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20460173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayf%20al-Din%20Ghazi%20II | Sayf al-Din Ghazi II | Sayf al-Din Ghazi (II) ibn Mawdud (; full name: Sayf al-Din Ghazi II ibn Mawdud ibn Zengi; died 1180) was a Zangid Emir of Mosul, the nephew of Nur ad-Din Zengi.
He became Emir of Mosul in 1170 after the death of his father Qutb ad-Din Mawdud. Saif had been chosen as the successor under the advice of eunuch ’Abd al-M... |
20460199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Bhavani%20Project%20Canal | Lower Bhavani Project Canal | Lower Bhavani Project Canal is a long irrigation canal which runs in Erode district in Tamil Nadu, India. The canal is a valley-side contour canal, fed by Bhavanisagar Dam and irrigates 2.07 lakh hectares of land. The main canal feeds Thadapalli and Arakkankottai channels which irrigate the cultivable lands. The cana... |
20460204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayanhat%20Union | Narayanhat Union | Narayanhat Union () is a union of Bhujpur Thana of Chittagong District.
Geography
Area of Narayanhat : 14,800 acres (59.9 km2.)।
Location
North: Dantmara Union
East: Manikchhari Upazila
South: Bhujpur Union
West: Sitakunda Mountain Range and Mirsarai Upzillah
Population
At the 1991 Bangladesh census, Narayanhat Un... |
20460215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Albin%20Boniecki | Maria Albin Boniecki | Maria Albin Bończa-Boniecki (1908–1995) was a Polish artist. A survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Majdanek, he emigrated to the United States of America in 1957.
Biography
Early life
Boniecki's father, a Polish patriot, was deported to Siberia when Boniecki was five. Boniecki's mother chose to follow with her c... |
20460289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington%20Peninsula%20Regional%20Gallery%20Works%20on%20Paper%20Award | Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Award | The National Works on Paper Award is a catch-all term for a body of related awards for contemporary art made on, or with, paper. First awarded in 1998, it is the successor event to the Spring Festival of Drawing and the Prints Acquisitive. The award is made biennially, except during the years 1998 to 2000, and 2002 to ... |
20460308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knarsdale | Knarsdale | Knarsdale, historically Knaresdale, is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh, in Northumberland, England about north of Alston. The village takes its name from the Knarr Burn: Knarr means 'rugged rock'. In 1951 the parish had a population of 289.
History
The manor of Knars... |
20460404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherwitton | Netherwitton | Netherwitton is a village in Northumberland, England about west north west of Morpeth.
A former cotton-mill now converted into residential housing, the old village school also converted into a house, an old bridge, a small church, and a number of cottages and gardens comprise the village. The old cross, dated 1698, s... |
20460421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennington | Rennington | Rennington is a village in Northumberland, England about north of Alnwick.
Governance
Rennington is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
References
External links
GENUKI (Accessed: 27 November 2008)
Villages in Northumberland |
20460437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirudhubashini%20Govindarajan | Mirudhubashini Govindarajan | Mirudhubashini Govindarajan (born 1947) is an Indian-born healthcare consultant, focussing on women's healthcare and infertility management in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Background
Govindarajan was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Her father was a lawyer, freedom fighter and politician focussing on organi... |
20460518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal%20Park%20%28Luxembourg%20City%29 | Municipal Park (Luxembourg City) | The Municipal Park () is a public urban park in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The eastern edge flanks the boulevard du Prince Henri and, along with the valleys of the Alzette and Pétrusse, forms a boundary that separates the central Ville Haute quarter from the rest of the city.
This green arc is segmented... |
20460533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Perrin%20%28bishop%29 | William Perrin (bishop) | William Willcox Perrin (11 August 184827 June 1934) was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Perrin was born at Westbury-on-Trym, Somersetshire, on 11 August 1848 and educated at both King's College London and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1870, he began his ministry with a curacy at St... |
20460541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20cell | Single cell | Single cell and similar can mean:
Biology
Single-cell organism
Single-cell protein
Single-cell recording, a neuro-electric monitoring technique
Single-cell sequencing
Single cell epigenomics
Single-cell transcriptomics
Other
Single-cell thunderstorm
Single Cell (comic), a comic
Single Cell Orchestra, run by Miguel Fie... |
20460549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20P.%20Armstrong | Frank P. Armstrong | Francis Patrick Armstrong (circa 1859–1923) was a steamboat captain in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. He also operated steamboats on the Kootenay River in Montana and on the Stikine River in western British Columbia. Steam navigation in the Rocky Mountain Trench which runs through the East Kootenay reg... |
20460553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit%20Ijza | Beit Ijza | Beit Ijza (, also spelled Bayt Ijza); is a village in the Jerusalem Governorate in the central West Bank with an area of 2,526 dunams. Located approximately six miles north of Jerusalem, it had a population of 698 in 2007.
