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10002196 | "Got to Have Your Love" is a song by American hip hop and electro funk group Mantronix, featuring vocals from American recording artist Wondress. It was released by Capitol Records in December 1989 as the lead single from Mantronix's fourth studio album, This Should Move Ya (1990). The song is written by band members B... | Got to Have Your Love | |
10024156 | Fred Hoaglin, (born January 28, 1944) is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) from 1966 to 1976. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers. Playing career Hoaglin graduated from East Palestine High School in East Palestine, Ohio and Universi... | Fred Hoaglin | |
10035852 | Ruel Johnson is a Guyanese author. Johnson won the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature for best first fiction manuscript for a collection of short stories entitled Ariadne and Other Stories, which he self-published the following year with assistance from COURTS and GuyEnterprise. Johnson, then 22, was the youngest person ... | Ruel Johnson | |
100394 | Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her leading roles in musical theater, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." She performed on Broadway in Anything Goe... | Ethel Merman | |
1004001 | The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in Battery Park City in Manhattan, New York City, is a living memorial to those murdered in the Holocaust. The museum has received more than 2 million visitors since opening in 1997. The mission statement of the museum is "to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the br... | Museum of Jewish Heritage | |
10043992 | is a Japanese gag manga series written and illustrated by Kyosuke Usuta. The story is about Kiyohiko "Piyohiko" Saketome, an aspiring musician whose daily life takes a bizarre turn when he meets Jaguar, an eccentric man obsessed with recorders. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2000 to Augu... | Pyū to Fuku! Jaguar | |
10045336 | The Province of Manitoba, similar to other Canadian provinces and territories, is governed through a Westminster-based parliamentary system. The Manitoba government's authority to conduct provincial affairs is derived from the Constitution of Canada, which divides legislative powers among the federal parliament and the... | Politics of Manitoba | |
1004910 | The field hockey tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics was the sixth edition of the field hockey event at the Summer Olympics. In five Olympic hockey tournaments, there had only been two different winners, but Britain and India had never competed together at the Olympics. There was no question the UK would again be ab... | Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics | |
10058569 | Mitchum David "Mitch" Ward (born 19 June 1971) is a retired English professional footballer who played in the Football League and Premier League for Sheffield United, Crewe Alexandra, Everton, Barnsley and York City. Career Born in Sheffield, Ward started his career at his local club Sheffield United after graduating t... | Mitch Ward | |
1008762 | The Soft Skin () is a 1964 romantic drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, and Nelly Benedetti. Written by Truffaut and Jean-Louis Richard, it is about a married successful writer and lecturer who meets and has an affair with a beautiful flight attendant h... | The Soft Skin | |
10090599 | The National Park-to-Park Highway was an auto trail in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s, plotted by A. L. Westgard. It followed a large loop through the West, connecting twelve national parks: Rocky Mountain National Park Yellowstone National Park Glacier National Park Mount Rainier National Park Crater Lake Na... | National Park to Park Highway | |
1009315 | Fanfare for the Common Man is a musical work by the American composer Aaron Copland. It was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens and was inspired in part by a speech made earlier that year by then American Vice President Henry A. Wallace, in which Wallace proclaimed the ... | Fanfare for the Common Man | |
1009503 | Six Characters in Search of an Author ( ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the aud... | Six Characters in Search of an Author | |
1010943 | Donald Yetter Gardner (August 20, 1913 – September 15, 2004) was an American songwriter who is best known for writing the classic Christmas novelty song "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". Early life and education Gardner was born in Portland, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree in music from West... | Donald Yetter Gardner | |
10133 | Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821), a Founding Father of the United States, was a lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate from Elizabeth, New Jersey. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary under general George Washi... | Elias Boudinot | |
