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2003 Afro-Asian Games | General Preparation | related to the Games. 17 functional organizing sub-committees were formed to oversee the development of the venues and other infrastructure. The various functions were divided within these committees. The special officer-in-charge of the Games was Sabyasachi Ghosh, while the Secretary-General of the Games was Ali Morad... |
Wild Winds Are Blowing | Background | Wild Winds Are Blowing Background Following the lack of commercial success of their 1969 debut Beginnings, Ambrose Slade, with their new manager Chas Chandler, began considering their next career move. Having not been pleased with the debut album, Chandler thought the band would benefit from writing their own material ... |
2004 United States Senate election in Arkansas | Background | Arkansas First Lady Hillary Clinton's failure to win the nomination, and his relatively poor performance among rural white voters (Clinton, however, herself lost the state by an even greater margin as the Democratic nominee in 2016).
Democrats had an overwhelming majority of registered voters, the Democratic Party of A... |
Šinkov Turn | Castle | Second World War, it was demolished and the stones from it were used as building material elsewhere. |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | Qualification & Television | in the 2002 Asian Games held in Busan, South Korea. Television The official television host broadcaster of the Afro-Asian Games was DD Sports, India's first sports channel. The experience gained through broadcasting these Games would prove to be extremely helpful for its parent company Doordarshan, as they broadcast th... |
Árpád Makay | null | Árpád Makay Árpád Makay (1911–2004) was a Hungarian cinematographer. |
1987 Cricket World Cup Final | Background | the West Indies. |
147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Detailed service | 22-August 25. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2. Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15. Near Atlanta November 9. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Carolinas Campaign January to April 1865. North Edisto River, S.C., February 12-13. Red Bank a... |
With Our Arms to the Sun | History | this time, they signed with former Spitfire Records founder Paul Bibeau's new label Fade to Silence Records and gained an endorsement from Schecter Guitar Research.
Winter 2015 saw With Our Arms to the Sun return to the writing process, starting on their soon to be released LP Orenda. The forthcoming album was produce... |
2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | Tour de France | Amid the chaos, the three principal sprinters jumped for an unusually long final kick to the line, starting 400 m (1,300 ft) out. Race officials later expelled Renshaw from the Tour for the headbutting. Dean was not punished for the incident, though the possibility for penalty existed – Cavendish himself was assessed a... |
Water vascular system | Sea stars | system), perivisceral coelom, gonadal coelom and perihaemal coelom.
Other terms sometimes used to refer to the water vascular system are "ambulacral system" and "aquiferous system". In the past, "aquiferous system" was also used to refer to many unrelated invertebrate structures, but today, it is restricted to water c... |
Yakov Zeldovich | Academia and cosmology | Astrophysics at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. In 1966, he and Igor Novikov was the first to propose searching for black hole candidates among binary systems in which one star is optically bright and X-ray dark and the other optically dark but X-ray bright (the black hole candidate).
Zeldovich worked on the the... |
Wayne, Lafayette County, Wisconsin | History & Geography & Demographics | Wayne, Lafayette County, Wisconsin History The town was named in honor of "Mad" Anthony Wayne, a Revolutionary War general. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.8 square miles (95.2 km²), of which, 36.7 square miles (95.1 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 k... |
2008 California wildfires | Weather & Contributing factors | prompting weather agencies like the National Weather Service to issue high fire danger warnings. These near to record-breaking temperatures concerned many firefighters, who feared that the high heat, low humidity, and high-elevation winds could make firefighting more strenuous. Contributing factors John Juskie, a Natio... |
Wedding in Bessarabia | Overview | Wedding in Bessarabia Overview The director of the film is Napoleon Helmis (born in 1969, Topana); he graduated from the National Theater and Film's Art University in Bucharest in 1996, where he currently teaches film direction.
