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Bilfinger SE (previously named Bilfinger Berger AG) is a European multinational company specialized in civil and industrial construction, engineering and services based in Mannheim, Germany.
History
Bilfinger dates back to 1880 when August Bernatz founded Bernatz Ingenieurwissenschaft as an engineering business: it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilfinger |
TCIFA National Academy is a multi-use stadium in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 3,000 and was built in 2004.
References
Football venues in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Turk and Caicos Islands
Buildings and structures in Providenciales
Spor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCIFA%20National%20Academy |
Michał Elwiro Andriolli (, ; 2 November 1836, in Vilnius 23 August 1893, in Nałęczów) was a Polish illustrator, painter and architect of Italian descent. He is notable for his illustrations to Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as a distinctive style of villas built outside Warsaw. He was probably most well known for h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82%20Elwiro%20Andriolli |
Samuel Taggart (March 24, 1754 – April 25, 1825) was a Presbyterian Minister, an American politician and a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Early life
The son of Matthew Taggart, he was born in Londonderry in the Province of New Hampshire on March 24, 1754. Taggart completed preparatory studies, and graduated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Taggart |
Ba West Indian Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-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 52 seats, 27 were reserved for other ethni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%20West%20%28Indian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Ellensburg High School is a secondary school in Ellensburg, Washington, operated by the Ellensburg School District.
Academics
Qualified 11th and 12th grade students may take classes at Central Washington University and earn both high school and college credit through the Running Start program.
Notable alumni
Gary Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellensburg%20High%20School |
Miss Waldron's red colobus (Piliocolobus waldronae) is a species of the red colobus native to West Africa. It had previously been described as a subspecies of the western red colobus, P. badius. It has not been officially sighted since 1978 and was considered extinct in 2000. However, new evidence suggests that a ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Waldron%27s%20red%20colobus |
Curious George is a 2006 platform game published by Namco, and developed by Monkey Bar Games, a division of Vicious Cycle Software. It was released for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows, and is based on the 2006 film of the same name. A separate 2D version was developed for the Game Boy Advance (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious%20George%20%28video%20game%29 |
The Second Council of Ephesus was a Christological church synod in 449 AD convened by Emperor Theodosius II under the presidency of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria. It was intended to be an ecumenical council, and it is accepted as such by the miaphysite churches but was rejected by Chalcedonian Christians. It was expli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Council%20of%20Ephesus |
Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
Early life
Mona Washbourne was born in Sparkhill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Washbourne |
John Santerineross is an American artist known for dark, often erotic imagery. In 2006, he had a solo exhibition at KFMK Gallery in New York City that garnered international attention.
John Santerineross was born in 1955 in the Bronx. He started his artistic career working as a ceramist from 1979 to 1989. In 1989, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Santerineross |
The County Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 93) (also known as the Rural Police Act or the Rural Constabularies Act) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the Police Acts 1839 to 1893. The Act enabled Justices of the Peace in England and Wales to establish police forces in their counties. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Police%20Act%201839 |
Lautoka Indian Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-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 52 seats, 27 were reserved for other ethni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lautoka%20Rural%20%28Indian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
Agnes Helen Nicholls CBE (14 July 1876 – 21 September 1959) was one of the greatest English sopranos of the 20th century, both in the concert hall and on the operatic stage.
Born in Cheltenham, Nicholls was the daughter of a director of Cavendish House, a prestigious store in the town. She received her early educatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Nicholls |
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is the Parliament of the United Kingdom's in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. POST serves both Houses of Parliament (the House of Commons and the House of Lords).
It strives... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary%20Office%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology |
The adjective Mazovian (or Masovian) may refer to:
Mazovia, a historic, geographical and cultural region of Poland
Masovians, an ethnic group in Poland
Masovian dialect, the dialect of Polish spoken in Mazovia
Masovian (European Parliament constituency)
Masovian Voivodeship, an administrative region of present-day Pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazovian |
Lee Ho-suk (, Hanja: 李昊錫, ; born June 25, 1986) is a South Korean short track speedskater. He won a gold medal as a part of 5000 m short-track relay team and four silver medals in 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. He is the overall world champion for 2009 and 2010.
