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Jubilee Sailing Trust is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which owns and until 2019 operated two square-rigged three-masted barques, the STS Lord Nelson and the SV Tenacious.
Aims
The Jubilee Sailing Trust, based in Southampton, is a sail training charity registered with the Charity Commission. Founded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee%20Sailing%20Trust |
Synapturanus is a genus of microhylid frogs. They are found in northern South America. Common name disc frogs has been coined for the genus. Because of their fossorial life style, their natural history is poorly known.
Ecology and behavior
Synapturanus are fossorial and mostly nocturnal tropical rainforest frogs found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapturanus |
Criticism of Windows XP deals with issues with security, performance and the presence of product activation errors that are specific to the Microsoft operating system Windows XP.
Security issues
Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Windows%20XP |
Hugh Clifford Mackay (born 1938) is an Australian psychologist, social researcher and writer, who founded the Australian quarterly research series The Mackay Report 1979–2003, which later became The Ipsos Mackay Report. He was a weekly newspaper columnist for 25 years and is a regularly appearing commentator on radio ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Mackay%20%28social%20researcher%29 |
Uperodon is a genus of microhylid frogs. They occur in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh) and Myanmar. Uperodon reached its current composition in 2016 when the genus Ramanella was brought into its synonymy. The common names of these frogs are globular frogs and balloon frogs in refe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uperodon |
Alternative Nation was a series of music festivals held in Australia in 1995. It was organised by a consortium of concert promoters, Michael Coppell, Michael Chugg and Michael Gudinski and backed by the Triple M radio network as an alternative to the Big Day Out. The event was held in three cities over the Easter long ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20Nation%20festival |
Kenneth Laurence Martin (13 April 1905, Sheffield – 18 November, 1984, London), was an English painter and sculptor who, with his wife Mary Martin and Victor Pasmore, was a leading figure in the revival of Constructivism.
Life
Kenneth Martin’s father was a former soldier who worked in Sheffield as a coal clerk and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Martin%20%28English%20painter%29 |
Harald Oskar Sohlberg (29 November 1869 – 19 June 1935) was a Norwegian Neo-romantic painter.
Biography
Sohlberg attended the Royal School of Art and Design of Christiania. He later trained under the graphic artist and painter Johan Nordhagen. Sohlberg attended the art school of Kristian Zahrtmann. He also studied a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Sohlberg |
In statistics, M-estimators are a broad class of extremum estimators for which the objective function is a sample average. Both non-linear least squares and maximum likelihood estimation are special cases of M-estimators. The definition of M-estimators was motivated by robust statistics, which contributed new types of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-estimator |
Urban wilderness refers to informal green spaces within urban areas that distant enough from urbanized areas so that human activities cannot be registered. Urban wilderness areas within cities have been shown to beneficially impact the public's perception of wilderness and nature, making this an important element to fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20wilderness |
Pomerance is the name of:
Bernard Pomerance (1940–2017), American playwright and poet
Carl Pomerance (born 1944), American mathematician
Murray Pomerance (born 1946), Canadian film scholar
Rafe Pomerance (born 1946), American environmentalist
See also
Pomerants
Pomerantz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomerance |
Nelly Arcan (March 5, 1973 – September 24, 2009) was a Canadian novelist. Arcan was born Isabelle Fortier at Lac-Mégantic in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Biography
Arcan's first novel Putain (2001; English: Whore (2004)) received immediate critical and media attention. It was a finalist for both the Prix Médicis a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly%20Arcan |
Cryptothylax is a small genus of hyperoliid frogs found in the Congo Basin.
Species
There are two species in this genus:
Cryptothylax greshoffii (Schilthuis, 1889)
Cryptothylax minutus Laurent, 1976
References
Hyperoliidae
Amphibians of Africa
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Raymond Laurent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptothylax |
Jannaram Mandal is situated in Mancherial District of the Telangana state in South India.Jannaram is famous for Kawal Wildelife Sanctuary Tiger Reserve. The town is famous because it is the birthplace of a legend Mekala Sanjay Kumar.
