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4469240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20Welsh%20Assembly%2C%202004 | List of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly, 2004 | This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the Welsh Assembly made in 2004. 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 ... |
4469420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20current%20mirror | Wilson current mirror | A Wilson current mirror is a three-terminal circuit (Fig. 1) that accepts an input current at the input terminal and provides a "mirrored" current source or sink output at the output terminal. The mirrored current is a precise copy of the input current. It may be used as a Wilson current source by applying a constant b... |
4469781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Liverpool%20Welsh | The Liverpool Welsh | The Liverpool Welsh, under various guises, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army (TA) associated with the King's Liverpool Regiment. It served as a tank regiment in the Western Desert and Italian Campaigns in the Second World War, as a security force during the Greek Civil War, and as a heavy ant... |
4470344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garstang%20and%20Knot-End%20Railway | Garstang and Knot-End Railway | The was a railway line, between Garstang and Pilling, across the Fylde of Lancashire, England. It was built by local agricultural interests to develop unproductive land. It had been intended to continue to Knott End but ran out of money. It eventually opened in 1870. In 1898 the Knott End Railway (KER) was authorised ... |
4470829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His%20Majesty%27s%20Theatre%2C%20Perth | His Majesty's Theatre, Perth | His Majesty's Theatre is an Edwardian Baroque theatre in Perth, Western Australia. Constructed from 1902 to 1904 during a period of great growth for the town, the theatre is located on the corner of Hay Street and King Street in Perth's central business district.
At the time the theatre was opened, it was the largest ... |
4470866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Rose%20Bowl | 2006 Rose Bowl | The 2006 Rose Bowl Game, played on January 4, 2006 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was an American college football bowl game that served as the BCS National Championship Game for the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the only two unbeaten teams of the season: the defending Rose Bowl champio... |
4471038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money%20in%20the%20Bank%20ladder%20match | Money in the Bank ladder match | The Money in the Bank ladder match is a multi-person ladder match held by the professional wrestling promotion WWE. First contested at WWE's annual WrestleMania event beginning in 2005, a separate Money in the Bank pay-per-view was established in 2010. The prize in the match is a briefcase containing a contract for a c... |
4471182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus%20LF | Lexus LF | The Lexus LF line is a series of concept cars built by Lexus, the luxury vehicle division of Toyota Motor Corporation. The "LF" designation refers to Lexus Future. The LF Series vehicles features coupes/convertibles, including: the LF-A, the LF-A Roadster, LF-LC, LF-CC, and the LF-C; sedans: the LF-S, LF-Sh, and LF-Gh;... |
4471312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Coimbatore%20bombings | 1998 Coimbatore bombings | The 1998 Coimbatore bombings occurred on Saturday, 14 February 1998, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. A total of 58 people were killed and over 200 injured in the 12 bomb attacks in 11 places, all within a radius. The explosives used were found to be gelatin sticks activated by timer devices and were conc... |
4471335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Estonia | History of the Jews in Estonia | The history of Jews in Estonia starts with reports of the presence of individual Jews in what is now Estonia from as early as the 14th century.
Jews were settled in Estonia in the 19th century, especially following a statute of Russian Tsar Alexander II in 1865 allowed the so-called Jewish "Nicholas soldiers" (often ... |
4471379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Kamiya | Hiroshi Kamiya | is a Japanese voice actor, singer and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production.
He is best known for the voice of Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan, Trafalgar Law in One Piece, Mephisto Pheles in Blue Exorcist, Izaya Orihara in Durarara!!, Shinji Matō in the Fate franchise, Takashi Natsume in Natsume Yūjin Chō, Choroma... |
4471439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Liangyu | Chen Liangyu | Chen Liangyu (; born October 24, 1946, in Shanghai) is a Chinese politician best known for his tenure as the Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai, the city's top office, and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, from 2002 to 2006.
