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Lori Anne Barbero (born November 27, 1961) is an American musician. She rose to prominence as the drummer of the alternative rock band Babes in Toyland, which she formed in 1987. After the dissolution of Babes in Toyland in 2001, Barbero subsequently played drums for bands such as Eggtwist and Koalas. In 2015, she reun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori%20Barbero |
Kaiserslautern-Süd is a former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. On 1 July 2019 it was merged into the Verbandsgemeinde Landstuhl. It was situated in the Palatinate forest, approx. 10 km south of Kaiserslautern, which was the seat of the mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserslautern-S%C3%BCd |
March 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 3
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For March 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 17 (February 18 on leap years).
Saints
Hieromartyrs Nestor the Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%202%20%28Eastern%20Orthodox%20liturgics%29 |
Nestlé UK Ltd ( ), trading as Rowntree's ( ), is a British confectionery brand and a former business based in York, England. Rowntree developed the Kit Kat (introduced in 1935), Aero (introduced in 1935), Fruit Pastilles (introduced in 1881), Smarties (introduced in 1937) brands, and the Rolo and Quality Street brands ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowntree%27s |
Oscar Rudolph Neumann (3 September 1867 in Berlin – 17 May 1946 in Chicago) was a German ornithologist and naturalist who explored and collected specimens in Africa. He fled via Cuba and settled in the United States to escape Nazi persecution of Jews. Neumann's starling (Onychognathus neumanni) and several other specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Neumann |
March 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 4
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For March 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 17 (February 18 on leap years).
Saints
Martyrs Eutropius and Cleo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%203%20%28Eastern%20Orthodox%20liturgics%29 |
The O'Sullivan Twins is the second in the St. Clare's series of children's novels by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1942.
Plot summary
The newly sensible Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan depart for their second term at St Clare's, with their Cousin Alison joining them. Alison's character is airheaded and ditzy, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20O%27Sullivan%20Twins |
Franco Ferrara (Palermo, 4 July 1911Florence, 7 September 1985) was an Italian conductor and teacher. Among his many students are various prominent conductors, including Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis and Riccardo Muti.
Life and career
After obtaining diplomas in piano, violin, organ and musical compos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco%20Ferrara |
Lamberto Gardelli (8 November 191517 July 1998) was a Swedish conductor of Italian birth, particularly associated with the Italian opera repertory, especially the works of Giuseppe Verdi.
Life and career
Born in Venice, Italy, Gardelli studied with Amilcare Zanella and Adriano Ariani at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamberto%20Gardelli |
Mark Curtis may refer to:
Mark Curtis (broadcaster) (born 1959), American TV journalist, author and political analyst
Mark Curtis (British author), British political author
Mark Curtis (SWP member) (born 1959), former American Socialist Worker's Party member
Mark Curtis, ring name used by professional wrestling re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Curtis |
Arto Matti Vihtori Melleri (7 September 1956 in Lappajärvi – 13 May 2005 in Helsinki) was a Finnish poet and writer. Melleri gained fame with the play, Pete Q, in the 1970s. He studied at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki between 1976 - 1980. He was granted an artist's Finnish state pension in 2003.
Melleri was a divers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arto%20Melleri |
Barry Miles (born 21 February 1943) is an English author known for his participation in and writing on the subjects of the 1960s London underground and counterculture. He is the author of numerous books and his work has also regularly appeared in leftist newspapers such as The Guardian. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Miles |
Monforte () is a municipality in the District of Portalegre in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,329, in an area of 420.25 km2.
The present Mayor is Gonçalo Nuno Lagem, elected by the Coligação Democrática Unitária.
History
The human occupation of this territory began in the neolithic period, with small communi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monforte%2C%20Portugal |
Marcia Lynne Langton (born 31 October 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Langton is known for her activism in the Indigenous rights arena.
Early life and education
Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia%20Langton |
San Marcos is a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of San Marcos.
The town currently has about 12 000 inhabitants.