History
Jannaram became mandal with effect from 22 May 1985. Before which it was in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannaram |
Paolo Sammarco (born 17 March 1983) is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder. He is the caretaker head coach of Serie D club Ambrosiana.
Club career
Chievo
A product of European giants A.C. Milan's youth system, Sammarco never played a game for the side, serving consecutive loans: f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Sammarco |
Harry Philip Hugh Sharp (6 October 1917 – 15 January 1995) was an English cricketer, cricket coach and scorer.
Harry Sharp was born in Kentish Town and played for London Schools. He was spotted by Jack Durston while practising at the Middlesex Indoor School at Acton. Seconded to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), his duti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Sharp%20%28cricketer%29 |
The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam) historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ) connotes the ancient Tamil literature and is the earliest known literature of South India. The Tamil tradition and legends link it to three literary gatherings ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam%20literature |
The Stoke-on-Trent Regional College of Art was one of three colleges that were merged in 1971 to form North Staffordshire Polytechnic (later renamed as Staffordshire Polytechnic and now Staffordshire University). The College of Art achieved Regional Art College status after the Second World War, but its roots lay in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke-on-Trent%20College%20of%20Art |
Nunthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, England.
It is part of the historic county of Yorkshire, North Riding. It is near to the village of Great Ayton and formerly part of the Ayton ancient parish until 1866.
History
The history of Nunthorpe can be traced back to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunthorpe |
Henna Raita (24 January 1975 in Lahti, Finland) is a former alpine skier.
Raita has been part of the Finnish Alpine skiing team since the 1990s. She got her first world cup points during the season 1999–2000 in Copper Mountain, USA when she was 13th in slalom.
She competed in three Olympic Games between 1998 and 2006... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henna%20Raita |
Stainton is a village in the south-west outskirts of Middlesbrough, England. It is in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire.
The village is in a shared civil parish and ward with Thornton called Stainton and Thornton. The ward had a population of approximately 2,300 as of 2005, measured at 2,890 in the 2011 ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainton%2C%20Middlesbrough |
Hemlington is an area of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is centred around a lake and is in the Borough of Middlesbrough's south-western outskirts.
In 2015, the Hemlington Ward had a population of 6,557, 4.74% of Middlesbrough's resident population. It is east of the Stainton and Thornton parish and partly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlington |
Thornton is a village near to Stainton in the town of Middlesbrough, in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the local Stainton and Thornton ward of Middlesbrough, with a collective population of 2,300 as of 2005.
Villages in North Yorkshire
Places in the Tees V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton%2C%20Middlesbrough |
Tollesby is a residential area within the Middlesbrough ward of Ladgate in North Yorkshire, England. It is south-east of the Middlesbrough Municipal Golf Course.
The area was previously a separate hamlet near Marton-in-Cleveland before being absorbed with Middlesbrough, with its neighbour. The local schools are Easter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollesby |
The Flint Cultural Center (FCC) is a campus of cultural, scientific, and artistic institutes located in Flint, Michigan, United States. The institutions located on the grounds of the FCC are the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, Sloan Museum, Flint Public Library, Buick Gallery & Research Center, Rober... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint%20Cultural%20Center |
Kosmos 110 ( meaning Kosmos 110) was a Soviet spacecraft launched on 22 February 1966 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Voskhod rocket. It carried two dogs, Veterok and Ugolyok.
Mission
The launch of Kosmos 110 was conducted using a Voskhod 11A57 s/n R15000-06 carrier rocket, which flew from Site 31/6 at Baikonou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos%20110 |
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Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd (DAE) () is a global aviation services company and one of the largest aircraft leasing companies in the world. Headquartered in Dubai and with over 30 years in business, DAE's leasing and engineering divisions serve over 110 airline customers around the world from its seven locations in D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20Aerospace%20Enterprise |
Tal Rosenzweig (born 1967), known as Tal R, is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen.
Life and work
Tal R was born in Israel and moved to Denmark with his family when he was one year old. He studied at Billedskolen, Copenhagen, from 1986 to 1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1994 to 2000.
