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5518922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20French%20Counts%20of%20St%20Hubert%2C%20Saskatchewan | The French Counts of St Hubert, Saskatchewan | The French Counts settled in St. Hubert, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was located on Pipestone Creek, about south-west of Whitewood. The French Counts of St Hubert stayed in the area between 1884 and the early 1900s, before World War I. St. Hubert is classified presently as an unincorporated area mean... |
5519133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Steven%20Crafts | Daniel Steven Crafts | Daniel Steven Crafts (born September 22, 1949) is an American composer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, but has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Composition style
Daniel Steven Crafts has chosen to oppose what he considers unjustifiably dissonant formalism prevalent in late 20th-century classica... |
5519291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden-Neustadt%20station | Dresden-Neustadt station | Dresden-Neustadt station () is the second largest railway station in the German city of Dresden after Dresden Hauptbahnhof and is also a stop for long-distance traffic. It is the junction for rail traffic on the northern side of the Elbe. It was built in 1901, replacing the Leipziger Bahnhof (Leipzig line station), whi... |
5519297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGN | IGN | IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the ... |
5519382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitoes%20%28novel%29 | Mosquitoes (novel) | Mosquitoes is a satiric novel by the American author William Faulkner. The book was first published in 1927 by the New York-based publishing house Boni & Liveright and is the author's second novel. Sources conflict regarding whether Faulkner wrote Mosquitoes during his time living in Paris, beginning in 1925 or in ... |
5519922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschhorn%20%28Neckar%29 | Hirschhorn (Neckar) | Hirschhorn (Neckar) is a small town in the Bergstraße district of Hesse, Germany, and is known as "The Pearl of the Neckar valley”. Hirschhorn is a climatic health resort situated in the Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald.
Geography
Location
Hirschhorn is situated at a horseshoe bend of the River Neckar, roughly 19 k... |
5520458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman%20in%20other%20media | Aquaman in other media | Aquaman has made several appearances in numerous adaptations since his comic book debut in 1941. The character has also been referenced beyond the scope of traditional comics entertainment.
Television
Animated
Aquaman's first media appearance was in his own animated series, The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, in... |
5520557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPA%20Flight%203142 | LAPA Flight 3142 | LAPA Flight 3142 was a scheduled Buenos Aires–Córdoba flight operated by the Argentine airline Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas. The flight was operated with a Boeing 737-204C, registration LV-WRZ, that crashed on 31 August 1999 at 20:54 local time while attempting to take off from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery and failing... |
5520568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%203 | Pennsylvania Route 3 | Pennsylvania Route 3 (PA 3) is a state highway located in the southeastern portion of Pennsylvania. The route runs from U.S. Route 322 Business (US 322 Bus.) in West Chester east to PA 611 in Philadelphia. The route begins in downtown West Chester and heads east out of the borough as a one-way pair of streets. Between... |
5521184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Academy%20of%20Engineering | National Academy of Engineering | The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Research ... |
5521318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkeyskin | Donkeyskin | Donkeyskin () is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Andrew Lang included it, somewhat euphemized, in The Grey Fairy Book. It is classed among folktales of Aarne-Thomp... |
5521357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%20in%20poetry | 1975 in poetry | Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 return, and this year many begin publishing in that country.
Ra... |
5521477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Leveson-Gower%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Sutherland | Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland | Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (née Sutherland; 24 May 176529 January 1839), also suo jure 19th Countess of Sutherland, was a Scottish noblewoman who married into the Leveson-Gower family, best remembered for her involvement in the Highland Clearances.
In 1803, her husband inherited the inc... |
5521547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Americans | Danish Americans | Danish Americans () are Americans who have ancestral roots originated fully or partially from Denmark. There are approximately 1,300,000 Americans of Danish origin or descent.
Most Danes who came to the United States after 1865 did so because of economic motives. The Danish population in Europe had grown significantly... |
5521750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%20Stanley%20Cup%20playoffs | 2003 Stanley Cup playoffs | The 2003 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL), began on April 9, 2003, following the 2002–03 regular season. The playoffs concluded on June 9, 2003, with the New Jersey Devils defeating the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in seven games.
