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Jēkabs Kazaks (18 February 1895, in Riga – 30 November 1920, in Riga) was a Latvian modernist painter.
Biography
Kazaks was born in a relatively meager surroundings and had to struggle to finish his high school education. He studied at the Riga Art School between 1913 and 1915 (under Vilhelms Purvītis and Roberts Till... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%93kabs%20Kazaks |
The Louisiana Baptist Convention (LBC) or Louisiana Baptists is a Baptist state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptists. Comprising approximately 1,600 affiliated churches and 620,000 members, the Louisiana Baptist Convention's offices are located in the city of Alexandria. The executive director of the Louisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%20Baptist%20Convention |
Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk ( , born Michael Lee Curran, 8 June 1958) is an English musician, record producer, and actor. He has released several solo albums as a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as lead singer and second guitarist of King Crimson between 2013 and 2021 succeeding Adrian Belew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakko%20Jakszyk |
Joseph Highmore (13 June 16923 March 1780) was an English painter of portraits, conversation pieces and history subjects, illustrator and author. After retiring from his career as a painter at the age of 70, he published art historical and critical articles.
Life
Highmore was born in London, the third son of Edward Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Highmore |
Anagaire (anglicised as Annagry) is a village in The Rosses district of County Donegal, Ireland. , the population was 236.
Name
The Irish and official name for Annagry is Anagaire, which in turn derives from Áth na gCoire meaning "ford of the whirlpools".
Language
There are 2,354 people living in the Anagaire ED and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annagry |
Peerage of England
|Duke of Cornwall (1337)||Edward, the Black Prince||1337||1376||
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|Earl of Surrey (1088)||Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Surrey||1347||1376||10th Earl of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20peers%201350%E2%80%931359 |
Cesana San Sicario, located in Cesana, Italy was a location of a venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The biathlon facility is built for 6,500 spectators.
The accommodation is located in Cesana and lies in a large ski area named Via Lattea. It is directly connected to the winter venues in Monginevro and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesana%20San%20Sicario |
Herten (; Westphalian: Hiätten) is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated in the industrial Ruhr Area, some west of Recklinghausen.
Geography
Town area
Herten covers an area of 37.31 km2, with a maximum north-south extent of 9.5 km, and a maxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herten |
Maiwand is a historical city in Afghanistan. The Sufi saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was born here early in the twelfth century in 1177 CE.
References
Cities in Afghanistan
Lal Shahbaz Qalandar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwand |
San Sicario Fraiteve is a venue built for the 2006 Winter Olympic. It seated 6,160 spectators, including 5,660 seated and 500 standing, for the women's alpine skiing downhill, super-G, and combined. The course has an overall length of .
The venue is located in Cesana.
References
2006 Winter Olympics official report. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Sicario%20Fraiteve |
Lists of First Nations cover the First Nations of Canada, the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle. The lists include:
List of First Nations band governments, a list, by province or territory, of the various First Nations government bodies in Canada
List of First Nations peoples, a list,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20First%20Nations |
is a Japanese voice actress who works for Aksent. On February 24, 2014, she announced that she had been married around December 2013.
Filmography
2002
Seven of Seven - Erino Kogarashi
Princess Tutu - Malen and Uzura
2004
SD Gundam Force - Core
2005
Aria the Animation - Akari Mizunashi
2006
Aria the Natural - Akari Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erino%20Hazuki |
Lord Arthur Lennox (2 October 1806 – 15 January 1864) was a British politician. He was the youngest son of the 4th Duke of Richmond and the uncle of Lord Henry Lennox.
Lennox was commissioned into the 71st Foot. He was promoted lieutenant in 1825, major in 1838 and lieutenant-colonel in 1842. He transferred to the 72n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Arthur%20Lennox |
Voyager of the Seas is the lead ship of the of cruise ships operated by Royal Caribbean International (RCI). Constructed by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Turku New Shipyard in Turku, Finland, she was launched on November 27, 1998, and formally named by Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt on November 20, 1999.
