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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_and_military_service | Transgender people and military service | Not all armed forces have policies explicitly permitting LGBT personnel. Generally speaking, Western European militaries show a greater tendency toward inclusion of LGBT individuals.
On 18 July 1980, Sweden became the first country to permit legally recognized transgender individuals—those who had completed transition ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Racim | Mohammed Racim | Mohammed Racim (Arabic: محمد راسم, 24 June 1896 – 30 March 1975) was an Algerian artist who founded the Algerian School for Miniature Painting with his brother, Omar. It still exists to this day.
== Biography ==
Racim was born in The Casbah of Algiers in 1896 into a distinguished family of artists, whose pre-colonial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27hamed_Djellouli | M'hamed Djellouli | M'hamed Djellouli (Arabic: امحمد الجلولي; born February 1834 in Tunis and died in June 1908) was a Tunisian politician who served as Prime Minister of Tunisia from 1907 until his death in 1908.
== Biography ==
He was born into a Makhzen family from Sfax.His grandfather Mahmoud Djellouli fixed in Tunis after buying an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Terry | Ellen Terry | Dame Alice Ellen Terry (27 February 1847 – 21 July 1928) was an English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born into a family of actors, Terry began performing as a child, acting in Shakespeare plays in London, and toured throughout the British provinces in her teens. At 16, she married the 46-year-old ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Kreisky_Prize_for_Services_to_Human_Rights | Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights | The Bruno Kreisky Prize for Human Rights is a biennial award created in October 1976 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Bruno Kreisky. The laureates are rewarded for their achievements in the field of human rights. The prize was divided in 1993 into a human rights prize (between 7000 and 30,000 Euros) and a prize ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_of_Bruges | Madonna of Bruges | The Madonna of Bruges is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo of the Virgin and Child.
Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs significantly from earlier representations of the same subject, which tended to feature a pious Virgin smiling down on an infant held in her arms. Instead, Jesus stands upright... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ryder_(engraver) | Thomas Ryder (engraver) | Thomas Ryder (1746–1810), engraver, was a pupil of James Basire, and during his apprenticeship established drawings with the Society of Artists in 1766 and 1767. He was also one of the first students in the schools of the Royal Academy.
== Works ==
Ryder engraved a few plates in the line manner, of which the most imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Disney | Lillian Disney | Lillian Marie Disney (née Bounds; February 15, 1899 – December 16, 1997) was an American ink artist at the Walt Disney Animation Studios and the wife of Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966. Born in Spalding, Idaho, Disney graduated from high school in Lapwai before moving to Lewiston to attend college. She le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal#:~:text=In%201500%2C%20the%20Portuguese%20explorer,Portuguese%20colonies%20of%20the%20Americas. | Portugal | Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. It is an unitary semi-presidential republic composed by continental Portugal and two autonomous regions, with Lisbon as both its capital and largest city. The continental portion borders Spain to the north and ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydenham_Hospital | Sydenham Hospital | Sydenham Hospital was a healthcare facility in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, which operated between 1892 and 1980. It was located at 124th Street and Manhattan Avenue.
== History ==
Sydenham opened in 1892, occupying nine houses on 116th Street near 2nd Avenue as of 1911 serving mostly African American patients. Arou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bachelor_(American_TV_series)_season_16 | The Bachelor (American TV series) season 16 | The sixteenth season of ABC reality television series The Bachelor premiered on January 2, 2012. This show features a previous contestant from The Bachelorette, a winemaker and owner of Envolve wines, from Sonoma, California, 29-year-old Ben Flajnik, who finished runner-up in the seventh season of the show featuring As... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdiana_Masanja | Verdiana Masanja | Verdiana Grace Masanja (née Kashaga, born October 12, 1954) is a Tanzanian mathematician specializing in fluid dynamics. She is the first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics.
== Education ==
Masanja was born in Bukoba, at the time part of the United Nations trust territory of Tanganyika. She was a stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rached_Ghannouchi#Retracted_allegations | Rached Ghannouchi | Rached Ghannouchi (Arabic: راشد الغنوشي, romanized: Rāshid al-Ghannūshī; born 22 June 1941), also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician, the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party and serving as its intellectual leader. He was born Rashad Khriji (راشد الخريجي).
