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25083918 | In 1918, when he was only four years old, his parents separated. His mother commenced a common law marriage with Rear Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who became Vladimir's "stepfather." Vladimir's father Sergey subsequently moved to China as a White émigré.
During the Russian Civil War, Alexander Kolchak led one of the largest factions of the anti-communist White Movement based at Omsk. In February 1920, Vladimir's stepfather was betrayed by his allies and handed over to the Bolsheviks in Irkutsk. | 497 |
21449434 | The stairs became one of the unofficial cultural centers of Moscow of 1980–90s. In the attic the “Academy of the Hippie” was organized, and the walls of the entrance were covered with drawings, quotations from Bulgakov’s works, declarations of love to Bulgakov and his characters. During these years, the door of the flat № 50 was closed for the fans of Bulgakov: it housed a design office. But in the 1990s the Bulgakov Fund was based there, and then since April 2007 – the only official Bulgakov Museum in Russia. | 515 |
6146484 | Yarbrough earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Chicago State University, a master’s in Inner City Studies from Northeastern Illinois University and attended nondegree executive education at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Yarbrough is the founder and CEO of Hathaway Insurance Agency, where she has worked for thirty years.
Yarbrough has served as president of the Maywood Chamber of Commerce, and on the boards of United Way of Suburban Chicago and the Oak Park YMCA. | 500 |
7442552 | CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
1972 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
1985 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates | 144 |
35280810 | Crestline ElDorado National Aerotech - cutaway bus with van chassis
Crestline (Goshen Coach) GCII - cutaway bus with van chassis | 129 |
3602853 | This marriage by Henry's son would eventually put the Trastámaras in control of both Castile and Aragon, comprising a majority of the Iberian Peninsula. After giving birth to three children, Eleanor died in 1382, after only seven years of marriage.
The Trastámaras’ rule in several realms
Upon Henry II's death in 1379, his son John came to power as John I of Castile. During his reign, John took Beatrice, daughter of King Ferdinand I of Portugal, as his second wife. | 469 |
30872904 | He spent nearly 20 years as a Youth Court Magistrate in inner London (1980-2000). He also acted on local health boards in South London (Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital) and set up an HIV centre there.
In 2014, he was asked by the UK Government to review the progress that had been made in implementing promises made to close institutions for people with learning disabilities following the Winterboune View abuse scandal that was exposed by Panorama. | 457 |
35283535 | Kristofer Michael Dunn (born March 18, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played four seasons of college basketball for the Providence Friars before being drafted with the fifth overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He played his rookie season with the Timberwolves before being traded to the Chicago Bulls in 2017. Dunn signed with the Atlanta Hawks as a free agent in November 2020, but only played nine games for the team due to ankle surgery. | 558 |
5143826 | Shadow Chancellor John Smith condemns the recent Budget as a "missed opportunity" by the Conservatives, saying that they did "nothing" for jobs, training, skills, construction or economic recovery.
13 March – The first ecumenical church in Britain, the Christ the Cornerstone Church in Milton Keynes is opened.
17 March – Shadow Chancellor John Smith announces that there will be no tax reductions this year if Labour win the election.
Buckingham Palace announces that Duke and Duchess of York are to separate after six years of marriage. | 541 |
11848240 | In 2013 what may have been the skeletal remains of Miller from North Dakota was investigated to confirm identity. | 113 |
2832556 | A number of Spider-Man villains have made brief appearances or have been mentioned in the comic. These include the following. | 125 |
19189880 | The Yolla Bolly–Middle Eel Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Yolla Bolly Range of the southern Klamath Mountains and the Inner Northern California Coast Ranges, in Northern California.
The wilderness area is located northeast of Covelo, west of Red Bluff and Interstate 5, and east of Garberville and U.S. Route 101. It is within sections of eastern Mendocino County,
western Tehama County, and Trinity County. | 437 |
1069117 | Earlier that week, Laming voiced opposition to reduced licensing hours for drinking establishments, using Facebook to post: "Why should idiots remove my right to stay out late celebrating a special occasion?"
In March 2015, Laming was suspended from Parliament for 24 hours by the Speaker Bronwyn Bishop for bringing a jar of blackfuel into the Parliament House chamber and pouring it out onto his hand, in protest at the pollution left by cruise ship liners. | 459 |
33438310 | Semimi, or Etna Bay, is a Papuan language spoken in Kaimana Regency, West Papua, Indonesia.
