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Noah's Ark Zoo Farm is a zoo developed on a working farm in Wraxall, North Somerset, west of Bristol, England. In 2009 the zoo was expelled from the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the main industry regulatory body, "for bringing the association into disrepute", but in 2018 it regained membership... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s%20Ark%20Zoo%20Farm |
Cresta may refer to:
Cresta, Gauteng, a suburb in South Africa
CRESTA, Catastrophe Risk Evaluating and Standardizing Target Accumulations
Cresta Awards, international advertising awards
Cresta (soft drink)
Vauxhall Cresta, an automobile model
Toyota Cresta, an automobile model
See also
Cresta Blanca Winery, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresta |
Nerl or NERL may refer to:
Nerl (urban-type settlement), a settlement in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia
Nerl (Klyazma), a river in the Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, and Vladimir Oblasts, tributary of the Klyazma
Nerl (Volga), a river in the Yaroslavl and Tver Oblasts, tributary of the Volga
National Equal Rights League, oldest Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerl |
Jieh (or Jiyé, Jiyeh, الجية) is a seaside town in Lebanon with an estimated population of 5000, 23 km south of Beirut, in the Chouf district via a 20-minute drive along the Beirut to Sidon highway south of the capital. In Phoenician times it was known as Porphyreon and was a thriving natural seaport, which still functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jieh |
Norcross Brothers, Contractors and Builders was a nineteenth-century American construction company, especially noted for its work, mostly in stone, for the architectural firms of H.H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White. The company was founded in 1864 by brothers James Atkinson Norcross (1831-1903) and Orlando Whitney ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norcross%20Brothers |
Afro-Germans () or Black Germans () are people of Sub-Saharan African descent who are citizens or residents of Germany.
Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration, have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Germans |
Kavim () is an Israeli bus company based in Holon. It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Gush Dan region - the towns/cities Kiryat Ono, Petah Tikva, Or Yehuda, Givatayim and others. In February 2005, Kavim expanded to the north, where it started providing bus lines in Afula, Bet She'an and the Nazare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavim |
In Turkey, compulsory military service applies to all male citizens from 21 to 41 years of age. It is 6 months for all males regardless of education degree. Different rules apply to Turks abroad. For Turks with multiple citizenship, the conscription lapses if they have already served in the army of another country.
Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription%20in%20Turkey |
The Tri-Cities are an informal grouping of the three adjacent suburban cities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody, along with the two villages of Anmore and Belcarra in the northeast sector of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia. Combined, these five communities have a 2016 population of 234,300 residents:
De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Cities%20%28British%20Columbia%29 |
Tonfön Television is a Tongan pay TV service commencing in 2002, offering seven 24-hour channels of movies, news, sport and entertainment. Among the channels available are ABC Asia Pacific, BBC World, Fox News, in addition to four locally programmed channels, which include a sports channel, a family channel, a document... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonf%C3%B6n%20Television |
Disodium aurothiomalate is a chemical compound with the formula AuSCH(CO2Na)CH2CO2Na. In conjunction with its monoprotonated derivative, this coordination complex or closely related species are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, under the tradename Myochrysine. The thiomalate is racemic in most formulation.
Structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disodium%20aurothiomalate |
Steven Kons (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1998 until 2010, representing the electorate of Braddon. He served as Deputy Premier under Paul Lennon from 2006 to 2008, and also served as Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Kons |
Unofficial Member is the name given to individuals who are members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong and Legislative Council of Hong Kong but who are not members of the Hong Kong Government. The terms "unofficial" (or "non-official") and "official" refer to whether the individual holds governmental office; both cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial%20Member |
General Piccio may refer to:
Pier Ruggero Piccio (1880–1965), Italian Air Force general
Vicente Piccio, Jr. (1927-2015), Philippine Air Force general | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Piccio |
No. 3 Operational Training Unit (3OTU) was the Royal Australian Air Force's main seaplane training unit during World War II.
