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67390178 | Folklorist and poet François-Marie Luzel (1821–1895) recorded a version of the song, which he published (with facing-page translation) in volume 1 of his Gwerziou Breiz-Izel (1868). It was sung by Mari-Anna Ann Noan (Marie-Anne Lenoan), an old beggar woman from Duault. | 269 |
40729008 | Thorius wrote a Latin ode in 1603, exhorting his wife and family to leave London on account of the plague. In 1610 he wrote Hymnus Tabaci, a poem of two books in hexameters. The influence of the Syphilis of Hieronymus Fracastorius has been suggested, a parallel being the way he addresses Sir William Paddy, as Fracastorius addresses Peter Bembo. | 346 |
30677280 | Nancy Margaret Reid (born September 17, 1952) is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory. In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.
Reid has served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada.
She is co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.
In 1992, Reid received the COPSS Presidents' Award for outstanding contributions to statistics. | 564 |
32828304 | In August 2016, Optical Express partnered with the charity Chernobyl Children's Life Line to provide free eye care for children from the contaminated area around the nuclear disaster site.
In January 2020 Optical Express donated £100,000 to Race Against Dementia, the charity founded by Sir Jackie Stewart to fund breakthrough and innovative dementia research. | 360 |
2329753 | Known collectively as The School's Collection, these interviews were conducted by more than 50,000 school children from all primary schools in the South of Ireland. The 1,128 volumes include written accounts are sorted of daily life as well as regional folklore and stories as told by the interviewees. This was instigated by Seán Ó Súilleabháin and Séamus Ó Duilearga, who publicized the scheme and explained to teachers what folklore was and how to properly collect it. They met with principal teachers, who then explained to the children how to collect the folklore for the collection. | 588 |
50037673 | Thorpe, Gus Welch and Goesback each made more than 10 yards per carry on the drive. After an offside penalty moved the ball back to the fifteen, "Welch slipped past Pitt's right end for 15 yards and a touchdown. Thorpe kicked the goal." Carlisle led at halftime 21 to 0.
Pitt received the second half kickoff and Hube Wagner threw an interception. On first down Jim Thorpe "slipped past Pitt's left end like a shadow for a 40 yard run ending behind the goal line. He then kicked goal." | 485 |
6985273 | Moon made his début for Leeds on 1 February 2013, he scored in the 2nd half and was awarded with the man of the match. Having made an excellent start to his Leeds career, forming an excellent partnership with winger Ryan Hall, which led him to sign a new contract with the club in May 2014, keeping him at Headingley until 2018.
He played in the 2014 Challenge Cup Final victory over the Castleford Tigers at Wembley Stadium,
He played in the 2015 Challenge Cup Final victory over Hull Kingston Rovers at Wembley Stadium. | 521 |
228433 | The DVD Smile was released to document this tour.
Perfect Future soon followed, with more jazz leanings, and only one guest vocalist, Fumio Ito (of Kemuri). Kin-Ichi Motegi also recorded a vocal track for this album. A few months after the release of Perfect Future, Tatsuyuki Hiyamuta, essentially the band's front man in live performances, decided to leave the band in order to concentrate on healing his legs, due to the accident suffered in 1996. The band decided not to replace him, thereby remaining as a nine-piece. | 524 |
24581018 | Following the deliberation of the judges on the top 28 acts in the judges' cull, each act will compete in a battle of talents in the live shows, with more than six acts qualifying for the finals. There are currently three types of live shows before the finals: quarter and semi-finals, as well as wildcard rounds.
The quarterfinals were first introduced in the second season and then appeared in the fourth season with six acts performing each week. | 449 |
57540 | Robert Mearns Yerkes (; May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology.
Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees. Along with John D. Dodson, Yerkes developed the Yerkes–Dodson law relating arousal to performance. | 448 |
12475742 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Puerto Iguazú () is in the frontier city of Puerto Iguazú, in the province of Misiones in Argentina.
On 16 June 1986, Blessed John Paul II established the Diocese of Puerto Iguazú from the Diocese of Posadas. It lost territory in 2009 when the Diocese of Oberá was established. | 308 |
2295891 | Mark David Brooks (born March 25, 1961) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions.
Brooks was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a three-time All-American as a member of the golf team. He turned professional in 1983.
