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5437559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20transfers%20of%20Segunda%20Divisi%C3%B3n%20%E2%80%93%202005%E2%80%9306%20season | List of transfers of Segunda División – 2005–06 season | This is a list of Spanish football transfers for the 2005–06 Segunda División season. Transfers are only allowed in limited transfer windows in summer and winter.
Albacete Balompie
In:
Raúl Molina - On Loan From Rayo Vallecano
Corona - On Loan From Real Zaragoza
Juanlu - On Loan From Real Betis
David Sanchez -... |
5437598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20%28film%29 | Air Force (film) | Air Force is a 1943 American World War II aviation film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, and Harry Carey. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner. Conceived by then - Lieutenant General “Hap” Arnold (Commandin... |
5437748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Ellison | Keith Ellison | Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 30th attorney general of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Ellison was the U.S. representative for from 2007 to 2019. He also served as the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee fro... |
5438077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20C%20Sharp%20and%20Visual%20Basic%20.NET | Comparison of C Sharp and Visual Basic .NET | C# and Visual Basic .NET are the two primary languages used to program on the .NET Framework.
Language history
C# and VB.NET are syntactically very different languages with very different histories.
As the name suggests, the C# syntax is based on the core C programming language originally developed by Dennis Ritchie ... |
5439220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens%20vs.%20Predator%3A%20Requiem | Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem | Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (stylized as AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem) is a 2007 American science fiction action film starring Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis and Ariel Gade. The directorial debut of The Brothers Strause, the film was written by Shane Salerno and is a direct sequel ... |
5439872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Three%20Laws%20of%20Robotics%20in%20popular%20culture | The Three Laws of Robotics in popular culture | References to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have appeared in a wide variety of circumstances. In some cases, other authors have explored the Laws in a serious fashion. Other references, like those made in the satirical newspaper The Onion, are clearly parodic.
Print media
The satirical newspaper The Onion pub... |
5440332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paso%20Del%20Norte%20Group | Paso Del Norte Group | The Paso Del Norte Group (PDNG) is a private organization of approximately 360 business and civic leaders of El Paso, Texas, United States. The group, meant to be representative of the El Paso region, also includes members from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and Southern New Mexico.
Patterned after similar leadership groups i... |
5440634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20alumni%20of%20RADA | List of alumni of RADA | Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London have most of their records kept by RADA's public student records.
A
Marisa Abela (BA Acting 2019)
Hiran Abeysekera (BA Acting 2011)
Polly Adams (Acting Diploma 1958)
Trevor Adams (Acting Diploma 1967)
Dawn Addams (Acting Diploma 1949)
Robert Addie (Acting Diploma ... |
5441044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargas%20tragedy | Vargas tragedy | The Vargas tragedy was a natural disaster that occurred in Vargas State, Venezuela on 15 December 1999 (over the course of 10 days), when torrential rains caused flash floods and debris flows that killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of homes, and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastru... |
5441158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Baca | Judy Baca | Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American artist, activist, and professor of Chicano studies, world arts, and cultures based at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California. Baca is ... |
5441736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20segregation%20in%20the%20United%20States | Racial segregation in the United States | Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States on racial categorizations. Segregation was the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from whites, as well as the separation of other ethnic minori... |
5442122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golubac%20Fortress | Golubac Fortress | The Golubac Fortress ( or Golubački grad) was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River, downstream from the modern-day town of Golubac, Serbia. According to recent discoveries, the fortress, which was built during the 14th century by Medieval Serbian state, is split into three compounds which w... |
5442200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20of%20Chicago | Culture of Chicago | The culture of Chicago, Illinois is known for the invention or significant advancement of several performing arts, including improvisational comedy, house music, industrial music, blues, hip hop, gospel, jazz, and soul.
The city is known for its Chicago School and Prairie School architecture. It continues to cultivat... |
5442380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20cue | Sensory cue | A sensory cue is a statistic or signal that can be extracted from the sensory input by a perceiver, that indicates the state of some property of the world that the perceiver is interested in perceiving.
