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3,500 | Te Quiero is a latin pop song by Guatemalan recording artist Ricardo Arjona , released on 5 July 2012 as the third single from his thirteenth studio album , Independiente ( 2011 ) . The song was written by Arjona , who produced it with longtime collaborators Dan Warner and Lee Levin under their stage name Los Gringos... |
3,501 | Leviathan unk is a steel roller coaster in the Medieval Faire section of the park at Canada 's Wonderland in Vaughan , Ontario , Canada . It is the first roller coaster made by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger Mabillard to exceed a height of 300 feet ( 91 m ) , putting it in a class of roller coasters commonly referred t... |
3,502 | Woohoo is a song by American recording artist Christina Aguilera , featuring American rapper Nicki Minaj . The song was written by Aguilera , Onika Maraj , Claude Kelly , Ester Dean and Jamal Polow da Don Jones , and produced by Polow da Don , for Aguilera 's sixth studio album , Bionic ( 2010 ) . Woohoo was serv... |
3,503 | The Leeds Country Way is a circular long distance footpath of 62 miles ( 99 km ) around Leeds , West Yorkshire , England . It is never more than 7 miles ( 11 km ) from Leeds City Square , but is mainly rural with extensive views in the outlying areas of the Leeds metropolitan district . It follows public Rights of Way... |
3,504 | In the latter half of the 19th century , the Spanish Navy had built a series of ironclad warships that culminated in the barbette ship Pelayo in the 1880s . Following the destruction of much of the Spanish fleet in the Spanish American War in 1898 , Spain slowly began to rebuild its navy . In the early 20th century , ... |
3,505 | The Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video was an honor presented to recording artists at the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988 and the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 for quality performance music videos . The Grammy Awards , an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards , are ... |
3,506 | Is It Scary is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson . The song was originally written to have been featured in the 1993 film Addams Family Values , but the plans were canceled after contract conflicts . The song was recorded for Jackson 's 1997 remix album , Blood on the Dance Floor HIStory in the Mix... |
3,507 | The Meteor class was a pair of two avisos built by the Imperial German Navy in the late 1880s the class comprised two ships , Meteor and Comet . They were an improvement over the preceding Wacht class , being slightly faster and armed with quick firing guns rather than the slower , old pattern guns used on the earl... |
3,508 | The Action of 9 February 1799 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars between a British Royal Navy frigate and a French privateer frigate fought 100 nautical miles ( 190 km ) west of the southeastern coast of what is now Natal in South Africa . The 32 gun French frigate Prudente had since the sta... |
3,509 | King 's Highway 12 , commonly referred to as Highway 12 and historically known as the Whitby and Sturgeon Bay Road , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . The highway connects the eastern end of the Greater Toronto Area ( GTA ) with Kawartha Lakes ( via Highway 7 ) , Orillia and Mid... |
3,510 | Hurricane Nate caused minor damage in southeastern Mexico in mid September 2011 . The sixteenth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season , Nate originated from a frontal trough in the Bay of Campeche on September 7 . Within a weak steering environment , the storm meandered southwestward w... |
3,511 | The 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake occurred on June 28 at 07 43 55 local time with a moment magnitude of 5 . 6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ( Very Strong ) . The thrust earthquake resulted in two deaths , around 100 injuries , and damage estimated at 33 . 5 40 million . The event occurred beneath the San G... |
3,512 | Delaware Route 48 ( DE 48 ) is a state highway in New Castle County , Delaware . The route runs from DE 41 in Hockessin east to U.S. Route 13 Business ( US 13 Bus . ) in downtown Wilmington . The route passes through suburban areas of Wilmington such as Lancaster Pike , intersecting DE 100 and DE 141 . DE 48 continues ... |
3,513 | State Route 16 ( SR 16 ) is a state highway in the northern region of the U.S. state of California that runs from Route 20 in Colusa County to Route 49 just outside Plymouth in Amador County . It is discontinuous through Sacramento , specifically between Interstate 5 in Woodland and U.S. Route 50 east of Sacramento . ... |
