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Bloody Sunday is a 2002 film written and directed by Paul Greengrass based around the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then ...
The 1979 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, also known as the Palermo Grand Prix or Palermo Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo, Italy that was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and took place from 17 September until...
Dawson Island () is an island in the Strait of Magellan that forms part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, 100 km south of the city of Punta Arenas in Chile, and part of the Municipality of Punta Arenas. It is located southeast of Brunswick Peninsula. It is often lashed with harsh Antarctic weather. The settlements a...
This list covers various types of educational institutions in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Universities Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Barkatullah University Jagran Lakecity University LNCT University Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism an...
Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of New South Wales, ("Codelfa") is a widely cited Australian contract law case, which serves as authority for the modern approach to contractual construction. The case greatly influenced the development of the Eastern Suburbs railway line. In terms of contract law, th...
Vitali Mikhaylovich Eliseev (, born 26 February 1950) is a retired Russian rower who had his best achievements in the coxless fours, together with Valeriy Dolinin, Aleksandr Kulagin and Aleksey Kamkin. In this event they won a world title in 1981 and silver medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1982 World Rowing Champ...
The Junior Dragster or Jr Dragster is a scaled-down version of the top fuel dragster. The cars were developed in New Zealand in 1988, with classes developed by the New Zealand Hot Rod Association. The National Hot Rod Association in the USA began sanctioning the class in 1991, with the JDRL (Junior Drag Racing League)....
Searlesite is a sodium borosilicate mineral, with the chemical formula NaBSi2O5(OH)2. It was discovered in 1914 at Searles Lake, California, and was named to honor John W. Searles (16 November 1828 - 7 October 1897), California pioneer, who drilled the well that yielded the first known Searlesite. Searlesite is usuall...
Three to Get Ready may refer to: Three to Get Ready, a documentary film about Duran Duran Three to Get Ready, sometimes billed as 3 to Get Ready, TV series featuring Ernie Kovacs "Three to Get Ready", a jazz instrumental by Dave Brubeck from the 1959 album Time Out "Three to Get Ready", an I Can Read! children's b...
South Bay is a suburban Canadian community in the city of Saint John in Saint John County, New Brunswick. The community is west of the former city of Lancaster and was amalgamated into Saint John with that city in 1967. South Bay derives its name from a small baythat is formed by Green Head, an island in the Saint Jo...
Caroline Hampton Halsted (20 November 1861 – 27 November 1922) was a nurse who became the first to use medical gloves in the operating room. Biography Caroline Hampton was a member of a prominent southern family; her uncle, Wade Hampton III, was a Confederate General, governor of South Carolina, and a US senator. Her ...
Cameron Dunn (born February 13, 1984 in Alta Loma, California) is an American soccer player who last played for Los Angeles Blues in the USL Professional Division. Career College and amateur Dunn attended Alta Loma High School where he was a three-year letterwinner in soccer while also captaining the team both his ju...
NBA Live 2005 is the 2004 installment of the NBA Live sports video game series. The game was developed by EA Canada and released in 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows. Gameplay EA Sports Freestyle Air. This mode allows the game player to become an offensive force with new style dunks, user ...
Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area is a marine protected area located off the northwest coast of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The goal of the marine protected area is to protect the rich biodiversity and dynamism of the High Arctic sea ice ecosystem. Covering an area of , Tuvaijuittuq is the largest protected a...
Vilmorin is a French seed producer. The company has a long history in France, where it was family-controlled for almost two centuries, and today exists as a publicly traded company owned principally by agro-industrial cooperative Groupe Limagrain, the largest plant breeding and seed company in the European Union. His...
Michael Puleo is an American dancer, currently ballet master at the Compagnia Virgilio Sieni Danza, Florence, and assistant choreographer at Compagnia del Teatro Nuovo, Turin, Italy. He received his dance training at the Richard Andros Theater Art Center, the New York Performing Arts High School, and the School of Amer...
Keep It Spotless is an American competition television program that aired on Nickelodeon from March 26, 2018 to November 20, 2018. The program is presented by Melissa van der Schyff. Premise The program features children contestants competing for cash prizes as they aim to keep themselves clean while they navigate an...
