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Will was taking a stroll in his favorite park. Will noticed a sound as he went around a bend in the path. He looked down to see a rattlesnake! Will very slowly and cautiously walked backwards away from the snake. Will reached his car with a huge sigh of relief. |
The Mark 101 Lulu was an airdropped nuclear depth charge developed by the United States Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission during the 1950s. It carried a W34 nuclear warhead, with an explosive yield of about 11 kilotons. It was deployed by the U.S. Navy for the purposes of antisubmarine warfare, in at least five dif... |
Mimi was spooked so easily her friends loved to pull pranks on her. They'd wear weird masks or makeup fake voices on her phone. She'd be scared every time thinking it was true. She desperately wanted to learn not to be spooked anymore. So when her friends pulled a new prank on her, she stood still. |
Lavaka (), the Malagasy word for "hole", usually found on the side of a hill, is a type of erosional feature common in Madagascar. However, Lavaka have also been found in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Carolina, and similar landforms have been found in Brazil, the Great Plains of the Unit... |
KDNN (98.5 FM, "Island 98.5") is a Hawaiian Contemporary hits formatted radio station based in Honolulu, Hawaii. The iHeartMedia, Inc. outlet broadcasts with an ERP of 51 kW. It also transmits on Oceanic Spectrum digital channel 851 for the entire state of Hawaii. Its studios are located in the Kalihi neighborhood of ... |
Jenny was always running late. Her husband bought her a watch to keep her on time. It worked great! Soon, Jenny was on time for every appointment. The watch made a huge difference in her life. |
Tom loved decorating for Halloween. He would give out a lot of candy for trick or treaters. This year he dressed up as part of the decorations. When kids got close he would jump out at them. Tom scared dozens of kids. |
In Hawaiian mythology, the Nawao are a legendary people, a wild, large-sized hunting people, descended from Lua-nu'u (Beckwith 1970:321-323). Other sources suggest that the Nawao were present in Hawaii before the Menehune who are thought to have driven them out or destroyed them. However, folklorist Katherine Luomala b... |
In music, a section is a complete, but not independent, musical idea. Types of sections include the introduction or intro, exposition, development, recapitulation, verse, chorus or refrain, conclusion, coda or outro, fadeout, bridge or interlude. In sectional forms such as binary, the larger unit (form) is built from v... |
Tim's girlfriend didn't like scary movies. They scared her too much. Tim loved them, however. Tim's girlfriend tried to watch one with him. Unfortunately it was too scary and she had to stop. |
Alan Tate (born 2 September 1982) is an English professional football coach and retired footballer who is currently assistant manager at Nottingham Forest. |
The Xerox Classic was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour from 2005 to 2008. It was played in August at Irondequoit Country Club in Rochester, New York, United States. |
Folkestra, formerly known as FolkESTRA North is The Sage Gateshead’s youth folk ensemble, formed in 2001. It is led by their Musical Director Ian Stephenson, a multi-instrumentalist playing folk and traditional music from Northumbria and Scandinavia. The former Musical Director was Kathryn Tickell, one of England's pre... |
Godmorgon, världen! ("Good morning, World!") is a long-running Swedish radio programme, broadcast on the Sveriges Radio channel P1 between 9 and 11 every Sunday morning since 1986. The programme covers the news of the last week with reports and interviews, includes a panel of selected Swedish media personalities who co... |
Bahrain School is a Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) school located in Juffair, Manama, Bahrain. |
, better known exclusively by his stage name Inoran, is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Luna Sea since 1986. He started his solo career in 1997. Luna Sea disbanded in 2000, and he formed Fake? with Oblivion Dust vocalist Ken Lloyd a ye... |
Mary missed her marketing class because she overslept. She was supposed to take a major exam that day. Mary told the professor that she had been ill. The professor asked Mary to provide a note from her doctor. When Mary couldn't provide a doctor's note, she failed the exam. |
Morris Lamar Keene (10 August 1936 – 11 June 1996), was a spirit medium in Tampa, Florida and at Camp Chesterfield Indiana, where he was known as the "Prince of the Spiritualists". He was also the trustee of Universal Spiritualist Association. He is best known for his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia, in which he coined the... |
The Journal of Conflict Resolution is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on international conflict and conflict resolution. It was established in 1957 and is published by SAGE Publications. The editor-in-chief is Paul Huth (University of Maryland, College Park). |
Murder in E Minor is a 1986 Nero Wolfe novel written by Robert Goldsborough. The action takes place in New York City, primarily New York County, better known as Manhattan. |
Aki had a paper route on his bike every weekend morning. One morning it was pouring rain. The papers were bagged to be waterproof, but Aki's mom felt bad. She decided to drive him along his route that morning. Aki was very grateful he got to stay dry on such a wet day! |
The () or kwagