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Fraser River Pile & Dredge Ltd v Can-Dive Services Ltd, [1999] 3 SCR 108 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision where the court re-affirmed and expanded on the exception to the doctrine of privity first established in London Drugs Ltd v Kuehne & Nagel International Ltd, [1992] SCR 299.
Background
Fraser River P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser%20River%20Pile%20%26%20Dredge%20Ltd%20v%20Can-Dive%20Services%20Ltd |
In mathematics, and more specifically in ring theory, Krull's theorem, named after Wolfgang Krull, asserts that a nonzero ring has at least one maximal ideal. The theorem was proved in 1929 by Krull, who used transfinite induction. The theorem admits a simple proof using Zorn's lemma, and in fact is equivalent to Zor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krull%27s%20theorem |
Valencia Basket Club S.A.D., commonly known as Valencia Basket (), is a professional basketball team based in Valencia, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague, with home games played at the Font de Sant Lluís. The club is owned by retail tycoon Juan Roig.
History
1986–1997
Valencia Basket was found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia%20Basket |
Framo may refer to:
Framo AS, a Norwegian supplier of submerged cargo pumps
Framo (car), a former German automobile brand
People with the surname Framo
James Framo (1922–2001), American family therapist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framo |
Sanjay National Park is a national park in Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur district of Chhattisgarh and Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It covers an area of and is a part of the Sanjay-Dubri Tiger Reserve. It is located in the Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests ecoregion.
Flora and fauna
The national ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay%20National%20Park |
The Cessna 190 and 195 Businessliner are a family of light single radial engine powered, conventional landing gear equipped, general aviation aircraft which were manufactured by Cessna between 1947 and 1954.
The 195 model was also used by the United States Air Force, United States Army, and Army National Guard as a li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna%20195 |
The Mad Capsule Markets 1997–2004 is third compilation album by The Mad Capsule Markets. This album features a collection of hits from Digidogheadlock to Cistm Konfliqt.... Songs were re-mastered by Takeshi Ueda for the release. Changes include extended intros to Asphalt-Beach and Bit Crusherrrr and an added scream to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mad%20Capsule%20Markets%201997%E2%80%932004 |
Marquee may refer to:
Marquee (structure), a sign placed over the entrance to an establishment
Marquee (tent), a large tent, generally used as a temporary building
Marquee (TV series), 1979 Canadian drama television series
Marquee Cinemas, a movie theater chain in the United States
Marquee Club, commonly called Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee |
André Thevet (; ; 1516 – 23 November 1590) was a French Franciscan priest, explorer, cosmographer and writer who travelled to the Near East and to South America in the 16th century. His most significant book was The New Found World, or Antarctike, which compiled a number of different sources and his own experience into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Thevet |
Thomas George Gregson (7 February 1796 – 4 January 1874) was the second Premier of Tasmania, serving from 26 February 1857 until 25 April 1857.
Early life
Gregson was born in Buckton, Northumberland, England, the son of John Gregson who was the nephew of Anthony Gregson, Snr. (d. 1806) the squire of Lowlynn. John Gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Gregson |
Bàsquet Manresa, S.A.D., also known as Baxi Manresa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Manresa, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB and Basketball Champions League. Their home arena is the Pavelló Nou Congost. Bàsquet Manresa has won the Spanish Championship once, in 1998.
Joan "Chic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A0squet%20Manresa |
Pamba was king of Hatti, an ancient Bronze Age state from the pre-Hittite period, situated in central regions of Anatolia, modern Turkey. He is mentioned in only one source, a Hittite version (from 1400 BCE) of an older Akkadian story, that narrates several events related to much earlier times, taking place during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamba%20%28king%29 |
Li Datong (李大同, born 1952) was the Managing Editor of Freezing Point, a section of China Youth Daily. He now writes for openDemocracy, which is based in London.
Datong was openly critical of China's 2018 constitutional change that removed the term limits for the President. In an open letter to the National People's Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Datong |
Shirley McKie (born August 1962) is a former Scottish police detective who was accused by fingerprint analysis staff of the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) of leaving her thumb print on the bathroom door frame of a murder crime-scene in Kilmarnock on 14 January 1997.
She denied she had ever been in the house of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20McKie |
Ross A. Overbeek (born May 16, 1949) is an American computer scientist with a long tenure at the Argonne National Laboratory. He has made important contributions to mathematical logic and genomics, as well as programming, particularly in database theory and the programming language Prolog.
