text stringlengths 1 353k | source stringlengths 31 253 |
|---|---|
Fort Gúta was a fort near the town of Gúta (modern day Kolárovo) in what is today Slovakia. As of today, no archaeological excavations have been done on its site.
The fort played a minor role during its history compared to the fortresses of two nearby cities, Érsekújvár and Komárom (modern day Nové Zámky and Komárno, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol%C3%A1rovo%20Castle |
Cyprus competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.
Results by event
Judo
Men's under 60 kg
Spyros Spyrou
First Round — Defeated Ashkhoussen Mamodaly Yusei Gachi (Madagascar)
Second Round —Lost Jürg Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
Men's under 65 kg
Constantinos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20at%20the%201980%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Triumph TR3 is a British sports car produced between 1955 and 1962 by the Standard-Triumph Motor Company of Coventry, England. A traditional roadster, the TR3 is an evolution of the company's earlier TR2 model, with greater power and improved braking. Updated variants, popularly but unofficially known as the "TR3A"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph%20TR3 |
The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011. Since 1977, the building has been designated a Kultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthalle%20Bremen |
Computers for Schools may refer to:
Computers for Schools (Canada), a Canadian program founded in 1993
Computers for Schools, a scheme operated by the British retailer Tesco
See also
Computers for African Schools (UK)
Computer technology for developing areas
Computers in the classroom
Educational technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20for%20Schools |
The Brazilian Naval Revolts, or the Revoltas da Armada (in Portuguese), were armed mutinies promoted mainly by admirals Custódio José de Melo and Saldanha da Gama and their fleet of rebel Brazilian navy ships against the claimed unconstitutional staying in power of president Floriano Peixoto.
First revolt
In November... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolta%20da%20Armada |
Conolly Canal, sometimes spelled as Canoly Canal, is the part of the West coast canal (WCC) network of Kerala and the canal was constructed by combining the rivers and streams along the coast with the intention of creating a vast waterway from Kozhikode to Kochi. It was constructed in the year 1848 under the orders of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conolly%20Canal |
Military College Jhelum (MCJ) is a feeder college to Pakistan Military Academy kakul, Pakistan. Though it is physically located in Gujrat District, due to its very close proximity, it is still associated with the City of Jhelum, and is considered to be in the cantonment limit of Jhelum. The institution feeds the Pakist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20College%20Jhelum |
Greg D. Burns (born 21 February 1958) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda.
Burns was a tough and uncompromising centreman, who won St Kilda best and fairest twice, in 1984 and again in 1986. He was often one of the few shining lights for the Saints during the club's run of four wooden spoon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Burns%20%28Australian%20rules%20footballer%29 |
Tønsberg Gressbane is a football stadium in Tønsberg, Norway. It is the home ground of FK Tønsberg and Tønsberg FK. It was the home ground of Eik-Tønsberg until 2001, when FK Tønsberg was formed.
References
Tønsberg Gressbane - Nordic Stadiums
Football venues in Norway
Norwegian Cup Final venues
Eliteserien venues
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B8nsberg%20Gressbane |
A tree shelter, tree guard or tree tube (sometimes also Tuley tube) is a structure that protects planted tree saplings from browsing animals and other dangers as the trees grow.
The purpose of tree shelters is to protect young trees from browsing by herbivores by forming a physical barrier along with providing a barri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20shelter |
The business activity statement is a form submitted to the Australian Taxation Office by registered business entities to report their tax obligations, including goods and services tax, pay as you go withholding, pay as you go instalments, fringe benefits tax, wine equalisation tax and luxury car tax. Pay as you go with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20activity%20statement |
The Triumph TR2 is a sports car produced by the Standard Motor Company in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1955. It was only available in roadster form.
The car had a 121 cid (1991 cc) four-cylinder Standard wet liner inline-four engine from the Vanguard, fitted with twin H4 type SU Carburettors and tuned to incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph%20TR2 |
Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
Biography
Bloemaert was born at Utrecht. He studied with his father, Abraham Bloemaert, his brothers Hendrick and Adriaan, and his father's pupil, Gerard van Honthorst. Though originally trained as a painter, he devoted him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis%20Bloemaert |
Białołęka (, from biały - white and łąka - meadow) is one of 18 districts of Warsaw, located in the northern part of the city. Until October 27, 2002 Białołęka was a gmina.
