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The Union nationale () was a conservative and nationalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, that identified with Québécois autonomism. It was created during the Great Depression and held power in Quebec from 1936 to 1939, and from 1944 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1970. The party was founded by Maurice Dupless... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Nationale%20%28Quebec%29 |
February 5: Japan's Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products from April 1, 1997, in a phased process that will reduce the country's crude oil import tariff rate to zero in April 2002. (DJ)
February 24: Qatar inaugurates the world's largest liquefied natural gas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
Donald Clarke Sweeney (born August 17, 1966) is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman who played over 1,100 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), mostly with the Boston Bruins. He ranks among the top ten in many Bruins team statistics, including fourth overall in total games played. After retiring from hockey fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Sweeney |
The DeSoto Six was first introduced in 1929 and was badge engineered from the 1929 Chrysler Six Series 62 with the same wheelbase, while it offered a smaller Chrysler I6 with an overall length of . It was offered in four two-door sedan configurations and three four-door sedan body styles. It used the Series K designa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto%20Six |
Lawrence "Larry" Mariano Simon (born 1977) is a former director of pediatric otolaryngology and current assistant clinical professor of otolaryngology at Louisiana State University.
Education and career
Simon was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Simon |
pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense |
The Scodie Mountains are a sub-mountain range of the Southern Sierra Nevada rising from the Mojave Desert, and located in Kern County, California.
Geography
The range lies in an east–west direction directly west of the desert town of Ridgecrest, and southeast of the Kern River Valley and Lake Isabella. The mountain ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scodie%20Mountains |
Sources include: Dow Jones (DJ), New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and the Washington Post (WP).
January 7: Due to the continuing Asian economic crisis, South Korea's refiners have reportedly cut operations to around 80 percent of capacity. The refiners have also had difficulty securing crude oil suppli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
Landis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arthur H. Landis, American science fiction and fantasy writer
Bill Landis, American baseball player
Carole Landis, American film actress
Charles B. Landis, U.S. Representative from Indiana
Charles K. Landis, American property developer in southern New Jersey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landis |
Agenparl is the press agency in Italy. It focuses on politics and it provides daily news coming from the Italian parliament. Articles published by the press agency are published in most Italian newspapers.
External links
AgenParl
References
Mass media companies of Italy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenparl |
The white-margin fin smooth-hound (Mustelus albipinnis) is a smooth-hound from the Gulf of California, off the coast of Mexico. The white-margin fin smooth-hound shark is slender, dark grey-brown in color, and grows up to 1.2 m (4 ft) long.
References
Mustelus
Endemic fish of Mexico
Fish of the Gulf of California... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-margin%20fin%20smooth-hound |
Sources include: Dow Jones (DJ), New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and the Washington Post (WP).
January 1: British Petroleum Company and Amoco Corporation complete their $53 billion merger. Chicago-based Amoco is the United States' fifth-largest oil company with roughly 9,300 gasoline stations. London-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
John Leonard Dawson (30 September 1932 – 16 May 1999) was an English surgeon particularly known for his work in the field of liver disease. He pioneered several surgical techniques, including radical tumour resection, injection sclerotherapy and portosystemic shunt surgery. He served as the Serjeant Surgeon to the Roy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Leonard%20Dawson |
Barzinjah or Barzinja () is a town in Sulaymaniyah Province in Kurdistan Region, Iraq and has an elevation of 1,275 meters.
Notable people
Sultan Sahak
References
Populated places in Sulaymaniyah Province
Kurdish settlements in Iraq | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barzinjah |
All Saints Catholic College is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school situated in the North Kensington area of London, England.
It was formerly called Sion-Manning Catholic Girls' School until the change of name in September 2018 and subsequently became a co-educational school. It is part of a cluster of Cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Saints%20Catholic%20College%2C%20North%20Kensington |
Louis August Gottschalk (August 26, 1916 – November 27, 2008) was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist.
Gottschalk earned his M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1977.
He was the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20A.%20Gottschalk |
Fullbore Target Rifle (TR) is a precision rifle shooting sport discipline governed by the International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA). The sport evolved as a distinct British and Commonwealth of Nations discipline from Service rifle (SR) shooting in the late 1960s. Its development was heavily inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullbore%20target%20rifle |
Sulaimania may refer to:
Sulaimania (plant), a plant genus in the mint family (Lamiaceae)
Sulaimania (spider), a spider genus in the family Tetrablemmidae
Sulaimania governorate, a governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sulaymaniyah, a town in Iraq, capital of the Sulaimania governorate
Sulaimania University, a public univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulaimania |
Edoardo Isella D'Gómez Ventoza (born 9 October 1980), known as Edoardo Isella, is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is known as one of the first Afro-Mexicans to debut for CD Guadalajara.
