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500 | Poliovirus , the causative agent of poliomyelitis ( commonly known as polio ) , is a human enterovirus and member of the family of Picornaviridae . Poliovirus is composed of an RNA genome and a protein capsid . The genome is a single @-@ stranded positive @-@ sense RNA genome that is about 7500 nucleotides long . The ... |
501 | Hurricane Earl was an atypical , short @-@ lived Category 2 hurricane that caused moderate damage throughout the Southeast United States . It formed out of a poorly organized tropical disturbance over the southwest Gulf of Mexico late on August 31 , 1998 . Tracking towards the northeast , the storm quickly intensified... |
502 | Rodney Stephen " Rod " Steiger ( April 14 , 1925 – July 9 , 2002 ) was an American actor , noted for his portrayal of offbeat , often volatile and crazed characters . Cited as " one of Hollywood 's most charismatic and dynamic stars " , he is closely associated with the art of method acting , embodying the characters ... |
503 | The Inland Customs Line which incorporated the Great Hedge of India ( or Indian Salt Hedge ) was a customs barrier built by the British across India primarily to collect the salt tax . The customs line was begun while India was under the control of the East India Company but continued into the period of direct British... |
504 | Weather Machine is a lumino @-@ kinetic bronze sculpture and columnar machine that serves as a weather beacon , displaying a weather prediction each day at noon . Designed and constructed by Omen Design Group Inc . , the approximately 30 @-@ foot ( 9 m ) tall sculpture was installed in 1988 in the northwest corner of ... |
505 | The Mount Hope Bay raids were a series of military raids conducted by British troops during the American Revolutionary War against communities on the shores of Mount Hope Bay on May 25 and 30 , 1778 . The towns of Bristol and Warren , Rhode Island were significantly damaged , and Freetown , Massachusetts ( present @-@... |
506 | Shaktism or Shaktidharma ( Sanskrit : Śāktaṃ , शाक ् तं ; lit . , " doctrine of power " or " doctrine of the Goddess " ) is a denomination of Hinduism that focuses worship upon Shakti or Devi – the Hindu Divine Mother – as the absolute , ultimate Godhead . It is , along with Shaivism , Vaishnavism , and Smartism , one... |
507 | The National is a Scottish daily newspaper owned by Newsquest that began publication on 24 November 2014 , and the first daily newspaper in Scotland to support Scottish independence . Launched as a response to calls from Newsquest 's readership for a pro @-@ independence paper in the wake of the 2014 Scottish independ... |
508 | Hugh Bamford Cott , ( 6 July 1900 – 18 April 1987 ) , was a British zoologist , an authority on both natural and military camouflage , and a scientific illustrator and photographer . Many of his field studies took place in Africa , where he was especially interested in the Nile crocodile , the evolution of pattern and... |
509 | Blue Ridge Road is a 19 @.@ 2 @-@ mile ( 30 @.@ 9 km ) long roadway in Essex County , New York , in the United States . The road is designated as County Route 84 ( CR 84 ) from NY 28N in Newcomb to Interstate 87 ( I @-@ 87 ) in North Hudson , and as New York State Route 9N ( NY 9N ) from I @-@ 87 to the New York -Cana... |
510 | Pennsylvania Route 39 ( PA 39 ) is a 17 @.@ 83 miles ( 28 @.@ 69 km ) state highway located in Dauphin County , Pennsylvania , United States . PA 39 begins at North Front Street near Harrisburg and ends at U.S. Route 322 and U.S. Route 422 near Hummelstown and Hershey . The route passes through the northern and easter... |
511 | Lars Jesper Blomqvist ( born 5 February 1974 ) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a left winger . Most recently he was the playing assistant manager of Superettan side Hammarby from December 2009 to November 2010 . He played at IFK Göteborg , where he won four straight Allsvenskan league titles between 1993 ... |
512 | " Why Does It Hurt So Bad " is a song recorded by American singer Whitney Houston for the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale . It was released on July 7 , 1996 , by Arista Records as the seventh and final single from the accompanying soundtrack . The song was written and produced solely by Babyface . Musically , it is an R&B... |
513 | Layla El Young ( née El ; born 25 June 1977 ) is an English dancer , model , and retired professional wrestler best known for her time in WWE . After attending a performing arts college , El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines , the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association , and also danced for K... |