3,514 | MissingNo . ( Japanese unk , Hepburn unk ) , or unk , is an unofficial Pokmon species found in the video games Pokmon Red and Blue . Standing for Missing Number , MissingNo. are used as error handlers by game developer Game Freak they appear when the game attempts to access data for a nonexistent Pokmon species . ... |
3,515 | Rip Van Winkle is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film is an adaptation of Washington Irving 's story of Rip Van Winkle with some differences in the plot . The film focuses on the title character whose idle life is made difficult by his cantankerous wife . Winkle heads into t... |
3,516 | USS Chew ( DD 106 ) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II . She was named in honor of Samuel Chew . From 1918 to 1922 , Chew operated along the East Coast of the United States on patrol and training duties , including escorting a transatlantic voyage of Curtiss NC... |
3,517 | Charles Henry Smyth , Jr . ( unk March 31 , 1866 April 4 , 1937 ) was an American geologist . Born to a prominent family in Upstate New York , he studied geology at Columbia University before becoming a professor of geology at Hamilton College and Princeton University . At Princeton he strengthened the Department o... |
3,518 | RAF Eastcote , also known over time as RAF Lime Grove , HMS Pembroke V and unk Eastcote , was a Ministry of Defence site in Eastcote , within the London Borough of Hillingdon . The British Government first used the site during the Second World War , constructing a military hospital in preparation for casualties from t... |
3,519 | JMP ( pronounced jump ) is a computer program for statistics developed by the JMP business unit of SAS Institute . It was launched in 1989 to take advantage of the graphical user interface introduced by the Macintosh . It has since been improved and made available for the Windows operating system . JMP is used in app... |
3,520 | Mr.Mr. is the fourth extended play ( EP ) by South Korean girl group Girls ' Generation . The EP consists of six tracks and and it incorporates electropop and R B pop music genres . It was released for digital download by S.M. Entertainment and KT Music on February 24 , 2014 . The CD and digital version were released... |
3,521 | State Route 22 ( SR 22 ) is a 35 . 84 mile ( 57 . 68 km ) long state highway spanning Yakima and Benton counties in the US state of Washington . Existing since at least 1937 , the highway serves to connect several small communities that have been bypassed by Interstate 82 ( I 82 ) U.S. Route 12 ( US 12 ) . Except fo... |
3,522 | Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State , South Africa , near the Lesotho border . It covers an area of 340 km2 ( 130 sq mi ) . The park 's most notable features are its golden , ochre , and orange hued deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops , especially the Brandwag rock . Another feature of... |
3,523 | U.S. Route 197 ( US 197 ) is a north south United States Highway , of which all but 2 . 76 miles of its 69 . 93 miles ( 4 . 44 of 112 . 54 km ) are within the state of Oregon . The highway starts in rural Wasco County in Central Oregon at an intersection with US 97 . US 197 travels north as a continuation of The Dalle... |
3,524 | John Hemmingham ( born 26 February 1963 ) is an association football supporter and football administrator from Sheffield , England . He is best known as the leader and trumpet player of the Pukka Pies England Band . Hemmingham first started playing music at football in 1993 with Sheffield Wednesday fans . In 1996 , he ... |
3,525 | Curse of the Colonel ( unk , unk unk no Noroi ) refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot Colonel Harland Sanders . The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the Colonel 's anger over treatment o... |
3,526 | Benjamin Hardin Helm ( June 2 , 1831 September 21 , 1863 ) was a Kentucky politician , attorney , Confederate brigadier general , and a brother in law of Abraham Lincoln . He was also the son of Kentucky Governor John L. Helm . Helm was born in Bardstown , Kentucky . He attended the Kentucky Military Institute and t... |
3,527 | The 118th Boat Race took place on 1 April 1972 . Held annually , the Boat Race is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4 . 2 mile ( 6 . 8 km ) tidal stretch of the River Thames in south west London . Umpired by former Cambridge Blue Philip Carpmael , the rac... |
3,528 | In Norse mythology , Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla ) male and female respectively were the first two humans , created by the gods . The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources , and the Prose Edda , written in the 13th century by Snorri ... |