Early life
He grew up in Tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Overbeek |
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (25 September 1889 – 28 February 1930) was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his English translation of most of Marcel Proust's , which he published under the Shakespearean title Remembrance of Things Past. His family name is the double-barrelled name "Scott Moncrieff".
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20K.%20Scott%20Moncrieff |
Kuzma may refer to:
Locations
Kuzma, Kuzma, a settlement in the Municipality of Kuzma, Slovenia
Municipality of Kuzma, a municipality in Slovenia
People
Kuzma, a Slavic given name derived from Cosmas
Kuzma Minin, Russian merchant and hero of the Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618)
Kuzma Derevyanko, Soviet Army officer a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuzma |
Brian Tate Milner (born November 17, 1959) is an American former professional baseball player. He played two games in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1978 as a catcher.
Biography
Milner attended Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Texas, where he played baseball and football. He planned to at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Milner |
A dot blot (or slot blot) is a technique in molecular biology used to detect proteins. It represents a simplification of the western blot method, with the exception that the proteins to be detected are not first separated by electrophoresis. Instead, the sample is applied directly on a membrane in a single spot, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot%20blot |
Dana J. Weigel became a flight director at NASA in 2005. She has also been leading the research on Space Shuttle repair methods in order to prevent disasters during reentry back to earth. She also supervised Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on STS-109. She is a 1993 graduate of Texas A&M University.
Awards or recognition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Weigel |
Tring Rural is a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It includes the villages of Long Marston, Wilstone, Puttenham, and the hamlets of Gubblecote and Astrope. It is largely situated to the north-west of the town of Tring. The town of Tring itself is not part of the parish.
The ancient parish of Tring covered an ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tring%20Rural |
Robert Fitzroy 'Roy' Foster (born 16 January 1949), publishing as R. F. Foster, is an Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford.
Early life
Foster was born on 16 January 1949 in Waterford, to two teachers: Betty Foster (née Fitzroy), a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20F.%20Foster%20%28historian%29 |
Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold is a live-action laserdisc video game produced by American Laser Games, released for the arcade, Sega CD, 3DO, CD-i and DOS, the first release being in 1992; the quality of the video is the lowest on Sega CD. A sequel to the moderately popular Mad Dog McCree, the game abandoned the rather sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20Dog%20II%3A%20The%20Lost%20Gold |
Zagross Khodro is an Iranian industrial company that manufactures automobiles in Borujerd for the domestic Iranian market. It was established in 1996. The company's headquarters was located in Tehran.
Zagross Khodro was set up as a private complete knock down (CKD) assembler in July 2002 and has a deal with Proton to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagross%20Khodro |
The Pampas are fertile South America lowlands.
Pampa or La Pampa may also refer to:
Places
South America
La Pampa Province, Argentina
La Pampa, Córdoba, Argentina
La Pampa District, Peru
La Pampa, Peru
Pampa del Tamarugal, Chile
Elsewhere
Pamba River, also Pampa River, in Kerala, India
Pampa Sarovar, a lake near ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampa%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Prüfening Abbey () was a Benedictine monastery on the outskirts of Regensburg in Bavaria, Germany. Since the beginning of the 19th century it has also been known as Prüfening Castle (Schloss Prüfening). Notably, its extant dedicatory inscription, commemorating the founding of the abbey in 1119, was created by printing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCfening%20Abbey |
The Goodwood Park Hotel (Chinese: 良木园酒店) is a heritage hotel in Singapore, situated in a 6-hectare landscaped garden on Scotts Road. It was first built as the club house for the Teutonic Club serving the expatriate German community in Singapore, and later converted into a hotel.
The hotel was the first in Singapore t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwood%20Park%20Hotel |
The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state from the Roman Empire resulting from the Crisis of the Third Century. Named after its capital city, Palmyra, it encompassed the Roman provinces of Syria Palaestina, Arabia Petraea, and Egypt, as well as large parts of Asia Minor.
The Palmyrene Empire was ruled by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyrene%20Empire |
The year 2002 in birding and ornithology.