According to the Central Statistical Office data, the district's area is and 92 768 people inhabit Białołęka.
History
On the fields of Białołęk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82o%C5%82%C4%99ka |
Andrew Nicol may refer to:
Andy Nicol (born 1971), Scottish rugby union player
Andrew Nicol (judge) (born 1951), British judge
Andrew Niccol (born 1964), New Zealand screenwriter
Andrew Nicholl (1804–1886), New Zealand screenwriter
Andy Nicholls (born 1962), English football hooligan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Nicol |
Piedigrotta (; ; "at the foot of the grotto") is a section of the Chiaia quarter of Naples, Italy, so-called for the presence of the Church of the Madonna of Piedigrotta near the entrance to the Crypta Neapolitana. The area was also well known for an annual festival, which gave rise to a song writing competition lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedigrotta |
"Pure Morning" is a song by British alternative rock band Placebo, released as the lead single from their second album, Without You I'm Nothing (1998), in August 1998. Along with "Nancy Boy", it is Placebo's highest-charting single on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number four. It was also successful in the United St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Morning |
Spalirisos, also spelled Spalirises, (Greek: , (epigraphic); Kharosthi: , ) was an Iranian king who ruled Arachosia in the 1st century BCE.
Name
Spalarisos's name is attested on his coins in the Greek form () and in the Kharosthi form (), which are derived from the Saka name , meaning "in command of army".
Care... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalirisos |
The Reserve Bank of Malawi is the central bank of Malawi established in the year 1964 located in Lilongwe. The current governor is Wilson Banda.
The Bank is active in promoting financial inclusion policy and is a leading member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. It is also one of the original 17 regulatory insti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve%20Bank%20of%20Malawi |
The Barrett Report is a 400-page report created by special prosecutor David Barrett. Initially tasked with investigating allegations of lying to the FBI against Henry Cisneros, Secretary of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Bill Clinton, the investigation eventually delved into al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett%20Report |
Alexander King may refer to:
Alexander Campbell King (1856–1926), U.S. Solicitor General and federal judge
Alexander King (footballer) (1871–1957), Scottish footballer
Alexander King (author) (1899–1965), U.S. humorist, memoirist, and TV personality
Alexander King (scientist) (1909–2007), British sustainable developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20King |
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is the professional body for general practitioners (GPs) in Australia. The RACGP is responsible for maintaining standards for quality clinical practice, education and training, and research in Australian general practice. The RACGP represents over 40,000 mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Australian%20College%20of%20General%20Practitioners |
The Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity (ISIC) is an independent non-profit academic institute which looks at the study of Islam, Christianity and Muslim-Christian relations.
Founded in 1989 ISIC's director is Patrick Sookhdeo who gained a Ph.D. from the Department of Languages of the Near and Middle Eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20the%20Study%20of%20Islam%20and%20Christianity |
Béla Bugár (born 7 July 1958) is a Slovak politician of Hungarian ethnicity. He was a member of the Slovak parliament from 1992 to 2020, briefly serving as its acting Speaker in 2006. He was the former leader of the political party Most–Híd.
Life and career
He was the leader of Party of the Hungarian Coalition from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Bug%C3%A1r |
The GHP formalism (or Geroch–Held–Penrose formalism) is a technique used in the mathematics of general relativity that involves singling out a pair of null directions at each point of spacetime. It is a rewriting of the Newman–Penrose formalism which respects the covariance of Lorentz transformations preserving two nul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHP%20formalism |
Creative Writer is a word processor released by Microsoft Kids in 1993. Using this program, which is specifically targeted at children, it is possible to create documents such as letters, posters, flyers and stories complete with different fonts, Clip art, WordArt and effects. The interface and environment is especiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Writer |
The English cricket team in the West Indies in 1953–54 played five Test matches, five other first-class matches and seven other games, three of them on a two-week stop-over in Bermuda that included Christmas.
