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Paule Moris (28 December 1932 – 22 March 2021) was a French alpine skier. She competed in two events at the 1956 Winter Olympics. References External links 1932 births 2021 deaths French female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for France Alpine skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Savoie
Flos diardi, the bifid plushblue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia. The species was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. References Flos Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Singapore Butterflies of Indonesia
The Rebel is a 2016 British comedy series on Gold starring Simon Callow in the title role. The show is based on "The Rebel" cartoon strip in The Oldie magazine by Andrew Birch. It began airing in June 2016. In total, 9 episodes have aired as of May 2018. The cast includes Anita Dobson, Bill Paterson and Amit Shah. Pl...
Alexander Yeronov (born May 5, 1989) is a Belarusian ice hockey player. Yeronov competed in the 2013 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Belarus men's national ice hockey team. References 1989 births Living people Belarusian ice hockey defencemen
Ambrose Francis George Broderic Hartwell (28 June 187919 December 1940) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre half for Small Heath (later renamed Birmingham) and Bradford Park Avenue in the Football League. He also played in the Southern League for Queens Park Rangers, and in non-league football...
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (or simply Dastardly and Muttley in the UK and Ireland) is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and a spin-off from Wacky Races. The show was originally broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969, to Jan...
Joseph Milton Nance (September 18, 1913 – January 17, 1997) was an American historian and educator with a focus on the history of Texas. From 1941 until his 1979 retirement, he taught at Texas A&M University, and he was the department chair of the Department of History and Government from 1958 to 1968, and of the succe...
wake is the second album released from the band emmet swimming. This album was released twice; first as an independent release and later as an Epic Records release. The 1994 Screaming Goddess Music release differs from the Epic Records re-release of wake. The 1994 release included the song "I Believe" and has a varied ...
The ancient site at Kot Diji (; ) was the forerunner of the Indus Civilization. The occupation of this site is attested already at 3300 BCE. The remains consist of two parts; the citadel area on high ground (about )), and outer area. The Pakistan Department of Archaeology excavated at Kot Diji in 1955 and 1957. Locate...
The is a public university in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. It was established in 1994. External links Educational institutions established in 1994 Public universities in Japan Universities and colleges in Niigata Prefecture Buildings and structures in Nagaoka, Niigata 1994 establishments in Japan
James Alison (11 October 1923 – February 1998) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a wing half in the Football League for Manchester City and Aldershot. References 1923 births 1998 deaths People from Peebles Men's association football wing halves Scottish men's footballers Peebles Rovers F.C. players Falkirk F.C...
Great Crest may refer to: Great crested grebe Great crested newt
Alan William Secord (born March 3, 1958) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left wing who played in the National Hockey League for twelve seasons from 1978–79 until 1989–90. In 2023, he retired as a Captain for American Airlines, flying Boeing 737s. Playing career Secord played on the 1976 Memorial Cup winni...
Miconia renneri is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. References Endemic flora of Ecuador renneri Vulnerable plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Hyocholic acid or 3α,6α,7α-trihydroxy-5β-cholan-24-oic acid is a bile acid found as one of the main forms in pig, and at low concentrations in other species including humans. Hyocholic acid differs from the primary bile acids found in humans by having a third hydroxyl group in the α-conformation at the 6-position, unl...
The Mysterious Miss Terry is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film stars Billie Burke, who at the time was a famous stage actress, married to Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. This particular story was adapted special to the screen for Burke by write...
Zleszyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bedlno, within Kutno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately east of Kutno and north of the regional capital Łódź. References Zleszyn
Atlético Portuario was a Honduran football club based in Puerto Cortés, Honduras which played in the Liga Nacional in the 1979–80 season. Achievements Segunda División Winners (1): 1978–79 League performance All-time scorers Defunct football clubs in Honduras
3350 may refer to: A.D. 3350, a year in the 4th millennium CE 3350 BC, a year in the 4th millennium BCE 3350, a number in the 3000 (number) range Other uses 3350 Scobee, an asteroid in th Asteroid Belt, the 3350th asteroid registered IBM 3350, a hard disk drive unit Nokia 3350, a cellphone Texas Farm to Market...
