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390702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%20City%20University | Dublin City University | Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) () is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Created as the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin in 1975, it enrolled its first students in 1980, and was elevated to university status (along with the NIHE Limerick, now the University of Limerick) i... |
390745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine%20El%20Abidine%20Ben%20Ali | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisian ; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali () or Ezzine () was a Tunisian politician who served as the 2nd president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he fled to Saudi Arabia.
Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in Oct... |
390763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverchair | Silverchair | Silverchair was an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, New South Wales, with Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars, Ben Gillies on drums, and Chris Joannou on bass guitar. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS TV show... |
390771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar%20Schacht | Hjalmar Schacht | Hjalmar Schacht (born Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht; 22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970, ) was a German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his c... |
390772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake%20Island%20%28Ukraine%29 | Snake Island (Ukraine) | Snake Island, also known as Serpent Island or Zmiinyi Island (; ), is a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea, near the Danube Delta, with an important role in delimiting Ukrainian territorial waters.
The island has been known since classical antiquity, and during that era hosted a Greek temple to Achilles. Today,... |
390777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%20Locomotive%20Works | Baldwin Locomotive Works | Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) was an American manufacturer of railway locomotives from 1825 to 1951. Originally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it moved to nearby Eddystone in the early 20th century. The company was for decades the world's largest producer of steam locomotives, but struggled to compete when dem... |
390781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Bagwell | Jeff Bagwell | Jeffrey Robert Bagwell (born May 27, 1968) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and coach who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Houston Astros.
Originally a Boston Red Sox fourth-round selection from the University of Hartford in the 1989 amateur draft,... |
390789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland | Sutherland | Sutherland () is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later combined into Ross and Cromarty) to the south and the Atlantic to the north and west. Like ... |
390827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding%20cake | Wedding cake | A wedding cake is the traditional cake served at wedding receptions following dinner. In some parts of England, the wedding cake is served at a wedding breakfast; the 'wedding breakfast' does not mean the meal will be held in the morning, but at a time following the ceremony on the same day. In modern Western culture, ... |
390863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Paice | Ian Paice | Ian Anderson Paice (born 29 June 1948) is an English musician, best known as the drummer and last remaining original member of the rock band Deep Purple. He remains the only member of Deep Purple who has served in every line-up since the band’s inception in 1968, as well as having played on every album and at every liv... |
390867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF%20%28film%29 | UHF (film) | UHF (released internationally as The Vidiot from UHF) is a 1989 American comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Stanley Brock, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva; the film is dedicated to Silva, who... |
390875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | São Paulo | São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city outside of Asia and the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portug... |
390881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag | Wampanoag | The Wampanoag (), also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts and historically parts of eastern Rhode Island. Their territory historically includes the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Today, two Wampanoag tribes are federally recogn... |
390883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20locomotive | Electric locomotive | An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime movers, such as diesel engines or gas turbines, are classed as diesel-electric or gas turbine-electric and not as elec... |
390889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Electric | English Electric | The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice ending the fighting of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during the war, had been making munitions, armaments and aeroplanes.
It initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transforme... |
390896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukotka%20Autonomous%20Okrug | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | Chukotka (; Chukchi: Чукоткакэн автономныкэн округ, Chukotkakėn avtonomnykėn okrug), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border with the Republic of Sakha to the west, Magadan Oblast to the south... |
390902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Horse%20Guards | Royal Horse Guards | The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (The Blues) (RHG) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry.
Raised in August 1650 at Newcastle upon Tyne and County Durham by Sir Arthur Haselrigge on the orders of Oliver Cromwell as a Regiment of Horse, the regiment became the Earl of Oxford's Regim... |
390905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Horizons | New Horizons | New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission ... |
390930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage%20stamps%20and%20postal%20history%20of%20Russia | Postage stamps and postal history of Russia | This a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation.
