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14331456 | |rowspan="2"| 2002 || "How You Remind Me" || Best Single ||
The MuchMusic Video Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic. Nickelback received seven awards from sixteen nominations.
| 2000 || "Leader Of Men" || MuchLoud Best Rock Video ||
|rowspan="2"| 2002 ||rowspan="2"| "Too Bad" || Best Video ||
| MuchLoud Best Rock Video || | 382 |
18172173 | Sakhi Sarwar (Urdu, Punjabi, Balochi: ) is a town in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named after a Muslim Sufi saint Syed Ahmad Sultan, also known as Sakhi Sarwar, whose tomb is situated in the vicinity.
The tomb itself was built in the 13th century in a small village named Muqam in the Sulaiman Mountains, from Dera Ghazi Khan city and 110 Kilometers from major city Multan . | 396 |
50457379 | Bhante Vimalaramsi was a well known meditation teacher having taught in Malaysia and the United States. He gave retreats in Europe, Asia, SE Asia, and America. He was the founder of the American Forest Tradition and the Suttavada.
Vimalaramsi used the Majjhima Nikaya as his basis for teaching the "Mindfulness of Metta" and the Brahmaviharas that leads to the realization of Nibbana, which many of his students call Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (T.W.I.M.). | 463 |
19295844 | Lepeshinskaya graduated from Bolshoi Choreographic School and started working the Bolshoi Theatre. She started as Rosina in a ballet of The Barber of Seville (Тщетная предосторожность) performed by the second stage of the theater. In 1935, she performed the main role in the Three Fat Men ballet by Yury Olesha. The ballet became very popular and the 18-year-old ballerina became famous.
Lepeshinskaya performed in private concerts at the Moscow Kremlin from the age of 17. | 473 |
7441600 | Pope Boniface IX, not wishing to prolong an expensive conflict, later accepted the terms, despite opposition from both Florence and Bologna.
In 1406 he was named governor of Milan. From 1409 Carlo fought constantly for the Papal States, not only as Captain General of the Church but also as diplomat. In the chaotic situation created by the presence of three popes at the same time, he backed Gregory XII, whom he also housed at Rimini, until his abdication at the Council of Constance. The resignation letter was read by Carlo himself. | 536 |
67412879 | Lady Yi of the Jeonju Yi clan (정경부인 전주 이씨, 貞敬夫人 全州 李氏) (1506 - ?) | 65 |
27766337 | He earned three letters in basketball at the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1924, 1925, and 1926. He coached at Transylvania University in Lexington in the early 1930s and moved west to Yakima, Washington, in 1938, where he resided when he was hired by Gonzaga in May 1949. He was also the Gonzaga Bulldogs baseball coach from 1949 to 1950.
Underwood stayed in Spokane and was an administrator in the county school system; he became the Spokane chapter manager of the Red Cross in 1959. | 495 |
13417008 | Refurbished – Only Want The Best (2014)
Paco Ventura Black Moon – Get Over it Forever (2015)
CLAIRVOYANT – "The Last Marks of Prophecy" (2016)
Luca Sellitto – "The Voice Within" (2019)
Swedish Metal AID – Give A Helpin' Hand (1985)
Von Rosen – Like a dream (single)(1988)
Glory – Danger in This Game (1989) | 308 |
111343 | The average household size was 2.04 and the average family size was 2.71.
In the village, the population was spread out, with 4.6% under the age of 18, 77.0% from 18 to 24, 6.3% from 25 to 44, 8.0% from 45 to 64, and 4.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 females, there were 84.1 males. | 332 |
4510738 | Casey Atwood nearly won the race, until a late-race pass by Bill Elliott.
It was the 41st career Winston Cup Series win for Bill Elliott. This was Elliott's first win in 226 races, dating back to his last win in the Southern 500 at Darlington in 1994. As of 2021, the 226 race winless streak is the longest drought in NASCAR history.
This was the first race since Richmond back in March 1992 that Bill Elliott won from the pole. | 428 |
52097217 | By 1987, the company had been renamed to ISC Wines and the brand from Italian Swiss Colony to just Colony (ISC also had other brands, including jug wine label Petri). In 1987 Allied Growers sold ISC Wines to Erly Industries, who merged it with Sierra Wine Company into a new entity. In 2015 the descendant of the company, now operating under the name Asti Winery and selling wine under the Souverain brand, and owning America's sixth-largest wine production facility, was purchased by E & J Gallo Winery from its owner, Australia-based Treasury Wine Estates. | 558 |
58476783 | Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN)
Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) endorsed on 25 October 2018 the main ambitions set out by the Plan S, namely the elimination of paywalls, copyright retention, and the rejection of hybrid models of open access publishing. | 435 |
8851941 | Virtue § Roman virtues – contains a list of Roman virtues | 57 |
12825821 | Due to the ability to determine losses and reactive-power allocation, load-flow calculation also supports the planning engineer in the investigation of the most economical operation mode of the network.
