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5700994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Abbott | Ashley Abbott | Ashley Abbott is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, two American soap operas on the CBS network. She has been most notably portrayed by Eileen Davidson, who originated the role on June 11, 1982, before departing in 1988. Brenda Epperson portrayed Ashley from 1988 to 1... |
5701245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism%20in%20Spanish%20literature | Romanticism in Spanish literature | Romanticism arrived late and lasted only for a short but intense period, since in the second half of the 19th century it was supplanted by Realism, whose nature was antithetical to that of Romantic literature.
Traditional and revolutionary Romanticism
Costumbrism
Costumbrism focused on contemporary life, largely fro... |
5701268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast%20King%20GoLion | Beast King GoLion | is a Japanese super mecha anime television series. The animation from GoLion was edited and trimmed to create the version of the American Voltron: Defender of the Universe series, with new names and dialogue. In 2008, GoLion was released on Region 1 DVD in three volumes. To coincide with the anime's original run, a man... |
5701737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrose%2C%20Houston | Montrose, Houston | Montrose is a neighborhood located in west-central Houston, Texas, United States. Montrose is a area roughly bounded by Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 to the south, Allen Parkway to the north, South Shepherd Drive to the west, and Taft to Fairview to Bagby to Highway 59 to Main to the east. The area is also referred t... |
5701744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprained%20ankle | Sprained ankle | A sprained ankle (twisted ankle. rolled ankle, turned ankle, etc.) is an injury where sprain occurs on one or more ligaments of the ankle. It is the most commonly occurring injury in sports, mainly in ball sports such as basketball, volleyball, football, and tennis.
Signs and symptoms
Knowing the symptoms that can be... |
5701828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Stein | Martin Stein | Martin Stein is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is commonly associated with, and sometimes is, the superhero Firestorm.
Stein has made several appearances in DC-related media, such as the Arrowverse TV series The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, in which he is portrayed... |
5701975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid%20Kent%20Hughes | Wilfrid Kent Hughes | Sir Wilfrid Selwyn "Bill" Kent Hughes (12 June 1895 – 31 July 1970) was an Australian army officer and politician who had a long career in both state and federal politics, most notably as a minister in the Menzies government. He also had a longstanding involvement with the Olympic movement, as both an athlete and orga... |
5703085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Dickson | Harry Dickson | Harry Dickson is a fictional pulp detective, born in America, educated in London, and was called The American Sherlock Holmes. He has appeared in almost 200 pulp magazines published in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
History
The original pulp dime-novel series that later became Harry Dickson began in G... |
5703238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru%20Shimada | Teru Shimada | Teru Shimada (島田輝 Shimada Teru, born Akira Shimada (島田明 Shimada Akira); November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese-American actor.
A Nikkeijin (first-generation Japanese-American), Shimada emigrated to the United States in the early 1930s to follow in the footsteps of his idol Sessue Hayakawa, where he began ac... |
5703644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi%20agitations%20of%20Tamil%20Nadu | Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu | The anti-Hindi-imposition agitations in Tamil Nadu have been ongoing intermittently in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras State and part of Madras Presidency) since the early 20th century. The agitations involve several mass protests, riots, student and political movements in Tamil Nadu concerning... |
5703967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers%20Hospitallers%20of%20Saint%20John%20of%20God | Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God | The Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, officially the Hospitaller Order of the Brothers of Saint John of God (abbreviated as OH), are a Catholic religious order founded in 1572. In Italian they are also known commonly as the Fatebenefratelli, meaning "Do-Good Brothers", and elsewhere as the "Brothers of Mercy"... |
5704177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%202006%20in%20sports | July 2006 in sports |
Days of the month
31 July 2006 (Monday)
Baseball: The Chicago Cubs trade four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux to the Los Angeles Dodgers for middle-infielder César Izturis. (AP via Yahoo)
Cricket: South Africa in Sri Lanka
First Test at Colombo (SSCG): Sri Lanka defeats South Africa by an innings and 153 runs... |
5704308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology%20of%20education | Sociology of education | The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is mostly concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education.