Cautethia noctuiformis is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae, which is known from the Caribbean. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. The wingspan is 28–40 mm. Adults nectar at flowers. The larvae feed on Chiococca alba in Puerto Rico and Exostema species in Cuba. Subspecies Cautethia noctuiformis noc...
The National Day of Catalonia ( , ) is a day-long festival in Catalonia and one of its official national symbols, celebrated annually on 11 September. It commemorates the fall of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the subsequent loss of Catalan institutions and laws. History After the evac...
Catherine Marsal (born 20 January 1971) is a French former racing cyclist. She has been World Champion four times and raced professionally around the world. At the age of 17 she was selected for the French Olympic Team for the first time. Since then, she represented her native country at four Summer Olympics: 1988, 199...
Thomas Edgar Greig (September 12, 1921 – May 5, 2000) was an American businessman and politician. Greig was born in Pine County, Minnesota and went to vocational school. He served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Greig lived in Fridley, Anoka County, Minnesota with his wife and family and was invo...
TeamDynamix is a Saas-based IT Service Management (ITSM), Project Portfolio Management (PPM), and Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) software vendor. TeamDynamix's headquarters is located in Columbus, Ohio, and also offers consulting services. History TeamDynamix was founded in 2001 in Columbus, Ohio. Produc...
Joseph Caron (born 1947) is a Canadian diplomat. He served as the former Canadian high commissioner to India and former Canadian ambassador to China and Japan. Born and raised in the small francophone agricultural village of Pain Court in South-western Ontario (Canada), Caron attended the University of Ottawa (B.A. Hon...
Dashti-ye Esmail Khani (, also Romanized as Dashtī-ye Esmā‘īl Khānī) is a village in, and the capital of, Dashti-ye Esmail Khani Rural District of Ab Pakhsh District, Dashtestan County, Bushehr province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 769 in 172 households, when it was a village in Darvahi Rural District...
Deep Dive is a Canadian radio program, which airs on CBC Radio One. Hosted by Rich Terfy, the program showcases famous record albums of various genres, which are played in their entirety with various anecdotes told between tracks. The program premiered in July 2021 as a short-run summer series, to replace Vinyl Tap st...
Milton W. Humphreys (September 15, 1844 – November 20, 1928) was an American Confederate sergeant during the American Civil War of 1861-1865 and an early scholar of Ancient Greek and Latin in the United States. He was the first professor to introduce the Roman pronunciation of Latin in the United States while teaching ...
Clara Isabel Di Tella (born 10 June 1993) is an Argentine fencer. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's épée event at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. In 2010, she competed in the cadet female épée event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore without winning a medal. In 2015, she comp...
Francisco Bertrand Barahona (9 October 1866 – 15 July 1926) was a Honduran politician. He was a two-term President of Honduras, first from 28 March 1911 to 1 February 1912, and then again between 21 March 1913 and 9 September 1919. His successor and predecessor was Manuel Bonilla, and Bertrand served as the Vice Presid...
Aegires is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aegiridae. Species within this genus feed exclusively on calcareous sponges. Aegires is the type genus of the family Aegiridae. Species Species in the genus Aegires include: Aegires absalaoi Garcia, Troncoso & Dominguez, 2002...
Agnus Dei (Latin for Lamb of God) is an oil painting completed between 1635 and 1640 by the Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán. It is housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. The Lamb of God is an allusion to Christ's title as recorded in John's Gospel (John 1: 29) when John the Baptist describes Jesus a...
Ibrahim Duro (born 26 April 1970) is a retired Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer. Club career Duro played for NK Zagreb and NK Rijeka in the Croatian Prva HNL. Played in the Israeli premier league between 1997 and 2001, and was one of the key players in 1998–1999 season, when Maccabi Haifa achieved one of its best Eur...
The Poppy Factory is a factory in Richmond, London, England, where remembrance wreaths are made. It was founded in 1922 to offer employment opportunities to wounded soldiers returning from the First World War, creating remembrance poppies and wreaths for the Royal Family and the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy Appe...