Chen worked in Shanghai for his entire public life, serving as mayo... |
4471637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Hatillo%20Municipality | El Hatillo Municipality | El Hatillo Municipality () is an administrative division of the State of Miranda, Venezuela; along with Baruta, Chacao, Libertador and Sucre, it is one of the five municipalities of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of Caracas, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda... |
4471776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Latvia | History of the Jews in Latvia | The history of the Jews in Latvia dates back to the first Jewish colony established in Piltene in 1571. Jews contributed to Latvia's development until the Northern War (1700–1721), which decimated Latvia's population. The Jewish community reestablished itself in the 18th century, mainly through an influx from Prussia, ... |
4472127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Fall%20II%3A%20Lights%20Out | Dark Fall II: Lights Out | Dark Fall II: Lights Out is a 2004 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed by British studio XXv Productions and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows. In 2009, Darkling Room released a director's cut of the game in a limited "Pins & Needles" edition. Later that same year, Iceberg ... |
4472483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson%20Toscano | Peterson Toscano | Peterson Toscano (born February 17, 1965, in Stamford, Connecticut) is a playwright, actor, Bible scholar, blogger, podcaster, advocate against global warming, and gay rights activist. Toscano spent nearly two decades undergoing ex-gay treatment and conversion therapy before accepting his sexual orientation and coming ... |
4472897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Wilson%20%28kickboxer%29 | Don Wilson (kickboxer) | Donald Glen Wilson (born September 10, 1954), nicknamed "The Dragon", is an American martial artist, film actor, and former professional kickboxer. An 11-time world champion who scored 47 knockouts in four decades, he has been called by the STAR System Ratings as "perhaps the greatest kickboxer in American history. He ... |
4473158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvington%20High%20School%20%28Fremont%2C%20California%29 | Irvington High School (Fremont, California) | Irvington High School is an American public secondary school located in the Irvington district of Fremont, California, United States. It is one of the five public high schools in the Fremont Unified School District. Since 2012, Irvington has received full accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleg... |
4473245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20forest%20management | Sustainable forest management | Sustainable forest management (SFM) is the management of forests according to the principles of sustainable development. Sustainable forest management has to keep the balance between three main pillars: ecological, economic and socio-cultural. The goal of sustainable forestry is to allow for a balance to be found betwe... |
4473368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Domenech | Ben Domenech | Benjamin Domenech (born January 1, 1982) is an American writer, blogger, editor, publisher, and television commentator. He is the co-founder and publisher of The Federalist and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, and writes The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He also co-founded the RedSt... |
4473377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20breweries%20in%20Illinois | List of breweries in Illinois | Breweries in Illinois produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries. Ill... |
4474505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20rules%20football%20in%20the%20United%20States | Australian rules football in the United States | Australian rules football in the United States (most commonly referred to simply as "Footy" but sometimes "Aussie Rules" or AFL) is a team and spectator sport which has grown rapidly since the late 1990s.
Australian rules football has been continuously played in the United States of America (USA) since 1996. The Unite... |
4474624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tale%20of%20Mrs.%20Tiggy-Winkle | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle | The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1905. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle is a hedgehog washerwoman (laundress) who lives in a tiny cottage in the fells of the Lake District. A human child named Lucie happens upon the cotta... |
4474675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Garden%20of%20Friendship | Chinese Garden of Friendship | The Chinese Garden of Friendship () is a heritage-listed Chinese garden at 1 Harbour Street, in the Sydney Central Business District, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Modelled after the classic private gardens of the Ming dynasty, the garden offers an insight into Chinese heritage and culture. It was design... |
4474748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis%20%26%20Allies%20Miniatures | Axis & Allies Miniatures | Axis & Allies Miniatures is a miniature wargaming system including both a rule set and a line of 1/100 scale miniature armor (15 mm figure scale) collectible miniatures. The game is set in the World War II era with units representing individual vehicles and artillery or squads of infantry. The system was first release... |
4474826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping%20coach | Camping coach | Camping coaches were holiday accommodation offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from the 1930s. The coaches were old passenger vehicles no longer suitable for use in trains, which were converted to provide sleeping and living space at static locations.
