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Hercule Poirot | 1000-0 | Hercule Poirot (, ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in fi... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-1 | Appearance and proclivities
Captain Arthur Hastings's first description of Poirot:
Agatha Christie's initial description of Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express:
In the later books, his limp is not mentioned, suggesting it may have been a temporary wartime injury. (In Curtain, Poirot admits he was wounded when he fir... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-2 | "If I remember rightly – though my memory isn't what it was – you also had a brother called Achille, did you not?" Poirot's mind raced back over the details of Achille Poirot's career. Had all that really happened? "Only for a short space of time," he replied.
Poirot is also willing to appear more foreign or vain in an... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-3 | Policeman
Gustave ... was not a policeman. I have dealt with policemen all my life and I know. He could pass as a detective to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself.
— Hercule Poirot, The Erymanthian Boar
Hercule Poirot was active in the Brussels police force by 1893. Very little mention is made abo... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-4 | After the war, Poirot became a private detective and began undertaking civilian cases. He moved into what became both his home and work address, Flat 203 at 56B Whitehaven Mansions. Hastings first visits the flat when he returns to England in June 1935 from Argentina in The A.B.C. Murders, Chapter 1. The TV programmes ... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-5 | Considering it poetic justice that twelve jurors had acquitted him and twelve people had stabbed him, Poirot produced an alternative sequence of events to explain the death involving an unknown additional passenger on the train, with the medical examiner agreeing to doctor his own report to support this theory.
After h... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-6 | He continues to employ his secretary, Miss Lemon, at the time of the cases retold in Hickory Dickory Dock and Dead Man's Folly, which take place in the mid-1950s. It is, therefore, better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement but assumed that he could either be an active d... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-7 | Death
On the ITV television series, Poirot died in October 1949 from complications of a heart condition at the end of Curtain. This took place at Styles Court, the scene of his first English case in 1916. In Christie's novels, he lived into the early 1970s, perhaps even until 1975 when Curtain was published.
In Curtain... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-8 | The two are an airtight team until Hastings meets and marries Dulcie Duveen, a beautiful music hall performer half his age, after investigating the Murder on the Links. They later emigrated to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a "very unhappy old man". Poirot and Hastings reunite during the novels The Big Four, Peril... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-9 | Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories trying to solve cases that Poirot is working on. Japp is outgoing, loud, and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the refined Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot's world. He first ... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-10 | Another production of Black Coffee ran in Dublin, Ireland from 23 to 28 June 1931, starring Robert Powell. American playwright Ken Ludwig adapted Murder on the Orient Express into a play, which premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey on 14 March 2017. It starred Allan Corduner in the role of Hercule ... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-11 | Television
David Suchet
David Suchet starred as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 1989 until June 2013, when he announced that he was bidding farewell to the role. "No one could've guessed then that the series would span a quarter-century or that the classically trained Suchet would complete the en... |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-12 | An adaptation of Murder in the Mews was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1955 starring Richard Bebb as Poirot; this program was thought lost, but was discovered in the BBC archives in 2015.
Other audio
In 2017, Audible released an original audio adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express starring Tom Conti... |
Eiffel | 10000-0 | Eiffel may refer to:
Places
Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, designed by Gustave Eiffel
Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel station, Metro station serving the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Bridge, Ungheni, Moldova, designed by Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Bridge, Láchar, Spain, built by the studio of Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Bridge, Zrenjanin, Ser... |
Juan que reía | 10000001-0 | Juan que reía is a 1976 Argentine film.
Cast
Luis Brandoni, Ana María Campoy, Enrique Pinti, Luisina Brando, Federico Luppi, Gianni Lunadei |
La Noche del hurto | 10000009-0 | La Noche del hurto is a 1976 Argentine comedy film directed by Hugo Sofovich.
Cast
Ricardo Espalter ... Cacho Fortirolo
Javier Portales ... Cholo
Ethel Rojo ... Señora erótica
Cecilia Rossetto ... Juana Fortirolo
Raimundo Soto ... Raimundo
Mario Sánchez ... Carmelo |
NPU | 1000001-0 | NPU may refer to:
Science and technology
Natural Product Updates, a journal in chemistry
Net protein utilization, the percentage of ingested nitrogen retained in the body
NPU terminology, nomenclature for the clinical laboratory sciences
Computing
Network processing unit
Neural processing unit, for artificial intellige... |
No toquen a la nena | 10000012-0 | No toquen a la nena (Don't touch the girl) is a 1976 Argentinian film.
