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28558494 | As they attempt to stop the train, the screen cuts to black followed by the sound of screeching metal leaving Wendy's fate unknown.
Wendy's possible death (getting ran over by a train) is referenced in the opening credits of The Final Destination, and is seen again in a montage at the end of Final Destination 5.
Appeared in: The Final Destination, Final Destination 5
Andrew "Andy" Kewzer is one of the survivors of the McKinley Speedway crash. | 447 |
62691723 | First, Cochrane is highly idealistic, and, Garner thinks, optimistic in his claims that international bodies are already moving towards his goals. Second, Cochrane neglects "the global economic power structures", which is likely to be objectionable to scholars of critical animal studies. Third, Cochrane rests his theory on the equality of sentient beings. This raises questions about the comparative strengths of interests and rights, and Garner suggested that Cochrane could have explored different bases for animals' democratic inclusion, such as the all-affected interests principle. | 589 |
6768661 | Patrick Stone, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Sir Alexander Armstrong, explorer, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Medical Department of the Royal Navy in 1842 and became its Director-General in 1869.
Sir George Bowen, colonial governor in the British Empire and author. He was born and raised at Bogay House, near Newtowncunningham. | 414 |
72359406 | Savchuk was the only member of Svoboda to win in the 2019 parliamentary election among 249 candidates fielded.
As the only member of Svoboda in the Verkhovna Rada, Savchuk does not officially belong to any parliamentary faction. She is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Transport and Infrastructure Committee, as well as the Kuban, Prykarpattia, and Friends of Ivano-Frankivsk inter-factional associations of People's Deputies. | 424 |
3954107 | Zimbabweite is a mineral; formula . It is generally classed as an arsenite but is notable for also containing niobium and tantalum. A yellow brown mineral with orthorhombic crystal habit and a hardness of 5. It was discovered in 1986 in kaolinized pegmatite, i.e. weathered to clay, in Zimbabwe. | 298 |
26938226 | Haemaphysalis houyi Nuttall & Warburton, 1915
Haemaphysalis humerosa Warburton & Nuttall, 1909
Haemaphysalis hyracophila Hoogstraal, Walker & Neitz, 1971 | 153 |
39923951 | After it became clear that Iraq did not possess any WMDs, MI6 officially withdrew pre-invasion intelligence about them. In the months after the invasion, they also began gathering political intelligence; predicting what would happen in post-Baathist Iraq. | 255 |
2994067 | Marriott thought that it might be useful for transport over difficult ground, and Swinton had passed the information on to the appropriate departments. Swinton then suggested the idea of an armoured tracked vehicle to the military authorities by sending a proposal to Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice Hankey, who tried to interest Lord Kitchener in the idea. When that failed, he sent a memorandum in December to the Committee of Imperial Defence, of which he was himself the secretary. Winston Churchill the First Lord of the Admiralty was one of the members of the committee. | 571 |
64575682 | The overall poor performance in La Liga and Copa del Rey meant that Real Madrid would not compete in any European competition for first time in the history. | 156 |
18537117 | is a private junior college in Saku, Nagano, Japan, established in 1988.
1988 Shinshu Junior College (Faculty of Business) was established.
2001 The name of Faculty of Business was changed to Faculty of Business and Information.
2002 Faculty of Life Management was established.
2006 Health and Sports Division and Care and Welfare Division was founded in Faculty of Life Management.
2010 Faculty of Life Management was reorganized to Faculty of Care and Welfare. The name of Faculty of Business and Information was changed to Faculty of Interated Business. | 561 |
2340641 | (The Appropriations Bill of 3 March 1871 created the titles of "Surgeon General of the Navy" and "Medical Director" and "established" a formal corps of Medical Officers. Ever since, the Navy Medical Corps has celebrated this day as its anniversary.) During Wood's tenure at the top of BUMED the Naval Hospital at Mare Island, California was completed and opened. Earlier in his career Wood was the personal consulting physician of President Zachary Taylor.
Wood is most remembered in U.S. | 488 |
9329776 | Everyone has ambition. I could stay on this show for the rest of my life because I love it up here - it's a wicked little family and we're all really close. However, I don't want to spend all that time here for a big movie director or producer to come across to England when I'm in my 30s and say, 'If you'd come over when you were in your 20s, you'd've made it really big'. | 374 |
2143426 | It would have parking for 200 vehicles.
It contains a number of shops and fast food outlets straddling the motorway.
There is no legal vehicular access to the motorway service station from nearby Leicester Forest East, although there is nothing physically stopping cars from exiting to the A47.