Early life
Isella was born in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas to a Afro-Honduran father and a Mexican... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo%20Isella |
Surrey Ambulance Service was the ambulance service for the County of Surrey in England until 1 July 2006, when it was succeeded by a South East Coast Ambulance Service also covering Sussex and Kent.
See also
Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom
External links
Official website
Defunct NHS trusts
Health ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey%20Ambulance%20Service |
The Surrey Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service for the County of Surrey, England, with 25 fire stations. It comes under the administrative and legislative control of Surrey County Council, acting as the Fire Authority who fund the service by collecting a precept via council tax, and from ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey%20Fire%20and%20Rescue%20Service |
Milngavie railway station serves the town of Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow in Scotland. The station is sited from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Maryhill. The station is managed by ScotRail, who also operate all services at the station, along the North Clyde and Argyle lines.
Its principal purpose ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milngavie%20railway%20station |
Eric Orlando Young Sr. (born May 18, 1967) is an American former professional baseball second baseman and left fielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, and San Diego Padres. He has served as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Young%20Sr. |
The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
The gazette was published from 1672 to 1724 (with an interruption in 1674–1677) under the title (somet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercure%20de%20France |
The General Anaya station () is a station on the Monterrey Metro. The station was opened on 30 November 1994 as the northern terminus of the inaugural section of Line 2, between General Anaya and Zaragoza. On 31 October 2007, the line was extended north to Universidad. General Anaya is an underground station located on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Anaya%20metro%20station%20%28Monterrey%29 |
The Battle of the Treasury Islands was a Second World War battle that took place between 27 October and 12 November 1943 on the Treasury Islands group, part of the Solomon Islands. The battle formed part of the wider Pacific War and involved New Zealand and US forces fighting against Japanese troops. The majority of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Treasury%20Islands |
The Pinguin was a German auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) which served as a commerce raider in World War II. The Pinguin was known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 33, and designated HSK 5. The most successful commerce raider of the war, she was known to the British Royal Navy as Raider F. The name Pinguin means penguin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20auxiliary%20cruiser%20Pinguin |
Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia (also known as "Atma Jaya University" or "Atma Jaya"; or abbreviated as Unika Atma Jaya) is an institute of higher learning in Jakarta, Indonesia, which was founded by Atma Jaya Foundation on 1 June 1960. Atma Jaya has three campuses in Jakarta Metropolitan Area, in which the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atma%20Jaya%20Catholic%20University%20of%20Indonesia |
Divisional detective inspector (DDI), also known as first class detective inspector, was a rank in the Criminal Investigation Department of London's Metropolitan Police, equivalent to sub-divisional inspector in the uniformed branch. It was senior to the rank of detective inspector (officially called second class detec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisional%20detective%20inspector |
Caldazinha is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 3,848 (2020) in a total area of 312 km2.
Located 27 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia, Caldazinha belongs to the Goiânia Microregion. Connections are made by GO-403 / passing through Senador Canedo.
Municipal boundaries are:
nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldazinha |
Iain Borden (born in Oxford in 1962) is an English architectural historian and urban commentator.
Career
Educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford (MCS), Iain Borden graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985, and went on to complete master's degrees at UCL and University of California, Los Angeles (UC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Borden |
We Will Be Dead Tomorrow is the second album by UK sludgecore band Raging Speedhorn.
Track listing
"The Hate Song"
"Scrapin' The Resin"
"Me and You Man"
"Scaramanga"
"Chronic Youth"
"Iron Cobra"
"Heartbreaker"
"Fuck the Voodooman"
"Spitting Blood"
"Welcome to Shitsville"
"Ride With the Devil"
Bonus track (Japanese edi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Will%20Be%20Dead%20Tomorrow |
The National Association for the Protection of Labour was one of the first attempts at creating a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. The organization was established in July, 1830 by John Doherty, after an apparently unsuccessful attempt to create a similar national presence with the National Union of C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20for%20the%20Protection%20of%20Labour |
Poros is a Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf.
Poros may also refer to:
Poros stone is named after the islands
Poros (Attica), a deme of ancient Attica
Any of several villages in Greece:
Poros, Aetolia-Acarnania, a village of the Nafpaktia municipality
Poros, Kefalonia, a village of the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poros%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Los Enchiladas! is a 1999 film written, directed by and starring stand-up comedian Mitch Hedberg. The film was shot and set in Minnesota.
