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62082135 | Most moderate sized towns with sailable water nearby have a sailing club. Many clubs hold weekly races, annual championships and annual races.
Australia has a large number associations ranging from one design class associations, which sail boats bound by strict rules to open associations for development and broad communities of boats. Associations are generally at a national level with state based subsidiaries, although some associations are state based where they represent classes or communities that are only found in one state. In 2019, Sailing Australia affiliated ### class and other associations, although not all class associations are affiliated. | 660 |
65327038 | Initial plans for the church show a roof of cedar shingles and a tower with a spire. However the church decided to replace the shingles with tile, which meant forgoing the spire.
The church contains a stained glass window designed by Wellington artist Frederick Vincent Ellis. The window commemorates Louisa Ann Evans, who died 20 July 1918, and had been instrumental in support efforts for soldiers during the war.
The church is registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure, with registration number 5012. | 522 |
38114409 | Paddy melon is a common name for two species of plants in the melon family which are invasive in Australia:
Citrullus lanatus, a sprawling plant with fruits much larger than a golf ball, a weedy form of the cultivated watermelon
Cucumis myriocarpus, a sprawling plant with fruits smaller than a golf ball. Cucumis myriocarpus, is a summer weed belonging to the cucurbit family, is an annual plant that commonly invades fallow fields and pastures. | 447 |
18246736 | After carriages, Peg Perego’s baby products have since expanded to include strollers, car seats, and high chairs.
In 1960, the company looked into a slightly more mature market: children's ride-on toys. Peg Perego designed and built plastic, pedal-operated children’s riding vehicles. These toys have become more advanced, and the company now sells battery-powered John Deere, Polaris, Cub Cadet, Ducati, and Vespa ride-on toys for children. | 441 |
44924226 | Leclerc scored his and Ferrari's first pole position of the 2023 season at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, though he failed to convert it to a victory as Sergio Pérez took victory in both the sprint and main race. However, he was on the podium during both races.
In the Miami Grand Prix, Leclerc started seventh after crashing during Q3. He finished the race in the same position to cap off a frustrating weekend. In his home event the Monaco Grand Prix, he qualified third but started sixth after being given a three-place grid penalty for impending during Q3. | 556 |
41947265 | J. Robinson, J. Harding and J. Vouillamoz Wine Grapes - A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours pgs XXVIII-XXX Allen Lane 2012 | 165 |
23829250 | The ethnicity groups in la Vall d'Uixó are: Spaniards: 32976 Foreigners: 695
Being part of the Valencian Community, the common festivities are:
Les Penyes en Festes, since 1982 these celebration are being held in the first week of August.
According to the Valencian linguistic area, la Vall d'Uixó is part of the Valencian spoken area. | 336 |
36122701 | Pana Hema Taylor as Nasir – a Syrian warrior and Agron's lover.
Blessing Mokgohloa as Castus – a Cilician pirate who joins the rebellion.
Ditch Davey as Nemetes – a Germanic warrior who is conflicted about the rebellion, and his role in it.
Anna Hutchison as Laeta – a Roman citizen and well-to-do wife whose life is changed forever when her husband is killed and she is taken captive by Spartacus after the rebel invasion of her city. | 435 |
56926610 | But on January 7, 1919, the Estonian 1st division launched a counter-offensive, and already on January 19 the Estonians and Finns took Narva and entered the territory of the Petrograd Governate.
In spring 1919 the 7th Army defended the approaches to Petrograd against Finnish troops on the Karelian and Onega-Ladoga Isthmus, the White Guard Northern Corps of Major-General Dzerozhinsky and Estonian troops south of the Gulf of Finland. | 436 |
1390372 | The number of regional meets varies each year, but recent years have seen 15 – 25 regional meetings. Some regional groups hold a single meeting, while others may host quarterly meetings. A list of upcoming regional meetings is also maintained at the ALPCA website.
Although these meets are not sponsored by ALPCA they provide some of the same collecting opportunities that the ALPCA annual convention and officially sanctioned regional meets provide. The independent meets also allow the general public a way to meet ALPCA members, help members learn about plates by talking to sellers, and begin or add to their collections of license plates. | 646 |
52398237 | In June 1887, recognizing an opportunity, the Ontario Power Company of Niagara Falls was incorporated in Canada “to supply manufacturers, corporations, and persons with water, hydraulic, electric or other power.” While its operations were in Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, its executive office was in Buffalo with the following officers: Albright, president; Francis V. Greene, vice-president; and Robert C. Board, secretary and treasurer.