Leicester Forest East services faced permanent closure in 2017 if the M1/M69 junction had been developed to increase capacity to accommodate predicted traffic growth. | 461 |
46395034 | That same year he was selected All-Southern by University of Virginia athletics director W. A. Lambeth in Outing, who notes "The position at center is easily filled, because Long, of Georgetown, in snapping the ball, blocking, breaking through, tackling and general play, stands without a near rival."
After graduating from Georgetown with a degree in law, Long was admitted to bar in the District of Columbia and later returned to Hawaii, which had been annexed to the United States, where he passed the bar of Hawaii on October 16, 1901. | 539 |
2207535 | Hills West Dance team, the Wranglerettes, are the 2007 champions in the Long Island Kickline Association competition, winning in the jazz category for the 14th year, and in the newly created hip hop category. The official school mascot is the Colt. The school's colors are red and gold.
West Hollow Middle School, which opened in 1970, is located at 250 Old East Neck Road in Melville, is the largest middle school in the district. Candlewood is located at 1200 Carll's Straight Path in Dix Hills. | 498 |
7402901 | In television electronics, A-MAC carries digital information: sound, and data-teletext on an FM subcarrier at 7 MHz. Since the vision bandwidth of a standard MAC signal is 8.4 MHz, the horizontal resolution on A-MAC has to be reduced to make room for the 7 MHz carrier. A-MAC has not been used in service.
MAC transmits luminance and chrominance data separately in time rather than separately in frequency (as other analog television formats do, such as composite video). | 471 |
18395236 | Alternately, alcohols and other fluids can be used so as to not contaminate the sample. Samples typically have at least one flat surface that can be scanned, although cylindrical and spherical samples can also be scanned with the proper fixtures. In the following paragraphs, the sample being described is a plastic-encapsulated integrated circuit.
The ultrasonic frequencies pulsed into samples by the transducers of acoustic microscopes range from a low of 10 MHz (rarely, 5 MHz) to a high of 400 MHz or more. | 511 |
62346348 | Two months later, Ababiy defeated Juan Francisco Lopez Barajas of Mexico with a first-round knockout, in Madison Square Garden, New York City. In July 2019, Ababiy won by unanimous decision against Cuban Yunier Calzada after 6 rounds. In Ababiy's seventh professional fight, on November 5, 2019, he defeated Isiah Seldon via first-round knockout, bringing his knockout total to 6 out of 7 fights. In his eighth professional fight, he won by disqualification against Jonathan Batista on the KSI vs. | 497 |
1002731 | Games on Demand–which provided free demos and full-size downloads of full PC games for a charge.
The site featured an "All Star" system for users, in which a user could pay to get an All Star username. All Star users were able to get extra privileges on Yahoo! Games sites such as disabling pop-up ads. All Star users did not have playable games without downloading.
Yahoo! Games was built on Yahoo!'s acquisition of ClassicGames.com (created by Internet entrepreneur Joel Comm and programmer Eron Jokipii) in 1997. The last used Yahoo! | 537 |
8395085 | "That's What They Do" – 4:36
"Too Cold for You" – 2:41
"I Know Exactly What to Do" – 4:48
Maria Andersson – lead vocals, guitar
Jennie Asplund – guitar, backing vocals | 172 |
1127973 | At the 40th Blues Music Awards in May 2019, the album was named as 'Blues Rock Album of the Year'.
In a 2019 interview with Guitar World, Gibbons said that he was already starting to work on his next solo release: "I think we're going to call it Hardware, and that's in tribute to Joe Hardy, our stalwart engineer for four decades. He recently passed on, but in his wake he left the instruction manual -- 'Here's how to do it.' We're still trying to get to the back chapters. It goes deep." | 490 |
212468 | The distinctive gold key membership pin was adopted in 1930 and features a black enamel band upon which the three Greek letters appear. Behind the band is a wreath composed of oak leaves on one side, denoting stability and strength of character, and laurel on the other side, signifying achievement and success. Above the band is a representation of the head of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom; in the base appear the mystic Greek letters meaning light, the light of learning, and knowledge.
The colors of the society are blue for scholarship and gold for purity. | 557 |
6015765 | When John Potts died in 1892 his newspaper published an obituary commemorating him as an "urbane and conscientious chief". John's successor was his son, another William Potts (1868–1949), who edited the paper until 1947.
The younger William Potts was also a local historian, publishing in his lifetime four historical booklets plus a booklet in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Potts also spent 50 years researching a full history of Banbury. | 463 |
26189467 | Richard A. Snelling, former Governor of Vermont
Anthony N. Doria, founder of the Vermont Law School and perennial candidate
Both Leahy and Snelling were well-respected and highly popular in Vermont, and the general feeling was that they would both make good Senators. | 268 |
13331361 | Eivind Eckbo (1927–2017), Norwegian politician and lawyer
Eivind Reiten, Norwegian economist and former politician | 114 |
12679999 | The tube of peritoneum constituting the vaginal process projects itself downward into the inguinal canal, and emerges at the external inguinal ring, pushing before it a part of the obliquus internus and the aponeurosis of the obliquus externus, which form respectively the cremaster muscle and the external spermatic fascia. | 324 |
1982720 | Performances of his compositions have been recorded on several record labels including: Albany Records, Linn Records, Navona Records, and Naxos Records.
