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2430098 | 136 to 145 lb (62 to 66 kg)
The inaugural title was contested on February 11, 2017, in Brooklyn, NY, US at UFC 208.
126 to 135 lb (57 to 61 kg)
Prior to its folding and absorption by the UFC, Ronda Rousey was the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. | 255 |
1768396 | Kristina Lugn was an acclaimed poet and dramatist. Katarina Frostenson, Ann Jäderlund and Birgitta Lillpers revitalized poetry.
Klas Östergren had a major breakthrough with the novel Gentlemen in 1980. A prolific author of epic novels as well as short stories Östergren became regarded as one of the leading writers. Majgull Axelsson was noted for the novel Aprilhäxan (April Witch, 1997) that mixed social realism with magic realism. | 434 |
28525176 | In April 2001, police said that the number plate SLP 386S had been placed on Banks' Mini by Cannan and that 386 might be a grid reference, as the site Banks' body was found is near Northing Line 386 and Norton Manor Barracks is near 3° 08' 06" West. | 249 |
24254139 | Charterhouse Cave, on the Mendip Hills in Somerset, is the deepest cave in southern England.
Charterhouse Cave was first excavated in 1972. By 1977 the Sidcot School Speleological Society had reached Bat Chamber, although the first main breakthrough into the system was made in 1982.
Active exploration continues and breakthroughs were made in April 2008 when of passage big enough to walk through was discovered, and again when the Portal Pool Sump was passed in May 2009 revealing another of passage. | 505 |
52957867 | Farrugia's brilliant form was once again rewarded with her second Mostyn Medal, as best & fairest player for the Sydney Women's premier division. Nicola Barr polled highly once again to finish runner-up.
In 2016, Farrugia played exhibition series matches for 's representative team. She went on to join the side in the year's women's all star match in September 2016.
Farrugia was drafted by the Greater Western Sydney Giants with the club's eight pick and sixty-fourth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. | 510 |
53484593 | Marc Hogan at Pitchfork gave "Told You So" a positive review, stating: "There’s more to "Told You So" than a clever twist on an old phrase. Paramore have faced their share of naysayers as they’ve broadened their sound from its pop-punk origins." Jordan Sargent from Spin also praised the song as "spiky and fluorescent, built around the sort of jagged guitar groove that Paramore have gotten very good at spitting out." | 419 |
42357 | Five films in which she starred – Lassie Come Home, National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, Giant, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – have been preserved in the National Film Registry, and the American Film Institute has named her the seventh greatest female screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema.
Taylor has also been discussed by journalists and scholars interested in the role of women in Western society. Camille Paglia writes that Taylor was a "pre-feminist woman" who "wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. | 559 |
22490457 | January 1: The Denver and Salt Lake Railway begins operating the former Denver and Salt Lake Railroad, in receivership since August 16, 1917.
January 1: The Georgia and Florida Railroad begins operating the former Georgia and Florida Railway, in receivership since March 27, 1915.
January 1: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad buys a one-third share in the Monongahela Railway, formerly owned jointly by the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad subsidiary Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. | 502 |
44761856 | A vocalist would sing a song for them, and a short wedding ceremony would take place. Finally, the couple would be shown their gifts for appearing on the show, such as a basic silver set, a refrigerator, etc.
In 1951, a jury in Hollywood, California, awarded $800,000 in damages to John Nelson, John Reddy and John Masterson as the result of a plagiarism suit against KLAC-TV. The producers of Bride and Groom claimed that Wedding Bells on KLAC "closely mirrored" their own program. | 482 |
4586751 | Body composition measurement with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is used increasingly for a variety of clinical and research applications. A DEXA scan requires medical supervision by a radiologist. Total body scans using DEXA give accurate and precise measurements of body composition, including bone mineral content (BMC), bone mineral density (BMD), lean tissue mass, fat tissue mass, and fractional contribution of fat. | 431 |
37156906 | Cedeno doubtless thinking he had killed her, returned to the kitchen, where he found Burke, who upon seeing Cedeno’s excited manner and the knife covered with blood ran screaming into the dining-room, where were seated Mrs Robinson and Mr Campbell. | 248 |
20696103 | Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
Peers of Ireland created by George III
Peers of the United Kingdom created by George III | 128 |
271780 | He then followed in Mountjoy's footsteps and founded an alum works, though he failed to secure a patent and ran foul of alum merchants in London who had sole rights (granted by Charles I) to produce alum in England; the merchants took Clavell's property and demanded £1,000 per year, then destroyed the works and stole Clavell's cattle. Clavell took legal action but was unsuccessful. | 384 |
26275762 | However, the documents also showed that American officials knew a coup attempt was brewing.