Worldwide
New species
See also Bird species new to science described in the 2000s
Taxonomic developments
Ornithologists
Deaths
12 January - René de Naurois
22 September - Tommy Garnett
2 October - George A. Bartholomew
10 October - Mike Rogers
18 October - Ronald Hic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20in%20birding%20and%20ornithology |
The James Blake House is the oldest surviving house in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The house was built in 1661 and the date was confirmed by dendrochronology in 2007. Dorchester Atheneum. Retrieved on 2017-09-13. It is located at 735 Columbia Road, in Edward Everett Square, and just a block from Massachusetts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Blake%20House |
Artbank is an art rental program established in 1980 by the Australian Government. It supports contemporary Australian artists and encourages a wider appreciation of their work by buying artworks which it then rents to public and private sector clients.
History
Artbank was modelled on Canada's Art Bank, after then fed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artbank |
Walter Rabl (30 November 1873 in Vienna – 11 July 1940 in Klopein, Klopeiner See/Carinthia) was a Viennese composer, conductor, and teacher of vocal music. Largely forgotten today, Rabl left only a small number of works, all of them early ones, from the twilight of the Romantic era. At the age of 30 he stopped composi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Rabl |
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (born December 14, 1941) is an American poet and essayist, known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. Her work has been widely anthologized.
Early life
DuPlessis was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1941 to Joseph L. and Eleanor Blau; her fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Blau%20DuPlessis |
The Heinkel HeS 8 (prefix being an abbreviation for "Heinkel Strahltriebwerke 8" - Heinkel Jet Engine 8) was an early jet engine designed by Hans von Ohain while working at Heinkel. It was the first jet engine to be financially supported by the RLM, bearing the official name 109-001. Had development continued it would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel%20HeS%208 |
John David Garibaldi (born November 4, 1946) is an American drummer best known for his work with the Oakland-based band Tower of Power. His playing style is considered a staple of funk music. Garibaldi’s drummer credits also include Natalie Cole, Jermaine Jackson, Boz Scaggs, Deniece Williams and Yellowjackets. Rolling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Garibaldi%20%28musician%29 |
Who Shot Johnny Rock? is a live-action full-motion video laserdisc video game produced by American Laser Games and released for the arcades in 1991, and then for the DOS, Sega CD, 3DO and CD-i platforms around 1994. As part of a series of similar-styled games released by the company, Who Shot Johnny Rock? introduces a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%20Shot%20Johnny%20Rock%3F |
The St. Marks Light is the second-oldest light station in Florida. It is located on the east side of the mouth of the St. Marks River, on Apalachee Bay.
Historic background
In the 1820s, the town of St. Marks, Florida was considered an important port of entry. The town served as a port for the prosperous planting regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Marks%20Light |
William Pritchard Weston (28 November 1804 – 21 February 1888) was the third Premier of Tasmania.
Early life
William Weston was born in Shoreditch, England, to John Weston, a surgeon. He was educated in Brighton and spent several years working in a merchant's counting house and in the wool trade.
Weston emigrated to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Weston%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
Capitol Campaign Strategies was an American public relations firm run by Michael Scanlon, Tom DeLay's former press secretary, which Scanlon used in coordination with Jack Abramoff to redirect about $40 million in lobbying contributions from Indian tribes to Scanlon, Abramoff, and their associates, as well as funding br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol%20Campaign%20Strategies |
José María Vélaz (December 4, 1910 – July 18, 1985) was a Chilean-born Jesuit priest and educator. He is known for founding Fe y Alegría (Faith and Joy), a partnership between Jesuit priests, university students and families that began in 1955 in Caracas, Venezuela, and sought community mobilization and the provision o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mar%C3%ADa%20V%C3%A9laz |
Paraiyar, or Parayar or Maraiyar (formerly anglicised as Pariah and Paree), is a caste group found in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and in Sri Lanka.
Etymology
Robert Caldwell, a nineteenth-century missionary and grammarian who worked in South India, was in agreement with some Indian writers of the same... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraiyar |
Shack are an English band formed in Liverpool, England in 1987. Originally Shack consisted of Mick Head (vocals and guitar), his brother John Head (guitar), Justin Smith (bass) and Mick Hurst (drums).
