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376182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20of%20South%20Africa | Parliament of South Africa | {{Infobox Parliament
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376185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kath%20%26%20Kim | Kath & Kim | Kath & Kim (also written as Kath and Kim) is an Australian sitcom created by Jane Turner and Gina Riley, who portray the title characters of Kath Day-Knight, a cheery, middle-aged suburban mother, and Kim, her self-indulgent daughter. The cast also includes Glenn Robbins, Peter Rowsthorn and Magda Szubanski as, respect... |
376186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinology | Sinology | Sinology, otherwise referred to as Chinese studies, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilization primarily through Chinese language, history, culture, literature, phil... |
376187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon | Audubon | The National Audubon Society (Audubon; ) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats. Located in the United States and incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world. There are completely independent Audubon Societies... |
376195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre%20of%20Canada | Theatre of Canada | Canada's contemporary theatre reflects a rich diversity of regional and cultural identities. Since the late 1960s, there has been a concerted effort to develop the voice of the 'Canadian playwright', which is reflected in the nationally focused programming of many of the country's theatres. Within this 'Canadian voice'... |
376221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone%20Tracy | Cyclone Tracy | Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy was a small tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 24 to 26 December 1974. The small, developing easterly storm had initially appeared likely to pass clear of the city, but then turned towards it early on 24 December. After 10:00 p.m. ACST,... |
376228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Matrix%20%28franchise%29 | The Matrix (franchise) | The Matrix is an American cyberpunk media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with The Matrix (1999) and continuing with three sequels, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). The first three films were written and directed by the Wachowskis and pr... |
376237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman%20King | Shaman King | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Takei. It follows the adventures of Yoh Asakura as he attempts to hone his shaman skills to become the Shaman King by winning the Shaman Fight. Takei chose shamanism as the main theme of the series because he wanted a topic that had never been attempted bef... |
376298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20locomotive%20builders | List of locomotive builders | A locomotive is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. This list of locomotive builders is ordered by country and includes current and defunct builders. Many of the companies changed names over time; this list attempts to give the most recognisable name, generally the one used for the long... |
376393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20folk%20music | English folk music | The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music traditionally was preserved and passed on orally within communities, but print and subsequently audio recordings have since become... |
376412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20di-Pertuan%20Agong | Yang di-Pertuan Agong | The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply the Agong, and unofficially known as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957, when the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) g... |
376431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terengganu | Terengganu | Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay: Tranung, Jawi: ), formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu, is a sultanate and federal state of Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Dāru l-Īmān ("Abode of Faith"). The coastal city of Kuala Terengganu, which stands at the mouth of the broad Terengganu River, is both... |
376432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keio%20University | Keio University | , abbreviated as or , is a private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
It is the oldest institute of western higher education in Japan. Its founder, Fukuzawa Yukichi, originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo.
The university is one of the members of the Top Global Univ... |
376435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Canada | Cinema of Canada | Cinema in Canada dates back to the earliest known display of film in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, in 1896. The film industry in Canada has been dominated by the United States, which has utilized Canada as a shooting location and to bypass British film quota laws, throughout its history. Canadian filmmakers, English and Frenc... |
376437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negeri%20Sembilan | Negeri Sembilan | Negeri Sembilan (, Negeri Sembilan Malay: Nogori Sombilan, Nismilan), historically spelled as Negri Sembilan, is a state in Malaysia which lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the south.
Negeri Sembilan has diverse tropical rai... |
376458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%20Segr%C3%A8 | Emilio Segrè | Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with Owen Chamberlain.
Born in Tivoli, near... |
376473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20Islamic%20Party | Malaysian Islamic Party | The Malaysian Islamic Party, also known as the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (; ) or its Jawi-based acronym PAS, is an Islamist political party in Malaysia. Ideologically focused on Islamic fundamentalism, PAS's electoral base is largely centered around Peninsular Malaysia's rural and eastern coasts and conservative nort... |
376503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fisher%2C%201st%20Baron%20Fisher | John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher | Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet. With more than sixty years in the Royal Navy, his efforts to reform the service helped to usher in an era of modernisation which saw the superses... |
376564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny%20Kemble | Fanny Kemble | Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 180915 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre.