Postal history
Early history
Records mention a system of messengers in the 10th century. Early letters were carried in the form of a roll, with a wax or lead seal; the earliest known of th... |
390960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahn | Lahn | The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
It has its source in the Rothaargebirge, the highest part of the Sauerland. It meets the Rhine at Lahnstein, near... |
390970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20Polar%20Lander | Mars Polar Lander | The Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a 290-kilogram robotic spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999, to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars. It formed part of the Mars Surveyor '98 mission. On December 3, 1999, however, afte... |
390975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Party%20%28South%20Africa%29 | National Party (South Africa) | The National Party (, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which was responsible for the implementation of apartheid rule. The party was an Afrikaner ethnic nationalist party, which initially promoted the interests of Afrikaners but later became a stalwart p... |
390998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan%20Pathfinder | Nissan Pathfinder | The Nissan Pathfinder is a range of sport utility vehicles manufactured by Nissan since 1985. Until the third-generation model, the Pathfinder is based on Nissan's compact pickup truck platform which it shares with the Navara/Frontier. The front end of the D21 (first generation) and R51 (third generation) Pathfinder is... |
391018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iced%20Earth | Iced Earth | Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band formed in Tampa, Florida, and currently based in Columbus, Indiana. They were formed in 1984 under the name the Rose, then Purgatory, by guitarist and main songwriter Jon Schaffer and original drummer Greg Seymour. Iced Earth released their debut album in 1990 and have since r... |
391026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Mac%C3%ADas%20Nguema | Francisco Macías Nguema | Francisco Macías Nguema (born Mez-m Ngueme, later Africanised to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong; 1 January 1924 – 29 September 1979), often mononymously referred to as Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first President of Equatorial Guinea from the country's independence in 1968 until his overth... |
391037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20mockingbird | Northern mockingbird | The northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is a mockingbird commonly found in North America. This bird is mainly a permanent resident, but northern birds may move south during harsh weather. This species has rarely been observed in Europe. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ... |
391038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakhr%20al-Din%20II | Fakhr al-Din II | Fakhr al-Din Ma'n (; March or April 1635), commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II (), was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and Safed, and the strongman over much of the Levant from the 1620s to 1633. For uniting modern Lebanon's constituen... |
391054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France-Albert%20Ren%C3%A9 | France-Albert René | France-Albert René (; 16 November 1934 – 27 February 2019) was a Seychellois lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the second President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He also served as the country's 2nd Prime Minister from its independence in 1976 to 1977.
He was nicknamed by Seychellois government official... |
391110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Solana | Javier Solana | Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga CYC GCC (; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he w... |
391154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glinda | Glinda | {{Infobox character
|name = Glinda
|series = Oz
|image = The marvelous land of Oz; being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman a sequel to the Wizard of Oz (1904) (14566659598).jpg
|caption = Glinda depicted in The Marvelous Land of Oz, illustrated by John R. Neill
... |
391164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Alesia | Battle of Alesia | The Battle of Alesia or Siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around the Gallic oppidum (fortified settlement) of Alesia in modern France, a major centre of the Mandubii tribe. It was fought by the Roman army of Julius Caesar against a confederation of Gallic... |
391183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Ellen%20Watkins%20Harper | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States.
Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harp... |
391282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20American%20Woman%20Suffrage%20Association | National American Woman Suffrage Association | The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Associati... |
391284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Burton | Dan Burton | Danny Lee Burton (born June 21, 1938) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for , and previously the , serving from 1983 until 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the Tea Party Caucus.
