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My 99 year old friend Joe was on the bench today. My son and his friend delivered a rug to our apartment. Joe has met my son several times. Today he did not recognize him at all. I fear Joe's dementia is progressing. |
Tim was hiking up a mountain with friends. He wasn't paying attention and lost his footing. Tim tumbled down down for a few yards. He was severely hurt. Tim's friends had to call for help and carry him. |
In probability theory and statistics, the factorial moment generating function (FMGF) of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable X is defined as |
Weigel Broadcasting Co. is an American television broadcasting company based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26), at 26 North Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood. It currently owns 25 television stations, seven digital over-the-air television networks (most notably MeTV), ... |
Artemisin is a sesquiterpene lactone, similar in structure to α-santonin. |
This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This article contains terms starting with P – R. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other articles. |
During the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Diana's partner, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were found dead inside the car. Dodi's bodyguard, Trevor Re... |
Muskego High School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Muskego, Wisconsin. The school, administered by the Muskego-Norway School District, lies in southeast Waukesha County, in southeast Wisconsin. Muskego High School, related to a racism scandal in early 2023, the district stretches through the city of Mu... |
Max Pallenberg (born 18 December 1877 in Vienna as Max Pollack – 26 June 1934 in Karlovy Vary) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. |
Flora Clift Stevenson (30 October 1839 – 28 September 1905) was a British social reformer with a special interest in education for poor or neglected children, and in education for girls and equal university access for women. She was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to be elected to a school board. |
Guy Frederick Ecker (born February 9, 1959) is an American actor. |
Donny Ray Willett (born July 16, 1966) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was previously appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas on August 24, 2005, when former Justice Priscilla Owen created a vacancy on th... |
Mitch was transcribing audio data for work. He always dreaded hearing Sue's voice. She would ramble on and on with many filler words. Mitch often dreamed of finding her office and slitting her throat. But today he merely hit the rewind button harder and persevered. |
U.S. Army Major Dale Richard Buis (August 29, 1921 – July 8, 1959) was the second American casualty of the Vietnam War killed at the hands of the Vietcong. He is the first name listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. |
Happy Flowers was an American musical group, formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1983 by two members of the Landlords, John Beers ("Mr. Horribly Charred Infant", drums, vocals) and Charlie Kramer ("Mr. Anus", guitar, vocals), both students at the University of Virginia. This duo combines improvisational noise punk... |
Kate had her eye on a dress at the mall. She knew she could not afford it. She decided to save up until she could. When she had enough money, she went back to the store. However, the dress was sold out. |
Tedburn St Mary is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, approximately 8 miles west of Exeter. It has a population of approximately 1500. The village is the principal population centre of the electoral ward called Teignbridge North. The population of the ward at the 2011 census is 2,... |
State Route 175 (SR 175) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs through the Mayacamas Mountains, connecting U.S. Route 101 in Hopland in Mendocino County with State Route 29 in Middletown in Lake County. |
Cindy got a new job. And she complained about it on her Facebook. Her employer found the Facebook posts. And Cindy was fired the next day. Cindy got another job but never publicly posted about it. |
Miguel Francisco Barragán Andrade (8 March 1789 – 1 March 1836) was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim president of Mexico in 1836. He had previously served as Governor of Veracruz, and gained national fame for the capture of the Fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in 1824, through which Spanish military p... |
Warren Alwyn Simpson (28 March 1922 – 28 June 1980) was an Australian snooker player. He was world amateur champion before turning professional in the early 1960s. |
The Machu Picchu arboreal chinchilla rat (Cuscomys oblativus) is a large species of South American chinchilla rats, known from skeletal remains found by members of the Peruvian Expedition of 1912. The animals were buried alongside people in ancient Inca tombs at Machu Picchu in Peru. It was considered extinct by the IU... |
Don was at the pool. His friends challenged him to race. Don agreed if there was a prize. Winner got ice cream. Don won and got a free treat. |
Michelle Sheetz (born February 9, 1970), better known as Danni Leigh, is an American country music singer. At age 19, she relocated to Orlando, Florida, intending to audition as a singer at Disney World, but ended up moving to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1994. |
Nicetas, known only from Latin sources who call him papa Nicetas, is said to have been the Bogomil bishop of Constantinople. In the 1160s he went to Lombardy. His purpose was apparently to reinforce the dualist beliefs of the Cathars of these regions, and, in particular, to throw doubt on the validity of their spiritua... |