Career
Known especially for his dynamic outs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Ho-suk |
The following is a list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with large African American populations. As a result of slavery, more than half of African Americans live in the South. The data is sourced from the 2010 and 2020 United States Censuses.
By 2020 Census population
See also
African Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20metropolitan%20areas%20with%20large%20African-American%20populations |
John Wesley Baldwin (July 13, 1929 – February 8, 2015) was an American historian. He was Charles Homer Haskins professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University.
Life and career
Born in Chicago, he received his Hopkins Ph.D. in 1956 and joined the faculty in 1961. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20W.%20Baldwin |
Russell Wayne Poole (November 29, 1956 – August 19, 2015) was a Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), a rapper also known as Biggie Smalls. Poole also investigated the killing of LAPD Officer Kevin Gaines by LAPD Officer Frank Lyga on March 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Poole |
El Enemy de los Guasíbiri is the first compilation album by Tego Calderón. The album is considered to be an important factor to reggaeton's mainstream exposure in 2004 alongside Daddy Yankee's Barrio Fino and Ivy Queen's Diva.<ref>Carney Smith, Jessie. [https://books.google.com/books?id=10rEGSIItjgC&q=Ivy+Queen+Diva%27... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Enemy%20de%20los%20Guas%C3%ADbiri |
The is a form of art bike indigenous to Japan dating back to the mid-1970s. "Deko" in Japanese is short for "decoration" and "chari" is slang for "bike". The dekochari was a response by children to the Dekotora ("tora" is short for "truck") craze which swept Japan after a series of movies called Truck Yaro was release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekochari |
Chapadão do Céu is a municipality in southwestern Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of grains (soybeans and corn) and has a high standard of living.
Geographical Information
It is located on the dividing line between the states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás. The distance to the state capital, Goiânia, is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapad%C3%A3o%20do%20C%C3%A9u |
El Abayarde is the debut album by the Puerto Rican rapper Tego Calderón. It included the singles "Pa' Que Retozen", "Guasa Guasa" and "Al Natural". It was released in 2002 through White Lion Records selling over 50,000 copies its first week between Puerto Rico and some parts of the United States. It would eventually be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Abayarde |
The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. The aim of the research was to produce an animal mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit%20of%20despair |
Lautoka City Indian Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-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 52 seats, 27 were reserved for other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lautoka%20City%20%28Indian%20Communal%20Constituency%2C%20Fiji%29 |
The New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) is one of the seven conferences affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) that schedule and administer regattas within their established geographic regions.
NEISA is one of the oldest and largest conferences, organizing intercollegiate s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20England%20Intercollegiate%20Sailing%20Association |
The Palatinate Forest ( ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park () covering 1,771 km2 and its highest elevation is the Kalmit (672.6 m).
Together with the north... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatinate%20Forest |
The bacterium, despite its simplicity, contains a well-developed cell structure which is responsible for some of its unique biological structures and pathogenicity. Many structural features are unique to bacteria and are not found among archaea or eukaryotes. Because of the simplicity of bacteria relative to larger org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20cell%20structure |
Marijus Mikutavičius (born 19 April 1971), known better as Marijonas Mikutavičius, is a Lithuanian singer, musician and songwriter, a television journalist, a comedian and a talk show host from Vilnius. He is best known for his sports anthem Trys Milijonai as well as an official Eurobasket 2011 song Celebrate Basketba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijonas%20Mikutavi%C4%8Dius |
Ahmose-Meritamun (or Ahmose-Meritamon) was a Queen of Egypt during the early Eighteenth Dynasty. She was both the older sister and the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. She died fairly young and was buried in tomb TT358 in Deir el-Bahari.