Ghannouchi was named o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrer_Memorial_Trust | Farrer Memorial Trust | The Farrer Memorial Trust was established in 1911 in Australia in memory of William Farrer. Initially established to provide study scholarships to Agricultural Scientists, the Trust became responsible in 1941 for the annual presentation of the Farrer Memorial Oration and awarding the Farrer Medal.
== William Farrer a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras_Lighthouse | Cape Hatteras Lighthouse | Cape Hatteras Light is a lighthouse located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks in the town of Buxton, North Carolina and is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It is the tallest lighthouse in the U.S. from base to tip at 210 feet. The lighthouse's semi-unique pattern makes it easy to recognize and famous. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuleleua_Paletasala_Tovale | Manuleleua Paletasala Tovale | Manuleleua Paletasala Tovale is a Samoan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa. He is a member of the FAST Party.
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 2021 Samoan general election. An election petition against him was struck out in June 2021. On 28 July 2021 he w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Kahan_Ke_Sachay_Thay#:~:text=Hum%20Kahan%20Ke%20Sachay%20Thay%20(Urdu%3A%20%DB%81%D9%85%20%DA%A9%DB%81%D8%A7%DA%BA%20%DA%A9%DB%92%20%D8%B3%DA%86%DB%92,same%20name%20by%20Umera%20Ahmad. | Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay | Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay (Urdu: ہم کہاں کے سچے تھے) (English literal: As if we were truthful) is a Pakistani drama television series based on the novel of the same name by Umera Ahmad. Directed by Farooq Rind, the serial is co-produced by Soul Fry Films and MD Productions. It features Mahira Khan, Usman Mukhtar, and Ku... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Alberti | Ignaz Alberti | Ignaz Alberti (11 April 1760, in Vienna – 31 August 1794, in Vienna) was an Austrian illustrator, engraver and book printer. He employed some 20 engravers in 1787 who applied their skills to cartography and botanical books. After his death his widow managed the printing and publication.
His 1796 Vienna edition of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowalola_Ogunlesi | Mowalola Ogunlesi | Mowalola Ogunlesi (born 25 March 1994) is a Nigerian-born fashion designer and singer working and living in London. She is known for working with a wide variety of textiles such as leather and PVC to produce non-traditional silhouettes inspired by Nigerian and London youth culture.
== Early life ==
Ogunlesi was born ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moscone#:~:text=George%20Richard%20Moscone%20(%E2%AB%BDm,his%20assassination%20in%20November%201978. | George Moscone | George Richard Moscone ( mə-SKOH-nee; November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 37th mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978.
He was known as "The People's Mayor", who opened up City Hall and its commissions to reflect the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Draper_Catalogue#:~:text=In%20all%2C%20359%2C083%20stars%20were%20classified%20as%20of%20August%202017.&text=The%20HD%20catalogue%20is%20named,certain%20areas%20of%20the%20sky. | Henry Draper Catalogue | The Henry Draper Catalogue (HD) is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension (HDE), published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the Henry Draper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._D._Deve_Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (; born 18 May 1933) is an Indian politician who served as the prime minister of India for nearly 11 months, from 1996 to 1997. He previously served as the chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996 and as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha. A member of the Janata Dal (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobita_Nobi | Nobita Nobi | Nobita Nobi (Japanese: 野比 のび太, Hepburn: Nobi Nobita) is one of the main characters in the Doraemon manga and anime series created by Fujiko Fujio. Known as Sidney, Specky and Noby in some English localizations of the anime, Nobita is usually depicted as an elementary school student. The title character, Doraemon, is se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adil_Hussain | Adil Hussain | Khandkar Mohammad Adil Hussain (pronounced [ʕaːdɪl ħuˈseːn]; born 5 October 1963) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in several Indian independent and mainstream film productions, as well as international cinema, in films such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Life of Pi (both 2012).
He received National Fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir_Award#:~:text=Rudolph%20A.%20Marcus-,1977%20Aneesur%20Rahman,-1976%20John%20S | Irving Langmuir Award | The Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded annually, in even years by the American Chemical Society and in odd years by the American Physical Society. The award is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir. A nominee ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_of_Fire_(sculpture) | Pillar of Fire (sculpture) | Pillar of Fire is an illuminated glass sculpture in Washington, D.C. honoring Whitman-Walker Health (formerly Whitman-Walker Clinic) and the healthcare workers who assisted people living with HIV/AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Designed by artist William Cochran, the sculpture is composed of 370 layers of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Sisulu#:~:text=Max%20Vuyisile%20Sisulu%20(born%2023,December%201994%20to%20December%202017. | Max Sisulu | Max Vuyisile Sisulu (born 23 August 1945) is a South African politician and businessman who was Speaker of the National Assembly from May 2009 to May 2014. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he was a member of the party's National Executive Committee from December 1994 to December 2017.
