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1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Fiorella Terenzi
Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian-born astrophysicist, author and recording artist who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from far-away galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United State... | 15,400 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
of California, San Diego, she pioneered techniques to convert radio waves emanating from distant galaxies into sound, with some of the results released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD "Music from the Galaxies". The goal of her audiofication/sonification of celestial data is to investigate how sou... | 15,401 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Universe" and "Ancient Aliens", and others. She has appeared and/or is referenced in numerous print media including The Wall Street Journal, People, Time, The Quest magazine, Electronic Musician magazine, Glamour magazine, Details magazine, Los Angeles Reader, and Los Angeles Daily News, as well as app... | 15,402 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
MIT, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History (NY), and in performances, live and on TV, in the US, Europe, and Japan, Terenzi has combined science and art to awaken people to the wonders of the universe. She has moderated hundreds of panels on science, technology, education ... | 15,403 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Terenzi addressed The New York Times International Luxury Conference, a two-day event bringing together over 500 business and creative leaders in Miami on December 2–3, 2014, in a talk entitled "The Collaborative Mind: Bridging Astrophysics and Aesthetics", and was interviewed on AriseTV's Arise Xchang... | 15,404 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Terenzi participated on a panel at the Digital Hollywood- Los Angeles event discussing "Women on the Creative Edge: Experiences in a Changing Landscape", and on October 29, 2018 she delivered a talk entitled "Star Songs: Experiencing the Unseeable" at California State University- Channel Islands, where... | 15,405 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
"Women on the Creative Edge: From Film to TV to Athletes, Wellness & Technology".
# Career.
During her term as Director of New Media at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium, Terenzi arranged and hosted events including "National Astronomy Day", produced Planetarium Shows includin... | 15,406 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
York), City University of New York's (Borough of Manhattan Community College and Bronx Community College), Brevard Community College, Pierce and Glendale College (Los Angeles).
Currently, she is a full-time Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, where in 2... | 15,407 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
The Sounds of the Universe".
Dr. Terenzi organized and hosted a March 2, 2018 event for FIU's College of Arts, Science & Education entitled "Physics & Ferraris", showcasing a variety of exotic Ferrari sports cars and featuring an address by renowned inventor, vehicle designer, and former Walt Disney I... | 15,408 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Fiorella Terenzi, (Island/PolyGram Records, 1991)
- "The Gate to the Mind's Eye" Soundtrack, Composers/Performers-Thomas Dolby and Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, Giant/Warnber Bros. Records, 1994)
- Billboard Top 20 Music Video "The Gate to the Mind's Eye" with Thomas Dolby
- "Beyond Life", Mercury records' ... | 15,409 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Breath" appear in the track "Karmacoma", on "Protection", Massive Attack, Virgin Records, 1995.
She has collaborated with the likes of Thomas Dolby, Timothy Leary, Herbie Hancock, and Ornette Coleman, and in June, 2017, Dr. Terenzi joined electronic artist Manipulant (David Speakman) on his new album ... | 15,410 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Company), which blends astronomy and music into an entertaining and enlightening voyage through the stars, and won the SIGCAT (Special Interest Group on CD Applications and Technology) award for "Most Creative Application of Multimedia in Higher and Adult Education".
She is also known for a sexually c... | 15,411 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
("Der Kosmos ist weiblich"- Bertelsmann/Goldmann), Latvian and other languages.
Terenzi wrote the foreword for Paula Berinstein's book "Making Space Happen: Private Space Efforts and the People Behind Them" and has been featured in full chapter in Laura Woodmansee's "Women of Space: Cool Careers on th... | 15,412 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
created the acclaimed, grant-winning "BCC Space&Astronomy Lecture Series" in an effort to inspire and educate the public, including current and potential future students, about the beauty and magnificence of the universe. Each month hundreds attend this lecture series.
She has a strong interest in inn... | 15,413 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
curiosity and individual thinking; and an "Invisible Universe" learning module to explore celestial objects in multi-wavelengths.
Dr. Terenzi's lectures are based on a unique blend of science and art, knowledge and emotion—a concept she calls "Emotional Learning," since it is based on the 4 "E"s: Ente... | 15,414 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
and for "QVC Japan" as "Stellare" in silver and cubic zirconia.
