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Sonagachi is a neighbourhood in Kolkata, India, located in North Kolkata near the intersection of Jatindra Mohan Avenue (north of C.R. Avenue) with Beadon Street and Sovabazar, about one kilometer north of the Marble Palace area. Sonagachi is among the largest red-light districts in Asia with several hundred multi-stor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonagachi |
The Big Cat may refer to:
People
Johnny Lee Bench (born 1941),Oklahoma, baseball player
Tom Erikson (born 1964), American amateur wrestler and mixed martial artist
Andrés Galarraga (born 1961), Venezuelan baseball player
Ernie Ladd (1938–2007), American wrestler and football player
Leon Lett (born 1968), American foot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Big%20Cat |
The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge is a floating bridge that carries Vermont Route 65 across Sunset Lake in Brookfield, Vermont, United States.
History
The first bridge on this site was erected in 1820. It was built this way because the lake is too deep for traditional pilings.
The seventh bridge was closed to traffic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset%20Lake%20Floating%20Bridge |
The following is a list of animated films in the public domain in the United States for which there is a source to verify its status as public domain under the terms of U.S. copyright law.
For more information, see List of films in the public domain in the United States. Films published before are not included because... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20animated%20films%20in%20the%20public%20domain%20in%20the%20United%20States |
The Thaler was a coin issued by Baden of varying equivalents to its currency, the South German gulden, each of 60 kreuzer.
From 1690 the Reichsthaler specie coin of 25.984 g fine silver was issued for 2 gulden.
From 1754 the Conventionsthaler of 23.3856 g fine silver was issued for 2.4 gulden (2 gulden, 24 kreuzer).
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden%20thaler |
The Red River Zoo is a zoo in Fargo, North Dakota. The zoo's first opened in the spring of 1999. It gained accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) in 2006.
History
The zoo currently sits on that was once a farm owned by the George Anderson family, also known as Red River Ranch. Some of the far... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20River%20Zoo |
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is one of the largest National Health Service teaching Trusts in England and comprises Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, City Hospital, Birmingham and Rowley Regis Hospital. The trust was established on 1 April 2002 following approval given by the Secretary of State for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwell%20and%20West%20Birmingham%20Hospitals%20NHS%20Trust |
In applied mathematics, the starred transform, or star transform, is a discrete-time variation of the Laplace transform, so-named because of the asterisk or "star" in the customary notation of the sampled signals.
The transform is an operator of a continuous-time function , which is transformed to a function in the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starred%20transform |
Kathi Lynn Wilcox (born November 19, 1969) is an American musician. She is the bass player in the Julie Ruin and has been in bands such as Bikini Kill, the Casual Dots, and the Frumpies.
Music
Wilcox attended The Evergreen State College where she studied film and worked with Tobi Vail at a sandwich shop. During this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathi%20Wilcox |
The Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) was a large and sophisticated camera pod carried by the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. It contains three camera bays with different type cameras which are pointed down at passing terrain. It was originally designed to provide an interim aerial reconnaissance capability unti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical%20Airborne%20Reconnaissance%20Pod%20System |
Chris Jaksa is an emergency physician and former professional baseball umpire. Along with fellow umpire instructor Rick Roder, Jaksa co-authored the only complete re-write of baseball's professional rules; this work is commonly known as the "Jaksa/Roder Manual."
Umpiring career
Jaksa put his studies on hold at the Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Jaksa |
"Name" is a song by American rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in September 1995 as the third single from their fifth studio album, A Boy Named Goo (1995). "Name" became the band's first major hit, topping both the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and the Album Rock Tracks chart. It also reached number five on the Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name%20%28song%29 |
Raymond Brunson Huey (born 14 September 1944) is a biologist specializing in evolutionary physiology. He has taught at the University of Washington (UW), and he earned his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University under E. E. Williams. He has recently been the chair of the UW Department of Biology, but a retirement cele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20B.%20Huey |
Mixite is a rare copper bismuth arsenate mineral with formula: BiCu6(AsO4)3(OH)6·3(H2O). It crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal system typically occurring as radiating acicular prisms and massive encrustations. The color varies from white to various shades of green and blue. It has a Mohs hardness of 3.5 to 4 and a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixite |
Tellurium tetrafluoride, TeF4, is a stable, white, hygroscopic crystalline solid and is one of two fluorides of tellurium. The other binary fluoride is tellurium hexafluoride. The widely reported Te2F10 has been shown to be F5TeOTeF5 There are other tellurium compounds that contain fluorine, but only the two mentione... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurium%20tetrafluoride |
The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) is an American motorsports organization promoting road racing and high-performance driver education.
