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6159471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%20Cruz | Nelson Cruz | Nelson Ramón Cruz Martínez Jr. (born July 1, 1980) is a Dominican-American professional baseball designated hitter and right fielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays... |
6159646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertive%20community%20treatment | Assertive community treatment | Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an intensive and highly integrated approach for community mental health service delivery. ACT teams serve individuals who have been diagnosed with serious and persistent forms of mental illness, predominantly but not exclusively the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. ACT service r... |
6160171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue%20Boilermakers%20football | Purdue Boilermakers football | The Purdue Boilermakers football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football. Purdue plays its home games at Ross–Ade Stadium on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The head coach of Purdue is Ryan Walters, the 37th head coach in Purdue histo... |
6160234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Young%20%28swimmer%29 | George Young (swimmer) | George Young (3 March 1909 – 6 August 1972) was a Canadian marathon swimmer who, on 15–16 January 1927, became the first person to swim the 22 mile channel between Catalina Island and the mainland of California. Though familiar to the Toronto swimming community, Young was only seventeen and a relative unknown in Ameri... |
6160499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist%20Uprising | Buddhist Uprising | The Buddhist Uprising of 1966 (), or more widely known in Vietnam as the Crisis in Central Vietnam (), was a period of civil and military unrest in South Vietnam, largely focused in the I Corps area in the north of the country in central Vietnam. The area is a heartland of Vietnamese Buddhism, and at the time, activist... |
6161011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Gators%20football | Florida Gators football | The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida (UF) in American college football. Florida competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) They play their home games in Steve Spu... |
6161093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape%20ball | Tape ball | A tape ball is a tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape that is often used in informal games of cricket such as street cricket, also called tape ball cricket. First pioneered in Karachi, Pakistan, the tape ball acts as an improvised cricket ball with the tape stretched tightly over the fuzzy felt-like covering of a ten... |
6161158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxades | Metaxades | Metaxades (, ) is a large village and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Didymoteicho, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 211.238 km2. In 2011 its population was 687 fo... |
6161401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Lynn%20Sells | Tommy Lynn Sells | Tommy Lynn Sells (June 28, 1964 – April 3, 2014) was an American serial killer. Though convicted of only one murder, for which he received the death penalty and was eventually executed, authorities believe he committed a total of 22 murders. Sells himself claimed on various occasions to have murdered over 70 people.
E... |
6161502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horyn | Horyn | The Horyn or Haryn ( ; ; ; ) is a tributary of the Pripyat, which flows through Ukraine and Belarus. The Horyn is long, and has a drainage basin of . It has a maximum width of 80 m, and a maximum depth of 16 m. An important tributary of the Horyn River is the Sluch.
The Horyn takes its source in the Ternopil Oblast ... |
6161920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Turner | Frank Turner | Francis Edward Turner (born 28 December 1981) is an English punk and folk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Hampshire. He began his career as the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, then embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. In the studio and during live perfo... |
6163276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20political%20jokes | Russian political jokes | Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and finally post-Soviet Russia. In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites.
Quite a fe... |
6163319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Askren | Ben Askren | Ben Askren (born July 18, 1984) is an American former professional mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler.
An accomplished grappler, he was a 2008 US Olympic Team Member and National champion in freestyle wrestling. He also was the 2005 Pan American champion as a freestyle wrestler. In college, Askren was a... |
6163979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Whitaker | Matthew Whitaker | Matthew George Whitaker (born October 29, 1969) is an American lawyer, lobbyist and politician who served as the acting United States Attorney General from November 7, 2018, to February 14, 2019. He was appointed to that position by President Donald Trump after Jeff Sessions resigned at Trump's request. Whitaker had pr... |
6164108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Jewish%20Federation%20shooting | Seattle Jewish Federation shooting | The Seattle Jewish Federation shooting occurred in Seattle on July 28, 2006, at around 4:00 p.m. PT, when Naveed Afzal Haq shot six women, one fatally, at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building.
After his first trial ended in a mistrial, Haq was convicted in December 2009 and sentenced to life without parol... |
6164372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Araneidae%20species%3A%20A | List of Araneidae species: A | This page lists all described species of the spider family Araneidae as of Dec. 20, 2016, that start with the letter A.
