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1,500 | The Madagascar women 's national football team is the FIFA recognised senior women 's A team for Madagascar . The team played their first FIFA matches in 2015 . The development of a national team in the country is problematic because of issues found on the continent and on the island , specifically the lack of populari... |
1,501 | USS West Apaum ( ID 3221 ) was a cargo ship in the United States Navy during World War I. She had been built as SS West Apaum for the United States Shipping Board ( USSB ) as part of the West boats , a series of steel hulled cargo ships built on the West Coast of the United States . West Apaum sailed on three voyage... |
1,502 | Neepaulakating Creek is a 2 . 4 mile long ( 3 . 8 km ) tributary of Papakating Creek in Wantage Township in Sussex County , New Jersey in the United States . It is one of three streams feeding the Papakating Creek , a major contributor to the Wallkill River . Although the stream was dammed in the 1950s to create Lake ... |
1,503 | New York State Route 326 ( NY 326 ) is a state highway in Cayuga County , New York , in the United States . NY 326 runs in a southwest to northeast direction from the village of Union Springs to the city of Auburn . The western terminus of the route is at an intersection with NY 90 near the northern village line of Uni... |
1,504 | Delaware Route 5 ( DE 5 ) is a 19 . 48 mile long ( 31 . 35 km ) state highway in Sussex County , Delaware . The route runs north from River Road on the Indian River Bay in Oak Orchard north to DE 1 , north of Milton . Along the way , DE 5 passes through rural areas along with the communities of Long Neck , Harbeson ,... |
1,505 | New York State Route 134 ( NY 134 ) is a 6 . 35 mile ( 10 . 22 km ) state highway in the western part of Westchester County , New York , in the United States . It begins at an intersection with NY 133 in the village of Ossining and heads northeast to the hamlet of Kitchawan , located adjacent to the New Croton Reservo... |
1,506 | David Erwin Larson ( born June 25 , 1959 ) is an American former competition swimmer who is an Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder . Larson is a Georgia native who became an All American college swimmer for the University of Florida . He was known for his success as a member of American relay teams i... |
1,507 | William Edington ( died 6 or 7 October 1366 ) was an English bishop and administrator . He served as bishop of Winchester from 1346 until his death , Keeper of the wardrobe from 1341 to 1344 , treasurer from 1344 to 1356 , and finally as chancellor from 1356 until he retired from royal administration in 1363 . Edington... |
1,508 | Hedwig Potthast ( 5 February 1912 1997 ) was the private secretary and mistress of Reichsfhrer SS Heinrich Himmler with whom she had two children . Born in 1912 , Potthast began as Himmler 's secretary in 1936 and by 1938 she was his lover . She resigned from her duties in 1941 , and subsequently had two children wi... |
1,509 | Umbria was a protected cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina ( Royal Navy ) built in the 1890s . She was the lead ship of the Regioni class , which included five other vessels . All of the ships were named for current or former regions of Italy . The ship was equipped with a main armament of four 15 cm ( 5 . 9 in ) and s... |
1,510 | Recreational Road 2 ( RE 2 ) is a Recreational Road located in Val Verde County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Texas . The highway is approximately 7 . 2 miles ( 11 . 6 km ) in length , and connects the Rough Canyon Colonia portion of the Amistad National Recreation Area to U.S. Highway 277 ( US 227 )... |
1,511 | Mega Mendoeng ( unk unk Perfected Spelling Mega Mendung ) is a black and white drama film from the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) directed by Boen Kin Nam and produced by Ang Hock Liem for Union Films . Starring Rd Soekarno , Oedjang , Boen Sofiati , and Soehaena , it follows two young lovers who are separat... |
1,512 | State Highway 30 ( abbreviated SH 30 ) is a state highway in Oklahoma . It runs 84 . 4 miles ( 135 . 8 km ) south to north along the western edge of the state , from U.S. Highway 62 ( US 62 ) in Hollis to the town of Durham , two miles ( 3 km ) north of SH 33 . It passes through Harmon , Beckham and Roger Mills co... |
1,513 | TM and Cult Mania is a non fiction book that examines assertions made by the Transcendental Meditation movement ( TM ) . The book is authored by Michael Persinger , Normand Carrey and Lynn Suess and published in 1980 by Christopher Publishing House . Persinger is a neurophysiologist and has worked out of Laurentian Un... |
