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Winkler v. Rumsfeld was a case regarding the United States Armed Forces and their support of the Boy Scouts of America's national Scout jamborees.
Every four years, the Boy Scouts of America holds a national Scout jamboree, where for ten days, approximately 30,000-40,000 Scouts camp out and participate in a wide varie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkler%20v.%20Rumsfeld |
Accrington was a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
History
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 |
Kazimierz Czesław Switala (Rakoniewice, Poland on 21 April 1923 – Warsaw, 6 March 2011) was a Polish communist politician. He was the Minister of Internal Affairs from 1968 to 1971, but was forced to resign as a result of the December 1970 massacre of 44 revolting Polish workers. He was a member of the Central Committe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz%20%C5%9Awita%C5%82a |
Heteroceridae, the variegated mud-loving beetles, are a widespread and relatively common family of beetles found on every continent except for Antarctica.
Around two hundred and fifty species of heterocerids are known to occur worldwide. They are most diverse in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Currently, 87 species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroceridae |
Seftigen District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital, while having administrative power, was the municipality of Seftigen.
From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while seeing its constituent municipalities being divided and partly resettle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seftigen%20District |
Fort William railway station serves the town of Fort William, in the Highland region of Scotland. It is on the West Highland line, between Spean Bridge and Banavie, measured from Craigendoran Junction, at the southern end of the line near Helensburgh. The station is managed by ScotRail, who operate most services from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20William%20railway%20station |
The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was awarded from 2001 to 2009 to live theatrical productions that were not plays or musicals. The category was created after the 2000 controversy of Contact winning Best Musical; the show used pre-recorded music and featured no singing. The category was retired in 2009 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Award%20for%20Best%20Special%20Theatrical%20Event |
Banavie railway station is a railway station on the West Highland Line serving the village of Banavie, although it is much closer to Caol, Scotland. It is sited between Corpach and Fort William, from Banavie Junction, just north of Fort William. To continue on to the next station at , trains must pass over the Caledon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banavie%20railway%20station |
Corpach railway station is a railway station serving the village of Corpach in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Banavie and Loch Eil Outward Bound, and is sited from Banavie Junction, near Fort William. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
History ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpach%20railway%20station |
Eugène de Rastignac () is a fictional character from , a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series.
Rastignac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%20de%20Rastignac |
Sunningwell is a village and civil parish about south of Oxford, England. The parish includes the village of Bayworth and the eastern part of Boars Hill. The parish was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 904.
Toponym
In 9t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunningwell |
Henrietta Christian Wright (1852–1899) was an American children's author who resided in the Old Bridge section of East Brunswick, New Jersey. She was born there on February 18, 1852, died there on December 13, 1899, and buried in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery.
Publishing career
She wrote children's books on literature, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Christian%20Wright |
Loch Eil Outward Bound railway station is a railway station on the northern bank of Loch Eil in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Corpach and Locheilside, sited from Banavie Junction, near Fort William. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
History
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch%20Eil%20Outward%20Bound%20railway%20station |
Smartville is a purpose-built factory complex in Hambach, France, established in 1994 as a joint venture of Daimler-Benz and the Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch to produce the Smart car. In 2020 the plant was 100% owned by Daimler AG (at that point comprising both the Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Truck companies) and was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartville%2C%20Hambach%2C%20France |
Locheilside railway station is a railway station on the northern shore of Loch Eil in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Glenfinnan and Loch Eil Outward Bound, located from the former Banavie Junction near Fort William. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locheilside%20railway%20station |
James C. Oberwetter (born November 3, 1944) is the former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Career
He previously served as Press Secretary for then-congressman George H. W. Bush (who later became Vice-President and President of the United States). He has also been the special assistant to the Administrator of the Envi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20C.%20Oberwetter |
A napkin holder is a device used to hold napkins. A napkin holder can be made from virtually any solid material and is built so that the napkins do not slip from its hold, either by way of sandwiching them between two surfaces, or simply enclosing them on their sides in a horizontal design. Napkin holders range in pric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkin%20holder |
O Tempo e o Vento (Time and the Wind) is a trilogy of novels written by the Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. Confusingly, the first part of the series, O Continente, was translated as Time and the Wind, giving the impression that it is the whole work.
Plot introduction
The series tells the story of two families - Ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%20Tempo%20e%20o%20Vento |
Chittering is a hamlet about 8 miles (13 km) north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. For administrative purposes it is part of the parish of Waterbeach. The population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Bottisham at the 2011 Census.
