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BH Telecom is a Bosnian telecommunications company, headquartered in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History
It was established during the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1992 and was the first company in Bosnia and Herzegovina to provide GSM, 3G, IPTV and many other services. It was a government-owned corporation whose s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BH%20Telecom |
Lucky Brand is an American denim company founded in Vernon, California in 1990 by Gene Montesano and Barry Perlman. Lucky also produces other apparel, including activewear, outerwear, T-shirts, and professional attire.
In 2020, Lucky Brand filed for bankruptcy. It was then acquired by SPARC Group, owner of brands like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky%20Brand%20Jeans |
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show that was created by Merv Griffin and first aired in 1975, with a syndicated version airing since 1983. Since its premiere, the program has been adapted into several international adaptations. The 1975 version premiered on Australian TV in 1981 and premiered in the UK... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20versions%20of%20Wheel%20of%20Fortune |
Italy competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
With Turin being the host of the 2006 Winter Olympics, an Italian segment featuring singers Irene Grandi and Elisa was presented at the closing ceremony.
Medalists
Alpine skiing
Men
Men's combined
Women
Women's combined
Biathlon
Men
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy%20at%20the%202002%20Winter%20Olympics |
ZigZag was a British rock music magazine. It was started by Pete Frame and the first edition was published on 16 April 1969. The magazine was noted for its interviews, articles, innovative "rock family trees" by Frame, and support for American songwriters such as Michael Nesmith, Mickey Newbury, Gene Clark, etc. It las... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag%20%28magazine%29 |
Emilios Hatjoullis (born 7 September 1939) is a British cartoonist and graphic designer. During the 1960s he was a designer at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach and at the Blackpool Illuminations. His works include the tableaux displays of nursery rhymes such as 'Hickory Dickory Dock' and 'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary', which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilios%20Hatjoullis |
Fairplay was a weekly news magazine devoted to the international merchant shipping industry, delivering “content tailored for its core audience of ship owners, managers, operators and charterers.“ It was founded by Thomas Hope Robinson in 1883 and remained in continual publication until 2018. Since 2011, Fairplay's pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairplay%20%28magazine%29 |
John Royds Culshaw, OBE (28 May 192427 April 1980) was a pioneering English classical record producer for Decca Records. He produced a wide range of music, but is best known for masterminding the first studio recording of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, begun in 1958.
Largely self-educated musically, Culshaw worked ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Culshaw |
Ernest Burton may refer to:
Ernest DeWitt Burton (1856–1925), American biblical scholar
Ernest Burton (American football), former college football head coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Burton |
Steve George (born May 20, 1955) is an American keyboard player, saxophone player and singer who is perhaps best known as the keyboardist and (for the most part) background vocalist for the 1980s band, Mr. Mister. He co-wrote all of the Mr. Mister songs, together with his childhood friend, Mr. Mister frontman Richard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20George%20%28keyboardist%29 |
The Donoughmore Commission (DC) was responsible for the creation of the Donoughmore Constitution in effect between 1931 and 1947 in Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka). In 1931 there were approximately 12% Ceylonese Tamils, 12% Indian Tamils (migrant and immigrant workers employed in the Tea plantations established in the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoughmore%20Commission |
Batista is a Spanish or Portuguese surname. Notable persons with the name include:
Batista (footballer, born 1955), Brazilian football player João Batista da Silva
Dave Bautista, American actor and professional wrestler, also known as Batista
Edina Alves Batista, Brazilian football referee
Eike Batista, Brazilian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batista |
The mangrove black hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus subtilis) is a neotropical bird of prey in the family Accipitridae native to South and Central America. Briefly treated as a distinct species, Buteogallus subtilis, recent evidence strongly suggests it should be considered a subspecies of the common black hawk (Buteogall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove%20black%20hawk |
Local government
Toowoomba, (governed by the Toowoomba Regional Council), throughout the last twenty years has seen the rapid growth of satellite towns and an expanding urban fringe in the surrounding localities of Crows Nest, Cambooya, Cooyar and Oakey. Urbanisation has changed the demographics of the Toowoomba Regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Toowoomba%2C%20Queensland |
Stortorget (, "the Grand Square") is a public square in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is the oldest square in Stockholm, the historical centre on which the medieval urban conglomeration gradually came into being. Today, the square is frequented by tens of thousands of tourists annually, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stortorget |
Humblus (Humbli, Humble) was one of the earliest kings of Denmark according to Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum.
