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2,900 | treats ( often referred to as Treats , Treats , Treats Magazine or Treats Magazine ) is a limited edition erotica and fine arts magazine that is primarily available by subscription . The magazine , which debuted in 2011 , is described as a quarterly although it was initially only published twice per year . Publ... |
2,901 | The Ocean Village Marina is one of three marinas in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar , at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula . Formerly Sheppard 's Marina , it is located in the Bay of Gibraltar , between the North Mole of Gibraltar Harbour and the runway of Gibraltar International Airport . Both Ocea... |
2,902 | Love Won 't Wait is a song by English singer songwriter Gary Barlow from his debut album Open Road . It was released as the second single from the album on 25 April 1997 by BMG and RCA Records . The song was written by Madonna and Shep Pettibone , and was an unreleased demo from her Bedtime Stories ( 1994 ) studio s... |
2,903 | John Bradley Hirst unk ( 9 July 1942 3 February 2016 ) was an Australian historian and commentator . He has been described as an historian , public intellectual , and active citizen . Born in Adelaide , Hirst attended Unley High School and undertook his undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of Adela... |
2,904 | Gunfright is an arcade adventure video game developed by Ultimate Play the Game and published by U.S. Gold . It was first released for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and was ported to the Amstrad CPC and the MSX later that year . In the game , the player takes the role of a sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with... |
2,905 | The Christian doctrine of the Session of Christ or heavenly session says that Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven the word session is an archaic noun meaning sitting . Although the word formerly meant the act of sitting down , its meaning is somewhat broader in current English us... |
2,906 | Up All Night The Live Tour is a video album documenting the 3 January 2012 show of English Irish boy band One Direction 's Up All Night Tour . It was released on 28 May 2012 by Syco Music . Filmed at the International Centre in the British city of Bournemouth , the 73 minute recording was directed by Andy Saunders a... |
2,907 | SMS Wittelsbach ( His Majesty 's Ship Wittelsbach ) was the lead ship of the Wittelsbach class of pre dreadnought battleships of the Kaiserliche Marine . Wittelsbach was built at Wilhelmshaven Navy Dockyard . She was laid down in 1899 and completed in October 1902 , at the cost of 22 , 740 , 000 marks . Wittelsbach ... |
2,908 | Tiverton Preedy ( 22 January 1863 26 April 1928 ) was an English clergyman who worked in Yorkshire and London from 1887 until his death , where he was noted for his work with the poor . He was particularly interested in the use of sport within ministry , and founded a church football team in the town of Barnsley which... |
2,909 | HMS Diana was a D class destroyer of the Royal Navy . Ordered in 1931 , the ship was constructed by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company , and entered naval service in 1932 . Diana was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935 . She was temporarily dep... |
2,910 | The 2008 American League Central tie breaker game was a one game extension to Major League Baseball 's ( MLB ) 2008 regular season , played between the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins to determine the champion of the American League 's ( AL ) Central Division . It was played at US Cellular Field in Chicago , Il... |
2,911 | Jake the Brick is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time . The episode was written , storyboarded , and directed by head writer Kent Osborne , from an outline by Adam Muto , Osborne , and series creator Pendleton Ward . Jake the Brick debuted on November ... |
2,912 | I syng of a mayden ( sometimes titled As unk in unk ) is a Middle English lyric poem or carol of the 15th century celebrating the Annunciation and the Virgin Birth of Jesus . It has been described as one of the most admired short vernacular English poems of the late Middle Ages . Written by an anonymous hand , the... |
2,913 | No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School ( No. 11 EFTS ) was a Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) pilot training unit that operated during World War II . It was one of twelve elementary flying training schools employed by the RAAF to provide introductory flight instruction to new pilots as part of Australia 's contrib... |
