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Paul Kollsman (February 22, 1900, in Germany – September 26, 1982, in Beverly Hills, California) was a German-American inventor. He invented the first sensitive barometer, a key enabler of instrument flight in airplanes.
The United States Patent Office cites him as the inventor on 124 patents.
Biography
Kollsman stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Kollsman |
Mackintosh's Toffee is a sweet created by Mackintosh Company.
John Mackintosh opened up his sweets shop in Halifax, Yorkshire, England in 1890, and the idea for Mackintosh's Toffee ("not too hard and not too soft"), came soon after. In 1969, Mackintosh's merged with rival Rowntree to form Rowntree Mackintosh, which m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackintosh%27s%20Toffee |
is a 1997 Japanese side-scrolling shooter video game developed by Technosoft for the Sega Saturn. It is the fifth game in the Thunder Force series. Unlike previous games in the series, Thunder Force V uses polygons to model the larger enemy ships and some of the scenery, in addition to sprites. In 1998, Thunder Force V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Force%20V |
Gabriel Bernal (24 March 1956-June 12, 2014) was a Mexican professional boxer. He was the WBC and Lineal Flyweight Champion for six months in 1984 and a super champion in the ring in the 1970s.
Pro career
Bernal came from Cruz Grande, Mexico. He was a top-ten Flyweight contender when he went to Tokyo to face the homet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Bernal |
A victim study (or victimization survey or victimization study) is a survey, such as the British Crime Survey, that asks a sample of people which crimes have been committed against them over a fixed period of time and whether or not they have been reported to the police. Victim studies may be carried out at a national ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim%20study |
Batnfjordsøra is the administrative centre of Gjemnes Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located at the end of the Batnfjorden at the mouth of the river Batnfjordelva. European Route E39 passes through the village on its way from Molde to Trondheim. The village has a population (2018) of 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batnfjords%C3%B8ra |
Shams al-Dīn () Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Ḥāmid al-Nabaṭī al-ʿĀmilī al-Jizzīnī (1334–1385), better known as al-Shāhīd al-Awwal (, "The First Martyr"), was a Shi'a scholar and the author of al-Lum'ah al-Dimashqiyah () and. Although he is neither the first Muslim nor the first Shi'a to die for his religion, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20ibn%20Makki |
Charles Wallace Adair, Jr. (26 January 1914 in Xenia, Ohio – 22 January 2006 in Falls Church, Virginia) was a career United States Foreign Service Officer, serving as Ambassador to Panama (1965-1969) and Ambassador to Uruguay (1969-1972).
Early life
Adair graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and worked for Chas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Wallace%20Adair |
is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. Mizuki is represented by the talent agency Vision Factory. Born in Nerima, Tokyo to Japanese-American parents, Mizuki began modelling for magazines and appearing in commercials at the age of four.
On March 21, 2015, she announced that she married Koji Aoyama, a president of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa%20Mizuki |
George Sheehan may refer to:
George A. Sheehan (1918–1993), writer about the sport of running
George Sheehan (footballer), Irish soccer player during the 1890s and early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Sheehan |
Proliferative phase can refer to:
a phase of wound healing
a phase of the menstrual cycle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proliferative%20phase |
The Institute for Workers' Control was founded in 1968 by Tony Topham and Ken Coates, the latter then a leader of the International Marxist Group and subsequently professor at the University of Nottingham and a member of the European Parliament from 1989 until 1999.
The Institute drew together shop stewards and milita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Workers%27%20Control |
The Grande Sertão Veredas National Park () is a national park located on the border between the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil.
Location
The park is in the Cerrado biome.
It covers an area of and is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
It was created by decree nº 97.658... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande%20Sert%C3%A3o%20Veredas%20National%20Park |
Robert Kozluk (born 5 August 1977) is an English former footballer who played primarily as a right-back.
