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5380053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Emerald%20Isle | The Emerald Isle | The Emerald Isle; or, The Caves of Carrig-Cleena, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and a libretto by Basil Hood. The plot concerns the efforts of an Irish patriot to resist the oppressive "re-education" programme of the English, which has robbed the Irish of their cultural heri... |
5380261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Little%20Too%20Late | Too Little Too Late | "Too Little Too Late" is a song by American singer JoJo from her second studio album, The High Road (2006). It was written by Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander and Ruth-Anne Cunningham, and produced by the former two with Da Family Records founder Vincent Herbert. The song was released as the album's lead single on July ... |
5380399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations | Turkey–United States relations | Normal diplomatic relations were established between the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye) and the United States of America in 1927. Relations after World War II evolved from the Second Cairo Conference in December 1943 and Turkey's entrance into World War II on the side of the Allies in February 1945. Later that year, Turk... |
5380456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Jews | British Jews | British Jews (often referred to collectively as British Jewry or Anglo-Jewry) are British citizens who are Jewish. The number of people who identified as Jews in the United Kingdom rose by just under 4% between 2001 and 2021.
History
The first recorded Jewish community in Britain was brought to England in 1070 by Kin... |
5380607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Wass | Albert Wass | Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege (; January 8, 1908 – February 17, 1998) was a Hungarian nobleman, forest engineer, novelist, poet, member of the Wass de Czege family.
Wass was born in Válaszút, Austria-Hungary (now Răscruci, Cluj County, Romania) in 1908. In 1944 he fled from Hungary, and then joined the flee... |
5381346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishkill%20Creek | Fishkill Creek | Fishkill Creek (also Fish Kill, from the Dutch vis kille, for "fish creek") is a tributary of the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States. At it is the second longest stream in the county, after Wappinger Creek. It rises in the town of Union Vale and flows generally southwest to a small estuary on the... |
5381610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung%20Conference | Bandung Conference | The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference ()—also known as the Bandung Conference—was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The twenty-nine countries that participated represented a total pop... |
5381702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegalese%20Tirailleurs | Senegalese Tirailleurs | The Senegalese Tirailleurs () were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were initially recruited from Senegal,
French West Africa and subsequently throughout Western, Central and Eastern Africa: the main sub-Saharan regions of the French colonial empire. The noun tirailleur, which translates variously ... |
5381738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peveril%20of%20the%20Peak | Peveril of the Peak | Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot.
Plot intr... |
5381757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fair%20Maid%20of%20Perth | The Fair Maid of Perth | The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth (known at the time as Saint John's Toun, i.e. John's Town) and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
... |
5381761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20of%20Geierstein | Anne of Geierstein | Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the period of Swiss involvement in the Burgundian Wars, the main action ending with ... |
5381842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton%20Light%20Rail%20Transit | Edmonton Light Rail Transit | Edmonton Light Rail Transit, commonly referred to as the LRT, is a light rail system in Edmonton, Alberta. Part of the Edmonton Transit Service (ETS), the system has 18 stations on two lines and of track. As of 2018, it is number seven on the busiest light rail transit systems in North America, with over 113,000 daily... |
5382243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassodromeus | Thalassodromeus | Thalassodromeus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous period, about a hundred million years ago. The original skull, discovered in 1983 in the Araripe Basin of northeastern Brazil, was collected in several pieces. In 2002, the skull was made the holotype specimen of Thalas... |
5382730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Carentan | Battle of Carentan | The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Normandy. The battle took place between 6 and 13 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the town of Carentan, France.
The objective of the attacking American forc... |
5382830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%20State%20Nittany%20Lions | Penn State Nittany Lions | The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The intercollegiate athletics logo was commissioned in 1983.
Penn State participates a... |
5382914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaggenau | Gaggenau | Gaggenau is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located some 8 km northeast of Baden-Baden.
