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399037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory%20title | Victory title | A victory title is an honorific title adopted by a successful military commander to commemorate his defeat of an enemy nation. The practice is first known in Ancient Rome and is still most commonly associated with the Romans, but it was also adopted as a practice by many later empires, especially the French, British an... |
399050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%20Brand | Jo Brand | Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English comedian, writer, presenter and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appear on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Throug... |
399058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Kashmir | History of Kashmir | The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent in South Asia with influences from the surrounding regions of Central and East Asia. Historically, Kashmir referred to only the Kashmir Valley of the western Himalayas. Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-admi... |
399060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Lincoln | Benjamin Lincoln | Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 (O.S. January 13, 1733) – May 9, 1810) was an American army officer. He served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Lincoln was involved in three major surrenders during the war: his participation in the Battles of Saratoga (sustaining a wo... |
399074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%20%28Red%20Dwarf%29 | Cat (Red Dwarf) | Cat (sometimes The Cat) is a fictional character in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf. He is played by Danny John-Jules. He is a descendant of Dave Lister's pregnant pet house cat Frankenstein, whose descendants evolved into a humanoid form over three million years while Lister was in stasis (suspended anima... |
399078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Frost | David Frost | Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British television host, journalist, comedian and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a ho... |
399081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming | Brainstorming | Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members.
In other words, brainstorming is a situation where a group of people meet to generate new ideas and solutions around a specific doma... |
399136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara%20Movement | Niagara Movement | The Niagara Movement (NM) was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group of activists—many of whom were among the vanguard of African-American lawyers in the United States—led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect and... |
399147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Colonial%20Revival%20architecture | Spanish Colonial Revival architecture | The Spanish Colonial Revival Style () is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the United States, the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, highlighting the work of architect Bertram ... |
399168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Monroe%20Trotter | William Monroe Trotter | William Monroe Trotter, sometimes just Monroe Trotter (April 7, 1872 – April 7, 1934), was a newspaper editor and real estate businessman based in Boston, Massachusetts. An activist for African-American civil rights, he was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 fou... |
399213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Volcker | Paul Volcker | Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and ... |
399215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican%20chronology | Mesoamerican chronology | Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (); as well as the post European contact Co... |
399231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion | Concussion | A concussion, also known as a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning. Symptoms may include loss of consciousness; memory loss; headaches; difficulty with thinking, concentration, or balance; nausea; blurred vision; dizziness; sleep disturbances, and mood changes.... |
399243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20harness | Child harness | A child harness (alternative: child tether, walking harness, British English: walking reins) is a safety device worn by children when walking with a parent or carer. Child harnesses are most commonly used with toddlers and children of preschool age, though they may also be used with older children, especially if they h... |
399274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence%20Project | Innocence Project | Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal organization that is committed to exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing and working to reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The group cites various studies estimating that in the United St... |
399280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Roberts | Eric Roberts | Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor and the older brother of actress Julia Roberts. His career began with a leading role in King of the Gypsies (1978) for which he received his first Golden Globe Award nomination. He was nominated again at the Golden Globes for his acclaimed role as Paul Sni... |
399296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%20Nerdrum | Odd Nerdrum | Odd Nerdrum (born 8 April 1944) is a Norwegian figurative painter, born in Sweden.
His work is held by museums worldwide. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative. Primary influences by the painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio help place his work in direct conflict with the abstraction and conc... |
399324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Certificate%20of%20Education | Victorian Certificate of Education | The Victorian Certificate of Education (often abbreviated VCE) is one credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria as well as in some international schools in China, Malaysia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.
About 67% of all 19-y... |
399353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched | Bewitched | Bewitched is an American fantasy sitcom television series that originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. It is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and vows to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife. The show was popular, finishing as the second-rated show ... |
399370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia%20Chavchavadze | Ilia Chavchavadze | Prince Ilia Chavchavadze (; 27 October 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century and ensured the survival of the Georgian language, literature, and culture during the last... |
399397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Rubin | Rick Rubin | Frederick Jay Rubin (, ; born March 10, 1963) is an American record executive and record producer. He is a co-founder (alongside Russell Simmons) of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.