Earl, George Windsor. 1853. The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago: The Papuans. London: Hippolyte Bailliere. | 205 |
21842237 | Romany () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szczytno, within Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north of Szczytno and south-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. | 237 |
31109644 | After the walkout, Republican legislators introduced a bill that would make legislative walkouts a criminal offense. A similar 1976 law had been ruled unconstitutional by the state courts previously. | 199 |
18076167 | Plymouth is also home to the American Football club the Plymouth Blitz. Plymouth is also home to diver Tom Daley.
Plymouth Argyle play professional football in the EFL Championship. The club is based at the Home Park stadium in Central Park. Other football teams in the city include Plymouth Parkway F.C., a Non-League football club who play at Bolitho Park, and Elburton Villa F.C., a Non-League football club who play at Haye Road. | 434 |
34506875 | The BWF Grand Prix has two level such as Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation since 1983. | 264 |
3640834 | For services to the community in Tyne and Wear.
William Grant, . For services to Environmental Protection and to the Arts.
Frederick Howard Green, Education Adviser, National Association of Independent and non-Maintained Schools. For services to Special Needs Education.
Colin Ayton Greenhalgh, Principal, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge. For services to Education.
Ian Gregg, Chairman, River Tweed Commissioners and Tweed Foundation. For services to Salmon and Trout Fishing.
Vernon Charles Grove, Administrator, Wales and Chester Circuit, Lord Chancellor's Department. | 584 |
100097 | Albarn composed the score with collaboration by Michael Nyman for the 1999 movie Ravenous, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music for his work.
In their first major work together since Gorillaz, Albarn and Hewlett, along with acclaimed Chinese theatre and opera director Chen Shi-zheng, adapted for stage the Chinese story Journey to the West as Monkey: Journey to the West, which received its world premiere as the opening show of the 2007 Manchester International Festival, on 28 June 2007 at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. | 539 |
68218661 | After a pause during the summer, the EEF began a new offensive (the Battle of Megiddo) in September 1918. The first phase was an attack by XXI Corps with the bulk of the heavy artillery to break through the Turkish positions in the Plain of Sharon and swing eastwards, after which the Desert Mounted Corps (DMC) pass through to begin the exploitation. The relatively mobile 6-inch howitzers would be ready to move up in support after the breakthrough. | 451 |
64158900 | This is a list of protests in the U.S. State of West Virginia related to the murder of George Floyd.
As many as 50 protesters met in Beckley at the corner of Robert C. Byrd Drive and Neville Street on Sunday, May 31, for a peaceful demonstration.
A group of protesters marched around the West Virginia State Capitol complex on May 30. Hundreds of people protested police brutality outside of Charleston City Hall and the Charleston Police Department on May 31. | 460 |
70956685 | Gloria is a 1977 French drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Nicole Maurey, Maurice Biraud and Andrée Tainsy. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy. It was the director Autant-Lara's last film after a lengthy career in cinema and he turned to politics soon afterwards.
Nicole Maurey as Alice de Clermont | 343 |
60589 | On October 2, 1954, a teenage Elvis Presley had his only Opry performance. Although the audience reacted politely to his revolutionary brand of rockabilly music, Opry manager Jim Denny told Presley's producer Sam Phillips after the show that the singer's style did not suit the program.
In the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement spread, the Opry maintained a strait-laced, conservative image with "longhairs" not being featured on the show. | 450 |
47623471 | That evening, he was briefly arrested by Ahmedabad City Police when he went on fast after a rally held earlier in the day had dispersed. Violent protests broke out in response, forcing the Gujarat state government to impose a curfew and call in the Indian Army. He continued to lead the agitation until 2019.
In 2016, Patel's close aides Chirag Patel and Ketan Patel have alleged him of misusing Patidar community's fund for living a "luxurious" life. | 451 |
116220 | Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.17% of the population.
There were 489 households, out of which 31.1% of which had children under the age of 18 living in them, 59.5% were married couples living together, 6.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.1% were non-families. 21.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. | 413 |
148922 | Other decorations included wood-burning fireplaces with tiled hearths; brass fixtures; and carved mirrors and mantels. Some apartments had plaster ceilings.