Formed by expanding the RAAF's Seaplane Training Flight in late 1942, 3OTU was located at RAAF Base Rathmines in New South Wales and was responsible for converting RAAF aircrew to aircraft such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No.%203%20Operational%20Training%20Unit%20RAAF |
Cefn Croes is a wind farm in Ceredigion, Wales. It is located in the Cambrian Mountains on Cefn Croes mountain, 573m (1,880 ft) south of the A44 road between Aberystwyth and Llangurig, in west Wales. The construction of the wind farm commenced in February 2004, and was completed in the spring of 2005 when the 39 wind t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cefn%20Croes%20Wind%20Farm |
Kenya toured Zimbabwe for a series of five One Day Internationals in February and March 2006. Before this tour, Kenya had only played five One Day Internationals since reaching the semi-final of the 2003 World Cup, all of which they had lost. They were keen to acquire more international experience before the 2007 World... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyan%20cricket%20team%20in%20Zimbabwe%20in%202005%E2%80%9306 |
The Planets: A Modern Allegory is a radio play, written in verse, by Alfred Kreymborg. The first performance was on 6 June 1938 by the National Broadcasting Company at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, and was directed by Thomas L. Riley. The play was originally set to the music of The Planets Suite by Gustav ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Planets%3A%20A%20Modern%20Allegory |
The Ministry of Economic Development () was a New Zealand public sector organisation tasked with promoting development of New Zealand's economy. Known as the Ministry of Commerce until 2000, it was renamed in 2000 under the Fifth Labour Government, then replaced with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Economic%20Development%20%28New%20Zealand%29 |
Vasanth is an Indian director well known in Tamil language films for directing films such as Keladi Kanmani (1990), Aasai (1995), Nerrukku Ner (1997), Rhythm (2000) and Satham Podathey (2007).
Career
Vasanth began his career as a journalist and short story writer, before he began working as an assistant director to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasanth |
Gilbert Colin Myles (born 18 October 1945) is a former New Zealand politician who entered Parliament for the National Party in 1990, then split from the party in 1991 and sat as an independent, before representing the Liberal Party, the Alliance and the New Zealand First party.
Early life and family
Born in Scotland o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Myles |
Donald Richard Bryant (1948 – 5 December 2019), generally known as Rick Bryant, was a New Zealand blues and rock singer/songwriter.
Bands include Rick Bryant and the Jive Bombers, The Jubilation Gospel Choir, and Windy City Strugglers. With over a fifty-year history in music other bands include Mammal and Bruno Lawren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Bryant |
Concurrent Haskell extends Haskell 98 with explicit concurrency. Its two main underlying concepts are:
A primitive type MVar α implementing a bounded/single-place asynchronous channel, which is either empty or holds a value of type α.
The ability to spawn a concurrent thread via the forkIO primitive.
Built atop thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20Haskell |
Bonnybridge (; ) is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is west of Falkirk, north-east of Cumbernauld and south-southwest of Stirling. The village is situated near the Bonny Water which runs through the town and lies north of the Forth and Clyde Canal. To the south-east of Bonnybridge is a well-pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnybridge |
Custard Records is an American record label, best known for its success with English singer-songwriter James Blunt. The label is run by former 4 Non Blondes member Linda Perry and has a partnership with Warner Music Group's Atlantic Records division.
Roster
Linda Perry
James Blunt
Deep Dark Robot
Ben Jelen
Bigelf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard%20Records |
Nina Ivanivna Karpachova (; born 12 August 1957) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. She was the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights from 1998 until 2012.
Early life and career
Karpachova attended Kyiv University and completed a post-graduate course of the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow (1991).
Poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Karpachova |
Rick Bryant and the Jive Bombers were an eleven piece band led by Rick Bryant that performed 1960s and later styles of R&B music in New Zealand. Although it started as a covers band in 1983, it gradually transformed through several line up changes, with a repertoire of Rick Bryant compositions resulting in a CD release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Bryant%20and%20the%20Jive%20Bombers |
The Whiteinch Railway was a railway line opened in 1874 in Scotland to connect industrial premises that had developed in the area with the Stobcross Railway, giving access to the main line network. It was opened for goods and mineral traffic, and was extended by the Whiteinch Tramway which fed directly into the factori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteinch%20Railway |
Nicola Coleti (or Coletti; 1680–1765) was an Italian Catholic priest and historian.