Directed by Juan José Jusid, with a script by Oscar Viale and Jorge Goldemberg and starring Luis Politti, María Vaner, Norma Aleandro, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano and Julio de Grazia, among others. Among the roster of extras, the film has the partic... |
Paul Davids | 1000002-0 | Paul Davids is an American independent filmmaker and writer, especially in the area of science fiction. Often collaborating with his wife Hollace, Davids has written and directed several films. He has also written episodes for the television series Transformers as well as a spin-off of the Star Wars series with his wif... |
Rosie Beaton | 1000003-0 | Rosie Beaton is an Australian radio announcer, best known for her work at Australian youth radio station Triple J.
Radio career
In 2001, Beaton was appointed host of Triple J's evening music program Super Request which aired weekdays at 6pm. Earlier, Beaton co-hosted the Net 50 program with Justin Wilcomes on its debut... |
Men Only Think of That | 10000030-0 | Men Only Think of That () is a 1976 Argentine film directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry.
Cast |
Mid Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) | 10000032-0 | Mid Antrim was a constituency of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.
The House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland), 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections for 48 single-member constituencies (including Antrim Mid).
It was a single-member division of County Antrim r... |
William Corless Mills | 10000034-0 | William Corless Mills (January 2, 1860 - January 17, 1928) was an American museum curator.
Mills was born in Pyrmont, Ohio.
Mills specialized in Native American remains, leading excavations in Adena Mound, Ohio (1901)
Mills was the fourth curator and librarian of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (18... |
El grito de Celina | 10000038-0 | El grito de Celina (Celina's Cry) is a 1983 Argentine romantic drama film directed by Mario David, who also wrote the script, which is based on a short story by Bernardo Kordon. It stars María Rosa Gallo, Selva Alemán, Miguel Ángel Solá and María Vaner. Víctor Proncet composed the soundtrack.
The film was shot in 1975... |
Alexandre Rousselet | 10000040-0 | Alexandre Rousselet (born 29 January 1977) is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 1998. His best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 19th in the 15 km event at Turin in 2006.
Rousselet's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Sapporo in 2007 wh... |
Glucono delta-lactone | 1000005-0 | Glucono-delta-lactone (GDL), also known as gluconolactone, is an organic compound with the formula . A colorless solid, it is an oxidized derivative of glucose.
It is typically produced by the aerobic oxidation of glucose in the presence of the enzyme glucose oxidase. The conversion cogenerates hydrogen peroxide, whi... |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-0 | The Trap is a 1966 British-Canadian adventure western film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the film is an unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl.
Plot
French-Canadian fur trapper Jean L... |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-1 | La Bête finally agrees to buy the mute girl and takes her against her will into the wilderness of British Columbia. Here the strange couple start a difficult relationship characterised by mistrust and Eve's fear and dislike of the trapper. Eve vehemently rejects the advances of the gruff trapper. La Bête takes her hunt... |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-2 | Cast
Rita Tushingham as Eve
Oliver Reed as La Bete
Rex Sevenoaks as The Trader
Barbara Chilcott as trader's wife
Linda Goranson as trader's daughter
Blaine Fairman as clerk
Walter Marsh as preacher
Joseph Golland as Baptiste (as Jo Golland)
Jon Granik as No Name
Merv Campone as Yellow Dog
Reg McReynolds as Captain (as ... |
Römer (crater) | 1000006-0 | Römer is a lunar impact crater that is located to the north of the Sinus Amoris in the northeast section of the Moon. It was named after Danish astronomer Ole Rømer. It lies in the southwestern part of the mountainous region named the Montes Taurus. It was unofficially named as Atatürk by astronomer Hugh Percy Wilkins ... |
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic | 10000061-0 | Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic () is a 1976 Argentine black comedy crime film directed by José A. Martínez Suárez. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Mecha Ortiz as Mara Ordaz
Arturo García Buhr as Pedro
N... |
Brigada en acción | 10000067-0 | Brigada en acción is a 1977 Argentine comedy film directed by and starring Palito Ortega and written by Juan Carlos Mesa. The film premiered in Argentina on 21 July 1977.
