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4217268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Battle%20of%20Middlewich | First Battle of Middlewich | The First Battle of Middlewich took place on 13 March 1643, during the First English Civil War, and was fought between the Parliamentarians, under Sir William Brereton, and the Royalist supporters of King Charles I of England, under Sir Thomas Aston.
Background
In the summer of 1642 came the final split between the Ki... |
4217424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouts%20BSA | Scouts BSA | Scouts BSA (previously known as Boy Scouts, the official name until 2019) is the flagship program and membership level of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for boys and girls between the ages of typically 11 and 17. It provides youth training in character, citizenship, and mental and personal fitness. Scouts are expected... |
4217801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan%20eruption | Minoan eruption | The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis... |
4217861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20ancient%20Rome | Music of ancient Rome | The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Songs (carmen) were an integral part of almost every social occasion. The Secular Ode of Horace, for instance, was commissioned by Augustus and performed by a mixed children's choir at the Secular Games in 17 BC. Music was customary at fu... |
4218129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorad%20Dodik | Milorad Dodik | Milorad Dodik (, ; born 12 March 1959) is a Bosnian Serb politician serving as the 8th president of Republika Srpska since 2022. Previously, he served as the 7th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2022.
Dodik has also been serving as the president of the Alliance of Independent Social... |
4218214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%20Brook | Mother Brook | Mother Brook is a stream that flows from the Charles River in Dedham, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the Hyde Park section of Boston, Massachusetts. Mother Brook was also known variously as East Brook and Mill Creek in earlier times. Digging the brook made Boston and some surrounding communities an island, ... |
4218324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Branches%20of%20the%20Mabinogi | Four Branches of the Mabinogi | The Four Branches of the Mabinogi or are the earliest prose stories in the literature of Britain. Originally written in Wales in Middle Welsh, but widely available in translations, the is generally agreed to be a single work in four parts, or "branches." The interrelated tales can be read as mythology, political them... |
4218578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20OHA%20Junior%20A%20standings | List of OHA Junior A standings | This is a list of OHA standings and season-by-season summaries of the Ontario Hockey Association's Junior A division from 1933 to 1972, and its Tier I division from 1972 to 1974.
Legend
GP = games played
W = wins
L = losses
T = ties
Pts = points
GF = goals for
GA = goals against
1933–34
The Toronto St. Michael... |
4218597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky%20Hill | Ricky Hill | Ricky Hill (born 5 March 1959) is an English former footballer, spending most of his playing career at Luton Town FC for 14 years, while representing England at Senior, U21 and U18 International levels. Hill was the fourth Black player to play for England’s Senior National team and the first British South Asian to repr... |
4218602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Prothro | Tommy Prothro | James Thompson Prothro Jr. (July 20, 1920 – May 14, 1995) was an American football coach and player. He was the head coach at Oregon State University from 1955 to 1964 and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1965 to 1970, compiling a career college football record of 104–55–5 ().
Prothro moved to the... |
4218645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Corvette%20%28C1%29 | Chevrolet Corvette (C1) | The Chevrolet Corvette (C1) is the first generation of the Corvette sports car produced by Chevrolet. It was introduced late in the 1953 model year and produced through 1962. This generation is commonly referred to as the "solid-axle" generation, as the independent rear suspension did not appear until the 1963 Sting Ra... |
4218884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Bay%20Power%20Station | White Bay Power Station | The White Bay Power Station is a heritage listed former coal-fired power station on a site in White Bay, in the suburb of Rozelle, from Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.
The remains of the plant can be clearly seen at the western end of the Anzac Bridge on the junction of Victoria Road and Roberts Street. The st... |
4219002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Corvette%20%28C2%29 | Chevrolet Corvette (C2) | The Chevrolet Corvette (C2) is the second generation of the Corvette sports car, produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors (GM) for the 1963 through 1967 model years.
