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Henry Robinson Towne (August 24, 1844 – October 15, 1924) was an American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management. He donated several millions to philanthropy at his death, in 1924.
Biography
Towne was born in Philadelphia in 1844 to John Henry and Maria (Tevis) T. Towne. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20R.%20Towne |
Millicom International Cellular SA (NASDAQ U.S.: TIGO, NASDAQ Stockholm: TIGO_SDB) is a Luxembourgish fixed line and mobile telecommunications services provider operating in Latin America operating under the Tigo brand. Its main shareholder is Xavier Niel, a French billionaire who owns 27.13% of the company.
Millicom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicom |
Japanese whisky is a style of whisky developed and produced in Japan. Whisky production in Japan began around 1870, but the first commercial production was in 1923 upon the opening of the country's first distillery, Yamazaki. Broadly speaking, the style of Japanese whisky is more similar to that of Scotch whisky than o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20whisky |
Andrea Gasbarroni (born 6 August 1981) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Juventus
An attacking midfielder who can also play occasionally as a winger or second striker, Gasbarroni started his career at Juventus F.C. youth team, but after graduate from Primavera team,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Gasbarroni |
Todd Sucherman (born May 2, 1969) is an American drummer, who is best known for having been a member of Styx since March 1995.
Early life
Sucherman grew up in a musical family and followed in his father's footsteps by playing the drums. His father, Arnold J. Sucherman, was a doctor by day and a drummer by night, playi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Sucherman |
AFL Townsville is an amateur competition formed as the Townsville Australian Football League in 1955, the first contemporary AFL competition to be formed outside of the South East Queensland. It is based in the city of Townsville. For a short period in the 1980s, the competition was played during the summer months. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%20Townsville |
"Meet the Mets" is the fight song of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. The music and lyrics were written in 1961 by Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz, and it was originally recorded by Glenn Osser's orchestra. The song's lyrics "East Side, West Side" are a tribute to The Sidewalks of New York, a popular New York son... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20the%20Mets |
The United States Post Office Cooper Station, located at 93 Fourth Avenue, on the corner of East 11th Street in Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1937, and was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster in the Art Moderne style for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Post%20Office%20%28Cooper%20Station%29 |
Dimitri Shevardnadze () (December 1, 1885 – 1937) was a Georgian painter, art collector and intellectual purged during Joseph Stalin's repressions.
Life
Born in Bakhvi, a small village in the western Georgian province of Guria, then part of the Russian Empire, he was educated at the art academies of St Petersburg and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri%20Shevardnadze |
Pseudopanax crassifolius, the horoeka or lancewood, is a New Zealand native tree belonging to the family Araliaceae. It is found throughout New Zealand from sea level up to about 750 m. The juvenile form, which lasts between 15 and 20 years, is very easily recognized. The leaves are stiff and leathery with a prominent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopanax%20crassifolius |
Ecclesia Catholica may refer to:
Ecclesia Catholica, the Latin-language name of the Catholic Church
Ecclesia Catholica, the title of a 1949 instruction of the Holy Office on the Catholic Church's initial attitudes towards the ecumenical movement
A podcast on the history of the Christian Church | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesia%20Catholica |
The Lakeland Motor Museum is a museum now located at Backbarrow, Cumbria, England which houses a collection of classic cars, motorcycles, bicycles, pedal cars and motoring related items and memorabilia and an exhibition dedicated to the land and water speed record activities of Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeland%20Motor%20Museum |
The Canadian Military Engineers (CME; ) is the military engineering personnel branch of the Canadian Armed Forces. The members of the branch that wear army uniform comprise the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE; ).
The mission of the Canadian Military Engineers is to contribute to the survival, mobility, and comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Military%20Engineers |
Alvernia University is a private Franciscan Roman Catholic university in Reading, Pennsylvania. Once known as Alvernia College, the school gained university status in 2008.
History
Alvernia University was founded in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis first as college for the sisters and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvernia%20University |
164 (one hundred [and] sixty-four) is the natural number following 163 and preceding 165.
