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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Medes#:~:text=A%20symposium%20on%20tyrosinosis%20was%20held%20in%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%20in%20her%20honor%20in%201965.%5B12%5D | Grace Medes | Grace Medes (November 9, 1886 – December 31, 1967) was an American biochemist, who discovered tyrosinosis—a metabolic disorder today known as tyrosinemia—and studied fatty acid metabolism. She was awarded the Garvan-Olin Medal in 1955 for her work.
== Early life and education ==
Grace May Medes was born in Keokuk, I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Schreider#:~:text=Schreider%20died%20in%202011%20of%20pneumonia%20and%20Alzheimer's%20disease. | Gary Schreider | Gary Edward Schreider (April 21, 1934 – January 22, 2011) was a Canadian professional football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders and BC Lions. He won the Grey Cup with Ottawa in 1960. He played university football at Queen's University, where he was part of the Golden Gaels' 1955 Yates ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_von_Root#cite_note-kosts-1 | Olga von Root | Baroness Olga Vadimovna von Root (2 December 1901 – 28 June 1967) was a Russian stage actress and singer. Born into a noble family of German, Polish, and Greek background, Root was educated at the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens in the Russian Empire. As a teenager, she ran away from home and travelled with a Romani ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK_Broadcasting_Center | NHK Broadcasting Center | The NHK Broadcasting Center (NHK放送センター, Enueichikei Hōsō Sentā), the headquarters of NHK, is located in Jinnan, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It includes studios and offices, as well as shops and Studio Park, which is a popular attraction for schoolchildren and tourists.
Located within the same complex is the NHK Hall, in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Roberts_(newscaster) | Robin Roberts (newscaster) | Robin Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster who co-anchors ABC's Good Morning America.
After growing up in Mississippi and attending Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts was a sports anchor for local TV and radio stations. Roberts was a sportscaster on ESPN for 15 years (1990–2005... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_Students | Kissing Students | Kissing Students (Estonian: Suudlevad tudengid) is sculpture and fountain in Raekoja plats, Tartu, Estonia. The structure locates in front of Tartu Town Hall. The sculpture is one of the most recognised symbols of Tartu, especially as Tartu is considered the "intellectual capital city" and "student capital" of the coun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_men%27s_national_field_hockey_team | Pakistan men's national field hockey team | The Pakistan men's national field hockey team (Urdu: پاکستان قومى ہاكى ٹیم) represents Pakistan in international field hockey. Having played its first match in 1948, it is administered by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), the governing body for hockey in Pakistan. It has been a member of the International Hockey F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eisner | Thomas Eisner | Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He was a world au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of_the_Soviet_Union | Premier of the Soviet Union | The Premier of the Soviet Union (Russian: Глава Правительства СССР) was the head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). From 1923 to 1946, the name of the office was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and from 1946 to 1991 its name was Chairman of the Council of Ministers. During ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Cosmos_F.C. | Jomo Cosmos F.C. | Jomo Cosmos is a South African soccer club based in Johannesburg that plays in the ABC Motsepe League. The club is owned and coached by South African football legend Jomo Sono.
At the end of the 2021–22 National First Division season, the club was relegated to the third tier of football in South Africa for the first t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bartsch-Hackley#Awards | Michelle Bartsch-Hackley | Michelle Bartsch-Hackley (born February 12, 1990) is an American professional volleyball player for the United States women's national volleyball team. She played collegiate volleyball with the University of Illinois Fighting Illini from 2008 to 2011. She won gold with the national team at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hicok_Low#:~:text=He%20was%20an%20instructor%20in,1873%2D1900%20(1908). | Will Hicok Low | Will Hicok Low (May 31, 1853 – November 27, 1932) or Will Hicock Low was an American artist, muralist, and writer on art.