1,514 | Severe Tropical Cyclone Vaianu ( RSMC Nadi designation 12F , JTWC designation 11P ) was the fourth named tropical cyclone of the 2005 06 South Pacific cyclone season . The system formed on February 11 , and moved generally towards the south throughout its life . Vaianu ultimately peaked with winds corresponding to C... |
1,515 | Hurricane Karl was a late season and unusual tropical cyclone that formed during the 1980 Atlantic hurricane season . A minimal Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Scale , Karl developed at the center of another , larger extratropical cyclone over the North Atlantic . After being classified a subtrop... |
1,516 | The Sandugo was a blood compact , performed in the island of Bohol in the Philippines , between the Spanish explorer Miguel Lpez de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna the chieftain of Bohol on March 16 , 1565 , to seal their friendship as part of the tribal tradition . This is considered as the first treaty of friendship betwee... |
1,517 | Entoloma austroprunicolor is a species of agaric fungus in the family Entolomataceae . Described as new to science in 2007 , it is found in Tasmania , where it fruits on the ground of wet sclerophyll forests in late spring to early winter ( usually between January and March ) . The fruit bodies ( mushrooms ) have reddi... |
1,518 | The French ironclad Normandie was the third and last of the three wooden hulled Gloire class ironclads built for the French Navy in 1858 62 . The ships of the Gloire class were classified as armoured frigates because they only had a single gun deck and their traditional disposition of guns arrayed along the length o... |
1,519 | Digger T. Rock Legend of the Lost City is a platform video game developed by Rare and published by the Milton Bradley Company for the Nintendo Entertainment System . It was first released in North America in December 1990 and in Europe in 1991 . The game centres around the miner Digger T. Rock , as he unk various cave... |
1,520 | German submarine U 36 was a Type VIIA U boat of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine which served during World War II . She was constructed in the earliest days of the U boat arm at Kiel in 1936 , and served in the pre war Navy in the Baltic Sea and North Sea under Kapitnleutnant ( Kptlt . ) Klaus unk . Korvettenkapitn ( u... |
1,521 | Gotta Have It is a song by American hip hop artists Kanye West and Jay Z from their first collaborative album Watch the Throne ( 2011 ) . The song was produced by West and The Neptunes , and samples three original compositions by James Brown Don t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won t Tell the Truth About You , Peop... |
1,522 | New York State Route 280 ( NY 280 ) is an 11 . 59 mile ( 18 . 65 km ) long north south state highway in rural Cattaraugus County , New York , in the United States . The southern terminus of the route is at the Pennsylvania state line in South Valley , where it becomes Pennsylvania Route 346 ( PA 346 ) . The northern ... |
1,523 | Malian ( pennant number P 901 ) was a CB class midget submarine in service with the Yugoslav Navy ( Serbo Croatian Jugoslavenska ratna mornarica JRM ) . Malian was laid down in 1943 as CB 20 for the Regia Marina ( Royal Navy ) . Following the Italian Armistice in September 1943 , the unfinished boat was captured... |
1,524 | Katsud Shashin ( , moving picture ) , sometimes called the Matsumoto fragment , is a Japanese animated filmstrip that is the oldest known work of animation from Japan . Its creator is unknown . Evidence suggests it was made before 1912 , so it may predate the earliest displays of Western animated films in Japan . It... |
1,525 | Greatest Hits My Prerogative is a greatest videos DVD compilation by singer Britney Spears . Designed by Jim unk , the highly interactive collection was released by Jive Records on November 9 , 2004 , it accompanied the greatest hits of the same name . The collection contained all of Spears 's music videos from 1998 t... |
1,526 | Delaware Route 8 ( DE 8 ) is a state highway located in Kent County in the U.S. state of Delaware . It runs from Maryland Route 454 ( MD 454 ) at the Maryland border in Marydel east to an intersection with DE 9 north of Little Creek . The route passes through rural areas of western Kent County before heading through De... |
1,527 | The Chiming Fountain , also known as Cupid 's Fountain , the John Staehli Fountain , Portland 's City Park Fountain and Washington Park Fountain , is an outdoor cast iron fountain and sculpture built in 1891 by John Hans Staehli . It is installed in Washington Park in Portland , Oregon , United States . The fountain ... |