Royal Cari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager%20of%20the%20Seas |
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched on February 8, 1979, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg%20Film%20Festival |
Redirector may refer to:
Network redirector, provide access to file systems and printers on other computers on a network
COM port redirector, relay serial data between a "virtual" COM port and a serial device server or modem server on a network
URL redirection, URLs rewritten prior to processing by a web server
Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirector |
Herten can refer to:
Herten, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Herten, a village in the southeast of the Netherlands
Herten, a small village in the northeast of Belgium, now part of Wellen
Herten in Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Herten, Rheinfelden, a village forming part of Rheinfelden, Germany. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herten%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri () (16 July 1901 – 23 October 1981) was a major figure in British Indian and later Pakistan politics, in particular in the North-West Frontier Province, where served as the deputy speaker of the provincial assembly, first Chief Minister of North-West Frontier Province and served as Inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Qayyum%20Khan |
Esther Jane Hall (born 28 August 1970) is an English actress who has appeared in a number of television dramas.
Early life
Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College, where she ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Hall |
Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system (2003) treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did assign it also to the monocots.
Taxonomy
The family is usually... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsiaceae |
The Fremont-Winema National Forest of south central Oregon is a mountainous region with a rich geological, ecological, archaeological, and historical history. Founded in 1908, the Fremont National Forest was originally protected as the Goose Lake Forest Reserve in 1906. The name was soon changed to Fremont National For... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont%20National%20Forest |
Arinbjarnarkviða is a skaldic poem by Egill Skalla-Grímsson in praise of his friend Arinbjörn. The poem is preserved in Möðruvallabók but not in other manuscripts of Egils saga. Some lines are lost while others may be corrupted. The metre is kviðuháttr.
References
Arinbjarnarkviða Old Norse text from heimskringla.no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arinbjarnarkvi%C3%B0a |
Crossing the Line is a 2004 science fiction novel by British writer Karen Traviss. It is the second book of the Wess'Har Series. Its predecessor was called City of Pearl, published in February of the same year. Some of the main characters include Shan Frankland, hardened copper now infected with c'naatat; Aras, the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing%20the%20Line%20%28novel%29 |
Bradley is a neighborhood two miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States, and immediately east of the University of Louisville. The housing stock is mostly brick exterior craftsman style homes. Its boundaries are Eastern Parkway, Preston Highway, the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks, and I-65.
Demo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley%2C%20Louisville |
The 2006 Islamist demonstration outside the Embassy of Denmark in London took place on 3 February 2006, in response to controversy surrounding the publication of editorial cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper on 30 September 2005. The extremist UK-based Islamist groups al Ghurabaa an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Islamist%20demonstration%20outside%20the%20Embassy%20of%20Denmark%20in%20London |
Conquian, Coon Can or Colonel (the two-handed version) is a rummy-style card game. David Parlett describes it as an ancestor to all modern rummy games, and a kind of proto-gin rummy. Before the appearance of gin rummy, it was described as "an excellent game for two players, quite different from any other in its princip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquian |
Brussels-Central railway station (, ), officially Brussels-Central (, ), is a railway and metro station in central Brussels, Belgium. It is the second busiest railway station in Belgium and one of three principal railway stations in Brussels, together with Brussels-South and Brussels-North. First completed in 1952 afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels-Central%20railway%20station |
Desmond "Des" McNulty (born 28 July 1952), is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated at the 2011 e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des%20McNulty |
The Phæno Science Center is an interactive science center in Wolfsburg, Germany, completed in 2005.
The Phæno Science Center
Phæno arose from urban planning by the City of Wolfsburg. In 1998 City officials were developing a plot of vacant, public land immediately adjacent to Wolfsburg's railway station and just south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeno%20Science%20Center |
Marl () is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the Wesel-Datteln Canal, approx. 10 km north-west of Recklinghausen. It has about 90,000 people.
Geography
Location
The town adjoins in the north to the woodlands of the Haard and the natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marl%2C%20North%20Rhine-Westphalia |
The World Before is a science fiction novel by British writer Karen Traviss, published in October 2005. It is the third book in the Wess'Har Series.
