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The Flower of My Secret () is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 68th Academy Awards, but it was not selected as one of the final five nominees.
Plot
Leocadia "Leo" Macías, missing her husband, Paco, a NATO ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flower%20of%20My%20Secret |
Poynton railway station serves the town of Poynton in Cheshire, England.
The station is on Cheshire East Council's local list of heritage buildings. It was built in 1887.
The station is staffed between the hours of 06:30 and 13:00 Monday to Friday and 07:30 and 14:00 on Saturdays. It is unstaffed on Sundays.
History... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynton%20railway%20station |
The Cheetah Girls 2 (also known as The Cheetah Girls: When In Spain in the working title) is a 2006 American film and the sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM), The Cheetah Girls. Directed by Kenny Ortega, the sequel is about the talented teen quartet who take a whirlwind tour of Spain to pursue their drea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cheetah%20Girls%202 |
The Airman's coin is a challenge coin that is awarded to United States Air Force enlisted Airmen upon completion of Basic Military Training at Lackland AFB, Texas. After the award of the coin the individual is no longer referred to as "trainee," but as "Airman," marking the successful completion of the first phase of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airman%27s%20coin |
Curtis Stigers (born October 18, 1965) is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.
Career
Stigers was born in Hollywood, California, and grew up in Boise, Idaho. He started his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis%20Stigers |
The Italian Regency of Carnaro (), also known in Italian as (), was a self-proclaimed state in the city of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) led by Gabriele d'Annunzio between 1919 and 1920.
Impresa di Fiume
During World War I (1914–1918), Italy made a pact with the Allies, the Treaty of London (1915), in which it was pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Regency%20of%20Carnaro |
Cynthia Johnson (born April 22, 1956) is an American singer, songwriter and television personality. She is best known as the lead singer of the band Lipps Inc. with the worldwide smash hit "Funkytown".
Musical career
Beginnings
Prior to becoming the lead singer of Lipps Inc., Johnson had become well-known locally for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Johnson |
Carolynne Willey (born 5 August 1980) is a British singer-songwriter, actress and former model from Leeds, England. She is a founding member of the Carolynne Good Band, based in Leeds and London. She is best known for finishing in third place on the second series of the BBC singing competition Fame Academy in 2003. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolynne%20Poole |
Adlington (Cheshire) railway station serves the village of Adlington in Cheshire, England.
It was staffed for many years but is now unstaffed. The station building is privately owned. There is a ticket machine, which passengers must use to obtain a promise to pay or purchase their ticket before boarding the train.
Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlington%20railway%20station%20%28Cheshire%29 |
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is a science fiction turn-based strategy video game developed by Cyberlore Studios and published by Accolade, released on February 23, 1998 as a sequel to Deadlock: Planetary Conquest. The game allows the player to play as the leader of an alien species who controls colonies on a planet's surfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock%20II%3A%20Shrine%20Wars |
Saint Paul's Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church This parish is located in Worthington, Iowa, and is part of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. St. Paul's is linked with the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa - with whom it shares a pastor.
History
Initially, the settlers of Worthington... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Paul%27s%20Catholic%20Church%20%28Worthington%2C%20Iowa%29 |
The Leon Sinks Geological Area is located on the Woodville Karst Plain in southern and southwestern Leon County, Florida, United States. It is a mature karstic area on the Upper Floridan Aquifer. It is one of the most extensive underwater cave systems in the world and connects to Wakulla Springs.
This hydrological sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Sinks%20Geological%20Area |
Frederick William Fane Hervey, 4th Marquess of Bristol MVO (8 November 1863 – 24 October 1951) was a British nobleman, naval officer and Conservative Party politician.
Background
Hervey was the son of Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey (1837–1875), the younger brother of the 3rd Marquess of Bristol. He was born in Dre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Hervey%2C%204th%20Marquess%20of%20Bristol |
Brian Taylor (19 June 1932 – 12 June 2017) was an English cricketer who played for and captained Essex County Cricket Club.