1,528 | New York State Route 178 ( NY 178 ) is an east west state highway in Jefferson County , New York , in the United States . It extends for 10 . 23 miles ( 16 . 46 km ) from an intersection with NY 3 by unk Corners in the town of Henderson to a junction with U.S. Route 11 ( US 11 ) in the village of Adams . NY 178 meets ... |
1,529 | State Route 305 ( SR 305 ) is a 13 . 50 mile long ( 21 . 73 km ) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington , primarily serving Bainbridge Island in Kitsap County and connecting it to Seattle in King County via the Seattle Winslow Ferry . The highway travels north through Bainbridge Island and leaves the island o... |
1,530 | Mgr . Libor Michlek , MPA ( born 1968 ) is a Czech economist , politician , and whistleblower . He led successful corruption cases against the Czech National Property Fund and the Environment Ministry as former employees of both . He is the first Pirate Party candidate to be elected to office in a national legislature ... |
1,531 | The 93rd Boat Race took place on 29 March 1947 . Held annually , the Boat Race is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames in London . In a race umpired by former Oxford rower D. T. Raikes , Cambridge won by ten lengths in a time of 23 minutes 1 sec... |
1,532 | Gagak Item ( unk unk Vernacular Malay for Black Raven , also known by the Dutch title De Zwarte unk ) is a 1939 bandit film from the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) directed by Joshua and Othniel Wong for Tan 's Film . Starring Rd Mochtar , Roekiah , and Eddy T. Effendi , it follows a masked man known only as G... |
1,533 | Theodosius ( Greek unk August 4 , 583 585 after November 27 , 602 ) was the eldest son of Byzantine Emperor Maurice ( r . 582 602 ) and was co emperor from 590 until his deposition and execution during a military revolt in November 602 . Along with his father in law Germanus , he was briefly proposed as success... |
1,534 | Old Jock ( 1859 1871 ) , was a famous Fox Terrier during the late 19th and early 20th centuries . A mostly white dog , he ran briefly with a hunting kennel before becoming a show dog , most notably with a victory at the show which popularised the Fox Terrier . His main show rivalry was with a dog named Tartar , and al... |
1,535 | Mussie , also known as unk or unk , is a cryptid , an animal whose existence is the subject of folklore but has not been proven , that is rumored to live in Muskrat Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario . The creature 's age , gender , and physical appearance are not agreed upon it is variously described , for exam... |
1,536 | Kepler 10 , formerly known as KOI 72 , is a Sun like star in the constellation of Draco that lies 173 parsecs ( 564 light years ) from Earth . Kepler 10 was targeted by NASA 's Kepler spacecraft , as it was seen as the first star identified by the Kepler mission that could be a possible host to a small , transiting... |
1,537 | Gesche Schnemann ( born 18 November 1982 ) is a German wheelchair basketball player and Paralympian who was part of the team that took the silver medal in the women 's wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing , and the gold medal winning team in wheelchair basketball at the 2012 Summer Paralympic... |
1,538 | Marasmius sasicola is a species of Marasmiaceae fungus known from Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan . First collected in 2000 , it was described in 2002 by Haruki Takahashi . The species produces small mushrooms with white caps and very short , very thin black stems . Unlike in other , similar species , the stems enter the p... |
1,539 | Mark Kellogg ( March 31 , 1831 June 25 , 1876 ) was a newspaper reporter killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn . Kellogg rode with George Armstrong Custer during the battle and was evidently one of the first men killed by the Sioux and Cheyenne . His dispatches were the only press coverage of Custer and his men i... |
1,540 | Tropical Depression Nine caused minor flooding in Central America in September 2001 . The ninth tropical cyclone of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season , the depression developed from a tropical wave in the southwestern Caribbean Sea on September 19 . Without significant intensification , the depression made landfall in... |
1,541 | The 2011 12 Princeton Tigers men 's basketball team represented Princeton University during the 2011 12 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Tigers , led by first year head coach Mitch Henderson , played their home games at Jadwin Gymnasium and are members of the Ivy League . The team captains were seniors ... |
