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A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it as one's own. Usurpers can rise to power in a region by often unexpected physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usurper |
Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz (born October 14, 1950) is a retired American speed skater and track cyclist. She won three world titles in each of these sports, twice in the same year (in 1973 and 1976). In 1976, she also became the first American athlete to win three medals at one Winter Olympics.
Early life and educati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila%20Young |
Alexander John Jordan Jr. (March 3, 1914, Madison, Wisconsin – November 6, 1989) was best known as the creator of the House on the Rock, an eccentric architectural and entertainment attraction in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Biography
Published information on Jordan's life is scant. There are three biographies, all self-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Jordan%20Jr. |
CurlON (formerly the Ontario Curling Association) is the governing body of curling in Southern Ontario. Northern Ontario is governed by the Northern Ontario Curling Association (NOCA). The CurlON sends a team to represent Team Ontario at all major Canadian Championships. The NOCA sends a separate team to all of these e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CurlON |
Edgeworks Entertainment is a machinima and new media production company founded by Alexander Winn and cofounded by Lacey Hannan. The company first gained recognition for their machinima series including The Codex Series, Vox Populi, Forsaken and Radical. Edgeworks is also known for hit terraforming game TerraGenesis, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworks%20Entertainment |
Ardglass Castle (also known as The Newark) is situated in Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was originally a row of 15th century warehouses by the harbour. Large sections of the original building can still be seen within the modern club house of Ardglass Golf Club. (Grid ref: 561 371)
History
The 15th centur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardglass%20Castle |
Hubert Marie Eugène Pierlot (, 23 December 1883 – 13 December 1963) was a Belgian politician and Prime Minister of Belgium, serving between 1939 and 1945. Pierlot, a lawyer and jurist, served in World War I before entering politics in the 1920s. A member of the Catholic Party, Pierlot became Prime Minister in 1939, sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Pierlot |
Failure is the seventh studio album by avant-garde band King Missile, released on September 15, 1998, by Shimmy Disc.
Reception
Tom Schulte of AllMusic awarded Failure three out of five stars, calling its music "repulsively absurd, detailed personal attacks of venomous cynicism" that "may be as strongly worded as Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20%28King%20Missile%20album%29 |
Goofspiel (also known as The Game of Pure Strategy, GOPS or Psychological Jujitsu) is a card game for two or more players. It was invented by Merrill Flood while at Princeton University in the 1930s, and Alex Randolph describes a similar game as having been popular with the 5th Indian Army during the Second World War.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofspiel |
They is the second studio album by King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), released in 1988 by Shimmy Disc.
Reception
Tim DiGravina of AllMusic called They "remarkably accomplished" and "filled with potent, dark humor, but its gentle spirit and artistic puns make for a compelling listen." Trouser Press wrote that "Hall's b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%20%28album%29 |
Raritan Landing is a historical unincorporated community located within Piscataway Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which was once an inland port, the farthest upstream point ocean-going ships could reach along the Raritan River, across from New Brunswick. Begun in the early 18th century i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raritan%20Landing%2C%20New%20Jersey |
The United Independent Front (UIF) was a political party in South Africa. It broke away from the United Democratic Movement (UDM). Until his death in 2006, it was led by Malizole Diko. He and Nomakhaya Mdaka were the sole members of parliament and left the UDM on 15 September 2005 during the floor crossing period.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Independent%20Front |
Emanuel "Emmy" Bezzina (born October 29, 1947, to Joseph Bezzina and Joan née Caruana) is the co-founder and chairman of the fringe Maltese political party Alpha Liberal Democratic Party. He is also a broadcaster and has regular weekly TV programmes in which he discusses law and social problems on Smash Television.
E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy%20Bezzina |
Multani v Commission scolaire Marguerite‑Bourgeoys, [2006] 1 S.C.R. 256, 2006 SCC 6 is a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in which the Court struck down an order of a Quebec school authority, that prohibited a Sikh child from wearing a kirpan to school, as a violation of freedom of religion under section 2(a) of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multani%20v%20Commission%20scolaire%20Marguerite%E2%80%91Bourgeoys |
The 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship was the 15th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It took place in the Netherlands between 10 June and 2 July 2005.