Founded in 1991, NASA hosts High Performance Driving Events (HPDE), automotive rallies, Time Trial, autocross and amateur, club-level automotive racing, divided amongst region... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Auto%20Sport%20Association |
Douglas, Dougie or Doug Wilson may refer to:
Academics
Douglas Wilson (theologian) (born 1953), Christian pastor and author
Douglas L. Wilson (born 1935), professor and co-director of Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College
Television
Douglas Wilson (interior designer), designer on the television program Trading Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Wilson |
Michael Keating (born 29 September 1946) is an Irish former politician.
Early life
Keating was born in Dublin in 1946. He was educated at the Christian Brothers O'Connell School, University College Dublin, and St. Patrick's College in Maynooth where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He worked as a secondary school teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Keating%20%28Irish%20politician%29 |
Selmasaurus is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family. It is classified as part of the Plioplatecarpinae subfamily alongside genera like Angolasaurus and Platecarpus. Two species are known, S. russelli and S. johnsoni; both are exclusively known from Santonian deposits in the United States.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selmasaurus |
Alcibiades the Schoolboy (L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola), an Italian dialogue published anonymously in 1652, is a defense of homosexual sodomy (anal sex) loosely styled after Socratic dialogue. Set in ancient Athens, the teacher is modelled on Socrates, who so desperately wants to consummate the relationship he has wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades%20the%20Schoolboy |
3C 449 is a low-redshift (z = 0.017) Fanaroff and Riley class I radio galaxy. It is thought to contain a highly warped circumnuclear disk surrounding the central active galactic nucleus (AGN). The name signifies that it was the 449th object (ordered by right ascension) of the Third Cambridge Catalog of Radio Sources (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C%20449 |
Gregory's Two Girls is a 1999 Scottish film, set in Cumbernauld and also in various locations in Edinburgh. It is the sequel to Gregory's Girl (1981), which also starred John Gordon Sinclair and Kennie Pullen and was written and directed by Bill Forsyth. The film received mixed reviews.
Plot
Eighteen years after the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%27s%20Two%20Girls |
Asia Molly Vieira (born May 18, 1982) is a Canadian actress best known for her early role in the 1991 made-for-television Omen IV: The Awakening and playing as Christine Harrison in the Disney Channel original series, Flash Forward.
Early life and education
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she began her career as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Vieira |
Lawrence R. Rinder is a contemporary art curator and museum director. He directed the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) from 2008 to 2020.
Education
Rinder received a B.A. in art from Reed College and an M.A. in art history from Hunter College. He has held teaching positions at UC Berkeley, Columbi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Rinder |
Württemberg used the South German gulden as its currency until 1873. Until 1824, the Gulden was a unit of account and was used to denominate banknotes but was not issued as a coin. It was worth of a Conventionsthaler and was subdivided into 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 Kreuzer Landmünze.
The first Gulden coins were is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrttemberg%20gulden |
Vilis Krištopans (born 13 June 1954 in Omsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Latvian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Latvia from 26 November 1998 to 15 July 1999.
As a prime minister he was a member of the Latvian Way political party. He then left politics and, in 2002, returned as a member of parliament from the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilis%20Kri%C5%A1topans |
The Chevrolet Corvette (C3) is the third generation of the Corvette sports car that was produced from 1967 until 1982 by Chevrolet for the 1968 to 1982 model years. Engines and chassis components were mostly carried over from the previous generation, but the body and interior were new. It set new sales records with 53,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Corvette%20%28C3%29 |
John Hubbell may refer to:
Don Lorenzo Hubbell (1853–1930), born John Lorenzo Hubbell, trader, politician
John H. Hubbell (1925–2007), radiation physicist
John Raymond Hubbell (1879–1954), composer
John Hubbell (figure skater) (born 1948), Canadian pair skater
John W. Hubbell American bridge player
See also
John Hubb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hubbell |
The ball in and out of play is the ninth law of the Laws of the Game of association football, and describes to the two basic states of play in the game.