Vimlanand Saraswati (14 January 1921 – 9 July 2008) was an Indian Bhojpuri writer and author and spiritualist. He is credited to write the first short story collection Jehal ke Sanadi in Bhojpuri. Life He was born as Awadh Bihar Suman on 14 January 1921 at Mangraon village of Buxar, Bihar. During 1939–40 he was the e...
Aon noctuiformis, the aon moth, is the only species in the monotypic moth genus Aon in the family Erebidae. The species is known to live in the US state of Texas. Both the genus and the species were first described by Berthold Neumoegen in 1892. References Hypocalinae
Huguette Bouchardeau (born 1 June 1935) is a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher (founder of HB Éditions), essayist, and biographer. Political career Bouchardeau was a candidate of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU) in the 1981 presidential election, receiving 1.1% of the vote, and National Secretary of...
The Emperor's Nightingale () is a 1949 Czechoslovak stop-motion animated film directed by Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec. The film is based on the 1843 fairy tale "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen. Boris Karloff provides the voice of the narrator in the 1951 American dubbed version. The film won the Golden Leo...
Stella Mae Parton (born May 4, 1949) is an American country singer and songwriter widely known for a series of country singles that charted during the mid-to-late-1970s, her biggest hit being "I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight" in 1975. She is the younger sister of the singer and songwriter Dolly Parton and the o...
Aybak, also transliterated as Aibak, Aibek, or Aybeg may refer to: People Izz al-Din Aybak (r. 1250–1257), ruler of Egypt Qutb-Ud-Din Aybak (r. 1206–1211), ruler of Delhi Sultanate in India Aibeg (13th century), Mongol ambassador Saifuddin Aibak (g. 1232–1236), governor of Bengal Awar Khan Aibak (g. 1236), gover...
KH Zagłębie Sosnowiec is an ice hockey team from Sosnowiec, Poland. They play in the Polska Hokej Liga, the top-level ice hockey league in Poland. Sosnowiec was founded in 1937. They won five PLH titles in six years from 1980–1985, and one Polish 1. Liga title in 2005. Achievements Polish champion : 1980, 1981, 1982,...
Arthur Altman (1910, in Brooklyn – January 18, 1994, in Lake Worth, Florida) was an American songwriter whose credits include "All or Nothing at All", with lyrics by Jack Lawrence, and the lyrics for "All Alone Am I", "I Will Follow Him", and "Truly, Truly True". Altman studied violin and began his professional caree...
Playboy.co.uk is an internet web address owned by the PLBY Group. Since 2012 it has redirected to playboy.com, but prior to that a separate website was maintained at the address. Playboy.co.uk was originally operated on a paid-for-content basis. It was re-launched in February 2009 as a free-access website funded by ad...
Horace James "Horse" Hendrickson (August 24, 1910 – May 22, 2004) was an American football, basketball and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Elon University from 1937 to 1941 and at North Carolina State University from 1952 to 1953, compiling a career c...
This is a list of prisons within Tianjin municipality of the People's Republic of China. Sources Buildings and structures in Tianjin Tianjin
The American Idols Live! Tour 2013 is a summer concert tour in the United States and Canada that features the Top 10 finalists of the twelfth season of American Idol, as well as semi-finalist Aubrey Cleland, the winner of the season's sing-off. This was the second time after 2011 tour to have 11 performers. The tour wa...
Peter Hayes (born February 11, 1976) is an American musician and singer, best known as a member of the rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Early life Hayes grew up in Minnesota, and his first time playing music was learning the trombone and playing in symphonic band in school. When Hayes was 14 or 15 years old he g...
Anthony M. Zador is an American neuroscientist and the Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology and Chair of Neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a co-founder, in 2004, of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference, and of the NAISYS (Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems)...
```objective-c /* This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the along...
