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Bion 11 was a Russian biological research satellite that was part of the Bion programme. Scientists from France, Russia and United States conducted the experiments. Bion 11 was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz-U launch vehicle. It carried two monkeys named Lalik and Multik. The spacecraft type was b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bion%2011 |
Galeria Valeria (died 315) was the daughter of Roman Emperor Diocletian and wife of his co-emperor Galerius.
Biography
Born as Valeria to Diocletian and Prisca, she married Galerius in 293, when her father elevated him to the position of Caesar. This marriage was clearly organized to strengthen the bonds between the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeria%20Valeria |
Jeffrey Dunne (14 May 1956 – 14 September 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played 102 games for St Kilda and Richmond in the top tier Victorian Football League during the 1970s and 1980s. Recruited from the North Ballarat Football Club in the Ballarat Football League, he played for St Kilda as a hard runnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Dunne |
is a Japanese visual kei metal/rock band formed in 2003 by Asagi, Ruiza and Sin, after their previous band Syndrome disbanded. D's music includes heavy guitar songs, as well as melancholic ballads and even medieval music and folk dance from around the world. Their lyrics focus on love, human nature and esoteric themes,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%20%28band%29 |
Gustav Brom (22 May 1921 in Veľké Leváre – 25 September 1995) was a Slovak big band leader, arranger, clarinetist and composer.
He achieved fame in Europe and abroad from the 1940s right through to his death in 1995. He worked prolifically and was noted for remaining true to the jazz big band idiom, beginning with Di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Brom |
Television Tonga is a Tongan television channel operated by the Tonga Broadcasting Commission. It was founded on July 4, 2000 by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.
The TV Tonga studios and broadcast facilities are located in Fasi-moe-afi, near the Tongan capital Nukualofa. They currently broadcast across Tongatapu, 'Eua and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20Tonga |
The Journal of Peace Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews in the fields of peace and conflict studies, conflict resolution, and international security. It was established by Johan Galtung in 1964 and has been published since 1998. Nils Petter Gleditsc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Peace%20Research |
Viliame Cavubati (born 1945 on Lakeba Island, Lau) is a former Fijian politician and Cabinet Minister. He was a member of the Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei.
His first foray into politics was in 1968, when he began working for the then-ruling Alliance Party. He was Minister for Works in the government of Sitiveni ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viliame%20Cavubati |
Timothy Blair Pardee, (December 11, 1830 – July 21, 1889) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented the riding of Lambton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and Lambton West from 1875 to 1889 as a Liberal.
He was born in Grenville County in Upper Canada in 1830. After his studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Blair%20Pardee |
"Back to My Roots" is a song by American dance music singer and drag queen RuPaul, released as the fourth single from his album Supermodel of the World, released on April 27, 1993. Although the single failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, it reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in July 1993 and helpe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20to%20My%20Roots |
Friedrich Norbert Theodor von Hellingrath (21 March 1888 – 14 December 1916) was a German literary scholar whose main contribution to literary scholarship is the first complete edition of the works of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin.
Biography
Hellingrath was born in Munich: his father was an army officer and his mother ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert%20von%20Hellingrath |
I.D. is a 1995 British-German film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis, written by Vincent O'Connell, and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in 1988 in the London area of Shadwell, England and is a story about a group of Metropolitan Police officers who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.D.%20%281995%20film%29 |
Open collector, open drain, open emitter, and open source refer to integrated circuit (IC) output pin configurations that process the IC's internal function though a transistor with an exposed terminal that is internally unconnected (i.e. "open"). One of the IC's internal high or low voltage rails typically connects to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20collector |
The Pacemakers may refer to:
The Pacemakers (funk band), a band led by Bootsy Collins
The Pacemakers Drum and Bugle Corps
Gerry and the Pacemakers
A series of five BBC2 programmes, transmitted February/March 1965, produced by Antony de Lotbiniere and written by Antony Jay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pacemakers |
The Journal of Conflict Resolution is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on international conflict and conflict resolution. It was established in 1957 and is published by SAGE Publications. The editor-in-chief is Paul Huth (University of Maryland, College Park).