History
Origin and development
The 1963 Sting Ray production car's lineage can be traced to two separate GM projects: the Q-Corvette, and ... |
4219173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Corvette%20%28C3%29 | Chevrolet Corvette (C3) | The Chevrolet Corvette (C3) is the third generation of the Corvette sports car that was produced from 1967 until 1982 by Chevrolet for the 1968 to 1982 model years. Engines and chassis components were mostly carried over from the previous generation, but the body and interior were new. It set new sales records with 53,... |
4219348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Corvette%20%28C4%29 | Chevrolet Corvette (C4) | The Chevrolet Corvette (C4) is the fourth generation of the Corvette sports car, produced by American automobile manufacturer Chevrolet from 1983 until 1996. The convertible returned, as did higher performance engines, exemplified by the LT5 found in the ZR-1. In early March 1990, the ZR-1 would set a new record for t... |
4219361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20NASCAR%20Winston%20Cup%20Series | 1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | The 1997 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 49th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 26th modern-era NASCAR Cup series. It began on February 9 and ended on November 16. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won his second Cup championship at the end of the season.
It was the last season u... |
4219527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaunen | Rhaunen | Rhaunen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was the seat of the former Verbandsgemeinde Rhaunen.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies at the Idar Forest in the Hunsrück in a sprawli... |
4220348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20English%20inventions%20and%20discoveries | List of English inventions and discoveries | English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. Nonetheless, science an... |
4220361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Gilstrap | Jim Gilstrap | James Earl Gilstrap (born November 10, 1946) is an American singer and session musician. He is best known for his 1975 solo hit single "Swing Your Daddy", as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series Good Times.
Career
Gilstrap was born November 10, 1946, in Daingerfield, Texas to Jodie and Pearlie Mae (... |
4221050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Fowler | Lisa Fowler | Lisa Fowler (also Shaw) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Lucy Benjamin. The character was introduced as a "home-wrecking blonde" by executive producer Matthew Robinson on 7 December 1998. The character made her initial departure on 3 October 2002, when she was written out by produc... |
4221261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian%E2%80%93Dalmatian%20exodus | Istrian–Dalmatian exodus | The Istrian–Dalmatian exodus (; ; ) was the post-World War II exodus and departure of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) as well as ethnic Slovenes, Croats, and Istro-Romanians from Yugoslavia. The emigrants, who had lived in the now Yugoslav territories of the Julian March (Karst Region an... |
4221322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraklis%20F.C.%20%28Thessaloniki%29 | Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) | Iraklis F.C. () is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. As of 2021, the club competes in the Super League Greece 2. It plays its home matches at Kaftanzoglio Stadium.
Founded in 1908 as "Macedonikos Gymnasticos Syllogos" (Macedonian Gymnastics Club), they are one of ... |
4221824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund%20Sparkassen%20Chess%20Meeting | Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting | The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow.
The tournament is usually played in a round-robin or double round-rob... |
4221870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan%20O%27Brien | Conan O'Brien | Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows for almost 28 years, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–2009) and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009–2010) on the NBC television... |
4222109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Whitaker%20%28photographer%29 | Robert Whitaker (photographer) | Robert Whitaker (13 November 1939 – 20 September 2011) was a British photographer, best known internationally for his many photographs of The Beatles, taken between 1964 and 1966, with his best known work, the "Butcher Cover", which featured on the band's 1966's US-only album Yesterday and Today. He also worked with th... |
4222124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru%20EJ%20engine | Subaru EJ engine | The Subaru EJ engine is a series of four-stroke automotive engines manufactured by Subaru. They were introduced in 1989, intended to succeed the previous Subaru EA engine. The EJ series was the mainstay of Subaru's engine line, with all engines of this series being 16-valve horizontal flat-fours, with configurations av... |
4222171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur%20Fellows%20Program | MacArthur Fellows Program | The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in t... |
4222210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Humphreys | Murray Humphreys | Murray Humphreys (born Llewellyn Morris Humphreys; April 20, 1899 – November 23, 1965) (also known as The Camel or The Hump), was a Chicago mobster of Welsh descent who was the chief political fixer and labor racketeer, beginning during the Chicago Outfit during Prohibition. Considered to be a ruthless but also well-dr... |
4222487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans () was a non-championship 24-hour automobile endurance race from 14 to 15 June 2003 at the Circuit de la Sarthe near Le Mans, France for teams of three drivers each entering Le Mans Prototype and Grand Touring cars before approximately 220,000 people. It was the race's 71st edition, as orga... |
4222539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20safety%20and%20security | Nuclear safety and security | Nuclear safety is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "The achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public and the environment from undue radiation hazards". The IAEA defines nuclear securi... |
4222646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20NCAA%20Division%20I-A%20football%20season | 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season | The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions, defeating Virginia Tech in the BCS Sugar Bowl.
