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Troy is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census. Troy contains two villages: the unincorporated village of Troy, and the incorporated village of North Troy.
Government
Town
Moderator – Robert Starr
Selectboard Chairman – Robert Langlands
Town Clerk – Terri Med... | english |
In Irish mythology, Credne (Old Irish) or Creidhne was the goldsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann, but he also worked with bronze and brass. He and his brothers Goibniu and Luchtaine were known as the Trí Dée Dána, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha Dé used to battle the Fomorians.
It is said th... | english |
This is a list of lists of journalists.
By country
List of American print journalists
List of Argentine journalists
List of Armenian journalists
List of Brazilian journalists
List of Bulgarian journalists
List of Canadian journalists
List of English journalists
List of Eritrean journalists
List of newsreade... | english |
Elsau is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
Elsau is first mentioned in 1043 as Elnesouva. On 23 April 1398 Count Donat von Toggenburg, Herr zu Brettengow und Tavas donated the church of Elsow as benefice for the new Allerheiligenaltar at the grave of the Togg... | english |
The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is the standardizing body of English Braille orthography in the United States and Canada. It consists of a number of member organizations, such as the Braille Institute of America, the National Braille Association, and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
In late... | english |
Adiel F. Stewart (January 18, 1897 – March 6, 1960) was an American politician. A Republican, he served as the mayor of Salt Lake City from 1956 to 1959.
Biography
Adiel Fitzgerald Stewart was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 18, 1897, the son of Joshua Beyon Stewart and Mary Jane (Fitzgerald) Stewart. He atte... | english |
Lac-Juillet is an unorganized territory in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, part of Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality.
The eponymous Lake Juillet is located in the eastern part of the territory and was named after Blaise Juillet Avignon, a companion of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, who drowned on April 19, 1... | english |
Robert Hawker Dowling (1827 – 8 July 1886) was an Australian colonial artist.
Biography
Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, née Darke. He was brought to Launceston, Tasmania with his parents in 1839 in the Janet. He received lessons from Thomas Bock and Frederick ... | english |
Islam in Mauritius is the nation's third largest religion behind Hinduism and Christianity. Muslims constitute over 17.3 per cent of Mauritius population. Muslims of Mauritius are mostly of Indian descent. Large numbers of Muslims arrived to Mauritius during the British regime starting in 1834 as part of the large scal... | english |
Coenogonium barbatum is a species of foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) lichen in the family Coenogoniaceae. It is characterised by its distinctive beard-shaped growth, setting it apart from closely related species. Identified and named as a new species in 2006, the lichen has been specifically found at the La Selva Biologica... | english |
Tolbaños de Abajo is a village in the municipality of Valle de Valdelaguna located southeast of the province of Burgos, Castilla y León (Spain).
In Tolbaños de Abajo may be one of the better preserved meadows of the Iberian Peninsula, with specimens of oak (Quercus pyrenaica) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea), the lat... | english |
Wasini Island lies off the coast of southeast Kenya in the Indian Ocean, south of Mombasa, and opposite the harbour of the village of Shimoni. It is approximately long and across. The name "wasini mpunguti" came from the early inhabitants. The island has only footpaths of sharp old coral or sand. There are no cars... | english |
William Henry Dean Jr. (1910-1952) was an American economic geographer. He was the second African American to gain a PhD in economics from Harvard University. His 1938 doctoral dissertation applied results from mathematics and astronomy to location theory in economic geography.
Works
The theory of the geographic loc... | english |
The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library is the Main Library Branch of the Dallas Public Library system. It is located at 1515 Young Street in the Government District of downtown Dallas, Texas, directly across from Dallas City Hall.
About
The structure was built to replace the Old Dallas Central Library. The new structur... | english |
UN Member States are currently negotiating a legally-binding, international agreement on plastics that will address the entire life cycle of plastics, from design to production and disposal. On March 2, 2022 UN Member States voted at the resumed fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) to establish an Intergovernmental... | english |
Phacelia purpusii is a species of phacelia known by the common name Purpus' phacelia, that is endemic to California where it can be found in forests and other habitats within Sierra Nevada or farther north in the southernmost portion of the Cascades and adjacent Modoc Plateau.
