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4836239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sound%20of%20Music%20%28film%29 | The Sound of Music (film) | The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed ... |
4836592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20school%20districts%20in%20Missouri | List of school districts in Missouri | This is an alphabetical list of school districts in Missouri, sorted first by the state supervisors of instruction regions, the counties each region serves, and then alphabetically.
Many districts have the letters "C" or "R" in their name, followed by a numeral. These stand for "consolidated" (merged through consent o... |
4838167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20songs%20about%20Chicago | List of songs about Chicago | This is a list of songs about Chicago.
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"1215 W. Belmont" - Carey Bell & Lurrie Bell
"19th Street Blues" - Johnny Dodds & Tiny Parham
"2120 South Michigan Avenue" – Rolling Stones
"29th and Dearborn" – Richard M Jones
"31st And State" - Johnny Griffin And Wilbur Ware With Junior Mance
"39th And Indiana" - Cha... |
4838188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians%20in%20Turkey | Armenians in Turkey | Armenians in Turkey (; , "Turkish Armenians"), one of the indigenous peoples of Turkey, have an estimated population of 50,000 to 70,000, down from a population of over 2 million Armenians between the years 1914 and 1921. Today, the overwhelming majority of Turkish Armenians are concentrated in Istanbul. They support t... |
4838342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyborg%E2%80%93Petrozavodsk%20offensive | Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive | The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg/Viipuri. After t... |
4838456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gala%20Galaction | Gala Galaction | Gala Galaction (; the pen name of Grigore or Grigorie Pisculescu ; April 16, 1879—March 8, 1961) was a Romanian Orthodox clergyman, theologian, writer, journalist, left-wing activist, as well as a political figure of the People's Republic of Romania. Contrary to political trends in interwar and WWII Romania, he was a p... |
4838458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Waitangi%20claims%20and%20settlements | Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements | Claims and settlements under the Treaty of Waitangi () have been a significant feature of New Zealand politics since the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 and the Waitangi Tribunal that was established by that act to hear claims. Successive governments have increasingly provided formal legal and political opportunity for Māo... |
4838590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knights%20of%20the%20Cross | The Knights of the Cross | The Knights of the Cross or The Teutonic Knights () is a 1900 historical novel written by the Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the original.
The book was serialized by the magazine Tygodnik Illustrowany between 189... |
4838673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Harsh%20Cry%20of%20the%20Heron | The Harsh Cry of the Heron | The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the sequel to Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy, first published on March 7, 2006. The novel is set sixteen years after the events of the Trilogy, and covers a period of about two years. It chronicles the events that ultimately lead to Takeo's downfall, in accordance with t... |
4839105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation%20%28evolution%29 | Cooperation (evolution) | In evolution, cooperation is the process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefits. It is commonly defined as any adaptation that has evolved, at least in part, to increase the reproductive success of the actor's social partners. For example, territorial choruses by male lions discour... |
4839173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-gap%20decision%20theory | Info-gap decision theory | Info-gap decision theory seeks to optimize robustness to failure under severe uncertainty, in particular applying sensitivity analysis of the stability radius type to perturbations in the value of a given estimate of the parameter of interest. It has some connections with Wald's maximin model; some authors distinguish ... |
4839663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VJing | VJing | VJing (pronounced: VEE-JAY-ing) is a broad designation for realtime visual performance. Characteristics of VJing are the creation or manipulation of imagery in realtime through technological mediation and for an audience, in synchronization to music. VJing often takes place at events such as concerts, nightclubs, music... |
4839891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Kessel | Phil Kessel | Philip Joseph Kessel Jr. (born October 2, 1987) is an American professional ice hockey winger who is an unrestricted free agent. He has previously played for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Arizona Coyotes, and the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kessel is a three-... |
4840164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20NASCAR%20Winston%20Cup%20Series | 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | The 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 44th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 21st modern-era Cup season. The season began on February 9, 1992, and ended on November 15, 1992. Independent owner/driver Alan Kulwicki of AK Racing won the Winston Cup championship.