Brooks has seven wins on the PGA Tour, including one major, the 1996 PGA Championship. He was a member of the U.S. Presidents Cup team in 1996. | 441 |
29988074 | The US congressional testimony by Jackie Robinson, the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era, against the famous entertainer and international civil rights activist Paul Robeson, was an American Cold War incident. Its events were precipitated when, at an international student peace conference held in Paris on April 20, 1949, Robeson allegedly made a speech to the effect that African Americans would not support the United States in a war with the Soviet Union, due to continued second-class citizen status under United States law. | 565 |
38675103 | A 28-year-old and a 32-year-old German had identified a section of the perimeter fence where the wire was simply looped round a boundary post and twisted together. On Sunday evening 11 March 1945 they untwisted the wire and made a gap wide enough to slip through. Unique amongst escapes on the island, they took with them some food. This enabled them to sleep rough in the fields without having to come into contact with anyone. | 428 |
51118531 | Not even having publicized his proposal, Martenstein already received heavy criticism. Among the critics was Die Welt journalist Matthias Heine, who accused Martenstein of tempting the wrong people to over-use the word by putting too much of an emphasis on the term, therefore turning Gutmensch into an unusable word for those being of sound mind. Ironically, one year earlier, German writer Akif Pirinçci had called Martenstein a Gutmensch in his polemic Deutschland von Sinnen (Germany unhinged). | 498 |
74567 | Recent studies give widely varying error rates with over seven orders of magnitude difference, ranging from , roughly one bit error, per hour, per gigabyte of memory to one bit error, per century, per gigabyte of memory. The Schroeder et al. 2009 study reported a 32% chance that a given computer in their study would suffer from at least one correctable error per year, and provided evidence that most such errors are intermittent hard rather than soft errors and that trace amounts of radioactive material that had gotten into the chip packaging were emitting alpha particles and corrupting the data. | 602 |
149356 | National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, Greece),
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium),
The Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
The Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago, USA),
Smith College Museum of Art (Northhampton, USA),
Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, (Annandale-on-Hudson, USA)
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D. | 399 |
21602816 | It was only in the 17th century, in the year 1612, when the powers of the city moved to the area around the Plaza Grande, they decided to call this way for being the largest at the time.
Initially it was just an esplanade of packed dirt that was placed in a water source to supply the vital liquid to the neighbors. Being larger than the tentative square, and unemployed land still be around, some institutions decided to stand on its flanks. | 442 |
8986038 | Romy Gauchan Thakali () is a Nepalese politician. He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.
His son Yogesh Gauchan Thakali was elected to the House Of Representatives in 2022.
Nepali Congress politicians from Gandaki Province
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly | 403 |
5826842 | In Concert continued to appear approximately every other Friday night until it left the ABC schedule on April 25, 1975.
During its three seasons on the air, the series received four Primetime Emmy Awards.
The series was revived on June 7, 1991 under the name In Concert '91. It was intended to be a summer replacement for Rick Dees' late night series Into The Night. In Concert '91 proved to be more popular and achieved high ratings for a late-night show on Fridays. Into the Night was consequently not brought back for the next season. | 537 |
30246781 | ".Newsday's reviewer wrote, "Somewhere very far away - as far, say, as the final 15 minutes - "A Free Man of Color" becomes an important play. Finally, after 2 ½ hours of brain-blurring historical asides, strenuously costumed artifice and luxuriously overpopulated incoherence, the point and resonance of this crazy-ambitious collaboration between playwright John Guare and director George C. Wolfe fall deeply into place." | 423 |
37820603 | The Royal British Legion (Stafford Branch): 25 November 2021.
201 (Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Parachute Battery RA (V): 8 July 2012. | 147 |
33392737 | According to the District Human Development Report, “more people are now engaged in non-agricultural activities, such as fishing, retail sales, vegetable vending, selling milk, and so on. As all these activities are at the lower end of the spectrum of marketable skills, it remains doubtful if these activities generate enough return for their family’s sustenance.”
Birbhum district is listed as a backward region and receives financial support from the Backward Regions Grant Fund. The fund, created by the Government of India, is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. | 587 |
3308651 | It has been found to reduce prostate volume by about 25%, which is comparable to the reduction achieved with the 5α-reductase inhibitor finasteride. Unfortunately, it has been associated with side effects in these studies including gynecomastia and breast tenderness (in about 50% of patients), gastrointestinal disturbances such as nausea, diarrhea, and flatulence, and hepatotoxicity, although sexual function including libido and erectile potency were maintained.
Flutamide was studied for the treatment of advanced breast cancer in two phase II clinical trials but was found to be ineffective. | 597 |
58824931 | János Scholz (December 20, 1903 – June 3, 1993) was a Hungarian-born American cellist and art collector.
Scholz was born in 1903 in Sopron, Hungary. He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
Scholz began playing the cello with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. He joined the Roth Quartet in 1932. By 1933, he was a cellist in New York City. He became "one of the great cellists of the twentieth century." | 425 |
53488634 | Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus was a Roman senator of the first century. He was suffect consul for the nundinium of January to April AD 92 with Qunintus Volusius Saturninus, replacing the emperor Domitian.
