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5043452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Da%20Vinci%20Code | The Da Vinci Code | The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them ... |
5043505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Thompson%20%28activist%29 | Jack Thompson (activist) | John Bruce Thompson (born July 25, 1951) is an American activist and disbarred attorney. As an attorney, Thompson focused his legal efforts against what he perceives as obscenity in modern culture. Thompson gained recognition as an anti-video game activist, criticizing the content of video games and their alleged effec... |
5043510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw%20Mas%C5%82owski | Stanisław Masłowski | Stanisław Masłowski, born Stanisław Stefan Zygmunt Ludgard Masłowski (3 December 1853 in Włodawa, – 31 May 1926 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter of realistic style, the author of watercolor landscapes.
Biography
Masłowski was born on 3 December 1853 in Włodawa on the Bug River (present day Poland), and there was chri... |
5043544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Party%20%28United%20States%29 | Democratic Party (United States) | The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It is a big tent of competing and often opposing viewpoints, but modern American liberalism, a variant of social liberalism, is the party's majority ideology. The party also has notable centrist and social democratic factions.... |
5043591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava%20Man | Lava Man | Lava Man (foaled on March 20, 2001 in California) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was once claimed for $50,000 but wound up being inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2015. In a forty-seven race career, despite finishing off the board while losing all 5 of his races outside Californ... |
5043597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias%20Moussaoui | Zacarias Moussaoui | Zacarias Moussaoui (, ; born 30 May 1968) is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the 9/11 attacks. He is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. M... |
5043637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20in%20Darfur | War in Darfur | The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing ... |
5043734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia | Wikipedia | Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, collectively known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, and has consistently been one of th... |
5043742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula%20%28Marvel%20Comics%29 | Dracula (Marvel Comics) | Dracula is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is based on the vampire Count Dracula from the novel of the same name by author Bram Stoker. After the initial run of the series The Tomb of Dracula, the character has been depicted primarily as an antagonist to superheroe... |
5043744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace%20journalism | Peace journalism | Peace journalism is a style and theory of reporting that aims to treat stories about war and conflict with balance, in contrast to war journalism, which peace journalism advocates say display a bias toward violence. The theory proposes practical methods for correcting biases in stories appearing in the mainstream and a... |
5043761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline%20B.%20Wells | Emmeline B. Wells | Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells (February 29, 1828 – April 25, 1921) was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1910 until her death. She repr... |
5043782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang%20Wenbo | Liang Wenbo | Liang Wenbo (; born 5 March 1987) is a Chinese former professional snooker player who is permanently banned from competition. During his career, Liang won one ranking title at the 2016 English Open, twice won the World Cup for China in 2011 and 2017 with teammate Ding Junhui, and reached one Triple Crown final at the 2... |
5044002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Army%20Regimental%20System | U.S. Army Regimental System | The United States Army Regimental System (USARS) is an organizational and classification system used by the United States Army. It was established in 1981 to replace the Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS) to provide each soldier with continuous identification with a single regiment, and to increase a soldier's probab... |
5044085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenobia%20Camprub%C3%AD | Zenobia Camprubí | Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
She was born in Malgrat de Mar (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Spanish father.
She later lived in the United States, stud... |
5044502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Brand | Joel Brand | Joel Brand (; 25 April 1906 – 13 July 1964) was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee (Va'adat ha-Ezra ve-ha-Hatzala be-Budapest or Va'ada), an underground Zionist group in Budapest, Hungary, that smuggled Jews out of German-occupied Europe to the relative safety of Hungary, during the Holocaust. When Germa... |
5044573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20immigration%20to%20the%20United%20States | Illegal immigration to the United States | Foreign nationals (aliens) can violate US immigration laws by entering the United States unlawfully or lawfully entering but then remaining after the expiration of their visas, parole, TPS, etc. Illegal immigration has been a matter of intense debate in the United States since the 1980s.
