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Avalon is a village outside Pontcharra, Isère département, eastern France. It is part of the commune Saint-Maximin. It is notable for being the birthplace of Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1130s), and for the Tour d'Avalon, a tower in the village.
Villages in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon%2C%20France |
St. Anthony of Padua Church or commonly known as the Franciscan Church () or the Seminary Church (Slovak: Seminárny kostol) at Hlavná ulica (English: Main Street) is the second oldest church in Košice, Slovakia.
History
It was built for Franciscans by the Perényi family from Perín after a big fire in 1333. After the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Anthony%20of%20Padua%20Church%2C%20Ko%C5%A1ice |
Cumari is a municipality in southeast Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 2,837 (2020) in a total area of 579.8 km2.
Connections and municipal boundaries
Cumari is 304 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia. Highway connections are made by BR-153 / Aparecida de Goiânia / GO-217 / Piracanjuba / GO-139 / Calda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumari |
Marist College Ashgrove (abbreviated as MCA) is an independent Roman Catholic day and boarding primary and secondary school for boys, located in the northern Brisbane suburb of Ashgrove, in Queensland, Australia. The college caters for students from Year 5 to Year 12.
History
Marist College Ashgrove was founded by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marist%20College%20Ashgrove |
Henrik Kauffmann (26 August 1888 – 5 June 1963) was the Danish ambassador to the United States during World War II, who signed over part of Greenland to the US.
Career
Kauffmann started his foreign career by serving as envoy in Rome, 1921–1923. He afterwards served in Peking in 1924–1932 when he was succeeded by Oscar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Kauffmann |
A buffet is a meal laid out on a table or sideboard so that guests may serve themselves.
Buffet may also refer to:
People
Buffet (surname)
Arts, entertainment, and media
The Buffet (Chardin), a 1728 painting by Jean Siméon Chardin
The Buffet (play), a 1968 Egyptian play by Ali Salem
The Buffet, a 2015 album by R. Ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffet%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Operation Southeast Croatia () was a large-scale German-led counter-insurgency operation conducted in the southeastern parts of the Independent State of Croatia (, NDH; modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) during World War II. It was the first of two German-led operations targeting mainly Yugoslav Partisans in eastern Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Southeast%20Croatia |
Sir Francis Geoffrey Jacobs (born 8 June 1939) is a British jurist who served as Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities from October 1988 to January 2006. He was educated at the City of London School, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Mods and Greats (Classics), and Nuffield Colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Jacobs |
Jose Mari Kaimo (born January 21, 1960, in Manila, Philippines) is a veteran Filipino journalist, news anchor, host, television personality, actor, and voice-over artist.
Career
Kaimo started as a news reporter at the height of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. After the EDSA People Power Revolution, he anchored var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%20Kaimo |
In the mathematical discipline of descriptive set theory, a coanalytic set is a set (typically a set of real numbers or more generally a subset of a Polish space) that is the complement of an analytic set (Kechris 1994:87). Coanalytic sets are also referred to as sets (see projective hierarchy).
References
Descrip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coanalytic%20set |
Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) was a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It could recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks.
Cryptanalysis attacks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%20and%20Abel%20%28software%29 |
Birger Jarls torg is a public square on Riddarholmen in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm, Sweden.
History
The square used to be called Riddarholmstorget, but was in the mid-19th century renamed Birger Jarls torg after Birger Jarl, traditionally attributed as the founder of Stockholm. A statue of him was erected o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger%20Jarls%20torg |
The Genève-Servette HC (also called Servette or GSHC) is a professional ice hockey club based in Geneva, Switzerland and competing in the National League (NL), the top tier of the Swiss hockey league system. The team plays their home games at the Patinoire des Vernets, which has a seating capacity of 7,135.
The team i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%C3%A8ve-Servette%20HC |
Bitterne Manor is a suburb of Southampton surrounding the manor house of the same name. It is located on the eastern bank of the River Itchen, across Cobden Bridge from St Denys.
History
Bitterne Manor is the site of the original Roman settlement of Clausentum, the forerunner to today's City of Southampton.
