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7584759 | It follows US 65 north out of Iowa Falls to the junction of Iowa 57, then follows Iowa 57 to Cedar Falls. At Cedar Falls, the former alignment continues on US 218 to Broadway Street; through Waterloo, it follows Broadway to Franklin Street to Dubuque Road. Beyond Waterloo, the designation of the road again changes several times, but the route to follow remains clear. Between Dyersville and Farley, US 20 follows its historic alignment. At Farley, the former alignment follows Old Highway Road into Dubuque. | 509 |
37750656 | C. Greene, designed by William D. Wittliff
1987 – Lon Tinkle Award, for a distinguished career in letters associated with the State of Texas
1964 – Honoree as editor of the editorial page of the Dallas Times Herald and book editor, 12th Annual Southwest Journalism Forum, Press Club of Dallas Foundation, and the Southern Methodist University Department of Journalism
1990 – Fellow, Texas State Historical Association
The University of North Texas Press, has a series of books named The A. C. | 496 |
1578183 | She also experimented with views in mirrors, such as in Interior with wardrobe mirror (1955), which shows a mirror on an open wardrobe door that is opened at a 45-degree angle, whereby the viewer is given a view of the yard outside the house from the reflection in the glass. The angular cutting into the basic composition with these doors adds dynamism and gives it an energetic feel.
In all her later paintings she used a unique style of squarish daubs of paint applied on the canvas, in colours which were varied but which tended towards the yellow end of the spectrum. | 572 |
14471383 | The gold in the Witwatersrand Basin area was deposited in ancient river deltas, having been washed down from surrounding gold-rich greenstone belts to the north and west. Rhenium-osmium isotope studies indicates that the gold in those mineral deposits came from unusual three billion year old mantle sourced intrusions known as komatiites present in the edenvale belts. The Vredefort Dome impact which lies within the basin and the nearby Bushveld Igneous Complex are both about a billion years younger than the interpreted age of the gold. | 540 |
31169964 | While Labor leader Katy Gallagher wanted to renew the cooperation with the Greens from the previous election period, Liberal leader Zed Seselja argued that in the light of the overall losses of the previous Labor-Green alliance, the strong Liberal gain of 7.3%, and a historic tie in both seats and percentage (38.9% for each major party), with his party having received 41 more preference votes than Labor, the Liberals as the formally strongest party should lead the new Government. | 484 |
5904581 | It has 450 carparks and 21 shops, including Mitre 10 Mega and Spotlight.
Gate Pa School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, with a roll of as of .
Tauranga Girls' College is a co-educational state girls' secondary school established in 1958, with a roll of .
Populated places around the Tauranga Harbour | 335 |
16866999 | An inscription dates this reconstruction to 1136. Sultan Yaghmoracen (1236-1283), the founder of the Abdalwadid dynasty of Tlemcen added a section with a minaret and a dome in the 13th century. Next, to the mosque, there used to be an Islamic court (Makhama) and an Islamic university of considerable fame.
Abdallah Ibn Salam Mosque is a mosque in Algeria. | 356 |
71066362 | Duyar said he had identified Istanbul, his home city, with the natural beauty of the female body.
In Duyar's final design, the female figure leans slightly backwards with her arms wrapped behind her, and her head is inclined backwards as she looks at the sky. The hands are shackled with a chain, which is not visible from the front. The upper part of the sculpture rests on a plinth that is decorated with reliefs depicting pomegranates, figs, honeysuckle and a bee. | 467 |
27723465 | Demolished buildings and structures in Austria
Buildings and structures demolished in 1954 | 90 |
2931156 | The lower walls of the Hall of Ambassadors are decorated with a dado of tiles, while the walls above are decorated with rich plasterwork. A row of windows with delicate stucco grilles runs along the top of the walls, below the dome.
The hall's decoration was finished in 1366, as recorded by an Arabic inscription on a set of wooden doors that was made by artisans from Toledo. The current dome over the hall was rebuilt in 1427 to replace the original dome. The balconies in the upper walls were added in the 16th century. | 523 |
30813182 | Fa'afafine are people who identify themselves as a third gender in Samoa, American Samoa and the Samoan diaspora. A recognized gender identity/gender role since at least the early 20th century in Samoan society, and some theorize an integral part of traditional Samoan culture, fa'afafine are assigned male at birth, and explicitly embody both gender traits, ranging from extravagantly feminine to conventionally masculine. | 423 |
69328537 | Bean's method for predicting political trends was based on analyzing the economic condition of the nation. He also focused on the various third party movements affecting the two-party vote share.
