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74126857 | Abdah Alif (born 31 August 1954 in Terengganu) was a Malaysia footballer who played for Terengganu, Pahang and the Malaysia national team.
A midfielder, Abdah was a squad player for Malaysia national team in the 1980 AFC Asian Cup. He scoring in the 2–0 win against the UAE in the group stage.
He also part of the Malaysian team that qualified to the 1980 Olympic games Moscow which Malaysia boycotted. | 402 |
54953207 | Gunhild Margareta Olsson (born 30 January 1946) is a Swedish sprinter. She competed in the 100 m hurdles and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. Olympic bobsledder Karin Olsson is her daughter. | 239 |
69279700 | Richard Semmel (September 15, 1875, in Zobten am Berge, Lower Silesia – December 2, 1950, in New York) was a German entrepreneur and art collector who was persecuted by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage. His heirs have filed restitution claims for artworks.
Richard Semmel was the owner of the textile company Arthur Samulon in Berlin. He was married to Clara Cäcilie, née Brück. They had no children. Semmel began building an art collection in the 1920s. | 462 |
64320513 | A total of 24 teams from 16 countries submitted their application for a place in the competition's group stage before the deadline of 10 June 2020. The final list of 16 participants was revealed by the EHF Executive Committee on 19 June. Ten teams were registered according to fixed places, while six were granted wild cards.
The draw was held on 1 July 2020 at the EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria. | 402 |
34904242 | Some species have feet with two toes pointing forward and two backward, while several species have only three toes. Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. | 199 |
4086368 | Lucius F. C. Garvin 1862, twice Governor of Rhode Island
Charles H. Allen 1869, first civil Governor of Puerto Rico (appears above)
George H. Utter 1877, Rhode Island Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Secretary of State
Calvin Coolidge 1895, Governor, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (mayor) (appears above) | 313 |
8069001 | In his final senior year Sherlock upped his numbers considerably with a 9.2 pts average and a team-high 5.3 boards per game in just 24 minutes. He played in all 25 games of the season with 9 starts and had a career high 19 pts vs Concordia University, Saint Paul. He was named top rebounder at the Minnesota State Pepsi Tip Off Classic grabbing 18 boards in two games including a career high 12 vs Minnesota State Mavericks. | 424 |
36494033 | The first book published by the organization was La pintura mural de la Revolución Mexicana, followed by Los maestros europeo de la Galería de San Carlos de México and José Guadalupe Posada, ilustrador de la vida mexicana. It became a major art book publishing company producing several high-quality books about Mexican art while he directed it. When he died, he was working on a book about Mexican handcrafts and folk art.
The last major organization that Méndez founded during his lifetime as the Academia de Artes de México in 1968. | 535 |
5682832 | The Palazzo Chigi-Albani (16th century), designed by Ottaviano Schiratti. The interior houses the Papacqua Fountain.
The small Romanesque church of San Giorgio (11th century).
Cathedral (Duomo), of San Nicola di Bari from 1794.
Fontana Vecchia ("Old Fountain"), built in the 15th century.
Porta Romana ("Roman Gate"), a copy of the Porta Pia in Rome. | 353 |
7773991 | The story arc proposed for this series involved Avon recruiting scientists and using their expertise to resist the Federation. Because this would impose a running order on the episodes, and because the rebels could become too powerful, the scripts often ended with the scientist dead and the rebels gaining nothing.
Avon, still the leader of the group, was portrayed as being increasingly determined to destroy the Federation, in contrast to the first series where Avon had dismissed Blake's aims as insane, his own being to obtain wealth. | 539 |
22033128 | DelSolar has supplied or installed solar modules in many Photovoltaic systems worldwide, such as Kaohsiung National Stadium in Taiwan and River of Life Christian Church in US.
DelSolar has 3 manufacturing facilities, located at Hsinchu and Jhunan, Taiwan and Wujiang, China, as well as the representative offices in Taiwan, China, United States, the Netherlands. | 362 |
7469508 | | Cs-137 || || Sorghum halepense || Johnson Grass || || ||
| Cs-137 || || Trifolium repens || White Clover || || Grass or Forb species capable of accumulating radionuclides ||
| Cs-137 || H || Zea mays || Corn || || High absorption rate. Accumulates radionuclides. Contains 2 to 3 times more Cs137 in his roots than in the biomass above ground. | 344 |
6101969 | Deanna Oliver is an American actress and writer. Oliver performed the voice of Toaster in the film The Brave Little Toaster (1987) and its sequels. In addition, she was a writer of the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) and Animaniacs (1993). Sherri Stoner worked with her for Universal's fantasy comedy Casper (1995) and Disney's My Favorite Martian (1999).