After the merger of French settlements into an Indian union, a new assembly, named the Pondicherry Representative Assembly, was created by the government of India. After the "de facto transfer day" of 1 October 1954, before 16 August 1962 also referred to as "de-jure transfer day". During this transition period, genera...
is a novel written by Japanese poet and filmmaker Sion Sono, based on his film Suicide Club and its prequel Noriko's Dinner Table (the two were supposed to form a trilogy with another film). It was published by Kawade Shobō Shinsha in 2002. Plot Suicide Circle: The Complete Edition tells in four different chapters t...
Riaz Khan (born 2 April 1976) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from August 2018 till January 2023. He beat Maulana Fazli Ghafoor and Bakht Jehan Khan in the 2018 general elections. Political career He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakht...
The DFV-Supercup (also known as Pokal des Deutschen Sportechos) was the super cup of East German football, played between the winners of the DDR-Oberliga and the FDGB-Pokal. History It was originally planned to start in 1988, but was postponed as BFC Dynamo had won both competitions. An edition was played in 1989, wit...
Mingol (, also Romanized as Mīngol; also known as Mangol, Mangowl, Mengowl, and Mingul) is a village in Sumay-ye Shomali Rural District, Sumay-ye Beradust District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 315, in 55 families. References Populated places in Urmia County
Włodzimierz Tomaszewski (born 16 November 1956 in Łódź) is a Polish politician who was vice president of Łódź (2002–2010) and a member of the IX Sejm. References Living people 1956 births Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Politicians from Łódź
The men's long jump was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 18 October 1964. 37 athletes from 23 nations entered, with 5 not starting in the qualification round. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic ...
The 2011 Wofford Terriers team represented Wofford College in the 2011 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Terriers were led by 24th-year head coach Mike Ayers and played their home games at Gibbs Stadium. They are a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 8–4, 6–2 in SoCon play to finish in a ...
Adolf Edward Nussbaum (10 January 1925 – 31 October 2009) was a German-born American theoretical mathematician who was a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis for nearly 40 years. He worked with others in 20th-century theoretical physics and mathematics such as J. Robert Oppenheimer and John v...
Älvsborgs FF is a Swedish football club located in Västra Frölunda. Background Älvsborgs FF currently (2016) plays in Division 3 Sydvästra Götaland which is the fifth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Påvelundsplan in Västra Frölunda. The club is affiliated to Göteborgs Fotbollförbund. Älv...
Savannah Alfia Stubley (born 18 July 2001) is an English boxer. She participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Light Flyweight winning a bronze medal. References 2001 births Living people Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Boxers at the 2022 Commonwealth Gam...
Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (12 March 1862 in Kalmar – 1933 in Djursholm) was a Swedish chemist and secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1923 to 1933. Söderbaum enrolled at Uppsala University 1879, and was awarded his Ph.D. in 1888 for the thesis Studier öfver platooxalylföreningar ("Studies of platooxa...
St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Gulberg, Pakistan. It was founded in 1961 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore. The parish priest from 2000 to 2002 was Fr. Francis Nadeem, OFMCap The parish priest in 2020 is Fr. Patrick Samuel, OFMCap Programs The parish hosts five youth groups whose activiti...
Ricardo Aranda Cellona, known by his stage name Tom Olivar (born April 26, 1963), is a film and television actor in the Philippines. Career He is one of the active character actors in Philippine films and TV series since the 1980s. He appeared in the classic film Bulaklak sa City Jail (1984) with a star-studded cast:...
Plants Angiosperms Dinosaurs Plesiosaurs New taxa See also References
Shongor-e Olya (, also Romanized as Shongor-e ‘Olyā; also known as Sangar-e ‘Olyā, Shagar-e Bālā, Shongor, Shongor Bālā, and Shongor-e Bālā) is a village in Kheybar Rural District, Choghamish District, Dezful County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 778, in 129 families. References Po...
Publius Sempronius Sophus was a Roman politician and general who achieved the honors of being both consul and censor in his political career, as well as renown for being a talented and well respected jurist. Family Sempronius was a member of the noble Roman clan of the Sempronii, a gens which had acquired two consulsh...