Florida State became the first team in history to start out preseason No. 1 and remain there through the entire season. Their 12–0 season gave them 109 victories in the '90s, the most f... |
4222856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944%20in%20baseball | 1944 in baseball |
Champions
Major League Baseball
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals over St. Louis Browns (4–2), in the "Streetcar Series"
All-Star Game, July 11 at Forbes Field: National League, 7–1
Other champions
Amateur World Series: Venezuela
Negro League World Series: Homestead Grays over Birmingham Black Barons (4–1)
Negro Le... |
4222874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20%28Kant%29 | Schema (Kant) | In Kantian philosophy, a transcendental schema (plural: schemata; from , "form, shape, figure") is the procedural rule by which a category or pure, non-empirical concept is associated with a sense impression. A private, subjective intuition is thereby discursively thought to be a representation of an external object.... |
4223320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Sheriff%20Shaider | Space Sheriff Shaider | is a tokusatsu television show that aired from March 2, 1984, to March 8, 1985. It is the last of the "Space Sheriff Series" of the broader Metal Hero Series franchise, the previous two being Space Sheriff Gavan and Space Sheriff Sharivan.
Action footage from Shaider was used for Season 2 of VR Troopers. For distribut... |
4223827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20Joe | Fat Joe | Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper from New York City. He began his music career as a member of hip hop group Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.) in 1992, he then embarked on a solo career a year later with his debut album Represent (1993). C... |
4224322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%20Sydney | AFL Sydney | AFL Sydney is an Australian rules football League, based in metropolitan Sydney, Australia which has been run since 1903. The AFL Sydney competition comprises 118 teams from 22 clubs which play across seven senior men's divisions, five women's divisions, a Master's Division and two under 19 men's competitions in season... |
4224582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20whisky | Japanese whisky | Japanese whisky is a style of whisky developed and produced in Japan. Whisky production in Japan began around 1870, but the first commercial production was in 1923 upon the opening of the country's first distillery, Yamazaki. Broadly speaking, the style of Japanese whisky is more similar to that of Scotch whisky than o... |
4224754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thevar%20Magan | Thevar Magan | Thevar Magan ( ) is a 1992 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Bharathan, and written and produced by Kamal Haasan. It stars Sivaji Ganesan, Haasan, Revathi, Gautami and Nassar; with Kallapart Natarajan, Kaka Radhakrishnan, Sangili Murugan and Vadivelu in supporting roles. The film's story involves a respected... |
4224812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Channel%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Channel (British and Irish TV channel) | The Disney Channel was a British and Irish children's pay television channel owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company (UK) Ltd.
The channel was broadcast from 1 October 1995 to 1 October 2020. A one-hour timeshift channel called Disney Channel +1 was available on Sky and Virgin Media. At the time of closure, the ... |
4224978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20model%20semantics | Stable model semantics | The concept of a stable model, or answer set, is used to define a declarative semantics for logic programs with negation as failure. This is one of several standard approaches to the meaning of negation in logic programming, along with program completion and the well-founded semantics. The stable model semantics is the... |
4225440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangam%20literature | Sangam literature | The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam) historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ) connotes the ancient Tamil literature and is the earliest known literature of South India. The Tamil tradition and legends link it to three literary gatherings ar... |
4225489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%20de%20Saint-Denys%20Garneau | Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau | {{Infobox writer
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4225610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Chesshyre | Hubert Chesshyre | David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre (22 June 1940 – 24 December 2020) was a British officer of arms.