In 1903, the Company obtained an agreement with the Commissioners of the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park that allowed the company to develop at least of electricity. | 624 |
15603695 | Information Provided by the Joint Munitions Command
The current plant is on two sites: Plant A is in Kingsport, and Plant B is about away in a less developed part of Hawkins County. The two plants are connected by rail. Plant A has . Plant B has . The site as a whole includes 465 buildings.
Holston Ordnance Works [HOW] was established in July 1942 and stopped production in 1945. It was reactivated in 1949 during the Cold War and continues today. | 452 |
62322931 | After starting last, he finished 23rd.
In addition to racing competitively, Johnson works for the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School in Pahrump, Nevada.
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) | 301 |
1694525 | June 22, 1936: Flood Control Act of 1936, , Sess. 2, ch. 688
June 29, 1936: Merchant Marine Act, Sess. 2, ch. 250,
June 30, 1936: Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, Sess. 2, ch. | 180 |
566761 | Herbert Zimmermann (29 November 1917 – 16 December 1966) was a popular German football commentator.
He did one of the most famous pieces of commentary in German during the World Cup final in 1954 by "recommending" the goal that won "The Miracle of Bern" for West Germany.
Schäfer nach innen geflankt... Kopfball... Abgewehrt. Aus dem Hintergrund müßte Rahn schießen... Rahn schießt! Tor! Tor! Tor! Tor! | 402 |
328248 | The Sapporo Beer Festival is held at the Sapporo Beer Factory. The factory opens to the public for tours of the factory and other events including free beer tasting.
The Donto-sai Festival is held at the height of winter. Men and women wear only sparse, white clothing and walk silently through the town, receiving sake from local residents along the way. The event culminates in a communal purification ritual and bonfire at Takekoma Shrine. | 444 |
67841054 | Casablanca Beats (; ) is a 2021 Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch. In June 2021, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The film was produced by Ali n’ Productions. It is reportedly the first Moroccan film to be selected to compete for the Palme d'Or since 1962. The film was shot at Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen, a cultural centre that director Ayouch co-founded with Mahi Binebine in 2014. | 447 |
57416971 | Robert von Schneider (1854–1909), Austrian classical archaeologist | 66 |
34424081 | Model with Rotax 582 powerplant of , stripped down for off-airport operations, with no cockpit fairing, circa 2003. | 115 |
44349351 | Upon this realisation, he began to make more family-friendly content, which included stopping swearing and making his persona "bigger and brighter", along with ensuring that he did not use sentences that were too long. At the time, he was working as a bartender at a pub. Once his YouTube earnings passed what he earned from bartending, which was minimum wage, he quit the job. This decision was made when he had about 10,000 subscribers. His parents allowed him to stay in their house rent-free to help him develop YouTube into his full-time career. | 550 |
277983 | The fuller excerpt below supports her case further:
Then, in a surviving draft letter to Calderoni, dated by the CP editors as circa that same year 1905, Peirce said regarding his above-quoted discussion:
Indeed in the Monist article Peirce had said that the coinage "pragmaticism" was intended "to serve the precise purpose of expressing the original definition". Of course this does not mean that Peirce regarded his fellow pragmatist philosophers as word-kidnappers. | 469 |
39553603 | The Ensemble Theatre, in collaboration with Christine Dunstan Productions, took the play on tour and won the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Regional Touring Production.
Alfieri developed Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks into a screenplay for the 2014 film adaptation, which was directed by Seidelman and starred Gena Rowlands and Cheyenne Jackson. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film has an overall approval rating of 50%, based on 12 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 5.3/10. | 502 |
4401257 | The arches have molded Della Robbia foliate decoration, placed on terracotta piers that contain Corinthian-style capitals. On the second story, there are metal-framed casement windows with multiple panes, above which is a horizontal rope molding. The arches do not have windows on the third story. A similar, wider arcade exists on the neighboring Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
A sign with the theater's name is placed in front of the center arch. Toward the top of the facade, there are terracotta medallions depicting fictional beasts and foliate decorations. | 559 |
387717 | Planning permission has been granted to sympathetically refurbish it, with the upper floors being converted to hotel accommodation, along with the upper floors of two adjacent properties, the ground floor of the adjacent property serving as the hotel reception and the addition of a restaurant to the rear of the property. The planned changes will not affect the appearance of front of the pub, including the Rabbit Room. The business is expected to be closed at least until 2023. | 480 |
64213564 | Silvano Canonico (1937 – 29 September 2009) was an Italian sport shooter European Champion at individual senior level.