History
Gaggenau was first mentioned in local records in 1243 under the name "Gaggenaw". The present district of Bad Rotenfels is even older, having been mentioned in a royal donation letter ... |
5382986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20storage | Hydrogen storage | Several methods exist for storing hydrogen. These include mechanical approaches such as using high pressures and low temperatures, or employing chemical compounds that release H2 upon demand. While large amounts of hydrogen are produced by various industries, it is mostly consumed at the site of production, notably fo... |
5383019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterious%20Walker | Mysterious Walker | Frederick Mitchell Walker (March 21, 1884 – February 1, 1958), nicknamed "Mysterious", was an American athlete and coach. He was a three-sport athlete for the University of Chicago from 1904 to 1906 and played Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Brooklyn Superbas,... |
5383061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian%20War | Anglo-Persian War | The Anglo-Persian War or the Anglo-Iranian War () lasted between 1 November 1856 and 4 April 1857, and was fought between the United Kingdom and Iran, which was ruled by the Qajar dynasty. The war had the British oppose an attempt by Iran to press its claim on the city of Herat. Though Herat had been part of Iran under... |
5383449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Shaddai | El Shaddai | El Shaddai (; ) or just Shaddai is one of the names of the God of Israel. El Shaddai is conventionally translated into English as God Almighty. (Deus Omnipotens in Latin, )
The translation of El as "God" in the Ugaritic and the Canaanite languages is straightforward. Shaddai may come from shad שד meaning mammary; sha... |
5384183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission%20to%20practice%20law | Admission to practice law | An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are distinct practising certificates.
Becoming a lawyer is a widely varied proc... |
5384242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Oud | Pieter Oud | Pieter Jacobus Oud (5 December 1886 – 12 August 1968) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) party and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and historian. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 9 Novemb... |
5384578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa%20von%20Praunheim | Rosa von Praunheim | Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; 25 November 1942), known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, is a German film director, author, painter and one of the most famous gay rights activists in the German-speaking world. In over 50 years, von Praunheim has made more than 150 films (short and feature-l... |
5385372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernandinho%20%28footballer%2C%20born%20May%201985%29 | Fernandinho (footballer, born May 1985) | Fernando Luiz Roza (born 4 May 1985), known as Fernandinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Athletico Paranaense. He has also captained the Brazil national team on many occasions. Fernandinho is regarded as one of the best defensive midfi... |
5385470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern%20Wildcats | Northwestern Wildcats | The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and the only private university in the conference. Northwestern has eight men's and eleven women's NCAA Division I sports teams and is marke... |
5385679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Display%20Driver%20Model | Windows Display Driver Model | Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) is the graphic driver architecture for video card drivers running Microsoft Windows versions beginning with Windows Vista.
It is a replacement for the previous Windows 2000 and Windows XP display driver model XDDM/XPDM and is aimed at enabling better performance graphics and new gra... |
5386057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20C.%20Goodman | John C. Goodman | John C. Goodman (born 22 May 1946) is president and CEO of the Goodman institute for Public Policy Research, a think tank focused on public policy issues. He was the founding chief executive of the National Center for Policy Analysis, which operated from 1982 to 2017. He is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute... |
5386304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foy%20E.%20Wallace | Foy E. Wallace | Foy Esco (Foy E., Jr.) Wallace (30 September 1896 – 18 December 1979) was an influential figure among American Churches of Christ in the early and mid-20th century. Through his writing and speaking, Wallace gathered a considerable following among that autonomous group of churches. His skilled use of logic, combined wit... |
5386374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Bogot%C3%A1 | History of Bogotá | The history of Bogotá refers to the history of the area surrounding the Colombian capital Bogotá. The area around Bogotá was first populated by groups of indigenous people that migrated from mesoamerica. Among these groups were the Muisca (the Chibcha speaking people) that settled on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in wha... |
5386921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Latin%20Americans | List of Latin Americans | This is a list of notable Latin American people, in alphabetical order within categories.
