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3808234 | The Origin (Buffy comic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Origin%20(Buffy%20comic) | The Origin (Buffy comic)
to help her. Buffy must somehow negotiate the school dance and a growing evil. In the end, the school gym is burned down (a major variation from the original film, in which the gym still stands at the story's end, but in agreement with the TV series, in which Buffy is notorious for having burne... | 39,800 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (3rd LARB) is a fast and mobilized armored terrestrial reconnaissance battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Their primary weapon system is the LAV-25 and they are part of the 1st Mari... | 39,801 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Company consists of five platoons of light armored vehicles (LAVs) organized as follows:
- Headquarters (HQ) - One command and control (LAV-C2), three logistic (LAV-L), one recovery (LAV-R), and two LAV-25 variants.
- Line platoons - First (1st), Second (2nd), and Third (3rd... | 39,802 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
of up to six scouts (0311s), but in most cases there are only three or four assigned per vehicle. There is also a corpsman and a LAV mechanic (2147) per platoon. The LAV-C2 crew consists of a driver, a VC, radio operators, and depending on the situation may include the Company... | 39,803 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
men (0352) respectively.
The company commander or executive officer (XO) usually VC one of the LAV-25s in HQ platoon, the other being commanded by the company's Master Gunner or HQ platoon sergeant. The company First Sergeant, company Operations Chief, and normally a mechanic... | 39,804 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Early years.
The 3d Light Armored Vehicle Battalion originally began as Company A (Reinforced), 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion in May 1983, and began receiving LAVs in April 1984. Company A, 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion became Company A, 3d Light Armored Vehicle B... | 39,805 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
1990s.
Detachment 3d Light Armored Infantry Battalion deployed to Saudi Arabia on 16 August 1990 in support of Operation Desert Shield, as part of the 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Task Force Lima. Later, the battalion conducted screening and deception operations as part ... | 39,806 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
again found itself at the forefront of action. While assigned to the First Marine Division Command Post on the second day of the ground war, Company B decisively repelled an Iraqi counterattack on the Command Post. Additionally, Company D provided a mobile screen for Task Forc... | 39,807 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
participated in the cleanup efforts. This was Operation Fiery Vigil. Company A returned to TwentyNine Palms on 7 August 1991, completing an arduous 15-month deployment.
From December 1992 to April 1993, 3d Light Armored Infantry Battalion deployed Company B and Company C alon... | 39,808 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Infantry Battalion was re-designated as 3d Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion. The Battalion also participated in counter-drug operations in support of Joint Task Force 6 in Arizona throughout 1994. It was during the early 1990s that the battalion's nickname and radi... | 39,809 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
launched against Iraq for failing to comply with U.N. Security Resolutions. During this operation, BLT 2/4 established defensive positions in Kuwait, along Mutla Ridge, to deter a potential counter offensive by Iraq.
## Global War on Terror.
### Operation Iraqi Freedom.
In ... | 39,810 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Iraqi Freedom, attacking into the Rumaylah oil fields. The Wolfpack, along with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, led the Division's lightning attack north, passing through Task Force Tarawa 56 hours after attacking into Iraq, crossing the Euphrates, and continuing t... | 39,811 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
to maneuver south against the Division. From the afternoon of 24 March until 1 April, the Battalion was attached to Regimental Combat Team 5.
On 31 March, the Battalion attacked north as part of Regimental Combat Team 5 and secured the northern portion of Hantush Airfield. On... | 39,812 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
half of H&S Company, as well as the Rear Command Post element, remained outside Baghdad conducting stabilization operations while attached to 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion.
In its advance north towards Tikrit, the element of the Battalion attached to Task Force Tripoli made... | 39,813 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Diwaniyah on 21 April. By mid-June, the entire Battalion had redeployed to Twenty-nine Palms, with the last elements of the Division following in September. The Battalion suffered two non-combat deaths, no killed in action, and nine wounded in action during this deployment.