2,914 | The Shumen fortress ( Bulgarian unk unk , unk unk ) is an archaeological site overlooking the city of Shumen in north eastern Bulgaria . It is an ancient fortress with historical links to a village nearby traced to early Iron Age and later owned by the Thracians in the 5th century BC . Then , from 2nd to 4th centuri... |
2,915 | Psylliodes luridipennis , commonly known as the Lundy cabbage flea beetle or the bronze Lundy cabbage flea beetle , is a species of flea beetle endemic to the island of Lundy , where it lives and feeds upon the endemic Lundy cabbage ( Coincya wrightii ) . Along with the true weevil Ceutorhynchus contractus var. pallipe... |
2,916 | Isbul ( Bulgarian unk ) ( fl . 820s 830s ) was the kavhan , or first minister , of the First Bulgarian Empire during the reigns of Omurtag , Malamir and Presian I. Appointed to the kavhan office under Omurtag , Isbul was a regent or co ruler of the underage Malamir and his successor Presian . Under Malamir and Pres... |
2,917 | Who Is It is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson . It was released by Epic Records on August 31 , 1992 , as the fifth single from Jackson 's eighth studio album , Dangerous ( 1991 ) . The song was written and composed by Jackson , and produced by Jackson and Bill Bottrell . The song 's lyrics pertain ... |
2,918 | The first season of the Canadian American animated comedy television series Ed , Edd n Eddy , created by Danny Antonucci , originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States . Although originally set to premiere in November 1998 , the season ran from January 4 , 1999 to June 11 , 1999 , and consists of 26 episod... |
2,919 | Andrew James Simpson , MBE ( 17 December 1976 9 May 2013 ) , nicknamed Bart , was an English sailor . He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , as crew for skipper Iain Percy in the Star class representing Great Britain . Simpson was killed in the capsize of the catamaran he was crewing on 9 May 2... |
2,920 | The Goathouse Refuge in Pittsboro , North Carolina , is a nonprofit no kill animal sanctuary for cats that is run on a volunteer basis . The refuge is cage free so the cats can freely roam around within the boundaries of the property . Founded in 2007 by Italian born artist unk Scarpa , the refuge can hold up to 30... |
2,921 | Ryan John Crowther ( born 17 September 1988 ) is an English semi professional footballer who plays for Ashton United as a winger . He started his career with his local side Stockport County , where he stayed for 10 years before moving to Liverpool in 2007 . After spending two years at Liverpool , he left by mutual con... |
2,922 | Wank Week was a controversial season of television programming that was due to be broadcast in the United Kingdom by Channel 4 , expected to consist of a series of three documentary programmes about masturbation . However , plans to broadcast it in March 2007 came under public attack from senior television figures , an... |
2,923 | Deep , Deep Trouble is a rap song from the 1990 Simpsons album The Simpsons Sing the Blues , sung by the fictional character Bart Simpson ( voiced by Nancy Cartwright ) about his trouble making antics . It was written by Matt Groening and DJ Jazzy Jeff and recorded during the fall of 1990 . The song was released as ... |
2,924 | DakshinaChitra ( a picture of the south ) is a living history museum in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu , dedicated to South Indian heritage and culture . It is located 25 kilometres ( 16 mi ) to the south of Chennai . Opened to the public on 14 December 1996 , the museum was founded and is being managed by the Madra... |
2,925 | The French ironclad Atalante was a wooden hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid 1860s . She played a minor role in the Franco Prussian War of 1870 , bombarded Vietnamese forts during the Battle of Thuan An in 1884 and participated in the Sino French War of 1884 85 . Atalante was reduced to r... |
2,926 | Neighborhood Watch is the 13th episode of the third season of the American comedy drama television series White Collar , and the 43rd episode overall . It was first broadcast on USA Network in the United States on January 31 , 2012 . The episode was directed by Andrew McCarthy and written by Jeff F. King . The epis... |
2,927 | Joseph Conrad tienne Dion ( August 11 , 1918 November 7 , 2014 ) was a professional ice hockey player who played two seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Detroit Red Wings . One of thirteen children , Dion got his start as a goaltender with the Junior Verdun Maple Leafs in 1937 and had his first full ... |
