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Cai Chusheng (January 12, 1906 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era, and was the first Chinese director to win an international film award at the Moscow International Film Festival. Best known for his progressive output in the 1930s, Cai Chusheng was later severely persecuted and died d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai%20Chusheng |
Contact immunity is the property of some vaccines, where a vaccinated individual can confer immunity upon unimmunized individuals through contact with bodily fluids or excrement. In other words, if person “A” has been vaccinated for virus X and person “B” has not, person “B” can receive immunity to virus X just by com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20immunity |
A monocle is a corrective lens used to correct the vision in only one eye.
Monocle may also refer to:
Monocle (satirical magazine), American satirical magazine, published irregularly from the late 1950s until the mid-1960s
Monocle (brand) a news/lifestyle magazine, published since 2007, and media brand
Monocle (comi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocle%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Salo Finkelstein (born 1896 or 1897, date of death unknown) was a mental calculator. He was born in Łódź (then within the Russian Empire, now in Poland) to a Jewish family.
While at school he was above average in mathematics, and discovered his calculating abilities as well as his faculty in memorizing numbers. At the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo%20Finkelstein |
Wesley Long Hospital is a 175-bed acute-care facility located in Greensboro, North Carolina. The hospital was founded in 1917 by John Wesley Long, MD, a nationally known physician and surgeon, as a small 20-bed clinic. Today, Wesley Long is a 175-bed modern medical center and home to the Cone Health Cancer Center at W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20Long%20Hospital |
Monocle was an American satirical magazine, published irregularly from the late 1950s until the mid-1960s. Co-founder Victor Navasky served as its first editor. From 1961 to 1965, it was edited by C. D. B. Bryan. Calvin Trillin, Dan Wakefield, Neil Postman, Richard Lingeman, Dan Greenburg, and humorist Marvin Kitman a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocle%20%28satirical%20magazine%29 |
Annie Penn Hospital is located in Reidsville, North Carolina. Part of Cone Health, the hospital has 110 licensed acute-care beds and provides a number of specialties, including orthopedic surgery, gastroenterology, gynecology, urology, ophthalmology, general surgery, podiatry, nephrology, otolaryngology, and thoracic a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Penn%20Hospital |
The Great Crash, 1929 is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955. It is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The book argues that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, that the common denominator of all speculative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Crash%2C%201929 |
Maureen Murphy (née Toolan; November 14, 1952 – August 9, 2008) was an American politician in the Republican Party. She held several offices in Illinois, serving as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and the Cook County Board of Review, and chairing the Cook County Republican Party from 2002 to 2004.
Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen%20Murphy%20%28politician%29 |
The great libraries of the ancient world served as archives for empires, sanctuaries for sacred writings, and depositories of literature and chronicles.
Ancient Near East
Bogazköy Archive (1900–1190 B.C.) (Hattusa, modern Bogazkoy)
This archive constituted the largest collection of Hittite texts discovered with app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20libraries%20in%20the%20ancient%20world |
is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 114,620 and a population density of 120 persons per km2 in 45,728 households. The total area of the city is . Ōshū is famous for its Maesawa Beef, numerous festivals, historic temples and shrines and Fujiwara no Sato, a theme park a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csh%C5%AB%2C%20Iwate |
Lake Calumet is the largest body of water within the city of Chicago. Formerly a shallow, postglacial lake draining into Lake Michigan, it was transformed into an industrial harbor during the 20th century. Parts of the lake have been dredged, and other parts reshaped by landfill. Following the completion of the Cal-S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Calumet |
A laurel wreath is a round wreath made of connected branches and leaves of the bay laurel (), an aromatic broadleaf evergreen, or later from spineless butcher's broom (Ruscus hypoglossum) or cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus). It is a symbol of triumph and is worn as a chaplet around the head, or as a garland around t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel%20wreath |
All My Hits: Todos Mis Éxitos is a greatest hits album by American singer Selena. It was released posthumously on March 9, 1999, through EMI Latin to commemorate its ten-year anniversary since entering the music industry. The album coincided with the fourth anniversary of Selena's death, though then-president Jose Beha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20My%20Hits%3A%20Todos%20Mis%20%C3%89xitos |
The Chapada dos Guimarães National Park () is a national park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
It is a region of rugged terrain with dramatic cliffs and waterfalls, and contains the geographical centre of the continent.