Adler is married to Emily Freeman Brown, who is currently serving as Music Director and Conductor of the Bowling Green Philharmonia.
Musicologists have noted that Adler's works incorporate a wide range of compositional techniques including: free atonality, diatonicism, and serialism. | 437 |
32626635 | His was first selected to Victorian state representative honours in the 2008 Victorian youth eight, who won the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 2009, he was again selected in the youth eight, and he stroked the crew to his second victory in that event. On nine consecutive occasions from 2010 to 2018, Dunkley-Smith was seated in the Victorian men's senior eight who contested the King's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships. In those crews he saw two King's Cup victories and six times placed second. | 572 |
1120313 | To the north and west, the terrain gets hilly, whereas to the south and east lie wide agricultural areas, much like most of the municipal territory itself. Furthermore, there are two forests within the territory: the Stadtwald (as part of the Hainich) in the west and the Mühlhäuser Hardt between the Windeberg district and Menteroda. Both are broadleaf forests with beeches prevalent. The Hainich hills south-west of Mühlhausen became Thuringia's only National Park in 1997 because of their old near-natural beech forests. | 523 |
20782427 | Km 0 - Km 1.56 reaches Northern Cooum River bank and parallel to MRTS line
@ Km 2.1, the Expressway crosses the Elevated MRTS line between Chintadripet and Park Town Stations
@ Km 13.8, the Road splits into two and merges with NH4 as entry and exit ramps.
The Expressway section meets the Koyambedu Grade Separator and the section between them will be 10-laned with 2-lane service roads on both sides | 403 |
11125744 | Both the Hillman family and the Hillman Foundation gave millions toward its construction. The facade consists of Indiana Limestone alternated with rows of oriel windows, which were designed by Max Abramovitz The building's podium wall is intended to echo the Renaissance-style rusticated stone base of the Carnegie Library across Schenley Plaza. The interior was modeled on the style of Mies van der Rohe with warm teak and black-metal framing. Floor-to-ceiling windows that were placed at a bay window angle in order to be inconspicuous on the plane surface of the outer wall while still providing light. | 607 |
12418020 | John Gregory (3 June 1724 – 9 February 1773), a.k.a. John Gregorie, was an eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment physician, medical writer and moralist.
Gregory was born in Aberdeen, Scotland to the professor of medicine James Gregorie and Anna Chalmers, his father's second wife; his grandfather was the distinguished mathematician and astronomer James Gregory. Following the death of his father when he was eight years old, Gregory's education was conducted by Principal Chalmers, his grandfather, and his half-brother James, a professor of medicine. | 556 |
7875884 | At least partly for that reason, Yeltsin retained his defence minister despite intense criticism of Grachev's management of the First Chechen War and the Russian military establishment in general. Finally, Yeltsin's victory in the first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election spurred Yeltsin to dismiss Grachev.
In March 2001, Sergei Ivanov, previously secretary of the Security Council of Russia, was appointed defence minister by President Vladimir Putin, becoming Russia's first non-uniformed civilian defence minister. | 531 |
17047535 | Bruno Sebastian Martelotto (born 11 March 1982 in San Francisco, Córdoba) is a professional Argentine soccer player currently playing for Antartida Argentina in the Argentina Regional League.
Martelotto formerly played for MPPJ FC in Malaysian Super League in Malaysia, for Ñublense in Primera División in Chile and for AO Kavala and Panetolikos F.C. in Beta Ethniki in Greece.
He returned to Malaysia and joined the Malaysia Premier League club, ATM FA alongside Marlon Alex James. | 482 |
319819 | While working at Bain & Company, Chai began dating her current husband, Robert A. Maginn Jr., a partner at the firm. The couple married in 2001 and currently reside in the United States, where they have three daughters.
In 1998 Chai earned her M.B.A. from Harvard and founded an Internet company called Jenzabar. Jenzabar provides ERP software to universities across the United States of America. She has been President since founding Jenzabar and Chief Operating Officer since 2001.
In 2009, Chai converted to Christianity. | 525 |
66430603 | Brigadier Berenger Colborne Bradford (15 October 1912 – 4 March 1996), known as Bill Bradford, was a British Army officer who served in the Black Watch from 1932 to 1959.