Plot summary
The Bezeri are no more. The effects of the cobalt-salted nuclear weapons have had devastating effects on their population and has wiped them out completel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Before%20%28novel%29 |
Warner Canyon is a small ski area in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located in the Warner Mountains of south-central Oregon. Operating since 1938, the ski area was once within the Fremont National Forest, but the land is now owned by Lake County; a land swap was completed between the USFS and Lake County in 1998.
It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner%20Canyon |
Sapang, Sabah, is 4° 37' 58" north of the equator and 118° 19' 58" east of the prime meridian.
Populated places in Sabah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapang |
Mariamma Chedathy, also known as Mariamma John, was a folklorist from the state of Kerala in India. Mariamma Chedathy died on 31 August 2008.
Sources
B. C. Folklore, Bulletin of the British Columbia Folklore Society, has published three articles based on the book Manikkam Pennu
The Death and Resurrection of Kamachave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariamma%20Chedathy |
New York State Route 376 (NY 376) is a state highway located entirely within Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley region of New York in the United States. The route begins at an intersection with NY 52 in East Fishkill and passes north through Hopewell Junction and Red Oaks Mill on its way to the city of Poughkeepsie. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Route%20376 |
The following is a partial list of First Nations peoples of Canada, organized by linguistic-cultural area. It only includes First Nations people, which by definition excludes Metis and Canadian Inuit groups. The areas used here are in accordance to those developed by the ethnologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20First%20Nations%20peoples |
Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu JP, DL (5 November 1832 – 4 November 1905), styled Lord Henry Scott until 1885, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Background and education
Montagu was the second son of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Charlotte Anne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Douglas-Scott-Montagu%2C%201st%20Baron%20Montagu%20of%20Beaulieu |
James Douglas Ignatius Macdonald (born 1954) is an American author and critic who lives in New Hampshire. He frequently collaborated with his late wife Dr. Debra Doyle. He works in several genres, concentrating on fantasy, but also writing science fiction, and mystery and media tie-ins.
Biography
Macdonald was born in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20D.%20Macdonald |
Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022.
Retornaz gained sudden renown in Italy during the 2006 Winter Olympics. Although Italy has little curling tradition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%ABl%20Retornaz |
Charles Henry Bennett (26 July 1828 – 2 April 1867) was a British Victorian illustrator who pioneered techniques in comic illustration.
Beginnings
Charles Henry Bennett was born at 3 Tavistock Row in Covent Garden on 26 July 1828 and was baptised a month later in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden. He was the eldest o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Bennett%20%28illustrator%29 |
"Rabbit in Your Headlights" is a song by British electronic duo Unkle. It was released as the lead single from their debut album Psyence Fiction (1998). The song features vocals from Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.
The song was written by Yorke and Unkle member Josh Davis and produced by Unkle, the track heavily uses sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%20in%20Your%20Headlights |
Oer-Erkenschwick is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km north-east of Recklinghausen, on the northern periphery of the Ruhrgebiet. When pronouncing the name, “Oer” should be pronounced like the German Ohr, not Ör.
Geography
Oer-Erkenschwick is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oer-Erkenschwick |
Papas arrugadas ( ) is a traditional boiled potato dish eaten in the Canary Islands. It is usually served with a chili pepper garlic sauce, called mojo rojo, or as an accompaniment to meat dishes.
