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4809391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20L.%20Kane | Thomas L. Kane | Thomas Leiper Kane (January 27, 1822 – December 26, 1883) was an American attorney, abolitionist, philanthropist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War. He received a breve... |
4809536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20gauge%20in%20Australia | Rail gauge in Australia | Rail gauges in Australia display significant variations, which has presented an extremely difficult problem for rail transport on the Australian continent since the 19th century. , there are of narrow-gauge railways, of standard gauge railways and of broad gauge railways.
In the 19th century, each of the colonies of... |
4809959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy%20Aces | Easy Aces | Easy Aces is an American serial radio comedy (1930–1945). It was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife. A 15-minute program, airing as often as five times a week, Easy Aces wasn't quite the ratings smash th... |
4810017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20rules%20football%20in%20New%20South%20Wales | Australian rules football in New South Wales | Australian rules football in New South Wales is a team sport played and observed in the Australian state. It dates back to the colonial era in 1866, with organised competitions being continuous since the 1880s. Today, it is popular in several regions of the state, including areas near the Victorian and South Australian... |
4811083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Batman | Lego Batman | Lego Batman (stylized as LEGO Batman) is a discontinued theme and product range of the Lego building toy, introduced in 2006, based on the superhero character Batman, under license from DC Comics. The sets feature vehicles, characters and scenes from the comics and films. The inspirations for the design of these vary w... |
4811095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Day%20Before%20You%20Came | The Day Before You Came | "The Day Before You Came" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in October 1982 as the lead single from the compilation album The Singles: The First Ten Years.
History
Development
Following the November 1981 release of ABBA's eighth album The Visitors, the four ABBA members took some time away from t... |
4811206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechukotai | Bechukotai | Bechukotai, Bechukosai, or Bəḥuqothai (Biblical) ( bəḥuqqōṯay—Hebrew for "by my decrees," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 33rd weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 10th and last in the Book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 2... |
4811580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Disney | Port Disney | Port Disney was a planned Walt Disney resort spanning surrounding Queensway Bay next to the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, United States. The property was going to feature a marine-themed amusement park, a marina, a cruise ship port, a specialty retail and entertainment area, and hotel accommodations. T... |
4811758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Kamanin | Nikolai Kamanin | Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program. A career aviator, he awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi... |
4811799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Orange%20High%20School%20%28Florida%29 | West Orange High School (Florida) | West Orange High School is a high school located in Winter Garden in southwest Orange County, Florida, United States. West Orange serves Winter Garden, Oakland, Tildenville, and parts of Lake Butler and Ocoee.
History
1970s
Completed in 1975 at a cost of 6.5 million dollars, West Orange High was formed as a consolid... |
4812110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Maberry | Jonathan Maberry | Jonathan Maberry (born May 18, 1958) is an American suspense author, anthology editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. He was named one of the Today's Top Ten Horror Writers.