Venues
Qualification
The following 24 teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. Host country the Netherlands did not have to qualify fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20FIFA%20World%20Youth%20Championship |
AVOmeter is a British trademark for a line of multimeters and electrical measuring instruments; the brand is now owned by the Megger Group Limited. The first Avometer was made by the Automatic Coil Winder and Electrical Equipment Co. in 1923, and measured direct voltage, direct current and resistance. Possibly the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avometer |
Girne District () is one of six districts of Northern Cyprus. It is divided between two sub-districts: Girne Sub-district and the Çamlıbel Sub-district. Its capital is Kyrenia, also known by its Turkish name, as Girne. Its population was 73,577 in the 2011 census. Its Governor is Mehmet Envergil. It has the same bound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girne%20District |
Yahya Michot (born Jean Michot) is a Belgian Muslim who is a professor of Islamic studies.
Background
Yahyah Michot was the president of the Higher Council of Muslims in Belgium from 1995 to 1998.
Yahyah Michot teaches at the Hartford Seminary, Connecticut as a professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahyah%20Michot |
Jumaat Haji Adam (born 1956) is a botanist and taxonomist specialising in the carnivorous pitcher plant genus Nepenthes.
Adam has described numerous Nepenthes taxa, mostly with C. C. Wilcock, including the species N. faizaliana and N. mapuluensis, as well as the natural hybrids N. × alisaputrana, N. × sarawakiensis,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumaat%20Haji%20Adam |
Christopher C. Wilcock (born 1946) is a taxonomist specialising in the carnivorous pitcher plant genus Nepenthes.
Together with J. H. Adam, Wilcock has described several Nepenthes taxa, including the species N. faizaliana and N. mapuluensis, as well as the natural hybrids N. × alisaputrana and N. × sarawakiensis.
Ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20C.%20Wilcock |
Physical effect may refer to:
Physical effect or phenomenon, any thing which manifests itself
Physical effect, a consequence of causality (physics)
Physical effect, a therapeutic effect or adverse effect of medical treatment on the body
Physical effect or practical effect, a special effect achieved during filming r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20effect |
A midnight ramble was a segregation-era midnight showing of films for an African American audience, often in a cinema where, under Jim Crow laws they would never have been admitted at other times. The films shown were often from among the over 500 films that were made between 1910 and 1950 in the United States with bla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20ramble |
The Java Research License (JRL) is a software distribution license created by Sun in an effort to simplify and relax the terms from the "research section" of the Sun Community Source License. Sun's J2SE 1.6.0, Mustang, is licensed under the JRL as well as many projects at Java.net.
The JRL was introduced in 2003 to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Research%20License |
The Pindos () is breed of pony or small horse native to the Pindus mountain range in Thessaly and Epirus in Greece. It is also present in mountainous parts of Thrace and Macedonia. There is a feral herd near Neochori, Karditsa, close to Lake Plastiras.
