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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkin_Prize_for_Organic_Chemistry#:~:text=2013%3A%20Varinder%20Aggarwal | 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/Sativasur#:~:text=Sativasur%20was%20properly%20founded%20on,%22Captain%20of%20the%20Sun%22. | Sativasur | Sativasur is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Northern Boyacá Province. It is approximately 132 km from Tunja, the capital of the department. Sativasur borders the municipalities Sativanorte in the north, Socotá in the east and Paz de Río in the south and west.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starr_Andrews | Starr Andrews | Starr Andrews (born June 23, 2001) is an American figure skater. She is the 2022 Skate Canada International silver medalist, 2019 International Challenge Cup silver medalist, 2019 Egna Trophy silver medalist, and finished fourth at the 2023 U.S. Nationals. She has finished in the top ten at three ISU Championships and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Atlantic_University | Pan-Atlantic University | Pan-Atlantic University is a private, non-profit educational institution in Lekki, Lagos State.
== Timeline ==
The university had its origin as the Lagos Business School (LBS), established in 1991. The federal government approved the university as Pan-African University in 2002, and the LBS became its first school. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallah_Mar | 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/Wynne_Neilly#:~:text=In%202015%2C%20Neilly%20was%20the,hosted%20by%20the%20Magenta%20Foundation.&text=Elliot%20Page%20requested%20that%20Neilly,photographer%20who%20was%20also%20transgender. | Wynne Neilly | Wynne Neilly (born 1990) is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Toronto, focused on photographing queer and transgender people.
== Life ==
Neilly attended the Image Arts program at Ryerson University, graduating in 2012. He began creating works of portraiture in the early 2010s. He is based in Toronto.
Neilly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Gateshead_Fell#:~:text=It%20replaced%20an%20organ%20made,Aidan's%20Church%2C%20Blackhill%2C%20Consett. | St John's Church, Gateshead Fell | St John's Church, Gateshead Fell, is in Church Road, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Gateshead, the archdeaconry of Sunderland, and the diocese of Durham. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Ishaq_Khan | Ghulam Ishaq Khan | Ghulam Ishaq Khan (20 January 1915 – 27 October 2006), commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as chairman of the Senate from 1985 to 1988 under president Zia-ul-Haq, and assumed the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rubiano_S%C3%A1enz | Pedro Rubiano Sáenz | Pedro Rubiano Sáenz (Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo ru'βjano 'saens]; 13 September 1932 – 15 April 2024) was a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Bogotá from 1995 to 2010. He was Bishop of Cúcuta from 1972 to 1983, and Archbishop of Cali from 1985 to 1994 after two years as coadjutor there. Pope John Paul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park#History | Sequoia National Park | Sequoia National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects 404,064 acres (631 sq mi; 163,519 ha; 1,635 km2) of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Crane_Award_for_Distinguished_Service | Penny Crane Award for Distinguished Service | The Penny Crane Award for Distinguished Service is an award issued by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services. It was established in 2000 to recognise individuals who have made significant contributions to the Special Interest Group, and to computing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Miller_(actor)#:~:text=In%20March%202018%2C%20for%20his,nomination%20for%20Outstanding%20Lead%20Actor. | Billy Miller (actor) | William John Miller II (September 17, 1979 – September 15, 2023) was an American actor. He was recognized for his work on American soap operas, including his award-winning work as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless and his dual portrayals of Jason Morgan and Drew Cain on General Hospital.
== Early life and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spencer,_Baroness_Hunsdon#:~:text=She%20had%20three%20brothers%2C%20Sir,Katherine%20Spencer%2C%20and%20Alice%20Spencer. | Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon | Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon (29 June 1552 – 25 February 1618) was an English noblewoman, scholar, and patron of the arts. She was the inspiration for Edmund Spenser's Muiopotmos, was commemorated in one of the poet's dedicatory sonnets to The Faerie Queene, and was represented as "Phyllis" in the latter's pasto... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Gracia_Beery_Mack#:~:text=Mack%20was%20prolific%20in%20publications,American%20Home%20Economics%20Association%2C%201942) | Pauline Gracia Beery Mack | Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (December 19, 1891 – October 22, 1974) was an American chemist, home economist, and college administrator. Her research in calcium, nutrition, radiation, and bone density began during the 1930s, and culminated in work for NASA when she was in her seventies.