The Venuleii were, in the words of Ronald Syme, "an eminent and opulent family at Pisae". | 301 |
5985110 | The two tracks between Colaba and Grant Road stations were electrified, while four tracks between Grant Road and Bandra railway stations were electrified. Only two suburban tracks between Bandra and Borivali were electrified in 1928, two main tracks were left for the steam locomotives. In 1933, Colaba railway station and two electrified tracks between Colaba and Churchgate railway stations were dismantled. | 409 |
55206108 | Individuals who participated in the ESTEEM program experienced fewer depression-related thoughts and feelings and they also consumed less alcohol.
Parent and family-based LGBT treatment and education
Many LGBTQ youth may receive backlash from their families due to their sexuality or sexual identity. This may result in mental health issues such as suicide or depression. The unacceptability of an LGBTQ youth's sexuality within a household may result in mistreatment or in more severe cases, removing said person from the home. | 529 |
16615729 | Later in his career, a preseason game with the Chicago Bulls in 2007, was the closest he came to playing in the NBA, before being waived by the Bulls in October, less than two weeks after being signed.
After being released by Seattle, he moved to Europe, signing in France with Pau-Orthez for the first part of the 1996–97 season.
After a return to the U.S., to play for the Harlem Globetrotters and the Long Island Surf, the latter of the United States Basketball League (USBL), Blair returned to Europe in 1998. | 513 |
24944977 | The Yaqui topminnow can be distinguished by its superior mouth, longer snout, and the pattern of lateral banding on the body of the female, which rarely extends anterior to the bases of the pelvic fins.
This fish lives in shallow, warm, slow-moving waters containing thick algae and debris. It is most common in marshes, especially those fed by springs. It feeds on detritus and small bits of animal and plant material.
The female bears 20 or more young per brood, and may produce a brood about every 20 days. | 509 |
20102830 | , including photo in 2000, at Maryland Historical Trust website
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Buildings and structures in Rockville, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Maryland | 242 |
54318407 | In 2022, the TM campaigned against the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, and has called on the streaming service Netflix to remove anti-Roma jokes made by Jimmy Carr.
Human rights organisations based in the United Kingdom
Irish Travellers in the United Kingdom | 278 |
227021 | Franz-Jozef Dickhut won, though Crazy Stone won the first match by 1.5 points.
2015 onwards: The deep learning era
AlphaGo, developed by Google DeepMind, was a significant advance in computer strength compared to previous Go programs. It used techniques that combined deep learning and Monte Carlo tree search. In October 2015, it defeated Fan Hui, the European Go champion, five times out of five in tournament conditions. In March 2016, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in the first three of five matches. | 500 |
17806509 | David Churbuck is a blogger, technology journalist, and co-founder and former editor of Forbes.com.
In 1988 he wrote "The Book of Rowing"- a book about the history of the sport.
Churbuck has over 25 years of experience in print and online media. He is currently head of the Boston office of Sitrick and Company, a crisis management and strategic communications firm with headquarters in Los Angeles. Previously he was vice president of corporate marketing at Acquia. | 466 |
65566624 | Regina Hing Yue Tsang () is a Chinese actress and singer from Hong Kong. Tsang is the 1978 Miss Hong Kong 2nd runner up. Tsang is known for Sword Stained with Royal Blood, the 1985 Wuxia TV series that was broadcast on TVB.
In 1978, Tsang competed in Miss Hong Kong Pageant and won as 2nd runner up. Tsang was defeated by Winnie Chan. It is tradition for the 2nd place winner to proceed to participate at the Miss International pageant. | 436 |
3235071 | The Hamilton Brothers worked for the New York, NY, based Capitol Wrestling, (the precursor to World Wrestling Entertainment), where they were put in a storyline with the top tag team of the promotion Antonino Rocca and Miguel Pérez. In May 1958, the Hamilton Brothers faced Rocca and Pérez in the main event of a Madison Square Garden show making Jody, age 19 at the time, the youngest man to ever co-star in a main event at Madison Square Garden.
After the Hamilton brothers time in New York, Jody Hamilton decided to strike out on his own working as a singles wrestler. | 571 |
40311203 | On 29 June 2013, Coentrão was loaned to Segunda Liga club Leixões S.C. for the upcoming campaign. He made 40 total appearances for the side from Matosinhos, and scored the only goal of an away win against Atlético Clube de Portugal on 27 October.
Upon returning to Varzim, Coentrão was a first-team regular, winning promotion to the second division in 2014–15 and playing several years at that level. On 31 July 2016, he scored twice in a 2–1 victory at S.C. | 458 |
54528184 | | 496064 || || — || July 29, 2009 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || critical || align=right data-sort-value="0.98" | 980 m ||
| 496065 || || — || July 27, 2009 || Catalina || CSS || || align=right | 1. | 201 |
18650873 | Hinshaw coined the term "data warehouse appliance" to describe a product of shared nothing parallel nodes specifically targeted for high data volumes for modern data analytics.