A cue is some organization of the data present in the signal which allows for meaningful extrapolation. For example,... |
5442877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Cronin | Dan Cronin | Daniel J. Cronin (born November 7, 1959) is an American politician and attorney who served as county board chairman of DuPage County, Illinois from December 2010 until December 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1991 through 2010.
Cronin was born in Elmhu... |
5442976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Thessaly | History of Thessaly | The history of Thessaly covers the history of the region of Thessaly in north-central Greece from antiquity to the present day.
Topography
Thessaly is characterized by the large Thessalian plain, formed by the Pineios River, which is surrounded by mountains, most notably the Pindus mountain range to the west, which se... |
5443545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy%20Kat | Krazy Kat | Krazy Kat (also known as Krazy & Ignatz in some reprints and compilations) is an American newspaper comic strip, created by cartoonist George Herriman, which ran from 1913 to 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its r... |
5443665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip%20search%20phone%20call%20scam | Strip search phone call scam | The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to cond... |
5443913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20status%20of%20same-sex%20marriage | Legal status of same-sex marriage | The legal status of same-sex marriage has changed in recent years in numerous jurisdictions around the world. The current trends and consensus of political authorities and religions throughout the world are summarized in this article.
World map overview
Civil recognition
Global summary
Same-sex marriage is legal (or... |
5443930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore%20the%20Laborer | Isidore the Laborer | {{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix= Saint
|name = Isidore the Laborer
|image = Saint Isidor Farmer (18th cen, anon).jpg
|imagesize = 250px
|caption = Saint Isidore the Farmer
|titles = Confessor
|birth_date = or 1082
|birth_place = Madrid, Taifa of Toledo
|death_date... |
5443933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Snyder | Scott Snyder | Scott Snyder (born January 15, 1976) is an American author. He is known for his 2006 short story collection Voodoo Heart, and his work for DC Comics, including series such as American Vampire, Detective Comics, a highly acclaimed run on Batman, Swamp Thing, and Justice League as well as the company-wide crossover story... |
5443971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Room | The Room | The Room is a 2003 American independent romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Tommy Wiseau, who also stars in the film alongside Juliette Danielle and Greg Sestero. Set in San Francisco, the film is centred around a melodramatic love triangle between amiable banker Johnny (Wiseau), his deceptive fiancé... |
5444082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniele%20Bennati | Daniele Bennati | Daniele Bennati (born 24 September 1980) is an Italian former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the , , , , , , and squads.
Specialising in fast sprint finishes, Bennati turned professional in 2002, when he joined the team and wore zebra stripes as part of Mario Cipollini's lead... |
5444216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20model | Atmospheric model | In atmospheric science, an atmospheric model is a mathematical model constructed around the full set of primitive, dynamical equations which govern atmospheric motions. It can supplement these equations with parameterizations for turbulent diffusion, radiation, moist processes (clouds and precipitation), heat exchange,... |
5444627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20reintroduction | Wolf reintroduction | Wolf reintroduction involves the reintroduction of a portion of grey wolves in areas where native wolves have been extirpated. More than 30 subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and grey wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise nondomestic/feral subspecies. Reintroduction is only considered where large tr... |
5444814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokko%20%28manga%29 | Tokko (manga) | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa, the creator of Great Teacher Onizuka. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from 2003 to 2004, with its chapters collected in three volumes.
A 13-episodes anime television series adaptation animated by AIC Spirits ... |
5444984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1928 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1928 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 6th Grand Prix of Endurance that took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 16 and 17 June 1928.