Kem... |
376581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria | Transnistria | Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised state internationally considered to be part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldovan–Ukrainian border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank... |
376619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep%20Tayyip%20Erdo%C4%9Fan | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954), commonly referred by his initials RTE, is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He also co-founded the Justice and D... |
376665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lismore%2C%20Scotland | Lismore, Scotland | Lismore (, possibly meaning "great enclosure" or "garden") is an island of some in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The climate is damp and mild, with over of rain recorded annually. This fertile, low-lying island was once a major centre of Celtic Christianity, with a 6th-century monastery associated with Saint Molua... |
376676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Park%2C%20Houston | South Park, Houston | South Park is a broad post-World War II development in the south-central area of Houston, Texas, a few miles south of MacGregor Park and directly south of the 610 Loop. According to the 2000 Census, the community has a population of 22,282. 81% of the South Park population is African American, compared to 25% for the ... |
376694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20Memorial | Jefferson Memorial | The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C., between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation'... |
376707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20%28programming%20language%29 | R (programming language) | R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Created by statisticians Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, R is used among data miners, bioinformaticians and statisticians for data analysis and developing statistical software... |
376725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnley%20F.C. | Burnley F.C. | Burnley Football Club () is an English association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, that competes in the Premier League, the first tier of English football. Founded on 18 May 1882, the club was one of the first to become professional (in 1883) and subsequently put pressure on the Football Association to perm... |
376728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavian%20Soviet%20Socialist%20Republic | Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic | The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic or Moldavian SSR (, Moldovan Cyrillic: ), also known as the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldovan SSR, or simply Moldavia or Moldova, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 1940 from parts of Bes... |
376732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian%20Soviet%20Socialist%20Republic | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (; ), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. Under the Soviet one-party model, the Ukrainian SSR was governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Un... |
376738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheil%20Saakashvili | Mikheil Saakashvili | Mikheil Saakashvili ( ; ; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist. He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. From May 2015 until November 2016, Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast. He is the founder and... |
376757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced%20ternary | Balanced ternary | Balanced ternary is a ternary numeral system (i.e. base 3 with three digits) that uses a balanced signed-digit representation of the integers in which the digits have the values −1, 0, and 1. This stands in contrast to the standard (unbalanced) ternary system, in which digits have values 0, 1 and 2.
The balanced terna... |
376775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Christmas%20dishes | List of Christmas dishes |
Albania
Byrek me kungull dhe arre – Traditional Albanian pumpkin and walnut pie cooked usually on Christmas Eve, especially in Catholic families.
Argentina
Panettone (known locally as pan dulce) and turrón are the most popular Christmas sweets in Argentina regardless of socioeconomic status, with 76% of Argentine... |
376791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waseda%20University | Waseda University | Waseda University (), abbreviated as Waseda(早稲田) or , is a private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by the former Prime Minister of Japan, Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.
Waseda is organized into thirty-six departments:... |
376818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Ireland%20Executive | Northern Ireland Executive | The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved government of Northern Ireland, an administrative branch of the legislature – the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is answerable to the assembly and was initially established according to the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which followed the Good Friday Agreement (or... |
376823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel%20Le%20Roy%20Ladurie | Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie | Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie (, born 19 July 1929) is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Régime, particularly the history of the peasantry. One of the leading historians of France, Le Roy Ladurie has been called the "standard-bearer" of the third generation of the Annales sc... |
376841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw%20Uprising | Warsaw Uprising | The Warsaw Uprising (; ), shortly after the war also known as the August Uprising (), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance Home Army (). The uprising was timed to coin... |
376844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20film%20actresses | List of Indian film actresses | This is an alphabetical list of notable Indian film actresses.
A
Aaditi Pohankar
Aahana Kumra
Aakanksha Singh
Aamna Sharif
Aanchal Munjal
Aarathi
Aarti Agarwal
Aarti Chhabria
Aashka Goradia
Abhirami
Adah Sharma
Aditi Arya
Aditi Ravi
Aditi Sharma
Aditi Govitrikar
Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Sarangdhar
Ad... |
376856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Fort%20Henry | Battle of Fort Henry | The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in Stewart County, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater.