Biography
Ahmose-Meritamun was the royal daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose Nefertari, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmose-Meritamun |
In music, a sequence is the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice. It is one of the most common and simple methods of elaborating a melody in eighteenth and nineteenth century classical music (Classical period and Romantic music). Characteristics of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence%20%28music%29 |
Texmaker is a cross-platform open-source LaTeX editor with an integrated PDF viewer. It is entirely a Qt app. Texmaker supports Linux, macOS and Windows systems and integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX.
Features
The editor includes full Unicode support, inline spell checking, auto-completion, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker |
Venus is a genus of small to large saltwater clams in the family Veneridae, which is sometimes known as the Venus clams and their relatives. These are marine bivalve molluscs.
Etymology
The genus Venus is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality.
Taxonomy
However, some bivalves are still called Venu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20%28bivalve%29 |
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HNK Orijent is a football club from Sušak, the eastern part of the city of Rijeka, Croatia. The club was established under the name Orient in 1919. They compete in the Croatian Second Football League. It is a phoenix club of NK Orijent which ceased activities in 2014 due to financial difficulties. The club... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNK%20Orijent |
Eric Musselman (born November 19, 1964) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas. He is the former head coach of the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Between head coaching stints at Golde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Musselman |
The Lion Red Cup was a New Zealand domestic rugby league competition that ran from 1994 to 1996 sponsored by brewers Lion Nathan. It was created due to the increase in public awareness of domestic rugby league due to the Auckland Warriors being accepted into the Winfield Cup. The competition was a huge success in its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%20Red%20Cup |
"Another Day" is a song by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in their 1992 album Images and Words. It was released as the album's second and final single in 1993.
Background
The song was written by guitarist John Petrucci. He wrote it about his father, John Petrucci Sr. who was diagnosed with ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Day%20%28Dream%20Theater%20song%29 |
Androstanolone is an androgen and anabolic steroid medication and hormone which is used mainly in the treatment of low testosterone levels in men.
Androstanolone may also refer to:
5α-Dihydrotestosterone (5α-androstan-17β-ol-3-one), an endogenous androgen
5β-Dihydrotestosterone (5β-androstan-17β-ol-3-one), an endog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androstanolone%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Liquiçá (Tetum: Likisá) is a coastal city in East Timor, 32 km to the west of Dili, the national capital. Liquiçá is the capital of Liquiçá District. The city has a population of 5,005 inhabitants.
History
A part of the colonial administration of East Timor was arrested in Maubara and Liquiçá during the Japanese occup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqui%C3%A7%C3%A1 |
Diamond Village is a small farming village on the windward (East or Atlantic) side of St. Vincent, the main island of the archipelago nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Diamond Village, often referred to as simply "Diamonds," is located in the Parish of Charlotte and is part of the South Central Windward Parl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20Village%2C%20Saint%20Vincent%20and%20the%20Grenadines |
Arthur Mark Taylor (born March 1961 in Walton-on-Thames) is an animation director with the Bristol-based animation company A Productions. He created and directed the children's series Rubbish, King of the Jumble for ITV and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2002-03 for the BBC pre-school animation series Boo! which he direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Taylor%20%28animation%20director%29 |
Paliki () is a peninsula and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. At the 2011 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kefalonia. In 2019 this municipality was divided into three municipalities, and the municipal unit Paliki became the only municipal unit of the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paliki |
Crantz may refer to:
Creontius (fl. 771–786), Bavarian official and historian
Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (1722–1799), Austrian botanist and a physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crantz |
The Indian Spitz is a spitz dog breed belonging to the utility group. The Indian Spitz was one of the most popular dogs in India in the 1980s and 1990s when India's import rules made it difficult to import dogs of other breeds.
