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1599558 | Estadio Nacional | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estadio%20Nacional | Estadio Nacional
Estadio Nacional
Estadio Nacional ("National Stadium" in Spanish) is the name used for:
- Estadio Nacional de Hockey in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago, Chile
- Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica (1924) in La Sabana, Costa Rica
- Estadio Nacional... | 24,200 |
1599558 | Estadio Nacional | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estadio%20Nacional | Estadio Nacional
Costa Rica (1924) in La Sabana, Costa Rica
- Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica (2011) in La Sabana, Costa Rica
- Estadio Nacional (Mexico) (demolished), formerly located in Colonia Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
- Estadio Nacional de Panamá in Panama City, Panama
- Estadio Nacional (Lima) in Lima, Peru; ni... | 24,201 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels in Australia to collect plants.
# Early life.
Cunningham was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, the son of Allan Cunningham (head gardener at Wimbledon ... | 24,202 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Sir Joseph Banks.
# Brazil and Australia (New South Wales).
On Banks' recommendation, Cunningham went to Brazil with James Bowie between 1814 and 1816 collecting specimens for Kew Gardens. On 28 September 1816 he sailed for Sydney where he arrived on 20 December 1816. He established himsel... | 24,203 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
King from 1817 to 1820. The "Mermaid" was of only 85 tons, but sailing on 22 December 1817 they reached King George Sound on 21 January 1818. Though their stay was short many specimens were found but the islands on the west coast were comparatively barren. Towards the end of March the Goulbu... | 24,204 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
day Wollongong. Towards the end of the year he made a voyage to Tasmania arriving at Hobart on 2 January 1819. He next visited Launceston and though often finding the botany interesting, he found little that was absolutely new, as Brown had preceded him. In May he went with King in the "Merm... | 24,205 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
They again visited Timor and arrived back in Sydney on 12 January 1820. The third voyage to the north coast with King began on 15 June, but meeting bad weather the bowsprit was lost and a return was made for repairs. Sailing again on 13 July 1820 the northerly course was followed and eventua... | 24,206 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
chosen, and when they were on the west coast of Australia it was found necessary to go to Mauritius to refit, where they arrived on 27 September 1821. They left after a stay of seven weeks and reached King George Sound on 24 December 1821. A sufficiently long stay was made for Cunningham to ... | 24,207 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
on 14 October 1822 and returned to Parramatta in January 1823. His account of about 100 plants met with will be found in "Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales", edited by Barron Field, 1825, under the title "A Specimen of the Indigenous Botany ... between Port Jackson and Bathurst".
In 1... | 24,208 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Pass, which could have opened out a fair and practicable road to Liverpool Plains. He returned to Bathurst through an undeveloped Mudgee on 27 June 1823.
In September 1824 Cunningham accompanied John Oxley on his second expedition to Moreton Bay and explored up the Brisbane River.
Cunningh... | 24,209 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
received by the missionaries in the Bay of Islands, was able to do much botanical work, and returned to Sydney on 20 January 1827. Accounts of his work in New Zealand will be found in Hooker's "Companion to the Botanical Magazine", 1836, and "Annals of Natural History", 1838 and 1839.
Cunni... | 24,210 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
now known as Cunninghams Gap.
Cunningham returned to the Moreton Bay penal colony in 1828, setting off from Brisbane with Patrick Logan, Charles Fraser and five men to find Mount Warning and to establish the route to Cunningham's Gap which he did, on 24 July. The peaks on either side of the... | 24,211 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Spicer's Gap was used as a stagecoach route. In 1829, Cunningham explored the Brisbane River.
