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4173439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20breweries%20in%20California | List of breweries in California | This list of breweries in California, both current and defunct, includes both microbreweries and larger industrial scale breweries. Brewing companies range widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, ranging from small breweries to massive multinational conglomerates. Since 1983, California has allowed breweries... |
4173706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaligram | Shaligram | A shaligram, or shaligrama shila (), is a fossilized stone or ammonite collected from the riverbed or banks of the Kali Gandaki, a tributary of the Gandaki River in Nepal. It is also considered a form of Vishnu within Hinduism.
Legends
According to the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Brahmavaivarta Purana, and Shiva Purana, s... |
4173711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20molecular%20biology | History of molecular biology | The history of molecular biology begins in the 1930s with the convergence of various, previously distinct biological and physical disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, virology and physics. With the hope of understanding life at its most fundamental level, numerous physicists and chemists also took an int... |
4174010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20security | Port security | Port security is part of a broader definition concerning maritime security. It refers to the defense, law and treaty enforcement, and counterterrorism activities that fall within the port and maritime domain. It includes the protection of the seaports themselves and the protection and inspection of the cargo moving thr... |
4174285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real | The Real | In continental philosophy, the Real refers to the remainder of reality that cannot be expressed, and which surpasses reasoning. In Lacanianism, it is an "impossible" category because of its opposition to expression and inconceivability. The Real Order is a topological ring (lalangue) and ex-ists as an infinite homonym.... |
4174311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%20campaign | Cambodian campaign | The Cambodian campaign (also known as the Cambodian incursion and the Cambodian liberation) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. Thirteen operations were conducted by the Army ... |
4174431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem%20%28Mendelssohn%20book%29 | Jerusalem (Mendelssohn book) | Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism () is a book written by Moses Mendelssohn, which was first published in 1783 – the same year when the Prussian officer Christian Wilhelm von Dohm published the second part of his Mémoire Concerning the amelioration of the civil status of the Jews. Moses Mendelssohn was one o... |
4174517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algaculture | Algaculture | Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.
The majority of algae that are intentionally cultivated fall into the category of microalgae (also referred to as phytoplankton, microphytes, or planktonic algae). Macroalgae, commonly known as seaweed, also have many commercial and indust... |
4175082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Waziristan%20District | South Waziristan District | South Waziristan District (, ) was a district in the Dera Ismail Khan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province before splitting into the Lower South Waziristan District and the Upper South Waziristan District on April 13, 2022. It covers around 11,585 km2 (4,473 mi2). Waziristan is located in the southwest of Khyber... |
4175170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikonos | Nikonos | Nikonos is the brand name of a series of 35mm format cameras specifically designed for underwater photography launched by Nikon in 1963. The early Nikonos cameras were improvements of the Calypso camera, which was an original design by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Belgian engineer Jean de Wouters. It was produced in Franc... |
4175462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Tugboat | Theodore Tugboat | Theodore Tugboat is a Canadian children's television series about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends. The show originated (and is set) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada as a co-production between the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), and the now defunct Cochran Entertain... |
4175955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman%20Freeman-Thomas%2C%201st%20Marquess%20of%20Willingdon | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
Freeman-Thomas was born in England ... |
4176008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20al-Askari%20mosque%20bombing | 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing | The 2006 al-Askari Shrine bombing occurred on 22 February 2006 at approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, and targeted the al-Askari Shrine in the city of Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, has not been claimed by any group; the then President of the United States, George... |
4176189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah%20Edward%20Spurr | Josiah Edward Spurr | Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950) was an American geologist, explorer, and author.
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he was considered something of a failure as a youth, unsuited for the family fishing business, since on a voyage he invariably became seasick. Since he could not be a productive fisherman like his brother... |
4176279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Jackson | Carol Jackson | Carol Jackson is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Lindsey Coulson. The character was introduced in 1993 as the mother of the Jackson family. Coulson decided to quit the role in 1997, but she returned temporarily in 1999 within a storyline that contributed to both the introduction of ... |
4176378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn%20%22El%20Chapo%22%20Guzm%C3%A1n | Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán | Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo" () and "JGL", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world.
