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5977595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad-class%20battlecruiser | Stalingrad-class battlecruiser | The Stalingrad-class battlecruiser, also known as Project 82 (), was a Soviet battlecruiser design from 1941. It was a smaller and less-expensive counterpart to the s of 1939. The original role was for a light, fast ship intended to break up attacks by British fast-cruiser forces that might attempt bombardment of Russi... |
5977881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York%20Museum%20Gardens | York Museum Gardens | The York Museum Gardens are botanic gardens in the centre of York, England, beside the River Ouse. They cover an area of of the former grounds of St Mary's Abbey, and were created in the 1830s by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society along with the Yorkshire Museum which they contain.
The gardens are held in trust by t... |
5978347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten%20Lost%20Tribes | Ten Lost Tribes | The Ten Lost Tribes were the ten of the Twelve Tribes of Israel that were said to have been exiled from the Kingdom of Israel after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire BCE. These are the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, and Ephraim; all but Judah and Benjamin (as we... |
5978520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSU%20Tigers%20football | LSU Tigers football | The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in college football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
LSU ranks 14th... |
5978615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-evolving%20block%20decimation | Time-evolving block decimation | The time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm is a numerical scheme used to simulate one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, characterized by at most nearest-neighbour interactions. It is dubbed Time-evolving Block Decimation because it dynamically identifies the relevant low-dimensional Hilbert subspaces of a... |
5978620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evarcha%20culicivora | Evarcha culicivora | Evarcha culicivora is a species of jumping spider (family Salticidae) found only around Lake Victoria in Kenya and Uganda. At maturity, E. culicivora spiders have an average size of 5 mm for both males and females. The range in size for either sex is quite small, with females being only slightly larger on average (4–7... |
5978642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSU%20Tigers%20baseball | LSU Tigers baseball | The LSU Tigers baseball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference. The Tigers play home games on LSU's campus at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field, and they are currently coached by Jay Johnson.
History... |
5978951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%BEanija | Bežanija | Bežanija (, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd, in the Syrmia region.
Location
Bežanija is located west of the downtown Belgrade, across the Sava river, in the Syrmia region. It is situated in the central part of the Novi Beograd municipality, on ... |
5979062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout%20Adventures%20%28The%20Scout%20Association%29 | Scout Adventures (The Scout Association) | Scout Adventures are a network of activity centres run by The Scout Association. They offer outdoor facilities, adventurous activities and experiences for members of the Scout Association, other youth organisations and school groups. The centres typically have capacity for hundreds of Scouts simultaneously, often inclu... |
5979113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rock%20climbing | History of rock climbing | In the history of rock climbing, the three main sub-disciplines—bouldering, single-pitch climbing, and big wall (and multi-pitch) climbing—can trace their origins to late 19th-century Europe. Bouldering started in Fontainebleau, and was advanced by Pierre Allain in the 1930s, and John Gill in the 1950s. Big wall clim... |
5979155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Tea%20Garden%20%28San%20Francisco%29 | Japanese Tea Garden (San Francisco) | The Japanese Tea Garden () in San Francisco, California, is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894. Though many of its attractions are still a part of the garden today, there have been changes throughout the ... |
5979159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods%20in%20the%20United%20States%20%281900%E2%80%931999%29 | Floods in the United States (1900–1999) | Floods in the United States are generally caused by excessive rainfall, excessive snowmelt, and dam failure. Below is a list of flood events that were of significant impact to the country during the 20th century, from 1900 through 1999, inclusive.
Decade of the 1900s
Kansas River – May 1903
The greatest flood of the ... |
5979388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Marven | Nigel Marven | Nigel Alan Marven (born 27 November 1960) is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries Chased by Dinosaurs, its sequel, Sea Monsters, as well as the ITV miniseries Prehistoric Park. He is also known for his unorthod... |
5979532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va%27etchanan | Va'etchanan | Va'etchanan (—Hebrew for "and I pleaded," the first word in the parashah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises . The parashah tells how Moses asked to see the Land of Israel, made arguments to obey the law, reco... |
5980057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Scorpio | Robert Scorpio | Robert Scorpio is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital, played by actor Tristan Rogers.
