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4088745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONVOCOM | CONVOCOM | The West Central Illinois Educational Telecommunications Corporation was incorporated on February 9, 1976. Its membership was a consortium of Educational Institutions in West-Central Illinois. Bradley University in Peoria, Western Illinois University in Macomb, Blackhawk Community College in Moline, and Sangamon Stat... |
4089057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20in%20the%20Philippines | 2000 in the Philippines | 2000 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 2000.
Incumbents
President: Joseph Estrada (PMP)
Vice President: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (Lakas)
Senate President:
Blas Ople (until July 12)
Franklin Drilon (July 12 – November 13)
Aquilino Pimentel Jr. (starting Novem... |
4089671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaya | Nanaya | Nanaya (Sumerian , DNA.NA.A; also transcribed as "Nanāy", "Nanaja", "Nanāja", '"Nanāya", or "Nanai"; antiquated transcription: "Nanâ"; in Greek: Ναναια or Νανα; Aramaic: ננױננאױ; Syriac: ܢܢܝ) was a Mesopotamian goddess of love, closely associated with Inanna.
While she is well attested in Mesopotamian textual sources... |
4089847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Russia%20relations | Germany–Russia relations | Germany–Russia relations display cyclical patterns, moving back and forth from cooperation and alliance to strain and to total warfare. Historian John Wheeler-Bennett says that since the 1740s:
Relations between Russia and Germany...have been a series of alienations, distinguished for their bitterness, and of rapproch... |
4090487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan%20Highway%201 | Saskatchewan Highway 1 | Highway 1 is the Saskatchewan section of the Trans-Canada Highway mainland route. The total distance of the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan is . The highway traverses Saskatchewan from the western border with Alberta, from Highway 1, to the Manitoba border where it continues as PTH 1. The Trans-Canada Highway Act... |
4091127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20brothels%20in%20Nevada | List of brothels in Nevada | This is a historical list of the legal brothels in Nevada. They are arranged by name within location (the nearest town or named place) within each county that licenses such establishments. Defunct establishments are retained for completeness. Note, however, that this list so far only covers the modern era of brothel pr... |
4091132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20and%20identify%20statutes | Stop and identify statutes | "Stop and identify" statutes are laws in several U.S. states that authorize police to lawfully order people whom they reasonably suspect of committing a crime to state their name. If there is not reasonable suspicion that a person has committed a crime, is committing a crime, or is about to commit a crime, the person i... |
4091204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phryne%20Fisher | Phryne Fisher | The Honourable Phryne Fisher ( ), often called "Miss Fisher", is the main character in Australian author Kerry Greenwood's series of Phryne Fisher detective novels. The character later appeared in a television series called Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and the film Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. Phryne is a wea... |
4091300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20%28band%29 | Red (band) | Red (stylized as R3D or RED) is an American Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2002 by brothers guitarist Anthony Armstrong and bassist Randy Armstrong, with lead vocalist Michael Barnes. The band's first lineup also consisted of drummer Andrew Hendrix and guitarist Jasen Rauch. Currently, the lin... |
4091317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20rights%20in%20Russia | LGBT rights in Russia | In the Russian Federation, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people face significant challenges not experienced by others. Although sexual activity between same-sex couples is legal, homosexuality is disapproved of by most of the population, and same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples ar... |
4091662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%20Churchill | Ward Churchill | Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American author and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 until 2007. The primary focus of his work is on the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States govern... |
4091855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%20Awards | Mo Awards | The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards) were an annual Australian entertainment industry award, that where established in 1975, to recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia. They were last awarded in 2016.
Lucky Grills, actor and comedian came up with the id... |
4092036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Astor%20Plaza | One Astor Plaza | One Astor Plaza, also known as 1515 Broadway and formerly the W. T. Grant Building, is a 54-story office building on Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Der Scutt of Ely J. Kahn & Jacobs, the building was developed by Sam Minskoff and Sons. One Astor Plaza occupies a ... |
4092442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Maria%20Antiqua | Santa Maria Antiqua | Santa Maria Antiqua () is a Roman Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy, built in the 5th century in the Forum Romanum, and for a long time the monumental access to the Palatine imperial palaces.
