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Paul William Westhead (born February 21, 1939) is an American retired basketball coach. He was the head coach for three National Basketball Association (NBA) teams and an assistant for four others, and also coached in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Westhead |
The Rock and Pillar Range of high hills is located in the Maniototo, an area of inland Otago, New Zealand. They are surrounded by the Taieri River, which has its source in the range, flowing out across the scroll plain at Paerau, before almost doubling back on itself at Waipiata and flowing back along the other side th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20and%20Pillar%20Range |
Chen Wangdao () (1891–1977) was a Chinese scholar and educator. He is recognized as the first and only person to translate the Communist Manifesto into Chinese completely so far. He also served as president of Fudan University from 1949 to 1977.
Chen was born Mingrong () in 1891, while Wangdao is his courtesy name. Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Wangdao |
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable violinist/composers. This is a person prominent as both a violinist and a composer. For example: Jean Sibelius is not considered a violinist/composer, despite the fact that he played the violin, and neither is Jascha Heifetz, even though he wrote several cadenzas and tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20violinist/composers |
Hermann August Fredrich Priess (24 May 1901 – 2 February 1985) was a German general in the Waffen-SS and a war criminal during World War II. He commanded the SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head") following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943. On 30 October 1944 he was appointed commander of the I SS Panzer Cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Priess |
Mission Hill is a square mile (2 square km), primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, bordered by Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Fenway-Kenmore and the town of Brookline. It is home to several hospitals and universities, including Brigham and Women's Hospital and New England Baptist Hospital. Mission Hill is known fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20Hill%2C%20Boston |
The Communist Party of Germany/Marxists–Leninists (, KPD/ML) was a clandestine communist party active in West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War. It was founded in 1968 by former Communist Party of Germany (KPD) official , who subsequently became the party's chairman. An anti-revisionist party, the KPD/ML uph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20Party%20of%20Germany/Marxists%E2%80%93Leninists |
The Viking-class submarine was a planned class of submarines to be built by the Viking Submarine Corporation. Viking was a corporation jointly established by Kockums in Sweden, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace in Norway and Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark. Finland was an observer of the Viking project, as an eventual fut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking-class%20submarine |
POD 2: Multiplayer Online (released under the title POD: Speedzone in North America) is the sequel to the 1997 racing game POD, made by Ubisoft and available for Dreamcast in 2000.
Gameplay
In POD 2 the player had the option of connecting to the Internet to play against other people. The game takes place on a terrafor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POD%202 |
Jane Brook is the name of a watercourse and the valley that passes through the Darling Scarp, and which was utilised for the Eastern Railway and subsequently a central part of the John Forrest National Park.
Suburb
It is also the name of the middle class suburb, situated approximately east of the capital city Perth, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Brook%2C%20Western%20Australia |
The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is an international scientific radar network
consisting of 35
high frequency (HF) radars located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. SuperDARN radars are primarily used to map high-latitude plasma convection in the F region of the ionosphere, but the radars ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Dual%20Auroral%20Radar%20Network |
The Ruthenian Austrian internment was part of the confinement of enemy aliens in Austria during World War I. Central Camp Talerhof (German: Thalerhof) was a concentration camp operated by the Austro-Hungarian imperial government between 1914 and 1917 in the Austrian state of Styria.
Over twenty thousand Eastern Slavic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenian%20Austrian%20internment |
Typhoon Bess, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Susang, was responsible for the disappearance of a United States Air Force weather reconnaissance aircraft. Developing out of a poorly organized system on October 8 to the east of the Philippines, Bess featured two centers of circulation. Initially the southern low was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon%20Bess%20%281974%29 |
Ölürüm Sana (I'd Die For You) is Tarkan's third studio album, released on July 5, 1997. The album was distributed in both Europe and Asia. It sold more than 3 million copies in Turkey, and a total of 4.5 million worldwide, and sales continued till 2003. This album received very good reviews, becoming one of Turkey's be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96l%C3%BCr%C3%BCm%20Sana%20%28album%29 |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinov (; – 2 February 1926) was a Russian general of the Imperial Russian Army who served as the Chief of the General Staff from 1908 to 1909 and the Minister of War from 1909 to 1915.
