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Todd Oldham (born Jacky Todd Oldham;) is an American-born designer and president of L-7 Designs Inc and Todd Oldham Studios. His approach to fashion and style has become known to millions through his fashion lines, interior designs, books and by appearing in television shows. Oldham is based in New York City.
Biograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Oldham |
The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is a small raptor of the falcon family. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China before migrating in large flocks across India and over the Arabian Sea to winter in Southern and East African coasts.
Description
Males are characteristically dark sooty grey above with rufo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur%20falcon |
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White (GAP&W) was a Chicago architectural firm that was founded in 1912 as Graham, Burnham & Co. This firm was the successor to D. H. Burnham & Co. through Daniel Burnham's surviving partner, Ernest R. Graham, and Burnham's sons, Hubert Burnham and Daniel Burnham Jr. In 1917, the Burnhams lef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%2C%20Anderson%2C%20Probst%20%26%20White |
Archibald Simpson (14 March 1866 – January 1955) was an American professional golfer. He was also a golf course designer and a golf club maker. He was runner-up in The Open Championship in 1885 (won by Bob Martin), and 1890 (won by John Ball).
Early years
Simpson was born on 14 March 1866 in Earlsferry, Fifeshire, Sco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20Simpson |
Chef salad (or chef's salad) is an American salad consisting of hard-boiled eggs, one or more varieties of meat (such as ham, turkey, chicken, or roast beef), tomatoes, cucumbers, and cheese, all placed upon a bed of tossed lettuce or other leaf vegetables. Several early recipes also include anchovies. A variety of dre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef%20salad |
Lopo Fortunato Ferreira do Nascimento (born 10 July 1942) is an Angolan retired politician. He served as the first Prime Minister of Angola from 11 November 1975 to 9 December 1978 and was Secretary-General of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
At the age of 19, he was arrested but released with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopo%20do%20Nascimento |
Skircoat Green () is an area to the south of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Skircoat is a ward of the Borough of Calderdale whose population at the 2011 Census was 12,712.
In the 13th century, the land was granted to the Earl Warren, and then passed to the Savile family. This was an independent township before bein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skircoat%20Green |
Mumtaz Husain, better known as Mumtaz Mufti (; September 11, 1905 – October 27, 1995), was a writer from Pakistan.
Initially a religious skeptic influenced by authors like Freud, Havelock Ellis, Alfred Adler and Fyodor Dostoevsky, he would eventually come back to Islam through Sufism.
Critic Nasir Abbas Nayyar descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumtaz%20Mufti |
Inositol pentakisphosphate (abbreviated IP5) is a molecule derived from inositol tetrakisphosphate by adding a phosphate group with the help of Inositol-polyphosphate multikinase (IPMK). It is believed to be one of the many second messengers in the inositol phosphate family. It "is implicated in a wide array of biologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol%20pentakisphosphate |
An Choyoung (born September 25, 1979) is a professional Go player.
Biography
An became a professional in 1993 at the age of 14. He was promoted to 8 dan in 2004, then 9 dan in 2005. He participated in the first China-Korea Kangwon-Land Cup where he won 2 games.
Titles & runners-up
References
1979 births
Living peo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Cho-young |
Sedan Crater is the result of the Sedan nuclear test on July 6, 1962 and is located within the Nevada Test Site, southwest of Groom Lake, Nevada (Area 51). The crater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 1994.
The crater is the result of the displacement of of earth. Over 10,000 people... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan%20Crater |
Yusuf Haji Nur (, ; died 23 June 2019) was a Somali politician and lawyer. He was Chief Justice of Puntland.
On 1 July 2001, he declared himself acting President of Puntland after the end of the presidential term of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. However, the former President rejected Yusuf Haji's claim and insisted that he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf%20Haji%20Nur |
Harley Quinn Crazy Train (previously Blackbeard's Lost Treasure Train) is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. It was manufactured by Zierer and opened in 1999, classified as a junior roller coaster. It is a smaller, family-oriented coaster. It is considered a jun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley%20Quinn%20Crazy%20Train |
Jīlū was a district located in the Hakkari region of upper Mesopotamia in modern-day Turkey.
