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Some Idiots of Late Believe 1984 Was An Instruction Manual
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I haven’t written in awhile, mostly because I hoped like hell the world got SANER since I last took fingers to keys, but unfortunately, it hasn’t.
Some people seem to be on this kick to eliminate all monum... | 557 |
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
The World Boxing Organization in a breakthrough event has launched pro boxing in Sri Lanka with a Atom division world title fight featuring champion Nao Ikeyama of Japan against challenger Jujeath Nagaowa of the Philippines on December 19.
Ikeyama has a record of 16-3-1 with 4 knockouts but is 4... | 191 |
Workplace elearning, professional development and eLearning are phrases with increasingly blurred meanings. Information technology systems are used to develop business infrastructure and conduct operational protocols like CRM, Finance and Human Resources.
The same systems are extended to include learning management sy... | 998 |
The Golden Triangle is an area of Southeast Texas between the cities of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange.
The term more generally refers now to the entire Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange metropolitan area, forming the triangle.
External links
References
Geography of Texas
Geography of Jefferson County, Texas
Geograph... | 50 |
Now that all of my inside-the-beltway, elitist, morally superior friends and colleagues have weighed in with their self-righteous denunciations of Donald Trump, it's my turn.
After initially opposing his candidacy for president, I have come around to another point of view.
The election of Hillary Clinton will perpetu... | 654 |
This is a list of famous or notable people who were born in or lived in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Horace Abbott (1806–1887), born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, moved to Baltimore in 1836, iron manufacturer, supplied the armor for USS Monitor
Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806–1888), born in East Providence, Rhode Island, foun... | 5,789 |
Kalvarija () is a town in southwestern Lithuania, located in the Marijampolė County, close to the border with Poland.
Etymology and names
Variants of the name include Kalvarijos, Kalvariya, Kalwarja, Kalvarye (Yiddish), Kalwaria (Polish), Kalvarien (German), Calvaria, Kalvaria, Kalwariya, and Kalwarya. The town is nam... | 290 |
On 13 March I blogged “I can assure you the Tories are already considering how to avoid having Leaders’ Debates on television for the next general election. For Corbyn to be able to put a radical message directly to the public, and May’s deficiencies in debate to be so directly exposed, is something they will not want ... | 370 |
McKenzie Anderson, before and after she came down with a mysterious disease called acute flaccid myelitis, which is a lot like polio. (Family photos)
Before dinner on July 29, 3-year-old Carter Roberts of Chesterfield, Va., seemed perfectly healthy. That evening, he vomited. When he woke up the next morning with a sli... | 1,716 |
translated as Super Star Fleet Sazer-X is a tokusatsu superhero TV series produced by Toho Company Ltd., and Konami. This series is the third in Toho's Seishin (Star God) series. The series lasted 38 episodes and was the last of the Chouseishin franchise. It deviates from its predecessors in several ways, in that it i... | 4,587 |
Philia is one of the four ancient Greek words for love.
Philia may also refer to:
Philia (Greco-Roman magic), in Greco-Roman religion.
"Philia" (song), a song by Versailles.
Philia (Thrace), town of ancient Thrace.
Philia culture, which existed on Cyprus in the middle and late Bronze Age.
-philia, a suffix.
Philia (... | 105 |
Source data is raw data (sometimes called atomic data) that has not been processed for meaningful use to become Information.
Examples
Data entered at a till in a store
A list of information about customers used in a mail merge in Word Processing
Handwritten notes or printed documents, before they are typed in, such... | 203 |
Caryocar (souari trees) is a genus of flowering plants, in the South American family Caryocaraceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1771. It is native primarily to South America with a few species extending into Central America and the West Indies.