3,529 | Mycena nidificata is a species of fungus in the Mycenaceae family of the Agaricales . First collected in 2000 and reported as a new species in 2007 , it is known only from Kanagawa , Japan , where it grows on the floor of oak forests . The dark brown irregularly wrinkled cap measures up to 25 mm ( 1 . 0 in ) in diamete... |
3,530 | No. 79 Wing was a Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) wing of World War II . It was formed in December 1943 at Batchelor , Northern Territory , as part of North Western Area Command . Led by Group Captain Charles Eaton , the wing comprised four squadrons on its establishment , flying Beaufort and B 25 Mitchell bomber... |
3,531 | Gargi Vachaknavi ( born about 700 BC ) was an ancient Indian philosopher . In Vedic Literature , she is honored as a great natural philosopher , renowned expounder of the Vedas , and known as unk , a person with knowledge of Brahma Vidya . In the Sixth and the eighth Brahmana of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad , her name is p... |
3,532 | She is a song by American hip hop artist and OFWGKTA member Tyler , The Creator from his album Goblin . It was released May 10 , 2011 as the third single from the album . It features another OFWGKTA member Frank Ocean , and serves as his debut single as an artist . The song was written by both Tyler and Ocean , with ... |
3,533 | Doge ( often pronounced unk unk or unk unk ) is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013 . The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu accompanied by multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground . The text , representing a kind of internal monologue , is deliberately written in a form of b... |
3,534 | Galiella rufa , commonly known as the rubber cup , the rufous rubber cup , or the hairy rubber cup , is a species of fungus in the family Sarcosomataceae . The fungus produces cup shaped fruit bodies that typically grow in clusters on branches and exposed portions of buried wood throughout eastern and Midwest North Am... |
3,535 | The Meermin ( Dutch pronunciation unk ) was an 18th century Dutch cargo ship of the hoeker type , one of many built and owned by the Dutch East India Company . She was laid down in 1759 and fitted out as a slave ship before her maiden voyage in 1761 , and her career was cut short by a mutiny of her cargo of Malagas... |
3,536 | Alvin unk Luedecke ( 10 October 1910 9 August 1998 ) was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II . He commanded the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project after the war . After retiring from the Air Force in 1958 , he was General Manager of the United States Atomic Energy Commission , Deputy Director... |
3,537 | Be More is the twenty eighth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time . It was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Steve Wolfhard , from a story by Patrick McHale , Kent Osborne , Pendleton Ward , Rebecca Sugar , Herpich , and Wolfhard . It originally aired on Car... |
3,538 | The 1890 Atlantic hurricane season is tied for the third least active hurricane season on record , behind 1914 and 1930 . The first system was initially observed on May 27 and the last storm , Hurricane Four , dissipated over Central America on November 1 . These dates fall within the period with the most tropical cycl... |
3,539 | Typhoon Brian was the first in a series of tropical cyclones to impact southern China and northern Vietnam in October 1989 . Originating from an area of low pressure associated with a monsoon trough in late September , Brian quickly organized into a tropical storm over the South China Sea on September 30 . Tracking al... |
3,540 | Seasons in the Abyss is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer . It was released on October 9 , 1990 , through Def American Records , and later through American Recordings after the record label changed its name . The album 's recording sessions began in March 1990 . The sessions began at Hit City ... |
3,541 | John Francis Paciorek ( unk born February 11 , 1945 ) is an American former baseball player . He attended high school in Michigan , and was signed by the Houston Colt .45s while playing for the school 's baseball team . After a season in the minor leagues , he was promoted to the Colt .45 's active roster , and play... |
3,542 | Pizza Delivery is the first segment of the fifth episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants . The episode was written by Sherm Cohen , Aaron Springer , and Peter Burns , and was directed by Sean Dempsey . Cohen also functioned as storyboard director , and Springer worked as storyboard ar... |