Early life
Jonathan Maberry was born in Kensington, Philadelphia, attended... |
4812151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers | Quakers | Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to experience the light within or "answering that of God in every one". Some profess a priesthoo... |
4812384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katya%20Kinski | Katya Kinski | Katya Kinski is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Dichen Lachman. She made her first on-screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 12 December 2005. Lachman originally auditioned for the role of Elle Robinson. But producers asked her to play Katya instead. Katya is charac... |
4812509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20%22Snakehips%22%20Johnson | Ken "Snakehips" Johnson | Kenrick Reginald Hijmans Johnson (10 September 1914 – 8 March 1941), known as Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, was a swing band leader and dancer. He was a leading figure in black British music of the 1930s and early 1940s before his death while performing at the Café de Paris, London, when it was hit by a German bomb in the B... |
4812799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rail%20accidents%20%28before%201880%29 | List of rail accidents (before 1880) |
17th century
1650
England – Whickham, County Durham. Two boys die when they are run over by a wagon on a wooden coal train way. While such tramway accidents are not generally listed as rail accidents (note the lack of accidents listed for the next 163 years) this is sometimes cited as the earliest-known railway ac... |
4812910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A0%20Iuav%20di%20Venezia | Università Iuav di Venezia | Iuav University of Venice () is a university in Venice, Italy. It was founded in 1926 as the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia as one of the first Architecture schools in Italy. The university currently offers several undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in Architecture, Urban Planning, ... |
4813288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Long%2C%20Hot%20Summer | The Long, Hot Summer | The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 American drama film starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles. It was directed by Martin Ritt, with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., based in part on three works by William Faulkner: the 1931 novella "Spotted Horses", the 1939 short st... |
4813388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Da%20Vinci%20Code%20%28video%20game%29 | The Da Vinci Code (video game) | The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 adventure puzzle video game developed by The Collective and published by 2K for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. Although the game was released on the same day that the film of the same name opened in theaters, it is based directly on the 2003 novel by Dan Brown rather than the fil... |
4813514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalities%20and%20regions%20of%20Spain | Nationalities and regions of Spain | Spain is a diverse country integrated by contrasting entities with varying economic and social structures, languages, and historical, political and cultural traditions. The Spanish constitution responds ambiguously to the claims of historic nationalities (such as the right of self-government) while proclaiming a commo... |
4813972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Midlands%20English | East Midlands English | East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east of Watling Street (which separates it from West Midlands English), north of an isogloss separating it from variants of Southern English (e.g. Oxfordshire) and East An... |
4814645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouthu%20Latchanna | Gouthu Latchanna | Sardar Gouthu Latchanna (16 August 1909 – 19 April 2006) was a veteran freedom fighter from India.
Personal life
Dr. Gouthu Latchanna was born in Baruva village of the Sompeta mandal, Srikakulam district in the state of Andhra Pradesh on 16 August 1909. He was the eighth child of Chittaiah, a Goud toddy tapper, and R... |
4814950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe%20%28Cher%20song%29 | Believe (Cher song) | "Believe" is a song by the American singer and actress Cher from her 22nd studio album, Believe. It was released as the album's lead single on October 19, 1998, by Warner Bros. Records. After circulating for months, a demo written by Brian Higgins, Matthew Gray, Stuart McLennen and Timothy Powell, was submitted to Warn... |
4815116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindi%20Watts | Sindi Watts | Sindi Watts (also Parker) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Marisa Warrington. She made her first appearance during the episode broadcast on 19 July 2002. Sindi was initially a recurring character, before she was promoted to the regular cast. Her storylines often focused on h... |
4815723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Sullivan | Leon Sullivan | Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 – April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died of leukemia in a Scottsdale, Ariz... |
4816269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Guelph%20Arboretum | University of Guelph Arboretum | The University of Guelph Arboretum was formally established in 1970 by the University of Guelph. The Arboretum aims to conserve biodiversity and connect people with nature through teaching, research, and community outreach. The 165 hectare space serves as an “outdoor learning resource,” a “living laboratory” and a “com... |
4816278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Owen | Robert L. Owen | Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856 – July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railroad company president, Owen suffered an almost Dickensian reversal of fort... |
4816450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%201%20%28Israel%E2%80%93Palestine%29 | Highway 1 (Israel–Palestine) | Highway 1 (, Kvish Ahat; ) is the main highway in Israel, connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and continuing eastwards to the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
Highway
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
The coastal plain and Judean foothills
The route begins as a six-lane freeway as it splits off from the Ayalon Highway (Highway 20... |
4816606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron%20Central%20Railway | Huron Central Railway | The Huron Central Railway is a railway operating in northern Ontario, Canada. It is operated by Genesee & Wyoming Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming.
The Huron Central Railway was established in July 1997 to operate a route leased from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) between Sudbury and Sault S... |
4816645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20and%20use%20of%20instant-runoff%20voting | History and use of instant-runoff voting | Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates. Instead of voting only for a single candidate, voters in IRV elections can rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are initially counted for each elector's top choice, losing candidates are eliminated... |
4816754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20genetic%20variation | Human genetic variation | Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population (alleles), a situation called polymorphism.
