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The Heart of Georgia Railroad is a shortline railroad created in 1999 to lease and operate of track owned by the Georgia Department of Transportation between Mahrt, Alabama and Vidalia, Georgia, in the United States. The railroad has since expanded to include more than of track, reaching as far as Midville, Georgia.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20of%20Georgia%20Railroad |
Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and treated for about eleven weeks in 1900. Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of voice. The patient's real name was Ida Bauer (1882–1945); her brother Otto Bauer was a leading member of the Austro-Marxist ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora%20%28case%20study%29 |
Bernard Derriman is an Australian animator, director, and producer. He is known for working on the animated sitcom Bob's Burgers and co-directing its animated feature film. He began his career in animation at Walt Disney Studios in Sydney. He was an animator there until 2006, working on both television series and films... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Derriman |
Craig Llysfaen, also known as Lisvane Graig, is a prominent hill of 265 m above sea level, overlooking Cardiff, some 7 miles north of the city centre.
The views (on a good day) include Newport City, the two Severn bridges to the east, Pen Y Fan and the Brecon Beacons to the north and Cardiff City to the south.
Mount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Llysfaen |
Here Comes the Night is the ninth studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1982 by Arista Records. The United Kingdom release went by the title I Wanna Do It With You. It received a Gold certification from the RIAA. The album was recorded at Sound City Recording Studios in Van Nuys, California.
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20Comes%20the%20Night%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster from Glasgow in Scotland. Originally from Shettleston in the city's East End, he was educated at Eastbank Academy.
During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. Durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Hanley |
There are several historic lighthouses on Lake Superior on or near the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin. Six of these lighthouses, all in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, were listed as a group on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 under the name Apostle Islands Lighthouses.
The lighthouses are genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle%20Islands%20Lighthouses |
Salat is a village in Kulpahar subdistrict in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bundelkhand
Villages in Mahoba district | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salat%2C%20Kulpahar |
General elections were held in Chile on Sunday 13 December 2009 to elect the president, all 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 18 of the 38 members of the Senate were up for election. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held between the top two candidates—Sebastián P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20Chilean%20general%20election |
Richard Epcar is an American voice actor, voice director, and writer who has voiced over 1,200 characters in animation, video games and anime. Some of his major roles include Raiden in the Mortal Kombat franchise, The Joker in several projects (including Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Injustice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Epcar |
The Rana dynasty ( , ) were a Chhetri dynasty that imposed authoritarianism in the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making the Prime Minister and other government positions held by the Ranas hereditary. They are Kshatriya, whose ancestors were descended from the Ranas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana%20dynasty |
The Riceboro Southern Railway began operations in 2004 operating on about 33 miles of track, some of which is leased from CSX Transportation. The track on which it operates is part of the ex-Seaboard Air Line route from Savannah, Georgia to Jacksonville, Florida. It runs generally from Ogeechee, Georgia, where the li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riceboro%20Southern%20Railway |
Elsdorf is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km south-west of Bergheim and 27 km west of Cologne.
Notable people
Eugen Langen (1833–1895), entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, co-founder of the Elsdorf sugar factory Pfeifer & Langen
Werner Marx (1746–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsdorf |
In filmmaking, a guarantee, or informally a "pay-or-play" contract, is a term in a contract of an actor, director, or other participant that guarantees pay if the participant is released from the contract with various exceptions.
Studios are reluctant to agree to guarantees but accept them as part of the deal for sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarantee%20%28filmmaking%29 |
Olav Gunnar Ballo (born 22 October 1956) is a Norwegian former politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). Ballo changed party to Arbeiderpartiet in 2011. Ballo was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 1997. He studied medicine at University of Würzburg, and has worked as a medical doctor. Ballo repre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olav%20Gunnar%20Ballo |
Rusia is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Skarszewy, north-west of Starogard Gdański, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
For details of the history of the region, see ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusia%2C%20Poland |
A dasymeter was meant initially as a device to demonstrate the buoyant effect of gases like air (as shown in the adjacent pictures). A dasymeter which allows weighing acts as a densimeter used to measure the density of gases.
Principle
The Principle of Archimedes permits to derive a formula which does not rely on any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasymeter |
Turtle Mountain, or the Turtle Mountains, is an area in central North America, in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of North Dakota and southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba, approximately south of the city of Brandon on Manitoba Highway 10 / U.S. Route 281. It is a plateau 2,000 ft (600 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle%20Mountain%20%28plateau%29 |
Greatest Hits Vol. II is the thirteenth album released by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. In Britain, Manilow's first Greatest Hits album had been issued as Manilow Magic, thus this second volume was issued there as A Touch More Magic.