Casting
Tristan Rogers originally played the role from December 2, 1980 through February 25, 1992. The popularity and longevity of the character was furthered by his involvement with the monumentally popular... |
5980275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika%20Kallio | Mika Kallio | Mika Kallio (born 8 November 1982) is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, currently serving as the lead test and development rider for the Red Bull KTM team in MotoGP. He debuted in the 125cc World Championship with the Finnish rookie team Ajo Motorsport in the 2001 German Grand Prix and was awarded the "Rookie of t... |
5980301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Inquisition | Spanish Inquisition | The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It began toward the end of the Reconquista and was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms... |
5980612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20birth%20control%20methods | Comparison of birth control methods | There are many methods of birth control (or contraception) that vary in requirements, side effects, and effectiveness. As the technology, education, and awareness about contraception has evolved, new contraception methods have been theorized and put in application. Although no method of birth control is ideal for every... |
5980720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby%20American | Shelby American | Shelby American, Inc. is an American high performance automobile company founded by driver Carroll Shelby. The Shelby American name has been used by several legally distinct corporations founded by Shelby since his original shop in Venice, California began operation in 1962. The current iteration is a wholly owned subs... |
5981045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20support%20for%20Iraq%20during%20the%20Iran%E2%80%93Iraq%20War | United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War | American support for Ba'athist Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War, in which it fought against post-revolutionary Iran, included several billion dollars' worth of economic aid, the sale of dual-use technology, military intelligence, and special operations training. The U.S. refused to sell arms to Iraq directly due to Iraq's... |
5981510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%202006%20Lebanon%20War | Timeline of the 2006 Lebanon War | This is a timeline of events related to the 2006 Lebanon War.
July 12–19
Wednesday, July 12
The conflict began on July 12 when 8 Israeli soldiers were killed and a further two were captured during a cross-border attack. At approximately 9am local time, Hezbollah's military wing launched a barrage of rockets and morta... |
5981816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20%28TV%20series%29 | Dexter (TV series) | Dexter is an American crime drama television series that aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secr... |
5982075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20conquest%20of%20the%20Iberian%20Peninsula | Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula | The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula was a process by which the Roman Republic occupied territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtic, Iberian, Celtiberian and Aquitanian tribes and the Carthaginian Empire. The Carthaginian territories in the south and east of the p... |
5982921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Familiar%20of%20Zero | The Familiar of Zero | is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Noboru Yamaguchi, with illustrations by Eiji Usatsuka. Media Factory published 20 volumes between June 2004 and February 2011. The series was left unfinished due to the author's death in 2013, but was later concluded in two volumes released in February 2016 and Februa... |
5982934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20bagpipe%20terms | Glossary of bagpipe terms | This article defines a number of terms that are exclusive, or whose meaning is exclusive, to piping and pipers.
A
Arm Strap
When playing a bagpipe, this attaches the player's arm to the bellows allowing the player to control them.
Argyllshire Gathering
An annual highland games, held at Oban, Scotland every August wh... |
5983226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zons | Zons | Zons (), formerly known as Feste Zons (Fortress Zons), today officially called Stadt Zons (Zons Town) is an old town in Germany on the west bank of the Lower Rhine between Cologne and Düsseldorf. It has been a part (Stadtteil) of the town of Dormagen since 1975. In 2020 its population was 5,452.
Geography
The east b... |
5983454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%20State%20High%20School%20Activities%20Association | Missouri State High School Activities Association | The Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) is the governing body for high school activities throughout the state of Missouri. Approximately 580 high schools are members of MSHSAA.
The MSHSAA conducts championship-level activities in 23 activities. At least 50 member high schools must sponsor a spor... |
5984577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Neshek | Pat Neshek | Patrick John Neshek (pronounced NEE-shehk; born September 4, 1980), is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies and Philadelphia Phillies. The Twins selec... |
5984757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devasahayam%20Pillai | Devasahayam Pillai | Devasahayam Pillai or Mar Lazarus Sahada (born Neelakanta Pillai and baptized as Lazarus; 23 April 1712 – 14 January 1752) was an Indian layman and martyr of the Catholic Church. He was canonized as a saint of the church by Pope Francis on 15 May 2022.
