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21891190 | Notable items include the medals and sword of Air Vice Marshal E. R. Amarasekara, the first Ceylonese Commander of the Air Force.
The Sri Lanka Air Force museum is the only national museum dedicated entirely to aviation and the history of the Sri Lanka Air Force. The museum was first established in 1993 as the Aircraft Preservation and Storage Unit at SLAF Ratmalana and was reopened on 5 November 2009 after refurbishment.
The museum exhibits historic aircraft, vehicles, uniforms and weapons. | 496 |
27658146 | Battle of Taillebourg, won by Saint Louis on 21 July 1242. Artist : Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Date : 1837. 4.89m by 5.54 m
Jacques de Châtillon de Dampierre, Amiral de France. Killed at the battle of Agincourt 1415.
Philippe-Auguste before the battle of Bouvines, 27 July 1214. Artist : Horace Vernet (1789–1863). Date : 1827. | 334 |
17531493 | He would go on to make over 100 appearances in his second spell over a two-season period, scoring 24 points during that time. Skyttä made an emotional departure from Kisapuisto at the end of the 2005/06 season though. He played his final professional season with Herlev IC, a Danish team icing in the Danish Elitserien. He signed off with one of his best seasons in terms of point production, and finished with 25 points in 32 games before retiring from playing professional standard ice hockey. | 495 |
3263316 | The Assembly also created a bilateral group with the Georgian Parliament in 2009 to support Georgia's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the NATO PA recognised in November 2022, Russia as a terrorist state.
Mirroring the creation in May 2002 of the NATO-Russia Council, a major step forward in NATO's cooperation with Russia, the Assembly created the NATO-Russia parliamentary Committee (NRPC). | 450 |
630132 | Imports consisted of various marine products, the most important of which was "grease", the oil extracted from eulachons (also known as "candlefish") by allowing them to rot, adding boiling water, and skimming off the oil. This oil is extremely nutritious and, unlike many other fats, contains desirable fatty acids. Other important imports were smoked eulachons and dried red laver seaweed. "Grease" and smoked eulachons are still considered by many to be delicacies and are prized gifts from visitors from the west. | 517 |
29015608 | He argued that the food God intended for humankind were "fruits, grains, and nuts". Haskell believed that God, health and compassion for animals were interconnected and that God would punish those who abused animals. Haskell visited Auckland in 1885 and attempted to convert those around him to vegetarianism. | 309 |
30929306 | Overexpression of ZNF703 has been linked to Tamoxifen resistance. As transcription of the ZNF703 gene reaches substantial levels, instead of blocking cell proliferation, Tamoxifen is found to increase cancer cell division. Tamoxifen can only be given at low dosages and patients are monitored daily in order to avoid tumor growth. | 332 |
1393860 | Then they expelled the noblest citizens of Thurii, sacked the city, and dismissed the Roman garrison that was stationed there under a treaty." Livy's Periochae recorded that when the Romans were fighting the Lucani, they also decided to support the inhabitants of Thurii. The dating in this seems that it was in 286 or 285 BC. The plebeian tribune Gaius Aelius, who proposed to help this city, was honoured by its people with a statue in the Roman Forum. | 454 |
52348940 | In March 2019, Chawla was named as one of the Impact 25 Award Winners by Pro Bono Australia, recognising him as one of the Top 25 Most Influential People Working for Social Change in Australia.
In August 2019, Chawla was named as one of 12 Finalists for the Young Community Achiever of the Year in the India Australia Business & Community Awards. In October 2019 Chawla was presented with the Young Community Achiever of the Year Award at the India Australia Business & Community Awards. | 487 |
1701655 | Planet Obscure (Orrexx Records) - 2012
"Live By The Sword" (Orrexx Records) - 2014
Musical groups from Buffalo, New York
Country musicians from New York (state) | 163 |
26852720 | The 2010 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played place at the Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, on 16 May 2010. The match was the 19th Ukrainian Cup final and was contested by Metalurh Donetsk and Tavriya Simferopol. The final was the second time a Ukrainian Cup final was held in Kharkiv. The Ukrainian Cup winners qualified for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League play-off round. | 386 |
46672 | After passing the Statute of Rhuddlan, which restricted Welsh law, King Edward's ring of impressive stone castles assisted the domination of Wales, and he crowned his conquest by giving the title Prince of Wales to his son and heir in 1301. Wales became, effectively, part of England, even though its people spoke a different language and had a different culture. English kings appointed a Council of Wales, sometimes presided over by the heir to the throne. | 458 |
12022377 | The device could not have detonated, because it lacked an oxidiser, according to a columnist for The Register (UK). This information may have originated from an interview of former CIA counter-terrorism officer Larry Johnson, conducted by Keith Olbermann of MSNBC on 29 June.
