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Abandon is a 2002 American psychological thriller drama film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan in his directorial debut. It stars Katie Holmes as a college student whose boyfriend (Charlie Hunnam) disappeared two years previously. Despite being set at an American university, much of the movie was filmed in Canada ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandon%20%28film%29 |
Luka Špik (born 9 February 1979 in Kranj, SR Slovenia) is a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medalist.
At the 2005 World Championship, he won gold in the Double Sculls event together with Iztok Čop and silver in the Quadruple Sculls with Iztok Čop, Matej Prelog and Davor Mizerit.
He also won the 2007 World Championsh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka%20%C5%A0pik |
Mathew Frazer Horne (born 6 September 1978) is an English actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and narrator. He is best known for appearing on several BBC sketch shows and sitcoms, most notably Gavin & Stacey (as Gavin Shipman), The Catherine Tate Show, Horne & Corden, and Bad Education.
Early life
Horne was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew%20Horne |
Pichia kudriavzevii (formerly Candida krusei) is a budding yeast (a species of fungus) involved in chocolate production. P. kudriavzevii is an emerging fungal nosocomial pathogen primarily found in the immunocompromised and those with hematological malignancies. It has natural resistance to fluconazole, a standard an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pichia%20kudriavzevii |
An aspirational brand is a term in consumer marketing for a brand or product which a large segment of its exposure audience wishes to own, but for economic reasons cannot. Because the desire for aspirational goods is relative to the consumer's purchasing power, an aspirational brand may be a luxury good if the person d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirational%20brand |
Galeria Awangarda, 32 Wita Stwosza St, is Wrocław's and Silesia's premier gallery of the avant-garde. It features work by contemporary Polish and European artists. The gallery measures 1000 m squared, Awangarda is the biggest of the BWA galleries, a triumvirate of spaces dedicated to contemporary art (the other two bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeria%20Awangarda |
John James McNeill (1868 – 14 June 1943) was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served two terms in the House of Representatives (1922–1925, 1929–1931), representing the Division of Wannon in Victoria. He was Minister for Health and Minister for Repatria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20McNeill%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
Trestle Glen is a neighborhood in Oakland, California. It is located east of Lakeshore Avenue, a shopping street which it shares with the Grand Lake District. It lies at an elevation of 144 feet (44 m). The streets are laid out in the curvilinear pattern of early 20th century garden suburbs. Many of the houses are ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trestle%20Glen%2C%20Oakland%2C%20California |
John Albert McShane (August 25, 1850 – November 10, 1923) was an American Democratic Party politician. He was the first Democrat to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska, serving one term from 1887 to 1889.
Early life and education
McShane was born in New Lexington, Ohio, on August 25... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20McShane |
Frederick Robert Goodall (9 January 1938 – 18 October 2021) was a New Zealand international cricket umpire who officiated in 24 Tests and 15 One-Day Internationals between 1965 and 1988.
Goodall was the son of Fred and Betty Goodall from Greymouth. He umpired his first first-class match in December 1963, and went on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Goodall |
Antiochia ad Taurum (lit. "Antiochia at Taurus") (; lit. "Antiochia of Taurus") was a Hellenistic city in ancient Syria east of Mount Amanus of the Taurus mountain range. Later identified as 'ad Taurum montem' (lit. "at Mount Taurus") in the Commagene province of Syria.
Historical geography
Antiochia ad Taurum was l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochia%20ad%20Taurum |
Warren Joseph Rogers Jr. (May 6, 1922 – August 31, 2003) was a political reporter and an author. Born in New Orleans, Rogers took a liking to the press at an early age, working as a night messenger boy for the Postal Telegraph Co. and later as a copy boy for the New Orleans Item.