The 16 qualifying teams played best-of-seven ... |
5521799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav%20Artyomov | Vyacheslav Artyomov | Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov (; born on June 29, 1940, in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet composer.
Biography
Artyomov was preparing to become a physicist, studying music at the same time. He finished studying at the musical college affiliated to the Moscow Conservatory (composition class of A. Pirumov), then graduat... |
5521877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER%20Peppercorn%20Class%20A1%2060163%20Tornado | LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado | LNER Peppercorn Class A1 No. 60163 Tornado is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive completed in 2008 to an original design by Arthur Peppercorn. It is the first new build British mainline steam locomotive since 1960, and the only Peppercorn Class A1 in existence after the original batch were scrapped. In 2017, Tornado became the f... |
5522768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Moore%20bibliography | Alan Moore bibliography | This is a bibliography of works by British author and comic book writer Alan Moore.
Comics
Early work
Short stories and strips published in various British magazines and newspapers include:
Embryo #5: "Once There Were Daemons" (script and art, Northampton Arts Lab, 1971)
Anon #1–5: "Anon E. Mouse" (script and art, ... |
5523512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sunni%20books | List of Sunni books | This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim.
The Qur'an and its translations (in English)
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran by Marmaduke Pickthall
The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commenta... |
5523577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreland%20basin | Foreland basin | A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by crustal thickening associated with the evolution of a mountain belt causes the lithosphere to bend, by a process known as lithospheric flexure. The width and depth of t... |
5524246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ReBoot%20characters | List of ReBoot characters | This is a list of characters from the animated television series ReBoot.
Most ReBoot characters are named after technical computer terms or pieces of computer hardware.
Main characters
Bob
Guardian 452 and the defender of Mainframe from both internal and external threats. Bob is often criticized by other Guardians... |
5524589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Old%20Xaverians | List of Old Xaverians | This is a List of Old Xaverians, they being notable former students—known as "Old Xaverians" (Old Xavs)—and members of the "Old Xaverians' Association" ("OXA") of the Roman Catholic school Xavier College in Kew, Victoria, Australia. Most entries have been sourced to the official announcement of the Old Xaverians' Assoc... |
5524644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulie%20Malignaggi | Paulie Malignaggi | Paul "Paulie" Malignaggi (; ; born November 23, 1980) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017 and has since worked as a boxing commentator and analyst, currently with BYB Extreme Bare Knuckle Fighting Series and ProBox TV alongside Mike Goldberg. He held world championships in two weight... |
5524871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Old%20Boys%20of%20Sydney%20Boys%20High%20School | List of Old Boys of Sydney Boys High School | This is a List Old Boys of Sydney Boys High School, them being notable alumni – known as "Old Boys" of the academically selective Sydney Boys High School, which is located in Moore Park, New South Wales, Australia.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked Sydney Boys High School fifth in Australia's top ten schools for boys, ba... |
5525531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20spinulosa | Banksia spinulosa | Banksia spinulosa, the hairpin banksia, is a species of woody shrub, of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae, native to eastern Australia. Widely distributed, it is found as an understorey plant in open dry forest or heathland from Victoria to northern Queensland, generally on sandstone though sometimes also clay... |
5526041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20%28given%20name%29 | Louis (given name) | Louis is the French form of the Old Frankish given name Chlodowig and one of two English forms, the other being Lewis ().