Acacesia
Acacesia Simon, 1895
Acacesia benigna Glueck, 1994 — Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
Acacesia graciosa Lise & Braul, 1996 — Brazil
Acacesia hamata (Hentz, 1847) (type species) — USA to Argentina
A... |
6164542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Pine%20Bottom%20State%20Park | Upper Pine Bottom State Park | Upper Pine Bottom State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is in Cummings Township on Pennsylvania Route 44 and is surrounded by the Tiadaghton State Forest. It is on Upper Pine Bottom Run, which gave the park its name and is a tributary of Pine Creek. Upp... |
6164558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk%20operation | Smolensk operation | The second Smolensk operation (7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as part of the Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1943. Staged almost simultaneously with the Lower Dnieper Offensive (13 August – 22 September), the offensive lasted two months and was led by General A... |
6165091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Araneidae%20species%3A%20B%E2%80%93F | List of Araneidae species: B–F | This page lists all described species of the spider family Araneidae as of Dec. 20, 2016, that start with letters B through F.
Backobourkia
Backobourkia Framenau et al., 2010
Backobourkia brouni (Urquhart, 1885) — Australia, New Zealand
Backobourkia collina (Keyserling, 1886) — Australia
Backobourkia heroine (L. Ko... |
6165157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Araneidae%20species%3A%20G%E2%80%93M | List of Araneidae species: G–M | This page lists all described species of the spider family Araneidae as of Nov. 5, 2013, that start with letters G through M.
Galaporella
Galaporella Levi, 2009
Galaporella thaleri Levi, 2009 - Galapagos Is.
Gasteracantha
Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833
Gasteracantha aciculata (Pocock, 1899) — New Britain
Gasterac... |
6165185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Araneidae%20species%3A%20N%E2%80%93Z | List of Araneidae species: N–Z | This page lists all described species of the spider family Araneidae as of Dec. 21, 2016, that start with letters N through Z.
Nemoscolus
Nemoscolus Simon, 1895
Nemoscolus affinis Lessert, 1933 — Congo
Nemoscolus caudifer Strand, 1906 — West Africa
Nemoscolus cotti Lessert, 1933 — Mozambique
Nemoscolus elongatus L... |
6165295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Nagel | Ray Nagel | Raymond Robert Nagel (May 18, 1927 – January 15, 2015) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1958 to 1965 and the University of Iowa from 1966 to 1970, compiling a career college football coaching record of (). After c... |
6165386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rutgers%20University%20people | List of Rutgers University people | This is an enumeration of notable people affiliated with Rutgers University, including graduates of the undergraduate and graduate and professional programs at all three campuses, former students who did not graduate or receive their degree, presidents of the university, current and former professors, as well as member... |
6165691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Mesoamerica | Geography of Mesoamerica | The geography of Mesoamerica describes the geographic features of Mesoamerica, a culture area in the Americas inhabited by complex indigenous pre-Columbian cultures exhibiting a suite of shared and common cultural characteristics. Several well-known Mesoamerican cultures include the Olmec, Teotihuacan, the Maya, the A... |
6165734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents%20at%20Six%20Flags%20parks | Incidents at Six Flags parks | The following article is a summary of notable incidents at the amusement parks and water parks that are operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation. In some cases, these incidents occurred while the park was under different management or ownership.
This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such... |
6165776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Gast | Alice Gast | Alice Petry Gast (born May 25, 1958) is an American researcher, was the 16th president of Imperial College London, and sits on the board of directors of Chevron. Gast was named one of the top 100 "Modern Era" engineers in the US under the category of "Leadership" by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Educa... |
6166465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%20Commodore%20%28VE%29 | Holden Commodore (VE) | The Holden Commodore (VE) is an executive car that was produced by Holden from 2006 to 2013. It was the first iteration of the fourth generation of the Commodore. Its range included the luxury variants, Holden Berlina (VE) and Holden Calais (VE); utility models were included as the Holden Ute (VE).
As opposed to the ... |
6166645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina%20Paner | Tina Paner | Kristina "Tina" Paner (born August 1, 1971) is a Filipino actress and singer.