During World War II, Rogers served as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Rogers |
Siegfried Seidl (24 August 1911 – 4 February 1947) was an Austrian career officer and World War II commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp located in the present-day Czech Republic. He also was commandant of the Bergen-Belsen, and later served as staff officer to Adolf Eichmann. After the war, in 1947, he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20Seidl |
Modularity refers to the ability of a system to organize discrete, individual units that can overall increase the efficiency of network activity and, in a biological sense, facilitates selective forces upon the network. Modularity is observed in all model systems, and can be studied at nearly every scale of biological ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity%20%28biology%29 |
Brda, which translates as hills from Serbo-Croatian, may refer to:
Places
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brda, Bugojno, a village in the municipality of Bugojno
Brda, Donji Vakuf, a village in the municipality of Donji Vakuf
Brda, Drvar, a village in the municipality of Drvar
Brda, Konjic, a village in the municipality o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brda |
A carotid bruit is a vascular murmur sound (bruit) heard over the carotid artery area on auscultation during systole.
Associated conditions
It may occur as the result of carotid artery stenosis (though some disagree); however, most carotid bruits, particularly those found in younger or asymptomatic patients, are not r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid%20bruit |
The Florida Forensic League, Inc., or FFL, is a speech and debate organization offered to all schools in the state of Florida. It is the governing body for local and state speech and debate competitions in Florida, with higher-level competition under the auspices of the National Forensic League and the National Catholi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Forensic%20League |
Giardini di Mirò is an Italian rock band from Cavriago. The group's music is a mix of psychedelia, shoegaze, dream pop, noise, and post punk.
Background
Giardini di Mirò was formed in 1995 from a collaboration between university friends Corrado Nuccini and cartoonist Giuseppe Camuncoli. In 1998, they released their f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardini%20di%20Mir%C3%B2 |
Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people. Within the Zuni community, these carvings serve ceremonial purposes for their creators and depict animals and icons integral to their culture. As a form of contemporary Native American art, they a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuni%20fetishes |
The Westward Ho is a high-rise building in Phoenix, Arizona. The 16-story building, which is 208 ft (63m) to the roof, held the title of tallest building in Arizona for over 30 years until the completion of the Meridian Bank Tower in 1960.
The building primarily served as a hotel from its grand opening in 1928 until i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward%20Ho%20%28Phoenix%2C%20Arizona%29 |
The Municipality of Brda (; , ) is a municipality in western Slovenia. It is located in the Slovenian Littoral region, extending from the Italian border to the Soča River. It is bounded by Sabotin Hill () to the east and Korada Hill () to the north.
The people speak a distinctive Slovene dialect belonging to the Litto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality%20of%20Brda |
Bangladesh International School and College is a private school located in Mohakhali DOHS, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is managed by the Bangladesh Army Station Headquarters, Dhaka Cantonment, Dhaka. The school was established in 1995 as a standard primary school, but the original plan was changed to an English medium school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20International%20School%20%26%20College |
Windows Address Book was a component of Microsoft Windows that lets users keep a single list of contacts that can be shared by multiple programs. It is most commonly used by Outlook Express. It was introduced with Internet Explorer 3 in 1996 and improved in subsequent versions. The Windows Address Book API can query LD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Address%20Book |
Pseudocheiridae is a family of arboreal marsupials containing 17 extant species of ringtailed possums and close relatives. They are found in forested areas and shrublands throughout Australia and New Guinea.
Characteristics
Physically, they appear very similar to the pygmy possums, except for their greater size. Even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocheiridae |
A fucosyltransferase is an enzyme that transfers an L-fucose sugar from a GDP-fucose (guanosine diphosphate-fucose) donor substrate to an acceptor substrate. The acceptor substrate can be another sugar such as the transfer of a fucose to a core GlcNAc (N-acetylglucosamine) sugar as in the case of N-linked glycosylatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucosyltransferase |
The 2006 Washington State House elections took place on November 7, 2006. Voters in all 49 of Washington's legislative districts voted for their representatives. Washington State Senate elections were also held on November 7.
Overview
Election results
District 1
District 2
District 3
In 2004, Alex Wood was challe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Washington%20House%20of%20Representatives%20election |
The Zee Cine Award for Most Promising Director is an Indian film award which began in 2005.
