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Vizela () is a municipality in the Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,736, in an area of 24.70 km².
The present mayor is Vitor Hugo Salgado, elected as an independent. The municipal holiday is March 19.
History
In August 2000, an outbreak of Legionaires' disease occurred in Vizela. A total of 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizela |
Royal Air Force Oulton or more simply RAF Oulton is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located west of Aylsham, Norfolk and northwest of Norwich, Norfolk, England.
The airfield was built over 1939 and 1940 as a bomber airfield with T2 type hangars and grass runways, the facility operating as a satellite airf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Oulton |
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a 2004 book by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problem of intolerance that correlates with religious fundamentalism.
Harris began writing the book during what he described as a per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20Faith |
In the x86 architecture, the CPUID instruction (identified by a CPUID opcode) is a processor supplementary instruction (its name derived from CPU Identification) allowing software to discover details of the processor. It was introduced by Intel in 1993 with the launch of the Pentium and SL-enhanced 486 processors.
A p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID |
Johannes (Johann Christoph) Zumpe (pronounced zumpy; 14 June 1726 in Fürth, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, modern Germany – buried 5 December 1790 in London, UK) was a leading maker of early English square pianos, a form of rectangular piano with a compass of about five octaves. The pianos sounded like mellow harpsic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Zumpe |
Donald J. Maloney (1928 Yonkers, New York – September 3, 2007) was an American author. He wrote a weekly newspaper column about his life as an American businessman in Japan during the 1970s.
Maloney graduated from the Syracuse University School of Journalism in 1948. In 1970, Maloney was assigned to Tokyo by the Harri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Maloney%20%28author%29 |
In the Internet addressing architecture, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) have reserved various Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for special purposes.
IPv4
IPv4 designates special usage or applications for various addresses or address blocks:
IPv6
IPv6 as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved%20IP%20addresses |
A subway party is a celebration that occurs on a mass transit system. Generally, people meet at a predetermined station in their city's mass transit system, wait until their numbers have achieved critical mass, and board the train. From there, revelers may engage in many different activities, from playing music and dan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway%20party |
Unit 621, otherwise known as Egoz (, Yehidat Egoz. lit. "Nut"), is an elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commando unit specializing in guerrilla warfare, special reconnaissance, and direct action (military). It is a part of the IDF Central Command's 89th Brigade (commonly referred to as the commando brigade).
Prior to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20Egoz |
Jondi & Spesh is an American, San Francisco-based dance music production and DJ duo, composed of J.D. Moyer (Jondi) and Stephen Kay (Spesh).
They have founded their own record label, Loöq Records, and are the hosts of Qoöl, a weekly progressive dance music "happy hour" in San Francisco.
Jondi & Spesh have contributed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jondi%20%26%20Spesh |
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a type of outburst flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake. An event similar to a GLOF, where a body of water contained by a glacier melts or overflows the glacier, is called a jökulhlaup. The dam can consist of glacier ice or a terminal moraine. Failure ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial%20lake%20outburst%20flood |
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports is a bestselling non-fiction book published on March 23, 2006, and written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle. When Sports Illustrated released excerpts from the book on March 7,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20of%20Shadows |
The Îles d'Hyères (), also known as Îles d'Or (), are a group of four Mediterranean islands off Hyères in the Var department of Southeastern France.
Islands
With a combined area of , the Îles d'Hyères consist of
Porquerolles – , an extension of the Giens peninsula
Port-Cros – , the most mountainous, part of Port-Cros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles%20d%27Hy%C3%A8res |
Yotsuba may refer to:
Yotsuba&!, a Japanese manga by Kiyohiko Azuma
Yotsuba Koiwai, the title character from Yotsuba&!