Rosenof wrote: "After 1948, the nation's political climate changed in such a way as to render Bean's analytic methodology less useful". In the 1952 presidential election, Bean refused to make a public projection, saying his method could not account for new factors. He favored Democrat Adlai Stevenson against Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower but Eisenhower defeated Stevenson in a landslide. | 587 |
615626 | The leaves of the grass tree are hosts to another fungi, Pseudodactylaria xanthorrhoeae.
CultivationXanthorrhoea may be cultivated, as seed is easily collected and germinated. While they do grow slowly, quite attractive plants with short trunks (10 cm) and leaf crowns up to 1.5 m (to the top of the leaves) can be achieved in 10 years. The slow growth rate means that it can take 30 years to achieve a specimen with a significant trunk. | 437 |
68838434 | Ciscar is a locality located in the municipality of Benabarre, in Huesca province, Aragon, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 14.
Ciscar is located 102km east of Huesca.
Populated places in the Province of Huesca | 219 |
60781698 | On 2 July 2019, he was proposed by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) as the new president of the European Parliament. On the following day, Sassoli was elected president by the assembly with 345 votes in favor, succeeding Antonio Tajani. He became the seventh Italian to hold the office.
In his acceptance speech, Sassoli talked about the European project as a dream of peace and democracy. He said European citizens showed that they still believed in the project and talked about being proud of European diversity. | 540 |
105031 | For a decade, the electronic workshop expanded, adding a production line for mobile television relays, and a workshop for mechanical surface treatment. As part of the internal restructuring of Alcatel, the site, which has 300 employees, was sold in 2002 to Sanmina-SCI, which ceased its activity in March 2008. The Compagnie industrielle des télécommunications (CIT), merged the following decade with Alcatel, it also opened an assembly plant for electronic telephone exchanges, at Querqueville in the 1960s. | 508 |
3962885 | Hunter Valley Buses operates two bus routes via Thornton station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
Thornton station details Transport for New South Wales
Easy Access railway stations in New South Wales
Railway stations in the Hunter Region
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1913
Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Main North railway line, New South Wales | 374 |
3549145 | Between 1974 and 1986 he represented Belgium, gaining 24 caps and finishing fourth at the World Cup in Mexico in 1986. In 1983 Broos switched teams and started playing for Club Brugge. He played there for five seasons until season 1987–88. During this period he helped his team gain the Belgian Cup in 1986 and the championship in 1988. In 1988 Broos retired as a professional footballer.
In his career as a football player he won the Belgian Cup five times. | 458 |
18595026 | In 1912, Wang was designated first minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of China. After the rise of Yuan Shikai, Wang was named minister of justice in the cabinet of Tang Shaoyi. He participated in drafting the republic's provisional constitution of 1912. Tang resigned in June 1912, and a month later Wang did the same. He moved to Shanghai and assumed the roles of vice-chancellor of Fudan University and chief editor of the Zhonghua Book Company. | 457 |
3745212 | early leader of the Chicago school of economics
Robert Vogel (academic) - professor; Dean of Faculty of Arts of McGill University
Alice Vrielink – Head of Discipline in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Western Australia; conducts research in crystallography
Immanuel Wallerstein – former professor of sociology (1971–1976); political scientist, known for the World Systems Theory
Jagannath Wani (PhD 1967) – statistics professor and philanthropist focusing on mental illness awareness
Frank T. M. White – Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, | 588 |
26745213 | The mini Korean album was revealed to be FM302, and the album was released on November 18, 2015, while the Japanese album was revealed to be AM302, and it was released on December 9, 2015. 'FM302' combines the radio terminology frequency modulation (FM) with Lee's birthday which is on March 2, to create the effect of his own radio frequency that resonates his music across the world. The title song "Insensible" is a ballad track and it tells the sad story of a man who is unable to forget his previous love. | 510 |
5932473 | There are four churches in Brooklyn Park:
Brooklyn Park has a joint Metropolitan Fire Service Station and South Australian Ambulance Service Station (one of 21 fire stations and 20 ambulance stations in metropolitan Adelaide).
The 2016 Australian census identified that the median age of Brooklyn Park residents was 36 years (South Australia's median age was 40, and Australia's was 38). | 387 |
3740960 | |"Mother's Little Helpers" (16 October 2020)
Also known as the Adventure into Fear universe
Main setting for the events of the Hulu streaming series Helstrom The events in this series were originally intended to take place within the reality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999) until it was clarified as set in an adjacent universe by showrunner Paul Zbyszewski. | 376 |
16543999 | Following World War II, the squadron was inactivated on 7 November 1945 at Drew Field, Florida.