Life and works
Born in Venice, he studied at Padua, where he received the degree of Doctor. He was sent to the church of San Moisè at Venice, and there devoted himself to historical and antiquarian research.
His first work of impo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola%20Coleti |
Holbrook is a village situated close to the northern shore of the estuary of the River Stour, in Suffolk, England. It is located on the Shotley Peninsula in Babergh district, around south of the centre of Ipswich.
To the south of the village is the Royal Hospital School, which moved to this site in 1933 after having ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook%2C%20Suffolk |
August Alexander Järnefelt (2 April 1833 – 15 April 1896) was a Finnish general, topographist, governor and senator.
Early life
Aleksander Järnefelt was born in Tohmajärvi, the son of crown overseer Gustav Adolf Järnefelt and Aurora Fredrika Molander. Aleksander married Elisabeth Clodt von Jürgensburg on 22 December... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20J%C3%A4rnefelt |
The corona radiata is the innermost layer of the cells of the cumulus oophorus and is directly adjacent to the zona pellucida, the inner protective glycoprotein layer of the ovum. Cumulus oophorus are the cells surrounding corona radiata, and are the cells between corona radiata and follicular antrum. Its main purpose ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20radiata%20%28embryology%29 |
Muscinae is a subfamily of the family Muscidae. It includes two of the more familiar genera within the Muscidae family; Musca and Stomoxys.
The bulk of the species are in the tribe Muscini.
From the 19th century, the term "Muscinae" is also an obsolete scientific name for the mosses (modern Bryophyta), once used in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscinae |
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 September 1989, the last under apartheid. Snap elections had been called early (no election was required until 1992) by the recently elected head of the National Party (NP), F. W. de Klerk, who was in the process of replacing P. W. Botha as the country's president, and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20South%20African%20general%20election |
Fetească Neagră (); ) is an old pre-phylloxeric variety of Romanian - Moldovan grape, cultivated mainly in several areas in the Romanian regions of Moldavia, Muntenia, Oltenia, Banat, Northern Dobruja and also in the Republic of Moldova.
These grapes produce dry, demi-dry or sweet wines, with an alcohol content of 12-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feteasc%C4%83%20neagr%C4%83 |
Elisabeth Järnefelt (née Clodt von Jürgensburg; 11 January 1839 – 3 February 1929) was a Finnish salonist, known as "the mother of Finnish art and culture".
Life
Elisabeth's parents were the general and wood engraver Konstantin Karlovitj Clodt von Jürgensburg and Catharina Vigné. She was educated first at a girls scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth%20J%C3%A4rnefelt |
The Best of Friends is a compilation album (9th release) by singer-songwriter duo Loggins and Messina, released in late 1976.
It consists of 10 of their most popular and best loved songs in what is essentially a "greatest hits" LP.
The CD release featured the same tracks as the original 1976 LP; "Angry Eyes" is still... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Friends%20%28album%29 |
Claude La Colombière, S.J. is a French Jesuit priest and the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
His feast day is the day of his death, 15 February. He was a missionary and ascetical writer. Colombière left a large number of writings, including his principal works, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20La%20Colombi%C3%A8re |
Philippe Labbe (; 10 July 1607 – 16 or 17 March 1667) was a French Jesuit writer on historical, geographical and philological questions.
Born in Bourges, he entered the Society of Jesus on 28 September 1623, at the age of 16. After literary, philosophical and theological studies, he successively taught classes of rhet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Labbe |
The Counter Fraud and Security Management Division protects the staff, assets and resources of the National Health Service in England and Wales. Since 1 April 2006 it has been a division of the NHS Business Services Authority, a special health authority of the Department of Health of the United Kingdom. It was formerly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS%20Counter%20Fraud%20and%20Security%20Management%20Service%20Division |
The Italian Rugby Federation () or FIR is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Italy. The FIR has one seat on the 28-member World Rugby Council, the governing body of World Rugby. (All other members of the Six Nations have two seats on the Council.)
There are two fully professional Italian clubs that pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Rugby%20Federation |
Postcards is an Australian holiday and travel television series on the Nine Network.
