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Beau Hill is an American record producer who is best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Kix, Winger, Streets, Warrant, Fiona, Europe, and Ratt. He also played instruments and sang backing vocals for some of the artists that he produced, as well as for his own bands Airborne (which had a record released in 1979 on Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau%20Hill |
Sri Lankan Mukkuvar () is a Tamil speaking ethnic group found in the Western and Eastern coastal regions of Sri Lanka. They are primarily concentrated in the districts of Batticaloa, Ampara and Puttalam. They are also related to "Sri Lankan Moors". Sri Lankan Mukkuvars along with Eastern tamils of Sri Lankan claim thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Lankan%20Mukkuvar |
Sichuanese or Szechwanese (; Sichuanese Pinyin: Si4cuan1hua4; ), also called Sichuanese/Szechwanese Mandarin (), is a branch of Southwestern Mandarin spoken mainly in Sichuan and Chongqing, which was part of Sichuan Province until 1997, and the adjacent regions of their neighboring provinces, such as Hubei, Guizhou, Yu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuanese%20dialects |
There are eleven time zones in Russia, which currently observe times ranging from UTC+02:00 to UTC+12:00. Daylight saving time (DST) has not been used in Russia since 26 October 2014. From 27 March 2011 to 26 October 2014, permanent DST was used.
List of zones
Since 27 December 2020, the time zones are as follows:
D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Russia |
The marsupial family Peramelidae contains the extant bandicoots. They are found throughout Australia and New Guinea, with at least some species living in every available habitat, from rainforest to desert. Four fossil peramelids are described. One known extinct species of bandicoot, the pig-footed bandicoot, was so dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peramelidae |
Bad Sobernheim is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is also its seat. It is a state-recognized spa town, and is well known for two fossil discovery sites and for the naturopath Emanuel Felke. Bad Sobernheim is also a winegrowing tow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Sobernheim |
The John W. H. Bassett Theatre is a multi-purpose theatre located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Front Street, in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The theatre is regularly used by the CTV Television Network for television shows such as Canadian Idol and Canada's Got Talent.
The 1,232 seat, multi-purpose ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bassett%20Theatre |
Veselin "Vesko" Vukotić (born 12 February 1958) is a Montenegrin criminal and hitman. He was arrested in February 2006 and released from jail in August 2009.
Criminal activity
Vukotić is best known as one of the assassins of Enver Hadri, a Kosovo-Albanian human rights activist, accused by Yugoslav State Security Serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veselin%20Vukoti%C4%87%20%28criminal%29 |
Charles Edward Phelps (May 1, 1833 – December 27, 1908) was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, later received a brevet as a brigadier general of volunteers, served as a city councilman, a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, and received the Medal of Honor. In later life, he was professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20E.%20Phelps |
A rocker turn is a kind of one-foot turn in figure skating. Unlike three turns and brackets, where the entry and exit edges follow the same curve, in a rocker, the entry and exit are on opposite curves. When executing a rocker, the skater turns inward on the curve of the entry edge, but exits on a curve in the opposi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocker%20turn |
is a strategy game loosely based on the Three Kingdoms period of China. It is the sequel to Kessen in name only; both Kessen and the later sequel Kessen III are based on events in Japan and China. The gameplay involves playing out major battles as the storyline progresses, with cutscenes between each battle for the dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessen%20II |
Azura may refer to:
Entertainment
Azura (Elder Scrolls), a fictional supernatural entity in The Elder Scrolls video games
"Azura", song on the album Don Solaris by 808 State
Azura, the alias of character Romwell Jr in the Gorgeous Carat manga
Azura, a character in the Di-Gata Defenders television series
Azura, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azura |
A counter turn is a kind of one-foot turn in figure skating. Unlike three turns and brackets, where the entry and exit edges follow the same curve, in a counter the entry and exit are on opposite curves. When executing a counter, the skater turns outward to the curve of the entry edge, and exits on a curve in the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter%20turn |
The Isle of Wight County Press is a local, compact newspaper published every Friday on the Isle of Wight.
It had an audited circulation of 23,006 copies, compared to a local population of 140,500. The paper saw a drop in circulation of 13,657 between December 2009 and December 2017 (37.25%). In December 2020 the paper ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20of%20Wight%20County%20Press |
John Stanton (born 28 October 1944) is an Australian actor.