Sukhomlinov was ousted as Minister of War amid allegations of failure to provide the Imperial Russian A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Sukhomlinov |
Shaun Palmer (born November 14, 1968) is an American professional snowboarder, skier, mountain biker, and motocross rider. Nicknamed "Napalm" and "Palm Daddy", he is known as one of the forefathers of extreme sports.
Early life
Palmer was born in South Lake Tahoe on November 14, 1968.
From a young age, he maintained ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun%20Palmer |
Riaan Cruywagen (born 5 October 1945) is a South African television news reader and voice artist who has been associated with the South African Broadcasting Corporation since its first television broadcasts in 1975. Cruywagen continued to present the Afrikaans news on the SABC network every weeknight until his final br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaan%20Cruywagen |
The Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment, or SHARE, started in 1988, is an Antarctic research project designed to observe velocities and irregularities of electrical fields in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. It is operated jointly by the University of Natal, Potchefstroom University, the British Antarctic Sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Hemisphere%20Auroral%20Radar%20Experiment |
Bus upgrade zones, commonly abbreviated to BUZ, are a feature of Brisbane's public transport system. The name is given to high-frequency bus routes operated by Transport for Brisbane, the Brisbane City Council agency that operates the city's public bus services for Translink. All BUZ services run at least every fifteen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20upgrade%20zone |
Mislata is a city in the Valencian Community, Spain. It has borders with the city of Valencia and Quart de Poblet in the west and Xirivella in the south.
Population
In recent decades it has gone from being a village in the Horta region of the Valencian Community, to the most densely populated borough in Spain and one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mislata |
The Kinesin-13 Family are a subfamily of motor proteins known as kinesins. Most kinesins transport materials or cargo around the cell while traversing along microtubule polymer tracks with the help of ATP-hydrolysis-created energy.
Structure
They are easily identified by their three typical structural components inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesin%2013 |
Hunter, in Darkness is a 1999 interactive fiction game by Andrew Plotkin, written in Inform. It won the "Best Individual Puzzle" and "Best Setting" categories in the 1999 XYZZY Awards, and came in eighth overall in the 1999 Interactive Fiction Competition.
The game is inspired by Gregory Yob's seminal 1972 computer ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%2C%20in%20Darkness |
PKP Class Pt47 is a Polish steam locomotive. An improvement of the successful pre-war PKP class Pt31 class, the main difference is the addition of circular tubes in the fire chamber, thereby significantly increased boiler performance. This class also featured a superheater and many have mechanical stokers to feed coal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP%20class%20Pt47 |
Penneshaw is a township in the Australian state of South Australia located on the northeast coast of the Dudley Peninsula on Kangaroo Island about south of the state capital of Adelaide. It is the island's main ferry port with regular services from Cape Jervis. Penneshaw features a Maritime and Folk Museum, and evenin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penneshaw%2C%20South%20Australia |
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, also promoted as LXG, is a 2003 steampunk/dieselpunk superhero film loosely based on the first volume of the comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it was released on 11 July 2003 in the United States, and 17 October in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20League%20of%20Extraordinary%20Gentlemen%20%28film%29 |
Partywise poll results
Lok Sabha members from Rajasthan
Ganganagar (SC), Nihalchand Meghwal, Bharatiya Janata Party
Bikaner, Dharmendra, Bharatiya Janata Party
Churu, Ram Singh Kaswan, Bharatiya Janata Party
Jhunjhunu, Sis Ram Ola, Indian National Congress
Sikar, Subhash Maharia, Bharatiya Janata Party
Jaipur, Girdh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20Indian%20general%20election%20in%20Rajasthan |
Valley FM 89.5 (call sign: 1VFM) is a community radio station which broadcasts on 89.5 MHz from its studios at the Erindale Centre, in the southern Canberra suburb of Wanniassa. All of the station's staff and presenters are volunteers, and the station operates as a completely non-profit entity.
Valley FM 89.5 has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley%20FM%2089.5%20Tuggeranong |
Mezőberény (; ; ) is a town in Békés county, Hungary.