It was reactivated on 9 November 1946 and was assigned to the 52d Fighter Group under which it served tours in Schweinfurt Air Base and Bad Kissingen, Germany. Returning to Mitchell Field, New York, the squadron was designated the 2d Fighter Squadron and flew the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. | 386 |
52890419 | The Church of Saint Matthew (Italian: Chiesa di San Matteo or San Matteo al Cassaro) is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. It is located in the main street of the city, the ancient Cassaro now Corso Vittorio Emanuele, in the quarter of the Loggia, about a block east of the Quattro Canti, within the historic centre of Palermo. | 368 |
59556618 | TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, PD: Passes Defended, FF: Forced Fumbles, FR: Fumbles Recovered, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties
Alabama was selected to face Michigan in the 2020 Citrus Bowl on New Year's Day. | 255 |
28115444 | McIndoe was marries to Elizabeth Gillies, a member of a prominent family many of whom also migrated to Dunedin. Her brothers included politicians Thomas, Robert, and John Lillie Gillies. James and Elizabeth had three children, among them the printer John McIndoe.
McIndoe took an interest in local history, publishing A Sketch of Otago in 1878. His newspaper submissions often appeared under the initials 'I.M.I.' He died in Dunedin on 4 September 1905, and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery. | 495 |
8595029 | The curator of Mystic Seaport, Edouard A. Stackpole, originated the idea for the institute and turned to Professor Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University to join with him in creating the Institute and to serve as its first director.
Since its founding, the Munson Institute has been the leading, and often the sole, center for the teaching of maritime history in the United States. Its faculty has included the leading maritime historians in the United States. | 513 |
59501776 | “An Interpretation of the Line of ‘wenwen qi youjia’ in the ‘Dance Accompanied by Strings of Duke of Zhou’ in Tsinghua Bamboo Strip Writings.” Chutu wenxian (Excavated documents) 3 (December, 2012): 41–47.
Chen Zhi. “The Rite of ‘Drinking Ceremony’ and an Explanation of the Lost Poem as Seen in Tsinghua Bamboo Strips.” Chutu wenxian (Excavated documents) 1 (2012): 6–30. | 373 |
28490621 | That can mean that nobody has changed their mind or it can mean lots of people have changed their mind – but these have cancelled out as people have moved in opposing directions. We found there was quite a lot more of that than we had expected."
Nicola Sturgeon was nominated as First Minister by a vote of the parliament on 18 May 2021. Her cabinet was approved by the parliament two days later and thus the Third Sturgeon government, a minority government, was formed. | 470 |
454154 | The last session of the assembly was the second session of the Fifth Legislative Assembly, which convened February 7, and adjourned March 13, 1848. The president of the 13-member council was Horatio N. Wells of Milwaukee, and the speaker of the 26-member House of Representatives was Timothy Burns of Iowa County. | 314 |
72367202 | DeNucci is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
A. Joseph DeNucci (1939–2017), American boxer and politician | 133 |
27939603 | Hong Kong, Zhuhai College school song 香港珠海學院校歌
Hong Kong, Zhuhai College 60 Anniversary ode 香港珠海學院六十周年校慶頌歌
National Hsinchu Senior High School Second alma mater 國立新竹高級中學第二校歌
Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon under the secondary schools, | 243 |
12012455 | However, in 1547 Eric II declared his reconversion to Roman Catholicism, to the dislike of his mother.
Eric married on 17 May 1545 Sidonie of Saxony (1518–1575), who was ten years his senior. The wedding ceremony was held in Hann. Münden without the usual pomp and circumstance.
Initially, they liked each other. Eric had been engaged to Agnes of Hesse. When the marriage was negotiated at the court in Kassel, however, he had met Sidonie. | 439 |
9544911 | They disembarked at Southampton in early March 1889, and travelled by train to London, where they checked into the Berners Hotel on Oxford Street. They were invited to Windsor Castle after two days in the capital. The audience was originally meant only for the two izinDuna and their interpreter—Maund could not attend such a meeting as he was a British subject—but Knutsford arranged an exception for Maund when Babayane and Mshete refused to go without him; the Colonial Secretary said that it would be regrettable for all concerned if the embassy were derailed by such a technicality. | 587 |
4713360 | As part of this scheme, a route was considered to link Yass to Canberra, and ultimately to Jervis Bay, around 1917. Little was heard of this project after 1921.
The viability of a rail line from Canberra to Eden via Cooma was investigated after the NSW Government funded a $1 million study in 2018. The proposed route would include reinstating the majority of the disused Bombala Line, extending to the coast at the southern end of the line and north from HMAS Harman to Canberra Airport. | 490 |
6667918 | In 1991, Air Liberte published a joint timetable with French air carrier Minerve (airline) which was operating flights to San Francisco and Papeete, Tahiti as well as to Pointe a Pitre and Fort de France in the Caribbean at the time. A route to Montreal was inaugurated in 1992, and Réunion and the Caribbean were also served by the airline. Unsuccessful routes included one from Toulouse to Dakar and London, which were scrapped in a conflict over slot allocations at Orly Airport. | 483 |
73561310 | In 1999, IBM stopped selling their computers at retail outlets after their market share in this sector had fallen considerably behind competitors Compaq and Dell. Immediately afterwards, the IBM PC Co. was dissolved and merged into IBM Personal Systems Group.