Rubin helped popularize hip hop by producing records for acts such as the... |
399402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella%20%281950%20film%29 | Cinderella (1950 film) | Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale of the same title, it was directed by Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi. The film features the voices of Ilene Woods, Eleanor ... |
399433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas%20%281995%20film%29 | Pocahontas (1995 film) | Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his life. It was produced by Walt Disney Fe... |
399436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Lolich | Mickey Lolich | Michael Stephen Lolich (born September 12, 1940) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1963 until 1979, almost entirely for the Detroit Tigers. A three-time All-Star, Lolich is most notable for his performance in the 1968 World Series agains... |
399453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20Harwell | Ernie Harwell | William Earnest Harwell (January 25, 1918 – May 4, 2010) was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 seasons, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Ass... |
399463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20bone | Oracle bone | Oracle bones () are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination – in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty. Scapulimancy is the specific term if ox scapulae were used for the divination, plastromancy if turtle plastrons were used. A recent count estimated... |
399469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%20Brothers | Sherman Brothers | The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of brothers Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928). Together they received various accolades including two Academy Awards and three Grammy Awards. They received nom... |
399470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiedler%20contingency%20model | Fiedler contingency model | The contingency model by business and management psychologist Fred Fiedler is a contingency theory concerned with the effectiveness of a leader in an organization.
Premises
The most common situational theory was developed by Fred Fiedler. Fiedler believed that an individual's leadership style is the result of their e... |
399533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Kirilenko | Andrei Kirilenko | Andrei Gennadyevich Kirilenko (; born February 18, 1981) is a Russian-American basketball executive and former professional basketball player.
At age fifteen, Kirilenko began playing professional basketball in the Russian Basketball Super League. He played for CSKA Moscow from 1998 to 2001, winning the Russian league ... |
399536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar%20Rafsanjan%C4%AB | Akbar Rafsanjanī | Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani (; 25 August 19348 January 2017) was an Iranian politician and writer who served as the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. One of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic, Rafsanjani was the head of the Assembly of Experts from 2007 until 2011 when he decided not to n... |
399581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Suslov | Mikhail Suslov | Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (; 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial chief ideologue of the party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and power separation within th... |
399587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry%20Ustinov | Dmitry Ustinov | Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial complex from 1965 to 1976 and as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 unti... |
399598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20Salad%20Surgery | Brain Salad Surgery | Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 7 December 1973 by their new record label, Manticore Records, and distributed by Atlantic Records.
Following the tour in support of their previous album, Trilogy (1972), the group acquired rehearsal faci... |
399630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting%20style | Posting style | When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.
The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the different parts of the reply follow the relevant parts of the original post)... |
399654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebulon%20Vance | Zebulon Vance | Zebulon Baird "Zeb" Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 37th and 43rd governor of North Carolina, a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.
A prolific writer and noted public speaker, Vance became one of the mo... |
399678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20Gamma-ray%20Space%20Telescope | Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), with which astronomers mostly intend to per... |
399715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Snedden | Billy Snedden | Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.
Snedden was born in Perth, Western Australia. He se... |
399735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20feminism | Liberal feminism | Liberal feminism, also called mainstream feminism, is a main branch of feminism defined by its focus on achieving gender equality through political and legal reform within the framework of liberal democracy and informed by a human rights perspective. It is often considered culturally progressive and economically center... |
399740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth%20bear | Sloth bear | The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), also known as the Indian bear, is a myrmecophagous bear species native to the Indian subcontinent. It feeds on fruits, ants and termites. It is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, mainly because of habitat loss and degradation. It is the only species in the genus Melursus.
It ... |
399747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe%20Bouguereau | William-Adolphe Bouguereau | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and ... |
399761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hewson | John Hewson | John Robert Hewson AM (born 28 October 1946) is an Australian former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He led the Liberal-National Coalition to defeat at the 1993 Australian federal election.