Tolk is a municipality in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 km northeast of Schleswig, and 26 km southeast of Flensburg. |
J. Howard Starr Rink is a 2,000-seat arena in Hamilton, New York. It opened in 1959 and was the home of the Colgate Raiders men's and women's ice hockey teams until 2016. The arena was dedicated in honor of former head coach John Howard Starr on December 11, 1959. The hockey arena was built as the southern half of the ... |
Warlmanpa (also Walmala) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language. |
Viscount Monsell, of Evesham in the County of Worcester, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 November 1935 for the Conservative politician Bolton Eyres-Monsell. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, in 1993. |
Loose forward may refer to playing positions in both rugby football sports: |
I once lived with someone who I considered a friend. We moved in together shortly after high school. Over time they became less of a friend. When I decided to move they decided to steal all the lightbulbs. It was a very petty end to a friendship. |
David Earl Nelson (June 20, 1944 – April 22, 2018) was an American professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators / Texas Rangers, and Kansas City Royals from 1968 through 1977. He also served as one of the broadcasters for the Milwaukee Brewers on Fox... |
Davis Miller (born 1963) is an American author, notable for a series of works that combine reportage and autobiography. Miller's books include The Tao of Muhammad Ali and The Tao of Bruce Lee: a martial arts memoir, both of which have been number-one bestsellers in the United Kingdom and Japan, as well as The Zen of ... |
The term "need to know", when used by government and other organizations (particularly those related to the military or espionage), describes the restriction of data which is considered very sensitive. Under need-to-know restrictions, even if one has all the necessary official approvals (such as a security clearance) t... |
Gangelt is a municipality in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is on the border with the Netherlands and about 10 km east of Sittard and 10 km south-west of Heinsberg. |
Doug went to the mailbox to fetch the day's mail. He opened the box and took out some letters. Suddenly a swarm of wasps came out of the mailbox. Doug dropped the mail and fled the scene. He ran inside without the mail and shut the door behind him. |
Adams loved cereal a lot. One day, he decided he would eat it every day. After many months, he was sick of cereal. He loved it so he kept eating it. Finally one day, he stopped eating cereal forever. |
Alex likes to play basketball. He challenged his neighbor to a game. The neighbor is much taller than Alex. The neighbor won the game easily. Alex no longer asks his neighbor to play basketball. |
Stalybridge officially sometimes written in early years as Staleybridge was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1868 until 1918 by one MP. It comprised the borough of Stalybridge which lay in Lancashire and Cheshire and which is in the east of today's Greater Manchester. On ab... |
(she also goes by the pseudonym ) is a Japanese singer and composer from Ibaraki prefecture in Japan. Itō has composed the soundtracks to many anime television shows and is part of the bands Oranges & Lemons and Heart of Air. |
Seduced and Abandoned () is a 1964 Italian film directed by Pietro Germi. It was screened at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. |
Minyue (; Pinyin: Mǐnyuè, Mínyuè) was an ancient kingdom in what is now the Fujian province in southern China. It was a contemporary of the Han dynasty, and was later annexed by the Han empire as the dynasty expanded southward. The kingdom existed approximately from 334 BC to 110 BC. |
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp is the fourteenth book in the original Goosebumps, the series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine. The story follows Grady Tucker, who moves into a new house next to the Fever Swamp with his family. After a swamp deer is killed, his father believes Grady... |
Elei Sinai () was an Israeli settlement in the north of the Gaza Strip. |
The men's 400 metres race was the second-shortest of the flat-track events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. The competition's preliminary round was the last held on the first day, 6 April. The competitors were split into two groups. The top two runners in each heat advanced to the final, which wa... |
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica. An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift. The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and has a mean transport estimated at 100–150 Sver... |
In geometry, the hyperplane separation theorem is a theorem about disjoint convex sets in n-dimensional Euclidean space. There are several rather similar versions. In one version of the theorem, if both these sets are closed and at least one of them is compact, then there is a hyperplane in between them and even two pa... |
Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. |
Gundamaian is a locality in the Royal National Park on the outskirts of southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 2.5 km southeast of Gymea Bay on the southern side of Port Hacking. |
Hank's father always goes on hunting trips in the fall. One time Hank was invited to go. After his first lesson with a rifle Hank settled into a blind. He and his father sat and talked about life for hours. They didn't find any deer that year but Hank enjoyed the experience. |
Yechiel (Eli) Shainblum שיינבלום, יחיאל, also Sheinblum, was a Canadian painter, sculptor and teacher. Though he was a respected and prolific artist who produced literally hundreds of pieces beginning in the 1920s and on through the early 1980s, Shainblum was much better known in Montreal as an elementary school teache... |
