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Li Li (李莉, born February 26, 1975, in Xingning County, Guangdong Province) is an artistic gymnast from China. She competed during the early 1990s, and retired in 1994. An Olympian, World Cup medallist and national champion, the beam was her best apparatus. Here, she pioneered the exceptionally difficult and innovative ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Li%20%28gymnast%29 |
Kemak is a language spoken in East Timor and in the border region of Indonesian West Timor. An alternate name is Ema. It is most closely related to Tocodede and Mambai. It has the status of one of the national languages in the East Timor constitution, besides the official languages of Portuguese and Tetum. The number o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemak%20language |
Paul Vincent Costello (December 27, 1894 – April 17, 1986) was an American triple Olympic Gold Medal winner in rowing. He was the first rower to win a gold medal in the same event, double sculls, at three consecutive Olympics. He also won numerous national titles in both the single and double scull in the 1920s.
Coste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Costello |
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 dystopian film adapted from Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, the film stars Natasha Richardson (Offred), Faye Dunaway (Serena Joy), Robert Duvall (The Commander), Aidan Quinn (Nick), and Elizabeth McGovern (Moira). The screenpla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Handmaid%27s%20Tale%20%28film%29 |
Aria ( Ar(e)ía, آريا; Latin Aria, representing Old Persian. 𐏃𐎼𐎡𐎺 Haraiva, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬌𐬬𐬀 Harōiva) was an Achaemenid region centered on the city of Herat in present-day western Afghanistan. In classical sources, Aria has been several times confused with the greater region of ancient Ariana, of which Aria fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria%20%28region%29 |
The siege of Capua was a military operation involving the states of medieval southern Italy, beginning in May 1098 and lasting forty days. It was an interesting siege historically for the assemblage of great persons it saw and militarily for the cooperation of Norman and Saracen forces which it necessitated.
The sieg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Capua |
Lu Li (; born August 30, 1976) is a Chinese gymnast.
Lu made the Chinese national team in late 1991. However, liver illness almost prevented her from competing in the Olympic Games. In April 1992, just a few months before the Barcelona Games, she made her international debut at the World Championships in Paris, wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%20Li |
Strange Free World is the second album by British alternative rock band Kitchens of Distinction, released on 19 February 1991 in the US by A&M Records and on 18 March 1991 in the UK by One Little Indian Records. It is the follow-up to their 1989 debut Love Is Hell. Noted producer Hugh Jones, who worked with Echo & the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20Free%20World |
Christine Sefolosha (born 1955) is a Swiss painter, born in Montreux.
Work and exhibitions
Her works have been shown at numerous one person and group exhibitions, including at the Cavin Morris Gallery in New York City, American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and the Galerie Polad-Hardouin in Paris. and the Halle Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Sefolosha |
A. A. Watts may refer to:
Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), British poet and journalist
Alaric Alfred Watts (1825–1901), British clerk and spiritualist
Alf Watts (1862–1928), British socialist
See also
Watts (surname) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Watts |
Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name. Produced by Ingenious Media and Zadan/Meron Productions, and adapted from both Waters's 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray%20%282007%20film%29 |
Dartmouth High School is a Canadian public high school located in the Brightwood neighbourhood of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Encompassing grades 9 through 12, Dartmouth High School has always had a diverse student body with many ethnic groups, along with a wide variety of courses and educational opportunities for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%20High%20School%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29 |
The men's individual competition with free revolver event was one of the competitions in the Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris. It was held on 1 August 1900. 20 shooters from 4 nations competed, with five shooters per nation. Medals were given for individual high scores, and the scores of the five sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20at%20the%201900%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%2050%20metre%20pistol |
Zeke is a masculine given name and nickname, sometimes a shortened form (hypocorism) of Ezekiel, which may refer to:
People
Caleb Bailey (1898-1957), US Marine Corps brigadier general and athlete
Zeke Bella (1930–2013), American baseball player
Zeke Bonura (1908–1987), American baseball player
Zeke Bratkowski (1931–20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeke |
George Thomas Stovall (November 23, 1877 – November 5, 1951), nicknamed "Firebrand", was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Cleveland Naps and the St. Louis Browns in the American League, and he also played two seasons with the Kansas City Packers of the short-lived Federal League. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Stovall |
Sarah Gibson Blanding (November 22, 1898 – March 3, 1985) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as Vassar College's sixth president (1946–1964) and its first female president. A strong public advocate, she worked hard to advance the professional, political, and academic place of women in the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Gibson%20Blanding |
Harry Woods (12 March 1890 – 1956) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He initially trained as a glass worker whilst playing as an amateur for St Helens Recreation, and then Ashton Town and St Helens Town. In 1911, he joined Norwich City, then in the Southern League, where he played until the out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Woods%20%28footballer%29 |
Vedanta University is a proposed, private, multi-disciplinary, co-educational university to be started by Anil Agarwal of Vedanta Resources corporation near Puri-Konark highway, Odisha, India. According to news reports and as of September 2010, there were no clear plans regarding the establishment of this proposed Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedanta%20University |
Harry Woods may refer to:
Harry M. Woods (1896–1970), musician and songwriter
Harry Woods (actor) (1889–1968), American actor
Harry Woods (footballer) (1894–?), English footballer
Harry Woods (Illinois politician) (1863–1914), American politician
Harry Woods (Australian politician) (born 1947), Australian politic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Woods |
Ketel is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain of perhaps Kabar origin, who lived at the end of the 9th century. He was the father of Alaptolma, and the first known ancestor of the Koppán clan.
According to the medieval Gesta Hungarorum, the leader of the Magyars, Árpád, donated a large estate to Ketel along the Danube ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketel |
Schwieberdingen is a municipality of the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The town itself is located about from Stuttgart, the state capital, and from Ludwigsburg, the district capital. Schwieberdingen belongs to the Stuttgart Region and Metropolitan Region. Schwieberdingen is twinned with the Fren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwieberdingen |
In numerical analysis, Lebedev quadrature, named after Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev, is an approximation to the surface integral of a function over a three-dimensional sphere. The grid is constructed so to have octahedral rotation and inversion symmetry. The number and location of the grid points together with a corres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebedev%20quadrature |
Hartwick Pines State Park is a public recreation area covering in Crawford County near Grayling and Interstate 75 on the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The state park contains an old-growth forest of white pines and red pines, known as the Hartwick Pines. It is claimed by the Michigan Department of Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwick%20Pines%20State%20Park |
Viridomarus (or Britomartus as translations vary; died 222 BC) was a Gaulish military leader who led an army against an army of the Roman Republic at the Battle of Clastidium. The Romans won the battle, and in the process, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the Roman leader, earned the spolia opima by killing Viridomarus in si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viridomarus |
Francis Edmund Storrs (1883 – 10/11 November 1918) was a British academic and intelligence agent. He was the younger brother of Arabist and colonial administrator Sir Ronald Storrs.
He was educated at Radley College from 1897 to 1902, and then at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he received a BA; he won scholarships at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Storrs |
Alaptolma (or Tolma) is a legendary Magyar tribal chieftain who lived in the first part of the 10th century.
According to the medieval Gesta Hungarorum, Alaptolma, son of Ketel, built a castle on the estate of his father, at the confluence of the Danube and Váh () rivers. This ancient castle became the core of the tow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaptolma |
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New Constitution) was a Protestant Christian denomination with Arminian theology, roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities, and close ties to Methodism that formed in 1889 by a majority of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ when that denomination (of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20United%20Brethren%20in%20Christ%20%28New%20Constitution%29 |
The Kemak (, also known as Ema) people are an ethnic group numbering 80,000 in north-central Timor island. They primarily live in the district of Bobonaro, East Timor, while the rest live in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.