514 | Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film and the third installment in the Jurassic Park film series . The film stars Sam Neill , William H. Macy , Téa Leoni , Alessandro Nivola , Trevor Morgan , and Michael Jeter . It is the first film in the series not to have been directed by Steven Spielb... |
515 | Nights into Dreams ... ( Japanese : ナイツ , Hepburn : Naitsu , stylised as NiGHTS into Dreams ... ) is an action video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn in 1996 . The story follows two teenagers , Claris and Elliot , who enter a dream world called Nightopia where all dreams take plac... |
516 | Henry Percy , 3rd Earl of Northumberland , ( 25 July 1421 – 29 March 1461 ) was an English magnate . The Earldom of Northumberland was one of the greatest fifteenth @-@ century landholdings in northern England ; Percy also became Lord Poynings on his marriage . This title would bring him into direct conflict with the ... |
517 | Cheadle Hulme / ˈtʃiːdəl ˈhjuːm / is a suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester , England . Historically in Cheshire , it is 2 @.@ 3 miles ( 3 @.@ 7 km ) south @-@ west of Stockport and 7 @.@ 5 miles ( 12 @.@ 1 km ) south @-@ east of the city of Manchester . It lies between the River Merse... |
518 | The Battle of Stillman 's Run , also known as the Battle of Sycamore Creek or the Battle of Old Man 's Creek , occurred in Illinois on May 14 , 1832 . The battle was named for the panicked retreat by Major Isaiah Stillman and his detachment of 275 Illinois militia after being attacked by many fewer Sauk warriors of Bl... |
519 | Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland , Oregon , United States . Stretching for more than 8 miles ( 13 km ) on hillsides overlooking the Willamette River , it is one of the country 's largest urban forest reserves . The park , a major component of a regional system ... |
520 | The Nashville sit @-@ ins , which lasted from February 13 to May 10 , 1960 , were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville , Tennessee . The sit @-@ in campaign , coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and Nashville Christian Leadership Counci... |
521 | Monte Testaccio ( alternatively spelled Monte Testaceo ; also known as Monte dei cocci ) is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae ( Italian : cocci ) , fragments of broken amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire , some of which were labelled with tituli picti . It is one of the large... |
522 | The Liverpool Women 's Suffrage Society was set up in 1894 by Edith Bright , Lydia Allen Booth and Nessie Stewart @-@ Brown to promote the enfranchisement of women . The society held its first meeting in a Liverpool temperance hall , with Millicent Fawcett , head of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies ( ... |
523 | Lazare Ponticelli ( born Lazzaro Ponticelli , 24 December 1897 , later mistranscribed as 7 December – 12 March 2008 ) , Knight of Vittorio Veneto , was at 110 , the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die . Born in Italy , he travelled o... |
524 | Uxbridge ( / ˈʌksbrɪdʒ / ) is a town in west London , England , and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon . Fifteen miles ( 24 @.@ 1 km ) west @-@ northwest of Charing Cross , it is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan . Uxbridge historically formed part of ... |
525 | The inaugural games were held , on the orders of the Roman Emperor Titus , to celebrate the completion in AD 80 ( 81 according to some sources ) of the Colosseum , then known as the Flavian Amphitheatre ( Latin : Amphitheatrum Flavium ) . Vespasian began construction of the amphitheatre around AD 70 and it was complet... |
526 | Education in Medieval Scotland includes all forms of education within the modern borders of Scotland , between the departure of the Romans from Britain in the fifth century , until the establishment of the Renaissance late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century . Few sources on Scottish education survived the M... |
527 | Project A119 , also known as " A Study of Lunar Research Flights " , was a top @-@ secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force . The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology . Had the explo... |
528 | Twilight is a series of four vampire @-@ themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer . Released annually from 2005 through 2008 , the four books chart the later teen years of Isabella " Bella " Swan , a girl who moves to Forks , Washington , and falls in love with a 104 @-@ year @-@ old vampire na... |