Content
The film is loosely based on Hedberg's life growing up in Minnesota and his experience working in restaurants. It parodies a chain Mexican restaurant in a suburb of St. Pau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Enchiladas%21 |
Ilpendam is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies about 4 km south of Purmerend. It covers an area of 2.46 km2 (0.95 sq mi) and had 1,780 inhabitants in 2008. Ilpendam was part of the Free and high Lordship of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilpendam |
January 7: Energy companies and countries around the world report that they have passed into the year 2000 without significant problems from the "Y2K Bug". There was concern that the inability of some computers and embedded control systems to recognize the year 2000 could create serious problems. (DJ, WP)
January 26: T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
Fat Day was a Boston-based noisecore band. Formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992, they released a handful of LPs and several EPs on their own 100% Breakfast! label as well as many others.
History
The four members of Fat Day met in the early 1990s when they were DJs on the Record Hospital, a nightly program of ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20Day |
Interail was an Australian rail freight operator owned by QR National. In June 2011 it ceased trading as a separate brand, and became part of QR National (now known as Aurizon).
Northern Rivers Railroad
Northern Rivers Railroad was established in 1990 with the intention of running tourist trains on the Casino to Murwi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interail |
Richard Leigh may refer to:
Richard Leigh (martyr) (c. 1561–1588), Catholic martyr
Richard Leigh (officer of arms), Clarenceux King of Arms, died 1597
Richard Leigh (poet) (1649/50–1728), English poet
Richard Leigh (footballer) (born 1974), Australian rules footballer
Richard Leigh (author) (1943–2007), co-author of T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Leigh |
Arpeggi may refer to:
the original name of the song "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", by Radiohead
Arpeggi, Inc., a bioinformatics startup company acquired by Gene by Gene in 2013
the plural of arpeggio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggi |
The superposition theorem is a derived result of the superposition principle suited to the network analysis of electrical circuits. The superposition theorem states that for a linear system (notably including the subcategory of time-invariant linear systems) the response (voltage or current) in any branch of a bilatera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition%20theorem |
Come was a British noise music project, which was founded in 1979 by William Bennett. In the short time of its existence it had such prominent members as Daniel Miller and J. G. Thirlwell. Bennett would later end the project in 1980 in favor for his then newly formed power electronics project Whitehouse, however a sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come%20%28British%20band%29 |
Noriko Ogawa may refer to:
Noriko Ogawa (pianist) , born 1962, classical musician
Noriko Ogawa (singer) , born 1973, singer and actress
Noriko Ishigaki (born Noriko Ogawa , 1974), a politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko%20Ogawa |
January 1: The OPEC crude oil production quota cuts of per day, announced on December 28, officially go into effect for six months. Crude oil production or export cuts of by five non-OPEC oil exporters also go into effect. (Reuters)
January 9: U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announces that the Partnership fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
The Porky Pig Show is an American television anthology series hosted by Porky Pig, that was composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons made between 1948 and 1964. The series aired on ABC Saturday mornings from 1964 to 1967, with 26 half-hour episodes created. In rare times in the early 2000s, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Porky%20Pig%20Show |
Watergang (, literally "watercourse") is a village in the northwest Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Waterland, North Holland, about seven kilometres (four miles) north of Amsterdam, on the east bank of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal.
The village was first mentioned in 1343 as "van waterganghe", and means... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergang |
In projective geometry an oval is a point set in a plane that is defined by incidence properties. The standard examples are the nondegenerate conics. However, a conic is only defined in a pappian plane, whereas an oval may exist in any type of projective plane. In the literature, there are many criteria which imply t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval%20%28projective%20plane%29 |
Christian Richardson (born 22 March 1972), known professionally as Robin Banks, is a TV presenter, narrator and radio DJ originally from Kilkenny, Ireland.
Career
He was the narrator of the British/European version of the popular Discovery Channel show MythBusters, from season 2 to the present day. He has worked as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Banks |
Steven Bernard Buechele (born September 26, 1961) is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman, coach, and current front office executive for the Texas Rangers. Buechele played from to for the Texas Rangers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago Cubs. He joined the Rangers in after he was named the Tom Griev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Buechele |
This is a complete list of Scottish Statutory Instruments in 2000.
