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4364925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Anatolia | History of Anatolia | The history of Anatolia (often referred to in historical sources as Asia Minor) can be roughly subdivided into: Prehistory of Anatolia (up to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE), Ancient Anatolia (including Hattian, Hittite and post-Hittite periods), Classical Anatolia (including Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman period... |
4365444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Alan%20Vasey | George Alan Vasey | Major General George Alan Vasey, (29 March 1895 – 5 March 1945) was an Australian Army officer. He rose to the rank of major general during the Second World War, before being killed in a plane crash near Cairns in 1945.
A professional soldier, Vasey graduated from Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1915 and served o... |
4365490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20serrata | Banksia serrata | Banksia serrata, commonly known as the saw banksia, the old man banksia, the saw-tooth banksia or the red honeysuckle and as wiriyagan by the Cadigal people, is a species of woody shrub or tree of the genus Banksia, in the family Proteaceae. Native to the east coast of Australia, it is found from Queensland to Victoria... |
4365573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardwell%20Reforms | Cardwell Reforms | The Cardwell Reforms were a series of reforms of the British Army undertaken by Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell between 1868 and 1874 with the support of Liberal prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone paid little attention to military affairs but he was keen on efficiency. In 1870, he pushed throu... |
4365644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20song | List song | A list song, also called a laundry list song or a catalog song, is a song based wholly or in part on a list. Unlike topical songs with a narrative and a cast of characters, list songs typically develop by working through a series of information, often humorous or comically, articulating their images additively, and som... |
4365707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87anakkale%20Onsekiz%20Mart%20University | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (informally ÇOMÜ) is a Turkish public research university located in Çanakkale (Dardannelles) province (near Gallipoli) and its surrounding towns. It is a member of the Balkan Universities Network, the European University Association (EUA), International Association of Universities (IA... |
4365818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Lost%29 | Pilot (Lost) | "Pilot" is the two-part television pilot of the ABC television series Lost, with part 1 premiering on September 22, 2004, and part 2 one week later on September 29. Both parts were directed by J. J. Abrams, who co-wrote the script with series co-creator Damon Lindelof. Jeffrey Lieber, who had been commissioned by ABC t... |
4366385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaggs%20family | Skaggs family | The Skaggs Family, starting from a small frontier town in southern Idaho, came to have an important impact on merchandising across much of the United States. During most of the 20th century, the Skaggs name was prominent on hundreds of stores throughout the West and Midwest.
The origins of a wide range of these grocer... |
4366578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinguicula%20moranensis | Pinguicula moranensis | Pinguicula moranensis is a perennial rosette-forming insectivorous herb in the flowering plant family Lentibulariaceae. It is native to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. A species of butterwort, it forms summer rosettes of flat, succulent leaves up to 10 centimeters (4 in) long, which are covered in mucilag... |
4366781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20coat%20%28military%20uniform%29 | Red coat (military uniform) | Red coat, also referred to as redcoat or scarlet tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by British infantry servicemen, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche for the servicemen themselves.
The red coat was widely (though not exclusively) used by the infantry units of the British military, in... |
4367162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McInerney | McInerney | The name McInerney is of noble Irish origin where it is found in the modern Irish form of Mac an Airchinnigh () and in the old and literary forms of Mac an Oirchinnigh and Mac an Oirchindig. The pronunciation of Mac an Oirchinnigh led the name to be sometimes anglicised as McEnherheny in Irish documents from the 16th–1... |
4367298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamelodi%20Sundowns%20F.C. | Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. | Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club (simply known as Sundowns) is a South African professional football club based in Mamelodi, Pretoria in the Gauteng province that plays in the Premier Soccer League, the first tier of South African football league system. Founded in the 1970s, the team plays its home games in the Loftus... |
4367444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bhoys%20from%20Seville | The Bhoys from Seville | The Bhoys from Seville is a nickname used to refer to Celtic F.C.'s team and fans during Celtic's 2002–03 UEFA Cup campaign, which culminated in their defeat in the final against F.C. Porto in Seville, Spain. Around 80,000 Celtic fans travelled to support their team in the final. The name "The Bhoys from Seville" is a ... |
4367553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Academy%20of%20Art%2C%20The%20Hague | Royal Academy of Art, The Hague | The Royal Academy of Art (, KABK) is an art and design academy in The Hague, offering programs at both the HBO bachelor's and master's levels, as well as PhD programs. It is among the most prestigious universities in the Netherlands and enjoys international acclaim.