In addition to writing for animation, she currently teaches and directs main-stage shows at The Groundlings Theater in Hollywood. | 497 |
15378614 | On the next Indianapolis drive, Eric Dickerson rushed 8 times for 50 yards, and Albert Bentley found the end zone for a 13–0 lead. Fouts was intercepted again on the final play of the half.
The first drive of the second half ended with Abbott's 42-yard field goal. Indianapolis tried to convert a 4th and 1 from their own 40 on the following drive, but Banks stopped Bentley for no gain. | 387 |
50197546 | She had been considered useless and was scheduled to be put down before being bought by Strange.
Strange originally used Four Ten as a hunter before training the horse himself for races on the amateur point-to-point circuit. The horse ran six times in point-to-points winning four times consecutively before falling in a hunter chase. Strange then sent him to the professional, John Roberts, who trained at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
After his move to the professional ranks Four Ten made an immediate impact. | 513 |
53223865 | The building itself is not as significant as the Depression era artwork contained within it. Christian Petersen, a Danish immigrant, designed and completed the nine bas reliefs from 1934 to 1935 as part of the Public Works of Art Project (PWPA). Two plaster-cast panels are located in the foyer. One depicts a woman from biblical times churning butter in a goatskin bag hung from a tree, and the other depicts an American pioneer women using a dash churn, an early American invention. They were completed in 1934. | 517 |
58313 | Pepin County is the smallest in area, with ; Marathon is the largest, having .
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. Wisconsin's code is 55, which when combined with any county code would be written as 55XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
Each county has a county seat, often a populous or centrally located community, where the county's governmental offices are located. | 545 |
10940043 | Collection Hayashi, Objets D'art Du Japon Et De La Chine. 1902.
Hayashi, Tadamasa. Dessins, estampes, livres illustrés du Japon. Évreux: Hérissey, 1902.
Hayashi, Tadamasa. Collection: Objets d'art du Japon et de la Chine <don't la vente aura lieu - 1902 -dans les galeries...>. 1902. | 287 |
43937 | The fact that flamingos share parasites with ducks and geese was initially taken as evidence that these groups were more closely related to each other than either is to storks. However, evolutionary events such as the duplication, or the extinction of parasite species (without similar events on the host phylogeny) often erode similarities between host and parasite phylogenies. In the case of flamingos, they have similar lice to those of grebes. Flamingos and grebes do have a common ancestor, implying cospeciation of birds and lice in these groups. | 553 |
4396171 | Latitude is a placement consideration for spaceports.
The peak of the Cayambe volcano is the point of Earth's surface farthest from its axis; thus, it rotates the fastest as Earth spins.
Earth's rotation axis moves with respect to the fixed stars (inertial space); the components of this motion are precession and nutation. It also moves with respect to Earth's crust; this is called polar motion.
Precession is a rotation of Earth's rotation axis, caused primarily by external torques from the gravity of the Sun, Moon and other bodies. | 537 |
6220455 | Love had been dating Canadian model Kate Bock for "nearly five years" before getting engaged on January 31, 2021. They married on June 25, 2022, at the New York Public Library in New York City. In June 2023, Bock gave birth to the couple's first child, during the 2023 NBA Finals.
In March 2018, in response to DeMar DeRozan's public discussion of his struggles with depression, Love revealed that he had been seeing a therapist for several months following a panic attack during a game in November 2017. | 504 |
3266013 | After 1985, the PSBR began to show a substantial decline, largely as a result of the improved financial position of public enterprises. Favorable exogenous factors (lower oil prices, lower interest rates, and depreciation of the dollar) helped to moderate operating costs. More important, however, was the shift in government policy. Public enterprise managers were given greater autonomy in investment, labor, and product pricing. | 431 |
2110351 | During the December 24, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw, WWE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Vince McMahon announced that a new WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would be introduced in 2019. However, it does not carry the lineage of the original title.
Over the course of the championship's six-year history, there were five reigns between four championship teams, composed of seven individual champions. The inaugural championship team was Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria. | 486 |
112550 | The racial makeup of the city was 94.35% White, 1.60% African American, 0.23% Native American, 1.49% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.79% from other races, and 1.52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.34% of the population. | 250 |
23399678 | Three models were produced: the first two, the BN52 and BN54, were powered by a 25HP Wisconsin air-cooled engine. The later BN44E was instead powered by an electric motor. Most surviving BN54 models were later converted to use electric motors as the gasoline engines were not practical for normal use.