Residents customized their apartments to fit their needs and, in some cases, their occupations. A Look magazine article in the 1960s described interior designer and antique dealer Frederick P. Victoria as having decorated his apartment with wood "draperies" and antique clocks. | 434 |
6092451 | Freamon instructs Sydnor to follow the resupply man and tracks him to a suburban house. Later, Freamon organizes Sydnor and Prez to surveil the house as garbage men.
Orlando is arrested by narcotics cops when he tries to buy cocaine from an undercover officer, Troy Wiggins. He gives them Avon's name to try to avoid his charge and the detail gets involved. When Orlando is transferred to county jail, he is identified by Marvin Browning, a Barksdale crew member serving time, who phones in Orlando's whereabouts. | 513 |
33917005 | Fitted with vacuum brakes from new, many lasted into the 1990s while a program to fit air-brakes to surviving Dogfish wagons was started in 2000. Despite this, the last examples of both types were withdrawn in 2006.
BR ADB904131, 21 ton lowmac transporter wagon, GWR style riveted, Vacuum brake [Diag 2-245 Lot 2592, Built Swindon 1949.
BR Standard Brake Van. Number : B950885. TOPS code : ZTO Built Faverdale, Darlington 1950. | 428 |
60036182 | The Ministry of Citizen’s Protection released a statement on 20 November 2019 that declared ”Those who have illegally occupied buildings, public or private, are urged to evacuate them [...] The deadline for evacuation is fifteen days after the publication of this press release.” Commentators termed this an ultimatum and noted that the deadline would run out on 5 December. On this date, Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed by police, an event which sparked the 2008 Greek riots. When the day came, the squats refused to leave and marches in tribute to Grigoropoulos were held in 18 cities. | 591 |
25522678 | Alseodaphne ridleyi, a plant species endemic to Malaysia
Amphisbaena ridleyi, the Ridley's worm lizard or the Noronha worm lizard, a reptile species found in Brazil | 165 |
17024946 | Eisenhoffer now found himself back in a league he had fled and with a contract still in force with the Wanderers. Agar promptly sued Eisenoffer for breach of contract. In the meantime, Eisenhoffer played five games with Hokoah in the ASL. In December 1929, the suit was withdrawn and Eisenhoffer was fined $500 and allowed to return to the Wanderers. This internecine battle ultimately destroyed the ASL and in 1931, it collapsed. | 430 |
44230345 | In its starred review Booklist praised the book's humor and noted its "suggestively dark conclusion", The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called the book "quite simply, an outstanding book", and Publishers Weekly wrote that, "Klassen excels at using pictures to tell the parts of the story his unreliable narrators omit or evade". The Horn Book Magazine and School Library Journal also awarded the book starred reviews. In a "highly recommend" review for Library Media Connection librarian Lisa Wright writes, "The narrative parallels the illustrations as the reader deduces the facts of the actual theft." | 620 |
1220619 | It did this by electroplating metal from an electrode into the paper. The paper ran between two electrodes. The electrode on one side was a thin straight bar oriented across the paper width. The electrode on the other side was a thin helical bar wrapped around a rotating drum. One rotation of the drum scanned an intersecting area of the electrodes across the width of the paper. While the copier did an admirable job of capturing the contents of the screen, the output of the copier had an unfortunate resemblance to wet toilet tissue. | 540 |
24964572 | Eric Douglas Saumarez, 7th Baron de Saumarez (born 13 August 1956), is a British hereditary peer.
Born and brought up in Suffolk, Saumarez is the son of James Victor Broke Saumarez, 6th Baron de Saumarez, by his marriage to Joan Beryl Charlton. He was educated at Milton Abbey School in Dorset, the University of Nottingham, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. | 373 |
1018598 | The run of draws included 1–1, 0–0 and 1–1 draws at home to African champions Zambia, Ghana and Senegal respectively in International Friendlies. Following a 1–1 draw at home to Ethiopia in a 2014 World Cup qualifier, head coach Pitso Mosimane was fired. The draw increased South Africa's streak to 7 games without a win. Mosimane was replaced as head coach by Steve Komphela on an interim basis while SAFA interviewed potential candidates to fill the post on a permanent basis. | 478 |
6738387 | Of the rest of the land, 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.6%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
The municipality is located in the St. Gallen Wahlkreise. It consists of the village of Andwil and the hamlets of Oberarnegg, Fronackeren and Hinterberg, as well as the more distant Andwilermoos.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Deer Head couped Gules. | 397 |
12576425 | There are no shops and the nearest pub is the 'Cat and Custard Pot' in Paddlesworth. | 84 |
494540 | When Yezhov was arrested in 1939, he stated during his interrogation that he had many lovers, including Filipp Goloshchyokin, then party functionary in Kazakh ASSR, during the latter half of 1925, and that they had shared an apartment in Kzyl-Orda.
