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385576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Rupert%2C%20British%20Columbia | Prince Rupert, British Columbia | Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Its location is on Kaien Island near the Alaskan panhandle. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and has a population of 12,220 people as of 2016.
History
Coast Tsimshian occupation of the Prince R... |
385653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Khamenei | Ali Khamenei | Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (, ; born 19 April 1939), mostly known as Ali Khamenei (), is a Twelver Shia marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran, in office since 1989. Previously, he served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle Ea... |
385658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelaziz%20Bouteflika | Abdelaziz Bouteflika | Abdelaziz Bouteflika (; ; 2 March 1937 – 17 September 2021) was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019.
Before his stint as an Algerian politician, Bouteflika served during the Algerian War as a member of the National Liberation Front. A... |
385677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza%20Italia | Forza Italia | (FI; translated to "Forward Italy" or "Let's Go Italy") was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian-democratic, liberal (especially economically liberal), social-democratic and populist tendencies. It was founded by Silvio Berlusconi, who served as Prime Minister of Italy four times... |
385706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lion%20King%201%C2%BD | The Lion King 1½ | The Lion King 1½ (also known as The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata internationally) is a 2004 American animated direct-to-video musical comedy film produced by the Australian branch of DisneyToon Studios and released direct to video on February 13, 2004. The third and final installment released in the original Lion King tr... |
385717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility%20cycling | Utility cycling | Utility cycling encompasses any cycling done simply as a means of transport rather than as a sport or leisure activity. It is the original and most common type of cycling in the world. Cycling mobility is one of the various types of private transport and a major part of individual mobility.
Overview
Utility or "tran... |
385732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discouraged%20worker | Discouraged worker | In economics, a discouraged worker is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment or who has not found employment after long-term unemployment, but who would prefer to be working. This is usually because an individual has given up looking, hence the term "discouraged".
A discouraged worker,... |
385737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor%20force%20in%20the%20United%20States | Labor force in the United States | The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a high of 164.6 million persons in February 2020, just at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Before the pandemic, the U.S. labor force had risen each ye... |
385742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fall%20of%20the%20Roman%20Empire%20%28film%29 | The Fall of the Roman Empire (film) | The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 American epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston, with a screenplay by Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina and Philip Yordan. The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer, and Omar Sha... |
385745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20development | International development | International development or global development is a broad concept denoting the idea that societies and countries have differing levels of economic or human development on an international scale. It is the basis for international classifications such as developed country, developing country and least developed country,... |
385752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromyard | Bromyard | Bromyard is a town in the parish of Bromyard and Winslow, in Herefordshire, England, in the valley of the River Frome. It is near the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, including some of the pubs; the parish church... |
385762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore%20Sottsass | Ettore Sottsass | Ettore Sottsass (Innsbruck, Austria 14 September 1917 – Milan, Italy 31 December 2007) was a 20th-century Italian architect, noted for also designing furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home and office wares, as well as numerous buildings and interiors — often defined by bold colours.
Early life
Sottsass was born ... |
385801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuas | Nahuas | The Nahuas () are a group of the indigenous people of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. They comprise the largest indigenous group in Mexico and second largest in El Salvador. The Mexica (Aztecs) were of Nahua ethnicity, and the Toltecs are often thought to have been as well, though in the pre-Co... |
385822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dershowitz%E2%80%93Finkelstein%20affair | Dershowitz–Finkelstein affair | The Dershowitz–Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005.
Shortly after the publication of the book The Case for Israel, by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, Norman Finkelstein all... |
385839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trooping%20the%20Colour | Trooping the Colour | Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign. It is also known as the Sovereign's Birthday Parade. Similar events are held in other countries of the Commonw... |
385843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Louisville | University of Louisville | The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was one of the first city-owned public colleges in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The ... |
385855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheoljong%20of%20Joseon | Cheoljong of Joseon | Cheoljong (; 25 July 1831 – 16 January 1864) was the 25th king of the Joseon, reigning from 1849 to 1864. After Heonjong of Joseon died without a male heir in 1849, Queen Sunwon chose Cheoljong, aged 19, to be the next king, as the heir to late Sunjo of Joseon.