Culturally and ethnically, the town and the municipality belong to what is known in Mexico as the Costa Chica (small coast) of Guerrero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Marcos%2C%20Guerrero |
A dry loop is an unconditioned leased pair of telephone line from a telephone company. The pair does not provide dial tone or battery (continuous electric potential), as opposed to a wet pair, a line usually without dial tone but with battery.
A dry pair was originally used with a security system but more recently may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20loop |
The Dee Estuary () is a large estuary by means of which the River Dee flows into Liverpool Bay. The estuary starts near Shotton after a five-mile (8 km) 'canalised' section and the river soon swells to be several miles wide forming the boundary between the Wirral Peninsula in north-west England and Flintshire in north... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee%20Estuary |
James Michael Hyde Villiers (29 September 1933 – 18 January 1998) was an English character actor. He was particularly known for his plummy voice and ripe articulation.
He was a great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.
Early life
Villiers was born on 29 September 1933 in London, the son of Eric Hyde Villiers and J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Villiers |
Daisendorf is a village and a commune with about 1600 inhabitants in south-western Germany. It is part of the Bodensee district, which is part of the Land Baden-Württemberg.
Geography
Daisendorf is situated on a hill about 2 km north of Meersburg. It lies above Lake Constance. It is largely surrounded by the commune o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisendorf |
Lauter may refer to:
People
Lauter (surname)
Places
Lauter, Saxony, town in the district of Aue-Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany
Lauter, Bavaria, village in the district of Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
Rivers
Lauter (Baunach), tributary to the Baunach in Bavaria, Germany
Lauter (Blau), tributary to the Blau in Baden-Würt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauter |
Sir Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan (13 May 1924–10 January 2019) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Having been first appointed to work at the College in 1962, he rose to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms in 1992, a position he held until 1995. He was the first Canadian ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20Swan |
The HNoMS Gor was a Gor-class Rendel gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Karljohansvern Naval Yard in Horten in 1884. She was one of a class of two gunboats - the other ship in her class being Tyr. The Gor and Tyr can be seen as improved Vale-class gunboats.
Construction and armament
Gor was built at Karljoh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS%20Gor%20%281884%29 |
Otterbach is a municipality in the district of Kaiserslautern, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Otterbach was the seat of the former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Otterbach, which merged into the new Verbandsgemeinde Otterbach-Otterberg in 2014.
Geography
State
Otterbach lies in the northwest of Kais... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otterbach |
The Schleswig plebiscites were two plebiscites, organized according to section XII, articles 100 to 115 of the Treaty of Versailles of 28 June 1919, in order to determine the future border between Denmark and Germany through the former Duchy of Schleswig. The process was monitored by a commission with representatives f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%20Schleswig%20plebiscites |
Alexander Vassilievich Gauk (; 30 March 1963) was a Soviet conductor and composer.
Biography
Alexander Gauk was born in Odessa in 1893. He recalled his first experience as hearing army bands and his mother singing and accompanying herself at the piano. When he was seven he began piano studies and at 17 travelled to S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Gauk |
The white-bellied treepie (Dendrocitta leucogastra) is a bird of the crow family endemic to the forests of southern India. They overlap in distribution in some areas with the rufous treepie but are easy to tell apart both from appearance and call.
