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An exhaust gas temperature gauge (EGT gauge or EGT sensor) is a meter used to monitor the exhaust gas temperature of an internal combustion engine in conjunction with a thermocouple-type pyrometer. EGT gauges are found in certain cars and aeroplanes. By monitoring EGT, the driver or pilot can get an idea of the vehicl...
The Glenwood B&O Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which carries Allegheny Valley Railroad's W&P Subdivision over the Monongahela River. The span was constructed in 1884 and upgraded in 1915. It served the busy Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which in 1928, operated an ...
Gardner-Serpollet was a French manufacturer of steam-powered cars in the early 20th century. Léon Serpollet is credited with inventing and perfecting the flash boiler in the late 1800s. Serpollet produced his own automobiles under the name Serpollet and Gardner-Serpollet until his death in 1907. Origins Léon Serpolle...
Ogley Junction (), on the Staffordshire county border near Brownhills, West Midlands, England, is a historic canal junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal where the Anglesey Branch left the main line (which led to the Coventry Canal at Huddlesford Junction, near Lichfield). History The line of the Wyrley and Essing...
Lee v. Washington, 390 U.S. 333 (1968), is a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld an appeals court decision to forbid segregation of public prisons. Background The state of Alabama segregated its jails, juvenile jails, and prisons based on race. White prisoners were housed separately from African-American...
Bluebird is the fourth studio album by American musician Dawn Landes. It was released on February 18, 2014 on Western Vinyl. Critical reception Bluebird was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this...
"My Girls" may refer to: "My Girls" (Animal Collective song), from their 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion "My Girls" (Christina Aguilera song), from her 2010 album Bionic "My Girls", a song by XO-IQ, featured in the television series Make It Pop See also My Girl (disambiguation)
The Quad Cities MetroLINK, officially the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District, provides mass transportation for the Illinois half of the Quad Cities metro area. Both Iowa cities that make up the region have their own systems, several MetroLINK routes connect with Davenport CitiBus, and Bettendorf Tran...
Riwaq () or Centre for Architectural Conservation is a center for the preservation of architectural heritage on the West Bank in Palestine. The organization is based in Ramallah and owes its name mainly to a riwaq, which is an arcade in Islamic architecture. Riwaq was founded in 1991 with the aim to preserve cultural ...
Flora Corpuz Eufemio (born April 14, 1926) was appointed Vice-Chairperson of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1996. Education She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Minor in Political Science from the Far Eastern University in 1950 and her master's degree in Social Work from the Un...
Igor Vladimirovich Degtyaryov (; born 22 August 1976) is a Russian professional football official and a former player. He is the general director of FC Orenburg. As a player, he made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 1993 for FC Gazovik Orenburg. References 1976 births Sportspeople from Orenbu...
René Auguste Émile Boutegourd (1858-1932) was a French brigadier general of World War I. He commanded the 51st Reserve Division throughout the war, notably leading the division at the First Battle of the Marne. Family René Boutegourd was born in on 20 September 1858. His father, Jean-Baptiste Boutegourd was a native ...
Oh Doctor! is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton. Plot Young Dr. Holepoke (Arbuckle) arrives at the horse-racing with his teenage son (Keaton) and his wife. The doctor flirts with a nearby girl. He stabs his son in the knee with a p...
The 1949 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the forty-second season of Sydney's top-level professional rugby league football club competition, Australia's first. Ten teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season which culminated in a grand final between St. George and South S...
Chattagahaka Jantu (a.k.a. Chhattagahaka) was king of Anuradhapura for about one year from 434 AD to 435 AD. He succeeded his wife's stepbrother Soththisena and was succeeded by Mittasena. He was from the House of Lambakanna I. Prince Jantu had the office of Chattagahaka before he became king. He was the husband of Pr...
Carl Joachim Friedrich (; ; June 5, 1901 – September 19, 1984) was a German-American professor and political theorist. He taught alternately at Harvard and Heidelberg until his retirement in 1971. His writings on state and constitutional theory, constitutionalism and government made him one of the world's leading polit...
