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780694 | 37672317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780694 | OBB | OBB may refer to: |
780695 | 35936988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780695 | Derartu Tulu | Derartu Tulu NL COL (, Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; born 21 March 1972) is an Ethiopian former long-distance runner, who competed in track, cross country running, and road running up to the marathon distance.
Derartu is the first Ethiopian woman and the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She won 10,000 metre... |
780701 | 36926851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780701 | William Ewing | William Ewing may refer to: |
780703 | 4137401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780703 | Scenes of crime officer | A scenes of crime officer (SOCO) is an officer who gathers forensic evidence for the British police. They are also referred to by some forces as forensic scene investigators (FSIs), crime scene investigators (CSIs) (although their job differs from that depicted in the ), or crime scene examiners (CSEs). SOCOs are usual... |
780720 | 32395809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780720 | J. James Exon | John James Exon (August 9, 1921June 10, 2005) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 33rd Governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979, and as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1979 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Exon never lost an election, and was the only Democrat ever to hold Nebraska's ... |
780723 | 42769864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780723 | Hereward Thimbleby Price | Hereward Thimbleby Price (23 April 1880 – 11 May 1964) was an English author and professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Price was born 23 April 1880 in the town of Ambatolahinandrianisiahana, Madagascar as a son of Mary Anne "Polly" Thimbleby and Charles Thomas Price (1847-1933), an English missionary. Ret... |
780733 | 753665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780733 | Eystein | Eystein or Eysteinn is the name of: |
780738 | 47487563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780738 | Rise time | In electronics, when describing a voltage or current step function, rise time is the time taken by a signal to change from a specified low value to a specified high value. These values may be expressed as ratios or, equivalently, as percentages with respect to a given reference value. In analog electronics and digital ... |
780740 | 39806710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780740 | 1838 Mormon War | The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons and their neighbors in Missouri. It was preceded by tensions and episodes of extralegal violence targeting and involving Mormons, dating back to their initial settlement in Jackson County in 1831. State troops became involved aft... |
780741 | 3138265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780741 | Martin Boehm | Martin Boehm (November 30, 1725 – March 23, 1812) was an American clergyman and pastor. He was the son of Jacob Boehm and Barbara Kendig who settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Boehm married Eve Steiner in 1753 and in 1756 he was chosen by lot to become the minister of the local German-speaking Mennonite church.
Althou... |
780744 | 5711675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780744 | Moses Jacob Ezekiel | Moses Jacob Ezekiel, also known as Moses "Ritter von" Ezekiel (October 28, 1844 – March 27, 1917), was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for the majority of his career. Ezekiel was "the first American-born Jewish artist to receive international acclaim". Ezekiel was an ardent supporter, in both his writ... |
780745 | 47263227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780745 | Internet appliance | An Internet appliance is a consumer device whose main function is easy access to Internet services such as WWW or e-mail. The term was popularized in the 1990s, when it somewhat overlapped in meaning with an information appliance, Internet computer, network computer, or even thin client, but now it has fallen out of ge... |
780746 | 41030657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780746 | Sobaka (magazine) | Sobaka magazine was an avant-garde periodical that examined and reviewed events in Third World countries but usually did not get the attention of the mainline press. Countries covered included Haiti, Asian successor states of the Soviet Union and Caucasian and Middle Eastern states. Its editors were Cali Ruchala and Ma... |
780751 | 1186395597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780751 | Boldt Castle | Boldt Castle is a major landmark and tourist attraction in the Thousand Islands region of the U.S. state of New York. Open to guests seasonally between mid-May and mid-October, it is located on Heart Island in the Saint Lawrence River. Heart Island is part of the Town of Alexandria, in Jefferson County. Originally a pr... |
780756 | 1224690169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780756 | John Thompson (basketball) | John Robert Thompson Jr. (September 2, 1941August 30, 2020) was an American college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thomp... |
780760 | 753832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780760 | Spanish dialects and varieties | Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar.
While all Spanish dialects adhere to approximately the same written standard, all spoken varieties differ from the written variety, to different degrees. There... |
780761 | 10531370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780761 | Second dealing | Second dealing (also known as dealing seconds) is a method of manipulating a deck of cards during a card game by way of dealing the second, rather than the top card of the deck, usually for the purpose of cheating. Second dealing and bottom dealing are also used in performance magic.
