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425678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20Road | Milwaukee Road | The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), better known as the Milwaukee Road , was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwest and Northwest of the United States from 1847 until 1986.
The company experienced financial difficulty through the 1970s and 1980s, including bankruptcy in 1977 (thou... |
425720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenian%20Democratic%20Party | Slovenian Democratic Party | The Slovenian Democratic Party (, SDS), formerly the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (, SDSS), is a conservative parliamentary party; it is also one of the largest parties in Slovenia, with approximately 30,000 reported members in 2013.
It has been described as nationalist and right-wing populist, encompassing bot... |
425733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Smith | Emma Smith | Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (July 10, 1804 – April 30, 1879) was an American homesteader, the first wife of Joseph Smith, and a prominent leader in the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement, both during Smith's lifetime and afterward as a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Chu... |
425750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton%20Town%20F.C. | Northampton Town F.C. | Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England, that compete in EFL League One, the third tier of English football, following promotion from the 2022–23 EFL League Two.
Founded in 1897, the club competed in the Midland League for two seasons, before... |
425753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20Ordovician%20mass%20extinction | Late Ordovician mass extinction | The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), sometimes known as the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician-Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring roughly 445 million years ago (Ma). It is often considered to be the second-largest known ext... |
425757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20nationalism | Catalan nationalism | Catalan nationalism is the ideology asserting that the Catalans are a distinct nation.
Intellectually, modern Catalan nationalism can be said to have commenced as a political philosophy in the unsuccessful attempts to establish a federal state in Spain in the context of the First Republic (1873-1874). Valentí Almirall... |
425769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-8-4 | 4-8-4 | Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and four trailing wheels on two axles. The type was first used by the Northern Pacific Railway, and initially named the Nort... |
425804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Madagascar | Music of Madagascar | The highly diverse and distinctive music of Madagascar has been shaped by the musical traditions of Southeast Asia, Africa, Oceania, Arabia, England, France and the United States over time as indigenous people, immigrants, and colonists have made the island their home. Traditional instruments reflect these widespread o... |
425823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Bailey | Alice Bailey | Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880 – December 15, 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. Bailey was born as Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life... |
425842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Iovine | Jimmy Iovine | James Iovine ( ; born March 11, 1953) is an American entrepreneur, former record executive, and media proprietor. He is best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records. He became chairman and CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M, an umbrella music unit formed by Universal Music Group in 1999.
Iovine has been involved in th... |
425850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20system | Thermodynamic system | A thermodynamic system is a body of matter and/or radiation separate from its surroundings that can be studied using the laws of thermodynamics. A thermodynamic system may be an isolated system, a closed system, or an open system. An isolated system does not exchange matter or energy with its surroundings. A closed sys... |
425874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Nicolson | Harold Nicolson | Sir Harold George Nicolson (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, and gardener. His wife was the writer Vita Sackville-West.
Early life and education
Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the youngest son of diplo... |
425881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis | Brucellosis | Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by ingestion of unpasteurized milk from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions. It is also known as undulant fever, Malta fever, and Mediterranean fever.
The bacteria causing this disease, Brucella, are small, Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming, rod-shaped (co... |
425896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic%20Navy | Hellenic Navy | The Hellenic Navy (HN; , abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces. The modern Greek navy historically hails from the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence. During the periods of monarchy (1833–1924 and 1936–1973) it was known as the ... |
425938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20cognition | Animal cognition | Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology. It has also been strongly influenced by research in ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology; ... |
426001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki%20Yamashita | Tomoyuki Yamashita | was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, with his accomplishment of conquering Malaya and Singapore in 70 days earning him the sobriquet "The Tiger of Malaya" and led to the B... |
426006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism%20and%20sexual%20orientation | Buddhism and sexual orientation | The relationship between Buddhism and sexual orientation varies by tradition and teacher. According to some scholars, early Buddhism appears to have placed no special stigma on homosexual relations, since the subject was not mentioned.
Lay followers and monastic practices
In the early sutras of Buddhism, "accepted or... |
426023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Seondeok%20of%20Silla | Queen Seondeok of Silla | Queen Seondeok of Silla ( ; – 17 February 647/January 8, Lunar Calendar) reigned as Queen Regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647. She was Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen. She was the second female sovereign in recorded East Asian history and encouraged a renai... |
426046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawton%20Chiles | Lawton Chiles | Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Florida from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998.