Early life, education, and early career
Burton was born in Indianapolis, the son of Bonni... |
391313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Biological%20Laboratory | Marine Biological Laboratory | The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution that was independent for most of its history, but became officially affiliated with the Univers... |
391324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Pence | Mike Pence | Michael Richard Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives... |
391367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Radio%20Relay%20League | American Radio Relay League | The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the United States. ARRL is a non-profit organization, and was co-founded on April 6, 1914, by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska of Hartford, Connecticut. The ARRL represents the interests of amateur radio ... |
391371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbledore%27s%20Army | Dumbledore's Army | Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwarts High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge, as well as to learn practical Defence Agai... |
391378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20of%20Poetry | Classic of Poetry | The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally sa... |
391385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Rogers%20Restaurants | Roy Rogers Restaurants | Roy Rogers Franchise Company, LLC is a chain of fast food restaurants primarily located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. The chain originated as the rebranding of the RoBee's House of Beef chain of Fort Wayne, Indiana, acquired by the Marriott Corporation in February 1968. However, Marriott first use... |
391415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Formby | George Formby | George Formby (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's... |
391453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20the%20Pioneers | Sons of the Pioneers | The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their songwriting, they produced innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. Since 1933, through many cha... |
391455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker%2C%20Texas%20Ranger | Walker, Texas Ranger | Walker, Texas Ranger is an American action crime television series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis. It was inspired by the film Lone Wolf McQuade, with both this series and that film starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first seaso... |
391478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl%20Championship%20Series | Bowl Championship Series | The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in the BCS National Champi... |
391481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20S%C3%A9kou%20Tour%C3%A9 | Ahmed Sékou Touré | Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ; January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the countr... |
391487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20Control%20Language | Job Control Language | Job Control Language (JCL) is a name for scripting languages used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. The purpose of JCL is to say which programs to run, using which files or devices for input or output, and at times to also indicate under what condi... |
391488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib%20Bourguiba | Habib Bourguiba | Habib Bourguiba (; ; 3 August 19036 April 2000) was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia (1956–1957) then as the first president of Tunisia (1957–1987). Prior to his presidency, he led the nation to independence from Fr... |
391489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Smoltz | John Smoltz | John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves. An eight-time All-Star, Smoltz was part of a celebrated trio of starting pitchers, along w... |
391492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20These%20Mean%20Streets | Down These Mean Streets | Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in Spanish Harlem, a section of Harlem with a large Puerto Rican population. The book follows Piri through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in ... |
391505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS | CICS | IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System) is a family of mixed-language application servers that provide online transaction management and connectivity for applications on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE.
CICS family products are designed as middleware and support rapid, high-volume online transaction... |
391511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Georgia%20School%20of%20Law | University of Georgia School of Law | The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the University of Georgia, a public research university in Athens, Georgia. It was founded in 1859, making it among the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation. Georgia Law accepted 14.83% of applicants for the Class enter... |
391517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20747-400 | Boeing 747-400 | The Boeing 747-400 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, an advanced variant of the initial Boeing 747.
The "Advanced Series 300" was announced at the September 1984 Farnborough Airshow, targeting a 10% cost reduction with more efficient engines and of additional range. No... |
391524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20714%20to%20Sydney | Flight 714 to Sydney | Flight 714 to Sydney (; originally published in English as Flight 714) is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1966 to November 1967 in Tintin magazine. The title refers to a flight that Tintin and his friends fail t... |
391531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Crab%20with%20the%20Golden%20Claws | The Crab with the Golden Claws | The Crab with the Golden Claws () is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in , the children's supplement to , Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from October 1940 to October 1941 amidst the German occupation of Belgium during ... |
391613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%20University%E2%80%93Purdue%20University%20Fort%20Wayne | Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne | Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) was a public university in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Founded in 1964, IPFW was a cooperatively-managed regional campus of two state university systems: Indiana University and Purdue University. IPFW hit its highest enrollment in 2014, with 13,459 undergraduate and postg... |
391703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Charles%20Beresford | Lord Charles Beresford | Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, (10 February 1846 – 6 September 1919), styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament.
Beresford was the second son of John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford, thus despite his courtesy title as t... |
391793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%20Noll | Shannon Noll | Shannon Noll (born 16 September 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter who first came to prominence as runner-up of the first season of Australian Idol in 2003, which led to him being signed to Sony BMG. He has released five top ten albums, including two number-one multi-platinum sellers. Noll's first ten singles all... |
391816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection%20%28vector%20bundle%29 | Connection (vector bundle) | In mathematics, and especially differential geometry and gauge theory, a connection on a fiber bundle is a device that defines a notion of parallel transport on the bundle; that is, a way to "connect" or identify fibers over nearby points. The most common case is that of a linear connection on a vector bundle, for whic... |
391832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobordism | Cobordism | In mathematics, cobordism is a fundamental equivalence relation on the class of compact manifolds of the same dimension, set up using the concept of the boundary (French bord, giving cobordism) of a manifold. Two manifolds of the same dimension are cobordant if their disjoint union is the boundary of a compact manifol... |
391852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington%20Palace | Kensington Palace | Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British royal family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Glo... |
391884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donington%20Park | Donington Park | Donington Park is a motorsport circuit located near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. The circuit business is now owned by Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision organisation, and the surrounding Donington Park Estate, still owned by the Wheatcroft family, is currently under lease by MotorSport Vision until 203... |
391889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Americans%20in%20the%20United%20States%20Congress | African Americans in the United States Congress | From the first United States Congress in 1789 through the 116th Congress in 2020, 162 African Americans served in Congress. Meanwhile, the total number of all individuals who have served in Congress over that period is 12,348. Between 1789 and 2020, 152 have served in the House of Representatives, 9 have served in the ... |
391896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature | Nomenclature | Nomenclature (, ) is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. The principles of naming vary from the relatively informal conventions of everyday speech to the internationally agreed principles, rules and recommendations that govern the formation and use... |
391897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster%20Cathedral | Westminster Cathedral | Westminster Cathedral is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. It is the largest Catholic church in the UK and the seat of the Archbishop of Westminster.
