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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion | The House of the Scorpion | The House of the Scorpion is a 2002 science fiction young adult novel by Nancy Farmer. It is set in the future and mostly takes place in Opium, a country which separates Aztlán (formerly Mexico) and the United States. The main character, Matteo Alacrán, or Matt, is a young clone of a drug lord of the same name, usually... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_NBA_Finals | 1984 NBA Finals | The 1984 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 1983–84 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeated the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers in seven games. Celtics forward Larry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres | 100 metres | The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the 100-metre (109.36 yd) dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1928 fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tour_de_France | 2023 Tour de France | The 2023 Tour de France was the 110th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Bilbao, Spain, on 1 July and ended with the final stage at Champs-Élysées, Paris, on 23 July.
Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo–Visma) won the general classification for the second year in a row. Two-time champion Tadej Pog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan | James Buchanan | James Buchanan Jr. ( bew-KAN-ən; April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the 17th United States secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Buchanan was an advocate for states' ri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_film_actors#Introduced_in_The_Skywalker_Saga | List of Star Wars film actors#Introduced in The Skywalker Saga | Star Wars is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of science fiction films produced by Lucasfilm, based on characters created by George Lucas. The Skywalker Saga of the franchise includes nine films, featuring three trilogies; the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and the sequel tril... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Open | Phoenix Open | The Phoenix Open (branded as the WM Phoenix Open for sponsorship reasons) is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held in early February at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.
The tournament was originally the Arizona Open but was known for most of its history as the Phoenix Open until the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-paid_film_actors | List of highest-paid film actors | While the highest-paid film actors can command multi-million-dollar salaries, actors can potentially earn substantially more by deferring all or part of their salary against a percentage of the film's gross, known within the industry as a "profit participation" deal.
== Highest earnings for a single production ==
Sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia | Croatia | Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_language | Bactrian language | Bactrian (Bactrian: Αριαο, romanized: ariao [arjaː], meaning "Iranian") was an Eastern Iranian language formerly spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria (present-day Afghanistan) and used as the official language of the Kushan and the Hephthalite empires.
== Name ==
It was long thought that Avestan represented ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budelli | Budelli | Budelli is an island in the Maddalena archipelago, near the strait of Bonifacio in northern Sardinia, Italy. It is one of the seven islands that comprise Arcipelago di La Maddalena National Park. Budelli beach is famous for the color of its sand, which is pink due to the presence of shell fragments of a protozoan, Mini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Digimon_Adventure_(1999_TV_series)_episodes | List of Digimon Adventure (1999 TV series) episodes | Digimon Adventure is an anime series produced by Toei Animation. It began broadcasting in Japan on Fuji Television on March 7, 1999, and ended on March 26, 2000. The series was directed by Hiroyuki Kakudō and produced by Keisuke Okuda, featuring music composition by Takanori Arisawa and character designs by Katsuyoshi ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_White_Stallions | Miracle of the White Stallions | Miracle of the White Stallions is a 1963 American adventure war film released by Walt Disney starring Robert Taylor (playing Alois Podhajsky), Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert. It is based on the story of Operation Cowboy which was the evacuation of 70 Lipizzaner horses from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and retrie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton ( WUUL-vər-HAMP-tən) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of Walsall to the east and Dudley to the south. The population in 2021 was 263,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namor | Namor | Namor (), also known as the Sub-Mariner, is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-artist Bill Everett for comic book packager Funnies Inc., the character first appeared in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (uncirculated). Namor first appeared publicly in Marvel Comic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Steele | Lucy Steele | Lucy Steele (born 12 May 1969) is a Canadian former cross-country skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics.
== Cross-country skiing results ==
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
=== Olympic Games ===
=== World Championships ===
=== World Cup ===
==== Season standings ==... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Kavner | Julie Kavner | Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an American actress. Before becoming well known for her voice role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, Kavner attracted notice for her role as Brenda Morgenstern, the younger sister of Valerie Harper's title character in the sitcom Rhoda, for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Grylewicz | Anton Grylewicz | Anton Grylewicz (8 January 1885 – 2 August 1971) was a German communist politician.