Cast
Palito Ortega
Juan Carlos Altavista
Christian Bach
Carlos Balá
Alberto Bello
Marcelo Chimento
Nora Cullen
Alfredo Duarte
Golde Flami
Coco Foss... |
El Casamiento de Laucha | 10000072-0 | El Casamiento de Laucha (translated as Laucha's marriage) is a 1977 Argentine film directed by Enrique Dawi.
Cast
Marta Albertini
Max Berliner
Amalia Bernabé
Pablo Cumo Jr.
Ulises Dumont
Coco Fossati
Alberto Irizar
Luis Landriscina
Noemí Laserre
Malvina Pastorino
Pedro Quartucci
Romualdo Quiroga
Luis Sandrini
Mario Sap... |
David Littmann | 10000074-0 | David Littmann (July 28, 1906 – January 1, 1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor and researcher. The name Littmann is well known in the medical field for the patented Littmann Stethoscope reputed for its acoustic performances for auscultation.
Littman was born on July 28, 1906 in Chels... |
El Gordo catástrofe | 10000084-0 | El Gordo catástrofe is a 1977 Argentine film.
Cast
Jorge Porcel as Catrasca
Moria Casán as Dr. Linda Winters
Graciela Alfano as Graciela
Osvaldo Terranova as Dr. Galindez
Adolfo García Grau as Don Carlos
Beto Gianola as Igor
Perla Caron as Tamara
Nathán Pinzón
Juan Carlos Galván
Jacques Arndt
Max Berliner
John O'Connel... |
Whispermoon | 10000088-0 | Whispermoon is the debut studio album by Listener. It was released on Mush Records on July 29, 2003. It peaked at number 163 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart and at number 4 on CMJ's Hip-Hop chart.
Critical reception
Jason MacNeil of AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "Not as polished or glossy as bigger rap ... |
Pharmadule | 10000093-0 | Pharmadule was a Swedish company, specialized in design and construction of modular pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the same fashion as modular homes nowadays are being built. The unique idea came from its founder, Clas Wallenborg, in 1986 as a result of several troublesome facility constructions abroad for ... |
National Cycle Route 43 | 10000096-0 | National Cycle Network, Route 43 is part of the National Cycle Network and the Celtic Trail, which connects Swansea with Builth Wells. Most of the route is still awaiting development. As of June 2006, there is a 13-mile section out of Swansea that is open and signed.
The route
The existing developed part of the route u... |
Breydon Water | 100001-0 | Breydon Water is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It is a Local Nature Reserve, a Ramsar site and a Special Protection Area. It is part of the Berney Marshes and Breydon Water nature reserve, which is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
It is a l... |
El Macho | 10000110-0 | El Macho (also known as Macho Killers) is a 1977 Italian-Argentine Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Marcello Andrei and starring Carlos Monzón, George Hilton, Malisa Longo and Susana Giménez.
Synopsis
Kid El Macho, an adventurer who is very skilled with cards and his revolver, is instructed by a sheriff t... |
Crazy Women (film) | 10000114-0 | Crazy Women () is a 1977 Argentine drama film written by José P. Dominiani and directed by Enrique Carreras. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where Mercedes Carreras won the award for Best Actress.
Cast
Marta Albertini
Virginia Amestoy
Trissi Bauer
Leonor Benedetto
Olinda Bozán
Alicia Bru... |
La obertura | 10000130-0 | La obertura is a 1977 Argentine comedy film directed by Julio Saraceni.
Cast
Silvia Balán
Edda Bustamante
Beto Gianola
Antonio Grimau
Katia Iaros
Morena Jara
Nelly Lainez
Ricardo Lavié
Don Pelele
Ethel Rojo
Mario Sapag
Raimundo Soto
Amelia Vargas
Enzo Viena
(plus others) |
William Arbuckle Reid | 10000148-0 | William Arbuckle "Bill" Reid (1933 – 2 September 2015) was a British curriculum theorist. |
William Arbuckle Reid | 10000148-1 | Reid's major academic works elaborated on curriculum theorist Joseph Schwab's notion of "curriculum deliberation". He was the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, and was a regular contributor to the Journal of Curriculum Studies of which he was European Editor from 1975 to 1983 and General Editor ... |
La Aventura de los paraguas asesinos | 10000153-0 | La Aventura de los paraguas asesinos ( Adventure of the Umbrella Murderers) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Galettini.
