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381535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault%20Mirage%202000 | Dassault Mirage 2000 | The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine, fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Armée de l'air). The Mirage 2000 evolved into a multirole aircraft with several v... |
381539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusters%20%28British%20game%20show%29 | Blockbusters (British game show) | Blockbusters is a British television quiz show based upon an American quiz show of the same name. A solo player and a team of two answer trivia questions, clued up with an initial letter of the answer, to complete a path across or down a game board of hexagons.
The programme premiered on 29 August 1983 on ITV and ran ... |
381546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Yarborough | Ralph Yarborough | Ralph Webster Yarborough (June 8, 1903 – January 27, 1996) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971 and was a leader of the progressive wing of his party. Along with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker of the Ho... |
381560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%20Owens | Buck Owens | Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in hono... |
381565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough%2C%20North%20Yorkshire | Scarborough, North Yorkshire | Scarborough () is a seaside town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England. With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest town on the Yorkshire Coast and the fourth-largest settlement in the county.
It is located on the North Sea coastline. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town... |
381580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eir%20%28telecommunications%29 | Eir (telecommunications) | Eircom Limited, trading as Eir ( ; stylised eir), is a large fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland. The now privatised company, which is currently incorporated in Jersey, traces its origins to the Ireland's former state-owned monopoly telecommunication provider Telecom Éireann and its predec... |
381602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%20Face%20Nelson | Baby Face Nelson | Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934), also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger, when he helped Dillinger escape from prison, in Crown Point, Indiana. Later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced tha... |
381625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Kildare | Dr. Kildare | Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictures used the story and character as the basis for the 1937 film Internes Can't... |
381658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK%20Partizan | FK Partizan | Fudbalski klub Partizan (, ; ), sometimes known as Partizan Belgrade in English, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade. It forms a major part of the Partizan multi-sport club. The club plays in the Serbian SuperLiga and has spent its entire history in the top tier of Yugoslav and Serbian football, w... |
381669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Air%20Lines%20Flight%20191 | Delta Air Lines Flight 191 | Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach ... |
381675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20Canada-related%20articles | Index of Canada-related articles | The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to Canada.
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.ca – Internet country code top-level domain for Canada
49th parallel north
60th parallel north
100 km isolated peaks of Canada
102nd meridian west
110th meridian west
120th meridian west
141st meridian west
150th anniversary of Canada
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381678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20River%20%28Hudson%20River%29 | North River (Hudson River) | North River is an alternative name for the southernmost portion of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern New Jersey in the United States.
History
Name
In the early 17th century, the entire watercourse was named the North River by the Dutch colonial empire; by the early 18th century, the ... |
381699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Motor%20Company | Standard Motor Company | The Standard Motor Company Limited was a motor vehicle manufacturer, founded in Coventry, England, in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay. For many years, it manufactured Ferguson TE20 tractors powered by its Vanguard engine. All Standard's tractor assets were sold to Massey Ferguson in 1959. Standard purchased Triumph in... |
381732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Craig | Larry Craig | Lawrence Edwin Craig (born July 20, 1945) is an American retired politician from the state of Idaho. A Republican, he served 18 years in the United States Senate (1991–2009), preceded by 10 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Idaho's 1st District (1981–91). His 28 years in Congress rank as the seco... |
381742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Enzi | Mike Enzi | Michael Bradley Enzi ( ; February 1, 1944 – July 26, 2021) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party from 1997 to 2021. Prior to his tenure in the United States Senate he served as mayor of Gillette, Wyoming, in the Wyoming House of Representative... |
381797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Franck | James Franck | James Franck (; 26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". He completed his doctorate in 1906 and his habilitation in 1911 at the Frederick William University in Berli... |
381810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagaan | Lagaan | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India () is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language epic musical sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film was produced by Aamir Khan, who stars alongside debutant Gracy Singh and British actors Rachel Shelley and Paul Blackthorne. Set in 1893, during the late Victorian per... |
381815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20I%2C%20Prince%20of%20Cond%C3%A9 | Louis I, Prince of Condé | Louis I de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (7 May 1530 – 13 March 1569) was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Coming from a position of relative political unimportance during the reign of Henri II, Condé's support for the Huguenots, along with his leading role in... |
381834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20de%20Montmorency%2C%201st%20Duke%20of%20Montmorency | Anne de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency | Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency (–12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid to late Italian Wars and early French Wars of Religion. He served under five French kings (Louis XII, François I, Henri II, François II and Charles IX). He began his career in... |