Qaleh Joqeh (, also Romanized as Qal‘eh Joqeh; also known as Qal‘eh Jūqeh) is a village in Obatu Rural District, Karaftu District, Divandarreh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 497, in 108 families. The village is populated by Kurds. References Towns and villages in Divandarreh...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to domestic violence: Domestic violence – pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship, such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. It is also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family viole...
Leighton Hospital is a hospital located to the northwest of the town of Crewe in the county of Cheshire, England. It is managed by the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History Built at a cost of £6 million, Leighton Hospital was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in May 1972. It replaced older facilit...
```objective-c // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef WebGeofencingError_h #define WebGeofencingError_h #include "WebString.h" namespace blink { struct WebGeofencingError { enum ErrorType { ErrorTypeAbort = 0, ErrorTypeUnkn...
```java /* * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * * Subject to the condition set forth below, permission is hereby granted to any * person obtaining a copy of this software, associated documentation and/or * data (collectively the "Software"), free of charge and under any and all * c...
Utica station may refer to: Union Station (Utica, New York) Utica station (Buffalo Metro Rail)
Gediminas Bagdonas (born 26 December 1985) is a Lithuanian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2007 and 2019 for the Klaipeda–Splendid, Ulan, Team Piemonte, and teams. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. Following his retirement, Bagdonas now works as ...
Dicoria canescens is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by several common names including desert twinbugs and bugseed. This is a desert plant of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, found in Sonora, Baja California, southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, southwestern...
The State Deputation was the unicameral legislature of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. It existed from 1798 until the two Hohenzollern principalities were absorbed into Prussia as the Province of Hohenzollern in 1850. History Formed in 1798 as the Tax Deputation (Steuerdeputation), the State Deputation of...
```c /*your_sha256_hash------------ * Description: Nb Demo Implementation * Author: Huawei LiteOS Team * Create: 2013-01-01 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, * are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must re...
Valverde de la Vera is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 618 inhabitants. References Municipalities in the Province of Cáceres
Bertha "Betsy" Bakker-Nort (8 May 187423 May 1946) was a Dutch lawyer and politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) from 1922 to 1942. Born in Groningen, she became involved with the feminist movement in 1894, joining the Dutch Association for Women...
The jeonbok is a type of sleeveless long vest in hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, which was worn by military personnel. The unlined jeonbok, which was influenced by a Chinese coat, was worn as the uniform of the military personnel until the end of the Joseon dynasty when King Gojong proclaimed the 1883's "Attire ...
{{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Pseudexomilus | image = Pseudexomilus fenestratus 001.jpg | image_caption = Pseudexomilus fenestratus | authority = A.W.B. Powell, 1944 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms= | type_species= † Pseudexomilus caelatus Powell, 1944 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | display_par...
Five Iron Frenzy is an American band which formed in Denver, Colorado, in 1995. Best known for playing ska punk music characterized by an offbeat sense of humor and prominent Christian themes, Five Iron Frenzy was one of the pioneering figures of the Christian ska movement which emerged with ska's mainstream revival in...
Kavaklıdere is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Bornova, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,164 (2022). It is east of Bornova which is a part of Greater İzmir. It is situated to the south of Belkahve Pass and Turkish state highway D.300 which connects İzmir to Ankara. Most of Kavaklıdere r...
The 1959 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University as an independent during the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Jim Sutherland, the Cougars compiled a 6–4 record and outscored their opponents 1...
Louis Lamothe (1822–1869) was a French academic artist born in Lyon. He is remembered today primarily as the teacher of several more renowned artists, notably Edgar Degas, Elie Delaunay, Henry Lerolle, Henri Regnault, and James Tissot. Lamothe was a pupil of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin. ...
