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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(Van_Halen_album) | 1984 (Van Halen album) | 1984 (stylized in Roman numerals as MCMLXXXIV) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on January 9, 1984, by Warner Bros. Records. It was the last Van Halen album to feature lead singer David Lee Roth, who left the band in 1985 following creative differences, until A Different Kind of Truth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Bowl#Players_with_most_invitations | Pro Bowl#Players with most invitations | The National Football League All-Star Game (1939–1942), Pro Bowl (1951–2022), or Pro Bowl Games (since 2023) is an annual event held by the National Football League (NFL) featuring the league's star players.
The format has changed throughout the years. From 1939 through 1942, the NFL experimented with all-star games pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoghi_Effendi | Shoghi Effendi | Shoghí Effendi (; Persian: شوقی افندی; 1896 or 1897 – 4 November 1957) was Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1922 until his death in 1957. As the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, he was charged with guiding the development of the Baháʼí Faith, including the creation of its global administrative structure and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Newsome | Skeeter Newsome | Lamar Ashby "Skeeter" Newsome (October 18, 1910 – August 31, 1989) was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1935–1939), Boston Red Sox (1941–1945) and Philadelphia Phillies (1946–1947).
Born in Phenix City, Alabama, he finished 27th in voting for the 1943 American Le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Love_Affair#Track_listing | Strong Love Affair#Track listing | Strong Love Affair is a studio album by Ray Charles, released in 1996, through Warner Bros. Records.
== Track listing ==
"All She Wants to Do Is Love Me" – 4:15
"Say No More" – 4:19
"No Time to Waste Time" – 3:38
"Angelina" – 4:06
"Tell Me What You Want Me to Do" (Ray Charles) – 5:21
"Strong Love Affair" – 4:08
"Ever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McGraw | Tim McGraw | Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer and actor. He has released 17 studio albums (11 for Curb Records, five for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those albums have reached number one on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Aurilia | Rich Aurilia | Richard Santo Aurilia (; born September 2, 1971) is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1995 and 2009 for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, and Cincinnati Reds.
== Amateur career ==
Aurilia was born in Brooklyn, New York and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales | Diana, Princess of Wales | Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her enduring popularity.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell | Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Graham Bell ( ; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
Bell's father, grandfather... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Theodoropoulos | Mikhail Theodoropoulos | Mikhail Theodoropoulos (born 1933) is a Greek wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman bantamweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pud_Galvin | Pud Galvin | James Francis "Pud" Galvin (December 25, 1856 – March 7, 1902) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher in the 19th century. He was MLB's first 300-game winner and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1965.
In 1883, Galvin had 656+1⁄3 innings pitched (IP); the next season, he had 636+1⁄3 IP.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701) | USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) | USS Enterprise is a series of starships in the Star Trek media franchise. Enterprise is the main setting of the original Star Trek television series (1966–69), nine Star Trek films, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present). The vessels carry their crew on a mission "to explore strange, new worlds; to seek out n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Scirocco | Volkswagen Scirocco | The Volkswagen Scirocco is a sport compact car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen in two generations from 1974 to 1992 and a third generation from 2008 until 2018. Production of the third generation ended without a successor. It is a three-door hatchback with a front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. The Scirocco ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War | Anglo-Zanzibar War | The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history. The immediate cause of the war was the suspicious death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Canada#Prime_ministers | List of prime ministers of Canada#Prime ministers | The prime minister of Canada is the official who serves as the primary minister of the Crown, chair of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada. Twenty-four people (twenty-three men and one woman) have served as prime minister. Officially, the prime minister is appointed by the governor general of Canada, but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889) | USS Maine (1889) | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Kratochvil | Michel Kratochvil | Michel Frank Kratochvil (born 7 April 1979) is a former tennis player from Switzerland. He was a member of the Swiss Davis Cup Team between 2000 and 2004 with a singles record 3–9, winning the decider in the first round of the 2003 World Group against Martin Verkerk of Netherlands 1–6, 7–6, 7–6, 6–1. He played doubles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis | Wyndham Lewis | Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a Canadian-born British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.