Chesshyre served for more than forty years as an officer of arms in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth II and as a member of Her Majesty's Household. He was Clarenceux King of Arms, the second most senior member of the College of... |
4225731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Gurovi%C4%87 | Milan Gurović | Milan Gurović (; born 17 June 1975) is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current basketball coach. During his pro career, he played for numerous clubs from all over Europe. Gurović was also a member of the senior national teams of both FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia.
Early life
Guro... |
4225768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie%20Frazer | Willie Frazer | William Frederick Frazer (8 July 1960 – 28 June 2019) was a Northern Irish Ulster loyalist activist and advocate for those affected by Irish republican violence in Northern Ireland. He was the founder and leader of the pressure group Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR). He was also a leader of the Love Ulste... |
4225859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield%2C%20Ashton-under-Lyne%20and%20Manchester%20Railway | Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway | The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield and Manchester via Ashton-under-Lyne. The Peak District formed a formidable barrier, and the line's engineer constructed Woodhead Tunnel, over long. The company am... |
4225979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%20%28band%29 | D (band) | is a Japanese visual kei metal/rock band formed in 2003 by Asagi, Ruiza and Sin, after their previous band Syndrome disbanded. D's music includes heavy guitar songs, as well as melancholic ballads and even medieval music and folk dance from around the world. Their lyrics focus on love, human nature and esoteric themes,... |
4226489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckhart | Muckhart | Muckhart () commonly refers to two small villages in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, Pool of Muckhart () and Yetts o' Muckhart. Muckhart is one of the Hillfoots Villages, situated on the A91 around northeast of Dollar. The Gaelic name, Muc-àird, comes from muc ("pig") + àird ("height"), and may derive from the fact that t... |
4226634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Brunner | Thomas Brunner | Thomas Brunner (April 1821 – 22 April 1874) was an English-born surveyor and explorer remembered for his exploration of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Brunner was born in April 1821 in Oxford. When he was fifteen, he began to learn architecture and surveying. In 1841, he joined the New Zealand Company i... |
4226883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopolymer | Photopolymer | A photopolymer or light-activated resin is a polymer that changes its properties when exposed to light, often in the ultraviolet or visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. These changes are often manifested structurally, for example hardening of the material occurs as a result of cross-linking when exposed to l... |
4227281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Royal%20Regiment%20%28West%20Surrey%29 | Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) | The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was a line infantry regiment of the English and later the British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Army line infantry order of precedence.
In 1959, the regiment was amalgamat... |
4227607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20rights%20in%20Thailand | LGBT rights in Thailand | Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Thailand face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Thailand, but same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to ... |
4227961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20slug | Black slug | The black slug (also known as black arion, European black slug, or large black slug), Arion ater, is a large terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the round back slugs. Many land slugs lack external shells, having a vestigial shell. Most slugs retain a remnant of their shell, which is usually internali... |
4228118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20NCAA%20Division%20I%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament | The 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball season. Team selections were announced on March 11, 2007, and the tournament began o... |
4228120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20NCAA%20Division%20I%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament | The 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2007–08 basketball season. The 70th annual edition of the tournament began on March 18, 2008, and con... |
4228754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20National%20Grid | United States National Grid | The United States National Grid (USNG) is a multi-purpose location system of grid references used in the United States. It provides a nationally consistent "language of location", optimized for local applications, in a compact, user friendly format. It is similar in design to the national grid reference systems used ... |
4228818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Scalise | Steve Scalise | Stephen Joseph Scalise ( ; born October 6, 1965) is an American politician who has served as the House Majority Leader since 2023 and the U.S. Representative for since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the House Majority Whip from 2014 to 2019 and the House Minority Whip 2019 to 2023.