#... | 39,814 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
city of Ar Rutbah, and fell under Regimental Combat Team 7. During the early part of the deployment, Company D operated out of Al-Qa'im, north of the Euphrates River and along the Syrian border, while the remainder of the Battalion operated out of Korean Village.
Beginning 7 ... | 39,815 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
primary mission was to attack and seize three key objectives on the Fallujah Peninsula—the North and South Bridges and the Fallujah Hospital. Task Force Wolfpack suffered one killed in action and sixty-two wounded in action during this battle. During this time, Company D was a... | 39,816 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
elections in conjunction with the 1st Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment (MANCHU). Upon completion of these operations in early March, Task Force Wolfpack returned to Korean Village where the Battalion reformed and subsequently conducted a relief in place with 2nd Light Armored R... | 39,817 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
one of the first leaders was Major General John A. Lejeune for whom Camp Lejeune is named after.
### Operation Iraqi Freedom 05–07.
In March 2006, 3rd LAR deployed in support of OIF 05-07.1 and subsequently became Task Force WOLFPACK by attaching C/1/10 as a provisional infa... | 39,818 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
Force WOLFPACK was tasked with splitting the battalion by providing a headquarters and maneuver capability to operate near Rawah, Iraq. Task Force Rutbah, which consisted of Company A, 3d LAR, C/1/10 and one half of Headquarters and Service Company (-), 3d LAR continued to con... | 39,819 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
the battalion had redeployed to Twentynine Palms, CA.
### Operation Iraqi Freedom 06–08.
In September 2007, 3rd LAR deployed again to Iraq returning to AO Rutbah to conduct COIN operations. They returned to 29 Palms in April 2008.
In March 2009, 3rd LAR deployed yet again t... | 39,820 |
3808131 | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Light%20Armored%20Reconnaissance%20Battalion | 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion
d LAR deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan for the first time, replacing 1st LAR in support of the border security efforts operating out of Combat Out Post (COP) Payne. The following year, they were relieved by 2nd LAR in late May 2011
In April 2012, 3rd LAR deployed aga... | 39,821 |
3808224 | Albert Dietrich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Dietrich | Albert Dietrich
Albert Dietrich
Albert Hermann Dietrich (28 August 1829 – 20 November 1908), was a German composer and conductor, remembered less for his own achievements than for his friendship with Johannes Brahms.
Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen. From 1851 he studied composition with Robert Schumann in Düs... | 39,822 |
3808224 | Albert Dietrich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Dietrich | Albert Dietrich
volume of poetry by Hölderlin that furnished him with the text for his Schicksalslied, which he began composing while visiting Wilhelmshaven dockyard in Dietrich’s company. Dietrich was also instrumental in arranging for the premiere of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem at Bremen in 1868. Dietrich’s own wo... | 39,823 |
3808224 | Albert Dietrich | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert%20Dietrich | Albert Dietrich
two piano trios.
Dietrich's "Recollections of Brahms", published in Leipzig in 1898, was translated into English the following year and remains an important biographical source. The Brahms scholar David Brodbeck has theorized ("The Cambridge Companion to Brahms", 1999) that Dietrich is the most likely ... | 39,824 |
3808279 | Toman (name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toman%20(name) | Toman (name)
Toman (name)
Toman is usually a surname, which is of German and Czech Origin. The English equivalent surname is "Thomas"
The surname first emerged in medieval times across the borders of Bavaria,Germany and Bohemia,Czech
Between the 13th and 14th centuries onwards the name was associated with the great ... | 39,825 |
3808279 | Toman (name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toman%20(name) | Toman (name)
mainly been found in Devon and Cornwall since the 17th century, however the surname is also known in the Ulster counties of County Antrim and County Down, many descendants of these Northern Irish Toman families settled on the mainland in Lancashire, Manchester, North and East London, Coventry, Liverpool an... | 39,826 |
3808279 | Toman (name) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toman%20(name) | Toman (name)
name, and Marcan mac Toman is "son of Toman"
Annal CS653
Kl.
Iugulatio Conaill Coir.