Born in Soweto, S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey#:~:text=In%201997%2C%20Cook%20tried%20to,book%20about%20their%20alleged%20relationship. | Oprah Winfrey | Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Globally, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Japan | List of prime ministers of Japan | The prime minister of Japan is the country's head of government and the leader of the Cabinet. This is a list of prime ministers of Japan, from when the first Japanese prime minister (in the modern sense), Itō Hirobumi, took office in 1885, until the present day.
32 prime ministers under the Meiji Constitution had a ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_configurations_of_the_elements_(data_page) | Electron configurations of the elements (data page) | This page shows the electron configurations of the neutral gaseous atoms in their ground states. For each atom the subshells are given first in concise form, then with all subshells written out, followed by the number of electrons per shell. For phosphorus (element 15) as an example, the concise form is [Ne] 3s2 3p3. H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_Srinagar | List of bridges in Srinagar | The city of Srinagar in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India, originally had seven wooden bridges across the Jhelum River. The seven bridges — Amira, Habba, Fateh, Zaina, Aali, Nawa and Safa — were constructed between the 15th and 18th century. This number remained unchanged for at least five centuries. In t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Watkins | Sara Watkins | Sara Ullrika Watkins (born June 8, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of Nickel Creek, the progressive bluegrass group she formed with her brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile. In addition to singing and fiddling, Watkins also plays the ukulele and the guitar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Chen_(engineer) | Gang Chen (engineer) | Gang Chen (Chinese: 陈刚; pinyin: Chén Gāng) is a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he is currently the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. He served as head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT from July 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Canadian_Open_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_doubles | 1992 Canadian Open – Men's doubles | Patrick Galbraith and Todd Witsken were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners.
Witsken teamed up with Ken Flach and lost in the second round to Bryan Shelton and Kenny Thorne.
Galbraith teamed up with Danie Visser and successfully defended his title, by defeating Andre Agassi and John ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio_programs#:~:text=In%20the%201980s%2C%20the%20Larry,talk%20shows%20discussing%20sociopolitical%20issues. | List of most-listened-to radio programs | In the United States, radio listenership is gauged by Nielsen and others for both commercial radio and public radio. Nielsen and similar services provide estimates by regional market and by standard daypart, but do not compile nationwide information by host. Because there are significant gaps in Nielsen's coverage in r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_syncytial_virus#References | Respiratory syncytial virus | Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), also called human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. Its name is derived from the large, multinucleated cells known as syncytia that form when inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Callister_Hales#:~:text=5%20External%20links-,Biography,Subregular%20Germ%20of%20Orbital%20Integrals. | Thomas Callister Hales | Thomas Callister Hales (born June 4, 1958) is an American mathematician working in the areas of representation theory, discrete geometry, and formal verification. In representation theory he is known for his work on the Langlands program and the proof of the fundamental lemma over the group Sp(4) (many of his ideas wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_highways_in_Tamil_Nadu#SH151_to_SH200 | List of state highways in Tamil Nadu | State Highways in India are stretches with heavy traffic intensity of more than 10,000 Passenger Car Units (PCUs) but less than 30,000 PCUs which connects district headquarters, important towns and the National Highways in the state and neighboring states. The Construction & Maintenance wing of the Highways Department ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallah_Mar#:~:text=Nallah%20Mar%20or%20Mar%20Canal,territory%20of%20Jammu%20and%20Kashmir. | Nallah Mar | Nallah Mar or Mar Canal (also known as Mar Kol) was a navigational canal running through the old city of Srinagar in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It connected the Brari Nambal lagoon to the Khushal Sar lake and thus provided navigability between the Dal and Aanchar lakes. It was filled up and conver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake#:~:text=On%208%20October%201779%2C%20Blake,throughout%20the%20six%2Dyear%20period. | William Blake | William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_W._Liepmann | Hans W. Liepmann | Hans Wolfgang Liepmann (July 3, 1914 – June 24, 2009) was an American fluid dynamicist,
aerospace scientist and emeritus Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.