The Pindos is hardy and frugal, with good stamina, and is used for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindos%20Pony |
"X-Tinction Agenda" is a 1990 crossover comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics that ran through Uncanny X-Men and its spin-off titles, X-Factor and New Mutants. "X-Tinction Agenda" not only reunited the X-Men after a prolonged period in which the team had been scattered around the globe (following the events o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Tinction%20Agenda |
The EMD 567 is a line of large medium-speed diesel engines built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. This engine, which succeeded Winton's 201A, was used in EMD's locomotives from 1938 until its replacement in 1966 by the EMD 645. It has a bore of , a stroke of and a displacement of per cylinder. Like the Win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD%20567 |
The Cirque de Gavarnie () is a cirque in the central Pyrenees, in Southwestern France, close to the border of Spain. It is within the commune of Gavarnie, the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, and the Pyrénées National Park. Major features of the cirque are La Brèche de Roland (English: Roland's Pass) and the Gavarnie F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque%20de%20Gavarnie |
Crossed Out was a powerviolence band from Encinitas, California. The band was active from early 1990 until late 1993. The group is considered to be a very important band that helped define powerviolence with a style that incorporated political lyrics, blast beats, and quick tempos. They have been named as the "dark lor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossed%20Out |
Tommy Joe Hudspeth (September 14, 1931 – June 23, 2015) was an American and Canadian football coach and executive at both the collegiate and professional levels. He was the head coach at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1964 to 1971, and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) from 1972 through 1973, compiling an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Hudspeth |
Josef Wagner (12 January 1899 – 22 April or 2 May 1945) was from 1931 the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South and, as of December 1934, also of Gau Silesia. In 1941 he was dismissed from his offices, then expelled from the Nazi Party (NSDAP), imprisoned by the Gestapo, and likely executed around the time of end of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Wagner%20%28Gauleiter%29 |
Josef Wagner may refer to:
Josef Wagner (composer) (1856–1908), Austrian composer
Josef Wagner (cyclist) (1916–2003), Swiss cyclist
Josef Wagner (Gauleiter) (1899–1945), Nazi official in the Third Reich
Josef Wagner the Younger (1901–1957), Czech painter and sculptor
Josef Wagner (painter) (born 1938), Czech pain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Wagner |
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Whale's Tale Water Park is a water park located in Lincoln, New Hampshire, United States. It has been operating for more than 30 years.
Rides
The park has a total of 11 attractions, with recent additions of Shipwreck Island in 2010, Poseidon's Voyage in 2013, and Akua Beach in 2017. The park features rides for all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale%27s%20Tale%20Water%20Park |
I Crush Bozo is an album by the band Happy Flowers, released in 1988.
Track listing
"Get Me off the Broiler Pan" - 2:54
"I'm the Stupid One" - 2:29
"More Mittens" - 1:22
"Old Relatives" - 2:22
"Get Paul's Head" - 1:34
"Why Don't I Bleed" - 2:09
"Fever Dream" - 2:44
"They Cleaned My Cut Out With a Wire Brush" - 3:55
"I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Crush%20Bozo |
Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 2 June 1952) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Of Ukrainian heritage, Kulyk Keefer often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of immigrants.
Biography
She was born as Janice Kulyk on 2 June 1952 in Toronto, Ontario. She studied English literature at the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice%20Kulyk%20Keefer |
Allison Moorer (born June 21, 1972) is an American country singer-songwriter. She signed with MCA Nashville in 1997 and made her debut on the U.S. Billboard Country Chart with the release of her debut single, "A Soft Place to Fall", which she co-wrote with Gwil Owen. The song was featured in Robert Redford's The Horse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison%20Moorer |
Benedictus Hubertus Danser (May 24, 1891, Schiedam – October 18, 1943, Groningen), often abbreviated B. H. Danser, was a Dutch taxonomist and botanist. Danser specialised in the plant families Loranthaceae, Nepenthaceae, and Polygonaceae.
In 1928, Danser published an exhaustive revision of the genus Nepenthes, recogni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictus%20Hubertus%20Danser |
Don Martín García Óñez de Loyola (1549 in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa – December 24, 1598 at Curalaba) was a Spanish Basque soldier and Royal Governor of the Captaincy General of Chile. Very likely Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, was his uncle.
Early life
As a young man in 1568, he arrived in Peru at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn%20Garc%C3%ADa%20%C3%93%C3%B1ez%20de%20Loyola |
Childs v Desormeaux, is a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the topic of social host liability. The Court held that a social host does not owe a duty of care to a person injured by a guest who has consumed alcohol.
Background
Julie Zimmerman and Dwight Courrier hosted a New Year's pot-luck dinner to which guests we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childs%20v%20Desormeaux |
John Barnes (17 July 1868 – 31 January 1938) was a union official and Australian federal politician representing the Labor Party.
Early life
Barnes was born at Hamilton, South Australia, the son of John Thomas Barnes, a drover who had emigrated from Somerset, England, and his wife, Mary, née Comerford, from County Cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Barnes%20%28Australian%20politician%29 |
The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was a single-engined, propeller-driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh. Two versions of the same basic design were built for the United States Air Force, one made largely of woo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20Model%208%20Sirius |
William Glenn Brundige (November 13, 1948 – December 29, 2018) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins for eight seasons, from 1970 through 1977. He is currently sixth on the Redskins all-time sack list.
