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Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão (August 3, 1914 in Rio de Janeiro – December 14, 1993 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian neurophysiologist, researcher and university professor.
Leão discovered and described the spreading depression, which also became known as "the Leão wave". This depression is a reaction in the cerebral co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristides%20Le%C3%A3o |
At the 1932 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested.
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 108 fencers (91 men, 17 women) from 16 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games: Cuba had fencers entered, but none competed.
References
1932 Summer Olympics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing%20at%20the%201932%20Summer%20Olympics |
Amtosaurus (; "Amtgai lizard") is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Bayan Shireh Formation (Cenomanian to Santonian) of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankylosaurid. Hadrosaurid affinities have also been suggested. However, per Parish and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtosaurus |
The practice of induced abortion—the deliberate termination of a pregnancy—has been known since ancient times. Various methods have been used to perform or attempt abortion, including the administration of abortifacient herbs, the use of sharpened implements, the application of abdominal pressure, and other techniques.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20abortion |
Mininova was a website offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action in the Dutch courts, the site operators deleted all torrent files uploaded by regular users including torrents that enabled users to do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mininova |
Chittagong Medical University (commonly referred as CMU) is a public medical research university situated in Fauzdarhat in Chittagong District of Bangladesh. It was established in 2016.
History
In the 2016, the law of establishing Chittagong Medical University was enacted in 17th of the law. Then all the procedure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong%20Medical%20University |
Anodontosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaurs within the subfamily Ankylosaurinae. It is known from the entire span of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation (mid Late Campanian to "middle" Maastrichtian stage, about 72.8-67 Ma ago) of southern Alberta, Canada. It contains two species, A. lambei ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodontosaurus |
Pestivirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Flaviviridae. Viruses in the genus Pestivirus infect mammals, including members of the family Bovidae (which includes cattle, sheep, and goats) and the family Suidae (which includes various species of swine). There are 11 species in this genus. Diseases associated with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pestivirus |
SportsBeat is a regular segment on ESPN Radio that provides a concise (2 minute) overview of the sports world. Hosted by Dari Nowkhah, it airs Monday through Friday in the afternoons, specifically at the bottom of the hour (:57-:00 minutes), The segment includes Nowkhah's opinions on relevant sports topics, separated b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsBeat |
Dyoplosaurus (meaning “double-armoured lizard”) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from Alberta that lived during the Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian, ~76.5–75 Ma) in what is now the Dinosaur Park Formation. Dyoplosaurus represents a close relative of Scolosaurus and Anodontosaurus, two ankylosaurids k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyoplosaurus |
Blind Idiot God is the debut album by Blind Idiot God, released in 1987 through SST Records. Produced by Martin Bisi, the album was released on CD, cassette and vinyl record. The album showcased the band's eclectic tastes for punk rock, heavy metal, dub, free jazz, and classical music. It was critically well-received a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Idiot%20God%20%28album%29 |
Anoplosaurus (meaning "unarmored or unarmed lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur, from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England. It has in the past been classified with either the armored dinosaurs or the ornithopods, but current thought has been in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoplosaurus |
Charles D'Amico High School , also known as Albion High School , is a secondary school located in Albion, New York which educates students in grades nine through twelve. The school is named for longtime principal Charles C. D'Amico.
The high school operates under what is known as a "block schedule", where students sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20D%27Amico%20High%20School |
Anthodon (meaning "flower tooth") is an extinct genus of pareiasaurid parareptile from the Permian period of South Africa and Tanzania.
History
In 1845, amateur geologists William Guybon Atherstone and Andrew Geddes Bain discovered several fossils near Dassieklip, Cape Province, in the Bushman's River Valley. This wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthodon%20%28reptile%29 |
Graham Francis Lee (born 11 December 1953) is an Australian musician and record producer, best known as the steel guitar player of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he was nicknamed 'Evil Graham Lee'.
He was born and grew up in Kenilworth, Queensland, and graduated as a Primary School Teacher in Brisbane. Lee left Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Lee%20%28musician%29 |
Eugene James Martin (July 24, 1938 – January 1, 2005)
was an African-American visual artist.
