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4593642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPV6 | TRPV6 | TRPV6 is a membrane calcium (Ca2+) channel protein which is particularly involved in the first step in Ca2+absorption in the intestine.
Classification
Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid subfamily member 6 (TRPV6) is an epithelial Ca2+ channel that belongs to the transient receptor potential family (TRP) of protei... |
4593651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah | Jehovah | Jehovah () is a Latinization of the Hebrew , one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. The Tetragrammaton is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God's name in Christianity.
The consensus among scholars is that... |
4593870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Network | Night Network | Night Network, Night Time and Night Shift were names given to the overnight (usually between 12 and 6am) schedule of the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The first ITV company began 24-hour broadcasting in 1986, with all of the companies broadcasting through the night by the end of 1988. At first, individual companie... |
4593958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Maltese%20Falcon%20%281941%20film%29 | The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) | The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and indebted to the 1931 movie of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade and Mary Astor as his femme fatale client... |
4594578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montaukett | Montaukett | The Montaukett ("Metoac"), more commonly known as Montauk are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people from the eastern and central sections of Long Island, New York.
Name
The exact meaning of the name Montauk is unknown. Montauk roughly translates to "the fort country". Montauk is derived from a place-name in t... |
4594764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Loncarevich | Pete Loncarevich | Peter Pete Loncarevich (born April 8, 1966) is a former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer. Loncarevich was an "old school" professional BMX racer whose prime competitive years were from 1980 to 1994. He is of Croatian origin.
Nicknamed the "Pistol Pete", Loncarevich received the moniker the way many racers did with the an... |
4595413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Knight | Laura Knight | Dame Laura Knight ( Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters... |
4595569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar%20%28film%29 | Roar (film) | Roar is a 1981 American adventure comedy film written and directed by Noel Marshall, and produced by Marshall and Tippi Hedren. Roars story follows Hank, a naturalist who lives on a nature preserve in Africa with lions, tigers, and other big cats. When his family visits him, they are instead confronted by the group of ... |
4595847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Firefly%20%28film%20series%29%20characters | List of Firefly (film series) characters | This article lists characters from the Rob Zombie's Firefly film series, consisting of House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and 3 from Hell.
Cast list
This table shows the recurring characters and the actors who have portrayed them throughout the franchise.
A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in ... |
4596063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20Xeon%20processors | List of Intel Xeon processors | The following is a list of Intel Xeon microprocessors, by generation.
P6-based
Pentium II Xeon
Pentium II Xeon 400
Pentium II Xeon 400
Pentium II Xeon 450
Pentium II Xeon 450
Pentium II Xeon 450
Pentium III Xeon
Pentium III Xeon 500
Pentium III Xeon 500
Pentium III Xeon 500
Pentium III Xeon 550
Pentium... |
4596172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh-Varr | Noh-Varr | Noh-Varr is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Grant Morrison and artist J.G. Jones, the character first appeared in Marvel Boy #1 (August 2000). He later appeared in the Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways and the New Avengers: Illuminati limited series. After hi... |
4596736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s%20Cove | Dante's Cove | Dante's Cove is an American LGBT-oriented supernatural soap opera which aired on here! from October 7, 2005, through December 21, 2007. Created and written by Michael Costanza and directed by Sam Irvin, the series combines elements of the horror and soap opera genres in telling the story of Kevin (Gregory Michael) and ... |
4596815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Charter%20Treaty | Energy Charter Treaty | The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an international agreement that establishes a multilateral framework for cross-border cooperation in the energy industry, principally the fossil fuel industry. The treaty covers all aspects of commercial energy activities including trade, transit, investments and energy efficiency. Th... |
4597198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan%20Hills%20High%20School | Sylvan Hills High School | Sylvan Hills High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school located in the city of Sherwood, Arkansas, United States, serving grades nine through twelve. Sylvan Hills is one of four high schools administered by the Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD). Prior to 1956, Sylvan Hills School instruc... |
4597256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiceworld%20Tour | Spiceworld Tour | The Spiceworld Tour (also known as Spice Girls in Concert and the Girl Power Tour '98) was the debut concert tour by English girl group the Spice Girls. It was launched in support of their first two studio albums, Spice (1996) and Spiceworld (1997). The sell-out European/North American tour ran from February to August ... |
4597268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termessos | Termessos | Termessos (Greek Τερμησσός Termissós) was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of more than 1000 metres at the south-west side of the mountain Solymos (modern-day Güllük Dağı) in the Taurus Mountains (modern-day Korkuteli, Antalya Province, Turkey). It lies 17 kilometres to the north-west of Antalya. It was founded on ... |
4597530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture%20chamber | Torture chamber | A torture chamber is a room where torture is inflicted. The medieval torture chamber was windowless and often built underground, dimly lit and specifically designed to induce horror, dread and despair.