Education is seen as a f... |
5704351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader%201%20%28World%20War%20II%29 | Jagdgeschwader 1 (World War II) | Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1) "Oesau" was a German World War II fighter wing created in 1939. Between 1940 and 1942, JG 1 operated primarily over the Western Front and northern occupied Europe. During the initial days of the war, JG 1 faced little resistance, apart from occasional Royal Air Force (RAF) excursions. The unit w... |
5704380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20animals%20in%20the%20Bible | List of animals in the Bible | This is a list of animals whose names appear in the Bible. Whenever required for the identification, the Hebrew name will be indicated, as well as the specific term used by zoologists. This list will include names such as griffon, lamia, Siren and unicorn, which, though generally applied to fabulous beings, have nevert... |
5704457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azraq%20Treaty%20of%201245 | Al-Azraq Treaty of 1245 | The Al-Azraq Treaty of 1245 was a surrender treaty between the Christian King James I of Aragón, his son-in-law Prince Alfonso X of Castile, and the Mudéjar commander Abū 'Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Hudhayl, more commonly known as al-Azraq. It was signed on 15 April 1245 in Valencia on al-Andalus in what is now modern day ... |
5704580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-Nspire%20series | TI-Nspire series | The TI-Nspire is a graphing calculator line made by Texas Instruments, with the first version released on 25 September 2007. The calculators feature a non-QWERTY keyboard and a different key-by-key layout than Texas Instruments's previous flagship calculators such as the TI-89 series.
Development
The original TI-Nspi... |
5704794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20compounds | Nitrogen compounds | The chemical element nitrogen is one of the most abundant elements in the universe and can form many compounds. It can take several oxidation states; but the most common oxidation states are -3 and +3. Nitrogen can form nitride and nitrate ions. It also forms a part of nitric acid and nitrate salts. Nitrogen compounds ... |
5705183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine%20compounds | Iodine compounds | Iodine can form compounds using multiple oxidation states. Iodine is quite reactive, but it is much less reactive than the other halogens. For example, while chlorine gas will halogenate carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and sulfur dioxide (to phosgene, nitrosyl chloride, and sulfuryl chloride respectively), iodine will n... |
5705358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch%20name | Dutch name | Dutch names consist of one or more given names and a surname. The given name is usually gender-specific.
Dutch given names
A Dutch child's birth and given name(s) must be officially registered by the parents within 3 days after birth. It is not uncommon to give a child several given names. Usually the first one is for... |
5705554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambler%20Marlin | Rambler Marlin | The Rambler Marlin (later AMC Marlin) is a two-door fastback automobile produced in the United States by American Motors Corporation from 1965 to 1967. A halo car for the company, it was marketed as a personal luxury car.
In 1965, the car was marketed as "Rambler Marlin". For 1966, the car featured "Marlin" identifica... |
5705673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olveston%20%28house%29 | Olveston (house) | Olveston Historic Home is a substantial house and museum in an inner suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand. The house was designed by Ernest George in the Jacobean style in the early 20th century for the Theomin family. When Dorothy Theomin died in 1966, the house, garden and contents were gifted to the city, and are now open... |
5705815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastolin | Elastolin | Elastolin is a trademark used by the German company O&M Hausser (O&M Haußer) for the toy soldiers and other types of figures it manufactured from composite material and later from plastic. The Hausser firm was founded in 1904 by Christian Hausser and his sons Otto and Max. The factory was situated in Ludwigsburg near S... |
5706431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre%20Royal%2C%20Bath | Theatre Royal, Bath | The Theatre Royal in Bath, England, was built in 1805. A Grade II* listed building, it has been described by the Theatres Trust as "One of the most important surviving examples of Georgian theatre architecture". It has a capacity for an audience of around 900.
The Theatre Royal was built to replace the Old Orchard Str... |
5706520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinucleotide%20repeat%20expansion | Trinucleotide repeat expansion | A trinucleotide repeat expansion, also known as a triplet repeat expansion, is the DNA mutation responsible for causing any type of disorder categorized as a trinucleotide repeat disorder. These are labelled in dynamical genetics as dynamic mutations. Triplet expansion is caused by slippage during DNA replication, also... |
5706696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Johnson%20%28American%20educator%29 | Samuel Johnson (American educator) | Samuel Johnson (October 14, 1696 – January 6, 1772) was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America. He was a major proponent of both Anglicanism and the philosophies of William Wollaston and George Berkeley in the colonies, founded and served as the first president of... |
5706761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Louisiana%20Creoles | List of Louisiana Creoles | This is a list of notable Louisiana Creole people.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Louisiana Creoles or must have references showing they are Louisiana Creoles and are notable.
