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The Jaromarsburg was a cult site for the Slavic tribe of Rani dedicated to the god Svantovit and used from the 9th to the 12th century. It was located on the northeastern tip of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen at Cape Arkona, and was protected on two sides by the cliffed coast and from the land side by a Slavic burgwall... | english |
Overprinting or overprint may refer to:
Overprinting, a reprographics technique involving printing one color over another
Overprinting (geology), the result of a geological process altering the marks of a previous process
Overprinting (genetics), a process in which two genes are encoded by overlapping nucleotide seq... | english |
Arthur-Lucien Beaubien (February 11, 1879 – March 21, 1971) was a Canadian politician and farmer.
Born in Arthabaska, Quebec, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1921 election as a member of the Progressive Party to represent the riding or electoral district of Provencher. He was re-elected in 1925... | english |
George Binns (6 December 1815–5 April 1847) was a New Zealand chartist leader and poet. He was born in Sunderland, England on 6 December 1815.
References
Radical Politicians and Poets in Early Victorian Britain (1993) by Stephen Roberts
http://www.thepeoplescharter.co.uk
1815 births
1847 deaths
British emigrants to ... | english |
The Perimeter Road, also known as the Margaret River Perimeter Road, is a highway bypass of Margaret River, Western Australia. The road deviates Bussell Highway traffic, including heavy vehicles, to the east of the town, and connects to a new airport access road. It is planned to eventually be a dual carriageway, but ... | english |
Album primo-avrilesque is a monograph by French writer, artist and humourist Alphonse Allais. The slim volume of 26 octavo landscape pages, , bound with card, was published by in Paris on 1 April 1897, and was sold for one franc. The work is generally known by its French title, which may be translated into English as ... | english |
Dawud ibn Ali al-Hashimi was an eighth century Abbasid personage. Who served as the first governor of Medina and Mecca in 750 for the Abbasid Caliphate.
Life
Al-Hashimi was the son of Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas. He was a paternal uncle of the first two Abbasid caliphs al-Saffah (r. 750–754) and al-Mansur (r. 754–... | english |
Chester-le-Street is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between and . The station, situated south of Newcastle, serves the market town of Chester-le-Street in County Durham, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History
The Team Valley Line of the North Eastern R... | english |
The agglomeration community Annemasse - Les Voirons is an intercommunal structure in Haute-Savoie, France. It consists of the town Annemasse and 11 neighbouring communes. It is located at the Swiss border, east of Geneva, between the mountains Salève and Voirons.
History
In 1966, the communes of Ambilly, Annemasse, E... | english |
Eduardo Vernazza (13 October 1910 – 26 May 1991) was a Uruguayan artist and art critic. Vernazza was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to parents immigrated from Genoa, Italy. He was an illustrator and art critic for the Uruguayan newspaper El Día. UNESCO chose him to be a representative of the Art Critics of Uruguay.
Refe... | english |
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), also called The Match, is a United States-based private non-profit non-governmental organization created in 1952 to place U.S. medical school students into residency training programs located in United States teaching hospitals. Its mission has since expanded to include t... | english |
OVO may refer to:
OvO (band), an Italian rock band
Ovo (Cirque du Soleil), a touring Cirque du Soleil show
OVO (album), by Peter Gabriel, 2000
OVO (payment service), an Indonesian digital payment and fintech company
OVO (video encyclopedia), an Italian- and English-language online reference
OVO Energy, a British gas a... | english |
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STAT5A gene. STAT5A orthologs have been identified in several placentals for which complete genome data are available.
Structure
STAT5a shares the same six functional domains as the other members of the STAT family. It c... | english |
Heliotropium amplexicaule is a species of heliotrope known by several common names, including clasping heliotrope, blue heliotrope, and summer heliotrope. It is native to South America, especially Argentina, but it is known on several other continents where it is an introduced species, and in some areas such as eastern... | english |
The kwarta or quarter tax was a tax in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on all incomes from crown estates in królewszczyzna (crown lands). It was established in 1563.
