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Jin Sun-Yu (Hangul: 진선유, Hanja: 陳善有, born December 17, 1988 in Daegu, South Korea) is a South Korean short-track speed skater. She is a triple Olympic Champion from 2006 and a three-time Overall World Champion (for 2005–2007).
She was the winner of the gold medal in the 1500 meters and the silver medal in the 1000 met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin%20Sun-yu |
Test subject may refer to:
Animal testing
Human subject research
Product testers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20subject |
The First Four is a play-in round of the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments. It consists of two games contested between the four lowest-ranked teams in the field, and two games contested between the four lowest-seeded "at-large" teams in the field, which determine the last four teams to qualify fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Four |
Marshall Ledbetter, Jr. (June 10, 1969 – July 14, 2003) was an American photographer, psychedelics enthusiast, iconoclast, and unconventional protester.
Protest
In the early morning of June 14, 1991, Ledbetter, then a student at Florida State University, broke into the Florida State Capitol building and phoned a numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20Ledbetter |
A play-in game is a game, usually played at the beginning of a tournament or just prior to the tournament depending on how the tournament is defined. In a play-in, the lowest qualifiers and/or participants who have earned conditional qualification compete for qualification to the main portion of the tournament. This gi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-in%20game |
The peso moneda nacional (symbol: m$n) was the currency of Argentina from 5 November 1881 to 1 January 1970, the date in which the peso ley 18.188 was issued to the Argentine public. It was subdivided into 100 centavos, with the argentino worth 5 pesos. The peso was introduced to replace the Argentine peso moneda corri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20peso%20moneda%20nacional |
The 1839 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from December 4 to December 8 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was the first national convention ever held by the Whig Party, and was organized to select the party's nominee in the 1840 presidential election. The convention nominated former ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1839%20Whig%20National%20Convention |
Central banks
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt
European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Local banks
BayernLB, Munich
Bremer Bank, Bremen
Commerzbank, Frankfurt
Consorsbank, Nuremberg
DAB BNP Paribas, Munich
DekaBank (Germany), Frankfurt
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, Garching bei München (next to Munich)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20banks%20in%20Germany |
Madder Rose is a New York City-based alternative rock band who recorded in the 1990s. After a 20-year hiatus, a new album was released in September 2019. The band is fronted by Mary Lorson, who shares songwriting duties with guitarist Billy Coté. The two singer/songwriters continued their collaboration after Madder Ros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madder%20Rose |
224 (two hundred [and] twenty-four) is the natural number following 223 and preceding 225.
In mathematics
224 is a practical number,
and a sum of two positive cubes . It is also , making it one of the smallest numbers to be the sum of distinct positive cubes in more than one way.
224 is the smallest k with λ(k) = 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/224%20%28number%29 |
The Burnside War Memorial Hospital is the only private community hospital in the City of Burnside, Adelaide, South Australia.
A local resident of Toorak Gardens, Otto George Ludwig von Rieben, offered his Attunga property for use as a community hospital free of charge in 1944. The council had first suggested building ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside%20War%20Memorial%20Hospital |
The 4th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2005, were given on December 12, 2005.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Director
Steven Spielberg – Munich
George Clooney – Good Night, and Good L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20D.C.%20Area%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards%202005 |
KPSI may refer to:
KPSI-FM, a radio station (100.5 FM) licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States
KKGX, a radio station (920 AM) licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States, which held the call sign KPSI from 1997 to 2017
KCOD, a defunct radio station (1450 AM) formerly licensed to Palm Springs, Cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPSI |
In computer science, the readers–writers problems are examples of a common computing problem in concurrency. There are at least three variations of the problems, which deal with situations in which many concurrent threads of execution try to access the same shared resource at one time.
Some threads may read and some m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readers%E2%80%93writers%20problem |
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi () (born August 14, 1975)
is a former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah.
Ansar-e Hezbollah used violence against students which caused Ebrahimi to decide that, "No, Ansar-e Hezbollah is wrong, you the students are right."