Hoping to find an easier way to make a living, the train is taking them from the hard life... |
Wim Delvoye | Career | Delvoye attended exhibitions with his parents, and his love of drawing eventually led him to art school, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent). Delvoye has said that the pessimistic expectations for Belgian art students freed him, essentially making him realize that he “had nothing to lose”. Shortly thereafter, Delvoy... |
1999 Finnish parliamentary election | Background & Campaign | between 1991 and 1995, the unemployment had risen from 6.6% to 15.4%. Campaign The largest opposition party, the Centre Party, tried to become the largest party overall, and to re-join the government. They called for labour reform, which they claimed would make it easier for employers to hire new employees and for smal... |
2009 International Bowl | Aftermath | after changing quarterbacks, winning the rematch 45–21. |
Willie Brigitte | Recruited to Al Qaeda | He was taken on oddly strenuous camping trips, believed by French intelligence to be designed by Islamist recruiters to identify suitable fighters. It is believed he helped procure two Belgian passports, which were used by two assassins who managed to get close to, and kill, Afghan Northern Alliance warlord Ahmed Shah... |
Žarko Paspalj | 1992–93 season & 1993–94 season | effectively cost his team a place in the 1993 EuroLeague Final Four, when he stepped over the line in the dying seconds of the crucial play-off match against Limoges CSP of France. As of 2015, Paspalj's 54-point game against Dafni remains the last 50-point plus performance in Greek basketball's top division. 1993–94 se... |
Yūko Kotegawa | Biography | the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. She has done voice acting, taking the part of Yolda in Origin: Spirits of the Past. Yūko counts Subaru, Tiger Corporation, and Lion among her commercial clients. |
1947 Polish Football Championship | Overview | 1947 Polish Football Championship Overview 28 teams played in the league which was divided into 3 Groups. The winners of each group then played a mini tournament between them to decide the winner. In the end Warta Poznań won the championship. |
1869 Chester by-election | null | 1869 Chester by-election The Chester by-election of 1869 was contested on 4 December 1869 due to the incumbent Liberal MP, Hugh Grosvenor, succeeding to the peerage as Marquess of Westminster. It was retained by the Liberal candidate Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor, who was unopposed. |
2008 California wildfires | Northern California & Spare the Air | onshore winds and the Delta breezes.
However, air quality in Oregon degraded as plumes of smoke drifted northward instead of concentrating in the Central Valley. Spare the Air Hazy conditions returned on July 7, along with high temperatures over 100 °F (38 °C) in the Central Valley. The heat and smoke combined forced p... |
Wrest Park | History | of works on site by James Clephan, who had been clerk of the works at the Liddell seat, Ravensworth Castle in County Durham, and had recently served as professional amanuensis and builder for Lord Barrington.
Although Nikolaus Pevsner previously stated that Clephan was a French architect who designed the present house... |
2009–10 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team | College GameDay & Jeffrey Jordan | The Illinois/Michigan State game will be the only Big Ten game featured this season. Jeffrey Jordan On October 6, 2009 it was reported that Jeffrey Jordan was talking to former teammates and coaches about a possible return to the Illinois basketball team. Jordan had left the team in June, after his second season, to f... |
V12 engine | V12 road cars | its road cars since the company's inception in 1963.
In 1972, Jaguar introduced the XJ12, equipped with a 5.3 litre V12, which continued (after revisions in 1993) until the 1996 model year, after which the marque discontinued the twelve-cylinder engine.
BMW returned to V12 designs for its 7 Series sedan in model year 1... |
Welsh Bicknor | History | Vaughan of Courtfield in 1830, prayed that her children might have vocations to priesthood or the religious life, and six of her sons became priests (including the later Cardinal Vaughan) and four of her daughters became nuns.
Welsh Bicknor parish records are now held by Hereford Records Office.
There is a Youth Hostel... |
Ups (debugger) | null | it does not use an intermediate widget toolkit such as Motif or GTK+. |
2009 International Bowl | Second quarter | ensuing kickoff saw yet another Connecticut special-teams blunder. UConn running back Robbie Frey misplayed the ball off of the kickoff, letting it roll back into the end zone. Frey recovered the loose ball; if he had simply taken a knee, by rule it would have been a touchback and the Huskies would have gotten the ball... |
2009 International Bowl | Second quarter | quarter UConn began the second quarter by having Tyler Lorenzen rush the ball for four yards. On 3rd and 7, Lorenzen attempted his first pass of the game, which was behind Husky wide receiver Michael Smith. Dave Teggart kicked a 32-yard field goal to increase Connecticut's lead to 10–3.