A Korean War veteran, Chiles later r... |
426047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeongju | Gyeongju | Gyeongju (, ), historically known as Seorabeol (, ), is a coastal city in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the second largest city by area in the province after Andong, covering with a population of 264,091 people . Gyeongju is southeast of Seoul, and east of Daegu. The ci... |
426049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress%20Myeongseong | Empress Myeongseong | Empress Myeongseong (; 17 November 1851 – 8 October 1895) was the official wife of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon and the first emperor of the Korean Empire. During her lifetime, she was known by the name Queen Min (민비, 閔妃). After the founding of the Korean Empire, she was posthumously given the title of Myeongseong, ... |
426077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie%20Endowment%20for%20International%20Peace | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington D.C., with operations in Europe, South and East Asia, and the Middle East as well as the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie, the organization describes itself as being dedic... |
426102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay%20High%20Court | Bombay High Court | The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the oldest high courts in India. The High Court has circuit benches at Nagpur and Aura... |
426143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%20of%20Mars | Exploration of Mars | The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a large increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and habitability potential. Engineering interplanetary journeys is complicated and the... |
426193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Stewart | Tony Stewart | Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed "Smoke", is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, current NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, and current co-owner of the Superstar Racing Experience. He is a four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, winning two as a driver (2002, 2005)... |
426205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%20chasing | Storm chasing | Storm chasing is broadly defined as the deliberate pursuit of any severe weather phenomenon, regardless of motive, but most commonly for curiosity, adventure, scientific investigation, or for news or media coverage. A person who chases storms is known as a storm chaser or simply a chaser.
While witnessing a tornado is... |
426208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt%20Romney | Mitt Romney | Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 el... |
426226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20General%20Court | Massachusetts General Court | The Massachusetts General Court, formally the General Court of Massachusetts, is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts located in the state capital of Boston. The name "General Court" is a holdover from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when the colonial assembly, in addition to m... |
426234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Revenue%20Cutter%20Service | United States Revenue Cutter Service | The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an act of Congress () on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to serve as an armed customs enforcement service. As time passed, the service gradually gained missions either voluntarily or b... |
426277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20General%20Assembly | Georgia General Assembly | The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Each of the General Assembly's 236 members serve two-year terms and are directly elected by constituents of their district. The Constitution of Georgia vests a... |
426305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20selection | Group selection | Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual or gene.
Early authors such as V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Konrad Lorenz argued that the behavior of animals could affect their survival and reproduction as groups, spea... |
426311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Park%20F.C. | Queen's Park F.C. | Queen's Park Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Championship, the second tier of the Scottish football pyramid. Queen's Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the 10th oldest in the world.
... |
426333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny%20Jones%2C%20Baroness%20Jones%20of%20Moulsecoomb | Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | Jennifer Helen Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, (born 23 December 1949) is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London from 2003 to 2004. A member of the Green Party of England and Wales, she was until September 2019 the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords.
Jones represented the Green Par... |
426334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20and%20medium-sized%20enterprises | Small and medium-sized enterprises | Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by international organizations such as the World Bank, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organizati... |
426353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20Rickey | Branch Rickey | Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive. Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson. He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system, encouraged the Major... |
426364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis%20carolinensis | Anolis carolinensis | Anolis carolinensis or green anole () (among other names below) is a tree-dwelling species of anole lizard native to the southeastern United States and introduced to islands in the Pacific and Caribbean. A small to medium-sized lizard, the green anole is a trunk-crown ecomorph and can change its color to several shades... |
426381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Best | George Best | George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A skilful dribbler, he is considered one of the greatest players of all time. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came fifth in th... |
426382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Josef%20Land | Franz Josef Land | Franz Josef Land (; ) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is inhabited only by military personnel. It constitutes the northernmost part of Arkhangelsk Oblast and consists of 192 islands, which cover an area of , stretching from east to west and from north to south. The islands are categorized in three gr... |
426388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Ireland%20national%20football%20team | Northern Ireland national football team | The Northern Ireland men's national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. From 1882 to 1950, all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association (IFA). In 1921, the jurisdiction of the IFA was reduced... |
426392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Unearthly%20Child | An Unearthly Child | An Unearthly Child (sometimes referred to as 100,000 BC) is the first serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC TV in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. Scripted by Australian writer Anthony Coburn, the serial introduces William Hartnell as th... |
426423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassia | Circassia | Circassia ( ), also known as Zichia, was a country and a historical region in the along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. It was conquered and occupied by Russia during the Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864), after which 90% of the Circassian people were either exiled from the region or massacred in the Circassian... |
426426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain%20shadow | Rain shadow | A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.