"Confessions"
Ebrahimi was also sentenced and spent two years in prison.
Iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Farshad%20Ebrahimi |
MS Express Samina () was a French-built RoPax ferry that struck the charted Portes Islets rocks in the Bay of Parikia off the coast of Paros island in the central Aegean Sea on 26 September 2000. The accident resulted in 81 deaths and the loss of the ship. The cause of the accident was crew negligence, for which severa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS%20Express%20Samina |
River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. River ecosystems are part of larger watershed networks or catchments, where smaller... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20ecosystem |
Rust is an red color resembling iron oxide. It is a commonly used color on cars and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a standard tungsten light source.
The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692.
Origin
Rust is named after the resulting phenomenon of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust%20%28color%29 |
John Arthur Maguire (November 29, 1870 – July 1, 1939) was an American Democratic Party politician.
He was born near Elizabeth, Illinois on November 29, 1870, and moved to the Dakota Territory in 1882 with his parents settling near what is now Plankinton, South Dakota. He graduated from Plankinton High School in 1889 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Maguire |
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne (PLC), is an independent, private, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls, located in Burwood, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Founded in 1875 at East Melbourne, PLC was one of the first independent schools for girls in Australia. The College has a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian%20Ladies%27%20College%2C%20Melbourne |
Russet is a dark brown color with a reddish-orange tinge. As a tertiary color, russet is an equal mix of orange and purple pigments. The first recorded use of russet as a color name in English was in 1562.
The source of this color is The ISCC-NBS Method of Designating Colors and a Dictionary of Color Names (1955) used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russet%20%28color%29 |
John Maguire may refer to:
John Maguire (archbishop of Glasgow) (1851–1920), Scottish Roman Catholic prelate
John Maguire (coadjutor archbishop of New York) (1904–1989), American Roman Catholic prelate
John Maguire (cricketer) (born 1956), Australian cricketer
John Maguire (fighter) (born 1983), English mixed martial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Maguire |
Dryness is a property of beverages that describes the lack of a sweet taste. This may be due to a lack of sugars, the presence of some other taste that masks sweetness, or an underabundance of simple carbohydrates that can be converted to sugar by enzymes in the mouth (amylase in particular). The term "dry" may be ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryness%20%28taste%29 |
The 1852 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from June 16 to June 21, in Baltimore, Maryland. It nominated the Whig Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1852 election. The convention selected General-in-Chief Winfield Scott (commanding the United States Army and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1852%20Whig%20National%20Convention |
Rupert Nicholas Vansittart (born 10 February 1958) is an English character actor. He has appeared in a variety of roles in film, television, stage and radio, often playing comic characters. He is best known for his role as Lord Ashfordly in the ITV drama Heartbeat and for playing Lord Yohn Royce in the HBO series Game... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert%20Vansittart |
War of the Lance is a strategy game developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1989, based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dragonlance campaign setting. The gameplay is based on the War of the Lance in the Dragonlance series.
Gameplay
War of the Lance is presented in a top-down view. In single player mode, the pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Lance%20%28video%20game%29 |
The Orangery Palace () is a palace located in the Sanssouci Park of Potsdam, Germany. It is also known as the New Orangery on the Klausberg, or just the Orangery. It was built on behest of the "Romantic on the Throne", King Friedrich Wilhelm IV (Frederick William IV of Prussia) from 1851 to 1864.
Background
The buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery%20Palace |
A monolith is a monument or natural feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock.
Monolith or monolithic may also refer to:
Architecture
Monolithic architecture, a style of construction in which a building is carved, cast or excavated from a single piece of material
Monolithic column, column made from one s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The U.S. Grant Bridge is the name of the two bridges that carry and have carried traffic on U.S. Route 23 between Portsmouth, Ohio and South Portsmouth, Kentucky (just west of the city of South Shore) across the Ohio River in the United States. The original suspension bridge was closed and demolished in 2001 and the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Grant%20Bridge |
Popcorn Zen was a weekly showcase program that airs on AZN Television. The series debuted in 2005. The show was hosted by an American radio deejay, Eugene Lee.
