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Michael Kovats de Fabriczy (often simply Michael Kovats; ; 1724 – May 11, 1779) was a Hungarian nobleman and cavalry officer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, in which he was killed in action. General Casimir Pulaski and Kovats are together known as the "Founding Fathers of the U... |
Paul was engrossed in the game on tv. He wanted to get up to get a snack, but he didn't want to miss a second. He paused his DVR and ran to the kitchen. When he got back, he saw that he'd pushed the wrong button. The TV was off and he'd missed the final seconds! |
The article lists the people of importance from (or related to) the city of Guntur of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. |
Ernest was playing video games. The sound of explosions and gunfire emitted from the television. His mother walked in the room and sighed. She turned off the television, much to Ernest's protest. Ernest had been playing all morning. |
Tim and his friends were going to a party. There were a lot of people riding together. They arrived at the house but it was surprisingly quiet. Everyone tried to walk into the backyard. It was the wrong address and they all got kicked out. |
Æthelred (; c. 762 – 18 April 796), was the king of Northumbria from 774 to 779 and again from 790 until he was murdered in 796. He was the son of Æthelwald Moll and Æthelthryth and possibly became king while still a child after Alhred was deposed. |
Sue was out playing in the field. Suddenly, a crunching noise was heard under her foot. She accidentally stepped on a fallen beehive. A swarm of angry bees flew at her. Sue didn't stop running until she was safe in her home. |
Richard Stanley Thorp (2 January 1932 – 22 May 2013) was an English actor. He was best known for his 30-year tenure portraying Alan Turner in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1982 to 2013. He also appeared in films such as The Dam Busters (1955) and The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957). |
Lina Kačiušytė (born 1 January 1963 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR) is a Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union, winner of a gold medal in 200 m breaststroke with the Olympic record time of 2:29:54 at the 1980 Summer Olympics. |
QGIS is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that supports viewing, editing, printing, and analysis of geospatial data. |
Niles escaped from prison. He used devious methods to slip away. But he didn't count on tracker dogs! The guards set dogs on his scent. Within hours, Niles was caught and jailed - again. |
My sister took my daughter for the week. She spoils her so much when she is with her. She buys her all types of things. My daughter loves spending time with her. She loves visiting with her. |
Aleksandr Yurievich Domogarov (, born 12 July 1963) is a Soviet and Russian theater actor, TV presenter, Russian chanson singer, People's Artist of Russia (2007), actor known for playing historical roles. |
In Unix shells, wait is a command which pauses until execution of a background process has ended. |
The E1000 is a 3G/GSM candybar style mobile phone developed by Motorola. This product was announced in February 2004. The E1000 was made to replace Motorola's older 3G phones such as the A835 and A845. The E1000 includes an mp3 player and stereo speakers. It is able to record video and taking mega pixel stills. The ... |
The Armement Air-Sol Modulaire (Modular Air-to-Ground Armament), commonly called AASM or HAMMER, is a French precision-guided munition developed by Safran Electronics & Defense. AASM comprises a frontal guidance kit and a rear-mounted range extension kit matched to a dumb bomb. The weapon is modular because it can inte... |
"The Greater Good" is the 21st episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by David Grossman and written by Leonard Dick. It first aired on May 4, 2005, on ABC. The character of Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) is featured in the episode's flashbacks. |
KPOI-FM (105.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Honolulu, Hawaii, known as "105.9 The Wave, Hawaii's Relaxing Favorites." The Pacific Media Group outlet broadcasts a soft adult contemporary radio format, switching to Christmas music for part of November and December. The radio studios are in Downtown Honolulu. |
The Caxcan are an ethnic group who are indigenous to western and north-central Mexico, particularly the regions corresponding to modern-day Zacatecas, southern Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Nayarit. The Caxcan language is most often documented as an ancient variant of Nahuatl and is a member of the Uto-Azte... |
Todd didn't like Scott because he thought he was a bookworm. One day, he watched Scott playing chess with an older kid. Scott won the game quickly, making everybody applaud. Todd asked Scott to teach him the game. They became good friends for the rest of their lives. |
