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4421511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Day%20%28Daniel%20Powter%20song%29 | Bad Day (Daniel Powter song) | "Bad Day" is a pop song by Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Powter from his self-titled second studio album (2005). It was written by Powter and produced by Jeff Dawson and Mitchell Froom. Powter and Dawson recorded the song in 2002, but were initially unable to find a record label to release it. The song was first us... |
4421648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Carey%20%28labor%20leader%29 | Ron Carey (labor leader) | Ronald Robert Carey (March 22, 1936 – December 11, 2008) was an American labor leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1991 to 1997. He was the first Teamster General President elected by a direct vote of the membership. He ran for re-election in 1996 and won, but in 1997 feder... |
4421780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20exchange%20risk | Foreign exchange risk | Foreign exchange risk (also known as FX risk, exchange rate risk or currency risk) is a financial risk that exists when a financial transaction is denominated in a currency other than the domestic currency of the company. The exchange risk arises when there is a risk of an unfavourable change in exchange rate between t... |
4422313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Malaysia%20Plan | Second Malaysia Plan | The Second Malaysia Plan (Malay: Rancangan Malaysia Kedua) was an economic development plan introduced by the government of Malaysia with the goal of implementing the Malaysian New Economic Policy (NEP). It lasted from 1971 to 1975 and aimed to "restructure" the society of Malaysia and reduce Malaysian Chinese and fore... |
4422465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-city | Velo-city | Velo-city is a series of cycle planning conferences that started in 1980 in Bremen. The name Velo-city is a small play on word using the French for bicycle – vélo, and Velo-city can also be read as velocity or speed. European Cyclists’ Federation owns the series name, and the ECF Board is the decision-making body for V... |
4422831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaven%20Bili%C4%87 | Slaven Bilić | Slaven Bilić (; born 11 September 1968) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Saudi Professional League side Al-Fateh.
Bilić, who played as a defender, began his career in 1988 with his hometown club Hajduk Split, later having successful spells with Karlsruher SC ... |
4423468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Testament%20of%20Arkadia | The Testament of Arkadia | "The Testament of Arkadia" is the twenty-third episode of the first series of Space: 1999. The screenplay was written by Johnny Byrne; the director was David Tomblin. The final shooting script is dated 5 February 1975, with a revised final shooting script dated 25 February 1975. Live-action filming took place Tuesda... |
4424066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londa%20Schiebinger | Londa Schiebinger | Londa Schiebinger ( ; born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. An international authority on the theory, practice, and history of gender and intersectionalit... |
4424314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Irish%20Horse | North Irish Horse | The North Irish Horse was a yeomanry unit of the British Territorial Army raised in the northern counties of Ireland in the aftermath of the Second Boer War. Raised and patronised by the nobility from its inception to the present day, it was one of the first non-regular units to be deployed to France and the Low Countr... |
4424476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Space%20Battleship%20Yamato%20characters | List of Space Battleship Yamato characters | This list of Space Battleship Yamato characters is a list, with biographical details, of major characters appearing in the anime series Space Battleship Yamato and its American dubbed version, Star Blazers, as well as the 2010 live-action film remake. Not all the American voice artists are known for the first two seas... |
4424567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20Tech%20Research%20Institute | Georgia Tech Research Institute | The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. GTRI employs around 2,400 people, and is involved in approximately $600 million in research annually for more than 200 clients in industry and government.
