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5348860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20Relief | Sport Relief | Sport Relief was a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, established in 2002.
It was the idea of Kevin Cahill, CBE, who had joined Comic Relief in 1991 to establish a new department as Director of Education and Communications and went on to become its creative director and CEO. Now j... |
5348994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20the%20Happy%20Clown | Ed the Happy Clown | Ed the Happy Clown is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown. Its title character is a large-headed, childlike children's clown who undergoes one horrifying affliction after another. The story is a dark, humorous mix of genres and features scatological humour, sex, body horror, extreme graphic violence,... |
5349061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20W.%20Ford | James W. Ford | James W. “Jim” Ford (December 22, 1893June 21, 1957) was an activist, a politician, and the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in the years 1932, 1936, and 1940. Ford was born in Alabama and later worked as a party organizer for the CPUSA in New York City. He was also the first African American to ... |
5349093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20in%20India | Mining in India | The mining industry in India is a major economic activity which contributes significantly to the economy of India. The gross domestic product (GDP) contribution of the mining industry varies from 2.2% to 2.5% only but going by the GDP of the total industrial sector, it contributes around 10% to 11%. Even mining done on... |
5349153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photian%20schism | Photian schism | The Photian Schism was a four-year (863–867) schism between the episcopal sees of Rome and Constantinople. The issue centred on the right of the Byzantine Emperor to depose and appoint a patriarch without approval from the papacy.
In 857, Ignatius was deposed or compelled to resign as Patriarch of Constantinople unde... |
5349729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20characters%20in%20comics | African characters in comics | Characters native to the African continent have been depicted in comics since the beginnings of the modern comic strip. Initially, such early 20th-century newspaper comics as Winsor McCay's Little Nemo depicted the racist stereotype of a spear-carrying cannibal, a comedic convention of the time. African characters late... |
5351056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20High%20Road%20%28JoJo%20album%29 | The High Road (JoJo album) | The High Road is the second studio album by American singer JoJo, released on October 17, 2006, by Da Family Entertainment, Blackground Records, and Universal Records.
Recording sessions for the album took place between late 2005 and mid-2006 in California, New York City, Miami, and Atlanta, following JoJo's completi... |
5351220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Branning | Lauren Branning | Lauren Branning is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The role was originated by Madeline Duggan, who first appeared on 3 July 2006. Duggan played the role for four years until her exit on 23 June 2010. Three months later, on 27 September 2010, the role was recast with Jacqueline Jossa. In August... |
5351388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchans | Buchans | Buchans ( ) is a town located in the central part of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is situated on the northwest shore of Beothuk Lake on the Buchans River.
The town is located within the statistical unit of Census Division No. 6, approximately 72 kilometres southwest of t... |
5351729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Minor | Robert Minor | Robert Berkeley "Bob" Minor (15 July 1884 – 26 January 1952), alternatively known as "Fighting Bob", was a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the American Communist Party.
Background
Robert Minor, best known to those who knew him by the nickname "Bob", was born Jul... |
5352078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Vella%20Lavella%20%28land%29 | Battle of Vella Lavella (land) | The Battle of Vella Lavella was fought from 15 August – 6 October 1943 between the Empire of Japan and the Allied forces from New Zealand and the United States at the end of the New Georgia campaign. Vella Lavella, an island located in the Solomon Islands, had been occupied by Japanese forces early during the war in th... |
5352267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%20hazards%20model | Proportional hazards model | Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes, before some event occurs, to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity of time. In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate is multipli... |
5352322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Holocaust%20Remembrance%20Day | International Holocaust Remembrance Day | The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minoriti... |
5352566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan%20literature | Moroccan literature | Moroccan literature is the literature produced by people who lived in or were culturally connected to Morocco and the historical states that have existed partially or entirely within the geographical area that is now Morocco. Apart from the various forms of oral literature, the written literature of Morocco encompasses... |
5352588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Korean%20literature | North Korean literature | Reading is a popular pastime in North Korea, where literacy and books enjoy a high cultural standing, elevated by the regime's efforts to disseminate propaganda as texts. Because of this, writers are held in high prestige.