List
Arts, culture, and entertainment
Don Albert (1908–1980) – jazz trumpeter and ba... |
5706858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi%20Turkmen | Iraqi Turkmen | The Iraqi Turkmen (also spelled as Turkoman and Turcoman; ), also referred to as Iraqi Turks, Turkish-Iraqis, the Turkish minority in Iraq, and the Iraqi-Turkish minority (; ) are Iraq's third largest ethnic group.
The Iraqi Turkmen are believed to have originally emerged in Iraq as garrisons established by multiple r... |
5706993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20NASCAR%20Nextel%20Cup%20Series | 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series | The 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series was the 59th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 36th modern-era Cup series. Beginning on February 10 at Daytona International Speedway with the Budweiser Shootout, the season ended on November 18 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the Ford 400. The Chas... |
5707537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s%20Council%20of%20Advisors%20on%20Science%20and%20Technology | President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council, chartered (or re-chartered) in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by on September 30, 2001, by George W. Bush, was re-chart... |
5707557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakloh | Bakloh | Bakloh (or Bukloh (archaic spelling)) is a cantonment town. It is a hill station, 4584 feet above sea level, in Chamba district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.
History
Bakloh and Balun, Dalhousie Cantonment, along with a sliver of territory to connect the two cantonments, was acquired in 1866 from the Raja o... |
5709108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20in%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Family in the Soviet Union | The view of the Soviet family as the basic social unit in society evolved from revolutionary to conservative; the government of the Soviet Union first attempted to weaken the family and then to strengthen it from the 1930s onwards.
According to the 1968 law "Principles of Legislation on Marriage and the Family of the ... |
5709519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Stanley%20Cup%20challenge%20games | List of Stanley Cup challenge games | During the period from 1893 to 1914, the Stanley Cup was a "challenge trophy"; the champions held the Cup until they lost their league title to another club, or a champion from another league issued a formal challenge and subsequently defeated them in a special game or series. The competitive format of each challenge w... |
5709688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piolets%20d%27Or | Piolets d'Or | The Piolets d'Or (, "Golden Ice Axe") is an annual mountaineering and alpine climbing award organized by the (GHM), and previously with co-founder Montagnes Magazine, since its founding in 1992. Golden ice axes are presented to the annual winners at a weekend awards festival based on their achievements in the previou... |
5709699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20research%20ships | History of research ships | The research ship had origins in the early voyages of exploration. By the time of James Cook's Endeavour, the essentials of what today we would call a research ship are clearly apparent. In 1766, the Royal Society hired Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun. The E... |
5709979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20trade%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union | Foreign trade of the Soviet Union | Soviet foreign trade played only a minor role in the Soviet economy. In 1985, for example, exports and imports each accounted for only 4 percent of the Soviet gross national product. The Soviet Union maintained this low level because it could draw upon a large energy and raw material base, and because it historically h... |
5710204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalpan%20de%20Serra | Jalpan de Serra | Jalpan de Serra () is a city in Jalpan de Serra Municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Querétaro. It is located in the heart of an important ecological zone called the Sierra Gorda. It is also the site two of five Franciscan missions, including the first one, to have been built in the mid-18th centur... |
5710286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landa%20de%20Matamoros | Landa de Matamoros | Landa de Matamoros is a town in Landa de Matamoros Municipality located in the northeast of the Mexican state of Querétaro in central Mexico. It is part of the Sierra Gorda region, which consists of rugged mountains, canyons and wide diversity of flora and fauna, with the municipality's flora representing about 25% of... |
5710386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1amiller | Peñamiller | Peñamiller is a town in Peñamiller Municipality in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It is part of the Sierra Gorda region with about eighty percent of the territory belonging to the Sierra Gorda Biosphere of Querétaro. The municipality is on the southwest side of the Sierra Gorda, the highest mountains of which block m... |
5710507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography | Pornography | Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material "such as a picture, video, or text" that is intended for sexual arousal. Indicated for the consumption by adults, pornography depictions have evolved from cave paintings, some forty millennia ago, to virtual reality presentati... |
5710651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt%20Reactor%20Experiment | Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment | The Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten salt reactor research reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This technology was researched through the 1960s, the reactor was constructed by 1964, it went critical in 1965, and was operated until 1969. The costs of a cleanup project wer... |
5710721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis%20of%20the%20Roman%20Republic | Crisis of the Roman Republic | The crisis of the Roman Republic was an extended period of political instability and social unrest from about 134 BC to 44 BC that culminated in the demise of the Roman Republic and the advent of the Roman Empire.