Golinger was close to the Chávez administration, and accompanied Chávez on diplomatic missions to Iran, Libya, and Syria. She traveled extensively with President Chávez on foreign trips, including a seven-country tour in 2010. She dined with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and gave him a copy of her book describing him as "gentle" at their meeting. "Chávez presented me as his defender to Ahmadinejad", she told The New York Times. | 513 |
73573099 | According to him, the mechanisms that prohibit the creation of mandatory expenses in case of non-compliance with the ceiling are hardly triggered, due to a "manufacturing defect" in the PEC, and even if, in practice, most of these triggers were already in place, they'd have little effect on reducing spendings in situations of fiscal crisis.
The first educational institution to be occupied was the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - IFRN) in October, | 502 |
53834420 | Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2020, )
Lost on Purpose (Iris Press, 2019, )
Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (University Press of New England, 2017, )
On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (Poetry Atlanta Press, 2014, )
Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, ) | 392 |
27876708 | Black Angel (album), a 1998 album by British soul singer Mica Paris
The Black Angel (album), a 1970 album by Freddie Hubbard
"Black Angel", a song on the 1979 album TRB Two by Tom Robinson
The Black Angel (novel), a 1943 novel by Cornell Woolrich
The Black Angel, a 2005 novel by John Connolly
Black Angel, a 1913 statue in Oakland Cemetery
Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, also known as the Black Angel, a sculpture in Council Bluffs, | 434 |
251713 | Another common method is using the compass, which is more practical because it can be done at any time; the disadvantage is that the north indicated by a magnetic compass differs from true north. This magnetic declination can measure up to 20°, which can vary in different places on Earth and changes over time.
As observed from Earth, the sun appears to "shift" between the Northern and Southern Tropics seasonally; additionally, it appears to move from east to west daily as a consequence of the earth's rotation. | 515 |
517143 | They had three children: Civil War officer and American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), Amelia Jackson Holmes (1843–1889), and Edward Jackson Holmes (1846–1884).
Amelia Holmes inherited $2,000 in 1848, and she and her husband used the money to build a summer house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Beginning in July 1849, the family spent "seven blessed summers" there. | 380 |
484714 | The main village of Hamnavoe in the north of West Burra is unique among villages in Shetland, in having been planned and laid out by the factors of the estate, in much the same way as many estate villages created by 'improving' landlords in Scotland; another parallel, albeit on a larger scale, is Ullapool, created by the British Fisheries Society. The original plan form is still clearly visible, despite the accretion of later development. Hamnavoe was once an important fishing centre. | 491 |
3696353 | In December 2018, Lush launched its Naked skincare range, which includes solid facial oils and cleansers and a seaweed gel eye mask, and opened a number of Naked shops, in Manchester, Milan and Berlin. In 2019, Lush opened its biggest store in the world in Liverpool.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lush offered the public free handwashing in all its stores, as a means to help slow the spread of the virus. | 419 |
57339078 | He began his football career with Newcastle United, but never broke through to the first team, and moved on to Darlington of the Fourth Division in September 1984.
He made his debut in the Football League in a goalless draw away to Blackpool on 15 September 1984, and went on to appear in 28 league matches, two-thirds of which were in the starting eleven, as Darlington finished third and were promoted to the Third Division. | 426 |
41413238 | He then worked for Merrill Lynch as chief operating officer of their trading and investment banking division. In June 2008, he became CFO of the Blackstone Group. In January 2011, Tosi was offered the job of CFO at Apple by Steve Jobs, but turned it down. Apple had a large amount of cash reserves, and felt that Tosi would bring acquisition experience. Before joining Airbnb, Tosi was on the short list of Blackstone senior executives being groomed to take over the role of Chief Executive when Stephen Schwarzman retires. | 523 |
7471945 | () – is the most popular sport in Spain. Football is a widespread passion among the people of Spain, and most people in Spain have at least some sort of connection to the sport. Football is the sport with the most registered players (a total of 1,063,090 of which 997,106 are men and 77,461 women), and highest number of registered clubs (a total of 29,205) among all Spanish sport federations according to data issued by the sports administration of Spain's government in 2020. | 478 |
36311862 | Motorized vehicles and either pack or saddle animals are prohibited on the trails. Mountain bikes are not prohibited, but may be difficult to use, because the trails are very narrow. Roads are all covered with gravel
Beech Creek National Scenic Area & Botanical Area at Ouachita National Forest
Geography of Le Flore County, Oklahoma | 334 |
2080588 | A rather brief phenomenon, new beat emerged in Belgium during the late 1980s as a midtempo variation of techno and acid house. It played an important role in the development of early techno in Western Europe.