The illegal immigrant populati... |
5045232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish%20diaspora | Cornish diaspora | The Cornish diaspora () consists of Cornish people and their descendants who emigrated from Cornwall, United Kingdom. The diaspora is found within the United Kingdom, and in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, Panama, South Africa, the Samoas and Brazil.
Background
C... |
5045282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 2002 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 2002 in the United Kingdom. This year was the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Incumbents
Monarch – Queen Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Tony Blair (Labour)
Parliament – 53rd
Events
January
1 January – Ford unveils their all-new Fiesta supermini which is due on sale in March, but the new mod... |
5046512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bag%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | T-Bag (Prison Break) | Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell is a fictional character from the American television series Prison Break. Played by Robert Knepper, he is part of the main group of characters in the series and is part of the Fox River Eight. After guest-starring in the series' second episode, "Allen", the actor became one of the regular cast... |
5046618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Acts%20of%20the%20New%20Zealand%20Parliament%20%281840%E2%80%931890%29 | List of Acts of the New Zealand Parliament (1840–1890) | The first Enactment of the New Zealand parliament (General Assembly), created by the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, was the English Laws Act 1854 which established the applicability of all English laws in effect 14 January 1840, to New Zealand. The New Zealand Constitution Act 1846 was never implemented and was sus... |
5047046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aviation%20accidents%20and%20incidents%20in%20the%20war%20in%20Afghanistan | List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan | The following is a list aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan. It covers helicopters , fixed-wing aircraft and UAVs.
2021
August 15: During the fall of Kabul, 22 military planes and 24 helicopters of the Afghan Air Force fled over the border to Uzbekistan over the weekend, carrying 585 Afghan p... |
5047204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20to%20education | Right to education | The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progress... |
5047207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting%20system | Posting system | The is a baseball player transfer system that operates between Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). Despite the drafting of the United States – Japanese Player Contract Agreement, unveiled in 1967 to regulate NPB players moving to MLB, problems began to arise in the late 1990s. Some NPB ... |
5047394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAAF%20unit%20identification%20aircraft%20markings | USAAF unit identification aircraft markings | USAAF unit identification aircraft markings, commonly called "tail markings" after their most frequent location, were numbers, letters, geometric symbols, and colors painted onto the tails (vertical stabilizer fins, rudders and horizontal surfaces), wings, or fuselages of the aircraft of the United States Army Air Forc... |
5047400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 2003 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 2003 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Tony Blair (Labour)
Parliament – 53rd
Events
January
January – Toyota launches an all-new Avensis to be built at TMUK.
10 January – Ian Carr, a 27-year-old banned from driving with a total of 89 previous conviction... |
5048086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex%20public%20toilet | Unisex public toilet | Unisex public toilets (also referred to as gender-inclusive, gender-neutral, mixed-sex or all-gender, or without any prefix at all) are public toilets that are not separated by gender or sex.
