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5645086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20the%20eye | Evolution of the eye | Many scientists have found the evolution of the eye attractive to study because the eye distinctively exemplifies an analogous organ found in many animal forms. Simple light detection is found in bacteria, single-celled organisms, plants and animals. Complex, image-forming eyes have evolved independently several times.... |
5645447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93l%C3%A1fr%20Gu%C3%B0r%C3%B8%C3%B0arson%20%28died%201153%29 | Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 1153) | Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 29 June 1153) was a twelfth-century King of Mann and the Isles. As a younger son of Guðrøðr Crovan, King of Dublin and the Isles, Óláfr witnessed a vicious power struggle between his elder brothers in the aftermath of their father's death. At some point, the young Óláfr was entrusted to the care... |
5645465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0r%C3%B8%C3%B0r%20%C3%93l%C3%A1fsson | Guðrøðr Óláfsson | Guðrøðr Óláfsson (died 10 November 1187) was a twelfth-century ruler of the kingdoms of Dublin and the Isles. Guðrøðr was a son of Óláfr Guðrøðarson and Affraic, daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway. Throughout his career, Guðrøðr battled rival claimants to the throne, permanently losing about half of his realm to a ri... |
5645470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cartography | History of cartography | The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world.
When and how the earliest maps were made... |
5645603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C7%ABgnvaldr%20Gu%C3%B0r%C3%B8%C3%B0arson | Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson | Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson (died 14 February 1229) ruled as King of the Isles from 1187 to 1226. He was the eldest son of Guðrøðr Óláfsson, King of Dublin and the Isles. Although the latter may have intended for his younger son, Óláfr, to succeed to the kingship, the Islesmen chose Rǫgnvaldr, who was likely Óláfr's half-bro... |
5645710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%201973 | March 1973 | The following events occurred in March 1973:
March 1, 1973 (Thursday)
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, was released in the U.S.; sale in the UK began on March 24.
U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr., and his chargé d'affaires, Curtis Moore, were kidnapped and murdered by ter... |
5645732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs%20%C3%93l%C3%A1fsson | Magnús Óláfsson | Magnús Óláfsson (died 24 November 1265) was a King of Mann and the Isles. He was a son of Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles, and a member of the Crovan dynasty. Magnús' realm encompassed Mann and parts of the Hebrides. Some leading members of Magnús' family—such as his father—styled themselves "King of the Isles"; o... |
5645823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%201973 | January 1973 | The following events occurred in January 1973:
January 1, 1973 (Monday)
The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark entered the 'European Economic Community (EEC, generally referred to as "the Common Market", a predecessor to the European Union. The addition of the new members brought the number of Common ... |
5646101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USC%20Trojans | USC Trojans | The USC Trojans are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. While the men's teams are nicknamed the Trojans, the women's athletic teams are referred to as either the Trojans or Women of Troy (the university officially approves both terms). The progra... |
5646279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse%20large%20B-cell%20lymphoma | Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma | Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a cancer of B cells, a type of lymphocyte that is responsible for producing antibodies. It is the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among adults, with an annual incidence of 7–8 cases per 100,000 people per year in the US and UK. This cancer occurs primarily in older indi... |
5647654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian%20literature | Peruvian literature | The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru during the country's colonial period, and to oral artistic forms created by diverse ethnic groups that existed in the area during the prehispanic period, su... |
5647728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20orders | Team orders | In motor racing, team orders is the practice of teams issuing instructions to drivers to deviate from the normal practice of racing against each other as they would against other teams' drivers. This can be accomplished either in advance, simply by establishing a pecking order between the drivers within the team, or by... |
5647844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English | Atlantic Canadian English is a class of Canadian English dialects spoken in Atlantic Canada that is notably distinct from Standard Canadian English. It is composed of Maritime English (or Maritimer English) and Newfoundland English. It was mostly influenced by British and Irish English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and s... |
5648093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience%20response | Audience response | Audience response is a type of interaction associated with the use of audience response systems, to create interactivity between a presenter and its audience.