The village lies on the Ely Road (A10) between Waterbeach and S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittering%2C%20Cambridgeshire |
Power system protection is a branch of electrical power engineering that deals with the protection of electrical power systems from faults through the disconnection of faulted parts from the rest of the electrical network. The objective of a protection scheme is to keep the power system stable by isolating only the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20system%20protection |
Timon pater is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae, the wall lizards. The species is endemic to Northwest Africa.
Geographic range
Timon pater is native to Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.
Reproduction
T. pater is oviparous.
References
Further reading
Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timon%20pater |
Possum Dixon was an American rock band, which existed between 1989 and 1999. Fronted by singer-songwriter and bassist Rob Zabrecky, the group's neo-new wave pop and post punk style first appeared among a string of early independently released 7 inch singles and on their self-titled debut on Interscope Records in 1993. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum%20Dixon |
Glenfinnan railway station is a railway station serving the village of Glenfinnan in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is on the West Highland Line, between Lochailort and Locheilside, located from the former Banavie Junction. Glenfinnan Viaduct is about to the east of the station. ScotRail, who manage the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenfinnan%20railway%20station |
Borsig is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
(1867–1897), German entrepreneur
August Borsig (1804–1854), German businessman
Conrad von Borsig (1873–1945), German mechanical engineer
Ernst Borsig (1869–1933), German industrialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsig |
Lochailort railway station is a railway station serving the village of Lochailort in the Highland Council area in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Glenfinnan and Beasdale, from the former Banavie Junction. ScotRail manage the station and operate all services.
History
Lochailort station w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochailort%20railway%20station |
Boekel is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and lies about 5 km south of Alkmaar. Until January 1, 2002, Boekel belonged to the municipality of Akersloot. It had a population of about 10 in 2001.
Boekel is located on the west bank of the Noordhollandsch Kan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boekel%2C%20North%20Holland |
A River Ain't Too Much to Love is the eleventh studio album by Smog. It was released on May 30, 2005 in Europe by Domino Recording Company and in North America by Drag City. It is Bill Callahan's final studio album released under the Smog moniker.
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average sco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20River%20Ain%27t%20Too%20Much%20to%20Love |
Freedom of navigation (FON) is a principle of law of the sea that ships flying the flag of any sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other states, apart from the exceptions provided for in international law. In the realm of international law, it has been defined as “freedom of movement for vessels, freedom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20of%20navigation |
Beasdale railway station is a railway station serving Glen Beasdale in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, sited from the former Banavie Junction, between Lochailort and Arisaig. ScotRail manage the station and operate all services.
History
It was originally a private station... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beasdale%20railway%20station |
Ray Lucas (born August 6, 1972) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He played for three teams, the New England Patriots, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins during his seven-year career from 1996 to 2002. He is currently a studio analyst for the show Jets Nation on New York City-based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Lucas |
Adrian Gore is a South African businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and group chief executive of Discovery Limited.
Biography
Gore launched Discovery Limited, a medical insurer, in South Africa in 1992. In 1992, Gore raised seed money for Discovery from Laurie Dippenaar, and other funders who founded Rand ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Gore |
Abingdon was a parliamentary constituency in England, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1558 until 1983. (It w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 |
Beverley High School is a girls' comprehensive school in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
According to government league tables for 2018, it was the highest performing secondary school in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with a Progress 8 score of "well above average". In 2021 the school was rated as "Outstan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley%20High%20School |
Morar railway station is a railway station serving the village of Morar in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Arisaig and Mallaig, from the former Banavie Junction, near Fort William. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all the services here.
History
Morar stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morar%20railway%20station |
William Sinnott (14 August 1886 – 29 March 1965) was an American detective and bodyguard who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 1940 in recognition of his service to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during an assassination attempt in 1933.
Bodyguard and assassination attempt
Sinnott worked as a detective in New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Sinnott |
Buduburam is a refugee camp located west of Accra, Ghana. It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) and the Seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buduburam |
Marlinde Massa (7 July 1944 in Stuttgart – 2 July 2014 in Stuttgart) was a German field hockey player.
She played 17 international matches with German women's field hockey team, including the 1971 World Cup. With her club ESV Rot-Weiß Stuttgart she captured between 1963 and 1968 four German indoor titles.
