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Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge, part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica twenty kilometers south of Los Chiles near the border with Nicaragua in the Alajuela province. The refuge is a wetlands site that is home to many migratory waterfowl during part of the ... | Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge |
Christ Church, at Zero Garden Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Built in 1760–61, it was designated a National Historic Landmark as one of the few buildings unambiguously attributable to Peter Harrison, the first formally trained architect to work in the Br... | Christ Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
Jean Ferrat (born Jean Tenenbaum; 26 December 1930 – 13 March 2010) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry, particularly that of Louis Aragon. He had a left-wing sympathy that found its way into a few songs.
Biography
Ferrat was born in Vaucresson, Hauts-de-Seine, the youngest of fou... | Jean Ferrat |
In mathematics, more specifically field theory, the degree of a field extension is a rough measure of the "size" of the field extension. The concept plays an important role in many parts of mathematics, including algebra and number theory — indeed in any area where fields appear prominently.
Definition and notation
S... | Degree of a field extension |
A desk is a piece of furniture intended for writing on, hence writing desk is redundant. It is usually found in an office or study.
Operation
Traditionally, a desk was meant for writing by hand letters but it has adapted to accommodate first typewriters and now computers. Some variations, like the bureau have a top th... | Writing desk |
SV Wilhelmshaven is a German association football club from Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony. SV Wilhelmshaven play in the Regionalliga Nord. SV Wilhelmshaven was founded in 1905. Since 1999, Wilhelmshaven's stadium is the Jadestadion.
History
Predecessor side SpVgg Wilhelmshaven was formed as FC Comet in 1905 and was quic... | SV Wilhelmshaven |
{{Infobox military conflict|
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conflict=Battle of Coutras|
partof=the War of the Three Henrys|
date=20 October 1587|
place=Coutras (Gironde)|
result=Huguenot victory|
combatant1= Huguenots|
combatant2= Royalist Army|
commander1= Henry of Navarre|
commander2= Anne de Joyeuse†|
stre... | Battle of Coutras |
Ulemosaurus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids that lived 265 to 260 million years ago, at Isheevo in Russian Tatarstan. It was a tapinocephalid, a group of bulky herbivores which flourished in the Middle Permian. Ulemosaurus and other tapinocephalians disappeared at the end of the Middle Permian.
Descrip... | Ulemosaurus |
Oscar Fredrik Church () is a church in Olivedal in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was drawn by Helgo Zetterwall and erected in the 1890s. Belonging to the Gothenburg Oscar Fredrik Parish of the Church of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska Kyrkan), it was opened on Easter Sunday 1893. The style is Neo Gothic, but the influence is not the... | Oscar Fredrik Church |
No. 29 (City of Hobart) Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) reserve squadron located in Hobart, Tasmania. The squadron was formed in September 2001 and has the role of training Tasmanian RAAF reservists for air base protection tasks.
History
No. 29 Squadron was formed in Hobart on 1 September 2001 as part... | No. 29 Squadron RAAF |
The Lakemba Mosque, also known as the Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib and officially the Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb Mosque, is Australia's largest mosque. It is located at 71-75 Wangee Road, Lakemba. Owned and managed by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), Lakemba Mosque and the LMA offices are situated contiguously at the sam... | Lakemba Mosque |
Wilho F. Saari (July 7, 1932 – January 19, 2022) was a Finnish American player of the kantele, the Finnish psaltery. Kreeta Haapasalo, a well-known kantele player in Finland in the 19th century, was his great-great grandmother. Wilho's father, Wilho Sr., also performed the kantele in public, only in Washington, having ... | Wilho Saari |
David Bradley Woodall (born June 25, 1969) is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played parts of five seasons in Major League Baseball between 1994 and 1999 for the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs.
Career
Woodall played college baseball for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wh... | Brad Woodall |
Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 1 is a set of three piano trios (written for piano, violin, and cello), first performed in 1795 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they are dedicated. The trios were published in 1795.