According to Sky News, the gas cylinders contained propane, used for patio heaters. A second bomb was later found in a blue Mercedes-Benz 280E believed to have been left in the same area at around the same time. The illegally parked car received a parking ticket in Cockspur Street at 02:30. | 567 |
41917792 | The patient navigator's primary role, as defined in section 1311, is to educate the public on information about health care plans, to facilitate enrollment into health plans, and provide information for tax credits and cost-sharing reductions. The education and information provided by patient navigators must be culturally and linguistically appropriate and provided in a fair and impartial manner. Patient navigators are required to meet standards and core proficiencies established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. | 531 |
2810047 | In April 1903, he returned to San Francisco and was the guest of honor at a welcome-home party at the Bohemian Club with Henry James and Enrico Caruso in attendance. He then settled in Monterey, California, with a hope of recovering his health, although he traveled within California and was in San Francisco during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
He stayed on in Monterey, where he was diagnosed with heart disease, until his death from a heart attack on April 23, 1909. | 483 |
35995429 | In the race's other classifications, rider Cayetano Sarmiento won the King of the Mountains classification, Evans won the green jersey for the points classification, 's Wilco Kelderman won the young rider classification, with finishing at the head of the teams classification by over thirteen minutes, after placing four riders inside the final overall top ten placings.
As the Critérium du Dauphiné was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. | 513 |
58718744 | "Moonwalk" (featuring Moneybagg Yo) (produced with Cubeatz)
"Batmobile" (feat. Ski Mask the Slump God & Wifisfuneral) | 118 |
499012 | There was also supposed to be a separate Mustang Funny Car (as listed on the blisterpack rear checklist) but this was apparently changed to a Plymouth Barracuda Funny Car during production.
In 2006, a Series 3 line of Classics was introduced, again containing 30 models with multiple colors of each vehicle. Models included the '69 Pontiac Firebird, a Meyers Manx dune buggy, and the Richard Petty '70 Plymouth "Superbird".
In 2007, Series 4 debuted with just fifteen models. | 475 |
2367938 | The remaining section to Tupper Lake was completed in 1889, with regular service to the southern terminus starting on July 1, 1890. Prior to that, on April 5, the Northern Adirondack Extension was merged into the Northern Adirondack Railroad.
In 1887 Patrick Ducey, who owned a large tract of land south of Brandon, had built his own logging railroad from his jackworks in Black Rapids to a point on the Northern Adirondack Extension Railroad called Black Rapids Junction. | 472 |
4010 | His last TV appearance was a Christmas special, Merrie Olde Christmas, taped in London in September 1977 and aired weeks after his death. It was on this special that he recorded a duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace on Earth" with rock musician David Bowie. Their duet was released in 1982 as a single 45 rpm record and reached No. 3 in the UK singles charts. It has since become a staple of holiday radio and the final popular hit of Crosby's career. | 459 |
1655855 | Farmers often found ways to expand agricultural posts by planting on hills and slopes, finding ways to work around environmental and land challenges. Similarly, developments in agriculture enabled societies to focus on central organization, planning and the development of urban centers.
Agriculture in the absence of modern industry was a critical source of wealth, even though pre-industrial outputs were fairly low. The advent of tools such as mechanization, mass-produced fertilizer, scientific plant breeding and other farming techniques enabled the average farmer to increase his yield, therefore enabling him to feed more people. | 636 |
18581645 | A1 Report (now Report TV) was the last to keep the warning screen on air. The date for cities like Elbasan was set for March 2020, the transmissions still being receivable in Tirana with a big enough aerial. Areas like Dibër, Gjirokastër, Vlora and Saranda remained on air with the switch-off date being postponed multiple times. Albania finally completed the transition on 29 December 2020 with the last analog broadcast being in Gjirokastër by Televizioni Klan. | 463 |
7231861 | For the second straight year, the fixture between these two teams at this site sets a record for the largest crowd ever to see a regular-season league match in any French sport. The official attendance of 79,619 broke last year's record of 79,604.
AP NCAA Division I-A Top 25:
(1) Ohio State 38, Michigan State 7.
(11) Auburn 27, (2) Florida 17. The Tigers score all their points on defense and special teams in a shocking upset of the last unbeaten SEC team. | 459 |
18863934 | Darrin Plab (born September 26, 1970) is a retired American high jumper. Born in Belleville, Illinois, he competed at the 1992 Olympic Games without reaching the final.
Plab attended Mascoutah High School and Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His personal best jump is 2.35 metres, achieved in June 1992 in New Orleans. | 326 |
24527985 | The expressive theatre influenced Molière's comedy and subsequently , thus lending a fresh range of expression and choreographic means. An example of a character in literature is the Pied Piper of Hamelin who is dressed as Harlequin.