Popcorn Zen featured film shorts, stories and interviews from Asian-American film makers and directors, including those from various Asian countries. Because o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn%20Zen |
Kung, the Assassin of a Thousand Claws is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as a recurring foil of the superhero Wonder Woman. A Japanese-American mercenary with the magical ability to transform into animals, he first appeared in 1977's Wonder Woman #237, written by G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung%20%28comics%29 |
Mexico is a predominantly Christian country, with adherents of Islam representing a small minority. Due to the secular nature of the state established by Mexico's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The country has a population of around 126 million as of 2020 censu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Mexico |
¡Forward, Russia! are an English rock band from Leeds, active from between 2004 and 2008, before reforming in 2013. The band's debut album, Give Me a Wall, was released in 2006. Until 2006, the band only named tracks with numbers, in the order that they were written. The band had used Faux Cyrillic, with its name occas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Forward%2C%20Russia%21 |
The Ruxton was a front-wheel drive automobile produced by the New Era Motors Company of New York, New York, United States, during 1929 and 1930. The car was the brainchild of William Muller and was built in the Board Machine plant in Philadelphia, Moon Motor Car factory in St. Louis, Missouri, and Kissel Motors of Hart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruxton%20%28automobile%29 |
As polytheistic religions evolve, there is a tendency for one deity to achieve preeminence as king of the gods. This tendency can parallel the growth of hierarchical systems of political power in which a monarch eventually comes to assume ultimate authority for human affairs. Other gods come to serve in a Divine Counci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20of%20the%20gods |
IBM 37xx (or 37x5) is a family of IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) programmable communications controllers used mainly in mainframe environments.
All members of the family ran one of three IBM-supplied programs.
Emulation Program (EP) mimicked the operation of the older IBM 270x non-programmable controllers.
Net... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%2037xx |
Geum aleppicum, commonly called yellow avens or common avens is a flowering plant native to most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, from eastern Europe across Asia and North America.
It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 m tall with pinnate leaves. The flowers are 2 cm diameter, yellow, with five to seven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geum%20aleppicum |
Digging for the Truth is a scripted History Channel television series documentary that ran from 2005 to 2007. The show had a total of 54 episodes over 4 seasons that were each an hour long. The first three seasons of the show focused on host Josh Bernstein, who journeyed on various explorations of historical icons and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digging%20for%20the%20Truth |
The 1860 Constitutional Union National Convention met on May 9, 1860, in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the only national convention ever held by the Constitutional Union Party, which was organized largely by former Whig Party
members from the Southern United States who opposed secession. The convention nominated former ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860%20Constitutional%20Union%20Convention |
A bacteriocyte (Greek for bacteria cell), also known as a mycetocyte, is a specialized adipocyte found primarily in certain insect groups such as aphids, tsetse flies, German cockroaches, weevils. These cells contain endosymbiotic organisms such as bacteria and fungi, which provide essential amino acids and other chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriocyte |
DOVO may refer to:
DOVO Solingen or DOVO Steelware, German manufacturer of grooming tools
VV DOVO, Dutch football club
Dovo may refer to:
Eloi Alphonse Maxime Dovo, Malagasy diplomat and politician. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOVO |
Asia Street was the umbrella title for the International Channel's nightly three-hour prime-time block of shows geared towards Asian-Americans in the United States. The lineup continued in a different and modified approach on its successor, AZN Television.