Hewson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and earned a PhD in Economics from Johns Hopk... |
399783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sania%20Mirza | Sania Mirza | Sania Mirza (; born 15 November 1986) is an Indian former professional tennis player. A former doubles world No. 1, she won six major titles – three in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as the No. 1 Indian in... |
399787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heydar%20Aliyev | Heydar Aliyev | Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( (Latin), (Cyrillic), ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003. Originally a high-ranking official in the KGB of the Azerbaijan SSR, serving for 28 years in Soviet state security org... |
399797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20slaves | List of slaves | Slavery is a social-economic system under which people are enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved people.
The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some point during their lives,... |
399837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire | Herefordshire | Herefordshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire and Powys to the west. The city of Hereford is the largest settlement and the county town.
The cou... |
399851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo%20Sanader | Ivo Sanader | Ivo Sanader (born 8 June 1953) is a Croatian former politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2003 to 2009. He is currently serving a prison sentence for corruption in Remetinec prison.
Sanader is to date the second longest-serving prime minister since independence, holding the office for over five and a... |
399855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavkat%20Mirziyoyev | Shavkat Mirziyoyev | Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician who has served as President of Uzbekistan and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan since 14 December 2016. Previously, Mirziyoyev led the government as a Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2016.
Mirziyoyev's polit... |
399870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Democratic%20Union | Croatian Democratic Union | The Croatian Democratic Union (, HDZ) is a major conservative, centre-right political party in Croatia. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Croatia, along with the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). It is currently the largest party in the Sabor with 62 seats. The HDZ governed Croatia f... |
399893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Foote | Samuel Foote | Samuel Foote (January 1720 – 21 October 1777) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager. He was known for his comedic acting and writing, and for turning the loss of a leg in a riding accident in 1766 to comedic opportunity.
Early life
Born into a well-to-do family, Foote was baptized in Truro, Cornwall on 27... |
399908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20flight | White flight | White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They referred to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries fr... |
399912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral%20bleaching | Coral bleaching | Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to various stressors, such as changes in temperature, light, or nutrients. Bleaching occurs when coral polyps expel the zooxanthellae (dinoflagellates that are commonly referred to as algae) that live inside their tissue, causing the coral to turn white. The z... |
399942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass%20clarinet | Bass clarinet | The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also ... |
399959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus%20Army | Bonus Army | The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary ... |
399970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpeth%2C%20Northumberland | Morpeth, Northumberland | Morpeth is a historic market town in Northumberland, England, lying on the River Wansbeck. Nearby towns include Ashington and Bedlington. In the 2011 census, the population of Morpeth was given as 14,017, up from 13,833 in the 2001 census. The earliest evidence of settlement is believed to be from the Neolithic period,... |
399990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Museum%20of%20Natural%20History | American Museum of Natural History | The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 20 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addit... |
399996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Graham%2C%201st%20Marquess%20of%20Montrose | James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose | James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 – 21 May 1650) was a Scottish nobleman, poet, soldier and later viceroy and captain general of Scotland. Montrose initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 16... |
400016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Mary%20Wortley%20Montagu | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 168921 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband on ... |
400037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Talbot%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Shrewsbury | John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury | John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, 1st Earl of Waterford, 7th Baron Talbot, KG (17 July 1453), known as "Old Talbot", was an English nobleman and a noted military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the most renowned in England and most feared in France of the English captains in the last stages of the co... |
400045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Kavan | Anna Kavan | Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a pen name but as her legal identity.