2,928 | Benjamin Church House ( also known as Benjamin Church Home for the Aged ) is a Colonial Revival house at 1014 Hope Street in Bristol , Rhode Island , U.S.A. It opened in 1909 as the Benjamin Church Home for Aged Men as stipulated by Benjamin Church 's will . Beginning in 1934 , during the Great Depression , it admitt... |
2,929 | The Aftermath is the second episode of the first season of the American situation comedy 30 Rock , which first aired on October 17 , 2006 on CTV in Canada . It aired on October 18 , 2006 on the NBC network in the United States , its country of origin , and October 18 , 2007 in the United Kingdom . The episode was wri... |
2,930 | The Brooklyn Free School is a private , ungraded , democratic free school in Fort Greene , Brooklyn , founded in 2004 . Students range in age from 4 to 18 years old . The school follows the unk philosophy of the 1960s 70s free school movement schools , which encourages self directed learning and protects child freedo... |
2,931 | Felt Mountain is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp , released on 11 September 2000 by Mute Records . The album takes influence from a variety of music styles such as 1960s pop , cabaret , folk and electronica . Felt Mountain peaked at number 57 in Goldfrapp 's native United Kingdom , and... |
2,932 | Myrtle Claire Bachelder ( March 13 , 1908 May 22 , 1997 ) was an American chemist and Women 's Army Corps officer , who is noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program , and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals . Early life and career Myrtle C. Bachelder was bo... |
2,933 | Vrit was a pre dreadnought battleship of the Libert class built by the French Navy . She had three sister ships Libert , Justice , and Dmocratie . Vrit was laid down in April 1903 , launched in May 1907 , and completed in June 1908 , over a year after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought made ships li... |
2,934 | Freedom is a song by English girl group Sugababes . It was written by Jason Pebworth , Jon Shave , George Astasio , Kyle Abrahams , Peter Ighile , Mariah Young Jones and Rowan Martin , and produced by The Invisible Men in collaboration with Parker James . The song premiered in May 2011 during a music festival in Mo... |
2,935 | Doris Mackinnon ( 30 September 1883 10 September 1956 ) was a British zoologist . Born in Scotland , her father was a Consular Agent and her mother managed a women 's home . Influenced by Maria Gordon , Mackinnon studied botany and geology at Aberdeen University , graduating in 1906 . She received the Carnegie scho... |
2,936 | Kinne Cemetery , also known as the Glasgo Cemetery and Old Kinne Burying Ground , is a historic cemetery in Jarvis Road in Griswold , Connecticut . The earliest marked stone is for Daniel Kinne who died in 1713 . In the 1930s , the inscriptions of 79 stones in the Kinne Cemetery were recorded for the Hale Index . There... |
2,937 | Tatsu is a steel flying roller coaster designed by Bolliger Mabillard at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park located in Valencia , California . Announced on November 17 , 2005 , the roller coaster opened to the public on May 13 , 2006 as the park 's seventeenth roller coaster . Tatsu reaches a height of 170 fe... |
2,938 | Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago in Cook County , Illinois , United States . The planetarium , which is both a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register ... |
2,939 | Hurricane Humberto was a moderately powerful hurricane that briefly affected Bermuda in September 2001 . It was the eighth named storm of the season , as well as the fourth hurricane . It formed on September 21 between Puerto Rico and Bermuda , partially related to previous Hurricane Gabrielle . Humberto passed about 1... |
2,940 | The 1757 Battle on Snowshoes was a skirmish fought between Rogers ' Rangers and French and Indian troops during the French and Indian War on January 21 , 1757 . The battle was given this name because the British combatants were wearing snowshoes . On January 21 , 1757 , Captain Robert Rogers and a band of his rangers ... |
2,941 | Maryland Route 68 ( MD 68 ) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland . The state highway runs 18 . 50 miles ( 29 . 77 km ) from U.S. Route 40 ( US 40 ) in Clear Spring east to US 40 Alternate in Boonsboro . MD 68 crosses central Washington County to the south of Hagerstown , connecting Clear Spring and Boonsbor... |
