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"Maggie May" (or "Maggie Mae") (Roud No. 1757) is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a "homeward bounder": a sailor coming home from a round trip.
John Manifold, in his Penguin Australian Song Book, described it as "A foc'sle song of Liverpool origin apparently, but immensely popular among... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20May%20%28folk%20song%29 |
Cenobio Hernández (1863–1950) was a Mexican-American composer, born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and died in San Antonio, Texas.
He began by playing cello and eventually moved to bass, bajo sexto, and other stringed instruments. While in Mexico, Cenobio's father, Don Cenobio, taught his children the fine art of music,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenobio%20Hernandez |
Lackey (also known locally in its heyday as "the Reservation") was a small unincorporated community near Yorktown in York County, Virginia, United States established primarily after the American Civil War. Lackey is now extinct as the properties were bought by the federal government in 1918 for use as a naval military... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lackey%2C%20Virginia |
"House of Love" is a song by American drag queen, singer and songwriter RuPaul, released in 1993 by Tommy Boy Records as the singer's third major-label single, and fifth single overall from his debut album, Supermodel of the World (1993). The song did not chart in the US as it was previously released as a Double A-Side... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Love%20%28RuPaul%20song%29 |
Indian Rock Park is a public park at 950 Indian Rock Avenue in the city of Berkeley, California, on the slope of the Berkeley Hills. It is located in the northeast part of the city, about two blocks north of the Arlington/Marin Circle, and straddles Indian Rock Avenue. The central feature of the park is a large rock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Rock%20Park |
Carolyn Frances Hayward (born 1937 in St. John's, Newfoundland) was a bullfighter and artist. Featured on Front Page Challenge, What's My Line and I've Got a Secret became a celebrity for both Canada and the United States for her success and career as a bullfighter.
Hayward was educated at Bishop Spencer College, St. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Hayward |
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX, also known as Sangokushi IX (三國志IX) in Japan, is the ninth installment in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sangokushi) strategy game series by Koei. The game chronicles the events of 2nd and 3rd century China based on the writings of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance%20of%20the%20Three%20Kingdoms%20IX |
Bronx Community Board 9 is a local government unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Castle Hill, Parkchester, Soundview, Harding Park, Bronx River, Clason Point and Unionport. It is delimited by Westchester Creek to the east, Sheridan Boulevard to the west, the Cross Bronx Expressway and East ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx%20Community%20Board%209 |
Spark Arena (also known as Auckland City Arena, and formerly as Vector Arena) is a multipurpose arena in Auckland, New Zealand. The venue is located at Quay Park, Parnell, very close to Britomart Transport Centre and The Strand Station. The arena cost approximately $94 million, and of this sum ratepayers contributed $6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark%20Arena |
A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the Sun. Payloads are usually solar panels, parabolic troughs, Fresnel reflectors, lenses, or the mirrors of a heliostat.
For flat-panel photovoltaic systems, trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20tracker |
The Dennis Jubilant was a front engined double decker bus chassis manufactured by Dennis between 1977 and 1981. It was specifically designed for contemporary operating environment (hilly roads and "one-man-operation" with a farebox) in Hong Kong.
The chassis design featured a set-back front axle, which enabled the fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Jubilant |
Kay Bank Studios was a recording studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota at 2541 Nicollet Avenue, now Creation Audio. Daniel Heilicher and his brother Amos started in a business together in the 1930s, distributing and stocking jukeboxes. In 1954, they founded Soma Records ("Amos" backwards), and started producing records in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Bank%20Studios |
Area codes 707 and 369 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California. The area codes serve part of the northern San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the North Coast. Major cities in the area codes include Napa, Sebastopol, Vallejo, Benicia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20codes%20707%20and%20369 |
Lipník nad Bečvou (; ) is a town in Přerov District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 8,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation.