History
The Pale Fountains
Before founding Shack, Michael and John Head were in the cult 1980s band the Pale Fountai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shack%20%28band%29 |
Salim Ali National Park or City Forest National Park is a national park located in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It covered an area of 9.07 km2. Notified in 1986, the name of the park commemorated the Indian ornithologist Salim Ali. The park was converted into the Royal Springs Golf Course, Srinagar between 1998 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim%20Ali%20National%20Park |
Kunal Kohli is an Indian film director, producer, actor and writer in Bollywood. He is best known as the director of Hum Tum (2004) and Fanaa (2006). He also owns the production house Kunal Kohli Productions, whose first was his Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008).
Career
Kohli started out as a film critic in the late 1990... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunal%20Kohli |
Toxice is the first drag queen band submitting the Romanian national preselection at Eurovision Song Contest 2006. The band is composed of: Divina Duvall (ex Luciana Duvall), Alehandra del Barrio, Fernanda and Bella Blue. The slogan of Toxice is that "Drag queen is an art and has nothing to do with sexual orientation".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxice |
Michelle Vogel (born 1972) is an Australian-born film historian, author and free-lance editor. Vogel has written biographies of Gene Tierney, Marjorie Main, Olive Thomas, Olive Borden, Lupe Vélez, Joan Crawford, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as two compilations 'Children of Hollywood Accounts of Growing up as Sons and Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Vogel |
Justyna Majkowska (born Zduńska Wola, 17 July 1977) is a Polish singer. Her career started with the band Erato. Next, she was a member of Ich Troje, which represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga with the 7th place song "Keine Grenzen - Żadnych Granic".
In 2003 Justyna left the band. But in 2006... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justyna%20Majkowska |
A saddle sore in humans is a skin ailment on the buttocks due to, or exacerbated by, horse riding or cycling on a bicycle saddle. It often develops in three stages: skin abrasion, folliculitis (which looks like a small, reddish acne), and finally abscess.
Because it most commonly starts with skin abrasion, it is desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle%20sore |
Dichloralphenazone is a 1:2 mixture of antipyrine with chloral hydrate. In combination with paracetamol and isometheptene, it is the active ingredient of medications for migraine and tension headaches, including Epidrin and Midrin. Performance impairments are common with this drug and caution is advised, for example w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloralphenazone |
Space Pirates is a live-action LaserDisc video game, released by American Laser Games for the arcade in 1992 and ported to MS-DOS computers in 1994 and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer in 1995. The game was re-released for several platforms by Digital Leisure around 2003, with updated sound and video, among other Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Pirates%20%28laserdisc%20video%20game%29 |
Superfrank! is a 1987 one-hour television special starring English comedian Frankie Howerd OBE. The special show marked his return to television performance after an absence of five years.
The show was made by Channel 4 and HTV. The script was written by Miles Tredinnick, Vince Powell and Andrew Nickolds and recorde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfrank%21 |
John Wesley Van Benschoten (born April 14, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Personal
He grew up in Milford, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, where he was a two-sport athlete at Milford High School. He has an older sister, Carol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Van%20Benschoten |
The environmental isotopes are a subset of isotopes, both stable and radioactive, which are the object of isotope geochemistry. They are primarily used as tracers to see how things move around within the ocean-atmosphere system, within terrestrial biomes, within the Earth's surface, and between these broad domains.
Is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20isotopes |
The Chief Statistician of Canada () is the senior public servant responsible for Statistics Canada (StatCan), an agency of the Government of Canada. The office is equivalent to that of a deputy minister and as a member of the public service, the position is nonpartisan.
The chief statistician advises on matters pertai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Statistician%20of%20Canada |
(Hans) Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (17 February 1699 – 16 September 1753) was a painter and architect in Prussia.
Knobelsdorff was born in Kuckädel, now in Krosno Odrzańskie County. A soldier in the service of Prussia, he resigned his commission in 1729 as captain so that he could pursue his interest in architec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Wenzeslaus%20von%20Knobelsdorff |
The Intercon LARP conventions are a series of live action role-playing (LARP) conventions licensed by LARPA and produced by independent groups. The conventions began with the SiliCon LARP convention, organized in 1986. To be licensed by LARPA Intercons must support some sort of open bid process in which local groups ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercon%20LARP%20conventions |
Joshua Höschel ben Joseph was a Polish rabbi born in Vilnius, Lithuania about 1578 and died in Kraków on August 16, 1648. In his boyhood, he journeyed to Przemyśl, Red Ruthenia, to study the Talmud under Rabbi Samuel ben Phoebus of Kraków. He returned to his native country and continued his Talmudic studies in the city... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20H%C3%B6schel%20ben%20Joseph |
Poring is a small tourist resort in Sabah, Malaysia. Located 40 km south-east of the Kinabalu National Park Headquarters, in the district of Ranau, Poring is situated in lowland rainforest, contrasting with the montane and submontane rainforest of Kinabalu National Park. The name Poring comes from a Kadazandusun word f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poring |
Leslie Peter Wilkinson (born 9 May 1969 in Liverpool) in an English bass player and singer-songwriter, formerly of Shack, Cast, and Echo & the Bunnymen.