Etymology
The name Louis (through the intermediate form Clovis) derives from the Frankish name ᚺᛚᛟᛞᛟᚹᛁᚷ (in runic alphabet) or *Hlōdowik or *Hlōdowig (in Latin alphabet). Traditionally, this name i... |
5526067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donyale%20Luna | Donyale Luna | Peggy Ann Freeman (August 31, 1945 – May 17, 1979), known professionally as Donyale Luna, was an American model and actress who gained popularity in Western Europe during the late 1960s. Generally cited as "the first Black supermodel", Luna was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of the British edit... |
5526174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike%20Spiegel | Spike Spiegel | is a fictional character introduced as the protagonist of the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop. Spike is a former member of the criminal Red Dragon Syndicate, who left by faking his death after falling in love with a woman named Julia. He is first introduced as the partner of Jet Black, captain of the spaceship Bebop: th... |
5526379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%20in%20the%20War%20of%201939%E2%80%931945 | Australia in the War of 1939–1945 | Australia in the War of 1939–1945 is a 22-volume official history series covering Australian involvement in the Second World War. The series was published by the Australian War Memorial between 1952 and 1977, most of the volumes being edited by Gavin Long, who also wrote three volumes and the summary volume The Six Yea... |
5526517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Witches%20of%20Eastwick%20%28musical%29 | The Witches of Eastwick (musical) | The Witches of Eastwick is a 2000 musical based on the 1984 novel of the same name by John Updike. It was adapted by John Dempsey (lyrics and book) and Dana P. Rowe (music), directed by Eric Schaeffer, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh.
The story is based around three female protagonists, the 'Witches': Alexandra Spo... |
5526592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20wildebeest | Blue wildebeest | The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded gnu or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest. It is placed in the genus Connochaetes and family Bovidae, and has a close taxonomic relationship with the black wildebeest. The blue wildebees... |
5526926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oothukkadu%20Venkata%20Kavi | Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi | Oothukkaadu Venkata Kavi (-1765) or Oottukkaadu Venkata Subramanyar was one of the pioneering composers in Indian classical Carnatic music. He lived in South India in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu. Also known by the name Oothukkaadu Venkatasubramaniya Iyer, he composed hundreds of compositions in Sanskrit and Ta... |
5526941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Black%20Cat%20characters | List of Black Cat characters | The Black Cat manga series features characters created by Kentaro Yabuki. The story follows a young man named Train Heartnet who withdrew from an elite group of assassins called the Chronos Numbers two years earlier and is now a Sweeper, or bounty hunter. Many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength, spee... |
5527085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20J.%20Cash | W. J. Cash | Wilbur Joseph "Jack" Cash (May 2, 1900 – July 1, 1941) was an American journalist known for writing The Mind of the South (1941), a controversial and influential interpretation of the character and history of the American South.
A protégé of H. L. Mencken and Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf, Cash suffered throughout his... |
5527214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Plummer | Rachel Plummer | Rachel Parker Plummer (March 22, 1819 – March 19, 1839) was the daughter of James W. Parker and the cousin of Quanah Parker, last free-roaming chief of the Comanches. An Anglo-Texan woman, she was kidnapped at the age of seventeen, along with her son, James Pratt Plummer, age two, and her cousins, by a Native American ... |
5527808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Joy%20Luck%20Club%20%28film%29 | The Joy Luck Club (film) | The Joy Luck Club () is a 1993 American drama film about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese immigrant mothers. It was directed by Wayne Wang and stars Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, and Ming-Na Wen. The film is based on the 1989 no... |
5527885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20Taiwan | Religion in Taiwan | Religion in Taiwan is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, predominantly those pertaining to the continued preservation of the ancient Chinese culture and religion. Freedom of religion is inscribed in the constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The majority of Taiwanese people practi... |
5527901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20of%20Taiwan | Languages of Taiwan | The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan languages, a geographically designated branch of Austronesian languages, have been spoken by the Taiwanese indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Owing to the wide ... |
5528109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Quimper | Manuel Quimper | Manuel Quimper Benítez del Pino (c. 1757 – April 2, 1844) was a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. He participated in charting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Sandwich Islands in the late 18th century. He was later appointed a colonial governor in his native Peru at the be... |
5528842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Forrester | Eric Forrester | Eric Forrester is a fictional character from the American CBS Daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, played by John McCook. He made his debut screen appearance on March 23, 1987, the show's first episode. The character appeared briefly on The Young and the Restless in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2017, a... |
5529634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlschool | Girlschool | Girlschool are a British rock band that formed in the new wave of British heavy metal scene in 1978. Frequently associated with contemporaries Motörhead, they are the longest-running all-female rock band, still active after more than 40 years. Formed from a school band called Painted Lady, Girlschool enjoyed strong me... |
5529740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20allocation | Sex allocation | Sex allocation is the allocation of resources to male versus female reproduction in sexual species. Sex allocation theory tries to explain why many species produce equal number of males and females.