== Early life and education ==
Pau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mitchell_(actor) | Benjamin Mitchell (actor) | Benjamin Mitchell (born 7 July 1979), is
a New Zealand actor best known for his role as Dr. TK Samuels in the soap opera Shortland Street.
== Biography ==
Mitchell was born and raised in Hamilton. He is the oldest of three children, and left home at 15.
He is of Māori descent, of Tainui iwi (tribe). He attended secon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Anderssen | Adolf Anderssen | Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879) was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Accordingly, he is generally regarded as having been the world's leading chess player from 1851 to 18... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Powell_(stunt_performer) | Joe Powell (stunt performer) | Joe Powell (21 March 1922 – 30 June 2016) was an English stuntman and actor. He was known as the "daddy of British stuntmen".
== Early life and career ==
Powell was born in Shepherd's Bush, London.
He joined the British Army and served in the 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers Cadet Corps. He enjoyed soldiering, and soon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Senate_of_Pakistan | Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan | The chairman of the Senate of Pakistan (Urdu: صدر ایوانِ بالا, romanized: s̤adr-e Aiwān-e-Bālā) is the president-chair of the Senate of Pakistan. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the chairman is a presiding official and the Senate must choose a chairman and deputy chairman for a time interval of three years.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopurinol | Allopurinol | Allopurinol is a medication used to decrease high blood uric acid levels. It is specifically used to prevent gout, prevent specific types of kidney stones and for the high uric acid levels that can occur with chemotherapy. It is taken orally (by mouth) or intravenously (injected into a vein).
Common side effects when u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Biswas_(politician)#:~:text=He%20died%20on%2026%20March,wife%20Gita%20and%20daughter%20Ajanta. | Anil Biswas (politician) | Anil Biswas (2 March 1944 – 26 March 2006), often referred to as Keru, was an Indian communist politician. He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and member of the party's politburo beginning in 1998 until his death in 2006.
== Early life ==
Biswas born in a midd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_Wars#2011 | The Civil Wars | The Civil Wars were an American musical duo composed of Joy Williams and John Paul White. Formed in 2008, their style blended folk, country, and Americana, characterized by haunting harmonies and poignant lyrics.
The duo gained recognition with their debut album Barton Hollow in 2011, which won two Grammy Awards. Their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochiquito_Volcanic_Group | Cochiquito Volcanic Group | The Cochiquito Volcanic Group is a small volcanic group of volcanoes north of the town of Buta Ranquil in Argentina. The main peak is Volcán Cochiquito, a stratovolcano of estimated Pleistocene–Holocene age. There are eight satellite cones in the volcanic field, including Volcán Sillanegra (a pyroclastic cone complex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Sisulu#:~:text=9%20External%20links-,Early%20life,Zwelakhe%2C%20Lindiwe%2C%20and%20Nonkululeko. | 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/Mersin_Province | Mersin Province | Mersin Province (Turkish: Mersin ili), formerly İçel Province (İçel ili), is a province and metropolitan municipality in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. Its area is 16,010 km2, and its population is 1,916,432 (2022). The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Shpiller | Natalia Shpiller | Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, sometimes spelled Natalia Spiller, Natalya Shpiller, Natalʹja Špiller, or Natalʹia Shpiller, (Russian: Ната́лья Дми́триевна Шпи́ллер, Ukrainian: Ната́лія Дми́трівна Шпі́ллер; 7 September 1909 – 20 July 1995) was a Soviet lyric soprano of Czech ethnicity who was a leading opera singer at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_for_Industry_-_Derek_Birchall_Award | Materials for Industry - Derek Birchall Award | The Materials for Industry – Derek Birchall Award is awarded biennially to an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to the application of materials chemistry in industry. The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent committee consisting of experts from both the Materials Chemistry Division (MCD)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_(Miranda_Lambert_album)#Release_and_promotion | Platinum (Miranda Lambert album) | Platinum is the fifth studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Miranda Lambert. It was released on June 3, 2014, by RCA Nashville.
