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164579 | James received her first professional vocal training at the age of five from James Earle Hines, musical director of the Echoes of Eden choir at the St. Paul Baptist Church in South-Central Los Angeles. She became a soloist in the choir despite her young age and performed with them on local radio stations. She quickly gained attention for having a strong voice for a child. Hines often punched her in the chest while she sang to force her voice to come from her gut.
Sarge, like the musical director for the choir, was also abusive. | 533 |
9335972 | In 1961, Bers was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1965 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1964. He was a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He received the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for mathematical exposition in 1975 for his paper "Uniformization, moduli, and Kleinian groups". | 456 |
15854330 | They whisked me over to sing for NBC Opera producer Samuel Chotzinoff, and that was it. I had the role."
Kuhlmann went directly from the closing of Music in the Air to rehearsals of Amahl and the Night Visitors in late November 1951. Rehearsals lasted approximately one month with Menotti, television director Kirk Browning, and conductor Thomas Schippers. In an interview, Kuhlmann said, "The crowning glory was having Toscanini attend one of the rehearsals. He kissed me on the cheek with tears in his eyes." | 510 |
241067 | He then completed military training and became a member of the Officers Society in Winterthur. During World War II, he served in active duty in the Mountain Corps of the Swiss Armed Forces.
In 1957, after collecting experience at various courts, notary public offices and private companies, Friedrich opened his own law firm in Winterthur. Early in his career he became involved with the Free Democratic Party. Between 1962 and 1975, he served as city councilor of Winterthur. Between 1967 and 1977, he was a member of the Cantonal Council of Zurich. | 550 |
346821 | The classic carb-loading meal is pasta, whose caloric content is primarily due to starch, a polymer of glucose. Other high-starch meals which include bread, rice, and potatoes are also part of the correct regimen. | 213 |
2184474 | The most extensive of these projects, Tejon Mountain Village is a proposed residential, commercial, and recreational development that has been a matter of heated debate for years in the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass. The development would include homes, commercial buildings, hotels, and golf courses.
Centennial is a proposed new town, or planned development, on the southern section of Tejon Ranch property, in Los Angeles County. | 441 |
11472319 | André Filipe Ribeiro Leão (born 20 May 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Salgueiros as a defensive midfielder.
Leão was born in Freamunde. After a brief spell with FC Porto's reserves, he made his professional debut at Aveiro's S.C. Beira-Mar, his Primeira Liga debut coming on 17 September 2006 in a 2–0 home win against C.F. Estrela da Amadora where he came on as a 76th-minute substitute. | 423 |
73902748 | Detailed literary descriptions of Roman gardens, such as those of Lucius Licinius Lucullus on the Pincio, Gaius Maecenas on the Esquiline, Sallust's Horti Sallustiani, Julius Caesar's gardens in Trastevere, the imperial gardens on the Palatine Hill, and notably, Nero's vast Domus Aurea (which are based on Suetonius's De vita Caesarum extended over a hundred hectares and contained meadows, arable land, vineyards, orchards, and artificial lakes), served as valuable models. | 476 |
367878 | The APDs later had four Higgins boats attached to them.
In February 1941 one company ("A", "E" and "I") from each battalion of the recently formed 7th Marines were designated "Provisional Rubber Boat Companies" and participated in a Fleet Landing Exercises (FLEX-7) in 1941. After the exercise, General Holland Smith assigned the APDs and rubber boat function to the 1st Battalion 5th Marines. | 393 |
15032870 | The reasons for this were unknown to the crew; they initially suspected that the aircraft could have been hit by something, possibly another aircraft. The pilots started an emergency descent to . | 195 |
40952835 | Over 30,000 sheep were shorn at Wooltana in 1928.
During the drought of 1948 over 10,000 sheep were sold off from Wooltana. Hundreds of sheep died from lack of feed in the area and the station's flock was reduced to half its size. Wild dogs became problematic during the course of the drought, feeding on weakened sheep. In 1950, Wooltana served as a base for the dropping of 90,000 wild dog baits, containing strychnine, to reduce the population of the pest. | 459 |
25966810 | An upstream activating sequence or upstream activation sequence (UAS) is a cis-acting regulatory sequence. It is distinct from the promoter and increases the expression of a neighbouring gene. Due to its essential role in activating transcription, the upstream activating sequence is often considered to be analogous to the function of the enhancer in multicellular eukaryotes. Upstream activation sequences are a crucial part of induction, enhancing the expression of the protein of interest through increased transcriptional activity. | 536 |
5496377 | Selene is grateful for the suggestion, unaware that Darine intends to woo Sir Ethais for herself, once he is recovered.