The causes and attributes of the crisis changed throughout the decades, including the forms of slavery, b... |
5710863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Cooley | Ed Cooley | Ed Cooley (born September 10, 1969) is an American college basketball coach and currently the head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball program. Cooley held the same position at Providence College from 2011 to 2023, and Fairfield University from 2006 to 2011. In 2022, he received national honors as the Naismi... |
5711954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique%20radio | Antique radio | An antique radio is a radio receiving set that is collectible because of its age and rarity.
Types of antique radio
Morse receivers
The first radio receivers used a coherer and sounding board, and were only able to receive continuous wave (CW) transmissions, encoded with Morse code (wireless telegraphy). Later wirele... |
5712443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energoatom | Energoatom | State Enterprise National Nuclear Energy Generating Company "Energoatom" (SE NNEGC "Energoatom"), commonly known as just Energoatom, is a state enterprise operating all four nuclear power plants in Ukraine (Zaporizhzhia NPP, Rivne NPP, South Ukraine NPP, and Khmelnytskyi NPP). It is the largest power producer in Ukrain... |
5712507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20compositions%20by%20Carl%20Czerny | List of compositions by Carl Czerny | This is a list of compositions by Carl Czerny.
Czerny composed a large number of pieces (up to Op. 861), including piano music (études, nocturnes, 11 sonatas, opera theme arrangements and variations) and also masses and choral music, 6 symphonies, concertos, songs, string quartets and other chamber music. Czerny himsel... |
5712514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia%20sessilis | Banksia sessilis | Banksia sessilis, commonly known as parrot bush, is a species of shrub or tree in the plant genus Banksia of the family Proteaceae. It had been known as Dryandra sessilis until 2007, when the genus Dryandra was sunk into Banksia. The Noongar peoples know the plant as budjan or butyak. Widespread throughout southwest We... |
5713219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20Route%2044 | Pennsylvania Route 44 | Pennsylvania Route 44 (PA 44) is a -long state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The route, which is signed north-south, is designated from Interstate 80 (I-80) and PA 42 in Buckhorn northwest to the New York state line near New York State Route 417 (NY 417) in Ceres Township.
Commissioned in 1927 by the Penn... |
5713468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Clemson%20University%20alumni | List of Clemson University alumni | This is a list of notable alumni that have graduated from Clemson University.
Arts, entertainment, and media
Harry Ashmore, journalist, received Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1958
Lee Brice, country music singer
Aaron Buerge, The Bachelor, Season 2
Daja Dial, Miss South Carolina 2015
James Dickey, writer and p... |
5713522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Bock | Amy Bock | Amy Maud Bock (18 May 1859 – 29 August 1943) was a Tasmanian-born New Zealand female confidence trickster. Her usual pattern involved making emotional claims to her employer or other acquaintances in order to obtain money or property, or committing some other petty scam like taking watches for "repair" and then claimin... |
5713587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Collegiate%20Wrestling%20Association | National Collegiate Wrestling Association | The National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) is a nonprofit association of 162 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organize the wrestling programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is led by founder and executive director Jim Giunta headquartered in ... |
5713772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteaceae | Proteaceae | The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Together with the Platanaceae (plane trees), Nelumbonaceae (the sacred lotus) a... |
5714637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Fe%20Depot%20%28San%20Diego%29 | Santa Fe Depot (San Diego) | Santa Fe Depot in San Diego, California, is a union station built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to replace the small Victorian-style structure erected in 1887 for the California Southern Railroad Company. The Spanish Colonial Revival style station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and... |
5714828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica | Corsica | Corsica ( , Upper , Southern , ; ; ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland, west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north of the Italian island of Sardinia, which is the land mass n... |
5715149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniken%20Huitfeldt | Anniken Huitfeldt | Anniken Scharning Huitfeldt (born 29 November 1969) is a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023, and previously Minister of Children and Equality from 2008 to 2009, Minister of Culture from 2009 to 2012 and Minister of Labour and Social Inclu... |
5715196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge%20Records%20discography | Merge Records discography | The following is a list of releases by Merge Records. Merge Records was established in 1989 and released its first album (Tossing Seeds: Singles 1989–91, MRG020) in 1992. By 2012, the label had released more than 450 releases.