Born in Holyoke, Colorado, Brundige played high s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Brundige |
Darktown Revue (1931) is an 18-minute American Pre-Code short film by Oscar Micheaux, his first short venture into sound film. The dances and ensembles were co-directed by Leonard Harper and the picture was shot along with their feature-length all-black talkie, The Exile. As in many early talkies, the camera-work is ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktown%20Revue |
Theosophical teachings have borrowed some concepts and terms from Buddhism. Some theosophists like Helena Blavatsky, Helena Roerich and Henry Steel Olcott also became Buddhists. Henry Steel Olcott helped shape the design of the Buddhist flag. Tibetan Buddhism was popularised in the West at first mainly by Theosophists ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20and%20Theosophy |
Oof is an album by the punk rock band Happy Flowers. It was released in 1989.
Track listing
"Stop Touching My Food"
"Unhappy Meal"
"Pickin' Scabs"
"There's a Soft Spot on the Baby's Head"
"Finger in My Crackerjacks"
"Ain't Got Nothin'"
"I Said I Wanna Watch Cartoons"
"My Arm Won't Wake Up"
"My Evil Twin"
"I'm Gonna Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oof%20%28album%29 |
The Cornelius Low House (also called Ivy Hall) is a Georgian manor in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, built in 1741 at Raritan Landing. The Cornelius Low House is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places. The house currently holds the Corneli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius%20Low%20House |
Paulinerkirche may refer to:
Paulinerkirche, Göttingen
Paulinerkirche, Leipzig | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinerkirche |
Gayla Reid (born 12 May 1945) is an Australian-born Canadian writer.
Biography
Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia. Remaining in Canada, she was active in the country's feminist movement,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayla%20Reid |
Toopy and Binoo () is a Canadian children's book series created by Dominique Jolin in 1994. In collaboration with Raymond Lebrun, it has been developed as an After Effect animated series produced by Echo Média (formerly Spectra Animation) and broadcast by PBS Kids and Treehouse in English and Télé-Québec in French. Ano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toopy%20and%20Binoo |
Magni is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
Arturo Magni (1925–2015), Italian engineer and entrepreneur
Caterina Magni (born 1966), Italian-born French archaeologist and anthropologist
Cesare Magni (14951534), Italian painter
Claude Magni (born 1950), French cyclist
Ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magni |
Robert "Bob" Ostertag (born April 19, 1957) is a musician, writer, and political activist based in San Francisco. He has published seven books, one feature film, a DVD, twenty-six albums, and collaborated with numerous musicians.
Musically, he is known for his politically charged compositions created from found sound ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Ostertag |
Ƴ (minuscule: ƴ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a hook. It is used in some African languages, such as Fula and Hausa, to represent a palatalized glottal stop, .
The placement of the hook on the capital Ƴ
The original Unicode charts showed the hook on the left, while most use in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%B3 |
Marilou Awiakta (born January 24, 1936 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American writer known for her poetry and essays about her experiences growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Biography and career
Marilou Awiakta is the seventh generation of her family to grow up in Appalachia, mostly in East Tennessee. Since 1730, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou%20Awiakta |
The Beaufort cipher, created by Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar to the Vigenère cipher, with a slightly modified enciphering mechanism and tableau. Its most famous application was in a rotor-based cipher machine, the Hagelin M-209. The Beaufort cipher is based on the Beaufort square which is esse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%20cipher |
The captopril challenge test (CCT) is a non-invasive medical test that measures the change in renin plasma-levels in response to administration of captopril, an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor. It is used to assist in the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis. It is not generally considered a useful test for chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captopril%20challenge%20test |
Alfred R. Berkeley, III (born in 1944) is an American businessman who was president of NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. from 1996 until 2000 and later vice-chair of the NASDAQ from 2000 to 2003. Currently, Berkeley is Chairman of Princeton Capital Management, LLC. Berkeley was also director of RealPage, Inc.
