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35625354 | The South American qualification tournament for the 2012 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from May 9 to May 13, 2012.
Ginásio Milton Olaio Filho, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil | 190 |
12560971 | Sweeney Jerome Young (born 24 March 1989) is an Australian actor known for his role as Riley Parker in the soap opera Neighbours.
Young grew up in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. He graduated from University High School in 2006.
Young played Riley Parker in the long-running soap opera, Neighbours for 111 episodes. He has been on-screen in Australia since 22 August 2007. His on-screen family includes mother Miranda (Nikki Coghill), father Steve (Steve Bastoni) and sister Bridget (Eloise Mignon). | 502 |
27651043 | , while observing the "remarkable straight boundaries that we interpret as evidence of structural control", refrained from calling this structure a fault. (Their model of the Black Hills Uplift is analogous with their "wedge" model of the Seattle Uplift, discussed above, but in the opposite direction. If entirely analogous, then "roof duplex" might also apply, and the Olympia Fault would be a reverse fault similar to the Tacoma Fault.) | 439 |
106130 | Background: The fall of Edessa, Preparations
After the First Crusade and the minor Crusade of 1101, there were three crusader states established in the east: the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch and the County of Edessa. A fourth, the County of Tripoli, was established in 1109. | 296 |
2942304 | Similarly, in his instrumental music Sixten is anxious to communicate by making music which “sounds good”, even though the harmonies can be challenging and the music can take unexpected turns. He does not wish to be regarded as “traditional” or “modern”, but rather as a synthesis of the two. | 292 |
1040913 | In 1973 Martin Sharp and Peter Kingston undertook repainting works on the Park in the Pop Art Style which included a new expression on the entrance face which was repainted with a clown-like mask offset by strong primary colours. By 1975, Luna Park was operating on a week-to-week lease with plans to develop the Lavender Bay foreshores as a "Tivoli Gardens".
When Luna Park's lease expired in 1975, the directors went into negotiation with the New South Wales government to renew it. However, when Neville Wran became Premier in 1976 the negotiations ground to a halt. | 569 |
3085200 | In the film, Miss Trunchbull showcases her Olympian strength when she "hammer-throws" a girl named Amanda Thripp by her hair (after being told never to wear her hair in pigtails again), sending the child several hundred feet into the air. Amanda miraculously landed softly in a field of blooming wildflowers; she subsequently gathered a bouquet for herself, shook off the dirt and waved back at the rest of the students, who were all cheering in her support. | 458 |
37707638 | Poe placed third in the presidential race count. In May 2019, Poe was reelected as senator, with over 22 million votes.
Poe was found on September 3, 1968, in Iloilo City by a woman, in the holy water font of Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral, the main church of the city.
When the infant was discovered, the parish priest named her "Grace" in the belief that her finding was through the grace of God; she was christened by Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of Jaro, who would later become Archbishop of Manila. | 497 |
65232771 | Aubrey came to read a copy of Ivie’s Appeal to Cromwell and said it contained “As much baudry and beastliness as can be imagined”. Lady Ivie had, earlier, tried to extract matrimonial compensation from the family of her first husband. When she was just 20 years old she petitioned (through her father John Stepkin) the House of Lords following the death of her husband George Garrett. Ivie claimed her husband’s family had promised her an estate for her widowhood. She failed, though her infant son was granted an annuity. | 525 |
60413 | Numerous artifacts of Indus Valley civilization origin have been found in Susa from this period, especially seals and etched carnelian beads, pointing to Indus-Mesopotamia relations during this period.
Middle Elamite period (c. 1500–1100 BC)
Around 1500 BC, the Middle Elamite period began with the rise of the Anshanite dynasties. | 331 |
55286755 | †Monoclimacis griestoniensis – or unidentified related form
†Monograptus argutus – or unidentified comparable form
†Monograptus decipiens – or unidentified comparable | 168 |
1453661 | Official website of the airport museum
Former Soviet military air bases in East Germany | 87 |
17785123 | A general charge by warriors further back- under their Braffos or commanders, then ensued, with sword, club and battle-axe brought to bear on the opposing side. In either of these configurations war leaders seem to have had little consistent means of controlling troop movement once the fray was joined. By contrast, the forces of some other tropical states were better organized. In the Kongo region (present day Angola), troops were divided into companies and regiments, each with their own unique insignia. Designated field commanders controlled troop movement with signals from drums, bells and elephant tusk horns. | 619 |
2494806 | Tiffee had 351 at bats with Triple-A Las Vegas and was batting .376 with 8 home runs, 36 doubles, and 61 Runs batted in when he was announced as a member of the U.S. Olympic Baseball Team.