References
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlinde%20Massa |
Patrick Petersen (born August 9, 1966) is an American actor best known for his role as Michael Fairgate in the television drama Knots Landing. He played the role from episode one on December 27, 1979, to May 16, 1991, reprising the part for Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac in May 1997. He is the brother of former ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Petersen |
Mallaig railway station is a railway station serving the ferry port of Mallaig, Lochaber, in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is a terminus on the West Highland Line, by rail from and from Glasgow Queen Street. The station building is Category C listed. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate most of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallaig%20railway%20station |
The Virginian and Ohio is both the name of a fictional railroad company created by W. Allen McClelland (1934-2022) and the HO scale model railroad he built near Dayton, Ohio featuring this railroad. The V&O is famous in the model railroading world for setting a new standard for freelanced (fictional) model railroads de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginian%20and%20Ohio |
Mojama (; Portuguese: muxama) is a Mediterranean delicacy consisting of filleted salt-cured tuna, typically found in the Murcia and Andalusia regions of Spain, particularly in Huelva and Cádiz or in Portugal in the region of Algarve. Bluefin or yellowfin tuna are the most common varieties used.
Etymology
The word moja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojama |
De Woude is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and lies about 9 km south of Alkmaar. Until 1 January 2002, De Woude belonged to the municipality of Akersloot. The village is located on an island in the and can only be reached by ferry.
The Dutch Reformed c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Woude |
Stacy Galina (born September 24, 1966) is an American jeweler and former actress. She is known for her roles as Kate Whittaker and Mary-Frances Sumner in the CBS prime time soap opera Knots Landing.
Early life
Galina was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied at the School of American Ballet and American Ballet Thea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy%20Galina |
The Dual Analog Controller (SCPH-1150 in Japan, SCPH-1180 in the United States, and SCPH-1180e in Europe) is Sony's first handheld analog controller for the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the DualShock. Its first official analog controller was the PlayStation Analog Joystick (SCPH-1110).
History
The Dual Analog C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20Analog%20Controller |
Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse is a children's book written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams. It is the prequel to The Cricket in Times Square. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, originally published the book in 1986.
Plot
The book tells the story of the young mouse who becomes Tucker, and the kitten who beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Kitten%20and%20Tucker%20Mouse |
Wildwood Canyon is a canyon and California state park in the eastern foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, within San Bernardino County, southern California.
It is located near the city of Yucaipa, in the Inland Empire region. It is surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest on the eastern and northern side... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildwood%20Canyon |
Stierop is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and lies about 9 km south of Alkmaar. Until 1 January 2002, Stierop belonged to the municipality of Akersloot.
Stierop has about 20 inhabitants.
References
Populated places in North Holland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierop |
Raymond S. Bradley is a climatologist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is also research director of the Climate System Research Center. Bradley's work indicates that the warming of Earth's climate system in the twentieth century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20S.%20Bradley |
Barmera ( ) is a town in the Riverland region of South Australia. It is on the Sturt Highway A20, 220 kilometres north-east of Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia. It is primarily an agricultural and viticultural town and is located on Lake Bonney Riverland, a freshwater lake. The population was 1,914... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmera |
Wanted sa Radyo () is a public affairs show that airs on Monday to Friday from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (PST) on 92.3 Radyo5 True FM (DWFM) with simulcast on television via One PH and online via livestreaming on the "Raffy Tulfo in Action" YouTube channel and Facebook page. It also replays on Tuesday to Friday from 2:30 to 4:30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted%20sa%20Radyo |
Dumbarton Central railway station serves the town of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and the North Clyde Line, northwest of .
History
The station was opened on 15 July 1850 by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway on their route from to , where trav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton%20Central%20railway%20station |
Viktor Ivanovich Kosichkin (; 25 February 1938 – 30 March 2012) was a speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.
Kosichkin trained at Dynamo. He participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. On the 5000 m, held on his 22nd birthday, he won gold, while the silver medal went to his major rival, Knut Joh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Kosichkin |
Steve Shaw (February 19, 1965 – December 5, 1990) was an American actor best known for playing Eric Fairgate in the television drama series Knots Landing.
Life and career
One of Shaw's earliest acting appearances was on episode 22 of the third season of Little House on the Prairie entitled "Gold Country," as Sam Delan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Shaw%20%28actor%29 |
was a Japanese scholar and noble during the Nara period. Also known as .
