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41440482 | Northeast (often referred to as "nor'easters" because of the intense north east winds they carry), can attain tremendous intensity across coastal areas, resulting in high winds, heavy rain, ice or snow and sometimes all of the above in a single storm. Average annual precipitation changes from in the south with its intense cold-season storm activity, to elsewhere. In the northeast, Sydney is an especially wet area, with an average annual precipitation of nearly 60 inches, with a noticeable autumn to early winter (October to January) concentration, and December the wettest month on average. | 597 |
1694855 | Many types of automatic thresholding methods exist, the most famous and widely used being Otsu's method. The following list, based on the works of Sezgin et al. (2004) categorizes thresholding methods into broad groups based on the information the algorithm manipulates. Note however that such a categorization is necessarily fuzzy as some methods can fall in several categories (for example, Otsu's method can be both considered a histogram-shape and a clustering algorithm)
Histogram shape-based methods, where, for example, the peaks, valleys and curvatures of the smoothed histogram are analyzed. | 601 |
43164652 | He also claimed he turned down a program with Richard Holliday after the company wanted him to "bury a guy who just beat cancer". nZo had been written off TV at Blood and Thunder after losing to Microman in a quick squash.
Under the stage name Real1, Arndt began pursuing a career as a rapper in May 2018, releasing his first song titled "Phoenix" through WorldStarHipHop on May 28, 2018. He released a second song titled "Bury Me a G" on June 7. | 446 |
52811179 | Atinga ahangbada hongna chaona thoklakle haibagi Ahong Achoubi kouye.
Hayi-ngei taibang yumthong laipham arubada leirure. | 121 |
1573143 | Gibernau then led right to the last lap, but Rossi was shadowing him ever since and - after being prevented by a clever change of racing line from Gibernau along the back straight - Rossi made his move by going up the inside at the Strubben hairpin. Gibernau tried to stick it around the outside and the two would ride alongside each other to the next turn, where they made contact. Givernau's front wheel hit the rear of Rossi's bike and broke Gibernau's front fender, unsettling Gibernau in the process. | 505 |
292420 | By 1785 James Gregory discovered the principles of diffraction grating and American astronomer David Rittenhouse made the first engineered diffraction grating. In 1821 Joseph von Fraunhofer solidified this significant experimental leap of replacing a prism as the source of wavelength dispersion improving the spectral resolution and allowing for the dispersed wavelengths to be quantified.
In 1835, Charles Wheatstone reported that different metals could be distinguished by bright lines in the emission spectra of their sparks, thereby introducing an alternative to flame spectroscopy. | 588 |
55398809 | Covered by dry valleys and perforated with numerous funnels (several hundred in the Velours forest alone), this plateau, which measures more than , is covered with very permeable rocks with a small but discernible slope to the south.
The underground river feeding the Bèze at its source probably collects 50% of the annual rainfall on the plateau.
Fluorescein tests carried out by the Speleo-Club of Dijon in 1970 showed that the waters of Venelle colored those of the Bèze in the caves of the spring. | 502 |
43331539 | Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi . Don Casimiro
José Carlos Ruiz . Tío Chinto
Famie Kauffmann "Vitola" . Doña Vírgen | 111 |
404037 | But modern AI also resembles the scruffies: modern machine learning applications require a great deal of hand-tuning and incremental testing; while the general algorithm is mathematically rigorous, accomplishing the specific goals of a particular application is not. Also, in the early 2000s, the field of software development embraced extreme programming, which is a modern version of the scruffy methodology -- try things and test them, without wasting time looking for more elegant or general solutions.
The distinction between neat and scruffy originated in the mid-1970s, by Roger Schank. | 593 |
44903840 | A refurbishment scheme for the church interior was announced in 2014, which involved laying new flooring, installing internal plate glass screens, and the removal of George Gilbert Scott's oak pews to replace them with modern upholstered chairs. The controversial scheme was approved by the Church of England consistory court but was opposed by conservationists; heritage bodies such as the Victorian Society and Historic England, along with Watford Borough Council, objected to the plans.
The refurbishment work was carried out from late 2017 to March 2019. | 558 |
55809734 | He calls Stacey Fowler (Lacey Turner) a "yummy mummy" and refers to her as "Sally", insults Martin Fowler (James Bye), and makes comments about Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami) being the father of Arthur Fowler (Hunter Bell), who Stacey and Martin have brought to the show. During the interval, Martin finds Marv in the pub and tells him off for drinking and gets angry when he calls Stacey "Sally" again. When the show continues, he gets Kush and Martin on the stage to sing but sends Martin off when he does badly. | 512 |
36166424 | () is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Pramod Chakravorty, with screenplay by Sachin Bhowmick and dialogues by Ahsan Rizvi. It stars Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy and Shoma Anand in leading roles, with Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Ashok Kumar in supporting roles. The film was a commercial flop in India, but went on to become an overseas blockbuster in the Soviet Union. | 390 |
26807846 | On May 11, 2015 WTQS was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to move to 1500 kHz, construct a new taller and much more efficient antenna, downgrade from Class C to Class D, increase day power to 5,000 watts, decrease critical hours power from 1,000 watts to 730 watts and discontinue operation at night. The FM station is a 24-7 station. | 366 |
55925803 | Rear Admiral John Roger Southey Gerard-Pearse CB (10 May 1924 – 22 May 2017) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer Sea Training.