Tiffee met his wife, Kelli, in Liberal, Kansas where he was playing fall league. They have a daughter and twin sons.
Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics | 350 |
16029582 | Defense Technology Security Administration, see Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs
Defend Trade Secrets Act, a United States federal law relating to trade secrets | 188 |
635100 | The council is based at Appletree Court on Beaulieu Road in Lyndhurst. The oldest part of the building was originally a large house, which was purchased in 1954 to become the offices of the New Forest Rural District Council. | 224 |
18970269 | Niewiesz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Poddębice, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Poddębice and west of the regional capital Łódź. | 222 |
6379942 | Things were rosy until Josh became bored with married life and started an affair with Julie-Ann Jones (Chloe Howman), the daughter of Black Swann owner Pete Callan (David Easter) and eventually left Yasmin to move to Greece with Julie-Ann in March 2000, breaking Yasmin's heart. Josh returned to Charnham months later, and was upset to discover that Yasmin had moved on with his best friend Declan Byrne (Quentin Jones). Despite this, Josh pursued Yasmin and the two reconciled. | 478 |
8354338 | Social Policy: Very early in his career, Crichton-Browne stressed the importance of psychiatric disorders in childhood and, much later, he was to emphasise the distinction between organic and functional illness in the elderly. He was considered an expert in many aspects of psychological medicine, public health and social reform. He supported a campaign for the open-air treatment of tuberculosis, housing and sanitary reform, and a practical approach to sexually transmitted diseases. He condemned the corporal punishment of children. | 536 |
277259 | If enough icicles form on an object, such as a wire, beam, or pole, the weight of the ice can severely damage the structural integrity of the object and may cause the object to break. This can also happen with roofs, where failure can damage nearby parked vehicles or the contents and occupants of the structure. Icicles on roofs can also be associated with ice dams, which can cause water damage as the water penetrates below the shingles.
The story of an English youth killed by a falling icicle in 1776 has often been recounted. | 531 |
6513745 | A Game Boy version was released in 1998, developed by Torus Games and published by GT Interactive, which revolved around the boys trying to join Todd's gang.
Reviewing the Genesis version, GamePro commented that "Beavis and Butt-Head is for gamers who possess both thumb speed and the patience to undertake a lengthy junk hunt to crack obscure puzzles." They criticized the extensive trial-and-error involved in obtaining items, but praised the controls and the visual style's coherence with the look of the TV show. | 516 |
15559466 | The exploitable vulnerability exposed millions of accounts to tampering between August 7 and 31, 2001.
In 2004, Google announced its own mail service, Gmail. Featuring greater storage space, speed, and interface flexibility, this new competitor spurred a wave of innovation in webmail. The main industry heavyweights – Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail – introduced upgraded versions of their email services with greater speed, security, and advanced features. | 450 |
3883042 | Royal Air Force Debden or more simply RAF Debden is a former Royal Air Force station located southeast of Saffron Walden and approximately north of the village of Debden in north Essex, England
The airfield was opened in April 1937 and was first used by the Royal Air Force. One of Debden's early and most bizarre experiences was when the airfield was chosen as a location for the film "It's in the Air" in which George Formby was to pilot a Hawker Fury through Hangar No. 3. | 477 |
2616474 | Hilton Als, in The New Yorker, wrote about the play : "...is less about what happens than about how it happens—which, in the theatre, means how it’s said. Mommy and Daddy speak in rhythmic banalities. Greeting a guest named Mrs. Barker, Mommy asks, progressively, if she’d like a smoke, a drink, to cross her legs, and to remove her dress. Mrs. Barker responds to each inquiry in the same way: 'I don’t mind if I do.' | 417 |
12788414 | This brand debuted at the same time as the famous Scalextric line and shares with Scalextric the honor of being the first modern manufactured slot-car system.
Slot car - Technical information and history of the hobby
Slot car racing - The competitive hobby, organizations, etc. | 279 |
32810364 | The first cast there was Marian Seldes, Joy Behar, Katie Finneran, Heather Burns and Lucy DeVito Other participants in the original readings included Tyne Daly (who created the narrator character, Gingy, for the New York Production), Rosie O'Donnell, Samantha Bee, Rondi Reed, America Ferrera, Debi Mazar, Marlo Thomas, Blythe Danner, Christine Lahti, Parker Posey, Julie White, Kelly Bishop, Sarah Jones, Veanne Cox and Kristen Wiig.