Description
The white of the head and body makes it easy to distinguis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-bellied%20treepie |
is a line of Japanese 3–4 cm pullback car toys produced by Takara. Known in North America as Penny Racers, they were introduced in late 1978 and have seen multiple revisions and successors since. Choro-Qs are stylized after real-world automobiles, with real rubber wheels and a pullback motor that makes them move. Each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choro-Q |
HNoMS Tyr was a Gor-class Rendel gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Karljohansverns Verft Naval Yard in Horten. She was laid down in 1884 and launched in 1887 with build number 67. Tyr was one of a class of two gunboats - the other ship in her class being HNoMS Gor. Gor and Tyr can be seen as improved Vale-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS%20Tyr%20%281887%29 |
White Bay is a bay on Sydney Harbour with a surrounding locality near the suburbs of Balmain and Rozelle in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
History
White Bay is named after John White, the naval surgeon aboard the First Fleet to Australia in 1788. Since the nineteenth century the bay has been us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Bay%20%28New%20South%20Wales%29 |
Christian Newcomer (1749–1830) was an American farmer and preacher, who was elected on 5 May 1813 as the third bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Ordination
Peculiarly, Newcomer was elected Bishop by the Church before he was even ordained to the ministry (though he did hold the status of a full min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Newcomer |
Madhya Pradesh-Pre Engineering Test was a state level examination organised by the Vyapam Board for admission to Engineering Colleges in Madhya Pradesh, India. After 2007 over 1 million students participated in the exam each year It was conducted by Vyapam, the Professional Examination Board of Madhya Pradesh. Vyapam ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP-PET |
Gianandrea Gavazzeni (25 July 19095 February 1996) was an Italian pianist, conductor (especially of opera), composer and musicologist.
Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting from 1948, he was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, in 1966–68 being its music and artistic director.
He had his Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianandrea%20Gavazzeni |
Zoological medicine refers to the specialty of veterinary medicine that addresses the care of captive zoo animals, free ranging wildlife species, aquatic animals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and includes non-domestic companion animals (or exotic pets). Zoological medicine incorporates principles of ecology, wildlif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological%20medicine |
Gianluigi Gelmetti OMRI, (11 September 1945 – 11 August 2021) was an Italian-Monégasque conductor and composer.
Early life
Gianluigi Gelmetti was born on 11 September 1945 in Rome, Italy. When 16-years old, Sergiu Celibidache let him conduct an orchestra, then took him as a pupil. He subsequently studied with Franco F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluigi%20Gelmetti |
The Gor class was a class of two Rendel (or "flat-iron") gunboats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1884 and 1887. Small, nimble vessels, they were armed with a single large-caliber gun for offensive purposes and several small, quick-firing guns for self-defense.
The main gun was large for such a small craft,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor-class%20gunboat |
The National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape was an American research center that compiled and provided information on date and marital rape cases, and on legislation regarding them, and media publications on these subjects, as well as acting as an advocate for marital and date rape victims. It began in 1978 as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Clearinghouse%20on%20Marital%20and%20Date%20Rape |
Markku Koski (born 15 October 1981) is a Finnish professional snowboarder from Sievi. He is well known within the snowboarding community for his consistent showing in half-pipe competitions and for his video parts with Standard Films. Koski won the bronze medal at 2006 Winter Olympics in the Halfpipe competition, and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markku%20Koski |
Holbrook Working (February 5, 1895 – October 5, 1985) was an American professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University's Food Research Institute known for his contributions on hedging, on the theory of futures prices, on an early theory of market maker behavior, and on the theory of storage (including the W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook%20Working |
Scuffletown is a ghost town in Henderson County in the western part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River just above the mouth of Green River, it was a city for barely 100 years but is legendary in the area because of the activities there during the American Civil War and its rough reputation.
Geog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuffletown%2C%20Henderson%20County%2C%20Kentucky |
A latent variable model is a statistical model that relates a set of observable variables (also called manifest variables or indicators) to a set of latent variables.
It is assumed that the responses on the indicators or manifest variables are the result of an individual's position on the latent variable(s), and that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20variable%20model |
The British International School of Moscow (BIS) is a private international school in Moscow, Russia. The school was founded in 1994 to meet the needs of expatriate or Russian parents who wished for their children to be taught in English using the English National Curriculum, as adapted to meet the needs of internation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20International%20School%20%28Moscow%29 |
Imperial Noble Consort Gongshun (恭順皇貴妃) of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Niohuru clan (鈕祜祿氏) was a consort of the Jiaqing Emperor. She was 27 years his junior.
Life
Family background
Imperial Noble Consort Gongshun's personal name was not recorded in history.