Educated at Clifton College, Gerard-Pearse joined the Royal Navy in 1943 during the Second World War. He was given command of the destroyer HMS Tumult, the frigate HMS Grafton and then the destroyer HMS Defender in the early 1960s. | 374 |
31888089 | The flower festival or flower sprinkling festival (known in Tamil as Poochoriyal) is an important festival celebrated in the Samayapuram Mariamman temple near Tiruchirappalli, India. This festival is usually held in the Tamil month of Masi. During this festival, devotees throng the temple to sprinkle flowers on the idol of the Hindu goddess Mariamman. During this period, it is believed, that the goddess fasts for the welfare of her devotees for a period of 28 days. | 469 |
15780656 | an unplanned occurrence in a professional wrestling event
Shoot wrestling, a synonym for Catch wrestling, a related combat sport
Shoot, a minced oath used in lieu of "shit"
Aoki Densetsu Shoot! or Blue Legend Shoot, a Japanese manga | 234 |
38890023 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019): MPC Film
Maze Runner: Scorch Trials (2015): Weta
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018): Weta
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016): BOT VFX, | 190 |
53443759 | In 1978, they released Lettres à une noire; in 1992 Le pin de Magneu was published; and in 2000, the Mam’Ega Committee published L’Alizé ne soufflait plus. In 2017, the work of Ega was discovered by Brazilian researcher Maria Clara Machado during her doctoral studies in France. As a result, "Lettres à une noire" was translated into Brazilian Portuguese and published in Brazil by Todavia publishing house. | 407 |
62048106 | Shane Peter George (born 20 October 1970) is a former cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket for South Australia from 1987-88 to 1997-98.
Shane George was an opening bowler. In his best season, 1994-95, he was one of the leading bowlers in Australia, taking 43 wickets at an average of 33.55, helping South Australia to second position in the Sheffield Shield. | 373 |
22564978 | From 1990 to 1992, she was editor in chief of the national TV social and political department, where she authored the following programs: “The Record”, “Journalist Disclose”, and “Countries, Nations, Occurrences”. Between 1993 and 1995, she anchored her program ‘Studio Kontakt' for TVP Polonia that promoted Polish culture. She was program advisor for Polsat TV since 1995. She inaugurated “ The Day of Good News’ action on 8 September 2001. | 443 |
49783536 | In 2005–2007, she received a second Fulbright grant to assist Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentina. In 2007, Cheverino conducted the "Donne in Musica" concert in honor of Zubin Mehta with the Solisti Fiorentini di Maggio Musicale Fiorentina recreating the "orchestra di donne" tradition of late Renaissance opera in Florence in homage to the Camerata di Bardi and Francesca Caccini. | 391 |
72693907 | Notably, she did much to popularize Ives's songs to California, and was the first artist to record "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven". She also premiered a number of songs by Ruth Crawford, with the composer at the piano, and introduced a handful of works by Marc Blitzstein.
Later in life Pazmor turned her focus to music therapy, studying the discipline at Boston University and receiving her master's degree in 1955; concurrently she taught music at Converse College, where she remained from 1940 until 1960. | 519 |
28150727 | Gonçalo Filipe Oliveira Silva (born 4 June 1991) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Farense as a central defender.
Born in Barreiro, Setúbal District, Silva spent his formative years with his hometown side F.C. Barreirense before joining Vitória S.C. in 2010. He spent the next two seasons out on loan to A.D. Lousada (third division) and Atlético Clube de Portugal (second). | 399 |
16164717 | Multiple sequences of water wheels were used elsewhere in the Roman Empire, such as the famous example at Barbegal in southern France. This system was also a stack of 16 wheels but worked like a normal overshot wheel, the wheels driving stone mills and used to grind grains. The water mills were worked from a masonry aqueduct supplying the Roman town at Arles, and the remains of the masonry mills are still visible on the ground today, unlike the underground drainage systems of the mines, which were destroyed by later mining operations. | 540 |
24478638 | In that time, he worked for the United States Office of War Information (OWI) during World War II, conducted several cross-cultural analyses and developed conflict resolution strategies in Africa and other conflict zones from the 1960s through the 80s, also publishing several compilations of African poetry during that time, and pioneered other works in psychology and philosophy up to the end of his long and prolific career. He was most active shortly before his death with his most recent book (Pursuing Perfection: People, Groups and Society) having been published in 1999. | 578 |
36626641 | "Olympians who played in the NFL". Pro-Football-Reference. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
"Olympians in the NFL". NFL.com. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
"Olympians in the NFL: Hayes, Thorpe And More. ThePostGame. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
"Dropping Back In NFL History: The NFL's Olympians. Football Nation. Retrieved 19 September 2012. | 331 |
6587796 | Jay Nash (born 21 December 1985) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Nash began his career in South Australia, where he played for the Central District Football Club. As a young player, he played for the Nuriootpa Rover Football Club, in the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association.