February 2, 2009: Marian Seldes, Joy Behar, | 479 |
1185578 | O'Nofrio served as acting capo of the "Mulberry Street crew" in Manhattan's Little Italy and acting capo of the "Springfield, Massachusetts, crew". In 2016 Onofrio was indicted along with Genovese family capo's Pasquale Parrello and Conrad Ianniello and Philadelphia family boss Joseph Merlino and Springfield gangsters Ralph Santaniello and Francesco Depergola and 40 other mobsters on gambling and extortion charges.
Carmine "Baby Carmine" Russo - soldier. | 458 |
339396 | Dominated convergence theorem – provides sufficient conditions under which two limit processes commute, namely Lebesgue integration and almost everywhere convergence of a sequence of functions. | 193 |
35891038 | On November 14, Hino received a rematch for the Strongest-K Championship, but was unable to dethrone the defending champion, Kazma.
Hino started off 2010 by teaming with Shiori Asahi to win the Kaientai Dojo Tag League, defeating the team of Daigoro Kashiwa and Kengo Mashimo in the finals. On March 17, Hino and Saburo Inematsu defeated Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu to win the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship. | 412 |
74866018 | Because coal is used in the production of iron products, the tariffs and Clay's advocacy for it was well received in Pennsylvania, as it benefitted the state's anthracite coal industry. This was especially true in the city of Pottsville, which was located in Pennsylvania's Coal Region and was a center of anthracite-mining. Clay died on July 29, 1852, and in Pennsylvania, he was memorialized as the namesake of a coal mine near Shamokin, and with the naming of the borough of Ashland, which is the name of Clay's estate in Kentucky. | 534 |
2962163 | The earliest and most celebrated building on the square, the Baroque white-and-turquoise Winter Palace (as re-built between 1754 and 1762) of the Russian tsars, gives the square its name. Although the adjacent buildings are designed in the Neoclassical style, they perfectly match the palace in their scale, rhythm, and monumentality.
The opposite, southern side of the square was designed in the shape of an arc by George von Velten in the late 18th century. | 459 |
99619 | Nc3 d6 (B50), 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 d6 (B54, B56, B94–B99))
B30 Sicilian Defence, 2.Nf3 Nc6 (without 3.Bb5 g6 (B31) 3.Bb5 d6 (B51))
B31 Sicilian, Nimzovich–Rossolimo Attack, 3.Bb5 g6 | 177 |
44814950 | Lenin Delsol penciled the adaptations of both films as well as some of the early issues, but presumably he got tied up with other works as three issues were credited as "guest-penciled by Doug Murphy." Neil Vokes agreed to come to work for NOW Comics with the proviso he be allowed to work on Fright Night, which he's cited as a favorite film, but he became disenchanted with the work environment and eventually quit. | 418 |
13973731 | Nazam-ud-Daulah was the son of Munni Begum (noble) and Mir Jafar.
Nazam-ud-Daulah was appointed as Mir Jafar's heir with the title of Murshidzada Bahadur, by Mir Jafar himself on 29 January 1764. | 195 |
24771248 | Van Hoestenberghe's responses of April and May 1875 to Mgr Faict, which were lost during the canonical inquiry, are found again in 1956 and published in 1957. In the second of these responses, Dr. Van Hoestenberghe (who, as we saw, would report to the Commission of 1907–08 that he had examined the injured leg ten or twelve times, the last time three or four months before the pilgrimage) says he saw the leg only once, more than three years before the pilgrimage. | 465 |
36469856 | a method which mitigates Internet tracking by screen size
Letterboxd, a social networking site for films
Party Time (TV series), an Australian game show | 152 |
1936150 | Short routes connecting state highways from other states to routes in Missouri
Supplemental routes make up (59%) of the state highway system.
Prior to 1907, all road improvement activities in Missouri were undertaken by the individual counties, with little expertise or coordination between them. Amid growing automobile presence and insufficient road networks in Missouri in the ensuing years, the state legislature created a state highway department and the state highway commission as well as enacted various laws aimed at improving transportation in the state. | 565 |
16488580 | 22 July – Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player (d. 2017)
17 August – Jean-Jacques Sempé, cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) (d. 2022)
18 August – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2022)
19 August - Jacques Lob, comic book creator (d. 1990)
25 August - Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario (d. | 354 |
1823131 | -long eight-lane upgrade of the Pacific Motorway between Loganholme and Gaven, and six lanes including various interchange and service centre upgrades as well as heralding Queensland's first alphanumeric route number, M1, officially commissioned by Premier Peter Beattie and Minister for Main Roads Steve Bredhauer on 6 October 2000 at a completed cost of A$850m.
