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The Tams are an American vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia, who enjoyed their greatest chart success in the 1960s, but continued to chart in the 1970s, and the 1980s. Two separate lineups of the group continue to perform and record. One lineup, called 'The Original Tams with R. L. Smith', features original member Robe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tams |
Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995.
Biography
Born and raised on the island of Syros, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Broumas |
Moraine Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Dayton. A Frigidaire appliance plant had originally operated on the site from 1951 to 1979. Starting in 1981, the Chevrolet S-10 small pickup was produced. This same model was produced by Shreveport Assembly. In 1987 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moraine%20Assembly |
Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically in the Arab World and is available in Australia, Europe, North America and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20TV |
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton Bt ( 1653 – 23 February 1712) was a moderate English Whig politician and Member of Parliament for several constituencies. He is best remembered as the father of two British prime ministers (Henry Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle) who, between them, served for 18 years as firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Pelham%2C%201st%20Baron%20Pelham |
Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) is the official media organization of the government of Dubai. It was established in 2003 as a state-owned company comprising a number of print, radio and TV channels under its umbrella, including: Dubai TV, Al Bayan, Dubai One, Dubai Sports, Emirates 24/7, Tawseel and Masar Printing Pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20Media%20Incorporated |
Jiří Pauer (22 February 1919 in Libušín, Czechoslovakia – 28 December 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer.
Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Pauer |
Supertram may refer to:
a superlative name for a tram
Sheffield Supertram, a modern tram system in Sheffield, England
Park Square Bridge aka Supertram Bridge, in Sheffield, England
Siemens-Duewag Supertram, a tram vehicle manufactured by Siemens-Duewag and used on Sheffield Supertram
Leeds Supertram, a proposed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertram |
The Toyota MC platform is a front-wheel drive automobile platform (also adaptable to four-wheel drive) that has underpinned various Toyota and Lexus models from the compact and mid-size categories. MC sits above the older NBC and newer B platforms, but below the Toyota K platform designed for larger models such as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota%20MC%20platform |
The Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista is a metropolitan area located on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil, with a population of 1.7 million. Its most populous city is Santos.
As an administrative division (Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista), it was created on 30 July 1996. It consists of nine munici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baixada%20Santista |
Deborah Shelton is an American actress, beauty queen, and songwriter who was Miss USA and appeared on Dallas for three seasons and a special guest return in 2013.
Pageants
In 1970, Shelton competed in the Miss Virginia USA pageant to spite her then boyfriend. She won the title and represented Virginia in the Miss USA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Shelton |
Battle of St. Charles may refer to:
Battle of Saint-Charles (25 November 1837), British defeat Canadian rebels in present-day Saint-Charles, Quebec
Battle of St. Charles (17 June 1862), a battle of the U.S. Civil War in St. Charles, Arkansas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Saint%20Charles |
Guy Charbonneau (June 21, 1922 – January 18, 1998) was a Canadian senator who was the longest serving Speaker of the Canadian Senate, serving from 1984 to 1993. During his tenure, amendments to the Standing Orders of the Senate extended the powers of the speaker.
Chabonneau was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Charbonneau |
Intact can refer to:
An entire building, generally in good condition not dilapidated or ruins
Intact (group of companies), a Romanian media trust
Intact (album) and "Intact" (song) by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Intacto, a film
Entire (animal), describing an animal that has not been spayed or neutered
Genital integrity
IntAc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact |
Shrek SuperSlam is a fighting video game featuring characters from the Shrek film series. It was developed by Shaba Games, published by Activision and released in the fall of 2005 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, with a Microsoft Windows port following shortly after. Up to four p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek%20SuperSlam |
SSV Reutlingen 05 is a German association football club from Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg.
History
The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was renamed SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club fused with 1. Schwimmverein 1911 to form the current side in 1938.
Reutlingen became a decent regional side in the year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSV%20Reutlingen%2005 |
Dex Media, Inc. was a print and interactive marketing company. It was formed in 2002 by a consortium led by The Carlyle Group to acquire the operations of QwestDex from Qwest Communications International. The company went public in 2004 and was acquired by R.H. Donnelley in 2006, which became DEX One in 2010.