He is known for his numerous contributions in fluid mechanics covering a wide range of problem areas, such as f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_King#:~:text=Early%20life,-She%20was%20born&text=She%20adopted%20the%20name%20Hetty,at%20the%20age%20of%20six. | Hetty King | Winifred Emms (4 April 1883 – 28 September 1972), best known by her stage name Hetty King, was an English entertainer who performed in the music halls as a male impersonator over some 70 years.
== Early life ==
She was born in New Brighton, Cheshire, where her itinerant family were living temporarily; they were usual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd#:~:text=This%20assignment%20brought%20Byrd%20into,)%20on%20June%208%2C%201915. | Richard E. Byrd | Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the An... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dialect_Society#Word_of_the_Year | American Dialect Society | The American Dialect Society (ADS), founded in 1889, is a learned society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it." The Society publishes the academic journal American Speech.
Since its foundation, diale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothair_I#:~:text=Lothair%20I%20(Dutch%20and%20Medieval,Francia%20(843%E2%80%93855). | Lothair I | Lothair I (9th. C. Frankish: Ludher and Medieval Latin: Lodharius; Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire; Italian: Lotario; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (817–855, with his father until 840) and King of Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (843... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naro-1#:~:text=Third%20flight,-Main%20article%3A%20STSAT&text=Naro%2D1%20became%20the%20first,480%20kilometers%20south%20of%20Seoul. | Naro-1 | Naro-1 (Korean: 나로호), previously designated the Korea Space Launch Vehicle or KSLV (also KSLV-1), was South Korea's first carrier rocket, and the first South Korean launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit. On January 30, 2013, the third Naro-1 vehicle built successfully placed STSAT-2C into low Earth orbit.
The first sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Barker | Mildred Barker | Ruth Mildred Barker (February 3, 1897 – January 25, 1990) was a musician, scholar, manager, and spiritual leader from the Alfred and Sabbathday Lake Shaker villages. A prominent and respected Shaker during her long life, she worked to preserve Shaker music. With the help of Daniel Patterson, she recorded Early Shaker S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphipterix_saurodonta#:~:text=Glyphipterix%20saurodonta%20is%20a%20species%20of%20sedge%20moth%20in%20the%20genus%20Glyphipterix.%20It%20was%20described%20by%20Edward%20Meyrick%20in%201913. | Glyphipterix saurodonta | Glyphipterix saurodonta is a species of sedge moth in the genus Glyphipterix. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in North America.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia_Bellillo | Katia Bellillo | Katia Bellillo (born 17 February 1951) is an Italian politician and former minister. She served in governments under Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Amato between 1998 and 2001. Originally a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), she joined the Party of Italian Communists (PDCI) in 1998 and became Minister for Regio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Liberator_General_San_Mart%C3%ADn | Order of the Liberator General San Martín | The Order of the Liberator General San Martín (Spanish: Orden del Libertador General San Martín) is the highest decoration in Argentina. It is awarded to foreign politicians or military, deemed worthy of the highest recognition from Argentina. It is granted by the sitting President of Argentina.
== History ==
It owe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Drago | Dick Drago | Richard Anthony Drago (June 25, 1945 – November 2, 2023) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Royals (1969–1973), Boston Red Sox (1974–1975, 1978–1980), California Angels (1976–1977), Baltimore Orioles (1977), and Seattle Mariners (1981). He batted and threw right-hande... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susac%C3%B3n | Susacón | Susacón is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Northern Boyacá Province. Susacón borders to the north Soatá, in the east Boavita, La Uvita and Jericó, in the south Sativanorte and in the west the Santander municipality of Onzaga.
== History ==
When the Spanish c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Doyle_(transit_worker) | Peter Doyle (transit worker) | Peter George Doyle (June 1843 – April 19, 1907) was an Irish-born American transit worker, known for being an intimate companion of Walt Whitman from around 1865 to 1876, and to some extent to Whitman's death in 1892. Doyle also witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
== Biography ==
Peter George Doyl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Albacore#Specifications_(Albacore_with_Taurus_XII) | Fairey Albacore | The Fairey Albacore is a single-engine biplane torpedo bomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation. It was primarily operated by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during the Second World War.