No two humans are genetically identical. Even monozygotic twins (who develop from one zygote) have infrequent genetic differe... |
4816797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20and%20society | Race and society | Social interpretations of race regard the common categorizations of people into different races. Race is often culturally understood to be rigid categories (Black, White, Pasifika, Asian, Latino, etc) in which people can be classified based on biological markers or physical traits such as skin colour or facial features... |
4817542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Donkey%20Kong%20characters | List of Donkey Kong characters | is a series of video games published by Nintendo since 1981 and created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.
Donkey Kong and Mario have both had the roles of protagonist and antagonist in the series. Other characters have included other Kongs, the crocodilian villain King K. Rool, and supporting animal characters. This... |
4818168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexualization | Sexualization | Sexualization (sexualisation in British English) is the emphasis of the sexual nature of a behavior or person. Sexualization is linked to sexual objectification, treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire. According to the American Psychological Association, sexualization occurs when "individuals are regard... |
4818494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dead%20Like%20Me%20characters | List of Dead Like Me characters | This is a list of the characters from the Showtime comedy-drama series Dead Like Me.
George Lass
Georgia L. "George" Lass (Ellen Muth) (1985–2003) is the youngest Reaper (both physically and chronologically) in the club. She is the protagonist of the series, and also performs the function of narrator. As a child, she ... |
4818808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Douglas | Stan Douglas | Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining the "failed utopia" of modernism and obsolete technologies.
He has exhibite... |
4819014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20House%20of%20the%20Dead | The House of the Dead | The House of the Dead, also referred to as Curien Mansion, is a horror-themed light gun shooter video game franchise created by Sega in 1996. Originally released in arcades, it utilizes a light gun on the platform, but can be played with standard controllers on consoles and a mouse or keyboard on home computers. For th... |
4820015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Hand%20%28character%29 | Black Hand (character) | Black Hand (William Derek Hand) is a supervillain and a recurring foe to Green Lantern.
Publication history
Black Hand first appeared in Green Lantern vol. 2 #29 (June 1964) and was created by John Broome and Gil Kane. The character's name is a tribute to DC writer and Batman co-creator Bill Finger, on whom the charac... |
4820101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinessence | Cabinessence | "Cabinessence" (also typeset as "Cabin Essence") is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1969 album 20/20 and their unfinished Smile project. Written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, Wilson described the song as a "rock and roll waltz" about railroads, while Parks offered that the pair were att... |
4820932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Subhas%20Chandra%20Bose | Death of Subhas Chandra Bose | Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose died on 18 August 1945 from third-degree burns sustained after the bomber in which he was being transported as a guest of Lieutenant General Tsunamasa Shidei of the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army crashed upon take off from the airport in Taihoku, Japanese-occupied Formosa,... |
4820943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20patent%20law%20terms | Glossary of patent law terms | This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial right to exclude others from commercially exploiting the invention, granted to an inventor or his successor in rights in exchange to a public disclosure of the in... |
4821028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric-Emmanuel%20Schmitt | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (; born 28 March 1960) is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Life
Early years
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's parents were teachers of physical education and sport, and his fathe... |
4821140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20University%20of%20Science%20and%20Technology | Jordan University of Science and Technology | The Jordan University of Science and Technology ( Jami'at Al-Ulum wa Al-Tiknolojia Al-Urdunia), often abbreviated JUST, is a public technological university located on the outskirts of Irbid, at Ar Ramtha in northern Jordan. The university comprises twelve faculties that offer a spectrum of undergraduate and higher stu... |
4821221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Lindy%20Hop | History of Lindy Hop | The history of Lindy Hop begins in the African American communities of Harlem, New York during the late 1920s in conjunction with swing jazz. Lindy Hop is closely related to earlier African American vernacular dances but quickly gained its own fame through dancers in films, performances, competitions, and professional ... |
4821319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sari%2C%20Iran | Sari, Iran | Sari ( ); also romanized as Sārī), also known as Shahr-e-Tajan and Shari-e-Tajan, is a city in the Central District of Sari County, Mazandaran province, Iran, and serves as both capital of the province, county and district. Sari was the former capital of Iran for a short period and is in the north of the country, betwe... |
4821452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Beard%20%28artist%29 | John Beard (artist) | John Beard (born 1943) is a Welsh artist and painter born in Aberdare, Wales, now based in Sydney, Lisbon and London.
