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5574010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20Dead | Evil Dead | Evil Dead is an American horror film franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of five feature films and a television series. The series revolves around the grimoire the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, an ancient Sumerian text that wreaks havoc upon a group of cabin inhabitants in a wooded area in Tennessee.
The protagonist, ... |
5574284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberg%20Baskets | Bamberg Baskets | Bamberg Baskets is a German professional basketball team from Bamberg, Franconia/North Bavaria. The club has won the German Championship title nine times and the German Cup five times. The club currently plays in the German top tier Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup. The license holder of the club is ... |
5574594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat | Borat | Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Kazakh / Russian: Борат; also stylized as BORДT, or simply Borat) is a 2006 mockumentary black comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen plays the leading role of Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kaza... |
5575042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20War%20Z | World War Z | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 zombie apocalyptic horror novel written by American author Max Brooks. The novel is broken into eight chapters: “Warnings”, “Blame”, “The Great Panic”, “Turning the Tide”, “Home Front USA”, “Around the World, and Above”, “Total War”, and “Good-Byes”, and features... |
5575327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnover%20%28employment%29 | Turnover (employment) | In human resources, turnover is the act of replacing an employee with a new employee. Partings between organizations and employees may consist of termination, retirement, death, interagency transfers, and resignations. An organization’s turnover is measured as a percentage rate, which is referred to as its turnover rat... |
5575456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20639%20macrolanguage | ISO 639 macrolanguage | A macrolanguage is a book-keeping mechanism for the ISO 639 international standard of language codes. Macrolanguages are established to assist mapping between different sets of ISO language codes. Specifically, there may be a many-to-one correspondence between ISO 639-3, intended to identify all the thousands of langua... |
5575516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Walsh%20%28hurler%2C%20born%201983%29 | Tommy Walsh (hurler, born 1983) | Thomas Walsh (born 5 May 1983) is an Irish hurler who played as a right wing-back at senior level for the Kilkenny county team.
Born in Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, Walsh first played competitive hurling during his schooling at St Kieran's College. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he fi... |
5575618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%201975 | July 1975 | The following events occurred in July 1975:
July 1, 1975 (Tuesday)
CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, went into effect after being ratified by the 10th nation that had signed on March 3, 1973, representing the first international agreement to protect wildlife an... |
5575656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%201975 | March 1975 | The following events occurred in March 1975:
March 1, 1975 (Saturday)
Color television broadcasting was officially introduced in Australia, where black and white TV had started in 1956. ATV (Australia) used the slogan "First in Color" while the Nine Network described its new programming as "Living Color".
The Covenan... |
5575706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%201976 | April 1976 | The following events occurred in April 1976:
April 1, 1976 (Thursday)
Apple Computer Company was formed in the United States by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, in Cupertino, California. Wayne sold his 10 percent share in the company to Jobs and Wozniak eleven days later.
Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corpo... |
5575719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Brennan | Eddie Brennan | Edward Joseph Brennan (born 2 October 1978) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. His league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted twelve seasons from 2000 until 2011. Brennan was the manager of the Laois senior hurling team from 2019 to 2020.
Brennan played competitive hurling in his f... |
5575720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%201976 | July 1976 |
July 1, 1976 (Thursday)
Carlos Arias Navarro, who had been Prime Minister of Spain since his appointment by Francisco Franco in 1974, resigned at the request of Franco's successor, King Juan Carlos I. Arias, who had blocked the King's attempts at reform, was given the concession of a title of nobility the next day.
... |
5575722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck | Fuck | Fuck is an English-language profanity which often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475 CE. In modern usage, the term fuck and its derivatives (such as fucker an... |
5575725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%201976 | November 1976 | The following events occurred in November 1976:
Monday, November 1, 1976
Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza of the Burundi Army led a bloodless coup d'état overthrowing President Michel Micombero, who had overthrown the monarchy of the African nation in 1966. The 30-member Supreme Revolutionary Council that repl... |
5575735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%201977 | March 1977 | The following events occurred in March 1977:
March 1, 1977 (Tuesday)
The crash of a Yemen Airlines flight killed all 19 people on board. Shortly after taking off from Aden with a destination of Sayun, the Douglas DC-3 airplane plunged into the Indian Ocean.