Cath Connacht {.i. Iartair Seola} in quo cecidit Marcan mac Toman ri H. Maine. Cennfaoladh mac Colgan et Maenach mac Blathin ri Ua mBriuin uictores erant.
Maeldoid mac Suibne ri Midhe moritur.
# People.
- Andy Toman... | 39,827 |
3808263 | French submarine Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20submarine%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French submarine Dupuy de Lôme
French submarine Dupuy de Lôme
The French submarine "Dupuy de Lôme" was the lead boat of the class of submarines built for the French Navy.
"Dupuy de Lôme", named after the French naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme, was laid down in Toulon in 1913, launched on 9 September 1915 and comm... | 39,828 |
3808284 | HD 102195 b | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HD%20102195%20b | HD 102195 b
HD 102195 b
HD 102195 b (also called ET-1) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 102195 in the constellation of Virgo, discovered in January 2006. It is the first planet discovered by the Exoplanet Tracker project, using a dispersed fixed-delay interferometer. The planet is an example of a hot Jupit... | 39,829 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
Dupuy de Lôme was an armoured cruiser built for the French Navy ("Marine Nationale") during the late 1880s and 1890s. She is considered by some to be the world's first armoured cruiser and was intended to attack enemy merchant ships. The ship was named after th... | 39,830 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
the cruiser was regarded as obsolete and "Dupuy de Lôme" was placed in reserve, aside from one assignment in Morocco.
The ship was sold to the Peruvian Navy in 1912, but they never paid the last two installments and the ship remained inactive at Brest during World War I. The French agreed ... | 39,831 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
towed to Antwerp and later scrapped in 1923.
# Design and description.
"Dupuy de Lôme" was designed to fill the commerce-raiding strategy of the Jeune École. Considered by some the first true armoured cruiser, she was superior to existing British and Italian protected cruisers, especially... | 39,832 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
at normal load. At deep load, she displaced and had a metacentric height of only . This gave the ship a long, slow roll and made her an uncertain gunnery platform. Her long, cut-away bow resembled a spur-type ram, but was not armoured. It was reduced in profile to reduce blast damage when t... | 39,833 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
and they were rated at a total of . The ship had a designed speed of , but during sea trials on 2 April 1895 the engines only produced that gave a maximum speed of . "Dupuy de Lôme" carried up to of coal and could steam for at a speed of .
"Dupuy de Lôme"s main armament consisted of two 45... | 39,834 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
guns. She was also armed with four pivoting torpedo tubes; two mounted on each broadside above water.
The whole side of the ship was protected by of steel armour, from the bottom edge of the protective deck below the waterline to the edge of the weather deck. The curved protective deck had... | 39,835 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
cellulose, ran the length of "Dupuy de Lôme" from the protective deck to a height of above the waterline. Below the protective deck the ship was divided by 13 watertight transverse bulkheads with three more above the protective deck. The ship's conning tower was protected by and her turrets... | 39,836 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
boiler tube burst on 20 June, burning 16 men. The necessary modifications to fix the problem delayed the ship's completion by almost a year. Further testing in October 1893, showed that "Dupuy de Lôme"s engines could only attain during a 24-hour trial and that the boilers were structurally ... | 39,837 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
and the cruiser , during the opening ceremony for the Kiel Canal the following month. She made port visits in Spain in June 1896 and escorted the Russian Imperial yacht into Cherbourg when Nicholas II of Russia began a state visit on 5 October. The ship escorted the President of France, Fél... | 39,838 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
of 20 new Guyot–du-Temple water-tube boilers, that took four years to complete. The boilers had an operating pressure of and they required that a third funnel be added which necessitated extensive structural modifications. The rear military mast was replaced by a simple pole mast and sea tr... | 39,839 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
again and deemed uneconomical to repair. "Dupuy de Lôme" was decommissioned on 20 March 1910, but the final decision to strike her from the Navy List was not made until 20 February 1911.