He left Netezza to found Dataupia in 2005.
Netezza software was based on PostgreSQL 7.2, but did not maintain compatibility.
Jim Baum was appointed CEO of Netezza in January, 2008 after co-founder Jit Saxena announced his retirement. Baum started at Netezza as chief operating officer in 2006. | 470 |
69600566 | In October 2009, when the RCMP decided not to prosecute the four constables of the RCMP who killed Dziekanski, Ogrodziński read out a letter at the public inquiry in Vancouver asking for the four constables to be prosecuted as he stated: "Justice must be achieved, responsibility determined, and wrongdoers be made accountable through criminal prosecution". Ogrodziński felt there was a conflict of interest with the RCMP investigating the constables responsible for Dziekanski's death. | 487 |
74096644 | The 2023–24 Midlands Football League is the third season of the Midlands Football League, part of the sixth tier of the Scottish football pyramid system. Carnoustie Panmure are the reigning champions for the second season in a row.
Montrose Roselea rejoined the SJFA East Region to increase the league's membership to 20 teams, having spent six seasons playing in the North Region. | 381 |
52120159 | During Monte Carlo Fighting Masters, Kryklia fought Fabrice Aurieng for both the Prince Albert's Cup and the Monte Carlo FM heavyweight title. He won the fight by TKO, after Aurieng's corner threw in the towel in the second round.
In December 2017, Kryklia fought in the Kunlun Fight heavyweight tournament, held at the KLF 68 event. He won the quarterfinal bout against Ning Tianshuai by a first-round TKO and the semifinal bout against Felipe Micheletti by unanimous decision. | 478 |
44775663 | | 406321 || || — || June 10, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right | 4.1 km ||
| 406322 || || — || June 14, 2007 || Kitt Peak || Spacewatch || — || align=right data-sort-value="0.71" | 710 m ||
| 406323 || || — || August 4, | 242 |
54984931 | In 2011, she became chair of St Vincent and the Grenadines' investment promotion agency.
King was appointed as Permanent Representative to the United Nations by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on 13 September 2013. She has spoken on behalf of the L.69 Group of Developing Countries. In January 2016, St Vincent and the Grenadines voting rights were suspended due to outstanding payment of dues. King said it was a clerical error which would be fixed promptly.
On 29 September 2016, King was elected chair of the UN Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary). | 561 |
433780 | During his imprisonment, he was interrogated, tortured and unsuccessfully urged to join the Red Army.
After the launch of Operation Barbarossa and the signing of the Sikorski-Maisky agreement, Anders was released by the Soviets with the aim of forming a Polish Army to fight against the Germans alongside the Red Army. | 318 |
65967400 | Rebecca Young (née Anderson; born 27 December 1981) is an Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer who played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL Women's Premiership.
Primarily a , she is an Australian, New South Wales, Indigenous All Stars and Prime Minister's XIII representative. In rugby union, she represented Australia at the 2006 Women's Rugby World Cup.
Young was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and is of Indigenous Australian descent. She is married to former Newcastle Knights player Michael Young. | 521 |
6855791 | In 1929 the family moved to Switzerland. Shortly afterwards Clara Nordström moved with her children to Stuttgart and got a divorce in 1935 at Vegesack's wish. In that year she started to read from her works all over Germany. Her 1933 novel Kajsa Lejondahl was successful.
From her German base, she also wrote articles in the Swedish Nazi press. In 1936 she returned for a short period to the residential tower in Weißenstein near Regen and in 1938/39 she built a house in Baiersbronn in the Black Forest. | 504 |
6677793 | The Žirmūnai bank of the River Neris, from a point near Žirmūnai Bridge and continuing downstream, was stabilised during the 1980s with a steeply-sloped concrete net-like structure which includes patches of grass between the "webbing" of the net; the lower part of the fortification is a concrete tiled walkway, ending just over 4 kilometres downstream, beyond Liubartas Bridge in Žvėrynas. | 390 |
4924238 | In the center of the Twilight Zone playfield artwork is a door similar to the one shown in one of the TV show's opening sequences. The door consists of 14 border panels indicating various awards that are available for the player to collect. Some of the panels start single-ball or multi-ball timed modes that can be "stacked" (started while other modes are in progress), while other panels simply light shots or award points. The ultimate goal of the game is to light all 14 panels and start "Lost in the Zone", the game's "wizard mode", represented by the doorknob. | 569 |
7881486 | Her second album, Dangereuse attraction, was released on August 28, 2007. In August 2008, Marie-Mai was awarded gold certification for selling over 50,000 copies of this album in Canada. The record was eventually certified platinum.