Biography
Early life
Anna Kavan wa... |
400059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gordon%2C%202nd%20Marquess%20of%20Huntly | George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly | George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly (1592March 1649), styled Earl of Enzie from 1599 to 1636, eldest son of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly by Lady Henrietta Stewart, daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, born at Huntly Castle, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland was brought up in England as a Protestant... |
400080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng%20Shicai | Sheng Shicai | Sheng Shicai (; 3 December 189513 July 1970) was a Chinese warlord who ruled Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944. Sheng's rise to power started with a coup d'état in 1933 when he was appointed the duban or Military Governor of Xinjiang. His rule over Xinjiang is marked by close cooperation with the Soviet Union, allowing the So... |
400103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th%20Cavalry%20Regiment | 7th Cavalry Regiment | The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment formed in 1866. Its official nickname is "Garryowen", after the Irish air "Garryowen" that was adopted as its march tune. The regiment participated in some of the largest battles of the Indian Wars, including its famous defeat at the Battle of Little Big... |
400115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilder%20Penfield | Wilder Penfield | Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety o... |
400119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt%27s%20Manufacturing%20Company | Colt's Manufacturing Company | Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by Samuel Colt and now a subsidiary of Czech holding company Colt CZ Group. It is the successor corporation to Colt's earlier firearms-making efforts, which started in 183... |
400222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20English%20words%20of%20Dutch%20origin | List of English words of Dutch origin | This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare. In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
In many cases the loanword has assumed a meani... |
400223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20seep | Cold seep | A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs, often in the form of a brine pool. Cold does not mean that the temperature of the seepage is lower than that of the surrounding sea water. On the contrary, its temper... |
400236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbanda | Umbanda | Umbanda () is a religion that emerged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the 1920s. Deriving largely from Spiritism, it also combines elements from Afro-Brazilian traditions like Candomblé as well as Roman Catholicism. There is no central authority in control of Umbanda, which is organized around autonomous places of worship... |
400247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt%20Earp | Wyatt Earp | Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. While Wyatt is often depicted as... |
400249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Reynaud | Paul Reynaud | Paul Reynaud (; 15 October 1878 – 21 September 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Nazi Germany.
Reynaud opposed the Munich Agreement of September 1938, when France and the United Kingdom gave way before Hitl... |
400251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiger | Eiger | The Eiger () is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Mönch to the Jungfrau at , constituting one of the most emblemat... |
400253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20Daladier | Édouard Daladier | Édouard Daladier (; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, and the Prime Minister of France who signed the Munich Agreement before the outbreak of World War II.
Daladier was born in Carpentras and began his political career before World War I. During the war, he fough... |
400255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20Delta | Mississippi Delta | The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth" ("Southe... |
400285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity%20in%20Iran | Christianity in Iran | Christianity in Iran dates back to the early years of the religion during the time of Jesus, predating Islam. The Christian faith has always comprised a minority in Iran under its previous state religions; initially Zoroastrianism in historical Persia, followed by Sunni Islam in the Middle Ages after the Arab conquest,... |
400293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Levin | Tony Levin | Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer, specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (1981–2021) and Peter Gabriel (since 1977). He is also a member of Liquid Tensi... |
400297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Durham | County Durham | County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England. The county borders Northumberland and Tyne and Wear to the north, the North Sea to the east, North Yorkshire to the south, and Cumbria to the west. The largest settlement is Darlington, and the county town is the city of D... |
400306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip%20Kumar | Dilip Kumar | Dilip Kumar (born Mohammed Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in cinema, he dominated the Indian movie scene from the late 1940s throughout the 1960s, being referred to as Abhinay Samrat (Hindi for "Emperor of Acting") by th... |
400330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Clement%20Danes | St Clement Danes | St Clement Danes is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. Although the first church on the site was reputedly founded in the 9th century by the Danes, the current building was completed in 1682 by Sir Christopher Wren. Wren's building wa... |
400414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB%20flash%20drive | USB flash drive | A USB flash drive (also called a thumb drive in the US, or a memory stick in the UK & pen drive or pendrive in many countries) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. It is typically removable, rewritable and much smaller than an optical disc. Most weigh less than . Since f... |
400417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20More | Kenneth More | Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor.
Initially achieving fame in the comedy Genevieve (1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. Films from this period include Doctor in the House (1954), Raising a Riot (1955), The Admirable Crich... |
400421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas%20Kiarostami | Abbas Kiarostami | Abbas Kiarostami ( ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing th... |
400425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shooting%20Star | The Shooting Star | The Shooting Star () is the tenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in , Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from October 1941 to May 1942 amidst the German occupation of Belgium during World War II. The story tells of young Belgian re... |
400451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-17%20Thor | PGM-17 Thor | The PGM-17A Thor was the first operative ballistic missile of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was named after the Norse god of thunder. It was deployed in the United Kingdom between 1959 and September 1963 as an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with thermonuclear warheads. Thor was in height and in... |
400470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal%20%28sports%29 | Goal (sports) | In sport, a goal may refer to either an instance of scoring, or to the physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or puck in order to score points. The structure of a goal varies from sport to sport, and one is placed at or near each end of the playing field for each team to defend. For many ... |
400491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar%20Kaganovich | Lazar Kaganovich | Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, also Kahanovich (; – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin. He was one of several associates who helped Stalin to seize power.