The mortal Lutin arrives. He is just as enchanted with the fairies as Sir Ethais and Sir Phyllon were in Act I, and they are similarly impressed with him. Lutin is so taken with Fairyland that he calls it Paradise and assumes he must be dead. The fairies explain the situation, and they all vie for his attention, saying that they prefer his rugged appearance to men that are handsome. | 505 |
40420729 | Encyclopedia of Theory and Practice in Psychotherapy and Counseling, José A. Fadul, Lulu Press Inc., London,
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care, John Foot, Verso Books, New York, 2015,
Le radici culturali della diagnosi, Pietro Barbetta, Meltemi Editore srl, 2003, | 322 |
81254 | In November 2021, 150 people were evacuated from the island's harbour area due to increased volcanic activity and gases; an amber alert had been issued in October 2021 after several significant changes in the volcano's parameters.
Vulcano is located approximately north of Sicily and is approximately long by wide. The island is in area and rises to above sea level. The island is separated by a -wide strait from Lipari to the north and is administratively part of the Commune of Lipari. | 495 |
45603767 | South Africa bowled first, and after Fraser Watts and Majid Haq made it through the first ten overs, South Africa took a wicket every five overs to reduce Scotland to 84 for five after 30 overs. Andrew Hall and Charl Langeveldt took the wickets, but also got hit for runs by Dougie Brown, John Blain and Paul Hoffmann as Scotland posted their highest-ever World Cup total of 186. | 379 |
8630882 | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation page
Bodies of water of Monroe County, New York | 103 |
70097250 | Strike a Nerve is the seventh studio album by American rock band Drowning Pool. The album was released on September 30, 2022, by T-Boy and UMe. It is the final Drowning Pool album recorded with vocalist Jasen Moreno before his departure in 2023. The album was announced August 5 along with the release of lead single "Mind Right". Second single "Choke" was released August 26, and third single "A Devil More Damned" released September 24. | 439 |
39966485 | According to The Daily Dot, new listeners primarily come through fan following and word of mouth primarily on Tumblr with fan fiction and fan art focusing on the romantic relationship between the show's narrator and scientist Carlos. Fans have published "fanscripts," transcripts of the podcast, in order to widen the accessibility of Welcome to Night Vale.
On October 15, 2015, producers Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor were interviewed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Cecil Baldwin appeared for a Community Calendar public service message for Night Vale. | 566 |
49721416 | Even not all of the initial plan of the Ring Road is not completed yet, it has greatly reduced travel times for those wishing to bypass the congestion in downtown Volos. The Ring Road's current termini are the end of Larisa Street and in Agria village. | 252 |
3146097 | Bill Coffin (born September 17, 1970) is a writer of novels and role-playing games in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Perhaps best known for his work at Palladium Books from July 1998 through May 2002, he made significant contributions to several of Palladium's game series, most notably Palladium Fantasy, but also Heroes Unlimited and Rifts, and created his own game, Systems Failure.
Bill Coffin is a well-received author who made many books for Palladium Books from 1988 through 2002. | 496 |
18798811 | Balamanou is a village in the Bilanga Department of Gnagna Province in eastern Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 390.
Populated places in the Est Region (Burkina Faso) | 179 |
416195 | Op. 109: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major (1820)
Op. 110: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A major (1821)
Op. 111: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor (1822)
Op. 112: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), for chorus and orchestra (1815)
Op. 113: Die Ruinen von Athen (The ruins of Athens), overture and incidental music (1811) | 339 |
1070678 | To drum up further interest in the album, a collection of otherwise unavailable remixes was released on a promotional double 12-inch pack titled Master Mixes (1987) in the US and Hong Kong. | 189 |
10166081 | 3095- from US 127 / KY 227 in Owenton to KY 1287 near Owenton (established 1987) | 80 |
41558414 | List of earthquakes in the Levant
Ramla, regional capital destroyed in 1068 that never recovered
11th century in the Fatimid Caliphate | 134 |
29464911 | In 2004, Eaton was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Sciences Degree from Aston University.
