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408270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20Revolutionary%20Federation | Armenian Revolutionary Federation | The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (, abbr. ARF (ՀՅԴ) or ARF-D), also known as Dashnaktsutyun (Armenian: Դաշնակցություն, lit. "Federation"), is an Armenian nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 in Tiflis, Russian Empire by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian. , the party opera... |
408288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass%20North | Douglass North | Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. Along with Robert Fogel, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel "renewed research in economic history by applying... |
408332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue%20River%20%28Montana%29 | Tongue River (Montana) | The Tongue River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 265 mi (426 km) long, in the U.S. states of Wyoming and Montana. The Tongue rises in Wyoming in the Big Horn Mountains, flows generally northeast through northern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, and empties into the Yellowstone River at Miles Cit... |
408349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Workers%27%20Party | Polish Workers' Party | The Polish Workers' Party (, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and merged with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 1948 to form the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). From the end of World War II the PPR ruled Poland, wit... |
408352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec%20comics | Quebec comics | Quebec comics (, or BDQ) are French language comics produced primarily in the Canadian province of Quebec, and read both within and outside Canada, particularly in French-speaking Europe.
In contrast to English language comics in Canada, which largely follow the American model, Quebec comics are mostly influenced by ... |
408407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Shock%202 | System Shock 2 | System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game designed by Ken Levine and co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios. Originally intended to be a standalone title, its story was changed during production into a sequel to the 1994 game System Shock. The alterations were made when... |
408414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20United%20Party | People's United Party | The People's United Party (PUP) is one of two major political parties in Belize. It is currently the governing party of Belize after success in the 2020 Belizean general election, winning a majority of 26 seats out of 31 in the Belizean House of Representatives. It is a centre-left Christian democratic party. The party... |
408415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20bin%20Ali%2C%20King%20of%20Hejaz | Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz | Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (; 1 May 18544 June 1931) was an Arab leader from the Banu Qatadah branch of the Banu Hashim clan who was the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 and, after proclaiming the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, King of the Hejaz, even if he refused this title, from 1916 to 1924. He pro... |
408425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Patriotic%20Party | New Patriotic Party | The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a centre-right and liberal-conservative political party in Ghana. Since the democratisation of Ghana in 1992, it has been one of the two dominant parties in Ghanaian politics, with its leading rival being the centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC). John Kufuor of the NPP was Pre... |
408442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Pitino | Rick Pitino | Richard Andrew Pitino (; born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach who is the men's head coach for St. John's Red Storm. He was also the head coach of Greece's senior national team. He has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University (1978–1983), Pro... |
408472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Swedish%20War%20%281788%E2%80%931790%29 | Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) | The Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 was fought between Sweden and Russia from June 1788 to August 1790. The war was ended by the Treaty of Värälä on 14 August 1790 and took place concomitantly with both the Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791), Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) and Theatre War. The war was, overall, mostly insign... |
408484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20formalism | Russian formalism | Russian formalism was a school of thought literary theory in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Propp, Boris Eichenbaum, Roman Jakobson, Boris Tomashevsky, Grigory Gukovsky who revolutio... |
408529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl%20Grijalva | Raúl Grijalva | Raúl Manuel Grijalva ( ; born February 19, 1948) is an American politician and activist who has served as the United States representative for from 2023 to the present and from 2003 to 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 7th from 2003 to 2013, includes the western third of Tucs... |
408553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Boozman | John Boozman | John Nichols Boozman ( ; born December 10, 1950) is an American politician and former optometrist serving as the senior United States senator from Arkansas, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for from 2001 to 2011. He is the dean of Arkansas's congressional ... |
408554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Ross%20%28politician%29 | Mike Ross (politician) | Michael Avery Ross (born August 2, 1961) is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative for from 2001 to 2013 and was his party's nominee for governor of Arkansas in 2014. He is currently the last Democrat to have represented Arkansas in the House of R... |
408574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venustiano%20Carranza%2C%20Mexico%20City | Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City | Venustiano Carranza is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City, Mexico. Venustiano Carranza extends from the far eastern portion of the historic center of Mexico City eastward to the Peñón de los Baños and the border dividing the then Federal District from the State of Mexico. Historically, most of the terri... |
408584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Moran | Jerry Moran | Gerald Wesley Moran ( ; born May 29, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Kansas, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 113th U.S. Congress, during which he led successful R... |
408592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iztapalapa | Iztapalapa | Iztapalapa () is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City, located on the east side of the entity. The borough is named after and centered on the formerly independent municipality of Iztapalapa, which is officially called Iztapalapa de Cuitláhuac for disambiguation purposes. The rest is made up of a number of... |
408593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlalpan | Tlalpan | Tlalpan (, ) is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. It is the largest borough, with over eighty percent under conservation as forest and other ecologically sensitive area. The rest, almost all of it on the northern edge, has been urban since the mid-20th century. When it was created in 1928, it was name... |
408595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xochimilco | Xochimilco | Xochimilco (; , ) is a borough (demarcación territorial) of Mexico City. The borough is centered on the formerly independent city of Xochimilco, which was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the precolonial period.