Actors
Wagner Moura (born 1976)
Fernanda Montenegro (born 1929)
Norma Aleandro (born 1936)
Héctor Alterio (born 1929)
Rafael Amaya (born 1977)
Imperio Argentina (1906–2003)
Pedro Armendáriz (1912–1963)
Carla Baratta (b... |
5387285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks%20in%20Turkey | Greeks in Turkey | The Greeks in Turkey () constitute a small population of Greek and Greek-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians who mostly live in Istanbul, as well as on the two islands of the western entrance to the Dardanelles: Imbros and Tenedos ( and Bozcaada). Greeks are one of the four ethnic minorities officially recognized in T... |
5387350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Army%20National%20Guard | Pennsylvania Army National Guard | {{Infobox military unit
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|... |
5387804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Technology%20Management%20Reform%20Act%20of%201996 | Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 | The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 is a United States federal law, designed to improve the way the federal government acquires, uses and disposes information technology (IT). It was passed as Division E of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (; ). Together with the Federa... |
5388318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20nicknames%20of%20United%20States%20Army%20divisions | List of nicknames of United States Army divisions | Many Army divisions have over the years earned nicknames; some laudatory, some derogatory, but mostly colorful. Sometimes, the nicknames themselves have overshadowed the actual name of the division, e.g. the "Screaming Eagles" for the 101st Airborne Division.
Special designation
An official special designation is a "n... |
5388595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1930 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1930 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 8th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 21 and 22 June 1930. It saw the first appearance of a German car and the first entry from female drivers.
In the smallest ever field in the Le Mans history; there were only 17 starters. This was a race of tw... |
5388694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 7th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 15 and 16 June 1929.
In the most dominant display in the race to date, Bentley achieved a comprehensive victory taking the first four places on distance. Bentley director Woolf Barnato repeated his victory o... |
5388717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Not%20There | I'm Not There | I'm Not There is a 2007 musical drama film directed by Todd Haynes, and co-written by Haynes and Oren Moverman. An experimental biographical film, it is inspired by the life and music of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, with six actors depicting different facets of Dylan's public personas: Christian Bale, Cate Bla... |
5388779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Perrey | Jean-Jacques Perrey | Jean Marcel Leroy (; 20 January 1929 – 4 November 2016), better known as Jean-Jacques Perrey, was a French electronic music performer, composer, producer, and promoter. He is considered a pioneer of pop electronica. Perrey partnered with composer-performer Gershon Kingsley to form the electronic music duo Perrey and Ki... |
5389069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington%2C%20Queensland | Paddington, Queensland | Paddington is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Paddington had a population of 8,562 people.
Paddington is located west of the Brisbane CBD. As is common with other suburbs in the area, Paddington is located on a number of steep ridges and hills. It was settled in the 1860s. Man... |
5389096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20cannibalism | Child cannibalism | Child cannibalism or fetal cannibalism is the act of eating a child or fetus.
Mythology and folktales
Children who are eaten or at risk of being eaten are a recurrent topic in mythology and folktales from many parts of the world.
Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, several of the major gods were actually eaten as chi... |
5389257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hawkins%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201988%29 | Tom Hawkins (footballer, born 1988) | Thomas John Hawkins (born 21 July 1988) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). At 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) tall and weighing , Hawkins has the ability to play as either a full-forward or centre half-forward. He grew up in New South Wales before moving ... |
5389390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic%20networking | Autonomic networking | Autonomic Networking follows the concept of Autonomic Computing, an initiative started by IBM in 2001. Its ultimate aim is to create self-managing networks to overcome the rapidly growing complexity of the Internet and other networks and to enable their further growth, far beyond the size of today.
Increasing size and... |
5389424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino | Arduino | Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardware products are licensed under a CC BY-SA license, while the software is licensed under the GNU Les... |
5390123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%20Silva | Anderson Silva | Anderson Silva (; born 14 April 1975) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer. He is a former UFC Middleweight Champion and holds the record for the longest title reign in UFC history at 2,457 days. This started in 2006 and ended in 2013 and included a UFC record 16 consecutive victories in that span. Silva left ... |
5390125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953%20VFL%20season | 1953 VFL season | The 1953 VFL season was the 57th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 18 April until 26 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top ... |
5390314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Bolshevik%20Bloc%20of%20Nations | Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations | Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) was an international anti-communist organization founded as a coordinating center for anti-communist and nationalist émigré political organizations from Soviet and other socialist countries. The ABN formation dates back to a conference of representatives of non-Russian peoples that ... |
5390429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology%20of%20Ayodhya | Archaeology of Ayodhya | The Archaeology of Ayodhya concerns the excavations and findings in the Indian city of Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh, much of which surrounds the Babri Mosque location.