In dioecious species, where individuals are either male or female for their entire lifetimes, the allocation decision li... |
5529752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolande%20Falcinelli | Rolande Falcinelli | Rolande Roberte Ginabat-Falcinelli (18 February 1920 – 11 June 2006) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and music educator.
Biography
Rolande Falcinelli (born Ginabat), the grandniece of Marcel Falcinelli and granddaughter of Louis Napoléon Falcinelli (both painters), was born in Paris and entered the Conserva... |
5530004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karak%2C%20Pahang | Karak, Pahang | Karak is a small town in Bentong District, Pahang, Malaysia. Located at the foothills of Malaysia's Titiwangsa Mountain Range, it is well known as a rest town along the Federal Route 2 from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan and lends its name to the Karak Highway, or the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway linking it to the country's ... |
5530255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Elfen%20Lied%20characters | List of Elfen Lied characters | The characters in the Elfen Lied manga and anime series & movie were created by Lynn Okamoto, with character-design assistance from Seiji Kishimoto for the anime adaptation. The plot and characters are described, below, using in-universe tone. Elfen Lied takes place in Kamakura, Japan, where a fictional mutant human s... |
5530976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyric%20Theatre%2C%20London | Lyric Theatre, London | The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It was built for the producer Henry Leslie, who financed it from the profits of the light opera hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from its original venue to open the new theatre on 17 December 1888.
Under Leslie and his early su... |
5531401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy%20Aikman | Troy Aikman | Troy Kenneth Aikman (born November 21, 1966) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. After transferring from Oklahoma, he played college football at UCLA, where he won the Davey O'Brien Award as a senior. Aikman was selected fir... |
5531470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20of%20Katanga | State of Katanga | The State of Katanga (; ), also known as the Republic of Katanga, was a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe, leader of the local Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga (CONAKAT) political party. The new Katangese state did not enjoy fu... |
5531631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Voigt | Deborah Voigt | Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung roles in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss.
Biography and career
Early life and education
Debbie Joy Voigt was born into a religious Southern Baptist family in 1960 and raised in Wheeling, Illinois, just outside Chicago. At age five,... |
5531689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiscience | Antiscience | Antiscience is a set of attitudes that involve a rejection of science and the scientific method. People holding antiscientific views do not accept science as an objective method that can generate universal knowledge. Antiscience commonly manifests through rejection of scientific ideas such as climate change and evoluti... |
5531820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian%20Jews | Syrian Jews | Syrian Jews ( Yehudey Surya, al-Yahūd as-Sūriyyūn, colloquially called SYs in the United States) are Jews who lived in the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria. Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups: from the Jews who inhabited the region of today's Syria from ancien... |
5531993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Bester | Philip Bester | Philip Bester (born October 6, 1988) is a Canadian former professional tennis player from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bester was a finalist at the 2006 junior French Open. In doing so he became the first Canadian male to reach a Grand Slam final in singles.
As a junior
Bester was coached by his dad Alek... |
5532406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916%20Texas%20hurricane | 1916 Texas hurricane | The 1916 Texas hurricane was an intense and quick-moving tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Jamaica and South Texas in August 1916. A Category 4 hurricane upon landfall in Texas, it was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States in three decades. Throughout its eight-day trek across the C... |
5533631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%2C%20Inc. | Tesla, Inc. | Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas, which designs and manufactures electric vehicles (cars and trucks), stationary battery energy storage devices from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar shingles, and related products and services.... |
5533699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Nigeria | Education in Nigeria | Education in Nigeria is overseen by the Federal Ministry of Education. The local authorities take responsibility for implementing state-controlled policy regarding public education and state schools. The education system is divided into Kindergarten, Primary education, Secondary education, and Tertiary education. Nige... |
5533953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20Transit%20Series | Rapid Transit Series | The Rapid Transit Series (RTS) city bus is a long-running series of transit buses that was originally manufactured by GMC Truck and Coach Division during 1977, in Pontiac, Michigan. First produced in 1977, the RTS was GMC's offering of an Advanced Design Bus design (the other entry was the Grumman 870 by competitor Flx... |
5534582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratioti | Stratioti | The Stratioti or Stradioti ( stratiotes; ;, ; ; ; ) were mercenary units from the Balkans recruited mainly by states of southern and central Europe from the 15th century until the middle of the 18th century. They pioneered light cavalry tactics in European armies in the early modern era.
