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The Pontyfenni Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in England References Geologic formations of England Ordovician System of Europe Ordovician England Ordovician southern paleotemperate deposit...
The impossible trinity (also known as the impossible trilemma or the Unholy Trinity) is a concept in international economics and international political economy which states that it is impossible to have all three of the following at the same time: a fixed foreign exchange rate free capital movement (absence of capi...
Eunidia somaliensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1948. References Eunidiini Beetles described in 1948
Robert Cornelius Murphy (born July 19, 1988) is a Filipino-American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the co-founder and the CTO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students a...
```html <ul class="navbar-nav px-3 flex-row" *ngIf="isAuthenticated | async"> <li class="nav-item text-nowrap p-2"> <a class="nav-link" [routerLink]='["/authentication/profile"]' title="Manage">Hello {{ userName | async }}</a> </li> <li class="nav-item text-nowrap p-2"> <a class="nav-link" [routerLink]='[...
The Dutch units of measurement used today are those of the metric system. Before the 19th century, a wide variety of different weights and measures were used by the various Dutch towns and provinces. Despite the country's small size, there was a lack of uniformity. During the Dutch Golden Age, these weights and measure...
Henry Forbes Bigelow (May 12, 1867 – August 12, 1929) was an American architect, best known for his work with the firm of Bigelow & Wadsworth in Boston, Massachusetts. He was noted as an architect of civic, commercial and domestic buildings. In an obituary, his contemporary William T. Aldrich wrote that "Mr. Bigelow pr...
Seventh Fleet or 7th fleet may refer to: United States Seventh Fleet 7th Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) See also Seventh (disambiguation) Fleet (disambiguation) Sixth Fleet (disambiguation) Eighth Fleet (disambiguation)
```go package volume import ( "io/ioutil" "testing" "github.com/docker/cli/cli/config/configfile" "github.com/docker/cli/internal/test" "github.com/docker/docker/api/types" "github.com/docker/docker/api/types/filters" volumetypes "github.com/docker/docker/api/types/volume" "github.com/pkg/errors" // Import b...
```html <div class="row"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It ha...
Naftali Mountains () is a mountain range between Lebanon and Upper Galilee, Israel. The western side gradually changes into the highlands of southern Lebanon. The eastern side sharply descends into the Hula Valley of Israel. They are a part of the watershed between the basins of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan R...
The Manhattan School is a historic schoolhouse located on Gold Street in Manhattan, Nevada. Built in 1913, the school was the third in Manhattan. The first school had opened in 1906, shortly after a gold rush in the community, and the second opened in 1908; however, by 1911 the local school district had 65 students and...
11 Dreams is the third album by Danish extreme metal band Mercenary, released through Century Media Records. The original version was released in 2004, that being in Europe, the American version was released one year later, in 2005. The U.S. release contained two bonus tracks, one being a 3D version of the song "11 Dre...
George Henry Thomson (born 19 May 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for side Harrogate Town. Career Born in Melton Mowbray, Thomson started his career at Nottingham Forest as a 12 year old in 2004 and was in their academy for six years. After leaving Forest he had an 18-month spell...
```javascript // CodeMirror, copyright (c) by Marijn Haverbeke and others // Distributed under an MIT license: path_to_url (function(mod) { if (typeof exports == "object" && typeof module == "object") // CommonJS mod(require("../../lib/codemirror")); else if (typeof define == "function" && define.amd) // AMD ...
Tarmount is a town and commune in M'Sila Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 9438. References Communes of M'Sila Province Cities in Algeria
Curtis Sylvester Lowe, Sr. (November 15, 1919 – October 29, 1993) was an American jazz saxophonist. Lowe was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1919, and raised in Oakland, California. While he is best known professionally as a tenor and baritone saxophonist, he first learned to play soprano saxophone as a youth. H...
Susanne Wollschläger (born May 5, 1967 in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from Germany, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 (Seoul, ...