529 | The Charles Martel was a pre @-@ dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in the 1890s . She was laid down in April 1891 , launched in August 1893 , and completed in June 1897 . She was a member of a group of five broadly similar battleships , along with Carnot , Jauréguiberry , Bouvet , and Masséna , which wer... |
530 | 1 : Nenokkadine ( English : 1 : Lonely One ) is a 2014 Indian Telugu @-@ language psychological thriller film written and directed by Sukumar . Produced by Ram Achanta , Gopichand Achanta , and Anil Sunkara as 14 Reels Entertainment and distributed by Eros International , the film features Mahesh Babu and Kriti Sanon ... |
531 | The Concert for Bangladesh – originally titled The Concert for Bangla Desh – is a live triple album by George Harrison and celebrity friends , released on Apple Records in December 1971 in America and January 1972 in Britain . The album followed the two concerts of the same name , held on 1 August 1971 at New York 's ... |
532 | Ralph Basset ( sometimes Bassett ; died c . 1127 ) was a medieval English royal justice during the reign of King Henry I of England . He was a native of Normandy , and may have come to Henry 's notice while Henry held land in Normandy prior to becoming king . Basset is first mentioned in documents about 1102 , and fro... |
533 | The 2011 – 12 Harvard Crimson men 's basketball team represented Harvard University in the Ivy League athletic conference during the 2011 – 12 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The team played its home games in Boston , Massachusetts at the Lavietes Pavilion , located across the Charles River from the univers... |
534 | Rock ' n ' Roll is the sixth studio album by John Lennon . Released in 1975 , it is an album of late 1950s and early 1960s songs as covered by Lennon . Recording the album was problematic and spanned an entire year : Phil Spector produced sessions in October 1973 at A & M Studios , and Lennon produced sessions in Octo... |
535 | " Stranger in Moscow " is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson from his ninth studio album HIStory : Past , Present and Future , Book I. The song was released worldwide in November 1996 , but was not released in the United States until August 1997 by Epic Records . The track was written by Jackson in Se... |
536 | The Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse is a horse breed from the US state of Kentucky . Developed as an all @-@ around farm and riding horse in eastern Kentucky , they are related to the Tennessee Walking Horse and other gaited breeds . In 1989 the Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association ( KMSHA ) was formed , and in 2... |
537 | Oslyabya ( Russian : Ослябя ) was the second of the three Peresvet @-@ class second @-@ class pre @-@ dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the end of the nineteenth century , although construction delays meant that she was the last to be completed . The ship was part of the Second Pacific Squ... |
538 | South Park : The Stick of Truth is a 2014 role @-@ playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment , in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios , and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , and Microsoft Windows . Based on the American adult animated television series South Park , The Stick of... |
539 | The Parents Television Council ( PTC ) is a United States @-@ based censorship advocacy group founded by conservative Catholic activist L. Brent Bozell III in 1995 . Through publications on its website including staff reviews , ( non peer @-@ reviewed ) research reports , and web @-@ based newsletters , the Council pr... |
540 | Tragic Kingdom is the third studio album by American rock band No Doubt . It was released on October 10 , 1995 by Trauma Records , a division of Interscope Records , less than 7 months after the release of their previous album The Beacon Street Collection . It is the final album to feature original keyboardist Eric St... |
541 | The Crabble Athletic Ground , also known as The Crabble or simply Crabble. is a football stadium located in the northern Dover suburb of River , Kent , England . It was the home of the various incarnations of Dover F.C. from 1931 until the club folded in 1983 . Since then it has been the home of Dover Athletic F.C. , ... |
542 | The first season of True Detective , an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto , premiered on January 12 , 2014 on the premium cable network HBO . Its principal cast consisted of Matthew McConaughey , Woody Harrelson , Michelle Monaghan , Michael Potts , and Tory Kittles . The seaso... |