Succeeding the Haagsche Teeken-Academie (part of the... |
4367754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxyeicosatrienoic%20acid | Epoxyeicosatrienoic acid | The epoxyeicosatrienoic acids or EETs are signaling molecules formed within various types of cells by the metabolism of arachidonic acid by a specific subset of Cytochrome P450 enzymes termed cytochrome P450 epoxygenases. These nonclassic eicosanoids are generally short-lived, being rapidly converted from epoxides to ... |
4367801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serializability | Serializability | In concurrency control of databases, transaction processing (transaction management), and various transactional applications (e.g., transactional memory and software transactional memory), both centralized and distributed, a transaction schedule is serializable if its outcome (e.g., the resulting database state) is equ... |
4368250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20Fredericks | Marshall Fredericks | Marshall Maynard Fredericks (January 31, 1908 – April 4, 1998) was an American sculptor known for such works as Fountain of Eternal Life, The Spirit of Detroit, Man and the Expanding Universe Fountain, and many others.
Early life and education
Fredericks was born of Scandinavian descent in Rock Island, Illinois, on Ja... |
4368276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para-alpine%20skiing | Para-alpine skiing | Paralympic alpine skiing is an adaptation of alpine skiing for athletes with a disability. The sport evolved from the efforts of disabled veterans in Germany and Austria during and after the Second World War. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee Sports Committee. The primary equipment used in... |
4368634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese%20people | Taiwanese people | The term "Taiwanese people" has various interpretations. It may generally be considered the people living on the island of Taiwan who share a common culture, ancestry and speak Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, or indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue. Taiwanese people may also refer to the indigenous peoples of th... |
4368682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs%20in%20warfare | Dogs in warfare | Dogs in warfare have a very long history starting in ancient times. From being trained in combat, to their use as the scouts, sentries, messengers, mercy dogs, and trackers, their uses have been varied and some continue to exist in modern military usage.
History
War dogs were used by the Egyptians, Greeks, Persians... |
4368822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700%E2%80%931750%20in%20Western%20fashion | 1700–1750 in Western fashion | Fashion in the period 1700–1750 in European and European-influenced countries is characterized by a widening silhouette for both men and women following the tall, narrow look of the 1680s and 90s. This era is defined as late Baroque/Rococo style. The new fashion trends introduced during this era had a greater impact on... |
4368937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenchi%20Muyo%21%20Ryo-Ohki | Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki | , known as simply Tenchi Muyo! in North America, is a collection of Japanese OVAs created by Masaki Kajishima and animated by AIC. Initially released in 1992, it marked the beginning of the Tenchi Muyo! franchise, composed of several manga, OVAs, TV series, and other related media. The first two OVA series were later l... |
4368941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Ice%20Hockey%20League | New Zealand Ice Hockey League | The New Zealand Ice Hockey League (NZIHL) is New Zealand's top-level ice hockey league. Established in 2005 by Guenther Birgel, the NZIHL is sanctioned by New Zealand Ice Hockey Federation (a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation). The NZIHL is an amateur league with players not paid to play. The NZIHL cham... |
4369632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potyvirus | Potyvirus | Potyvirus is a genus of positive-strand RNA viruses (named after its type species, Potato virus Y (PVY)) in the family Potyviridae. Plants serve as natural hosts. Like begomoviruses, members of this genus may cause significant losses in agricultural, pastoral, horticultural, and ornamental crops. More than 200 species ... |
4369747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Boren | David Boren | David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is a retired American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and three terms in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. A conservative Democrat, to date, he is the last in his party to hav... |
4370145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan%20Miracle | Taiwan Miracle | The Taiwan Miracle () or Taiwan Economic Miracle refers to Taiwan's rapid economic development to a developed, high-income country during the latter half of the twentieth century.