When changing over from single and/or multi-phase infeed low-voltage meshed networks to isolated networks, load-flow calculation is essential for operational and economical reasons. Load-flow calculation is also the basis of all further network studies, such as motor start-up or investigation of scheduled or unscheduled outages of equipment within the outage simulation. | 575 |
40345470 | Xiaiolian's son was taken away, and she was kept prisoner by her father, who struck a deal with the three Horsemen to hide Xiaolian from Death. Death's son was kept in a secret facility, where Ezra began raising him to become the Beast.
Death was informed of his family's death by the Horsemen; enraged, he kills them. The Chosen then injured and left Death to die. Death, however, survives due to the intervention of two Endless Nation witches, Crow and Wolf. | 460 |
14997705 | In 1949 Mr. Mills left the University of Cincinnati in order to return to the Army as Special Services Officer.
The Expansion Years: The Bearcat Bands (1949-1970):
Mr. Robert Hamilton served as director of the band from 1949 until the spring of 1954, when he left to take a position in California. Mr. Hamilton introduced the "story-telling maneuver", adding a new dimension to halftime entertainment. In the spring of 1954, Dr. Roy Robert Hornyak became the sixth director of the UC Band. | 489 |
6656284 | The Army Reserve element of the Corps used to also consist primarily of Supply Companies, with 4, 5, 8, 11, 13 Supply Company of each Combat Service Support Battalion (CSSB) of the respective numbered brigades in each state. As part of Project FOCUS (Project Director Colonel Allan A Murray), these supply companies have been replaced by Brigade Operations Support Companies (BOSCs) in each Reserve brigade. | 407 |
56075549 | The interior is lined with v-jointed tongue-and-groove boards, and a lattice ceiling vent and metal bracing tie are located at the centre of the coved ceiling. Original cupboards are located in the southeast and across the southwest corner and the workspaces have a s fitout. Flanking rooms to the east and west, house a sewing room and laundry respectively. Both have raked ceilings and are accessible from the domestic science room. Window sashes in both these rooms have been replaced with aluminium sliding windows. | 519 |
3214572 | Salt might also have been produced within the parish, as a brine spring is shown on an 1831 map of the area. The parish formerly had a small water-powered mill and a brick kiln field. Agriculture was the major land use by the early 19th century.
The road between Nantwich and Edleston crossed the parish; in 1607, the right of way was 12 feet wide. | 348 |
434770 | 1580-1592: Villa Capra "La Rotonda", near Vicenza (completed construction of Andrea Palladio's structure for Mario Capra, and added stables, not completed until 1620)
1581-1586: Church of San Gaetano Thiene, Padua
1581-1599: Procuratie Nuove, Piazza San Marco, Venice (continued with a different interior design by Francesco Smeraldi and completed in 1663 by Longhena) | 371 |
39086077 | Ulster Senior Football Championship: 2014, 2018
Ulster Senior Club Football Championship: 2018
Midfield on the AIB Club Team of the Year: April 2019
Ulster Senior Club Football Championship Final "Laoch na hImeartha": 2018
Donegal Senior Football Championship Final "Laoch na hImeartha": 2018 | 296 |
969122 | The action of the lower teeth may also be assisted by back-and-forth vibrations of the jaw, a mechanism akin to that of an electric carving knife. This shark's ability to create strong suction into its mouth probably also helps in capturing smaller prey such as squid.
Like other dogfish sharks, the cookiecutter shark is aplacental viviparous, with the developing embryos being sustained by yolk until birth. Females have two functional uteri and give birth to litters of 6 to 12 pups. | 486 |
23657531 | The airport code for the landing strip was XBW.