Located at the foot of the Palatine Hill, Santa Maria Antiqua is the oldest Christian monument in the Roman Forum. The chur... |
4092733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust%20collector | Dust collector | A dust collector is a system used to enhance the quality of air released from industrial and commercial processes by collecting dust and other impurities from air or gas. Designed to handle high-volume dust loads, a dust collector system consists of a blower, dust filter, a filter-cleaning system, and a dust receptacle... |
4092858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Moduler | Operation Moduler | Operation Moduler (sometimes incorrectly called "Modular") was a military operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the South African Border War. It formed part of what has come to be called the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The Angolan objective was to advance south-east to attack the UNITA (National Uni... |
4093188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%20Force%20Regiment | Frontier Force Regiment | The Frontier Force Regiment is one of the six infantry regiments of the Pakistan Army. They are popularly known as the Piffers in reference to their military history as the PIF (Punjab Irregular Force) of the British Indian Army, or as the FF (Frontier Force). The regiment takes its name from the historic North-West Fr... |
4093421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s%20That%20Girl%20World%20Tour | Who's That Girl World Tour | The Who's That Girl World Tour (billed as Who's That Girl World Tour 1987) was the second concert tour by American singer and songwriter Madonna. The tour supported her 1986 third studio album True Blue, as well as the 1987 soundtrack Who's That Girl. It was Madonna's first world tour and marked her first visits to Jap... |
4093536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hunt%20%28academic%29 | Paul Hunt (academic) | Paul Hunt, a New Zealand and British national, is a human rights expert who specialises in economic, social and cultural rights. In January 2019, he took up office as Chief Commissioner at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
Formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato and a Professor of Law at the Hum... |
4093588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20Christianity | Positive Christianity | Positive Christianity () was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity. Adolf Hitler used the term in point 24 of the 1920 ... |
4093795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20naval%20ship%20classes%20in%20service | List of naval ship classes in service | The list of naval ship classes in service includes all combatant surface classes in service currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are grouped by type, and listed alphabetically within.
For other vessels, see also:
List of submarine classes in service
List of auxiliary ship classes... |
4094028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Kaye | Marilyn Kaye | Marilyn Kaye (born 1949) is an American children's writer. She taught children's literature at St. John's University, New York. She is the author of over 100 children's and young adult novel series, including the successful Replica and Gifted series.
Biography
Marilyn Kaye was born in 1949 in New Britain, Connecticut.... |
4094152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idrimi | Idrimi | Idrimi (meaning "It is my help") was the king of Alalakh c. 1490–1465 BC, or around 1450 BC. He is known, mainly, from an inscription on his statue found at Alalakh by Leonard Woolley in 1939. According to that inscription, he was a son of Ilim-Ilimma I the king of Halab, now Aleppo, who would have been deposed by the ... |
4094350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyeong | Hyeong | The Korean terms hyeong, pumsae, poomsae and teul (meaning "form" or "pattern") are all used to refer to martial arts forms that are typically used in Korean martial arts such as Taekwondo and Tang Soo Do.
Hyeong is often romanized as hyung. This term is used primarily in earlier styles of taekwondo, often referred to... |
4094516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroyim%20v.%20Rusk | Afroyim v. Rusk | Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily. The U.S. government had attempted to revoke the citizenship of Beys Afroyim, a man born in Poland, because he ha... |
4094904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Grand%20Gulf | Battle of Grand Gulf | The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during the American Civil War. Union Army forces commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant had failed several times to bypass or capture the Confederate-held city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the Vicksburg campaign. Grant decided to move his army south of V... |
4095083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarmila%20Wolfe | Jarmila Wolfe | Jarmila Wolfe (née Gajdošová, formerly Groth; born 26 April 1987) is a Slovak-Australian former tennis player.
In her career, she won two singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Tour, as well as 14 singles and ten doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won her first WTA Tour title in 2006, emerging as ... |
4095564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20di%20Grassi | Lucas di Grassi | Lucas Tucci di Grassi (born 11 August 1984) is a Brazilian professional racing driver who is set to compete in the FIA Formula E World Championship for ABT CUPRA. He became the FIA Formula E Champion in 2016–2017, achieved three overall podiums at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and won the Macau Grand Prix in 2005.