History
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dex%20Media%20%28Dex%20One%29 |
Michael Davidson (born December 18, 1944 in Oakland, California) is an American poet.
Life and work
Davidson has written eight books of poetry as well as numerous historical, cultural and critical works. He has been affiliated with the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) since 1974 and as a professor of Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Davidson%20%28poet%29 |
Leonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from the Borough of Leonia in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Leonia Public Schools. Students from Edgewater attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonia%20High%20School |
Ralph R. Erdmann (August 8, 1926 - July 23, 2010) was a contract medical examiner (forensic pathologist) who was convicted on several counts of evidence tampering and perjury for examinations he did beginning in the early 1980s throughout rural Texas.
Early years in Texas
In 1981, 25 years after receiving a medical de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Erdmann |
Nola is a 2003 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Alan Hruska. It depicts the struggle of a young woman trying to survive in New York City while looking for her birth father. It premiered in New York City on July 23, 2004.
Plot
After fleeing from her abusive stepfather, Nola (Emmy Rossum) travels t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nola%20%28film%29 |
"One Slip" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Composition
The album gets its title from a line of this song's lyrics. The song was co-written by David Gilmour and Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, who later co-produced Gilmour's On an Island album and played rhythm guitar on the sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Slip |
Pavel Bořkovec (10 June 1894, in Prague – 22 July 1972, in Prague) was a Czech composer and music teacher.
Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Bo%C5%99kovec |
An NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suit, also called a chem suit, or chemical suit is a type of military personal protective equipment. NBC suits are designed to provide protection against direct contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological, or chemical substances, and provide protection from contamin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20suit |
The Mayfair Exponential Game System or MEGS is a rules system developed for role-playing games. The name comes from what fans called the game system for DC Heroes, which was also later used for Underground (1993). It is noteworthy for its use of an exponential system for measuring nearly everything in the game. This s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair%20Exponential%20Game%20System |
is a Japanese gravure idol from Tokyo, Japan.
Although not well known outside Japan, she's one of the most famous Japanese idols in Japan. She is well known for her prodigious breasts although their reported size is greatly disputed, particularly for a woman her size.
Biography
Saori Yamamoto was born and raised in T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saori%20Yamamoto |
Z is the 26th and last letter of the Latin alphabet.
Z may also refer to:
Film and television
Z (1969 film), a 1969 Algerian-French thriller film based on the murder of a Greek politician.
Z (1999 film), a 1999 Indian mystery-thriller film (in Kannada language)
Z (2019 film), a 2019 Canadian horror film
Z movie, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20%28disambiguation%29 |
"Take It Back" is a song by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released as the seventh track on their 1994 album The Division Bell. It was also released as a single on 16 May 1994, the first from the album, and Pink Floyd's first for seven years. The single peaked at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart, the fourth hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take%20It%20Back |
"Coming Back to Life" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell, and is the only track from the album to be credited solely to David Gilmour.
Composition
Gilmour has said (as can be heard on the David Gilmour in Concert DVD) that the song was written about his wife, Polly Samson.
Personnel
David Gilmou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming%20Back%20to%20Life |
"Keep Talking" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.
Recording
Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement. This same commercial was sampled again in "Tal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep%20Talking%20%28Pink%20Floyd%20song%29 |
Withypool (formerly Widepolle, Widipol, Withypoole) is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Withypool and Hawkridge, in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, near the centre of Exmoor National Park and close to the border with Devon. The word Withy means "willow"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withypool |
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (born 115 BC) was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Lucius Gellius. Closely linked to the family of Pompey, he is noted for being one of the consular generals who led Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus%20Cornelius%20Lentulus%20Clodianus |
Lucius Gellius (c. 136 BC – c. 54 BC) was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. A supporter of Pompey, he is noted for being one of the consular generals who led Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus in the Third... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Gellius |
Flash protection is a term used in the design and specification of protective suits, particularly in bomb disposal.
Emergency services | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20protection |
The Anson Mills Building is a historic building located at 303 North Oregon Street in El Paso, Texas. The building stands on the original site of the 1832 Ponce de León ranch. Anson Mills hired Henry C. Trost of the Trost and Trost architectural firm to design and construct the building. Trost was the area's foremost p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson%20Mills%20Building |
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1818 – 28 June 1885), was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1858 and 1859 and as Governor of Bombay between 1867 and 1872.