A card cheat who specializes in man... |
780762 | 41653048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780762 | John Thompson III | John Robert Thompson III (born March 11, 1966) is a professional basketball coach and executive who has been the assistant coach for the United States men's national basketball team since 2017. He previously served as the head coach of the men's basketball team at Georgetown University. He grew up in Washington, D.C., ... |
780766 | 13541347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780766 | Ezzelini | The Ezzelini were a noble family in medieval Italy. The family was founded by Ecelo (Ezzelo), who received the fiefs of Romano d'Ezzelino and Onara |
780768 | 1589971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780768 | Ezzelino III da Romano | Ezzelino III da Romano (25 April 1194, Tombolo7 October 1259) was an Italian feudal lord, a member of the Ezzelini family, in the March of Treviso (in modern Veneto). He was a close ally of the emperor Frederick II (r. 1220–1250), and ruled Verona, Vicenza and Padua for almost two decades. He became infamous as a cruel... |
780776 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780776 | Sin (song) | "Sin" is the third single by American artist Nine Inch Nails from the album "Pretty Hate Machine". Released in October 1990, the song peaked at number 35 in the UK Singles Chart.
"Sin" has been commonly a staple of Nine Inch Nails live performances for many years; setlist.fm lists it as the band's ninth most played liv... |
780778 | 43240415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780778 | Thomas Eugene Everhart | Thomas Eugene Everhart FREng (born February 15, 1932, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American educator and physicist. His area of expertise is the physics of electron beams. Together with Richard F. M. Thornley he designed the Everhart–Thornley detector. These detectors are still in use in scanning electron microscopes, ... |
780780 | 47158745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780780 | Hero Honda CBZ Series | The Hero Honda CBZ is a motorcycle launched in early 1999 by Hero Honda, with an original Honda 156.8cc single-cylinder engine. The styling of the bike was a scaled version of the Honda CB series.
The CBZ has an Over Square and Overhead camshaft engine with a Keihin slide type carburetor with accelerator pump. It has a... |
780792 | 27015025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780792 | Harringay Green Lanes railway station | Harringay Green Lanes railway station is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in Harringay, north London. It is from (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction) and is situated between and .
Services.
All services at Harringay Green Lanes are operated by London Overground using EMUs.
The typical off-peak serv... |
780793 | 46993030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780793 | Scissor-tailed flycatcher | The scissor-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus), known as swallow-tailed flycatcher or scissorstail, is a long-tailed insectivorous bird of the genus "Tyrannus", whose members are collectively referred to as kingbirds. Its scientific name used to be Muscivora forficata until it was changed to Tyrannus forficatus. I... |
780797 | 34218277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780797 | Limerick Generating Station | The Limerick Generating Station is a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania located next to the Schuylkill River in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia. The facility has two General Electric boiling water reactor (BWR) units, cooled by natural draft cooling towers. According to its owner, Const... |
780801 | 17087306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780801 | Azerbaijani alphabet | The Azerbaijani alphabet (, , ) has three versions which includes the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets.
North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet. This superseded previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic scripts after the fall of Soviet Union.... |
780802 | 1235069627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780802 | All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship | The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, known simply as the All-Ireland Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest-tier competition for inter-county hurling in Ireland and has been contested in every year except one since 18... |
780816 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780816 | Chancel | In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Overview.
The chancel is generally the area used by the clergy and choir during ... |
780817 | 24181011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780817 | Lightweight markup language | A lightweight markup language (LML), also termed a simple or humane markup language, is a markup language with simple, unobtrusive syntax. It is designed to be easy to write using any generic text editor and easy to read in its raw form. Lightweight markup languages are used in applications where it may be necessary to... |
780822 | 11308236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780822 | Intrado | Intrado, formerly West Corporation, is an American telecommunications company. It was purchased by private equity firm Apollo Global Management on October 11, 2017.
Business Operations.
Intrado is reorganized in five main segments: Cloud Collaboration, Life and Safety (including 911 operations), Enterprise Communicatio... |
780824 | 1228108530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780824 | Rice dumpling | Rice dumpling may refer to: |
780828 | 1222189047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780828 | Eazel | Eazel was an American software company operating from 1999 to 2001 in Palo Alto and then Mountain View, California. The company's flagship product is the Nautilus file manager for the GNOME desktop environment on Linux, which was immediately adopted and maintained by the free software movement. As the core of Eazel's b... |
780835 | 35351935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780835 | Mike's Place suicide bombing | The Mike's Place suicide bombing was a Palestinian suicide attack, perpetrated by Hamas and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades affiliated British nationals, at Mike's Place, a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 30, 2003, killing three civilians and wounding 50.