Background
The origins of the park date to 13 September 1910 when the vice president of Mato ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapada%20dos%20Guimar%C3%A3es%20National%20Park |
BMG may refer to:
Organizations
Music publishing companies:
Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008
Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that was purchased by Sony in late 2008
Sony Music, the purchaser of Sony BMG in 2008 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG |
Thomas L. Kilbride (born August 5, 1953) is an American judge who served on the Supreme Court of Illinois from 2000 to 2020. Kilbride served as Chief Justice of the court from October 2010 through October 25, 2013. He was elected to the Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the Third District in 2000 and elected Chief Jus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20L.%20Kilbride |
Mortimer Jordan High School is a public high school located in Kimberly, Alabama. It is a part of the Jefferson County Board of Education.
The school was named after Captain Mortimer Harvie Jordan, a war hero who lost his life in World War I. He was a soldier, officer and physician. As commanding officer of Company K,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer%20Jordan%20High%20School |
Live Around the World is a live album by Meat Loaf, released in 1996 to capitalize on his two recent successes, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Welcome to the Neighbourhood. The album was recorded at various times between 1987 and 1996. The album is limited to a release of 250,000 copies worldwide.
Track listin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Around%20the%20World%20%28Meat%20Loaf%20album%29 |
Terry Michael Teagle (born April 10, 1960) is a retired American professional basketball player, whose National Basketball Association (NBA) career lasted from 1982 to 1993. During his playing career, at a height of 6'5" (1.96 m) tall, he played at the shooting guard position.
High school
Teagle attended Broaddus High... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Teagle |
Kirtland Irving Perky (February 8, 1867 – January 9, 1939) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Idaho.
Early life and education
Born in Smithville, Ohio, he attended the public schools and graduated from Ohio Northern University in Ada in 1888. He studied law at the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland%20I.%20Perky |
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra Mini Album is an EP by Penguin Cafe Orchestra consisting of six pieces, two derived from previous released recordings ("The Penguin Cafe Single" and "Air a Danser"), two that were recorded from a live performance in Tokyo ("Numbers 1-4" and "Salty Bean Fumble"), and two previously unreleased ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Penguin%20Cafe%20Orchestra%20Mini%20Album |
The Bura Gauranga River and sea channel are located in the Patuakhali district of Barisal Division in Bangladesh.
References
See also
List of rivers in Bangladesh
Rivers of Bangladesh
Rivers of Barisal Division | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bura%20Gauranga%20River |
Before the concept of plate tectonics, global cooling was a geophysical theory by James Dwight Dana, also referred to as the contracting earth theory. It suggested that the Earth had been in a molten state, and features such as mountains formed as it cooled and shrank. As the interior of the Earth cooled and shrank, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical%20global%20cooling |
Paul O'Neill (October 1928 – August 12, 2013) was a writer, historian and former CBC producer. He wrote many books on the history of Newfoundland. O'Neill was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and raised in Bay de Verde until the age of 8 when his family moved to St. John's.
Educated at St. Bonaventure's College in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20O%27Neill%20%28author%29 |
Crashworthiness is the ability of a structure to protect its occupants during an impact. This is commonly tested when investigating the safety of aircraft and vehicles. Different criteria are used to figure out how safe a structure is in a crash, depending on the type of impact and the vehicle involved. Crashworthiness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crashworthiness |
Thaddeus "Thaddi" Herrmann (born 1972) is a German electronic musician, label owner as well as music and technology journalist.
Life and career
In 1992 Herrmann, Holger Phrack and Rob Marvin founded the band Sonic Subjunkies, that released some full-length recordings on Alec Empires label Digital Hardcore Recordings ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus%20Herrmann |
Antonio Alatorre Vergara (July 25, 1922 – October 21, 2010) was a Mexican writer, philologist and translator, famous due to his influential academic essays about Spanish literature, and because of his book Los 1001 años de la lengua española (The 1001 Years of the Spanish Language).