== Early life ==
Low was born in Albany, New York. In 1873 he entered the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme in the École des Beaux Arts at Paris, subsequently joining the classes of Carolus-Duran, with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anugrah_Narayan_Sinha | Anugrah Narayan Sinha | Anugrah Narayan Sinha (18 June 1887 – 5 July 1957), known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian nationalist politician, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian, and one of the architects of modern Bihar. He served as the first Deputy Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar from 1946 to 1957... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncef_Bey | Moncef Bey | Muhammad VII al-Munsif, (Arabic: محمد السابع المنصف; 4 March 1881 in La Manouba – 1 September 1948 in Pau) commonly known as Moncef Bey (Arabic: المنصف باي) was the Bey of Tunis between 19 June 1942 and 14 May 1943. He was the penultimate ruler of the Husainid dynasty.
== Youth ==
Muhammad VII al-Munsif was the son ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Elachi | Charles Elachi | Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947) is a Lebanese-American professor (emeritus) of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2001 to 2016 he was the 8th director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech.
== Early life and education ==... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Trockel | Rosemarie Trockel | Rosemarie Trockel (born 13 November 1952) is a German conceptual artist. She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations, and has worked in mixed media. From 1985, she made pictures using knitting-machines. She is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Chellapandian | S. Chellapandian | S. Chellapandian was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress and member of the legislative assembly of Madras state from Tirunelveli. He served as the Speaker of the Madras Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1967.
== Electoral performance ==
== Notes == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett | Katharine Burr Blodgett | Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics from the University of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Sea | Aegean Sea | The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some 215,000 km2 (83,000 sq mi). In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn connects to the Black Sea, by the straits of the Darda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumwave_transmitter_Lopik | Mediumwave transmitter Lopik | The Mediumwave transmitter Lopik was a medium wave broadcasting facility near Lopik in the Netherlands. It was constructed in 1938 (1938) and destroyed on September 1, 2015 (2015-09-01). Its last use was to transmit the Dutch language edition of Radio Maria on 675 kHz. The aerial consisted of a 196-metre (643 ft) guyed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braulio_(liqueur) | Braulio (liqueur) | Braulio is a type of amaro, a digestive herbal liquor from Alps, typical of Valtelline (Italy). It is typically served cold or at room temperature, though it is also occasionally served as an aperitif with sparkling white wine.
== History ==
The original recipe dates to 1826, conceived by Francesco Peloni, a pharmaci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Inorganic_Chemistry_Award#:~:text=2013,Andrew%20R.%20Barron | Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award | The Applied Inorganic Chemistry Award, established in 2008, is conferred biennially by the Dalton division of the Royal Society of Chemistry for "outstanding contributions to the development of any branch of inorganic chemistry which has an application in industry." The winner gives a lecture tour in the UK, and receiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Family_Matters_episodes | List of Family Matters episodes | Family Matters is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC for eight seasons from September 22, 1989, to May 9, 1997, then moved to CBS for its ninth and final season from September 19, 1997, to July 17, 1998. A total of 215 episodes were produced.
== Series overview ==
== Episodes ==
=== Season... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kharlan#Early_years | Olga Kharlan | Olha Hennadiivna Kharlan (Ukrainian: Ольга Геннадіївна Харлан; born 4 September 1990), also known as Olga Kharlan, is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is a four-time individual women’s world sabre champion, six-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated Ukrainian Olympian in history. She has been ranked #1 in the world ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nina | USS Nina | USS Nina was a United States Navy steamer commissioned in 1866. She served in a variety of roles—as a tug, torpedo boat, torpedo boat tender, salvage ship, supply ship, and submarine tender—before she sank in a storm in 1910.
== Construction and commissioning ==
Nina, a fourth-rate iron-hulled screw steamer, was laid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats_(1985_TV_series) | ThunderCats (1985 TV series) | ThunderCats is an American animated science fantasy television series produced by Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment and Leisure Concepts. It debuted in 1985, based on the characters created by Tobin Wolf. The series, for which Leonard Starr was the head writer, follows the adventures of a group of catlike humanoid ali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n | Theodore von Kármán | Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian: (szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor [(søːløːʃkiʃlɒki) ˈkaːrmaːn ˈtoːdor], May 11, 1881 – May 6, 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Gicheru | Johnson Gicheru | Johnson Evan Gicheru (died 25 December 2020) was a Kenyan lawyer and the Chief Justice of Kenya. He was appointed by President Mwai Kibaki upon his election in 2003. He was the 12th Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya and served the longest term by any African Chief Justice in Kenya's history, from 2003 and finally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnifer_Goodwin#Personal_life | Ginnifer Goodwin | Ginnifer Goodwin (born Jennifer Michelle Goodwin; May 22, 1978) is an American actress. She starred as Margene Heffman in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), Judy Hopps in Zootopia (2016) and its 2025 sequel, and Beth An... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Sinfonietta | London Sinfonietta | The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London.