Although the Inuit of Killiniq were recognized as a signatory to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in November 1975, this did not prevent a gradual deterioration in government services and programs at Killiniq. This decline created an insecure environment and gave rise to a slow outmigration of families in search of settlements with assured access to essential services, especially medical and air transport. Between November 1975 and February 1978, a total of 50 Inuit left Killiniq in search of a more secure environment. | 583 |
13078970 | "The main embankment would be 5810 feet long with crest elevation at 2780 feet and a maximum height of 140 feet. Dykes, 13,230 feet long and with a maximum height of 15 feet would also be required. Two diversion tunnels, one of which will later be converted to a low level outlet, are proposed to handle river flow during the construction period. A gated ogee crest spillway has been designed with a discharge capacity sufficient to route a 1:500 year flood through the reservoir. | 480 |
74832020 | | {{|William Chafin's estate: sale of settled estates in Dorset and Wiltshire for payment of portions, and other purposes.|private|23|08-05-1788|archived=n|An Act for Sale of Part of the Settled Estates of William Chafin Clerk, in the Counties of Dorset and Wilts, for paying certain Portions charged thereon; and for other Purposes. | 333 |
53820702 | Gokarna Bista () is a Nepalese politician and was Secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (UML). He served as Ministry of Energy under the prime minister Jhala Nath Khanal and is former Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security under KP Oli led cabinet. He was elected in the 2013 Nepalese Constituent Assembly election from Gulmi district constituency number 3. In April 2011, during his tenure as Ministry of Energy, he was stabbed by two motorcyclists. He became popular for revolutionary changes in power sector of Nepal. | 532 |
58855665 | Li Lianda (; 24 July 1934 – 18 October 2018) was a Chinese pharmacologist and paediatrician with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Zhejiang University.
Li was born on 24 July 1934 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. | 330 |
163213 | The LP and cassette keep the main art of the CD version, but in a different form. The double vinyl record version was not released in the US, but the imported British edition was available. The vinyl version features a large full-colour fold-out poster showing 126 picture sleeves (37 fewer than on the CD), and reproductions of the four Richard Avedon photos. The Avedon portraits also appear on the inside of the gate-fold cover. The records have custom labels featuring the same graphics as the front cover and are packaged in custom inner sleeves. | 551 |
61977157 | Previews for the Philadelphia try-out was delayed to December 2, 2003, with opening on December 10, 2003 due to delivery issues. Both productions were canceled following an announcement on November 13, 2003, due to lack of funds.
Atlanta and Los Angeles (2013, 2014)
After winning back the rights to the musical in 2005, Manilow and Sussman chose to run the musical at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. It ran from September 6, 2013, and closed on October 6, 2013. | 473 |
3820635 | On June 13, 2014, after failing to secure a tryout with any other NHL team, Aucoin signed a two-year deal with Swiss club, HC Ambrì-Piotta of the National League A. Aucoin enjoyed a successful debut season in Europe with Piotta, contributing with 31 points in 41 regular season games. Unable to progress to the playoffs, Aucoin left Switzerland after one season, to sign a one-year contract in Germany with EHC München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) on June 19, 2015. | 473 |
71895644 | William Miles was launched at Quebec in 1853, but immediately transferred her registry to Bristol. She made several voyages carrying migrants to Australia and New Zealand. She was wrecked in May 1868.
William Miles first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1854. She was sheathed in felt and yellow metal in 1854.
In 1855 William Miles carried some 260 emigrants from Scotland to Moreton Bay, in what is now Queensland. | 420 |
71498592 | Enda K. Hogan (born 1958) is an Irish former hurler. At club level he played with Kilruane MacDonaghs and was also a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team.
Hogan first played hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Kilruane MacDonaghs club. He was part of the club's under-21 team that won four consecutive Tipperary U21AHC titles. | 346 |
623271 | At the same time, the Court retained the power of judicial review established in Marbury v. Madison by declaring that it had the power to strike down laws that departed from those powers: "Should Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the Constitution, or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the Government, it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land." | 596 |
50612621 | The transfer of POPs from mother to fetus via the placenta is less than that of lactation but can still cause adverse effects. Fatty acids from the mother's plasma are transported either through diffusion or active transport through the placenta to be used in important processes such as brain development. Sources of fatty acids are mainly derived from blubber in seals, porpoises, and whales.
Lipophilic chemicals such as PCBs previously stored within the mother's fatty tissue can be transferred to the fetus via the circulatory fluid. | 538 |
47487656 | Tha Chang railway station (spelt 'Tha Shang' on signage) is a railway station located in Khao Than Subdistrict, Tha Chang District, Surat Thani. It is a class 2 railway station, located from Thon Buri railway station.
Local No. 445/446 Chumphon-Hat Yai Junction-Chumphon | 272 |
58216653 | Hiram Hawley and his son, Jim, own "The Wasp". They hire Scudder to captain the ship, and Eric as his first mate. However, they plan to destroy the ship in order to collect the insurance money. They ask Scudder to scuttle the ship on the rocks along the coast. When he doesn't go through with it, it is discovered that the Hawley's have hired another crewmember, Mike Burley, as a back-up. However, when Burley tries to run the ship onto the rocks, he is prevented by Eric. | 478 |
97528 | In particular, isoprene has been shown to protect against moderate heat stress (around 40 °C). It may also protect plants against large fluctuations in leaf temperature. Isoprene is incorporated into and helps stabilize cell membranes in response to heat stress.