As it developed alongside South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, Taiwan became known as one of the "Four Asian Tigers". Taiwan was the fir... |
4370435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20War%20%28376%E2%80%93382%29 | Gothic War (376–382) | Between 376 and 382 the Gothic War against the Eastern Roman Empire, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople, is commonly seen as a major turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, the first of a series of events over the next century that would see the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, although its ultim... |
4370629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Stores | American Stores | American Stores Company was an American public corporation and a holding company which ran chains of supermarkets and drugstores in the United States from 1917 through 1998. The company was incorporated in 1917 when The Acme Tea Company merged with four small Philadelphia-area grocery stores (Childs, George Dunlap, Bel... |
4370715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahlathini%20and%20the%20Mahotella%20Queens | Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens | Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens (also known as Mahlathini Nezintombi Zomgqashiyo and Mahlathini and the Girls of Mgqashiyo) were a South African mbaqanga supergroup made up of the three musical acts linked together by talent scout and record producer Rupert Bopape at the Gallo Recording Company in Johannesburg, Sou... |
4370870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Roman | Nancy Roman | Nancy Grace Roman (pronounced "Roman"; May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "... |
4370983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Frederick%20Starzl | Roman Frederick Starzl | Roman Frederick Starzl (1899–1976) was an American writer. He, and earlier, his father (John V. Starzl), owned the Le Mars Globe-Post newspaper of Le Mars, Iowa. Roman Frederick was also the father of physician Thomas E. Starzl.<ref name="LongSearch">"The Long Search for the Bohemian Ancestors of John V. Starzl, The Do... |
4371178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20wine | Spanish wine | Spanish wine () includes red, white, and sparkling wines produced throughout the country. Located on the Iberian Peninsula, Spain has over 1.2 million hectares (2.9 million acres) planted in wine grapes, making it the most widely planted wine-producing nation, but the second largest producer of wine in the world, behin... |
4371353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Arnold%20Stahlschmidt | Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt | Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt (15 September 1920 – 7 September 1942) was a German fighter pilot during World War II. A flying ace, he was credited with 59 victories against the Western Allies in North Africa. Stahlschmidt was a close friend of the prominent ace Hans-Joachim Marseille.
Early life
Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt wa... |
4371398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Filchock | Frank Filchock | Frank Joseph Filchock (October 8, 1916 – June 20, 1994) was an American gridiron football player and coach. As a consequence of a famous scandal regarding the 1946 NFL Championship Game, he was suspended by the National Football League (NFL) from 1947 to 1950 for associating with gamblers.
Early career
Born in 1916 in... |
4371403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift%20from%20Hijaz | Gift from Hijaz | Armaghan-i-Hijaz (; or The Gift of the Hijaz; originally published in Persian, 1938) was a philosophical poetry book of Allama Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of Islam.
Introduction
This work, published a few months after the poet's death, is a fairly small volume containing verses in both Persian and Urdu. It is i... |
4371484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th%20Chess%20Olympiad | 37th Chess Olympiad | The 37th Chess Olympiad (), organized by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between May 20 and June 4, 2006, in Turin, Italy. There were 148 teams in the open event and 103 in the women's event. In total, 1307 players w... |
4371603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge%20Kendal | Madge Kendal | Dame Madge Kendal, (born Margaret Shafto Robertson; 15 March 1848 – 14 September 1935) was an English actress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known for her roles in Shakespeare and English comedies. Together with her husband, W. H. Kendal (né William Hunter Grimston), she became an important theatre manager.... |
4371669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20minorities%20in%20the%20U.S.%20Armed%20Forces%20during%20World%20War%20II | Ethnic minorities in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II | Ethnic minorities in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II comprised about 13% of all military service members. All US citizens were equally subject to the draft, and all service members were subject to the same rate of pay. The 16 million men and women in the services included 1 million African Americans, along w... |
4371704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur%20Park%20Formation | Dinosaur Park Formation | The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago. It was deposited in alluvial and coastal plai... |
4371710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Chibi%20Vampire%20characters | List of Chibi Vampire characters | The Chibi Vampire manga series and its light novel adaptation feature a cast of characters created by Yuna Kagesaki. The series takes place in a fictional Japan where vampires live amongst humans and are slowly dying out from lack of reproduction. Among them is Karin Maaka, an unusual vampire who does not drink blood b... |
4371875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Try%20Some%2C%20Buy%20Some | Try Some, Buy Some | "Try Some, Buy Some" is a song written by English rock musician George Harrison that was first released in April 1971 as a single by American singer Ronnie Spector, formerly the lead vocalist of the Ronettes. She recorded it in London along with other Harrison compositions for a planned comeback album on the Beatles' A... |
