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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oussama_Mellouli#:~:text=At%20the%202000%20Olympics%2C%20he%20finished%2043rd%20in%20the%20400%20IM. | Oussama Mellouli | Oussama "Ous" Mellouli (Arabic: أسامة الملولي; born 16 February 1984) is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He is a three-time Olympic medalist, is an African record holder, and trains with the USC Trojans team based at the University of Southern California, where he studied as a comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_International_Space_Station#:~:text=In%20September%201993%2C%20American%20Vice,became%20the%20International%20Space%20Station. | Origins of the International Space Station | The International Space Station programme represents a combination of three national space station projects: the Russian/Soviet Mir-2, NASA's Space Station Freedom including the Japanese Kibō laboratory, and the European Columbus space stations. Canadian robotics supplement these projects.
In the early 1980s, NASA plan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162_Laurentia | 162 Laurentia | 162 Laurentia is a large and dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on 21 April 1876, and named after Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, an amateur astronomer who discovered asteroid 51 Nemausa.
An occultation by Laurentia was observed from Clive, Alberta on 21 November... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliment_Voroshilov#:~:text=On%2015%20March%201953%2C%20Voroshilov,Premier%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union. | Kliment Voroshilov | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов ; Ukrainian: Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, romanized: Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Gardelle | Théodore Gardelle | Théodore Gardelle (30 November 1722 – 4 April 1761) was a painter and enameller.
He was born in Geneva, then in the independent Republic of Geneva, where he studied portrait miniature painting. Having acquired its first rudiments, he went to Paris in 1744. There he gained great proficiency in the art. He lived there st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_Marks_(album)#Tour_dates | Beauty Marks (album) | Beauty Marks is the seventh studio album by American singer Ciara. It was released on May 10, 2019, through her own independent label, Beauty Marks Entertainment with distribution from Alternative Distribution Alliance. It is her first album since Jackie (2015). The album was preceded by five singles "Level Up", "Freak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascher_H._Shapiro | Ascher H. Shapiro | Ascher Herman Shapiro (May 20, 1916 – November 26, 2004) was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He grew up in New York City.
== Early life and education ==
Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish Lithuanian immigrant parents. He earned his S.B. in 1938 and an Sc.D. in 1946 in the fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinitz | Wilhelm Steinitz | William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.
When discussing chess history from the 1850s onwards, commentators... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Payam_ud_Din_Reshi | Baba Payam ud Din Reshi | Baba Rishi c. 1411 – c. 1480; born Payam ud-Din, was a revered 15th-century Sufi saint from Kashmir. Born in 1411 CE in Chander-nau-gaon, near Ganderbal, he was the son of a nobleman serving in the court of Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin. Initially living a life of luxury, Baba Reshi experienced a spiritual awakening after obse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriano_Garsia#:~:text=Scientific%20career&text=Born%20to%20Italian%20Tunisians%20in,moved%20to%20Rome%20in%201946. | Adriano Garsia | Adriano Mario Garsia (20 August 1928 – 6 October 2024) was a Tunisian-born Italian American mathematician who worked in analysis, combinatorics, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. He was a student of Charles Loewner and published work on representation theory, symmetric functions, and algebraic combinatoric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_A._Prather_Award#Recipients | Victor A. Prather Award | The Victor A. Prather Award is an award established by the American Astronautical Society "to promote understanding of high altitude environment on humans." It is awarded to "researchers, engineers and flight crew members in the field of extravehicular protection or activity in space."
The award is in honor of Victor A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Otto | Kristin Otto | Kristin Otto (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁɪstɪn ˈʔɔtoː] ; born 7 February 1966) is a former East German swimmer, becoming Olympic, World and European champion, multiple times. She is most famous for being the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games, doing so at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. In long c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artworks_by_Louise_Bourgeois#Sculpture | List of artworks by Louise Bourgeois | This is a list of individual works of visual art (sculpture, drawings, and paintings) by Louise Bourgeois, sorted by year.