India's unpopular Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was booed and ... |
5575740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%201977 | June 1977 | The following events occurred in June 1977:
June 1, 1977 (Wednesday)
The Arabic language daily newspaper "Al-Arab", published in London, was introduced by entrepreneur Ahmed el-Houni, who had formerly been the Minister of Defense for Libya.
The Japanese playing card company Nintendo put its first home video game on t... |
5575748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%201977 | December 1977 | The following events occurred in December 1977:
December 1, 1977 (Thursday)
In Columbus, Ohio, the first interactive cable television system, QUBE, was launched by Warner Communications. In addition to the standard box to receive cable signals, the system included a remote with five additional buttons to allow viewers... |
5575754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%201978 | April 1978 | The following events occurred in April 1978:
April 1, 1978 (Saturday)
New Zealand National Airways Corporation (the domestic airline of New Zealand) merged with New Zealand's international airline, Air New Zealand.
Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods towed a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.
The Philippine College of Commerc... |
5575800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%201979 | June 1979 | The following events occurred in June 1979:
June 1, 1979 (Friday)
The Republic of "Zimbabwe Rhodesia" was proclaimed, with the first black-led government of the former Rhodesia, which had been ruled by the white minority for 90 years. Abel Muzorewa, a Methodist Bishop and black African, became the Prime Minister whil... |
5575810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%201979 | November 1979 | The following events occurred in November 1979:
November 1, 1979 (Thursday)
A military coup led by Bolivian Army Colonel Alberto Natusch overthrew the government of Bolivian President Wálter Guevara. Soon after the takeover of the presidential residence in La Paz, the Palacio Quemado, rebel soldiers fired into a crowd... |
5576209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20mountains%20and%20hills%20in%20the%20British%20Isles | Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles | The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt to reach all the summits on a given list, the oldest being the 282 Munros in ... |
5576823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Bisping | Michael Bisping | Michael Gavin Joseph Bisping (; born 28 February 1979) is an English actor, sports analyst, commentator and retired mixed martial artist, who competed in the Middleweight and Light Heavyweight division of the UFC. A professional competitor since 2004, he is a former UFC Middleweight Champion, a former Cage Rage Light H... |
5577654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Fables%20characters | List of Fables characters | This article is a list of characters in the comic book series Fables and its spin-offs (including Jack of Fables, Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, Fairest, 1001 Nights of Snowfall, and Peter & Max: A Fables Novel) published by Vertigo Comics.
New York Fables
Bigby Wolf
Snow White
Snow White is a major character... |
5577932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20L%C3%B3pez%20%28baseball%29 | Javier López (baseball) | Javier Alfonso López Palmer (born July 11, 1977) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies (2003–05), Arizona Diamondbacks (2005), Boston Red Sox (2006–09), Pittsburgh Pirates (2010), and San Francisco Giants (2010–16). He was a left-hande... |
5578080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuffenhausen | Zuffenhausen | Zuffenhausen is one of three northernmost boroughs of the city of Stuttgart, capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The borough is primarily an incorporation of the formerly independent townships Zuffenhausen, Zazenhausen, Neuwirtshaus, and Rot, the latter is a historic town that gained importance in 1945 as... |
5578164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20people%20in%20Ireland | Black people in Ireland | Black people (), Africans and people of African descent have lived in Ireland in small numbers since the 18th century. Throughout the 18th century they were mainly concentrated in the major cities and towns, especially in the Limerick, Cork, Belfast, Kinsale, Waterford, and Dublin areas. Increases in immigration have l... |
5578272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC%20motor | AC motor | An AC motor is an electric motor driven by an alternating current (AC). The AC motor commonly consists of two basic parts, an outside stator having coils supplied with alternating current to produce a rotating magnetic field, and an inside rotor attached to the output shaft producing a second rotating magnetic field. T... |
5578626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav%20Air%20Force | Yugoslav Air Force | The Air Force and Air Defence ( ; abbr. ), was one of three branches of the Yugoslav People's Army, the Yugoslav military. Commonly referred-to as the Yugoslav Air Force, at its height it was among the largest in Europe. The branch was disbanded in 1992 after the Breakup of Yugoslavia. In the year 1990, the Air Force h... |
5578798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Johnny%20the%20Homicidal%20Maniac%20characters | List of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac characters | This is a list of characters of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, a comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.