Born in Mansfield he came through the Derby County youth team ranks before turning professional in 1997 before joining Sheffield United in March 1999. He spent eight years with the Blades, and made close to 250 app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Kozluk |
Universalist Herald is a publication of the Universalist Herald Publishing company. "Universalist Heritage and Spirit Today" and "The Oldest Continuously Published Liberal Religious Periodical in North America" are the subtitles of the modern edition.
Overview
Founded in 1847 as the Religious Reformer by C. F. R. Sheh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Universalist%20Herald |
Silver Lake, sometimes Silverlake, is an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County, Washington, in the southwestern portion of the state. Silver Lake is located east of Castle Rock along Washington State Route 504, which is also known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway. The area considered Silverlake is about east... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Lake%2C%20Washington |
The Lee County Civic Center is a 7,800-seat multi-purpose arena in North Fort Myers, Florida, US. It opened in 1978.
It hosts local sporting events and concerts.
It has been the home of the Winternats since 1990, one of the oldest major Radio Controlled Car racing events in the world.
On November 15, 2008, WWE Raw s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20County%20Civic%20Center |
26th London Film Critics Circle Awards
8 February 2006
Film of the Year:
Brokeback Mountain
British Film of the Year:
The Constant Gardener
The 26th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2005, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 8 February 2006.
Winners and nominees... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Film%20Critics%20Circle%20Awards%202005 |
Yarmaq was name for Khazar Khaganate currency. The term for silver coin was sheleg (it might have direct connection to the term sheqel). The currency was mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years as tribute money for Vyatichi and other Khazar subjects . Shelegs were probably minted in Kabir (Moxel, client state of Khazar K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar%20coinage |
The John A. Lally Athletics Complex, formerly known as Manley Field House, is a multi-purpose academic and athletics village at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Located at the university's South Campus, it is home to 20 Syracuse Orange athletics teams and serves as a hub for over 600 student-athletes. Followi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Lally%20Athletics%20Complex |
Haplogroup R is a widely distributed human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. Haplogroup R
is associated with the peopling of Eurasia after about 70,000 years ago, and is distributed in modern populations throughout the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa.
Haplogroup R is a descendant of the macro-haplogroup N. Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20R%20%28mtDNA%29 |
The 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first year of the Bowl Coalition and concluded with Alabama's first national championship in thirteen years—their first since the departure of Bear Bryant. One of Bryant's former players, Gene Stallings, was the head coach, and he used a style similar to Bryant's, a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20NCAA%20Division%20I-A%20football%20season |
Sir Robert Henry Woods (27 April 1865 – 8 September 1938) was an Irish surgeon and otorhinolaryngologist and also an Independent Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament.
Personal life
He was born at Tullamore, King's County (now County Offaly), the son of Christopher Woods and Dorothea Lowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Woods%20%28surgeon%29 |
In aviation, the Cook–Craigie plan is an approach to the development process of civil and military aircraft, designed to reduce the time needed to bring a new design into service. In the late 1940s, US Air Force Major Generals Laurence C. Craigie, deputy chief of staff for development, and Orval R. Cook, deputy chief o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%E2%80%93Craigie%20plan |
In cellular biology, P-bodies, or processing bodies, are distinct foci formed by phase separation within the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell consisting of many enzymes involved in mRNA turnover. P-bodies are highly conserved structures and have been observed in somatic cells originating from vertebrates and invertebrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-bodies |
Jamie A. Korab, ONL (born November 28, 1979 in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland) is a Canadian curler and politician. Korab was the lead for the gold medal-winning Canadian men's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics skipped by Brad Gushue. In the 2017 Newfoundland and Labrador municipal elections, Korab was elected to St. John'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Korab |
In criminology and sociology, the dark figure of crime, or hidden figure of crime, is the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime.
Methodology
This gap between reported and unreported crimes calls the reliability of official crime statistics into question, but all measures of crime have a dark figure to some degre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20figure%20of%20crime |
In the United States and Canada, certified funds are a form of payment that is guaranteed to clear or settle by the company certifying the funds.