Guzmán was born in Sinal... |
4176481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20New%20Orleans%20mayoral%20election | 2006 New Orleans mayoral election | The first round of the New Orleans mayoral election of 2006 took place on April 22, 2006; a runoff between incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu took place on May 20, resulting in reelection for Mayor Nagin. The Mayor of New Orleans is the top official in New Orleans' mayor-council... |
4177188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20management%20%28electronics%29 | Thermal management (electronics) | All electronic devices and circuitry generate excess heat and thus require thermal management to improve reliability and prevent premature failure. The amount of heat output is equal to the power input, if there are no other energy interactions. There are several techniques for cooling including various styles of heat ... |
4177379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20resistance | Dutch resistance | The Dutch resistance () to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent. The primary organizers were the Communist Party, churches, and independent groups. Over 300,000 people were hidden from German authorities in the autumn of 1944 by 60,000 to 200,000 illegal ... |
4177463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crownsville%20Hospital%20Center | Crownsville Hospital Center | The Crownsville Hospital Center was a psychiatric hospital located in Crownsville, Maryland. It was in operation from 1911 until 2004.
History
Background
Crownsville Hospital Center was enabled by an act of the Maryland General Assembly on April 11, 1910 as the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland. This act als... |
4177643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycosura | Lycosura | Lycosura () was a city in the ancient Parrhasia region of south Arcadia said by Pausanias to be the oldest city in the world, although there is no evidence for its existence before the fourth century BCE. Its current significance is chiefly associated with the sanctuary of the goddess Despoina, which contained a coloss... |
4177947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20diesel%20engine | Aircraft diesel engine | The aircraft diesel engine or aero diesel is a diesel-powered aircraft engine. They were used in airships and tried in aircraft in the late 1920s and 1930s, but were never widely adopted until recently. Their main advantages are their excellent specific fuel consumption, the reduced flammability and somewhat higher den... |
4177979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Higginbotham | Danny Higginbotham | Daniel John Higginbotham (born 29 December 1978) is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in Manchester, England, he represented Gibraltar in international football.
Higginbotham started his career in the academy of Manchester United. After making his senior debut for the club, he was sent ou... |
4178047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%20men%27s%20national%20basketball%20team | Australia men's national basketball team | The Australian men's national basketball team, nicknamed the Boomers after the slang term for a male kangaroo, represents Australia in international basketball competition.
Since the late 1980s, Australia has been placed among the world elite teams as the Boomers have reached the semi-finals at both Summer Olympic Gam... |
4178059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanka%20Paldum | Hanka Paldum | Hanka Paldum (born 28 April 1956) is a Bosnian sevdalinka singer and founder of the record label Sarajevo Disk. She is regarded as one of the best female sevdah performers of the 20th century and is popular in her home country of Bosnia as well as in the rest of the former Yugoslavia.
Biography
1956–71: Early life an... |
4178379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Arshavin | Andrey Arshavin | Andrey Sergeyevich Arshavin ( ; born 29 May 1981) is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a winger or midfielder.
Arshavin began his career at Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2000. He went on to win numerous trophies with the club such as the Russian Premier League, League Cup, Russian Super Cup, UEFA Cup... |
4178541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docodonta | Docodonta | Docodonta is an order of extinct Mesozoic mammaliaforms (advanced cynodonts closely related to true crown-group mammals). They were among the most common mammaliaforms of their time, persisting from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous across the continent of Laurasia (modern-day North America, Europe, and Asia)... |
4178791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kiesha%27ra%20Series | The Kiesha'ra Series | The Kiesha'ra Series is a set of five fantasy novels written by the young adult author, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, which focus on several races of shapeshifters, including the avians (bird people), the serpiente (snake people), and the shm'Ahnmik (falcon people).