Initially the rate was 1/4, hence the name, later 1/5. Its purpose was to maintain the Kwarta army. Later it was absorbed into the hiberna military-purpo... | english |
Stage Door Johnny (May 22, 1965 – November 21, 1996) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his win in the third leg of the 1968 U.S. Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes.
Background
Stage Door Johnny was a chestnut horse with a white blaze, owned by the Whitney family's Greentree Stable. He was sire... | english |
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Natural Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17 in 1800 for the virtuoso horn player Giovanni Punto. It was premiered with Punto as the soloist, accompanied on the piano by Beethoven himself in Vienna on April 18, 1800.
Beethoven was not well known outside of Vienna at the time of this compos... | english |
The Cortlandt Street station was an express station at Greenwich Street on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It was built as a replacement for the original southern terminus at Dey Street. It had three tracks, one island platform and two side platforms. It was served by trains from the I... | english |
The Pan American Table Tennis Championships is a table tennis tournament for countries in the Americas. It was first held in 2017 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The tournament is a joint effort of the Latin American Table Tennis Union and the Northern American Table Tennis Union. Since its first edition, the tournam... | english |
Bervin Ellis Purnell MBE JP (10 March 1891 – 5 May 1972) was mayor and councillor of the City of Geelong, Australia.
Purnell was the second of seven children of Charles William Purnell (1854–1931) and Ellen McNair (c. 1862–1939). Purnell attended Flinders State School in Geelong, where he enjoyed running around the bl... | english |
St Aldhelm's Chapel is a Norman chapel on St Aldhelm's Head in the parish of Worth Matravers, Swanage, Dorset. It stands close to the cliffs, above sea level. It is a Grade I listed building.
The square stone chapel stands within a low circular earthwork, which may be the remains of a pre-Conquest Christian enclosure... | english |
Svecchachara is the Sanskrit equivalent of the Greek word Thelema, interpreted by Aleister Crowley as "Do What Thou Wilt."
In the first volume of the TWILIGHT YOGA, Ecstasy, Equipoise, and Eternity, Shri Gurudev Mahendranath wrote,
Sveccha means one's own wish or free will. Svecchachara means a way of life where one ... | english |
HMS Glatton was a breastwork monitor which served in the Victorian Royal Navy.
Design
She was designed by Sir Edward Reed to a specific formula determined by the Board of Admiralty, and her purpose was never made wholly clear. Reed himself said "there is no vessel with the objects of which I am less well acquainted ... | english |
Rome Township is a township in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 172 at the 2000 census.
Rome Township was organized in 1868, and named after Rome, in Italy.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.7 square miles (92.5 km), all land.
D... | english |
Solitary confinement is a punishment or special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons.
Solitary Confinement may also refer to:
Albums
Solitary Confinement (Leæther Strip album), 1992
Solitary Confinement (Rhyme Asylum album), 2010
Songs
"Solitary Confinement", a punk sin... | english |
Emil Liebling (April 12, 1851 – January 20, 1914) was a German-American pianist and composer.
Biography
Liebling was born into a Jewish family in the Duchy of Pless, Kingdom of Prussia. Liebling was from a famous family of musicians. His three brothers, George, Max, and Solly Liebling, were also successful pianists, a... | english |
This is the order of battle for the Battle of Tourcoing which was fought on 17–18 May 1794 between the First French Republic and the First Coalition.
Command arrangements
French Army
General of Division Jean-Charles Pichegru commanded the French Army of the North. In March 1794, the Army of the North counted 194,930 ... | english |
Melissococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, catalase-negative, coccus-shaped lactic acid bacteria within the family Enterococcaceae. Melissococcus species were classified as Streptococcus until 1983 when Melissococcus was recognized as a distinct genus. Notable species include M. plutonius, which is a cause of European ... | english |
The Order of the Passion of Christ was a French knighthood order which was founded in 1380 by King Richard II of England and in 1400 by his father-in-law king Charles VI of France. It was a crusader knighthood.