Early years
Antonio Alatorre was bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Alatorre |
A growler is an electrical device primarily used for testing a motor for shorted coils. A growler consists of a coil of wire wrapped around an iron core and connected to a source of alternating current. When placed on the armature or stator core of a motor the growler acts as the primary of a transformer and the armatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growler%20%28electrical%20device%29 |
Karachi, Pakistan was a federation of eighteen autonomous boroughs, called "Towns," that made up the City District of Karachi from 2001 until 2011. Under this now-defunct system, Karachi had a local government system, with a mayor empowered to make decisions in regards to city-planning and administration of local servi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions%20in%20Karachi |
In mathematics, more specifically in the study of dynamical systems and differential equations, a Liénard equation is a second order differential equation, named after the French physicist Alfred-Marie Liénard.
During the development of radio and vacuum tube technology, Liénard equations were intensely studied as they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%20equation |
In software engineering, software system safety optimizes system safety in the design, development, use, and maintenance of software systems and their integration with safety-critical hardware systems in an operational environment.
Overview
Software system safety is a subset of system safety and system engineering and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20system%20safety |
John Frost Nugent (June 28, 1868September 18, 1931) was an American attorney and Democratic politician from Idaho. He served three years in the United States Senate, from 1918 to 1921.
Early life and education
Born in La Grande, Oregon while his parents were visiting, Nugent attended public schools in Silver City, Id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20F.%20Nugent |
"Little Sadie" is a 20th-century American folk ballad written in Dorian mode. It is also known variously as "Bad Lee Brown", "Cocaine Blues", "Transfusion Blues", "East St. Louis Blues", "Late One Night", "Penitentiary Blues" and other titles. It tells the story of a man who is apprehended after shooting a woman, in so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Sadie |
Alan Dargin (13 July 196724 February 2008) was an indigenous Australian musician and songwriter known for being a didgeridoo player. He grew up in Wee Waa and started learning the instrument at age five from his grandfather and other Wiradjuri elders. His signature instrument was over a hundred years old and was made f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Dargin |
Cone Health Behavioral Health Hospital (part of Cone Health), located at 700 Walter Reed Drive in Greensboro, North Carolina, is an 80-bed facility that specializes in helping children, adolescents and adults cope with mental health and/or addiction issues. Its comprehensive services focus on the total needs of the pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone%20Health%20Behavioral%20Health%20Hospital |
Dionisio Deista Alejandro (1893–1972) was the first Filipino Bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1944.
He was born 19 February 1893 in Quiapo, Manila, the Philippines. His ancestry was Filipino with slight admixture of Chinese. He was baptized in 1906 at the age of thirteen in San Isidro, Luzon by Bishop G.A.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionisio%20Deista%20Alejandro |
Frank Robert Gooding (September 16, 1859June 24, 1928) was a Republican United States Senator and the seventh governor of Idaho. The city of Gooding and Gooding County, both in southern Idaho, are named for him.
Life and career
Born in the county of Devon, England, Gooding emigrated to the United States as a child wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20R.%20Gooding |
Supercarrier is an American military drama television series that aired on ABC from March 6 until May 14, 1988. It features US Navy Pilots aboard the fictional aircraft carrier USS Georgetown. It suffered from low ratings against CBS's Murder, She Wrote and NBC's Family Ties, and only lasted eight episodes before being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier%20%28TV%20series%29 |
WWYC (1560 AM) is a radio station in Toledo, Ohio. It is now a repeater of KAWZ in Twin Falls, Idaho, the originator of a network of repeaters and mostly translators owned by CSN International.
History
WWYC signed on in 1946 as WTOD under the ownership of local labor rights attorney Edward Lamb. The station was notab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWYC |
Roshni-chu (; , Röşni-Çu) is a rural locality (a selo) in Urus-Martanovsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia, located about southwest of Grozny. Population:
On August 14, 2005, a militant group attacked the village and five officials from the regional military head of Urus-Martanovsky District and Colonel A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roshni-Chu |
The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Vertikaľno-Vzletayushchaya Amfibiya (vertical take-off amphibious aircraft) was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s. Designed to be able to take off from the water and fly at high speed over long distances, it was to make true flights at high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartini%20Beriev%20VVA-14 |
Bermuda shorts, also known as walk shorts or dress shorts, are a particular type of short trousers, worn as semi-casual attire by both men and women. The hem, which can be cuffed or un-cuffed, is around above the knee.