Administrative parts
Lipník nad Bečvou is made up of five town parts and villages:
Lipní... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipn%C3%ADk%20nad%20Be%C4%8Dvou |
describes a type of printed Japanese book that was produced primarily in Kyoto between 1600 and 1680. The term literally means “books written in kana” (kana being the phonetic Japanese syllabary that is simpler to read and write than kanji, or Chinese ideographs). The designation thus derives from the fact that the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaz%C5%8Dshi |
The Battle of Skra-di-Legen (Skora di Legen) was a two-day battle which took place at the Skra fortified position, located northeast of Mount Paiko, which is north-west of Thessaloniki, on May 29–30, 1918, on the Macedonian front of World War I. The battle was the first large-scale employment on the front of Greek troo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Skra-di-Legen |
The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day, published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers. In the book, Day chronicles her involvement in socialist groups along with her eventual conversion to Catholicism in 1927, and the beginning of her newspaper the Catholic Worker in 1933.
It has been characterized as "a rem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Long%20Loneliness |
The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges that overlook the northeast side of the valley that encompasses San Francisco Bay. They were previously called the "Contra Costa Range/Hills" (from the original Spanish Sierra de la Contra Costa), but with the establishment of Berkeley and the University of Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Hills |
Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner; December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.
According to one obituary, he was "a twinkly-eyed handsome charmer with a shy smile and a pleasant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Morgan |
Harley Webster (born 1981) – better known as Phrase – is an Australian hip hop MC, originating from Melbourne.
History
Phrase began to piece together an album with producers Daniel Merriweather and J-Skub (Jan Skubiszewki), while working part-time for the Reach Youth foundation, an organisation that Phrase credits wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase%20%28rapper%29 |
The Last Angel of History is a 45-minute documentary, directed in 1996 by John Akomfrah and written and researched by Edward George of the Black Audio Film Collective, that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism as a metaphor for the displacement of black culture and roots. The film is a hybrid documentary and fictional n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Angel%20of%20History |
Cathrine Lindahl (born 26 February 1970 in Härnösand as Cathrine Norberg) is a Swedish curler from Östersund.
Curling career
Lindahl played second for her sister Anette Norberg's team, until they split up in 2010. They won gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Lindahl skipped a team to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathrine%20Lindahl |
Most Known Unknown is the eighth studio album by American hip hop group Three 6 Mafia. It was released on September 27, 2005, by Hypnotize Minds, Sony Urban Music, and Columbia Records and is the follow-up to the 2003 album Da Unbreakables.
This album is known for having some of Three 6 Mafia's biggest hits, including... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20Known%20Unknown |
Urge is a citrus flavored soft drink produced by Coca-Cola Norway that was first introduced in the country in 1996, and later on was released in Denmark and Sweden. It is the predecessor of the American soft drink Surge, which was introduced in the US in 1997. Urge was discontinued in Denmark and Sweden in 2001. In Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urge%20%28drink%29 |
INS Ranjit is the third of the five built for the Indian Navy. Ranjit was commissioned on 15 September 1983 and remained in service till 6 May 2019, when it was decommissioned.
Construction and service
Ranjit was laid down by Indian request under the Soviet name Lovkiy at the 61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant in Nikol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS%20Ranjit%20%28D53%29 |
Jean Médecin (2 December 1890 – 18 November 1965) was a French lawyer and politician. He was Mayor of Nice, France from 1928 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1965, and the father of Jacques Médecin, who succeeded him as mayor until 1990.
Before the war
He was born in Nice to a respectable family. After studying in Paris, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20M%C3%A9decin |
Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov () is a fictional character from the 1879–1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is the father of Alexei, Ivan, and Dmitri Karamazov, and rumoured also to be the father of his house servant Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov. His conflict with the eldest son—Dimitri—comprises a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor%20Karamazov |
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is the autobiography of Mary McCarthy that was published in 1957. The book chronicles McCarthy's childhood including her being orphaned, having an abusive great uncle, and losing her Catholic faith. In the book McCarthy gives details at the end of each chapter that other family members c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories%20of%20a%20Catholic%20Girlhood |
Charles Timothy O'Leary (October 15, 1875 – January 6, 1941) was an American professional baseball shortstop who played eleven seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1904–1912), St. Louis Cardinals (1913), and St. Louis Browns (1934) of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Early life
Born in Chicago, Illinois to Irish immigrants Ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley%20O%27Leary |
Karen Mulder (born 1 June 1968 or 1970) is a Dutch fashion model and singer. She is well known for her work with Versace, Dior, and Chanel as a supermodel during the 1990s. Mulder repeatedly was featured on the cover of Vogue and was also a Victoria's Secret model, making her one of the original "Angels" and the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Mulder |
In logic, finite model theory, and computability theory, Trakhtenbrot's theorem (due to Boris Trakhtenbrot) states that the problem of validity in first-order logic on the class of all finite models is undecidable. In fact, the class of valid sentences over finite models is not recursively enumerable (though it is co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trakhtenbrot%27s%20theorem |
INS Ranvir (Hero of the Battle) is the fourth of the five s built for the Indian Navy. Ranvir was commissioned on 28 October 1986.