Cheoljong was a great-great-grandson of Yeongjo of Joseon... |
385877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije%20Universiteit%20Brussel | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (; ; abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has four campuses: Brussels Humanities, Science and Engineering Campus (in Elsene), Brussels Health Campus (in Jette), Brussels Technology Campus (in Anderlecht) and Brussels Photoni... |
385879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%20Steels | Luc Steels | Luc Steels (born in 1952) is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels is considered a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe who has made contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He was a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and ... |
385894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20Earth | Miss Earth | Miss Earth is an annual international major beauty pageant based in the Philippines that advocates for environmental awareness, conservation and social responsibility. Along with Miss World, Miss Universe, and Miss International, it is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants.
Miss Earth is a co-host of the ... |
385897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20MacDonald%20%28evolutionary%20psychologist%29 | Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist) | Kevin B. MacDonald (born January 24, 1944) is an American antisemitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, and retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). In 2008, the CSULB academic senate voted to disassociate itself from MacDonald's work.
MacDonald is known fo... |
385925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski%20Skyway | Pulaski Skyway | The Pulaski Skyway is a four-lane bridge-causeway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, carrying an expressway designated U.S. Route 1/9 (US 1/9) for most of its length. The structure has a total length of . Its longest bridge spans . Traveling between Newark and Jersey City, the roadway crosses the... |
385946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy%20of%20genres | Hierarchy of genres | A hierarchy of genres is any formalization which ranks different genres in an art form in terms of their prestige and cultural value.
In literature, the epic was considered the highest form, for the reason expressed by Samuel Johnson in his Life of John Milton: "By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of... |
385967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%20Uprising | January Uprising | The January Uprising (; ; ; ; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last insurgents were captured by the Russian forces in 1864.
It was the ... |
385977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabetical%20order | Alphabetical order | Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet. It is one of the methods of collation. In mathematics, a lexicographical order is the generalization of the alphabetical order to other data types, such as se... |
385990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Security%20Service | Federal Security Service | The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB; ; ФСБ России) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995. The three major structura... |
385994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9%20libre%20de%20Bruxelles | Université libre de Bruxelles | The (; ; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
The split occurred along linguistic lines, forming the F... |
385997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern%20University | Northeastern University | Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1898, it was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922. W... |
386023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20F.%20Kennan | George F. Kennan | George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histories of the relations between the USSR and the United States. He was also one ... |
386062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishful%20thinking | Wishful thinking | Wishful thinking is the formation of beliefs based on what might be pleasing to imagine, rather than on evidence, rationality, or reality. It is a product of resolving conflicts between belief and desire. Methodologies to examine wishful thinking are diverse. Various disciplines and schools of thought examine related ... |
386065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20College%20of%20Physicians | Royal College of Physicians | The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination, and now also Physicians Assistants without examinatio... |
386074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n%20O%27Casey | Seán O'Casey | Seán O'Casey ( ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
Early life
O'Casey was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, as John Casey, the son of Michael Casey,... |
386085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lewis%20Partnership | John Lewis Partnership | The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company that operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities. The public limited company is owned by a trust on behalf of all its employees – known as partners – ... |
386111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20streetcar%20conspiracy | General Motors streetcar conspiracy | The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit sys... |
386123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop%20music | Barbershop music | Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1930s–present), is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture. Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the le... |
386146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dingell | John Dingell | John David Dingell Jr. (July 8, 1926 – February 7, 2019) was an American politician from the state of Michigan who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 until 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Dingell holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in American histo... |
386172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Lauder | Harry Lauder | Sir Henry Lauder (; 4 August 1870 – 26 February 1950) was a Scottish singer and comedian popular in both music hall and vaudeville theatre traditions; he achieved international success.