Human characters
Johnny "Nny" C.
The series focuses on the self-titled "villain" Johnny C., also known as Nny (pronounced “knee”). He is a crazy and psychopathic serial killer, mass murderer and spree killer, who interacts w... |
5579355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon%3A%20The%20Movie | Digimon: The Movie | Digimon: The Movie is a 2000 animated film adaptation produced by Saban Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox as part of the Digimon franchise. The film used footage from the short films Digimon Adventure (1999), Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (2000), and Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!... |
5579717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20anatomy | Bird anatomy | Bird anatomy, or the physiological structure of birds' bodies, shows many unique adaptations, mostly aiding flight. Birds have a light skeletal system and light but powerful musculature which, along with circulatory and respiratory systems capable of very high metabolic rates and oxygen supply, permit the bird to fly. ... |
5579773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20African-Caribbean%20people | British African-Caribbean people | British African-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. They are British citizens whose ancestry originates from the Caribbean or they are nationals of the Caribbean who reside in the UK. There are some self-identified Afro-Caribbean people who are multi-racial. The most common and traditional use o... |
5579861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Rodgers%20Meigs | John Rodgers Meigs | John Rodgers Meigs (February 9, 1842 – October 3, 1864) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the son of Brigadier General Montgomery C. Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the United States Army. He participated in the First Battle of Bull Run, and later testified in the court-martial ... |
5580290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotechnical%20investigation | Geotechnical investigation | Geotechnical investigations are performed by geotechnical engineers or engineering geologists to obtain information on the physical properties of soil earthworks and foundations for proposed structures and for repair of distress to earthworks and structures caused by subsurface conditions; this type of investigation is... |
5580462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Indiana | Time in Indiana | The U.S. state of Indiana is divided into Eastern and Central time zones. The official dividing line has generally moved progressively west from its original location on the Indiana–Ohio border, to a position dividing Indiana down the middle, and finally to its current location along much of the Indiana–Illinois border... |
5580587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Chicago | College of the University of Chicago | The College of the University of Chicago is the university's sole undergraduate institution and one of its oldest components, emerging contemporaneously with the university's Hyde Park campus in 1892. Instruction is provided by faculty from across all graduate divisions and schools for its 6,801 students, but the Colle... |
5580715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danity%20Kane | Danity Kane | Danity Kane is an American girl group whose most recent line-up consisted of Aubrey O'Day, Dawn Richard, and Shannon Bex. The group originally had five members, but Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett left the group in 2008, and Aundrea Fimbres left in 2014. Formed on the third iteration of MTV's Making the Band reality televis... |
5580856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Saddam%E2%80%93al-Qaeda%20conspiracy%20allegations | Timeline of Saddam–al-Qaeda conspiracy allegations | This article is a chronological listing of allegations of meetings between members of al-Qaeda and members of Saddam Hussein's government, as well as other information relevant to conspiracy theories involving Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
In 2003, American terrorism analyst Evan Kohlman said in an interview:
While th... |
5580907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Zimmer | Chief Zimmer | Charles Louis "Chief" Zimmer (November 23, 1860 – August 22, 1949) was an American professional baseball player whose playing career spanned from 1884 to 1906. He played for 19 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), including 13 seasons for the Cleveland Blues/Spiders (1887–1899), three seasons for the Pi... |
5581026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Bond | Jessie Bond | Jessie Charlotte Bond (10 January 1853 – 17 June 1942) was an English singer and actress best known for creating the mezzo-soprano soubrette roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. She spent twenty years on the stage, the bulk of them with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Musical from an early age, Bond began ... |
5581312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graptemys | Graptemys | Graptemys is a genus of freshwater turtles containing 14 species, commonly known as map turtles. Graptemys are small to medium-sized turtles that are significantly sexually dimorphic, with females in some species attaining as much as twice the length and ten times the mass as males. Depending on the species, adult mal... |
5581619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Eve | Arthur Eve | Arthur O. Eve (born March 23, 1933) is a retired American politician who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (1967–2002) and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly (1979–2002) representing districts in Buffalo, New York. He was the first Dominican-American elected to public office in the United States,... |
5581673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist%20in%20the%20Catholic%20Church | Eucharist in the Catholic Church | Eucharist () is the name that Catholics give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. The definition of the Eucharist in the 1983 Code of Canon Law as th... |
5582215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20protective%20services | Child protective services | Child protective services (CPS) is the name of an agency in many states of the United States responsible for providing child protection, which includes responding to reports of child abuse or neglect. Some states use other names, often attempting to reflect more family-centered (as opposed to child-centered) practices,... |
5582299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%20Grove | Kendall Grove | Kendall Grove (born November 12, 1982) is an American mixed martial artist who is currently signed to Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2003, he has also competed for the Bellator MMA, UFC, KSW, ProElite, King of the Cage, and was the winner of The Ultimate Fighter 3 on Spike TV.