The album was mostly compilation, with the exception of three new tracks: "You're ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Vol.%20II%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
No. 578 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
History
578 Squadron was formed at RAF Snaith, East Riding of Yorkshire on 14 January 1944 from 'C' flight of No. 51 Squadron RAF, equipped with Halifax Mk.III bombers, as part of No. 4 Group RAF in Bomber Command. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20578%20Squadron%20RAF |
Sandy Collora (born August 8, 1968) is an American film director and design artist, best known for the independent short film Batman: Dead End.
Career
Collora was born in Brooklyn, New York. After freelance assignments in comic books and gaming magazines, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams in Hollywood at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Collora |
Pavel Rafailovich Bermondt-Avalov () or Pavel Avalishvili ( – 27 December 1973) was an Ussuri Cossack and warlord. He is best known as the commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army which was active in present-day Latvia and Lithuania in the aftermath of World War I.
Biography
Early life
Bermondt-Avalov was born in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Bermondt-Avalov |
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line "There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons". The song is als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bonnie%20Lass%20o%27%20Fyvie |
Ågot Jorunn Valle (born 26 May 1945 in Levanger) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party (SV). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1997.
She worked as a physiotherapist and a county council member in Hordaland before entering national politics. She has also been involved in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85got%20Valle |
Chemistry is a branch of physical science, and the study of the substances of which matter is composed.
Chemistry may also refer to:
Science
Chemistry (word), the history and use of the word
Chemistry: A European Journal, an academic periodical
Advanced Placement Chemistry, a course offered in the Advanced Placem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry%20%28disambiguation%29 |
No. 640 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
History
No. 640 Squadron was first formed at RAF Leconfield, East Riding of Yorkshire on 7 January 1944, from 'C' Flight of No. 158 Squadron RAF. It was equipped with Halifax Mk.III bombers, and operated as part of No.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20640%20Squadron%20RAF |
The Sandersville Railroad was originally operated from Tennille, Georgia, to Sandersville, Georgia and chartered in 1893 as a subsidiary of the Central of Georgia Railroad.
Location
It was extended north five miles from Sandersville to a kaolin mine and processing plants near Deepstep, GA. It continues to operate the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandersville%20Railroad |
Schäftlarn Abbey (Kloster Schäftlarn) is a Benedictine monastery on the Isar in Schäftlarn, south of Munich in Bavaria, Germany.
History
The monastery was founded in 762 by Waltrich, a priest of noble family, on his own land. The monastery was dedicated to Saint Dionysius of Paris. The first monks came from the cathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%A4ftlarn%20Abbey |
No. 635 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
History
635 squadron was formed at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk on 20 March 1944 from two flights drawn from No. 35 Squadron and No. 97 Squadron, equipped with Lancaster Mk.I bombers, as part of No. 8 Group RAF in Bom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20635%20Squadron%20RAF |
Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages. While the topics of his later films became less politicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Rosi |
Colchester Hunt is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Colchester Hunt is located close to the town of Clifton and the independent city of Fairfax.
History
1970s
The community was formed in the 1970s on what had been farm land, making it one of the first major communities near the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester%20Hunt%2C%20Virginia |
2:00 AM Paradise Cafe is the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow released in 1984. The album peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200 and went Gold in the United States.
Background
Johnny Mercer's widow, Ginger, entrusted Manilow with a cache of Mercer's lyrics that had never been set to music, although... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%3A00%20AM%20Paradise%20Cafe |
Feelin' Groovy is the debut album by the American sunshine pop band Harpers Bizarre, released in 1967.
Background
Two Ted Templeman/Dick Scoppettone originals from 1966 were added as bonus cuts to the 2001 Sundazed CD reissue of this title: "Bye, Bye, Bye" and "Lost My Love Today." The latter tune was the "B" side t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelin%27%20Groovy |
Rhoda Grant (born 26 June 1963) is a Scottish politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region since 2007, having previously represented the same region from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Scottish Labour and Co-operative Party, She is currently the Shadow Cabin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda%20Grant |
No. 630 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
History
The squadron was formed at RAF East Kirkby, near Spilsby in Lincolnshire on 15 November 1943 from 'B' Flight of No. 57 Squadron RAF, equipped with Lancaster Mk.I bombers as part of No. 5 Group RAF in Bomber Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20630%20Squadron%20RAF |
Signe Øye (born 2 June 1945 in Nord-Aukra) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1993, and was re-elected on three occasions.