History
The journal was estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Conflict%20Resolution |
UFM100.3 is a Chinese-language radio station of SPH Media based in Singapore. UFM100.3 is a highly-charged Mandarin music station targeting at working professionals aged between 35 – 49 years old. The station plays popular and familiar mandarin hits, with engaging lifestyle content and current hot topics for the busy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFM100.3 |
William Beatty may refer to:
Sir William Beatty (surgeon) (1773–1842), Irish surgeon in the Royal Navy
William Beatty (Ontario politician) (1835–1898), member of the 1st Parliament of Ontario
William Henry Beatty (1833–1912), Ontario lawyer and businessman
William Rabb Beatty (1851–1905), Ontario businessman
William H.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Beatty |
The zebra pleco (Hypancistrus zebra) is a species of catfish endemic to a small section of the Rio Xingu in Brazil. It occurs in the big bend area of the river, downstream from the town of Altamira, Para. It was first described in 1991. It gets its name from its black and white stripes, resembling the colouration of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20pleco |
Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (31 July 1808 – 8 February 1899) was a German orientalist, known as a literary historian of Arabic literature, born at Münden, Hanover.
He studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842–90). He published many impor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20W%C3%BCstenfeld |
St. Elsewhere is the debut album by American soul duo Gnarls Barkley. It was released on April 24, 2006, in the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and on May 9, 2006, in the United States, although it was available for purchase one week earlier as a digital download in the US iTunes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Elsewhere%20%28album%29 |
Hybrid tea is an informal horticultural classification for a group of garden roses. The first hybrid tea roses were created in France in the mid-1800s, by cross-breeding the large, floriferous Hybrid Perpetuals with the tall, elegant Tea roses. The Hybrid tea is the oldest class of Modern garden roses. Hybrid teas exhi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20tea%20rose |
The North Shore Cheetahs are a football club and a member of the Quebec Bantam Football League (QBFL). They were founded in 2006 after a proposal was accepted at the QBFL's AGM (Annual General Meeting). The proposed system has both the Cheetahs and the North Shore Lions holding a joint winter evaluation camp. Throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Shore%20Cheetahs |
John 20:19 is the nineteenth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It describes what it says is the first appearance of Jesus to his disciples after Resurrection of Jesus, and in a locked room of a house.
Content
The original Koine Greek, according to the Textus Receptus, reads:
I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%2020%3A19 |
The iliotibial tract or iliotibial band (ITB; also known as Maissiat's band or the IT band) is a longitudinal fibrous reinforcement of the fascia lata. The action of the muscles associated with the ITB (tensor fasciae latae and some fibers of gluteus maximus) flex, extend, abduct, and laterally and medially rotate the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial%20tract |
Basso may refer to:
Basso (surname), an Italian surname
Basso & Brooke, a fashion label formed by Bruno Basso and Christopher Brooke
Campanile Basso, a mountain in the Brenta group
San Basso, a Baroque-style deconsecrated Roman Catholic church in central Venice, Italy
49501 Basso, a minor planet
Basso Bikes, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basso |
Amazorblades were one of the early British punk rock groups, as chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave, from Brighton, England. They released a single, "Common Truth" c/w "Mess Around" on Chiswick Records. It was later featured on the Long Shots, Dead Certs And Odds On Favourites (Chiswic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazorblades |
Wellesley Hastings "Wels" Eicke (27 September 1893 – 10 February 1980) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Early life and career
Eicke was the younger son of George Augustus Eicke (died 28 March 1927) of St. Kilda, Victoria, and Jessie Forrester, eldest daughter of Thomas Thompso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wels%20Eicke |
Clen Charles Denning (28 February 1911 – 9 November 2009) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
The son of Thomas Clen Denning (1879-1917), and Agnes Caroline Denning (1880-1974), née Gunther, Clen Charles Denning was born at Collingwood, Victoria on 28 February 1911.
He ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clen%20Denning |
Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel (14 February 1870 – c. 10 October 1897) was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A. Andrée in 1897.
Biography
Frænkel was born in Karlstad, Sweden. He was a major in the Road and Waterway Construction Service Corps, and grew u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut%20Fr%C3%A6nkel |
This is a list of episodes from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, as well as the OVA Endless Waltz. The series originally aired on TV Asahi in Japan from April 7, 1995, to March 29, 1996, and later aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block in the United States from March 6 to May 11, 2000.
Mobile Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam%20Wing%20episodes |
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Chad (Front Populaire pour la Libération du Tchad or FPLT) was a small insurgent group active during the First Chadian Civil War. Founded in 1968 by Awad Mukhtar Nasser, it was based in Sudan and operated along the Chad-Sudan border. After the fall of François Tombalbaye's regime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular%20Front%20for%20the%20Liberation%20of%20Chad |
Fred Zollner (January 22, 1901 – June 21, 1982), nicknamed "Mr. Pro Basketball", was the founder and owner, along with his sister Janet, of the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (now the Detroit Pistons) and a key figure in the merger of National Basketball League (NBL) and Basketball Association of America (BAA) into the Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Zollner |
Marsamxett Harbour (), historically also referred to as Marsamuscetto, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta. It is located to the north of the larger Grand Harbour. The harbour is generally more dedicated to leisure use than the Grand Harbour.
Description
The harbour mouth faces north east and is bounded to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsamxett%20Harbour |
Ruthless Records was the name of a Chicago punk record label. Founded in 1981 by the Effigies, it was not a real business, but a name used by Chicago and Minneapolis punk bands from 1981 to 1990: Big Black, the Effigies, End Result, Naked Raygun, Rifle Sport and Urge Overkill. The Effigies operated the label from its c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless%20Records%20%28Chicago%29 |
Tano North Municipal District is one of the six districts in Ahafo Region, Ghana. It was formerly part of the then-larger Tano District since 1988, until the western part of the district was split off to create Tano North District in December 2004; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Tano South District. It was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tano%20North%20Municipal%20District |
Tano South Municipal District is one of the six districts in Ahafo Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tano District in 1988, until the western part of the district was split off to create Tano North District in December 2004; thus the remaining part has been renamed as Tano South District... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tano%20South%20Municipal%20District |
Coot Club is the fifth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1934. The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the Swallows and Amazons when they return to the Lake District later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coot%20Club |
Ruthless Records was an American Independent record label founded by Eric "Eazy-E" Wright and Jerry Heller in Compton, California in 1987. All of the Ruthless trademarks have been owned by Comptown Records, Inc. since 1987. Several artists and groups on the label such as N.W.A, Eazy-E, MC Ren, The D.O.C., Michel'le, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless%20Records |
Saint Eunan ( ) may refer to Adomnán, abbot of Iona.
The name may also refer to:
St Eunan's Cathedral (disambiguation), Christian churches
St Eunan's College, a school
St Eunan's GAA, a Gaelic football and hurling club | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Eunan |
Graziella Magherini (; born 23 August 1927 in Florence) is an Italian psychiatrist at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, Italy.
Stendhal syndrome
Graziella Magherini is best known for her 1989 book La sindrome di Stendhal (The Stendhal syndrome), which introduced this term to indicate a psychosomatic illness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graziella%20Magherini |
In mathematics, binary splitting is a technique for speeding up numerical evaluation of many types of series with rational terms. In particular, it can be used to evaluate hypergeometric series at rational points.
Method
Given a series
where pn and qn are integers, the goal of binary splitting is to compute integers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20splitting |
The ARP Little Brother, produced from 1975 to 1977, is a keyboardless monophonic expander module, sold as an add-on for another ARP synthesizer. It was controlled by connecting the control voltage (CV) output of an ARP synthesizer's keyboard to the Little Brother's CV input.
