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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama#Exhibition_list | 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/Svetlana_Alpers | Svetlana Alpers | Svetlana Leontief Alpers (née Leontief; born February 10, 1936) is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic. Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book The Art of Describing. She has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Bruegel, and Velázquez, among othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalas_Review | Dalas Review | Daniel José Santomé Lemus (born 31 October 1993), better known as Dalas Review or simply Dalas, is a Spanish YouTuber with 11 million subscribers on his main channel. He has also written two novels, Fugitives in Time (2016) and The Ink. Beyond the Magic (2017).
== Early life ==
Dalas is the first child of Juan Jose S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarigu%C3%ADes_Airport | Yariguíes Airport | Yariguíes Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Yariguíes, IATA: EJA, ICAO: SKEJ) is an airport serving Barrancabermeja, a city in the Santander Department of Colombia. The airport is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of the city.
The airport was renovated in 2013 at a cost of $13 million pesos. Colombian president Juan Manuel Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway#Personal_life | 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/Ludwig_Fischer_(bass) | Ludwig Fischer (bass) | Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer (c. 18 August 1745 – 10 July 1825), commonly called Ludwig Fischer, was a German opera singer, a notable bass of his time.
== Life ==
Ludwig Fischer was born in Mainz on 18 or 19 August 1745. Fischer began his musical studies not as a singer but with the violin and cello. When he was heard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lucci#Primetime_television,_stage,_hosting_and_film | Susan Lucci | Susan Victoria Lucci (born December 23, 1946) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children during that show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011. The character is considered an icon, and she was called "Daytime's Leading Lady" by TV Guide, with The New Y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birendra_of_Nepal | Birendra of Nepal | Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: श्री ५ महाराजाधिराज वीरेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव; 29 December 1945 – 1 June 2001) was King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001.
Birendra was the second son of King Mahendra and became crown prince on account of Mahendra's first son being born out of wedlock. He inher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Reed_Warner#Worcester_Reed_Warner_Medal | Worcester Reed Warner | Worcester Reed Warner (May 16, 1846 – June 25, 1929) was an American mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Ambrose Swasey he cofounded the Warner & Swasey Company.
== Biography ==
=== Life and career ===
Warner was born and grew up on a farm near Cummington, Massachusetts.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_A._Ferguson | Miriam A. Ferguson | Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson (née Wallace; June 13, 1875 – June 25, 1961) was an American politician who served two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Texas: from 1925 to 1927, and from 1933 to 1935. She was the first female governor of Texas, and the second woman elected to the governorship of any U.S. state to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Avakian | George Avakian | George Mesrop Avakian (Armenian: Ջորջ (Գևորգ) Ավագյան; Russian: Геворк Авакян; March 15, 1919 – November 22, 2017) was an American record producer, artist manager, writer, educator and executive. Best known for his work from 1939 to the early 1960s at Decca Records, Columbia Records, World Pacific Records, Warner Bros.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes | Gavin McInnes | Gavin Miles McInnes (; born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on his website, Compound Censored. He co-founded Vice magazine in 1996 and relocated to the United States in 2001. In 2016 he founded the P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hawton#:~:text=Mary%20Renetta%20Hawton,Keith%20Ernest%20Hawton. | Mary Hawton | Mary Renetta Hawton (née Bevis; 4 September 1924 – 18 January 1981) was a tennis player from Australia. Her career ranged from the 1940s to the 1950s.
Hawton won the women's doubles title at the Australian Championships five times. In 1958 she also won the mixed doubles title together with compatriot Robert Howe.
In 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Ra%C3%BAl_Alfons%C3%ADn | Presidency of Raúl Alfonsín | Raúl Alfonsín was the president of Argentina from 1983 to 1989.