History
There were originally three different versions of Postcards, each produced and broadcast within its specific city or market. In 1995, Adelaide's Nine Network produced their first series. It promoted holiday spots within South... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcards%20%28TV%20series%29 |
James Cory Snyder (born November 11, 1962) is an American former professional baseball right fielder. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 1994 for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers, earning a total of $5.7 million. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory%20Snyder |
Swingsite was an art installation that consisted of a playground swing hanging in the narrow space between two buildings in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The swing was accessed by way of the alley behind Queen Street West, which is known as one of Toronto's best graffiti galleries. Toronto artist Corwyn Lund erected the sw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Swing |
Labbe or Labbé may refer to:
People
a variation of the surname Abbé
Alex Labbé, Canadian stock car racer
Arnaud Labbe, French professional racing cyclist'
Bastián Labbé, Chilean teacher
Carlos Labbé, Chilean writer
Carlos Labbé Márquez (1876–1941), Chilean bishop
Charles Labbé (1851–1889), French doctor
Cristi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labbe |
Flint Castle () in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
The site was chosen for its strategic position in North East Wales. The castle was only one day's march from Chester, supplies could be brought along the River Dee and there was a ford nea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint%20Castle |
Thalamocortical dysrhythmia (TCD) is a theoretical framework in which neuroscientists try to explain the positive and negative symptoms induced by neuropsychiatric disorders like Parkinson's Disease, neurogenic pain, tinnitus, visual snow syndrome, schizophrenia, obsessive–compulsive disorder, depressive disorder and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalamocortical%20dysrhythmia |
Constraint logic programming is a form of constraint programming, in which logic programming is extended to include concepts from constraint satisfaction. A constraint logic program is a logic program that contains constraints in the body of clauses. An example of a clause including a constraint is . In this clause, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20logic%20programming |
Mutford is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk District of the English county of Suffolk. The village is south-west of Lowestoft and south-east of Beccles in a rural area. The parish borders Barnby, Carlton Colville, Gisleham, Rushmere, Henstead with Hulver Street, Ellough and North Cove. The village gave ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutford |
The Romanian Rugby Federation (), abbreviated as FRR, is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Romania. Romania currently comprises 24,610 players, 9,810 members of which are registered and 113 clubs in the whole country.
History
The Romanian Rugby Federation was founded in 1913, shortly after rugby unio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20Rugby%20Federation |
Von Francis Hayes (born August 31, 1958) is an American former professional baseball player whose Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned from 1981 to 1992 for the Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, and California Angels.
Early years
Hayes was born to an American father, Donald Hayes, who was a tail gunner o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Hayes |
The Bibi-Khanym Mosque (; ; also variously spelled as Khanum, Khanom, Hanum, Hanim) is one of the most important monuments of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. In the 15th century, it was one of the largest and most magnificent mosques in the Islamic world. It is considered a masterpiece of the Timurid Renaissance. By the mid-20t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-Khanym%20Mosque |
The Best of Loggins & Messina is a compilation album by singer-songwriter duo Loggins and Messina, released in late 1980. This album was released by their new label, Embassy Records (see 1980 in music).
It consists of 14 of their later recordings and a few of their early hits. However, it omits some of their highest c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Loggins%20%26%20Messina |
In neuroanatomy, the parieto-occipital sulcus (also called the parieto-occipital fissure) is a deep sulcus in the cerebral cortex that marks the boundary between the cuneus and precuneus, and also between the parietal and occipital lobes. Only a small part can be seen on the lateral surface of the hemisphere, its chief... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parieto-occipital%20sulcus |
Kathryn Isobel Hay (born 24 November 1975 in Launceston) is an Australian Labor politician and former member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Bass. She was first elected in the 2002 election.
Hay was the first woman of Aboriginal descent to be elected in Tasmania (in her maiden speech she points... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20Hay |
Piezo ignition is a type of ignition that is used in portable camping stoves, gas grills and some lighters. Piezo ignition uses the principle of piezoelectricity, which, in short, is the electric charge that accumulates in some materials in response to mechanical deformation. It consists of a small, spring-loaded hamme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezo%20ignition |
Eccles Road railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the villages of Eccles, Quidenham and Wilby in Norfolk. The line runs between in the west and in the east.