Historically, torture chambers were located in royal palaces, in castles of the nobility and even buildings belonging... |
4597693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhan%20Do%C4%9Fan%C3%A7ay | Burhan Doğançay | Burhan C. Doğançay (11 September 1929 – 16 January 2013) was a Turkish-American artist. Doğançay is best known for tracking walls in various cities across the world for half a century, integrating them in his artistic work.
Biography
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Burhan Dogançay obtained his artistic training from his fat... |
4597713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Farmar | Jordan Farmar | Jordan Robert Farmar (born November 30, 1986) is an Israeli-American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In high school, he was named the Los Angeles Times High School Player of the Year in 2003–04. Playing college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, he was the Riv... |
4597853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Devil%20Wears%20Prada%20%28film%29 | The Devil Wears Prada (film) | The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. The film adaptation stars Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a powerful fashion magazine editor... |
4598612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Korean%20history | Timeline of Korean history | This is a timeline of the history of Korea. Some dates prior to the 5th century are speculative or approximate. For era names see Era names in Korean history.
Early history
2333 BC: Legendary establishment of Gojoseon by Dangun.
1500 BC: Beginning of the Mumun pottery period.
700 BC: Beginning of the Liaoning bronze... |
4599105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20causes | Four causes | The four causes or four explanations are, in Aristotelian thought, four fundamental types of answer to the question "why?", in analysis of change or movement in nature: the material, the formal, the efficient, and the final. Aristotle wrote that "we do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that i... |
4599177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Meiktila%20and%20Mandalay | Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay | The concurrent Battle of Meiktila and Battle of Mandalay were decisive engagements near the end of the Burma campaign during World War II. Collectively, they are sometimes referred to as the Battle of Central Burma. Despite logistical difficulties, the Allies were able to deploy large armoured and mechanised forces in ... |
4599275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20overpopulation | Human overpopulation | Human overpopulation (or human population overshoot) describes a concern that human populations may become too large to be sustained by their environment or resources in the long term. The topic is usually discussed in the context of world population, though it may concern individual nations, regions, and cities.
Sin... |
4599312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration | Immigration | Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and other short-term stays in a destination country do not fall under the definition... |
4599344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayinnaung | Bayinnaung | Bayinnaung Kyawhtin Nawrahta ( ; , ; 16 January 1516 – 10 October 1581) was king of the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar from 1550 to 1581. During his 31-year reign, which has been called the "greatest explosion of human energy ever seen in Burma", Bayinnaung assembled what was most likely the largest empire in the history... |
4599461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manish%20Malhotra | Manish Malhotra | Manish Malhotra (born 5 December 1966) is an Indian fashion designer, couturier, costume stylist, entrepreneur, filmmaker, revivalist based in Mumbai, India.