The Little Brother had a single voltage co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP%20Little%20Brother |
The Royal Wardrobe (also known as the King's Wardrobe) was a building located between Carter Lane and St Andrew's Church, just to the north of what is now Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, near Blackfriars. It was used as a storehouse for royal accoutrements, housing arms and clothing among other personal it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Wardrobe |
Eunan ( ) is a common name:
Adomnán ( 679–704), abbot of Iona
Eunan O'Halpin, Irish academic
Eunan O'Kane (born 1990), Irish professional footballer
Eunan O'Neill (born 1982), Irish television presenter
Eunan may also refer to:
St Eunan's Cathedral (disambiguation), Christian churches
St Eunan's College, a scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunan |
The 4th Visual Effects Society Awards, given in Los Angeles on February 15, 2006, at the Hollywood Palladium, honored the best visual effects in film and television of 2005. An edited version of the ceremony was broadcast on HDNet.
Winners and nominees
(Winners in bold)
Honorary Awards
George Melies Award for Pionee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Visual%20Effects%20Society%20Awards |
Fluorine-18 (18F) is a fluorine radioisotope which is an important source of positrons. It has a mass of 18.0009380(6) u and its half-life is 109.771(20) minutes. It decays by positron emission 96% of the time and electron capture 4% of the time. Both modes of decay yield stable oxygen-18.
Natural occurrence
is a na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine-18 |
Yvonne Feyerick Nèvejean (1900 - 1987) was one of the leaders of an organisation that helped hide Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II. She was instrumental in hiding about 4000 children, many with Catholic families and institutions. After the war she was honoured inside and outside Belgium. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne%20N%C3%A8vejean |
Miķelis Valters (born May 7, 1874, April 24 O.S., died March 25, 1968) was the first Latvian Minister of the Interior (1918—1919), member of the New Current intellectual movement, lawyer, politician, diplomat, social activist, and one of the authors of the Latvian Constitution. He was the first social activist who pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C4%B7elis%20Valters |
Tian Hu is a fictional character and antagonist in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. He is one of the three rebel leaders in the Song dynasty along with Fang La and Wang Qing, that the Liangshan heroes have to defeat in the final chapters of the novel. He only appears in the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian%20Hu |
Wang Qing is a fictional character and antagonist in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. He is one of the three rebel leaders in the Song dynasty along with Fang La and Tian Hu, that the Liangshan heroes have to defeat in the final chapters of the novel. He only appears in the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Qing%20%28Water%20Margin%29 |
JTCC may refer to:
Japanese Touring Car Championship
Junior Tennis Champions Center - tennis training center in College Park, Maryland
John Tyler Community College
Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTCC |
Demre is a municipality and district of Antalya Province, Turkey. Its area is 329 km2, and its population is 27,691 (2022). It was named after the river Demre.
Demre is the Lycian town of Myra, the home of Saint Nicholas of Myra. The district was known as Kale until it was renamed in 2005. Until the 1920s the majority... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demre |
Julia Carolyn Margaret Morris (born 20 April 1968) is an Australian comedian, television presenter and actress who has worked extensively in Australian television and radio, touring the country with her solo comedy shows. She relocated to the United Kingdom in 2000, appearing on British television, then returned to Aus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Morris |
The 1977 NBA draft was the 31st annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on June 10, 1977, before the 1977–78 season. In this draft, 22 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The first two p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20NBA%20draft |
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is an entertainment industry organization representing visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in film, television, commercials, music videos, and video games. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Effects%20Society |
Walter E. Meanwell (26 January 1884 – 2 December 1953) was an English college men's basketball coach in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. The Leeds, England native coached in the U.S. for the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1911–1917, 1920–1934) and the University of Missouri (1918–1920) to an overall record of 290–101.
Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Meanwell |
The waiting period (,Tkufat HaHamtana) was a 3-week interval in the history of Israel, May 15 – June 5, 1967, between the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula and the outbreak of the Six-Day War.
History
On 13 May 1967, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser received a Soviet intelligence repor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting%20period%20%28Six-Day%20War%29 |
Mary Adela Martin (née Balmford) (1907–1969) was a British artist best known for geometric abstract painting and for her collaborations with her husband Kenneth Martin.