On June 24, 2009, Marie-Mai featured for the first time in the Quebec National Holiday celebrations in Montreal, simulcast on the Radio-Canada Television and radio. | 397 |
62806090 | Now Emira comes and accuses Siroe of infidelity and cowardice for not telling his father about her plan. She thinks that as children of enemies they should also be enemies. He should therefore have warned his father about her. Since she does not want to renounce her planned revenge, he pulls out his sword to kill himself. At that moment, Cosroe arrives and mistakenly thinks Siroe has drawn his sword against Idaspe. Siroe declares himself guilty of this and asks his father to end his life. | 493 |
22213148 | In 1803, he was married to Nicoline Elisabeth Mielsen. Their children included priest and politician Nils Fredrik Julius Aars. They were also the grandparents of writer Sophus Christian Munk Aars as well as banker and politician Jens Ludvig Andersen Aars. Also, through his brother, Jens Aars was an uncle of educator Jacob Jonathan Aars and granduncle of philosopher Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars and architect Harald Aars. He was also a maternal great-grandfather of Harald Gram. | 484 |
3352200 | By 2011, the facility was booking over 100 events per year with a goal of increasing this number to 200 events.
In August 2011, the Board of Directors hired Peter Williams as the new Executive / Artistic Director. He came to Napa from Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland where he was Artistic Director from May 1999 until July 2011. Peter Williams left City Winery in May 2014 to move back to booking Yoshi's San Francisco, which was sold to new owners. | 447 |
2752238 | Artillery includes any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles.
Artillery battery: an organized group of artillery pieces (previously artillery park).
These terms are used for talking about how armed forces are used.
Many of the terms below can be applied to combat in other environments although most often used in reference to land warfare.
Ambush: carrying out a surprise attack on an enemy that passes by a concealed position. | 443 |
5478691 | The potatoes can be replaced with sweet plantains (relleno de maduros) or breadfruit (relleno de panapén).
Papa rellena was featured on the Bolivian episode of Netflix TV series Street Food in season 2. | 202 |
30775211 | On 18 June 2015, the Hamburger Morgenpost announced that Miyaichi had signed a three-year contract with FC St. Pauli in the 2. Bundesliga, describing the winger as a player with "huge potential". Miyaichi's transfer was confirmed on the club's website the next day, where it was revealed that he would wear the number 13 shirt for the upcoming season. | 351 |
52964970 | Brody goes to Scarlett's house to return the handbag, but Scarlett hits him over the head with a vase and ties him up. She threatens to call the police, and Brody opens up to her about his drug addiction. She makes him call his family and then frees him. Brody leaves with William Zannis (Caleb Alloway), who he says is his brother, and Scarlett thinks he is going to get help. The police track down Scarlett and ask her about the carjacking. She tells them she did not get a good look at the carjacker. | 503 |
59890651 | This international tournament was held at Agile Stadium which located inside the Lingshui Culture and Sports Square in Lingshui, Hainan, China.
Below is the point distribution for each phase of the tournament based on the BWF points system for the BWF Tour Super 100 event.
The total prize money for this tournament was US$75,000. Distribution of prize money was in accordance with BWF regulations. | 398 |
65995213 | In the absence, still, of a willing or unprohibited candidate from an established royal house, Iturbide was elected Emperor of Mexico by the Mexican congress in 1822 as Agustín I. Conflicts between congress and the emperor, coupled with the emperor's struggle to pay the military which propped up his regime, led to the empire's collapse. The emperor abdicated and went into exile in 1823. Mexico established a federated republic under the Constitution of 1824, but the idea of monarchy continued among Mexican conservatives. | 525 |
2125671 | The wilderness is approximately west of Great Falls, Montana; north of Missoula, and east of Kalispell; all of the communities have airports with commercial flights.
The wilderness was administratively created in 1940 from the South Fork, Pentagon, and Sun River Primitive Areas (which were designated in the 1930s). Passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964 provided for this wilderness to become part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
The wilderness is named in honor of Bob Marshall, a forester with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). | 547 |
39906493 | Bardkandeh (; also known as Bardkandi) is a village in Bahmai-ye Garmsiri-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Bahmai County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 172, in 34 families. | 244 |
513021 | It is similar in composition to the Mey Beds on the mainland, though in some places on Stroma it is replaced by beds of angular and rounded masses of sandstone in a nodular matrix, similar to the Ackergill Beds in Caithness. Only fragmentary fossil remains have been found; these include specimens of the extinct Devonian fish Dipterus and Coccosteus.
Stroma is bisected by a fault which runs in a north-south direction through its centre, intersected by another fault running in an east-northeast direction across the north of the island. | 539 |
6257446 | Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1529–1586), poet, courtier and politician
Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons (born 1937), Royal Air Force officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
Sir Norman Skelhorn (1909–1988), barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
Martin Ferguson Smith (born 1940), scholar and writer, | 355 |
464210 | Maschke, Die Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens
Friedrich Borchert: "Die Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens in Preußen." In: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 October 2001.