They are close to the Tetum people. The Kemak people speak the Kemak language. Kem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemak%20people |
Dr. Zygmunt Szkopiak (12 December 1926 – 21 October 2002) was a Polish scientist, diplomat, and historian who from 1986 until its dissolution in 1990, served as the last Minister of Foreign Affairs in the London-based Polish government-in-exile.
Born in Morzewiec, a small village in north-central Poland, 14 km from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt%20Szkopiak |
Paul ten Bruggencate (24 February 1901 – 14 September 1961) was a German astronomer and astrophysicist.
Youth and education
Ten Bruggencate was born in Arosa, Switzerland, and went to several schools in Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Germany. He further studied at the University of Munich and started his PhD w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20ten%20Bruggencate |
County Route 539 (CR 539) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from Main Street (U.S. Route 9 or US 9) in Tuckerton to CR 535 in Cranbury Township. Much of the two-lane route passes through isolated areas of the Pine Barrens and the eastern end of the Fort Dix entity of Joint Base M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Route%20539%20%28New%20Jersey%29 |
The King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre () (KFSH&RC) is tertiary referral hospital in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia.
Overview
As a tertiary referral hospital, it offers primary and highly specialized inpatient and outpatient medical care and participates in clinical and research studies. Ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Faisal%20Specialist%20Hospital%20and%20Research%20Centre |
The Clitophon (, also transliterated as Cleitophon; ) is a 4th-century BC dialogue traditionally ascribed to Plato, though the work's authenticity is debated. It is the shortest dialogue in Plato's traditional corpus. It centers on a discussion between Clitophon and Socrates, with Socrates remaining mostly silent. Most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitophon%20%28dialogue%29 |
This is a list of areas of existing old-growth forest which include at least of old growth. Ecoregion information from "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World".
(NB: The terms "old growth" and "virgin" may have various definitions and meanings throughout the world. See old-growth forest for more information.)
Africa
A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20old-growth%20forests |
In Medieval France a paréage or pariage was a feudal treaty recognising joint sovereignty over a territory by two rulers, who were on an equal footing, pari passu; compare peer. On a familial scale, paréage could also refer to the equal division of lands and the titles they brought between sons of an inheritance.
Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%A9age |
The New Orleans mayoral election of 2002 was an election for Mayor of New Orleans; the primary round of voting was held on February 2, 2002, followed by a runoff on March 2. It resulted in the election of Ray Nagin as mayor.
Background
In New Orleans, Louisiana mayoral elections, there is an open primary. Unless on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20New%20Orleans%20mayoral%20election |
Yulduz Usmonova () (born December 12, 1963) is an Uzbek singer, song-writer, composer and actress. She is the People's artist of Uzbekistan and honored artist of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. She has achieved widespread fame in Uzbekistan, other parts of Central Asia, and more recently in Turkey. Usmonova ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulduz%20Usmonova |
The General Electric YF120, internally designated as GE37, was a variable cycle afterburning turbofan engine designed by General Electric Aircraft Engines in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program. It was designed to produce maximum thrust in the class.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Electric%20YF120 |
The International Skating Union has organised the European Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial championships were held in the years 1891–1892.
History
Program
In the years 1891–1892, three distances had to be skated: ⅓ mile (536 m) – 1 mile (1,609 m) – 3 miles (4,828 m).
In the years 1893–189... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Speed%20Skating%20Championships%20for%20Men |
The International Skating Union has organised the European Speed Skating Championships for Women since 1970, but they were discontinued after the 1974 tournament because of lack of interest. The European Championships for Women were reinstated in 1981.
History
Distances used
In the years 1970–1982, four distances ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Speed%20Skating%20Championships%20for%20Women |
The Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten (BSB) () is the elite police tactical unit of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Its missions include counter-terrorism, protection of government and military officials, and targeting organised crime.