Before his el... |
4228976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Dickinson | Edwin Dickinson | Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11, 1891 – December 2, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits, quickly painted landscapes, which he called premier coups, and large, hauntingly enigmatic paintings involving figures and objects painted from observation, in which ... |
4229235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna%20of%20Madagascar | Fauna of Madagascar | The fauna of Madagascar is a part of the wildlife of Madagascar.
Madagascar has been an isolated island for about 70 million years, breaking away from Africa around 165 million years ago, then from India nearly 100 million years later. This isolation led to the development of a unique endemic fauna.
Before humans arr... |
4229853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lagos | History of Lagos | Lagos is the largest city of the West-African country of Nigeria, and its former capital; it is the third largest city in Africa in terms of population with about 15.3 million people. It is also the 4th largest economy in Africa.
Historical names
Lagos means "lakes" in Portuguese, the language of the first Europeans t... |
4229946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20contamination | Soil contamination | Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment. It is typically caused by industrial activity, agricultural chemicals or improper disposal of waste. The most common ch... |
4230217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camogie%20All%20Stars%20Awards | Camogie All Stars Awards | The Camogie All Star Awards are awarded each November to 15 players who have made outstanding contributions to the Irish stick and ball team sport of camogie in the 15 traditional positions on the field: goalkeeper, three full backs, three half-backs, two midfields, three half-forwards and three full-forwards. They wer... |
4230582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Melbourne%20Student%20Union | University of Melbourne Student Union | The University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) is one of two student organisations at the University of Melbourne, Australia. UMSU, incorporated as University of Melbourne Student Union, Inc. (UMSU) provides representation and services for all current students and the University of Melbourne.
Following the liquidati... |
4230598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20flat | Optical flat | An optical flat is an optical-grade piece of glass lapped and polished to be extremely flat on one or both sides, usually within a few tens of nanometres (billionths of a metre). They are used with a monochromatic light to determine the flatness (surface accuracy) of other surfaces, whether optical, metallic, ceramic, ... |
4231519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriott%20School%20of%20Business | Marriott School of Business | The Marriott School of Business is the business school of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1891 and renamed in 1988 after J. Willard Marriott, founder of Marriott International, and hi... |
4231578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie%20Hewett | Herbie Hewett | Herbert Tremenheere Hewett (25 May 1864 – 4 March 1921) was an English amateur first-class cricketer who played for Somerset, captaining the county from 1889 to 1893, as well as Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. A battling left-handed opening batsman, Hewett could post a large score in a short time aga... |
4231611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden%20Grammar%20School | Borden Grammar School | Borden Grammar School is a grammar school with academy status in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, which educates boys aged 11–18. A small number of girls have also been admitted to the Sixth Form. The school holds specialist status in sports.
History
Plans for a boys' school in Borden began in 1875, as a new way of usi... |
4231622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior%20temporal%20gyrus | Inferior temporal gyrus | The inferior temporal gyrus is one of three gyri of the temporal lobe and is located below the middle temporal gyrus, connected behind with the inferior occipital gyrus; it also extends around the infero-lateral border on to the inferior surface of the temporal lobe, where it is limited by the inferior sulcus. This reg... |
4231796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Abejas | Las Abejas | Las Abejas () is a Christian pacifist civil society group of Tzotzil Maya formed in Chenalhó, Chiapas in 1992 following a familial property dispute that left one person killed. When members of the community took the injured man to the nearest town for medical attention, they were accused of attacking him themselves and... |
4231828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirburn%20Castle | Shirburn Castle | Shirburn Castle is a Grade I listed, moated castle located at the village of Shirburn, near Watlington, Oxfordshire. Originally constructed in the fourteenth century, it was renovated and remodelled in the Georgian era by Thomas Parker, the first Earl of Macclesfield who made it his family seat, and altered further in ... |
4231834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%20Davis | Vernon Davis | Vernon Davis (born January 31, 1984) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins, and was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers sixth overall in the 2006 NFL Draft. In 2009, Davis co-led the NFL in touch... |
4231933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Ocean%20Strategy | Blue Ocean Strategy | Blue Ocean Strategy is a book published in 2004 written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD, and the name of the marketing theory detailed on the book.