Mercurius (, ; ; 224/225 – 250 AD) was a Roman soldier of Scythian descent who became a Christian saint and martyr. He was born in the city of Eskentos in Cappadocia, in Eastern Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). According to Christian tradition, he was the soldier who killed Julian the apostate during his campaign in Per...
The 1976 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 90th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 9 May 1976 and ended on 26 September 1976. Kerry were the defending champions. On 26 Sept...
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust in England formed by the merger of Surrey and Hampshire Borders, Surrey Oaklands and North West Surrey Partnership NHS trusts in April 2005, with an emphasis on the mental sides of healthcare. The trust runs: April Cottage in Horley Larkfi...
{{Infobox book | | name = Dublin: Foundation (US title The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga) | title_orig = | translator = | image = Dublin foundation.jpg | image_size = | caption = First edition cover | author = Edward Rutherfurd | cover_artist = | country = United Kingd...
Sataniv (; ; ; ) is an urban-type settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sataniv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Until 18 July 2020, Sataniv belonged to Horodok Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administra...
Mompox may refer to: Santa Cruz de Mompox, a town in northern Colombia Mompox Province, a historical province of Colombia
Notable alumni of the University of Idaho College of Law. Federal Judges U.S. Circuit Judges Blaine Anderson, class of 1949, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1976–88), District Court Judge for the District of Idaho (1971–76) Danielle J. Forrest, class of 2004, United States Court of Appeals for t...
Francisco Javier Bermejo Caballero (born 9 March 1955) is a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Atlético Madrid. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics. References Living people 1955 births Sportspeople from Badajoz Footballers from the Province of Badajoz Spanish men's football...
```java package app.nzyme.core.ethernet; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; public class L4MapperTools { public static L4AddressData fieldsToAddressData(String prefix, ResultSet rs) throws SQLException { return L4AddressData.create( rs.getString(prefix + "_mac"), ...
Baba Meydan-e Zirrah (, also Romanized as Bābā Meydān-e Zīrrāh; also known as Bābāmeydān) is a village in Rostam-e Yek Rural District of the Central District of Rostam County, Fars province, Iran. At the 2006 National Census, its population was 1,160 in 247 households, when it was in the former Rostam District of Mama...
A subaltern () is a primarily British military term for a junior officer. Literally meaning "subordinate", subaltern is used to describe commissioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant. United Kingdom In the British Army, the senior subaltern rank was captain-li...
```smalltalk using System; using System.IO; using System.Reflection; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using Microsoft.DotNet.PlatformAbstractions; namespace Dotnet.Script.DependencyModel.Environment { public class ScriptEnvironment { public static readonly ScriptEnvironment Default = new ScriptEnv...
Gonianotus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Rhyparochromidae. The species of this genus are found in Europe. Species: Gonianotus angusticollis Linnavuori, 1953 Gonianotus barbarus Montandon, 1890 References Hemiptera of Europe Rhyparochromidae
```html <!--docxjs library predefined styles--><style> .docx-wrapper { background: gray; padding: 30px; padding-bottom: 0px; display: flex; flex-flow: column; align-items: center; } .docx-wrapper>section.docx { background: white; box-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); margin-bottom: 30px; } .docx { color: black; hyp...
Parahorismenus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. References Key to Nearctic eulophid genera Universal Chalcidoidea Database Eulophidae
Rafael Andrade Navarrete (February 25, 1856, Ardales – June 21, 1928) was a Spanish politician and lawyer. He was Minister of Public instruction and Fine Arts during the reign of Alfonso XIII. As a member of the Conservative Party, he began his political career as a deputy for Teruel (province) in the elections of 189...
```go package types import ( sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types" ) // Verify interface at compile time var ( _ sdk.Msg = (*MsgSetWithdrawAddress)(nil) _ sdk.Msg = (*MsgWithdrawDelegatorReward)(nil) _ sdk.Msg = (*MsgWithdrawValidatorCommission)(nil) _ sdk.Msg = (*MsgUpdateParams)(nil) _ sdk.Msg = (*MsgCommu...