Father: Shanqing (), served as a sixth rank literary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Noble%20Consort%20Gongshun |
Archer Avenue, sometimes known as Archer Road outside the Chicago, Illinois city limits, and also known as State Street only in Lockport, Illinois and Fairmont, Illinois city limits, is a street running northeast-to-southwest between Chicago's Chinatown and Lockport. Archer follows the original trail crossing the Chica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer%20Avenue |
The Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board (MPESB), previously the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board and commonly known as Vyapam (an abbreviation of its Hindi name Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal), is a government agency of Madhya Pradesh, India. It conducts various tests for admission to profes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya%20Pradesh%20Employees%20Selection%20Board |
The Baedalwang was a Go competition.
Outline
The Baedalwang was decided in a best-of-5 match where each player had 3 hours to think. The komi was 6.5. This tournament ran from 1993 to 2000.
Winners & runners-up
Go competitions in South Korea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedalwang |
The OSCE Minsk Group was created in 1992 by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), now Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), to encourage a peaceful, negotiated resolution to the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Founding and members
The Helsink... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCE%20Minsk%20Group |
The Formalist: A Journal of Metrical Poetry was a literary periodical, founded and edited by William Baer, which was published twice a year from 1990 to the fall/winter issue of 2004. The headquarters of the magazine was in Evansville, Indiana.
The Formalist published contemporary, metrical verse. Poets whose work ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Formalist |
The People's Democratic Party (, PRD) was a democratic socialist party in Indonesia.
History
The party grew from student movements in the late 1980s in Java, Bali and Lombok established to protest against aspects of President Suharto's authoritarian New Order regime. One of these, the Yogyakarta Students Solidarity (S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Democratic%20Party%20%28Indonesia%29 |
Trillium is a series of five fantasy novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton, each with the word "trillium" in the title. They take place in a post-holocaust world that is hinted to be a colony of earth on another planet where magic works.
The German literature agent Uwe Luserke in 1989 devised t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium%20%28series%29 |
Gdynia Orłowo railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gdynia, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station was built between 1927 and 1928 and is located in the Orłowo district on the Gdańsk–Stargard railway and the parallel Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway. The train services are operated by Prz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdynia%20Or%C5%82owo%20railway%20station |
A cavalry-mechanized group (Russian:Конно-механизированная группа (КМГ)) was a type of military formation used in the Red Army during World War II against Germany and Japan. It involved a combination of armor and horses.
Organization
A cavalry-mechanized group normally consisted of a cavalry corps (a unit smaller tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry%20mechanized%20group |
The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States and Canada is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. Typically as a matter of engendering school spirit, the institution either officially or unofficiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic%20nickname |
Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft (often just called Germaniawerft, "Germania shipyard") was a German shipbuilding company, located in the harbour at Kiel, and one of the largest and most important builders of U-boats for the Kaiserliche Marine in World War I and the Kriegsmarine in World War II. The original company was f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Krupp%20Germaniawerft |
I Saw What You Did is a 1965 American thriller-horror released by Universal Pictures and starring Joan Crawford and John Ireland. The plot follows two teenage girls who find themselves in serious danger after making a prank phone call to a man who just murdered his wife. The screenplay by William P. McGivern was based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Saw%20What%20You%20Did |
Bikes Blues & BBQ (alternatively named Bikes Blues and Barbecue, or abbreviated BBB or BBBBQ) is an annual motorcycle rally held in Northwest Arkansas centered on Fayetteville, usually in late September.
COVID Concerns
The rally was cancelled in 2020, due to COVID-19 concerns. Organizers announced plans to hold the ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikes%20Blues%20and%20BBQ |
The spurline is a type of radio-frequency and microwave distributed element filter with band-stop (notch) characteristics, most commonly used with microstrip transmission lines. Spurlines usually exhibit moderate to narrow-band rejection, at about 10% around the central frequency.
Spurline filters are very convenient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurline |
Scuffletown may refer to:
Scuffletown, Bullitt County, Kentucky
Scuffletown, Henderson County, Kentucky
Scuffletown, Virginia
Surry, Virginia, former name
Scuffletown, North Carolina | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuffletown |
EUPM may refer to:
European style power metal, a subgenre of heavy metal music
European Union Police Mission, any of a number of European Union military and civilian overseas missions
Disambiguation pages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUPM |
D50 in medicine is the half-maximal dose: the dose that produces 50% of the maximum response. It may specifically refer to the radiation dose required to achieve a 50% tumor control probability.