He was drafted by Essendon Football Club in the 2003 AFL Draft at Pick 28. | 480 |
5824205 | Music for Youth (MFY) was founded in 1970, the first event staged was the National Festival on 10 and 11 July 1971 at the Lyceum on the Strand, London. Following this a nationwide series of Regional Festivals were introduced and there was an increase in entries for the second National Festival in Fairfield Halls, Croydon, in 1972. The National Festival moved to London's South Bank Centre in 1981 and to Birmingham in 2005. | 425 |
391489 | On August 19, Smoltz set the Braves strikeout record by striking out the Arizona Diamondbacks' Mark Reynolds. It was his 2,913th strikeout, passing Phil Niekro on the club's all-time list; he struck out a season-high 12 in the game. He finished the year 14–8 with a 3.11 ERA and 197 strikeouts. The stalwart pitcher was the only holdover on the Braves roster from their 1991 worst-to-first season until Glavine returned to the Braves after an absence of several years following the 2007 season. | 494 |
1436754 | 3) #11) and Monarch selected Jay Garrick of this Earth (amongst others) in a Multiversal arena tournament. Based on comments by 52 co-writer Grant Morrison, this alternate universe is not the pre-Crisis Earth-Two.
This separation between the pre-Crisis Earth-Two and post-Crisis Earth-2 is formally established in Justice Society of America (vol. 3) Annual #1 (2008), with a story titled "Earth 2 Chapter One: Golden Age", in which the New Earth Power Girl arrives on post-Crisis Earth-2. | 488 |
66554725 | Like other bugs in this family, both adults and nymphs feed by piercing the bark with their mouthparts and sucking sap from the phloem. The adults are mobile and can jump if disturbed.
Flatida rosea feed on the liana Elachyptera minimiflora. The nymphs produce copious quantities of honeydew and the Coquerel's coua (Coua coquerelii) feeds on this. | 349 |
633042 | Free Christian and other religious congregations in the United Kingdom
General Ordinary Assembly, advisory body for the Pope in the Catholic Church
FIA General Assembly, an international motor-racing organization
General Assembly of the Organization of American States, the main body of the OAS
United Nations General Assembly, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations
General Assembly of Nova Scotia, the legislature of that Canadian province | 457 |
13033811 | Purple is a common term in politics used to describe governments or other political entities consisting of parties that have red and blue as their political colours. It is of particular note in three countries. In the politics of the Netherlands and Belgium, purple () is the term for a government coalition of social democrats and liberals, excluding christian democrats. It is derived from the combination of the colour of the social democrats (red) and liberals (blue). | 472 |
14340601 | Because of his Jewish background he was prevented from exhibiting his work in Germany, and so in 1933 he moved to Palma, Majorca and then London, where he set up another school with his daughter Marianne. He died in London.
Segal was firstly a painter, and his early work was heavily influenced by impressionism and neo-impressionism. From around 1910 he began a more expressionism and dadaism style, and around 1916 found his own modern style. As well as painting, he also produced woodcuts from 1910, many of which were anti-war themed. | 538 |
57835 | The city is home to 7 national protected areas, and at least 15 places on the National Register of Historic Places: Atchafalaya National Heritage Area; Baton Rouge National Cemetery; Independence Park Botanic Gardens; Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum; LSU Hilltop Arboretum; Magnolia Cemetery; and Port Hudson National Cemetery. | 344 |
34111894 | 5 Russian Championships (2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009)
CSK VVS Samara (women's football club) players | 101 |
111133 | This area, still under park development by Dupage Forest Preserve in 2016, is known as Dunham Woods and is adjacent to portions of Pratts Wayne Woods in its southeast section.
Wayne is located at (41.9493585, -88.2586396).
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Wayne has a total area of , of which (or 98.40%) is land and (or 1.60%) is water. Wayne is dotted by small streams, wetlands, and small ponds. | 414 |
50932312 | In October 18, 2016, it was announced that Abrahamian was set to return to the house in the subscription-streaming spin-off Big Brother: Over the Top, to host a Head of Household competition. Abrahamian returned to the house on October 21 to host the fourth Head of Household competition of the season. Abrahamian appeared in the series premiere of the Big Brother spin-off Celebrity Big Brother for a special appearance during the first Head of Household competition. | 468 |
7143874 | However, despite the best efforts of the Conservatives, they were too late in the game and failed to generate enough support in order to block the election of delegates for Tillman.
