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1,900 | Zennor Head unk unk is a 750 metre ( 2 , 460 ft ) long promontory on the Cornish coast of England , between Pendour Cove and Porthzennor Cove . Facing the Atlantic Ocean , it lies 1 kilometre north west of the village of Zennor and 1 . 6 kilometres east of the next promontory , Gurnard 's Head . The granite ( Killa... |
1,901 | HMS Nile was one of two Trafalgar class ironclad battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s . Late deliveries of her main guns delayed her commissioning until 1891 and she spent most of the decade with the Mediterranean Fleet . Nile returned home in 1898 and became the coast guard ship at Devonport for five... |
1,902 | State Route 27 ( SR 27 ) is a 90 mile long ( 145 km ) state highway serving Whitman and Spokane counties , located in the eastern region of the U.S. state of Washington . The highway travels generally north from U.S. Route 195 ( US 195 ) through Pullman , Palouse , Tekoa , and Spokane Valley to SR 290 north of an int... |
1,903 | Lisa the Simpson is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons 's ninth season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 8 , 1998 . In the episode , Lisa fears that she may be genetically predisposed to lose her intelligence after Grandpa tells her of a family gene that can permanently take ... |
1,904 | Julius Franks , Jr . ( September 5 , 1922 November 26 , 2008 ) was a civil rights leader and an All American guard who played football at the University of Michigan from 1941 to 1942 . Franks wore 62 as a varsity letterman in 1941 and 63 in 1942 . Franks was the first ( or second depending on the source ) African ... |
1,905 | Lev Chernyi ( Russian unk unk IPA unk unk died September 21 , 1921 ) was a Russian individualist anarchist theorist , activist and poet , and a leading figure of the Third Russian Revolution . In 1917 , Chernyi was released from his political imprisonment by the Imperial Russian regime , and swiftly became one of... |
1,906 | Seisho Maru ( Japanese unk , unk Maru ) was a cargo ship for Mitsui unk unk in military service that was sunk by an American submarine during World War II . The ship had been built as SS West Caruth , a cargo ship for the United States Shipping Board ( USSB ) shortly after the end of World War I. Shortly after complet... |
1,907 | Hurricane Olivia was considered the worst hurricane to hit Mazatln , Sinaloa since 1943 , in addition to being the strongest landfalling and costliest hurricane of the 1975 Pacific hurricane season . Olivia formed on October 22 to the south of Mexico , quickly intensifying into a tropical storm . The storm moved northw... |
1,908 | Glory and Gore is a song by New Zealand singer Lorde from her debut studio album , Pure Heroine ( 2013 ) . The song was released on 11 March 2014 as the album 's fifth single by Lava Records and Republic Records . The track was written by Lorde and its producer , Joel Little . Glory and Gore is an electropop song i... |
1,909 | The 1939 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1939 . Before the satellite age started in the 1960s , data on east Pacific hurricanes are extremely unreliable . Most east Pacific storms are of no threat to land . However , 1939 saw a large number of storms threaten California . Storms ... |
1,910 | Striking the Autonomous Region of Azores on 1 January , the 1980 Azores Island earthquake killed 61 people and injured over 400 , causing severe damage on the islands of Terceira and So Jorge . Measuring 7 . 2 on the Richter scale , it also shook the islands of Pico and Faial , and resulted from a strike slip fracture ... |
1,911 | New York State Route 141 ( NY 141 ) is a north south state highway in Westchester County , New York , in the United States . It extends for 3 . 49 miles ( 5 . 62 km ) from an interchange with NY 9A in the hamlet of Hawthorne to an intersection with NY 117 in the village of Pleasantville . The route has a very short ov... |
1,912 | Cheng Yan Yan Wendy ( born Cheng Yan Yan 28 April 1984 ) , better known by her pseudonym Xiaxue , is a Singaporean blogger and online television personality who writes about her life , fashion and local issues in a provocative style . Her main blog , which attracts about 50 , 000 readers daily , has won prestigious bl... |
1,913 | The Schenecker double homicide occurred on January 27 , 2011 Calyx and Beau Schenecker were found dead by police at their home in Tampa , Florida . Their mother , Julie Powers Schenecker , was arrested on suspicion of their murder after an alleged confession . On January 29 , Schenecker was admitted to Tampa General ... |
