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Alan Murphy (18 November 1953 – 19 October 1989) was an English rock session guitarist, best remembered for his collaborations with Kate Bush and Go West. In 1988, he joined the jazz-funk band Level 42 as a full-time band member, and played with them until his death from pneumonia, resulting from AIDS, in 1989. He also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Murphy |
Edward A. Rawlinson, SOM (1912–1992) was a Canadian businessman. Born in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Rawlinson became the youngest chartered accountant in Canada in 1934. During the Second World War he was manager of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan flying school in Prince Albert.
In 1946 Rawlinson bought CKBI rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Rawlinson |
The NASA Paresev ("Paraglider Research Vehicle") was an experimental NASA glider aircraft based upon the kite-parachute studies by NASA engineer Francis Rogallo.
Between 1961 and 1965 the ability of the Rogallo wing (also called "Parawing") to descend a payload such as the Gemini space capsule safely from high altitud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20Paresev |
There are no known official statistics of religions in North Korea. Officially, North Korea is an atheist state, although its constitution guarantees free exercise of religion, provided that religious practice does not introduce foreign forces, harm the state, or harm the existing social order. Based on estimates from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20North%20Korea |
Michala Elizabeth Laurinda Banas (born 14 November 1978) is a New Zealand television actress and singer.
Life and career
Born in Wellington, New Zealand into a family of German descent, Michala starred in her first advert at only 18 months of age.
Her debut film performance was when she was five years old, in the New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michala%20Banas |
Tour Bus () is an Israeli transportation company and a major shareholder in several Israeli bus companies, such as Metropoline and Metrodan Beersheba.
Under the brand Tour Bus, the company provides buses to transport passengers to and from flights in the Ben Gurion International Airport.
External links
Official websi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%20Bus |
The Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) () is a national Canadian organization run by youth for youth, founded in 1996, and serving as the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada Foundation. Its stated mission is "to empower Canadians ages 14-26 to become active community leaders who contribute to making Canada a sustainable s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Youth%20Coalition |
Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Sanofi Pasteur is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines. It is one of four global producers of the yellow fever vaccine.
History
Since 1992, Sanofi Pasteur has sponsored Sanofi Biogenius Canada ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanofi%20Pasteur |
Arnaldo Augusto de Oliveira Sales, GBM, CBE, GCIH, JP, (; 13 January 1920 – 6 March 2020) was a Hong Kong/Portuguese sports figure who was chairman of the Hong Kong Olympic Academy and president of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong.
He was for many years the unofficial member of the Urban Counci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldo%20de%20Oliveira%20Sales |
Route 19 is a minor Connecticut state route running from Stafford to the Massachusetts state line. It is long and runs north–south, entirely within Stafford. The road interconnects the settlements in the eastern part of the town.
Route description
Route 19 begins as East Street at an intersection with Route 190 in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Route%2019 |
Isak N Jiyeon (이삭 N 지연) was a South Korean R&B duo formed by SM Entertainment in 2002. The duo released one album, Tell Me Baby, in September 2002 before disbanding two years later following Isak’s departure. Later on, Jiyeon joined the line-up of SM's new girl group The Grace which debuted in 2005 while Isak continued... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isak%20N%20Jiyeon |
Oswulf was king of Northumbria from 758 to 759. He succeeded his father Eadberht, who had abdicated and joined the monastery at York. Oswulf's uncle was Ecgbert, Archbishop of York.
In spite of his father's long reign, and his powerful uncle, Oswulf did not hold the throne for long. He was murdered within a year of co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswulf%20of%20Northumbria |
Boats Against the Current is a 1977 album by Eric Carmen. The title is taken from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” It was Carmen's second solo LP, after the Raspberries disbanded. It peaked at #45 on the Bill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boats%20Against%20the%20Current |
Spondias mombin, also known as yellow mombin, hog plum or amra, is a species of tree and flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including the West Indies. The tree was introduced by the Portuguese in South Asia in the beginning of the 17th century. It has been naturalized in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondias%20mombin |
Friedrich Hildebrandt (19 September 1898 – 5 November 1948) was a Nazi Party politician, a Gauleiter and an SS-Obergruppenführer. He was found guilty and executed for war crimes committed during the Second World War.