The two kings prepared a Crusade to the Holy Land and for this knighthood there would be not less than one h... | english |
Pottsia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1837. It is native to East and Southeast Asia.
Species
Pottsia densiflora D.J.Middleton - Laos, Thailand
Pottsia grandiflora Markgr. - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
Pottsia laxiflora (Blume) Kuntze - Fujian, ... | english |
Les Canadiens was the original name of the Montreal Canadiens professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey Association (NHA), as used in the 1910 season. This was the founding season of the Canadiens hockey club, which now is a franchise member of the National Hockey League (NHL).
History
On the idea of Jimmy G... | english |
The Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature is literary award presented annually that recognizes high quality "children's and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use." It was first award... | english |
Cheyniana is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Two species are currently recognised, both endemic to Western Australia:
Cheyniana microphylla (C.A.Gardner) Rye (basionym Balaustion microphyllum) - Bush pomegranate
Cheyniana rhodella Rye & Trudgen (syn. Baeckea sp. Mullewa-Morawa)
References
Myrta... | english |
Avis Clamitz Shulman (1908-1991) was a significant figure in the early history of women in the American rabbinate. In the 1920s, Clamitz enrolled in the Hebrew Union College (HUC) rabbinical program, graduating in 1927, and periodically served as a rabbi in an unofficial capacity for small congregations in Virginia. In... | english |
The Progonocimicidae are an extinct family of true bugs in the suborder Coleorrhyncha. Progonocimicidae fossils have been found in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
Families preserved in the fossil record of Coleorrhyncha include the early Progonocimicidae, and the later Karabasiidae and Hoploridiidae. The o... | english |
The Boise meridian is one of the 35 principal meridians of the Public Land Survey System of the United States. Adopted in 1867, its longitude is 116° 23′ 35″ (or 116° 24′ 15″) west from Greenwich and its principal baseline is latitude 43° 22′ 21″ north. The meridian and baseline intersect approximately from Boise, bet... | english |
Escape to the Chateau is a Channel 4 reality television series which follows the story of couple Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree along with their family as they buy and renovate the 19th-century Château de la Motte-Husson in Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France, while simultaneously raising two young children and starting a ... | english |
The Imeong Conservation Area is an area of roughly 1,250 sq m located in western Palau.
Site Description
The area includes multiple ecosystems types including rain forest, savanna, and mangrove wetlands. It also contains the island's highest points that create important drainage systems for the western part of the i... | english |
Sherry McKibben (M.Phil, MSW, RSW) (1944–2014) was an Edmonton alderman (city councillor) who was elected in the 1994 by-election to replace Ward 4 alderman Judy Bethel, who was elected to the House of Commons and resigned her seat on council.
She represented Ward 4 in 1994 and 1995 and ran in Ward 3 in the 1995 munic... | english |
Loretta Eleanor "Lori" Reynolds is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. She is the third woman to earn that rank in the Marine Corps.
Early life and education
Reynolds attended the Seton High School in Baltimore, Maryland, an all-girls Catholic school. She was commissioned into the United S... | english |
Antonio Rocco Caponigro (January 22, 1912 – April 18, 1980), also known as Tony Bananas, was the consigliere of Angelo Bruno in the Philadelphia crime family. He is known for ending the peaceful Bruno regime by ordering his murder over a dispute concerning the methamphetamine trade.
Early life
Caponigro was born in C... | english |
Edward Walsingham (died 1663) was an English royalist author, known for his verse of the First English Civil War and Arcana Aulica, often wrongly attributed to Sir Francis Walsingham.
Life
According to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Walsingham was related to the Earl of Bristol. In the preface to the Arcana Aulic... | english |
The Genoese knife, which has its own unique style, was manufactured in the city of Genoa.