Silvano Canonico died in an accident on 29 September 2009, at the age of 72, in Valtellina, near the city of Lomazzo where he resided. Went to look for mushrooms with a friend, he fell into the bank of a river. | 329 |
49718089 | She went as far as accusing both the Dramatists Guild and Actors' Equity of engaging in a mild form of censorship by discouraging members from writing and appearing in "dirty plays."
Helen Arthur died of cerebral thrombosis at the Neurological Institute of New York on December 9, 1939. Her obituary stated that she had homes in New York City and Pleasantville, New York. | 371 |
6591821 | In 1807, Rolette married 14-year-old Marguerite Dubois, the "mixed-blood" daughter of Antoine Dubois; her mother was the sister of Chief Wabasha II. They had at least two daughters, Emilie (later known as Emilie Rolette Hooe) and Elizabeth Rolette. Marguerite died in 1817. | 273 |
20622609 | The top 38th of the hotel tower feature an amusement facility which includes a roller coaster that runs around the edge of the building, and a stroll around the edge of the building with the protection of safety harnesses. There is also an elevator going from the 18th floor (Sky Lobby) all the way to the 38th floor and providing a great view of Barangay Capitol Site, Cebu City.
The Crown Regency Hotel and Towers was designed by local architectural firm T.I. | 461 |
26895996 | This one source will single-handedly cancel out all worldwide efforts to control climate change. All the good effects of conservation, conversion to solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and other expensive unconventional energy sources will be for nothing, because this one industrial project will continue pushing up the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and equivalent greenhouse gases. All the planning and sacrifice by the rest of the world will be cancelled out by this one industry.
And, in the course of exploiting the tar sands and destroying the boreal forest, the treaty rights of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation will be rendered meaningless. | 653 |
50376151 | He was waived on August 31, 2019.
White was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad on September 30, 2019.
On October 8, 2019, White was signed by the Atlanta Falcons off the Eagles practice squad. He was waived on October 28.
On October 31, 2019, White was signed to the Dallas Cowboys practice squad. On December 30, 2019, White was signed to a reserve/future contract. On April 30, 2020, he was waived by the Cowboys. | 430 |
67719936 | 2020s American science fiction television series
Television series based on American novels
Television series set in the future
Television shows affected by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike | 182 |
7116731 | After his death, Vega created a Matter Wave simulacrum of his soul, and placed it inside of a shell body. Hollow, however, had neither the memories nor personality of Altair. Nevertheless, he served Vega faithfully, often acting as a bodyguard, which led to his death when he tried to shield her from Le Mu's power. His final wish was to allow Vega to speak with Altair one last time.
In the anime an electrical generator provides him with limitless power, effectively making him invulnerable. | 493 |
72058320 | 2010 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
December 2015 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
2018 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party | 315 |
41311631 | Farm to Market Road 38 (FM 38) is located in Lamar and Delta counties. The road begins at US 82 west of Petty and turns north and east to Maxey, then southeast through Brookston and Roxton to Ben Franklin.
FM 38 was designated on April 29, 1942, from US 82 west of Brookston through Roxton to Noble, with the section from US 82 to Roxton replacing SH 188. On April 30, 1945, the Roxton-Noble section was cancelled and became part of FM 137. | 440 |
1092804 | A gun within the 'Y' turret was also equipped with transmitters so that, as a backup, it could function as a "directing gun", but there was no provision for the gun battery to be split between the main director and this directing gun. The Indefatigables received their director equipment between mid-1915 and May 1916.
In some ways the armour protection given to the Indefatigables was weaker than that of their predecessors as the armour was reduced in thickness in a number of places, but it was spread out to a greater extent. | 530 |
2405272 | 200 mW average power input (CW for the Raman), in a 0.9NA objective with a center wavelength around 800 nm, constitutes a power density of 26 MW/cm,2 (focus length = 1.5 micrometre, focus volume = 1.16 micrometre3, photon energy = 2.31×10−19 J or 1.44 eV). | 256 |
3901322 | Beginning in October 2004, he picked up duties as a CAPCOM and served in this role during daily orbit shifts for STS-121.
Archambault was the pilot for STS-117, which was the 118th mission of the Space Shuttle program. STS-117 launched on 8 June 2007 at 19:38 EDT and landed on 22 June 2007 at 15:49 EDT. The 14-day mission traveled 5.8 million miles and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. | 400 |
237504 | Matronymic: A surname based on the given name of the mother.