Early life
At a very young age, Paner's parents noticed her interest in music. Her adoptive parents were prominent celebrities as well. Her father Manny Paner was a well known basketball player while her mother Daisy Romualdez was an actress... |
6166854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20brown%20snake | King brown snake | The king brown snake (Pseudechis australis) is a species of highly venomous snake of the family Elapidae, native to northern, western, and Central Australia. Despite its common name, it is a member of the genus Pseudechis (black snakes) and only distantly related to true brown snakes. Its alternative common name is the... |
6166978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal%20Whiteley | Opal Whiteley | Opal Irene Whiteley (December 11, 1897 – February 16, 1992) was an American nature writer and diarist who gained international fame for the publication of her childhood diary, which featured meditations and observations of nature and wildlife. Raised in logging camps in rural Oregon, Whiteley was considered by some a c... |
6167325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20chess%20games | List of chess games | This is a list of notable chess games sorted chronologically.
pre-1700
1475: Francesc de Castellví vs. Narcís de Vinyoles, Valencia 1475. The first documented chess game played with the modern queen and bishop moves; the moves were described in the poem Scachs d'amor.
1623: Greco–NN, London 1623. Gioachino Greco ma... |
6167361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20the%20Community%20of%20Christ%20and%20the%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter-day%20Saints | Comparison of the Community of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church)) and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are two denominations that share a common heritage in the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830. Since Smith's death in 1844, they... |
6167742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Farran | Roy Farran | Major Roy Alexander Farran (2 January 1921 – 2 June 2006) was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist. He was highly decorated for his exploits with the Special Air Service (SAS) during the Second World War. Farran became widely known after his court-martial on a charge of murdering an un... |
6167964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz%20bombing%20debate | Auschwitz bombing debate | The issue of why the Allies did not act on early reports of atrocities in the Auschwitz concentration camp by destroying it or its railways by air during World War II has been a subject of controversy since the late 1970s. Brought to public attention by a 1978 article from historian David Wyman, it has been described b... |
6168159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20gold%20%28Spain%29 | Moscow gold (Spain) | The Moscow Gold (), or alternatively Gold of the Republic (), was 510 tonnes of gold, corresponding to 72.6% of the total gold reserves of the Bank of Spain, that were transferred from their original location in Madrid to the Soviet Union a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This transfer was made ... |
6168309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launceston%20Castle | Launceston Castle | Launceston Castle is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England. It was probably built by Robert the Count of Mortain after 1068, and initially comprised an earthwork and timber castle with a large motte in one corner. Launceston Castle formed the administrative centre of the new earldom of Cornwall, with a l... |
6168344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Russian%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV (Russian TV channel) | MTV Russia or MTV Россия () was a Russian music and entertainment TV channel, which carried out its broadcasting from September 25, 1998 to May 31, 2013. On October 1, 2013, MTV Russia was relaunched as a satellite pay TV channel.
In March 2022, Paramount Global announced that it intends to pause Russian operations. I... |
6169036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomat | Otomat | The Otomat is an anti-ship and coastal defence missile developed by the Italian company Oto Melara jointly with Matra and now made by MBDA. The name comes, for the first versions, from the name of the two builders ("Oto Melara" and "Matra") and, for the later versions, Teseo, from the Italian word for Theseus. The MILA... |
6169154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh%20Joe | Eh Joe | Eh Joe is a piece for television, written in English by Samuel Beckett, his first work for the medium. It was begun on the author's fifty-ninth birthday, 13 April 1965, and completed by 1 May. "It [was] followed by six undated typescripts (numbered 0 – 4 and 'final version').”
Despite the English version being recorde... |
6169180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffisburg | Steffisburg | Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
History
Steffisburg is first mentioned in 1133 as Stevensburc. The municipality was formerly known by its F... |
6169210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friso-Hollandic%20Wars | Friso-Hollandic Wars | The Friso-Hollandic Wars, also called Frisian-Hollandic Wars (; ), were a series of short medieval wars (ranging from single battles to entire campaigns) consisting of the attempts made by the counts of Holland to conquer the free Frisian territories, which lay to the north and east of their domain. These wars were wag... |
6169296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | 1985 in the United Kingdom | Events from the year 1985 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
Parliament – 49th
Events
January
January
The Fraud Investigation Group is set up for cases of financial and commercial fraud.
