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Natalie Price may refer to:
Natalie Evans, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Natalie Price (politician), a member of the Michigan House of Representatives | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Price |
Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa
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(; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arfa%20Karim |
A Canadian passport () is the passport issued to citizens of Canada. It enables the bearer to enter or re-enter Canada freely; travel to and from other countries in accordance with visa requirements; facilitates the process of securing assistance from Canadian consular officials abroad, if necessary; and requests prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20passport |
Andrzej Trzebicki (23 November 1607 – 28 December 1679) was a nobleman and priest in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Vice-chancellor of the Crown from 1652, bishop of Przemyśl since 1655, bishop of Kraków since 1658.
Loyal to king Jan Kazimierz Vasa, accompanied him during his exile and eventual return in The Del... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej%20Trzebicki |
Toula may refer to:
Toula, Batroun a village in the district (Qada') of Batroun in Lebanon
Toula, Burkina Faso
Toula, Zgharta, a village in the district (Qada') of Zgharta in Lebanon
Toula (Vava'u), a village on the main island of Vavau in the kingdom of Tonga
Tula, Russia, an industrial city in Russia
Toula Griv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toula |
Guaimar III (also Waimar, Gaimar, Guaimaro, or Guaimario and sometimes numbered Guaimar IV) (c. 983 – 1027×31) was the Lombard prince of Salerno from around 994 to his death. Under his reign, Salerno entered an era of great splendour. Opulenta Salernum was the inscription on his coins. He made Amalfi, Gaeta and Sorrent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaimar%20III%20of%20Salerno |
Norton David Zinder (November 7, 1928 – February 3, 2012) was an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1947, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1952, and became a member of the National Academy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Zinder |
Women's softball made its first appearance as an official medal sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The competition was held at historic Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia, United States. Final results for the Softball competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics:
Medalists
Participants
Competition format
Eight teams comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softball%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics |
Rosie Malek-Yonan (b. July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist at an early age. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge, she settled in the United States, where she pursued a career in music and dramatic arts. As an actress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie%20Malek-Yonan |
King Broadcasting Company is an American former media conglomerate founded in 1946 by Dorothy Bullitt. The company was owned by the Bullitt family until it was sold to the Providence Journal Company in 1991; it is currently a subsidiary of Tegna as the licensee for its remaining stations. Based in Seattle, Washington, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Broadcasting%20Company |
Edwin A. Buckham is Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. He is a longtime congressional staffer and former lobbyist.
He served as chief of staff to then Majority Whip Tom DeLay from approximately 1995 to 1998. Buckham had run the House Republican Study Committee in the early 1990s, while Tom D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Buckham |
Georg Moser (10 June 1923 – 9 May 1988) was a German Catholic Bishop. He was the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
Moser was born in Leutkirch in the Allgäu. After studying theology at the University of Tübingen from 1942 to 1947, he entered the priesthood in 1948. Moser earned his doctorate at the same university in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Moser |
The Southern Football Netball League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors.
History
The South East Suburban Football League was formed in 1963 as a merger of the Caulfield Oakleigh District Football League with the East... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Football%20Netball%20League |
Woodville is a community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. It is located west of Lindsay. The population is 718 (2021).
History
Known in the late 19th century as Irish Corners, the name of the town was changed to Woodville after the completion of the post office under postmaster John Morrison. In 1871 the Toronto a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodville%2C%20Ontario |
When an engine is flat rated it means that an engine of high horsepower rating is constrained to a lower horsepower rating. The engine output in this case will always remain the same, but when atmospheric conditions such as high temperatures and high altitude ("hot and high") reduce the power output of the engine it ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20rated |
The Special Engineer Detachment (SED) was a US Army program that identified enlisted personnel with technical skills, such as machining, or who had some science education beyond high school. Those identified were organized into the Special Engineer Detachment, or SED. SED personnel began arriving at Los Alamos in Octob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Engineer%20Detachment |
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is a digital humanities initiative involving numerous academic professors and institutions around the world with the stated goal of creating a networked digital atlas by creating tools and setting standards for dynamic, digital maps.