Service history
2008
INS Ranvir along with were anchored just outside Sri Lankan territorial waters to provide security for the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, and other high-r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS%20Ranvir |
INS Ranvijay (Victor in Battle) is a in active service with the Indian Navy. Ranvijay was commissioned on 15 Jan 1988.
Service history
She has won the prestigious Cock Trophy in the annual Western Fleet whaler boat regatta held at the Naval Dockyard on 7 January 2006.
Ranvijay participated in the multinational Malab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS%20Ranvijay |
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 27, commonly referred to as Highway 27, is an east-west highway in central Alberta, Canada. It extends from Highway 22 in Sundre, through Olds along 46 Street, and intersects Highway 2 east of Olds. It continues east where it intersects Highway 21 south of Trochu where it branches south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Highway%2027 |
Jennifer Rhodes (born Janice Wilson, August 17, 1947) is an American actress.
Life and career
The daughter of Bennie and Clara Wilson, she was born and grew up in Rosiclare, Illinois and became interested in theater while attending Southern Illinois University and moved to New York City soon after graduating. She stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Rhodes |
Phonoscope Communications is a broadband and communications provider with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. The company's infrastructure spans eight counties and reaches distant locations such as Baytown, Galveston, Freeport, Magnolia, Richmond-Rosenberg, Splendora, Texas City and Willis, Texas.
History
Lee Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonoscope%20Communications |
The Presbyterian Inland Mission is the successor in the Presbyterian Church of Australia to the work of the Australian Inland Mission, founded by Rev. John Flynn. The equivalent in the Uniting Church is called Frontier Services.
Presbyterian Inland Mission operates a number of patrols, where members travel between set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian%20Inland%20Mission |
Area code 831 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for a small region of the U.S. state of California. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises Monterey County, San Benito County, and Santa Cruz County. The area code was created in 1998 in an area code split of area code 408.
History
In 1947, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area%20code%20831 |
Synaesthesia (or synesthesia) is a perceptual experience.
Synaesthesia or Synaesthete may also refer to:
Music
Bands
Synæsthesia (Canadian band), an ambient music duo 1995–2001
Synaesthesia (English band), now known as Kyros, a rock and pop band
Albums
Synesthesia (Buck 65 album), 2001
Synesthesia (Chicago Undergro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Matt Kennedy Gould (born October 4, 1975) is an American former television personality. He rose to prominence in 2003, when he was the protagonist of The Joe Schmo Show, a fake reality show in which, unbeknownst to him, all the participants but Gould were actors portraying broad reality show participant archetypes.