The division of Korea following the Second World War led to a considerable cross-border movement... |
5353021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Gilbert | Timothy Gilbert | Timothy Gilbert (January 5, 1797 – July 19, 1865) was an American piano manufacturer, abolitionist and religious organizer in Boston, Massachusetts. His brother Lemuel Gilbert (February 10, 1804 – February 27, 1864) was also a piano manufacturer.
Life
Gilbert was born in Enfield, Massachusetts, the second child of Tim... |
5353130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Boston%20Legal%20characters | List of Boston Legal characters | Boston Legal is an American legal-comedy-drama created by David E. Kelley. The series, starring James Spader, with Candice Bergen, and William Shatner, was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC. Boston Legal aired from October 3, 2004, to December 8, 2008. The series is a spin-off of the... |
5354105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey%20stick%20graph%20%28global%20temperature%29 | Hockey stick graph (global temperature) | Hockey stick graphs present the global or hemispherical mean temperature record of the past 500 to 2000 years as shown by quantitative climate reconstructions based on climate proxy records. These reconstructions have consistently shown a slow long term cooling trend changing into relatively rapid warming in the 20th c... |
5354642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%202006%20Pacific%20hurricane%20season | Timeline of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season | The 2006 Pacific hurricane season was the most active since the 2000 season, producing 21 tropical depressions; 19 of which became tropical storms or hurricanes. The season officially started on May 15, 2006 in the eastern Pacific, designated as the area east of 140°W, and on June 1, 2006 in the central Pacific, which ... |
5354657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20of%20Shadows | Garden of Shadows | Garden of Shadows, a novel by V. C. Andrews, was first published in 1987. V. C. Andrews died in 1986, and her estate commissioned ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman to continue writing novels under her name developed from plot outlines originally written by Andrews. There is some dispute over whether this particular novel wa... |
5354848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20orthography | Hungarian orthography | Hungarian orthography () consists of rules defining the standard written form of the Hungarian language. It includes the spelling of lexical words, proper nouns and foreign words (loanwords) in themselves, with suffixes, and in compounds, as well as the hyphenation of words, punctuation, abbreviations, collation (alpha... |
5355310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Robison | Paula Robison | Paula Robison (born June 8, 1941) is a flute soloist and teacher.
Early life and education
Paula Robison was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of David V. and Naomi Robison, an actor. David Robison was a playwright and writer for film and television. Her paternal grandmother was a piano teacher, her maternal ... |
5355594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4%20of%20the%20Valley%20of%20the%20Wind%20%28manga%29 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki. It tells the story of Nausicaä, a princess of a small kingdom on a post-apocalyptic Earth with a toxic ecosystem, who becomes involved in a war between kingdoms while an environmental disaster threatens humankind.
Prior to creating Nausicaä, Miyazak... |
5355670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20underworld | Greek underworld | In Greek mythology, the Greek underworld, or Hades, is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence (psyche) is separated from the corpse and transported to t... |
5355684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Westerling | Raymond Westerling | Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling (31 August 1919 – 26 November 1987) was a Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. He orchestrated a contraguerrilla in Sulawesi during the Indonesian National Revolution after World War II and participated in a coup attempt against the Government of Indonesia in ... |
5356022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Germain%20l%27Auxerrois | Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois | The Church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois is a Roman Catholic church in the First Arrondissement of Paris, situated at 2 Place du Louvre, directly across from the Louvre Palace. It was named for Germanus of Auxerre, the Bishop of Auxerre (378–448), who became a papal envoy and met Saint Genevieve, the patron saint of Par... |
5356595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego%20death | Ego death | Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity". The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. In death and rebirth mythology, ego death is a phase of self-surrender ... |
5356681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Iranian%20sentiment | Anti-Iranian sentiment | Anti-Iranian sentiment, also known as Anti-Persian sentiment, Persophobia, or Iranophobia, is feelings and expression of hostility, hatred, discrimination, or prejudice towards Iran (known as Persia in the Western world) and its culture and towards persons based on their association with Iran and Iranian culture. Its o... |
5356703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibek%20Debroy | Bibek Debroy | Bibek Debroy is an Indian economist, serving as the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He is also the Chairman of the Finance Ministry's 'Expert Committee for Infrastructure Classification and Financing Framework for Amrit Kaal'. Debroy has made significant contributions to game t... |
5356902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20People%27s%20Christian%20Union | Young People's Christian Union | The Young People's Christian Union (Y.P.C.U.), organized in 1889, was a Universalist youth group created to develop the spiritual life of young people and advance the work of the Universalist church. Soon after it was founded, the Y.P.C.U. focused its attention on missionary work. It was instrumental in the founding of... |
5356908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial%20Bay%20Gaol | Trial Bay Gaol | Trial Bay Gaol is a heritage-listed former public works prison and internment camp at Cardwell Street, Arakoon, Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The property is owned by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 14 May 2010.
