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Schwalmtal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the river Schwalm, which flows through the area. Schwalmtal is situated approximately 12 km west of Mönchengladbach.
References
External links
Viersen (district) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwalmtal%2C%20North%20Rhine-Westphalia |
The Kansas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is a bicameral assembly, composed of the lower Kansas House of Representatives, with 125 state representatives, and the upper Kansas Senate, with 40 state senators. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, senators for four-year term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20Legislature |
Horst Brandstätter (June 27, 1933 – June 3, 2015) was the owner of the German company Brandstätter Group. The company was founded by Andreas Brandstätter in 1876. At the age of 19, Horst Brandstätter followed in his father's footsteps by joining the family business and successfully modernised it. One of his major succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst%20Brandst%C3%A4tter |
One-eyed jack is a playing card in a standard deck of cards.
One-eyed jack may also refer to:
One-Eyed Jacks, a 1961 Western film directed by Marlon Brando
Alone in the Dark: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge, the 1993 sequel to the video game Alone in the Dark
One Eyed Jacks (Twin Peaks), a brothel on the show Twin Peaks
O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-eyed%20jack%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Transition region may refer to:
Solar transition region
Filter transition region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20region |
Parkstad Limburg (; Ripuarian and ) is a conurbation of seven municipalities in the southern part of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. Consisting of Heerlen, Kerkrade, Landgraaf, Brunssum, Simpelveld, Voerendaal and Beekdaelen, the municipalities work together to improve public services, transport and housin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkstad%20Limburg |
William George Burden (15 June 1914 – 3 June 1994) was an English actor and comedian, who specialised in playing "country bumpkin" roles.
He made many appearances in the Theatre Royal panto in Bath, Somerset for Frank Maddox. Debuted on ITV as William in the TV series A Present for Dickie (1969–70), but only six episo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Burden |
Taake () is a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, formed in 1993 and originally named Thule. The band's one continuous member is Hoest, who writes all and records most of the music. He has released seven full-length albums and several EPs. The band describes itself as "True Norwegian black metal", and Hoest said th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taake |
Nikonos is the brand name of a series of 35mm format cameras specifically designed for underwater photography launched by Nikon in 1963. The early Nikonos cameras were improvements of the Calypso camera, which was an original design by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Belgian engineer Jean de Wouters. It was produced in Franc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikonos |
Patrick E. Crago is the Allen H. and Constance T.Ford Professor and Chairman of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Crago is a biomedical engineer currently serving as a Principal Investigator at the Cleveland FES Center.
Academic achievements
Patrick Crago received the B.S.E.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20E.%20Crago |
Tellurium hexafluoride is the inorganic compound of tellurium and fluorine with the chemical formula TeF6. It is a colorless, highly toxic gas with an unpleasant odor.
Preparation
Tellurium hexafluoride can be prepared by treating tellurium with fluorine gas at 150 °C. It can also be prepared by fluorination of TeO3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurium%20hexafluoride |
S. Fischer Verlag is a major German publishing house, which has operated as a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 1962. The publishing house was founded in 1881 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin, but is currently based in Frankfurt am Main, and is traditionally counted among the most prestigious publishing houses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20Fischer%20Verlag |
Brendan Joseph Beiser (born April 17, 1970) is a Canadian actor best known for his performance as Agent Pendrell in the science fiction television show The X-Files.
Personal life
Beiser was born in Boston. He is the son of Order of Canada recipient, professor Morton Beiser, and Canadian socialite Roberta Lando Beiser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Beiser |
Černá Hora (i.e. black mountain in Czech) may refer to:
Černá Hora (Blansko District), a market town in the Czech Republic
Černá hora (Bohemian Forest), a peak in the Bohemian Forest
Černá hora, a peak in the Giant Mountains
Montenegro, a country called Černá Hora in Czech
See also
Montenegro (disambiguation)
Black ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cern%C3%A1%20Hora |
Government House is the official residence of the governor-general of the Bahamas, located in Nassau. It was built in the colonial days and was the residence of the governor of the Bahamas. It later continued in the role of official residence and office of the governor-general following political independence from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20House%2C%20The%20Bahamas |
The 139th Pennsylvania was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
History
The 139th was formed at Camp Howe, near Pittsburgh, on September 1, 1862. Frederick H. Collier was the first colonel. After burying the dead on the field of Second Battle of Bull Run, the regiment was attached to H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/139th%20Pennsylvania%20Infantry%20Regiment |
Tang Jiyao () (August 14, 1883 – May 23, 1927) was a Chinese general and warlord of Yunnan during the Warlord Era of early Republican China. He was military governor of Yunnan from 1913-27.