Initiall... |
4424711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%20Giants | Cuban Giants | The Cuban Giants were the first fully salaried African-American professional baseball club. The team was originally formed in 1885 at the Argyle Hotel, a summer resort in Babylon, New York. Initially an independent barnstorming team, they played games against opponents of all types: major and minor league clubs, semipr... |
4424771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20system%20%28driving%29 | Point system (driving) | Many countries have adopted a penalty point or demerit point system under which a person’s driving license is revoked or suspended based on the number of points they’ve accumulated over a specific period of time, points are given for traffic offenses or infringements committed by them in that period. The demerit points... |
4425018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Langley%20Park%20to%20Memphis | From Langley Park to Memphis | From Langley Park to Memphis is the third studio album by English pop band Prefab Sprout. It was released by Kitchenware Records on 14 March 1988. It peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart, the highest position for any studio album released by the band. Recorded in Newcastle, London and Los Angeles, it has a more... |
4425599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20River%20Tunnels | North River Tunnels | The North River Tunnels are a pair of rail tunnels that carry Amtrak and New Jersey Transit passenger lines under the Hudson River between Weehawken, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Built between 1904 and 1908 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to allow its trains to reach Ma... |
4425884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bascule%20bridges | List of bascule bridges | A list of bascule bridges by country:
Australia
Birkenhead Bridge carries traffic across the Port River at Port Adelaide
Tom 'Diver' Derrick Bridge - Port Adelaide, South Australia, single leaf road bascule
Mary MacKillop Bridge - Port Adelaide, South Australia, single leaf rail bascule
Batemans Bay Bridge, Bate... |
4425950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times%20Square%20Theater | Times Square Theater | The Times Square Theater is a former Broadway and movie theater at 217 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, near Times Square. Built in 1920, it was designed by Eugene De Rosa and developed by brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn. The building, which is no longer an active thea... |
4425997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20Western%20Eyes%20%28novel%29 | Under Western Eyes (novel) | Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It has also been interpreted as Conrad's... |
4426268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism%20in%20Iran | Zoroastrianism in Iran | Zoroastrianism is the oldest remaining religion in Iran. Founded around the middle of the second millennium BCE, the religion spread through the Iranian area through conversions and eventually became state religion in the Achaemenian Empire in the 6th century BCE. The religion still survives to this day in small commun... |
4426443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Carrier | Richard Carrier | Richard Cevantis Carrier (born December 1, 1969) is an ancient historian. He is long-time contributor to skeptical websites, including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs, Carrier has published a number of books and articles on philosophy and religion in classical antiquity, discussing the development of early Christ... |
4427446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%20McClendon | Aubrey McClendon | Aubrey Kerr McClendon (July 14, 1959 – March 2, 2016) was an American businessman and the founder and chief executive officer of American Energy Partners, LP. He also co-founded Chesapeake Energy, serving as its CEO and chairman. He was an outspoken advocate for natural gas as an alternative to oil and coal fuels, and ... |
4427981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noravank | Noravank | Noravank (, ) is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor in Armenia. The gorge is known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery. The monastery is best known for its two-storey Surb Astvatsa... |
4428062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20shaping | Tree shaping | Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices... |
4428406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI | DADVSI | Loi DADVSI (generally pronounced as dadsi) is the abbreviation of the French Loi relative au droit d’auteur et aux droits voisins dans la société de l’information (in English: "law on authors' rights and related rights in the information society"). It is a bill reforming French copyright law, mostly in order to impleme... |
4428596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20Cameron | Edwin Cameron | Edwin Cameron (born 15 February 1953 in Pretoria) is a retired judge who served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is well known for his HIV/AIDS and gay-rights activism and was hailed by Nelson Mandela as "one of South Africa's new heroes". President Ramaphosa appointed him as Inspecting Jud... |
4428615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cavil | John Cavil | John Cavil (Number One) is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. He is portrayed by Dean Stockwell. In the fourth-season episode "Six of One", Cavil's model number was revealed as Number One.
Background
John Cavil, aka Number One, is a humanoid Cylo... |
4429175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-use%20development | Mixed-use development | Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides ... |
4429235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Dakota%20Fighting%20Hawks%20men%27s%20ice%20hockey | North Dakota Fighting Hawks men's ice hockey | The North Dakota Fighting Hawks men's ice hockey team (formerly The North Dakota Fighting Sioux) is the college ice hockey team at the Grand Forks campus of the University of North Dakota. They are members of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) and compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)... |
4429395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem | Eminem | Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (; often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in Middle America and is frequently mentioned among the greatest rappers of all time. Eminem's global success ... |
4429772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flora%20of%20the%20Sonoran%20Desert%20Region%20by%20common%20name | List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name | The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of , it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert region inc... |
4430241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20of%20chance%20in%20English%20law | Loss of chance in English law | Loss of chance in English law refers to a particular problem of causation, which arises in tort and contract. The law is invited to assess hypothetical outcomes, either affecting the claimant or a third party, where the defendant's breach of contract or of the duty of care for the purposes of negligence deprived the cl... |
4430995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20Welsh%20Assembly%2C%202003 | List of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly, 2003 | This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly made in 2003. Statutory Instruments made by the Assembly are numbered in the main United Kingdom series with their own sub-series. The Welsh language has official equal status with the English language in Wales so every Statutory Instrument made ... |
4431477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 53rd Grand Prix of Endurance, as well as the fourth round of the 1985 World Endurance Championship. It took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe, France, on 15 and 16 June 1985.