Yotsuba, a character from the manga and anime Sister Princess
Yotsuba Nakano, a character from the manga and anime The Quintessential Quintuplets
Yotsuba Group, the name of a group in the Japanese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba |
Synchysis scintillans is a degenerative condition of the eye resulting in liquefied vitreous humor and the accumulation of cholesterol crystals within the vitreous. It is also known as cholesterolosis bulbi. The vitreous liquifies in a process known as syneresis. Synchysis scintillans appears as small white floaters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchysis%20scintillans |
The greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) is a rare carnivorous bat found in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. It is the largest and least studied bat in Europe with a wingspan of up to and is one of the few bat species to feed on passerine birds. Greater noctule bats are the only bat species to hunt birds on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20noctule%20bat |
Ombai Strait (, , ) is an international strait in Southeast Asia. It separates the Alor Archipelago from the islands of Wetar, Atauro, and Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands. The strait is also the western portion of a pair of international straits, the other one being Wetar Strait; the two straits combine to link the P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombai%20Strait |
Mego (ΜΕΓΚΟ) was a Greek light vehicle manufacturer, based in Trikala. Its first products, launched in 1947, were utility tricycles. In 1951, it began manufacturing motorized utility tricycles with 50–100cc engines and an unconventional design in which the solo wheel was located at the rear.
About
The company's first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mego%20%28motorbikes%29 |
Dixon Lanier Merritt (July 9, 1879–January 9, 1972) was an American poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association.
Biography
Born Dixon Lanier Abernathy, his parents divorced while he was a child and one of his five... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon%20Lanier%20Merritt |
Woollard is a small village on the River Chew in the affluent Chew Valley in England. It is in the Bath and North East Somerset council area and the ceremonial county of Somerset. The village is from Bristol, from Bath, and from Keynsham.
The special architectural and historic interest of Woollard was recognised b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woollard |
County Route 535 (CR 535) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from Logan Avenue (where it becomes CR 635), at the boundary between Trenton and Hamilton Township in Mercer County to an interchange with U.S. Route 9 (US 9) and Route 35 in South Amboy, Middlesex County.
The road serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Route%20535%20%28New%20Jersey%29 |
Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (23 May 1905 – 29 October 1936) was a Spanish philosopher, politician, writer, essayist, and journalist, known as one of the pioneers in the introduction of Fascism in Spain.
Early life
Born in Alfaraz de Sayago (province of Zamora), he was raised in , where his father worked as school teacher. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro%20Ledesma%20Ramos |
The Black Company Campaign Setting is a d20 system Fantasy Role-playing game based on the Black Company book series by Glen Cook.
History
With the Mythic Vistas series, Green Ronin Publishing moved in the direction of licensing, including The Black Company (2004) which was based on The Black Company novel series by Gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Company%20%28role-playing%20game%29 |
K-Minus Initiative is the title of the first album by nerdcore (or "geeksta rap") band Commodore 64. It was released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). As their first (and their only) full-length nerdcore/geeksta rap record to be commercially released (so far), and it had sold over 130,000 copies in its first three months of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Minus%20Initiative |
Frank Herbert Foss (b. Augusta, Maine, September 20, 1865 – d. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, February 15, 1947) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
He attended public schools in Augusta, Maine and graduated from Kent Hill (Maine) Seminary in 1886. He moved to Fitchburg in 1893.