381842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP | OpenMP | OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared-memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on many platforms, instruction-set architectures and operating systems, including Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It cons... |
381844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suceava | Suceava | Suceava () is a municipality and the namesake county seat town of Suceava County, situated in the historical regions of Bukovina and Moldavia, northeastern Romania and at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe respectively. It is the largest urban settlement of Suceava County, with a population of 84,308 inhabita... |
381862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf%20fiction | Werewolf fiction | Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves and other shapeshifting therianthropes, in the media of literature, drama, film, games and music. Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and horror fiction, fantasy fiction and poetry. Such stories may be supernatural, symbolic or al... |
381864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Gordon%20University | Robert Gordon University | Robert Gordon University, commonly called RGU (), is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It became a university in 1992, and originated from an educational institution founded in the 18th century by Robert Gordon, a prosperous Aberdeen merchant, and various institutions which provided adult and techn... |
381865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satu%20Mare | Satu Mare | Satu Mare (; ; ; or ) is a city with a population of 102,400 (2011). It is the capital of Satu Mare County, Romania, as well as the centre of the Satu Mare metropolitan area. It lies in the region of Maramureș, broadly part of Transylvania. Mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum as ("Zotmar's fort"), the city has a his... |
381878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupadi | Draupadi | Draupadi (), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajñaseni is the main female protagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, and the wife of the five Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. She is noted for her beauty, courage, and polyandrous marriage.
In Mahabharata, Draupadi and her b... |
381880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s | Lord's | Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the European Cricket Council (ECC) and, until Aug... |
381886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Yongfu | Liu Yongfu | Liu Yongfu () (1837–1917) was a Chinese warlord and commander of the celebrated Black Flag Army. Liu won fame as a Chinese patriot fighting against the French Empire in northern Vietnam (Tonkin) in the 1870s and early 1880s. During the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885), he established a close friendship with t... |
381906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Cricket%20Council | International Cricket Council | The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from Australia, England and South Africa. It was renamed as the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and adopted its current name in 1987. The ICC has its he... |
381909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20University%20Tandon%20School%20of%20Engineering | New York University Tandon School of Engineering | The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States.
The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions were s... |
381930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Sonnenblume | Operation Sonnenblume | Operation Sonnenblume (/Operation Sunflower) was the name given to the dispatch of German troops to North Africa in February 1941, during the Second World War. The Italian 10th Army () had been destroyed by the British, Commonwealth, Empire and Allied Western Desert Force attacks during Operation Compass The first uni... |
381986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwich | Northwich | Northwich is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies in the heart of the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane. The town is about east of Chester, south of Warrington, and south of Manchester.
The ... |
381998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothbury | Rothbury | Rothbury is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the River Coquet. It is northwest of Morpeth and of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 2,107.
Rothbury emerged as an important town because of its location at a crossroads over a ford on the River Coquet. Turnpike ... |
382000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye%2C%20East%20Sussex | Rye, East Sussex | Rye is a small town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. An important member of the mediaeval Cinque Ports confederation, it was at the head of an embayment of the English Channel, and almost ... |
382002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavistock | Tavistock | Tavistock ( ) is an ancient stannary and market town within West Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy from which its name derives. At the 2011 census the three electoral wards (North, South and South West) had a population of 13,028. It traces its recorded history back to at least 961 when Tavistock Abbey, ... |
382011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitstable | Whitstable | Whitstable () is a town in the Canterbury district, on the north coast of Kent adjoining the convergence of the Swale Estuary and the Greater Thames Estuary in southeastern England, north of Canterbury and west of Herne Bay. The 2011 Census reported a population of 32,100.
The town, formerly known as Whitstable-on-S... |
382054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%20VIII%20Physcon | Ptolemy VIII Physcon | Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon (, Ptolemaĩos Euergétēs Tryphōn, "Ptolemy the Benefactor, the Opulent"; c. 184 BC – 28 June 116 BC), nicknamed Physcon (, Physkōn, "Fatty"), was a king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. He was the younger son of King Ptolemy V and Queen Cleopatra I. His reign was characterised by fier... |
382068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Darkness%20%28band%29 | The Darkness (band) | The Darkness are a British rock band that formed in Lowestoft, England in 2000. The band consists of Justin Hawkins (lead vocals, lead guitar), his brother Dan Hawkins (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Frankie Poullain (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Rufus Tiger Taylor (drums, backing vocals).