Family name: A name used by all members of a family. In China, surnames gradually came into common use beginning in the 3rd century BC (having been common only among the nobility before that). In some areas of East Asia (e.g. Korea and Vietnam), surnames developed in the next several centuries, while in other areas (like Japan), surnames did not become prevalent until the 19th century. | 450 |
27344665 | They beat the Canaries 4–0 at Haverfordwest to qualify for Europe for the very first time.
For the first time Swansea qualified to UEFA competitions in 2010 after winning the Welsh Premier League. As Wales is not in the top leagues by the UEFA coefficient for women, the team had to go through the qualifying stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League. | 352 |
41481368 | After German reunification Chemie was renamed SV Jenaer Glas and was admitted to the Landesliga Thüringen (V). In the 1995–96 season it fell short of winning outright promotion, but clinched the Thuringian championship in the next. In the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV), JENAer Glaswerk played three seasons there until it went back to the Landesliga in 2000, this time as Schott JENAer Glas. | 384 |
475016 | Man plays tend to be gentler and more elegant. Scholars are the main characters in these plays. Water sleeves are used extensively in man plays to produce movements reflecting the elegance and tenderness of the characters; all female characters wear them. In man plays, characters put a lot of effort into creating distinctive facial expressions and gestures to express their underlying emotions.
There are four types of roles: Sang (Sheng), Daan (Dan), Zing (Jing), and Cau (Chou).
The Sang (; Sheng) are male roles. | 517 |
268115 | Studies have found that adult ocelots are vulnerable to predation by both cougars and jaguars, with decreasing water sources in Guatemala causing predatory encounters with the latter.
Ocelots have been observed to follow scent trails to acquire prey. They walk slowly at a speed of about searching for prey. Alternatively, an ocelot may wait for prey for 30 to 60 minutes at a certain site and move to another walking at if unsuccessful. | 439 |
2817420 | Building space for a town hall was made available between Rådhusgaten and Øvre Slottsgate. What is today referred to as the old City Hall (Gamle rådhus) was finished in 1641. The building still exists at Nedre Slottsgate 1. The building fell into decay and by 1733 a building at Rådhusgaten 7 was selected to be a new City Hall.
By the 1800s the building was too small and the growing administration moved to various premises across the city. | 442 |
69504277 | Vanja Drkušić (born 30 October 1999) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a defender for Russian Premier League club Sochi and the Slovenia national team.
In December 2015, Drkušić joined Dutch top-flight side Heerenveen, after receiving interest from Maribor, Dinamo Zagreb and Atalanta. In August 2019, he signed for Rende in the Italian third division. Before the second half of 2019–20, Drkušić signed for Slovenian team Bravo. | 433 |
1657394 | They do as he said and everything happens as he said it would and they "...prepared the Passover." (16) This episode shows Jesus' power over the situation. The owner of the house seems to know Jesus as "teacher", perhaps indicating that he was an unnamed disciple.
Jesus and the Twelve Apostles arrive. Mark says it was evening. As the new Jewish day began at sundown, this is now the Passover and this is the Passover meal. This is the day of Jesus' death, Good Friday. | 470 |
67351955 | GCW Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Reed Bentley (1) and Alex Colon (1)
GCW Nick Gage Invitational 7 Tournament winner
Horror Slam Deathmatch Championship (1 time, | 171 |
68614426 | He operated out of the Port of Liverpool and bought over 40% of his enslaved people from the Bight of Biafra off the West African coast, in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. In Nigeria, the Bight of Biafra has now been renamed the Bight of Bonny. The Bight of Biafra was commonly used by Liverpool slave traders.
Knight was a member of the African Company of Merchants. Prior to 1750 the British Crown held a monopoly of rights for slave trading in West Africa with a business called the Royal African Company. | 520 |
13911798 | Little Old New York (1923) – Delmonica
Under the Red Robe (1923) – Antoine
Frozen Justice (1929) – French Sailor
Hot for Paris (1929) – Charlott Gouset
Let's Go Places (1930) – Du Bonnet (uncredited)
The Big Party (1930) – Dupuy (uncredited)
Cheer Up and Smile (1930) – Pierre | 282 |
313649 | The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World. New York: Public Affairs. .
Curran, Daniel, James K. Sebenius, and Michael Watkins. "Two Paths to Peace: Contrasting George Mitchell in Northern Ireland with Richard Holbrooke in Bosnia–Herzegovina." Negotiation Journal 20.4 (2004): 513-537. online
Hartwell, Leon. Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the Dayton Peace Process. Negotiation Journal. 35(4):443-469. | 416 |
50942213 | The Irish challenge was led by a ante-post favourite Summerhill Gem trained by Michael Enright. Irish Puppy Derby champion Make History and Bold Rabbit from the Ger McKenna kennel were two more leading Irish challengers.