Today, the borough consists of the 18 , or neighborhoods, of this city alo... |
408598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%A1huac | Tláhuac | Tláhuac is a borough (demarcación territorial) in the Mexico City, located in the southeastern edge of the entity. Though Tláhuac still contains rural communities within its borders, mostly in the southern and eastern portions, the borough has undergone a massive shift from urbanization, especially in its northwest. Tl... |
408600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpa%20Alta | Milpa Alta | Milpa Alta is a borough (demarcación territorial) in Mexico City. It lies in the southeast corner of the nation's capital, bordering the State of Mexico and Morelos. It is the least populated, second largest and most rural of all the boroughs. It is also one of the most traditional areas of the city, with over 700 rel... |
408613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Doolittle | John Doolittle | John Taylor Doolittle (born October 30, 1950), is an attorney and an American politician. Elected to Congress in 1990, he served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009, representing (numbered as during his first term). In the 109th Congress, he held a leadership role as... |
408629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine%20of%20Quebec | Cuisine of Quebec | The cuisine of Québec (also called "French Canadian cuisine" or "cuisine québécoise") is a national cuisine in the Canadian province of Québec. It is also cooked by Franco-Ontarians.
Québec's cuisine descended from 17th-century French cuisine and began to develop in New France from the labour-intensive nature of colon... |
408652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Lee | Barbara Lee | Barbara Jean Lee (; born July 16, 1946) is an American politician and social worker who has served as a U.S. representative from California since 1998. A member of the Democratic Party, Lee represents (numbered as the 9th district from 1998 to 2013 and as the 13th district from 2013 to 2023), which is based in Oakland... |
408658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Pombo | Richard Pombo | Richard William Pombo, GOIH (born January 8, 1961) is an American lobbyist for mining and water-management companies and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented California's 11th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. Pombo lost a reelection bid to Democratic challe... |
408660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Lantos | Tom Lantos | Thomas Peter Lantos (born Tamás Péter Lantos; February 1, 1928 – February 11, 2008) was a Hungarian-born American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 11th congressional district until 1993, and fro... |
408677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagaland | Nagaland | Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the north-eastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south, and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar (Burma) to the east. Its capital city is Kohima and its largest city is the twin Chümoukedima–Dimapur.... |
408724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Megastores | Virgin Megastores | Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded in early 1976 by Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street.
In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. The company expanded to hundreds of stores worldwide in the 19... |
408741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Second%20Coalition | War of the Second Coalition | The War of the Second Coalition () (1798/9 – 1801/2, depending on periodisation) was the second war on revolutionary France by most of the European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and Russia and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples and various German monarchies. Prussia did not join the coalition, and Sp... |
408743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Cuban | Mark Cuban | Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American billionaire businessman, film producer, investor, and television personality. He is best known as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylva... |
408801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helioseismology | Helioseismology | Helioseismology, a term coined by Douglas Gough, is the study of the structure and dynamics of the Sun through its oscillations. These are principally caused by sound waves that are continuously driven and damped by convection near the Sun's surface. It is similar to geoseismology, or asteroseismology (also coined by... |
408822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters%20of%20Notre%20Dame%20de%20Namur | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur | The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (Congregationis Sororum a Domina Nostra Namurcensi) are a Catholic institute of religious sisters, founded to provide education to the poor.