Art
Eugene J. Martin's art is best known for his imaginative, complex mixed media collages on paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and ink drawings, and his paintings on paper and canvas that may incorporate whimsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20J.%20Martin |
The Panama national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de Panamá) is the baseball team that represents Panama at an international level. Along with Nicaragua, they are considered to be the best baseball team in Central America, and one of the best in Latin America. Panama has medalled at multiple internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20national%20baseball%20team |
Paranthodon ( ) is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur that lived in what is now South Africa during the Early Cretaceous, between 139 and 131 million years ago. Discovered in 1845, it was one of the first stegosaurians found. Its only remains, a partial skull, isolated teeth, and fragments of vertebrae, were found in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranthodon |
James Horst Brunnerman Bell (Dr J. H. B. Bell) (1896–1975) was arguably the leading Scots mountaineer in the period prior to World War II, going on to edit the SMC Journal for an unequalled 24 years from 1936 to 1959. He put up many serious routes on Ben Nevis and around, and tutored among others the younger W. H. Murr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20H.%20B.%20Bell |
Aragosaurus (meaning "Aragon lizard") was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain. It was deposited in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation.
Aragosaurus was a large, quadrupedal plant-eating (herbivorous) dinosaur, which liv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragosaurus |
The SS Constitution was an ocean liner owned by American Export Lines, sister ship of the SS Independence. Both were constructed in the United States and made their maiden voyages in 1951.
History
Commissioned in 1951, she started her long career sailing on the New York City-Genoa-Naples-Gibraltar route to Europe.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Constitution |
Klara Ivanovna Guseva (; 8 March 1937 in Tambov Oblast – 12 May 2019) was a Russian speed skater. After her marriage, she was also known as Klara Nesterova ().
Born in the Russian SFSR, Klara Guseva competed for the Soviet Union. She trained at Spartak in Ryazan. She won a silver medal at the Soviet Allround Champions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara%20Guseva |
Aristosuchus is a genus of small coelurosaurian dinosaur whose name was derived from the Greek ἄριστος (meaning bravest, best, noblest) and σουχος (the Ancient Greek corruption of the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek). It shared many characteristics with birds.
Discovery
The type species, Aristosuchu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristosuchus |
CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She took part in one major action of the war, the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and when that ended disastrously for the Con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Louisiana |
Chatchai Plengpanich (; born January 17, 1960) is a Thai film and television actor. He has appeared in many lakorns (Thai soap operas) and feature films.
Biography
Chatchai was born in Kanchanaburi Province. Having a police officer as a father meant that the family relocated around Thailand constantly throughout his c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatchai%20Plengpanich |
"Take Your Daughter To Work Day" is the eighteenth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series The Office and the show's twenty-fourth episode overall. It was written by Mindy Kaling and directed by Victor Nelli, Jr. It first aired on March 16, 2006, on NBC. The episode guest stars Jazz Raycol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take%20Your%20Daughter%20to%20Work%20Day%20%28The%20Office%29 |
Calamospondylus (meaning "quill vertebrae") is a genus of theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous and its fossils were found on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The type species is C. oweni.
Discovery and naming
The holotype was collected by William Darwin Fox in 1865 and Calamospondylus oweni w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamospondylus |
Mymensingh Medical College (MMC; ), formerly Lytton Medical School, is a public medical college and hospital in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The institute was established in 1924 during the British Raj under the former name. Brigadier General Md. Golam Kibria is the present director of the medical college hospital.
History... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh%20Medical%20College |
Fana Mokoena (born 13 May 1971) is a South African actor and political activist, he served as a Member of Parliament, first as a delegate to the National Council of Provinces representing his home province Free State from May 2014 until August 2016; then later as a full member of the National Assembly of South Africa b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fana%20Mokoena |
Montpezat-de-Quercy (, literally Montpezat of Quercy; ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne département in the Occitanie région in southern France.
