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5196222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Parkinson | Michael Parkinson | Sir Michael Parkinson (28 March 1935 – 16 August 2023) was an English television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his television talk show Parkinson from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, as well as other talk shows and programmes both in the UK and internationally. He also worked in radio... |
5196537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1971 Indianapolis 500 | The 55th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was a motor race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Saturday, May 29, 1971. Al Unser Sr. won for the second consecutive year, dominating most of the race. Unser became the fourth driver to win the Indy 500 in back-to-back years, and it was his sec... |
5196569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1972 Indianapolis 500 | The 56th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Saturday, May 27, 1972. The race is notable in that for the first time, the cars were permitted bolt-on wings, and speeds climbed dramatically. Bobby Unser won the pole position at a then-remarkable speed of... |
5196576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1973 Indianapolis 500 | The 57th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Wednesday, May 30, 1973. The race was held over three days due to rain and suffered two major accidents. Three competitors - two drivers and one pit crew member - died from injuries suffered as a result of a... |
5196578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1974 Indianapolis 500 | The 58th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 26, 1974. Johnny Rutherford, in his eleventh attempt, won the race from the 25th starting position, the farthest back since Louis Meyer in 1936. It was the first of his three Indy victories, and s... |
5196591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1976 Indianapolis 500 | The 60th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 30, 1976. Polesitter Johnny Rutherford took the lead on lap 80, and was leading when rain halted the race on lap 103. Two hours later, the race was about to be resumed, but rain fell again. USAC o... |
5196598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1977 Indianapolis 500 | The 61st 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 29, 1977. Considered one of the most historically significant editions of the Indianapolis 500, several sidebar stories complemented the unprecedented accomplishment of race winner A. J. Foyt. Foy... |
5196605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1978 Indianapolis 500 | The 62nd 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 28, 1978. Danny Ongais dominated the early stages of the race but eventually dropped out with a blown engine. Al Unser Sr. dominated the second half, and held a large lead late in the race. Howeve... |
5196615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1979 Indianapolis 500 | The 63rd 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Sunday May 27, 1979. Second-year driver Rick Mears took the lead for the final time with 18 laps to go, and won his first of four Indianapolis 500 races. It was also Mears' first of a record six Indy 500 pol... |
5196781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1946 Indianapolis 500 | The 30th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, May 30, 1946. This was the first Indianapolis 500 presided over by new track owner Tony Hulman. The track had closed in late 1941 due to World War II, and over the next four years, the facility fell into a terrible stat... |
5196860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography%20of%20Canadian%20history | Bibliography of Canadian history | This is a bibliography of major works on the History of Canada.
Scholarly journals focused on Canadian history
Acadiensis, covers Atlantic Canada
Alberta history
American Review of Canadian Studies
British Columbia History
Canada's History, Formerly The Beaver (1920–2010)
Canadian Historical Review, the major sc... |
5196861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919%20Indianapolis%20500 | 1919 Indianapolis 500 | The 7th Liberty 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 31, 1919.