The charges for the... |
4474841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Saxony | History of Saxony | The history of Saxony began with a small tribe living on the North Sea between the Elbe and Eider River in what is now Holstein. The name of this tribe, the Saxons (Latin: Saxones), was first mentioned by the Greek author Ptolemy. The name Saxons is derived from the Seax, a knife used by the tribe as a weapon.
In the ... |
4474885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio%20Chiellini | Giorgio Chiellini | Giorgio Chiellini (; born 14 August 1984) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC. Considered one of the best defenders of his generation, Chiellini was known for his strength, aggressiveness and man-marking, as well as his ability to play in... |
4474936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade%3A%20The%20Series | Blade: The Series | Blade: The Series is an American television series created by David S. Goyer for Spike based on the Marvel Comics character Blade. Sharing continuity with New Line Cinema's Blade film series, it was produced by New Line Television in association with Marvel Entertainment. The series takes place after the events of the... |
4475137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th%20Infantry%20Division%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | 18th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) | The 18th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army which fought briefly in the Malayan Campaign of the Second World War. In March 1939, after the re-emergence of Germany as a European power and its occupation of Czechoslovakia, the British Army increased the number of divisions in the Territorial A... |
4475349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20development%20stages | Child development stages | Child development stages are the theoretical milestones of child development, some of which are asserted in nativist theories. This article discusses the most widely accepted developmental stages in children. There exists a wide variation in terms of what is considered "normal", caused by variations in genetic, cogniti... |
4475840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht%20Brandi | Albrecht Brandi | Albrecht Brandi (20 June 1914 – 6 January 1966) was a German U-boat commander in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Together with Wolfgang Lüth, he was the only Kriegsmarine sailor who was awarded with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. The Knight's Cross (), and it... |
4475854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS%20in%20India | HIV/AIDS in India | HIV/AIDS in India is an epidemic. The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) estimated that 2.14 million people lived with HIV/AIDS in India in 2017. Despite being home to the world's third-largest population of persons with HIV/AIDS (, with South Africa and Nigeria having more), the AIDS prevalence rate in India is... |
4475978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church%20in%20Germany | Catholic Church in Germany | The Catholic Church in Germany () or Roman Catholic Church in Germany () is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church in communion with the Pope, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the German bishops. The current "Speaker" (i.e., Chairman) of the episcopal conference is Georg Bätzing, Bishop of the Roman Catholic ... |
4476155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Progressive%20Conservative%20Association%20of%20Alberta%20leadership%20election | 2006 Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta leadership election | The 2006 Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership election was held in November and December 2006 to choose a new leader for the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (and consequent Premier of Alberta) to replace the retiring Ralph Klein. Ed Stelmach emerged as the winner of an eight candidate field, des... |
4476337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization%20of%20the%20Americas | Decolonization of the Americas | The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was a victory against a great power, aided... |
4476440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar%20of%20saints%20%28Church%20of%20England%29 | Calendar of saints (Church of England) | The Church of England commemorates many of the same saints as those in the General Roman Calendar, mostly on the same days, but also commemorates various notable (often post-Reformation) Christians who have not been canonised by Rome, with a particular though not exclusive emphasis on those of English origin. There are... |
4476451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcom%20Networking%20Protocol | Microcom Networking Protocol | The Microcom Networking Protocols, almost always shortened to MNP, is a family of error-correcting protocols commonly used on early high-speed (2400 bit/s and higher) modems. Originally developed for use on Microcom's own family of modems, the protocol was later openly licensed and used by most of the modem industry, n... |
4476548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20R.%20McMaster | H. R. McMaster | Herbert Raymond McMaster (born July 24, 1962) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Born in Philadelphia, McMaster grad... |
4476769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia | Hyperthymesia | IBM Information Management System for more details
Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail. It is extraordinarily rare, with only ... |
4476804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjong%20Pagar%20railway%20station | Tanjong Pagar railway station | Tanjong Pagar railway station (; ; ), also called Singapore railway station (; ; ) or Keppel Road railway station, is a former railway station located at 30 Keppel Road in Singapore. The station was the southern terminus of the network operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), the main railway operator in Malaysia, unti... |
4476831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20in%20Scotland | Sport in Scotland | Sport plays a central role in Scottish culture. The temperate, oceanic climate has played a key part in the evolution of sport in Scotland, with all-weather sports like association football and golf dominating the national sporting consciousness. However, many other sports are played in the country, with popularity var... |