Recognition
In 2006, Beard won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize for Landscape painting, and, in 2007, he won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Archibald Prize for Portraiture.
Collecti... |
4821570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sto%20Para%20Pente | Sto Para Pente | Sto Para Pente (Greek: ; English: In the Nick of Time) was a popular Greek comedy-drama television series which was broadcast on Mega Channel for two seasons, from September 27, 2005 until June 18, 2007.
The script was written by Giorgos Kapoutzidis, who had also written the successful Greek TV series, Savvatogenimene... |
4821821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20attack%20at%20T%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te | Night attack at Târgoviște | The night attack at Târgoviște () was a battle fought between forces of prince Vlad III of Wallachia, and sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire on Thursday, 17 June 1462. The battle started after Mehmed II, who already had tense relations with Vlad, discovered his alliance with Hungary's king Matthias Corvinus and ord... |
4821919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese%20Martyrs | Vietnamese Martyrs | Vietnamese Martyrs (; ) or Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized by Pope John Paul II. On June 19, 1988, thousands of Overseas Vietnamese worldwide gathered at the... |
4822218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetables%20%28song%29 | Vegetables (song) | "Vegetables" (early versions spelled as "Vega-Tables") is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1967 album Smiley Smile and their unfinished Smile project. Written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, the song was conceived by Wilson as a tongue-in-cheek promotion of organic food. Another reported inspi... |
4822863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20drive-in%20theatres%20in%20Australia | List of drive-in theatres in Australia | Drive-in theatres (also known as drive-in cinemas or just drive-ins) were once very popular in Australia. Although considered an American invention, there is evidence of outdoor cinemas in Western Australia where some patrons attended in their cars as far back as 1938, and it is possible that these facilities may even ... |
4822953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation%20in%20Australia | Taxation in Australia | Income taxes are the most significant form of taxation in Australia, and collected by the federal government through the Australian Taxation Office. Australian GST revenue is collected by the Federal government, and then paid to the states under a distribution formula determined by the Commonwealth Grants Commission.
... |
4824352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upasani%20Maharaj | Upasani Maharaj | Upasani Maharaj, born Kashinath Govindrao Upasni, (15 May 1870 – 24 December 1941) was an Indian spiritual teacher, considered by his disciples to be a satguru. He lived in Sakori, British India, and is said to have received God-realization from Sai Baba of Shirdi. Upasani himself was one of the principal spiritual tea... |
4824515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20Volunteer%20Rifle%20Corps | Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps | The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC) was created in 1894 as a reserve for the Regular Army infantry component of the Bermuda Garrison. Renamed the Bermuda Rifles in 1951, it was amalgamated into the Bermuda Regiment in 1965.
Formation
Although Bermuda had maintained its own militia from 1612 until the end of the A... |
4824682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer%20Zitelmann | Rainer Zitelmann | Rainer Zitelmann (born 14 June 1957 in Frankfurt) is a German historian, sociologist, author, management consultant and real estate expert.
Life
Zitelmann studied history and political science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He completed his doctorate in 1986 under Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin with the gr... |
4824729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo%20Gallardo | Marcelo Gallardo | Marcelo Daniel Gallardo (; born 18 January 1976) is an Argentine football coach and former professional player who last managed River Plate. Gallardo began his career in the club's youth divisions, and made his debut in the Argentine Primera División at age 17 in 1993. After a six-year period in which he won five local... |
4824743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Killing%20Dance | The Killing Dance | The Killing Dance is a horror/mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton, the sixth book in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series.