Eccles Road is situated between and , from London Liverpool Street via . The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles%20Road%20railway%20station |
The calcarine sulcus (or calcarine fissure) is an anatomical landmark located at the caudal end of the medial surface of the brain of humans and other primates. Its name comes from the Latin "calcar" meaning "spur". It is very deep, and known as a complete sulcus.
Structure
The calcarine sulcus begins near the occipi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcarine%20sulcus |
Goulburn Airport is a general aviation airport located south of Goulburn, New South Wales. Throughout the 1990s, suggestions were put forward to have Goulburn airport as a secondary international airport to service Sydney.
The Windellama Rd facility was advertised for sale in the United States, Asia Pacific as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn%20Airport |
Victor Bailey (March 27, 1960 – November 11, 2016) was an American bass guitar player. He was the bassist for Weather Report during their final years from 1982 to 1986, and launched a solo career in 1988. As a musician, Bailey was known for his signature scat-bass solos.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, on 27 March 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Bailey%20%28musician%29 |
Congress House is the headquarters of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), a British organisation that represents most of the UK's trade unions. It is also an events venue, Congress Centre.
In 1948, David du Roi Aberdeen won an architectural competition to design the new TUC headquarters building in Great Russell Street, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress%20House |
General elections were held in South Africa in August 1984 to elect Coloured and Indian representatives to their respective houses of the Tricameral Parliament. The Coloured elections for the House of Representatives took place on 22 August, and resulted in a victory for the Labour Party, headed by the Reverend Allan H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20South%20African%20general%20election |
Aboubakar Abdel Rahmane (died 1979) was a Chadian warlord active during the civil war. His early life is very undocumented, and his date of birth is unknown. A semi-literate Muslim Kanembu, he originally belonged to Goukouni Oueddei's People's Armed Forces (FAP). A member of the FAP's Comité Militaire Interarmées Prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboubakar%20Abdel%20Rahmane |
Gisleham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is on the edge of Lowestoft, around south-west of the town centre. The parish is in the East Suffolk district, situated between Carlton Colville and Kessingland.
The parish had a population of 778 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. The main A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisleham |
The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. The award was named after the poet, critic, and translator Robert Fitzgerald. It was established in 1999 at the Fifth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. Each awardee ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Fitzgerald%20Prosody%20Award |
LGBT Humanists UK, founded in 1979, is a special interest section of Humanists UK which campaigns for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality and human rights in the United Kingdom. It also organises social events for LGBT humanists and public awareness initiatives around Humanism.
It was founded as a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20Humanists%20UK |
Mount Pico () is a currently quiescent stratovolcano located on Pico Island, in the mid-Atlantic archipelago of the Azores. It is the highest mountain in Portugal, at above sea level, and is one of the highest Atlantic mountains; it is more than twice the elevation of any other peak in the Azores. It has been a design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Pico |
The peso moneda corriente was a non-convertible Argentine paper currency which circulated between 9 January 1826, and 4 November 1881. It was worth eight reales. Its symbol was $m/c. It was also known as the peso papel (paper money).
It was also known by the name of the peso papel as opposed to the Peso Fuerte ($F) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20peso%20moneda%20corriente |
Flor Meléndez Montañez (born January 12, 1947) is a Puerto Rican retired basketball player and current coach. He is a former head coach of Puerto Rico’s men’s national basketball team, Argentina men's national basketball team, and Panama men's national basketball team. Currently, he coaches in the Baloncesto Superior ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor%20Mel%C3%A9ndez |
Scots College or Scots School may refer to:
Catholic seminaries
Scots College, Paris, France, (founded 1325)
Scots College, Douai, France, (founded 1573)
Scots College, Rome, Italy, (founded 1600), also known as The Pontifical Scots College
Royal Scots College, Spain (founded 1627)
Other establishments
Argentina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots%20College |
Tanglewood Numbers is the fifth studio album by Silver Jews, released in 2005.