1,914 | Jessie Stephen , MBE ( 19 April 1893 12 June 1979 ) was a twentieth century British suffragette , labour activist and local councillor . She grew up in Scotland and won a scholarship to train as a teacher . Family finances dictated otherwise , leading to her becoming a domestic worker at the age of 15 . She became in... |
1,915 | King John 's Hunting Lodge is a wool merchant 's house built c . 1460 in Axbridge , a town in the English county of Somerset . It is a jettied timber frame building of three storeys , occupying a corner plot on the town square . The building has served a variety of purposes with shops on the ground floor and workshop... |
1,916 | M 120 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in the southwest Lower Peninsula . The highway runs northeast from Muskegon to Hesperia . In between , the road passes through suburban Muskegon , forests and farmland . Some 5 , 900 26 , 000 vehicles use the highway each day on average as it runs long a ... |
1,917 | Mount Jackson ( Mount Andrew Jackson and Mount Ernest Gruening ) is a mountain that dominates the upland of the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in Palmer Land , within the Antarctic claims of Argentina , Chile and the United Kingdom . With an elevation of 3 , 184 metres ( 10 , 446 ft ) , Mount ... |
1,918 | The extraordinary 1952 Groundhog Day Storm was the only Atlantic tropical cyclone on record in the month of February . First observed in the western Caribbean Sea on February 2 as a non frontal low , it moved rapidly throughout its duration and struck southwestern Florida early the next day as a gale force storm . In... |
1,919 | Fantasy was a British pulp science fiction magazine which published three issues in 1938 and 1939 . The editor was T. Stanhope Sprigg when the war started , he enlisted in the RAF and the magazine was closed down . The publisher , George Newnes Ltd , paid respectable rates , and as a result Sprigg was able to obtain s... |
1,920 | Apocalypse is a steel stand up roller coaster located at Six Flags America in Prince George 's County , Maryland . The ride made its debut in 1990 as Iron Wolf at Six Flags Great America before being relocated to Six Flags America and renamed to Apocalypse . The roller coaster was the first built by Swiss manufacturer... |
1,921 | Acrcate ( English Come Closer ) is a song recorded by Puerto Rican reggaetn recording artist Ivy Queen and duo Wisin Yandel for Queen 's seventh studio album Drama Queen ( 2010 ) . It was composed by Queen and Marcos Masis alongside the duo , while being produced by Luny Tunes and Tainy . Originally entitled No ... |
1,922 | Subtropical Storm One was a short lived subtropical cyclone that brought copious amounts of rainfall to central Florida in late June 1974 . The storm originated in an area of convection that detached from a tropical depression over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on June 24 . A new area of low pressure developed under... |
1,923 | Hurricane Brenda of August 1973 was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the Mexican Province of Campeche . The tropical wave that spawned Brenda moved off the west coast of Africa on August 9 , and uneventfully traversed the Atlantic . By August 18 , an associated area of low pressure developed suf... |
1,924 | The Goat Puzzle , also known as The Infamous Goat Puzzle , The Infamous Goat , The Wretched Goat , The Goat of Lochmarne , or simply The Goat , is a puzzle featured in Revolution Software 's 1996 classic point and click adventure game Broken Sword The Shadow of the Templars . In the puzzle , protagonist George Stobbar... |
1,925 | Fleiss ' kappa ( named after Joseph L. Fleiss ) is a statistical measure for assessing the reliability of agreement between a fixed number of raters when assigning categorical ratings to a number of items or classifying items . This contrasts with other unk such as Cohen 's kappa , which only work when assessing the ag... |
1,926 | Britney Spears In the Zone ( stylized as unk unk IN THE unk ) is the fifth video release by American recording artist Britney Spears . Released by Jive Records on April 6 , 2004 , it accompanied the album of the same name . The DVD contains her ABC concert special Britney Spears In the Zone , as well as footage from... |
1,927 | Rock Me is a song by English Irish boy band One Direction from their second studio album , Take Me Home ( 2012 ) . It was written by Peter Svensson , Sam Hollander , Lukasz Gottwald , Henry Walter , Breanna Smith , and Allan Grigg , with production handled by Dr. Luke , unk and Kool Kojak . Created in one day , Grig... |
1,928 | Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath , Somerset , England , was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown , and is now owned by the National Trust . The garden was influential in defining the style known as the English lan... |