Systems for co-located audiences combine wireless hardware with presentation software, and systems for remote audiences may use telephones or web polls for audi... |
5648113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrinya%20grammar | Tigrinya grammar | This article describes the grammar of Tigrinya, a South Semitic language which is spoken primarily in Eritrea and Ethiopia, and is written in Ge'ez script.
Nouns
Gender
Like other Afro-Asiatic languages, Tigrinya has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine, and all nouns belong to either one or the other. Gr... |
5649322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Hodges | Justin Hodges | Justin Hodges (born 25 May 1982) is an Australian professional boxer and former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative , Hodges started his career in the National Rugby League with the Brisbane Broncos before movin... |
5649556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Lam%20Son%20719 | Operation Lam Son 719 | Operation Lam Son 719 or 9th Route – Southern Laos Campaign () was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos. The campaign was carried out by the armed forces of South Vietnam between 8 February and 25 March 1971, during the Vietnam War. The United States provid... |
5650050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pau%20FC | Pau FC | Pau Football Club ( Bearnese ), commonly referred to as Pau FC or simply Pau, is a French professional association football club based in Pau, capital of Béarn. They compete in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. The club plays its home matches at the Nouste Camp.
Pau FC were founded in 1920 as Bleuets de Not... |
5650100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Yap | James Yap | James Carlos Agravante Yap Sr. (born February 15, 1982) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known by his nickname Big Game James, he had played for the Star Hotshots for twelve seasons winning seven PBA championships before b... |
5650988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Danns | Neil Danns | Neil Alexander Danns (born 23 November 1982) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager at Tranmere Rovers. He began his career in 2000 as a trainee at Blackburn Rovers and subsequently played for Colchester United, Birmingham City, Crystal Palace, Leicester City, ... |
5651162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honan%20Chapel | Honan Chapel | The Honan Chapel (, formally Saint Finbarr's Collegiate Chapel and The Honan Hostel Chapel) is a small Catholic church built in the Hiberno-Romanesque revival style on the grounds of University College Cork, Ireland. Designed in 1914, the building was completed in 1916 and furnished by 1917. Its architecture and fittin... |
5651745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress%20of%20Luxembourg | Fortress of Luxembourg | The Fortress of Luxembourg is the former fortifications of Luxembourg City, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which were mostly dismantled beginning in 1867. The fortress was of great strategic importance for the control of the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Low Countries, and the border area between France an... |
5652040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20W%C3%BCrttemberg | Kingdom of Württemberg | The Kingdom of Württemberg ( ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existed from 1495 to 1805.
Prior to 1495, Württemberg was a county in the former Duchy of Swabia, which had dissolved... |
5654189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Academy%20of%20Anti-Aging%20Medicine | American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine | The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the field of anti-aging medicine, and the organization trains and certifies physicians in this specialty. As of 2011, approximately 26,000 practitioners had been given A4M certificates. The field of anti... |
5654744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintaglio%20Ascension%20Trilogy | Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy | The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy is a series of novels written by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. The books depict an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs, among various other creatures from the late Cretaceous period, i... |
5654770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianized%20sites | Christianized sites | The Christianization of sites that had been pagan occurred as a result of conversions in early Christian times, as well as an important part of the strategy of ("Christian reinterpretation") during the Christianization of pagan peoples. The landscape itself was Christianized, as prominent features were rededicated to... |
5655106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby%20the%20Galactic%20Gumshoe | Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe | Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe is a science fiction radio drama series by the ZBS Foundation, written by Thomas Lopez. The first series, Ruby: Adventures of A Galactic Gumshoe, was created in 1982. In each story, the title character Ruby is hired to solve a metaphysical problem. New series have been released every few year... |
5655279 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical%20identity%20of%20soma%E2%80%93haoma | Botanical identity of soma–haoma | There has been much speculation as to the botanical identity of soma or haoma. Soma is a plant described in Hindu sacred texts including the Rigveda, while haoma is a plant described in the Avesta, a collection of Zoroastrian writings. Both names are derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian *Sauma. Proposed candidates inclu... |
5656161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauffen%20am%20Neckar | Lauffen am Neckar | Lauffen am Neckar () or simply Lauffen is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the river Neckar, southwest of Heilbronn. The town is famous as the birthplace of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and for its quality wines – in particular the "Lauffener Katzenbeißer Schwarzriesling".
