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410009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation%20%28mathematics%29 | Rotation (mathematics) | Rotation in mathematics is a concept originating in geometry. Any rotation is a motion of a certain space that preserves at least one point. It can describe, for example, the motion of a rigid body around a fixed point. Rotation can have a sign (as in the sign of an angle): a clockwise rotation is a negative magnitude ... |
410046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20India%20Anna%20Dravida%20Munnetra%20Kazhagam | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. G. Ramachandran (M.G.R.) at Madurai on 17 October 1972 as a ... |
410048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravida%20Munnetra%20Kazhagam | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; ; DMK) is an Indian political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu, where it is currently the ruling party, and the union territory of Puducherry, where it is currently the main opposition.
It is also one of the two main political parties in Tamil Nadu, along with the rival All Indi... |
410066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20honours%20received%20by%20Nelson%20Mandela | List of awards and honours received by Nelson Mandela | This is a comprehensive list of awards, honours and other recognitions bestowed on Nelson Mandela. Mandela received more than 260 awards over 40 years, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
From 1994 to 1999, Mandela was President of South Africa. He was the first such African to be elected in fully representati... |
410081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbino | Urbino | Urbino ( , ; Romagnol: Urbìn) is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, southwest of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482.
The town, nestled on a hi... |
410112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buz%C4%83u | Buzău | The city of Buzău (formerly spelled Buzeu or Buzĕu; ) is the county seat of Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It lies near the right bank of the Buzău River, between the south-eastern curvature of the Carpathian Mountains and the lowlands of Bărăgan Plain.
Buzău is a railway hub in south-eas... |
410128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Udall | Mark Udall | Mark Emery Udall ( ; born July 18, 1950) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing . Prior to being elected to Congress, he represented parts of Bould... |
410147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Tancredo | Tom Tancredo | Thomas Gerard Tancredo (; born December 20, 1945) is an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state's sixth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2009 as a Republican. He ran for President of the United States during the 2008 election, and was the Constitutio... |
410161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20without%20portfolio | Minister without portfolio | A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister who does not head a particular ministry. The sinecure is particularly common in countries ruled by coalition governments and a cabinet with decision-making authority wherein a minister without portfolio, while t... |
410187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Shays | Chris Shays | Christopher Hunter Shays (born October 18, 1945) is an American politician. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives as representative of the 4th District of Connecticut. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Shays was the only Republican congressman from New England elected to the 110th Un... |
410189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27%20Party%20%28Singapore%29 | Workers' Party (Singapore) | The Workers' Party (abbreviation: WP) is a major centre-left political party in Singapore and is one of the three contemporary political parties represented in Parliament, alongside the governing People's Action Party (PAP) and the opposition Progress Singapore Party (PSP). It is currently the largest opposition party ... |
410203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Beach | Amy Beach | Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman.... |
410215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Rayburn | Sam Rayburn | Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time House minority leader, and a 24-term congressman, representing Texas's 4th co... |
410219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes%20of%20France | Communes of France | The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, in Germany, in Italy, or in Spain. The UK equivalent are civil parishes. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are ... |
410238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20of%20India | Parliament of India | The Parliament of India (IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President of India, in their role as head of the legislature, has full powers to summon and prorogue eithe... |
410259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Guard%20%28Napoleon%20I%29 | Imperial Guard (Napoleon I) | The Imperial Guard (French: Garde Impériale) was originally a small group of elite soldiers of the French Army under the direct command of Napoleon I, but grew considerably over time. It acted as his bodyguard and tactical reserve, and he was careful of its use in battle. The Guard was divided into the staff, infantry,... |
410260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20of%20Sutherland | Duke of Sutherland | Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the dukes of Sutherland one of the richest landowning families in the United Kingd... |
410327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugoj | Lugoj | Lugoj (; ; ; ; ; ) is a city in Timiș County, Romania. The Timiș River divides the city into two halves, the so-called "Romanian Lugoj" that spreads on the right bank and the "German Lugoj" on the left bank. The city administers two villages, Măguri and Tapia.
