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French Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
French Beach Provincial Park is located on Vancouver Island, between Sooke and Jordan River, British Columbia. The area has a day use parking lot and B.C. provincial campground. It was created in 1980 as the first family-oriented park on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Beach%20Provincial%20Park |
The Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Illinois River in Mason County northeast of Havana, Illinois. It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as one of the four Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish Refuges.
The refuge consists of 4,388 acres (17.8 km2) of Illinois River bottomland, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua%20National%20Wildlife%20Refuge |
Chico the Rainmaker is a British film serial made by Eyeline Films and the Children's Film Foundation.
It was shown in 1974 on PBS in the USA, and shown in British cinemas in the 1970s and 1980s as part of their "Saturday Matinees".
The series featured a talking shrunken head. It was also shown on television in the Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico%20the%20Rainmaker |
Monson Lake State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, originally established as a memorial to 13 Swedish American pioneers who were killed there in the Dakota War of 1862. A district of 1930s New Deal structures is on the National Register of Historic Places. Despite being nearly doubled in size in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monson%20Lake%20State%20Park |
North Road was a football and cricket ground in Newton Heath, Manchester, England. It was the first home of Manchester United Football Club – then known as Newton Heath Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Football Club – from its foundation in 1878 until 1893, when the club moved to a new ground at Bank Street, Clayton.
In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Road%2C%20Manchester |
Bank Street, also known as Bank Lane, was a multi-purpose stadium in Clayton, Manchester, England. It was mostly used for football matches and was the second home ground of Manchester United Football Club (then known as Newton Heath Football Club), after North Road, which they left in 1893. The stadium had a capacity o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20Street%20%28football%20ground%29 |
Lindy Davies (29 August 1946) is an Australian actress, director, actor trainer and performance consultant. She played Ruth Ballinger in the Australian soap opera Prisoner in 1985, and won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Malcolm. She went on to be the head of drama at the Victorian C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy%20Davies |
Doaktown is a Canadian village in Northumberland County, New Brunswick.
The village has a prosperous lumber industry including the Russell and Swim sawmill, now owned by J.D. Irving Limited.
Atlantic Salmon fishing is a very popular sport in the area, attracting people from all over the world to fish the legendary Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doaktown |
Dragobraća (Cyrillic: Драгобраћа ) is a settlement located in the Stanovo municipality, in the Šumadija District of Serbia.
The population of the village is 845 (2002 census), most of whom are Roma nationality
Kragujevac neighborhoods
Šumadija
Populated places in Šumadija District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragobra%C4%87a |
Ruth Nye MBE (born 1932) is an Australian pianist and teacher, based in the United Kingdom.
Ruth Nye, born Ruth Farren-Price, sister of fellow pianist Ronald Farren-Price, grew up in Australia where she attended Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne.
Career
Nye studied with Claudio Arrau in New York, and had a care... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Nye |
Garry Paul Nelson (born 16 January 1961) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker or left winger in the Football League for Southend United, Swindon Town, Plymouth Argyle, Brighton & Hove Albion, Charlton Athletic and Torquay United (as player/assistant manager) between 1979 and 1997. He was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%20Nelson |
A sweet onion is a variety of onion that is not pungent. Their mildness is attributable to their low sulfur content and high water content when compared to other onion varieties.
Origins in the United States
United States sweet onions originated in several places during the early twentieth century.
Vidalia onions wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%20onion |
Francis Jammes (; 2 December 1868, in Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées – 1 November 1938, in Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was a French and European poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Jammes |
Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history. He is the author of five books, three of which cover the history or practice of modern psychiatry. He has won numerous awards for science writing, and in 1998 he was part of a team writing for the Boston Globe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Whitaker%20%28author%29 |
Loris Hoskins Baker (November 12, 1930 – June 5, 2007), was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. While he played several positions, he was best known for being a punter and kicker. He played college footb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Baker%20%28halfback%29 |
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture is a 1992 book edited by the anthropologists Jerome H. Barkow and John Tooby and the psychologist Leda Cosmides. First published by Oxford University Press, it is widely considered the foundational text of evolutionary psychology (EP), and outlines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adapted%20Mind |
Sainte-Catherine (French) or Sint-Katelijne (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station. It is located at the /, between the / and the /, in the municipality of the City of Brussels, Belgium. It is also situated near Saint Catherine's Church, which gives the station its name.