Ultimately the tour could be considered a success for England in cricketing terms, as they came back from 2–0 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20cricket%20team%20in%20the%20West%20Indies%20in%201953%E2%80%9354 |
Sandycove Island (Cnoc an Rois in Irish) is a small island and townland at the mouth of Ardkilly Creek on the south coast of Ireland, just to the west of the Castlepark peninsula, which forms the western side of the entrance to Kinsale harbour in County Cork.
It is located directly opposite the tiny hamlet of Sandycov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandycove%20Island |
Mary Talbot may refer to:
Mary Talbot, Countess of Northumberland, courtier who married Anne Boleyn's former suitor, Henry Percy
Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1556–1632), daughter of Bess of Hardwick
Mary Talbot Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, (c. 1594 – 1649), daughter of the above
Mary Anne Talbot (1778–18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Talbot |
DRG London is a Digital Audio Broadcasting multiplex available in the London area that has been broadcasting since January 2002. It is also referred to as the Greater London 3 multiplex. The station operates from ten transmitters: Croydon, Alexandra Palace, Blue Bell Hill, Reigate, Guildford, Brookmans Park, Zouches Fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG%20London |
Estácio de Sá (1520 – February 20, 1567) was a Portuguese soldier and officer. Sá travelled to the colony of Brazil on the orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. These French colonists had established themselves in 1555 at Guanabara Bay in Rio de ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1cio%20de%20S%C3%A1 |
Bo Vesterdorf (born 1945) was a Danish judge who has been President of the European Court of First Instance.
Since late 2008 Vesterdorf has been a Consultant in the Competition practice at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Vesterdorf began his career as a lawyer-linguist at the European Court of Justice before becoming Admini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%20Vesterdorf |
Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria – Claret, S.A.D., currently known as Dreamland Gran Canaria due to sponsorship, is a professional basketball club based in Las Palmas, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home venue is the Gran Canaria Arena.
History
CB Gran Canaria was founded inside Claret School and for many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB%20Gran%20Canaria |
The park Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, was created 1906–1914 by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel in cooperation with the Copenhagen Municipality on the commons (Danish: fælled) previously named Nørrefælled and Østerfælled. Fælledparken is located in the eastern part of Copenhagen called Østerbro.
Fælledparken... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A6lledparken |
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ( Talbot; c. 1580 – March 1649) was the wife of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.
Mary was the daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, by his wife Mary, and was thus a granddaughter of Bess of Hardwick. She had two sisters, both of whom also married into the nobility... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Herbert%2C%20Countess%20of%20Pembroke%20%28d.%201649%29 |
Mozambique competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.
Athletics
Men
Track & road events
Field events
Women
Track & road events
Field events
Swimming
Men
References
Official Olympic Reports
Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics
1980
Oly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique%20at%20the%201980%20Summer%20Olympics |
The Trans Europe Foot Race is a multiday long-distance ultramarathon that consists of running across Europe.
2003 race
The 2003 Trans Europe Foot Race was organized by Ingo Schultze. It ran from Lisbon to Moscow in 64 days and covered approximately . Out of 44 starters, there were 22 finishers including one wheelchair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%20Europe%20Foot%20Race |
Markus Gandler (born 20 August 1966 in Kitzbühel) is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
At the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, his team ranked 11th in the 4 × 10 km relay. In the winter of 1989/1990 he had his best World Cup finish with a third ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus%20Gandler |
Robert Fico (; born 15 September 1964) is a Slovak politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Slovakia since 2023, having served previously from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He has been the first leader of the Direction – Social Democracy (Smer) party since 1999. First elected to Parliament in 1992 (whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Fico |
The Silent World () is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle. One of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color, its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure.
Film
The film was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Silent%20World |
Pavol Rusko is retired Slovak politician, television magnate and convicted fraudster. He served as the Minister of Economy of Slovakia between 2003 and 2005 and Managing Director of TV Markíza, at the time Slovakia's most viewed private TV station, between 1996 and 2000. He currently serves a 19-year prison sentence f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavol%20Rusko |
Markíza (also known as Televízia Markíza) is a Slovak television channel launched on August 31, 1996. The channel was founded by a later politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of the Central European Media Enterprises (CME). It also operates television channels Doma (since 2009), Dajto (since 2012), Markíza Internatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%C3%ADza |
AgFirst, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and business-service provider to a network of local farm credit associations in 15 southern and eastern states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of the Farm Credit Bank of Baltimore and the Farm Credit Bank of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgFirst |
The European Union Civil Service Tribunal was a specialised court within the Court of Justice of the European Union. It was established on 2 December 2005. It ceased to exist on 1 September 2016.