Early life
Hildebrandt was born in Kiekindemark (today, part of Parchim) in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Hildebrandt |
Council of the Republic may refer to:
Council of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Council of the Republic of Belarus
Council of the Republic (Russia)
Council of the Republic of France, the name for the Senate of France during the French Fourth Republic
Council of the Republic (Catalonia), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20the%20Republic |
Hog plum is a common name for several plants that produce edible fruit, and may refer to:
Species of the genus Spondias
Spondias dulcis
Spondias mombin
Spondias pinnata
Species of the genus Colubrina
Prunus rivularis
Prunus umbellata
Ximenia americana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog%20plum |
Fido is a 2006 Canadian zombie comedy film directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Heaton. It was produced by Blake Corbet, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Trent Carlson and Kevin Eastwood of Anagram Pictures, and released in the United States by Lions Gate Ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fido%20%28film%29 |
The Refreshment Sundays or Rose Sundays are Sundays within the two major fasts observed in Western Christianity, Lent and Advent. On these days, the fast was allowed to be relaxed, hence the name "Refreshment Sunday". Correspondingly, the liturgical colours of the season are replaced with rose, hence the name "Rose S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshment%20Sunday |
Java plum is a common name for the edible fruits of several tropical tree species, and may refer to:
Syzygium cumini, native to India and southeast Asia
Spondias mombin, native to the tropical Americas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20plum |
George Kåhre (26 August 1899, in Mariehamn – 12 December 1969) was a teacher and author in Åland, Finland. He wrote poetry and prose, as well as factual books.
Kåhre debuted in 1928 with the poetry anthology Staden med de tusen lindarna, released under the pseudonym Stefan Sylwander. He would use this pseudonym until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20K%C3%A5hre |
The Disruptive Technology Office (DTO) was a funding agency within the United States Intelligence Community. It was previously known as the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA). In December 2007, DTO was folded into the newly created IARPA.
ARDA was created in 1998 after the model of DARPA by the Director... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive%20Technology%20Office |
The southern royal albatross or toroa, (Diomedea epomophora) is a large seabird from the albatross family. At an average wingspan of above , it is one of the two largest species of albatross, together with the wandering albatross. Recent studies indicate that the southern royal albatross may, on average, be somewhat l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20royal%20albatross |
The Live Lounge is a segment on the British radio stations BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. It was originally hosted by Simon Mayo, and later by Jo Whiley on her weekday mid-morning, and later weekend lunchtime radio shows, then by Fearne Cotton from 2009 until 2015, and then by Clara Amfo from May 2015 to August 2021.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Lounge |
David Berger National Memorial honors the memory of David Mark Berger, a 28-year-old U.S.-born Israeli weightlifter who was one of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The memorial is dedicated to his memory and to the memory of the ten other athletes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Berger%20National%20Memorial |
The Hit Parade is a music group from London that has released eight LPs and fourteen 7" vinyl records. The group has been described as "the very definition of twee Eighties style indie".
Background
The Hit Parade was initially formed by three schoolfriends Julian Henry, Raymond Watts, and Matthew Moffatt. They release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hit%20Parade%20%28group%29 |
Convention Center station is an at-grade light rail station on the Blue Line and the Green Line of the VTA light rail system. The station platform is located in the median of West San Carlos Street, between Almaden Boulevard and Market Street. The station is located across from the San Jose Convention Center, after whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20Center%20station%20%28VTA%29 |
King of the Nordic Twilight is the first album in a trilogy by Luca Turilli's eponymous band. It was released in 1999 through Limb Music Productions.
The limited edition of this album comes in a digibook, with an expanded booklet. A video for the song "The Ancient Forest of Elves" is included as a hidden feature on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20of%20the%20Nordic%20Twilight |
The Catholic Church in Gabon is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. It is endowed with the right to elect its own clergy, except archbishops.
In 2020, there were over 960,000 Catholics in Gabon; almost half the population divided in five major congregations. There... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Gabon |
Frank S. Niceley (born March 3, 1947) is a Republican member of the Tennessee State Senate representing the 8th district, consisting of Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson and Union counties.