The station was inaugurated on 13 April 1977, when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Catherine%20metro%20station |
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow.
The tournament is usually played in a round-robin or double round-rob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund%20Sparkassen%20Chess%20Meeting |
The Johns River (also called "John's River"), in northern New Hampshire, arises at Cherry Pond in Jefferson and runs approximately , generally northwest, to the Connecticut River. It passes through Hazens Pond, near the Mount Washington Regional Airport, traverses the town of Whitefield, where it is crossed by U.S. Rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns%20River%20%28New%20Hampshire%29 |
Elsdon Storey is an Australian neurologist, former Rhodes Scholar & Professor of Neurology at Monash University. His clinical and research interests are in neurogenetics (especially the hereditary ataxias) and behavioural neurology (especially the dementias).
After clinical neurology training in Oxford and Melbourne,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsdon%20Storey |
Iliac can refer to one of the following:
Iliac artery
Ilium (bone)
Iliac vein
Iliac fossa
Iliac fascia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliac |
Bryan Marshall (19 May 1938 – 25 June 2019) was a British actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name, in both his native country and Australia.
Early life
Marshall was born in Battersea, south London. He was educated at the Salesian College, Battersea, and trained as an actor at RADA, bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Marshall |
Edward K. Archer (born May 16, 1972), known professionally as Special Ed, is an American rapper and producer. Ed is perhaps best known for the songs "I Got It Made", "Think About It" and "I'm the Magnificent" from his debut album Youngest in Charge, released in 1989 when he was 17 years old.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Ed%20%28rapper%29 |
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev (; 1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001), was a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter. He was recognized with the title Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.
Biography
Viktor Astafyev was born in the village of Ovsyanka (then Krasnoyarsk Uyezd, Yenisey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Astafyev |
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows for almost 28 years, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009) and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009–2010) on the NBC television... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan%20O%27Brien |
MySQL Manager is an application that is included in the Mac OS X Server that starts and stops the MySQL Database service that is within the server. The application is located in . Unlike other server tools, this tool is only installed on the server itself.
External links
https://www.apple.com/server/macosx/
MacOS Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL%20Manager |
Pierre-Luc Gagnon, commonly known by his initials, PLG (born May 2, 1980 in Boucherville, Quebec), is a Canadian professional skateboarder.
Gagnon began skating in 1988, and entered his first competition in 1992.
A frequent participant in the X-Games, he has won nineteen medals (nine gold) in the Vert, Vert Double, B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Luc%20Gagnon |
Joachim Albrecht Leo Eggeling (30 November 1884 – 15 April 1945) was the German Nazi Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg and the Oberpräsident (High President) of the Province of Halle-Merseburg. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer.
Early years
Eggeling was born in Blankenburg am Harz in the Duchy of Brunswick. A farmer's so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20Albrecht%20Eggeling |
Trinity Christian High School is a private Christian high school run by Trinity Church of Lubbock, Texas. The school was founded in 1977 and graduated its first senior class in 1991. The school is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and is approved by the State of Texas.
As of the 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Christian%20High%20School%20%28Lubbock%2C%20Texas%29 |
The 1997 NBA All-Star Game was the 47th edition of the All-Star Game and commemorated the 50th anniversary of NBA. The game was played on February 9, 1997, at Gund Arena (now known as Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse) in Cleveland. The winner of the MVP award was Glen Rice of the Charlotte Hornets who played 25 minutes and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20NBA%20All-Star%20Game |
Andrew Norton (born 7 July 1965) is an Australian author and researcher. He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, and Policy and Government Relations Adviser at the University of Melbourne. He is former director of the CIS's Liberalising Learning research programme and editor of its journal Polic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Norton |
An autopista is a controlled-access highway in various Spanish-speaking countries
List of highways in Argentina includes autopistas of Argentina
List of autopistas and autovías in Spain
List of Mexican autopistas
Autopistas of Puerto Rico
List of Chilean freeways
Autopistas of Cuba
Types of roads | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopista |
The Gibson ES-330 is a thinline hollow-body electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. It was first introduced in 1959 and the guitar had the same dimensions as the ES-335.