Education and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Berkeley |
David Blair Kirk (born 1960) is a computer scientist and former chief scientist and vice president of architecture at NVIDIA. As of 2019, he is an independent consultant and advisor.
Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Kirk%20%28scientist%29 |
Ralph Foster "Cy" Perkins (February 27, 1896 – October 2, 1963) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball most notably for the Philadelphia Athletics. Perkins batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He was born in Gloucester, Massac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy%20Perkins |
This is an alphabetical index of articles related to gardening.
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Arboretum -
Arb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20gardening%20articles |
Apple PowerCD is a CD player sold by Apple Computer in 1993 and discontinued several years later. It was a re-badged Philips-designed product (Philips CDF-100) which was sold in addition to Apple's speakers and also included a remote control. The PowerCD was capable of reading Kodak photo CDs, data CDs and audio CDs. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD |
Judith A. Hunt is an American illustrator, painter, cartoonist, and designer, who has produced a diverse array of artwork for books, magazines, television, comics, videos, and toys. She has worked as an art director and staff illustrator/designer for magazine companies. As of 2018, she illustrates educational texts and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Hunt |
Plesse Castle is situated to the north of Göttingen in Germany, close to the village of Bovenden.
History
The castle was transferred in 1015 from the private estate of Meinwerk, bishop of Paderborn to the city of Paderborn. Since 1150 it is the seat of the noble lords of Plesse, who named themselves for the castle. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesse%20Castle |
El Nacional is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its El Nacional newspaper and website. It, along with Últimas Noticias and El Universal, are the most widely read and circulated daily national newspapers in the country. In 2010, it had an average of 83,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Nacional%20%28Venezuela%29 |
La Imperial may refer to:
La Imperial, Chile or Antigua [Old] Imperial, a city and former bishopric
Nueva Imperial, a city 20km from Antigua Imperial | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Imperial |
Robert Hayes Gore (May 24, 1886 – December 26, 1972) was an American politician and incredibly successful newspaper publisher who was appointed as the governor of Puerto Rico, serving from July 1933 to January 1934.
Early life
He was born in Knottsville, Kentucky and attended local schools. He became a newspaper write... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hayes%20Gore |
1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) is the debut studio album by British electronic band The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs), later known as the KLF. 1987 was produced using extensive unauthorised samples that plagiarised a wide range of musical works, continuing a theme begun in the JAMs' debut single "All You Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%20%28What%20the%20Fuck%20Is%20Going%20On%3F%29 |
In quantum mechanics, the Wigner–Weyl transform or Weyl–Wigner transform (after Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner) is the invertible mapping between functions in the quantum phase space formulation and Hilbert space operators in the Schrödinger picture.
Often the mapping from functions on phase space to operators is call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%E2%80%93Weyl%20transform |
Dominic O'Brien (10 August 1957) is a British mnemonist and an author of memory-related books. He is the eight time World Memory Champion and works as a trainer for Peak Performance Training.
He began developing his mnemonic techniques in 1987 when he saw Creighton Carvello memorise a pack of 52 playing cards in less ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20O%27Brien |
The Crowd was a charity supergroup formed specifically to produce a charity record for the Bradford City stadium fire, in which 56 people died on 11 May 1985. The group consisted of singers, actors, television personalities and others.
Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers had decided to make a charity record to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crowd%20%28band%29 |
Laurier Macdonald High School (), abbreviated traditionally as "LMAC" but occasionally as "LMHS," is an English-language public school in the east end of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The school is named for John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada and a Father of Confederation and Wilfrid Laurier, the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurier%20Macdonald%20High%20School |
was the fourth of the six ships completed in the of light cruisers for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and like other vessels of her class, she was intended for use as the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She served in the early stages of World War II.