On February 4 and 5, Grant landed two divisions just north of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River.... |
376870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20Rhodan | Perry Rhodan | Perry Rhodan is a West German/German space opera franchise, named after its hero. It commenced in 1961 and has been ongoing for decades, written by an ever-changing team of authors. Having sold approximately two billion copies (in novella format) worldwide (including over one billion in Germany alone), it is the most s... |
376875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20in%20the%20Netherlands | Television in the Netherlands | Television in the Netherlands was officially introduced in 1951. In the Netherlands, the television market is divided between a number of commercial networks, such as RTL Nederland, and a system of public broadcasters sharing three channels, NPO 1, NPO 2, and NPO 3. Imported programmes (except those for children), as w... |
376877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin%20Pasha%20Relief%20Expedition | Emin Pasha Relief Expedition | The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, its goal was ostensibly the relief of Emin Pasha, the besieged Egyptian governor of Equatoria (part of modern-day South Sudan), who was thre... |
376886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM%20Customs%20and%20Excise | HM Customs and Excise | HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise at the time of its dissolution) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was the collection of customs duties, excise duties, and other indirect taxes.
The pa... |
376890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec%20nationalism | Quebec nationalism | Quebec nationalism or Québécois nationalism is a feeling and a political doctrine that prioritizes cultural belonging to, the defence of the interests of, and the recognition of the political legitimacy of the Québécois nation. It has been a movement and a central issue in Quebec politics since the beginning of the 19t... |
376898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro%20Baptist%20Church | Westboro Baptist Church | The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. It is widely considered a hate group, and is known for its public protests against homosexual people and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags" and "Thank God... |
376929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20F.%20Powell%20Jr. | Lewis F. Powell Jr. | Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
Born in Suffolk, Virginia, he graduated from both Washington and Lee Law School and Harvard Law School and served in the Uni... |
376938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20of%20the%20assembly | Division of the assembly | In parliamentary procedure, a division of the assembly, division of the house, or simply division is a method of taking a vote that physically counts members voting.
Historically, and often still today, members are literally divided into physically separate groups. This was the method used in the Roman Senate (vote pe... |
376948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20of%20two | Power of two | A power of two is a number of the form where is an integer, that is, the result of exponentiation with number two as the base and integer as the exponent.
In a context where only integers are considered, is restricted to non-negative values, so there are 1, 2, and 2 multiplied by itself a certain number of times.
... |
376964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell%20Phillips | Wendell Phillips | Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.
According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney, Phillips was seen by many Blacks as "the one white American wholly color-blind and free from race prejudice". According to anoth... |
376965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20history%20of%20France%20during%20World%20War%20II | Military history of France during World War II | From 1939 to 1940, the French Third Republic was at war with Nazi Germany. In 1940, the German forces defeated the French in the Battle of France. The Germans occupied the north and west of French territory and a collaborationist régime under Philippe Pétain established itself in Vichy. General Charles de Gaulle establ... |
376974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%20in%20the%20Middle%20Ages | France in the Middle Ages | The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 10th century to the middle of the 15th century) was marked by the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia (843–987); the expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328), including their struggles with the virtually independent prin... |
376978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilmore%20Girls | Gilmore Girls | Gilmore Girls (onscreen as Gilmore girls) is an American comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore) and Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore). The show debuted on October 5, 2000, on The WB and became a flagship series for the network. Gilmore Girls ran for seven... |
376985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell%20incident | Roswell incident | The "Roswell incident", or simply "Roswell", was the July 1947 recovery of metallic and rubber debris from a crashed military balloon by Roswell Army Air Field personnel, who issued a press release announcing possession of a "flying disc". Decades later, conspiracy theories claimed that debris from an alien spaceship h... |
376996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20School%20%28economics%29 | American School (economics) | The American School, also known as the National System, represents three different yet related constructs in politics, policy and philosophy. The policy existed from the 1790s to the 1970s, waxing and waning in actual degrees and details of implementation. Historian Michael Lind describes it as a coherent applied econo... |
377014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Graham | George Graham | George Graham (born 30 November 1944) is a Scottish former football player and manager.