10133288 | Samuel Blair Griffith II (May 31, 1906 – March 27, 1983) was a brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps. Griffith entered the Marines in 1929 after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. He served in and commanded Marine units in the Pacific theater of World War II and retired from service in 1956.... | Samuel B. Griffith | |
10140366 | Hua Hum Pass ( ) is an international mountain pass in the Andes between Chile and Argentina. The pass takes its name from the Hua Hum River that flows from Argentina into Chile at the site of the border crossing. Even though the pass does not go through the continental divide, it crosses the highest peaks of the cordil... | Hua Hum Pass | |
10141107 | Pino Hachado Pass () is a mountain pass through the Andes, joining Chile and Argentina. It is one of the principal passes of the southern Andes, connecting Argentina's route RN-242 and Chile's Route 181-CH. Transit must pass through Las Raíces Tunnel, on the Chilean side. At its highest peak, Pino Hachado Pass is 1884 ... | Pino Hachado Pass | |
10152700 | The 2007 Jacksonville Jaguars season was the franchise's thirteenth season in the National Football League (NFL) and the fifth under head coach Jack Del Rio. They improved upon their 8–8 record from 2006 when they finished third in the AFC South, and returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2005. The franchise... | 2007 Jacksonville Jaguars season | |
1017560 | "Treehouse of Horror" is the third episode of the second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 25, 1990. The episode was inspired by 1950s horror comics, and begins with a disclaimer that it may be too scary for children. I... | Treehouse of Horror (The Simpsons episode) | |
10190552 | The Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale has often been adapted, and into a wide variety of media. Animation Walt Disney produced a black-and-white silent short cartoon called "Little Red Riding Hood" (1922) for Laugh-O-Gram Cartoons. Copies of this early work of Disney's are extremely rare. British animator Anson Dyer pr... | Adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood | |
10191411 | Vinton was Bobby Vinton's nineteenth studio album, released in 1969. Three singles came from the album: "To Know You Is to Love You", "The Days of Sand and Shovels" and "No Arms Can Ever Hold You". Cover versions include Herb Alpert's hit "This Guy's in Love with You", "When I Fall in Love", Tammy Wynette's hit "Stand ... | Vinton (album) | |
1019932 | .es (españa) is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Spain. It is administered by the Network Information Centre of Spain. Registrations are permitted at the second level or at the third level beneath various generic second level categories. Some qualifications and restrictions apply to third-level registratio... | .es | |
10200994 | Image Engine (also known as Image Engine Design Inc.) is a Visual effects studio based in Vancouver, BC, that offers a range of services for feature films and television, from concept designs and pre-visualization to CG animation, compositing, and explosive volumetric digital effects. Their work includes contributions ... | Image Engine | |
1020332 | Salem Poor (1747–1802) was an enslaved African-American man who purchased his freedom in 1769, became a soldier in 1775, and rose to fame as a war hero during the American Revolutionary War, particularly in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Early life Salem Poor was born in 1747 into slavery on a farm in Andover in the Provin... | Salem Poor | |
1023101 | The Peter and Paul Cathedral () is a Russian Orthodox cathedral located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between 1712 and 1733 on Hare Island along the Neva River. Both the cathedral and the fortress were originally built under Pe... | Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg | |
1023249 | George Edward Gray III (born March 11, 1967) is an American television personality and comedian. He is best known for hosting the game shows Extreme Gong and Weakest Link. Gray has also been the announcer of The Price Is Right since 2011. Early life and career Born in Ballwin, Missouri, Gray attended high school in Tuc... | George Gray (television personality) | |
1023309 | Harold Abraham McRae (; born July 10, 1945) is an American former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1968, 1970–72) and Kansas City Royals (1973–87). Utilized as a designated hitter for most of his career, McRae batted and threw right-handed. He is the father of former major leagu... | Hal McRae | |
10234518 | Sanger Brown (February 16, 1852 – April 1, 1928) was an American physician. Biography Sanger Brown was born in Bloomfield, Canada West on February 16, 1852. He graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane in White Plains, ... | Sanger Brown | |