They are so-named because of their popularity in Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, where the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20shorts |
Ključ (, ) is a town and municipality located in the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name of the town and the municipality translates to "Key" in English.
Geography
It is located a short distance south from Sanski Most. The Sana River runs through t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klju%C4%8D%2C%20Una-Sana%20Canton |
Mikael Patrik "Totte" Gerrbrand (born 27 April 1981) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Starting off his career with Hammarby IF in 2000, he went on to also represent Leicester City and Fredrikstad before retiring at Nacka FF in 2015. A youth international for Sweden, he appeared seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik%20Gerrbrand |
Penguin Cafe Orchestra is the second studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, released in 1981, and recorded between 1977 and 1980. By this album, the line-up for the band had expanded greatly, with contribution including Simon Jeffes, Helen Leibmann, Steve Nye, Gavyn Wright of the original quartet, as well as Geoff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin%20Cafe%20Orchestra%20%28album%29 |
Orbital tuning refers to the process of adjusting the time scale of a geologic or climate record so that the observed fluctuations correspond to the Milankovitch cycles in the Earth's orbital motion. Because changes in the Earth's orbit affect the amount and distribution of sunlight the Earth receives, such changes are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital%20tuning |
Bert Henry Miller (December 15, 1876 – October 8, 1949) was an American politician from Idaho and a member of the Democratic Party.
Biography
Born in St. George, Utah Territory, Miller graduated from Brigham Young University in 1901 and from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20H.%20Miller |
Fuschl am See is an Austrian municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung, in the state of Salzburg. It is located at the east end of the Fuschlsee, between the city of Salzburg and Bad Ischl. As of 2018, the community has approximately 1,500 inhabitants.
Geography
Fuschl am See covers an area of 21.4 km². The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuschl%20am%20See |
Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DD-NOS) is designated by the code 311 in the DSM-IV for depressive disorders that are impairing but do not fit any of the officially specified diagnoses. According to the DSM-IV, DD-NOS encompasses "any depressive disorder that does not meet the criteria for a specific disor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive%20Disorder%20Not%20Otherwise%20Specified |
Elaine Antoinette Parent (August 4, 1942 – April 6, 2002) was an American criminal known as "the world's most wanted woman" in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
She was wanted for the murder of her potential roommate, Beverly McGowan, a 34-year-old bank clerk. McGowan had placed an ad in the paper looking for a roommate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Parent |
The Orpington by-election in 1962 is often described as the start of the Liberal Party revival in the United Kingdom.
Background
The by-election was caused by the appointment of Donald Sumner, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington, as a county court judge. The appointment was generally thought to be mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%20Orpington%20by-election |
Music from the Penguin Cafe is the first studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It was recorded between 1974 and 1976, and released in 1976.
The artist credited for the work varies with different issues. Upon original issue, the label credited the artist as Simon Jeffes, while the cover gave the artist as "memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20from%20the%20Penguin%20Cafe |
Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar was a Persian Sufi saint and Malāmatī-Qalāndārī Sheikh, of possible Turkic origin, and is buried in Zava, Khurasan. Qazvini, author of the Tarikh-i guzida, states Haydar was alive at the time of the Mongol invasion of Central Asia in 1220 and died in 1221 CE/618 AH. The date of his life helpfully ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb%20ad-D%C4%ABn%20Haydar |
Trung Jered Canidate (born March 3, 1977) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). Drafted out of Arizona, Canidate was selected with the 31st overall pick of the 2000 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams.
Professional career
Pre-draft
The St. Louis Rams timed Canidate at 4.25 se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trung%20Canidate |
USCGC Dauntless (WMEC-624) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter, commissioned in 1968 and still on active duty.
She is the first cutter in Coast Guard history to hold this name. Like all ships in the Reliance class of 210-foot medium-endurance cutters, Dauntless is named for an aspirational trait, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC%20Dauntless |
Heisson is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Washington.