1,542 | Pennsylvania Route 664 ( designated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as SR unk ) is a 17 . 59 mile long ( 28 . 31 km ) state highway located in Clinton and Lycoming counties in Pennsylvania . The southern terminus is at State Route 120 in Lock Haven , while the northern terminus is at State Route 44 o... |
1,543 | Principe Amedeo was an ironclad warship built by the Italian Regia Marina in the 1860s and 1870s . She was the lead ship of the Principe Amedeo class , alongside her sister ship Palestro . Principe Amedeo was laid down in 1865 , launched in 1872 , and completed in late 1874 . She was armed with a battery of six 10 in (... |
1,544 | Jugband Blues is a song by the English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd , and is featured on their second album , A Saucerful of Secrets , released in 1968 . Written by Syd Barrett , it was his sole compositional contribution to the album , as well as his last published for the band . Barrett and Pink Floyd 's manage... |
1,545 | From Bakunin to Lacan Anti unk and the unk of Power is a book on political philosophy by Saul Newman , published in 2001 . It investigates the essential characteristics of anarchist theory , which holds that government and hierarchy are undesirable forms of social organisation . Newman seeks to move beyond the limita... |
1,546 | State Route 432 ( SR 432 ) is a 10 . 32 mile long ( 16 . 61 km ) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington , serving the cities of Longview and Kelso in Cowlitz County . The highway travels east along the Columbia River from an intersection with SR 4 in West Longview through the Port of Longview and the termini o... |
1,547 | Rebecca Anderson ( born May 1991 ) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Oregon City , Oregon . She won a series of local titles beginning in 2011 and was crowned Miss Oregon 2014 . Entering her first pageant at age 19 , Anderson competed successfully in local pageants until , on her fourth attempt , she won ... |
1,548 | The Harley J. Earl Trophy is the trophy presented to the winner of the premier and season opening event of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR ) , the Daytona 500 . It is named after influential automobile designer Harley Earl , who served as the second commissioner of NASCAR . Earl has been ... |
1,549 | The 111th Boat Race took place on 26 March 1966 . Held annually , the event is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The race was won by Oxford , who led from the start , by three and three quarter lengths , in the third fastest time in Boa... |
1,550 | The 153rd Boat Race took place on 7 April 2007 , and featured the most non British rowers in the history of the event . Held annually , the Boat Race is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The Cambridge crew were considerably heavier than th... |
1,551 | Hurricane Newton was one of the few tropical cyclones that were intercepted by Hurricane Hunter flights during the moderately active 1986 Pacific hurricane season . A tropical depression formed near Central America on September 18 two days later , the depression was upgraded into a tropical storm . Moving towards to n... |
1,552 | In Norse mythology , Dagr ( Old Norse day ) is day personified . This personification appears in the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources , and the Prose Edda , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson . In both sources , Dagr is stated to be the son of the god Dellingr a... |
1,553 | Maryland Route 318 ( MD 318 ) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland . The state highway runs 11 . 32 miles ( 18 . 22 km ) from MD 16 and MD 331 at Preston east to the Delaware state line near Federalsburg , where the highway continues east as Delaware Route 18 ( DE 18 ) . MD 318 connects Federalsburg with Pr... |
1,554 | The Trustee Investments Act 1961 ( c 62 ) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that covers where trustees can invest trust funds . Given the royal assent on 3 August 1961 , it removed the Statutory Lists system and replaced it with sets of specific investment areas . The Act was heavily criticised for t... |
1,555 | Abyss is a steel roller coaster located at the Adventure World amusement park in Perth , Western Australia . The 12 million attraction was announced in April 2013 , and construction began the following month . Six months later , the ride opened to the general public on 1 November 2013 . The Abyss is a Euro Fighter ... |
1,556 | The Casino Employees Championship is one of only three closed tournaments awarding WSOP bracelet 's at the World Series of Poker gathering . While most of the events are open to the general public , participants in the Ladies Championship , Seniors Championship , and the Casino Employees Championship must meet certain ... |
