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Lana loved horses. So she saved money for horseback riding lessons. She was ecstatic when she approached her teacher and horse. But when she started to get on the horse, she became really scared. And after a few minutes, she didn't want to ride anymore. |
Dominic Muldowney (born 19 July 1952 in Southampton) is a British composer. |
Renaldo Hill (born November 12, 1978) is an American football coach and former player who is the pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the defensive backs coach for the Denver Broncos from 2019 to 2020, the Los Angeles Charg... |
Layer Road was a Football League stadium in Colchester, England. It was the home of Colchester United Football Club from its inception in 1937, up until the club relocated to Colchester Community Stadium in 2008, resulting in its closure. The stadium held spectators by the time of its closure, and was built in 1907, o... |
JR Motorsports (pronounced "Junior Motorsports") is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series, CARS Tour, and occasionally in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series. The team is based in Mooresville, North Carolina, co-owne... |
WLQV (1500 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Detroit, Michigan. It is owned by the Salem Media Group and broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format. It uses paid brokered programming where hosts buy time on the station and may seek donations to their ministries during their programs. Religious... |
Tharawal, also spelt Thurawal and Dharawal, is a small family of extinct Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken along the South Coast of New South Wales. |
The National Assembly () is the lower house of the Parliament of Gabon. It has 143 members, elected by Two round system |
Kate was leaving the club after a long night. A guy who liked her stopped and asked for her phone number. But she preferred to call him. He wanted to verify she had the correct number. But in her fatigue her mind went blank. |
Scott Robertson (born 21 August 1974) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the All Blacks, the mens New Zealand national team. |
Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill (born 9 September 1931) is a British Labour Party politician and former government minister, who served as the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1964 to 1983. |
The Seilbahn Zugspitze is an aerial tramway running from the Eibsee Lake to the top of Zugspitze in Bavaria, Germany. It holds the world record for the longest freespan in a cable car at as well as the tallest lattice steel aerial tramway support tower in the world at . Construction of the system began in 2015 and it... |
Madeline had been bedridden for the past 4 months. Numerous doctors had come to see her but none could find the source. She would cough up blood and not eat very much food. Her parents were distraught not knowing what to do or what happened. Madeline finally died on the 5th month of her bed ridden debacle. |
One day the Zacker family went to the museum. Britney's favorite exhibit was the dinosaur room. She thought the skeletons were cool. Mr Zacker liked the caveman display. Everyone had fun. |
Tiff bought some bagels. She brought them home. She couldn't help it. She put them in the toaster. The bagels came out burnt. |
Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) is the representative body for Scotland's financial services industry. It is a company limited by guarantee based in Edinburgh. |
The mastoid foramen is a hole in the posterior border of the temporal bone. It transmits an emissary vein between the sigmoid sinus and the suboccipital venous plexus, and a small branch of the occipital artery, the posterior meningeal artery to the dura mater. |
Lauren and Christina heard about a new movie that was playing. They decided to go see it together at the movies. They had their parents drive them to the movie theater. They bought popcorn and went into the theater. It was the best movie they had ever seen. |
"Animal" is a song recorded by English rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria. It was the first single release off the album, and became the band's first Top 10 hit in their native UK, reaching No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart. |
Aashiq Banaya Aapne () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film starring Emraan Hashmi, Sonu Sood, Tanushree Dutta, and Navin Nischol. It was released on 2 September 2005. The film marked the debut of actress Tanushree Dutta and was shot under the banner Shagun Film Creations. |
I bumped into Sally and her four year old Joey today. Joey was going to draw on the sidewalk. Sally asked me if I wanted to accompany them. As I was retired, I readily agreed. I sat and watched Joey draw, and savored the friendliness. |
Mário Rodrigues Breves Peixoto (; March 3, 1908 – February 3, 1992) was a Brazilian film director, mainly known for his only film Limite, a silent experimental film filmed in 1930 and premiered in Rio de Janeiro on 17 May 1931. Peixoto wrote, directed and took up a minor role in the film. Its musical score includes Eri... |
The Battle of Dyme or Dymae was a battle that was fought by the Achaean League under the command of their Strategos, Hyperbatas, and a Spartan army under the command of King Cleomenes III, and was part of the Cleomenean War. The battle took in place near Dyme in north-west Achaea and was fought in 226 BC. |
The Millennium Commission, a United Kingdom public body, was set up to celebrate the turn of the millennium. It used funding raised through the UK National Lottery to assist communities in marking the close of the second millennium and celebrating the start of the third. The body was wound up in 2006. |