Like many other European police tactical units, the BSB was established i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade%20Speciale%20Beveiligingsopdrachten |
Braubach is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 10 km southeast of Koblenz. Braubach has assorted medieval architecture intact, including portions of the town wall, half-timbered buildings, and castle Marksburg on the hill abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braubach |
A Boxpok is a steam locomotive wheel that gains its strength through being made of a number of box sections rather than having traditional solid spokes (the name is a variation on "box-spoke"). Being hollow, they allow better counterbalancing and stability than conventional drivers, which is important for fast locomo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxpok |
Eduardo Mendoza may refer to:
Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa (1917-2009), Venezuelan scientific researcher, politician, and statesman
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1943-), Spanish novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Mendoza |
Wekiwa Springs State Park is a Florida State Park in Apopka, Florida. It is located 20 minutes north of Orlando, off Interstate 4 at exit 94, near Altamonte Springs and Longwood. The park also contains the head water of the Wekiva River. It also serves as the headquarters of one of the state's five AmeriCorps Florida ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wekiwa%20Springs%20State%20Park |
In aeronautics, ice protection systems keep atmospheric moisture from accumulating on aircraft surfaces, such as wings, propellers, rotor blades, engine intakes, and environmental control intakes. Ice buildup can change the shape of airfoils and flight control surfaces, degrading control and handling characteristics as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20protection%20system |
Robert, Rob, or Bob Saunders may refer to:
Robert Saunders (Irish lawyer) (c. 1650–1708), Serjeant-at-law
Robert Saunders Jr. (1805–1868), American academic and politician
Robert Alan Saunders, American computer scientist and professor
Robert Hood Saunders (1903–1955), mayor of Toronto
Rob Saunders (born 1968), Ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Saunders |
Christian Falster (January 1, 1690 – October 24, 1752) was a Danish poet and philologist, born at Branderslev (island of Laaland). He became rector of the school at Ribe. He preferred to live there, refusing to accept better positions, and keeping his rectorship. He published translations of Ovid (1719) and the Sat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Falster |
Julius Erich Wess (5 December 19348 August 2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry and conformal field theory. He was also a recipient of the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Wess |
Nasalis may refer to:
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), the only monkey in the genus Nasalis
Nasalis muscle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasalis |
Super Cub may refer to:
Backcountry Super Cubs Super Cub, an American amateur-built aircraft design
Honda Super Cub, a light motorcycle, and the most produced motor vehicle in history.
Piper PA-18 Super Cub, an American light aircraft design.
Super Cub, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series
Supercub the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Cub |
Robert Major ("R. M.") Garrett (1807-1885), was a doctor and Virginia politician who served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1859 to 1863. Garrett was educated at the College of William & Mary, and, in addition to serving as mayor, he was a physician and the administrator of Eastern State Hospital.
Reference... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20M.%20Garrett |
The Langley Aerodrome was a pioneering but unsuccessful manned, tandem wing-configuration powered flying machine, designed at the close of the 19th century by Smithsonian Institution Secretary Samuel Langley. The U.S. Army paid $50,000 for the project in 1898 after Langley's successful flights with small-scale unmanned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley%20Aerodrome |
Dùn-Àluinn (1912) by Iain MacCormaic (1860–1947) was the first full-length novel in Scottish Gaelic literature. It was first published as a weekly serial in the People's Journal May - September 1910. Iain MacCormaic had also published a novella, Gun d'thug i speis do'n Armunn a few years before. The name is sometimes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B9n%20Aluinn |
Ross Smith may refer to:
Australian rules footballers
Ross Smith (b. 1942), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda
Ross Smith (b. 1965), Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne
Association footballers
Ross Smith (Scottish footballer) (born 1992), Scottish association football player
Ross Smith (soccer) (b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Smith |
Angela Margaret Scoular (8 November 1945 – 11 April 2011) was a British actress.
Early life
Her father was an engineer and she was born in London. She attended St George's School, Harpenden, Queen's College, Harley Street and RADA.
Career
Scoular was among a small group of actors to have appeared in two James Bond fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Scoular |
Nicholas Scratch is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is predominantly a foe of the Fantastic Four and Patsy Walker.
Publication history
Nicholas Scratch first appeared in Fantastic Four #185 (August 1977) and was created by Len Wein (writer) and George Pérez (artist).