The dish is made from small new potatoes which are cleaned (but not peeled), then boiled in salt water. Originally, seawat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papas%20arrugadas |
Tabawan Island or Tabauawan () is the highest and largest of a group of heavily wooded islands lying in the southwest quadrant of Darvel Bay (Teluk Lahad Datu), Sabah. It has dual volcanic peaks, and is 275 metres at its highest point. On the south side of the island there is a small bay, or inlet, quite deep, at 25 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabawan%20Island |
Masurian or Mazurian may refer to:
someone or something from Masuria
the Masurians, a sub-ethnic group
the Masurian dialects of Polish
the Masurians, historical name for Masovians
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, an administrative division in northern Poland
Masurian Landscape Park, a protected area in Masuria
Masurian La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masurian |
The Humber Scout Car was a British light scout car used in the Second World War. It entered service in 1942 and continued in production until 1945. Designed for reconnaissance, and liaison between armoured units, it provided protection only against light arms fire, so was not a front line vehicle. More importantly it w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber%20Scout%20Car |
The Pleistocene bush dog (Speothos pacivorus) is an extinct canid species in the genus Speothos from the Late Pleistocene. It was a relative of the extant bush dog. When compared to the bush dog, S. pacivorus had an overall larger body size, a straighter radial shaft and a double-rooted second lower molar.
References ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speothos%20pacivorus |
No. 2, released as Naming Number Two in North America, is a 2006 New Zealand film written and directed by Toa Fraser in his feature film debut. It was released 16 February 2006 in New Zealand and 3 August 2007 in the U.S. It was adapted from New Zealand-Fijian playwright Fraser's 2000 play.
Plot
Nanna Maria, the matri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%202%20%28film%29 |
The San Rafael Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Santa Anita Park, located in Arcadia, California. The race was a Grade III event with a purse of $150,000 and was open to three-year-olds willing to race one mile (8 furlongs) on the facility's dirt race track.
Prior to 2005, the race was held in ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Rafael%20Stakes |
That Petrol Emotion were a London-based Northern Ireland-originating band with an American vocalist, Steve Mack. It featured the O'Neill brothers from celebrated Derry pop-punk band The Undertones plus ex-members of fellow Derry bands Bam Bam and The Calling and The Corner Boys. They recorded five albums between 1986 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%20Petrol%20Emotion |
Isla Ángel de la Guarda, (Guardian Angel Island) also called Archangel Island, is a large island in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) east of Bahía de los Ángeles in northwestern Mexico, separated from the Baja California Peninsula by the Canal de Ballenas (Whales Channel). It is the second largest of the eleven
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla%20%C3%81ngel%20de%20la%20Guarda |
Xanterra Travel Collection® (formerly Xanterra Parks & Resorts, Amfac Resorts and Amfac Parks & Resorts) is a privately owned American park and resort management company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, controlled by entertainment magnate Philip Anschutz. Denver-based billionaire Anschutz, who has an extensive his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanterra%20Travel%20Collection |
No. 310 Squadron RAF was a Czechoslovak-manned fighter squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War.
History
The squadron was formed on 10 July 1940 at RAF Duxford. It was the first RAF squadron to be raised crewed by foreign nationals, in this case escaped Czechoslovak pilots. Initially it had two Squadron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20310%20Squadron%20RAF |
Baron Carteret is a title that has been created twice in British history, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Great Britain. The first creation came into the Peerage of England in 1681 when the fourteen-year-old Sir George Carteret, 2nd Baronet, was made Baron Carteret, of Hawnes in the County of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron%20Carteret |
"Bop Gun (One Nation)" is the third single from American rapper, actor and filmmaker Ice Cube's fourth album, Lethal Injection (1993). The song samples the Funkadelic song "One Nation Under a Groove". It reached number six on the US Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart and number 23 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bop%20Gun%20%28One%20Nation%29 |
Amri is an ancient settlement in modern-day Sindh, Pakistan, that goes back to 3600 BCE. The site is located south of Mohenjo Daro on Hyderabad-Dadu Road more than 100 kilometres north of Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Cultural context
The earliest site of this culture is Kunal (4000 BCE) in Haryana which is older than Rehman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amri%2C%20Sindh |
The Wess'har Wars series is a six-book science fiction novel series written by author Karen Traviss and is set several hundred years in the future. It involves humanity's contact with a number of alien species with conflicting interests and beliefs, while her central character, Shan Frankland, is caught in the middle o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wess%27Har |
Sutkagan Dor (or Sutkagen Dor) is the westernmost known archaeological site of the Indus Valley civilization. It is located about 480 km west of Karachi on the Makran coast near Gwadar, close to the Iranian border, in Pakistan's Baluchistan Province. The site is near the western bank of the Dasht River and its confluen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutkagan%20Dor |
Chowka Bara or Ashta Chamma is a two- or four-player board game from India. This game is an example of a “fully observable” system that has an element of chance introduced by the roll of special dice and an element of strategy (the strategy being the pawn the player decides to move after the roll of the dice). While tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chowka%20bhara |
Handsworth Park (originally Victoria Park) is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 15 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres (25 hectares) of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the Farcroft and Grove Brooks, flower beds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handsworth%20Park |
is an 8-dan professional Go player.