After a two-year hiatus due to World War I, the Indianapolis 500 returned to competition in 1919. Howdy Wilcox won, accompanied by riding mechanic Leo Banks. More than half the field (19 of 33 cars) consisted of... |
5196869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 1990 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 1990 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) (until 28 November), John Major (Conservative) (starting 28 November)
Parliament – 50th
Events
January
1 January
Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture, the first ... |
5197668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20CW%20Plus | The CW Plus | The CW Plus is a secondary national broadcast television syndication service feed of The CW (which is 75% owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning 12.5%). It is intended primarily for American television markets ranked #100 and above by Nielsen Media Research estimates.... |
5198024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient%20coding%20hypothesis | Efficient coding hypothesis | The efficient coding hypothesis was proposed by Horace Barlow in 1961 as a theoretical model of sensory coding in the brain. Within the brain, neurons communicate with one another by sending electrical impulses referred to as action potentials or spikes. One goal of sensory neuroscience is to decipher the meaning of ... |
5198227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20Hill%20University | Edge Hill University | Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, which opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, before admitting its first male students in 1959. In 2005, Edge Hill was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers... |
5198384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20Rain | Heavy Rain | Heavy Rain is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game features four protagonists involved with the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial killer who uses extended periods of rainfall to drown his victims. The player interacts with the game by... |
5198690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 1989 in the United Kingdom | ·
Events from the year 1989 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
Parliament – 50th
Events
January
4 January – A memorial service is held for the 270 people who died in the Lockerbie air disaster two weeks ago. Margaret Thatcher and several ot... |
5198908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Spanish%20language | History of the Spanish language | The language known today as Spanish is derived from spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC. Today it is the world's 4th most widely spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi. Influenced by th... |
5198986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Standby%20Force | African Standby Force | The African Standby Force (ASF) (French: Force africaine en attente) is an international, continental African, and multidisciplinary peacekeeping force with military, police and civilian contingents that acts under the direction of the African Union. The ASF is to be deployed in times of crisis in Africa. Addis Ababa, ... |
5199213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor%20measurement%20unit | Phasor measurement unit | A phasor measurement unit (PMU) is a device used to estimate the magnitude and phase angle of an electrical phasor quantity (such as voltage or current) in the electricity grid using a common time source for synchronization. Time synchronization is usually provided by GPS or IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol, which all... |
5199283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemegtomaia | Nemegtomaia | Nemegtomaia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from what is now Mongolia that lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70million years ago. The first specimen was found in 1996, and became the basis of the new genus and species N. barsboldi in 2004. The original genus name was Nemegtia, but this was changed to Nemegt... |
5199353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20tornadoes%20and%20tornado%20outbreaks%20%28before%202001%29 | List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (before 2001) | This page lists tornadoes and tornado outbreaks which have touched down in Canada prior to the 21st century. On average, there are around 80 confirmed and unconfirmed tornadoes that touch down in Canada each year, with most occurring in the southern Canadian Prairies, Southern Ontario and southern Quebec. Canada ranks ... |
5199516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentin%20hypersensitivity | Dentin hypersensitivity | Dentin hypersensitivity (DH, DHS) is dental pain which is sharp in character and of short duration, arising from exposed dentin surfaces in response to stimuli, typically thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic, chemical or electrical; and which cannot be ascribed to any other dental disease.
A degree of dentin sensiti... |
5199828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20Bomar | Lynn Bomar | Robert Lynn Bomar (January 21, 1901 – June 11, 1964) was an American football end in the National Football League (NFL). Bomar played college football, basketball and baseball for Vanderbilt University, following coach Wallace Wade and classmate Hek Wakefield there from prep school, and was a unanimous 1922 All-Souther... |
5200390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20American%20Idol | Latin American Idol | Latin American Idol was the Hispanic American edition of the popular British franchise of Idols, well known for its American version American Idol. The show aimed to discover the pop idol of the Hispanic American region. The show was filmed in Buenos Aires and was transmitted to over 23 nations in the region via the So... |
5200483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman%20Minsky | Hyman Minsky | Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996) was an American economist, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and a distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of... |
5200967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy%20McCain | Cindy McCain | Cindy Lou McCain (; born May 20, 1954) is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and humanitarian who is the executive director of the World Food Programme. McCain previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 2021 to 2023. She is the widow of U.S. Senator John McCain f... |
5200985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1935 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1935 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 13th Grand Prix of Endurance. It took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 15 and 16 June 1935. The race was won by Johnny Hindmarsh and Luis Fontés in a British Lagonda, breaking the run of four consecutive Alfa Romeo victories. A record number of 58 starters included a record numb... |
5201333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine%2C%20California | Irvine, California | Irvine () is a master-planned city in southern Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971. The city had a population of 307,670 at the 2020 census, it is the 63rd... |
5201796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang%27s%20Fairy%20Books | Lang's Fairy Books | The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lan... |
5202807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20rules%20football%20in%20Victoria | Australian rules football in Victoria | Australian rules football in Victoria is the most watched and second most participated code of football. Australian rules football originated in Melbourne in the late 1850s and grew quickly to dominate the sport, which it continues to. Victoria has more than double the number of players of any other state in Australia ... |
5202890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade%20Centre%20railway%20station | Belgrade Centre railway station | The Belgrade Centre railway station (), colloquially known as Prokop (), is the new central railway station in Belgrade, Serbia. The station is located in the Belgrade municipality of Savski Venac. Although unfinished, it serves as de facto main railway station of the city, after replacing the old main station at the B... |
5203102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Strehlow | Carl Strehlow | Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow (23 December 1871 – 20 October 1922) was an anthropologist, linguist and genealogist who served on two Lutheran missions in remote parts of Australia from May 1892 to October 1922. He was at Killalpaninna Mission (also known as Bethesda) in northern South Australia, from 1892 to 1894, an... |
5203206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Chung | Linda Chung | Linda Chung Ka-yan (; born on 9 April 1984) is a Chinese-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter. She signed a long-term contract with TVB in 2004 after winning the Miss Chinese International. Chung was always Non-official Best Actress during the years in TVB. Chung ended her contract with TVB in early 2018.