Early life
Kibi no Makibi was born in Shimotsumichi County, Bitchu Province (present-day Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture) as Shimotsumichi-no Asomi Makibi, as a son of Shimotsumichi-no Asomi Kunikatsu. Shimotsumichi clan was a line of local elites ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibi%20no%20Makibi |
In computing, Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP)
is an optional extension to the DKIM E-mail authentication
scheme, whereby a domain can publish the signing practices it adopts when relaying mail on behalf of associated authors.
ADSP was adopted as a standards track RFC 5617 in August 2009, but declared "Historic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author%20Domain%20Signing%20Practices |
Cris Edward Dishman (born August 13, 1965) is an American football coach and former cornerback. He played for the Houston Oilers, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Washington Redskins during his thirteen-year career from 1988 to 2000 in the National Football League (NFL).
Early career
Dishman atte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cris%20Dishman |
Anatomists use the term triangles of the neck to describe the divisions created by the major muscles in the region.
The side of the neck presents a somewhat quadrilateral outline, limited, above, by the lower border of the body of the mandible, and an imaginary line extending from the angle of the mandible to the mast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangles%20of%20the%20neck |
Emmalyn Paulette Moody (born February 17, 1945), known professionally as Lynne Moody, is an American film and television actress. Beginning her career in the early 1970s, Moody is best known her roles as Tracy Curtis–Taylor in the ABC television sitcom That's My Mama (1974–1975), Irene Harvey in Roots (1977), Roots: Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne%20Moody |
Hagryphus (meaning "Ha's griffin") is a monospecific genus of caenagnathid dinosaur from southern Utah that lived during the Late Cretaceous (upper Campanian stage, 75.95 Ma) in what is now the Kaiparowits Formation of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. The type and only species, Hagryphus giganteus, is k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagryphus |
Emeryville Crescent State Marine Reserve is a marine reserve of California, United States, preserving marshland on the east shore of San Francisco Bay. It is managed as part of Eastshore State Park by the East Bay Regional Park District. The marsh stretches from the eastern approach of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeryville%20Crescent%20State%20Marine%20Reserve |
Mr. Smith is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23 through December 16, 1983. The title character was a talking orangutan. Mr. Smith was canceled after thirteen episodes had been aired.
The orangutan who played Mr. Smith had previously been featured in the 1978 film Every Which Way But Loose and its 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Smith%20%28TV%20series%29 |
Joseph Whiteside Boyle (6 November 1867 – 14 April 1923), better known as Klondike Joe Boyle, was a Canadian adventurer who became a businessman and entrepreneur in the United Kingdom. In the First World War he came to see service assisting the allied Kingdom of Romania.
Family
Joseph Boyle was born in Toronto, Ontar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20W.%20Boyle |
Olive Pink Botanic Garden is a botanic garden in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, specialising in plants native to the arid central Australian region.
History
The 16 ha area that is now Olive Pink Botanic Garden was gazetted in 1956 as the Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve after intense lobb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20Pink%20Botanic%20Garden |
Garelochhead railway station () is a railway station serving the village of Garelochhead, on the Gare Loch, in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and is a boundary station for SPT. It is sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh, between Arrochar and Tarbet and Helensburgh Upper. ScotRail man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garelochhead%20railway%20station |
In the decades since the Holocaust, some national governments, international bodies and world leaders have been criticized for their failure to take appropriate action to save the millions of European Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust. Critics say that such intervention, particularly by the Allied governme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20response%20to%20the%20Holocaust |
The Dushanbe Synagogue (), also known as the Bukharian Synagogue (), located in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, was constructed in the 19th century in one of the two Jewish Quarters in Dushanbe at the time. It was part of the Jewish community compound, which also included ritual buildings and a school. In February... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dushanbe%20Synagogue |
Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov () (December 15, 1923 – May 6, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian Army general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet–Afghan War, as well as one of the instigators of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
Early life
Valentin Varennikov was born to a poor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Varennikov |
Rüeggisberg Priory (Kloster Rüeggisberg) was a Cluniac priory in the municipality of Rüeggisberg, Canton of Bern, Switzerland.
History
The Priory was founded between 1072 and 1076 by Lütold of Rümligen. He granted the property and estates to Cluny Abbey, making it the first Cluniac house in the German-speaking world. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCeggisberg%20Priory |
The Sierra de Gredos is a mountain range in central Spain that spans the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Cáceres, Madrid, and Toledo. It is part of the much larger Sistema Central of mountain ranges. Its highest point is Pico Almanzor, at 2,592 meters and it has been declared a natural park by the Autonomous Community o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20de%20Gredos |
The 1978 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff pitting the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals for the American League pennant and the right to represent the American League in the 1978 World Series. The Yankees defeated the Royals for the third straight year to win the pennant.
Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%20American%20League%20Championship%20Series |
Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period. These rocks formed between 363 and 325 million years ago. Within England and Wales, the entire limestone succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous%20Limestone |
The Bishop's Castle (also known as Glasgow Castle, the Bishop's Palace, and the Archbishop's Palace) was a medieval castle in Glasgow, Scotland. It stood to the west of Glasgow Cathedral, covering much of the present day Cathedral Square. The castle served as the residence of the Archbishops of Glasgow until 1689.<ref>... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%27s%20Castle%2C%20Glasgow |
Kula, which translates as Tower from Serbo-Croatian, may refer to:
People
Bob Kula, American football player
Irwin Kula (born 1957), American rabbi and author
Karel Kula (born 1963), Czech footballer
Places
Kula, Bihać, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kula (Bugojno), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kula, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula |
was a Japanese painter and calligrapher born in Kyoto during the Edo period. Together with Yosa Buson, he perfected the bunjinga (or nanga) genre. The majority of his works reflected his passion for classical Chinese culture and painting techniques, though he also incorporated revolutionary and modern techniques into h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike%20no%20Taiga |
Dalmally railway station is a railway station serving the village of Dalmally, near Loch Awe in Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway. It is sited from Callander via Glen Ogle, between Tyndrum Lower and Loch Awe. ScotRail manage the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmally%20railway%20station |
Sinan-i Atik, also known as Azadlı Sinan, and Atik Sinan (meaning Sinan the Freedman; azadlı shows that atik does not mean "old", and is used to distinguish him from Koca Mimar Sinan Agha), was an Ottoman architect for Sultan Mehmed II from the empire's Greek community during the 15th century.
Biography
He is credited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atik%20Sinan |
Cergy-Saint-Christophe station (French: Gare de Cergy-Saint-Christophe) is a French railway station in the city of Cergy, France. The station opened on 29 September 1985 along with Cergy-Préfecture station. It was, until 1994, the terminus for RER's line A3 but is now the penultimate stop.
The station building is a la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cergy-Saint-Christophe%20station |
Loch Awe railway station is a railway station serving the village of Lochawe, on the northern bank of Loch Awe, in western Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway. It is sited from Callander via Glen Ogle, between Dalmally and Falls of C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch%20Awe%20railway%20station |
Barnes-Wallace v. Boy Scouts of America was a case involving the City of San Diego's relationship with the Boy Scouts of America.
Plaintiffs Lori and Lynn Barnes-Wallace, a lesbian couple, joined Michael and Valerie Breen, an agnostic couple, in suing the City of San Diego and the Boy Scouts of America. Both couples a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes-Wallace%20v.%20Boy%20Scouts%20of%20America |
Carpinteria State Beach is a protected beach in the state park system of California, in Santa Barbara County, Southern California.
Features
Geography
The park is located in the city of Carpinteria, south of Santa Barbara. The park has of beachfront.
The address is 205 Palm Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013.
History
The pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpinteria%20State%20Beach |
Paul Carafotes (born March 23, 1959) is an American actor, known for playing Harold Dyer in the prime-time television drama Knots Landing. He has starred in films, television, commercials, and on stage.
Early life
Carafotes was born into an American Greek family and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts. He graduated f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Carafotes |
Philip Douglas Jones (born 22 April 1952) is a former director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 1998, having begun his career at the unit in 1976. He retired from these positions at the end of 2016, and was replaced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Jones%20%28climatologist%29 |
Bothe-Napa Valley State Park is a state park of California in the United States. Located in the Napa Valley, it contains the farthest inland coast redwoods in a California state park. The park was established in 1960.
In 2011 during the California budget crisis, this park and the adjacent Bale Grist Mill State Histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothe-Napa%20Valley%20State%20Park |
Edward Bowes (June 14, 1874 – June 13, 1946), professionally known as Major Edward Bowes, was an American radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s whose Major Bowes Amateur Hour was the best-known amateur talent show on radio during its 18-year run (1935–1952) on NBC Radio and CBS Radio.