1-100
Seeds (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/1)
Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) (Scotland) Order 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/7)
Potatoes Originating in Egypt (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/8)
Publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20Scotland%2C%202000 |
This is a list of notable IFK Göteborg footballers. Generally, this means players that have played more than 300 matches in total for the club, although some exceptional players who have played fewer matches are also included. For a list of all IFK Göteborg players with a Wikipedia article, see the IFK Göteborg players... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20IFK%20G%C3%B6teborg%20players |
Katwoude is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the IJsselmeer, about 2 km north of Monnickendam.
The village was first mentioned in 1310 as "lant van Kattwoude". Even though there is a cat in the shield dating from 1566, it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katwoude |
(born 1962) is a Japanese classical pianist, based in London.
Biography
Born in Kawasaki, Ogawa studied at the Tokyo College of Music (1977–80) and the Juilliard School in New York (1981–5), and later with Benjamin Kaplan.
Career
After coming in second in a Japanese music competition in 1984, Ogawa attained third pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko%20Ogawa%20%28pianist%29 |
The 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 46th season of NASCAR professional stock car racing in the United States and the 23rd modern-era Cup series. The season began on Sunday, February 20, and ended on Sunday, November 13. Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing was crowned champion at season's end, winning cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%20NASCAR%20Winston%20Cup%20Series |
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist, founder of modern macroeconomics.
Keynes may refer to the following:
People with the surname Keynes
John Neville Keynes (1852–1949), British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes
Milo Keynes (1924–2009), English doctor and author
Quentin Keynes (1921–2003... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynes%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Vox is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2003. It is the sixth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the second of the Rook Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the eighth novel, following the Quint Saga and Twig Saga trilogies.
Plot summary
The novel begins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox%20%28Stewart%20and%20Riddell%20novel%29 |
Thomas More University is a private Roman Catholic university in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. It serves about 2,000 full and part-time students. The university was founded in 1921 by the local Benedictine Sisters as Villa Madonna College.
History
The Benedictine Sisters of Covington, Kentucky, founded Villa Madonna Coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20More%20University |
Athanassios Spyridon Fokas (; born June 30, 1952) is a Greek mathematician, with degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Medicine. Since 2002, he is Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science in the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.
Education
Fokas ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanassios%20S.%20Fokas |
Campinorte is a municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 12,764 (2020) in a total area of 1,068 km2.
Location
Campinorte is located on the important Belém-Brasília, BR-153, and is 315 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia. It is 22 kilometers north of Uruaçu and just west of the gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campinorte |
Joshua Green (born November 16, 1977) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey center who played most notably in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
Green was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the second round as the 30th overall pick in 1996. Green was selected from the Western Hockey Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Green%20%28ice%20hockey%29 |
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. is a 1989 zombie comedy film, directed by David Irving, written by M. Kane Jeeves and stars Brian Robbins, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Bianca Jagger, and Gerrit Graham in the title role.
Plot
At the start of the film, the US Government has ordered a branch of the US Military to discontinue tests... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.%20II%3A%20Bud%20the%20C.H.U.D. |
The Ethel M Chocolate Factory is a chocolate factory in Henderson, Nevada, founded by Forrest Mars Sr. It produces gourmet chocolate for all of the Ethel M and Ethel's brand chocolates. The factory was named after the mother of Forrest Mars Sr. and is owned by Mars, Incorporated.
History
Forrest Mars Sr. joined the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20M%20Chocolate%20Factory |
January 6: Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Mines Rafael Ramírez announces that the Venezuelan government plans to split state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PdVSA) into two separate entities as part of a large-scale restructuring of the company, most of whose 40,000 workers are currently on strike. Such a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
James Anthony "Ripper" Collins (March 30, 1904 – April 15, 1970) was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. A switch hitter who threw left-handed, Collins was listed as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripper%20Collins%20%28baseball%29 |
"Make a Secret" is BoA's sixteenth Japanese single, and fifth lowest selling. The title track was used for a Kose Fasio commercial, and although the A-side track, "Make a Secret", was promoted, the B-side, "Long Time No See", won more acclaim and praise from fans. After the eyebrow-raising performance of her Do the Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20a%20Secret |
Zuiderwoude is a village in the municipality of Waterland, province of North Holland, Netherlands. It lies about 2 km (1.2 mi) south of the municipal administrative centre Monnickendam. In 2021, the statistical area of Zuiderwoude had a population of 320, up from 260 in 2004.