Known as "Tonker" Taylor for his forthright approach to batting and his evident enjoyment of the game, Taylor was a high-class wicketkeeper who was thought of in his early playing days as a poten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Taylor%20%28cricketer%29 |
The trispyrazolylborate ligand, abbreviated Tp−, is an anionic tridentate and tripodal ligand. Trispyrazolylborate refers specifically to the anion [HB(C3N2H3)3]−. However, the term can also be used to refer to derivatives having substituents on the pyrazolyl rings. This class of compounds belongs to the family of lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trispyrazolylborate |
Diane Nyland Proctor (20 January 1944 – 6 October 2014) was a Canadian actress, director and choreographer. She is perhaps best known for having portrayed the title role in the 1970-71 CTV television series The Trouble with Tracy.
She joined the National Ballet of Canada for two seasons, turning to acting in the mid-1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Nyland |
Kleinmariazell is a district of Altenmarkt an der Triesting in the Wienerwald, Lower Austria, Austria.
Geography
Kleinmariazell is located north of Altenmarkt in a side valley of the Triesting in the direction of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf.
The cloister lies on an old pilgrim's trail, the Via Sacra from Vienna to Mariazell.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinmariazell |
Saul Ostrow is an American art critic and art curator.
In 1972 Ostrow received his MFA in art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Cleveland Institute of Art, Syracuse University, Parsons The New School for Design, School of the Visual Arts and was acting head of MFA studio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Ostrow |
Peter Denoyelles was a Representative from New York; born in Haverstraw, New York, in 1766; completed preparatory studies; engaged in the manufacture of brick; member of the New York State Assembly in 1802 and 1803; held several local offices; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Denoyelles |
Fishing Derby is a fishing video game written by David Crane for the Atari Video Computer System (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982) and published by Activision in 1980. It's one of the first video games developed by Activision.
Gameplay
In Fishing Derby, two fishermen sit on opposite docks over a lake filled with fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing%20Derby |
Mastic–Shirley is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch in Shirley, New York. This station is reached via William Floyd Parkway. The station has two ticket machines.
History
Mastic–Shirley station was built as a replacement for the former Mastic station (originally Forge station) built in 1882 and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastic%E2%80%93Shirley%20station |
A tax incentive is an aspect of a government's taxation policy designed to incentivize or encourage a particular economic activity by reducing tax payments.
Tax incentives can have both positive and negative impacts on an economy. Among the positive benefits, if implemented and designed properly, tax incentives can at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax%20incentive |
The conservation and restoration of photographs is the study of the physical care and treatment of photographic materials. It covers both efforts undertaken by photograph conservators, librarians, archivists, and museum curators who manage photograph collections at a variety of cultural heritage institutions, as well a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20and%20restoration%20of%20photographs |
The Green Party of the United States, also known as GPUS, is one of the two minor contemporary political parties in the United States with a sustained national presence, the other being the Libertarian Party. The Green Party has affiliated state parties in most states. However, not all state Green Parties are affiliate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20state%20Green%20Parties%20in%20the%20United%20States |
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1983) is a memoir by Joyce Johnson documenting her time with Jack Kerouac. The book also tells the story of the women of the Beat Generation, the "minor characters" of its title.
The book won a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Critical reception
Kirkus Reviews wrote that "as a mont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20Characters |
Philips Consumer Communications, L.P. (abbreviated to PCC) was a $2.5 billion joint venture of Lucent Technologies and Royal Philips Electronics formed on October 7, 1997. Philips owned 60% of the joint venture, with Lucent owning the other 40%.
PCC was a global venture, with branches in more than 100 countries, includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20Consumer%20Communications |
John Pearson (1859 in Lambeth – 1930 in Canvey Island) (fl. 1885–1910) was a master craftsman of the Newlyn School and Guild of Handicrafts. He worked in copper and his style is described as arts and crafts / Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style).
Together with Charles Robert Ashbee, he was a founding member of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Pearson%20%28artist%29 |
The Prince de Neufchatel was a fast sailing United States schooner-rigged privateer, built in New York by Adam and Noah Brown circa 1812. She is a fine example of the peak of development of the armed schooner. Neufchatel operated in mainly European waters, preying on British shipping during the War of 1812. Noted for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20de%20Neufchatel |
Major Sir Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet, TD, CStJ (3 April 1866 – 10 November 1947) was Lord Mayor of London from 1938 to 1939, son of William Vansittart Bowater and his wife Eliza Jane née Davey.