Wilhelm Eduard Baltzer (24 October 1814 – 24 June 1887) was the founder of the first German vegetarian society, the German Natural Living Society (), a supporter of the Revolution of 1848 in Germany and an early popularizer of science. Biography Born in the village of Hohenleina in the Prussian Province of Saxony, Bal...
Wang Chunyu (; born 17 January 1995) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the 800 metres. She has a personal best of 1:57.00 minutes. She was the gold medallist at the Asian Athletics Championships in 2013 and the runner-up at the 2011 World Youth Championships. Born in Suzhou in China's Anhui provi...
WTSJ-LD (channel 38) is a low-power television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, owned by Innovate Corp. The station's transmitter is located at the Milwaukee PBS tower on North Humboldt Boulevard in Milwaukee's Estabrook Park neighborhood. History Early license establishment WTSJ-LD has its origins in ...
```go package tenancy import ( "flag" "fmt" "strings" "github.com/spf13/viper" ) const ( flagPrefix = "multi-tenancy" flagTenancyEnabled = flagPrefix + ".enabled" flagTenancyHeader = flagPrefix + ".header" flagValidTenants = flagPrefix + ".tenants" ) // AddFlags adds flags for tenancy to the Fla...
John Cunningham (;  – 9 December 1651) was a Scottish nobleman, explorer, Dano-Norwegian naval captain, and Governor of Finnmark. Biography In 1605, Cunningham became captain of the 60-ton Danish naval ship . Along with the 70-ton and the 20-ton , the ships were directed by the Danish King, Christian IV, to re-estab...
AMV BBDO is an advertising agency that works with over 85 brands, including BT, Diageo, Walkers, and Mars. AMV campaigns may incorporate digital, social, experiential, print or broadcast media. AMV is part of the BBDO network, the third largest agency network in the world and part of the Omnicom Group. Company Overvi...
The Turkish Baths was a Victorian Turkish bath on Lincoln Place, Dublin. History The Turkish Baths on Lincoln Place, Dublin opened on 2 February 1860 having been built by Richard Barter as part of the Turkish Bath Company of Dublin Ltd. The main frontage was 186 feet long. The Bath attendants wore red dressing gowns a...
The list of shipwrecks in May 1851 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1851. 1 May 2 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 25 May 26 May 27 May ...
FC Basel began their 2009–10 season with various warm-up matches against Swiss lower league, Ukrainian Vyscha Liha, and Super League Greece clubs. The club's aim for their first team during the 2009–10 season were to win back the league championship and to win the cup title. It was also their aim qualify for the UEFA E...
The Diesel Tilt Train is the name for three high-speed tilting trains, operated by Queensland Rail on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Cairns as part of its Spirit of Queensland service. History In August 1999, a contract was awarded to Walkers for two diesel tilting trains to operate services from Brisbane to Ca...
Ronald P. Schaefer (born June 17, 1949), also known as Ron Schaefer is an American academic, English professor, and linguist. He is the first person "to devise a written version of a language called Emai", a language reported in 1997 to be spoken by about 30,000 Emai people in Edo State of Nigeria. He has been descri...
Matthew Lee Sernett is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Matt Sernett was part of the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, with designers James Wyatt, Ed Stark, Michele Carter, Stacy Longstreet, and Chris Perkins; this team was responsible for updating the fictional setting as it w...
Maggie Riley was an English actress, best known for her roles as Maureen in Hazell and Mrs. McMahon in children's television series Grange Hill. A member of Olivier's National Theatre company, she made frequent appearances on British TV from the 1960s. She died on 10 October 2015 at the age of 79 after a long illness...
Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously decided that the lack of supplemental language instruction in public school for students with limited English proficiency violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court held that since non-English speakers were ...
Kushmanda Sarowar Triveni Dham () is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage site dedicated to the Goddess Kushmanda Bhagwati. The name Kushmanda is formed by amalgamation of three words, meaning ‘a little’, meaning ‘warmth’ and meaning ‘the cosmic egg’. Hence, she is considered as the creator of the universe. She is often shown ...
John Ferrar Holms MC (1897–1934) was a British literary critic. Early life He was born in India to a British civil servant and an Irish mother. Holms was educated at Rugby School and Sandhurst. During the First World War he was commissioned in 1915 as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry, and awarded th...