Despite the Op. 1 designation, these trios were not Beethoven's first published compositions; this... | Piano Trios, Op. 1 (Beethoven) |
LMCS may refer to:
Lockheed Martin Control Systems, the former name of the Platform Solutions division of BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support
Logical Methods in Computer Science, a scientific journal in theoretical computer science
IEEE 802, the LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMCS)
See also
LMC (disamb... | LMCS |
Clement Howell (December 10, 1935 – August 2, 1987) was a politician from the Turks and Caicos Islands. He served on a four-member interim advisory council beginning in July 1986, after two previous chief ministers were forced to resign and the ministerial government in the territory was suspended.
The Ministerial gov... | Clement Howell |
Salicylate testing is a category of drug testing that is focused on detecting salicylates such as acetysalicylic acid for either biochemical or medical purposes.
Analytical
Salicylates can be identified by GC/MS, proton NMR, and IR.
In vitro
One of the first in vitro tests for aspirin was through the Trinder reaction... | Salicylate testing |
Child World was an American toy retailer founded in 1962. It grew to 182 sites and revenues of $830 million (~$ in ) before failing in 1992. It was known for the distinctive stylized castle store exterior adopted after its 1975 purchase of the Children's Palace store chain.
History
Beginnings and early expansion
Chi... | Child World |
Oregon's 2006 statewide election included a May 16 primary election and a November 7 general election.
Ten statewide ballot measures were on the November ballot.
The following offices were up for election: Governor, Supreme Court Position 6 (to succeed Wallace P. Carson, Jr.), and numerous seats in the state legislat... | 2006 Oregon elections |
"Leningrad" is a 1989 song written and performed by American singer and songwriter Billy Joel. The song was originally released on his album Storm Front on the Columbia Records label, and went on to be released as a single in Europe only. It was also released on his Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 compilation. The song title is ... | Leningrad (song) |
Kvisla may refer to the following locations:
Kvisla in Hol municipality, Buskerud
Kvisla in Engerdal municipality, Hedmark | Kvisla |
Snap music (also known as ringtone rap or snap rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music derived from crunk that originated in southern United States in the 2000s, in Bankhead, West Atlanta, United States. It achieved mainstream popularity throughout the mid-late 2000s, but declined shortly thereafter. Popular snap artists i... | Snap music |
Apatura metis, the Freyer's purple emperor, is a species of butterfly found in the Palearctic.
Appearance
Freyer's purple emperor has dark wings with reddish and yellow bands. The wings of the male are bluish purple if seen from the right angle.
In appearance, it resembles Apatura ilia. However, it differs significant... | Apatura metis |
Fire in the Hole is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Brand Nubian. It was released on August 10, 2004 via Babygrande Records. Recording sessions took place at State Street Studios in Brooklyn. Production was handled by members DJ Alamo, Grand Puba, Sadat X, and Lord Jamar, who also served as executive p... | Fire in the Hole (album) |
Mitra Hajjar (; born February 4, 1977) is an Iranian actress. She has received various accolades, including a Crystal Simorgh, in addition to nominations for three Hafez Award, an Iran Cinema Celebration Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.
Career
Hajjar started acting with "Strangely" direc... | Mitra Hajjar |
Majority (absolute majority), a mathematic concept, is the greater part, or more than half, of the total.
Majority may also refer to:
Plurality, sometimes referred to as "relative majority"
Majority (sociology), related to the minority group
Age of majority, the threshold of adulthood in law
Majority function in Bool... | Majority (disambiguation) |
School District 6 Rocky Mountain is a school district in South Eastern British Columbia. This includes the major centres of Kimberley, Invermere and Golden.
History
School District 6 Rocky Mountain was formed in 1996 by the amalgamation of School District 3 (Kimberley), School District 4 (Windermere) and School Distri... | School District 6 Rocky Mountain |
Scotty Lake is the name of three lakes in the U.S. state of Alaska:
A one-mile-long (1.6 km) lake in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, located along near the Parks Highway at , six miles (9.7 km) west of Talkeetna.
A 0.7-mile-long (1,130 m) lake in Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali Borough, located at , 21 miles ... | Scotty Lake |
Joy Mukherjee (24 February 1939 – 9 March 2012) was an Indian actor and director. He was titled as the 'heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s'.