The works Porsche team returned, with a Group C version of the 962. As favourites, they could expect from ... |
4431552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC%20CSKA%20Moscow | HC CSKA Moscow | HC CSKA Moscow (1946–present, , Central Sports Club of the Army, Moscow) is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. The club is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). It is referred to in the West as "Central Red Army" or the "Red Army Team" for its affiliation with the... |
4431555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBC%20CSKA%20Moscow | PBC CSKA Moscow | PBC CSKA Moscow () is a Russian professional basketball team based in Moscow, Russia. The club is a member of the VTB United League, and was a member of the EuroLeague. On February 28, 2022, EuroLeague Basketball suspended all Russian teams because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
CSKA won two titles between 2006 a... |
4431689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed%20states%20and%20union%20territories%20of%20India | Proposed states and union territories of India | This is a list of proposed states and union territories in India. The constitutional power to create new states and union territories in India is solely reserved with the Parliament of India. It can do so by announcing new states/union territories, separating territory from an existing state or merging two or more stat... |
4431866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Charles | Mel Charles | Melvyn Charles (14 May 1935 – 24 September 2016) was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half.
After a short stint on the Leeds United ground staff, he turned professional with his local club, Swansea Town, in 1952. He sp... |
4431917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyons%20of%20the%20Ancients%20National%20Monument | Canyons of the Ancients National Monument | Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape located in the southwestern region of the U.S. state of Colorado. The monument's are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, as directed in the presidential proclamation which created the site on Ju... |
4432216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Care | Danny Care | Daniel Stuart Care (born 2 January 1987) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Harlequins and the England national team.
Early life
Care was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He first played rugby union at age 6, with his local club in Leeds, West Park Bramhop... |
4432235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dutch%20painters | List of Dutch painters | This is a list of Dutch painters who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands. For artists born and active in the Southern Netherlands, see the List of Flemish painters. The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically by last name.
In general, artists are included that are mentioned at the A... |
4432697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Dixon%20%28actor%29 | Steve Dixon (actor) | Stephen Robert Dixon (born 1956 in Manchester, England) is a British actor and academic.
Early life
He studied performing arts at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating in the same class as Rik Mayall. He worked as an actor for many years, taking minor roles in films like Privates on Parade and on televisi... |
4432812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Lippard | George Lippard | George Lippard (April 10, 1822February 9, 1854) was a 19th-century American novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, and labor organizer. He was a popular author in antebellum America.
A friend of Edgar Allan Poe, Lippard advocated a socialist political philosophy and sought justice for the working class in ... |
4433814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial%20logistic%20regression | Multinomial logistic regression | In statistics, multinomial logistic regression is a classification method that generalizes logistic regression to multiclass problems, i.e. with more than two possible discrete outcomes. That is, it is a model that is used to predict the probabilities of the different possible outcomes of a categorically distributed d... |
4434812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20video | Viral video | A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email. For a video to be shareable or spreadable, it must focus on the social logics and cultural practices that have enabled and popularized th... |
4435095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Asad | Muhammad Asad | Muhammad Asad, ( , , born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Jew and convert to Islam who worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, political theorist, diplomat.
His translation of the Quran in English, "The Message of The Qur'an" is one of the most notable of his wor... |
4435357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Beetleborgs%20monsters | List of Beetleborgs monsters | This is a list of Beetleborgs monsters featured in both versions of the American children's television series.