2,942 | The 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes were two tornadoes which struck Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma on March 20 and 25 , 1948 . Both tornadoes are estimated to have been equivalent to F3 in intensity on the modern Fujita scale of tornado intensity , which was not devised until 1971 . The March 20... |
2,943 | Beechwood is a Hudson River estate in Scarborough on Hudson , in Briarcliff Manor , New York . The estate was most notably the home of Frank A. Vanderlip and his family , and is a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District . The house and property were owned by the Vanderlip family from 1906 to 1979 .... |
2,944 | Little Miss Obsessive is a song recorded by American singer Ashlee Simpson for her third studio album , Bittersweet World ( 2008 ) . It features uncredited guest vocals from Tom Higginson , the lead singer of the Plain White T 's . The song was written by Simpson , Jim Beanz , Victor Valentine and Karl Berringer . L... |
2,945 | Tropical Depression Nine was a weak tropical depression that developed and dissipated in the eastern Caribbean Sea in August 2003 . It formed from a tropical wave on August 21 to the south of Puerto Rico , and was initially forecast to strengthen to tropical storm status , due to the favorable conditions for developmen... |
2,946 | Voroshilov ( Russian unk ) was a Project 26 Kirov class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that served during World War II and into the Cold War . She bombarded German troops during the Siege of Odessa before being badly damaged in November 1941 by German bombers . Upon her return from repairs in March 1942 she supported Sov... |
2,947 | George Campbell IV ( born October 27 , 1996 ) is an American football wide receiver for the Florida State Seminoles . He is rated as the tenth best player ( and 1 rated athlete ) by ESPN and as a top 10 wide receiver by Scout.com and Rivals.com in the national high school class of 2015 . He completed his junior seaso... |
2,948 | Battlefield Germany is a turn based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services for the Commodore 64 released in April 1987 . It was also ported to the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum later that year . It is the eighth instalment to the Strategic Wargames series . The game is set during a fic... |
2,949 | Battlefield Germany is a turn based strategy video game developed and published by Personal Software Services for the Commodore 64 released in April 1987 . It was also ported to the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum later that year . It is the eighth instalment to the Strategic Wargames series . The game is set during a fic... |
2,950 | Sava unk Mutkurov ( Bulgarian unk unk unk ) ( 16 December O.S. 4 December 1852 15 March O.S. 3 March 1891 ) was a Bulgarian officer ( Major General ) and politician . One of only three recipients of the Order of Bravery 1st grade , he was among the chief architects of the Bulgarian unification ( 1885 ) and , as a... |
2,951 | HMS Escort was an E class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s . Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion , the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935 36 , during the Abyssinia Crisis . During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 1939 , she spent considerable time in Spanish waters... |
2,952 | From 1895 to 1899 , William Wurtenburg served as the head coach of the Dartmouth Big Green football program , which represented Dartmouth College in collegiate football competitions . Dartmouth had adopted football as a school sport in 1881 when the team went 1 0 1 . Prior to Wurtenburg 's hiring , the team had won t... |
2,953 | Tangled Lives is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The plot focuses on , John Hill , a bank cashier who decides to fakes his death after the manager finds his accounts are short . Before he can go through with the plan , a reporter interviews the wife , May , and decides to suppres... |
2,954 | Hurricane Katrina was a late forming tropical cyclone that impacted portions of the Greater Antilles and Bahamas in November 1981 . The twenty first tropical cyclone , eleventh named storm , and seventh hurricane of the 1981 Atlantic hurricane season , Katrina developed from an area of cloudiness in the western Carib... |
2,955 | High Street , also labeled as High Street Brooklyn Bridge , and also referred to as Brooklyn Bridge Plaza and Cranberry Street , is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway . It is located at Cadman Plaza East near Red Cross Place and the Brooklyn Bridge approach in Brooklyn Heights , Br... |