3,543 | Stefan Matthew Wever ( born 22 April 1958 ) is a former professional baseball pitcher . He made his Major League Baseball debut , incidentally his only game , with the New York Yankees in 1982 , and had a 0 1 record a 27 . 00 earned run average ( ERA ) , and two strikeouts in that game . Born in West Germany , Wever ... |
3,544 | The Sinclair Sovereign was a high end calculator introduced by Clive Sinclair 's company Sinclair Radionics in 1976 . It was an attempt to escape from the unprofitable low end of the market , and one of the last calculators Sinclair produced . Made with a case of pressed steel that a variety of finishes , it cost betw... |
3,545 | Mirabeau was one of the six Danton class semi dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy ( unk navale ) in the first decade of the twentieth century . The ship spent most of World War I blockading the Straits of Otranto and the Dardanelles to prevent German , Austro Hungarian and Turkish warships from breaking... |
3,546 | The Conquest of Belgrade is an oil painting by the romanticist Katarina Ivanovi , one of Serbia 's first significant female painters . Painted in 1844 45 , it depicts the capture of Belgrade by Serbian revolutionaries in late 1806 , during the First Serbian Uprising . Ivanovi was inspired to create the painting upon ... |
3,547 | Homme by David Beckham is a men 's eau de toilette fragrance endorsed by English footballer David Beckham . The scent , which was released by Coty , Inc. in September 2011 , joined his existing scents David Beckham Instinct ( 2005 ) and Intimately Beckham ( 2006 ) , a his and hers collection with his wife Victoria Be... |
3,548 | Digambara ( unk sky clad ) is one of the two major schools of Jainism , the other being vtmbara ( white clad ) . The word Digambara ( Sanskrit ) is a combination of two words dig ( directions ) and unk ( clothes ) , referring to those whose garments are of the element that fills the four quarters of space . Dig... |
3,549 | Frdric Louis Henri Walther ( 20 June 1761 24 November 1813 ) , was an Alsatian born general of division and a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte . He fought for France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars . He enlisted in 1781 and , in his 30 year career , he saw action at the major French defeats and victories ... |
3,550 | Tropical Storm Matthew was a weak tropical storm in the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season that made landfall on Louisiana . Matthew was the thirteenth tropical storm of the season and the ninth storm to affect the United States . Matthew formed over the western Gulf of Mexico on October 8 and struck south central Louisia... |
3,551 | Lepiota castaneidisca is a species of agaric fungus in the family Agaricaceae . Formally described in 1912 , it was for a long time considered the same species as the similar Lepiota cristata until molecular analysis reported in 2001 demonstrated that it was genetically distinct . It is most common in coastal and north... |
3,552 | JALways Co . , Ltd . ( JAZ ) ( unk , Kabushiki gaisha unk ) , formerly Japan Air Charter Co . , Ltd . ( unk , Japan Ea unk Kabushiki gaisha ) , was an international airline registered in Shinagawa , Tokyo , Japan , with its headquarters and its main hub at Narita International Airport . The airline had a secondary hu... |
3,553 | Saints Row 2 is a mobile tie in action game developed by G5 Entertainment and published by THQ Wireless to accompany the Saints Row 2 console game . It was released in October 2008 . The game follows the story of the series where the player returns from jail and fights to protect and expand his gang 's territory . The... |
3,554 | Alicia McCormack ( born 7 June 1983 in Helensburgh , New South Wales ) is an Australian water polo goalkeeper . Her playing career started at the age of fourteen with the Kirrawee High School water polo team , and today she plays for the Cronulla Water Polo Club in the National Water Polo League and is a member of the ... |
3,555 | Lysgrdsbakken , officially known as Lysgrdsbakkene Ski Jumping Arena ( Norwegian Lysgrdsbakkene unk ) , is a ski jumping hill in Lillehammer , Norway . It consists of a large hill , with a K point of 123 and a hill size of 138 , and a small hill with a K point of 90 and a hill size of 100 . It opened in 1993 for the... |
3,556 | SMS Cln was a light cruiser in the German Kaiserliche Marine , the second to bear this name , after her predecessor SMS Cln had been lost in the Battle of Heligoland Bight . Cln , first of her class , was launched on 5 October 1916 at Blohm Voss in Hamburg and completed over a year later in January 1918 . She and her ... |