In play
The ball remains in play from the beginning of each period to the end of that period, except when:
The ball leaves the field by entirely crossing a goal lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%20in%20and%20out%20of%20play |
Castleguard Cave is a limestone cave located at the north end of Banff National Park in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada. With of surveyed passages (as of 2007), it is Canada's longest cave, and its fifth deepest at . Castleguard Cave ascends gently from its entrance and terminates beneath the Columbia Icefiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleguard%20Cave |
The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act incorporates into English law and Northern Ireland law the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The principal aims of the Act are:
to incorporate into domestic law the offences contained in the Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Criminal%20Court%20Act%202001 |
Central Avenue may refer to:
Roads
Central Avenue (Albany, New York) in Albany, New York
Central Avenue (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, part of Historic Route 66
Central Avenue (Augusta, Georgia), in Augusta, Georgia
Central Avenue (Baltimore) in Baltimore, Maryland
Central Avenue (Hudson Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Avenue |
Arnold Aletrino (1 April 1858 – 16 January 1916) was a Dutch physician, criminal anthropologist and writer, who published works on homosexuality in Dutch and French. He was a member of the Tachtigers, a group of young and revolutionary Dutch authors, who despised the pious poetry and prose of the mid-nineteenth century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Aletrino |
Hercules is a 2005 American television miniseries chronicling the life of the legendary Greek hero, Heracles, called Hercules in this series. It is most often aired on television as a two-part miniseries: the first part documents his early life in Tiryns and his desire and marriage to the lady Megara; the second part f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%20%28miniseries%29 |
Seventeen is the debut album by British R&B singer Keisha White. The album features three singles: "Don't Care Who Knows" featuring the rapper, Cassidy, "Don't Fool A Woman In Love", and her critically acclaimed cover of Joan Armatrading's "The Weakness In Me", which is Keisha's biggest hit single to date, peaking insi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen%20%28Keisha%20White%20album%29 |
Bertrand is a former village in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Rivière-du-Nord.
History
On 1 January 2023, Bertrand amalgamated with three villages and all or part of four local service districts to form the new town of Rivière-du-Nord. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%2C%20New%20Brunswick |
Zvolen Castle ( or incorrectly , ) is a medieval castle located on a hill near the center of Zvolen, in central Slovakia. It was a part of the Kingdom of Hungary from the 1370's until the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
The original seat of the region was above the confluence of Slatina and Hron rivers on a steep cliff in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvolen%20Castle |
In Ireland, a barony (, plural ) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland, replacing the earlier cantreds formed after the original Norman invasion. Some early baronies were later subd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barony%20%28Ireland%29 |
1,8-Diazafluoren-9-one (DFO) is an aromatic ketone first synthesized in 1950. It is used to find fingerprints on porous surfaces. It makes fingerprints glow when they are lit by blue-green light.
DFO reacts with amino acids present in the fingerprint to form highly fluorescent derivatives. Excitation with light at ~4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C8-Diazafluoren-9-one |
The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico comprises eighteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces in turn comprise 18 archdioceses, 69 dioceses, and 5 territorial prelatures and each headed by a bishop (of some kind).
List of Dioceses
Ecclesiastical province of Acapulco
Archdiocese of Acap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Catholic%20dioceses%20in%20Mexico |
Thomas McGroarty is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the mayor of the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1996 to January 5, 2004.
Political career
In 1983, McGroarty was elected to Wilkes-Barre City Council and served for twelve years before his election as mayor.
Mayorship
McGroarty serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20McGroarty |
Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved) is an International Labour Organization Convention.
It was established in 1939:
Ratifications
Prior to its shelving, the convention was ratified by 31 states.