B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Kennedy%20Gould |
Australia Tour EP 2002 is an EP released by The Pernice Brothers, consisting of reworked, "stripped-down" [] versions of songs from the band's first two albums (Overcome by Happiness and The World Won't End). The songs were recorded during an Australian tour in January 2002. The track listing on the CD release is inco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%20Tour%20EP%202002 |
W Las Vegas was a planned condo-hotel and casino resort near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was announced in August 2005 as a joint venture between Edge Resorts and minority partner Starwood. The project was initially expected to cost $1.7 billion, and would include approximately 3,000 hotel, condo hotel, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%20Las%20Vegas |
CASR may stand for:
State highways in California, the highways in the US state of California
Centre for Automotive Safety Research, the road safety research centre based in the University of Adelaide
Calcium-sensing receptor
Civil Aviation Safety Regulation, which is set forth by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASR |
The Mechanik (released under the alternative title known as The Russian Specialist) is a 2005 German-American vigilante action-thriller film directed by and starring Dolph Lundgren, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Bryan Edward Hill. The film co-stars Ben Cross, Ivan Petrushinov, Olivia Lee and Raicho Vasilev. Mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mechanik |
The Berenstain Bears (also known as "The Berenstain Bears Show" in its original run) is an animated comedy television series based on the children's book series of the same name by Stan and Jan Berenstain, produced by Hanna-Barbera Pty Ltd., and Southern Star Productions. It aired in the United States from September 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Berenstain%20Bears%20%281985%20TV%20series%29 |
Grizzly Peak may refer to:
United States
Grizzly Peak, California, an unincorporated community
Grizzly Peak (Disney California Adventure), a themed land in a theme park
Mountains
Grizzly Peak (Berkeley Hills), California
Grizzly Peak (Mariposa County, California)
Grizzly Peak (Dolores/San Juan Counties, Colorado)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%20Peak |
A terracette is a landform consisting of a hillside ridge arranged as part of sub-parallel "step-like sequences" of such ridges. Terracette occur on step hillsides and are regularly spaced. Various causes have been suggested to explain their origin including: animal trampling, vegetation and regolith behaviour, soil cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracette |
In Hell is a 2003 American action film directed by Ringo Lam. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, with a supporting cast of Lawrence Taylor, Marnie Alton, Malakai Davidson and Billy Rieck. An adaptation of the 1978 film Midnight Express, it is the third and final collaboration between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hong K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Hell |
Howe High School is a secondary school located in the rural town of Howe, Oklahoma. The school educates students in 9th–12th grades.
The mascot of Howe High School is the lion. As of 2017, the school principal is Dennis Shoup. In 2004, their girls basketball team won the Class A state championship. In 2007, the girls ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howe%20High%20School%20%28Howe%2C%20Oklahoma%29 |
Shaver Lake is an artificial lake on Stevenson Creek, in the Sierra National Forest of Fresno County, California. At elevation , several smaller streams also flow into the lake, and it receives water from the tunnels of Southern California Edison's Big Creek Hydroelectric Project. The town Shaver Lake is located on it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaver%20Lake |
Narco is a 2004 French film directed by Tristan Aurouet and Gilles Lellouche and starring Guillaume Canet. The film is about Gus (Canet), a narcoleptic whose life is made difficult by his inability to keep a job because of his condition.
Plot
The main character Gus experiences vivid dreams during his narcoleptic episo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco%20%28film%29 |
West Marine is an American company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which operates a chain of boating supply and fishing retail stores. The company has 247 retail stores in North America. West Marine also runs Blue Future a non profit organization. West Marine's flagship store is in Fort Lauderdale. Opened on Februar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Marine |
An outwash fan is a fan-shaped body of sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier. Sediment locked within the ice of the glacier gets transported by the streams of meltwater, and deposits on the outwash plain, at the terminus of the glacier. The outwash, the sediment transported and deposited by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outwash%20fan |
Lilan may refer to:
Lilan, a minor character in the video game Suikoden IV
Lilan, East Azerbaijan, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
Lilan, Hamadan, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
Lilan, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilan |
Roy Wilkins Auditorium (nicknamed The Roy) is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in St. Paul, Minnesota. Designed by the renowned municipal architect Clarence W. Wigington, it was built in 1932 as an arena extension to the existing St. Paul Auditorium (built 1906–1907). When the old auditorium wing was demolished in 1982... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Wilkins%20Auditorium |
Hasidic New Wave is an American experimental klezmer music group. Its members, all of whom were improvisational jazz musicians from downtown Manhattan, formed for the purpose of fusing Hasidic musical styles (such as the Hora and Nigun) with elements of jazz and avant-garde rock. Trumpet player Frank London (also a mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic%20New%20Wave |
A lava field, sometimes called a lava bed, is a large, mostly flat area of lava flows. Such features are generally composed of highly fluid basalt lava, and can extend for tens or hundreds of kilometers across the underlying terrain.