Born in ... |
4095664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20birds%20of%20Arizona | List of birds of Arizona | This list of birds of Arizona includes every wild bird species seen in Arizona, as recorded by the Arizona Bird Committee (ABC) through January 2023. An additional accidental species has been added from another source.
This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Bird... |
4095924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20%28ethics%20and%20social%20sciences%29 | Value (ethics and social sciences) | In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions. Value systems are prospective and prescriptive beliefs; ... |
4095942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20McPhee | Katharine McPhee | Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. In May 2006, she was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol.
Her eponymous debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 381,000 copies (as of Dec... |
4095959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Yamin | Elliott Yamin | Efraym Elliott Yamin (born July 20, 1978) is an American singer known for his hit single "Wait for You" and for placing third on the fifth season of American Idol.
His self-titled album, released March 20, 2007, debuted at number one on the Billboard Independent Albums chart and at number three on the Billboard 200. T... |
4096004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Lankan%20Tamils | Sri Lankan Tamils | Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, form the plurality in the Eastern Province and are in the minority throughout the rest of the country. 70% of Sri Lankan Tami... |
4096055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Tism%C4%83neanu | Vladimir Tismăneanu | Vladimir Tismăneanu (; born July 4, 1951) is a Romanian American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and comparative politics, he is director of the University of Maryland's Center for the Study of Post-Communi... |
4096118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Azumanga%20Daioh%20characters | List of Azumanga Daioh characters | This is a list of characters from the manga series Azumanga Daioh by Kiyohiko Azuma, later adapted to anime.
The main cast consists of six schoolgirls and two teachers, along with a few secondary characters, the latter including Kimura-sensei, a male teacher with an obsession with teenage girls, and Kaorin, a classmat... |
4096402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorna%3A%20The%20Unicorn%20Girl | Acorna: The Unicorn Girl | Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997) is a science fantasy novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball. It was the first published in the Acorna Universe series. McCaffrey and Ball wrote the sequel Acorna's Quest after which McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough extended the series almost annually from 1999 ... |
4096460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399%20in%20English%20football | 1998–99 in English football | The 1998–99 season was the 119th season of competitive football in England.
Overview
Premier League
Manchester United overcame close competition from Arsenal and Chelsea to win their fifth Premiership title in seven seasons. They went on to win the treble of the Premiership title, FA Cup and European Cup, an achievem... |
4096625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Zimbabwean%20parliamentary%20election | 2000 Zimbabwean parliamentary election | Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe on 24 and 25 June 2000 to elect members of the House of Assembly. The electoral system involved 120 constituencies returning one member each, elected by the First Past the Post system, with the President of Zimbabwe then nominating 20 members and ten further members from th... |
4096659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing%20credentials%20and%20certifications | Nursing credentials and certifications | Nursing credentials and certifications are the various credentials and certifications that a person must have to practice nursing legally. Nurses' postnominal letters (abbreviations listed after the name) reflect their credentials—that is, their achievements in nursing education, licensure, certification, and fellowshi... |
4096743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000%20in%20English%20football | 1999–2000 in English football | The 1999–2000 season was the 120th season of competitive football in England.
Overview
Premier League
Manchester United were crowned FA Premier League champions with an 18-point margin over runners-up Arsenal and with just 3 league defeats all season. This was despite their failure to retain the European Cup and with... |
4096888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20United%20States%20elections | 2006 United States elections | The 2006 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, in the middle of Republican President George W. Bush's second term. In a political revolution that broke twelve years of Republican rule, the Democratic Party was swept into majorities in Congress, the governorships, and state legislatures across ... |
4096976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus%20in%20popular%20culture | Nostradamus in popular culture | The prophecies of the 16th-century author Nostradamus have become a part of the popular culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Nostradamus' life has been depicted in both fiction and non-fiction books as well as several films, and made-up prophecies that were said to be his were circulated online in several well-known... |
4097343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex%20Ryan | Rex Ryan | Rex Ashley Ryan (born December 13, 1962) is an American former football coach and analyst. Ryan was formerly the head coach of the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL), and also held various coaching positions with seven other NFL and college teams.