Each item in the list includes the artist, the release name, the release medium or media, an... |
5715588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%202006%20FIFA%20World%20Cup%20controversies | List of 2006 FIFA World Cup controversies | The 2006 FIFA World Cup generated various controversies, including onfield disputes, critiques of official decisions, and team salary issues. Most centered on specific refereeing decisions, which led many of the world's media to claim that the referees were spoiling the World Cup. Numerous World Cup records were also s... |
5715768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallacanestro%20Cant%C3%B9 | Pallacanestro Cantù | Pallacanestro Cantù, known for sponsorship reasons as Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Cantù, Lombardy. On the European-wide club competition scene, Cantù is second to Real Madrid – against whom they have an 8–2 record – for European trophies won, with twelve titles (t... |
5715815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20spiders%20of%20India | List of spiders of India | This is a list of the spiders found in India and is based on Siliwal, Molur and Biswas (2005).
I. Family Agelenidae C.L. Koch, 1837
I.a. Genus Agelena Walckenaer, 1805
Agelena barunae Tikader, 1970 Comments: Endemic to India
Agelena gautami Tikader, 1962 Comments: Endemic to India
Agelena inda Simon, 1897 Comments:... |
5716362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Victoria%20Public%20Library | Greater Victoria Public Library | The Greater Victoria Public Library (GVPL) is a public library that serves Victoria, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
Services
In addition to services offered at each location, GVPL provides electronic resources (also known as bibliographic databases) to library cardholders through the library's web site. Th... |
5716936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Morrissey | Dick Morrissey | Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute.
Biography
Background
He was born in Horley, Surrey, England. Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain’s pre-eminent sax play... |
5717523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Colorado%20Buffaloes%20football%20team | 2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team | The 2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The previous year's team won the Big 12 North Conference. That marked the fourth Big 12 North championship for Colorado in the past five years. The team has its 23rd new head coac... |
5717594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris%20Diamantidis | Dimitris Diamantidis | Dimitrios 'Dimitris' Diamantidis ( ; born May 6, 1980) is a retired Greek professional basketball player, who spent the last twelve seasons of his EuroLeague career with Panathinaikos. Widely regarded as one of the greatest European players ever to grace the game, he marked his era by being the most versatile player in... |
5718074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Riding%20Artillery | West Riding Artillery | The West Riding Artillery was formed as a group of volunteer units of the British Army in 1860. Its units later formed the divisional artillery of the West Riding Division of the Territorial Force in World War I and World War II. The West Riding Artillery's lineage is continued in a battery of today's Army Reserve
Vol... |
5718668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20England%20national%20rugby%20union%20team | History of the England national rugby union team | The History of the England national rugby union team covers the period since 1871, when the England national rugby union team played Scotland in the first ever rugby union international.
First match
The game of rugby union developed out of the game of football that was played at Rugby School from the mid-18th century... |
5718689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20women%27s%20colleges%20in%20the%20United%20States | Timeline of women's colleges in the United States | The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States. These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student population comprises exclusively, or almost exclusively, women. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 35 active women's colleges in the U.S. as of 2... |
5718787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sons%20of%20Katie%20Elder | The Sons of Katie Elder | The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 American Western film in Panavision, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne and Dean Martin. It was filmed principally in Mexico.
Plot
The four adult sons of Katie Elder – John, who is a famous professional gunman; Tom, a professional gambler; Bud, the youngest brother, in... |
5718985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20smoking%20bans%20in%20the%20United%20States | List of smoking bans in the United States | Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any type of nationwide federal smoking ban in workplaces and public places. Therefore, such policies are entire... |
5719287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomustine | Lomustine | {{Infobox drug
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5719490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20and%20Freindship | Love and Freindship | is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. While aged 11–18, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, among other works, Love and Friendship, written when she was 14, and The History of England, written at 15.
... |
5719755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader%202 | Jagdgeschwader 2 | Jagdgeschwader 2 (JG 2) "Richthofen" was a German fighter wing during World War II. JG 2 operated the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 single-seat, single-engine interceptor aircraft.