ECAI was established in 1997 by Emeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Cultural%20Atlas%20Initiative |
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. is an American biotechnology company headquartered in San Rafael, California. It has offices and facilities in the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe. BioMarin's core business and research is in enzyme replacement therapies (ERTs). BioMarin was the first company to provide thera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioMarin%20Pharmaceutical |
Ashley Avery Ambrose (born September 17, 1970) is a former professional American football cornerback for several National Football League (NFL) teams during the 1990s and early 2000s who most recently served as the cornerbacks coach at the University of Colorado. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the second r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Ambrose |
Old Patesians Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The club currently play in Counties 3 Gloucestershire North following their voluntary relegation from Regional 2 Severn. As well as the first XV, the club operate two other male teams, a junior programme, with teams starting f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Patesians%20R.F.C. |
Joanna Catherine Going (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress known for the television series Kingdom, House of Cards, Mad Men and the movie Wyatt Earp.
Early life
Going's father was of Irish descent, and her mother of Italian and French-Canadian.
Career
Going appeared in soap operas in the late 1980s, most no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna%20Going |
The barking owl (Ninox connivens), also known as the winking owl, is a nocturnal bird species native to mainland Australia and parts of New Guinea and the Moluccas. They are a medium-sized brown owl and have a characteristic voice with calls ranging from a barking dog noise to an intense human-like howl.
Etymology
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking%20owl |
Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially destructive fires. It involves the study of the behaviour, compartmentalisation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20protection |
Still Breathing is a 1997 drama film directed by James Ford Robinson and starring Brendan Fraser and Joanna Going.
Plot
Con artist Rosalyn Willoughby (Going) in Hollywood and puppeteer Fletcher McBracken (Fraser) in San Antonio have the same dream, which links them to each other. He travels to L.A. to find her, but at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still%20Breathing%20%28film%29 |
Douglas 'Dougie' Campbell Thomson (born 24 March 1951) is a Scottish musician, born in Glasgow and raised in the Rutherglen area of the city. He was the bass guitarist of progressive rock band Supertramp during much of the Seventies and Eighties.
Career
Thomson's musical career began in August 1969, when he joined a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougie%20Thomson |
National Mobile Television (NMT) was a Los Angeles-based television broadcasting industry corporation that operated a fleet of mobile television units.
Then known as Northwest Mobile Television, NMT was founded by Stan Carlson and Stimson Bullitt in 1968 and operated as a division of the King Broadcasting Company in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Mobile%20Television |
Kanakagiri (also known as Suvarnagiri) is a town in Karnataka state of India. It was a provincial capital of the Mauryan Empire and later became the capital of the Nayaka dynasty who were the Palegars (feudatory) of the Vijayanagara Empire.
It is also the site of the historical site Kanakachalapathi Temple (Kanakachal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanakagiri |
Joseph A. Moore (born July 22, 1958) is a former Chicago politician. Moore was first elected to Chicago City Council as the alderman for the 49th ward, which includes the majority of Rogers Park and portions of West Ridge, in 1991. Moore won re-election six times, before losing to challenger Maria Hadden in 2019.
Educ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Moore%20%28politician%29 |
Schleich is a German producer of hand painted toy figurines and accessories. The company is headquartered in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. In 2020, the group employed 440 people and generated sales of 188.7 million euros. Half of the sales are generated outside of the German domestic market, and Schleich branded play figu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleich |
Christine Becker was a member of the first United States women's sabre team to ever win the World Championship title (2000).
Becker is a member of the U.S. National women's sabre team, and president of the Oregon Fencing Alliance. She is coached by U.S. National coach Ed Korfanty.