Foss was a member of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20H.%20Foss |
Wetar Strait (, , ) is an international strait in Southeast Asia. It separates the island of Wetar from the eastern part of the island of Timor. The strait is also the eastern portion of a pair of international straits, the other one being Ombai Strait; the two straits combine to link the Indian Ocean with the Pacific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetar%20Strait |
The origins of the modern British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket. While a musket was largely inaccurate over , due to a lack of rifling and a generous tolerance to allow for muzzle-loading, it was cheap to produce and could be loaded quickly. The use of volley or mass firing by troops m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20military%20rifles |
Erdős' conjecture on arithmetic progressions, often referred to as the Erdős–Turán conjecture, is a conjecture in arithmetic combinatorics (not to be confused with the Erdős–Turán conjecture on additive bases). It states that if the sum of the reciprocals of the members of a set A of positive integers diverges, then A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20conjecture%20on%20arithmetic%20progressions |
Joseph Edward Casey (December 27, 1898 – September 1, 1980) was a United States representative from Massachusetts. Born in Clinton, he attended the public schools, served as a private in the United States Army at Fort Lee, Virginia, in 1918, and graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1920. He was admitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20E.%20Casey |
D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor in both film and television. He appeared in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre. He also appeared in two unaired pilots of what would become All in the Family as Lionel Jefferson. Born in New York City, Martin began his career in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Urville%20Martin |
The Lesner Bridge in Virginia Beach, Virginia connects the bay area to the Virginia Beach shore via Shore Drive (U.S. Route 60) — crossing the Lynnhaven Inlet at the mouth the Chesapeake Bay. The bridge lies approximately three miles from the southern terminus of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The first bridge in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesner%20Bridge |
Club 57 was a nightclub located at 57 St. Mark's Place in the East Village, New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was originally founded by Stanley Zbigniew Strychacki as well as Dominic Rose. Then enhanced by nightclub performer Ann Magnuson, Susan Hannaford, and poet Tom Scully. It was a hangout and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club%2057%20%28nightclub%29 |
Pamela Jane Bjorkman NAS, AAAS (also spelled Pamela J. Björkman born 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is an American biochemist. She is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Her research centers on the study of the three-dimensional structures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20J.%20Bjorkman |
The Liberation Front of Chad (Front de Libération du Tchad or FLT) was an insurgent group active between 1965 and 1976 during the first phase of the Chadian Civil War.
It was founded in Sudan by Ahmed Hassan Musa, an Islamic fundamentalist close to the Muslim Brotherhood who was leader of the General Union of the Chil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation%20Front%20of%20Chad |
VisitScotland, formerly the Scottish Tourist Board (), is a national tourism organisation for Scotland. It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, and other parts of Scotland.
Among the organisation's tasks is the attraction of v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisitScotland |
Integra-Signum is a Swiss train protection system introduced in 1933. Originally it was called Signum; the name Integra was added later. It transmits data inductively and is simple, robust and reliable also in snow.
How it works
The locomotives have three sending and receiving magnets and there are two trackside magne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integra-Signum |
Alderley Edge railway station serves the large village of Alderley Edge in Cheshire, England. The station is 13¾ miles (22 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Crewe to Manchester Line.
History
Opened by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, then absorbed by the London and North Western Railway, it became part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderley%20Edge%20railway%20station |
Simeon ben Azzai or simply Ben Azzai () was a distinguished tanna of the first third of the 2nd century.
Biography
Ben Azzai is sometimes called "Rabbi", but, in spite of his great learning, this title did not rightfully belong to him, for he remained all his life in the ranks of the "talmidim" or "talmidei hakhamim"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon%20ben%20Azzai |
Nancy Malone (born Ann Josefa Maloney; March 19, 1935 – May 8, 2014) was an American television actress from the 1950s to 1970s, who later moved into producing and directing in the 1980s and 1990s.
Early life and career
Born in Queens Village, New York City, Malone was one of at least two children born to longshore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Malone |
Universal was an Australian-based boy band, from the 1990s. They released three singles on London Records with "Rock Me Good" and "Make It with You" both entering the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart in 1997. When the third single failed to make in impact, the band dissolved.
The Brothership
However, they reformed in 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20%28group%29 |
Timothy Steele (born January 22, 1948) is an American poet, who generally writes in meter and rhyme. His early poems, which began appearing in the 1970s in such magazines as Poetry, The Southern Review, and X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures, are said to have anticipated and contributed to the revival of traditional ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Steele |
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (also known as GSP) is an advertising agency based in San Francisco.
History
The agency was founded on April 15, 1983 as Goodby, Berlin & Silverstein by Jeff Goodby, Andy Berlin and Rich Silverstein. Andy Berlin left in 1992 and the agency was renamed. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners is n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodby%2C%20Silverstein%20%26%20Partners |
Oral poetry is a form of poetry that is composed and transmitted without the aid of writing. The complex relationships between written and spoken literature in some societies can make this definition hard to maintain.