At the August 13 convention called by the state Democratic Executive Committee to consider primary elections, the assembled delegates installed Tillmanites in leadership positions and soundly defeated calls for a primary election. A month later at the nominating convention on September 15, Tillman's supporters had an even greater majority than the preceding convention and Tillman was selected as the governor without opposition. | 613 |
30633173 | He joined the writing staff of The Office at the end of its fifth season and became a producer at the beginning of the sixth season. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for writing on The Office.
Episodes are all co-written with Warren Lieberstein. | 266 |
23229075 | In 1904, 50 4-8-0 "Hendrie B" locomotives were ordered from the North British Locomotive Company, and in 1909, 30 4-8-2 "Henrie D" locomotives were purchased from the same manufacturer (David Anderson Hendrie was the locomotive engineer of the NGR). In 1909, the NGR diversified further with the purchase of 6 Mallet locomotives from the American Locomotive Company. | 366 |
5864951 | Taphiassa castanea Rix & Harvey, 2010 — Australia (Tasmania)
Taphiassa globosa Rix & Harvey, 2010 — Australia (Western Australia)
Taphiassa impressa Simon, 1880 (type) — New Caledonia
Taphiassa magna Rix & Harvey, 2010 — Australia (Lord Howe Is.) | 249 |
37206270 | Håkan Norebrink (born 21 February 1965) is a Swedish modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, competing in both the team and individual events. The Swedish team placed eighth, and Norebrink finished sixth in the individual competition.
Modern pentathletes at the 1992 Summer Olympics | 304 |
46180962 | The Sultan and the Saint (PBS, 2016) on the meeting of Egyptian Sultan Al-Kamil and St. Francis of Assisi.
The Crusades, An Arab Perspective (Al Jazeera, 2016) based on the book "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes" by Amin Maalouf.
Saladin the Victorious (Egypt, 1963) on Saladin, drawing parallels between him and Gamal Abdel Nasser. | 331 |
53919083 | Alice Sophia Gregory (22 November 1867 – 8 November 1946) was a British midwife who founded the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies to create professional training for midwives.
Gregory was born in Lambeth in 1867. Her parents were Charlotte Anne (born Stopford) and Robert Gregory. Her father was in the Church of England and in time he would be the dean of St Paul's Cathedral. She was their last of three daughters who survived them. She had half brothers from her father's first marriage.
Gregory intended to ensure that all midwives were trained. | 555 |
43850788 | In the 1950s, Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage returns to her hometown of Dungatar, an Australian country town, to take care of her ill mother, Molly. The people of Dungatar sent Tilly away at the age of ten because of false accusations of murder, after the death of fellow student Stewart Pettyman.
Tilly, an expert dressmaker trained by Madeleine Vionnet in Paris, starts a dressmaking business and transforms the locals with her couture creations. Many of the townsfolk who revile her nevertheless arrange for her to make them couture outfits. | 536 |
48661 | Careers information, Royal Statistical Society (UK)
Listing of tasks and duties - The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
Listings of nature of work etc - O*NET | 185 |
3770709 | drafts in manuscript of several of Ab Ithel's printed works, including , The Traditionary Annals of the Cymry, Druidism, , and Annales Cambriae; contributions to the Cambrian Journal; his address at the Conwy Eisteddfod, 1861; papers relating to his collation to the rectory of Llanymawddwy, 1849; 'The Church of England independent of the Church of Rome in all ages'; sermons in English and Welsh; 'A few plain and practical Observations on Anglican Education'; | 462 |
26549298 | She agreed that the Earth is warming, largely due to human-generated greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and that the plausible worst-case scenario is potentially catastrophic. She said that the IPCC was distorting the science and scientists were not dealing adequately with uncertainties. Commenting climatologists have generally disagreed with her critiques. Stephen Schneider, who had persuaded the IPCC to systematize discussion of uncertainty, said Curry had lately proposed "a lot of strawmen" and "It is frankly shocking to see such a good scientist take that kind of a turn to sloppy thinking. I have no explanation for it." | 637 |
34456198 | The Argentina men's national under-19 basketball team represents Argentina in basketball international competitions, and is controlled by the "Confederación Argentina de Basquetbol" (Argentine Basketball Federation)
Archived records of Argentina team participations at FIBA | 274 |
53498547 | Priperia is a monotypic genus of Polynesian sheet weavers containing the single species, Priperia bicolor. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1904, and has only been found in Hawaii. | 195 |
18887661 | The south and west slopes descend directly into the lake; the lower
half consists of barren lava and cinders, but the upper half is sparsely forested. The slopes which face away from the lake are covered with cedar and fir from
top to bottom. Kostal is a symmetrical cinder cone with a crater about deep and a tiny second cone inside it. The initial eruptions created the cone, then subsequent eruptions produced large quantities of lava which flowed through the collapsed east wall of the crater and pooled to a thickness | 523 |
6838707 | There were 1,899 Swiss women (41.9%), and 476 (10.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 1,038 or about 25.3% were born in Morbio Inferiore and lived there in 2000. There were 1,315 or 32.0% who were born in the same canton, while 421 or 10.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,215 or 29.6% were born outside of Switzerland. | 360 |
43055392 | is a female Japanese long-distance runner from Josai University. She won first place at the 2009 World University Games's Half Marathon for Women.