Witch house (also known as drag or haunted house) is an occult-themed dark electronic music microgenre and visual aesthetic that emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s. | 380 |
14400018 | In particular, McCall sought to protect and expand the sweeping statewide land-use laws that had been implemented and signed into law by Governor McCall. She campaigned and fundraised on behalf of both Democratic and Republican political candidates.
In 2017, Audrey McCall Beach, downtown Portland's newly constructed urban beach along the Willamette River, was named in honor of the former first lady.
McCall was born Audrey Grace Owen in Spokane, Washington, on February 26, 1915. Her mother sold real estate, while her father worked as a wholesaler grocer. | 559 |
46671643 | During a January 2014 interview with Women's Wear Daily, Gwen Stefani first revealed that the show had been greenlit by Network Ten and that fifty-two episodes were in development. In December 2014, the show was given the working title KooKoo Harajuku.
Speaking to Broadcasting & Cable about the inspirations for her series, Stefani stated that she had a history with animation as her older brother and No Doubt founder Eric Stefani worked on The Simpsons and The Ren & Stimpy Show. | 482 |
6478705 | The house is now a tourist attraction, and in the summer hosts concerts and opens regularly as a museum of Howerd's collection of memorabilia to raise fund for charities.
The name Webbington is believed to mean 'The weaving enclosure' from the Old English webbian and tun. Webbington is popular with hikers as it has many good footpaths leading up to Crook Peak and Shute Shelve, at the western edge of the Mendip Hills, and is part of the Wessex walk route leading from Weston-super-Mare to Wells. | 498 |
4137254 | For many years Melkbosstrand has been called the "rich man's town" by its neighbouring suburbs and towns, such as Atlantis and Table View. This labelling remark is probably because Melkbosstrand is home to a host of South African celebrities (retired rugby players, actors, writers, visiting members of the House of Lords), which is mainly due to its location and its views of Table Mountain. International best-selling novelist Deon Meyer was a long time resident of Melkbosstrand as well as South-African French philosopher Philippe-Joseph Salazar. | 551 |
22611279 | On 22 December 1956 the kidnappers allowed Major Wiks, a Norwegian UN officer, to see a man in a British uniform claiming he was Moorhouse. After the encounter the UN officer reported that Moorhouse was "alive and well". However, uncertainty remained.
A family friend and former army colleague of the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the British Member of Parliament Colonel Cyril Banks, travelled to Cairo in an effort to establish the missing officer's fate. | 467 |
80678 | reprinted in 1988) contains all of the Jeeves short stories (with the exception of "Extricating Young Gussie") presented more or less in narrative chronological order, but with some variations from the originals.
The short stories are set primarily in London, where Bertie Wooster has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club, or in New York City, though some short stories are set around various stately homes in the English countryside. | 447 |
23088975 | The irony is often gentle, except when the subject matter concerns injustice or inhumanity. Then it becomes open and accusatory.
Unadorned conversational statements help to create the “casualness” Vazakas said he aimed to achieve. The poet often seems just to be talking, making ordinary comments. Playing against this idiom, however, are flashes of wit, sometimes in the form of colloquial wording or slang at unexpected moments. Vazakas’ titles often add an extra dimension apart from the effect of the lines. | 514 |
244136 | Macclesfield Academy is made up of pupils from the former school Henbury High School, and also took in the pupils left over when Ryles Park secondary school closed in 2004. Ryles Park had been in turn an amalgamation of Ryles Park girls school and the oldest state school in the town, Macclesfield Central boys school, which closed in 1975. It is on the site of Macclesfield College and Park Lane Special School as part of the Macclesfield 'Learning Zone', which was opened in 2007. | 482 |
12653816 | This operation resulted in the arrest and eventual conviction of 31 men, including Hamtramck Mayor Peter C. Jezewski, for Prohibition law violations. LaMare was sentenced to a year in federal prison, but the judge increased his original fines and gave him probation on LaMare's promise to "go straight".
In early February 1930, Sam Catalanotte died from pneumonia. The situation was exactly what LaMare had been waiting for. | 424 |
115740 | According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.8 km), of which 1.9 square miles (4.8 km) is land and 0.53% is water.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 197 people, 135 households, and 90 families residing in the village.
Montpelier and all of St. Helena Parish are served by the St. Helena Parish School System. Zoned campuses include St. | 402 |
7286594 | Svetlana Petrovna Bakhmina (, born 13 October 1969 in Moscow) was a middle-ranking legal executive for Yukos, the Russian oil company who was arrested and tried on charges of tax evasion and embezzlement. On April 21, 2009 she was released from jail.