Legal basis
The Treaty of Nice provides for the creation of judicial panels in certain specific areas. This provision is la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Union%20Civil%20Service%20Tribunal |
University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital (or LICH) was a 506-bed teaching hospital located in the Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. The hospital was founded in 1858 as Long Island College Hospital and following years-long attempts to save it through mergers and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Hospital%20of%20Brooklyn%20at%20Long%20Island%20College%20Hospital |
The 14th/20th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. It was created by the amalgamation of the 14th King's Hussars and the 20th Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it amalgamated with the Royal Hussars to become the King's Royal Hussars in 1992.
History
The regiment, which w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th/20th%20King%27s%20Hussars |
Dean Eric Yeagle (born July 27, 1947) is an American animator and cartoonist, born in the United States, known for his character Mandy, which has appeared in the pages of Playboy magazine.
Early life
As a young Disney fan, Yeagle set his sights on becoming an animator for Disney around the age of 10. During this time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Yeagle |
a
U.S. AgBank, Farm Credit Bank based in Wichita, Kansas, was a financial institution, part of the Farm Credit System lending to Farm Credit Services organizations serving Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, eastern Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and western Wyoming.
Like other Farm Credit Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20AgBank |
The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that regulates the manufacture and distribution of food, food additives, and drugs that will be given to animals. These include animals from which human foods are derived, as well as food additives and drugs for pets or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Veterinary%20Medicine |
Farm Credit Bank of Texas, part of the US Farm Credit System, serves as a wholesale lender and business-service provider to 14 local borrower-owned Farm Credit associations in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas.
Farm Credit Bank of Texas is a federated cooperative owned by the local Farm Credit asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm%20Credit%20Bank%20of%20Texas |
In mathematics, a Hermitian symmetric space is a Hermitian manifold which at every point has an inversion symmetry preserving the Hermitian structure. First studied by Élie Cartan, they form a natural generalization of the notion of Riemannian symmetric space from real manifolds to complex manifolds.
Every Hermitian s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian%20symmetric%20space |
Plusquellec (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany, in northwestern France.
Population
Inhabitants of Plusquellec are called plusquellecois in French.
See also
Brittany (administrative region)
Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
Listing of the works of the atelier of the Maître de Trono... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plusquellec |
Viacheslav Vasilyevich Ragozin (; 8 October 1908 – 11 March 1962) was a Soviet chess player, writer and editor. He was world champion in correspondence chess and held the title of Grandmaster in both over-the-board and correspondence chess.
Chess career
Born in St. Petersburg, Ragozin's chess career first came to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacheslav%20Ragozin |
The Atlantic in palaeoclimatology was the warmest and moistest Blytt–Sernander period, pollen zone and chronozone of Holocene northern Europe. The climate was generally warmer than today. It was preceded by the Boreal, with a climate similar to today's, and was followed by the Subboreal, a transition to the modern. Bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20%28period%29 |
Boy Meets Girl may refer to:
Film, television and theatre
Boy Meets Girl (play), a 1935 Broadway play by Bella and Samuel Spewack, basis for the 1938 film
Boy Meets Girl (1938 film), an American film starring James Cagney
Boy Meets Girl (1982 film), an Israeli film directed by Michal Bat-Adam
Boy Meets Girl (1984... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20Meets%20Girl |
The Hollywood Vampires was a celebrity drinking club formed by Alice Cooper in the 1970s. The hazing to get into the club was to outdrink all the members. According to Cooper in the documentary Prime Cuts: "The Speakeasy and Tramps were the place to be in London. There was a little loft at the Rainbow Bar and Grill in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hollywood%20Vampires |
The 2000 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 14 May 2000. The ceremony was hosted by sportscaster Des Lynam, aired on ITV and took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.