History
The Indian Spitz was first introduced by the occupying British during the 19th cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Spitz |
Roving Mars is a 2006 American IMAX documentary film about the development, launch, and operation of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The film uses few actual photographs from Mars, opting to use computer generated animation based on the photographs and data from the rovers and other Mars probes. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roving%20Mars |
Lawrence J. Simon (June 28, 1933 – September 1, 1994), better known by the ring name, Boris Malenko (), was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling trainer. He is best known for his appearances with Championship Wrestling from Florida and Big Time Wrestling in the 1960s and 1970s as a Russian heel.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Malenko |
Herbert Lincoln Clarke (September 12, 1867 – January 30, 1945) was an American cornetist, feature soloist, bandmaster, and composer. He is considered the most prominent cornetist of his time.
Clarke's legacy includes composing a portion of the standard repertoire for the instrument, many recordings, as well as a semin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20L.%20Clarke |
was one of the best-known masters of Okinawa Kobudo Matayoshi Kobudo.
Born in 1888 in Naha-shi at Senburu, he studied the bo, eku, kama and sai under the direction of Master Shokuho Agena. He later studied the tonfa and nunchaku with Master Irei. From 1911 until 1915 Matayoshi lived in Manchuria where he studied Chine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinko%20Matayoshi |
Kumzar (), is a village in Musandam, the northernmost province of Oman. It is the second most northerly inhabited part of the country, and the most northerly inhabited part on its mainland, located on the Strait of Hormuz. The village is only accessible by boat, and is so isolated that its inhabitants speak in their ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumzar |
Richard Lloyd Parry (born 1969) is a British foreign correspondent and writer. He is the Asia Editor of The Times of London, based in Tokyo, and is the author of the non-fiction books In the Time of Madness, People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman, and Ghosts of the Tsunami.
Early life
He was born in Sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Lloyd%20Parry |
"I Pray on Christmas" is a Christmas carol with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. First released in 1993 on his multi platinum album When My Heart Finds Christmas. Connick has also released the song on his Christmas Special VHS in 1994, and again on his DVD Harry for the Holidays (2003) as a bonus track featuring C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Pray%20on%20Christmas |
Point Edward (2001 pop.: 396) is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality located on the southwest shore of the North West Arm of Sydney Harbour, immediately north of the community of North West Arm, south of Edwardsville, and west of Westmount.
The town is named for King Edward VII. Point Edward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20Edward%2C%20Nova%20Scotia |
Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (pseudonym Esther Wyndham; 31 July 1908 – 9 April 1999) was a British author who is principally known for her biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Early life
Mary Lutyens was born in London, the fourth and youngest daughter of the architect Edwin Lutyens, and his wife, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Lutyens |
Eddie J. Gregory (born October 28, 1931- August 31, 2022 age 90) was an American former basketball scout, coach, and executive. In the 1960s he was the head men's basketball coach at Fresno State University; he also coached at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He served as interim head coach of the Golden Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Gregory |
The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long track or short track), gender and competing nationality.
Long track
Male
American
Ryan Bedford
K. C. Boutiette
Kip Carpenter
Joey Cheek
Shani Davis
John Farrell
Casey FitzRandolph
Eric Flaim
Tucker Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20speed%20skaters |
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (originally advertised as Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Movie and also known as Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) is a 2000 American animated science fiction comedy film directed by Tad Stones, who is also the producer with Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley. It serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%20Lightyear%20of%20Star%20Command%3A%20The%20Adventure%20Begins |
Dahi puri is an Indian snack food which is especially popular in the state of Maharashtra. The dish is a type of chaat and originates from the city of Mumbai. It is served with mini-puri shells (golgappa), which are also used for the dish pani puri. Dahi puri and pani puri chaats are often sold from the same vendor.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahi%20puri |
Nellie Cournoyea (born March 4, 1940 in Aklavik, Northwest Territories) is a Canadian politician, who served as the sixth premier of the Northwest Territories from 1991 to 1995. She was the first female premier of a Canadian territory and the second female premier in Canadian history after Rita Johnston of British Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie%20Cournoyea |
Megan Slankard (born June 6, 1983, Tracy, California) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.
Early life
Slankard began learning the guitar when she was 10 years old. At age 17, Slankard produced and recorded her first album, Lady is a Pirate, with her brother at home on her computer.