Music and dance were central to performance, and most performances had both instrumental and vocal music in them. Brighella was often depicted with a guitar, and many images of the feature singing or dancing figures. In fact, it was considered part of the function to be able to sing and have the popular repertoire under their belt. | 572 |
317400 | It uses a template-based approach to take that object graph and turn it into HTML, or other tag-based information display standards, such as XML or SMIL. It provides an environment where you can use and create reusable components. Components are chunks of presentation (HTML) and functionality (Java code) often with a parameter list to enhance reusability. WebObjects Builder is used to create the HTML-templates and creates the linking, for instance, a Java String object to interface objects like an input field in a web form. | 530 |
43037483 | Catalogue of Willis' papers, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Communist Party of Great Britain members
General Secretaries of the London Typographical Association
General Secretaries of the National Graphical Association
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
Presidents of the Trades Union Congress | 344 |
2437065 | In the Champions League, he ended a goal drought by scoring a vital goal against Milan in the quarter-finals. From there, he went on to score in the semi-final against Chelsea to make the scoreline 2–0, but the match ended 2–2, eliminating his team 3–2 on aggregate. Towards the end of the year, on 25 November, Iniesta was named man of the match after scoring one goal and providing three assists in a 4–0 win over Levante. | 424 |
31642300 | Around the coat of arms there are reliefs of acanthus leaves, and beside them the initials of the king: L.R. (Latin: Lodovicus Rex).
The Latin inscription on the central panel on the back of the chest, which corresponds to the main composition on the front panel, bears the goldsmith's signature with Louis's coat of arms in the corners of the richly worked vine tracery that complements the relief. | 399 |
31567692 | In the 5 km team time trial she and her teammates Marcel Schouten and Ferry Weertman finished in tied second place. She also finished 4th in the individual 5 km. In the pool, Van Rouwendaal won the silver medal in the 400 meter freestyle behind defending champion and world record holder Katie Ledecky, who had dominated this event since 2013. In this race she broke the Dutch record with a time of 4:03.02. In the heats of the 800 m freestyle, she also broke her own national record. | 484 |
309724 | You're is a contraction of "you are", and your is a possessive pronoun meaning "belonging to you". When in doubt, check whether the word in question can logically be expanded to "you are".
Standard: When driving, always wear your seatbelt.
Standard: If you're going out, please be home by ten o'clock.
Non-standard: You also can't use 4G or LTE if you're Android phone doesn't support Bluetooth tethering. | 408 |
1893281 | For its 57th edition in 2008, it was rebranded the Blake Prize, subtitled "Exploring the spiritual and religious in art".
In 2008 the Blake Society, in collaboration with the New South Wales Writers' Centre (now Writing NSW), established the Blake Poetry Prize to link art and literature and to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore the nature of spirituality in the 21st century.
In 2011, Australian art historian, educator and exhibition curator Rosemary Crumlin authored a book documenting 60 years of the Blake Prize. | 534 |
18950834 | In neutral countries the Abwehr frequently disguised its organisation by attaching personnel to the German Embassy or to trade missions. Such postings were referred to as "War Organisations" ("Kriegsorganisationen" or "KO's" in German). In neutral but friendly Spain for example, the Abwehr had both an Ast and a KO while Ireland had neither. | 344 |
585588 | Irving Joshua Matrix — previously known as Irving Joshua Bush and commonly known as Dr. (I. J.) Matrix — is a fictitious polymath scientist, scholar, cowboy, and entrepreneur who made extraordinary contributions to perpetual motion engineering, Biblical cryptography and numerology, pyramid power, pentagonal meditation, extra-sensory perception, psychic metallurgy, and a number of other topics. He is an accomplished prestidigitator and a mathematician. | 456 |
144767 | In the 1944 presidential election, he joined other celebrity Republicans at a rally in the Los Angeles Coliseum, organized by studio executive David O. Selznick, to support the Dewey–Bricker ticket and Governor Earl Warren of California, who would be Dewey's running mate in 1948. The gathering drew 93,000, with Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. Despite the rally's large turnout, most Hollywood celebrities who took public positions supported the Roosevelt–Truman ticket. | 536 |
11363211 | Isabel Losada is a British author of narrative non-fiction. Her most recent full-length books (The Battersea Park Road to Paradise, Sensation and The Joyful Environmentalist) combine humour with a serious look at their subject matters and are true-life accounts of her own experiences. She has one daughter and lives in Battersea, London.
New Habits (Hodder) examines happiness among Church of England nuns. | 407 |
69730149 | Nowadays she is working as a soloist of AzTV since 2017.
"V Republican Mugham Contest"- won first place.
She gave her first solo concert at the "International Mugham Center" in 2017.
Gave a solo concert in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on occasion of 100th anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 2018.
Gave a solo concert in Jerusalem in 2019. | 351 |
26373459 | Hunter tells Artyom that he intends to gather intel on the Dark Ones, and in the event that he doesn't return Artyom must carry a message to a man named Melnik at Polis with news of the threat. Feeling a sense of responsibility for the Dark Ones' attacks and seeking adventure, Artyom accepts.