Winners and nominees
Programmes with multiple nominations
See also
2000 British Academy Television Craft Awards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20British%20Academy%20Television%20Awards |
Montagu Denis Wyatt Don (born George Montagu Don; 8 July 1955) is a British horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer who is best known as the lead presenter of the BBC gardening television series Gardeners' World.
Born in Germany and raised in England, Don studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he met his futu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Don |
Lobsang Tenzin, better known by the titles Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche (zam gdong rin po che) and to Tibetans as the 5th Samdhong Rinpoche (born 5 November 1937), is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and politician who served as the Prime Minister (then officially called the Kalon Tripa or chairman) of the cabinet of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang%20Tenzin |
Émile Augustin Cyprien Driant (11 September 1855 – 22 February 1916) was a French writer, politician, and army officer. He was the first high-ranking casualty of the Battle of Verdun during World War I.
Biography
Born at Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne in the Picardy region, Driant graduated from the Saint-Cyr military academy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20Driant |
Club Baloncesto Granada, S.A.D. was a professional basketball team based in Granada, Andalusia. The team was founded in 1994 and has had notable players during its history, including Curtis Borchardt, Darvin Ham, Giorgos Sigalas, Scott Padgett, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Richard Hendrix, and Joe Ingles.
Team history
The orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB%20Granada |
White Door may refer to
The White Door, a videogame
White Door (band), 1980s band Clay Records discography
"White Door", song (performed by A. Pugacheva) composed by Yury Chernavsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Door |
In Ghana and neighboring countries, tro tro are privately owned minibus share taxis that travel fixed routes leaving when filled to capacity. While there are tro tro stations, these vehicles for hire can also be boarded anywhere along the route.
Operated by a driver and a conductor (who collects money, shouts out the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tro%20tro |
Agios Antonios (, ), also known as Aghios Antonios on signage, is a subway (metro) station of the Athens Metro. It started operating in August 2004.
It took its name from a nearby Christian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Anthony. This station is in the Peristeri, the biggest municipality of west Athens area. It wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agios%20Antonios%20metro%20station |
The common switch interface (CSIX) is a physical interface specification between a traffic manager (network processor) and a switching fabric. It was developed by the Network Processing Forum to:
promote development and deployment of highly scalable network switches
permit hardware and software interoperability
Ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIX |
Shahar, (also as , ) is a village in the sub-governorate of Bariq in the province of Asir, Saudi Arabia. It is located at an elevation of and has a population of about 1,000 to 2,000 Shahar is located on both sides of Wadi Shahar, south of Al-Ajmeh, west of Jabal Al-Adha, north of Saaban villages, and east of Thaaib ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahar%2C%20Saudi%20Arabia |
Sotnia (Ukrainian and , ) was a military unit and administrative division in some Slavic countries.
Sotnia, deriving back to 1948, has been used in a variety of contexts in both Ukraine and Russia to this day. It is a helpful word to create short names for groups including the Nebesna Sotnia and Terek Wolf Sotnia, sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotnia |
Thomas Henry Fitzgerald (1 December 1824 – 10 November 1888) was an Irish pioneer in sugar cane farming in the early days of the colony of Queensland, Australia. He was a politician, first in New Zealand, then in Queensland. His descendants went on to become notable names in Queensland politics, business and law. He is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Henry%20Fitzgerald |
Another Place and Time is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Donna Summer, released on March 20, 1989 by Atlantic Records and Warner Records. The album was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and featured Summer's top-10 hit "This Time I Know It's for Real", which reached number 7 on the Billboard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Place%20and%20Time |
Maryland Route 342 (MD 342) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as St. Augustine Road, the highway runs from MD 310 at St. Augustine north to unsigned MD 537 in Chesapeake City in southern Cecil County. MD 342 was constructed in its entirety by 1915.
Route description
MD 342 begins at an intersec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20342 |
CVM may refer to:
Veterinary medicine
California Variegated Mutant, a sheep breed
Center for Veterinary Medicine of U.S. FDA
Cervical Vertebral Malformation or wobbler disease of dogs and horses
Complex vertebral malformation of Holstein cattle
Other uses
Christian Vision for Men, a UK charity
Climate Vulnerabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVM |
Dala dala are minibus share taxis in Tanzania. These converted trucks and minibuses are the primary public transportation system in the country. While the name originates from the English word "dollar", they are also referred to as thumni.