Unisex public toilets take different forms. They may be single occupancy facilities where only one single room or enclosure is ... |
5048279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Wild%20Swan%20%28D62%29 | HMS Wild Swan (D62) | HMS Wild Swan was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in 1918 from Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1917–18. She was the second Royal Navy ship to carry the name, a... |
5048661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers%20in%20Europe | Quakers in Europe | The Quaker movement began in England in the 17th Century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For instance, see the Stephen Crisp article). Quakers in Europe outside Britain and Ireland are not now very numerous although new groups have started in the former Soviet... |
5048737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20walk | Zombie walk | A zombie walk is an organized public gathering of people who dress up in zombie costumes. Participants usually meet in an urban center and make their way around the city streets and public spaces (or a series of taverns in the case of a zombie pub crawl) in an orderly fashion. Zombie walks can be organized simply for e... |
5049103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Dean | Howard Dean | Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author, consultant, and retired politician who served as the 79th governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the... |
5049142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Bayad%C3%A8re | La Bayadère | La Bayadère ("the temple dancer") (ru. «Баядерка», Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus and libretto by Sergei Khudekov. The ballet was staged for the benefit performance of the Russian Prima ballerina Ekaterina Vaz... |
5049726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 2001 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 2001 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Tony Blair (Labour)
Parliament
52nd (until 14 May)
53rd (starting 13 June)
Events
January
5 January – A report by the Department of Health suggests that Dr Harold Shipman, convicted of 15 murders a year ago, may ha... |
5050389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20very-high-resolution%20radiometer | Advanced very-high-resolution radiometer | The Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instrument is a space-borne sensor that measures the reflectance of the Earth in five spectral bands that are relatively wide by today's standards. AVHRR instruments are or have been carried by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) family of pola... |
5050512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Brunete | Battle of Brunete | The Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), fought west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the Nationalists on the capital and on the north during the Spanish Civil War. Although initially successful, the Republicans were forced to retreat from Brunete after Nationalist counterattacks... |
5050619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embroidery%20of%20India | Embroidery of India | Embroidery in India includes dozens of embroidery styles that vary by region and clothing styles. Designs in Indian embroidery are formed on the basis of the texture and the design of the fabric and the stitch. The dot and the alternate dot, the circle, the square, the triangle, and permutations and combinations of the... |
5051760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown%20Hudson%20Tubes | Uptown Hudson Tubes | The Uptown Hudson Tubes are a pair of tunnels that carry PATH trains between Manhattan, New York City, to the east and Jersey City, New Jersey, to the west. The tubes originate at a junction of two PATH lines on the New Jersey shore and cross eastward under the Hudson River. On the Manhattan side, the tubes run mostly ... |
5051780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Jeremy | Ron Jeremy | Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953) is an American writer and former pornographic actor.
Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", Jeremy was ranked by AVN at No. 1 in their "50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also made a number of non-pornographic media appearances, and director Scott J. Gill filmed a documentary ... |
5052153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Frank | Barney Frank | Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a former American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011 and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. ... |
5052197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton%20John | Elton John | Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, pianist and composer. Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s and for his lasting impact on the music industry, his music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music. His... |
5052470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed%20Ahmad%20Barelvi | Syed Ahmad Barelvi | Syed Ahmad Barelvi, also known as Sayyid Ahmad Shahid, (1786–1831) was a Pindari warlord-turned Indian Islamic revivalist, scholar, and military commander from Raebareli, a part of the historical United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now called Uttar Pradesh). He launched the South Asian Jihad Movement that waged a decade... |
5052533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath%20Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore (; ; 7 May 1861 – 8 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh... |
5052649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Game%20%282006%20TV%20series%29 | The Game (2006 TV series) | The Game is an American television series created by Mara Brock Akil. A spin-off of UPN's Girlfriends, the series premiered on its successor network The CW on October 1, 2006.
The series was canceled in May 2009 after three seasons. Viacom's BET Networks would strike a deal with CBS Corporation to develop new episodes... |
5052801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian%20independence | Tunisian independence | Tunisian independence was a process that occurred from 1952 to 1956 between France and a separatist movement, led by Habib Bourguiba. He became the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia after negotiations with France successfully had brought an end to the colonial protectorate and led to independence.
Overvie... |
5053598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%20Ottoman%20coup%20d%27%C3%A9tat | 1913 Ottoman coup d'état | The 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (January 23, 1913), also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte (), was a coup d'état carried out in the Ottoman Empire by a number of Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) members led by Ismail Enver Bey and Mehmed Talaat Bey, in which the group made a surprise raid on the central Ottoman ... |
5054349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20the%20Slav | Thomas the Slav | Thomas the Slav (, – October 823) was a 9th-century Byzantine military commander, most notable for leading a wide-scale revolt in 821–23 against Emperor Michael II the Amorian ().
An army officer of Slavic origin from the Pontus region (now north-eastern Turkey), Thomas rose to prominence, along with the future emper... |
5054574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique%20Sanson | Véronique Sanson | Véronique Marie Line Sanson (; born 24 April 1949) is a three-time Victoires de la Musique award-winning French singer-songwriter and record producer with an avid following in her native country.
