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Karimpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview
In line with the Delimitation Commission, No. 77 Karimpur Assembly constituency is composed of Karimpur I community development block and Dhoradaha I, Dhoradaha II, Murutia, Natidanga I, Natidanga... | english |
Cyril VII (1775-1872) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1855 to 1860.
His predecessor Anthimus VI was unpopular in the church and the Holy Synod formally petitioned the Ottoman government to depose him; the government agreed and choose the new Patriarch. As such, Cyril ascended the Ecumenical throne on O... | english |
Ibrahim Kura Mohammed was elected Senator for the Kano Central constituency of Kano State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.
Kura Mohammed attended New York University in the USA where he earned a degree in poli... | english |
Norwich is an unincorporated community in western McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 2 southwest of the city of Towner, the county seat of McHenry County. Norwich's elevation is 1,549 feet (472 m). It is unincorporated, and had a post office with the ZIP code of 58768. Though the pos... | english |
Marengo is a town in and the county seat of Iowa County, Iowa, United States. It has served as the county seat since August 1845, even though it was not incorporated until July 1859. The population was 2,435 in the 2020 census, a decline from 2,535 in 2000.
History
Marengo was laid out in 1845 and platted in 1847. The... | english |
McClung is a ghost town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. McClung was south of Leslie. McClung appeared on USGS maps as late as 1935. McClung still exists today but was renamed Orient Hill after the Baptist Church. The McClung post office was across Rt.20 from the church and run by the Tony Williams... | english |
Excalibur is a wooden roller coaster at Funtown Splashtown USA in Saco, Maine. It is the tallest and longest roller coaster in Northern New England. The ride runs with a single 2-bench Philadelphia Toboggan Company train. The ride's name is based on King Arthur's sword (Excalibur).
Excalibur is the only wooden rolle... | english |
"Son of David" is a song performed by American contemporary worship musician Ryan Ellis featuring Brandon Lake. It was released as the seventh track on Ellis' third studio album, Ryan Ellis, on July 15, 2022. Ellis co-wrote the song with Brandon Lake, Joshua Silverberg, and Tedd Tjornhom. Tedd Tjornhom and Joshua Silve... | english |
Sigrid Maria Fredrika Gillner-Ringenson (1891-1975) was a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party.
She was MP of the Second Chamber of the Parliament of Sweden from 1932 to 1936.
References
1891 births
1975 deaths
20th-century Swedish politicians
20th-century Swedish women politicians
Swedish social democr... | english |
The 2021–22 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team represented Indiana State University in the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Sycamores, led by first-year head coach Josh Schertz, played their home games at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute, Indiana as members of the Missouri Valley Conferen... | english |
Stephana de Quinzanis (variant spellings include Stephanie, Stefana; also, Quinzani) (1457 – 2 January 1530) was an Italian sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic, stigmatic and mystic.
Life
She was born in 1457 in Brescia, Italy, to Lorenzo de Quinzanis and his wife, who were a poor and pious couple. Her father bec... | english |
Marasmius munyozii is a species of fungus in the large agaric genus Marasmius. It is found in Chile, where it grows on dead grass leaves. The cap is white, with a pale cinnamon-ochraceous colored center and a slightly grooved margin. The fungus was described as new to science in 1969 by mycologist Rolf Singer.
See als... | english |
Hermann Gossler (born 21 August 1802 in Hamburg, died 10 May 1877 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg lawyer, senator (1842–77) and First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (i.e. the city republic's head of state and head of government) in 1874. He was Second Mayor in 1870, 1871 and 1873.... | english |
Henry Shipton Drayton (1840–1923) was an American physician and phrenologist. He defended the now obsolete theories that one could predict the personality of human beings based on cranial features and that some humans had a sixth sense.
Early life and career
He worked for an unknown period of time in the Fowler & Wel... | english |
Zelus luridus, also known as the pale green assassin bug, is a species of assassin bug native to North America. It is the most common Zelus species in the eastern United States. The size ranges from long. On average, adult females are long, while males are long. Though the base color is pale green, markings on the b... | english |
Malfa is a comune (municipality) on the island of Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands, in the Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, southern Italy. It is located about northeast of Palermo and about northwest of Messina.