He was described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador", who "... by his inspiring songs and valiant life,... |
386214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper%20group | Wallpaper group | A wallpaper is a mathematical object covering a whole Euclidean plane by repeating a motif indefinitely, in manner that certain isometries keep the drawing unchanged. For each wallpaper there corresponds a group of congruent transformations, with function composition as the group operation. Thus, a wallpaper group (or ... |
386221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac%20Firebird | Pontiac Firebird | The Pontiac Firebird is an American automobile that was built and produced by Pontiac from the 1967 to 2002 model years. Designed as a pony car to compete with the Ford Mustang, it was introduced on February 23, 1967, five months after GM's Chevrolet division's platform-sharing Camaro. This also coincided with the rele... |
386232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosynthesis | Psychosynthesis | Psychosynthesis is an approach to psychology that expands the boundaries of the field by identifying a deeper center of identity, which is the postulate of the Self. It considers each individual unique in terms of purpose in life, and places value on the exploration of human potential. The approach combines spiritual d... |
386236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchener%20Rangers | Kitchener Rangers | The Kitchener Rangers are a major junior ice hockey team based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference of the Ontario Hockey League. The Rangers have won the J. Ross Robertson Cup as OHL champions in 1981, 1982, 2003 and 2008. They have appeared in six Memorial ... |
386244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerez%20de%20la%20Frontera | Jerez de la Frontera | Jerez de la Frontera () or simply Jerez, also cited in old English-language sources as , is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Located in southwestern Iberia, it lies on the Campiña de Jerez, an inland low-land plain crossed by the Guadalete river, midway t... |
386247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivybridge | Ivybridge | Ivybridge is a town and civil parish in the South Hams, in Devon, England. It lies about east of Plymouth. It is at the southern extremity of Dartmoor, a National Park of England and Wales and lies along the A38 "Devon Expressway" road. There are two electoral wards in Ivybridge East and Ivybridge West with a total p... |
386261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Scarborough | Joe Scarborough | Charles Joseph Scarborough (; born April 9, 1963) is an American television host, attorney, political commentator, and former politician who is the co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski. He previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network. A former member of the Republican Party, Scarbo... |
386274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lie%20Cartan | Élie Cartan | Élie Joseph Cartan (; 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coordinate-free geometric formulation of PDEs), and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general relativity and indirectly to ... |
386327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20School%20Admission%20Test | Law School Admission Test | The Law School Admission Test (LSAT; ) is a standardized test administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for prospective law school candidates. It is designed to assess reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, and logical reasoning. The test is an integral part of the law school admission process in t... |
386362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham%20United%20F.C. | Rotherham United F.C. | Rotherham United Football Club, nicknamed The Millers, is a professional football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system, in the 2023–24 season. The club's colours were initially yellow and black, but changed to red and white a... |
386369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines%20of%20Torres%20Vedras | Lines of Torres Vedras | The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts and other military defences built in secrecy to defend Lisbon during the Peninsular War. Named after the nearby town of Torres Vedras, they were ordered by Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, constructed by Colonel Richard Fletcher and his Portuguese workers between Nov... |
386384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Johnson | Randy Johnson | Randall David Johnson (born September 10, 1963), nicknamed "the Big Unit", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (1988–2009) for six teams, primarily the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks.
At , Johnson was the tallest player in MLB history when he en... |
386397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sega%20Genesis%20games | List of Sega Genesis games | This is a complete list of all Sega Genesis games.
The Sega Genesis, known as the in regions outside of North America, is a 16-bit video game console that was developed and sold by Sega. First released in Japan on October 29, 1988, in North America on August 14, 1989 and in PAL regions in 1990, the Genesis is Sega's ... |
386407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitization | Digitization | Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format. The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document, or signal (usually an analog signal) obtained by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of points or samples. The result is ca... |
386473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil%20Basayev | Shamil Basayev | Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (; ; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006), also known by his kunya "Abu Idris", was a North Caucasian guerilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. He held the rank of brigadier general in the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, and was posthumously... |
386503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20S.%20Mosby | John S. Mosby | John Singleton Mosby (December 6, 1833 – May 30, 1916), also known by his nickname "Gray Ghost", was an American military officer who was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers or Mosby's Raiders, was a partis... |
386519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computing | History of computing | The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.