Arthur L. "Al" Welsh (August 14, 1881 – June 11, 1912) was a Russian-born American pioneer aviator who became the first flight instructor for the Wright Brothers. He was killed in an aircrash in 1912. Early life He was born as Laibel Welcher on August 14, 1881, in Kiev, Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empi...
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Johann Wilhelm Schütze (September 1807, Hamburg – 24 July 1878, Berlin) was a German painter and art professor. His birth year is sometimes given as 1814, and the place as Berlin. He has often been confused with , a painter from Munich. Life and work His first art lessons were in Berlin, with . From 1847 to 1848, he ...
The Meixian dialect (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mòi-yan-fa; IPA: ), also known as Moiyan dialect, as well as Meizhou dialect (), or Jiaying dialect and Sixian dialect (in Taiwan), is the prestige dialect of Hakka Chinese. It is named after Meixian District, Guangdong. Phonology Initials There are two series of stops and affrica...
DeMarcus Lamon "Tank" Tyler (born February 14, 1985) is a former American football defensive tackle who played last for the Dodge City Law of Champions Indoor Football (CIF). He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina State. Tyler has...
The Dampier Peninsula monitor or Dampier Peninsula goanna (Varanus sparnus), described in 2014, is the smallest known species of monitor lizard, growing up to 16.3 grams with a length of almost 23 cm and a SVL (snout to vent length) of 116 mm. It is believed to live only on the Dampier Peninsula of the Kimberley region...
Alexander Benedict McMurtrie Jr. (born October 5, 1935) is an American lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1972 to 1982. After losing his 1981 reelection bid, McMurtrie has run five campaigns for state senate, seeking the 10th district seat in 1991 and 2015 and the 11th district sea...
Henry Smyth, D.D. was a 17th-century priest and academic. Smyth was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; He was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge from 1626 until 1642; and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1626 until 1627. He was a Prebendary of Lincoln from 1611 until 1629; and then of Peter...
Kumari is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language mythological fantasy film written and directed by Nirmal Sahadev, featuring Aishwarya Lekshmi in title role. It also features Shine Tom Chacko and Surabhi Lakshmi in supporting roles. The film is produced by Giju John, Nirmal Sahadev, Sreejith Sarang and Jakes Bejoy under the ...
The Summer Breeze Festival is an annual music festival held in Liddington, near Swindon, in the United Kingdom. It was first held in 2007 where the audience consisted of around 150 people, in 2012 around 2,000 people attended. The festival supports up-and-coming bands and local music along with established acts and hig...
The 2009 Dallas Cup will be the 30th since its establishment, 12 teams entering in the tournament. The competition is sponsored by Dr Pepper. Participating teams From AFC: Urawa Red Diamonds From CONCACAF: Toronto FC Vancouver Whitecaps UANL Tigres Monterrey Andromeda Dallas Texans From CONMEBO...
Fanning is an unincorporated community in western Crawford County, Missouri, United States. It lies along former U.S. Route 66, now Missouri Supplemental Route ZZ, four miles southwest of Cuba. Fanning is also home to the world's second largest rocking chair, located outside of the Fanning 66 Outpost. A post office c...
Jaime Lerner (17 December 1937 – 27 May 2021) was a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times (1971–1974, 1979–1983 and 1989–1992). In 1994, Lerner was elected gove...
Cyril Ellis may refer to: Darkie Ellis (Cyril Ellis, 1918–1950), British boxer Cyril Ellis (athlete) (1904–1973), British athlete
Lion Brewing and Malting Company of Jerningham Street, Lower North Adelaide was one of the many breweries which proliferated in Australia in the nineteenth-century. In those days beer was much cheaper than now; the wholesale price was 1/ a gallon, but transport was expensive, and small breweries were to be found all o...
Eyewitness or eye witness may refer to: Witness Witness, someone who has knowledge acquired through first-hand experience Eyewitness memory Eyewitness testimony Arts, entertainment, and media Films Eyewitness (1956 film), a British film starring Donald Sinden Eyewitness (1970 film), a film starring Mark Lester ...