Bentley director Woolf Barnato and Australian-born Bernard Rubin in a Bentley 4½ Litre gave the company back-to-back victories after a race-long duel with the Stutz of Édouard Brisson an... |
5444993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Christmas%20%282006%20film%29 | Black Christmas (2006 film) | Black X-Mas (also known and pronounced as Black Christmas) is a 2006 slasher film written and directed by Glen Morgan and starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, and Andrea Martin. The film takes place several days before Christmas and tells t... |
5445094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyjayanthimala | Vyjayanthimala | Vyjayanthimala (born 13 August 1933)
is a former Indian actress, dancer and parliamentarian. Regarded as one of Indian cinema's finest actresses and dancers, she is the recipient of several accolades, including two BFJA Awards and five Filmfare Awards. She made her screen debut at the age of 16 with the Tamil film Vaaz... |
5445332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses%20in%20Sydney | Buses in Sydney | Buses account for close to six per cent of trips each day in the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, forming a key part of the city's public transport system. The network initially evolved from a privately operated system of feeder services to railway stations in the outer suburbs, and a publicly operated netwo... |
5446097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonshire%20Regiment | Devonshire Regiment | The Devonshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that served under various titles and served in many wars and conflicts from 1685 to 1958, such as the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War. In 1958 the regiment was amalgamated with the Dorset Regiment to form the Devonshi... |
5446333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20revolts%20against%20Spain | Philippine revolts against Spain | During the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines (1565–1898), there were several revolts against the Spanish colonial government by indigenous Moro, Lumad, Indios, Chinese (Sangleys), and Insulares (Filipinos of full or near full Spanish descent), often with the goal of re-establishing the rights and powers that h... |
5446467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20accessibility | Game accessibility | Within the field of human–computer interaction, accessibility of video games is considered a sub-field of computer accessibility, which studies how software and computers can be made accessible to users with various types of impairments. It can also include tabletop RPGs, board games, and related products.
In spring ... |
5446711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachtree%20Corners%2C%20Georgia | Peachtree Corners, Georgia | Peachtree Corners is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is the largest city in Gwinnett County with a population of 42,243 as of the 2020 US Census.
Peachtree Corners is the only Atlanta northern suburb developed as a planned community. The city is bor... |
5446944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliz%C3%A9%20Cornet | Alizé Cornet | Alizé Cornet (; born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player. She has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 February 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 11. Cornet has also made the... |
5447071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes%20of%20The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings | Themes of The Lord of the Rings | Scholars and critics have identified many themes of The Lord of the Rings, a major fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, including a reversed quest, the struggle of good and evil, death and immortality, fate and free will, the danger of power, and various aspects of Christianity such as the presence of three Christ figure... |
5447078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenberg%2C%20Hesse | Frankenberg, Hesse | Frankenberg an der Eder is a town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany.
The mountain at a ford over the Eder north of the Burgwald range was for a long time a fortified place, playing an especially important role under the Franks in the Saxon Wars. The town was built in 1233-1234 by the Thuringian Landgrave... |
5447184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikbal%20Ali%20Shah | Ikbal Ali Shah | Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah (, ; 1894 in Sardhana, India – 4 November 1969 in Tangier, Morocco) was an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Sadaat of Paghman. Born and educated in India, he came to Britain as a young man to continue his education in Edinburgh, where he married a young Scotswoman.
Travelling ... |
5448846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny%20High%20School%20%28New%20Jersey%29 | Kearny High School (New Jersey) | Kearny High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Kearny in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and operating as the lone secondary school of the Kearny School District.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,7... |
5449469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnie%20Airport | Burnie Airport | Burnie Airport , also called Burnie Wynyard Airport or Wynyard Airport, is a regional airport located adjacent to the town of Wynyard, about west from Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. Formally named the Wynyard Aerodrome, the first official opening occurred on 26 February 1934. The Burnie Airport is majority owned by the ... |
5449507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzenau | Alzenau | Alzenau (; until 31 December 2006 officially Alzenau i.UFr.) is a town in the north of the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. Until 1 July 1972, Alzenau was the district seat of the now abolished district of the same name and has a population of around ... |
5450116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Government%20Act%201958 | Local Government Act 1958 | The Local Government Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 55) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom affecting local government in England and Wales outside London. Among its provisions it included the establishment of Local Government Commissions to review the areas and functions of local authorities, and introduce... |
5450626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchen | Buchen | Buchen (South Franconian: Buche) is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is situated in the Odenwald low mountain range, 23 km northeast of the regional center Mosbach.