Niceley had previously served in the Tennessee House of Representatives. In the House, he represented District 17,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Niceley |
59 is an album by Japanese pop duo Puffy, released in 2004. The album peaked at #62 on the Japanese Albums Chart.
Track listing
"Teen Titans Theme"
"Sunrise"
"Joining A Fan Club"
"Kokoro ni Hana o"
"Kazemakase Futaritabi"
"Forever"
"So Long Zero"
"Teen Titans Theme" (Japanese Version)
References
Puffy AmiYumi alb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59%20%28album%29 |
This is a list, in chronological order, of writers in the Asturian language.
Antón de Marirreguera (c. 1600 – c. 1662)
Francisco Bernaldo de Quirós Benavides (1675–1710)
Xosefa Xovellanos (1745–1807)
Xuan María Acebal (1815–1895)
Florina Alías (1921–1999)
Manuel Asur (born 1947)
María Esther García López (born ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Asturian-language%20authors |
Barony of England, Bedford, England.
First creation
Created for Payne de Beauchamp, by William Rufus
William de Beauchamp - forfeit for rebelling in the First Barons' War
Faukes de Brent - sent by King John of England to enforce William's forfeit, forfeit himself for rebellion under Henry III of England
Extinct? Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barony%20of%20Bedford |
Rosa May Billinghurst (31 May 1875 – 29 July 1953) was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was known popularly as the "cripple suffragette" as she campaigned in a tricycle.
Early life
She was born in 1875 in Lewisham, London, the second of nine children of Rosa Ann (Brinsmead) Billinghurst and Henry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20May%20Billinghurst |
Jim Vicevich () is an American talk radio host based in Hartford, Connecticut. His show Sound Off Connecticut deals with local, as well as national, topics ranging from politics, economics and social issues, to movies and music. Vicevich, a self-labeled social libertarian and political conservative, often frames his co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Vicevich |
The Catholic Church in Guinea is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope.
Figures in 2020 show that 3.52% of Guinea's population is Christian. This is made up of Catholics (2.28%), Protestants (0.44%) and other Christians 0.8%. This is just over 3 million Catholics in the cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Guinea |
Champions
Major League Baseball
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals over New York Yankees (4-1)
All-Star Game, July 6 at Polo Grounds: American League, 3-1
Other champions
Amateur World Series: Cuba
Negro World Series: Kansas City Monarchs over Homestead Grays (4-0)
Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: East, 5-2
Mino... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%20in%20baseball |
The Inttranet is a multilingual portal for and global network of professional interpreters and translators, fully compatible with ISO 9001 quality assurance requirements, and was officially inaugurated in October 2002.
Its purpose is to provide all the functions required by professional interpreters and translators an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inttranet |
State Highway Route 138 is the portion of the multi-state Route 138 within the state of Connecticut. It is one of several New England state highways that travel through three states while keeping their number designation. The route begins in Sprague at Route 97. From its western terminus up to the junction with Inters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Route%20138 |
The Spartan Marching Band (SMB) is the marching band of Michigan State University. The band has over 300 members and was founded in 1870. Notable music educator Leonard Falcone directed the band from 1927 through 1967.
The band performs every year at home football games, travels to some away games, as well as various ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20State%20University%20Spartan%20Marching%20Band |
Calcium ascorbate is a compound with the molecular formula CaC12H14O12. It is the calcium salt of ascorbic acid, one of the mineral ascorbates. It is approximately 10% calcium by mass.
As a food additive, it has the E number E 302. It is approved for use as a food in the EU, USA and Australia and New Zealand.
Referen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20ascorbate |
Francesco Botticini (real name Francesco di Giovanni, 1446 – 16 January 1498) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He was born in Florence, where he remained active until his death in 1498. Although there are only few documented works by Botticini, a considerable corpus has been confidently attributed to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Botticini |
The Avalon Mall is a Canadian shopping mall located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on Kenmount Road. With over , two floors, and 142 stores, it is the largest shopping mall in Newfoundland and Labrador. The mall opened in 1967 and is owned by Crombie REIT.