Caryocar consists of trees that yield a strong timber. Some of the... | 290 |
Lamar Odom Attacks Paparazzi Trashes Camera and a Car
Lamar Odom -- Attacks Paparazzi, Trashes Camera and a Car
EXCLUSIVE
went absolutely nuts on 2 paparazzi in Hollywood this afternoon ... smashing a car, a camera ... and then fleeing the scene -- apparently with some of the destroyed camera gear.The violent incide... | 179 |
The National Park Service has added two properties commemorating the history of America’s gays and lesbians to the National Register of Historic Places, including the Washington home of a separatist lesbian collective in the early 1970s.
Tuesday’s decision to add the Furies Collective, a Capitol Hill rowhouse in South... | 659 |
Call it Common Core for police. But the White House, in cahoots with the Department of Justice, has set in motion a plan that will expand federal control of community police forces, via standards handed from above called the “Task Force on 21st Century Policing.”
The plan was released Monday, Infowars reported. And it... | 449 |
North Korea had previously threatened to attack the island territory of Guam itself. But while Kim Jong-un’s sabre-rattling threats appear to have fizzled away to nothing, China is continuing to provoke America in the Pacific. US officials revealed today Chinese bombers have been simulating attacks on Guam as part of a... | 377 |
Here's How Much Idris Elba Hated Shooting Thor 2 By Sean O'Connell Random Article Blend Thor character would be part of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Those comments got the ire of
In an interview with Thor: The Dark World for contractually obligated reshoots. Elba had just wrapped shooting on the prestige biopic Mandela: L... | 768 |
Since Monday night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump’s alleged sexism has predictably become a focal point of the Hillary Clinton campaign. The former secretary of state accused Mr. Trump of being a sexist fat-shamer whose acts have disqualified him from holding the highest office in the land. Trump, politicking horr... | 702 |
Dr. John Alexander McCreery (October 19, 1885 – January 31, 1948) was an American surgeon listed throughout the 1930s and 1940s as one of the top ten surgeons in the United States. Additionally, McCreery was chief of staff at Greenwich Hospital (Connecticut) from 1939-1948, and one of the founders of the American Board... | 717 |
Francesco Accarigi (c.1557–1622) was an Italian jurist and professor of civil law at the University of Siena in Tuscany. Born in Macerata, he spent much of his life in Siena, and was considered a native of the latter city.
In his youth, Accarigi had enjoyed the friendship of Bargalio and Benevento, men who had acquire... | 327 |
UPDATED: This story was updated with a statement from Hales.
Mayoral hopeful Ted Wheeler has secured three endorsements from mayors of Portland past -- including, most notably, Vera Katz, a former supporter of Charlie Hales.
Hales won election in 2012 while trumpeting Katz's support, including a quote from the three-... | 415 |
Novyi Kalyniv () is a small city in Sambir Raion (district), Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Novyi Kalyniv hosts the administration of Novyi Kalyniv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . Local government — Novyi Kalyniv city council.
The city was built in 1951 as a military settlement for the S... | 81 |
By Brandon Turbeville
As the Syrian crisis enters its sixth year, the Donald Trump administration is looking more and more like the Obama administration every day. With the Trump regime refusing to open useful dialogue with Russia regarding Syria, its obvious anti-Iran and pro-Israel positioning, and support for a ver... | 1,808 |
If the same soldier, but messed with …
her. Creepy, I know. But theoretically there are ways the Illusive Man could have done this. Shepard would have been little better than a prisoner in her own body.
It could have been really Shepard, alive, aware, and there, but with some other will acting through her. Creepy, I ... | 2,502 |
Multiple eyewitnesses said that community police officers fled from Borough Market in London after seeing two men with knives stabbing people as part of a terror attack Saturday.
These eyewitnesses told The Guardian’s Lisa O’Carroll that two men started stabbing people outside a restaurant in Borough Market, close to ... | 284 |
The Continental Cup is a second-level ice hockey tournament for European clubs (behind Champions Hockey League), begun in 1997 after the discontinuing of the European Cup. It was intended for teams from countries without representatives in the European Hockey League, with participating teams chosen by the countries' re... | 418 |
The Napoleon Dynamite original soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2004 comedy film, Napoleon Dynamite. It featured the original score, dialogue, and other artists' songs. It was released on October 5, 2004, by Lakeshore Records.