The Darkness came to pr... |
382082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20privacy | Medical privacy | Medical privacy, or health privacy, is the practice of maintaining the security and confidentiality of patient records. It involves both the conversational discretion of health care providers and the security of medical records. The terms can also refer to the physical privacy of patients from other patients and provid... |
382095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-backed%20salamander | Red-backed salamander | The red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is a small, hardy woodland salamander species in the family Plethodontidae. It is also known as the redback salamander, eastern red-backed salamander, or the northern red-backed salamander to distinguish it from the southern red-backed salamander (Plethodon serratus). The ... |
382137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Quebec | Culture of Quebec | The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois socie... |
382160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinaldo%20%28opera%29 | Rinaldo (opera) | Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1711, and was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage. The libretto was prepared by Giacomo Rossi from a scenario provided by Aaron Hill, and the work was first performed at the Queen's Theatre in London's Haymarket on... |
382164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard%20of%20Oz%20%28character%29 | Wizard of Oz (character) | Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs (also known as the "Wizard of Oz" and, during his reign, as "Oz the Great and Terrible" or the "Great and Powerful Oz") is a fictional character in the Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. The character was further popularized by a st... |
382165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%20fraud | Electoral fraud | Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand wit... |
382170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Ozma | Princess Ozma | Princess Ozma is a fictional character from the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum. She appears in every book of the Oz series except the first, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
She is the rightful ruler of Oz, and Baum indicated that she would reign in the fairyland forever, being immortal.
Baum ... |
382178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20City%20University | Birmingham City University | Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, it was designated as a polytechnic in 1971 and gained university status in 1992.
The university has two main campuses serving four faculties, and offer... |
382179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Porter | Shirley Porter | Shirley, Lady Porter (née Cohen; born 29 November 1930), styled between 1991 and 2003 as Dame Shirley Porter, is a British politician who led Westminster City Council in London, representing the Conservative Party. She is the daughter and heiress of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco supermarkets. She was appointed D... |
382224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing%20Anglican%20movement | Continuing Anglican movement | The Continuing Anglican movement, also known as the Anglican Continuum, encompasses a number of Christian churches, principally based in North America, that have an Anglican identity and tradition but are not part of the Anglican Communion.
These churches generally believe that traditional forms of Anglican faith and ... |
382248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Rice%20%28pastor%29 | John R. Rice (pastor) | John R. Rice (December 11, 1895 – December 29, 1980) was a Baptist evangelist and pastor and the founding editor of The Sword of the Lord, an influential fundamentalist newspaper.
Childhood and education
John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas, in 1895, the son of William H. and Sallie Elizabeth La Prade Rice, an... |
382251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20philosophy | Natural philosophy | Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe. It was dominant before the development of modern science.
From the ancient world (at least since Aristotle) until the 19th century, natural philosophy was the... |
382260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor%20Inayat%20Khan | Noor Inayat Khan | Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied... |
382279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20DeBakey | Michael DeBakey | Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly ... |
382326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20song | Work song | A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task that might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song. An example is "I've Been Working on the Railroad".
Definitions and categories
Records of ... |
382334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27%20Corner | Speakers' Corner | A Speakers' Corner is an area where free speech open-air public speaking, debate, and discussion are allowed. The original and best known is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Historically there were a number of other areas designated as Speakers' Corners in other parks in London, such as Lincol... |
382335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi%20Su-24 | Sukhoi Su-24 | The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, all-weather tactical bomber developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, twin-engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for its crew of two. It was the first of the USSR's aircraft to carry an integrated digital navigation/at... |
382344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon%20piscivorus | Agkistrodon piscivorus | Agkistrodon piscivorus is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper in the subfamily Crotalinae of the family Viperidae. It is one of the world's few semiaquatic vipers (along with the Florida cottonmouth), and is native to the Southeastern United States. As an adult, it is large and capable of delivering a painful and... |
382350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Peloponnesian%20War | History of the Peloponnesian War | The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also served as an Athenian general during the war. His acco... |
382371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell%20Douglas%20MD-11 | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is an American tri-jet wide-body airliner manufactured by American manufacturer McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and later by Boeing.
Following DC-10 development studies, the MD-11 program was launched on December 30, 1986. Assembly of the first prototype began on March 9, 1988. Its maiden flight o... |
382387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins | Gremlins | Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus, and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo, the main mogwai character. It draws on legends of folkloric mischievous creatures... |
382431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Law%20School | Stanford Law School | Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021, the second-lowest of any law school in the country. Since October 2023, Robert Weisberg has served as its dean.