History
The Avalon Mall underwent major extensions i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon%20Mall |
The Catholic Church in Estonia () is the national branch of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
History of Catholicism in Estonia
At the beginning of the 13th century, Estonia was conquered by the German Teutonic Order during the Livonian Crusade and thus was one of the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Estonia |
Sodium ascorbate is one of a number of mineral salts of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). The molecular formula of this chemical compound is C6H7NaO6. As the sodium salt of ascorbic acid, it is known as a mineral ascorbate. It has not been demonstrated to be more bioavailable than any other form of vitamin C supplement.
Sodi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20ascorbate |
Louie Sam ( – February 24, 1884) was a Stó:lō youth from an Indigenous community near Abbotsford, British Columbia who was lynched by an American mob.
Sam was 14 at the time these events occurred. He had been accused of the murder of James Bell, a shopkeeper in Nooksack (today Whatcom County, Washington). The people... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie%20Sam |
The Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA; "Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights") is a government-mandated collecting society and performance rights organization based in Germany, with administrative offices in Berlin and Munich. GEMA rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA%20%28German%20organization%29 |
Youssouf Togoïmi (26 March 1953 – 24 September 2002) was a Chadian politician who served in the government under President Idriss Déby but subsequently led a rebel group, the Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT), against Déby.
Life and career
Born in Zouar in the Tibesti Mountains, he came from the northe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssouf%20Togo%C3%AFmi |
Les Noticies was a weekly newspaper founded in Asturias (Spain) in 1996. It was the only newspaper written entirely in Asturian. It was closed down in December 18 2012.
It had nearly 20,000 readers and a weekly circulation of 5.000 newspapers.
It is owned by Ambitu editions.
External links
Corporative website, in Ast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Noticies |
Potassium ascorbate is a compound with formula KC6H7O6. It is the potassium salt of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and a mineral ascorbate. As a food additive, it has E number E303, INS number 303. Although it is not a permitted food additive in the UK, USA and the EU, it is approved for use in Australia and New Zealand. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20ascorbate |
John Moore Walker, Jr. (November 24, 1888 - July 16, 1951) was the 3rd bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, and was the 1st bishop born in the state of Georgia to a bishop in the state of Georgia.
Background
Walker was born on November 24, 1888 in Macon, Georgia to John Moore Walker, Sr., and Clara Pruyn Roosev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20Walker%20%28bishop%29 |
The Catholic Church in Madagascar is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
In 2020, just over a quarter of the population of Madagascar was Catholic. There were almost 2,000 priests and over 5,000 nuns working across 478 parishes.
There are 22 dioceses including f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Madagascar |
Yulieski Gourriel Castillo (born June 9, 1984), commonly known as Yuli Gurriel and nicknamed "La Piña", is a Cuban professional baseball first baseman for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for Sancti Spiritus in the Cuban National Series (CNS), the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuli%20Gurriel |
The Universidad Station () is a station on Line 2 of the Monterrey Metro. It is located in the Alfonso Reyes Avenue.
This station is next to the campus of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL – from which it takes its name), and it sees heavy traffic of students on a daily basis. The station is also the near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad%20metro%20station%20%28San%20Nicol%C3%A1s%20de%20los%20Garza%29 |
Æthelwald Moll was King of Northumbria, the historic petty kingdom of Angles in medieval England, from 759 to 765. He seized power after the murder of Oswulf son of Eadberht; his ancestry and connection to the royal family of Northumbria is unknown. Æthelwald faced at least one rebellion, led by Oswine, perhaps a bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelwald%20Moll%20of%20Northumbria |
Cieplewo is a railway station in Cieplewo, Poland.
Lines crossing the station
References
Cieplewo article at Polish Stations Database, URL accessed at 2 March 2006
Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Gdańsk County | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cieplewo%20railway%20station |
Scapoli is a town and comune located in province of Isernia, which is part of the region of Molise, southern Italy. As of 2011 it had a population of 758.