Background and education
FitzGerald was the illeg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%20Vesey-FitzGerald |
Barry Manilow II is the second studio album by Barry Manilow released in 1974. Propelled by the major success of its lead single "Mandy" and featuring a further international hit in "It's a Miracle", the album was a commercial breakthrough for Manilow. First issued by Bell Records, it was reissued after the company was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Manilow%20II |
Currency Creek (postcode 5214) is a township and locality in South Australia on the western shore of Lake Alexandrina about 6 km north of Goolwa, beside a seasonal stream bearing the same name – Currency Creek – which flows into Lake Alexandrina. The locality includes the headland named Finniss Point which separates th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency%20Creek%2C%20South%20Australia |
Fort Macomb is a 19th-century United States brick fort in Louisiana, on the western shore of Chef Menteur Pass. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally within the city limits of New Orleans, Louisiana. This community was some miles dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Macomb |
Currency Creek may refer to the following located in South Australia:
Currency Creek (South Australia), a river
Currency Creek, South Australia, a locality
Currency Creek Arboretum
Currency Creek wine region
Currency Creek Game Reserve | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency%20Creek |
A manual of arms was an instruction book for handling and using weapons in formation, whether in the field or on parade. Such manuals were especially important in the matchlock and flintlock eras, when loading and firing was a complex and lengthy process typically carried out in close order. When capitalized, the ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual%20of%20arms |
A doughnut or donut (in American English) is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually with a toroidal shape.
Doughnut or donut may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Donut Media, an American automotive content brand, known primarily for its eponymous YouTube channel and online merchandise store
Don... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Laguna San Rafael National Park () is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it covers an area of and includes the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. A fjord more than long is one of the park's pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna%20San%20Rafael%20National%20Park |
On Microsoft Windows, a special folder is a folder that is presented to the user through an interface as an abstract concept instead of an absolute folder path. (The synonymous term shell folder is sometimes used instead.) Special folders make it possible for any application to ask the operating system where an appropr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20folder |
Tryin' to Get the Feeling is the third studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1975. It featured the title track, "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again", with other hits including "New York City Rhythm", "Bandstand Boogie" (the theme from the long-running ABC series American Bandstand) and the chart top... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryin%27%20to%20Get%20the%20Feeling |
Ronald J. Winter (born February 6, 1946) is a former American football official who officiated in the National Football League (NFL) from the 1995 through 2013 seasons. Winter previously served as a football official for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Winter wore uniform No. 14 (previously No. 82... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Winter |
"Heroin" is a song by the Velvet Underground, released on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. Written by Lou Reed in 1964, the song, which overtly depicts heroin abuse, is one of the band's most celebrated compositions. Critic Mark Deming of Allmusic writes, "While 'Heroin' hardly endorses drug use, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin%20%28The%20Velvet%20Underground%20song%29 |
Tong Sala (; ) is the principal town and administrative centre of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. While Haad Rin hosts the Full Moon Party and attracts many of the island's visitors, Thong Sala is mostly used by tourists as a ferry terminal and jumping off point.
The port area has three main piers, one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong%20Sala |
Nyctereutes abdeslami is an extinct relative of the raccoon dog from the Pliocene. A jaw from the species was found in Morocco. Scientists have noticed that Nyctereutes abdeslami had much larger molars than other species of its genus, suggesting a larger body.
References
Prehistoric canines
Pliocene mammals of Africa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctereutes%20abdeslami |
Yuriy Mykhaylovych Dmytrulin (; ; born 10 February 1975) is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer (defender).
Career
Dmytrulin was born on 10 February 1975 in the city of Snihurivka, at the time part of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in the Mykolaiv Oblast of present-day Ukraine).
He was a versatile ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy%20Dmytrulin |
Michael G. Fitzgerald (December 19, 1950 – February 14, 2006) was a film historian and author.