Career
After turning 18, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Slankard |
William Henry Ashdown (27 December 1898 – 15 September 1979) was an English professional cricketer. He is one of a very few men who played first-class cricket before the First World War and after the Second World War.
Ashdown was born in Bromley in Kent. He first played first-class cricket in 1914, playing for Gerry W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Ashdown |
Raimo P. Hämäläinen (born 7 July 1948 in Helsinki, Finland) is a professor emeritus at the Aalto University School of Science (Aalto SCI), Finland. Hämäläinen founded Systems Analysis laboratory at Aalto SCI in 1984. His research interests include systems intelligence, multiple-criteria decision analysis, sequential ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimo%20H%C3%A4m%C3%A4l%C3%A4inen |
The River North Gallery District or simply River North, in Chicago, is in the Near North Side, Chicago. It once hosted the largest concentration of art galleries in the United States outside of Manhattan.
River North has experienced vast changes in the years 1990 - 2012, including the development of large high-rise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20North%20Gallery%20District%2C%20Near%20North%20Side%2C%20Chicago |
Brigitte "Gitti" Köck (born 18 May 1970 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian snowboarder and Olympic medalist. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan she won bronze in the Giant Slalom competition.
Results
World Championships:
1x 2nd rank (1997)
2x 3rd rank (1999, 2000)
3x 4th rank (1999, 2001, 2002)
European Champion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte%20K%C3%B6ck |
John William Bach (July 10, 1924 – January 18, 2016) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A forward/guard, Bach played college basketball at Fordham University and Brown University. He was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1948 Basketball Association of America (BAA) Draft, and played 34 game... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Bach |
Autoditacker is the third studio album by German electronica duo Mouse on Mars. It was released in 1997.
Critical reception
Marc Weingarten of Entertainment Weekly described Autoditacker as "a messy mosaic of trills, chirps, and buzzing sounds that slam headfirst into dense, abstract, and occasionally danceable groov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoditacker |
This is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons at the 1852 United Kingdom general election, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at the bottom of the page.
Changes
1852
1852: Following the general election 48 MPs, elected as Liberals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MPs%20elected%20in%20the%201852%20United%20Kingdom%20general%20election |
A slide stop, sometimes referred to as a slide lock or slide release, on a semi-automatic handgun is a function that visually indicates when a handgun has expended all loaded ammunition and facilitates faster reloading by pulling back the slide or depressing the slide lock to advance the first round of a new magazine.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide%20stop |
Bakesale is the fifth album by American indie rock band Sebadoh, released by Sub Pop in 1994. It was the first Sebadoh album released following the departure of founding member, Eric Gaffney, though he did drum on four of the album's tracks from a session engineered by Bob Weston. Tara Jane O'Neil contributed drums to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakesale |
Typecast is a Filipino emo band from the Philippines.
Originally an underground act, they surfaced on the mainstream Philippine music scene, while managing to hold on to their underground roots.
Career
Laguna has been home to hardcore punk bands since the early 1990s. Brought up in a DIY community, the band came toge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecast%20%28band%29 |
Scouting in Tasmania began in 1908 with several separate associations operating in the early years including the Chums Scout Patrols, League of Boy Scouts, Girl Peace Scouts, British Boy Scouts and YMCA Scouts. These were later joined by The Boy Scouts Association, The Girl Guides Association and Life-Saving Scouts an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting%20and%20Guiding%20in%20Tasmania |
Sonar or SONAR is a technique that uses sound propagation under water.
Sonar or SONAR may also refer to:
Companies
Sonar Entertainment, a television production company
Sonar Kollektiv, a German record label
Sonar Music, at Fox Studios Australia
Sonar Radio, an online radio station based in Singapore
Sonar Record... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonar%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Comet Pojmański is a non-periodic comet discovered by Grzegorz Pojmański on January 2, 2006 and formally designated C/2006 A1. Pojmański discovered the comet at Warsaw University Astronomic Observatory using the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile as part of the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS). Kazimieras Cernis at the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20Pojma%C5%84ski |
The County and Borough Police Act 1856 or the Police Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 69) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was one of the Police Acts 1839 to 1893. The Act made it compulsory for a police force to be established in any county which had not previously formed a constabulary.