Montpezat-de-Quercy is situated north of Montauban. The commune has been listed as a protected town, mainly thanks to its 14th-century church, which contains tapestries f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpezat-de-Quercy |
Knocknacarry ( ; – referring to a weir diverted off the River Dun which operated a watermill) is a hamlet and townland (of 155 acres) about 1 kilometre west of Cushendun and 17 kilometres south-east of Ballycastle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Glenarm Lower and the civil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocknacarry |
Arstanosaurus (meaning "Arstan lizard" after the Arstan well) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Santonian-Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation, Kazakhstan. It has had a confusing history, being considered both a hadrosaurid and a ceratopsid, or both at the same time (chimeric).
History
The genus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arstanosaurus |
Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck (8 August 1640 – 4 January 1697), née Countess of , was a German noblewoman, poet and composer.
Early life
She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck-Eisenberg and his wife, Countess Marie Magdalene of Nassau-Siegen. In 1664, she married George Louis I, Count of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess%20Amalia%20Katharina%20of%20Waldeck |
Michael Ouweleen (born 1967) is an American television executive and screenwriter. He is the current president of The Cartoon Network, Inc. (CNI), the operating company of Cartoon Network (which includes the Cartoonito and ACME Night blocks), Adult Swim (which includes the Toonami block), and Boomerang. Previously, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Ouweleen |
Jacob ben Joseph Reischer (Bechofen) (1661–1733) was an Austrian rabbi and halakhist.
Biography
Jacob Reischer was born in Prague. He was the son of Rabbi Joseph Reischer, author of Giv'ot 'Olam, and a pupil of R. Simon Spira of Prague. Reischer married Spira's granddaughter, the daughter of his son Benjamin Wolf.
Ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20ben%20Joseph%20Reischer |
Asiaceratops (meaning "Asian horned face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Early-Late Cretaceous. The type species, A. salsopaludalis is known from Uzbekistan, while A. sulcidens is known from China and Mongolia.
Discovery and naming
The type species, Asiaceratops salsopaludalis, wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiaceratops |
The 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 66th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 6 and 7 June 1998.
Schedule
Events for the 24 Hours of Le Mans began on 2 May with technical inspections, before initial pre-qualifying on 3 May. The race week began on Monday 1 June with renewed technical inspections.
Entries
1998 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans |
Godlike may refer to:
Divine, having the characteristics of a deity
Godlike (Natas album), 2002
Godlike (Thy Art Is Murder album), 2023
Godlike (role-playing game), an alternate history World War II era superhero role-playing game
"Godlike" (song), a 1990 song by KMFDM
See also | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godlike |
Albion Senior High School was a secondary school located in Albion, Michigan which served students in grades 9–12. It was a part of Albion Public Schools. As of 2006, the school principal was Ms. Debra Swartz. Albion was known for its traditionally strong boys basketball and track and field programs. The school board a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%20High%20School%20%28Michigan%29 |
Lindsay Frimodt (born March 28, 1981) is an American fashion model and fashion designer. She appeared in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2002 and 2003.
Life and career
Lindsay Frimodt was born on March 28, 1981, in Sacramento, California.
Her advertisement campaigns include Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Gi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay%20Frimodt |
Asiatosaurus (meaning "Asian lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in Mongolia and China. The type species is known only from teeth, making it difficult to rely on information until more specimens are found to expand our knowledge, and another species is k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatosaurus |
The ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex is a multi-purpose sports complex located at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, United States, near Orlando. The complex allows families to combine tournaments and competition with a visit to vacation destinations in the area. The complex includes nine venues and hosts numero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN%20Wide%20World%20of%20Sports%20Complex |
Mallow railway station is an Irish station on the Dublin-Cork railway line, Mallow-Tralee railway line and Cork Suburban Rail (Cork Kent, Cobh and Midleton).
Facilities
Mallow's main station building is located on the south side of the railway tracks, nearest to the town, and is constructed from the grey stone typica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallow%20railway%20station |
Jean Baptiste François Carteaux (31 January 1751 – 12 April 1813) was a French painter who became a General in the French Revolutionary Army. He is notable chiefly for being the young Napoleon Bonaparte's commander at the siege of Toulon in 1793.