Like on all of their other albums, Silver Jews' principal song writer and constant band member is David Berman. On this album fourteen other musicians are involved in the performance and creation.
Tanglewood Numbers marked the return of Pav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglewood%20Numbers |
Ian Parrott (5 March 1916 – 4 September 2012) was a prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music. His distinctions included the first prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society for his symphonic poem Luxor, and commissions by the BBC and Yale University, and for many leading British musicians. In 1958 his cor anglais... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Parrott |
Adrian Byran Murrell (born October 16, 1970) is a former professional American football running back. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the fifth round of the 1993 NFL Draft after playing collegiately for the West Virginia Mountaineers. Murrell played in nine National Football League (NFL) seasons from 1993 to 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Murrell |
, also known as , was a Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter. He is well-regarded in Japan for his youth films but is best known abroad for Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance, films not typical of his usual style.
Life and career
Fujita was born in Pyongyang, Korea. After gradu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiya%20Fujita%20%28director%29 |
Benjamin Tett (Feb 14, 1798 - May 15, 1878) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Leeds South as a Conservative member of the 1st Parliament of Ontario.
He was born in Hinton St. George in England in 1798, the son of John Tett who manufactured cloth for ships' sails, and came to Perth, Upper ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Tett |
James Glennister Cox (born 1 October 1945) is a former Tasmanian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly who represented the electorate of Bass. He held office from 1989 to 1992, and again from 1996 to 2010.
Before entering Parliament, Cox co-hosted The Saturday Night Show on TNT-9 with Graeme ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Cox%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
Andreas Kofler (born 17 May 1984) is an Austrian former ski jumper.
Career
Andreas Kofler grew up in Tyrol, in the Austrian Alps. He is a member of the ski jumping club SV Innsbruck-Bergisel, together with Gregor Schlierenzauer.
Kofler won his first individual competition in the World Cup on 4 February 2006. Two da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Kofler |
Eisenhower State Park is the name of two state parks in the United States:
Eisenhower State Park (Kansas), a state park in Kansas
Eisenhower State Park (Texas), a state park in Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%20State%20Park |
Lambert McKenna S.J. ( (16 July 1870 – 27 December 1956) was a Jesuit priest and writer.
He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Clontarf, and studied in Europe. He collected and edited religious and folk poetry in the Irish language. Working with the Irish Texts Society, he edited the famous Contention of the ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%20McKenna |
Songs for Drella is a 1990 studio album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of the Velvet Underground; it is a song cycle about Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died following routine surgery in 1987. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol superstar Ondine, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs%20for%20Drella |
Mădăras (; ) is a commune in Bihor County, Crișana, Romania, 3 km from Salonta, located nearby the Hungarian border - on the European road E671, and the Körös River canal. In 2011, it had 2,828 inhabitants. The commune Hungarian name means "fowler", the Romanian name derives from that as well. It is composed of four vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83d%C4%83ras |
Madaras () is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary.
Populated places in Bács-Kiskun County
Places in Bačka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madaras |
Anthony David Bernard Sylvester (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particular Francis Bacon, Joan Miró, and Lucian Freud.
Life and career
Born in London... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sylvester |
In electronics, electric power and telecommunication, coupling is the transfer of electrical energy from one circuit to another, or between parts of a circuit. Coupling can be deliberate as part of the function of the circuit, or it may be undesirable, for instance due to coupling to stray fields. For example, energy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling%20%28electronics%29 |
OGP may refer to:
International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, a global forum for petroleum producers
Open Graph Protocol, enables web developers to integrate their pages into Facebook's social graph.
Open Graphics Project, open source architecture and standard for graphics cards
Open Government Partnership, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGP |
Joan Pau Pujol (; baptized 18 June 1570 – 17 May 1626) was a Catalan and Spanish composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote popular secular music.
Life
Pujol was born in Mataró. In 1593 he became the assistant maestro de capilla at the cathed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Pau%20Pujol |
Adrian Lungu (born September 5, 1960) is a Romanian former rugby union player. He played 76 times as a center or wing for the Romanian national team. He is the father of Remus Lungu, who is himself a rugby union international.
