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3,800 | John Mylne ( 1611 24 December 1667 ) , sometimes known as John Mylne junior , or the Younger , was a Scottish master mason and architect , who served as Master Mason to the Crown of Scotland . Born in Perth , he was the son of John Mylne , also a master mason , and Isobel Wilson . Practising as a stonemason , he ... |
3,801 | Parables for Wooden Ears was the first studio album released by the Australian band Powderfinger . It was released on 18 July 1994 by Polydor Records , after recording at the Metropolis Studios in Melbourne during February 1994 . The album was received poorly and failed to chart or improve Powderfinger 's platform des... |
3,802 | Deep Throat is a fictional character on the American science fiction television series The X Files . He serves as an informant , leaking information to FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder to aid Mulder 's investigation of paranormal cases , dubbed X Files . Introduced in the series ' second episode , also named Deep Throat... |
3,803 | Iris C. Cummings ( born December 21 , 1920 ) , also known by her married name Iris Critchell , is an American aviator and former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , Germany . After an active athletic career in swimming , which included a reign as U.S. national 2... |
3,804 | Tropical Storm Beryl was an unusual Atlantic tropical cyclone that formed over southeastern Louisiana in August 1988 . The second tropical storm of the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season , Beryl developed from a slow moving trough of low pressure on August 8 . It tracked southeastward into the coastal waters of eastern Lo... |
3,805 | Adam Air Flight 172 refers to an accident suffered by a Boeing 737 300 , when it landed in Surabaya at the end of a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Ngurah Rai Airport to Juanda Airport . On 21 February 2007 , the plane bent on landing , with the fuselage cracking in the middle of the passenger section . All s... |
3,806 | The Greenville Bridge is a cable stayed bridge over the Mississippi River carrying US 82 and US 278 between Refuge , Mississippi and unk , Arkansas . When it opened in 2010 , it was the fourth longest cable stayed bridge in North America . The Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge , the first bridge to connect the two towns ... |
3,807 | The effects of Hurricane Floyd in New York included two deaths and millions of dollars in damage . Hurricane Floyd , once a large and powerful Category 4 hurricane , made landfall in North Carolina and moved northward along the East Coast , making landfall on Long Island as a tropical storm . The threat of the hurrican... |
3,808 | St Eleth 's Church , Amlwch is a parish church built in the Neo classical style in 1800 in Amlwch , a town on the island of Anglesey in north Wales . It stands on the site of earlier buildings , with the first church here said to have been established by St unk ( or Eleth ) in the 6th century . Increasing prosperity i... |
3,809 | Barry Christopher Cogan ( born 4 November 1984 ) is an Irish semi professional footballer who plays as a midfielder . He is currently a free agent having spent one season at Dartford . He started his career with Belvedere before moving to Millwall , for whom he played as a substitute in the 2004 FA Cup Final , and mak... |
3,810 | Chanzy was an Amiral Charner class armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the 1890s . Upon completion , she served in the Mediterranean Squadron and she was assigned to the International Squadron off the island of Crete during the Greco Turkish War of 1897 to protect French interests and citizens . The ship was... |
3,811 | Elba was a protected cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina ( Royal Navy ) . She was the fifth of six Regioni class ships , all of which were named for regions of Italy , with the exception of Elba , which was named for the island . Elba was built by the Regio Cantieri di Castellammare di Stabia her keel was laid in Sep... |
3,812 | Grace D. Banker ( October 25 , 1892 September 17 , 1960 ) was a telephone operator who served during World War I ( 1917 1918 ) as Chief Operator of telephones for the American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in the U.S. Army Signal Corps . She led thirty three women telephone operators known popularly as Hello Girls . ... |
3,813 | Vladimr Remek ( born 26 September 1948 ) is a Czech politician and diplomat as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot . He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978 , becoming the first Czechoslovak in space and the only Czech in space . As the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the... |