History
Colonisat... |
5357125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958%20VFL%20season | 1958 VFL season | The 1958 VFL season was the 62nd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 12 April until 20 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top ... |
5357959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Battle%20of%20Bud%20Dajo | First Battle of Bud Dajo | The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre, was a counterinsurgency action fought by the United States Army against the Moro people in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion in the southwestern Philippines. Whether the occupants of Bud Dajo were hostile to U.S. forces is disputed, as inhabitant... |
5358212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20M.%20Weinberg | Alvin M. Weinberg | Alvin Martin Weinberg (; April 20, 1915 – October 18, 2006) was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "F... |
5358303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20apartheid | Gender apartheid | Gender apartheid (also called sexual apartheid or sex apartheid) is the economic and social sexual discrimination against individuals because of their gender or sex. It is a system enforced by using either physical or legal practices to relegate individuals to subordinate positions. Feminist scholar Phyllis Chesler, pr... |
5358446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcetti%20v.%20Ceballos | Garcetti v. Ceballos | Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving First Amendment free speech protections for government employees. The plaintiff in the case was a district attorney who claimed that he had been passed up for a promotion for criticizing the legitimacy of a warrant. The Court ruled, i... |
5358554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%E2%80%93Dynkin%20diagram | Coxeter–Dynkin diagram | In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram (or Coxeter diagram, Coxeter graph) is a graph with numerically labeled edges (called branches) representing the spatial relations between a collection of mirrors (or reflecting hyperplanes). It describes a kaleidoscopic construction: each graph "node" represents a mirror (domain f... |
5358714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persib%20Bandung | Persib Bandung | Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Bandung ( 'Indonesian Football Association of Bandung'), commonly referred to as Persib Bandung or simply Persib, is an Indonesian professional football club based in Bandung, West Java, which competes in Liga 1, the top tier of Indonesian football. Founded in 1923 as (BIVB), it adopted i... |
5359064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20national%20ice%20hockey%20team%20rosters | List of Canadian national ice hockey team rosters | Below is a list of various national team ice hockey team rosters of Canada. The men's team, women's team and the junior team are included.
Men's
2023 Men's World Ice Hockey Championship
Head coach: Andre Tourigny
Assistant coach: Troy Ryan
Assistant coach: D.J. Smith
Assistant coach: Alex Tanguay
Goaltender
Joe... |
5359434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS%20Award | FAMAS Award | The Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards, or simply the FAMAS Awards, are the annual honors given by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS), an organization composed of writers and movie columnists, for achievements in Philippine cinema for a calendar year. Members of the academy includin... |
5359750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope%20de%20Barrientos | Lope de Barrientos | Lope de Barrientos (1382–1469), sometimes called Obispo Barrientos ("Bishop Barrientos"), was a powerful clergyman and statesman of the Crown of Castile during the 15th century, although his prominence and the influence he wielded during his lifetime is not a subject of common study in Spanish history.