== New beginning ==
Chief among Alfonsín's inherited problems was an economic depression stemming from the 1981–82 financial collapse and its resulting US$43 billion foreign debt, with interest payments that swallowed all of Argentina's US$3 billion tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Falcons#:~:text=During%20the%20following%20season%2C%20the,Cumbers%20%E2%80%94%20died%20in%20the%20war. | Winnipeg Falcons | The Winnipeg Falcons were a senior men's amateur ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Winnipeg Falcons won the 1920 Allan Cup. That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp, Belgium. There the Falcons, soundly beating all their opponents, won for Canada the first Olympic go... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godman-Salvin_Medal | Godman-Salvin Medal | The Godman-Salvin Medal is a medal of the British Ornithologists' Union awarded "to an individual as a signal honour for distinguished ornithological work." It was instituted in 1919 in the memory of Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin.
== Medallists ==
Medallists include:
== See also ==
Alfred Newton Lecture... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McKeen_Cattell | James McKeen Cattell | James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860 – January 20, 1944) was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was a long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, including Science, and served on the board of trustees for Scien... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaki_Tsuji#:~:text=On%20September%2024%2C%202008%2C%20Tsuji,Kobe%20for%20his%20writing%20work. | 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/Janet_Hubert#:~:text=After%20performing%20in%20the%20national,lived%20musical%20about%20Jackie%20Robinson. | Janet Hubert | Janet Louise Hubert (born January 13, 1956) is an American film and television actress and dancer. She is best known for playing the role of the original Vivian Banks on the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from its first season in 1990 until the end of its third season in 1993. Hubert was nominated for an NAACP Imag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#:~:text=During%20the%20spill%20response%20operations,zone%20over%20the%20operations%20area. | Deepwater Horizon oil spill | The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an environmental disaster beginning 20 April 2010 off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. It is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggs_%26_Stratton_Raptor#:~:text=Released%20in%201995%2C%20the%20third,Raptor%20III%2C%20had%20five%20horsepower. | Briggs & Stratton Raptor | The Briggs & Stratton Raptor series is a line of single-cylinder, four-cycle flathead engines. The series includes:
Raptor 1: an industrial-based 3-horsepower flathead Model 13 engine introduced in the early 1970s.
Raptor II: Released in the 1980s, it introduced the aluminum-bore dual-bearing block and had four horsep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_A._Prather_Award | 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/San_Mateo,_Boyac%C3%A1 | San Mateo, Boyacá | San Mateo is a town and municipality in the Northern Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre is located at an altitude of 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. San Mateo borders Guacamayas, Panqueba and El Cocuy in the east, Boavita in the west, Maca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolo_Akili | Yolo Akili | Yolo Akili (born October 14, 1981 as Michael Todd Robinson Jr), also known as Yolo Akili Robinson, is an activist, writer, poet, counselor, and community organizer who advocates for addressing mental and emotional health needs in the Black community. He is the author of Dear Universe: Letters of Affirmation and Empower... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragons%27_Den_(British_TV_programme)_offers_Series_11-20 | List of Dragons' Den (British TV programme) offers Series 11-20 | The following is a list of offers made on the British reality television series Dragons' Den in Series 11–20, aired during 2013–2023. 118 episodes were broadcast consisting of at least 893 pitches. A total of 182 pitches were successful, with 31 offers from the dragons rejected by the entrepreneurs and 680 failing to r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bure_Nangal | Bure Nangal | Bure Nangal is a village in Batala in Gurdaspur district of Punjab State, India. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
== Demography ==
As of 2011, the village has a total number of 211 houses and a population of 1171 of which 610 are males while 561 are females according ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adams_%28sculptor%29 | Robert Adams (sculptor) | Robert Adams (5 October 1917 – 5 April 1984) was an English sculptor and designer. Whilst not widely known outside of artistic circles, he was nonetheless regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. In a critical review of a retrospective mounted by the Gimpel Fils gallery in London in 1993, Brian Glas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Istanbul#:~:text=Lambda%20Istanbul%20is%20a%20Turkish,an%20official%20organization%20in%202006. | Lambda Istanbul | Lambda Istanbul is a Turkish LGBT organization. It was founded in 1993 as a cultural space for the LGBT community, and became an official organization in 2006. Clandestine Pride events were held in Turkey starting in 1993, and with Lambda Istanbul participation, they became public marches.