The Bulls began their next drive... |
1922 Wimbledon Championships | Men's Singles & Women's Singles & Men's Doubles & Women's Doubles & Mixed Doubles | 1922 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles Gerald Patterson defeated Randolph Lycett, 6–3, 6–4, 6–2 Women's Singles Suzanne Lenglen defeated Molla Mallory, 6–2, 6–0 Men's Doubles James Anderson / Randolph Lycett defeated Gerald Patterson / Pat O'Hara Wood, 3–6, 7–9, 6–4, 6–3, 11–9 Women's Doubles Suzanne Lenglen /... |
2011–12 Azerbaijan Premier League | Khazar Lankaran and Turan controversy & Championship group & Relegation group | has been disqualified for five matches and club received technical defeat of 0-3. Championship group The top six teams of the first phase participate in this group, which will decide which team will win the championship. Additionally, teams in this group compete for one 2012–13 Champions League and two Europa League sp... |
2011 UEFA European Under-21 Championship squads | null | the possession of the UEFA administration on or before 1 June 2011. Three of these 23 players must be goalkeepers. |
1999 Eastern League season | Championship Series | the series, the Navigators were leading 11-9 in the bottom of the ninth. The bases were loaded, there was 2 outs and a full count. That's when Milton Bradley hit a grand slam to win the game, and league championship, for the Senators. |
William Watt (Australian politician) | Federal politics | and stood against Nationalist candidates: one of these, John Latham, won the seat of Kooyong from the Nationalist member. After the elections, the newly formed Country Party held the balance of power, and used it to force Hughes's resignation. Watt was passed over for leadership of the new coalition government in favou... |
Zadankai | Role in the Soka Gakkai | Zadankai Zadankai (discussion meetings) are community-based conventicles which serve as the grassroots activity of Soka Gakkai members. They are the means for propagation and deepening faith. Soka Gakkai literature also describes them as being sites for neighborhood revitalization. Role in the Soka Gakkai The traditi... |
Žarko Paspalj | Aborted move to Atlanta Hawks | mentor Ivković – a move that would have delighted most fans of the Piraeus club, who still retained tremendous affection for Paspalj's achievement in raising the club into the powerhouse of Europe, despite his subsequent move to Panathinaikos. His stay in Atlanta, however, was even shorter than his tenure with the Spur... |
Žarko Paspalj | Panionios | Panionios Paspalj moved on in late summer of 1995 and after rumors of a move to Real Madrid proved unfounded, began the new season with Panionios Afisorama, also of Athens (Nea Smyrni). This was a smaller club that had regularly over-achieved, and it had the good fortune of being led by the great Dušan Ivković who knew... |
Western Australian Development Corporation | Perth Technical College site | prime central location on the main street, St Georges Terrace, and opposite the David Jones site. In May 1984, Burke requested the WADC to manage development of the site, on which stood one important heritage building, the 1910 Technical School designed by Hillson Beasley. It was the first property sale handled by the ... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | History & Preparation & General Preparation | the successful hosting of the 32nd National Games of India, which were held at Hyderabad, as the main reason for Hyderabad being chosen. Preparation The Indian Government spent ₹ 1.03 billion (US$22.92 million), for the Afro-Asian Games, making these Games one of the most expensive sporting events held in Hyderabad. Al... |
1969 York race riot | Investigations reopened | at the car carrying Lillie Belle Allen.
Eight days later, the day after winning the Democratic primary in his bid for re-election, York City mayor Charlie Robertson was arrested and charged in Allen's murder. The affidavit filed with his arrest stated that Rick Knouse told a grand jury that the mayor, who was a York po... |
Wembley Wizards | Background | he would have the unenviable task of marking Dixie Dean, the prolific Everton goalscorer. Hughie Gallacher was also selected despite having not played for two months.