He and his fraternal twin brother Ro... |
4097799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Inconvenient%20Truth | An Inconvenient Truth | An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide.
The idea to ... |
4099213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20nursing%20schools%20in%20the%20United%20States | List of nursing schools in the United States | This is a list of nursing schools in the United States of America, sorted by state. A nursing school is a school that teaches people how to be nurses (medical professionals who care for individuals, families, or communities in order to attain or maintain health and quality of life).
Alabama
Alaska
University of Alas... |
4099456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guibord%20case | Guibord case | Brown v Les Curé et Marguilliers de l'Œuvre et Fabrique de Notre Dame de Montréal, better known as the Guibord case, was a decision in 1874 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in an early Canadian legal dispute over the relationship between church and state.
The question was whether the church officials of ... |
4100225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfowl%20hunting | Waterfowl hunting | Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in the UK) is the practice of hunting aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and other waterfowls or shorebirds for food and sport.
Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or identical hunting seasons, and are hunted using the ... |
4100315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20double | Gothic double | The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared in the 1796 novel Siebenkäs by Johann Paul Richter, the double figure emerged in Gothic literature in the late 18th century due to a resurgence of interest in mythology ... |
4101418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20preservation%20of%20the%20saints | Conditional preservation of the saints | The conditional preservation of the saints, or conditional perseverance of the saints, or commonly conditional security, is the Arminian Christian belief that believers are kept safe by God in their saving relationship with him upon the condition of a persevering faith in Christ. Arminians find the Scriptures describin... |
4101904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20balance%20analysis | Flux balance analysis | Flux balance analysis (FBA) is a mathematical method for simulating metabolism in genome-scale reconstructions of metabolic networks. In comparison to traditional methods of modeling, FBA is less intensive in terms of the input data required for constructing the model. Simulations performed using FBA are computationall... |
4101984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chaser%27s%20War%20on%20Everything | The Chaser's War on Everything | The Chaser's War on Everything is an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often... |
4102264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Whitton | Evan Whitton | Evan Whitton (5 March 1928 – 16 July 2018) was an Australian journalist.
Whitton was raised in Murgon in Queensland, and went away to boarding school at age eight. He worked as a teacher for 14 years in Toowoomba before securing a ful-time role as a journalist with The Toowoomba Chronicle. He then worked as a reporte... |
4102452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devdas%20%282002%20Hindi%20film%29 | Devdas (2002 Hindi film) | Devdas is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bharat Shah under his banner, Mega Bollywood. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles, with Jackie Shroff, Kirron Kher, Smita Jaykar, and Vijayendra Ghatge in supporting rol... |
4102537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayanthara | Nayanthara | Nayanthara (born Diana Mariam Kurian; 18 November 1984) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. One of the highest-paid actresses in India, she was the only South Indian actress to be featured in the Forbes India "Celebrity 100" list of 2018. She has acted in more than 80 films in... |
4102640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning%20%28philosophy%29 | Meaning (philosophy) | In philosophymore specifically, in its sub-fields semantics, semiotics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metasemanticsmeaning "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify".
The types of meanings vary according to the types of the thing that is b... |
4102665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Power | Julie Power | Julie Power (also known as Lightspeed) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman, the character first appeared in Power Pack #1 (May 1984).