It is a glandular and hairy-textured annu... | english |
PKB is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:
Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa, WWII Polish underground police
Patients Know Best, a tool for allowing the patient to share medical records with clinicians
National Awakening Party (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa), an Islamic political party in Indonesia
Base dissoc... | english |
Hora Ratna, a treatise on the predictive part of Hindu astrology, was written in the usual Sanskrit Slokas - format by Bala Bhadra sometime during the reign of the Muhghal Emperor Shah Jahan. Whereas the opinion of Parashara prevails much more in North of India, in South India the method of Bala Bhadra, who was influen... | english |
The state of Wyoming, being a land locked state, has a wide variety of freshwater fish in its lakes, rivers, and streams.
References
"Wyoming Fishing Network: Species of Fish in Wyoming." Accessed April 27, 2020. https://wyomingfishing.net/species.htm.
"Wyoming Game and Fish Department - Native Fish Species of Wyo... | english |
St Anthony in Roseland is a village and a former parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is a small settlement on the Roseland Peninsula.
At Trewince is a house of five bays and two storeys built in 1750. There is a lighthouse at St Anthony's Head built of granite.
Parish church
The parish church of S... | english |
HSwMS Karl XIV Johan was a ship of the line that served in the Swedish Navy and was built by Karlskrona Naval Shipyard. She was named after Karl XIV Johan. Commissioned in 1835 and decommissioned in 1867.
Design and description
Karl XIV Johan was 53.8 meters long, 14.4 meters wide and had a draft of 6.8 meters. The ma... | english |
Edward Haigh (7 November 1935 – 17 February 2016) was a British trade unionist.
Haigh grew up in Birstall, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was educated at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Batley. He became a carpet weaver in 1956, and joined the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers (NUDB... | english |
The Publications Act (PublA) (, , ), is a Swiss federal law that governs the publication of the compilations of federal law (Official Compilation and Systematic Compilation) and of the Federal Gazette. It was adopted on 18 June 2004 by the Federal Assembly and came into force on 1 January.
The law replaces the previo... | english |
Symonanthus aromaticus is a species of flowering plant in the potato family that is endemic to Australia.
Description
The species grows as an erect shrub to 30–130 cm in height. The white flowers appear from August to November.
Distribution and habitat
The species is found on sandy soils in the Coolgardie and Mallee ... | english |
Waltograph is the name of a freeware typeface based on the lettering of the Walt Disney logotype.
Description
Several versions exist, some under its original title of "Walt Disney Script". The typeface is not, as many assume, based on the actual handwriting of Walt Disney; rather, it is an extrapolation of the Walt Di... | english |
The Oberbergische Kreis is a Landkreis (rural district) in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Oberbergische means Upper Bergian, meaning it is the part of the medieval county of Berg which is up river. The other part of the county, lower down the river Wupper was called Niederbergisch or Lower Berg.
The di... | english |
Curtain Road Arts was an artist-run project housed in an old furniture warehouse in Shoreditch, London, which functioned as a studio and an art project space. It was a centre for a great deal of activity in the 1990s, and included artists such as Glenn Brown, Alex Landrum, Dermot O'Brien, Anya Gallaccio, Cornelia Parke... | english |
The 46th Telluride Film Festival took place from August 30 to September 2, 2019, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Author Pico Iyer was selected as the guest director of the event. Telluride honored Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver, and Philip Kaufman as the Silver Medallion winners. Sound studio Dolby Laboratories r... | english |
Vasily Petrovich Ilyin (; 8 January 1949 – 21 September 2015) was a Soviet handball player.
Ilyin was born in Lisy Nos settlement, Pargolovsky District, Leningrad Oblast He trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. He was a member of the USSR National Team since 1970 and became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 197... | english |
Douglas F. Easton FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who conducts research on the genetics of human cancers. He is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge. He founded Cambridge's Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit in 1995, and was a Principa... | english |
Pinguicula macroceras, the California butterwort or horned butterwort, is a species of perennial carnivorous herb that is native to the North American Pacific coast, as well as other select distributions in Canada, Russia, Japan, and the United States.[3] [7] Common names include California butterwort, horned butterwor... | english |
Janáček is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 47 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1985. Janáček is named for the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, who lived from 1854 to 1928.
The MESSENGER Mercury orbiter crashed near the crater on 30 April 2015.
References
External... | english |
Leslie Alan Clark (16 December 1930 – 21 September 2017), known as Alan Clark, was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Wellington, Otago and Auckland between 1959 and 1962. His father, also named Leslie, was a cricket umpire and played two first-class matches for Otago in 1956.