1,929 | George P. Burdell is a fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke . Since then , he has supposedly received all undergraduate degrees offered by Georgia Tech , served in the military , gotten married , and served on Mad magazine 's Board of Directors , among other accomplishments... |
1,930 | US Highway 45 ( US 45 ) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Mobile , Alabama , to the Upper Peninsula ( UP ) of the US state of Michigan . The highway forms a part of the state trunkline highway system that is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation ( MDOT ) . It enters... |
1,931 | Connie Talbot 's Christmas Album , sometimes referred to as Connie 's Christmas Album or just Christmas Album , is the second album by the English child singer Connie Talbot , released on 24 November 2008 . The album is made up of Christmas themed songs , and was recorded in the middle of 2008 . Shortly after the rele... |
1,932 | Kashima ( unk ( unk ) , Kashima ( senkan ) ) was the second ship of the two Katori class pre dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) in the first decade of the 20th century , the last to be built by British shipyards . Ordered just before the start of the Russo Japanese War of 1904 05 ,... |
1,933 | Caloscypha is a fungal genus in the family unk ( order Pezizales ) . A monotypic genus , it contains the single species Caloscypha fulgens , commonly known as the spring orange peel fungus , the golden cup , or the dazzling cup . It is a cup fungus , typically up to 4 centimetres ( 1 . 6 in ) in diameter , with a brigh... |
1,934 | The Groton Monument , sometimes called the Fort Griswold Monument , is a granite monument in Groton , Connecticut . It is dedicated to the defenders who fell during the Battle of Groton Heights on September 6 , 1781 . The monument was originally 127 feet ( 39 m ) high , but it was later changed in 1881 to commemorate t... |
1,935 | Hurricane Rosa was the only Pacific hurricane to make landfall during the above average 1994 Pacific hurricane season . It killed at least 4 people in Mexico . Moisture from the hurricane was a factor in widespread flooding in the U.S. state of Texas that killed 22 people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in ... |
1,936 | PRR 4800 , nicknamed Old Rivets , is a GG1 class electric locomotive located at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania , outside of Strasburg , Pennsylvania in the United States . It is the prototype GG1 and was originally numbered 4899 . Built by General Electric in 1934 , the locomotive competed against a prototype ,... |
1,937 | Msambweni ( meaning land of Sable Antelope in Swahili ) is a small fishing town and constituency in Kwale County of southeastern Kenya , formerly in Kwale District of Coast Province . By road , Msambweni is 55 . 4 kilometres ( 34 . 4 mi ) south of Mombasa and 46 . 5 kilometres ( 28 . 9 mi ) northeast of Lunga Lunga o... |
1,938 | Clavaria fragilis , commonly known as fairy fingers , white worm coral , or white spindles , is a species of fungus in the family Clavariaceae . It is synonymous with Clavaria vermicularis . The fungus is the type species of the genus Clavaria and is a typical member of the clavarioid or club fungi . It produces tubula... |
1,939 | Nico Ditch ( occasionally Mickle Ditch or unk ) is a linear earthwork , six miles ( 9 . 7 km ) long , running between Ashton under Lyne and Stretford in Greater Manchester , England . It may have been dug as a defensive fortification , or possibly a boundary marker . It was constructed some time between the 5th and 1... |
1,940 | SM U 30 or U XXX was a U 27 class U boat or submarine of the Austro Hungarian Navy . U 30 , built by the Hungarian firm of Ganz Danubius at Fiume , was launched in December 1916 and commissioned in February 1917 . U 30 had a single hull and was just over 121 feet ( 37 m ) in length . She displaced nearly 265 me... |
1,941 | Chelsea is the debut song recorded by American pop rock band Stefy . It was released as the lead single from their debut album , The Orange Album ( 2006 ) . It was sent to mainstream radio in June 2006 and was made available as a CD single and digital download by Wind up Records on July 18 . The song features a melo... |
1,942 | Interstate 590 ( I 590 ) is a north south auxiliary Interstate Highway that serves the immediate southeastern suburbs of the city of Rochester , New York , in the United States . It extends for 5 . 07 miles ( 8 . 16 km ) from an interchange with I 390 in Brighton to the Can of Worms , a complex interchange connectin... |