First attack.
Preparations for the attack.
The two assailants entered... |
780845 | 1204669362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780845 | Yohimbine | Yohimbine (), also known as quebrachine, is an indole alkaloid derived from the bark of the African tree "Pausinystalia johimbe"; also from the bark of the unrelated South American tree "Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco". Yohimbine is an α2-adrenergic receptor antagonist, and has been used in a variety of research project... |
780849 | 47126768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780849 | O-mikuji | are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally "sacred lot", these are usually received by making a small offering and randomly choosing one from a box, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. , vending machines sometimes dispense .
The predicts the perso... |
780852 | 34892992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780852 | Two Dogmas of Empiricism | "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith, this "paper [is] sometimes regarded as the most important in all of twentieth-century philosophy". The paper is an attack on two central... |
780853 | 1226893341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780853 | 1993 World Championships in Athletics | The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations. Having originally being held every four years in 1983, 1987 and 1991 these championsh... |
780856 | 2273576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780856 | Black-tailed deer | Two forms of black-tailed deer or blacktail deer that occupy coastal woodlands in the Pacific Northwest of North America are subspecies of the mule deer ("Odocoileus hemionus"). They have sometimes been treated as a species, but virtually all recent authorities maintain they are subspecies.
The Columbian black-tailed ... |
780870 | 3828001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780870 | Viktor Rydberg | Abraham Viktor Rydberg (; 18 December 182821 September 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877–1895. "Primarily a classical idealist", Viktor Rydberg has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was "generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists."
Biography.
Viktor... |
780871 | 40943757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780871 | Stephen Ames | Stephen Michael Ames (born April 28, 1964) is a professional golfer formerly of the PGA Tour, who now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. The biggest win of his career was at The Players Championship in 2006. He holds dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada.
Early life.
Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad a... |
780873 | 28422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780873 | Phone Booth (film) | Phone Booth is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, written by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, and Kiefer Sutherland. In the film, a malevolent hidden sniper calls a phone booth, and when ... |
780875 | 1223136990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780875 | High Fidelity (magazine) | High Fidelity — often abbreviated HiFi — was an American magazine that was published from April 1951 until July 1989 and was a source of information about high fidelity audio equipment, video equipment, audio recordings, and other aspects of the musical world, such as music history, biographies, and anecdotal stories b... |
780879 | 12028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780879 | Alum Rock Park | Alum Rock Park, in the Alum Rock district of San Jose, California, is California's oldest municipal park, established in 1872 but serving as public land since the pueblo was established in 1777. Located in a valley in the Diablo Range foothills on the east side of San Jose, the 720 acre (2.9 km2) park offers 13 miles (... |
780884 | 1230304699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780884 | Christie Clark | Christie Mary Clark (born December 13, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Carrie Brady in "Days of Our Lives".
Early life.
Clark was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 13, 1973, to Craig and Cathy Clark. She has a brother, Kevin and a sister, Katie.
Career.
Clark began her acting ... |
780885 | 42258595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780885 | Muhammad Jaunpuri | Sayyid Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Mauood Jaunpuri (; 9 September 1443 – 23 April 1505) was a Muslim mystic and self-proclaimed Mahdi who founded the breakaway Mahdavia sect. Hailing from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, Jaunpuri traveled extensively throughout India, Arabia and Khorasan.
Early life.
His first wife, Bibi Alahdadi, was... |
780886 | 92899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780886 | Characterization (mathematics) | In mathematics, a characterization of an object is a set of conditions that, while different from the definition of the object, is logically equivalent to it. To say that "Property "P" characterizes object "X" is to say that not only does "X" have property "P", but that "X" is the "only" thing that has property "P" (i.... |
780888 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780888 | Fourteen Hours | Fourteen Hours is a 1951 American drama directed by Henry Hathaway, which tells the story of a New York City police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the 15th floor of a hotel.
The film won critical acclaim for Richard Basehart, who portrayed the mentally disturbed man on the buildi... |
780889 | 137678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780889 | Green Fire | Green Fire is a 1954 American CinemaScope and Eastmancolor adventure drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Andrew Marton and produced by Armand Deutsch, with original music by Miklós Rózsa. The picture stars Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger, Paul Douglas and John Ericson.