The site on which the cathedral stands in the City of Westminster was purchased by the Diocese of Westminster in 1885, and construction comp... |
391899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20tanager | Western tanager | The western tanager (Piranga ludoviciana), is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), other members of its genus and it are classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family.
Taxo... |
391905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiing-Shen%20Chern | Shiing-Shen Chern | Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mat... |
391921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Mobility%20Command | Air Mobility Command | Air Mobility Command (AMC) is a major command (MAJCOM) of the U.S. Air Force. It is headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, east of St. Louis, Missouri.
Air Mobility Command was established on 1 June 1992, and was formed from elements of the inactivated Military Airlift Command (MAC) and Strategic Air Command... |
391934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney%20carriage | Hackney carriage | A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or car for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise. A symbol of London and Britain, the black taxi is a common sight on the streets of the UK. The hackney carriages carry a roof sign TAXI that c... |
391959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaccea | Isaccea | Isaccea (; ) is a small town in Tulcea County, in Northern Dobruja, Romania, on the right bank of the Danube, 35 km north-west of Tulcea. According to the 2021 census, it has a population of 4,408.
The town has been inhabited for thousands of years, as it is one of the few places in all the Lower Danube that can be ea... |
391974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Festival%20Fringe | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival or the Fringe) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 different shows in 322 venues. Established in 1947 as an alternative to (a... |
392000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20multinational%20festivals%20and%20holidays | List of multinational festivals and holidays | This is an incomplete list of multinational festivals and holidays.
January
Christianity
Feast of the Circumcision: 1 January
Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve): 5 January
Epiphany: 6 January – the arrival of the Three Magi
Armenian Apostolic Christmas: 6 January
Orthodox Christmas: 7 January – in churches using the ... |
392017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20McKinney | Cynthia McKinney | Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American woman elected to represent Georgia in the House. She left the Democratic Party and ran in 2008 as the presiden... |
392019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium%20tuberculosis | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), also known as Koch's bacillus, is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, M. tuberculosis has an unusual, waxy coating on its cell surface primarily due to the presence of mycoli... |
392025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Gentlemen%20Please | Time Gentlemen Please | Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and broadcast on Sky One from 2000 to 2002.
Premise
The show is set in a forgotten, unwelcoming pub whose opinionated landlord, 'Guv' (short for 'The Governor'), has some very old-fashioned views on how a pub, and Britain, sho... |
392026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20One | Sky One | Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). Originally launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, it was Europe's first satellite and non-terrestrial channel. From 31 July 1989, it became Sky One and broadcast exclusively in the United Kingdom and Irelan... |
392036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%20Canal%20Railway | Panama Canal Railway | The Panama Canal Railway (PCR, ) is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The route stretches across the Isthmus of Panama from Colón (Atlantic) to Balboa (Pacific, near Panama City). Because of the difficult physical conditions of the route and state of technology, the con... |
392078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awadh | Awadh | Awadh (), known in British historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a historical region in northern India, now constituting the northeastern portion of Uttar Pradesh. It is roughly synonymous with the ancient Kosala region of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain scriptures.