The organization was ordered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_C._Merle#:~:text=From%202019%20to%202021%2C%20Merle,law%20at%20Columbia%20Law%20School. | Natasha C. Merle | Natasha Clarise Merle (born 1983) is an American lawyer from New York who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
== Education ==
Merle received her Bachelor of Arts in government and Spanish, with honors, from the University of Texas at Austi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_d'Angoulême | Henri d'Angoulême | Henri de Valois, duc d'Angoulême (1551 – 2 June 1586, in Aix-en-Provence), sometimes called "Henri, bâtard de Valois" or "Henri de France", was a Légitimé de France, cleric, and military commander during the Wars of Religion.
== Biography ==
Henri was born the bastard son of Henri II of France and his mistress Janet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliviero_Diliberto | Oliviero Diliberto | Oliviero Diliberto (born 13 October 1956 in Cagliari) is an Italian politician. He has been leader of the Party of Italian Communists.
== Early life ==
Oliviero Diliberto was born in a family of public servants (his father Marco was employed as attorney in the Administration of the Region of Sardinia, his mother Lell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron_Prize#:~:text=1996%20Samuel%20Danishefsky | Tetrahedron Prize | The Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry is awarded annually by Elsevier, the publisher of Tetrahedron Publications. It was established in 1980 and named in honour of the founding co-chairmen of these publications, Professor Sir Robert Robinson and Professor Robert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehr_L%C3%B6fling#:~:text=He%20died%20in%20a%20remote,Linn%C3%A6us%20believed%20the%20loss%20irreparable. | Pehr Löfling | Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
== Biography ==
Löfling was born in Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taught by Carl Linnaeus. When the Spanish ambassador asked Linnaeus to select a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garvan%E2%80%93Olin_Medal#:~:text=1947%20Mary%20Lura%20Sherrill | Garvan–Olin Medal | The Francis P. Garvan–John M. Olin Medal, previously called the Francis P. Garvan Medal, is an annual award that recognizes distinguished scientific accomplishment, leadership and service to chemistry by women chemists. The Award is offered by the American Chemical Society (ACS), and consists of a cash prize (US$5,000)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Sisulu#:~:text=to%20December%202017.-,Born%20in%20Soweto%2C,-Sisulu%20is%20the | 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/Masaki_Tsuji | 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/Els_Aarne | Els Aarne | Elze Janovna Paemurru (30 March 1917 – 14 June 1995), pseudonymously known as Els Aarne, was an Estonian composer, pianist and pedagogue, primarily during the Soviet Union.
== Life and career ==
Elze Janovna Paemurru was born as on 30 March 1917 in Makiivka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine); her pseudonym was Els Aarne.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkin_Prize_for_Organic_Chemistry#:~:text=2017%3A%20David%20A.%20Leigh | Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry | The Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry is a prestigious award established in 2008 by the Royal Society of Chemistry for sustained originality and achievement in research in any area of organic chemistry.
The prize is named after Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), inventor of the first aniline dye, and is awarded on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_centers_and_institutes#Michelle_R._Clayman_Institute_for_Gender_Research | Stanford University centers and institutes | Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or sem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics | Sweden at the 1956 Summer Olympics | Sweden competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. Instead, those events were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden.
97 competitors, 83 men and 14 women, took part in 74 events in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer | Emerald ash borer | The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), also known by the abbreviation EAB, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species (Fraxinus spp.). Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in one to two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dekkers | Rudi Dekkers | Rudi Dekkers (July 27, 1956 – April 11, 2024) was a Dutch businessman and convicted drug trafficker. The former owner of Huffman Aviation (a flight school in Venice, Florida), he became the subject of worldwide attention after the September 11 attacks when it was revealed Dekkers had trained two of the hijackers—Mohame... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Abdelaziz_Dja%C3%AFt | Mohamed Abdelaziz Djaït | Mohamed Abdelaziz Dja'it (1886–1970) (Arabic: محمد عبد العزيز جعيط) was an Islamic scholar who served as Mufti of the Republic of Tunisia from 1957 to 1960.