Dr. Terenzi premiered her unique new "Let's Get Astrophysical" multi-media show for the Miami Beach Centennial Celebration on March 23, 2015 on the oceanfront Hard Rock Rising stage in South Beach. The show featured the first and only Top... | 15,415 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
Society. She has been an Apple Computer AppleMaster since 1994, and she is Vice-President and Miami-Dade Social Chair of the Ferrari Club of America – Florida Region.
She is an "Adviser and Scientific Consultant" to the Italian Academy of food for the "Italian Food in Space" effort, enabling NASA Spac... | 15,416 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
the Foundation's Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board.
Ermenegildo Zegna's renowned fashion designer Stefano Pilati commissioned Dr. Terenzi to create a journey into space, using real images and her acoustic astronomy sounds in a ground-breaking video for Zegna's Fall-Winter 2014 Men's Collection. This new un... | 15,417 |
1215221 | Fiorella Terenzi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiorella%20Terenzi | Fiorella Terenzi
which represents a collaboration between Terenzi, fellow astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Pilati, is entitled "City and Nature- Scientist Cut". It forms the framework of an innovative new 23-window display at Harrods, the luxury London department store. From October 2–19, 2014, new "Whispering W... | 15,418 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
The I Tatti Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Harvard University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf (vers... | 15,419 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
been translated into English before, and the series promises to increase the understanding of the Renaissance among the general public and non-specialist historians by making primary sources accessible, thus giving a window into the minds of Renaissance thinkers themselves.
The books of... | 15,420 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
are notable for their overall readability. Anthony Grafton said of the Latin texts: "though not full, critical editions, [they] are correct, well punctuated and readable. The English translations have an unusual clarity, elegance and precision" (see article under External links).
The se... | 15,421 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
trans. James Hankins and D.J.W. Bradley
- "Platonic Theology, Volume 1", Marsilio Ficino, ed. James Hankins, trans. Michael J.B. Allen, 2001
- "Volume 2" available in 2002
- "Volume 3" available in 2003
- "Volume 4" available in 2004
- "Volume 5" available in 2005
- "Volume 6" avai... | 15,422 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Volume 1", Pius II, ed. Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta, 2004
- "Volume 2" available in 2007
- "Invectives", Francesco Petrarca, ed. and trans. David Marsh, 2004
- Paperback available in 2008
- "Later Travels", Cyriac of Ancona, ed. and trans. Edward W. Bodnar, 2004
- "Short... | 15,423 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Gioviano Pontano, ed. and trans. Dennis G. Rodney, 2006
- "Letters, Volume 1", Angelo Poliziano, ed. and trans. Shane Butler, 2006
- "Baldo, Volume 1", Teofilo Folengo, ed. and trans. Ann E. Mullaney, 2007
- "Volume 2" available in 2008
- "Ciceronian Controversies", ed. Joann Dellane... | 15,424 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
2008
- "Essays and Dialogues", Bartolomeo Scala, ed. and trans. Renee Neu Watkins, 2008
- "Lives of the Popes, Volume 1: Antiquity", Bartolomeo Platina, ed. and trans. Anthony F. d' Elia, 2008
- "Poems", Cristoforo Landino, ed. and trans. Mary P. Chatfield, 2008
- "Writings on Church... | 15,425 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
De Faxolis, ed. and trans. Bonnie J. Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, 2010
- "The Hermaphrodite", Antonio Beccadelli, ed. and trans. Holt Parker, 2010
- "Sacred Painting. Museum", Federico Borromeo, ed. and trans. Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr., 2010
- "Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, ... | 15,426 |
1215252 | The I Tatti Renaissance Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20I%20Tatti%20Renaissance%20Library | The I Tatti Renaissance Library
rico Borromeo, ed. and trans. Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr., 2010
- "Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 1", Giovanni Boccaccio, ed. and trans. Jon Solomon, 2011
- "Humanist Tragedies", ed. and trans. Gary R. Grund, 2011
- "Letters to Friends", Bartolomeo Fonzio, ed. Alessandro Daneloni, t... | 15,427 |
1215254 | William Mariner (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Mariner%20(VC) | William Mariner (VC)
William Mariner (VC)
William Mariner (29 May 1882 – 1 July 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Details.