== Sculpture ==
Quarantania (1941). Seven wooden pine elements on a wooden base. 84 3/4 × 31 1/4 × 29 1/4 inches
Paddle Woman (1947). Bronze. 57.75 × 16.25 × 12 inches.
The Three Graces (1947... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Flamigni#:~:text=Sergio%20Flamigni%20(born%2022%20October,and%20on%20the%20Italian%20Mafia. | Sergio Flamigni | Sergio Flamigni (22 October 1925 – 10 December 2025) was an Italian politician and writer. A member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), he took part in the Italian Parliament's investigative commissions on the murder of Aldo Moro, the Propaganda Due scandal, and the Italian Mafia.
== Life and career ==
Flamigni was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmolive_Beauty_Box_Theater#:~:text=Palmolive%20Beauty%20Box%20Theater%20was,%2C%20to%20October%206%2C%201937. | Palmolive Beauty Box Theater | Palmolive Beauty Box Theater was an American radio program that featured an operetta or other musical each week from April 24, 1934, to October 6, 1937. It was sponsored by Palmolive soap and produced by Bill Bacher.
Nathaniel Shilkret directed the orchestra through July 1935, for a total of 70 broadcasts. Announcer T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#Early_life | Lyndon B. Johnson | Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Southern Democrat, Johnson pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryon_Lane | Maryon Lane | Maryon Lane (15 February 1931 – 13 June 2008) was a South African ballet dancer who became well known in Britain as a ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet and as a soloist with the Royal Ballet.
== Early life and training ==
Maryon Lane was born as Patricia Mills in Zululand, a district of Natal province (n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickerman_Hill | Vickerman Hill | Vickerman Hill is a summit located in the Central New York Region of New York located in the Town of German Flatts in Herkimer County, south of Mohawk.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Pretty | Cry Pretty | Cry Pretty is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. The album was released on September 14, 2018, as Underwood's first album with Capitol Records Nashville after signing a global deal with Universal Music Group at the start of 2017. The album marked the first co-producing effort by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Norman#:~:text=In%202006%2C%20he%20received%20the,of%20the%20Design%20Research%20Society. | Don Norman | Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935) is an American researcher, professor, and author. Norman is the director of The Design Lab at University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his books on design, especially The Design of Everyday Things. He is widely regarded for his expertise in the fields of de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_flag | Pride flag | A pride flag is any flag that represents a segment or part of the LGBTQ community. Pride in this case refers to the notion of LGBTQ pride. The terms LGBTQ flag and queer flag are often used interchangeably.
The rainbow flag, which represents the entire LGBTQ community, is the most widely used pride flag. As well as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangeet_Natak_Akademi_Award | Sangeet Natak Akademi Award | Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IAST: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama. It is the highest Indian recognition given to people in the field of performing arts.
In 2003, the award consisted o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Berlinguer | Luigi Berlinguer | Luigi Berlinguer (Italian pronunciation: [luˈiːdʒi berliŋˈɡwɛr]; 25 July 1932 – 1 November 2023) was an Italian jurist and politician. He was a professor at the University of Siena, and also served as the minister of university and research and the minister of education.
== Early life and education ==
Berlinguer was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Salaam#Personal_life | Yusef Salaam | Yusef Salaam (born 1974) is an American politician, motivational speaker, and activist currently serving as a member of the New York City Council, representing the city's 9th council district since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, was wrongly convicted of acting in concert t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Play_(horse) | Fair Play (horse) | Fair Play (April 1, 1905 – December 17, 1929) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so when retired to stud. He is best known as the sire of Man o' War, widely considered one of the greatest American racehorses of all time. On the racetrack, Fair Play was known for h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Croft_(linguist)#:~:text=William%20Croft%20(born%20November%2013,the%20University%20of%20Manchester%2C%20UK. | William Croft (linguist) | William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.