4371894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Trak | A-Trak | Alain Macklovitch (born March 30, 1982), known by his stage name A-Trak, is a Canadian DJ, record producer, and record executive. He came to prominence in the late 2000s as an international club DJ and remix artist, known for incorporating highly technical turntable skills and scratching into his genre-spanning work. H... |
4372084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrimony%20of%20Saint%20Peter | Patrimony of Saint Peter | The Patrimony of Saint Peter () originally designated the landed possessions and revenues of various kinds that belonged to the apostolic Holy See (the Pope) i.e. the "Church of Saint Peter" in Rome, by virtue of the apostolic see status as founded by Saint Peter, according to Catholic tradition. Until the middle of th... |
4372285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Johnson | Daisy Johnson | Daisy Johnson, also known as Quake, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Gabriele Dell'Otto, the character first appeared in Secret War #2 (July 2004). The daughter of the supervillain Mister Hyde, she is a secret agent ... |
4372722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | History of the People's Republic of China | The history of the People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since 1 October 1949, when CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory (1949) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War. The PRC is the m... |
4372977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra%20Nova%20Expedition | Terra Nova Expedition | The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leadi... |
4373127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rugby%20league%20in%20South%20Africa | History of rugby league in South Africa | The History of rugby league in South Africa goes back as far as the 1950s. The 1990s brought about the establishment of the South African Rugby Football League to promote amateur rugby league.
Failed promotion - 1950s
In 1953, a committee was formed, headed by Mr. Ludwig Japhet, for the sole purpose of promotion of r... |
4373207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Gude | Hans Gude | Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Gude's art... |
4373458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Goodwillie | David Goodwillie | David John Hugh Goodwillie (born 28 March 1989) is a Scottish professional footballer who currently plays for Glasgow United.
Born in Stirling, Goodwillie came through the Dundee United youth system and he won the SPFA and SFWA Young Player of the Year awards for the 2010–11 season. His performances with United earned... |
4373530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Shoup | David M. Shoup | David Monroe Shoup ( December 30, 1904 – January, 13 1983) was a general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, served as the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, and, after retiring, became one of the most prominent critics of the Vietnam War.
Born in Indiana to an impo... |
4373640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Reigns | Roman Reigns | Leati Joseph Anoaʻi ( ; born May 25, 1985) is an American professional wrestler and former American football player. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Roman Reigns. He is the current and longest-reigning WWE Universal Champion in his second reign and the current... |
4373654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20culture | Video game culture | Video game culture or gaming culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed by video game hobbyists. As video games have exponentially increased in sophistication, accessibility and popularity over time, they have had a significant influence on popular culture, particularly among middle-class adolescents and young ... |
4374054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negombo | Negombo | Negombo (, ) is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the west coast and at the mouth of the Negombo Lagoon, in the Western Province, from Colombo via the Colombo–Katunayake Expressway.
Negombo is one of the major commercial hubs in the country and the administrative centre of Negombo Division. Negombo has a populat... |
4374512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20Barrymore%20Theatre | Ethel Barrymore Theatre | The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 241 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan, Mediterranean, and Adam styles for the Shubert family. The theater, named in honor of actress Ethel Barrymore, ... |
4374584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Guarneri | Giuseppe Guarneri | Bartolomeo Giuseppe "del Gesù" Guarneri (, , ; 21 August 1698 – 17 October 1744) was an Italian luthier from the Guarneri family of Cremona. He rivals Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) with regard to the respect and reverence accorded his instruments, and for many prominent players and collectors his instruments are the m... |
4374802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygosaccharomyces%20bailii | Zygosaccharomyces bailii | Zygosaccharomyces bailii is a species in the genus Zygosaccharomyces. It was initially described as Saccharomyces bailii by Lindner in 1895, but in 1983 it was reclassified as Zygosaccharomyces bailii in the work by Barnett et al.
Spoilage resulting from growth of the yeast Zygosaccharomyces is widespread, which has c... |
4375088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosauria | Stegosauria | Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Their geographical origins are unclear; t... |
4375289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 60th Infantry Regiment (United States) | The U.S. 60th Infantry Regiment is a regimental unit in the United States Army. Its 2nd and 3rd Battalion conduct Basic Combat Training.