3,814 | Andreas Tegstrm ( born 18 January 1979 ) is a former Swedish footballer who played as a striker . He is most noted for playing with Norwegian Tippeligaen clubs Sandefjord and Fredrikstad . Tegstrm wanted to become a professional ice hockey player while growing up , but he quit playing ice hockey and played football as... |
3,815 | Timema is a genus of relatively short bodied , stout stick insects native to the far western United States . The genus was first described in 1895 by Samuel Hubbard Scudder , based on observations of the species Timema unk . Compared to other stick insects ( order Phasmatodea ) , the genus Timema is considered basal ... |
3,816 | The Big Big Beat is a song recorded by American rapper Azealia Banks for her second mixtape Slay Z ( 2016 ) . It was released as the lead single from the mixtape on February 19 , 2016 after Banks had announced the mixtape in the previous May . Production of the song was handled by new producer An Expresso , while th... |
3,817 | Charles McKnight ( October 10 , 1750 November 16 , 1791 ) was an American physician during and after the American Revolutionary War . He served as a surgeon and physician in the Hospital Department of the Continental Army under General George Washington and other subordinate commanders . McKnight was one of the most r... |
3,818 | El Presidio Real de Santa Brbara , also known as the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara , is a former military installation in Santa Barbara , California , USA . The presidio was built by Spain in 1782 , with the mission of defending the Second Military District in California . In modern times , the Presidio serves as a s... |
3,819 | Cabin Fever is the 11th episode of the American Broadcasting Company 's fourth season of the serial drama television series Lost and 83rd episode overall . It was aired on May 8 , 2008 , on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada . The episode was written by supervising producer Elizabeth Sarnoff and Kyle Penni... |
3,820 | Amanita rubrovolvata , commonly known as the red volva Amanita , is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family . First described scientifically by the Japanese mycologist S. Imai in 1939 , it is widely distributed in eastern Asia . The fungus produces small to medium sized mushrooms , with reddish orange caps up t... |
3,821 | Kamp Krusty is the first episode of The Simpsons ' fourth season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 24 , 1992 . During summer vacation , the children of Springfield attend Kamp Krusty , a summer camp named after Krusty the Clown . The camp is extremely unpleasant , leading to t... |
3,822 | Tropical Storm Chantal was a short lived tropical storm in the northern Atlantic Ocean in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season . It developed on July 31 from non tropical origins between Bermuda and Cape Cod , and with favorable conditions , Chantal rapidly attained peak winds of 50 mph ( 85 km h ) . The storm acceler... |
3,823 | In Thailand politics , the Finland Plot , Finland Plan , Finland Strategy or Finland Declaration ( Thai unk , unk unk , unk ) are names of a controversial conspiracy theory espoused by Sondhi Limthongkul and supporters affiliated with the People 's Alliance for Democracy ( PAD ) in 2006 describing a plot allegedly... |
3,824 | The 1758 Battle on Snowshoes occurred on March 13 , 1758 , during the French and Indian War . It was fought by members of British Ranger companies led by Robert Rogers against French troops and Indians allied to France . The battle took place near Lake George , now in northern New York , but then in the frontier area b... |
3,825 | Typhoon Billie was the first typhoon officially monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center . The storm brought floods to several East Asian countries in July 1959 . Billie developed from a tropical disturbance west of Kiribati on July 12 . Situated within favorable conditions , the system quickly reached tropical st... |
3,826 | The Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year is an honor presented to female Tejano music recording artists . The Tejano Music Awards , first bestowed in 1981 , was established to recognize the most talented performers of the genre a subcategory of regional Mexican music , with roots in the music of early Eu... |
3,827 | Bristol Customshouse and Post Office is a historic two story rectangular Italian palazzo style brick building that was used as a post office and unk in Bristol , Rhode Island , United States . The land for the site was acquired for 4 , 400 . The building was designed by Ammi B. Young and completed in 1858 for a cost ... |