British-era studies
In 1862–63, Alexander Cunningham, the founder of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), conducted a survey of Ayodhya. Cu... |
5390782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence%20of%20Lorraine%20toponyms%20in%20French%20and%20German | Correspondence of Lorraine toponyms in French and German | The various toponyms in the historical region of Lorraine are often known by very different names depending on the language in which they are expressed. This article provides an understanding of the linguistic and historical origin of this diversity and lists a number of correspondences for communes and lesser localiti... |
5391204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%202006%20in%20sports | June 2006 in sports |
Days of the month
30 June 2006 (Friday)
Football: FIFA World Cup, Quarter final
1 – 1 (a.e.t.) A 49th-minute header by Roberto Ayala shocks the huge German crowd, but competition top scorer Miroslav Klose scores his 5th in the 80th minute. No further goals, and so to penalties: both teams have previously been in t... |
5391275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20University%20of%20Louisville%20people | List of University of Louisville people | The following is a list of people associated with the University of Louisville.
Notable alumni
Arts and entertainment
Harriette Simpson Arnow (BS 1930) – former author, best known for The Dollmaker
Terry Bisson (BA 1964) – contemporary science fiction author
Nick DeMartino (BA) – former Senior Vice President, Medi... |
5391412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Rugby%20Championship | Australian Rugby Championship | The Australian Rugby Championship, often abbreviated to the ARC and also known as the Mazda Australian Rugby Championship for sponsorship purposes, was a domestic professional men's rugby union football competition in Australia, which ran for only one season in 2007. It was the predecessor to the also now-defunct Natio... |
5391428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supported%20living | Supported living | Supported living or supportive living refers to a range of services and community living arrangements (CLAs) designed with individuals with disabilities and their families to support disabled citizens to attain or retain their independence (see independent living) or interdependence in their local communities. Support... |
5391506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Price%20Is%20Right%20%281956%20American%20game%20show%29 | The Price Is Right (1956 American game show) | The Price Is Right is an American game show produced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, wherein contestants placed successive bids on merchandise prizes with the goal of bidding closest to each prize's actual retail price without surpassing it. The show was a precursor to the current and best-known version of the... |
5391985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hujum | Hujum | Hujum ( ; , ) refers to a broad campaign undertaken by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to remove all manifestations of gender inequality within the Union Republics of Central Asia. Beginning in the Stalinist era, it particularly targeted prevalent practices among Muslims, such as female seclusion from society ... |
5392728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth%20Military%20Academy%20and%20College | Wentworth Military Academy and College | Wentworth Military Academy and College was a private two-year military college and high school in Lexington, Missouri. Wentworth was one of six total military junior colleges in the United States. The institution was founded in 1880 and closed in 2017.
History
Background
Lexington's Civil War Battle of the Hemp Bal... |
5392961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Big Brother (Australian TV series) | Big Brother Australia (also known simply as Big Brother) is an Australian reality show based on the international Big Brother format created by John de Mol.
Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show features a group of contestants, known as "housemates" who live together in a specially constructe... |
5392977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20Malan | David H. Malan | David Huntingford Malan (21 March 1922 – 14 October 2020) was a British psychoanalytic psychotherapy practitioner and researcher recognized for his contribution to the development of psychotherapy. He promoted scientific spirit of inquiry, openness, and simplicity within the field. He is also noted for his development... |
5393507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden%20Hauptbahnhof | Dresden Hauptbahnhof | Dresden Hauptbahnhof ("main station", abbreviated Dresden Hbf) is the largest passenger station in the Saxon capital of Dresden. In 1898, it replaced the Böhmischen Bahnhof ("Bohemian station") of the former Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn), and was designed with its formal layout as t... |
5393824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taymouth%20Castle | Taymouth Castle | Taymouth Castle is situated to the north-east of the village of Kenmore, Perth and Kinross, in the Highlands of Scotland, in an estate which encompasses . It lies on the south bank of the River Tay, about from Loch Tay, in the heartland of the Grampian Mountains. Taymouth is bordered on two sides by mountain ranges, b... |
5395855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%20at%20the%20Olympics | Ireland at the Olympics | A team representing Republic of Ireland as an independent state or polity has competed at the Summer Olympic Games since 1924, and at the Winter Olympic Games since 1992. The Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) was formed in 1922 during the provisional administration prior to the formal establishment of the Irish Free ... |
5396100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing%20terrorism | Left-wing terrorism | Left-wing terrorism or far-left terrorism is terrorism motivated by left-wing or far-left ideologies, committed with the aim of overthrowing current capitalist systems and replacing them with communist or socialist societies. Left-wing terrorism can also occur within already socialist states as criminal action against ... |
5396155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20C.%20Porter | Joseph C. Porter | Joseph Chrisman Porter (12 September 1809 – 18 February 1863) was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War, a key leader in the guerrilla campaigns in northern Missouri, and a figure of controversy. The main source for his history, Joseph A. Mudd (see below) is clearly an apologist; his opponents take a less cha... |
5396225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20Alliance%20for%20Democracy | People's Alliance for Democracy | The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD; ; commonly known as "Yellow Shirts") is a Thai reactionary, monarchist political movement and pressure group. It was originally a coalition of protesters against Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand.
Its leaders included media-mogul Sondhi Limthongkul and... |
5396317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20Vaux%20Warrick%20Fuller | Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller | Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller ( ; born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience. At the turn of the 20... |
5396761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Duncanson | Robert S. Duncanson | Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was a 19th-century American landscapist of European and African ancestry. Inspired by famous American landscape artists like Thomas Cole, Duncanson created renowned landscape paintings and is considered a second generation Hudson River School artist. Duncanson spent th... |
5397812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska%20Television%20Network | Nebraska Television Network | The Nebraska Television Network (NTV) is the ABC affiliate for most of central and western Nebraska. It consists of two full-power stations—KHGI-TV (channel 13) in Kearney, with its transmitter near Lowell, and KWNB-TV (channel 6) in Hayes Center—as well as two low-power stations in McCook and North Platte. NTV is owne... |
5397847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20to%20Base | Return to Base | Return to Base is the eighth studio album by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 1 October 1979 by Barn Records, and did not enter any national album charts. At the time of the album's release, the band's success had waned and were receiving little fortune. Forced to play at small halls and clubs around th... |
5398002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edendale%2C%20Los%20Angeles | Edendale, Los Angeles | Edendale is a historical name for a district in Los Angeles, California, northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, in what is known today as Echo Park, Los Feliz and Silver Lake.
In the opening decades of the 20th century, in the era of silent movies, Edendale was known as the home of most major movie studios on the West Coas... |
5398365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse%20of%20Horror | Treehouse of Horror | Treehouse of Horror is a series of annual Halloween-themed anthology episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons. Also known as The Simpsons Halloween Specials, each episode typically consists of three separate, self-contained segments. Each segment involves the Simpson family in some comical horror, science fiction, ... |
5398864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20student%20protests%20in%20Chile | 2006 student protests in Chile | The 2006 student protests in Chile (also known as the Penguins' Revolution or The March of the Penguins, because of the students' uniform) were a series of ongoing student voice protests carried out by high school students across Chile (from late April to early June 2006) against the privatization of the Chilean educat... |
5398930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flores%20de%20Mayo | Flores de Mayo | Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of may") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month.
The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz, "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo... |
5399178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20blue | Egyptian blue | Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi4O10 or CaOCuO(SiO2)4 (calcium copper tetrasilicate)) or cuprorivaite, is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years. It is considered to be the first synthetic pigment. It was known to the Romans by the name . After the Roman era, Egyptia... |
5399256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONCE%20%28cycling%20team%29 | ONCE (cycling team) | ONCE cycling team, () also known as Liberty Seguros, Liberty Seguros–Würth and in succession in its final year, Astana–Würth and Astana was a Spanish cycling team. It competed in the UCI ProTour circuit.