Archaeol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitterne%20Manor |
Bicol University (Bikol: Unibersidad nin Bikol, Tagalog: Pamantasan ng Bikol), also referred to by its acronym (BU or Bicol U), is a regional state, research and coeducational higher education institution in Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines, with external campuses scattered throughout the provinces of Albay and Sorsogo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicol%20University |
Blake Caracella (born 15 March 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently serving as an assistant coach with the Essendon Football Club. He is the brother of Craig Caracella.
AFL career
Essendon
Selected by Essendon in the 1994 National draft at p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%20Caracella |
Zero price may refer to:
Free of charge, a price of zero
The offering price of a Zero-coupon bond or its financial equivalent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20price |
Eleanor Veronica Elizabeth Sharpston, KC (born 13 July 1955) is an English barrister who served as an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from 2006 to 2020.
Life
Nominated by the UK to serve as an Advocate General from 10 January 2006, and renewed in 2009 and again in 2015, Sharpston ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Sharpston |
Lincoln School may refer to:
Nepal
Lincoln School, Kathmandu, Nepal
United Kingdom
Lincoln Grammar School was a boys' grammar and boarding school on Wragby Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire which in 1974 became Lincoln Christ's Hospital School, a co-educational comprehensive school
Lincoln School of Art became part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20School |
Eduard Roschmann (25 November 1908 – 8 August 1977) was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities. As a result of a fictionalized portrayal in the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth and its subsequent film adap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Roschmann |
Oliver Smithies (23 June 1925 – 10 January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and physical biochemist. He is known for introducing starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and for the discovery, simultaneously with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Smithies |
Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (; May 10, 1934February 22, 2012) was an American opera singer and translator. Born in Berlin, he was the only child of Russian parents: author Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera; they emigrated to the United States from France in 1940. He later was naturalized. In his later years, Nabokov ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Nabokov |
The Nicolson Institute (Gaelic: Àrd-sgoil MhicNeacail) in Stornoway, is the largest school in the Western Isles, Scotland.
The Nicolson is the only six-year secondary school in Lewis. With the Sir E. Scott School in Harris, they provide education up to Advanced Higher level.
The student population is around 1000. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolson%20Institute |
In physics, an atomic mirror is a device which reflects neutral atoms in a way similar to the way a conventional mirror reflects visible light. Atomic mirrors can be made of electric fields or magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves or just silicon wafer; in the last case, atoms are reflected by the attracting tails of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20mirror |
The Kolkata Suburban Railway (colloquially called Kolkata local trains or simply locals) is a suburban rail system serving the Kolkata metropolitan area and its surroundings in India. It is the largest suburban railway network in the country with the highest number of stations and also one of the largest suburban rail ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata%20Suburban%20Railway |
EHC Kloten is an ice hockey team based in the city of Kloten in Switzerland. The team plays in the National League (NL). It has one of the best youth systems in Swiss ice hockey as its youth teams have won 19 championships during the last 50 years. EHC Kloten won four consecutive Swiss championships from 1993 to 1996. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHC%20Kloten |
Arturo Frias (born October 27, 1955) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1975 to 1985. He held the WBA lightweight title from 1981 to 1982.
Boxing career
Frias began his professional boxing career on February 7, 1975, one month and a half after he had turned eighteen years old. He beat Alfredo M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Frias |
Théodore Cornut, also Cornout, was a French mathematician and military architect of the 18th century, born in Avignon, who worked for the King of Morocco.
Cornut initially worked as an architect for military fortifications in Roussillon. He then entered the service of the English Crown, and participated to the Seven Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore%20Cornut |
Perín-Chym is a municipality (village) in eastern Slovakia near the town of Košice.