The Scottish media was unimpressed by the selection, with the Daily Record commenting simply that "it's not a great side." Four of the England side were ... |
Wheelchair | All-terrain wheelchairs & Smart wheelchairs | unsteady terrain. Different models are available, both manual and battery-driven. In some countries in Europe, where accessible tourism is well established, many beaches have wheelchairs of this type available for loan/hire. Smart wheelchairs A smart wheelchair is any powerchair using a control system to augment or rep... |
Up (2009 film) | Plot | Muntz determinedly pursues them around the airship and disables Carl's house, but he inadvertently gets his foot caught on some loose balloon lines, causing him to fall to his death. The house, having lost too many balloons to fly, descends out of sight through the clouds.
Carl and Russell reunite Kevin with her chicks... |
1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11 | null | 1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11 The 1972 Giro d'Italia was the 55th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Venice on 21 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 1 June with a stage to Forte dei Marmi. The race finished in Milan on 11 June. |
William Brodie Gurney | Biography | Adopting the profession of his father and his grandfather, he commenced practice as a shorthand writer in 1803, and between that date and 1844 he took down in shorthand many of the most important appeals, trials, courts-martial, addresses, speeches, and libel cases, a number of which were printed as volumes from his no... |
1898 Windward Islands hurricane | Meteorological history | 1898 Windward Islands hurricane Meteorological history The storm developed in the south central Atlantic from an easterly wave out of Africa. The storm steadily strengthened and reached the Windward Islands as a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale. The hurricane roared directly over Barbados with... |
1980 Fiesta Bowl | Aftermath | and have met each other on a yearly basis since 1993. |
USS Garfield Thomas | World War II North Atlantic operations & Transfer to Pacific Theatre operations | convoy bound for the United Kingdom, arriving in Plymouth on 25 October. After returning to New York on 9 November the destroyer escort made four subsequent convoy-escort voyages to the United Kingdom, the last bringing her back to New York from Cardiff on 19 May 1945. Transfer to Pacific Theatre operations After repai... |
1871 Rockford Forest Citys season | Regular season | of their wins.
The star of the team was Cap Anson, who hit .325 for the Forest Citys and would go on to become the player-manager of the Chicago White Stockings for over 20 seasons. Anson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1939. |
2010 Team HTC–Columbia season | Giro d'Italia | the season's most prolific winner of individual days of racing and a heavy favorite in the Giro's flat stages, and Pinotti, who would try for a high overall placing and stage wins in the time trials. Pinotti was tenth in the stage 1 time trial in Amsterdam. Goss and Greipel both made all the splits occurring after many... |
1946 Cabinet Mission to India | Background | into three groups A,B,C clusters. Background Towards the end of their rule, the British found that their temporary patronage of the Muslim League conflicted with their longstanding need for Indian unity. The desire for a united India was an outcome of both their pride in having politically unified the subcontinent and ... |
1967–68 French Division 1 | null | 1967–68 French Division 1 AS Saint-Étienne won Division 1 season 1967/1968 of the French Association Football League with 57 points. |
1948 Geelong state by-election | null | nearly ten per cent swing away from Labor. This attracted comment from acting state Labor leader Bill Galvin, who said "there was a sinister influence in the way the Liberals and the Communists had put up a united front" in the by-election; and from Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley, who also noted the role of Communist... |
2009 International Bowl | Fourth quarter | a penalty on the kickoff return, Buffalo began to move down the field, with Drew Willy completing a 38-yard pass to wideout Brett Hamlin and a 29-yard pass to Naaman Roosevelt. On 3rd-and-4 from the Connecticut 19-yard line, Willy completed a ten-yard pass to James Starks, giving the Bulls a 1st-and-goal. Starks rushed... |
Whale watching | Northeast Pacific –Mexico and United States & Central Pacific –Hawaii | de Potosi on the south coast of Mexico in the state of Guerrero. A number of towns in Mexico celebrate the whale's arrival with festivals such as Guerrero Negro, in the first half of February and the port of San Blas on 24 and 25 February. Central Pacific –Hawaii Each winter 4,000 to 10,000 North Pacific humpback whale... |
147th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment | Detailed service & Casualties | Armies May 24. Casualties The regiment lost a total of 142 men during service; 7 officers and 71 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 61 enlisted men died of disease. |
1898 Windward Islands hurricane | Impact | Similar impact was reported in Cumberland, with one death. Only one house was not destroyed at Barrouallie. Thirty fatalities were reported, eleven of which occurred after a church which people sought refuge in was wrecked. In Layou, only the police barracks remained standing. Throughout Saint Vincent, many people suff... |
Zompa | null | Zompa Zompa is a village of Arapgir. It has population of about 318 (2000). |
1950 Atlético Mineiro European tour | Aftermath | major setback with the Maracanazo in the same year. The results achieved under adverse conditions and snowy grounds led to the dubbing of the team as Campeões do Gelo (Portuguese for "Ice Champions"), a feat remembered in the club's official anthem. |
1979–80 National Football League (Ireland) | Titles & Promotion and Relegation | 1979–80 National Football League (Ireland) Titles Teams in both divisions competed for the National Football League title.