10235570 | Live on Blueberry Hill (also known as Blueberry Hill) is a bootleg recording of English rock group Led Zeppelin's performance at the Los Angeles Forum on September 4, 1970, which took place during their summer 1970 North American Tour. The audience recording is one of the first Led Zeppelin bootlegs, and one of the fir... | Live on Blueberry Hill | |
10280782 | The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government. The Supreme Court of Ghana has the final say on legal matters and can overturn lower court decisions. The Cou... | Supreme Court of Ghana | |
10286355 | Primary Colors is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Elaine May was adapted from the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, a roman à clef about the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign, which was originally published anonymously, but in 1996 was revealed to have been w... | Primary Colors (film) | |
10292498 | Sports clubs Munich is home to several professional sports teams, including Germany's most popular football club, FC Bayern. Furthermore, the city is home to FC Bayern's professional basketball team and professional hockey team EHC Red Bull München. The Munich area currently has one team in the Bundesliga system, which... | Sport in Munich | |
10296512 | The Constitution Act forms part of the provincial constitution of British Columbia. The Act outlines the powers and rules governing the executive and legislative branches of the provincial government of British Columbia. British Columbia is the only province of Canada to have such an act, the constitutions of other pro... | Constitution Act (British Columbia) | |
1030063 | Sylviane Felix (born 31 October 1977 in Créteil, France) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France, who won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Felix started running at age fifteen. She suffered knee and back injuries which forced her out ... | Sylviane Félix | |
10302092 | Guiseley Association Football Club Vixens was a women's football club. They were founded in 1993 by Martin Cockerill as Meanwood Vixens, before becoming Leeds City Vixens and later Guiseley Vixens. History The club was established in 1993 by Martin Cockerill and his children. At first it was called Meanwood Vixens but ... | Guiseley A.F.C. Vixens | |
10306374 | Wetson's was an American fast food hamburger chain that existed from 1959 to 1975. At its peak, Wetson's had approximately 70 locations in the greater New York metropolitan area. Wetson's was known for its signature burger, the "Big W", as well as 15-cent burgers, 10-cent fries, and the slogans "Look for the Orange Cir... | Wetson's | |
1031262 | The Montreal Royals were a minor league professional baseball team in Montreal, Quebec, during 1897–1917 and 1928–1960. A member of the International League, the Royals were the top farm club (Class AAA) of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939; pioneering African-American player Jackie Robinson was a member for the 1946 seas... | Montreal Royals | |
10321936 | Airport check-in is the process whereby an airline approves airplane passengers to board an airplane for a flight. Airlines typically use service counters found at airports for this process, and the check-in is normally handled by an airline itself or a handling agent working on behalf of an airline. Passengers usually... | Airport check-in | |
1032887 | The Mollweide projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for maps of the world or celestial sphere. It is also known as the Babinet projection, homalographic projection, homolographic projection, and elliptical projection. The projection trades accuracy of angle and shape for accuracy ... | Mollweide projection | |
10336502 | Bon Voyage! is a 1962 American comedy film directed by James Neilson and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It stars Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, and Kevin Corcoran as the Willard family on a European holiday. The character actor James Millhollin appears in the film as the ship's librarian.... | Bon Voyage! (1962 film) | |
1036022 | Milsons Point railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Sydney suburb of Milsons Point in New South Wales, Australia. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore line services. The station is located above ground, accessible via stairs and a lift, in Milsons Poin... | Milsons Point railway station | |
1036175 | The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section) – The Farmer-Labor Party of Ontario, more commonly known as the Ontario CCF, was a democratic socialist provincial political party in Ontario that existed from 1932 to 1961. It was the provincial wing of the federal Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). T... | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario Section) | |