Background and description
The second batch of three Nagara-cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cruiser%20Yura |
The third Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from Wednesday 15 November to Saturday 26 November 1995. Eight nations took part, and they played a round robin. The top five teams joined the other three that have already qualified: Austral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Women%27s%20Field%20Hockey%20Olympic%20Qualifier |
NGC 5548 is a Type I Seyfert galaxy with a bright, active nucleus. This activity is caused by matter flowing onto a 65 million solar mass () supermassive black hole at the core. Morphologically, this is an unbarred lenticular galaxy with tightly-wound spiral arms, while shell and tidal tail features suggest that it has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205548 |
David Kirk (born 1961) is a rugby union footballer.
David Kirk may also refer to:
David Kirk (author), children's book author
David Kirk (activist) (1935–2007), civil rights activist and Eastern Orthodox cleric
David Kirk (scientist), Chief Scientist of NVIDIA Corporation
David Kirk (sociologist), American sociolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Kirk%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Naked Truth is a 1992 comedy film starring Robert Caso and Kevin Schon. Also featured in the film are Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lou Ferrigno, Erik Estrada, Ted Lange, Billy Barty, Yvonne De Carlo, Norman Fell, Little Richard, David Birney, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick Gautier, John Vernon and Camilla Sparv Natasha Pavlovich among oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Naked%20Truth%20%281992%20film%29 |
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847–1905) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries.
Biography
Burbidge was born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 21 March 1847, was son of Thomas Burbidge, a farmer and fruit-grower.
Burbridge entered the gardens of the Royal Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20William%20Burbidge |
Colinas do Sul is a municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil.
Location
Colinas is located in the Chapada dos Veadeiros statistical micro-region and is almost directly north of Brasília, to which it is connected by G0-327 as far as Alto Paraíso de Goiás then by G0-118 south to Planaltina, where the highway jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colinas%20do%20Sul |
A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but immensely more valuable. The phrase alludes to Esau's sale of his birthright for a meal ("mess") of lentil stew ("pottage") in and connotes short... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess%20of%20pottage |
A season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a returning television show. In the United States, many season premieres are aired in the fall time or, for mid-season replacements, either in the spring or late winter.
In countries such as Australia and the UK, a season premiere can be broadcast at any time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season%20premiere |
Diple (, meaning double, referring to the two lines in the mark ) was a mark used in the margins of ancient Greek manuscripts to draw attention to something in the text. It is sometimes also called antilambda because the sign resembles a Greek capital letter lambda () turned upon its side. In some ways its usage was si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diple%20%28textual%20symbol%29 |
The Henry Guest House is in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, at Livingston Avenue and Morris Street. It was originally located on New Street (previously known as Carroll Place) between Livingston Avenue and George Street. The Georgian stone farmhouse was built in 1760 by Henry Guest. He was a New Brunswick ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Guest%20House |
Infoware is a term that was coined by Tim O'Reilly and is defined as a website that use commoditized server software such as LAMP to enable data (e.g. book comments and ratings) to be shared via a website, and create a value as a result (e.g. other people's opinions of a particular book that you want to buy). The term ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoware |
Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, as well as paintings attributed to him or his school, have been compiled by various organizations. An investigation undertaken by The Bosch Research and Conservation Project of a multitude of Bosch's paintings included dendrochronological research and made an approximate dating of the pai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20paintings%20by%20Hieronymus%20Bosch |
Margaret Ann Peterson (January 10, 1941 – May 15, 2022) was an American actress and singer. She was best known for playing Charlene Darling on The Andy Griffith Show. She also played the character of Doris in the episode "A Girl for Goober" (1968).
Life and career
The youngest of four children, Peterson was born in Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Peterson |
Angel Villalona better known as Andy Andy is a Dominican musician from the Villalona family. Starting as a merenguero, he gained fame when he changed to bachata.
Career
Andy Andy is one of the most successful Dominican artists in the world, having sold over one million records in the United States to date, and held th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Andy |
Frederick Burbidge may refer to:
Frederick William Burbidge (1847–1905), British explorer
Frederick Burbidge (cricketer) (1832–1892), English cricketer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Burbidge |
Scouting in the Northwest Territories did not develop until 1970, due to the sparse population of the Northwest Territories.