Clark was born at... | english |
The 1985 Prize of Moscow News was the 20th edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 4–8, 1985. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviet skaters swept the men's podium, led by world... | english |
Jalan Syed Putra (formerly Lornie Drive), Federal Route 2 is a major highway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was named after Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Perlis, the third Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which used to reside at Istana Negara which lies at one end of the highway.
Jalan Syed ... | english |
German submarine U-348 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She carried out six patrols but sank no ships.
She was sunk near Hamburg by US bombs.
Design
German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB submarines. U-348 had a displacement of when at the surfac... | english |
In geometry, the truncated tetrahexagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. There are one square, one octagon, and one dodecagon on each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of tr{6,4}.
Dual tiling
Related polyhedra and tilings
From a Wythoff construction there are fourteen hyperbolic uniform tilin... | english |
Sir Edmund Shaa or Shaw (died 20 April 1488) was a London goldsmith, Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor of London in 1482. Shaa lent money to Edward IV and, as mayor (at least), was extensively involved in the coronation of Edward IV's brother Richard III. He was later knighted and made a member of the Privy Co... | english |
Hodgson-Aid Mill, also known as Hodgson Water Mill and Aid-Hodgson Mill, is a historic grist mill located on Bryant Creek near Sycamore, Ozark County, Missouri. It was constructed around 1897, and is a -story, timber frame mill building covered with red-painted weatherboards. Associated with the mill are the man-made ... | english |
Vinjeåi is a river in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The long river starts at the southeastern end of the lake Vinjevatn where the water flows out into the river. The river flows downstream and end when it joins the river Tokke at the village of Åmot. Vinjeåi was regulated as part of the Tokke hydroelectric powe... | english |
Earl Thompson (May 24, 1931 – November 9, 1978) was a leading American writer of naturalist prose. Nominated for the National Book Award for A Garden of Sand and chosen by the Book of the Month Club for Tattoo, Thompson died suddenly at the peak of his success, having published just three novels—the fourth The Devil t... | english |
The 1997 German Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 91st edition of the Hamburg Masters (German Open), and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1997 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rothenbaum Tennis Center in Hamburg, Germany, from through 5 May through 12 May 1997.
The singles field wa... | english |
Time Clock Wizard, Inc is a New York-based online company known for its eponymous employee time tracking app.
History
The company was founded as a single-product company by the CEO, Sean Wolf, in February 2014.
Time Clock Wizard is a freemium software, which includes a mobile app, that allows unlimited users and empl... | english |
Don José Noriega (March 19, 1796 - May 30, 1869) was a Spanish-born Californio ranchero and politician. He served as Alcalde of San José (mayor) and was a prominent landowner in the Bay Area.
Biography
Noriega was born on 19 March 1796 in Asturias, Spain. He emigrated to Alta California as part of the Híjar-Padrés col... | english |
Michael Burke ( or ; – 6 July 1881) was an Irish poet.
Biography
Born sometime about 1800 in the townland of Bresk, parish of Kiltullagh, four miles east of Athenry town, Burke was educated at the nearby Dominican College at Esker. In time he became schoolmaster at Esker National School, hence his nickname,The Schoo... | english |
Moco may refer to:
Biochemistry
Molybdenum cofactor, any of a number of biochemical cofactors
MOCOS, molybdenum cofactor sulfurase
Moco RNA motif, a conserved RNA structure presumed to be a riboswitch that binds molybdenum cofactor
Moco-II RNA motif, a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics
Business... | english |
The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle is a monthly Jewish newspaper, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was established in 1921 by a pair of German Jews, Nathan J. Gould and Irving G. Rhodes. The editor is Rob Golub.
Golub won two 2016 Milwaukee Press Club awards for Excellence in Journalism, for an editorial and a criti... | english |
CBU-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the CBC Music network in Vancouver, British Columbia. The station broadcasts at 105.7 FM. CBU-FM's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
The station was originally launched on December 12, 1947 as an FM simulcast of the CBC AM station CBR. It... | english |
Giles Heneage Radice, Baron Radice, (4 October 1936 – 25 August 2022) was a British Labour politician and author. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2001. He later became a member of the House of Lords from 2001 until shortly before his death in 2022.