1,557 | James Dudley ( May 12 , 1910 June 1 , 2004 ) was an American baseball player , professional wrestling manager , and professional wrestling executive . He played Negro league baseball for nine years but is best known for his time with the World Wide Wrestling Federation . Dudley was the first African American to run a... |
1,558 | The Alpine Spaniel is an extinct breed of dog which was used in mountain rescues by the Augustinian Canons , who run hospices in the region around the Great St. Bernard Pass . The spaniel was a large dog notable for its thick curly coat . One of the most famous specimens of the Alpine Spaniel is Barry , however his pre... |
1,559 | Sir James Shaw , 1st Baronet ( 26 August 1764 22 October 1843 ) , became Lord Mayor of London in 1805 . From humble beginnings in a farming family in Ayrshire , he became a successful merchant and politician he was a relation of Robert Burns and used his wealth to support Burns 's orphaned children . As Lord Mayor of... |
1,560 | Tranz Am is an action video game developed and published by Ultimate Play The Game that was released for the ZX Spectrum in July 1983 . The game is set in a post apocalyptic version of the United States and centres around a racing car driver on his quest to obtain the Eight Great Cups of Ultimate , which are scattered... |
1,561 | The 130th Boat Race took place on 18 March 1984 . Held annually , the event is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The race was originally scheduled to take place the day before but the Cambridge boat struck a barge before the start and the r... |
1,562 | The French ironclad Armide was a wooden hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid 1860s . Placed into reserve after completion , she was first mobilized for the Franco Prussian War of 1870 71 . She spent the rest of her career in the Mediterranean and then in the Far East as flagship of the Frenc... |
1,563 | Alfred Dunhill unk ( 30 September 1872 2 January 1959 ) was an English tobacconist and inventor . He is the progenitor of the Dunhill luxury goods company and the Dunhill branded tobacco products from British American Tobacco ( now two independently owned entities ) . From 1893 Dunhill ran a company selling motoring ... |
1,564 | The Buffalo Grove ambush was an ambush that occurred on May 19 , 1832 as part of the Black Hawk War . A six man detail carrying dispatches from United States Colonel James M. Strode at Galena , Illinois to General Henry Atkinson at Dixon 's Ferry was ambushed by Native Americans during the attack . William Durley was ... |
1,565 | King 's Highway 140 , commonly referred to as Highway 140 , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . The highway connects Port Colborne near Lake Erie with Highway 406 in Welland , via the Main Street Tunnel . It was constructed in the early 1970s as part of the Welland Bypass project ... |
1,566 | In geometry , the complete or final stellation of the icosahedron is the outermost stellation of the icosahedron , and is complete and final because it includes all of the cells in the icosahedron 's stellation diagram . This polyhedron is the seventeenth stellation of the icosahedron , and given as Wenninger mode... |
1,567 | King 's Highway 90 , commonly referred to as Highway 90 , was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . The route connected Barrie with the town of Angus and CFB Borden . The highway was designated in 1937 . During the early 1960s , the highway was realigned within Barrie in order to have ... |
1,568 | Clare Nott ( ne Burzynski ) ( born 11 August 1986 ) is an Australian 1 . 0 point wheelchair basketball player who plays for the Kilsyth Cobras in the Women 's national Wheelchair Basketball League ( WNWBL ) and for the Red Dust Heelers in the mixed National Wheelchair basketball League ( NWBL ) . She participated in th... |
1,569 | Thomas Vincent Darden ( born August 28 , 1950 ) is a former American football cornerback , safety , and punt returner who played for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League ( NFL ) . In the NFL , he was a three time All Pro free safety . He earned a Pro Bowl selection in 1978 . He holds most Cleveland Br... |
1,570 | State Route 302 ( SR 302 ) is a 16 . 87 mile long ( 27 . 15 km ) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington , connecting the communities of Allyn Grapeview and Purdy on the Kitsap Peninsula , located in Mason and Pierce counties . The highway travels southeast from SR 3 in Allyn Grapeview along North Bay and tur... |