The Act requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20and%20Borough%20Police%20Act%201856 |
The western border of Santa Monica, California, is the 3-mile (4.8 km) stretch of Santa Monica Bay. On its other sides, the city is bordered by various districts of Los Angeles: the northwestern border is Pacific Palisades, the eastern border is Brentwood north of Wilshire Boulevard and West Los Angeles south of Wilshi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Monica%20neighborhoods |
The Qemal Stafa Stadium (), named after Qemal Stafa (1920–1942), a World War II hero, was a national stadium and the largest football stadium in Tirana, Albania. Construction started in 1939 and the stadium was inaugurated in 1946 for the Balkan Cup, which was won by the Albania national football team. The stadium has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qemal%20Stafa%20Stadium |
Jillian "Jill" Patterson Taylor is a character in the TV sitcom Home Improvement played by Patricia Richardson. Jill is Tim Taylor's wife. Jill and Tim raise their three sons (Brad, Randy, and Mark) together. Jill Taylor has appeared on critics' lists of "top TV" or "most memorable" moms. For this role, Richardson was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Taylor |
Timothy J. Sumner is Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He is a member of the UK Dark Matter Collaboration, and Sumner's interests cover a wide range of astronomy-related fields, focusing particularly on particle physics.
He received his degree in Physics from Sussex University in 1974, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Sumner%20%28physicist%29 |
Andrew Burnett Creeggan (born July 4, 1971) is a Canadian musician, known for being a former member of the alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies. He was also a member of the trio The Brothers Creeggan, and a solo artist having released three albums.
Career
Barenaked Ladies
Creeggan was born in the Toronto suburb of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Creeggan |
AbsolutelyGospel.com (formerly known as SoGospelNews.com) is the Internet's largest e-zine based on Southern Gospel Music.
History
The site was formed over 19 years ago by Deon & Susan Unthank, then of Southaven, Mississippi. The site was birthed from an email discussion group by the same name. The SoGospelNews email ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoGospelNews.com |
George C. Lee (born November 23, 1936) is a retired American basketball player and coach. A forward/guard from the University of Michigan, Lee was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the fourth round of the 1959 NBA draft. He had a seven-year career in the NBA, playing two seasons with the Pistons and five with the Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Lee%20%28basketball%29 |
Richard Kenneth Mast (born March 4, 1957) is a former NASCAR driver. He competed in both the Winston Cup and Busch Series, retiring in 2002. He holds a business administration degree from Blue Ridge Community College.
Early and Busch career
Mast grew up in a racing family as both his father and uncle were race team ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Mast |
The Estadi Comunal d'Andorra la Vella is a small football stadium in Andorra la Vella, the capital of Andorra. The stadium has a capacity of 1,300.
The stadium also has a running track. The Estadi Comunal d'Andorra la Vella and the Camp d'Esports d'Aixovall together host all games from Andorra's two highest football c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadi%20Comunal%20d%27Andorra%20la%20Vella |
Charlie Spivak (February 17, 1907 – March 1, 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s.
Early life
The details of Spivak's birth are unclear. Some sources place it in Ukraine in 1907, and that his family emigrated to settle in New Haven, Connecticut while he was a child.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Spivak |
The Ballad of Calico is the eighth studio album by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition and released as Reprise Records 6476. It reached No. 118 on the albums chart and produced one single, "School Teacher", which reached No. 91. The double album was released in February 1972. The album is a country-rock concept album ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ballad%20of%20Calico |
The Mahned Bridge was constructed in 1903 and spans the Leaf River in Perry County, Mississippi. Around 1980, the bridge was removed from service and access was terminated. The bridge was declared a Mississippi Landmark in 1996 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
History
The Mahned Brid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahned%20Bridge |
is a one to four-player NES/arcade game released by SNK in 1988.