Frederick Daniel Cornwell (30 September 1875–5 December 1948) was a New Zealand painter and trade unionist. He was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 30 September 1875. References 1875 births 1948 deaths New Zealand trade unionists Scottish emigrants to New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand painters 20th-centu...
Colin George Blakely (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish actor. He had roles in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Equus (1977). Early life Born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, Blakely attended Sedberg...
Memories Are Now is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop. The album was released on February 10, 2017, through Sub Pop. It was produced by Blake Mills and features Fiona Apple on harmonica. Reception Memories Are Now received positive reviews from music critics upon release. At Metacr...
Eois burla is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Ecuador. References Moths described in 1899 Eois Moths of South America
Howard Stableford is a British television and radio presenter. Background Stableford was born 12 April 1959 in Poynton, Cheshire and grew up in Preston, Lancashire. He attended Hutton Grammar School. He read for a Geography degree at Durham University, where he was a member of University College, graduating in 1980. ...
Todor Chavorski (; born 30 March 1993) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Yantra Gabrovo. Career Youth career Chavorski has been training in Levski Sofia's youth academy since 2002. On 28 February 2010, he scored the winning goal in the Eternal Derby, playing for the Youth team. During 2010/2011 pre...
Susan Blanchard is an American actress, who is known for playing Mary Kennicott Martin on the soap opera All My Children from 1971 to 1975. Early life and education Blanchard is a native of Westport, Connecticut. After an early desire to be a ballerina, she decided to become an actress. She attended Centenary College...
Uzun Tappeh-ye Sofla (, also Romanized as Uzūn Tappeh-ye Soflá; also known as Uzūn Tappeh) is a village in Qeshlaq-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Parsabad County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 643, in 145 families. References Towns and villages in Parsabad Count...
Sofija "Soja" Jovanović (, ; 1 February 1922 – 22 April 2002) was the first Serbian and Yugoslav female film director, noted for her work in theater, TV and film productions. Biography After studying at the Theater Department of the Belgrade Music Academy, her first success was the stage production of Branislav Nušić...
Hypogymnia is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Parmeliaceae. They are commonly known as tube lichens, bone lichens, or pillow lichens. Most species lack rhizines (root-like attachment organs on the lower surface) that are otherwise common in members of the Parmeliaceae, and have swollen lobes that are usually h...
Sheringham Point Lighthouse is located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, near the community of Shirley. Built in 1912 following the fatal wreck of the SS Valencia six years earlier, it is still used for navigation. The point was named for William L. Sheringham who took part in various naval surveys although not in...
Hyposmocoma argentea is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Molokai. External links argentea Endemic moths of Hawaii Moths described in 1907 Taxa named by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Laos. Incumbents President: Khamtai Siphandon (until 8 June), Choummaly Sayasone (starting 8 June) Vice President: Choummaly Sayasone (until 8 June), Bounnhang Vorachith (starting 8 June) Prime Minister: Bounnhang Vorachith (until 8 June), Bouasone Bouphavanh (st...
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El Tiempo Es Oro may refer to: El Tiempo Es Oro (album), by Paulina Rubio El Tiempo Es Oro (game show), a Puerto Rican game show
Local elections were held in the Province of Quezon on May 9, 2022, as part of the 2022 general election. Voters will select candidates for all local positions: a town mayor, vice mayor and town councilors, as well as members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, the vice-governor, governor and representatives for the four...
Everett Riskin (1895-1982) was an American film producer, best known for his work at Columbia and MGM, where he specialised in comedies. He was the brother of screenwriter Robert Riskin. Partial filmography The Awful Truth (1937) I Am the Law (1938) Holiday (1938) The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) Here Comes Mr. Jordan...
The Burn of Myrehouse is a coastal stream in Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland, the lower section of which, Getty Burn is a right bank tributary of River Deveron which discharges into Banff Bay. This watercourse has been suggested as an associated feature to the prehistoric feature at nearby Longman Hill. See also ...
Under the rule of President Hugo Chávez who was elected President of Venezuela in 1998, relations between Israel and Venezuela rapidly deteriorated as Venezuela strongly supported the rights of the Palestinians and condemned Israeli actions, twice expelling the Israeli ambassador from Venezuela (2006, during the 2006 L...