As a sing... |
5203209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20of%20Cambodia | Cinema of Cambodia | Cinema in Cambodia began in the 1950s, and many films were being screened in theaters throughout the country by the 1960s, which are regarded as the "golden age". After a near-disappearance during the Khmer Rouge regime, competition from video and television has meant that the Cambodian film industry is a small one.
H... |
5203277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Stanley%20Cup%20playoffs | 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs | The 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs of the National Hockey League began on April 11, 2007. The sixteen teams that qualified, eight from each conference, played best-of-seven series for conference quarterfinals, semifinals and championships, and then the conference champions played a best-of-seven series for the Stanley Cup. ... |
5203386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A-opioid%20receptor | Κ-opioid receptor | The κ-opioid receptor or kappa opioid receptor, abbreviated KOR or KOP for its ligand ketazocine, is a G protein-coupled receptor that in humans is encoded by the OPRK1 gene. The KOR is coupled to the G protein Gi/G0 and is one of four related receptors that bind opioid-like compounds in the brain and are responsible f... |
5203904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Houston%20National%20Forest | Sam Houston National Forest | The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four National Forests in Texas, is located 50 miles north of Houston. The forest is administered together with the other three United States National Forests and two National Grasslands located entirely in Texas, from common offices in Lufkin, Texas. The units include Angelina, D... |
5204061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcocystis | Sarcocystis | Sarcocystis is a genus of protozoan parasites, with many species infecting mammals, reptiles and birds. Its name is dervived from Greek sarx = flesh and kystis = bladder.
The lifecycle of a typical member of this genus involves two host species, a definitive host and an intermediate host. Often, the definitive host i... |
5204148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20van%20Duin | André van Duin | Adrianus Marinus Kyvon (born Adrianus Marinus Kloot; 20 February 1947), known by his stage name André van Duin, is a Dutch comedian, actor, singer-songwriter, author, television presenter, television director, television producer and screenwriter. Van Duin is one of the Netherlands' best known entertainers, with a care... |
5204236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Babylonian%20Empire | Neo-Babylonian Empire | The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC... |
5204453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complicity | Complicity | Complicity is the participation in a completed criminal act of an accomplice, a partner in the crime who aids or encourages (abets) other perpetrators of that crime, and who shared with them an intent to act to complete the crime. A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of a crime if they purpose ... |
5204766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD%20Institute%20for%20Higher%20Education | Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education | The Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), is a unique open university in Iran, which has been portrayed as an underground university, established by the Baháʼí community of Iran in 1987 to meet the educational needs of young people who have been systematically denied access to higher education by the Iranian go... |
5204901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Labour%20Party%20%28Ireland%29 | History of the Labour Party (Ireland) | The Labour Party has been part of the political scene in Ireland throughout the state's existence. Although never attracting majority support, it has repeatedly participated in coalition governments. The party was established in 1912 by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien and others as the political wing ... |
5205016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20UEFA%20Champions%20League%20final | 1999 UEFA Champions League final | The 1999 UEFA Champions League final was an association football match between Manchester United of England and Bayern Munich of Germany, played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, on 26 May 1999, to determine the winner of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League. Injury time goals from Manchester United's Teddy Sheringham and ... |
5205117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Boy%20%282003%20TV%20series%29 | Astro Boy (2003 TV series) | is a remake from the 1963 anime series of the same name created by Osamu Tezuka. Produced by Tezuka Productions, Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, Animax, Dentsu, and Fuji TV, it was directed by Kazuya Konaka, with Marc Handler as the story editor, Shinji Seya designing the characters, Shinji Aramaki and Takeshi Takak... |