Radice died from cancer on 25 August 2022, at age 85.... | english |
Werner Kutzsche (14 May 1911 – 1 February 2000) was a German engineer, who was known for his work in the fields of radio-frequency engineering and electroacoustics.
Kutzsche was born in Niederlößnitz near Radebeul. He was Professor and Director of the Institute for radio-frequency engineering and electroacoustics at ... | english |
Lissoceras is an involute, smooth or finely vetrolaterally ribbed, ammonite with a blunt, un-keeled venter, included in the Haploceratidae, that lived from the Lower Bajocian - Middle Oxfordian (Middle to Upper Jurassic) in what is now Europe, south Asia, and southern Alaska.
Lissoceratoides, once considered to be a s... | english |
Aglish, Ballinameela and Mount Stuart is a large parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. It is situated the west of Dungarvan, County Waterford in Ireland. The parish comprises the villages of Aglish and Villierstown, plus the outlying areas of Ballinameela and Mount Stuart.
There are three Cath... | english |
Larkana Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Larkana District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The city of Larkana is the capital.
History
During British rule, Larkana became the headquarters of Larkana District and Larkana Taluka - and for a time was part of the Bombay Presidency of British India.
T... | english |
Theropod paleopathology is the study of injury and disease in theropod dinosaurs. In 2001, Ralph E. Molnar published a survey of pathologies in theropod dinosaur bone that uncovered pathological features in 21 genera from 10 theropod families. Pathologies have been seen on most theropod body parts, with the most common... | english |
Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood in his mid-twenties and became a ceremonial magician. At the age of 40, he began professing knowle... | english |
Dutch roll is a type of aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of "tail-wagging" (yaw) and rocking from side to side (roll). This yaw-roll coupling is one of the basic flight dynamic modes (others include phugoid, short period, and spiral divergence). This motion is normally well damped in most light... | english |
The SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino) was an Italian automobile manufacturer from Turin, founded in 1906 by Giovanni Battista Ceirano.
The company was active from 1906 to 1932 and achieved Targa Florio wins in 1911, 1912 and 1914. The first produced models were the 12 HP, the 16 HP and the 22 HP of 1909.
Ceira... | english |
Henry Monck Mason Hackett (1 March 1849-24 December 1933 ) was Dean of Waterford from 1903 until 1913.
Hackett was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1875. After a curacy in Banbridge he was a CMS Missionary in Benares from 1877 to 1881; and was at Allahabad from 1881 to 1886. He was the Minister of... | english |
Ideology and Organization in Communist China is a 1966 book by the American sociologist and sinologist Franz Schurmann that offers a sociological analysis of the Chinese Communist revolution It was first published by University of California Press in 1966, then in enlarged editions in 1968 and 1971. Schurmann used the... | english |
Gymnocalycium eurypleurum is a small "chin cactus" that is highly prized by cactus collectors and is known to be fairly easy to grow, albeit very slow It has been cultivated outside in latitudes as far north as Modesto, California. In the wild, the species is almost always solitary (non-clumping) and may grow in assoc... | english |
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan defeated Michaël Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in the final, 6–7(6–8), 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4 to win the doubles tennis title at the 2003 Tennis Masters Cup. It was their first Tour Finals title.
Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach were the reigning champions, but did not compete that year.
Seeds
Cha... | english |
Claude Mondésert (?-1990) was a French Jesuit at Fourvière, Lyon and co-founder (with Jean Daniélou and Henri de Lubac) of the Sources Chrétiennes collection. He specialised in the work of the early Christian thinker, Clement of Alexandria, several volumes of which he edited or translated in this series.
He participat... | english |
Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker (19 March 1850 in Palermo – 3 November 1936 in Rome) was a Sicilian-English ornithologist, archaeologist and sportsman. He was a member of the Whitaker family. He is mainly known for his work on the birds of Tunisia, and for being involved in the foundation of the Sicilian football club ... | english |
is a passenger railway station located in the town of Samukawa, Kōza District. Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Samukawa Station is served by the Sagami Line, and is located 5.1 kilometers from the terminal station of the line at .