Svetlana Bakhima was arrested on 8 December 2004 and tried on charges of tax evasion and embezzlement. | 353 |
5275356 | Mark, Burger and Norton - mixing
Superheist and Mark Rachelle - producer
"The birth of Superheist! Fast & attacking metal sound right from the first beat. Heavy & in your face death growl vocals. Awesome production & tight musicianship. Featuring samples from the movie "Naked" starring David Thewlis. | 301 |
7816165 | Born into a trading family with two younger brothers- Tulsi Das Mundhra and Manmohan Das Mundhra, Mundhra started life as a light-bulb salesman, and pyramided his holdings by "fast deals and stock juggling", buying shares of small companies and hiking their prices up through circular trading and rumour mongering into a Rs. 40 million (US$10 million) empire. However, by the mid-50s, his business empire was unravelling, and he came to be known for his somewhat questionable ethics. | 484 |
4466133 | Town and Country Planning Act 1947
Town and country planning in the United Kingdom
E Fisher, B Lange and E Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials (OUP 2013)
K Gray and SF Gray, Land Law (OUP 2011)
Town and Country Planning Act 1990 on Office of Public Sector Information website
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1990
Local government legislation in England and Wales | 382 |
51687922 | Arrow composer Blake Neely is the primary composer of the series, and was first hired in April 2014 to score the pilot. He had previously composed a theme for Barry Allen which was featured in Arrows season two episodes "The Scientist" and "Three Ghosts". The theme was titled "The Scientist" when it was released on the Arrow: Season 2 soundtrack. | 348 |
2754019 | Most movie companies brought small units to the Introvision sound stages near Poinsettia and Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Scenes were often shot near the end of the production schedule to allow for the shooting of "live" plates to have been done while on location.
Compared to back projection, the front projection process used less studio space, and generally produced sharper and more saturated images, as the background plate was not being viewed through a projection screen. | 498 |
207992 | In winter 640, Songsän Gampo sent his prime minister Gar Tongtsen Yülsung ("Lu Dongzan" () in Chinese) as an emissary to Tang, offering tributes and again requesting marriage. Emperor Taizong created a daughter of a clansman as the Princess Wencheng, and in 641 sent Li Daozong to accompany Princess Wencheng to Tibet to preside over the wedding. | 347 |
29258448 | Miroc is a village in the municipality of Podujevo, Kosovo. | 59 |
4060946 | On 28 July 2023, the Segunda División confirmed the administrative relegatation of Chalatenango to Tercera Division due to their financial crisis, which meant all players contracts were voided.
Chalatenango plays its home games at Estadio José Gregorio Martínez in Chalatenango. The Estadio José Gregorio Martínez is a 15,000-seat soccer-specific stadium. | 355 |
4992927 | Gretel Killeen hosts the final eviction show before the final but which of the final 3 will not make it to the final day and miss out on the million: Paul, Bree or Trevor? Plus, Ryan returns on stage and has a big reunion.
Housemate Merlin Luck staged a protest at his live eviction show. Upon entering the arena, he revealed a makeshift banner which read "Free Th Refugees". | 375 |
31490941 | He placed 5th in the men's 1 km sprint, visually impaired. In biathlon, he took the bronze medal in the 12.5 km, and the gold medal in the men's 3 km pursuit, visually impaired.
Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Paralympics | 219 |
5649822 | The ITT 465L Strategic Air Command Control System (SACCS) with its IBM AN/FSQ-31 SAC Data Processing Systems attained operational capability on January 1, 1968; and its gradual replacement began on October 6, 1975, when the SACCS original IBM 4020 Military Computers were replaced by Honeywell 6080 computers (remaining FSQ-31 components were entirely decommissioned in November.) | 380 |
2268042 | In 2004, the station affiliated with the Daystar religious broadcast network. The following year, Equity Broadcasting bought the station from Paxson; WPXS subsequently rejoined Pax (which rebranded as i: Independent Television that summer, and then to Ion Television in 2007).
In 2005, WPXS affiliated with the Retro Television Network, a network owned by Equity at the time. By this time, the bulk of the station's audience was located in St. Louis. | 450 |
67814912 | His work is featured in private collections in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, South America, Europe and Asia. Nicot's artwork is mostly associated with Latin American art and is included in notable collections such as those of curator Gustavo Orta, Cuban-Dominican art critic and film director Raysa White, theater director and former Miss Cuba Flora Lauten, and Secretary of the Cuban National Commission for UNESCO Mariana Ramirez Corria. | 474 |
73708602 | He split the 2022 season between the Double-A Birmingham Barons and Triple-A Charlotte Knights, recording a cumulative 4–4 record and 3.77 ERA with 76 strikeouts and 4 saves in 62.0 innings of work. He began the 2023 season with Charlotte, logging a 1–1 record and 3.52 ERA with 15 strikeouts across 8 contests.