Stanton has appeared in many stage, television and film productions throughout his extensive fifty-year career.
Early life
Stanton was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He attended Banyo State High School for his secondary education where he was a runner and swi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stanton%20%28actor%29 |
Matt Goff (born Matthew Gough in Leixlip, County Kildare, 5 July 1901, died 19 March 1956) was a Gaelic footballer on the Kildare, Leinster and Irish Tailteann Games teams and one of a group of players who helped establish Gaelic Athletic Association as a sport in Ireland.
He played in six All Ireland finals between 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Goff |
His Big White Self is a 2006 documentary film made by Nick Broomfield. It is a sequel to his earlier documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991). It was first shown as part of More4's Nick Broomfield week which began on 27 February 2006. The documentary follows Broomfield as he returns to South Afri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His%20Big%20White%20Self |
Narciso Gener Gonzales (August 5, 1858 – January 19, 1903) was an American journalist born in Eddingsville, Edisto Island, South Carolina. He founded The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina with his brother, Ambrose E. Gonzales in 1891. Gonzales was a frequent critic of Tillmanism. He was also a Democratic powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso%20Gener%20Gonzales |
This is a partial discography of American jazz singer Mel Tormé.
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Chart singles
Contributions
Born to Laugh at Tornadoes (1983, Geffen) - "Zaz Turned Blue" (with Was (Not Was))
2:00 AM Paradise Cafe (1984, Arista) - "Big City Blues" (with Barry Manilow)
References
External... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Torm%C3%A9%20discography |
Langenlonsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Langenlonsheim-Stromberg, and is also its seat. Langenlonsheim is a state-recognized tourism communit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langenlonsheim |
Route 72 is a state highway in the western part of the Greater Hartford area. Route 72 is an L-shaped route with a north–south section in Plymouth and Harwinton and an east–west section from Bristol to New Britain. Route 72 is a freeway from Route 9 in New Britain to Route 372 in Plainville. Although ConnDOT logs it as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Route%2072 |
Amy Alkon (born March 8, 1964), also known as the Advice Goddess, is an American advice columnist. Alkon wrote a weekly advice column, Ask the Advice Goddess, which was published in over 100 newspapers within North America. While Alkon addressed a wide range of topics, she primarily focused on issues in intimate relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Alkon |
Operation Trio () was the first large-scale joint German-Italian counter-insurgency operation of World War II conducted in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which included modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was carried out in two phases within eastern Bosnia from 20 April to 13 May 1942, with Ustaše militia an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Trio |
Ismael Serrano (born 9 March 1974) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Spain, popular in Spain and Latin America, known for his often political lyrics and eclectic musical influences. During his creative career he has been influenced by other Spanish singer-songwriters such as Joaquín Sabina, Joan Manuel Serrat a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismael%20Serrano |
Zastava Trucks () is a Serbian truck manufacturer based in the city of Kragujevac, Serbia. It is a subsidiary of Group Zastava Vehicles which declared bankruptcy in May 2017. In September 2017, the Government of Serbia established Zastava TERVO, which took over Zastava Trucks production facilities.
History
Foundation
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava%20Trucks |
The Sultan of Perak (سلطان ڤيراق) is one of the oldest hereditary seats among the Malay states.
When the Sultanate of Malacca empire fell to Portugal in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Syah I retreated to Kampar, Sumatra, and died there in 1528. He left behind two princes named Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II and Sultan Muzaffar S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20of%20Perak |
The Nilgiri-class frigates were updated versions of the , designed and built for the Indian Navy by Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai. Six ships were built between 1972–81. Vessels of the class formed the 14th Frigate Squadron. The lead ship was the first major warship to be built in India and was built in collaboration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri-class%20frigate%20%281972%29 |
The Cambridge Camden Society, known from 1845 (when it moved to London) as the Ecclesiological Society, was a learned architectural society founded in 1839 by undergraduate students at Cambridge University to promote "the study of Gothic Architecture, and of Ecclesiastical Antiques". Its activities came to include publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Camden%20Society |
Russell Ciochon (born March 11, 1948) is an American paleoanthropologist. He was born in Altadena, California and received three degrees (B.A. in 1971; M.A. in 1974; and PhD. in 1986) in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. He i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20Ciochon |
Cowherd is the surname of:
Colin Cowherd (born 1964), American sports radio host
Kevin Cowherd, American author, humorist and former newspaper columnist
Leonard Cowherd, American soldier killed in the Iraq War, one of the subjects of the documentary Last Letters Home
Thomas Cowherd (1817–1907), Canadian tinsmith a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowherd |
Ditellurium decafluoride was widely reported in the literature but what was believed to be Te2F10 has been shown to be bis(pentafluorotelluryl) oxide, F5TeOTeF5. An account as to how this error occurred was made by P. M. Watkins.