Vempati Chinna Satyam (15 October 1929 – 29 July 2012) was an Indian dancer and a guru of the Kuchipudi dance form. Chinna Satyam was born in a brahmin family at Kuchipudi, Andhra Pradesh. He was taught by Vedantam Lakshmi Narayana Sastry. He then refined his art by learning from Sri Tadepally Perrayya Sastry and late...
Stars and the Moon is the ninth studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square, who were then known as The Square. It was released on December 1, 1984. Track listing Sources References T-Square (band) albums 1984 albums
Mary Ann MacLean (20 November 1931 – 14 November 2005) was a Scottish occultist who was co-founder of The Process Church of the Final Judgment. Early life MacLean, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, grew up under poor conditions with a single mother who often left her daughter with relatives. Career In the early 19...
The 1949 Walker Cup, the 12th Walker Cup Match, was played on August 19 and 20, 1949, on the West course at Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York. The United States won by 10 matches to 2. Format Four 36-hole matches of foursomes were played on Friday and eight singles matches on Saturday. Each of the 12 matches...
Derrius Damon Thompson (born July 5, 1977) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and the Miami Dolphins. He played college football at Baylor University. He graduated from Cedar Hill High School in Cedar Hill, Texas, in 1995. 1977 births Living p...
The Vertiente Artiguista is a social-democratic political party in Uruguay led by Enrique Rubio, who has been Senator of Uruguay since February 15th, 2000. It is variously translated as Artiguist Tendency, Artiguist Slant, and Artiguist Source. The adjective Artiguist honors the 19th-century national hero José Artigas...
The National Federation of Indian Women is a women's organisation in India, the women's wing of the Communist Party of India. It was established in 1954 June 4 by several leaders from Mahila Atma Raksha Samiti including Aruna Asaf Ali. Annie Raja is the current General Secretary and Aruna Roy is the current president ...
WTAC-TV was a television station broadcasting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 16 in Flint, Michigan, United States. It was owned by the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company alongside radio station WTAC (600 AM) and was affiliated with ABC. The station began broadcasting on November 26, 1953, as Flint's first tel...
Denzel Spencer (born April 18, 1996), better known by his stage name Roy Woods (also stylized as Roy Wood$), is a Canadian singer and rapper. Woods is signed to OVO Sound, the record label co-founded by Canadian rapper and singer Drake, record producer Noah "40" Shebib and Oliver El-Khatib. Woods is also the founder of...
"Back in the Saddle Again" was the signature song of American cowboy entertainer Gene Autry. It was co-written by Autry with Ray Whitley and first released in 1939. The song was associated with Autry throughout his career and was used as the name of Autry's autobiography in 1976. Members of the Western Writers of Amer...
S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic is a Canadian 2001 documentary film by Daniel Cross. The narrative unfolds from the point of view of squeegee kids. The main character, "Roach," later on became an EyeSteelFilm documentary director as Eric "Roach" Denis. External links Spit Homepage. . 2001 films EyeSteelFilm ...
Shaun Murphy, M.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American medical drama The Good Doctor. The character was created by showrunner David Shore and portrayed by English actor Freddie Highmore. An autistic surgical resident with savant syndrome at the fictional San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, Murph...
"New Body Rhumba" (stylized in all lowercase) is a 2022 song by American rock band LCD Soundsystem, recorded for the soundtrack of the 2022 Noah Baumbach film White Noise. It was released as a digital single on September 30, 2022, through DFA and Columbia Records. Background and composition "New Body Rhumba" was writt...
"Club Foot" is a song by English indie rock band Kasabian, featured on their 2004 debut album, Kasabian. It was released on 10 May 2004 in the UK. The video of this song, directed by W.I.Z., is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression of Czechos...
Baloğlu () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Kulp, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 763 in 2022. References Neighbourhoods in Kulp District Kurdish settlements in Diyarbakır Province
Robert Kirchhoff (born May 7, 1968) is a Slovak independent film director, producer, cinematographer, and scriptwriter. Biography Robert Kirchhoff was born in Nitra, Slovakia. Between 1995 and 2000 he studied film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where he graduated as M.A. (2000), later as ...
The Elk Hills Oil Field (formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1) is a large oil field in western Kern County, in the Elk Hills of the San Joaquin Valley, California in the United States, about west of Bakersfield. Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative production of close to of oil at the end of 2006, it is ...