Concrete devices
Digital computing is intimately tied to the representation of numbers. But... |
386555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Indian%20Wars | American Indian Wars | The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States government and American settlers, against various American Indian tribes. These conflicts occurred in the United States from the tim... |
386593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloydminster | Lloydminster | Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administration.
Located in the heart of Treaty 6, Lloydminster is the traditional homel... |
386598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Stone | London Stone | London Stone is a historic landmark housed at 111 Cannon Street in the City of London. It is an irregular block of oolitic limestone measuring 53 × 43 × 30 cm (21 × 17 × 12"), the remnant of a once much larger object that had stood for many centuries on the south side of the street.
The name "London Stone" was first r... |
386606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathala | Bathala | In the indigenous religion of the ancient Tagalogs, Bathala/Maykapal was the transcendent Supreme Being, the originator and ruler of the universe. He is commonly known and referred to in the modern era as Bathala, a term or title which, in earlier times, also applied to lesser beings such as personal tutelary spirits, ... |
386632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitchurch-Stouffville | Whitchurch-Stouffville | Whitchurch-Stouffville (2021 population 49,864) is a town in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, approximately north of downtown Toronto, and north-east of Toronto Pearson International Airport. It is in area, and located in the mid-eastern area of the Regional Municipality of York on the ecologically-sens... |
386693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn%20Green | Shawn Green | Shawn David Green (born November 10, 1972) is an American former Major League Baseball right fielder. Green was a first-round draft pick and a two-time major league All-Star. He drove in 100 runs four times and scored 100 runs four times, hit 40 or more home runs three times, led the league in doubles, extra base hits,... |
386696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 | SL-1 | Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1 or the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor in the western United States at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) in Idaho about west of Idaho Falls, now the Idaho National Laboratory. On January 3, 196... |
386723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotrk%C3%B3w%20Trybunalski | Piotrków Trybunalski | Piotrków Trybunalski (; also known by alternative names), often simplified to Piotrków, is a city in central Poland with 71,252 inhabitants (2021). It is the capital of Piotrków County and the second-largest city in the Łódź Voivodeship.
Founded in the late Middle Ages, Piotrków was once a royal city and an important ... |
386727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Scott%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Eldon | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, (4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838) was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827.
Early life
Background
Eldon was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His grandfather, William Scott of Sandgate, a ... |
386733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemy%C5%9Bl | Przemyśl | Przemyśl (; ; ; ; ) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship.
Przemyśl owes its long and rich history to the advantages of its geographic location. The city lies in an a... |
386763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Erskine%2C%201st%20Baron%20Erskine | Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine | Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, (10 January 175017 November 1823) was a British Whig lawyer and politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.
Background and childhood
Erskine was the third and youngest surviving son of Henry David Erskine, ... |
386789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutno | Kutno | Kutno is a city located in central Poland with 42,704 inhabitants (2021) and an area of . Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship since 1999, previously it was part of Płock Voivodeship (1975–1998) and it is now the capital of Kutno County.
During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Polish armies under General Tadeusz Kutrzeba ... |
386801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C5%82a | Piła | Piła (; ) is a city in northwestern Poland and the capital of Piła County, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its population was 71,846, making it the city in the voivodeship after Poznań and Kalisz and the largest city in the northern part of Greater Poland. The city is located on the Gwda river and is famo... |
386817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Latter%20Day%20Saint%20movement%20topics | List of Latter Day Saint movement topics | In an effort to bring together pages on various religions, below is a list of articles that are about or reference Latter Day Saint movement topics.
As a rule, the links below should direct to existing articles, not empty pages (non-existent articles), or off-site web pages. If an article is needed, please create a St... |
386818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking%20ban | Smoking ban | Smoking bans, or smoke-free laws, are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces. The spaces most commonly affected by smoking bans are indoor workplaces and buildings open to the public such as restaurants, bars, office build... |
386825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brzeg | Brzeg | Brzeg (; Latin: Alta Ripa, German: Brieg, Silesian German: Brigg, , ) is a town in southwestern Poland with 34,778 inhabitants (December 2021) and the capital of Brzeg County. It is situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder river.