If it existed, it would be valence isoelectronic with disulfur decafluoride, and have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditellurium%20decafluoride |
Ricky Allen Helling (born December 15, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher.
High school and college
Helling attended Lakota High School in Lakota, North Dakota for three years, before graduating from Shanley High School in Fargo, North Dakota. He was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Helling |
Makbule Hande Özyener (born 12 January 1973), better known by her stage name Hande Yener, is a Turkish singer. She made her debut in the early 2000s, and since then has become a prominent figure of Turkish pop music with numerous songs that topped the music charts. Alongside her music career, she is also known for her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hande%20Yener |
Roger Langridge (born 14 February 1967) is a New Zealand comics writer, artist and letterer, currently living in Britain.
Biography
Langridge originally came to public prominence most notably with the Judge Dredd Megazine series The Straitjacket Fits (written by David Bishop), a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Langridge |
D.C. Follies is a syndicated sitcom which aired from 1987–1989. The show was set in a Washington, D.C. bar, where a bartender played by Fred Willard would welcome puppet caricatures of politicians and popular culture figures.
Synopsis
The show, a satire, made frequent sardonic comments on cold war and late 1980s polit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C.%20Follies |
Novo Miloševo () is a village located in the Novi Bečej municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb majority (76.09%) with an ethnic Hungarian minority (14.57%). Its population is 6,763 people as of the 2002 census.
Name
The village was for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo%20Milo%C5%A1evo |
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, also known as Jimmy Grimble, is a 2000 British sports drama film directed by John Hay, starring Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Lewis McKenzie, Gina McKee, Ben Miller and Samia Ghadie. Set in Greater Manchester Jimmy is a young aspiring footballer who plays for his school team who after re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s%20Only%20One%20Jimmy%20Grimble |
Byblos script may refer to:
Byblos syllabary (c. 1700 BC)
Phoenician script (c. 1200 BC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblos%20script |
Cătălin Constantin Măruță (born 27 January 1978) is a Romanian television host.
Career
He currently presents the "La Măruță" show on Pro TV. Since June 2002, he has been the host of the "Tonomatul DP2" show on TVR 2. For a few months, at the end of 2005, he worked for Realitatea TV, where he presented another morning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83t%C4%83lin%20M%C4%83ru%C8%9B%C4%83 |
In Ireland, a republican plot is a cemetery plot where combatants or members of various Irish republican organisations are buried in a group of adjacent graves, rather than being buried with family members. These plots often hold the bodies of casualties of earlier 19th and 20th-century campaigns by organisations such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican%20plot |
Another Level were an English soul and R&B-influenced boy band that formed in 1997 and broke up in 2000, consisting of Mark Baron, Dane Bowers, Bobak Kianoush and Wayne Williams. They achieved seven top ten singles, including the 1998 number-one "Freak Me".
In 2013, the band were about to reunite for the ITV2 document... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Level%20%28group%29 |
Meisenheim () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is also its seat. Meisenheim is a state-recognized recreational resort (Erholungsort) and it is set out as a middle centre in state planning.
Geography
Location
Meisenheim lies in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisenheim |
The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos, a coastal city in Lebanon. The inscriptions are engraved on bronze plates and spatulas, and carved in stone. They wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblos%20syllabary |
Javed Iqbal (Urdu: ; 5 October 1924 – 3 October 2015) was a Pakistani philosopher and senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He was internationally known for his acclaimed publications on philosophy of law and modern Islamic philosophy in international and national journals.