1,943 | The X Files The Album is a 1998 soundtrack album released to accompany the film The X Files . Released on June 2 , 1998 , the album features songs by various artists , including several who had contributed to the earlier album Songs in the Key of X Music from and Inspired by the X Files , and consists mostly of co... |
1,944 | The 2002 Oman cyclone ( JTWC designation 01A , officially known as Cyclonic Storm ARB 01 ) was an uncommon tropical cyclone that struck the Dhofar region of Oman in May 2002 . The first storm of the 2002 North Indian Ocean cyclone season , it developed on May 6 in the Arabian Sea , and it maintained a general west no... |
1,945 | Volvopluteus michiganensis is a species of mushroom in the family Pluteaceae . It was originally described under the name Pluteus michiganensis but molecular studies have placed it in the Volvopluteus , a genus described in 2011 . The cap of this mushroom is about 7 9 cm ( 2 . 8 3 . 5 in ) in diameter , gray , and ha... |
1,946 | Trapalcotherium is a fossil mammal from the Cretaceous of Argentina in the family Ferugliotheriidae . The single species , T. matuastensis , is known from one tooth , a first lower molar . It is from the Allen Formation , which is probably Maastrichtian in age , and was first described in 2009 . The tooth bears two row... |
1,947 | Tropical Storm Amy was the first tropical cyclone to develop during the 1975 Atlantic hurricane season . Forming on June 28 from a trough of low pressure , Amy gradually attained tropical storm status off the coast of North Carolina . A rapidly approaching trough caused Amy to turn sharply eastward before the storm too... |
1,948 | Here with Me is a song by Christian rock band , MercyMe . Written and composed by the band , as well as Peter unk , Dan Muckala and Brad Russell , Here with Me is a ballad with a musical vibe influenced by worship , pop and rock music the overall sound has been compared to that of alternative rock band , Coldplay ... |
1,949 | Kepler 11e is an exoplanet ( extrasolar planet ) discovered in the orbit of the sunlike star Kepler 11 . It is the fourth of six planets around Kepler 11 discovered by NASA 's Kepler spacecraft . Kepler 11e was found by using the transit method , in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in fro... |
1,950 | Hurricane Isaac was the final tropical cyclone of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season . Isaac originated in a tropical wave that entered the Atlantic Ocean on September 18 . An associated area of disturbed weather eventually organized sufficiently to be declared a tropical depression on September 27 , while located 930 ... |
1,951 | Migrate is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her eleventh studio album , E MC ( 2008 ) . It was written and produced by Carey and Danja , with additional songwriting from The Clutch and the tracks featured artist , T Pain . An up tempo hip hop club track , it is about Carey 's movement on... |
1,952 | Ireland King of Arms was the title of an officer of arms to the King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1392 until the accession of Henry VII as King of England in 1485 . A king of arms is the highest of the three levels of officers of arms , and usually enjoys heraldic jurisdiction over a geographical area . Despite ... |
1,953 | R.C. Pro Am II is a racing video game developed by Rare and released by Tradewest for the Nintendo Entertainment System in December 1992 . The game is the sequel to the 1988 R.C. Pro Am and features similar gameplay with a wider variety of tracks , currency based vehicle and weapon upgrades , and bonus stages . In R... |
1,954 | New York State Route 227 ( NY 227 ) is a state highway in the Finger Lakes region of New York in the United States . The highway extends for 9 . 84 miles ( 15 . 84 km ) in a northeast southwest direction from an intersection with NY 79 south of the hamlet of Reynoldsville in the town of Hector to a junction with NY 96... |
1,955 | The 104th Boat Race took place on 5 April 1958 . 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 race was umpired by former Cambridge rower Kenneth Payne and featured the first cox to follow his father in steering one... |
1,956 | Stembridge Tower Mill in High Ham , Somerset , England , is the last remaining thatched windmill in England . The mill is a grade II listed building . The stone tower mill was built in 1822 with four floors and a thatched cap . A steam engine was installed in 1894 , and became the mill 's sole source of power after... |