Mariner, the son of Mrs A. Wignall was... | 15,428 |
1215254 | William Mariner (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Mariner%20(VC) | William Mariner (VC)
a large scale raid in the Railroad Triangle, south of Loos. This raid was a diversionary attack on the eve of the Somme offensive. His death was witnessed by Giles E. M. Eyre and others who wrote "that Mariner seemed to lose control during a heavy bombardment, ran down an enemy trench and was last ... | 15,429 |
1215250 | Tom Hunter (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Hunter%20(VC) | Tom Hunter (VC)
Tom Hunter (VC)
Thomas Peck Hunter VC (6 October 1923 – 3 April 1945) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
# Background.
Thomas Hunter was born in Aldershot ... | 15,430 |
1215250 | Tom Hunter (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Hunter%20(VC) | Tom Hunter (VC)
Swinney, is the Scottish finance secretary and Member of the Scottish Parliament.
# Military career.
At the outbreak of the war he served in the Home Guard and was called up on 8 May 1942 for military service. He enlisted as a hostilities–only (HO) marine on 23 June 1942. He was promoted LCpl on 6 Oct... | 15,431 |
1215250 | Tom Hunter (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Hunter%20(VC) | Tom Hunter (VC)
gun section, offered himself as a target to save his troop. Seizing the Bren gun, he charged alone across 200 yards of open ground under most intense fire towards a group of houses where three MG 42 machine-guns were lodged. So determined was his charge that the enemy soldiers were demoralized and six g... | 15,432 |
1215250 | Tom Hunter (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Hunter%20(VC) | Tom Hunter (VC)
the London Gazette of 12 June 1945 reads:
King George VI presented his VC to his parents at a private investiture on 26 September 1945 at Holyrood House. In September 1974 the medal was donated by his sister and nephew to the Royal Marines Museum in Southsea, where all 10 Royal Marines VCs are securely... | 15,433 |
1215250 | Tom Hunter (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Hunter%20(VC) | Tom Hunter (VC)
Memorials and Tributes
- Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, Scotland – Memorial to Thomas Hunter (pictured)
- Royal Marines Museum, Eastney – Personal display in medal room and also named on 43 Commando memorial in the museum’s Memorial Garden.
- Memorial at Porto Garibaldi, Italy – unveiled April 1992.
- M... | 15,434 |
1215250 | Tom Hunter (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom%20Hunter%20(VC) | Tom Hunter (VC)
hool, Edinburgh - Plaque
- Tynecastle High School, Edinburgh – Memorial.
- Gibraltar Building, HMNB Clyde – Display and tribute adjacent to 43 Commando’s Colours cabinet.
- House Plaque, Stenhouse – a plaque placed on one of a small development of eight houses in Stenhouse in March 1954.
- Buildings... | 15,435 |
1215256 | Waldemar Koch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waldemar%20Koch | Waldemar Koch
Waldemar Koch
Waldemar Koch (25 September 1880 – 15 May 1963) was a German liberal politician and economist.
He was born in Bad Harzburg, Duchy of Brunswick. Koch studied Economics, Philosophy and History at Berlin He received a doctorate in 1907 for a dissertation entitled "Consolidation in the German ... | 15,436 |
1215256 | Waldemar Koch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waldemar%20Koch | Waldemar Koch
Democratic Party "(Deutsche Demokratische Partei)". Between the wars he worked as an economist and professor on the Technical University of Berlin.
After World War II he co-founded the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in the Soviet Occupied Zone (SBZ). In 1945 he was briefly the Chairman of the... | 15,437 |
1215256 | Waldemar Koch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waldemar%20Koch | Waldemar Koch
s he worked as an economist and professor on the Technical University of Berlin.