History
Born in 1751, Carteaux followed the career of a painter, produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Fran%C3%A7ois%20Carteaux |
Jovovich–Hawk was a clothing line created by models Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk in 2003. The atelier was based in Los Angeles, with pieces sold at Fred Segal in Los Angeles, Harvey Nichols, and over 50 stores around the world. Vogue magazine praised the line for its "girl-about-town cult status most designers spend ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovovich%E2%80%93Hawk |
Interstate 95 (I-95) is an Interstate Highway on the east coast of the United States, connecting Florida to Maine. Within the state of New Hampshire, it serves the Seacoast Region and is a toll road named the Blue Star Turnpike or New Hampshire Turnpike. The turnpike is maintained by the New Hampshire Department of Tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2095%20in%20New%20Hampshire |
2RN is the trading name of RTÉ Transmission Network DAC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, formerly trading as RTÉNL, which runs Ireland's principal digital terrestrial television and radio broadcast networks. In December 2002 it became an incorporated company and subsidiary of RTÉ, it was previous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2RN%20%28RT%C3%89%20Networks%29 |
Kevin Rubio (born December 20, 1967) is an American filmmaker who is best known for his Star Wars parody film Troops.
Education and early career
Rubio studied theater and photography throughout his high school years in California, and made his directorial debut at the age of 17 with a stage adaptation of Robert Redfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Rubio |
The Lansing Board of Water & Light is a publicly owned, municipal utility that provides electricity and water to the residents of the cities of Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan, and the surrounding townships of Delta, Delhi, Meridian and DeWitt. The Lansing Board of Water & Light also provides steam and chilled water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansing%20Board%20of%20Water%20%26%20Light |
Sir Noël Vansittart Bowater, 2nd Baronet (25 December 1892 – 22 January 1984) was the 626th Lord Mayor of London from 1953 to 1954.
Career
He was the eldest son of Sir Frank Bowater, 1st Baronet and his wife, Ethel Anita ( Fryar), and educated at Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire.
He fought in the First World War be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl%20Bowater |
Atlantosaurus (meaning "Atlas lizard") is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It contains a single species, Atlantosaurus montanus, from the upper Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. Atlantosaurus was the first sauropod to be described during the infamous 19th century Bone Wars, during which scientific met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantosaurus |
Onara may refer to:
Onara, Tombolo, Italy
"Onara" (song), the theme song of the South Korean television drama Dae Jang Geum
Onara (book), a Japanese children's book published in 1978
Onara Peninsula, a peninsula to the east of Luzhin Bay in Magadan Oblast, Russia
Ōnara Stop, former name of Tatsuokajō Station, a tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onara%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Austrosaurus (; ) was an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Allaru Formation, from the early Cretaceous (112-105 million years ago) of Central-Western Queensland in Australia.
Discovery and species
The holotype, QM F2361 (consisting of three blocks containing primitive and badly weathered ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrosaurus |
At the 1936 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 311 fencers (270 men and 41 women) from 29 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
References
1936 Summer Olympics events
1936
19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing%20at%20the%201936%20Summer%20Olympics |
Avipes (meaning "bird foot") is a genus of extinct archosaurs represented by the single species Avipes dillstedtianus, which lived during the middle Triassic period. The only known fossil specimen, a partial foot (metatarsals), was found in Bedheim, Thuringia, Germany, in deposits of Lettenkohlensandstein (a form of sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avipes |
Azendohsaurus is an extinct genus of herbivorous archosauromorph reptile from roughly the late Middle to early Late Triassic Period of Morocco and Madagascar. The type species, Azendohsaurus laaroussii, was described and named by Jean-Michel Dutuit in 1972 based on partial jaw fragments and some teeth from Morocco. A s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azendohsaurus |
"Nite Flights" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Scott Walker under his given name Scott Engel. It was first recorded and released by Walker's pop group The Walker Brothers as the title track of their final album, 1978's Nite Flights.