Isoprene also confers resistance to reactive oxygen species. The amount of isoprene released from isoprene-emitting vegetation depends on leaf mass, leaf area, light (particularly photosynthetic photon flux density, or PPFD) and leaf temperature. | 509 |
38978504 | Women of Odisha's Jeypore village volunteer twice a month to clear out water hyacinth from the water bodies by forming a chain to "pull floating sections of water hyacinth prior to uprooting them". This has not only improved the water quality of the ponds and enabled villagers to engage in duck farming and fishing but also checked the reduction of soil fertility and spread of diseases, snakes, and poisonous insects. | 419 |
549355 | Haroom Kharem and Genevieve Collura were critical of the teaching practice, in a contribution to the 2010 book Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children. The authors wrote that using this teaching method was a form of disrespect for the truth. Kharem and Collura lament that rather than imparting truth to children, "a pedagogy of stupidification is promoted in which teachers imbue students with untruths and then wonder why education has problems. Sooner or later the fabrications we teach students will come to light and the respect educators expect from students will become disingenuous." | 590 |
56045881 | Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota
Queen Anne architecture in South Dakota | 106 |
192314 | At the center of the nuki there may be a supporting strut called , sometimes covered by a tablet carrying the name of the shrine (see photo in the gallery).
The pillars often rest on a white stone ring called or . The stone is sometimes replaced by a decorative black sleeve called .
At the top of the pillars there may be a decorative ring called .
The gate has a purely symbolic function and therefore there usually are no doors or board fences, but exceptions exist, as for example in the case of Ōmiwa Shrine's triple-arched torii (miwa torii, see below). | 562 |
67879022 | Member, Taskforce Europe. For services to EU Negotiations.
Christine Mary Reekie (Christine McLoughlin). Director, Children Services, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. For services to Children and Families.
Edward Stephen Rees. Vice President, Discovery Biology Department, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science and the Covid-19 Response.
Arlin John Rickard. Lately Chief Executive, Rivers Trust. For services to the Natural Environment.
Dr. Ian Arthur Robinson. Fellow in Electrical Metrology, National Physical Laboratory. | 532 |
68990761 | Dozens of students came to Tehran from Arak to demonstrate in front of the parliamentary building on 11 June 2000. They also prepared a petition with more than 700 signatures in support of Kargosha.
Afterwards, the Parliament rejected credentials of Hassan Moradi on 25 September 2000, preventing him from taking the seat. A reformist lawmaker told The Associated Press that they "could not ind plausible reasons for cancellation of the votes" and dismissed Moradi to "protect the votes of people". | 498 |
27340656 | In 2019, Stewart-Jarrett portrayed actor Steve Driver in the biographical film Mope and Johnny Edgecombe in the BBC One miniseries The Trial of Christine Keeler. He also had a recurring role in Four Weddings and a Funeral on Hulu and a small role in the family film The Kid Who Would Be King. This was followed in 2020 by roles in the film The Argument and the BBC series Dracula. | 380 |
55375676 | The Motya (or Mozia) Charioteer is a marble statue dating from the ancient Greek Classical Period. It was found in October 1979 in the ancient city of Motya (), originally a Phoenician settlement which occupied the island of San Pantaleo off the coast of Sicily. It is owned by, and on view in, the Museo Giuseppe Whitaker (inv. no. 4310) on the same island. | 358 |
4282831 | Teams were ranked by winning percentage in the first round, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the second round, where the teams from Pools A and B (in Pool 1) and the teams from Pools C and D (in Pool 2) competed against each other in another round-robin.
Teams were ranked by winning percentage in the second round, without regard to the results of the first round, with the top two teams from each pool entered a four-team single-elimination bracket, with the pool winners and runners-up from each pool facing each other in the semifinals. | 556 |
1023592 | Starsky & Hutch (1978, TV Series) as Jimmy Spenser
The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978, TV Movie) as Jordan Evanhower
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979, TV Movie) as Harley Moon
Top of the Hill (1980, TV Movie) as Dave Cully
Vega$ (1980, TV Series) as District Attorney Edward St. John
Hart to Hart (1983, TV Series) as Alex Carmen
Emergency Room (1983, TV Movie) as Dr. | 386 |
43484310 | Bishop Akakije and Efrosinija, hegumenia of the Novi Stjenik monastery, stated that the camp was organized by a model of similar camps in Russia, as well as scouting camps worldwide, that the children were taught outdoor survival skills and self-defense, and the shooting training was only one day of a 10-day course. The police and the public prosecutor of the city of Bor started an investigation of the case.