Shum Gora (: "Noise Hill") is a massive kurgan (tumulus) situated in Peredolskaya Volost, near the bank of the Luga River, Batetsky District, Novgorod Oblast, northwestern Russia, about 60 km west of Novgorod. The hill was formerly involved in local liturgical practice. 19th century sources record that three crosses...
Canzoni is the seventh album released by Fabrizio De André. It was issued in 1974 by Produttori Associati and reissued several times by Ricordi and BMG. Uniquely for a De André release, eight of the album's eleven tracks are covers or translations; the final track, "Valzer per un amore" ["Waltz for a love"], is De Andr...
The Forever King is a fantasy book written by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy, the authors of Grandmaster, which reached #3 on The New York Times bestseller list. The Forever King is the first in the Forever King Trilogy. The second title is The Broken Sword: King Arthur Returns while the third book is called The Third...
The Open Group Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) is a maturity model for managing information security. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization’s business requirements. O-ISM3 defines a comprehensiv...
Sidi Bou Othmane is a town in Rehamna Province, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 5,066. The famous Battle of Sidi Bou Othman was fought here on 6 September 1912, between the French colonial forces and the army of Ahmed al-Hiba. References Populated places in Rehamna Provin...
Ferenci is a village in Vižinada municipality in Istria County, Croatia. Demographics According to the 2021 census, its population was 63. It was 89 in 2001. References Populated places in Istria County
The Great Songs of Roy Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records that was released in the United States in February 1970. Track listing All tracks composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, except where indicated Side one "Breakin' Up Is Breakin' My Heart" (P) 1966 "Cry Softly Lonely One" (Joe Melson, Do...
Batería de Aspiroz is a battery located in San Fernando in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. It is a small defensive fortification that was used during the Siege of Cadiz, and is part of the whole defensive system of bastions and batteries that protected the southern entrance of Islote de Sancti Petri in the ear...
Jérôme Paul Bonaventure Alday (c.1763 – 1835) was a French violinist, composer and music publisher who spent most of his active career in Dublin, Ireland. He was the only composer in early 19th-century Ireland known to have written symphonies. Life Alday was born in Perpignan as a member of a musical family that inclu...
Kok Ksor (Jarai: Ksor Kok, born 1945 in Gia Lai Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, died in USA on 9 January 2019), was a member of the Jarai ethnic group and the President of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc., an organization, begun as an RSO at the University of Chicago, which states that its mission is to p...
Matthew Philip Edwards (born 1 August 1991) is an English born, Scottish footballer, who is currently unattached. He has played for Leeds United and Rochdale as a goalkeeper. Career Leeds United Born in Liverpool, England, Edwards started his career at Manchester United but never received a professional contract. He ...
```javascript 'use strict'; /* * This test is a regression test for joyent/node#8900. */ const common = require('../common'); const TEST_DURATION = common.platformTimeout(1000); let N = 3; const keepOpen = setTimeout( common.mustNotCall('Test timed out. keepOpen was not canceled.'), TEST_DURATION); const...
Nizhneye Vorovo () is a rural locality (a village) in Kichmegnskoye Rural Settlement, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 48 as of 2002. There are 2 streets. Geography Nizhneye Vorovo is located 12 km southeast of Kichmengsky Gorodok (the district's administrative centre) by ro...
Tatjana Ječmenica (born 14 April 1949 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina) is a former international table tennis player and coach from Serbia and Slovenia. Table tennis career When she was less than 16 years old, Ječmenica competed in the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She reac...
Aaron Michael Hicks (born October 2, 1989) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Minnesota Twins and New York Yankees. Hicks was drafted by the Twins in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft. He made his MLB de...
Jewish disabilities were legal restrictions, limitations and obligations placed on European Jews in the Middle Ages. In Europe, the disabilities imposed on Jews included provisions requiring Jews to wear specific and identifying clothing such as the Jewish hat and the yellow badge, paying special taxes, swearing specia...
Jeffrey Barber is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Jeff Barber was a gamer from Columbia, Missouri, who joined the volunteer staff of Pagan Publishing and collaborated with John Scott Tynes on early adventures and other games. He co-wrote "Grace under pressure" with Pagan publish...