Heathen Creek converges with House Creek by West Fulton, New York. References Rivers of New York (state) Rivers of Schoharie County, New York
Fredrik Fortkord (born 12 October 1979) is a Swedish freestyle skier. He competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics. References External links 1979 births Living people Swedish male freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers for Sweden Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Freestyle sk...
Minuscule 259 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A122 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia. Description The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 263 parchment leaves (). The biblical text is ...
Menegazzia corrugata is a species of foliose lichen from Australia. It was described as new to science in 1992. See also List of Menegazzia species References Lichens described in 1992 Lichen species Lichens of Australia corrugata Taxa named by Peter Wilfred James
Borrego Valley Groundwater Basin, located in the very southern region of California, is one of the driest basins in the state. With climate change predicted to have strong effects into foreseeable future, the region is viewed with a skepticism in the sustainable use of water at current rates of consumption. Both natura...
Planet Pirates is a science fiction trilogy written by Anne McCaffrey and two co-authors separately, Elizabeth Moon and Jody Lynn Nye. The three novels were published as paperback originals by Baen Books in 1990 and 1991, although the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC) issued hardcover editions of each within s...
Governor Thomas Mayhew, the Elder (March 31, 1593 – March 25, 1682) established the first European settlement on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and adjacent islands in 1642. He is one of the editors of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the Thirteen Colonies. His assistant Peter Foulger was the grandfa...
The Joint Force Command - Norfolk (JFC-NF) is a joint operational level command part of the NATO Military Command Structure under Allied Command Operations. Its headquarters is located in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Background In late 2017-early 2018, NATO approved two new commands, a rear area transit command w...
"The Winter Line" is the second episode in the third season of the HBO science fiction dystopian thriller television series Westworld. The episode aired on March 22, 2020. It was written by Matthew Pitts and series co-creator Lisa Joy, and directed by Richard J. Lewis. The episode served as Thandie Newton's pick to sup...
is a J-pop singer, and an original member of the group Super Monkey's. She was born in Okinawa, Japan and is the granddaughter of film director Masahiro Makino. She made her debut as a solo J-pop singer on 22 January 1987, aged 15. Her first song "Love Song Sagashite" was adopted for the promotion song of a video game...
The 1983–84 NBA season was the Jazz's tenth season in the NBA and its 4th in Utah. The Jazz averaged 115.0 points per game (ranked 5th in NBA) while allowing an average of 113.8 points per game (ranked 20th in NBA). It was their first playoff appearance in franchise history. The Jazz played a number of home games (11 ...
Motherwell and Wishaw is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of North Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral r...
Hossein Karandish was an Iranian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Iranian men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Iran Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing
Bae Hae-Min (; born 25 April 1988) is a South Korean footballer. He currently plays as a midfielder for Goyang Hi FC in K League Challenge. He began his club career in South Korea with K-League side FC Seoul. He made his debut in the Hauzen Cup, a league cup competition operated by the K-League, in May 2008 however he...
Howard Rees is a Canadian jazz pianist and educator. He has performed with jazz musicians Charles McPherson, Ray Drummond, Barry Harris, Akira Tana, Leroy Williams, Earl May, Kenny Burrell and Jaki Byard. He is the founder of Canada's oldest independent jazz school, the "Howard Rees' Jazz Workshops" , and continue...
Eugen Felix Prosper Bracht (3 June 1842 – 5 November 1921) was a German landscape painter. Biography Bracht was born in Morges, Waadt (near Lake Geneva in Switzerland) of German parents. His family later moved to Darmstadt, Germany, where he became a pupil of Karl Ludwig Seeger at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe ...
Wladimir Zwalf (1932-2002) was a Sanskritist and expert on Buddhist art and iconography in India and Tibet. An Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, he produced A Catalogue of Gandharan Sculpture in the British Museum (1996). Life and career Zwalf was born on 30 August 1932. He studied Sanskrit at Oxford (Lincoln Co...
Mazhar Munir is a television and film actor. Before co-starring in the 2005 movie Syriana, he appeared in three British television shows: The Bill, Mile High, and Doctors. Life and career Munir was born in London to British Pakistani parents, a carpenter and a seamstress. He began his career by attending weekly dram...