Geo... |
5656487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Brazil | Education in Brazil | Education in Brazil has had many changes. It first began with Jesuit missions, that controlled education for a long time. Then, two hundred years after their arrival, their powers were limited by the Marquis of Pombal. Shortly after the Jesuits' power was limited, the Brazilian government took over education and it is ... |
5656495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C3%9Fstetten | Meßstetten | Meßstetten () is a town in the Zollernalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which is situated in the Swabian Jura, 24 km southeast of Balingen. At an altitude of , Meßstetten is the highest city (of more than 10,000 inhabitants) in Germany. It is close to the Heuberg Training Area with the Lager Heuberg. Wi... |
5656634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Bahia | André Bahia | André Luiz Bahia dos Santos Viana (born 24 November 1983) is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a defender.
Early life
André Bahia was born and raised in the Tijuca area of Rio de Janeiro. He has four brothers from his father's side from a previous marriage and one sister. His father was a professional boxer ... |
5656683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%20qualification | 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification | Qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation – the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) – was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at... |
5656738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man%20%28Atari%202600%20video%20game%29 | Pac-Man (Atari 2600 video game) | Pac-Man is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. under official license by Namco, and an adaptation of the 1980 hit arcade game of the same name. The player controls the title character, who attempts to consume all of the wafers while avoiding four ghosts that pursue him. Eating flashing wafers ... |
5657659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20faience | Egyptian faience | Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating" as the quartz underwent vitrification, creating a bright lustre of various colours "usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass". Its name in the Ancient Egy... |
5657877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20I%20and%20type%20II%20errors | Type I and type II errors | In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error is the mistaken rejection of a null hypothesis that is actually true. A type I error is also known as a "false positive" finding or conclusion; example: "an innocent person is convicted". A type II error is the failure to reject a null hypothesis that is actually fals... |
5658365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism%20in%20France | Anarchism in France | Anarchism in France can trace its roots to thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who grew up during the Restoration and was the first self-described anarchist. French anarchists fought in the Spanish Civil War as volunteers in the International Brigades. According to journalist Brian Doherty, "The number of people who subscr... |
5659011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Claus%20in%20film | Santa Claus in film | Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre. Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas Eve visit to children. In 1897, in a short film called Santa Claus Filling Stockings, Santa Claus is simply filling stockings from his pack of to... |
5659119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20pizza | History of pizza | The history of pizza begins in antiquity, as various ancient cultures produced basic flatbreads with several toppings.
A precursor of pizza was probably the focaccia, a flatbread known to the Romans as , to which toppings were then added. Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, in the 18th... |
5659246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20issues%20in%20the%20Niger%20Delta | Environmental issues in the Niger Delta | Environmental issues in the Niger Delta are caused by its petroleum industry. The delta covers within wetlands of formed primarily by sediment deposition. Home to 20 million people and 40 different ethnic groups, this floodplain makes up 7.5% of Nigeria's total land mass. It is the largest wetland and maintains the t... |
5659503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Tuy%C3%AAn%20Quang | Siege of Tuyên Quang | The siege of Tuyên Quang was an important confrontation between the French and the Chinese armies in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). A French garrison of 619 men, including two companies of the French Foreign Legion, successfully defended the French post of Tuyên Quang a... |
5659699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz%20Saeed | Hafiz Saeed | Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (, born 5 June 1950) is a Pakistani Islamist who co-founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based Islamist militant organization that is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, and Russia.... |
5660227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex%20Thompson | Tex Thompson | Harry "Tex" Thompson (Thomson pre-1993) is a superhero owned by DC Comics who later became the masked crime-fighter Mr. America and then became an espionage operative called Americommando. He was often aided by his best friend Bob Daley, who for a brief time operated as his costumed sidekick "Fatman". Created by Ken Fi... |
5660945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%20Ward%2C%20Houston | Fourth Ward, Houston | Fourth Ward is one of the historic six wards of Houston, Texas, United States. The Fourth Ward is located inside the 610 Loop directly west of and adjacent to Downtown Houston. The Fourth Ward is the site of Freedmen's Town, which was a post-U.S. Civil War community of African-Americans.