Name
One hypothesis proposes... |
5534813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Long%20Island%20public%20school%20districts%20and%20schools | List of Long Island public school districts and schools | Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to 125 public school districts, containing a total of 656 public schools.
The list below contains each of Long Island's school districts, along with their respective schools.
A
Amagansett Union Free School District
Amagansett School
Amityville Union Free School D... |
5535126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Bosniaks | History of the Bosniaks | Bosniaks are a mainly-muslim South Slavic ethnic group, native to the region of Bosnia and the region of Sandžak. The term Bosniaks was re-instated in 1993 after decades of suppression in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Bosniak Assembly adopted the ethnonym to replace "Bosnian Muslims." Scholars belie... |
5535835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenni%20Rivera | Jenni Rivera | Dolores Janney "Jenni" Rivera Saavedra (July 2, 1969 – December 9, 2012) was an American singer known for her work within the regional Mexican music genre, specifically in the styles of banda, mariachi and norteño. In life and death, several media outlets including CNN, Billboard, Fox News, and The New York Times have ... |
5535906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval%20%28TV%20series%29 | Primeval (TV series) | Primeval is a British science-fiction television programme produced for ITV by Impossible Pictures. Primeval follows a team of scientists tasked with investigating the appearance of temporal anomalies across the United Kingdom through which prehistoric and futuristic creatures enter the present, while simultaneously tr... |
5536443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gulf%20War%20military%20equipment | List of Gulf War military equipment | List of Gulf War Military Equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.
Coalition
United States Army & Marine Corps
Gas Mask
M17 gas mask
Military Camouflage Pattern
Desert Battle Dress Uniform
Desert Camouflage Uniform
Desert... |
5536464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20Rand | Archie Rand | Archie Rand (born 1949) is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Education and career
Born in Brooklyn, Rand received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from the Pratt Institute, having studied previously at the Art Students League of New York.
His first exhibition was in 1966, at the Tibor ... |
5536832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplocaulus | Diplocaulus | Diplocaulus (meaning "double caul") is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibians which lived from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian of North America and Africa. Diplocaulus is by far the largest and best-known of the lepospondyls, characterized by a distinctive boomerang-shaped skull. Remains attributed to Di... |
5537074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Turks | British Turks | British Turks () or Turks in the United Kingdom () are Turkish people who have immigrated to the United Kingdom. However, the term may also refer to British-born persons who have Turkish parents or who have a Turkish ancestral background.
Turks first began to emigrate in large numbers from the island of Cyprus for wor... |
5537172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20birds%20of%20Nunavut | List of birds of Nunavut | This article contains non-English characters and may require the use of special fonts.
This is a list of bird species confirmed in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Unless otherwise noted, the list is that of Bird Checklists of the World as of March 2021. Of the 298 species on the list, 136 are accidental and two wer... |
5537314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacfarinas | Tacfarinas | Tacfarinas (Latinised form of Berber Tikfarin or Takfarin; died AD 24) was a Numidian Berber from Thagaste, located in the province of Proconsular Africa (now Souk Ahras, in Algeria), who was a deserter from the Roman army who led his own Musulamii tribe and a loose and changing coalition of other Berber tribes in a wa... |
5537785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20George%20Prince%20ferry%20disaster | MV George Prince ferry disaster | The MV George Prince ferry disaster was a nautical disaster that occurred in the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the morning of . The Luling–Destrehan Ferry George Prince was struck by the Norwegian tanker , which was traveling upriver. The collision occurred at mile post 120.8 abo... |
5538683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic%20estimates%20of%20the%20flight%20and%20expulsion%20of%20Germans | Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans | Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans have been derived by either the compilation of registered dead and missing persons or by a comparison of pre-war and post-war population data. Estimates of the number of displaced Germans vary in the range of 12.0–16.5 million. The death toll attributable to... |
5538718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Midnight%20broadcast%20signal%20intrusion | Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion | On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall (using the pseudonym "Captain Midnight") jammed the Home Box Office (HBO) satellite signal on Galaxy 1 during a showing of the film The Falcon and the Snowman. The message, broadcast for four and a half minutes, was seen by the easter... |
5539423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate%20unemployment | Graduate unemployment | Graduate unemployment, or educated unemployment, is unemployment among people with an academic degree.