Before 1915 Jīlū was home to Assyrians and as well as a minority of Kurds. There were 20 Assyrian villages in this district. The area was traditionally divided into Greater and Lesser Jīlū, and Ishtāzin - each with its own Mali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilu |
Peter Jennings Reporting was a continuing series of documentaries produced and hosted by ABC News anchor Peter Jennings that aired on ABC. Many of these documentaries were produced by Jennings's production company, PJ Productions, and are currently distributed in DVD format by Koch Vision. The series debuted in 1990.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Jennings%20Reporting |
Cha Cha Cha is the third album by English rock band EMF, released in 1995 under the EMI label.
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote that "flashes of EMF’s early techno-pop sound surface in 'Bleeding You Dry,' by far the most listenable track on 1995’s Cha Cha Cha. Almost every other cut on this would-be comeback, ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha%20Cha%20Cha%20%28album%29 |
Benson Kelley Whitney (born August 17, 1956, in Saint Paul, Minnesota) was the United States Ambassador to Norway from 2006 to 2009.
Early life and education
Whitney grew up in Minnesota branch of the prominent American Whitney family and is of close relation to Vanderbilt family. He graduated high school from Verde ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%20K.%20Whitney |
Fangchenggang ( ''The port of Fangcheng'') is a prefecture-level city in the south of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The city was formerly called "Fangcheng Pan-Ethnicities Autonomous County" (25 December 1978 – 23 May 1993).
Fangcheng is the southernmost port in China and is located i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangchenggang |
Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH) is a charity based in the United Kingdom which "affirms the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people and reduces discrimination experienced because of sexual orientation or gender identity." Since 2003, EACH has delivered training and consultancy services... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational%20Action%20Challenging%20Homophobia |
Mariya Karpovna Bayda (; February 1, 1922 – August 30, 2002) was a medical orderly in the 514th Infantry Regiment during World War II who fought in Crimea. When she was surrounded by Wehrmacht submachine gunners, she fought a heated gun battle against them, killing fifteen, wounding several more, and routing the rest, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya%20Bayda |
The friarbirds, also called leatherheads, are a groups of 18 relatively large honeyeaters in the genus Philemon. Additionally, the single member of the genus Melitograis is called the white-streaked friarbird. Friarbirds are found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia, and New Caledonia. They eat nectar, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friarbird |
The similarity heuristic is a psychological heuristic pertaining to how people make judgments based on similarity. More specifically, the similarity heuristic is used to account for how people make judgments based on the similarity between current situations and other situations or prototypes of those situations.
At i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity%20heuristic |
Carlos Ferro is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Early life
Carlos' first career in the entertainment industry was as a DJ. Leaving music for a career in theatre and television, his work eventually led to a stint as an artist in residence at Cornell University.
Performance
Carlos starred in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Ferro%20%28American%20actor%29 |
Gawar may refer to:
Yüksekova, known in Syriac as Gawar, a city in Turkey
Gawar language, and Afro-Asiatic language of Cameroon
See also
Gavar, a town in Armenia
Gaur (disambiguation)
Gawar-Bati language, an Indo-Aryan language of Pakistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawar |
Otto III (11 February 1261 – 9 November 1312), a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was the Duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 to 1312 and the King of Hungary and Croatia between 1305 and 1307. His reign in Hungary was disputed by Charles Robert of the Angevin dynasty.