He is currently concentrating on his Aviator project and has recorded and released an album with Michael Blyth as Michael Blyth and the Wild Braid, getting 4/5 star ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wilkinson%20%28bass%20guitarist%29 |
Kumar (; Sanskrit: कुमार kumārá) is a title, given name, middle name, or a family name found in the Indian subcontinent, mainly in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, though not specific to any religion, ethnicity, or caste. It is a generic title which variously means prince, son, boy, or chaste. It is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar |
The Nanda Devi National Park or Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, established in 1982 is a national park situated around the peak of Nanda Devi (7816 m) in Chamoli Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, in northern India. The entire park lies at an elevation of more than above mean sea level.
The National Park was inscribed a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda%20Devi%20National%20Park |
In mathematics, more specifically in ring theory, a cyclic module or monogenous module is a module over a ring that is generated by one element. The concept is a generalization of the notion of a cyclic group, that is, an Abelian group (i.e. Z-module) that is generated by one element.
Definition
A left R-module M ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20module |
The bafilomycins are a family of macrolide antibiotics produced from a variety of Streptomycetes. Their chemical structure is defined by a 16-membered lactone ring scaffold. Bafilomycins exhibit a wide range of biological activity, including anti-tumor, anti-parasitic, immunosuppressant and anti-fungal activity. The mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bafilomycin |
Siddharth Anand is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing the action thriller films: Bang Bang! (2014), War (2019), and Pathaan (2023). Pathaan became the second highest grossing Hindi film worldwide, excluding China, and broke the record for the highest grossing opening week... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddharth%20Anand |
Argyle Park was an underground industrial rock supergroup founded in New York City in 1994 and active until 1996. Members of the group reformed under the name AP2 in 1998, and were active under that name until winter 2000. Signed to Christian music labels, the band suffered repeated controversies within the Christian m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyle%20Park |
Oxygen-18 (, Ω) is a natural, stable isotope of oxygen and one of the environmental isotopes.
is an important precursor for the production of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) used in positron emission tomography (PET). Generally, in the radiopharmaceutical industry, enriched water () is bombarded with hydrogen ions in either... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen-18 |
Isometheptene (usually as isometheptene mucate) is a sympathomimetic amine sometimes used in the treatment of migraines and tension headaches due to its vasoconstricting properties; that is, it causes constriction (narrowing) of blood vessels (arteries and veins). Along with paracetamol and dichloralphenazone, it is on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometheptene |
St Patrick's, Greencastle () are a Gaelic football Club from Greencastle, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The club was founded in 1932, under the name Greencastle Erin's Hope.
Greencastle were Tyrone GAA Division 3 and Junior football champions of 2006. They were also Ulster Junior Club Football Championship winners ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Patrick%27s%2C%20Greencastle%20GAC |
Colonel Alexander Perceval (1787 – 9 December 1858) was an Irish politician.
He was the eldest surviving son of Rev. Philip Perceval of Temple House, Ballymote, Sligo. He succeeded his father in 1800.
He sat in the House of Commons for Sligo County from 1831 to 1841, when his growing financial difficulties compelled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Perceval |
The Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Northeastern India, southern Bhutan and adjacent Bangladesh.
Location and description
The ecoregion covers and encompasses the alluvial plain of the upper Brahmaputra River as it moves westward through India's Assam state ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaputra%20Valley%20semi-evergreen%20forests |
The Minsk Blitz was the heavy bombing of the city of Minsk (population was 270,000), the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union during the Second World War. On 24 June 1941, three waves of German Luftwaffe bombers, 47 aircraft each, bombed Minsk. The Soviet anti-aircraft defense o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing%20of%20Minsk%20in%20World%20War%20II |
The Dacia Pick-Up was a range of pick-up trucks manufactured by Romanian auto marque Dacia. The 31 years of production saw the manufacturing of a total of 318,969 vehicles.