Malfa derived its name from Amalfi. In the 12th century some families established their lives i... | english |
The IBSA European Judo Championships is an event organized by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). It is a paralympic judo competition, that is judo for visually impaired athletes. Organised biennially, the competition is not run during years when the IBSA World Judo Championships or the Summer Paralympics... | english |
Mount Salem is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place in the municipal township of Malahide, Elgin County in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The community is in geographic Malahide Township at the intersection of Elgin County Road 40 (Springfield Road) and Elgin County Road 45 (Calton Line), southeast of t... | english |
Close Supervision Centres were established by UK Prison Service in 1998, as a means to segregate the most violent or disruptive prisoners. As of 2021, there were 52 inmates held in the restrictive regime which involves solitary confinement. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or De... | english |
Arctic Springs is a neighborhood of Jeffersonville, Indiana, one mile east of downtown Jeffersonville, and directly across from Louisville's famed Water Tower. It was established as a resort area full of summer cottages. The Jeffersonville Elks Club ran a popular outdoor dance hall in the 1920s.
After its height as a ... | english |
Sergeant George Frederick Findlater VC (16 February 1872 – 4 March 1942) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army, who was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry, for his role in the Tirah Campaign. On 20 October 1897, Findlater, then a junior piper in the Gordon Highlanders, was shot in th... | english |
The Lafayette Artillery Company was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1804 as the Artillery Company of the 22nd Regiment. It was part of the State of New Hampshire's artillery system, a forerunner to the National Guard. The group has continued to operate continuously since its founding, and since 1833 it has... | english |
Judiciary Square station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., on the Red Line. It is located in the Judiciary Square neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of the city, with entrances at 4th and D Street and 5th and F Street. It serves the many courthouses and municipal buildings in the area. The 5th and ... | english |
Léopold Durand OSB (1666–1746) was a French architect.
Bibliography
Dom Durand was born in Saint-Mihiel (Lorraine) in 1666. He studied law and architecture, after which he went te become a member of the order of Saint Benedict (1702).
Works
Traité historique des eaux et baines de Plombières (1748)
Recueil sur l... | english |
Doris Stevens (born Dora Caroline Stevens; October 26, 1888 – March 22, 1963) was an American suffragist, woman's legal rights advocate and author. She was the first female member of the American Institute of International Law and first chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women.
Born in 1888 in Omaha, Nebraska, ... | english |
The 1924 Copa del Rey Final was the 24th final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey. The final was played at Atotxa Stadium, in San Sebastián, on 4 May 1924. Real Unión beat Real Madrid 1–0, winning their second title (third title counting the trophy won by Racing de Irun in 1913). The only goal was scored ... | english |
Sir Henry Northcote, 5th Baronet (1710 – 28 May 1743), of Hayne in the parish of Newton St Cyres near Crediton in Devon, later of Pynes in the parish of Upton Pyne, Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1735 until his death in 1743.
Origins
He was the only son and heir of Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet (... | english |
Sir Richard Sutton, 4th Baronet (21 October 1821 – 3 October 1878) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Life
The son of Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Burton, he was born in October 1821 at Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire.
He purchased a commission in the British Army i... | english |
Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes is a non-governmental, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to promote environmentally sound landscaping practices and preserve biodiversity.
As of November 2021, it has 64 chapters across 23 states in the U.S. to engage in environmental education and advoca... | english |
The metabotropic glutamate receptors, or mGluRs, are a type of glutamate receptor that are active through an indirect metabotropic process. They are members of the group C family of G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs. Like all glutamate receptors, mGluRs bind with glutamate, an amino acid that functions as an excit... | english |
Science Fiction Adventures in Mutation is a theme anthology of science fiction stories edited by American anthologist Groff Conklin, published in hardcover by Vanguard Press in 1955. An abridged paperback edition was issued by Berkley Books in 1965.
Contents
"Introduction", Groff Conklin
"Chain of Command", Stephen... | english |
A missile strike on two residential buildings in Chasiv Yar was carried out by the Russian army at 21:17 local time on 9 July 2022, during the war between Russia and Ukraine. At least 48 people were killed. Due to the impact, a five-story residential building partially collapsed. Two entrances were completely destroyed... | english |
Lost River State Park is a state park located in Hardy County, West Virginia near the community of Mathias. The park encompasses managed by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Despite the name of the park, it does not abut the Lost River; it lies about west of the river.