Etymology
The origin of the toponym Lugoj has generated a... |
410328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20of%20Mull | Isle of Mull | The Isle of Mull ( ) or just Mull (; ) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute.
Covering , Mull is the fourth-largest island in Scotland and Great Britain. From 2001 to 2020, the population has gradually increased:... |
410344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Ben%20Bella | Ahmed Ben Bella | Ahmed Ben Bella ( ; 25 December 1916 – 11 April 2012) was an Algerian politician, soldier and socialist revolutionary who served as the head of government of Algeria from 27 September 1962 to 15 September 1963 and then the first president of Algeria from 15 September 1963 to 19 June 1965.
Ben Bella played an important... |
410348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Schalke%2004 | FC Schalke 04 | Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The "04" in the club's name derives from its formation in 1904. ... |
410353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%20service%29 | 7 (New York City Subway service) | The 7 Flushing Local and <7> Flushing Express are two rapid transit services in the A Division of the New York City Subway, providing local and express services along the full length of the IRT Flushing Line. Their route emblems, or "bullets", are colored , since they serve the Flushing Line.
7 trains operate at all t... |
410355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20II%20of%20Morocco | Hassan II of Morocco | Hassan II (; 9 July 1929 – 23 July 1999) was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.
He was a member of the 'Alawi dynasty, the eldest son of Sultan Mohammed V, and his second wife, Lalla Abla bint Tahar. He was the first commander-in-chief of the Royal Armed Forces and named crown prince in 1957.
He was e... |
410356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timely%20Comics | Timely Comics | Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.
Founded in 1939, during the era called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the c... |
410375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Rangel | Charles Rangel | Charles Bernard Rangel (, ; born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York City from 1971 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House of Representatives at the time of his retirement, having served cont... |
410384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile%20plethysmography | Penile plethysmography | Penile plethysmography (PPG) or phallometry is measurement of blood flow to the penis, typically used as a proxy for measurement of sexual arousal. The most commonly reported methods of conducting penile plethysmography involve the measurement of the circumference of the penis with a mercury-in-rubber or electromechani... |
410394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahadur%20Shah%20I | Bahadur Shah I | Mirza Muhammad Mu'azzam (14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712), also known as Bahadur Shah I and Shah Alam I, was the eighth Mughal emperor from 1707 to 1712. He was the second son of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who he conspired to overthrow in his youth. He was also governor of Agra, Kabul and Lahore and had to face revol... |
410424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Wisdom | House of Wisdom | The House of Wisdom (), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad and one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age. The House of Wisdom was founded either as a library for the collections of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid i... |
410427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontyne%20Price | Leontyne Price | Mary Violet Leontyne Price ( ; born February 10, 1927) is an American spinto soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where she was the first African American to be a leading performer. She regularly appeared... |
410430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Seaga | Edward Seaga | Edward Philip George Seaga ( or ; 28 May 1930 – 28 May 2019) was a Jamaican politician. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1980 to 1989, and the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005. He served as leader of the opposition from 1974 to 1980, and again from 1989 until January 2005.
His reti... |
410450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Constitution%20of%20the%20Clergy | Civil Constitution of the Clergy | The Civil Constitution of the Clergy () was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused the immediate subordination of most of the Catholic Church in France to the French government. As such, a schism was created, resulting in a French Catholic Church loyal to the Papacy, and a "constitutiona... |
410458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed%20%28broadcasting%29 | Watershed (broadcasting) | In broadcasting, the watershed is the time of day after which programming with content deemed suitable only for mature or adult audiences is permitted.
In the same way that a geological watershed divides two drainage basins, a broadcasting watershed serves as a dividing line in a schedule between family-oriented conte... |
410484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hammond | Richard Hammond | Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English journalist, television presenter, mechanic, and writer. He is best known for co-hosting the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. Since 2016, the trio have presented Amazon Studios' The Grand Tour.