In 1968, Biersach & Niedermeyer Co. was faced with dwindling sales of their flagship Mobil Directo series due to competition from a wide variety of Federal Electric (known as Federal Signal) models that saturated the market. | 526 |
67219227 | Basterotia hertleini Durham, 1950: synonym of Basterotia peninsularis (E. K. Jordan, 1936)
Basterotia spaldingi (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1925): synonym of Basterotia arcula Melvill, 1898
Basterotia trapezium Yokoyama, 1920: synonym of Paramya recluzi (A. Adams, 1864): synonym of Basterotia recluzi (A. Adams, | 307 |
1488473 | The International Law Commission (ILC) is a body of experts responsible for helping develop and codify international law. It is composed of 34 individuals recognized for their expertise and qualifications in international law, who are elected by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) every five years.
The ideological roots of the ILC originated as early as the 19th century, when the Congress of Vienna in Europe developed several international rules and principles to regulate conduct among its members. | 510 |
26963933 | Pitching in on backing vocals are Zach from Bane, Jake from Dreamtigers, Dahei from Japanese band Cleave and renowned Aussie crooner Jamie Hay who put in time with A Death in the Family, Pitfall and Conation.
Make It Count (2004, Common Bond)
Memory Embraced 7" (30 July 2010, | 276 |
43007 | The band's seventh studio album Think Tank moved into more of an electronic sound. Some of the band's influences include David Bowie, Bobby Womack, William Onyeabor, the B-52's, the Kinks, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, the Jam and Depeche Mode.
Damon Albarn – lead vocals, keyboards, guitar (1988–2004, 2008–2016, 2022–present)
Graham Coxon – guitar, backing and lead vocals, saxophone (1988–2002, 2008–2016, | 403 |
5448267 | Mark Howard Kryder (born October 7, 1943 in Portland, Oregon) was Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer. Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Kryder was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1994 for contributions to the understanding of magnetic domain behavior and for leadership in information storage research. | 527 |
58373088 | Jan Tait and the Bear (chamber opera)
Minute etudes (book two) (solo piano)
Music for Magpies (viola da gamba)
Airs of men long dead (mezzo soprano and piano)
All spring (soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, bass and percussion) | 230 |
38708411 | The show was nominated for a BAFTA again in 2014, and the same year Gram, alongside Price, Lindholm, Kragh-Jacobsen and series producer Camilla Hammerich, was awarded a Peabody for his work on Borgen. | 200 |
4134538 | The driver's side window controls had an unusual placement in that the drivers window switch was both one-touch express down and double-sized, meaning it was the same width as two conventional window switches towards the top, with the front and rear passenger window switches further down, with the window lockout switch installed next to the front passenger switch, instead of the drivers window switch. The front passenger and rear passenger window switches were thumb activated, installed at the top of the interior door pull handle. This version of the Leopard was the first car sold in Japan to include a passenger-side airbag as standard equipment. | 654 |
23049623 | Elaine Marley's voice actress in The Curse of Monkey Island, Alexandra Boyd, was also brought back for her role. Boyd was unable to travel to Telltale's studio in California; instead, she recorded her lines in London, while communicating with the voice director via Skype. Earl Boen - the original voice actor for LeChuck - had retired from acting, and was not initially available to reprise his role. The character was instead voiced by Adam Harrington in the first episode, and replaced by Kevin Blackton as the human LeChuck in chapters two to four. | 552 |
74268096 | Mayenne added onto the Estates chosen delegates his own men: the former secretary of state Villeroy, the ligueur governor of Rouen and future Admiral Villars, the ligueur governor of Paris Belin.
For the royalist delegation, the ligueur Estates vetoed the participation of the bishop of Le Mans, as he was known to support toleration. | 334 |
64358513 | She thus grew up in an environment dominated by politics and from an early age she became interested in political action, especially in women's rights. After studying at home, like most of the girls of the upper bourgeoisie, and then at secondary schools, she enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, graduating in 1926. She never practiced law, although she did work at a children’s court. However, her knowledge of women's rights from the legal point of view was essential for her role of informing many women about their rights. | 550 |
2987450 | Housing stock includes a variety of styles and time frames, from older shotgun houses and bungalows to suburban ranch homes built in the 1970s.
Louisville's CBS television affiliate WLKY is located in Clifton Heights. A major production factory for Fischer's meats was located in the area for many decades before being relocated to Owensboro, Kentucky. The former factory building is now an arts and community center. The world's oldest water tower is located just to the community's north on the Ohio River. | 508 |
31152542 | Amegilla quadrifasciata, the white-banded digger bee, is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae subfamily Apinae.
These bees have a wide distribution ranging from the Canary Islands in the west to Japan in the east. They are present in most of central and southern Europe, in central Asia and in North Africa.