Summerhill Gem did not last long going out in the qualifying round as did the 1987 English Greyhound Derby finalist Rikasso Tiller. | 352 |
1172469 | Simultaneously, WNAL formally terminated the WTTO simulcast, and became the CBS affiliate for Gadsden and northeastern Alabama. WBRC originally planned to carry the entire Fox network schedule, running the Fox Kids block on weekday afternoons to replace the displaced ABC soap opera lineup upon its move to the W58CK trimulcast (which would be collectively known as "ABC 33/40," a brand referencing the respective channel numbers of WCFT and WJSU, and will mostly be referred to hereafter in the article as "WBMA+"). | 516 |
23675744 | Conferences, speeches, lectures, reports, reviews, etc., both written or recorded versions
Dramatic, dramatic-musical and theater in general, pantomimes and choreographic
Adaptations of literary or original works, his librettos and screenplays, radio or television productions of literary works
Audio-visual materials relating to any science | 344 |
34706554 | She was also the side's leading wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, with 14 wickets at an average of 9.28, again despite playing only four matches.
In August 2022, Bell played for Scotland Under-19s in the Europe Qualifier for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup against the Netherlands. In the first match of the series, she took 3/10 from her four overs. | 377 |
4798363 | A member of Carradine's family stated that the family was "profoundly disturbed" by the incident, and threatened legal action against further distribution of the image.
On 9 August 2020, Thairath published a headline that called the Philippines, the country from which 165 Filipino teachers who arrived in Thailand on 8 August came from, as the "land of COVID-19". The headline caused disappointment from some Filipinos, who found the headline discriminatory and xenophobic. Thai journalist Erich Parpart apologized on Facebook for "the idiocracy of [Thailand's] main tabloid". | 577 |
18286765 | Later, he was a founding member of the Georgian National Democratic Party, more like a group in its early days, in 1906. Centered on various newspapers, the best known of which was (კლდე; "Rock"), the party held its founding congress in June 1917, in the aftermath of the February Revolution in St. Petersburg. Gvazava was a member of the Georgian National Council and its presidium. | 384 |
54198796 | He held teaching and research positions in universities in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, including the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he served as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher, and Harvard University, where, among other appointments, he was a postdoctoral fellow for two years with a project entitled "Artificial Nations? The Sykes-Picot and the Islamic State's narratives in a historical perspective".
He holds a two-year M.A. in Israeli society and politics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Ph.D. | 535 |
45031263 | Flatbush Town Hall at 35 Snyder Avenue between Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, was built in 1874-75 and was designed by Culyer in the High Victorian Gothic style in the Ruskinian mode.
It dates from the time before the Town of Flatbush was integrated into the City of Brooklyn, in 1894. | 340 |
1204471 | Roadworks can, however, also happen when a major accident occurs and road debris from the crash needs to be cleared.
Roadworks are often signposted, although it is possible that the signage comes too late or too sudden or is missing.
Typical road work traffic controls are temporary signs, traffic cones, barrier boards and t-top bollards as well as other forms of warning devices. There are standards of temporary traffic control (maintenance of traffic) established in each country for various type of road work.
Roadworks are frequently carried out throughout the night so as to minimize traffic disruption. | 610 |
4557246 | dr Tihomir Aleksić, started a project of designing the first "domestic" digital computer at the end of the 1950s. This was to become a line of CER (), starting with the model CER-10 in 1960, a primarily vacuum tube and electronic relays-based computer.
By 1964, CER-20 computer was designed and completed as "electronic bookkeeping machine", as the manufacturer recognized increasing need in accounting market. | 410 |
149024 | Gavin Makuma Yunupiŋu – yidaki, bilma, vocals
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupiŋu – keyboards, guitar, percussion, yidaki, vocals (died 2017)
Mandawuy Yunupiŋu – singer-songwriter, guitar (died 2013)
Malngay Kevin Yunupiŋu – yidaki, bilma, dancer, | 242 |
21382451 | The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) identified food waste as being a critical problem, a view shared by a Cabinet Office report on food; it said that doing nothing to solve it would lead to severe food shortages, which may trigger food price climbs of up to 50%. With a third of food purchased in the UK never eaten, the country was singled out in the report. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said that: "Over half of the food produced today is either lost, wasted or discarded as a result of inefficiency in the human-managed food chain. | 555 |
59177766 | Schneider played the entire 2004 season with the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays, appearing in 58 games and batting .206 with six home runs and 28 RBIs. With Dunedin in 2005, he hit .321 in 22 games and was promoted back to Triple-A Syracuse, but struggled to a .179 average through 34 games with the SkyChiefs. Schneider played at three different minor league levels in 2006, including the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, but was limited to 34 games due to back surgery. | 463 |
367487 | Hercules was officially referred to as "transportable", but moving a battery was a significant operation and required considerable construction at the firing sites. Over its lifetime, significant effort was put into the development of solid state replacements for the vacuum tube-based electronics inherited from the early-1950s Ajax, and a variety of mobile options. None of these were adopted, in favor of much more mobile systems like the MIM-23 Hawk. Another development for the anti-ballistic missile role later emerged as the much larger LIM-49 Nike Zeus design. | 568 |
50902794 | making round trips from the estuary to the fort in only four or five days, at a cost of $75 per ton, far lower than the $200 per ton cost of carrying it overland from San Diego.