His novels include Tarr (1916–17) and The Human Age trilogy, comprising The Childermass (1928), Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconium | Zirconium | Zirconium is a chemical element; it has symbol Zr and atomic number 40. First identified in 1789, isolated in impure form in 1824, and manufactured at scale by 1925, pure zirconium is a lustrous transition metal with a greyish-white color that closely resembles hafnium and, to a lesser extent, titanium. It is solid at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International | Bank of Credit and Commerce International | The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade after opening, BCCI had more than 400 branches in 78 countries and assets in excess of US$20 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi_Moore | Demi Moore | Demi Gene Moore ( də-MEE; née Guynes; born November 11, 1962) is an American actress. After rising to prominence in the 1980s, she became the world's highest-paid actress by 1995. Her accolades include a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, and an Actor Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy | Family Guy | Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on January 31, 1999, following Super Bowl XXXIII, with the rest of the first season airing from April 11, 1999. The show centers around the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllobates | Phyllobates | Phyllobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America. The genus contains seven known species, which are distributed from eastern Nicaragua to the Pacific coast of Colombia.
Phyllobates contains the most poisonous species of frog, the golden poison frog (P. terribilis). They are typical of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
The third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was educated at Westminster School... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangsan_Kim_clan | Gwangsan Kim clan | The Gwangsan Kim clan (Korean: 광산 김씨; Hanja: 光山 金氏) is a Korean clan with its bon-gwan located in Gwangsan, present-day Gwangju.
The members of the Gwangsan Kim clan are the descendants of Kim Hŭng-gwang (Korean: 김흥광; Hanja: 金興光), the third son of King Sinmu of Silla, the 45th monarch of the Silla.
The family has produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark,
later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition | World's Columbian Exposition | The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 1 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool represent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Homeland_Security | United States Secretary of Homeland Security | The United States secretary of homeland security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the federal department tasked with border control, counterterrorism and other aspects of public safety in the United States. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet of the United States. The position was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_Trail | Appalachian Trail | The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the Appalachian Trail to be the world's longest h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Jefferson | Justin Jefferson | Justin Jamal Jefferson (born June 16, 1999) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, where he won the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship as a junior before being drafted by the Viki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Keegan | Claire Keegan | Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review. She is also known for her novellas, two of which have been adapted as films.
== Early life and education ==
Claire Keegan was born in 1968, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_(1994_film) | Priest (1994 film) | Priest is a 1994 British drama film directed by Antonia Bird. The screenplay by Jimmy McGovern concerns a Roman Catholic priest (Linus Roache) as he struggles with two difficulties that precipitate a crisis of faith. The film's release was controversial and received condemnation from the Church.
The film won the People... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia | Mongolia | Mongolia is a landlocked country in the East Asia region. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, and covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometers (603,909 square miles), making it the 18th-largest country in the world and the second largest landlocked country after Kazakhstan, as well as the lar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cochise County Cowboys on October 26, 1881. While lasting less than a minute, the gunfight has been the subject of many books and films. Taking place in the town of Tombstone in Ari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Stadium | Millennium Stadium | The Millennium Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm y Mileniwm), known since 2016 as the Principality Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm Principality) for sponsorship reasons, is the national stadium of Wales in Cardiff. It has a retractable roof and a usual capacity of 73,931. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and has als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness | Guinness | Guinness () is a stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in the 18th century. It is now owned by the British multinational alcoholic beverage maker Diageo. It is one of the most successful alcohol brands worldwide, brewed in almost 50 countries, and available in ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ann | Elizabeth Ann | Elizabeth Ann (born December 10, 2020) is a black-footed ferret, the first U.S. endangered species to be cloned. The animal was cloned using the frozen cells from Willa, a black-footed female ferret who died in the 1980s and had no living descendants. The cloning process was led by Revive & Restore, a biodiversity non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharaohs | List of pharaohs | The pharaohs were the rulers of ancient Egypt from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt c. 3100 BC, with several times of fragmentation and foreign rule. The specific title of "pharaoh" (pr-ꜥꜣ) was not used until the New Kingdom, c. 1400 BC, but it is retroactively applied to all Egyptian kings; the generic term fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(TV_series)#Season_2_(2019) | You (TV series)#Season 2 (2019) | You is an American psychological thriller television series based on the books by Caroline Kepnes, developed by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, and produced by Berlanti Productions, Alloy Entertainment, and A+E Studios in association with Warner Horizon Television, now Warner Bros. Television.
The first season, which is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witney | Witney | Witney is a market town on the River Windrush in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is 12 miles (19 km) west of Oxford.