The original ending montage is not included in the soundtrack. It is "Music for a Found ... | 334 |
Gijbeland is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Molenlanden.
In 2001, the village of Gijbeland had 435 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.068 km2, and contained 183 residences.
The statistical area "Gijbeland", which also can include the peripheral parts... | 75 |
The last time there was a mention of a fatwa was when one was issued against maestro AR Rahman for composing music for an Iranian film titled Muhammad: The Messenger of God, and he had given the Mumbai based Sunni Muslim group, Raza Academy a classic reply.
Now, Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah has issued a n... | 216 |
Charmaine L. Howell (born 13 March 1975 in Trelawny Parish) is a retired Jamaican athlete who specialized in the 800 metres.
Career
She competed at the 2000 Olympics, being knocked out in the semi-final. She also ran for the Jamaican 4 x 400 metres relay team in the heats and could therefore receive an Olympic silver... | 217 |
Hillary hasn’t announced a 2016 campaign yet. She’s busy polling more than 200 policy experts on how to show that she really cares about the poor while courting the banks. Yet her shadow campaign is already in a déjà-vu-all-over-again shark fight over control of the candidate and her money. It’s the same old story: The... | 340 |
I had really mixed feelings about this. Power Rangers is one of my favorite things in the world, but there was something about the direction Saban and Lionsgate were going with their big screen adaptation that just wasn’t sitting right with me. The tone came off dark and moody, but later trailers changed that perceptio... | 414 |
Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played their games there since 1931 after moving from Barrio Puerto.
Founded on 15 August... | 1,914 |
Japanese labour law is the system of labour law operating in Japan.
Contract and rights
The scope of Japanese labour law is defined by the Japanese Civil Code. Article 622 defines contracts of employment, article 632 defines a contract for work, and article 643 defines a contract for mandate. The parties are free to d... | 2,221 |
MSG products include Premium and Standard choices, which go through a rigorous selection process, he said.
MSG All Trading International Pvt Ltd, a Dera Sacha Sauda firm, on Sunday said it has introduced 151 products including food items.The products, launched by the sect's head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, included basma... | 254 |
Staff writer, with CNA
Beijing has changed its strategy of using its economic growth to help Taiwan prosper and is trying to impoverish the nation to make it more dependent on China, a Chinese academic said in Brussels on Tuesday.
China’s policy toward Taiwan has clearly been to do everything it can to stop independe... | 246 |
James Thom may refer to:
James Thom (sculptor) (1802–1850), Scottish sculptor
James Alexander Thom (born 1933), American writer
J. C. Thom (1835–1898), American painter, son of sculptor James Thom
Norman Thom (James Norman Thom, 1899–1987), Australian politician | 37 |
Apple already spoiled the surprise some, but T-Mobile is today talking up its latest "Uncarrier" move: it's offering free data to tablet owners, and the brand new iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina display are both included. During a conference call (with a simultaneous Q&A session on Twitter), CEO John Legere and CMO ... | 432 |
The General Wayne Inn in Merion, Pennsylvania is a former tavern. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. Established in 1704, it was previously named the William Penn Inn, Wayside Inn, Tunis Ordinary, and Streepers Tavern before being renamed in 1793 in honor of American Revolutionary War h... | 376 |
HARRISON, NJ (May 21, 2013) – New York Red Bulls General Manager Jérôme de Bontin released the following statement regarding Major League Soccer’s expansion announcement today.