Personnel
John Walker and Scott Walker - Vocals
Dave MacRae - Keyboards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nite%20Flights%20%28song%29 |
"Maximum Carnage" is a 14-part comic book crossover published in Marvel Comics' Spider-Man family of titles in 1993. It featured Spider-Man, Venom, and a host of other superheroes teaming up to face Venom's murderous offspring Carnage and his team of supervillains.
Plot
Since the alien symbiote to which he was bonded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20Carnage |
The Letter ( or Jod mai rak, literally "love letter") is a 2004 romance-drama film directed by Pa-oon Chantarasiri. It is a remake of Pyeon ji, a 1997 South Korean film by director Lee Jung-gook.
Plot
Dew (Anne Thongprasom) is a young computer programmer who meets Ton (Attaporn Teemakorn) in Chiang Mai during her dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Letter%20%282004%20film%29 |
Barsboldia (meaning "of Barsbold", a well-known Mongolian paleontologist) is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian Nemegt Formation of Ömnogöv', Mongolia. It is known from a partial vertebral column, partial pelvis, and some ribs.
Discovery
In 1970, a Polish-Mongolian expedition near the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsboldia |
Marcel Gatsinzi () (9 January 1948 – 7 March 2023) was a Rwandan soldier and politician, who was Minister of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs from 2010 to 2013. Gatsinzi also served as Rwanda's Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2010. An ethnic Hutu from Butare, Gatsinzi was a member of the Rwandan Armed Forces (F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel%20Gatsinzi |
Begin Here is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Zombies, released in April 1965 by Decca Records. The American version (titled The Zombies) repeated many of the tracks from it, but, as was common at the time, deleted some and substituted others.
The 1999 CD reissue on Big Beat expands the track line-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begin%20Here |
California High School (commonly referred to as Cal High) is one of two public high schools located in San Ramon, California, United States (Dougherty Valley High School is the other). It is one of four high schools in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District and serves students from the western portion of San Ramo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20High%20School%20%28San%20Ramon%2C%20California%29 |
Garrya congdonii, the chaparral silktassel or Congdon silktassel, a fairly common evergreen shrub native to the northern California Coast Ranges, is one of a small biological family of approximately twenty known species in the family Garryaceae, most of which are Garrya. While the female and male sexual organs of Congd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrya%20congdonii |
Bellusaurus (meaning "Beautiful lizard", from Vulgar Latin bellus 'beautiful' (masculine form) and Ancient Greek sauros 'lizard') was a small short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) which measured about long. Its fossils were found in Shishugou Formation rocks in the northeastern Junggar Basi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellusaurus |
Georg Anton Benda (; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Biography
Born into a family of notable musicians in Old Benatek (today Benátky nad Jizerou), Bohemia, he studied at the Piarist Gymnasium (grammar school) in Kosmanos and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Benda |
is a Japanese manga series created by Kaishaku. The series was adapted into a 32-episode anime series and one specially released OVA episode by TNK. Seasons 1 and 2 were broadcast in Japan on Kids Station between 2002 and 2004. The anime series was released on DVD in Japan between 2002 and 2006. All episodes and the OV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO%20Ultramaiden%20Valkyrie |
Cornelis Verdonck (1563 – 5 July 1625) was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school of polyphony, and was a notable composer of madrigals in a style that blended both Italian and native Netherlandish idioms.
Life
Verdonck was born in Turnhout. From his ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis%20Verdonck |
Betasuchus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Betasuchus is, besides Orthomerus, the only dinosaur genus named from remains found in the Netherlands and the only non-avian theropod found in the Maastrichtian Beds.
Discovery
Its fossil, holotype BMNH 42997 (now NHM R 42997),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betasuchus |
, Op. 16, is an opera in one act by Alexander von Zemlinsky composed in 1915–16 to a libretto adapted by the composer from a German translation by of Oscar Wilde's unfinished play A Florentine Tragedy.
Performance history
The opera was premiered at the Staatsoper Stuttgart on 30 January 1917 under the direction of Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eine%20florentinische%20Trag%C3%B6die |
Karl Wilhelm Georg August von Einem genannt von Rothmaler (1 January 1853 – 7 April 1934) was the commander of the German 3rd Army during the First World War and served as the Prussian Minister of War responsible for much of the German military buildup prior to the outbreak of the war.