Some Genoese knives have a special shape, very similar to a dagger or stylet and are therefore prohibited. Its use was especially common in the territory of the Republic of Genoa from the 17th to 18th centuries. Knives of this ty... | english |
"When the Lilies Bloom in France Again" is a World War I era song released in 1918. Robert Levenson wrote the lyrics. George L. Cobb composed the music. It was published by Walter Jacobs of New York City and Boston, Massachusetts. There are two versions of the sheet music cover. One was designed by Rose Starmer. The co... | english |
Robert Hall Clothes, Inc., popularly known as Robert Hall, was an American retailer that flourished circa 1938–1977. Based in Connecticut, its warehouse-like stores were mostly concentrated in the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. According to a Time magazine story in 1949, the corporate name was a... | english |
Symonanthus bancroftii, also known as Bancroft's Symonanthus, is a species of flowering plant in the potato family that is endemic to Australia.
Etymology
The specific epithet bancroftii honours Queensland surgeon Joseph Bancroft for his pharmacological research on Australian plants.
Description
The species grows as ... | english |
Robert Parkinson Tomlinson (20 May 1881 – 3 June 1943) was a British corn merchant and Liberal politician.
Family and education
Tomlinson was born at Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire, the son of William and Agnes Ormond Tomlinson. He was educated at Poulton-le-Fylde Grammar School and Claremont College, Blackpool. He ... | english |
Mohawk Commons is a lifestyle center in Niskayuna, New York. It opened in 2002 and replaced the older enclosed Mohawk Mall previously located on the property.
Anchor stores
Marshalls
Target
Ownership
The property, including the largely empty Mohawk Mall, was purchased from Wilmorite Properties in June 2000, by Myron... | english |
Ernest Percival Evans (1916-1984) was a Welsh Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Monmouth from 1963 to 1973 and Archdeacon of Newport from then until 1976.
Evans was educated at Keble College, Oxford and Ely Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1939; and priest in 1940. He was Curate of Abergavenny ... | english |
Paolo della Pergola (died 1455, Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and Occamist logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.
Works
Paolo della Pergola's most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso. His logical works were printed early.
He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 14... | english |
Paradise Lake is a lake in Ontario.
This small lake is in the Township of Wellesley, Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. It is due south of the large village of St. Clements and near the village of Bamberg.
Cottages and summer camp
The lake is surrounded by cottages on private land; t... | english |
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated Barbara Paulus in the final, 6–2, 2–6, 6–2 to win the singles tennis title at the 1996 Family Circle Cup.
Conchita Martínez was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Paulus.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the ro... | english |
Persicaria is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds. or smartweeds. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring nearly worldwide.
References
Further reading
Kong M.-J & S.-P Hong 2018. Comparative achene morpohol... | english |
Tilgate Forest is a Local Nature Reserve in Crawley in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Crawley Borough Council and is part of Tilgate Park.
This site has woods, tall herb and fern, and heathland. The most common trees in areas of natural woodland are birch, oak and hazel, while plantations are mainly Scots p... | english |
Policosanol is the generic term for a mixture of long chain alcohols extracted from plant waxes. It is used as a dietary supplement.
History
Policosanol was originally derived from sugar cane but the chemicals can also be isolated from beeswax, cereal grains, grasses, leaves, fruits, nuts, and seeds of many foods. ... | english |
A partial solar eclipse occurred on Friday, July 13, 2018. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses t... | english |
Charles Spain Verral (November 7, 1904 – April 1, 1990) was a writer and illustrator born in Ontario, Canada. He wrote Street & Smith's Bill Barnes pulp series novels, among others. Among the most widely read of his books are the Brains Benton Mysteries, a six-book series published from 1959 to 1961. He also published... | english |
The PC-7 Team is an aerobatics team of the Swiss Air Force. It derives its name from the Pilatus PC-7 trainer, the team's primary aircraft.