Background
Oral poetry is sometimes considered to include any poetry which is performed live. In man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20poetry |
"Jackson" is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber. It was recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio, Wheeler, and Flatt and Scruggs. It achieved its most notable popularity with two 1967 releases: a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country Singl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%20%28song%29 |
Business tourism or business travel is a more limited and focused subset of regular tourism. During business tourism (traveling), individuals are still working and being paid, but are doing so away from both their workplace and home.
Some definitions of tourism exclude business travel. However, the United Nations Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20tourism |
Émile Mâle (; 2 June 1862 – 6 October 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of Eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Biography
Mâle was born in Commentr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile%20M%C3%A2le |
František Graus (14 December 1921, Brno – 1 May 1989, Basel) was a Czech historian whose work focused on the social and economic history of medieval Europe, particularly the history of social movements and of ethnic and religious minorities.
Life and academic career
Born to a prosperous German-speaking Jewish family i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek%20Graus |
"The cream" is a testosterone-based ointment that is used in conjunction with anabolic steroids such as tetrahydrogestrinone (THG, also known as "the clear") in order to mask doping in professional athletes.
The drug was made public when the United States Anti-Doping Agency was contacted by an anonymous athletics coac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20cream |
Zannanza (died c. 1324 BC) was a Hittite prince, son of Suppiluliuma I, king of the Hittites. He is best known for almost becoming the Pharaoh of Egypt, and because his death caused a diplomatic incident between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires, resulting in warfare.
Biography
The Egyptian Queen Dakhamunzu, who could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zannanza |
George Russell Stobbs (February 7, 1877 – December 23, 1966) was an attorney and politician. A Republican. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts for three terms.
Early life
Stobbs was born in Webster, Massachusetts on February 7, 1877, the son of Charles Richard Stobb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20R.%20Stobbs |
Bainoceratops (meaning "mountain horned face", after the type locality, Bayn Dzak) is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the late Campanian in the Late Cretaceous. The type species is B. efremovi. Its fossils were found in southern Mongolia in the Djadochta Formation.
History
Viktor Tereshchenko and Vladimir R. Alif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bainoceratops |
Chelford railway station serves the village of Chelford in Cheshire, England. The station is north of Crewe on the Crewe to Manchester Line.
History
Chelford railway station was opened by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway on 10 May 1842.
Chelford railway station once had an engine shed, however this was demolish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelford%20railway%20station |
California Institution for Men (CIM) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Chino, San Bernardino County, California. It is often colloquially referenced as "Chino". In turn, locals call the prison "Chino Men's" or just "Men's" to avoid confusion with the city itself.
Facilities
CIM is a facility locate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Institution%20for%20Men |
Arturo Zamora Jiménez (born March 30, 1956 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is running as the PRI candidate to the governorship of Jalisco.
Zamora studied law at the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG). He has worked as lawyer an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Zamora%20Jim%C3%A9nez |
Basutodon was a genus of suchian archosaur from the late Carnian-early Norian-age Upper Triassic Lower Elliot Formation of Lesotho. It is based on teeth that were once confused with prosauropod remains, as with Teratosaurus. Because of this, it is sometimes listed in older dinosaur books as an early theropod, or as a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basutodon |
Recreation Park, also known as Recreation Grounds, The Recs and The Indodrill Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League team Alloa Athletic, who have played there since 1895. Additionally, Broomhill (former... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreation%20Park%2C%20Alloa |
Villinger is a German surname.
People with the name include:
Alexander Villinger (born 1953), German composer
, (1889–1967), German sportsman and cinematograph
, (1860–1946), Swiss feminist
Walther Villiger, Swiss astronomer
Werner Villinger (1887–1961), psychiatrist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villinger |
The International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences is a biennial conference discussing topics of heraldic and genealogical interest. The Congress brings together scholars and other interested persons from all the nations of Europe and from many countries around the world. The first Congress was held in Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Congress%20of%20Genealogical%20and%20Heraldic%20Sciences |
Euskelosaurus ("good leg lizard") is a sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa and Lesotho. Fossils have only been recovered from the lower Elliot Formation in South Africa and Lesotho, and in one locality in Zimbabwe.