Pakpattan District (Urdu and ), is a district of Punjab province in Pakistan, Pakpattan is the district capital. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, it had a population of 1,286,680 of which 14% were urban. It has since risen to 1,563,000. |
Ralph and Debbie Taylor Stadium at Simmons Field (also Taylor Stadium at Simmons Field) is a baseball stadium at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. It is the home field of the Missouri Tigers baseball. It was also the home of the defunct Mid-Missouri Mavericks minor league baseball team of the Frontier... |
Boulevard Gréber (or Gréber Boulevard) is an important principal arterial road in Gatineau, Quebec. It runs from Montee Paiement to the Gatineau River. It is named after French urban planner Jacques Gréber. It was once part of Route 148 of the provincial network. |
Robert S. Ross (born April 9, 1954) is a professor of political science at Boston College, associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, senior advisor of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is one ... |
Fort Simcoe was a United States Army fort erected in south-central Washington Territory to house troops sent to keep watch over local Indian tribes. The site and remaining buildings are preserved as Fort Simcoe Historical State Park, located eight miles (13 km) west of modern White Swan, Washington, in the foothills of... |
Ron went to the beach for the day. He was enjoying the water and learning to surf. He had an awesome day and decided to head back to shore. On his way out of the water he felt a miserable pain in his foot. He stepped on a jellyfish and had to be rushed to the hospital. |
Max Ettlinger (30 January 1877, in Frankfurt/Main – 12 October 1929, in München) was a German psychologist, philosopher, pedagogist, and aesthetician. |
Maurice Arnold Renaud (24 July 1861 – 16 October 1933) was a cultured French operatic baritone. He enjoyed an international reputation for the superlative quality of his singing and the brilliance of his acting. |
When Les went to pick up his dry cleaning, he ran into a big problem. He noticed a large white stain on one of his expensive suit jackets. The owner of the cleaners said it must have been there beforehand. Les knew they were wrong so he took them to small claims court. The judge concluded it was a detergent stain and L... |
Allie was having a birthday party. But she decided to not invite Susie. Susie as a result was in tears. She never wanted to see Allie again. That was the end of their friendship. |
Kirkland is a civil parish, located on the banks of the River Wyre, midway between Preston and Lancaster, in the English county of Lancashire. It is also the historic name of what is now the village of Churchtown, within the parish. It is part of the Wyre district. In 2001 the parish had a population of 343, decreasing... |
The Columbia Studio Recordings (1964–1970) is the third box set of Simon & Garfunkel recordings, released in 2001 by Columbia Records. This 5-CD set contains all of their studio albums from 1964 to 1970. The CDs are packaged in miniature recreations of the original LP jackets, and an annotated booklet is also included.... |
Генератор Зла (Russian for Generator of Evil) is the seventh studio album by Russian heavy metal band Aria. |
Stokely Mason (born 24 October 1975 in Barataria) is a former football midfielder from Trinidad and Tobago who last played for United Petrotrin. |
Bekilli is a municipality and district of Denizli Province, Turkey. Its area is 304 km2, and its population is 6,424 (2022). Bekilli district area neighbors the district areas of Çal and Çivril, both also depending Denizli to the west, south and east, and those of two districts of Uşak Province to the north, namely Ulu... |
Brandon Raymond James Prust (born March 16, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Prust was drafted in the third round, 70th overall, by the Calgary Flames in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, and has played in the NHL for the Flames, Phoenix Coyotes, New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Vancouver... |
The People's Liberation Army Special Operations Forces () are the special forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), excluding the paramilitary People’s Armed Police (PAP) of The People’s Republic of China. The forces intended combat role is to be rapid-response units in the event of a limited regional war under hig... |
This is a list of left-wing activists in New Zealand. |
Burt Neuborne (born January 1, 1941) is the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law and the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice. |
Tina loved her gold necklace. She wore it everywhere. One day she got tired of it. She threw it in the ocean. Tina never saw it again. |
The ohm (symbol: Ω, the uppercase Greek letter omega) is the unit of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (SI). It is named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm. Various empirically derived standard units for electrical resistance were developed in connection with early telegraphy practice, and ... |
Tuitjenhorn (West Frisian: Tutinghorn) is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Schagen. Tuitjenhorn was the main village of the former Harenkarspel municipality. Tuitjenhorn lies about 9 km northwest of Heerhugowaard. |
After the restoration of democracy in the late 1970s, the changes in everyday Spanish life were as radical as the political transformation. They are famously known as La Movida (The Movement). These changes were even more striking when contrasted with the values and social practices that had prevailed in Spanish societ... |