The series title, which is in a language from the series ca... |
4179072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Dragon%20Masters | The Dragon Masters | The Dragon Masters is a science fiction novella by American author Jack Vance. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, August 1962, and in 1963 in book form, as half of Ace Double F-185 (with The Five Gold Bands). It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1963. The story describes a human society living under p... |
4179247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Gallaher | Dave Gallaher | David Gallaher (30October 1873 – 4October 1917) was an Irish-born New Zealand rugby union footballer best remembered as the captain of the "Original All Blacks"—the 1905–06 New Zealand national team, the first representative New Zealand side to tour the British Isles. Under Gallaher's leadership the Originals won 34 ou... |
4179300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus%20%28comics%29 | Maximus (comics) | Maximus (otherwise known as Maximus the Mad) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted both as a member of and antagonist to the Inhumans. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, he first appeared in Fantastic Four #47 (February 1966).
Max... |
4179612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Whisperer%20in%20Darkness | The Whisperer in Darkness | The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Colour Out of Space (1927), it is a blend of horror and science fiction. Although it makes numerous references to the Cthulhu Mythos... |
4179702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp | Yelp | Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Ru... |
4179959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20state%20of%20emergency%20in%20the%20Philippines | 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines | The Philippines was under a state of emergency, announced by presidential spokesperson Ignacio Bunye on the morning of February 24, 2006, by the virtue of Proclamation No. 1017. This occurred after the government claimed that it foiled an alleged coup d'état attempt against the rule of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo... |
4179999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20in%20sports | 2010 in sports | 2010 in sports will describe the year's events in world sport.
Events by month
January
24th-31st Bandy World Championship in Moscow, Russia. Winner:
February
7 American football, , Super Bowl XLIV. Winner: New Orleans Saints.
12 – 28: Olympics, / 2010 Winter Olympics. Winner: Canada.
March
April
25: Marathon,... |
4180286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricco%20Rodriguez | Ricco Rodriguez | Ricco Rodriguez (born August 19, 1977) is an American semi-retired mixed martial artist currently competing in the heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 1999, he has competed for the UFC, PRIDE Fighting Championships, EliteXC, International Fight League, BAMMA, World Extreme Cagefighting, and Bellator. ... |
4180369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Army%20Balloon%20Corps | Union Army Balloon Corps | The Union Army Balloon Corps was a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War, established by presidential appointee Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. It was organized as a civilian operation, which employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, gas-filled balloons to perform aerial reconnai... |
4180388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%20national%20Australian%20rules%20football%20team | Australia national Australian rules football team | Australia has named a senior Australian Football team, known as the All-Australian team since 1947. This team, however has never officially played an international Australian rules football match. This is primarily because the sport is played professionally in Australia.
It has previously sent teams to play against Ir... |
4180595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Birthday%20to%20Me%20%28film%29 | Happy Birthday to Me (film) | Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford. Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular high school senior's birthday.
A co-production between the United States and Canada, the film was shot in Montreal and upstate... |
4180619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Joseph%27s%20College%2C%20Melbourne | St Joseph's College, Melbourne | St Joseph's College Melbourne was a Roman Catholic secondary college which opened early in 1903 and closed at the end of 2010. It was part of the Association of Edmund Rice schools, founded and run in the tradition of the Christian Brothers. Between the years 2000 and 2009 it formally operated two campuses, a senior ca... |
4180684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchboard | Witchboard | Witchboard is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on a college student who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was accidentally left behind at... |
4181037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaal%20Charles | Jamaal Charles | Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles (born December 27, 1986) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, where he won the 2006 Rose Bowl, and was drafted by the Kansas City... |
4181320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunder%20%28chess%29 | Blunder (chess) | In chess, a blunder is a critically bad move or decision. A blunder severely worsens the player's situation by allowing a loss of material, checkmate, or anything similar. It is usually caused by some tactical oversight, whether due to time trouble, overconfidence, or carelessness. Although blunders are most common in ... |
4181583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesu%2C%20meine%20Freude%2C%20BWV%20227 | Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 | (Jesus, my joy), 227, is a motet by Johann Sebastian Bach. The longest and most musically complex of Bach's motets, it is set in eleven movements for up to five voices. It is named after the Lutheran hymn "" with words by Johann Franck, first published in 1653. The motet contains the six stanzas of the hymn in its odd-... |
4181588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Watkins%20%28diplomat%29 | John Watkins (diplomat) | John Benjamin Clark Watkins (3 December 1902 – 12 October 1964) was a Canadian diplomat and scholar who served as Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1956. Describing Watkins as "sophisticated, erudite and fluent in Russian", Michael Dobbs of The Washington Post wrote that he was the "perfect ambassado... |
4181798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLANS%20%28non-profit%29 | PLANS (non-profit) | People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools (PLANS) is an organization based in California in the United States which campaigns against the public funding of Waldorf methods charter schools alleging they violate the United States Constitution's separation of church and state. The group claims independent Waldorf schools... |
4182178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houmt%20El%20Souk | Houmt El Souk | Houmt Souk ( ), meaning literally: "The Market neighbourhood", is a commune and the main town of the island of Djerba, Tunisia. A popular tourist destination, it is best known for its traditional souk and the Aghlabid fortress.