Hammond... |
410487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratas%20Island | Pratas Island | Pratas Island, also known as the Tungsha Islands or the Dongsha Islands (), is a coral island situated in the northern part of the South China Sea administered as part of Cijin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is located about southeast of Hong Kong. It has an area of about , including of lagoon, and is the largest o... |
410552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20American%20League%20Championship%20Series | 2003 American League Championship Series | The 2003 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was played between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees from October 8 to 16, 2003. The Yankees won the series four games to three to advance to the World Series, where they lost in six games to the National League champion Florida Marlins.
Summary
This series... |
410596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Airlines%20Flight%20261 | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was an Alaska Airlines flight of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000, roughly north of Anacapa Island, California, following a catastrophic loss of pitch control, killing all 88 on board: two pilots, three cabin crew members, and 83 passeng... |
410663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip | Whip | A whip is a tool or weapon designed to strike humans or animals to exert control through pain compliance or fear of pain. They can also be used without inflicting pain, for audiovisual cues, such as in equestrianism. They are generally either a firm stick designed for direct contact, or a flexible line requiring a spec... |
410666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Europe | Southern Europe | Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe. It is also known as Mediterranean Europe, as its geography is marked by the Mediterranean Sea. Definitions of southern Europe include some or all of these countries and regions: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Greece, Ital... |
410688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Adams%20%28Washington%29 | Mount Adams (Washington) | Mount Adams, known by some Native American tribes as Pahto or Klickitat, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range. Although Adams has not erupted in more than 1,000 years, it is not considered extinct. It is the second-highest mountain in Washington, after Mount Rainier.
Adams, named for President Jo... |
410731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh%20Guards | Welsh Guards | The Welsh Guards (WG; ), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. It was founded in 1915 as a single-battalion regiment, during the First World War, by Royal Warrant of George V. Shortly after the regiment's formation, it was deployed to France where it took part in the figh... |
410783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover%20crop | Cover crop | In agriculture, cover crops are plants that are planted to cover the soil rather than for the purpose of being harvested. Cover crops manage soil erosion, soil fertility, soil quality, water, weeds, pests, diseases, biodiversity and wildlife in an agroecosysteman ecological system managed and shaped by humans. Cover cr... |
410784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20the%20Catholic%20Church | Criticism of the Catholic Church | During its long history, the Catholic Church has been subject to criticism regarding various beliefs and practices. Within the church, this often involves opposition or support for practices associated with traditionalist Catholicism. In the past, different interpretations of scripture and various other critiques contr... |
410793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20equation | Continuity equation | A continuity equation or transport equation is an equation that describes the transport of some quantity. It is particularly simple and powerful when applied to a conserved quantity, but it can be generalized to apply to any extensive quantity. Since mass, energy, momentum, electric charge and other natural quantities ... |
410801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Armenia | Music of Armenia | The music of Armenia ( haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musi... |
410804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight%20bias | Hindsight bias | Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were.
People often believe that after an event has occurred, they would have predicted or perhaps even would have known with a high... |
410828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano%20Guadalupe%20Vallejo | Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo | Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio general, statesman, and public figure. He was born a subject of Spain, performed his military duties as an officer of the Republic of Mexico, and shaped the transition of Alta California from a territory of Mexico to the U.S. state of Califo... |
410837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Canada | Catholic Church in Canada | The Canadian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Canada, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, and has a decentralised structure, meaning each diocesan bishop is autonomous but under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. As of 2021, it has the largest number of adh... |
410868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20the%20United%20States | Catholic Church in the United States | With 23 percent of the United States' population , the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided into separate denominations. In a 2020 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans said they ... |
410873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Garden | The Secret Garden | The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Some of Burnett's other popular ... |
410879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20file%20format | GIS file format | A GIS file format is a standard for encoding geographical information into a computer file, as a specialized type of file format for use in geographic information systems (GIS) and other geospatial applications. Since the 1970s, dozens of formats have been created based on various data models for various purposes. They... |
410892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20McGreevey | Jim McGreevey | James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004.