The Waterside Inn at Bray, Berkshire, founded by the... |
6170375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brougham%20Castle | Brougham Castle | Brougham Castle (pronounced ) is a medieval building about south-east of Penrith, Cumbria, England. The castle was founded by Robert I de Vieuxpont in the early 13th century. The site, near the confluence of the rivers Eamont and Lowther, had been chosen by the Romans for a Roman fort called Brocavum. The castle, alon... |
6170501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Suburban%20and%20Southside%20Junction%20Railway | Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway | The Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway was a railway company that built an east-west railway (known as the Edinburgh Suburban Line or more familiarly the Sub) on the southern margin of Edinburgh, Scotland, primarily to facilitate the operation of heavy goods and mineral traffic across the city. The line ... |
6170575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20light%20scattering | Dynamic light scattering | Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is a technique in physics that can be used to determine the size distribution profile of small particles in suspension or polymers in solution. In the scope of DLS, temporal fluctuations are usually analyzed using the intensity or photon auto-correlation function (also known as photon cor... |
6170711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Luisa%2C%20Duchess%20of%20Lucca | Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca | Maria Luisa of Spain (, 6 July 178213 March 1824) was a Spanish infanta, daughter of King Charles IV and his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1795, she married her first cousin Louis, Hereditary Prince of Parma. She spent the first years of her married life at the Spanish court where their first child, Charles, was born.... |
6171064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20in%20the%20Middle%20East | Human rights in the Middle East | Human rights in the Middle East have been shaped by the legal and political development of international human rights law after the Second World War, and their application to the Middle East. The 2004 United Nations Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) claimed that although Arab-Islamic tradition does hold unique impor... |
6171123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Central%20Main%20Line | Great Central Main Line | The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899 and built by the Great Central Railway running from Sheffield in the North of England, southwards through Nott... |
6171136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%20Serbs | Kosovo Serbs | Kosovo Serbs are one of the ethnic groups of Kosovo. There are around 100,000 Kosovo Serbs as of 2014 and about half of them live in North Kosovo. Other Kosovo Serb communities live in the Southern provinces of Kosovo. After Albanians, they form the largest ethnic community in Kosovo (6–7%).
The medieval Kingdom of Se... |
6171222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Indian%20Religious%20Freedom%20Act | American Indian Religious Freedom Act | The American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Public Law No. 95–341, 92 Stat. 469 (Aug. 11, 1978) (commonly abbreviated to AIRFA), codified at , is a United States federal law, enacted by joint resolution of the Congress in 1978. Prior to the act, many aspects of Native American religions and sacred ceremonies had been pr... |
6171316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorney%20Park%20%26%20Wildwater%20Kingdom | Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom | Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park located in Dorneyville, Pennsylvania (with an Allentown mailing address). Owned and operated by Cedar Fair, the park features 64 rides, including six roller coasters, other adult and children's rides, and a waterpark, Wildwater Kingdom, with 19 wat... |
6171811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Purse | John Purse | John Eric Purse (born September 7, 1972 in Orlando, Florida, raised in Spring, Texas U.S.) is a former American professional "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer. His prime competitive years were from 1990 to 2000.
Nicknamed "The Vigilante" early in his pro career for his alleged dirty riding and fouling competi... |
6172029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCavalcante%20crime%20family | DeCavalcante crime family | The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia or North Jersey crime family, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, Newark, West New York, and various other North Jersey cities and the surrounding areas in North Je... |
6172999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam%20in%20Kerala | Islam in Kerala | Islam arrived in Kerala, the Malayalam-speaking region in the south-western tip of India, through Middle Eastern merchants. The Indian coast has an ancient relation with West Asia and the Middle East, even during the pre-Islamic period.
Kerala Muslims or Malayali Muslims from north Kerala are generally referred to as ... |
6173130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%20Littleton | Harvey Littleton | Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 – December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement". Born in Corning, New York, he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glass Works, where his father headed Rese... |
6173298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%27s%20Anatomy%20%28season%203%29 | Grey's Anatomy (season 3) | The third season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, commenced airing on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 21, 2006, and concluded on May 17, 2007. The season was produced by Touchstone Television, in association with Shondaland Production Company and The Mark Gordon Company, the... |
6173299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBA%20Tour | PBA Tour | The PBA Tour is the major professional tour for ten-pin bowling, operated by the Professional Bowlers Association. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, over 3,000 members worldwide make up the PBA. While most of the PBA members are Regional professionals, a small percentage of the bowling membership competes at the nati... |
6173507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhoods%20of%20Oklahoma%20City | Neighborhoods of Oklahoma City | The City of Oklahoma City uses Special Zoning Districts as a tool to maintain the character of many neighborhood communities.