Lambert wrote or co-wrote eight of the album's 16 tracks while working with a host of session musicians and songwriters, as well as guest performers Little Big Town, The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Kufuor#:~:text=to%20child%20transmission.-,Death,at%20the%20age%20of%2087. | Theresa Kufuor | Theresa Aba Kufuor (née Mensah; 25 October 1935 – 1 October 2023) was the wife of John Kufuor, the second President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, and First Lady of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. She was a nurse and midwife.
== Early life and education ==
Kufuor, the youngest child in her family, was born Theresa Mensah ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_National_Open_University#Convocations_in_the_past | Indira Gandhi National Open University | Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is a public open and distance learning university located in Delhi, India. Named after the former prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of ₹20 million, after the Parliament of India passed the Indira Gandhi National Op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gqabi#:~:text=In%201976%20he%20became%20co%2Dchairman%2C%20with%20Martin%20Ramokgadi%2C%20of%20the%20clandestine%20ANC%20organisation%20in%20Johannesburg%2C%20known%20as%20the%20Main%20Machinery | Joe Gqabi | Joe Nzingo Gqabi (6 April 1929 – 31 July 1981) was a South African African National Congress activist who was the ANC's chief representative in Zimbabwe at the time of his assassination by the South African Defence Force in Harare (then Salisbury), Zimbabwe, in 1981.
== Early life ==
Gqabi was born on 6 April 1929 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Ali#Television_work | Laila Ali | Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an American television personality and retired professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007. During her career, from which she retired undefeated, she held the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA female super middleweight titles, and the IWBF light heavyweight title. Ali is widely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jeffersons#:~:text=Bentley%20also%20had%20a%20bad,J%22. | The Jeffersons | The Jeffersons is an American sitcom television series created by Norman Lear, which aired on CBS from January 18, 1975, to July 2, 1985, lasting eleven seasons and 253 total episodes. Starring Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley, the show revolved around a prosperous African-American couple who live in a high-rise apar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Clare_Adams#:~:text=She%20graduated%20with%20a%20BS,University%20of%20Colorado%20in%201979. | Jeanne Clare Adams | Jeanne Clare Adams (June 15, 1921 – April 21, 2007) was an American computer scientist. She was Chairman of the ANSI X3J3 Fortran Standards Committee that "developed the controversial Fortran 8X proposal".
She graduated with a BS in economics from the University of Michigan in 1943, and an MS in telecommunications and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterolophia_exigua | Pterolophia exigua | Pterolophia exigua is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1938.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Edward_Gibbon | Cecil Edward Gibbon | Cecil Edward Gibbon (Urdu: سیسل ایڈورڈ گبن) was a Pakistani politician who served as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1955 to 1958.
== Early life and education ==
Gibbon was born in 1906 in Allahabad, British India, to an Anglo-Indian family and received his education at St. Joseph's Colle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umesh_Reddy | Umesh Reddy | Umesh Reddy (born 1969) is a serial killer and serial rapist from India. He confessed to killing 18 women, and was convicted in 9 cases. The police believe that he raped at least 20 women in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. They also suspect that several of his crimes have not been reported, because th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_French_presidential_election | 1958 French presidential election | The 1958 French presidential election was the first held under the French Fifth Republic, on 21 December. It was the sole presidential election by electoral college (gathering the members of the French Parliament, the general councils, the overseas assemblies, as well as tens of thousands of mayors, deputy mayors and m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Parker#Honours_and_recognition | Cornelia Parker | Cornelia Ann Parker (born 14 July 1956) is an English visual artist, best known for her sculpture and installation art.