Born in Năvodari, Constanța County, Lungu played for CSS Locomotiva Bucuresti, and then for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Lungu |
The 2004–05 season of the División de Honor de Futsal is the 16th season of top-tier futsal in Spain.
Regular season
League table
Playoffs
Championship playoffs
The Finals were broadcast in Spain on TVE2 and Teledeporte.
Relegation playoff
PSG Móstoles remained in División de Honor.
External links
2004–05 seas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Divisi%C3%B3n%20de%20Honor%20de%20Futsal |
Rough Castle Fort is a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall roughly 2 kilometres south east of Bonnybridge near Tamfourhill in the Falkirk council area, Scotland. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
Context
The Antonine Wall dates from about 143 AD. The ends of the wall were uncertain for many years. In the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough%20Castle%20Fort |
Libertyville is the name of some places in the United States:
Libertyville, Alabama
Libertyville, Illinois, the largest community bearing this name and hometown of Adlai Stevenson II.
Libertyville, Indiana
Libertyville, Iowa
Libertyville, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertyville |
Ulikkal is a growing town in Kannur District in Kerala. It is the HQ of Ulikkal Grama Panchayat in Iritty Taluk. Kerala State Hill highway SH 59 passes through Ulikkal Town.
Location
Ulikkal is situated 7.5 km north of Taluk HQ Iritty, 49 km from District HQ Kannur and 10 km away from Kootupuzha (Kerala-Karnataka bord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulikkal |
Oxygene (formerly known as Chrome) is a programming language developed by RemObjects Software for Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure, the Java Platform and Cocoa. Oxygene is based on Delphi's Object Pascal, but also has influences from C#, Eiffel, Java, F# and other languages.
Compared to the now deprecated D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygene%20%28programming%20language%29 |
Kunigunde of Austria (16 March 1465 – 6 August 1520), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duchess of Bavaria from 1487 to 1508, by her marriage to the Wittelsbach duke Albert IV.
Biography
Early life
Kunigunde was born in Wiener Neustadt, the fourth of five children to Emperor Frederick III and his wife Eleanor, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunigunde%20of%20Austria |
Abram William Lauder (June 6, 1834 – February 20, 1884) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He represented Grey South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and Grey East from 1875 to 1884.
Biography
Lauder was born at Bewcastle in England in 1834, studied in Scotland and later came to Canada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram%20William%20Lauder |
Faidherbe may refer to:
Faidherbe (train), a former train in France
ST Faidherbe, a Senegalese tugboat
People with the surname
Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe (1855–1893), French military officer and explorer, the stepson of Louis Faidherbe
Louis Faidherbe (1818–1889), French general and Governor of Senegal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faidherbe |
Grant Heslov (born May 15, 1963) is an American actor and filmmaker known for his producing and writing collaborations with George Clooney, which have earned him four Oscar nominations. As a co-producer of Argo (2012), he received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2013. As an actor, he has appeared in films includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Heslov |
The Lighthouse at the End of the World () is an adventure novel by French author Jules Verne. Verne wrote the first draft in 1901. It was first published posthumously in 1905. The plot of the novel involves piracy in the South Atlantic during the mid-19th century, with a theme of survival in extreme circumstances, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lighthouse%20at%20the%20End%20of%20the%20World |
James Leslie Binks (born 1951) is a Northern Irish heavy metal drummer. He was the drummer for Judas Priest from 1977 to 1979.
History
Previously working for Eric Burdon, Binks was a drummer on Roger Glover's album The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1974). The album project began as a soundtrack for an an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Binks |
The Humanist Association of Ireland (HAI) is a Republic of Ireland secular humanist organisation that was founded in 1993 to promote Humanism, which they describe as:
an ethical philosophy of life, based on a concern for humanity in general, and for human individuals in particular. This view of life combines reason wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist%20Association%20of%20Ireland |
Belfast Exposed is a photography gallery in Belfast, established in 1983. It was Northern Ireland's first dedicated photographic gallery and in 2018 Sean O'Hagan in The Guardian described it as "the key independent space for contemporary photography" there. Belfast Exposed houses a 20×7 m gallery for the exhibition of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast%20Exposed |
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