Ten years after Barbara, Véronique Sanson became one of the first French female singer-songwriters to break into stardom wi... |
5054635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcullen | Kilcullen | Kilcullen (), formally Kilcullen Bridge, is a small town on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. Its population of 3,815 at the 2022 census made it the 13th largest settlement in County Kildare. From 2002 to 2011, it was one of the fastest growing towns in the county, doubling its population from 1,483 to 3,473... |
5055077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Shania%20Twain | List of awards and nominations received by Shania Twain | Canadian singer Shania Twain has been honored numerous times since her debut. Her self-titled debut studio album Shania Twain (1993), was certified platinum by the RIAA. Her follow up The Woman In Me (1995), sold over 12 million copies in the US (Diamond) and 20 million copies worldwide. Twain's third studio album Come... |
5055422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching%20of%20Jesse%20Washington | Lynching of Jesse Washington | Jesse Washington was a seventeen-year-old African American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of lynching. Washington was convicted of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas. He was chained by... |
5055507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20Ghetto | Shanghai Ghetto | The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the ghetto was located in the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts which formed part of the Shanghai International Settle... |
5055529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nani%20%28footballer%29 | Nani (footballer) | Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha (born 17 November 1986), commonly known as Nani (), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Adana Demirspor. He represented Portugal in international football, playing 112 times for the senior national team.
Nani began his career with Sporting CP, ... |
5055767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20pool%20cleaner | Automated pool cleaner | An automated pool cleaner is a vacuum cleaner that is designed to collect debris and sediment from swimming pools with minimal human intervention.
History
Evolution
Swimming pool cleaners evolved from the water filter and early cistern cleaners. The forerunner of today's pool cleaners were cistern cleaners; they wer... |
5056021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20State%20University%20academics | Michigan State University academics | Michigan State University (MSU) offers over 200 academic programs at its East Lansing, Michigan campus. MSU is well known for its academic programs in education and agriculture, and the university pioneered the studies of packaging, horticulture and music therapy. MSU has one of the premier hospitality schools in the U... |
5056113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20CSKA%20Kyiv | FC CSKA Kyiv | FC CSKA Kyiv () is a Ukrainian amateur football club, until 2001 of the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is government sponsored by the Ministry of Defense. As its farm team CSKA-2 Kyiv, in 1994–2001 it served as a farm team of CSKA Kyiv which later was renamed into Arsenal Kyiv.
After reorgan... |
5056134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave%20Command%20Dagwon | Brave Command Dagwon | is a Japanese anime series begun in 1996, created by Takara and Sunrise under the direction of Tomomi Mochizuki (who also wrote episodes for the show under the penname Go Sakamoto) and was the seventh and penultimate entry in the Brave (Yūsha) franchise.
Earth is the target of the former Sargasso prisoners who seize c... |
5057078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Tomic | Bernard Tomic | Bernard Tomic (; , ; born 21 October 1992) is an Australian professional tennis player whose career-high ranking was world No. 17. As a junior, Tomic enjoyed a successful career in which he won an Orange Bowl title and two junior Grand Slam singles titles, the 2008 Australian Open and 2009 US Open. As a pro, he has won... |
5057292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Tamil%20Nadu | History of Tamil Nadu | The region of Tamil Nadu in the southeast of modern India, shows evidence of having had continuous human habitation from 15,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE. Throughout its history, spanning the early Upper Paleolithic age to modern times, this region has coexisted with various external cultures.
The three ancient Tamil dynastie... |
5057400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 25th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 22 and 23 June 1957, on the Circuit de la Sarthe. It was also the fifth round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. Some 250,000 spectators had gathered for Europe's classic sports car race, ... |
5057797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayoob%20Kara | Ayoob Kara | Ayoob Kara (, ; born 12 March 1955) is an Israeli Druze politician. He has served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in four spells between 1999 and 2021, and as Minister of Communications.