He is the inventor of and advocate for radical construc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_Stadium_Tour#Awards | Reputation Stadium Tour | The Reputation Stadium Tour was the fifth concert tour and the first all-stadium tour by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, in support of her sixth studio album, Reputation (2017). It began in Glendale, Arizona, United States, on May 8, 2018, and concluded in Tokyo, Japan, on November 21, 2018. The tour encom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampacchia_Medal | Stampacchia Medal | The Stampacchia Gold Medal is an international prize awarded every three years by the Italian Mathematical Union (Unione Matematica Italiana – UMI {it}) together with the Ettore Majorana Foundation (Erice), in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Calculus of Variations and related applications. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7 | Vault 7 | Vault 7 is a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish on 7 March 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The files, dating from 2013 to 2016, include details on the agency's software capabilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulkerson_Prize | Fulkerson Prize | The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at each (triennial) International Symposium of the MOS. Originally, the prizes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya | Anna Politkovskaya | Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (née Mazepa; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005). She was found murdered in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow on 7 October 2006, Vladimir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_ionization_energies_of_the_elements | Molar ionization energies of the elements | These tables list values of molar ionization energies, measured in kJ⋅mol−1. This is the energy per mole necessary to remove electrons from gaseous atoms or atomic ions. The first molar ionization energy applies to the neutral atoms. The second, third, etc., molar ionization energy applies to the further removal of an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_LaLota#:~:text=3%20Personal%20life-,Early%20life%20and%20career,the%20United%20States%20Naval%20Academy. | Nick LaLota | Nicholas Joseph LaLota ( lə-LOH-tə; born June 23, 1978) is an American politician and veteran serving since 2023 as the U.S. representative for New York's 1st congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
== Early life and career ==
LaLota was born on June 23, 1978, and is from Bay Shore, New York. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Status_Act | Puerto Rico Status Act | The Puerto Rico Status Act, H.R. 2757, was a bill introduced during the 116th United States Congress. The intention of the bill is to grant Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, admission into the Union as a state. The bill was originally introduced in the 116th Congress and was reintroduced as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James | Edward James | Edward Frank Willis James (16 August 1907 – 2 December 1984) was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.
== Early life and marriage ==
James was born on 16 August 1907, the only son of William James (who had inherited a fortune from his father, merchant Daniel James) and Evelyn Forbes, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CLR | Honda CLR | The Honda CLR CityFly was introduced in 1998 as a dual purpose motorcycle and is powered by a 49–124 cc (3.0–7.6 cu in) SOHC single-cylinder engine. The machine does not have the same engine as the Honda CG but the engine from the Honda XLR offroad motorcycle. The CLR "CityFly" was discontinued in 2003. Although the mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleri_Bevan | Teleri Bevan | Welsh broadcaster and author Teleri Bevan (1931–2020; aged 89) was the founding editor of BBC Radio Wales. She was also the author of three nonfiction books including Esmé: Guardian of Snowdonia (2014), a biography of Welsh conservationist Esmé Kirby.
== Early life and education ==
Bevan was born near Aberystwyth in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kashmir#Post-1947 | History of Kashmir | The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent in South Asia with influences from the surrounding regions of Central, and East Asia. Historically, Kashmir referred to only the Kashmir Valley of the western Himalayas. Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-adm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock | James Lovelock | James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
With a PhD in the chemistry of disinfection, Lovelock began his career perf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Page#Early_life | Elliot Page | Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist. He is known for his leading roles across Canadian and American film and television, and for his outspoken work as an activist for LGBTQ rights and against discrimination. His accolades include nominations for an Acade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Two_Windows | These Two Windows | These Two Windows is the debut studio album by the American singer Alec Benjamin. It was released by Warner Music on May 29, 2020. It reached number 75 on the Billboard 200.
== Commercial performance ==
On the UK Albums Chart, These Two Windows debuted at No. 52 with 1,677 sales units, marking Benjamin's first entry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley,_Northern_Cape | Kimberley, Northern Cape | Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is located approximately 110 km east of the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers. The city has considerable historical significance because of its diamond mining past and the siege during the Second Boer War. The British bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Le_Monnier | Eduardo Le Monnier | Eduardo Le Monnier (born Edouard Stanislas Louis Le Monnier; 30 September 1873 in Paris – 14 February 1931 in Buenos Aires) was a French architect recognized for his work in Brazil, Uruguay and mostly in Argentina.