4476918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis | Hierapolis | Hierapolis (; , lit. "Holy City") was originally a Phrygian cult centre of the Anatolian mother goddess of Cybele and later a Greek city. Its location was centred upon the remarkable and copious hot springs in classical Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia. Its extensive remains are adjacent to modern Pamukkale in Turkey. ... |
4477688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Europe | History of the Jews in Europe | The history of the Jews in Europe spans a period of over two thousand years. Some Jews, a Judaean tribe from the Levant, migrated to Europe just before the rise of the Roman Empire (27 BCE). Although Alexandrian Jews had already migrated to Rome, a notable early event in the history of the Jews in the Roman Empire was ... |
4477844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davide%20Perez | Davide Perez | Davide Perez (1711 – 30 October 1778) was an Italian opera composer born in Naples of Italian parents, and later resident court composer at Lisbon from 1752. He staged three operas on librettos of Metastasio at Lisbon with huge success in 1753, 1754, and 1755. Following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, Perez turned from ope... |
4477878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Beale | Lou Beale | Lou Beale is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Anna Wing. Her first appearance is in the first episode, which was broadcast on 19 February 1985, and her last is in episode 362, first shown on 26 July 1988, after which the character was killed off. The character is played by Karen Meagh... |
4478036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20French | History of French | French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.
The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes... |
4478213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haseo | Haseo | , real name , is a fictional character in the .hack franchise first introduced as the main character in the video game trilogy .hack//G.U. in 2006 by CyberConnect2. He is also the lead character in the anime television series .hack//Roots by Bee Train. A player character from the fictional massively multiplayer online ... |
4478254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20in%20Zimbabwe | 2001 in Zimbabwe |
Incumbents
President: Robert Mugabe
First Vice President: Simon Muzenda
Second Vice President: Joseph Msika
Events
January
The Anti-Personnel Mines (Prohibition) Act 2000" is incorporated into Zimbabwe's domestic law.
One person is murdered in political violence in January 2001.
1 January – Movement for Dem... |
4478284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Inuyasha%20characters | List of Inuyasha characters | The characters of the Inuyasha manga series were created by Rumiko Takahashi. Most of the series takes place in a fictional version of Japan's Warring States period with occasional time-travel/flashback elements to modern Tokyo or the Heisei period. The setting and plot incorporate many elements of traditional Japanese... |
4478396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole%20%28surname%29 | Cole (surname) | Cole is a surname of English origin, and is also now used as a given name. It is of Middle English origin, and its meaning is "swarthy, coal-black, charcoal".
It is also an Americanized spelling of the German name "Kohl", of the Dutch name "Kool", and of the Scottish and Irish name "McCool".
People with the surname ... |
4478439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter%20in%20English%20law | Manslaughter in English law | In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder, the differential being between levels of fault based on the mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") or by reason of a partial defence. In England and Wales, a common practice is to prefer a charge of murder, with the judge or defence able to... |
4479039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Croatia | White Croatia | White Croatia (also Great Croatia or Chrobatia; , also ) is the region from which part of the White Croats emigrated to the Western Balkans. Some historians believe that, after the migration of the White Croats in the 6th-7th century, their former homeland gradually lost its primacy and was influenced by other Slavic p... |
4479431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20cleansing%20of%20Georgians%20in%20Abkhazia | Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia | The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia, also known in Georgia as the genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia (), refers to the ethnic cleansing, massacres, and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Georgians living in Abkhazia during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict of 1992–1993 and 1998 at the hands of Abkhaz sepa... |
4479651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Buchanan | Jessica Buchanan | Jessica Eugenia Buchanan (also Santi, Vega, Brennan, Ford and Wentworth) is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. She is the daughter of Victoria Lord and Clint Buchanan. She is the fraternal twin sister of Natalie Buchanan, and is born on-screen in the episode first-run on September 23, 1986, w... |
4479734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20ecosystem | Lake ecosystem | A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical interactions. Lake ecosystems are a prime example of lentic ecosystems (lentic refers to stationary or relatively still freshwater, from the Latin lentus, which m... |
4480212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%20Indy%20Racing%20League | 1996 Indy Racing League | The 1996 Indy Racing League was the first season in the history of the series, which was created and announced on March 11, 1994 by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as a supplementary Indy-car series to the established Indy Car World Series sanctioned by Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) since 1979. It consisted of... |
4480263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson%20Kirkconnell | Watson Kirkconnell | Watson Kirkconnell, (16 May 1895 – 26 February 1977) was a Canadian literary scholar, poet, linguist, and translator.