Biography
Kikuyo joined the Nihon Ki-in in 1981. She is the sister of Shinichi Aoki, who is a 9 dan professional at the Nihon Ki-in. Kikuyo has won 10 major titles.
Promotion Record
Titles
See also
International Go Federation
List of Go organizations
List of professional Go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikuyo%20Aoki |
No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF was a Czechoslovak-manned bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. It was the RAF's only Czechoslovak-manned medium and heavy bomber squadron. It suffered the heaviest losses of any Czechoslovak formation in the RAF. In the Second World War 511 Czechoslovaks se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20311%20Squadron%20RAF |
, a contraction of , is the name of the vehicle inspection program in Japan for motor vehicles over 250 cc in engine displacement.
Reason for existence
Officially, the inspection system is in place to ensure that vehicles on Japanese roads are properly maintained and are safe to be on the road. Another reason is to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-vehicle%20inspection%20%28Japan%29 |
Derek Brownlee (born 10 August 1974) is a Scottish accountant and politician. A member of the Scottish Conservative Party, he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South of Scotland region from 2005 to 2011.
Background
Brownlee grew up in Selkirk, Scottish Borders and went to Selkirk High School. He gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Brownlee |
Liliidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass. Circumscription of the subclass will vary with the taxonomic system being used (there are many such systems); the only requirement being that it includes the family Liliaceae.
Liliidae in Takhtajan system
The Takhtajan system treats this as one of six subclasses wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliidae |
The Meghalaya subtropical forests is an ecoregion of Northeast India. The ecoregion covers an area of , and despite its name, comprise not only the state of Meghalaya, but also parts of southern Assam, and a tiny bit of Nagaland around Dimapur and adjacent Bangladesh. It also contains many other habitats than subtropic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghalaya%20subtropical%20forests |
No. 312 Squadron RAF was a Czechoslovak-manned fighter squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War.
History
The squadron was formed at Duxford on 29 August 1940. It was crewed mostly by escaped Czechoslovak pilots, but its first commander was the British Squadron Leader Frank Tyson. On 12 September a Slova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20312%20%28Czechoslovak%29%20Squadron%20RAF |
Burlington Resources Inc. was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. In 2006, the company was acquired by ConocoPhillips.
History
In 1988, the company was formed to own the resource assets of Burlington Northern Railroad. The company became a public company.
In 1989, the company spun off Plum Creek Timber.
In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington%20Resources |
Peerage of England
|Duke of Cornwall (1337)||Edward, the Black Prince||1337||1376||
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|Duke of Clarence (1362)||Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence||1362||1368||New creation; died, title became extin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20peers%201360%E2%80%931369 |
Rundfunk der DDR (, 'GDR Broadcasting'; from about 1948 to 1972 Deutscher Demokratischer Rundfunk, 'German Democratic Broadcasting') was the collective designation for radio broadcasting organized by the State Broadcasting Committee in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) until German reunification in 1990.
History
P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundfunk%20der%20DDR |
Wuxue (), formerly Guangji County (; Postal Romanization: Kwangtsi), is a county-level city on the north shore of the Yangtze River in eastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Wuxue falls under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huanggang.