The Generation 4 c... |
4840666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mechanical%20Universe | The Mechanical Universe | The Mechanical Universe...And Beyond is a 52-part telecourse, filmed at the California Institute of Technology, that introduces university level physics, covering topics from Copernicus to quantum mechanics. The 1985-86 series was produced by Caltech and INTELECOM, a nonprofit consortium of California community college... |
4840725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawara%21 | Yawara! | Yawara! (also stylized as YAWARA!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Spirits from 1986 to 1993, with its chapters collected into 29 tankōbon volumes by publisher Shōgakukan. The story centers around Yawara Inokuma, a seemingly ordinary high school girl, ... |
4840792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Snyder | Rick Snyder | Richard Dale Snyder (born August 19, 1958) is an American business executive, venture capitalist, attorney, accountant, and politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
Snyder, who was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, began his career in business in 1982. He was chairman of the board of Gat... |
4841280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owain%20ap%20Dyfnwal%20%28fl.%20934%29 | Owain ap Dyfnwal (fl. 934) | Owain ap Dyfnwal (fl. 934) was an early tenth-century King of Strathclyde. He was probably a son of Dyfnwal, King of Strathclyde, who may have been related to previous rulers of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. Originally centred in the valley of the River Clyde, this realm appears to have undergone considerable southward e... |
4841345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Zirka%20Kropyvnytskyi | FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi | FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi () is a Ukrainian amateur football club from Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, with its team currently playing in the Ukrainian Amateur League.
The club traces its history of a football team that existed at the British factory of Elvorti (Elworthy) since 1911. After the occupation of Ukraine by ... |
4841481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet%20programs | Scramjet programs | Scramjet programs refers to research and testing programs for the development of supersonic combustion ramjets, known as scramjets. This list provides a short overview of national and international collaborations, and civilian and military programs. The USA, Russia, India, and China (2014), have succeeded at developing... |
4841708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi%20people | Marathi people | The Marathi people () or Marathis () are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a Marathi-speaking state of India in 1960, as part of a nationwide linguistic reorganisation of the Indian state... |
4841908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubba | Ubba | Ubba (Old Norse: Ubbi; died 878) was a 9th-century Viking and one of the commanders of the Great Heathen Army that invaded Anglo-Saxon England in the 860s. The Great Army appears to have been a coalition of warbands drawn from Scandinavia, Ireland, the Irish Sea region and Continental Europe. There is reason to suspect... |
4841941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyfnwal%20ab%20Owain | Dyfnwal ab Owain | Dyfnwal ab Owain (died 975) was a tenth-century King of Strathclyde. He was a son of Owain ap Dyfnwal, King of Strathclyde, and seems to have been a member of the royal dynasty of Strathclyde. At some point in the ninth- or tenth century, the Kingdom of Strathclyde expanded substantially southwards. As a result of this... |
4842106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ON%20TV%20%28TV%20network%29 | ON TV (TV network) | ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated in eight markets between 1977 and 1985. Originally established by National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications, ON TV was part of a new breed of STV operations that broadcast premium programming... |
4842913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Shield%20episodes | List of The Shield episodes | The Shield is an American crime drama television created by Shawn Ryan and starring Michael Chiklis. The series premiered on FX on March 12, 2002 and ended on November 25, 2008, totaling 88 episodes over seven seasons, plus one additional mini-episode.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2002)
Captain David Aceveda, ... |
4843151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%20Air%20National%20Guard%20Base | Otis Air National Guard Base | Otis Air National Guard Base is an Air National Guard installation located within Joint Base Cape Cod, a military training facility located on the western portion of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. It was known as Otis Air Force Base prior to its transfer from the active duty Air Force to... |
4843627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fascist%20movements | List of fascist movements | This page lists political regimes and movements that have been described as fascist.