The founder of the eponymous label, Manish Malhotra, he has been deeply entrenched in the twin worlds of fashion and film for the past three decades. He has styl... |
4599622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Guinean%20forests | Lower Guinean forests | The Lower Guinean forests also known as the Lower Guinean-Congolian forests, are a region of coastal tropical moist broadleaf forest in West Africa, extending along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Guinea from eastern Benin through Nigeria and Cameroon. The Guinean forests encompass a diverse array of vegetation zones ... |
4599637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reveal%20system | Reveal system | A 20th-century system of plant taxonomy, the Reveal system (see also the Thorne & Reveal system) of plant classification was drawn up by the American botanist James Reveal (1941-2015). The system was published online in 1997 in ten parts as lecture notes comparing the major systems in use at that time. Subsequently, Re... |
4600434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire%20and%20Staffordshire%20extension | Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension | The Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension of the Great Northern Railway was an English railway network built by the GNR to get access to coal resources in the area to the north and west of Nottingham. The Midland Railway had obstructed the GNR in its attempts to secure a share of the lucrative business of transporting... |
4600633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaither%20Homecoming | Gaither Homecoming | Gaither Homecoming is the name applied to a series of videos, music recordings and concerts, which are organized, promoted and usually presented by Christian music songwriter and impresario Bill Gaither. To date, the Gaither Homecoming title is applied to more than 145 videos (most of which are not listed in the Videog... |
4600725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20nationality%20law | Chinese nationality law | Chinese nationality law details the conditions by which a person holds nationality of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The primary law governing these requirements is the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China, which came into force on September 10, 1980.
Foreign nationals may naturalize if they are pe... |
4600915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins%20%28surname%29 | Collins (surname) | The surname Collins has a variety of likely origins in Britain and Ireland:
English and Scottish: A patronymic surname based on the English and Scottish name Colin, an English diminutive form of Nicholas.
Norse: From the Old Norse personal name "Kollungr", a form of "koli" which in Old English became 'Cola', meaning... |
4601056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20Core%20processors | List of Intel Core processors | The following is a list of Intel Core microprocessors.
Desktop processors
Core 2
"Allendale" (65 nm, 800 MT/s)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST), Intel 64, XD bit (an NX bit implementation), Intel Active Management Technology (iAMT2)
Die size: 111 mm2
Ste... |
4601090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20M.%20Price | Robert M. Price | Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues in favor of the Christ myth theorythe claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was a fellow of the Jes... |
4601133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrba%E2%80%93Wetzler%20report | Vrba–Wetzler report | The Vrba–Wetzler report is one of three documents that comprise what is known as the Auschwitz Protocols, otherwise known as the Auschwitz Report or the Auschwitz notebook. It is a 33-page eye-witness account of the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.
Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd We... |
4601173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rivers%20of%20Korea | List of rivers of Korea | The Korean peninsula is mainly mountainous along its east coast, so most of its river water flows west, emptying into the Yellow Sea. Some of these rivers flow through lakes en route to the coast, but these are all artificial reservoirs, as there are no natural lakes on the Korean mainland. A few rivers head south, em... |
4601439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quan%20Cong | Quan Cong | Quan Cong (196–247 or 198–249), courtesy name Zihuang, was a Chinese military general of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Born in present-day Hangzhou towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, Quan Cong became famous at a young age when he performed acts of charity by giving grain to... |
4601653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%20Fry | Maxwell Fry | Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987), was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
Originally trained in the neo-classical style of architecture, Fry grew to favour the new modernist style, and practised with eminent colleagues including Walter Gr... |
4601803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Intel%20Celeron%20processors | List of Intel Celeron processors | The Celeron was a family of microprocessors from Intel targeted at the low-end consumer market. CPUs in the Celeron brand have used designs from sixth- to eighth-generation CPU microarchitectures. It was replaced by the Intel Processor brand in 2023.