Family background
Joy Mukherjee was the son of Sashadhar Mukherjee and Sati Devi. His father was a successful producer and a co-founder of Filmalaya Studios. His uncles were dir... | Joy Mukherjee |
Basrur / Basroor is a village in Kundapura taluk in Udupi district of Karnataka. Historically Basrur was also called Barcelor, Barcelore, Barcalor, Basnur, Bares, Abu-Sarur and Barsellor.
History
Basrur, once called Vasupura, is a historic port town on the banks of the Varahi River on the Kanara coast in Karnataka, In... | Basrur |
Sex Packets is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Digital Underground, released on .
Album background
The album is a concept album about "G.S.R.A." (Genetic Suppression Relief Antidotes), a pharmaceutical substance that is produced in the form of a large glowing pill about the size of a quarter, which co... | Sex Packets |
The Davos process was the name given to the process of reconciliation, rapprochement between Greece and Turkey, conducted in 1988 between Andreas Papandreou and Turkish prime minister Turgut Özal. Their meeting took place at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. | Davos process |
Ligovsky Prospekt () is a major street in Saint Petersburg. Before the establishment of the city, it was a street leading to Novgorod, used by the people living in the villages around the Neva delta.
Between 1718-25, when Saint Petersburg was the capital of Russia, construction began on the Ligovsky Canal. The canal ... | Ligovsky Avenue |
Raad-2 (Persian:رعد-۲, means Thunder-2) is an Iranian self-propelled howitzer.
Development
In early September 1997, it was reported that Iran had successfully tested a locally built rapid fire mobile field gun known as Raad-2 (Thunder-2).
It uses a turret that has a similar layout to the M109A1 155mm/39-cal self-prop... | Raad-2 |
Cabrières-d'Aigues (; Provençal: Cabrièras d'Egues) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
See also
Côtes du Luberon AOC
Communes of the Vaucluse department
Étang de la Bonde
Luberon | Cabrières-d'Aigues |
Cold Brook is a former railroad station in the Boiceville section of the town of Olive, Ulster County, New York, United States. Located on Cold Brook Road, just north of New York State Route 28A next to Esopus Creek, Cold Brook station served the New York Central Railroad's Catskill Mountain Branch, formerly the Ulster... | Cold Brook station |
The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
The gazette was published from 1672 to 1724 (with an interruption in 1674–1677) under the title (someti... | Mercure de France |
Tejaswini Sawant (born 12 September 1980) is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. Her father Ravindra Sawant was an officer in the Indian Navy.
Biography
Tejaswini born to father Ravindra and mother Sunita in Kolhapur. She has two younger sisters Anuradha Pitre and Vijaymala Gavali. Her father di... | Tejaswini Sawant |
Leopardstown Racecourse is an Irish horse-racing venue, located in Leopardstown, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, south of the Dublin city centre. Like the majority of Irish courses, it hosts both National Hunt and Flat racing.
The course, built by Captain George Quin and modelled on Sandown Park Racecourse in England, was c... | Leopardstown Racecourse |
Ursula Buchfellner (born 8 June 1961) is a German model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Weissbrich.
Buchfellner also was the Playmate for the December 1977 issue of Playboy's German edition, being only 16 at the time wh... | Ursula Buchfellner |
Paul Speckmann (born September 28, 1963) is an American bassist and singer from Chicago, Illinois. He currently lives in Uherské Hradiště, Czechia.
Biography
Speckmann formed his first band, Warcry, in 1982. He recorded the demo Trilogy of Terror with them in 1983, before starting the death metal band Master. This pro... | Paul Speckmann |
Skyfire is an annual March fireworks show held over Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia since 1989. The event is funded by local radio station hit 104.7, and the display is synchronised to a soundtrack of music broadcast on the station.