Asia Street offered a mix of English-language original progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Street |
Incumbents
American Samoa (U.S. territory)
Togiola Tulafono, Governor of American Samoa (2003–present)
Australia
Monarch – Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia (1952–present)
Governor-General - Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia (2003–present)
Prime Minister – John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia (19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20in%20Oceania |
Soul Patrol may refer to:
Soul Patrol (fandom), fans of American Idol winner Taylor Hicks
Soul Patrol (baseball), the outfield players of the 2001 Minnesota Twins season
Soul Patrol (1978 film), a blaxploitation film
Soul Patrol (2000 film), a British comedy film starring Sadie Frost and Davinia Taylor
Soul Patrol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20Patrol |
The Presidential Palace ( Proedrikó Mégaro ) is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the Republic of Cyprus. It is located close to the centre of Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus, and is surrounded by a thick pine woodland.
History
The original building was a prefabricated structure e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential%20Palace%2C%20Nicosia |
Joseph E. Atkinson (born Joseph Atkinson, December 23, 1865 – May 8, 1948) was a Canadian newspaper editor and activist. Under his leadership the Toronto Star became one of the largest and most influential newspapers in Canada. Atkinson amassed a considerable fortune, eventually holding the controlling interest in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20E.%20Atkinson |
The 10th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2005, were given on December 17, 2005.
Special achievement awards
Auteur Award (for his work on the film Good Night, and Good Luck and his promising filmmaking future) – George Clooney
Mary Pickford Award (for outstanding contribution to the enter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th%20Satellite%20Awards |
Todd Congelliere is an American musician and label owner.
Congelliere's many projects include F.Y.P, Toys That Kill, Underground Railroad to Candyland, and Jumpstarted Plowhards with Mike Watt of Minutemen.
Congelliere started the label Recess Records as a way to promote F.Y.P but soon it became an actual label relea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Congelliere |
The 1844 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held on May 1, 1844 at Universalist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. It nominated the Whig Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1844 election. The convention selected former Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky for president and fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844%20Whig%20National%20Convention |
Saint Prætextatus (; died 25 February 586), also spelled Praetextatus, Pretextat(us), and known as Saint Prix, was the bishop of Rouen from 549 until his assassination in 586. He appears as a prominent character in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum (History of the Franks). This is the principal source from which inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A6textatus%20%28bishop%20of%20Rouen%29 |
WarCry is a Spanish power metal band led by founder, singer, and songwriter Víctor García. Formed in 2001 when García and drummer Alberto Ardines were ejected from Avalanch, the band has since released seven studio albums and two live albums, with an eighth studio album currently in progress. WarCry has had a fluctuati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarCry%20%28band%29 |
Four police constables and a private security guard were killed and 20 other people injured when, on 22 January 2002, Islamic militants attacked an American cultural centre in Kolkata, India. The centre houses a library, the American embassy's public affairs office, a press section and a cultural wing.
Two motorcycle-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20attack%20on%20American%20cultural%20centre%20in%20Kolkata |
Iona Catholic Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. It provides education to students from the Clarkson and Lorne Park areas of Mississauga, Ontario.
Elementary feeder schools
St. Christopher's Elementary School
St. Helen Elementary School
St. Luke's El... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona%20Catholic%20Secondary%20School |
was a concubine of Emperor Kōnin of Japan and the mother of Emperor Kanmu. Her full name was Takano no Asomi Niigasa (高野朝臣 新笠).
Life
Niigasa was a daughter of Yamato no Ototsugu (和乙継) who was among a descents of Prince Junda (Junda-taishi: c. 480–513). Prince Junda (淳陀太子), the second son of King Muryeong of Baekje (百済... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takano%20no%20Niigasa |
The State House is the official residence of the president of the Gambia. It was built in colonial days and was the residence of the British governor of the Gambia. Then known as the Government House, it became the residence of the governor-general of the Gambia from 1965 to 1970, when the Gambia became a republic wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20House%2C%20Banjul |
Xiajin County () is a county in the northwest of Shandong Province, China, bordering Hebei to the west. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Dezhou. Its total size is , and its population is roughly 500,000. Its economy is mostly agricultural, including cotton, wheat, and corn.