Grace Kelly was under cont... |
780890 | 196446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780890 | Mount Pleasant (Washington, D.C.) | Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with restaurants and stores centered along a commercial corridor on Mt. Pleasant Street. Mount Pleasant is known for its unique identity and multicultural landscape, home to diverse groups such as ... |
780894 | 1233361903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780894 | Virgin America | Virgin America Inc. was an American low-cost airline headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Burlingame. The airline primarily focused on operating low-fare, higher-quality service between cities on the West Coast of the United States and other major metropolitan areas. It operated both domestic and interna... |
780896 | 44144402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780896 | George Zoritch | George Zoritch (born Yuri Zorich; Russian: Юрий Зорич; 6 June 1917 – 1 November 2009), was a Russian-born American ballet dancer who starred in performances by Ballet Russe companies on stages all over the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. Internationally known, he was one of the most glamorous figures and str... |
780902 | 45293124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780902 | Walter Napleton Stone | Walter Napleton Stone VC (7 December 1891 – 30 November 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in Blackheath, London.
Details.
Born on 7 December 1891 to Edwar... |
780912 | 1152308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780912 | Duet (disambiguation) | A duet is a musical form for two performers.
Duet may also refer to: |
780913 | 45963401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780913 | Long bone | The long bones are those that are longer than they are wide. They are one of five types of bones: long, short, flat, irregular and sesamoid. Long bones, especially the femur and tibia, are subjected to most of the load during daily activities and they are crucial for skeletal mobility. They grow primarily by elongation... |
780916 | 4626582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780916 | Duet (TV series) | Duet is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from April 19, 1987, to May 7, 1989. Originally, the story centered on the romance of a novelist (Matthew Laurance) and a caterer (Mary Page Keller), but gradually the focus shifted to their yuppie friends (Chris Lemmon, Alison LaPlaca) and the show was rebranded as "Open Ho... |
780918 | 2051880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780918 | Bohr–Mollerup theorem | In mathematical analysis, the Bohr–Mollerup theorem is a theorem proved by the Danish mathematicians Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup. The theorem characterizes the gamma function, defined for by
as the "only" positive function , with domain on the interval , that simultaneously has the following three properties:
A t... |
780921 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780921 | Fawn Hall | Fawn Hall (born September 15, 1959) is a former secretary to Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North who gained fame for her role in the Iran–Contra affair by helping North shred confidential documents.
Early life.
Born in Annandale, Virginia, in 1959, Hall graduated from Annandale High School in 1977. She began working part-t... |
780923 | 10531370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780923 | Blastocoel | The blastocoel (), also spelled blastocoele and blastocele, and also called cleavage cavity, or segmentation cavity is a fluid-filled or yolk-filled cavity that forms in the blastula during very early embryonic development. At this stage in mammals the blastula is called the blastocyst, which consists of an outer epith... |
780925 | 1234759826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780925 | Public holidays in Brazil | In Brazil, public holidays may be legislated at the federal, statewide and municipal levels. Most holidays are observed nationwide.
Apart from the yearly official holidays (listed below), the Constitution of Brazil also establishes that election days are to be considered national holidays as well. General elections are... |
780931 | 1121994519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780931 | Skydiver (disambiguation) | A skydiver is a person who engages in the sport of parachuting.
It may also refer to: |
780932 | 7098284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780932 | List of teams and cyclists in the 2004 Tour de France | The 2004 Tour de France was the 91st edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Liège on 3 July and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 25 July.
The first 14 teams in the UCI ranking at 31 January 2004 were automatically invited. These were: Wildcards were sent to a further seven ... |
780941 | 34184267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780941 | The Surreal Life | The Surreal Life is an American reality television series that records a group of celebrities as they live together for a limited number of weeks. Initial seasons took place in Glen Campbell's former mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks. The format of the show resembles that of "The Real World" in that the came... |
780946 | 32834546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780946 | Libpng | libpng is the official Portable Network Graphics (PNG) reference library (originally called pnglib). It is a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. It supports almost all of PNG's features, is extensible, and has been widely used and tested for over 28 years. libpng is dependent... |
780950 | 20659301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780950 | Warcraft | Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of six core games: ', ', "", "World of Warcraft", "Hearthstone", and "Warcraft Rumble". The first three of these core games are in the real-time strategy genre, where opposing players command virtual... |
780951 | 18872885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780951 | Ferdinand II of Portugal | "Dom" Ferdinand II (Portuguese: "Fernando II") (29 October 1816 – 15 December 1885) was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, and King of Portugal "jure uxoris" as the husband of Queen Maria II, from the birth of their first son in 1837 to her death in 1853.