Tal R's pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal%20R |
Sharjah National Park () is a park in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. The park is the largest in Sharjah, covering approximately 630,000 m2.
See also
Jebel Hafeet National Park, Abu Dhabi
Mangrove National Park, Abu Dhabi
Shees Park Sharjah
References
Protected areas established in 1982
National parks of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharjah%20National%20Park |
Louise Lawler (born 1947) is a U.S. artist and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler’s work has focused on photographing portraits of other artists’ work, giving special attention to the spaces in which they are placed and methods used to make them. Examples of Lawler's photogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Lawler |
Hawkama is the name for the regional institute of corporate governance launched by the Dubai International Financial Centre in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OeCD) and other international bodies. The focus of the institute is to provide guidance and assistance to public and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkama |
"The Little Black Boy" is a poem by William Blake included in Songs of Innocence in 1789. It was published during a time when slavery was still legal and the campaign for the abolition of slavery was still young.
Interpretation
In accordance with the running metaphor of the sun, the fact that Blake speaks of "black bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Little%20Black%20Boy |
Oradea Transport Local S.A. () or simply OTL is the municipality-owned public transport company in Oradea. It is one of the successors of the communist-era state-owned transport company, "Intreprinderea Judeţeană de Transport Local" Bihor, or IJTL.
The company operates various tram and bus lines in Oradea, being respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradea%20Transport%20Local |
Amy Sillman (born 1955) is a New York-based visual artist, known for process-based paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, and engage nontraditional media including animation, zines and installation. Her work draws upon art historical tropes, particularly postwar American gestural painting, as both infl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Sillman |
Ali Benhadj (also Belhadj; ; born 16 December 1956) is an Algerian Islamist activist and preacher and cofounder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) political party, the winner of the June 1990 local elections and the 1991 Algerian legislative election.
Biography
Born in 1956 in Tunis to parents of Algerian origin fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Benhadj |
The Church of the Holy Trinity or commonly known as the Premonstratensian Church (), or initially the Jesuit Church (Slovak: Jezuitský kostol), is a Roman Catholic church in Košice, Slovakia. It is an example of Baroque architecture in the city and was the site of the martyrdom of three saints in 1619.
History
Origin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Holy%20Trinity%2C%20Ko%C5%A1ice |
Ena Swansea (born 1966) is an artist based in New York City. Her paintings often take memory as a point of departure.
Early life
Swansea was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her parents, an architect and an editor, were Quakers active in the civil rights and anti-draft movements in the 1960s. She studied painting a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ena%20Swansea |
N-Ethylmaleimide (NEM) is an organic compound that is derived from maleic acid. It contains the amide functional group, but more importantly it is an alkene that is reactive toward thiols and is commonly used to modify cysteine residues in proteins and peptides.
Organic chemistry
NEM is a Michael acceptor in the Mich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Ethylmaleimide |
Victor Selwyn (1917–2005) was a British journalist whose career began during World War II with a collection of poems from soldiers. It was this work that led him to attain his MBE in 1996 He was associated with the Cairo poets, and was — along with Denis Saunders and David Burk — an editor of Oasis which grew into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Selwyn |
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Jules de Balincourt (born 1972) is a French-born American contemporary artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his abstract, atmospheric paintings, with saturated colors, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Biography
In 1972 de Balincourt was born in Paris and moved throughout his childho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20de%20Balincourt |
David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre (22 June 1940 – 24 December 2020) was a British officer of arms.
Chesshyre served for more than forty years as an officer of arms in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth II and as a member of Her Majesty's Household. He was Clarenceux King of Arms, the second most senior member of the College of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Chesshyre |
Loggins and Messina is the second album by singer-songwriters Loggins and Messina, released in 1972.
Following on the success of their first album, this album built on the strengths of their debut outing. It also became the true introduction of the team, Loggins and Messina, not as singles playing together, but rather... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggins%20and%20Messina%20%28album%29 |
David Thorpe (born 1972, London, UK) is an artist based in London.