Participating in three wars on three continents, the 60th has played a conspicuous role in the achievements of 5th Division in World War I and 9th Infantry Division in World War II a... |
4375834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos%20Gitai | Amos Gitai | Amos Gitai (; born 11 October 1950) is an Israeli filmmaker, who was trained as an architect.
Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York, and the British Film Institute in London. To date, Amos Gitai has created... |
4375912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss%20P-40%20Warhawk%20variants | Curtiss P-40 Warhawk variants | The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was a WWII fighter aircraft that was developed from the P-36 Hawk, via the P-37. Many variants were built, some in large numbers, under names including the Hawk, Tomahawk and Kittyhawk.
Allison-engined Model 75
XP-37
In early 1937, after realizing the Hawk 75 was inferior to more modern Eur... |
4376005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting%20and%20abstinence%20in%20the%20Catholic%20Church | Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church | The Catholic Church historically observes the disciplines of fasting and abstinence at various times each year. For Catholics, fasting is the reduction of one's intake of food, while abstinence refers to refraining from something that is good, and not inherently sinful, such as meat. The Catholic Church teaches that al... |
4376042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzanesque | Tarzanesque | Tarzanesque (in French: Tarzanide) is a term created by Frenchman Francis Lacassin used to describe characters in comic books inspired by Tarzan. A tarzanesque character resembles Tarzan in his physical resourcefulness, within a line of action that includes an adventurous life in the jungle, the gift of understanding a... |
4376380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20of%20War%20II | God of War II | God of War II is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). First released for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) console on March 13, 2007, it is the second installment in the God of War series, the sixth chronologically, and the sequel to 20... |
4376673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin%20Note | Stalin Note | The Stalin Note, also known as the March Note, was a document delivered to the representatives of the Western Allies (the United Kingdom, France, and the United States) from the Soviet Union in separated Germany including the two countries in West and East on 10 March 1952. Soviet general secretary and premier Joseph S... |
4376813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20rights%20in%20Egypt | LGBT rights in Egypt | Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Egypt face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
Contemporary Egyptian law does not explicitly criminalize same-sex sexual acts. Instead, the state uses several morality provisions for the de facto criminalization of homosexual conduct. Any beh... |
4376814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20countable%20ordinal | Large countable ordinal | In the mathematical discipline of set theory, there are many ways of describing specific countable ordinals. The smallest ones can be usefully and non-circularly expressed in terms of their Cantor normal forms. Beyond that, many ordinals of relevance to proof theory still have computable ordinal notations (see ordinal ... |
4377150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begomovirus | Begomovirus | Begomovirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Geminiviridae. They are plant viruses that as a group have a very wide host range, infecting dicotyledonous plants. Worldwide they are responsible for a considerable amount of economic damage to many important crops such as tomatoes, beans, squash, cassava and cotton. Th... |
4377286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor%20Daowu%20of%20Northern%20Wei | Emperor Daowu of Northern Wei | Emperor Daowu of Northern Wei () (4 August 371 – 6 November 409), personal name Tuoba Gui (), né Tuoba Shegui (), was the founding emperor of the Northern Wei. He was the grandson of the last prince of Dai, Tuoba Shiyijian. After the fall of the Dai state to Former Qin in 376, he was presumed to be the eventual succes... |
4377498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushi-oni | Ushi-oni | The , or gyūki, is a yōkai from the folklore of western Japan. The folklore describes more than one kind of ushi-oni, but the depiction of a bovine-headed monster occurs in most. Ushi-oni generally appear on beaches and attack people who walk there.
Description
Ushi-oni have brutal, savage personalites. Their appearan... |
4378020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Harlem | List of people from Harlem | This is a list of people from Harlem in New York City.