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade | 293 |
72076499 | Rachel shares with Masha her own story about an abusive relationship she had with her former fiancé. Masha confides in Rachel that she believes she will inherit the supernatural powers her grandmother—the same woman who appeared to Sarah—possesses once her grandmother dies. The next day, Masha visits Rachel's office, but the receptionist informs her Rachel is at lunch. Masha relays to the receptionist what occurred the night before, co-opting details Rachel had described of her own relationship, and presenting them as her own. Rachel confronts Masha about this, but she seems impervious. | 593 |
66488890 | For the Defenders group, Joey Yung, whose team won 1st place last round, continues as one of the leaders while Bibi Zhou and Natasha Na, the contestants with the highest combined personal ranking, lead the remaining two teams. After the leaders pick their song choices, the remaining contestants pick their teams in order based on personal ranking, and are split into two 5-person group, and a one 7-person group. In the Breaktime group, Monica Li was voted to be leader of a 5-person group. | 491 |
116714 | WLWC-TV, the CW affiliate licensed to New Bedford has its transmission tower in East Freetown.
Many of Freetown's sites of interest are derived from its strong history. The Freetown Historical Society Museum in Assonet is a trove of artifacts and information relating to the history of the town and surrounding area, and has an extensive genealogical library. Several buildings on the property show visitors how life in Freetown once was, even a mere sixty years ago, with a one-room schoolhouse, small chapel, blacksmith shop, and the like. | 543 |
2583876 | In 1881, he was appointed to the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at Owens, by now one of the colleges of the new Victoria University. He succeeded his teacher Balfour Stewart as professor of physics in 1888. This appointment gave him the opportunity to establish a large, active teaching and research department. In 1900 a new laboratory, for which he had fought and which he had designed, was officially opened. It was the fourth largest in the world. The laboratory quickly became a serious rival to the Cavendish; see Manchester Science Hall of Fame. | 556 |
71327287 | of New York David R. Floyd-Jones, merchant William Floyd-Jones, and Sarah Maria Floyd-Jones (wife of Coleman Williams).
His paternal grandparents were David Richard Floyd-Jones and Sarah ( Onderdonk) Floyd-Jones and his maternal grandfather was Maj. William Jones. Among his extended family was his uncle, New York State Senator Henry Floyd-Jones, and first cousin, Col. DeLancey Floyd-Jones. He was a descendant of William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Maj. Thomas Jones who owned what is known today as Jones Beach. | 541 |
44410483 | Near the end of 1868, with financial assistance from his family, he decided to visit Rome with some of his friends and spent time in the workshop of Eduardo Rosales.
It was there that he created his first costumbrista works, which proved to be very popular. He also began painting Orientalist scenes based on the numerous sketches he brought back from Morocco, and returned there briefly to collect more material. The vogue for these types of paintings was soon at its high point, and his works were widely promoted by the Bosch y Hernández galleries. | 551 |
45658799 | One church member and one law enforcement officer died later, both deaths possibly due to injuries sustained that day.
Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church
The church was led by Pastor Frances Thomas, one of a reported 10,000 disciples of broadcasting evangelist A. A. Allen’s original Miracle Valley Bible Church (MVBC). Her son, William Thomas Jr., was a bishop and the church's theoretical leader.
Thomas attempted to purchase the 2,560-acre property and its numerous buildings that were previously home to Allen’s MVBC, with plans to re-establish the original church under her leadership. | 597 |
4749651 | After moving to Rumble, Greenwald republished his Substack work to Locals, Rumble's Substack alternative.