Life and career
Born in Herzberg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20von%20Einem |
Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 1st Baronet, (29 October 1862 – 28 March 1938) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1913 to 1914 and as one of the city's Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1924 to 1938.
Career
Bowater was the son of William Vansittart Bowater and his wife, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vansittart%20Bowater |
Charleville railway station is a station on the Cork to Dublin Railway line in Ireland.
It is located a mile outside the town of Charleville, mostly in North County Cork, Ireland though the border with County Limerick, Ireland crosses the track alignment diagonally, towards the northern end of the platforms. It is a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleville%20railway%20station |
Blikanasaurus is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the late Triassic of South Africa. The generic name Blikanasaurus is derived from Greek, meaning "lizard from Blikana". The species name cromptoni is taken from the surname of A.W. “Fuzz” Crompton, an American paleontologist who led numerous field expeditions i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blikanasaurus |
The Indira Gandhi Canal (originally, Rajasthan Canal) is the longest canal in India. It starts at the Harike Barrage near Harike, a few kilometers downriver from the confluence of the Satluj and Beas rivers in Punjab state, and ends in irrigation facilities in the Thar Desert in the northwest of Rajasthan state. Previo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira%20Gandhi%20Canal |
National Corndog Day is a celebration concerning basketball, the corn dog (A corn dog is usually a hot dog sausage coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter), Tater Tots, and American beer that occurs in March of every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
History
National... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Corndog%20Day |
The Grand Divisions are three geographic regions in the U.S. state of Tennessee, each constituting roughly one-third of the state's land area, that are geographically, culturally, legally, and economically distinct. The Grand Divisions are legally recognized in the state constitution and state law and are represented o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Divisions%20of%20Tennessee |
Borogovia is a troodontid theropod dinosaur genus which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, in what is now Mongolia.
In 1971, a Polish-Mongolian expedition discovered the remains of a small theropod at the Altan Ula IV site, in the Nemegt Basin of Ömnögovĭ province. In 1982, upon describing Hulsanpes perlei, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borogovia |
Bothriospondylus ("excavated vertebra") is a dubious genus of neosauropod sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic in England, and the type and only species is B. suffosus.
Discovery and naming
The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffoss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothriospondylus |
Brachyceratops ('short horned face') is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur known only from partial juvenile specimens dating to the late Cretaceous Period of Montana, United States.
Brachyceratops has historically been known from juvenile remains, with one specimen having since been re-classified as Rubeosaurus o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyceratops |
Peace Magazine is a Canadian magazine on disarmament and peacebuilding issues, published by Canadian Disarmanent Information Service (CANDIS).
History and profile
Peace Magazine was launched in 1985 as a continuation of an earlier CANDIS publication, The Peace Calendar, which appeared monthly between February 1983 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace%20Magazine |
Rennes School of Business formerly École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes is a French business school located in Rennes, the capital of Brittany, founded in 1990 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rennes. ESC Rennes is a Grande École.
History
ESC Rennes, founded in 1990, is a research-based business school b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESC%20Rennes%20School%20of%20Business |
Slow Life may refer to:
In culture:
Slow Living, living in a more balanced, meaningful, and life-affirming way
Slow movement (culture), a global cultural movement that emphasizes a thoughtful, slower pace in a variety of social areas
In music:
"Slow Life", a 2004 EP by Super Furry Animals
"Slow Life", a song by Griz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow%20Life%20%28disambiguation%29 |
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 294 fencers (255 men and 39 women) from 30 nations competed at the London Games:
References
1948 Summer Olympics events
1948
19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing%20at%20the%201948%20Summer%20Olympics |
Emmet Montgomery Reily (October 21, 1866 – October 31, 1954), sometimes E. Mont Reily, was a Texas and, later, Missouri politician who served a number of local offices, especially in Fort Worth and Kansas City. He was active in the Republican Party. He was later appointed as the governor of Puerto Rico by President War... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmet%20Montgomery%20Reily |
Veritas Christian Academy is a private, Christian school in Fletcher, North Carolina. All grades Pre-K to 12th grade are included on one main campus.