== Early life ==
Grylewicz was born into a working-class family in Berlin, where he finished school and was apprenticed as a locksmith. From 1907 to 1909 he did his military service and in 1912 he married Anna-Maria Bräuer, the same y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjit_Raghav | Ramjit Raghav | Ramjit Raghav (1916 – 11 February 2020) was an Indian man who was claimed by various media outlets as the world's oldest father. He resided in Haryana with his wife. He claimed to have had his first child with his wife at age 94. He fathered a second child at age 96. A vegetarian who claimed to engage in sexual interco... |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Stripe | Red Stripe | Red Stripe is a 4.7% ABV pale lager brewed by Desnoes & Geddes in Jamaica and the Netherlands. Since 2015 Red Stripe has also been brewed in the United Kingdom by Heineken under licence from Desnoes & Geddes. It was first introduced in 1928 from a recipe developed by Paul H. Geddes and Bill Martindale. In 1993, Guinnes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Avatar | Lego Avatar | Lego Avatar (stylized as LEGO Avatar) is a Lego theme based on the film series of the same name created by James Cameron. It is licensed from 20th Century Studios, The Walt Disney Company and Lightstorm Entertainment. The theme was first introduced on 1 October 2022. Subsequent sets were released in 2023, alongside the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MLS_Cup_finals#Results_by_team | List of MLS Cup finals#Results by team | The MLS Cup is the annual championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level men's soccer league for the United States and Canada. The match marks the conclusion of the MLS Cup playoffs, a five-round knockout competition contested by the top nine teams from each of the league's two conferences. The playoffs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danon_The_Kid | Danon The Kid | Danon The Kid (Japanese: ダノンザキッド foaled 29 January 2018) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the best two-year-olds in Japan in 2020 when he won all three of his races including the Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes and the Hopeful Stakes. In 2021 he finished third in the Mile Championship.
== Background ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_Warwick | Dionne Warwick | Marie Dionne Warwick ( dee-ON WOR-wik; née Warrick; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host. During her career, Warwick has won many awards, including six Grammy Awards. She has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the National Rhythm & Blues Hall o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandudno | Llandudno | Llandudno (, Welsh: [ɬanˈdɨdnɔ] ) is a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. In the 2021 UK census, the community – which includes Gogarth, Penrhyn Bay, Craigside, Glanwydden, Penrhynside, and Bryn Pydew – had a populati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer | Marine chronometer | A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the time at the current location found from observations of celestial bodies. When firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inma_Cuesta | Inma Cuesta | Inmaculada Cuesta Martínez (born 25 June 1980) is a Spanish actress. She has starred in films such as The Sleeping Voice (2011), Three Many Weddings (2013), and The Bride (2015).
Some of her best known television credits include performances in Águila Roja and Arde Madrid.
== Early life ==
Inmaculada Cuesta Martínez ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undertaker | The Undertaker | Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965), better known by his ring name the Undertaker, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is a brand ambassador as well as a writer and executive producer for its sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). Widely regarded as one of the g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaftesbury | Shaftesbury | Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury and 23 miles (37 kilometres) north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about 215 metres (705 feet) abo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_State_Treasurer | Kansas State Treasurer | The state treasurer of Kansas is the chief custodian of Kansas's cash deposits, monies from bond sales, and other securities and collateral and directs the investments of those assets. The treasurer provides for the safe and efficient operation of state government through effective banking, investment, and cash managem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe | Luftwaffe | The Luftwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə] ) was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the Luftstreitkräfte of the Imperial Army and the Marine-Fliegerabteilung of the Imperial Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 in accordance w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number_ones_of_1962 | List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1962 | These are the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits of 1962.