Humblus may be of the same origin as King Humli of Hervarar saga.
Text
The standing on stones in connection with the choosing a king is a motive known from other Scandinavian sources. It occurs both in Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humblus |
The lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm (or lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve) is a sensory nerve representing the continuation of the musculocutaneous nerve beyond the lateral edge of the tendon of the biceps brachii muscle. The lateral cutaneous nerve provides sensory innervation to the skin of the lateral forearm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20forearm |
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a research facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. One of the world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and soft x-ray light, the ALS is the first "third-generation" synchrotron light source in its energy range, providing multiple extremely bright sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Light%20Source |
The Carracks (, meaning rocks) and Little Carracks (, meaning rock of the birds) are a group of small rocky inshore islands off the Atlantic north coast of west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The name comes from "carrek", the Cornish language word for 'rock'. The Little Carracks were still known as Carrack an Heyth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Carracks |
Michael Wilson (born 1964) is an American stage and screen director working extensively on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at the nation's leading resident theaters.
He made his screen directorial debut with the 2014 Lifetime/Ostar television film adaptation of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, which was nominated fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Wilson%20%28director%29 |
60th National Board of Review Awards
Best Picture:
Mississippi Burning
The 60th National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 13, 1988, and given on February 27, 1989.
Top 10 films
Mississippi Burning
Dangerous Liaisons
The Accused
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Last Temptation of Christ
Tucker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Board%20of%20Review%20Awards%201988 |
SV Steinach is a German association football club that plays in Steinach, a town 75 km south of Erfurt in Thuringia.
History
This small local club was founded on 4 November 1908 as FC Steinach. Play was suspended through World War I and after the war, in 1919, they merged with another football side, FC Teutonia. The f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV%2008%20Steinach |
Shadowmarch is a fantasy novel by American writer Tad Williams, the first book in the Shadowmarch tetralogy. It was released in hardcover on November 2, 2004, and in trade paperback on November 1, 2005. A paperback edition was released in September 2006. The second book in the series, Shadowplay was published on March ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowmarch |
The medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm (also known as the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve) is a sensory branch of the medial cord of the brachial plexus derived from the ventral rami of spinal nerves C8-T1. It provides sensory innervation to the skin of the medial forearm and skin overlying the olecranon. It des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20forearm |
Lude may refer to:
Lude, name of a Chinese YouTube influencer
Lude (stream), a stream in the Harz Mountains of Germany used by the historic mining industry
Alternative spelling for Ludic language
Short for Quaalude, brand name for Methaqualone
Mike Lude, American athlete, coach and administrator
Short for Honda Prelud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lude |
DCCI may refer to:
701 (number), written as a Roman numeral
DCCI Tower, a building in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Defense Cyber Crime Institute, a division of the United States Department of Defense
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry, an organization for businessmen in Bangladesh
Directional Cubic Convolution Interpolati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCCI |
WGXL (92.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Hanover, New Hampshire, serving the Lebanon-Claremont area. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC. It airs a contemporary hit radio (Top 40/CHR) format.