Stanfo... |
382466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics | Graphics | Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational so... |
382494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Zionism | Christian Zionism | Christian Zionism is an ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Likewise, it holds that the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 was in accordance with Bible prophecy: that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Levant — the eschatological "Gatheri... |
382507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office | Office | An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is an ... |
382525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Happy%20Prince%20and%20Other%20Tales | The Happy Prince and Other Tales | The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket." In 2003, the second through fourth stori... |
382550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20jersey | Third jersey | A third jersey, alternative jersey, third kit, third sweater or alternative uniform is a jersey or uniform that a sports team can wear instead of its home outfit or its away outfit during games, often when the colors of two competing teams' other uniforms are too similar to contrast easily.
Alternative jerseys are a ... |
382573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Inouye | Daniel Inouye | Daniel Ken Inouye ( ; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American attorney, soldier, and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S. Representative for the State of Hawaii, and a Medal of Honor recipient. A member o... |
382576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20B.%20Mayer | Louis B. Mayer | Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, dir... |
382577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings%20River%20%28California%29 | Kings River (California) | The Kings River (), historically called Wimmel-che by the Yokuts, is a river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one of the deepest river gorge... |
382592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American%20Development%20Bank | Inter-American Development Bank | The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international financial institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959, the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean econ... |
382594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki%20method | Suzuki method | The Suzuki method is a music curriculum and teaching philosophy dating from the mid-20th century, created by Japanese violinist and pedagogue Shinichi Suzuki (1898–1998). The method aims to create an environment for learning music which parallels the linguistic environment of acquiring a native language. Suzuki believe... |
382639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymun | Ballymun | Ballymun () is an outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland, at the northern edge of the Northside, the green-field development of which began in the 1960s to accommodate a housing crisis in inner city areas of Dublin. While the newly built housing was state-of-the-art at the time, comprising high-rise tower blocks and flat comp... |
382641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystones | Greystones | Greystones () is a coastal town and seaside resort in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies on Ireland's east coast, south of Bray and south of Dublin city centre and has a population of 22,009, according to the 2022 census. The town is bordered by the Irish Sea to the east, Bray Head to the north and the Wicklow Mountain... |
382667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20linear%20group | Projective linear group | In mathematics, especially in the group theoretic area of algebra, the projective linear group (also known as the projective general linear group or PGL) is the induced action of the general linear group of a vector space V on the associated projective space P(V). Explicitly, the projective linear group is the quotient... |
382683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing%20gear | Landing gear | Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for takeoff or landing. For aircraft it is generally needed for both. It was also formerly called alighting gear by some manufacturers, such as the Glenn L. Martin Company. For aircraft, Stinton makes the terminology distinction undercarriage (... |
382736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olusegun%20Obasanjo | Olusegun Obasanjo | Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo (; ; born 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian retired military officer and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007. Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Par... |
382754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20Home | Chain Home | Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal early warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft. Initially known as RDF, and given the official name Air Ministry Experimental Station Type 1 (AMES Type 1) in 1940, t... |
382766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Chadwick | Edwin Chadwick | Sir Edwin Chadwick KCB (24 January 18006 July 1890) was an English social reformer who is noted for his leadership in reforming the Poor Laws in England and instituting major reforms in urban sanitation and public health. A disciple of Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, he was most active between 1832 and 1854; a... |
382801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose-6-phosphate%20dehydrogenase%20deficiency | Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency | Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDD), which is the most common enzyme deficiency worldwide, is an inborn error of metabolism that predisposes to red blood cell breakdown. Most of the time, those who are affected have no symptoms. Following a specific trigger, symptoms such as yellowish skin, dark urine,... |
382824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Freewheelin%27%20Bob%20Dylan | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records. Whereas his self-titled debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, this album represented the beginning of Dylan's writing contemporary words to traditional melo... |
382847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbus%20aucuparia | Sorbus aucuparia | Sorbus aucuparia, commonly called rowan (, also ) and mountain-ash, is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family. It is a highly variable species, and botanists have used different definitions of the species to include or exclude trees native to certain areas. A recent definition includes trees native to... |
382884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Southern%20Airlines | China Southern Airlines | China Southern Airlines Company Limited, also known as China Southern, is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and is the largest airline in China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acquired and merged a number of domestic airlines, th... |
382889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Carlos%20Ferrero | Juan Carlos Ferrero | Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (; born 12 February 1980) is a Spanish former world No. 1 tennis player and current tennis coach. He won the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year became the 21st player to hold the top ranking, which he held for eight weeks. He was runner-up at the 2002 Fr... |
382941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Airborne%20Division%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom) | The 1st Airborne Division was an airborne infantry division of the British Army during the Second World War. The division was formed in late 1941 during the Second World War, after the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, demanded an airborne force, and was initially under command of Major-General Frederick A. M.... |
382952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Browning | Frederick Browning | Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning, (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and the husband of author Daphne du Maurier.