On the local level she was a member of Hobøl municipal council from 1983 to 1990. She chaired the local party chapter from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe%20%C3%98ye |
"You Can Do It" is a hip-hop song by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released as the second single from the Next Friday soundtrack. The song features Ice Cube's Westside Connection bandmate Mack 10, as well as rapper Ms. Toi. "You Can Do It" later used as the lead single on Cube's sixth studio album, War & Peace Vol. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Can%20Do%20It |
This is a list of ethnic groups in Chad.
Ethnic groups
Arabs
Baggara
Fula
Buduma
Maba
Hausa
Fur
Haddad
Kanembu
Kanuri
Borno
Kim
Lisi
Bilala
Kuka
Medogo
Masalit
Sara
Toubou
Tupuri
Moussei
Masa
Hadjerai.
Kotoko.
Peuvu
(Indented entries in the list are subdivisions of the main entry above them.)
See also
Ethnic gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ethnic%20groups%20in%20Chad |
CKWX (1130 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Rogers Radio, a division of Rogers Sports & Media, it broadcasts an news/talk radio format branded as CityNews 1130. CKWX's studios and offices are located at 2440 Ash Street in the Fairview neighbourhood of Vancouver.
CK... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKWX |
Landed is the sixth studio album by the German krautrock band Can.
Recording and production
Landed was recorded in 1975 at Inner Space Studios in Weilerswist, near Cologne. Holger Czukay engineered the recording and mixed side B at Inner Space. He teamed with Toby Robinson to mix side A at Studio Dierks in Stommeln. R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed%20%28album%29 |
Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud ( Khalid bin ʿAbdullāh Āl Suʿūd; 1937 – 12 January 2021) was a member of the House of Saud. He had extensive business interests, run through Mawarid Holding, but is probably best known as the owner of Juddmonte Farms. As such, he was one of the leading figures in the world of thoroughbred ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid%20bin%20Abdullah%20Al%20Saud%20%281937%E2%80%932021%29 |
No. 623 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force for several months in 1943 during the Second World War.
History
The squadron was formed on 10 August 1943 at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk from 'C' Flight of 218 Squadron, as well as receiving crews from No.3 L.F.S. and No.1653 Conversion Unit. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20623%20Squadron%20RAF |
The Chowan River (cho-WAHHN) is a blackwater river formed with the merging of Virginia's Blackwater and Nottoway rivers near the stateline between Virginia and North Carolina. According to the USGS a variant name is Choan River.
Flowing for approximately 50 miles (80 km) before ending in the Albemarle Sound on North C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chowan%20River |
1st and 10 was a sports talk and debate television program spun off from ESPN2's Cold Pizza morning show.
It began as a segment which ran every in 20 minute intervals during Cold Pizza, a two-hour program broadcast on the American cable television network ESPN2, each weekday morning. It first aired at 7 AM, then moved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20and%2010%20%282003%20TV%20series%29 |
Sanare is a major city and the seat of government in the municipality of Andrés Eloy Blanco in Lara State, Venezuela. Andrés Eloy Blanco is further subdivided into three parishes: Pio Tamayo (in which Sanare is the main city), Yacambú, and La Quebrada Honda del Guache. Sanare was founded in 1620 by the friar Dominico M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanare%2C%20Venezuela |
No. 622 Squadron RAF is a reserve aircrew squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. During World War II, it operated as a bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force. Post-war it served shortly as a transport squadron in the RAuxAF.
History
World War II
No. 622 Squadron was first formed at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk on 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20622%20Squadron%20RAF |
Daniel Robert Clapton (22 July 1934 – 16 June 1986) was an English footballer.
Born in Stepney, London, Clapton first started out as an amateur with Leytonstone before joining Arsenal in August 1953. He made his debut in a 1–0 win over Chelsea on 25 December 1954, and by the end of the 1954-55 he was Arsenal's first c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Clapton |
Lionel Sebastián Scaloni (, Rioplatense: ; born 16 May 1978) is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who currently coaches the Argentina national team. A versatile player, he operated as a right-back or right midfielder.
Born in Pujato, Santa Fe, Scaloni debuted as a player for Newell's Old Boy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%20Scaloni |
Malabar rites is a conventional term for certain customs or practices of the natives of South India, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their Indian neophytes to retain after conversion but which were afterwards prohibited by Rome.