In 2002, Zee Cine tried to acknowledge debut directors by creating a Zee Cine Special Award for Debut Director. In 2005, the category for most promising director was made official. A group of juries chose the best candidate out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee%20Cine%20Award%20for%20Most%20Promising%20Director |
Getter Robo Armageddon, known in Japan as , is an OVA released between August 25, 1998 to May 25, 1999 by Bandai Visual and was animated by Brain's Base and Studio OX. The OVA is based on the manga and anime series Getter Robo, created by Ken Ishikawa and Go Nagai. The series adapts numerous elements from previous inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getter%20Robo%20Armageddon |
Henry Doyle Haynes (July 27, 1920 – August 7, 1971) was an American comedy entertainer and musician who gained fame on radio and television as a country and jazz guitarist and as the character Homer of the country music comedy and parody duo Homer and Jethro with Kenneth C. Burns for 35 years beginning in 1936.
Biogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20D.%20%22Homer%22%20Haynes |
A paper chase (also known as a chalk chase or as hare and hounds) is an outdoor racing game with any number of players.
Method of play
At the start of the game, one or two players are designated the 'hares' and are given a bag of small paper clippings known as the 'scent'. Other members of the group are the 'hounds' w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20chase%20%28game%29 |
Borovnica, which translates as Blueberry from Serbo-Croatian, may refer to:
Borovnica, Prozor, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Borovnica, Zavidovići, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Borovnica, Slovenia
Municipality of Borovnica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borovnica |
The following is a list of the restricted-range endemic bird species found in the Western Palearctic region:
Most of these range-restricted species are endemic to Macaronesian or Mediterranean islands, while three are endemic to the Caucasus region.
In addition the following species are endemic to the region:
(be) =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20endemic%20birds%20of%20the%20Western%20Palearctic |
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. Computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are made up of telecommunication network technologies based on physically wired, optical, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20network |
Gary Wilson (born October 23, 1953) is an American experimental musician and performance artist best known for his 1977 album You Think You Really Know Me, after, he released 3 more recordings: “Midnight Hour/When I Spoke Of Love” and “Forgotten Lovers EP” (1979) “Invasion Of Privacy” (1980), and “This Is Why I Wear My... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Wilson%20%28musician%29 |
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas is a 1967 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald. It was her second and last Christmas album. Unlike Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas, her previous Christmas album which was entirely secular, this album consists only of religious Christmas songs. It was her second album for Capitol Records. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella%20Fitzgerald%27s%20Christmas |
The Vía de La Plata (Silver Way) or Ruta de la Plata (Silver Route) is an ancient commercial and pilgrimage path that crosses the west of Spain from north to south, connecting Mérida to Astorga. An extended form begins further south in Seville and reaches north to the Bay of Biscay at Gijón. The path is used by the mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADa%20de%20la%20Plata |
Stephen I (1133–1190), Count of Sancerre (1151–1190), inherited Sancerre on his father's death. His elder brothers Henry Ι and Theobald V received Champagne and Blois. His holdings were the smallest among the brothers (although William, the youngest, received no land and entered the church instead).
Biography
Born in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20I%2C%20Count%20of%20Sancerre |
Parsippany Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade as one of the two secondary schools of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. Built in 1969, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsippany%20Hills%20High%20School |
James Milnes Gaskell (19 October 1810 – 5 February 1873) was a British Conservative politician.
James Milnes-Gaskell was the only child of Benjamin Gaskell (1781–1856) of Thornes House, Wakefield, West Yorkshire and Clifton Hall, Lancashire. He was born on 19 October 1810 and was educated at Eton College and Christ Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Milnes%20Gaskell |
The Story of Qiu Ju (, "Qiu Ju goes to court") is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role. The screenplay is an adaption of Chen Yuanbin's (陈源斌) novella The Wan Family's Lawsuit (万家诉讼).