Jučas, Mečislovas (2009). The Battle of Grünwald. | 219 |
14404341 | gaps) in the original papyri; Larson notes, "[S]ome elements in several of the drawings appeared to Deveria to be guesswork, probably incorrect restorations of missing sections of the original papyri." Indeed, when the original papyri were later discovered, a comparison of the facsimiles with the papyri and the Kirtland Egyptian Papers revealed that the areas on Facsimile No. 1 which Egyptologists claim look modified (e.g. | 426 |
17326290 | When Laws Conflict, Intelligence Report, Issue Number 103, Fall 2001
Elliot Welles: A Survivor Faces A New 'Fuhrer', Anti-Defamation League, Press Release, May 22, 1996
Nancy Finken: Nebraska's Nazi, Nebraska Public Radio, March 24, 1995 (quoted after Statewide, Nebraska's weekly news journal)
Neo-Nazi organizations in the United States | 340 |
6241623 | Of her return, Riley stated "I could not be happier to be returning in the New Year to Emmerdale. It's something I never thought would happen after 17 years, and I am so interested to see what trouble Mandy is capable of causing. But mostly being back with all my old friends, it's like I've never been away." Mandy's return storyline will be "self-contained", and her arrival will "cause trouble" for her family, as she is hiding a secret. | 440 |
72294943 | Professor Brian Graham Wilson (1930-2019) was an Australian astrophysicist and academic. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1979 to 1996, the role's longest tenure ever.
Prior to his career in academic administration, he was a noted researcher in astrophysics for over 15 years specialising in cosmic radiation, solar physics and x-ray astronomy.
Officers of the Order of Australia | 413 |
6112371 | McQuarrie said "to have acted with Sarah when she took over for those last performances were some of the most extraordinary nights I'll ever have in the theatre. Her delivery was just perfect. That's how we all ought to have been doing it in – that was the way she wrote it. She couldn't have done it any other way just saying the lines."
Sarah Kane's agent, Mel Kenyon, remarked that "If I was going to put my hand on my heart I'd say [Kane] was a far better director than she was an actress". | 494 |
73634750 | There have been 59 Super Famicom titles available on Project EGG, 2 of which are no longer available for purchase:
Neo Geo was a family of Japanese video game hardware initially released by SNK in 1990 - and Neo Geo games started to be made available through Project EGG on April 19, 2011.
There were 20 Neo Geo titles available on Project EGG. The entire Neo Geo selection has since been delisted. | 398 |
33460093 | A small scale on the cursor allowed for the conversion of indicated air speed to true air speed, which differs depending on altitude. A small ring on the right side of the cursor was used to accurately place markings on the compass using the grease pencil. The face of the compass was then rotated to the aircraft heading, which caused the dot to move. The resulting position indicated the wind speed and direction. A holder for the pencil and a sharpener blade were attached on the left side of the case.
The third method of determining the wind is used in conjunction with the wind gauge bar. | 594 |
2584614 | This was the theme of Pick's original explanation, in which he suggested that the crucial mechanism was a "convulsive attack" that disrupted conscious memory.
Benson and colleagues later argued that damage to the right hemisphere of the brain rendered patients unable to maintain orientation owing to impaired visuospatial perception and visual memory, while frontal lobe damage made it difficult to inhibit the false impressions caused by disorientation. | 455 |
44929948 | In 1947, GN passenger train service ceased, the former route becoming freight only. In 2004, OmniTRAX subsidiary, Kettle Falls International Railway (KFR) purchased the track westward to San Poil, but abandoned San Poil–Danville in 2006.
The Ferry County Rail Trail stretches from Danville almost to Republic along the former GN rail bed.
By 1896, a Carson–Nelson–Eureka camps (Republic) stage operated. | 403 |
62979417 | For example, in her poem 'The Fissure': it's a heartbreaking love poem, [expressing a desire to keep the lover being lost as though in an ice fissure] and she writes: 'You and I are bound like Etna and Empedocles'. Where did that come from, all of a sudden? Empedocles the ancient Greek philosopher studied volcanoes, and went to live on mount Etna, until it erupted and buried him and the surrounding villages. I happen to know that obscure story, but not many do; and suddenly it's in a love poem! | 501 |
72051245 | It is also important to point out that, according to the sophisticated culture of the aristocracy, civilization was a necessarily artificial phenomenon, and an educated and polished spectator was expected to be able to make the subtle distinctions between the real and the fictional, to be able to deal with the complexities of art, and to be able to defend himself from crude charlatanism and cheap illusion, indicating the cultivation of his intellect and his erudite baggage. | 478 |
11945987 | The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (1st played against 2nd, 3rd played against 4th).