According to Simon van Zuylen-Wood writing for New York magazine in early 2018, Greenwald has "repositioned himself as a bomb-throwing media critic" since the Snowden revelations. Greenwald has become a frequent guest on Fox News, particularly on Tucker Carlson Tonight. He claims that MSNBC has banned him from appearing on the network because of his criticisms of Rachel Maddow. | 486 |
1247932 | Southern Miss (6–5) 31, North Texas (7–4) 10
The bowl season kicked off on December 14 with the fourth annual New Orleans Bowl, one of two bowl games played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. Dustin Almond passed for 249 yards and a touchdown, and rushed for a touchdown as well, as Southern Miss Golden Eagles (Conference USA) defeated the North Texas Mean Green (Sun Belt Conference) 31–10. | 400 |
1538596 | Period. With the slide he was the best. It was nobody else like him, he was just one of a kind".
Hooker was born in rural Quitman County, Mississippi, outside of Clarksdale. In 1930, his parents moved the family to Chicago, during the Great Migration of blacks out of the rural South in the early 20th century.
His family was musically inclined (John Lee Hooker was a cousin), and Earl heard music played at home at an early age. About age ten, he started playing the guitar. | 475 |
385214 | In 1918 the Kincardineshire constituency was merged with part of the Western Aberdeenshire constituency to form the Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire constituency.
In 1950 Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire was divided between the West Aberdeenshire constituency and the North Angus and Mearns constituency. North Angus and Mearns then covered the whole of the county of Kincardineshire, including the former parliamentary burgh of Inverbervie, and part of the county of Angus, the latter being previously within the Forfarshire constituency. | 547 |
35553806 | The Congregation of Israel was established in 1889, at a time when the Jewish population in the Copper Country was increasing steadily in size. By 1910, at the peak of the copper boom, there were about 100 Jewish families in the Copper Country. By the time the synagogue was completed in 1912, the demand for copper had started to decline; and, with it, the population of the area, including the Jewish population.
Although initially formed as an Orthodox synagogue, Temple Jacob eventually changed to become a Reform synagogue, as did many other small synagogues throughout the U.S. | 583 |
54073404 | The UK Independence Party are stood in ten seats, the Scottish Green Party in three, and the Scottish Christian Party in two, with one candidate from each of the Social Democratic Party, Women's Equality Party, Something New, Scotland's Independence Referendum Party and Independent Sovereign Democratic Britain. There were also ten independent candidates. For the first time in many years, the Scottish Socialist Party did not contest the election.
In Wales, 213 candidates stood, a reduction from the 275 who stood in 2015. | 527 |
4618604 | James argued that the New Zealand public should be given the ability to choose the Queen's representative and that the current system is undemocratic and not transparent. Such a system is not unique: the governors-general of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are nominated in such a way. Constitutional law specialist Professor Noel Cox, who is a former chair of Monarchy New Zealand, criticised the proposal, claiming that "[g]iving the Governor-General a new and separate source of democratic legitimacy could result in a separation between Ministers and Governors-General. | 582 |
4384519 | Three days later, she sailed by way of Kwajalein, Guadalcanal, and Manus for exercises in Milne Bay, New Guinea from 7 to 26 December in preparation for the Lingayen assault.
Darby sortied from Manus on 2 January 1945 screening transports to Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, to reinforce the troops there. Arriving 11 January, she remained in the Philippines on escort and patrol duties until 28 February when she cleared for Ulithi to join a convoy carrying garrison troops for Iwo Jima. | 477 |
47527535 | The various enemies in the game are based on characters from other titles, such as Bubble Bobble, Nebulus, R-Type, and Super Mario. As the game was released as a cover-disk game, it was able to avoid possible copyright infringement for a few months. The game was not available outside of the UK during its cover-disk release and only started to gain traction when it had become public domain software.
This game is also notable for being the first home video game to feature Sonic the Hedgehog, in an unofficial capacity, as an enemy. | 534 |
17639456 | The focus of the dissertation was very close to Wielandt's interests at the time, whose 1951 work shows that the product of pairwise permutable nilpotent groups is solvable.
Huppert spent the years 1963/64 as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. In January 1965, he became a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Mainz, where he later became a professor emeritus in 1994. | 487 |
4269880 | In 1954, J. Nash published the paper on С1-isometric immersions, which was improved by N. Kuiper in 1955. It follows from these studies that a Riemannian metric defined on a two-dimensional manifold, under very general assumptions, admits a realization on a С1-smooth surface in a three-dimensional Euclidean space. Moreover, this realization is carried out as freely as a topological immersion into the space of the manifold on which the metric is given. | 455 |
483272 | The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief service, and peace agency representing fifteen Mennonite, Brethren in Christ and Amish bodies in North America. The U.S. headquarters are located in Akron, Pennsylvania; the Canadian headquarters is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Founded in Chicago, Illinois, MCC held its first meeting on September 27, 1920. Its original goal was to provide food for Mennonites starving in Ukraine. MCC soon realized that it could not help only their Mennonite brothers and sisters and began to help anyone in need. | 551 |
18421810 | 2000–01: Barry Lawson Williams (interim) and CEO
In 2017 Manny Avramidis was named 18th President and Chief Executive of the American Management Association.