== Education ==
He studied at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and moved to Brazil in 18... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabella_spallanzanii | Sabella spallanzanii | Sabella spallanzanii is a species of marine polychaete worms in the family Sabellidae. Common names include the Mediterranean fanworm, the feather duster worm, the European fan worm and the pencil worm. It is native to shallow waters in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It has spread to various... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_of_Thomas_Baker#: | Bust of Thomas Baker | The bust of Thomas Baker is a 1638 marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, with much of the bust undertaken by a pupil of Bernini, probably Andrea Bolgi. It is currently held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, who purchased the bust in 1921 for 1480 English guineas.
== Su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax | Betamax | Betamax (also known as Beta, and stylized as the Greek letter β in its logo) is a discontinued consumer analog videocassette recording format developed by Sony. It was one of the main competitors in the videotape format war against its primary rival, VHS. Betamax was introduced in Japan on May 10, 1975, and launched in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/216433_Milianleo | 216433 Milianleo | 216433 Milianleo (provisional designation 2009 DM3) is an Aeolia asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) in diameter. It was discovered 19 February 2009, by German amateur astronomer Erwin Schwab using a remote-controlled telescope at Tzec Maun Observatory (H10) in M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama | Barack Obama | Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_89_torpedo | Type 89 torpedo | The Type 89 torpedo (development name G-RX2) is a Japanese submarine-launched homing torpedo produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Together with the Harpoon, it replaced the unguided Type 72. Development was done by the Technical Research and Development Institute, a department of the Ministry of Defense, and began ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Adams_(Vermont_politician) | Charles J. Adams (Vermont politician) | Charles J. Adams (February 17, 1917 – May 16, 2008) was a Vermont attorney whose career included an interim appointment as Vermont Attorney General.
== Biography ==
Charles Jairus Adams was born in Randolph, Vermont, on February 17, 1917, the son of Charles Bayley Adams and Jeanette (Metzger) Adams. His father serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll#:~:text=Russian%20explorer%20Otto%20von%20Kotzebue,von%20Eschscholtz%2C%20the%20ship's%20naturalist. | Bikini Atoll | Bikini Atoll ( BIK-in-ee or bih-KEE-nee; Marshallese: Pikinni [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. 'coconut place'), known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km2) central lagoon. The atoll is at the northern end ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalit_Mohan_Sharma#Family_and_early_life | Lalit Mohan Sharma | Lalit Mohan Sharma (12 February 1928 – 3 November 2008) was the 24th Chief Justice of India, serving for 85 days, from 18 November 1992 until 11 February 1993. He was the son of L.N. Sinha, former Attorney General of India.
== Legal career ==
Passed B.A. Hons. (Patna University) in 1946. Passed B.L. (Patna University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah | Hassan Nasrallah | Hassan Nasrallah (31 August 1960 – 27 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.