June 2008 – Tugun Bypass. Features a tunnel. Crosses the state border.
2012 – Nerang to Worongary Upgrade. | 472 |
373211 | The line was electrified between Balham and Crystal Palace on 12 May 1911, using the LBSCR overhead system, in time for the Festival of Empire coinciding with the coronation of King George V. Electric trains from Victoria were advertised to complete the journey in fifteen minutes – a running time that has never been equalled.
The station is built on the junction of two lines: the original station platforms lying on the Sydenham route, and the later platforms on the southern spur to Norwood Junction and Beckenham Junction. | 527 |
53594192 | و اسألی ان جهلت عنا و عنکم کیف کنا فی سالف الاحقاب
اذ نربی بناتنا و تدسو نَ سفاهاً بناتکم فی التراب
I have many uncles and cousins, all of whom are noble, generous, and pure. | 176 |
67482 | Dubal, David (2003), The Essential Canon of Classical Music, North Point Press, .
Gilliam, Bryan (1999). The Life of Richard Strauss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
Kennedy, Michael. "Richard Strauss", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. London, Macmillan Publishers, 1998. | 320 |
32008528 | This is a list of films produced in Sweden and in the Swedish language in the 2010s.
Swedish film at the Internet Movie Database | 129 |
48068 | Ravel, together with his close friend and confidante Misia Edwards and the opera star Lucienne Bréval, contributed to a modest regular income for the deserted Lilly Debussy, a fact that Nichols suggests may have rankled with her husband.
During the first years of the new century Ravel made five attempts to win France's most prestigious prize for young composers, the Prix de Rome, past winners of which included Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet and Debussy. | 459 |
39552038 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1975 Ethiopia ratified the convention as one of the first countries on July 6, 1977, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list.
Sites in Ethiopia were first inscribed on the list at the 2nd Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Washington, D.C. in 1978. | 510 |
7292870 | 298 Songs interpolated include "He Wanted Something to Play With" (sung by Powers) and "Honey does you love yer man?" sung by Flora Irwin in blackface. A few notices of the show indicate that new songs were interpolated with frequency.Gentleman Joe was Hood's first full-scale musical comedy, and its success prompted him to leave the military to concentrate on his writing. | 375 |
12026378 | Styrði [k]nærri, kvam hann Grikkia. Hæfniʀ, hæima do ... ... hiogg(?) ru[n]aʀ(?) ...
§P "Ljótr the captain erected this stone in memory of his sons. He who perished abroad was called Áki. (He) steered a cargo-ship; he came to Greek harbours; died at home ... ... cut the runes ..."
§Q "Ljótr the captain erected this stone in memory of his sons. | 347 |
7921270 | Better known to the Pagan community by his Wiccan name, Kerr Cuhulain, Ennis was the first Wiccan police officer to go public about his beliefs. He is the former Preceptor General of Officers of Avalon, a non-profit benevolent association for Pagan and Wiccan law enforcement, firefighting and emergency medical personnel and their families. He is a frequent contributor to The Witches' Voice networking website, and has applied his abilities as an investigative journalist to the histories of several controversial individuals in the Neo-Pagan and New Age communities, such as John Todd and Michael Warnke. | 607 |
2648534 | Carrère and Hastings’s design carefully combines a fine French style inspired by Parisian townhouses of the Louis XV and Louis XVI period with English elements of a later era. Among the more important works designed by the firm are the Manhattan Bridge in New York City (1905), the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C., the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. the Frick Residence in New York City, the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, and the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.
Crossing the threshold, visitors enter the foyer. | 560 |
1147465 | "Pretty Deep" featured "Spaghetti", "Morna", "These Days" and "Influenza". "The Bright Light" featured "Bury My Heart", "How Can You Sleep?", "Life On Sirius" and "Moon Over Boston". A music video for each single was produced and aired on Vh1 and MTV2. Both videos differed highly in creative and artistic direction from previous Belly videos and exclusively featured Tanya solo, in movie like settings. "Pretty Deep" and "The Bright Light" enjoyed heavy airplay on Triple A radio stations in the U.S Northeast. | 511 |
2568921 | There were 183 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 59.0% of the workforce.
there were a total of 2,069 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 46, of which 42 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,024 of which 879 or (85.8%) were in manufacturing and 81 (7.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 999. | 500 |
7908618 | and "While we've not agreed on everything, particularly at a local level, he has made a significant contribution to higher education in Scotland."