10376237 | Salcantay, Salkantay or Sallqantay (in Quechua) is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range, part of the Peruvian Andes. It is located in the Cusco Region, about west-northwest of the city of Cusco. It is the 38th-highest peak in the Andes and the twelfth-highest in Peru. However, as a range highpoint in deepl... | Salcantay | |
10378603 | Bond Girls Are Forever is a 2002 James Bond documentary film hosted by actress Maryam d'Abo, who played the role of Kara Milovy in the 15th James Bond film The Living Daylights. The film was accompanied by a 2003 book written by John Cork and d'Abo, Bond Girls Are Forever: The Women of James Bond. The film and the book... | Bond Girls Are Forever | |
10387478 | "The Town of No Return" is the first episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg in her Avengers debut, and guest starring Alan MacNaughton, Patrick Newell, Terence Alexander. It was first broadcast on ABC Weekend TV on 28 Septembe... | The Town of No Return | |
10394520 | No Time for Love is a 1943 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Written by Claude Binyon, Robert Lees, and Frederic I. Rinaldo, the film is about a sophisticated female photographer assigned to photograph the tough "sandhog" constructi... | No Time for Love (1943 film) | |
10399876 | Plymouth Bay is a small, well-protected bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the western shore of larger Cape Cod Bay along the coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth Bay retains historical significance for the landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620 by the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower who proceeded to establish th... | Plymouth Bay | |
10409069 | "Such a Lovely Man" is the eighth episode of the fifth and final series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It first aired on 26 October 1975 on ITV. Background "Such a Lovely Man" was recorded in the studio on 17 and 18 April 1975. John Hawkesworth and Alfred Shaughnessy wished an episode to revolve around Hanna... | Such a Lovely Man | |
10438174 | Precoding is a generalization of beamforming to support multi-stream (or multi-layer) transmission in multi-antenna wireless communications. In conventional single-stream beamforming, the same signal is emitted from each of the transmit antennas with appropriate weighting (phase and gain) such that the signal power is ... | Precoding | |
1043934 | The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements. Periodic table may also refer to: The Periodic Table (short story collection), by Primo Levi, 1975 The Periodic Table (Basher book), a 2007 children's science book Periodic table (crystal structure), a variant of the periodic table of chemical elemen... | Periodic table (disambiguation) | |
1044468 | The Neutral Confederacy (also Neutral Nation, Neutral people, or ) was a tribal confederation of Iroquoian peoples. Its heartland was in the floodplain of the Grand River in what is now Ontario, Canada. At its height, its wider territory extended toward the shores of lakes Erie, Huron, and Ontario, as well as the Niaga... | Neutral Confederacy | |
10447050 | Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter related topics include: The original books The Harry Potter books are 7 novels about a boy who learns he is a famous wizard: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone—published as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States Harry Po... | Outline of Harry Potter | |
1044906 | A flipper is a broad, flattened limb adapted for aquatic locomotion. It refers to the fully webbed, swimming appendages of aquatic vertebrates that are not fish. In animals with two flippers, such as whales, the flipper refers solely to the forelimbs. In animals with four flippers, such as pinnipeds and sea turtles, on... | Flipper (anatomy) | |
10455027 | David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor and singer who appeared in British and American television shows. Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include voices for the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as parts ... | David Healy (actor) | |
1046191 | Sir Richard William Scott, (February 24, 1825 – April 23, 1913) was a Canadian politician and cabinet minister. Early life He was born in Prescott, Ontario, in 1825, a descendant of a family from County Clare. A lawyer by training, Scott was admitted to the bar in 1848 and established a practice in Bytown (now Ottawa).... | Richard William Scott | |
1046294 | This is a list of fictional characters in the works of Charles Dickens. Contents: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | A Adams The top student David Copperfield's class at Dr Strong's school in Canterbury. Aged Parent is the very old and very deaf fathe... | List of Dickensian characters | |