The early period (pre-1920)
John James Audubon – naturalist
Richard Croker – Tammany Hall politician, lived at 26 Mount Morris Park West
James Reese Europe – musician, credited with inventing jazz; 67 West 133rd Street
Thomas Gilroy – New York mayor
Alexande... |
4378212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20%28education%29 | Inclusion (education) | Inclusion in education refers to all students being able to access and gain equal opportunities to education and learning. It arose in the context of special education with an individualized education program or 504 plan, and is built on the notion that it is more effective for students with special needs to have the s... |
4378258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Solomon%20Cartwright | John Solomon Cartwright | John Solomon Cartwright, (September 17, 1804 – January 15, 1845) was a Canadian businessman, lawyer, judge, farmer and political figure in Kingston, Upper Canada. He was a supporter of the Family Compact, an oligarchic group which had dominated control of the government of Upper Canada through their influence with th... |
4378340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settled%20Land%20Acts | Settled Land Acts | The Settled Land Acts were a series of English land law enactments concerning the limits of creating a settlement, a conveyancing device used by a property owner who wants to ensure that provision of future generations of his family.
Two main types of settlement
Under a trust for sale, the property, which can be real... |
4378365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20East%20Fortune | RAF East Fortune | Royal Air Force East Fortune, or more simply RAF East Fortune, is a former Royal Air Force station located just south of the village of East Fortune. It is a short distance east of Edinburgh, in Scotland. RAF East Fortune was used as a fighter station during the First World War and later used by a night fighter operati... |
4379212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment%20ordering | Commitment ordering | Commitment ordering (CO) is a class of interoperable serializability techniques in concurrency control of databases, transaction processing, and related applications. It allows optimistic (non-blocking) implementations. With the proliferation of multi-core processors, CO has also been increasingly utilized in concurren... |
4379273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Curle | Adam Curle | Charles Thomas William Curle (4 July 1916 – 28 September 2006), better known as Adam Curle, was a British academic, known for his work in social psychology, pedagogy, development studies and peace studies. After holding posts at the University of Oxford, University of Exeter, University of Ghana and Harvard University,... |
4379295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20Resistance | Ulster Resistance | Ulster Resistance (UR), or the Ulster Resistance Movement (URM), is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary movement established by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland in November 1986 in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Origins
Ulster Resistance was preceded by a number of attempts at forming par... |
4379348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy%20Cripps | Peggy Cripps | Enid Margaret "Peggy" Appiah (née Cripps), MBE ( ; 21 May 1921 – 11 February 2006), was a British children's author, philanthropist and socialite. She was the daughter of the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Cripps and Dame Isobel Cripps, and the wife of Ghanaian lawyer and political activist Nana Joe Appiah.
Early life
... |
4379690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brancacci%20Chapel | Brancacci Chapel | The Brancacci Chapel (in Italian, "Cappella dei Brancacci") is a chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, central Italy. It is sometimes called the "Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance" for its painting cycle, among the most famous and influential of the period. Construction of the chapel was co... |
4379816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Carolina%20Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Human%20Services | North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services | The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS or DHHS) is a large state government agency in the U.S. state of North Carolina, somewhat analogous to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The NCDHHS has more than 19,000 employees. The NCDHHS has its origins in the former North C... |
4380127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th%20Fighter%20Squadron | 94th Fighter Squadron | The 94th Fighter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force 1st Operations Group located at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, Virginia. The 94th is equipped with the F-22 Raptor.
The 94 FS is one of the oldest units in the United States Air Force, first being organized on 20 August 1917 as the 94th Aero Squadron of t... |
4380305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatines | Palatines | Palatines () are the citizens and princes of the Palatine states of the Holy Roman Empire, controlled directly by the Holy Roman Emperor. After the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the Palatine nationality came to refer specifically to people of the Rhenish Palatinate, known simply as "the Palatinate".
American ... |
4380393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Kansas%20City%20metropolitan%20area | History of the Kansas City metropolitan area | The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area has records starting in the 19th century, as Frenchmen from St. Louis, Missouri moved up the Missouri River to trap for furs and trade with the Native Americans. The Kansas City metropolitan area, straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the... |
4380648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20service%20district%20%28New%20Brunswick%29 | Local service district (New Brunswick) | A local service district (LSD) was a provincial administrative unit for the provision of local services in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. LSDs originally covered areas of the province that maintained some services but were not made municipalities when the province's former county municipalities were dissolved ... |
4380690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberwesel | Oberwesel | Oberwesel () is a town on the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, whose seat is in Emmelshausen.