Big Bad Beetleborgs
Here is a list of monsters brought out of the comics by the Magnavores. The monsters here are adapted from Juukou B-Fighter:
Amphibious Monster
First Appearance: "Beetle Rock, Part 1" (9... |
4435786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus%20in%20popular%20culture | Tyrannosaurus in popular culture | Tyrannosaurus rex is unique among dinosaurs in its place in modern culture; paleontologist Robert Bakker has called it "the most popular dinosaur among people of all ages, all cultures, and all nationalities". Paleontologists Mark Norell and Lowell Dingus have likewise called it "the most famous dinosaur of all times."... |
4435820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20military%20ballooning | History of military ballooning | Balloons and kites were the first inventions used in aerial warfare and their primary role was observation. Balloons provided a reliable and stable means of elevating an observer high over the battlefield to obtain a birds-eye view of troop positions and movements. An early instrument of aerial intelligence collection,... |
4435883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunfire%20%28series%29 | Sunfire (series) | Sunfire is a series of young adult historical romance novels published by Scholastic Books in the 1980s. They are currently out of print.
Background
The books were written by a group of authors, including Vivian Schurfranz (9), Jane Claypool Miner (6), Candice F. Ransom (6), Mary Francis Shura (6), Jeffie Ross Gordon... |
4436357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat%20Manor | Meerkat Manor | Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films that premiered in September 2005. Originally broadcast on Animal Planet International for four seasons, until its cancellation in August 2008, the programme had a revival in 2021 with the programme now known as Meerkat Manor: Rise of ... |
4436484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20football%20league%20system | German football league system | The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for association football in Germany that in the 2016–17 season consisted of 2,235 leagues in up to 13 levels having 31,645 teams, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and re... |
4436534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon%20Dingle | Marlon Dingle | Marlon Dingle is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale, played by Mark Charnock. He made his first appearance during the episode broadcast on 17 October 1996. For his portrayal of Marlon, Charnock won the British Soap Award for Outstanding Achievement at the 2023 British Soap Awards.
S... |
4436735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20Tour | Studio Tour | The Studio Tour (also known as The Backlot Tour) is a ride attraction at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Universal City, California near Los Angeles. Studio Tour is the theme park's signature attraction. It travels through a working film studio, with various film sets on the Universal Studios Lot. Guests ... |
4436871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20delimitation%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union | National delimitation in the Soviet Union | National delimitation in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the process of specifying well-defined national territorial units (Soviet socialist republics [SSR], autonomous Soviet socialist republics [ASSR], autonomous oblasts [provinces], raions [districts] and okrugs [circuits]) from the ethnic diversity of t... |
4436947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable%20II | Fable II | Fable II is a 2008 action role-playing open world video game, developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox 360. The game is the second installment in the Fable game series, and the sequel to 2004's Fable. The story takes place within the fictional land of Albion, 500 years after the fi... |
4437207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Battalion%2C%207th%20Marines | 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines | The 3rd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment (3/7) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps. They are based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and consist of approximately 800 Marines. The battalion falls under the command of the 7th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Division. ... |
4437256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooropa%20%28song%29 | Zooropa (song) | "Zooropa" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the opening track from their 1993 album of the same name. The song was the result of combining two pieces of music, the first of which was conceived in the studio, and the second of which was a soundcheck recording from one of the group's concert tours that was discover... |
4437430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20clone | Grand Theft Auto clone | A Grand Theft Auto clone (often shortened to GTA clone) is a subgenre of open world action-adventure video games, characterized by their likeness to the Grand Theft Auto series in either gameplay, or overall design. In these types of open world games, players may find and use a variety of vehicles and weapons while roa... |
4437504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20industry%20in%20India | Automotive industry in India | The automotive industry in India is the fourth-largest by production in the world as per 2022 statistics. As of 2023, India is the 3rd largest automobile market in the world in terms of sales. In 2022, India became the fourth largest country in the world by the valuation of its automotive industry.