Background
Research undertaken proved that unemployment and underemployment of graduates are devastating phenomena in their lives. A high incidence of either are indicators of institutional ineffectiveness and ineff... |
5539448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20aemula | Banksia aemula | Banksia aemula, commonly known as the wallum banksia, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae. Found from Bundaberg south to Sydney on the Australian east coast, it is encountered as a shrub or a tree to in coastal heath on deep sandy soil, known as Wallum. It has wrinkled orange bark and shiny green serrated leaves, with... |
5539547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary%20%28TV%20series%29 | Solitary (TV series) | Solitary was a reality show on the Fox Reality Channel whose contestants were kept in round-the-clock solitary confinement for a number of weeks with the goal of being the last contestant remaining in solitary, for a $50,000 prize. It was the channel's first original series commission with its debut on May 29, 2006. Th... |
5539728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20Communicative%20Action | The Theory of Communicative Action | The Theory of Communicative Action () is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967). The two volumes are Reason and the... |
5540199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Aa | ISO 639:a | |-
!aaa
| || ||I/L||Niger–Congo|| ||Ghotuo|| || || ||Гхотуо||
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!aab
| || ||I/L||Niger–Congo|| ||Alumu-Tesu|| || || ||Алуму-тесу||
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!aac
| || ||I/L||Trans–New Guinea|| ||Ari|| || ||阿里语||Ари||
|-
!aad
| || ||I/L||Sepik|| ||Amal|| || || ||Амал||
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!aae
| || ||I/L||Indo-European|| ||Albanian (Arbëreshë Dialect)||... |
5540235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ab | ISO 639:b | |-
!baa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Babatana|| || || || ||
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!bab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Bainouk-Gunyuño|| || || || ||
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!bac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Badui||badui|| || || ||
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!bae
| || ||I/E|| || ||Baré||baré|| || || ||
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!baf
| || ||I/L|| || ||Nubaca|| || || || ||
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!bag
| || ||I/L|| || ||Tuki|| || || || ||
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!bah
| || ||I/L... |
5540291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ac | ISO 639:c | |-
!caa
| || ||I/L|| ||čorti'||Chortí|| ||chortí||奇奥蒂语|| ||
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!cab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Garifuna||garifuna|| || || ||
|-
!cac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Chuj (San Sebastián Coatán)|| || || || ||
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!cad
| ||cad||I/L|| ||Hasí:nay||Caddo||caddo||caddo||卡多语||каддо||Caddo
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!cae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Lehar|| || || || ||
|-
!caf
| ... |
5540297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ad | ISO 639:d | |-
!daa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Dangaléat|| || || || ||
|-
!dac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Dambi|| || || || ||
|-
!dad
| || ||I/L|| || ||Marik|| || || || ||
|-
!dae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Duupa|| || || || ||
|-
!(daf)
| || ||I/L|| || ||Dan|| || || || ||
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!dag
| || ||I/L|| || ||Dagbani|| || ||达戈姆巴语|| ||
|-
!dah
| || ||I/L|| || ||G... |
5540332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ag | ISO 639:g | |-
!gaa
| ||gaa||I/L|| ||Gã||Ga||ga|| ||加语||га||Ga
|-
!gab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Gabri|| || || || ||
|-
!gac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Mixed Great Andamanese|| || || || ||
|-
!gad
| || ||I/L|| || ||Gaddang|| || || || ||
|-
!gae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Guarequena|| || || || ||
|-
!gaf
| || ||I/L|| || ||Gende|| || || || ||
|-
!gag
... |
5540385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ak | ISO 639:k | |-
!kaa
| ||kaa||I/L|| ||Қарақалпақ||Karakalpak||karakalpak||karakalpako||卡拉卡尔帕克语||каракалпакский||Karakalpakisch