Prompted by the rumoured purchase of the small Italian protected cruiser by Ecuador in 1910, Peru offer... | 39,840 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
instead of Ecuador, the Peruvians lost interest in completing the purchase and the ship was left in the care of the French in October 1914. Proposals to use her during World War I were rejected as she was thought to be too obsolete to be worth refitting. On 17 January 1917 the ship was offi... | 39,841 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
bow was built up over her pseudo-ram and the space was used to accommodate her crew. The two outboard engines, their associated boilers and propeller shafts were removed as were the two forward funnels. The ship's side and deck armour was removed wherever it did not compromise structural st... | 39,842 |
3808207 | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French%20cruiser%20Dupuy%20de%20Lôme | French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
age carrying of coal from Cardiff to Rio de Janeiro on 20 January 1920. Engine repairs had to be made at Falmouth the next day and were not completed until 14 February. Her engine broke down again in the mid-Atlantic and she was towed to Las Palmas by a Spanish merchantman. Arriving there o... | 39,843 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
Kem Sokha
Kem Sokha (; born 27 June 1953) is a Cambodian politician and activist who most recently served as the President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). He served as the Minority Leader, the highest ranking opposition parliamentarian, of the National Assembly from December 2016 to January 201... | 39,844 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
In November 2017, the CNRP was dissolved, and 118 of its members, including Sokha, were banned from politics for five years. On 10 September 2018, more than a year after his arrest, he was released on bail, and subsequently placed under house arrest.
# Education.
Kem Sokha pursued a law degree at the Royal ... | 39,845 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
for Takéo Province; at that time he was a member of Son Sann's Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party. In 1999, he joined the royalist FUNCINPEC and subsequently elected a senator. He resigned from his Senate seat in 2001. In 2002, he founded the Cambodian Center for Human Rights but left that organisation to join... | 39,846 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
for his non-violent, political tolerant policy standing on democratic and unity principles. His words are often quoted and repeated by ordinary Cambodians. His phrase "Do Min Do" (literal translation to English: "Change or no change") became the anthem for the Cambodia National Rescue Party's election Campaig... | 39,847 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
house arrest, Sokha was sentenced to five months in prison after refusing to appear in court for questioning in a prostitution case against him. He was later granted a royal pardon by King Norodom Sihamoni. Following his release, he was officially appointed as Minority Leader. However, the positions of Minori... | 39,848 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
1,646 communes.
## Treason allegations.
In September 2017, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged Sokha with "treason and espionage", and for allegedly orchestrating the 2014 Veng Sreng street protests. He was arrested at his home on September 3, 2017. Hun Sen and other Cambodian government officials allege... | 39,849 |
3808242 | Kem Sokha | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kem%20Sokha | Kem Sokha
ocure Code. He was released on bail on 10 September 2018, more than a year after his arrest, but was placed under house arrest.
# See also.
- Cambodian Center for Human Rights
# External links.
- Kem Sokha
- Kem Sokha on Facebook
- Human Rights Party
- Cambodia National Rescue Party
- CCHR - Cambodian... | 39,850 |
3808286 | Selig Starr | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selig%20Starr | Selig Starr
Selig Starr
Rabbi Selig Starr, born Zelig Starobinski (15 June 1893 Yanow or Yanaveh, Poland – 2 November 1989), was a 20th-century Talmudic scholar in Poland, Chicago and Jerusalem. As instructor of the highest-level shiur at Skokie, Illinois's Hebrew Theological College, where he was hired early in its h... | 39,851 |
3808286 | Selig Starr | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selig%20Starr | Selig Starr
his early years, Selig studied at Novaradok and Telz. At 17, he came to Slobodka yeshiva "Knesses Israel" near Kovno, Lithuania. His Talmudic training there was so thoroughly and rapidly absorbed that through scarcely no more than a boy he was ordained as rabbi, in 1921, by Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein of ... | 39,852 |
3808298 | Sarah Palmer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah%20Palmer | Sarah Palmer
Sarah Palmer
Sarah Palmer may refer to:
- Sarah R. Palmer (born 1943), professor of maritime history
- Sarah Palmer (Twin Peaks), a character in television series "Twin Peaks"
- Sarah Palmer (Halo), a character in the "Halo" video game series
- Sarah Palmer, a character in "My Bloody Valentine 3D" | 39,853 |
3808295 | Git (album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Git%20(album) | Git (album)
Git (album)
Git is the first album by Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys though the band had previously released material under the name "Skeletons". It was released on Ghostly International in July 2005.