It arose in 1964 by a merger of the municipalities Perín (first written mention 1220; before 1927 called Perina) and Chym (first written mention 1294; also called Him in some periods in the past). The municipality Vyšný Lanec was merge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%C3%ADn-Chym |
James William George Roycroft, OBE (17 March 1915 – 29 May 2011) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. He grew up on a dairy farm and learnt to ride horses there. After serving in the army in World War II, he moved with his family to a soldier's block in western Victoria near Camperdown, where he raised his th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Roycroft |
John Ross Rosenblatt (December 25, 1907– October 29, 1979) was an American civic leader, the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, from 1954 to 1961. His name remains synonymous with baseball in Omaha, and Rosenblatt Stadium was named after him. Rosenblatt led his hometown with warmth and optimism; one of six children born to Jewi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Rosenblatt |
Vileness Fats is an unfinished musical film project by avant-garde art collective The Residents, filmed primarily between 1972 and 1976. The Residents shot over fourteen hours of film and videotape for the project, but were not even two-thirds of the way through their incomplete script before they cancelled the product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vileness%20Fats |
Gerard Casey (born 1951) is an Irish academic who is Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin.
Career
He holds law degrees from the University of London (LLB) and UCD (LLM) as well as a primary degree in philosophy from University College Cork, an MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame and the higher doct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Casey%20%28philosopher%29 |
Andrés Guglielminpietro (born 10 April 1974 in San Nicolas, Buenos Aires province), nicknamed Guly, is an Argentine football coach, agent and former player.
A midfielder, he has been capped for the Argentina national football team, and represented his country at the 1999 Copa América.
Club career
Guglielminpietro's c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s%20Guglielminpietro |
Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history. , they are undeciphered.
Corpus
As of 1989, the corpus of Cretan hieroglyphic ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretan%20hieroglyphs |
Guly is a given name and a nickname. Notable people with the name include:
Andrés Guglielminpietro (born 1974, nicknamed Guly), Argentinian footballer and manager
Guly do Prado (born 1981), Brazilian footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guly |
A sister chromatid refers to the identical copies (chromatids) formed by the DNA replication of a chromosome, with both copies joined together by a common centromere. In other words, a sister chromatid may also be said to be 'one-half' of the duplicated chromosome. A pair of sister chromatids is called a dyad. A full s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20chromatids |
Gisèle Prassinos (26 February 1920 – 15 November 2015) was a French writer associated with the surrealist movement.
Early life and education
Gisèle Prassinos was born in Istanbul, Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived initially in Nanterre. At the age of fourteen, Prassinos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le%20Prassinos |
The Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea (Dutch: Nederlandse Bezittingen ter Kuste van Guinea) was a portion of contemporary Ghana that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1612. The Dutch began trading in the area around 1598, joining the Portuguese which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20Gold%20Coast |
The River Alre (also, occasionally, Arle) is a tributary of the River Itchen in Hampshire in the south of England. It rises in Bishop's Sutton and flows west for to meet the Itchen below New Alresford.
The river is a classic English chalk stream with a shallow gravel bed and fast flowing waters, fed year-round by cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Alre |
Lyons Hill or Lyons () is a townland and restored village in County Kildare. At a time when canal passenger boats travelled at Lyons was the nearest overnight stop to Dublin on the Grand Canal. On the hilltop is a trigonometrical point used by Ireland's Ordnance Survey. The name derives from the Irish language name fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyons%20Hill |
Saint Sigfrid of Sweden
(, , , ) was a missionary-bishop in Scandinavia during the first half of the 11th century. Originally from England, Saint Sigfrid is credited in late medieval king-lists and hagiography with performing the baptism of the first steadfastly Christian monarch of Sweden, Olof Skötkonung. He most li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfrid%20of%20Sweden |
The white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis) is a passerine bird found on the New England Tablelands and coastal areas of Australia. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-browed%20scrubwren |
Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania and living in New York City. His first collection of poetry City Country (1991) was followed by Deliberate Proof (2010). Thirst, the magazine he co-edited with Benjamin Sloan, lasted only a few issues, but his translations of Lithua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyt%20Bakaitis |
The Candover Brook is a chalk stream in the English county of Hampshire. It is a tributary of the River Itchen, which it joins near the town of New Alresford. The stream rises from springs just to the south of the village of Preston Candover.
It is one of the few rivers remaining in southern England that is home to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candover%20Brook |
The Silvan Reservoir is located in Silvan about east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It has a capacity of . The reservoir is operated by Melbourne Water.