Career
In 1905, Bowater was commissioned in the service of the 4th London Howitzer Brigade Royal Field Artillery (Royal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Bowater |
Prestbury railway station is a station which serves the village of Prestbury, Cheshire, England. It was opened on 24 November 1845 by the London & North Western Railway.
Facilities
There is a car park and ticket machine at the station. The southbound platform is only accessible via footbridge. Both platforms have wait... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestbury%20railway%20station |
Tm is an abbreviation for anionic tridentate ligand based on three imidazole-2-thioketone groups bonded to a borohydride center. They are examples of scorpionate ligands. Various ligands in this family are known, differing in what substituents are on the imidazoles. The most common is TmMe, which has a methyl group on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tm%20ligands |
John Douglas Torode (born 23 July 1965) is an Australian-British celebrity chef and TV presenter. He moved to the UK in the 1990s and began working at Conran Group's restaurants. After first appearing on television on ITV's This Morning, he started presenting a revamped MasterChef on BBC One in 2005. He is a restaura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Torode |
Record is a Portuguese sports newspaper, founded by Manuel Dias, published in Lisbon. Although it covers most sports, football is the focal point of it, and almost always is the only sport referred to on the cover.
History and profile
Record was founded by Manuel Dias. Dias was a newspaper vendor as well an athlete. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record%20%28newspaper%29 |
Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women was a horticultural and agricultural college for women, near Studley in Warwickshire, England, which operated from 1898 until 1969.
History
The college was founded by Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick. In 1898 she had founded Warwick Hostel in Reading to offer t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studley%20College |
The Debatable Lands, also known as debatable ground, batable ground or threip lands, lay between Scotland and England. It was formerly in question as to which it belonged when they were distinct kingdoms. The name either signifies litigious or disputable ground, or it comes from the Old English word 'battable' (land su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debatable%20Lands |
Michael John Mahoney (born December 5, 1972) is a Major League Baseball catcher, formerly with the St. Louis Cardinals. He made his major league debut on September 8, 2000 with the Chicago Cubs, and after two seasons in Chicago, he was released and eventually signed with St. Louis. He started a stretch of games while p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Mahoney%20%28catcher%29 |
LD50 is the median lethal dose in toxicology.
LD50 may also refer to:
L.D. 50 (album), an album by Mudvayne
LD 50 Lethal Dose, a 2003 UK film
"LD50", an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LD50%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Philosophers born in the 20th century (and others important in the history of philosophy) listed alphabetically:
Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
A
Elisa Aaltola (born 1976)
Richard Aaron (1901–1987)
Gholamreza Aavan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20philosophers%20born%20in%20the%2020th%20century |
Emory Andrew Tate Jr. (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American chess international master. He was the father of Internet personality Andrew Tate.
Early life and education
Emory Andrew Tate Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 27, 1958. He grew up in a family of nine children. His father, Emory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory%20Tate |
MBIA Inc. is an American financial services company. It was founded in 1973 as the Municipal Bond Insurance Association. It is headquartered in Purchase, New York, and as of January 1, 2015 had approximately 180 employees. MBIA is the largest bond insurer.
Functions of the company
MBIA is a monoline insurer primarily ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBIA |
Fear, Emptiness, Despair is the fifth studio album by British grindcore band Napalm Death, released on 31 May 1994. Napalm Death's inclusion on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack brought significant exposure to the band and this album, alongside the fact that the band's label Earache had formed a partnership with Columbia Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C%20Emptiness%2C%20Despair |
The Followers is the second of the Special Edition copies in Jude Watson's Jedi Apprentice series. It was released on April 1, 2002. Its story revolves around Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn as Jedi prior to Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Plot
As an apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi faced off against the leader o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi%20Apprentice%3A%20The%20Followers |
Styal railway station is near Manchester Airport in Cheshire, England.
History
The station was opened in 1909 with the construction of the line from Wilmslow to Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly).