From relatively... |
5360793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20carry%20in%20the%20United%20States | Open carry in the United States | In the United States, open carry refers to the practice of visibly carrying a firearm in public places, as distinguished from concealed carry, where firearms cannot be seen by the casual observer. To "carry" in this context indicates that the firearm is kept readily accessible on the person, within a holster or attache... |
5360903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante%20Star%C4%8Devi%C4%87 | Ante Starčević | Ante Starčević (; 23 May 1823 – 28 February 1896) was a Croatian politician and writer. His policies centered around Croatian state law, the integrity of Croatian lands, and the right of his people to self-determination. As an important member of the Croatian parliament and the founder of the Party of Rights he has lai... |
5361228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20data%20recorder | Event data recorder | An event data recorder (EDR), more specifically motor vehicle event data recorder (MVEDR), similar to an accident data recorder, (ADR) sometimes referred to informally as an automotive black box (by analogy with the common nickname for flight recorders), is a device installed in some automobiles to record information r... |
5361264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Del%20Rey | Sara Del Rey | Sara Ann Amato (born November 13, 1980) is an American professional wrestling trainer and retired professional wrestler, best known by her ring name Sara Del Rey. She was a mainstay for Chikara and Shimmer, but also appeared for many other independent promotions in the US, including Ring of Honor (ROH), IWA Mid-South a... |
5361514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Records%20Centre%2C%20University%20of%20Warwick | Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick | The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collection on British industrial relations, as well as archives relating to many o... |
5361721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Charters | Samuel Charters | Samuel Barclay Charters IV (August 1, 1929 – March 18, 2015) was an American music historian, writer, record producer, musician, and poet. He was a widely published author on the subjects of blues and jazz. He also wrote fiction.
Overview
Charters was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, into an upper-middle-class famil... |
5361990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic%20contamination%20of%20groundwater | Arsenic contamination of groundwater | Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a form of groundwater pollution which is often due to naturally occurring high concentrations of arsenic in deeper levels of groundwater. It is a high-profile problem due to the use of deep tube wells for water supply in the Ganges Delta, causing serious arsenic poisoning to larg... |
5362612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipulatio | Stipulatio | Stipulatio was the basic form of contract in Roman law. It was made in the format of question and answer.
Capacity
In order for a contract to be valid, parties must have capacity: both intellectus ("understanding") and voluntas ("wish", "will"). Lunatics and infants lacked intellectus, and could not fully understand a... |
5362623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20accounting | Carbon accounting | Carbon accounting (or greenhouse gas accounting) is a framework of methods to measure and track how much greenhouse gas (GHG) an organization emits. It can also be used to track projects or actions to reduce emissions in sectors such as forestry or renewable energy. Corporations, cities and other groups use these techn... |
5362676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20in%20Hinduism | God in Hinduism | In Hinduism, the concept of God varies in its diverse religio-philosophical traditions. Hinduism comprises a wide range of beliefs about God and divinity, such as henotheism, monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism, monism, agnosticism, atheism, and nontheism.
Forms of theism find mention in the Bhaga... |
5362865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptions%20of%20God | Conceptions of God | Conceptions of God in monotheist, pantheist, and panentheist religions – or of the supreme deity in henotheistic religions – can extend to various levels of abstraction:
as a powerful, personal, supernatural being, or as the deification of an esoteric, mystical or philosophical entity or category;
as the "Ultimate", ... |
5363082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20exonyms%20in%20Dalmatia | List of Italian exonyms in Dalmatia | This is a list of Italian exonyms for places in the Croatian region of Dalmatia and the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea (including the shores of Montenegro), up to the area of Rijeka.
Larger towns
Dubrovnik - Ragusa
Herceg-Novi - Castelnuovo di Cattaro
Knin - Tenin
Kotor - Cattaro
Makarska - Macarsca
Šibenik - Seben... |
5363354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20Vicar | Cardinal Vicar | Cardinal Vicar () is a title commonly given to the vicar general of the Diocese of Rome for the portion of the diocese within Italy (i.e. excluding the portion within Vatican City). The official title, as given in the Annuario Pontificio, is Vicar General of His Holiness.
The bishop of Rome is responsible for the spir... |
5363908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20classical%20pianists%20%28recorded%29 | List of classical pianists (recorded) | This is a list of pianists of whom recordings survive who play (or played) classical music.
For a more inclusive list not limited to recorded pianists, see also List of classical pianists (solo pianists) and List of classical piano duos (performers) (piano duos, trios, etc.).
