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doc-en-9766_0 | Jozef Cywinski () (born on 13 March 1936) is a Polish-American scientist, a specialist in the field of biomedical engineering and specifically in electrical stimulation of living organisms. His work has been the subject of 12 patents, two books and over 100 scientific publications. He developed several first-on-the-mar... | 5,709 |
doc-en-9773_0 | Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as seen in sharks. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct conn... | 5,455 |
doc-en-6716_0 | The Four Branches of the Mabinogi or Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi are the earliest prose stories in the literature of Britain. Originally written in Wales in Middle Welsh, but widely available in translations, the Mabinogi is generally agreed to be a single work in four parts, or "branches." The interrelated tales can be re... | 6,625 |
doc-en-9796_0 | This is a list of foreign players (players from outside of the island of Ireland) to have played for League of Ireland clubs.
Only players not from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland are eligible for this list.
Africa (CAF)
Angola
Manuel Kaguako – Dundalk, Drogheda United
José Quitongo – Waterford
Rudy – W... | 7,758 |
doc-en-9803_0 | In South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the railways played a huge part in development and growth on nearly all terrains in the country. Conversely, events in South Africa and its neighbours over the years had a huge influence on the development of railways.
When the articles on the locomotives of South Africa are... | 7,130 |
doc-en-9810_0 | John Maxwell Roxburgh (February 14, 1901February 27, 1975) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator and politician. He organized minor ice hockey in his hometown of Simcoe, Ontario, co-founded the Ontario Juvenile Hockey Association in 1934, and the Ontario Minor Hockey Association in 1940. He served as president of the... | 5,565 |
doc-en-7345_0 | This is a list of 1301 game titles released for the Commodore 64 personal computer system, sorted alphabetically.
0–9
$100,000 Pyramid
007: Licence to Kill
10 Knockout!
10-Pin Bowling
10th Frame
10000 Meters
180
19 Part One: Boot Camp
1942
1943: One Year After
1943: The Battle of Midway
1985: The Day After
1994: Ten ... | 7,562 |
doc-en-7643_0 | The Kalenjin people are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to East Africa, with a presence, as dated by archaeology and linguistics, that goes back many centuries. Their history is therefore deeply interwoven with those of their neighboring communities as well as with the histories of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Su... | 6,236 |
doc-en-9908_0 | The 1978–79 NBA season was the 9th season of the team formerly known as the Buffalo Braves in the NBA. They had moved from Buffalo, New York to San Diego, California and rechristened themselves as the San Diego Clippers.
Draft picks
Roster
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doc-en-9915_0 | The Killer () is a 1989 Hong Kong action thriller film written and directed by John Woo, and starring Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sally Yeh. Chow plays the assassin Ah Jong, who accidentally damages the eyes of the singer Jennie (Sally Yeh) during a shootout. He later discovers that if Jennie does not undergo an expens... | 5,822 |
doc-en-9955_0 | The 8th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers was a unit of the British Volunteer Force raised in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1860. Later it transferred to the Territorial Force as a brigade of heavy artillery, and its batteries fought in many of the great battles on the Western Front in World War I.
Volunteer Force
The enthu... | 5,699 |
doc-en-9962_0 | The Triffids were an Australian alternative rock and pop band, formed in Perth in Western Australia in May 1978 with David McComb as singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboardist. They achieved some success in Australia, but greater success in the UK and Scandinavia in the 1980s before disbanding in 1989... | 6,015 |
doc-en-9988_0 | Imagine Dragons is an American pop rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee and drummer Daniel Platzman. The band first gained exposure with the release of their single "It's Time", followed by their award-winning debut studio album Night Visio... | 6,027 |
doc-en-9883_0 | Command & Conquer (also known by the retronym Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn) is a 1995 real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. Set in an alternate history, the game tells the story of a world war between two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative o... | 6,385 |
doc-en-10019_0 | The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A soprano oboe measures roughly long, with metal keys, a conical bore and a fl... | 7,006 |
doc-en-7099_0 | Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage that likely began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder.... | 6,094 |
doc-en-10081_0 | This page lists chronologically the first achievements in cinema. The development of cinema is characterised by technological breakthroughs, from early experiments in the recording of day-to-day activity, experiments in colour, different formats and sound. From the 1970s, the development of computer-generated imagery b... | 6,525 |
doc-en-10106_0 | Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a coastal town and port in West Sussex, England.