The Pick-up was the last of the Dacia models to be based on the Renault 12 that made up the majority of the Dacia model range since the late 1960s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia%20Pick-Up |
Violet is the second studio album by The Birthday Massacre, released on August 9, 2005. It was first released as an extended play (EP) on October 25, 2004, then commercially released on August 9, 2005 as a long play (LP) through Metropolis Records (North America/UK), Repo Records (Europe) and Hellion Records (Brazil).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet%20%28The%20Birthday%20Massacre%20album%29 |
Fura-2-acetoxymethyl ester, often abbreviated Fura-2AM, is a membrane-permeant derivative of the ratiometric calcium indicator Fura-2 used in biochemistry to measure cellular calcium concentrations by fluorescence. When added to cells, Fura-2AM crosses cell membranes and once inside the cell, the acetoxymethyl groups ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fura-2-acetoxymethyl%20ester |
SAS Drakensberg (A301) is a fleet replenishment ship (AOR) of the South African Navy (SAN), with the primary role of assisting and supporting the SAN's combat vessels at sea. Built by the (now defunct) Sandock-Austral shipyard in Durban, it is the largest and most sophisticated warship to have been built in South Afric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS%20Drakensberg |
R. F. Foster may refer to:
Robert Frederick Foster (1853–1945), disseminator of the rules of many card games
R. F. Foster (historian) (born 1949), Robert Fitzroy Foster, professor of Irish History | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20F.%20Foster |
Astro Blaster is a space-themed fixed shooter released in arcades by Sega in 1981. It was designed and programmed by Gary Shannon and Barbara Michalec. The game uses speech synthesis and during attract mode a voice says "Fighter pilots needed in sector wars...play Astro Blaster!" It is the first video game to have a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Blaster |
In algebraic topology, an area of mathematics, a homeotopy group of a topological space is a homotopy group of the group of self-homeomorphisms of that space.
Definition
The homotopy group functors assign to each path-connected topological space the group of homotopy classes of continuous maps
Another constructio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeotopy |
"Check Yo Self" is the third and final single from American rapper Ice Cube's third solo album, The Predator. It was released on July 13, 1993, and features New York City rappers Das EFX. It topped both the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and Rap charts while also reaching number 20 on the Hot 100 chart. The song retains two mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check%20Yo%20Self |
Hearse is a Swedish melodic death metal band formed by vocalist Johan Liiva (ex-Arch Enemy) and drummer Max Thornell in 2001. The band have released five albums to date.
History
Following Johan Liiva's departure from NonExist, he decided to team up with one time Furbowl bandmate Max Thornell to form a new project. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearse%20%28band%29 |
Archibald Renwick Macaulay (30 July 1915 – 10 June 1993) was a Scottish football player and manager.
Playing career
Born in Falkirk, Macaulay started his playing career in junior football and joined Rangers in 1933, where he became a regular at the age of only 18. Playing as an inside right, he won a Scottish Cup meda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20Macaulay |
Dynamin is a GTPase responsible for endocytosis in the eukaryotic cell. Dynamin is part of the "dynamin superfamily", which includes classical dynamins, dynamin-like proteins, Mx proteins, OPA1, mitofusins, and GBPs. Members of the dynamin family are principally involved in the scission of newly formed vesicles from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamin |
Frostbite () is a 2006 Swedish comedy horror film directed by Anders Banke and written by Daniel Ojanlatva. The film takes place in a small town in northern Sweden during midwinter, making the environment perfect for vampires to hunt townspeople due to the cold weather and small amount of daily sunlight. It is Sweden's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite%20%282006%20film%29 |
Alexander Pringle (30 January 1791 – 2 September 1857) was a Scottish Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1830 to 1832 and again from 1835 to 1846. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in Peel's second ministry, but resigned in 1845 in protest at the decision to enhance the Maynooth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Pringle%20%28politician%29 |
Paul Martin (born 17 March 1967) is a Scottish politician who served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Provan constituency from 2011 to 2016. A member of the Scottish Labour Party, he previously represented Glasgow Springburn from 1999 to 2011.