On May 2, 2023, Peralta was selected to the 40-man roster and promoted to the major leagues for the first time. | 423 |
41813456 | The FP is a 2011 American comedy film written and directed by Brandon and Jason Trost. The film focuses on two gangs, the 248 and the 245, fighting for control of Frazier Park (the FP). The gangs settle their disputes by playing Beat-Beat Revelation, a music video game similar to Dance Dance Revolution. Gang member JTRO (Jason Trost) trains to defeat L Dubba E (Lee Valmassy), the leader of a rival gang. The film also features Caitlyn Folley, Art Hsu, Nick Principe and Dov Tiefenbach. | 488 |
3128308 | Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), Canadian novelist and poet
Gwendolyn Masin (born 1977), Dutch-born violinist
Gwendolyn Osborne (born 1978), British model and actress | 164 |
28303238 | He then travelled through Europe examining museum collections and began to work on the taxonomy of the birds of prey. He returned to Moscow and became a privatdozent in 1884. Two years later he became one of the youngest professors at Moscow University. Menzbier was a professor of comparative anatomy at Moscow University from 1886 until 1911, when he resigned in protest against the oppressive treatment of students there. He then joined the Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University. Following the Russian Revolution in 1917 he returned to Moscow University where he became Rector. | 586 |
59769878 | The Swedish Rheumatism Association - Sweden
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
1936 establishments in the United Kingdom
Health charities in the United Kingdom | 177 |
45025702 | John Clibbens FRSocMed (born 1953) is professor of Developmental Psychology at Birmingham City University, Head of Social sciences at Birmingham City University, a committee member of DASSH UK and an authority on language and cognitive development in children particularly deaf children and children with Down syndrome. Clibbens has published extensively and is a member of the Council of Deans of Health, the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. | 594 |
26732976 | is a fossil-fuel power station operated by JERA in the town of Hirono, Fukushima, Japan. It located on the Pacific coast and is currently the seventh largest thermal power station in Japan.
The Hirono Thermal Power Station came on line with Unit 1 in April 1980, followed by Unit 2 in July 1980. Unit 3 came on line in June 1989, followed by Unit 4 in January 1993. | 366 |
52244751 | In early August, Rhustavito competed at the Australian Open, but had to lose in the second round from Chinese player Weng Hongyang in straight games. He made his debut at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, but the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). | 427 |
6136674 | In this bull, the Pope was said to have declared that the Mother of God had appeared to him, most urgently recommended to him the Carmelite Order and its members, revealed the Sabbatine privilege, and asked that he reveal and ratify it before the world.
Officially, the Carmelite Orders merely encourage a belief of Mary's aid and prayerful assistance for wearers of the Brown Scapular that live and die in the state of grace, observe chastity according to their state in life, and live a life of prayer and penitence, and commend devotion to Mary especially on Saturdays. | 572 |
186626 | In 1853 his family moved to Strongsville, Ohio. As a young pupil in public school, he was inspired and motivated by his teacher-mentor, Rufus Osgood Mason, whom Rockefeller later named "A Rockefeller Patron."
At the age of sixteen, he began work as a clerk for a miller in Cleveland, Ohio. About two years later, he joined his older brother's produce commission business, Clark and Rockefeller, which later supplied provisions to the Union Army.
Rockefeller was very adept in business matters. | 493 |
73179089 | As well as his sporting career, Kelly was also known as a songwriter and performer. He was also a member of the College Players Limerick in the 1950s and was a member of Conradh na Gaeilge. Kelly worked with the Bank of Ireland. His nephew, Stephen Lucey, was a dual player with Limerick.
Kelly was a renowned Irish ballad songwriter and composed many notable tunes including The Ballad Of Joseph McHugh about the famous Publican from Liscannor, County Clare. | 459 |
67242929 | Vincent Robin d'Arba Desborough, FBA, FSA (19 July 1914 – 24 July 1978) was an English historian and archaeologist. His is credited with discovering the Greek Dark Ages.
Born on 19 July 1914 at Tunbridge Wells, Desborough's father was Latvian and his mother British. He was schooled in France and Switzerland before attending St Augustine's in Ramsgate and Downside School. He then studied classics at New College, Oxford, from 1932, graduating in the second class in 1936. | 473 |
9703941 | Winchester's services to the king were rewarded further in November 1435 when, after the death of Columba de Dunbar, he was elected as Bishop of Moray. He was not, however, consecrated until 9 May 1437, a few months after the death of King James; his consecration took place at Cambuskenneth Abbey.
After becoming bishop, Winchester continued in the service of Queen Joan through the minority of James II of Scotland. | 417 |
51046467 | Indian security forces trying to control the Kashmiri agitators used pellet guns, which, although billed as "non-lethal", led to many casualties including permanent eye injuries. 10 civilians were killed by pellet gunfire.