The 2011 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification was qualification section of 2011 AFC U-16 Women's Championship. It was held from October 10 to December 12, 2010. First qualification round Group A Group B Bahrain and Uzbekistan withdrew from 2011 AFC U16 qualification. Note: Since Jordan and Iran tied in poi...
Cheriton Bishop is a village and civil parish situated on the northern borders of Dartmoor National park between Exeter and Okehampton, in Devon, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 652. The history of the settlement can be traced back over a thousand years when the old village centre was established as a co...
```java /* * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle in the LICENSE ...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (ASFB) is a multi-faceted arts organization that nurtures and manifests the love of dance across a spectrum of programs for the cultural enrichment of Aspen, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico—and beyond. The organization has a presentation program called "Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Presents", with s...
Tadeusz Walasek (15 July 1936 – 4 November 2011) was a Polish boxer. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1960 and a bronze in 1964, both in the middleweight division. In 1960 he lost the final bout to Eddie Crook by a narrow margin (2:3). Walasek competed three times at the Europe...
Todd G. Buchholz is an American economist, author, inventor, and business consultant. He served as Director of Economic Policy under George H. W. Bush and as managing director of Tiger Management. Buchholz regularly contributes commentaries on political economy, financial markets, business and culture to media outlets...
Diadegma aegyptiacum is a wasp first described by Horstmann in 1993. No subspecies are listed. References aegyptiacum Insects described in 1993
The Tri-State Transit Authority (TTA) is the city bus system in Huntington, West Virginia, and Ironton, Ohio, as well as its suburbs. Its buses range, on the West Virginia side from 21st Street in Kenova, WV to Milton, West Virginia, about 20 miles to the east. On the Ohio side the buses range from downtown Ironton t...
801 Squadron may refer to 801 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm squadron of the Royal Navy 801st Radar Squadron, United States Air Force unit 801st Aero Repair Squadron, now 107th Fighter Squadron See also 801 T.T.S. Airbats, a Japanese anime featuring the eponymous fictional 801 squadron 801 (disambiguation)
Sweet Nothin's is a 1959 song by Brenda Lee written by Ronnie Self. It peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 12 on the Hot R&B Sides chart, in 1960. The song (as Sweet Nuthin's) also charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1960, peaking at No. 4, marking Lee's first appearance on the UK chart. Musician and produ...
This index of kite articles (excluding persons whose name is "Kite" with exceptions for noteworthy flight connections); excluding articles on birds called "kites" for which see Kite (bird). Excluded also are works of literature, film, and non-flight art, non-tethered airplane names, and articles on non-aeronautical ki...
Swipe is a comics term for the intentional copying of a cover, panel, or page from an earlier comic book or graphic novel without crediting the original artist. Artists Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, Hergé, and Jim Lee are common targets of swipes, though even those artists may not be above reproach; Kirby was known to have ...
"Pigeons from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, written in late 1934 and published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938. The title comes from an image in Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of a deserted plantation mansion haunted by pigeons. It was re-written and adapted by Joe R...
```objective-c #include "giotypes.h" typedef struct _GApplicationImpl GApplicationImpl; typedef struct { gchar *name; GVariantType *parameter_type; gboolean enabled; GVariant *state; } RemoteActionInfo; void g_application_impl_destroy (GApplicationImpl *imp...
Proletarskaya metro station may refer to: Belarus Proletarskaya (Minsk Metro), a station of the Minsk Metro, Minsk, Belarus Russia Proletarskaya (Moscow Metro), a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia Proletarskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro), a station of the Saint Petersburg Metro, Saint Petersburg, Russia Prole...
Loay, officially the Municipality of Loay (; ), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,855 people. Located at the mouth of the Loboc River, the municipality can be divided into a lower and an upper part. The lower part used to be call...
Neodactylostomum is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae. It consists of one species, Neodactylostomum saipanense (Toman, 1992) Toman, 1996. Toman (1996) synonymised Neodactylostomum and N. saipanense with Paradactylostomum Zhukov, 1972 and P. saipanense Toman, 1992, respectively. References Opecoelidae Pl...