The ensemble has headquarters at Kings Place and is Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Since its inaugural concert in 1968—giving the world premiere of Sir John Tavener’s The Whale—the London Sinfonietta's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajoy_Nath_Ray | Ajoy Nath Ray | Ajoy Nath Ray (born 31 October 1946) is an Indian retired judge and former Chief Justice of Allahabad and Sikkim High Court.
== Early life ==
Ray was born in 1946 in Kolkata. His father Mr. A. N. Ray was the 14th Chief Justice of India. He graduated in Science with Physics Honours from the Calcutta University and pas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bourdet | Claude Bourdet | Claude Bourdet (28 October 1909 – 20 March 1996) was a writer, journalist, polemist, and militant French politician.
== Personal life ==
Bourdet was a son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet and the poet Catherine Pozzi, was born and died in Paris, France.
In 1935, he married Ida Adamoff.
== Education ==
He left... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Wilson | Hope Wilson | Hope Wilson is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Signy Coleman. The character was introduced as a love interest for Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) in 1993. After her departure in 1997, Coleman reprised the role in 2000 and 2002. The role was then briefly portrayed by B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kharlan | Olga Kharlan | Olha Hennadiivna Kharlan (Ukrainian: Ольга Геннадіївна Харлан; born 4 September 1990), also known as Olga Kharlan, is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is a four-time individual women’s world sabre champion, six-time Olympic medalist and the most decorated Ukrainian Olympian in history. She has been ranked #1 in the world ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanas_of_Pellene#:~:text=Phanas%20of%20Pellene%20was%20an,in%20full%20armour%20(Hoplitodromos). | Phanas of Pellene | Phanas of Pellene was an ancient Greek athlete and Olympic winner listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 65th Olympiad (512 BC). He was the first to win all three races, the stadion race, the double race (Diaulos) and the race in full armour (Hoplitodromos).
== References ==
== See al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal_Tourism_Board#:~:text=3%20See%20also-,History,as%20an%20attractive%20tourist%20destination. | Nepal Tourism Board | Nepal Tourism Board' (NTB) is the official national tourism organization of Nepal which works towards establishing Nepal as a premier holiday destination to the world. The Board provides platform for vision-drawn leadership for Nepal's tourism sector by integrating Government commitment with the dynamism of private sec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Albacore | 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/IEEE_Computer_Society_Charles_Babbage_Award | IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award | In 1989, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. In almost all cases, the award is given to one of the invited keynote speakers at the conference. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohn_Award | Kohn Award | The Royal Society Kohn Award was an award given by the Royal Society since 2005 to beginning scientists who had achieved significant cultural impact through broadcasting or public speech. It was funded by the Kohn Foundation (set up by Ralph Kohn) and consisted of a grant for £7,500 for science communication activities... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaki_Tsuji#:~:text=Masaki%20Tsuji%20(%E8%BE%BB%20%E7%9C%9F%E5%85%88,as%20mystery%20fiction%20novels%20writer. | Masaki Tsuji | Masaki Tsuji (辻 真先, Tsuji Masaki; born March 23, 1932 in Nagoya) is a Japanese anime screenwriter, mystery writer, manga author, travel critic, essayist, professor as well as mystery fiction novels writer. Tsuji was most active in the business from the 1960s through the 1980s, and worked as a script writer on many popu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_146#:~:text=Gliese%20146%20is%20also%20catalogued,visible%20to%20the%20naked%20eye. | Gliese 146 | Gliese 146 is a star with an orbiting exoplanet in the constellation Horologium. Gliese 146 is also catalogued as HD 22496, HIP 16711, SAO-216392, and LHS 1563. With an apparent visual magnitude of 8.64, it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye. Gliese 146 is located at a distance of 44.4 light years based on par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Prize_in_Mathematics | Wolf Prize in Mathematics | The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts. The Wolf Prize includes a monetary award of $100,000.