== History ==
The place-name "Witney" is derived from the Old English for "Witta's island". The earliest known record of it is as Wyttannige in a Saxon charter of 969. The D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn | Matterhorn | The Matterhorn is a mountain of the European Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the Pennine Alps, whose summit is 4,478 metres (14,692 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest summits in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoko_Takeuchi | Naoko Takeuchi | Naoko Takeuchi (Japanese: 武内 直子, Hepburn: Takeuchi Naoko; born March 15, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon, one of the most popular manga series of all time. She has won several awards, including the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for Sailor Moon.
Takeuchi is married to Yoshihi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Quertier | Jill Quertier | Jill Quertier (born 1936) is an English set decorator. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Production Design for the film Shakespeare in Love and was nominated for another for Quills.
== Selected filmography ==
Shakespeare in Love (1998; won with Martin Childs)
Quills (2000; nominated with Martin Childs) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado | 2011 Joplin tornado | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck | Max Planck | Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (; German: [ˈmaks ˈplaŋk] ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist. He won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_by_population | List of cities in Germany by population | As defined by the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, a Großstadt (large city) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants. As of today, 80 cities in Germany fulfill this criterion and are listed here. This list refers only to the population of individual municipal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_Honey_(poetry_collection) | Milk and Honey (poetry collection) | Milk and Honey (stylized in all lowercase as "milk and honey") is a collection of both abstract fiction and non-fiction poetry and prose by Indian-Canadian poet Rupi Kaur. The collection's themes feature aspects of survival, feminism and relationships, and is divided into four sections, with each section serving a diff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_Island_Historic_District | Seal Island Historic District | The Seal Island Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District located on the islands of St. George and St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea of Alaska. These islands are home to northern fur seal herds which were actively hunted by indigenous populations and later by many nationalities. These ... |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_Championships | Wimbledon Championships | The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tennis events each year, held after the Austral... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays# | Willie Mays# | Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career in the Negro leagues,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_Portland_Trail_Blazers_season#Playoffs | 2013–14 Portland Trail Blazers season#Playoffs | The 2013–14 Portland Trail Blazers season was the franchise's 44th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Prior to this season, the Rose Garden was renamed as the Moda Center. The season saw the Blazers improve on their mediocre 2012–13 output, finishing with a 54–28 record, and finishing 5th in the West.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Cleveland_Indians_season | 2016 Cleveland Indians season | The 2016 Cleveland Indians season was the 116th season for the franchise and the 23rd season at Progressive Field. The Indians won the American League Central for the first time since 2007 and also beat the Boston Red Sox in the ALDS for their first playoff win in nine years. They defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in five... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanee_Butler | Lanee Butler | Lanee "Carrie" Butler-Beashel (born June 3, 1970, in Manhasset, New York) is an American windsurfer. She competed at four Olympics from 1992 to 2004. Her best position was fourth in 2000.
She is married to America's Cup sailor Adam Beashel. Her brother in law is six-time Olympian Colin Beashel. She and Adam have two so... |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_Academy_Awards | 66th Academy Awards | The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (common... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streak_(professional_wrestling) | The Streak (professional wrestling) | The Streak was a series of 21 consecutive victories for professional wrestler The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) at WWE's annual flagship marquee event, WrestleMania. It began at WrestleMania VII in 1991 when he beat Jimmy Snuka, with the final win coming against CM Punk at WrestleMania 29 in 2013; the Undertaker was absent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures | List of tallest buildings and structures | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#Refuge,_theft,_and_vandalism | Mona Lisa#Refuge, theft, and vandalism | The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, [and] the most parodied work of art in the world." The paint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalkbrenner | Kalkbrenner | Kalkbrenner (German: occupational name for a lime burner) is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Christian Kalkbrenner (1755–1806), German bandmaster
Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849), German pianist
Fritz Kalkbrenner (born 1981), German musician
Paul Kalkbrenner (born 1977), German musician
Rya... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico | Mexico | Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America and borders the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the sou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa | Ottawa | Ottawa ( , ; Canadian French: [ɔtawɑ]) is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambyr_Childers | Ambyr Childers | Ambyr Childers is an American actress known for her portrayal of Susan Atkins in the NBC crime drama Aquarius, Ashley Rucker in the Showtime crime drama Ray Donovan, and Candace Stone in the Netflix thriller series You.