543 | The history of Georgetown University spans nearly four hundred years , from the early settlement of America to the present day . Georgetown University has grown with both its city , Washington , D.C. , and the United States , each of which date their founding to the period from 1788 to 1790 . Georgetown 's origins are... |
544 | Trinny ( Sarah @-@ Jane ) Woodall ( born 8 February 1964 , in London ) is a British fashion and make @-@ over advisor , designer , television presenter and author . She was privately educated . After ten years working in marketing – Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994 , whom she joined to write a weekly fashion c... |
545 | Aerith Gainsborough ( Japanese : エアリス ・ ゲインズブール , Hepburn : Earisu Geinzubūru ) — transliterated Aeris Gainsborough in the English releases of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics — is a player character in Square 's ( now Square Enix ) role @-@ playing video game Final Fantasy VII . She was designed by Tetsuya... |
546 | A Glorious Way to Die : The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato , April 1945 is a 1981 military history book by Russell Spurr about the suicide mission of the Japanese battleship Yamato against the American Pacific Fleet during the Battle of Okinawa near the end of World War II . Yamato was the largest battleshi... |
547 | " Focus Grill " is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season and the series finale of the American animated sitcom Home Movies , and 52nd episode of the series overall . It originally aired in the United States on Adult Swim on April 4 , 2004 . In the episode , Brendon , Melissa , and Jason decide to finally film an... |
548 | Kepler @-@ 10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet to have been discovered outside the Solar System . Discovered after several months of data collection during the course of the NASA @-@ directed Kepler Mission , which aims to discover Earth @-@ like planets crossing in front of their host stars , the planet 's ... |
549 | Mitchell Elias " Mitch " Daniels , Jr . ( born April 7 , 1949 ) is an academic administrator and former politician who was Governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013 . He is a member of the Republican Party . Since 2013 , Daniels has been president of Purdue University . Born in Monongahela , Pennsylvania , Daniels is a gr... |
550 | William Christian Schmeisser ( 1880 – 1941 ) , known widely as " Father Bill " , was an American lacrosse player , coach , and patron . He served as the head coach of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays for ten non @-@ consecutive years , and won eight national championships . He was also an active patron of the sport and pro... |
551 | The Free State of Galveston ( sometimes referred to as the Republic of Galveston Island ) was a whimsical name given to the coastal city of Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas during the early @-@ to @-@ mid @-@ 20th century . Today , the term is sometimes used to describe the culture and history of that era . During... |
552 | The flame robin ( Petroica phoenicea ) is a small passerine bird native to Australia . It is a moderately common resident of the coolest parts of south @-@ eastern Australia , including Tasmania . Like the other two red @-@ breasted Petroica robins — the scarlet robin and the red @-@ capped robin — it is often simply ... |
553 | The Fort Steuben Bridge , originally the Weirton @-@ Steubenville Bridge , was a suspension bridge which spanned the Ohio River from Steubenville , Ohio to Weirton , West Virginia and carried U.S. Route 22 and then Ohio State Route 822 during its existence . Completed in 1928 and opened as a toll bridge , the Fort Ste... |
554 | USS Utah ( BB @-@ 31 / AG @-@ 16 ) was the second and final member of the Florida @-@ class of dreadnought battleships . The first ship of the United States Navy named after the state of Utah , she had one sister ship , Florida . Utah was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation , laid down in March 1909 , launc... |
555 | Fairfax Harrison ( full name Reginald Fairfax Harrison : March 13 , 1869 – February 2 , 1938 ) was an American lawyer , businessman , and writer . The son of the secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis , Harrison studied law at Yale University and Columbia University before becoming a lawyer for the Souther... |
556 | The Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 ( Public Law 84 @-@ 830 ) was an Act of Congress passed to improve mental health care in the United States territory of Alaska . It became the focus of a major political controversy after opponents nicknamed it the " Siberia Bill " and denounced it as being part of a commu... |