Biography
Otto was born in Burghausen, the son of He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20III%2C%20Duke%20of%20Bavaria |
Namosi Fijian Provincial Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 were reserved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namosi%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Adela Micha Zaga (born May 25, 1963) is a Mexican journalist notable for conducting several radio and TV newscasts and pioneering the Big Brother reality show in Mexico. She is a graduate of the Universidad del Nuevo Mundo (currently closed by the SEP)
Past work
Micha's work encompasses numerous radio and TV news sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adela%20Micha |
Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder characterized by the appearance of succinylaminoimidazolecarboxamide riboside (SAICA riboside) and succinyladenosine (S-Ado) in cerebrospinal fluid, urine. These two succinylpurines are the dephosphorylated derivatives of SAICA ribotide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylosuccinate%20lyase%20deficiency |
Charles Emory Apgar (June 28, 1865 – August 17, 1950) was an American business executive and amateur radio operator. He is known for making early recordings of radio transmissions at the start of World War I. The recordings that he made of a wireless telegraphy station owned by a German Empire-based company operating f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20E.%20Apgar |
The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd is a short audio and video series distributed via podcasting. Created by Grant Baciocco and Doug Price, it is a family friendly show in the style of old-time radio. The show also draws much inspiration from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. The show first began in April 2004 on Dementia Rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radio%20Adventures%20of%20Dr.%20Floyd |
Tolgay Özbey (born 12 April 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player, who last played for Rockdale City Suns in the National Premier Leagues NSW as a striker.
Biography
Australian Clubs
Early in his career, Özbey was recognized for his contributions as a striker with Blacktown City Demons during which he wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolgay%20%C3%96zbey |
Mount Watatic is a monadnock located just south of the Massachusetts–New Hampshire border, in the United States, at the southern end of the Wapack Range. It lies in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and Ashby, Massachusetts. The Wapack Trail and the Midstate Trail both cross the mountain.
The name is probably a corruption ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Watatic |
Utopia was the name of several science fiction series published by Erich Pabel Verlag, Rastatt.
Together with the Terra series of the rival publisher Arthur Moewig Verlag, Munich,
the Utopia series were the most important science fiction work in the early years of West Germany.
Utopia Zukunftsromane
Utopia Zukunftsro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia%20%28German%20science%20fiction%29 |
Maryland Route 273 (MD 273) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Telegraph Road, the highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) near Harrisville east to the Delaware state line near Appleton, where the highway continues east as Delaware Route 273 (DE 273). MD 273 is the main ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20273 |
The Warta Mouth National Park () is the youngest of Poland's 23 national parks. It was created on 19 June 2001 in the region of the lowest stretch of the Warta river, up to its confluence with the Odra (Oder), which marks the Polish–German border. The park covers an area of within Lubusz Voivodeship.
The park was cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warta%20Mouth%20National%20Park |
Van Deusen is a surname of Dutch origin, sometimes spelled VanDeusen or Van Dursen. Notable people with the surname include:
Abraham Pietersen Van Deusen (before 1607–c. 1670), Dutch colonist in New Amsterdam
Carol Van Deusen, a partner of balloonist Larry Walters
Charles Van Deusen, a detective who was involved in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Deusen |
Calais-Fréthun station (French: Gare de Calais-Fréthun) is an SNCF international railway station in the suburbs of Calais, France. It is one of four stations serving the town; the others are Calais-Ville in the town centre, Fontinettes in the suburbs, and Beau Marais in the suburbs.
The station has four platforms, two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais-Fr%C3%A9thun%20station |
The Color Kittens is a children's book by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, and published, as part of the Little Golden Books series, in 1949.
Plot
The story revolves around two kittens, "Hush" and "Brush," who attempt to create their favorite color green by mixing the primary colors red,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Color%20Kittens |
Aiki is a 2002 Japanese film about a martial artist in a wheelchair, directed and written by Daisuke Tengan. It is loosely based on the life of a Danish practitioner of the Roppokai branch of Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu, Ole Kingston Jensen, who started training in Daitō-ryū after he was handicapped in an accident and now i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiki%20%28film%29 |
Cáo Dàyuán (), born January 26, 1962) is a professional Go player.
Biography
Cao started learning Go when he was 11. He won the 4th World Amateur Go Championship in 1982 and turned professional in 1985. He was promoted to 9 dan in 1986.
Titles & runners-up
Ranks #10 in total number of titles in China.
External lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao%20Dayuan |
During the tremendous U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) expansion of the early and mid-fifties, bases become overcrowded, with some of them supporting as many as 90 B-47s and 40 KC-97s. The first B-52 wings were also extremely large – composed of 45 bombers and 15 or 20 KC-135s, all situated on one base. As th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20Air%20Force%20strategic%20wings |
Andromeda X (And 10) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.9 million light-years away from the Sun in the constellation Andromeda. Discovered in 2005 by Zucker et al., And X is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Aided by the application of stellar photometry to data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%20X |
Lotus is a board game for two to four players, developed by Dominique Tellier and published by Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The objective of the game is to move one's pieces off the board before the other players. The game board is hexagonal, and contains a large image of a Chinese dragon in the middle, as well as a Chin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20%28board%20game%29 |
Timothy Charles Harrington (1851 – 12 March 1910), born in Castletownbere, County Cork, was an Irish journalist, barrister, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party he represented Westme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Harrington |
Fedor Vladimirovich Andreev (, born March 2, 1982) is a former figure skater with dual Russian and Canadian citizenship. In single skating, he is the 2003 Canadian bronze medalist and the 1999 junior national champion. In 2010, he switched to ice dancing and competed for Russia with partner Jana Khokhlova for one seaso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor%20Andreev |
An oceanarium can be either a marine mammal park, such as Marineland of Canada, or a large-scale aquarium, such as the Lisbon Oceanarium, presenting an ocean habitat with marine animals, especially large ocean dwellers such as sharks.
First marine mammal parks
Marineland of Florida, one of the first theme parks in Fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanarium |
Sovetsky (masculine), Sovetskaya (feminine), Sovetskoye (neuter), or Sovetskiye (plural) is something named after the Soviet Union.
Places
Sovetsky District (disambiguation), several districts in the countries of the former Soviet Union
Sovetsky Okrug (disambiguation), various divisions in Russia
Sovetsky Urban Settle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovetsky |
Ko Iso (; born April 10, 1987) is a professional Go player.
Biography
Ko became a professional in 2002. He was promoted to 7 dan after making it through the preliminary rounds of the Meijin tournament.
Promotion record
Runners-up
References
External links
Player page at Japanese Go Association
1987 births
Living... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%20Iso |
Branka Prpa, (born 1953 in Split, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a historian, author, and former director of Belgrade's Historical Archives (Istorijski arhiv Beograda).
Biography
In 1972, against the wishes of her family, she left Split for Belgrade to study history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branka%20Prpa |
Lewis Michael Arquette (December 14, 1935 – February 10, 2001) was an American actor. He was best known for playing J. D. Pickett on the television series The Waltons, on which he worked from 1978 to 1981.
Life and career
Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mildred Nesbitt Le May and actor Cliff Arquet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Arquette |
The Załuski Library (, ) established in Warsaw in 1747 by Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, both Roman Catholic bishops, was a public library nationalized and renamed upon its founders' death into the Załuski Library of the Republic () which existed until the final demise of Polish-Lithu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%C5%82uski%20Library |
Medusa, formerly known as Bizarro, is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride debuted as the world's first floorless roller coaster on April 2, 1999. It was repainted and rethemed to Bizarro in 2009. In 2022, it was repa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa%20%28Six%20Flags%20Great%20Adventure%29 |
Ra Fijian Provincial Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 are reserved fis a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Parson Drove is a fen village in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. A linear settlement, it is west of Wisbech, the nearest town. The village is named after the central thoroughfare along which the village developed, a green drove, much wider than the current metalled road (B1166). The population at the 2001 Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson%20Drove |
Two Evil Eyes (Italian: Due occhi diabolici) is a 1990 anthology horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and Dario Argento. An international co-production of Italy and the United States, Two Evil Eyes is split into two separate tales, both based largely on the works of Edgar Allan Poe: "The Facts in the Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20Evil%20Eyes |
Urban cluster may refer to:
Urban cluster (UC) in the US census. See List of United States urban areas
Urban cluster (France), a statistical area defined by France's national statistics office
City cluster, mainly in Chinese English, synonymous with megalopolis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20cluster |
Bujin (, also Romanized as Būjīn) is a village in Darbandrud Rural District, in the Central District of Asadabad County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 447, in 99 families.