That year, 14 acts achieved their first number one songs, namely Joey Dee and the Starliters, Gene Chandler, Bruce Channel, Shelley Fabares, Mr. Acker Bilk, David Rose, Bobby Vinton, Neil Sedaka, Little Eva, Tommy Roe, The Four Seasons, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago | Art Institute of Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago is a private, nonprofit art museum in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Founded in 1879, it is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_King | The Lion King | The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and features an ensemble voice cast consisting of Matthew Broderick, James E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives | List of current members of the United States House of Representatives | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect | Insect | Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. Insects are the most diverse group... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing | Speedcubing | Speedcubing or Speedsolving is a competitive mind sport centered around the rapid solving of various combination puzzles. The most prominent puzzle in this category is the 3x3x3 puzzle, commonly known as the Rubik's Cube. Participants in this sport are called "speedcubers" (or simply "cubers"), who focus specifically o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_(baseball) | Triple Crown (baseball) | In baseball, a player earns a Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific statistical categories in the same season. The term "Triple Crown" generally refers to the batting achievement of leading a league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) over the same season. The term "Pitching Triple C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderlands_2 | Borderlands 2 | Borderlands 2 is a 2012 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K. Taking place five years following the events of Borderlands (2009), the game is again set on the planet of Pandora. The story follows a new group of Vault Hunters who must ally with the Crimson... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Park_Cemetery | Colonial Park Cemetery | Colonial Park Cemetery (locally and informally known as Colonial Cemetery; historically known as the Old Cemetery) is an 18th- and early 19th-century burial ground located in downtown Savannah, Georgia. It became a city park in 1896, 43 years after burials in the cemetery ceased, and is open to visitors.
The cemetery w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Drogba#Honours | Didier Drogba#Honours | Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (French pronunciation: [didje iv dʁɔɡba tebili]; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He also ranks fourth for the all-time African men's top goalscorers in i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Mossberg | Walt Mossberg | Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American retired technology journalist and moderator.
From 1991 through 2013, he was the principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He also co-founded AllThingsD, Recode and the D and Code Conferences. From 2015 to 2017, Mossberg was Executive Editor of T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution | French Revolution | The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799. Many of the revolution's ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, and its values remain central to modern French p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jevons | Frank Jevons | Frank Byron Jevons (1858–29 February 1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University.
== Early life ==
He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.
== Career ==
He was the first Censor of St Cuthbert's Society from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_O%27Halloran_(rugby_league) | Mark O'Halloran (rugby league) | Mark O'Halloran (born 6 March 1981) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Wests Tigers and the Penrith Panthers in the NRL, and the London Broncos in the ESL. His junior club was Burwood United in the Balmain District Competition. O'Halloran's position of choice was as a centre although he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torch | Operation Torch | Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Russia | List of presidents of Russia | The office of the president of Russia is the highest authority in the Russian Federation. The holder is the federation's head of state and has formal presidency over the State Council as well as being the commander in chief of the Russian Armed Forces. The office was introduced in 1918 after the February Revolution wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Manning | Peyton Manning | Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons. Nicknamed "the Sheriff", he spent 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and four with the Denver Broncos. Manning is considered one of the greates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_What_Friends_Are_For | That's What Friends Are For | "That's What Friends Are For" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager.
It was first recorded by Rod Stewart in 1982 for the soundtrack of the film Night Shift, but it is best known for the 1985 version by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. This recording, billed as being by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeoff | Takeoff | Takeoff or take-off is the phase of flight during which an aerial vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne. For space vehicles that launch vertically, this is known as liftoff.
For fixed-wing aircraft that take off horizontally (conventional takeoff), this usually involves an accelerating ground run (known as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sins_of_Rachel_Cade | The Sins of Rachel Cade | The Sins of Rachel Cade is a 1961 American drama film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Angie Dickinson in the title role, as well as Peter Finch and Roger Moore who compete for her love.
== Plot ==
During World War II, Protestant medical missionary Rachel comes to the village of Dibela in the Belgian Congo. Wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome | Videodrome | Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films. Layers of dece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shameless_(American_TV_series) | Shameless (American TV series) | Shameless is an American comedy-drama television series developed by John Wells that aired on Showtime from January 9, 2011, to April 11, 2021. It is an adaptation of Paul Abbott's British series of the same name and features an ensemble cast led by William H. Macy. The series is set in the South Side of Chicago, Illin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_McDonald | Ricardo McDonald | Ricardo Milton McDonald (born November 8, 1969) is a former linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) that played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Chicago Bears, and the Denver Broncos. He was drafted by the Bengals in the fourth round of the 1992 NFL Draft with the 88th overall pick. He played college football for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Levy | Eugene Levy | Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He often plays flustered and unconventional figures. He is best known for appearing in the sketch comedy series SCTV, which aired from 1976 until 1984, and the American Pie series of films. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christophe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Ball_Z_episodes | List of Dragon Ball Z episodes | Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールゼット, Doragon Bōru Zetto; commonly abbreviated as DBZ) is the long-running anime sequel to the Dragon Ball TV series, adapted from the final twenty-six volumes of the Dragon Ball manga written by Akira Toriyama. The manga portion of the series debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump on October 4, 1988, and l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy | Paul Morphy | Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have concluded that he was far ahead of his time.