F.C. Henderschott, "The National Association of Corporation Schools." | 228 |
34944578 | The new railway line will have a maximum gradient of 12.5‰, compared to 30‰ for the old line, a maximum altitude of instead of , and much wider curves. This will allow heavy freight trains to transit at and passenger trains at a top speed of , and will also sharply reduce the energy used.
The construction of the full higher-speed line will cut passenger travel time from Milan to Paris from seven hours to four, becoming time-competitive with plane travel for town-center to town-center travel. | 498 |
5680931 | In 2006, she was the first black presenter of the program Superbonita of the channel GNT, where it would remain by three years, until 2009. In 2008, she returned to work with João Emanuel Carneiro, in A Favorita; portraying Alicia, daughter of a corrupt deputy played by Milton Gonçalves, who for the second time, consecutively, was his father in a telenovela, the first one in Cobras & Lagartos. | 396 |
4517279 | Buczynski and Slater opened The Warlock Shoppe, the oldest witchcraft bookshop in Brooklyn, New York. Buczynski was the more magical and spiritual of the two and left the business side to Slater, who helped the shop grow in profit. Most importantly, the shop established itself as the central information hub for local witches and the newly emerging neopagan communities. The two also published a periodical called Earth Religion News. It was extremely successful but also caused controversy due to its explicit contents and cover designs. | 539 |
73062250 | The only inscription that mentions the founder was renovated in 1848 by the first known abbot of the Holy Trinity, Hieromonk Pantelejmon (Nedeljković). Judging by the inscription in the nave of the temple, it is assumed that the temple was built by the son of Đurađ Branković, despot Lazar Branković in 1457. | 308 |
12206393 | Education Education Soon after the total destruction of educational infrastructures and the collapsed of the education system in most part of Eastern Equatoria State in 1992 the CDOT revived education activities along the borders with Ugandan and Kenyan using their syllabuses and students taking their national examinations for convenience and certification purposes. | 368 |
22288805 | Hữu Sản is a commune (xã) and village in Sơn Động District, Bắc Giang Province, in northeastern Vietnam.
Populated places in Bắc Giang province | 143 |
14518569 | The city-state of Bern had already pledged their support of the emperor against the Habsburgs in 1414, and so they were ready to invade. The rest of the Confederation quickly followed.
The territory was quickly conquered in 1415 by the Confederation. Under Habsburg rule Aargau was divided into multiple sections (), which were maintained under the Confederation. Bern, Lucerne and Zurich were each given a portion of the conquered region to administer. The rest of the Freie Ämter were collectively administered as subject territories by the rest of the Confederation – effectively a condominium. | 600 |
1147423 | Antike Tisch-Kultur.de (German) - Galleries of ancient tables
National Museum of Australia - First Fleet table - Pembroke table | 129 |
55823265 | In mathematics, specifically in representation theory, a semisimple representation (also called a completely reducible representation) is a linear representation of a group or an algebra that is a direct sum of simple representations (also called irreducible representations). It is an example of the general mathematical notion of semisimplicity.
Many representations that appear in applications of representation theory are semisimple or can be approximated by semisimple representations. A semisimple module over an algebra over a field is an example of a semisimple representation. | 585 |
24416377 | 1964 : The Cavern (Co-production Neubach/Cinedoris/20th Century Fox), directed by Edgar G. Ulmer | 96 |
4193 | In nestlings, the first down replaces by longer, coarser down at about 7 days of age with the first proper feathers appearing at 12 to 15 days. The young are nearly fully feathered rather than downy at about a month of age and can start to feed themselves as well. The first attempts to leave the nest are often at about 40–50 days, averaging usually 40–45 in nominate buzzards in Europe, but more quickly on average at 40–42 in vulpinus. | 438 |
14355162 | In 2007. the band released their second album Future Porn Machinefor Insurrection Records from Belgrade. This album dealt with the "pornographic future" and was heavily promoted by Dark Revolution collective. Later that year, they've been included in 'S pogledom u Bolje sutra' compilation which also featured bands This Day Will Burn, Lude Krawe, Ground Zero, Infrakt and more. Another tour took place and the band visited more than 40 cities. | 444 |
1051029 | The 21st century started for Kenya with a visit to Zimbabwe to play in the ICC Emerging Nations Tournament against Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland and Zimbabwe A. Kenya won the tournament and took this form onto a seven match tour of India on which they lost just one game. Pakistan A toured Kenya in July, playing a five match one-day series and a four-day first-class match. The four-day match was drawn, and Kenya won the one-day series 4–1. The 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy was played in Nairobi in October, with Kenya falling to India at the first hurdle. | 568 |
22339905 | Among observations about the class, derivation, usage of, and disagreement over, color naming words in Yele is a critique of the BCT-model's assumption that languages which have not yet fully lexicalized the semantic space of color (as was posited to be universal in the original and subsequent B&K papers [1969 &1978]) with the use of all eleven basic color names do so by use of the fewer composite terms that they do possess (by B&K's criteria for Yele, three). | 464 |
46840291 | Born in Iași to engineer Panait Panaitescu and his wife Leonia (née Greceanu), he attended primary school in his native city, followed by high school in Bucharest. He attended the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest from 1918 to 1922, and took specialty courses at Jagiellonian University in Kraków from 1923 to 1924. From 1924 to 1926, he was a member of the Romanian school at Fontenay-aux-Roses. | 427 |
60511305 | 4 May: Eurocar Masters 2-0 Hi-5 Logo Rowdies
4 May: Gino's FC 1-12 FC Beercelona
5 May: Bank of Guam Strykers Masters 1-2 Crushers FC
5 May: Islanders FC (Amateur) beat (probably by forfeit) Mijoo Family
Matches played on 9–11 May 2019.