Earl... |
5582365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Herman | Ed Herman | Edward Benson Herman (born October 2, 1980) is an American former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Light Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor from 2003 to 2023, Herman was a finalist on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 3, and has also competed for Stri... |
5583441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20Order%20of%20Saint%20Francis | Third Order of Saint Francis | The Third Order of Saint Francis is a third order in the Franciscan tradition of Christianity, founded by the medieval Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi.
Francis founded the Third Order in 1221, to accommodate men and women who, being married, were ineligible to join the Franciscan First or Second Orders, respe... |
5583509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton%20Priory | Bolton Priory | Bolton Priory, whose full title is The Priory Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert, Bolton Abbey, is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Bolton Abbey (village), within the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. There has been continuous worship on the site since 1154, when a grou... |
5583645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20prionotes | Banksia prionotes | Banksia prionotes, commonly known as acorn banksia or orange banksia, is a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae. It is native to the southwest of Western Australia and can reach up to in height. It can be much smaller in more exposed areas or in the north of its range. This species ha... |
5583719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Spilsbury%20%28Baptist%20minister%29 | John Spilsbury (Baptist minister) | John Spilsbury (1593 – c. 1668) was an English cobbler and Particular Baptist minister who set up a Calvinist Baptist church in London in 1638.
Biography
John Spilsbury was born in 1593 in London He was a cobbler at Aldersgate. He was a member of a London Separatist church, which he left in 1633, because of his posit... |
5583930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Borough%20of%20Leeds | County Borough of Leeds | The County Borough of Leeds, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Leeds, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1835 to 1974. Its origin was the ancient borough of Leeds, which was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. In 1889, when West Riding County Council ... |
5584113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene%20Home%20Guard | Slovene Home Guard | The Slovene Home Guard (, SD; ), was a Slovene anti-Partisan collaborationist militia that operated during the 1943–1945 German occupation of the formerly Italian-occupied Slovene Province of Ljubljana. The Guard consisted of former Village Sentries (; ), part of Italian-sponsored Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia, re-... |
5584171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sports%20idioms | List of sports idioms | The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games.
The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phras... |
5584274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine%20twins | Divine twins | The Divine Twins are youthful horsemen, either gods or demigods, who serve as rescuers and healers in Proto-Indo-European mythology.
Like other Proto-Indo-European divinities, the Divine Twins are not directly attested by archaeological or written materials, but scholars of comparative mythology and Indo-European stud... |
5584328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchman%20%28law%20enforcement%29 | Watchman (law enforcement) | Watchmen were organised groups of men, usually authorised by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, and recovery of stolen goods. Watchmen have existed si... |
5584650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Drews | Arthur Drews | Christian Heinrich Arthur Drews (; 1 November 1865 – 15 July 1935) was a German writer, historian, philosopher, and important representative of German monist thought. He was born in Uetersen, Holstein, in present-day Germany.