Station layout
The station co... | english |
Columbia TriStar or Columbia Tristar may refer to:
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, now Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
Columbia TriStar Home Video, later called Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Columbia TriStar Television, active from 1994 to 2002
Columbia TriStar ... | english |
Creative Pedagogy is the science and art of creative teaching. It is a sub-field of Pedagogy, opposed to Critical pedagogy (just as creative thinking for example in Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking is opposed to critical thinking). "In its essence, creative pedagogy teaches learners how to learn creatively and becom... | english |
Methodist theologians include those theologians affiliated with any of the Methodist denominational churches such as The United Methodist Church, independent Methodists, or churches affiliated with the Holiness Movement including the Church of the Nazarene, the Free Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Amer... | english |
Lonely or The Lonely may refer to:
Loneliness, an emotional response to perceived isolation
Music
EPs
Lonely (Frente! EP) or the title song, 1994
Lonely (Spica EP) or the title song, 2012
Songs
"Lonely" (2NE1 song), 2011
"Lonely" (Akon song), 2005
"Lonely" (Casey Donovan song), 2017
"Lonely" (DaBaby and Lil Wayne s... | english |
The Berkeley Heights Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Berkeley Heights in Union County, New Jersey.
As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 2,499 students and 230.2 cla... | english |
The city of San Ignacio is one of the thirteen provinces that make up the Department of Cajamarca, under the administration of the regional government of Cajamarca, in Peru. It bordered on the north by the province of Zamora Chinchipe (Ecuador); on the east by the Department of Amazonas; on the south by the province of... | english |
RenewFM is a network of Christian radio stations in New England, broadcasting Christian music and Christian talk and teaching programs.
Stations
Originally airing on WRYP, RenewFM is heard on 10 full-powered stations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, as well as 4 translators.
RenewFM's first station, ... | english |
Alameda Hospital is a hospital in Alameda, California, United States.
The hospital was founded in 1894. Up until 2002, it was a private non-profit hospital. In 2002, Alameda voters approved a $298 per year parcel tax, and the hospital became a district hospital with the formation of the Alameda Health Care District. T... | english |
A language observatory is something which is built or implemented to observe and measure language activities in society.
The need for observatories
According to the UNESCO report "Atlas of the World Languages in Danger of Disappearing", between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are spoken throughout the world and, that many m... | english |
Colorlines is a digital media platform that seeks to build a political home for everyday people and activists. The platform creates accessible multimedia to power its vision of a just multiracial democracy where all thrive.
History
Colorlines was founded in 1998 as a print publication published jointly by the Applied ... | english |
Bugulina is a genus of bryozoans in the family Bugulidae.
Species
, the World List of Bryozoa accepted the following species:
Bugulina angustiloba
Bugulina aquilirostris
Bugulina avicularia
Bugulina borealis
Bugulina calathus
Bugulina californica
Bugulina carvalhoi
Bugulina ditrupae
Bugulina eburnea ... | english |
The unnamed wife of Pontius Pilate appears only once in the Gospel of Matthew (27:19), where she intercedes with Pilate on Jesus' behalf. It is uncertain whether Pilate was actually married, although it is likely. In later tradition, she becomes known as Procula or Procla and plays a role in various New Testament Apocr... | english |
Stone is an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It was established in 1912. Stone was a mining community named for Galen Stone, head of the Pond Creek Coal Company which was based in Stone. In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a s... | english |
Rowland Ellis (24 April 1841 – 11 December 1911) was a Welsh bishop who held the post of Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1906 until his death.
Life
Ellis was born in Caerwys, Flintshire, and was educated at Ruthin School before graduating from Jesus College, Oxford, with a BA degree... | english |
"Serious" is a song by American singer Gwen Stefani for her debut solo studio album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. (2004). It was released on November 12, 2004, along with the rest of the aforementioned album by Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani and her No Doubt bandmate, Tony Kanal. The latter also prod... | english |
The Makati Life Medical Center is a private tertiary hospital in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.
History
The Makati Life Medical Center, formerly known as the Ospital ng Makati 2 (OsMak2), was built to mainly serve residents of Makati in the first district. It is meant to complement the Ospital ng Makati in the sec... | english |
Ugwuoba is the gateway town into Enugu State from southern Nigeria. It is a border town on the bank of Oji River in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. Ugwuoba is for its arable land for agricultural utilities. The town is known for its gas reserves within the gas-rich Anambra Basin, Southeastern N... | english |
The following lists events that happened during 1918 in Afghanistan.
Incumbents
Monarch – Habibullah Khan
Events
Little news emerges from Afghanistan during the year. It is reported from India that the amir continues to maintain his neutrality in the war in a most scrupulous and loyal manner.