The institute was founded in Amiens, France, in 1804, but the opposition of the local bishop to missions outside his diocese led to the moving ... |
408840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins%20of%20the%20American%20Civil%20War | Origins of the American Civil War | Historians who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the 11 Southern states (seven states before the onset of the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to... |
408866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th%20United%20States%20Congress | 108th United States Congress | The 108th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2005, during the third and fourth years of George W. Bush's presidency.
House members... |
408872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin%20Nunes | Devin Nunes | Devin Gerald Nunes (; born October 1, 1973) is an American businessman and politician who is chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). Before resigning from the House of Representatives and joining TMTG, Nunes was first the U.S. representative for and then from 2003 to 2022.
A member of ... |
408890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Delicate%20Balance%20%28play%29 | A Delicate Balance (play) | A Delicate Balance is a three-act play by Edward Albee, written in 1965 and 1966. Premiered in 1966, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967, the first of three he received for his work.
The uneasy existence of upper-middle-class suburbanites Agnes and Tobias and their permanent houseguest, Agnes's witty and alcoh... |
408900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20FE%20engine | Ford FE engine | The Ford FE engine is a Ford V8 engine used in vehicles sold in the North American market between 1958 and 1976. The FE was introduced to replace the short-lived (in the USA) Ford Y-block engine, which American cars and trucks were outgrowing. It was designed with room to be significantly expanded, and manufactured bo... |
408915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/107th%20United%20States%20Congress | 107th United States Congress | The 107th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 2001, to January 3, 2003, during the final weeks of the Clinton presidency an... |
408917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Sherman | Brad Sherman | Bradley James Sherman (born October 24, 1954) is an American accountant and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 32nd congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 1997; Sherman represented California's 24th congressional district for three terms, Calif... |
408932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Schiff | Adam Schiff | Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving as a U.S. representative from California since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff was a member of the California State Senate from 1996 to 2000.
Schiff graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law School. As an Assist... |
408944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Akunin | Boris Akunin | Boris Akunin () is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (; , born 20 May 1956), a Russian-Georgian writer. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akuni... |
408948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Hunter | Jeffrey Hunter | Jeffrey Hunter (born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr.; November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as The Searchers and King of Kings. On television, Hunter is known for his 1965 role as Captain Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of St... |
408957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders%20Street%20railway%20station | Flinders Street railway station | Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the second busiest train station in Australia, serving the entire metropolitan rail network, 15 tram routes travelling to and from the city, as well as some country and regi... |
408979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Becerra | Xavier Becerra | Xavier Becerra ( ; ; born January 26, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 25th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since March 2021. Becerra previously served as the Attorney General of California from January 2017 until March 2021. He was a member of the United States House of Re... |
408987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda%20Solis | Hilda Solis | Hilda Lucia Solis (; born October 20, 1957) is an American politician and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 1st district. Solis previously served as the 25th United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013, as part of the administration of President Barack Obama. She is a member of the ... |
408998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20People%27s%20Party | Pakistan People's Party | The Pakistan People's Party (, ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the second-largest party in the Senate. The party was founded in 1967 in Lahore, when a number of prominent left-wing politicians in the country joined hands against the military rule of president Muh... |
409010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Kind | Ron Kind | Ronald James Kind , (born March 16, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His former district is in western Wisconsin, anchored by La Crosse, Eau Claire, Platteville, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Prescott, an... |
409013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine%20Waters | Maxine Waters | Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 1991. The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood an... |
409034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy%20Baldwin | Tammy Baldwin | Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 78th district, and from 1999 to 2013 represen... |
409052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Ryan | Paul Ryan | Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election with Mitt Romney, but the ticket lost to incumbents President Bara... |
409053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Muslim%20League%20%28N%29 | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( PML(N) or PML-N) is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate. The party was founded in 1993, when a number of prominent conservative politicians in the country joined hands after the dissolution of Islam... |
409093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith%20University | Griffith University | Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Founded in 1971, Griffith was opened in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian Studies. The university has five campuses, in Gold Coast, Nathan, Logan, South Bank, and Mou... |
409190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella%20Gibbons | Stella Gibbons | Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literar... |
409192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20chronology%20%28Fomenko%29 | New chronology (Fomenko) | The new chronology is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.