Merchant ships of the United States
Steamboat transport on the Colorado River | 255 |
28132764 | Richard A. Compton Scholarship, established August 1, 1994 by Roger G. Hill II '87 and William A. Compton, to provide undergraduate scholarship support for students enrolled in Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
An avid stamp collector, Compton was a member of the British North America Philatelic Society and served on its Board of Governors in 1962. His philatelic interests including Newfoundland stamps. During the 1950s, he was active in the Boy Scouts, serving as Scout Master (Silver Beaver). | 519 |
18364790 | La Salle went on to sweep the NU Lady Bulldogs in the Finals and claim their twelfth UAAP women's volleyball title in their first joint back-to-back UAAP Finals appearance since the sixth consecutive (and most recent) Ateneo-La Salle matchup in the championship series in Season 79, spearheaded by Angel Anne Canino, who became the school's first ever collegiate (and the league's only second consecutive and overall women's) volleyball player to win Rookie of the Year and Season Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards in the same year. | 532 |
314732 | The emperor Diocletian introduced a radical reform known as the tetrarchy (AD 284–305), with a western and an eastern senior emperor styled Augustus, each seconded by a junior emperor (and designated successor) styled caesar. Each of these four defended and administered a quarter of the empire. In the 290s, Diocletian divided the empire anew into almost a hundred provinces, including Roman Italy. | 399 |
32906010 | Kuoppala is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Kuoppala (born 1974), Finnish musician
Hanna Kuoppala (born 1975), Finnish ice hockey player
Jussi Kuoppala (born 1974), Finnish footballer | 221 |
33408205 | Coles Child, usually known as Jeremy Child (1944–2022), was an English actor and baronet.
Coles Child may also refer to:
Sir Coles Child, 1st Baronet (1862–1929) of the Child baronets
Sir Coles John Child, 2nd Baronet (1906–1971) of the Child baronets
Sir Coles John Alexander Child, 4th Baronet (b. 1982) of the Child baronets | 327 |
22941863 | In the last 24 km, there were two categorized climbs, a third-category climb which preceded a shallow descent before a second-category summit stage finish.
After several unsuccessful breakaway efforts, José Joaquín Rojas, Marcus Burghardt, and Gerald Ciolek succeeded in their escape attempt. Damien Gaudin joined them after a lengthy solo chase, and the four were together as a group for much of the stage, gaining a maximum advantage of six minutes by the 130 km mark. The yellow jersey peloton caught them on the ascent of the third-category climb before the finish. | 569 |
30631685 | Please add names of notable painters with a Wikipedia page, in precise English alphabetical order, using U.S. spelling conventions. Country and regional names refer to where painters worked for long periods, not to personal allegiances.
Xi Gang (奚岡, 1746–1803), Chinese painter and seal carver
Xia Chang (夏昶, 1388–1470), Chinese painter and government official | 360 |
13023755 | The Sandōkai () is a poem by the eighth Chinese Zen ancestor Shitou Xiqian (Sekito Kisen, 700–790) and a fundamental text of the Sōtō school of Zen, chanted daily in temples throughout the world.
The poem's title, "參同契", is pronounced Sandōkai in Japanese or Cāntóngqì in Mandarin Chinese. | 289 |
2662601 | In 1963 when he was to depart New York, he was summarily arrested for walking on the grass of Washington Square Park and incarcerated on Rikers Island, then sent as a "behavioral problem" to Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital where he underwent electro-shock treatments, which greatly affected his already bleak outlook on society. He took a vow of silence after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 10 years. | 418 |
3518025 | Cicero condemned this, as it destroyed the negotiations for peace which he claimed to be mediating.