Fitzgerald was a native of El Dorado, Arkansas. His best known work was 1977's Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures, and Filmographies (published by Arlington House), which chronicled the history of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20G.%20Fitzgerald |
Rockman EXE Battle Chip Stadium is an arcade game in the Mega Man Battle Network sub-series of Mega Man games from Capcom. This game was not released outside Japan. Under the name of "Battle Station", the arcade game was featured a number of times in episodes of the Rockman EXE Beast+ anime series.
Gameplay
The game f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockman%20EXE%20Battle%20Chip%20Stadium |
FPTV (short for Festival Portuguese Television) is a Canadian Category B Portuguese language specialty channel. The channel's licensee is 1395047 Ontario Inc., a company founded by Frank Alvarez, in 2001.
FPTV broadcasts a variety of foreign and locally produced programs aimed at the Portuguese speaking communities in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPTV |
This One's For You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow released in 1976. The album went 2× platinum and yielded the hits "This One's for You", "Weekend in New England", "Looks Like We Made It", and the original version of "Daybreak". The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20One%27s%20for%20You%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
"When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright and first recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. Country singer John Wesley Ryles had a minor hit with his version of the song i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20a%20Man%20Loves%20a%20Woman%20%28song%29 |
A close order formation is a military tactical formation in which soldiers are close together and regularly arranged for the tactical concentration of force. It was used by heavy infantry in ancient warfare, as the basis for shield wall and phalanx tactics, to multiply their effective weight of arms by their weight of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20order%20formation |
"I'm Waiting for the Man" is a song by American rock band the Velvet Underground. Written by Lou Reed, it was first released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The lyrics describe a man's efforts to obtain heroin in Harlem.
In various reviews, it is described as "tough garage rock", "proto-punk ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Waiting%20for%20the%20Man |
The Montvale Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Montvale, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 980 students and 88.0 classr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montvale%20Public%20Schools |
311 may refer to:
311 (number), a natural number
AD 311, a year of the Julian calendar, in the fourth century AD
311 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
311 (band), an American band
311 (album), band 311's self-titled album
311 (DSM-IV), DSM-IV code for "Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified"
311 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/311 |
An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event celebrated on all days of the year which are not a person's birthday. It is a neologism which first appeared in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. The concept gave rise to "The Unbirthday Song" in the 1951 animated feature film Alice in Wonde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbirthday |
Donald Andrew McClurkin Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy Awards, ten Stellar Awards, two BET Awards, two Soul Train Awards, one Dove Award and one NAACP Image Awards. He is one of the top selling gospel artists, selling over 10 million albums worldwide. Vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie%20McClurkin |
The Pentlatch or Pentl’ach or Puntlatch or Puntledge language is a Salishan language that was spoken on Canada's Vancouver Island in a small area between Comox and Nanaimo, British Columbia. The Pentlatch people formerly numbered at least 3,000 with at least 90 settlements in the area. The language became extinct in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentlatch%20language |
The Beazley Medals are two annual awards awarded by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (and previously the Curriculum Council of Australia). The award is the highest profile and most prestigious academic award for secondary students in Australia. From 2001 onwards, two medals have been awarded each year — on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beazley%20Medal |
FOX 29 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company:
Current
O&O
WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Affiliates
KVHP in Lake Charles, Louisiana
WFLX in West Palm Beach, Florida
WUTV in Buffalo, New York
Former
WFTC in Minneapolis/Saint P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%2029 |
The classification of Indian cities is a ranking system used by the Government of India to allocate House Rent Allowance (HRA) to public servants employed in cities in India. HRA is also used by the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) to provide income tax exemptions. Cities are classified on the basis of their population, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20Indian%20cities |
Jasiel Amon Robinson (born September 20, 1980), better known by his stage name Yung Joc, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 2006 hit single "It's Goin' Down", and as a feature on T-Pain's 2007 U.S. number-one single "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')".
Early life
Robinson's father owned a hair-care products... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung%20Joc |
Southwood Secondary School is a high school in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, for students in West Galt and North Dumfries.
History
Southwood was founded in 1962. Although it has one of the lower student enrollments in the region, that does not seem to affect performance. It has proven itself over the years with its nume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwood%20Secondary%20School |
All TV () is a Canadian exempt Category B Korean language specialty channel. It is owned by Jang Sung Lee and was launched in September 2001.