In 1959, Eaton married Sheena Buttle; they had two sons and a daughter. Eaton died at home on 20 July 2022, at the age of 87 after a short illness. He was buried at The Church of Our Lady of Warnford on 17 August 2022. | 306 |
27746390 | Thomas J. Healey retired from training in 1941 after which he served as a steward for the New Jersey State Racing Association. He died at age 78 on October 7, 1944. Following its formation at Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1955 Thomas J. Healey was part of the inaugural class of inductees to the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame. | 322 |
408425 | After the people of Ghana approved the new constitution in an election (held on 28 April 1992), the ban on party politics in Ghana was lifted, allowing other parties including the NPP to be officially launched. The NPP's flagbearer was Professor Albert Adu Boahen, a scholar and a long-time critic of the Rawlings military government. However, the NPP lost the 1992 election overwhelmingly to the Progressive alliance of the National Democratic Congress, Eagle and the National Convention Party whose candidate was Jerry John Rawlings. | 535 |
35487098 | Wilbur Wright, 45, the older of the two Wright brothers who invented the airplane, died of typhoid fever at his home in Dayton, Ohio. Wilbur had become ill on May 4 while on a business trip to Boston. On December 17, 1903, Wilbur became the second man in history to pilot an airplane, after his brother Orville made the first flight.
Royal Australian Navy light cruiser was launched by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, England. | 425 |
8285672 | The marriage ended in divorce. In 1975, he married actress Jane Alexander.
He and Alexander became Canadian citizens, having maintained a home in Lockeport, Nova Scotia since 1998.
Sherin died on May 4, 2017, in Nova Scotia, aged 87.
Sources: Internet Broadway Database; Internet Off-Broadway Database | 301 |
3755511 | The Midland Empire Broadcasting Company, owner of Billings radio station KGHL (790 AM), applied to the FCC in September 1955 for channel 8. The FCC granted the application on November 23, but it stayed the grant after KOOK-TV (channel 2), the city's other TV station, protested to the commission. In August, FCC hearing examiner James D. Cunningham recommended a grant of the Midland Empire application, noting that while the addition of a second station would cause some economic damage to KOOK-TV, the Billings market could sustain two stations. | 547 |
41528859 | The Coffee County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Courthouse Square in Elba, Alabama, one of two county seats of Coffee County, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1973. It is located at 230 Court Avenue. Elba is subject to frequent floods of the Pea River; high water marks on the courthouse walls indicate the highest level reached in past floods.
Coffee County also has a courthouse in Enterprise that was built in 1998. The Elba courthouse serves the western portion of the county. | 540 |
31512849 | Cache manifests are distinct from web application manifests, a JSON-based file format which is part of the progressive web app technology, and is currently active and going through the standardization process at the W3C.
Web applications consist of web pages that need to be downloaded from a network. For this to happen there must be a network connection. However, there are many instances when users cannot connect to a network due to circumstances beyond their control. HTML5 provides the ability to access the web application even without a network connection using the cache manifest.
Web applications consist of resources identified by URLs. | 648 |
550181 | Samatha was taught before the Buddha (so is not really Buddhist), it is dangerous (because one can easily get attached to the bliss), and it is unnecessary (because vipassanā alone can develop the access samādhi necessary to suppress the hindrances). Vipassanā is the true key to liberation taught by the Buddha. This method was pre-eminently taught in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the most important discourse taught by the Buddha on meditation and on practice in everyday life. | 474 |
60225960 | The site was initially developed by Tolga Tanrıseven as a hobby; based on the idea of an incident in a bar in America where he gets the advice from a girl talk to another girl and it works well. Initially the website started as GirlsAskGuys in USA in 2008 and adapted to Turkey in 2011.
As of 2015, the website attracted 400-500 thousand visitors daily and 9 million a month in Turkey, and 18 million worldwide monthly. The site had 350 thousand members in Turkey. | 464 |
8917491 | Tubeuf, André, Notes accompanying the Soustrot recording
Fra Diavolo : opéra comique en trois actes, 1860 publication, French, digitization by BYU on archive.org
Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique | 205 |
46851204 | Jatin Sapru is an Indian sport's television host, broadcaster and cricket commentator who works for Star Sports network.
He also has a YouTube channel, 'Jatin Sapru', where he uploads vlogs etc.
Sapru was born in a Kashmiri Pandit family. His grandfather was a Vice Principal in Kashmir University and father was an engineer. | 326 |
599759 | It was popular enough to be recorded and released as a 45 rpm single and became a surprise mainstream hit, peaking at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 26, 1970. and it peaked at number 10 in Australia.