External links
Text.
Ratifications.
Shelved International Labour Organization conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contracts%20of%20Employment%20%28Indigenous%20Workers%29%20Convention%2C%201939%20%28shelved%29 |
The (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), previously (National Geographic Institute) or IGN is a French public state administrative establishment founded in 1940 to produce and maintain geographical information for France and its overseas departments and territories.
Administrative organisation
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20national%20de%20l%27information%20g%C3%A9ographique%20et%20foresti%C3%A8re |
Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention may refer to:
Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved), International Labour Organization convention from 1939 to 1948
Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1947 (shelved), International Labour Organization conven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contracts%20of%20Employment%20%28Indigenous%20Workers%29%20Convention |
Hesperetin is the 4'-methoxy derivative of eriodictyol, a flavanone. Hesperetin's 7-O-glycoside, hesperidin, is a naturally occurring flavanon-glycoside, the main flavonoid in lemons and sweet oranges. Hesperetin (and naringenin, the parent flavanone of naringin) are not found to a significant extent in Citrus spp.
Gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperetin |
Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972 is a 1981 album of demos by the New York Dolls. The album's songs were later re-recorded for New York Dolls, except for "Don't Start Me Talking" and "Human Being" which were later re-recorded for Too Much Too Soon and "Don't Mess with Cupid", which was never re-recorde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick%20Killers%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Mercer%20Street%20Sessions%201972 |
Blackville is a former village in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is now part of the rural community of Miramichi River Valley.
It is located on the Southwest Miramichi River approximately southwest of Miramichi.
History
The first post office opened in the area in 1842, under the community name "De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackville%2C%20New%20Brunswick |
The Chevrolet Corvette (C4) is the fourth generation of the Corvette sports car, produced by American automobile manufacturer Chevrolet from 1983 until 1996. The convertible returned, as did higher performance engines, exemplified by the LT5 found in the ZR-1. In early March 1990, the ZR-1 would set a new record for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Corvette%20%28C4%29 |
The 1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 49th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 26th modern-era NASCAR Cup series. It began on February 9 and ended on November 16. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won his second Cup championship at the end of the season.
It was the last season u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20NASCAR%20Winston%20Cup%20Series |
Mata Gujri (Gurmukhi: ਮਾਤਾ ਗੁਜਰੀ; mātā gujarī; 1624–1705), also spelt as Mata Gujari, was the wife of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru of Sikhism, and the mother of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of Sikhism. She played a central role in the history of Sikhism and is one of the four consorts bestowed with the title ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata%20Gujri |
The Kirenga () is a river in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia. The name originated in an Evenki word. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is .
There are many settlements in the river valley. The Baikal Amur Mainline follows and crosses the Kirenga between Magistralny and Ulkan.
Course
It is a right tributary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirenga |
Franciscus Plante (21 April 1613 (bapt.) – 1690) was a Dutch poet and chaplain.
Biography
Plante was born in Bruges and studied theology at Oxford. In October 1636 he travelled as personal chaplain with John Maurice of Nassau to the Dutch colony in Brazil, returning together in 1644. In 1647 became a minister in Strij... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus%20Plante |
North Shore is a 1987 American action drama surf film about Rick Kane (Matt Adler), a young surfer from a wave tank in Arizona, who heads to surf the season on the North Shore of Oahu to see if he has the skills to cut it as a pro surfer. As he progresses on his journey, he learns the qualities he possesses are not goi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Shore%20%281987%20film%29 |
Alla may refer to:
Ara Gaya, also called Alla (안라), a city-state kingdom in the part of Gaya confederacy, in modern-day Haman County of Korea
Music
"Alla" (song) a song by Swedish singer Sofia
Allá, a rock band from Chicago
At.Long.Last.A$AP, an album by American rapper A$AP Rocky
People
Alla (female name), a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla |
Thomas M. "Tom" Leighton is an American politician. He served as the mayor of the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2016. Mayor Leighton was the first mayor under the city's Home Rule Charter to be popularly elected to three consecutive terms.