Downtown
Downtown Oklahoma City itself is currently undergoing a renaissance. Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, downtown was unchanged and largely vacant. It was the scene of the bombing of the... |
6173509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Denver%20landmarks | List of Denver landmarks | The City and County of Denver has a formal historic designation program that establishes Denver landmarks. These are designated by ordinances of Denver's city council. The first three sites so designated, on January 10, 1968, are the Emmanuel/Sherith Chapel, Constitution Hall (site) (destroyed by fire in 1977), and t... |
6173632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectional%20center%20facility | Sectional center facility | A destination sectional center facility (SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes. A sectional center facility routes mail between local post offices and to and from net... |
6173786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness%20in%20England | Homelessness in England | In England, local authorities have duties to homeless people under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002. There are five hurdles which a homeless person must overcome in order to qualify as statutory homeless. If an applicant only meets the first three of these tests Councils still ... |
6173965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism%20in%20popular%20culture | Cannibalism in popular culture | Cannibalism, the act of eating human flesh, is a recurring theme in popular culture, especially within the horror genre, and has been featured in a range of media that includes film, television, literature, music and video games. Cannibalism has been featured in various forms of media as far back as Greek mythology. Th... |
6173994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism | Cannibalism | Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is well documented, both in ancient and in recent times.
The rate of cannibalism increases in nutr... |
6174602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20pubs%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | List of pubs in the United Kingdom | The following is an incomplete list of notable public houses in the United Kingdom.
England
East Anglia
The Adam and Eve, Norwich is thought to date to 1249; although the current building was only built in the 17th century.
The Berney Arms in Norfolk may only be reached by foot, by boat or by train as there is no ro... |
6174646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessepsian%20migration | Lessepsian migration | The Lessepsian migration (also called Erythrean invasion) is the migration of marine species across the Suez Canal, usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and more rarely in the opposite direction. When the canal was completed in 1869, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and other marine animals and plants were ex... |
6174686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93United%20States%20Civil%20Nuclear%20Agreement | India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement | The 123 Agreement signed between the United States of America and the Republic of India is known as the U.S.–India Civil Nuclear Agreement or Indo-US nuclear deal. The framework for this agreement was a July 18, 2005, joint statement by then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then U.S. President George W. Bush, ... |
6175159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20doctrine | Anglican doctrine | Anglican doctrine (also called Episcopal doctrine in some countries) is the body of Christian teachings used to guide the religious and moral practices of Anglicans.
Approach to doctrine
Anglicanism does not possess an agreed-upon confession of faith, such as the Presbyterian Westminster Confession, nor does it clai... |
6176045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righeira | Righeira | Righeira were an Italian Italo disco duo, formed in Turin in 1983, that comprised Johnson Righeira (lead vocals and keyboards) and Michael Righeira (backing vocals, keyboards and harmonica). Originally rooted in the early stages of Italo disco music, Righeira's musical style evolved throughout their career, incorporati... |
6176175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Sinai%20Morningside | Mount Sinai Morningside | Mount Sinai Morningside, formerly known as Mount Sinai St. Luke's, is a teaching hospital located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit hospital system formed by the merger o... |
6178547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Russian%20legislative%20election | 2007 Russian legislative election | Legislative elections were held in Russia on 2 December 2007. At stake were the 450 seats in the 5th State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly (the legislature). Eleven parties were included in the ballot, including Russia's largest party, United Russia, which was supported by President of Russia Vladimir Put... |
6178727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20Bangladeshi%20general%20election | 2008 Bangladeshi general election | General elections were held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008. The two main parties in the election were the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Khaleda Zia, and the Bangladesh Awami League Party, led by Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Awami League Party formed a fourteen-party Grand Alliance including Ershad's Ja... |
6179053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Patrick%27s%20Saltire | Saint Patrick's Saltire | Saint Patrick's Saltire or Saint Patrick's Cross is a red saltire (X-shaped cross) on a white field. In heraldic language, it may be blazoned "argent, a saltire gules". The Saint Patrick's Flag (Bratach Naomh Pádraig) is a flag composed of Saint Patrick's Saltire. The origin of the saltire is disputed. Its association ... |
6179123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Westminster | University of Westminster | The University of Westminster is a public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first polytechnic to open in London. The Polytechnic formally received a Royal charter in August 1839, and became the University of Westminster in 1992.