It is located at approximately from Ajim and from El Kantara by the Roman road. It is als... |
4182449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet%20computer | Tablet computer | A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers, have similar capabilities, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that ... |
4183147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Human | Last Human | Last Human is the title of a 1995 science fiction comedy novel written by Doug Naylor. It is part of the Red Dwarf series of novels, based on the popular television show created by Naylor and his partner Rob Grant. Like the other novels, it does not take place within the television series continuity, but instead adapts... |
4183615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ancient%20Iranian%20peoples | List of ancient Iranian peoples | This list of ancient Iranian peoples includes the names of Indo-European peoples speaking Iranian languages or otherwise considered Iranian ethnically or linguistically in sources from the late 1st millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium AD.
Background
Ancient and modern Iranian peoples mostly descend from the Pro... |
4183807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Ebenezer%20Le%20Page | The Book of Ebenezer Le Page | The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a novel by English writer Gerald Basil Edwards first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in 1981, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in the same year. It has since been published by Penguin books and New York Review Books in their classics series, as well as in Fr... |
4183831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Vera | Brandon Vera | Brandon Michael Vera (born October 10, 1977), or also known by his ring name as The Truth, is a Filipino-American (of Italian heritage) retired mixed martial artist where he was the inaugural ONE Heavyweight Champion and the 2005 WEC Heavyweight Grand Prix Champion. A professional competitor from 2002 until 2022, he co... |
4184370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Hawthorne | Frank Hawthorne | Frank Christopher Hawthorne (born 8 January 1946 in Bristol, England) is a Canadian mineralogist, crystallographer and spectroscopist. He works at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus. By combining Graph Theory, Bond-Valence Theory and the moments ap... |
4184438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston%20Lions%20FC | Preston Lions FC | Preston Lions Football Club (formerly Preston Makedonia Soccer Club) is a semi-professional soccer club from Preston, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club was established in 1947 to play non-professional soccer matches against other teams in the local community until 1959, and 12 years later, t... |
4184446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Springs%20George%20Cross%20FC | Caroline Springs George Cross FC | Caroline Springs George Cross Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Fraser Rise, a north-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and plays in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2, the second tier of football in Victoria, and third in Australia.
George Cross play at the City Vista Recreation ... |
4184506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen%20Cooper | Gwen Cooper | Gwen Cooper is a fictional character portrayed by Welsh actress Eve Myles in the BBC science-fiction television programme Torchwood, a spin-off of the long-running series Doctor Who. The lead female character, Gwen featured in every episode of the show's 2006–2011 run, as well as two 2008 crossover episodes of Doctor W... |
4184524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20NCAA%20Division%20I-A%20football%20season | 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season | The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-A level, began in late summer 1998 and culminated with the major bowl games in early January 1999. It was the first season of the Bowl Championship Series... |
4184623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Old%20Carthusians | List of Old Carthusians | The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611).