# Track listing.
- 1. "See the Way" – 2:45
- 2. "Git" – 2:52
- 3. "We Won't Be Proud, No No No No" – ... | 39,854 |
3808287 | Southwell Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southwell%20Rural%20District | Southwell Rural District
Southwell Rural District
Southwell was a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the Southwell rural sanitary district.
It was amended in 1935 under a County Review Order by ceding a few parishes to the N... | 39,855 |
3808316 | Newark Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newark%20Rural%20District | Newark Rural District
Newark Rural District
Newark was a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
It was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 from the Newark rural sanitary district. The district was long and thin, being far more distance from the far north to the far south than it was lengthw... | 39,856 |
3808316 | Newark Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newark%20Rural%20District | Newark Rural District
ewark rural sanitary district. The district was long and thin, being far more distance from the far north to the far south than it was lengthwise, as much of the Newark RSD had been in Lincolnshire, and went to form the Claypole Rural District.
The district was amended slightly in 1935 under a Co... | 39,857 |
3808330 | East Retford Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East%20Retford%20Rural%20District | East Retford Rural District
in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from East Retford rural sanitary district. It entirely surrounded Retford, which was a municipal borough itself.
In 1935 it took in the area of the Misterton Rural District under a County Revie... | 39,858 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
Ornithocheirus
Ornithocheirus (from Ancient Greek "ὄρνις", meaning "bird", and "χεῖρ", meaning "hand") is a pterosaur genus known from fragmentary fossil remains uncovered from sediments in the UK.
Several species have been referred to the genus, most of which are now considered as dubious species, or ... | 39,859 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
enduring problems of zoological nomenclature.
Fossil remains of "Ornithocheirus" have been recovered mainly from the Cambridge Greensand of England, dating to the beginning of the Albian stage of the early Cretaceous period, about 110 million years ago. Additional fossils from the Santana Formation of B... | 39,860 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
of teeth. Also unlike related pterosaurs, the teeth of "Ornithocheirus" were mostly vertical, rather than set at an outward-pointing angle.
It was believed in the past that "Ornithocheirus" was one of the largest pterosaurs to have existed, with a wingspan possibly measuring 40 feet wide. However, this ... | 39,861 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
that had originated as a sandy seabed. Decomposing pterosaur cadavers, floating on the sea surface, had gradually lost individual bones that sank to the bottom of the sea. Water currents then moved the bones around, eroding and polishing them, until they were at last covered by more sand and fossilised. ... | 39,862 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
a new genus for the Cambridge Greensand material that he named "Ornithocheirus", "bird hand", as he in this period still considered pterosaurs to be the direct ancestors of birds, and assumed the hand of the genus to represent a transitional stage in the evolution towards the bird hand. To distinguish th... | 39,863 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
"O. dentatus", "O. denticulatus", "O. enchorhynchus", "O. xyphorhynchus", "O. fittoni", "O. nasutus", "O. polyodon", "O. compressirostris", "O. tenuirostris", "O. machaerorhynchus", "O. platystomus", "O. microdon", "O. oweni" and "O. huxleyi", thus 28 in total. As yet Seeley did not designate a type spec... | 39,864 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
tooth position — the best fossils consisted of jaw fragments. He in 1874 created two new genera: "Coloborhynchus" and "Criorhynchus". "Coloborhynchus", "maimed beak", comprised a new species, "Coloborhynchus clavirostris", the type species, and two species reassigned from "Ornithocheirus": "C. sedgwickii... | 39,865 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
Newton renamed several existing species names into "Ornithocheirus", as "Ornithocheirus clavirostris", "O. daviesii", "O. sagittirostris", "O. validus", "O. giganteus", "O. clifti", "O. diomedeus", "O. nobilis", "O. curtus", "O. umbrosus", "O. harpyia", "O. macrorhinus" and "O. hlavaci".