3,828 | Donald J. Gault ( born August 30 , 1946 ) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League ( NFL ) with the Cleveland Browns in 1970 . Over the course of his career , he played in two games , completed 2 of 19 passes for 67 yards , threw no touchdowns and three interceptions , and fi... |
3,829 | Kitti 's hog nosed bat ( unk unk ) , also known as the bumblebee bat , is a vulnerable species of bat and the only extant member of the family unk . It occurs in western Thailand and southeast Burma , where it occupies limestone caves along rivers . Kitti 's hog nosed bat is the smallest species of bat and arguably ... |
3,830 | Halfway Gone is a song by American band Lifehouse . It is the first single released from their fifth studio album , Smoke Mirrors ( 2010 ) . It was first released via digital download in the United States and Canada on October 26 , 2009 . It was then solicited to mainstream radio on January 12 , 2010 . Several remix... |
3,831 | Trevor R. Tierney is a current National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) men 's lacrosse assistant coach , former Major League Lacrosse ( MLL ) defensive coordinator and retired lacrosse goaltender who has played professional box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League ( NLL ) and professional field lacrosse i... |
3,832 | Freedom fries is a political euphemism for French fries in the United States . The term came to prominence in 2003 when the then Republican Chairman of the Committee on House Administration , Bob Ney , renamed the menu item in three Congressional cafeterias in response to France 's opposition to the proposed invasion o... |
3,833 | The Battle of Dover Strait that occurred on 26 27 October 1916 was a naval battle of the First World War between Great Britain and the German Empire . Two and a half flotillas of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla launched a raid into the Dover Strait in an attempt to disrupt the Dover Barrage and destroy... |
3,834 | HMS Vigilant was a merchantman converted into a warship during the American Revolution . After serving as a transport in North American waters from 1775 , she was purchased by the Royal Navy ( RN ) and modified for shore bombardment duties in 1777 . She was instrumental in the eventual British success during the siege ... |
3,835 | M 153 is a state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of the U.S. state of Michigan . It is also known as Ford Road for nearly its entire length , except for its westernmost portion where the highway follows a short expressway to the M 14 freeway . Named for William Ford , father of Henry Ford , Ford Road runs... |
3,836 | Ashlawn , also called the Joshua Perkins House , is a two story , central hall frame farmhouse dating from the 18th century in Sprague , Connecticut . The house 's namesake is its first owner , Joshua Perkins , a farmer and son of the prominent Captain Matthew Perkins , a farmer and founding member of the Hanover Soc... |
3,837 | Reuben Patrick Boise ( June 9 , 1819 April 10 , 1907 ) was an American attorney , judge and politician in the Oregon Territory and the early years of the state of Oregon . A native of Massachusetts , he immigrated to Oregon in 1850 , where he would twice serve on the Oregon Supreme Court for a total of 16 years , with... |
3,838 | Klein Bikes was a bicycle company founded by Gary Klein that pioneered the use of large diameter aluminum alloy tubes for greater stiffness and lower weight . Klein produced his first bicycle frames whilst a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1970s , and full production runs of frames bega... |
3,839 | Amanita nothofagi is a species of fungus in the Amanitaceae family . Endemic to New Zealand , the species was first described by mycologist Greta Stevenson in 1962 . The fruit bodies have dark brown caps that are up to 13 cm ( 5 . 1 in ) in diameter and covered with patches of soft greyish brown scales or warts . The ... |
3,840 | Hugh Nonant ( sometimes Hugh de Nonant died 27 March 1198 ) was a medieval Bishop of Coventry in England . A great nephew and nephew of two Bishops of Lisieux , he held the office of archdeacon in that diocese before serving successively Thomas Becket , the Archbishop of Canterbury and King Henry II of England . Dipl... |
3,841 | The Principality of Nitra ( Slovak unk unk , unk ) also known as the Duchy of Nitra , was a Slavic polity encompassing a group of settlements that developed in the 9th century around Nitra in present day Slovakia . Its history remains uncertain because of a lack of contemporary sources . The territory 's status is su... |