The Plainedge Union Free School District is a school district which serves the hamlets of Plainedge and North Massapequa. Administration The current Superintendent is Dr. Edward A. Salina Jr. The school board is currently composed of President Catherine Flanagan, Vice President Raymond Paris and trustees Jennifer Mag...
Anne Hee Hiong Ngu is an Australian-American computer scientist known for her research on middleware and quality of service for web services and the Internet of things. She is a professor of computer science at Texas State University. Education and career Ngu was educated at the University of Western Australia, where ...
The men's 90 kg powerlifting event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was contested on 15 September at the Beihang University Gymnasium in Beijing, China. This event was the third-heaviest of the men's powerlifting weight classes, limiting competitors to a maximum of of body mass. As with all Paralympic powerlifting even...
Hazel is an album by the experimental rock band Red Krayola, released in 1996 by Drag City. Critical reception The Austin Chronicle wrote that "although a lot of Hazel is presented in a cut-and-paste carnival of strange narratives, short bursts of guitar/synthesizer, and bold U-turns galore, songs like 'I'm So Blasé' ...
{{Infobox mobile phone | name = Lenovo K6 Power | modelnumber = *K33a42 | logo = Lenovo logo 2015.svg | logosize = 100px | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Lenovo K6 Power'' | brand = | manufacturer = Lenovo Group Limited | slogan = The Kickass P...
Kawęczyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piaski, within Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately west of Piaski, south-east of Świdnik, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin. References Villages in Świdnik County
The men's 1500 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August. Records Schedule Results Round 1 First 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the final. Final References 1500 M 1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships
James Dahlberg is an emeritus professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on the biology of RNA. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1996. Education Dahlberg earned his bachelor's degree from Haverford College in 1962 and his Ph.D. fr...
David A. Zarling is a co-founder, president and CEO of Colby Pharmaceutical Company and an oncology drug development scientist and entrepreneur. Zarling also has been a part of teams that successfully licensed technology to start-up companies, one of which subsequently achieved significant market capitalization. Early...
Senator Metcalf or Metcalfe may refer to: Members of the United States Senate Jesse H. Metcalf (1860–1942), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island from 1924 to 1937 Lee Metcalf (1911–1978), U.S. Senator from Montana from 1961 to 1978 Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician) (1780–1855), U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1848 to 18...
Norwood is a historic plantation house and farm located near Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. The main house was built about 1819, and consists of a two-story, three bay, brick main block with two-story, brick side wing in the Federal-style. The front facade features a classical one-story, one-bay portico with Dori...
Rodzima Wiara (meaning "Native Faith") is a Polish Rodnover religious organization, founded in 1996 by Stanisław Potrzebowski in Wrocław as Zrzeszenie Rodzimej Wiary (meaning "Union of Native Faith"). The name was changed to the current one in 2000. Zrzeszenie Rodzimej Wiary was registered with the Polish Ministry of ...
The Sinaia Agreement was concluded on 18 August 1938 between Romania, France and the United Kingdom. It entered into force on 13 May 1939. The agreement provided for most of the powers of the European Danube Commission, including the control of the Danube maritime navigation from Brăila to the Black Sea, to be transfe...
Koltsovo may refer to: Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg, a former urban-type settlement in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia; now a part of the city of Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport, an airport in Yekaterinburg, Russia See also Koltsov
Results of Rally Argentina (27º Rally Argentina), 6th round of 2007 World Rally Championship, was run on May 3–6: Results Retirements Kristian Sohlberg - mechanical - accident (SS12); Petter Solberg - mechanical - engine (SS17); Nasser Al-Attiyah - mechanical - lost wheel (SS18); Leszek Kuzaj - mechanical ...
Ginette Martenot (1902–1996) was a French pianist, and an expert and leading performer on the twentieth-century electronic instrument the ondes Martenot, which was invented by her brother Maurice. At the age of sixteen, she entered the Paris Conservatory, where she studied counterpoint and fugue with the composer Arthu...