Location
Mezőberény is located in the Great Hungarian Plain, 200 km southeast from Budapest. Highway 46, 47 and Budapest-Szolnok-Békéscsaba-Lökösháza high speed (120–160 km/h (75–99 mph)) railway line also cross the town.
History
The Medieval village of Berény wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez%C5%91ber%C3%A9ny |
Charlie van Gelderen (14 August 1913 – 26 October 2001) was a South African Trotskyist active in the British Labour movement from the 1930s. He attended the founding conference of the Fourth International in 1938, and towards the end of his life he was the last survivor of that conference.
In the 1940s, he played the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20van%20Gelderen |
Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (22 November 1610 – 24 October 1684) was duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp as the spouse of Duke Friedrich III of Holstein-Gottorp. As a widow, she became known as a patron of culture.
Biography
She was a daughter of John George I, Elector of Saxony, and his spouse Princess Magdal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess%20Marie%20Elisabeth%20of%20Saxony |
Emek HaMa'ayanot Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Emek HaMa'ayanot, lit. Valley of the Springs Regional Council) is a regional council in the Northern District of Israel that encompasses most of the settlements in the Beit She'an Valley. Until 2008 it was known as the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council (Mo'atza Azor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emek%20HaMaayanot%20Regional%20Council |
Tailevu North Ovalau Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliament... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailevu%20North%20Ovalau%20%28Open%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Cautín Province () is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía (IX), bounded on the north by Arauco and Malleco provinces, on the east by Argentina, on the south by Valdivia Province, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its population at the 2012 census was of 692,582. The most important co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caut%C3%ADn%20Province |
Dillon Matthew Boucher (born 27 December 1975) is a New Zealand former professional basketball player. His 13 combined career championships is the most in ANBL/NZNBL history.
Early life
Growing up in Bell Block, a small township just outside of New Plymouth, Boucher picked up basketball in his final year at Bell Bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon%20Boucher |
Brian G. Wowk is a Canadian medical physicist and cryobiologist known for the discovery and development of synthetic molecules that mimic the activity of natural antifreeze proteins in cryopreservation applications, sometimes called "ice blockers". As a senior scientist at 21st Century Medicine, Inc., he was a co-devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Wowk |
The European Patent Register, also known as the Register of European Patents, is a public register kept by the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains legal information relating to published European patent applications and European patents granted under the European Patent Convention (EPC). The register notably prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Patent%20Register |
The battle that took place on 26 July 1566 during the Northern Seven Years' War and was a slight victory for a Swedish fleet over a combined Danish and Lübecker fleet. It began just east of Öland and the Allied fleet eventually retreated toward Gotland.
Two days after the battle a storm sank fourteen of the Allied shi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20of%2026%20July%201566 |
The Civic Party (CP) was a pro-democracy liberal political party in Hong Kong.
The party was formed in 2006 on the basis of the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group, which was derived from the Basic Law Article 23 Concern Group that rooted in its opposition to the proposed legislation of the Article 23 of the Basic Law... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20Party |
The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is essentially that of Demotic Greek, but it has also assimilated certain elements of Katharevousa, the archaic, learned variety of Greek imitating Classical Greek forms, which used to be the official language of Greece through much of the 19th an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Greek%20grammar |
Ruabon railway station () is a combined rail and bus interchange serving Ruabon, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is the second busiest station in Wrexham County Borough in terms of passenger journeys, after the mainline station, Wrexham General. It is on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line, which is part of the former Gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruabon%20railway%20station |
(, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated as Arguments and Facts) is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide. Since 2014, it has been owned by the Government of Moscow.
History and profile
It was founded in 1978 by the All-Union Organisation "Znanie" (Knowledge) and was pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumenty%20i%20Fakty |
The sequence .ac (short for academia) is in use in many countries as a second-level domain for academic institutions such as universities, colleges, and research institutes. In the United Kingdom and Japan, for example, academic institutions use domain names ending in .ac.uk and .ac.jp respectively.