The park features a selection ... | english |
The women's doubles tournament at the 1972 French Open was held from 22 May to 4 June 1972 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The fourth-seeded team of Billie Jean King and Betty Stöve won the title, defeating the unseeded pair of Winnie Shaw and Nell Truman in the final in straight... | english |
The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort Independence Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha in the Owens Valley, in Inyo County, eastern California. As of the 2010 Census the population was 93.
Government
The Fort Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians is... | english |
The A135 is a road in England, running from Stockton-on-Tees through Eaglescliffe to Yarm on the A67, on the boundary with the River Tees. It is also known as Yarm Road, and was the A19 before the dual carriageway was built.
In the 19th century, a stagecoach raced along Yarm Road against Locomotion Number One which r... | english |
Evangelista Latino Enrico Vanni OFMCap (28 December 1878 – 9 May 1962) was an Italian Bishop and missionary who served as the Apostolic Vicar of Arabia from 1916 to 1927 and the Archbishop of Agra from 1937 to 1955. He also served as the Titular Archbishop of Tenedus from 1916 to 1955 and Titular bishop of Bizya from 1... | english |
The Blessing of the Fleet is a tradition that began centuries ago in Mediterranean fishing communities. The practice began predominantly Catholic, but is now practiced by all Christians as a blessing from the local priest and pastors that is meant to ensure a safe and bountiful season.
In most ports, the event was bro... | english |
The continent-ocean boundary (COB) or continent-ocean transition is the boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust on a passive margin. The identification of continent-ocean boundaries is important in the definition of plate boundaries at the time of break-up when trying to reconstruct the geometry and positi... | english |
Jugoexport was an import–export firm established in 1953 in Belgrade, then capital of Yugoslavia. The firm established a retail business selling imported items and with time became a leading firm of such type in Yugoslavia. Its designers chose items by worldwide creators to be imported into the country, until they were... | english |
Wassand railway station was a railway station that served the villages of Wassand and Goxhill in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was on the Hull and Hornsea Railway.
It opened in 1865, and was originally named "Goxhill". It was renamed "Wassand" (to avoid confusion with Goxhill in Lincolnshire) on 1 October ... | english |
Carol Partoș (also Charles Partos; 10 August 1936 — 2015) was a Romanian and Swiss chess International Master (1975), Romanian Chess Championship winner (1972).
Biography
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Carol Partoș was one of the leading Romanian chess players. Three times he won medals of Romanian Chess Champio... | english |
The German orthography reform of 1996 was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography and thus to make it easier to learn, without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
The reform was based on an international agreement signed in Vienna in... | english |
Howl of the Werewolf is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Jonathan Green and illustrated by Martin McKenna. It was published in 2007 by Wizard Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 29th in the Wizard series. It is the first completely original Fight... | english |
The 2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the sixth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a biennial field hockey tournament for the six best Asian women's national teams organized by the Asian Hockey Federation.
The tournament was held at the Donghae City Sunrise Stadium in Donghae, South Korea and it was ... | english |
John Henry Chamberlain, William Martin, and Frederick Martin were architects in Victorian Birmingham, England. Their names are attributed singly or pairs to many red brick and terracotta buildings, particularly 41 of the forty-odd Birmingham board schools made necessary by the Elementary Education Act 1870.
John Henr... | english |
Fidel Castro Smith (born 17 April 1963), also known as Slugger O'Toole, is a British former boxer who was British super middleweight champion between 1991 and 1992 and fought for the Commonwealth and European titles.
Career
Born in Nottingham in 1963, Smith was named after Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom his father ad... | english |
The River Brit is a river in west Dorset in south-west England, which rises just to the north of Beaminster. It then flows south to Netherbury and Bridport, where it is joined by tributaries: the River Simene and River Asker. South of Bridport, it reaches Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast, at West Bay. The Brit has... | english |
Haskin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Byron Haskin (1899–1984), American director
Dewitt Clinton Haskin (c. 1824 – 1900), American engineer
Grant Haskin (born 1968), South African politician
John B. Haskin (1821–1895), American politician
Joseph A. Haskin (1818–1874), United States Army of... | english |
Cleremont Farm is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Loudoun County, Virginia. The original section of the house was built in two stages between about 1820 and 1835, and added onto subsequently in the 1870s. 1940s. and 1980s. It consists of a stone portion, a log portion, and a stone kitchen wing. It ... | english |
Valaichenai Hindu College (), Batticaloa, was established in 1926, by Mr. Costhappa Kandaiya. Valaichenai Hindu College is a Navodaya School, which provides primary and secondary education. The school has a student population exceeding 1800 across 13 grades from primary to secondary classes. The school resides in Vala... | english |
Athippatta Sivaraman Nair, better known as A. S. Nair or simply A. S., was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was born in Karalmanna village of Palakkad district and had his training from Madras School of Arts.