There was also a separate National Football League Division Two title. Promotion and Relegation This was the last season of the present league format. For the 1980–81 season, the 32 counties were d... |
Transorma | Transorma | them.
Sorters read the address and selected a routing code on a keyboard. The machine typed the normally two-letter routing code onto the front of the mail in colored ink, allowing it to be sorted by hand at other offices. The machine then used the same typed route to set up a series of mechanical switches in the mecha... |
Walter T. Skallerup Jr. | Biography | at the Georgetown University Hospital.
Skallerup was heavily involved with his alma maters. The Walter T. Skallerup Jr. Track at Swarthmore College is named in his honor. He was a one-time chairman of the Yale Law School Fund and a scholarship at Yale Law School was created after his untimely death. |
Viking 2 | Orbiter | Viking 2 Orbiter The orbiter primary mission ended at the beginning of solar conjunction on October 5, 1976. The extended mission commenced on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction. On 20 December 1976 the periapsis was lowered to 778 km and the inclination raised to 80 degrees.
Operations included close approaches ... |
1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry | null | 1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry The 1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry (Garde-Reiter-Regiment (1. Schweres Regiment)) was a heavy cavalry of the Royal Saxon Army. Established in 1680 as a cuirassiers unit, the regiment fought in the Battle of Vienna (1683), the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession,... |
2009 International Bowl | Buffalo | winning the MAC West. Ball State was a two-touchdown favorite entering the game; Buffalo in its history was 0–5 against the Cardinals. The Bulls struck first with a touchdown late in the first quarter; Ball State responded with a touchdown and a field goal in the second quarter to take a 10–7 lead at the half. The two ... |
1980 Fiesta Bowl | Game summary | of 22 for 244 yards and three touchdowns while Penn State had just one early touchdown. But the second half is when the Nittany Lions came alive. Todd Blackledge, despite throwing 8 for 22 for only 117 yards the whole game, scored early in the third quarter on a 3-yard run to narrow the lead to 19-17. Schlichter went 5... |
Wu Ching-kuo | Financial Allegations against Wu | Allegations against Wu Under Wu, AIBA faces the risk of bankruptcy after investors demanded it immediately pays back millions of pounds in loans and investments it does not have. Azerbaijani company Benkons has sent a letter, demanding AIBA immediately repay a $10 million loan from 2011. That is over $2 million more th... |
Wintersingen | Demographics | industrial) that also had some housing (2.0%). Of the single family homes 39 were built before 1919, while 31 were built between 1990 and 2000.