# Contributions to botany.
Australia's most prolific plant collector of the early nineteenth century, Cunningham had been sent to Australia to expand the collection at the King' Garden at Kew and ... | 24,212 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
on botany and in his obituary, John Lindley wrote, "How little he regarded posthumous fame is seen by the fewness of his published works, a brief sketch of the Flora of New Zealand being the only systematic account of his Botanical discoveries...". In fact, although he was effectively barred... | 24,213 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Baxter to be credited with their discovery. (Baxter had risked arrest and a possible flogging for undermining Cunningham's work by sending specimens to commercial interests.) When Cunningham returned to London,
he sent duplicates of his herbarium specimens to other botanists, including de C... | 24,214 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
consumption and was buried in the Devonshire Street Cemetery. In 1901 his remains were "reverently removed" and reinterred in an obelisk within the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
# Legacy.
Some of Australia's plants: "Araucaria cunninghamii" (hoop pine), "Archontophoenix cunninghamiana" ... | 24,215 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
named in honour of Allan. The genus "Alania" was created by Endlicher in Cunningham's honour.
A species of Australian lizard, "Egernia cunninghami", is named in honour of Allan Cunningham.
The Australian federal seat of Cunningham, which stretches from Port Kembla in the south of Wollongon... | 24,216 |
270052 | Allan Cunningham (botanist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan%20Cunningham%20(botanist) | Allan Cunningham (botanist)
nghami", is named in honour of Allan Cunningham.
The Australian federal seat of Cunningham, which stretches from Port Kembla in the south of Wollongong to Heathcote in Southern Sydney, was named after him in honour of his being the first European explorer to visit the Illawarra region.
The... | 24,217 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
Bewitched (2005 film)
Bewitched is a 2005 American romantic comedy fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Nora Ephron, and starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell alongside an ensemble cast featuring Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth (in her first film... | 24,218 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
name (produced by Columbia's Screen Gems television studio, now Sony Pictures Television). "Bewitched" opened theatrically in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2005 to both critical and commercial failure, earning only $63 million in domestic grosses from an $85 million budget.
# Plot.
Ja... | 24,219 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
of Ed McMahon on television. Jack happens to be at the same bookstore after attending some failed Samantha auditions. Jack spots Isabel and persuades her to audition. At the same time, while she's trying to settle into her new life, Isabel's intrusive father Nigel keeps appearing to convince her t... | 24,220 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
without having any lines. Furious, Isabel storms off with Maria and new neighbor friend Nina close behind. She decides she only has three choices: quit, get mad, or live with it. Instead, Isabel's Aunt Clara visits and aids Isabel in casting a spell on Jack in order to make him fall in love with h... | 24,221 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
she remembers and reverses it back to when she and Aunt Clara cast it. The next day, rather than the events the hex presented, Jack is outraged by the scores he received and takes his anger out on Isabel, who lashes back at him. Ritchie fires her, and she storms off.
Rather than be angry at her, ... | 24,222 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
a party at his house celebrating the divorce.
Nigel attends the party with Iris and when Nigel begins flirting with much younger guests, Iris reveals that she is also a witch and casts a spell on each girl. When Jack makes a toast stating truth will be revealed with everyone, Isabel decides to te... | 24,223 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
imagining himself on the "Conan O'Brien Show", is visited by Uncle Arthur. Arthur convinces Jack not to let Isabel leave, because Jack still loves her and wouldn't be able to return for 100 years (which is later proven to be a lie Arthur made up to inspire Jack). Arthur drives him to the studio wh... | 24,224 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
Caine as Nigel Bigelow
- Jason Schwartzman as Ritchie
- Kristin Chenoweth as Maria Kelly
- Heather Burns as Nina
- Jim Turner as Larry
- Stephen Colbert as Stu Robison
- David Alan Grier as Jim Fields
- Katie Finneran as Sheila Wyatt
- Actual characters from the series
- Carole Shelley as... | 24,225 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
Conan O'Brien as himself
- James Lipton as himself
- Nick Lachey as Vietnam soldier
- Kate Walsh as Waitress
- Abbey McBride as Auditioner
- Teri Robinson as the witch
# Production.
Principal photography took place from the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2005.