Bill Bradford was the second child and only son of Col. Edward Austen Bradford, DSO (1879-1958) and Margaret Louisa Hardy (1878-1972). Born in Chelsea, London he grew up at Empshott Lodge, Liss, Hampshire. | 377 |
61921181 | Agustinus Jelani was born on August 28, 1919, in Putussibau, West Kalimantan.
He began his studies at the C. V. O. Seminarium, which he finished in 1937. Later on, he went to the Intermediate Seminary, which he entered in 1941, and finished in 1944. After that, he went to the Grand Seminary of Philosophy in Flores, and finished it in 1946. | 341 |
116729 | The median income for a household in the CDP was $41,272, and the median income for a family was $50,558. Males had a median income of $40,558 versus $25,788 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $20,820. About 6.6% of families and 6.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.9% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over. | 367 |
67613788 | It is now the longest gap between executions since capital punishment was banned in the state between 1962 and 1983.
In 2021, Britnie Hutton's biological father, John Hutton, started raising questions about whether Flippen had really killed his daughter. John Hutton's attorneys filed a motion asking a judge to order the Winston-Salem Police Department to hand over their investigative files from the 1994 murder case. In the motion, Hutton's attorneys pointed to the allegation that Tina Gibson had allegedly beat one of her other children years after the death of Britnie Hutton. | 582 |
56747184 | Hannigan began to write in the first period while she was in hospital recovering from the (unsuccessful) preventative surgery. She always quickly closed her laptop when her closest friend, the established writer Cathy Kelly, was visiting her. She eventually confessed to Kelly about writing and, after overcoming her anxiety to share her work, emailed her story with the proviso: "If it’s awful, say nothing. We’ll pretend I didn’t give it to you and we’ll never mention it again". Kelly believed Hannigan's work should be published. | 533 |
15724870 | There is a landing fee for fixed-wing aircraft that's usually $10. There is also a US$10 Handling/Security/Facility fee will be invoiced to the aircraft's owner if incoming passengers do not make some sort of purchase to support the airport. The terminal building is a two-story facility containing conference rooms and normal airport facilities. | 346 |
54300968 | Setyono Djuandi Darmono – Chairman & Founder
Hadi Rahardja – Co-Chairman & Founder
Bacelius Ruru – Vice President Commissioner / Independent Commissioner
Ketut Budi Wijaya – Commissioner / Independent Commissioner
T. Budianto Liman – President Director | 256 |
5977173 | The body was very similar to a National, the components used were identical but the configuration was to a different format. | 124 |
39601674 | Yager published a book of photographs with great Circle Books, titled 'a.k.a. BooBoo', which covers a 14-year time span in the life of Cindy Martinez, a female gang member. An exhibition of this work led to becoming David Lee Roth's personal photographer, documenting his return to touring the USA & Canada in Van Halen, during 2007, 2008, and again in 2012. | 359 |
12288093 | Above that entrance was a carving by Karl Bitter, which contained depictions of Ceres and Mercury, two ancient Roman gods that collectively depicted commerce. A carved marble band runs above the ground story.
On the second floor, in the three rightmost bays facing Liberty Street, there is a small colonnade with six double-height fluted columns topped by Ionic-style capitals. The colonnade contains a pair of columns at each end, as well as two single columns in the center. Within the colonnade's bays, there were three sculptural groups supported on pedestals. | 564 |
59359273 | The Cavernicolous cockroaches of the Ryukyu Islands, 1974
Asahina, Syoziro 1993: A list of the odonata from Thailand, [Bangkok : Bosco Offset] | 143 |
25916692 | In the House of Representatives, he served as a member of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs, of the House Standing Committee on European Affairs, of the House Standing Committee on Financial and Budgetary Affairs and of the House Standing Committee on Internal Affairs. He is also a member of the delegations of the House to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, to the Parliamentary Assembly on the Mediterranean and to the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees (COSAC). | 500 |
12585160 | Savio (voiced by Nestor Carbonell) is a large green anaconda (often simply referred to as a boa constrictor) with a Spanish accent who attacked the animals on three occasions. When he was initially transferred to the zoo in "The Big Squeeze", the penguins suspected him of being the cause of the disappearance of the lemurs and Marlene, but his cage appeared inescapable; the only means of departure was a vent that Savio could have used when unfed but would have been unable to access when returning. | 501 |
250309 | In 1937, the UK produced 379,310 passenger cars and 113,946 commercial vehicles. To celebrate the granting of his peerage, William Morris upon becoming Viscount Nuffield, reorganised his motor vehicle companies in 1938, which by then included not only Morris Motors and MG, but also Wolseley and Riley (bicycle company founded in Coventry in 1890 and making cars since 1913), into the Nuffield Organization. | 407 |
142178 | The line was originally laid using second-hand First World War surplus rail. Most was material rolled in the US, the rest was rolled in Belgium when the country was under German occupation. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the railway managed to obtain supplies of good second-hand rail on the closure of the Sierra Leone Government Railway; these are the oldest rails on the line, some of which date from the 1890s. | 420 |
1440202 | This enabled the D, a full-time service, to operate continuously on the same route and terminals from Norwood–205th Street in the Bronx to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn, while the part-time B became the part-time Brighton Express service, formerly served by the express <Q> (notated with a diamond).