The conspiracy theory further proposes that ... |
409219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knole | Knole | Knole () is a country house and former archbishop's palace owned by the National Trust. It is situated within Knole Park, a park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. The house ranks in the top five of England's largest houses, under any measure used, occupying a total of four acres.
The cu... |
409222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Miller | Roger Miller | Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings".
After growing up in Oklahoma and serving in the U.S. Army, Miller began his musi... |
409240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Wilson | Heather Wilson | Heather Ann Wilson (born December 30, 1960) is the 11th President of the University of Texas at El Paso. She previously served as the 24th Secretary of the United States Air Force from 2017 through 2019. Wilson was the 12th president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City from 2013 to 2017, an... |
409256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20in%20Uzbekistan | Human rights in Uzbekistan | Human rights in Uzbekistan have been described as "abysmal" by Human Rights Watch, and the country has received heavy criticism from the UK and the US for alleged arbitrary arrests, religious persecution and torture employed by the government on a regional and national level. Amnesty International stated that freedom o... |
409262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo%20Mourning | Alonzo Mourning | Alonzo Harding Mourning Jr. (born February 8, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player who has served as vice president of player programs and development for the Miami Heat since June 2009. Mourning played most of his 15-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career for the Heat.
Nicknamed "Zo",... |
409281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Shields | Kevin Shields | Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an American-born Irish musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and producer, best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the band My Bloody Valentine. They became influential on the evolution of alternative rock with their two studio albums Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (... |
409337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Wales | Music of Wales | The Music of Wales (Welsh: Cerddoriaeth Cymru), particularly singing, is a significant part of Welsh national identity, and the country is traditionally referred to as "the land of song".
This is a modern stereotype based on 19th century conceptions of Nonconformist choral music and 20th century male voice choirs, Ei... |
409341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Taylor%20%28darts%20player%29 | Phil Taylor (darts player) | Philip Douglas Taylor (born 13 August 1960) is an English former professional darts player, widely considered the greatest darts player of all time. Nicknamed The Power, he dominated darts for over two decades and won 214 professional tournaments, including a record 85 major titles and a record 16 World Championships. ... |
409416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20partner%20dance%20terms | Glossary of partner dance terms | This is a list of dance terms that are not names of dances or types of dances. See List of dances and List of dance style categories for those.
This glossary lists terms used in various types of ballroom partner dances, leaving out terms of highly evolved or specialized dance forms, such as ballet, tap dancing, and sq... |
409510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail%20Kog%C4%83lniceanu | Mihail Kogălniceanu | Mihail Kogălniceanu (; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexandru Ioa... |
409524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan%20Singh | Harbhajan Singh | Harbhajan Singh (born 3 July 1980) is an Indian politician, film actor, Television Celebrity and former cricketer. He serves as a member of parliament in Rajya Sabha, and is a retired cricketer and a cricket commentator. Harbhajan played for the Indian national cricket team from 1998 - 2016 in a career spanning nearly ... |
409526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Park | High Park | High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. High Park is a mixed recreational and natural park, with sporting facilities, cultural facilities, educational facilities, gardens, playgrounds and a zoo. One-third of the park remains in a natural state, with a rare oak savannah ecology. High Park was opened t... |
409546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%20Vetinari | Lord Vetinari | Lord Havelock Vetinari, Lord Patrician (Primus inter pares) of the city-state of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Vetinari has written an unpublished manuscript known as The Servant, the Discworld version of The Prince by the Italian statesman and diplomat Niccolò Machiavell... |
409566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accidents%20and%20incidents%20involving%20commercial%20aircraft | List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft | This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteriapassenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 pas... |
409573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m | Belém | Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport,... |
409576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold%20Lutos%C5%82awski | Witold Lutosławski | Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanowski, and possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin". His compositions—of... |
409595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Laudrup | Michael Laudrup | Michael Laudrup (, born 15 June 1964) is a Danish professional football coach and former player. He is considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. He is the older brother of fellow retired footballer Brian Laudrup.