1046331 | Vernon Milton Singer (March 26, 1919 – September 20, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1959 to 1977 who represented the North York ridings of York Centre, Downsview and Wilson Heights. Background Singer was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of... | Vernon Singer | |
1046770 | Asyndeton (, ; from the , "unconnected", sometimes called asyndetism) is a literary scheme in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses. Examples include veni, vidi, vici and its English translation "I came, I saw, I conquered". Its use can have the effect of speeding u... | Asyndeton | |
10503493 | Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) is a term used for any mixture of hydrocarbons that are found in crude oil. There are several hundred of these compounds, but not all occur in any one sample. Crude oil is used to make petroleum products, which can contaminate the environment. Because there are so many different chemi... | Total petroleum hydrocarbon | |
10515371 | Undone is the third studio album by Christian rock band MercyMe. It was produced by Pete Kipley and released on April 20, 2004 on INO Records. Following the success of MercyMe's previous studio efforts and their surprise crossover hit "I Can Only Imagine”, they were given significantly more resources to develop the alb... | Undone (MercyMe album) | |
10534901 | Education in Nicaragua is free for all Nicaraguans. Elementary education is free and compulsory although this is not strictly enforced. Many children are not able to attend if their families need to have them work. Communities on the Atlantic Coast have access to education in both Spanish and the languages of the nativ... | Education in Nicaragua | |
10538711 | Martin Peerson (or Pearson, Pierson, Peereson) (between 1571 and 1573 – December 1650 or January 1651 and buried 16 January 1651) was an English composer, organist and virginalist. Despite Roman Catholic leanings at a time when it was illegal not to subscribe to Church of England beliefs and practices, he was highly es... | Martin Peerson | |
10541791 | "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" is a song written by Big Kenny, one half of the duo Big & Rich, and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in January 2007 as the first single from his album Let It Go. "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, becoming... | Last Dollar (Fly Away) | |
10542482 | Charles Kenzie Steele (February 17, 1914, in McDowell County, West Virginia – in Tallahassee, Florida) was a preacher and a civil rights activist. He was one of the main organizers of the 1956 Tallahassee bus boycott, and a prominent member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On March 23, 2018, Florida Gov... | Charles Kenzie Steele | |
10562984 | Randall Scott Karl (born August 9, 1971) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1995–2000. Karl played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, and Anaheim Angels. He wore uniform number 42 prior to Major League Baseball retiring the number to honor Jackie Robinson.... | Scott Karl | |
10579135 | The Exiles (1961) is a film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of 20-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes fe... | The Exiles (1961 film) | |
1058129 | Don Gorske (born ) is an American world record holder known as the "ultimate Big Mac fan," having eaten over 34,128 such hamburgers from the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's in his lifetime (as of March 2024), earning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. A resident of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Gorske claims the Bi... | Don Gorske | |
1058296 | USS Remora (SS-487), a , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the remora, a fish with a suctorial disk on its head enabling it to cling to other fish and to ships. Construction and commissioning Remora′s keel was laid down on 5 March 1945 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was lau... | USS Remora | |
1058370 | Fred Matthews Young (14 February 1907 – 13 December 1993) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1981 who represented the riding of Yorkview. He was an ordained minister and long time organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ... | Fred Young (Ontario politician) | |
106138 | Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure. Originally conceived as a single on-going novel, the series was ended by Peake's death and comprises three novels: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone ... | Gormenghast (series) | |
1061752 | Reuben Carlton "Carl" Baker, Sr. (July 18, 1872 – September 29, 1957) was an American oil industry drilling pioneer. He established Baker Oil Tools in 1907 after developing a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling. In 1903, he introduced the offset bit for cable tool drilling to enable casing wells in hard... | Reuben C. Baker | |