3,842 | The Cool Kids is an American alternative hip hop duo composed of rappers Antoine Sir Michael Rocks Reed ( originally from Matteson , Illinois ) and Evan Chuck Inglish Ingersoll ( originally from Mount Clemens , Michigan ) . The Cool Kids ' music had been released primarily to the independent Chocolate Industries vi... |
3,843 | The 3rd Brigade , 7th Infantry Division , originally known as the 14th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the United States Army , and a part of the 7th Infantry Division . The brigade was based at Fort Ord , California for most of its history . Activated for service in World War I , the unit saw brief servic... |
3,844 | Saving Private Ryan Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan , directed by Steven Spielberg . The album was produced by composer John Williams and distributed by DreamWorks Records . Recorded in Symphony Hall , Boston , Massachusetts , the scores w... |
3,845 | Pennsylvania Route 363 ( PA 363 ) is a state highway located in Montgomery County , Pennsylvania that is a spur of PA 63 . The route runs 11 . 86 mi ( 19 . 09 km ) from an interchange with U.S. Route 422 ( US 422 ) near Valley Forge northeast to PA 63 in Lansdale . The route runs through suburban areas of central Montg... |
3,846 | Huletts Landing is a hamlet in the town of Dresden in northern Washington County , New York , United States . A lakeside community on the eastern shore of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains , Huletts Landing is located entirely within the Adirondack Park . There is only one roadway access to the hamlet , County Ro... |
3,847 | Lady Gaga Queen of Pop is a biography of American singer Lady Gaga . It was written by Emily Herbert ( pen name for Virginia Blackburn ) and published in the United Kingdom by John Blake Publishing Ltd . The book was published by Overlook Press in the United States with the title Lady Gaga Behind the Fame . Additiona... |
3,848 | Young Lord Stanley , possibly re issued as His Only Son , is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film focuses on Jack Stanley who is disinherited by this father , Lord Stanley , for refusing to marry his cousin . Jack heads to America and takes a job as a groom . He is dismissed... |
3,849 | State Route 175 ( SR 175 ) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia . Known as Chincoteague Road , the state highway runs 10 . 49 miles ( 16 . 88 km ) from U.S. Route 13 ( US 13 ) at Nash Corner east to Main Street in Chincoteague . SR 175 passes through the northeastern corner of Accomack County , prov... |
3,850 | Lisa 's Sax is the third episode of The Simpsons ' ninth season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 19 , 1997 to overwhelmingly positive reviews . In the series ' sixth flashback episode , it is explained how Lisa got her saxophone . The episode was executive produced by Al Jean a... |
3,851 | Intimidator 305 is a steel roller coaster by Intamin at Kings Dominion in Doswell , Virginia , United States . Debuting on April 2 , 2010 as the park 's fourteenth roller coaster , Intimidator 305 is located in the Safari Village section near Anaconda . Standing at 305 feet ( 93 m ) tall and reaching speeds of 90 miles... |
3,852 | ' Kingdom Come is the sixth episode of the first season of the American crime thriller television series Millennium . It premiered on the Fox network on November 29 , 1996 . The episode was written by Jorge Zamacona , and directed by Winrich Kolbe . Kingdom Come featured guest appearances by Lindsay Crouse and Tom... |
3,853 | The Skull Tower ( Serbian unk kula , unk unk , pronounced unk e kula ) is a tower composed largely of human skulls located in the city of Ni , Serbia . During the 1809 Battle of egar , fought during the First Serbian Uprising ( part of the Serbian Revolution , 1804 1817 ) , Serbian revolutionaries under Stevan Sin... |
3,854 | Invading My Mind is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez for her seventh studio album Love ( 2011 ) . It was written by RedOne , AJ Junior , BeatGeek , Teddy Sky , Bilal The Chef , Jimmy Joker and produced by RedOne , Lopez , Lady Gaga , BeatGeek , Jimmy Joker and Kuk Harrell . Invading My Mind ... |
3,855 | ' A Room With No View is the twentieth episode of the second season of the American crime thriller television series Millennium . It premiered on the Fox network on April 24 , 1998 . The episode was written by Ken Horton , and directed by Thomas J. Wright . A Room With No View featured an appearance by recurring g... |
3,856 | James Turner Morehead ( May 24 , 1797 December 28 , 1854 ) was a United States Senator and the 12th Governor of Kentucky . He was the first native born Kentuckian to hold the governorship of the state . A member of Henry Clay 's National Republican Party , Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to ... |