Westminster has... |
6179225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio%20San%20Agustin%20%E2%80%93%20Makati | Colegio San Agustin – Makati | Colegio San Agustín – Makati, also referred to by its acronym CSA or CSA-Makati, is a private, Catholic, co-educational basic education institution run by the Augustinian Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines of the Order of Saint Augustine in Dasmariñas Village, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.
... |
6179387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bends%20%28song%29 | The Bends (song) | "The Bends" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead from their second studio album, The Bends (1995). In Ireland, it was released by Parlophone on 26 July 1996 as the album's sixth and final single, and reached number 26 on the Irish Singles Chart.
"The Bends" was written in 1992, predating Radiohead's 1992 debut... |
6180110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Rudin | Scott Rudin | Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film, television and theatre producer. His films include the Academy Award-winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men, as well as Uncut Gems, Lady Bird, Fences, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, School of Rock, Zoola... |
6180963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307%20Adelaide%20United%20FC%20season | 2006–07 Adelaide United FC season | The 2006–07 season was Adelaide United FC's the club's second season in the A-League (third season in top flight football). The club had success winning the 2005–06 Adelaide United FC season Premiership and finishing third in the finals series. Adelaide began their 2006–07 season with a 2–2 draw with local club Adelaid... |
6181197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahiduddin%20Khan | Wahiduddin Khan | Wahiduddin Khan (1 January 1925 – 21 April 2021), known with the honorific "Maulana", was an Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist and author known for having written a commentary on the Quran and having translated it into contemporary English. He was listed in "the 500 Most Influential Muslims" of the world. He wa... |
6181265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy%20Quartermaine | Tracy Quartermaine | Tracy Quartermaine is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She is played by actress Jane Elliot, who originated the role in 1978 and has played her intermittently since that time, primarily on GH and briefly on The City from 1996 to 1997. In 1980, Elliot won the Daytime Emmy for outstanding sup... |
6181306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cold%20Case%20characters | List of Cold Case characters | This is a list of characters in the CBS television drama Cold Case.
Main characters
Lilly Rush
Lillian "Lilly" Rush was known as the only female homicide detective in Philadelphia, until the later arrival of Lennie Desalle, then Josie Sutton, and finally Kat Miller. She specialized in working cold cases alongside he... |
6181911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Kaman | Rob Kaman | Rob "The Dutchman" Kaman (born 5 June 1960) is a Dutch retired 9-time kickboxing and Muay Thai world champion. He is often called "Mr. Low Kick" because of his feared low kicks which he used to set up his devastating offensive attacks.
Biography
Young age
Rob Kaman was born in Amsterdam in 1960. In his early days, he... |
6182483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptural%20reasoning | Scriptural reasoning | Scriptural Reasoning ("SR") is one type of interdisciplinary, interfaith scriptural reading. It is an evolving practice of diverse methodologies in which Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Baháʼís, and members of other faiths, meet in groups to study their sacred scriptures and oral traditions togethe... |
6182698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Pakistan%20Air%20Operations%20%281971%29 | East Pakistan Air Operations (1971) | East Pakistan Air Operations covers the activity of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and Pakistan Army Aviation units in former East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The operations involved the interdiction, air defense, ground support, and logistics missions flown by the Bangladesh Air Force, Indian Air Forc... |
6182706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatorial%20society | Purgatorial society | Purgatorial societies are Roman Catholic Church associations or confraternities which aim to assist souls in purgatory reach heaven. The doctrine concerning purgatory (the term for the intermediate state in Roman Catholicism), the condition of the poor souls after death (particular judgment), the communion of saints, a... |
6182733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20hardened%20field%20defences%20of%20World%20War%20II | British hardened field defences of World War II | British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations. They were popularly known as pillboxes, a reference to their shape.
Background
With the German invasion of Low Countries in May 1940 came the realisation that the United Kingdom... |
6182814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactik%20Football | Galactik Football | Galactik Football is an Irish-French animated television series produced by Gaumont Alphanim that mixes conventional 2D animation with 3D computer graphics. It originally aired from 3 June 2006 to 27 October 2011.