A
Behzod Abduraimov
Jacques Abram
Dag... |
5365285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenies%20Manor%20House | Chenies Manor House | Chenies Manor House in the parish of Chenies in Buckinghamshire, England, is a Tudor Grade I listed building once known as Chenies Palace, although it was never a royal seat nor the seat of a bishop. It was held by the Cheney family since 1180 and passed by marriage successively to the Semark and Sapcote families and t... |
5365289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Jones%20%28missionary%29 | Peter Jones (missionary) | Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 – June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwe Methodist minister, translator, chief and author from Burlington Heights, Upper Canada. His Ojibwa name was Kahkewāquonāby (Gakiiwegwanebi in the Fiero spelling), which means "[Sacred] Waving Feathers". In Mohawk, he was called Desagondensta, meaning "he sta... |
5365615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Wolfenden | James Wolfenden | James Paine Wolfenden (July 25, 1889 – April 8, 1949) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Wolfenden was born in Cardington, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends' Central School and Penn Charter Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in the manufacture of ... |
5366050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20perception | Speech perception | Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology. Research in speech perception seeks to understand how h... |
5366487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20in%20Azerbaijan | Human rights in Azerbaijan | International organizations have frequently alleged that Azerbaijan has violated human rights standards established in international law.
Human Rights Watch issued a 2013 report accusing Azerbaijan of imprisoning and harassing political activists and human rights defenders. In 2019, Human Rights Watch called the situa... |
5366551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viernheim | Viernheim | Viernheim () is a midsize industrial town on Mannheim's outskirts and is found in the Rhine Neckar agglomeration and economic area. It is the second biggest town in Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany. Since 1994 it has also borne the title Brundtlandstadt, as it has been taking part in an energy conservation pilot p... |
5366552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/131st%20Infantry%20Brigade%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | 131st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) | The 131st Infantry Brigade, originally the Surrey Brigade was an infantry formation of Britain's Territorial Army that saw service during both the First and the Second World Wars. In the First World War the brigade was in British India for most of the war and did not see service as a complete unit but many of its batta... |
5366678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasisamerica | Oasisamerica | Oasisamerica is a term that was coined by Paul Kirchhoff (who also coined "Mesoamerica") and published in a 1954 article, and is used by some scholars, primarily Mexican anthropologists, for the broad cultural area defining pre-Columbian southwestern North America. It extends from modern-day Utah down to southern Chihu... |
5366966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calogero%20Vizzini | Calogero Vizzini | Calogero "Don Calò" Vizzini (; 24 July 1877 – 10 July 1954) was a Sicilian Mafia boss of Villalba in the Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. Vizzini was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses of Sicily after World War II until his death in 1954. In the media, he was often depicted as the... |
5367214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N4%20%28South%20Africa%29 | N4 (South Africa) | The N4 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Skilpadshek on the Botswana border, past Rustenburg, Pretoria, eMalahleni and Mbombela, to Komatipoort on the Mozambique border. It forms the South African section of the Trans-Kalahari Corridor, which runs from Walvis Bay to Maputo, meaning that it links the ea... |
5367300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%20County%20Child%20Killer | Oakland County Child Killer | The Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK) is the name given to the perpetrator(s) responsible for the serial killings of at least four children in Oakland County, Michigan, United States, between 1976 and 1977. The victims were held captive before being killed, and forensic DNA testing has indirectly implicated two suspec... |
5367458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace%20wellness | Workplace wellness | Workplace wellness, also known as corporate wellbeing outside the United States, is a broad term used to describe activities, programs, and/or organizational policies designed to support healthy behavior in the workplace. This often involves health education, medical screenings, weight management programs, and onsite f... |
5368138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle%20Creek%20%28Pennsylvania%29 | Kettle Creek (Pennsylvania) | Kettle Creek is a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River running through Tioga, Potter, and Clinton counties, in Pennsylvania. It is slightly less than long. Although many streams in the Kettle Creek watershed are considered "Class A Wild Trout streams" by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the lower r... |
5368198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rose%20of%20Persia | The Rose of Persia | The Rose of Persia; or, The Story-Teller and the Slave, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 29 November 1899, closing on 28 June 1900 after a profitable run of 211 performances. The opera then toured, had a brief run in America and p... |
5369138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janamsakhis | Janamsakhis | The Janamsakhis (, IAST: Janam-sākhī, lit. birth stories), are legendary biographies of Guru Nanak – the founder of Sikhism. Popular in the Sikh history, these texts are considered by scholars as imaginary hagiographies of his life story, full of miracles and travels, built on a Sikh oral tradition and some historical ... |
5370357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20metric%20units | List of metric units | Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in France of the 18th century and was rapidly adopted by sci... |
5371227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20propaganda | Communist propaganda | Communist propaganda is the artistic and social promotion of the ideology of communism, communist worldview, communist society, and interests of the communist movement. While it tends to carry a negative connotation in the Western world, the term propaganda broadly refers to any publication or campaign aimed at promot... |
5371565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Fe%2C%20Mexico%20City | Santa Fe, Mexico City | Santa Fe is one of Mexico City's major business districts, located in the west part of the city in the alcaldías (boroughs) of Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón. The Paseo de la Reforma avenue and Constituyentes avenue are the primary means of access to the district from the central part of Mexico City. Santa Fe consists m... |
5371638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition%20to%20the%20American%20Civil%20War | Opposition to the American Civil War | Popular opposition to the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, was widespread. Although there had been many attempts at compromise prior to the outbreak of war, there were those who felt it could still be ended peacefully or did not believe it should have occurred in the first place. Opposition took the ... |
5371713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring%20Framework | Spring Framework | The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE (Enterprise Edition) platform. The framework does not impose any spec... |
5371832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Propaganda in the Soviet Union | Propaganda in the Soviet Union was the practice of state-directed communication aimed at promoting class conflict, internationalism, the goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the party itself.