Biography
Kara was born in Daliyat al-Karmel, a Druze town near Haifa, in 1955. He went to an agricultural high school in Kfar ... |
5058074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Singaporean%20general%20election | 2006 Singaporean general election | General elections were held in Singapore on 6 May 2006. President S.R. Nathan dissolved parliament on 20 April 2006 on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong three weeks before the election. The People's Action Party (PAP) won 66.6% of the overall votes and gained 82 out of 84 seats. The PAP held the office of Pr... |
5058123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunsterforce | Dunsterforce | Dunsterforce was an Allied military force, established in December 1917 and named after its commander, Major-General Lionel Dunsterville. The force comprised fewer than 350 Australian, New Zealand, British and Canadian officers and NCOs, who were drawn from the Western and Mesopotamian fronts. The force was intended to... |
5058265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Windle | Bob Windle | Robert George Windle (born 7 November 1944) is an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1960s, who won four Olympic medals, including an individual gold medal. Windle won the 1500 m freestyle and took bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and silver and bronze in the 4 × 200 m and ... |
5058291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate%20Party%20%28Sweden%29 | Pirate Party (Sweden) | The Pirate Party () is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide, forming the International Pirate Party movement.
The Pirate Party was initially formed to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The pa... |
5058451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20and%20Rescue%20Department%20of%20Malaysia | Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia | The Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia (, Jawi: جابتن بومبا دان ڤڽلامت مليسيا), commonly known as Bomba, is a federal agency of Malaysia responsible for firefighting and technical rescue. Bomba is a Malay word derived from the Portuguese bombeiros which means 'firefighters'.
History
Firefighting services in Malay... |
5058628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Cheney | Dick Cheney | Richard Bruce Cheney ( ; born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He is often cited as the most powerful vice president in American history. Cheney previously served as the 17th United St... |
5058690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%2011%20attacks | September 11 attacks | The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. That morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions of the East Coast to Cali... |
5058739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden | Sweden | Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund.
At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the fifth... |
5058783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20in%20Singapore | Death in Singapore | Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population. There are strict regulations surrounding death and treatment of the body after death.
Legal definition of death
Under section 2A ... |
5059130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornswoggle | Hornswoggle | Dylan Mark Postl (born May 29, 1986) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE under the ring name Hornswoggle. He debuted in WWE in 2006, allied with Finlay. Hornswoggle won the Cruiserweight Championship in its first stint, and then was revealed as Vince McMahon's bastard son, and was... |
5059307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Grant | Barry Grant | Barry Grant is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, played by Paul Usher. The character debuted on-screen during the first episode of Brookside, broadcast on 2 November 1982. Barry is one of the show's original characters and the only character to appear in the first and final episodes... |
5059382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20Constitution%20of%201853 | Argentine Constitution of 1853 | The current Constitution of Argentina dates from 1853. The Constitution of Argentina of 1853 was approved in 1853 by almost all of the provincial governments at that moment (currently Argentina is made up of 24 jurisdictions of which 23 are provinces and one is an autonomous city) with the exception of Buenos Aires Pro... |
5060080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Poelcappelle | Battle of Poelcappelle | The Battle of Poelcappelle was fought in Flanders, Belgium, on 9 October 1917 by the British Second Army and Fifth Army against the German 4th Army, during the First World War. The battle marked the end of the string of highly successful British attacks in late September and early October, during the Third Battle of Yp... |
5060085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Broodseinde | Battle of Broodseinde | The Battle of Broodseinde was fought on 4 October 1917 near Ypres in Belgium, at the east end of the Gheluvelt plateau, by the British Second and Fifth armies against the German 4th Army. The battle was the most successful Allied attack of the Third Battle of Ypres. Using bite-and-hold tactics, with objectives limited ... |
5060088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Polygon%20Wood | Battle of Polygon Wood | The Battle of Polygon Wood took place from 26 September to 3 October 1917, during the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War. The battle was fought near Ypres in Belgium, in the area from the Menin road to Polygon Wood and thence north, to the area beyond St Julien. Much of the woodland had be... |