Radio Quarantine may refer to: Radio Quarantine Kolkata, an Indian community radio based in Kolkata The Radio Quarantine, an Indian community radio based in Bangalore See also Quarantine Radio, a live streaming program hosted by Tory Lanez
The Addison County Independent is a weekly newspaper located in Middlebury, VT that covers Addison County. The paper was founded in 1946 as the Addison Independent and is now owned and published by Angelo Lynn. The paper is a member of the New England Newspapers and Press Association, and in 2016, the paper won the aw...
Excited delirium (ExDS), also known as agitated delirium (AgDS) or hyperactive delirium syndrome with severe agitation, is a controversial and pseudoscientific diagnosis characterized as a potentially fatal state of extreme agitation and delirium. It has typically been diagnosed postmortem in young adult males, disprop...
Protea rupestris, also known as rocket sugarbush, is a flower-bearing tree of the genus Protea. The plant is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. As a tree it has few branches and grows 10 metres in height. The plant is monoecious with both sexes in each flower...
The 11th International Gold Cup was a Formula Two motor race, held on 19 September 1964 at Oulton Park, Cheshire. The race was run over 40 laps of the circuit, and was won from pole position by Jack Brabham in a Brabham BT10. Jim Clark in a Lotus 32 finished just two tenths of a second behind Brabham, setting fastest l...
The Video Collection is the name of a music video DVD compilation by popular Greek singer Anna Vissi, released by Sony Music in 2001 in Greece and Australia. The DVD contains music videos from Anna Vissi's career up to that point, selected by Vissi herself. Music videos "Pseftika" (False) "Adistrofi Metrisi" (Count...
Vukale Stanišić (, 1761) was possibly the guvernadur of Montenegro in the period between 1758 and 1764. A judgment from June 3, 1761, written by "Vukale Stanišić" (Писах ја Вукале Станишић по ријечи вишереченијех), points to that Vukale was the guvernadur, as the guvernadur signed first in civil cases. The surname al...
Rolston is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately south of Hornsea and lies just west of the B1242 road. It forms part of the civil parish of Mappleton. References External links Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Holderness
Eoghan Murphy (born 23 April 1982) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician, who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for ten years, from 2011 until 27 April 2021, respresenting the Dublin Bay South constituency (previously named Dublin South-East). He served as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government from 2017 to ...
Mike Brkovich ( ; born April 6, 1958) is a Canadian former basketball player from Windsor, Ontario. He is currently a Windsor-based automotive exporter and real estate developer. Basketball career Of Serbian background (Serbian: Брковић, Brković), Brkovich played high school basketball at W. D. Lowe in Windsor. The te...
Dodging Bullets (foaled 16 April 2008) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse, best known for his performances in National Hunt races. Bred by the leading jockey Frankie Dettori he had a flat racing career of limited importance, winning two minor races from nine starts as a three-year-old in 2011. He showed better form wh...
```xml import { render } from "@testing-library/react"; import React from "react"; import App from "coral-account/App"; import { CoralContext, CoralContextProvider, } from "coral-framework/lib/bootstrap"; export default function customRenderAppWithContext(context: CoralContext) { render( <CoralContextProvid...
Fernando Óscar Bandeirinha Barbosa (born 26 November 1962 in Porto), known as Bandeirinha, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right back or a defensive midfielder throughout his career. Football career During his career, Bandeirinha played mainly for FC Porto, never being more than a reserve player dur...
Margit Bara (21 June 1928 – 25 October 2016) was a Hungarian film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1956 and 1975. She retired from acting in 1977 and later in 1992 received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary and in 2002 she was awarded the Kossuth Prize. Selected filmography Drama of the Lark (196...
Sir John Elliott Terry (11 June 1913 – 29 March 1995) was a British film financier and lawyer who helped to found the National Film School and served as manager of the National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC) for over 20 years. He worked as a solicitor for the National Film Finance Corporation from 1949 to 1956, serve...
```go // +build !windows package main import ( "bufio" "bytes" "encoding/json" "io/ioutil" "os" "os/exec" "path/filepath" "regexp" "strings" "time" "github.com/docker/docker/integration-cli/checker" "github.com/docker/docker/integration-cli/cli" "github.com/docker/docker/integration-cli/cli/build" "git...