In mathematics
164 is a zero of the Mertens function.
In base 10, 164 is the smallest number that can be expressed as a concatenation of two squares in two different ways: as 1 concatenate 64 or 16 concatenate 4.
In astronomy
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/164%20%28number%29 |
Alexandra Fusai (born 22 November 1973) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Fusai was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine. Starting from September 1989 when she turned professional, Fusai played four tournaments (all of them part of the ITF Women's Circuit) on the international tennis circuit in 1989. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra%20Fusai |
Marco Amelia (; born 2 April 1982) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and current coach.
A Roma youth product, Amelia spent most of his professional club career at Livorno, where he made 181 appearances across all competitions, including playing and scoring in the 2006–07 UEFA Cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Amelia |
Basil Paul McRae (born January 5, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is a part owner and alternate governor of the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League and he is the director of player personnel for the Columbus Blue Jackets. McRae was known as an enforcer with over 2,000 penalty minut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil%20McRae |
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Washington since December 6, 2012. On February 13, 2012, Governor Christine Gregoire signed legislation that established full marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state of Washington. Opponents mounted a challenge that required voters to approve the statute at a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex%20marriage%20in%20Washington%20%28state%29 |
The Battle of Cannae was a battle that took place in 1018 between the Byzantines under the Catepan of Italy Basil Boioannes and the Lombards under Melus of Bari. The Lombards had also hired some Norman cavalry mercenaries under their leader Gilbert Buatère, while Boioannes had a detachment of elite Varangian Guard sent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Cannae%20%281018%29 |
Frobisher Bay may refer to:
Iqaluit, the territorial capital of Nunavut
Frobisher Bay, the inlet on which Iqaluit sits | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobisher%20Bay%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Oak Street Beach is located on North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. One of a series of Chicago beaches, the Chicago Park District defines Oak Street Beach as the area from approximately 1550 North Lake Shore Drive to 500 North Lake Shore Drive, excluding Ohio Street Beach, the So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20Street%20Beach |
Assault Suit, also known as Assault Suits, is a series of futuristic robotic war video games developed by NCS featuring soldiers manning the eponymous gigantic humanoid mecha. Spanning the course of 15 years and beyond, the games would be cross-distributed, cross-published and developed between the U.S. and Japan. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault%20Suit |
Thevar Magan ( ) is a 1992 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Bharathan, and written and produced by Kamal Haasan. It stars Sivaji Ganesan, Haasan, Revathi, Gautami and Nassar; with Kallapart Natarajan, Kaka Radhakrishnan, Sangili Murugan and Vadivelu in supporting roles. The film's story involves a respected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thevar%20Magan |
Brockhill Country Park is in Saltwood, near Hythe in Kent, England.
The park was a former estate with landscaped gardens and has subsequently been sub-divided. The house now forms the main building for a performing arts college, whilst the gardens and lake now form part of the country park.
History
It was previously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockhill%20Country%20Park |
The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997. Under the leadership of then UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the CDL's original mission was to forge a better system for scholarly information management and improved support for teaching and research. In collaboration with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Digital%20Library |
The president of Kiribati () is the head of state and head of government of Kiribati.
Following a general election, by which citizens elect the members of the House of Assembly, members select from their midst "not less than 3 nor more than 4 candidates" for the presidency. No other person may stand as candidate. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20of%20Kiribati |
Revolutionary Communist Youth may refer to:
Revolutionary Communist Youth (Argentina)
Revolutionary Communist Youth (Norway)
Revolutionary Communist Youth (Sweden)
Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire, a French Trotskyist organisation founded after the dissolution of the Union of Communist Students | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary%20Communist%20Youth |
Francesco Flachi (born 8 April 1975) is an Italian former professional footballer, currently playing for Promozione amateurs Praese.
A striker, during an 18-year professional career in which he amassed Serie A totals of 137 games and 42 goals, he played mainly with Sampdoria. He was also suspended twice for doping.