It won numerous best-kept station garden awards in the 1940s and 1950s under stationmasters Mott, Hilton and Jackso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styal%20railway%20station |
Hittin' the Note is the twelfth and final studio album by the American Southern rock group the Allman Brothers Band. Released through Sanctuary Records, it is their only studio album to include both slide guitar player Derek Trucks and bass player Oteil Burbridge and marks the full-time return of guitar player Warren H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittin%27%20the%20Note |
Marcel Bucard (7 December 1895 – 13 March 1946) was a French Fascist politician.
Early career
A decorated soldier who earned a reputation for bravery in World War I, Bucard became active in politics after 1918, initially as a member of Action française, an integralist monarchist far-right group, and later as a member... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Bucard |
An ekkyklêma or eccyclema (; ; "roll-out machine") was a wheeled platform rolled out through a skênê in ancient Greek theatre. It was used to bring interior scenes out into the sight of the audience. Some ancient sources suggest that it may have been revolved or turned.
It is mainly used in tragedies for revealing dea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekkyklema |
Douglas Tyndall Wright, (October 4, 1927 – May 21, 2020) was a Canadian civil engineer, civil servant, and university administrator.
Wright was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Etta Frances Tyndall and George Charles Wright. He received a B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1949, a Master of Science degree ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Tyndall%20Wright |
Food Conspiracy is a term applied to a movement begun in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1968 in which households pooled their resources to buy food in bulk from farmers and small wholesalers and distribute it cheaply. The name came to describe a loose network of autonomous collectives which shared common values and, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20conspiracy |
This is a list of plants found in the wild in Pantanal vegetation of Brazil.
Aizoaceae
Glinus radiatus Rohrb.
Amaranthaceae
Achyranthes aspera L.
Amaranthus lividus ssp. polygonoides L.
Froelichia procera (Seub.) Pedersen
Gomphrena elegans var elegans Mart.
Iresine macrophylla R.E.Fr.
Pfaffia glomerata (Spren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20of%20Pantanal%20vegetation%20of%20Brazil |
Mary Stolz (born Mary Slattery, March 24, 1920 – December 15, 2006) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. She received the 1953 Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for In a Mirror, Newbery Honors in 1962 for Belling the Tiger and 1966 for The Noonday Friends, and her en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Stolz |
Broom Bridge (Irish: Droichead Broome), also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. Broome Bridge is named after William Broome, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company who lived nearby.
It is famous for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom%20Bridge |
Re:covered was a music television show broadcast in the UK on BBC Choice in 2002 and hosted by Dermot O'Leary. Each of the ten half-hour shows featured three bands or artists who, in turn, played two songs – a current track of their own, and a cover version of their choice.
A Re:covered Elvis special left this usual f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%3Acovered |
Barkan () is an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, about 8 km west of the Palestinian city of Salfit, under the administrative local government of the Shomron Regional Council. In its population was .
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkan |
Scott Anthony Seabol (born May 17, 1975, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States) is a former Major League Baseball player.
He made his major league debut on April 8, , with the New York Yankees, but only for a single game. After a short time in the Milwaukee Brewers farm system, he signed with the St. Louis Cardin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Seabol |
Roverud is a village in Kongsvinger Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located about north of the town of Kongsvinger on the east side of the river Glomma. The village has a grocery store, a grade school, offices, elder care facilities, and Roverud Church.
The village has a population (2021) of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roverud |
A "cup of coffee" is a North American sports idiom for a short time spent by a minor league player at the major league level. The idea behind the term is that the player was only in the big leagues long enough to have a cup of coffee before being returned to the minors. The term originated in baseball and is extensivel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup%20of%20coffee |
John Edward Bickerton (born 23 December 1969) is an English professional golfer. He made over 400 appearances on the European Tour, winning three times, including the 2006 Open de France.
Early life and amateur career
Bickerton was born in Redditch, England. He won the 1990 Midland Open Amateur Championship and turned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bickerton |
The Trans-Taiga Road () is an extremely remote wilderness road in northern Quebec, Canada. It is long to Centrale Brisay and another along the Caniapiscau Reservoir, all of it unpaved.