It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children in 1971 but lost out to the album The Sesame Street Book & Record, which contained the song. | 373 |
12465261 | Shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay ended 10 March, and Housatonic joined Service Force, Atlantic Fleet. During the remainder of 1942 Housatonic carried fuel oil and aviation gas from the Gulf of Mexico to ports on the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean. A shortage of escorts necessitated the oiler's proceeding alone through waters infested with German submarines which were making many kills at that time. In July, the fleet oiler performed her first fueling at sea, servicing carrier , cruiser , and six destroyers engaged in ferrying U.S. | 545 |
26596299 | List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota
National Register of Historic Places listings in Minnesota
Minnesota National Register Properties Database—Minnesota Historical Society | 186 |
6520313 | The Post quoted an unnamed official who said "She was fighting to the death [...] She did not want to be taken alive."
This description soon was questioned. On 4 April, the Associated Press ran a story which stated that Lynch's father had heard from the doctors attending her, who said that "she had not been shot or stabbed during her ordeal." On 15 April, the Post ran a story questioning the accuracy of its own account from 3 April, saying "Lynch's story is far more complex and different than those initial reports [...] She was neither shot nor stabbed." | 560 |
1027838 | While hunting for scorpion fish to feed Octopussy, Smythe suffers a sting and is dragged underwater by Octopussy as the poison sets in. Bond views the death as a suicide, but classifies it as an accidental drowning in order to spare Smythe's reputation.
An unusually morose Bond is assigned sniper duty to help British agent 272 escape from East Berlin. Bond's duty is to safeguard his crossing into West Berlin by eliminating a top KGB assassin codenamed "Trigger", who has been dispatched to kill him. | 503 |
29612646 | Prince Teriiteporouarai Teururai (1857–1899), His family established in Tahiti.
Prince Fatino Teururai (1859–1904), He had issue eight children.
Princess Turaiarii Teururai (1862-1893), she had issue two children through an irregular union.
Princess Teriinavahoroa Teururai (1863–1918), she had eleven children.
Princess Tefaaora Teururai (1870–1928), she had issue two daughters. | 384 |
60563372 | It was during a function in Aluva on the last day of 1970, he fell unconscious and was taken to a hospital in Angamali where he died on 11 February 1971, at the age of 70.
Krishna Pillai was known to have been among the writers who led Malayalam literature forward from the narrative prose of earlier writers such as Kottarathil Sankunni. He was a scholar of western and oriental philosophy and his book on philosophy, Vichara Viplavam was considered by many as an influential philosophical text. | 496 |
3205662 | South Africa, which shared a common border with Angola through the contested territory of South West Africa (Namibia), was then determined to prevent FAPLA from gaining control of Mavinga and allowing insurgents of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) to operate in the region. Saludando Octubre prompted the South African Defence Force (SADF) to underpin the defence of Mavinga and launch Operation Moduler with the objective of stopping FAPLA's advance. After weeks of preliminary skirmishes, the two armies met at the Lomba River on 6 September. | 558 |
1767000 | Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium, located in Frederick, Maryland, is the home of the Frederick Keys, a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League. Opened in 1990, it seats 5,400 fans.
The stadium is named for Harry Grove, who was one of the founders of the Frederick Hustlers, a professional team that existed between 1915 and the World War II era. The Grove family also donated $250,000 to the city to help build the park and were thus honored in the naming of it. | 481 |
51987507 | The band released Ascendancy in 2005, which featured songwriting credits for Beaulieu and producer Jason Suecof. The album was followed the next year by The Crusade, written by Heafy with Beaulieu and Gregoletto. Also in 2006, the band recorded a cover version of Metallica's "Master of Puppets" for the Kerrang! release Remastered: Metallica's Master of Puppets Revisited.
Shogun was released in 2008, credited to the whole band. | 430 |
45700484 | At the time of Read's birth, his father was serving as both the Crown Attorney General for the Delaware Colony as well as a member of the Delaware Assembly. By the time the boy turned ten, his father was serving in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Read was admitted to the bar in 1785 and opened a law office in New Castle. In 1786, he wed his cousin Mary Thompson, the daughter of General William Thompson.
In 1789, the same year his father began his service as a senator in the first session of the U.S. Senate, George Read Jr. | 538 |
44530685 | There is also a pale-orange streak along the costa, as well as a fine fuscous line from the costa outwards, then bent to form a quadrangular projection, bent again to beneath a second spot. | 189 |
63347517 | Transferring this power to Rimmer reengages his Diamond Light form, and with seconds to spare Rimmer takes the bomb out into space to detonate harmlessly. Lister then leads an attack against Rodon, where he and Rimmer create a laser pointer aimed at Rodon so his own people attack him, causing his ship to lose control and hit an asteroid, destroying it and all aboard. Looking to reboot Kryten, who has been serving as Rimmer's power supply, they discover that his system is locked up and he cannot recharge. | 509 |
25364908 | He voiced support for a one- or two-dollar increase in the federal minimum wage if the increase was linked to a decrease in taxes on small businesses, to help offset the additional expense.