Desktop processors
P6 based Celerons
Celeron (single-core)
"Covin... |
4602123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20history%20of%20the%20Netherlands | Military history of the Netherlands | The Netherlands, as a nation state, dates to 1568, when the Dutch Revolt created the Dutch Empire. Previously, the Germanic tribes had no written language during the ancient and early medieval periods, so what we know about their early military history comes from accounts written in Latin and from archaeology. This cau... |
4602215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament%20of%20Abraham | Testament of Abraham | The Testament of Abraham is a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament. Probably composed in the 1st or 2nd century AD, it is of Jewish origin and is usually considered to be part of the apocalyptic literature. It is regarded as scripture by Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews, but not by any other Jewish or Christian groups. ... |
4602307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro%20conflict | Moro conflict | The Moro conflict was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, which involved multiple armed groups. Peace deals have been signed between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but other smaller armed... |
4602513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency%20in%20Laos | Insurgency in Laos | The insurgency in Laos was a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the "Secret Army", Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other. These groups have faced reprisals from the Lao People's Army and Vietnam People's Army for ... |
4603458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Gloucestershire%20Hussars | Royal Gloucestershire Hussars | The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars was a volunteer yeomanry regiment which, in the 20th century, became part of the British Army Reserve. It traced its origins to the First or Cheltenham Troop of Gloucestershire Gentleman and Yeomanry raised in 1795, although a break in the lineage means that its formation is dated to t... |
4603779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Shapiro | Ian Shapiro | Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is an American legal scholar and political scientist who serves as the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventions in debate... |
4603833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhombe | Zhombe | Zhombe, originally known as Jombe, is a rural communal area in Kwekwe District, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. It is an area of mixed Shona and Northern Ndebele People. It lies along the Mnyathi border line between Midlands and Mashonaland Provinces. There are a few commercial farms within its borders and a handful of re... |
4604084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbaro%20family | Barbaro family | The Barbaro family was a patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso. Various members were noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.
History
Barbaro family tradition claims... |
4604305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Schism | National Schism | The National Schism (), also sometimes called The Great Division, was a series of disagreements between King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos regarding the foreign policy of Greece in the period of 1910–1922 of which the tipping point was whether Greece should enter World War I. Venizelos was in s... |
4604645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee%20preparation | Coffee preparation | Coffee preparation is the process of turning coffee beans into liquid coffee. While the particular steps vary with the type of coffee and with the raw materials, the process includes four basic steps: raw coffee beans must be roasted, the roasted coffee beans must then be ground, and the ground coffee must then be mixe... |
4604719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton%20Center | Fulton Center | Fulton Center is a subway and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex was built as part of a $1.4 billion project by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public agency of the state of New York, to rehabilitate the New York Ci... |
4604904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendra%27s%20Law | Kendra's Law | Kendra's Law, effective since November 1999, is a New York State law concerning involuntary outpatient commitment also known as assisted outpatient treatment. It grants judges the authority to issue orders that require people who meet certain criteria to regularly undergo psychiatric treatment. Failure to comply could ... |
4605077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20%28character%29 | Speed (character) | Speed (Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as a member of the Young Avengers, a team of teenaged superheroes in the Marvel Universe. His powers are based on those of his uncle Quicksilver. Speed first appeared in the c... |
4605151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt%20%28Main%29%20Hauptbahnhof | Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof | Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, also called Frankfurt Central Station and Frankfurt Main Station, is the busiest railway station in the German state of Hesse. Because of its location near the middle of Germany and usage as a transport hub for long and short distance travelling, refers to it as the most important stati... |
4605351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20Dirichlet%20allocation | Latent Dirichlet allocation | In natural language processing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a Bayesian network (and, therefore, a generative statistical model) that explains a set of observations through unobserved groups, and each group explains why some parts of the data are similar. The LDA is an example of a Bayesian topic model. In this... |
4605905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20Michigan%20faculty%20and%20staff | List of University of Michigan faculty and staff | The University of Michigan has 6,200 faculty members and roughly 38,000 employees which include National Academy members, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Several past presidents have gone on to become presidents of Ivy League universities.
Notable faculty: Nobel Laureates
Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize, Literature... |
4606153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20NCAA%20Division%20I%20women%27s%20basketball%20tournament | 2009 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament | The 2009 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament commenced 21 March 2009 and concluded 7 April 2009 when the University of Connecticut Huskies defeated the Louisville Cardinals 76–54.