Is the Serbian True Orthodox Church schismatic? | 460 |
2208257 | Nath, Prof R.. India As Seen by William Finch (1608-11 A.D): (With an Introduction to Medieval Travelogue). N.p., Independently Published, 2020.
Sen Gupta, Subhadra. MAHAL: Power and Pageantry in the Mughal Harem. India, Hachette India, 2019.
Early Travels in India, 1583-1619. India, Alpha Editions, 2020. | 308 |
68391753 | Males of S. fraterculus, S. tahan and S. tenuis have a darker orange wash in the scrotal area than S. robinsoni, which is peach colored. | 136 |
19196631 | Hans Freudenthal and independently Heinz Hopf established in the 1940s the following two facts:
For any finitely generated group we have .
For any finitely generated group we have if and only if is virtually infinite cyclic (that is, contains an infinite cyclic subgroup of finite index).
Charles T. C. Wall proved in 1967 the following complementary fact:
A group is virtually infinite cyclic if and only if it has a finite normal subgroup such that is either infinite cyclic or infinite dihedral. | 507 |
1602035 | Yukiyo and Tsukiyo Yamazaki (山咲 雪代と月代 Yamazaki Yukiyo to Tsukiyo, 35) are a pair of sisters who are Tsuruhime's childhood friends and are of a ninja family. As a result, treating Tsuruhime as family, the three of them formed a Sukeban Deka-like group called the Punishment Sailor Sisters who put bullies in their place. | 319 |
19959763 | 1994 African Cup of Nations players
1998 African Cup of Nations players | 71 |
61799407 | Kim Commons (23 July 1951 — 23 June 2015) was an American chess International Master (IM) and Chess Olympiad winner.
In 1971, Kim Commons won California State Chess Championship, ahead of James Tarjan. In 1974, he tied with Peter Biyiasas for the American Open title. In 1976, he won three International Chess Tournaments in Bulgaria: Varna, Plovdiv and Primorsko. | 364 |
11474345 | In November that year there were rumors that the ship was to be sold to Shannon SA, of Panama, but this did not happen. Oceanic Independence remained laid up and was renamed Sea Luck I for a short time but soon after renamed Oceanic Independence once more.
As they were no longer American-flagged ships, C.Y. Tung was not able to operate them within American waters. In 1979, however, both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives approved their return to the States. In 1980 C.Y. | 484 |
100197 | Directly across from Jackson Square is the Jax Brewery building, the original home of a local beer. After the company ceased to operate independently, the building was converted for use by retail businesses, including restaurants and specialty shops. In recent years, some retail space has been converted into riverfront condominiums. Behind the Jax Brewery lies the Toulouse Street Wharf, the regular pier for the excursion steamboat, Natchez.
From the 1920s through the 1980s, Jackson Square became known for attracting painters, young art students, and caricaturists. | 570 |
14292853 | Steven James Alley (born December 29, 1953) is an American former professional ice hockey player who played 105 games in the World Hockey Association for the Birmingham Bulls between 1977 and 1979. He was a member of the famed "Gasline" who led Birmingham into the playoffs in 1978. He became the property of the Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League after the WHA merged with the NHL in 1979, and made a further 18 NHL appearances in 1979–1981 before retiring from pro hockey. | 486 |
57937489 | Performance was in keeping with the price demanded: in 1913 the famed racing driver Ray Gilhooley lapped the Indianapolis Brickyard oval in 1 minute 52 seconds, six seconds faster than the average of that year's “500” winner, at the wheel of a stock-bodied 1912 Tipo KM complete with windshield, spare tires and fenders, and with four passengers aboard.
Timeline of most powerful production cars | 396 |
370939 | An expanded archive of selected factual and entertainment output from Grampian Television continues to be uploaded to the STV Player's YouTube channel.
Television channels and stations established in 1961 | 204 |
8382864 | 1867 Studii sulle Cocciniglie. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali. Milano 3: 1-87.
1868 (separate), 1869. Introduzione alla seconda memoria per gli studi sulle cocciniglie, e catalogo dei generi e delle specie della famiglia dei coccidi. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 11: 721-738. | 315 |
214028 | This may have been because Canaletto's nephew, Bernardo Bellotto, was also using his uncle's nickname; or more likely because the story had been spread by unscrupulous art dealers who had been passing off copies of Canaletto's own work and were anxious to see him return to Venice. Historian Michael Levey described his work from this period as "inhibited".
In order to refute this claim the artist, through an advertisement in a newspaper, invited "any Gentleman" to inspect his latest painting of St. | 502 |
36029170 | Have high levels of flocculation and lees compaction that makes racking, fining and filtering of the wine easier.