The film tells the story of a peasant wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20Qiu%20Ju |
Operation Pantomime (Spanish: Operación Pantomima), according to a documentary elaborated by the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, was an operation undertaken by the government of the United States with the intention of assassinating Colombian presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948 as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Pantomime |
Boița (; ; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, south of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area, on the main road between Sibiu and the southern part of Romania, the National road 7/European route 81, at the entrance of the Ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boi%C8%9Ba |
Sadu (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, 27 km south of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Sadu.
In 1910 the village had 2,143 inhabitants.
Natives
The most notable people born in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadu |
Nancy Weaver Teichert is an American journalist. A graduate of the Indiana University, in 2014 she was a former The Sacramento Bee reporter.
Weaver was part of a reporting team that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi. The newspaper received the award f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Weaver%20Teichert |
Ris Paul Ric is a solo project of Christopher Paul Richards, formerly of Washington, D.C.-area dance-punk group Q and Not U. In 2005 Richards released his debut album, Purple Blaze, which combined elements of folk, funk, and ambient electronica, and toured in support of the album.
The name "Ris Paul Ric" is based on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ris%20Paul%20Ric |
Râu Sadului () is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, south of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographical area. It is composed of a single village, Râu Sadului. At the 2011 census, 100% of inhabitants were ethnic Romanians.
References
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A2u%20Sadului |
Reginald Molehusband was a fictional character who starred in a public information film commissioned by the Central Office of Information and shown on British TV during the 1960s. The role of Molehusband was played by Ian Gardiner. No copy of the film is known to still exist.
Molehusband was depicted as the country's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald%20Molehusband |
Poplaca (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, 12 km south-west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Poplaca.
References
Communes in Sibiu County
Localities in Transylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplaca |
Gura Râului (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Gura Râului.
References
Communes in Sibiu County
Localities in Transylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gura%20R%C3%A2ului |
Orlat (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, west of the county capital, Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Orlat.
The commune lies in the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, on the banks of the river Cibin and its affluents, the rivers Săliște ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlat |
Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (sometimes abbreviated OE or O.e.) is an obligate, neogregarine protozoan parasite that infects monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies. There are no other known hosts. The species was first discovered in Florida, around the late 1960s. Since then, it has been foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophryocystis%20elektroscirrha |
Theodore Dwight may refer to:
Theodore Dwight (elder) (1764–1846), Federalist member of U.S. Congress
Theodore Dwight (author) (1796–1866), author, son of Theodore Dwight
Theodore William Dwight (1822–1892), U.S. jurist
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight, American librarian, archivist, and diplomat
See also
Theodo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Dwight |
Rebenque is the shared name in South American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese for a type of whip used by gauchos in South America.
The word derives from the French raban, Dutch ra-band, from ra 'yard-beam' + band.
Originally it was the rope that ties the sail to the yard, but soon came to mean a whip made of leathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebenque |
A calavera (Spanish – for "skull"), in the context of Day of the Dead, is a representation of a human skull or skeleton. The term is often applied to edible or decorative skulls made (usually with molds) from either sugar (called Alfeñiques) or clay, used in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead () and the Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calavera |
Emerging from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in 1988, Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members including: Richard Elovich, Avram Finkelstein, Amy Heard, Tom Kalin, John Lindell, Loring McAlpin, Marlene McCarty, Donald Moffett, Michael Nesline, Mark Simpson a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Fury |
San Antonio de Areco is a partido (county) in the north of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
The partido has an area of , and a population of 21,333 (). It is from Buenos Aires city, and from La Plata, and its cabecera or capital is the city of San Antonio de Areco.
Districts (localidades)
San Antonio de Areco (ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Antonio%20de%20Areco%20Partido |
Norma Zimmer (July 13, 1923 – May 10, 2011) was an American vocalist, best remembered for her 22-year tenure as Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" on The Lawrence Welk Show.
Early years
Born Norma Larsen on a dairy farm in Shoshone County, Idaho, she grew up in Seattle, Washington after her father moved the family west ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma%20Zimmer |
Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS, (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary. He later was a co-founder of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, a religious congregati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Alphonse%20Ratisbonne |
Otto Günsche (24 September 1917 – 2 October 2003) was a mid-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a member of the SS Division Leibstandarte before he became Adolf Hitler's personal adjutant. Günsche was taken prisoner by soldiers of the Red Army in Berlin on 2 May 1945. After b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20G%C3%BCnsche |
Tilișca (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of two villages, Rod (Rod; Ród) and Tilișca.