A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 by convi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lesnie | Andrew Lesnie | Andrew Lesnie ACS ASC (1 January 1956 – 27 April 2015) was an Australian cinematographer.
He was best known for his collaboration with director Peter Jackson on The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), with The Fellowship of the Ring earning him the Academy Award for Best Cinematogr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_Games_host_cities | List of Olympic Games host cities | The modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year. Since 1994, summer and winter Games have been held in staggered even years. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization_of_ancient_Egypt | Periodization of ancient Egypt | The periodization of ancient Egypt is the use of periodization to organize the 3,000-year history of ancient Egypt. The system of 30 dynasties recorded by third-century BC Greek-speaking Egyptian priest Manetho is still in use today; however, the system of "periods" and "kingdoms" used to group the dynasties is of mode... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierluigi_Martini | Pierluigi Martini | Pierluigi Martini (Italian pronunciation: [ˌpjɛrluˈiːdʒi marˈtiːni]; born 23 April 1961) is an Italian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1985 and from 1988 to 1995. In endurance racing, Martini won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1999 with BMW.
Born in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Martini is the nephew... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss | Moss | Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) sensu stricto. Bryophyta (sensu lato, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hornworts. Mosses typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady location... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Island_(Washington,_D.C.) | Columbia Island (Washington, D.C.) | Lady Bird Johnson Park, formerly known as Columbia Island until 1968, is an island located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It formed naturally as an extension of Analostan Island in the latter part of the 1800s, and over time erosion and flooding severed it from Analostan, now known as T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Multiple_laureates | Nobel Prize#Multiple laureates | The Nobel Prizes are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The original Nobel Prizes covered five fields: physics, chemistry, physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Tomson | Chris Tomson | Christopher William Tomson (born March 6, 1984), commonly known by his initials "CT", is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the drummer for New York–based indie rock band Vampire Weekend. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist for a side project called Dams of the West, for which he writes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Sendler | Egon Sendler | Egon Sendler (1 August 1923 – 17 March 2014) was a Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and one of the world's foremost experts on the painting of Eastern Orthodox icons. He was also an author, teacher, theologian, and artist. He earned considerable respect from many Orthodox experts on icons.
== Biography ==
Sendler ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France | France | France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic in North America, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Metropolitan ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture | Academy Award for Best Picture | The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted on May 16, 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance:_The_Next_Generation_(American_TV_series) | So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation (American TV series) | So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation is the 13th season of So You Think You Can Dance, an American dance competition show. The show premiered on May 30, 2016, in a new format featuring contestants between ages 8 to 13 at the time of their auditions. The season was broadcast on Fox in the United States, one s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Quinn,_Medicine_Woman | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American Western drama television series created and executive produced by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour, who plays Dr. Michaela Quinn, a physician who leaves Boston in search of adventure in the Old West and settles in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The television series ran on C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%C3%A8re#Principal_towns | Isère#Principal towns | Isère (US: ee-ZAIR; French: [izɛʁ] ; Arpitan: Isera; Occitan: Isèra, Occitan pronunciation: [iˈsɛɾa]) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,298,990 in 2023. Its prefecture is Grenoble. It borders Rhône to the northwes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash | The Clash | The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976. Billed as "The Only Band That Matters", they are considered one of the most influential acts in the original wave of British punk rock, with their music fusing elements of reggae, dub, funk, ska and rockabilly. The band also contributed to the post-punk and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Farmer#Bibliography | Nancy Farmer#Bibliography | Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002.
== Early life ==
Fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Hertz | Gustav Hertz | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table | Periodic table | The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). An icon of chemistry, the periodic table is widely used in physics and other sciences. It is a depiction of the periodic law, which states that when the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Murray | Jamal Murray | Jamal Murray (born February 23, 1997) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Murray was selected by the Nuggets as the seventh overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft and was a key... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetroot | Beetroot | Beetroot or beet is the taproot portion of a Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris plant in the Conditiva Group. The plant is a root vegetable also known as the table beet, garden beet, or dinner beet, or else categorized by color as red beet or golden beet. Its leaves constitute a leaf vegetable called beet greens. It is nati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Steel | Danielle Steel | Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling living author and the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold. As of 2024, she has written 210 books, including over 182 novels.