3,557 | On June 29 , 2003 , the deadliest porch collapse in United States history occurred in Chicago . An overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in an apartment building , killing thirteen people and seriously injuring fifty seven others . The ensuing investigation was highly critical of the way the balcony was built , ... |
3,558 | ... Baby One More Time Tour was the debut concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears . It supported her debut studio album , ... Baby One More Time ( 1999 ) and visited United States and Canada . The tour was announced in March 1999 , with dates released a month later . Tommy Hilfiger was chosen as the to... |
3,559 | Hurricane Norma was the one of two hurricanes to make landfall during the 1981 Pacific hurricane season . It developed on October 8 , strengthening into a tropical storm and later a hurricane . Norma moved slowly to the northwest and strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Scale . The ... |
3,560 | The 2013 American League Wild Card tie breaker game was a one game extension to Major League Baseball 's ( MLB ) 2013 regular season , played between the Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays to determine the second participant in the 2013 American League ( AL ) Wild Card Game . It was played at the Rangers Ballpark in Ar... |
3,561 | Ysbeidiau Heulog ( pronounced unk ( ) unk English Sunny Intervals ) is the twelfth single by Super Furry Animals . It was the only single to be taken from the album Mwng and was released as a limited edition 7 vinyl on the band 's own Placid Casual label on 1 May 2000 . It was the band 's first single to char... |
3,562 | The Malloch Building is a private residential apartment building on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco designed in the Streamline Moderne style and built in 1937 . The building , one of the best examples of its type in San Francisco , is also known as Malloch Apartments , Malloch Apartment Building , and simply by its add... |
3,563 | Michael Steward Heath ( born April 9 , 1964 ) is an American former competition swimmer who specialized in freestyle events . He is a three time Olympic gold medalist , and a former world record holder in two relay swimming events . A native of Texas , he won two national collegiate championship competing for the Uni... |
3,564 | Galerina sulciceps is a dangerously toxic species of fungus in the family Strophariaceae , of the order Agaricales . It is distributed in tropical Indonesia and India , but has reportedly been found fruiting in European greenhouses on occasion . Considered more deadly than the unk ( Amanita phalloides ) , G. sulciceps ... |
3,565 | BuzzSaw is a Maurer Shne SkyLoop roller coaster located within the Town of Gold Rush section of the Dreamworld amusement park on the Gold Coast of Australia . The ride began operation on 17 September 2011 as part of Dreamworld 's 30th birthday celebrations . BuzzSaw is one of Dreamworld 's Big 9 thrill rides and has... |
3,566 | Pah Wongso Pendekar Boediman ( Malay for Pah Wongso the Righteous Warrior ) is a 1941 detective film from the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) . The first production by Star Film , it was produced by Jo Eng Sek and featured camerawork by Cho ' Chin Hsin . Starring L. V. Wijnhamer , Jr . , Elly Joenara , and Mohamad ... |
3,567 | M 89 is an east west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs from near Ganges to Battle Creek . M 89 starts at an interchange with Interstate 196 US Highway 31 ( I 196 US 31 ) and passes through Allegan , Kalamazoo County , Michigan , and Calhoun counties . The highway also briefly crosses t... |
3,568 | Lift Up Your Face is a song recorded by the Christian rock band Third Day and featuring vocals from The Blind Boys of Alabama . Written by Mac Powell and composed by Third Day , Bo Rinehard , and Bear Rinehard , it was released to Christian AC and CHR radio on July 11 , 2010 as the lead single from Third Day 's 2010 ... |
3,569 | unk hunger or hedonic hyperphagia is the drive to eat to obtain pleasure in the absence of an energy deficit . Particular foods may have a high hedonic rating or individuals may have increased susceptibility to environmental food cues . Weight loss programs may aim to control or to compensate for hedonic hunger . T... |
3,570 | Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children 's novel by Jennifer Roy . Written in free verse , it depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the d Ghetto in 1939 during World War II . Roy tells the story of her aunt Syvia , who shared her childhood memories with Roy more than 50 y... |