The town is bordered to its north by the South Downs, to its west by the Adur Valley and to its south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach on the English Channel. The town lies in the middle of the ribbon of urban develop... | 6,006 |
doc-en-10112_0 | The bibliography covers the main scholarly books, and a few articles, dealing with the History of Japan
Surveys and reference
Allinson, Gary D. The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. (1999). 259 pp. excerpt and text search
Beasley, W. G. The Modern History of Japan (1963)
Clement, Ernest Wilson. A Short H... | 6,827 |
doc-en-10118_0 | On the afternoon of Monday, May 20, 2013, a large and extremely powerful EF5 tornado ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas, with peak winds estimated at , killing 24 people (plus two indirect fatalities) and injuring 212 others. The tornado was part of a larger weather system that had produced several other torna... | 5,630 |
doc-en-10130_0 | Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is a discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal informatio... | 6,348 |
doc-en-6897_0 | {{Infobox COA case
|Litigants=In re Bilski
|Court=United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
|ArgueDate=May 8
|ArgueYear=2008
|DecideDate=October 30
|DecideYear=2008
|FullName=In re Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw
|Citations=545 F.3d 943, 88 U.S.P.Q.2d 1385
|Prior=Claims rejected, Ex ... | 5,459 |
doc-en-10148_0 | The Negative Zone is a fictional setting, an antimatter universe appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The location is depicted in various publications from Marvel, most frequently in Fantastic Four and Captain Marvel. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, it first appeared in Fantastic Four #51 (... | 5,619 |
doc-en-10152_0 | A junk is a type of Chinese sailing ship with fully battened sails. There are two types of junk in China: the northern junk, which developed from Chinese river boats, and southern junk, which developed from Austronesian ship designs used in trade with the Eastern Han dynasty since the 2nd century AD. They continued to ... | 5,785 |
doc-en-10185_0 | Hun () and po () are types of souls in Chinese philosophy and traditional religion. Within this ancient soul dualism tradition, every living human has both a hun spiritual, ethereal, yang soul which leaves the body after death, and also a po corporeal, substantive, yin soul which remains with the corpse of the deceased... | 5,951 |
doc-en-10198_0 | West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford. The population was 64,083 at the 2020 census.
The town's popular downtown area is colloquially known as "West Hartford Center," or simply "The Center," and is centered on Farmington Avenue and South/North Main Street. W... | 5,859 |
doc-en-10227_0 | The Indigo Tribe is a fictional organization that appears in DC Comics publications, primarily those of the Green Lantern series. In the DC Universe, it is one of the seven major groups known as the Corps of the emotional spectrum. The group was created by comic book writer Geoff Johns and comic book artist Ethan Van S... | 5,883 |
doc-en-10233_0 | Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over six decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards,... | 6,066 |
doc-en-10251_0 | Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay written by Lawrence D. Cohen, adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name. The film stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy 16-year-old who is consistently mocked and bullied at school. The film als... | 5,712 |
doc-en-10261_0 | American Airlines Flight 320 was a scheduled flight between Chicago Midway International Airport and New York City's LaGuardia Airport. On February 3, 1959, the Lockheed L-188 Electra performing the flight crashed into the East River during its descent, killing 65 of the 73 people on board. Poor weather conditions at t... | 6,043 |
doc-en-10292_0 | In mathematics, and especially differential geometry and gauge theory, a connection on a fiber bundle is a device that defines a notion of parallel transport on the bundle; that is, a way to "connect" or identify fibers over nearby points. The most common case is that of a linear connection on a vector bundle, for whic... | 5,537 |
doc-en-8216_0 | In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many intermediate states are known to exist, such as liquid crystal, and some states only exist under extreme conditions, such as Bose–Einstein con... | 5,251 |
doc-en-10335_0 | This is a list of books by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of American author Daniel Handler. Works published under the name Daniel Handler are not included. Handler, as Snicket, has published 26 fiction novels, thirteen in the main A Series of Unfortunate Events franchise. His works have been translated into more than 40... | 6,165 |
doc-en-10396_0 | Aerial advertising is a form of advertising that incorporates the use of flogos, manned aircraft, or drones to create, transport, or display, advertising media. The media can be static, such as a banner, logo, lighted sign or sponsorship branding. It can also be dynamic, such as animated lighted signage, skywriting, or... | 6,016 |
doc-en-10415_0 | The Rio is a hotel and casino near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned by Dreamscape Companies LLC and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It includes a casino and 2,520 suites. It features a Brazilian theme based on Rio Carnival.