The Cambridge News (formerly the Cambridge Evening News) is a British daily newspaper. Published each weekday and on Saturdays, it is distributed from its Milton base. In the period December 2010 – June 2011 it had an average daily circulation of 20,987, but by December 2016 this had fallen to around 13,000. In 2018, t... |
Jim loved Magic the Gathering. He was a pretty good player. He decided to join a tournament. Jim got a respectable second place. He won a fun prize. |
Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro; June 26, 1915 – November 19, 2013) was an American writer, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children. She wrote about 70 picture book texts. |
Cedar Creek is a tributary of the James River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is notable for flowing through the Natural Bridge rock formation, a National Historic Landmark. |
John O'Leary is a British journalist, formerly editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and previously Education Editor of The Times. He is also the author of the Times Good University Guide since 2005. At Sheffield University he was both President of the students' union and editor of the university newspaper D... |
East Aurora High School, (also known as EAHS or Aurora East High School), is a public, four-year high school located in Kane County, at the corner of Smith Boulevard and Fifth Avenue in Aurora, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. It is the only high school in East Aurora Public School District 131. |
Gu Chaohao (; May 15, 1926 – June 24, 2012) was a Chinese mathematician. He graduated from National Chekiang University (Zhejiang University) in 1948, and received a doctorate in physics and mathematical science from Moscow University in 1959. He was primarily engaged in research on partial differential equations, diff... |
Earth Defense Force is a series of video games created by Japanese studio Sandlot. |
Frederick William Engdahl (born August 9, 1944) is an American writer based in Germany. He identifies himself as an "economic researcher, historian and freelance journalist." |
John Joseph Burdock (April 1852 – November 27, 1931), nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for several teams over a 20-year playing career. Burdock was known as a skilled fielder, and he recorded the first known out on a major-league hidden ball trick. He was player... |
Believe... There's Magic In The Stars was a nighttime fireworks show at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The show was introduced in early 2000 for the Resort's 45th Anniversary, replacing the long running Fantasy in the Sky fireworks display. At the time, the show was the most complex and lavish ever to be... |
The Tazers is an American punk rock band that was formed in 1979 in the city of La Habra, California. The group was a part of the Orange County music scene. The band members included Charlie Glancy on lead guitar and metal trash can, Craig Brisco on drums, Mitch McNally, and Sean Brown on vocals and the guitar. |
Catherine de Foix (c. 1455 – died before 1494) was a French noblewoman. |
Najash is an extinct genus of basal snake from the Late Cretaceous Candeleros Formation of Patagonia. Like a number of other Cretaceous and living snakes it retained hindlimbs, but Najash is unusual in having well-developed legs that extend outside the rib cage, and a pelvis connected to the spine. |
Kate's mom had a virus on her computer. It was Kate's job to clean it for her. She ran a virus scan and found something. She ran a different one and found a few more. However there were so many the virus scans couldn't catch them all. |
Punt Road Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as the Swinburne Centre, is an Australian rules football ground and former cricket oval located within the Yarra Park precinct of East Melbourne, Victoria, situated a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). |
Sideritis, also known as ironwort, mountain tea, and shepherd's tea, is a genus of flowering plants known for their use as herbal medicine, commonly as a herbal tea. They are abundant in Mediterranean regions, the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia, but can also be found in Central Europe and temperate Asia... |
Bella wanted to cook some spaghetti and meatballs. She discovered she had no pasta noodles. She found a recipe online that used spaghetti squash instead. Bella luckily had a spaghetti squash on hand. She was surprised to find the spaghetti and meatballs delicious! |
Keith Bishop (born March 10, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 10 seasons with the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He was a Pro Bowl selection in 1986 and 1987. |
Tom was hungry. He didn't want to cook. He scrounged up some change around his apartment. Tom was able to get some fast food. It wasn't much but it filled him up. |