Geography
Location
Oberwesel lies on the river Rhine’s left (west) bank in the Rhine Gorge or Upper Middle Rhine, ... |
4380712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Scotland | History of the Jews in Scotland | The history of the Jews in Scotland goes back to at least the 13th century. It is not known when Jews first arrived in Scotland, with the earliest concrete historical references to a Jewish presence in Scotland being from the 13th century. King Edward I expelled 3,000 Jews from England in 1290 AD. Many of them fled to ... |
4380729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%3A%20A%20New%20Social%20Analysis | Power: A New Social Analysis | Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell (1st imp. London 1938, Allen & Unwin, 328 pp.) is a work in social philosophy written by Bertrand Russell. Power, for Russell, is one's ability to achieve goals. In particular, Russell has in mind social power, that is, power over people.
The volume contains a number of... |
4380898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Wicks | Simon Wicks | Simon "Wicksy" Wicks is a fictional character from the British BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Nick Berry between 1985 and 1990. Wicksy was introduced to take on some of the more adult storylines that had been scripted for another character, Mark Fowler; Mark's actor, David Scarboro, had left the serial prematurel... |
4381007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam%20Movement | Assam Movement | The Assam Movement (also Anti-Foreigners Agitation) (1979–1985) was a popular uprising in Assam, India, that demanded the Government of India detect, disenfranchise and deport illegal aliens. Led by All Assam Students Union (AASU) and All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP) the movement defined a six-year period of sus... |
4381244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Operations%20Group | 1st Operations Group | The 1st Operations Group (1 OG) is the flying component of the 1st Fighter Wing, assigned to the USAF Air Combat Command. The group is stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The 1st Operations Group is the oldest major air combat unit in the United States Air Force, being the successor organization of the 1st P... |
4381288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Cheshire%20line | Mid-Cheshire line | The Mid-Cheshire line is a railway line in the north-west of England that runs from Chester to Edgeley Junction, Stockport; it connects Chester with Manchester Piccadilly, via Knutsford. After Chester Northgate closed in 1969, the section between Mickle Trafford Junction and Chester was used for freight trains only unt... |
4381419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced%20oil%20recovery | Enhanced oil recovery | Enhanced oil recovery (abbreviated EOR), also called tertiary recovery, is the extraction of crude oil from an oil field that cannot be extracted otherwise. Although the primary and secondary recovery techniques rely on the pressure differential between the surface and the underground well, enhanced oil recovery functi... |
4381430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citipati | Citipati | Citipati (; meaning "funeral pyre lord") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. It is mainly known from the Ukhaa Tolgod locality at the Djadochta Formation, where the first remains were collected during the 1990s. The genus and... |
4381965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Archdiocese%20of%20Armagh | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh | The Archdiocese of Armagh (; ) is a Latin ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the northern part of Ireland. The ordinary is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh who is also the Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical province of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland. The mother chur... |
4382221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Galissonni%C3%A8re-class%20cruiser | La Galissonnière-class cruiser | The La Galissonnière-class cruisers''' were commissioned by the French Navy in the 1930s. They were the last French cruisers completed after 1935, until the completion of in 1956. They are considered fast, reliable and successful light cruisers. Two cruisers of this class, and , took part in the defence of Dakar in ... |
4382287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20verbs | German verbs | German verbs may be classified as either weak, with a dental consonant inflection, or strong, showing a vowel gradation (ablaut). Both of these are regular systems. Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irre... |
4382300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Gwyn | Richard Gwyn | Richard Gwyn (ca. 1537 – 15 October 1584), also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a Bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language. A Roman Catholic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Gwyn was martyred by bein... |
4382576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20battleship | Fast battleship | A fast battleship was a battleship which in concept emphasised speed without undue compromise of either armor or armament. Most of the early World War I-era dreadnought battleships were typically built with low design speeds, so the term "fast battleship" is applied to a design which is considerably faster. The extra s... |
4382733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage%20in%20Hinduism | Marriage in Hinduism | The Hindu marriage () is the most important of all the samskaras, the rites of passage described in the Dharmashastra texts.
Variously defined, it is generally described to be a social institution for the establishment and regulation of a proper relationship between the sexes, as stated by Manu. Marriage is regarded t... |
4382952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%20religion | Aztec religion | The Aztec religion is a polytheistic and monistic pantheism in which the Nahua concept of was construed as the supreme god , as well as a diverse pantheon of lesser gods and manifestations of nature. The popular religion tended to embrace the mythological and polytheistic aspects, and the Aztec Empire's state religion... |
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