The missions concerned are not those of the coast of southwestern India, to which th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar%20rites |
Legislative Council elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 17 April 1899. They were the first elections to take place in the colony and followed the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council of 1898 which granted the colony a Legislative Council consisting of at least ten voting members: the Administrator of Southern Rho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899%20Southern%20Rhodesian%20Legislative%20Council%20election |
Greenbrae is a small unincorporated community in Marin County, California. It is located south-southeast of downtown San Rafael, at an elevation of 33 feet (10 m), located adjacent to U.S. Route 101 at the opening of the Ross Valley. Part of Greenbrae is an unincorporated community of the county while the remaining a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrae%2C%20California |
No. 619 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, flying Lancaster bombers from bases in Lincolnshire.
History
The squadron was formed out of elements of 97 Squadron at RAF Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire on 18 April 1943, equipped with Lancaster Mk.III bombers, as part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20619%20Squadron%20RAF |
Flow Motion is the seventh studio album by German rock band Can. It was released in October 1976 and features the UK hit single "I Want More".
Recording and production
Recording sessions for what would become Flow Motion began at Can's Inner Space Studio in Cologne in the spring of 1976. Since their previous album Lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20Motion |
Eirin Faldet (born 5 January 1944 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 1985, and has been re-elected on five occasions. She has served as Deputy President of the Storting since 2001. On the local level she was a member of Trysil municipal c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirin%20Faldet |
Anything Goes is an album by Harpers Bizarre, released in 1967.
Two bonus tracks were added to the 2001 CD issue of this title: the 45 version of "Cotton Candy Sandman" by Kenny Rankin, and the theme to the TV series Malibu U by Don and Dick Addrisi.
The title track was used in the opening montage of the 1970 film T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything%20Goes%20%28Harpers%20Bizarre%20album%29 |
No. 514 Squadron RAF (514 Sqn) was a bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
History
Members of 514 Sqn were awarded 1 DSO, 84 DFCs, one Bar to the DFC and 26 DFMs.
514 Squadron was part of 3 Group, RAF Bomber Command. It operated between September 1943 and August 1945, initially from RA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%20514%20Squadron%20RAF |
Olema (Miwok: Olemaloke) is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California. It is located on Olema Creek south-southeast of Point Reyes Station, at an elevation of 69 feet (21 m).
Olema is along State Route 1 at its intersection with Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, on the eastern edge of the Point Reyes Peninsu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olema%2C%20California |
Corgan may refer to:
People with the surname
Billy Corgan (born 1967), American musician, singer-songwriter, and wrestling promoter
Jack Corgan (died 2000), American architect
Mike Corgan (1918–1989), American football player
Richard Corgan (born 1978), Welsh actor
Other uses
Corgan (company), an American architect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corgan |
NGC 4027 (also known as Arp 22) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 83 million light-years away in the constellation Corvus. It is also a peculiar galaxy because one of its spiral arms goes out more than the other. This is probably due to a galactic collision in NGC 4027's past.
One supernova has been observed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204027 |
Skotterud is the administrative centre of Eidskog Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the Norwegian National Road 2 and the Kongsvingerbanen railway line. Skotterud sits about south of the town of Kongsvinger and about northwest of the village of Magnor which sits just inside the bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skotterud |
Iain Cumming Gray (born 7 June 1957) is a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 to 2011. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the East Lothian constituency from 2007 to 2021, having previously represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2003.
A former aid wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Gray |
The Woodstock Theological Center (1973-2013) was an independent, nonprofit Catholic theological research institute in Washington, D.C.
History
Founded in 1973, the center took its name from Woodstock College, a former Jesuit seminary located in Maryland. The center was an associate member of the Washington Theologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock%20Theological%20Center |
Thomas de la Rue (24 March 1793 – 7 June 1866) was a printer from Guernsey who founded De La Rue plc, a printing company which is now the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker.
Biography
Born on Le Bourg, Forest, Guernsey to Rachel Allez and Eleazar de la Rue. Thomas was the seventh of their nine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20de%20la%20Rue |
Presidential elections were held in Chile in 1846. General Manuel Bulnes was the only candidate and elected unopposed.
Results
References
Presidential elections in Chile
Chile
1846 in Chile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1846%20Chilean%20presidential%20election |
Edward Silas Tobey (1813 – March 29, 1891, in Brookline, MA) served as the postmaster at the Boston Office, president of American Missionary Association and president of Boston Board of Trade. He was the Republican Party nominee in the 1861 Boston mayoral election.