The subfamily Sminthopsinae includes several genera of small, carnivorous marsupials native to Australia: kultarrs, ningauis, dunnarts, and planigales. |
Stanley bought Pam a toaster for her wedding to Roy. The wedding was called off, so Pam returned the toaster to Stanley. Stanley tried to return the toaster to the store where he bought it. He was unable to do this, as the store no longer carried that toaster. Now, Stanley's house has two toasters. |
Vikramaditya I (655–680 CE) was the third son and followed his father, Pulakeshi II on to the Chalukya throne. He restored order in the fractured kingdom and made the Pallavas retreat from the capital Vatapi. |
WWYC (1560 AM) is a radio station in Toledo, Ohio. It is now a repeater of KAWZ in Twin Falls, Idaho, the originator of a network of repeaters and mostly translators owned by CSN International. |
Authority and management of civil law and order in Algeria is shared by the Sûreté Nationale, or Directorate General for National Security (DGSN), the civilian police force, under the Ministry of Interior, and the Gendarmerie Nationale under the Ministry of National Defence. |
Relapsing fever is a vector-borne disease caused by infection with certain bacteria in the genus Borrelia, which is transmitted through the bites of lice or soft-bodied ticks (genus Ornithodoros). |
Johnny had a vivid imagination. He always thought about new characters and different stories. Johnny took a creative writing class and began to write novels. Johnny used his incredible imagination to write interesting books. Johnny became a best-selling author. |
Leslie had been going to auctions for months. She was looking for antique furniture. One day, she spotted a beautiful buffet. Bidding kept going higher but she was not going to cave! She spent a fortune on the piece. |
Emilie Louise O'Konor (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish retired ice hockey player. She won a silver medal with the Swedish national team in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2006 Winter Olympics. |
is a 1988 Japanese anime OVA release directed by Yuji Moriyama. It is the third installment of the Project A-ko series. |
Islandstorget is a station in the Stockholm metro on the Green line. It is located in the district of Södra Ängby, which is part of the borough of Bromma in the west of the city of Stockholm. The station is above ground with a single island platform. The entrance is from Blackebergsvägen, which passes over the line. On... |
Geni was unhappy with her and her husband's living situation. She wanted him to make more money for her and their children. She said she'd be happy caring for the children and home full time. Her husband got a better paying job, but is away for months at a time. She is still unhappy, and doesn't like caring for the chi... |
Osco is a former municipality in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 1 April 2012, it was incorporated into the municipality of Faido along with the former municipalities of Anzonico, Calpiogna, Campello, Cavagnago, Chironico and Mairengo. |
The Grant Public School District is a K–12 public school district located in Grant, Michigan. The district operates in the City of Grant, and the townships of Ashland, Bridgeton, Ensley, Grant, and portions of Casnovia, Garfield, Solon, Tyrone, and Moorland. It is a constituent of the Newaygo County Regional Educationa... |
My daughter and I made up a dance. We picked one of our favorite songs. We practiced for two nights. We finally got it perfected. We performed for the whole family. |
Judith Mahdavi Lefeber (born 14 March, 1981) is a German singer, who gained fame as a finalist of the first season of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol. |
The southern sandfishes are a family, Leptoscopidae, of perciform fishes inhabiting the Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters of Australia and New Zealand. |
Pushpaka Vimana () is a 1987 Indian black comedy film written and directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, who co-produced it with Shringar Nagaraj. The film, which has no dialogue, stars Kamal Haasan leading an ensemble cast that includes Samir Khakhar, Tinu Anand, K. S. Ramesh, Amala, Farida Jalal, Pratap Potan, Lokanath... |
Quincy is a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" system. It is located between the and stations on the Loop. The station is located above the intersection of Quincy Street and Wells Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Having opened in 1897, it is one of the oldest surviving stations on the 'L' system. |
West Philadelphia Borough, also known as West Philadelphia District, is a defunct borough that was located west of the Schuylkill River in Blockley Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The borough ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act ... |