The Albacore, popularly known as the "Applecore", was conceived as a replacement for the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streamer_Awards | The Streamer Awards | The Streamer Awards is an annual awards show dedicated to live streamers. It was founded in 2022 by Twitch streamer QTCinderella to award and celebrate other streamers, primarily in the Twitch community. Nominees are selected via an online vote by fans and winners are then determined using a weighted combination of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#:~:text=In%20June%202009%2C%20when%20the,when%20a%20user's%20status%20changed. | WhatsApp | WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger), owned by Meta Platforms, is an American social media, instant messaging (IM), and Voice over IP (VoIP) service accessible via desktop and mobile app. It allows users to send text messages, voice messages, and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._N._Sinha#:~:text=Lal%20Narayan%20Sinha%20was%20a,Patna%20Law%20College%2C%20Patna%20University. | L. N. Sinha | Lal Narayan Sinha was a lawyer who served as the Attorney General of India between 9 August 1979 and 8 August 1983, and as the Solicitor General of India from 17 July 1972 until 5 April 1977. He was educated at Patna Law College, Patna University.
Sinha was the first Attorney General to represent a private party durin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_McLaughlin | Audrey McLaughlin | Audrey Marlene McLaughlin (née Brown; born November 8, 1936) is a Canadian politician and former leader of the New Democratic Party from 1989 to 1995. She was the first female leader of a political party with representation in the House of Commons of Canada, as well as the first federal political party leader to repre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000#Service_packs | Windows 2000 | Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the server and business markets. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, and then to retail on February 17, 2000 for all versions, with Windows 2000 Datacent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darsheel_Safary | Darsheel Safary | Darsheel Safary (born 9 March 1997) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi, Gujarati films and television. Safary made his film debut with the leading role of a dyslexic student in Aamir Khan's directorial debut, the critically acclaimed drama Taare Zameen Par (2007), for which he won the Filmfare critic's Award for B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Pissarro | Camille Pissarro | Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French: [kamij pisaʁo]; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes_Covered_Bridge#:~:text=The%20Jaynes%20Covered%20Bridge%20is,in%20a%20five%2Dmile%20span. | Jaynes Covered Bridge | The Jaynes Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge, carrying Codding Hollow Road across the North Branch Lamoille River in Waterville, Vermont. Built in 1877, it is one of three 19th-century covered bridges in the town, and one of five to span the North Branch Lamoille in a five-mile span. It was listed on the Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood#1990s_developments | Dollywood | Dollywood is a theme park that is jointly owned by Herschend and country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton through her entertainment company, Dolly Parton Productions. It is located in the Knoxville metropolitan area in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near the gateway to The Great Smoky Mountains. Hosting nearly 3 million guests... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows) | Ghosts (What We Do in the Shadows) | "Ghosts" is the second episode of the second season of the American mockumentary comedy horror television series What We Do in the Shadows, set in the franchise of the same name. It is the twelfth overall episode of the series and was written by executive producer Paul Simms, and directed by producer Kyle Newacheck. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir_Award#:~:text=1981%20Willis%20H.%20Flygare | Irving Langmuir Award | The Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics is awarded annually, in even years by the American Chemical Society and in odd years by the American Physical Society. The award is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir. A nominee ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Oberhoffer | Emil Oberhoffer | Emil Oberhoffer (10 August 1867 – 22 May 1933) was a German-born American conductor and minor composer. He founded the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (now known as the Minnesota Orchestra), and was its conductor for the first 19 years of its existence.
== Biography ==
Emil Johann Oberhoffer was born near Munich, Kin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Stoneman | Kate Stoneman | Katherine Stoneman (April 1841 – May 19, 1925) was an early 20th-century suffragist and the first woman admitted to the Bar Association in the State of New York.
== Early life and family ==
Katherine (Kate) Stoneman was born on her family's farm in Busti, Chautauqua County, New York. She was the fifth of eight childr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_brown_bandicoot | Southern brown bandicoot | The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. A subspecies in Western Australia is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word kwinda). This subspecies was elevated to species in 2018.
== Taxonomy ==
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Charleson_Hedge | Ian Charleson Hedge | Ian Charleson Hedge (18 August 1928 – 7 August 2022) was a Scottish botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Hedge made important contributions to the flora of Iran and Iraq, and was a recognised authority on the flora of south-west Asia. He named more than 300 new plant species.