Morphology and structure
The final morphology of a lava field can reveal properties ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava%20field |
The chapters of the manga Black Cat were written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki and published by Shueisha in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2000 to 2004. Black Cats plot follows Train Heartnet, a former assassin known as the Black Cat, who now lives as a bounty hunter, dubbed "Sweeper".
The manga's 185 chapters were colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Black%20Cat%20chapters |
Girard Estate, also known as Girard Estates, is part of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries stretch from South 22nd Street on the west to South 17th Street on the east. The southern boundary is clearly defined as the south side of Shunk Street, but its northern boundary is irregular in stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girard%20Estate%2C%20Philadelphia |
Grizzly Peak is a summit in the Berkeley Hills above Berkeley, California. The peak is located on the border between Alameda and Contra Costa counties, within the boundaries of Tilden Regional Park, and directly behind the University of California, Berkeley campus.
The peak was named for the California grizzly bear ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%20Peak%20%28Berkeley%20Hills%29 |
New Beginnings High School is a secondary school located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States which educates students in grades 9–12. It is an alternative public high school for students who are struggling at their home schools and need a fresh start. Students who attend New Beginnings are identified as "high risk",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Beginnings%20High%20School |
The Rabat American School is an independent preparatory day school located in Rabat, Morocco. The program is co-educational and non-residential. English is the language of instruction.
Campus
On January 8, 2019, the school moved to a new campus in Hay el Fath, next to the ocean. It has a 24 acre size and facilities in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabat%20American%20School |
31G Records, or Three One G, is a San Diego, California-based independent record label, started by musician Justin Pearson in 1994 and focusing on punk and experimental music. The label has released a number of albums and compilations in what has been described as "freak punk" and "spaz-rock." Musicians on the label fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20One%20G |
The Senate of Thailand (, , ; formerly known as the Phruetthasapha, , , ) is the upper house of the National Assembly of Thailand, Thailand's legislative branch. In accordance with the 2017 constitution of Thailand, the Senate is a non-partisan legislative chamber, composed of 250 members. There are no elections for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate%20of%20Thailand |
The House of Representatives (, , ) is the lower house of the National Assembly of Thailand, the legislative branch of the Thai government. The system of government of Thailand is that of a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy. The system of the Thai legislative branch is modelled after the Westminster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Representatives%20%28Thailand%29 |
Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky (also Sharkovskyy, Sharkovs’kyi, sometimes Šarkovskii or Sarkovskii) (, 7 December 1936 – 21 November 2022) was a Ukrainian mathematician most famous for developing Sharkovsky's theorem on the periods of discrete dynamical systems in 1964.
He was a corresponding member of the Academy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr%20Sharkovsky |
Kingsmill is a geographic area in James City County, Virginia, that includes a large planned residential community, a resort complex, a theme park, a brewery, and a commercial park.
The Kingsmill area is between the north bank of the James River just east (downstream) of the site where the first permanent English sett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill%2C%20Virginia |
Comic Shop News (also called CSN) is a weekly newspaper distributed by comic book specialty stores. It was launched in 1987 by Cliff Biggers and Ward Batty, and has been published weekly for over 35 years. In late 2022, Comic Shop News was sold to CSN Press LLC, and continues to be published weekly.
History
In 1982, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic%20Shop%20News |
The Hôtel-Dieu (; "God Shelter") is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame. Tradition has it that the hospital was founded by Saint Landry in 651 AD, but the first official records date it to 829, making it the oldest in France and possibly the ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel-Dieu%2C%20Paris |
Big Creek is a tributary of the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada, within the Sierra National Forest, central California.