5205150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20C.%20Rubin%20Observatory | Vera C. Rubin Observatory | The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, previously referred to as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory currently under construction in Chile. Its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The word synoptic is derived from the Gree... |
5205863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantosmia | Phantosmia | Phantosmia (phantom smell), also called an olfactory hallucination or a phantom odor, is smelling an odor that is not actually there. This is intrinsically suspicious as the formal evaluation and detection of relatively low levels of odour particles is itself a very tricky task in air epistemology. It can occur in one ... |
5207311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Heroes (American TV series) | Heroes is an American superhero drama television series created by Tim Kring that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006, to February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover that they have superhuman abilities and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives as t... |
5207492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20playwrights%20by%20nationality%20and%20year%20of%20birth | List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth | Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language:
See also: List of playwrights; List of early-modern British women playwrights; Lists of writers
Albania
See also: List of Albanian writers
(1850–1904) Sami Frashëri
Assyria
See also: List of Assyrian writers
(born 1965) Rosie Malek-Yonan
(born 1969) M... |
5207509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20Biglia | Lucas Biglia | Lucas Rodrigo Biglia (; born 30 January 1986) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
Formerly of Argentinos Juniors and Independiente, he spent seven seasons with Anderlecht, where he made 312 appearances in the Belgian Pro League, winning four league titles. He later spent four s... |
5207662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck%20the%20Millennium | Fuck the Millennium | "Fuck the Millennium", sometimes spelled "***k the Millennium", is a protest song by the band 2K—Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty—better known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs) or the KLF. The song was inspired musically by Jeremy Deller's "Acid Brass" project, where a traditional brass band plays acid house c... |
5207675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stord%20Airport | Stord Airport | Stord Airport (; ) is a municipal regional airport located at Sørstokken in Stord Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Located from Leirvik and on the island of Stord, it is the only airport with scheduled services in Sunnhordland. The airport consists of a single asphalt runway designated 14/32. It is classified... |
5208108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Higgins%20F.C. | O'Higgins F.C. | O'Higgins Fútbol Club (), also known as O'Higgins de Rancagua, is a Chilean professional football club based in Rancagua, that currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional. The club's home stadium is Estadio El Teniente, opened in 1945 and renovated for the 2015 Copa América, which was hosted by Chile.
Founded in 1955, ... |
5208457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Republic%20of%20Herzeg-Bosnia | Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia | The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia () was an unrecognized geopolitical entity and quasi-state in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proclaimed on 18 November 1991 under the name Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia () as a "political, cultural, economic and territorial whole" in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... |
5208498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehuelche%20people | Tehuelche people | The Tehuelche people, also called the Aónikenk, are an indigenous people from eastern Patagonia in South America. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Tehuelche were influenced by Mapuche people, and many adopted a horseriding lifestyle. Once a nomadic people, the lands of the Tehuelche were colonized in the 19th century... |
5208618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM%20barrel | TIM barrel | The TIM barrel (triose-phosphate isomerase), also known as an alpha/beta barrel, is a conserved protein fold consisting of eight alpha helices (α-helices) and eight parallel beta strands (β-strands) that alternate along the peptide backbone. The structure is named after triose-phosphate isomerase, a conserved metabolic... |
5208803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Mount%20Everest%20expeditions | Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions | Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,849 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level. It is situated in the Himalayan range of Solukhumbu district (Province 1 in present days), Nepal.