Afghanistan
Years of... | english |
"Alone in My Room" is a song by Ami Suzuki, released as her second single in September 1998.
Information
"Alone in My Room", like Ami's first single, "Love the Island", was used by the Japanese Government to promote winter tourism on the island of Guam. The song was also used multiple times as the opening theme of ASA... | english |
The British Computer Society Young Professionals Group (YPG) was formed in 1986 (although, its roots date back to around 1983) to provide representation and support to younger members of the IT profession. Today the group is one of the largest and arguably one of the most influential young professionals groups in the ... | english |
A Concrete Aboriginal, also known as a Neville, is a lawn ornament once common in Australia. The ornament is a concrete statue depicting an Aboriginal Australian, generally carrying a spear and often standing on one leg. The statues were once common in Australia but rarely seen since the 1980s.
The fashion for kee... | english |
The French National Railways used to run a considerable number of lines, a few of which still operate mostly in tourist areas, such as the St Gervais-Vallorcine (Alps) and the "Petit Train Jaune" (little yellow train) in the Pyrenees. The original French scheme was that every sous-prefecture should be rail connected. ... | english |
Kheri Town railway station is a small railway station in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is KITN. It serves Kheri city. The station consists of one platform, which is not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities, including water and sanitation.
References
Railway stations in Lakhimpur Kheri district... | english |
Alexandra Backford (1942–2010) was an Aleut-American painter from Alaska. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the 1960s and has exhibited her work across the country. Some of her works are in the permanent collection of institutions including the Smithsonian National Museum ... | english |
Robyn de Groot, born 26 December 1982, is a South African cyclist. She cycled professionally on the road from 2006 to 2012. Representing South Africa for 6 consecutive years, she represented South Africa at 4 World Championships, the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India and the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She was u... | english |
Borussia Dortmund clinched its 6th national championship, thanks to a stellar ending to the season, passing long-time leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the penultimate round, before sealing the title with a win on the final day. It also reached the final of the UEFA Cup, where it had the disadvantage of playing away from hom... | english |
Mentha longifolia var. asiatica is known by the common name Asian mint. It is a variety of the mint species Mentha longifolia. It has also been treated as the separate species, Mentha asiatica and Mentha vagans.
Taxonomy
Mentha longifolia var. asiatica was first described as the species Mentha asiatica by Antonina Bor... | english |
Judith Rousseau is a Bayesian statistician who studies frequentist properties of Bayesian methods. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Educ... | english |
Lachnocnema exiguus, the white woolly legs, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and north-western Tanzania.
References
External links
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterl... | english |
Beaver Scouts is the Beavers section of Scouts Canada for children aged 5 to 7. When a Beaver graduates from the third year of the program, they become Cub Scouts.
The Scouts Canada section of Beaver Scouts was first inspired by the Beavers which began in Northern Ireland, named so in 1966. It began as an independent ... | english |
Nerodia floridana, commonly known as the Florida green watersnake, or eastern green watersnake, is a harmless species of snake in the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to the southeastern United States.
Description
N. floridana is the largest watersnake in North America. Fully grown... | english |
The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Background
Otto Nordenskjöld, a Swedish geologist and geographer, organized and led a scientific expedi... | english |
Northwest Township is one of ten townships in Orange County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 375 and it contained 199 housing units.
History
Northwest Township was named from its position in the northwestern corner of Orange County.
Geography
According to the 2010 census, the townshi... | english |
Hulverstone is a hamlet of about 12 houses on the Isle of Wight on the edge of the English Channel. It has a post office in a private home and the 400-year-old Sun Inn. Sun Inn was used in smuggling operations. There is a school in Hulverstone in a private home that had been a barn before it was converted in the mid-19... | english |
The Salisbury Court Theatre was a theatre in 17th-century London. It was in the neighbourhood of Salisbury Court, which was formerly the London residence of the Bishops of Salisbury. Salisbury Court was acquired by Richard Sackville in 1564 during the last seven years of his life when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer... | english |
The Verden–Rotenburg railway is a single-track mainline in the German state of Lower Saxony, which connects Verden (Aller) station on the Wunstorf–Bremen railway with Rotenburg station on the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway.
Together with the Nienburg–Minden railway, it represents the shortest direct connection between H... | english |
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