Amegilla quadrifasciata grows up to long, The males are similar to the females. The thorax is orange-brown and densely hairy, while the abdomen alternate black and white transversal stripes. | 510 |
64381431 | Kells Irish Pub is a pub in Portland, Oregon, United States. The restaurant is housed in the Glisan Building, in the southwest portion of the city's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. Opened in 1990, the restaurant is owned and operated by Gerard and Lucille McAleese. Their son Garrett opened Kells Brew Pub (now Kells Brewery) in northwest Portland in 2012. Since 1995, money affixed to the ceiling has been donated to charity. The restaurant also hosts an annual Kells Irish Festival, and hosted the first Irish Beer Festival in 2017. | 535 |
29039687 | On July 22 the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Byblos issued its first call to cancel the concert. Members of the band and prospective festival audience members received a flurry of threats of violence and death on social media.
In an attempt to defuse the situation, a Byblos Festival spokesperson claimed that a compromise was reached and that the concert would be held if the band members held a press conference to apologize to those who might have been offended and pulled the two offending songs from the festival set. | 521 |
61534 | According to cladistics, groups should not be left paraphyletic, where it is kept not consisting of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Resolving this problem would cause major ramifications in the nomenclature of all descendent species. Possibilities suggested have been to rename Homo sapiens to Australopithecus sapiens (or even Pan sapiens), or to move some Australopithecus species into new genera.
In 2002 and again in 2007, Cele-Conde et al. suggested that A. africanus be moved to Paranthropus. | 512 |
6070364 | The NCC created 12 Welsh Areas of Search; they mostly follow county borders, but the larger counties (Dyfed, Powys and Gwynedd) were divided into multiple Areas using district borders. Mid and South Glamorgan were merged into a single AOS, whilst Llanelli district was included in the West Glamorgan AOS.
Due to subsequent local government reorganisation in the UK since 1972, many counties and districts have been divided, merged or renamed. | 442 |
28823789 | Bernards Heath is a heathland in St Albans, Hertfordshire, the site of the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461 during the Wars of the Roses.
In the 19th century it was the Hertfordshire County cricket ground.
There is a Second World War public air raid shelter situated beneath Bernards Heath (NGR TL 1535 0820), the steps down into it are covered by a concrete slab. | 366 |
1756585 | Computer literacy differs from digital literacy, which is the ability to communicate or find information on digital platforms. Comparatively, computer literacy measures the ability to use computers and to maintain a basic understanding of how they operate.
A person's computer literacy is commonly measured through questionnaires, which test their ability to write and modify text, trouble-shoot minor computer operating issues, and organize and analyze information on a computer.
To increase their computer literacy, computer users should distinguish which computer skills they want to improve, and learn to be more purposeful and accurate in their use of these skills. | 670 |
8476793 | The park was embroiled in a political controversy over its nomenclature, when the Bharatiya Janata Party state government revoked the decision that it be called the Rajiv Gandhi National Park.
Mukundara Hills National Park is mountainous and has a variety of plants, trees and animals. It has grasslands in between and also many dry deciduous trees. There are four rivers that flow in this region, the rivers are Chambal river, Kali river, Ahu river, Ramzan river. | 464 |
1748286 | Its estimated population of about 20 million mature individuals is, however, believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified.
Stamps (for El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Suriname) with Range Map at bird-stamps.org
Native birds of the Southwestern United States
Birds of the Rio Grande valleys | 323 |
59688403 | Diamond in the Dirt may refer to:
Diamond in the Dirt (album), a 2004 album by MC Shystie
Diamond in the Dirt (EP), an EP by Mist | 131 |
8722145 | He was in a heterosexual relationship, and was eventually revealed to be attracted to Torchwood's Jack, who after an unfortunate "temporal shift", landed in 1941 during the height of the Cardiff blitz. The episode was the favorite selected by fans for the 2020 Radio Times Watch-along simulcast.
He also appears in the films Day of the Dead, Boogeyman 3, Beyond the Sea, The Monuments Men and Black Beauty. Rippy starred in the cult B-movie Roboshark released on the SyFy Channel in 2015. | 488 |
29257261 | The duo take the car and repair it to good condition, and sell it to a person who is fond of collecting old items - Mundakkal Sivarama Menon, after mimicking that the car had enough demand from another person. In this process, Nicholas steals an old sword from Menon's house. While returning in the night, their car was hit by a bullet; which they follow and get the repair compensation charges from JJ's men, who were in that car. JJ was impressed with them. | 459 |
62389594 | The Bugle from Gutian () is a 2019 Chinese historical film directed by Chen Li and starring Wang Renjun, Wang Zhifei, Liu Zhiyang, Hu Bing, Zhang Yishan, Sun Weimin, and Li Youbin. It is produced jointly by August First Film Studio and Fujian Film Studio. It is based on the 1929 Gutian Congress. The film premiered in China on August 1, 2019, to commemorate the establishment of 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. | 431 |
44992143 | During the ceremony, Hum also held its annual Honorary Awards, which were presented by host Sanam Saeed. For the first time since its inception, the ceremony was held in Dubai because of Hum Network's completion of a 10 years and its global success. Veteran actress Atiqa Odho served as a first brand ambassador of ceremony.