History
Early history
The Fo... |
5661018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20v%20Barger | R v Barger | R v Barger is a 1908 High Court of Australia case where the majority held that the taxation power could not be used by the Australian Parliament to indirectly regulate the working conditions of workers. In this case, an excise tariff was imposed on manufacturers, with an exemption being available for those who paid "fa... |
5661321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buscemi | Buscemi | Buscemi (; or ) is an Italian town and (municipality) of 968 inhabitants of the free municipal consortium of Syracuse, in Sicily.
Origin of the name
The origin of the present name is traced back to Arabic (), a phrase thus reported in 1154 by the Hammudite geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi. The usually offered transl... |
5661347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Plaskow | Judith Plaskow | Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian. After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before becoming a professor emerita. She was one of the creators of the Journal ... |
5661365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy%20of%20Banksia | Taxonomy of Banksia | As with other flowering plants, the taxonomy of Banksia has traditionally been based on anatomical and morphological properties of the Banksia flower, fruiting structure and seed, along with secondary characteristics such as leaf structure and growth habit. Increasingly, molecular evidence from DNA is providing importa... |
5661863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Deveraux%20and%20Jennifer%20Horton | Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton | Jack Harcourt Deveraux and Jennifer Rose Horton are fictional characters and a supercouple from the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives, whose history spans from 1989 until 2012. The two have been portrayed by more than one actor/actress since their inception, but were originally, most recently, and most famously portr... |
5662029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Air%20Force%20Special%20Reconnaissance | United States Air Force Special Reconnaissance | Special Reconnaissance (SR)—formerly Special Operations Weather Technician or Team (SOWT)—is conducted by trained Air Force personnel assigned to Special Tactics Squadrons of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command who operate deep behind enemy lines to conduct covert direction of air and missile attacks... |
5662137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Sacramento%2C%20California | History of Sacramento, California | The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior.
Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which fo... |
5662262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Spider-Man%20supporting%20characters | List of Spider-Man supporting characters | This is a list of fictional characters who serves as supporting cast of the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
Family
Tree
Note: This tree covers various different alternate realities to varying degrees.
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Immediate family
Richard Parker - Father. Died in an airplane crash.
M... |
5662604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agharta%20%28album%29 | Agharta (album) | Agharta is a 1975 live double album by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. By the time he recorded the album, Davis was 48 years old and had alienated many in the jazz community while attracting younger rock audiences with his radical electric fusion music. After experimenting with different ... |
5662719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20turtle | Wood turtle | The wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) is a species of turtle endemic to North America. It is in the genus Glyptemys, a genus which contains only one other species of turtle: the bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii). The wood turtle reaches a straight carapace length of , its defining characteristic being the pyramidal s... |
5662829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Malay%20language | History of the Malay language | Malay was first used in the first millennia known as Old Malay, a part of the Austronesian language family. Over a period of two millennia, Malay has undergone various stages of development that derived from different layers of foreign influences through international trade, religious expansion, colonisation and develo... |
5662925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%20Forrester | Thorne Forrester | Thorne Forrester is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The character was played by Clayton Norcross from the show's premiere in 1987 until 1989, by Jeff Trachta from 1989 until 1996 and Winsor Harmon from 1996 to 2016. In September 2017, Harmon announced that the role of Thorne was to b... |
5662975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn%20Sherif | Carolyn Sherif | Carolyn Wood Sherif (1922–1982) was an American social psychologist who helped to develop social judgment theory and contributed pioneering research in the areas of the self-system, group conflict, cooperation, and gender identity. She also assumed a leading role in psychology both nationally as well as internationally... |
5663276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Island%20emu | King Island emu | The King Island emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae minor) is an extinct subspecies of emu that was endemic to King Island, in the Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania. Its closest relative may be the extinct Tasmanian emu (D. n. diemenensis), as they belonged to a single population until less than 14,000 year... |
5663546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%20night%20heron | Rodrigues night heron | The Rodrigues night heron (Nycticorax megacephalus) is an extinct species of heron that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean. The species was first mentioned as "bitterns" in two accounts from 1691–1693 and 1725–1726, and these were correlated with subfossil remains found and described i... |
5663640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20A.%20Schwartz | Norton A. Schwartz | Norton Allan Schwartz (born December 14, 1951) is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the 19th Chief of Staff of the Air Force from August 12, 2008, until his retirement in 2012. He previously served as commander, United States Transportation Command from September 2005 to August 2008. He is curren... |
5664133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%20macaw | Cuban macaw | The Cuban macaw or Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor) is an extinct species of macaw native to the main island of Cuba and the nearby Isla de la Juventud. It became extinct in the late 19th century. Its relationship with other macaws in its genus was long uncertain, but it was thought to have been closely related to the s... |
5664908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson%20McCoy | Wilson McCoy | Robert Wilson McCoy (April 6, 1902 – July 20, 1961) was an American illustrator and painter, best known as the second artist on The Phantom comic strip. He always went by his middle name and signed The Phantom as Wilson McCoy, but his other artwork was signed R. Wilson McCoy.