2,956 | Dunder Mifflin Infinity is the third and fourth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's fifty sixth and fifty seventh episode overall . The episode was written by Michael Schur , who also acts in the show , and directed by Craig Zisk . It first aired in the... |
2,957 | Haseeb Ahsan ( Urdu unk unk 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 . During ... |
2,958 | Flat Bastion Road is a road in Gibraltar , the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula . The road runs north south , providing views of the city and Bay of Gibraltar . Previously known in Spanish as Senda del Moro ( English Path of the Moor ) , the traditional Llanito name for the road... |
2,959 | The Brazilian monitor Alagoas was the third ship of the Par class river monitors built for the Brazilian Navy during the Paraguayan War in the late 1860s . Alagoas participated in the Passagem de Humait in February 1868 and provided fire support for the army for the rest of the war . The ship was assigned to the Upper... |
2,960 | The Sinclair Executive was the world 's first slimline pocket calculator , and the first to be produced by Clive Sinclair 's company Sinclair Radionics . Introduced in 1972 , there were at least two different versions of the Sinclair Executive , with different keyboard markings , and another called the Sinclair Execu... |
2,961 | U.S. Route 1 Business ( US 1 Bus . ) is a four lane surface road that provides an alternate route to the Trenton Freeway ( US 1 ) northeast of Trenton in Mercer County , New Jersey . The route is 2 . 73 mi ( 4 . 39 km ) long and runs between US 1 in Trenton and Lawrence Township . On the border of Trenton and Lawrence... |
2,962 | Cougars is the seventh episode of the second season of 30 Rock , and the twenty eighth episode overall . It was written by co executive producer John Riggi and directed by Michael Engler . Guest stars in this episode include Laura Berrios , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Val Emmich , Alan H. Green , Ian Hyland , Joh... |
2,963 | Weaves is the debut extended play of Canadian indie pop group Weaves , consisting of vocalist Jasmyn Burke , guitarist Morgan Waters , drummer Spencer Cole and bassist Zach unk . Two thirds of the record were produced by Waters with unk , the other third produced by David Newfeld . Praised by music journalists for its... |
2,964 | The 34th Boat Race took place on 24 March 1877 . The Boat Race is an annual side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . The race ended in a dead heat , the first and only time the event has ended in such a fashion . Despite the formal declaration of a ... |
2,965 | Francis Clarence McGee , ( November 4 , 1882 September 16 , 1916 ) was an ice hockey player during the early days of hockey for the Ottawa Hockey Club , nicknamed the Silver Seven . Though blind in one eye , McGee was a legendary player of his era , and known as a prolific scorer . He once scored 14 goals in a Stanley... |
2,966 | Zou Bisou Bisou ( also performed as Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo ) is a song written by Bill Shepherd and Alan Tew , and Michel unk for the lyrics of the French version . The song 's origins stem from the Y y movement with which an early version of the song was associated . Its theme is variously described as an open declara... |
2,967 | HMS Achilles was a Warrior class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century . She served with the 2nd Cruiser Squadron for most of the First World War . The ship did not participate in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 , but did sink the German raider Leopard in 1917 . Achilles becam... |
2,968 | M 84 is a state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan . The highway starts on the west side of Saginaw at an intersection with M 58 and runs north through residential and commercial areas . There are two colleges or universities near the trunkline as it connects Saginaw with Bay City , ... |
2,969 | ' The Judge is the fourth episode of the first season of the American crime thriller television series Millennium . It premiered on the Fox network on November 15 , 1996 . The episode was written by Ted Mann , and directed by Randall Zisk . The Judge featured guest appearances by Marshall Bell , John Hawkes and C.... |
2,970 | It Is the Law is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Arthur Hohl , Herbert Hayes , and Mona Palma . It is a film adaptation of the eponymous 1922 Broadway play by Elmer Rice , itself based on a novel by Hayden Talbot . The film depicts the story of Ruth Allen ( Palma ) , who m... |