The town of Brzeg was first mentioned as a trading and f... |
386828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudnik | Prudnik | Prudnik (, , , ) is a town in southern Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the administrative seat of Prudnik County and Gmina Prudnik. Its population numbers 21,368 inhabitants (2016). Since 2015, Prudnik is a member of the Cittaslow International.
... |
386849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Vestal | USS Vestal | USS Vestal (AR-4) was a repair ship in service with the United States Navy from 1913 to 1946. Before her conversion to a repair ship, she had served as a collier since 1909. Vestal served in both World Wars. She was damaged during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and received two battle stars for her World War II se... |
386852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobh | Cobh | Cobh ( ,), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of 14,418 inhabitants at the 2022 census, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the ... |
386867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Monk | The Monk | The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (in one letter he claimed to have written it in ten weeks, but other correspondence suggests that he had at least started it, or something similar, a couple of years earlier), it was pu... |
386882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanchang | Nanchang | Nanchang (, ; ) is the capital of Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east by Poyang Lake. Because of its strategic location connecting the prosperous Ea... |
386887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach%20%28character%29 | Rorschach (character) | Rorschach (Walter Joseph Kovacs) is a fictional antihero in the graphic novel limited series Watchmen, published by DC Comics in 1986. Rorschach was created by writer Alan Moore with artist Dave Gibbons; as with most of the main characters in the series, he was an analogue for a Charlton Comics character, in this case ... |
386905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho | Gaucho | A gaucho () or gaúcho () is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly. The figure of the gaucho is a folk symbol of Argentina, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, southern part of Bolivia and the south of Chilean Patagonia. Gauchos became greatly admired and renowned in legend, folklore, and literature and b... |
386922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Arcole | Battle of Arcole | The Battle of Arcole or Battle of Arcola (15–17 November 1796) was fought between French and Austrian forces southeast of Verona during the War of the First Coalition, a part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle saw a bold maneuver by Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy to outflank the Austrian army led ... |
386986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas%20Gage | Phineas Gage | Phineas P. Gage (18231860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over t... |
386994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suwa%C5%82ki | Suwałki | Suwałki is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Suwałki is the largest city and the capital of the historical Suwałki Region. Until 1999 it was the capital of Suwałki Voivodes... |
387012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82awiec | Bolesławiec | Bolesławiec (pronounced , , ) is a historic city situated on the Bóbr River in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in western Poland. It is the administrative seat of Bolesławiec County, and of Gmina Bolesławiec (being an urban gmina in its own right). As of June 2021, it has a population of 38,280. Founded in the 13th cen... |
387013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelenia%20G%C3%B3ra | Jelenia Góra | Jelenia Góra (pron. ; Polish: ; ; Exonym: Deer Mountain) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia. Jelenia Góra is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, close to the Karkonosze mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Sz... |
387093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrzan%C3%B3w | Chrzanów | Chrzanów () is a town in southern Poland with 35,651 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999) and is the seat of Chrzanów County.
History
History to 1809
It is impossible to establish a reliable date for the foundation of the town. A stronghold existed on the site,... |
387114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak%20Peasant%20Revolution | Donghak Peasant Revolution | The Donghak Peasant Revolution () was a peasant revolt that took place between 11 January 1894 and 25 December 1895 in Korea. The peasants were primarily followers of Donghak, a Neo-Confucian movement that rejected Western technology and ideals.