Geography
Located in the western area of the province, near the region of Lazio, it borders with the municipalities of Colli a Volturno, Filignano and Rocchetta a V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapoli |
Andrea Britton is a British singer-songwriter and marketing consultant, and is also the Founder and Editor of Gozo in the House.
Biography
Britton has been releasing music since 2002. Britton's single "Am I on Your Mind?", recorded with Oxygen, made it to No. 30 on the UK Singles Chart in late 2002. In 2005, she had a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Britton |
Henry Strachey may refer to:
Henry Strachey (artist) (1863–1940), English painter and art critic
Henry Strachey (explorer) (1816–1912), British explorer and army officer
Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (1736–1810), British politician
Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (1772–1858), son of the above, of Sutton Court | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Strachey |
Edward Evans or Ted Evans may refer to:
Edward Evans (divine) (1573–?), English divine
Edward Evans (poet) (1716–1798), Welsh poet
Edward Evans (printseller) (1789–1835), printseller and compositor in London
Edward Payson Evans (1831–1917), American scholar and linguist
Edward B. Evans (1846–1922), British philat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Evans |
Thin may refer to:
a lean body shape. (See also: emaciation, underweight)
Thin (film), a 2006 HBO documentary about eating disorders
Paper Thin (disambiguation), referring to multiple songs
Thin (web server), a Ruby web-server based on Mongrel
Thin (name)
See also
Thin client, a computer in a client-server a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin |
The National Street Gazetteer (NSG) is a database of all streets in England and Wales compiled from the responsible highway authorities which is restricted to local authorities and statutory undertakers (e.g. for maintenance or installing services).
Database
In the United Kingdom local authorities have responsibility ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Street%20Gazetteer |
"Twilight Zone" is the fourth single by Iron Maiden, released on 2 March 1981 and is the lead single to the 1981 LP Killers. The song did not appear in the original album in February, but was included in the U.S. release in June and the international 1998 remaster. At the time of its release, it was the band's second-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight%20Zone%20%28Iron%20Maiden%20song%29 |
Różyny railway station is a railway station serving the village of Różyny, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway and the train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
The station used to be known as Kleschkau.
Modernisation
The station was modernised in 2010,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3%C5%BCyny%20railway%20station |
Fever Fever (styled as Fever*Fever) is a 1999 album by PUFFY.
On tracks 4 and 10, "Nannari to Naru Deshou (Anything Can Become a Habit)" and "Always Dreamin' About You", the vocal parts are sung by Yumi Yoshimura and Ami Onuki solo, respectively. The latter is also sung entirely in English.
Track listing
Charts
Per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever%20Fever%20%28album%29 |
The America class (formerly the LHA(R) class) is a ship class of landing helicopter assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy (USN). The class is designed to put ashore a Marine Expeditionary Unit using helicopters and MV-22B Osprey V/STOL transport aircraft, supported by AV-8B Harrier II or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class%20amphibious%20assault%20ship |
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji () or Mahmud Hafid Zadeh (1878 – October 9, 1956) was a Kurdish leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. He was named King of Kurdistan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud%20Barzanji |
Yerkir (, literally "Country") is the official newspaper of the Supreme Body of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF).
The first issue of Yerkir was published on August 27, 1991, in Yerevan. Since April 2002 it is also published in Beirut, Lebanon, in traditional Armenian orthography.
The paper was published as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkir |
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Strachey (1816–1912) was a British officer of the Bengal Army. Despite a longstanding prohibition by the Tibetan authorities on the entry of Europeans into Tibet, Strachey surveyed parts of western Tibet during the late 1840s.
He was the second son of Edward Strachey, second son of Sir Hen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Strachey%20%28explorer%29 |
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a is a Garratt or Union Garratt articulated locomotive using a pair of engine units back to back, with the boiler and cab suspended between them. The wheel arrangement of each engine unit has four leading wheels on two axles, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-6-2%2B2-6-4 |
Universidad station may refer to:
Universidad station (Medellín), Colombia
Universidad metro station (Mexico City), Mexico
Universidad station (Puerto Rico), in San Juan
Universidad metro station (San Nicolás de los Garza), Nuevo León, Mexico
Universidad Católica metro station, Santiago, Chile
Universidad Centra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad%20station |
Scott David Burrell (born January 12, 1971) is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the men's basketball head coach at Southern Connecticut State University. He has played internationally and was also a professional baseball player.