Before minibuses became widely used, a truck with benches placed in the bed was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dala%20dala |
Cyprus competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Ten competitors, all men, took part in nine events in four sports.
Athletics
Men's 10.000 metres
Marios Kassianidis
Qualifying Heat — 29:06.08 (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
Marios Kassianidis — 2:32:51 (→ 62nd place)
Filippos Filippo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20at%20the%201984%20Summer%20Olympics |
George Costakis (, Greek: Γεώργιος Κωστάκης, 5 July 1913 - 9 March 1990) was a Greek-Russian art collector who amassed one of the largest private collections of Russian avant-garde art in the world.
In the years surrounding the 1917 revolution, artists in Russia produced the first non-figurative art, which was to beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Costakis |
Terpsithea (Τερψιθέα) is the northernmost settlement of the municipality of Glyfada in Athens, Greece. It lies on foot of the mountain Ymittos and has an altitude between 120 and 180 m. The name comes from the Greek words Terpsi+thea (Τέρψη+θέα) and means pleasure, fun, gaze.
Climate
There is at least one automated m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpsithea%2C%20Glyfada |
This name should not be confused with the name Aelita.
Aleta may refer to:
Fictional characters
Queen Aleta, wife of Prince Valiant, Queen of the Misty Isles in the comic strip Prince Valiant
Princess Aleta in the television series The Legend of Prince Valiant
Aleta Ogord of the Guardians of the Galaxy
People
Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleta |
Real Betis Baloncesto S.A.D., simply known as Real Betis, is a professional basketball team based in Seville, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. It plays its home games at San Pablo.
History
Club Deportivo de Baloncesto Sevilla was founded in 1987 when the team bought the seat of Dribling de Madrid in the second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Betis%20Baloncesto |
"Today" is a song by British singer-songwriter Melanie Brown, released as the lead and only single of her second studio album, L.A. State of Mind (2005). The song was solely written by Brown and produced by Kevin Malpass. Released on 13 June 2005 in the United Kingdom, it entered and peaked at number 41 on the UK Singl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today%20%28Mel%20B%20song%29 |
The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. Considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, modern estimates place its age at an average of 5,000 years.
Age
Some estimates put the tree's age at between 2,000 and 3,000 years; it ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortingall%20Yew |
Rialto, is a commercial television channel in New Zealand. It began broadcasting in November 2002 on SKY Network Television.
The channel screens films, documentaries and general entertainment programming. The channel has at times sponsored the New Zealand Film Awards.
References
New Zealand's Film Commission Press r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rialto%20Channel |
is a Japanese singer and former member of the J-pop group NEWS, as part of Johnny's Entertainment, Inc., which he joined in February 2001.
Biography
As a Johnny's Jr., Kusano had also been in other Jr. subgroups including J2000, J-support, and K.K.Kity, before he was selected as one of the nine members to debut as NE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironori%20Kusano |
Gonia (Greek: Γωνιά) is a village in the Rethymno regional unit in Crete, Greece, lying at an altitude of ca 222 m amsl, about 10 km southwest of the town of Rethymno. Gonia was the seat of the former municipality Nikiforos Fokas.
References
Populated places in Rethymno (regional unit)
Rethymno (municipality) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonia |
M'saken ( Msākan; also spelled Masakin, Msaken) is a town in north-eastern Tunisia, close to Sousse.
Etymology
The origin of the word comes from "Msaken" masken (plural masken) meaning "habitat", "house" or "dwelling".
This refers to "Houses of honorable people" (Masken el achraf)
Administration
The town is the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27saken |
is a Japanese actor, voice actor and model. He is part of Stardust Promotion and has appeared several times in music videos, movies, TV series, and magazines. His major breakthrough role was as Ryoma Echizen in the live-action film adaptation of The Prince of Tennis and became even more widely known when he was cast as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanata%20Hong%C5%8D |
Thiotepa (INN), sold under the brand name Tepadina, is a medication used to treat cancer.