The Rio opened on January 15, 1990, with a casino and 4... | 6,054 |
doc-en-8474_0 | Ma Jir Bo or Ma Jiabao (; 26 August 1927 – 8 December 1985) was a Chinese realism artist and oil painter. Ma is praised for his great portraitures, highly realistic texture-feeling still lifes and memory-rekindling landscapes of Hong Kong all that made him a leading oil painter of his era. Ma is regarded as 'the legacy... | 6,500 |
doc-en-10446_0 | London Bridge is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Southwark, south-east London. It occupies a large area on three levels immediately south-east of London Bridge, from which it takes its name. The main line station is the oldest railway station in London fare zone 1 and one o... | 5,784 |
doc-en-10467_0 | The Selous Scouts was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe in 1980. It was mainly responsible for infiltrating the black majority population of Rhodesia and collecting intelligence on insurgents so that the... | 5,557 |
doc-en-7460_0 | The Israelites (; ) were a confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes of the ancient Near East, who inhabited a part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods.
Two related Israelite kingdoms, Israel and Judah, emerged during the monarchic period. The northern Kingdom of Israel, with its capital in Samar... | 5,579 |
doc-en-9148_0 | Daniel Graham (March 31, 1942 – February 19, 2022) was an American visual artist, writer, and curator in the writer-artist tradition. In addition to his visual works, he published a large array of critical and speculative writing that spanned the spectrum from heady art theory essays, reviews of rock music, Dwight D. E... | 6,141 |
doc-en-10495_0 | Liberty, formerly, and still formally, called the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), is an advocacy group and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, which challenges unjust laws, protects civil liberties and promotes human rights. It does this through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider c... | 5,759 |
doc-en-10514_0 | King's Highway 17, more commonly known as Highway 17, is a provincially maintained highway and the primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at the Manitoba boundary, west of Kenora, and the main section ends where Highway 417 begins just west of Arnprior. A small di... | 6,448 |
doc-en-10540_0 | According to the Fourth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2005–2010), the Privatization Organization of Iran affiliated with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance is in charge of setting prices and ceding shares to the general public and on the Tehran Stock Exchange. The privatization effort is primarily back... | 6,147 |
doc-en-10557_0 | Hurling (, ) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much terminology. There is a very similar game for women called camogie (), which shares a... | 6,361 |
doc-en-10575_0 | Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and former pornographic actress. Lords entered into the adult film industry by using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of eighteen. Lords starred in adult films and was one of the most sought-... | 6,147 |
doc-en-10600_0 | The Portuguese local election of 2005 took place on 9 October 2005. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected mayor, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assem... | 6,394 |
doc-en-5109_0 | The Corps of Discovery was a specially-established unit of the United States Army which formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that took place between May 1804 and September 1806. The Corps was led jointly by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark. Commissioned by President Thomas Je... | 5,896 |
doc-en-7969_0 | Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJB; formerly Enterprise JavaBeans) is one of several Java APIs for modular construction of enterprise software. EJB is a server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application. An EJB web container provides a runtime environment for web related software components,... | 6,080 |
doc-en-10661_0 | The East Region () occupies the southeastern portion of the Republic of Cameroon. It is bordered to the east by the Central African Republic, to the south by Congo, to the north by the Adamawa Region, and to the west by the Centre and South Regions. With 109,002 km2 of territory, it is the largest region in the nation ... | 5,822 |
doc-en-10668_0 | The IND Culver Line (formerly BMT Culver Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, extending from Downtown Brooklyn south to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The local tracks of the Culver Line are served by the F service, as well as the G between Bergen Street an... | 6,418 |
doc-en-10674_0 | Russian federal highways (; lit. Highways of federal importance of the Russian Federation) are the most important highways in Russia that are federal property. The following motorways are designated as federal.