McGreevey served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1990 to 1992, as the 19th mayor of Woodbridge Township from 1991 to 2002, and in the New Jersey Senate f... |
410934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Colson | Charles Colson | Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Waterg... |
410980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Stearns | Cliff Stearns | Clifford Bundy Stearns Sr. (born April 16, 1941) is an American businessman and politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1989 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.
On August 14, 2012, Stearns lost to veterinarian Ted Yoho in a four-way Republican primary by about one percent of the vote.
In 201... |
410988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20plates | Golden plates | According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as w... |
411013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Naval%20Reserve | Royal Naval Reserve | The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. Together with the Royal Marines Reserve, they form the Maritime Reserve. The present RNR was formed by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve, created in 1859, and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR)... |
411018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis%20E | Hepatitis E | Hepatitis E is inflammation of the liver caused by infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV); it is a type of viral hepatitis. Hepatitis E has mainly a fecal-oral transmission route that is similar to hepatitis A, although the viruses are unrelated. In retrospect, the earliest known epidemic of hepatitis E occurred in... |
411020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Straits%20Times | The Straits Times | The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. First established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a significant regional audience. The newspaper is published in the broadsh... |
411021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia%20trachomatis | Chlamydia trachomatis | Chlamydia trachomatis (), commonly known as chlamydia, is a bacterium that causes chlamydia, which can manifest in various ways, including: trachoma, lymphogranuloma venereum, nongonococcal urethritis, cervicitis, salpingitis, pelvic inflammatory disease. C. trachomatis is the most common infectious cause of blindness ... |
411025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurva%20Synagogue | Hurva Synagogue | The Hurva Synagogue (, translit: Beit ha-Knesset ha-Hurva, lit. "The Ruin Synagogue"), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid (, "Ruin of Rabbi Judah the Pious"), is a synagogue located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
It was originally founded in the early 18th century by followers of Judah He... |
411039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20history%20of%20the%20United%20States%20in%20the%201950s | Music history of the United States in the 1950s | Many musical styles flourished and combined in the 1940s and 1950s, most likely because of the influence the radio had in creating a mass market for music. World War II caused great social upheaval, and the music of this period shows the effects of that upheaval.
Classic pop
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated... |
411040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20history%20of%20the%20United%20States%20in%20the%201970s | Music history of the United States in the 1970s | Popular music of the United States in the 1970s saw various forms of pop music dominating the charts. Often characterized as being shallow, 1970s pop took many forms and could be seen as a reaction against the high-energy and activist pop of the previous decade. It began with singer-songwriters like Carole King and Car... |
411041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20history%20of%20the%20United%20States%20in%20the%201980s | Music history of the United States in the 1980s | Popular music of the United States in the 1980s saw heavy metal, country music, Top40 hits, hip hop, MTV, CMJ, and new wave
as mainstream. Punk rock and hardcore punk was popular on CMJ. With the demise of punk rock, a new generation of punk-influenced genres arose, including Gothic rock, post-punk, alternative rock, e... |
411085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Caan | James Caan | James Edmund Caan ( ; March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) – a performance which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised his role in The Godfather Part II (1974). He received a moti... |
411093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi%20Dimitrov | Georgi Dimitrov | Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (; Bulgarian: Гео̀рги Димитро̀в Миха̀йлов) also known as Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (; 18 June 1882 – 2 July 1949), was a Bulgarian communist politician who served as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party from 1946 to 1949. From 1935 to 1943, he was the General Secretary of the C... |
411133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian%20Orchestra | Trans-Siberian Orchestra | Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded in 1996 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. The band gained in popularity when they... |
411161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Vysotsky | Vladimir Vysotsky | Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (; 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980) was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often-humorous street jargo... |
411203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20Union%20Station | Washington Union Station | Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters, the railroad's second-busiest station, and North America's 10th-busiest railroad station. The st... |