“We are supportive of MLS expansion, as it illustrates the growing interest of soccer in North America. We also want to congratulate MLS and t... | 160 |
China successfully tests smog-fighting drones that spray chemicals to capture air pollution
Parafoil plane has a gliding parachute and carries smog-clearing chemicals
Carries three times the weight of planes and sprays within a 5km radius
Project is being led by China's Meteorological Administration
Drone was built... | 885 |
[Author's note: Power rankings are usually three things: Bad, wrong, and boring. You typically know just as well as the authors which teams won what games against who and what it all means, so our moving the Red Wings up four spots or whatever really doesn't tell you anything you didn't know. Who's hot, who's not, who ... | 1,641 |
Dr Angelicque White, Associate Professor at Oregon State University, who has studied the ‘garbage patch’ in depth, said: “The use of the phrase ‘garbage patch’ is misleading . I’d go as far as to say that it is a myth and a misconception.
“It is not visible from space; there are no islands of trash; it is more akin to... | 233 |
The Call of the Marching Bell (, Bang-e-Dara; published in 1924) was the first Urdu philosophical poetry book by Muhammad Iqbal.
Content
The poems in The Call of the Marching Bell was written by Iqbal over a period of twenty years; the collection is divided into three parts:
The book is named "The call of the Marchi... | 413 |
A new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition appears to back up the adage that a little of what you fancy does you good.
Including a small amount of chocolate each day could help prevent diabetes and insulin resistance. That's one of the research findings from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), the... | 450 |
The bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) is a species of cyprinid freshwater fish native to East Asia, and is one of several Asian carps introduced into North America. It is one of the most intensively exploited fishes in fish farming, with an annual worldwide production of over three million tonnes in 2013, princ... | 1,117 |
Todd Trainer is the drummer for the band Shellac. He also performs as a solo artist under the name Brick Layer Cake. He previously played drums for the bands Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport, and he played drums with Scout Niblett in 2005.
Personal life
Trainer resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota and maintains close tie... | 307 |
In the first six months of 2011, states enacted 162 new provisions related to reproductive health and rights. Fully 49% of these new laws seek to restrict access to abortion services, a sharp increase from 2010, when 26% of new laws restricted abortion. The 80 abortion restrictions enacted this year are more than doubl... | 1,495 |
ALBANY, NY — Jaime Rios is a Republican, but he loves liberals. His wife is one. Most of his other family members are, too, along with many of his friends. One friend of his, Rios says, is a “really, really, really, really, really left, left, left, left-as-left-can-go person. I think it goes off the radar left.”Decades... | 1,216 |
USFAS Bamako is a Malian football club based in Bamako. They play in the top division in Malian football and are owned by the Malian Army. Their home stadium is Stade Municipal de USFAS.
Achievements
Malien Cup: 1
1995
Performance in CAF competitions
CAF Cup: 2 appearances
1998 – First Round
2000 – First Round
Cur... | 118 |
Heibao Auto (黑豹汽车; officially Shandong HIPO Group Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Weihai.
Zhonghang Heibao Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Heibao, is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Operations
Location: Weihai City, China
Production capacity: 100,000 vehicles/year
Emplo... | 105 |
Update:
Less than six months after
, police are investigating another armed robbery at the restaurant on Wednesday night. Police were called about 6:40 p.m. Feb. 4 to 3220 Packard Road in Ann Arbor after a report that the restaurant owners, Yong and Doo Kim, were robbed at knifepoint. Lt. Robert Pfannes said the robb... | 349 |
Troy Henderson, PhD candidate in political economy at the University of Sydney
The progressive case for a universal basic income in Australia means providing an unconditional income to all Australians alongside – not as a replacement for – the welfare state. This case rests on UBI’s potential to reduce inequality, imp... | 2,725 |
The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) was established in 1967 as a non-profit organisation by the news agency Pakistan Press International and operated until 1974, when it had to suspend operations due to the political environment then prevailing in the country. It was reactivated in 1992 and has since been involved in a... | 606 |
Fear or provocation of violence is a statutory offence in England and Wales created under the Public Order Act 1986.
The offence is created by section 4 of the Public Order Act 1986:
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he -
(a) uses towards another person threatening behaviour, or
(b) distributes or displays to a... | 396 |
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump recently said the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. "could be 3 million. It could be 30 million. They have no idea what the number is.”