Keith Hamilton Basso (March 15, 1940 – August 4, 2013) was a cultural and linguistic anthropologist noted for his study of the Western Apaches, specifically those from the community of Cibecue, Arizona. Basso was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and earlier taught at the University of...
Richard Melzer (born December 8, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who has played in the Australian National Basketball League, the German Bundesliga, NBA D-League, Continental Basketball Association, as well as stints in France and Israel. He primarily played power forward. Melzer is a 1999 g...
Gwynneth Flower is a former chair of the National Meteorological Programme, a position she held until 2007. Flower is also a director of 2change Ltd, a management advisory business. Additionally, she has an interim management role in support of the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) developing a more commercial appr...
Hans-Dieter Schmidt (born 9 January 1948) is a former German football player turned manager. Playing career Schmidt's playing career – part of which he spent with Hannover 96 – ended early after a severe injury at the age of 23. Coaching career Following the end of his playing days, Schmidt passed his manager diploma...
Jean Varenne (12 June 1926 – 12 July 1997) was a French Indologist and a prominent figure of the Nouvelle Droite. He taught Sanskrit at the Aix-Marseille University, then at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, where he was eventually nominated professor emeritus. Varenne has also been a visiting professor at the University ...
Manuel Suárez Ávila (born 12 February 1968, Trinidad) is a Bolivian politician. Suárez Ávila studied political science. He was a councilor at the Bolivian Embassy in Madrid in 1995, and a councilor at the Bolivian mission at the United Nations in Geneva 1995-1997. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1997, th...
Like many other states in the United States, Texas has a long history with the game of baseball. 19th century: the beginning of baseball in Texas The birth of baseball in Texas happened at the same time as the Civil War in 1861 with the formation of the Houston Base Ball Club to promote the game the same way Alexander...
Baroness Friederike Viktoria Mariana Ottilie von Gumppenberg (3 August 1823 – 21 January 1916) was a lady-in-waiting for Crown Princess Marie Friederike of Prussia. She appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1843. Life Friederike was born in Munich in 1823. She was the daughter of ...
Konrad von Würzburg (c.1220-1230 – 31 August 1287) was the chief German poet of the second half of the 13th century. As with most epic poets of the age, little is known of his life, and his origin is disputed. There have been German scholars and local patriots of Würzburg who claimed he hailed from Würzburg. Wilhelm W...
The fundamental principles for the exercise of BDSM require that it be performed with the informed consent of all parties. Since the 1980s, many practitioners and organizations have adopted the motto safe, sane and consensual, commonly abbreviated SSC, which means that everything is based on safe activities, that all p...
Legislative elections were held in Kazakhstan on 7 March 1994, alongside local elections. The People's Union of Kazakhstan Unity emerged as the largest party with 33 of the 177 seats, although 64 independents were also elected. Supporters of the President won a clear majority of seats, and around 60% of seats were won ...
Masabubu is a settlement in Kenya's Garissa County. References Populated places in Coast Province
The Japanese martial art judo has been practised in Yukon, Canada since at least 1950. History Judo was introduced to Canada in the early twentieth century by Japanese migrants, and the first dojo was established in Vancouver by Shigetaka Sasaki in 1924. It was initially limited to British Columbia, but spread throug...
The Civil Society Leadership Institute (CSLI) is a not-for-profit training center founded in February 2007 as a civic education initiative of FIBRAS/Movimiento por Nicaragua—one of the largest pro-democracy movements in Central America. Its founding-director is Félix Maradiaga who is also a Young Global Leader (2009–2...
Pouteria filiformis is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to Costa Rica. References Flora of Costa Rica filiformis Vulnerable plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Fulcoald is a Germanic masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Fulcoald of Farfa (died 750s), abbot between 740 and 759 Fulcoald of Rouergue, count between 820 and 837 Germanic masculine given names
Superengine are an Indie/Pop band originating from Perth, Western Australia. They have performed with bands such as Angus and Julia Stone, Charles Jenkins (Icecream Hands), Dappled Cities Fly, The Panda Band, Schvendes, Faith in Plastics, the Autumn Isles and Institut Polaire. History Formation Superengine descended ...