Biography
Martin née Balmford was born on 16 November 1907 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. She studied at Goldsmiths' College, London from 1925 to 1929... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Martin%20%28artist%29 |
The hairy-footed flying squirrel (Belomys pearsonii) is a flying squirrel found in the mountains of the eastern Himalaya, Southeast Asia, southern China, and the island of Taiwan. It lives at elevations of above sea level.
The fur is red-brown on the top and white at the bottom. Characteristic are the long hair at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy-footed%20flying%20squirrel |
The Confiscation Act of 1862, or Second Confiscation Act, was a law passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War. Section 11 of the act formed the legal basis for President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Nature of the law
The Confiscation Act was enacted on July 17, 1862. The defin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiscation%20Act%20of%201862 |
Salomon Munk (14 May 1803 – 5 February 1867) was a German-born Jewish-French Orientalist.
Biography
Munk was born in Gross Glogau in the Kingdom of Prussia. He received his first instruction in Hebrew from his father, an official of the Jewish community; and on the latter's death he joined the Talmud class of R. Jacob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon%20Munk |
Belomys is a genus of squirrels that contains a single extant species, the hairy-footed flying squirrel (Belomys pearsonii).
Fossil species include the Pleistocene Belomys thamkaewi and the Late Pliocene Belomys parapearsoni, both from Southeast Asia.
References
Rodent genera
Flying squirrels
Mammal genera with one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belomys |
Vestal High School is a public high school that operates as part of the Vestal Central School District which encompasses just west of Binghamton in the Southern Tier of New York. It is a four-year comprehensive school which annually receives both national and state recognition for excellence in education. The high s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestal%20High%20School |
is a Latin phrase meaning "through adversity to the stars" or "through struggle to the stars" that is the official motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force, as well as the Royal Indian Air Force until 1947. The Royal Canadian A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20ardua%20ad%20astra |
Bury Knowsley Street is a former railway station in Bury.
History
The station was first opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 1 May 1848 (as the eastern terminus of the Liverpool and Bury Railway) originally being named simply Bury. Services ran east to and and west to and (and also towards Chorley, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury%20Knowsley%20Street%20railway%20station |
Everett F. Shelton (May 12, 1898 – April 16, 1974) was an American basketball coach in the 1940s and 1950s. Shelton played quarterback for the Phillips University football team. The Cunningham, Kansas native coached 46 years at the high school, college and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) levels and compiled an 850–437 rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett%20Shelton |
Professor Jamil is a municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 3,203 (2020) in a total area of 347.4 km2.
Geographical information
Located 66 kilometers south of the state capital, Goiânia, on BR-153, Professor Jamil has boundaries with the following municipalities:
north: Hidrolândia;
sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20Jamil |
The Dozo (also Donzo, Bambara for hunter, pl. donzow) are traditional hunters in northern Côte d'Ivoire, southeast Mali, and Burkina Faso, and members of a co-fraternity containing initiated hunters and sons of Dozo, called a Donzo Ton. Not an ethnic group, the Dozo are drawn mostly from Mandé-speaking groups, but are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozo |
3rd Visual Effects Society Awards
February 16, 2005
Best Visual Effects - Motion Picture:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The 3rd Visual Effects Society Awards, given on 16 February 2005 at the Hollywood Palladium, honored the best visual effects in film and television of 2004. An edited version of the cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Visual%20Effects%20Society%20Awards |
Bury Market is an open-air market in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It consists of a large market hall, with extensive stalls outside, selling fruit, flowers, clothing, hardware and groceries.
A new fish and meat market hall was constructed in the 1990s on the site of a former National Westminster Ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury%20Market |
Saghir Akhtar is professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine, Qatar University, and editor in chief of the Journal of Drug Targeting.
Early life and education
Akhtar obtained a First Class honours degree in Pharmacy from the Leicester School of Pharmacy and his PhD degree from the University of Bath.