C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Flachi |
The bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish native to East Asia, and is one of several Asian carps introduced into North America. It is one of the most intensively exploited fishes in fish farming, with an annual worldwide production of over three million tonnes in 2013, princ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighead%20carp |
The 2006 Football League Cup Final also known as the 2006 Carling Cup Final for sponsorship reasons, was played between Manchester United and Wigan Athletic on 26 February 2006. Manchester United won the match comfortably, by four goals to nil. Louis Saha and Cristiano Ronaldo both scored one goal, and Wayne Rooney sco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Football%20League%20Cup%20final |
The Disney Channel was a British and Irish children's pay television channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company (UK) Ltd.
The channel was broadcast from 1 October 1995 to 1 October 2020. A one-hour timeshift channel called Disney Channel +1 was available on Sky and Virgin Media. At the time of closure, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Channel%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 |
The latest statistics for Islam in Paraguay estimate a total Muslim population of under 1,000 representing 0.02% of the population. But, another estimate puts the number of Muslim members in Paraguay at 35,000 people. Most of the Muslims are descendants of immigrants from Syria and Lebanon. The
major Islamic organizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Paraguay |
The Lambeau Leap is a touchdown celebration in American football in which a player leaps into the bleachers behind the end zone after scoring. The celebration was popularized after Green Bay Packers player LeRoy Butler jumped into the Lambeau Field bleachers after scoring a touchdown from a fumble recovery against the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeau%20Leap |
Uruguay is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion. Due to the secular nature of Uruguay's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country.
The statistics for Islam in Uruguay estimate a total Muslim population of 1,000, representing 0.02 percent of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Uruguay |
David Berger (born 1943) is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Berger%20%28historian%29 |
Paul Gurner Maholm (pronounced Mah-HALL-uhm; born June 25, 1982) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers.
Early life
Paul Gurner Maholm was born on June 25, 1982, in Holly Springs, Mis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Maholm |
is a run and gun video game developed and published in 1990 by Masaya for Sega Genesis. It was released in America as Target Earth. It was re-released on the Wii’s Virtual Console, and on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. It is the first game in the Assault Suits series.
Plot
In 2201, expanding technologie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault%20Suit%20Leynos |
A cricothyrotomy (also called cricothyroidotomy) is an incision made through the skin and cricothyroid membrane to establish a patent airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema, or massive facial trauma. Cricothyrotomy is nearly always performed as a last... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricothyrotomy |
The Australian masked owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) is a barn owl of Southern New Guinea and the non-desert areas of Australia.
Taxonomy
Described subspecies of Tyto novaehollandiae include:
T. n. calabyi I.J. Mason, 1983, (southern New Guinea)
T. n. castanops (Gould, 1837), Tasmanian masked owl (Tasmania and introduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20masked%20owl |
Im Soo-jung (born July 11, 1979) is a South Korean actress. After modeling for teen magazines, Im made her acting breakthrough in Kim Jee-woon's horror film A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), followed by the popular television drama I'm Sorry, I Love You (2004). She has since appeared in numerous films, notably Park Chan-wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im%20Soo-jung |
Target Earth may refer to:
Target Earth (video game), the video game also known as Assault Suits Leynos
Target Earth (film), a 1954 Science Fiction B-Movie
Target Earth (album), a 2013 album by Voivod
Target Earth, a 1998 TV-Movie starring Christopher Meloni and Marcia Cross | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target%20Earth |
Luigi Sala (born 21 February 1974) is a former Italian football defender. He played as a central defender.
Club career
In June 2001, Sala was sold to Atalanta for 7 billion lire, along with Gianni Comandini (30 billion) and Luca Saudati (18 billion), as part of Cristian Zenoni and Massimo Donati's deal to Milan, for 6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Sala |
Yum Jung-ah (born July 28, 1972) is a South Korean actress. Her notable films include A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), The Big Swindle (2004), The Old Garden (2007), and Cart (2014), as well as the television series Royal Family (2011), and Sky Castle (2018). She was the first runner-up at Miss Korea 1991 and represented ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum%20Jung-ah |
Arpád Račko (July 17, 1930 – January 2, 2015) was a Slovak sculptor.