Many countries use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac%20%28second-level%20domain%29 |
Tarkan is a 1999 compilation album by Tarkan, composed of songs released in his 1994 A-Acayipsin and 1997 Ölürüm Sana albums. It was initially released in France in 1998 but due to the success of his single "Şımarık", it was given a wider European release on 1 April 1999, with 14 tracks. Due to its popularity it was re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarkan%20%28album%29 |
Crumpler is an Australian bag brand and manufacturer with two separately held companies who design and supply different products to their respective markets. The company's Pacific headquarters are in Melbourne, Australia, while its European office serving other markets is in Berlin, Germany. Established in 1995, Crumpl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpler |
Warren's Gate (), first described by nineteenth century surveyor Charles Warren, is an ancient entrance into the Temple platform in Jerusalem which lies about into the Western Wall Tunnel. In the Second Temple period, the gate led to a tunnel and staircase onto the Temple Mount.
After the Rashidun Caliphate conquest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%27s%20Gate |
Saint Louis is an unincorporated community in the French Prairie area of Marion County, Oregon, United States, about three miles northwest of Gervais, at the intersection of St. Louis and Manning roads. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
One of the oldest communities in the state, Saint Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Louis%2C%20Oregon |
was a Japanese composer and conductor.
Name
In older Western reference sources, his name is given as Kôsçak Yamada.
Biography
Born in Tokyo, Yamada started his music education at Tokyo Music School in 1904, studying there under German composers and Heinrich Werkmeister. In 1910, he left Japan for Germany where he en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dsaku%20Yamada |
The GS&WR Class 2 was a lightweight 4-4-0 steam locomotive used by the Great Southern and Western Railway in Ireland in the late 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. They were the first locomotives of type 4-4-0 in Ireland.
Many Irish branch lines, some very long, were lightly laid and needed special locom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS%26WR%20Class%202 |
Chirk railway station () serves the town of Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The station is on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line north of Shrewsbury, which is part of the former Great Western Railway mainline route from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside. The original 19th-century (grade 2 listed) Chirk / Y Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirk%20railway%20station |
Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas (10 May 1955 – 28 June 2009) was an Indian screenwriter, playwright, film maker, and producer who worked in the Malayalam film industry. In a career spanning over two decades, his films have won a National Film Award, six Kerala State Film Awards, and fourteen Kerala Film Critics Awar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20K.%20Lohithadas |
Kill at Will (titled At Will in its censored version) is an extended play by American rapper Ice Cube, released in 1990 via Priority Records. It was released soon after AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and capitalized on Cube's newfound solo success.
Critical reception
Trouser Press praised "the lighthearted 'Jackin’ for Beats... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%20at%20Will |
Mario Abbate (Naples, 8 August 1927 – Naples, 6 August 1981) was an Italian singer and actor, famous as an exponent of Neapolitan songs. He appeared in three Italian movies: Naples Sings (1953), It Happened at the Police Station (1954), and Treasure of San Gennaro (1966). He died on 6 August 1981, two days before his 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Abbate |
CXH may refer to:
Charing Cross Hospital in London, UK
China Xinhua Airlines, the ICAO airline code
Vancouver Harbour Water Airport, the IATA airport code
Chloe x Halle, American R&B duo
Chuzhou railway station, China Railway telegraph code CXH | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CXH |
Wamboin is a rural-residential area in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in the County of Murray, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council LGA. It is approximately 16 kilometres north-east of the Australian city of Canberra.
It should not be confused with the Parish of Wamboyne, near West Wyalong, NSW... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamboin |
SHARE Inc. is a volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers that was founded in 1955 by Los Angeles-area users of the IBM 704 computer system. It evolved into a forum for exchanging technical information about programming languages, operating systems, database systems, and user experiences for enterprise user... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE%20%28computing%29 |
Reject All American is the second studio album by the American punk rock band Bikini Kill, released in 1996 by Kill Rock Stars.
Recording and release
Reject All American was recorded in November 1995 and produced by John Goodmanson. The album was released on April 5, 1996, by the independent record label Kill Rock S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reject%20All%20American |
Alastair Crawford is CEO and founder of i-CD Publishing, the precursor to 192.com.