== Life and career ==
Parker was born in 1956 in Cheshire, England. Her childhood with a mentally fragile mother and a violent father had a strong influence on her. Her German mother was a nurse in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macanal | Macanal | Macanal is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Neira Province. The urban centre is located in the Tenza Valley in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at an elevation of 1,680.3 metres (5,513 ft) but parts of the municipality reach elevations of 2,500 metres ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_(TV_series) | The Bear (TV series) | The Bear is an American comedy-drama series created by Christopher Storer for FX on Hulu. Jeremy Allen White stars as Carmy Berzatto, an award-winning chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to manage the chaotic kitchen at his deceased brother's Italian beef sandwich shop. The regular cast includes Ebon Moss-Bachr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Smith | Kiki Smith | Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954) is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anant_Geete# | Anant Geete | Anant Gangaram Geete (born 2 June 1951) is an Indian politician and was the Union Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Sector Enterprises during 2014 - 2019 in Narendra Modi cabinet. He is also a former Union Cabinet Minister for Power (Aug 2002 to May 2004). He is a member of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasahe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glipa_alboscutellata | Glipa alboscutellata | Glipa alboscutellata is a species of beetle in the genus Glipa. It was described in 1934.
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Critical_Role_episodes | List of Critical Role episodes | Critical Role episodes split by campaign and then by year, as well as one-shot episodes.
== Series overview ==
== Campaigns ==
=== Campaign one (2015–2017) ===
The Vox Machina campaign originated as the home game of the cast, played from 2012 to 2017; the show begins in medias res with the characters regrouping ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Theatre#:~:text=The%20orchestra%20level%20consisted%20of,theatre's%20full%20capacity%20to%201%2C421. | Hanna Theatre | The Hanna Theatre is a theater at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is one of the original five venues built in the district, opening on March 28, 1921. The Hanna Theatre reopened in 2008 as the new home of Great Lakes Theater Festival after a major renovation by the classic theater compa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico | University of Puerto Rico | The University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico; often shortened to UPR) is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 44,200 students and approximately 4,450 faculty members. UPR has the largest a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soat%C3%A1 | Soatá | Soatá is a town and municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia. Soatá is located on the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental mountain range, at the northeast end of the Department of Boyacá. It is the capital of the Northern Boyacá Province. Soatá borders Boavita in the east, Tipacoque in the north, Susacón in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Island | Gough Island | Gough Island ( GOF), also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Tristan da Cunha and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. It is approximately 400 km (250 mi) south-east of the Tristan da Cu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge | 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/Anna_Netrebko | Anna Netrebko | Anna Yuryevna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко; born 18 September 1971) is a Russian operatic soprano who has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera and La Scala.
Discovered and promoted by Valery Gergiev, she began her career at the Mariinsky Theatre, collab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tortoise | Black Tortoise | The Black Tortoise is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It is usually depicted as a tortoise intertwined with a snake.
According to Eastern Han philologist Xu Shen, the character 武 (wǔ) meant 士 (shì "knight") in the Jianghuai dialect. So the English translation Black ~ Dark ~ Mysterious Warrior i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91_Aegina | 91 Aegina | 91 Aegina (from Latin Aegīna, Aegīnēta) is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan on 4 November 1866. It was his second and final asteroid discovery. The first was 89 Julia. The asteroid's name comes from Aegina, a Greek mythological figure associated with the isla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stanhope,_1st_Baron_Stanhope | 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/Supreme_Court_of_Justice_of_Bolivia | Supreme Court of Justice of Bolivia | The Supreme Court of Bolivia (Spanish: Corte Suprema de Justicia de Bolivia) was Bolivia's highest court from 1825 to 2012. It was located in Sucre, 410 kilometres to the south-east of La Paz, Bolivia's capital. The Court was created by the Supreme Decree (Decreto Supremo) of April 27, 1825, which transformed the Royal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Fonzi | Dolores Fonzi | Dolores María Fonzi (born 19 July 1978) is an Argentine television, theatre and film actress. Several of her films have received critical acclaim such as Burnt Money (2000), Waiting for the Messiah (2000), Bottom of the Sea (2003), The Aura (2005), and Paulina (2015).