Von Prondzynski was author of a blog and a weekly column in the Irish Times newspaper. In his blog and elsewhere he described the benefits of immigration, the risks to universities caused by the failure of the Irish Department of Education and Science to prioritise higher education, and the need to recover civility and courtesy in society. | 488 |
18488401 | Phillips Idowu (born 1978), British athlete
Saheed Idowu (born 1990), Congolese table tennis player
Yemi Idowu (born 1968), Nigerian businessperson
Idowu Philips (born 1942), Nigerian actress | 191 |
20111258 | Further, under Cui's recommendation, his friend Yuan Xiu (元琇, note different characters than Cui's uncle) was put in charge of the salt, iron, and wine monopolies, while Ji Zhongfu (吉中孚) was put in charge of the collected taxes.
Han Huang, the military governor (Jiedushi) of Zhenhai Circuit (鎮海, headquartered in modern Zhenjiang), on whom the imperial government relied on for food supplies at the time since there was a major famine in the Chang'an region, however, opposed these changes. | 491 |
8458425 | School districts in Sullivan County, New York
1925 establishments in New York (state) | 85 |
1426304 | In 1796, he entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; a year later he gained his commission in the Royal Artillery, and he was transferred to the Royal Engineers in 1798.
He was present in the defence of Gata, the Battle of Maida, and the siege of Copenhagen. In 1807, then a captain, he went to the Iberian Peninsula, where his knowledge of the Spanish language led to his employment on the staff of Sir David Baird and Sir John Moore. | 443 |
65858803 | She attempted to return to her previous job, but was told she was no longer needed. Instead she began working for the Ministry for Municipalities, Environment and Hydraulics, where she claims she was put in an empty office and not given any tasks.
In 2005 she was arrested after criticising the trial of 31 Islamists for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government, and was sentenced to eighteen months in prison. After appealing to the Court of Appeal, her sentence was reduced to six months. After her release she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. | 559 |
1646900 | Traditional styles of wrestling exist in most cultures; wrestling can be considered a cultural universal. Boxing contests date back to ancient Sumer in the 3rd millennium BCE and ancient Egypt circa 1350 BCE. The ancient Olympic Games included several combat-related sports: armored foot races, boxing, wrestling, and pankration, which was introduced in the Olympic Games of 648 BCE.
In ancient China, combat sport appeared in the form of lei tai. It was a no-holds barred combat sport that combined boxing and wrestling. There is evidence of similar combat sports in ancient Egypt, India and Japan. | 599 |
1652870 | Her native kingdom is believed to be located in India.
There is a tomb in Gimhae, South Korea, that is believed to be hers, and a memorial in Ayodhya, India built in 2020.
The legend of Heo is found in Garakguk-gi (the Record of Garak Kingdom) which is currently lost, but referenced within the Samguk Yusa. According to the legend, Heo was a princess of the "Ayuta Kingdom". The extant records do not identify Ayuta except as a distant country. | 445 |
43937724 | Salinas, who only completed primary school, had the lowest educational level of all the deputies in the legislature.
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) | 160 |
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11794785 | Beaver Creek is a tributary of the Des Moines River that rises at the northern border of Boone County in the U.S. state of Iowa, and then flows generally south and southeast through western Boone County, northeastern Dallas County, and finally northwestern Polk County before flowing into the Des Moines River approximately a mile south of the Saylorville Reservoir in Polk County. In total, the main channel is approximately in length, and the watershed drains approximately . | 479 |
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11490867 | Godfrey knew the most efficient ways to use natural resources, like the falls, and the great pine forests, to make lumber products. Godfrey built the first home in St. Anthony, Steele had the town platted in 1849, and it incorporated in 1855.
Although St. Anthony was beginning to prosper, the west side of the Mississippi remained under the control of Fort Snelling. Late in 1849, Steele convinced his friend, John H. Stevens, to negotiate a deal to secure in present-day Minneapolis. | 486 |
54044038 | Semi-finalists were allocated into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests as determined by the contest's televoting partner Digame, with the aim of reducing the chance of neighbourly voting between countries while also increasing suspense during the voting process. On 29 January 2018, an allocation draw was held at Lisbon City Hall which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals and determined which half of the show they would perform in. Greece was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 8 May 2018, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show. | 612 |
62147737 | After the completion of electrification of the OEG Mannheim–Heidelberg–Weinheim–Mannheim triangular route in 1956, the two train services running to Weinheim were joined, with every second train continuing to Heidelberg, creating so-called "round trip" services. Normal train services were also joined in Heidelberg from 30 May 1965, so that all trains now ran on round trips except for additional peak-hour services. A round trip took 122 minutes. | 448 |
29564486 | The Elferrat (German for "council of eleven") is the council of a kingdom of fools in a carnival.