Bunty I Love You won two awards including Best Drama Serial - Jury and Best Actress - Jury by Saba Qamar. | 431 |
54464558 | He was also a member of the Claremont Pomological Club-Citrus Growers Club in 1921 which frequently met at their home. Grigsby started The Kingsley Tract Water Col, Limited corporation in Pomona.
L. E. Grigsby and his wife are buried in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California in a black granite pyramid mausoleum. | 327 |
3219405 | The wave proceeded southwest across the open waters of the Pacific Ocean for several days, slowly gaining strength on August 14–15 south of Okinawa, Japan. On the morning of August 15, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center began following the storm, which had winds of . Slowly gaining strength, the storm, now named Sarah, became a typhoon on that afternoon. Sarah soon started making a loop on August 16 and August 17, peaking at winds of 85 mph (140 mp/h) and an internal pressure of 978 millibars. | 496 |
1015057 | An honorific is a title that conveys esteem, courtesy, or respect for position or rank when used in addressing or referring to a person. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense to refer to an honorary academic title. It is also often conflated with systems of honorific speech in linguistics, which are grammatical or morphological ways of encoding the relative social status of speakers. Honorifics can be used as prefixes or suffixes depending on the appropriate occasion and presentation in accordance with style and customs. | 553 |
1089216 | With nearing completion and the only remaining Austro-Hungarian battleship still under construction in the shipyards of Trieste, the major shipbuilding enterprises in Austria offered to begin construction on three dreadnoughts at their own financial risk, in exchange for promises from the Austro-Hungarian government that the battleships would be purchased as soon as the budget impasse had been resolved. After negotiations involving the ministries of foreign affairs, war and finance, the navy agreed to the offer but lowered the number of dreadnoughts that would be constructed before a budget was passed from three to two. | 629 |
11821462 | Layout: Chris Randall, Jean Flynn, Stephen Thomas, Ted Pettengell
Animation: Dan Whitworth, Denise Heywood, Andy Wilson, Phil McMylor, Meryl Edge, Stephen Thomas, Jean Flynn, Robert Newman, Phil Morris, Kay Widdowson, Janet Nunn, Arthur de Cloedt, George Jackson, Denise McAllister, Gary Owen, Clinton J. Priest, Margaret Riley | 327 |
2747842 | The 2001 hardcover edition of The Meaning of Things was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. A paperback edition was published in 2002 by Phoenix, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group. The American edition hardcover edition was published by Oxford University Press in 2002. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, also an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, published a paperback edition in 2002 and a Kindle edition in 2011. | 411 |
10648612 | According to the official profile, Love is a female bunny weighing 22 kilograms with a height of 99 centimeters. Her speech consists of few words. She is often shy and lonely, but acts restless. Love lacks the ability to jump and has slow movement, and her hobbies include turning over, being idle, and playing tricks. Love also likes cheap candy such as milk wafers, and dislikes people without substance, dentists, and non-organic vegetables. | 444 |
4767563 | Gunārs Astra (22 October 1931 – 6 April 1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961 and sentenced to prison for 15 years. He was released in 1976. In 1983, he was arrested again but released several weeks before his death.
Gunārs Astra was born in Riga, on 22 October 1931. He graduated primary school and later continued his education in an electromechanical technical school. | 439 |
46585284 | Carlotta shared in the proceeds from the capture on 24 May 1813 of the privateer Columbo, which may be the privateer alluded to. The actual captors appear to have been and .
On 13 October 1812 Carlotta detained the settee St Vittoria and put a prize crew consisting of Midshipman Hugh Stewart Morris and two sailors, Francis Baynson and François Richie, on board with instructions that they were to sail her in company with Carlotta to Malta. | 443 |
28194335 | In their first season in Ligue 2 they won their first six games, and ended up missing promotion to Ligue 1 by a point. In 1960 the club had their best run in the Coupe de France, reaching the 1/8th final round, before being defeated in extra time by AS Monaco. In 1967, with crowds dwindling, the club were forced to give up their professional status and return to amateur football. | 382 |
4418069 | After exhorting people to give their all to God and other people, the mishnah states that a person receives a reward in this world and in the next by honoring his father and mother, doing acts of lovingkindness, making peace between people, and that the study of Torah is equivalent to them all.