Named after the famed World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, the origins of the wing can be traced to 1934. Following... |
5720202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20application%20design | Joint application design | Joint application design (JAD) is a process used in the life cycle area of the dynamic systems development method (DSDM) to collect business requirements while developing new information systems for a company. "The JAD process also includes approaches for enhancing user participation, expediting development, and improv... |
5720381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20terrorist%20incidents%20in%20Great%20Britain | List of terrorist incidents in Great Britain | The reasons behind terrorist attacks in Great Britain are many. During the 20th century, most attacks were carried out by various Irish Republican Army (IRA) groups and were linked to the Northern Ireland conflict (the Troubles). In the late 20th century there were also isolated attacks by Middle Eastern terrorist grou... |
5721364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Ramsay | Max Ramsay | Max Ramsay, a fictional character in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, is played by Francis Bell. Reg Watson created Max as one of the serial's twelve original characters. New Zealand actor Bell had wanted to appear in a major role in a long-running series for a while when he was cast as the head of the ... |
5721631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sports%20venues%20named%20after%20individuals | List of sports venues named after individuals | The following is a list of sports venues named after individuals:
Albania
Qemal Stafa Stadium in Tirana
Loro Boriçi Stadium in Shkodër
Ruzhdi Bizhuta Stadium in Elbasan
Selman Stërmasi Stadium in Tirana
Niko Dovana Stadium in Durrës
Roza Haxhiu Stadium in Lushnjë
Adush Muça Stadium in Ballsh
Loni Papuçiu Stadi... |
5721669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Marxism | Criticism of Marxism | Criticism of Marxism (also known as Anti-Marxism) has come from various political ideologies and academic disciplines. This includes general intellectual criticism about dogmatism, a lack of internal consistency, criticism related to materialism (both philosophical and historical), arguments that Marxism is a type of h... |
5721896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20research%20parks | List of research parks | The following is a list of science park, technology parks and biomedical parks of the world, organized by continent.
Asia
China
Mainland China
Shanghai Pudong Software Park (Shanghai)
Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park (aka Zhangjiang Drug Valley) (Shanghai)
Shenzhen Hi-tech Industrial Park (Shenzhen)
Suzhou BioBa... |
5721983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Madrid | Siege of Madrid | The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939. The Battle of Madrid... |
5722149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille%20%28opera%29 | Mireille (opera) | Mireille is an 1864 opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mirèio. The vocal score is dedicated to George V of Hanover.
Composition history
Mistral had become well known in Paris with the publication of the French prose translation of Mireio in 1859, and... |
5722247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale%20Royal%20Abbey | Vale Royal Abbey | Vale Royal Abbey is a former medieval abbey and later country house in Whitegate, England. The precise location and boundaries of the abbey are difficult to determine in today's landscape. The original building was founded by the Lord Edward, later Edward I, for Cistercian monks. Edward had supposedly taken a vow duri... |
5722488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos%20%28computer%20science%29 | Paxos (computer science) | Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable or fallible processors.
Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communications may experience failures.
Consensus protocols are the ba... |
5722819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire%20suppression | Wildfire suppression | Wildfire suppression is a range of firefighting tactics used to suppress wildfires. Firefighting efforts in wild land areas require different techniques, equipment, and training from the more familiar structure fire fighting found in populated areas. Working in conjunction with specially designed aerial firefighting ai... |
5723036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisei%20Week | Nisei Week | is an annual festival celebrating Japanese American (JA) culture and history in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Nisei means 2nd generation in Japanese, describing the first American born Japanese, a group which the seven-day festival was originally meant to attract. Though named for the Nisei generation, Nisei Week is no lo... |
5723254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%2032001%E2%80%9333000 | Meanings of minor planet names: 32001–33000 |
32001–32100
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| 32001 Golbin || || Benjamin David Golbin (born 1998) was awarded second place in the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his plant sciences team project. ||
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| 32002 Gorokhovsky || || Elliot Gorokhovsky (born 1999) was awarded first place in the 2015 Intel Internati... |
5723736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha%20Bandula | Maha Bandula | General Maha Bandula ( ; 6 November 1782 – 1 April 1825) was commander-in-chief of the Royal Burmese Armed Forces from 1821 until his death in 1825 in the First Anglo-Burmese War. Bandula was a key figure in the Konbaung dynasty's policy of expansionism in Manipur and Assam that ultimately resulted in the war and the b... |