Whether a certain government is to be characterized as a fascist (radical authoritarian nationalist) government, an authoritarian government, a totalitarian government, a police state or some other type of government is often a matter... |
4843751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%20Bridge%20disaster | Tay Bridge disaster | The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, when the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a North British Railway (NBR) passenger train on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line from Burntisland bound for its final destination of Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge—design... |
4843842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Farscape%20characters | List of Farscape characters | The television series Farscape features an extensive cast of characters created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. The series is set aboard a living spacecraft named Moya of the Leviathan race. The physical, racial and species-specific cultural characteristics, as well as underlying mythological/sociological similarities and diffe... |
4844404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20information%20from%20the%20Mars%20Exploration%20Rover%20mission | Scientific information from the Mars Exploration Rover mission | NASA's 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission has amassed an enormous amount of scientific information related to the Martian geology and atmosphere, as well as providing some astronomical observations from Mars. This article covers information gathered by the Opportunity rover during the initial phase of its mission. I... |
4844527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice%20League%20in%20other%20media | Justice League in other media | The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Since their first appearance in The Brave and the Bold #28 (February/March 1960), various incarnations of the team have appeared in film, television, and video game ada... |
4844849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Wayne | Martha Wayne | Martha Wayne ( Kane) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. She is the mother of Bruce Wayne (Batman), and wife of Dr. Thomas Wayne as well as the paternal grandmother of Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin. After she and her husba... |
4845231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedersen%20rifle | Pedersen rifle | The Pedersen Rifle, officially known in final form as the T1E3 rifle, was a United States semi-automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen that was made in small numbers for testing by the United States Army during the 1920s as part of a program to standardize and adopt a replacement for the M1903 Springfield.
Although ... |
4845715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee%20Network | Yankee Network | The Yankee Network was an American radio network, based in Boston, Massachusetts, with affiliate radio stations throughout New England. At the height of its influence, the Yankee Network had as many as twenty-four affiliated radio stations. The network was co-founded by John Shepard III and his brother Robert, in 1929–... |
4846267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Dnieper | Battle of the Dnieper | The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II. Being one of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost four million troops at one point and stretched over a front.
Over four months, the eastern bank of the Dnieper was recovered from German for... |
4846576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Psycho%20%28film%29 | American Psycho (film) | American Psycho is a 2000 satirical psychological horror film directed by Mary Harron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner. Based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a New York City investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer. Willem Dafoe, ... |
4846714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirooki%20Goto | Hirooki Goto | is a Japanese professional wrestler. Since his debut, he has wrestled primarily for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where is currently one-half of the IWGP Tag Team Champions, alongside Yoshi-Hashi, in Goto's fourth reign and the duo's third reign.
He is known for being the longest reigning NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Ch... |
4846933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaweah%20River | Kaweah River | The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Park, where the watershed is noted for its alpine scenery and its dense concentr... |
4847318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Executioner%20%28book%20series%29 | The Executioner (book series) | The Executioner (a.k.a. Mack Bolan) is a monthly men's action-adventure paperback book series (published from 1969 - 2020) following the exploits of the character Mack Bolan and his wars against organized crime and international terrorism. The series has sold more than 200 million copies since its 1969 debut installmen... |
4847582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st%20Space%20Wing | 21st Space Wing | The 21st Space Wing (21 SW) was the United States Space Force's ground–based missile warning and space control wing. The 21st Space Wing was assigned to Space Operations Command and headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. The 21st Space Wing controlled Peterson Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force St... |
4848143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Yankees | New York Yankees | The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City alongside the National League (NL)... |
4848272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Trump | Donald Trump | Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump received a BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and his father named him president of his real estate business in 1... |
4848506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20enclaves%20and%20exclaves | List of enclaves and exclaves | In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land belonging to one country (or region etc.) that is totally surrounded by another country (or region). An exclave is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically contiguous with it (connected to it) because they are completely sepa... |
4848621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Pask | Gordon Pask | Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made during his lifetime multiple contributions to cybernetics, educational psychology, educational technology, epistemology, chemical computing, architecture, and the performing arts. During his life he gai... |
4848945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave%20and%20exclave | Enclave and exclave | An enclave is a territory (or a small territory as part of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. Enclave is sometimes used improperly to denote a territory that is only partly surrounded by another state. Vatican City ... |
4849012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20historical%20acts%20of%20tax%20resistance | List of historical acts of tax resistance | Tax resistance, the practice of refusing to pay taxes that are considered unjust, has probably existed ever since rulers began imposing taxes on their subjects. It has been suggested that tax resistance played a significant role in the collapse of several empires, including the Egyptian, Roman, Spanish, and Aztec.