Geography
Buchen is situated on the seam between the south-eastern Odenwald and the Bauland area, along the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Lim... |
5451330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20resistance%20to%20Nazism | German resistance to Nazism | Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi regime engaged in resistance, including assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler or by overthrowing his regime.
German resistance was not recognized as a united resistance movement during the height of Nazi Germany, unlike the more organised efforts in... |
5451380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyoto%20Machida | Lyoto Machida | is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist and karateka. He formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he was a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, as well as a UFC Middleweight Championship title challenger. He most recently competed in Bellator MMA in the Light Heavyweight and Midd... |
5451397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20League%20of%20Gentlemen%20characters | List of The League of Gentlemen characters | This article contains a list of the numerous characters featured in various media by the British comedy troupe known as The League of Gentlemen. All of the characters were created by the troupe, who are Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
Appearances
Edward and Tubbs
Edward and Tulip "Tu... |
5451605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Simpsons%20opening%20sequence | The Simpsons opening sequence | The Simpsons opening sequence is the title sequence of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It is accompanied by "The Simpsons Theme". The first episode to use this introduction was the series' second episode "Bart the Genius".
Each episode has the same basic sequence of events: the camera zooms throu... |
5451628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%20crimes%20against%20the%20Polish%20nation | Nazi crimes against the Polish nation | Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, consisted of the genocide of millions of Polish people, including the systematic extermination of Jewish ... |
5451809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highways%20in%20Spain | Highways in Spain | The Spanish motorway (highway) network is the third largest in the world, by length. , there are of High Capacity Roads () in the country. There are two main types of such roads, autopistas and autovías, which differed in the strictness of the standards they are held to.
History
Between 1990 and 2012 Spain had one of... |
5451939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa%20Tibetan | Lhasa Tibetan | Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
In the traditional "three-branched" classification of the Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to t... |
5452063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Longoria | Evan Longoria | Evan Michael Longoria (born October 7, 1985), nicknamed "Longo", is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Rays from 2008 through 2017, and the San Francisco Giants from 2018 through 2022.
Longoria playe... |
5452305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%207%20%28American%20season%29 | Big Brother 7 (American season) | Big Brother 7, also known as Big Brother: All-Stars, is the seventh season of the American reality television series Big Brother. It is based upon the Netherlands series of the same name, which gained notoriety in 1999 and 2000. The series premiered on CBS on July 6, 2006, and lasted eleven weeks until the live finale ... |
5452357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard%20Fraenkel | Eduard Fraenkel | Eduard David Mortier Fraenkel FBA () was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1953. Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire, he studied Classics at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. In 1934, antisemitic legis... |
5452635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20of%20Tears | Highway of Tears | The Highway of Tears is a corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of crimes against many Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) beginning in 1970. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, British Columbia in 1998, by Flo... |
5452813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Color%20Printing | Eastern Color Printing | The Eastern Color Printing Company was a company that published comic books, beginning in 1933. At first, it was only newspaper comic strip reprints, but later on, original material was published. Eastern Color Printing was incorporated in 1928, and soon became successful by printing color newspaper sections for seve... |
5452870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20fuel%20cell | Microbial fuel cell | Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a type of bioelectrochemical fuel cell system also known as micro fuel cell that
generates electric current by diverting electrons produced from the microbial oxidation of reduced compounds (also known as fuel or electron donor) on the anode to oxidized compounds such as oxygen (also known... |
5452949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s%20in%20fashion | 1970s in fashion | Fashion in the 1970s was about individuality. In the early 1970s, Vogue proclaimed "There are no rules in the fashion game now" due to overproduction flooding the market with cheap synthetic clothing. Common items included mini skirts, bell-bottoms popularized by hippies, vintage clothing from the 1950s and earlier, an... |
5453108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1927 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1927 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 5th Grand Prix of Endurance, was a motor race which took place at the Circuit de la Sarthe on 18 and 19 June 1927.