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Scratch |
Shavahn Nikole Church (born May 3, 1989 in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California) is an American-British artistic gymnast who lives and trained in California. She formerly competed for the United States but decided in 2005 to represent Great Britain.
Early life
Church was born and raised in the California to British pare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavahn%20Church |
Gitanjali S. Gutierrez is an American lawyer. She is the lawyer for the defendant Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is held at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay by the United States Military.
Gitanjali Gutierrez is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York–based nonprofit organization.
The Toronto Star quote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanjali%20S.%20Gutierrez |
Kebira Crater () is the name given to a circular topographic feature that was identified in 2007 by Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim using satellite imagery, Radarsat-1, and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data in the Sahara desert. This feature straddles the border between Egypt and Libya. The name of this fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebira%20Crater |
Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (born Anne-Josèphe Terwagne; 13 August 1762 – 8 June 1817) was a Belgian singer, orator and organizer in the French Revolution. She was born at Marcourt, in Prince-Bishopric of Liège (from which comes the appellation "de Méricourt"), a small town in the modern Belgian province of Lux... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theroigne%20de%20Mericourt |
Altrincham was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1945. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
History and boundaries
Altrincham was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 from the much larger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altrincham%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 |
Bhitarkanika Mangroves is a mangrove wetland in Odisha, India, covering an area of in the Brahmani River and Baitarani River deltas.
History
The Bhitarkanika Mangroves were zamindari forests until 1952, when the government of Odisha abolished the zamindari system, and put the zamindari forests in the control of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhitarkanika%20Mangroves |
ATI Avivo is a set of hardware and low level software features present on the ATI Radeon R520 family of GPUs and all later ATI Radeon products. ATI Avivo was designed to offload video decoding, encoding, and post-processing from a computer's CPU to a compatible GPU. ATI Avivo compatible GPUs have lower CPU usage when a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI%20Avivo |
The Barrelman was a name adopted by Joseph Smallwood for his fifteen-minute radio program on the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland to promote pride in Newfoundland's history and culture. The show began as a column in the Daily News newspaper, and later appeared as a radio show on St. John's radio station VONF (N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Barrelman |
A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way.
The terms dispositional belief and occurrent belief refer, in the former case, to a belief that is held in the mind but not currently being considered, and in the latter case, to a belief tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition |
John Henry Owen Brown DCM (c. October 1908 – 15 September 1965) was a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Artillery in the British Army, who served in France at the beginning of the Second World War. He was one of Britain's most successful espionage agents as a prisoner of war following his capture by German forces, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Brown%20%28British%20Army%20soldier%29 |
Breck School is an independent college-preparatory preK–12 school in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. It was founded in 1886 and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The school includes a Lower School consisting of grades preschool through four, a Middle School consisting of grades five through e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breck%20School |
The Bloomington PrairieThunder were a minor professional ice hockey team based in Bloomington, Illinois. They were a member of the Central Hockey League in the Turner Conference. The team was originally a member of the United Hockey League (later known as the International Hockey League) prior to its merger into the CH... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomington%20PrairieThunder |
Perilla ketone is a natural terpenoid that consists of a furan ring with a six-carbon side chain containing a ketone functional group. It is a colorless oil that is sensitive to oxygen, becoming colored upon standing. The ketone was identified in 1943 by Sebe as the main component of the essential oil of Perilla frute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perilla%20ketone |
The Lakemba Mosque, also known as the Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib and officially the Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque, is Australia's largest mosque. It is located at 71-75 Wangee Road, Lakemba. Owned and managed by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), Lakemba Mosque and the LMA offices are situated contiguously at the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakemba%20Mosque |
Music Box was a pioneering pan-European 24-hour cable and satellite television channel that ran from 29 March 1984 to 30 January 1987, and was operated by Music Box Limited. It was originally one of three services (along with Premiere and The Children's Channel) that formed Thorn EMI's venture into satellite television... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Box%20%28TV%20channel%29 |
Sophie Milman (born 1983) is a Russian-born Canadian jazz vocalist.