History
The station went on the air as WTSL-FM on February 6, 1987. On June 1, 1993, the station changed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGXL |
SEMC may refer to:
ICAO airport code for Macas Airport in Macas, Ecuador
Sawnee EMC, electrical cooperative in Cumming, Georgia, United States
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, now called Sony Mobile
Super Evil Megacorp, makers of the video game Vainglory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMC |
The Sciotoville Bridge is a steel continuous truss bridge carrying railway tracks belonging to CSX Transportation across the Ohio River between Siloam - a junction located north of Limeville, Kentucky and east of South Shore, Kentucky - and Sciotoville, Ohio in the United States. Designed by Gustav Lindenthal, the bri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciotoville%20Bridge |
Internal Exile ("A Collection of a Boy's Own Stories") is Fish's second solo album after leaving Marillion in 1988. The album, released 28 October 1991, was inspired by the singer's past, his own personal problems and his troubled experiences with his previous record label EMI.
The album's music reflects Fish's indulg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20Exile%20%28Fish%20album%29 |
The medial brachial cutaneous nerve (lesser internal cutaneous nerve; medial cutaneous nerve of arm) is a sensory branch of the medial cord of the brachial plexus derived from spinal nerves C8-T1. It provides sensory innervation to the medial arm. It descends accompanied by the basilic vein.
Anatomy
Origin
It is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20arm |
Dental professionals, in writing or speech, use several different dental notation systems for associating information with a specific tooth. The three most common systems are the FDI World Dental Federation notation (ISO 3950), the Universal Numbering System, and the Palmer notation. The FDI notation is used worldwide,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental%20notation |
The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. The Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey are British Crown dependencies in the English Channel, near the coast of Normandy. The Channel Islands were the only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20occupation%20of%20the%20Channel%20Islands |
The Carl Zuckmayer Medal () is a literary prize given by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in memory of Carl Zuckmayer. The medal itself was fashioned by state artist . The prize is also given with a 30 liter cask of Nackenheimer wine from the Weingut Gunderloch, a winery valued by Zuckmayer. The bestowal takes place o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Zuckmayer%20Medal |
Bertland "Bert" Cameron (born 16 November 1959) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who mainly competed over 400 metres. He represented Jamaica at three consecutive editions of the Summer Olympics. Cameron won the 400 m title at the first World Championships in Athletics. He was also the 1982 Commonwealth Games champion in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Cameron |
Lungile Edgar Bosman (born 14 April 1977) is a former South African international cricketer. He was a top order right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He played domestic cricket for Dolphins, and appeared for South Africa in both One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals. He score... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loots%20Bosman |
Stureplan is a public square in central Stockholm, between Norrmalm and Östermalm. The square connects the major streets Kungsgatan, Birger Jarlsgatan and Sturegatan. The buildings around the square house offices of banks and other financial institutions, as well as several corporate headquarters.
Some of the country'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stureplan |
Creuzburg is a town and a former municipality on the Werra river in the Wartburgkreis in Thuringia, Germany. Since December 2019, it is part of the town Amt Creuzburg.
Geography
Creuzburg is in the area known as the Muschelkalk. Three mountains, Wisch, Wallstieg and Ebenauer Köpfe are near the town.
Nearby towns incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creuzburg |
Koźle () is a district of Kędzierzyn-Koźle (since 1975), Poland and is at the junction of the Kłodnica and Oder rivers, km southeast of Opole. The district has a Roman Catholic church, a medieval chateau, remains of a 19th-century fortress and a high school. Koźle's industries include a shipyard and an inland port.
H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%BAle |
The Government Secretariat (; known as 布政司署 before 1997) is collectively formed by the Offices of the Chief Secretary and the Financial Secretary and thirteen policy bureaux.
The offices are officially known as "Government Secretariat: Offices of the Chief Secretary for Administration and the Financial Secretary", and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Secretariat%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 |
Government Secretariat may refer to:
Organisations
Government Secretariat (Hong Kong)
Buildings
Kerala Government Secretariat
Ministers' Building, Burma, previously known as the Government Secretariat
See also
Secretariat (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Secretariat |
WERZ (107.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. WERZ broadcasts from studios located on Lafayette Road in Portsmouth and from a transmitter located on Long Hill in Stratham. Its on-air call sign is "Z107, Exeter/Portsmouth". WERZ's signal serves the coastal are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WERZ |
A count room or counting room is a room that is designed and equipped for the purpose of counting large volumes of currency. Count rooms are operated by central banks and casinos, as well as some large banks and armored car companies that transport currency.