1,957 | Lagrivea is a fossil genus of squirrel from the Middle Miocene of France . The single species , L. vireti , is known from three mandibles ( lower jaws ) and two isolated teeth . All come from the fissure filling ( a fossil deposit formed when a rock fissure filled with sediment ) of La Grive L5 , part of the La Grive ... |
1,958 | Kwakiutl ( or variously unk ) is a totem sculpture by Aboriginal Canadian artist Simon Charlie , which has caused controversy for its nudity over multiple decades of display in Chinguacousy Township , and later Brampton , both near Toronto in Ontario , Canada . Charlie , also known as unk ' , later received the Order o... |
1,959 | The Lucky Shot is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The plot is follows Jack Hunt , the son of a wealthy woman , who weds a chorus singer Nell Horsley . Jack 's mother forgives the son 's error , but rejects his wife . Then Jack is killed while on strike duty in the local militia a... |
1,960 | Eagle Cash ( stylized as EagleCash ) , and sister program EZpay , are cash management applications that use stored value card technology to process financial transactions in closed loop operating environments . The programs are sponsored by the United States Department of the Treasury for the U.S. Armed Forces . Th... |
1,961 | Henry Buster Smith ( August 24 , 1904 August 10 , 1991 ) , also known as Professor Smith , was an American jazz alto saxophonist and mentor to Charlie Parker . Smith was instrumental in instituting the Texas Sax Sound with Count Basie and Lester Young in the 1930s . Smith played saxophone for a range of musicians in... |
1,962 | Alimuddin ( Urdu unk unk 15 December 1930 12 July 2012 ) was a Pakistani cricketer who played 25 Tests for Pakistan between 1954 and 1962 . A fast scoring , right handed opening batsman and occasional right arm leg break bowler , he was the youngest player ever to appear in first class cricket , aged 12 years an... |
1,963 | Peniophora quercina is a species of wood decay fungus in the family unk . The species produces fruit bodies which vary in appearance depending on whether they are wet or dry . The wet fruit bodies are waxy and lilac , and attached strongly to the wood . When dry , the edges curl up and reveal the dark underside , whil... |
1,964 | The Glanville Davies affair was a scandal in the English legal profession which resulted in greater reform of the regulatory processes for solicitors and was one of the justifications for the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . Glanville Davies was a well respected solicitor and a member of the Council of the Law Soc... |
1,965 | Allow Me , also known as Umbrella Man , is an iconic 1983 bronze sculpture by John Seward Johnson II , located in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland , Oregon , United States . The sculpture , one of seven Allow Me casts , was donated anonymously to the City of Portland in 1984 for display in the Square . It depicts ... |
1,966 | Hurricane Greta was an extremely large late season Atlantic hurricane in the 1956 Atlantic hurricane season . Originating from a tropical depression near Jamaica on October 30 , the system initially featured non tropical characteristics as it tracked northward . By November 2 , the system began producing gale force ... |
1,967 | Michael C. Salvatori ( born 1954 ) is an American composer best known for his collaboration with colleague Martin O 'Donnell for the soundtracks to the Halo video game series . Salvatori became acquainted with O 'Donnell in college when O 'Donnell was given a job offer to score a colleague 's film , Salvatori and O 'D... |
1,968 | The Rock N Roll McDonald 's ( formerly The Original Rock ' N Roll McDonald 's ) is a flagship McDonald 's restaurant located in Chicago , Illinois . It is one of the most famous McDonald 's locations in the world and was once the busiest in the United States . The restaurant museum , located in the River North section... |
1,969 | Iride was a torpedo cruiser of the Partenope class built for the Italian Regia Marina ( Royal Navy ) in the 1880s . Laid down in February 1889 at the Regio Cantiere di Castellammare di Stabia shipyard , she was launched in July 1890 and was commissioned in November 1892 . Her main armament were her six torpedo tubes , ... |
1,970 | Aphrodite is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue , taken from her eleventh studio album of the same name ( 2010 ) . Written and produced by Nerina Pallot and Andy Chatterley , the song was included as the title track on the album , which was released on 5 July 2010 . It was later included in the track... |
1,971 | The Robbery is the third episode of the first season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld . It aired as the third episode of the season on June 7 , 1990 . It was written by Matt Goldman , therefore making this the first Seinfeld episode not written by the show 's creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David . In the episode , Je... |