Likewise, the concluding mishnah is a compilation of ethical homilies warning people against feigning poverty, improperly taking from charity and perverting justice. | 461 |
124082 | There were 73 households, of which 9.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.6% were married couples living together, 1.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 45.2% were non-families. 42.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. | 390 |
5853545 | The tasks were to remove the obsolete Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR), originally installed during STS-61 to correct the spherical aberration of Hubble's mirror, and install the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), and to repair the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The ACS failed in June 2006 due to an electrical issue, and after being restored partially, failed again in 2007 due to an electrical short. The ACS was not designed to be serviced or repaired in space, so the task was considered one of the most challenging of the mission. | 568 |
28119506 | As of April 26, 2010, the Australian television program Q&A began showing selected tweets on screen during the live broadcast, which carried the hashtag "#qanda".
The ratio is a tongue-in-cheek rule-of-thumb method of judging how popular a Twitter post is, by comparing the number of replies and/or quote retweets to likes. A comment that has many replies but few likes is judged likely to be unpopular and the replies are likely those expressing disapproval. | 459 |
46946904 | is a 1989 Japanese horror film directed by and starring Eri Fukatsu. It was released in Japan on April 8, 1989.
At the 13th Japan Academy Prize, Eri Fukatsu won the award for Best Newcomer. At the 1989 Fantafestival, won the award for Best Director and Eri Fukatsu won the award for Best Actress. | 298 |
30765488 | The hurried efforts to close the half-century delay and industrialization gap that took place especially during the last three decades of the Commonwealth's existence, were only partially successful.
The industrialization process, initiated by landed magnates in the first half of the 18th century, intensified during its second half, when burgher entrepreneurship also became a significant component. Important for the development of manufacturing, mining and industrial financing was the leadership of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, from the early years of his reign. | 573 |
11400520 | The production Bantam had to be modified due to unsatisfactory spin characteristics of the prototypes. Continuous engine problems and downsizing of the Royal Air Force were factors in no more orders for the Bantam. Koolhoven returned to Netherlands with one aircraft where it was re-engined with a 200 hp (149 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Lynx radial engine. Several examples were operated as civil racing aircraft.
Prototypes and evaluation version, 2 built. | 456 |
68724006 | Pre-orders began on September 17 at 5:00 AM PST. Pricing starts at US$999 for the iPhone 13 Pro and US$1099 for the iPhone 13 Pro Max, the same as their respective previous generations.
On September 7, 2022, Apple removed the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max as well as the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 Mini from their official website following the release of the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. | 426 |
47340382 | "Hot Sugar" is about maintaining a relationship by pleasuring a partner, with lyrics such as "Give your man what he dreamin’ about" and a chorus in which Braxton repeats, "He want that sugar". Melody Charles for SoulTracks likened the lyrics, "Count it out, give that man what he dreams about / t-shirt and some heels on while he chase you all around the house", to "an aerobic 'sexy-back' manual for that special night in". | 424 |
229257 | In leaflets supporting his application of concealed weapons permits for his bodyguards in Leesburg, Virginia, he wrote:
Of LaRouche's paramilitary security force, armed with semi-automatic weapons, a spokesperson said that it was necessary because LaRouche was the subject of "assassination conspiracies".
1984: Schiller Institute, television spots, contact with Reagan administration
Helga Zepp-LaRouche founded the Schiller Institute in Germany in 1984. | 455 |
2894941 | Fusion Bistro Sushi & Sake Bar
On April 22, 2011, a 33-year-old man from Winter Haven, Florida, was found unconscious in front of the Universal Cineplex 20 theater after being tased by an off-duty police officer due to disorderly conduct. The man was taken to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital and later died. | 300 |
22438221 | Points were awarded 20-17-15-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 based on the top sixteen race positions in each race. There were two bonus points allocated for pole position. Pole position is indicated in bold text. | 210 |
25642562 | Along with Cornellana itself they donated a block of properties "acquired by inheritance or by [their] own efforts" (de parentibus nostris vel de nostris ganantiis, "from our parents and from our purchases"). All the lands Cluny received amounted to "fifty-six different properties scattered across a vast area, as well as four monasteria [monastic centres], six churches and a castle (castellum)." | 398 |
35783189 | Website at the Department of Physics of Yale University
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Maryland, College Park alumni | 176 |
96670 | This was also the first time since 1848, when Whig Zachary Taylor narrowly won Georgia, that the county voted for a presidential candidate who did not win the state. In the following three presidential elections, Wilkinson continued to give Democratic candidates between 53% and 59% of the vote.