The Revolution began in the province of Gobu-gun. In the early 1890s, , w... |
387135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%20%28rocket%20family%29 | Saturn (rocket family) | The Saturn family of American rockets was developed by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. The Saturn family used liquid hydrogen as fuel in the upper stages. Originally proposed as a military satellite launcher, they were ... |
387155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS%20Kaiser%20%281911%29 | SMS Kaiser (1911) | SMS was the lead ship of the of dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy. was built by the Imperial Dockyard at Kiel, launched on 22 March 1911 and commissioned on 1 August 1912. The ship was equipped with ten guns in five twin turrets, and had a top speed of . was assigned to III Battle Squadron of the... |
387175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat%20program | Landsat program | The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite was launched. This was eventually renamed to Landsat 1 in 1975. The most recent, Landsat 9, was launched on 27 September 2021.... |
387185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language%20editions%20of%20The%20Hobbit | English-language editions of The Hobbit | This list contains only complete, printed English-language editions of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is not for derived or unprinted works such as screenplays, graphic novels, or audio books.
Introduction
For this list, a printing is a separate edition if any of the following criteria is met:
The publisher decla... |
387215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20%28character%29 | Crystal (character) | Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Crystal first appeared in Fantastic Four #45 (Dec. 1965) and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.
Within the Marvel Universe, Crystal is a member of a fictional human subspecies known a... |
387227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce%20RB211 | Rolls-Royce RB211 | The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a British family of high-bypass turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce. The engines are capable of generating of thrust. The RB211 engine was the first production three-spool engine and turned Rolls-Royce from a significant player in the aero-engine industry into a global leader.
Originally dev... |
387248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyak%20language | Eyak language | Eyak was a Na-Dené language, historically spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. The name Eyak comes from a Chugach Sugpiaq name (Igya'aq) for an Eyak village at the mouth of the Eyak River.
The closest relatives of Eyak are the Athabaskan languages. The Eya... |
387268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal%20gas | Coal gas | Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system. It is produced when coal is heated strongly in the absence of air. Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities.
The original coal g... |
387271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorgal | Thorgal | Thorgal is a fantasy adventure Franco-Belgian comics series by Belgian writer Jean Van Hamme and Polish graphic artist Grzegorz Rosiński. Debuting in 1977, it has incorporated elements of Norse mythology, the legend of Atlantis as well as science fiction and horror.
In 2002, it was adapted as an adventure video game, ... |
387369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene%20Thermal%20Maximum | Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum | The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively (ETM1), and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "", was a time period with a more than 5–8 °C global average temperature rise across the event. This climate event occurred at the time boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene geological epochs. The exact age ... |
387440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20oceanography | Physical oceanography | Physical oceanography is the study of physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean, especially the motions and physical properties of ocean waters.
Physical oceanography is one of several sub-domains into which oceanography is divided. Others include biological, chemical and geological oceanography.
Ph... |
387456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1in%20B%C3%B3%20C%C3%BAailnge | Táin Bó Cúailnge | (Modern ; "the driving-off of the cows of Cooley"), commonly known as The Táin or less commonly as The Cattle Raid of Cooley, is an epic from Irish mythology. It is often called "The Irish Iliad", although like most other early Irish literature, the Táin is written in prosimetrum, i.e. prose with periodic additions of ... |
387460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20La%27s | The La's | The La's were an English rock band from Liverpool, originally active from 1983 until 1992. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers, the group are best known for their hit single "There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike Badger in 1983 and Mavers joined the next year, although for most of the group's ... |
387463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast%20%28band%29 | Cast (band) | Cast are an English indie rock band formed in Liverpool in 1992 by John Power (vocals, guitar) and Peter Wilkinson (backing vocals, bass) after Power left The La's and Wilkinson's former band Shack had split. Following early line-ups with different guitarists and drummers, Liam "Skin" Tyson (guitar) and Keith O'Neill (... |
387468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bis%20%28Scottish%20band%29 | Bis (Scottish band) | Bis ( , stylised as bis) are a Scottish indie pop band composed of Steven Clark (Sci-Fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), and Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin), formed in 1994. The band's name, rhyming with 'this', derives from "black iron skyline", a lyric from the song "Twilight of a Champion" by The The. After releasing ... |
387507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20water%20wars | California water wars | The California Water Wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights.
As Los Angeles expanded during the late 19th century, it began outgrowing its water supply. Fred Eaton, mayor of Los Angeles, promoted a p... |
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