Born into a Shia family in the suburbs of Beirut in 1960, Nasrallah finished his educ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_Forghieri | Mauro Forghieri | Mauro Forghieri (13 January 1935 – 2 November 2022) was an Italian mechanical engineer, best known for his work as a Formula One racing car designer with Scuderia Ferrari during the 1960s and 1970s. He is credited with introducing the first designed rear wings to Formula One at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. He oversaw n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War | Gulf War | The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with the aeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_County,_Alabama | Baldwin County, Alabama | Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 231,767, making it the fourth-most populous county in Alabama. The c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Furtick#:~:text=In%202012%2C%20in%20response%20to,Church%20called%20the%20M1%20Initiative. | Steven Furtick | Larry Stevens Furtick Jr. (born February 19, 1980), known professionally as Steven Furtick, is an American pastor, author, singer, and composer of Elevation Worship. He is the founder and general overseer of Elevation Church, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
== Early life and education ==
Furtick was born and rais... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Crump | Diane Crump | Diane Crump (born May 18, 1948 in Milford, Connecticut) is an American jockey and horse trainer. In 1969 Crump was the first woman to ride in a pari-mutuel race in the United States; her participation in the event was so contested that she required a full police escort through the crowds at the Hialeah Park Race Track.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazae-san | Sazae-san | Sazae-san (Japanese: サザエさん) is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the Fukunichi Shinbun (フクニチ新聞), on April 22, 1946. When the Asahi Shimbun wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Symphony_Association | Kingston Symphony Association | Kingston Symphony Association is a Canadian arts organization in Kingston, Ontario. The organization was formed in 1963 as a managing umbrella organization of several performing art ensembles in Kingston, including the Kingston Symphony and the Kingston Choral Society. The organization currently also manages the Kingst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#:~:text=On%202%20October%201978%2C%20Feodor,days%20and%20gave%20a%20speech. | Jonestown | The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious movement under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Parker | Cornelia Parker | Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.
== Life and career ==
Parker was born in 1956 in Cheshire, England. Her childhood with a mentally fragile mother and a violent father had a strong influence on her. Her German mother was a nurse in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Canadian_Open_(tennis) | 1992 Canadian Open (tennis) | The 1992 Canadian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 103rd edition of the Canada Masters, and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1992 ATP Tour, and of the Tier I Series of the 1992 WTA Tour. The men's event took place at the National Tennis Centre in Toront... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_92 | British Rail Class 92 | The British Rail Class 92 is a dual-voltage electric locomotive, which can run on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail. It was designed specifically to operate services through the Channel Tunnel between Great Britain and France. Eurotunnel indicates the Class 92 locomotive as the reference for ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer-Simpson_Medal | Romer-Simpson Medal | The Romer-Simpson Medal is the highest award issued by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for "sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology". The award is named in honor of Alfred S. Romer and George G. Simpson.
== Past awards ==
Source: Society for Verte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relojes_Centenario | Relojes Centenario | Relojes Centenario (or Centenario Clocks) is the first manufacturer of monumental clocks in Latin America. It was founded by Alberto Olvera Hernández in the municipality of Zacatlán, Puebla, Mexico as a workshop on the family farm when he was a teenager. His first clock was for the family farm but the next one went to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Photography_Awards#2015 | International Photography Awards | The International Photography Awards are a group of awards for professional, non-professional and student photographers on a global scale which are awarded annually at the Lucie Awards gala. The winners of the main categories are invited to attend the gala to compete for the main award of International Photographer of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydalima_mysteris | Cydalima mysteris | Cydalima mysteris is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found on Vanuatu.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_events_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics | Equestrian events at the 2004 Summer Olympics | Equestrian events at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping. All three disciplines are further divided into individual and team contests for a total of six events.
The Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre, on the outskirts of Markopoulo in the Attica region of Gre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_and_Frank_Schreider | Helen and Frank Schreider | Helen Jane Schreider (née Armstrong; May 3, 1926 – February 6, 2025) and Frank Schreider (January 8, 1924 – January 21, 1994) were American explorers in the mid-20th century, known for traveling by amphibious jeep. National Geographic hired them after their first independent journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (195... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert%E2%80%93Mauchly_Award | Eckert–Mauchly Award | The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. It is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on the design and co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)#:~:text=The%20programme%20was%20then%20presented,tested%20positive%20for%20COVID%2D19. | Countdown (game show) | Countdown is a British game show involving word and mathematical tasks that began airing in November 1982. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and is most recently presented by Colin Murray, assisted by Rachel Riley with lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be broadcast on Channel 4 and 92 series have been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessh%C5%AB_T%C5%8Dy%C5%8D | Sesshū Tōyō | Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟 等楊; c. 1420 – August 26, 1506), also known simply as Sesshū (雪舟; Japanese pronunciation: [seꜜɕ.ɕɯː]), was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting. Initially inspired by Chinese landscapes, Sesshū's work holds a distinctively Japanese style that reflects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Kiefer#Exhibitions | Anselm Kiefer | Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squire_Boone#:~:text=Squire%20Maugridge%20Boone%20Jr.,younger%20brother%20of%20Daniel%20Boone. | Squire Boone | Squire Maugridge Boone Jr. (October 5, 1744 – August 5, 1815) was an American frontiersman and the younger brother of Daniel Boone. In 1780, he founded the first settlement in Shelby County, Kentucky. The tenth of eleven children, Squire Boone was born to Squire Boone Sr. and his wife Sarah (Morgan) Boone in Berks Coun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-spotted_bulbul | Orange-spotted bulbul | The orange-spotted bulbul (Pycnonotus bimaculatus) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is endemic to Java, Bali and Sumatra.