# Reception.
"Bewitched" re... | 24,226 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
at $68,100,000. The film was released in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2005, and opened on #2, behind "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
The film earned Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple. The film was also nominated for Worst Director, Worst Acto... | 24,227 |
1599541 | Bewitched (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bewitched%20(2005%20film) | Bewitched (2005 film)
ll Ferrell a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple. The film was also nominated for Worst Director, Worst Actor (Will Ferrell), Worst Screenplay, and Worst Remake or Sequel. "The New York Times" called the film "an unmitigated disaster". Australian critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stra... | 24,228 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
Synthetic fiber
Synthetic fibers (British English: synthetic fibres) are fibers made by humans with chemical synthesis, as opposed to natural fibers that humans get from living organisms with little or no chemical changes. They are the result of extensive research by scientists to improve on naturally ... | 24,229 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
means "many" and suffix "mer" which means "single units".(Note:each single units of a polymer is called monomer).Polymerisation are of two types:linear polymerisation and Cross-linked polymerisation. Example are Rayon, Nylon and Polyester.
# Early experiments.
Joseph Swan invented the first artificial... | 24,230 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
potential of the fiber to revolutionise textile manufacturing. In 1885, he unveiled fabrics he had manufactured from his synthetic material at the International Inventions Exhibition in London.
The next step was taken by Hilaire de Chardonnet, a French engineer and industrialist, who invented the first... | 24,231 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
product, which he displayed at the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Chardonnet's material was extremely flammable, and was subsequently replaced with other, more stable materials.
# Commercial products.
The first successful process was developed in 1894 by English chemist Charles Frederick Cross, and his col... | 24,232 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
make both rayon and cellophane. A similar product known as cellulose acetate was discovered in 1865. Rayon and acetate are both artificial fibers, but not truly synthetic, being made from wood.
Nylon, the first synthetic fiber in the "fully synthetic" sense of that term, was developed by Wallace Caroth... | 24,233 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
fiber was introduced by John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson, British chemists working at the Calico Printers' Association, in 1941. They produced and patented the first polyester fiber which they named Terylene, also known as Dacron, equal to or surpassing nylon in toughness and resilience. ICI... | 24,234 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
that bond two adjacent carbon atoms. Differing chemical compounds are used to produce different types of synthetic fibers.
Synthetic fibers account for about half of all fiber usage, with applications in every field of fiber and textile technology. Although many classes of fiber based on synthetic poly... | 24,235 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
dyes. In addition, many synthetic fibers offer consumer-friendly functions such as stretching, waterproofing and stain resistance.
Sunlight, moisture, and oils from human skin cause all fibers to break down and wear away. Natural fibers tend to be much more sensitive than synthetic blends. This is main... | 24,236 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
disadvantages are related to their low melting temperature:
- The mono-fibers do not trap air pockets like cotton and provide poor insulation.
- Synthetic fibers burn more readily than natural.
- Prone to heat damage.
- Melt relatively easily.
- Prone to damage by hot washing.
- More electrostatic... | 24,237 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
Common synthetic fibers.
Common synthetic fibers include:
- Nylon (1931)
- Modacrylic (1949)
- Olefin (1949)
- Acrylic (1950)
- Polyester (1953)
Specialty synthetic fibers include:
- Rayon (1894) artificial silk
- Vinyon (1939)
- Saran (1941)
- Spandex (1959)
- Vinalon (1939)
- Aramids (196... | 24,238 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
Acrylonitrile rubber (1930)
Modern fibers that are made from older artificial materials include:
- Glass fiber (1938) is used for:
- industrial, automotive, and home insulation (glass wool)
- reinforcement of composite materials (glass-reinforced plastic, glass fiber reinforced concrete)
- specialt... | 24,239 |
270081 | Synthetic fiber | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synthetic%20fiber | Synthetic fiber
reinforcement of composite materials (glass-reinforced plastic, glass fiber reinforced concrete)
- specialty papers in battery separators and filtration
- Metallic fiber (1946) is used for:
- adding metallic properties to clothing for the purpose of fashion (usually made with composite plastic and me... | 24,240 |
1599551 | Gildone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gildone | Gildone
Gildone
Gildone is a hill town and "comune" in the province of Campobasso, in the Molise region (southern Italy). At its peak, the town consisted of 3,000 inhabitants, but the population now numbers about 900. The town is in a rural area surrounded by farms dotted with olive trees and sheep, and is located abo... | 24,241 |
1599551 | Gildone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gildone | Gildone
the 20th century and mainly settled in Brooklyn, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. (There is a plaque in Gildone's main church St Sabino, commemorating the financial contribution of the Gildonese émigré community of Cleveland towards the church's restoration in 1923.) Following the Second Wor... | 24,242 |
1599551 | Gildone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gildone | Gildone
feast and anniversary of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which are maintained by the local Associazione Gildonese. Other major Gildonese communities exist in New York, Melbourne, Toronto, Belgium, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Caracas, with minor communities in Western Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzer... | 24,243 |
1599551 | Gildone | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gildone | Gildone
ties in Western Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland.