In 2000, Al Gore won Wilkinson County by a margin of 1.3%, or 84 votes, receiving 50.4% to George W. Bush's 48.1%. | 410 |
31710244 | Turner has guest conducted the National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, the Syracuse Symphony ("Symphoria"), the National Youth Band of Canada, University of Southern California Wind Ensemble, Concordia Santa Fe, the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Latin American Honor Band, the National Band of Costa Rica, the National Orchestra of Heredia, and numerous state honor bands. Turner has been invited to present her research with teaching and technology, innovative rehearsal techniques, and service-learning and music performance at numerous conferences nationally and internationally. | 620 |
2013112 | The Lost Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in central Colorado in Jefferson and Park counties, south of the town of Bailey. The area is situated entirely within the boundaries of the Pike National Forest.
The Lost Creek Scenic Area is a 16,798-acre National Natural Landmark within the Wilderness.
The area is named for Lost Creek, a perennial stream that disappears and reappears before finally joining Goose Creek, which empties into the South Platte River at Cheesman Reservoir just east of the Wilderness area. | 527 |
52702242 | Larkhill Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium on Larkhill Road in north Yeovil, south Somerset
The Larkhill Stadium was constructed in 1947 on the east side of Larkhill Road and the south side of Greenwood Road on fields that formed part of Larkhill Farm.
The greyhound racing started in 1947 and the greyhound racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the National Greyhound Racing Club). It was known as a flapping track which was the nickname given to independent tracks. | 502 |
68274772 | Suzanne Palmer is an American science fiction writer known for her novelette "The Secret Life of Bots", which won a Hugo Award in 2018. The story also won a Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award and was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
Palmer has a Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was the head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a system administrator at Smith College.
She has been publishing short fiction and poetry since 2005. | 581 |
5180310 | Harry F. Cunningham reviewed the building much more harshly in a 1928 issue of The American Yearbook, calling the building "one of the greatest steps in the present backward tendency shown in American architecture" for its rejection of modernist styles In a book published in 1932, W. Parker Chase called the Helmsley Building "the most remarkable office building in the world", saying that the construction of the George Washington Bridge—then the world's longest suspension bridge—was about as complex as the Helmsley Building's construction. | 544 |
47292719 | The Ottoman authorities remained suspicious of Zahir nonetheless, and also believed that ex-governor As'ad Pasha had a hand in the raid since no attacks against the caravan had occurred during his 15-year governorship. The latter was arrested and was executed on the way to a prison in Crete.
Husayn Pasha did not return to Damascus with the surviving pilgrims and his absence left a political void in the city. The yerliyya Janissaries revolted, causing businesses in Damascus to shutter and prices of bread to more than double, leading to more riots in the city. | 564 |
33608992 | Pat Harrington, Jr., who appeared with Bertinelli in the long-running CBS sitcom One Day at a Time, guest starred as a rival private investigator in the seventh episode of the season, which was directed by John Ratzenberger. Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, who acted as creative consultants on the show, also made various guest appearances. Chazz Palminteri played Tony in the episode "Love Ya, Babe". Other guest actors included Yeardley Smith, Kevin Dunn, Annabelle Gurwitch, Tony Longo, Andy Dick and Michael E. Knight. | 527 |
21691846 | The tests resulted in three new UL Certifications (HW-D-0488, HW-D-0489, and HW-D-0490), as well as further clarification from the UL for those who work with fire rated walls and unrated ceiling assemblies.
Hot Box Testing: Buildings consume approximately 40 percent of energy used in the United States annually. The MBMA is working with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee to create more energy-efficient structures. | 435 |
36807154 | Lev Ilych Chegorovsky (; 20 February 1914, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire — 21 October 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter and Art teacher, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. Lev Chegorovsky regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait and historical paintings. | 379 |
9875880 | The intercept theorem, also known as Thales's theorem, basic proportionality theorem or side splitter theorem is an important theorem in elementary geometry about the ratios of various line segments that are created if two rays with a common starting point are intercepted by a pair of parallels. It is equivalent to the theorem about ratios in similar triangles. It is traditionally attributed to Greek mathematician Thales. It was known to the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, although its first known proof appears in Euclid's Elements.
Suppose S is the common starting point of two rays and A, | 599 |
26801737 | In 1999, he worked against the mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods in Japan, stating that such labeling "would suggest a health risk where there is none." In 2003, he criticized the European Union's precautionary rejection of the importation of genetically modified foods, stating that the ban was tantamount to "denying food to starving people." In 2009 he called for a "second green revolution" employing biotechnology and genetic engineering. | 458 |
51992974 | One such procession was arranged at Gurdwara Rampur Khera Sahib to commemorate 300 years of martyrdom of Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji.