Michigan State's upset over Duke in the second round would be the last time until 2023 that all four 1 seeds did not progress to ... |
4606216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%20NCAA%20Division%20I%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament | The 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was the 71st edition of the tournament, a single-elimination tournament in which 65 schools competed to determine the national champion of the men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2008–09 basketball season. The tournament began on March 17... |
4606420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Bandicoot%20%28character%29 | Crash Bandicoot (character) | Crash Bandicoot is the title character and main protagonist of the Crash Bandicoot series. Introduced in the 1996 video game Crash Bandicoot, Crash is a mutant eastern barred bandicoot who was genetically enhanced by the series' main antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and soon escaped from Cortex's castle after a failed expe... |
4606476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Bandicoot | Crash Bandicoot | Crash Bandicoot is a video game franchise originally developed by Naughty Dog as an exclusive for Sony's PlayStation console. It has seen numerous installments created by various developers and published on multiple platforms. The series consists predominantly of platform games, but also includes spin-offs in the kart ... |
4606561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois%20Lenski | Lois Lenski | Lois Lenore Lenski Covey (October 14, 1893 – September 11, 1974) was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning in 1927 with her first books, Skipping Village and Jack Horner's Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Lenski published 98 books, including several posthumou... |
4607152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20adaptation | Climate change adaptation | Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change. These can be both current or expected impacts. Adaptation aims to moderate or avoid harm for people. It also aims to exploit opportunities. Humans may also intervene to help adjustment for natural systems. There are many adaptation ... |
4607218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Red%20%28miniseries%29 | Rose Red (miniseries) | Rose Red is a 2002 American television miniseries scripted by horror novelist Stephen King, directed by Craig R. Baxley, and starring Nancy Travis, Drew Barrymore, Matt Keeslar, Julian Sands, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes, Melanie Lynskey, Matt Ross, Emily Deschanel, Judith Ivey, and Kevin Tighe. It was filmed in Lake... |
4607691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20British%20gallantry%20awards%20for%20the%20Iraq%20War | List of British gallantry awards for the Iraq War | A list of British awards for gallantry in the Iraq War, awarded between 2003 and 2010. Apart from appointments to purely military orders, only gallantry awards have been included and only those that allow post-nominal letters (this excludes appointments to the Order of the British Empire for distinguished service and f... |
4607980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird%20%28film%29 | To Kill a Mockingbird (film) | To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name. The film stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. It marked the film debut of Robert... |
4608116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Zhivago%20%28novel%29 | Doctor Zhivago (novel) | Doctor Zhivago ( ; ) is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.
Owing to the author's critical stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago wa... |
4608147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Dnipro%20Cherkasy | FC Dnipro Cherkasy | City Sports Club Dnipro Cherkasy () is a Ukrainian football team based in Cherkasy. Over its history the club has been dissolved and revived several times. The original club that existed 1955-1974 was dissolved following a financial scandal. After that the club again was dissolved and revived couple of more times.
In ... |
4608193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20of%20abode%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Right of abode in the United Kingdom | The right of abode (ROA) is an immigration status in the United Kingdom that gives a person the right to enter and live in the UK. It was introduced by the Immigration Act 1971 which went into effect on 1 January 1973. This status is held by British citizens, certain British subjects, as well as certain Commonwealth c... |
4608223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Side%20Story%20%281961%20film%29 | West Side Story (1961 film) | West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, written by Ernest Lehman, and produced by Wise. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same title, which in turn was inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, R... |
4608353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Tea%20Party | Boston Tea Party | The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from thos... |
4608472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan%20African%20music%20traditions | Sub-Saharan African music traditions | In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the use of music is not limited to entertainment: it serves a purpose to the local community and helps in the conduct of daily routines. Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for religious ceremonies of birth, naming, rites of passage, marriage ... |