Thorpe received his BA degree in 1994 from Humberside University and his MA degree in 1998 from Goldsmiths, University of London.
He has shown work in various exhibitions including Die Young Stay Pretty at the ICA, London, at Schirn Kunsthalle in Fran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Thorpe%20%28artist%29 |
The Zenit-2M, Zenit-2SB, Zenit-2SLB or Zenit-2FG was a Ukrainian expendable carrier rocket derived from the Zenit-3SL. It was a member of the Zenit family of rockets, which were designed by the Yuzhmash.
Development
The Zenit 2M was a modernised version of the Zenit-2, incorporating modifications and upgrades made to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit-2M |
Salatiwara was a Middle Bronze Age city in south-central Anatolia on a road connecting the kingdoms and Burushattum. The history of the city is known primarily from the Anitta text.
In the 18th century BC, Salatiwara was besieged by Anitta, King of Kussara. Anitta defeated troops who were sent out from the city to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salatiwara |
The black-bellied tern (Sterna acuticauda) is a tern found near large rivers in the Indian subcontinent, its range extending from Pakistan, Nepal and India to Myanmar. It has become very scarce in the eastern part of its range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-bellied%20tern |
To the Last Man may refer to:
Comics
To the Last Man, a 2014 story arc (issues 19-21) of Abe Sapien. A film poster of the 1933 western appears in #20.
Novels
To the Last Man (Grey novel), a 1921 Western novel by Zane Grey
To the Last Man (Shaara novel), a 2004 historical novel by Jeff Shaara
Films
To the Last Man (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20the%20Last%20Man |
Oasis was a 1943 literary anthology published in Cairo during World War II. It was edited by Denis Saunders, David Burk, and Victor Selwyn, all then serving in the armed forces. The introduction was written by General Henry Maitland Wilson, who was at this time Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East.
The Palestine Post... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis%20%28anthology%29 |
Sir Thomas Woodcock FRHSC (born 20 May 1951) is a genealogist who served as Garter Principal King of Arms at the College of Arms from 2010 to 2021.
Early life
Woodcock was educated at Eton College before going up to University College, Durham, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then pursued furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Woodcock%20%28officer%20of%20arms%29 |
Westlock County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada that is north of Edmonton. The county was formerly known as the Municipal District of Westlock No. 92, and was created in 1943 from the merger of five smaller municipal districts.
Geography
Physiography
The county lies on the boundary of two of Canad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlock%20County |
Fighter Squadron 24 (VF-24), called the Fighting Renegades was a fighter squadron of the United States Navy. Originally established as Fighter Squadron 211 in June 1955, it was redesignated VF-24 on 9 March 1959 and disestablished on 31 August 1996.
Background
VF-211 was established in June 1955 at NAS Moffett Field. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF-24 |
is the permanent marking or "tattoo" as traditionally practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian).
(tattooists) were considered , or inviolable and sacred.
Historical practice (pre-contact)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81%20moko |
Patric Laurence Dickinson (born 24 November 1950) is an English genealogist. He served as Clarenceux King of Arms from 2010 until 2021. He has worked at the College of Arms in London since 1968.
Background
Dickinson was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire, before going to Exeter College, Oxford, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patric%20Dickinson%20%28genealogist%29 |
Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Her style displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters, from Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell, to Old Masters like Rubens, Poussin and Goya. Brown lives and works in New York.
Personal life
Brown was born to novelist Shena Mackay and art ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily%20Brown |
The Coolpix S1 is a brand of digital camera in production by Nikon since 2005. Its image sensor is a CCD with 5.0 million pixels. It has a 2.5-inch thin-film transistor liquid crystal display device with 110,000 pixels.
See also
Nikon Coolpix S3
Nikon Coolpix S10
References
External links
S0001
Cameras introdu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon%20Coolpix%20S1 |
No. 13 (City of Darwin) Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) squadron. The unit saw combat during World War II as a bomber and maritime patrol squadron and is currently active as a mixed regular and reserve RAAF unit located in Darwin, fulfilling both operational support and training duties.