411219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian%20Chinese%20Association | Malaysian Chinese Association | The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA; ; ; , initially known as the Malayan Chinese Association) is a uni-racial political party in Malaysia that seeks to represent the Malaysian Chinese ethnicity; it was one of the three original major component parties of the coalition party in Malaysia called the Alliance Party, wh... |
411238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana%20Ros-Lehtinen | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (; born Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato, July 15, 1952) is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented from 1989 to 2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She was Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013. In 198... |
411243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Toronto | New Toronto | New Toronto is a neighbourhood and former municipality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-west area of Toronto, along Lake Ontario. The Town of New Toronto was established in 1890, and was designed and planned as an industrial centre by a group of industrialists from Toronto who had visited Roches... |
411256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Ziporyn | Evan Ziporyn | Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn has composed for a wide range of ensembles, including symphony orchestras, wind... |
411264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee%20Hastings | Alcee Hastings | Alcee Lamar Hastings ( ; September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and former judge from the state of Florida. He was notable for having been impeached and removed from office as a judge for bribery and perjury.
Hastings was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of... |
411276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20D%C3%ADaz-Balart | Mario Díaz-Balart | Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero ( ; born September 25, 1961) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 26th congressional district. A Republican, he was elected in 2002, and his district includes much of southwestern Miami-Dade County, including Hialeah, and much of the northern por... |
411278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thun | Thun | Thun () is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), southeast of Bern.
the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.
Besides tourism, mac... |
411296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofcom | Ofcom | The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.
Ofcom has wide-ranging powers across the television, radio, telecoms and postal sectors. It has a statutory duty t... |
411309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence | Cadence | In Western musical theory, a cadence (Latin cadentia, "a falling") is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of... |
411315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20sanctions | Economic sanctions | Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals. Economic sanctions are a form of coercion that attempts to get an actor to change its behavior through disruption in economic exchange. Sanctions can be intended to compel (an attempt to c... |
411340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Piper%20%28artist%29 | John Piper (artist) | John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, phot... |
411352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie%20Ecclestone | Bernie Ecclestone | Bernard Charles Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is a British former business magnate. He is the former chief executive of the Formula One Group, which manages Formula One motor racing and controls the commercial rights to the sport. As such, he was commonly described in journalism as the 'F1 Supremo'. In October 2023... |
411356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Airlines%20Flight%201420 | American Airlines Flight 1420 | American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Little Rock National Airport in the United States. On June 1, 1999, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Flight 1420 overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock and crashed. 9 of the 145 people aboard were immediatel... |
411372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman%20%28Wesley%20Dodds%29 | Sandman (Wesley Dodds) | The Sandman (Wesley Dodds) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first of several DC characters to bear the name Sandman, he was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Bert Christman. Attired in a green business suit, fedora, and World War I gas mask, the Sandman used a gun emit... |
411375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 | Sandman (Marvel Comics) | The Sandman (William Baker, a.k.a. Flint Marko) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand, he started out as a recurring adversary to the superhero Spider-Man, but has redeemed himself ov... |
411381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20marriage | Child marriage | Child marriage refers to a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child.
Although the age of majority (legal adulthood) and marriageable age is typically 18 years old, these thresholds can differ in different jurisdictions. In some regions, t... |
411406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie%2C%20Indiana | Eerie, Indiana | Eerie, Indiana is an American horror science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1991, to December 9, 1993. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creative consultant.