This is a list of cases reported in volume 47 (6 How.) of United States Reports, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States from December 1847 to March 1848. |
The 2003–04 Danish 1st Division season was the 59th season of the Danish 1st Division league championship and the 18th consecutive as a second tier competition governed by the Danish Football Association. |
Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers (9 January 1845 – 6 June 1924), better known by her pen name Laure Conan, was a French Canadian writer and journalist. She is regarded as one of the first French-Canadian female novelists and the writer of the first French Canadian psychological novel. |
I went to Bestbuy and started looking for phones. I didn't know what phone I wanted. All the phones look great. However, the Best Buy employee recommended the iPhone. So I've purchased an iPhone based on the employee. |
Moving Pictures was a quarterly magazine focusing on the film industry and the art of film. It was published from 1989 to 2012. The corporate motto was "Going places other film magazines fear to tread". |
Chris was broken up with for being to childish. Three months later he had a missed call from his ex. When he called her back she told him she was pregnant. She told him the baby was his. Chris immediately grew up to become the best dad he could be. |
G. S. Sachdev (born Gurbachan Singh Sachdev, in Lyallpur, Punjab, 1935 – June 24, 2018) was an Indian performer of the bansuri (bamboo flute). He performed Hindustani classical music. |
During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the French, British and U.S. forces built and occupied a number of forts at Vincennes, Indiana. These outposts commanded a strategic position on the Wabash River. The names of the installations were changed by the various ruling parties, and the forts were considered strategic ... |
Howe High School is a secondary school located in the rural town of Howe, Oklahoma. The school educates students in 9th–12th grades. |
In law, an absolute defence (or defense) is a factual circumstance or argument that, if proven, will end the litigation in favor of the defendant. The concept of an absolute defence is not a rigid one. Statutes frequently use the term merely as a synonym to "full" or "complete". It is more often used, however, as a t... |
Dean Street is a street in Soho, central London, running from Oxford Street south to Shaftesbury Avenue. |
Lagunitas Creek is a -long northward-flowing stream in Marin County, California. It is critically important to the largest spawning runs of endangered coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Central California Coast Coho salmon Evolutionary Significant Unit (CCC ESU). |
Hank was house shopping. He narrowed it down to three houses. He looked at them all. He discussed options with the realtor. He could not make up his mind on which one. |
KJCE (1370 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Rollingwood, Texas, and serving the Greater Austin radio market. The station airs a talk radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. The radio studios and offices are on Westbank Drive, off Loop 360, near Westlake High School. The transmitter is off Johnny Morris... |
Palavela, formerly known as Palazzo delle Mostre and Palazzo a Vela is an indoor arena that is located in Turin, Italy, on the bank of the River Po. It was designed by engineer Franco Levi and architects Annibale and Giorgio Rigotti. The arena is 130 metres in diameter. It has a seating capacity for a maximum 12,200 pe... |
The Beano (formerly The Beano Comic, also known as Beano) is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Its first issue was published on 30 July 1938, and it published its 4000th issue in August 2019. Popular and well-known comic strips and characters include Dennis the Mena... |
Paul Johansson (born January 26, 1964) is an American-born Canadian actor and director in film and television, best known for playing Dan Scott on the WB/CW series, One Tree Hill, The Notebook and for his role as Nick Wolfe on the short lived Highlander: The Series spin-off Highlander: The Raven. He directed the 2011 ... |
Beth went to the furniture store to buy a table. She was really confused what kind of table she wanted. The customer service representative decided to help. They got into a friendly conversation about their interests. The representative ended up helping Beth get her table. |
Gerhard Wilck (17 June 1898 – 5 April 1985) was the German commander who defended the German city of Aachen in the Battle of Aachen. He surrendered on 21 October 1944 against the orders of Hitler, after a stubborn defence and bitter urban warfare. |
The 1939 24 Hours of Le Mans () was the 16th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place at Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France, on 17 and 18 June 1939. The 1939 programme cover depicted the raising of six nations' flags: France, Italy, Great Britain (its civil Red Ensign), Belgium, Germany, and the United States. |
James Edgar Claxton (December 14, 1892 - March 3, 1970) was a Canadian-American baseball pitcher, and the first black man to play organized white baseball in the twentieth century. |
Christ College, formerly known as the Presbyterian Theological Centre, is the theological college of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales. It provides theological education for ministry candidates and members of the laity. It is an approved teaching institution of the Australian College of Theology. |
Brown Bag Films (BBF) is an Irish television CGI and computer animation production studio owned by Canadian production studio 9 Story Media Group and based in Dublin with 2D and 3D animation facilities in Bali, Los Angeles, Toronto and formerly Manchester. |