Politicians
Thomas Chataway (1864–1925), Senator for Queensland (1907–1913)
John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894–1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936–1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, ... |
4184719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayton%20State%20School | Drayton State School | Drayton State School is a heritage-listed state school at 71–89 Brisbane Street, Drayton, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by the Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built in 1912. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 February 2020.
History
Drayton State School (estab... |
4184750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20coast%20theater%20of%20the%20American%20Civil%20War | Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War | The Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War consists of major military operations in the United States on the Pacific Ocean and in the states and Territories west of the Continental Divide. The theater was encompassed by the Department of the Pacific that included the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada, t... |
4184775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20P.%20Jackson | Lisa P. Jackson | Lisa Perez Jackson (born February 8, 1962) is an American chemical engineer who served as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African American to hold that position.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jackson is a graduate of Tulane Univer... |
4184999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20King | Big King | The Big King sandwich is one of the major hamburger products sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain Burger King, and was part of its menu for more than twenty years. As of March 2019, it is sold in the United States under its 1997 Big King XL formulation. During its testing phase in 1996–1997, it was orig... |
4185076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20film%20spoofs%20in%20Mad | List of film spoofs in Mad | This list of film spoofs in Mad includes films spoofed (parodied) by the American comic magazine Mad. Usually, an issue of Mad features a spoof of at least one feature film or television program. The works selected by the staff of Mad are typically from cinema and television in the United States.
The authors parody th... |
4185088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Horse%20Too | Crazy Horse Too | Crazy Horse Too is a closed strip club located at 2476 Industrial Road in Las Vegas, Nevada, a few blocks west of the Las Vegas Strip. The club was known as Billy Jo's during the 1970s. In 1978, the club was purchased by Mob member Tony Albanese and renamed Billy Jo's Crazy Horse Too, after the Crazy Horse Saloon, anot... |
4185266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Red | Deep Red | Deep Red (), also known as The Hatchet Murders, is a 1975 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi. It stars David Hemmings as a musician who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves. The cast also stars Daria Ni... |
4185496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters%20of%20the%20Star%20Wars%3A%20Knights%20of%20the%20Old%20Republic%20series | Characters of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series | This is a list of characters appearing in the video games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003) and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004).
The main and player character of the first game is Revan, and the main and player character of the second game is the Jedi Exile. Both can be eith... |
4185711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20warship%20combat | Model warship combat | Model warship combat is an international club activity, in which participants construct radio-controlled scale models of actual warships, most commonly those built by various nations prior to 1946, such as the , , or the . The models are armed with pneumatic cannons, and fight against one another on ponds and lakes. Mo... |
4186046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier%20mass%20balance | Glacier mass balance | Crucial to the survival of a glacier is its mass balance of which surface mass balance (SMB), the difference between accumulation and ablation (sublimation and melting). Climate change may cause variations in both temperature and snowfall, causing changes in the surface mass balance. Changes in mass balance control a g... |
4186431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Frederick%20Kunz | George Frederick Kunz | George Frederick Kunz (September 29, 1856 – June 29, 1932) was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.
Biography
Kunz was born in New York City, USA, and began an interest in minerals at a very young age. By his teens, he had amassed a collection of over four thousand items, which he sold for four hundred dol... |
4186456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20riot%20of%201917 | Houston riot of 1917 | The Houston riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas. The incident occurred within a climate of overt hostility from members of the all-white Houston Po... |
4186524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945%20in%20baseball | 1945 in baseball |
Champions
Major League Baseball
World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4-3)
All-Star Game cancelled due to flight restrictions. However, inter-league games were played during the All-Star break.
Other champions
Amateur World Series: Venezuela
Negro League World Series: Cleveland Buckeyes over Homestead Gra... |
4186812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribri%20people | Bribri people | The Bribri are an Indigenous people in eastern Costa Rica and northern Panama. Today, most Bribri people speak the Bribri language or Spanish.