Biography
Early life and education
Wilso... |
5665164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linlithgow | Linlithgow | Linlithgow ( ; ; ) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland. It was historically West Lothian's county town, reflected in the county's historical name of Linlithgowshire. An ancient town, it lies in the Central Belt on a historic route between Edinburgh and Falkirk beside Linlithgow Loch. The town is situated approximately... |
5665423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20secondary%20schools%20in%20Hong%20Kong | List of secondary schools in Hong Kong | The list of secondary schools in Hong Kong is arranged by 18 districts of Hong Kong. It includes government schools, aided schools, Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) schools, private schools, as well as English Schools Foundation (ESF) schools and other international schools. Note that many secondary schools in Hong Kong are... |
5666025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement%20of%20Solomon | Judgement of Solomon | The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of a child. Solomon ordered the baby be cut in half, with each woman to receive one half. The first woman accepted the compromise as fair, but the second begged Solomon to give the baby t... |
5666114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Carlos%20Navarro%20%28basketball%29 | Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball) | Juan Carlos Navarro Feijoo, commonly known as either Juan Carlos Navarro or J. C. Navarro (born June 13, 1980), is a Spanish former professional basketball player. During his playing career, at a height of tall, he played at the shooting guard position. On March 14, 2014, he was named a EuroLeague Basketball Legend. H... |
5666250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20von%20Oppenheim | Max von Oppenheim | Baron Max von Oppenheim (15 July 1860, in Cologne – 17 November 1946, in Landshut) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 19... |
5666707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20terracotta | Architectural terracotta | Architectural terracotta refers to a fired mixture of clay and water that can be used in a non-structural, semi-structural, or structural capacity on the exterior or interior of a building. Terracotta pottery, as earthenware is called when not used for vessels, is an ancient building material that translates from Latin... |
5666886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Debby%20%282000%29 | Hurricane Debby (2000) | Hurricane Debby caused minor damage in the Greater and Lesser Antilles in August 2000. The seventh tropical cyclone, fourth named storm, and second hurricane of the annual season, Debby developed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles on August 19. Favorable conditions allowed the depression to become Tropica... |
5666922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20of%20Atlantic%20Forest%20vegetation%20of%20Brazil | List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil | A list of native plants found in the Atlantic Forest Biome of southeastern and southern Brazil. Additions occur as botanical discoveries and reclassifications are presented. They are grouped under their botanical Families.
Acanthaceae
Mendoncia velloziana Mart.
Mendoncia puberula Mart.
Aphelandra squarrosa Nees
Ap... |
5667021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20Gear%20Online | Metal Gear Online | Metal Gear Online, and also known as Metal Gear Online 2, was a stealth third-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 3. It was an online multiplayer spin-off of the Metal Gear video game series. The starter pack of Online was available worldwide bundled with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, with a stand... |
5667636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beresford | The Beresford | The Beresford is a cooperative apartment building at 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was constructed in 1929 and was designed by architect Emery Roth. The Beresford is 22 stories tall and is topped by octagonal towers on its northeast, south... |
5667815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire | Christianity in the Ottoman Empire | Under the Ottoman Empire's millet system, Christians and Jews were considered dhimmi (meaning "protected") under Ottoman law in exchange for loyalty to the state and payment of the jizya tax.