Evaporated moisture from water bodies (such as oceans and large lakes) is carried by the prevailing onshore breezes towards the drier and hotter inland areas... |
426456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20core | Ice core | An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier. Since the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper ones, and an ice core contains ice formed over a range of years. Cores are drilled with hand augers (for sha... |
426463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Milyukov | Pavel Milyukov | Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov (; 31 March 1943) was a Russian historian and liberal politician. Milyukov was the founder, leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic party (known as the Kadets). He changed his view on the monarchy between 1905 and 1917. In the Russian Provisional Government, h... |
426467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20Square | Federation Square | Federation Square (marketed and colloquially known as Fed Square) is a venue for arts, culture and public events on the edge of the Melbourne central business district. It covers an area of at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets built above busy railway lines and across the road from Flinders Street stat... |
426484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Singh | Vijay Singh | Vijay Singh ( ; born 22 February 1963), nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer. He has won 34 events on the PGA Tour, which is the most by a player from outside of the United States, including three major championships: one Masters title (2000) and two PGA Championships (1998, 2004). He is the fir... |
426486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Capaldi | Jim Capaldi | Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he co-wrote the majority of the band's material. He was inducted into the Rock and ... |
426494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20Craftsman%20Truck%20Series | NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series | The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), and is the only series in NASCAR to race production pickup truck-based stock cars. The series is one of three national divisions of NASCAR, ranking as the third tier behin... |
426594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20D.%20Howe | C. D. Howe | Clarence Decatur Howe, (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was an American-born Canadian engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician. Howe served as a cabinet minister in the governments of prime ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent continuously from 1935 to 1957. He is credited with tra... |
426660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20educational%20programming%20languages | List of educational programming languages | An educational programming language is a programming language that is designed mostly as an instrument for learning, and less as a tool for writing programs to perform work.
Types of educational programming languages
Assembly languages
Originally, machine code was the first and only way to program computers. Assembly... |
426670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Tang%20%28SS-306%29 | USS Tang (SS-306) | USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine of World War II, the first ship of the United States Navy to bear the name Tang. She was built and launched in 1943, serving until being sunk by her own torpedo off China in the Taiwan Strait on 24 October 1944.
In her short career in the Pacific War, Tang sank 33 ships to... |
426699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol%20Cathedral | Bristol Cathedral | Bristol Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is the Church of England cathedral in the city of Bristol, England. Founded in 1140 and consecrated in 1148, it was originally St Augustine's Abbey but after the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became in 1542 the seat of the newly created Bish... |
426702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Quentin%20State%20Prison | San Quentin State Prison | San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.
Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, San Quentin is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death ro... |
426714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton%20Cathedral | Clifton Cathedral | The Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the city of Bristol (not to be confused with the Church of England Bristol Cathedral). Located in the Clifton area of the city, it is the seat and mother church of the Diocese of Clifton and is known as Clifton Cathedral. It has been a Grade ... |
426741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20Program%20for%20Socialist%20Economic%20Integration | Comprehensive Program for Socialist Economic Integration | The Comprehensive Program for Socialist Economic Integration was set up in 1971, laying the guidelines for Comecon activity until 1990. The distinction between "market" relations and "planned" relations, made in the discussions within Comecon before the adoption of the 1971 Comprehensive Program, is still a useful appr... |
426743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20coloring | Graph coloring | In graph theory, graph coloring is a special case of graph labeling; it is an assignment of labels traditionally called "colors" to elements of a graph subject to certain constraints. In its simplest form, it is a way of coloring the vertices of a graph such that no two adjacent vertices are of the same color; this is ... |
426747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin%20Townsend | Devin Townsend | Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He founded extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and was its primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist from 1994 to 2007. He has also had an extensive solo career and has released a total of 28 albums across al... |
426767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie%20%28comic%20strip%29 | Blondie (comic strip) | Blondie is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young. The comic strip is distributed by King Features Syndicate, and has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the strip, which features the eponymous blonde and her sandwich-loving husband, led to the long-running Blondie fil... |
426793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar%20North | Rockstar North | Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game development company and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The company was founded as DMA Design in Dundee in 1987 by David Jones, soon hiring former classmates Mike Dailly, Russell Kay, and Steve Hammond. During its early years, D... |
426859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Milla | Roger Milla | Albert Roger Miller (born 20 May 1952), known as Roger Milla, is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was one of the first African players to be a major star on the international stage. He played in three World Cups for the Cameroon national team.