Anglophone Scouting in the Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories Council of Scouts Canada was founded in 1970, with Denny R. May (1935–2021), son of pilot Wop May, as executive direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting%20and%20Guiding%20in%20the%20Northwest%20Territories |
Haitham Mostafa Karar (; born 19 July 1977) is a Sudanese former footballer who played as midfielder. He was the captain of Al-Hilal Omdurman and the Sudan national team.
Club career
He joined Al-Hilal in November 1995 after transferring from Al-Ameer Al-Bahrawi, a second league team. He was one of the most promising... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitham%20Mustafa |
Into a Dark Realm is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the second book in the Darkwar Saga and was published in 2006. It was preceded by Flight of the Nighthawks and followed by the final book in the saga, Wrath of a Mad God.
Plot introduction
Leso Varen has moved to wreak havoc on the world o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into%20a%20Dark%20Realm |
Ebubennem Megalyn Ann Echikunwoke ( ; born May 28, 1983), also known as Megalyn E.K., is an American actress, known primarily for her roles in television and film.
Born in Spokane, Washington, she was discovered while performing in a theatrical production for an arts academy, and began working professionally at age 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalyn%20Echikunwoke |
Proof Through the Night is a 1983 album by T Bone Burnett, produced by Jeff Eyrich. Proof Through the Night was unavailable on CD for many years. Then some tracks, radically remixed with new vocals if not re-recorded entirely, appeared on the 20/20 career compilation in May 2006. Rhino Handmade issued a CD version o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20Through%20the%20Night |
The 1991 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier was held in Auckland, New Zealand with twelve teams took part in the competition.
Results
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Classification round
Ninth to twelfth place classification
Fifth to eighth place classification
First to fourth place classification
Final st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20Women%27s%20Field%20Hockey%20Olympic%20Qualifier |
The National Circus School () is a professional circus school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is for higher education in the art of circus. The NCS also offers academic subjects at the secondary and college levels. It is one of the only circus school in the Americas to offer professional programs in circus arts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20nationale%20de%20cirque |
Dion Boucicault Jr. (born Darley George Boucicault; 23 May 1859 – 25 June 1929) was an actor and stage director. A son of the well-known playwright Dion Boucicault and actress Agnes Robertson, he followed his father into the theatrical profession and made a career as a character actor and a director. In addition to ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion%20Boucicault%20Jr. |
Compton Dando is a small village and civil parish on the River Chew in the affluent Chew Valley in England. It is in the Bath and North East Somerset council area and ceremonial county of Somerset, and lies from Bristol, from Bath, and from Keynsham.
The parish includes the villages of Burnett, Chewton Keynsham, Qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20Dando |
KXRB (1140 kHz) is an AM radio station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, airing a classic country format. The station is owned by Townsquare Media.
The programming on what was then KSOO was previously a mix of local talk shows, including "Viewpoint University", "McDaniel's Mess", and "The Mainstreet Cafe", which focused o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXRB%20%28AM%29 |
A cellular repeater (also known as cell phone signal booster or cell phone signal amplifier) is a type of bi-directional amplifier used to improve cell phone reception. A cellular repeater system commonly consists of a donor antenna that receives and transmits signal from nearby cell towers, coaxial cables, a signal am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20repeater |
Dawson Community College (DCC) is a public community college in Glendive, Montana. The college enrolls approximately 400 students and offers associate degree programs and certificate programs. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and is part of the Montana University System.
Academ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%20Community%20College |
The River Parishes are those parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region. Traditionally they are considered to be St. Charles Parish, St. James Parish, and St. John the Baptist Parish. These parishes also made up a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Parishes |
Arnold Palmer's Latrobe Country Club is a private golf club located near Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The course is where golf legend Arnold Palmer learned to play the game of golf from his father. The grounds are located in Unity Township in Westmoreland County, south of Latrobe, and nearer Youngstown.
History
Latrobe Coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrobe%20Country%20Club |
The dump tackle, also known as dumping, tipping, or a tip tackle is a popular tackling technique used in rugby football. The tackler wraps their arms around the ball carrier's thighs and lifts them a short distance in the air before forcibly driving them to the ground. The move is frowned upon in many rugby communities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dump%20tackle |
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