This is a table of when each service has existed (and been signed for the public). Shuttles were SS until 1985, when they became S (which had been used for specials). | 478 |
7509034 | Broadcast January would then have five weeks, ending on January 30, and the four weeks of broadcast February would begin on January 31. The number of weeks in a broadcast month is based on the number of Sundays that fall in that month with the period ending on the last Sunday of the month.
Days and weeks in a broadcast calendar are often referred to by number rather than name, as in Week 47, Day 3. Since each week starts on a Monday, day three is always a Wednesday, while week 47 is always the 47th week of the broadcast calendar year. | 540 |
55978239 | Information on the Colored State Football Champions has been provided by Robert Bonner, WV high school football researcher. More will be entered as the information becomes available.
WV Catholic Schools State Football Champions
Prior to 1977, most Catholic schools did not participate within the WVSSAC. | 305 |
461940 | As part of the same renumbering, Route 180 on State College Boulevard became Route 250, which was amended the next year to provide for its deletion once that portion of the SR 57 freeway was completed (between I-5 and SR 91).
A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Placentia on January 30, 1967, to begin construction of the Orange Freeway. The first portion was dedicated on May 16, 1969, and opened soon after, extending north from the Riverside Freeway (SR 91) to Nutwood Avenue in Fullerton. | 494 |
17222879 | She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in education, magna cum laude, in 1930.
Paras-Sulit would join the faculty of Florentino Torres High School as an English teacher while maintaining an active writing career. She was a member of the Philippine Writers Association and the Literary Guild of the Philippines. In the 1940s, she joined the Philippine National Red Cross, of which she served as secretary-general for several decades. While at the Red Cross, she shifted her focus to short stories for children, publishing several works of that variety at the Philippine Junior Red Cross Magazine. | 604 |
73552475 | Clyde, Buford & Logan, who bought in the interest of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, and in 1881 Andrews was elected president of the company for the purpose of completing the road from Old Fort to the two termini as required. The construction of this important line through the mountains was fraught with many troubles and difficulties, both political and financial, and necessitated a great deal of legislation for several years. | 435 |
70538611 | Commenting on Lisowski's comeback, McGill said: "We are in a theatre and snooker is drama. It's the best kind of drama. I love it". Selby, winner of the 2022 English Open and 2023 WST Classic during the season, faced Gary Wilson. After the first four frames were shared, Wilson won a 53-minute fifth frame after a prolonged tactical battle while the pink was lodged in the jaws of the green pocket behind the last two reds. | 423 |
2117624 | The victims were about to file a certificate of candidacy for Esmael Mangudadatu, vice mayor of Buluan town for the province's gubernatorial election. Mangudadatu was challenging Andal Ampatuan Jr. (son of the incumbent Maguindanao governor Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr., the mayor of Datu Unsay, and accused of leading the massacre) in the election. Currently, the elected Municipal Officials are headed by Datu Rasul M. Sangki-Mayor and Datu Samnon M. Sangki-Vice Mayor. | 466 |
11170545 | Johnsingh, A. J. T. & Madhusudan, M. D. (2009) Tiger reintroduction in India: conservation tool or costly dream? Reintroduction of top-order predators (eds M. W. Hayward & M. J. Somers), pp. 146–163. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK. | 232 |
39168714 | Mixed Tag Team Tournament (1998) - with Yasha Kurenai
International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions
Tenryu Project International Junior Heavyweight Champions | 163 |
45373891 | The album featured 11 tracks, featuring guest appearances by well-known singers Travis Graham (of New Heights), Erin Kim, Jennifer Chung, Paul Kim, and Sam Ock. The rapper also released the three singles "I Wonder," "Star in My Eyes," and "First Flight" with accompanying music video performances around the time of the album's release.
Shortly after the release of We Are Hypergiants, Wong Fu Productions used track 11, "Star in My Eyes" as the official theme song in 2013 for the Take Your Shot Campaign, launched by Wong Fu in partnership with AT&T. | 552 |
9074484 | 1973: Kamen Rider V3 the Movie as Tobei Tachibana
1973: Kamen Raidaa Bui Surii tai Desutoron Kaijin as Tobei Tachibana
1974: Kamen Rider X the Movie as Tobei Tachibana
1974: Kamen Raidâ X: Go-Nin Raidâ tai kingu Dâku as | 219 |
1175666 | Conversely, every cograph can be represented in this way by a cotree. If we require the labels on any root-leaf path of this tree to alternate between 0 and 1, this representation is unique.