Man... |
4849167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren%20of%20Purity | Brethren of Purity | The Brethren of Purity (; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra, Iraq, in the 9th or 10th century CE.
The structure of the organization and the identities of its members have never been clear. Their esoteric teachings and philosophy are expounded in an epistolary style i... |
4849234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20the%20Brethren%20of%20Purity | Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity | The Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (, Rasā'il Ikhwān al-ṣafā') also variously known as the Epistles of the Brethren of Sincerity, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and Loyal Friends is an Islamic encyclopedia in 52 treatises (rasā'il) written by the mysterious Brethren of... |
4849303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins%20of%20the%20Canadian%20dollar | Coins of the Canadian dollar | The coins of Canada are produced by the Royal Canadian Mint and denominated in Canadian dollars ($) and the subunit of dollars, cents (¢). An effigy of the reigning monarch always appears on the obverse of all coins. There are standard images which appear on the reverse, but there are also commemorative and numismatic ... |
4850116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian%20Government%20Railways | Tasmanian Government Railways | The Tasmanian Government Railways (TGR) was the former operator of the mainline railways in Tasmania, Australia. Formed in 1872, the railway company was managed by the Government of Tasmania, and existed until absorption into the Australian National Railways Commission in 1978.
History
Precursor
Launceston & Western... |
4850159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%20involvement%20in%20Contra%20cocaine%20trafficking | CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking | A number of writers have alleged that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations during the 1980s Nicaraguan civil war. These claims have led to investigations by the United States government, including hearings and reports by the United St... |
4850548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lichens%20of%20Maryland | List of lichens of Maryland | The following list of lichens of Maryland is derived from the following sources:
(1) lichens listed in the 1977 publication by Skorepa (Allen C. Skorepa), Norden , and Windler.
(2) lichens listed in the 1979 publication by Skorepa, Norden, and Windler.
(3) lichens listed in the 2002 publication by Biechele as occurrin... |
4850812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Draper%20Ingles | Mary Draper Ingles | Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia. In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian W... |
4851886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes%20eymae | Nepenthes eymae | Nepenthes eymae is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia, where it grows at elevations of above sea level. It is very closely related to N. maxima, from which it differs in its wine glass-shaped upper pitchers.
The specific epithet eymae honours Pierre Joseph Eyma, a Dutch botanist who worked ext... |
4852013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accursed%20Mountains | Accursed Mountains | The Accursed Mountains (; , ; both translated as "Cursed Mountains"), also known as the Albanian Alps (), is a mountain range in coastal Southeast Europe adjected to the Adriatic Sea. It is the southernmost subrange of the Dinaric Alps range (Dinarides), extending from northern Albania to southern Kosovo and northeast... |
4852131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20attrition | Language attrition | Language attrition is the process of losing a native or first language. This process is generally caused by both isolation from speakers of the first language ("L1") and the acquisition and use of a second language ("L2"), which interferes with the correct production and comprehension of the first. Such interference fr... |
4852464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my%20M%C3%A9nez | Jérémy Ménez | Jérémy Ménez (born 7 May 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian Serie B club Bari. Ménez has been described as an ambipedal, technically skilled, pacy playmaker.
Ménez began his career spending time with various clubs in the Île-de-France region such as the Centre de Formation de ... |
4852853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan%20MacIntyre | Clan MacIntyre | Clan MacIntyre (McIntyre) ( ) is a Highland Scottish clan. The name MacIntyre (from Scottish Gaelic Mac an t-Saoir), means "son of the carpenter.” It is most commonly said to descend from Maurice Mac Neil a nephew of Somerled, the great 12th century leader of the Scottish Gaels. Through an ingenious strategy, Maurice s... |
4853254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes%20talangensis | Nepenthes talangensis | Nepenthes talangensis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra, where it grows in upper montane forest at elevations of 1800–2500 m above sea level.
The specific epithet talangensis is derived from the name of Mount Talang, to which it is endemic, and the Latin ending -ensis, meaning "from".