The race was one of the most remarkable and dramatic pre-war Le Mans races. It is commonly remembered due to the infamous White House crash, a major accident that involved... |
5453466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylighting%20%28streams%29 | Daylighting (streams) | Daylighting is the opening up and restoration of a previously buried watercourse, one which had at some point been diverted below ground. Typically, the rationale behind returning the riparian environment of a stream, wash, or river to a more natural above-ground state is to reduce runoff, create habitat for species in... |
5453729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Runaways%20story%20arcs | List of Runaways story arcs | Runaways is an American comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona for Marvel Comics. The series debuted in April 2003. It has covered 13 story arcs, and is currently in its fourteenth. Runaways has frequently been collected in digest-sized books, which led to booming sales. Series creator Vaughan... |
5454012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th%20Security%20Force%20Assistance%20Brigade | 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade | The 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade is a brigade of the British Army which is intended to train and assist foreign forces. In 2021, under the Future Army changes, the brigade was redesignated, formerly being the 11th Infantry Brigade & HQ South East. Prior to the Army 2020 changes in 2013, the brigade was tempor... |
5454085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pok%C3%A9mon%20Trading%20Card%20Game%20sets | List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets | This is a list of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets from the collectible card game that was first released in Japan in 1996. As of April 2022, there were 98 card sets released in English and 91 card sets in Japan, including special sets. As of September 2017, collectively, there were 6,959 cards in the Japanese sets and 9... |
5454193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions%20of%20fascism | Definitions of fascism | What constitutes as a definition of fascism and fascist governments has been a complicated and highly disputed subject concerning the exact nature of fascism and its core tenets debated amongst historians, political scientists, and other scholars ever since Benito Mussolini first used the term in 1915. Historian Ian Ke... |
5454569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20power%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Wind power in the United Kingdom | The United Kingdom is the best location for wind power in Europe and one of the best in the world. The combination of long coastline, shallow water and strong winds make offshore wind unusually effective.
By 2023, the UK had over 11 thousand wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 30gigawatts (GW): 15 GW onsh... |
5454803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lives%20of%20Others | The Lives of Others | The Lives of Others (, ) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ul... |
5455071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Texas%20Longhorns%20football%20team | 2006 Texas Longhorns football team | The 2006 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head football coach was Mack Brown. The Longhorns (also known as Texas or UT or the Horns) played their home games in Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium (DKR), which dur... |
5455080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce%20Limited | Rolls-Royce Limited | Rolls-Royce Limited was a British luxury car and later an aero-engine manufacturing business established in 1904 in Manchester by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. Building on Royce's good reputation established with his cranes, they quickly developed a reputation for superior engineering by manufacturi... |
5455271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Tennessee | History of Tennessee | Tennessee is one of the 50 states of the United States. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. It was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796, as the 16th state. Tennessee earned the nickname "The Volunteer State" during the War of 1812, when many Tennessean... |
5455300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e%20du%20Quai%20Branly%20%E2%80%93%20Jacques%20Chirac | Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac | The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (; ), located in Paris, France, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum collection comprises more than a million objects (ethnographic objects, photographs, documents,... |
5455466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling%20in%20Australia | Whaling in Australia | Whaling in Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left Port Jackson to engage in whaling and seal hunting off the coast of Australia and New Zealand. The two main species hunted by such vessels in the early years were righ... |
5456498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent%20City%204 | Tent City 4 | Tent City 4 is a homeless encampment of up to 100 persons operated by homeless residents and sponsored by 501(c)(3) organizations Seattle Housing and Resources Effort (SHARE) and Women's Housing Equality and Enhancement League (WHEEL). The camp was created in May 2004 and limits itself to places of worship in eastern K... |
5456661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20Gilbert | Philippe Gilbert | Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships in 2012, and for being one of two riders, along with Davide Rebellin, to have won the three Ardennes classics – the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bast... |
5456824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity | Ergodicity | In mathematics, ergodicity expresses the idea that a point of a moving system, either a dynamical system or a stochastic process, will eventually visit all parts of the space that the system moves in, in a uniform and random sense. This implies that the average behavior of the system can be deduced from the trajectory ... |
5457195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Williams%20%28linguist%29 | Harold Williams (linguist) | Harold Whitmore Williams (6 April 1876 – 18 November 1928) was a New Zealand journalist, foreign editor of The Times and polyglot who is considered to have been one of the most accomplished polyglots in history. He is said to have known over 58 languages, naturally including his native English. He "proved to know every... |
5457529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riz%20Ahmed | Riz Ahmed | Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (; born ) is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named in the Time 100 listing of the most influential people in the world.