References
External links
Obituary online
1813 bir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Silas%20Tobey |
Magnor is a village in Eidskog Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located from the border with Sweden. The village lies along the Norwegian National Road 2 and the Kongsvingerbanen railway line. The municipal centre, Skotterud lies about to the northwest of Magnor and the Swedish village of Char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnor |
The St. Marys Railroad is a class III railroad operating in Georgia United States.
History
The St. Mary's and Kingsland Railroad, incorporated on October 24, 1906, was founded in 1865 by Captain Lemuel Johnson. It received its charter from the state of Georgia, and its first two locomotives purchased were #207 and #... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Mary%27s%20Railroad |
Challenge may refer to:
Voter challenging or caging, a method of challenging the registration status of voters
Euphemism for disability
Peremptory challenge, a dismissal of potential jurors from jury duty
Law
A procedure or action
The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court or administrative agency
Place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge |
Eucalyptus gunnii, commonly known as cider gum, is a species of large tree in the flowering plant family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to the island of Tasmania, Australia. It has mostly smooth bark, lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus%20gunnii |
Ørje is the administrative centre of Marker municipality, Norway, not far from the Swedish border. Its population (2013) is 3872
Ørje was founded in the 1880s around a timber-processing mill. Engebret Soot had built the first Norwegian canal locks at Ørje in the years 1857-1860 (:no:Ørje sluser). The total lift of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98rje |
Skjønhaug is a village in the municipality of Trøgstad, Norway. Its official population, as of 2005, was 1,817.
Villages in Østfold
Trøgstad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skj%C3%B8nhaug |
Al-Shaykh Muwannis (), also Sheikh Munis, was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of Jaffa city in territory earmarked for Jewish statehood under the UN Partition Plan. The village was abandoned in March 1948 due to the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shaykh%20Muwannis |
Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1556–1632) (née Cavendish) was the wife of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Life
Family
Born Mary Cavendish, she was the daughter of Sir William Cavendish, who died when she was about a year old, and his wife Bess of Hardwick. By all accounts, Mary inherited her mother's st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Talbot%2C%20Countess%20of%20Shrewsbury |
Havnås is a village in the municipality of Trøgstad, Norway. Its population (2005) is 213.
Villages in Østfold | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamn%C3%A5s |
Xishui County () is a county of eastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. The county extends over an area of and is under the administration of Huanggang City.
History
Xishui was a center of revolutionary activity during the Chinese Civil War. In 1922, an underground group was formed to try to undermine the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xishui%20County%2C%20Hubei |
Party institutionalism is an approach that sees political parties as having some capacities for adaptation, but also sees them as being "prisoners of their own history as an institution". Aspects of the ideology that a party had when it was founded, persists even though the conditions and the party-base in society have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutionalism%20in%20political%20parties |
Trømborg is a small village in the municipality of Eidsberg, Norway. Its population (2019) is 263. Footballer Rune Buer Johansen began his career here.
References
Villages in Østfold | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%B8mborg |
"The Loss" is the 84th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the tenth episode of the fourth season. It originally aired on December 31, 1990.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Loss |
The Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre is an album by Harpers Bizarre, released in September 1968.
Two bonus tracks were added to the 2001 Sundazed CD reissue of this title. They had previously been the two sides of a single: "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell and "Small Talk" by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon.
Track list... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Harpers%20Bizarre |
Eco-Schools is an international programme of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) that aims to “empower students to be the change our sustainable world needs by engaging them in fun, action-orientated, and socially responsible learning.”
Each school follows a seven step change process and aims to “empower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-Schools |
Pascal Michel Obispo (; born 8 January 1965) is a French singer-songwriter.
Biography
Pascal Obispo, son of Max Obispo (a former Bordeaux Girondins football player of Basque origin) and Nicole Guérin (originally from Angers), was born on 8 January 1965 in Bergerac. After the divorce of his parents in 1978 he was rais... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20Obispo |
Karlshus village is the administrative centre of the Råde municipality, Norway. Its population is 1,952, with 1,073 residents per km2 (2008). Karlshus is located near Moss Airport, Rygge, with European route E6 passing through it, and is served by Råde Station on the Østfold Line.
References
Villages in Østfold
Råde | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlshus |
Presidential elections were held in Chile in 1906. Conducted through a system of electors, they resulted in the election of Pedro Montt as President.
Results
References
Presidential elections in Chile
1906 in Chile
Chile
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906%20Chilean%20presidential%20election |
Love at Absolute Zero is the debut album by the indie pop band My Favorite, released on Double Agent in 1999. The subject matter included the end of new wave, the new millennium, and growing up in suburban Long Island, New York.
Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that the album "translates palpable pre-millennial tensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20at%20Absolute%20Zero |
Sacred Heart Convent School is an English language Catholic education private school for girls run by Apostolic Carmelite nuns in the city of Jamshedpur, India. It is registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act of 1860 under the title 'The Apostolic Carmel Educational Society'.
The school has grades from ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Heart%20Convent%20School%20%28Jamshedpur%29 |
Friedrich Materna (21 June 1885 – 11 November 1946) was a general in the Bundesheer (Austrian Federal Army) in the 1930s and the German Wehrmacht during the World War II.
He became a general-major in the Austrian army in 1935, and he was also a part of the Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung (Federal Ministry of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Materna |
Manilow is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1985. It was his first album to miss the Top 40 and fail to earn a gold certification. Many feel it was due to the prominence of synthesizers, a departure from his renowned piano ballads. This album was one of Manilow's two albums with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manilow%20%28album%29 |
Kirkebygden is the administrative centre of Våler municipality, Østfold, Norway. Its population as of 2005 was 738.
Villages in Østfold | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkebygden |
Våk is a village in the municipality of Våler, Østfold, Norway. Its population (2005) is 1,021.
References
Villages in Østfold | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5k |
Svinndal is a village and parish in the municipality of Våler, Østfold, Norway. The population of the village (2009) is 353. Svinndal shares its coat-of-arms with Våler.
Svinndal church (Svinndal kirke) was constructed in mixed Gothic and Swiss style during 1856. The church was built of wood based upon an architectur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svinndal |
Black is a Bangladeshi Grunge and Alternative rock band formed in 1998 in Dhaka which was the first band in Bangladesh to introduce Grunge music in the country. Originally formed by Jon Kabir (lead singer, rhythm guitars), Mushfeque Jahan (lead guitars), Mahmudul Karim Miraz (bass guitars), Tony Vincent (drums) and Tah... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20%28Bangladeshi%20band%29 |
Bedford/St. Martin's is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Macmillan Publishers, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford/St.%20Martin%27s |
Harpers Bizarre 4 is an album by Harpers Bizarre, released in 1969. Ry Cooder contributes on slide guitar.
The film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas featured music from Harpers Bizarre.
Two bonus tracks were added to the 2001 Sundazed CD reissue of this title: "Poly High" by Harry Nilsson and "If We Ever Needed the Lord ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers%20Bizarre%204 |
The Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF; ) was a separatist umbrella organisation uniting a number of right-wing Afrikaner organisations in South Africa in the early 1990s.
History
The AVF was formed by General Constand Viljoen and three other generals from the South African Defence Force (SADF), and launched on 7 May 1993. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner%20Volksfront |
According to the annals of Shalmaneser I, discovered at Assur, an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria, near the modern city of Al-Shirqat in Iraq, he conquered eight countries in the northwest in his first year and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arinnu |
Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel (1585 – ), née Lady Alethea Talbot (pronounced "Al-EE-thia"), was a famous patron and art collector, and one of England's first published female scientists. She was the wife of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alethea%20Howard%2C%20Countess%20of%20Arundel |
Eugen Beyer (18 February 1882 in Pohrlitz (Moravia) – 25 July 1940 in Salzburg) was an Austrian Feldmarschalleutnant in the 1930s and Wehrmacht General of the Infantry during the early years of the Second World War.
From 1935 to 1938, Beyer was commander of the Bundesheer's 6th Division (stationed in Innsbruck). After... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen%20Beyer |
"Un Alma Sentenciada" (English: "A Sentenced Soul") is the second single from Thalía's tenth studio album El Sexto Sentido (2005). The ballad was written by Estéfano and Julio Reyes and produced by Estéfano. The remixes of the song were done by Hex Hector (as HQ2), Dennis Nieves, Jean Smith, and Javier Garza.
"Un Alm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un%20alma%20sentenciada |
Grevenbroich () is a town in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Erft, approximately 15 km southwest of Neuss and 15 km southeast of Mönchengladbach. Cologne and Düsseldorf are in a 30 km reach. It is notable for having the Frimmersdorf Power Station, which was one of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevenbroich |
Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio for piano, violin, and cello is a chamber work composed in 1914. Dedicated to Ravel's counterpoint teacher André Gedalge, the trio was first performed in Paris in January 1915, by Alfredo Casella (piano), Gabriel Willaume (violin), and Louis Feuillard (cello). A typical performance of the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20Trio%20%28Ravel%29 |
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