Political career
Thomas Leighton is an American politician. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20M.%20Leighton |
Podbara () is an urban neighborhood of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia.
Borders
The southern borders of Podbara are Ulica Miloša Bajića (Miloš Bajić Street), Trg Republike (Square of the Republic), Daničićeva ulica (Daničić Street), Ulica Zlatne grede (Zlatna Greda Street), Pašićeva ulica (Pašić Street), Ulica Matice sr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podbara |
Achthuizen is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee, and lies about 17 km south of Spijkenisse.
The village was first mentioned around 1750 as "De Agthuisen", and means "eight houses". Achthuizen has two diagonally placed centres and looks like a numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achthuizen |
Cyndi Grecco (born May 19, 1952) is an American singer best-known for performing the theme tune to the popular 1970s American television show Laverne & Shirley.
The theme to Laverne & Shirley was titled "Making Our Dreams Come True," in which Grecco was accompanied by The Ron Hicklin Singers. It was also put out as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyndi%20Grecco |
Artech may refer to:
Arcadia Charter School, a charter school in Northfield, Minnesota, United States
ARTech Consultores SRL, a Uruguayan software company, creators of GeneXus, Deklarit and Gxportal
Artech Digital Entertainment, video game developer
Artech House, a publisher of scientific books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artech |
Plant defense may refer to:
Plant defense against herbivory
Inducible plant defenses against herbivory
Plant tolerance to herbivory
Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense
Plant disease resistance
Secondary metabolite
Hypersensitive response
See also
Protocarnivorous plant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20defense |
Ignacio Carrera Pinto (February 5, 1848 – July 10, 1882) was a Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific. Carrera and his 77 men of the Fourth Company of Chacabuco are regarded in Chile as great heroes, and are commonly referred to as the "Héroes de la Concepción", after all were killed in the Battle of La Concepción.
Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio%20Carrera%20Pinto |
Brain ischemia is a condition in which there is insufficient bloodflow to the brain to meet metabolic demand. This leads to poor oxygen supply or cerebral hypoxia and thus leads to the death of brain tissue or cerebral infarction/ischemic stroke. It is a sub-type of stroke along with subarachnoid hemorrhage and intr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20ischemia |
Gladiator, known in Japan as , is an arcade video game developed by Allumer and published in 1986 by Taito. It was followed by a sequel titled Blandia. Home ports of Gladiator were released for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 as Great Gurianos; the Spectrum version was intentionally made unwinnable.
Gam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator%20%28video%20game%29 |
Hotel Sterling was a hotel in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, at the intersection of River Street and Market Street. It was opened in 1898 by local businesspeople, who then owned a music hall located at the site, and was named after Emma E. Sterling, whose late husband, Walter G. Sterling, a local banker and busin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel%20Sterling |
The White Hotel is a novel written by the British (Cornish) poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas. It was first published in January 1981 by Gollancz in the United Kingdom and in March 1981 by The Viking Press in the United States.
The narrative is told principally in the form of an erotic journal and letters bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20White%20Hotel |
Black rifle may refer to:
ArmaLite AR-15
Black Rifle Coffee Company
Colt AR-15
M16 rifle
Modern sporting rifle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20rifle |
The Atle-Tiba, also known as Atletiba or Athletiba, is one of the most traditional derbies in Brazilian football. It is the match between the two biggest football clubs of Paraná: Coritiba and Athletico Paranaense. The teams founded in 1909 and 1924 respectively and have been each other's rival for many decades. On man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atle-Tiba |
Balmoral is a former village in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the village of Bois-Joli. It is approximately 10 kilometres south of Dalhousie. Balmoral also contains the neighbourhoods of Blair Athol, Saint-Maure, Selwood, and Upper Balmoral.