Branislav Jovanović (; born 21 September 1985) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Zvezdara. Club career Jovanović made his senior debuts with Jedinstvo Surčin. He also played for Beograd in the Serbian League Belgrade, before moving to Cypriot club Ethnikos Achna. In the 2009 ...
is a Japanese football player. He plays for Albirex Niigata on loan from Kashiwa Reysol. Career Daichi Tagami joined J2 League club V-Varen Nagasaki in 2016. Club statistics Updated to end of 2018 season. References External links Profile at V-Varen Nagasaki 1993 births Living people Ryutsu Keizai University alumn...
Firestone may refer to: Flint or firestone Firestone (surname) Places Liberia Firestone District, Margibi County, Liberia United States Firestone (Phoenix, Arizona), a listing on the National Register of Historic Places in Phoenix, Arizona Firestone, Colorado, a town in Weld County, Colorado Companies Firestone Bui...
A secret society is an organization with activities or inner functions concealed from non-members. Secret society or Secret Society may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Secret Society (album), a 2006 album by Europe Secret Society (band), an American hip-hop group "Secret Society" (Justice League), an ep...
```xml export declare function serializeAndEvaluate(val: any): any; export declare function serializeSkippingMods(val: any): any; export declare function serializeAfterStaticPlugins(val: any): any; ```
Bratislava main railway station (Slovak: Bratislava hlavná stanica, abbreviated as Bratislava hl.st.; Hungarian: Pozsony főpályaudvar) is the main railway station of the city of Bratislava, Slovakia. It averages about 60,000 passengers per day. Apart from domestic routes, international routes from this station include...
Douglas Matías Arezo Martínez (born 21 November 2002) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Peñarol, on loan from Spanish club Granada and the Uruguay national team. Club career An academy graduate of River Plate Montevideo, Arezo made his professional debut on 14 July 2019 in a 0–0 draw ag...
Aurorazhdarcho is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jurassic period (early Tithonian stage) of what is now Bavaria, southern Germany. History First discovery A specimen, originally classified as Pterodactylus micronyx (now Aurorazhdarcho micronyx), was one of the earliest, if not the e...
```php <?php declare(strict_types=1); namespace Siler\Example\GraphQL; use Closure; return [ 'upper' => function (callable $resolver): Closure { return function ($root, $args, $context, $info) use ($resolver): string { $value = $resolver($root, $args, $context, $info); return mb_s...
Judson Jerome (February 8, 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – August 5, 1991 in Xenia, Ohio) was an American poet, author, and literary critic, perhaps best known for having written the poetry column for Writer's Digest for over thirty years, beginning in 1959. He also taught poetry at Antioch College, where his students includ...
Esmaeil Bale (born 16 September 1985) is an Iranian footballer who plays for Etka Gorgan F.C. in the Azadegan League. Club career Bale joined Etka Gorgan F.C. in 2009 after spending the previous season at Mes Rafsanjan F.C. He was also a member of Shamoushak Noshahr F.C. team who gained promotion into The Iranian Prem...
Préneron (; ) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. Geography Localisation Hydrography The Auzoue flows north through the western part of the commune. Population See also Communes of the Gers department References Communes of Gers
Eretmocera malelanensis is a moth of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Bengt Å. Bengtsson in 2014. It is found in South Africa (Limpopo). References malelanensis Moths described in 2014 Moths of Africa
Shanghai railway station (; Shanghainese: Zånhae Hutsuzae) is one of the four major railway stations in Shanghai, China, the others being Shanghai South, Shanghai Hongqiao, and Shanghai West (Shanghaixi). The station is located on Moling Road, Jing'an District, to the North of the city centre. It is governed by Shangh...
Üçtepe (literally "three hills"), also spelled Üçtəpə or Uchtepe or Uchepe or Uch Tappeh or Ooch Tappeh or Owch Tappeh, is a Turkic place name and may refer to the following places: Turkey Üçtepe, Bismil Üçtepe, Erdemli, Mersin Province Üçtepe, İmamoğlu, Adana Province Üçtepe, Yağlıdere, Giresun Province Azerbai...