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I | World War I | World War I, or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included Europe and the Middle East, as well as parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. The war saw impo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schwimmer | David Schwimmer | David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor, director and producer. He gained worldwide recognition for portraying Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends (1994–2004), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing | Tuvan throat singing | Tuvan throat singing, also known as Mongolian throat singing, is a style of singing, the main technique of which is known as khoomei ( or ). It is practiced by people in Tuva, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang Mongol regions such as Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture and Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Bury... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Efron#Awards_and_nominations | Zac Efron#Awards and nominations | Zachary David Alexander Efron (; born October 18, 1987) is an American actor. Efron began acting professionally in the early 2000s and rose to prominence as a teen idol for his leading role as Troy Bolton in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008). During this time, he also starred in the musical film Hairspray... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_It_as_It_Lays | Play It as It Lays | Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel has been credited for helping define modern American fiction and has been described as an "instant classic". It is known for depicting the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_(association_football) | Kit (association football) | In association football, a kit (also referred to as a strip or uniform) is the standard equipment and attire worn by players. The sport's rules specify the minimum kit which a player must use, and also prohibit the use of anything that is dangerous to either the player or another participant. Individual competitions ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines | Philippines | The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands, with a total area of about 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to sout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844_Susilva | 1844 Susilva | 1844 Susilva, provisional designation 1972 UB, is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 22 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 October 1972, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Observatory near Bern, Switzerland, and later named after a schoolfriend of the d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair | Tony Blair | Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parlia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Allen_White | Jeremy Allen White | Jeremy Allen White (born February 17, 1991) is an American actor. His breakthrough role was juvenile delinquent Lip Gallagher in the comedy-drama series Shameless from 2011 to 2021, which earned him a nomination for a Critics' Choice Television Award. White received wider acclaim for playing troubled star cook Carmen B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson# | Jackie Robinson# | Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers sign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13 | January 13 | January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 352 days remain until the end of the year (353 in leap years).
== Events ==
=== Pre-1600 ===
27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten yea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo | Tokyo | Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the most populous me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalynn_Carter | Rosalynn Carter | Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( ROH-zə-lin; née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, from their marriage from 1946 until her death in 2023. Throughout her decades of pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Boyd_(swimmer) | Warren Boyd (swimmer) | Warren Boyd (23 December 1926 – 17 December 2018) was an Australian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383_Wolverhampton_Wanderers_F.C._season | 1982–83 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season | The 1982–83 season was the 84th of competitive league football in the history of Wolverhampton Wanderers. They finished runners-up in the Second Division to win promotion back to the First Division after one season away.
== Season summary ==
Wolves were relegated from the First Division at the end of the 1981–82 seas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election | United States presidential election | The election of the president and vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College. These ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo,_Utah | Provo, Utah | Provo ( PROH-voh) is a city in and the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States. It is 43 miles (69 km) south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front, and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south. With a population at the 2020 census of 115,162, Provo is the fourth-largest city... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Burgstaller | Alois Burgstaller | Alois Burgstaller (21 September 1872 – 19 April 1945) was a German operatic tenor.
Burgstaller was born in Holzkirchen. A trained watchmaker, he always loved to sing and his vocal talent was discovered during an amateur theatre performance in church. Alois was encouraged to sing professionally by Cosima Wagner, the w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Milvian_Bridge | Battle of the Milvian Bridge | The Battle of the Milvian Bridge took place between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius on 28 October AD 312. It takes its name from the Milvian Bridge, an important route over the Tiber. Constantine won the battle and started on the path that led him to end the Tetrarchy and become the sole ruler of the Rom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Smith_(footballer,_born_1946) | Derek Smith (footballer, born 1946) | Derek Smith is a footballer who played as a centre back in the Football League for Everton and both centre back and forward for Tranmere Rovers. Later moved to Sydney Australia to play with South Sydney Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_career_home_run_leaders | List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders | This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most career home runs in regular season play (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games).
In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benef... |
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