.
External links
Heinz-Inniger.ch
1980 births
Swiss male snowboarders
Olympic snowboarders for Switzerland
Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
21st-century Swiss people
Place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Inniger |
This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This article contains terms starting with M – O. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages.
M
Mastery learning: An instructional method that presumes all children can learn if they ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20education%20terms%20%28M%E2%80%93O%29 |
Walther Kadow (January 29, 1860 — May 31, 1923) was a German school teacher who was beaten and killed by Rudolf Höss and a group of Nazi Party accomplices in May 1923 in the forest near Parchim. Kadow, a World War I veteran, was a member of the right wing German Völkisch Freedom Party, and was suspected of having betra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Kadow |
Geosophy is a concept introduced to geography by J.K. Wright in 1947. The word is a compound of ‘geo’ (Greek for earth) and ‘sophia’ (Greek for wisdom). Wright defined it thus:
Geosophy ... is the study of geographical knowledge from any or all points of view. It is to geography what historiography is to history; it d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosophy |
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