Cographs may be recognized in linear time, and a cotree representation constructed, using modular decomposition, partition refinement, LexBFS , or split decomposition. Once a cotree representation has been constructed, many familiar graph problems may be solved via simple bottom-up calculations on the cotrees. | 502 |
341369 | In late 2004, the foundation was awarded a $500,000 grant by the US government to develop a K–12 model for inclusion in community service projects to be used in schools across the country. In addition, State Farm granted $1.5 million to the foundation to help develop a primary education curriculum focused on teaching social and life skills through service to children of all levels of ability.
On August 5, 2009, in an open letter from the founders, Clay Aiken and Diane Bubel announced that they would rename the organization as the "National Inclusion Project". | 565 |
2617948 | Radio stations that carry Chuck Morse Speaks:
"Firm gets big cut of campaign donations", Boston Globe, June 29, 2008 | 117 |
72150 | Lokasenna (Old Norse: 'The Flyting of Loki', or 'Loki's Verbal Duel') is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda. The poem presents flyting between the gods and Loki. It is written in the ljóðaháttr metre, typical for wisdom verse. Lokasenna is believed to be a 10th-century poem.
Loki, amongst other things, accuses the gods of moralistic sexual impropriety, the practice of seiðr (sorcery), and bias. | 398 |
71182 | On 14 November 1992 and again on 12 November 2011, the official arrival of the popular legendary figure Sinterklaas was held in Dordrecht and broadcast on national television.
The current economy of Dordrecht is based on ship building, wood industry, and steel industry. The city has the sixth largest sea port in the Netherlands. One of the largest employers on Dordrecht Island is DuPont de Nemours (Nederland) B.V. It has 9 factories here with a workforce of 900 people. | 473 |
528152 | Christian Stadler from Germany invented the "VegaV3 wingsuit system" that uses an electronic adjustable hydrogen peroxide rocket. The rocket provides 1000 Newtons (100 kgf) of thrust and produces no flames or poisonous fumes. His first successful powered wingsuit jump was in 2007, when he reached horizontal speeds of over 255 km/h (160 mph).
In November 2020, professional BASE jumper Peter Salzmann completed the first electric wingsuit flight, using a wingsuit developed by BMW's BMW i division. | 499 |
27108596 | Recoder has described himself as a Catalan nationalist.
In early 2010, he proposed that the three largest political parties in Catalonia, Convergence and Union, Republican Left of Catalonia, and Socialists' Party of Catalonia, form a tripartite coalition to combat a possible overturn of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia by the Constitutional Court of Spain, indicating that such a coalition could be a "solution in a difficult time for Catalonia." As of May 18, 2010, the three, along with the Initiative for Catalonia Greens, agreed to collaborate with an aim to reforming the Constitutional Court of Spain. | 613 |
52343394 | Roll No 21 Kris Aur Phantom Ka Raaz
Roll No 21 Kris Aur Shoonya Registan
Tripura - The Three Cities of Maya (20 January 2011)
Little Singham Aur Kaal Ka Mahajaal | 164 |
270455 | The remaining titles passed to a cousin, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, who became the seventh Earl of Winchilsea as well (see below for earlier history of this branch of the family).
He was a noted statesman and served as First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Secretary of State for the Northern Department and as Lord President of the Council.
His son the 8th Earl of Winchilsea was also a politician and held office as First Lord of the Admiralty and as Lord President of the Council. | 533 |
45681966 | Turkey – Neighbouring Turkey has received PYD co-chair Salih Muslim for talks in 2013 and in 2014, even entertaining the idea of opening a representation office for the autonomous region in Ankara "if it's suitable with Ankara's policies." | 239 |
1083646 | There, she released many "girl group"-sounding pop songs including "Sour Grapes" (February 1963), "I'm Nobody's Baby" (1963), and "Accidents Will Happen" (1963), but received little commercial success – although she continued to score hits between 1963 and 1965 in Australia. In 1963, she appeared in the British musical film Live It Up! (with music produced by Joe Meek), although only in a singing role. In June 1965, Noble released "He Who Rides a Tiger" which peaked at No. | 477 |
58213358 | In 2015, at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and in Cēsis, eight of Johansons' works were exhibited, reconstructed by well-known Moscow artist-designer Vyacheslav Koleichuk based on measurements accurately interpolated from 1921 photographs due to the loss of the original sculptures.