Life
Tang was born in Huize county in 1883 in what is Qujing, Yunnan province. He passed the Imperial examination in 1903 and wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang%20Jiyao |
TI Connect is an application available from Texas Instruments (TI) that allows users to transfer files between a TI graphing calculator and a computer via a link cable. While all models that are capable of linking are supported with the macOS version of TI-Connect, the TI-82 and TI-85 are not currently supported with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI%20Connect |
HotDocs is a document automation (also known as document generation or document assembly) software company currently owned by AbacusNext. Version 1.0 of HotDocs was introduced in 1993.
Description
HotDocs transforms documents and graphical (PDF) forms into document-generation templates and deploys of these templates t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDocs |
The Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project () was a multi-disciplinary project commissioned by the People's Republic of China in 1996 to determine with accuracy the location and time frame of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.
The project was directed by professor Li Xueqin of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and involved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xia%E2%80%93Shang%E2%80%93Zhou%20Chronology%20Project |
Benjamin Frederick Mankiewicz (born March 25, 1967) is an American television personality, political commentator, and film critic. He is a host on Turner Classic Movies and has been a commentator on The Young Turks and What the Flick?!
Early life
Mankiewicz was born in Washington, D.C., to press secretary Frank Mankie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Mankiewicz |
Kathryn Harrison (born March 20, 1961, in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review. Her personal essays have been incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20Harrison |
Daniel Griffin may refer to:
Daniel T. Griffin (1911–1941), Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class in U.S. Navy
Daniel J. Griffin (1880–1926), U.S. Representative from New York
Danny Griffin (footballer) (born 1977), Northern Irish footballer
Danny Griffin (soccer) (born 1998), American soccer player
Daniel O. Griffin,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Griffin |
Ba West 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 reserve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%20West%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Time Matters is practice management software, produced by PCLaw | Time Matters LLC. It differs from contact management software such as ACT! or GoldMine because in addition to contacts, it manages calendaring, email, documents, research, billing, accounting, and matters or projects. It integrates with a variety of othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Matters |
Portal frame is a construction technique where vertical supports are connected to horizontal beams or trusses via fixed joints with designed-in moment-resisting capacity. The result is wide spans and open floors.
Portal frame structures can be constructed using a variety of materials and methods. These include steel,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal%20frame |
I Married a Strange Person! is a 1997 American independent adult animated comedy film by Bill Plympton.
Plot
As the film begins, a brown bird in flight becomes infatuated with a blue bird, and they begin to mate in midair. After passing through a cloud they fall into a nosedive, eventually striking a satellite dish on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Married%20a%20Strange%20Person%21 |
Ludwig Barnay (1842 – February 1924) was a German stage actor.
Biography
He was born Ludwig (Lajos) Braun at Pest. His father was the secretary general for the local Jewish Community, Ignac Barnay (until 1844: Braun). He made his debut in 1860 at Trutenau and appeared in Pest the following year, after which he had en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Barnay |
Joanne Heywood is an English television actress, probably best known for her role as Jessica Lovelock in Grace & Favour, a spin-off series of Are You Being Served?.
Career
Born in York, Heywood was educated in York, Guildford and in Sydney, Australia. She studied Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Heywood |
Baka Beyond is a world music group formed in 1992 with members from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures, fusing Celtic and other western music styles with traditional Baka music from Cameroon.
Biography
Baka Beyond began in 1992, when vocalist Su Hart and her partner – guitar, mandolin and bouzouki player Mart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baka%20Beyond |
Beckum (; Westphalian: Biäkem) is a town in the northern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is about 20 km (12 miles) north-east of Hamm and 35 km (22 miles) south-east of Münster. It gives its name to the nearby Beckum Hills.
History
Several Neolithic stone cists are the earliest traces of humans in the area... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckum%2C%20Germany |
Graeme William Walter Barker, (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology.
Early life and education
Barker was born on 23 October 1946. He was educated at Alleyn's School, then a direct grant grammar school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Barker |
Drensteinfurt (in low German Stewwert) is a town in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km north of Hamm and 20 km south of Münster. The villages Rinkerode in the north and Walstedde in the south are part of Drensteinfurt.