Botanical history
... |
4853407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudhalvan | Mudhalvan | Mudhalvan () is a 1999 Indian Tamil-language political action film produced by R. Madhesh and S. Shankar, written and directed by Shankar. The film stars Arjun, Manisha Koirala and Raghuvaran while Vadivelu and Manivannan appear in supporting roles. The film featured an award-winning soundtrack composed by A. R. Rahman... |
4853509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20The%20Simpsons | Media in The Simpsons | Media is a recurring theme of satire on The Simpsons. The show is known for its satire of American popular culture and especially television culture, but has since its inception covered all types of media such as animation, journalism, commercials, comic books, movies, internet, and music. The series centers on a famil... |
4854845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerv%C3%A9lo | Cervélo | Cervélo Cycles is a Canadian manufacturer of racing and track bicycles. Cervélo uses CAD, computational fluid dynamics, and wind tunnel testing at a variety of facilities including the San Diego Air and Space Technology Center, in California, US, to aid its designs. Frame materials include carbon fibre. Cervélo curre... |
4855223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya%20Kakihara | Tetsuya Kakihara | is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He was affiliated with 81 Produce before he became a freelancer in June 2013. He set up his own agency, Zynchro, in July 2014.
Since 2010, Kakihara has been affiliated with Kiramune, a music label by Bandai Visual and Lantis, where he debuted as a singer with his first mini album,... |
4855307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Telugu%20epigraphy | Early Telugu epigraphy | Historians have deciphered writings on the walls of temples describing the names and gotras (family groupings) of some Telugu rulers and the contributions made by them to the temples and towns.
Ancient inscriptions
Vishnukundina
No. 1. (A. R. No. 581 of 1925) On a white marble pillar near the entrance into the temp... |
4855524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berakhah | Berakhah | In Judaism, a berakhah, bracha, , (; pl. , berakhot, ; "benediction," "blessing") is a formula of blessing or thanksgiving, recited in public or private, usually before the performance of a commandment, or the enjoyment of food or fragrance, and in praise on various occasions.
The function of a berakhah is to acknowl... |
4855960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota%20Land%20Cruiser%20Prado | Toyota Land Cruiser Prado | The is a full-size four-wheel drive vehicle in the Land Cruiser range produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota as a "light-duty" variation in the range.
The Prado may also be referred to as Land Cruiser LC70, LC90, LC120, LC150 and LC250 depending on the platform. In some markets, it is known simply as the Toyota Pr... |
4856356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cizre | Cizre | Cizre (; , or Madinat al-Jazira, , , Cizîra Botan, or Cizîre, ,) is a city in the Cizre District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. It is located on the river Tigris by the Syria–Turkey border and close to the Iraq–Turkey border. Cizre is in the historical region of Upper Mesopotamia and the cultural region of Turkish Kurdi... |
4856477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s%20renovation%20of%20Paris | Haussmann's renovation of Paris | Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public works programme commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. It included the demolition of medieval neighbourhoods that were deemed overcrowded and unhealthy by officials at the time; the bui... |
4856500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A0%20Cattolica%20del%20Sacro%20Cuore | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (English: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, colloquially the Catholic University of Milan), known as UCSC or UNICATT or simply Cattolica, is an Italian private research university founded in 1921. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy, with satellite campuses in Brescia,... |
4856749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Railway%20Company | Barry Railway Company | The Barry Railway Company was a railway and docks company in South Wales, first incorporated as the Barry Dock and Railway Company in 1884. It arose out of frustration among Rhondda coal owners at congestion and high charges at Cardiff Docks as well the monopoly held by the Taff Vale Railway in transporting coal from t... |
4856850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation%20in%20India | Reservation in India | Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment, government schemes, scholarships and politics. Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union Government and the States and Territories of India to set res... |
4857289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery%20Legasov | Valery Legasov | Valery Alekseyevich Legasov (; 1 September 1936 – 27 April 1988) was a Soviet inorganic chemist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He is primarily known for his efforts to contain the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Legasov also presented the findings of an investigation to the International Atomic E... |
4857343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaalotecha | Behaalotecha | Behaalotecha, Behaalotcha, Beha'alotecha, Beha'alotcha, Beha'alothekha, or Behaaloscha (—Hebrew for "when you step up," the 11th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 36th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Numbers. The para... |
4857523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamelisaurus | Klamelisaurus | Klamelisaurus (meaning "Kelameili Mountains lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shishugou Formation of China. The type species is Klamelisaurus gobiensis, which was named by Zhao Xijin in 1993, based on a partial skeleton discovered in 1982 near the abandoned town of Jiangjunmi... |
4857646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 36th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 28 and 29 September 1968 on the Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France.