In keeping with Portuguese law, only ... |
780956 | 753665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780956 | Efrem Zimbalist | Efrem Zimbalist (April 21 [O.S. April 9], 1889 – February 22, 1985) was a Russian and American concert violinist, composer, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.
Early life.
Efrem Zimbalist Sr. was born on April 9, 1889, O.S., equivalent to April 21, 1889, in the Gregorian calendar, as reported in ma... |
780957 | 6127189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780957 | 2004 Mexican elections | A number of local elections took place in Mexico during 2004: |
780960 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780960 | Software maintenance | Software maintenance is the modification of a software product after delivery.
Software maintenance is often considered lower skilled and less rewarding than new development. As such, it is a common target for outsourcing or offshoring. Usually, the team developing the software is different from those who will be maint... |
780966 | 45382375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780966 | Samuel Freedman | Samuel Freedman, (16 April 1908 – 6 March 1993), was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who served as Chief Justice of Manitoba from 1971 to 1983.
Personal life and education.
Born on 16 April 1908, to Nathan and Ada (Foxman) Freedman in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Freedman moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, wh... |
800402 | 372290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800402 | Red Deer Polytechnic | Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP), formerly Red Deer College, is a public comprehensive polytechnic institute of approximately 7,500 students in credit programs and 10,000 in non-credit programming located in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. In 2021, Red Deer College was converted into a regional polytechnic institute called Red De... |
800412 | 10907185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800412 | Beverly LaHaye | Beverly Jean Davenport LaHaye ( Ratcliffe; April 30, 1929 – April 14, 2024) was an American Christian conservative activist and author who founded Concerned Women for America (CWA) in San Diego, California in 1979. She was the wife of Tim LaHaye, an evangelical Christian minister and author of the "Left Behind" series,... |
800413 | 7643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800413 | 45th parallel south | The 45th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 45° south of the Earth's equator.
It is the line that marks the theoretical halfway point between the equator and the South Pole. The true halfway point is south of this parallel because Earth is not a perfect sphere, but bulges at the equator and is flattened at ... |
800422 | 1546014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800422 | Sawao Katō | is a Japanese former gymnast and one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Between 1968 and 1976 he won twelve Olympic medals, including eight gold medals.
Biography.
Katō was born in Niigata Prefecture on October 11, 1946, and studied at the Tokyo Kyoiku University. He first competed in the Olympics in... |
800440 | 15710815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800440 | Southampton City Council | Southampton City Council is the local authority of the city of Southampton in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England. Southampton has had a council since medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1997 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs ... |
800465 | 1230410191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800465 | Tim LaHaye | Timothy Francis LaHaye (April 27, 1926 – July 25, 2016) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the "Left Behind" series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins.
He was a founder of the Council for National P... |
800473 | 32381689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800473 | Ohio's at-large congressional district | Ohio's at-large congressional district existed from 1803 to 1813, from 1913 to 1915, from 1933 to 1953 and from 1963 until 1967, when it was banned by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
From statehood in 1803 until the 1813 redistricting following the 1810 census, Ohio had only one member of the United States House of Repr... |
800481 | 1005449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800481 | Jim Leighton | James Leighton (born 24 July 1958) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Leighton started his career with Aberdeen, where he won seven domestic trophies and the 1982–83 European Cup Winners' Cup under the management of Alex Ferguson. Ferguson then signed Leighton for Manchester United... |
800487 | 4652171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800487 | Tradewater River | The Tradewater River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long, in western Kentucky in the United States. It drains an area of in the limestone hills south of Evansville, Indiana, between the basins of the Cumberland River on the west and the Green River on the east.
Description.
It rises in northern Christi... |
800492 | 47732363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800492 | Paracho de Verduzco | Paracho de Verduzco (often called Paracho) is a small city located in Michoacán, Mexico. It is located about west of the state capital Morelia. The city serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Paracho. It has a population of 37,464.