Kirkconnell became a nationally known and enormously influential public intellectual, who publicized and denounced human rights abuses under Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism. He was also, paradoxically... |
4480666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic%20engineering | Ceramic engineering | Ceramic engineering is the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials. This is done either by the action of heat, or at lower temperatures using precipitation reactions from high-purity chemical solutions. The term includes the purification of raw materials, the study and producti... |
4482038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath%20School%20disaster | Bath School disaster | The Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe upon the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Charter Township, Michigan, United States, on May 18, 1927. The attacks killed 38children and 6adults, and injured at least 58other people. Prior to the... |
4482285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal%20contraception | Hormonal contraception | Hormonal contraception refers to birth control methods that act on the endocrine system. Almost all methods are composed of steroid hormones, although in India one selective estrogen receptor modulator is marketed as a contraceptive. The original hormonal method—the combined oral contraceptive pill—was first marketed a... |
4482452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20reserve | Cognitive reserve | Cognitive reserve is the mind's and brain's resistance to damage of the brain. The mind's resilience is evaluated behaviorally, whereas the neuropathological damage is evaluated histologically, although damage may be estimated using blood-based markers and imaging methods. There are two models that can be used when ex... |
4482509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Russia–United States relations | Russia and the United States maintain one of the most important, critical and strategic foreign relations in the world. Both nations have shared interests in nuclear safety and security, nonproliferation, counterterrorism, and space exploration. Due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, relations became very tense a... |
4482809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard%20Kingdom%20Brunel | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Isambard Kingdom Brunel (; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer, who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, [who... |
4482997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20S.%20Stribling | T. S. Stribling | Thomas Sigismund Stribling (March 4, 1881 – July 8, 1965) was an American writer. Although he passed the bar and practiced law for a few years, he quickly began to focus on writing. First known for adventure stories published in pulp fiction magazines, he enlarged his reach with novels of social satire set in Middle Te... |
4483267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20of%20the%20Marvel%20Universe | Features of the Marvel Universe | The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features.
Places
Certain places feature prominently in the Marvel Universe, some real-life, others fictional a... |
4483446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20%28Beauty%20and%20the%20Beast%29 | Belle (Beauty and the Beast) | Belle is a fictional character in the Walt Disney Animation Studios animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). Voiced by actress and singer Paige O'Hara, Belle, the book-loving daughter of an eccentric inventor, yearns to abandon her predictable village life in return for adventure. When her father Maurice is imprisone... |
4483712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPS%20%28animated%20TV%20series%29 | COPS (animated TV series) | COPS (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a 1988 animated television series released by DIC Animation City, and distributed by Claster Television. The series focuses on a team of highly trained police officers tasked with protecting the fictional Empire City from a group of gangsters led by the "Big Boss". T... |
4484075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Conference%20Mennonite%20Church | General Conference Mennonite Church | The General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) was a mainline association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join together in order to pursue common goals such as higher education and miss... |
4484201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian%20Marine%20Corps | Indonesian Marine Corps | The Marine Corps of the Republic of Indonesia (, KORMAR RI), previously known as the Commando Corps of the Indonesian Navy (, KKO), is an integral part of the Indonesian Navy and is sized at the military corps level unit as the naval infantry and main amphibious warfare force of Indonesia. The Marine Corps is commande... |
4484462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenie%20Meyer | Stephenie Meyer | Stephenie Meyer (; née Morgan; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer. She is best known for writing the vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 160 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in the U.S., havin... |
4484508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Harvard%20University | History of Harvard University | Harvard College, around which Harvard University eventually grew, was founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
For centuries, its graduates dominated Massachusetts' clerical and civil ranks and beginning in the 19th century its stature becam... |
4484806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20re%20metallica | De re metallica | De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals [Minerals]) is a book in Latin cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published a year posthumously in 1556 due to a delay in preparing woodcuts for the text. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agri... |