When Billy gets up in the morning he always has a cup of coffee. If he doesn't get his coffee he gets very grumpy. This morning, Billy didn't have any time to drink coffee. He was grumpy all day until he was able to have some at lunch time. The rest of the day he felt energized and happy. |
Luna de Xelajú is a very popular Guatemalan waltz composed by Paco Pérez in 1944. |
Vive La Famille () is a Mediacorp TV Channel 8 Singapore Chinese drama serial that revolves around a big family that faces many problems which other Singaporean families may also face, such as expenses on giving birth to a child, staying with their in-laws, etc. There are 2 parts of the show and were aired in 2002 and ... |
I really wanted to make my roommate pay for his past pranks. I called Pizza Hut and ordered twenty pizzas to be delivered for him. When the pizzas arrived I acted ignorant about the situation. My roommate was angry but finally agreed to pay the delivery guy. We ate pizza for two weeks straight! |
Dulles Town Center is a two-level enclosed shopping mall in Sterling in Loudoun County, Virginia. It is located north of Washington Dulles International Airport. It is part of the Dulles Town Center census-designated place for population statistical purposes. |
Campylodoniscus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Argentina. |
My friend caught his son jerking off and decided to have the talk. He's mildly religious, so his talk was not to do it God hates it. His son said God made his hand too perfect for his knob not to do it. My religious friend was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say. Everybody at the office is talking about it and laug... |
Harry and Barry were friends. Barry decided to go emo. Harry didn't like that. Harry decided to be a cowboy. They formed their own cliques. |
Carbaminohemoglobin (carbaminohaemoglobin BrE) (CO2Hb, also known as carbhemoglobin and carbohemoglobin) is a compound of hemoglobin and carbon dioxide, and is one of the forms in which carbon dioxide exists in the blood. Twenty-three percent of carbon dioxide is carried in blood this way (70% is converted into bicar... |
John M. Riggs (born December 2, 1946) is a retired United States Army general. He was retired in 2005. He had attained the rank of lieutenant general, but was retired with the loss of one star, at the rank of major general. According to the army, this was because of misuse of contractors, but some of Riggs' supporters ... |
Dave Price (born 1962) is an American journalist who has edited, published and founded a number of free daily newspapers including the Daily News and the Daily Post in Palo Alto, California, and the Aspen Times Daily in Aspen, Colorado. |
Santino Quinto Rice (born 20 August 1974) is an American fashion designer and television personality. He is best known for his appearances on the reality television programs Project Runway, RuPaul's Drag Race and On the Road with Austin and Santino. |
Mia Mia is a locality of Central Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne and south of Bendigo. It is largely an area of broadacre farms raising cattle and sheep. It is a part of the Heathcote wine region Wine District and a number of vineyards have been established in the area, most notably producing Shiraz grapes... |
George Washington Martin, Jr. (June 25, 1876 – November 21, 1948) was a prominent lawyer, jurist, and member of the Democratic Party in Kings County, Brooklyn, New York. As a lawyer he defended many criminals at trial, and then later as a judge presided over a number of trials involving underworld figures associated wi... |
Lido (Serbian Cyrillic: Лидо) is a non-residential urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun. |
Athigaratty (also known as Adigaratty) is a hamlet located in the Nilgiri Hills in the state of Tamil Nadu. One of the largest villages in the Nilgirs South India with over 800 households. |
Sally was in freshman biology. She was warned she would have to do dissections. It was time to dissect a frog. When Sally saw her frog, she passed out. Sally failed her frog dissection. |
Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, which along with Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park and Entiako Provincial Park were once part of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, then B. C.'s largest park, located in the Coast Range. |
Miraani Dam (). Dasht River south of the Central Makran Range in Kech District in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Its reservoir is fed by the Kech River and the Nihing River. Mirani Dam was completed in July 2006 and began impounding the Dasht River in August 2006. |
Montesquieu (; Languedocien: Senta Tecla de Montesquiu) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. |
A JP1 remote is a type of universal remote, usually with a six-pin interface connector labeled "JP1" in the battery compartment, manufactured by Universal Electronics Inc. The JP1 interface allows the remote to be reprogrammed, adding new code lists and functions. Home theater hobbyists use JP1 to avoid obsolescence. |