He achieved international stardom a... |
426865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Airlines%20Flight%20232 | United Airlines Flight 232 | United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as N1819U) serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Ai... |
426955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20suspension | Car suspension | Suspension is the system of tires, tire air, springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two. Suspension systems must support both road holding/handling and ride quality, which are at odds with each other. The tuning of suspensions involves finding ... |
426982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian%20zone | Pedestrian zone | Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all automobile traffic is prohibited. Converting a street or an ar... |
426992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%2090 | Joe 90 | Joe 90 is a 1968–1969 British science-fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company, Century 21, for ITC Entertainment. It follows the exploits of nine-year-old schoolboy Joe McClaine, who becomes a spy after his adoptive father invents a device capable of recordi... |
426995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28New%20York%20City%20Subway%20service%29 | E (New York City Subway service) | The E Eighth Avenue Local is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is blue since it uses the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan.
The E operates at all times between Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer in Jamaica, Queens, and the World Trade Center in Lower Man... |
426996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Parker | Theodore Parker | Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.
Early life, 1810–1829
Parker was born in Lexington... |
427017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20International%20Auto%20Show | North American International Auto Show | The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), also known as the Detroit Auto Show, is an annual auto show held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., at Huntington Place (formerly known as Cobo Center). The show was held in January from 1989 to 2019. It was intended to move to the summer in 2020, but was canceled due to the... |
427018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareena%20Kapoor%20Khan | Kareena Kapoor Khan | Kareena Kapoor Khan (; ; born 21 September 1980) is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. She is the daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor. Noted for playing a variety of characters in a range of film genres—from romantic comedies to crime dramas—Kapoor i... |
427019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur%20Athletic%20Union | Amateur Athletic Union | The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. It has more than 700,000 members nationwide, including more than 100,000 volunteer... |
427057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-ZPass | E-ZPass | E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on toll roads, toll bridges, and toll tunnels in the Eastern United States, Midwestern United States, and Southern United States. The E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG) consists of member agencies in several states, which use the same technology and allow travelers to u... |
427063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Liberation%20Front%20of%20Asom | United Liberation Front of Asom | The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is an armed separatist organisation operating in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. It seeks to establish an independent sovereign nation state of Assam for the indigenous Assamese people through an armed struggle in the Assam conflict. The Government of India banned the org... |
427065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan%20Navara | Nissan Navara | The Nissan Navara is a nameplate used for Nissan pickup trucks with D21, D22, D40 and D23 model codes. The nameplate has been used in Australia, New Zealand, Central America, South America, Asia, Europe, and South Africa. In North, Central and South America and some selected markets, it is marketed as the Nissan Fronti... |
427067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss%20mercenaries | Swiss mercenaries | The Swiss mercenaries () were a powerful infantry force constituted by professional soldiers originating from the cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy. They were notable for their service in foreign armies, especially among the military forces of the kings of France, throughout the early modern period of European histo... |
427097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20America | Good Morning America | Good Morning America (often abbreviated as GMA) is an American morning television program that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3, 1975, and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3, 1993. The Sunday edition was canceled in 1999; weekend editions returned on both Saturdays a... |
427145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Diablo | Mount Diablo | Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville. It is an isolated upthrust peak of , visible from most of the San Francisco Bay Area. Mount Diablo appears from many angles to be a doubl... |
427175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional%20community | Intentional community | An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision, and typically share responsibilities and property. This way of life is... |
427183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Boyd | Stephen Boyd | Stephen Boyd (born William Millar; 4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977) was a Northern Irish actor. He appeared in some 60 films, most notably as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He received his second Golden Globe Award nominatio... |
427204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash%20River | Wabash River | The Wabash River (French: Ouabache) is a river that drains most of the state of Indiana in the United States. It flows from the headwaters in Ohio, near the Indiana border, then southwest across northern Indiana turning south near the Illinois border, where the southern portion forms the Indiana-Illinois border befo... |
427217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20syndrome | Werner syndrome | Werner syndrome (WS) or Werner's syndrome, also known as "adult progeria", is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder which is characterized by the appearance of premature aging.