Operations
Silvan is an off-stream storage reservoir, meaning that most of the water is sourced from other reservoirs as the actual catchment area of for Silvan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvan%20Reservoir |
Gillian Rolton (3 May 1956 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. She competed in two Olympic Games, the 1992 Barcelona Games and 1996 Atlanta Games, winning a gold medal in team eventing both times on her horse, Peppermint Grove. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, she broke her collarbone and ribs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian%20Rolton |
Dana Schutz (born 1976 in Livonia, Michigan) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Schutz is known for her gestural, figurative paintings that often take on specific subjects or narrative situations as a point of departure.
Early life and education
Schutz was born and grew up in Livonia, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Schutz |
Claus Christian Gulmann (born 1942) is a Danish judge who served as Advocate General and Judge at the European Court of Justice.
He has held the following positions:
Official at the Ministry of Justice
Legal Secretary to Judge Max Sørensen
Professor of Public International Law and Dean of the Law School of the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus%20Christian%20Gulmann |
The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a theatre located at 21, rue du Vieux-Colombier, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1913 by the theatre producer and playwright Jacques Copeau. Today it is one of the three theatres in Paris used by the Comédie-Française.
In May 1944 it saw the première of Jean-Paul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre%20du%20Vieux-Colombier |
These are References for Labor unions in the United States.
To 1900
See also History of coal mining#Coal miners and unions
Arnold, Andrew B. Fueling the Gilded Age: Railroads, Miners, and Disorder in Pennsylvania Coal Country (2014) Excerpt and text search
Commons, John R. History of Labour in the United States - V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography%20of%20works%20on%20labor%20unions%20in%20the%20United%20States |
French bagpipes cover a wide range and variety of styles of bagpipes and piping, from the Celtic piping and Music of Brittany to the Northern Occitan's cabrette.
The Center-France bagpipes (called in French cornemuse du centre or musette du centre) are of many different types, some mouth blown, some bellows blown; som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20bagpipes |
Rafael Molina Sánchez (November 27, 1841 – August 1, 1900), called Lagartijo (lizard), was a Spanish bullfighter.
Early life
Rafael Molina was born in Córdoba on November 27, 1841.
Career
On September 29, 1865, Lagartijo became a full bullfighter (he took the alternativa) at Úbeda. His sponsor (padrino) was Antonio C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%20Molina%20S%C3%A1nchez |
UTC+08:45 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:45.
As standard time (Southern Hemisphere winter)
Principal town: Eucla
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
Australasia
Australia - Central Western Standard Time
Western Australia
Caiguna
Cocklebiddy
Eucla
Madura
Mundrabilla
South Australia
Border Village
Us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08%3A45 |
Peru is a predominantly Christian country, with Muslims being a very small minority. Due to secular nature of the Peru's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The statistics for Islam in Peru estimate a total Muslim population of 15,000, largely based in the capital c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Peru |
The Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) was established in South Australia in 1970, when The Rationalist Association of South Australia decided upon a name change to better declare its basic philosophy, namely atheism.
The foundation defines atheism as "the acceptance that there is no credible scientific or factuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist%20Foundation%20of%20Australia |
The Malia altar stone is a stone slab bearing an inscription in Cretan hieroglyphs. It was found by a farmer near Malia, Crete. Chapouthier describes the find from an archeologist point of view.
Olivier and Godard (1996) present several photographs of the Malia altar stone, which they list as item 328 in their invent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malia%20altar%20stone |
A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories first appeared in the United Kingdom in The Strand Magazine in 1914, and in the United States in Pictorial Review in 1916. They were later published in book form in the UK by Porpoise Books in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Man%20of%20Means |
The Myshkin National Ethnographic Museum (, Myshkinsky Narodny Etnografichesky Muzey) is located in the ancient town of Myshkin in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Established in 1990, it is also uniquely known as the Mouse Museum for its collection of 2,000 mouse-related items from all over the globe. Mice made of various ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20Museum |
The Balmain Power Station was located at Iron Cove, from Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The station no longer exists and residential properties now occupy the site. This plant is often confused with the White Bay Power Station, the remains of which are still standing in Rozelle.