== Historical significance ==
In the early period of Tunisian independence, Tunisia's first President, Habib Bourguiba, compared the new Code of Personal Status,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Derby-Lewis | Clive Derby-Lewis | Clive John Derby-Lewis (22 January 1936 – 3 November 2016) was a South African politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a member of parliament, in the Conservative Party. In 1993, he was convicted of conspiracy to murder South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani and sent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabye_(song) | Rockabye (song) | "Rockabye" is a song by British electronic group Clean Bandit featuring Jamaican dancehall musician Sean Paul and English singer Anne-Marie. It was released on 21 October 2016 and was their first single since Neil Amin-Smith's departure from the group and it serves as the lead single from their second studio album, Wha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove_Coaster | Groove Coaster | Groove Coaster (Japanese: グルーヴコースター, Hepburn: Gurūvu Kōsutā) is a series of iOS / Android and arcade rhythm game franchise developed by Matrix Software and published by Taito. The first Groove Coaster was released for iOS on July 28, 2011. This rhythm game follows a roller coaster type track on screen, where players ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_(typeface) | Allegro (typeface) | Allegro is a serif typeface intended for display use. It was designed by Hans Bohn for the Ludwig & Mayer type foundry of Frankfurt, and released in 1936.
Allegro is inspired by the Didone style dating from around the start of the nineteenth century onwards, that emphasised alternation of very thick and very thin strok... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002 | Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 | The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, informally known as the Iraq Resolution, is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No. 107-243, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's Iraq government in wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%ADquiza | Chíquiza | Chíquiza (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃiˈkisa]) is a town and municipality in the Central Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian Department of Boyacá. Chíquiza was called San Pedro de Iguaque until July 17, 2003, when the name was changed to Chíquiza. The municipality is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWQB | WWQB | WWQB (102.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Westwood, Kentucky. The station is owned by Serge Martin Enterprises, Inc., and airs a classic hits format, as a simulcast of sister station WMXE in Charleston, West Virginia.
The station was assigned the WWQB call letters by the Federal Communicatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doab#The_Doab | Doab | Doab (English: ) is a term used in South Asia for the tract of land lying between two confluent rivers. It is similar to an interfluve. In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, R. S. McGregor refers to its Persian origin in defining it as do-āb (دوآب, literally "two [bodies of] water") "a region lying between and reac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_D%C3%ADaz_Jr. | Manny Díaz Jr. | Manny Díaz Jr. (born March 2, 1973) is an American politician who is currently serving as the president of the University of West Florida. Díaz served as the 28th education commissioner of Florida from 2022-2025. A Republican, Díaz was a member of the Florida Senate from 2018 to 2022, representing the 36th district, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Uttarakhand_avalanche | 2022 Uttarakhand avalanche | On 4 October 2022, an avalanche at the Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand, India killed 27 mountaineers in the Advanced Mountaineering Course of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. The death toll makes this the worst mountaineering disaster recorded in India. 24 of the bodies were of trainee mountaineers and 2 we... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboletes | Arboletes | Arboletes is a town and municipality in the subregion of Urabá in Antioquia Department, Colombia.
The municipality is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north, the department of Córdoba to the north and east, the municipality of San Pedro de Urabá to the south and west, and the municipalities of Turbo and Necoclí. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ange_Postecoglou#Brisbane_Roar | Ange Postecoglou | Angelos Postecoglou ( ANJ POS-tə-KOG-loo; born 27 August 1965) is a soccer manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Premier League club Nottingham Forest.
Born in Greece, Postecoglou grew up in Melbourne from the age of five. As a player, he spent most of his club career as a defender for South... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paya,_Boyac%C3%A1 | Paya, Boyacá | Paya is a town and municipality in the La Libertad Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. Paya limits Pisba, Labranzagrande of Boyacá and Támara, Nunchía and Yopal (Casanare).