557 | The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) ( classical Armenian : Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն , ՀՅԴ ) , also known as Dashnaktsutyun ( in a short form , " Dashnak " ) , is an Armenian nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 in Tiflis , Russian Empire ( now Tbilisi , Georgia ) in 1890 by Christap... |
558 | Paratheria is an obsolete term for a taxonomic group including the xenarthran mammals ( sloths , anteaters , and armadillos ) and various groups thought to be related to them . It was proposed by Oldfield Thomas in 1887 to set apart the sloths , anteaters , armadillos , and pangolins , usually classified as placentals... |
559 | Scotland in the early Middle Ages , between the end of Roman authority in southern and central Britain from around 400 and the rise of the kingdom of Alba in 900 , was divided into a series of kingdoms . Of these the four most important to emerge were the Picts , the Scots of Dál Riata , the Britons of Alt Clut and th... |
560 | Although scientists observed reduction in populations of several European amphibian species since the 1950s , awareness of the decline of amphibian populations and its classification as a modern @-@ day global mass extinction only dates from the 1980s . By 1993 , more than 500 species of frogs and salamanders present ... |
561 | Zita of Bourbon @-@ Parma ( Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese ; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989 ) was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria . As such , she was the last Empress of Austria , Queen of Hungary , and Queen of Bohemia . Born as the seventeenth child of... |
562 | A tunicate is a marine invertebrate animal , a member of the subphylum Tunicata , which is part of the Chordata , a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords . The subphylum was at one time called Urochordata , and the term urochordates is still sometimes used for these animals . Some tu... |
563 | The Action of 1 November 1944 also known as the Ambush off Pag Island was a naval engagement in the Kvarner Gulf of the Adriatic Sea , between the islands of Pag and Lussino ( present @-@ day Lošinj ) on 1 November 1944 . It was fought between a British Royal Navy destroyer flotilla and a Kriegsmarine force of two cor... |
564 | Persoonia linearis , commonly known as the narrow @-@ leaved geebung , is a shrub native to New South Wales and Victoria in eastern Australia . It reaches 3 m ( 9 @.@ 8 ft ) , or occasionally 5 m ( 16 ft ) , in height and has thick , dark grey papery bark . The leaves are , as the species name suggests , linear in sha... |
565 | " Force Majeure " is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the American crime @-@ thriller television series Millennium . It premiered on the Fox network on February 7 , 1997 . The episode was written by Chip Johannessen and directed by Winrich Kolbe . " Force Majeure " featured guest appearances by Brad Douri... |
566 | Darjeeling is a town and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal . It is located in the Lesser Himalaya at an elevation of 6 @,@ 700 ft ( 2 @,@ 042 @.@ 2 m ) . It is noted for its tea industry , the spectacular views of Kangchenjunga , the world 's third @-@ highest mountain , and the Darjeeling Himalayan Ra... |
567 | Hurricane Danielle was the first of four Category 4 hurricanes during the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season . The sixth tropical depression , fourth named storm , second hurricane , and first major hurricane of the season , Danielle developed as a typical Cape Verde @-@ type hurricane from a tropical wave on August 21 . ... |
568 | Anatomy is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts . Anatomy is inherently tied to embryology , comparative anatomy , evolutionary biology , and phylogeny , as these are the processes by which anatomy is generated over immediate ( embryology ) and long ( evolution )... |
569 | Vega ( α Lyr , α Lyrae , Alpha Lyrae ) is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra , the fifth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere , after Arcturus . It is a relatively close star at only 25 light @-@ years from Earth , and , together with Arcturus and... |
570 | The Columbia Slough is a narrow waterway , about 19 miles ( 31 km ) long , in the floodplain of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Oregon . From its source in the Portland suburb of Fairview , the Columbia Slough meanders west through Gresham and Portland to the Willamette River , about 1 mile ( 1 @.@ 6 km ) sout... |