Born to Jewish parents in modern Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1893, Kaganovic... |
400504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20of%20Education | Doctor of Education | The Doctor of Education (Ed.D. or D.Ed.; Latin Educationis Doctor or Doctor Educationis) is (depending on region and university) a research or professional doctoral degree that focuses on the field of education. It prepares the holder for academic, research, administrative, clinical, or professional positions in educat... |
400546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20Party%20of%20Vietnam | Communist Party of Vietnam | The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), also known as the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh, the CPV became the ruling party of North Vietnam in 1954 and then all of Vietnam after the collapse of the South Vietnamese... |
400582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature%20%28writing%29 | Ligature (writing) | In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph. Examples are the characters and used in English and French, in which the letters and are joined for the first ligature and the letters and are joined for the second ligature. For stylistic and le... |
400595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Arquette | Patricia Arquette | Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) and has since starred in several film and television productions. She has received several awards including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards a... |
400631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20McGuinness | Frank McGuinness | Professor Frank McGuinness (born 1953) is an Irish writer. As well as his own plays, which include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me and Dolly West's Kitchen, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the p... |
400649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown%20Jewels%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom | The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, originally the Crown Jewels of England, are a collection of royal ceremonial objects kept in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, which include the coronation regalia and vestments worn by British monarchs.
Symbols of over 800 years of monarchy, the coronation regalia are the... |
400686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Nixon | Pat Nixon | Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (; March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the first lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of President Richard Nixon. She also served as the second lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 when her husband was vice president.
Born in Ely, Nevada, she grew up with her two ... |
400719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil%20Earp | Virgil Earp | Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905) was both deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone, Arizona, City Marshal when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday, in a confrontation with outlaw Cowboys at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881. They killed brothers Tom and Frank M... |
400734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ross%20%28Cherokee%20chief%29 | John Ross (Cherokee chief) | John Ross (; October 3, 1790 – August 1, 1866) was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866; he served longer in that position than any other person. Described as the Moses of his people, Ross influenced the nation through such tumultuous events as the relocation to Indian Territory and the American... |
400738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mila%20Kunis | Mila Kunis | Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and raised in Los Angeles, Kunis began playing Jackie Burkhart on the Fox television series That '70s Show (1998–2006) at the age of 14. Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the Fox animated series Family Guy.
... |
400746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein-Ali%20Montazeri | Hussein-Ali Montazeri | Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri ( ; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one of the highest-ranking authorities in Shīʿite Islam. He was once the designat... |
400759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E1%BA%B9 | Ifẹ | Ifẹ̀ (, also Ilé-Ifẹ̀) is an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria, recent in-depth archeologically estimates suggest Ife's founding to be between the 10th century BC and 6th century BC and is widely agreed upon by historians to be the oldest amongst the classical and post-classical Yoruba city-states. The city... |
400776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda%20of%20the%20deed | Propaganda of the deed | Propaganda of the deed (or propaganda by the deed, from the French ) is specific political direct action meant to be exemplary to others and serve as a catalyst for revolution.
It is primarily associated with acts of violence perpetrated by proponents of insurrectionary anarchism in the late 19th and early 20th centur... |
400821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20states%20with%20nuclear%20weapons | List of states with nuclear weapons | Eight sovereign states have publicly announced successful detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia (the successor o... |
400853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Hero of the Soviet Union | The title Hero of the Soviet Union () was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.
Overview
The award was established on 16 April 1934, by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet U... |
400892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referee | Referee | A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titles depending on the sport, including umpire, judge, arbiter (chess), commissai... |
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