There are varying estimates from government officials of the group's population. Estimates of the total Bribri population range as high as 35,000 people, although official esti... |
4187004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20families%20of%20India | Political families of India | Although India is a parliamentary democracy, the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism, possibly due to the absence of party organizations, independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party, or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present... |
4187167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sone%20Aluko | Sone Aluko | Omatsone Folarin "Sone" Aluko (born 19 February 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Ipswich Town.
Aluko began his career at Birmingham City, graduating from the club's academy to make his senior debut in 2007. He joined Aberdeen on loan in the 2007–08 season and was loaned to Blackp... |
4187217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide%3A%20Life%20on%20the%20Street%20%28season%201%29 | Homicide: Life on the Street (season 1) | The first season of Homicide: Life on the Street, an American police procedural drama television series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between January 31 and March 31, 1993. The show was created by Paul Attanasio, with film director Barry Levinson and television writer and producer Tom Fontana serving as... |
4187252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran%20Civil%20War | Salvadoran Civil War | The Salvadoran Civil War () was a twelve-year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or "umbrella organization" of left-wing groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Uni... |
4187283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%20Potter | Horatio Potter | Horatio Potter (February 9, 1802 – January 2, 1887), was an educator and the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Dearth of biographical information
Potter "shrank from public notice, left no literary monument and has, regrettably, no biography. He is scarcely mentioned in the biographies of his older br... |
4187903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Watcher%20in%20the%20Woods%20%281980%20film%29 | The Watcher in the Woods (1980 film) | The Watcher in the Woods is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Hough and Vincent McEveety and starring Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, and David McCallum. Based on the 1976 novel by Florence Engel Randall, the film tells the story of a teenage girl and her little si... |
4188183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criollo%20people | Criollo people | In Hispanic America, criollo () is a term used originally to describe people of full Spanish descent born in the viceroyalties. In different Latin American countries the word has come to have different meanings, mostly referring to the local-born majority.
Historically, they have been misportrayed as a social class in... |
4188548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e%27s%20Arctic%20balloon%20expedition | Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition | Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members, S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg. Andrée, the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, ... |
4188933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20of%20the%20Lincoln%20Highway | Route of the Lincoln Highway | Note: A fully interactive online map of the Lincoln Highway and all of its re-alignments, markers, monuments and historic points of interest can be viewed at the Lincoln Highway Association Official Map website.
As the Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental highways for automobiles across the United ... |
4189127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20ecosystem | River ecosystem | River ecosystems are flowing waters that drain the landscape, and include the biotic (living) interactions amongst plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (nonliving) physical and chemical interactions of its many parts. River ecosystems are part of larger watershed networks or catchments, where smaller... |
4189422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-Tab | Alt-Tab | is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 2.0 (1987). This shortcut switches between application-level windows without using the mouse; hence it was named Task Switcher (Flip in Windows Vista).
orders windows by most recently used, thus repeated keystrokes will switc... |
4189537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Denver | List of people from Denver | This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States.
People born elsewhere but raised in Denver are marked with a §. People born and raised elsewhere who have lived in Denver as adults are marked with a #.