History
Sales of Gibson’s Electric Spanish (ES) series guitars (ES-100 through ES-350) in the 1930s and 40s encouraged the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%20ES-330 |
Buccaneer is a television series, made by the BBC from 1979 to 1980. Created by experienced television writer N. J. (Norman) Crisp, it was broadcast over 13 weeks from April to July 1980.
Buccaneer, dealing with a developing air freight business, starred Bryan Marshall, Mark Jones, Pamela Salem and Clifford Rose, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer%20%28TV%20series%29 |
Sir Ernest Clark, (13 April 1864 – 26 August 1951) was a British civil servant who served as Governor of Tasmania from 1933 to 1945.
Early life and education
Ernest Clark was born on 13 April 1864 in Plumstead, Kent to teacher Samuel Henry Clark, and his wife Ann Leaver. He was educated at King's College London, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Clark%20%28governor%29 |
Stole may refer to:
Clothing
Stole (shawl), a type of shawl, particularly one made of fur
Stole (vestment), a Christian liturgical garment
Academic stole, a garment worn at formal academic events such as graduation
People
Stojan Stole Aranđelović (1930–1993), Serbian film actor
Stole Dimitrievski (born 1993), M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stole |
Margot Knight is an Australian actress of television and stage, voice artist and a screenwriter. She had numerous guest roles in TV series and telemovies, but is best known for her stints playing two roles in the highly popular cult series Prisoner (known internationally as Prisoner: Cell Block H); she played inmate Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot%20Knight |
Jack Hirschman (December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021) was an American poet and social activist who wrote more than 100 volumes of poetry and essays.
Biography
Hirschman was born in New York City to a Russian Jewish family. He received a B.A. from the City College of New York in 1955 and an M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1961... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Hirschman |
This is a list of notable Old Wellingtonians, being former pupils of Wellington College in Berkshire, England.
Politics
Hammad Azhar (1982-), Member of National Assembly of Pakistan, Federal Minister.
David Blomfield MBE (1934–2016), leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book edit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Old%20Wellingtonians |
Keith Alexander Sims (born June 17, 1967) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive line for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1990 to 2000. He played college football for the Iowa State University Cyclones and selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Sims |
Renato Micallef (born 19 November 1951) is a Maltese pop singer. His full name is Nazzareno Alessandro Micallef Garrett. Renato has been active in the Maltese music scene since the age of 12.
Renato has toured North America, Australia and the United Kingdom where his website claims he won an award for Singer Of The Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato%20Micallef |
Peter John Adams (18 May 1938 – 13 December 1999) (Note: Adams is not to be confused with the American actor of the same name born as James Harvey Adams II (1917-1987)) was a New Zealand-born Australian actor, best remembered for his performances on Australian television in soap operas and serials,
Born in Taumarunui,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Adams%20%28actor%29 |
Susan Peters (born September 27, 1956) is a former news anchor. She worked for KAKE, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas from 1995 to 2016. She has won regional Emmy awards for her reporting in both California and Kansas.