As in his two previous runs, Buchanan made his opposition to free trade agreements a central issue to his campaign. In A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argues that the United States should lessen its dependence on trade. This stance aligned him with that of labor unions; Hoffa, while declining to formally endorse Buchanan, commended his position on trade agreements. | 561 |
71218633 | Gen. George A. Custer arrived in Hempstead with a division of volunteer US cavalry. The division camped in and around Liendo Plantation for about two months before moving to Austin or were mustered out of the service at Hempstead in 1865–66. The cavalry regiments under the command of Custer at Hempstead were the 1st Iowa, 2nd Wisconsin, 7th Indiana, and the 5th and 12th Illinois Cavalries. | 392 |
12660340 | The Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba developed a technique of pattern and harmonic displacement in the 1980s, which was adopted into timba tumbaos (timba piano guajeos) in the 1990s. Many timba bands use two keyboards, such as Issac Delgado's group, which features's Melón Lewis (1st keyboard) and Pepe Rivero (2nd keyboard). | 329 |
33336134 | Frederick John Dyson (born January 16, 1939) was a Republican member of the Alaska Senate, serving since 2003. He represented District I from 2003 through 2012 until redistricting placed him in District F in 2013. District I contained the core community of Eagle River, where Dyson resides, and stretched across the northern edge of Anchorage municipal boundaries to Government Hill, also including the core area of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. | 449 |
38494182 | Lou Canon is the stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter.
The sister-in-law of Hayden, Canon worked as an elementary school teacher, pursuing music on the side as a hobby, until one year Hayden gave her some time in his home recording studio as a Christmas gift. The sessions resulted in her debut album, which was released in 2011 on Hayden's Hardwood Records.
Canon also appears as a guest vocalist on Hayden's 2013 album Us Alone, and toured with him on several concert dates to support the album. | 533 |
53505 | Back at Paramount he was in The Return of Sophie Lang (1936) and The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936).
He was contacted by Joe Pasternak, who was looking for an 'English' actor for the lead in his new picture, Three Smart Girls (1936). Although Pasternak worked for Universal Studios, Paramount had agreed to lend Milland out for the film.
On returning to Paramount after Three Smart Girls was wrapped, Milland was used as a test actor to find a new starlet for The Jungle Princess (1936). | 486 |
6553361 | However, he did reconnect with Michael and, in turn, Monica. When A.J. was accused of murdering Connie Falconeri and lapsed back into alcoholism, Monica got fired as chief of staff trying to support A.J. She lost her son again when A.J. was murdered by Sonny. Monica was furious, but happy when Michael disowned Sonny and started to bond more with the Quartermaines because of Sonny being like Cesar Faison. | 407 |
26007822 | He received the decoration of Commander of the Legion of Honor after the battle, where he was wounded. He was near Stralsund in 1807. Elevated to the rank of general of brigade, he served in General Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg's 1st Dragoon Division as the brigadier in command of the 20th and 25th Dragoons. The same year he commanded with great distinction in the Battle of Heilsberg and in the Battle of Friedland.
Assigned to Spain, he commanded a dragoon brigade under Marshal Jean Lannes. | 514 |
32604774 | Districts adjoining Hjulsbro are Johannelund, Hackefors, Ullstämma and Ekholmen. | 80 |
46351443 | On June 15, 2017, new Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly signed a memo rescinding DAPA, ending the matter. DHS's announcement clarified that the new memo does not affect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, leading the White House to announce it had not decided if it will or will not keep that other policy. However, on September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced that they planned to end DACA if Congress was unable to pass it into law within six months. | 476 |
524929 | Tantric iconography including sharp weapons, shields, and corpses similarly appears in conflict with those tenets of non-violence but instead represent the transmutation of aggression into a method for overcoming illusion and ego. Both Kālacakra and his dharmapala protector Vajravega hold a sword and shield in their paired second right and left hands. This is an expression of the Buddha's triumph over the attack of Mara and his protection of all sentient beings. | 466 |
180982 | Fontaine received her first major role in The Man Who Found Himself (1937) and in Gunga Din (1939). Her career prospects improved greatly after her starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she received her first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The following year, she won that award for her role in Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941). A third nomination came with The Constant Nymph (1943). | 434 |
3161202 | In the next few days, Bunch assisted in the salvage of ships grounded by a succession of typhoons over the past weeks and loaded cargo for her return to Shanghai. Her LCPRs came in handy in the salvage operations despite the effort required to remove and then replace their specialized minesweeping gear. After nearly a week engaged in salvage duty, Bunch got underway for Shanghai on 26 October. She reached her destination on the 28th and spent the rest of October and the first week of November undergoing voyage repairs alongside . | 535 |
19545940 | Up until the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty in 1234, the state kept releasing new types of banknotes which were rejected by the public who were only willing to accept transactions in silver.