On September 14, 2004, LG and IBM announced that their business alliance in the South Korean market would end at the end of that year. Both companies stated that it was unrelated to the charges of bribery earlier that year. Xnote was originally part of the joint venture and was sold by LG in 2012. | 558 |
13955773 | | 86 || July 21 || @ Orioles || 4–3 || Lemon (12–7) || Ferrarese (4–7) || || 48–37
| 87 || July 21 || @ Orioles || 4 – 3 (10) || Mossi (4–3) || Loes (1–3) || 22, | 161 |
168935 | Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral (1758)
St Nicholas Naval Cathedral, Karosta (1901–1903)
Swan Pond (remnant of river Līva)
Peter The Great house – the oldest house in Liepāja
Graudu 45 – Graudu nams (Jugendstil) | 222 |
477701 | Kane and Finger conceived the idea of Two-Face flipping a coin scarred on one side to determine which side of his personality emerges: evil if the coin flip results in the scarred side, which causes him to "go on a rampage of looting and destruction," or good if it results in the unscarred side, causing him to give his loot to charity or refrain from committing a crime. In Kane's autobiography Batman and Me, Kane suggests that Finger was inspired by the pulp magazine hero Black Bat, with their similarities as both district attorneys disfigured with acid. | 560 |
1319083 | His father never graduated from high school, but worked his way through the ranks at Lockheed Martin, while his mother died when he was four. His father remarried.
Forrester excelled in water polo at high school in Santa Clara, California. He was graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1975, having studied philosophy and government.
Forrester then moved to New Jersey to study at the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned a master's degree in theology and politics. He then married childhood friend Andrea Howard, and moved to West Windsor. Forrester and his wife have three children. | 592 |
1449544 | He was again involved in the Prague Half Marathon in 2015, taking part in a relay alongside Nedvěd, fellow footballer Tomáš Hübschman and 2014 Miss Czech Republic, Tereza Skoumalová.
Lokvenc represented his country at under-21 level, scoring seven goals in 13 matches between 1993 and 1995.
He first played for the senior Czech national team in 1995. Lokvenc was part of the Czech Republic squad at the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia. | 448 |
52077051 | In 1992, Ali Oumlil was nominated Secretary General of the A rab Thought Forum, an independent, intellectual, pan-Arab non-governmental organization established in 1981 by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, together with twenty-five leading Arab thinkers, decision-makers and development experts. | 293 |
24290526 | 38° 59.00’ N. lat. 123° 46.00’ W. long.;
38° 56.40’ N. lat. 123° 46.00’ W. long.; and
38° 56.40’ N. lat. 123° 43.82’ W. long.
The Point Arena SMCA is bounded by straight lines connecting the following points in the order
38° 59.00’ N. lat. 123° 46.00’ W. long. | 260 |
40199048 | On February 28, 2014, the extradition hearing was adjourned until Monday March 17, when it was determined at Westminster Magistrates' Court that Rancadore would not be extradited back to Italy. District judge Howard Riddle said a recent decision of the Administrative Court, which binds lower courts in England, led to his decision.
Rancadore raised concerns that if he was extradited back to Italy, he would be killed by the Mafia. Rancadore reportedly said that "I’m not going back, they’ll kill me". | 502 |
11065190 | In 1038 Ranulf invaded Capua, expanding his polity into one of the largest in southern Italy.
In 1038 Byzantine Emperor Michael IV launched a military campaign into Muslim Sicily, with General George Maniaches leading the Christian army against the Saracens. The future king of Norway, Harald Hardrada, commanded the Varangian Guard in the expedition and Michael called on Guaimar IV of Salerno and other Lombard lords to provide additional troops for the campaign. | 465 |
1775944 | Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, poet and playwright (1990)
António Lopes Ribeiro, film director (1996)
Luís I, king (1862–64; 1866–67; 1867–70; 1870–76; | 150 |
54422702 | Texten som kalejdoskop: en läsning av A. S. Pusjkins "Sagan om tsar Saltan". Åbo: Åbo Akademis publishers. Libris 10025554. (2014) | 131 |
3100545 | Those activities which add value to the product can be identified and improved. Activities that don't add value need to be reduced to cut costs without reducing product value.
Strategic ABM is about doing the right things, using ABC information to decide which products to develop and which activities to use. This can also be used for customer profitability analysis, identifying which customers are the most profitable and focusing on them more.