He was born in Szolnok, Hungary and lived in Košice.
Arpád Račko studied at the prestigious Academy of Creative Arts in Prague, in the art studio of professor Jan Lauda. There has been a big influence of the sculptural work of Czech sculptors Josef ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arp%C3%A1d%20Ra%C4%8Dko |
DHB may refer to:
2,5-Dihydroxy benzoic acid
District health board, New Zealand
Deer Harbor Sea Plane Base (IATA airport code), Washington, US
German Handball Association (Deutscher Handballbund)
German Hockey Federation (Deutscher Hockey-Bund) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHB |
Bobst may refer to:
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library (aka "Bobst"), the main library at New York University in Manhattan, New York City, New York State, USA
Bobst SA, a Swiss packaging machinery and servicing company
Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978), a U.S. businessman and philanthropist
See also
Bobst Boy, nickname of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobst |
Kim Kap-soo (born April 7, 1957) is a South Korean actor. Since his acting debut in 1977, Kim has had a long career on the stage, in television dramas and film. In addition to acting full-time, he also has his own master class acting studio.
Filmography
Film
Television series
Web series
Television show
Documentar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Kap-soo |
Angelo Palombo (; born 25 September 1981) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Throughout his club career, he played for Fiorentina, Sampdoria, and Inter Milan in Serie A. The vast majority of that time was spent at Sampdoria where he was club captain and played a total of nearly 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo%20Palombo |
Oak Grove School, Jharipani, Mussoorie is a residential public school, owned and run by the Indian Railways. It is situated on hill tops covering in Jharipani, Mussoorie, India.
The school was started by the British Raj on 1 June 1888. The students predominantly consist of the children of Indian Railways employees; 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20Grove%20School%2C%20Mussoorie |
Church of Our Lady may refer to:
Belgium
Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)
Church of Our Lady, Bruges
Church of Our Lady (Kortrijk)
Church of Our Lady of Laeken, site of the royal crypt, Brussels
Church of Our Lady, Melsele
Canada
Church of Our Lady Immaculate, Guelph, Ontario
China
Cathedral of Our Lady, Shuozhou
C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Our%20Lady |
In the history of chemistry, fire air was postulated to be one of two fluids of common air. This theory was positioned in 1775 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. In Scheele's Chemical Treatise on Air and Fire he states: "air is composed of two fluids, differing from each other, the one of which does not manifes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20air |
Black cross or Black Cross may refer to:
Black Cross (Teutonic Order), heraldic insignia of the Teutonic order (since 1205)
Black Cross (Germany), military emblem of Prussia and Germany, derived from the cross used by the Teutonic order
Anarchist Black Cross, an anarchist support organization
Black Cross Navigation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20cross |
In mathematics, an automatic group is a finitely generated group equipped with several finite-state automata. These automata represent the Cayley graph of the group. That is, they can tell if a given word representation of a group element is in a "canonical form" and can tell if two elements given in canonical words d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20group |
The concept of a stable model, or answer set, is used to define a declarative semantics for logic programs with negation as failure. This is one of several standard approaches to the meaning of negation in logic programming, along with program completion and the well-founded semantics. The stable model semantics is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20model%20semantics |
Sacred food as offering is a concept within anthropology regarding the study of food as it relates to religious ritual.
Many religions have prescriptions about the correct preparation and cooking of food, besides the taboos about forbidden subjects. Many religions have special spellings for the food, which sacralize i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20food%20as%20offering |
Marjorie J. "Maggie" Clarke is an American environmental scientist who specializes in recycling participation, waste prevention methods, waste-to-energy/incinerator emissions controls, environmental impacts of the World Trade Center fires and collapse, and community botanical gardening. Since the September 11, 2001 att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie%20Clarke |
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable webmail providers who offer a web interface in English.
The list does not include web hosting providers who may offer email server and/or client software as a part of hosting package, or telecommunication providers (mobile network o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20webmail%20providers |
The Church of Our Lady () is the cathedral of Copenhagen. It is situated on the Frue Plads public square in central Copenhagen, next to the historic main building of the University of Copenhagen.