A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiajin%20County |
is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 2.0 (1987). This shortcut switches between application-level windows without using the mouse; hence it was named Task Switcher (Flip in Windows Vista).
orders windows by most recently used, thus repeated keystrokes will switc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-Tab |
Dill oil is an essential oil extracted from the seeds or leaves/stems (dillweed) of the Dill plant. It can be used with water to create dill water. Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. It is the sole species of the genus Anethum.
Origin
Also known as Indian Dill, originally from S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dill%20oil |
Tim Sample (born January 30, 1951) is a Maine humorist.
Life and career
Sample was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, and raised in Boothbay Harbor, where he attended local schools. He briefly attended Hebron Academy and in 2004 was given an honorary degree from the Academy. As a child in the 1960s, Sample was influenced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Sample |
John Maywood Grubb, Jr. (born August 4, 1948) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter, who also occasionally played at first base. He played with the San Diego Padres (1972–1976), Cleveland Indians (1977–1978), Texas Rangers (1978–1982), and the Detroit Tigers (1983–1987).
Major League caree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Grubb |
Laihka State (), also spelt Legya or Lecha (), was a state in the central division of the Southern Shan States of Burma, with an area of .
The general character of the state was hilly and broken, with a mean altitude of a little under . The main rivers were the Nam Teng, an important tributary of the Salween, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laihka%20State |
Asclettin (from Old Norse Ásketill) is a masculine Norman given name. It may refer to:
Asclettin, Count of Acerenza (fl. 1016–42), Norman mercenary
Asclettin, Count of Aversa (r. died 1045), son of preceding
Asclettin (Sicilian chancellor), officer serving William I of Sicily | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclettin |
Carnell Augustino Lake (born July 15, 1967) is an American former professional football player and coach who is the defensive coordinator for the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League (USFL). He was a safety and cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He is a member of the NFL 1990s All-Decad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnell%20Lake |
Chauffé à bloc is an EP by Canadian rock band Big Sugar, released on July 27, 1999. The title translates literally to "Block Heating" in English and is similar to the expression "All Heated Up."
In 1996, Big Sugar decided to record a French language version of the single "Open Up Baby", from the album Hemi-Vision, for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauffe%20%C3%A0%20bloc |
The University of Tulsa College of Law is the law school of the private University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Tulsa College of Law at No. 111 among all law schools in the United States. It is the only law school in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and northeaster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Tulsa%20College%20of%20Law |
The 1848 Whig National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held from June 7 to 9 in Philadelphia. It nominated the Whig Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1848 election. The convention selected General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana for president and former Representative Millard Fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848%20Whig%20National%20Convention |
This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States.
People born elsewhere but raised in Denver are marked with a §. People born and raised elsewhere who have lived in Denver as adults are marked with a #.
Academia
Harold Agnew (1921–2013), physicist
Hal A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Denver |
Burrator Reservoir is a reservoir on the south side of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It is one of a number of reservoirs and dams that were built over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in the area now covered by Dartmoor National Park to supply drinking water to the city of Plymouth and other rapidly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrator%20Reservoir |
Julio Valentín Ferreira González (born 26 August 1981 in Asunción) is a retired Paraguayan footballer who played as a striker.
González played for Paraguay at the 2004 Olympics, helping the squad to a silver medal. He also competed with the team at the 2004 Copa América.
Career
González, the top scorer for Serie B cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio%20Gonz%C3%A1lez%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201981%29 |
Richard George may refer to:
Richard George (athlete) (born 1953), American javelin thrower
Rick George, athletic director of Colorado Buffaloes
Richard George (MP) (1562–1613) for Cirencester
Richard George (manufacturer) (1944–2016), British food manufacturer
Richard Lloyd George, 2nd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20George |
Bruna Patricia Maria Teresa Romilda Lombardi (born August 1, 1952) is a Brazilian poet, writer, model, and film and TV actress. She is daughter of Italian film producer Ugo Lombardi.
She is married to actor Carlos Alberto Riccelli and has a son (Kim Lombardi Riccelli). They reside in Los Angeles, California, United St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruna%20Lombardi |
Womb is a nightclub in Tokyo, Japan that is featured in the film Babel.