Description
The road's northeastern terminus is almost at the 55th parallel north, making it the northernmost continuous road in Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Taiga%20Road |
Barbara Eggleston Davies (30 December 1955 – 1 March 2002), was an English teacher and peace campaigner.
Life
Born Barbara Eggleston in London, she was educated at Brighton and Hove School for Girls and the London School of Economics. It was at the latter that she became involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Davies |
The iRiver Clix (stylised iriver clix) is a portable media player that was developed and sold by iriver through two generations. The Clix was originally known as the U10, released in 2005. The next year it was revised and essentially rebranded to Clix. A second generation player, often called the Clix 2, was released i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRiver%20Clix |
Betazole (also known as ametazole) is a histamine H2 receptor agonist. Betazole hydrochloride is known as gastramine and histalog.
It has been used as a gastric stimulant to test for maximal production of gastric secretion activity. The test can be used in diagnosis of diseases such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betazole |
The House of Assembly Channel is a cable television channel broadcast throughout much of Newfoundland and Labrador, exclusively on cable. The channel first signed on the air on November 17, 2001.
Programming
The House of Assembly Channel broadcasts daily legislative proceedings from Newfoundland and Labrador whenever ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Assembly%20Channel%20%28Newfoundland%29 |
In mathematics, more specifically in numerical linear algebra, the biconjugate gradient method is an algorithm to solve systems of linear equations
Unlike the conjugate gradient method, this algorithm does not require the matrix to be self-adjoint, but instead one needs to perform multiplications by the conjugate tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biconjugate%20gradient%20method |
Fantasy Focus is a sports talk podcast devoted to fantasy sports. The show is available on iTunes, and ESPN Podcenter. The baseball show is hosted by Eric Karabell and Tristan Cockcroft, along with producer Daniel Dopp and injury analyst Stephania Bell. The football show is hosted by Field Yates, along with Bell, Dopp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20Focus%20%28podcast%29 |
Miss Teen International may refer to:
Miss Teen International (Americas), the Americas version owned and operated by Rodrigo Moreira
Miss Teen International (India), the India version owned and operated by Nikhil Anand. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Teen%20International |
The Suffolk is a British breed of domestic sheep. It originated in the late eighteenth century in the area of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, as a result of cross-breeding when Norfolk Horn ewes were put to improved Southdown rams. It is a polled, black-faced breed, and is raised primarily for its meat. It has been export... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk%20sheep |
St. John's Chapel may refer to:
in England
St John's Chapel, London
St John's Chapel, Bedford Row - another London church
St John's Chapel, County Durham - a village in County Durham
St John's College Chapel, Cambridge
in Singapore
St. John's Chapel, Singapore - a church located within St. Margaret's Secondary Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20John%27s%20Chapel |
European Top 20 was a disk magazine and scene chart for the Commodore Amiga published by the demo scene group Equinox. The first issue was published in July 1992 and the last (number 7) in July 1993.
References
External links
Download all European Top 20 issues
Commodore International
Defunct computer magazines
Dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Top%2020 |
Bishop Amat Memorial High School is a co-ed Catholic high school serving the San Gabriel Valley in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and was founded in 1957. The campus is located in La Puente, California, approximately east of downtown Los Angeles in Los Angeles County. The coeducational student body co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%20Amat%20Memorial%20High%20School |
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy (and Malta from until the creation of the Exarchate of Malta in 2021), officially the Sacred Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and Exarchate of Southern Europe (), is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with see in Venice. The diocese was created in 1991. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox%20Archdiocese%20of%20Italy |
Ronald Wallace (1911–2006) was a theologian and Professor of Biblical Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary. He was also a member of the Torrance family of theologians.
Career overview
Brora, Minister without Charge
1940 Minister, Pollock Church, Glasgow
Church of Scotland's Huts and Canteens
1951 Minister, St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Wallace |
Hornbostel is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Chuck Hornbostel (1911–1989), American middle-distance runner
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (1877–1935), Austrian ethnomusicologist
Hornbostel-Sachs, a classification system for musical instruments
Henry Hornbostel (1867–1961), American archite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel |
John Murdoch MacLeod (born 23 November 1938) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a winger.