He began his career in Jayakerala and Mathrubhumi, where he worked till his last. ... | english |
The Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a research institute which develops magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for both cognitive neuroscience and medical diagnosis and treatment.
History
It was founded in July 2005 by the University Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and the Radboud University Nijmegen (Th... | english |
Tiong Bahru Park is a public park between Henderson, Bukit Merah and Lower Delta Road in Singapore. First developed around 1967, it combined with a nursery site in 1977 and in 2000, it was redeveloped.
See also
List of Parks in Singapore
National Parks Board
References
External links
Tiong Bahru Park at National ... | english |
Joseph-Arthur Dufresne (1861-1933) was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the second mayor of Shawinigan.
He was born in 1861 in Trois-Rivières, Mauricie and married to Georgiana Larouche, from Blind River, ON Famille directe. He moved to Shawinigan after he was offered a job by the Shawinigan Water & ... | english |
The Algeria–Mali border is 1,359 km (844 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with Mauritania in the north-west to the tripoint with Niger in the south-east.
Description
The border begins in the west at the tripoint with Mauritania, and is a continuation of the NW-SE straight line that forms the Algeria–Mauritania ... | english |
Gems & Gemology is a quarterly scientific journal published by the Gemological Institute of America. Each issue is devoted to research on diamonds, gemstones, and pearls. Topics include geographic sources, imitations and synthetics, treatments, and identification techniques. Established in January 1934, Gems & Gemology... | english |
The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run in the New Jersey Southern name until the early 2000s.
Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad
The New Jersey Southe... | english |
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1981 to 1985, and collected into 18 tankōbon by Shueisha. The story follows the adventures of the three Kisugi sisters, Hitomi, Rui and Ai, who are art thieves trying to collect all the works belonging to th... | english |
Bovalino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about east of Reggio Calabria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 8,406 and an area of .
The municipality of Bovalino contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly... | english |
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust ran Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Honeylands Children's Centre (for specialist assessment and support for children with special needs and their families), the Exeter Mobility Centre (providing orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs and special seating), and the Mardon Ne... | english |
William Carl Doyle (July 30, 1912 – September 4, 1951) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 51 games in four seasons in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics (1935–1936), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1940) and St. Louis Cardinals (1940). A right-hander, he was listed as tall and .
D... | english |
Sir Samuel Gluckstein (28 September 1880 – 19 August 1958) was a British solicitor and politician.
Early life
He was the son of Isidore Gluckstein (1851-1920), son of one of the founders of J. Lyons and Co. (Samuel Gluckstein), and his wife Rose (née Cohen). Gluckstein was educated at the City of London School and pri... | english |
The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23, 24 and 26 August.
Summary
Zuzana Hejnová of the Czech Republic entered the competition as the defending champion.
Through these championships Cassandra Tate had been the #1 qualifier in the heat... | english |
György Rehus-Uzor (10 July 1946 – 20 August 2020) was a Hungarian weightlifter. He competed in the men's middle heavyweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He finished in fourth place. He was born in Budapest.
Rehus-Uzor died on 20 August 2020 in Budapest, aged 74.
References
1946 births
2020 deaths
Hungarian Oly... | english |
The natural resource consumption tax is a kind of tax which is aimed to help ensure long run sustainability by increasing awareness of natural resource consumption.
International water
The popular conception of international waters is that there is no owner of them, so anyone can take advantage of them. Some propose t... | english |
Rosario La Spina is an Australian operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 2000s. He has worked with many leading opera houses and orchestras, singing under such conductors as Renato Palumbo, Bruno Bartoletti, Gary Bertini, Daniele Callegari and Richard Hickox. Since 2005, he has been p... | english |
The 18th Asian Table Tennis Championships 2007 were held in Yangzhou, China, from 17 to 23 September 2007. It was organised by the Chinese Table Tennis Association under the authority of Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
Medal summary
Medal table
Events
References
As... | english |
The Gela river is located in Sicily. It originates from the Disueri lake and, after about 59 kilometers, flows into the Strait of Sicily of the Mediterranean Sea, near the town Gela.