== Etymology ==
Paya in Chibcha means "People of hope".
== History ==
Before the Spanish conquest in the 1530s, Paya was inha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Crowe_(diplomat) | Christopher Crowe (diplomat) | Christopher Crowe (c. 1681 – 9 November 1749) was an English consul and landowner.
In 1705, aged 24, Crowe was appointed English Consul at Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was awarded the "lucrative" contract to supply the British Mediterranean fleet with wine and olive oil during the War of the Spanish Succession,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmar-Salzbr%C3%BCcke | Dolmar-Salzbrücke | Dolmar-Salzbrücke is a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany. The seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft is in Schwarza. It was formed on 1 January 2012 from the former Verwaltungsgemeinschaften Dolmar and Salzbrücke.
The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University,_East_Bay#:~:text=Founded%20in%201957%2C%20California%20State,were%20on%20the%20tenure%20track. | California State University, East Bay | California State University, East Bay (Cal State East Bay, CSU East Bay, or CSUEB) is a public university in Hayward, California. The university is part of the California State University system and offers 136 undergraduate and 60 post-baccalaureate areas of study. Founded in 1957, California State University, East Bay... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_state_animals | List of Indian state animals | India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. All Indian states and some of the union territories have their own elected government and the union territories come under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. India has its own national symbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli | Kathleen Antonelli | Kathleen Rita Antonelli (née McNulty; formerly Mauchly;
12 February 1921 – 20 April 2006), known as Kay McNulty, was an Irish computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers. The other five ENIAC programmers were Betty Holberton, R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J0952%E2%80%930607#:~:text=PSR%20J0952%E2%80%930607%20is%20a,Earth%20in%20the%20constellation%20Sextans. | PSR J0952–0607 | PSR J0952−0607 is a massive millisecond pulsar in a binary system, located between 3,200–5,700 light-years (970–1,740 pc) from Earth in the constellation Sextans. As of 2022, it holds the record for being the most massive neutron star known, with a mass 2.35±0.17 times that of the Sun—potentially close to the Tolman–Op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Morrison_(politician)#:~:text=4%20References-,Early%20life,D.C.%2C%20Bangkok%20and%20Kuala%20Lumpur. | Bill Morrison (politician) | William Lawrence Morrison (3 November 1928 – 15 February 2013) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and held ministerial office in the Whitlam government as Minister for External Territories (1972–1973), Science (1972–1975), and Defence (1975). He had been a me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamy_Awards#:~:text=The%2011th%20Streamy%20Awards%20were,party%20bus%20around%20Los%20Angeles. | Streamy Awards | The YouTube Streamy Awards, also known as the Streamy Awards or Streamys, are an awards show presented annually by Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter to recognize excellence in online video, including directing, acting, producing, and writing. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented takes place in Los ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows_(TV_series)#Season_2_(2020) | What We Do in the Shadows (TV series) | What We Do in the Shadows is an American comedy horror mockumentary fantasy television series created by Jemaine Clement, first broadcast on FX on March 27, 2019, until concluding its run with the end of its sixth season on December 16, 2024. Based on the 2014 New Zealand film written and directed by Clement and Taika ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu | Baidu | Baidu, Inc. ( BY-doo; Chinese: 百度; pinyin: Bǎidù; lit. 'hundred times') is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of other internet services suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke | Edmund Burke | Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke spent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer#:~:text=He%20found%20the%20beetle%20in,Revue%20d'Entomologie%20in%201888. | Emerald ash borer | The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), also known by the abbreviation EAB, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species (Fraxinus spp.). Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in one to two... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Nirajan_of_Nepal | Prince Nirajan of Nepal | Prince Nirajan Bir Bikram Shah Dev (Nepali: निराजन बीर विक्रम शाह; 6 November 1978 – 1 June 2001) was a prince of Nepal, the younger son of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya of Nepal. He and his parents were killed during the 1 June 2001 Nepalese royal massacre.