A count room may be divided into two separate areas, one for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20room |
Devon Morris (born 22 January 1961) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He won this distance at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and his personal best time was 45.49 seconds, achieved during the 1987 World Championships. At the 1988 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon%20Morris |
Greene Vardiman Black (1836–1915) was one of the founders of modern dentistry in the United States. He is also known as the father of operative dentistry.
Black was born near Winchester, Illinois on August 3, 1836 to William and Mary Black. He spent his early life on a farm and quickly developed an interest in the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene%20Vardiman%20Black |
The Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (PITCOM) was a United Kingdom Parliament Associate Parliamentary Group set up "to address the public policy issues generated by IT and its application across the UK economy, public and private".
It was formed in January 1981 by a merger of the All-Party IT Committee a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary%20Information%20Technology%20Committee |
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is a student-led organization working to improve access to and affordability of medicines around the world, and to increase research and development of drugs for neglected tropical diseases.
Supported by an active board of directors and guided by an advisory board that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities%20Allied%20for%20Essential%20Medicines |
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is an international research institute for physical and mathematical sciences that operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian Government, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and International Atomic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Centre%20for%20Theoretical%20Physics |
Paul Barillon d'Amoncourt, the marquis de Branges (1630–1691), was the French ambassador to England from 1677 to 1688. His dispatches from England to Louis XIV have been very useful to historians of the period, though an expected bias may be present With the conquest of England by William of Orange, Louis XIV's most i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Barillon |
Amphiprion rubrocinctus, also known as the Australian clownfish or red anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is endemic to north west Australia. Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20clownfish |
The Cambridge Latin Course (CLC) is a series of textbooks published by Cambridge University Press, used to teach Latin to secondary school pupils. It provides a grounding in vocabulary, grammar and sense which allows progression through Common Entrance exams into a Secondary, or, Public School. First published in 1970,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Latin%20Course |
An ink ribbon or inked ribbon is an expendable assembly serving the function of transferring pigment to paper in various devices for impact printing. Since such assemblies were first widely used on typewriters, they were often called typewriter ribbons, but ink ribbons were already in use with other printing and markin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink%20ribbon |
City of Angels may refer to:
Places
Angeles City
Angelópolis, Colombia
Angels Camp, California, a city in Calaveras County, California, United States
Bangkok, Thailand, whose abbreviated Thai name Krung Thep literally means "City of Angels"
Kiryat Malakhi, a city in Southern District, Israel
Los Angeles, United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Angels |
Within artificial intelligence and operations research for constraint satisfaction a hybrid algorithm solves a constraint satisfaction problem by the combination of two different methods, for example variable conditioning (backtracking, backjumping, etc.) and constraint inference (arc consistency, variable elimination,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20algorithm%20%28constraint%20satisfaction%29 |
Falcon Lodge () is the area of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, covered in predominantly council houses forming the Falcon Lodge Estate. It is located between Whitehouse Common and Reddicap Heath. To the west of the estate lies Rectory Park. It forms part of the edge of the Sutton Coldfield conurba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon%20Lodge |
Kulachi (کلاچی) is a city named after the Kulachi Baloch tribe and is the headquarter of Kulachi Tehsil (an administrative subdivision) of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at at an altitude of 209 metres (688 feet).
Economy
Kulachi is an agricultural city. The area ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulachi |
Itaqui is a municipality in Brazil, located in the southwestern part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, close to the Argentinian border, between Uruguaiana and São Borja. It sits at a mean altitude of 57 meters (187 ft), by the Uruguay River. Its population is currently estimated at 37,489.
Geography
The municipalit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaqui |
The (; ) is a style of polyphonic folk singing characteristic of the island of Sardinia (Italy's second largest island), particularly the region of Barbagia, though some other Sardinian sub-regions bear examples of such tradition.
In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed the to be an example of intangible cultural heritage.