# Landmarks.
Gildone's main church contains art dating back centuries and one of the other churches in town was converted to a community hall in Spring 2006. Dating further back in time, located near the town are the remains of an ancient... | 24,244 |
1599564 | Tripod.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tripod.com | Tripod.com
Tripod.com
Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the 1990s. As such, Tripod formed part of the first wave of user-generated content.
# Services.
Tripod o... | 24,245 |
1599564 | Tripod.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tripod.com | Tripod.com
POP/IMAP email.
# History.
Tripod originated in 1992 with two Williams College classmates, Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey, along with Dick Sabot, an economics professor at the school. The company was headquartered in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with Peabody as CEO. Although it would eventually focus on the ... | 24,246 |
1599564 | Tripod.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tripod.com | Tripod.com
it offered how-to advice on practical issues that might concern young people when first living away from home. It planned to charge a minimal fee and make money primarily on commissions from partners who would sell products on the site. Other services available included résumé writing features and a simple h... | 24,247 |
1599564 | Tripod.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tripod.com | Tripod.com
user-based content." A reviewer in "The Washington Post" recommended Tripod over GeoCities for giving users an easier URL to remember, and because GeoCities sites had a tendency to crash computers.
## Investment and buyout.
After receiving an initial investment of US$4 million in venture capital, led by Ne... | 24,248 |
1599564 | Tripod.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tripod.com | Tripod.com
for the company overall. As it turned out, Tripod would be sold in February 1998 to Lycos for a reported US$58 million in stock.
Lycos also ended up owning Tripod's former competitor Angelfire, picked up as part of the acquisition of WhoWhere. The two properties were run concurrently, with Tripod continuing... | 24,249 |
1599564 | Tripod.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tripod.com | Tripod.com
so the sites could generate the results expected by advertisers. They also had the challenge of not alienating users while trying to make money. By the end of the year, Tripod and Angelfire also introduced account options allowing users to pay in order to keep their sites ad-free. GeoCities, now acquired by ... | 24,250 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
Green Mount Cemetery
Green Mount Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established on March 15, 1838, and dedicated on July 13, 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures interred in its grounds as well as a large number of prominent Baltimore-are... | 24,251 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
Baltimore City Landmark plaque at the entrance reads:
In addition to John Wilkes Booth, two other conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are buried here, Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlen. It is common for visitors to the cemetery to leave pennies on the graves of the three men; t... | 24,252 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
to be buried near other members of the royal family in the Royal Burial Ground near Windsor Castle.
# Notable interments.
- Arunah Abell (1808–1888), journalist, newspaper publisher, founder of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" and Baltimore "Sun" newspapers.
- William Julian Albert (1816–1879), ... | 24,253 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
Baltimore-born wife of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte (m. 1803). Napoleon refused to recognize the marriage. When Jérôme returned to France in 1805, his wife was forbidden to debark and went to England, where her son, Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, was born. Napoleon issued a state decree of annu... | 24,254 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
century.
- Augustus Bradford (1806–1881), Governor of Maryland.
- Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826 – 1905) lawyer and politician in California, Louisiana and Maryland and a brigadier general in the Confederate army.
- Jesse D. Bright (1812–1875), United States Senator from Indiana.
- Frank Brown (1... | 24,255 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
Prohibition Party vice presidential candidate, 1884.
- Allen Welsh Dulles (1893–1969), director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the Warren Commission.