After graduating from Western Illinois University with a B.A. in Communications, she started as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Peters%20%28TV%20anchor%29 |
In medicine, a crossover study or crossover trial is a longitudinal study in which subjects receive a sequence of different treatments (or exposures). While crossover studies can be observational studies, many important crossover studies are controlled experiments, which are discussed in this article. Crossover designs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover%20study |
Robert Lee Scott (April 19, 1928 – July 26, 2018) was an American scholar influential in the study of rhetorical theory, criticism of public address, debate, and communication research and practice. He was professor emeritus in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Scott |
Robert Whitaker (13 November 1939 – 20 September 2011) was a British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, with his best known work, the "Butcher Cover", which featured on the band's 1966's US-only album Yesterday and Today. He also worked with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Whitaker%20%28photographer%29 |
BeebEm is a BBC Micro emulator, first developed by David Gilbert in 1994 and since improved by a number of people, most notably Mike Wyatt who currently maintains the emulator and its website. Although BeebEm's first incarnations were for UNIX-based systems, the version for Windows (98 or later) is now the most popular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeebEm |
The Subaru EJ engine is a series of four-stroke automotive engines manufactured by Subaru. They were introduced in 1989, intended to succeed the previous Subaru EA engine. The EJ series was the mainstay of Subaru's engine line, with all engines of this series being 16-valve horizontal flat-fours, with configurations av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru%20EJ%20engine |
The Seduction is the first full-length album by English post-punk band Ludus, released in 1981 by record label New Hormones.
Content
The album, considered by many to be the band's masterpiece, contains some of their most accessible and melodic songs (such as "Mirror Mirror", "The Escape Artist" and "See the Keyhole"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Seduction%20%28album%29 |
Bradley Thomas Jay (born November 17, 1980) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his time in Impact Wrestling under the ring names of Jay Bradley and Aiden O'Shea, and WWE as Ryan Braddock.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (1999–2005)
Bradley started his wrestling training at the Steel Do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Bradley |
Babs McMillan is an Australian stage, film, television actress and director, playwright and teacher, based in Melbourne She is best known for her roles in two popular television series during the 1980s.
Career
McMillan played the acerbic Sister Erin Cosgrove during the final year of television series The Young Doctor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babs%20McMillan |
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program |
Samuelle Prater, known simply as Samuelle, is an American R&B singer who is a former member of the R&B group Club Nouveau. He was the lead singer on Club Nouveau's #1 Pop and Dance and #2 R&B hit remake of the Bill Withers classic, "Lean on Me".
He released his first and only solo album entitled, Living in Black Parad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuelle |
Armando Estrada (born Hazem Ali; December 20, 1978) is a Palestinian American professional wrestler and manager. He is best known by his ring name Armando Alejandro Estrada.
Professional wrestling career
World Wrestling Entertainment (2004-2008)
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2004–2006)
Ali began his WWE career wrestling in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando%20Estrada |
Lac qui Parle State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, near Watson. Lac qui Parle is a French translation of the native Dakota name, meaning "talking lake".
The state park was built as part of the Lac qui Parle Flood Control Project. Lac qui Parle itself is a widening of the Minnesota River, and the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac%20qui%20Parle%20State%20Park |
Murray Humphreys (born Llewellyn Morris Humphreys; April 20, 1899 – November 23, 1965) (also known as The Camel or The Hump), was a Chicago mobster of Welsh descent who was the chief political fixer and labor racketeer, beginning during the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition. Considered to be a ruthless but also well-dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Humphreys |
David Bower (born 1969) is a Welsh actor, best known for his role as David in the hit romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Born in Wrexham, North Wales, he is deaf and a BSL user and took his degree in the British Theatre of the Deaf (established by Pat Keysell). After university he joined what became the Signd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bower |
Nonnenwerth (formerly also Rolandswerth) is an island in the river Rhine in Germany between Rolandseck and Bad Honnef (at river kilometer 642) opposite the island of .
The island has been the site of a monastery with interruptions since the beginning of the 12th century, was originally founded by the Benedictines and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonnenwerth |
Peter Cousens (born 2 November 1955) is an Australian actor and singer born in Tamworth, New South Wales. He is the artistic director of the Talent Development Project. He attended The Armidale School in Armidale from 1969 to 1973 and then Gordonstoun School, Scotland. He then spent a year reading Arts at St Paul's Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Cousens |
Tantalum pentoxide, also known as tantalum(V) oxide, is the inorganic compound with the formula . It is a white solid that is insoluble in all solvents but is attacked by strong bases and hydrofluoric acid. is an inert material with a high refractive index and low absorption (i.e. colourless), which makes it useful fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum%20pentoxide |
, established in 1705 by Hata Rokuberi ( Moriyoshi Rokuzaemon Hata and Rokubei Moritsune Hata), an employee of Kyoto's Imperial Palace and an incense hobbyist, is one of the oldest incense companies in Japan. The company is based in Kyoto, with shops in five cities in Japan, and one in America.