History
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral%2C%20New%20Brunswick |
Howard Edward Cross Jr. (born August 8, 1967) is a former professional American football player and current broadcaster. He spent 13 seasons as a tight end for the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL), and was a member of two Super Bowl teams, Super Bowl XXV in 1991 and appearing in Super Bowl XXXV in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Cross |
Valentine Brown Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry (19 August 1773 – 28 October 1853), was an Irish peer, politician and landowner. In the 1790s he was an emissary in radical and reform circles in London for the Society of United Irishmen, and was twice detained on suspicion of sedition. He gained notoriety for his celebrate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%20Lawless%2C%202nd%20Baron%20Cloncurry |
The 10th Marine Regiment is an artillery regiment of the United States Marine Corps based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. They fall under the command of the 2nd Marine Division and the II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Subordinate units
Headquarters Battery, 10th Marines
1st Battalion, 10th Marines (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th%20Marine%20Regiment |
Red Patent Leather is a live album by the American rock and roll group New York Dolls, released in 1984. It was recorded in New York a decade earlier, in March 1975, just a month before the group broke up while on tour in Florida.
Background
The New York performance was recorded at the "Little Hippodrome" club. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Patent%20Leather |
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is the military of Guyana, established in 1965. It has military bases across the nation. The Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force is always the incumbent President of Guyana.
History
The GDF was formed on 1 November 1965. Members of the new Defence Force were drawn from the British ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana%20Defence%20Force |
The BMW Car Club of America (BMW CCA) is a U.S.-based organization of enthusiasts and owners of BMW-made automobiles (including MINI). Organized into five regions and 69 chapters, the club boasts more than 55,000 active members within the United States, making it the largest BMW owner/enthusiast organization in the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW%20Car%20Club%20of%20America |
Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are sources of short, moderately bright, radio pulses, which were first discovered in 2006. RRATs are thought to be pulsars, i.e. rotating magnetised neutron stars which emit more sporadically and/or with higher pulse-to-pulse variability than the bulk of the known pulsars. The working... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating%20radio%20transient |
Fernando Martín Álvarez (born 30 May 1947, in Trigueros del Valle near Valladolid) is a Spanish businessman who was the unofficial President of Real Madrid, replacing Florentino Pérez who resigned on 27 February 2006, until he unexpectedly himself resigned on 26 April of the same year. Álvarez was a member of the Real ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando%20Mart%C3%ADn%20%28businessman%29 |
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The Queen Mary Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old fillies. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 5 furlongs (1,006 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June.
The event is named after Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. It was established in 1921, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Mary%20Stakes |
Herrstein is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück south of the Idar Forest on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrstein |
In manufacturing, andon () is a system which notifies managerial, maintenance, and other workers of a quality or process problem. The alert can be activated manually by a worker using a pullcord or button or may be activated automatically by the production equipment itself. The system may include a means to pause produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon%20%28manufacturing%29 |
Cass-Clay or Cass-Clay Creamery is a creamery headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. It was founded in 1934 in neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota. Its present-day headquarters are at 200 20th St North in Fargo. It manufactures dairy products such as milk, cream, butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt and ice cream. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass-Clay |
Lamartine Griffin Hardman (April 14, 1856 – February 18, 1937) was an American physician, farmer, businessman, entrepreneur, and politician who served two terms as the 65th Governor of the state of Georgia from 1927 to 1931. He believed that state government should be run like a business and was best known for his effo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamartine%20Griffin%20Hardman |
Claudinei Quirino da Silva (born November 19, 1970 in Lençóis Paulista) is a retired Brazilian sprinter who competed primarily in 200 metres.
Career
He has been successful on regional and world level, and won a 2000 Olympic silver medal with the Brazilian 4 x 100 metres relay team.
In 1999 he ran the 200m dash in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudinei%20da%20Silva |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Acapulco () is a Latin rite Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state.
Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, dedicated to Our Lady of Solitude, in the touristic port city of Acapulco. It is currently led by Archbishop Leopold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Archdiocese%20of%20Acapulco |
The Waterloo Memorial Arena was an arena located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was built in 1947 and primarily used by the Waterloo Siskins junior B hockey team, although it was also once briefly home to the Waterloo Hurricanes major junior team in the Ontario Hockey League.
The arena's roof was deemed structurally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo%20Memorial%20Arena |
Isser Zalman Meltzer () (February 6, 1870 – November 17, 1953), was a Ashkenazi rosh yeshiva and posek. He is also known as the "Even HaEzel"—the title of his commentary on Rambam's Mishneh Torah.