Werner syndrome is named after the German scientist Otto Werner. He identified the syndrome in four siblings observed with premature aging, whi... |
427222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebel%20Model%201886%20rifle | Lebel Model 1886 rifle | The Lebel Model 1886 rifle (French: Fusil Modèle 1886 dit "Fusil Lebel") also known as the "Fusil Mle 1886 M93", after a bolt modification was added in 1893, is an 8 mm bolt-action infantry rifle that entered service in the French Army in 1887. It is a repeating rifle that can hold eight rounds in its fore-stock tube m... |
427245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Media%20One | Virgin Media One | Virgin Media One, also called Virgin One, is an Irish free-to-air television channel owned by Virgin Media Ireland (part of Liberty Global), operated through its subsidiary Virgin Media Television. The channel launched on 20 September 1998, as TV Three, becoming Ireland's fourth television channel and the first commerc... |
427264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxi | Wuxi | Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou, and one of the central cities in the Yangtze River Delta. It is the ancient founding capital of the state of Wu, The birthplace of Wu culture. As of the 2020 census, the city had... |
427282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%20information | Mutual information | In probability theory and information theory, the mutual information (MI) of two random variables is a measure of the mutual dependence between the two variables. More specifically, it quantifies the "amount of information" (in units such as shannons (bits), nats or hartleys) obtained about one random variable by obser... |
427288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark%20attack | Shark attack | A shark attack is an attack on a human by a shark. Every year, around 80 unprovoked attacks are reported worldwide. Despite their rarity, many people fear shark attacks after occasional serial attacks, such as the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, and horror fiction and films such as the Jaws series. Out of more than... |
427319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20John%20Wentworth%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet | Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (9 August 1737 – 8 April 1820) was the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution. He was later also Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. He is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church in Halifax.
Early years
Wentworth was born in Portsmouth, New ... |
427337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Grayling | Chris Grayling | Christopher Stephen Grayling (born 1 April 1962) is a British politician and author who served as Secretary of State for Justice from 2012 to 2015, Leader of the House of Commons from 2015 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Transport from 2016 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Pa... |
427339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Grieve | Dominic Grieve | Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born 24 May 1956) is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield from 1997 to 2019 and was the Chair of the Inte... |
427408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internally%20displaced%20person | Internally displaced person | An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.
At the end of 2014, it was estimated there were 38.2 million IDPs worldwide, the... |
427411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriangsak%20Chamanan | Kriangsak Chamanan | Kriangsak Chamanan (, ; 17 December 191723 December 2003) served as prime minister of Thailand from 1977 to 1980. After staging a successful coup, he was asked to become Prime Minister in 1977, he ruled till 1980 and is credited with "steering Thailand to democracy" in a time where internally, communist insurgents are ... |
427412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Nazaire | Saint-Nazaire | Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany.
The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean. The town is at the south of the second-largest swamp in France, called "la Brièr... |
427425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noe%20Zhordania | Noe Zhordania | Noe Zhordania<ref>Also transliterated as 'Noah Jordania</ref> ( /nɔɛ ʒɔrdɑniɑ/; ; born (or ) — January 11, 1953) was a Georgian journalist and Menshevik politician. He played an eminent role in the socialist revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire, and later chaired the government of the Democratic Republic of Ge... |
427479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt%20culture | Hallstatt culture | The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western and Central European archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe (Hallstatt C, Hallstatt D) from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th cent... |
427503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20National%20Party | United National Party | The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP (, ), is a centre-right political party in Sri Lanka. The UNP has served as the country's ruling party, or as part of its governing coalition, for 38 of the country's 74 years of independence, including the periods 19471956, 19651970, 19771994, 20012004 and 20152019. ... |
427560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teignmouth | Teignmouth | Teignmouth ( ) is a seaside town, fishing port and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign, about 12 miles south of Exeter. The town had a population of 14,749 at the 2011 census.
From the 1800s onwards, the town grew rapidly in size from a fishing p... |
427590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20treason%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | High treason in the United Kingdom | Under the law of the United Kingdom, high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Crown. Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the sovereign; committing adultery with the sovereign's consort, with the sovereign's eldest unmarried daughter, or with the wife of the heir to the throne; levyin... |
427614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Basel | University of Basel | The University of Basel (Latin: Universitas Basiliensis, German: Universität Basel) is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institu... |
427626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Baryshnikov | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (; ; born January 28, 1948) is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male classical dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He subsequently became a noted dance director.
Born in Riga, Latvian SSR, Baryshnikov had a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in... |
427630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Kelly | Ruth Kelly | Ruth Maria Kelly (born 9 May 1968) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1997 until she stood down in 2010. Previously, she served as the Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Minister for Women a... |
427655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20edulis | Boletus edulis | Boletus edulis (English: cep, penny bun, porcino or porcini) is a basidiomycete fungus, and the type species of the genus Boletus. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere across Europe, Asia, and North America, it does not occur naturally in the Southern Hemisphere, although it has been introduced to southern Afr... |
427665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lazarsfeld | Paul Lazarsfeld | Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901August 30, 1976) was an Austrian-American sociologist. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research. "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague ... |
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