Natives
Aaron Florian (1805–1887), historian, journalist, and revolutionary
Referenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tili%C8%99ca |
Louis' Lunch is a fast food hamburger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut which claims to be the first fast food restaurant to serve hamburgers and the oldest continuously operated hamburger restaurant in the United States. It was opened as a small lunch wagon in 1895 and was one of the first places in the U.S. to ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%27%20Lunch |
Rico Levi Gear (born 26 February 1978) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He was a specialist right wing but also covered midfield positions.
He is the older brother of New Zealand winger Hosea Gear
Club career
Gear was educated at Gisborne Boys' High. As a young man Gear also played for the Tolaga Bay rugby... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico%20Gear |
Sollers, formerly known as OAO Severstal-Auto, is a Russian company holding controlling blocks of shares of OAO Ulyanovsk Automobile Works (UAZ), Zavolzhye Motor Works (ZMZ) and OAO ZMA. The enterprises of Severstal-Auto are well-known automobile brands and occupy stable positions in their market segments.
History
S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollers%20JSC |
Poiana Sibiului (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Poiana Sibiului. The name means "the glade of Sibiu".
Position
The village is situated in the Cindrel Mountains at an altitude of about 900 meters, 35 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poiana%20Sibiului |
Some Girls is a 1978 album by the Rolling Stones
Some Girls may also refer to:
Music
Performers
Some Girls (band), an American indie rock band formed in 2001
Some Girls (California band), a 2002–2007 hardcore punk band
Songs
"Some Girls" (Belouis Some song), 1988
"Some Girls" (Jameson Rodgers song), 2020
"Some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some%20Girls%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Jina (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, 40 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area. It is composed of a single village, Jina.
References
Communes in Sibiu County
Localities in Transylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jina%2C%20Sibiu |
Henry Bingham Baring (4 March 1804 – 25 April 1869) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Henry Baring and Maria Matilda Bingham, daughter of American-born statesman William Bingham. Bingham was a half-brother of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer and a member of the distinguished Baring family.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Bingham%20Baring |
David Jewett Baker (September 7, 1792August 6, 1869) was an American politician in the U.S. state of Illinois. He briefly served as a U.S. Senator in 1830.
Early life
Baker was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, the son of Joanna (Minor) and Bayze Baker, and moved with his parents to Ontario County, New York as a child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Baker |
Andreas "Andi" Widhölzl (born 14 October 1976) is an Austrian former ski jumper. During his career, he won world championships and Olympic titles.
Career
Widhölzl began his World Cup ski-jumping career in 1993. Between 1997 and 2000, he won two Olympic bronzes and two world championship medals, along with sixteen vic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Widh%C3%B6lzl |
Jason Edward Gamble (born September 12, 1975) is a former Arena Football League offensive lineman/defensive lineman for the Grand Rapids Rampage (2003–2005) and the Georgia Force (2006).
Early years
Gamble attended Derby High School in Derby, Kansas, and was a letterwinner in football and wrestling.
College career
Ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Gamble |
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (also known as Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary or simply Urban Legend 3) is a 2005 American direct-to-video supernatural slasher film directed by Mary Lambert, and starring Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford, Ed Marinaro and Lillith Fields.
It is the third and final installment in the Urban ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20Legends%3A%20Bloody%20Mary |
The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency. Its Chief Executive reported to the Minister for the Cabinet Office. It was a non-ministerial department, and became an executive agency and a trading fund, recovering its costs from the other departments, executive age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Office%20of%20Information |
Lawrence "Bullfrog" Hooper (July 22, 1917 in Independence, Missouri – June 10, 1983 in Los Angeles, California) was an American musician and vocalist. He was best known to television audiences as part of The Lawrence Welk Show as a featured singer and pianist in Welk's orchestra.