Nicknamed "Stroller", he made 455 appearances in England's Football League as a midfielder or forward for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Portsmouth and Crystal Palace. Approximately half of his appearances were ... |
377029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Bill%20Hickok | Wild Bill Hickok | James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal... |
377048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Reconnaissance%20Office | National Reconnaissance Office | The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government ... |
377055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite | Frostbite | Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas. Most often, frostbite occurs in the hands and feet. The initial symptoms are typically a feeling of cold and ting... |
377064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick%20Skylark | Buick Skylark | The Buick Skylark is a passenger car formerly produced by Buick. The model was made in six production runs, during 46 years, over which the car's design varied dramatically due to changing technology, tastes, and new standards implemented over the years. It was named for the species of bird called skylark.
The Skylark... |
377100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20literature%20in%20Irish | Modern literature in Irish | Although Irish has been used as a literary language for more than 1,500 years (see Irish literature), and modern literature in Irish dates – as in most European languages – to the 16th century, modern Irish literature owes much of its popularity to the 19th century Gaelic Revival cultural movement. Writers in Irish hav... |
377112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Romanes | George Romanes | George John Romanes FRS (20 May 1848 – 23 May 1894) was a Canadian-Scots evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.
He was the youngest of Charles Darwin's aca... |
377152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Sutherland | Joan Sutherland | Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
She possessed a voice combining agility, accurate intonation, pinpoint staccatos, a trill a... |
377194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka%20Amano | Yoshitaka Amano | is a Japanese visual artist, character designer, illustrator, a scenic designer for theatre and film, and a costume designer. He first came into prominence in the late 1960s working on the anime adaptation of Speed Racer. Amano later became the creator of iconic and influential characters such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman, H... |
377211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEWS-TV | WEWS-TV | WEWS-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception in 1946, making it one of three stations that have been built and signed on by Scripps (alongside company flagship WCPO-TV in Cincinnati and WMC-TV in Me... |
377232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC%20Javelin | AMC Javelin | The AMC Javelin is an American front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, two-door hardtop automobile manufactured by American Motors Corporation (AMC) across two generations, 1968 through 1970 and 1971 through 1974 model years. The car was positioned and marketed in the pony car market segment.
Styled by Dick Teague, the Javeli... |
377237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monks%20Risborough | Monks Risborough | Monks Risborough is a village and ecclesiastical parish in Buckinghamshire, England, lying between Princes Risborough and Great Kimble. The village lies at the foot of the northern scarp of the Chiltern Hills. It is south of the county town of Aylesbury and north of High Wycombe, on the A4010 road.
Until 1934 Monk... |
377242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley | Bromley | Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is southeast of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 88,000 as of 2023.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, chartered in 1158. Its location on a coaching route and the opening of a railway stat... |
377245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20imported%20fire%20ant | Red imported fire ant | The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), also known as the fire ant or RIFA, is a species of ant native to South America. A member of the genus Solenopsis in the subfamily Myrmicinae, it was described by Swiss entomologist Felix Santschi as a variant of S. saevissima in 1916. Its current specific name invicta wa... |
377337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny%20Leone | Sunny Leone | Karenjit "Karen" Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone, is an actress, model, and former pornographic actress. She was born in Canada to an Indian Sikh family and holds dual Canadian and American citizenship. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performer for Viv... |
377339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Barbara%20Municipal%20Airport | Santa Barbara Municipal Airport | Santa Barbara Municipal Airport is west of downtown Santa Barbara, California, United States. SBA covers 948 acres (384 ha) of land and has three runways.