In 2023, she marked her directorial debut with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chief_justices_of_India#List_of_Chief_Justices_of_India | List of chief justices of India | The chief justice of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In accordanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothair_I | 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/Cindy_Sherman | Cindy Sherman | Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collection Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbury | Lesbury | Lesbury is a small rural village in Northumberland in the north of England. It is built on the main coastal road 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Alnwick, on the north bank of the River Aln. Alnmouth railway station is about half a mile away.
== History ==
The village has a long history. The Anglican Church of St Mary... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiography#History | Radiography | Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays, gamma rays, or similar ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation to view the internal form of an object. Applications of radiography include medical ("diagnostic" radiography and "therapeutic radiography") and industrial radiography. Similar techniques are used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ryder_(engraver)#:~:text=Thomas%20Ryder%20(1746%E2%80%931810),Artists%20in%201766%20and%201767. | 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/Fencing_at_the_1964_Summer_Olympics#:~:text=A%20total%20of%20259%20fencers,Argentina%20(11) | Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics | At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.
== Medal summary ==
=== Men's events ===
=== Women's events ===
== Medal table ==
==... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousseeuw_Prize_for_Statistics | Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics | The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards innovations in statistical research with impact on society. This biennial prize is awarded in even years, and consists of a medal, a certificate, and a monetary reward of US$1,000,000, similar to the Nobel Prize in other disciplines. The home institution of the Prize is the Kin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Betts | Winifred Betts | Mary Winifred Aitken (née Betts; 11 May 1894 – 29 April 1971) was a New Zealand botanist. She was the first female lecturer at the University of Otago.
== Biography ==
Born in Nelson on 11 May 1894, Betts was the daughter of printer and stationer Alfred George Betts and Ada Betts (née Grindley). Known to friends as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_Cup | Hessian Cup | The Hesse Cup (German: Hessenpokal) is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup.
== History ==
The Cup was established in 1945, after the end of the Second World War, in the state of Hessen, which then was part of the US... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-affirming_surgery | Gender-affirming surgery | Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their gender identity. The phrase is most often associated with transgender health care, though many such treatments are also pursued b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cullen,_Lord_Pentland | Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland | Paul Benedict Cullen, Lord Pentland, (born 11 March 1957) is the current Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, the most senior judge in Scotland. He is a former Solicitor General for Scotland, Senator of the College of Justice and Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission.
== Early life ==
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlotta_Gall#Publication_and_documentary | Carlotta Gall | Carlotta Gall is a British journalist and author who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for The New York Times for twelve years. She was also their Istanbul bureau chief covering Turkey and now covers the war in Ukraine.
== Career ==
Daughter of veteran Scottish journalist Sandy Gall, Carlotta Gall started her newspape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axitinib | Axitinib | Axitinib, sold under the brand name Inlyta, is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor developed by Pfizer. It has been shown to significantly inhibit growth of breast cancer in animal (xenograft) models and has shown partial responses in clinical trials with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and several other tumour types... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Wolper | David L. Wolper | David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010) was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, and North and South, and the theatrically-released films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and L.A. Confidential (1997). He was awarded the Jean Hersholt H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Resnick | Stephen Resnick | Stephen Alvin Resnick (; October 24, 1938 – January 2, 2013) was an American Marxist economist. He was well known for his work (much of it written together with Richard D. Wolff) on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. His work, along with that of Wolff, is especially associated with a post-Alth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Chen | Felix Chen | Felix Chen or Chen Chiu-sen (Chinese: 陳秋盛; pinyin: Chén Qiūshèng; 9 July 1942 – 9 April 2018) was a Taiwanese conductor and violinist. He was resident conductor and music director of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until his dismissal in 2003. He taught both Chien Wen-pin, musical director of the Taiwan Nationa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lloyd-Williams#cite_note-FLSW-6 | Mari Lloyd-Williams | Mari Lloyd-Williams is a Welsh medical consultant who specialises in palliative care. She taught at the University of Liverpool for more than two decades before moving to Liverpool John Moores University in 2022.