Plot introduction
The Killing Dance continues the adventures of Anita Blake. In the novel, Anita continues to explore her relationship with her two romantic interests, Richard... |
4824821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemidbar%20%28parashah%29 | Bemidbar (parashah) | Bemidbar, BeMidbar, B'midbar, Bamidbar, or Bamidbor (—Hebrew for "in the wilderness of" [Sinai], the fifth overall and first distinctive word in the parashah), is the 34th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Numbers. The parashah tells of the census... |
4825187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZiU-9 | ZiU-9 | ZiU-9, or ZIU-9 (Cyrillic: ЗиУ-9) is a Soviet (and later Russian) trolleybus. Other names for the ZiU-9 are ZiU-682 and HTI-682 (Cyrillic: ЗиУ-682 and ХТИ-682). The ZiU acronym stands for Zavod imeni Uritskogo, which is a factory named after Moisei Uritsky, the Russian revolutionary. Before 1996 this acronym was also ... |
4825833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20Brewing%20Company | Pearl Brewing Company | The Pearl Brewing Company (also known as the Pearl Brewery or just Pearl) was an American brewery established in 1883 in downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. In 1985, Pearl's parent company purchased the Pabst Brewing Company and assumed the Pabst name.
In 1999, the Pabst Brewing Company began transferring its ... |
4825956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural%20London%20English | Multicultural London English | Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken mainly by young, working-class people in multicultural parts of London.
Speakers of MLE come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and live in diverse neighbourhoods. As a resu... |
4826551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Allen%20%28snooker%20player%29 | Mark Allen (snooker player) | Mark Allen (born 22 February 1986) is a Northern Irish professional snooker player from Antrim. He won the World Amateur Championship in 2004, turned professional the following year, and took only three seasons to reach the top 16. In his fourth professional season, he beat the defending champion Ronnie O’Sullivan en r... |
4826588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20von%20Mises | Ludwig von Mises | Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian–American Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberalism and the power of consumers. He is best known for his work on praxeo... |
4826789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20alloy | Magnesium alloy | Magnesium alloys are mixtures of magnesium (the lightest structural metal) with other metals (called an alloy), often aluminium, zinc, manganese, silicon, copper, rare earths and zirconium. Magnesium alloys have a hexagonal lattice structure, which affects the fundamental properties of these alloys. Plastic deformatio... |
4826805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MTV | List of programs broadcast by MTV | MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel dedicated to music, music industry and history in the United States upon its founding in 1981. MTV Networks has since produced various original television shows, many of which concern genres unrelated to music. This is an incomplete list... |
4826985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta%20Candy | Etta Candy | Etta Candy is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly in association with Wonder Woman. Spirited and vivacious, with a devil-may-care attitude, Etta debuted as a young white woman with red hair in 1942's Sensation Comics #2, written by Wonder Woman's creator William Moulton... |
4827238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation%20of%20Armenian%20intellectuals%20on%2024%20April%201915 | Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915 | The deportation of Armenian intellectuals is conventionally held to mark the beginning of the Armenian genocide. Leaders of the Armenian community in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul), and later other locations, were arrested and moved to two holding centers near Angora (now Ankara). The order to do ... |
4827239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%20Whitworth%20Ensign | Armstrong Whitworth Ensign | The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign was a British four-engine monoplane airliner and the largest airliner built in Britain during the Interwar period.
The British airline Imperial Airways requested tenders for a large monoplane airliner with four Armstrong Siddeley Tiger engines in 1934. Armstrong Whitworth designed... |
4827784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsh%2C%20Ontario | Walsh, Ontario | Walsh (formerly known as Charlotteville Centre) is a medium-sized hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
Summary
Walsh developed as a township central crossroads gathering point on Young's Creek, in the first quarter of the 19th century. A number of service businesses have come and gone over the years, as road qua... |
4827841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%20Communications | Frontier Communications | Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. is an American telecommunications company. Known as Citizens Utilities Company until 2000, Citizens Communications Company until 2008, and Frontier Communications Corporation until 2020, as a communications provider with a fiber-optic network and cloud-based services, Frontier offer... |
4828241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Shakespeare%20Festival | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a professional acting company in association with the University of Colorado at Boulder. It was established in 1958, making it one of the oldest such festivals in the United States, and has roots going back to the early 1900s.