The undocumented immigrant population isn’t growing, despite Republican presidential nominee Donald Trum... | 558 |
The Ōhakuri Dam is a dam and hydroelectric power station on the Waikato River, central North Island, New Zealand, midway between Taupō, Rotorua and Hamilton. Its dam is about upstream of the Atiamuri Dam.
It was commissioned in 1961 and construction was organised from the 'hydro town' of Mangakino. The dam eventually... | 262 |
The Videos 1992–2003 is a DVD featuring all of the music videos released by the American third wave ska band No Doubt, between 1992 and 2003. It was released first in 2003 as the second disc of the Boom Box box set, and was the companion to the first disc in the set, The Singles 1992–2003. It was later released as a se... | 180 |
The number of reported injuries in the Premier League spiked in 2014, post-World Cup [228], but the latest data shows that those requiring treatment are on the wane.
Figures have fallen in the subsequent years to reach a five-year low [168], a drop of around 26 percent. Here are some interesting injury trends.
Highes... | 820 |
Ukraine's state concern Ukroboronprom expects to participate in a program with Poland's armed forces to modernize T-72 tanks according to NATO standards.
Ukrobornprom's press service on Thursday said one of the versions for modernizing Polish T-72 tanks, the PT-17, modernized by Ukroboronprom together with the Polish ... | 287 |
From posts by residents of Oakland, California, to NextDoor and Glenfriends, two online social networks for neighbors.
Silver Dodge Caravan, two Latino male occupants, not particularly young. When I took a long look at them, they consulted with one another and headed off. This is historically the week people come to t... | 698 |
For the plant genus, see Entomophobia (plant)
Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) is a specific phobia characterized by an excessive or unrealistic fear of one or more classes of insect, and classified as a phobia by the DSM-5.[1] More specific cases included apiphobia (fear of bees), myrmecophobia (fear of ant... | 194 |
It was an afterthought that step by step turned into a mission.
In June, Rancho Cucamonga resident Randy Brown, 47, will embark on a journey he has dubbed the Salton Sea Walk, a 116-mile, six-day trek around the entire shoreline of the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake.
In what are expected to be triple-digit tem... | 1,539 |
Thinking about ‘A Phony Hero for a Phony War’ – the title of an Op-Ed by Lucian Truscott for the New York Times last week. It’s a biting commentary on David Petraeus. Reading it I couldn’t help but think of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Listen to Truscott referring to Petraeus, the war ‘hero’ of Iraq and... | 711 |
Himalmedia Private Limited () is a periodical publisher in Nepal. Himalmedia publishes three premium periodicals: Himal Khabarpatrika, a Nepali-language fortnightly newsmagazine, Nepali Times, an English-language weekly newspaper, and Wave, also an English-language magazine aimed at teenagers.
External links
Himalmed... | 44 |
Europe has been hard hit by Islamist attacks in France and Belgium, but there is also concern about radicalization on the continent itself. Among hotspots where young people have been found to gravitate towards extremism are majority Muslim nations in the Western Balkans.
Many paths lead people to Islamic radicalizati... | 454 |
The Yiddish Wikipedia is the Yiddish-language version of Wikipedia. It was founded on March 3, 2004, and the first article was written November 28 of that year.
Current status
The Yiddish Wikipedia has articles as of . There are registered users (including bots); are active, including administrators.
Like all Wi... | 711 |
Music & Entertainment Television (also known as ME Television and ME TV) is an Austin, Texas independent music television channel. Seen on Spectrum Government-access television (GATV) channel 15 and digital channel 577 in Austin, the channel is owned by the Austin Music Commission (a municipal agency), and operated by ... | 386 |
Faced with a plummeting currency — the rial — and toughened sanctions, Iran is warning that major speculators could face execution. (Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg)
Faced with a plummeting currency in the wake of toughened international sanctions, Iran is cracking down on black-market money changers and warning that major sp... | 1,069 |
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday called on the BRICS nations to intervene to end the conflict in his country, in a letter delivered by his adviser Bouthaina Shaaban during a trip to South Africa.