They assert that these strategic moves create a leap in value for the company, its buyers, and its employees while unlocking new demand and making... |
4232075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy%20Salter | Mandy Salter | Mandy Salter is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Nicola Stapleton. Introduced on 12 March 1992 by producer Leonard Lewis, Mandy was portrayed as a teenage tearaway. She was featured in storylines about teenage homelessness, child abuse and recreational drug taking. Her relationship wi... |
4232526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20tracker | Solar tracker | A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the Sun. Payloads are usually solar panels, parabolic troughs, Fresnel reflectors, lenses, or the mirrors of a heliostat.
For flat-panel photovoltaic systems, trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic ... |
4232959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill%2C%20Virginia | Kingsmill, Virginia | Kingsmill is a geographic area in James City County, Virginia, that includes a large planned residential community, a resort complex, a theme park, a brewery, and a commercial park.
The Kingsmill area is between the north bank of the James River just east (downstream) of the site where the first permanent English sett... |
4232968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel-Dieu%2C%20Paris | Hôtel-Dieu, Paris | The Hôtel-Dieu (; "God Shelter") is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame. Tradition has it that the hospital was founded by Saint Landry in 651 AD, but the first official records date it to 829, making it the oldest in France and possibly the ol... |
4233107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20occupation%20of%20Estonia%20during%20World%20War%20II | German occupation of Estonia during World War II | During World War II, in the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence in 1918 from the then warring German and Russian Empires. However, in the wake of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Stalinist Soviet Un... |
4233262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaj%C4%81la%20Sutta | Brahmajāla Sutta | The Brahmajāla Sutta is the first of 34 sutta in the Dīgha Nikāya (the Long Discourses of the Buddha), the first of the five nikāya, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of (Theravada) Buddhism. The name means Net (jāla - net, netting, entanglement) of ... |
4233893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Flamingo | Captain Flamingo | Captain Flamingo is an animated series produced by a co-production between Breakthrough Films & Television, Heroic Film Company, Atomic Cartoons and animated by PASI Animation Studios and premiered on YTV on February 7, 2006, and ended on April 17, 2008.
The titular character is of unspecified young age. He has no rea... |
4234033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa%20Romeo%20105/115%20Series%20Coup%C3%A9s | Alfa Romeo 105/115 Series Coupés | The Alfa Romeo 105 and 115 series coupés are a range of cars made by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1963 until 1977, based on a shortened floorpan from the Giulia saloon. They were the successors to the Giulietta Sprint coupé.
Bodywork
The basic body shape shared by all models was designed by Giorgetto Giug... |
4234204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pink%20Panther%20Show | The Pink Panther Show | The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of animated shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1978, starring the animated Pink Panther character from the opening credits of the live-action films. The series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast Saturday... |
4236149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20New%20Zealand | 2002 in New Zealand | The following lists events that happened during 2002 in New Zealand.
Population
Estimated population as of 31 December: 3,989,500.
Increase since 31 December 2001: 73,400 (1.87%).
Males per 100 Females: 96.2.
Incumbents
Regal and viceregal
Head of State – Elizabeth II
Governor-General – The Hon Dame Silvia Cartwr... |
4236528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolved%20organic%20carbon | Dissolved organic carbon | Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is the fraction of organic carbon operationally defined as that which can pass through a filter with a pore size typically between 0.22 and 0.7 micrometers. The fraction remaining on the filter is called particulate organic carbon (POC).
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a closely relate... |
4236583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20search | Visual search | Visual search is a type of perceptual task requiring attention that typically involves an active scan of the visual environment for a particular object or feature (the target) among other objects or features (the distractors). Visual search can take place with or without eye movements. The ability to consciously locate... |
4236770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkrtich%20Khrimian | Mkrtich Khrimian | Mkrtich Khrimian (classical ; 4 April 182029 October 1907) was an Armenian Apostolic Church leader, educator, and publisher who served as Catholicos of All Armenians from 1893 to 1907. During this period he was known as Mkrtich I of Van (Մկրտիչ Ա Վանեցի, Mkrtich A Vanetsi).