A turning point for Yezhov came with Stalin's response to the 1934 murder of the Bolshevik chief of Leningrad, Sergei Kirov. | 373 |
16166559 | Frank Wood as Police Commissioner Sterman
John Benjamin Hickey as Deputy Mayor LaSalle
Gary Basaraba as Jerry Pollard, original motorman of the hijacked train
Ramón Rodríguez as Delgado, an MTA train dispatcher
Robert Vataj as Emri / Mr. Brown, the stammering young gun, who helps hijack the train under the command of Ryder. The character originally named "Steever" was portrayed by Earl Hindman in the 1974 film.
Jake Siciliano as an eight-year-old boy who is held hostage with his mom. | 493 |
39231422 | An unsuccessful effort was made as early as 1883 to get the Angola-Afrikaners to return to Transvaal. For some time, the emigrants led a very comfortable life, but remained strangers to the land. The coming of the railways eroded their living from wagon shipping, and their hunting revenue declined. Agricultural consolidation also worked against them. Relationships with the Portuguese authorities deteriorated as the latter came to rely less on the Trekkers to teach them animal husbandry and shooting. | 504 |
50338348 | In 2016, the type species Sarmientosaurus musacchioi was named and described by Rubén Darío Francisco Martínez, Matthew Carl Lamanna, Fernando Emilio Novas, Ryan C. Ridgely, Gabriel Andrés Casal, Javier E. Martínez, Javier R. Vita and Lawrence M. Witmer. The generic name refers to the town of Sarmiento. The specific name honours the late Eduardo Musacchio, an educator at the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco. | 430 |
16376635 | Robins has been a prolific freelance banjo player, performing with big band leader Harry James and with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, Leon Russell, and many others.
On September 24, 2016, Butch Robins was inducted into the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Bean Blossom, Indiana.
1978: Fragments Of My Imagicnation (Rounder)
1990: "The Bluegrass Band - Once Again | 374 |
68125408 | Falakiko Manu (born 11 May 1997) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a or er for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the Hostplus Cup.
He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NRL.
In round 16 of the 2021 NRL season, Manu made his debut for Canterbury-Bankstown against the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles where Canterbury suffered a 66–0 defeat. | 379 |
54932943 | Antoine Francisque (c. 1570 in Saint-Quentin – 1605 in Paris) was a 16th-century French lutenist and composer.
Little is known of the details of Francisque's life. Francisque was born in Saint-Quentin circa 1570. On 23 February 1596, in Cambrai, he married Marguerite Behour [Bonhour], daughter of a tavern keeper. The marriage contract, registered in 1605, did not mention Francisque's profession. | 398 |
69956546 | Among other authors, he translated into Spanish the poetry of René Char, Bataille, Bonnefoy, Jaccottet, Desnos, Tzara, Artaud, Michaux, Aragon, Ponge, Leiris, Queneau, Senghor, Lanza de Vasto, Péret, Éluard, Laforgue, Breton, Péret, La Tour du Pin, Jarry, Lautréamont, Oscar Miłosz, and Apollinaire. | 299 |
3685225 | Founder Pal Barger passed away on 10/29
2023 - Pal's opened Pal's #31 in Kingsport, TN
Regional restaurant chains in the United States | 134 |
63529535 | Rachel Churner describes these paintings as the visual equivalents of spy novels "marked by the abundance and clarity of their details" and the thrill of deciphering what is significant and what is merely mundane.
Anna Conway artist page, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni | 310 |
60050203 | Wei Yao-chien (; born 5 February 1950) is a Taiwanese politician.
Wei was born on 5 February 1950 in Tainan to a conservative family with strong ties to the Kuomintang. He attended the University of Essex and completed further study at Harvard University as well as Yale University before he was trained as a dentist. He later earned a master's degree in political science at National Taiwan University.
Wei turned against the Kuomintang after Fang Su-min and Lin Yi-hsiung's twin daughters were in 1979. | 505 |
35982684 | Made his Independence debut against Saint Louis FC on July 4. Made seven saves against Louisville City FC in a 1–0 loss on July 11. Tallied four saves and earned the shutout in a 0–0 draw at Rochester on July 18. Had his second-straight shutout against FC Montreal on July 24. Took part in the Chipotle MLS Homegrown Game for the second consecutive year.