Baba Ji arranged for roads, bridges and buildings to be constructed, khalsa schools and colleges were given immense financial help from Baba Ji and Sangat alike Poorer students from all around were given higher education to get good jobs in government and teaching. Free eye camps, free medical facilities were constructed to aid the needy on behalf of Baba Ji. | 500 |
74902418 | Feiner has been handicapping sports since the 1990s and claims his success dwindled due to the rise of the internet, stating that he had a $16 million sports handicapping business in 1997. Although he is an avid and admitted sports gambler, he is a critic of gambling, stating "Gambling is for the rich to lose money".
Feiner rose back to prominince in 2017 when he first appeared on the Barstool Sports podcast, Pardon My Take, where he would become a reoccurring guest due to his vibrant and boistrous personality. | 516 |
19114936 | Thick soups are classified depending upon the type of thickening agent used: bisques are made from puréed shellfish or vegetables thickened with cream; cream soups may be thickened with béchamel sauce; and veloutés are thickened with eggs, butter, and cream. Other ingredients commonly used to thicken soups and broths include rice, lentils, flour, and grains; many popular soups also include carrots and potatoes. | 414 |
3988094 | Even a position statement by a panel of physicians sponsored by Autism Speaks that included Krigsman concluded that the clinical significance of the findings of inflammation in the intestines is unknown as it is also found in children without autism.
Andrew Wakefield, who later joined and worked with Krigsman at Thoughtful House, was found to have falsified the 1998 Lancet study, which was described as "an elaborate fraud."
Krigsman has testified as an expert witness in a number of test claims to the Office of Special Masters of the U.S. | 544 |
1121834 | Run up to 25 feet, she came out of the water to the waterline; then backed off into deep water. Within five minutes, she was operating at periscope depth. The fueling destroyer had gotten underway from alongside the tanker and was racing across the intervening waters. S-34 fired two torpedoes at the destroyer, forcing the enemy to swerve and pass down the submarine's port side. Unable then to bring her tubes to bear on the tanker, the S-boat swung right to avoid depth charges. | 481 |
196486 | Troy, Thomas F (1981). Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.
William J. Donovan Papers, 1913-1920: An inventory of his papers at the Buffalo History Museum, courtesy of EmpireADC.org.
FBI FoI Act Release: File#:77-78706 William J. Donovan
Ambassadors of the United States to Thailand
United States Army personnel of World War | 419 |
1050534 | Other methods of training for Chen-style using training aids including pole/spear shaking exercises, which teach a practitioner how to extend their silk reeling and fa jing skill into a weapon.
In addition to the solo exercises listed above, there are partner exercises known as pushing hands, designed to help students maintain the correct body structure when faced with resistance. There are five methods of push hands that students learn before they can move on to a more free-style push hands structure, which begins to resemble sparring. | 542 |
35475045 | Kelton's first TV writing job was on the syndicated game show Face the Music. He segued to sketch comedy, joining the writing staff of the ABC late-night sketch show Fridays!. He went on to write for a string of sketch comedy series before being hired by Saturday Night Live as a staff writer at the beginning of the 1983–84 season. During this time, the writing staff earned an Emmy nomination.
After his two-year stint at SNL, Kelton returned to Los Angeles and continued writing for sketch comedy series and specials. | 520 |
59676362 | The 2007 Pan American Games torch relay was a 39-day torch run, from June 5 to July 13, 2007, held prior to the 2007 Pan American Games. On June 4, the torch was lit at the torch lighting ceremony in Teotihuacán, Mexico. The flame was then taken by a Brazilian Air Force craft to Santa Cruz Cabrália, Bahia, Brazil, where the torch relay began.
The relay toured through 42 Brazilian cities - each one representing a different country in the Pan American Games. | 460 |
59565094 | "Someone You Loved" was a commercial success, peaking at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. The song became Capaldi's first No. 1 single, spending seven consecutive weeks atop the chart and was the best selling single of 2019 in the UK. It also peaked at No. 1 on the Irish Singles Chart in March 2019. In the United States, "Someone You Loved" was a sleeper hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 in its 24th week on the chart. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 62nd Grammy Awards. | 485 |
1969388 | This open pit mine would develop, over the years, into one of Europe's biggest copper mines. During its first year of operations, it produced approximately 9,000 tonnes of copper, 160 kg of gold and 7 tonnes of silver.
The company grew during the first few years of the 1970s thanks to a joint venture with the German company, Preussag. This led to the expansion of Boliden's lead smelting and refining capacity, and in 1976, Boliden launched a Kaldo type furnace, for processing metals. | 487 |
10701462 | Sandgrouse have small, pigeon like heads and necks, but sturdy compact bodies. | 78 |
3000609 | The acquisition was completed in 2005, whereupon Certance ceased to exist as an independent company.
Companies based in Costa Mesa, California
Defunct technology companies of the United States
Defunct computer companies of the United States | 240 |
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