Etym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantu%20a%20tenore |
Cuneglasus (fl. 540) was a prince of Rhos in Gwynedd, Wales, in the late 5th or early 6th century. He was castigated for various sins by Gildas in De Excidio Britanniae. The Welsh form Cynlas Goch is attested in several genealogies of the Rhos royal line. The two names are assumed to refer to the same ruler.
Cuneglasu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneglasus |
The Belvedere auf dem Klausberg is a building in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany erected in 1770–72 using Georg Christian Unger's plans.
Architecture
Georg Christian Unger based his plans on a drawing by the Italian archeologist Francesco Bianchini from his 1738 volume Del Palazzo de' Cesari. Biancini had tried to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvedere%20auf%20dem%20Klausberg |
Catholic High School Petaling Jaya (CHSPJ), more commonly known as SMJK Katholik or 公教中学 in Mandarin is a co-educational government Catholic missionary school in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, formerly recognised as a Cluster School of Excellence by the Malaysian Ministry of Education. Founded in 1956 by Philippe Wu of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20High%20School%2C%20Petaling%20Jaya |
Pierre Poussines () (1609–1686) was a French Jesuit and scholar.
His works include the publication of Francis Xavier's Letters, in seven books, from 1667. He made editions of some classical authors, including Anna Comnena, and also a translation, Specimen Sapientiae Indorum Veterum (1666), of the Panchatantra.
1609 b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Poussines |
For computer network security, stealth wallpaper is a material designed to prevent an indoor Wi-Fi network from extending or "leaking" to the outside of a building, where malicious persons may attempt to eavesdrop or attack a network. While it is simple to prevent all electronic signals from passing through a building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth%20wallpaper |
Reflections (A Retrospective) is the first greatest hits album by American R&B singer Mary J. Blige, released in Europe on December 1, 2006, and in the United States on December 12 by Geffen Records. The album hasn't been certified by the RIAA but has sold 900,000 (according to the December 2009 Billboard magazine issu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections%20%28A%20Retrospective%29 |
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board was, from 1871 – 1919, a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom subordinate to the President of the Local Government Board. The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and took in supervisory functions from the Board of Trade and the Home O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary%20Secretary%20to%20the%20Local%20Government%20Board |
Thomas Gibson Henderson (13 October 1887 – 14 August 1970) was an Independent unionist politician. He served in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1925 to 1953 in vigorous opposition to the Unionist governments on all issues other than the partition of Ireland, and is famous for having at one stage spoken f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Henderson |
"Temperature" is the third worldwide and the second US single from Jamaican musician Sean Paul's third studio album, The Trinity (2005). The song uses the dancehall riddim "Applause". Officially, there are two versions of the song, which only differ in their rhythm. The track was produced by Rohan "Snowcone" Fuller and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20%28song%29 |
Texel International Airport is a small airport located north northeast of Den Burg on the island of Texel in the north of the Netherlands. It has a customs service to handle international flights making it an international airport, though no scheduled international flights take place from the airport as the name migh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texel%20International%20Airport |
María José Charro Galán, better known under her stage name La Terremoto de Alcorcón or La Terremoto (), and also as Pepa Charro, is a Spanish singer born in Madrid, Spain.
She grew up in Alcorcón and studied languages. She went to the United Kingdom to work as an au pair. She has been a member of the group Diabéticas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Terremoto%20de%20Alcorc%C3%B3n |
British Constitution (usually Constitution in American sources) is an English patience or card solitaire played with two packs of playing cards. It is a card game with a high chance in winning.
Rules
First, the kings, queens, and aces are removed from the stock. The kings and queens are discarded, while the aces are p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Constitution%20%28card%20game%29 |
Karen Asrian (; 24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998, he was a three-time Armenian champion. Asrian was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team in the 37th Chess Olympiad.
Career
Asrian started playing chess in 1985, became an internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Asrian |
Working men's clubs are British private social clubs first created in the 19th century in industrial areas, particularly the North of England, Midlands, Scotland and South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.