After World War II he co-founded the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in the Soviet Occupied Zone (SBZ). In 1945 he was briefly the Chairman of the LDPD, but the Soviets forced him to resign after a few months. He ... | 15,438 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
John Wood
John Wood may refer to:
# Entertainment.
- John Wood (Australian actor, 1909–1965)
- John Wood (Australian actor) (born 1946), police drama "Blue Heelers"
- John Wood (English actor) (1930–2011), Shakespearean actor
- Mrs. John Wood (1831–1915), British actor
- John Wood (artist) (1922–2012),... | 15,439 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
English history and portrait painter, see Thomas Stothard
- John Wood, birth name of actor John Fortune
# Military.
- John M. Wood (general), United States Air Force major general
- John Augustus Wood (1818–1878), British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient
- John Shirley Wood (1888–1966), United States Ar... | 15,440 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
John Wood (governor) (1798–1880), governor of Illinois
- John F. Wood Jr. (born 1936), Maryland House of Delegates
- John J. Wood (1784–1874), U.S. Representative from New York
- John M. Wood (1813–1864), U.S. Representative from Maine
- John Stephens Wood (1885–1968), chairman of the House Un-American Ac... | 15,441 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
the House of Commons
- John Wood (Scottish courtier) (died 1570), Secretary to Regent Moray
- John Wood (Isle of Man governor), Governor of the Isle of Man, 1761–1777
- John Wood (died 1856) (1788–1856), British Member of Parliament for Preston
- John Wood (civil servant) (1790–1856), British civil servan... | 15,442 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
Wood, Canadian politician in the province of Alberta in Alberta general election, 1948
# Science.
- John Wood (surgeon) (1825–1891), British surgeon at King's College Hospital
- John Henry Wood (1841–1914), English entomologist
- John L. Wood (born 1964), American chemist
- John Medley Wood (1827–1915), ... | 15,443 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
footballer) (1894–1971), Scottish forward
- Jackie Wood (1919–1993), real name Edward John Wood, footballer
- John Wood (American football) (born 1951), American football player
## Other sports.
- John Wood (Surrey cricketer, born 1744) (1744–1793), English cricketer
- John Wood (Kent cricketer, born 174... | 15,444 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
and Leigh
- Jon Wood (born 1981), NASCAR driver
# Other.
- John Wood, the Elder (1704–1754), English architect
- John Wood, the Younger (1728–1782) architect
- John Wood (explorer) (1812–1871), Scottish explorer of central Asia
- John Wood (millowner) (1758–?), created the Howard Town Mills complex in G... | 15,445 |
750138 | John Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Wood | John Wood
(1758–?), created the Howard Town Mills complex in Glossop, England
- John Wood (professor) (died 1822), educator, political writer, and cartographer
- J. A. Wood (1837–1910), American architect
- John B. Wood (1827–1884), American journalist
- John C. Wood (born 1949), British mathematician
- John Cunni... | 15,446 |
1215258 | Rhona Cameron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhona%20Cameron | Rhona Cameron
Rhona Cameron
Rhona Cameron (born 27 September 1965) is a Scottish comedian. She rose to prominence via the stand-up comedy circuit, and was a regular on British television in the 1990s.
# Television career.
In 1992, she won "So You Think You're Funny".
She presented the ITV game show "Russian Roulett... | 15,447 |
1215258 | Rhona Cameron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhona%20Cameron | Rhona Cameron
a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!". She was responsible for one of the highlights of the show, when the tensions in the camp became unbearable for her, she ranted:
In June 2009, she appeared on "Celebrity Wife Swap" with her partner, Suran Dickson.
# Writing.
She is the author of "Nineteen Seventy-Nine... | 15,448 |
1215258 | Rhona Cameron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhona%20Cameron | Rhona Cameron
She has also appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.
# Personal life.
Cameron was born in Dundee and is adopted; her birth mother (whose name Cameron keeps secret) was from North Shields and her biological father is shown as "unknown" on the adoption records. In 2006, on a Channel 4 programme "In Your... | 15,449 |
1215258 | Rhona Cameron | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhona%20Cameron | Rhona Cameron
on the adoption records. In 2006, on a Channel 4 programme "In Your Dreams", she spoke of her upbringing in Edinburgh's Grindlay Street and of moving with her family to Musselburgh at the age of seven. She attended Musselburgh Grammar School.