The medical emergency in Kashmir led to a shortage of eye specialists who could treat the injured. In Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) Hospital of Srinagar, over 200 patients were admitted by 13 July with the same problem. A five-year-old, Zohra Zahoor, had pellet wounds in her legs, forehead and abdomen. | 528 |
51729995 | There was some added difficulty for calculating the redundancy packages for the staff since none of them had written contracts, and were only calculated from the period when the restaurant was owned by the MPW Criterion company; this reduced Reid's total service from nine years to four.
One of the reasons White sought to leave Harveys was that the size of the kitchen was insufficient to allow him to expand the range of techniques in the dishes he served. With the move to The Restaurant, he added dishes with techniques such as confit, braising and en vessie highlighted. | 575 |
16866999 | It was built in 1660 in accordance with the traditions of the Hanafi school. During the French colonial rule, the mosque was called the Mosquée de la Pêcherie and in English the Mosque of the Fisherman's Wharf.
Great Mosque of Tlemcen was first built in Tlemcen, Algeria in 1082. It is one of the best-preserved examples of Almoravid architecture. It was built under sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin but substantially reconstructed and enlarged by his son Ali ibn Yusuf. | 462 |
10121677 | The institute was opened in 1930 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, and was re-founded as a Max Planck Institute in 1948. Its original goal was to apply the methods of Physics and Chemistry to basic medical research, e.g. radiation therapy for cancer treatment, and it included departments of Chemistry, Physiology, and Biophysics. In the 1960s, new developments in biology were reflected with the establishment of the Department of Molecular Biology. | 470 |
26042098 | If the contestant releases an object to stand still as time expires, a replay will check to see if the object was released in time (the 3-second count still happens but is usually not important).
After completing a game, the contestant can leave with the amount of money already won before seeing the blueprint for the next game. However, once the contestant elects for the game, the contestant cannot leave the show until that game is complete or they have exhausted all three of their "lives". | 495 |
4562913 | He was elected to the General Assembly as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1992, and served two terms. During his time as a state representative, Ramsey represented the 1st district, composed of Sullivan County. He was elected to the state Senate in 1996 and was re-elected in 2000, 2004, and 2008.
During the 2004 election cycle, Ramsey was one of a few prominent Tennessee General Assembly leadership members who accepted campaign contributions from both the Jack Daniel's PAC and the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of Tennessee PAC. | 554 |
4382580 | The Whiskey Au Go Go fire was a fire that occurred at 2.08 am on Thursday 8 March 1973, in the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia that killed 15 people.
The Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub occupied the first floor of a building which still exists on the corner of Amelia Street and St Paul's Terrace. The space was previously occupied by another club called the Celebrity Cabaret which closed due to financial pressures. | 448 |
4339267 | Veneration of Christina the Astonishing has never been formally approved by the Catholic Church, but there remains a strong devotion to her in her native region of Limburg. Prayers are traditionally said to Christina to seek her intercession for millers, for those suffering from mental illness, and for mental health workers.
Christina's story inspired the Nick Cave song "Christina the Astonishing", from the album Henry's Dream.
Poets Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders re-told her story in their collection Christina the Astonishing. | 536 |
36671362 | Finally, Lopez escaped the mine into Bingham Canyon and got away. The posse called off the search on January 3, 1914, the day after finding the mine empty.
Lopez was never again seen in Utah, but his case remained open for ninety years. The shootout on November 21, 1913, was the deadliest in the history of Utah law enforcement.
Lopez fled to Texas, where he became the leader of an outlaw gang. According to Kerry Boren, many of Lopez's men were former members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. | 493 |
26814429 | One day, he is entrusted with urgent dispatch that must be brought to the Communist Eighth Route Army, which is fighting the Imperial Japanese Army in northeast China. The letter is marked with three feathers, indicating its importance. He embarks on his mission but must avoid the many Japanese patrols. At one point, he is forced to hide the dispatch under a sheep while posing as a shepherd. Later, he is captured by the Japanese who force him to act as a guide and scout. Using his wits, he leads the Japanese forces into an ambush, where they are killed and he is rescued. | 577 |
13126025 | Shirvan (, also Romanized as Shīrvān) is a city in, and the capital of, the Central District of Shirvan County, North Khorasan province, Iran, and also serves as capital of the county. The city has been significant industrially with sugar beet factories. It is also significant historically (Nader hill), geographically (Honameh), and anthropologically (caves around the city).