Originally scheduled for the weekend of 15 and 16 June, the race had to be delayed until September due to protests, strikes, and civil unrest in France during t... |
4857987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover%E2%80%93W%C3%BCrzburg%20high-speed%20railway | Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway | The Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway is a double-track, electrified high-speed railway between Hanover and Würzburg in Germany, in length. The line, built between 1973 and 1991, was the longest contiguous new project constructed by Deutsche Bundesbahn. The total costs were almost DM 11.9 billion<ref name="bt-12-847... |
4858717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg%20Hauptbahnhof | Würzburg Hauptbahnhof | Würzburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Würzburg in the German state of Bavaria. It was opened in 1864 to the north of the inner city as a replacement for the former Ludwigsbahnhof (Ludwig's station) in the city centre, the capacity of which had been exhausted by the dramatic increase of rail traffic... |
4858948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel-Wilhelmsh%C3%B6he%20station | Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station | Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe is a railway station in the city of Kassel, in the German state of Hesse. It is the city's most important railway station, as it is connected to the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line, with InterCityExpress services calling at the station.
History
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station was opened as Wahle... |
4858986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin%20%281969%20TV%20series%29 | Moomin (1969 TV series) | is a Japanese anime television series produced by Zuiyo Enterprise and animated by Tokyo Movie until episode 26 and by Mushi Production after episode 27. The series is loosely based on the Moomin books by the Finnish author Tove Jansson and was broadcast on Fuji Television from 1969 to 1970. A sequel series entitled Sh... |
4859504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Podillya%20Khmelnytskyi | FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi | FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi is a professional Ukrainian football team that is based in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. The club competes in the Ukrainian Second League.
History
Soviet era
Established in the Soviet Union as part of the Dynamo sports society in 1926 as Dynamo Proskurov (Proskuriv), the club pa... |
4859546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith%20studies | Hadith studies | Hadith studies ( ʻilm al-ḥadīth "science of hadith", also science of hadith, or science of hadith criticism or hadith criticism)
consists of several religious scholarly disciplines used by Muslim scholars in the study and evaluation of the Islamic hadith—i.e. the record of the words, actions, and the silent approval o... |
4859904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20treasure%20ship | Chinese treasure ship | A Chinese treasure ship (, literally "gem ship") is a type of large wooden ship in the fleet of admiral Zheng He, who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming dynasty. The size of the Chinese treasure ship has been a subject of debate with the Chinese records mentioning the size of 44 zhang or 44.4 zhang, w... |
4860016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher%20Jugendliteraturpreis | Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis | The (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only state-funded literary award. In the past, authors from many countries have... |
4860203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipper%20Jones | Chipper Jones | Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones Jr. (born April 24, 1972) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves from 1993 to 2012. The Braves chose Jones with the first overall pick in the 1990 MLB draft. He was also a member of their 1995 World Series ch... |
4860258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes%20of%20the%20Canadian%20dollar | Banknotes of the Canadian dollar | Banknotes of the Canadian dollar are the banknotes or bills (in common lexicon) of Canada, denominated in Canadian dollars (CAD, C$, or $ locally). Currently, they are issued in $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 denominations. All current notes are issued by the Bank of Canada, which released its first series of notes in 193... |
4860530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floricienta | Floricienta | Floricienta (; known in English as Flinderella) is an Argentine juvenile musical soap opera based on the Cinderella story. It originally aired from 2004 to 2005, but since then it has been broadcast in many countries. Some international channels that have aired Floricienta are Disney Channel (Latin American), Cartoon N... |
4860610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20health%20care%20reform | Massachusetts health care reform | The Massachusetts health care reform, commonly referred to as Romneycare, was a healthcare reform law passed in 2006 and signed into law by Governor Mitt Romney with the aim of providing health insurance to nearly all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The law mandated that nearly every resident of... |
4861008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20association%20football | History of association football | The history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back at least to the medieval times. Some predecessors of football may date back to ancient Greece and Rome, and similar games were played in ancient China and Japan. The history of football in Britain dates at least to the eighth... |
4861224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/hollow%20ataraxia | Fate/hollow ataraxia | is a 2005 PC visual novel video game developed by Type-Moon, and the sequel to Fate/stay night. The word "ataraxia" in the title is a Greek term for "tranquility", giving the title the combined meaning of "empty (or false) tranquility".
The game also was ported to PlayStation Vita, adding full-voice acting, among othe... |
4861356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial%20review%20in%20the%20United%20States | Judicial review in the United States | In the United States, judicial review is the legal power of a court to determine if a statute, treaty, or administrative regulation contradicts or violates the provisions of existing law, a State Constitution, or ultimately the United States Constitution. While the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly define the power... |
4861876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20UEFA%20Champions%20League%20final | 2005 UEFA Champions League final | The 2005 UEFA Champions League final was the final match of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Europe's primary club football competition. The showpiece event was contested between Liverpool of England and Milan of Italy at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey on 25 May 2005. Liverpool, who had won the compe... |
4862018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20Sacramento%20hostage%20crisis | 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis | On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at a Good Guys! electronics store at the corner of 65th Street and Stockton Boulevard in Florin, California, near the Florin Mall (now Florin Town Centre) for approximately eight hours. Near the end of the hostage crisis, six were k... |
4862102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Ellis%20%28childcare%20worker%29 | Peter Ellis (childcare worker) | Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis (30 March 1958 – 4 September 2019) was a New Zealand childcare worker who was wrongfully convicted of child sexual abuse. He was at the centre of one of the country's most enduring judicial controversies, after being found guilty in June 1993 in the High Court on 16 counts of sexual offences i... |
4862350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 35th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 10 and 11 June 1967. It was also the seventh round of the 1967 World Sportscar Championship.
Dan Gurney and A. J. Foyt, driving a Ford Mk IV, won the race after leading from the second hour, becoming the first (and, as of , only) all... |
4862743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smorgon%20family | Smorgon family | The Smorgon family is a Jewish-Australian business family known for their establishment of Smorgon Steel.
Family tree
Norman (Naum) Smorgon (17 December 1884 – 1956) m. (1) Tzippa Smorgon nee Mejov (1887 - ??) (div. 1925); (2) m. Vera Naumovna Smorgon nee Feldman (1885 - ??) (div. 1954);
Eric (Isiat) Smorgon (1911... |
4862767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance%20board | Balance board | A balance board is a device used as a circus skill, for recreation, balance training, athletic training, brain development, therapy, musical training and other kinds of personal development.
It is a lever similar to a see-saw that the user usually stands on, usually with the left and right foot at opposite ends of the... |
4862820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameTrailers%20TV%20with%20Geoff%20Keighley | GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley | GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley (or GT.TV) is a television show about video games hosted by video game journalist Geoff Keighley. Originally titled Game Head, on January 25, 2008, the show relaunched under its current name with a slightly different format and further incorporation of GameTrailers hosts, Amanda MacK... |
4862882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Edward%20Elliott | Harold Edward Elliott | Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott, (19 June 1878 – 23 March 1931) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War. After the war he served as a Senator for Victoria in the Australian parliament.
Elliott entered the University of Melbourne in 1898 to study law, but left in 1900 to ser... |
4863138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Keng%20Quee | Chung Keng Quee | Kapitan China Chung Keng Quee (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhang Kín-kui, 182713 December1901) was the founder and administrator of modern Taiping in Perak, Malaysia. Appointed "Capitan China" by the British in 1877, he was a millionaire philanthropist and known as an innovator in the mining of tin. He was involved in many other i... |
4863813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halkieriid | Halkieriid | The halkieriids are a group of fossil organisms from the Lower to Middle Cambrian. Their eponymous genus is Halkieria , which has been found on almost every continent in Lower to Mid Cambrian deposits, forming a large component of the small shelly fossil assemblages. The best known species is Halkieria evangelista, ... |
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