1062412 | Absolutely Live is the first live album by the American rock band the Doors, released on July 20, 1970, by Elektra Records. The double album features songs recorded at concerts held in 1969 and 1970 in several U.S. cities. It includes the first full release of the performance piece "Celebration of the Lizard" and sever... | Absolutely Live (The Doors album) | |
10631756 | Fat mass and obesity-associated protein also known as alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase FTO is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FTO gene located on chromosome 16. As one homolog in the AlkB family proteins, it is the first mRNA demethylase that has been identified. Certain alleles of the FTO gene appe... | FTO gene | |
10637884 | James Clancy (July 21, 1844 – January 10, 1921) was an Ontario farmer, businessman and political figure. He represented Kent West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1883 to 1894 and Bothwell in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1904 as a Conservative member. He was born in Mosa Township, Middlesex Co... | James Clancy (politician) | |
10641375 | The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) is a W3C Recommendation, which is designed to enable interoperable specification of pronunciation information for both speech recognition and speech synthesis engines within voice browsing applications. The language is intended to be easy to use by developers while supporti... | Pronunciation Lexicon Specification | |
1065486 | The Roman Mysteries is a series of historical novels for children by Caroline Lawrence. The first book, The Thieves of Ostia, was published in 2001, finishing with The Man from Pomegranate Street, published in 2009, and totaling 17 novels, plus a number of "mini-mysteries", spinoffs, and companion titles. The books tak... | The Roman Mysteries | |
10657076 | Graham Lear (born July 24, 1949) is an English-born Canadian rock drummer, best known for his time with Gino Vannelli, Santana and REO Speedwagon. He was born in Plymouth, United Kingdom. Background In 1952 his family moved to London, Ontario, Canada. He began his professional career at the age of 13 with the London (O... | Graham Lear | |
10659448 | The 2003 season was the St. Louis Rams' 66th in the National Football League, their ninth season in St. Louis and their fourth under head coach Mike Martz. The Rams were coming off a disappointing 7–9 season and former MVP Kurt Warner was demoted to backup quarterback; Marc Bulger earned the starting job after replacin... | 2003 St. Louis Rams season | |
10666300 | Joan Whitney Kramer (June 26, 1914 – July 12, 1990), also known as Zoe Parenteau and Joan Whitney, was an American singer and songwriter. Early years Born as Zoe Parenteau in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 26, 1914, Parenteau received her early music training while singing in the choir of the church she attended. She... | Joan Whitney Kramer | |
1068090 | Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa, serving the Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg route. On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (140 passengers and 17 crew members) crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from Jomo Kenyatt... | Lufthansa Flight 540 | |
1068671 | This is an index of Catholic Church articles. Portals and navigation boxes are at the bottom of the page. For a listing of Catholic Church articles by category, see :Category:Catholic Church (and its various subcategories and pages) at the bottom of the page. Principal articles are: Catholic Church Glossary of the Cath... | Index of Catholic Church articles | |
10689 | The history of the Falkland Islands () goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century. Nonetheless, the Falkland Islands have been a matter of controversy, as they have been claimed by the French, British, Spaniards and Argentines at various points.... | History of the Falkland Islands | |
1069313 | Leopold Macaulay (November 25, 1887 – December 24, 1979) was a Canadian politician and lawyer, born in Peterborough, Ontario. Macaulay was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He was first elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Toronto area riding of York South in 1926. He ... | Leopold Macaulay | |
10696170 | The 1998 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 29th season in the National Football League (NFL) and the 39th overall. They finished with a 9–7 record, losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Jacksonville Jaguars. In the offseason, the Patriots tendered restricted free agent running back Curtis Marti... | 1998 New England Patriots season | |
1069758 | The Toy is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Richard Pryor as a janitor at a department store owned by Jackie Gleason. The owner's son, played by Scott Schwartz, is told that he may have anything in the toy department. He chooses the janitor, who the owner pays to spend a week with ... | The Toy (1982 film) | |