He was the son of the poet-philo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javed%20Iqbal%20%28judge%2C%20born%201924%29 |
The Pink Panthers Patrol (often shortened to Pink Panthers) were a civilian patrol group based in New York City, founded by members of Queer Nation in the summer of 1990 in order to combat anti-LGBT violence in Manhattan's West Village. They received notoriety when they were successfully sued in 1991 by MGM Pictures, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pink%20Panthers |
The Navistar T444E is a diesel V8 engine manufactured by Navistar International Corporation. In its use in Ford Motor Company trucks, vans, and school buses, it is the first of the Power Stroke family of diesel engines. The T444E was manufactured from 1994 to 2003, replacing the 7.3L IDI V8 designed by International Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navistar%20T444E%20engine |
The Île Saint-Honorat is the second largest of the Lérins Islands, about off shore from the French Riviera town of Cannes. The island is approximately in length (East to West) and wide.
Since the fifth century, the island has been home to a community of monks.
History
The island, known to the Romans as Lerina, wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele%20Saint-Honorat |
Christian Delpeuch is president emeritus of the French Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB). He won support for Plan Bordeaux, an effort to save the wine industry of Bordeaux. The plan calls for growers to reduce yields, decrease total area of vineyards, divert excess wine into production of ethanol fuel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Delpeuch |
Manghopir or Mangopir () is a neighbourhood in the Malir district of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, that previously was a part of Gadap Town until 2011.
There are several ethnic groups in Manghopir including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Punjabis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis, etc. The populatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manghopir |
Donald Bruce Callander (1930–2008) was an American fantasy novel author, photographer, editor and graphic artist. He authored Pyromancer, a tale of young wizard-in-training Douglas Brightglade, and fourteen other novels.
Personal
Born in Minnesota, Callander joined the U.S. Navy after high school, serving four years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Callander |
Florida's 7th congressional district is a congressional district in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Florida.
From 2003 to 2013, the district consisted of the suburban area between Orlando and Daytona Beach and included St. Augustine. The district included all of Flagler and St. Johns Counties; a very sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s%207th%20congressional%20district |
Zinda Rood is a 4 volume biographical work by Justice Javed Iqbal about his father Muhammad Iqbal, a Muslim poet-philosopher. Zinda Rood is translated as "living stream of life", a pseudonym Muhammad Iqbal used for himself in his Persian Masnavi Javid Nama.The complete biography has been unified and translated in Kanna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinda%20Rood |
21st Circuitry was a record label based in San Francisco, California, that was founded in early 1991. The label released music from genres, such as electro-industrial, industrial rock, and other similar styles of music. The label signed a number of artists, including, Covenant, Unit:187, and Xorcist, as well as releasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st%20Circuitry |
The First Battle of Middlewich took place on 13 March 1643, during the First English Civil War, and was fought between the Parliamentarians, under Sir William Brereton, and the Royalist supporters of King Charles I of England, under Sir Thomas Aston.
Background
In the summer of 1642 came the final split between the Ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Battle%20of%20Middlewich |
Rüdesheim an der Nahe, or simply Rüdesheim, is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim, and is also its seat. Rüdesheim customarily takes the tag ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdesheim%20an%20der%20Nahe |
Konstantin Biebl (26 February 1898, Slavětín – 12 November 1951, Prague) was a Czech poet and writer. His first collection of poems was released in 1923, and his last in 1951, the year of his death by suicide. During that time he also travelled widely as a reporter. Biebl was a member of the Communist Party Czechoslova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin%20Biebl |
Nantong University (), colloquially known in Chinese as Tong da (通大, Tōngdà), was established in 1912. The university is located in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China. It occupies 4000 acres and have 800 thousand square meters used for school buildings.
Nantong is comprehensive university constructed by Jiangsu Provinci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantong%20University |
William James Benners, Jr. (1863-1940) was a writer, publisher and historian of dime novels which was a class of popular fiction that flourished in the mid- and late-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Benners was also a poet, actor, and an avid traveler, who maintained correspondence with many dim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20J.%20Benners |
Fahad Al-Deehani (, born October 11, 1966) is a Kuwaiti professional target shooter and officer in the Kuwaiti military. He was born in Kuwait City.