Artyom begins to journey towards the centre of the Metro. His first companion, Bourbon, is killed by a psychic force transmitted through the pipes and Artyom is then guided by a mystic named Khan. | 490 |
48340 | In 2013 Kaua'i County (Hawai'i) passed Bill No. 2491 to add an article to Chapter 22 of the county's code relating to pesticides and GMOs. The bill strengthens protections of local communities in Kaua'i where many large pesticide companies test their products.
Pesticide residue refers to the pesticides that may remain on or in food after they are applied to food crops. The maximum allowable levels of these residues in foods are often stipulated by regulatory bodies in many countries. | 488 |
56146806 | Kate Raymond, born Marilla Jane Cease on March 25, 1840, in Livingston County, New York, was a dramatic star primarily celebrated for her stage performance of Mazeppa. She made her first appearance as Mazeppa in what was then known as the Continental Theatre; now the Trocadero Theatre, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Under the management of Allinson & Hincken on January 4, 1864, Raymond played a six-week engagement as Mazeppa; her first appearance on any stage according to her husband O. B. Collins, a stage actor himself. | 534 |
52526834 | The Shantinath Jain temple is located in Kothara of Kutch district, Gujarat, India. The temple is dedicated to Shantinatha and is an important place of pilgrimage for the followers of Jainism.
The temple was built on the 13th day of Magha, the eleventh month in Hindu calendar, in V.S. 1918 (). The constructed by Shah Velji Malu, Shah Keshavji Nayak, Shivji Nensi, and Osval Vanias of Kothara at £40,000. | 405 |
40743745 | Nicolas Margue (2 January 1888 in Fingig – 18 March 1976 in Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgish professor and politician in the Christian Social People's Party.
From 1937 until the German invasion of Luxembourg in 1940, and then again from 1945 to 1948 he was the Minister for Agriculture and Education. He was the only minister who did not escape to the border in time on 10 May 1940. At 3:30 in the morning he drove in the direction of the Belgian border. | 458 |
74238241 | 2011 Awarded CJ Picture Book Animation - The Love of a Toy Soldier
2009 Awarded CJ Picture Book - The Great Mungchi
2006 Ragazzi Awarded Bologna Prize for Fiction - The Enchanted Bottle | 187 |
65183156 | Hans Eugen Frischknecht (born 8 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, organist, choral conductor and harpsichordist.
Born in St. Gallen, Frischknecht graduated from the Swiss Music Pedagogic Association after his school-leaving exams as a piano teacher (SMPV). From 1959 to 1962, he studied composition with Boris Blacher, counterpoint with Ernst Pepping, organ (final examination) with Michael Schneider and twelve-tone music with Josef Rufer at the Universität der Künste Berlin. | 474 |
3907212 | The police increased the award for information leading to an arrest, while the Yau Tsim Mong District Council installed a CCTV system to help catch the perpetrator. A third acid attack occurred on 8 June 2009, injuring 24. A similar attack occurred on 9 January 2010 on nearby Temple Street. On 10 June 2014, a pedestrian was killed on Sai Yeung Choi Street after being hit by a swivel chair thrown from a rooftop by a mentally-ill Mainland Chinese who had been drinking. | 471 |
62341775 | She reported her findings in articles published in 1936 and 1948. She was the first to show that humans and mice acclimatise to carbon monoxide differently due to differences in the respiratory epithelium. Later in her career, she investigated treatments for carbon monoxide poisoning, using different gases to ventilate dogs that were unconscious due to excess carbon monoxide; she showed that a mix of 95% oxygen and 5% carbon dioxide was more effective than air or pure oxygen. | 480 |
73821329 | 24 May was declared as National Day of Mourning for the victims of the flooding, as both the Italian and European flags hung outside of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome were displayed at half-mast. On 25 May, Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, visited the flooded areas along with Bonaccini. Von der Leyen assured that the European Union (EU) would help the region, adding in Romagnol dialect, Tin bota (), which was widely used as the slogan for the ongoing reconstruction process. | 521 |
51255076 | It was also adjusting the aspect ratio to 16:9 like other digital TV stations, but in some cases, for example, the image in the transmission room is still in the same 4:3 aspect ratio until the transmission room of the station is moved to the transmission room at The Coast Lifestyle Mall, Bangna District, Bangkok (Currently discontinued broadcasting at The Coast Bangna and return the space to the operator for rent), as well as purchasing new equipment and broadcasting systems at the main transmission room of the Interlink Tower. Therefore, all Nation TV programs are broadcast in the aspect ratio of 16:9. | 611 |
67013 | It has also been staged five times from 1953 to 2014 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a silent film version in 1899 entitled King John. It is a short film consisting of the King's death throes in Act V, Scene vii and is the earliest surviving film adaptation of a Shakespearean play. King John has been produced for television twice: in 1951 with Donald Wolfit and in 1984 with Leonard Rossiter as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series of adaptations. | 492 |
66810189 | Amina Al Adwan, (Arabic: أمينة العدوان) is a Jordanian writer, poet, and critic. She is one of the founders of the Jordanian Writers Association. She worked for the Ministry of Culture and was editor-in-chief of Afkar magazine, Swt Algeel magazine, and Funoon magazine. She participated in the Jordanian women's movement being a former Jordanian Women's Union member.