Jin and Song notes continued to circulate in territories conquered by the Mongols. In 1227, during the last year of Genghis Khan's life, he had silk-backed imitation Huizi printed. Sorghaghtani Beki, Ögedei Khan, Güyük Khan, and Möngke Khan issued various paper scrips for their occupational armies. | 494 |
8526260 | Some institutions and places named after him are:
Abdullahi Fodio Central Mosque in Gwandu
Sheikh Abdullahi Fodio University in Sokoto
Abdullahi Fodio Islamic Centre in Birnin Kebbi
The Abdullahi Fodiyo Library of UDUS in Sokoto
Abdullahi Ibn Fodio Islamic School in Minna
After Abdullahi's passing, Nana Asma'u, poet and daughter of Usman dan Fodio, penned a heartfelt elegy for her departed Uncle, expressing her profound sorrow. | 436 |
35124798 | Joakim Tobias Aspelin (born 29 November 1968 in Lund, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. | 81 |
2246051 | Luiz Gushiken was downgraded again. Left position as at Secretary of Communication to become an adviser to President Lula, July 21
Valdemar Costa Neto, Federal deputy and president of the Liberal Party (PL), resigned his mandate, August 1
Marcio Lacerda, executive secretary in the Ministry of National Integration, August 2
Manoel Severino, President of the Casa da Moeda do Brasil, tendered resignation, August 3
Danilo de Camargo, Coordinator of the Commission of Ethics in PT, August 6 | 493 |
28040629 | There were two Feltonville train stations, originally operated by the Central Massachusetts Railroad Company and later by Boston & Maine, until both were closed in 1965. Railroads allowed the development of larger factories, some of the first in the country to use steam power and sewing machines. By 1860, Feltonville had 17 shoe and shoe-related factories, which attracted Irish and French Canadian immigrants.
Feltonville residents fought for the Union during the American Civil War. Twenty-five of those men died doing so. | 526 |
6628159 | The station, originally named , opened on 1 April 1984.
During the 11 March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, part of the tracks and the station building at Shimanoshi were swept away, suspending services on a portion of the Sanriku Railway. However, the section of the line from Omoto to reopened on 29 March 2011, and the section from Omoto to reopened on 6 April 2014.
From 27 December 2015, the station was renamed Iwaizumi-Omoto Station. | 446 |
173128 | During the Russian Civil War it became part of the Far Eastern Republic before joining the Soviet Union, going through numerous changes until reaching its current form in 1938. Primorsky Krai is home to the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet and is also known as the birthplace of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
The name of the krai is derived from the Russian words (), meaning "littoral" or "coastal", and (), meaning "region" or "area". | 437 |
90472 | They took in two Jewish children to their home, and one of them, a nine-year-old Austrian, Evi Eisenstädter, shared Jenifer's room. (Evi's father Hans Mathias Eisenstädter had been imprisoned in Buchenwald, and after liberation, the family adopted the surname "Ellis".)
From early childhood, Franklin showed exceptional scholastic abilities. At age six, she joined her brother Roland at Norland Place School, a private day school in West London. | 445 |
5030980 | In the 1980s, New Zealand provincial sides participated in the South Pacific Championship, along with teams from Australia and Fiji. In 1992 this type of competition was relaunched as the Super Sixes, and was expanded to the Super 10 later. As rugby entered the professional era in the mid-1990s, along with South Africa and Australia, New Zealand formed SANZAR, which would see them start a provincial rugby competition, the Super 12. | 435 |
3796108 | a character from Groove On Fight in the Power Instinct series
Rémi (Sans Famille), the title character in Hector Malot's 19th-century novel Sans Famille
Remi, the protagonist of anime adaptations of the French novel Sans Famille | 230 |
53942956 | Conospermum galeatum is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.