When making certain types of transactions, such as purchasing real property, motor vehicles and other items that require title, the seller usually requires a guarantee that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20funds |
(English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was , a name often used today.
Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to , the name by which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Absinthe |
Sanary-sur-Mer (, literally Sanary on Sea; ), popularly known as Sanary, is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Southeastern France. In 2018, it had a population of 16,696. Sanary-sur-Mer is located in coastal Provence on the Mediterranean Sea, west of Toulon and southeast of Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanary-sur-Mer |
Nashoba Valley Ski Area is a ski area in Westford, Massachusetts, United States, located at 79 Powers Road. It borders on Littleton, Massachusetts. Operating each winter since its opening in 1964, it has 17 trails, including a terrain park considered one of the best in Massachusetts, and in the area. The area also feat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba%20Valley%20Ski%20Area |
This is a list of Roman triumphal arches. Triumphal arches were constructed across the Roman Empire and are an archetypal example of Roman architecture. Most surviving Roman arches date from the Imperial period (1st century BC onwards). They were preceded by honorific arches set up under the Roman Republic.
Existing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Roman%20triumphal%20arches |
Whisky (Scottish English; otherwise whiskey) is an alcoholic beverage.
Whisky or whiskey may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
Music
Way Down Yonder (re-released in 1997 as Whiskey), an album by Charlie Daniels
Songs
"Whiskey" (Jana Kramer song), 2012
"Whiskey" (Maroon 5 song), 2017
"Whiskey", by Inspiral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky%20%28disambiguation%29 |
YMCA Camp Lawrence Cory, better known as "YMCA Camp Cory" or simply "Camp Cory," is a resident-style summer camp in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. It was founded in 1892 and established at its current location in 1921. The name comes from Lt. H. Lawrence Cory, an American World War I soldier who was kil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA%20Camp%20Cory |
Scots Parliament can refer to:
Parliament of Scotland, the pre-1707 legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland
Scottish Parliament, the post-1999 unicameral devolved legislature of Scotland
See also
Scots (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots%20Parliament |
Duncan Hamilton KC (born 1973 in Troon) is a Scottish lawyer and Scottish National Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region from 1999 to 2003.
He previously wrote a column for The Scotsman newspaper.
Education
Hamilton attended the University of Glasgow, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Hamilton%20%28politician%29 |
Steve Arneil (29 August 1934 – 2 July 2021) was a South African-British master of Kyokushin karate. He learned directly from Masutatsu Oyama and was a senior instructor in Oyama's International Karate Organization (IKO) until 1991, when he resigned from the IKO. Arneil was the founder and President of the International... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Arneil |
Lonnie Thompson (born July 1, 1948), is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from ice caps and mountain glaciers in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie%20Thompson |
Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as religious Satanism, spiritual Satanism, or traditional Satanism, is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural entity, or spiritual being worthy of worship or reverence, whom individuals may contact and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic%20Satanism |
Chesterfield Road is a shopping street in Sheffield, England. It leads south from the suburb of Meersbrook to Woodseats, before becoming Meadowhead at the Abbey Lane junction, next to the Abbey pub. The road starts at Toll Bar bridge on the Meers Brook, the former boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire. There the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterfield%20Road%20%28Sheffield%29 |
"Let My Love Open the Door" is a song written and performed by Pete Townshend from his 1980 album Empty Glass. That year, it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number five on RPM's Top 100 singles chart.
Background
Although Townshend is a devotee to the religious guru Meher Baba, he claimed in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20My%20Love%20Open%20the%20Door |
Barry Edmonds (July 18, 1931 - July 21, 1982) was a United States photojournalist.
The work of photographer Barry Edmonds started in the Flint Journal beginning in 1955. For 27 years, Edmonds worked at the paper. Edmonds was named the Michigan Press Photographer of the Year four times in the 1960s, more than any other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Edmonds |
The Prins reaction is an organic reaction consisting of an electrophilic addition of an aldehyde or ketone to an alkene or alkyne followed by capture of a nucleophile or elimination of an H+ ion. The outcome of the reaction depends on reaction conditions. With water and a protic acid such as sulfuric acid as the reacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prins%20reaction |
The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a measure of overall disease burden, expressed as the number of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death. It was developed in the 1990s as a way of comparing the overall health and life expectancy of different countries.