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). | 290 |
11302665 | Of these Sithawaka, under the dynamic leadership of Mayadunne, posed the greatest threat to the autonomy of the other states. In 1522, the Kandyans secured Portuguese protection against Sithawaka, but any potential for alliance ended in 1546 when Portuguese and Kotte forces invaded the kingdom. Kandy subsequently lent aid to the Jaffna Kingdom against the Portuguese in 1560.
Kandy territory was invaded twice in the 1570s and 1580s, first in 1574, | 450 |
31628940 | Colin McCool was "a better fieldsman than a batsman, and a better batsman than he was a bowler" But before the MCC team had even landed in Australia he snapped up 35 wickets (28.82) with his flighty leg-spin for Queensland with help from Don Tallon behind the stumps. | 267 |
34926916 | The results of this competition are among the selection criteria for the 2013 World Championships, 2013 Four Continents Championships, and the 2013 World Junior Championships.
Patrick Chan won his sixth national title. Kevin Reynolds won the silver medal with a free skating that included a 4T, 4S, 4T+3T, and 3A+3T.
Kaetlyn Osmond won her first national title. Gabrielle Daleman and Alaine Chartrand joined her on the podium while the defending champion, Amelie Lacoste, finished just off the podium. | 501 |
2627733 | He was a member of the 1996 National Champion Kentucky Wildcats and the 2006 NBA champion Miami Heat.
Lloyd Walton was NBA guard (1977–81), playing most of his career with the Milwaukee Bucks. Walton was a second-team All-American for Al McGuire's 1975-76 Marquette Warriors, who finished the season ranked #2 in the A.P. poll.
Joe Williams was a 4-time IHSA state champion wrestler. He also became a 3-time NCAA Champion, 6 time U.S. | 437 |
41950782 | We Smoked It All is a 2009 collaboration mixtape by rappers Spose and Cam Groves from the independent label PDANK. | 114 |
1816507 | Released on two CDs, the collection really split the remixed output of Duran Duran down the middle. The first CD featured all the 12" mixes released during the initial period of the original lineup during 1981–1984, as well as remixes of several album tracks.
For the release of this compilation, EMI inadvertently unearthed two previously unreleased remixes, the Night mix of "Planet Earth" and a remix of "Hold Back the Rain".
CD Two features remixes from a new era when singles were being released with multiple remixes. | 523 |
58666319 | Write, Tom Johnson, summarized the EP as "across this impressive introduction Idles show glimpses of light and dark, restraint and release, and joy and sorrow; to the point where you’re never quite sure where you stand with them – and whether you are, in fact, welcome at all. Something tells us it’ll be worth sticking around to find out though."
Members of the band have stated in retrospect that they hate Welcome and feel that the direction of the extended play was aimless. | 478 |
136196 | With an active riverport by the 1880s, it became an important lumber and rice-milling town. The city exported rice as a commodity crop. Beaumont's lumber boom, which reached its peak in the late 19th century, was stimulated by the rebuilding and expansion of the railroads in the state and region after the Civil War.
The Beaumont Rice Mill, founded in 1892 by Joseph Eloi Broussard, was the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas. | 441 |
34795414 | Eventually the high-speed line was built directly to Fulda station.
The single track, along with the lack of crossing facilities (as the result of the demolition of former stations) and outdated equipment were in the past a common cause of delays, so various construction projects (such as the construction of crossing facilities and the renewal of signalling equipment) were planned. The Federal government made funds of €30 million for an upgrade of the line in the period from 2003 to 2007. This work was not supported by Deutsche Bahn and was not implemented. | 563 |
5028401 | On 75th birthday – an article by L. D. Beklemishev, I. G. Lysenok, S. P. Novikov, M. R. Pentus, A. A. Razborov, A. L. Semenov and V. A. Uspensky.
Dedicated to Adian Sergei Ivanovich in 2006 Moscow Symposium on Logic, Algebra and Computation. | 242 |
959430 | also known as the bristled shrike or bald-headed wood-shrike
Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), an Australian tyrant-flycatcher mistaken for the piping shrike
Curtiss Shrike (disambiguation), several American combat aircraft of the 1930s
USS Shrike, two US Navy ships
Bell X-9 Shrike, a prototype surface-to-air guided missile
AGM-45 Shrike, an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars
RNAS Maydown, also known as HMS Shrike, | 472 |
1784703 | Also present are sedimentary rocks of the Rove and Gunflint formations, approximately 1.85-2.10 billion years old. There is evidence that about 1.1 billion years ago, there was volcanic centre on Paterson Island, however almost all volcanic rocks have been removed by erosion.