Toni went to the soccer game. She was waiting for her mom to show up. Unfortunately her mom never did. Toni was waiting and waiting. She still never showed up. |
Brettanomyces bruxellensis (the anamorph of Dekkera bruxellensis) is a yeast associated with the Senne valley near Brussels, Belgium. Despite its Latin species name, B. bruxellensis is found all over the globe. In the wild, it is often found on the skins of fruit. |
Data General AOS (an abbreviation for Advanced Operating System) was the name of a family of operating systems for Data General 16-bit Eclipse C, M, and S minicomputers, followed by AOS/VS and AOS/RT32 (1980) and later AOS/VS II (1988) for the 32-bit Eclipse MV line. |
Richard Greene (1918–1985) was a British film and television actor. |
Sur, are a historical Pashtun tribe from among the Kakar living primarily in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. They claim descendance from Arab general Khalid ibn al-Walid. The founder of the Suri Empire in India, Sher Shah Suri, belonged to the Sur tribe. They ruled the Suri Empire from 1540 until they were remove... |
Joe wanted to do a romantic dinner for his girlfriend. But Joe had no candles. So Joe went to the store to get some. He got these very nice smelling candles. He lit the candles on before she came. |
If He Is Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children? is an album by indie rock band of Montreal. Originally self-released by the band as a tour-only CD, it was later released commercially with a few changes. |
Igor leaned backwards in his chair lazily. The bolt holding the back broke sending him tumbling to the ground. Igor looked through his tool box to find a replacement bolt. He found one close enough and used it to fix the chair. Igor leaned back in the chair lazily to test it. |
Nara Desert Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Mirpurkhas District, Sindh, Pakistan. |
Jasmila Žbanić (; born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for having written and directed Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the BAFTA ... |
The Etmopteridae are a family of sharks in the order Squaliformes, commonly known as lantern sharks. Their name comes from the presence of light-producing photophores on their bodies. The members of this family are small, under long, and are found in deep waters worldwide. The 45 species are placed in five genera. Th... |
Bjørnevatn is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies about south of the town of Kirkenes and about west of the Norway-Russia border. The village has a couple of suburbs including Hesseng to the north and Sandnes to the west. The Bjørnevatn IL is the local sports t... |
Tracy Yardley (born July 19, 1979, in Southern Illinois) is an American comic book artist best known for his work with the Sonic the Hedgehog comics, originally published by Archie Comics. |
Katie has a big test in the morning. She has not studied at all. In order to prepare, Katie decided to pull an all-nighter. The next day, she went to class extremely tired. Luckily, Katie's teacher decided to postpone the test. |
A Murder of Quality is the second novel by John le Carré, published in 1962. It features George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community. |
I went to the doctor yesterday today for a check up. The doctor told me I needed a shot. When I got the shot I screamed. The pain was unbearable. The only upside was that the pain was quick. |
The Sungai Johor Bridge (; Jawi: جمبتن سوڠاي جوهر) is an expressway bridge across Johor River on Senai–Desaru Expressway in Johor, Malaysia. The 1.7 km (1,708 m) single plane cable stayed bridge connects Pulau Juling in Johor Bahru District in the west to Tanjung Penyabong in Kota Tinggi District in the east. Opened on... |
Sam built a cabin with materials from the land. He was very proud of what he'd done. Sam called everyone to show off his adroitness. The county building inspector told him his cabin wasn't to code. Sam was informed he needed to tear it down. |
The (; ) is a style of polyphonic folk singing characteristic of the island of Sardinia (Italy's second largest island), particularly the region of Barbagia, though some other Sardinian sub-regions bear examples of such tradition. |
Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken mainly by young, working-class people in multicultural parts of London. |
Kia was nervous to turn sixteen. She knew her mom was buying her driving lessons. But Kia did not feel ready to drive a car! However, her lessons soon changed her mind. Before long, Kia was itching for a car of her own! |
The Wyoming Military Department is part of the Government of Wyoming. Its primary components are the Wyoming Army National Guard, and the Wyoming Air National Guard. |
The Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors, according to its website comprises the Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors in the English Deaneries, together with their three colleagues for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
Borsig is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
Župan is a noble and administrative title used in several states in Central and Southeastern Europe between the 7th century and the 21st century. It was (and in Croatia still is) the leader of the administrative unit župa (or zhupa, županija). The term in turn was adopted by the Hungarians as ispán and spread further. |
The Newar language of Nepal has the fourth oldest literature tradition among the Sino-Tibetan languages (after Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese). |
Me and You are a Jamaican reggae trio. |