References
Populated places in Asadabad County | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujin |
The MRF World Series for the Jawaharlal Nehru Cup was an international cricket tournament held in India to celebrate the birth centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India.
The tournament took place in October and November 1989, and was sponsored by the Madras Rubber Factory (MRF). Six teams took part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru%20Cup%20%28cricket%29 |
Susan Strange (9 June 1923 – 25 October 1998) was a British scholar who was "almost single-handedly responsible for creating international political economy." Notable publications include Sterling and British Policy (1971), Casino Capitalism (1986), States and Markets (1988), The Retreat of the State (1996), and Mad Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Strange |
Sokół (, English: Falcon), or in full the Polskie Towarzystwo Gimnastyczne "Sokół" (), is the Polish offshoot of the Czech Sokol movement, and the oldest youth movement organization of Poland. Created in Lwów in 1867, by the end of World War I the movement had its units – gniazda ("Nests") – in all parts of Poland, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sok%C3%B3%C5%82 |
Ludkovice is a municipality and village in Zlín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 700 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Pradlisko is an administrative part of Ludkovice.
Etymology
The name of Ludkovice is derived from the personal name Luděk. The name of Pradlisko is deriv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludkovice |
Maryland Route 272 (MD 272) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from Turkey Point within Elk Neck State Park north through North East to the Pennsylvania state line near Calvert, where the highway continues as Pennsylvania Route 272 (PA 272). MD 272 is the main north–south highway ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20Route%20272 |
Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
Early life
She was born as Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, west of Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia, to Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille%20Bedford |
Rewa Fijian Provincial Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 23 communal constituencies reserved for indigenous Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. (Of the remaining 48 seats, 23 were reserved f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewa%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story is the debut studio album by American rapper Remy Ma. It was released on February 7, 2006, by SRC Records, Universal Records and Terror Squad Entertainment. The album's release date served as the sixth anniversary of her mentor Big Pun's death. The title and cover art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s%20Something%20About%20Remy%3A%20Based%20on%20a%20True%20Story |
The Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade form five communities in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from Woodstown and Pilesgrove Township for K-12, along with stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstown-Pilesgrove%20Regional%20School%20District |
Thalía is the eighth studio album and second eponymous album by Mexican singer Thalía, released on 21 May 2002, by EMI Latin. The follow-up to her successful sixth studio album, Arrasando (2000), the album sees Thalía collaborating with previous producers Emilio Estéfan, Jr. and Cory Rooney, while working for the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thal%C3%ADa%20%282002%20album%29 |
Cosmogenic nuclides (or cosmogenic isotopes) are rare nuclides (isotopes) created when a high-energy cosmic ray interacts with the nucleus of an in situ Solar System atom, causing nucleons (protons and neutrons) to be expelled from the atom (see cosmic ray spallation). These nuclides are produced within Earth materials... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmogenic%20nuclide |
Humberto Moreira Valdés (born 28 July 1966) is a Mexican politician who served as President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of the State of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011.
Moreira was included in a list of the "10 most corrupt Mexicans" published by Forbes in 2013. Through his lawyer, Moreira att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto%20Moreira |
thumb|500 Y-DNA phylogeny and haplogroup distribution.
(a) Phylogenetic tree. 'kya' means 'thousand years ago'.
(b) Geographical distributions of haplogroups are shown in color.
(c) Geographical color legend.