Orthodox Christians were the largest non-Muslim group. With the rise of Imperial Russia, the Russians became a kind of protecto... |
5668013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%20rail | Rodrigues rail | The Rodrigues rail (Erythromachus leguati), also known as Leguat's gelinote or Leguat's rail, is an extinct species of the rail family that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. The bird was first documented from life by two accounts from 1691–93 and 1725–26. Subfossil remains were later discovered and corr... |
5668458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle%20Football%20Club%20drafting%20and%20trading%20history | Fremantle Football Club drafting and trading history | Fremantle Football Club's drafting and trading history is often cited as a reason for their poor on-field record; the club took eight years to reach a final, and won their first final in 2006. In recent years, however, they have been successful in finding good players with late round and rookie list selections.
Phil ... |
5668697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20films%20released%20by%20KRS%20Film%20Distributors | List of films released by KRS Film Distributors | KRS Film Distributors is a Maltese film distributor company formed in 1946 under the name of Malta United Film Corporation.
Throughout its years of operation, over 10,000 film productions have been launched by the company in both Malta and Gozo, distributing product from more than forty countries.
History
In 1946, UK... |
5668857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard%20Strong | Leonard Strong | Leonard Alfred George Strong (8 March 1896 – 17 August 1958) was a popular English novelist, critic, historian, and poet, and published under the name L. A. G. Strong. He served as a director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. from 1938 to 1958.
Life
Strong was born at Compton Gifford, of an Irish mother, Marion Jane (né... |
5669019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherium | Pyrotherium | Pyrotherium ('fire beast') is an extinct genus of South American ungulate, of the order Pyrotheria, that lived in what is now Argentina and Bolivia, during the Late Oligocene. It was named Pyrotherium because the first specimens were excavated from an ancient volcanic ash deposit. Fossils of the genus have been found i... |
5669034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20rail | Red rail | The red rail (Aphanapteryx bonasia) is an extinct species of rail that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It had a close relative on Rodrigues island, the likewise extinct Rodrigues rail (Erythromachus leguati), with which it is sometimes considered congeneric, but... |
5669183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protypotherium | Protypotherium | Protypotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. A number of closely related animals date back further, to the Eocene. Fossils of Protypotherium have been found in the Deseadan Fray Bentos Formation of Uruguay, Muyu Huasi and Nazareno Formations... |
5669538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%20pirata | Il pirata | Il pirata (The Pirate) is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, which was based on a three-act mélodrame from 1826: Bertram, ou le Pirate (Bertram, or The Pirate) by Charles Nodier and Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor. This play was itself based upon a French translation of th... |
5669735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20Fuso%20Canter | Mitsubishi Fuso Canter | The is a line of light-duty commercial vehicles manufactured by Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation, part of Daimler Truck, subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Group. The Canter is manufactured since 1963, now in its eighth generation. The Canter is named after the English word describing the gait of a horse, emphasisin... |
5669834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV%20Studios | ITV Studios | ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television production and distribution company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadcasters, and is based in 12 countries across 60 production labels, wit... |
5669923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20research | Field research | Field research, field studies, or fieldwork is the collection of raw data outside a laboratory, library, or workplace setting. The approaches and methods used in field research vary across disciplines. For example, biologists who conduct field research may simply observe animals interacting with their environments, whe... |
5670063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favourite | Favourite | A favourite was the intimate companion of a ruler or other important person. In post-classical and early-modern Europe, among other times and places, the term was used of individuals delegated significant political power by a ruler. It was especially a phenomenon of the 16th and 17th centuries, when government had beco... |
5670303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Jian%20%28Former%20Shu%29 | Wang Jian (Former Shu) | Wang Jian (; 847 – July 11, 918), courtesy name Guangtu (光圖), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Former Shu (前蜀高祖), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Former Shu dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He started his career as an army officer under the Tang dynasty eunuch gene... |
5671041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar | Itamar | Itamar () is an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank's Samarian mountains, five kilometers southeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The settlement was built on land confiscated from the Palestinian villages of Awarta, Beit Furik,Yanun, Aqraba and Rujeib. The predominantly Orthodox Jewish community falls in p... |
5671304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arb%C3%ABresh%20language | Arbëresh language | Arbëresh (; also known as Arbërisht, Arbreshi, Arbërishtja or Tarbrisht) is the variety of Albanian spoken by the Arbëreshë people of Italy. It is derived from the Albanian Tosk spoken in Albania, in Epirus and is also spoken by the Arvanites, with endonym Arvanitika.