Overview
The extension of the basin of the river is about 569 square kilometers.
Giozzo and Maroglio are its main tributary rivers.
Th... | english |
The women's 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2015 African Games took place on 6 September 2015 at Kintele Aquatic Complex.
Schedule
All times are Congo Standard Time (UTC+01:00)
Records
Results
Final
References
External links
Official website
Swimming at the 2015 African Games
2015 in women's swimming | english |
James Ridout Winchester (May 17, 1944 – April 11, 2014) known as Jesse Winchester, was an American musician and songwriter. He was known for being a Vietnam War activist. To avoid going to the war, he moved to Canada. He became a Canadian citizen in 1973, gained amnesty in the U.S. in 1977 and resettled there in the U.... | english |
Harcharan Singh may refer to:
Harcharan Singh Brar (1922–2009), ex-chief minister of Punjab, India
Hercharn Singh (born 1986), first Sikh officer to be commissioned in the Pakistan Army
Harcharan Singh (cricketer) (1938-2019), Indian cricketer
Harcharan Singh (field hockey) (born 1950), Indian field hockey player
Harc... | english |
Donhead St Andrew is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the River Nadder. It lies east of the Dorset market town of Shaftesbury. The parish includes the hamlets of West End, Milkwell and (on the A30) Brook Waters.
Ferne House, on the site of a former manor house, is within the parish.
History
Donh... | english |
The Wyss Foundation is a charitable organization based in Washington, D.C., that was founded by philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss. Established in 1998, the foundation has provided funding to conservation, environmental journalism, education, museums and progressive political advocacy.
Overview
The Wyss Foundation, based i... | english |
Long tail is a consumer demographic in business.
Long tail or Longtail may also refer to:
The Long Tail (book), a popular book about the effect of Long Tail on the web media
Power law's long tail, a statistics term describing certain kinds of distribution
Long-tail boat, a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia
L... | english |
Paradentiscutata baiana is a species of fungus. It is characterised by introverted ornamentations on the spore wall; the spore wall structure and germ shield morphology. It was first isolated in northeast Brazil, and can be distinguished by the projections on the outer spore surface.
References
Further reading
Silva... | english |
The Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China, as amended in 1997, provides for a penalty of death, or imprisonment for life or no less than 10 years, for "killing with intent." However, the penalty for "minor killing with intent" is imprisonment for no less than 3 years. In practice, "killing with indignation" (ki... | english |
A presentation copy is a copy of a book that has been presented, usually by the author or someone associated with the book's production, to another individual. The copy usually contains a presentation inscription identifying it as a presentation copy, such as an author's signature. A simple Latin inscription is ex dono... | english |
Marta Tufet Bayona is a British and Spanish biologist and public health resource coordinator with a specialty in malaria. She is executive director of the UK Collaborative on Development Research.
Early life and education
Tufet is from the United Kingdom. She is half Ecuadorian.
Tufet received a BSc in biology from ... | english |
Wendjebauendjed was an ancient Egyptian general, high dignitary and high priest during the reign of pharaoh Psusennes I of the 21st Dynasty. He is mainly known for his intact tomb found by Pierre Montet inside the royal necropolis of Tanis (NRT III).
Biography
Nothing is known about his life other than his occupation... | english |
John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. After becoming well-established as a portrait painter of the wealt... | english |
USS Shelikof (AVP-52) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1954.
Construction, commissioning, and shakedown
Shelikof was laid down on 20 September 1942 by Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, Washington. She was launched on 31 January 1943, sp... | english |
Glassglue is a British experimental pop group, formed in London in 2003, by German singer, Marcel Stoetzler, and British multi-instrumentalist, Matthew Karas. After writing and arranging some material and performing as a duo, they recruited Andrea Ughetto to play bass and Ravi Low-Beer to play drums. Andrea, who was in... | english |
The ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO), also known as the intermediate nucleus of the preoptic area (IPA), is a small cluster of neurons situated in the anterior hypothalamus, sitting just above and to the side of the optic chiasm in the brain of humans and other animals. The brain's sleep-promoting nuclei (e.g., th... | english |
In financial mathematics, a deviation risk measure is a function to quantify financial risk (and not necessarily downside risk) in a different method than a general risk measure. Deviation risk measures generalize the concept of standard deviation.