== Career ==
After appearing in the 2003 film Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, she played Colby ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump | Weekly Shōnen Jump | Weekly Shōnen Jump (Japanese: 週刊少年ジャンプ, Hepburn: Shūkan Shōnen Janpu; stylized in English as WEEKLY JUMP) is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. Chapters of the se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_middle_finger#Exhibition_history | Galileo's middle finger#Exhibition history | The middle finger from the right hand of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is a secular relic in the collection of the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. The finger was removed from his body after his death, and is encased in a gilded glass egg.
In 1737, 95 years after he died, Galileo's remains were transf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Australian_Poker_Championship | Crown Australian Poker Championship | The Australian Poker Championship, commonly known as Aussie Millions, is a series of poker tournaments held at the Crown Casino, in Melbourne, Australia. The Main Event of the series is the Southern Hemisphere's richest poker tournament with a prize pool in excess of A$7 million.
== History ==
Poker at Crown was intr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry | Bayeux Tapestry | The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 feet) long and 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, led by William, Duke of Normandy, challenging Harold II, King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. It is though... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Sanders | Reggie Sanders | Reginald Laverne Sanders (born December 1, 1967) is an American former right fielder in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw right-handed. He played professionally with the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadier_Molina | Yadier Molina | Yadier Benjamín Molina (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝaˈðjeɾ moˈlina]; born July 13, 1982) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball manager and former catcher who is the manager of the Navegantes del Magallanes of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. He played his entire 19-year career with the St. Louis Cardinals o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyo_Noguchi | Akiyo Noguchi | Akiyo Noguchi (野口 啓代, Noguchi Akiyo; born May 30, 1989) is a Japanese professional rock climber who specializes in competition bouldering as well as outdoor bouldering and sport climbing.
She participates in both competition bouldering and competition lead climbing disciplines. She is known for winning the IFSC Climbin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Grint | Rupert Grint | Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint ( ; born 24 August 1988) is an English actor. He rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group. Grint portrayed Weasley in all eight films in the series,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England | Henry I of England | Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in 1087, Henry's elder brothers Robert Curthose and William Rufus inherited Normandy a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_parliamentary_dissolution_referendum | 1953 Iranian parliamentary dissolution referendum | A referendum on the dissolution of Parliament, the first referendum ever held in Iran, was held in August 1953. The referendum was in direct contravention of the then Constitution of Iran which normally reserved the power to dissolve parliament to the Shah. The vote was boycotted by the opposition, including influentia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Years%27_War_(1454%E2%80%931466) | Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) | The Thirteen Years' War (Polish: wojna trzynastoletnia; German: Dreizehnjähriger Krieg), also called the War of the Cities, was a conflict fought in 1454–1466 between the Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and the State of the Teutonic Order.
After the defeat suffered by the Teutoni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_prime_ministers_of_Great_Britain_and_the_United_Kingdom | Timeline of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United Kingdom | This is a graphical timeline of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from when the first prime minister of Great Britain in the modern sense, Robert Walpole, took office in 1721, until the present day.
From 1801 until 1922, British prime ministers also held the office for the whole of Ireland.
== G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron#Filmography | James Cameron#Filmography | James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker and deep-sea explorer. His films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director of all time. A major figure in the post-New Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes | List of popes | This chronological list of the popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes. Published every year by the Roman Curia, the Annuario Pontificio no long... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatland,_Wyoming | Wheatland, Wyoming | Wheatland is a town in and the county seat of Platte County in southeastern Wyoming, United States. The population was 3,588 at the 2020 census.
== History ==
Before the late 19th century, the area around the future site of Wheatland was a flat, arid landscape with desert-like vegetation. In 1883 local rancher and ju... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craft_(film) | The Craft (film) | The Craft is a 1996 American teen supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Fleming from a screenplay by Peter Filardi and Fleming and a story by Filardi. The film stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True as four outcast teenage girls at a Los Angeles parochial high school who pursue witchcraf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_number_(association_football) | Squad number (association football) | Squad numbers are used in association football to identify and distinguish players who are on the field. Numbers very soon became a way to also indicate position, with starting players being assigned numbers 1–11. However, there is no fixed rule; numbers may be assigned to indicate position, alphabetically by name, acc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Elon_Musk | Wealth of Elon Musk | Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$676 billion as of February 2026, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $852 billion according to Forbes, primarily from his ownership stakes in SpaceX and Tesla.