571 | Thunder is the stage name for the horse who is the official live animal mascot for the Denver Broncos football team . Three purebred Arabians have held this role since 1993 , all gray horses whose coats lightened with age until they turned completely white . Sharon Magness @-@ Blake has owned all three horses , and An... |
572 | Ashleigh Southern ( born 22 October 1992 in Ingham , Queensland ) is an Australian water polo player . She is currently a student at Brisbane North Institute of TAFE and is studying criminal justice . In water polo , she is a centre forward or outside shooter who has represented Australia on the junior and senior nati... |
573 | Phantasmagoria is an interactive movie point @-@ and @-@ click adventure game released by Sierra On @-@ Line and designed by Roberta Williams for MS @-@ DOS and Microsoft Windows . Released on August 24 , 1995 , it tells the story of Adrienne ( Victoria Morsell ) , a writer who moves into a remote mansion and finds he... |
574 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American science fiction adventure film . It is the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series created by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg . Released nineteen years after the previous film , the film acknowledges the age of its star Harrison... |
575 | Haseeb Ahsan ( Urdu : حسيب احسن ; 15 July 1939 – 8 March 2013 ) was a Pakistani cricketer who played 12 Tests for Pakistan between 1958 and 1962 . He was born in Peshawar , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . A right @-@ arm off spinner , he took 27 wickets in Test cricket at an average of 49 @.@ 25 , including two five-wicket hauls... |
576 | Halo rings are eponymous fictional megastructures and superweapons in the Halo science fiction franchise . They are referred to as " Installations " by their AI monitors , and are collectively referred to as " the Array " by the installations ' creators , the Forerunners . The series ' alien antagonists , the Covenant... |
577 | Ulf Niklas Alexander Edler ( born 21 April 1986 ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) . He was drafted out of Sweden 's third @-@ tier ice hockey league by the Canucks in the third round , 91st overall , in the 2004 NHL Entry... |
578 | The Tragedy of Otranto took place on 28 March 1997 when the Albanian ship Kateri i Radës sank in a collision with the Italian naval vessel Sibilia in the Strait of Otranto and at least 57 Albanians , aged 3 months to 69 years , lost their lives . The emigrants had been part of a large migration of Albanians to Italy f... |
579 | A Lemon Drop is a vodka @-@ based cocktail that has a lemony , sweet and sour flavor , prepared using lemon juice , triple sec and simple syrup . It has been described as a variant of , or as " a take on " , the Vodka Martini . It is typically prepared and served straight up – chilled with ice and garnished with a lem... |
580 | Loughor Castle is a ruined , medieval fortification located in the town of Loughor , Wales . The castle was built around 1106 by the Anglo @-@ Norman lord Henry de Beaumont , during the Norman invasion of Wales . The site overlooked the River Loughor and controlled a strategic road and ford running across the Gower Pe... |
581 | Harriet Jones is a fictional character played by Penelope Wilton in the long @-@ running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Having worked previously with lead writer and executive producer Russell T Davies , Wilton was keen to involve herself with his 2005 revival of Doctor Who after he sought to c... |
582 | Oscar Fingal O 'Flahertie Wills Wilde ( 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 ) was an Irish playwright , novelist , essayist , and poet . After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s , he became one of London 's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s . He is remembered for his epigrams , his novel The Pict... |
583 | Tokyo Mew Mew ( 東京ミュウミュウ , Tōkyō Myū Myū ) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi . It was originally serialized in Nakayoshi from September 2000 to February 2003 , and later published in seven tankōbon volumes by Kodansha from February 2001 to April 2003 . It focuses on... |
584 | " I Hear You , I See You " is the second season premiere of the American comedy @-@ drama television series Parenthood , and the fourteenth overall episode of the series . It originally aired on NBC in the United States on September 14 , 2010 . In the episode , Sarah feels Adam has stolen one of her ideas , Julia and ... |
585 | The dusky woodswallow ( Artamus cyanopterus ) , is a bird species of forests and woodlands in temperate and subtropical regions , extending into tropical areas around the Atherton Tableland , in eastern and southern Australia . The global population of the species has as yet not been formally confirmed , but it has be... |