According to a rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_West_Award | Kelly West Award | The Kelly M. West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology is an honor bestowed by the American Diabetes Association. It has been awarded annually to an individual since 1986. The award is named in honor of Kelly M. West.
== Winners ==
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== See also ==
Banting Medal
List of medicine awards
== Refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Douglass_Morgan#:~:text=Sandra%20Douglass%20Morgan%20(born%20April%2010%2C%201978)%20is%20an%20American%20football%20executive%20and%20attorney%2C%20who%20is%20currently%20the%20president%20of%20the%20Las%20Vegas%20Raiders%20of%20the%20National%20Football%20League.%20She%20is%20the%... | Sandra Douglass Morgan | Sandra Douglass Morgan (born April 10, 1978) is an American attorney and football executive who is the president of the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League. She is the first Black and Asian woman to serve as an NFL team president. Douglass Morgan previously served on the Nevada State Athletic Commission a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Blitzkrieg | Baron Blitzkrieg | Baron Blitzkrieg is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
== Publication history ==
The character (also known as Baron Reiter and simply the Baron) was created by Gerry Conway and Don Heck, and first appeared in World's Finest Comics #246 (September 1977).
== Fictional character b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_E._Moore_Medal_(SCI)#:~:text=2006%2C%20Jonathan%20M.%20McConnachie | Gordon E. Moore Medal (SCI) | The Gordon E. Moore Medal is an award given yearly by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI America) to someone who has displayed early career success involving innovation in chemical industries. Success is judged in terms of both market impact and effects on quality of life of their work.
== Recipients ==
2025, Linq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Hug#:~:text=Edward%20Ambrose%20Hug%20(July%2014,American%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20catcher. | Ed Hug | Edward Ambrose Hug (July 14, 1880 – May 11, 1953) was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played in one game for the Brooklyn Superbas in 1903. Hug's sole Major League appearance came in the second game of a doubleheader in Cincinnati on July 6. He was a local amateur catcher at the time and was called upon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naro_Space_Center | Naro Space Center | The Naro Space Center is a South Korean spaceport in South Jeolla's Goheung County, operated by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute.
The spaceport is located about 485 km (300 mi) south of Seoul. It includes two launch pads, a control tower, rocket assembly and test facilities, facilities for satellite con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Gintis | Herbert Gintis | Herbert Malena Gintis (February 11, 1940 – January 5, 2023) was an American economist, behavioral scientist, and educator known for his theoretical contributions to sociobiology, especially altruism, cooperation, epistemic game theory, gene-culture coevolution, efficiency wages, strong reciprocity, and human capital th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WION#2022_YouTube_block | WION | WION (, WEE-ahn; World is One News) is an Indian English language news channel headquartered in Noida, India. WION is owned by the Essel Group and is a part of the Zee Media network of channels, whose majority owner is Subhash Chandra and family. As of 2021, WION had presence in over 190 countries.
It has faced scrutin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bestow_Wiborg | Frank Bestow Wiborg | Frank Bestow Wiborg (April 30, 1855 – May 12, 1930) was an American businessman from Cincinnati who, with Levi Addison Ault, created the ink manufacturer Ault & Wiborg Company.