The fundamental concept in all of Johansons' work relates to one issue: How structural tensile-stress stability occurs when objects are bound with simple contact without fusing, adhesives, or chemical reactions. | 494 |
20215370 | The Corps was re-organized with divisions under Stewart, Cleburne and Breckinridge, all in all 20,000 men. McCown's old division was now placed under St. John Liddell, and moved to the reserve Corps under William H.T. Walker.
After campaigning for a few months in Tennessee, Bragg was driven out to Chattanooga, and then lost that city. In north Georgia, however, he re-formed for a counterstrike. | 397 |
14260512 | As of 2021, none of the particles predicted by any version of E8 Theory have been detected.
Before writing his 2007 paper, Lisi discussed his work on a Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) forum, at an FQXi conference, and for an FQXi article. Lisi gave his first talk on E8 Theory at the Loops '07 conference in Morelia, Mexico, soon followed by a talk at the Perimeter Institute. | 384 |
4947882 | Stephen III (, , ; summer of 11474 March 1172) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1162 and 1172. He was crowned king in early June 1162, shortly after the death of his father, Géza II. However, his two uncles, Ladislaus and Stephen, who had joined the court of the Byzantine Empire, challenged his right to the crown. Only six weeks after his coronation, the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos launched an expedition against Hungary, forcing the Hungarian lords to accept Ladislaus' rule. | 494 |
17676562 | In 2001, Kortney Wilson also made several appearances on the soap opera, One Life to Live. She co-wrote Ryan Tyler's 2003 single "Run, Run, Run", which was also released by Krysta Scoggins.
Kortney Wilson was also signed to Open Road Recordings with Dave Wilson as The Wilsons. Dave had also recorded for Lyric Street. They later lost their recording deal and turned to other jobs and eventually to renovating and flipping houses in Nashville. | 443 |
14689026 | 1st Stage 3 Course de Solidarność et des Champions Olympiques
1st GP Czech Republic, Visegrad 4 Bicycle Race
1st Stage 2 Tour du Loir-et-Cher
1st Stage 2 Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
1st Stage 2 Grand Prix Cycliste de Gemenc | 228 |
15770393 | The P-96 () is a Russian 9 mm semi-automatic pistol designed by the KBP Instrument Design Bureau for the Russian Armed Forces. The pistol was not accepted and then offered in a modernized form for law enforcement and security firms (P-96M and P-96S).
P-96 (П-96 "Эфа") - 9×19mm Parabellum version. First pistol was made in 1996. It never entered into the mass production. | 372 |
23566599 | LAL announced the release of a new album titled Meteors Could Come Down which will release on 6 November 2020. | 110 |
12228733 | = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
1903 St. Louis Browns team page at Baseball Reference
1903 St. Louis Browns season at baseball-almanac.com | 384 |
624988 | The national park authority is run by a board, consisting of 17 members. Five members are elected by the community and twelve are appointed by the Scottish Government, of whom six are nominated by the Local Authorities. The board meets in public at least three times a year.
Towns and villages within the park
As of the 2011 census the population of the national park was 15,168.
There are 21 Munros (mountains over ) in the National Park, of which 16 are within the Breadalbane section of the park. | 499 |
29697491 | Multimediaproduktion mit Kindern und Jugendlichen. (Hgs. mit Guntram Geser). Innsbruck/Wien: Studienverlag, 1999.
Schulen auf dem Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft. (mit Guntram Geser). Innsbruck/Wien: StudienVerlag, 2000.
Understanding the European Content Industries. A Reader on the Economic and Cultural Contexts of Multimedia. | 335 |
4825662 | It was this contest that inspired her to be a singer.
When she studied grade 10 at Horwang School, she had the occasion to sing at Happy Land amusement park where she received an award in 1980. And there was an award about her singing as the best singer of Thailand in 1982.
In the past, the condition of the singing contest was limited by age but she decided to compete. The singing contest had many challengers, and it that made the contest higher rating of competition. Finally, she got the reward from this contest by herself, she was a singer. | 548 |
65071732 | Qualifying started at 15:00 local time (UTC+03:00) on the Saturday. The air temperature at the start of qualifying was and the track temperature was . The session was split into three subsessions. After each subsession the slowest five cars had their qualifying positions set and were prevented from taking part in the next subsession. Lap times were deleted if drivers left the track at the exit of the first, sixth, or fourteenth corners. | 441 |
9941268 | Polly Bergen - Stella Wingfield (10 episodes, seasons 3-5, and 7)
Emily Bergl - Beth Young (14 episodes, seasons 7-8)
Julie Benz - Robin Gallagher (6 episodes, season 6)
Daniela Bobadilla - Marisa Sanchez (2 episodes, season 8)
John Bobek - Tucker (2 episodes, season 3)
Michael Bofshever - Kenny Stevens (2 episodes, season 3)
Lesley Boone - Lucy Blackburn (2 episodes, season 5) | 381 |
1160752 | In February 2006, after the EGSM900-band, which was in military use before, had become available in late 2005, the German regulation authority Bundesnetzagentur assigned two 2 x 5 MHz channels to E-Plus and O2 Germany. In return, E-Plus and O2 Germany had to give up some GSM1800 frequencies to two competitive operators T-Mobile and Vodafone. The first EGSM900-base stations (cell sites) started operation in April 2006. | 421 |
1446680 | Splinter names the four turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo (after a book on Renaissance artists that he found in a storm drain) and trains them in the arts of ninjutsu so that they can avenge his dead master while raising them as his own sons, as well as educating them. | 290 |
609694 | Along with two-tone paint, the Williamsburg Edition also included a full vinyl roof, pinstriping, power vent windows, lighted vanity mirrors, and 6-way twin "Comfort Lounge Seats".