History of the event
The first Skyfire was held on 18 March 1989, as FM 10... | Skyfire (Canberra) |
The All Pakistan Muttahida Students Organization (APMSO; ) is a Pakistani student organization notable for creating a political party: the Mohajir Quami Movement, now called the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
APMSO was founded by Altaf Hussain along with other students including Azeem Ahmed Tariq, Dr. Imran Farooq on... | All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization |
John Clayton Smith (15 September 1910 – 1986) was a footballer who played 347 league matches for Sheffield United between 1931 and 1949 as a goalkeeper.
He began by playing outfield for Bolsterstone FC, and first played in goal when replacing an injured team-mate. After an excellent performance, he remained as goalkee... | Jack Smith (footballer, born 1910) |
Sir Edmond Bell Of Castle Acre and Beaupre Hall, Norfolk. (bap 7 April 1562 – bur 22 December 1607). He was an MP of Aldeburgh, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk c. 1599, Knighted 1603.
Early life
He was baptised 7 April 1562, the first son and heir of Sir Robert Bell and Dorothie daughter of Edmonde Beaupre, Of Outwe... | Edmond Bell |
Sirkeci () is a neighborhood in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey. In the Byzantine period, the area was known as Prosphorion ().
The neighborhood borders to the north the mouth of the Golden Horn, to the west the neighborhood of Bahçekapı, to the east the Topkapı Palace area, and to the so... | Sirkeci |
Courgenay () is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
History
Courgenay is first mentioned in 1139 as Corgennart.
Geography
Courgenay has an area of . Of this area, or 48.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9... | Courgenay |
The 31st Directors Guild of America Awards, honoring the outstanding directorial achievements in film and television in 1978, were presented on March 10, 1979 at the Beverly Hilton. The feature film nominees were announced in February 1979.
Winners and nominees
Film
Television | 31st Directors Guild of America Awards |
New Alipore is an upscale and standard locality in South Kolkata.
Description
Geography
New Alipore is bordered on the north by the Budge Budge section of the Kolkata Suburban Railway between Majerhat and Tollygunge stations. It is bounded by B.L. Saha Road (Chetla) to the east, Diamond Harbour Road to the west and b... | New Alipore |
The 1990 Paisley South by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 29 November 1990 for the House of Commons constituency of Paisley South, in the town of Paisley, Scotland.
It was caused by the death of the previous Labour Member of Parliament, Norman Buchan.
As in the by-election in the neighbouring seat of... | 1990 Paisley South by-election |
Kottarakkara (IAST: Koṭṭārakkara), also transliterated as Kottarakara, is a town and municipality in the Kollam district of the Kerala, India. The town is close to Kollam Port, which has a rich history linked to the early medieval period as well as the reputation as an important commercial, industrial and trading cent... | Kottarakkara |
George W. Drum (October 3, 1925–December 16, 1997) was an early leader in automobile club circles, and the first director of the Crosley Car Owners Club in 1952. With Edward Herzog, he worked to preserve the stock of spare parts for Crosley automobiles and trucks when the parent company Crosley Motors, Incorporated was... | George W. Drum |
Terramar may refer to:
Places
Terramar, Carlsbad, California, United States, a neighborhood
Terramar Visitor Center, a visitor center and museum at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Autódromo de Sitges-Terramar, a former racing circuit in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Other
The... | Terramar |
Walter Haskell Pincus (born December 24, 1932) is an American national security journalist. He reported for The Washington Post until the end of 2015. He has won several prizes including a Polk Award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, and shared a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with five other Washington... | Walter Pincus |
Horst Schulze (26 April 1921 – 24 October 2018) was a German actor and opera singer. He was born in Dresden and died in Berlin at the age of 97.
Filmography | Horst Schulze |
Canadian Music Creators Coalition is a group of Canadian music artists opposed to introducing legislation similar to the United States' DMCA into Canadian intellectual property law. The group was officially formed April 26, 2006. An editorial from founding member Steven Page (formerly of the band Barenaked Ladies) ann... | Canadian Music Creators Coalition |
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e. change in a word's meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider implicat... | Reappropriation |
Anna Roemers Visscher (c. 2 February 1583 – 6 December 1651) was a Dutch artist, poet, and translator.