On December 7, 2015, it was announced that Lampson's contract with Columbus had run out and that the club would not be renewing his contract. | 496 |
37294196 | In the early 1980s, Facussé was the chief economic advisor to President Roberto Suazo Córdova (in office 1982 to 1986). During this time Facussé helped his nephew, Carlos Roberto Flores, (who later went on to become president of Honduras) become a political advisor to Suazo. | 275 |
31262284 | Hall, D. T. (1986a). Dilemmas in linking succession planning to individual executive learning. Human Resource Management, 25, 235–265.
Hall, D. T. (1986b). Breaking career routines: Midcareer choice and identity development. In D.T. Hall & Associates (Eds). Career development in organizations (pp. 120–159). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Hall, D. T. (2002). Careers in and out of organizations. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. | 426 |
521577 | One Argentine intellectual, Carlos Octavio Bunge viewed caciquismo as emerging from anarchy and political disruption and then evolving into a "pacific" form of "civilized caciquismo", such as Mexico's Porfirio Díaz (r. 1876-1911). Argentine writer Fernando N.A. Cuevillas views caciquismo as being "nothing more than a special brand of tyrant".
In Spain, caciquismo appeared in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century Spain. | 429 |
46982915 | A riot by inmates of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, done to protest overcrowding, poor food and excessive force by authorities, was ended when prison guards fired into the crowd of inmates after they ignored a command to return to their cells. Six inmates were wounded, one fatally, and the subsequent state investigation faulted the prison administration for its lack of training or experience in controlling a prison population.
George McGovern, U.S. Senator for South Dakota and unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 U.S. presidential election; in Avon, South Dakota (d. | 588 |
2134862 | The German Night Gate Fire (; ) happened on the night of 12 June 1961 when 37 electricity pylons were blown up in South Tyrol by the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee. It formed a turning point in the history of the province.
After fascism came to an end in Italy, the situation of the German-speaking population in South Tyrol seemed to be getting better. However, a large section of the population was not ready to accept the status quo as existed under Benito Mussolini. | 475 |
36294269 | Lee Seung Hee (born 1963 in Cheongju, South Korea; Hangul:이승희; Chinese: 李承熙) is a South Korean ceramic artist. He is known for his interpretation of Korean and Chinese ceramic objects into two-dimensional works of art. Lee Seung Hee's work is mainly exhibited in South Korea and China.
Lee Seung Hee graduated from the Handicraft Department of Cheongju University, South Korea. | 377 |
32923312 | which meant that virtually none of the key concepts of equality law had universally accepted definitions; (iv) the fragmentation of the anti-discrimination struggle, whereby different status/identity groups are enmeshed in identity politics and are unable to follow a universal human rights approach to equality and develop solidarity with other disadvantaged groups.
The Principles on Equality were agreed by a group of experts in several stages of consultations. They were discussed at a conference entitled ‘Principles on Equality and the Development of Legal Standards on Equality’ organised by The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) on 3–5 April 2008 in London. | 656 |
56930780 | 1956: Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) as Leslie
1957–1963: The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) as Mrs. | 103 |
26145979 | Barnett resigned as president of OSU-CHS in September 2013 to accept the position of chief executive officer of the OSU Medical Authority and OSU Medical Trust, which own OSU Medical Center. He then negotiated an arrangement for Mercy to become the managing partner of the Medical Center. He then returned to his former position at OSU-Tulsa. | 342 |
617026 | At the same time, from 1958 to 1986, around 200 students were prepared for the external Bachelor of Divinity degree of London University, tutored by the Moore College faculty. Students received the 'Moore College Diploma', an unaccredited award, for work done during the fourth year of study.
In 1992, the four-year program of study at Moore College was redesigned as an integrated package and became the College's own Bachelor of Divinity degree. | 447 |
261948 | For 2019, the province has been one of the top producers of rice becoming a source of rice for the National Food Authority's rice procurement target.
Access from Luzon via the Batangas ports mostly goes through the Verde Island Passage to reach Puerto Galera, the key entry point to Oriental Mindoro. In November 2004, Puerto Galera was voted a member of the UNESCO-affiliated ‘The Club of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World. | 427 |
45126365 | The game's story follows Demi, a young girl who was critically injured in a war and is in recovery and mental rehabilitation. In her comatose state, she is able to explore a new world with her rocket-powered Exoskeleton and energy gun. Demi's experiences are her ways of learning and coping with her new physical and mental changes.