It favors forest edges and open meadows in montane forests.
== Taxonomy and systematics ==
The orange-spotted bulbul was originally described in the genus Turdu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadat_(album) | Aadat (album) | Aadat is a 2004 studio album by the Pakistani band Jal.
The album features three bonus tracks (Dr. Zeus & Kais Mix) and has an exclusive bonus VCD with all Jal videos.
== Copyright dispute ==
Atif Aslam released his debut solo album Jal Pari after he left the band, which included some songs from Aadat: "Lamhey" (titl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_and_Triton | Neptune and Triton | Neptune and Triton is an early sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and was executed c. 1622–1623. Carved from marble, it stands 182.2 cm (71.7 in) in height.
== History ==
The marble sculpture group was originally commissioned by Cardinal Ales... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Zhang | Xiang Zhang | Zhang Xiang (Chinese: 张翔; pinyin: Zhāng Xiáng; born December 1963) is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer, currently serving as the 16th president and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong since July 2018.
Zhang was the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at the University of California, Ber... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Rugova | Ibrahim Rugova | Ibrahim Rugova (Albanian pronunciation: [ibɾahim ɾugova]; 2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was a Kosovo-Albanian politician, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President of Kosovo from 2002 until his death in 2006. He overs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Johnston_(model) | Randy Johnston (model) | Randy Johnston (September 25, 1988 – October 11, 2008) was an American model. He was represented by the Ford NY modeling agency and was best known for his starring in the fall 2007 Dior Homme advertising campaign.
Johnston was born in Waterford, Connecticut, United States, of German and English descent. He was a succes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuai | Tuai | Tuai is a village and rural community located around Lake Whakamarino, in the Wairoa District of the Hawke's Bay Region, on New Zealand's North Island.
The local Tuai Power Station was opened in 1929 on the shores of Lake Whakamarino, as part of the Waikaremoana power scheme. Genesis Energy has controlled the power st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Game_Writing | Nebula Award for Best Game Writing | The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing is one of the Nebula Awards, presented each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy game writing. The Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_(TV_series)#Critical_response | The Bear (TV series) | The Bear is an American comedy-drama series created by Christopher Storer for FX on Hulu. Jeremy Allen White stars as Carmy Berzatto, an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage the chaotic kitchen at his deceased brother's Italian beef sandwich shop. The regular cast includes Ebon Moss-Bachr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_UCI_Cyclo-cross_World_Championships | 2007 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships | The 2007 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were held from 27 to 28 January 2007 at the Domenico Savio Park in Hooglede-Gits, Belgium.
== Medal summary ==
== Medal table ==
== External links ==
Official website
Men race report
Under-23 race report
Junior race report
Women race report |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson-Fawcett_Award#:~:text=2012,Andrew%20Fogg | Gibson-Fawcett Award | The Gibson–Fawcett Award is awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry every two years to recognise outstanding work in the field of materials chemistry. In particular, the emphasis is on the originality and independence of the work carried out. The prize was established in 2008 and is awarded by the Materials Chemistry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_Eugenia | 45 Eugenia | 45 Eugenia is a large asteroid of the asteroid belt. It is famed as one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it. It was also the second triple asteroid to be discovered, after 87 Sylvia.