Inoculated (or pure cultured) yeasts are strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that have been identified and plated from wineries across the world (including notable producers from well-known wine regions such as Bordeaux, Burgundy, Napa Valley and the Barossa Valley). These strains are tested in laboratories to determine a strain's vigor, sulfur dioxide and alcohol tolerance, production levels of acetic acid and sulfur compounds, | 546 |
4305150 | United Arab Emirates One Day International cricketers
Pakistani emigrants to the United Arab Emirates
Pakistani expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates | 163 |
216810 | Comedians were satirised: Billy Connolly was portrayed as a jester; Jimmy Tarbuck was said to use old jokes and always take part in the Royal Variety Performance; Bernard Manning was an obese racist; and Ben Elton was always shown with a microphone.
Writer and MP Jeffrey Archer appeared as an annoying, self-commenting writer whose books were not read by anyone. Kenneth Williams was depicted with a large nose and big teeth, and Harry Secombe was depicted as overly religious. Alan Bennett was shown at home as watching Spitting Image on TV. | 543 |
63865629 | Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Directors of the National Cadet Corps | 129 |
38521825 | 1 chart topping singles including "What A Song Should Do", and "No Truck Song".
At the age of six, Hicks started taking music lessons at the Ontario Conservatory of Music in Niagara Falls. Tim is married to Amanda Hicks, and they have 2 children. Tim Hicks currently splits his time between Nashville and his hometown in Ontario.
In 2002, Hicks graduated from the University of Waterloo with a bachelor's in Psychology. During his time at the University of Waterloo, Hicks spent his spare time playing at open mic nights across the Waterloo Region. | 548 |
35002280 | Also, due to discrepancies in the source regarding the population of each of Kohistan's Tehsils (when the Tehsils are added one person is missing), a different and more up to date source is used for the districts covering the Kohistan region.
G. In 2017 Kurram District was not a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but was an agency in FATA.
H. In 2017 Lakki Marwat District was split into both the "Frontier Region Lakki Marwat" (a part of FATA) and "Lakki Marwat District". | 475 |
16761282 | Dolenje Kamenje (, in older sources Dolenje Kamnje, ) is a small settlement in the hills north of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia. The entire City Municipality of Novo Mesto lies in the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
Populated places in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto | 348 |
3596149 | Coelognathus radiatus, commonly known as the radiated ratsnake, copperhead rat snake, or copper-headed trinket snake, is a nonvenomous species of colubrid snake.
These snakes are usually defensive in nature which makes it hard to catch or control them. | 252 |
44822 | The film, one of Visconti's better-known works, concerns a German industrialist's family which begins to disintegrate during the Nazi consolidation of power in the 1930s. The film opened to widespread critical acclaim, but also faced controversy from ratings boards for its sexual content, including depictions of homosexuality, pedophilia, rape, and incest. In the United States, the film was given an X rating. The avant-garde filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder praised it as his favorite movie. | 497 |
25283756 | Mary was dismayed by this proceeding, and deputed Thomas Ken to persuade the count to keep his word and marry the lady. Ken prevailed on the count, and himself performed the wedding ceremony secretly in Mary's chapel while the prince was absent hunting. William was angry, and Ken had temporarily to withdraw from The Hague. The couple became the parents of at least two sons.
William Hendrick's later years were passed in comparative seclusion, for the most part in the Dutch Republic, where William visited him in 1697. | 521 |
1132360 | The historic industrial town of Chelsea on the north bank of the River Thames about west of Westminster, and the rich farming village of Battersea, facing Chelsea on the south bank, were linked by the modest wooden Battersea Bridge in 1771. In 1842 the Commission of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues recommended the construction of an embankment at Chelsea to free land for development, and proposed a new bridge downstream of Battersea Bridge, and the replacement of the latter by a more modern structure. | 508 |
491375 | His compositions often incorporate audiovisual elements; use instruments constructed from organic materials, such as paper, water, and stone; and are often inspired by traditional Chinese theatrical and ritual performance. In 2013, he was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
Tan Dun was born in 1957 in a village in Changsha in Hunan, China. As a child, he was fascinated by the rituals and ceremonies of the village shaman, which were typically set to music made with natural objects such as rocks and water. | 509 |
20853174 | as cutaneous cannabinoid (“c[ut]annabinoid”) signaling is deeply involved in the maintenance of skin homeostasis, barrier formation and regeneration, and its dysregulation is implicated to contribute to several diseases and disorders, e.g. atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, scleroderma, acne, hair growth and pigmentation disorders, keratin diseases, various tumors, and itch, as the endocannabinoids (eCBs; e.g. NAE 20:4; AEA), the eCB-responsive receptors (e.g. CB1, CB2), | 470 |
429014 | In the Tang dynasty (618–907), the imperial court established a granary in today's Laoliangcang Town. Buddhism was introduced into Ningxiang some time in the 9th century. According to Wu Deng Hui Yuan (), in 806, the prime minister Pei Xiu submitted a written statement to the imperial court, which was approved to found the Miyin Temple at the foot of Mount Wei. | 363 |
38444079 | As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.