5060092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Langemarck%20%281917%29 | Battle of Langemarck (1917) | The Battle of Langemarck (16–18 August 1917) was the second Anglo-French general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres, during the First World War. The battle took place near Ypres in Belgian Flanders, on the Western Front against the German 4th Army. The French First Army had a big success on the northern flank from Bix... |
5060262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malusi%20Gigaba | Malusi Gigaba | Knowledge Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba (born 30 August 1971) is a South African politician who served as Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa from 27 February 2018 until his resignation on 13 November 2018. He also held the post from 25 May 2014 to 31 March 2017 as a... |
5060914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules%20of%20the%20Eurovision%20Song%20Contest | Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest | A detailed set of rules and obligations which all participating broadcasters and participants in the annual Eurovision Song Contest () must uphold is produced annually ahead of each edition of the international song contest. These rules are drafted by the contest organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and a... |
5061049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/167th%20%281st%20London%29%20Brigade | 167th (1st London) Brigade | The 167th (1st London) Brigade was an infantry formation of the British Territorial Army that saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars. It was the first Territorial formation to go overseas in 1914, garrisoned Malta, and then served with the 56th (London) Infantry Division on the Western Front. In the... |
5061097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASD%20Sorrento | ASD Sorrento | A.S.D. Sorrento 1945 is an Italian association football club from Sorrento, Italy, which was founded as Sorrento Calcio in 1945. Currently the club plays in the Serie C Group C, the third tier of Italian club football.
The team lost its affiliation to the FIGC, after being declared bankrupt by a court in Torre Annunzi... |
5061107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20Monorail | Moscow Monorail | The Moscow Monorail () is a monorail line located in the North-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. It runs from the Timiryazevskaya via Fonvisinskaya and VDNHa metro stations to Sergeya Eisensteina street. The monorail line currently has six stations. Planning of the monorail in Moscow started in 1998. Thi... |
5061252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20is%20beautiful | Black is beautiful | Black is beautiful is a cultural movement that was started in the United States in the 1960s by African Americans. It later spread beyond the United States, most prominently in the writings of the Black Consciousness Movement of Steve Biko in South Africa. Black is beautiful got its roots from the Négritude movement of... |
5061293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Pittsburgh | Culture of Pittsburgh | The Culture of Pittsburgh stems from the city's long history as a center for cultural philanthropy, as well as its rich ethnic traditions. In the 19th and 20th centuries, wealthy businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry J. Heinz, Henry Clay Frick, and nonprofit organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation donated m... |
5061388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31%20March%20incident | 31 March incident | The 31 March incident () was a political crisis within the Ottoman Empire in April 1909, during the Second Constitutional Era. Occurring soon after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, in which the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) had successfully restored the Constitution and ended the absolute rule of Sultan Abdul Ha... |
5061517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20World%20War%20I%20Memorial%20%28Washington%2C%20D.C.%29 | National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) | The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I. The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsyl... |
5061548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulton%20Hall | Soulton Hall | Soulton Hall is a Tudor country house near Wem, England. It was a 16th century architectural project of Sir Rowland Hill, publisher of the Geneva Bible. Hill was a statesman, polymath and philanthropist, later styled the "First Protestant Lord Mayor of London" because of his senior role in the Tudor statecraft that was... |
5061945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Pittsburgh | Sports in Pittsburgh | Sports in Pittsburgh have been played dating back to the American Civil War. Baseball, hockey, and the first professional American football game had been played in the city by 1892. Pittsburgh was first known as the "City of Champions" when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Panthers football team, and Pittsburgh Steel... |
5062402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano%20Moggi | Luciano Moggi | Luciano Moggi ( born 10 July 1937) is a former Italian association football administrator and convicted fraudster. He was a club executive for Roma, Lazio, Torino, Napoli, and Juventus, leading them to win six leagues (five with Juventus and one with Naples), three Coppa Italia (with Roma, Torino, and Juventus), five S... |