The Mississippi baby (born 2010) is a Mississippi girl who in 2013 was thought to have been cured of HIV. She had contracted HIV at birth from her HIV-positive mother. Thirty hours after the baby was born, she was treated with intense antiretroviral therapy. When the baby was about 18 months old, the mother did not ...
Radio Móvil Dipsa S.A.U., doing business as Telcel, is a Mexican wireless telecommunications company, owned by América Móvil. Founded in 1984 and based in Mexico City, Telcel is the leading provider of wireless communications services in Mexico. As of December 31, 2006, Telcel's cellular network covered more than 63% o...
KHDY may refer to: KHDY (AM), a radio station (1350 AM) licensed to serve Clarksville, Texas, United States KHDY-FM, a radio station (98.5 FM) licensed to serve Clarksville, Texas
Parimal Chandra Barman (1962–1991) from Bangladesh was considered the tallest person in the world in 1991 at . Parimal had a tumor on his pituitary gland causing his incredible growth spurt. He was also suffering from malnutrition during his later life. He had been undergoing treatment for Gigantism at St. Bartholomew...
Debb Carpenter (born August 11, 1972) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Carpenter attended the University of Lethbridge before turning professional to play the 1998–99 season in the British Ice Hockey Superleague with the London Knights, with whom he competed for the BH Cup. On November 22, 2000, h...
St. Jacobs is an unincorporated suburban community in the township of Woolwich in Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. It is located north of the city of Waterloo. It is a popular location for tourism, due to its quaint appearance, retail focus and Mennonite heritage. Waterloo Region is still home to the la...
Anderson is an unincorporated community in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. Notes Unincorporated communities in Macoupin County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois
The Clearwater River Dene Nation () is a Dene First Nations band government in the boreal forest area of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It maintains offices in the village of Clearwater River situated on the eastern shore of Lac La Loche. The Clearwater River Dene Nation reserve of Clearwater River shares its southern ...
Maming Sheng (馬鳴生, "Master Horse-neigh", fl. c. 100 CE) was a legendary Han dynasty Daoist alchemist and xian ("transcendent; immortal"). He was a disciple of the transcendent and fangshi ("master of methods") Anqi Sheng, who transmitted a secret waidan external alchemical scripture to him. Maming refined this elixir o...
The Gillies Ministry was the 29th ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Premier William Gillies of the Labor Party. It succeeded the Theodore Ministry on 26 February 1925 following Ted Theodore's resignation, and was in turn succeeded by the McCormack Ministry on 22 October 1925 when Gillies resigned ...
Blunt splenic trauma occurs when a significant impact to the spleen from some outside source (i.e. automobile accident) damages or ruptures the spleen. Treatment varies depending on severity, but often consists of embolism or splenectomy. Signs and symptoms The primary symptom, hemorrhage, presents differently dependi...
The CheyTac Intervention also known as the CheyTac M200, is an American bolt-action sniper rifle manufactured by CheyTac USA, which can also be classified as an anti-materiel rifle. It is fed by a 7-round detachable single-stack magazine (an optional 5-round magazine is also available). It is specifically chambered in ...
Ueekata is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jana Ueekata (1549–1611), Ryukyuan aristocrat Tansui Ueekata (1623–1684), Ryukyuan aristocrat
Fire and Rain is a 1989 American made-for-television disaster film directed by Jerry J. Jameson, starring Charles Haid, Angie Dickinson, and Tom Bosley, as well as an all-star ensemble television cast in supporting roles. It is based on the Delta Air Lines Flight 191 plane crash at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airpo...
Peter Johnson (died 1672, real name possibly Pieter Janszoon) was a Dutch pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for the circumstances surrounding his trial. History Johnson may have arrived in Jamaica as early as 1661 aboard a slave ship captured by the English. By 1671 Governor Thomas Lynch offered a pard...
The MV Chugach Ranger is a historic ranger boat whose home port is Petersburg, Alaska. She is the last wooden ranger boat in the fleet of the United States Forest Service operating in Southeast Alaska. She was designed by Seattle-based boat designer L. H. Coolidge and launched in Seattle in 1925. She has been in ser...