4485161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts%20of%20Australia | Deserts of Australia | The deserts of Australia or the Australian deserts cover about , or 18% of the Australian mainland, but about 35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain, it is practically desert. Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily distributed throughout the Western Plateau and interior l... |
4485403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham%20Canyon%20Mine | Bingham Canyon Mine | The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest man-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, which is consid... |
4485937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz%20War%20Relocation%20Center | Topaz War Relocation Center | The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp that housed Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan, called Nikkei. President Franklin Roosevelt si... |
4486221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox%20360%20launch | Xbox 360 launch | The Xbox 360 launch marked the release of the first high-profile seventh generation video game console. It was Microsoft's second foray in console development succeeding their 2001 launch of the original Xbox.
Viral advertising and alternate reality games
The promotional campaign for the Xbox 360 began on March 30, 20... |
4486261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Death%20Note%20characters | List of Death Note characters | The manga series Death Note features an extensive cast of fictional characters designed by Takeshi Obata with their storylines created by Tsugumi Ohba. The story follows the character named Light Yagami, who chances upon a supernatural notebook which grants him the ability to cause the death of anyone he writes in it. ... |
4486507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20%28bishop%20of%20Segni%29 | Bruno (bishop of Segni) | Bruno di Segni (c. 1045 – 18 July 1123) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Order of Saint Benedict who served as Bishop of Segni and Abbot of Montecassino. He studied under the Benedictines in Bologna before being appointed a canon of the cathedral chapter of Siena. He was invited to Ro... |
4486907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%2013 | Mark 13 | Mark 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains Jesus' predictions of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and disaster for Judea, as well as Mark's version of Jesus' eschatological discourse. Theologian William Barclay described this chapter as "on... |
4486944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20of%20the%20University%20of%20California%2C%20Berkeley | Campus of the University of California, Berkeley | The campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by early 20th-century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts), and their colleague Julia Morgan. Subsequent tenures as... |
4487106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Farm | Dale Farm | Dale Farm is a plot of land situated on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex, United Kingdom. Until October 2011, it was the site of one of the largest Traveller concentrations in the UK, at its height housing over 1,000 people, along with the adjacent Oak Land site. Although Basildon District Council had granted permission f... |
4487245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu%20Fan | Yu Fan | Yu Fan (, , ; 164–233), courtesy name Zhongxiang, was a Chinese essayist, politician, and writer of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Initially a minor officer under Wang Lang, the Administrator of Kuaiji Commandery, Yu Fan later served under the warlord Sun Ce, who conquered the terr... |
4487422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouts%20%28The%20Scout%20Association%29 | Scouts (The Scout Association) | Scouts, often referred to as the Scout section to differentiate itself from the wider movement and its parent organisation, is a section of Scouting run by The Scout Association for ten and a half to fourteen year old young people. The section follows on from Cub Scouts (8-10½ year olds) and precedes Explorer Scouts (1... |
4488176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious%20disorder%20imposed%20on%20another | Factitious disorder imposed on another | Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), also known as fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII), and first named as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), is a mental health disorder in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person, typically their child. This may include injuri... |
4488430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina%20Karol | Tina Karol | Tina Karol (born Tetiana Hryhorivna Liberman, 25 January 1985) is a Ukrainian singer, actress, TV presenter, public figure, philanthropist, and founder of “The Tina Karol charitable foundation”. In 2006, she was chosen to represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest, with the entry "Show Me Your Love, which finishe... |
4488483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kolkata | Transport in Kolkata | The transport system of Kolkata, a city in India, is a mix of modern mass rapid transport and old transport modalities like rickshaws. Kolkata is connected to the rest of India by the National Highways, the extensive network of the Indian Railways, National Waterways and by air. The most traffic to Northeast India rout... |
4488634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20power%20network | Hydraulic power network | A hydraulic power network is a system of interconnected pipes carrying pressurized liquid used to transmit mechanical power from a power source, like a pump, to hydraulic equipment like lifts or motors. The system is analogous to an electrical grid transmitting power from a generating station to end-users. Only a few h... |
4489368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean%20War%20of%20Independence | Chilean War of Independence | The Chilean War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de la Independencia de Chile, 'War of Independence of Chile') was a military and political event that allowed the emancipation of Chile from the Spanish Monarchy, ending the colonial period and initiating the formation of an independent republic.