All highways
that connect Moscow with the capitals of the neighbouring countries and with the administrativ... | 6,968 |
doc-en-10688_0 | Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward, he was appointed the founding editor of The Economic Journal.
Life
Edgeworth was born in Edgeworthsto... | 6,008 |
doc-en-10705_0 | Real-time strategy (RTS) is a subgenre of strategy video games that do not progress incrementally in turns, but allow all players to play simultaneously, in "real time". By contrast, in turn-based strategy (TBS) games, players take turns to play. The term "real-time strategy" was coined by Brett Sperry to market Dune ... | 6,315 |
doc-en-10745_0 | John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, (31 May 1868 – 7 November 1947), also known as Jack Seely, was a British Army general and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924. He was Secretary of State for War for the tw... | 6,227 |
doc-en-10753_0 | Hill Street Blues is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station located on Hill Street in an unnamed large city. The "blues" are the police officers... | 6,702 |
doc-en-10773_0 | This list contains the names of albums that contain a hidden track and also information on how to find them. Not all printings of an album contain the same track arrangements, so some copies of a particular album may not have the hidden track(s) listed below. Some of these tracks may be hidden in the pregap, and some h... | 5,945 |
doc-en-10785_0 | The Kangaroo Chronicles are a book series by the German author, singer-songwriter and Kabarett artist Marc-Uwe Kling. The first book in the series, Die Känguru-Chroniken (en: The Kangaroo Chronicles), was published in 2009. The second volume, Das Känguru-Manifest (en: The Kangaroo Manifesto), was published in 2011; the... | 6,038 |
doc-en-8677_0 | In mathematics, the congruence lattice problem asks whether every algebraic distributive lattice is isomorphic to the congruence lattice of some other lattice. The problem was posed by Robert P. Dilworth, and for many years it was one of the most famous and long-standing open problems in lattice theory; it had a deep i... | 5,805 |
doc-en-8281_0 | The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA; , ) is an agreement between the government of Canada and approximately 86,000 Indigenous peoples in Canada who at some point were enrolled as children in the Canadian Indian residential school system, a system which was in place between 1879 and 1997. The IRSS... | 6,068 |
doc-en-10837_0 | Bronshtein and Semendyayev (often just Bronshtein or Bronstein, sometimes BS) is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas originally compiled by the Russian mathematician Ilya Nikolaevich Bronshtein and engineer Konstantin Adolfovic Semendyayev.... | 7,154 |
doc-en-10857_0 | Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century English feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. Original Stories begins with a frame story that sketches out the educatio... | 5,708 |
doc-en-10868_0 |
Events
Pre-1600
1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1483 – Gran C... | 7,281 |
doc-en-6018_0 |
Events
Pre-1600
2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.
52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark An... | 6,741 |
doc-en-8556_0 | The characters from The Mistmantle Chronicles series.
Main character
Urchin Urchin is a young, honey-colored red squirrel that is orphaned from birth and is not from the island of Mistmantle. His parents were Candle from Whitewings and Almond, originally from Ashfire, but then moved to Whitewings. Urchin looks up ... | 5,862 |
doc-en-10971_0 | Kathleen Mary Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American comedian and actress who has starred in television comedy specials and has released comedy albums. In 2007 and 2008, Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. She has also appeared in supporting roles in film... | 5,975 |
doc-en-10975_0 | A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive. Ties or draws are possible in some, but not all, sports and games. Such an outcome, sometimes referred to as deadlock, can also occur in other areas of life such as politics, business, and wherever there are different factions r... | 5,909 |
doc-en-10997_0 | John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Grant administration. A longtime confidant of Ulysses S. Grant, Rawlins served on Grant's staff throughout the war, rising to the rank of brevet major general, and... | 5,537 |
doc-en-11068_0 | List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1958.
1958 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Lionel Abel, Writer; Professor Emeritus of English, State University of New York, Buffalo: 1958.