The shrub has an open habit and typically grows to a height of . It blooms between August and September producing white flowers.
It is found in a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils. | 294 |
140986 | However 19th-century historian Angus Mackay disputes the Sutherland's presence at the battle stating that it would be unlikely that the Earl of Sutherland at the time would have assisted against the Rosses as he was married to a daughter of the Ross chief of Balnagowan, and also that the feudal superiority of the Sutherlands over the Mackays "nowhere existed save in his own fertile imagination".
In 1496, the King summoned chiefs David Ross and Iye Roy Mackay. | 463 |
44089263 | John S. Marr (born April 1940) is an American physician, epidemiologist, and author. His professional life has concerned outbreaks of infectious disease and thus his subsequent writing career has focused on that topic, particularly historical epidemics.
Marr was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, attending Trinity School and Deerfield Academy. After graduating from Yale, he received an MD from New York Medical College and did a residency in Spanish Harlem. He then completed an MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. | 547 |
2099312 | (later The Metro), with three Washboard Band alumni (who took the stage names Bowtie Blotto, Sergeant Blotto, and Broadway Blotto), plus a drummer and a bassist (Lee Harvey Blotto, and Cheese Blotto). They were joined by Blanche Blotto, who contributed vocals and keyboards and inspired the band's drumhead lady logo. They began to amass a following and played in the New York City area at clubs such as The Ritz, SNAFU, Eighty-Eight, and My Father's Place. | 458 |
52082724 | Siddhartha Nuni is an Indian cinematographer based in Mumbai, India.
Siddhartha attended high school at Sainik School, Korukonda and graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He learnt cinematography at Mindscreen Film Institute, Chennai, run by the Indian cinematographer Rajiv Menon. Siddhartha graduated with a Master of Arts from Viewfinder Erasmus Mundus European Joint Masters in Cinematography '19.
Siddhartha started his career working on travel documentaries for Mahindra Holidays. | 532 |
6592090 | The album also includes the popular Roy Orbison hit "Dream Baby." Matt Fink of AllMusic: "Though there's nothing here in particular to get excited about, there's enough to keep the casual fan interested." | 205 |
1409754 | As of 2019, it aimed to nearly double its portfolio of AI companies from 70 to 125. However, it also invested in companies supposedly focused on revolutionizing real estate, transportation, and retail. Son claimed he would make personal connections with the CEOs of all companies funded by Vision Fund in order to enhance the creation of intertwined synergies among those companies. Son planned to raise $100 billion for a new fund every few years, investing about $50 billion a year in startups. | 496 |
4744024 | Buford also played as an infielder and was a switch hitter who threw right-handed. In 1993, Buford was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame.
Buford was born in Linden, Texas and raised in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Susan Miller Dorsey High School, he played college baseball for the USC Trojans baseball team under legendary coach Rod Dedeaux. In 1958, he played on the Trojans' College World Series championship team with Ron Fairly and future baseball executive Pat Gillick. | 508 |
43198944 | Messenger also complained that it was impossible for him as a private citizen and old age pensioner to afford the legal costs required to contest the ACCC's arguments in this complex area of the law.
In 2007, Dally Messenger and the ACCC reached a plea bargain whereby he pleaded guilty to attempting to induce persons to contravene section 45(2)(a)(ii) of the Competition Code of Victoria, and was penalised $46,000 plus his own legal costs of $20,000. | 454 |
67187286 | Badminton players at the 1982 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 1986 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for India
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games | 239 |
15057959 | Meanwhile, Emperor Zhongzong designated 16 officials, including the coup leaders but also Wu Sansi and his cousin Wu Youji (the husband of Emperor Zhongzong's sister Princess Taiping), as contributors to his return to the throne and gave them iron certificates that were supposed to guarantee that they would be spared of death penalties 10 times except for treason. | 366 |
55387466 | Maningrida College is an early education through upper secondary (senior high) school in Maningrida, Northern Territory. 120 employees work for the school. Maningrida College is also a remote education provider for surrounding areas.
It first opened as a remote education provider in 1958. At first the institution had a single instructor.