In 2000 there were 248 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 74. There were 4 single room apartments and 113 apartments... |
Zebrawood | History | palmalatta, from palo mulatto, which was the local name for the wood. At the beginning of the 19th century, another source of zebrawood was found in Brazil. This species, Astronium fraxinifolium, is native to northern South America, especially north-eastern Brazil. It is now traded as goncalo alves, a Portuguese nam... |
Žarko Paspalj | Panionios | lean years he was nearing his peak once more. In just the second game of the season, Paspalj missed all eight two-point shots against Peristeri but still finished with 13 points, from 10/13 free throws and one three-pointer, indicating that his shot gradually was returning. In one performance against Sporting he scored... |
Trials HD | Gameplay | Trials HD Gameplay In Trials HD the player controls a rider on a physics-based motorcycle from the start of the level to the end while navigating a number of obstacles. The objective is to complete the course as fast as possible and with as few crashes, known in the game as faults, as possible. The game uses 3D graphic... |
1983 South American Championships in Athletics | null | 1983 South American Championships in Athletics The 1983 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santa Fe, Argentina. |
Unni Robbins II House | Description and history | Unni Robbins II House Description and history The Unni Robbins II House is located in central Newington, south of the town center, on the east side of Main Street just south of Robbins Avenue. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It is set high abo... |
2013 Philippine general election | Overseas & Local | may vote personally or via the mail, and via manually or via the automated system. Voting in Saudi Arabia began on April 16 after the Saudi customs refused to release the voting paraphernalia in time for April 13. Local Members of the police, military, members of the civil service and the media who had previously regis... |
Žarko Paspalj | 1991–92 season | 94-83 victory. Paspalj went on to score 30 points (11/13, 8/17, 1/3) in the game against PAOK that secured Olympiacos's first trip back to a title game in a decade. However PAOK defeated Olympiacos for the title. Other memorable games that season included a 39-point performance against arch-rivals Panathinaikos and a 4... |
Wahid Satay | Career | Cathay Keris Studios, Wahid starred in numerous lead and supporting actor comic parts, which led him to be labelled "the Jerry Lewis of Singapore and Malaya".
Apart from his iconic comedic role in 50 and 60s era, He also rose to fame with another comedic actor, Mat Sentul in the same period. Thus both of them had invol... |
Wind wave model | Coupled models & WAVEWATCH | the sea surface roughness. This allows the atmosphere to respond to changes in the surface roughness as the wind sea builds up or decays. WAVEWATCH The operational wave forecasting systems at NOAA are based on the WAVEWATCH III (R) model. This system has a global domain of approximately 50 km resolution, with nested re... |
2003 Afro-Asian Games | Opening ceremony | C. Balayogi Stadium - the main stadium of the events - at 5:30 pm IST. The organisers considered it as "a benchmark of the Games". The Opening ceremony of the Games showcased the cultural heritage of both the attending continents - Asia and Africa. 30,000 people came to watch the beginning of the gala sporting event. T... |
2012–13 Coppa Italia (ice hockey) | null | 2012–13 Coppa Italia (ice hockey) The 2012–13 Coppa Italia was contested by four teams. HC Valpellice defeated HC Alleghe to win the cup. The tournament was played over two days, from January 12–13, 2013. The top four teams in the Serie A at the time participated in the cup. |
2013 Philippine general election | Campaigning | elections, and returned to the original 2001 limit. The Fair Elections Act was not clear on whether the 120 minutes for TV and 180 minutes for radio were for every station or for all stations.
The commission, in a cost-saving measure, announced on January 18 that they ruled to use plastic seals with serial numbers inst... |
2007 Kazakh political shakeup | Appointments & Effects | Akhmetov replaced Mukhtar Altynbayev as Defense Minister. President Nazarbayev demoted Altynbayev to Deputy Minister of Defense. Galym Orazbakov replaced Vladimir Shkolnik as the Minister of Industry and Trade. Yerbol Orynbayev, a close aide to Nazarbayev, became Masimov's chief-of-staff. Shkolnick became the Deputy Ch... |
Viva Pataca | 2006–2011: Hong Kong | Cup to winner Armada.
With Michael Kinane back in the saddle, in early March 2007 Viva Pataca was second by a nose to Vengeance of Rain in the 2007 Hong Kong Gold Cup. After Vengeance of Rain won the 31 March Dubai Sheema Classic at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse in Dubai, on his return to Hong Kong he was the even-money favo... |
Walter Pyramid | University athletics & Non-university athletics | being the home for Long Beach State 49ers athletics, the Walter Pyramid as hosted several NCAA-sponsored events including numerous women’s volleyball NCAA matches, the 2001 and 2003 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championships and the 2003 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Regionals. Non-university athletics The Southern California Summe... |
2013 Philippine general election | Campaigning | cost the commission P14 million, while padlocks would have cost them P34.2 million. The commission also announced that voters would no longer place their thumbprints on the ballot; instead signatures would be used.