3,857 | Donald Don Zimmerman ( born c . 1953 ) is an American lacrosse coach . He is currently serving as the head coach for the UMBC Retrievers at the University of Maryland , Baltimore County , a position he has held since 1994 . Between 1984 and 1987 , Zimmerman coached Johns Hopkins to three national championships . In 2... |
3,858 | Another Simpsons Clip Show is the third episode of The Simpsons ' sixth season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25 , 1994 . In the episode , Marge reads a romance novel in bed , and it prompts her to have a family meeting , where the Simpson family recall their past loves in ... |
3,859 | Lieutenant General Edward Soriano ( born 12 November 1946 ) is an American retired military officer . He is the highest ranking Filipino American officer to have served in the United States military , and the first promoted to a general officer . Born in the Philippines , Soriano moved with his family to the United St... |
3,860 | The Atlantic Ocean Road or the Atlantic Road ( Norwegian unk ) is an 8 . 3 kilometer ( 5 . 2 mi ) long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Eide and Avery in Mre og Romsdal , Norway . It passes by unk , an unsheltered part of the Norwegian Sea , connecting the island of Avery with the mainlan... |
3,861 | M 47 is a north south state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan . It runs near Saginaw and Midland in the Tri Cities area of the Lower Peninsula . The highway runs through suburban and agricultural areas to connect the two cities with the airport in the area . The northernmost section of M 47 runs along a... |
3,862 | Looking Forward is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . Adapted from James Oliver Curwood 's short story of the same name , the film follows a young chemist named Jack Goodwin . He discovers a chemical compound that puts a person into a state of sleep for a determined period of time a... |
3,863 | Tropical Depression Two was a short lived tropical cyclone that impacted portions of Texas and Mexico during the highly active 2010 Atlantic hurricane season . It formed from a tropical wave that emerged off the western coast of Africa and crossed the Atlantic Ocean without any development . Upon entering the western ... |
3,864 | Champion of the Raj is a turn based strategy video game developed by Level 9 Computing and published by Personal Software Services . It was released exclusively in the United Kingdom for the Amiga , Atari ST and systems running DOS in 1991 . It is the thirteenth and final instalment to the Strategic unk series . The g... |
3,865 | Gran Paradiso National Park ( Italian Parco nazionale del Gran Paradiso , French Parc national du Grand Paradis ) is an Italian national park in the Graian Alps , between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions . The park is named after Gran Paradiso mountain , which is located in the park , and is contiguous with the... |
3,866 | The Russian Spaniel is a type of spaniel first standardised in 1951 in the Soviet Union after World War II by cross breeding English Cocker Spaniels , English Springer Spaniels and other spaniel breeds . Physically it is similar to a Cocker Spaniel , but has a shorter , tighter coat and a longer body . Developed and us... |
3,867 | The Battle of Beaufort , also known as the Battle of Port Royal Island , was fought on February 3 , 1779 , near Beaufort , South Carolina , during the American Revolutionary War . The inconsequential battle took place not long after British forces consolidated control around Savannah , Georgia , which they had captured... |
3,868 | The Mummy is a 1911 American silent short film produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film details the story of Jack Thornton , a businessman , who is in love with Professor Dix 's daughter . Jack purchases a mummy and plans to win his respect as an Egyptologist , but the mummy is reanimated in Jack 's room by a live... |
3,869 | Braathens Helikopter A S was a Norwegian helicopter airline based at Stavanger Airport , Sola , and Bergen Airport , Flesland . It used a fleet of seven Arospatiale Super Pumas to serve offshore oil platforms in the North Sea . The customers were Phillips Petroleum , Norsk Hydro , Statoil , Amoco and British Petroleum... |
3,870 | Psilocybe hispanica is a species of fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae . It produces small brown mushrooms with conical to convex caps up to 10 mm ( 0 . 4 in ) in diameter and stems 16 to 25 mm ( 0 . 6 to 1 . 0 in ) long by 0 . 5 to 1 mm ( 0 . 02 to 0 . 04 in ) thick . Reported as new to science in 2000 , it is only... |