In genetics, a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup is a haplogroup defined by mutations in the non-recombining porti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Y-chromosome%20DNA%20haplogroup |
Euphorbia albomarginata (formerly Chamaesyce albomarginata), whitemargin sandmat or rattlesnake weed, is a small low-growing perennial, in the spurge family (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae) native to desert, chaparral, and grassland habitats of southwestern North America, from southern and central California to Northern Mexi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia%20albomarginata |
Nancy Kimball Austin (born c. 1949) is an American writer and business consultant, best known for co-writing the bestsellers A Passion for Excellence (1985) and The Assertive Woman (1975). Her books have sold approximately one million copies, and been published in seven languages.
Biography
Austin was born c. 1949 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Austin |
Wire Daisies were an English band from Cornwall, who were signed to EMI 'Angel' offshoot. The idea for the band was mooted in 1999 by three members of the group who had met at a party to mark the solar eclipse, however it was not until 2002 that the band finally took shape.
After recording a batch of material in a far... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20Daisies |
UNV may refer to:
The United Nations Volunteers
The United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV), one of the four major UN office sites
U.N.V. (band), an R&B group
University Park Airport, whose FAA LID is UNV. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNV |
John's equation is an ultrahyperbolic partial differential equation satisfied by the X-ray transform of a function. It is named after Fritz John.
Given a function with compact support the X-ray transform is the integral over all lines in . We will parameterise the lines by pairs of points , on each line and define ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%27s%20equation |
George Louis Scales (August 16, 1900 - April 15, 1976), nicknamed "Tubby", was an American second baseman and manager in Negro league baseball, most notably with the New York Lincoln Giants and Baltimore Elite Giants. Born in Talladega, Alabama, he batted .319 over a 25-year career during which he played several positi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Scales |
Herbert William Compton Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974), better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Bennett |
Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam (June 22, 1915 – November 13, 2001) was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20Warmerdam |
The Saar franc was the French franc () used as the official currency of the Saar during the times that the Saar territory was economically split off from Germany, in 1920–1935 as the Territory of the Saar Basin, in 1947–1957 as the Saar Protectorate and 1957–1959 as the state of Saarland in West Germany. Local notes an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar%20franc |
Chaim ibn Attar or Ḥayyim ben Moshe ibn Attar (, ; b. - 7 July 1743) also known as the Or ha-Ḥayyim after his popular commentary on the Torah, was a Talmudist and Kabbalist. He is arguably considered to be one of the most prominent Rabbis of Morocco, and is highly regarded in Hassidic Judaism.
Biography
Born in Salé... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim%20ibn%20Attar |
The Saar mark was a currency issued on 16 June 1947 by the French government for use in Saar. It was at par with the German Reichsmark, and composed of six denominations of banknotes, 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 mark.
The aim of its introduction was to prepare an economic union of the Saar with France. In addition, the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar%20mark |
Elizabeth Castle () is a castle and tourist attraction, on a tidal island within the parish of Saint Helier, Jersey. Construction was started in the 16th century when the power of the cannon meant that the existing stronghold at Mont Orgueil was insufficient to defend the Island and the port of St Helier was vulnerable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Castle |
Vaino Väljas (born 28 March 1931 in Külaküla, Hiiumaa, Estonia) is a former Soviet and Estonian diplomat and politician. Väljas was leader of the Communist party in then Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1988–1991, and the leader of Democratic Estonian Workers Party in 1992–1995 in independent Estonia.
Biography
He was bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaino%20V%C3%A4ljas |
Margavar Rural District () is in Silvaneh District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 34,862 in 6,012 households. There were 37,170 inhabitants in 8,364 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margavar%20Rural%20District |
Jutphaas is a former village and municipality in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands. The municipality merged with Vreeswijk in 1971, and is now the northern half of the town of Nieuwegein.
The former village was located on the Merwedekanaal, and some of the buildings can still be found there, surrounded by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutphaas |
Targavar Rural District () is in Silvaneh District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
At the National Census of 2006, its population was 7,893 in 1,344 households. There were 7,765 inhabitants in 1,603 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targavar%20Rural%20District |
Thomas Clark Street (1814 – September 6, 1872) was a lawyer, businessman and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada who represented Welland from 1867 to 1872.