Biography
Anna Roemers Visscher was the eldest daughter of Amsterdam merchant and poet Roemer Visscher and the sister of Maria Tesselschade Visscher. Her family's economic and social status in Amsterdam enabled Vissc... | Anna Visscher |
A precinct captain, also known as a precinct chairman, precinct delegate, precinct committee officer or precinct committeeman, is an elected official in the American political party system. The office establishes a direct link between a political party and the voters in a local electoral precinct. Their role is to buil... | Precinct captain |
James Twining (born 13 December 1972) is a British thriller writer.
Life
Although born in London, Twining spent most of his childhood in France after his family moved to Paris when he was four. On his return to the United Kingdom when aged eleven, he went to Merchant Taylors' School, eventually winning a place to Chri... | James Twining |
Motu One, also known as Bellinghausen, is an atoll in the Leeward group of the Society Islands. Motu One is located 550 km northwest from Tahiti and 72 km northeast of Manuae, its closest neighbor.
Motu One's reef encloses totally a lagoon without a pass. All of its sides are covered with low, wooded sandy islands exc... | Motu One (Society Islands) |
Lagmannsholmen was an island at the entrance to the western part of the harbor of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway.
Starting in 1686, the island was the site of the fleet station for the Danish-Norwegian galley fleet (). Between the years 1750–1758, construction was completed for a new headquarters and main statio... | Lagmannsholmen |
Armin Kogler (born 4 September 1959) is an Austrian former ski jumper.
Career
After his surprise win at the FIS Ski-Flying World Championships 1979, Kogler set a new record in Planica (1981) with a leap of 180 meters. He won two World Cup overall titles (1981 and 1982) along with a complete set of medals at the 1982 F... | Armin Kogler |
Continuing churches are Christian denominations that form when a church union between different denominations occurs, and members or congregations do not wish to join the new denomination, but instead choose to continue the heritage and identity of their old denomination. The phrase is sometimes used by denominations t... | Continuing church |
Philip Huang Chao-ming (; born 23 August 1954) is the fourth and current Roman Catholic bishop of Hualien. He was ordained a priest in 1983. He became bishop of Hualien in 2001. | Philip Huang Chao-ming |
The Villa Poppaea is an ancient luxurious Roman seaside villa (villa maritima) located in Torre Annunziata between Naples and Sorrento, in Southern Italy. It is also called the Villa Oplontis or Oplontis Villa A. as it was situated in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis.
It was buried and preserved in the eruption of ... | Villa Poppaea |
Ed Crombie (born October 13, 1945, in Williams Lake, British Columbia) is a former Canadian-born United States Auto Club Championship Car race car driver.
He made four starts with a best finish of 7th at Mosport in 1977. He failed to qualify for the 1976 Indianapolis 500.
See also
List of Canadians in Champ Car | Ed Crombie |
The 2003 Winter Universiade, the XXI Winter Universiade, took place in Tarvisio, Italy. Total 1,266 athletes from 41 countries performed.
Venues
Tarvisio
Alpine skiing
Cross-country skiing
Nordic combined
Ski jumping
Other venues
Forni Avoltri - Biathlon
Claut - Curling
Piancavallo - Figure skating, short t... | 2003 Winter Universiade |
The year 1791 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
The elevations of Charlotte Square in Edinburgh, Scotland, are designed by Robert Adam.
Polish architect Jakub Kubicki is ennobled.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
January 6 – Théâtre Feydeau, Paris, des... | 1791 in architecture |
Iron Mike is a name used for memorial statues of American servicemen.
Iron Mike may also refer to:
People
Michael D. Healy (1926–2018), U.S. Army general and Special Forces legend
Michael DiBiase (1923–1969), professional wrestler
Mike Ditka (born 1939), National Football League player and coach
Mike Donahue (1876–1... | Iron Mike (disambiguation) |
Leon Dean Johnson (born 10 May 1981) is a professional footballer who played as a defender, most notably for Wycombe Wanderers. Born in England, he made five appearances for the Grenada national team at international level.
Club career
Born in London, Johnson came through the youth ranks at his first professional club... | Leon Johnson (footballer) |
Middlewich Town Football Club is a football club based in the Cheshire town of Middlewich. They currently play in the .