Heisson lies just north of Battle Ground Lake State Park, south of the East Fork Lewis River, and northeast of Battle Ground, Washington. It consists of a combined general store and post office, along with several houses. Among these houses is the Hen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisson%2C%20Washington |
Eumorpha pandorus, the Pandora sphinx moth or Pandorus sphinx moth, is a North American moth in the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1821.
Description
The pandora sphinx moth has a wingspan of . Its wings are opaque and have a greenish-olive background on the dorsal surfaces. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumorpha%20pandorus |
Ariel () is an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County, Washington. Ariel is located northeast of the city of Woodland along Washington State Route 503, situated north of the Lewis River and on the northwest bank of Lake Merwin. The Ariel community is part of the Woodland School District, a K-12 school district of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%2C%20Washington |
Charles Clinton Gossett (September 2, 1888 – September 20, 1974) was an American politician who served as the 20th governor of Idaho and a United States Senator from Idaho, but was in both offices less than a year in the 1940s. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Early life
Born in Pricetown, Ohio, Gossett attend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20C.%20Gossett |
Elijah Embree Hoss, Sr (April 14, 1849 – April 23, 1919) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1902. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, as a college professor and administrator, and as an editor.
Early life
Born on April 14, 1849, along Cherokee Creek, four mile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Embree%20Hoss |
Lynelle Jonsson is an American stage actress, dancer, and soprano singer.<ref name="nytimes">Feuer, Alan, "Still Smiling for the Troops, However Grim Their Mission", The New York Times, August 28, 2005.</ref> In 2004, and again in 2005, she was Miss USO and joined the Metropolitan New York USO Troupe of performers."USO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynelle%20Jonsson |
Tennessee's 1st congressional district is the congressional district of northeast Tennessee, including all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, and Sevier counties and parts of Jefferson County. It is largely coextensive with the Tennessee portion of the Tri-Cities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%27s%201st%20congressional%20district |
Club Social y Deportivo Zacapa is a Guatemalan football club from Zacapa. They’re nicknamed "Los Gallos" (The Roosters). They compete in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football. The team plays its home games at the Estadio David Ordoñez Bardales, the local stadium.
History
The club was founded on Novemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo%20Zacapa |
Gongbu may refer to:
Gongbu (mountaineer), a Tibetan member of the 1960 Chinese Mount Everest Expedition
romanized Korean pronunciation of Gongfu
Gong Bu, a stance in Wushu and other Chinese martial arts
Ministry of Works (imperial China), one of the Six Ministries from the Tang to the Qing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongbu |
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a short book first published in 1880 by German-born socialist Friedrich Engels. The work was primarily extracted from a longer polemic work published in 1878, Anti-Dühring. It first appeared in the French language.
The title Socialism: Utopian and Scientific was adopted for the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism%3A%20Utopian%20and%20Scientific |
The Casals Festival is a classical music event celebrated every year in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in honor of classical musician Pablo Casals.
Background
The festival was founded in 1956 by Pablo Casals. It was promoted by Teodoro Moscoso and David Ogilvy with the objectives of changing the image of Puerto Rico and promo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casals%20Festival |
Carrolls is an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County, Washington, south of the city of Kelso. Carrolls is located south on Old Pacific Highway from exit 36 of Interstate 5. The Carrolls community is part of the Kelso School District, a K-12 school district of nearly 5,000 students.
The community derives its name ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrolls%2C%20Washington |
A transmission control unit (TCU), also known as a transmission control module (TCM), or a gearbox control unit (GCU), is a type of automotive ECU that is used to control electronic automatic transmissions. Similar systems are used in conjunction with various semi-automatic transmissions, purely for clutch automation a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20control%20unit |
The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (, abbr. PSRL) is a series of published volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation. The project is ongoing and far from finished.
The chronicles were assemble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20Collection%20of%20Russian%20Chronicles |
Ryderwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cowlitz County, Washington, west of the city of Vader. Known locally as the "Village in the Woods", the town began in 1923 as a logging settlement and considered itself the "World's Largest Logging Town". Ryderwood became a retirement community in the 1950s.