The main Soviet censorship body, Glavlit, was employed not only to eliminate any undesirable printed materials... |
5372332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20and%20descendants%20of%20Genghis%20Khan | Family and descendants of Genghis Khan | The family tree of Genghis Khan is listed below. This family tree only lists prominent members of the Borjigin family and does not reach the present. Genghis Khan appears in the middle of the tree, and Kublai Khan appears at the bottom of the tree. The Borjigin family was the imperial house of the Mongol Empire (and it... |
5372935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Popular%20Vote%20Interstate%20Compact | National Popular Vote Interstate Compact | MD, NJ, IL, HI, WA, MA, DC, VT, CA, RI, NY, CT, CO, DE, NM, OR, MN
AK, ME, MI, NC, NV, SC, WI
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vot... |
5372973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20St.%20Louis | History of St. Louis | The history of St. Louis began with the settlement of the area by Native American mound builders who lived as part of the Mississippian culture from the 9th century to the 15th century, followed by other migrating tribal groups. Starting in the late 17th century, French explorers arrived. Spain took over in 1763 and a ... |
5373015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20St.%20Louis | Transportation in St. Louis | Transportation in Greater St. Louis, Missouri includes road, rail, ship, and air transportation modes connecting the bi-state St. Louis metropolitan area with surrounding communities throughout the Midwest, national transportation networks, and international locations. The Greater St. Louis region also supports a multi... |
5373140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th%20%28Staffordshire%29%20Infantry%20Division | 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division | The 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed during the Second World War and fought in the Battle of Normandy. In March 1939, after Germany re-emerged as a significant military power and invaded Czechoslovakia, the British Army increased the number of divisions... |
5373842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangana%20Ranaut | Kangana Ranaut | Kangna Amardeep Ranaut (; born 23 March 1987) is an Indian actress and filmmaker who works primarily in Hindi films. Known for her portrayals of strong-willed, unconventional women in female-led films, she is the recipient of several awards, including four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards, and has featured... |
5374183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20sovereign%20states%20and%20dependent%20territories | Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories | This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) or state (a political entity).
Demographics
Population and gender
List of countries and dependencies by population
List of countries by populat... |
5374274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 9th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 13 and 14 June 1931.
With the demise of Bentley, the favourite for an outright victory was split between the Bugatti and Alfa Romeo works teams, with a lone privateer Mercedes as an outside chance. Once agai... |
5374293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20North%20Campus | Cornell North Campus | North Campus is a residential section of Cornell University's Ithaca, New York, campus located north of Fall Creek. It primarily houses freshmen. North Campus offers programs which ease the transition into college life for incoming freshmen. The campus offers interactions with faculty and other programs designed to inc... |
5375486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheren%20Tang | Sheren Tang | }}
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Sheren Tang Shui-man (born 2 March 1966) is a Hong Kong actress. She is best known for her roles in the mega-hit Hong Kong TVB drama series War and Beauty, as well as La Femme Desperado, The Family Link, Rosy Business and No Regrets being the first Hong Kong actres... |
5375635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Football%20League%20%28South%20Australia%29 | Southern Football League (South Australia) | The Southern Football League (SFL) is an Australian rules football league in South Australia. The League was formed, as the Southern Football Association, in 1886. The league is a not-for-profit organisation.