Amina Al Adwan was born in Amman, Jordan. | 409 |
55602362 | Archaeological work carried out in advance of the construction of a new church hall in 2004 found the remains of the front of Balmerino House. That house was built in 1631 by John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, and sold to Lord Balmerino in 1643. It remained in the Balmerio family until 1746 when the fifth Lord Balmerino died and then the Sixth Lord was executed for his part in the failed Jacobite rebellion. The house then changed hands several time until the Church purchased it in 1848. | 488 |
4297225 | | 11 || 9 || 13 || 8 || 99 || 38 || 137 || 57 || 26 || 1.4 || 0.9 || 11.0 || 4.2 || 15.2 || 6.3 || 0.9 | 102 |
41210259 | Sweeney was neither charged nor offered immunity in exchange for his testimony. The Tampa Bay Times featured Sweeney as one of the "Top 10 most intriguing people of Tampa Bay in 2014", for their fellow resident having displayed "little fear of the mob and no bitterness about getting caught up in a wise-guy point-shaving scheme."
Following his 1980 graduation from BC, Sweeney played basketball briefly in Sweden.
Sweeney spent the years after his time in Sweden as a manufacturer's rep in the computer industry. | 513 |
24753816 | In 1832, upon the admission of their clerk, William Henry Aspinwall, the firm became known as Howland & Aspinwall.
Howland & Aspinwall imported luxury goods such as porcelain, silk, and tea from China, and sold them to Americans of means. Import duties paid by firms such as Howland & Aspinwall played a significant role in the financing of the American federal budget during the 1840s. Howland & Aspinwall exported opium to China. | 433 |
65644848 | In 1911 Madero was elected in a landslide and sworn into office on 6 November 1911. Generals Félix Díaz (a Oaxacan nephew of Porfirio Díaz of Oaxaca), led a coup supported by United States ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. Madero was captured and assassinated along with vice-president Pino Suárez in a series of events now called the Ten Tragic Days, The ensuing chaos impacted Oaxaca as we will see below. | 403 |
34441850 | 2013–15: Injuries and Loan to Melbourne Victory
The following season saw Rogic make only a handful of appearances for Celtic, and he was sent out on loan to Melbourne Victory in January 2014. A recurring groin injury limited Rogic's appearances for Melbourne, and the injury eventually caused him to miss the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2015 AFC Asian Cup for Australia. He was required to have two operations on his groin and did not play again until March 2015 when he made his comeback in Celtic's Development side match against Motherwell. | 539 |
31535647 | Management has the right to change the job assignment for union leaders. This includes family separation using long-term travel assignments.
The whistleblower must understand the labor dispute process because union leadership may be corrupt.
The employee should initiate a labor dispute to protect their employment rights when reprisal occurs after a whistleblower disclosure. Employee rights are protected by labor law in the United States. These rights are not automatically guaranteed if the employee fails to start the process in a timely manner.
Employees with no collective bargaining organization are directly represented by state labor boards, unemployment offices, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | 722 |
29967331 | He is the author of Tecnologia epitaxial de silicio (2001 with Andreas Thomas) and Herramientas Analiticas de Interfaces Solidas (2002).
Harvey A Silverglate, "Espionage: My introduction to the National Security State (1983-84)"
TIME: An East-West Swap," June 24, 1985
People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 | 317 |
58314758 | The next argument is that of (2) temporal limitation – the concern that because our current concept of “society” is relatively recent, a focus on societal-level analytics (macro data) restricts sociological analysis to modernity and no other time period. According to Karpov this poses an issue when considering religions with ancient historical trajectories.
Karpov also cites several implications that result from using “mega” analytics, overall suggesting that it can allow for an understanding of desecularization that is rooted both in its historical trajectory, and its presence in modernity. | 598 |
46663084 | In an attempt to deal with river pollution, the council created the River Medlock Improvement Committee on 1 April 1863. Such problems were not limited to Manchester, and two pieces of legislation were introduced nationally to address the issues. The first was the Public Health Act 1875, and the second was the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act 1876. In the following year, the River Medlock Improvement Committee became the Rivers Committee, and proposed a combined drainage scheme for the city and 15 other authorities with responsibility for the areas around the city. | 570 |
8867780 | In the 1990s, Jérusalem appeared under Zubin Mehta, also in French, at the Vienna State Opera with a cast including José Carreras (as Gaston) and Samuel Ramey (as Roger). It took over 140 years for the opera to be given its UK premiere by Opera North on 31 March 1990 at the Grand Theatre in Leeds. The Opera Orchestra of New York presented a concert performance in February 1998.