10705550 | George S. Sexton, III is an American designer, specializing in the areas of lighting design, museum design and museum planning services. Life Sexton studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1966, where he received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1971. Upon graduation, Sexton began his ... | George Sexton | |
10733442 | The 1997 Major League Baseball season was the inaugural season for Interleague play, as well as the final season in the American League for the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to the NL the following season. The California Angels changed their name to the Anaheim Angels. The Florida Marlins ended the season (their fift... | 1997 Major League Baseball season | |
10736661 | In September 2002, the Scottish National Party (SNP) published a document, entitled A Constitution for a Free Scotland, which details their policy for the Constitution of a future independent Scotland. This Constitution, which would come into effect following Scotland's transition to independence, would set out the rig... | A Constitution for a Free Scotland | |
1074602 | Finlandia, Op. 26, is a tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It was written in 1899 and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire, and was the last of seven pieces performed as an accompaniment to a tabl... | Finlandia | |
10747395 | The Queen Charlottes Gold Rush was a gold rush in southern Haida Gwaii of what is now the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, in 1851. The rush was touched off in March 1851 when a Haida man sold a nugget in Fort Victoria for 1,500 blankets. The crew of the Hudson's Bay Company vessel Una were the first to mine, d... | Queen Charlottes Gold Rush | |
10760968 | Ger Henderson (born 5 May 1954) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Ger Henderson was born in Johnstown, County Kilkenny in 1954. He was educated locally at Johnstown national school where his interest in hurling first began. La... | Ger Henderson | |
10769447 | The 2002 season was the New York Jets' 33rd in the National Football League (NFL), their 43rd season overall and their second under head coach Herman Edwards. The team tried to improve upon their 10–6 record from 2001 but failed to do so after a 2–5 start. However, the Jets recovered and finished 9–7, winning their sec... | 2002 New York Jets season | |
1078466 | George Robert Gleig (20 April 1796 – 9 July 1888) was a Scottish soldier, military writer, and priest. Life Gleig was born in Stirling, Scotland. His parents were George Gleig (1753–1840, Bishop of Brechin from October 1808) and Janet, née Hamilton, youngest daughter of Robert Hamilton of Kilbrackmont. Gleig received h... | George Gleig (priest) | |
10790406 | Earl Harvin is an American drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who has lived in Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles and is now residing in Berlin, Germany. Harvin studied at the University of North Texas College of Music where he was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band for one year, beginning 1989. Throughout m... | Earl Harvin | |
10822464 | Girard B. Henderson (February 25, 1905 – November 16, 1983) was an American business man and philanthropist. He was a director of Avon Products and the founder of the Alexander Dawson Schools. The author Donald Porter described him as a "short, tough-talking millionaire". Early life Henderson is the son of Alexander Da... | Girard B. Henderson | |
1084436 | The Old Man of Lochnagar is a 1980 children's book written by King Charles III, at that time the Prince of Wales, and illustrated by Sir Hugh Casson. The story revolves around an old man who lives in a cave in the cliffs surrounding the corrie loch under the Lochnagar, a mountain which overlooks the royal estate at Bal... | The Old Man of Lochnagar | |
1084822 | Jet, Jets, or The Jet(s) may refer to: Aerospace Jet aircraft, an aircraft propelled by jet engines Jet airliner Jet engine Jet fuel Jet Airways, an Indian airline Wind Jet (ICAO: JET), an Italian airline Journey to Enceladus and Titan (JET), a proposed astrobiology orbiter to Saturn Jet pack, a backpack personal flyin... | Jet | |
10857014 | WMVR-FM (105.5 MHz, "Hits 105.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to Sidney, Ohio, broadcasting a hot adult contemporary music format. Its studios, offices, and transmitter are located on Russell Road, just outside Sidney. History On January 8, 1964, the Federal Communications Commission granted the Van Wert Bro... | WMVR-FM | |
1088383 | .co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Colombia. It is administered by .CO Internet S.A.S., a subsidiary of Neustar since 2014. , there were no registration restrictions on second-level .co domains; any individual or entity in the world can register a .co domain. .CO Internet S.A.S from B... | .co |
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