== Biography ==
Mari Lloyd-Williams was born to Margaret Winter Davies and county councillor Lloyd Willia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Free_Press | Winnipeg Free Press | The Free Press (or FP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press; previously known as the Winnipeg Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._W._Botha#:~:text=In%201943%2C%20Botha%20married%20Anna,two%20sons%20and%20three%20daughters. | P. W. Botha | Pieter Willem Botha, (locally BOOR-tə, Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈpitər ˈvələm ˈbuəta]; 12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician who served as the last Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and as the first executive State President of South Africa from 1984 until his resignation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hod_Stuart# | Hod Stuart | William Hodgson "Hod" Stuart (February 20, 1879 – June 23, 1907) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A cover-point (now known as a defenceman), he played nine seasons for several teams in different leagues from 1899 to 1907. He also played briefly for the Ottawa Rough Riders team in Canadian football. With h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_(fraudster) | Michael Brown (fraudster) | Michael Campbell-Brown (born Michael Robert Alexander Brown; 19 April 1966) is a Scottish businessman and fugitive convicted in absentia of theft, perjury and perverting the course of justice. Between 10 February and 30 March 2005 he donated £2.4 million to the Liberal Democrats. He was the largest donor the party had ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Burgess | Janice Burgess | Janice Burgess (March 1, 1952 – March 2, 2024) was an American television executive, screenwriter and producer for Nickelodeon. She created the Nick Jr. series The Backyardigans and worked as a writer and story editor for Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club. Both shows were produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_Griggs | Wiley Griggs | Wiley Lee Griggs III (March 24, 1925 – August 23, 1996), nicknamed "Diamond Jim", was an American Negro league infielder in the 1940s and 1950s.
A native of Union Springs, Alabama, Griggs was the brother of fellow Negro leaguer Acie Griggs. Younger brother Wiley attended A. H. Parker High School, and served in the US A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Aslam_Wani | Nasir Aslam Wani | Nasir Aslam Wani (born 31 August 1964) is an Indian politician from the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and belongs to the National Conference party.
He has served the State as the Minister of State for Tourism & Culture, Housing & Urban Development, PHE, Revenue & Relief and later taking on responsibility for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremiaphila_barbara | Eremiaphila barbara | Eremiaphila barbara is a species of praying mantis in the family Eremiaphilidae.
== See also ==
List of mantis genera and species
== References == |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cuba | History of Cuba | The island of Cuba was inhabited by various Native American cultures prior to the arrival of the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival, Spain conquered Cuba and appointed Spanish governors to rule in Havana. The administrators in Cuba were subject to the Viceroy of New Spain and the local authoritie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherland:_Fort_Salem | Motherland: Fort Salem | Motherland: Fort Salem is an American supernatural drama television series created by Eliot Laurence that premiered on Freeform on March 18, 2020. The series stars Taylor Hickson as Raelle Collar, Jessica Sutton as Tally Craven, and Ashley Nicole Williams as Abigail Bellweather, three witches conscripted into the U.S. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarita_Adve | Sarita Adve | Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems.
== Education and career ==
Adve completed a Bachelor of Technology d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._Sikri#:~:text=Biography,at%20Lincoln's%20Inn%2C%20in%20London. | S. M. Sikri | Sarv Mittra Sikri (26 April 1908 – 24 September 1992) was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 13th Chief Justice of India.