Publication history
Julie Power featured in all 62 issues of Power Pack published by Marvel Comics b... |
4103514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Lodge%20of%20Pennsylvania | Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania | The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, officially The Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania and Masonic Jurisdictions Thereunto Belonging, sometimes referred to as Freemasons of Pennsylvania is the premier masonic organization in the Commonwealt... |
4103708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allu%20Arjun | Allu Arjun | Allu Arjun (born 8 April 1982) is an Indian actor known for his works mainly in Telugu cinema. One of the highest paid actors in India, Allu Arjun is also known for his dancing skills. He is a recipient of several awards including a National Film Award, six Filmfare Awards and three Nandi Awards. He has appeared in For... |
4103722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groveland%20Four | Groveland Four | The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four African American men, Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd, and Walter Irvin. In July 1949, the four were accused of raping a white woman and severely beating her husband in Lake County, Florida. The oldest, Thomas, tried to elude capture and was killed t... |
4103794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Prone | Operation Prone | Operation Prone was a proposed military operation by the South African Defence Force (SADF) and South West African Territorial Force (SWATF) during the South African Border War and Angolan Civil War between May and September 1988. With the advance of the 50th Cuban Division towards Calueque and the South-West Africa bo... |
4103941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence%20%281977%20film%29 | Providence (1977 film) | Providence is a 1977 French/Swiss film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by David Mercer. It explores the processes of creativity through a portrayal of an ageing novelist, played by John Gielgud, who imagines scenes for his latest novel which draw upon his past and his relationships with members of his fam... |
4103963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence%20spacing | Sentence spacing | Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet. These include a normal word space (as betwee... |
4104220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER%20locomotive%20numbering%20and%20classification | LNER locomotive numbering and classification | A number of different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and its constituent companies. This page explains the principal systems that were used. The following abbreviations for the constituent companies are used on this page:
Princip... |
4104307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Kerkvliet | Ben Kerkvliet | Benedict John Kerkvliet (born 1943) is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, Australian National University. He works across the areas of comparative politics, Southeast Asia and Asian studies. Kerkvliet was born and raised in Montan... |
4104602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1795%E2%80%931820%20in%20Western%20fashion | 1795–1820 in Western fashion | Fashion in the period 1795–1820 in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs and powder of the earlier 18th century. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, no one wanted to appear to be a member of the French aristocracy, and peo... |
4104862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemileia%20vastatrix | Hemileia vastatrix | Hemileia vastatrix is a multicellular basidiomycete fungus of the order Pucciniales (previously also known as Uredinales) that causes coffee leaf rust (CLR), a disease affecting the coffee plant. Coffee serves as the obligate host of coffee rust, that is, the rust must have access to and come into physical contact with... |
4105326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS%20tracking%20unit | GPS tracking unit | A GPS tracking unit, geotracking unit, satellite tracking unit, or simply tracker is a navigation device normally on a vehicle, asset, person or animal that uses satellite navigation to determine its movement and determine its WGS84 UTM geographic position (geotracking) to determine its location. Satellite tracking d... |
4105328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Helene%20%281958%29 | Hurricane Helene (1958) | Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the year, Helene was formed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles on September 21, 1958. Moving steadily westward, the storm slowly intensified, attaining hurricane ... |
4105977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Orders%20in%20Council%20for%20Northern%20Ireland | List of Orders in Council for Northern Ireland | This is a list of Orders in Council for Northern Ireland which are primary legislation for the region in the absence of a devolved legislature, and also for those powers not devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The statutory instruments containing the legislation are numbered in the main UK series (SI number) wit... |
4106135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Chautauqua | Colorado Chautauqua | The Colorado Chautauqua, located in Boulder, Colorado, United States, and started in 1898, is the only Chautauqua west of the Mississippi River still continuing in unbroken operation since the heyday of the Chautauqua Movement in the 1920s. It is one of the few such continuously operating Chautauquas remaining in the ... |
4106285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-referential%20encoding | Self-referential encoding | Self-referential encoding is a method of organizing information in one's memory in which one interprets incoming information in relation to oneself, using one's self-concept as a background. Examples include being able to attribute personality traits to oneself or to identify recollected episodes as being personal memo... |
4106344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20for-profit%20universities%20and%20colleges | List of for-profit universities and colleges | This is a list of for-profit institutions of higher education.
In the United States
Academy of Art University – San Francisco, California
American Career College – Los Angeles, California
American InterContinental University – more than 90% online, a subsidiary of Perdoceo
American National University – distance ... |
4106759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian%20Colleges | Corinthian Colleges | Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (CCi) was a for-profit post-secondary education company in North America. Its subsidiaries offered career-oriented diploma and degree programs in health care, business, criminal justice, transportation technology and maintenance, construction trades, and information technology. A remnant of t... |
4106762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20Life | Honda Life | The Honda Life is an automobile nameplate that was used on various kei car/city cars produced by Honda: passenger cars, microvans, and kei trucks. The first series of the nameplate was built between 1971 and 1974, with the nameplate revived in 1997 and used until 2014. The Japanese-market Life has rarely been marketed ... |
4107129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20New%20York%20City | Architecture of New York City | The building form most closely associated with New York City is the skyscraper, which has shifted many commercial and residential districts from low-rise to high-rise. Surrounded mostly by water, the city has amassed one of the largest and most varied collection of skyscrapers in the world.