9 May: Guam Shipyard (Premier) 1-1 (1-3 p) GWM Bombers | 291 |
23335727 | A spokesman for the association stated: "The voters have passed a law we believe is unnecessary, probably unconstitutional and ... dangerous ... We hope it will be overturned before doing harm by denying a seriously ill person access in Berkeley to treatment that could be lifesaving," One of the two doctors who administered ECT at Herrick Hospital, Dr. Martin Rubinstein, contended that the vote to ban the procedure reflected "pathological consumerism" and constituted "another case of the inmates trying to run the asylum". | 527 |
31155816 | Adimakal () is a 1969 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan and produced by M. O. Joseph. The film stars Sathyan, Prem Nazir, Sheela and Sharada. The film had musical score and songs composed by G. Devarajan. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Pamman. | 360 |
28890623 | Are is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, in western Estonia.
Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Pöide Parish. | 145 |
10124636 | Coleridge initiated the Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in 2013, a degree-awarding academic institution in London's Soho. From 2017 to 2019, he was chairman of Condé Nast Britain.
He has been chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2015, having been a trustee from 2012 to 2015. | 296 |
22264986 | In the 2008-09 season he played with OFK Petrovac, where he won the Montenegrin Cup. In 2009, he signed with league champions FK Mogren, where he played in the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League against Hibernians F.C., and F.C. Copenhagen. He returned to Petrovac, and Grbalj to play one season with both clubs. In 2013, he played in the Montenegrin Second League with FK Jezero. He concluded his career with FK Zeta, and FK Dečić. | 427 |
3826420 | On top of that, he loaned the government considerable sums of money, which culminated in 1809, with his lending the state his entire fortune to speed the withdrawal of French troops from Vienna.
As a result of his actions for his country, he asked to be allowed to buy a house in Vienna, but in March 1811 the emperor refused his permission. Later that year, however, Lämel was elevated to the hereditary nobility, which gave both him and his children the right to live in Vienna—where Jews were barely tolerated. | 513 |
16896452 | Johnstone commissioned an influential support to spur lawmakers to enable the SUNY System to adapt to the changing needs of New York State, specifically, the need to educate older and more ethnically diverse students and to supply the State healthcare system with an ample supply of healthcare workers.
Johnstone currently serves as Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Higher and Comparative Education and Director of the International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project at UB. The Project examines the worldwide responsibility change in higher education costs from taxpayers and governments to students and their parents. | 659 |
68500097 | In 1994 he became senior researcher at the Belarusian Documentology and Archives Research Institute.
Throughout his career, Tsitou researched and reconstructed the earliest coats of arms of Belarusian settlements. His work of rediscovering the Belarusian heraldic tradition originating from the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was not always welcomed by the Soviet authorities. In his first book about the coats of arms of Belarusian towns (1983), Tsitou collected all the known by then urban emblems. It was illustrated by an artist Jauhien Kulik who based this work on medieval seals. | 591 |
41862306 | The village has a population of around 3500 and has highest literacy rate among the areas surrounding it. The area being surrounded by rivers on all sides due to which it is frequently hit by floods. The main religion of the people is Islam.
Kashmiri is the local language of the area. People , however, also speak Urdu and Hindi. The place has population of about 3500 and has literacy rate of more than 95%. The area shares boundaries with Khanabal, Harnag , etc. | 467 |
3956060 | Khlong Sam Wa (, ) is one of the 50 districts (khet) of Bangkok, Thailand. It is bounded by other districts (from north clockwise): Lam Luk Ka district of Pathum Thani province, Nong Chok, Min Buri, Khan Na Yao, Bang Khen, and Sai Mai of Bangkok. As of 2022, it had the highest population of all districts in Bangkok.
Khlong Sam Wa was established as a district on 21 November 1997 by splitting from Min Buri. | 409 |
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