The present-day version of the church was designed by the architect Christian Frederik Hansen (1756–1845) in the Neoclassic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Our%20Lady%2C%20Copenhagen |
The grey-tailed mountaingem (Lampornis cinereicauda), also variously spelled gray-tailed mountaingem, grey-tailed mountain-gem, or gray-tailed mountain-gem, is a species of hummingbird in tribe Lampornithini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Costa Rica.
Taxonomy and systematics
The grey-tailed mountaingem is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-tailed%20mountaingem |
In computer science, the well-founded semantics is a semantics for logic programming. It defines how to make conclusions from a set of logical rules. In logic programming, a computer receives a set of facts, and a set of "inference rules" about how these facts relate. The well-founded semantics is one way to define th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-founded%20semantics |
Tatoosh may refer to:
Tatoosh (yacht), yacht owned by Paul Allen
Tatoosh Island, Washington, United States
Tatoosh Wilderness, Washington, United States
Tatoosh Range, Washington, United States
Tatoosh fire, 2006 fire in Washington and British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatoosh |
The Nam Ou (Laotian: ນ້ຳອູ , literally: "rice bowl river") is one of the most important rivers of Laos. It runs 448 km from Phongsaly Province to Luang Prabang Province. The river rises in Muang Ou Nua near the Lao-Chinese border, and traverses the northern Laos mountains and gorges until meeting the Mekong River in Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam%20Ou |
Kosmos 605 (), or Bion 1, was a Bion satellite. Kosmos 605 was the first of eleven Bion satellites.
Launch
Kosmos 605 was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket flying from Site 43/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. The satellite was initially launched in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of and an apogee of wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%20605 |
The Ricart–Agrawala algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. This algorithm is an extension and optimization of Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm, by removing the need for messages. It was developed by computer scientists Glenn Ricart and Ashok Agrawala.
Algorithm
Termin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricart%E2%80%93Agrawala%20algorithm |
Sha Tau Kok Road () is a road connecting Sha Tau Kok and Fanling in the New Territories, Hong Kong.
History
Sha Tau Kok Road is the only road access to Sha Tau Kok from Hong Kong since its construction in 1927. The road replaced Sha Tau Kok Railway as the connection between those areas.
See also
List of streets and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha%20Tau%20Kok%20Road |
Kosmos 690 (in Russian: Бион 2, Космос 690), or Bion 2, was a Bion satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
Launch
Kosmos 690 was launched on 22 October 1974, at 17:59:59 UTC from Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a Soyuz-U launch vehicle. It was placed in low Earth orbit, with perigee of , apogee of and orbital inclination o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%20690 |
Kosmos 782 (in Russian: Бион 3, Космос 782, or Bion 3) was a Bion satellite. It carried 14 experiments prepared by seven countries in all, with participation from scientists in France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, United States and the Soviet Union.
Launch and return
Launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%20782 |
The Bion satellites (), also named Biocosmos, is a series of Soviet (later Russian) biosatellites focused on space medicine.
Bion space program
Bion precursor flights and Bion flights
The Soviet biosatellite program began in 1966 with Kosmos 110, and resumed in 1973 with Kosmos 605. Cooperation in space ventures bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bion%20%28satellite%29 |
Kosmos 1667 ( meaning Kosmos 1667), or Bion 7 was a 1985 biomedical research mission satellite involving scientists from nine countries. It was part of the Bion program. This mission was the scientific participation of nine countries (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, France, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Unio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%201667 |
Operation Backfire may refer to:
Operation Backfire (WWII)
Operation Backfire (FBI), an FBI operation against certain actions by the radical environmental movement. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Backfire |
Howard Marshall is the name of:
Howard Marshall (broadcaster) (1900–1973), English sports broadcaster
Howard Marshall (rugby union) (1870–1929), English rugby union player
I. Howard Marshall (1934–2015), biblical scholar
J. Howard Marshall (1905–1995), American oil business executive
J. Howard Marshall III (born 1936)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Marshall |
Xinca may refer to:
Xinca people — an indigenous people in southern Guatemala
Xincan languages — their indigenous Mesoamerican languages
Xinka refers to:
Xinka, Somalia, a town in the Uur Caleed area of Somalia
See also
Shinca (disambiguation)
Shinka (disambiguation)
Chinka (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinca |
Óbidos is a municipality in Pará, Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Amazon River. The town was founded in 1697, and is located between Santarém and Oriximiná. It is the seat of the Diocese of Óbidos. The town was named after Óbidos, Portugal.