Early life
Neelakandan Pillai was born into an affluent Hindu Nai... |
5984845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise-induced%20pulmonary%20hemorrhage | Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage | Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH), also known as "bleeding" or a "bleeding attack", refers to the presence of blood in the airways of the lung in association with exercise. EIPH is common in horses undertaking intense exercise, but it has also been reported in human athletes, racing camels and racing greyhou... |
5985207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion%20of%20the%20universe | Expansion of the universe | The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic expansion; the universe does not expand "into" anything and does not require space to exist "outside" it. To any observer in the universe, it appears that all but the ... |
5985421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deim%20Zubeir | Deim Zubeir | Deim Zubeir, from the Arabic ديم الزبير ["Daim az-Zubayr"], commonly translated as the "Camp of Zubeir", is the historically established but highly controversial name of Uyujuku town in the Western Bahr el Ghazal of the Republic of South Sudan, located in the Western Bahr El Ghazal part of the country, some 70 km from ... |
5985739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot | Carrot | The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though heirloom variants including purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia. The plant probably originated... |
5986369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Spanish%20War%20%281635%E2%80%931659%29 | Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) | The Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) was fought between France and Spain with the participation of a changing list of allies throughout the war. The first phase, beginning in May 1635 and ending with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, is considered a related conflict of the Thirty Years' War. The second phase continued until ... |
5986925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%20in%20the%20United%20States | 1920 in the United States | Events from the year 1920 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Woodrow Wilson (D-New Jersey)
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (D-Indiana)
Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts)
Senate Majority L... |
5987491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennington%2C%20Hampshire | Pennington, Hampshire | Pennington is a ward (electoral and ecclesiastical) in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, which is defined based on the boundaries of the earlier manor. Pennington Village is at the centre of the ward, with Upper Pennington to the north and Lower Pennington to the south. The population taken at the 2011 cen... |
5987648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty%20quantification | Uncertainty quantification | Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the science of quantitative characterization and estimation of uncertainties in both computational and real world applications. It tries to determine how likely certain outcomes are if some aspects of the system are not exactly known. An example would be to predict the acceleration of... |
5987837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtar%20%28extraterrestrial%20being%29 | Ashtar (extraterrestrial being) | Ashtar (sometimes called Ashtar Sheran) is the name given to an extraterrestrial being or group of beings that a number of people claim to have channeled. UFO contactee George Van Tassel was the first to claim to receive an Ashtar message in 1952. Since then, experiences involving Ashtar have been claimed to occur in m... |
5987959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Lennon | Julia Lennon | Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son to her sister Mimi. She later ha... |
5988318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20of%20Parkinson%27s%20disease | Management of Parkinson's disease | In the management of Parkinson's disease, due to the chronic nature of Parkinson's disease (PD), a broad-based program is needed that includes patient and family education, support-group services, general wellness maintenance, exercise, and nutrition. At present, no cure for the disease is known, but medications or sur... |
5988730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne%20Christophe | Eugène Christophe | Eugène Christophe (born Malakoff, Paris, France, 22 January 1885, died in Paris, 1 February 1970) was a French road bicycle racer and pioneer of cyclo-cross. He was a professional from 1904 until 1926. In 1919 he became the first rider to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France .
Eugène Christophe rode 11 Tours d... |
5989025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%20Society%20of%20Evil | Monster Society of Evil | The Monster Society of Evil is a supervillain team created by Otto Binder and C. C. Beck for Fawcett Comics. It is led by Mister Mind against their mutual enemy Captain Marvel. The team is significant as one of the first supervillain teams in comics to contain villains that a superhero had fought previously; prior to t... |
5989047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Lebanon | Education in Lebanon | Education in Lebanon is regulated by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE). In Lebanon, the main three languages, English and/or French with Arabic are taught from early years in schools. English or French are the mandatory media of instruction for mathematics and sciences for all schools. Education is ... |
5989427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clansman%20%28military%20radio%29 | Clansman (military radio) | Clansman is the name of a combat net radio system (CNR) used by the British Army from 1976 to 2010.