- Wendell E. Dunn (1894–1965), educator and principal of Forest Park High School.
- Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. (1922–2007), metallur... | 24,256 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
United States Senator from Maryland.
- Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), businessman and philanthropist. He left substantial bequests in his will to found the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Benjamin Chew Howard (1791–1872), a congressman and the fifth reporter of decisions of the... | 24,257 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
(1806–1893), U.S. Congressman.
- Anthony Kennedy (1810–1892), United States Senator.
- John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), congressman and United States Secretary of the Navy.
- Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of President James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
- S... | 24,258 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
British Consul to Maryland in the 1840s.
- Charles Marshall (1830–1902), colonel in the Confederate States Army, aide de camp, assistant adjutant general, and military secretary for the Army of Northern Virginia and Gen. Robert E. Lee.
- Theodore R. McKeldin (1900–1974), Mayor of Baltimore and Go... | 24,259 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
Nelson (1794–1860), United States Attorney General.
- Harry W. Nice (1877–1941), Governor of Maryland.
- Daniel S. Norton (1829–1870), United States Senator from Minnesota.
- Michael O'Laughlen (1840–1867), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
- Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828), poet.
- John P. ... | 24,260 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
Civil War.
- Thomas Swann (1809–1883), Governor of Maryland, 1866–1869, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th Districts, 1869–1879, Mayor of Baltimore, 1856–1860.
- Isaac R. Trimble (1802–1888), a U.S. Army officer, civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and execut... | 24,261 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
whose bequest to the City of Baltimore in 1931 started the Walters Art Museum.
- William Thompson Walters (1820–1894), Liquor distributor, banker, railroad magnate and art collector.
- Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869-1896) Father of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Wife of King Edward VIII.
- W... | 24,262 |
1599599 | Green Mount Cemetery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Mount%20Cemetery | Green Mount Cemetery
s Warfield (1869-1896) Father of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Wife of King Edward VIII.
- William Pinkney Whyte (1824–1908), Maryland State Delegate, State Comptroller, a United States Senator, the State Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore, and State Attorney General.
- Joseph Pere Bell Wilme... | 24,263 |
1599623 | King's College, Auckland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King's%20College,%20Auckland | King's College, Auckland
King's College, Auckland
King's College, often informally referred to simply as King's, is an independent secondary boarding and day school in New Zealand. It educates over 1000 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years. King's was originally a single sex boys school but has admitted girls in the Sixth and ... | 24,264 |
1599623 | King's College, Auckland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King's%20College,%20Auckland | King's College, Auckland
and the Dean of Auckland are permanent members of the school's Board Of Governors. The College is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' UK Conference, the G20 Schools Group and Round Square group.
# Enrolment.
As a New Zealand private school, King's receives around $2000 per studen... | 24,265 |
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7% Chinese, 4% Māori, 3% Indian, 2% Korean, and 5% other.
# Sports.
King's College competes in the 1A Rugby Competition and has won 15 times. The annual King's College v Auckland Grammar School rugby game is one of the oldest rivalries in New Zealand schoolboy rugby. The King's 1st XI Cricket... | 24,266 |
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a service programme which aids the South Auckland community.
# Houses.
All students are organised into Houses, which form separate communities within the College, and compete amongst themselves for numerous trophies and the much sought Merritt Shield. Boys' boarding Houses include Parnell, Sc... | 24,267 |
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"The prize is not won without effort". Averill is represented by the colour brown.
- Greenbank – Greenbank House is the newest boy day house named after former Headmaster G N T Greenbank; opened in 1997 as an overflow House from the other three Day Houses with just 70 boys and has since grown ... | 24,268 |
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meaning "with virtues comes victory", and is part of the day House complex, alondside Marsden and Peart. Major is represented by the colour black.