1,972 | A number of real life inspirations have been suggested for James Bond , the fictional character created in 1953 by British author , journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer Ian Fleming Bond appeared in twelve novels and nine short stories by Fleming , as well as a number of continuation novels and twenty six films ... |
1,973 | Do Ya Thang is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna , taken from the deluxe edition of her sixth studio album , Talk That Talk ( 2011 ) . It was written by Terius Nash and Rihanna herself , with production helmed by Nash under his stage name The Dream . Do Ya Thang is an R B song with prominent influence... |
1,974 | Phantom Phorce is a remix album of Super Furry Animals ' 2003 record Phantom Power . The remixes had previously appeared on the DVD version of Phantom Power they were re released as Phantom Phorce on the band 's own Placid Casual label as a way of ensuring the remixers would receive royalties for the tracks . The alb... |
1,975 | Wayzata Bay Center was an enclosed shopping mall in Wayzata , Minnesota , a suburb of the Twin Cities . Wayzata Bay Center once comprised 127 , 000 square feet ( 12 , 000 m2 ) of retail space , with approximately 30 stores on one level , but closed in 2011 after the city of Wayzata agreed upon constructing a new facili... |
1,976 | Ellis Coleman ( born August 16 , 1991 ) is an American wrestler from Chicago who won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials to compete for the United States team in the Greco Roman 60 kg competition of Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the 2012 Olympics . Coleman overcame challenging life conditions after being enrolled ... |
1,977 | Cadbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset , England , near the village of Tickenham . It is a scheduled monument . Although primarily known as a fort during the Iron Age it is likely , from artefacts , including a bronze spear or axe head , discovered at the site , that it was first used in the Bronze Age and s... |
1,978 | Sauganash Hotel ( originally Eagle Exchange Tavern ) is a former hotel regarded as the first hotel in Chicago , Illinois . It was located at Wolf Point in the present day Loop community area at the intersection of the north , south and main branches of the Chicago River . The location at West Lake Street and North Wac... |
1,979 | Freedom from Fear is the last of the well known Four Freedoms oil paintings produced by the American artist Norman Rockwell . The series was based on the four goals known as the Four Freedoms , which were enunciated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address on January 6 , 1941 . This work wa... |
1,980 | The Mega Bucks was a professional wrestling tag team that competed in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) in 1988 . The team , consisting of The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase and Andr the Giant , was formed in a storyline that saw DiBiase purchase Andr 's contract from fellow manager Bobby Heenan . Andr was to wi... |
1,981 | Florence Madeline Madge Syers ( ne Cave , 16 September 1881 9 September 1917 ) was a British figure skater . She became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902 by entering what was previously an all male event and won the silver medal , which prompted the International Skating U... |
1,982 | Electric is a song by Swedish recording artist Robyn from her second studio album My Truth ( 1999 ) . It was released as the album 's lead single on 29 April 1999 by BMG Sweden . Robyn wrote the track in collaboration with its producers Ulf Lindstrm and Johan Ekh . The single artwork features the singer wearing a fea... |
1,983 | In the early 20th century , the Greek Navy embarked on an expansion program to counter a strengthening of Greece 's traditional rival , the Ottoman Empire . The Ottomans ordered a new dreadnought battleship , Readiye in response , Greece ordered the dreadnought Salamis from a German shipyard . The Ottomans acquired th... |
1,984 | Goliath is a steel Hyper Coaster located at the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park in Cobb County , Georgia , United States . Designed by Bolliger Mabillard it reaches a maximum height of 200 feet ( 61 m ) , a top speed of 70 mph ( 110 km h ) , and has approximately 4 , 480 feet ( 1 , 370 m ) of track . Great Gasp... |
1,985 | Btsfjord Airport ( Norwegian Btsfjord lufthavn , IATA unk , ICAO unk ) is a regional airport serving Btsfjord in Finnmark , Norway . It consists of a 1 , 000 by 30 meters ( 3 , 281 by 98 ft ) runway and served 12 , 363 passengers in 2014 . Scheduled services are provided by Widere using the Dash 8 to Kirkenes , Hamm... |