Geography
Drensteinfurt is situated o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drensteinfurt |
Svayambhu () is a Sanskrit word that means "self-born", "self-manifested", "self-existing", or "that is created by its own accord". Various deities and entities featured in Hindu literature and tradition are regarded to be svayambhu, such as Brahman in the Upanishads, and the Trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svayambhu |
James Hartness (September 3, 1861 – February 2, 1934) was an American inventor, mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, amateur astronomer, and politician who served as the 58th governor of Vermont from 1921 to 1923.
Early life and education
Hartness was born in Schenectady, New York, one of three sons of John William Hart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hartness |
Nokko (born November 4, 1963) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress. She was the lead singer of the popular band "Rebecca," which had a string of hits in Japan in the 1980s. Nokko was born in Urawa, Saitama, as . Under her stage name Nokko, she also had multiple hits in Japan throughout her solo career... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokko |
The H0m gauge is designed for the reproduction of narrow gauge railways with a prototype gauge of 850 to 1250 mm in H0 scale. The letter m stands for metre prototype gauge with a track width of 1000 mm. It runs on TT scale tracks. Modern H0m trains run on realistic-looking two-rail track, which is powered by direct cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H0m%20gauge |
Choe Man-ri (, d. 23 October 1445) or sometimes spelled Choi Mal-li, was an associate professor in the Hall of Worthies (집현전 부제학, 集賢殿副提學) who spoke against the creation of hangul (then called eonmun) together with other Confucian scholars in 1444. He made the following submission that year to King Sejong against hangul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe%20Man-ri |
Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn (,
1857 – 1935) was a prolific author, rabbi, thinker, and early proponent of Religious Zionism.
Biography
Chaim Hirschensohn was born on August 31, 1857 in Safed, in the Galilee to Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn, who had emigrated there from Pinsk in 1848. Following an earthquake in Safe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim%20Hirschensohn |
Sassenberg() is a town in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 6 km north-east of Warendorf and 30 km east of Münster.
History
On July 1, 1969 the municipalities Dackmar, Füchtorf and Gröblingen were incorporated.
Notable people
Hermann von dem Busche (1468–15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassenberg |
Fleur Alison Bennett (born 18 June 1968) is a British television actress best known for her work on the sit-com Grace & Favour (a spinoff of Are You Being Served?) and the Channel 5 soap opera Family Affairs.
Life and career
Bennett was born in St Ives in Cornwall, England on 18 June 1968. She was educated at Mountvie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur%20Bennett |
Dobrin may refer to:
Dobrin (name)
Dobříň, a village and municipality (obec) in Litoměřice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
Dobrin, Sălaj, commune in Sălaj County, Romania
Dobrin, Bulgaria, a village in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria
The Dobrin Wind Farm, Dobrin, Dobrich Region, Bulgaria
Dobrin, German name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrin |
Cool commonly refers to:
Cool, a moderately low temperature
Cool (aesthetic), an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, and style
Cool or COOL may also refer to:
Economics
Country of origin labelling
mCOOL - US consumer legislation to enforce COOL at the grocery store
Computing
Cool (programming language)
COOL, a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool |
Sendenhorst is a town in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately north of Hamm and south-east of Münster.
Geography
Sendenhorst consists of Sendenhorst and Albersloh. Before the municipal reform of 1975, Sendenhorst was located in the former Beckum District and Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendenhorst |
Abbeville County School District (ACSD) is a school district serving Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States. As of 2006 it serves some 3,700 students in all. Schools include Abbeville High School and Dixie High School.
References
External links
Official website
School districts in South Carolina
Education ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeville%20County%20School%20District |
Martyr Worthy is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Itchen Valley, in the Winchester non-metropolitan district of Hampshire, England. It is part of the Worthys cluster of small villages. In 1931 the parish had a population of 350. On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished to form Itchen Valley... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr%20Worthy |
Beelen is a municipality in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km south-west of Bielefeld and 35 km east of Münster.
Mayors
1989–1991: Siegbert Elsing (FWG)
1991–1994: Josef Aulenkamp (CDU)
1994–1995: Elisabeth Kammann (FWG)
1995–1999: Heinrich Schwarzenb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelen |
Tailevu North 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 r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailevu%20North%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Come Back Mrs Noah is a British sitcom starring Mollie Sugden that aired on BBC1 from 17 July to 14 August 1978 with a pilot broadcast on 13 December 1977. It was written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who had also written Are You Being Served? which also starred Mollie Sugden. Come Back Mrs Noah was not a success, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come%20Back%20Mrs.%20Noah |
Ennigerloh () is a town in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 25 km northeast of Hamm and 30 km southeast of Münster.