History
Between the 11th and 14th centuries, Alba... |
5671529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20the%20World | Change the World | "Change the World" is a song written by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy, and Wayne Kirkpatrick and recorded by country music artist Wynonna Judd. A cover version was recorded by English singer Eric Clapton for the soundtrack of the 1996 film Phenomenon. Clapton's version was produced by R&B record producer Kenneth "Babyface... |
5671742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20McDonald%27s | History of McDonald's | The American fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's was founded in 1940 and has since grown to the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue.
1930s
The McDonald family moved from Manchester, New Hampshire to Hollywood, California in the late 1930s, where brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald ("Dick" and "Mac") began... |
5671762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s%20legal%20cases | McDonald's legal cases | McDonald's has been involved in a number of lawsuits and other legal cases in the course of the fast food chain's 70-year history. Many of these have involved trademark issues, but McDonald's has also launched a defamation suit which has been described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history".
Partnership sui... |
5672031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20of%20the%20Moon | Orbit of the Moon | The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the Vernal Equinox and the stars in about 27.32 days (a tropical month and sidereal month) and one revolution relative to the Sun in about 29.53 days (a synodic month). Earth and the Moon orbit about their barycentre (common centre... |
5672173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cuban%20Americans | List of Cuban Americans | This is a list of notable Cuban Americans, including immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Athletes
Aric Almirola, current NASCAR driver, father born in Cuba
Kiko Alonso, current NFL player for the Miami Dolphins, father is Cuban-born
Osvaldo Alonso, midfielder for Minnesota Uni... |
5672201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Birthday%20Honours | 2006 Birthday Honours | The Birthday Honours 2006 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 17 June 2006, to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2006.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged firstly by the country whose ministers advised the Queen on the appointments, then by h... |
5672361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SummerSlam%20%281988%29 | SummerSlam (1988) | The 1988 SummerSlam was the inaugural SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on August 29, 1988, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The pay-per-view was created to help the company compete against rival promot... |
5672680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws%20regarding%20rape | Laws regarding rape | Rape is a type of sexual assault initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, under threat or manipulation, by impersonation, or with a person who is incapable of giving valid consent.
Definitions of rape vary, but they generally r... |
5672733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20and%20aftermath%20of%20rape | Effects and aftermath of rape | Rape is a traumatic experience that affects the victim (also known as 'survivor') in a physical, psychological, and sociological way. Even though the effects and aftermath of rape differ among victims, individuals tend to suffer from similar issues found within these three categories. Long-term reactions may involve th... |
5672810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape%20statistics | Rape statistics | Statistics on rape and other sexual assaults are commonly available in industrialized countries, and have become better documented throughout the world. Inconsistent definitions of rape, different rates of reporting, recording, prosecution and conviction for rape can create controversial statistical disparities, and le... |
5672823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rape | History of rape | The concept of rape, both as an abduction and in the sexual sense (not always distinguishable), makes its appearance in early religious texts.
Ancient Near East
Scholars of the Ancient Near East debate whether certain pieces of legislation regarding sexual offences from various states and cultures that have survived ... |
5672862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesional%20demyelinations%20of%20the%20central%20nervous%20system | Lesional demyelinations of the central nervous system | Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) produce lesions (demyelinated areas in the CNS) and glial scars or scleroses. They present different shapes and histological findings according to the underlying condition that produces them.
Demyelinating diseases are traditionall... |
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