References
American female sabre f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Becker |
Sunday NFL Countdown (branded as Sunday NFL Countdown presented by Snickers for sponsorship reasons) is an American pre-game show broadcast by ESPN as part of the network's coverage of the National Football League. The program is broadcast on Sunday mornings throughout the regular season, featuring segments highlightin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20NFL%20Countdown |
Christian drama or Christian tragedy is based on Christian religious themes.
The Bible contains many drama sequences, the very Betrayal and arrest of Jesus in the new testament is a tragedy.
Mystery play
Through the medieval period churches in Europe frequently performed mystery plays, retelling the stories of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20drama |
An acidophobe is an organism that is intolerant of acidic environments. The terms acidophobia, acidophoby and acidophobic are also used. The term acidophobe is variously applied to plants, bacteria, protozoa, animals, chemical compounds, etc. The antonymous term is acidophile.
Plants are known to be well-defined with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidophobe |
Oakland City Center is an office, shopping and hotel complex in Downtown Oakland, Oakland, California. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s. It covers twelve city blocks between Broadway on the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the west, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on 14th Street on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%20City%20Center |
Blanca Delfina Soto Benavides is a Mexican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 1997.
Career
Soto competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza México in 1997, representing her home state of Nuevo León. That same year, Soto became Miss Mexico World and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanca%20Soto |
Jessie Willard Armstead (born October 26, 1970) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins between 1993 and 2003. He was a three-time All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl section. He played ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Armstead |
Charlotte "Sherry" Green (born July 1938 in Tampa, Florida, United States) is an American fencer.
Green learned to fence at the Oregon Fencing Alliance in Portland, Oregon. Her teachers there included Adam Skarbonkovic, Charles Randall, and Ed Korfanty. She was a member of the 2005 US National Veterans fencing team an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%20Green%20%28fencer%29 |
SEF may refer to:
Sankara Eye Foundation, a non-profit that works for eradicating curable blindness in India
Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras, Portuguese Border and Alien Service
Sinfonia Educational Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity
Small Enterprise Foundation, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEF |
Lydia Cornell (born Lydia Korniloff, July 23, 1953) is an American actress best known for her role as Sara Rush on the ABC situation comedy Too Close for Comfort.
Early life and family
Cornell was born Lydia Korniloff in El Paso, Texas on July 23, 1953. She is the eldest daughter of concert violinist Irma Jean Stowe,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Cornell |
A liveblog is blog posting intended to provide coverage of an ongoing event in rolling text, similar to live television or live radio. Liveblogging has increased in usage by news organizations and blogging establishments since the mid-2000s, when it was initially used to broadcast updates of technology conferences in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liveblogging |
Olga's Kitchen is an American chain of Greek-American family restaurants located primarily in the U.S. state of Michigan, founded by Olga Loizon in 1970. The company is based in Livonia, Michigan, and currently has 26 locations: one each in Illinois and Massachusetts, and the rest in Michigan.