4608529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga%20the%20Serpent | Naga the Serpent | is a fictional character in the light novel, anime, manga, radio drama and game versions of Hajime Kanzaka's media franchise Slayers, who was introduced in Dragon Magazine in 1990. She is also often known as Naga the White Serpent, which is a more literal translation from Japanese (白蛇JP, "white snake"), and an early E... |
4609694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20intermarriage | Royal intermarriage | Royal intermarriage (also known as inbreeding) is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other reigning families. It was more commonly done in the past as part of strategic diplomacy for national interest. Although sometimes enforced by legal requirement on persons of royal birth, more often it has b... |
4609721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians%20in%20Lebanon | Armenians in Lebanon | The Armenians in Lebanon (; ; ) are Lebanese citizens of Armenian descent. There has been an Armenian presence in Lebanon for centuries. According to Minority Rights Group International, there are 156,000 Armenians in Lebanon, around 4% of the population. Prior to the Lebanese Civil War, the number was higher, but the ... |
4610037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthays | Panthays | Panthays (; ) form a group of Chinese Muslims in Myanmar. Panthays are one of the oldest group of Muslims in Burma. The exact proportion of the Chinese Muslim group in the local Chinese population remains unknown due to a lack of data. However, they are concentrated particularly in the northern part of Myanmar- closer ... |
4610056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lawrence%20Seminary%20High%20School | St. Lawrence Seminary High School | St. Lawrence Seminary High School is a preparatory high school operated by the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order at Mount Calvary, Wisconsin. The school is in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. It is an all-male boarding school, with approximately 225 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12. The school's mission... |
4610544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20planning | Economic planning | Economic planning is a resource allocation mechanism based on a computational procedure for solving a constrained maximization problem with an iterative process for obtaining its solution. Planning is a mechanism for the allocation of resources between and within organizations contrasted with the market mechanism. As a... |
4610689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Southern%20Mississippi | University of Southern Mississippi | The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, master's, specialist, and doctoral degrees. The university is classified among... |
4610823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halukka | Halukka | The halukka, also spelled haluka, halukkah or chalukah (, meaning distribution) was an organized collection and distribution of charity funds for Jewish residents of the Land of Israel (the Holy Land).
General method of operation
Sympathizing Jews in a diaspora city or district would form a standing committee, preside... |
4611451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20variance | Gender variance | Gender variance or gender nonconformity is behavior or gender expression by an individual that does not match masculine or feminine gender norms. A gender-nonconforming person may be variant in their gender identity, being transgender or non-binary, or they may be cisgender. In the case of transgender people, they may ... |
4611518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropshitz%20%28Hasidic%20dynasty%29 | Ropshitz (Hasidic dynasty) | Ropshitz (, ) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty, or rabbinical family and group, who are descendants of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz (1760–1827). Ropshitz is the name of a town in southern Poland, known in Polish as Ropczyce.
Several contemporary rebbes are styled "Ropshitzer Rebbe", in reference to the Ropshitz dynas... |
4611880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Andersen | Eric Andersen | Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. After two decades and sixteen... |
4612016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Vampire%20Hunter%20D%20novels | List of Vampire Hunter D novels | This is a listing of all light novels in the Vampire Hunter D series, written by Hideyuki Kikuchi, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, Ayami Kojima and Vincent Chong, and translated by Kevin Leahy and Takami Nieda.
Publication history
Japanese editions
Known simply as the series in Japan, the first novel, Vampire Hunter... |
4612023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20L.%20S.%20Shackle | G. L. S. Shackle | George Lennox Sharman Shackle (14 July 1903 – 3 March 1992) was an English economist. He made a practical attempt to challenge classical rational choice theory and has been characterised as a "post-Keynesian", though he is influenced as well by Austrian economics. Much of his work is associated with the Dempster–Shafer... |
4612245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous%20Decade | Infamous Decade | The Infamous Decade () was a period in Argentine history that began with the 1930 coup d'état against President Hipólito Yrigoyen. This decade was marked on one hand by significant rural exodus, with many small rural landowners ruined by the Great Depression, which in turn pushed the country towards import substitution... |
4612450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Aircraft%20Group%2024 | Marine Aircraft Group 24 | Marine Aircraft Group 24 (MAG-24) is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay. MAG-24 is subordinate to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF).