Cloudbuilt received fairly positive or mixed reviews with an average Metacritic score of 72. | 425 |
11805894 | Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Asian Footballer of the Year winners | 76 |
9573536 | Sportclub Amersfoort was a Dutch football club based in Amersfoort, Utrecht. It was founded on 30 July 1973 and played in the Dutch second league of professional football, Eerste Divisie.
Due to financial problems the club ceased to operate on 30 June 1982.
Defunct football clubs in the Netherlands
Association football clubs established in 1973
Association football clubs disestablished in 1982 | 396 |
1478153 | Kriegsfolgen und Wiedergutmachung, Ministry of Finance (Germany), Portal Site, in German language. | 98 |
2978338 | and sector (for Work Permit and S Pass holders), or FIN (for other work passes)
Barcode of Work Permit No./S Pass No./FIN with date of issue
The rear side of the Long Term Pass card contains the following information:
Type of immigration pass issued under the Immigration Regulations ("Student's Pass" for Student's Pass holders, "Dependant's Pass" for Dependant's Pass holders, "Visit Pass" for work pass holders and Long-Term Visit Pass holders). | 448 |
1324767 | Its design was, in fact, almost identical to the "zapper" device promoted by Hulda Clark, rather than having much in common with Rife's original devices. He described this as "the tip of an enormous iceberg", with a wide range of more elaborate devices also on sale from different suppliers, varying widely in design and ranging in price from AU$1,500 to AU$34,000.
Such 'Rife devices' have figured prominently in several cases of health fraud in the U.S., typically centered around the uselessness of the devices and the grandiose claims with which they are marketed. | 571 |
590565 | The reason for publishing these two tracts in his Optics, from the subsequent editions of which they were omitted, is thus stated in the advertisement: "In a letter written to Leibniz in the year 1679, and published by Dr Wallis, I mentioned a method by which I had found some general theorems about squaring curvilinear figures on comparing them with the conic sections, or other the simplest figures with which they might be compared. | 436 |
27534130 | The organization was intended to serve as a discussion forum for residents of Brazzaville quarters 63 and 66 regarding Sassou Nguesso's Future Path (chemin d'avenir) development program. According to Ossiala, the broader purpose of the organization was to encourage people "to change their mentality, to have faith in the future and to have hope". On the same occasion, he donated generators, televisions, and freezers to some constituents, while also promising to set up two giant television screens so his constituents could watch the June 2010 World Cup in South Africa. | 573 |
54458245 | Donut Derby champion: Donut-adjusted time of -35 minutes, 6 seconds / 54 donuts (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, September 7, 2015)
Utah Tour de Donut Donut King: Donut-adjusted time of -14 minutes, 6 seconds / 36 donuts (American Fork, Utah, September 19, 2015)
Corn on the cob world record: 47 corn / 12 minutes (West Palm Beach, Florida, April 24, | 349 |
34327784 | The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) was a Philadelphia medical college founded for women in 1850. It was the second medical institution in the world established to train women in medicine to earn the M.D. degrees after the New England Female Medical College in Boston, which was established two years earlier in 1848.
Originally called the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the college changed its name in 1867 to Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The associated Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1861. | 544 |
34010093 | They had one child, actress and singer Irma Infante.
The Woman of the Port (1949)
También de dolor se canta (1950) | 116 |
56031322 | On April 13, 2017, Stereogum named the song one of the week's "Pop Five", hailing it as a "gem of a single." On 27 November 2017, NME positioned "There's a Honey" at number 22 on their "Tracks of The Year 2017" list, describing the song as having "a bloody brilliant festival-ready chorus". | 290 |
65969718 | She also holds a M.A. degree in Gastronomy from the University of Adelaide, where she wrote a thesis on celebratory food habits among immigrants of Italo-Australian and Italian-American origin. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Adelaide, she was director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney (2000-2006). She is currently the Deputy Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts and is a Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. | 503 |
49337056 | The assumption has previously been that the Greeks arrived at their "Classical" phase by a leap of the imagination. Konstam has said “this version has less romantic appeal but is claimed to be the truth. He has documented that Lifecasting is why Greek stone sculptures show traces of being measured, but no explanation of what they were measured from. Life-casting explains why no sculptor since the Greeks has ever equaled their quality in terms of modeling veins or other small details of anatomy”. | 500 |
7681967 | Sri Lankan Association of Manitoba (SLAM)
Manitoba Buddhist Vihara and Cultural Association (MBVCA)
Ottawa Theravada Buddhist Vihara and Cultural Center (OTBVCC) located at 2878, Navan Road, Orleans, Ottawa, | 208 |
12368553 | Songwriting – Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Tawanna Dabney, Michael Jackson
Production Assistant – Tim Sturges, Phillip Ramos
Recording – Mikkel S. Eriksen, Al Hemberger
Instruments – Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam Recordings, SRP Records). | 327 |
4300070 | Norman Dorsen and David Rudovsky, Some Thoughts on Dissent, Personal Liberty and War, 54 ABA Journal 752 (1968).