History
The first working men's club opened in 1857 in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20men%27s%20club |
Bougatsa ( ) is a Greek breakfast pastry (sweet or savoury) consisting of semolina custard.
Origin
The name comes from the Byzantine Greek πογάτσα (pogátsa), from the ancient Roman pānis focācius, literally "hearth bread"; cf. Italian focaccia. It may have had a classical origin in the Roman-era placenta cake. A simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougatsa |
Pine Rivers is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
It was first created for the 1972 state election, based in the Shire of Pine Rivers in the northern outskirts of Brisbane. It was abolished in 1992 and replaced by Kurwongbah for the 1992 state election. The final m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20district%20of%20Pine%20Rivers |
Goldwin Arthur Martin (17 May 191326 February 2001) was a Canadian lawyer and judge who was known as an expert on criminal law. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1973 to 1988.
Early life and education
Martin was born on 17 May 1913 in Huntsville, Ontario. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law Schoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Arthur%20Martin |
Bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor) is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae. Like several anemone species, E. quadricolor can support several anemonefish species, and displays two growth types based on where they live in the water column, one of which gives it the common name, due to the bulbous tip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble-tip%20anemone |
The Slower Speeds Initiative is a UK single issue coalition pressure group. It is an unincorporated association, controlled by its management committee, made up of representatives of its founder organisations. Its aims are "to raise awareness of the consequences of inappropriate speeds of road vehicles, to stimulate an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slower%20Speeds%20Initiative |
Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi (; born 26 September 1988) is a Finnish figure skater. She is a three-time European medalist (bronze in 2007 and 2011, silver in 2012), the 2010 Trophée Eric Bompard champion, the 2012 Rostelecom Cup champion, a two-time Cup of China medalist, and a five-time Finnish national champion (2009, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiira%20Korpi |
Harry Maclean may refer to:
Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean (1848–1920), Scottish soldier and instructor to the Moroccan Army
Harry Maclean (speedway rider) (born 1951), Scottish motorcycle speedway rider
Harry N. MacLean (born c. 1943), American writer and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Maclean |
The Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault is the oldest cathedral in Minnesota. Built 1862–1869, it was the first church in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America designed as a cathedral. The architect was James Renwick Jr., who also designed St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, the Smithsonian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%20of%20Our%20Merciful%20Saviour |
Marwayne is a village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located northwest of the city of Lloydminster and west of the Saskatchewan border.
Marwayne lies at the intersection between Highway 45 and Highway 897. The economy is based on agriculture and ranching, with the oil and gas sector playing an important part as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwayne |
Vachaspati Mishra was a ninth or tenth century Indian Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, who wrote bhashya (commentaries) on key texts of almost every 9th-century school of Hindu philosophy. He also wrote an independent treatise on grammar, Tattvabindu, or Drop of Truth, which focuses on Mīmāṃsā theori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%81chaspati%20Misra |
Grímur Thomsen (May 15, 1820 – November 27, 1896), Icelandic poet and editor, was born in Bessastaðir in 1820. He was the son of Þorgrímur Tómasson, a goldsmith. In 1837, he went to the University of Copenhagen, where he studied law and philology, but he also became interested in philosophy and aesthetics. He became a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%ADmur%20Thomsen |
Madhusudan Devram Mistry (born 3 January 1945) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.
Early life
Madhusudan Mistry was born to Devaram Gopalram and Tulasiben in ,Carpenter-Badai Family Asarwa, Ahmedabad, in 1945. He obtained an M.A. in Geography, and worked as a college lecturer in Ahmeda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhusudan%20Mistry |
Naranbhai J. Rathwa (born 1 June 1953) is an Member of Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. He was a member of the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th & 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Chhota Udaipur constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Indian National Congress.
He was a Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naranbhai%20Rathwa |
Kishanbhai Vestabhai Patel (born 2 June 1964) was a member during 14th & 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Valsad constituency from Gujarat state and is a member of the Indian National Congress.