History
In 1903, the Public H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmain%20Power%20Station |
Okan Buruk (born 19 October 1973) is a Turkish professional football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Süper Lig club Galatasaray. As a former midfielder, he played for Galatasaray, Inter Milan, Beşiktaş, and İstanbul B.B. He was capped 56 times for the Turkey national team.
Club career
Okan B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okan%20Buruk |
Harsh Mander (born 17 April 1955) is an Indian author, columnist, researcher, teacher, and social activist who started the Karwan-e-Mohabbat campaign in solidarity with the victims of communal or religiously motivated violence. He is the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, a research organisation based in New De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh%20Mander |
Marianne Van Hirtum (20 July 1935 – 11 June 1988) was a Belgian author writing in the French language, connected with the surrealist movement.
She was born in Namur, the daughter of Louis Van Hirtum, a doctor at a psychiatric hospital.
Van Hirtum met André Breton in 1959, the same year in which she participated in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne%20Van%20Hirtum |
In music, parallel harmony, also known as harmonic parallelism, harmonic planing or parallel voice leading, is the parallel movement of two or more melodies (see voice leading).
Illustrative example
Lines with parallel harmony can be viewed as a series of chords with the same intervallic structure. Parallel means th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20harmony |
is a 1972 manga by Leiji Matsumoto. It introduces Tochiro Oyama, best friend to Matsumoto's classic hero, Captain Harlock, who is in turn depicted as a gunslinger in the Old West. In sharp contrast to other Matsumoto's stories, Gun Frontier is a comedy adventure rather than a space opera. Also, unlike other Harlock st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%20Frontier |
James Joseph Trelease (March 23, 1941 – July 28, 2022) was an American educator and author who stressed reading aloud to children to instill a love of literature.
Life
Jim Trelease was born on March 23 in Orange, New Jersey, to George Edward and Jane (Conlan) Trelease, a Cornish American family. In 1945, his family m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Trelease |
Lorraine Joyce Thurlow, (born 1 October 1938), née Crapp, is a former Olympic swimming champion representing Australia. In world swimming history, Crapp earned a place as the first woman to break the five-minute barrier in the 400 m freestyle.
Born in 1938, as a young girl Crapp lived with her parents at Jervis Bay w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine%20Crapp |
Belgium participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Je t'adore" written by Kate Ryan, Niklas Bergwall, Niclas Kings and Lisa Greene. The song was performed by Kate Ryan. The Belgian entry for the 2006 contest in Athens, Greece was selected through the national final Eurosong '06, organised by the Fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium%20in%20the%20Eurovision%20Song%20Contest%202006 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Lejla" written by Željko Joksimović, Fahrudin Pecikoza and Dejan Ivanović. The song was performed by the band Hari Mata Hari. Songwriter Željko Joksimović represented Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina%20in%20the%20Eurovision%20Song%20Contest%202006 |
Michael Vincent Wenden, (born 17 November 1949) is a champion swimmer who represented Australia in the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he won four medals: gold in both the 100- and 200-metre freestyle (setting world records in each) and a silver and a bronze in freestyle relays.