Premise
In the far future, the inhabited worlds of the Zaelion Galaxy compete in Galactik Football, a spo... |
6182858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhaus%20d%27%C3%89perlecques | Blockhaus d'Éperlecques | The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques (, also referred to as "the Watten bunker" or simply "Watten") is a Second World War bunker, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais département of France, and only some 14.4 kilometers (8.9 miles) north-northwest from the more developed La Coupole V-2 launch faci... |
6183087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20the%20Elephant | Benjamin the Elephant | Benjamin the Elephant (original German name: Benjamin Blümchen; "Benjamin Blossom") (1988–2002) is an animated children's television show produced by Kiddinx Studios in Berlin. The show is based on audio stories by Elfie Donnelly. The audio series has been running since 1977 and has 142 stories as of 2019. On the show,... |
6183190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ghost%20in%20the%20Shell%20characters | List of Ghost in the Shell characters | This is a list of fictional characters in the Ghost in the Shell media franchise created by Masamune Shirow.
Public Security Section 9 members
Section Chief Directors
Chief Daisuke Aramaki
Voiced by: Tamio Oki (Japanese, films), Osamu Saka (Japanese, Stand Alone Complex), Ikkyu Juku (Japanese; ARISE); William Freder... |
6183365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20MacKenzie | Martha MacKenzie | Martha MacKenzie (also Stewart and Holden) is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Jodi Gordon. Martha made her first on-screen appearance on 8 September 1988. She was originally played by Burcin Kapkin. In 2005, the character returned to Home and Away, played by J... |
6183424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda%20%28album%29 | Ananda (album) | Ananda () is the eighth studio album by Mexican singer-songwriter Paulina Rubio, released on September 18, 2006, through Universal Music Group. Its pop rock music incorporates latin, dance, folk, electropop, alternative and flamenco styles with instrumentation from synthpop beats, guitars, drums, synthesizers, strings ... |
6183656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Sullivan%20%28Brookside%29 | Terry Sullivan (Brookside) | Terry Sullivan is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, played by Brian Regan. One of the show's original characters, Terry debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 17 November 1982. Regan appeared in the show between 1982 and 1997. At the time of his departure, Regan was Brook... |
6183677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Qana%20airstrike | 2006 Qana airstrike | The 2006 Qana airstrike (also referred to as the 2006 Qana massacre or the second Qana massacre) was an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. The strike ... |
6184182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%27eh | Re'eh | Re'eh, Reeh, R'eih, or Ree (—Hebrew for "see", the first word in the parashah) is the 47th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17. In the parashah, Moses set before the Israelites the choice between bl... |
6184367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment%20of%20ancient%20Egyptian%20scripts | Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts | The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the... |
6184701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20McCarthy%20%28hurler%29 | Justin McCarthy (hurler) | Justin J. McCarthy (born 1945) is an Irish former hurler and manager. At club level he lined out with numerous club and divisional sides, while he was also a member of the Cork senior hurling team.
McCarthy enjoyed a 30-year club career, during which time he lined out with Rochestown, Passage and Shamrocks, as well as... |
6184856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20in%20the%20State%20of%20Palestine | Human rights in the State of Palestine | The state of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip characterizes the State of Palestine as an authoritarian regime according to The Economist Democracy Index.
Status of freedom, political rights and civil liberties
Rights and Liberties Ratings
At the Economist Intelligence Unit (Democracy Index) rankings, the... |
6184863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20rights%20in%20Egypt | Human rights in Egypt | Human rights in Egypt are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt under the various articles of Chapter 3. The country is also a party to numerous international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Soci... |
6184979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20response%20to%20the%20War%20in%20Darfur | International response to the War in Darfur | While there is a consensus in the international community that ethnic groups have been targeted in Darfur and that crimes against humanity have therefore occurred, there has been debate in some quarters about whether genocide has taken place there. In May 2006, the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur organize... |
6185069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isleworth%20Mona%20Lisa | Isleworth Mona Lisa | The Isleworth Mona Lisa is an early sixteenth-century oil on canvas painting depicting the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, though with the subject (Lisa del Giocondo) depicted as being a younger age. The painting is thought to have been brought from Italy to England in the 1780s, and came into public vie... |
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