Cast
Ricardo Bauleo as Tiburón
Víctor Bó as Delfín
Julio De Grazia as Mojarrita
Graciela Alfano as Agente Serena
Gianni Lunadei |
A Intrusa | 10000156-0 | A Intrusa is a 1979 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen, based on the short story "La intrusa" by Jorge Luis Borges. The film is about the parallel lives of two gaucho brothers with Danish ancestry. It was shot in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul.
Cast
José de Abreu as Christian
Arlindo Barreto as Edu... |
The Drug Addicts | 10000161-0 | The Drug Addicts (Los Drogadictos) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film drama directed by Enrique Carreras.
Cast
Graciela Alfano
Luis Aranda
Giancarlo Arena
Héctor Armendáriz
Jacques Arndt
Vicente Buono
Juan José Camero
Mercedes Carreras
Rudy Carrié
Luis Corradi
Hector Doldi
Carlos Estrada
Raúl Florido
Ricardo Greco
Ricardo... |
Cantaniño cuenta un cuento | 10000166-0 | Cantaniño cuenta un cuento is a 1979 musical comedy film directed by Mario David and starring Berugo Carámbula, Mario Pasik, and Mónica Vehil.
Cast
Berugo Carámbula
Gachi Ferrari as Llí
Mario Pasik as Alfredo
Mónica Vehil as Lucrecia
Javier Portales as Don Roberto Sacote
Juan Carlos de Seta as Inspector
Pablo Cumo
Rina... |
Regina High School (Iowa) | 10000169-0 | Regina Catholic Education Center is a PK–12 private, Roman Catholic co-educational school in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport.
Athletics
Regina's sports teams are known as the Regals, with a school mascot named "Crownie," an anthropomorphic blue and gold crown.
Th... |
Contragolpe | 10000171-0 | Contragolpe is a 1979 Argentine drama film directed by Alejandro Doria.
Cast
Marcelo Alfaro ... Gigolo 1
Enrique Alonso
Alberto Argibay
Raúl Aubel
Aldo Barbero
Sergio Bellotti
Héctor Bidonde
Luisina Brando
Rodolfo Brindisi
Cecilia Cenci
Marta Cerain
Martín Coria ... Detenido
Lito Cruz ... Juan de Dios Tolosa / Carme... |
Custodio de señoras | 10000174-0 | Custodio de señoras ( Custodian of ladies) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Hugo Sofovich.
Cast
Jorge Porcel ... Jorge
Graciela Alfano
Javier Portales
Supporting
Anita Almada
Raquel María Alvarez
Cacho Bustamante
Osvaldo Castro
Remedios Climent
Roberto Dairiens
Horacio Dener
Coco Fossati
Hellen Grant
Lalo ... |
Cuatro pícaros bomberos | 10000179-0 | Cuatro pícaros bomberos is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Galettini.
Cast
Ismael Echevarría
Alberto Anchart
Gianni Lunadei
María Noel
Charlie Díez Gómez
Nelly Prono
Juan Manuel Tenuta
Jorge Villalba
Beatriz Spelzini
Marcelo José
Raúl Ricutti
Juan Carlos Lamas
Pedro Martínez
Mercedes Yardín
Manuela Brav... |
Donde duermen dos... duermen tres | 10000183-0 | Donde duermen dos... duermen tres is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry. This film was distributed by an Argentine distributor named "Paris Video Home", a company that distributes comedy films.
Cast
Juan Carlos Calabró
Juan Buryúa Rey
Alberto Busaid
Berugo Carambula
Elina Colomer
Luis Corr... |
Grandma (1979 film) | 10000192-0 | Grandma () is a 1979 Argentine comedy drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Altavista and Osvaldo Terranova.
Synopsis
A poor Argentine family of Italian origin lives with their grandmother Carmen, known by all as "La Nona" (grandma in Italian). Despite her advanced age, La Nona ea... |
Rödlöga | 10000195-0 | Rödlöga is a cluster of islets outside in the Stockholm archipelago. The main island had been permanently inhabited since the 18th century into the 1970s when its last permanent resident, George Nordström, died. Rödlöga is today a spot for boating vacation. Location shooting took place for the 1938 film Storm Over the ... |
Hotel de señoritas | 10000197-0 | Hotel de señoritas is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Dawi.