One of the key benefits for the use of ABM is how it enables managers to understand product and customer profitability, the cost business processes and how to improve them (Alireza 2017). | 636 |
41920070 | She worked with directors such as Alex van Warmerdam, Ivo van Hove and Theu Boermans under whose direction she performed many Schnitzler plays, including his monologue Fräulein Else, for which she received rave reviews. In 2013, she won the Guido de Moor Award for young talent, for her portrayal of Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters. She played a lead role in The Boermans' De Uitverkorene (2006), which won an International Emmy and the prestigious Prix D'Europe. | 464 |
31259265 | 17 January – 20 January: Chukyo University Center for Culture & Arts: former Nagoya Shimin Kaikan Chuu-Hall (Aichi), 25 January – 27 January: Komatsu Arts Theatre Urara Dai-Hall (Ishikawa), 31 January – 3 February: Momochi Palace Fukuoka-kenritsu Momochi Culture Center Dai-Hall (Fukuoka), | 289 |
33177726 | It was part of the national team's preparations for the AFC Challenge Cup which he was not able to take part in due to not being released by his club, as the tournament was not part of FIFA's international match calendar; later that year, he would also miss out on 2014 AFF Championship as he had to undergo back surgery.
(Philippines score listed first, score column indicates score after each Patiño goal)
Thai League 1: 2013, 2014, 2018 | 440 |
44426278 | Interview of Thressa C. Stadtman by Buhm Soon Park, January 2001
Vadim N. Gladyshev, P. Boon Chock, and Rodney L. Levine, "Thressa C. Stadtman", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences | 267 |
74489183 | Suomen sarja (sometimes also known as Suomensarja and Valtakunnansarja (1935-1946), meaning in English Finland's series and Nation's series respectively) was the second-level league in men's ice hockey in Finland from 1935 to 1974.
It was replaced by I-divisioona for the season 1974-75. | 287 |
20167640 | The trophy has been in use since 1936. A smaller replica of this trophy has been officially presented to the winner after the race since 1988 and team principal since 1997, usually in a press conference either at the Speedway or in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show at the BorgWarner exhibit, except for the 2011 race because of extenuating circumstances (the winning driver had died in a crash at an aborted INDYCAR race; the winning team principal and the driver's widow were presented with the respective trophies in the ensuing January). | 561 |
11513600 | A private watercraft had blundered into the restricted downrange safety zone and had to be chased away. Launching through the day's high cirrus clouds could have caused triboelectrification, potentially interfering with range safety communication and hampering the RSO's ability to issue the self-destruction command. Launch Director Ed Mango repeatedly delayed resumption of the countdown from the planned hold point at T-00:04:00. | 432 |
8817404 | An abundance of wild pigs resulted as punishment for the indigenous people's excessive hunting and consequent killing of all the other animals. So the indigenous people made arrows to run after and hunt the wild pigs. The pigs started climbing mountains and the indigenous people chased after them. Eventually they chased the pigs all the way to what is known today as Boruca.
The indigenous people tried to form and organize themselves to kill the pigs, but they eventually lost the pigs. No one ever saw the pigs again. | 525 |
30052488 | It became the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery Band in 1899 under Joseph Vézina, a prominent Quebec musician who was also the first director of the and led the first performance of "O Canada" in 1880. A second band part of the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery was formed in Kingston in 1905 and directed by Major Alfred Light. During the First World War, the RCGA Band was stationed at the Citadelle of Quebec. During this time, it was mentioned in an article of the Montreal Star as "justly known as one of the best bands in North America". | 544 |
1566930 | She was appointed a trustee of the British Museum in 2012 and re-appointed for a further four years in 2016. However she resigned in 2019 complaining about BP's sponsorship, the reluctance to re-hire workers transferred to Carillion and lack of engagement with repatriating artworks.
In June 2013, Soueif and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning.
In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Soueif signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election. | 569 |
40440649 | Salt Lake City-based company VISTA Staffing Solutions was the recipient of the services after their content essay was chosen from those who entered. They were also named one of the 50 Hottest Health And Fitness Apps by TechCrunch in 2012.
The program offered by the company is personalized for each individual and is also offered as part of weight loss programs for certain corporations. It is said to be focused on professionals who are too busy to take time off work to attend weight loss clinics or resorts. | 510 |
24393563 | He left the RAF after the war, being transferred to the unemployed list on 8 January 1919.
Hyde was also an amateur artist. One of his paintings, entitled "Dogfight, 1917", is on display at the World War History & Art Museum in Alliance, Ohio.