History
Ryd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryderwood%2C%20Washington |
The Autumn Effect is the third studio album and major label debut by American alternative metal band 10 Years. It was released on July 22, 2005, by Republic and Universal Records. Featured on the album is the popular modern rock track "Wasteland" and two other singles: "Through the Iris" and "Waking Up".
Due to the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Autumn%20Effect |
Super Panavision 70 is the marketing brand name used to identify movies photographed with Panavision 70 mm spherical optics between 1959 and 1983.
Ultra Panavision 70 was similar to Super Panavision 70, though Ultra Panavision lenses were anamorphic, which allowed for a significantly wider aspect ratio. However, Ultra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Panavision%2070 |
Kalmyk Americans are Americans of Kalmyk Mongolian ancestry.
History
American Kalmyks initially established communities in the United States following a mass immigration after World War II. The largest groups of Kalmyks originally settled primarily in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The majority of today's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmyk%20Americans |
Jackie "Mr TV" Pallo (born Jack Ernest Gutteridge; 12 January 1926 – 11 February 2006) was an English professional wrestler, a star of British televised wrestling in its 1960s and 1970s heyday, when the sport had a regular 40-minute slot before the Saturday afternoon football results on ITV.
Wrestling career
Gutteridg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%20Pallo |
Ngawang Wangyal (), aka Sogpo (Mongolian) Wangyal, popularly known as Geshe Wangyal and "America's first lama," was a Buddhist lama and scholar of Kalmyk origin. He was born in the Astrakhan province in southeast Russia sometime in 1901 and died in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1983. He came to the United States from Ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngawang%20Wangyal |
Joannes Baptista Sproll (2 October 1870 – 4 March 1949) was a German bishop and prominent opponent of the Nazi regime.
Sproll was born in Schweinhausen, near Biberach, the son of a street mender, Josef Sproll, and his wife, Anna Maria née Freuer. He attended the Latin school in Biberach and the Gymnasium Ehingen. He s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joannes%20Baptista%20Sproll |
This is a list of aqueducts in the city of Rome listed in chronological order of their construction.
Ancient Rome
Modern Rome
Acqua Vergine Antica
built in 1453
source: springs in Salone, east of Rome
length: ; underground from its source to its terminus at the fountain of Trevi on the Quirinal Hill
Acqua Felic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Roman%20aqueducts%20by%20date |
A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format. Many countries began to issue machine-readable travel documents in the 1980s.
Most travel passports worldwide are MRPs. They are standardized by the ICAO Do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable%20passport |
FEF or Fef may refer to:
Futsal European Federation
Fef, West Papua, the capital of Tambrauw Regency, West Papua, Western New Guinea
Ecuadorian Football Federation (Spanish: )
FedExField, a stadium in Landover, Maryland, United States
Fire Emblem Fates'', a video game
Forced expiratory flow
Frontal eye fields
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEF |
Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1933) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was part of the failed project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20Mizner |
James Semple (January 5, 1798 – December 20, 1866) was an American attorney and politician. He was Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Attorney General of Illinois, an associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, Chargé d'Affaires to New Granada, and United States Senator from Illinois.
Semple was bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Semple |
Susan Ellen (Tanenbaum) Stern (January 31, 1943 – July 31, 1976) was an American political activist.
She was a member of the prominent anti-Vietnam War groups Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weatherman and the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF).
Stern was tried in 1970 on charges of conspiring to damage a federal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Stern |
Charles Clark "Chip" Marshall III is a political activist, and was a member of the prominent anti-Vietnam War group, the Seattle Liberation Front ("Seattle Seven"), defending himself in the trial pro se. He ran for Seattle City Council in 1975 and 1977, but was unsuccessful. Since then, he helped to develop Issaquah'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%20Marshall |
Deviant logic is a type of logic incompatible with classical logic. Philosopher Susan Haack uses the term deviant logic to describe certain non-classical systems of logic. In these logics:
the set of well-formed formulas generated equals the set of well-formed formulas generated by classical logic.
the set of theore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviant%20logic |
Daisy Zamora (born 20 June 1950 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a contemporary Latin American poet. Her work covers daily life, human rights, politics, revolution, feminist issues, art, history and culture.