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1964 births
Living people
People from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishanbhai%20Vestabhai%20Patel |
RoadPeace is the national charity for road crash victims in the UK. It supports the people affected by road crashes with emotional and practical support and advocacy. It operates a help line and provides practical support to people affected. RoadPeace founded the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims and es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoadPeace |
Speed skiing was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics. The venue was in Les Arcs, about 60 km from the host city, Albertville. Michael Prufer, a 31-year-old medical doctor from Savoie, improved his own 1988 world record by 5.558 km/h. Philippe Goitschel, the nephew of French ski champion Marielle Goitsche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20skiing%20at%20the%201992%20Winter%20Olympics |
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies was a further education college of nautical and maritime studies, and a provider of marine and offshore training courses. On 26 March 2009, it was announced that the college would merge with the Central College and Glasgow Metropolitan College. In 2010, the merger was completed the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow%20College%20of%20Nautical%20Studies |
The United States Coast Guard maintains radio stations for communication between Coast Guard units, Coast Guard units and other government entities, and Coast Guard units and the general public. Most communications take place on the VHF marine bands. For long-range communications with aircraft, Coast Guard stations use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20Coast%20Guard%20radio%20stations |
An earthquake occurred on 31 May 1935 between 2:30 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, British India (now part of Pakistan), close to the border with southern Afghanistan. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 and anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people died from the impact. It was recorded as the deadliest earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935%20Quetta%20earthquake |
Fortune's Favor or Fortune's Favour is a patience or card solitaire which is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It is so-called probably because the chances of winning are completely on the player's side. It is a significantly simplified version of the game Busy Aces, a member of the Forty Thieves family of solit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%27s%20Favor |
Polyethoxylated tallow amine (also polyoxyethylene tallowamine, POE-tallowamine) refers to a range of non-ionic surfactants derived from animal fats (tallow). They are a class of polyethoxylated amines (POEAs). The abbreviation 'POEA' is often erroneously used to refer to POE-tallowamine. They are used primarily as emu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethoxylated%20tallow%20amine |
Fortune's Favour is the eighth studio album released by Canadian folk rock band Great Big Sea. The album was released on June 24, 2008, debuting at No. 5 on the Canadian Music Charts and also includes a DVD. The album was certified gold in Canada.
The album was recorded at the band's studio in St. John’s, Newfoundland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%27s%20Favour |
Kaithi (), also called Kayathi () or Kayasthi (), is a historical Brahmic script that was used widely in parts of Northern and Eastern India, primarily in the present-day states of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. In particular, it was used for writing legal, administrative and private records. It was used for a var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaithi |
The Panaad Stadium (), also sometimes spelled as Pana-ad, named after the park where the stadium is situated in, is a multi-purpose stadium in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod, Philippines.
Panaad hosted various international sporting events particularly football when Bacolod co-hosted the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panaad%20Stadium |
The 1974 Pattan earthquake occurred in the rugged and isolated Hunza, Hazara and Swat districts of northern Pakistan at 12:11 UTC on 28 December. The 6.2 surface wave magnitude quake had a shallow focal depth of 22 km and was followed by numerous aftershocks. An official estimate of the number killed was 5,300 with app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974%20Pattan%20earthquake |
"One Wild Night" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on April 30, 2001, as a single from their 2001 live album, One Wild Night Live 1985–2001. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, and produced by Sambora, Luke Ebbin and Desmond Child. The song became a chart hit in Europe, reaching t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Wild%20Night |
Itaberaí is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. Itaberaí is a large producer of agricultural products including corn, rice, soybeans, tomatoes, and sugarcane.
Location
Itaberaí is located 92 kilometers north-west of Goiânia on state highway GO-070 and 36 kilometers southeast of the former capital, Cidade d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itabera%C3%AD |
Milo is a village in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada. It is located on Highway 542, approximately southeast of the City of Calgary and east of the Town of High River. Milo is mainly an agricultural service community.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Village of Milo ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%2C%20Alberta |
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