Olympic career
Al-Deehani won a bronze medal for the men's double trap shooting event at the 2000 Summer Olympics and thus he became the first Kuwaiti to ever win an Ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehaid%20Al-Deehani |
Bloodbath at the House of Death is a 1984 British comedy horror film directed by Ray Cameron and starring the comedian Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson and Vincent Price. It is an over-the-top spoof loosely inspired by The Amityville Horror and other horror films from the same period.
In the film, a manor house is und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodbath%20at%20the%20House%20of%20Death |
Actinidia arguta, the hardy kiwi, is a perennial vine native to Japan, Korea, Northern China, and the Russian Far East. It produces a small kiwifruit without the hair-like fiber covering the outside, unlike most other species of the genus.
Description
The fruit is referred to as the arctic kiwi, baby kiwi, cocktail ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinidia%20arguta |
The Vereinsthaler was the currency of Prussia between 1857 and 1873. It replaced the Thaler at par and was replaced by the Mark at a rate of 1 Vereinsthaler = 3 Mark. The Vereinsthaler was subdivided into 30 Silbergroschen, each of 12 Pfennings.
Literature
William Arthur Shaw (1896). The History of Currency, 1252 to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian%20vereinsthaler |
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, to which negative symptoms are attributed. EHS has no scientific basis and is not a recognized medical diagnosis, although it is generally accepted that the experience of EHS symptoms is of psychosomatic origin. Claims are charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20hypersensitivity |
Bašaid () is a village located in the Kikinda municipality, in the North Banat District of the Republic of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has an ethnic Serb majority (89.15%) and a population of 3,503 (2002 census). Administratively, the settlement of Bikač is also classifie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C5%A1aid |
The Vereinsthaler was the currency of the Kingdom of Saxony between 1857 and 1873. It replaced the Thaler at par and was replaced by the Mark at a rate of 1 Vereinsthaler = 3 Mark. The Vereinsthaler was subdivided into 30 Neugroschen, each of 10 Pfennig.
Currencies of Germany
1857 establishments in Germany
1873 disest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon%20vereinsthaler |
Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod (; 21 February 1860 in Domažlice – 3 November 1927 in Prague) was a Czech naturalistic writer and a journalist.
Biography
In 1879 he graduated at the gymnasium in Domažlice. He was a long-term cooperator of the Národní listy journal, and after Karel Čapek began to work in the editorial office (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Mat%C4%9Bj%20%C4%8Capek-Chod |
In astronomy, the intracluster medium (ICM) is the superheated plasma that permeates a galaxy cluster. The gas consists mainly of ionized hydrogen and helium and accounts for most of the baryonic material in galaxy clusters. The ICM is heated to temperatures on the order of 10 to 100 megakelvins, emitting strong X-ray ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracluster%20medium |
Stromberg is a town in the district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Hunsrück, approximately 10 km west of Bingen.
Stromberg was the seat of the former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Stromberg.
References
External links
https://en.db-city.c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromberg%20%28Hunsr%C3%BCck%29 |
Jan Drda (April 4, 1915, Příbram – November 28, 1970, Dobříš) was a Czech journalist, politician, playwright, screenwriter and author of modern fairytales. He was the Czech State Prize Laureate in 1949 and 1953, and was a nominated again for the same prize in 1965.
Life
Jan Drda was born April 4, 1915, in Příbram and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Drda |
Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy is a 1978 book by the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. It serves as an "introduction to common sense" and philosophic thinking, for which there is "no better teacher than Aristotle," and which is "everybody's business," in his opinion.
Summary
Aristotle was a "common... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%20for%20Everybody |
Scouts BSA (previously known as Boy Scouts, the official name until 2019) is the flagship program and membership level of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for boys and girls between the ages of typically 11 and 17. It provides youth training in character, citizenship, and mental and personal fitness. Scouts are expected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouts%20BSA |
Bellshill railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and served by Argyle Line and Shotts Line services. The station is adjacent to Bellshill Main Street, on Hamilton Road, and was opened by the Caledonian Railway as part of the Cleland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellshill%20railway%20station |
Virginia's 8th congressional district is located just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.. It comprises several populous suburbs in Northern Virginia, including all of Alexandria, Arlington, and Falls Church, as well as parts of Fairfax County. Democrat Don Beyer has held the seat since 2015. With a Cook Par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s%208th%20congressional%20district |
The North German thaler was the currency of the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony until 1857. Between 1754 and 1841, it was equal to three quarters of a Conventionsthaler and was subdivided into 24 Groschen, each of 12 Pfennig. In 1841, Saxony partially decimalized, dividing the Thaler (now equal to the Prussian Thaler)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon%20thaler |
The Literary and Historical Society (L&H) is the oldest society in University College Dublin (UCD), which according to its constitution is the 'College Debating Union'. Founded in 1855 by Cardinal John Henry Newman, as of 2017 it had over 5000 enrolled members, and has been the largest student society in UCD.