3,571 | Roslin Castle ( sometimes spelt Rosslyn ) is a partially ruined castle near the village of Roslin in Midlothian , Scotland . It is located around 9 miles south of Edinburgh , on the north bank of the North Esk , only a few hundred metres from the famous Rosslyn Chapel . There has been a castle on the site since the ea... |
3,572 | Cargolink AS is a Norwegian railway company . Owned by the automotive distribution company Autolink , Cargolink has operated both autorack and container trains since November 2008 . Cargolink has a fleet of ten diesel locomotives , five shunters , 100 autoracks and 60 container cars . Combined autorack and container tr... |
3,573 | Uncanny Tales was a Canadian science fiction pulp magazine edited by Melvin R. Colby that ran from November 1940 to September 1943 . It was created in response to the wartime reduction of imports on British and American science fiction pulp magazines . Initially it contained stories only from Canadian authors , with m... |
3,574 | The 69th Boat Race took place on 30 March 1912 with a re row on 1 April . Held annually , the event is a side by side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames . Oxford went into the race as reigning champions , having won the previous year 's race . Umpired by fo... |
3,575 | Japan Echo was an English language periodical on Japanese issues which was initially published in print form by Japan Echo Inc. between 1974 and 2010 . Consisting mainly of translations into English of magazine and news articles originally published in Japanese , Japan Echo was launched with the support of Japan 's Fo... |
3,576 | Love Somebody is a song recorded by American pop rock band Maroon 5 . The song was released on May 14 , 2013 , as the fourth and final single from their fourth studio album , Overexposed ( 2012 ) . It was written by Adam Levine , Nathaniel Motte , Ryan Tedder , and Noel Zancanella the latter two are also the produce... |
3,577 | Typhoon Thad was considered the worst storm to affect Japan in two years . Originating from a monsoon trough , Typhoon Thad was first classified on August 15 , 1981 and was upgraded into a tropical storm the next day . Meanwhile , Thad moved north and northeast and attained typhoon intensity midday on August 18 . The n... |
3,578 | The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks to correct and add new information about past North Atlantic hurricanes . It was started around 2000 to update HURDAT , the official hurricane database for the Atlantic Basin , which has become outdated since its crea... |
3,579 | Long John Peter is the 12th and the final episode of the sixth season of the animated series Family Guy . It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 4 , 2008 . Written by Wellesley Wild and directed by Dominic Polcino , Long John Peter served as the final episode of the season , which was cut short due ... |
3,580 | Hurricane Helene was the ninth tropical storm , fourth hurricane , and strongest hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season . Helene was a long lived Cape Verde type hurricane that formed in the extreme southeastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean , peaking as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson hurr... |
3,581 | Hurricane Lily was a short lived Category 1 hurricane of August 1971 that devastated the city of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico . Forming from an area of cloudiness associated with former Atlantic Tropical Storm Chloe , the storm slowly intensified , building to peak intensity just before landfall northwest of Manzanillo ,... |
3,582 | Carmelo Flix Camet ( October 29 , 1904 July 22 , 2007 ) was an Argentine fencer who competed in the Olympic games in 1928 . He was the son of Francisco Carmelo Camet , a fencer at the 1900 Summer Olympics who is sometimes considered to be Argentina 's first participant at the Olympics . Trained as a lawyer , Carmelo C... |
3,583 | The Battle of Akroinon was fought at Akroinon or unk ( near modern unk ) in Phrygia , on the western edge of the Anatolian plateau , in 740 between an Umayyad Arab army and the Byzantine forces . The Arabs had been conducting regular raids into Anatolia for the past century , and the 740 expedition was the largest in r... |
3,584 | King 's Highway 85 , commonly referred to as Highway 85 , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario , connecting Highway 7 to immediately north of the Waterloo city limits . The 10 kilometre ( 6 . 2 mi ) highway , which is mostly controlled access , travels through the Regional Municipa... |
3,585 | Cyathus helenae is a species of fungus in the genus Cyathus , family Nidulariaceae . Like other members of the Nidulariaceae , C. helenae resembles a tiny bird 's nest filled with ' eggs ' spore containing structures known as peridioles . It was initially described by mycologist Harold Brodie in 1965 , who found it g... |