For 1977, the option package was designed as one of the most conservative versions of the Town Car, without any opera windows or coach lights fitted to the roofline. For 1978 and 1979, the opera windows and coach lights were added to the roofline. | 428 |
23608932 | Relatório sobre supposto teste nuclear na Argentina. (1983)
Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (city) | 101 |
608223 | Sereno Wright Streeter (1810–1880) graduated from Oberlin and was ordained in 1836. After much organizing work and several ministerial positions, he was professor at Otterbein College from 1857 to 1860.
Edward Weed. "There was a town gathering at Chillicothe on the same day of last week, when Mr. | 297 |
63331067 | NASA held a pre-launch briefing for the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-15 cargo launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on 19 February 2021 at 16:00 UTC. Late cargo loading concluded on 19 February 2021. The Cygnus NG-15 spacecraft launched the next day at 17:36:50 UTC on an Antares launch vehicle from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia. | 411 |
34508714 | 8 ("for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress"); H.J.R. No. 8 then died in the Committee on Business and Labor in the Utah Senate; and whose House of Representatives on March 7, 2016, likewise approved House Joint Resolution No. | 498 |
50578652 | Two mechanisms of fractionation occur that alter sulfur stable isotope ratios: kinetic effects, especially due to the metabolism of sulfate-reducing bacteria, and isotope exchange reactions that occur between sulfide phases based on temperature. With VCDT as the reference standard, natural δ34S value variations have been recorded between -72‰ and +147‰.
The presence of sulfate-reducing bacteria, which reduce sulfate () to hydrogen sulfide (H2S), has played a significant role in the oceanic δ34S value throughout the earth's history. | 537 |
2118656 | The retirement of the timid primate left him without an equal in the Estate of Clergy, and it was very largely due to his co-operation that the king was able to carry through the famous "Act of Unity and Security" which converted Sweden from a constitutional into a semi-absolute monarchy.
Nevertheless, even the combative Wallqvist was appalled when, on February 16, 1789, the king privately informed him that he meant on the following day soundly to trounce the Estate of Nobles in the presence of the three other estates and bend them to his royal will. | 556 |
7528630 | A combination of a skyscraper built to the absolute minimum compliance with safety rules, combined with cutting corners to save money on construction, leads to a disaster waiting to happen.
Craig Barton, the building’s architect, is to meet for dinner with the building’s owner, Wyndom Leroux, in the building’s Promenade room. During drinks and dinner Barton questions Leroux regarding the specifications of the building and whether or not they have been altered from his original plans, why they have been altered and what the consequences of this may be. | 557 |
6242275 | The ratings working through the association, organised for walls in the naval areas and in the city to be struck with posters and painted with galvanising slogans such as "We shall live as a free nation" and "Tyrants your days are over", among others.
In the morning of 21 February 1946, Manora Island was rife with unrest. The warship HMIS Hindustan docked at the Karachi Harbour had been seized by the naval ratings at midnight, the officers subdued, and the warship moored at the Manora Island. | 497 |
5109013 | The U-2 spy plane was a great success and within two years Bissell was able to say that 90% of all hard intelligence about the Soviet Union coming into the CIA was "funneled through the lens of the U-2's aerial cameras". This information convinced President Dwight D. Eisenhower that Nikita Khrushchev was lying about the number of bombers and missiles being built by the Soviet Union. | 385 |
17209547 | History of Buddhist-Christian relations in Sri Lanka
Ever since the 16th century, during colonisations of Sri Lanka by the Portuguese, Dutch and English, Christian missionaries had attempted to convert the Buddhist population into Christianity, with the general belief during this period being that there was nothing worthy of study in non-Christian religions. In the early 19th century, this view started to change, into the conviction that every evangelist should have sound knowledge in Buddhism. The most prominent Christian scholars supporting this conviction were Daniel John Gogerly, C. H. S. Ward, and Robert Spence Hardy. | 630 |
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