The BRICS acronym refers to the nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, all developing power... | 666 |
Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench (born 7 September 1941, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.
Trench first studied Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin, before moving on to the University of Georgia in 1963, and then the University of Cincinnati. From... | 366 |
Charles Fey (born August Fey in Vöhringen, Kingdom of Bavaria; September 9, 1862 – November 10, 1944) was a San Francisco mechanic best known for inventing the slot machine.
Career and invention
His father Karl worked as a sexton at the Ulm Minster cathedral and had fifteen children with Charles' mother Maria. As a ... | 484 |
Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich () ( – ) was a Russian public figure, philosopher, and poet.
Biography
Nikolay Stankevich was born in Uderevka, Voronezh Governorate, and in 1834 graduated from the Moscow State University, where he was influenced by Professor Mikhail Kachenovsky and followers of the so-called "skeptic... | 314 |
Jan Fethke (26 February 1903 – 16 December 1980) was a German-Polish film director and, under the pen name Jean Forge, a successful author. He also was a famous proponent of the language Esperanto.
Life
Born in Oppeln, Silesia, Jan Fethke attended Oppeln's grammar school. Together with his brothers Stefan and Edmond, ... | 574 |
Trisha Nicole Dykstra (; born 23 July 1972) is an Australian retired basketball player in the Australian Women's National Basketball League and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) of the United States. She also played with the Australian national team during the three consecutive Summer Olympics, starti... | 555 |
WASHINGTON — Time Warner Cable is the subject of a network neutrality interconnection-related complaint that appears to assert that a peering issue can be subject to bright-line rules that the Federal Communications Commission, in its Feb. 26 Open Internet order, had suggested did not apply.
Following through on its s... | 395 |
CORRECTION: The article has been revised to emphasize that the state of Nebraska as a whole has the highest rate of black homicide victimization in the country, not the city of Omaha. The author regrets the error.
Murder rates in the United States continue to plunge to historic lows -- even the blood-soaked streets of... | 975 |
(CBS News) HOUSTON - In Washington, the Supreme Court heard a third and final day of arguments over the health care law backed by President Barack Obama. It requires all Americans to have health insurance or pay a fine.
It was passed two years ago to help nearly 50 million Americans who are uninsured get coverage. Now... | 465 |
It’s a tale of two different teams when the Chicago Bears travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers on NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
The Steelers are 0-2 and are in desperate need of a win. The Bears are just the opposite as they sit at 2-0 and will be tested on the road for the first time this season.
The Bears ha... | 816 |
Youlbury Scout Activity Centre is one of a number of The Scout Association's National Scout Activity Centres in the United Kingdom and is the oldest permanent Scout campsite in the world (while Brownsea Island was the site of the first campsite, it was a private island for many years after).
The Centre, which is based... | 666 |
The Hellenic Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, HCDCP (Greek: Κέντρο Ελέγχου και Πρόληψης Νοσημάτων, ΚΕΕΛΠΝΟ) was Greece's public health organization until 2019. It was based in Athens, Greece, and was named "HCIDC" (Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control) up to 2005.
HCDCP was replaced in 2019 and i... | 79 |
On Nov. 15—and just in time for awkward Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners—nonbelievers everywhere celebrated Openly Secular Day. But being out about one’s secularity is often easier said than done.
While honesty may be said to be the best policy, for American atheists who are still in the metaphorical closet, it may ... | 1,901 |
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Looking beyond the upcoming election to the last few days of Barack Obama’s legal status as a president, it’s interesting to speculate who he might pardon from their past criminal behaviors, whether indicted, convicted, incarcerated or released, or whether they are just under investigation. Typically... | 907 |
Vida Vencienė (maiden name Vida Mogenytė; born 28 May 1961 in Ukmergė) is a former cross-country skier who represented the Soviet Union and later Lithuania from 1988 to 1994. She won a gold medal over 10 km and a bronze over 5 km at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary for the Soviet Union.