An internet entrepreneur, he founded i-CD Publishing (UK) Ltd in 1997, which published the UK-info Disk range. He was the first person to publish the electoral roll on CD ROM, which led to a legal dispute with Royal Mail, settled in 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair%20Crawford |
Tailevu South Lomaiviti Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailevu%20South%20Lomaiviti%20%28Open%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Princess Augusta of Denmark (8 April 1580 – 5 February 1639) was the Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp as the wife of Duke John Adolf. She was the third daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Sophia of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. She was politically influential during the reign of her son, Duke Frederick III.
Life
In August... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta%20of%20Denmark |
Frederick Miller was the founder of Miller Brewing Company.
Frederick Miller may also refer to:
Frederick Miller (cricketer) (1828–1875), English cricketer
Frederick Miller (British journalist) (1863–1924), British journalist and editor of The Daily Telegraph
Frederick Miller (VC) (1831–1874), Victoria Cross winner
F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Miller%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Nujol is a brand of mineral oil by Plough Inc., cas number 8012-95-1, and density 0.838 g/mL at 25 °C, used in infrared spectroscopy. It is a heavy paraffin oil so it is chemically inert and has a relatively uncomplicated IR spectrum, with major peaks between 2950-2800, 1465-1450, and 1380–1300 cm−1. The empirical for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nujol |
ITU or Itu may refer to:
Organizations
International Telecommunication Union (formerly International Telegraph Union), an agency of the United Nations
Places
Itu, São Paulo, a municipality in Brazil
Itu River, Brazil
Yidu or Itu, Yichang, Hubei, China
Itu, Nigeria
Schools
Information Technology University, P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Sithole is a surname of Zulu origin, and may refer to:
Lucas Sithole (1931–1994), South African sculptor
Lucas Sithole (tennis) (born 1986), South African Professional Wheelchair Tennis Player
Edson Sithole (1935–1975), Rhodesian lawyer
Majozi Sithole, Swazi politician
Moses Sithole (born 1964), South African serial k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sithole |
The M8 Armored Gun System (AGS), sometimes known as the Buford, is an American light tank that was intended to replace the M551 Sheridan and TOW missile-armed Humvees in the 82nd Airborne Division and 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (2nd ACR) of the U.S. Army respectively.
The M8 AGS began as a private venture of FMC Cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8%20Armored%20Gun%20System |
Biobío Province () is one of three provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío (VIII). Its capital is Los Ángeles (2002 pop. 94,716). It is bounded on the north, west and south by the provinces of Concepción, Arauco and Malleco, respectively, and on the east by Argentina. It has an area of of well-wooded and mountainous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biob%C3%ADo%20Province |
Alastair Sweeny (born August 15, 1946) is a Canadian publisher, historian, and author.
Early life
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he attended St. Andrew's College, and received a bachelor's degree from the Trinity College in the University of Toronto, and a Master of Letters and Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College Du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair%20Sweeny |
is a yonkoma manga series by Takako Aonuma which ran in the Fujinseikatsusha child-raising magazine Petit Enfant. The manga was adapted to a 52-episode anime television series which ran on the MBS and TBS networks (except for TV Yamaguchi) from September 2, 1995 through August 31, 1996. The series is sometimes called M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%20Loves%20the%20Poyopoyo-Saurus |
An artist-run space or artist-run centre (Canada) is a gallery or other facility operated or directed by artists, frequently circumventing the structures of public art centers, museums, or commercial galleries and allowing for a more experimental program. An artist-run initiative (ARI) is any project run by artists, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-run%20space |
Vuda Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuda%20%28Open%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Fluorometholone acetate, also known as oxylone acetate and sold under the brand names Flarex, Florate, and Omnitrol, is a synthetic glucocorticoid corticosteroid and a corticosteroid ester, as well as a progestogen and progestogen ester. It is the C17α acetate ester of fluorometholone.