Born in Independence, Missouri and rai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Hooper |
FoodRoutes Network (FRN), headquartered in Arnot, Pennsylvania in the United States, is a national non-profit organization that provides support to a variety of other localized groups that encourage sustainable agriculture and community-based food systems.
Its goal is to re-introduce Americans to their food: the see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoodRoutes%20Network |
Universal love may refer to:
Universal Love, a 1975 album by MFSB
Universal Love – Wedding Songs Reimagined, a 2018 album of same-sex wedding songs by various artists
Universalove, a 2008 Austrian romantic tragedy film
See also
Agape, a Greco-Christian term referring to love, "the highest form of love, charity" an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20love |
Samuel McRoberts (April 12, 1799March 27, 1843) was a United States senator from Illinois. Born near Maeystown, he was educated by private tutors and graduated from the law department of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Monroe County, and was c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20McRoberts |
El Santuario de Chimayó is a Roman Catholic church in Chimayo, New Mexico, United States. (Santuario is Spanish for "sanctuary".) This shrine, a National Historic Landmark, is famous for the story of its founding and as a contemporary pilgrimage site. It receives almost 300,000 visitors per year and has been called "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Santuario%20de%20Chimayo |
Enfield High School was a high school at Enfield, South Australia. It opened in 1953 and closed in 2010, its functions being absorbed into Roma Mitchell Secondary College.
History
When Enfield High School opened in 1953 in its present site, but on the eastern boundary, it was the first high school in the northern sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield%20High%20School%20%28South%20Australia%29 |
Below is a list of newspapers published in Liechtenstein.
Liechtensteiner Vaterland
Liechtensteiner Volksblatt
Liechtenstein
Newspapers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Liechtenstein |
Below is a list of newspapers published in Lithuania. In 2006 there were 334 newspapers published.
National newspapers
This is the list of national daily newspapers:
Lietuvos rytas
Lietuvos žinios
Lithuania Tribune
Respublika
Vakaro žinios
Verslo žinios
Regional newspapers
Alytus
Alytaus Naujienos
Kaunas
15 minu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Lithuania |
Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British journalist and writer who was a leader writer and columnist for The Times.
Early life and career
Kamm is the son of translator Anthea Bell and publisher Antony Kamm. Kamm is the grandson of Adrian Bell and nephew of Martin Bell. Although his mother was not Jewish, he lost family me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Kamm |
The Smart Roadster (W452) was a two-door, two-seater sports car (S-segment in Europe) first introduced in 2002 by Smart GmbH. Sales of the Roadster and Roadster Coupé were mostly successful, and the production ended in November 2005 after 43,000 Roadsters were made. The last one built now resides in the Mercedes-Benz M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Roadster |
Selena Fox (born 20 October 1949 in Arlington, Virginia) is a Wiccan priestess, interfaith minister, environmentalist, pagan elder, author, and lecturer in the fields of pagan studies, ecopsychology, and comparative religion.
Fox is a trained counselor and psychotherapist, with a B.S. cum laude in psychology from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena%20Fox |
The number of national daily newspapers in Luxembourg was five both in 1950 and in 1965. Until 2001 there were six dailies and it became eight when two more dailies were launched. This is a list of newspapers published in Luxembourg.
List of newspapers
Defunct newspapers
Der Kampf
Journal de la ville et du Grand-Duch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Luxembourg |
Below is a list of newspapers and magazines published in North Macedonia:
Daily newspapers
Weekly magazines
Fokus (1995–present) politics, populism, sensationalism
Kapital (1999–present) financial
Makedonsko Sonce (1994–present)
Monthly magazines
Avto Plus (1993-present) automotive, motorcycling, motosport
E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20North%20Macedonia |
Theodore Dwight (1796–1866), was an American author.
Life
Theodore Dwight was born on March 3, 1796, in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was Theodore Dwight (1764–1846) of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Abigail Alsop (1765–1846), the sister of Richard Alsop (1761–1815). He graduated from Yale College ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Dwight%20%28author%29 |
Sallyann J. Murphey is an author.