Biography
Drews became a professor of philosophy and German language at the Technische Hochsc... |
5584802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Foster | Jane Foster | Jane Foster is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Journey into Mystery #84 (September 1962). Jane Foster was introduced as a love interest of the superhero Thor Odinson until becoming... |
5585308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh%20Doctor | Eleventh Doctor | The Eleventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is played by Matt Smith in three series as well as five specials. As with previous incarnations of the Doctor, the character has also appeared in other Doctor Who spin-offs. Smith's portraya... |
5585490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihiro%20Gono | Akihiro Gono | (born October 7, 1974) is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently competing in the Lightweight division. A professional competitor since 1994, he is best known for his clever and deceptive fighting style, and for his flashy ring entrances. Gono has competed for the UFC, PRIDE Fighting Championships, Pancrase, the Wor... |
5585516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20menziesii | Banksia menziesii | Banksia menziesii, commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Banksia. It is a gnarled tree up to tall, or a lower spreading shrub in the more northern parts of its range. The serrated leaves are dull green with new growth a paler grey green. The prominent autumn and winter inflo... |
5585716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Department%20of%20Transportation | Ohio Department of Transportation | The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT; ) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for developing and maintaining all state and U.S. roadways outside of municipalities and all Interstates except the Ohio Turnpike. In addition to highways, the department also helps develop public tr... |
5586982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Schriever | Bernard Schriever | Bernard Adolph Schriever (14 September 1910 – 20 June 2005), also known as Bennie Schriever, was a United States Air Force general who played a major role in the Air Force's space and ballistic missile programs.
Born in Bremen, Germany, Schriever immigrated to the United States as a boy and became a naturalized US cit... |
5587334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto%20O%27Rourke | Beto O'Rourke | Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke ( , ; ; born September 26, 1972) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Rourke was the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2018, a candidate for the presidential nomination in 2020, and the party's ... |
5587769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphase%20flow | Multiphase flow | In fluid mechanics, multiphase flow is the simultaneous flow of materials with two or more thermodynamic phases. Virtually all processing technologies from cavitating pumps and turbines to paper-making and the construction of plastics involve some form of multiphase flow. It is also prevalent in many natural phenomena.... |
5587786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint%20Courtney | Clint Courtney | Clinton Dawson Courtney (March 16, 1927 – June 16, 1975), nicknamed Scrap Iron, was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1951), St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1952–1954, 1960, 1961), Chicago White Sox (1955), Washington Senators (1955–1959)... |
5587936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift%20photography | Tilt–shift photography | Tilt–shift photography is the use of camera movements that change the orientation or position of the lens with respect to the film or image sensor on cameras.
Sometimes the term is used when a shallow depth of field is simulated with digital post-processing; the name may derive from a perspective control lens (or tilt... |
5587944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20George%20Gershwin | List of compositions by George Gershwin | This is a list of compositions by George Gershwin, a Broadway songwriter and a classical composer. His works are grouped thematically in this list, and in chronological order according to the dates of compositions in the same group.
Classical works
Note: All orchestral/operatic pieces are orchestrated by Gershwin unl... |
5588157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piana%20degli%20Albanesi | Piana degli Albanesi | Piana degli Albanesi () is a with 6,128 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily. The official name of the town was Piana dei Greci until 1941. The municipality is situated on a mountainous plateau and encircled by high mountains, on the eastern side of the imposing Mount Pizzuta, the city, which is mir... |
5588382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Old%20Gowers | List of Old Gowers | This is a List of notable Old Gowers', former pupils of University College School. The school opened on 1 November 1830, at 16 Gower Street, which is the origin of the sobriquet "Old Gower".