Early life and education
She was raised in a wealthy liberal and politically active family. She attended convent schoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Zamora |
The frontal eye fields (FEF) are a region located in the frontal cortex, more specifically in Brodmann area 8 or BA8, of the primate brain. In humans, it can be more accurately said to lie in a region around the intersection of the middle frontal gyrus with the precentral gyrus, consisting of a frontal and parietal por... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal%20eye%20fields |
Sokol () is a town in the center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Sukhona River. Population: ; 36,000 (1970).
History
The village of Sokolovo () existed on this location since at least 1615. Since 1796, the village was part of Kadnikovsky Uyezd of Vologda Governorate. In 1897, a paper mill was b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol%2C%20Vologda%20Oblast |
MEF may stand for:
Military
Malaita Eagle Force, a militant organization originating in the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands
Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), one of the major deployable subdivisions of the United States Marine Corps; see 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, 3rd M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEF |
The mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP or MPTP; also referred to as PTP, mTP or MTP) is a protein that is formed in the inner membrane of the mitochondria under certain pathological conditions such as traumatic brain injury and stroke. Opening allows increase in the permeability of the mitochondrial memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial%20permeability%20transition%20pore |
Medial eye fields are areas in the frontal lobe of the primate brain that play a role in visually guided eye movement. Most neuroscientists refer to this area as the supplementary eye fields. Eye fields are divided into two hemispheres regulated by sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Six3.
See also
Saccade
Smooth pursuit
Supplem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20eye%20fields |
The 1792 half disme (pronounced "deem") is an American silver coin with a face value of five cents which was minted in 1792. Although it is subject to debate as to whether this was intended to be circulating coinage or instead an experimental issue, President George Washington referred to it as "a small beginning" and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792%20half%20disme |
Barry Blanchard (born March 29, 1959) is one of North America's top alpine climbers, noted for pushing the standards of highly technical, high-risk alpine climbing in the Canadian Rockies and the Himalayas.
Climbing accomplishments
Blanchard was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He first came to note in 1983 with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Blanchard |
ADF/cofilin is a family of actin-binding proteins associated with the rapid depolymerization of actin microfilaments that give actin its characteristic dynamic instability. This dynamic instability is central to actin's role in muscle contraction, cell motility and transcription regulation.
Three highly conserved and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADF/Cofilin%20family |
Grupo México is a Mexican conglomerate that operates through the following divisions: Mining (Minera Mexico), Transportation (GMxT), Infrastructure and Fundacion Grupo Mexico.
Its mining division is the leading copper producer in Mexico and the third largest copper producer in the world through ASARCO. Its transportat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo%20M%C3%A9xico |
16 distinct public holidays are observed in Myanmar.
Public holidays
References
External links
2016 Public Holidays in Myanmar
Myanmar
Burmese culture
Observances set by the Burmese calendar
Holidays
Public holidays in Myanmar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20holidays%20in%20Myanmar |
The Panama Deception is a 1992 American documentary film, critical of the 1989 United States invasion of Panama.
The film was directed by Barbara Trent, written and edited by David Kasper, and narrated by actress Elizabeth Montgomery. It was a production of the Empowerment Project, and won the 1992 Academy Award for B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Panama%20Deception |
Thomas Maria Renz (born December 9, 1957 in München) is a German theologian and, since April 29, 1997, an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the Titular Bishop of Rucuma.
Renz was ordained for the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Rome in 1984. Then, he worked as a Reverent in Bad Saulgau. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Maria%20Renz |
Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Jurong West Central, in the western part of Singapore. It is situated within Jurong Point and integrated with the nearby Boon Lay MRT station. This interchange serves a variety of passengers, including those from Nanyang Technological University,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boon%20Lay%20Bus%20Interchange |
In-vessel composting generally describes a group of methods that confine the composting materials within a building, container, or vessel. In-vessel composting systems can consist of metal or plastic tanks or concrete bunkers in which air flow and temperature can be controlled, using the principles of a "bioreactor". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-vessel%20composting |
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