Cameron previously had relationships with comedian Sue Perkins... | 15,450 |
750104 | Rustam Minnikhanov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rustam%20Minnikhanov | Rustam Minnikhanov
Rustam Minnikhanov
Rustam Nurgaliyevich Minnikhanov (, ; born 1 March 1957) is a Russian politician and the second and current President of Tatarstan, a federal subject of Russia.
# Early life and education.
Rustam Minnikhanov was born on March 1, 1957 in a Volga Tatar family in the New Arysh (; )... | 15,451 |
750104 | Rustam Minnikhanov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rustam%20Minnikhanov | Rustam Minnikhanov
graduating from the institute in 1978, he began his career as an engineer in Sabinsky District Association of "Selkhoztekhnika". He then worked in the district as a senior engineer and chief power engineer in a state timber industry enterprise and was deputy chairman of District Consumer Society Boar... | 15,452 |
750104 | Rustam Minnikhanov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rustam%20Minnikhanov | Rustam Minnikhanov
March 25, 2010 he was prime minister of the Republic of Tatarstan. During his tenure as republican prime minister, Minnikhanov continued to be involved in industry, serving as chairman of the board of directors of the oil company Tatneft from 2005 to 2006. As prime minister, he was known for his enth... | 15,453 |
750104 | Rustam Minnikhanov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rustam%20Minnikhanov | Rustam Minnikhanov
Minnikhanov formally assumed the office of President.
During the 2014 Crimean crisis, Minnikhanov acted as a mediator between the Kremlin government and the Crimean Tatar community over concerns raised amongst Crimean Tatars over potential persecution by Russia should it annex the peninsula.
# Moto... | 15,454 |
750104 | Rustam Minnikhanov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rustam%20Minnikhanov | Rustam Minnikhanov
innikhanov won the truck category of the UAE Desert Challenge (a Rally Raid competition) in the United Arab Emirates with his Kamaz 4911 and in 2004 as well as 2005 he finished 3rd overall in the FIA European Championship for Autocross Drivers with a four-wheel-driven Ford Puma.
# Honours and awards... | 15,455 |
750146 | Renato Corsetti | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renato%20Corsetti | Renato Corsetti
Renato Corsetti
Renato Corsetti (born 29 March 1941) is an Italian Esperantist who served as President of the Universal Esperanto Association between 2001 and 2007. Born in Rome, Corsetti is a staunch defender of the idea that the people of the world should be able to communicate in a neutral and easy ... | 15,456 |
750105 | Arsk | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arsk | Arsk
Arsk
Arsk (; , "Arça") is a town and the administrative center of Arsky District in the Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Kazanka River, from the republic's capital of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 18,114.
# Etymology.
The Tatar name of the town () can be translated as "Udmurt's" or "Udmurtia... | 15,457 |
750105 | Arsk | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arsk | Arsk
assimilated with the Tatars.
Arsk was one of the strongest forts in the khanate. In 1506, it was the site of the Battles of Arsk Field, in which Tatar forces were defeated by the Russians but later turned the tables and won one of their most significant victories in the course of the Russo-Kazan Wars.
Arsk was c... | 15,458 |
750105 | Arsk | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arsk | Arsk
abolished in 1930, it became the administrative center of the newly formed Arsky District. In 1938, it was demoted in status to that of an urban-type settlement. On June 27, 2008, it was granted town status again.
# Administrative and municipal status.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Arsk serve... | 15,459 |
750105 | Arsk | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arsk | Arsk
ith five rural localities, is incorporated within Arsky Municipal District as Arsk Urban Settlement.
# Economy and transportation.
There are several light and food industry enterprises in the town, as well as a brick factory and a construction materials factory.
The town is a station on the Kazan–Agryz railway.... | 15,460 |
750153 | Samuel Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel%20Wood | Samuel Wood
Samuel Wood
Samuel or Sam Wood may refer to:
- Samuel H. Wood, CEO and scientist who cloned himself
- Samuel Peploe Wood (1827–1873), English artist
- Sam Wood (1884–1949), American film director
- Samuel Wood (Ontario politician) (1830–1913), Canadian politician
- Samuel Wood (philanthropist), a foun... | 15,461 |
750153 | Samuel Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel%20Wood | Samuel Wood
ood (Lower Canada politician) (1787–1848), farmer and political figure in Lower Canada
- Sam Wood (artist), game artist
- Sam Wood (rugby league, born 1994), English rugby league player
- Sam Wood (rugby league, born 1997), English rugby league player
- Sam Wood (archaeologist), archaeologist and TV pre... | 15,462 |
750152 | Languages of the Balkans | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Languages%20of%20the%20Balkans | Languages of the Balkans
Languages of the Balkans
This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled by Balkan countries. With the exception of several Turkic languages, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. A subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studied "sprachbund", a group of languages... | 15,463 |
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Slavic.