== Early life ==
He was born on April 30, 1855 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a son of Susan Isidora (née Bestow) Wiborg and Henry Paulinus Wibo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Streamy_Awards | 5th Streamy Awards | The 5th Annual Streamy Awards was the 5th installment of the Streamy Awards honoring streaming television series. The awards were held on September 17, 2015, at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by the YouTube stars Grace Helbig and Tyler Oakley. Broadcast live on VH1 and simultaneously... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasian_Professor_of_Mathematics | Lucasian Professor of Mathematics | The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics () is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. The post was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, who was Cambridge University's Member of Parliament in 1639–1640, and it was officially established by King Charles II ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho%3F#:~:text=Sho%3F%20was%20a%20short%2Dlived,%2C%20alternative%2C%20punk%20and%20electronica. | Sho? | Sho? was a Dubai-based band whose music combined rock, alternative, punk and electronica. Made up of expatriates, they were active in the Dubai rock music scene for about eighteen months. They released one Internet-only single, "Crash" (April 2010) and one EP, I Don't Wanna Go (August 2010). Their name was a version of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nepal | Demographics of Nepal | The current population of Nepal is 29,164,578 as per the 2021 census. The population growth rate is 0.92% per year.
In the 2011 census, Nepal's population was approximately 26 million people with a population growth rate of 1.35% and a median age of 21.6 years.
In 2016, the female median age was approximately 25 years ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum#:~:text=Natural%20tantalum%20consists%20of%20two,and%20181Ta%20(99.988%25). | Tantalum | Tantalum is a chemical element; it has symbol Ta and atomic number 73. It is named after Tantalus, a figure in Greek mythology. Tantalum is a very hard, ductile, lustrous, blue-gray transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used as components of str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sho%3F | Sho? | Sho? was a Dubai-based band whose music combined rock, alternative, punk and electronica. Made up of expatriates, they were active in the Dubai rock music scene for about eighteen months. They released one Internet-only single, "Crash" (April 2010) and one EP, I Don't Wanna Go (August 2010). Their name was a version of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_S._Woolley#:~:text=Having%20moved%20to%20New%20Jersey,opened%20its%20doors%20in%201971. | Alma S. Woolley | Alma S. Woolley (October 3, 1931, New York City – December 17, 2005, Baltimore) was an American nurse, nurse educator, nursing historian, and author. She led several schools of nursing, and authored a number of books and articles on nursing education, the history of nursing education, and nurses.
== Early years and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schuyler | Eugene Schuyler | Eugene Schuyler (February 26, 1840 – July 16, 1890) was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was one of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. He was the first American diplomat ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbertime | Numbertime | Numbertime is a BBC educational numeracy television series for primary schools that was aired on BBC Two from 20 September 1993 to 3 December 2001. For its first four series, it was presented by Lolita Chakrabarti. El Nombre, an animated character used throughout the series, eventually became the concept for his own ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_R._Revels | Hiram R. Revels | Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Waugh | Steve Waugh | Stephen Rodger Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian former international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman and a medium-pace bowler, Waugh is considered one of the greatest cricketers of all time. Waugh was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title dur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(Modern_Family) | Games People Play (Modern Family) | "Games People Play" is the 23rd episode of the fourth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 95th episode overall. It was aired on May 15, 2013. The episode was written by Ben Karlin based on a story by Danny Zuker and it was directed by Alisa Statman.
== Plot ==
Phil (Ty Burrell) gets a new RV ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Walker#Exhibitions | Kara Walker | Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was aw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Monarch#:~:text=Thirty%2Deight%2Dyear%2Dold,night%20cruise%20to%20Ensenada%2C%20Mexico. | MS Monarch | MS Monarch (formerly Monarch of the Seas) was the second of three Sovereign-class cruise ships owned by Royal Caribbean International. Beginning on April 1, 2013, Monarch was operated by RCCL's Pullmantur Cruises, before being sold for scrap in 2020 following Pullmantur's closure. The ship was built in 1991 at the Chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Happy_Valley_episodes#:~:text=Catherine%20visits%20the%20Garrs'%20farm,the%20murder%20of%20Vicky%20Fleming. | List of Happy Valley episodes | Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series created by Sally Wainwright and produced by Red Production Company. The first series of six episodes started airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2014. It was released on Netflix in the United States and Canada on 20 August 2014. A second six-episo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_Legislative_Assembly | Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly | The present state of Tamil Nadu is a residuary part of the erstwhile Madras Presidency and was formerly known as Madras State. The first legislature of any sort for the Presidency was the Madras Legislative Council, which was set up as a non-representative advisory body in 1861. In 1919, direct elections were introduce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten_Free_Ebola | Gluten Free Ebola | "Gluten Free Ebola" is the second episode in the eighteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 249th overall episode, it was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. The episode premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on October 1, 2014. The episode lampoons the tre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2203#:~:text=The%20YM2203%20and%20the%20rest,a%20programmable%20ADSR%20envelope%20generator. | Yamaha YM2203 | The YM2203, a.k.a. OPN (FM Operator Type-N), is a six-channel (3 FM and 3 SSG) sound chip developed by Yamaha. It was the progenitor of Yamaha's OPN family of FM synthesis chips used in many video game and computer systems throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. It was used in a variety of NEC computers, along with vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio#:~:text=In%201950%2C%20William%20Hammon%20at,blood%20plasma%20of%20polio%20survivors. | Polio | Poliomyelitis ( POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Coppola#:~:text=He%20and%20Ms.,married%20Raquel%20Palomeque%2C%20a%20pianist. | Horacio Coppola | Horacio Coppola (31 July 1906 – 18 June 2012) was an Argentine photographer and filmmaker, and the husband of the German photographer Grete Stern.