A
Zak Abel (born 1995), English singer/songwriter, musician
Thomas Adès (OG ?-1988), composer
The Very Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler (... |
5588429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20thresher | Common thresher | The common thresher (Alopias vulpinus), also known as Atlantic thresher, is the largest species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, reaching some in length. About half of its length consists of the elongated upper lobe of its caudal fin. With a streamlined body, short pointed snout, and modestly sized eyes, the commo... |
5588961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Caradja | John Caradja | John George Caradja, also known by his regnal name Ioan Gheorghe Caragea (; pre-modern Romanian: , Cyrillic: Їωан Геωргïє Караџѣ; , , or ; , , or ; ; 1754 – 27 December 1844), was a Phanariote Greek Prince of Wallachia, who reigned between August 1812 and September 1818. He was the second, and last, member of the Karat... |
5589071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanis | Titanis | Titanis (meaning "Titan" for the mythological Greek Titans) is a genus of phorusrhacid ("terror birds", a group originating in South America), an extinct family of large, predatory birds, in the order Cariamiformes that inhabited the United States during the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene. The first fossils were une... |
5589115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino%20Real%20de%20Tierra%20Adentro | Camino Real de Tierra Adentro | The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (), also known as the Silver Route, was a Spanish road between Mexico City and San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay Owingeh), New Mexico (in the modern U.S.), that was used from 1598 to 1882. It was the northernmost of the four major "royal roads" that linked Mexico City to its major tributaries du... |
5589718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrament%20of%20Penance | Sacrament of Penance | The Sacrament of Penance (also commonly called the Sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession) is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church (known in Eastern Christianity as sacred mysteries), in which the faithful are absolved from sins committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community. Durin... |
5590004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology%20of%20law | Sociology of law | The sociology of law, legal sociology, or law and society is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, but others tend to consider it a field of research caught up between the di... |
5590331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Lviv | Trams in Lviv | The Lviv tramway network (, translit.: L’vivs’kyi tramvai) is an electric tram in Lviv, Ukraine. It is one of two tram system in the Western Ukraine (the other one in Vinnytsia), and the largest among narrow-gauge tram systems in Ukraine.
From 1880 to 1908, the trams used a horse-drawn system, converting to an electri... |
5591344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20children%20of%20Woolpit | Green children of Woolpit | The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen (). The children, found to be brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance exc... |
5592096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%20Party%20System | Fourth Party System | The Fourth Party System was the political party system in the United States from about 1896 to 1932 that was dominated by the Republican Party, except the 1912 split in which Democrats captured the White House and held it for eight years.
American history texts usually call the period the Progressive Era. The concept ... |
5592099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20University%20Marching%20Band | Ohio State University Marching Band | The Ohio State University Marching Band (OSUMB) is a university marching band named for and a part of The Ohio State University. The band nicknamed The Best Damn Band in the Land (TBDBITL) (pronounced ), performs at football games and other events during the fall semester. It is one of the few collegiate all-brass and ... |
5592849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery%20after%20previous%20caesarean%20section | Delivery after previous caesarean section | In case of a previous caesarean section a subsequent pregnancy can be planned beforehand to be delivered by either of the following two main methods:
Vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC)
Elective repeat caesarean section (ERCS)
Both have higher risks than a vaginal birth with no previous caesarean section. T... |
5593595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20structure | Earth structure | An earth structure is a building or other structure made largely from soil. Since soil is a widely available material, it has been used in construction since prehistoric times. It may be combined with other materials, compressed and/or baked to add strength.
Soil is still an economical material for many applications, ... |
5593845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant%20domestic%20workers | Migrant domestic workers | Migrant domestic workers (also known as foreign home care workers, foreign domestic workers, foreign domestic helpers, transnational domestic workers, foreign domestic employees, overseas domestic workers and domestic migrant workers) are, according to the International Labour Organization’s Convention No. 189 and the ... |
5594103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Mantel | Hilary Mantel | Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( ; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a pe... |
5594428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Golden%20Crab | The Golden Crab | The Golden Crab is a Greek fairy tale collected as "Prinz Krebs" by Bernhard Schmidt in his Griechische Märchen, Sagen and Volkslieder. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book.
Greek folklorist collected a variant, The Crab, in Folktales of Greece.
The tale is related to the international cycle of the Anim... |
5595063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924%2024%20Hours%20of%20Le%20Mans | 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans | The 1924 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 2nd Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 14 and 15 June 1924. It was the second part of three consecutive annual races for the Rudge-Whitworth Triennial Cup, as well simultaneously being the first race in the new 1924-25 Rudge-Whitworth Biennial Cup.