History
Womb opened in April 2000 with a Junior Vasquez party and is located at 2-16 Maruyama-cho Shibuya-ku.
The main floor, with a giant mirror ball, is on the second floor of the premises, while a small bar is located at the rear of the danc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womb%20%28nightclub%29 |
The Baileys Harbor lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin.
Construction of Baileys Harbor Lighthouse began in 1852 and in 1853 David Ward became the first lighthouse keeper. It was the third lighthouse constructed in Door County after the lighthouses on Rock Island and Plum I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baileys%20Harbor%20Light |
Lorenzo Levon Kirkland (born February 17, 1969) is an American former football linebacker and coach. A second-round draft choice of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1992 NFL Draft, he played 11 years as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL), including nine seasons with the Steelers, and one each for the Seat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levon%20Kirkland |
Harry Parker Bemis (February 1, 1874 – May 23, 1947) was a catcher in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "Handsome Harry," he played with the Cleveland Naps from 1902 to 1910. He batted right and threw right. In his nine-year career, he batted .255, with five home runs, 569 hits, 234 runs batted in, 214 runs scored, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Bemis |
Adelobasileus is a genus of mammaliamorph cynodonts from the Late Triassic (Carnian), about 225 million years ago. It is known only from a partial skull recovered from the Tecovas Formation in western Texas, southern United States, referred to the species Adelobasileus cromptoni.
Roughly contemporary with the mammalia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelobasileus |
The Legend of Huma is a fantasy novel by American writer Richard A. Knaak, the first in the Heroes Sextet of Dragonlance novels. It was based on characters and settings from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance Chronicles series. Published in 1988, it was the first Dragonlance book not dealing with the origi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Huma |
The Baskin School of Engineering, known simply as Baskin Engineering, is the school of engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It consists of six departments: Applied Mathematics, Biomolecular Engineering, Computational Media, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Baskin%20School%20of%20Engineering |
Buzuk may refer to:
Buzuk, the Albanian word for Bouzouki, a chordophone used in folk music
Andrija Buzuk, 1891–1894, provincial superior of the Franciscan province Bosna Argentina
See also
Buzuq | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzuk |
Charles Frank Reavis (September 5, 1870 – May 26, 1932) was an American Republican Party politician.
He was born in Falls City, Nebraska on and studied law at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and set up practice in Falls City. He became the prosecuting attorney of Rich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Frank%20Reavis |
A growing body of research has begun to highlight differences in the way racial and ethnic groups respond to psychiatric medication.
It has been noted that there are "dramatic cross-ethnic and cross-national variations in the dosing practices and side-effect profiles in response to practically all classes of psychotro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopsychopharmacology |
The Major League Baseball Umpires Association (MLBUA) is an organization of Major League Baseball (MLB) umpires. It was certified by the National Labor Relations Board on February 24, 2000, as the World Umpires Association (WUA) as a bargaining agent. It took over as the bargaining agent for MLB umpires after the 2000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20Umpires%20Association |
KLNM-LD (channel 42) is a low-power television station in Lufkin, Texas, United States, affiliated with the 24/7 headline news service NewsNet. The station is owned by Miller Media.
On June 12, 2009, the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations ended. KLNM-LP was not affected by this mandate since it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLNM-LD |
Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores. Plants can sense being touched, and they can use several strategies to defend against damage caused by herbivores. Many plants pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20defense%20against%20herbivory |
Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938) was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The son of Amos Tuck, a founder of the Republican Party, Edward Tuck served as the Vice Consul in Paris, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Tuck |
was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who researched the bubonic plague under Kitasato Shibasaburō and assisted in developing the Arsphenamine drug in 1909 in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich.
Hata received three unsuccessful nominations for the Nobel Prize, one from Swiss surgeon Emil Kocher for Chemistry in 1911 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahachiro%20Hata |
Pleaman Wellington Crummey JP (1891–1960) was a public figure in the Dominion of Newfoundland and the Province of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador). He was born at Western Bay, Conception Bay.