S. Spafford Ackerly, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Louisville School of Medicine: 1958.
Putnam C. Aldrich, ... | 6,190 |
doc-en-11081_0 | Henrikh Mkhitaryan (, ; born 21 January 1989) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays for club Roma and captains the Armenia national team.
Mkhitaryan mainly plays as an attacking midfielder or winger. He won four Armenian Premier League titles with Pyunik, and joined Metalurh Donetsk in 2009; he moved to ci... | 6,272 |
doc-en-6904_0 | Christopher Scoville (born February 17, 1984) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Jimmy Jacobs. He is signed to Impact Wrestling as a member of the creative team and producer. He is best known for his 12-year career in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a five-time World Tag Team Champion.... | 5,834 |
doc-en-10458_0 | A centennial conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) occurred between 1984 and 1986. The Statue of Liberty, by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, is a colossal sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor and is a part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Muc... | 5,683 |
doc-en-8496_0 | Referendums in the United Kingdom are occasionally held at a national, regional or local level. Historically, national referendums are rare due to the ancient principle of parliamentary sovereignty: there is no constitutional requirement to hold a national referendum for any purpose or on any issue; but the UK Parliame... | 6,078 |
doc-en-11186_0 | Ross Edwards (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. His distinctive sound world reflects his interest in deep ecology and his belief in the need to reconnect music with elemental forces, ... | 5,814 |
doc-en-11196_0 | In the United Kingdom, medical school generally refers to a department within a university which is involved in the education of future medical practitioners. All leading British medical schools are state-funded and their core purpose is to train doctors on behalf of the National Health Service. Courses generally last... | 6,049 |
doc-en-11209_0 | The monarchy of Barbados was a system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of Barbados. Barbados shared the Sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms, with the country's monarchy being separate and legally distinct. The Barbadian monarch's operational and ceremonial duties ... | 5,595 |
doc-en-11216_0 | The Singh Sabha Movement was a Sikh movement that began in Punjab in the 1870s in reaction to the proselytising activities of Christians, Hindu reform movements (Brahmo Samajis, Arya Samaj) and Muslims (Aligarh movement and Ahmadiyah). The movement was founded in an era when the Sikh Empire had been dissolved and annex... | 5,972 |
doc-en-11256_0 | Rokhaya Diallo (born 10 April 1978), is a French journalist, author, filmmaker, and activist for racial, gender and religious equality. According to The New York Times, she is “one of France's most prominent anti-racism activists.” She is a BET-France host and has produced and/or directed documentaries, television and ... | 6,179 |
doc-en-11286_0 | The Holy Cross dispute occurred in 2001 and 2002 in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the 30-year conflict known as the Troubles, Ardoyne had become segregated – Ulster Protestants and Irish Catholics lived in separate areas. This left Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls, in the mi... | 6,345 |
doc-en-11303_0 | A comparison of Canadian football and rugby union is possible because of the games' shared origins, despite their dissimilarities.
Most significant differences
The most significant difference in play is the allowance of blocking for the ball carrier, which is to say preventing a defender from tackling the player with... | 6,251 |
doc-en-11310_0 | The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that was included with Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse with Wound. There are 291 entries on the list. The list was expanded with Nurse with Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a T... | 6,448 |
doc-en-4662_0 | Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points... | 5,732 |
doc-en-11360_0 | Kiliia Raion () was a raion (district) in Odessa Oblast of Ukraine. It was part of the historical region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center was the city of Kiliia. The small sector of the Danube Delta that lies in Ukraine lied partially in this raion. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Izma... | 6,077 |
doc-en-9290_0 | St. Louis Lambert International Airport , formerly Lambert–St. Louis International Airport, is an international airport serving metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in Missouri. The airport sits northwest of dow... | 5,766 |
doc-en-11419_0 | Warner Bros. Movie World is a theme park on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Owned and operated by Village Roadshow's Theme Parks division, the park opened on 3 June 1991. It is part of a entertainment precinct, with the adjacent Village Roadshow Studios and nearby Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast, among other sites oper... | 5,970 |
doc-en-8812_0 | The Amazing Race Vietnam: Cuộc đua kỳ thú 2013 is the second season of the reality television game show, The Amazing Race Vietnam. It featured nine teams of two in a race around Vietnam for 300 million₫.