History
Olga Loizon foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%27s%20Kitchen |
Supplementary eye field (SEF) is the name for the anatomical area of the dorsal medial frontal lobe of the primate cerebral cortex that is indirectly involved in the control of saccadic eye movements. Evidence for a supplementary eye field was first shown by Schlag, and Schlag-Rey. Current research strives to explore t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary%20eye%20field |
Hramada (, , sometimes also wrongly spelled as gramada or confused for the Ukrainian word hromada or Polish word gromada) is a Belarusian word that means "gathering of people", i.e., "assembly". Historically a hramada was meant as a peasant commune, which gathered meetings for discussing and resolving current issues.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hramada |
Robert Scott "Scotty" Robertson III (February 1, 1930 – August 18, 2011) was an American basketball coach. He was the first coach for the New Orleans Jazz (now the Utah Jazz), and he later coached the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons. He also has a stint as assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty%20Robertson |
Mälarhöjden/Bredäng Hockey (often referred to as MB Hockey or MB) is an ice hockey club based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Founded: 1988
Arena: SDC-hallen (capacity 850)
Uniform colours: Red, white
Logo design: "MB" in red with white and blue trim in a stylized white maple leaf with red and blue trim
Swedish women's champion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4larh%C3%B6jden/Bred%C3%A4ng%20Hockey |
Tribune Publishing Company (briefly Tronc, Inc.) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company. The company, which was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021, has a portfolio that includes the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, The Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, South Florida's S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune%20Publishing |
Deborah Van Valkenburgh (born August 29, 1952) is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Van%20Valkenburgh |
Buratino (Russian: Буратино) is the main character of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1936 book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino, which is based on the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Buratino originated as a character in the commedia dell'arte. The name Buratino derives fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buratino |
The Chief Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" (meaning judge) of the English Exchequer of Pleas. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was he who presided in the equity court and answered the bar i.e. spoke for the court." ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Baron%20of%20the%20Exchequer |
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA), passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President of the United States George W. Bush in December 2005 (as part of ), is a controversial tort liability shield intended to protect vaccine manufacturers from financial risk in the event of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Readiness%20and%20Emergency%20Preparedness%20Act |
Broadway is a 1942 crime drama musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring George Raft as himself and Pat O'Brien as a detective. The supporting cast features Janet Blair and Broderick Crawford.
Another fictionalized biographical movie based on Raft's life, The George Raft Story (1961), featured a differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway%20%281942%20film%29 |
This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in fencing.
Current Program
Foil, Individual
Foil, Team
Épée, Individual
Épée, Team
Sabre, Individual
Sabre, Team
All-time medal table - Women's - 1924–2016
References
International Olympic Committee results database
Fencing (women)
medalists
Olympic, wom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Olympic%20medalists%20in%20fencing%20%28women%29 |
Karel Kovařovic (9 December 1862 6 December 1920) was a Czech composer and conductor from Prague.
Life
From 1873 to 1879 he studied clarinet, harp and piano at the Prague Conservatory. He began his career as a harpist. In 1900 Kovařovic became the conductor of the national theatre in Prague, due mostly to the success... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Kova%C5%99ovic |
Julie Bénédicte Deiters (born 4 September 1975 in Meudon) is a France-born former Dutch field hockey player. She played 166 international matches for the Netherlands, in which the defender scored fourteen goals.
Deiters was a member of the Netherlands squad that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Deiters |
KDX (Korean Destroyer eXperimental) is a substantial shipbuilding program embarked on by the Republic of Korea Navy.
It is a three-phased program consisting of three individual classes of ships:
KDX-I (3,800 tons),
KDX-II (5,500 tons),
Aegis-equipped KDX-III (11,000 tons).
KDX-IIA, planned derivative of KDX-II wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20Destroyer%20eXperimental |
A Bay of Blood (Italian: Ecologia del delitto, lit. "Ecology of Crime", later retitled Reazione a catena [lit. "Chain Reaction"]) (also known as Carnage, Twitch of the Death Nerve and Blood Bath) is a 1971 Italian giallo slasher film directed by Mario Bava. Bava co-wrote the screenplay with Giuseppe Zaccariello, Filipp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Bay%20of%20Blood |
Myrna Veenstra (born 4 March 1975) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands. She was born in Goes and played 79 international matches for the Netherlands as a defender. During her international career, she scored one goal.
Veenstra was a member of the Netherlands squad that won the bronze medal at the 2000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna%20Veenstra |
Bruce Churchill Murray (November 30, 1931 – August 29, 2013) was an American planetary scientist. He was a director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and co-founder of The Planetary Society.
Education and early life
Murray received his Ph.D. in geology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20C.%20Murray |
Pete Lesperance is a Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem. Lesperance was born October 13, 1968, in Scarborough, Ontario. Lesperance was a guitarist in the Oshawa metal band Minotaur before forming Harem Scarem with Blind Ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Lesperance |
The Honeywell TPE331 (military designation: T76) is a turboprop engine. It was designed in the 1950s by Garrett AiResearch, and produced since 1999 by successor Honeywell Aerospace. The engine's power output ranges from .