, India's auto indu... |
4437640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine%20Labaki | Nadine Labaki | Nadine Labaki ( Nādīn Labikī; born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese and Canadian actress, director, and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her filmmaking career began in 2007 after the release of her debut film, Caramel, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. She is k... |
4437777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinetopsia | Akinetopsia | Akinetopsia (Greek: a for "without", kine for "to move" and opsia for "seeing"), also known as cerebral akinetopsia or motion blindness, is a term introduced by Semir Zeki to describe an extremely rare neuropsychological disorder, having only been documented in a handful of medical cases, in which a patient cannot perc... |
4437923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior%20State | Gwalior State | Gwalior state was a semi-autonomous Maratha state. It was centred in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, arising due to the rise of the Maratha Empire and fragmentation of the Mughal Empire.
It was ruled by the House of Scindia (anglicized from Shinde), a Hindu Maratha dynasty, and was entitled to a 21-gun salute when it becam... |
4438164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazria | Tazria | Tazria, Thazria, Thazri'a, Sazria, or Ki Tazria (—Hebrew for "childbirth", the 13th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah, where the root word means "seed") is the 27th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah de... |
4438586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Sino-Russian%20relations | History of Sino-Russian relations | Prior to the 17th century, China and Russia were on opposite ends of Siberia, which was populated by independent nomads. By about 1640 Russian settlers had traversed most of Siberia and founded settlements in the Amur River basin. From 1652 to 1689, China's armies drove the Russian settlers out, but after 1689, China a... |
4438808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20War%20Island | Great War Island | Great War Island () is a river island in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of Sava and Danube rivers. Though uninhabited, the island is part of the Belgrade City proper, and belongs to the city municipality of Zemun.
Location
Great War Island is located at the mouth of the Sava river into ... |
4439533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20executions%20of%20Iranian%20political%20prisoners | 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners | A series of mass executions of political prisoners ordered by Ayatollah Khomeini and carried out by Iranian officials, took place across Iran, starting on 19 July 1988 and continuing for approximately five months. The killings took place in at least 32 cities across the country, and estimates of the number killed rang... |
4439627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese%20nationality%20law | Maltese nationality law | Maltese nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of Malta. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Maltese Citizenship Act, which came into force on 21 September 1964. Malta is a member state of the European Union (EU) and all Maltese nationals are EU citizens. They have a... |
4439660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Dianetics%20and%20Scientology | History of Dianetics and Scientology | History of Dianetics and Scientology begins around 1950. During the late 1940s, L. Ron Hubbard began developing a mental therapy system which he called Dianetics. Hubbard had tried to interest the medical profession in his techniques, including the Gerontological Society, the Journal of the American Medical Association... |
4439803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindfold%20%28comics%29 | Blindfold (comics) | Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) is a fictional character, a mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a member of the student body of the Xavier Institute in X-Men-related comic books. She first appeared in Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #7 and was created by Joss Whed... |
4439852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian%20Americans | Colombian Americans | Colombian Americans (), are Americans who trace their ancestry to Colombia. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of full or partial Colombian descent or to someone who has immigrated to the United States from Colombia. Colombian Americans are the sixth-largest Latin American group and the largest Sou... |
4439880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional%20Court%20of%20Korea | Constitutional Court of Korea | The Constitutional Court of Korea () is one of the highest courts—along with the Supreme Court—in South Korea's judiciary that exercises constitutional review, seated in Jongno, Seoul. The South Korean Constitution vests judicial power in courts composed of judges, which establishes the ordinary-court system, but also ... |
4440060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger%20rail%20transport%20in%20China | Passenger rail transport in China | Passenger rail transport is one of the principal means of transport in the People's Republic of China, with rail passenger traffic exceeding 1.86 billion railway trips in 2011. It is operated by the China Railway Corporation (CR). The Spring Festival Travel Season is the peak railway travel season of the year.