History
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary%20and%20Historical%20Society%20%28University%20College%20Dublin%29 |
Brown Shipley is a member of Quintet Private Bank. It is headquartered in London's Moorgate, behind the Bank of England. Brown Shipley offers wealth planning, investment management and lending services for private, corporate and institutional clients. Effective January 2022, the CEO is Calum Brewster.
History
In 1800... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20Shipley |
The Bustan al-Marj Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Bustan al-Marj) is a regional council in northern Israel. Its territory lies adjacent to the Jezreel Valley and north of Afula, and includes four Arab villages:
Ed Dahi
Kafr Misr
Nein
Sulam
External links
Official website
Official website
Regional councils i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustan%20al-Marj%20Regional%20Council |
The Inter Varsity Folk Dance Festival (IVFDF) is the longest running folk festival in the United Kingdom, having been hosted from 1951 to the present day (2022).
It differs from most other festivals in two respects: it moves location every year, and it is hosted and organised by student folk societies. Ex-students and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter%20Varsity%20Folk%20Dance%20Festival |
The Vereinsthaler was the currency of the Kingdom of Hanover between 1857 and 1866. The Vereinsthaler replaced the prior Thaler at par. The Vereinsthaler was first subdivided into 24 Groschen, each of 12 Pfennig, thus 288 Pfennig = 1 Vereinsthaler. From 1858 on the subdivisions were more decimalised to 30 Groschen, ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoverian%20vereinsthaler |
Fighter Squadron 21 (VF-21) Freelancers was an aviation unit of the United States Navy. Originally established in 1944 as VF-81 it was redesignated VF-13A in 1946, redesignated VF-131 in 1948, redesignated VF-64 in 1950 and redesignated VF-21 on 1 July 1959, it was disestablished on 31 January 1996. It was the third US... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-21 |
Bačko Gradište (, ; , ; ) is a village located in the Bečej municipality, in the South Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village is ethnically mixed and its population numbering 5,445 people (2002 census). Largest ethnic groups in the village are Hungarians (46.26%) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%C4%8Dko%20Gradi%C5%A1te |
Michael Charles Johnston (born March 30, 1979) is a former baseball player. In 2004, Johnston made the Pirates team out of spring training despite never previously pitching above the AA level. By doing so, Johnston became the second known person with Tourette syndrome to play in Major League Baseball, after Jim Eisenr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Johnston%20%28baseball%29 |
The NWA International Heavyweight Championship was a singles title recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance through its partnership with the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance, and later by All Japan Pro Wrestling. It is one of the three titles that were unified into the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship in 1989. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA%20International%20Heavyweight%20Championship |
Yeon Namsaeng (연남생, 淵男生) (634–679) was the eldest son of the Goguryeo Dae Magniji (대막리지, 大莫離支; highest-ranking official or dictator; "prime minister") Yeon Gaesomun (603?-665). In 665, Yeon Namsaeng succeeded his father and became the 2nd Dae Magniji of Goguryeo.
Dae Magniji
Yeon Namsaeng was said to have become Dae ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeon%20Namsaeng |
National Housing Act may refer to:
National Housing Act (Canada) of 1938, the first significant federal housing legislation adopted in Canada
National Housing Act of 1934, the first significant federal housing legislation enacted in the United States
Housing Act of 1937, also known as the Wagner-Steagall Act, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Housing%20Act |
Bud Brown may refer to:
Bud Brown (baseball), American baseball player
Bud Brown (politician) (1927–2022), former Republican U.S. Representative from Ohio
Bud Brown (American football) (born 1961), former American football player
Ezra Brown also known as Ezra Abraham "Bud" Brown (born 1944), American mathematician
Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%20Brown |
Salience or saliency may refer to:
Mortality salience, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology
Motivational salience, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain
Salience (language), the property of being noticeable or important
Salience (neuroscience), the perceptual quality by whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience |
The Bavarian State Orchestra () is the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany. It has given its own series of concerts, the , since 1811.