Geography
Wuxue's total population is about 580,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxue |
The Key Largo woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli), a subspecies of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana), is a medium-sized rat found on less than 2,000 acres (~8.09 square kilometers) of the northern area of Key Largo, Florida, in the United States. It is currently on the United States Fish and Wildlife Service list ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20Largo%20woodrat |
The Georgia Woodlands Railroad operates of track between Washington, Georgia, and Barnett, Georgia. Originally a subsidiary of the Chicago West Pullman Transportation Corporation, it was acquired by OmniTRAX in 1992.
Primary commodities include woodchips, lumber products, butane, and plastics, generating 570 annual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Woodlands%20Railroad |
Alchester is the site of an ancient Roman town. The site is not included in any ancient references; hence, the Roman name is not known. However, Eilert Ekwall contended that it appears as Alavna in the Ravenna Cosmography, with the addition of the Old English ceaster to signify a Roman fort. It lies about south of Bic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchester%20%28Roman%20town%29 |
"You Know How We Do It" is a song by American rapper, actor and filmmaker Ice Cube, released as the second single from his fourth studio album, Lethal Injection (1993). The song was released on February 2, 1994 by Lench Mob and Priority, and was a No. 30 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. Musically, it is in the G-funk g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Know%20How%20We%20Do%20It |
Apremont-sur-Allier (, literally Apremont on Allier) is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Geography
An area of forestry and farming comprising a small village and two hamlets situated by the west bank of the river Allier, some southeast of Bourges at the junction of the D10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apremont-sur-Allier |
No. 313 Squadron RAF was a Czechoslovak-manned fighter squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War.
History
The squadron was formed at RAF Catterick on 10 May 1941. It was the last RAF squadron to be formed mostly of escaped Czechoslovak pilots. Its first commander was the British Squadron Leader Gordon Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20313%20Squadron%20RAF |
Kürten is a village and a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Kürten is situated approximately 25 km east of Cologne.
Neighbouring places
Nearby cities include Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Wermelskirchen, and Wipperfürth. Neighboring municipalities are Lindlar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCrten |
Soon Over Babaluma is the fifth studio album by the rock music group Can. This is the band's first album following the departure of Damo Suzuki in 1973. The vocals are provided by guitarist Michael Karoli and keyboardist Irmin Schmidt. It is also their last album that was created using a two-track tape recorder.
It ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soon%20Over%20Babaluma |
Ioannis "Giannis" Okkas (Greek: Ιωάννης «Γιάννης» Οκκάς; born 11 February 1977) is a retired Cypriot striker and a football manager who serves as assistant manager of Anorthosis Famagusta. He was also the captain of the National Team of Cyprus for many years and he is the 2nd leading scorer of all time just behind Mich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis%20Okkas |
Wilhelm Adam (28 March 1893 – 24 November 1978) was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Following the German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad, he became a member of the National Committee for a Free Germany. Adam later served in the National People's Army of East Germany.
World War... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Adam |
60 Minutes is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show of the same title, airing on the Nine Network since 1979 on Sunday nights. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show. The program is one of five inducted into Australia's television Logie Hall of Fame.
History
The program was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60%20Minutes%20%28Australian%20TV%20program%29 |
The Clumsy Lovers are a folk rock/bluegrass/Celtic jam band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia with more than 2500 performances in the United States and Canada. The 2015 line-up consists of Jason Homey on banjo and mandolin, Jeff Leonard on bass guitar and vocals, Chandra Johnson on fiddle and vocals, Devin Rice on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clumsy%20Lovers |
Viðareiði (, literally: Wood-Isthmus, ) is the northernmost settlement in the Faroe Islands and lies on the Island of Viðoy, which belongs to the Norðoyar Region.
Geography
It lies on an isthmus with high mountains to both the north and south.
The community is linked overland by a causeway and tunnel system to the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%B0arei%C3%B0i |
Odenthal is a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Odenthal is situated approximately 5 km north of Bergisch Gladbach and 15 km north-east of Cologne.
Neighbouring places
Nearby cities are Leverkusen, Burscheid, Wermelskirchen, and Bergisch Gladbach. Neighborin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odenthal |
Oswald Sigg (born 1944 in Zürich) is a Swiss journalist. In August 2005, he was elected Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland and Spokesman of the government of Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Council. He served as Spokesman until his retirement on 31 March 2009.