The Elferrat was originally introduced in the Rhine carnival reform in 1823 and has its roots in the region in Germany west of the Rhine, from France after the French Revolution. French became the language of trade, and French laws were in use. In connection with the revolution, this helped develop civil and political rights, with a level of freedom of speech and equality of citizens in front of the law. | 505 |
1077222 | Events from the year 1941 in Ireland.
2 January – three Carlow women are killed in a night of German bombing in parts of Leinster.
3 January – further German bombing of Dublin.
13 January – the poet and novelist James Joyce dies in Zürich.
24 January – part of the old State Chambers in Dublin Castle are destroyed by fire.
20 February – emergency Scientific Research Bureau set up to seek alternatives to raw materials in short supply. | 436 |
101142 | To build them, they used planks of driftwood pine that were sewn together with vegetable fiber cord, edge to edge, and then glued with the tar that was available either from the La Brea Tar Pits, or as asphalt that had washed up on shore from offshore oil seeps. The finished vessel was caulked with plant fibers and tar, stained with red ochre, and sealed with pine pitch. The te'aat, as noted by the Sebastián Vizcaíno expedition, could hold up to 20 people as well as their gear and trade goods. | 498 |
50247811 | In Brazil, the series airs on Gloobinho. In Spain, the series airs on Clan, tvG2, Super3, ETB 3 and À Punt. In Portugal, it airs on Canal Panda.
The series is also available for streaming on iTunes, Hulu, DreamWorks GO and YouTube. | 231 |
3546474 | The Carrabba's Italian Grill was launched in 1993. The company's international expansion began with the first Outback Steakhouse to open in Canada. Revenues for the company exceed $1 billion for the first time. In 1998 the first units of Roy's Restaurant, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, and Lee Roy Selmon's open. Cheeseburger in Paradise was launched several years later in 2002. | 389 |
60322640 | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Iyotetsu.
The station is served by the Takahama Line and is located 8.5 km from the opposing terminus of the line at . During most of the day, railway trains arrive every fifteen minutes. Trains continue from Matsuyama City Station on the Yokogawara Line to Yokogawara Station. The station is also served by the Ōtemachi Line tram line. | 479 |
1026131 | The ground was particularly wet and muddy and few troops reached the German trenches; the remaining British troops overran the front line, where German troops were able to emerge from shelters not mopped-up by the supporting battalions pinned down in no man's land by the German barrage and engage the British troops from behind.
The British bombardment cut much of the wire at Gommecourt and demolished many trenches, particularly in the area of Infantry Regiment 170 opposite the 56th (1/1st London) Division. | 511 |
23556869 | Micheletti also stated that this was no "military coup" since the military was following orders given by a civilian Supreme Court and Zelaya was replaced with a civilian from the line of succession prescribed in the Honduran Constitution.
The articles quoted below are from conservative outlets owned by the country's elite who supported Michletti.
Police confiscates a booklet owned by Carlos Eduardo Reina, a leader pro-Zelaya operations. It contains a list of 15 receipts, dated July 24. Each receipt has the amount of money and the recipient's signature. | 558 |
9334407 | Ivan Henrik Hinderaker (29 April 1916 – 23 September 2007) was an American educator and academic administrator. He served as the second chancellor of the University of California, Riverside from 1964 to 1979. At the time, Hinderaker was the longest-serving chancellor of any University of California campus (although his record was later surpassed by UCLA's Charles E. Young). Hinderaker Hall at UC Riverside was named in his honor.
Hinderaker was born in Hendricks, Minnesota. | 477 |
44435471 | | 410343 || || — || October 30, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || MAS || align=right data-sort-value="0.73" | 730 m ||
| 410344 || || — || October 17, 2007 || Mount Lemmon || Mount Lemmon Survey || NYS || align=right data-sort-value="0. | 252 |
4895341 | MSN Chat was the Microsoft Network version of IRCX (Internet Relay Chat extensions by Microsoft), which replaced Microsoft Chat, a set of Exchange-based IRCX servers first available in the Microsoft Comic Chat client, although Comic Chat was not required to connect.