Family
P.W. Crummey's father was Captain Eli Crummey of Western Bay. His mother was Emma Butt of Broad Cove. On J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20W.%20Crummey |
Petite Champagne is a geographic zone of Cognac production of approximately 66,000 hectares, of which about 15,000 are dedicated to wines destined for cognac, which can be marked as Petite Champagne or Petite Fine Champagne. It is situated in the départements of Charente and Charente-Maritime. The principal towns of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite%20Champagne |
Richard Mark Soley (born c. 1960, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American computer scientist and businessman, and chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG). He is also executive director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and executive director of the Industrial Internet Consortium, managed by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Soley |
WSMC-FM (90.5 MHz) is a public FM radio station featuring a classical music radio format. It is licensed to Collegedale, Tennessee, and serves the Chattanooga metropolitan area, as well as parts of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. WSMC-FM is owned by Southern Adventist University (SAU). Saturday evenin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSMC-FM |
Begg (from Gaelic Beag: little, young, small of stature) is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Charles Begg (1912–1995), New Zealand radiologist and historian
Alistair Begg (born 1952), Scottish minister in the United States
Anne Begg (born 1955), Scottish politician
Chris Begg (bor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begg |
Fins Bois is a wine producing sub-region within the Cognac appellation, geographically surrounding the sub-regions of Grande Champagne, Petite Champagne and Borderies, and which falls within both the Charente and Charente-Maritime departments in South-West France, just north of Bordeaux.
Fins Bois is regarded as produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fins%20Bois |
Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk (; 7 December 1931 – 27 April 2021) was a South Korean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Seoul from 1998 until he retired in 2012. He was previously Bishop of Cheongju from 1970 to 1998. He was made a cardinal in 2006.
Biography
Cheong Jin-suk briefly studied che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Cheong%20Jin-suk |
The 2002 Nokia Brier was the Canadian men's curling championship. It was held from March 9 to 17, 2002 at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. It was won by the Albertan foursome headed by Randy Ferbey. Ferbey threw third stones throughout the tournament while his mate (third) David Nedohin threw skip (or four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Nokia%20Brier |
Venezuela is a predominantly Christian country, with Islam being a minority religion. There are approximately 100,000 Muslims in Venezuela which make up 0.4 percent of the nation's population. Venezuela has a small but influential Muslim population. Many of them are Arabs of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Turkish de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Venezuela |
The River Wild is a 1994 American thriller film starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, and David Strathairn. It was directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Denis O'Neill. It follows a young family whose white-water rafting holiday turns into a nightmare when they are taken hostage by a pair of armed fugitives.
The film ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20River%20Wild |
The Aircraft Identity Corps was a Canadian civil defence organization operating between 1940 and 1945. The corps' mission was to report suspicious aircraft and guard against German, Japanese, and Italian attack. The use of observers was deemed important because radar was not yet in widespread use. It was rebuilt as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20Identity%20Corps |
Dear M.F. is an EP album by Canadian rock band Big Sugar. It was released in 1995 on Hypnotic Records.
Track listing
"Dear Mr. Fantasy" – (Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) — 5:05
"Goodbye Train" – (Gordie Johnson) — 4:45
"Motherless Children" – (traditional, arranged by Gordie Johnson) – 4:18
"A Night in T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear%20M.F. |
Urmila () is a princess featured in the Ramayana. She is the daughter of King Janaka of Mithila and Queen Sunayana. Sita, the female protagonist of the epic, is her elder adoptive sister. She becomes the wife of Lakshmana, the younger brother of Rama. She is considered to be an incarnation of Nagalakshmi.
Legend
Urmi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmila |
H & J Smith Holdings Ltd, branded as H & J Smith and known colloquially as H&J's or Smith's is a company which operates in the lower South Island of New Zealand. The company was founded in 1900. It primarily operates in department stores, specialty stores and franchises (some within the main department stores). The dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%20%26%20J%20Smith |
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