== Discovery ==
Eugenia was discovered on 27 June 1857 by the Franco–German amateur astronomer Hermann Goldsc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireya_Moscoso | Mireya Moscoso | Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez (born 1 July 1946) is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the country's first and to date only female president.
Born into a rural family, Moscoso became active in the 1968 presidential campaign of three-time president Arnulfo Arias, fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra | Ritesh Batra | Ritesh Batra (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film The Lunchbox premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. The Lu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoku_Ware_II#: | Opoku Ware II | Otumfuo Opoku Ware II (born Jacob Matthew Poku; 30 November 1919 – 26 February 1999) was the 15th Asantehene. He succeeded his uncle Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II on 27 July 1970. He ruled for 29 years until his death in February 1999. He was succeeded by Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II.
== Early life and education ==
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building | Vehicle Assembly Building | The Vehicle Assembly Building (originally the Vertical Assembly Building), or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merata_Mita#:~:text=released%20in%202018.-,Death,the%20studios%20of%20M%C4%81ori%20Television. | Merata Mita | Merata Mita (19 June 1942 – 31 May 2010) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, and writer, and a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was the first indigenous woman and the first woman in New Zealand to solely write and direct a dramatic feature film Mauri (1988).
== Early life ==
Mita was b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Layton#:~:text=In%201969%2C%20he%20was%20appointed,of%20the%20Sigma%20Chi%20fraternity. | Jack Layton | John Gilbert Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011) was a Canadian politician and academic who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2003 to 2011 and leader of the Official Opposition in 2011. He previously sat on Toronto City Council, occasionally holding the title of acting mayor or deputy ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaff%27s | Pfaff's | Pfaff's was a drinking establishment in Manhattan, New York City, known for its literary and artistic clientele.
== Description ==
Opened in 1855 by Charles Ignatious Pfaff, the original Pfaff's was modeled after the German Rathskellers that were popular in Europe at the time. Charles Pfaff's beer cellar was located ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittosporum_divaricatum | Pittosporum divaricatum | Pittosporum divaricatum is a species of plant in the Pittosporaceae family. It is a New Zealand endemic shrub growing up to 3 metres high. It has densely entangled branches growing in a divaricating form typical of many New Zealand small leaved shrubs.
It exhibits a form of dimorphism with leaves differing in form betw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Design | National Academy of Design | The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Moriah_Wilson | Murder of Moriah Wilson | On the night of May 11, 2022, professional cyclist Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson was fatally shot by Kaitlin Marie Armstrong at a friend's home in Austin, Texas. Armstrong, a yoga instructor and licensed realtor, committed the crime out of jealousy triggered by Wilson's romantic encounter with her on-and-off boyfriend, pro c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iftikhar_Hussain_Ansari | Iftikhar Hussain Ansari | Iftikhar Hussain Ansari (26 April 1942 – 30 September 2014), widely known among his followers as Moulvi Sahib, was a Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician, businessman and a proponent of the Grand Ashura Procession In Kashmir. Ansari was a Wakil (Representative) of Ayatollah Sistani. He was also the representative of Ruhol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J0437%E2%88%924715 | PSR J0437−4715 | PSR J0437−4715 is a pulsar. Discovered in the Parkes 70 cm survey, it remains the closest and brightest millisecond pulsar (MSP) known. The pulsar rotates about its axis 173.68 times per second and therefore completes a rotation every 5.7574 milliseconds. It emits a searchlight-like radio beam that sweeps past the Ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize#:~:text=At%20that%20point%20he%20was%20declared%20the%20first,the%20new%20baseline%20was%20set%20to%2017%2C073%2C018%20bytes. | Hutter Prize | The Hutter Prize is a cash prize funded by Marcus Hutter which rewards data compression improvements on a specific 1 GB English text file, with the goal of encouraging research in artificial intelligence (AI).
Launched in 2006, the prize awards 5,000 euros for each one percent improvement (with 500,000 euros total fund... |
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