Diogo Ribeiro (d. 16 August 1533) was a Portuguese cartographer and explorer who worked most of his life in Spain where he was known as Diego Ribero. He worked on the official maps of the Padrón Real (or Padrón General) from 1518 to 1532. He also made navigation instruments, including astrolabes and quadrants. |
Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon (11 May 1911 – 22 December 1985) (also written as Vailoppilli) was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature. Known for his works such as Kudiyozhikkal, Kannikkoythu and Mambazham, Menon was the founder president of the Purogamana Kala Sahitya Sangham, an organisation of Kerala-based artists, wr... |
Howard Morley Sachar (February 10, 1928 – April 18, 2018) was an American historian. He was Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and the author of 16 books, as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals, on the subjects of Middle Eastern a... |
He poured a glass of wine. She turned the lights down low. Once he poured two glasses of wine, he nodded his head. She took that as a signal to turn on the radio which she did. He handed her one glass of wine. |
The Man-Bull is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. |
The 2004 IRL IndyCar Series was dominated by two teams, Andretti Green Racing and Rahal Letterman Racing. While there was great parity in 2003 between Honda and Toyota powered teams, in 2004 Honda began to outshine Toyota bringing their teams Penske Racing and Chip Ganassi Racing down with it, leaving Scott Dixon winle... |
Gary Roger Rydstrom (born June 29, 1959) is an American sound designer and film director. He has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies, winning 7. |
The Selden Society is a learned society and registered charity concerned with the study of English legal history. It functions primarily as a text publication society, but also undertakes other activities to promote scholarship within its sphere of interest. It is the only learned society wholly devoted to the topic of... |
Sam got balloons for his birthday. He forgot to tie them down right. When he went outside with them a strong gust hit. The wind snatched the balloons and floated them away. Sam apologized for it. |
Before Hollywood is the second album by Australian rock band the Go-Betweens, released in May 1983. The album reached No. 2 on the UK Independent Charts and a single, "Cattle and Cane" reached No. 4. In 2001 "Cattle and Cane" was voted as one of the 30 all-time best Australian songs in an Australasian Performing Right... |
Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä is a bog region in Savukoski, Lapland in Finland. Its name is 35 letters long and is the longest place name in Finland, and also the third longest, if names with spaces or hyphens are included, in Europe. It has also been the longest official place name in the European Union since 31... |
The Musa connector (for Multiple Unit Steerable Array/Antenna) is a type of coaxial ("coax") connector, originally developed for the manual switching of radio signals. It has a characteristic impedance of 75 Ω, and was adopted for use in the emerging television broadcast industry. |
Belle Gunness, born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth (November 11, 1859 – possibly April 28, 1908), nicknamed Hell's Belle, was a Norwegian-American serial killer who was active in Illinois and Indiana between 1884 and 1908. Gunness is thought to have killed at least fourteen people, most of whom were men she enticed to v... |
The Athanasian Creed — also called the Pseudo-Athanasian Creed or Quicunque Vult (or Quicumque Vult), which is both its Latin name and its opening words, meaning "Whosoever wishes" — is a Christian statement of belief focused on Trinitarian doctrine and Christology. Used by Christian churches since the early sixth cent... |
This is a list of mayors of Roswell, Georgia, United States. |
Pacific High School is an alternative high school in the Sitka School District located in Sitka, Alaska. It serves as an educational alternative to Sitka High School. It is based on the Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound (ELOB) curriculum. |
Tyler would always play shadow puppets when he was suppose to sleep. He would stay up so late making all kinds of shapes. His mom hated how tired he was every morning before school. One night Tyler saw another set of hands making shapes. In fear he hid under the covers and fell asleep, his mom tricked him. |
David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician and film score composer and sound designer. |
Tommy enjoys playing video games on his xbox. He wants a new game for his birthday. He asks his mother and she says no. He asks his father and he says no. They were lying the whole time and got him the game he wanted. |
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