The program premiered on 26 July on VTV3 and will air every Friday (20:00 UTC+7).
The host for the second season i... | 7,270 |
doc-en-10764_0 | Gliwice ( ) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The city is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (a tributary of the Oder). It lies approximately 25 km west from Katowice, the regional capital of the Silesian Voivodeship.
Gliwice is the westernmost city of the Upper Silesian metropolis,... | 6,699 |
doc-en-11447_0 | Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta wor... | 6,539 |
doc-en-11456_0 | This article provides the timeline of the 2006 Canadian federal election, which was called on November 29, 2005 when the Governor General dissolved parliament following the government's defeat in a motion of no confidence. The election was held on January 23, 2006.
2004
November 18, 2004 - Outspoken Liberal Party Mem... | 6,031 |
doc-en-11493_0 | A dynamometer or "dyno" for short, is a device for simultaneously measuring the torque and rotational speed (RPM) of an engine, motor or other rotating prime mover so that its instantaneous power may be calculated, and usually displayed by the dynamometer itself as kW or bhp.
In addition to being used to determine the... | 5,881 |
doc-en-4910_0 | One Day International (ODI) cricket is played between international cricket teams who are Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as well as the top four Associate members. Unlike Test matches, ODIs consist of one inning per team, having a limit in the number of overs, currently 50 overs per innings – a... | 6,148 |
doc-en-10271_0 | This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Thailand. There are 264 mammal species in Thailand, of which three are critically endangered, eleven are endangered, twenty-four are vulnerable, and two are near threatened. One of the species listed for Thailand is considered to be extinct.
The following tags are used ... | 6,577 |
doc-en-11547_0 | Fei Yi (died 16 February 253), courtesy name Wenwei, was a regent and military general of the state of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Born in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Fei Yi started his career as an attendant to Liu Shan, the eldest son and heir apparent of Liu Bei, a warlord who became the foundin... | 5,867 |
doc-en-11554_0 | John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1750 – 3 April 1842) was a British peer who served as a Member of Parliament in general support of William Pitt the Younger and was later an active member of the House of Lords. His violent attacks on Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox in the early 1780s led to his being the target for sati... | 6,174 |
doc-en-11344_0 | Though no standard exists, numerous calendars and other timekeeping approaches have been proposed for the planet Mars. The most commonly seen in the scientific literature denotes the time of year as the number of degrees from the northern vernal equinox, and increasingly there is use of numbering the Martian years begi... | 6,463 |
doc-en-11633_0 | Alexander Lavelle Harris is a fictional character created for the action-horror/fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). He was developed by Joss Whedon and portrayed throughout the television series by Nicholas Brendon and in two episodes by his twin brother, Kelly Donovan. He was conceived as a... | 6,295 |
doc-en-11658_0 | Mary H J Henderson (born 1874 – 6 November 1938) was an administrator with Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the Balkans in World War I, earning five medals. She founded social work and civic groups led by women, in Dundee, Aberdeen and London and served on charitable bodies including Du... | 5,701 |
doc-en-11690_0 | The Chicago Sky are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, playing in the Eastern Conference of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The franchise was founded prior to the 2006 WNBA season. The Sky experienced a period of success from 2013 to 2016, making four playoff appearances and ... | 6,775 |
doc-en-11702_0 | The Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913 was led by Wilhelm Filchner in the exploration ship . Its principal objective was to determine whether the Antarctic continent comprised a single landmass rather than separated elements, and in particular whether the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea were connected by a strait... | 6,341 |
doc-en-8525_0 | The COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland has impacted the country's judicial system. Several people were arrested for COVID-19-related offences, while prisoners were released. Two operations, Operation Fanacht and Operation Navigation, were launched.
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The Garda Síochána (Irish police) announced ... | 6,012 |
doc-en-7376_0 | Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani () is an Indian television drama series that aired from 21 December 2020 to 24 July 2021 on StarPlus. The series was a remake of Star Jalsha's Bengali series Mohor. Produced under DJ's Creative Unit, it starred Debattama Saha as Anokhi Bhalla and Karanvir Sharma as Shaurya Sabherwal.
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