Location
Beit Ijza is located north-west of Jerusalem, bordered by Al Jib to the east and Al... |
20460599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timarion | Timarion | The Timarion () is a Byzantine pseudo-Lucianic satirical dialogue probably composed in the twelfth century (there are references to the eleventh-century Michael Psellus), though possibly later.
The eponymous hero, on his way to a Christian fair at Thessalonica, is unexpectedly taken to Hades, which is ruled by pagan f... |
20460606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Yani | Wang Yani | Wang Yani (; 1975) is a Chinese artist who began painting at the age of two-and-a-half. Her work was exhibited in China when she was four, appeared on a postage stamp when she was eight, and she had a solo exhibition at a museum in London when she was fourteen, and soon after, at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Sm... |
20460610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Henry%20Hance | William Henry Hance | William Henry Hance (November 10, 1951 – March 31, 1994) was an American serial killer and soldier who is believed to have murdered four women in and around military bases before his arrest in 1978. He was convicted of murdering three of them, and not brought to trial on the fourth. He was executed by the state of Geor... |
20460613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20Certificate%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | School Certificate (United Kingdom) | The United Kingdom School Certificate was an educational attainment standard qualification, established in 1918 by the Secondary Schools Examinations Council (SSEC).
The School Certificate Examination (often called the "Junior Certificate" or "Juniors") was usually taken at age 16. Performance in each subject was grad... |
20460614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvauchelle | Duvauchelle | Duvauchelle Bay () is a small town situated at the head of Akaroa Harbour on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. State Highway 75 passes through the town. The Onawe Peninsula separates Duvauchelle bay from Barry's Bay.
Duvauchelle is now part of Christchurch City Council jurisdiction since the city's amalgamation with Ban... |
20460666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortescue%20River | Fortescue River | The Fortescue River is an ephemeral river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is the third longest river in the state.
Course
The river rises near Deadman Hill in the Ophthalmia Range about 30 km south of Newman. The river flows in a northerly direction parallel with the Great Northern Highway until it cros... |
20460701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Buffy%20Sainte-Marie%20Vol.%202 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 | The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 is a compilation double album released by Vanguard Records in 1971 covering a large proportion of the material she had released on her first six albums for the label that was not found on the previous year's The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Unlike her other first compilation, The B... |
20460707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercle%20Municipal | Cercle Municipal | The Cercle Municipal or Cercle Cité is a building in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, It is located at the eastern end of the Place d'Armes, in the historic central Ville Haute quarter of the city.
History
On a site where there had previously been a building intended as a Cercle littéraire but which finally h... |
20460715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Sylhet | List of people from Sylhet | This is a list of notable residents and people who have origins in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Barak Valley of the Indian state of Assam. This list also includes British Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Americans, Bangladeshi Canadians, and other non-resident Bengalis who have origins in Greater Sylhet. The peop... |
20460741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy%20Tate | Troy Tate | Troy Tate is an English musician and record producer who was a member of several bands including The Teardrop Explodes and Fashion as well as working as a solo artist, for which he is best known for the single "Love Is ..."
Biography
Born in Liverpool, England, Tate's first band was the Cheltenham-based punk rock band... |
20460751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Five%20Mysteries%20Program | The Five Mysteries Program | The Five Mysteries Program is an audience participation radio series broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System August 10, 1947 – March 27, 1950. In 1947-48 it aired on Sundays at 2 p.m.
Such mysteries were produced and syndicated (1945-48) to individual local radio stations as a "barter-trade" program to sell advert... |
20460767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%3A10%20%28film%29 | 10:10 (film) | 10:10 () is a 2008 Bengali comedy film directed by Arin Paul. It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Kanchan Mullick, Claudia Ciesla, Subrata Dutta, Aparajita Ghosh Das and Abir Chatterjee.
Production
The movie was released on 28 November 2008. 10:10 is a comedy set in Calcutta. 10:10 is also the debut film of its director ... |
20460818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Heinrich | Roy Heinrich | Roy Heinrich, born Elroy Paul Heinrich, Jr., July 31, 1953, is a country music singer and songwriter born in Houston, Texas. Heinrich began singing Country music in Los Angeles in 1989. After moving to Austin, Texas in the fall of 1992, Heinrich has established himself as Roots/Honky Tonk Country Music artist. He has p... |
20460820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxspring%20railway%20station | Oxspring railway station | Oxspring railway station was a short lived station built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway to serve the village of Oxspring, South Yorkshire, England. The station opened on 5 December 1845 but due to cost-cutting measures it was closed, along with Dog Lane, Hazelhead and Thurgoland, on 5 Novemb... |
20460821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Kamakau | Samuel Kamakau | Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau (October 29, 1815 – September 5, 1876) was a Hawaiian historian and scholar. His work appeared in local newspapers and was later compiled into books, becoming an invaluable resource on the Hawaiian people, Hawaiian culture, and Hawaiian language while they were disappearing.