3,586 | Harry Randall Truman ( October 30 , 1896 May 18 , 1980 ) was a resident of the U.S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens . He came to brief fame in the months preceding the volcano 's 1980 eruption after he stubbornly refused to leave his home despite evacuation orders , and he is presumed to have been ki... |
3,587 | New York State Route 427 ( NY 427 ) is an east west state highway in Chemung County , New York , in the United States . It extends for 11 . 5 miles ( 18 . 5 km ) from its western terminus at an intersection with NY 14 in the town of Southport , south of the city of Elmira , to its eastern terminus at an interchange wi... |
3,588 | Tjunkiya Napaltjarri ( also known as Tjunkiya unk , unk , unk unk , unk or unk ) ( c . 1927 2009 ) was a Pintupi speaking Indigenous artist from Australia 's Western Desert region . She is the sister of artist Wintjiya Napaltjarri . Tjunkiya 's paintings are held in major public art collections , including those of ... |
3,589 | Zoe Arancini ( born 14 July 1991 ) is an Australian club water polo player who plays driver , counter attacker , or outside shooter . Several of her family members have represented her country in water polo . She plays club water polo in the National Water Polo League for the Fremantle Marlins , where she has won the ... |
3,590 | Jackie Ray Slater ( born May 27 , 1954 ) is a retired National Football League offensive tackle who played his entire 20 year career with the Rams organization , playing 19 seasons for the Rams in Los Angeles ( 1976 1994 ) and one season for the Rams in St. Louis in 1995 . A graduate of Jackson State University , he... |
3,591 | Tropical Storm Bret made a rare landfall on the Delmarva Peninsula in June 1981 . The fifth tropical cyclone and second named storm of the season , Bret developed as a subtropical storm from a large area of frontal clouds near Bermuda on June 29 . Moving westward , the subtropical storm intensified while producing deep... |
3,592 | Lactarius fallax , commonly known as the velvety milk cap , is a species of fungus in the Russulaceae family . Found in both spruce and mixed conifer forests , it is a fairly common species in the Pacific Northwest region of North America , with a northerly range extending to Alaska . Its fruit bodies are medium sized... |
3,593 | The American Males were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) composed of Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs . Their gimmick was of two pretty boys who were fond of their own bodies and popular with women . Riggs was Bagwell 's third partner with whom he won the WCW World Tag Team Cha... |
3,594 | M 8 is a 5 . 5 miles ( 8 . 9 km ) state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan lying within the cities of Detroit and Highland Park . Much of it is the Davison Freeway , the nation 's first urban depressed freeway , which became a connector between the Lodge ( M 10 ) and the Chrysler ( Interstate 75 , I 75 ... |
3,595 | The French ironclad Couronne ( Crown ) was the first iron hulled ironclad warship built for the French Navy in 1859 62 . She was the first such ship to be laid down , although the British armoured frigate HMS Warrior was completed first . The ship participated in the Franco Prussian War of 1870 71 , but saw no co... |
3,596 | Hero of the Russian Federation ( Russian unk unk ) is the highest honorary title of the Russian Federation . A person that has been unk this title also receives a Gold Star medal , an insignia of honor that identifies recipients . The title is awarded to persons for service to the Russian state and nation , usually... |
3,597 | Wehha was a pagan king of the East Angles who , if he actually existed , ruled the kingdom of East Anglia during the 6th century , at the time the kingdom was being established by migrants from what is now Frisia and the southern Jutland peninsula . Early sources identify him as a member of the Wuffingas dynasty , whic... |
3,598 | Killing Time is a Star Trek The Original Series novel written by Della Van Hise and published by Pocket Books in 1985 . The original manuscript had Kirk Spock slash fiction elements , and these were requested to be removed by Paramount . However , they were not removed , and 250 , 000 copies were printed . These roma... |
3,599 | Clare Winger Harris ( January 18 , 1891 October 1968 ) was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s . She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines . Her stories often dealt with characters on the borders of humanity s... |
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