It is near the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the city of Goleta. The airport was annexed to the city of Santa Barbara by a long, wide corridor, m... |
377363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ancient%20Egypt | History of ancient Egypt | The history of ancient Egypt spans the period from the early prehistoric settlements of the northern Nile valley to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 39 BC. The pharaonic period, the period in which Egypt was ruled by a pharaoh, is dated from the 32nd century BC, when Upper and Lower Egypt were unified, until the country ... |
377370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20modern%20Egypt | History of modern Egypt | According to most scholars the history of modern Egypt dates from the start of the rule of Muhammad Ali'v in 1805 and his launching of Egypt's modernization project that involved building a new army and suggesting a new map for the country, though the definition of Egypt's modern history has varied in accordance with d... |
377373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%20in%20the%20Middle%20Ages | Egypt in the Middle Ages | Following the Islamic conquest in 639, Lower Egypt was ruled at first by governors acting in the name of the Rashidun Caliphs and then the Umayyad Caliphs in Damascus, but in 747 the Umayyads were overthrown. Throughout Islamic rule, Askar was named the capital and housed the ruling administration. The conquest led to ... |
377384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin%20Islands | Bonin Islands | The Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, are a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam. The group as a whole has a total area of but only two of the islands are permanently inhabited, Chichijima and Hahajima. Together, their po... |
377387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20thrombocytopenic%20purpura | Immune thrombocytopenic purpura | Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), also known as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura or immune thrombocytopenia, is a type of thrombocytopenic purpura characterized by a low platelet count in the absence of other causes, and accompanied by a red-purple rash called purpura. It leads to an increased risk of bleeding.... |
377388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra%20%28character%29 | Elektra (character) | Elektra Natchios (, ) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually in supporting roles featuring the superhero Matt Murdock / Daredevil, to whom Elektra has functioned as a villainous adversary, love interest, and later, a heroic ally. Created by Frank Miller, the char... |
377390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic%20orthography | Phonemic orthography | A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language. Natural languages rarely have perfectly phonemic orthographies; a high degree of grapheme–phoneme correspondence can be expected in or... |
377397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20lobster | American lobster | The American lobster (Homarus americanus) is a species of lobster found on the Atlantic coast of North America, chiefly from Labrador to New Jersey. It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, true lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, or Maine lobster. It can reach a body length of , and a mass of over... |
377401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Reis | Michelle Reis | Michelle Monique Reis (born Michele Monique Reis, 20 June 1970) is a former actress, model and beauty queen based in Hong Kong of Macanese descent. In 1988, she won the Miss Chinese International Pageant and Miss Hong Kong beauty pageants. Afterwards, she became a prominent actress in 1990s Hong Kong, often appearing i... |
377403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20Air | Gulf Air | Gulf Air () is the state-owned airline and the flag carrier of Bahrain, which was founded in 1950 by British pilot Freddie Bosworth as Gulf Aviation. Headquartered in Muharraq, the airline operates scheduled flights to 59 destinations in 28 countries across Africa, Asia, and Europe. The airline's main hub is Bahrain In... |
377410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Maesa | Julia Maesa | Julia Maesa (7 May before 160 AD – AD) was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire who was the grandmother of emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, elder sister of empress Julia Domna, and mother of Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea. She wielded influence during the reigns of her grandsons as Augusta of... |
377427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishapur | Nishapur | {{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Neyshabur
| native_name =
| settlement_type = City
| other_name = Raēvant (), Abarshahr (), Shadiyakh ()
| image_skyline =
Nishapur, officially romanized as Neyshabur, (; from Middle Persian "New-Shapuhr", meaning: "The N... |
377433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Air%20Force | Pakistan Air Force | The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (; ) is the aerial warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, tasked primarily with the aerial defence of Pakistan, with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and Navy when required, and a tertiary role of providing strategic airlift capability to Pakistan. , as p... |
377434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Richardson | Dorothy Richardson | Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of one work—she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousnes... |
377441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei%20whale | Sei whale | The sei whale ( , ; Balaenoptera borealis) is a baleen whale, the third-largest rorqual after the blue whale and the fin whale. It inhabits most oceans and adjoining seas, and prefers deep offshore waters. It avoids polar and tropical waters and semi-enclosed bodies of water. The sei whale migrates annually from cool,... |