Cast
Jorge Martínez
Juan Carlos Dual
Elena Sedova
Patricia Dal
Gogó Andreu
Rudy Chernicoff
Vicente Rubino
Nené Malbrán
Toto Rey
Alberto Irizar
Adriana Quevedo
Marta Albertini
Carmen Barbieri
Marcos Zucker
Mario Sapag |
Hormiga negra | 10000199-0 | Hormiga negra is a 1979 Argentine film directed by Ricardo Defilippi.
Cast
Miguel Bianco
Víctor Bó
Osvaldo María Cabrera
Mario Casado
Víctor Catalano
Rolando Chávez
Rafael Chumbito
Luis Dávila
Roberto Escalada
Coco Fossati
Héctor Fuentes
Beto Gianola
Oscar Llompart
Aldo Mayo
Delia Montero
Arturo Noal
Pablo Palitos
Migu... |
Berney Arms | 100002-0 | Berney Arms is a settlement on the north bank of the River Yare, close to Breydon Water in the English county of Norfolk. It is part of the civil parish of Reedham, in the district of Broadland, and lies within The Broads. It comprises a railway station, a windmill, a farmhouse and a pub which closed in late 2015 (thou... |
La Rabona | 10000202-0 | La Rabona ("The Truant") is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Mario David. It stars Alberto Closas, Claudia Cárpena, and Perla Santalla. The screenplay was written by the director Mario David, working in collaboration with Isaac Aisemberg. Atilio Stampone composed the soundtrack.
Plot
A man and his daughter, tir... |
HMS P38 | 10000209-0 | Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS P38.
, a P-class patrol boat launched in 1917. Renamed HMS Spey on 11 December 1925 and assigned to fishery protection, the vessel was sold in May 1938.
, a U-class submarine launched in July 1941 and sunk on 23 February 1942 by the Italian torpedo boat Circe north of Tri... |
Sami Jauhojärvi | 10000217-0 | Sami Jauhojärvi (born 5 May 1981) is a Finnish former cross-country skier who competed between 2000 and 2017. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won men's team sprint with Iivo Niskanen. Germany launched a protest over the result due to a final-leg collision between Jauhojärvi and Tim Tscharnke, but it was rejected by the... |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-0 | The Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver (KDS; ) is a Sikh gurdwara organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Founded in 1906, it is the oldest Sikh society in Greater Vancouver, and its original location was the largest gurdwara in North America. The current gurdwara is located at the intersection of Southwest Ma... |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-1 | Relocation
By the late 1950s, there were plans to establish Punjabi-language schools for Canadian-born children and to collect funds for a new community centre. In 1963, the Society began planning for a new gurdwara and community centre.
The Society purchased of city land in 1968 at the intersection of Southwest Marin... |
Ebe Gilkes Quartet | 10000224-0 | The Ebe Gilkes Quartet was a Guyanese band that became very popular on Barbados in the 1950s, led by Trinidadian jazz pianist Edwin "Ebe" Gilkes.
Other members:
James Gilkes
Jesus Gilkes
Gilkes Gilkes
Arturo Tappin
History
In the 1950s, low wages for jazz musicians led to many Barbadians immigrating abroad to Canada, U... |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-0 | Julien R. Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States. He has won seven Breeders' Cup races, including the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile with Champion Turf Mare Tepin and the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile with Classic Empire.
Background
Le... |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-1 | Leparoux had a career best year in 2009, capped by wins in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on Furthest Land, the Filly & Mare Sprint on Informed Decision and the Juvenile Fillies on She Be Wild. He won the Shoemaker Award as the winningest jockey at the 2009 Breeders' Cup, being only the 2nd jockey in history to win three ... |
Barton Academy (Vermont) | 10000230-0 | History
The Academy started in the fall of 1852 in a building on the location now occupied by the school parking lot. There is an early list of students who were enrolled. It was chartered by the legislature in 1854.
A listing of graduates from 1926, lists the first class as 1886.