5062927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Pittsburgh | Transportation in Pittsburgh | Transportation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is different than in many other major American cities. A large metropolitan area that is surrounded by rivers and hills, Pittsburgh has an infrastructure system that has been built out over the years to include roads, tunnels, bridges, railroads, inclines, bike paths, and stai... |
5063047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obed%20Hussey | Obed Hussey | Obed Hussey (1792–1860) was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick. Hussey also invented a steam plow, a machine for grinding out hooks and eyes, a mill for grinding corn and cobs, a h... |
5063360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant%20Governor%20%28Canada%29 | Lieutenant Governor (Canada) | In Canada, a lieutenant governor (; French [masculine]: , or [feminine]: ) is the representative of the King of Canada in the government of each province. The Governor General of Canada appoints the lieutenant governors on the advice of the Prime Minister of Canada to carry out most of the monarch's constitutional and... |
5063860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermot%20O%27Hurley | Dermot O'Hurley | Dermot O'Hurley (c. 1530 – 19 or 20 June 1584)—also Dermod or Dermond O'Hurley: —was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. After being held and tortured in Dublin Castle, Archbishop O'Hurley was put to death, officially for high treason, but in reality as part of the religious pe... |
5064010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th%20Armoured%20Brigade%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | 8th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) | The 8th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army formed in August 1941, during the Second World War and active until 1956. The brigade was formed by the renaming of 6th Cavalry Brigade, when the 1st Cavalry Division based in Palestine (of which it was part) converted from a motorised formation (havi... |
5064199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20evaluation | Hand evaluation | In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands to each other so that they may reach the optimum contract. Key to this process is that players evaluate and re-evaluate the trick-taking potential of their hands as the auction proceeds and additional information ab... |
5064345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaplasticity | Metaplasticity | Metaplasticity is a term originally coined by W.C. Abraham and M.F. Bear to refer to the plasticity of synaptic plasticity. Until that time synaptic plasticity had referred to the plastic nature of individual synapses. However this new form referred to the plasticity of the plasticity itself, thus the term meta-plastic... |
5064922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20lacrosse%20case | Duke lacrosse case | The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in Durham, North Carolina, United States in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were accused of rape. The three students were David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann. The accuser was Crystal Mangum, a student at North C... |
5065056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Health | Google Health | Google Health was a project by Google designed as an attempt to create a repository of health records and data (personal health record services) in order to connect doctors, hospitals and pharmacies directly. The project was introduced in 2008 and discontinued in 2012. Google Health was restarted in 2018 but appeared t... |
5065143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s%20Edinburgh%20Rifles | Queen's Edinburgh Rifles | The Queen's Edinburgh Rifles was a brigade of Rifle Volunteers raised in the county of city of Edinburgh in 1859. It later formed two battalions of the Royal Scots, which fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front. The two battalions combined between the world wars before being converted ... |
5065267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 2000 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 2000 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Tony Blair (Labour)
Parliament – 52nd
Events
January
Japanese carmaker Nissan adds a third model to its factory near Sunderland: the new generation of the Almera hatchback and saloon which goes on sale in March.
1 ... |
5066036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric%20slow-wave%20sleep | Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep | Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS) is sleep where one half of the brain rests while the other half remains alert. This is in contrast to normal sleep where both eyes are shut and both halves of the brain show unconsciousness. In USWS, also known as asymmetric slow-wave sleep, one half of the brain is in deep sleep, ... |
5066260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans was a race for Sports Cars which took place on 28 and 29 July 1956 on the Circuit de la Sarthe. The race was won by Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson driving a Jaguar D-Type for the new Ecurie Ecosse team. This race also marked the golden jubilee of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) fou... |
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