"The Yoko Factor" is the 20th episode of season 4 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on May 9, 2000 on The WB. Plot Colonel McNamara discusses with a superior how to get Riley back in the Initiative under his command and how to deal with Buffy. Spike tells Adam that Buffy is going to b...
Magdalene Hoff ( Allwicher; 29 December 1940 – 28 March 2017) was a German Social Democratic Party of Germany politician who served five terms in the European Parliament as a member of the West Germany constituency and later the constituency of Germany on behalf of the Socialist Group later the Group of the Party of Eu...
The Aiguille de Rochefort (4,001 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The peak lies on the Rochefort arête between the Dent du Géant and the Grandes Jorasses and is usually climbed during a traverse of the ridge. The first ascent of the peak was by James Eccles and guides Alphonse and Michel ...
Paulescu is a patronymic surname of Romanian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Nicolae Paulescu (1869–1931), Romanian physiologist and discoverer of insulin Sam Paulescu (born 1984), American football punter Romanian-language surnames Surnames from given names
Eileen Alma Richards (nee Whalley; April 13, 1923 – February 3, 2015) was a Canadian speed skater. During her career, Whalley earned provincial, national and North American championship titles. She was posthumously inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Early life Whalley was born on April 13, 1923, in Manitoba, ...
Éric Guyot (born 10 March 1962) is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode in one edition of the Tour de France and four editions of the Vuelta a España. References External links 1962 births Living people French male cyclists Sportspeople from Belfort Cyclists from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Dingle Wood () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1972. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS). The wood is located within the Forest of Dean Forest Park and the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Location ...
The striated grasswren (Amytornis striatus) is a small, cryptically coloured ground-dwelling species of wren-like bird in the family Maluridae, endemic to Australia. It occupies a large discontinuous range across arid and semi-arid areas of western, central and southern Australia where it is associated with spinifex (T...
Ahuriri is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island. The area was a major site of Māori and European settlement, and the site of the Port of Napier until the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. It has since been redeveloped as a mixed commercial and residential area. De...
Carex brizoides, the quaking sedge or quaking-grass sedge, is a species in the genus Carex, native to central and southern Europe. Even where it is a native species, in disturbed woodlands it tends to behave invasively, forming a thick layer on the forest floor and reducing species diversity. References brizoides Flo...
In enzymology, a hyoscyamine (6S)-dioxygenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction L-hyoscyamine + 2-oxoglutarate + O2 (6S)-hydroxyhyoscyamine + succinate + CO2 The 3 substrates of this enzyme are L-hyoscyamine, 2-oxoglutarate, and O2, whereas its 3 products are (6S)-hydroxyhyoscyamine, succinate, an...
La Grande Ruine (3,765 m) is a mountain in Hautes-Alpes, France. It belongs to the Massif des Écrins in the Dauphiné Alps and is located in the heart of the wilderness of the Écrins National Park roughly halfway between its illustrious neighbours Barre des Écrins and Meije. The mountain has two different summits, the P...
Zhang Yiyi (; born September 2, 1993, in Beijing) is a Chinese ice dancer. Her partner is Wu Nan. Programs (with Wu) Competitive highlights (with Wu) References External links 1993 births Living people Chinese female ice dancers Figure skaters from Beijing Competitors at the 2013 Winter Universiade Com...
John Donaldson was born at Edinburgh in 1737, and distinguished himself as a miniature painter, both in enamel and water-colours. In the year 1764, and again in 1768, he obtained the premium given by the Society of Arts for the best picture in enamel. He occasionally amused himself with the point, and etched several pl...
```c++ #include "Cloud.h" #include "Random.h" #include "TextureManager.h" void Cloud::initRand() { RandomDouble r; position_.x = r.rand_int(max_X_); position_.y = r.rand_int(max_Y_); speed_x_ = 1 + r.rand_int(3); speed_y_ = 0; num_ = r.rand_int(num_style_); alpha_ = 64 + r.rand_int(192); ...