See also
, is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration.
Referen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D50%20%28radiotherapy%29 |
"Wahpper" is a 40-foot long fiberglass sculpture of a catfish beside the Red River of the North in Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States.
Description and history
Wahpper can be found at the north end of Wahpeton, on the banks of the Red River within the Kidder Dam Recreation Area. The sculpture is 40 feet long, 12 fee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahpper |
Lee Bergere (born Solomon Bergelson; April 10, 1918 – January 31, 2007) was an American actor, known for his role as Joseph Anders in the 1980s television series Dynasty.
Stage
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bergere began his career in 1936 at age 18 as Danny Kaye's understudy in the Broadway production of Lady in the Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Bergere |
Vomero () is a bustling hilltop district of metropolitan Naples, Italy — comprising approximately and a population of 48,000.
Vomero is noted for its central square, Piazza Vanvitelli; the ancient Petraio, its earliest path up and down to the original city of Naples; its ancient district of Rione Antignano; Floridian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomero |
Brotherton Park and Dibbinsdale Local Nature Reserve informally known as Dibbinsdale is a combined park and local nature reserve managed by the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and located in Bromborough, Merseyside, England.
History
Dibbinsdale takes its name from the River Dibbin which flows through the area. It is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherton%20Park%20and%20Dibbinsdale%20Local%20Nature%20Reserve |
Geoffrey Chase Scott (February 22, 1942 – February 23, 2021) was an American actor and stuntman best known for appearing on the television series Dynasty for two seasons (1982 to 1984) as Mark Jennings, the first husband of Krystle Carrington (played by series star Linda Evans). Other nighttime series regular contracts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Scott%20%28actor%29 |
The Simulated Fluorescence Process (SFP) is a computing algorithm used for scientific visualization of 3D data from, for example, fluorescence microscopes. By modeling a physical light/matter interaction process, an image can be computed which shows the data as it would have appeared in reality when viewed under these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated%20fluorescence%20process%20algorithm |
Roland La Starza (May 12, 1927 – September 30, 2009) was an American boxer and actor. He is best known for his two fights with undefeated champion Rocky Marciano.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in 1927, La Starza grew up in the Van Nest section of the Bronx. La Starza’s skills for boxing showed early, and woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20La%20Starza |
Birding Business was a free business publication that served as a trade news source for the wild bird and nature products industry. It was based in O’Lakes in the U.S. state of Florida. The magazine was published five times each year by Longdown Management, Inc. It started in 1995. The last issue of the magazine was pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birding%20Business |
Silo cleaning is a process to maximize the efficiency of storage silos that hold bulk powders or granules. In silos, material is fed through the top and removed from the bottom. Typical silo applications include animal feed, industrial powders, cement, and pharmaceuticals.
Free movement of stored materials, on a firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo%20cleaning |
Deborah Adair (born Deborah Adair Miller) is an American television actress, primarily known for her roles in soap operas.
Early life
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, Adair attended the University of Washington, where she earned a degree in advertising and marketing. She worked as a copywriter, commercial producer and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Adair |
Margaret of Mar (died c. 1391) was Countess of Mar, an ancient earldom in Scotland, in her own right.
She was a daughter of Domhnall II of Mar and after the death of her childless brother Thomas became Countess of Mar. She had married William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, who was succeeded by their son, James Douglas,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%2C%20Countess%20of%20Mar |
Several periodisations are employed for the periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation. While the Indus Valley Civilisation was divided into Early, Mature, and Late Harappan by archaeologists like Mortimer Wheeler, newer periodisations include the Neolithic early farming settlements, and use a stage–phase model, of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodisation%20of%20the%20Indus%20Valley%20Civilisation |
In the prehistory of the Indian subcontinent, the Iron Age succeeded Bronze Age India and partly corresponds with the megalithic cultures of India. Other Iron Age archaeological cultures of India were the Painted Grey Ware culture (1300–300 BCE) and the Northern Black Polished Ware (700–200 BCE). This corresponds to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Age%20in%20India |
The Garden Route District Municipality (; ), formerly known as the Eden District Municipality, is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC4.