Wenden was indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Wenden |
The Senedd building () in Cardiff houses the debating chamber and three committee rooms of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ; formerly the National Assembly for Wales). The Senedd building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 1 March 2006, Saint David's Day, and the total cost was £69.6 million, which included £49.7 milli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senedd%20building |
Greater Than One is an English electronic music band, founded by husband and wife Michael Wells and Lee Newman in 1985. They released many albums under this name, and also under the names Tricky Disco, GTO, John + Julie, Church of Extacy, Signs of Chaos, T.D.5, Salami Brothers, Killout Squad, Technohead and L.E.D.. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Than%20One |
The pastoral pipe (also known as the hybrid union pipes, organ pipe and union pipe) was a bellows-blown bagpipe, widely recognised as the forerunner and ancestor of the 19th-century union pipes, which became the uilleann pipes of today. Similar in design and construction, it had a foot joint in order to play a low lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral%20pipes |
Bulgaria participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song "Let Me Cry" written by Dani Milev and Elina Gavrilova. The song was performed by Mariana Popova. The Bulgarian broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) organised the national final Bŭlgarskata pesen v „Evroviziya 2006” in order to select th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria%20in%20the%20Eurovision%20Song%20Contest%202006 |
John W. Bunn (September 26, 1898 – August 13, 1979) was an American basketball coach and key contributor to the game of basketball. The Wellston, Ohio native played three seasons under coach Phog Allen at University of Kansas while earning his bachelor's degree (1917–21). He later became an assistant to Allen for nine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bunn%20%28basketball%29 |
Nicholas David Green OAM (born 4 October 1967) is an Australian former rower, a dual Olympic gold medallist and four time World Champion. From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome. Now a sports administrator, since 2014 he has been Chief... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Green%20%28rower%29 |
John Williams Stoddard (October 1, 1837 – September 18, 1917) was an American manufacturer of agricultural implements and automobile pioneer. He was a cousin of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Biography
John Williams Stoddard was born in Dayton, Ohio to Henry and Susan (Williams) Stoddard. Henry Stoddard (1788–1869... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Williams%20Stoddard |
Wilhelm Sasnal (born December 29, 1972) is a Polish painter, photographer, poster artist, illustrator and filmmaker. Sasnal graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1999. He is considered one of the most prominent and internationally successful Polish contemporary artists.
Early life and career... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Sasnal |
The Night & Day Café is a café bar and live music venue in Manchester, England.
Location
It is located in the city's Northern Quarter on Oldham Street, opposite Piccadilly Records. It is near the Afflecks palace shopping arcade and a few minutes' walk from the Market Street/Arndale Centre shopping areas.
History
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Night%20and%20Day%20Caf%C3%A9 |
The Brian Boru bagpipe was invented and patented in 1908 by Henry Starck, an instrument maker (who also made standard Great Highland Bagpipes), in London, in consultation with William O'Duane. The name was chosen in honour of the Irish king Brian Boru (941–1014), though this bagpipe is not a recreation of any pipes tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Boru%20bagpipes |
This Conversation Seems Like a Dream was the first solo album by American rock artist Kip Winger. The album was released by Domo Records in 1997. A limited edition bonus disc was included with the Japanese release of the album, which also featured alternate cover art.
Track listing
"Kiss of Life" (Kip Winger, Noble K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Conversation%20Seems%20Like%20a%20Dream |
Panamanian culture is a hybrid of African, Native Panamanian, and European culture - specifically Spanish. For example, the tamborito is a Spanish dance that was blended with Native American rhythms and dance moves. Dance is a symbol of the diverse cultures that have coupled in Panama. The local folklore can be experie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Panama |
Frederick Busch (August 1, 1941 – February 23, 2006) was an American writer who authored nearly thirty books, including volumes of short stories and novels.
Early life and education
Busch was born in Brooklyn, New York City on August 1, 1941. He graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1962, and earned a master's degree f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Busch |
Oughterard (, “a high place”) is an ecclesiastical hilltop site, graveyard, townland, and formerly a parish, borough and royal manor in County Kildare, nowadays part of the community of Ardclough, close to the Dublin border. It is the burial place of Arthur Guinness.
Foundation
The round tower and ancient monastery is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oughter%20Ard |
Albert Oehlen (born 17 September 1954) is a German artist. He lives and works in Bühler, Switzerland and Segovia, Spain.
Early life and education
Born in Krefeld, West Germany, in 1954, Oehlen moved to Berlin in 1977, where he worked as a waiter and decorator with his friend, the artist Werner Büttner. He graduated fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Oehlen |
Rafael Guerra Bejarano (Professionally known as Guerrita , a diminutive nickname of his surname) (January 1862 – 6 February 1941) was born in Cordoba. He was a professional Spanish bullfighter who achieved fame during the 1890s. His uncle, José "Pepete" Damaso Rodriguez Rodriguez, also a professional bullfighter, was k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%20Guerra%20Bejarano |
Eberhard Havekost (1967 – 5 July 2019) was a contemporary German painter based in Berlin and Dresden, who exhibited internationally.