Producer
At the age of 23 she became a producer for the BBC World Service, producing the current affairs program 24 Hours and the magazine program, Outlook. A year later, she moved over to BBC Radio 4 and was appointed a producer to their flagship news and current events program, The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallyann%20J.%20Murphey |
This is a list of newspapers published in Malta.
Defunct newspapers
References
Malta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Malta |
Below is a list of newspapers published in Moldova.
Adevărul (Romanian)
Apropo Magazin (Romanian)
Asta Da! (Romanian)
Business Info (Romanian)
Capitala (Romanian)
Contrafort (Romanian)
Cuvântul (Romanian)
Cuvântul Liber (Romanian)
Democraţia (Romanian)
Dnestrovskaya Pravda (Russian)
Eco (Romanian)
ECOnomist (Romanian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Moldova |
Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) is a public community college in South Lake Tahoe, California. It was established in 1975. At an altitude of , it is at the highest elevation of any college in the state.
History
Lake Tahoe Unified School District voters approved the formation of a community College District, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Tahoe%20Community%20College |
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials is an action-adventure video game with heavy emphasis on stealth. It is part of the Splinter Cell series and was released for the PlayStation Portable handheld system. It was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft on March 21, 2006. It is the fourth entry in the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Clancy%27s%20Splinter%20Cell%3A%20Essentials |
Commemorative coins were released in the USSR between 1965 and 1991. Most of them were made of copper-nickel alloy, but there were also silver coins, gold coins, palladium coins and platinum coins. All of the coins were minted either by the Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор, ММД) or by the Leningrad Mint (Ленинград... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20commemorative%20coins%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union |
The Copper River Highway extends from Cordova along the old railbed of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. Construction began in 1945, and was originally intended to link Cordova with the state highway system at Chitina. The Million Dollar Bridge, which had carried trains until the CR&NW shut down, was converte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20River%20Highway |
Barry Manilow is the debut album by Barry Manilow, released initially in 1973 by Bell Records.
The original release was unsuccessful, with only around 35,000 copies sold by 1975. After the success of Manilow's second album Barry Manilow II, the album was re-released as Barry Manilow I in 1975 by Arista that had taken ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Manilow%20%281973%20album%29 |
Decapolis was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea.
Decapolis or Dekapolis () refers to a group or confederation of ten cities. It may also refer to:
History
Isaurian Decapolis in Cilicia
Decapolis of Katakekaumene, in Lydia
Décapole, alliance of ten towns of the Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Pelobates fuscus is a species of toad in the family Pelobatidae, native to an area extending from Central Europe to Western Asia. It is commonly known as the common spadefoot, garlic toad, the common spadefoot toad and the European common spadefoot.
The common spadefoot grows to a length of approximately for males an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelobates%20fuscus |
John McCracken Robinson (April 10, 1794 – April 25, 1843) was a United States senator from Illinois.
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, he attended the common schools and graduated from Transylvania University at Lexington. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar and began practice in Carmi, Illinois in 1818. He was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20Robinson%20%28Illinois%20politician%29 |
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles is a series of three novels by Robert Anton Wilson written after his highly successful The Illuminatus! Trilogy and his 1981 Masks of the Illuminati. His co-author from the first trilogy, Robert Shea, was not involved in this series, providing only a praising blurb.
It is composed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Historical%20Illuminatus%20Chronicles |
The Luhrs Building is a historic ten-story building located at 11 West Jefferson in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It was listed on the Phoenix Historic Property Register in 1990. It was built by local businessman George H. N. Luhrs, an original Phoenix City Council member from 1881–85, at a cost of $553,000 USD, and open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhrs%20Building |
My Documents is the commonly recognized name of a special folder in Microsoft Windows (even though starting with Windows Vista, it is called Documents only, and the actual name of the folder might be different when the language of the installed copy of Windows is not English.) This folder is supposed to be a personal a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Documents |
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