In 1998 Fabio Luisi recorded the work in the studio in Geneva with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. | 483 |
22801918 | "The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) - 9:00
"Once in a Lifetime" (from "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off")(Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) - 2:08
"More Today Than Yesterday" (Pat Upton) - 2:32
"Got to Get You into My Life" (Lennon–McCartney) - 1:25
"Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)" (Jimmie Hodges) - | 303 |
31425856 | The 1997–98 FIS Cross-Country World Cup was the 17th official World Cup season in cross-country skiing for men and women. The season began in Beitostølen, Norway, on 22 November 1997 and finished at Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway, on 14 March 1998. Thomas Alsgaard of Norway won the overall men's cup, and Larisa Lazutina of Russia won the women's. | 345 |
20038415 | Gibraltar had little trade and its anchorage was unprotected – there was no question, at this time, of basing a fleet there. Gibraltar was finally selected for its strategic value, weak garrison, and to encourage the rejection of Philip V (the Bourbon Claimant) in favour of Charles III (the Habsburg claimant). | 311 |
73138 | New ownership and the Arizona Coyotes (2013–present)
Due to the team's bankruptcy status since 2009 and the annual revenue lost each year, the NHL planned to move the Coyotes should a deal with the city for a new lease and new ownership not be decided by July 2, 2013. The plan was to move the franchise to a new city, likely Seattle. | 334 |
3506360 | Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a New York City police detective on CBS series Cagney & Lacey 1982–1988.
Jenny Cain is the director of a philanthropic foundation in a series by Nancy Pickard begun 1984–1995.
Miranda Callendar is a detective on the BBC One Jekyll 2007.
Anna Cameron is a Glasgow police sergeant in a series by Scottish Karen Campbell begun 2008. | 367 |
502271 | They are the last to be equipped with landing doors, in April 2011, because of the technical difficulty presented by the pronounced curve at their western end.
It saw 13,172,392 passengers enter in 2018, which places its attendance at the 10th position of all metro stations. | 275 |
16981405 | During the evening of September 3, 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple Russian drones of Iranian production Shahed-136, that were supposed to hit a target in Izmail, on the Ukrainian side of the Danube, crashed and detonated on the Romanian side, close to the village of Plauru (). As the area the detonations took place is uninhabited, the incident went unnoticed, and it was the Ukrainian government who announced the explosion of Russian drones in Romania. | 478 |
56427380 | Sibinia setosa is a species of leguminous seed weevils in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.
Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820. | 295 |
7771873 | The service started television broadcasts in 1998, making Bhutan the last country in the world to introduce a local television service. As part of the King's modernization program, cable television was introduced shortly after. By 2002, however, the crime rate had increased appreciably, and the introduction of cable television is alleged to be responsible for the spurt in crime. The Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) has been expanded and will be available in Bhutan and will also be available in the region. The signal can be received in almost forty other countries, including Turkey to Indonesia. | 602 |
55535365 | In 1017 Tsongkha was defeated by the Song dynasty commander Cao Wei.
In 1025 Gusiluo relocated to Miaochuan.
In 1032 Gusiluo relocated to Qingtang. Around the same time his eldest son Xiazhan established himself in Hezhou and his second son Mozhanjiao in Tsongkha.
In 1054 assisted the Song army in resolving a dispute among Tibetan tribes.
In 1058 a Khitan princess married Gusiluo's son Dongzhan. Dongzhan killed Xiazhan and Mozhanjiao. | 438 |
21556943 | In 1975, the boys' basketball team won the 4-A district championship.
In 1984, the boys' team advanced to the first round of the state play-offs, making their first trip to state tournament since 1975.
In 1995, the boys' basketball team secured a fourth-place finish in the 4A state tournament.
The Sikeston High School boys' basketball team advanced to the Class 4 State Final Four in the "Show-Me Showdown" Tournament but eventually lost to St. | 447 |
69640574 | 16, 2021, that photos and messages gathered by private persons from a social media account are allowed to be presented as evidence in court.
June 18 – The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) places the Luzon power grid under a red alert status due to insufficient power supply, which briefly affected electricity services to over 1 million customers in Metro Manila and adjacent provinces.