History
Soon after the PC-7 was introduced in 1982, the Swiss Air Force started to present the new airplane in solo displays. The first public team display was in 1987, performed... | english |
The 2017 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Heineken do Brasil 2017) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 November 2017 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in the Interlagos neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the nineteenth and penultimate round of the 2017 FIA Formula One... | english |
The Körte-Oberlyzeum was a girls' gymnasium in Königsberg, Germany. It was named after mayor Siegfried Körte.
History
The Oberlyzeum was formed in 1925 when the city of Königsberg combined two private schools, the Seydel-Lyzeum of Theaterstraße in Burgfreiheit and the Günther-Lyzeum of Steindamm. The new institution ... | english |
The Imperial Monumental Halls and Tower was a proposed Gothic complex designed for a site in London adjacent to Westminster Abbey. The plans, exhibited at the Royal Academy in March 1904, included a tower that would have dominated the Clock Tower and Victoria Tower of the nearby Houses of Parliament. It was never bu... | english |
The English ship Merlin was a 14-gun sixth rate vessel built under the 1651 Programme at Chatham Dockyard for the Commonwealth of England in 1651/52. She sailed with Robert Blakes Fleet during her career in the Commonwealth Navy. She partook in the Battles of Portland, the Gabbard, Scheveningen and Porto Fina. She was ... | english |
Daphnephila sueyenae is a species of gall midges first associated with leaf galls on Lauraceae species, particularly Machilus thunbergii in Taiwan. Based on analysis on sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, it has been suggested that in this genus, the stem-galling habit is a more ancestral sta... | english |
Thottapuzhassery is a place in Thiruvalla taluk in Kerala, India. It is situated opposite Aranmula.It Is Part Of Thiruvalla Sub-District.
Location
Thottapuzhassery is a village panchayat in Thiruvalla Taluk, Pathanamthitta District of Kerala State. Thottapuzhassery shares its boundaries with the holy River Pampa and ... | english |
Mikołajewo may refer to the following places:
Mikołajewo, Czarnków-Trzcianka County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
Mikołajewo, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
Mikołajewo, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
Mikołajewo, Wągrowiec County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Po... | english |
This article is a list of schools in Gary, Indiana (USA).
Public schools
Most of Gary is served by the Gary Community School Corporation.
Some portions are served by the Lake Ridge Schools Corporation.
Some Gary residents in the outskirts attend schools administered by the River Forest Community School Corporation; ... | english |
The Adua-class submarine was the fourth sub-class of the 600 Series of coastal submarines built for the (Royal Italian Navy) during the 1930s. There were 17 submarines in this class, almost all named after places in Ethiopia which had been an Occupied by Italy since 1936, but only one, , survived World War II. Three s... | english |
is an above-ground metro station located in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan operated by the Yokohama Municipal Subway's Blue Line (Line 3). It is 31.8 kilometers from the terminus of the Blue Line at Shōnandai Station.
History
Nippa Station was opened on March 18, 1993. Platform screen doors were insta... | english |
Babe Ruth's called shot is the home run hit by Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, held on October 1, 1932, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. During the at-bat, Ruth made a pointing gesture which the existing film confirms, but whether he was pro... | english |
Robert E. Braun (April 20, 1929 – January 15, 2001) was an American local television and radio personality, best known for a program originating in Cincinnati, Ohio, named The Bob Braun Show. The show, which he hosted from 1967 to 1984, had the highest Arbitron and Nielsen ratings of any live entertainment/information ... | english |
The Faculty of Physician Associates at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is the professional membership body for physician associates (PAs) in the United Kingdom. Established in 2015, it is responsible for setting PA standards, running the accreditation examinations, management of the Physician Associate Managed Vo... | english |
Rare or Threatened Australian Plants, usually abbreviated to ROTAP, is a list of rare or threatened Australian plant taxa. Developed and maintained by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the most recent edition lists 5031 taxa. The list uses a binary coding system based on the IUCN... | english |
Paula of Rome (AD 347–404) was an ancient Roman Christian saint and early Desert Mother. A member of one of the richest senatorial families which claimed descent from Agamemnon, Paula was the daughter of Blesilla and Rogatus, from the great clan of the Furii Camilli. At the age of 16, Paula was married to the nobleman ... | english |
David Diringer (16 June 1900 – 13 February 1975) was a British linguist, palaeographer and writer. He was the author of several well-known books about writing systems.