On 25 May 2006, Liberty Mutual ("seguros" means "insurance" in Spanish) pulled out of primary sponsorship due to a ... |
5399584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20names%20for%20places%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic | List of German names for places in the Czech Republic | The names of places in what is today the Czech Republic have evolved during their history. The list concerns primarily the settlements, but bilingual names for significant mountains and rivers are also listed. Places are sorted alphabetically according to their German names.
Many of the German names are now exonyms, b... |
5399622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiographer | Radiographer | Radiographers, also known as radiologic technologists, diagnostic radiographers and medical radiation technologists are healthcare professionals who specialise in the imaging of human anatomy for the diagnosis and treatment of pathology. Radiographers are infrequently, and almost always erroneously, known as x-ray tech... |
5399633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperon%20%28headgear%29 | Chaperon (headgear) | A chaperon ( or ; Middle French: chaperon) was a form of hood or, later, highly versatile hat worn in all parts of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Initially a utilitarian garment, it first grew a long partly decorative tail behind called a liripipe, and then developed into a complex, versatile and expensive headgear... |
5399989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Woods | Jon Woods | Jonathan Earl Woods, known as Jon Woods (born August 23, 1977, in Charlotte, North Carolina), is a Republican and a former member of both houses of the Arkansas General Assembly, a record producer, as well as a musician. He is now in federal prison for political corruption, wire and mail fraud, and money laundering.
B... |
5400167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyo | Gyo | , fully titled in Japan, is a horror seinen manga written and illustrated by Junji Ito, appearing as a serial in the weekly manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2001 to 2002. Shogakukan collected the chapters into two bound volumes from February to May 2002. The story revolves around a couple, Tadashi and Kaori, as t... |
5400181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90etinja | Đetinja | Đetinja (; ) is a river in western Serbia, a long natural but shorter headstream of the Zapadna Morava River.
The Đetinja river valley serves as a route for the Belgrade-Bar railway.
Name
According to the legend which describes how the Đetinja River got its name, the Ottoman Turks in the times when they ruled thes... |
5400426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20in%20Seattle | Sports in Seattle | The Seattle metropolitan area is home to several legendary professional and amateur sports teams. This includes eight teams in major leagues, several in minor leagues, and collegiate programs for two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I universities and one NCAA Division II university.
The city's... |
5400662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20High%20School%20League | Catholic High School League | The Catholic High School League (CHSL) is a school athletic conference based in Detroit, Michigan, led by director Victor Michaels. Most member schools are also members of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA), the governing body for Michigan scholastic sports, except for the five schools from Toledo, w... |
5400664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive%20industry%20in%20Mexico | Automotive industry in Mexico | Motorcars first arrived in Mexico City in 1903, and since then several vehicle brands have been especially successful. A number of manufacturers make vehicles in Mexico, and may brands have been and continue to be available.
History
Early years (1903–1960)
In 1903, motorcars first arrived in Mexico City, totaling 136... |
5400831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Roman%20de%20Silence | Le Roman de Silence | Le Roman de Silence is an octosyllabic verse Old French roman in the Picard dialect, dated to the first half of the 13th century. It is the only work attributed to Heldris de Cornuälle (Heldris of Cornwall, an Arthurian pseudonym). Due to the text's late discovery and editing in 1927 and 1978, as well as its discussion... |
5400977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Namikawa | Daisuke Namikawa | is a Japanese actor and singer associated with Stay Luck. He began acting as a child and is sometimes mistaken with Daisuke Hirakawa, as their names only differ by one character when written in kanji. Despite his wide range of roles, he usually plays young heroes, such as Mikage in 07-Ghost, Fay D. Flourite in Tsubasa:... |
5401871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon%3A%20Marin%20%26%20Melan | Brigadoon: Marin & Melan | is a Japanese anime television series animated by Sunrise. It aired on Wowow from July 21, 2000 to February 9, 2001 and a manga adaptation by Nozomi Watase was published by Kadokawa. The story takes place in Japan in 1969 and it is about an orphan girl named Marin Asagi who befriends an alien named Melan Blue.