All TV features a mix of local programming as well as foreign programming from Korea. The foreign programming that airs on All TV comes from MBC. Local programming is produced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20TV%20%28Canada%29 |
This is a list of Sinn Féin MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing Sinn Féin. Members of the European Parliament, Dáil Éireann or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed. Sinn Féin MPs practice abstentionism regarding the House of Commons and thus do not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sinn%20F%C3%A9in%20MPs |
The Wheel is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash. Most of the songs on the album reflected Cash's feelings on embarking on a new relationship (with music producer John Leventhal, whom she would eventually marry) after the dissolution of her marriage to Rodney Crowell. Though neither of its two s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wheel%20%28Rosanne%20Cash%20album%29 |
Sidney Peterson (November 15, 1905, Oakland, California – April 24, 2000, New York City) was an American writer, artist, and avant-garde filmmaker. He attended UC Berkeley, worked as a newspaper reporter in Monterey, and spent time as a practicing painter and sculptor in France in the 1920s and 1930s. After World War... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Peterson |
Mplayer, referred to as Mplayer.com by 1998, was a free online PC gaming service and community that operated from late 1996 until early 2001. The service at its peak was host to a community of more than 20 million visitors each month and offered more than 100 games. Some of the more popular titles available were acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer.com |
The Philly Pops is an American orchestra that is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
History
Founded by presenter and producer, Moe Septee, and conducted from 1979 to 2013 by two-time Grammy Award-winning pianist Peter Nero, the Philly Pops plays orchestral versions of popular jazz, swing, Broadway songs and blues. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly%20Pops |
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is the third single from American singer Whitney Houston's fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love. It was written by LaShawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, Isaac Phillips, Toni Estes, and produced by Darkchild. The song examines a woman confronting her lover about his infid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Not%20Right%20but%20It%27s%20Okay |
Not with a Bang was a short-lived British television sitcom produced by LWT for ITV in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long. The show was a dark science fiction comedy, focusing on the end of the human race on Earth. The title comes from the last line of T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men "not with a ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20with%20a%20Bang |
10 Song Demo is an album by the American musician Rosanne Cash. Released in 1996, it was her first album for Capitol Records. The album's first single, "The Summer I Read Collette", is a tribute to French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Its second and final single, "Western Wall", was covered by Emmylou Harris and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Song%20Demo |
Philadelphia Ballet, formerly known as Pennsylvania Ballet, was Philadelphia's largest ballet company until its rebranding in 2021. The company's annual local season features six programs of classic pieces, like George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, in addition to presentations of new works. The company's artistic direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20Ballet |
This is the list of the top 50 albums of 2004 in New Zealand.
Chart
Key
– Album of New Zealand origin
External links
The Official NZ Music Chart, RIANZ website
Top 50 Albums
New Zealand Top 50 Albums
Albums 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20top%2050%20albums%20of%202004 |
Seaspeak is a controlled natural language (CNL) based on English, designed to facilitate communication between ships whose captains' native tongues differ. It has now been formalised as Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP).
While generally based on the English language, seaspeak has a very small vocabulary, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaspeak |
Asphodel Ltd ( Asphodel Records) was a San Francisco-based independent record label founded by musician Mitzi Johnson and Naut Humon in 1992. The label is named after the mythological flower that grows along the banks of the River Styx in Hades. The label had shut down as of January 2011.
Asphodel has a diverse cata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphodel%20Records |
Opera Philadelphia (prior to 2013 Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP)) is an American opera company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the city's only company producing grand opera. The organization produces one festival in September (Festival O) and additional operas in the spring season, encompassing works from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20Philadelphia |
Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia (formerly known as Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia) is a music institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1874 by William Wallace Gilchrist, a major figure in the 19th century music of Philadelphia. The chorus is currently unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelssohn%20Club |
One Mo Nigga ta Go is the only solo studio album by former N.W.A member DJ Yella. It was released on March 26, 1996, 1 year after Eazy-E's death and is dedicated to him. The album cover shows close-up of Eazy-E's face and Yella himself at Eazy-E's grave.
Recording sessions took place at Audio Achievements in Torrance,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Mo%20Nigga%20ta%20Go |
State Route 215 (SR 215) is a numbered state highway in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. SR 215 partially follows the former routes of U.S. Route 82 (US 82) and US 11. The route stays almost completely within the city limits of Tuscaloosa.