History
The village has been known under v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderwoude |
An auscultare, q.d. to hear, listen, was a person appointed, in monasteries, to hear the monks read prayers, who instructed them how to perform it, before they were admitted to read publicly in the church, or before the people. The purpose was to insure the reading of prayers with a graceful tone or accent, so to make ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auscultare |
Uitdam is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the IJsselmeer, about 12 km northeast of Amsterdam.
The village was first mentioned in 1345 as Udam, and means "damn outside the dike". Uitdam and neighbouring Zuiderwoude formed a heerli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uitdam |
A Weidling is a flat-bottomed boat, with similarities to a punt. The weidling is traditionally constructed from solid wood, although today some boats are also made from plywood, plastic or aluminium. It is usually around 9 or 10 metres (30 or 33 ft) in length. A larger version is known as the Langschiff, and is up to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weidling%20%28boat%29 |
Joseph Buford (born June 19, 1967) is an American former professional stock car racing driver.
Racing career
Buford began his career at Duck River Speedway in 1989. He took his father's advice (two-time Nashville Speedway USA champ James "Flookie" Buford) and started racing at Nashville in 1991. He was an instant suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Buford |
The United States has maintained a consular presence in New Zealand since 1838. The first consul was James Reddy Clendon. Born in England, Clendon was a ship owner and merchant who bought land and settled in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. In 1838 he was appointed by the federal government of the United States as cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ambassadors%20of%20the%20United%20States%20to%20New%20Zealand |
Stier (HSK 6) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her Kriegsmarine designation was Schiff 23, to the Royal Navy she was Raider J.
The name Stier means "bull" and also represents the Taurus constellation in the German language. She was the last German raider to break out into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20auxiliary%20cruiser%20Stier |
January 18: Saudi Aramco formally inaugurates its new Haradh oil and natural gas facility. The Haradh plant is expected to boost Saudi natural gas production capacity by roughly 25%, most of which is slated for the domestic market. The Haradh facility also includes a gas-oil separation plant capable of processing , as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20world%20oil%20market%20chronology |
Invergowrie railway station is a railway station which serves the village of Invergowrie, west of the city of Dundee, Scotland on the north bank of the Firth of Tay. It is the only intermediate station between Dundee and Perth, on the Glasgow to Dundee line, approximately from Dundee station – and only around from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invergowrie%20railway%20station |
Île aux Noix () is an island on the Richelieu River in Quebec, close to Lake Champlain. The island is the site of Fort Lennox National Historic Site of Canada. Politically, it is part of Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix.
Background
Île aux Noix is a island in the Richelieu River. The French and Indian War caused the Fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele%20aux%20Noix |
KZMJ (94.5 FM) is a radio station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. The station airs an urban adult contemporary format. The station is licensed to Gainesville and is owned by Urban One. Co-owned with KBFB and Reach Media, its studios are located in the Stone Tower Building in North Dallas, and its tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZMJ |
The 2006 World Baseball Classic championship was the inaugural final of the World Baseball Classic played on March 20, 2006 at Petco Park in San Diego, United States. The best-of-one final was the match to determine the first world champion in baseball. Although this was the first iteration of the World Baseball Classi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20World%20Baseball%20Classic%20championship |
Nakorotubu is one of nineteen districts in Fiji's Ra Province. It consists of seven sub-districts or sub-regions: the five villages of Namarai, Nacobau, Nadavacia, Saioko and Verevere.
Nakorotubu also refers to one of the four main traditional regions (with Saivou, Nalawa, Rakiraki) of Ra with the referral traditional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakorotubu%20District |
Downtown Winnipeg is an area of Winnipeg located near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. It is the oldest urban area in Winnipeg, and is home to the city's commercial core, city hall, the seat of Manitoba's provincial government, and a number of major attractions and institutions.
The City of Winnipeg's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown%20Winnipeg |
Luca Bucci (; born 13 March 1969) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Bucci played for several Italian clubs throughout his career; he is mostly remembered for his choice of unusual shirt numbers and successful spell with Parma, where he won various domestic and European titles. At ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Bucci |
Nathalie Brigitte Lambert, OC (born December 1, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian Olympic medalist in short-track speed skating. She won one Gold medal and two Silver medals at the Winter Olympics, and was Canada's flag bearer at the 1992 Albertville Olympics closing ceremony. She is also a three-time Overall Wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie%20Lambert |
Fort Lennox is a National Historic Sites of Canada occupying most of Île aux Noix, an island in the middle of the Richelieu River in the parish of Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix, Quebec, near the Canada-U.S. border. The fort features restored defence works and stonework buildings, and is surrounded by a star-shaped mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Lennox |
Pachaug State Forest is the largest forest in the Connecticut state forest system, encompassing over 27,000 acres (110 km²) of land. It is located on the Rhode Island border in New London County, and parcels of the forest lie in the towns of Voluntown, Griswold, Plainfield, Sterling, North Stonington, and Preston. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachaug%20State%20Forest |
DMZ is an American comic book series written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli. The series is set in the near future, where a Second American Civil War has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone (DMZ), caught between forces of the United States of America and secessionist Fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ%20%28comics%29 |
Rufus Brevett (born 24 September 1969) is an English football manager and former professional footballer.