In 1914 Reginal... | 39,866 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
and "L. daviesii". "Amblydectes", "blunt biter", consisted of "A. platystomus", "A. crassidens" and "A. eurygnathus". However, Hooley's classification was rarely applied later in the century, when it became common to subsume all the poorly preserved and confusing material under the name "Ornithocheirus".... | 39,867 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
Cambridge Greensand, 110 million years old. Unlike the English material, these new finds included some of the best preserved large pterosaur skeletons and several new genera names were given to them, such as "Anhanguera". This situation caused a renewed interest in the "Ornithocheirus" material and the v... | 39,868 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
However, in 2000 Unwin stated that "Criorhynchus" could not be valid. Referring to Seeley's designation of 1881 he considered "Ornithocheirus simus", holotype CAMSM B.54428, to be the type species. This also made it possible to revive "Lonchodectes", using as type the former "O. compressirostris", which ... | 39,869 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
by Alexander Kellner in 1989, "Coloborhynchus mesembrinus" by André Veldmeijer in 1998 and "Criorhynchus mesembrinus" by Michael Fastnacht in 2001. Even earlier, in 2001, Unwin had referred the "Tropeognathus" material to "O. simus" in which he was followed by Veldmeijer; however the latter overlooked th... | 39,870 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
"O. platyrhinus" a junior synonym of "O. simus".
Misassigned species:
- "O. compressirostris" (Hooley, 1914) = "Pterodactylus compressirostris" Owen, 1851
- "O. crassidens" Seeley, 1870
- "O. cuvieri" (Seeley, 1870) = "Pterodactylus cuvieri" Bowerbank, 1851
- "O. curtus" (Hooley, 1914) = "Pterodacty... | 39,871 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
(Owen, 1859) = "Pterodactylus sedgwickii" Owen 1859
- "O." "wiedenrothi" Wild, 1990 = possibly a relative of "Lonchodectes"
"Cimoliornis diomedeus", "Cretornis hlavatschi", and "Palaeornis clifti", originally misidentified as birds, were once referred to "Ornithocheirus" in the past, but recent papers ... | 39,872 |
3808275 | Ornithocheirus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithocheirus | Ornithocheirus
darchoidea, "Cretornis" is a valid genus of azhdarchid, and "Palaeornis" was shown to be a lonchodectid in 2009. "O. buenzeli" (Bunzel 1871, often misspelled and incorrectly attributed as "O. bunzeli", Seeley 1881), cited in the past as evidence of Late Cretaceous ornithocheirids, has since been re-ident... | 39,873 |
3808336 | The Giant (Twin Peaks) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Giant%20(Twin%20Peaks) | The Giant (Twin Peaks)
The Giant (Twin Peaks)
The Giant is a character from the television series "Twin Peaks", created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. He is played by Carel Struycken.
Struycken also appears in the 2017 revival as The Fireman, although the series does not reveal if he is the same character as the Gian... | 39,874 |
3808336 | The Giant (Twin Peaks) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Giant%20(Twin%20Peaks) | The Giant (Twin Peaks)
Cooper that his love-interest Annie Blackburn should not enter the "Miss Twin Peaks" pageant (her winning the contest is a key element leading to Cooper's entering the Black Lodge and subsequently his downfall).
The Giant apparently inhabits an elderly Room Service Waiter of the Great Northern H... | 39,875 |
3808336 | The Giant (Twin Peaks) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Giant%20(Twin%20Peaks) | The Giant (Twin Peaks)
actions seem to be benevolent, he seems to be part of the evil Black Lodge, as he appears alongside of the Man from Another Place in the Lodge's waiting room. However, some have opined that the waiting room actually is a neutral location between the Black and the White Lodge. In his first appeara... | 39,876 |
3808336 | The Giant (Twin Peaks) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Giant%20(Twin%20Peaks) | The Giant (Twin Peaks)
to have benevolent intentions. Unlike the Giant, however, he does not appear in the natural realm, instead bringing individuals into his own realm, which is depicted as being predominantly without color.