It developed in the con... |
4489613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Vancouver | Transportation in Vancouver | Transportation in Vancouver, British Columbia, has many of the features of modern cities worldwide. Unlike many large metropolises, Vancouver has no freeways into or through the downtown area. A proposed freeway through the downtown was rejected in the 1960s by a coalition of citizens, community leaders and planners. T... |
4489942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20of%20constraint%20satisfaction | Complexity of constraint satisfaction | The complexity of constraint satisfaction is the application of computational complexity theory to constraint satisfaction. It has mainly been studied for discriminating between tractable and intractable classes of constraint satisfaction problems on finite domains.
Solving a constraint satisfaction problem on a finit... |
4490081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinfurt%E2%80%93Regensburg%20mission | Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission | The Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission was a strategic bombing mission during World War II carried out by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces on August 17, 1943. The mission was an ambitious plan to cripple the German aircraft industry; it was also known as the "double-strike mission" beca... |
4490118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20Club%20of%20New%20York | University Club of New York | The University Club of New York (also known as University Club) is a private social club at 1 West 54th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Founded to celebrate the union of social duty and intellectual life, the club was chartered in 1865 for the "promotion of literature and... |
4490456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telerehabilitation | Telerehabilitation | Telerehabilitation (or e-rehabilitation is the delivery of rehabilitation services over telecommunication networks and the internet. Telerehabilitation allows patients to interact with providers remotely and can be used both to assess patients and to deliver therapy. Fields of medicine that utilize telerehabilitation i... |
4491045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20Phantom%20Hourglass | The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass | is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the fourteenth installment in The Legend of Zelda series and the direct sequel to the 2002 GameCube title The Wind Waker. Phantom Hourglass was released worldwide in 2007, with the exception of South Korea i... |
4491083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20literature | Danish literature | Danish literature () a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. The earliest preserved texts from Denmark are runic inscriptions on memorial stones and other objects, some of which contain short poems in alliterative verse. In the late 12th century Saxo Grammaticus wrote Gesta Danorum. Duri... |
4491264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernandez%20%28wrestler%29 | Hernandez (wrestler) | Shawn Hernandez (born February 11, 1973) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with Impact Wrestling, where he performed under the ring name Hernandez. He is an eight-time tag team champion, having won the Impact World Tag Team Championship five times, the NWA World Tag Team Championship t... |
4491265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybus%20Airlines | Skybus Airlines | Skybus Airlines Inc. was a privately held airline based in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It operated as an ultra low-cost carrier modeled after the European airline Ryanair, and aimed to be the least expensive airline in the United States. The business model was heavily reliant on flying routes where other airlines di... |
4492184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting%20in%20popular%20culture | Scouting in popular culture | Since Scouting began in 1907, it has entered into many elements of popular culture, including movies, TV and books.
As a facet of culture throughout most of the 20th century, Scouting has been portrayed in numerous films and artwork. It is especially prevalent in the United States, where Scouting is tied closely to th... |
4492214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Petty%20Invitational | Ted Petty Invitational | The Ted Petty Invitational tournament (the TPI) is an independent wrestling tournament in North America, run and promoted by Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South. Created as the Sweet Science Sixteen in 2000 by Ian Rotten, the tournament was originally supposed to showcase the top technical independent wrestlers... |
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