Geography
The Garden Route District Municipality covers an area of in the southeastern part of the Western Cape,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20Route%20District%20Municipality |
Patrick Joseph McAloon (born 7 June 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and a founder of the band Prefab Sprout.
Early life
McAloon was born and grew up in Witton Gilbert in County Durham, England. He was trained to be a Catholic priest before deciding on a career in music.
Career
Prefab Sprout enjoyed considerable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy%20McAloon |
James Patrick Healey (born 13 January 1951 in County Galway, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish-born Australian actor.
Early life
His family moved to Manchester, England before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in 1970. He studied acting at both NIDA (Sydney) and RADA (London).
Career
In Australia he acted in televisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Healey%20%28actor%29 |
AJN may refer to:
American Journal of Nursing
The Australian Jewish News
IATA airport code for Ouani Airport in Anjouan, Comoros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJN |
Kiren Rijiju (born 19 November 1971) is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh who is the Cabinet Minister of Earth Sciences in the Government of India since 2023 and a member of the parliament in Lok Sabha from Arunachal West since 2014 and from 2004 to 2009. Earlier, he served as the Minister of State for Home A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiren%20Rijiju |
Tapir Gao (born 1 October 1964) is an Indian politician. He is the president of Arunachal Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha (2004-2009), representing the Arunachal East constituency for BJP. He lost from that seat in 2009 and 2014, but was elected to Lok Sabha for the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir%20Gao |
Sea Pigeon (1970–2000) was an American-bred, British-trained racehorse who excelled in both National Hunt and flat racing. In a racing career which lasted from 1972 until 1981 he competed in eighty-five races, and won thirty-seven times. He was best known for his performances in hurdle races when he won the Champion Hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Pigeon |
Giacomo "Jack" Galanda (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Italian professional basketball player. He was a forward-center of 2.10 m. (6 ft. 10¾ in.) and 110 kg. (243 lbs.).
Professional career
Galanda was born in Udine, Friuli. He grew up in the Scaligera Basket Verona junior teams, with which he made his debut in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo%20Galanda |
Travedona-Monate is a comune and small town near the eastern shore of the Lake Maggiore, in the province of Varese, northern Italy. The population is about 3,336 inhabitants. It extends to an area of , with a density of 371 inhabitants/km2. It shares boundaries with Biandronno, Brebbia, Bregano, Cadrezzate, Comabbio, I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travedona-Monate |
The winged sun is a solar symbol associated with divinity, royalty, and power in the Ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia).
Ancient Egypt
In ancient Egypt, the symbol is attested from the Old Kingdom (Sneferu, 26th century BC ), often flanked on either side with a uraeus.
Behdety
In early Eg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged%20sun |
The Geometrid is the second studio album by Looper, released in 2000. It peaked at number 22 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.
Critical reception
Exclaim! called The Geometrid "a beautiful, modern pop record." The Guardian deemed it "a collection of shabbily produced electro-indie ditties hamstrung by half-hearted v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Geometrid |
Heswall Dales is an area of some of lowland heath situated close to Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, England.
It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve. Heswall Dales offers views of the Dee Estuary and over the River Dee the Clwydian Hills of Wales.
References
External links
Metropol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heswall%20Dales |
Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, (born 23 June 1962) is a Ugandan-born British investment banker, and has been chair of Prudential plc since January 2021, having joined the board in May 2020. Until September 2009, she was a government minister jointly for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriti%20Vadera%2C%20Baroness%20Vadera |
Cleethorpes Pier is a pleasure pier in the town of Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. Opened in 1873 on August Bank Holiday, it originally cost £8,000 and was financed by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway).