Each summer, the festival draws about 25,000 patrons to... |
4828341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham%20Well%20Hall%20rail%20crash | Eltham Well Hall rail crash | The Eltham Well Hall rail crash was an accident on the British railway system that occurred on 11 June 1972 at approximately 21:35. An excursion train from Margate to Kentish Town derailed on a sharp curve at Eltham Well Hall station, Eltham, London. The curve had a maximum permitted speed to be taken at but the trai... |
4829056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27%20Wreck | Ramblin' Wreck | The Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech is the 1930 Ford Model A Sport coupe that serves as the official mascot of the student body at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Wreck is present at all major sporting events and student body functions. Its most noticeable role is leading the football team into Bobby Dodd Sta... |
4829063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancey%20Murphy | Nancey Murphy | Nancey Murphy (born 12 June 1951) is an American philosopher and theologian who is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA. She received the B.A. from Creighton University (philosophy and psychology) in 1973, the Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley (philosophy of science... |
4829090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior%20Fort | Gwalior Fort | The Gwalior Fort, commonly known as the Gwāliiyar Qila, is a hill fort near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. The fort has existed at least since the 10th century, and the inscriptions and monuments found within what is now the fort campus indicate that it may have existed as early as the beginning of the 6th century. Th... |
4829129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Got%20Talent | America's Got Talent | America's Got Talent (often abbreviated as AGT) is a televised American talent show competition, and is part of the global Got Talent franchise created by Simon Cowell. The program is produced by Fremantle (as well as distributed by) and Syco Entertainment, and broadcasts on the NBC television network. It premiered on... |
4829258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serzh%20Sargsyan | Serzh Sargsyan | Serzh Azati Sargsyan (, ; born 30 June 1954) is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.
He won the February 2008 ... |
4829358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOP-TV | KCOP-TV | KCOP-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KTTV (channel 11). Both stations share studios at the Fox Television Center located in West Los Angeles, whi... |
4829422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Other%20Side%20of%20the%20Wind | The Other Side of the Wind | The Other Side of the Wind is a 2018 satirical drama film, directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Orson Welles, and posthumously released in 2018 after 48 years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, and Oja Kodar.
Intended by Welles to be his Hollywood ... |
4829979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Woodruff | Michael Woodruff | Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff, (3 April 1911 – 10 March 2001) was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed hi... |
4830199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyth%20and%20Tyne%20Railway | Blyth and Tyne Railway | The Blyth and Tyne Railway was a railway company in Northumberland, England, incorporated by Act of Parliament on 30 June 1852. It was created to unify the various private railways and waggonways built to carry coal from the Northumberland coalfield to Blyth and the River Tyne, which it took control of on 1st January 1... |
4830276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20logic%20gate | Molecular logic gate | A molecular logic gate is a molecule that performs a logical operation based on one or more physical or chemical inputs and a single output. The field has advanced from simple logic systems based on a single chemical or physical input to molecules capable of combinatorial and sequential operations such as arithmetic op... |
4830379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20safety%20in%20the%20United%20States | Transportation safety in the United States | Transportation safety in the United States encompasses safety of transportation in the United States, including automobile crashes, airplane crashes, rail crashes, and other mass transit incidents, although the most fatalities are generated by road incidents annually killing 32,479 people in 2011 to over 42,000 people ... |
4830690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naso%20%28parashah%29 | Naso (parashah) | Naso or Nasso (—Hebrew for "take a census" or "lift up," the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 35th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 4:21–7:89. The parashah addresses priestly dut... |
4830797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Park%20Conservancy | Central Park Conservancy | The Central Park Conservancy is a private, nonprofit park conservancy that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York and NYC Parks. The conservancy employs most maintenance and operations staff in the park. It effectively oversees the work of both the private and public employees under the authori... |
4831143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Greek%20medicine | Ancient Greek medicine | Ancient Greek medicine was a compilation of theories and practices that were constantly expanding through new ideologies and trials. The Greek term for medicine was iatrikē (Greek: ἰατρική). Many components were considered in ancient Greek medicine, intertwining the spiritual with the physical. Specifically, the ancie... |
4831178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20defense%20in%20the%20United%20States | Civil defense in the United States | United States civil defense refers to the use of civil defense in the history of the United States, which is the organized non-military effort to prepare Americans for military attack and similarly disastrous events. Late in the 20th century, the term and practice of civil defense fell into disuse. Emergency management... |
4831233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20battle%20of%20Bismarck | Last battle of Bismarck | The last battle of the German battleship Bismarck took place in the Atlantic Ocean approximately west of Brest, France, on 26–27 May 1941 between the and naval and air elements of the British Royal Navy. Although it was a decisive action between capital ships, it has no generally accepted name. It was the culmination... |
4831315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Health%20Services | Universal Health Services | Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is an American Fortune 500 company that provides hospital and healthcare services, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. In 2022, its annual revenues were $13.4 billion.