== Biography ==
Coppola was born in Buenos Aires, the youngest of 10 children. His parents, Italian immigrants, were well off, and he studied art, music, law and languages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Zelinsky | Wilbur Zelinsky | Wilbur Zelinsky (21 December 1921 – 4 May 2013) was an American cultural geographer. He was most recently a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. He also created the Zelinsky Model of Demographic Transition.
== Background and education ==
An Illinoisan by birth, but a "northeasterner by choice and conv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bleeker#:~:text=His%20work%20in%20ichthyology%20and,%3B%20Utrecht%20University%2C%201849). | Pieter Bleeker | Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877.
== Life and work ==
Bleeker was born on 10 July 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingda_Ka | Kingda Ka | Kingda Ka was a hydraulically launched steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, United States. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, Kingda Ka opened as the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world on May 21, 2005, surpassing Top Thrill Dragster. Althoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lo_Truglio | Joe Lo Truglio | Joe Lo Truglio ( loh-TROO-lyoh; born December 2, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. Best known for his role as Charles Boyle on the Fox/NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he also was a cast member on the television series The State and Reno 911!. His notable film roles include Wet Hot American Summer, I Love You, Man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrazySexyCool#Track_listing | CrazySexyCool | CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American girl group TLC, released on November 15, 1994, by LaFace and Arista Records. Following the group's record deal, they released their debut album Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip in 1992 to positive reviews and commercial success. The group began working on a follow-up in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Tate_(politician) | Joe Tate (politician) | Joseph Allen Tate (born December 13, 1980) is an American former professional football player and politician serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 2019, currently representing the 9th district. A member of the Democratic Party, Tate served as the 78th speaker of the Michigan House of Repres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(album) | The Last Unicorn (album) | The Last Unicorn is a 1982 soundtrack album composed and arranged by Jimmy Webb and performed by America with the London Symphony Orchestra. The album contains the film score for the 1982 film The Last Unicorn, based on the novel of the same name by Peter S. Beagle. The title track got some airplay in Germany, where it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_von_Eschscholtz | Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz | Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʔɛʃʃɔlts]; 1 November 1793 – 7 May 1831) was a Baltic German physician, naturalist, and entomologist. He was one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Pacific region, making significant collections of flora and fauna in Alaska,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamma_Mosque | Yamma Mosque | The Yaama Mosque (French: Mosquée de Yaama) is a mosque built in the indigenous Sudano-Sahelian architectural style, constructed in 1962 in Yaama, a village in Tahoua Region, Niger.
== Overview ==
Even after more than 60 years of French colonization that ended in 1960, the area is remarkably untouched by outside infl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directors_of_the_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art | List of directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art | The Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the director of the museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world. Its perman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting | Painting | Painting is a visual art, characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface. The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_UEFA_Champions_League#Knockout_phase | 2018–19 UEFA Champions League | The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League was the 64th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 27th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system was used in the competition from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Holt | Robert R. Holt | Robert Rutherford Holt (December 27, 1917 – April 10, 2024) was an American psychologist and peace activist who worked in psychoanalytic theory.