The cornerstone of the current buildin... |
Walla Walla Council | 10000237-0 | The Walla Walla Council (1855) was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakama. The council occurred on May 29 – June 11; the treaties signed at this council on June 9 were ratified by the U.S. Senate four years la... |
Rod Rohrich | 10000242-0 | Rod J. Rohrich ( ), F.A.C.S. is a Dallas-based plastic surgeon, author and educator. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and a founding member of the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute and the Alliance in Reconstructive Surgery.
He is board certified by the American Board of Plasti... |
Diablo Valley | 10000244-0 | The Diablo Valley refers to a valley in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, to the west/northwest of Mount Diablo. The valley contains the cities of Clayton, Concord, Martinez, Pleasant Hill (home to Diablo Valley College), most of Walnut Creek (The southern end is a part of the San Ramon Valley) and the CDP o... |
1622 in music | 10000252-0 | The year 1622 in music involved some significant events.
Events
January 6 (probable) – The Masque of Augurs, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably to celebrate Twelfth Night. The masque features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Nicholas Lanier (but only... |
Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis | 10000255-0 | Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis (formerly Mycobacterium kumamotonense) is a species of bacteria.
Etymology: kumamotonensis, pertaining to Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, where the type strain was isolated.
Description
Slowly growing, nonchromogenic.
Pathogenesis
Type strain
First isolated in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan from... |
Stanley station (North Dakota) | 10000287-0 | Stanley station is a train station in Stanley, North Dakota served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The platform, tracks, and wooden depot are owned by BNSF Railway. It was originally a Great Northern Railway station that was a replacement for an earlier one, which is now a private residence. |
Carmovirus | 10000288-0 | Carmovirus was a genus of viruses. The genus was split in 2015 into three genera, each retaining -carmovirus as part of their name:
Alphacarmovirus
Betacarmovirus
Gammacarmovirus
These genera are in the same family, Tombusviridae, as the original genus and are more specifically in the subfamily Procedovirinae. The foll... |
Barbados Chamber Orchestra | 10000291-0 | The Barbados Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Barbados Symphonia) is a chamber orchestra in Barbados. Its current president is Mike Williams, also a leader in the Barbados Boy Scouts Association. |
Organized crime in Minneapolis | 10000292-0 | Organized crime in Minneapolis refers to the illegal activity of the early 20th century in Minneapolis. This issue was first brought to public attention by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities which chronicles the widespread corruption in major political parties in the 19th century and the continued eff... |
Kyauktada | 10000299-0 | Kyauktada may refer to:
Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Burma
The fictional setting of the novel Burmese Days by George Orwell |
Real Voice | 10000309-0 | "Real Voice" is the third single from female Japanese artist, Ayaka. The song was used as the ending theme to the J-Drama, Suppli. The single reached a peak of eleven on the Oricon weekly singles chart.
Track listing
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan) |
Rick Elice | 10000310-0 | Rick Elice (born Eric S. Elice; November 17, 1956) is a writer and former stage actor.
Life
Elice was born in New York City, where he attended public elementary, junior high, and high schools. He was the salutatorian graduate of Francis Lewis High School in Queens, New York (class of 1973). He earned a BA from Cornell ... |
Rick Elice | 10000310-1 | He wrote Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, which opened in California in 2009 and played off-Broadway in 2011. The play moved to Broadway, opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on April 15, 2012. Peter and the Starcatcher received nine Tony Award nomi... |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-0 | Wyllis Oswald Cooper (January 26, 1899 – June 22, 1955) was an American writer and producer.
He is best remembered for creating and writing the old time radio programs Lights Out (1934–1947) and Quiet, Please (1947–1949).
Biography |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-1 | By the late 1920s he was writing advertising copy in Chicago and entered radio, writing scripts for the 1929–1931 NBC radio program Empire Builders. He later worked as continuity editor of CBS Chicago and, in 1933, left to take the same position at NBC Chicago. In 1934, he created his best known dramatic series, a lat... |
Juha Lallukka | 10000324-0 | Juha Lallukka (born 27 October 1979 in Kouvola) is a Finnish cross-country skier who competed between 2002 and 2018. He finished 34th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lallukka's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, was fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay... |
Williston station | 10000337-0 | Williston station is a train station in Williston, North Dakota, served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The brick station was built in 1910 by the Great Northern Railway and is located at the southern end of Williston's downtown. An interior and exterior restoration, begun in 2010 and costing almost $2 million, has r... |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-0 | Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and finan... |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-1 | Ponti accepted an offer from Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film in Rome in 1941. He made Giacomo the Idealist (1943), A Yank in Rome (1946), To Live in Peace (1947), The White Primrose (1948), Prelude to Madness (1948) andHey Boy (1948).