The town, located in an agricultural area and with a well-preserved medieval quarter, became more industrial in the 20th century as several ceme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigerloh |
Everswinkel is a municipality in Warendorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated some 30 km north of Hamm and 15 km east of Münster.
References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everswinkel |
Joseph Christopher Glenn (March 23, 1938 – October 17, 2006) was an American radio and television news journalist who worked in broadcasting for over 45 years and spent the final 35 years of his career at CBS, retiring on February 23, 2006 at the age of 67.
Early life
Glenn was born in New York City. He earned a Bache... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Glenn |
The Shockley diode equation, or the diode law, named after transistor co-inventor William Shockley of Bell Labs, models the exponential current–voltage (I–V) relationship of semiconductor diodes in moderate constant current forward bias or reverse bias:
where
is the diode current,
is the reverse-bias saturation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%20diode%20equation |
Giovanni De Benedictis (born 8 January 1968, in Pescara) is a retired Italian race walker, that won 9 medals at individual level, 7 of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. He participated at five editions of the Summer Olympics (from 1988 to 2004), this like only two others Italian athlet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20De%20Benedictis |
Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack is the soundtrack album based on the Academy Award-winning film Forrest Gump, and contains music from many well-known American artists. The score, composed by Alan Silvestri, was released separately (as Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score) on the same day. The album was reissued in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest%20Gump%3A%20The%20Soundtrack |
Theodore Tugboat is a Canadian children's television series about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends. The show originated (and is set) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as a co-production between the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), and the now defunct Cochran Entertain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Tugboat |
Holmes Run Acres is a community of 355 houses in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. Nearly all of the neighborhood is within the Holmes Run Acres Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The first Fairfax County subdivision designed by architects Nicholas Satterle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes%20Run%20Acres |
Ostbevern is a municipality in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Ostbevern is situated on the river Bever, approx. 18 km north-east of Münster and 18 km north-west of Warendorf.
Neighbouring municipalities
Ostbevern borders Ladbergen, Lienen, Glandorf (in Lower Saxony), Warendor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostbevern |
Wadersloh () is a municipality in the district of Warendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km north-west of Lippstadt and 30 km east of Hamm. In it there is a grammar school which is named Gymnasium Johanneum. Wadersloh was the place of a bike race in 2008 with competitors from all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadersloh |
Andrew Knott (born 22 November 1979) is a British actor. He is known for portraying Dickon Sowerby in 1993 film adaptation, The Secret Garden, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and as Henry Green in the television drama series, Where the Heart Is. He has also appeared in the sitcom, Gavin & Stacey as Dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Knott |
St. Andrew's Kirk is one of the oldest buildings in Georgetown, Guyana that has been continually in use for religious purposes. The Dutch Reformed congregation laid its foundations in 1811. However, due to financial difficulties it was acquired by Scottish Presbyterians and was formally opened for service on 28 Februar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Andrew%27s%20Kirk%2C%20Georgetown |
Roman Vladimirovich Rasskazov (); born 28 April 1979 in Kovylkino, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker.
International competitions
See also
List of world records in athletics
References
1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mordovia
Russian male racewalkers
Olympic male racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Russia
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Rasskazov |
Siebendörfer may refer to:
The German name of Săcele, a city in Romania
The German name of the Seven Villages, a historical region and former administrative district in Romania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebend%C3%B6rfer |
Internationalists may refer to:
Internationalism (politics), a movement to increase cooperation across national borders
Internationalism, a current within the socialist movement opposed to World War I
Our Favourite Shop, second album by The Style Council, released in the USA as Internationalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalists |
Hamminkeln () is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Issel, approximately 10 kilometers north of Wesel and 15 km south of Bocholt. It is twinned with Sedgefield, United Kingdom and the largest town in the district of Wesel.
The town is separated into the vil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamminkeln |
Clive Walker (born 25 June 1957) is an English retired footballer. His playing career spanned some 1,000 league and cup games for Chelsea, Sunderland, Fulham and Brighton & Hove Albion before enjoying a renaissance in the Conference with Woking and Cheltenham Town.
Playing career
Chelsea
Walker was born in Oxford, En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Walker%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201957%29 |
George Burnham (December 28, 1868 – June 28, 1939) was a banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1937.