== Biography ==
Hedge spen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatoma_carrioni | Triatoma carrioni | Triatoma carrioni is a blood-sucking bug and probable vector of the flagellate protozoan that causes Chagas disease. It was discovered by F. Larrousse in 1926.
Type: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
Paratype M: FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro.
Type locality: Loja Province, Ecuador.
Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_These_Wings#:~:text=The%20album%20was%20certified%20Platinum,US%20as%20of%20August%202018. | The Weight of These Wings | The Weight of These Wings is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. It was released on November 18, 2016, via RCA Records Nashville. The album consists of two discs, with Disc 1 titled The Nerve, and Disc 2 titled The Heart. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehbooba_Mufti | Mehbooba Mufti | Mehbooba Bur Mufti Sayed; (born 22 May 1959) is an Indian politician and leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party;(PDP), who served as the 9th chief minister of the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018. She is the first female chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. After ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson#2000s | Laurie Anderson | Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York City during the 1970s, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss_Prize | Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize | The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics is a mathematics award, granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society for "outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics". The award receives its name fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant#:~:text=After%20two%20years%2C%20they%20moved,best%20childhood%20memories%20were%20made. | Kobe Bryant | Kobe Bean Bryant ( KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential basketball players in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Doodle | Google Doodle | A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures. The first Google Doodle honored the 1998 edition of the long-running annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, Nevada, and was designed by co-founders L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriano_Garsia | 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/Johann_Caspar_F%C3%BCssli | Johann Caspar Füssli | Johann Caspar Füssli (3 January 1706 – 6 May 1782) was a Swiss portrait painter and art historian.
== Biography ==
Füssli was born in Zürich to Hans Rudolf Füssli, who was also a painter, and Elisabeth Schärer. He studied painting in Vienna between 1724 and 1731, and then became a portraitist in the courts of souther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough | John B. Goodenough | John Bannister Goodenough ( GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shristi_Shrestha#:~:text=Shrestha%20is%20the%20first%20Miss,contestants%20for%20the%20Multimedia%20Award. | Shristi Shrestha | Shristi Shrestha (Nepali: सृष्टि श्रेष्ठ, ) is a Nepalese actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who the winner of the Miss Nepal 2012 pageant.
== Career ==
=== Pageants ===
Shrestha represented her home district of Chitwan during the Miss Nepal 2012 beauty pageant as Miss Chitwan 2012. She went on to win th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#:~:text=In%20August%201997%20Nokia%20introduced,was%20eventually%20launched%20as%20ONdigital. | Nokia | Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the Helsinki metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1982_lunar_eclipse#Eclipses_in_1982 | July 1982 lunar eclipse | A total lunar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Tuesday, July 6, 1982, with an umbral magnitude of 1.7180. It was a central lunar eclipse, in which part of the Moon passed through the center of the Earth's shadow. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berta_Singerman | Berta Singerman | Berta Singerman Begun (Belarusian: Берта Сінгерман; 9 September 1901 – 10 December 1998), better known as Berta Singerman, was an Argentine singer and actress.
== Biography ==
Singerman was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire into a Jewish family. She emigrated to Argentina with her parents when she was a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Karlovi%C4%87#:~:text=Siege%20of%20Vienna.-,Death,Zagreb%2C%20under%20the%20great%20altar. | Ivan Karlović | Ivan Karlović (c. 1485 – 9 August 1531), also known as by his Latin name Johannes Torquatus, was the Count of Krbava. His life during critical periods of Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War was marked by constant efforts to stop Ottoman conquests of Croatia, during which he held position of Ban of Croatia twice: from 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Kathmandu_municipal_election | 1953 Kathmandu municipal election | Local elections to a municipal council for Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, (Nepali: काठमाडौ नगरपालिका चुनाव सन् १९५३) were first held on September 9, 1953. Candidates nominated by the illegal Communist Party of Nepal got 50% of the total votes cast. Out of a total of 19 seats, six were won by communists, four by Nepal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsibidion_circunflexum#:~:text=Compsibidion%20circunflexum%20is%20a%20species%20of%20beetle%20in%20the%20family%20Cerambycidae.%20It%20was%20described%20by%20Brazilian%20entomologist%20Ubirajara%20Martins%20in%201971 | Compsibidion circunflexum | Compsibidion circunflexum is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Brazilian entomologist Ubirajara Martins in 1971.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner | Henry Ossawa Tanner | Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Churchill#:~:text=Churchill%20later%20had%20two%20children,Jesse%20Johnson%20in%20Franklin%2C%20Ohio. | Savannah Churchill | Savannah Churchill (born Savannah Valentine Roberts; August 21, 1920 – April 19, 1974) was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1940s and 1950s. She is best known for her number-one R&B single "I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You)."