The DALY has become more common in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted%20life%20year |
Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves, the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush%3A%20A%20Biography |
St. Stephen's Abbey, Augsburg (, formerly Stift St. Stephan) is a Benedictine monastery, formerly a house of Augustinian canonesses, in Augsburg in Bavaria, Germany.
First foundation
The monastery, dedicated to Saint Stephen, was founded in 968 by Saint Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, and used by Augustinian canonesses. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Stephen%27s%20Abbey%2C%20Augsburg |
REMBRANDT-1 is a Submarine communications cable system linking the United Kingdom and the Netherlands across the southern North Sea. It is no longer in use.
It has landing points in:
Pakefield, England, UK
Bakkum, Netherlands
References
External links
KIS-ORCA.eu — Kingfisher Information Service - Offshore Renewal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REMBRANDT-1 |
Sosnovka () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Modern localities
Altai Krai
As of 2012, six rural localities in Altai Krai bear this name:
Sosnovka, Charyshsky District, Altai Krai, a selo in Mayaksky Selsoviet of Charyshsky District;
Sosnovka, Krasnogorsky District, Altai Krai, a selo in Ust-Kaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosnovka |
A very-high-density cable interconnect (VHDCI) is a 68-pin connector that was introduced in the SPI-2 document of SCSI-3. The VHDCI connector is a very small connector that allows placement of four wide SCSI connectors on the back of a single PCI card slot. Physically, it looks like a miniature Centronics type connecto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-density%20cable%20interconnect |
An independence referendum was held in Montenegro on 21 May 2006. It was approved by 55.5% of voters, narrowly passing the 55% threshold. By 23 May preliminary referendum results were recognized by all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, suggesting widespread international recognition if Mont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Montenegrin%20independence%20referendum |
ABC 45 may refer to:
WXLV-TV, a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina
WKDH, a television station licensed to Houston, Mississippi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC45 |
A self-report study is a type of survey, questionnaire, or poll in which respondents read the question and select a response by themselves without any outside interference. A self-report is any method which involves asking a participant about their feelings, attitudes, beliefs and so on. Examples of self-reports are q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report%20study |
was a one-off Hello! Project unit formed in 2004. The members were Maki Goto, Aya Matsuura and Natsumi Abe.
The group was composed of soloists, similar to Gomattou, and released their only single, , on October 6, 2004. It reached 4th place on TBS's Top 100 weekly countdown show Count Down TV. Like Gomattou, the name o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nochiura%20Natsumi |
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generated 16.1% of the country's electricity in 2020. , the UK has 9 operational nuclear reactors at five locations (8 advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) and one pressurised water reactor (PWR)), producing 5.9GWe.
It also has nuclear reprocessing plants at Sellafield and the Tails Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20power%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom |
In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup B is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Origin
Haplogroup B is believed to have arisen in Asia some 50,000 years before present. Its ancestral haplogroup was Eurasian haplogroup R.
The greatest variety of haplogroup B is in China. It is therefore likely that it u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20B%20%28mtDNA%29 |
KMIZ (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Columbia, Missouri, United States, serving the Columbia–Jefferson City market as an affiliate of ABC and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside low-power Fox affiliate KQFX-LD (channel 22, also licensed to Columbia). The two sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMIZ |
La Ferté Abbey (; ) was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1113 in La Ferté-sur-Grosne in the present commune of Saint-Ambreuil, Saône-et-Loire, France, the first of the four great daughter-houses of Cîteaux Abbey. It was dissolved in 1791.
History
The abbey was founded in 1113 by Stephen Harding as the first daughter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Fert%C3%A9%20Abbey |
Aura’s House is an online grassroots project, which raises funds for needy children and their families. Specifically, Aura’s House raises funds for housing, health, income generation, and education projects for needy children in developing countries.
Aura’s House was originally created to raise $4,500 to build a safe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura%27s%20House |
Julius Cherry Powell (January 23, 1926 – 1988) was an American academic teacher and the seventh president of Eastern Kentucky University.
Early life and education
Julius Cherry Powell was born January 23, 1926, in Harriman, Tennessee, to Julius K. and Lucille C. Powell. He graduated from Harrodsburg High School in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20C.%20Powell |
Dired (for Directory Editor) is a computer program for editing file system directories. It typically runs inside the Emacs text editor as a specialized mode, though standalone versions have been written. Dired was the file manager, or visual editor of file system information. The first version of Dired was written as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dired |
Whisky is a Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very rigid roles depicting little emotion. It was premiered at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky%20%28film%29 |
is a series of free-roaming scrolling shooter type video games developed by the Japanese software company Technosoft and published by Sega. The franchise is recognized for its distinctive gameplay, graphics, and synthesizer-based chiptune music soundtracks.
There are six games in the series in total. The first appeare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Force |
Patrick Johnston is a Canadian administrator, policy analyst and former politician. He was recruited by Liberal Party leader John Turner to contest the 1988 election for the party, but unexpectedly lost his nomination to a rival candidate supported by anti-abortion activists.
A teacher and social worker from Toronto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Johnston%20%28Canadian%20politician%29 |
Patrick Johnston may refer to:
Patrick Johnston (Canadian politician), Canadian administrator and former politician
Patrick Johnston (American politician) (born 1946), former Democratic state legislator in the State of California
Patrick Johnston (medieval courtier), Scottish courtier and producer of plays
Patrick G.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Johnston |
REMBRANDT-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and the Netherlands across the southern North Sea. It is no longer in use.
It has landing points in:
Joss Bay, England, UK
Domburg, Netherlands
References
External links
KIS-ORCA.eu — Kingfisher Information Service - Offshore Ren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REMBRANDT-2 |
The St. Bernard Unified School was the K-12 public school in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, for the 2005-2006 school year after Hurricane Katrina hit the Parish directly on August 29, 2005. The school opened in mid-November 2005, less than three months after the devastating floods hit the parish, becomin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Bernard%20Unified%20School |
The Austria women's national football team represents Austria in international women's football competition. The team is controlled by the Austrian Football Association.
The national team is made up mainly of players from the Austrian and German Women's Bundesligas. In 2016, the team qualified for its first-ever major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria%20women%27s%20national%20football%20team |
The Bavarian Congregation is a congregation of the Benedictine Confederation consisting (with one exception) of monasteries in Bavaria, Germany.
It was founded on 26 August 1684 by Pope Innocent XI (1676-1689).
First Congregation
Until the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803 the following abbeys belonged to the congre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian%20Congregation |
The 1979 Challenge Cup was a series of international ice hockey games between the Soviet Union national ice hockey team and a team of All-Stars from the National Hockey League. The games were played on February 8, 10, and 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It replaced the NHL's all-star festivities for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20Challenge%20Cup%20%28ice%20hockey%29 |
Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz (, , born 1902 – died 18 October 1995) was known as the Ribnitzer Rebbe (), and considered a great Hasidic tzadik from Rybnitsa (present-day Transnistria, Moldova). Others, including singer Mordechai Ben David, who was one of the rabbi's close disciples, maintain that he was born in 1893, making ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim%20Zanvl%20Abramowitz |
The General Dental Council (GDC) is an organisation which regulates dental professionals in the United Kingdom. It keeps an up-to-date register of all qualified dentists and other dental care professionals such as: dental hygienists, dental therapists, dental nurses, dental technicians and clinical dental technicians. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Dental%20Council |
Mary Lorraine Ward (6 March 1915 – 19 July 2021), also known as Mary Ward Breheny, was an Australian actress of stage, television, and film. Her career spanned seven decades. Ward trained in England and Australia, and worked in both countries.