3,871 | The unk Somerset ( Chinese unk pinyin unk unk dsh ) is a high rise commercial building and shopping mall on Somerset Road in Orchard , Singapore . The building was first known as Public Utilities Board Building ( PUB Building ) until 1995 , and was later known as Singapore Power Building until 2008 when acquired by... |
3,872 | Panggilan Darah ( Indonesian for Call of Blood ) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film . The black and white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to make a living in the colonial capita... |
3,873 | Panggilan Darah ( Indonesian for Call of Blood ) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film . The black and white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to make a living in the colonial capita... |
3,874 | Enlighten Canberra is an outdoor annual art and cultural festival held in Canberra , Australia featuring illuminating light installations and projections , performances from local and interstate musicians , dining and film events . The festival is an Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) Government initiative held annu... |
3,875 | The Unicorn ( French La Licorne ) is a fictional 17th century three masted armed Royal Navy vessel appearing in The Adventures of Tintin , the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Herg . The ship plays a leading role in both The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham 's Treasure , published in 1943 and 1944 , respecti... |
3,876 | George W. Shafer sometimes spelled Shaffer or Schaefer ( October 1851 January 21 , 1922 ) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball . Nicknamed Orator , because he was an avid speaker , Shafer played for 10 teams in four different major leagues between 1874 and 1890 . Though he was a good hitter who batted over .... |
3,877 | New York State Route 220 ( NY 220 ) is a state highway located in Chenango County , New York , in the United States . It is signed as an east west highway , but its actual routing wanders considerably from north to south as it proceeds across the county . The western terminus of NY 220 is at an intersection with NY 41... |
3,878 | General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden GCB CSI DL ( 9 November 1829 9 November 1918 ) was a British military officer who served in India . Born in Belhelvie , Aberdeenshire , he was the fourth son of Colonel Thomas Lumsden CB . He studied at Addiscombe Military Seminary , before officially joining military service as an ensi... |
3,879 | Sarah Conlon ( ne Maguire ) ( 20 January 1926 19 July 2008 ) was an Irish housewife and a prominent campaigner in one of the most high profile miscarriage of justice cases in British legal history . She spent decades campaigning to have the names of her husband Giuseppe and son Gerry cleared over the Provisional Iris... |
3,880 | Help Is on the Way is a song by American rock band Rise Against , featured on their sixth studio album Endgame ( 2011 ) . Inspired by lead vocalist Tim McIlrath 's visit to New Orleans , the song is about the slow response time for aid to disaster stricken areas . It incorporates elements of punk rock and melodic har... |
3,881 | Politics and Prose ( sometimes stylized as Politics Prose or abbreviated as P P ) is an independent bookstore located in Chevy Chase , Washington , D.C. , on Connecticut Avenue . The store was founded in 1984 by co owners Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade , who expanded the store fivefold to its current size . After a f... |
3,882 | The Action off Lofoten was a naval battle fought between the German Kriegsmarine and the British Royal Navy off the southern coast of the Lofoten Islands , Norway during World War II . A German squadron under Vizeadmiral Gnther Ltjens consisting of the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau met and engaged a British squ... |
3,883 | The Church of the Holy Mother of God ( Bulgarian unk , tsarkva Sveta unk ) is the popular name of a medieval Eastern Orthodox church located in Asen 's Fortress . It lies near Asenovgrad in the Rhodope Mountains of Plovdiv Province , south central Bulgaria . Constructed most likely in the 12th century , it featu... |
3,884 | This article is about the Hurricane Klaus of 1984 there was also a Hurricane Klaus that was retired in the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season . Hurricane Klaus was a North Atlantic hurricane that hit the Leeward Islands from the west in November of the 1984 Atlantic hurricane season . Forming from a broad area of low pre... |
3,885 | The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain was a single ship action on September 10 , 1779 , part of the Anglo Spanish War . It was fought between the British sloop of war HMS West Florida and the Continental Navy schooner USS Morris in the waters of Lake Pontchartrain , then in the British province of West Florida . The We... |