The creek flows in Fresno County. The settlement of Big Creek is named for it, as was the 2020 Creek Fire, which started in the Big Creek drainage and became one of California's largest wildf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Creek%20%28San%20Joaquin%20River%20tributary%29 |
The Berenstain Bears is a preschool children's animated television comedy series based on the children's book series of the same name by Stan and Jan Berenstain, and produced by Nelvana. Acting as a remake of the 1985–1987 cartoon series of the same name, the series follows the lives of a family of anthropomorphic bear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Berenstain%20Bears%20%282003%20TV%20series%29 |
Silenoz (born Sven Atle Kopperud, 1 March 1977) is a Norwegian guitarist who is a founding member, along with Shagrath and Tjodalv, of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir, of which he is the primary songwriter. He is also guitarist for the death metal supergroup Insidious Disease.
Biography
Silenoz h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silenoz |
The Khen dynasty (also Khyen dynasty) of Assam was a late medieval dynasty of erstwhile Kamata kingdom. After the fall of the Pala dynasty of Kamrupa, the western region was reorganized into Kamata kingdom, when Sandhya moved his capital from Kamarupanagara to Kamatapur in about 1257, due to the frequent clashes with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khen%20dynasty |
There are two railway stations that serve Dorchester, Dorset.
Dorchester South railway station Located on the London Waterloo-Weymouth line.
Dorchester West railway station Located on the Bristol/Castle Cary-Weymouth "Heart of Wessex" line. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester%20railway%20station |
Jordan Barrington Stewart (born 3 March 1982) is an English former professional footballer who played as a left-back or left winger.
Stewart started his career at Leicester City, where he was relegated twice and once promoted to the Premier League. Whilst at Leicester he also spent a loan spell at Bristol Rovers. He j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Stewart%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201982%29 |
CLOB may refer to:
Character large object, a collection of character data in a database management system
Clabber, a trick-taking card game
CLOB, slang for the drug Methcathinone
Central limit order book, a centralised database of limit orders proposed by the Securities Exchange Commission | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOB |
Tony Banfield (December 18, 1938) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back for the Houston Oilers of the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. He played for Houston in the AFL from 1960 through 1963 and in 1965. In 1962, he returne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Banfield |
During World War II, in the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence in 1918 from the then warring German and Russian Empires. However, in the wake of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Stalinist Soviet Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20occupation%20of%20Estonia%20during%20World%20War%20II |
The Scottish Book () was a thick notebook used by mathematicians of the Lwów School of Mathematics in Poland for jotting down problems meant to be solved. The notebook was named after the "Scottish Café" where it was kept.
Originally, the mathematicians who gathered at the cafe would write down the problems and equati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish%20Book |
Paradiastole (from Greek παραδιαστολή from παρά para "next to, alongside", and διαστολή diastole "separation, distinction") is the reframing of a vice as a virtue, often with the use of euphemism, for example, "Yes, I know it does not work all the time, but that is what makes it interesting." It is often used ironicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradiastole |
Altaf Hussain Gauhar Janjua (17 March 1923 – 14 November 2000) was a civil servant, journalist, poet, and writer from Pakistan, close to the country’s first military dictator Ayub Khan to the point his detractors called him Khan’s Svengali and Goebbels.
Early life
Gauhar was born in Gujranwala on 17 March 1923 into a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf%20Gauhar |
Gary Wayne Barbaro (born February 11, 1954) is a former free safety who played seven seasons in the National Football League from 1976 to 1982 and one season in the United States Football League (USFL) in 1984. A third round selection by the Kansas City Chiefs from Nicholls State University, he had 39 career intercepti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Barbaro |
The music of Australia and most particularly the rock, pop, Hip hop and indie rock music of Australia has had a long fascination with the local environment be it urban or rural. This is a list of songs which mention or are about Melbourne the capital city of Victoria, Australia, the suburbs of Melbourne and nearby loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20songs%20about%20Melbourne |
The DeSoto Diplomat is an automobile produced by DeSoto from 1946 to 1962 for sale in export markets other than the United States and Canada.
The export DeSoto based on the Plymouth was first introduced in 1937 and was built in Detroit. Chrysler Corporation of Canada, which before 1947 enjoyed "Imperial Preference" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto%20Diplomat |
The Calvin Company was a Kansas City, Missouri-based advertising, educational and industrial film production company that for nearly half a century was one of the largest and most successful film producers of its type in the United States.