== Education and interests ==
He was educated at Budhan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanhope,_1st_Baron_Stanhope#:~:text=He%20later%20sat%20for%20Northamptonshire,as%20Baron%20Stanhope%2C%20of%20Harrington. | John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope | John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope (1545 – 9 March 1621) was an English courtier, politician and peer.
== Life ==
He was the third son of Sir Michael Stanhope, born in Yorkshire, but brought up in Nottinghamshire after his father's attainder for treason in 1552. His father's end did not apparently hinder his own caree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge#Sculpture | William Kentridge | William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#:~:text=The%20first%20successful%20launch%20of%20the%20Ariane%205ECA%20took%20place%20on%2012%20February%202005. | Ariane 5 | Ariane 5 is a retired European heavy-lift space launch vehicle operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was launched from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana. It was used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), low Earth orbit (LEO) or further into space. The launc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_Enforcement_Program | Priority Enforcement Program | The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP, sometimes also called PEP-COMM, PEP-Comm, or Pep-Comm) is a program by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States, under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). PEP was an ICE prog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Neveu | Jacques Neveu | Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu (14 November 1932 – 17 May 2016) was a Belgian (and then French) mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics.
== Education and career ==
Jacques Neveu received in 1955 from the Sorbonne his docto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician) | Prince (musician) | Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and actor. Often credited as an influence on music and one of the greatest musicians of his era, he pioneered the Minneapolis sound and was influential in the evolution of various other genres of music.
Born and r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer | Ozone layer | The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. It contains a high concentration of ozone (O3) in relation to other parts of the atmosphere, although still small in relation to other gases in the stratosphere. The ozone layer peaks at 8 to 15 par... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_B_(Buenos_Aires_Underground)#:~:text=The%20first%20section%20between%20Federico,extended%20to%20Carlos%20Pellegrini%20station. | Line B (Buenos Aires Underground) | Line B of the Buenos Aires Underground runs 11.75 kilometres (7.30 mi) from Leandro N. Alem to Juan Manuel de Rosas in Villa Urquiza. Line B opened to the public on 17 October 1930.
In recent years, it has held the title of being the most used line of the Buenos Aires Underground, and its patronage has increased even m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad_Kashmir_Plebiscite_Front | Azad Kashmir Plebiscite Front | The Plebiscite Front in Azad Kashmir, also called Mahaz-i-Raishumari, was founded by Amanullah Khan in collaboration with Abdul Khaliq Ansari
and Maqbool Bhat in 1965. The organisation had an unofficial armed wing called National Liberation Front, which carried out sabotage activities in Jammu and Kashmir as well as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vernon_the_Younger | James Vernon the Younger | James Vernon the Younger (15 June 1677 – 17 April 1756) was a British government official, courtier, diplomat and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. He was an envoy to Denmark from 1702 to 1707.
== Early life ==
Vernon was the eldest son of James Vernon and his wife Mary Buck, daughter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_Cup_(auto_racing) | Gordon Bennett Cup (auto racing) | In automobile racing, the Gordon Bennett Cup was an annual competition which ran from 1900 to 1905. It was one of three Gordon Bennett Cups established by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., millionaire owner of the New York Herald.