With tougher target dista... |
5595163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres%20%28dwarf%20planet%29 | Ceres (dwarf planet) | Ceres (pronounced ), minor-planet designation 1 Ceres, is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first asteroid discovered on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sicily and announced as a new planet. Ceres was later class... |
5595351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Bradford | Mark Bradford | Mark Bradford (born November 20, 1961) is an American visual artist. Bradford was born, lives, and works in Los Angeles and studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Recognized for his collaged painting works, which have been shown internationally, his practice also encompasses video, print, and installation. Br... |
5595408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Harveytoons%20Show | The Harveytoons Show | The Harveytoons Show is a television series presenting theatrical animated cartoons produced by Famous Studios from 1950 until 1964, which were acquired by Harvey Entertainment.
History
This show features Harvey Comics characters and series including: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare, Baby Huey, ... |
5595643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype%20Corporation | Teletype Corporation | The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment. Teletype was responsible for the research, development and manufacture of d... |
5595769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95th%20Aero%20Squadron | 95th Aero Squadron | The 95th Aero Squadron was an Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. It was the first American pursuit (fighter) squadron to fly in combat on the Western Front, beginning on 8 March 1918.
The squadron was assigned as a Day Pursuit (Fighter) Squadron as part of the 1st... |
5596280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charaka%20Samhita | Charaka Samhita | The Charaka Samhita (, “Compendium of Charaka”) is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). Along with the Sushruta Samhita, it is one of the two foundational texts of this field that have survived from ancient India. It is one of the three works that constitute the Brhat Trayi.
The text is based on... |
5596305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta%20Samhita | Sushruta Samhita | The Sushruta Samhita () is an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery, and one of the most important such treatises on this subject to survive from the ancient world. The Compendium of Suśruta is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka-Saṃhitā, the Bhela-Saṃh... |
5596320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine%20anatomy | Equine anatomy | Equine anatomy encompasses the gross and microscopic anatomy of horses, ponies and other equids, including donkeys, mules and zebras. While all anatomical features of equids are described in the same terms as for other animals by the International Committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature in the book Nomina... |
5596460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bergen | Peter Bergen | Peter Lampert Bergen (born December 12, 1962) is a British and American-based United States journalist, author, and producer who is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor at Arizona State University, and the host of the Audible podcast In the Room with Peter Bergen.
Bergen has wr... |
5596470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine%20coat%20color | Equine coat color | Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings. A specialized vocabulary has evolved to describe them.
While most horses remain the same color throughout life, a few, over the course of several years, will develop a different coat color from that with which they were born. Most white markings a... |
5596597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen%20clause%20%28United%20States%29 | Natural-born-citizen clause (United States) | Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president or vice president. This requirement was intended to protect the nation from foreign influence.
The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define th... |
5596641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20behavior | Horse behavior | Horse behavior is best understood from the view that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight response. Their first reaction to a threat is often to flee, although sometimes they stand their ground and defend themselves or their offspring in cases where flight is untenable, such as when a foal wou... |
5597312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20trafficking%20in%20the%20Philippines | Human trafficking in the Philippines | Human trafficking and the prostitution of children has been a significant issue in the Philippines, often controlled by organized crime syndicates.
Human trafficking is a crime against humanity.
With the Philippines having a large migrant population, the men are used for fishing, construction, and farming. Women are e... |
5597420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage%20in%20Korea | Marriage in Korea | Marriage in Korea mirrors many of the practices and expectations of marriages in other societies. Modern practices are a combination of millennia-old traditions and global influences.
Marriage in Pre-Modern Korea
Marriage during the Goryeo period (918–1392)
Marriages during the Goryeo period were made primarily on t... |
5597426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%201975 | September 1975 | The following events occurred in September 1975:
September 1, 1975 (Monday)
The Republic of the North Solomons was declared on Bougainville Island, two weeks before Papua New Guinea was to become independent from Australia. District Commissioner Alexis Sarei was named as President. After failing to get recognition fro... |
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