Having been first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesticus_purpurascens | Lesticus purpurascens | Lesticus purpurascens is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Straneo in 1959. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs | Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are a series of sculptures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals in the London borough of Bromley's Crystal Palace Park. Commissioned in 1852 to accompany the Crystal Palace after its move from the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, they were unveiled in 1854 as the first dinosaur sculptures i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Disaster_Tour | Pop Disaster Tour | The Pop Disaster Tour was a concert tour co-headlined by American rock bands Blink-182 and Green Day. It began in Bakersfield, California on April 17, 2002, and concluded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 17. Set largely at arenas and outdoor amphitheatres, it encompassed 47 shows across the United States and Canada.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens | Charles Dickens | Charles John Huffam Dickens ( ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th cen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_French_Open | 2016 French Open | The 2016 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 115th edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 22 May to 5 June and consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_It_as_It_Lays_(film) | Play It as It Lays (film) | Play It as It Lays is a 1972 American drama film directed by Frank Perry from a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Didion. The film stars Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, who previously starred together in the 1968 film Pretty Poison.
== Plot ==
Former model... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Fuller | Melville Fuller | Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910. Staunch conservatism marked his tenure on the Supreme Court, exhibited by his tendency to support unfettered free ente... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Polytrichum+piliferum&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Polytrichum+piliferum&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film) | The Rock (film) | The Rock is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner. It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with supporting roles played by Michael Biehn, William Forsythe, David Morse, and Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_(United_States_coin) | Quarter (United States coin) | The quarter, formally known as the quarter dollar, is a coin in the United States valued at 25 cents, representing one-quarter of a dollar. Adorning its obverse is the profile of George Washington, while its reverse design has undergone frequent changes since 1998. Since its initial production in 1796, the quarter doll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Shipley | Jenny Shipley | Dame Jennifer Mary Shipley (née Robson; born 4 February 1952) is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 36th prime minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999. She was the first female prime minister of New Zealand, and the first woman to lead the National Party.
Shipley was born in Gore, Southland. She grew ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_(musical) | Wicked (musical) | Wicked (known in full as Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is loosely based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire, which itself was based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wildlife_Species_at_Risk_(Canada)#Amphibians | List of Wildlife Species at Risk (Canada)#Amphibians | As of November 2024, the List of Wildlife Species at Risk has more than 600 entries for Canadian wildlife species considered at varying risks of extinction, including 301 classified as endangered species, 147 threatened species, 200 special concern, and 23 extirpated (no longer existing in the wild in Canada, but exist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_wars_of_the_Tetrarchy | Civil wars of the Tetrarchy | The civil wars of the Tetrarchy were a series of conflicts between the co-emperors of the Roman Empire, starting from 306 AD with the usurpation of Maxentius and the defeat of Severus to the defeat of Licinius at the hands of Constantine I in 324 AD.
== Background ==
The Tetrarchy was the administrative division of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Science,_St._Louis | Academy of Science, St. Louis | The Academy of Science, St. Louis (sometimes rendered as Academy of Science - St. Louis) is a non-profit organization in St. Louis, Missouri, dedicated to science literacy and education. Founded in 1856 by a group of scientists and businessmen, including George Engelmann and James B. Eads, the Academy has been involved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Antonio_Vivaldi | List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi | This is a complete list of operas by Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). He claimed to have composed 94 operas, but fewer than 50 titles have been identified, of which the scores of only 20 or so survive, wholly or in part. Moreover, the practice of reviving works under a different title and of creating pasticci has confused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post | The Washington Post | The Washington Post (locally known as The Post and, informally, WaPo or WP) is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and is considered a newspaper of record in the United States. In 2023, the Post had 130,000 print subscr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakshouka | Shakshouka | Shakshouka is a Maghrebi dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, olive oil, peppers, onion, and garlic, commonly spiced with cumin, paprika, and cayenne pepper. Shakshouka is a popular dish throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
== Etymology ==
Shakshuka is a word for "mixture" in Algerian Arabic, and "mix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand | Thailand | Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand, and formerly known as Siam until 1939, is a country located in mainland Southeast Asia. It shares land borders with Myanmar to the west and northwest, Laos to the east and northeast, Cambodia to the southeast, and Malaysia to the south. Its maritime boundaries include the G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Mendes | Sam Mendes | Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation i... |
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