Patriarch Mstyslav, secular name Stepan Ivanovych Skrypnyk (10 April 1898 – 11 June 1993), was a Ukrainian Orthodox Church hierarch. He was a nephew of Symon Petliura. Biography Born in Poltava (Russian Empire, now Ukraine), Skrypnyk attended the Poltava First Classical Gymnasium and dreamt of a military career throug...
Harpactes is a genus of birds in the family Trogonidae found in forests in South and Southeast Asia, extending into southernmost China. They are strongly sexually dimorphic, with females generally being duller than males. Their back is brownish, the tail is partially white (best visible from below), and males of most s...
58th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery was an air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) raised just before World War II. It defended the East Midlands of England during The Blitz, and later served as infantry in North West Europe at the end of the war, converting to the anti-aircraft (AA) arti...
Banda do Casaco was a Portuguese prog-folk band active from 1974 to 1984 considered by some to be one of Portugal's greatest progressive rock bands. Their seminal album was Hoje há Conquilhas, Amanhã não Sabemos, released in 1976. Beginnings After the failure of the Filarmónica Fraude project, António Pinho (singer) a...
Orfeo Reda (born 9 November 1932 in Carolei) is an Italian painter and artist. Biography He was born in Pantanolungo di Carolei in 1932, resides in Amantea. At 16 he won first prize at the Fiera Campionaria in Cosenza with a scholarship offered by the Chamber of Commerce. He achieved his maturity at the Art Institute...
Irina Aleksandrovna Medvedeva (, ; born 14 August 1982) is a Russian and Belarusian actress and singer. She has been member of cast of Russian sketch shows Dear broadcast, 6 frames and Sled. Medvedeva was married to Ruslan Alekhno from 2009 until 2011. Biography Irina Medvedeva was born in Babruysk, Mogilev Region, ...
Brydon Lake is a small lake located west of the hamlet of Andes in Delaware County, New York. Brydon Lake drains south via an unnamed creek which flows into Fall Clove Brook, which flows into the Pepacton Reservoir. See also List of lakes in New York References Lakes of New York (state) Lakes of Delaware County, N...
Long in the Tooth may refer to: Long in the Tooth (Billy Joe Shaver album), 2014 Long in the Tooth (Primitive Race EP), 2015 "Long in the Tooth" (Justified), a 2010 episode of the TV series Justified
John "Jack" Robson Gregg (1909–1964) was an English businessman, best known as the founder of Greggs, the United Kingdom's largest bakery chain. Biography Gregg was born at Canada Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1909. At the age of 14 he joined the family egg and yeast business. He would make deliveries on his pushbik...
Xanthodaphne pachia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. Description The length of the shell attains 12 mm. (Original description) The ovate, white shell is smooth with rounded outlines. It has a rather high, small, and sharp-pointed protoconch, a swollen body whorl, and a...
Richard Steele Shalders (born 14 March 1938) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1974 to 1983, representing the seat of Murray. He served as a minister in the government of Ray O'Connor. Shalders was born in Perth, and attended Midland ...
The Carson Range is a spur of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California and western Nevada that starts at Carson Pass and stretches north to the Truckee River near Verdi, Nevada. Geography The mountain range is about 50 miles (80 km) long and 5–10 miles (8–16 km) wide, with 3/4 of the range lying within the state of Nev...
Lin Liguo (; 23 December 1945 – 13 September 1971) was the son of Chinese marshal Lin Biao. He was the alleged leader of Project 571, a coup plot against Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong. Biography Lin was born in 1945. He graduated from the elite Beijing No. 4 High School and later entered the Faculty of P...
Pustoshka () is a town and the administrative center of Pustoshkinsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the Krupeya River, southeast of Pskov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It was founded in 1901 due to the construction of a railway and was granted town status in 1925. At the...
Davide Corso (born 29 April 1992) is an Italian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie D club Locri. Club career Catanzaro Corso played his first game for Catanzaro on 4 September 2011 in a 0-0 away draw against Melfi. Matera In August 2018, he joined Serie C club Matera. Serie D On 5 August 2019, he signed...
Peter Jaconelli (25 November 1925 – 15 May 1999), was a business magnate, and mayor of Scarborough, North Yorkshire from 1971–1972. He was implicated in the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal. Life Jaconelli was born in Glasgow on 25 November 1925 His father, Richard, was head of a company (founded in 1833 by his Itali...