Ward during the outbreak of World War II, was in high demand as a stage ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ward%20%28actress%29 |
Haplogroup F is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. The clade is most common in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It has not been found among Native Americans.
It is a primary branch of haplogroup R9.
Distribution
The F haplogroup is fairly common in East Asia. High frequencies of the clade are found among the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20F%20%28mtDNA%29 |
A collegium is a French form of schooling that is both a secondary school and a college.
Information
They are uncommon today. Most collegiums in the United States were built by Roman Catholic religious institutes. One example is the College of the Immaculate Conception in New Orleans, established by the Society of Jes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegium%20%28school%29 |
or Sugar² Rune is a Japanese magical girl manga series written and illustrated by Moyoco Anno and serialized in the shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi from September 2003 to May 2007. The series was collected into eight volumes published by Kodansha from September 2003 to May 2007. Sugar Sugar Rune was adapted into an anim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20Sugar%20Rune |
Timeless is a collaborative album, recorded and released by Brazilian artist Sérgio Mendes, and produced by American rapper, songwriter and producer will.i.am. The album was released in the UK on February 13, 2006 and in the US on February 14.
Background
The album features many neo soul and alternative hip hop guest a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeless%20%28S%C3%A9rgio%20Mendes%20album%29 |
Delay 1968, or just Delay (as the SACD version is titled), is an archival compilation album by German experimental rock band Can during its work with singer Malcolm Mooney comprising previously unissued early recordings of the band's rejected debut album, Prepared to Meet Thy PNOOM. The song "Thief" had previously been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%201968 |
Snow is the first solo album by Curt Kirkwood of the alternative rock band Meat Puppets, released in 2005. In his solo career, short though it was, he has pursued a more countrified aspect of his music. "Golden Lies" was originally written as the title track for the previous Meat Puppets album, however, it was ironical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20%28Curt%20Kirkwood%20album%29 |
RIOJA-1 was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and Spain across the North Atlantic Ocean.
It had landing points in:
Porthcurno, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Virgen del Mar Beach, Santander, Spain
It was withdrawn from service on October 13, 2006.
References
Sources
Submarine c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIOJA-1 |
Irene McGugan (born 1952) is a Scottish politician. She was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.
In the 1999 election she stood as a constituency candidate in Aberdeen South, finishing fourth. However her number four position on the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20McGugan |
Arne Novák, born as Arnošt Novák, (2 March 1880, Litomyšl, Bohemia – 26 November 1939, Polička) was a Czech literary historian and critic, specialist in German and Czech studies.
Life
He was born as a son of the high school teacher Josef Novák and the novelist Teréza Nováková.
He was active in the magazines Volné smě... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20Nov%C3%A1k |
Knowledge integration is the process of synthesizing multiple knowledge models (or representations) into a common model (representation).
Compared to information integration, which involves merging information having different schemas and representation models, knowledge integration focuses more on synthesizing the un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20integration |
Julia Blake (born 1936) is an English–born Australian actress.
Blake won the 1989 AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries for Eden's Lost, and the 1990 AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role opposite Max von Sydow in the film Father. She also received AFI nominations for Travelling North... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Blake |
Rahimullah Yusufzai (رحیم اللہ یوسُفزئی) (10 September 1954 – 9 September 2021) was a Pakistani journalist, political and security analyst, best known for having interviewed Osama bin Laden, and Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
He was also a war correspondent.
Early life and education
Yusufzai was born on 10 Septe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahimullah%20Yusufzai |
Leigh David Bromby (born 2 June 1980) is an English retired footballer who played as a defender.
Bromby primarily played for Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United, and is the only player to have played 100 league games for both teams.
Career
Sheffield Wednesday
Born in Dewsbury, Bromby started his footballing ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20Bromby |
RIOJA-2 was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and Belgium across the North Atlantic Ocean/English Channel.