Early life
Isser Zalman Meltzer was born on 5 Adar 5630 (February 6, 1870) in the city of Mir, in the Minsk Governorate of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isser%20Zalman%20Meltzer |
Rhaunen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was the seat of the former Verbandsgemeinde Rhaunen.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies at the Idar Forest in the Hunsrück in a sprawli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaunen |
Sam or Samuel Baker may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Samuel Burtis Baker (1882–1967), American artist and teacher
Samuel Henry Baker (1824–1909), English artist
Sam Baker (actor) (1907–1982), American actor in Jungle Mystery
Sam Baker (musician) (born 1954), American folk musician from Texas
Sam Baker (writer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Baker |
A crossing network is an alternative trading system (ATS) that matches buy and sell orders electronically for execution without first routing the order to an exchange or other public displayed market such as an electronic communication network (ECN). Such crossing networks are a type of dark pool that employ computeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing%20network |
Philip C. Hanawalt (born 1931) is an American biologist who discovered the process of repair replication of damaged DNA in 1963. He is also considered the co-discoverer of the ubiquitous process of DNA excision repair along with his mentor, Richard Setlow, and Paul Howard-Flanders. He holds the Dr. Morris Herzstein Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Hanawalt |
Olive Frances Gibbs, DL (née Cox; 17 February 1918 – 28 September 1995) was a British Labour politician and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.
Gibbs entered Oxfordshire politics in 1953 and became the second woman Lord Mayor of Oxford (the first was Florence Kathleen Lower). She served as Lord Mayor twice, in 1974–75 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20Gibbs |
Jackson Lake is one of the oldest reservoirs in Georgia, United States, southeast of Atlanta in a rural area situated within parts of three counties (Jasper, Newton and Butts). The Lloyd Shoals Dam was built in 1910 by Central Georgia Power Company, and electricity was originally generated for the city of Macon. Rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20Lake%20%28Georgia%29 |
Brookwood Village was a upscale shopping mall located near Birmingham in the cities of Mountain Brook and Homewood, Alabama.
History
Early history
Originally known as Brookwood Mall, it was constructed in 1973 by the Shepherd family. The original building was designed by Giattina Fisher Aycock Architects and won a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwood%20Village |
Édson Luciano Ribeiro (born December 8, 1972) is a Brazilian sprinter competing mostly in 100 metres. He has been successful on regional level, and won two Olympic medals with the Brazilian 4 x 100 metres relay team.
His personal best time achieved in 1998, is 10.14 seconds.
Achievements
(100 metres unless noted)
2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dson%20Ribeiro |
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The Coventry Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old horses. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June.
History
The event was established in 1890, and it was named after the 9th Earl of Coventry, who served... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry%20Stakes |
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College. The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glascock%20Prize |
The BN-600 reactor is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. It has a 600 MWe gross capacity and a 560 MWe net capacity, dispatched o the Middle Urals power grid. It has been in operation since 1980 and represents an evolution on the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-600%20reactor |
NGC 1872 is an open cluster within the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826.
NGC 1872 has characteristics of both globular clusters and open clusters - it is visually as rich as a typical globular but is much younger, and, like many open clusters, has bluer star... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201872 |
The Mahamuni Buddha Temple (, ) is a Buddhist temple and major pilgrimage site, located southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). The Mahamuni Image () is enshrined in this temple, and originally came from Arakan. It is highly venerated in Burma and central to many people's lives, as it is seen as an expression of repres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamuni%20Buddha%20Temple |
Brandon Raymond James Prust (born March 16, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Prust was drafted in the third round, 70th overall, by the Calgary Flames in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, and has played in the NHL for the Flames, Phoenix Coyotes, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Vancouver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Prust |
Regional councils (plural: , Mo'atzot Ezoriyot / singular: , Mo'atza Ezorit) are one of the three types of Israel's local government entities, with the other two being cities and local councils. As of 2019, there were 54 regional councils, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20council%20%28Israel%29 |
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