As a player, he was a defender who notably played in the Premier League for Queens Park Rangers, Fulham and West Ham United. He was part of the Fulham team that won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2002. He also played i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus%20Brevett |
Anyue () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ziyang in southeastern Sichuan province, China, located in between the Fu and Tuo Rivers. Its area is about with a population of 1,538,400. Anyue is famous for its lemon plant and Buddhist stone carvings.
The Grove of the Reclining Buddha (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyue%20County |
Uiscedwr (pronounced "ish-ka-dooer") is a former musical group whose members came from various parts of the British Isles and played British folk music influenced by world music. The group started off as a trio and was originally based in Manchester.
Uiscedwr won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2002.
As well as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uiscedwr |
This is an incomplete list of some Breton people of note and of some notable individuals born in Brittany, alphabetically within categories. Brittany (Breizh in Breton) is a Celtic nation of northwestern France and has contributed famous names to all walks of life.
Actors and actresses
Mylène Jampanoï, half Breton fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Breton%20people |
William (Bill) P. McCormick (born August 18, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American businessman and diplomat. He served as the United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from October 21, 2005, until January 10, 2009. He is married and has six children.
McCormick attended Roger Williams University and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McCormick%20%28diplomat%29 |
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972) is a Canadian freestyle skier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position for mogul skiers to best show judges how smoothly the athlete is taking the tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc%20Brassard |
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP or DisCOP) is the distributed analogue to constraint optimization. A DCOP is a problem in which a group of agents must distributedly choose values for a set of variables such that the cost of a set of constraints over the variables is minimized.
Distributed Constraint Satisfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20constraint%20optimization |
The New Symphony Orchestra is one of the best-known orchestras in Bulgaria.
History
The New Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1991 in Sofia, Bulgaria by the music critic Julia Hristova as an alternative to the existing Bulgarian musical institutions (which had been financially supported and controlled by the state unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Symphony%20Orchestra |
Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959) is a German actor. He is best known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film Downfall.
Life and work
Matthes was born in West Berlin and educated at the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. He studied acting in the early 1980s in Berlin under Else Bongers. In the 2004 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Matthes |
Barrington Edward "Barry" Hayles (born 17 May 1972) is a football player and coach who plays as a striker. He began his career in the Spartan League with Willesden Hawkeye before playing for Stevenage Borough, Bristol Rovers, Fulham, Sheffield United, Millwall, Plymouth Argyle, Leicester City, Cheltenham Town, St Alban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Hayles |
Benjys was the first low priced chain of sandwich shops in the United Kingdom.
The first branch of Benjys was opened in 1989 in Islington by Paul Benjamin. The Benjamin family expanded the company offering low priced takeaway food, until it was sold for around £40 million in Aug 2000.
The range of products included ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjys |
Electric company may refer to:
Electrical power industry
Electric Company (band), an electronic music project of Brad Laner
Electric Company (football)
The Electric Company, a 1971 TV series
The Electric Company (2009 TV series), the 2009 reboot | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20company |
Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (April 21, 1924 – June 20, 1965), known professionally as Ira Louvin, was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriter. He was a cousin of songwriter John D. Loudermilk.
Biography
Ira Louvin was born in Section, Alabama, and played together with his brother, Charlie, in the close ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira%20Louvin |
Archibald Paton Thornton (1921 – 19 February 2004) was an academic and historian. He was the author of the seminal history of the British Empire, The Imperial Idea and its Enemies: A Study in British Power (St. Martin's Press, 1959). He was professor of history at University College, University of Toronto.
Born in Gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald%20Paton%20Thornton |
The Poldertoren is a water tower at the town center of Emmeloord, Netherlands. The Dutch name Poldertoren could be translated as Polder Tower. The 65-meter tower was built in 1959 and has a large carillon. The tower is no longer in use as a water tower. The owner of the tower was the water company, Vitens, but since 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldertoren |
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