It had landing points in:
Porthcurno, Cornwall, United Kingdom
De Panne, West Flanders, Belgium
It was withdrawn from service on 13 October 2006.
References
Kingfisher inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIOJA-2 |
Longisquama is a genus of extinct reptile. There is only one species, Longisquama insignis, known from a poorly preserved skeleton and several incomplete fossil impressions from the Middle to Late Triassic Madygen Formation in Kyrgyzstan. It is known from the type fossil specimen, slab and counterslab (PIN 2548/4 and P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longisquama |
William Morgan Jellett, QC (19 May 1857 – 27 October 1936) was an Irish Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party. He was born in Dublin, the son of Rev. John Hewitt Jellett, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and his w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Jellett |
"Maroon & Gold" is the official fight song of Arizona State University. It was composed by former Director of Sun Devil Marching Band, Felix E. McKernan, in 1948.
Alma mater
"Alma Mater" was composed by former Music Professor and Director of Bulldog Marching Band, Miles A. Dresskell, in 1937. Current version of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon%20%26%20Gold |
Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences, barns, sheds, and outbuildings.
Exterior walls
Shiplap is either rough-sawn or milled pine or similarly inexpensive wood between wide with a rabbet on opposite sides of each edge. The rabbet allows the boards to o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiplap |
The Somali Warlord Alliance, officially called the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (abbreviated ARPCT; ) was a Somali alliance created by various Somali warlords and businessmen to challenge the emerging influence of the Islamic Courts Union during the Somali Civil War.
The Warlord Alliance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20for%20the%20Restoration%20of%20Peace%20and%20Counter-Terrorism |
Hold to a Dream is an album by the progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival, released in 1987. The lead single "Unconditional Love" reached number 44 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In 1988, "Can't Stop Now" reached number 45. The band supported the album by playing shows with Nanci Griffith. P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold%20to%20a%20Dream |
Garry Mauro (born February 21, 1948) is an American politician. He was the four-term commissioner of the Texas General Land Office from 1983 to 1999 during the administrations of Governors Mark White, Bill Clements, Ann Richards, and George W. Bush. He is also known for losing the 1998 Texas gubernatorial election to B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%20Mauro |
South Picene (also known as Paleo-Sabellic, Mid-Adriatic or Eastern Italic) is an extinct Italic language belonging to the Sabellic subfamily. It is apparently unrelated to the North Picene language, which is not understood and therefore unclassified. South Picene texts were at first relatively inscrutable even though ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Picene%20language |
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson (BUMCT), formerly University Medical Center and the University of Arizona Medical Center, is a private, non-profit, 649-bed acute-care teaching hospital located on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. BUMCT is the clinical partner of the University of Ari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner%20University%20Medical%20Center%20Tucson |
The Art of Virtue is the second CD by Nashville, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter Adrienne Young and her band, Little Sadie.
Young, a history buff, was inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s "Thirteen Virtues," a copy of which was included with the CD, and distressed by the Republican Party’s efforts to leverage “moral virt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Art%20of%20Virtue |
Tracy Mann (born 1957) is an Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for movie Hard Knocks . She has also won awards in her home country for her work in mini-series Sword of Honour and 2005 movie comedy Hating Alison Ash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Mann |
is a retired Japanese figure skater (men's singles and ice dance) and ice show producer. As a singles skater, he is the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2010 World champion, the 2012–13 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time (2008, 2011) Four Continents champion, and a five-time (2006-2008, 2010, 2012) Japanese nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Takahashi |
Nanna's Cottage is a Christian children's television series created by husband and wife producing team Davey Porter and Karen Sponsler-Porter.
The series is about a 75-year-old grandmother Abigale "Nanna" Macaroon, a world traveler and archeologist, who gives away love and knowledge to her granddaughter and her friend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanna%27s%20Cottage |
John Joseph Cusack (8 August 1868 – 8 September 1956) was an Australian politician and businessman. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) for most of his career and served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1910–1917) and House of Representatives (1929–1931).
Early life
Cusack was born at Belle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cusack%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
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