Sigg studied sociology and economics in St. Gallen, Paris and B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald%20Sigg |
Madhapar is a village located in Kachchh district in the state of Gujarat, India. It is one of the richest villages in India in terms of bank deposits. The village has around 7600 households and 2000 crore Indian rupee worth bank deposits.
History
Madhapar is one of the 18 villages established by the Mistris of Kutch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhapar |
Virago is a British publisher of women's writing and books on feminist topics. Started and run by women in the 1970s and bolstered by the success of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM), Virago has been credited as one of several British feminist presses that helped address inequitable gender dynamics in publishing. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virago%20Press |
Joseph (Joe) F. Berardino (born 1950) is an American businessman, Certified Public Accountant, and managing director at Alvarez and Marsal. Beradino was formerly managing partner and CEO of Arthur Andersen and chairman and CEO of Profectus Bioscience.
Career
Arthur Andersen
Berardino joined Arthur Andersen in 1972, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Berardino |
The Great Walton Railroad is a class III railroad that operates of track in Georgia, United States. In addition to its own line between Monroe and Social Circle, Georgia, the railroad operates the Athens Line, LLC and the Hartwell Railroad.
Clay, feldspar, grain, machinery, fertilizer, woodchips, plastics, pulpwood,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Walton%20Railroad |
Auto-wah (also known as a "Q-wah", "T-wah", "envelope following filter", "envelope follower" or "envelope filter") is a type of wah-wah effects pedal typically used with electric guitar, bass guitar, clavinet, and electric piano etc. The distinctive choppy rhythm guitar sound on many funk and disco recordings from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-wah |
Play-through or play through may refer to:
Sports
Play through, a verb which in golfing describes the act of a faster group of golfers passing a slower group on a golf course
Videos and video games
Replay value or play-through, a video game's attribute of being playable repeatedly while still being enjoyable
Video g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-through |
WBOB may refer to:
WBOB (AM), a radio station (600 AM) licensed to serve Jacksonville, Florida, United States
WVRA, a radio station (107.3 FM) licensed to serve Enfield, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WBOB-FM from 2006 to 2012
WCVX, a radio station (1160 AM) licensed to serve Florence, Kent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBOB |
Lake Varna (, ) is the largest by volume and deepest liman or lake along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, divided from the sea by a 2 km-wide strip of sand and having an area of 19 km², maximal depth 19 m, and a volume of 166 million m³.
The lake has an elongated shape, its south shores are high, steep and wooded, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Varna |
SURS may refer to:
Singapore Underground Road System, an underground road proposal in Singapore since scrapped.
State Universities Retirement System, a government agency of the U.S. state of Illinois
Statistični urad Republike Slovenije (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia), an independent institution in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURS |
Barry Live in Britain is the eleventh album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London in January 1982 with Victor Vanacore as the musical director. It was a huge success in Britain, soaring to number one on the charts, reaching platinum status.
The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Live%20in%20Britain |
is the second in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series of turn-based strategy games produced by Koei and based on the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Gameplay
Upon starting the game, players choose from one of six scenarios that determine the initial layout of power in ancient China. The scenarios l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance%20of%20the%20Three%20Kingdoms%20II |
The Île-de-France tramways () is a network of modern tram lines in the Île-de-France region of France. Thirteen lines are currently operational (counting Lines T3a and T3b as separate lines), with extensions and additional lines in both construction and planning stages. Although the system mainly runs in the suburban r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramways%20in%20%C3%8Ele-de-France |
is a 1983 Japanese drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura. Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the severe weather conditions on the return journey, the relationship between the scientists and their loyal and hard-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica%20%281983%20film%29 |
Ernst Vettori (born 25 June 1964) is an Austrian former ski jumper.
Career
He won the Four Hills Tournament twice (1985/1986 and 1986/1987). At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he won gold from the normal hill, and silver in the team competition.
Vettori won five medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with gold in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Vettori |
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