== Life and career ==
Born to Creole parents Emmett Roberts and Hazel Hickman i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_d%27Escrime#:~:text=Albert%20Feyerick%2C%20president%20of%20the,Switzerland%2C%20and%20the%20United%20States. | Fédération Internationale d'Escrime | The International Fencing Federation (Fédération Internationale d'Escrime) commonly known by the acronym FIE, is the international governing body of Olympic fencing. Today, its head office is at the Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, Switzerland. The FIE is composed of 155 national federations, each of which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo's_Fish_Taco | Wahoo's Fish Taco | Wahoo's Fish Taco is a U.S.-based restaurant chain that offers Mexican food mixed with Brazilian and Asian flavors. Categorized as a "fast casual restaurant", the quality and preparation time of its food is between that of a fast-food restaurant and a more formal restaurant. Wahoo's provides many vegetarian and some v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Asiku | Jackson Asiku | Jackson "Action" Asiku (*21 October 1978) is a Ugandan-Australian amateur flyweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer.
== Career ==
As an amateur, Asiku represented Uganda at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and won a bronze medal, losing to eventual gold medal winner Richard Sun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Costa_Rica | List of presidents of Costa Rica | The following article lists the presidents and heads of state of Costa Rica since Central American independence from Spain. From 1824 to 1838 Costa Rica was a state within the Federal Republic of Central America; since then it has been an independent nation.
== Heads of state of Costa Rica (1824–1848) ==
Liberal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Santuario | El Santuario | El Santuario is a town and municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. It is part of the subregion of Eastern Antioquia. El Santuario was founded on 11 March 1765 by Captain Antonio Gómez de Castro. Its elevation is 2,150 meters above sea level, with an average temperature of 17 °C. The distance reference from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalidopus | Psalidopus | Psalidopus is a genus of shrimp placed in its own family, Psalidopodidae, and superfamily, Psalidopodoidea. It comprises three species, one in the western Atlantic Ocean, and two in the Indo-Pacific.
== Psalidopus barbouri ==
Psalidopus barbouri occurs on continental and insular slopes from Florida, the Bahamas and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Primeira_Liga#Clean_sheets | 2019–20 Primeira Liga | The 2019–20 Primeira Liga (also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons) was the 86th season of the Primeira Liga, the top professional league for Portuguese association football clubs. The season started on 9 August 2019 and was finished on 26 July 2020.
Benfica were the defending champions, after winning their 37th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CL125 | Honda CL125 | The Honda CL125 was a scrambler motorcycle made by Honda from 1967 to 1974. Two different engines were used through the models life: 1967-1969: CL125A 124cc 2 cylinder 4-stroke, 1973-1974: CL125S 122cc 1 cylinder 4-stroke.
The CL125A was produced from 1967 to 1969 with a 124 cc 4-stroke engine and four-speed transmiss... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract:_The_Art_of_Design#Season_1_(2017) | Abstract: The Art of Design | Abstract: The Art of Design is a Netflix original documentary series highlighting artists in the field of design. It was released on Netflix on February 10, 2017. The series was created by former Wired editor-in-chief Scott Dadich.
The first season profiled illustrator Christoph Niemann, Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama#Autobiography,_writing | Yayoi Kusama | Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi; born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation. She is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Kramer#:~:text=3%20Publications-,Career,Marine%20Biology%20in%20Rovinj%2C%20Croatia. | Gustav Kramer | Gustav Kramer (11 March 1910 – 19 April 1959) was a German zoologist and ornithologist who specialised in allometry. He described Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, for the first time in his doctoral thesis. Near the end of the 1940s, he discovered that birds can use the sun as a compass.
== Career ==
In 1933 K... |
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