After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is Jewish, spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz. Her family later emigrated to Toronto, Canada.
Milman's self-titled debut album was released o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Milman |
Major Abraham Nicholas (died Sunday, September 3, 1738) served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1735 to 1736. He married a woman named Ann and had at least one son, Abraham Nicholas who died on March 5, 1751.
Nicholas was the first Adjutant-General of the Virginia Colony from 1 November 1728, until his death te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Nicholas |
Inside the Asylum is a 2004 book by former US Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin, which accuses the UN and "Old Europe" of anti-Americanism.
Babbin accuses the UN of having links to terrorist organizations and selling its moral legitimacy for oil and enriching itself at the expense of the Iraqi people but underminin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20the%20Asylum |
Andrew Lewis (born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire on 14 May 1963) is a British composer known mainly for his acousmatic music, that is, electroacoustic music heard only over loudspeakers, though he also composes some chamber and orchestral music.
Education
He studied music at the University of Birmingham in En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Lewis%20%28composer%29 |
Champions
Major League Baseball
World Series: New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4–0)
All-Star Game, July 6 at Crosley Field: National League, 4-1
Other champions
Amateur World Series: Great Britain
Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: West, 5-4
Central American and Caribbean Games: Cuba
Awards and honors
Basebal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%20in%20baseball |
Hahnstätten is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the association community of Aar-Einrich. It is situated on the river Aar, approx. 10 km south of Limburg an der Lahn, and 35 km east of Koblenz. In 1949 the conductor Bruno Weil was born here.
Hahnstätten was the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahnst%C3%A4tten |
John Holloway (c.1666 – December 14, 1734) was a politician and lawyer in the British colony of Virginia. He served as Speaker of the House of Burgesses (1720–34), having represented at various times, King and Queen County, York County and Williamsburg. He also served as the first mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia (1722–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Holloway%20%28Virginia%20politician%29 |
The Ottoman archives are a collection of historical sources related to the Ottoman Empire and a total of 39 nations whose territories one time or the other were part of this Empire, including 19 nations in the Middle East, 11 in the EU and Balkans, three in the Caucasus, two in Central Asia, Cyprus, as well as the Repu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%20archives |
groff ( ) (also called GNU troff) is a typesetting system that creates formatted output when given plain text mixed with formatting commands. It is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters.
Groff contains a large number of helper programs, preprocessors, and postprocessors including eqn, tbl, pic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groff%20%28software%29 |
South Brent is a large village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the small hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge and 14 miles (22 km) east-northeast of Plymouth.
Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Brent |
Edward Barradall (c. 1703–1743) was a British attorney, admiralty judge and politician who represented the College of William and Mary in the House of Burgesses, and compiled the first volume of decisions of the general Court of the Colony of Virginia.
Early and family life
Born in England to Henry Barradall and his w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Barradall |
Sherlock: Case of Evil is a 2002 made-for-television movie focusing on Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) as a young adult in his late 20s. The story noticeably departs from the classic depiction, style and backstory of the original material.
Plot summary
As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit of the criminal Professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock%3A%20Case%20of%20Evil |
In mathematics, the method of matched asymptotic expansions is a common approach to finding an accurate approximation to the solution to an equation, or system of equations. It is particularly used when solving singularly perturbed differential equations. It involves finding several different approximate solutions, eac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20matched%20asymptotic%20expansions |
Norm N. Nite (born Norman Durma, January 25, 1941), is the author of the Rock On: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock N' Roll book series. Nite began his career as a disk jockey at WGAR (AM) in Cleveland and later at WMJI there. He went on to host shows at WCBS-FM and WNBC in New York City. Nite's historical interest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%20N.%20Nite |
John Harmer served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1737 to 1738.
Harmer was mayor of Williamsburg in 1738 and 1746, a churchwarden for Bruton Parish Church, and Burgess for Williamsburg from 1742 to 1747. He also served as a justice of the York County Court.