In 1990, Burrell was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays of ML... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Burrell |
There are over 230 Catholics in the Falkland Islands, approximately 10% of the total population. There are no dioceses in the islands, instead they form an apostolic prefecture which was erected in January 1952. It is immediately subject to the Holy See and separate from any Argentine or UK dioceses. The spiritual lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20the%20Falkland%20Islands |
A sunspot is a dark region that periodically appears on the surface of the Sun.
Sun spot, Sunspot, or Sunspots may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
Sunspot (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
"Sunspot", a song by Moby, B-side to the 1999 song "Bodyrock"
"Sunspots" (song), a 1984 song by Julian C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Jennifer Holden (born in Chicago, Illinois), is an American actress who appeared in the films Jailhouse Rock, Buchanan Rides Alone, and Gang War. Holden had modeled before being cast in Jailhouse Rock. Later, she was a rock-and-roll singer.
References
External links
American film actresses
Living people
Actresses f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Holden |
Walter Richard Szwender is a former provincial level politician and teacher from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 until 1986.
Political career
Szwender ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature and was elected to the electoral district of Edmonton-Belmont in the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Szwender |
Brightwood Beach Cottage is an historic octagonal building on the southern shore of Lake Ripley in Litchfield, Minnesota, United States, that once was a part of the Brightwood Beach Resort of the late nineteenth century. The resort opened in 1889, and it offered cultural amenities such as concerts, classes in fine art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightwood%20Beach%20Cottage |
Good Machine Productions was an American independent film production, film distribution, and foreign sales company started in the early 1990 by its co-founders and producers, Ted Hope and James Schamus. David Linde joined as a partner in the late 1990s and also started the international sales company Good Machine Inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Machine |
Skowarcz railway station is a railway station serving the village of Skowarcz, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway and the train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
The station used to be known as Schönwarling.
Modernisation
The station was modernised i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skowarcz%20railway%20station |
The Turtle is the name of two supervillains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, who were primarily enemies of the Flash.
Two versions of the Turtle made their live action debut on The Flash, portrayed by Aaron Douglas and Vanessa Walsh.
Publication history
The first Turtle appears in All Flash #21 and wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle%20%28comics%29 |
Master McGrath (1866–1873) was a famous Greyhound in the sport of hare coursing.
Early days
Master McGrath was born in County Waterford, Ireland. A small, weak pup, he went on to become the most celebrated and successful dog of his time. Master McGrath was born in 1866 at Colligan Lodge, the home of James Galwey, a we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20McGrath |
Formula Continental is a single seater, open wheel racing class in motorsport. It replaced Formula C as an SCCA racing class.
Most Formula Continental's are Formula Ford 2000 (FF2000) models, which is a flat bottomed, steel tube frame open wheel car with smaller wings and a 2-litre engine derived from the steel bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20Continental |
Route 122 is a primary, minor arterial highway in the United States. It begins at Interstate 95 in West Haven, Connecticut. It runs north of West Haven center and roughly follows the path of the West River. It then enters the Westville neighborhood of New Haven and ends at Route 63 (Whalley Avenue). Route 122 is long.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Route%20122 |
Edmond Martène (22 December 1654 – 20 June 1739) was a French Benedictine historian and liturgist.
Life
Martène was born at Saint-Jean-de-Losne near Dijon. In 1672 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of St-Rémy at Reims, a house of the Congregation of Saint Maur. Owing to his zeal for learning, however, he was sent to Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond%20Mart%C3%A8ne |
Bantzenheim (; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
See also
Communes of the Haut-Rhin department
References
Communes of Haut-Rhin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantzenheim |
The Ulster Senior Cup is a knock-out competition for senior rugby union teams in the province of Ulster. It is administered by Ulster Rugby.
The most successful club is Queen's University with 23 wins. The current holders are City of Armagh RFC.