It was a province of all the major Islamicate dynasties in... |
392095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucknow | Lucknow | Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh after Kanpur. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division. Having a population of 2.8 million as per 2011 census, it is the ... |
392171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Globke | Hans Globke | Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 – 13 February 1973) was a German administrative lawyer, who worked in the Prussian and Reich Ministry of the Interior in the Reich, during the Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism and was later the Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancel... |
392191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned%20Hand | Learned Hand | Billings Learned Hand ( ; January 27, 1872 – August 18, 1961) was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circu... |
392192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa | Medusa | In Greek mythology, Medusa (; ), also called Gorgo, was one of the three Gorgons. Medusa is generally described as a human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair; those who gazed into her eyes would turn to stone. Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, although the author Hyginus ma... |
392194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa%20%28comics%29 | Medusa (comics) | Medusa (Medusalith Amaquelin-Boltagon) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #36 (1965).
Her name and aspects of the character are derived from Greek mythology, as her hair has prehensile attribute... |
392198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work%20law | Right-to-work law | In the context of labor law in the United States, the term "right-to-work laws" refers to state laws that prohibit union security agreements between employers and labor unions which require employees who are not union members to contribute to the costs of union representation. Unlike the right to work definition as a h... |
392245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havelock%20Ellis | Havelock Ellis | Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinati... |
392267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindisi | Brindisi | Brindisi ( , ) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The c... |
392278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Passage | Middle Passage | The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of Afr... |
392284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Eduardo%20dos%20Santos | José Eduardo dos Santos | José Eduardo dos Santos (; 28 August 1942 – 8 July 2022) was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and president of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the party that has ruled Angola since it won inde... |
392305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche | Mapuche | The Mapuche ( (Mapuche and Spanish: )) is a group of native indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who share a common social, religious, and economic structure, as well as a... |
392308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigme%20Singye%20Wangchuck | Jigme Singye Wangchuck | Jigme Singye Wangchuck (, ; born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in 2006.
During his reign, he advocated the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure the well-being of citizens rather than Gross domestic product.
... |
392319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Biya | Paul Biya | Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who has served as the President of Cameroon since 6 November 1982, having previously been Prime Minister of Cameroon from 1975 to 1982. He is the second-longest-ruling president in Africa, the longest consecutively serving c... |
392367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaias%20Afwerki | Isaias Afwerki | Isaias Afwerki (, ; born 2 February 1946) is an Eritrean politician and partisan who has been the president of Eritrea since shortly after he led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) to victory in 24 May 1991, ending the 30-year-old war for independence from Ethiopia.
In addition to being president, Isaias h... |
392395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Air%20Force%20Base | Scott Air Force Base | Scott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, east-southeast of downtown St. Louis. Scott Field was one of 32 Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917. It is headquarters of Air Mobility Comma... |
392403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar%20Bongo | Omar Bongo | Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon for almost 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before bein... |
392406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya%20Jammeh | Yahya Jammeh | Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh (born 25 May 1965) is a Gambian politician and former military officer, who served as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017, as well as Chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council from 1994 to 1996.
Jammeh was born in Kanilai, in the Gambia, and is a Muslim of the ... |
392419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Kufuor | John Kufuor | John Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. He also became the Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008 and his victory over John Evans Atta Mills after the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first p... |
392424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Killed%20the%20Radio%20Star | Video Killed the Radio Star | "Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden and by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles, which consisted of Horn and Downe... |
392443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani%20Abacha | Sani Abacha | Sani Abacha (; 20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who ruled as the military head of state after seizing power in 1993 until his death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.
Abacha served as Chief of Army Staff f... |
392487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 | Beast (Marvel Comics) | Beast (Dr. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and is a founding member of the X-Men. Originally called "The Beast", the character was introduced as a mutant possessing ape-like superhuman physical strength and agility, oversized hands and feet, a geniu... |
392501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Maxwell%20Davies | Peter Maxwell Davies | Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music, Davies formed a group dedicated to contemporary music called the New Music M... |
392519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro%20Obreg%C3%B3n | Álvaro Obregón | Álvaro Obregón Salido (; 17 February 1880 – 17 July 1928) was a Sonoran-born general in the Mexican Revolution. A pragmatic centrist, natural soldier, and able politician, he became the 46th President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924 and was assassinated in 1928 as President-elect. In the popular image of the Revolution, "... |
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