In addition to its potent cortic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorometholone%20acetate |
TSS (Turbine Steam Ship) Fairstar (Fairstar, the Fun Ship) was a popular Australian-based cruise ship operating out of Sydney for 22 years. Originally completed in 1957 as the British troopship Oxfordshire, it was converted to become the Fairstar in 1964 for immigrant voyages and from December 1974 was permanently enga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS%20Fairstar |
Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) is a biennial Singaporean event to showcase student's talents in performing arts in the country. First launched in 1967, the SYF has seen the involvement of more than 30,000 students in the activities and performances each year.
History
The SYF was first launched on 18 July 1967 by then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%20Youth%20Festival |
George Day (29 October 1826 – 13 July 1906) was an Australian politician. He was born in the Hawkesbury River district of New South Wales on 29 October 1826.
He was elected from 1874 to 1880 as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, for the electoral district of Hume, and elected from 1880 to 1889 for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Day%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
Mumbra is a town in Thane district in Western India in the state of Maharashtra, a Mumbai suburb within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is administered by Thane Municipal Corporation.
History
Mumbra was a flourishing shipbuilding center in early times.
Much of the land around Mumbra was agricultural land until 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbra |
Ranipuram (also known by its former name Madathumala) is a village and a major tourist attraction in the Kasaragod district of the Indian state of Kerala. It is located near Talakaveri Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala-Karnataka border. Situated at above mean sea level, Ranipuram is 48 km from the nearest city Kanhangad an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranipuram |
ACSI may also refer to:
Acta Chimica Slovenica, a peer-reviewed chemical journal published by the Slovenian Chemical Society
Advanced Commerce Solutions Inc, an international sourcing and trade facilitation company
American Customer Satisfaction Index, an economic indicator that measures the satisfaction of consume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACSI |
CrashBurn is an Australian 13-part drama series airing on Network Ten, about surviving long-term relationships in an age where multiple partners and multiple orgasms are considered a birthright.
It starred Catherine McClements and Aaron Blabey as Rosie and Ben Harfield, a couple whose marriage troubles send them to a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrashBurn |
The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20triviality |
John Wilkinson (1854-1941) was an Australian politician, elected from 1889 to 1895 as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, for the electoral district of Albury.
Wilkinson was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England and arrived in Sydney as a boy in a ship of which father was a doctor. His father ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wilkinson%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
Yasawa Nawaka Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasawa%20Nawaka%20%28Open%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
The following is a timeline of the Kashmir conflict, a territorial conflict between India, Pakistan and, to a lesser degree, China. India and Pakistan have been involved in four wars and several border skirmishes over the issue.
1846–1945: Princely state
Kashmir Valley was a Muslim-majority region speaking the Kash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20Kashmir%20conflict |
Mark Jan Hendrik Tuitert (; born 4 April 1980) is a retired Dutch speed skater. He won gold at the 1500 m at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Personal life
Tuitert married fellow Dutch speed skater Helen van Goozen in 2009. Ten years before, they both won gold medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships.
Speed sk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Tuitert |
Binoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, shortened as B. B. D. Bagh, formerly called Tank Square and then Dalhousie Square (1847 to 1856), is the administrative, financial and commercial region and one of the central business districts of Kolkata, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the seat of Government of West Bengal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20B.%20D.%20Bagh |
Valiyaparamba (Malayalam: വലിയപറമ്പ) is a coastal island in Hosdurg taluk, Kasaragod district, Kerala state, India.
Location
Valiyaparamba is separated from the mainland by Kavvayi Backwater. It is located southwest of Cheruvathur and about from Bekal, Kasaragod, north Kerala. The island is approximately in size, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valiyaparamba |
is a Japanese manga artist who has created several works with a lesbian theme. These include Indigo Blue, the story of a young author discovering her sexuality, Free Soul, and Love My Life.
Career
Her debut work was the short story "Sankakukei no dessert", published in Monthly LaLa in November 1984.
Several of her w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebine%20Yamaji |
Veeramala Hills is a small mountain in the Kasargode district of Kerala state, south India. It is situated at Cheruvathur. On the Hill top are the ruins of a Dutch fort built in the 18th century. There is a picnic spot from where the Kariangode river and surroundings can be viewed.
References
Tourism in Kerala
Mounta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veeramala%20Hills |
Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century rabbi who lived in Ottoman Empire; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi Hezekiah da Silva.