Route description
The highway is unusual in that it follows both a north–south an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20State%20Route%20215 |
The size–weight illusion, also known as the Charpentier illusion, is named after the French physician Augustin Charpentier because he was the first to demonstrate the illusion experimentally.
It is also called De Moor's illusion, named after Belgian physician Jean Demoor (1867–1941).
Description
The illusion occurs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size%E2%80%93weight%20illusion |
Rules of Travel is a studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, released in 2003. It was her first album of new material in nearly seven years. On the track "September When It Comes," she is joined by her father Johnny Cash; Johnny Cash would in fact die in September 2003, making this one of the last recordings to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules%20of%20Travel |
William Wallace Gilchrist (January 8, 1846 – December 20, 1916) was an American composer and a major figure in nineteenth century music of Philadelphia. He founded the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia in 1874.
Early life
Gilchrist was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to William Wallace Gilchrist and Redelia Ann (Cox) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gilchrist |
Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as a Times film critic from 1977 to 1999 and as a book critic from 2000 to 2015. In 2000, Maslin helped found the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. She is presi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Maslin |
The queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of . It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface. The ventral hindwin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20%28butterfly%29 |
Chen Jieyi may refer to:
Kit Chan ()
Alvin Tan (blogger) () | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Jieyi |
USS Hopping (DE-155) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. In 1944, she was converted to a and redesignated "APD-51". She was sold for scrap in 1966.
History
USS Hopping was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Hallsted L. Hopping, commanding officer of Scouting Six, embarked on the aircr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Hopping |
Kenneth Turan (; born October 27, 1946) is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He was a film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1991 until 2020 and was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "arguably the most w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Turan |
Alex Kindy, M.D. (January 8, 1930 – May 6, 2011) was a Canadian politician. Kindy was born in Warsaw, Poland.
His first attempt at entering federal politics was in the 1962 federal election when he ran as an "Independent Liberal" in the Quebec riding of Maisonneuve—Rosemont. He placed last out of five candidates (incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Kindy |
Jessica Schram is an American actress, model and singer. Her most notable roles include Hannah Griffith in Veronica Mars, Rachel Seybolt in Life, Karen Nadler in Falling Skies and Cinderella/Ashley Boyd in Once Upon a Time.
Early life
Jessica Schram was born in Skokie, Illinois to John and Kristie Schram. She was rais... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessy%20Schram |
Paul Cecil Hayward (11 January 1954 – 9 May 1992) was a professional rugby league footballer who played for the Newtown Jets between 1973 and 1978.
Sporting career
Paul Hayward played 73 first grade games for the Newtown Jets during his 6 seasons with the club, scoring 14 tries and kicking 43 goals.
Originally a Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hayward |
The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO) is an American youth orchestra that is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The orchestra's current music director is Louis Scaglione.
Regarded as one of the best youth orchestras in the United States, this orchestra works with a "companion ensemble," the Philadelphia Young Art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20Youth%20Orchestra |
A Special Category Visa (SCV) is an Australian visa category (subclass 444) granted to most New Zealand citizens on arrival in Australia, enabling them to visit, study, stay and work in Australia indefinitely under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement. Currently, there are two categories of SCVs: protected SCV and as no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Category%20Visa |
"The Hundred Pipers" is a Scottish song and jig attributed to Carolina Nairne, Lady Nairne and popularised from 1852 onwards. It takes as its themes events during and after the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Historical background
The song commemorates the surrender of the town of Carlisle to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hundred%20Pipers |
Cuyahoga County Airport , also known as Robert D. Shea Field, is a public use airport in northeastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Cuyahoga County since 1946, it also serves Lake County and Geauga County. The airport is located 10 nautical miles (12 mi, 19 km) east of downtown Cleveland a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga%20County%20Airport |
Kwanza Unit (KU) was an early Tanzanian hip hop group. Its name means "First Unit" and it was formed in 1993 by a merger of several groups and solo artists. They started rapping in English, but later used Swahili as well.
Founding members of Kwanza Unit included three of the main hip-hop crews at the time - Villain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanza%20Unit |
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