Biography
Burnham was born 1868 in London, England, to James and Maria Ann Burnham.
He immigrated in 1881 to the Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Burnham |
The women's slalom was contested on Wednesday, 22 February. Janica Kostelić led in the slalom World Cup with 460 points, and was also defending World and Olympic champion, but she finished 0.15 seconds behind Marlies Schild for the 4th place. Anja Pärson got her first Olympic gold medal.
Results
Complete results for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine%20skiing%20at%20the%202006%20Winter%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Women%27s%20slalom |
InterActual Player, known originally as PC Friendly, was a media player for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, included on some DVDs with movie files. In addition to providing DVD playback control it makes available extra material on some DVDs, including commentaries, pop-up notes, synchronized screenplays and games. It r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterActual%20Player |
German Anatolyevich Skurygin (; September 15, 1963 – November 28, 2008) was a Russian race walker. He was born in Vutno.
He originally won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, but later lost it due to doping. He was suspended from 1999 to 2001. Like dozens of other elite Russian race walkers suspended for dop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Skurygin |
Antonio Gala Velasco (2 October 1930 – 28 May 2023) was a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, and writer.
Life and career
Antonio Ángel Custodio Gala y Velasco was born on 2 October 1930 in Brazatortas, Ciudad Real (Castile-La Mancha), although he moved very soon to Córdoba and is widely considered an Andalusian.
A g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Gala |
Kamp-Lintfort () is a town in Wesel District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located north-west of Moers.
Notable people
Jacob Wiener (1815-1899), medallist and engraver.
Adolf Storms (1919–2010), member of the Waffen-SS and war criminal
Brigitte Asdonk (born 1947), founding member of the Red Army Faction
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp-Lintfort |
Portrait of the Goddess is the second studio album by American metalcore band Bleeding Through. The album was released on April 30, 2002 through Indecision Records.
Tracks "Just Another Pretty Face", "Turns Cold to the Touch", "III Part 2" and "I Dream of July" first appeared on their debut album Dust to Ashes and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait%20of%20the%20Goddess |
A food safety agency or food administration or Food Safety Authority is a government agency responsible for ensuring the safety, quality, and proper labeling of food products within a country or region. These agencies play a crucial role in protecting public health by establishing and enforcing regulations and standard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20administration |
Ivano Brugnetti (born 1 September 1976 in Milan) is an Italian former race walker.
Biography
Brugnetti won five medals, at individual level, in international athletics competitions. He participated at three editions of the Summer Olympics (2000, 2004, and 2008) and earned 22 caps in the national team from 1997 to 2008... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano%20Brugnetti |
Tailevu South 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 r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailevu%20South%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Neukirchen-Vluyn () is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km west of Moers, and 15 km north of Krefeld.
Mayors
Mayors since 1836:
1836–1875 Gustav Haarbeck
1875–1923 Hermann Haarbeck
1923–1928 Dr. Baehr
1928–1945 Erich Neumann (NSDAP)
1945–1946 Wilh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neukirchen-Vluyn |
Bathimpact (stylised as "bathimpact") is the student newspaper for the University of Bath Students' Union, England.
History and format
Student Impact was created from the merger of two former publications at the University of Bath, Spike and Sponge. Sponge was the University of Bath Students' Union paper which had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathimpact |
Rheinberg () is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, approx. north of Moers and south of Wesel.
It comprises the municipal districts of Rheinberg, Borth, Budberg, and Orsoy.
History
Rheinberg, is first documented in 1003, came into the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinberg |
Darrow School is a co-educational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12 and PG. It is located in New Lebanon, New York.
History
Darrow opened in the fall of 1932 as the Lebanon School for Boys. In 1938 the president Charles S. Haight died, and C. Lambert Heyniger purchased the school,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrow%20School |
Voerde ([]) is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approximately south-east of Wesel, and 20 km north of Duisburg.
City structure
According to art. 1(3) of the Main Charter of the town, the municipal area is divided into the 11 quarters o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voerde |
Freistadt is a town in Upper Austria.
Freistadt may also refer to:
Freistadt, Wisconsin, a community in Wisconsin, USA
Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig), Poland
Fryštát, a town in the Czech Republic (German: Freistadt)
Frysztak, Poland (German: Freistadt)
Hlohovec, town in Slovakia (Freistadt an der Waag)
See... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freistadt%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Daniel Plaza Montero (born 3 July 1966) is a Spanish former race walker who competed in the 20 km event at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1992 in his native Barcelona, becoming the first Spanish track & field athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal.