Design and development
Garrett AiResearch designed the TPE331 from scratch in 1959 for the milita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20TPE331 |
Sidney Rochell Lowe (born January 21, 1960) is an American former basketball player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lowe played college basketball and served as the head coach at North Carolina State University (NC State).
Biograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Lowe |
The Yale-Myers Forest is a 7,800-acre (32 km2) forest in Northeastern Connecticut owned by Yale University and administered by the Yale School of the Environment. Located in the towns of Union, Ashford, Eastford, and Woodstock, the forest is reputed to be the largest private landholding in the state.
The Yale-Myers Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-Myers%20Forest |
Whitman College is one of seven residential colleges at Princeton University, New Jersey, United States. The college is named after Meg Whitman, a former CEO of eBay, who donated $30 million to build the college. The structures were designed by the architect Demetri Porphyrios, the winner of the 2004 Driehaus Prize. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitman%20College%2C%20Princeton%20University |
Suzan Jacobien Unia van der Wielen (born October 30, 1971, in Emmen, Drenthe) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who played 191 international matches for the Netherlands, in which the striker scored a total number of seventy goals.
External links
Dutch Hockey Federation
1971 births
Living people... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan%20van%20der%20Wielen |
Robert John Kuechenberg (October 14, 1947 – January 12, 2019) was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Miami Dolphins for 14 seasons between 1970 and 1983, spending the 1984 season on injured reserve. He was a mainstay in a line that included Hall of Fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Kuechenberg |
Amar Gamal (born Teresa Infante c. 1975) is a Cuban bellydancer who grew up in Florida.
Early life and education
Gamal, born Teresa Infante, grew up in Miami where she learned to bellydance at the age of thirteen. At thirteen, she began performing with the Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange company, based in Miami Beach. One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar%20Gamal |
The historical form of (; ) is a manner of dining with courses brought to the table sequentially, and the food portioned on individual plates by the waiter (typically from a sideboard in the dining room). It contrasts with the older (), based on several courses brought to the table simultaneously, in an impressive di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20%C3%A0%20la%20russe |
Beware of Dog is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil' Bow Wow. It was released on September 26, 2000, through So So Def Recordings and Columbia Records. Recording sessions took place from 1999 to 2000, with Lil' Bow Wow's mentor Jermaine Dupri primarily producing the album, and Xscape, Jagged Edge, Da Brat an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware%20of%20Dog%20%28album%29 |
PREPA or prepa may refer to:
the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act
the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, part of the French educational system
See also
Prepa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PREPA |
George Malek-Yonan (1924-2014) was an Iranian Assyrian international attorney, politician and athlete, and father of actress Rosie Malek-Yonan.
Biography
The Assyrian Malek family claims to trace its roots back eleven centuries. During the Assyrian genocide of 1914–1918, Malek-Yonan's family fled to Baghdad, in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Malek-Yonan |
James Madio (born November 22, 1975) is an American actor, known for his roles in USA High, Hook and as Technician Fourth Grade Frank Perconte in Band of Brothers.
Early life
A native of The Bronx, Madio was raised in Morris Park and Pelham Bay.
Career
Madio was born as one of seven children in his family. At the age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Madio |
Brian Joseph Winters (born March 1, 1952) is an American former basketball player and coach.
Career
Winters attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York, graduating in 1970. He then played collegiately with the University of South Carolina, scoring 1,079 points over his c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Winters |
Laddie Boy (July 26, 1920 – January 23, 1929) was an Airedale Terrier owned by U.S. President Warren G. Harding. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. His father was Champion Tintern Tip Top. He was presented to US President Warren G. Harding by Charles Quetschke of Caswell Kennels and became a celebrity during the Harding adm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laddie%20Boy |
Stella de Heij (born 17 January 1968 in Driehuis) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who played eighteen international matches for her national team.