1,571 | John of Tynemouth ( died 1221 ) was a medieval English clergyman and canon lawyer . He was among the first teachers of canon law at what later became Oxford University , where he was by 1188 . By the late 1190s John had joined the household of the Archbishop of Canterbury , Hubert Walter . Besides his position in the h... |
1,572 | Succession is the thirteenth episode of NBC 's second season of 30 Rock and the thirty fourth episode overall . It was written by Andrew Guest and one of the seasons ' co executive producers , John Riggi it was directed by Gail Mancuso . It first aired on April 24 , 2008 in the United States . Guest stars in this ... |
1,573 | Testaroli , sometimes referred to as unk , is a type of pasta or bread in Italian cuisine that is prepared using water , flour and salt , which is sliced into triangular shapes . A common dish in the Lunigiana region and historical territory of Italy , it is an ancient pasta originating from the Etruscan civilization o... |
1,574 | Adrastea ( unk ad unk STEE Greek unk ) , also known as Jupiter XV , is the second by distance , and the smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter . It was discovered in photographs taken by Voyager 2 in 1979 , making it the first natural satellite to be discovered from images taken by an interplanetary spacec... |
1,575 | Robert Tatton ( 1606 19 August 1669 ) was the High Sheriff of Chester between 1645 and 1646 . A supporter of King Charles I in the English Civil War , Robert is perhaps best known for the ultimately unsuccessful defence of his family home , Wythenshawe Hall , during its three month siege by a Parliamentary force in t... |
1,576 | Juno , minor planet designation 3 Juno in the Minor Planet Center catalogue system , is an asteroid in the asteroid belt . Juno was the third asteroid discovered , on 1 September 1804 by German astronomer Karl L. Harding . It is the 11th largest asteroid , and one of the two largest stony ( S type ) asteroids , alon... |
1,577 | Super Typhoon Angela , known in the Philippines as Typhoon Rubing , was an intense tropical cyclone that formed in late September 1989 . The storm developed from a tropical disturbance in the monsoon trough and moved generally westward throughout its duration . The storm ultimately peaked in intensity as a super typhoo... |
1,578 | Eppur Si unk is the sixteenth episode of The West Wing 's fifth season , and episode 104 from the start . It originally aired on NBC March 3 , 2004 . Events centre on a controversy relating to the National Institutes of Health , involving President Bartlet s middle daughter Ellie . Written by Alexa Junge and directe... |
1,579 | Conspiracy Encyclopedia The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories is a non fiction reference book about conspiracy theories , with an introduction by editor Thom Burnett . It was published in 2005 by Chamberlain Bros. , and in 2006 by Collins Brown . Contributors to the work include Thom Burnett , Nigel Cawthorne , Ri... |
1,580 | Tropical Storm Norman was a tropical cyclone that hit Mexico in September 2000 . The sixteenth cyclone and fourteenth named storm of the 2000 Pacific hurricane season , Norman originated in a tropical wave that emerged from the coast of Africa on September 4 , and moved westward across the Atlantic Ocean the wave ente... |
1,581 | Seaplane Squadron was a flying unit of the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) between the wars . It operated Supermarine Southampton flying boats from January 1928 , as well as other types . Along with Fighter Squadron , Seaplane Squadron was a component of No. 1 Flying Training School , based at RAAF Point Cook , Vic... |
1,582 | In Norse mythology , Sga ( Old Norse unk , possibly meaning seeress ) is a goddess associated with the wisdom Skkvabekkr ( Old Norse unk sunken bank , sunken bench , or treasure bank ) . At Skkvabekkr , Sga and the god Odin merrily drink as cool waves flow . Both Sga and Skkvabekkr are attested in the Po... |
1,583 | Nathan Covington Brooks ( August 12 , 1809 October 6 , 1898 ) was an American educator , historian , and poet . Born in West Nottingham , Cecil County , Maryland , Brooks grew up to become the first principal of Baltimore City College , the third oldest public high school in the United States , and the only president ... |
1,584 | HMS Flint Castle ( unk ) was one of 44 Castle class corvettes built for the Royal Navy during World War II . Completed at the end of 1943 , the ship ran aground while training in January 1944 . After repairs were completed the following month , she was briefly assigned to the 39th Escort Group for convoy escort duties... |
1,585 | Shon the Piper is a 1913 American silent short historical romantic drama film directed by Otis Turner and starring Robert Z. Leonard . The film follows a Scottish Duke who disguises himself as a piper and falls in love with a woman by the name of Madge . The woman 's father , refuses to let the two marry because he wan... |