Timeline
1921: Reconnaissance expedition
The first British expedition—organized and financed by the newly formed... |
5208836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex%20Libris%20%28bookplate%29 | Ex Libris (bookplate) | An Ex Libris from , also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership. Simple typographical bookplates are termed "book labels".
Bookplates often bear a motif relati... |
5208951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa%20%28clan%29 | Issa (clan) | The Issa (also spelled Eesah, Esa, or Aysa) (, , Osmanya: 𐒋𐒕𐒜𐒈, ) are a northern Somali clan, a sub-division of the Dir clan family.
Overview
As a Dir sub-clan, the Issa have immediate lineal ties with the Akisho, Gadabuursi, the Surre (Abdalle and Qubeys), the Biimaal (who the Gaadsen also belong to), the Bajimal... |
5209207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Romm | Joe Romm | Joseph J. Romm (born June 27, 1960) is an American researcher, author, editor, physicist and climate expert, who advocates reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming and increasing energy security through energy efficiency and green energy technologies. Romm is a Fellow of the American Association for th... |
5209939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment%20Computer%20System | Entertainment Computer System | The Entertainment Computer System (ECS) was an add-on peripheral for the Intellivision. It was Mattel Electronics' second attempt at creating a peripheral to upgrade the Intellivision into a home computer, and was rushed into production to appease the Federal Trade Commission after they began fining Mattel for false ad... |
5210189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo-Kazooie | Banjo-Kazooie | Banjo-Kazooie is a series of video games developed by Rare. The games feature a male bear named Banjo and his friend, a large female red bird named Kazooie, who are both controlled by the player. Banjo originally made his debut as a playable character in 1997 as part of the cast of Diddy Kong Racing. Throughout the var... |
5210351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojan%20Krki%C4%87 | Bojan Krkić | Bojan Krkić Pérez (; , ; born 28 August 1990), also known as simply Bojan, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger.
Bojan began his career at Barcelona after progressing through the youth ranks at La Masia. His early promise saw him make his first-team debut at the age of 17 years... |
5210850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odia%20people | Odia people | The Odia (), formerly spelled Oriya, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Indian state of Odisha who speak the Odia language. They constitute a majority in the eastern coastal state, with significant minority populations existing in the neighboring states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Beng... |
5210960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing%20terrorism | Right-wing terrorism | Right-wing terrorism, hard right terrorism, extreme right terrorism or far-right terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by a variety of different right-wing and far-right ideologies, most prominently, it is motivated by Ultranationalism, neo-Nazism, anti-communism, neo-fascism, ecofascism, ethnonationalism, religious... |
5211692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20composers%20by%20nationality | List of composers by nationality | The following is a list of composers by nationality.
Albania
Simon Gjoni (1926–1991), composer of orchestral and piano pieces
Tonin Harapi (1925–1991)
Agim Krajka (1937–2021), composer of the National Song Festival
Aleksandër Peçi (born 1951)
Çesk Zadeja (1927–1997), often nicknamed the "Father of Albanian music... |
5211862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein%C3%B6d | Einöd | The municipal district of Einöd (; ) is a quarter (Stadtteil) of the city of Homburg and with it part of Saarpfalz-Kreis in Saarland. It includes three municipal fractions: Einöd, Ingweiler and Schwarzenacker. In 2021, Einöd had 3,392 inhabitants.
Geography, Climate, and Population
Geography
Einöd sits north-east ... |
5211982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability%20advertising | Sustainability advertising | Sustainability advertising is communications geared towards promoting social, economic and environmental benefits (sustainability) of products, services or actions through paid advertising in media in order to encourage responsible behavior of consumers.