Name
The name "Shoyei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoyeido |
The Simian Line is a 2001 American improvisational film released in New York City and Los Angeles. It was filmed over an eleven-day period. The ensemble cast includes Harry Connick Jr., Cindy Crawford, Tyne Daly, William Hurt, Monica Keena, Samantha Mathis, Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan and Eric Stoltz.
Plot
When Kath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Simian%20Line |
Kroy or KROY may refer to:
KROY (AM), a radio station (1410 AM) licensed to serve San Saba, Texas, United States
KROY (FM), a defunct radio station (99.7 FM) formerly licensed to serve Palacios, Texas
KCVV, a radio station (1240 AM) in Sacramento, California, United States, which used the call letters KROY from 193... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KROY |
Kaunos (Carian: Kbid;
Lycian: Khbide; Ancient Greek: ; ) was a city of ancient Caria and in Anatolia, a few kilometres west of the modern town of Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey.
The Calbys river (now known as the Dalyan river) was the border between Caria and Lycia. Initially Kaunos was a separate state; then it becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunos |
Zabalaza is the first solo release from the South African musical performer, Thandiswa Mazwai. Before this album, Thandiswa was most famously known as the lead singer for the kwaito group Bongo Maffin. Zabalaza (which means Rebellion in the Xhosa language) incorporates elements of kwaito, traditional Xhosa music, mbaqa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabalaza%20%28album%29 |
Hong'an County (), formerly named Huang'an County (; Hwangan), located to the north of provincial capital Wuhan, is a county under jurisdiction of Huanggang, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
Hong'an is famous for how many generals in the People's Liberation Army originally hailed from it. In the early 1950s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%27an%20County |
George Mallaby (4 November 1939 – 12 July 2004) was an English-born actor and screenwriter, best known for his roles in television in Australia and in his latter career in his native England.
Life
Mallaby was born in Hartlepool, United Kingdom, and moved to Australia with his parents when he was 16. His father was a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Mallaby%20%28actor%29 |
The Barnsley East by-election was held on 12 December 1996, following the death of the Labour Party Member of Parliament Terry Patchett for Barnsley East, in South Yorkshire, England, on 11 October.
Barnsley council leader Jeff Ennis held the seat for Labour on an increased majority of 68% and more than three quarters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20Barnsley%20East%20by-election |
The Shutov Assembly is the twelfth solo studio album by Brian Eno, released on 10 November 1992 on Opal via Warner Bros. Records. One of Eno's ambient albums, it was reissued in 2014 with a second disc with bonus tracks. It is considered the follow-up to Nerve Net, which was released that same year.
Overview
The albu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shutov%20Assembly |
The Church of Christ in China Yenching College (), or CCC Yenching College, Yenching College () in short is a co-education secondary school in Nga Ying Chau of Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. The school is managed by The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China.
The secondary school was founded by alumni and tea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCC%20Yenching%20College |
The 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans () was a non-championship 24-hour automobile endurance race from 14 to 15 June 2003 at the Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France for teams of three drivers each entering Le Mans Prototype and Grand Touring cars before approximately 220,000 people. It was the race's 71st edition, as orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans |
The Great Lakes Aquarium opened in 2000 and is located on the Duluth waterfront. A 501(c)(3) private nonprofit, Great Lakes Aquarium features animals and habitats found within the Great Lakes basin and other freshwater ecosystems such as the Amazon River. The Aquarium houses 205 different species of fish, birds, reptil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Lakes%20Aquarium |
Min Xiao-Fen () is a Chinese and American pipa player, vocalist, and composer known for her work in traditional Chinese music, contemporary classical music, and jazz.
Life
Min Xiao-Fen studied with her father, Min Jiqian (闵季骞), a music professor at Nanjing University and a student of the erhu master Liu Tianhua. Her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%20Xiao-Fen |
Manhasset Secondary School, also referred to as Manhasset Junior/Senior High School or simply Manhasset High School, is a six-year comprehensive public middle and high school in Manhasset, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. The 7–12 school is the only secondary school in the Manhasset Union Free School Distri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhasset%20Secondary%20School |
The Michigan Central Railway Bridge is an out-of-service steel Deck arch bridge spanning the Niagara Gorge between Niagara Falls, Ontario and Niagara Falls, New York. The bridge is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, which (as CP Rail) purchased the single track structure in 1990. The Canadian corridor and bridge ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Central%20Railway%20Bridge |
Nuclear safety is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "The achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public and the environment from undue radiation hazards". The IAEA defines nuclear securi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20safety%20and%20security |
The BN-350 is a sodium-cooled, fast reactor located at the Mangyshlak Nuclear Power Plant, located in Aktau (formerly known as Shevchenko under the control of the USSR in 1964–1992), Kazakhstan, on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
Construction of the BN-350 fast breeder reactor began in 1964, and the plant first produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-350%20reactor |
Frederick Ward may refer to:
Frederick Townsend Ward (1831–1862), American sailor and mercenary
Frederick Wordsworth Ward aka, Captain Thunderbolt (1833–1870), Australian bushranger
Frederick William Ward (1874–1934), Australian newspaper editor
Frederick Ward (Australian politician) (1873–1954), Australian senator
F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Ward |
Chapter 2: World Domination is the third studio album by American hip hop group Three 6 Mafia. The album was released on November 4, 1997, by Hypnotize Minds, with distribution from RED. This was their first widely distributed album and also Three 6 Mafia's first Gold-RIAA certified album, having sold over 800,000 copi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%202%3A%20World%20Domination |
The 2004 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game which was played on February 15, 2004, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the Lakers and Clippers. This game was the 53rd edition of the North American National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 2003–04 NBA season... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20NBA%20All-Star%20Game |
David Ross Hope Bridie is an Australian contemporary musician and songwriter. He was a founding mainstay member of World music band Not Drowning, Waving which released six studio albums to critical acclaim. He also formed a chamber pop group, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, which released seven studio albums. During his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Bridie |
Dogfeiling was a minor sub-kingdom and later a commote in north Wales.
It formed part of the eastern border of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in early medieval Wales. The area was named for Dogfael, one of the sons of the first King of Gwynedd, Cunedda. It existed from 445 until sometime around the year 700 when it was re-abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfeiling |
The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions, defeating Virginia Tech in the BCS Sugar Bowl.
Florida State became the first team in history to start out preseason No. 1 and remain there through the entire season. Their 12–0 season gave them 109 victories in the '90s, the most f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20NCAA%20Division%20I-A%20football%20season |
In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca (southern Mexico), a muxe (also spelled muxhe; ) is a person assigned male at birth who dresses and behaves in ways otherwise associated with women; they may be seen as a third gender.
Etymology
The Zapotec word is thought to derive from the Spanish word for "woman", . In the 16th-centur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxe |
In breakdancing, toprock is foot movement performed while standing, serving as the opening display of style, and as a warm-up for transitions into the more acrobatic maneuvers of downrock. It allows the dancer to demonstrate coordination, flexibility, rhythm and style. Breakers may devote considerable time to developin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toprock |
"Witt's theorem" or "the Witt theorem" may also refer to the Bourbaki–Witt fixed point theorem of order theory.