Notes
References
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Encycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Harmer%20%28mayor%29 |
Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, (8 September 1879 – 1 December 1955) was a British colonial administrator and politician.
Early life
Grigg was the son of Henry Bridewell Grigg, CIE, a member of the Indian Civil Service, sometime Political Resident of Travancore, and Elizabeth Louisa, née Thomson, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Grigg%2C%201st%20Baron%20Altrincham |
Ciarduna is a type of Italian pastry.
Ciarduna siciliana is a traditional sweet pastry from the province of Agrigento, Sicily (Italy). It consists of an almond cookie shell filled with a ricotta filling.
Traditional ingredients
flour
sugar
Strutto
vanilla
active yeast
Ammonia Baking Powder (ammonium bicarbonate)
Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciarduna |
George Gilmer (1700 – January 15, 1757) served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1746 to 1747.
Biography
Gilmer was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1700. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1731, Gilmer emigrated to Virginia, settling in Williamsburg. In the mid-1730s, Gilmer owned and ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gilmer%20Sr. |
TIM is the name of a Japanese comedy unit (kombi). The unit consists of and . They are most famous for their antics on the owarai show Uchimura Produce, as well as various children's shows such as . The two are also members of the owarai and music group NO PLAN. Red, the tsukkomi, is originally from Kyoto, and Golgo, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM%20%28owarai%29 |
Dipterocarpus coriaceus is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae endemic to Kalimantan, Sumatra and peninsular Malaysia. This very large tree occurs in mixed dipterocarp forests on hillsides and undulating land. This species was reported in the New Straits Times to be extinct in Peninsular Malaysia in July 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipterocarpus%20coriaceus |
Whichford is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, about southeast of Shipston-on-Stour. The parish adjoins the county boundary with Oxfordshire and the village is about north of the Oxfordshire town of Chipping Norton.
The parish includes the hamlet of Ascott, about east of Whichford village. The 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whichford |
Manavadar is a city and a municipality in Junagadh district of India.
History
Bantva Manavadar was a princely state of British India. Founded in 1733, it became a British protectorate in 1818. On 25 September 1947, it acceded to the newly formed Pakistan. However, Indian forces entered the area on the grounds that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manavadar |
John Amson (1698 – death unknown, possibly 1765) was an English physician and amateur botanist who moved to Virginia and served as alderman and mayor of Williamsburg, during the Colonial period, from 1750 to 1751.
Biography
Amson owned lots 212–217 in Williamsburg from 1746 to around 1758. In 1762, he bought 180 acre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Amson |
John Francis McElhone (born 21 April 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish guitarist and songwriter.
He has played with three bands who have enjoyed a top-20 presence in the UK Singles Chart; the new wave bands Altered Images and Hipsway, and the alternative/pop rock band Texas. Altered Images and Texas have had to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20McElhone |
The Naked Truth is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from September 13, 1995, to February 28, 1996, and on NBC from January 16, 1997, to May 25, 1998. The series stars Téa Leoni and Holland Taylor. The show took place at the office of a tabloid news publication.
Plot
Pulitzer Prize nominated photo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Naked%20Truth%20%28TV%20series%29 |
U.S. Route 30 (US 30) is a U.S. Highway that runs east–west across the southern part of Pennsylvania, passing through Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on its way from the West Virginia state line east to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge over the Delaware River into New Jersey.
In Pennsylvania, US 30 runs along or near the tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Route%2030%20in%20Pennsylvania |
Dipterocarpus cornutus is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae native to peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Kalimantan. Reaching heights of up to 50 meters tall, it is known for having large leaves. Its flowers are around 4 cm in diameter and of a pale yellow colouration. It drops seeds with green ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipterocarpus%20cornutus |
In Australian folklore, the Queensland tiger is a creature said to live in the Queensland area in eastern Australia.
Also known by a native name, yarri, it is described as being a dog-sized feline with stripes and a long tail, prominent front teeth and a savage temperament. It has been hypothesized to be a survivor o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland%20tiger |
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