3,886 | Sybil Virginia Plumlee ( ne Burgess April 29 , 1911 January 6 , 2012 ) was an American teacher , caseworker , and police officer who served in Portland , Oregon 's Women 's Protective Division , a special unit of the Portland Police Bureau , from 1947 to 1967 . She is recognized as a pioneer in the law enforcement fi... |
3,887 | Boyce Dawkins McDaniel ( June 11 , 1917 May 8 , 2002 ) was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies ( LNS ) . McDaniel was skilled in constructing atom smashing devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and he... |
3,888 | Brazilian Dreams is a live album by Cuban jazz performer Paquito D 'Rivera . It was recorded at the Manchester Craftsmen 's Guild in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , between April 26 and 29 , 2001 , and released by MCG Jazz on August 27 , 2002 . The album features guest performances by the American vocal group New York Voic... |
3,889 | The Baths of Zeuxippus were popular public baths in the city of Constantinople , the capital of the Byzantine Empire . They were built between 100 to 200 , destroyed by the Nika revolt of 532 and then rebuilt several years later . They were so called because they were built upon the site where a Temple of Jupiter ( Zeu... |
3,890 | Andrea Doria was an ironclad battleship built for the Italian Regia Marina ( Royal Navy ) in the 1880s and 1890s . Named for the 16th century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria , she was the third and final ship of the Ruggiero di Lauria class . The ship was armed with a main battery of four 17 inch ( 432 mm ) guns , was p... |
3,891 | Ride Me to Hell is the third episode of the second season of the American animated television series Ugly Americans , and the seventeenth overall episode of the series . It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on July 14 , 2011 . In the episode , Grimes is outraged by the unsatisfying ending of his... |
3,892 | Leucopaxillus giganteus , commonly known as the giant unk ( formerly as the giant unk ) or the giant funnel , is a saprobic species of fungus in the Tricholomataceae family . As its common names imply , the fruit body , or mushroom , can become quite large the cap reaches diameters of up to 40 cm ( 16 in ) . It has a ... |
3,893 | Red Alarm ( unk , unk unk ) is a 1995 shoot ' em up video game developed by T E Soft and published by Nintendo . Released as a Virtual Boy launch game , it requires the player to pilot a space fighter and defeat the army of a malevolent artificial intelligence called KAOS . The game takes inspiration from the 1993 t... |
3,894 | The Illinois Freedom Bell is located in Mount Morris , Illinois , United States , and is the official freedom bell of the U.S. state of Illinois . The bell was created for a church in Lake Geneva , Wisconsin as a replica of the Liberty Bell in 1862 . In 1910 , while it was being moved across the frozen Geneva Lake foll... |
3,895 | Frde Airport , Bringeland ( IATA FDE , ICAO unk Norwegian Frde unk , Bringeland ) is a regional airport located at Bringelandssen in the municipality of Gaular , about 16 kilometers ( 10 mi ) south of the town of Frde in Sogn og Fjordane county , Norway . Owned and operated by the state owned Avinor , the airport ... |
3,896 | Who Am I is a song recorded by Christian rock band Casting Crowns . Written by Mark Hall and produced by Mark A. Miller and Steven Curtis Chapman , it was released on February 22 , 2004 , as the second single from the band 's 2003 self titled debut album . A pop rock and adult contemporary ballad , the song is based... |
3,897 | HMS Hyperion was an H class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the mid 1930s . During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides as part of the Mediterranean Fleet . During the first few months of World War II , Hyperion searched for Germ... |
3,898 | The Prime Minister of Vietnam ( Vietnamese Th tng Vit Nam ) , officially styled Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic ( Vietnamese Th tng Chnh ph nc Cng unk unk hi unk unk ) , is the head of government of Vietnam and presides over the meetings of the Central Government ( formerly the Council of Ministers ) . The p... |
3,899 | The effects of Hurricane Isabel in New York and New England were relatively minor and primarily limited to wind damage . Hurricane Isabel formed from a tropical wave on September 6 , 2003 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean . It moved northwestward , and within an environment of light wind shear and warm waters it steadily ... |
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