- Marsden – Originally Marsden was known as Town House, until Town House was split into Marsden and Peart in 1947. It is named after the first Angl... | 24,269 |
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under the name Middlemore in 1924, was renamed in 1928 to mark the affiliation with the former Church of England Grammar School (est 1855) in Ayr Street, Parnell and has 64 boarders this year. Their motto, "Disciplina Fides Perservantia" means Discipline, Faith, Perseverance. Parnell is represe... | 24,270 |
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Selwyn – Selwyn was founded in 1945 and resided 'at the top of the drive' until the new House was opened on 1 July 2004. This building is located inside the Golf Road gates, immediately on the right hand side as one drives into the College. It has a maximum capacity of 82 boys from Year 9 – 13.... | 24,271 |
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St John's is located adjacent to the main tennis courts. The St John's House motto, ""Religio Doctrina Diligentia"" translates to "True religion, sound learning, useful industry." St John's is represented by the colour blue.
- Taylor – Taylor House was established in 2006 and it is home to the... | 24,272 |
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house. The Taylor House motto ""Potens Pollensque"” means "capable and strong." Taylor is represented by the colour purple.
Both Middlemore and Taylor cater for Year 11, 12 and 13 girls.
# Traditions.
## School Song.
The school song of King's College is the "Carmen Regale", the melody of wh... | 24,273 |
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Laura Hill – actor
- Elizabeth Marvelly – singer
- Jamie McDell – singer
- James Wallace – Art Collector, James Wallace Art Trust
- KJ Apa – actor
## Business.
- Sam Chisholm – former chief executive Nine Network and British Sky Broadcasting
- Rob Fenwick – Sustainable Advisory Panel
- ... | 24,274 |
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commander
- John Percy Bayly, Member of the Legislative Council of Fiji
- Peter Blanchard, KNZM, PC – Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Member of the British Privy Council
- Roy Calvert, DFC (1913–2002), WWII pilot
- Brian Carbury, DFC (1918–1962), leading flying ace of the Battl... | 24,275 |
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Eton College and Geelong Grammar School
- Jim McLay, KNZM, QSO – former Deputy Prime Minister, former leader of the National Party, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations (New York) for New Zealand, and current Representative of New Zealand to the Palestinian Authority
- Simon ... | 24,276 |
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and environmentalist
- Allan Wilson – evolutionary biologist
## Sport.
- Pita Alatini – All Blacks rugby player
- Daniel Braid – 2002–03 All Blacks, 2002– Auckland NPC and Blues Super 14 rugby teams
- Mark Chapman — Black Caps cricketer
- Simon Child – New Zealand hockey player
- Mark Cr... | 24,277 |
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unt – Olympic skier
- Ian Kirkpatrick – All Blacks rugby player and captain
- Hamish Marshall – New Zealand Test/ODI cricketer
- James Marshall – New Zealand Test/ODI cricketer
- Peter Masfen – Olympic rower
- Anthony Mosse – Olympic bronze medalist, Commonwealth Games double gold medalist... | 24,278 |
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William Henry Cushing
William Henry Cushing (August 21, 1852 – January 25, 1934) was a Canadian politician. Born in Ontario, he migrated west as a young adult where he started a successful lumber company and later became Alberta's first Minister of Public Works and the 11th mayor of Calgary. As M... | 24,279 |
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of Sifton's cabinet, Cushing did not seek re-election in the 1913 election, and did not re-enter politics thereafter. He was the chairman of Mount Royal College's board of governors for sixteen years. He died in 1934.
# Early life.
Cushing was born August 21, 1852 in Kenilworth, Ontario to Willi... | 24,280 |
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In 1885 he opened a sash and door factory, which made him wealthy. His business flourished and expanded; by 1900, it occupied 42 city lots and employed more than one hundred workers; by 1911, this number had reached two hundred. He was also active in the local Methodist church and the Bowness golf... | 24,281 |
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from January 7, 1895 until January 4, 1897, and again from May 1899 until January 2, 1900. During his last term he was elected the thirteenth mayor of Calgary, a position he held from January 2, 1900 until January 7, 1901. He subsequently served another term as alderman from January 6, 1902 until ... | 24,282 |
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with custom for cabinet ministers in Westminster parliamentary systems, Cushing ran for the first Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the district of Calgary in the 1905 election. Cushing, a Liberal, was opposed by Conservative leader R. B. Bennett. The campaign was acrimonious; at one meeting, Ben... | 24,283 |
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status as a province was the result of a political movement that had begun in Calgary, and that it would be cheaper to build a legislature there than in Edmonton, site of the interim capital. His motion to name Calgary as the capital was defeated 16 votes to eight, and permanent capital was locate... | 24,284 |
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River from Edmonton. Calgarians felt that, having been denied the capital, they should be first in line for the university.