History
World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%2013%20Squadron%20RAAF |
The Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway was a railway company that built a railway line in North Wales. It formed a link between the Mold Railway (from Chester) and the Vale of Clwyd Railway towards Rhyl.
The line opened in 1869. Serving a largely rural district, it never attracted much business, and the passenger serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold%20and%20Denbigh%20Junction%20Railway |
Tanikaze can refer to:
Tanikaze Kajinosuke, a sumo wrestler
Japanese destroyer Tanikaze, two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanikaze |
Milan Gurović (; born 17 June 1975) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current basketball coach. During his pro career, he played for numerous clubs from all over Europe. Gurović was also a member of the senior national teams of both FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia.
Early life
Guro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Gurovi%C4%87 |
Stará Ľubovňa ( ) is a town with approximately 16,000 inhabitants in northeastern Slovakia. The town consists of the districts Podsadek and Stará Ľubovňa.
Names
The name is of Slovak or Slavic origin and is potentially derived from a personal name. It comes from a root ľub- meaning lovely, nicely. The same root is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%C3%A1%20%C4%BDubov%C5%88a |
Kussara (Kuššar) was a Middle Bronze Age kingdom in Anatolia. The kingdom, though apparently important at one time, is mostly remembered today as the origin of the dynasty that would form the Old Hittite Kingdom.
Location
Kussara is occasionally mentioned (as Ku-ša-ra) in the clay tablets of the Old Assyrian traders i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kussara |
Eduard Munk (14 January 1803 – 3 May 1871) was a German philologist. He was a cousin of Salomon Munk.
Munk was born in Gross Glogau. He studied from 1822 to 1825 at Breslau and Berlin, and was a favorite disciple of August Böckh. Munk was active as teacher, officiating from 1827 to 1848 at the Royal Wilhelmsschule at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Munk |
Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (5 August 1935 – 12 April 2017) was a German cinematographer who collaborated with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, James L. Brooks, and Wolfgang Petersen. He was a member of both the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the American Society of Cinematographers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ballhaus |
The Gary Coleman Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that originally aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series featured Gary Coleman as the voice of Andy LeBeau, an apprentice angel, who was dispatched back to Earth to earn his wings by helping others.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gary%20Coleman%20Show |
The 2005 Summer Universiade, also known as the XXIII Summer Universiade, took place in İzmir, Turkey, in August.
Emblem
The emblem is the letter “U”, inspired by the bird's-eye view of the Gulf of İzmir. This shape has perfectly fit the letter “U” of Universiade, symbolizing its multi-cultural feature, while the smoot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Summer%20Universiade |
The 2003 Summer Universiade, also known as the XXII Summer Universiade, took place in Daegu, South Korea.
Emblem
The alphabet letter "U" and five stars, which is FISU's emblem, make up the basis of the emblem for the Daegu Universiade.
It symbolizes the theme of "Dream for Unity" and the five goals (Dream, Advance, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Summer%20Universiade |
William Frederick Frazer (8 July 1960 – 28 June 2019) was a Northern Irish Ulster loyalist activist and advocate for those affected by Irish republican violence in Northern Ireland. He was the founder and leader of the pressure group Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR). He was also a leader of the Love Ulste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie%20Frazer |
Pahvische is a 2002 album by the Finnish group Eläkeläiset.
Track listing
"Kiitokset humpasta" (Kristian Voutilainen) – 3:24
"Hanurissa Arja" (Onni Varis) – 2:56
"Kuuma humppa" (Lassi Kinnunen) – 3:19
"Humppanautinto" (Martti Varis) – 3:25
"Jenkkapolkkahumppa" (Voutilainen) – 3:21
"Päivätanssit" (Kinnunen) – 2:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahvische |
Ayr is a town in south-west Scotland in the county of Ayrshire.
Ayr may also refer to:
People
Ayr (clan), a sub-clan of the Somali Hawiye clan
Sheriff of Ayr (est. 1221) for Ayr, Scotland
Ivan Ayr, film director
Nicolás Ayr (born 1982) Argentine soccer player
Places
Australia
Ayr, Queensland, a town in Austra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Joviânia is a municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 7,402 (2020 IBGE) in a total area of 454.9 km2.