Biography
Born in Dresden, Havekost was the son of a sculptor and a taxidermist. He completed an internship as a stonemason in 1985. In 1989, he fled to the West via Budapest and lived ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard%20Havekost |
Michael "Mic" Christopher (21 September 1969 – 29 November 2001) was an Irish singer-songwriter, best known for his posthumously-released debut album Skylarkin'.
Early life
Michael Christopher was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Irish parents Harry Christopher from Dublin and Vaun Heaney from Sixmilecross, Count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic%20Christopher |
Northern Europe
Ireland
Uilleann pipes: Also known as Union pipes and Irish pipes, depending on era. Bellows-blown bagpipe with keyed or un-keyed 2-octave chanter, 3 drones and 3 regulators. The most common type of bagpipes in Irish traditional music.
Great Irish Warpipes: One of the earliest references to the Iris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bagpipes |
The Dave Gallaher Trophy is a rugby union trophy contested between and . It is named after Dave Gallaher, the 1905–06 All Black captain who was killed in Belgium during World War I.
History
When it comes to rugby, France and New Zealand have a very rich common history. France played their first ever test match in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Gallaher%20Trophy |
Matthias Weischer (born 1973) is a German painter living in Leipzig. He is considered to be part of the New Leipzig School.
Life
Born in Elte, North Rhine-Westphalia, Weischer studied painting from 1995 to 2001 and received his MA in 2003 from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig. He was a student in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Weischer |
Unions have been compared across countries by growth and decline patterns, by violence levels, and by kinds of political activity.
Union density
The following is a comparison of union density among OECD countries. Note that this is normally lower than the rate of collective bargaining coverage (for example, France re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20comparisons%20of%20trade%20unions |
Johann Parler the Younger (, , ; c. 1359 – 1405/06), was a Bohemian architect of German origin from the prominent Parler family of architects, master builders, and sculptors. He was the son of famous Gothic architect Peter Parler, the builder of Saint Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge in Prague. His uncle (i.e. Peter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Parler |
HRB may refer to:
HRB (gene)
HRB Systems, an American defense contractor
Boeing HRB-1, a helicopter
Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood (Croatian: )
FBI Human Resources Branch, US
H&R Block, NYSE symbol
Harbin Taiping International Airport, Heilongjiang, China
Health Research Board, Ireland
House of Responsib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRB |
Mario Prassinos (30 July 1916 – 23 October 1985) was a French modernist painter, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer of Greek-Italian descent.
Life and work
Prassinos was born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) in 1916, the son of Victorine and Lysandre Prassinos. In 1922, at the age of six... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Prassinos |
Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (VFA-11) is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, United States. The squadron was established in 1950 and is nicknamed "Red Rippers" (call sign "Ripper"). VFA-11 is equipped with the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet and currently assigned to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFA-11 |
Franz Ackermann (born 1963 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction.
Life
He attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich from 1984 to 1988 and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg from 1989 to 1991.
He has shown work i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Ackermann |
Futures exchanges establish a minimum amount that the price of a commodity can fluctuate upward or downward. This minimum fluctuation (trade increment) is known as a tick or commodity tick. Hence, a tick is any fluctuation in the price of a security.
Each futures contract has a different size, quantity, valuation etc.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity%20tick |
Luther Hamilton Holton (January 22, 1817 – March 14, 1880) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He represented Châteauguay as a Liberal member in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1880. He became Minister of Finance, Governor of McGill University, board member of the Montreal Board of Trade, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Hamilton%20Holton |
Gaston Gallimard (; 18 January 1881 – 25 December 1975) was a French publisher.
He founded La Nouvelle Revue Française in 1908, together with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger.
In 1911 the trio established La Nouvelle Revue Française. In 1919, he created his own publishing house, named Librairie Gallimard, though he co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20Gallimard |
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