New York has architecturall... |
4107160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyeonggi%20Academy%20of%20Foreign%20Languages | Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages | Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Languages, or GAFL (경기외국어고등학교, 京畿外國語高等學校) is a foreign language high school located in Uiwang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. It is equipped with two student dormitories, each for different genders,
with its own dormitory inspectors as staff. Students are divided into eight classes per grade by lang... |
4107195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Radulov | Alexander Radulov | Alexander Valerievich Radulov (; born 5 July 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey player for Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He had previously had two separate stints with the Nashville Predators, the NHL team which had drafted him, from 2006 to 2008 and again in 2012, as well one season wit... |
4107359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20A.%20Spragens | Thomas A. Spragens | Thomas Arthur Spragens ( ; April 25, 1917 – February 11, 2006) was an American administrator who was the 17th president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Spragens worked for the state and federal government early in his career, before joining the staff at Stanford Univer... |
4107544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin%20Chinese%20profanity | Mandarin Chinese profanity | Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human. Compared to English, scatological and blasphemous references are less often used. In this article, unless otherwise noted, the tra... |
4107617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Pickett%27s%20Mill | Battle of Pickett's Mill | The Battle of Pickett's Mill (May 27, 1864) was fought in Paulding County, Georgia, between Union forces under Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate forces led by General Joseph E. Johnston during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. Sherman sent Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood's division, ... |
4107663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbbecke | Lübbecke | Lübbecke (; ) is a town in northeast North Rhine-Westphalia in north Germany. This former county town lies on the northern slopes of the Wiehen Hills (Wiehengebirge) and has around 26,000 inhabitants. The town is part of district of Minden-Lübbecke within the Regierungsbezirk of Detmold in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region... |
4107689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle%20Mountain%20Railroad | Eagle Mountain Railroad | The Eagle Mountain Railroad (EMRR) was a private railroad in California, owned by the Kaiser Steel Corporation, and is owned today by Kaiser Steel's successor, Kaiser Ventures, Inc. of Ontario, California.
The EMRR is long and is located in Riverside County, California. Constructed in 1947–1948, it was used until 1... |
4107691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven%3A%20Call%20of%20the%20King | Haven: Call of the King | Haven: Call of the King is a 2002 multi-genre action-adventure video game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Midway Games for the PlayStation 2. The game was also scheduled for release on the Xbox and GameCube, to be published by Xicat Interactive, but both versions were cancelled. A Game Boy Advance versi... |
4107725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Kolb%27s%20Farm | Battle of Kolb's Farm | The Battle of Kolb's Farm (June 22, 1864) saw a Confederate corps under Lieutenant General John B. Hood attack parts of two Union corps under Major Generals Joseph Hooker and John Schofield. This action was part of the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War fought between the Confederate Army of Tennessee led by Ge... |
4107816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20University%20of%20Health%20Sciences | Western University of Health Sciences | Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) is a private medical school and health sciences university with its main campus in Pomona, California, with an additional campus in Lebanon, Oregon. With an enrollment of 3,724 students (2022–23), WesternU offers more than twenty academic programs in multiple colleges.
... |
4107927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hille%2C%20Germany | Hille, Germany | Hille is a community in the Kreis Minden-Lübbecke in the north of East Westphalia, Germany, with approximately 16,000 inhabitants. It was created in 1973 in the framework of the community restructuring of North Rhine-Westphalia through the combining of nine communities of the Minden countryside. The community is named... |
4108019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardclough | Ardclough | Ardclough, officially Ardclogh (; ), is a village and community in the parish of Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. It is two miles (3 km) off the N7 national primary road. It is the burial place and probable birthplace of Arthur Guinness, who is said to have returned to the maternal homestead of the Reads at Huttonread t... |
4108198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Staff | Jack Staff | Jack Staff is a British superhero created by comic book writer/artist Paul Grist. While the title character is billed as "Britain's Greatest Hero", the series is known for being in the style of an anthology title and featuring an ensemble cast, largely inspired by extant American and British characters from comics and ... |
4108481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska%20Cornhuskers%20football | Nebraska Cornhuskers football | The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the West Division of the Big Ten. Nebraska plays its home games at Memorial Stadium, where it has sold out every game since 1962.