June 19 – Vice President-elect Sara Duterte is inaugurated as the 15th Vice President of the Philippines. | 513 |
19313534 | She returned to Victorian Opera in 2017 as The Fox Zlatohřbítek in Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. In 2018, Halloran, Dimity Shepherd and Ali McGregor appeared in a new work, Lorelei, for Victorian Opera (Melbourne); this production travelled in 2020 to Opera Queensland. | 280 |
13963412 | Anna Constantia was born in Gut Depenau, today part of Stolpe, Holstein, the daughter of the Knight (Ritter) Joachim von Brockdorff (1643–1719) and his wife, Anna Margarethe Marselis (1648-1736), daughter of the rich Hamburg citizen Leonhard Marselis, owner of Gut Depenauborn. | 277 |
4262724 | Dreikausen also sees Frank's aerial paintings as consisting of two basic types: the "day scenes" (such as "Ledge of Light") and the "night landings" (such as "Night Landing: Sambura"). The day scenes show a fascination with the play of actual shadows and false, painted ones, "inviting the viewer more closely to inspect the textures on the canvas and its 'reality' ". | 369 |
47171056 | There are grave mounds and stone ships from the Bronze Age in Lau. From the Iron Age, there are seven grave fields, house foundations, collapsed stone walls and groove stones. Two of the stone ships and a round grave are situated at Bandeläins täppu on the edge of Lausbackar. They are dated from about 900 BC. south of the stone ships is a standing stone.
Just north of Lau Church are the ruins from a "castal", or a defense tower. | 433 |
240909 | If chosen to receive the correct training at a young age, a girl indentured to a brothel could become an apprentice to a high-ranking courtesan; when the girl was old enough and had completed her training, she would become a courtesan herself and work her way up the ranks. | 273 |
14909728 | However, it did not gain any seats due to the electoral system, which was based on a Westminster system of electoral districts rather than a proportional system. Its electoral growth played a role in encouraging the breaking-away from the National Party in 1982 of the Conservative Party under Andries Treurnicht.
Fighting against reform and the dismantling of Apartheid (1982-1994)
Under the leadership of Marais, the HNP challenged the policy of the National Party to negotiate with the African National Congress and South African Communist Party. He tried in vain to obtain the co-operation of the CP. | 604 |
38265739 | Runshaw Hall is a grade II listed 19th-century country house in Runshaw Hall Lane, Euxton, Chorley, Lancashire, England, which has been converted into apartments. It is surrounded by parkland containing a pond and woodland.
The hall is an italianate rectangular two-storey building built of red brick with yellow stone dressing and a hipped slate roof. There are 6 bays along the longer side and 3 along the shorter. | 416 |
3894611 | In 1780, 1789, 1802, 1831, 1849, and in 1986, the dzong was partially destroyed by fire. It also experienced an Earthquake in 1897 and a flood in 1994.
Due to its location at the confluence of the Pho Chhu and Mo Chhu rivers in the Punakha-Wangdue valley, the dzong is vulnerable to flash flooding caused by glacier lakes (GLOF). | 329 |
2348098 | A mid-season crash involving Toyota driver Mike White at Killarney during an open practice session resulted in neck injuries and a damaged right knee, forcing her to sit out three consecutive race meetings.
At the end of the 1995 season, Schmitz finished last in the Class A points standings, with no race wins, pole positions or fastest laps. She did not return for the 1996 season.
24 Hours Nürburgring: Overall winner in 1996 and 1997 (BMW), third in 2008 (Porsche), ninth in 2011 (Porsche), | 494 |
20460918 | Shortly after the public result of the next bushtucker trial vote was announced. Natalie Appleton finally threw in the towel and walked out after having been nominated.
The day's trial still went ahead, titled 'On Your Knees' and was contested by Sheila Ferguson, by virtue of having polled the next highest number of votes. She won six stars.
Despite Natalie's departure, the live eviction still went ahead and Nancy Sorrell was eliminated.
The tenth bushtucker trial of the series was titled 'Hell-O-Copter'. | 510 |
263746 | The flexed skeleton of a man 1.88 meters tall in a cist in a slightly oval round cairn with "food vessel" at Cornaclery, County Londonderry, was described in the 1942 excavation report as "typifying the race of Beaker Folk", although the differences between Irish finds and e.g. the British combination of "round barrows with crouched, unburnt burials" make it difficult to establishes the exact nature of the Beaker People's colonization of Ireland. | 450 |
60354085 | With an almost meaningless 1-day observation arc, the Sentry Risk Table showed an estimated 1 in 3 billion chance of the asteroid impacting Earth on 22 March 2022, which was 87,000 times lower than the background threat. The nominal JPL Horizons 22 March 2022 Earth distance is with a 3-sigma uncertainty of . NEODyS also lists the nominal 22 March 2022 Earth distance as . And again it is not expected to be near Earth anytime during 2022. | 441 |
1150866 | Finally, contra Kitchen, most Egyptologists today such as Rolf Krauss, Aidan Dodson and Jürgen von Beckerath accept David Aston's argument that the Crown Prince Osorkon B, Takelot II's son, assumed power as Osorkon III, a king of the 'Theban Twenty-Third Dynasty' in Upper Egypt. | 279 |
23758980 | Aitken Spence first entered the power sector in 1996 in a joint venture with a Japanese investor to build two thermal power plants in Sri Lanka with the Government of Sri Lanka inviting private sector to invest in resolving the then power crisis. | 246 |
20092480 | This was a departure from the first two albums, being a partial concept album with the first side (subtitled "Orinoco's Dream") following singer Orinoco Womble through a series of dreams. The styles included pop, rock and classical (Hall Of The Mountain Womble is an arrangement of In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg).