In mathematics, Witt's theorem, named after Ernst Witt, is a basic result in the algebraic theory of quadratic forms: any isometry between two subspaces of a nonsingular quadratic space over a field k may b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witt%27s%20theorem |
Punk Goes Pop is the second album in the Punk Goes... series and the first installment in the long running Punk Goes Pop series created by Fearless Records. It contains a collection of songs by various artists performing covers of pop songs. It was released on April 2, 2002. Its success caused Fearless to release more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk%20Goes%20Pop |
The Raid on Elizabethtown occurred on February 7, 1813, when Major Benjamin Forsyth and 200 regulars and militia crossed the frozen St. Lawrence River to occupy Elizabethtown, Upper Canada (present day Brockville, Ontario), seize military and public stores, free American prisoners and capture British military prisoners... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid%20on%20Elizabethtown |
Piestewa Peak ( ; , formerly Squaw Peak), at is the second highest point in the Phoenix Mountains, after Camelback Mountain, and the third highest in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. It is located in the Piestewa Peak Recreation Area within the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, near Piestewa Freeway (Arizona State Highway 51).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa%20Peak |
Eastern State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Built in 1773, it was the first public facility in the present-day United States constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The original building had burned but was reconstructed in 1985.
Francis Fauquier and the Enligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20State%20Hospital%20%28Virginia%29 |
Rhufoniog was a small sub-kingdom of the Dark Ages Gwynedd, and later a cantref in medieval Wales.
Geography
The cantref Rhos lay between it and the Irish Sea. Sometimes the two cantrefi were linked together as "Rhos and Rhufeiniog", which roughly corresponds to the territory of the old county of Denbighshire. The r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhufoniog |
Lohr am Main (officially: Lohr a. Main) is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and the seat (but not a member) of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Lohr am Main. It has a population of around 15,000.
Etymology
The town ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohr%20am%20Main |
The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions is a three-disc box set by trumpeter Miles Davis released by Legacy Records, (Mosaic Records in conjunction with Legacy released the 5 LP set) featuring recordings from the sessions that would produce his 1969 album In a Silent Way as well as transitional pieces from the era. Besid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Complete%20In%20a%20Silent%20Way%20Sessions |
Ghada Jamshir () is a Bahraini women's rights activist and an ardent campaigner for the reform of Sharia courts in Bahrain and the Arab States of the Persian Gulf. Jamshir heads the Women's Petition Committee lobbying for a law that would shift jurisdiction over family and women's affairs from Islamic Sharia court to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghada%20Jamshir |
Kikkuli was the Hurrian "master horse trainer [assussanni] of the land of Mitanni" (LÚA-AŠ-ŠU-UŠ-ŠA-AN-NI ŠA KUR URUMI-IT-TA-AN-NI) and author of a chariot horse training text written primarily in the Hittite language (as well as an Old Indo-Aryan language as seen in numerals and loan-words), dating to the Hittite New ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikkuli |
The Miami Valley School (MVS) is a private, independent day school for grades Pre-K through 12 located in Dayton, Ohio. The school was founded in 1964. The Miami Valley School is a non-profit organization and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States. It is also a member of the Ohio Ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Miami%20Valley%20School |
Renata is a feminine given name of European origin, and a New Zealand surname.
The name is of Latin origin, cf. Renatus. It is a common female name in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia.
The cognate names include Renée and Renate.
Notable people with the given name Renata include:
Renata A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata |
The Hyde Street Pier, at 2905 Hyde Street, is a historic ferry pier located on the northern waterfront of San Francisco in the U.S. state of California.
Background
Prior to the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, it was the principal automobile ferry terminal connecting San Fran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde%20Street%20Pier |
James "J.T." Warren Taylor (born August 16, 1953) is an American singer and actor who achieved fame as the lead singer of Kool & the Gang between 1979 and 1988.
Taylor joined Kool & the Gang in 1979, and remained with the group for 9 years. His tenure as lead singer was the most successful era in the band's history, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20%22J.T.%22%20Taylor |
The Godavari-class frigates (formerly Type 16 or Project 16 frigates) were guided-missile frigates of the Indian Navy. The Godavari class was the first significant indigenous warship design and development initiative of the Indian Navy. Its design is a modification of the with a focus on indigenous content of 72%, a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godavari-class%20frigate |
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