Book Review, Judicial First Aid, The Nation, August 17, 1977, p. 153.
Litigating Prison Conditions in Philadelphia, 65 Prison Journal 64 (1985).
University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty | 303 |
56403564 | The immobile man-of-war send a pinnace to Crapo's ship but - despite not being fired on by Crapo's ship - “they durst not venture to board her” and so returned empty-handed.
Beginning in September 1705 Crapo used Acadia's Port Royal as a home port, which at one point had seven captured English vessels in its harbor at once. By June 1706 he was back in the Caribbean and may have joined a fleet commanded by Jean-Baptiste du Casse. | 433 |
51471447 | Yalkae, a Joker in High School () is a 1977 South Korean comedy film starring Lee Seung-hyeon, Kim Jeong-hun and Hah Myung-joong, and directed by Seok Rae-myeong. It was based on Cho Heun-pa's bestselling novel A Legend of Urchins (Yalgaejeon).
Na Du-su (Lee Seung-hyeon), nicknamed "Yalkae" (meaning "cheeky, cocky person"), is in his second year of high school and acts like a troublemaker. | 392 |
3377404 | One of the key features distinguishing Cyrtoctenus from Hibbertopterus is the presence of grooves on its podomeres, which studies on Drepanopterus suggest might have been a feature which appeared late in an animal's life cycle. Differences in the positions of the eyes in specimens of Hibbertopterus and Cyrtoctenus is not surprising as movements of the eyes through ontogeny has been described in other eurypterid genera. | 422 |
7305613 | 57, 97, 43, 42, 23, 91, 92, T92, T91, T33)
(Pennant number: 117, 112, 22, 81, T81, T11)
(Pennant number: 11, 99, 73, 33, 53, T53, T52)
(Pennant number: 12, 97, 14, 31, 51, T51)
(Pennant number: 98, 15, 12, 3, 92, | 220 |
51400216 | That same four went to the 2016 European Championships placing seventh, managed a fourth place at one of their two World Rowing Cup appearances and then at Rio 2016 they failed to make the A final and finished in overall twelfth place.
The German marquee boat -the men's eight- was rebuilt in 2017 following the Olympics and Planer was one of five new oarsmen who gained seats. | 377 |
56118627 | Dongshankou () is an area in the Yuexiu District of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. The name "Dongshan" can trace back to Ming dynasty (14th–17th century). A eunuch named Wei Juan, who was an officer in Guangzhou in years of Chenghua of Ming dynasty, built a temple on a small hill in the east side of Guangzhou city to boast himself. | 361 |
56169336 | Those were in a constant state of flux,” Producer Allison McGourty commented “It was like a theatrical production—Bernard designed different lighting for each session to give [each song] a different feel.” MacMahon said that he wanted the film to look like a painting “I wanted a rich color palette so it looks like a Velázquez painting,” he said, with the lighting falling off to heavy shadows in the corners of the picture to conceal the dolly tracks in the studio. MacMahon filmed principally on an Arri Alexa on a camera dolly. | 531 |
55777712 | Raphaël Vienot (31 August 1804 – 2 May 1855) was colonel of the French Army who particularly illustrated himself during the Crimean War and was killed in action while leading the assault of his regiment. He is the patron of a promotion at the ().