Career
Born in Edinburgh, MacLeod started his career at his local club, Hibernian, and played 85 times for the Edinburgh side between 1957 and 1961, where he made a name for himself as a talented right winger. He also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20MacLeod |
The Murmansk-Vladivostok Expedition Trophy is recognized as the world's longest winter motor rally, covering a distance of 12,500 km. The rally begins at the Kola Bay lighthouse in Murmansk, located in north-west Russia and ends at the Zolotoi Rog Bay lighthouse in Vladivostok, in far eastern Russia. It holds the disti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition%20Trophy |
Forest Town, as the name implies, is a leafy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies between the busy thoroughfares of Jan Smuts Avenue and Oxford Road, and is bordered to one side by the Johannesburg Zoo.
History
The suburb was first surveyed on land called Sachsenwald, now known as Saxonwold, in 1908. The name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20Town%2C%20Gauteng |
The Cuba national baseball team () represents Cuba at regional and international levels. The team is made up from the most professional players from the Cuban national baseball system. Cuba has been described as a baseball powerhouse and currently ranks 8th in WBSC's world rankings. It has medalled in five of the six O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba%20national%20baseball%20team |
Leopold Engel was a German writer and occultist.
Early life
Engel was born in St Petersburg, Russia. His father was Karl Dietrich Engel (1824–1913), a violinist who in 1846 became Konzertmeister (leader) of the orchestra of the Imperial Russian Theatre.
Career
Leopold Engel went to Germany, finally settling in Dresde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold%20Engel |
The Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to ten and in addition the college now has visiting professors.
The Professor of Divinity is always... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%20Professor%20of%20Divinity |
Yavapai is an Upland Yuman language, spoken by Yavapai people in central and western Arizona. There are four dialects: Kwevkepaya, Wipukpaya, Tolkepaya, and Yavepe. Linguistic studies of the Kwevkepaya (Southern), Tolkepaya (Western), Wipukepa (Verde Valley), and Yavepe (Prescott) dialects have been published (Mithun 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavapai%20language |
André Luciano da Silva (born 27 April 1981, in Aracati), commonly known as Pinga, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Club career
Pinga scored 14 goals in 34 games for Al Ahli in the 2010–11 UAE Pro-League campaign. On 2 January 2013 he signed a contract with Brazilian side Santos u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinga%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201981%29 |
The Three Pashas also known as the Young Turk triumvirate or CUP triumvirate consisted of Mehmed Talaat Pasha (1874–1921), the Grand Vizier (prime minister) and Minister of the Interior; Ismail Enver Pasha (1881–1922), the Minister of War; and Ahmed Cemal Pasha (1872–1922), the Minister of the Navy, who effectively rul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Pashas |
Carl Wilhelm Heine (later von Heine) (26 April 1838, in Cannstatt – 9 September 1877, in Cannstatt) was a German physician, surgeon and President of the German medical fraternity of Prague.
Start of career and military service
Heine was the son of the German doctor and orthopaedist Jakob Heine, who became known as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Wilhelm%20Heine |
Reb Brown (born Robert Edward Brown; April 29, 1948) is an American former football player and actor. Born in the Los Angeles area, Brown played football in high school and University. He first appeared on film and television in the early 1970s, playing minor or supporting roles up until 1979, where he played Captain A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reb%20Brown |
Barmeen is a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is located at the foot of Glendun, one of the nine Glens of Antrim, west of Cushendun and north of Knocknacarry. It is situated in the historic barony of Cary and the civil parish of Culfeightrin and covers 59 acres.
The name derives from the Irish: Barr min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmeen |
Equis may refer to:
EFMD Quality Improvement System (or EQUIS), an international system of assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration run by the European Foundation for Management Development
Equis International (or Equis) a Thomson Reuters software company ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equis |
Newswatch is a Nigerian weekly news magazine published by Newswatch Communications Limited in Nigeria. Newswatch'''s weekly print run can be as high as 100,000 copies.