- Bulgarian
- Macedonian
### Transitional dialects.
- Transitional Bulgarian dialects
- Transitional Serbo-Croatian dialects (Našinski/Torlakian)
### Western South Slavic.
- Bosnian,
- Croatian,
- Montenegrin, and
- Serbian
with a variety of dialects, main of which are:
- Ch... | 15,464 |
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Kajkavian dialect
- Shtokavian dialect
and
- Slovenian
## Romance languages.
- Aromanian
- Istriot (in western Istria)
- Istro-Romanian (In eastern Istria)
- Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
- Ladino (in Greece, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria)
- Megleno-Romanian (Megleneni... | 15,465 |
750143 | John Stephens Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Stephens%20Wood | John Stephens Wood
John Stephens Wood
John Stephens Wood (February 8, 1885 – September 12, 1968) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Georgia, USA. He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives, 1931–1935 and 1945–1953.
# Early life, education and career.
Wood was born on... | 15,466 |
750143 | John Stephens Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Stephens%20Wood | John Stephens Wood
of Leo Frank, Jewish factory owner in Atlanta, with Judge Newt Morris on the morning after the murder. He drove the vehicle in which Frank's body was conveyed to the undertaker. Whether he had any prior knowledge of or involvement with the lynching is open to dispute, as he and Morris may have been s... | 15,467 |
750143 | John Stephens Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Stephens%20Wood | John Stephens Wood
States Congress and was reelected to the 73rd Congress (March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1935). He was unsuccessful in seeking renomination in 1934 and resumed the practice of law.
Ten years later, in 1944, Wood was elected to the 79th United States Congress serving until the 82nd Congress (January 3, 194... | 15,468 |
750143 | John Stephens Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Stephens%20Wood | John Stephens Wood
ee charged 10 persons with contempt of Congress for refusing to testify, and their careers and reputations were severely damaged in what was called the Hollywood Blacklist.
Wood was criticized for failing to investigate the Ku Klux Klan in the same period, as it was expanding in chapters in oppositi... | 15,469 |
750151 | Robert Coldwell Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Coldwell%20Wood | Robert Coldwell Wood
Robert Coldwell Wood
Robert Coldwell Wood (September 16, 1923 – April 1, 2005) was an American political scientist, academic and government administrator, and professor of political science at MIT. From 1965 to 1969, Wood served as the Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop... | 15,470 |
750151 | Robert Coldwell Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Coldwell%20Wood | Robert Coldwell Wood
of a campus in south Boston.
# Early life and career.
Wood was born on September 16, 1923 in St Louis, Missouri, the son of Mary (née Bradshaw) Wood and Thomas Frank Wood. He won a scholarship to Princeton University, interrupting his studies during World War II to serve in the U.S. Army. Wood sa... | 15,471 |
750151 | Robert Coldwell Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Coldwell%20Wood | Robert Coldwell Wood
Secretary of the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 1968, Wood was awarded the Wiener Medal for Cybernetics from the American Society for Cybernetics. Following the resignation of Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of HUD, Wood served briefly... | 15,472 |
750151 | Robert Coldwell Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Coldwell%20Wood | Robert Coldwell Wood
to include UMass Medical Center in Worcester and its Boston campus. He also played a key role in bringing the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum to its site at Columbia Point, next to UMass-Boston. He also taught at Wesleyan University.
# Personal life.
Wood married the former Margaret Byers, on ... | 15,473 |
750151 | Robert Coldwell Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert%20Coldwell%20Wood | Robert Coldwell Wood
1, 2005.
# Publications.
Wood's best-known books are:
- 1958. "Suburbia: Its People and Their Politics"
- 1959. "Metropolis against Itself."