Passeng... |
4440277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander%20%28film%29 | Highlander (film) | Highlander is a 1986 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Russell Mulcahy from a screenplay by Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson. It stars Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, and Sean Connery. The film chronicles the climax of an age-old war between immortal warriors, depicted through ... |
4440305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander%20II%3A%20The%20Quickening | Highlander II: The Quickening | Highlander II: The Quickening is a 1991 science fiction film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside and Sean Connery. It is the second installment in the Highlander film series and sequel to the 1986 fantasy film Highlander. Set in the year 2024, the plot concern... |
4440380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finis%20L.%20Bates | Finis L. Bates | Finis Langdon Bates (August 22, 1848 – November 29, 1923) was an American lawyer and author of The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth (1907). In this 309-page book, Bates claimed that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, was not killed by Union Army Soldiers on April 26, 1865, but suc... |
4440995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 52nd Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 16 – 17 June 1984. It was also the third round of the 1984 World Endurance Championship.
There were two big stories going into the race weekend: the absence of the Porsche works team and their drivers, and the return of Jaguar. Bob Tu... |
4441281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement%20Jeunesse%20du%20Qu%C3%A9bec | Parlement Jeunesse du Québec | The Parlement jeunesse du Québec (PJQ) is one of a number of provincial youth parliaments across Canada. Each year, about a hundred of young participants, aged between 18 and 25, meet up in Quebec to discuss and debate like the real politicians. It aims to reproduce the functioning of the parliament of Quebec, the Nati... |
4442071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20foreign%20policy%20toward%20the%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | United States foreign policy toward the People's Republic of China | <noinclude>
The United States foreign policy toward the People's Republic of China originated during the Cold War. At that time, the U.S. had a containment policy against communist states. The leaked Pentagon Papers indicated the efforts by the U.S. to contain China through military actions undertaken in the Vietnam Wa... |
4442102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Ricans%20in%20New%20York%20City | Puerto Ricans in New York City | Puerto Ricans have both immigrated and migrated to New York City. The first group of Puerto Ricans immigrated to New York City in the mid-19th century when Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony and its people Spanish subjects. The following wave of Puerto Ricans to move to New York City did so after the Spanish–American War... |
4442437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20India | Prostitution in India | Prostitution is legal in India, but a number of related activities including soliciting, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel, child prostitution, pimping and pandering are illegal. There are, however, many brothels illegally operating in Indian cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, B... |
4442484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution%20in%20Asia | Prostitution in Asia | The legality of prostitution in Asia varies by country. There is often a significant difference in Asia between prostitution laws and the practice of prostitution. In 2011, the Asian Commission on AIDS estimated there were 10 million sex workers in Asia and 75 million male customers.
Child prostitution is a serious p... |
4442738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Cavendish | Mark Cavendish | Mark Simon Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a British professional road racing cyclist from the Isle of Man who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . As a track cyclist he specialises in the madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines; as a road racer he is a sprinter. He is widely considered one of the greatest r... |
4442780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans%20in%20China | Koreans in China | Koreans in China () includes non-Chinese nationalities such as South Korean and North Korean people living in Mainland China to study abroad or business, such as Thae Yong-ho. According to the Korean government, pouplation of Korean with Chinese nationality, South Korean, North Korean in China is 2,109,727 in 2023. For... |
4442867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20dog%20variations | Hot dog variations | Different areas of the world have local variations on the hot dog, in the type of meat used, the condiments added, and its means of preparation.
United States
Hot dogs are a very popular sandwich throughout the United States. Many regional variations exist.
Alaska
Hot dogs made with caribou meat added are sold as ... |
4443158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Sauli | Alexander Sauli | Alexander (Alessandro) Sauli, C.R.S.P. (15 February 1534 – 11 October 1592) was an Italian priest who is called the "Apostle of Corsica". He is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1571, he was appointed by Pius V to the ancient see of Aléria, Corsica, where he rebuilt churches, founded colleges and seminaries, and... |
4443802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Flemish%20painters | List of Flemish painters | This is an incomplete list of Flemish painters, with place and date of birth and death, sorted by patronymic, and grouped according to century of birth. It includes painters such as Rubens from (or mostly active in) the Southern Netherlands, which is approximately the area of modern Flanders and modern Wallonia. Painte... |
4443957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network (British and Irish TV channel) | Cartoon Network (commonly abbreviated as CN) is a British pay television channel aimed at children which airs animated programming targeting children and young aged 6 to 12. It is run by Warner Bros. Discovery under its EMEA division. The channel primarily airs animated programming.