According to the MSN Chat website, the following were required to use the MSN Chat Service:
Internet Explorer 4.0 or later OR;
The Microsoft Network Chat Control was developed as an ActiveX Component Object Model (COM) Object. | 494 |
366499 | The design was refined and for some time the pistols were also manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI) until 1995, when MRI shifted the manufacturing contract and license to Saco Defense in Saco, Maine. In 1998 MRI shifted manufacturing back to IMI, which later reorganized under the name Israel Weapon Industries. Since 2009 the Desert Eagle Pistol has been exclusively produced in the USA only, at MRI’s Pillager, Minnesota facility. | 444 |
29801955 | Berlin-Neukölln is located in southern Berlin. As of the 2021 federal election, it is coterminous with the Neukölln borough.
Berlin-Neukölln was created after German reunification in 1990. In the 1990 election, it was constituency 256 in the numbering system. In the 1994 and 1998 elections, it was number 257. In the 2005 through 2009 elections, it was number 83. | 364 |
67898 | The Lincoln character then recites a modernized version of the Gettysburg Address, while a white female tribe member polishes Lincoln's shoes with her blond hair.
The many references to Native Americans throughout the script are part of the anti-consumerism, naturalism focus of the hippie movement and of Hair. The characters in the show are referred to as the "tribe", borrowing the term for Native American communities. | 423 |
32621375 | The station runs a few small local TV stations in Aweil, Wau, Malakal and Rumbek. South Africa provides training for SSBC TV staff.
In 2013, the owners of The Citizen daily newspaper launched The Citizen Television (CTV) station broadcasting from the capital, Juba, for five hours each evening. However, in September 2015 the Editor-in-Chief of The Citizen Nhial Bol announced he was resigning and shutting down the newspaper and TV station after government security agents shut down his newspaper's premises, while receiving death threats. | 540 |
171297 | Cleanthes regarded the Sun as being divine; because the Sun sustains all living things, it resembled the divine fire which (in Stoic physics) animated all living beings, hence it too must be part of the vivifying fire or aether of the universe. Some maintain that he accused Aristarchus of impiety for daring to put into motion "the hearth of the universe" (i.e. the Earth); this interpretation depends on an emendation of the received text, since in the manuscripts it is Aristarchus that did the accusing. | 507 |
3738723 | They were Premier Division champions in 1962–63 and retained the title the following season. The club won the Premier Division title again in 1965–66 and 1969–70. The division was renamed Division One in 1974.
In 1978–79 Milton finished second-from-bottom of Division One and were relegated to Division Two. However, they won the Division Two title in 1980–81 and were promoted back to Division One. The club were Division One runners-up in 1984–85 and won the league the following season. | 489 |
14808634 | Haddad launched a new TV show in November 2018 on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking. In September 2019, she founded a youth centered NGO in Beirut called the Joumana Haddad Freedoms Center. In February 2020, in partnership with the Institut Français in Lebanon, she launched the first International Feminisms Festival in the Middle East with a group of local and international co-organizers.
Joumana Haddad started working at An Nahar newspaper in 1997. | 493 |
13237337 | This entailed, among other modifications, the removal of one of her boilers to allow extra fuel capacity, thus sacrificing speed for endurance and range. She remained in dock at Dundee for the first half of 1943 while this was carried out.
In July she was on anti-submarine duties in the Bay of Biscay, supporting Operation Musketry, the Royal Air Force Coastal Command's Bay offensive. In November she took part in Operation Alacrity, the establishment and supply of Allied air bases in the Azores which served to close the Mid-Atlantic gap. | 542 |
17512981 | Since 1973, he has been a member and president of numerous study committees of national and international research institutions.
In 2004, together with some of his scholars he founded the Institute for Research on Public Administration(IRPA), based in Rome.
Now he is Professor Emeritus at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa where he teaches History of Political Institution. As of September 2020, he is a member of the Italian Aspen Institute. | 443 |
12750933 | Appears in Scream (2022), Scream VI
Chad Meeks-Martin is a Woodsboro teenager and the fraternal twin brother of Mindy. Through his mother, Martha, he is Randy Meeks's nephew. He is an athlete at Woodsboro High and the boyfriend of Liv McKenzie. He becomes protective of Liv after Vince Schneider tries to get her back one night at the bar. At the memorial party for Wes, he refuses Liv's request to go somewhere private out of fear of going with the killer. | 457 |
414744 | In 2021, Taylor engaged into a feud with rapper Machine Gun Kelly in response to the rapper shifting his public image and musical ambitions to pop punk as opposed to rap following his widely publicized feud with Eminem. During an interview Taylor openly poked fun as Kelly's transition to rock claiming: "I hate all new rock for the most part — well, the artists who failed in one genre and decided to go rock. And I think he knows who he is, but that's another story." | 469 |
113352 | Contrary to dozens of encyclopedias, published reference guides, and even Walter Gibson himself, The Shadow never served as narrator of Love Story Hour. He appeared only in advertisements for The Shadow Magazine at the end of each episode.