Structure
Originally in length to span the unusu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleethorpes%20Pier |
Indonesian Aerospace (IAe) (), is an Indonesian aerospace company involved in aircraft design and the development and manufacture of civilian and military regional commuter aircraft. The company was formerly known as (IPTN; Nusantara Aircraft Industry). It was expanded from a research and industrial facility under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian%20Aerospace |
Thomas E. Sniegoski is an American novelist, comic book writer and pop culture journalist.
Career
A number of Sniegoski's works have been related to the Buffyverse, the fictional universe established by TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
Thomas has written and collaborated on comics since 1989. Some highli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20E.%20Sniegoski |
Istabraq (born 23 May 1992) is a retired Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who was most famous for his hurdling. He won the Champion Hurdle on three occasions. He was trained by Aidan O'Brien and owned by John Patrick McManus. Jockey Charlie Swan rode him in all of his 29 races over jumps.
Early life
Istabraq was bred fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istabraq |
Berserk! is a 1967 British horror-thriller film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors and Judy Geeson. The screenplay was written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel.
Berserk! marks Crawford's penultimate feature-film appearance.
Plot
Monica Rivers and Albert Dorando own a travellin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk%21 |
Castelo de Vide () is a municipality in Portugal, with a population of 3,407 inhabitants in 2011, in an area of .
History
It is unclear when humans settled Castelo de Vide, although archaeologists suggest the decision came from the morphology of the soil and from a territorial strategy to occupy and conquer land. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelo%20de%20Vide |
Reddish South railway station is a stop on the Stockport–Stalybridge Line in Reddish, Stockport, England. The station, used by only 26 passengers in 2013/14, is one of the quietest on the UK rail network. From May 1992 until May 2018, it was served by parliamentary services in order to avoid formal proceeding to close ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddish%20South%20railway%20station |
George St Leger Lennox (1845 – December 1919) born into a noble Scottish family, popularly known as Scotty Smith, was a South African bandit known as South Africa's Robin Hood. He was well known as a cattle thief, lover (and thief) of horses, dealer in illegal diamonds, smuggler and friend of the poor.
Early life
A bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty%20Smith |
Crato () is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,708, in an area of 398.07 km2.
The present Mayor is José Correia Luz, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (fregue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crato%2C%20Portugal |
Caroline Anne Cox, Baroness Cox, (born Caroline Anne McNeill Love; born 6 July 1937) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Cox%2C%20Baroness%20Cox |
Fishpool is an area of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. The area is roughly-speaking, a square bounded by Wellington Road to the north, Manchester Road to the west, Gigg Lane to the south and Market Street to the east.
History
The neighbourhood grew up in the late 19th century and became known as 'Piano Town', as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishpool |
The Day Called 'X' is a dramatized CBS documentary film set in Portland, Oregon, in which the entire city is evacuated in anticipation of a nuclear air raid, after Soviet bombers had been detected by radar stations to the north; it details the activation of the city's civil defense protocols and leads up to the moment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Day%20Called%20%27X%27 |
The Supercopa de España de Baloncesto (English: Spanish Basketball Supercup) is a Spanish annual men's professional basketball competition. The competition is a super cup tournament.
History
The Supercopa was created in 1984 by the recently established Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto (ACB) in which the league winner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercopa%20de%20Espa%C3%B1a%20de%20Baloncesto |
MOMA Machynlleth or Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth (Formerly MOMA Wales()) is an arts centre and gallery adjacent to (The Tabernacle) in Machynlleth, Powys, Wales.
The Tabernacle was converted in the mid-1980s from a Wesleyan chapel into a centre for the performing arts. Since then the Museum of Modern Art has gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOMA%2C%20Wales |
Giuseppe Viscovich, also Josip Visković, was a Venetian count. He was the Captain of the town of Perast (now in Montenegro), the last territory of the Republic of Venice to surrender to France.
On August 23, 1797, the citizens of Perast gathered to bury the flag of the Republic under the altar of the cathedral, to pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Viscovich |
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