Hyde became a reverend after the war. In 1925, he married Mollie De Little. | 319 |
1840233 | He studied Islamic law at Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad Academy. He was a disciple of Sheikh Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi of Suhrawardiyya Sufi order. His associates include Baha-ud-din Zakariya Multani, Shaykh Saadi Shirazi and Kamal al-Din Isma'il al-'Isfahani and Makhdoom Shahabuddin Pir Jagjot of Balkh who settled in Jaitley near Patna. | 349 |
46497615 | Evening Standard editor and former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne called the policy change a "U-turn".
The Conservative Party manifesto at the 2017 general election proposed repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011.
Corbyn launched the Labour campaign focusing on public spending, and argued that services were being underfunded, particularly education. | 366 |
577929 | The lion dance (Indonesian: ) in Indonesia has different forms that are distinct to the local cultures in Indonesia, and it is not known if these have any relation to the Chinese lion. The best known lion dances are performed in Bali and Java.
In Hindu Balinese culture, the Barong is the king of good spirits and the enemy of the demon queen Rangda. Like the Chinese lion, it requires more dancers than in the Javanese Reog, typically involving two dancers.
The Reog dance of Ponorogo in Java involves a lion figure known as the . | 531 |
55907751 | The fourth chapter concerns Maoshan, its long history of mystics and hermits, biographies of the Mao brothers, and Guo Sichao (郭四朝), an early inhabitant of the mountain. The fifth comprises a detailed description of the Chinese underworld, and may have constituted the lost Fengdu ji (酆都記, Records of Fengdu), referring to the subterranean administrative headquarters of hell. Chapter 6 of the Zhengao consists of personal letters, memoranda, and records of dreams written by Yang and the Xus. | 493 |
2614114 | Familiarity with the environment, and the very low incidence of life-threatening accidents is likely to lead to a confidence that there will not be a problem on any given dive, so the divers may pay less attention to good buddy practices, and this may become habitual. This may be exacerbated by the divers being strangers thrown together by chance and the whims of the divemaster, who have no real interest in each other, and whose reasons to dive may be incompatible. Pairing an explorer with a macro photographer will annoy at least one, probably both, if they comply with recommended buddy diving practices. | 611 |
12576466 | LETS CDC is a member of Bukluran UP System.
The Graduate Students Association of DevCom (GradSADevCom) - an academic organization among graduate students studying at the college.
In 2022, the CDC established its own student newspaper called Tanglaw, making it the first college in UPLB to do so. | 295 |
13566996 | The highest traffic count for SR 117 in 2015 was at its northern end, where 1,215 vehicles travel the highway on average each day. The lowest traffic count during 2015 was at the southern end of SR 117, where 474 vehicles travel the highway on average each day.
Indiana State Highway Commission added SR 117 to the state system between 1950 and 1951, running along its modern routing. The entire roadway was paved between 1962 and 1963. No major changes have occurred to SR 117 since it was paved. | 497 |
1025800 | This is generally assumed to be the model for Hanuman House in Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas, with Chaguanas as the model for Arwacas.
The Caroni Swamp, the largest mangrove wetland in Trinidad and Tobago, is located just north and west of the town. The swamp is a popular tourist attraction and roosting ground for the scarlet ibis, national bird of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Divali Nagar site, located in northern Chaguanas, is a major attraction in the period just before Diwali. | 483 |
1046470 | All the male cast members reprised their roles, with Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin joining the cast, but neither Julia Roberts nor Catherine Zeta-Jones returned.
Films based on works by George Clayton Johnson
Films scored by David Holmes (musician) | 245 |
26291644 | Rice's son, William Abbott Rice (1912-1991) was a professor of geology at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio His daughter Charlotte Rice (1904-1990) married political scientist and Princeton and Denison University professor Albert Andrews Roden (1906-2002).
Edward Loranus Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:
Edward Loranus Rice (1871-1960), son of
William North Rice (1845–1928), son of | 462 |
74645906 | In September 1961, at 22, after obtaining a Graduate Degree (Diplôme d'études supérieures), she joined the CNRS at the Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer (OOB), a marine laboratory, known as the "Laboratoire Arago", where she spent her entire career. | 261 |
4189506 | Representative from Oklahoma and Under Secretary of the Army
Nancy Feldman – Civil rights activist and community leader
Paul Finkelman – Legal historian (Finkelman was listed as one of the ten most-cited legal historians in Brian Leiter's survey of most-cited law professors by specialty from 2000 to 2007)
Kent Frizzell – United States Under Secretary of the Interior (1975–1977) and Attorney General of Kansas (1969–1971)
F. Russell Hittinger – Legal philosopher and Catholic theologian, | 494 |
39911342 | | 339762 || || — || September 24, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || FLO || align=right data-sort-value="0.72" | 720 m ||
| 339763 || || — || September 25, 2005 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || SYL7:4 || align=right | 4. | 220 |
15295037 | Beginning in February 2017, the Times was published as part of the Nokomis Free-Press Progress, until news coverage was handed off to the Panhandle Press in February 2018, following Pana News Inc.'s sale to Paddock Publications and under the management of Southern Illinois Local Media Group.