The winners compete with the other three provincial cup winners for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20Senior%20Cup%20%28rugby%20union%29 |
The Glasgow Central by-election, in the Glasgow Central constituency, was held on 15 June 1989. It was caused by the death of the sitting Member of Parliament, Bob McTaggart.
The Scottish National Party had high hopes of repeating their victory from the previous year at the by-election for the Glasgow Govan seat, wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20Glasgow%20Central%20by-election |
Pszczółki railway station is a railway station serving the town of Pszczółki, Gmina Pszczółki, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1852 and is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
The station used to be known as Hohenstein (Westpreußen).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pszcz%C3%B3%C5%82ki%20railway%20station |
Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, Shona and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, magadi in Setswana, lovola in Xitsonga), and mamalo in Tshivenda language, sometimes referred to as "bride wealth" or "bride price" is a property in livestock or kind, which a prospective husband, or head of his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobolo |
Wong Nai Chung Gap () is a geographic gap in the middle of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The gap is between Mount Nicholson and Jardine's Lookout behind Wong Nai Chung (Happy Valley). Five roads meet at the gap: Wong Nai Chung Gap Road, Tai Tam Reservoir Road, Repulse Bay Road, Deep Water Bay Road and Black's Link. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong%20Nai%20Chung%20Gap |
Barzilla Worth Clark (December 22, 1880 – September 21, 1943) was an American politician from Idaho. He served as the 16th governor of Idaho mayor of Idaho Falls, and was a member of the Idaho Democratic Party.
Early life and education
Clark was born in Hadley, Indiana, the son of Eunice (Hadley) and Joseph Addison C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barzilla%20W.%20Clark |
In television technology, Error Detection and Handling (EDH) protocol is an optional but commonly used addition to the Standard Definition-Serial Digital Interface (SDI) standard. This protocol allows an SD-SDI receiver to verify that each field of video is received correctly.
The SD-SDI transmitter calculates two CRC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20Detection%20and%20Handling |
Miłobądz railway station is a railway station serving the village of Miłobądz Mały in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
The station used to be known as Mühblanz.
A train crash took place here on 6 July 1972.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C5%82ob%C4%85dz%20railway%20station |
A disjunctive sequence is an infinite sequence (over a finite alphabet of characters) in which every finite string appears as a substring. For instance, the binary Champernowne sequence
formed by concatenating all binary strings in shortlex order, clearly contains all the binary strings and so is disjunctive. (The spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive%20sequence |
In mathematics, the term normal sequence has multiple meanings, depending on the area of specialty. In general, it is a sequence with "nice" properties.
In set theory, a normal sequence is one that is continuous and strictly increasing.
In probability theory, a normal number is a number whose representation is a n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20sequence |
Catherine Ségurane (Catarina Ségurana in the Niçard dialect of Provençal) is a folk heroine of the city of Nice, France who is said to have played a decisive role in repelling the city's siege by Turkish invaders allied with Francis I, the siege of Nice, in the summer of 1543.
At the time, Nice was part of Savoy, ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20S%C3%A9gurane |
The Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1980, or the "Rome Convention", is a measure in private international law or conflict of laws which creates a common choice of law system in contracts within the European Union. The convention determines which law should be used, but does not harmonise the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20on%20the%20Law%20Applicable%20to%20Contractual%20Obligations%201980 |
PATCOB (Professional, Administrative, Technical, Clerical, Other white collar, and Blue collar) are occupational categories established by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They are used for statistical reporting on data collected by the United States Census Bureau, employer reports or federal agencies.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATCOB |
A tiki bar is a themed drinking establishment that serves elaborate cocktails, especially rum-based mixed drinks such as the Mai Tai and Zombie cocktails. Tiki bars are aesthetically defined by their tiki culture décor which is based upon a romanticized conception of tropical cultures, most commonly Polynesian. Some ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki%20bar |
Elspeth Mary Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Pittenweem (5 January 1940 – 5 June 2023) was a British baroness and socialite. She was married to the Liberal Democrat politician Menzies Campbell from 1970 until her death.
Early life and education
Elspeth Mary Urquhart was born on 5 January 1940 in New Delhi, British Indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elspeth%20Campbell |
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