2,971 | The Underground City ( Chinese unk pinyin unk unk ) is a Cold War era bomb shelter consisting of a network of tunnels located beneath Beijing , China . It has also been referred to as the Underground Great Wall since it was built for the purpose of military defense . The complex was constructed from 1969 to 1979 in ... |
2,972 | William Henry Fuller , Jr . ( born March 8 , 1962 ) is a retired American football player who played defensive end for 13 seasons in the National Football League ( NFL ) . Fuller played college football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC ) and professionally for the Philadelphia Baltimore Stars o... |
2,973 | The 88th Boat Race took place on 4 April 1936 . 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 . Umpired by the former Boat Race coach Francis Escombe , Cambridge won by five lengths in a time of 21 minutes 6 seconds . The... |
2,974 | The Battle of Setauket ( August 22 , 1777 ) was a failed attack during the American Revolutionary War on a fortified Loyalist outpost in Setauket , Long Island , New York , by a force of Continental Army troops from Connecticut under the command of Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons . In an attempt to repeat the ... |
2,975 | SMS rpd was a pre dreadnought battleship built by the Austro Hungarian Navy in the early 20th century . She was launched on 11 September 1901 as the second of three Habsburg class battleships . Along with her sister ships , she participated at the bombardment of Ancona during World War I. Due to a shortage of coal ,... |
2,976 | Throb is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her fifth studio album , janet . ( 1993 ) . It was written and produced by Jackson , James Harris III and Terry Lewis and is a house song which lyrically is about sex with a partner . It was released commercially in the Netherlands as the album 's sixth single on ... |
2,977 | M 119 is a 27 . 548 mile ( 44 . 334 km ) state trunkline highway entirely within Emmet County in the US state of Michigan . The highway follows the shore of Lake Michigan and the Little Traverse Bay , with its southern terminus at US Highway 31 ( US 31 ) near Bay View , about four miles ( 6 . 4 km ) east of Petoskey ... |
2,978 | My Man is a song by English singer Jade Ewen . It was written by Ina Wroldsen , and produced by Harry Sommerdahl and Kalle Engstrom for Ewen 's debut studio album . The song was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2009 . Musically , My Man is a pop and contemporary R B and song bac... |
2,979 | Keechaka Vadham ( English The Extermination of Keechaka ) alternatively spelt as Keechaka unk , is an Indian silent film produced , directed , filmed and edited by R. Nataraja Mudaliar . The film is based on an episode from the Hindu epic Mahabharata focusing on the characters Kichaka and Draupadi it stars Raju Mudal... |
2,980 | The Zanzibar women 's national football team , nicknamed the Zanzibar Queens , is the women 's representative team from Zanzibar , a semi autonomous part of Tanzania . Founded in 1988 , the team has limited recognition as the regional governing body , the Zanzibar Football Association , is a full member of the Counc... |
2,981 | Boletus pinophilus , commonly known as the pine bolete or pinewood king bolete , is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Boletus found throughout Europe . For many years , Boletus pinophilus was considered a subspecies or form of the porcini mushroom B. edulis . In 2008 , B. pinophilus in western North America were recl... |
2,982 | The Fortezza ( Greek unk , from Italian for fortress ) is the citadel of the city of Rethymno in Crete , Greece . It was built by the Venetians in the 16th century , and was captured by the Ottomans in 1646 . By the early 20th century , many houses were built within the citadel . These were demolished after World Wa... |
2,983 | Robert Ralph Furman ( August 21 , 1915 October 14 , 2008 ) was a civil engineer who during World War II was the chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Engineer District directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project . He participated in the Alsos Mission , which conducted a series of operations... |
2,984 | Mycena atkinsoniana is a species of agaric fungus in the Mycenaceae family . It is one of the so called bleeding mycenas that will ooze yellow to orange juice when injured . Other distinguishing features include the upper stem surface that is decorated with tiny purplish brown fibers , and the gills , which are pal... |