- 1961. "1400 Governments; The Political Economy of the New York Metropolitan Region". With Vladimir V. Almendinger.
- 1972. "The Necessary Majority: Mi... | 15,474 |
750168 | Josef Abel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josef%20Abel | Josef Abel
Josef Abel
Josef Abel (22 August 1768 – 4 October 1818) was an Austrian historical painter and etcher.
# Biography.
Abel was born in Aschach an der Donau, Upper Austria. He visited the Academy in Vienna, which was at the time directed by Friedrich Heinrich Füger, and was one of his best scholars. Abel dev... | 15,475 |
750168 | Josef Abel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josef%20Abel | Josef Abel
–1807, he studied in Italy, then returned to Vienna, where he became a member of the Academy on 8 February 1815 and remained till his death in 1818.
Among his famous works are paintings and etchings of Klopstock in Elysium, Orestes and Electra, Socrates and Theramenes as well as Emperor Francis I of Austria... | 15,476 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
James Frederick Wood
James Frederick Bryan Wood (April 27, 1813 – June 20, 1883) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fifth Bishop and first Archbishop of Philadelphia, serving between 1860 and his death in 1883.
# Early life.
James Wood was born in Philadelphia, Penn... | 15,477 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
Market Street. In November 1827, he and his family removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where the young Wood became a clerk at the Branch Bank of the United States. After being advanced to individual book-keeper and discount clerk, he was made a paying and receiving teller (1833) and cashier (1836) in the ... | 15,478 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
under Paul Cullen (later Paul Cardinal Cullen), he studied at the College of the Propaganda for seven years, also becoming prefect of discipline there. Wood was ordained a priest by Cardinal Giacomo Filippo Fransoni on March 25, 1844. Upon his return to the Diocese of Cincinnati in October 1844, he... | 15,479 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
with Bishops John Neumann, C.SS.R. (later a Saint), and Richard Vincent Whelan serving as co-consecrators. After arriving in Philadelphia, he took charge of the financial affairs of the diocese and established the cathedral parish.
## Fifth Bishop of Philadelphia.
Wood later succeeded Neumann as ... | 15,480 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
Sts. Peter and Paul came to a brief halt with the outbreak of the Civil War, but was later dedicated by Wood on November 20, 1864. In 1865 he purchased a large tract of land in Overbrook, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, for the new St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, the cornerstone of which was laid ... | 15,481 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
Mary, Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis and Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus. He condemned such secret societies as the Freemasons and Molly Maguires.
In 1868 the Dioceses of Harrisburg, Scranton and Wilmington were established, leaving Philadelphia with 93 churches and 157 priests. Wood at... | 15,482 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
Archbishop. He was invested with the pallium by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley on the following June 17. He traveled to Rome in 1877 to assist at the celebration of the golden jubilee of Pius IX's episcopate, but returned home after suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. He also suffered ... | 15,483 |
750136 | James Frederick Wood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Frederick%20Wood | James Frederick Wood
e after suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. He also suffered from Bright's disease. Since the division of the diocese in 1868, Wood increased the number of churches to 127 and of chapels to 53 chapels, and founded 25 new parochial schools. By 1883, there were also 31 missions, 260 priests... | 15,484 |
750160 | Kafr El Dawwar | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kafr%20El%20Dawwar | Kafr El Dawwar
Kafr El Dawwar
Kafr El Dawwar ( ) is a major industrial city and municipality on the Nile Delta in northern Egypt. It has a population of about 265,300 inhabitants, and comprises a number of smaller towns and villages.
# History.
Kafr El Dawwar is a city near Alexandria where the famous Battle of Kafr... | 15,485 |
750160 | Kafr El Dawwar | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kafr%20El%20Dawwar | Kafr El Dawwar
Kom Ishu, Kom El Farag, Sidi Ghazi, Kom Defshu, Kom El Terfayeh, and Tell El Kanaies), where remains of pottery and some rocks from the Ptolemaic Era can be found.
# Industry.
The city is renowned for electricity generation as well as textile and fruit packing industries. Misr for Weaving and Spinning ... | 15,486 |
750160 | Kafr El Dawwar | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kafr%20El%20Dawwar | Kafr El Dawwar
and occupied markets and roads. In response, security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas, killing three persons at a milling plant and injuring dozens more. Rioting spread to other centers including the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in El-Mahalla.