Paracho is well known throughout both Mexico and elsewhere in ... |
800509 | 26830857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800509 | 7th Toronto Regiment, RCA | The 7th Toronto Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery is a militia (i.e. part-time reserves) regiment of 4th Canadian Division's 32 Canadian Brigade Group,
The regiment was formed in 1965 when all the gunner units within the Toronto garrison (29th Field Regiment, 42nd Medium Regiment and 1st Locating Regiment) were merged... |
800512 | 47915615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800512 | List of Baltimore Light RailLink stations | The Baltimore Light RailLink network consists of a main north-south line that serves 28 of the system's 33 stops; a spur in Baltimore city that connects a single stop (Penn Station) to the main line; and two branches at the south end of the line that serve two stops apiece. Because of the track arrangement, trains can ... |
800588 | 712163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800588 | Stud | Stud may refer to: |
800594 | 1235153424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800594 | Ricardo Quaresma | Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo (; born 26 September 1983) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.
He began his career at Sporting CP and went on to play for Barcelona, Inter Milan, Porto (twice), Chelsea, Beşiktaş (twice), Al-Ahli Dubai, Kasımpaşa and Vitória de Guimarães. Regarded as ... |
800600 | 577301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800600 | Willi Dansgaard | Willi Dansgaard (30 August 1922 – 8 January 2011) was a Danish paleoclimatologist. He was Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Icelandic Academy of Sciences, and the Danish Geophysical... |
800614 | 44996729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800614 | List of Hanna-Barbera characters | The following is a list of characters created by and featured in various Hanna-Barbera productions and series: |
800617 | 2424895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800617 | Slash | Slash may refer to: |
800623 | 76 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800623 | Phase center | In antenna design theory, the phase center is the point from which the electromagnetic radiation spreads spherically outward, with the phase of the signal being equal at any point on the sphere. Apparent phase center is used to describe the phase center in a limited section of the radiation pattern.
If it is used in th... |
800637 | 18164163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800637 | Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement | The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health, and energy. Tyler Laureates receive a $250,000 cash prize and a medallion. The prize is administered by the University of Southern California and was established by John and Alice Tyler in 1973. It is regar... |
800686 | 8931761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800686 | Hans Oeschger | Hans Oeschger (2 April 1927, Ottenbach – 25 December 1998, Bern) was a Swiss climatologist. He founded the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in 1963 and was the director until his retirement in 1992.
Oeschger was the first to date the "age" of Pacific deep ... |
800713 | 7098284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800713 | Tallis | Tallis may refer to: |
800723 | 25184926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800723 | Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd | Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] KB 130 is a famous English contract law decision in the High Court. It reaffirmed and extended the doctrine of promissory estoppel in contract law in England and Wales. However, the most significant part of the judgment is "obiter dictum" as it relates to ... |
800732 | 10951369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800732 | Unity Party (Quebec) | The Unity Party (in French, "Parti unité") was a political party in Quebec, Canada.
The party was formed as a reaction to then-Premier Robert Bourassa invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to override a Supreme Court ruling overturning parts of the Charter of the French Language (commonly kno... |
800747 | 144047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800747 | The Commitments (novel) | The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called "The Partitions") is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The first episode in "The Barrytown Trilogy", it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
Background.
Doyle wrote the novel while working as a teacher... |
800775 | 20798710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800775 | Seligman Crystal | The Seligman Crystal is an award of the International Glaciological Society.
The prize is "awarded from time to time to one who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to glaciology so that the subject is now enriched" and named after Gerald Seligman.
Recipients.
Source: International Glaciological Society |
800779 | 40943757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800779 | Craw (band) | Craw were an American independent band from Cleveland, Ohio. They belonged to the harder-edged branch of the math rock or post hardcore movement, in the same category as bands such as Colossamite, Keelhaul, Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen and Ruins.
History.
Craw were an underground band from Cleveland, Ohio, initially act... |
800780 | 925588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800780 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, first published in 1993 by Secker and Warburg. It won the Booker Prize that year. The story is about a 10-year-old boy living in Barrytown, North Dublin, and the events that happen within his age group, school and home in around 1968.
Plot synopsis.
"Paddy C... |
800782 | 9394483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800782 | Lanark Lanimers | Every June the town of Lanark in Scotland celebrates Lanimer Week. The festivities reach a high point on the Thursday of Lanimer Week which is the gala day, when the town's schoolchildren parade in fancy dress with decorated vehicles, pipe bands, and a Lanimer Queen and her Court, who have been selected from local scho... |
800798 | 35936988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=800798 | Saalach | The Saalach is a river in Austria and Germany, and a left tributary of the Salzach.
Course.
The river begins, as the stream, in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Kitzbühel Alps at the lake below the high Gamshag. From there it flows initially eastwards through the valley, through Hinterglemm, then the ski resort of Sa... |
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