During his playing career, Laudrup won league titles with Ajax, Barcelona, Real Madrid a... |
409605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20H%C3%B6ss | Rudolf Höss | {{Infobox criminal
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| birth_name = Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höß
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| birth_place = Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
| death_place = Auschwitz, Oświęcim, Polish People's Republic
| image = Rudolf Hoes... |
409628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Wojnarowicz | David Wojnarowicz | David Michael Wojnarowicz ( (September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. He incorporated personal narratives influenced by his struggle with AIDS as well as his ... |
409652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20dowager | Queen dowager | A queen dowager or dowager queen (compare: princess dowager or dowager princess) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king. In the case of the widow of an emperor, the title of empress dowager is used. Its full meaning is clear from the two words from which it is composed: queen indicates someone who s... |
409658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Miller%20%28politician%29 | Gary Miller (politician) | Gary Gene Miller (born October 16, 1948) is an American politician, who was the U.S. representative for . A Republican, he was first elected in 1998 and served until 2015, when he retired. The district includes most of southern and western San Bernardino County. He previously represented the 42nd district from 1999 to ... |
409662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich-Wilhelm%20Kr%C3%BCger | Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (8 May 1894 – 10 May 1945) was a German paramilitary commander in charge of, and personally involved in progressive annihilation of Polish nation, its culture, its heritage and its wealth. Long before the war he was a high-ranking member of the SA and the SS. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the Hi... |
409663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%2C%20Rock%20Island%20and%20Pacific%20Railroad | Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad | The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of track; that year it ... |
409702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20reportedly%20haunted%20locations | List of reportedly haunted locations | This is a list of reportedly haunted locations that are said to be haunted by ghosts, demons, or other supernatural beings throughout the world. Reports of haunted locations are part of ghostlore, which is a form of folklore.
Argentina
Cinco Saltos in Río Negro has been reported to have a number of ghosts, most of t... |
409713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Cox | Christopher Cox | Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952) is an American attorney and politician who served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a 17-year Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, and member of the White House staff in the Reagan Administration. Prior to his Washington ... |
409725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Filner | Bob Filner | Robert Earl Filner (born September 4, 1942) is an American former politician who was the 35th mayor of San Diego from December 2012 through August 2013, when he resigned amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. He later pleaded guilty to state charges of false imprisonment and battery. He is a member of the Demo... |
409729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20L.%20Hunter | Duncan L. Hunter | Duncan Lee Hunter (born May 31, 1948) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from California's 52nd, 45th and 42nd districts from 1981 to 2009.
Hunter was the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee during the 108th and 109th Congress. Hunter sought the Republican ... |
409757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRELIMO | FRELIMO | FRELIMO (; from Portuguese: , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It is the dominant party in Mozambique and has won a majority of the seats in the Assembly of the Republic in every election since the country's first multi-party election in 1994.
Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist m... |
409771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Sabis | Battle of the Sabis | The Battle of the Sabis, also (arguably erroneously) known as the Battle of the Sambre or the Battle against the Nervians (or Nervii), was fought in 57 BC near modern Saulzoir in Northern France, between Caesar's legions and an association of Belgae tribes, principally the Nervii. Julius Caesar, commanding the Roman fo... |
409795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley%20%28Western%20Australia%29 | Kimberley (Western Australia) | The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy and Tanami deserts in the region of the Pilbara, and on the east by the Northern Territory.