On January 23, the commission announced that it will be regulating the use of political colors, logos and... |
1971–72 Bahraini Premier League | Overview | 1971–72 Bahraini Premier League Statistics of Bahraini Premier League in the 1971–72 season. Overview Al-Ahli won the championship. |
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education | Mission & Beginnings & 1990s | investing in groundbreaking research and education." Beginnings Congress created the Agricultural Productivity Act in response to the need for government establishment of a sustainable agriculture program in 1985. In 1988, the first congressional appropriation was made to the program in the form of $3.9 million. In 199... |
1993 Minnesota Twins season | Defense | 1993 Minnesota Twins season Defense The team was strong defensively. Harper was a strong catcher, with a .988 fielding percentage. Hrbek was always strong at first base as well, making only five errors in 1993. Knoblauch was a good second baseman at this point in his career. Mike Pagliarulo played in about half the... |
Āma | Historicity | having been composed during Āma's reign is historically inaccurate. The correct name of the text composed during Āma's reign appears to be Madra-Mahi-Vijaya ("victory over Madra region"). The name suggests that Āma conquered the Madra region, which Lalitaditya is also said to have conquered. Shyam Manohar Mishra theori... |
Wreath | Wreath symbolism in England & Saint Lucy's Day crown | following the overthrow of Charles I of England, wreaths symbolized Royalist sympathies. In Bath, Somerset, the coronation of Charles II of England was marked with a procession of 400 maidens in white and green, carrying "gilded crowns, crowns made of flowers, and wreaths made of laurel mixed with tulips", and led by ... |
Volkoff Industries | Pierre, Victor, and Hercule & Riley | and Hercule Pierre, Victor, and Hercule were Volkoff's top assassins in North America. They attack Chuck and Sarah with knives but are soon slain by Mary. First seen in: Chuck Versus the Leftovers. Riley Riley (Ray Wise) is Volkoff's lawyer, handling Volkoff's estate after his arrest. Riley reads Vivian her father's wi... |
2007 Great Alaska Shootout | null | 2007 Great Alaska Shootout The 2007 Great Alaska Shootout was held from November 20, 2007 through November 24, 2007. |
Wicomico Church, Virginia | null | Wicomico Church, Virginia Wicomico Church is an unincorporated community in Northumberland County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Shalango was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. |
Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad | Line description | Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad Line description The YSRR begins in southern Youngstown, where it interchanges with CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway adjacent to the Mahoning River. It heads northwest up the river bank and then curves southwest to climb a ravine to the highlands of Boardman Towns... |
2007 McDonald's All-American Girls Game | 2007 Game | 2007 McDonald's All-American Girls Game 2007 Game The game was telecast live by ESPN. The sixth annual Girls Game kicked off an action packed evening at Freedom Hall. A crowd of nearly 12,000 fans witnessed a couple of record-breaking performances by our All American girls.
Wootten Award winner, Maya Moore (Connecticu... |
1935 World Series | Detroit: "City of Champions" | 1935 World Series Detroit: "City of Champions" When the Detroit Tigers won the 1935 World Series, the city of Detroit was mired in the Great Depression, which had hit the city and its industries particularly hard. However, with the success of the Tigers and other Detroit teams and athletes in 1935/36, Detroit's luck a... |
2008 California wildfires | Summer Fires | Horn Fire, which ignited on May 13. Three other minor wildfires ignited subsequently, but were extinguished by May 17. On May 20, the Avocado Fire ignited in Fresno County, only to be extinguished 2 days later. On May 22, 2008, the human-caused Summit Fire broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which became the first m... |
Women's music | HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture | The Journal of Women's Music and Culture HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture was a women's music magazine published three times a year from 1984–1994. It was founded in Chicago by volunteers Toni Armstrong Jr., Michele Gautreaux, Ann Morris and Yvonne Zipter; Armstrong Jr. became the sole publisher in 19... |
Willow Run High School | Dr. R. Wiley Brownlee | Willow Run High School Willow Run High School was a public high school in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. It was the high school of the Willow Run School District prior to the 2013 merger with the Ypsilanti Community Schools (YCS).
The "Flyers" were the school mascot.
After the merger, Ypsilanti Community High School, lo... |
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