|-
!kab
| ||kab||I/L|| ||Taqbaylit||Kabyle||kabyle||cabilio||卡拜尔语; 卡布列语||кабильский||Kabylisch
|-
!kac
| ||kac||I/L|| || || Jingpho ||kachin|| ||景颇语; 克钦语||качинский||Kachin
|-
!kad
| || ||I/L|| || ||Kad... |
5540396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Al | ISO 639:l | |-
!laa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Subanun, Lapuyan|| || || || ||
|-
!lab
| || ||I/A|| || ||Linear A|| || ||线形文字A|| ||
|-
!lac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Lacandon||lacandon|| || || ||
|-
!lad
| ||lad||I/L|| ||ג'ודיאו–איספאנייול||Ladino||judéo-espagnol||judeo-español||拉迪诺语; 犹太-西班牙语||ладино||Judezmo
|-
!lae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Pattani|... |
5540403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Am | ISO 639:m | |-
!maa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Mazatec, San Jerónimo Tecóatl|| || || || ||
|-
!mab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Mixtec, Yutanduchi|| || || || ||
|-
!mad
| ||mad||I/L|| ||Basa Mathura||Madurese||madourais|| ||马都拉语||мадурский||Maduresisch
|-
!mae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Bo-Rukul|| || || || ||
|-
!maf
| || ||I/L|| || ||Mafa|| || || || ||
... |
5540410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3An | ISO 639:n | |-
!naa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Namla|| || || || ||
|-
!nab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Nambikuára, Southern|| || || || ||
|-
!nac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Narak|| || || || ||
|-
!(nad)
| || ||I/L|| || ||Nijadali|| || || || ||
|-
!nae
| || ||I/E|| || ||Naka'ela|| || || || ||
|-
!naf
| || ||I/L|| || ||Nabak|| || || || ||
|-
!nag
| || |... |
5540425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ap | ISO 639:p | |-
!pab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Parecís|| || || || ||
|-
!pac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Pacoh|| || || || ||
|-
!pad
| || ||I/L|| || ||Paumarí|| || || || ||
|-
!pae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Pagibete|| || || || ||
|-
!paf
| || ||I/E|| || ||Paranawát|| ||paranawát|| || ||
|-
!pag
| ||pag||I/L|| ||Pangasinán||Pangasinan||pangasinan|| ||邦... |
5540468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3As | ISO 639:s | |-
!saa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Saba|| || || || ||
|-
!sab
| || ||I/L|| || ||Buglere|| || || || ||
|-
!sac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Mesquakie|| || || || ||
|-
!sad
| ||sad||I/L|| || ||Sandawe||sandawe|| ||桑达韦语||сандаве||
|-
!sae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Sabanês|| || || || ||
|-
!saf
| || ||I/L|| || ||Safaliba|| || || || ||
|-
!sag
... |
5540477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3At | ISO 639:t | |-
!taa
| || ||I/L|| || ||Tanana, Lower||tanana|| || || ||
|-
!tab
| || ||I/L|| ||табасаран||Tabassaran||tabassaran||tabassaran||塔巴萨兰语||табасаранский||
|-
!tac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Tarahumara, Lowland|| || || || ||
|-
!tad
| || ||I/L|| || ||Tause|| || || || ||
|-
!tae
| || ||I/L|| || ||Tariano|| || || || ||
|-
!taf
... |
5540510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Ax | ISO 639:x | |-
!xaa
| || ||I/H|| || ||Andalusian Arabic|| || ||安达卢西亚阿拉伯语|| ||
|-
!xab
| || ||I/L||Indo-European|| ||Sambe|| || || || ||
|-
!xac
| || ||I/L|| || ||Kachari|| || || || ||
|-
!xad
| || ||I/E|| || ||Adai|| || || || ||
|-
!xae
| || ||I/A|| || ||Aequian|| || ||埃桂语|| ||
|-
!xag
| || ||I/A|| || ||Aghwan|| || || || ||
... |
5540521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%3Az | ISO 639:z | |-
!zaa
| || ||I/L||Zapotec|| ||Zapotec, Sierra de Juárez||zapotèque (Sierra de Juarez)|| || ||сьерра-де-хуаресский сапотекский||
|-
!zab
| || ||I/L||Zapotec|| ||Zapotec, San Juan Guelavía||zapotèque (San-Juan Guelavia)|| || ||сан-хуан-гелавиянский сапотекский||
|-
!zac
| || ||I/L||Zapotec|| ||Zapotec, Ocotlán||zapo... |
5540651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%20transmission | Microwave transmission | Microwave transmission is the transmission of information by electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the microwave frequency range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz (1 m - 1 mm wavelength) of the electromagnetic spectrum. Microwave signals are normally limited to the line of sight, so long-distance transmission using these signa... |