Definition
Conventional advertising is part of the promotion of ... |
5212015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelmendi%20%28tribe%29 | Kelmendi (tribe) | Kelmendi is a historical Albanian tribe (fis) and region in Malësia (Kelmend municipality) and eastern Montenegro (parts of Gusinje Municipality). It is located in the upper valley of the Cem river and its tributaries in the Accursed Mountains range of the Dinaric Alps. The Vermosh river springs in the village of the s... |
5212330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiriel%20%28poem%29 | Tiriel (poem) | Tiriel is a narrative poem by William Blake, written c.1789. Considered the first of his prophetic books, it is also the first poem in which Blake used free septenaries, which he would go on to use in much of his later verse. Tiriel was unpublished during Blake's lifetime and remained so until 1874, when it appeared in... |
5212617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurika%20Rauch | Laurika Rauch | Laurika Rauch, (born 1 November 1950 in Cape Town) is a South African singer who performs in both Afrikaans and English. She had a hit single in 1979 with Kinders van die Wind (Children of the Wind), written by Koos du Plessis. The song featured prominently in the Afrikaans television series "Phoenix & Kie" in the lat... |
5213545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Energy in the United Kingdom | Energy in the United Kingdom came mostly from fossil fuels in 2021. Total energy consumption in the United Kingdom was 142.0milliontonnes of oil equivalent (1,651TWh) in 2019. In 2014, the UK had an energy consumption per capita of 2.78tonnes of oil equivalent (32.3MWh) compared to a world average of 1.92tonnes of oil... |
5214032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy%20of%20Nassau | Duchy of Nassau | The Duchy of Nassau (German: Herzogtum Nassau) was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. It was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine and later of the German Confederation. Its ruling dynasty, now extinct, was the House of Nassau. Th... |
5214219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Princess%20on%20the%20Glass%20Hill | The Princess on the Glass Hill | "The Princess on the Glass Hill" or The Maiden on the Glass Mountain (Norwegian: Jomfruen på glassberget) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in Norske Folkeeventyr. It recounts how the youngest son of three obtains a magical horse and uses it to win the princess.
It is Aarn... |
5215359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/123rd%20Airlift%20Wing | 123rd Airlift Wing | The 123rd Airlift Wing (123 AW) is a unit of the Kentucky Air National Guard, stationed at Louisville International Airport (Louisville Air National Guard Base), Kentucky. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.
Overview
The Kentucky Air National Guard's... |
5215704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Demetrius | Operation Demetrius | Operation Demetrius was a British Army operation in Northern Ireland on 9–10 August 1971, during the Troubles. It involved the mass arrest and internment (imprisonment without trial) of people suspected of being involved with the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which was waging an armed campaign for a united Ireland again... |
5215729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihanmumbai%20Electric%20Supply%20and%20Transport | Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport | The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) is a civic transport and electricity provider public body based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It was originally set up in 1873 as a tramway company called "Bombay Tramway Company Limited". The company set up a captive thermal power station at the Wad... |
5215751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National%20Force%20%E2%80%93%20Iraq | Multi-National Force – Iraq | The Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF–I), often referred to as the Coalition forces, was a military command during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and much of the ensuing Iraq War, led by the United States of America (Operation Iraqi Freedom), United Kingdom (Operation Telic), Australia, Italy (Operation Ancient Babylon), Spa... |
5215866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism%20in%20Asia | Racism in Asia | Racism in Asia is multi-faceted and has roots in events that have happened from centuries ago to the present. Racism in Asia may occur from nation against nation, or within each nation's ethnic groups, or from region against region.
Bangladesh
In 2015, the ruling Awami League Member of Parliament, Elias Mollah, commen... |
5215871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20%28audio%20effect%29 | Delay (audio effect) | Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the original audio is heard followed by the delayed audio. The delayed signal may ... |
5215890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20Hemings | Madison Hemings | James Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – November 28, 1877) was the son of the mixed-race enslaved woman Sally Hemings and, according to most Jefferson scholars, her enslaver, President Thomas Jefferson. He was the third of her four children to survive to adulthood. Born into slavery, according to partus sequitur vent... |
5216812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Ball | Life Ball | The Life Ball in Vienna is the biggest charity event in Europe supporting people with HIV or AIDS. The event is organized by the nonprofit organization AIDS LIFE, which was founded in 1992 by Gery Keszler and Torgom Petrosian.