Summary
The player can choose between four different golfers with varying advantages and disadvantages. Lee Trevino (who lent his endorsement to this North American NES version of the game) is playable (only in the North American version) as a characte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Trevino%27s%20Fighting%20Golf |
Lenormant is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Lenormant (1802–1859), French archaeologist
François Lenormant (1837–1883), French assyriologist and archaeologist
See also
Lenormand, a surname
French-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenormant |
The GSP Stadium () is a football stadium in Strovolos, Nicosia District, Cyprus. Although small by international standards, it is the largest stadium in Cyprus, with a capacity of 22,859 and was opened in 1999. It serves as the home stadium for the 3 biggest football clubs of Nicosia APOEL, Olympiakos & Omonia. It is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSP%20Stadium |
Multi-level (or multilevel) governance is a term used to describe the way power is spread vertically between many levels of government and horizontally across multiple quasi-government and non-governmental organizations and actors. This situation develops because many countries have multiple levels of government includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level%20governance |
is a side-scrolling hack-and-slash action game produced by Sega and originally released as an arcade game in 1989. It is the second and the final arcade game in the Shinobi series, following the original Shinobi itself. The player controls a ninja aided by an attack dog, who is fighting to save the city from a terroris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20Dancer%20%281989%20video%20game%29 |
Game store may refer to:
A place where recreational games are stored
Game larder: a building where game carcasses are stored
A Video game retailer
A hobby shop
Game, a South African store which is a subsidiary of Massmart
Game (retailer), a major British video game retailer
See also
Club (organization) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20store |
Kalevi Keskstaadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Tallinn, Estonia. Opened in 1955 and having a capacity of 12,000, it is the traditional venue of the Estonian Dance Festivals and the home ground of JK Tallinna Kalev. The address of the stadium is Staadioni 8, 10132 Tallinn.
Since 1955, all of the Estonian Dance Festi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi%20Keskstaadion |
The Breast (1972) is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the protagonist, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book Kepesh fights with himself. Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires, while the other part of him wants to be rational. Kepesh, a literature professor, compares his plight with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Breast |
Établissements Billard was a French railway rolling stock construction company founded in 1920 and based in Tours. It specialised in light railbuses and metre gauge and narrow gauge rolling stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later became Socofer.
Production
Draisines
Draisines : These worked on differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billard |
The Lake Superior agate is a type of agate stained by iron and found on the shores of Lake Superior. Its wide distribution and iron-rich bands of color reflect the gemstone's geologic history in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Michigan. In 1969 the Lake Superior agate was designated by the Minnesota Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Superior%20agate |
Gundadalur is a sports complex in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. It is home to three different football pitches and other sports facilities. The largest one is the national stadium Tórsvøllur, a multi-use stadium.
Overview
The actual Gundadalur Stadium is located just alongside Tórsvøllur. It was opened in 1911. There are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundadalur |
Edward Gottlieb (born Isadore Gottlieb; September 15, 1898 – December 7, 1979) was a Jewish-Ukrainian professional basketball coach and executive. Nicknamed "Mr. Basketball" and "The Mogul", he was the first coach and manager of the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and later became th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Gottlieb |
Séan McCann (born 22 May 1967) is a Canadian singer and musician (playing bodhran, shakers, tin whistle and guitar) who formerly played with Great Big Sea, a band he co-founded. He announced plans to stop touring with the group at the end of December 2013.
After exiting Great Big Sea, McCann publicly admitted a secret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9an%20McCann%20%28musician%29 |
The traditional colors of Japan are a collection of colors traditionally used in Japanese art, literature, textiles such as kimono, and other Japanese arts and crafts.
History
The traditional colors of Japan trace their historical origins to the Twelve Level Cap and Rank System which was established in 603 by Prince S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20colors%20of%20Japan |
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