Company history
Alan B. Miller, who currently serves as the company's Executive Chairman, founded Universal H... |
4831700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes%20aristolochioides | Nepenthes aristolochioides | Nepenthes aristolochioides is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra, where it grows at elevations of 1800–2500 m above sea level. It has an extremely unusual pitcher morphology, having an almost vertical opening to its traps. It is critically endangered by overcollection.
The specific epithet aristolochioides i... |
4832196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor%20Wu%20of%20Song | Emperor Wu of Song | Emperor Wu of Liu Song (()宋武帝; 16 April 363– 26 June 422), personal name Liu Yu (), courtesy name Dexing (), childhood name Jinu (), was a statesman and strategist of Imperial China, and the founding emperor of the Chinese Liu Song dynasty. He came from a humble background, but became prominent after leading a rebellio... |
4832311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai%20no%20Kusabi | Ai no Kusabi | is a Japanese novel written by Rieko Yoshihara. Originally serialized in the magazine Shōsetsu June between December 1986 and October 1987, the story was collected into a hardbound novel that was released in Japan in 1990, and eventually expanded on and released in 6 paperback volumes.
This futuristic tale is set in ... |
4832430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Hampshire%20Regiment | Royal Hampshire Regiment | The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The regiment existed continuously for 111 years and served in the Second Boer War, ... |
4832454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erivan%20Khanate | Erivan Khanate | The Erivan Khanate (; ; ), also known as , was a khanate (i.e., province) that was established in Afsharid Iran in the 18th century. It covered an area of roughly 19,500 km2, and corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, the Iğdır Province and the Kars Province's Kağızman district in present-day Turkey and t... |
4832582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Last%20of%20the%20Summer%20Wine%20characters | List of Last of the Summer Wine characters | The following is a list of characters in the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine and its prequel series, First of the Summer Wine. The main series focused primarily on a trio of old men and their interaction with other characters in the town. Due to the longevity of the series it was often necessary to replace key chara... |
4834218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk%20%28video%20game%29 | Hulk (video game) | Hulk is a 2003 action video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Universal Interactive for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows. The game primarily features beat 'em up gameplay showcasing the Marvel Comics superhero Hulk, and also includes stealth-based levels featuring the Hulk... |
4834539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20River%20land%20dispute | Grand River land dispute | The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada. It is focused on land along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, an tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the... |
4835089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfaithful%20%28song%29 | Unfaithful (song) | "Unfaithful" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her second studio album A Girl like Me (2006). It was written by Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith with the song's producers Stargate. The song was released by Def Jam Recordings on May 1, 2006, as the second single from the album. "Unfaithful" is a pop and R&B ballad and was... |
4835624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracilisuchus | Gracilisuchus | Gracilisuchus (meaning "slender crocodile") is an extinct genus of tiny pseudosuchian (a group which includes the ancestors of crocodilians) from the Late Triassic of Argentina. It contains a single species, G. stipanicicorum, which is placed in the clade Suchia, close to the ancestry of crocodylomorphs. Both the genus... |
4836072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Fair%20Lady%20%28film%29 | My Fair Lady (film) | My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an... |
4836189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20N.%20Stevens | Kenneth N. Stevens | Kenneth Noble Stevens (March 24, 1924 – August 19, 2013) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of health sciences and technology at the research laboratory of electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the speech communication group in MIT's research laboratory o... |
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