The album spent six weeks in the UK album charts, peaking at number 17.
All songs written by Mike Batt, unless otherwise noted.
ORINOCO'S DREAM (Fantasies of a sleeping | 501 |
47335492 | Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman's Top-rated Children's Books of 2006, Freeman describes Cookies as "old-fashioned sweet, without being cloying or didactic". In 2008, Rosenthal and Dyer released a sequel called Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons. | 263 |
1971837 | People have been following the river from the coastal areas since the Viking Age and settling in its vicinity. Along Lagan was a trading route, the so-called Lagastigen, which is now part of the road E4.
The straight middle and upper course of Lagan follows a branch of the Protogine Zone —a zone of crustal weakness in western Sweden.
The other three main Halland rivers: Viskan, Ätran, Nissan
Lagan, a town located by the river some 10 kilometers north of Ljungby | 465 |
37724134 | Howbeit Mr Richard Coffyn, next heir to Sir William Coffyn, claimeth the same by his uncle's feoffment to him and to his heirs so that the law will put Mr John Basset from his entry and to compel him to take his action of form down which is much dilatory as Mr Basset knoweth albeit I intend to sue unto one writ of diem clausit extremum after the death of the said Sir William and so to find Mr Basset's title if we may come and attain any evidence, when we come home, of John Davy, | 483 |
54702894 | Company F of the 1st Battalion was based at Mansfield, and Company A was based at Akron. The regiment spent its 1949 summer training periods at Fort Meade and its 1950 summer training period at Camp A.P. Hill with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. The 1st Battalion was inactivated on 28 November 1950 at Cleveland, and the 320th ACR was disbanded on 10 March 1952. The 320th was disbanded on 10 March 1952. | 407 |
27333066 | A wide variety of divinylcyclopropanes undergo the titular reaction. These precursors have been generated by a variety of methods, including the addition of cyclopropyl nucleophiles (salts of lithium, or copper) to activated double or triple bonds, elimination of bis(2-haloethyl)cyclopropanes and cyclopropanation.
In the example below, cuprate addition-elimination generates the transient enone 1, which rearranges to spirocycle 2. | 433 |
37750430 | Paul Féval's novels are often about an heir who disappear several years before coming back. Yet there is an important difference between Les Belles-de-nuit ou Les Anges de la famille and some others stories. In Le Bossu or Le Loup blanc, the heirs disappear against their will: Lagardère kidnaps Aurore de Nevers in order to protect her from Gonzague; Jean Blanc kidnaps Georges Treml after an attempted murder, but the child disappears once more — kidnapped by a street acrobat. In Les Belle-de-nuit, Louis goes away willingly. | 528 |
71693545 | However, it was noted that its display was "starting to show its age" in comparison to the iPad Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro due to its lower resolution and refresh rate, and that "for the vast majority of people who just want a great tablet for streaming, sketching, gaming and some light productivity, the ninth-gen iPad is still the better value". | 347 |
57348421 | This is a list of universities where instruction is given through the language of Urdu.
Dr. Abdul Haq Urdu University, a bi-lingual university located in India.
Federal Urdu University, a public research university located in Pakistan.
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, a Central University in India named after India's first Minister of Education.
Osmania University, a public state university and one of the largest university systems in India. | 455 |
1923983 | Voting revenues had also risen from the Kyiv contest, and the official Eurovision website, www.eurovision.tv, reported visits from over 200 countries and over 98 million page views, compared with 85 million in 2005. | 215 |
12495326 | possible husband for Princess Kunigunde of Saxony (1740–1826), youngest daughter of Augustus III of Poland;
married Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Penthièvre, and was the father of Louis-Philippe King of the French;
Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans (Château de Saint-Cloud, 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822, Paris), the last princesse de Condé,
possible bride for Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, | 412 |
12158084 | When he operated the aircraft on scheduled flights the day prior to the accident, the aircraft performed "quite well". In 1983, the board of inquiry published its findings, attributing the accident to pilot error and the presence of water in the fuel tank, leading to the engine failure. The board of inquiry recommended that commercial aircraft operating in Australia with more than nine passengers should be operated by two pilots. This recommendation was implemented by the Australian aviation regulator. | 507 |
304033 | Although it was initially developed for the treatment of victims of coal gas poisoning, it was most famously used in the mid-20th century for the treatment of respiratory failure caused by poliomyelitis.
Danish physiologist August Krogh, upon returning to Copenhagen in 1931 from a visit to New York where he saw the Drinker machine in use, constructed the first Danish respirator designed for clinical purposes. Krogh's device differed from Drinker's in that its motor was powered by water from the city pipelines. Krogh also made an infant respirator version. | 561 |
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