1,986 | Adult Swim in a Box is a seven disc DVD box set produced by Williams Street and released by Warner Home Video on October 27 , 2009 . The box set contains various seasonal volume releases from Adult Swim series , as well as several pilots that were pitched to the network . The box set was first announced by Warner Home... |
1,987 | The Burnside Burn was an event held on the Burnside Bridge in Portland , Oregon , starting at midnight on July 1 , 2015 , the day recreational marijuana became legal in the U.S. state of Oregon . It was organized by Portland NORML , the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws , hav... |
1,988 | Mean Streak is a wooden roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky , Ohio . Built by Dinn Corporation , it opened to the public on May 11 , 1991 , breaking world records for tallest lift and the longest drop on a wooden roller coaster . Although the height record was only held for one season , it is still one of... |
1,989 | New York State Route 179 ( NY 179 ) is a short 4 . 40 mile ( 7 . 08 km ) long state highway located south of Buffalo in Erie County , New York , in the United States . It is a four lane divided road ( albeit with traffic lights ) for most of its length . It is known as Mile Strip Road . A small section between U.S. R... |
1,990 | Kid Klown in Crazy Chase ( unk , unk unk no unk unk ) is a platform video game developed and published by Kemco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . It was released in North America in September 1994 , Japan on October 21 , 1994 and in Europe in 1994 . The game features the Kid Klown , the player character who... |
1,991 | State Route 11 ( SR 11 ) is a north south freeway in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio . Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 30 ( US 30 ) in East Liverpool at the West Virginia state line on the Jennings Randolph Bridge over the Ohio River its northern terminus is at SR 531 in Ashtabula . The route is ... |
1,992 | Engleromyces sinensis is a species of fungus in the family Xylariaceae . It was described as new to science in 2010 , based on specimens collected in 1958 and incorrectly identified as Engleromyces goetzii . The fungus is known only from China , where it grows on bamboo culms . It forms fruit bodies in the shape of two... |
1,993 | SMS Gazelle was the lead ship of the ten vessel light cruiser Gazelle class , built by the Imperial German Navy . She was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel , laid down in 1897 , launched in March 1898 , and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in June 1901 . Armed with a main battery of ten 10 . 5 cm ( 4 . ... |
1,994 | The 136th Boat Race took place on 31 March 1990 . 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 . Oxford won by two and a quarter lengths . The race featured the heaviest oarsman ever to have rowed in the event in Oxfo... |
1,995 | Pulveroboletus ravenelii , commonly known as Ravenel 's bolete or the powdery sulfur bolete , is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae . Described as new to science in 1853 , the widely distributed species is known from Asia , Australia , North America , Central America , and South America . Mycorrhizal w... |
1,996 | My Only Wish ( This Year ) is a teen pop Christmas song performed by American recording artist Britney Spears . It was written by Brian Kierulf , Josh Schwartz and Spears . It was released originally in the Christmas compilation album Platinum Christmas . In it Spears asks Santa Claus to find her a lover during the h... |
1,997 | Edinburgh International Climbing Arena ( unk Ratho , formerly the Ratho Adventure Centre ) is an adventure sports facility located in Ratho , near Edinburgh , Scotland . Built in a disused quarry , it is the largest indoor climbing wall in the world . Financial problems months after it opened in December 2003 put the... |
1,998 | The 101st Boat Race took place on 26 March 1955 . 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 race , in which the Cambridge crew was substantially heavier than their opponents and where there were more non Britis... |
1,999 | The Avro Canada CF 103 was a proposed Canadian interceptor , designed by Avro Canada in the early 1950s as a development , and possible replacement of the company 's CF 100 Canuck , that was entering service at the time with the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) . Although intended to be capable of flying at transoni... |
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