As Public Works Minister, Cushing was a primary advocate of government intervention in the labour disputes plaguing Alberta's coal industry in 1907; Rutherford eventually ap... | 24,285 |
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regions of the province. In response, Cushing attacked Bell as "the most pernicious and iniquitous monopoly that had ever been foisted upon a people claiming to be free" and sponsored legislation creating Alberta Government Telephones to service areas that Bell would not. This new company later pu... | 24,286 |
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him". Thomas has argued that it was strange for a successful businessman like Cushing to be so aggressive rhetorically against a successful corporation, but Mount Royal College historian Patricia Roome has suggested that Cushing was soured by his own experience as a Calgarian living under the mono... | 24,287 |
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elected to the other.
Though Cushing, as Minister of Public Works, was initially responsible for railway policy, on November 1, 1909 Rutherford created a new ministry of Railways, which he appointed himself to head. In February 1910, Cushing resigned as Minister of Public Works, expressing disagr... | 24,288 |
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On February 25, Cushing gave his account of the events leading to his resignation In the legislature: after responsibility for railways was removed from his department, Rutherford had offered the A&GW guarantees of $20,000 per mile of railway constructed. In making this guarantee, Rutherford had n... | 24,289 |
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series of legislative debates and votes, in which many Liberals, including Cushing, frequently voted against their own government, even on motions of non-confidence. In March, Rutherford invited Cushing to rejoin the cabinet; according to Cushing, he was assured that if he did so his rival, Attorn... | 24,290 |
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would have to resign in order to save the Liberals, but he and other powerful Liberals did not view Cushing as capable of leading the government. Bulyea instead invited provincial Chief Justice Arthur Sifton to form a government, though Cushing was reputed to have been "sitting in his hotel room, ... | 24,291 |
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was the first chairman of the Mount Royal College Board of Governors, holding the post from 1910 until 1926, when he was designated Honorary Chairman. He died in Calgary January 25, 1934 of a heart attack. Calgary's W. H. Cushing Workplace School is named in his honour.
Cushing is primarily remem... | 24,292 |
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ted by something other than "revulsion against what appeared to be an unwise contract with a railway company". Instead, he believes that Cushing had concluded that he, rather than Rutherford, should be premier, and began to conduct himself publicly in such a way as to undermine Rutherford's author... | 24,293 |
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a bestselling young adult novel by Ann Brashares published in 2001. It follows the adventures of four best friends — Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell, w... | 24,294 |
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Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell. They have been best friends since birth (their mothers attended prenatal exercise classes together). The summer before their junior year of high school, Carmen finds a pair of old jeans that mysteriously fits each girl per... | 24,295 |
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and Kostos accidentally sees her. A misunderstanding leads Lena's grandparents to believe that Kostos attempted to assault Lena, causing an argument between the two families. Later in the summer, Lena explains to her grandparents what happened in order to repair the rift be... | 24,296 |
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Tragically, Bailey passes from her leukemia, which leads Tibby to refocus her documentary to capture the memories that they created together.
Carmen goes to South Carolina to spend the summer with her father, from whom she has grown apart since he and Carmen's mother divor... | 24,297 |
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him in spite of the camp's prohibition on coaches and campers entering relationships with each other, and eventually sees him in his underwear. She conspires to lose her virginity to him, until Eric eventually tells her that he does not feel as if he can worship her as she ... | 24,298 |
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promotion. Brashares later said, "I loved the idea. A shirt can more easily fit different people, but jeans are more judgmental. It totally captured my fancy."
# Themes.
The Importance of Friendship
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As the girls face challenges and different personal issues, they rel... | 24,299 |
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