De Heij was a member of the Dutch Women's Team that, under the guidance of coach and former international Tom van 't Hek, won the bronze medal at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20de%20Heij |
The Dreams of Sparrows is a documentary film about post-war Iraq, by Hayder Daffar of the Iraq Eye Group, an Iraqi filmmaking group.
The film was shot throughout 2003 and 2004 with a hand-held camera, consisting of street level interviews with various Iraqi citizens and explores their feelings about the changes occurr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dreams%20of%20Sparrows |
Nuri Kino, (born February 25, 1965, in Tur Abdin), is a Swedish-Assyrian award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, author and human rights expert. He is the author of several nonfiction books, and hundreds of stories and reports from the Middle East, western and eastern Europe as well as Africa ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuri%20Kino |
Jeffrey Joseph Bzdelik () (born December 1, 1952) is an American professional basketball coach who most recently served as associate head coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was head coach of the Denver Nuggets in the NBA for slightly over two seasons, from 2002 until he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Bzdelik |
Sloan Wainwright (born 1957) is an American artist and member of the American independent music scene. Her musical style consists of a combination of folk, rock, jazz, and blues. Sloan Wainwright developed this style while writing and performing in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.
Life and career
Sloan Wai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan%20Wainwright |
Fleur Nicolette Andrea van de Kieft (born 22 October 1973 in Amsterdam) is a former field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who played 137 official international matches for Holland, in which she scored a total number of 44 goals.
Van de Kieft was a member of the Dutch Women's Team that won the bronze medal at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur%20van%20de%20Kieft |
The table tennis competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics consisted of four events.
Participating nations
A total of 166 athletes (85 men and 81 women), representing 51 NOCs, competed in four events.
Medal table
Medal summary
References
Sources
Official Olympic Report
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20tennis%20at%20the%201996%20Summer%20Olympics |
Serangoon Bus Interchange is a bus interchange serving Serangoon New Town in Singapore, and is within walking distance from Serangoon MRT station. Opened on 3 September 2011, it is air-conditioned and has 9 services and 17 bus bays.
History
The original bus interchange was opened on 13 March 1988 along Serangoon Centr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serangoon%20Bus%20Interchange |
Hartranft is a neighborhood in the central part of North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Hartranft is on the border of the predominantly Black central region of North Philadelphia and the predominantly Hispanic eastern region of North Philadelphia. Bounded by 6th Street to the east, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartranft%2C%20Philadelphia |
Merle Hansen (November 11, 1919 – March 27, 2009) was the founding president of the North American Farm Alliance and a spokesman for the plight of family farmers.
Background
Merle Elwin Hansen was born on his family's farmstead north of Newman Grove, Nebraska. After graduating from Newman Grove High School in 1938, Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle%20Hansen |
Voloshin, Woloshin,Wolloshin, Voloshyn or Woloshyn (Cyrillic: Волошин) is a Ukrainian and Russian masculine surname. It comes from the dated exonym Volokh ("Vlach", "Romanian"). Its feminine forms are Voloshina, Woloshina, Voloshyna or Woloshyna.
People
Voloshin, Voloshina
Aleksandr Voloshin (born 1956), Russian poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voloshin |
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique that uses ultrashort pulse lasers for the study of dynamics on extremely short time scales (attoseconds to nanoseconds). Different methods are used to examine the dynamics of charge carriers, atoms, and molecules. Many different procedures have been developed sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafast%20laser%20spectroscopy |
Sengkang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located on the ground level of Compass Heights condominium in the town centre of Sengkang New Town, Singapore. Located next to Sengkang MRT/LRT station, it is the second bus interchange in Singapore to be air conditioned. It was opened on 18 January 2003.
History
Old bus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengkang%20Bus%20Interchange |
Steve Monarque (born April 2, 1959) is a New York-based actor, director, writer and musician.