A native of Van, one of the largest cities i... |
4237002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokai%20University | Tokai University | is a private non-sectarian higher education institution located in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Dr. Shigeyoshi Matsumae.
It was accredited under Japan's old educational system in 1946 and under the new system in 1950. In 2008, Tokai University, Kyushu Tokai University, and Hokkaido Tokai University were consolidat... |
4237048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20ceramics | Chinese ceramics | Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. The first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired... |
4237050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine%20of%20Philadelphia | Cuisine of Philadelphia | The cuisine of Philadelphia was shaped largely by the city's mixture of ethnicities, available foodstuffs and history. Certain foods have become associated with the city.
Invented in Philadelphia in the 1930s, the cheesesteak is the most well known, and soft pretzels have long been a major part of Philadelphia culture... |
4237181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Ranulph%20Marett | Robert Ranulph Marett | Robert Ranulph Marett (13 June 1866 – 18 February 1943) was a British ethnologist and a proponent of the British Evolutionary School of cultural anthropology. Founded by Marett's older colleague, Edward Burnett Tylor, it asserted that modern primitive societies provide evidence for phases in the evolution of culture, w... |
4237207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20correction%20code | Error correction code | In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels.
The central idea is that the sender encodes the message in a redundant way, most ofte... |
4237328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia%20Langton | Marcia Langton | Marcia Lynne Langton (born 31 October 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Langton is known for her activism in the Indigenous rights arena.
Early life and education
Ma... |
4237730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomero | Vomero | Vomero () is a bustling hilltop district of metropolitan Naples, Italy — comprising approximately and a population of 48,000.
Vomero is noted for its central square, Piazza Vanvitelli; the ancient Petraio, its earliest path up and down to the original city of Naples; its ancient district of Rione Antignano; Floridian... |
4237986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Cox%2C%20Baroness%20Cox | Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox | Caroline Anne Cox, Baroness Cox, (born Caroline Anne McNeill Love; born 6 July 1937) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 198... |
4238360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv%C3%A3o | Marvão | Marvão () is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2020 was 2,972 (and dropping at a rate of around one inhabitant per week), in an area of 154.90 km2. The present Mayor is Luís Vitorino, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is September 8.
Perched on a quartzite... |
4238664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%202006%20in%20sports | March 2006 in sports |
March 30, 2006 (Thursday)
Cricket: Pakistani cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2005–06
First Test at Colombo SSC: Sri Lanka 185 (Dilshan 69) and 448/5 dec. (Sangakkara 185, Jayawardene 85, Tharanga 72) drew with Pakistan 176 (Imran Farhat 69) and 337/4 (Shoaib Malik 148). Two-Test series tied 0–0; the Second Test begins M... |
4238684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-quadruplex | G-quadruplex | In molecular biology, G-quadruplex secondary structures (G4) are formed in nucleic acids by sequences that are rich in guanine. They are helical in shape and contain guanine tetrads that can form from one, two or four strands. The unimolecular forms often occur naturally near the ends of the chromosomes, better known... |
4238735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenglan | Altenglan | Altenglan is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kusel-Altenglan. Altenglan is a recognized tourism community. Also, named after the municipality is the Altengl... |
4238756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glan-M%C3%BCnchweiler | Glan-Münchweiler | Glan-Münchweiler is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Oberes Glantal.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in a hollow in the Glan valley in the uplands... |
4238840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nenberg-K%C3%BCbelberg | Schönenberg-Kübelberg | Schönenberg-Kübelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal, and is its seat. The municipality was formed on 7 June 1969 in the course of administr... |
4238857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldmohr | Waldmohr | Waldmohr is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Oberes Glantal.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies at the western end of the Landstuhl Marsh (a depression), right at the state boundary with the Saarland roughly 15 km southwest of Kusel, and 10 km nor... |
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