Very little is known specifically about Marcellus after crossing to Dyrrachium, though he is addressed by the Goddess Discordia in Petronius' Satyricon, urged to hold fast to the decree which commanded Caesar to resign his proconsulship, the senatus consultum of 7 January 49 BC.
Pompeius placed much emphasis on his fleets to prevent Caesar from crossing from Italy. | 467 |
1781725 | After 11 months in prison he was freed in January 1945.
After the war, Peccei was engaged in the rebuilding of Fiat. He was concurrently involved in various private and public efforts then underway to rebuild Italy, including the founding of Alitalia.
In 1949, he went to Latin America for Fiat, to restart their operations, as Fiat operations in Latin America had been halted during the war. He settled in Argentina, where he was to live for a decade with his family. | 468 |
22082947 | Anglican Bishop Colin Buchanan argues that there "is reason to think that in the first millennium of the church in Western Europe, the president of the eucharist regularly faced across the eucharistic table toward the ecclesiastical west. Somewhere between the 10th and 12th centuries, a change occurred in which the table itself was moved to be fixed against the east wall, and the president stood before it, facing east, with his back to the people." | 452 |
7197762 | There comes a point where you have to just shake his hand and wish him luck." Graham left St Helens with a 4–5 record in finals (1-5 in Super League Grand Finals in 2006, and 2007–2011; and 3–0 in Challenge Cup Finals from 2006 to 2008).
He played in the 2011 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Leeds Rhinos at Old Trafford.
He played 26 games in his début NRL season and was part of the Bulldogs team which lost the Grand Final to Melbourne Storm. | 452 |
22610732 | The 130 minute video which has been dubbed the "Biggest group sex orgy video" was directed by Yukitsugu Tsuchiya (土屋幸嗣).
Despite the "orgy" label, the 250 couples featured in the video have sex only with each other and not with any other couple. The couples, who are described by SOD as "students", enter a large studio set up in a warehouse and spend the next two hours in a variety of sexual acts including foreplay, mutual masturbation, oral sex and intercourse. | 465 |
3616716 | Roger Davies is an Australian artist manager, business manager, and music producer in the global music industry. Davies was born in 1952, and his career spans more than half a century. | 184 |
23798246 | Before the 2009 South West Challenge Cup Mike Newell had a number of strikers on trial, but none of them were offered a contract. Although not scoring Chris Jones impressed enough to be offered a contract by the club and which was later accepted. | 246 |
58596311 | Angela manages a website, online store and YouTube channel for her daughter, with over 170,000 subscribers . | 108 |
54010371 | WorshipMob released their own cover of "You Make Me Brave" on their debut album, Carry the Fire (2015).
Shane & Shane released their own rendition of the song on their album, The Worship Initiative (2015).
Bethel Music released an instrumental remix of the song on their instrumental album, Without Words: Synesthesia (2015).
Bethel Music Kids released their own version of the song on their debut album, Come Alive (2015). | 426 |
69201922 | | 595338 || || — || July 20, 2002 || Palomar || NEAT || JUN || align=right | 1.1 km ||
| 595339 || || — || May 14, 2008 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || || align=right data-sort-value="0. | 200 |
66238423 | The thinly leathery and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly oblong-elliptic shape and are shallowly to moderately sickle shaped with a length of in length and wide with three prominent main longitudinal nerves.
The species was first formally described as Acacia racospermoides by the botanist Leslie Pedley in 1990 as a part of the work New combinations in Acacia Miller (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) as published in the journal Austrobaileya. | 442 |
40885795 | After playing in the number four receiver slot in his NFL debut in the 2014 season against the Seattle Seahawks, Adams took 37 snaps in the second game against the New York Jets, where he had 5 catches for 50 yards. Entrenched as the Packers' number three receiver, on October 2, Adams scored his first NFL touchdown on an 11-yard pass from Aaron Rodgers in a 42–10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. The score was Rodgers' 200th career touchdown pass. | 453 |
30848416 | Siciliano has worked with Herbert on several of his projects including Herbert, the Matthew Herbert Big Band, and Doctor Rockit. The pairing began with 1998's Around the House with Siciliano providing "sultry vocal work". Other Herbert releases that she has contributed to are 2001's Bodily Functions and 2006's Scale. On Bodily Functions she contributed vocals to the entire album and her singing on Scale has been called "sumptuous". | 436 |
27634925 | The service went live in Canada on October 7, 2016, and on December 4, 2017, additional features were added to the service, including podcasts, additional stations, and a deal with Evanov Radio Group to add its stations to the service. Stingray Radio similarly joined in June 2023. Its main competitor is Radioplayer Canada, which is backed by a consortium of other Canadian radio broadcasters. | 394 |
29950219 | He was the first ever openly gay member of the Rhode Island Legislature.