Clansman was developed by the Signals Research and Development Establishment (SRDE) in the 1960s, to satisfy a General Staff Requirement (GSR) laid down in 1965. Clansman represented a considerable advance over existing... |
5989485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe%20Petra%C8%99cu | Gheorghe Petrașcu | Gheorghe Petrașcu (; 20 November 1872, Tecuci – 1 May 1949, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes throughout his lifetime and had his paintings exhibited posthumously at the Paris International Exhibition and the Venice Biennale. He was the brother of N. Petrașcu, a literary critic and novelist.
In... |
5989657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20community%20of%20ancient%20Rome | Medical community of ancient Rome | The Medical community as used in this article refers to medical institutions and services offered to populations under the jurisdiction of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The Medical services of the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire were adopted from ancient Greece. It was first imported from Gree... |
5989851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20head%20covering | Christian head covering | Christian head covering, also known as Christian veiling, is the traditional practice of women covering their head in a variety of Christian denominations. Some Christian women, based on historic Catholic, Lutheran, Moravian, Reformed, Anglican, Methodist, and Plymouth Brethren teaching, wear the head covering in publi... |
5990255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.Slade | B.Slade | Anthony Charles Williams II (born May 16, 1975), better known by his stage name B.Slade, formerly known under the gospel moniker Tonéx ( ), is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, dancer, producer, and activist from San Diego, CA. He has gone by various names and aliases, but his primary stage... |
5990667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexi%20Giannoulias | Alexi Giannoulias | Alexander Giannoulias ( ; born March 16, 1976) is an American financier and politician who is the Secretary of State of Illinois. He previously served as the 72nd Illinois Treasurer from 2007 to 2011.
A Democrat, Giannoulias defeated Republican candidate State Senator Christine Radogno in November 2006 with 54 percent... |
5990760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staro%20Sajmi%C5%A1te | Staro Sajmište | Staro Sajmište () is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of New Belgrade, and it was the site of the World War II Sajmište concentration camp from 1941 to 1944, when the area was under control of the Nazi puppet state Independent State of Croatia.
Location... |
5990945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20of%20Thorn | King of Thorn | is a Japanese fantastique manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Iwahara. It was published in by Enterbrain in the seinen magazine Monthly Comic Beam between October 2002 and October 2005 and collected in six bound volumes. It is licensed in North America by Tokyopop, with the final volume published in November 2... |
5991438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20architecture | Spanish architecture | Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The term includes buildings which were constructed within the current borders of Spain prior to its existence as a nation, when the land was called Iberia, Hispania, or was divided between several Christia... |
5991520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20in%20Belgian%20football | 2006–07 in Belgian football | The 2006–07 season is the 104th competitive season in Belgian football.
Overview
Following promotion from the Belgian Second Division, Mons have returned to the Belgian First Division immediately after dropping to the second division during the 2004–2005 season. La Louvière has dropped from the first division after fi... |
5992080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar%20tech | Guitar tech | A guitar technician (or guitar tech) is a member of a music ensemble's road crew who maintains and sets up the musical equipment for one or more guitarists. Depending on the type and size of band, the guitar tech may be responsible for stringing, tuning, and adjusting electric guitars and acoustic guitars, and maintain... |
5992929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%20of%20the%20Soil | Growth of the Soil | Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Grøde) is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has since been translated from Norwegian into languages such as English. The novel was written in t... |
5992961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20civil%20religion | American civil religion | American civil religion is a sociological theory that a nonsectarian quasi-religious faith exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn from national history. Scholars have portrayed it as a cohesive force, a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration. The ritualistic elements of cere... |
5993369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels%20Town%20Hall | Brussels Town Hall | The Town Hall (, Dutch: ) of the City of Brussels is a landmark building and the seat of the City of Brussels municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is located on the south side of the famous Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square), opposite the neo-Gothic King's House or Bread House building, housing the Brusse... |
5993460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont%20Campbell | Mont Campbell | Hugo Martin Montgomery "Dirk" Campbell (born 30 December 1950, previously known as Mont Campbell) is a British multi-instrumentalist, composer and energy company executive. Campbell was born in the British military hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, and lived in Kenya until 1962. He studied Stravinsky and formed the progress... |
5993473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s%20Willing%20Executioners | Hitler's Willing Executioners | Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture whic... |
5993647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Garfield | Andrew Garfield | Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English and American actor. He has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and two Academy Awards. Time included Garfield on its list of 10... |
5993852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Keewatin | Council of Keewatin | The Council of Keewatin was an unelected legislative body and territorial government for the now defunct District of Keewatin in Canada. The District of Keewatin was created by the passage of the Keewatin Act on October 7, 1876 from a portion of Canada's North West Territories. Lieutenant Governor Alexander Morris conv... |
5993973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Boogiepop%20characters | List of Boogiepop characters | The Boogiepop series includes fourteen light novels, a live-action film, an anime, two manga, and several short stories. While most characters feature in multiple titles in the series, every new addition introduces many new characters. There are also only four key protagonists who feature in every title.