Her best finish at the FIS N... | 214 |
UPDATE: There are now pictures of me and Ingrid! They’re appended at the end of the post.
This was definitely the most fun I’ve ever had sitting around in the sun for hours waiting to walk down the street.
Last Sunday’s LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco was the largest ever, by a considerable margin — estimated at a... | 739 |
By Staff
A seven-year-old Saudi boy killed himself when he accidentally pulled the trigger of his father’s gun while he was playing with it, a newspaper reported on Monday.
One bullet hit the boy’s left hand while the other pierced into his heart, killing him instantly at his house in the southern town of Balgrashi, ... | 1,422 |
Annemarie Mol (born 13 September 1958) is a Dutch ethnographer and philosopher. She is the Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam.
Winner of the Constantijn & Christiaan Huijgens Grant from the NWO in 1990 to study 'Differences in Medicine', she was awarded a European Research Council Adv... | 323 |
Kevin Mackey (born August 21, 1946) is a former head coach of men's basketball at Cleveland State University. His CSU Vikings upset the Indiana Hoosiers and the Saint Joseph's Hawks to make the Sweet 16 in the 1986 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. He is also known for recruiting future NBA player Manute B... | 1,033 |
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) is a professional, philosophical association emerging from a history of conferences that began in 1986. Adopting its mission from these conferences, the IACAP exists in order to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational/informationa... | 456 |
DENVER — Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collections.
A bill pending in the Legislature would allow pot growers and retailers to reclassify their recreational pot as m... | 985 |
The State Department on Wednesday scored a victory in one of the multiple, ongoing open records lawsuits related to Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonSanders: 'I fully expect' fair treatment by DNC in 2020 after 'not quite even handed' 2016 primary Sanders: 'Damn right' I'll make the large corporations pay 'f... | 440 |
From 2010 until January this year, Republican Scott Brown represented the people of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. Now, in his post-government career, Brown is working with a company that has sold weapons to Bahrain, a country where the regime has been engaged in a brutal crackdown against its citizens for more than... | 615 |
The following is a list of attorneys general of North Dakota. Attorneys general previously were elected to a two year-term, which was extended to four in 1964.
See also
North Dakota Attorney General
External links
State of North Dakota official website
Former North Dakota attorneys general
Attorneys | 47 |
It’s a busy time for UK-based virtual reality (VR) developer, nDreams. The studio has recently launched its second title for the Gear VR mobile head-mounted display (HMD) in the form of Perfect Beach. With this experience now out of the way, the team is turning its attention back to its upcoming first-person adventure ... | 295 |
Acla was a Spanish colonial town founded by order of the Governor of Castilla de Oro, Pedrarias Dávila, in 1515. It was located on the central coastline of the modern-day Guna Yala, to the northeast of Panamá. The town's name means bones of men in the indigenous language. The name comes from the large number of bones s... | 232 |
was a Buddhist nun who is widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century. She was also a skilled potter and painter and expert calligrapher.
Biography
She was the daughter of a courtesan and a nobleman. Born into a samurai family with the surname Tōdō, she was adopted at a young ... | 499 |
TROUTDALE, Ore. -- Crews contained a large fire at Camping World in Wood Village that caused westbound Interstate 84 to be closed near Troutdale Thursday evening.
Gresham fire officials said a propane tank exploded during the fire and engulfed three firefighters in flames. Other firefighters jumped on them to put out ... | 217 |
Male-to-female crossplay requires males to dress up as female characters. But this is unequal to easily put on a woman’s dress. To make up to cover male features like joint, shoulder breadth and facial form is necessary. Substantial items are needed to help males seem more beautiful. Also, attire and makeup are essenti... | 911 |
106-year-old Antarctic fruitcake found, might be edible Newly discovered artifact of South Pole expedition in 'excellent condition'
Move over, Twinkies. You've been bested in the "food that refuses to decompose" department, and the contest wasn't even close.
Conservators with the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage ... | 356 |
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