Academia
Harold Agnew (1921–2013), physicist
Hal A... |
4189740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20defense%20against%20herbivory | Plant defense against herbivory | Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores. Plants can sense being touched, and they can use several strategies to defend against damage caused by herbivores. Many plants pr... |
4189891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%20%26%20J%20Smith | H & J Smith | H & J Smith Holdings Ltd, branded as H & J Smith and known colloquially as H&J's or Smith's is a company which operates in the lower South Island of New Zealand. The company was founded in 1900. It primarily operates in department stores, specialty stores and franchises (some within the main department stores). The dep... |
4190331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Auca | Operation Auca | Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to bring Christianity to the Waodani or Huaorani people of the rain forest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known pejoratively as Aucas (a modification of , the Quechua word for 'savages'), were an isolated tribe known for the... |
4190413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%20Under%20Glass | Girls Under Glass | Girls Under Glass (GUG) is a musical group from Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1986 by Thomas Lücke, Hauke Harms, and Volker "Zaphor" Zacharias. Described as "an indispensable part of the German wave and gothic scene", GUG began as a gothic rock band, but quickly crossed genre boundaries, incorporating metal and electron... |
4190455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Delhi | Siege of Delhi | The siege of Delhi was one of the decisive conflicts of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The rebellion against the authority of the East India Company was widespread through much of Northern India, but essentially it was sparked by the mass uprising by the sepoys of the Bengal Army, which the company had itself raised in... |
4190672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%20Penney | Kirk Penney | Kirk Samuel Penney (born 23 November 1980) is a New Zealand professional basketball player. He played four years of college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers between 1999 and 2003, where he was twice named first-team all-conference and an all-American. He became the second New Zealander in the NBA when he appeared b... |
4190772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20Care%20and%20Sickness%20Benefits%20Convention%2C%201969 | Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969 | Medical Care and Sickness Benefits Convention, 1969 is an International Labour Organization Convention. It was established in 1969 revised Convention C24 Sickness Insurance (Industry) Convention, 1927 and Convention C25 Sickness Insurance (Agriculture) Convention, 1927.
Content
General provisions
Article 1
There a... |
4190780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Bicycle%20League | National Bicycle League | The National Bicycle League (NBL) was a United States–based Bicycle Motocross (BMX) sports sanctioning body originally based in Deerfield Beach, Florida, but after several moves it was based in Hilliard, Ohio. It was created by George Edward Esser in 1974 as first the bicycle auxiliary of the National Motorcycle Leagu... |
4190830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhyiddin%20Yassin | Muhyiddin Yassin | Tan Sri Dato' Haji Mahiaddin bin Md. Yasin (born 15 May 1947), commonly known as Muhyiddin bin Mohd. Yassin (; ), is a Malaysian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2020 to 2021. Appointed as prime minister amid a political crisis, Muhyiddin served for 17 months and resigned after losing... |
4190866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps%20of%20Royal%20Canadian%20Electrical%20and%20Mechanical%20Engineers | Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | The Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) () is a personnel branch of the Canadian Armed Forces (CF) that provides army engineering maintenance support. All members of the corps wear army uniform. From the 1980s to 2013 it was called the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Branch.
Histo... |
4190878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20violence%20in%20mass%20media | Effects of violence in mass media | The studies of violence in radio analyzes the degree of correlation between themes of violence in media sources (particularly violence in video games, television and films) with real-world aggression and violence over time.
Many social scientists support the correlation, however, some scholars argue that media researc... |
4190945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Scully | Stephanie Scully | Stephanie "Steph" Scully (also Hoyland) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Carla Bonner. She made her first screen appearance during the episode that was broadcast on 20 October 1999. Following Bonner's decision to quit the show after eleven years, Steph departed on 24 Novembe... |
4190992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%E2%80%93Hemings%20controversy | Jefferson–Hemings controversy | The Jefferson–Hemings controversy is a historical debate over whether there was a sexual relationship between the widowed U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his slave and sister-in-law, Sally Hemings, and whether he fathered some or all of her six recorded children. For more than 150 years, most historians denied rumo... |
4191587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Opera | Operation Opera | Operation Opera (), also known as Operation Babylon, was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The Israeli operation came after Iran's partially successful Operation Scorch Sword had caused minor d... |
4191676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian%20War%20%281804%E2%80%931813%29 | Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) | The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 was one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and began like many of their wars as a territorial dispute. The new Persian king, Fath Ali Shah Qajar, wanted to consolidate the northernmost reaches of his kingdom—modern-day Georgia—which had been annexed by Ts... |
4191732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwa%20al-Sulayhi | Arwa al-Sulayhi | Arwa al-Sulayhi, full name Arwā bint Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Mūsā aṣ-Ṣulayḥī (, c. 1048–1138, died 22nd Shaban, 532 AH or May 5, 1138 was a long-reigning ruler of Yemen, firstly as the co-ruler of her first two husbands and then as sole ruler, from 1067 until her death in 1138. She was the last of the rulers ... |
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