Japanese voic... |
5994063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wairarapa%20Line | Wairarapa Line | The Wairarapa Line is a secondary railway line in the south-east of the North Island of New Zealand. The line runs for , connects the capital city Wellington with the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line at Woodville, via Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt and Masterton.
The first part of the line opened in 1874 between Wellington an... |
5994421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego%20Mindstorms%20NXT | Lego Mindstorms NXT | Lego Mindstorms NXT is a programmable robotics kit released by Lego on August 2, 2006.
It replaced the first-generation Lego Mindstorms kit, which was called the Robotics Invention System. The base kit ships in two versions: the Retail Version (set #8527) and the Education Base Set (set #9797). It comes with the NXT-G ... |
5995038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Payne | Daniel Payne | Daniel Alexander Payne (February 24, 1811 – November 2, 1893) was an American bishop, educator, college administrator and author. A major shaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), Payne stressed education and preparation of ministers and introduced more order in the church, becoming its sixth bishop and s... |
5995725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%20Highway%202 | Louisiana Highway 2 | Louisiana Highway 2 (LA 2) is a state highway located in northern Louisiana. It runs in an east–west direction from the Texas state line southwest of Vivian to a junction with U.S. Highway 65 (US 65) near Lake Providence, just west of the Mississippi state line.
It is the northernmost cross-state highway in Louisian... |
5996003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20censorship%20in%20India | Internet censorship in India | Internet censorship in India is done by both central and state governments. DNS filtering and educating service users in suggested usages is an active strategy and government policy to regulate and block access to Internet content on a large scale. Also measures for removing content at the request of content creators t... |
5996375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Lown | Bernard Lown | Bernard Lown (June 7, 1921February 16, 2021) was a Lithuanian-American cardiologist and inventor. Lown was the original developer of the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation, and the cardioverter for correcting rapid disordered heart rhythms. He introduced a new use for the drug lidocaine to control h... |
5996696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio%20monitor | Studio monitor | Studio monitors are loudspeakers in speaker enclosures specifically designed for professional audio production applications, such as recording studios, filmmaking, television studios, radio studios and project or home studios, where accurate audio reproduction is crucial. Among audio engineers, the term monitor implies... |
5996807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minna%20no%20Uta | Minna no Uta | , literally Everyone's Songs (English title: Songs for Everyone), is a five-minute NHK TV and radio program which is broadcast several times daily. The program started on April 3, 1961. It is one of NHK's long-running programs.
The program is generally used as filler between programs. While many of the episodes are ai... |
5996931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Internet%20conflicts | Timeline of Internet conflicts | The Internet has a long history of turbulent relations, major maliciously designed disruptions (such as wide scale computer virus incidents, DOS and DDOS attacks that cripple services, and organized attacks that cripple major online communities), and other conflicts. This is a list of known and documented Internet, Use... |
5997030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20Saint%20Augustine | Order of Saint Augustine | The Order of Saint Augustine (), abbreviated OSA, is a religious mendicant order of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1244 by bringing together several eremitical groups in the Tuscany region who were following the Rule of Saint Augustine, written by Saint Augustine of Hippo in the fifth century.