Since February 2018, the newspaper has discontinued publication as a standalone newspaper, as coverage has been combined with the Panhandle Press. The Panhandle Press, published by Southern Illinois Local Media Group's subsidiary Gold Nugget Publications, is the publisher of four community papers in their cluster. | 609 |
248083 | Norwich completed a record sixth relegation from the Premier League, and, after an indifferent first half of the following season, Smith was dismissed in December 2022.
On 6 January 2023, the club appointed former Huddersfield Town, Schalke and Young Boys manager David Wagner as their new head coach.
Norwich City's nickname, "The Canaries", has long influenced the team's colours and badge. | 392 |
36061724 | Copelatus haemorrhoidalis is a species of diving beetle. It is part of the genus Copelatus in the subfamily Copelatinae of the family Dytiscidae. It was described by Régimbart in 1883. | 184 |
52507373 | Christoph II entered Prussian military in service during the reign of Frederick William I of Prussia and initially served in Infantry Regiment Nr. 23. On 16 August 1718, he was transferred to Infantry Regiment Nr. 3, where he subsequently received command of his own company in 1723. In 1727, the King promoted him directly to Lieutenant-Colonel.
Frederick William died in May 1740 and his son, Frederick II declined to endorse the Pragmatic Sanction. | 452 |
2200729 | "In Memoriam FPG": 1998 Anniversary Symposium
The international anniversary symposium "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" was recorded on 12 videos. In 2007, they were digitized & became the Symposium's e-Proceedings.
A FPG & FrL Endowment Fund devoted to Greve/Grove and Freytag-Loringhoven projects was established in 1995/96. | 328 |
8925615 | A versatile back, Webster has played both on the wing and in the centre for Scotland during his career. He finally made an impact on the World Cup in 2007, becoming the only Scotland player to start all five of their tournament matches as they were knocked out at the quarter final stages.
Webster crossed for a try against Ireland in the second game of the 2008 Six Nations, reverting to the centre after beginning the tournament against France on the wing. He then played in both games of Scotland's two-Test series in Argentina, including their victory in Buenos Aires. | 572 |
6124876 | An inscription of Gautamiputra Vijaya Satakarni, dated to his 6th regnal year, has also been discovered at the site, and proves that Buddhism had spread in the region by this time.
The site rose to prominence after the decline of the Satavahanas, in the first quarter of the 3rd century, when the Ikshvaku king Vashishthiputra Chamamula established his capital Vijayapuri here. | 377 |
17367733 | The Gulls won the first conference title, going 9–3 against the competition, but immediately the conference was in trouble when Northern Arizona dropped their program at the end of the year. U.S. International managed to hold on for the next two seasons but after 1987–88 both the conference and the school's Division I hockey program ceased to exist and Buetow was out of a job.
Fortunately a position at Colorado College opened up and Buetow stepped in to take over for Mike Bertsch. | 485 |
1536498 | Historian of Celtic poetics Robert Graves credited analepsis as a method of inventing his historical arguments in The White Goddess, and the Mazatec medicine woman Maria Sabina credited the hallucinogenic psilocybe mushroom with the flow of her discourse. The philosopher Jacques Derrida described inventio as the "invention of the other." | 339 |
3302131 | Reubeni's striking appearance–a swarthy dwarf in Oriental costume–and messianic claims attracted the attention of Diego Pires, a converso youth of noble birth, who, through the good agencies of Reubeni, had succeeded in returning to his Jewish roots and had taken the name of Solomon Molcho. Jewish ambassadors from the Barbary States visited Reubeni at the Portuguese court. Some conversos were so excited by this activity that they rose in arms near Badajoz, where they freed a converso woman from the Inquisition. | 517 |
1821146 | Detailed photos of townsite and the buildings
Full Resolution Ghost Town and Historic Site Photos by Coloradopast.com
Former populated places in Eagle County, Colorado | 167 |
72098877 | Khan started his career in 1990s. Besides acting in Sindhi television series, he also appeared in PTV television series such as Marvi and Hawain. He made his film debut in 2013 with mystery-thriller Josh: Independence Through Unity. Some of his other television appearances include Alif Allah Aur Insaan, Laapata and Bakhtawar.