Acade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saghir%20Akhtar |
Shuttarna is the name of several Mitanni rulers:
Shuttarna I, reigned in the early 15th century BCE
Shuttarna II, reigned in the early 14th century BCE
Shuttarna III, reigned for a short period in the 14th century BCE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttarna |
Frederik's Church (), popularly known as The Marble Church () for its rococo architecture, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Copenhagen, Denmark. The church forms the focal point of the Frederiksstaden district; it is located due west of Amalienborg Palace.
History and description
The church was designed by the arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik%27s%20Church |
Shuttarna III was a Mitanni king who reigned for a short period in the 14th century BC. He was the son of Artatama II, a usurper to the throne of Tushratta.
At that time, Assyria, led by Ashur-uballit I, became more powerful. But also Babylon, led by Burnaburiash II, was a rival. The events of this period are reflecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttarna%20III |
Maekawa's algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. The basis of this algorithm is a quorum-like approach where any one site needs only to seek permissions from a subset of other sites.
Algorithm
Terminology
A site is any computing device which runs the Maekawa's algorithm
For any one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maekawa%27s%20algorithm |
Shuttarna I was an early king of the Mitanni. His name is recorded on a seal found at Alalakh. The inscription reads "son of Kirta" and is the only reference about this king yet discovered. He would have reigned at the end of 16th century BC (middle chronology).
See also
Mitanni
References
Hurrian kings
15th-centur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttarna%20I |
Patricio Noriega (born 22 October 1971, Argentina) is a former Argentine rugby union footballer who played prop. He started his career in local club Hindu and had his test debut for Los Pumas in 1991 against Paraguay. After playing two Rugby World Cup's (1991 and 1995) he then migrated to Australia to join Super 12 tea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio%20Noriega |
Muckhart () commonly refers to two small villages in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, Pool of Muckhart () and Yetts o' Muckhart. Muckhart is one of the Hillfoots Villages, situated on the A91 around northeast of Dollar. The Gaelic name, Muc-àird, comes from muc ("pig") + àird ("height"), and may derive from the fact that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckhart |
Franco Niell (born May 22, 1983, in Trelew, Chubut) is an Argentine football striker.
Career
Niell is of Scottish descent. Niell joined the Argentinos Juniors youth system in 2001, and debuted professionally on April 12, 2004. In his first match he came on as a substitute for Gustavo Oberman, and scored a goal in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Niell |
Marble Church may refer to:
Frederik's Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, Wales
See also
Marble Collegiate Church, New York
Marble Community Church, Colorado | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble%20Church |
Pronoian Made was an alternative rock/gothic metal band from Luxembourg which gained notoriety for being the first to play gothic influenced rock in the country, and also for being the first to succeed beyond national borders.
History
Founded in 1989 by Oliver Made (vocals and guitar) initially under the name The Esca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoian%20Made |
Bury Bolton Street railway station is a heritage railway station in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Located on the East Lancashire Railway.
History
It was formerly the main station serving the town, with links north to Ramsbottom, thence via Stubbins Junction either to Rawtenstall and Bacup or to Haslingden and Ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury%20Bolton%20Street%20railway%20station |
The East Coast Angels were one of Ireland's early punk groups, forming in Dublin in the 1970s. Their output has been chronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book, 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave.
External links
East Coast Angels entry in The Irish Punk & New Wave Discography
Irish punk rock groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20East%20Coast%20Angels |
A grid cell is a type of neuron within the entorhinal cortex that fires at regular intervals as an animal navigates an open area, allowing it to understand its position in space by storing and integrating information about location, distance, and direction. Grid cells have been found in many animals, including rats, mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20cell |
Bury Interchange is a transport hub in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Opened in 1980, it is the northern terminus of the Manchester Metrolink's Bury Line, which prior to 1992 was a heavy-rail line. It also incorporates a bus station.
History
Bury Interchange was opened by British Rail in March 1980, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury%20Interchange |
West Layton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with County Durham and a few miles west of Darlington.