AIDS LIFE supports aid organizations devoted to helping people who are HIV-positive or have ... |
5216876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilka%20Ged%C5%91 | Ilka Gedő | Ilka Gedő (May 26, 1921June 19, 1985) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Her work survives decades of persecution and repression, first by the semi-fascist regime of the 1930s and 1940s and then, after a brief interval of relative freedom between 1945 and 1949, by the communist regime of the 1950s to 1989. In ... |
5217310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.D.%20Irapuato | C.D. Irapuato | Club Deportivo Irapuato is a professional football club, based in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. They are currently playing in the Serie A in the Liga Premier.
Irapuato has mostly played in the Promotion League of Mexico (formerly Primera División A or Ascenso MX. From 2000 to 2004, the team briefly rose to prominence ... |
5218032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonberg | Leonberg | Leonberg (; ) is a town in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg about to the west of Stuttgart, the state capital. About 45,000 people live in Leonberg, making it the third-largest borough in the rural district () of Böblingen (after Sindelfingen and Böblingen to the south).
Leonberg is most famous for its ... |
5218183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Piazza%20Tales | The Piazza Tales | The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection ... |
5218231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20wrestling%20in%20Australia | Professional wrestling in Australia | Professional wrestling in Australia makes up a small part of Australian culture. Unlike the North American or Japanese products which have large, globally renowned organisations such as WWE, AEW, New Japan Pro-Wrestling or Impact Wrestling with several hundred smaller promotions, Australia only has approximately 30 sma... |
5218389 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 1988 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 1988 in the United Kingdom. The year saw the merger in March of the SDP and the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats. There were also two notable disasters this year: the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Marg... |
5218705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Van%20de%20Kamp | Andrew Van de Kamp | Andrew Van de Kamp is a fictional character in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives played by Shawn Pyfrom, and is the son of one of the title characters, Bree Van de Kamp, and her first husband Rex Van de Kamp.
As one of the few LGBT characters on prime time television secure with his sexuality, Andrew's st... |
5218860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20NASCAR%20Winston%20Cup%20Series | 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series | The 1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 43rd of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 20th modern-era Cup Season. It began February 10 and ended November 17. Dale Earnhardt of Richard Childress Racing won his fifth Winston Cup championship at the conclusion of the season. The season was marred b... |
5218917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Scavo | Tom Scavo | Thomas Scavo is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, played by actor Doug Savant.
Tom was initially credited as a recurring role throughout Season 1 but became credited as a series regular in Season 2. Early storylines often revolved around Tom's position at an advertising firm, cau... |
5219137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Columbine%20Massacre%20RPG%21 | Super Columbine Massacre RPG! | Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is a role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne and released in April 2005. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Columbine, Colorado. Players assume the roles of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and act out the massacre, with flashbacks relating parts of... |
5219405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapeltoun | Chapeltoun | Chapeltoun is an estate on the banks of the Annick Water in East Ayrshire, a rural area of Scotland famous for its milk and cheese production and the Ayrshire or Dunlop breed of cattle.
Templeton and the Knights Templar
The feudal allocation of tenements to the vassals of the overlord, such as Hugh de Morville, was ca... |
5219493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20exonyms | Italian exonyms | Below is list of Italian language exonyms for places in non-Italian-speaking areas of the world
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Canada
Chile
China
Comoros
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Croatia
For Italian language exonyms in Istria, see : Italia... |
5219699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Genome%20Project | Human Genome Project | The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It started in 1990 and was completed i... |
5219739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham%20BT49 | Brabham BT49 | The Brabham BT49 is a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team. The BT49 competed in the to Formula One World Championships and was used by Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet to win his first World Championship in .
The car was initially designed in 1979 as a short not... |
5219762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize%20%28law%29 | Prize (law) | In admiralty law prizes are equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict. The most common use of prize in this sense is the capture of an enemy ship and her cargo as a prize of war. In the past, the capturing force would commonly be allotted a share of the worth of the captured prize. Nations ... |
5220425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Delfino | Mike Delfino | Michael Delfino is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is portrayed by James Denton from the show's inception, until the eighth and final season of the show.
Storylines
Backstory
Michael "Mike" Delfino was born in 1967 as the second child of Adele and Nick Delfino. H... |
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