Location
Joviânia is 177 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia. It is located approximately halfway between Rio Verde and Morrinhos. Highway connections with Goiânia are made by G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovi%C3%A2nia |
The London Buddhist Centre (LBC) is a temple in Bethnal Green in East London, is the main base for the London Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly known as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. It opened in 1978, and is located in an ornate, vernacular redbrick Victorian fire station, completed in 1888, and in us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Buddhist%20Centre |
Igor Rakočević (; born 29 March 1978) is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player.
At a height of 1.94 m (6'4 ") tall, he played at both the point guard and shooting guard positions, but he spent the vast majority of his career playing as a shooting guard. During his playing career, Rakočević was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Rako%C4%8Devi%C4%87 |
Haut-Katanga (French for "Upper Katanga") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Tanganyika provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Katanga province. Haut-Katanga was formed from the Haut-Ka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haut-Katanga%20Province |
The Centre for Cities is an independent, non-partisan urban policy research unit and a charity registered in England. The Centre's main goal is to understand how and why economic growth and change takes place in the United Kingdom's cities.
History
The Centre for Cities was launched in March 2005 as part of IPPR and b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Cities |
Elizabeth Anne, Lady William Russell (2 October 1793 – 10 August 1874) was the wife of Lord George William Russell and a well-known socialite.
Early life
Elizabeth Anne Theophila Rawdon was born on 2 October 1793, child of Frances (née Hall-Stevenson) and Captain the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon (died 1808), the broth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%2C%20Lady%20William%20Russell |
To the Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War is a 1921 western novel written by Zane Grey.
Origin
To The Last Man is a shorter version of Tonto Basin. Grey submitted the manuscript of Tonto Basin to the magazine The Country Gentleman, which published it in serialization as To the Last Man from May 28, 1921, thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20the%20Last%20Man%20%28Grey%20novel%29 |
Albert Stöckl (Möhren, Middle Franconia, Kingdom of Bavaria, 15 March 1823 – Eichstädt, 15 November 1895) was a German neo-scholastic philosopher and theologian.
Biography
He received his classical education at the gymnasium at Eichstädt, studied philosophy and theology at the episcopal lyceum in the same city (1843–4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20St%C3%B6ckl |
Full Sail is the third album by singer-songwriter duo Loggins and Messina, released in 1973. It showed the versatility of the duo, with everything from 1950s retro to island-style to soft ballads. The single "My Music" charted at No. 16, and the follow-up, "Watching the River Run", made it to No. 71. The album as a who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20Sail%20%28Loggins%20and%20Messina%20album%29 |
Kasaï-Oriental (French for "East Kasai") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kasaï-Oriental, Lomami, and Sankuru provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Oriental province. Kasaï-Oriental was formed from the Tshilenge distr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa%C3%AF-Oriental |
Kasaï is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kasaï and Kasaï-Central provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Occidental province. Kasaï was formed from the Kasaï district and the independently administered city of Tshikapa w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa%C3%AF%20Province |
Technique were a British synthpop band from the mid-1990s featuring Kate Holmes of Frazier Chorus and singer Xan Tyler. The band was named after New Order's 1989 album of the same name, and they were signed to Creation Records, the record label owned by Holmes's husband, Alan McGee.