History and profileNewswatch was formed by Nigerian journalists Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed in 1984, and the first edition was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newswatch%20%28Nigeria%29 |
Emmarentia (which usually encompasses Emmarentia Ridge and Emmarentia Ext. 1) is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
History
Emmarentia lies on land that once made up the Braamfontein Farm, one of many large farms that make what is Johannesburg and its suburbs. The land was bought in 1886 by Lourens Geldenhuys for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmarentia |
Violence Has Arrived is the eighth studio album by the band Gwar. It was released on November 6, 2001, through Metal Blade Records.
According to an interview with Dave Brockie, it was originally supposed to be released on September 11, 2001, but Metal Blade would not release it until November. According to Slave Pit I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence%20Has%20Arrived |
The Francist Movement (, MF) was a French Fascist and anti-semitic league created by Marcel Bucard in September 1933 that edited the newspaper Le Francisme. Mouvement franciste reached a membership of 10,000 and was financed by the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. Its members were deemed the francistes or Chemises b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement%20Franciste |
Peter Stafford (1941 – July 20, 2007) was an American writer and author of the Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Stafford is also co-author with Bonnie Golightly of LSD: The Problem-solving Psychedelic, as well as other books on psychedelics.
Biography
Stafford was born in Oakland, California. He attended Reed College and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Stafford |
The Netherlands national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, representing the country in international men's baseball. They are currently ranked as the best team in the WBSC Europe, and the team is also ranked seventh in the WBSC World Rankings.
The Netherlands participated i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands%20national%20baseball%20team |
Christof Migone is a Swiss-born experimental sound artist and writer, formerly based in Montreal, now living in Toronto.
He is assistant professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario
Migone's solo recordings include Sound Voice Perform (2006), South Winds (2003), Crackers (2001), Qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christof%20Migone |
Albion Fairs was the general name for the second wave of East Anglian Fairs, running from 1978 until 1982. There were further fairs in the same tradition most years until the end of the 1980s.
The East Anglian Fairs began with the Barsham Medieval Faire in 1972, and developed into a significant feature of rural counte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%20Fairs |
Susan Headley (born 1959, also known as Susy Thunder or Susan Thunder) is a former phreaker and early computer hacker during the late 1970s and early 1980s. A member of the so-called Cyberpunks, Headley specialized in social engineering, a type of hacking which uses pretexting and misrepresentation of oneself in contac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Headley |
"Sewn" is the first properly released single of British rock group the Feeling, following the 7-inch only single "Fill My Little World" (which would later become a full single release itself). It was released in the UK on 27 February 2006 and entered the UK Singles Chart at 7 on 5 March 2006. "Sewn" gained the band a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewn%20%28song%29 |
Carole Freeman (born January 10, 1949) is a lawyer and politician in Quebec. She was a Member of Parliament representing the Bloc Québécois for the riding of Châteauguay—Saint-Constant from 2006 to 2011.
External links
Bloc Québécois MPs
1949 births
Women members of the House of Commons of Canada
Living people
Memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole%20Freeman |
The Seven Treasuries (, THL: Dzö Dün), are a collection of seven works, some with auto-commentaries, by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Longchenpa (1308–1364). They constitute his most influential scholarly output and together provide a systematic overview of exoteric and esoteric topics from the point of view of the Nyi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Treasuries |
The Tennis Channel Open was a men's tennis tournament on the ATP International Series which was held for the first time in Las Vegas, Nevada from February 27 to March 5, 2006. In the men's singles final, James Blake defeated Lleyton Hewitt while the men's doubles title was won by Bob and Mike Bryan.
In 2005, The Tenn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20Channel%20Open |
Aleksey Ivanovich Abrikosov (; – 9 April 1955) was a Soviet pathologist and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1939) and the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences (since 1944).
Early life
Aleksey Abrikosov was born into a wealthy family of factory owners, who were the official suppliers of chocolate confe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey%20Abrikosov |
Sir Salimullah Medical College (SSMC), commonly known as Mitford, is a public medical college located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 1875, it is the oldest and second largest medical school in Bangladesh. It includes Mitford Hospital, which is the oldest hospital in the country and one of the earliest hospitals in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Salimullah%20Medical%20College |
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