Belaïd was born in the town of Djebel Jelloud in Tunisia on 26 November 1964. He was a student activist in the 1980s. He worked as a lawyer and was also part of the defence team of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein during his trial for crimes against humanity. | 453 |
25728235 | Mediterranean waters are not as deep as the large oceans, allowing it to become a heat storage tempering winters along its coastlines, but because the Atlantic Ocean is largely influenced by the gulf stream, this effect is reduced when compared to that of the Atlantic waters. The Gulf Stream is nicknamed "Europe's central heating", because it makes Europe's climate warmer and wetter than it would otherwise be.
Compared to areas located in the higher middle latitudes, parts of western Europe have mild winters and higher annual temperatures (though summers are cooler than locations at the same latitude). | 609 |
68849413 | The Battle of Quramati is a battle that took place on the east of the Euphrates River between the Egyptian army and the Babylonian army. The battle ended with the defeat of the Babylonians.
When the Assyrian capital Nineveh was overrun by the Medes, Scythians, Babylonians and their allies in 612 BC, the Assyrians moved their capital to Harran. | 345 |
24540363 | Many of the carriages suffered damage to their end verandah in the accident. The verandah of the leading carriage of the train hauled by No. 20 had the tender of the locomotive ride up upon it.
The repair of No. 20 was carried out by the SDG at its Oberwiesenthal workshops. The tender was rebuilt by SDGs parent company BVO in Marienberg. Repairs to the boiler were carried out by Interlok, Piła, Poland. Repairs to No. 20 included new tender frames and replacement of a section of the boiler. | 495 |
64498437 | The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Nevada, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the Nevada gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, elections to the U.S. Senate, and various state and local elections. | 420 |
19920359 | Marijuana, or marihuana, is a name for the cannabis plant and more specifically a drug preparation from it. "Marijuana" as a term varies in usage, definition and legal application around the world. Some jurisdictions define "marijuana" as the whole cannabis plant or any part of it, while others refer to "marijuana" as a portion of the cannabis plant that contains high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Some jurisdictions recognize "marijuana" as a distinctive strain of cannabis, the other being hemp. | 510 |
7530415 | He resumed the practice of law in Waynesburg and served as a trustee of Waynesburg College from 1902 until his death. He was elected president judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1915 and served until 1926. He declined to be a candidate for reelection, and again resumed the practice of law in Waynesburg, where he died in 1928. Interment in Greenmont Cemetery. | 389 |
12440801 | The snowy cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus) is a medium-sized species of passerine bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Central America where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forests. The male is white and the female pale grey and both sexes are readily recognisable.
The adult snowy cotinga is about long and is a plump bird with a smallish head. The male is very conspicuous and is entirely white, apart from a slight bluish-grey tinge on head and back. | 527 |
455379 | The Epicureans and the Cynics eschewed public offices and civic service, which amounted to a rejection of the polis itself, the defining institution of the Greek world. Epicurus promoted atomism and an asceticism based on freedom from pain as its ultimate goal. The Cyrenaics and Epicureans embraced hedonism, arguing that pleasure was the only true good. Cynics such as Diogenes of Sinope rejected all material possessions and social conventions (nomos) as unnatural and useless. | 480 |
1584740 | Jackson, Gen Sir William, History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series: The Mediterranean and Middle East, Vol VI: Victory in the Mediterranean, Part I|: June to October 1944, London: HM Stationery Office, 1987/Uckfield, Naval & Military Press, 2004, .
Keeson, Maj C.A. Cuthbert The History and Records of Queen Victoria's Rifles 1792–1922, London: Constable, 1923/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2002, . | 426 |
50592481 | Similarly, the Commission called for ten percent of funds from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the same purpose.
Recommendations from A National Blueprint for Biodefense
The National Blueprint for Biodefense laid out 33 recommendations and 87 associated action items. The primary actions the U.S. | 336 |
4193 | The leading prey species here were Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula) and Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius), albeit largely fledglings were taken of both. Birds could also take the leading position in years with low vole populations in southern Norway, in particular thrushes, namely the blackbird, the song thrush (Turdus philomelos) and the redwing (Turdus iliacus), which were collectively 22.1% of 244 prey items in 1993. | 432 |
2100934 | Markus Oscarsson (born 9 May 1977 in Västerås) is a Swedish sprint kayaker who has competed since 1995. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a gold in 2004 and a silver in 2000.