Educated at Eton Colle... |
382967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu%20Pacific | Cebu Pacific | Cebu Air, Inc., operating as Cebu Pacific (), is a Philippine low-cost airline based at Pasay in Metro Manila. Founded in 1988, it is Asia's oldest low-cost airline. It offers scheduled flights to both domestic and international destinations. The airline operates flights from two primary hubs in Cebu and Manila, five s... |
382984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Inflexible%20%281907%29 | HMS Inflexible (1907) | HMS Inflexible was one of three s built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She tried to hunt down the German battlecruiser and the light cruiser in the Mediterranean Sea when war broke out and she and her sister ship sank the German armoured cruisers and during the Batt... |
383021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Hague | Frank Hague | Frank Hague (January 17, 1876 – January 1, 1956) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the Mayor of Jersey City from 1917 to 1947, Democratic National Committeeman from New Jersey from 1922 until 1949, and Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1924 until 1949. During his 30 years a... |
383052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Times | Good Times | Good Times is an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS, from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which its... |
383054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20communism | Christian communism | Christian communism is a theological view that the teachings of Jesus compel Christians to support religious communism. Although there is no universal agreement on the exact dates when communistic ideas and practices in Christianity began, many Christian communists argue that evidence from the Bible suggests that the f... |
383064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown%20Prosecution%20Service | Crown Prosecution Service | The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal advice to the police and other investigative agencies during the course of crimina... |
383091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Herrmann | Edward Herrmann | Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 – December 31, 2014) was an American actor, director, and writer. He was known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and 1982 film musical Annie, Richard Gilmore in Amy Sherman-Palladino's comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls (200... |
383105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20God%20in%20Christ%2C%20Mennonite | Church of God in Christ, Mennonite | The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, also called Holdeman Mennonite, is a Christian Church of Anabaptist heritage. Its formation started in 1859 under its first leader, a self-described prophet named John Holdeman (1832-1900), who was a baptized Mennonite. The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite is Conservative Menno... |
383115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drink%20can | Drink can | A drink can (or beverage can) is a metal container designed to hold a fixed portion of liquid such as carbonated soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, fruit juices, teas, herbal teas, energy drinks, etc. Drink cans are made of aluminum (75% of worldwide production) or tin-plated steel (25% worldwide production). Worldwide pro... |
383129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial%20spheres | Celestial spheres | The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating spheres ma... |
383130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20State%20University%2C%20Long%20Beach | California State University, Long Beach | California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a public research university in Long Beach, California. The 322-acre campus is the second largest in the California State University system (CSU). The university is one of the largest in the state of California by enrollment with a student body numbering 38,273 for the... |
383135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddi%20Jagan | Cheddi Jagan | Cheddi Berret Jagan (22 March 1918 – 6 March 1997) was a Guyanese politician and dentist who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964. He later served as President of Guyana from 1992 to his death in 1997. In 1953, he became the first person of Indian descent to be ... |
383186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile | Tile | Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or other objects such as tabletops. Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to si... |
383207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda%20S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na | Garda Síochána | The (; meaning "the Guardian(s) of the Peace") is the national police and security service of Ireland. It is more commonly referred to as the Gardaí (; "Guardians") or "the Guards". The service is headed by the Garda Commissioner, who is appointed by the Irish Government. Its headquarters are in Dublin's Phoenix Park.... |
383252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20W.%20Botha | P. W. Botha | Pieter Willem Botha, (; 12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician. He served as the last prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president of South Africa from 1984 to 1989.
First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was an opponent of black majority rule... |
383256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Navy | French Navy | The French Navy (), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in the world, ranking seventh in combined fleet tonnage and fifth in number of naval vessels. The French Navy is one of eight na... |
383258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Navy | Russian Navy | The Russian navy () is the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. It has existed in various forms since 1696; its present iteration was formed in January 1992 when it succeeded the Navy of the Commonwealth of Independent States (which had itself succeeded the Soviet Navy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in... |
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