Overturned drugs ban
In 2006 Plaza was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Plaza |
Lieutenant General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, (14 September 1894 – 7 December 1980) was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He is most notable for being the commander of XXX Corps during the Normandy landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy which followed in the summe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Bucknall |
Itchen Valley is a civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. Forming part of the City of Winchester district, it comprises the villages of Avington, Easton, Itchen Abbas and Martyr Worthy, with a population of 1,267 at the time of the 2001 Census. increasing at the 2011 Census to a population of 1,459.
It is to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchen%20Valley |
Montoro is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. Housing lies on a bend of the river Guadalquivir, which envelopes from West, North, and East.
Overview
It is located about east-northeast of the capital of the province, Córdoba. In 2008, the city had an estimated population of 9,895,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montoro |
During the Renaissance, great advances occurred in geography, astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, manufacturing, anatomy and engineering. The collection of ancient scientific texts began in earnest at the start of the 15th century and continued up to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the invention of prin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20in%20the%20Renaissance |
Iskut is a small, mostly Indigenous community in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia. It is located on Highway 37, at the north end of Eddontenajon Lake just south of Dease Lake and the crossing of the Stikine River.
Community
Iskut is the home of Iskut First Nation, a group of the Tahltan people, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskut |
Joseph James Cheeseman (March 7, 1843 – November 12, 1896) was the 12th president of Liberia. Born at Edina in Grand Bassa County, he was elected three times on the True Whig ticket. Cheeseman was educated at Liberia College (now University of Liberia).
Presidency (1892–1896)
Economy
In the decades after 1868, escal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20James%20Cheeseman |
Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables. The family takes i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous%20vegetables |
Freistadt (, literally "Freetown") is a small Austrian town in the state of Upper Austria in the region Mühlviertel. With a population of approximately 7,500 residents, it is a trade centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of a district of the same name District Freistadt. The nearest sizeable citie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freistadt |
Hünxe () is a municipality in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the Rhine-Waal euroregion
Geography
Hünxe is located approximately 10 km east of Wesel and 9 km north of Dinslaken. The neighbouring municipalities are: Schermbeck, Dorsten, Bottrop, Dinslaken, Voerde, Wesel und Ham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCnxe |
Tocuyo de la Costa is a town located in Falcón State, Venezuela, near the beaches of Parque National Morrocoy. Located on the banks of Tocuyo River, about 4.64 miles from its mouth in the Caribbean Sea, in the Autonomous Municipality Monsignor Iturriza on the east coast of Falcón State, Venezuela, near the Cuare Wildli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocuyo%20de%20la%20Costa |
Chumming (American English from Powhatan) is the blue water fishing practice of throwing meat-based groundbait called "chum" into the water in order to lure various marine animals (usually large game fish) to a designated fishing ground, so the target animals are more easily caught by hooking or spearing. Chums typica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumming |
The term Mangitli can refer to:
A member of the Uzbek Manġit dynasty.
Ulaş Mangıtlı, a Turkish cartoonist and illustrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangitli |
Hur (, ; meaning "free", "not slave" ) is a Sunni Sufi Muslim community in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Their spiritual leader is Pir Pagaro who resisted British rule in Sindh.
History of the Hur Movement
Colonial
During the period of colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent, Pir Pagaro declared his community "H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurs |
Good Hope Lake is a First Nations community in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on Highway 37 not far south of the border with the Yukon and located east of the semi-abandoned mining town of Cassiar, British Columbia. As of the 2006 Census, there are 41 people living in Good Hope Lake, down from 75 in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Hope%20Lake |
Schermbeck is a municipality in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Schermbeck is situated near the river Lippe, approximately 20 km east of Wesel, and 8 km north-west of Dorsten. Its maximum dilatation from north to south is about 12.90 km, from west to east it's about 17.80 km. Than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schermbeck |
Cakaudrove East 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... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakaudrove%20East%20%28Fijian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Charles Kimball Fletcher (December 15, 1902 – September 29, 1985) was an American banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California.
Early life
Fletcher was born 1902 to "Colonel" Ed Fletcher and Mary C. Fletcher in San Diego and graduated from San Diego High School where he set several swimming records, inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20K.%20Fletcher |
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