History
Middlewich has had a town football club since at least 1912, with Middlewich Athletic playing at Seddon Street since 1912. Middlewich Athletic were mid-Cheshire league champions five times be... | Middlewich Town F.C. |
In human perception, contingent aftereffects are illusory percepts that are apparent on a test stimulus after exposure to an induction stimulus for an extended period. Contingent aftereffects can be contrasted with simple aftereffects, the latter requiring no test stimulus for the illusion/mis-perception to be apparent... | Contingent aftereffect |
Gerald Joseph Peyton (born 20 May 1956) is a football coach and former footballer who is currently the interim coach of Indian Super League club Odisha FC. A goalkeeper, Peyton had lengthy spells with Fulham and AFC Bournemouth. Following his retirement, he went into coaching and acted as goalkeeping coach for several ... | Gerry Peyton |
BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. It was established in 1964 and was preceded by the AIBS Bulletin (1951–1963).
The journal publishes literature reviews of current research in biology, as wel... | BioScience |
The New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum) was native to the North Island and South Island of New Zealand but has been extinct since the 16th century. There were two subspecies: the North Island raven (Corvus antipodum antipodum) and the South Island raven (Corvus antipodum pycrofti). Another closely related species, the... | New Zealand raven |
Heather Halley (born September 28, 1969) is an American film, television, stage and voice actress. She is perhaps best known as the English voice of Para-Medic in the Metal Gear series and was an announcer for several awards ceremonies, including the 59th Grammy Awards, the 4th and 5th Spike Video Game Awards, and the ... | Heather Halley |
Østerport station is a metro, S-train and main line railway station in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located between the districts of Indre By and Østerbro, and is named for the historic Østerport city gate, near the original location of which it is located.
The station is served by some InterCity services across Denmark... | Østerport station |
Ehsanullah Ehsan may refer to:
Ehsanullah Ehsan (banker) (died 1997), chairman of the Taliban's Central Bank
Ehsanullah Ehsan (Taliban spokesman), a current spokesman of the Taliban
Ehsanullah Ehsan (educator), a school principal and director the Afghan-Canadian Community Centre in Kandahar | Ehsanullah Ehsan |
The São Miguel do Araguaia Microregion is a geographical region in northwest Goiás state, Brazil. The total population is 77,067 inhabitants (2012) in an area of 24,471.80 km2.
Municipalities
The microregion consists of the following municipalities:
São Miguel do Araguaia
Crixás
Mozarlândia
Mundo Novo
Nova Crixás
Nov... | Microregion of São Miguel do Araguaia |
Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of the French multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Sanofi Pasteur is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines. It is one of four global producers of the yellow fever vaccine.
History
Since 1992, Sanofi Pasteur has sponsored Sanofi Biogenius Canada (... | Sanofi Pasteur |
The Catholic Church in Tajikistan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in Tajikistan (West Turkistan, Central Asia), under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
In 2009, the size of the community was estimated at 300 people. By 2020, the number was believed to be 100 people, with 4 priests and 8 nuns acros... | Catholic Church in Tajikistan |
Pemberton Hall is a women's residence hall at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, Illinois. Located at the north end of the university campus, at the corner of 4th street and Lincoln Avenue, Pemberton Hall is registered as a historic landmark, due to its status as the oldest women's college residence hall in th... | Pemberton Hall (Eastern Illinois University) |
Denis Leonidovich Matsuev (/ma'tsujef/; ; born June 11, 1975) is a Russian pianist. Primarily a classical pianist, he also performs jazz occasionally.
Biography
Born in Irkutsk, Soviet Union, Matsuev is the only child of two musicians, as his mother is a piano teacher and his father is a pianist and composer. He demon... | Denis Matsuev |
The 2006 United States Senate election in Utah was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Republican Orrin Hatch won re-election to a sixth term. Hatch won all but one county with 60% to 70% of the vote. Ashdown won only Summit County by 342 votes.