A total of nineteen episodes were produced. The final episode aired f... |
411429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Harris%20%28Latter%20Day%20Saints%29 | Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints) | Martin Harris (May 18, 1783 – July 10, 1875) was an early convert to the Latter Day Saint movement who financially guaranteed the first printing of the Book of Mormon and also served as one of Three Witnesses who testified that they had seen the golden plates from which Joseph Smith said the Book of Mormon had been tra... |
411440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallicanism | Gallicanism | Gallicanism is the belief that popular civil authority—often represented by the monarch's or the state's authority—over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the pope. Gallicanism is a rejection of ultramontanism; it has something in common with Anglicanism, but is nuanced, in that it plays down the authority of... |
411477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible%20translations%20into%20English | Bible translations into English | Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English. More than 100 complete translations into English have been produced. A number of translations have been prepared of parts of the Bible, some deliberately and so... |
411492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20angles | Euler angles | The Euler angles are three angles introduced by Leonhard Euler to describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed coordinate system.
They can also represent the orientation of a mobile frame of reference in physics or the orientation of a general basis in 3-dimensional linear algebra.
Classic Euler a... |
411523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20chipsets | List of Intel chipsets | This article provides a list of motherboard chipsets made by Intel, divided into three main categories: those that use the PCI bus for interconnection (the 4xx series), those that connect using specialized "hub links" (the 8xx series), and those that connect using PCI Express (the 9xx series). The chipsets are listed i... |
411526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20ballet | Glossary of ballet | Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language.
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À la seconde
() (Literally "to second") If a step is done "à la seconde," it is done to the side. 'Second position'. It can also be a balance extending one foot off the ground in ‘Second Position’.
À la ... |
411551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer | Narmer | Narmer (, may mean "painful catfish", "stinging catfish", "harsh catfish", or "fierce catfish;" reign beginning at a date estimated to fall in the range 3273–2987 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period. He was the successor to the Protodynastic king Ka. Many scholars consider him the unifier o... |
411570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Lanark | New Lanark | New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1785 and opened in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers. Dale built the mills there in a brief partnership with the English inventor ... |
411590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20technology%20studies | Science and technology studies | Science and technology studies (STS) or science, technology, and society is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts.
History
Like most interdisciplinary fields of study, STS emerged from the conflu... |
411607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Magdhaba | Battle of Magdhaba | The Battle of Magdhaba took place on 23 December 1916 during the Defence of Egypt section of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in the First World War. The attack by the Anzac Mounted Division took place against an entrenched Ottoman Army garrison to the south and east of Bir Lahfan in the Sinai desert, some inland from... |
411639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einbeck | Einbeck | Einbeck (; Eastphalian: Aimbeck) is a town in the district Northeim, in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, on the German Timber-Frame Road.
History
Prehistory
The area of the current city of Einbeck is inhabited since prehistoric times. Various artifacts have been unearthed in the city of Einbeck itself and in the littl... |
411659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship | Courtship | Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, de facto relationship. Courtship traditionally may begin after a betrothal and may conclude with the celebration of marriage. A courtship may be an informal and private matter between two people or ma... |
411667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offenbach%20am%20Main | Offenbach am Main | Offenbach am Main () is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It has a population of 138,335 (December 2018).
In the 20th century, the city's economy was built on machine-building, leath... |
411673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida%20albicans | Candida albicans | Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast that is a common member of the human gut flora. It can also survive outside the human body. It is detected in the gastrointestinal tract and mouth in 40–60% of healthy adults. It is usually a commensal organism, but it can become pathogenic in immunocompromised indi... |
411726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Kingston | Jack Kingston | John Heddens Kingston (born April 24, 1955) is an American politician who served as U.S. representative for in southeast Georgia, serving from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the House leadership (2002–06) when he served as vice-chair of the Republican Conference. In 2014, he ran f... |
411730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clwyd | Clwyd | Clwyd ( , ) is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east corner of the country; it is named after the River Clwyd, which runs through the area. To the north lies the Irish Sea, with the English ceremonial counties of Cheshire to the east and Shropshire to the south-east. Powys and Gwynedd lie to the south... |
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