Early life and education
Paul Martin was born in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Martin%20%28Scottish%20politician%29 |
Mudi-āttam is an art form once prevalent, but now disappearing, in Central Travancore in Kerala. This is performed by the Pulaya and Paraya (Sambava) castes. Originally a fertility-dance, this is now staged as a community entertainment. Young women are the exponents of this. They should have long hair and should numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudi-%C4%81ttam |
Datteln is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on a crossroads of four canals (Datteln-Hamm Canal, Wesel-Datteln Canal, Dortmund-Ems Canal and Rhein-Herne Canal), which makes it the biggest canal junction in the World, approx. 10 km north-east of Recklinghausen a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datteln |
This article lists the civil airports, some joint with military airbases and small airports in Pakistan. There are an estimated 151 airfields in Pakistan.
Major international airports are situated in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Other international airports are situated in Peshawar, Multan, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Quett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20airports%20in%20Pakistan |
Cesana Pariol was the venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The track, built for the games, is located in Cesana. The venue holds approximately 7,130 spectators, of whom 3,624 are seated.
Construction details
The track is constructed with about of ammonia refrigeratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesana%20Pariol |
Chlorine-36 (36Cl) is an isotope of chlorine. Chlorine has two stable isotopes and one naturally occurring radioactive isotope, the cosmogenic isotope 36Cl. Its half-life is 301,300 ± 1,500 years. 36Cl decays primarily (98%) by beta-minus decay to 36Ar, and the balance to 36S.
Trace amounts of radioactive 36Cl exist ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine-36 |
Karl Jenkins, better known as Dice Raw, is an American rapper from Philadelphia. He is associated with The Roots, and the now defunct musical group Nouveau Riche.
He hooked up with the band while still in high school after Kelo, a member of the group's production team, spotted him in a local talent show. The group qui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice%20Raw |
In the Whyte notation for describing steam locomotive wheel arrangement, a 2-8-6 is a locomotive with a two-wheel leading truck, eight driving wheels, and a six-wheel trailing truck. All 2-8-6 locomotives constructed have been tank locomotives of the Mason Bogie pattern, with no tender locomotives with this wheel arra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-8-6T |
Sir John William Evans, CMG (1 December 1855 – 2 October 1943) was an Australian politician, a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Premier of Tasmania from 11 July 1904 to 19 June 1909.
Early life and nautical career
Evans was born in 1855 in Liverpool, England, but migrated with his family to Battery Point,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Evans%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
The National Roman Museum (Italian: Museo Nazionale Romano) is a museum, with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome, Italy. It shows exhibits from the pre- and early history of Rome, with a focus on archaeological findings from the period of Ancient Rome.
History
Founded in 1889 and inaugu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo%20Nazionale%20Romano |
Robert Frederick Foster (May 31, 1853 – December 25, 1945) of New York City, known as R. F. Foster, was a memory training promoter and the prolific writer of more than 50 nonfiction books. He wrote primarily on the rules of play and methods for successful play of card, dice, and board games. Alan Truscott wrote 20 ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Frederick%20Foster |
Kevin A. Ring (born October 19, 1970) is a former American attorney and congressional staffer; he served Republicans in both the House and the Senate, including U.S. Representative John T. Doolittle (R-CA). He also served as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights Subc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20A.%20Ring |
Nyctereutes donnezani is an extinct relative of the raccoon dog. It has been found in Spain Poland, Greece, and Turkey.
References
Prehistoric canines
Prehistoric mammals of Europe
Pliocene carnivorans
donnezani | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctereutes%20donnezani |
Haltern am See (Haltern at the lake, before December 2001 only Haltern) is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the Lippe and the Wesel–Datteln Canal, approx. north of Recklinghausen.
The town is about north of Düsseldorf.
Geography and N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltern%20am%20See |
Sawsan al-Sha'er (, born July 12, 1956) is widely regarded as Bahrain's most influential liberal intellectual. A journalist and author, she is a columnist with Al-Watan newspaper, having joined the staff there from the pro-government Al-Ayam.
Ms. al-Sha'er is well known for her liberal opinions and has been an outspok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawsan%20al-Sha%27er |
Michael Joseph McMahon (born 18 September 1961) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 until 2016. He was MSP for the Hamilton North and Bellshill constituency from 1999 until its abolition in 2011, and then for the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20McMahon%20%28Scottish%20politician%29 |
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