The Fireman's earliest known activity was in 1945 when he created an orb bearing the face of... | 39,877 |
3808336 | The Giant (Twin Peaks) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Giant%20(Twin%20Peaks) | The Giant (Twin Peaks)
behind by Major Garland Briggs in 2014, Andy is transported into the Fireman's realm and provided information on important events.
Upon being brought to a set of coordinates, Dale Cooper's doppelganger is transported to the White Lodge, where the Fireman then shifts a teleportation destination f... | 39,878 |
3808336 | The Giant (Twin Peaks) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Giant%20(Twin%20Peaks) | The Giant (Twin Peaks)
racter. Their album "Ghosts of Loss" also mentions Laura Palmer in another song.
- "Transmission 3", the final track on DJ Shadow's 1996 album "Endtroducing..." samples the voice of the Giant, saying "It is happening again."
- The Giant's words to Cooper in the hotel bedroom are sampled on the ... | 39,879 |
3808331 | Iván Ferreiro | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iván%20Ferreiro | Iván Ferreiro
Iván Ferreiro
Iván Ferreiro Rodríguez (born 15 August 1970) is a Spanish singer-songwriter born in Nigrán, Galicia. He was the voice, leader and composer of the popular pop-rock band Los Piratas.
# Career.
After Los Piratas split, by late 2003, Iván kept playing with his brother Amaro in a pub in Vigo,... | 39,880 |
3808331 | Iván Ferreiro | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iván%20Ferreiro | Iván Ferreiro
some Spanish and Argentinian musicians in a house at Buenos Aires, in order to write new songs among friends. Some of these musicians were Juan Aguirre and Eva Amaral (Amaral), Xoel López (singer of Deluxe) or Quique González.
In October 2006, he released "Las siete y media", a mini-album with 8 songs (7... | 39,881 |
3808331 | Iván Ferreiro | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iván%20Ferreiro | Iván Ferreiro
nedo" tour. In 2008, he released a new album Mentiroso Mentiroso, followed by "Picninc Extraterrestre" in 2010 and his most recent album "Confesiones de un artista de mierda" recorded in 2011 live in front of an audience as a combination of new songs, collaborations and a new reading of some of "Los Pirat... | 39,882 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
Ann Taylor (poet)
Ann Taylor (30 January 1782 – 20 December 1866) was an English poet and literary critic. She gained long-lasting popularity in her youth as a writer of verse for children. In the years immediately before her marriage, she became an astringent literary critic. However, she is best re... | 39,883 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
an engraver. He later became an educational pioneer and Independent minister and wrote a number of instructional books for the young. Their mother, Mrs (Ann Martin) Taylor (1757–1830) wrote seven works of moral and religious advice – in many respects liberal for their time – two of them fictionalized.... | 39,884 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
chiefly of works on architecture and design.
# Authorship.
The sisters and their authorship of various works have often been confused, usually to Jane's advantage. This is in part because their early works for children were published together and without attribution, but also because Jane, by dying ... | 39,885 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
though Ann's poem "The Maniac's Song", published in the "Associate Minstrels" (1810), was probably the finest short poem by either sister, and it has even been postulated as an inspiration for Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci (Lynette Felber: Ann Taylor's "The Maniac's Song": an unacknowledged source ... | 39,886 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
and sometimes acerbic wit. The autobiography also provides much detailed and intriguing information about the life of a moderately prosperous dissenting family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
# Appreciations.
Ann Taylor's son, Josiah Gilbert, wrote: "Two little poems – 'My Mother', and 'T... | 39,887 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
in the English language, or any other language" and not knowing that Ann Gilbert was still alive, called upon Tennyson to supply a less heterodox version of the final stanza, which seemed to de Morgan unworthy of the rest.