After a journey to Europe in behalf of the halukka fund, he was elected rabbi of Smyrna, where he remained forty years. At an advanced age he return... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20HaKohen%20Rapoport |
Curtis Staples (born July 14, 1976) is a former American basketball player who played from 1994 to 1998 for the University of Virginia. He was a sophomore starter on Virginia Group AAA champion Patrick Henry High School in 1992. He played at, and is a 1994 graduate of Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. He i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Staples |
Leo is an open-source text editor/outliner that features clones (virtual copies of outline nodes) as a central tool of organization, navigation, customization and scripting.
Languages
Leo can manipulate text or code in any human or computer programming language (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java), as Leo is a language-inde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20%28text%20editor%29 |
Plan Totality was a disinformation ploy established by US General Dwight D. Eisenhower in August 1945 by order of US President Harry S. Truman after the Potsdam Conference.
The plan was for a nuclear attack on the USSR with 20 to 30 atomic bombs. It named 20 Soviet cities for obliteration by a nuclear first strike: Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%20Totality |
An ox-wagon or bullock wagon is a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen (draught cattle). It was a traditional form of transport, especially in Southern Africa but also in New Zealand and Australia. Ox-wagons were also used in the United States. The first recorded use of an ox-wagon was around 1670, but they continue to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox-wagon |
Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (, German and ; 19 December 1744 – 17 August 1836) was a cadet member of the house of Hesse-Kassel and a Danish general field marshal. Brought up with relatives at the Danish court, he spent most of his life in Denmark, serving as royal governor of the twin duchies of Schleswig-Holstein f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Charles%20of%20Hesse-Kassel |
David Lindsay, 1st Duke of Montrose (144025 December 1495) was a Scottish nobleman.
He was the son of Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford, and inherited the Earldom of Crawford on his father's death in 1453. During his political career, he held the posts of Lord High Admiral of Scotland, Master of the Royal Househ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lindsay%2C%201st%20Duke%20of%20Montrose |
Port Vincent may refer to:
Port Vincent, Louisiana, a village in Livingston Parish, United States
Port Vincent, South Australia, a small town on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula, Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Vincent |
Rekeying a lock is replacing the old lock pins with new lock pins.
History
Rekeying was first invented in 1836 by Solomon Andrews, a New Jersey locksmith. His lock had adjustable tumblers and keys, allowing the owner to rekey it at any time. Later in the 1850s, inventors Andrews and Newell patented removable tumblers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekeying |
Moonta may refer to:
Places
Moonta, South Australia, a locality in the Copper Coast Council including:
East Moonta
Moonta Bay
Moonta Cemetery
Moonta Mines
North Moonta
Corporate Town of Moonta, a former local government area
New Moonta, a suburb in Bundaberg, Queensland
Ships
MV Moonta, a cruise ship now used as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonta |
Kadina may refer to:
Australia
New South Wales
Kadina, New South Wales, a locality
Kadina High School
South Australia
Kadina, South Australia, a town and locality
Kadina Cemetery
Kadina Town Hall, a town hall in South Australia
Corporate Town of Kadina, a former local government area
District Council of Kad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadina |
CBOSS Corporation (Convergent Business Operation Support System) is a telecom company primarily based in Russia and with offices located in Finland, UAE and Vietnam. CBOSS Corporation, also known as CBOSS Group, develops IT solutions for the automation of telecommunications enterprises.
One of the three biggest Russi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOSS%20Corporation |
The tradition of folklore—folktales, jokes, legends, and the like—in the Turkish language is very rich, and is incorporated into everyday life and events.
Turkish folklore
Nasreddin Hoca
Perhaps the most popular figure in the tradition is Nasreddin, (known as Nasreddin Hoca, or "teacher Nasreddin", in Turkish), who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20folklore |
Earmark may refer to:
Earmark (agriculture), cuts or marks in the ears of animals made to show ownership
Earmark (politics), a legislative provision that directs funds to be spent on specific projects
Earmark (finance), a requirement that a source of revenue be devoted to a specific public expenditure
See also
Acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark |
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