Thiotepa is an organophosphorus compound with the formula (C2H4N)3PS. It is an analog of N,,N-triethylenephosphoramide (TEPA), which contains tetrahedral phosphorus and is structurally akin to phosphate. It is manufactured by hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotepa |
Vântoase are creatures present in Romanian folklore, as a sort of female spirits (iele). Popular beliefs describe them as capable of causing dust storms and powerful winds, similar to harpies. They live in forests, in the air, in deep lakes, and use a special wagon for traveling. The Vântoase are also believed to be ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A2ntoase |
Kookaburra is an Australian sounding rocket consisting of a Lupus-rocket as first stage and a Musca rocket as second stage. The Kookaburra was launched 33 times, from Woomera, South Australia, and from Gan, which is an island located in Addu Atoll, the southernmost atoll of the Maldives and also from Kelaa Island, agai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra%20%28rocket%29 |
The Hospital of the Holy Ghost, Aalborg (), the buildings of which, although now without any religious function, are still known as Aalborg Kloster (lit. Aalborg Monastery), is a former establishment of the Order of the Holy Ghost in Aalborg, Denmark. It was the hospital of Aalborg from 1431 to 1953 and is one of Denma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital%20of%20the%20Holy%20Ghost%2C%20Aalborg |
Pietro Piller Cottrer (born 20 December 1974) is an Italian former cross-country skier who won gold medal in the 4 ×10 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He was born at Sappada in the province of Udine.
Career
Piller Cottrer's first relevant success in the cross-country skiing world cup came in 1997, when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro%20Piller%20Cottrer |
Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, S.A.D., known as Carplus Fuenlabrada because of sponsorship reasons, or just as Fuenlabrada, is a professional basketball team based in Fuenlabrada, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and plays their home games at Fernando Martín.
History
Founded in 1983, Fuenlabrada started to compete at a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baloncesto%20Fuenlabrada |
Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 is a 2002 action-adventure video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The game serves as a prequel to the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch. The game has Chris Sanders, David Ogden Stiers and Kevin Michael Richardson rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s%20Stitch%3A%20Experiment%20626 |
Caroline Georgiana Blakiston (born 13 February 1933) is an English actress. She is best known in her native United Kingdom for her role in the television comedy series Brass, to international audiences as Mon Mothma in the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, and Aunt Agatha in Poldark.
Early life
Blakiston was born in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Blakiston |
Alexander King (1899–1965), born Alexander Rosenfeld in Vienna, was a bestselling humorist, memoirist, and media personality of the early television era, based in the United States. Alexander changed his last name from Rosenfeld to King around the time he married his first wife Nettie.
In his late fifties, after becom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20King%20%28author%29 |
Gardnar Putnam "Gar" Mulloy (November 22, 1913 – November 14, 2016) was a U.S. No. 1 tennis player primarily known for playing in doubles matches with partner Billy Talbert. He was born in Washington, D.C., and turned 100 in November 2013. During his career he won five Grand Slam doubles tournaments and was a member of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardnar%20Mulloy |
Henry Ward ARIBA ( – 9 September 1927) was a British architect who designed many large public buildings in and around Hastings, East Sussex, some of which are listed buildings.
Biography
Henry Ward was born in Peckham, London, the son of tailor Edward John Ward and Susannah Ward. He arrived in Hastings in his late twe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Ward%20%28architect%29 |
I Want What I Want by Geoff Brown was first published in 1966 by Great Britain's Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It was made into a film by the same title starring Anne Heywood.
References
1966 British novels
Weidenfeld & Nicolson books
British LGBT novels
Novels with transgender themes
British novels adapted into films
196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Want%20What%20I%20Want |
Left Luggage is a 1998 Dutch film directed by Jeroen Krabbé.
Plot
While escaping Nazis during World War II, a Jewish man buries in the ground two suitcases full of things dear to his heart. The war deprived him of his family and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases. It's an obse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20Luggage%20%28film%29 |
Shawn Sawyer (born January 14, 1985 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2011 Canadian national silver medallist and a three-time (2005-2006 & 2008) Canadian national bronze medallist. He represented Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy finishing 12th ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Sawyer |
A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation).
There are two basic types of pronunciation respelling:
"Phonemic" systems, as commonly found in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation%20respelling%20for%20English |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.