Mission
Provide combat-ready, expeditionary aviation forces capable of short-notice, wor... |
4613341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holliday%20junction | Holliday junction | A Holliday junction is a branched nucleic acid structure that contains four double-stranded arms joined. These arms may adopt one of several conformations depending on buffer salt concentrations and the sequence of nucleobases closest to the junction. The structure is named after Robin Holliday, the molecular biologist... |
4613539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlikosaurus | Erlikosaurus | Erlikosaurus (meaning "Erlik's lizard") is a genus of therizinosaurid that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. The fossils, a skull and some post-cranial fragments, were found in the Bayan Shireh Formation of Mongolia in 1972, dating to around 96 million and 89 million years ago. These remains were later d... |
4613541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Social%20Construction%20of%20Reality | The Social Construction of Reality | The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other... |
4613636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions%20Tour | Confessions Tour | The Confessions Tour was the seventh concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna, launched in support of her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). The tour began in Inglewood on May 21, 2006, and ended in Tokyo on September 21, visiting North America and Eurasia. Additionally, it marked Madonn... |
4613832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACE%20Award | PACE Award | The PACE Award is an annual award from Automotive News. The focus of the award is an innovation (i) developed primarily by a supplier, (ii) that is new to the automotive industry, (iii) that is in use (e.g., used on a vehicle in production), and (iv) that "changes the rules of the game". Awards have been given for prod... |
4613862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20fruit%20fly | Olive fruit fly | The olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) is a species of fruit fly which belongs to the subfamily Dacinae. It is a phytophagous species whose larvae feed on the fruit of olive trees, hence the common name. It is considered a serious pest in the cultivation of olives.
Until 1998, the fly had not been detected in the Unit... |
4614170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20violence | Workplace violence | Workplace violence (WPV), violence in the workplace (VIW), or occupational violence refers to violence, usually in the form of physical abuse or threat, that creates a risk to the health and safety of an employee or multiple employees. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health defines worker on worker, ... |
4614548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster%20Senior%20Cup%20%28rugby%20union%29 | Leinster Senior Cup (rugby union) | The Leinster Senior Cup is a major rugby competition in Ireland, involving all senior rugby clubs in Leinster, i.e., clubs from Leinster competing in the All-Ireland League. From 2006 until 2016 it was known as the Leinster Senior League Cup during the period when the Leinster Senior League had been discontinued, but ... |
4614625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumont%20College | Beaumont College | Beaumont College was between 1861 and 1967 a public school in Old Windsor in Berkshire. Founded and run by the Society of Jesus, it offered a Roman Catholic public school education in rural surroundings, while lying, like the neighbouring Eton College, within easy reach of London. It was therefore for many professiona... |
4614924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Railway%20Station | Douglas Railway Station | Douglas railway station (Manx: Stashoon Raad Yiarn Ghoolish) is the main terminus of the Isle of Man Railway and is located at the landward end of the quay in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man. It was once the hub for now closed lines to Peel, Ramsey and Foxdale.
Location
The station is located on the southern ... |
4614988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane%20McCutcheon | Shane McCutcheon | Shane McCutcheon is a fictional queer character from the American Showtime television drama series The L Word, and the sequel series L Word: Generation Q played by Katherine Moennig.
Character development in The L Word
Shane was originally billed to Moennig as "sexy" and "androgynous". Moennig told Michelle Kort fro... |
4615213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy%20Godmother%20%28Shrek%29 | Fairy Godmother (Shrek) | The Fairy Godmother is a fictional character in DreamWorks' Shrek franchise, voiced by actress Jennifer Saunders. Introduced as the main antagonist of the second film, the Fairy Godmother is the mother of Prince Charming, who Princess Fiona was originally intended to wed prior to meeting Shrek. She plots against newlyw... |
4615682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20Heileman%20Brewing%20Company | G. Heileman Brewing Company | The G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, was a brewer that operated from 1858 to 1996. It was ultimately acquired by Stroh's. From 1872 until its acquisition, the brewery bore the family name of its co-founder and brewer Gottlieb Heileman.
Background
In 1858, Gottlieb Heileman, an imm... |
4615715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hunter%20%C3%97%20Hunter%20characters | List of Hunter × Hunter characters | The Hunter × Hunter manga series, created by Yoshihiro Togashi, features an extensive cast of characters. It takes place in a fictional universe where licensed specialists known as Hunters travel the world taking on special jobs ranging from treasure hunting to assassination. The story initially focuses on Gon Freecss ... |
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