586 | Calvatia sculpta , commonly known as the sculpted puffball , the sculptured puffball , the pyramid puffball , and the Sierran puffball , is a species of puffball fungus in the Agaricaceae family . Attaining dimensions of up to 8 to 15 cm ( 3 @.@ 1 to 5 @.@ 9 in ) tall by 8 to 10 cm ( 3 @.@ 1 to 3 @.@ 4 in ) wide, the ... |
587 | Nagore Dargah ( also called Nagoor Dargah or Hazrat Syed Shahul Hameed Dargah ) is a dargah built over the tomb of the Sufi a saint Hazrath Nagore Shahul Hamid ( 1490 – 1579 CE ) . It is located in Nagore , a coastal town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu . Outer doors kept open always . Internal doors opening o... |
588 | George Madison ( June 1763 – October 14 , 1816 ) was the sixth Governor of Kentucky . He was the first governor of Kentucky to die in office , serving only a few weeks in 1816 . Little is known of Madison 's early life . He was a member of the influential Madison family of Virginia , and was a second cousin to James M... |
589 | Kumbakonam , also spelt as Coombaconum in the records of British India , is a town and a special grade municipality in the Thanjavur district in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu . It is located 40 km ( 25 mi ) from Thanjavur and 273 km ( 170 mi ) from Chennai and is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam taluk of ... |
590 | The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond , " 007 " , who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming . It is one of the longest continually @-@ running film series in history , having been in on @-@ going production from 1962 to th... |
591 | Garamond is a group of many old @-@ style serif typefaces , originally those designed by Claude Garamond and other 16th century French designers , and now many modern revivals . Though his name was written as ' Garamont ' in his lifetime , the typefaces are invariably spelled ' Garamond ' . Garamond worked as an engra... |
592 | Robert Alexander Little , DSO & Bar , DSC & Bar ( 19 July 1895 – 27 May 1918 ) , a World War I fighter pilot , is generally regarded as the most successful Australian flying ace , with an official tally of forty @-@ seven victories . Born in Victoria , he travelled to England in 1915 and learned to fly at the Royal Fl... |
593 | " You 're Not Sorry " is a country rock song performed by American singer @-@ songwriter Taylor Swift . The song was solely written by Swift and produced by Nathan Chapman with Swift 's aid . It was released on October 28 , 2008 by Big Machine Records as a promotional single from Swift 's second studio album , Fearles... |
594 | Haley Farm State Park is a Connecticut state park preserving Colonial @-@ era farmland as open space in the town of Groton . It was the site of a dairy farm owned by Caleb Haley . The land was sold to A. C. White in 1953 who developed Mumford Cove and sold 198 acres to the State of Connecticut for $ 300 @,@ 000.
The p... |
595 | Emmett Louis Till ( July 25 , 1941 – August 28 , 1955 ) was an African @-@ American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman . Till was from Chicago , Illinois , and visiting relatives in Money , a small town in the Mississippi Delta region . He spoke to 21-... |
596 | William Henry Sheppard ( 1865 – 1927 ) was one of the earliest African Americans to become a missionary for the Presbyterian Church . He spent 20 years in Africa , primarily in and around the Congo Free State , and is best known for his efforts to publicize the atrocities committed against the Kuba and other Congolese... |
597 | George Abramovich Koval ( Russian : Жорж ( Георгий ) Абра ́ мович Кова ́ ль ; IPA : [ ˈʐorʐ ( ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ) ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈvalʲ ] , Zhorzh Abramovich Koval , December 25 , 1913 – January 31 , 2006 ) was an American who acted as a Soviet intelligence officer . According to Russian sources , Koval 's infiltration of the... |
598 | " A.A.R.M. " is the collective name for the twenty @-@ second and twenty @-@ third episodes of the ninth season of the American comedy television series The Office , as well as the 198th and 199th episode overall . It was also the series ' penultimate entry , airing a week before the series finale . It originally aire... |
599 | The Neosho @-@ class monitors were a pair of ironclad river monitors laid down in the summer of 1862 . After completion in mid @-@ 1863 , both ships spent time patrolling the Mississippi River against Confederate raids and ambushes as part of Rear Admiral David Porter 's Mississippi Squadron . Both ships participated ... |
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