2,985 | Design A 150 , also known as the Super Yamato class , was an Imperial Japanese plan for a class of battleships . Begun in 1938 39 , the design was mostly complete by 1941 . However , so that a demand for other types of warships could be met , all work on Design A 150 was halted and no keels were laid . Authors Willi... |
2,986 | The Tan Chay Wa 's tombstone trial was a sequence of unusual events regarding an inscribed tombstone of a political dissident , Tan Chay Wa , that sparked a court case in Singapore in 1983 . His older brother Tan Chu Boon was arrested and charged on suspicion that he designed an elaborate but ' subversive ' tombstone ,... |
2,987 | Tobruk The Clash of Armour is a turn based strategy video game developed by Data Design Systems and published by Personal Software Services . It was exclusively released in the United Kingdom for the Commodore 64 , ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC in 1987 . It is the eleventh instalment of the Strategic Wargames series . ... |
2,988 | Typhoon Wayne was an intense tropical cyclone that brought significant flooding to the Philippines in July 1983 . The typhoon originated from an area of disturbed weather that formed far from land towards the end of July . Late on July 22 , Wayne developed gale force winds while moving west . The next day , it was est... |
2,989 | SM UB 44 was a Type UB II submarine or U boat for the German Imperial Navy ( German Kaiserliche Marine ) during World War I. UB 44 operated in the Mediterranean and disappeared in August 1916 . UB 44 was ordered in July 1915 and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen in September . UB 44 was a about 37... |
2,990 | Attack of Mark 's Clone is the sixth episode of the second season of the American animated television series Ugly Americans , which aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 4 , 2011 . In the episode , Callie creates a clone of Mark that will guarantee the Department of Integration 's win in a bowling to... |
2,991 | Homesick is a song by Christian rock band MercyMe . Written by Bart Millard , the song is an expression of grief and longing that was written after the band experienced the deaths of nine people they were connected to in a short period of time . Homesick was included on MercyMe 's third studio album Undone and was ... |
2,992 | 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 from ... |
2,993 | A Thanksgiving Surprise is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film follows Jack Clyde , a young man who lives a vain and idle life in the city with his rich friends . His wealthy uncle decides to test the morale character and has his lawyers announce his death and giving his for... |
2,994 | Ben Franklin is the fifteenth episode of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's forty third episode overall . Written by Mindy Kaling , who also acts in the show as Kelly Kapoor , and directed by Randall Einhorn , the episode first aired in the United States on Februar... |
2,995 | Idiotest ( a portmanteau of idiot and test and stylized as Id unk ) is an American television game show broadcast by Game Show Network ( GSN ) . Hosted by Ben Gleib , the series features contestants in teams of two competing to answer brain teaser and puzzle questions . The winning team advances to a bonus round f... |
2,996 | Robert McLachlan is a Canadian cinematographer . A successful cyclist in his youth , McLachlan quit the sport to take up cinematography , and entered the field after studying at Simon Fraser University , McLachlan was mentored by Richard unk . His professional career began with documentary work for Greenpeace , before ... |
2,997 | What Is ... Cliff Clavin is an eighth season episode of the American television series Cheers . It was directed by Andy Ackerman rather than James Burrows who directed 243 out of 273 episodes of the show and originally aired on January 18 , 1990 . In this episode , Cliff Clavin ( John Ratzenberger ) appears on the... |
2,998 | The Hrabri class consisted of two submarines built by the Vickers Armstrong Naval Yard , on the River Tyne , in the United Kingdom , for the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ( later Yugoslavia ) . Launched in 1927 , the vessels were named Hrabri ( Brave ) and Neboja ( Fearless ) . Their design was based on that ... |
2,999 | U.S. Route 163 ( also U.S. Highway 163 , US 163 ) is a 64 mile ( 103 km ) U.S. Highway that runs from US 160 northward to US 191 in the U.S. states of Arizona and Utah . The southernmost 44 miles ( 71 km ) of its length is within the Navajo Nation . The highway forms part of the Trail of the Ancients , a National Scen... |
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