Formation
Holmes and Tyler met at B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technique%20%28band%29 |
Kasaï-Central is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kasaï-Central and Kasaï provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Occidental province. Kasaï-Central was formed from the Lulua district and the independently administered ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa%C3%AF-Central |
Lualaba Province (Jimbo la Lualaba, in Swahili) is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Lualaba, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, and Tanganyika provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Katanga province. Lualaba was formed from the Lualaba a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lualaba%20Province |
Hernan Bas (born 1978 in Miami, Florida, United States) is an artist based in Miami, Florida. He graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
Bas is known for his depictions of waifs and dandies, who are somewhat based on his own experiences, as well as his work with the material SlimFast and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernan%20Bas |
The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield and Manchester via Ashton-under-Lyne. The Peak District formed a formidable barrier, and the line's engineer constructed Woodhead Tunnel, over long. The company am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield%2C%20Ashton-under-Lyne%20and%20Manchester%20Railway |
Christoph Ruckhäberle (born 1972, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, West Germany) is an artist based in Leipzig. Ruckhäberle studied at the California Institute of the Arts from 1991 to 1992, and received his BFA in painting in 1995 and his MFA in 2002 from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. He is associated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph%20Ruckh%C3%A4berle |
Major-General Lord George William Russell (8 May 1790 – 16 July 1846) was a British soldier, politician and diplomat. He was the second son of the 6th Duke of Bedford and brother to John Russell, the Whig and Liberal Prime Minister. His children were Blanche Russell, Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford, Arthur Russel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20George%20Russell |
Till Gerhard (born 1971) is a German artist based in Hamburg.
Life and work
Till Gerhard was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied at Muthesius Hochschule fur Kunst und Gestaltung, Kiel (1992–93) and the Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaften, FB Gestaltung Professor Dieter Glasmacher, Hamburg (1993–98).
Gerhard pai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till%20Gerhard |
The purple-throated mountaingem (Lampornis calolaemus) is a species of hummingbird in tribe Lampornithini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Taxonomy and systematics
The purple-throated mountaingem's taxonomy is somewhat unsettled. As late as 1999 various authors have treated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple-throated%20mountaingem |
Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg (16 June 1816 in Tanne near Kempten – 31 May 1876 in Speyer) was a German Catholic bishop and orientalist.
Early studies and career
He began his classical course at Kempten, where he pursued the studies prescribed by the curriculum, and mastered several Oriental languages (Hebrew, Arabic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Bonifacius%20von%20Haneberg |
Joanne Greenbaum (born 1953) is an American artist, known for her abstract paintings and small sculptures. She is based in New York City, and has previously worked in Neukölln in Berlin.
Early life and education
Joanne Greenbaum was born in 1953, in New York City. Greenbaum received her BA degree in 1975 from Bard Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Greenbaum |
In programming, a docstring is a string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code. Unlike conventional source code comments, or even specifically formatted comments like docblocks, docstrings are not stripped from the source tree when it is parsed and are reta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docstring |
My Friend the Chocolate Cake are an Australian chamber pop group formed in 1989 by mainstays David Bridie on vocals and keyboards and Helen Mountfort on cello and backing vocals (both ex-Not Drowning, Waving). They have released seven studio albums with two reaching the ARIA Albums Chart top 50, Brood (1993) and Good L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Friend%20the%20Chocolate%20Cake |
Fiji's Constituency Boundaries Commission was a civil service body charged under the 1997 Constitution of Fiji with determining the boundaries of electoral constituencies for the House of Representatives.
The Commission was established by Sections 75 through 77 of the Constitution. It had three members. One was chose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituency%20Boundaries%20Commission%20%28Fiji%29 |
Barnaby Furnas, (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1973), is an American painter and former graffiti artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and received a BFA in 1995 before going on to study at Columbia University in New York, receiving an MFA in 2000. He makes h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby%20Furnas |
Lomami is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Lomami, Kasaï-Oriental, and Sankuru provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Oriental province. Lomami was formed from the Kabinda district and the independently administered city... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomami%20Province |
"Supermodel (You Better Work)" is a song by American dance music singer and drag queen RuPaul. It was released as a double A-sided single alongside "House of Love" in November 1992. The song served as the lead single from his debut major label album, Supermodel of the World. The song became a dance club anthem that, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermodel%20%28You%20Better%20Work%29 |
Johannes Wohnseifer (born 1967) is a German artist based in Cologne.
Early life and education
Wohnseifer was born in Cologne, Germany.
Work
Wohnseifer often draws reference to the German history of his youth, such as the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Red Army Faction. He creates smooth, glossy, billboard-like painti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Wohnseifer |
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