Oscarsson won two silver medals at the 1995 World Junior Championships in Yamanashi, Japan, finishing behind Hungary's Zoltan Kammerer in both the K-1 500 m and K-1 1000 m finals. | 402 |
8526050 | Kyle Petty (now with NASCAR on NBC)
Marty Snider (now with NASCAR on NBC)
Larry McReynolds (now with Fox NASCAR)
Bill Weber (now an illusionist in Florida)
Phil Parsons (now with Fox NASCAR)
Lindsay Czarniak (now with Fox NASCAR, | 229 |
4616881 | As a matter of fact, the shoe store's owner, Zamiel Moloch happens to be a demon in disguise. He would eventually prevent Ernest's sportsmanship with the basketball players by luring Ernest to arrogance, and Ernest's love interest, Erma Terradiddle, a formerly shy girl into a money-hungry vamp, all in an effort to gain Quincy the son the lead player.
When an injury to a key player leaves the team desperate for a replacement, Ernest is given an opportunity to play. | 468 |
34544123 | He was treated by orthopaedic surgeons at the renowned Bumrungrad Hospital and regained the use of his right hand within a year.
Although Sultan attempted to file criminal charges against Hazari and his attackers, local police refused to investigate or even accept the complaint until forced to do so by a court order. Hazari denied any involvement in the attack. Following a change of government in late 2001, the police began to investigate the attack. On 16 April 2003, twenty-eight months after the original attack, Hazari and twelve other men were charged. | 561 |
1450104 | It sees the emergence of a more melodic sound than before, and leanings away from previous "drone" inclinations and towards more traditional metal elements, predominantly in the heavier sections. It was also their most commercially successful release, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.
Isis were the opening act for Tool's late 2006 North American tour in support of their new album, 10,000 Days. This led to increased exposure for the band; however, the band members are not particularly comfortable with fame, and tend to keep their affairs private. | 578 |
7114191 | Belmonte is a municipality (município), in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The name of the mayor is Genesio Bressain. It is located at 26º50'29" S, 53º34'32 W, and as of 2020 it has an estimated population of 2,709 inhabitants. | 234 |
355582 | In October 1572, after having concluded alliances with his rivals to the east (the Later Hōjō clan of Odawara and the Satomi clan of Awa), and after waiting for the snow to close off the northern mountain passes against his northern rival, Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen led an army of 30,000 men south from his capital of Kōfu into Tōtōmi Province, while Yamagata Masakage led a second force of 5,000 men into eastern Mikawa Province. | 435 |
54810457 | From February 2019, the Principal was Craig Dyche-Nichols. He was replaced by Wendy Banks in 2021.
Expansion of the school to a second site
From September 2019, Al Salam Private School became exclusively Primary for two years. The Secondary school relocated to Al Twar 2, just from the current site. The new site is a purpose built and houses an additional new Primary school. Both of these new schools will be collectively known as Al Salam Community School. | 463 |
2032177 | Sonata Arctica's fourth studio album Reckoning Night contains the song "My Selene" composed and written by Liimatainen. Liimatainen was fired from Sonata Arctica due to conscription ambiguities in May 2007.
Along with Sonata Arctica, Liimatainen was a member of the Altaria band between 2001 and 2004. He can be heard on the band's Invitation and Divinity albums, of which Divinity has the songs "Unchain the Rain" and "Falling Again" composed and written by him. | 463 |
74656096 | AFF U-19 Youth Championship: Third place: 2022
International U-19 Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup: 2022 | 97 |
1098055 | Federalist Society 1986 National Student Symposium: Address by Milton Friedman (Ely speaks beginning at 9:12 until 12:15)
John Hart Ely Papers (MS 1976). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. | 205 |
27559239 | Longtan Lake or Longtan Tourist Pond () is a lake in Shanglin Village, Longtan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The lake is known for the Buddhist temple in the centre of the lake.
The lake was originally built for irrigation. After the construction of a temple nearby and the suspension bridge, the lake turned into a major tourist attraction in 1971.
The lake spans over an area of 18 hectares. | 395 |
12363360 | There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Dawson, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2007.
The Dawson Baronetcy, of Edgwarebury in the parish of Edgware in the County of Middlesex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 February 1920 for the armaments manufacturer Trevor Dawson. He was Managing Director of Vickers. | 401 |
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