The region was named in 1879 by governme... |
409801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20films%3A%20numbers | List of films: numbers | It covers film titles that begin with a number, whether written in Arabic numerals or spelled out. Excluding articles (e.g., "a", "an", "the" in English), it does not include film titles containing numbers after the first word.
In numerical order
0
00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter (1994)
Zero (2018)
Zero Char... |
409812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.U.G.%20Mafia | B.U.G. Mafia | B.U.G. Mafia (an abbreviation for "Bucharest Underground Mafia"), is a Romanian hip hop group from Pantelimon, Bucharest, widely regarded as one of the seminal acts of gangsta rap in Romania. Founded in 1993 as Black Underground, its original lineup consisted of Vlad "Tataee" Irimia, Dragoș "Caddy" (short for Cadillac)... |
409830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20dance | History of dance | The history of dance is difficult to access because dance does not often leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts that last over millennia, such as stone tools, hunting implements or cave paintings. It is not possible to identify with exact precision when dance becomes part of human culture. Dance is filled... |
409842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne%20Mansfield | Jayne Mansfield | Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, Mansfield was known for her publicity stunts and well-publicized personal life. Although her film career was short-lived, she ... |
409843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20and%20Wellesley | Church and Wellesley | Church and Wellesley is an LGBT-oriented enclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Gerrard Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street to the east, with the core commercial strip located along Church Street from Wellesley south to Alexander. Though... |
409849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20North%20Carolina%20at%20Charlotte | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (or Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colleges. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
The university... |
409855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz%20S-Class | Mercedes-Benz S-Class | The Mercedes-Benz S-Class, formerly known as Sonderklasse (German for "special class", abbreviated as "S-Klasse"), is a series of full-sized luxury sedans, limousines and armored sedans produced by the German automaker Mercedes-Benz. The S-Class is the designation for top-of-the-line Mercedes-Benz models and was offici... |
409883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Tamagno | Francesco Tamagno | Francesco Tamagno (28 December 1850 – 31 August 1905) was an Italian operatic dramatic tenor who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. On 5 February 1887, he sang Otello in the first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera. He is also the earliest Italian tenor of note to have left a sizeable body of ... |
409896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Democratic%20Alliance | National Democratic Alliance | The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) () is a centre-right to right-wing conservative Indian political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was founded in 1998 and currently controls the government of India as well as the government of 15 Indian states and one Union territory.
Its first cha... |
409918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20film%20and%20television%20directors | List of film and television directors | This is a list of notable directors in motion picture and television arts.
A
Dodo Abashidze
George Abbott
Norman Abbott
Phil Abraham
Jim Abrahams
Abiola Abrams
J. J. Abrams
Ivan Abramson
Lenny Abrahamson
Hany Abu-Assad
Tengiz Abuladze
Herbert Achternbusch
Andy Ackerman
Andrew Adamson
Anita W. Addison
Maren Ade
Carine... |
409919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical%20race%20concepts | Historical race concepts | The concept of race as a categorization of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) has an extensive history in Europe and the Americas. The contemporary word race itself is modern; historically it was used in the sense of "nation, ethnic group" during the 16th to 19th centuries. Race acquired its modern meaning in t... |
409938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20Developers%20Conference | Worldwide Developers Conference | The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an information technology conference held annually by Apple Inc. The conference is usually held at Apple Park in California. The event is usually used to showcase new software and technologies in the macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS families as well as other Apple soft... |
409972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Indian%20Movement | American Indian Movement | The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1968, initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians. AIM soon widened its focus from urban is... |
409978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Williamson%20%28bishop%29 | Richard Williamson (bishop) | Richard Nelson Williamson (born 8 March 1940) is a British independent Traditionalist Catholic bishop who opposes the changes in the church brought about by the Second Vatican Council.
In 1988, Williamson was one of four Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) priests illicitly consecrated as bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefe... |
410007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad%20diet | Fad diet | A fad diet is a diet that is popular, generally only for a short time, similar to fads in fashion, without being a standard dietary recommendation, and often making unreasonable claims for fast weight loss or health improvements; as such is often considered a type of pseudoscientific diet. Fad diets are usually not sup... |
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