# Geography.
The Mahmudiyya canal () goes thr... | 15,487 |
750160 | Kafr El Dawwar | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kafr%20El%20Dawwar | Kafr El Dawwar
1961 and was , while its lowest record temperature was recorded on January 31, 1994 and was . It also gets 38 rainy days annually on average.
Rafah, Alexandria, Abu Qir, Rosetta, Baltim, Kafr El Dawwar and Mersa Matruh are the wettest places in Egypt.
# Government.
Kafr El Dawwar, like many other citi... | 15,488 |
750180 | George Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Woods | George Woods
George Woods
George Woods may refer to:
# Government and politics.
- George Austin Woods (1828–1905), British navy officer who served as premier of the Kingdom of Viti, 1872–1874
- George Lemuel Woods (1832–1890), American Oregon State and Utah Territory governor
- George Woods (British politician) (1... | 15,489 |
750180 | George Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Woods | George Woods
the Kingdom of Viti, 1872–1874
- George Lemuel Woods (1832–1890), American Oregon State and Utah Territory governor
- George Woods (British politician) (1886–1951), British Labour Co-operative politician, MP for Finsbury 1935–1945
- George E. Woods (1923–2007), American federal judge
# Sports.
- Georg... | 15,490 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
Clan Keith
Clan Keith is a Highland and Lowland Scottish clan, whose Chief historically held the hereditary title of Marischal, then Great Marischal, then Earl Marischal of Scotland.
# History.
## Origins of the Clan.
The placename Keith comes from a Cumbric form of the Modern Welsh "coed" ("wood").
A w... | 15,491 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
ever since. It can be found as early as 1316 on the seal of Sir Robert de Keith.
King Malcolm's victory at the Battle of Carham in 1018 brought him into possession of Lothian, and the lands of Keith in Lothian were subsequently held by the Camus Slayer. It is from these lands that his progeny took their nam... | 15,492 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
Independence.
In 1308, Robert the Bruce granted the royal Halforest of Aberdeenshire to his friend, Robert de Keith. Here the Marischal built his castle. His nephew was William Keith of Galston who returned Bruce's heart to Melrose Abbey after the death of the Sir James Douglas at the Battle of Teba in Anda... | 15,493 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
to France to escape the usurpation Edward Balliol.
## 15th century and Clan conflicts.
The Clan Keith were often at feud with the neighbouring Clan Irvine and, in 1402, the Clan Irvine are said to have attacked and defeated an invading war party of the Clan Keith in what was known as the Battle of Drumoak.... | 15,494 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
William Keith's children married children of Robert II of Scotland, while another daughter married Sir Adam Gordon, ancestor of the Earls of Huntly.
Circa 1458, the heir of the Marischal or Great Marischal was made 1st Earl Marischal and was the only peer to be styled by his office of state.
A branch of th... | 15,495 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
were killed. However, Keith of Ackergill was soon after killed by the Gunns in a revenge attack.
## 16th and 17th centuries.
William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal, along with the Earl of Glencairn invited John Knox the religious reformer back to Scotland in 1559. William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal, founded the ... | 15,496 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
and later Lord Privy Seal as recompense for what he and his family had suffered in the royal cause. After Charles's coronation the Scottish crown jewels had been hidden on the Keith lands and as a result Marischal's brother, John Keith, was created Knight Marischal and Earl of Kintore.
## 18th century and J... | 15,497 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
and titles. However the two Keith brothers played a part in Continental affairs during the 18th century with the earl being one of the very few Jacobite Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. He also received the highest order in Prussia, the Order of the Black Eagle, while his brother was given Russ... | 15,498 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
Inverurie and Keith Hall, was flamboyant and decimated the Kintore estates. However, Sir James Ian Baird of Urie then Keith of Urie, 12th Earl of Kintore, 12th Lord Keith of Inverurie and Keith Hall, 2nd Viscount Stonehaven, 2nd Baron Stonehaven and 3rd Baronet, promoted the clan internationally and appointe... | 15,499 |
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