History
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Alan, and as having 16 villagers, a meadow, one fishery and two ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Layton |
East Layton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with County Durham and a few miles west of Darlington.
The racehorse Crisp is interred there.
Demographics
East Layton, considered a parish, is situated a few miles west of the town of Darlington. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Layton |
LWD may refer to:
Large woody debris
Logging while drilling, on oil wells
Lotnicze Warsztaty Doświadczalne, a Polish aerospace manufacturer
Leigh Warren and Dancers, now Dance Hub SA, Australian contemporary dance company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWD |
Derby High School or "The Derby" as it is known locally, is a secondary school, located on Radcliffe Road, Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It opened in September 1959 as the Derby Grammar School, a new school that offered both a grammar and a technical education. Some of the pupils moved from Bury High School, a Gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby%20High%20School%2C%20Bury |
Lol Mahamat Choua (; 15 June 1939 – 15 September 2019) was a Chadian politician who served as his country's head of state for four months in 1979. He was the President of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) political party.
An adherent of Islam and a member of the Kanembu ethnic group, Choua came into power dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lol%20Mahamat%20Choua |
Wilson Lee Flores is a Philippine writer, real-estate entrepreneur, and economic and geopolitical analyst.
He has won 15 Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) for his Philippine Star newspaper columns and three Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He has also been honored with three CMMA Hall of Fame Awards,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20Lee%20Flores |
Kenneth Neal Robinson (November 3, 1969 – February 28, 1999) was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays (1995, 1997) and Kansas City Royals (1996). Listed at 5' 9", 175 lb., Robinson batted and threw right-handed.
A native of Barberton, Ohio, Rob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Robinson%20%28baseball%29 |
H-Blockx is a German rock band founded in Münster in 1991. After the success of their debut album in 1994, Time to Move, the band received a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards. In 1999, the World Wrestling Federation contacted them to record a song, "Oh Hell Yeah", for wrestler ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Blockx |
Manfield is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is a parish in the wapentake of Gilling East. The closest major town is Darlington, which is east of Manfield. It is close to the River Tees and Darlington and is notable for its real ale pub, The Crown, which won the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfield |
The Outsiders were an English punk rock group, formed in 1975 in Wimbledon, England and consisting of singer-guitarist Adrian Borland, bass guitarist Bob Lawrence and drummer Adrian "Jan" Janes. In 1978 Graham "Green" Bailey replaced Lawrence at the bass and then he and Borland would go on to form the critically succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Outsiders%20%28British%20band%29 |
Westbury-on-Severn is a rural village in England that is the centre of the large, rural parish, also called Westbury-on-Severn.
Location
The village is situated on the A48 road (between Minsterworth and Newnham on Severn) and bounded by the River Severn to the south and west. Westbury is also bounded to the West by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbury-on-Severn |
The Gopal Krishna Gokhale Hall is a public hall situated in Armenian Street, Georgetown, Chennai. It was constructed by Annie Besant in 1915 as the headquarters of the Young Men's Indian Association.
History
The Gokhale Hall was founded as the Young Men's Indian Association Hall by theosophist and Indian independenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gokhale%20Hall |
The 20th American Society of Cinematographers Awards were held on February 26, 2006, honoring the best cinematographers of film and television in 2005.
Winners and nominees
Film
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
Dion Beebe – Memoirs of a Geisha
Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20American%20Society%20of%20Cinematographers%20Awards |
8th CDG Awards
February 26, 2006
Contemporary:
Transamerica
Fantasy:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Period:
Memoirs of a Geisha
The 8th Costume Designers Guild Awards, given on February 26, 2006, honored the best costume designs in film and television for 2005. Winners highli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costume%20Designers%20Guild%20Awards%202005 |
Blairlogie is a village in the Stirling council area of Scotland, situated at the base of the great southern rock-face of Dumyat between Stirling and Menstrie.
Blairlogie, formerly Blair, forms part of Logie parish, formerly in Perthshire, and the ancient Logie Kirk lies to the west. It comprises mainly 17th-19th cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blairlogie |
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