They are also co... |
5997706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reorganization%20plan%20of%20United%20States%20Army | Reorganization plan of United States Army | The reorganization plan of the United States Army is a modernization (2015–2028) and reorganization (2006–2016) plan of the United States Army implemented (2006–2016) under the direction of Brigade Modernization Command.
This effort formally began in 2006 when General Peter Schoomaker (the 35th Army Chief of Staff) was... |
5998327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20North%20Carolina | List of people from North Carolina | The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or closely associated with the U.S. state of 'North Carolina.
Academia
Graham Allison (born 1940), political scientist and professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (Charlotte)
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963), path... |
6000172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20State%20Buckeyes%20football | Ohio State Buckeyes football | The Ohio State Buckeyes football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing The Ohio State University in the East Division of the Big Ten Conference. Ohio State has played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio since 1922.
The Buckeyes are recognized by the univer... |
6000868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20McCollum | Elmer McCollum | Elmer Verner McCollum (March 3, 1879 – November 15, 1967) was an American biochemist known for his work on the influence of diet on health. McCollum is also remembered for starting the first rat colony in the United States to be used for nutrition research. His reputation has suffered from posthumous controversy. Time ... |
6001027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda%20Stereo | Soda Stereo | Soda Stereo was an Argentine rock band formed in Buenos Aires in 1982. The band's lineup consisted of lead singer and guitarist Gustavo Cerati, bassist Zeta Bosio, and drummer Charly Alberti. During their career, the band issued seven studio albums before disbanding in 1997.
The band's 1984 self-titled debut album fea... |
6001129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBB%20National%20Programs | BBB National Programs | BBB National Programs, an independent non-profit organization that oversees more than a dozen national industry self-regulation programs that provide third-party accountability and dispute resolution services to companies, including outside and in-house counsel, consumers, and others in arenas such as privacy, advertis... |
6001150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter%20UH-72%20Lakota | Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota | The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) UH-72 Lakota is a twin-engine helicopter with a single, four-bladed main rotor. The UH-72 is a militarized version of the Eurocopter EC145, built by American Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters, Inc.), a division of Airbus Group, Inc.
Initially marketed as the UH-145, the helico... |
6001396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Gromek | Steve Gromek | Stephen Joseph Gromek (January 15, 1920 – March 12, 2002) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for 17 seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers. In 447 career games, Gromek pitched innings and posted a win–loss record of 123–108 with 92 complete ga... |
6001461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes%20of%20gender%20incongruence | Causes of gender incongruence | Gender incongruence is the state of having a gender identity that does not correspond to one's sex assigned at birth. This is experienced by people who identify as transgender or transsexual, and often results in gender dysphoria. The causes of gender incongruence have been studied for decades.
Transgender brain studi... |
6001783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Lombard%20grammar | Eastern Lombard grammar | Eastern Lombard grammar reflects the main features of Romance languages: the word order of Eastern Lombard is usually SVO, nouns are inflected in number, adjectives agree in number and gender with the nouns, verbs are conjugated in tenses, aspects and moods and agree with the subject in number and person. The case syst... |
6001922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20pipe%20organ%20builders | List of pipe organ builders | This is a list of notable pipe organ builders.
Australia
William Anderson (1832–1921)
Australian Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
Robert Cecil Clifton (1854–1931)
William Davidson
J. E. Dodd & Sons Gunstar Organ Works
Fincham & Hobday
Geo. Fincham & Son
Alfred Fuller (1845–1923)
Hargraves Pipe Organs Pty Ltd
William Hil... |
6001925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Parachute%20Brigade%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | 5th Parachute Brigade (United Kingdom) | The 5th Parachute Brigade was an airborne forces formation of brigade strength, raised by the British Army during the Second World War. Created during 1943, the brigade was assigned to the 6th Airborne Division, serving alongside the 3rd Parachute Brigade and the 6th Airlanding Brigade.
The brigade first saw action in... |
6002126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice%20phishing | Voice phishing | Voice phishing, or vishing, is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks.
Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use ... |
6002587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Block | Hal Block | Harold Leonard Block (August 3, 1913 – June 16, 1981) was an American comedy writer, comedian, producer, songwriter and television personality. Although Block was a highly successful comedy writer for over 15 years, today he is most often remembered as an original panelist of the television game show What's My Line? wh... |
6002597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba%E2%80%93Soviet%20Union%20relations | Cuba–Soviet Union relations | After the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid and was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In 1972 Cuba joined the COMECON, an economic organization of states designed to create co-op... |
6002600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-128 | STS-128 | STS-128 (ISS assembly flight 17A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on August 28, 2009. carried the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo as its primary payload. Leonardo contained a collection of experiments for studying the physics and chemistry of microgravity... |
6002610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-129 | STS-129 | STS-129 (ISS assembly flight ULF3) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Atlantis was launched on November 16, 2009, at 14:28 EST, and landed at 09:44 EST on November 27, 2009, on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. It was also the last Shuttle mission ... |
6002623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-130 | STS-130 | STS-130 (ISS assembly flight 20A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). 's primary payloads were the Tranquility module and the Cupola, a robotic control station with six windows around its sides and another in the center, providing a 360-degree view around the station. Endeavour la... |
6002628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-131 | STS-131 | STS-131 (ISS assembly flight 19A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). launched on April 5, 2010, at 6:21 am from LC-39A, and landed at 9:08 am on April 20, 2010, on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. The mission marked the longest flight for Space ... |
6002633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-132 | STS-132 | STS-132 (ISS assembly flight ULF4) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on May 16, 2010. STS-132 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 2010. The primary payload was the Russian Rassvet Mini-Research Module, along with an Integr... |
6003023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb%20Raider%3A%20Anniversary | Tomb Raider: Anniversary | Tomb Raider: Anniversary is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and Buzz Monkey Software and published by Eidos Interactive in 2007 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, Wii and mobile phones. It was later ported to OS X in 2008 and PlayStation 3 in 2011. The eig... |
6003326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20William%20Walt | Lewis William Walt | Lewis William Walt (February 16, 1913 – March 26, 1989) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Walt was decorated several times, including two Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism during World War II, one for leading the attack on "Aogiri Ri... |
6003581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%20Sound%20Transportation%20Company | Owen Sound Transportation Company | The Owen Sound Transportation Company, Limited was the forerunner of the enterprise that currently operates the vehicle and passenger ferry - M.S. Chi-Cheemaun - between Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula, and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island. For updated information, see the article on the M.S. Chi-Cheemaun.
The Ow... |
6003832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygiella%20x-notata | Zygiella x-notata | Zygiella x-notata, sometimes known as the missing sector orb weaver or the silver-sided sector spider, is a spider species in the family Araneidae. They are solitary spiders, residing in daily-spun orb webs. Z. x-notata is a member of the genus Zygiella, the orb-weaving spiders. The adult female is easily recognized b... |
6003871 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag%20SNP | Tag SNP | A tag SNP is a representative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in a region of the genome with high linkage disequilibrium that represents a group of SNPs called a haplotype. It is possible to identify genetic variation and association to phenotypes without genotyping every SNP in a chromosomal region. This reduces ... |
6004097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative%20divisions%20of%20Tver%20Oblast | Administrative divisions of Tver Oblast | Administratively, Tver Oblast is divided into two urban-type settlements under the federal government management, five cities and towns of oblast significance, and thirty-six districts.
In terms of the population, the biggest administrative district is Konakovsky District (87,125 in 2010), the smallest one is Molokovs... |
6004243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Klak | Harald Klak | Harald 'Klak' Halfdansson (c. 785 – c. 852) was a king in Jutland (and possibly other parts of Denmark) around 812–814 and again from 819–827.
Family
The identity of Harald's father is uncertain. He had at least three brothers: Anulo (died 812), Ragnfrid (died 814) and Hemming Halfdansson (died 837). An 837 entry in ... |
6004351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage%20stamps%20and%20postal%20history%20of%20the%20Canal%20Zone | Postage stamps and postal history of the Canal Zone | Postage stamps and postal history of the Canal Zone is a subject that covers the postal system, postage stamps used and mail sent to and from the Panama Canal Zone from 1904 up until October 1978, after the United States relinquished its authority of the Zone in compliance with the treaty it reached with Panama.
The C... |
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