5723749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Sterling%20Morton%20High%20School%20District%20201 | J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 | J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 is a school district headquartered in Cicero, Illinois, United States. The district serves the town of Cicero, the city of Berwyn and the villages of Lyons, Stickney, and Forest View. A small section of McCook also lies within the district boundaries. The school district is ... |
5723877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Abraham | Arthur Abraham | Avetik Abrahamyan (; born 20 February 1980), best known as Arthur Abraham, is an Armenian-German former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2018. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the IBF middleweight title from 2005 to 2009, and the WBO super-middleweight title twice betwee... |
5723927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Prence | Thomas Prence | Thomas Prence (c. 1601 – March 29, 1673) was a New England colonist who arrived in the colony of Plymouth in November 1621 on the ship Fortune. In 1644 he moved to Eastham, which he helped found, returning later to Plymouth. For many years, he was prominent in Plymouth colony affairs and was colony governor for about t... |
5725237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken%20Trail | Broken Trail | Broken Trail is a 2006 Western television miniseries directed by Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. Written by Alan Geoffrion, who also wrote the novel, the story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along ... |
5725251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad%20Shalit | Gilad Shalit | Gilad Shalit (, Gilˁad Šaliṭ ; born 28 August 1986) is a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Hamas held him captive for over five years until his release on 18 October 2011 as part o... |
5725715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Enchanted%20Pig | The Enchanted Pig | The Enchanted Pig (Romanian: Porcul cel fermecat) is a Romanian fairy tale, collected in Rumanische Märchen and also by Petre Ispirescu in Legende sau basmele românilor. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.
The tale is related to the international cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom or "The Search for the Lost... |
5725924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray%20Juan%20de%20Torquemada | Fray Juan de Torquemada | Juan de Torquemada (c. 1562 – 1624) was a Franciscan friar, active as missionary in colonial Mexico and considered the "leading Franciscan chronicler of his generation." Administrator, engineer, architect and ethnographer, he is most famous for his monumental work commonly known as ("Indian Monarchy"), a survey of th... |
5726016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20M.%20Schwebel | Stephen M. Schwebel | Stephen Myron Schwebel (born March 10, 1929), is an American jurist and international judge, counsel and arbitrator. He previously served as judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2010–2017), as a member of the U.S. National Group at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, as president of the International Moneta... |
5726888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Baldwin | Michael Baldwin | Michael Baldwin is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The role is portrayed by Christian LeBlanc, originally from November 26, 1991, to July 7, 1993, and again since April 25, 1997.
Michael has had relationships with Christine Blair (Lauralee Bell), and has had marriages to Hilary... |
5727935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear%20Fighter%20Dendoh | Gear Fighter Dendoh | is a Japanese robot anime television series produced by TV Tokyo, Yomiko Advertising and Sunrise. It was directed by Mitsuo Fukuda, with Chiaki Morosawa handling series scripts, Hirokazu Hisayuki designing the characters and monsters, Satoshi Shigeta serving as mechanical animation director and Toshihiko Sahashi compos... |
5728194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Workers%20Organizing%20Committee | Steel Workers Organizing Committee | The Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) was one of two precursor labor organizations to the United Steelworkers. It was formed by the CIO (Committee for Industrial Organization) on June 7, 1936. It disbanded in 1942 to become the United Steel Workers of America. The Steel Labor was the official paper of SWOC.
Ea... |
5728405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated%20Association%20of%20Iron%20and%20Steel%20Workers | Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers | Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876 to represent iron and steel workers. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO, in November 1935. Both organizations disbanded May 22, 1942, to form a new organization, the United Steelworkers.
T... |
5729037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%C5%8D%20Ky%C5%8Dden | Santō Kyōden | Santō Kyōden (山東 京伝, 13 September 1761 Edo – 27 October 1816) was a Japanese artist, writer, and the owner of a tobacco shop during the Edo period. His real name was Iwase Samuru (岩瀬 醒), and he was also known popularly as Kyōya Denzō (京屋伝蔵, kyōya denzō). He began his professional career illustrating the works of others... |
5729054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Pistorius | Oscar Pistorius | Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius ( , ; born 22 November 1986) is a South African former professional sprinter and convicted murderer. Both of his feet were amputated when he was 11 months old owing to a congenital defect; he was born missing the outside of both feet and both fibulae. Pistorius ran in both nondisabled sprin... |
5729336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countershading | Countershading | Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the top or upper side and lighter on the underside of the body. This pattern is found in many species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and insects, both in predators and in prey.
When light falls from above on a ... |
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