At the 2006 census, its population was 82,790 in 20,878 households. | 445 |
14755479 | It has been discovered that suppression, rather than stimulation, of B2-containing nAChR currents yields an antidepressant effect. This is believed to explain the significantly increased prevalence of cigarette smoking in depressed individuals and the profound rise in depressive symptoms during abstinence. | 308 |
19639460 | vol 25 New Ancestral Discoveries – part 1 (Ohio, 1996)
vol 26 New Ancestral Discoveries – part 2 (Ohio, 1997)
vol 27 New Ancestral Discoveries – part 3 (Ohio, 1999)
Somerset Bedside Book (Dovecote Press, 1997)
Chapter on 'The Age of Elegance' in Somerset: the Millennium Book, ed. | 281 |
57675677 | However, a conventional complete denture can be considered as an alternative due to less treatment time needed.
Overdentures can be further classified according to the types of attachment system used. The attachment systems function to enhance retention and stability of the overdenture. Currently there isn't enough evidence to advocate a particular system and hence technical aspects are the main consideration when choosing it.
This is the oldest system available and consists of a male (stud) and female (housing) component. It connects the over denture to the individual abutment. | 585 |
30862454 | The School of Aviation offered Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Systems Technology, Aviation Management, and participated in the FAA Air Traffic Control Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) program, which is the primary source for hiring air traffic controllers. The School of Aviation maintained a fleet of aircraft which included nine Piper Warriors, an Arrow, and a twin engine Seminole. A Virtual Airport Operations System, built with a 5 million-dollar grant from NASA, and Three Frasca flight simulators were located at the Brookhaven campus on the grounds of the Brookhaven Calabro Airport. | 608 |
471290 | Sir Archibald Henry MacDonald Sinclair, 4th Baronet (1890–1970) (created Viscount Thurso in 1952)
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890–1970)
Robin Macdonald Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso (1922–1995) | 223 |
44450484 | Australian cricket team in England in 1964, the 5-Test series is won by Australia 1–0.
Bob Simpson 311 vs England at Old Trafford.
Australian cricket team in India in 1964–65, the 3-Test series is drawn 1–1.
Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 1964–65, the 1-Test series is drawn 1–0.
Bob Simpson scores a century in both innings vs Pakistan at Karachi. | 362 |
6203085 | Boroughs served by the 31st District
Townships served by the 31st District | 75 |
67747890 | The first Christian mission station was established in the Bay of Islands in 1814 by Samuel Marsden. The first ship of settlers from the New Zealand Company arrived in Wellington in January 1840. The British upper class brought their culture of poetry recitals, literary reading and music with them. Amongst possessions shipped to New Zealand were instruments such as pianos as fictionalised in the film The Piano directed by Jane Campion. Working-class people from England, Ireland and Scotland were the biggest earliest migrant groups and they brought their performing arts traditions of singing, folk dancing and storytelling. | 629 |
22129078 | Gordon Turner had lost his place through injury problems earlier on in the season, and when the choice was made by the directors to name an unchanged team for the final, thus leaving Turner out, there was much controversy. Luton had beaten Forest 5–1 just weeks before, but on cup final day, the Luton team was beaten 2–1.
The Cup Final was Syd Owen's last match for Luton, as he was chosen to take over as manager for the 1959–60 season. | 438 |
132885 | Leola made headlines in the Spring of 2006 when six members of a single family were found murdered inside a house. The victims were all related to the alleged perpetrator, Jesse Dee Wise, who was 21 at the time of the murders. The killings took place over the Palm Sunday weekend, but the victims were not discovered until later in the week on Wednesday, April 12, 2006. The killings made national and international headlines, even being featured on BBC World News. | 468 |
12324273 | The use of renewable security allows providers to send new smart cards to all subscribers as existing compromised encryption schemes (such as Nagravision 1 and 2) are replaced with new schemes (currently Nagravision 3). This "card swap" process can provide pay-TV operators with more effective control over pirate decryption, but at the expense of replacing smart cards in all existing subscribed receivers. While this approach is used by most providers, deployments tend to be slowed due to cost. | 497 |
5792539 | On February 5, 2017, he recorded his ninth career triple-double with 15 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists in a 103–95 win over the Brooklyn Nets. The following day in the Raptors' 118–109 win over the Los Angeles Clippers, Lowry became the Raptors' franchise leader in three-pointers when he buried one from beyond the arc with 5:27 to play in the first half. His third three-pointer of the night gave him 802 in a Toronto uniform, surpassing Morris Peterson's mark. | 468 |
165015 | The system worked extremely well, but Fischer noticed there were anomalies in areas where the terrain contained ore-bearing rocks. He reasoned that if a radio beam could be distorted by metal, then it should be possible to design a machine which would detect metal using a search coil resonating at a radio frequency. In 1925 he applied for, and was granted, the first patent for an electronic metal detector. Although Gerhard Fischer was the first person granted a patent for an electronic metal detector, the first to apply was Shirl Herr, a businessman from Crawfordsville, Indiana. | 585 |
6693237 | Some of the major brands include Poland Spring, Nestlé Pure Life, Perrier, San Pellegrino, Arrowhead Water, Deer Park, Nestea, and Acqua Panna. The company currently employs over 550 in Stamford and as of May 1, 2017 the new president and CEO is Fernando Merce.