The youngest rocks are diatremes, referring to breccia-filled volcanic pipes that were formed by gaseous explosions. They occur as dikes or sills which criss-cross the all older rocks types. | 467 |
24435702 | Great race or The Great Race may refer to:
Great race, any one of the major human races
The race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads to complete the First transcontinental railroad in the United States
Great Race (classic rally), a vintage car club rally across the continental United States
1908 New York to Paris Race, an international automobile race that was the inspiration for the 1965 film | 418 |
548867 | At school, Haré reunites with Rita who has matured very much. So has Yohan who still has anger and hatred towards Haré. Toposte takes over his class and becomes almost a god to the other students. He was just being controlled by his chest hair and is saved when Haré removes it. Later, Guu gets a stomachache and Haré goes into her stomach to find the problem. He finds himself back in the RPG world where he discovers Guu has eaten the Baka Couple and Grandma Dama. | 466 |
74669445 | Together with the brigade, Honcharuk took part in the Joint Forces Operation in Donbas, in particular in the battles for Stanytsia Luhanska, and in the first months of the full-scale war he held the defense on the eastern and southeastern directions, in particular in Mykolaiv Oblast. Since the end of the summer of 2022, the 128th Brigade participated in the liberation of the Kherson Oblast.
the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Golden Star (14 October 2022) | 475 |
59784184 | Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church is a Catholic parish church in Sandino, Cuba. It is the first Catholic church to be completed in Cuba since the end of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church is one of three Catholic churches authorized by Cuba to be built as gesture to strengthen relations with the Vatican. It was the first church out of three authorized to be completed, with construction ending in 2018. The inaugural ceremony took place in January 2019. The church was financed by the congregation St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Tampa, Florida. | 584 |
36282944 | On 29 June 2015, the Unidad Central Operativa, the serious crime division of Spain's Guardia Civil arrested Olivas on charges of embezzlement and fraud.
Members of the 4th Corts Valencianes
Members of the 5th Corts Valencianes | 226 |
70608031 | Windward Park is a cricket ground in Lucas Street, Barbados.
Located in the village of Lucas Street, the ground is the home venue for Windward Cricket Club, which was founded in the 1890s to cater for rural White Barbadians. For many years the club played at Codrington College, before moving to Windward Park. The ground first played host to representative cricket when Barbados played a touring South Africa A side in a first-class match in 2000. | 448 |
34292914 | Later, builders in Maine adapted English boat-building inverted-forms technology, whereby an external waterproofed canvas shell was fastened to a wooden hull formed with white cedar planks and ribs.
The earliest commercial builder of wood-and-canvas canoe may have been Evan H. Gerrish of Bangor, Maine, a hunting and fishing guide from Brownville, Maine. Upriver at Gilman Falls, E.M. White started producing canoes in 1889. | 425 |
62278406 | After the Saint Andrew's Day Assembly in 1858–1859, dethroned Miloš Obrenović was restored to power and the idea of erecting a monument to Karađorđe was abandoned.
In 1903 the Karađorđević dynasty again came to the throne. The glorification of Karađorđe was also restored and the idea of the monument resurfaced as, this time, Serbia was an independent state so the monument could be built. The memorial was envisioned as a strong propaganda and rhetoric tool for the newly reinstated dynasty. | 493 |
24129585 | Rudolec (until 1946 Německý Rudolec; ) is a municipality and village in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 200 inhabitants.
Rudolec lies approximately south-west of Žďár nad Sázavou, north-east of Jihlava, and south-east of Prague.
Villages in Žďár nad Sázavou District | 322 |
66824783 | He married secondly Judith Chamberlaine of London, whose father was Henry Chamberlaine, and together they had at least seventeen children.
The identity of the original architect of Cromwell House remains unknown, but it is certainly a tour-de-force on the part of a highly skilled brick-layer/contractor. Built in 1637–38, it infers the influence of Inigo Jones in the regularity of its seven-window frontage. | 409 |
1143010 | For instance, the Hungarian words for cow (tehén) and milk (tej) are of Proto-Iranian origin. Archaeological findsincluding seeds of millet, wheat, and barley, and tools including sickles, hoes, and spade handlesprove the local population also cultivated arable lands.
The Magyars' ancestors gave up their settled way of life because of the northward expansion of the steppes during the last centuries of the . | 410 |
11584672 | APT () (released as 9:56 in Singapore) is a 2006 South Korean horror film, directed, produced, and written by Ahn Byeong-ki and starring Ko So-young. It is based on a webtoon by Kang Full. The name APT is from the English word meaning apartment. The film had 644,893 admissions nationwide.
Se-jin Oh, a lonely young career woman, lives in a high-rise apartment building in a Seoul suburb, and sometimes watches her neighbors through binoculars for amusement. | 459 |
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