Born in Fontainebleau in 1804, Raphaël Vienot was admitted to the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1823, after nine years of studies at the Prytanée National Militaire () of La Flèche. | 440 |
9639491 | NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship
NWA North American Tag Team Championship
NWA United Kingdom Junior Heavyweight Championship | 143 |
11202648 | According to Beyondhollywood.com, "Hilton's presence in the cast is the film's main marketing point, which is plainly obvious by the fact that she's front and center on the box art and is the only recognizable name in the cast". The website noted that her character was, basically, herself: "Hilton plays—what else?—a spoiled American socialite who shops on three continents in one day. The script is even clever enough to take a few jabs at Hilton's real-life social standing, even mentioning that she's been on the cover of a few sleaze rags in her day". | 556 |
69642765 | 19 September – President Michael D. Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin were among 500 presidents, prime ministers, foreign royal family members and dignitaries who attended the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
The 2022 National Ploughing Championships returned as normal for the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | 336 |
51206941 | Chloe began playing basketball with in the WNBL with the Sydney Uni Flames playing 2 matches (alongside GWS teammate Erin Todd) each season for a career total of 4 matches between 2012 and 2014. In 2014 she left the WNBL with the aim of playing for Australia in rugby 7s at Rio in 2016.
Dalton represented Australia in rugby sevens and made her debut at the 2014 Dubai Women's Sevens. | 384 |
45684345 | 2010 || WISE || WISE || — || align=right | 4.4 km ||
| 429247 || || — || January 12, 2010 || WISE || WISE || — || align=right | 4.3 km ||
| 429248 || || — || January 14, 2010 || WISE || WISE || — || align=right | 6. | 219 |
13612461 | In a 2005 interview with Missy Raterman and Zoe Wexler in nidus, a literary and arts journal based at the University of Pittsburgh, Harris described his work as "certainly travel, because it has some aspects of travel in it, though it isn't like Paul Theroux's travel books. Essay works best for me because I just like the idea of being an essayist. It is memoirist because it is me and my memories – but that's a marketing thing." | 431 |
1014962 | In spring 1944, the Yokosuka air arsenal began development of the Shisei Gyorai M (trial model torpedo M), or simply the Two tonne torpedo. This was an enlarged version of the Type 91 aerial torpedo and was in diameter, long, weighing , and carrying a warhead. It would have been the largest aerial torpedo in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force, but the operating concept became outdated and the project was never completed. However, the Type91 aerial torpedo project members did not regard it as a part of the Type91 series. | 530 |
7821402 | Some species also have been recovered or reared from birds' nests and bat roosts, but reports of parasitism on birds' nestlings by Milichiidae should be interpreted with caution; at one time Milichiidae and Carnidae were not regarded as separate families, and it is not always clear how many of such reports refer to any species other than those that nowadays are included in the Carnidae and separated from the Milichiidae.
Human commerce has inadvertently spread some species to all continents but Antarctica. Examples include members of the genera Desmometopa and Milichiella. | 579 |
27270934 | Whilst working at Shell, Truss served as the chair of the Lewisham Deptford Conservative Association from 1998 to 2000, having been introduced to the branch by her friend and later Conservative MP Jackie Doyle-Price. During this time, at a reception at the Greenwich Conservative Association, Truss met her future husband, Hugh O'Leary, whom she married in 2000 and with whom she has two daughters: Frances (born 2006) and Liberty (born 2008). | 443 |
62360822 | Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council is a Tribal Council representing First Nation communities around Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta, Canada. The council is based in Slave Lake, Alberta. | 189 |
41110478 | In March 1917, Charles joined the Royal Flying Corps. He flew the S.E.5a fighter plane with 64 Squadron in 1918, while scoring six victories before being reassigned to 24 Squadron on 24 September 1918. He finished the war with 24 squadron, tallying no further victories for the allies.
List of World War I flying aces from the United States
American World War I flying aces | 374 |
51875144 | British television series based on American television series | 61 |
13153449 | Shortages were reported in 12 regions, of which the shortage was particularly acute in the Tver region, Komi Republic, and Crimea. Of the total number infected, a study by the British charity NAM estimated that in 2022 only 45% were receiving antiretroviral therapy. And in February 2023 the media reported that in some colonies prisoners began to be denied life-saving therapy. | 378 |
15772687 | Valerik (, ) is a little river in Chechnya, a tributary of the Sunzha. The river's lower stream becomes dry in summer. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
The name of the river means "river of the dead" in Chechen. Possibly this river was a border between the Vainakhs and the Iranian peoples who lived in the steppe, and a place of bloody battles. A neighbouring river is named Mardan, which means 'river of the dead' in Ossetic languages. | 447 |
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