History of discovery
In 1863, Alfred Brown recovered fossil material consist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euskelosaurus |
Ankeveen is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies about 5 km west of Bussum.
The village was first mentioned in 1344 as Tankenveen, and means "peat excavation of Tanke (person)". Ankeveen is a stretched out peat concession village.
The buitenplaats ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankeveen |
Chris McDonald may refer to:
Christopher McDonald (born 1955), American actor
Chris McDonald (soccer) (born 1975), retired American soccer player
Chris McDonald (engineer) (born 1977), English CEO
Chris McDonald (footballer) (born 1975), Scottish footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20McDonald |
Edward Digby Baltzell Jr. (November 14, 1915 – August 17, 1996) was an American sociologist, academic and author. He studied the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant establishment and is credited with popularizing the acronym WASP. He was also a best-selling author whose books were popular with both scholars and the general p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20Digby%20Baltzell |
Kortenhoef is a village in North Holland, Netherlands with a population of about 6,780. It is an important part of the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies about 5 km northwest of Hilversum. Kortenhoef was a separate municipality until 1966, when it was merged with 's-Graveland retaining the latter name; it merged with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortenhoef |
The Stoa of Zeus at Athens, was a two-aisled stoa located in the northwest corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was built c. 425 BC–410 BC for religious purposes in dedication to Zeus by the Eleutherios ("pertaining to freedom"): a cult founded after the Persian War. Stoas were not commonly used for religious purp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoa%20of%20Zeus |
Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple is a Hindu temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India and is dedicated to the Hindu God Hanuman. The temple was established by famous Hindu preacher and poet saint Sri Goswami Tulsidas in the early 16th century and is situated on the banks of the Assi river. The deity was named "Sankat Mochan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankat%20Mochan%20Hanuman%20Temple |
Nieuw-Loosdrecht is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the town of Loosdrecht and the municipality of Wijdemeren. It lies about 4 km west of Hilversum.
The village was first mentioned in 1415 as "optie aeker, dair nu die Zypkerc op staet". The current name means "new ferry over th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuw-Loosdrecht |
No Need for Alarm is the second solo studio album by American hip hop musician Del the Funky Homosapien. It was released in 1993 through Elektra Records. Recording sessions took place at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco and at Chung King House of Metal in New York City. The album spawned the two singles "Catch A Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Need%20for%20Alarm |
Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA (29 December 1928 – 28 February 2015) was an English historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.
Life
Bosworth was born on 29 December 1928 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire (now South Yorkshire). His father, Clifford Bosworth, clerked for Board of Guardians... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Edmund%20Bosworth |
Wilhelm Murr (16 December 1888 – 14 May 1945) was a Nazi German politician. From 1928 until his death he was Gauleiter of Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern, and from early 1933 held the offices of State President and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of Württemberg. During World War II he also rose to the rank of SS-Oberg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Murr |
Dimetrodon borealis, formerly known as Bathygnathus borealis, is an extinct species of pelycosaur-grade synapsid that lived about 270 million years ago (Ma) in the Early Middle Permian. A partial maxilla or upper jaw bone from Prince Edward Island in Canada is the only known fossil of Bathygnathus. The maxilla was disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon%20borealis |
The Worcester Art Museum, also known by its acronym WAM, houses over 38,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day and representing cultures from all over the world. WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and ranks among the more important art museums of its kind in the nation. Its holdings incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester%20Art%20Museum |
Oud-Loosdrecht is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the town of Loosdrecht and the municipality of Wijdemeren; it lies about 6 km west of Hilversum.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1384 as "van der Loesdrecht". The current name means "old ferry over the drainage canal"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud-Loosdrecht |
Juan Enrique Ibarra Pedroza (born August 16, 1952, in Tototlán, Jalisco) is a Mexican politician who in 2006 ran as the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate to the 2006 Jalisco gubernatorial election.