The channel initially launched on 1... |
4444641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leycesteria%20formosa | Leycesteria formosa | Leycesteria formosa, the pheasant berry, is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. It is considered a noxious invasive species in Australia, New Zealand, the neighbouring islands of Micronesia, and some other places.
In its native Himalaya the shrub is frequentl... |
4444730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vithoba | Vithoba | Vithoba (IAST: viṭhōbā), also known as Vitthala (IAST: viṭṭhala), and Panduranga (IAST: pāṇḍraṅga), is a Hindu god predominantly worshipped in the Indian state of Maharashtra and Karnataka. He is a form of the god Vishnu. Vithoba is often depicted as a dark young boy, standing arms akimbo on a brick, sometimes accompan... |
4445128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari%20Singh%20Nalwa | Hari Singh Nalwa | Hari Singh Nalwa (29 April 1791 – 30 April 1837) was Commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Fauj, the army of the Sikh Empire. He is known for his role in the conquests of Kasur, Sialkot, Attock, Multan, Kashmir, Peshawar and Jamrud. Hari Singh Nalwa was responsible for expanding the frontier of Sikh Empire to beyond th... |
4445282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20%28surname%29 | Lewis (surname) | Lewis is a surname in the English language. It has several independent origins.
One of the origins of the surname, in England and Wales, is from the Norman personal name Lowis, Lodovicus. This name is from the post-Classical Latin name Ludovicus, the latinized form of the Germanic name Hlūtwīg, meaning "famed battle" ... |
4445482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Rice%2C%20Hampshire | Red Rice, Hampshire | Red Rice is a hamlet and country house in the civil parish of Upper Clatford, south-west of Andover in the English county of Hampshire.
Etymology
The name originates from:
The word 'rice', meaning shrubby twigs or withies (such as wild dogwood, which is abundant locally, and whose branches turn bright red in winter).... |
4445491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbianisation | Serbianisation | Serbianisation or Serbianization, also known as Serbification, and Serbisation or Serbization ( or ; ; or ; ; ) is the spread of Serbian culture, people, and language, either by social integration or by cultural or forced assimilation.
Medieval period
Populated by Bulgarians and Romanians, the area between the Morav... |
4445638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkification | Turkification | Turkification, Turkization, or Turkicization () describes a shift whereby populations or places received or adopted Turkic attributes such as culture, language, history, or ethnicity. However, often this term is more narrowly applied to mean specifically Turkish rather than merely Turkic, therefore referring to the Ott... |
4445683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Indonesia | Catholic Church in Indonesia | The Catholic Church in Indonesia () is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. Catholicism is one of the six approved religions in Indonesia, the others being Islam, Protestantism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. According to official figures, Catholics made up 3... |
4445744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinle%20Formation | Chinle Formation | The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geological formation of fluvial, lacustrine, and palustrine to eolian deposits spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and western Colorado. In New Mexico, it is often raised to the status of a geological group, the Chinl... |
4445863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Shebib | Donald Shebib | Donald Everett "Don" Shebib (born 27 January 1938) is a Canadian film director. Shebib is a central figure in the development of English Canadian cinema who made several short documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Television in the 1960s before turning to feature films, beginning with the influent... |
4446153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20intervention | Art intervention | Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation. It is in the category of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with Letterist International, Situationist International, Viennese Actionists, the Dada movement and Neo-Dadaists... |
4446186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20juvenile%20justice%20system | American juvenile justice system | The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of... |
4446348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20General%20Confederation%20of%20Labour | Italian General Confederation of Labour | The Italian General Confederation of Labour (, ; CGIL ) is a national trade union centre in Italy. It was formed by an agreement between socialists, communists, and Christian democrats in the "Pact of Rome" of June 1944. In 1950, socialists and Christian democrats split forming UIL and CISL, and since then the CGIL has... |
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