Irish emigrants to the United States
LGBT state legislators in Rhode Island
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Place of birth missing (living people)
Democratic Party Rhode Island state senators | 274 |
55273854 | The sitting member was Ernest Durack () who did not contest the election.
The sitting Labor member for Belmore, Patrick Minahan, lost preselection and unsuccessfully contested Cootamundra against Labor turned Nationalist Premier William Holman.
George McDonald had been elected as a member in the 1913 election. He resigned from the party and his seat as a protest at the behaviour of the Easter 1916 NSW Labor conference and retained the seat at the by-election as an Independent. | 482 |
1983357 | If consciousness were not to descend into the mother's womb, would name-and-form take shape in the womb?"
"If, after descending into the womb, consciousness were to depart, would name-and-form be produced for this world?"
"If the consciousness of the young boy or girl were to be cut off, would name-and-form ripen, grow, and reach maturity?"
"Thus this is a cause, this is a reason, this is an origination, this is a requisite condition for name-and-form, i.e., consciousness." | 478 |
21852321 | Other singles that were released were "Sad Songs" was released in April 2009 in the UK only as a digital download, with the reggae-tinged songs "Somebody Come Get Me" and "Island Boy" as B-sides. "Sad Songs" did not chart in the UK. "Give It to Me Right" was the first official single from The Bridge. The song peaked at #41 in the UK but failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It did, however, reach #57 on the U.S. | 429 |
3949386 | This mistrust provoked the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War between 1974 and 1975, which resulted in a serious defeat for the Iraqi Kurds (see Algiers Accord) and forced all of the rebels to flee once more to Iran.
The more left-leaning Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) was founded in 1975 by Jalal Talabani and regenerated the Kurdish insurgency with guerrilla warfare tactics as the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was slowly recovering from their defeat. | 452 |
99856 | The section of former Route 29 between Route 29A and Route S29 became Route 165.
Plans for a limited-access route along the Route 29 corridor go back to 1932, when a parkway was proposed along the Delaware River between Trenton and Lambertville; this proposal never materialized. Plans to construct a freeway from Hamilton Township to I-95 (now I-295) in Ewing Township were resurrected in the early 1950s. | 406 |
3117630 | The two highest placed teams of each Taça Guanabara group entered the final phase of Campeonato Carioca. Those four teams played a double round-robin tournament to contest the Campeonato Carioca championship.
In 1995, the number of teams increased to 16 while the format remained similar to 1994: two groups of 8 teams contested two group stage phases. After the group stage, the top team of each group competed in the Taça Guanabara final, with the winner being awarded one point in the final phase of Campeonato Carioca. | 522 |
12159480 | Sutherland made his major league debut on April 14, 1921, and compiled a 6–2 record and 4.97 earned run average (ERA) in 13 games, eight as a starter. Sutherland compiled a .407 batting average in 29 at bats.
On June 12, 1921, Sutherland gave up a long home run to Babe Ruth, with the ball shooting into the upper deck. Cobb ran in from center field and took his anger out on the rookie pitcher. | 397 |
23544886 | The Portage River is a river of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Nina Moose River.
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974) | 139 |
28963981 | It has one runway designated 4/22 with a gravel surface measuring 4,003 by 75 feet (1,220 x 23 m).
Airports in the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska | 148 |
16112368 | The ellipsoid is defined by the equatorial axis (a) and the polar axis (b); their radial difference is slightly more than 21 km, or 0.335% of a (which is not quite 6,400 km).
Many methods exist for determination of the axes of an Earth ellipsoid, ranging from meridian arcs up to modern satellite geodesy or the analysis and interconnection of continental geodetic networks. | 374 |
74383370 | 1st Meeting: Patna, Bihar: Coordination for unity
The first Opposition parties meeting held in Patna, Bihar was chaired by Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar on 23 June 2023, when the proposal for a new alliance was put on the table. The meet was attended by 16 Opposition parties. | 284 |
23740297 | Initially, those from Holsten were given the most sheltered area west of Segeberg, on the River Trave, on the Schwentine flood plain and everything from the Schwale to the Grimmelsberg and Lake Ploen. The country around Dargun was settled by the Westphalians, the Eutin area by the Dutch and Suesel by the Frisians. The Plön area remained uninhabited however. He allowed Oldenburg, Lütjenburg and other coastal areas be colonised by the Slavs, who had to pay taxes to him." | 473 |
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