Octagon Sports- Global headquarters at 290 Harbor Dr. Octagon is the world's largest sports and entertainment marketing company, and is a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group of Companies. | 449 |
2653154 | He subsequently appears briefly amongst the cavalcade of other super-heroes attending the Black Panther's and Storm's wedding.
Foster is killed by a clone of Thor during a battle between the Secret Avengers and Iron Man's pro-registration forces. Foster is buried as a giant, with Iron Man paying for the thirty-eight burial plots required to accommodate his body. His death affected the war's balance of forces, leading several characters to switch sides, such as Spider-Man defecting to Captain America's side. | 512 |
6465749 | , there were 9 students in Arisdorf who came from another municipality, while 64 residents attended schools outside the municipality. | 133 |
7645278 | During this time, King James I frequently consulted him, both in the privy council and privately.
In 1614, while serving as governor of the Eastland Company of English merchants, Cockayne devised a plan to dye and dress English cloth, England's main export at the time, before shipping it abroad. Cockayne convinced James I to grant him a monopoly on cloth exports as a part of this plan, intended to increase the profits of English merchants, while boosting royal customs duties through bypassing Dutch merchants. | 514 |
21346124 | Yin Wufu (), Yin Wulu (), Yin Wushou () are three bandits from the southwest who pledged allegiance to Yin Tianzheng after he saved their lives.
Xiaozhao () is Han Qianye and Daiqisi's daughter. Her mother sends her as a spy to infiltrate the Ming Cult and find the location of its secret tunnel. Xiaozhao becomes a servant in Yang Xiao's household; the Yangs suspect her of being a spy so they bind her in chains to restrict her movements. | 441 |
37291847 | Onyema has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the American Stock Exchange (Amex), which he joined in 2001. He was the first person of colour to hold that position. He was instrumental in integrating Amex equity business into NYSE Euronext after its acquisition of Amex in 2008. He then managed NYSE Amex equity trading business, which he helped position as a premier market for small and mid-cap securities.
In 2009, Onyema founded Market Strategists LLC and consulted under the Gerson Lehrman Group platform in the United States. | 564 |
64218996 | These stories represented a phenomenon of Czech literature and were commonly known as cliftonky ("cliftonians", "Clifton tales"; singular: cliftonka). The authorship of the stories is not well attested. The digital archive of Czech Academy of Sciences states that the only confirmed author of cliftonky was . The authorship was established only after Šťastný's death when his widow started pursuing the copyrights. Another probable author was Czech actor and comedy and play writer .
Other authors were inspired by cliftonky as well. | 535 |
36415446 | Kemerköprü (Laz language: Cgiryazeni) is a village in the Arhavi District, Artvin Province, Turkey. Its population is 141 (2021). | 129 |
3646542 | One of his brothers, Mamadou, changed his name to Claude in order to get a job in France. Evra was raised in Catholicism and has said that his father held anti-Muslim views.
Evra's father was a diplomat and, when Evra was a year old, moved to Brussels in Belgium to work at the Senegalese embassy. After over two years living in Belgium, when Evra was three, the family moved to France and settled in Les Ulis, a commune south of Paris. | 436 |
15135974 | During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Rajput Nobles under Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa led a rebellion against Maharaja Takht Singh and the British, however the rebellion was put to an end by the British armies under Colonel Holmes after a siege of the Thakur's fort in Auwa. The armies of Jodhpur State fought in World War I for the British. They actively fought in Afghanistan and the Middle-east and scored a series of victories for the British empire. | 457 |
28724618 | Crusaders was founded on February 13, 2010, when they had the first training session together as a team, and the coach Rafael Ruiz met them face to face for the first time, finding only a group of individuals who did not know about American football, but had a desire to learn and become an organized team.
The first months were difficult, not having a field to train ans usually renting small synthetic pitches and having new people in training, without equipment (shoulder pads, helmets and training equipment). | 513 |
1494495 | Later, the Hussite king George of Poděbrady gave Slaný many privileges, after the town had supported his election to the throne. The town also participated in the Bohemian Revolt that opened the Thirty Years' War, housing the family of king Frederick V of the Palatinate. After the Battle of White Mountain, that meant a defeat for the cause, the town suffered as a result of the ravages of war. | 395 |
370310 | The Daring Young Man (1935)Col. Baggott
I Live My Life (1935)Gallup, Mrs. Gage's Butler | 88 |
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