Conservation
The north of the municipality contains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93bidos%2C%20Par%C3%A1 |
MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club.
Dynamo Moscow developed numerous athletes. Among them, multiple Olympic medalists lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo%20Moscow |
Joseph Ybarra (born ~1954) is an American producer and designer of video games. He left Apple Computer in 1982 to work at the new Electronic Arts that was founded by his fellow ex-employee Trip Hawkins. He was the original producer of the first Madden NFL.
As one of the original game producers at EA, Ybarra worked on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Ybarra |
Emiliano Bonazzoli (; born 20 January 1979) is a former Italian footballer who played as a striker, currently in charge of club Lecco.
Playing career
Bonazzoli started his career at Brescia. He played his first professional match on 15 May 1997 against Lecce; in the next two seasons, he occasionally played for the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano%20Bonazzoli |
Piracanjuba () is a municipality in southeastern Goiás state, Brazil. It is a big producer of orchids, milk products, and soybeans. Piracanjuba is also the name of a fish (Brycon orbignyanus) common to the waters of the Plata River basin.
Location
Piracanjuba is located southeast of Goiânia. It is in the valley of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracanjuba |
The Application Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL) is a research lab, as a part of Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), and Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at Rutgers University . It is under the direction of Dr. Manish Parashar and the current research fields include Autonomic Computi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TASSL |
Kosmos 936 or Bion 4 (Бион 4, Космос 936) was a Bion satellite. The mission involved nine countries in a series of biomedical research experiments. The experiments were primarily follow-ups to the Bion 3 (Kosmos 782) flight. Scientists from the Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, France, Hungary, Poland, Romania, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%20936 |
Přerov nad Labem (; ) is a municipality and village in Nymburk District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants.
Geography
Přerov nad Labem is located about west of Nymburk and east of Prague. It lies in the Central Elbe Table lowland within the Polabí region. The highest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C5%99erov%20nad%20Labem |
Bion 5, or also Kosmos 1129 (in Russian: Бион 5, Космос-1129) was a Bion satellite. It was a biomedical research mission involving scientists from nine countries, launched on 29 September 1979, at 15:30:00 UTC. Among the experiments was the first attempt to breed mammals in space, which proved unsuccessful. The mission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%201129 |
Richard Masato Aoki ( or ; November 20, 1938 – March 15, 2009) was an American educator and college counselor, best known as a civil rights activist and early member of the Black Panther Party. He joined the early Black Panther Party and was eventually promoted to the position of Field Marshal. Although there were sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Aoki |
Keith Edward Yandell (, Davenport, Iowa – , Madison, Wisconsin) was a philosopher of religion who became notable by his teaching and his writings.
Teaching
Yandell began teaching in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1966. He had become the Julius R. Weinberg Professor of Philosoph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Yandell |
Kosmos 1514 or Bion 6 (in Russian: Космос 1514, Бион 6) was a biomedical research mission that was launched on 14 December 1983, at 07:00:00 UTC. It was part of the Bion programme.
Mission
The first Soviet Union orbital flight of a non-human primate was accomplished on the Kosmos 1514 mission. Two monkeys flew on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%201514 |
Thyrotomy may also refer to the cutting or biopsy the thyroid gland.
Thyrotomy (also called thyroidotomy, median laryngotomy, laryngofissure or thyrofissure) is an incision of the larynx through the thyroid cartilage.