The league is a suburban competition which also acts as a feeder competition for the South Australian National... |
5375682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20disambiguation | Memory disambiguation | Memory disambiguation is a set of techniques employed by high-performance out-of-order execution microprocessors that execute memory access instructions (loads and stores) out of program order. The mechanisms for performing memory disambiguation, implemented using digital logic inside the microprocessor core, detect t... |
5376312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20sacrifice%20in%20Aztec%20culture | Human sacrifice in Aztec culture | Human sacrifice was common in many parts of Mesoamerica, so the rite was nothing new to the Aztecs when they arrived at the Valley of Mexico, nor was it something unique to pre-Columbian Mexico. Other Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Purépechas and Toltecs, and the Maya performed sacrifices as well and from arch... |
5376630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20Dome | Battle Dome | Battle Dome is a syndicated American television series that aired from September 1999 to April 2001. It combined elements of American Gladiators – inspired athletic competition – with scripted antics more reminiscent of professional wrestling. Recurring character-athletes known as "Warriors" competed against weekly con... |
5376885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff%20Hill | Sheriff Hill | Sheriff Hill is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the B1296 road south of Gateshead, south of Newcastle upon Tyne and north of the historic city of Durham. According to the 2001 UK census it had a population of 5,051.
Historically part of Gateshead Fell in Count... |
5377239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingswood%20College%20%28South%20Africa%29 | Kingswood College (South Africa) | Kingswood College is an independent, co-educational Methodist school in Makhanda, (formerly Grahamstown). Founded in 1894 by William C Muirhead, Clifford Witheridge Dold, William Burnett Stocks and Richard Restall Stocks, Kingswood caters for boys and girls from Grade 000 to Grade 13 (Bridging Year) from all over the w... |
5377365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-126 | STS-126 | STS-126 was the one hundred and twenty-fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and twenty-second orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) to the International Space Station (ISS). The purpose of the mission, referred to as ULF2 by the ISS program, was to deliver equipment and supplies to the station, to servic... |
5378000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas%20of%20the%20Statue%20of%20Liberty | Replicas of the Statue of Liberty | Hundreds of replicas of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) have been created worldwide. The original Statue of Liberty, designed by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, is 151 feet tall and stands on a pedestal that is 154 feet tall, making the height of the entire sculpture 305 feet.
France
Paris... |
5378410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only%20Built%204%20Cuban%20Linx...%20Pt.%20II | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II is the fourth studio album by American hip hop recording artist and Wu-Tang Clan-member Raekwon, released September 8, 2009, on Ice H2O/EMI Records in the United States. The album experienced numerous delays to its release due to Raekwon's approach of continual re-writing, as well as d... |
5378489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cowboy%20Bebop%20characters | List of Cowboy Bebop characters | The following is a list of major and minor characters from the anime series Cowboy Bebop, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and written by Keiko Nobumoto, its manga series adaptation, written by Kuga Cain and Yutaka Nanten, and its live-action adaptation, developed by André Nemec and written by Christopher Yost.
Bebop c... |
5379103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Domenico%2C%20Bologna | San Domenico, Bologna | The Basilica of San Domenico is one of the major churches in Bologna, Italy. The remains of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), are buried inside the exquisite shrine Arca di San Domenico, made by Nicola Pisano and his workshop, Arnolfo di Cambio and with later additions by Niccolò dell'Arca ... |
5379429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building%20Schools%20for%20the%20Future | Building Schools for the Future | Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was the name given to the British government's investment programme in secondary school buildings in England in the 2000s. Around half of the work was procured under the private finance initiative. The delivery of the programme was overseen by Partnerships for Schools (PfS), a non-... |
5379719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20production | Hydrogen production | Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen gas.
There are four main sources for the commercial production of hydrogen: natural gas, oil, coal, and electrolysis of water; which account for 48%, 30%, 18% and 4% of the world's hydrogen production respectively. Fossil fuels are the dom... |
5379980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20German%20Antarctic%20Expedition | Second German Antarctic Expedition | The Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913 was led by Wilhelm Filchner in the exploration ship . Its principal objective was to determine whether the Antarctic continent comprised a single landmass rather than separated elements, and in particular whether the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea were connected by a strait... |
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