Ibarra holds a bachelor's degree in law from the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG). He was an active me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%20Ibarra%20Pedroza |
The Trench (known digitally as The Trench: Meg 2) is a 1999 science fiction horror novel by American author Steve Alten. It is the sequel to Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror and the second book in the MEG series. The book continues the adventure of Jonas Taylor, a paleobiologist studying the megalodon, who now discovers ano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Trench%20%28novel%29 |
Westar is an American satellite telecommunication system.
Westar may refer to:
Westar Energy, an American electric utility
Westar Institute, a non-profit institute promoting religious literacy
Westar Rules, the name used by the West Australian Football League between 1997 and 2000
See also
Wester (disambiguatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westar%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Nemo judex in causa sua (also written as , , or ) is a Latin brocard that translates as "no one is judge in their own case". Originating from Roman law, it was crystallized into a phrase by Edward Coke in the 17th century and is now widely regarded as a fundamental tenet of natural justice and constitutionalism. It st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo%20iudex%20in%20causa%20sua |
Muyeveld or Muijeveld is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies about 8 km southwest of Hilversum.
According to Van der Aa, the hamlet was formerly known as "Mijndenveld", referring to the nearby polder and hamlet of Mijnden.
References
Populated pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muyeveld |
The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) is an award for excellence in teaching in higher education for teaching fellows in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The scheme was first administered by the Higher Education Academy, which subsequently became Advance HE in 2018. The scheme was started in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Teaching%20Fellowship |
High Performance Driver Education (HPDE) refers to driving schools held on dedicated race tracks designed to teach drivers proper high-speed driving techniques. HPDE events are held by various automobile enthusiasts' clubs at some of the most renowned road-course tracks around the world. Participants include both stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Driver%20Education |
Ralph Washington Sockman (October 1, 1889 – August 29, 1970) was the senior pastor of Christ Church (United Methodist) in New York City, United States. He gained considerable prominence in the U.S. as the featured speaker on the weekly NBC radio program, National Radio Pulpit, which aired from 1928 to 1962, and as a w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Washington%20Sockman |
Delbert Martin Shofner (December 11, 1934 – March 11, 2020) was an American football wide receiver who played for eleven seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Giants from 1957 to 1967 in the National Football League (NFL).
Early life
Shofner played college football at Baylor University. In addition to foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%20Shofner |
Overmeer is a neighbourhood of Nederhorst den Berg and former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies about 8 km northwest of Hilversum. Overmeer used to be a separate village, but has now grown together with the town of Nederhorst den Berg.
References
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Belodon (meaning "arrow tooth") is a genus of phytosaur, a crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic. Its fossils have been found in Europe and elsewhere. The type species, Belodon plieningeri, was named by prolific German paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1844.
Many other species were al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belodon |
County Route 534 (CR 534) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from Cooper Street on the border of Woodbury and Deptford Township to Indian Mills Road (Burlington CR 620) in Shamong Township.
Route description
CR 534 begins along Cooper Street on the eastern edge of Woodbury, Glou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Route%20534%20%28New%20Jersey%29 |
Hinderdam is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies about 15 km southeast of Amsterdam.
Hinderdam consists of about 20 houses.
References
Populated places in North Holland
Wijdemeren | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinderdam |
Denis Alfred Peter Philp (10 November 1920 - 5 February 2006), was a Welsh dramatist and antiques expert, best known for his television series, Collectors' Club.
Philp was born in Cardiff, and attended Penarth grammar school, but opted to enter the family antiques business, A. T. Philp & Sons, instead of going to univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Philp |
Stoa Amphiaraion (also known as the Enkoimeterion) is located on the east side of the Sanctuary of Amphiaraios, southeast of the Theatre. It was built c. 360 BC. The two-aisled stoa opens towards the southeast with an outer Doric colonnade of forty-one columns and an inner Ionic colonnade of seventeen columns. Before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoa%20Amphiaraion |
Charaton (Olympiodorus of Thebes: Χαράτων) was one of the first kings of the Huns.