Nebraska is among the most stori... |
4109042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20signaling | Cell signaling | In biology, cell signaling (cell signalling in British English) or cell communication is the ability of a cell to receive, process, and transmit signals with its environment and with itself. Cell signaling is a fundamental property of all cellular life in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Signals that originate from outside ... |
4109186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/122%20mm%20howitzer%20M1938%20%28M-30%29 | 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) | The 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) (GRAU index: 52-G-463) is a Soviet 121.92 mm (4.8 inch) howitzer. The weapon was developed by the design bureau of Motovilikha Plants, headed by F. F. Petrov, in the late 1930s, and was in production from 1939 to 1955. The M-30 saw action in World War II, mainly as a divisional artiller... |
4109253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20auxiliary%20ship%20classes%20in%20service | List of auxiliary ship classes in service | The list of auxiliary ship classes in service includes all auxiliary ships in naval service in the world. For combatant ships, see the list of naval ship classes in service.
Command and support ships
Command ships
Andenes command ship
Builder:
Displacement: 3,000 tons
Operator: : 3 in commission
HSwMS Trossö... |
4109390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpe%2C%20Germany | Olpe, Germany | Olpe is a town situated in the foothills of the Ebbegebirge in North Rhine-Westphalia, roughly 60 km east of Cologne and 20 km northwest of Siegen. It is part of the Regierungsbezirk of Arnsberg and is the seat of the district of Olpe.
Geography
Location
Olpe lies in the Sauerland on the southern edge of the Ebbegeb... |
4109452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhundem | Kirchhundem | Kirchhundem is a German community in North Rhine-Westphalia. It belongs to the Olpe district.
Geography
Location
The community of Kirchhundem lies in the Olpe district's southeast in the south Sauerland and belongs to the so-called Bilsteiner Bergland (mountain region). The Kirchhundem rural areas also include, in t... |
4109488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20forest | Urban forest | An urban forest is a forest, or a collection of trees, that grow within a city, town or a suburb. In a wider sense, it may include any kind of woody plant vegetation growing in and around human settlements. As opposed to a forest park, whose ecosystems are also inherited from wilderness leftovers, urban forests often l... |
4109505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice%20Cyclists | Solstice Cyclists | The Solstice Cyclists (also known as The Painted [Naked] Cyclists of the Solstice Parade, or The Painted Cyclists) is an artistic, non-political, clothing-optional bike ride celebrating the summer solstice. It is the unofficial start of the Summer Solstice Parade & Pageant, an event produced by the Fremont Arts Counci... |
4109690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosa%2C%20Goi%C3%A1s | Formosa, Goiás | Formosa is a municipality located in the state of Goiás, Brazil, approximately 80 kilometers northeast of Brasília. The population was 123,684 (estimation 2020) in a total area of 5,813.637 km2. Formosa is known for its waterfalls and natural environment. It is a large producer of cattle and grains and is one of the f... |
4109769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Calvinist%E2%80%93Arminian%20debate | History of the Calvinist–Arminian debate | The history of the Calvinist–Arminian debate begins in early 17th century in the Netherlands with a Christian theological dispute between the followers of John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius, and continues today among some Protestants, particularly evangelicals. The debate centers around soteriology, or the study of salva... |
4109835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard%20railway | Gotthard railway | The Gotthard railway (; ) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino. The line forms a major part of an important international railway link between northern and southern Europe, especially on the Rotterdam-Basel-Genoa corridor. The Gotthard Railway Company () was the forme... |
4109849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rami%20Malek | Rami Malek | Rami Said Malek (; , ; born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in ... |
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