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5458586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20psychedelic%20drugs | List of psychedelic drugs | The following is a list of psychedelic drugs of various chemical classes, including both naturally occurring and synthetic compounds. Serotonergic psychedelics are usually considered the "classical" psychedelics, whereas the other classes are often seen as having only secondary psychedelic properties; nonetheless all o... |
5459591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeki | Sudeki | Sudeki is a 2004 action role-playing game developed by Climax Studios. It was originally released for Xbox by Microsoft Game Studios. A Microsoft Windows port was released in Europe by Zoo Digital Publishing in 2005, and worldwide via Steam and GOG.com in 2014 by Climax. Set on the splintered world of Sudeki, divided i... |
5459710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Rekers | George Rekers | George Alan Rekers (born July 11, 1948) is an American psychologist and ordained Southern Baptist minister. He is emeritus professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Rekers has a PhD from University of California, Los Angeles and has been a research fello... |
5459770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikima-II | Seikima-II | is a Japanese heavy metal band, formed in 1982. Throughout their career they have had numerous lineups, with lead singer Demon Kakka the sole constant member. The group has sold over 10 million records in Japan alone.
The band members each wear face paint and elaborate stage outfits and have adopted fictional personas... |
5459820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Baker%27s%20Wife | The Baker's Wife | The Baker's Wife is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and the book by Joseph Stein, based on the 1938 French film of the same name by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. The musical premiered in the West End in 1989 for a short run but, while establishing a dedicated cult following, has not been produced on... |
5460470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional%20Federal%20Government%20of%20Somalia | Transitional Federal Government of Somalia | The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) (, ) was internationally recognized as a provisional government of the Republic of Somalia from 14 October 2004 until 20 August 2012, when its tenure officially ended and the Federal Government of Somalia was inaugurated.
Succeeding the Transitional National Government (TNG), ... |
5460692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teva%20Pharmaceuticals | Teva Pharmaceuticals | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (also known as Teva Pharmaceuticals) is an Israeli multinational pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. It specializes primarily in generic drugs, but other business interests include active pharmaceutical ingredients and, to a lesser extent, proprietary pharm... |
5460706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Kochi | Transport in Kochi | Kochi (; Malayalam: കൊച്ചി Kochi, formerly known as Cochin) is a major port city in the Indian state of Kerala. The city is widely known as the commercial or economic capital of the state of Kerala.