He previously served as the first Advocate-General for Punjab, before becoming the first judge of the Supreme Court of India, to be directly appointed from the Bar. Additionally, he is the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_(fraudster)# | Michael Brown (fraudster) | Michael Campbell-Brown (born Michael Robert Alexander Brown; 19 April 1966) is a Scottish businessman and fugitive convicted in absentia of theft, perjury and perverting the course of justice. Between 10 February and 30 March 2005 he donated £2.4 million to the Liberal Democrats. He was the largest donor the party had ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Capilla | La Capilla | La Capilla is a town and municipality in the Eastern Boyacá Province, part of the Colombian department of Boyacá. The urban centre is situated at an altitude of 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) in the Tenza Valley.
== Borders ==
North with Úmbita and Pachavita
South with Tenza and Cundinamarca
West with Cundinamarca
East wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladas_Mironas | Vladas Mironas | Vladas Mironas (; 22 June 1880 – 18 February 1953) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest and politician. He was one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania and served as the Prime Minister of Lithuania from March 1938 to March 1939.
Mironas attended Mitau Gymnasium where his classmate was Antanas S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YOLO_(Scandal) | YOLO (Scandal) | "YOLO" is the ninth episode of the third season of the American television series Scandal. It premiered on December 5, 2013 on ABC.
== Plot ==
Huck begins to torture Quinn and is stopped by a phone call from Olivia telling him that her mother is alive. He warns her to leave her apartment with her mother and go to a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Software_System_Award#:~:text=2008,%2C%20Anoop%20Sharma | ACM Software System Award | The ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both". It is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1983, with a cash pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crypt_(Kings_Island) | The Crypt (Kings Island) | The Crypt was an indoor Giant Top Spin ride located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Former park owner Paramount Parks collaborated with HUSS Park Attractions to design and manufacture the ride, which opened as Tomb Raider: The Ride on April 5, 2002. The flat ride featured a variety of special effects that correlated wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolo_Akili#:~:text=Born%20Michael%20Todd%20Robinson%20Jr%2C%20after%20graduating%20from%20Georgia%20State,adopted%20the%20name%20Yolo%20Akili. | 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/Sharpbill | Sharpbill | The sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus) is a small passerine bird that is placed in its own family Oxyruncidae. It was formerly placed in the family Tityridae. Its range is from the mountainous areas of tropical South America and southern Central America (Panama and Costa Rica).
It inhabits the canopy of wet forest and fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_Tanzania | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania | The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT; Swahili: Kanisa la Kiinjili la Kilutheri Tanzania) is the federation of Lutheran churches in Tanzania and one of the largest Lutheran denominations in the world, with more than 6 million members, or 13% of the Tanzanian population. It is the second largest Lutheran chu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelam_Kler | Neelam Kler | Neelam Kler is an Indian neonatologist, known for her pioneering work on neonatal intensive care and ventilation. She is credited with developing neonatal care to better the survival rate of extremely tiny preterm babies (less than 1000 grams) to 90 percent. The Government of India honoured her with the third-highest c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Frank_Rosenblatt_Award | IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award | The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award is a Technical Field Award established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Board of Directors in 2004. This award is presented for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison | Thomas Edison | Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebedev_Physical_Institute | Lebedev Physical Institute | The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS or just LPI) (in Russian: Физи́ческий институ́т имени П. Н. Ле́бедева Российской академии наук (ФИАН)), situated in Moscow, is a Russian research institute specializing in physics. The institute was established in its present shape in 1934 by ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_Championnat_LNA_season | 2016–17 Championnat LNA season | The 2016–17 Championnat LNA season was the 86th season of the top tier basketball league in Switzerland. Monthey won its third national championship.
== Competition format ==
All teams played two times against each other for completing 20 games per team.
The six first qualified teams joined the group for places 1 to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas | The Woodlands, Texas | The Woodlands is a Special-purpose district and Census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. The Woodlands is primarily located in Montgomery County, with portions extending into Harris County. The Woodlands is governed by The Woodlands ... |
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