Mathematical definition
A function , where is the L2 space of random ... | english |
Apotomis sauciana, the Sutherland long-cloak or Greville's marble, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in most of Europe, east to the eastern part of the Palearctic realm.
The wingspan is 13–16 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August. They fly during the afternoon and evening.
The larvae feed on Vacci... | english |
Raja Yong Sofia binti Almarhum Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Al-Maghfur-lah (born 24 June 1961) is the fifth child of the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah. She holds a master's degree in Administration from International University in London. She worked for Bank Bumiputra.
Biography
Wedding
She married at Kuala Ka... | english |
Kenda is a village, with a police station, in the Manbazar I CD block in the Manbazar subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Kenda is located at .
Area overview
Purulia district forms the lowest step of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The general scenario is undulating l... | english |
The moon-eyed people are a legendary group of short, bearded white-skinned people who are said to have lived in Appalachia until the Cherokee expelled them. Stories about them, attributed to Cherokee tradition, are mentioned by early European settlers in America. In a 1797 book, Benjamin Smith Barton explains they are ... | english |
English Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is also the name of a nearby stream.
Demographics
As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the area was 3,364.
References
Census-designated places in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Census-desi... | english |
Karl Benjamin Spooner (June 23, 1931 – April 10, 1984) was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who took the mound in 31 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the – Brooklyn Dodgers. After a meteoric debut during which he set an MLB record for most strikeouts by a pitcher in his first game... | english |
Events from the year 1825 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick VI
Prime minister – Otto Joachim
Events
11 July – The Danish schooner Vigilant captures the Spanish privateering schooner Adolpho north of Colibra in the West Indies.
Undated
- A storm penetrates the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, separating N... | english |
In computer networking, a wildcard certificate is a public key certificate which can be used with multiple sub-domains of a domain. The principal use is for securing web sites with HTTPS, but there are also applications in many other fields. Compared with conventional certificates, a wildcard certificate can be cheape... | english |
Julius Gius (December 31, 1911 – October 18, 1996) was an editor of the Ventura County Star-Free Press. He expanded the paper's circulation during this time. He was also the editorial director for the San Diego-based Scripps Newspapers. He then took over a weekly newspaper in Thousand Oaks, made it a daily and increas... | english |
Koganebashi Dam is a gravity dam located in Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation and power production. The catchment area of the dam is 281 km2. The dam impounds about 12 ha of land when full and can store 1381 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1953 and... | english |
XXVII World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Baku the capital of Azerbaijan, 3–10 October 2005 at the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex.
Medal winners
* reserve gymnast
Individual
Qualifications
Team All-Around
Individual All-Around
Individual Rope
Individual Ball
Individual Clubs
Indi... | english |
Šose (; 17 January 1629 - 12 January 1655) was Hong Taiji's fifth son and the first bearer of the Prince Chengze title. In 1655, the peerage was renamed to Prince Zhuang of the First Rank. In 1778, the Prince Chengze of the First Rank peerage was granted iron-cap status, which meant that each successive bearer could pa... | english |
Sertifera is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to northwestern South America.
The following species are recognized as of June 2014:
Sertifera aurantiaca C.Schweinf. - Colombia, Venezuela
Sertifera colombiana Schltr. - Colombia, Venezuela
Sertifera grandifolia L.O.Williams - Colo... | english |
Carl Abegg known as Carl Abegg-Arter (; April 10, 1836 – August 23, 1912) was a Swiss industrialist, silk merchant and banker. He was the founder of Abegg & Co in 1885, a leading silk trading house. He was also a co-founder of Zurich Insurance Group, Chemins de fer Orientaux (railways). Most prominently, he served as t... | english |
John Becker may refer to:
John J. Becker (1886–1961), American composer
John Becker (writer), writer based in the Washington, D.C. area
John Becker (basketball) (born 1968), head coach of the University of Vermont men's basketball team
John Becker (politician), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
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