In 2018 the school had 320 students and 33.4 teachers on a full-time-equivalents (FTE) basis; a teacher-student ratio of 9.6. Of these, 290 or 90.6% were white.
Referen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas%20Christian%20Academy |
Brachypodosaurus (meaning "short-footed lizard") is a dubious genus of dinosaur, possibly an ornithischian, from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation (Maastrichtian) in India.
The only remains discovered so far for this animal consist of a single fossil bone, excavated at the Chota Simla Hill near Jabalpur. In 1934, g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachypodosaurus |
Bradycneme (meaning "ponderous leg") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Sânpetru Formation of the Hațeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania. The genus contains a single species, Bradycneme draculae, known only from a partial right lower leg (specimen BMNH A1588), which its original des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradycneme |
Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 is an alternate history World War II era superhero role-playing game, created by Dennis Detwiller and Greg Stolze. Godlike was originally produced by Dennis Detwiller and John Scott Tynes of Pagan Publishing (though it was not actually a Pagan publication), a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godlike%20%28role-playing%20game%29 |
Aquatica, formerly known as Aguamania, is a water park located in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. It is situated inside a public park of the city known locally as "La Vereda del Lago". It is one of only two water parks in Venezuela and the only water park in the west of the country. There are notable views from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguamania |
A bus conductor (also referred to as a conductor or clippie) is a person (other than the driver) responsible for collecting fares from bus passengers. Bus conductors were a common feature of many bus services across Europe until the late 1970s and early 1980s. The main reason two-person crews were needed was that most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20conductor |
Elopteryx is a genus of, perhaps troodontid, maniraptoran theropod dinosaur based on fragmentary fossils found in late Cretaceous Period rocks of Romania. The single species, Elopteryx nopcsai, is known only from very incomplete material, and therefore is considered a nomen dubium ("dubious name") by most paleontologis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elopteryx |
Breviceratops (meaning "short horned face") is a genus of protoceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation, Mongolia.
Discovery and naming
The first fossils were discovered during the 1960s by the Polish expedition to the Nemegt Basin of Gobi Desert. The specimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breviceratops |
Caenagnathus ('recent jaw') is a genus of caenagnathid oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage; ~75 million years ago). It is known from partial remains including lower jaws, a tail vertebra, hand bones, and hind limbs, all found in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Cae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenagnathus |
Goochland is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Goochland County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 861. The community is also known as Goochland Courthouse or by an alternative spelling, Goochland Court House. It derives its name from the fact that the community i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goochland%2C%20Virginia |
Calamosaurus (meaning "reed lizard") was a genus of small theropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. It is based on two cervical vertebrae (BMNH R901), collected by Reverend William Fox.
History and taxonomy
Richard Lydekker came across these bones when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamosaurus |
The Page–Ladson archaeological and paleontological site (8JE591) is a deep sinkhole in the bed of the karstic Aucilla River (between Jefferson and Taylor counties in the Big Bend region of Florida) that has stratified deposits of late Pleistocene and early Holocene animal bones and human artifacts. The site was the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%E2%80%93Ladson%20site |
Parkland School District is a large public school district located in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It serves North Whitehall Township, South Whitehall Township, Upper Macungie Township, and a part of western Allentown. The district also includes the South Whitehall villages of Cetronia, Dorneyville... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland%20School%20District |
Camelotia (meaning "from Camelot") is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic in what is now England. Paleontologists are divided on which family it may belong to; in the past, Camelotia has generally been assigned to the prosauropods, but this group of primitive dinosaurs is in cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelotia |
The Zentralbahn is a Swiss railway company that owns and operates two connecting railway lines in Central Switzerland and the Bernese Oberland. It was created on January 1, 2005, with the acquisition of the independently owned Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, and the Brünig line of the Swiss Federal Railways. The company h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentralbahn |
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