The Newcastle town wall is a medieval defensive wall, and Scheduled Ancient Monument, in Newcastle upon Tyne, northern England. It was built during the 13th and 14th centuries, and helped protect the town from attack and occupation during times of conflict. It was approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) long, at least 2 met... |
22 Camelopardalis is a binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Camelopardalis, located 212 light years away from the Sun. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 7.03, which is below the normal limit for visibility with the naked eye. This object is moving further from the Earth with a mean helio... |
Fallen Leaf Lake is a mountain lake located in El Dorado County, California, near the California–Nevada state border, about one mile south west of the much larger Lake Tahoe. It is approximately aligned north-to-south and oval in shape, measuring approximately 2.9 miles (4.6 km) on the long axis and 0.9 miles (1.4 km) ... |
George Weston Limited, often referred to as Weston or Weston's, is a Canadian holding company. Founded by George Weston in 1882, the company today consists of the Choice Properties real estate investment trust and Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest supermarket retailer, in which it maintains a controlling inter... |
Vincent Gabriel Fourcade (27 February 1934 – 23 December 1992) was a French interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning. "Outrageous luxury is what our clients want," he once said. |
The Mayo Echo was a controversial, free, weekly tabloid newspaper circulated in County Mayo, Ireland during the 2000s. The paper was first published in 2004 and closed in April 2009. |
Crosson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
Begum Noor Bano served as a Member of Parliament in the 11th Lok Sabha and 13th Lok Sabha, lower house of parliament of India. She was elected from Rampur on the ticket of Indian National Congress party. |
Vince was dozing off as he was driving. There weren't any rest stops on the small back road he'd taken. He pulled off the road after falling asleep at the wheel again. There was just enough room on the shoulder for it to be safe. Vince was annoyed when the chirping crickets kept him awake. |
Olav Løchen Kielland (16 August 1901 in Trondheim – 5 August 1985 in Bø, Telemark) was a Norwegian composer and conductor. |
Andrew Gibson (born May 31, 1979) is a Canadian curler from Bedford, Nova Scotia. |
Beit Gamliel (, lit. House of Gamliel) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located south-east of Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In , it had a population of . |
The DeSoto Fireflite is a full-size premium automobile which was produced by DeSoto in the United States from 1955 until 1960. |
The Hurt Process was a British-based hardcore/metalcore band from Royal Tunbridge Wells, England. Their second album, A Heartbeat Behind, was released on 31 May 2005. The band split up in 2005. They reunited in August 2019. |
The following is a partial list of the "V" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
Khichan is a village in Rajasthan state of India. It is located in the Phalodi tehsil of Jodhpur district. It was one of the main jagir of Akherajot Rajpurohits during the Rathore dynesty. The village is known for a large number of demoiselle cranes that visit it every winter. This annual bird migration began with arou... |
I had to write an essay for bad behavior. My teacher wanted to make sure I learned my lesson. I spent all day writing my essay. It ended up being four pages. Luckily I learned my lesson about behavior. |
Mission Bay is a human-made saltwater bay located south of the Pacific Beach community of San Diego, California created from approximately of historical wetland, marsh, and saltwater bay habitat. The bay is part of the recreational Mission Bay Park, the largest man-made aquatic park in the United States, consisting of... |
Eddie smoked cigarettes. He thought is was okay because he didn't smoke in the house. One day he walked outside, and saw his son playing in the ashtray. Eddie was disgusted and ashamed. He quit smoking the next day. |
William Daniel McCafferty (14 October 1946 – 8 November 2022) was a Scottish vocalist and songwriter best known as the lead singer for the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth from its founding in 1968 to his retirement from touring with the band in 2013. |
Bāb aṣ-Ṣaghīr (, "Small Gate"), also called Goristan-e-Ghariban, may refer to one of the seven gates in the Old City of Damascus, and street in the modern city of Damascus, Syria. It has qubūr (, graves) on either side of the road, and is located in the Dimashq Neighborhood, southwest of the Umayyad Mosque. |
Jim was dismayed when the padded arm of his chair came off. He tried to put it back in place, but it wouldn't stay. He pondered what he could do about it. Jim rifled through his utility box and found some super glue. He got the foam arm to stay put by liberally applying the glue to it. |
Tom's father recently died. Tom planned the funeral. Tom invited everyone he knew. Everyone attended the funeral. The funeral was a success. |
Tim got a new kitten. It wasn't house broken. It would poop anywhere it could feel comfortable. Tim spent a week properly training him where to poop. After a while the kitten was using the litter box. |
Walter Warren Magee (May 23, 1861 – May 25, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives; elected as a Republican in 1914, he served from 1915 until his death. |
Kevin owned an old car. And he didn't want to spend money to maintain and repair it. Eventually its brakes failed, causing an accident. And Kevin had no choice but to buy another car. Kevin decided to take good care of his next car. |
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