David Gregory Pisoni (; born 1963) is a South Australian politician. He has been a member of the South Australian House of Assembly since 2006, representing the electorate of Unley for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. Pisoni served as the Minister for Industry and Skills (later Innovatio... |
Ge with descender (Ӷ ӷ; italics: Ӷ ӷ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script formed from the Cyrillic letter Ge (Г г Г г) by adding a descender. In Unicode this letter is called "Ghe with descender". |
Mary works in the office. She was running late this morning. She did not want her boss to find out. She sneaked into the office. She pretended she had been there since 8am. |
Gajabahu I (lit. 'Arm of an elephant'), also known as Gajabahuka Gamani (c. 113 – 135 CE), was a Sinhalese king of Rajarata in Sri Lanka. He is renowned for his military prowess, religious benefactions, extensive involvement in South Indian politics, and for possibly introducing the cult of the goddess Pattini to Sri L... |
Moyry Castle (from the Irish Maġ Rí or "plain of the king") is situated in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was built during the latter stages of the Nine Years' War in June 1601 by Lord Mountjoy to help secure Moyry Pass and the Gap of the North. It is set in the corner of a small bawn and is a small rectangular to... |
, is a Confucian temple () in Yushima, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in end of the 17th century during the Genroku era of the Edo period. Towards the late Edo period, one of the most important educational institutions of the shogunate, the ), or , was founded on its grounds. |
Return of the Killer A's is a compilation / best of album by American heavy metal band Anthrax, released in 1999. |
Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American Modernist painter. |
HNoMS Vidar was a Vale-class Rendel gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1878. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class were Vale, Brage, Nor and Uller. |
Josiah couldn't wait to be taller. He had his mother measure his height against the wall every month. He gained a few inches only very slowly. But when he hit puberty, he was elated. Every week his height was skyrocketing on the wall! |
High Street station may refer to: |
They planted a sunflower garden at their house in the city. They watched it grow all summer. The traffic by their house got heavy when the sunflowers bloomed. Many people yelled something nice as they drove past the garden. When the sunflowers died the traffic went back to normal. |
Muráň Castle (; ), is a ruin of a medieval castle above the village of Muráň, in the Muránska planina National Park in Slovakia. The castle is noteworthy for its unusually high elevation of 935 m, making it the third highest castle in Slovakia. It also figures in several romantic legends about its owners. Murány Castle... |
Dan was about to start in his modern art class. He was a bit nervous because the topic seemed boring to him. On his first day he was feeling very biased against the class. To his surprise, he ended up enjoying the subject from day one. Soon, he had developed a huge passion for art. |
Leith McDonald Ratten was a convicted murderer from Echuca, Australia whose case ignited controversy and national interest in the 1970s. Leading lawyers were convinced of his innocence. He died in January 2012. |
In mathematics, a Fatou–Bieberbach domain is a proper subdomain of , biholomorphically equivalent to . That is, an open set is called a Fatou–Bieberbach domain if there exists a bijective holomorphic function whose inverse function is holomorphic. It is well-known that the inverse can not be polynomial. |
Bob was hearing ringing in his ears. He didn't know what to do. He went to the doctors. The doctor gave him a prescription for it. The ringing went away in only a day. |
In probability theory, a Hunt process is a strong Markov process which is quasi-left continuous with respect to the minimum completed admissible filtration . |
Bang! is a compilation album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood given a Japan-only release during 1985. It is the first compilation album by the group, and the first to gather together various remixes that were difficult to find at the time. The album has subsequently become a collectors item in its own right. |
Terre Haute South Vigo High School is a public high school located in Terre Haute, Indiana. As the name implies, the school's district covers the southern portion of Terre Haute, as well as most of southern Vigo County, the county in which Terre Haute is located. |
Jim wanted some bread for a sandwich. He'd frozen a loaf in his freezer. When Jim tried to toast the bread he ended up burning it. Jim threw out the burnt toast and tried again. His toasted bread turned out perfectly the second time. |
This is a list of newspapers in South Korea. |
Peter Müller (born 6 October 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. |
Dóminus vobíscum (Latin: "The Lord be with you") is an ancient salutation and blessing traditionally used by the clergy in the Masses of the Catholic Church and other liturgies, as well as liturgies of other Western Christian denominations, such as Lutheranism, Anglicanism and Methodism. |
Epinastine (brand names Alesion, Elestat, Purivist, Relestat) is a second-generation antihistamine and mast cell stabilizer that is used in eye drops to treat allergic conjunctivitis. It is produced by Allergan and marketed by Inspire in the United States. It is highly selective for the H1 receptor and does not cross t... |
The Botswana Central Bank Staff Union (BCBSU) is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana. |
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