See also
Laryngotomy
Cricothyrotomy
Tracheotomy
List of surgeries by type
References
Dorland's Il... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrotomy |
Metaphrynella is a small genus of microhylid frogs from the southern Malay Peninsula and Borneo. They are sometimes known as the Borneo treefrogs or tree hole frogs. The common name refers to the microhabitat of these frogs: males call from tree holes and tadpoles develop in the water contained in those holes.
Descrip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphrynella |
Bion 8 or Kosmos 1887 (in Russian: Бион 8, Космос 1887) was a Bion satellite.
Mission
Bion 8 carried a payload of biological and radiation physics experiments from nine countries. The landing was several hundred miles from the expected recovery site, which resulted in considerable difficulties. The biological payload... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%201887 |
Guy Richards (born 21 March 1983) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
From Coldstream, Richards was drafted in the 2000 National Draft to Collingwood, but took until 2004 to make his AFL debut. Continually developed into a good tap ruckman, Richards was forced to miss his early seasons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Richards |
Microhyla, commonly known as the rice frogs or narrow-mouthed frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Microhylidae. It consists of 42 species of diminutive frogs. Members of this genus are widespread from Ryukyu Is. in Japan, and throughout South-east Asia, (China, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, India and Sri Lanka).
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhyla |
This is a list of various exponents of Forza Italia (current and former deputies, senators, ministers, MEPs, regional presidents, leading regional-level politicians, mayors of big and medium-sized cities and important members of party's national organs), divided by political origin (that is to say, of what party they w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Forza%20Italia%20leading%20members%20by%20political%20origin |
Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry was an anthology of poetry published by George Allen and Unwin in 1947 and featuring the work of many of the Cairo poets. It was edited by Keith Bullen and John Cromer. The title alluded to the rebirth of culture from the ashes of World War II. It put itself forward as "a microcosm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander%3A%20A%20Miscellany%20of%20Poetry |
Kosmos 2229, or Bion 10 (in Russian: Бион 10, Космос 2229) was a biomedical research mission involving in ten countries plus European Space Agency (ESA). A Russian spacecraft, was launched by a Soyuz-U launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. It was part of the Bion programme.
Spacecraft
Several of the hardware e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%202229 |
Micryletta is a genus of microhylid frogs. Prior to 2018, only 3 species were recognized, but phylogenetic studies since then have found a much higher species diversity within the genus.
Species
References
Amphibian genera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micryletta |
Kosmos 2044, or Bion 9 (in Russian: Бион 9, Космос 2044) was a biomedical research mission involving in nine countries plus ESA: United Kingdom, Hungarian People's Republic, East Germany, Polish People's Republic, Czechoslovakia, United States, Canada, Australia, Soviet Union and European Space Agency (ESA). It was par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%202044 |
The Xinka, or Xinca, are a non-Mayan indigenous people of Mesoamerica, with communities in the southern portion of Guatemala, near its border with El Salvador, and in the mountainous region to the north.
Their languages (the Xincan languages) are not known to be related to any other language family, although they have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinca%20people |
Otophryne is a small genus of microhylid frogs from northern South America. They are sometimes known as the pancake frogs.
Description
Adult Otophryne are diurnally active leaf mimics. They tend to walk rather than jump. Tadpoles burrow into the sandy bottom of shallow streams. They are extremely specialized with minu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otophryne |
The No Euro Movement (Movimento No Euro) is a small political party that aims to remove the euro as the Italian currency, returning to the Italian lira, and advocates governmental control of the Italian Central Bank. Renzo Rabellino was elected as secretary of the party on 2 October 2005 held in Milan.
No Euro is esse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Euro%20Movement |
Leon Davis (born 17 June 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Originally from Northam, Western Australia, Davis played for Perth before being drafted by Collingwood in the 1999 National draft. He made his senior debut for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Davis%20%28footballer%29 |
Stereocyclops (common name: Brazilian dumpy frogs) is a small genus of microhylid frogs. It is endemic to the Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil. Molecular phylogeny suggests that it is sister taxon to the clade containing Dasypops and Myersiella.
Description
Stereocyclops can be defined by features of its osteology. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereocyclops |
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