In 1899, Gordon Bennett offered the Automobile Club de France (ACF) a trophy to be raced for ann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bure_Nangal#:~:text=As%20of%202011%2C%20The%20village,by%20Census%20India%20in%202011. | Bure Nangal | Bure Nangal is a village in Batala in Gurdaspur district of Punjab State, India. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
== Demography ==
As of 2011, the village has a total number of 211 houses and a population of 1171 of which 610 are males while 561 are females according ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Zanetti | Javier Zanetti | Javier Adelmar Zanetti (Spanish: [xaˈβjeɾ aðelˈmaɾ saˈneti], Italian: [dzaˈnetti]; born 10 August 1973) is an Argentine former professional footballer. He spent almost his entire career at Inter Milan, having a key role in the treble-winning 2009–10 season. Zanetti was known for his versatility as well as his adeptness... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Charleson_Hedge#:~:text=Ian%20Charleson%20Hedge%20(18%20August,flora%20of%20south%2Dwest%20Asia. | 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/Ajaz_Ahmed_Khan#:~:text=Aijaz%20Ahmad%20Khan%20popularly%20known,Assembly%20from%20Gool%20Arnas%20constituency. | Ajaz Ahmed Khan | Aijaz Ahmad Khan, popularly known as Sher-e-Gool Gulabgarh, is an Indian politician and was a member of the 10th, 11th and 12th Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from Gool Arnas constituency. He served as Minister of various portfolios from 2002 to 2014 in Jammu and Kashmir Govt under the Chief Ministership of Muf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Neshat | Shirin Neshat | Shirin Neshat (Persian: شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957) is an Iranian photographer and visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Teng-hui#:~:text=Nicknamed%20%22Mr.,who%20completed%20Taiwan's%20democratic%20transition.&text=After%20leaving%20office%2C%20he%20remained,the%20party%20in%20the%20past. | Lee Teng-hui | Lee Teng-hui (Chinese: 李登輝; pinyin: Lǐ Dēnghuī; 15 January 1923 – 30 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman, economist, and agronomist who served as the president of the Republic of China and chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in Taiwan, the last to be indirectly elected, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#:~:text=He%20briefly%20taught%20at%20Pearsall,Houston%20High%20School%20in%20Houston. | 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/Dollywood | 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/Dolly_(sheep) | Dolly (sheep) | Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland. Her cloning proved that a cloned organi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glipa_angustilineata | Glipa angustilineata | Glipa angustilineata is a species of beetle in the genus Glipa. It was described in 1993.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asim_Ahmed_Khan | Asim Ahmed Khan | Asim Ahmed Khan is an Indian politician (Delhi State), and former minister of Food and Civil Supply, Environment and Forest, Minority Affairs and Election in the Delhi government. He was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and represented Matia Mahal (Assembly constituency) in the 6th Delhi Assembly.
He left the AAP ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Insecticide,_Fungicide,_and_Rodenticide_Act | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act | The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment. It is administered and regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the appropriate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Polanyi | Karl Polanyi | Karl Paul Polanyi (; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.
In his writings, Pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_VZ-8_Airgeep#:~:text=The%20AirGeep%20II's%20first%20flight,to%20be%20stable%20in%20flight. | Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep | The Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep (company designation PA-59) was a prototype vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft developed by Piasecki Aircraft. The Airgeep was developed to fulfill a U.S. Army Transportation Research Command contract for a flying jeep in 1957. The flying jeep was envisioned to be smaller and easier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monir_Shahroudy_Farmanfarmaian | Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian | Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Persian: منیر شاهرودی فرمانفرمائیان; 13 January 1922 – 20 April 2019) was an Iranian artist and a collector of traditional folk art. She is noted for having been one of the most prominent Iranian artists of the contemporary period, and she was the first artist to achieve an artistic prac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basanti_Dulal_Nagchaudhuri | Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri | Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an Indian Nuclear scientist and academic, and Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India. While serving as the Director General (chairman) to the Defence Research and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Juno#Juno_M80/M85 | Honda Juno | The Honda Juno is a scooter. Two versions were produced, the K-series of 1954 (K, KA, KB), and the M-series of 1962 (M80, M85).
== Juno K ==
The Juno K was a deliberately elaborate bike in 1954. It was Honda's first scooter and would be competing with the well established Fuji Rabbit and Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon. It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis | Space Shuttle Atlantis | Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Hemingway | Gloria Hemingway | Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 – October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway. Although she was born male and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._V._Grant#Tax_evasion | W. V. Grant | Walter Vinson Grant Jr. (born May 25, 1945) is an American televangelist whose ministry has been based in the Greater Dallas area.
== Career ==
Grant began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the mid-1970s with the "Cathedral of Compassion" in the Over-the-Rhine area of Cincinnati before relocating to the suburbs of S... |
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