377443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataeans | Nabataeans | The Nabataeans or Nabateans (; Nabataean Aramaic: , , vocalized as ; Arabic: , , singular , ; compare ; ) were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. Their settlements—most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu (present-day Petra, Jordan)—gave the name Nabatene () to the A... |
377543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu%20J-7 | Chengdu J-7 | The Chengdu J-7 (Chinese: 歼-7; third generation export version F-7; NATO reporting name: Fishcan) is a People's Republic of China fighter aircraft. It is a license-built version of the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, and thus shares many similarities with the MiG-21. The aircraft is armed with short-range, infrared ho... |
377549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Alliance%20for%20the%20Betterment%20and%20Progress%20of%20Hong%20Kong | Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong | The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) is a pro-Beijing conservative political party in Hong Kong. Chaired by Gary Chan and holding 13 Legislative Council seats, it is currently the largest party in the legislature and in terms of membership, far ahead of other parties. It has been a... |
377585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Fort%20Donelson | Battle of Fort Donelson | The Battle of Fort Donelson was fought from February 11–16, 1862, in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. The Union capture of the Confederate fort near the Tennessee–Kentucky border opened the Cumberland River, an important avenue for the invasion of the South. The Union's success also elevated Brig. Gen. Ul... |
377597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna%20T-37%20Tweet | Cessna T-37 Tweet | The Cessna T-37 Tweet (designated Model 318 by Cessna) is a small, economical twin-engined jet trainer aircraft. It was flown for decades as a primary trainer of the United States Air Force (USAF) as well as in the air forces of several other nations.
The T-37 was developed in response to the launch of the "Trainer Ex... |
377606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Ireland | Music of Ireland | Irish music is music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.
The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th and into the 21st century, despite globalising cultural forces. In spite of emigration and a well-developed connection to... |
377611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah%20Parish%20Lovejoy | Elijah Parish Lovejoy | Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom of... |
377622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh%20Air%20Force | Bangladesh Air Force | The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) () is the aerial warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The air force is primarily responsible for air defence of Bangladesh's sovereign territory as well as providing air support to the Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Navy. Furthermore, the BAF has a territorial role in providing ... |
377634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot%20205 | Peugeot 205 | The Peugeot 205 is a supermini (B-segment) car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1983 to 1999.
It was declared "car of the decade" by CAR Magazine in 1990. It also won What Car?s Car of the Year for 1984.
The 205 was developed from 1977 as Projet M24, and introduced on 25 February 1983 as a replacement... |
377635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsnet | Sportsnet | Sportsnet is a Canadian English-language discretionary sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globemedia then was required to divest its stake in the network following its 2001 ac... |
377646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey%20Pokey | Hokey Pokey | The Hokey Cokey, also known as Hokey Pokey in the United States is a campfire song and participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure. It is well-known in English-speaking countries. It originates in a British folk dance, with variants attested as early as 1826. The song and accompanying d... |
377647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata%20Tebaldi | Renata Tebaldi | Renata Tebaldi ( , ; 1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala, San Carlo and, especially, the Metropolitan Opera. Often considered among the great opera singers of the 20th century, she focused prim... |
377699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpukhov | Serpukhov | Serpukhov () is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka and the Nara Rivers, 99 kilometers (62 miles) south from Moscow and 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Moscow Ring Road on the Moscow—Simferopol highway. The Moscow—Tula railway passes through Serpukhov.
Serpukhov is at the centre of the... |
377702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djuna%20Barnes | Djuna Barnes | Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrato... |
377705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyne%20Pryor | Madelyne Pryor | Madelyne Jennifer "Maddie" Pryor is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Paul Smith, the character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #168 (April 1983). Madelyne Pryor is primarily featured off-and-on as an antagonist of the X-Men.
Original... |
377726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20Air%20Force | Egyptian Air Force | The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) (), is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces that is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all military aircraft, including those used in support of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy and the Egyptian Air Defense Forces. The latter was created as a separate com... |
377729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Jordanian%20Air%20Force | Royal Jordanian Air Force | The Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF; ) is the aerial warfare branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces.
History
Early days
Jordan gained independence in 1946, but its first air bases had been set up in 1931 by the Royal Air Force. By 1948, Jordan began to develop a small air arm which came to be known as the Arab Legion ... |
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