Along with Davi... |
20460837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Kolberg%20%281807%29 | Siege of Kolberg (1807) | The siege of Kolberg (also spelled Colberg or Kołobrzeg) took place from March to 2 July 1807 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars. An army of the First French Empire and several foreign auxiliaries (including Polish insurgents) of France besieged the fortified town of Kolberg, the only r... |
20460845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbhutananda | Adbhutananda | Adbhutananda (died 1920), born Rakhturam, was a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna, a Yogi of nineteenth century Bengal. He is familiarly known as Latu Maharaj among the followers of Ramakrishna. Adbhutananda was the first monastic disciple to come to Ramakrishna. While most of Ramakrishna's direct disciples came ... |
20460866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buntingville%2C%20California | Buntingville, California | Buntingville is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California. It is located southwest of Litchfield, at an elevation of 4091 feet (1247 m). It is located just northwest of Honey Lake.
Buntingville is the southern terminus of County Route A3 (Standish Buntingville Road) at its junction with U.S. 395.
A.J.... |
20460867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahiro%20Mori | Takahiro Mori | is a retired male medley swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He is best known for winning three gold medals at the Summer Universiade.
References
sports-reference
1980 births
Living people
Japanese male medley swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Japan
Swimmer... |
20460907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton%20Glasgow | Hilton Glasgow | The Hilton Glasgow is a 20-storey hotel in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in Anderston, from Glasgow Airport, three blocks away from Glasgow city centre, and close to the M8 Motorway. It opened on 30 November 1992.
Background and construction
Construction of the hotel began in 1990. It stands on a site within th... |
20460918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20a%20Celebrity...Get%20Me%20Out%20of%20Here%21%20%28British%20series%204%29 | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British series 4) | The fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! began on 21 November 2004 and ended on 6 December 2004. The programme ran for 16 days, one more than in the previous series (18 days if counting the day the celebrities arrived and the morning the finalists exited). The series was won by comedian Joe Pasquale, ... |
20460930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasher%20%28surname%29 | Kasher (surname) | Kasher (hebrew: כשר) is a Hebrew surname meaning "fit" and in the common context, fit for consumption by Jews according to traditional Jewish law.
It may refer to:
Tim Kasher - an American musician
Aryeh Kasher - an Israeli history emeritus professor
Asa Kasher - an Israeli philosopher and linguist
Menachem Mendel K... |
20460948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%20Vigilant | HMAS Vigilant | HMAS Vigilant (later known as HMAS Sleuth and HMAS Hawk) was an auxiliary patrol boat serving with the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. Notably it was the 120th ship built by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard and the first aluminium ship built in Australia.
History
PV Vigilant was a prototype ship designe... |
20460996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFC%20Lokomotiv%20Stara%20Zagora | PFC Lokomotiv Stara Zagora | FC Lokomotiv Stara Zagora is a Bulgarian football club from Stara Zagora, founded in April 1934 as ZHSK (ЖСК). The club currently competes in the fourth tier of Bulgarian football, A RFG Stara Zagora. FC Lokomotiv is the second celebrity football team from Stara Zagora. Its best achievement has been participating in th... |
20461011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20to%20Dream | Right to Dream | "Right to Dream" is a song from the film Tennessee. It was written by Mariah Carey and Willie Nelson, and released as a single on October 20, 2008 by Island Def Jam.
Background
Deconstructing her songwriting process, Carey explains: "It was a different experience from an album project. I was very close to the story an... |
20461054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harualchari%20Union | Harualchari Union | Harualchhari () is a union of Bhujpur Thana, Fatikchhari Upazila of Chittagong District.
Geography
Area of Harualchhari : .
Location
North: Bhujpur Union
East: Fatikchhari Upazila
South: Suabil Union
West: Sitakunda Mountain Range
Population
As of 2011 Bangladesh census, Harualchari Union has a population of 4... |
20461063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys%20Chambul | Borys Chambul | Borys Chambul (born February 17, 1953) is a retired discus thrower, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the men's discus throw event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
References
1953 births
Living people
Canadian male discus throwers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summ... |
20461085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie%21 | Rosie! | Rosie! is a 1967 American comedy film directed by David Lowell Rich, based on Ruth Gordon's play A Very Rich Woman.