Biography
Diringer was born to Jacob Munzer and Mirl Diringer on 16 June 1900, in Tlumacz – at that time considered part of Austria, later Poland, bu... | english |
Allahganj is a town and a nagar panchayat in Shahjahanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India
Nearest Railway Station- Farrukhabad
Nearest Airport- Bareilly
Major Schools/Colleges:- kusum girls inter college, Swami Vivekanand Inter College, NGS Degree College, Ramnath Mishra High School, Th.AS Inter Colle... | english |
The Union Brewery is a historic brewery building in Iowa City, Iowa. The brewery was founded in 1856 by German immigrants Anton Geiger and Simeon Hotz. Conrad Graf was the brewery's brewmaster, and its beer was named Graf's Golden Brew after him; Graf later came to own the brewery after Geiger's death. Graf was instrum... | english |
The Austin Peay Governors are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Austin Peay State University (APSU or Peay), located in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States. The Governors athletic program is a member of the NCAA Division I ASUN Conference for all sports except football, in which it competes in the United Athletic... | english |
Shawl Bay, British Columbia, Canada, is a bay and locality on the west side of the Wishart Peninsula, which is to the east of Broughton Island, in the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland near the entrance to Kingcome Inlet. The bay is located between the Wishart Peninsula to the ea... | english |
Rhodesia (, ), was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa. Until 1964, the territory was known as Southern Rhodesia, and less than a year before the name change the colony formed a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and hosted its capital city, Salisbury. On 1 January 1964, the three par... | english |
Kolossus is Keep of Kalessin's fourth studio album. It was released on June 6, 2008, in Europe and on June 10 in the U.S. A limited edition deluxe digipak was released under Indie Recordings which contains a bonus DVD including interviews, behind-the-scenes material, the making of Kolossus, the live performance Come Da... | english |
John S. Arnick (November 27, 1933 – June 13, 2006) was an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in three separate spans of time as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Maryland's District 6 and District 7 in Baltimore County. He died in 2006 due to lung c... | english |
Jack Ely (September 11, 1943 – April 27, 2015) was an American guitarist and singer. He was best known for singing the Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie". Ely was born in Portland, Oregon.
Ely died at his Oregon farm residence on April 27, 2015 age 71, having long suffered from an unknown illness. "Because of his rel... | english |
The Indonesian Marhaen People's Union (), generally known by its acronym Permai (meaning 'beautiful'), was a social movement in Indonesia, functioning both as a political party and an Abangan mystical association. The organisation was founded on 17 December 1945. Permai was led and founded by Mei Kartawinata in Cimerta... | english |
Palazzo Caprini was a Renaissance palazzo in Rome, Italy, in the Borgo rione between Piazza Scossacavalli and via Alessandrina (also named Borgo Nuovo). It was designed by Donato Bramante around 1510, or a few years before.
It was also known as Palazzo di Raffaello, or Raphael's House, since the artist had bought it ... | english |
There is no county-wide local education authority in Berkshire, instead education services are provided by the six smaller unitary authorities of Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham:
List of schools in Bracknell Forest
List of schools in Reading, Berkshire
List of... | english |
Harry Robert Damrau (September 11, 1890 – August 21, 1957) was an American Major League Baseball third baseman. He played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the season.