Nağdalı or Nagdali or Nagdaly or Nakhdalli or Nagadaly may refer to: Nağdalı, Absheron, Azerbaijan Nağdalı, Lachin, Azerbaijan
Poland competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country's delegation included 91 athletes. Natalia Partyka, who represented Poland in table tennis, also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was one of only two athletes competing at both the Beijing Paralympics and the Beijing Olympics, the other be...
The Cayemite long-tailed amphisbaena (Amphisbaena caudalis) is a worm lizard species in the family Amphisbaenidae. It is endemic to Haiti. References Amphisbaena (lizard) Reptiles described in 1928 Taxa named by Doris Mable Cochran Endemic fauna of Haiti Reptiles of Haiti
Michael (Michel) Confino (1926–2010) was a historian of 18th and 19th century Russia. Biography Confino was born in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria. He began his academic studies at the University of Sofia. He moved to Israel in 1948 and continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at École pratique des ...
Malikwad is a village which is located in the Belgaum district of Karnataka state, India. It is located on the banks of the Doodhganga River. The river acts as the border between Karnataka and Maharashtra. Due to the border separation, the people in the area are bilingual; many can speak as well as write both Kannada ...
The Moeopsyllini form a flea tribe in the family Pulicidae. References External links Pulicidae Insect tribes
Armand Joseph Bruat (Colmar, 26 May 1796 – Montebello, off Toulon, 19 November 1855) was a French admiral. Biography Bruat joined the French Navy in 1811, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. His early career included far-ranging sea duties: in 1815, he served in Brazil and the West Indies. From 1817 to 1820 he was...
The Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier took place on 28 July 1488, between the forces of King Charles VIII of France, and those of Francis II, Duke of Brittany, and his allies. The defeat of the latter signalled the end to the "guerre folle" ('Mad war'), a feudal conflict in which French aristocrats revolted against roya...
The 2006 BC Lions season was the 49th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 53rd overall. The Lions finished in first place in the West Division for a third consecutive season with a 13–5 record and won the 94th Grey Cup over the Montreal Alouettes. Lions quarterback Dave Dickenson was named the...
Delphia is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. It still maintains a U.S. Post Office with the zip code 41735. References Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
Kuwaiti architecture is a style of architecture unique to Kuwait, a country founded in the early 18th century. Before the discovery of oil, Kuwait has an economy reliant on maritime trade, shipbuilding, caravan trade and the pearl industry. The economy improved by the discovery of oil, enabling more economic growth. ...
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings are an English blues rock band founded and led by bassist Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. Other personnel have varied depending on availability, an arrangement described in The Telegraph as "a fluctuating squad of veterans". Their concerts and albums tend to emphasize cover songs of blues, R...
Anne Vachon-Pasquier (born in 1945) is a Canadian emeritus professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences at Laval University, (Quebec) since 2003. Her teachings and research have had focus on the field of ancient Christianity, particularly in ancient Christian literature. Education In 1980 Pasquier earn...
Dog Jack is a 2010 American war drama film based on the book of the same name by Florence W. Biros. The film is inspired by the true story of the mascot of the 102nd Pennsylvania Regiment during the American Civil War. Overview The story revolves around a boy named Jed (Benjamin Gardner), who escaped from slavery to j...
In geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities. Definitions in nonlinear analysis In nonlinear analysis, there are many definitions for a tangent cone, including the adjacent cone, Bouligand's contingent cone, and the...
Grace Jewett (1876-1946) was an American architect in the early 20th century. She was one of the pioneer women in architecture, and successfully developed her career in San Francisco after the devastation caused by the earthquake and fire in 1906. Jewett studied at the Pratt Institute in New York from 1900-1902, and he...
Umbskaya Volost () was an administrative division (a volost) of the Novgorod Republic and later of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR. Its seat was in Umba. The volost was established by the Novgorodians in the second half of the 15th century. It was lost by the No...