Major candidates
The filing deadline for major party candidates was March 17... | 2006 United States Senate election in Utah |
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in October 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
The ... | City Museum |
Eliot Teltscher (born March 15, 1959) is a retired professional American tennis player. He won the 1983 French Open Mixed Doubles. His highest ranking in singles was #6 in the world and in doubles was #38 in the world.
Tennis career
Early years
Teltscher was born in Palos Verdes, California and lives in Irvine, Calif... | Eliot Teltscher |
George Allan (1736–1800) was an English antiquary and attorney at Darlington.
Life
Allan spent much of his youth in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where he was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield. He became an assiduous collector of manuscripts.
Works
He was the author of several works relating to the h... | George Allan (antiquary) |
Sabin Rai () is a Nepali singer and lyricist who is called as the Bryan Adams of Nepal because of the voice. His first successful single was "Komal Tyo Timro" from the album Sataha. Although his song "Ekai Aakash Muni" was released before Sataha. He has performed concerts in Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Unit... | Sabin Rai |
Paradise and the Peri, in German Das Paradies und die Peri, is a secular oratorio for soloists, choir, and orchestra by Robert Schumann. Completed in 1843, the work was published as Schumann's Op. 50.
The work is based on a German translation (by Schumann and his friend Emil Flechsig) of a tale from Lalla-Rookh by Iri... | Paradise and the Peri |
Steffen Wesemann (born 11 March 1971) is a Swiss-German former professional road racing cyclist.
He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Wesemann most recently rode for the professional continental team Cycle Collstrop after riding a year with the Team Wiesenhof–Felt squad. He had previous... | Steffen Wesemann |
Menas C. Kafatos (; born 25 March 1945) is a Greek-born American physicist and a writer on spirituality and science. His publications include: The Nonlocal Universe and The Conscious Universe. Kafatos has written and lectured extensively promoting discourse between science, spirituality, and religion. He has held numer... | Menas Kafatos |
In economics, the wage share or labor share is the part of national income, or the income of a particular economic sector, allocated to wages (labor). It is related to the capital or profit share, the part of income going to capital,
which is also known as the K–Y ratio.
The labor share is a key indicator for the dist... | Labor share |
Ricochet was one of the first wireless Internet access services in the United States, before Wi-Fi, 3G, and other technologies were available to the general public. It was developed and first offered by Metricom Incorporated, which shut down in 2001. The service was originally known as the Micro Cellular Data Network, ... | Ricochet (Internet service) |
Site-specific recombinase technologies are genome engineering tools that depend on recombinase enzymes to replace targeted sections of DNA.
History
In the late 1980s gene targeting in murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) enabled the transmission of mutations into the mouse germ line, and emerged as a novel option to stu... | Site-specific recombinase technology |
Abdul Hameed Muhammed Fazil (born 4 February 1953), known mononymously as Fazil, is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor who works in Malayalam cinema, in addition to directing a handful of Tamil films. He made his directional debut with the 1980 film Manjil Virinja Pookkal.
His popular films incl... | Fazil (director) |
Comahue is a sub-region of Argentina slightly to the south of the country's centre that covers the northern part of Argentine Patagonia and includes the provinces of Neuquén and Río Negro.
Some also include La Pampa Province and the Patagones Partido at the southern tip of Buenos Aires Province.
The region's social an... | Comahue |
The 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 54th Grand Prix of Endurance as well as the third round of the 1986 World Sports-Prototype Championship. It took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe, France, on 31 May and 1 June 1986.
This year saw the return of a full Jaguar works team, to take on the strong Porsche works and custo... | 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans |
Seize or seise may refer to:
Seisin, legal possession of property
Seizing, a class of knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes
Seize (band), a British electronic band
The jamming of machine parts against each other, usually due to insufficient lubrication
Seize, a fictional town the anime TV series Sound ... | Seize |
Chievo (4,500 inhabitants) is a frazione of Verona located to the west of the city, around from the historic city centre, on the shores of the river Adige.
It is best known for its football team, A.C. ChievoVerona, which ceased to exist in 2021.
History
The name came from the Latin "clivium mantici" which means "the... | Chievo |
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