Early life and radio career
Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20Bowes |
Taynuilt railway station is a railway station serving the village of Taynuilt in western Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway, between Falls of Cruachan and Connel Ferry, sited from Callander via Glen Ogle. ScotRail manage the station... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taynuilt%20railway%20station |
Timon princeps, commonly called the Siirt lizard or the Zagrosian lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae (wall lizards). The species is endemic to Western Asia.
Geographic range
Timon princeps is native to southwestern Iran (central Zagros Mountains near Shiraz), northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timon%20princeps |
Cayucos State Beach is a protected beach in the state park system of California, United States. It is located in Cayucos, San Luis Obispo County. The sandy beach environment supports uses of swimming and surfing. Prehistorically this general area of the central coast was inhabited by the Chumash people, who settled th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayucos%20State%20Beach |
Litton Reservoirs (also known as Coley Reservoirs) () are two reservoirs near the village of Litton, Somerset, England. They are operated by Bristol Water.
They lie on the boundary between Bath and North East Somerset and Mendip districts.
The individual lakes are called Lower Litton and Upper Litton. The former is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litton%20Reservoirs |
Connel Ferry railway station is a railway station serving the village of Connel in western Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway, between Oban and Taynuilt, sited from Callander via Glen Ogle. All services are operated by ScotRail, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connel%20Ferry%20railway%20station |
Beas is a municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the village had a population of 4,162 inhabitants.
Demographics
References
External links
Beas - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities in the Province of Huelva | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beas%2C%20Spain |
Maria Helena Kaczyńska (; ; 21 August 1942 – 10 April 2010) was the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech Kaczyński. She and her husband died in a plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk.
Early and personal life
Kaczyńska was born in Machava (near Kabylnik, now Belarus), the daught... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Kaczy%C5%84ska |
Benard Komproe (22 October 1942 – 11 October 2004) was a Curaçaoan politician who briefly served as the 24th prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles from 22 July 2003 to 11 August 2003.
Komproe was a member of the local party Frente Obrero Liberashon 30 di Mei (FOL), and was fifth on the ballot for the 2003 Curaça... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Komproe |
Speckled Snake was a chief of the Muscogee, later known as the Creeks, who spoke to the Muscogee people who were considering the advice of Andrew Jackson to move beyond the Mississippi in 1829. He was against the idea.
Upon hearing Pres. Andrew Jackson speech about Indian removal west of Mississippi, Speckled Snake ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled%20Snake |
Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse (5 October 1907, Käru, Estonia – 6 May 1959, Le Mont-Pèlerin, Switzerland) was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered the pioneer of Balanced Growth Theory.
Life
Ragnar Nurkse was born in Käru villag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%20Nurkse |
This is a list of higher education Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States:
Current institutions
Affiliations:
CLC = Church of the Lutheran Confession
ELCA = Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
ELS = Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Ind. = Independent Lutheran
LCMS = Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
WELS =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Lutheran%20colleges%20and%20universities%20in%20the%20United%20States |
Paul Khoury is a Lebanese-Australian television personality and voice talent.
Khoury was bass guitarist in a Melbourne band called Gravel, before entering and winning the Cleo Bachelor of the Year award in 2002. He has had roles on Australian TV shows such as Blue Heelers.
In 2009, Khoury provided commentary for Fox8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Khoury |
Gopichand Parmanand Hinduja (Sindhi: गोपीचंद परमानंद हिंदुजा) (born 29 January 1940) is a British billionaire businessman controlling the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group. For many years he was co-chairman with his brother Srichand "S. P." Hinduja who died in May 2023. He and his brother were frequently named among th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopichand%20Hinduja |
is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes (specials) in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of Columbo. It should not be confused with , a more literal Japanese version of Columbo.
The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furuhata%20Ninzabur%C5%8D |
Crazy Bear (1785–1856) was a chief of the Assiniboine tribes of the northern plains. Their territory included Montana, North Dakota, Alberta and Saskatchewan. He is known as a skilled negotiator with the American Fur Company at Fort Union, North Dakota; and for his participation and representation at the Fort Laramie T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Bear%20%28Assiniboine%20chief%29 |
Micro Cornucopia, sometimes shortened to Micro C, was a 1980s magazine for microcomputer hobbyists and enthusiasts. It was published in Bend, Oregon by former Tektronix engineer David J. Thompson.
The magazine, conceived as a newsletter for users of the Ferguson Big Board (a single-board CP/M computer), was publishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Cornucopia |
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