He was born at Chippawa in 1814, the son of Samuel Street Jr. He studied law with Christopher Hager... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Clark%20Street |
Vreeswijk is a former village and municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht. The municipality merged with Jutphaas in 1971, and is now the southern half of the town of Nieuwegein. The former village was located on the Lek River, near where it is crossed by the Merwede Canal.
Name
The name Vreeswijk is documented ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vreeswijk |
Samiul
() is an Afghan male given name, meaning listening to God. it may refer to
Samiullah (Afghan cricketer), Afghan cricketer
Samiullah (Pakistani cricketer), Pakistani cricketer
Samiullah Khan (field hockey) (born 1951), Pakistani hockey player
Samiullah Khan (cricketer), in full Samiullah Khan Niazi (born 1982),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiullah |
A dance squad or dance team, sometimes called a pom squad or song team, is a team that participates in competitive dance. A dance squad can also include: a jazz squad, ballet squad, or any kind of religion dance squad. Dance squads are a type of performance dance.
In the United States and Canada most high schools, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20squad |
A hot dog stand is a business that sells hot dogs, usually from an external counter. Hot dog stands can be located on a public thoroughfare, near a sports stadium, in a shopping mall, or at a fair. They are often found on the streets of major American cities. According to one report, some hot dog stands are paying up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20dog%20stand |
The Amalgamation Polka (2006) is the fourth novel by the writer Stephen Wright. It is set during the time of the American Civil War. The plot concerns the story of Liberty Fish and his travels after joining the Union army. The title refers to a 19th-century lithograph showing a social gathering in which the participant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amalgamation%20Polka |
Funky Koval is a Polish science fiction/detective story/political fiction genre comic book series published in Poland from the 1980s, collected in four volumes. The story was written by and Maciej Parowski, with art drawn by Bogusław Polch. The resulting science fiction comic gained a cult following in Poland and is r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky%20Koval |
A polymer brush is the name given to a surface coating consisting of polymers tethered to a surface. The brush may be either in a solvated state, where the tethered polymer layer consists of polymer and solvent, or in a melt state, where the tethered chains completely fill up the space available. These polymer layers c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20brush |
Bryan Paul Colangelo (born June 1, 1965) is an American basketball executive who was the former general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors and Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also served as president of basketball operations for Philadelphia and Toronto. He is the son of Ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Colangelo |
Oleiros () is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,721, in an area of 471.09 km2. The present mayor is José Santos Marques, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is the Monday after the 2nd Sunday of August.
Economy
Built in 2006, a wind fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleiros%2C%20Portugal |
The Qissa Khwani massacre () in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India (modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) on 23 April 1930 was one of the defining moments of the independence movement in British India. It was the first major confrontation between the British Indian Army and demonstrators in the ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qissa%20Khwani%20massacre |
Soul to Soul is a 1971 documentary film about the Independence Day concert held in Accra, Ghana ,on 6 March 1971. It features an array of mostly American R&B, soul, rock, and jazz musicians.
Directed by Denis Sanders, Soul to Soul was released in August 1971. The film consists of extensive excerpts from the concert pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20to%20Soul%20%28film%29 |
Fritt Ord is a Norwegian private foundation, whose aim is to support freedom of expression and a free press. It was established on 7 June 1974 by Narvesen Kioskkompani's leaders Jens Henrik Nordlie and Finn Skedsmo as well as the lawyer Jens Christian Hauge.
Fritt Ord has significant funds and is playing a part in sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritt%20Ord%20%28organization%29 |
Jem Ward (26 December 1800 – 3 April 1884) was an English bare-knuckle boxer. "A fine fighter and powerfully built man", he was the English champion from 1825 until 1831. He became known for being one of the first boxers to be sanctioned for deliberately losing a fight. During his fighting career he was nicknamed "The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem%20Ward |
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