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External links
1890 births
1957 deaths
Major League Baseball third basemen
Philadelphia Athletics players
Baseball players from New Y... | english |
The 2019–20 Cypriot Cup was the 78th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 24 clubs were accepted to enter the competition. It begins on 30 October 2019 with the first round and will conclude in May 2020 with the final held at GSP Stadium. The winner of the Cup will qualify for the 2020–21 Europa League second qualify... | english |
Ridge Grove is a historic apartment building at 1112 Grove Street in Evanston, Illinois. The three-story brick building was built in 1928. Architect Edward M. Sieja designed the building, which incorporates geometric and Neoclassical elements. The building features a projecting section across most of its front facade, ... | english |
The Sulitjelma Line was a railway line that ran between Finneid in the town of Fauske to the village of Sulitjelma near the border with Sweden. The railway line was entirely inside the municipality of Fauske in Nordland county, Norway. The line was built in 1891, over time it was lengthened until 1958 when it was conn... | english |
In computer network and computer science, digital bandwidth or just bandwidth means the amount of data that can be sent from one point to another in a certain period of time. It is measured as a bit rate expressed in bits per second (bits/s) or multiples of it (kbit/s Mbit/s etc.)
Digital bandwidth should not be conf... | english |
Paralligatoridae is an extinct family of neosuchian crocodyliforms that existed during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It includes the genera Paralligator, Brillanceausuchus, Kansajsuchus, Shamosuchus, Scolomastax, Sabresuchus, Rugosuchus, Batrachomimus and Wannchampsus, as well as the yet-unnamed "Glen Rose form"... | english |
Munroe is a surname.
Munroe may also refer to:
Places
Munroe Falls, Ohio, USA
Munroe Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Munroe Island, Kerala, India
Munroe Island (Philippines), Philippines
Munroe Tavern, Lexington, MA, USA
Facilities and structures
Munroe (PAT station), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Munroe (MBTA station), Lexington... | english |
Horace Godfrey Watts (29 May 1901 – 5 April 1959) was the fifth Anglican Bishop of Caledonia in Canada.
Watts was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and ordained in 1926. He was a missionary priest in Honan, China and then Onishi, Japan. Later he was Field Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Church of E... | english |
María Blanchard (born María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard; 6 March 1881 – 5 April 1932) was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism.
Biography
Blanchard was born on 6 March 1881 in Santander, Spain. She was the daughter of journalist Enrique Gutiérrez Cueto and Concepción Blanchard Santi... | english |
Neurexins (NRXN) are a family of presynaptic cell adhesion proteins that have roles in connecting neurons at the synapse. They are located mostly on the presynaptic membrane and contain a single transmembrane domain. The extracellular domain interacts with proteins in the synaptic cleft, most notably neuroligin, while ... | english |
Vladimir Sergeyevich Bushin (; January 24, 1924 – December 25, 2019) was a Soviet-Russian writer, essayist, literary critic, columnist and social activist. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and Communist. He was born in Moscow. He was a critic of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. His works were about Josep... | english |
Elrond Half-elven is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Both of his parents, Eärendil and Elwing, were half-elven, having both Men and Elves as ancestors. He is the bearer of the elven-ring Vilya, the Ring of Air, and master of Rivendell, where he has lived for thousands of years thro... | english |
Elizabeth of Nevers (born: after 24 August 1439 in Nevers; died: 21 June 1483) was Duchess of Cleves from 1455 until her death, due to her marriage with John I of Cleves-Mark. She acted as regent of the Ducky of Cleves during the absence of her spouse in 1477.
She was the matriarch of the house of Cleves-Nevers, and ... | english |
Medullary rays, also known as vascular rays or pith rays, are cellular structures found in some species of wood. They appear as radial planar structures, perpendicular to the growth rings, which are visible to the naked eye. In a transverse section they appear as radiating lines from the centre of the log. In an axial ... | english |
Mildred Anderson was an American jazz, blues and R&B singer.
In the early years of her career, Anderson worked with Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings, recording with them the song "Doin' the Boogie Woogie" on April 8, 1946. Later, she worked and recorded with Hot Lips Page in 1951 and Bill Doggett in 1953.
In 1960, ... | english |
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