Origins
Forrest ("F. O.") Calvin from Pleasanton, Kansas studied journalism an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Company |
KSLQ-FM (104.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Washington, Missouri, United States, the station serves Warren, Franklin, and St. Charles Counties in Missouri, as well as parts of western St. Louis County. The station is currently owned by Y2k, Inc. Brad Hildebrand, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSLQ-FM |
Grzimek is a German surname of Polish origin. It may refer to the following people:
Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), German zoologist, author, editor and animal conservationist
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Martin Grzimek (born 1950), German author
Michael Grzimek (1934–1959), German zoologist, conservationist and fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grzimek |
Giv'at Shmuel () is a city in the Center District of Israel. It is located in the eastern part of the Gush Dan Metropolitan Area and bordered by Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak to the West, Kiryat Ono to the South and Petah Tikva to the East and North. In it had a population of .
History
Giv'at Shmuel was founded in 1944. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giv%27at%20Shmuel |
A Site of Special Scientific Interest () or SSSI is a special area to protect wildlife, habitats and geographic features based on scientific interest in Hong Kong. Scientific interests are special features relating to animal life, plant life, geology and/or geography. After being identified by the Agriculture, Fisherie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site%20of%20Special%20Scientific%20Interest%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 |
Theodore Englar Woodward (March 22, 1914 – July 11, 2005) was an American medical researcher in the field of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In 1948, he received a Nobel Prize nomination for his role in finding cures for typhus and typhoid fever.
Biography
Born in Westminster, Maryland the son of Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Woodward |
Beit Gamliel (, lit. House of Gamliel) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located south-east of Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In , it had a population of .
History
The moshav was established in 1949 by Holocaust survivors from Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and North A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit%20Gamliel |
Michael Dwayne “Mike” Barber (born June 4, 1953) is a former American football player; he played as a tight end.
Early life and education
Barber attended White Oak High School, where he played Quarterback, passing for over 4,000 yards, and graduated in 1972. He then attended Louisiana Tech where he was converted to Ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Barber%20%28tight%20end%29 |
Wharton, Inc. was an early silent film production company in Ithaca, New York, from 1914 to 1919. One of the first independent regional centers of early filmmaking, the movie studio was established by brothers Theodore and Leopold Wharton on the shores of Cayuga Lake at the site of what is now Stewart Park. Currently, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wharton%20Studio |
Stewart Clair Barber (born June 14, 1939) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League (AFL). He also was an executive in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills. He played college football for the Penn State Nitta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stew%20Barber |
"All Hail to Massachusetts", with words and music by Arthur James Marsh, was made the official state song of Massachusetts on September 3, 1966, and codified by an act of the General Court in 1966. The song, written originally in the Spring of 1954 by Marsh, a Wellesley music teacher who intended to make it an official... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Hail%20to%20Massachusetts |
The Brahmajāla Sutta is the first of 34 sutta in the Dīgha Nikāya (the Long Discourses of the Buddha), the first of the five nikāya, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of (Theravada) Buddhism. The name means Net (jāla - net, netting, entanglement) of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaj%C4%81la%20Sutta |
Dhaka District () is a district in central Bangladesh, and is the densest district in the nation. It is a part of the Dhaka Division. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and rests on the eastern banks of the Buriganga River which flows from the Turag to the southern part of the district. While Dhaka (city corporation) oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka%20District |
Drummond is a former village in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Grand Falls.
It is located in rolling farmland approximately 5 kilometres southeast of Grand Falls, of which it is administratively a part. Drummond's economy is centred on the potato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond%2C%20New%20Brunswick |
Jerome Barkum (born July 18, 1950) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and tight end for 12 years with the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Jets out of Jackson State University with the 9th overall pick in the first round of the 1972 NFL D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Barkum |
A wall sit is an exercise done to strengthen the quadriceps muscles. The exercise is characterized by the two right angles formed by the body, one at the hips and one at the knees. The person wall sitting places their back against a wall with their feet shoulder-width apart and a little ways out from the wall. Then, k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%20sit |
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