Brigado... |
5402846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLDL%20receptor | VLDL receptor | The very-low-density-lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) is a transmembrane lipoprotein receptor of the low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) receptor family. VLDLR shows considerable homology with the members of this lineage. Discovered in 1992 by T. Yamamoto, VLDLR is widely distributed throughout the tissues of the body, including... |
5402895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Raiba | A. A. Raiba | Abdul Aziz "A. A." Raiba (20 July 1922 – 15 April 2016) was an Indian painter. Educated at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay (1942–46), Raiba started painting professionally in the early 1950s. He won several medals from the Bombay Art Society: Bronze and silver medals, 1947–51; and the gold medal in 1956. His pain... |
5402912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20cruiser%20Yakumo | Japanese cruiser Yakumo | was an armored cruiser (Sōkō jun'yōkan) built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, the ship was built in Germany. She participated in most of the naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was lightly damaged during ... |
5403177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt%20for%20Osama%20bin%20Laden | Manhunt for Osama bin Laden | Osama bin Laden, the founder and former leader of al-Qaeda, went into hiding following the start of the War in Afghanistan in order to avoid capture by the United States and/or its allies for his role in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and having been on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since 1999. After evading ... |
5404553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Kuban%20Krasnodar | FC Kuban Krasnodar | FC Kuban () was a Russian professional football club based in Krasnodar, which now only plays on a regional level. The team began playing in the Russian Premier League in 2011, having for won the Russian First Division a year prior. By then, it was one of the oldest professional football clubs in the country, with its ... |
5404557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20battleship%20Rostislav | Russian battleship Rostislav | Rostislav was a pre-dreadnought battleship built by the Nikolaev Admiralty Shipyard in the 1890s for the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was conceived as a small, inexpensive coastal defence ship, but the Navy abandoned the concept in favor of a compact, seagoing battleship with a displacement of . Po... |
5405088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20London%20derby | West London derby | The West London derby is the name given to a football derby played between any two of Brentford, Chelsea, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers, all of whom are situated within West London.
This particular derby is less prominent than other such derbies in English football, owing to the teams frequently being in separate div... |
5405446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Man%27s%20War | Old Man's War | Old Man's War is a military science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, published in 2005. His debut novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006.
Old Man's War is the first novel in Scalzi's Old Man's War series. A sequel, The Ghost Brigades, was published in 2006, followed by two other bo... |
5406110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%20army%20%28Komnenian%20era%29 | Byzantine army (Komnenian era) | The Byzantine army of the Komnenian era or Komnenian army was a force established by Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos during the late 11th/early 12th century. It was further developed during the 12th century by his successors John II Komnenos and Manuel I Komnenos. From necessity, following extensive territorial lo... |
5406386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild%20Wars%20Nightfall | Guild Wars Nightfall | Guild Wars Nightfall is a fantasy action role-playing game and the third stand-alone campaign in the Guild Wars series developed by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of NCSOFT corporation. Nightfall was released worldwide on October 27, 2006, having been in development alongside Guild Wars Factions since November 2005.
Nightfall... |
5406474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus%20%28computer%20science%29 | Consensus (computer science) | A fundamental problem in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires coordinating processes to reach consensus, or agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Example applications of consensus... |
5406480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Black | Norman Black | Norman Augustus Black (born November 12, 1957) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the CBA, NBA, and PBA. He's the former head coach for the Meralco Bolts.
He has since settled in the Philippines. He is also a former head coach of the San Miguel Beermen, Mobiline Phone Pals, Pop Cola 800... |
5406518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan%20Roberts | Iwan Roberts | Iwan Wyn Roberts (born 26 June 1968) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward from 1986 to 2005 for a number of clubs and the Wales national team. His footballing career started at Watford as a trainee before signing his first professional contract with the club in 1986. He moved to Huddersfiel... |
5406531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20B%C3%A4r | Heinrich Bär | Oscar-Heinrich "Pritzl" Bär (; 25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. Bär flew more than one thousand combat missions, and fought in the Western, Eastern and Mediterranean theatres. On 18 occasions he survived being shot down, and according to record... |
5406767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstadt | Weinstadt | Weinstadt (meaning "Wine City") is a town in the Rems-Murr district, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Rems Valley approximately 15 km east of Stuttgart. Its population in 2012 was 25,998.
The town is composed of five districts or Stadtteile which were formerly independent towns and vill... |
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