1,586 | Self Made Man is the 20th episode ( 11th of the second season ) of the United States television series Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles ( T TSCC ) . Aired on December 1 , 2008 ( 2008 12 01 ) , Self Made Man explores Cameron 's nighttime activities of enlisting help to research a Terminator 's presence in ... |
1,587 | The Brooke Street Pier is a floating pontoon building at Sullivans Cove in the waterfront area of the city of Hobart , Tasmania , Australia . It was constructed in 2014 15 at a cost of A 13 million . It weighs 5 , 300 tonnes ( 5 , 216 long tons ) and was Australia 's largest floating building upon completion . It is ... |
1,588 | Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1596 ) , one of the Rude Mechanicals of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe . His part is often considered one of the more humorous in the play , as he uses a lantern in a failed attempt ... |
1,589 | Back to the Shack is a song by the American rock band Weezer . It was released as the first single from their ninth studio album Everything Will Be Alright in the End on July 22 , 2014 . The song was sent to radio stations and uploaded to Weezer 's YouTube channel a day before the single 's official release . It was ... |
1,590 | Marta is a Latin pop song recorded by Guatemalan recording artist Ricardo Arjona . It was released on 29 March 2011 as the third and final single from his twelfth studio album , Poquita Ropa ( 2010 ) . It was written by Arjona , who produced it with longtime collaborators Dan Warner and Lee Levin under their stage na... |
1,591 | Silver Bullet is a western themed steel inverted roller coaster designed by Bolliger Mabillard located at Knott 's Berry Farm , an amusement park in Buena Park , California . The 16 million roller coaster was announced on December 1 , 2003 and opened on December 7 , 2004 . A first rider auction was also held where p... |
1,592 | Hurricane Ekeka was an unusual Pacific tropical cyclone that attained major hurricane status during the month of February . The first storm of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season , Ekeka developed on January 28 well to the south of Hawaii . It gradually intensified to reach major hurricane status on February 2 , although... |
1,593 | Storo is a rapid transit station on the Ring Line of the Oslo Metro , and a tram station on the Grnerlkka Torshov Line of the Oslo Tramway . It is located at Storo in the Nordre Aker borough of Oslo , Norway . The tram station opened on 28 November 1902 , and the rapid transit station on 20 August 2003 . Metro lines 4... |
1,594 | Georg Eduard Albert Krugers ( also written as G. Kruger ) was a cameraman and film director active in the Dutch East Indies ( modern Indonesia ) during the early 20th century . He is recorded as having worked in film since the mid 1920s , and in 1927 he made his directorial debut , Eulis Atjih . He joined hajj pilgrim... |
1,595 | The 66th Boat Race took place on 3 April 1909 . Held annually , the Boat Race is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . Cambridge were reigning champions , having won the previous year 's race , while Oxford 's heavier crew contained three Olymp... |
1,596 | Microsoft vs. unk was a legal dispute between Microsoft and a Canadian Belmont High School student named Mike Rowe over the domain name unk . The case received international press attention following Microsoft 's perceived heavy handed approach to a 12th grade student 's part time web design business and the subseq... |
1,597 | Northern Area Command was one of several geographically based commands raised by the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) during World War II . It was formed in May 1941 , and covered the whole of northern Australia and Papua . Headquartered at Townsville , Queensland , Northern Area Command was primarily responsible fo... |
1,598 | Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine . First appearing in Philadelphia , Redheffer exhibited his machine to the public , charging high prices for viewing . When he applied to the government for more money , a group of inspectors were sent to examine the mach... |
1,599 | Madness is a song by English rock band Muse . It is the second track on the band 's sixth studio album , The 2nd Law , and the second single to be released from the album . The song was released as a digital download on 20 August 2012 . It was written by Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy and produced by the band themselv... |
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