The road infrastructure in Kochi has not been able to meet the growing traffic demand and hence traffic congestion is a... |
5461234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Apple%20%281980%20film%29 | The Apple (1980 film) | The Apple (also called Star Rock) is a 1980 science fiction-musical film written and directed by Menahem Golan. It stars Catherine Mary Stewart as a young singer named Bibi, who, in a futuristic 1994, signs to an evil label named Boogalow International Music. It deals with themes of conformity versus rebellion, and mak... |
5461236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%3A%20Truth%20or%20Dare | Madonna: Truth or Dare | Madonna: Truth or Dare (also known as In Bed with Madonna internationally) is a 1991 American documentary film by director Alek Keshishian chronicling the life of entertainer Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. Madonna approached Keshishian to do an HBO special on the tour after watching his Harvard seni... |
5461628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Settlers%20II%20%2810th%20Anniversary%29 | The Settlers II (10th Anniversary) | The Settlers II (10th Anniversary) () is a city-building game with real-time strategy elements, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Released for Microsoft Windows in September 2006, it is a remake of The Settlers II (1996). In March 2007, Blue Byte released a German-language expansion, Die Siedler II: Die... |
5461915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Porter%20%28sound%20engineer%29 | Bill Porter (sound engineer) | Bill Porter (June 15, 1931 – July 7, 2010) was an American audio engineer who helped shape the Nashville sound and recorded stars such as Chet Atkins, Louis Armstrong, the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Gladys Knight, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Skeeter Davis, Ike & Tina Turner, Sammy Davis Jr., and Roy Orbison from... |
5462198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20Ladakh | Tourism in Ladakh | Tourism is one of an economic contributor to the union territory of Ladakh in Northern India. The union territory is sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south and is situated at the height of 11,400 ft. Ladakh is composed of the Leh and Kargil districts. The region con... |
5462309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Leeds | List of people from Leeds | See :Category:People from Leeds
List of people from Leeds is a list of notable people from the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes people from the historic settlement, and the wider metropolitan borough, and thus may include people from Horsforth, Morley, Pudsey, Otley and Wetherby and other ar... |
5462391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netroots%20Nation | Netroots Nation | Netroots Nation is a political convention for American progressive political activists. Originally organized by readers and writers of Daily Kos, a liberal political blog, it was previously called YearlyKos and rebranded as Netroots Nation in 2007. The new name to reflects participation of a broader audience of gras... |
5462396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity%20%28game%20engine%29 | Unity (game engine) | Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X game engine. The engine has since been gradually extended to support a variety of desktop, mobile, console and virtual reality platforms. It is particul... |
5462479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20roller%20derby%20leagues | List of roller derby leagues | This is a list of notable roller derby leagues, and may include those that are no longer in existence. Existence dates, where known, are included to provide a timeline charting the sport's growth cycles. The list may currently make distinctions according to each organization's professional/amateur business structure an... |
5462982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd%20Regiment%20of%20Foot | 42nd Regiment of Foot | The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch. Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbere... |
5463034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarabia%20Germans | Bessarabia Germans | The Bessarabia Germans (, , ) were a German ethnic group (formerly part of the Germans of Romania) who lived in Bessarabia (today part of the Republic of Moldova and south-western Ukraine) between 1814 and 1940.
From 1814 to 1842, 9,000 of them immigrated from the German areas Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria, some Prussia... |
5463041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Batlle%20Berres | Luis Batlle Berres | Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (26 November 1897 – 15 July 1964) was a Uruguayan political figure.
Background
Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was selected – in hindsight, with far-reaching effect – to serve as vice presidential running-mate for Luis Tomás Berreta.
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5463466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Riggs | Joe Riggs | Joseph Jonathan Riggs (born September 23, 1982) is an American professional bare-knuckle boxer and former mixed martial artist who is currently signed to Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2001, Riggs formerly competed for the UFC, WEC, Strikeforce, Bellator, ProElite, M-1 Global, and K... |
5463866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20governance | Project governance | Project governance is the management framework within which project decisions are made. Project governance is a critical element of any project, since the accountabilities and responsibilities associated with an organization's business as usual activities are laid down in their organizational governance arrangements; ... |
5463896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Ayalon | Danny Ayalon | Daniel "Danny" Ayalon (; born ) is an Israeli diplomat, columnist and politician. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister and as a member of the Knesset. He was the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2002 until 2006. Previously, he worked as senior foreign policy advisor to Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Bar... |
5464368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Braham%20%28RAF%20officer%29 | John Braham (RAF officer) | John Randall Daniel "Bob" Braham, (6 April 1920 – 7 February 1974) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter pilot and fighter ace during the Second World War.
Braham was born in April 1920. Upon leaving school as a teenager he worked for his local constabulary as a clerk. Bored with civilian life, Braham joined the ... |
5464960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20inhibitor | Enzyme inhibitor | An enzyme inhibitor is a molecule that binds to an enzyme and blocks its activity. Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions necessary for life, in which substrate molecules are converted into products. An enzyme facilitates a specific chemical reaction by binding the substrate to its active site, a special... |
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