In October 1932, the radio persona temporarily moved to NBC. Frank Readick Jr. again played the role of the sinister-voiced host on Mondays and Wednesdays, both at 6:30 p.m., with La Curto taking occasional turns as the title character.
Readick returned as The Shadow to host a final CBS mystery anthology that fall. | 556 |
1219646 | The Reds featured a heavy-hitting lineup that included future Hall of Famers in catcher Johnny Bench (45 home runs, 148 RBI and .293 batting average) and third baseman Tony Pérez (40, 129, .317), as well as all-time hits leader Pete Rose (15, 52, .316) in right field, NL stolen base leader Bobby Tolan (16, 80, .316) in center field and power-hitting first baseman Lee May (34, 94, .253). The Reds led the National League in batting average and finished third in runs scored. | 476 |
18167093 | The No.2 station comprised 2 × 12,500 kW and 1 × 30,000 kW turbo-alternators. The boilers in No.1 station had a capacity of 170,000 lb/hr (21.4 kg/s), and the No.2 station 600,000 lb/hr (75.6 kg/s). | 198 |
73898884 | Songs from the Heart of the Adirondacks WMHT(1995)
Chris Shaw: Live in Concert WMHT(1996)
Seneca Ray Stoddard: an American Original (as the voice of Seneca Ray Stoddard) WMHT(2006) | 180 |
21088362 | Pain right hypochondrium referred to the right shoulder
Tenderness and rigidity in right hypochondrium
Diagnosis is primarily made by identifying stool ova and parasites on stool antigen testing in the presence of colitis, or E histolytica serology. | 250 |
40098249 | Picache as Herself / Ma'am Amelia
Richard Yap as Himself / Sir Richard
9th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival (Directors Showcase)
Best Supporting Actress – Ruby Ruiz | 168 |
65593343 | He received the same mandate for the years of 1868-1870 and was re-elected – still as representative of Durango - for the period of 1872–1874.
Following the outbreak of the Third Carlist War, in 1873-1874 most of Biscay was overrun by the legitmist troops and the Carlists set up their own administration. The provincial self-government, its powers limited mostly to the besieged Bilbao, remained loyal to the Madrid government. | 428 |
27092864 | On only five occasions, the tournament was won by foreign managers—Croatian Mirko Jozić led Chilean side Colo-Colo to victory in 1992, Uruguayan Jorge Fossati led LDU Quito to win in 2009, his compatriot Luis Cubilla won the tournament with Paraguayan club Olimpia in 1991 and 2003 and Portuguese Jorge Jesus led Flamengo to the trophy in 2020 .
Jozić and Jesus are the only managers from outside South America to have won the competition. | 439 |
2548602 | Gila Wilderness, New Mexico, the world's first wilderness area
Gila Desert, the informal name of Sonoran Desert, United States and Mexico
Gila (given name), a list of people
Eloy Gila (born 1988), Spanish footballer
Nickname of Alberto Gilardino (born 1982), Italian football manager and former player | 305 |
72442908 | In September 1880 the fifth edition of South of Ireland Championships in Limerick the singles event was won by Annie Rice. The same month the Ealing Cricket Club staged its first Ealing Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament, that was to feature a mixed pairs event won by Blanche Bingley. On 16 September the second Saint Leonards-on-Sea Tournament began at the Archery Gardens, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, England that ended on 18 September. | 455 |
1444259 | Following contributions to the Constant Fight sessions, Michel Radermecker and Paul Jeffrey later joined Seize's line-up as full time members on the release of the record - in 2009.
Sandrine Gouriou - lead vocals, lyrics, music, programming, sampling, keyboards
Steven Young - backing vocals, lyrics, music, programming, sampling, keyboards
Rosie Harris - backing vocals, keyboards, bass, visual effects
Michel Radermecker - drums, percussion, loops
Paul Jeffrey - guitars, E-bow, vocals, | 488 |
69130115 | Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949, a Tu-154B (RA-85164), struck Mount Bo-Jaus (32 mi west of Khabarovsk) due to loss of control after fuel was selected from the left tanks to counter a left wing-low attitude, killing all 98 on board; wreckage was found on 18 December. | 274 |
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