Public high schools in the Northern Territory | 386 |
71994878 | In the 1960s a new hospital, Walsgrave Hospital, was built on the edge of the city and upon its opening in 1970, Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital ceased to be the city's main hospital. | 186 |
1809974 | The University of the North, nicknamed "Turfloop" after its location, was established in 1959 under the apartheid regime's policy of separate ethnically-based institutions of higher learning policy. The university was sited at Turfloop farm about east of Pietersburg. The town that grew around the university was named Sovenga, for the three ethnic groups (Sotho, Venda, Tsonga) that Apartheid ideology intended to study there. In reality, most inhabitants refer to the town as Mankweng, after one of the chiefs of the area. | 525 |
33221478 | The logo is then formed by animated drones flying different segments of the logo in. Used for after-school programming.
Lights - A group of children move around glow sticks to form the logo. Used for entertainment programming.
Powder - A teenage boy jumps on a trampoline with powder of the different coloured logo segments flying around. A piece of stencil card is then held up to form the logo. Used for entertainment programming.
Slinky - A group of children in a gym place coloured slinkies on the treadmills to make an infinite loop. The camera pans to show the formed logo. | 580 |
25199915 | He distinguished her mummy as "the most perfect example of embalming that has come down to us from the time of the early 18th Dynasty, or perhaps even of any period." He further characterized her as "the least unlovely" of the existing female mummies, and described as a "slim, gracefully-built woman," measuring in height, with small "childlike" hands.
In 2009, a CAT scan by a medical team revealed Lady Rai had a diseased aortic arch and is thus the oldest known mummy with evidence of atherosclerosis. | 506 |
983047 | Österreichisches Hochdeutsch) (not to be confused with Austro-Bavarian, an Upper German language related to but not the same as Standard German)
Swiss Standard German (Schweizer Standarddeutsch, Schweizer Hochdeutsch) (not to be confused with Swiss German which is based on Alemannic, | 284 |
18682427 | Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt, archaeologist and historian (born 1730) | 86 |
9593783 | Artistic Director - Acting: Karmenlara Ely
Dr. Karmenlara Ely has a Phd in Performance Studies at New York University. Before coming to NTA, Karmenlara spent nearly 10 years teaching theater and performance theory at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a special emphasis on exploring the impact of ethical philosophy and erotics on contemporary acting technique. She also held the position Artistic Director of the Tisch New York Summer Drama Intensive, 2008-2011. | 482 |
27044968 | Ectoedemia heckfordi is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Devon in Great Britain, having been discovered in 2004 at the National Trust's Hembury Woods by amateur naturalist Bob Heckford, for whom it is named.
The wingspan is 4.8–6.2 mm. Adults are on wing from April to May. There is one generation per year.
The bright green larvae feed on oaks, Quercus petraea and Quercus robur. They mine the leaves of their host plant. | 446 |
16417826 | The project initially began as a studio endeavor under the moniker Magdallan in 1990, with Ken Tamplin as the vocalist. Following Tamplin's exit in 1992, the name was altered to Magdalen, marking the transition from a studio project to a full-fledged band. This change signified the new phase of the project, distinguishing between its studio origins and the live band it had evolved into. In 1995, a subsequent name change occurred, rebranding the band as Chaos Is The Poetry. | 477 |
47280826 | by Julien Duvivier as Théophile Vabre
1959: The Bureaucrats by Henri Diamant-Berger as Chavarax
1963 : La Foire aux cancres by Louis Daquin as the antiquarèy
1972 : Le Viager by Pierre Tchernia as the centenarian (uncredited)
1951: Edmée by Pierre-Aristide Bréal, directed by Georges Vitaly, Théâtre de la Huchette
1953: Les Hussards by Pierre-Aristide Bréal, | 362 |
621948 | 1, Sir Adrian Boult conducting London Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI)
Solo Vocal – Shostakovich, Suite, Six Songs to Lyrics, etc., Maxim Shostakovich conducting Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra (HMV Melodiya) | 204 |
37411979 | Midlands 2 (east v west) promotion play-off winner: 2007–08
National League 3 (north v midlands) promotion play-off winner: 2015–16 | 132 |
1865258 | The first question of Part B was a chemical equation question in which 3 scenarios were presented and the student was required to work all 3 scenarios, authoring a balanced net ionic chemical equation for each scenario and answering questions about the equations and scenarios. If time permitted, students may have edited their responses from Part A during the time allotted for responding to Part B, though without the use of a calculator. The student needed to have completed all six questions. | 496 |
4325774 | In Giles' first broadcast incarnation, as a recurring character performed by Brigstocke on satirical radio show The Now Show, he is offensively boorish and unlikeable. However, in Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off he is a sympathetic fool and clearly does not mean any harm. Broadly similar characters are Harry Enfield's Tim Nice-But-Dim, and P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster. | 373 |
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