"Original Poems for Infant Minds by several young persons" (by Ann and Jane an... | 39,888 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
Bio-Bibliography" by Christina Duff Stewart. Stewart cites a copy of "Rhymes for the Nursery" belonging to a nephew, Canon Isaac Taylor, annotated to indicate the respective authorship of Ann and Jane. Stewart also confirms attributions of "Original Poems" based on publisher's records.
# Marriage and... | 39,889 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
in "The Eclectic Review". Gilbert was, at the time of their marriage, the classics tutor at Rotherham Independent College – the nearest thing to a university open to Dissenters at that time – and simultaneously pastor of the Nether Chapel in Sheffield. In 1817, he moved to the pastorate of the Fish St... | 39,890 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
print. Oddly for one of such independence of mind and strongly held, usually liberal opinions, she was firmly opposed to female suffrage.
After Gilbert died on 12 December 1852, Ann wrote a memoir of him. Nor did she spend the rest of her long life in gentle retirement. While actively supporting the ... | 39,891 |
3808290 | Ann Taylor (poet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ann%20Taylor%20(poet) | Ann Taylor (poet)
was always of central concern to the Taylors – she travelled widely in many parts of Britain, taking in her stride as an old lady travelling conditions that might have daunted one much younger. She died on 20 December 1866 and was buried next to her husband in Nottingham General Cemetery, although the... | 39,892 |
3808339 | Spike & Dru (Buffy comic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spike%20&%20Dru%20(Buffy%20comic) | Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)
Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)
Spike & Dru is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" television series. The book contains four stories, all starring the characters Spike and Drusilla.
# All's Fair.
In 1933, Spike and Dru are at the World's Fair. Ho... | 39,893 |
3808339 | Spike & Dru (Buffy comic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spike%20&%20Dru%20(Buffy%20comic) | Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)
by Drusilla's passion for Angelus. Their relationship comes to a heated end and Spike goes to Turkey for a break. Dru hunts him down with someone new, a necromancer. She wants to even the score but soon makes trouble for everyone.
Set after "Buffy" season 2 episode "Becoming, Part Two".
This... | 39,894 |
3808339 | Spike & Dru (Buffy comic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spike%20&%20Dru%20(Buffy%20comic) | Spike & Dru (Buffy comic)
" season 2 episode "Becoming, Part Two".
This story is co-authored by James Marsters, who played Spike on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television show.
# Who Made Who.
Spike and Dru are a newly made up couple in Brazil. Yet Dru's attention once again drifts away and Spike spoils some part... | 39,895 |
3808373 | Misterton Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Misterton%20Rural%20District | Misterton Rural District
s a rural district in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1935.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894, from the part of the Gainsborough rural sanitary district which was in Nottinghamshire (the rest forming Gainsborough Rural District in Lincolnshire.)
It included the following... | 39,896 |
3808348 | Calvin L. Noble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calvin%20L.%20Noble | Calvin L. Noble
Calvin L. Noble
Calvin L. Noble, born October 13, 1813 in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States is known primarily for spelling the name of Cleveland, Ohio incorrectly.
Noble learned printing and founded a Democratic newspaper in Cleveland, the Cleveland Advertiser, in 1830, when he was but 17. As the ... | 39,897 |
3808348 | Calvin L. Noble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calvin%20L.%20Noble | Calvin L. Noble
Noble was employed as a fur buyer for the American Fur Company, fur being the principal source of revenue in northwestern Ohio at the time.
He later became an agent for the American Land Company, and then laid out the city of Bryan, Ohio, which became the county seat of Williams County, Ohio. He served... | 39,898 |
3808226 | Manuel Lacunza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manuel%20Lacunza | Manuel Lacunza
Manuel Lacunza
Manuel De Lacunza, S.J. (July 19, 1731 – c. June 18, 1801) was a Jesuit priest who used the pseudonym Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra in his main work on the interpretation of the prophecies of the Bible, which was entitled "The Coming of the Messiah in Majesty and Glory."
# Biography.
The son of... | 39,899 |
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