Plot
Rosie Lord is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred and Edith, spends her money generously. When she announces she intends to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a ... |
20461087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Land%20of%20Heart%27s%20Desire | The Land of Heart's Desire | The Land of Heart's Desire is a play by Irish poet, dramatist, and 1923 Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats. First performed in the spring of 1894, at the Avenue Theatre in London, where it ran for a little over six weeks, it was the first professional performance of one of Yeats' plays.
Summary
In this theatrical l... |
20461108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%20Hawk | HMAS Hawk | Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Hawk:
HMAS Hawk, formerly , an auxiliary patrol boat commissioned in 1940 and operating under the Hawk name from March until November 1945, when she was decommissioned
, formerly HMS Gamston and HMS Somerlyton, was commissioned into the RAN in 1961, a... |
20461116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B8belringen%20Cup%202008 | Møbelringen Cup 2008 | Møbelringen Cup 2008 was held in Norway, in the cities of Oslo, Gjøvik and Lillestrøm. The tournament started on 21 November and finished on 23 November 2008. Norway won the event by winning all their matches.
Results
All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
All-Star Team
Goalkeeper:
Left Wing:
Back Player:... |
20461119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Coy | Eric Coy | Eric Eaton Coy (May 16, 1914 – October 28, 1985) was a discus thrower and shot putter, who represented Canada at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He finished 23rd in the discus throw event, and his exact result in the shot put is unknown.
At the 1938 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the discus throw and the silver medal... |
20461161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Juglas | Jean-Jacques Juglas | Jean-Jacques Juglas (10 June 1904 in Bergerac (Dordogne) – 17 August 1982 in Paris), was a French politician.
Positions
Minister of Overseas France in the Pierre Mendès France government (20 January 1955 to 23 February 1955)
MRP deputy for the Seine (1945-1951)
MRP deputy for Lot-et-Garonne (1951-1955)
President ... |
20461176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20William%20Markall | Francis William Markall | Francis William Markall (24 September 1905 – 9 August 1992) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop.
Born in Harringay, Markall was ordained as a Catholic priest at the age of 32 in 1937 and migrated to what was then known as Rhodesia, where he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1956. H... |
20461177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Tumble%204%20Ya | I'll Tumble 4 Ya | "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" was a hit single from Culture Club's Platinum-plus debut album Kissing to Be Clever.
The 7" single was released only in North America, peaking at #9 in the U.S. and #5 in Canada. In Australia, it was released in September 1983 as a Double A-side single with "Karma Chameleon", peaking at #1 and rece... |
20461193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Hart%20%28athlete%29 | Harry Hart (athlete) | Hendrik Beltsazer Hart (2 September 1905 – 10 November 1979) was a South African athlete who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Harrismith, Orange River Colony, and died in Reitz.
In 1932 he finished tenth in the Olympic shot put event, eleventh in the decathlon competition, and twelfth in the discu... |
20461198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standish%2C%20California | Standish, California | Standish is an unincorporated town in Lassen County, California. It is located southwest of Litchfield, at an elevation of . It lies at the northern terminus of County Route A3 (Standish Buntingville Road) on U.S. Route 395. The name honors Miles Standish.
History
Standish was laid out in 1897, as the second develop... |
20461205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Devins%20%28Sinn%20F%C3%A9in%20politician%29 | James Devins (Sinn Féin politician) | James Devins (1873 – 20 September 1922) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) to the 2nd Dáil at the 1921 elections for the Sligo–Mayo East constituency. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He was re-elected as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin TD to the... |
20461207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Smith%20%28bishop%29 | Guy Smith (bishop) | Guy Vernon Smith (15 October 188011 June 1957) was an Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century.
Smith was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Following in the footsteps of his father, a King's Counsel, Smith was called to the Bar in 1905 but then decided on a career move from Law to the Church of England H... |
20461240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B8belringen%20Cup%202007 | Møbelringen Cup 2007 | The 2007 Møbelringen Cup was held in Sandefjord, Skien and Drammen, Norway. The tournament started on 23 November 2007 and finished on 25 November. Norway won the event on goal difference ahead of Russia and Denmark.
Results
23 November 2007, Sandefjord
24 November 2007, Skien
25 November 2007, Drammen
References
... |
20461254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20North%20American%20Child%3A%20An%20Odyssey | Native North American Child: An Odyssey | Native North American Child: An Odyssey is a 1974 compilation album released after Buffy Sainte-Marie's departure from Vanguard Records.
The compilation runs through the native theme in Sainte-Marie's writing, seen clearly in such songs as "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo", "Soldier B... |
20461263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIAA | NIAA | NIAA may refer to:
National Indigenous Australians Agency, an Australian government agency formed 2019
National Indigenous Arts Awards, Australia
Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association, American intercollegiate athletic conference, 1928–1942
Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, an association in Nev... |
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