Profile
On 9 December 2011, this ensemble celebrated the 200th anniversary of its first concert as a full symphony orchestra, and specifically the founding (in 181... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian%20State%20Orchestra |
Major-General Luang Wichitwathakan (also known as just Wichit Wichitwathakan) (; ) (11 August 189831 March 1962) was a Thai politician, diplomat, historian, novelist, and playwright. He is credited with changing the name of the country from Siam to Thailand.
Luang Wichitwathakan was prominently engaged in politics and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luang%20Wichitwathakan |
James J. McGovern is an American academic, who served as president of A.T. Still University (ATSU) from 1997 to 2008. He was also a professor in the university's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Biography
A New York native, McGovern earned a bachelor's degree from Iona College and a master's degree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20J.%20McGovern |
Ruarc mac Brain (died 862) was the fourth of ten Kings of Leinster to be inaugurated and based on Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare, a member of the Uí Dúnchada, one of three septs of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty which rotated the kingship of Leinster between 750 and 1050, significant in County Kildare History.
One o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruarc%20mac%20Brain |
The Thaler was the currency of the Electorate, later Kingdom of Hanover until 1857. It was identical to the North German thaler except from 1754 to 1834 when it was worth 1/12 a Cologne Mark of fine silver (versus the Conventions standard of 3/40 a Mark). It was subdivided into 36 Mariengroschen, each of 8 Pfennig.
Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoverian%20thaler |
Muiredach mac Brain (died 885) was a King of Leinster of the Uí Dúnchada sept of the Uí Dúnlainge branch of the Laigin. This sept had their royal seat at Líamhain (Lyons Hill, on the Dublin-Kildare border). He was the son of Bran mac Fáeláin (died 838) and brother of Ruarc mac Brain (died 862), previous kings.
There i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muiredach%20mac%20Brain |
Faelán mac Muiredach (Fáeláin) (died 942) was a King of Leinster in Ireland, from 917 until his death in 942. He was a member of the Uí Dúnchada, a sept of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty.
Faelan mac Muiredach, was the son of Muiredach mac Brain, who was king of Leinster 884-885. Muiredach was the son of Bran mac Fáeláin, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faelan%20mac%20Muiredach |
Dr Megat Khas bin Megat Omar (8 April 1908 - 21 June 1979). He was born in Istana Talang, Kuala Kangsar, Perak and was a direct descendant of Megat Terawis, the first Bendahara of Perak.
His father was Megat Omar bin Megat Muhammad Ali of Kota Lama Kiri, Kuala Kangsar, Perak.
Having married his first cousin, Puteri H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megat%20Khas |
Window Rock High School is a public high school in Fort Defiance, a census-designated place in unincorporated Apache County, Arizona. WRHS is the only high school in the Window Rock Unified School District.
WRUSD, and therefore the high school, serves several unincorporated areas, including Fort Defiance, Oak Springs,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20Rock%20High%20School |
Lorcán mac Faelán was the seventh of ten Kings of Leinster to be inaugurated and based on Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare, a member of the Uí Dúnchada, one of three septs of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty which rotated the kingship of Leinster between 750 and 1050, significant in County Kildare History.
References
P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorc%C3%A1n%20mac%20F%C3%A1el%C3%A1n |
The Thaler was a currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1807 and 1813. From 1808, it circulated alongside the Frank. The Thaler was equal to those of the preceding states, including the Hannovarian Thaler. It was subdivided into 36 Mariengroschen, each of 8 Pfennig.
1807 establishments in Europe
1813 disestabli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian%20thaler |
Salience (also called saliency) is that property by which some thing stands out. Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience%20%28neuroscience%29 |
Moore v. Regents of the University of California was a landmark Supreme Court of California decision. Filed on July 9, 1990, it dealt with the issue of property rights to one's own cells taken in samples by doctors or researchers.
In 1976, John Moore was treated for hairy cell leukemia by physician David Golde, a canc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20v.%20Regents%20of%20the%20University%20of%20California |
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