Etymology
The name is found in Greek as Χαράτων (Kharatōn). Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen notes that the -ton element might be an artifact of the Greek transcription, and the name may actually have ended in -tom, -ton, -to, -ta, or -t.
Omelj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charaton |
Laminated object manufacturing (LOM) is a rapid prototyping system developed by Helisys Inc. (Cubic Technologies is now the successor organization of Helisys) In it, layers of adhesive-coated paper, plastic, or metal laminates are successively glued together and cut to shape with a knife or laser cutter. Objects print... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminated%20object%20manufacturing |
The Washington Park & Zoo Railway (WP&ZRy) is a narrow gauge recreational railroad in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park with rolling stock built to 5/8 scale. Opened in three stages in 1958, 1959 and 1960, it previously provided transportation between the Oregon Zoo, Hoyt Arboretum, International Rose Test Garden, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20Park%20and%20Zoo%20Railway |
A Tangled Web is a novel by L. M. Montgomery. It was published in late 1931 by McClelland and Stewart (Canada), Frederick A. Stokes Company (USA), and Hodder and Stoughton (UK) under the title Aunt Becky Began It. It centres on a community consisting mainly of two families, the Penhallows and the Darks. Over three gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Tangled%20Web%20%28Montgomery%20novel%29 |
Horstermeer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies about 8 km northwest of Hilversum.
The statistical district "Horstermeer", which covers the village and the surrounding Horstermeerpolder, has a population of around 770.
Dutch mainland separation
A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horstermeer |
Tahir Mohsan is the founder of Time Computers in 1987, Supanet, Tpad and 6G Internet. Mohsan was born and educated in Blackburn and is one of five brothers. He comes from a family of Pakistani origin, and has been one of the richest young Britons.
History and career
In 1987, at the age of 16, he founded Time Computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir%20Mohsan |
Highway 5 or the Trans-Samaria Highway (, Kvish Hotze Shomron), is one of Israel's main highways, connecting the Mediterranean coast immediately north of Tel Aviv with the central Sharon plain and eastwards to Ariel and other Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank.
The name Highway 5 is commonly used to describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%205%20%28Israel%E2%80%93Palestine%29 |
Michael Wiesenberg is a technical writer, author, and former poker player.
Career
Wiesenberg played poker professionally for 10 years before becoming a technical writer. He contributed for many years to the original Gambling Times magazine, writing about keno and poker. He had a biweekly column in the original Poker ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Wiesenberg |
Bienosaurus (meaning "Bien's lizard") is a dubious genus of thyreophoran dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (probably Sinemurian) Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China.
Discovery and species
In 1938, Bian Meinian, known in the West as Mei Nien Bien, discovered a fragmentary dinosaur skull. In 2001, Dong... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienosaurus |
The American snout or common snout butterfly (Libytheana carinenta) is a member of the subfamily Libytheinae in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. This species is found in both North and South America. The larval host plants are Celtis species on which the eggs are laid singly. Massive migrations of this s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20snout |
Douglas Morley Kirkland (August 16, 1934 – October 2, 2022) was a Canadian-born American photographer. He was noted for his photographs of celebrities, especially the ones he took of Marilyn Monroe several months before her death.
Early life
Kirkland was born in Toronto on August 16, 1934. He was raised in nearby Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Kirkland |
Goostrey railway station serves the village of Goostrey in Cheshire, England. The station is on the Crewe to Manchester Line 10½ miles (16 km) north east of Crewe.
History
The line was built by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company and completed on 10 August 1842. Goostrey station was added by the London & No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goostrey%20railway%20station |
The Anthony Roll is a written record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s, named after its creator, Anthony Anthony. It originally consisted of three rolls of vellum, depicting 58 naval vessels along with information on their size, crew, armament, and basic equipment. The rolls were presented to King Henry V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Roll |
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