Life and career
Monarque was born and raised in the suburban New Jersey community of Pompton Lakes.
Monarque has appeared in films including No Small Affair and Sixteen Candles. In 1985, he was the lead in a special MTV vid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Monarque |
Karram-Allah-u Wajhah (; ) is a phrase used almost solely to honor the first Shia Imam and fourth Rashidun Caliph Ali as the only early Muslim who never knelt down to an idol in Jahilyah, and always followed Muhammad. This honorific is mostly used by some Sunnis and is acceptable to Shi'a Muslims. However, Shi'a prefer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karram-Allah-u%20Wajhahu |
Michael Leeroyall Evans (born April 19, 1955) is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and coach. He played collegiately at Kansas State University where he is Kansas State's second all-time leading points scorer, behind Jacob Pullen, with 2,115 points. He was drafted by the Denver Nuggets w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Evans%20%28basketball%29 |
Deltora Quest is the collective title for three distinct series of children's fantasy books, written by Australian author Emily Rodda. It follows the adventures of three companions as they journey across the fictitious land of Deltora, endeavouring to recover the seven gems stolen from the magical Belt of Deltora and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltora%20Quest%20%28book%20series%29 |
Václav Bělohradský (born January 17, 1944 Prague) is a Czech philosopher and sociologist.
Life and career
A graduate in philosophy and Czech from Charles University, Prague, from 1970 to 2010s he lived in Italy, where he was Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Trieste. He is said to be a successor of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav%20B%C4%9Blohradsk%C3%BD |
Pasir Ris Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located at Pasir Ris in the eastern part of Singapore. It is located off Pasir Ris Drive 3, adjacent to Pasir Ris MRT station and near White Sands Shopping Centre. This bus interchange also serves as a pick-up/drop-off point for shuttle buses ferrying NSF men heading to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasir%20Ris%20Bus%20Interchange |
Ottersbo is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Stjørnfjorden, about east of the Austrått manor near the border with Bjugn municipality.
Ottersbo was built during the years 1977–1980. It is a peaceful quiet area with approximately 100 houses only about east o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottersbo |
Uthaug is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the south shore of the Bjugnfjorden about west of the village of Opphaug, about north of the town of Brekstad, and about east of the Kjeungskjær Lighthouse. Ørland Airport lies just south of the village.
The village h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uthaug |
Opphaug is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located on the Ørlandet peninsula about east of the village of Uthaug, northwest of the villages of Ottersbo and Austrått, and northeast of the town of Brekstad.
The village has a population (2018) of 408 and a populati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opphaug |
A Réseau plate is a transparent sheet of glass or plastic engraved with a grid of crosshatches called fiducial markers. It was commonly used in film cameras (before the advent of digital cameras) for scientific and technical photography. The plate is placed at the focal plane of the camera just in front of the film. Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20plate |
Selbekken is a village in the municipality of Orkland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located directly south of the village of Lensvik along the Trondheimsfjorden and the Norwegian County Road 710. The village has a population (2018) of 390 and a population density of .
The village was the administrative ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbekken |
Mansur Kamaletdinov (Russian Мансур Фатхинурович Камалетдинов) (7 January 1926 – 19 April 2012) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer, teacher, ballet master and choreographer of classical ballet and classical character dance.
Kamaletdinov was born in Zlatoust, Russia and spent his early childhood in a village near Ufa, Bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur%20Kamaletdinov |
Bjugn is the administrative centre of the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Bjugnfjorden. It is about north of the village of Høybakken, about east of the village of Nes, and about south of village of Oksvoll.
The village has a population (2018) of 1,263 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjugn%20%28village%29 |
Lysøysundet is a village in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located in the northern part of the municipality near the island of Lauvøya and the end of the Åfjorden. It is about northeast of the village of Jøssund. The village lies on the mainland and on the nearby island of Lysøy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lys%C3%B8ysundet |
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