5540678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20Russian%20presidential%20election | 1991 Russian presidential election | Presidential elections were held in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on 12 June 1991. This was the first Russian presidential election in the country's history. The election was held roughly three months after Russians voted in favor of establishing a presidency and holding direct elections in a... |
5541172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tenant | The Tenant | The Tenant (French: Le locataire) is a 1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. The film stars Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, and Shelley Winters. It is based upon the 1964 novel Le locataire chimérique by Roland Topor and is the last film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy"... |
5541204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20King%20of%20the%20Hill%20characters | List of King of the Hill characters | King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. The main characters are Hank Hill, Peggy Hill, Bobby Hill, Dale Gribble, Bill Dauterive, Jeff Boomhauer, Luanne Platter, Nancy Gribble, Joseph Gribble, Kahn Souphanousinphone, Minh Souphanousinphone, Connie Souphanousinphone, John R... |
5541259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playmander | Playmander | The Playmander was a gerrymandering system, a pro-rural electoral malapportionment in the Australian state of South Australia, which was introduced by the incumbent Liberal and Country League (LCL) government in 1936, and remained in place for 32 years until 1968.
This consisted of 26 low-population rural seats holdi... |
5541530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs%20of%20a%20Geisha%20%28film%29 | Memoirs of a Geisha (film) | Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name by Arthur Golden. It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house () to support them by training ... |
5542305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian%20Vodou | Haitian Vodou | Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries. It arose through a process of syncretism between several traditional religions of West and Central Africa and Roman Catholicism. There is no central authority in control of the religion and much diversity exists ... |
5542381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzie%20Zivic | Fritzie Zivic | Fritzie Zivic (May 8, 1913 – May 16, 1984), born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich (), was an American boxer who held the world welterweight championship from October 4, 1940, until July 29, 1941. His managers included Luke Carney, and later, after 1942, Louis Stokan.
Early life
Zivic was born the youngest son of immigr... |
5542682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession%20%281981%20film%29 | Possession (1981 film) | Possession is a 1981 psychological horror drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and written by Żuławski and Frederic Tuten. The plot obliquely follows the relationship between an international spy (Sam Neill) and his wife (Isabelle Adjani), who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking for a div... |
5542777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Military%20College%20%28Malaysia%29 | Royal Military College (Malaysia) | Royal Military College (; abbreviated RMC) is an all-boys military school established to train young Malaysians for service in the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF). RMC is an elite and prestigious College in Malaysia. It is sometimes dubbed "the Malaya's Sandhurst". On 9 December 1966, in a ceremony held at the college, HM... |
5543438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin%20Morgan | Eoin Morgan | Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan (born 10 September 1986) is an Irish and English former cricketer and current commentator. He captained the England cricket team in limited overs cricket from 2015 until his international retirement in June 2022. Under his captaincy, England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the first time ... |
5543966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure%20in%20London | Infrastructure in London | The utility infrastructure of London, England comprises a range of services and facilities that support and enable the functioning of London as a world city. Infrastructure includes facilities associated with products and materials that are consumed such as electricity, gas, water, heating and liquid fuels; materials t... |
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