Prih Kha Poye Sindhi Long play (1995) | 366 |
70474011 | near York on 26 May 1865
Nandingbert – 18 July 1865 – for the murder of Quatcull near Albany on 14 May 1865
Yardalgene (also called Jackey Howson) – 18 July 1865 – for the murder of Quatcull near Albany on 14 May 1865
Daniel Duffy - 11 January 1866 - an escaped convict, hanged for the murder of Edward Johnson on 5 November 1865 at Northam
Matthew Brooks - 11 January 1866 - an escaped convict, | 406 |
1170995 | Once working pressure was attained, early steam cars could be instantly driven off with high acceleration, but they typically take several minutes to start from cold, plus time to get the burner to operating temperature. To overcome this, development has been directed toward flash boilers, which heat a much smaller quantity of water to get the vehicle started, and in the case of Doble cars, spark ignition diesel burners.
The steam car does have advantages over internal combustion-powered cars, although most of these are now less important than in the early 20th century. | 576 |
44939869 | Astra 2G has three Ku-band downlink beams and one Ka-band beam:
The European beam is centred on the Benelux countries with reception from a dish available across most of Europe - west to the Portuguese eastern border, east to Belarus, north to Estonia and south to coast of North Africa.
The UK beam provides maximum signal (for reception with dishes) over the whole United Kingdom, Ireland, Benelux and northern France with a sharp roll-off of signal level outside this region, in close approximation of the UK beam of Astra 2D. | 533 |
1150532 | Since there was no central clearing of those forward contracts, speculators who bought Brent forwards at the time and who do not want to take delivery of physical oil must find other parties to take the oil, and long chains of speculators formed between producers and refiners for every cargo of oil traded. Integrated oil producers also blurred the lines between commercial and speculative activity, as they could re-direct physical oil cargoes, and choose which forward contracts to deliver and which contracts to pass on to other speculators or producers. | 558 |
21007489 | The Santa Anita Mathis Mile Stakes is a Grade II American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds over a distance of one mile on the turf held annually in late December Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, USA. The event currently offers a purse of US$200,000.
The inaugural running of the event was on 26 December 2000 as the Sir Beaufort Stakes, opening day of 2000–01 Santa Anita Park's Winter meeting. | 414 |
65456984 | Cole Perfetti (born January 1, 2002) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected tenth overall by the Jets in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
Growing up in Whitby, Ontario, Perfetti spent his minor hockey career with the Whitby Wildcats. As a teenager, he enrolled at The Hill Academy while also playing for the Vaughan Kings of the Greater Toronto Hockey League. | 434 |
47599794 | Following his graduation, Bowles "established his law practice in Cuthbert in March, 1946".
In 1977, Bowles was appointed by Governor George Busbee to a seat vacated by the retirement of William B. Gunter. Bowles was reelected in 1980, but sixteen days later announced his resignation, leading to litigation over whether the Governor had the right to name his replacement.
Bowles died at his home at the age of 85.
Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. | 461 |
2685123 | Hütz's connection with his cultural roots is not without controversy, however, and he is seen as a polarizing figure among international Romani rights activists due to stereotypical displays of Romani culture.
Hütz arrived in Vermont in 1992 as a political refugee through a resettlement program with his mother, father and cousin Yosef.
Hütz started his musical career in Ukraine with the band Uksusnik (Vinegar Tap). While in Vermont, Hütz formed the punk band The Fags. | 472 |
18024617 | Her first role in a MacQuarrie-directed project was the 2-reel film The Old Cobbler, distributed on June 27, 1914. The -year-old MacQuarrie plays Nathan — the old cobbler. Nathan moves out West and befriends Wild Bill, played by Lon Chaney. Wild Bill has a sweetheart and local dancer named Jess, played by -year-old Agnes Vernon. | 330 |
33995954 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was designed by Maya Lin and dedicated in 1982. Lin, an architect and graduate of Yale University, won the competition for the design at the age of 21. It consists of large chevron shaped, polished black granite walls descending into the landscape. It is inscribed with the names of members of the U.S. armed forces who died in the Vietnam War. Visitors are invited to make a rubbing of the names of loved ones. It was a controversial design at the time of its dedication. | 563 |
43643529 | During the Battle of Warbonnet Creek on July 17, 1876, Buffalo Bill Cody shot, killed, and scalped a Cheyenne warrior near the townsite-to-be, which he later often celebrated during his Wild West shows in a reenactment he entitled "The Red Right Hand, or, Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer".
Montrose was established in 1887 on a ford across Hat Creek by immigrants from Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg. It was named from its lofty elevation (mont) and native rose bushes (rose). | 485 |
12750933 | He appears briefly in Scream 3, commenting on Sidney's withdrawal from her friends and life. Scream 4 also introduces his sister-in-law Kate Roberts and his niece Jill Roberts.
Appeared in: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3 (cameo), Scream (2022) (photos)
Randy Meeks is a Woodsboro teenager. He is a friend of Sidney Prescott, for whom he has romantic feelings, and is an avid fan of horror movies. | 393 |
14082125 | Recurring sporting events established in 1954
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1959 | 94 |
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