Ponti produced some films starring Gina Lollobrigida: Alarm Bells (1949), The White Line ... |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-2 | He made The 10th Victim (1965), and some films for Paramount, Smashing Time (1967) Diamonds for Breakfast (1968).
Later career
Ponti's later movies included The Priest's Wife (1970) with Loren, What? (1972) from Roman Polanski, Giordano Bruno (1973), Torso (1973) a gallo with Suzy Kendall, Dirty Weekend (1973) with Oli... |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-3 | Over the years, several works have been sold privately. In 2006 two Bacon paintings that had previously been in the Ponti collection were exhibited in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London. One, a vertical composition of four self-portraits, had already been sold to the American collector Steven A. Cohen. In ... |
Suess | 1000038-0 | Suess may refer to:
Süß, a German surname transliterated as Suess
C. J. Suess (born 1994), American hockey player
Eduard Suess (1831–1914), an Austrian geologist
Mount Suess, a mountain in Antarctica named for the geologist
Suess (lunar crater), named for the geologist
Suess (Martian crater), named for the geologist
Su... |
Acrimony (band) | 10000383-0 | Acrimony was a Welsh heavy metal band from Swansea who was active during the 1990s. Releasing their debut album in 1994, they are regarded as the pioneers of stoner metal in the United Kingdom, and an important influence upon the scene. Although the band never achieved mainstream success, during their career they recei... |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-0 | James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (22 September 1395 – 4 July 1450) was an English soldier and politician. He was born at Herstmonceux, Sussex, the second son of Sir William Fiennes (1 August 1357 – 18 January 1402) and his wife Elizabeth Batisford (Wartling, Sussex, 1363 - Herstmonceux, 18 January 1405). |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-1 | He was summoned to Parliament from 1446 to 1449 and is said to have been created Baron Saye and Sele by letters patent in 1447. Saye and Sele was a supporter of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, the principal power behind the throne of Henry VI.
After Suffolk's deposition and murder in 1450, Fiennes was imprison... |
Midaq Alley (novel) | 10000450-0 | Midaq Alley () is a 1947 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, first published in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as a microcosm of the world.
Plot introduction
Mahfouz plays on the cultural setting. The novel is introduced with de... |
Korczowa | 10000462-0 | Korczowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radymno, within Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.
The village lies approximately east of Radymno, east of Jarosław, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
Before World War II the set... |
Greater Western Victoria Rebels | 10000466-0 | Initially known as the Ballarat Rebels and wearing green and gold, the team was established in 1993 as one of four regional under-18s clubs, set up as part of a plan by the AFL Commission to have clubs set in all regions of the state of Victoria. The club became affiliated with the new VFL's North Ballarat Football Clu... |
Teemu Kattilakoski | 10000489-0 | Teemu Kattilakoski (December 16, 1977 in Kannus) is a Finnish cross-country skier who has been competing since 1996. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the 4 × 10 km relay in 2007 while his best individual finish was eighth in the 50 km event in 2003.
Kattilakoski's best individual f... |
Atocha station memorial | 10000495-0 | The Atocha station memorial is a memorial monument located at Atocha station in Madrid, Spain, that commemorates the 193 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings. Furthermore, it also honors the special forces agent who died when seven suicide bombers blew themselves up on 3 April 2004 during a raid on an ap... |
Ellet J. Waggoner | 10000498-0 | Biography
Waggoner was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin on January 12, 1855, to Joseph Harvey and Maryetta Hall Waggoner. He was the sixth of ten children.
His father had joined an Advent group in 1852, which would later become the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Soon thereafter he became a preacher and writer, and remained a... |
Grebe | 100005-0 | Grebes () are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes (). Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter. Most grebes fly, although some flightless species exist, most notably in stable lakes. The order contains a single family, the... |
Grebe | 100005-1 | Field characteristics
Grebes are small to medium-large in size ranging from the least grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus), at and , to the great grebe (Podiceps major), at and . Despite these size differences grebes are a homogenous family of waterbirds with very few or slight differences among the genera.
Anatomy and phys... |
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