== Life and career ==
Robert Rutherford Holt was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on December 27, 1917. He graduated from The Hill School in 1935. He received a BA in 1939 fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Market | The Night Market | "The Night Market" is the fourth episode of the fourth 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 34th overall episode of the series and was written by co-producer William Meny and executive producer Paul Simms, and dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway | Cab Calloway | Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, songwriter and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His niche of mixing jazz and vaudeville won him acclaim during a career that spanned over 65 y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_Achyut_Badwe | Rajendra Achyut Badwe | Rajendra Achyut Badwe, is an Indian medical doctor and surgical oncologist. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2013, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of medicine. He is the former Director of Tata Memorial Centre, succeeded by Sudeep G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Luxon | Christopher Luxon | Christopher Mark Luxon (born 19 July 1970) is a New Zealand politician and businessman who has served as the 42nd prime minister of New Zealand since 2023. A member of the National Party, he has been member of Parliament (MP) for Botany since 2020 and previously served as leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2023. Pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Perceval | Spencer Perceval | Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor-general or attorney-general to have become pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones | The Flintstones | The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966 as the first animated series with a prime-time slot on television, as well as the first animated sitcom. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Marty_K%C3%A4lin | Barbara Marty Kälin | Barbara Marty Kälin (28 March 1954 – 27 November 2022) was a Swiss politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, she served in the National Council from 2000 to 2007.
Kälin died on 27 November 2022, at the age of 68.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Kapitsa | Pyotr Kapitsa | Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița; 9 July [O.S. 26 June] 1894 – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, whose research focused on low-temperature physics.
== Biography ==
Kapitsa was born in Kronstadt, Russian Empire, to the B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_French_Open_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_singles#Finals | 2020 French Open – Women's singles | Iga Świątek defeated Sofia Kenin in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2020 French Open. It was her first major title and first WTA Tour-level singles title overall. Ranked as the world No. 54, she was the lowest-ranked player to win the title since the WTA rankings were introduced in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram | Instagram | Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessenlied | Hessenlied | The Hessenlied (Song of Hesse) is the official anthem of the German state of Hesse. The text was written by Carl Preser (1828-1910), the melody was composed by Albrecht Brede (1834-1920).
== Lyrics ==
== Further reading ==
Angus M. Folder: Das erste bekannte Hessenlied – ein Ausdruck des patriotischen Gefühls in de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_Rohini_Satellite_Series | Stretched Rohini Satellite Series | The Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS) are a series of satellites developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation as follow ons to the Rohini Satellites for conducting astrophysics, Earth Remote Sensing, and upper atmospheric monitoring experiments as well as for new and novel application-oriented missions. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Villarroel#cite_note-:0-1 | Morris Villarroel | Morris Villarroel (born 1978 or 1979) is a Spanish professor of animal psychology at the Technical University of Madrid. He is also a lifelogger who, since 2010, has been writing what he is currently doing, his location, the food he has eaten, the time he wakes up and his ideas on paper notebooks at 15 to 30 minute int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCic%C3%A1n | Güicán | Güicán de la Sierra, also known as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Güicán, is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá. It is close to the national natural park El Cocuy National Park. As of the year 2020, it has a total population of 6,426.
== Etymology ==
The municipality was named after Güi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_of_Castile#Marriage | Joanna of Castile | Joanna of Castile (6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555), historically known as Joanna the Mad (Spanish: Juana la Loca), was the nominal queen of Castile from 1504 and queen of Aragon from 1516 to her death in 1555. She was the daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Joanna was married by ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_6_(Kunming_Metro) | Line 6 (Kunming Metro) | The Line 6 of the Kunming Metro (Chinese: 昆明轨道交通6号线; pinyin: Kūnmíng Guǐdào Jiāotōng Liù Hào Xiàn) also known as Airport line (Chinese: 机场线; pinyin: Jīchǎng Xiàn) is a rapid transit line that connects the Kunming Changshui International Airport with Kunming's urban center. The line is currently 25.3 kilometres (15.7 mi... |
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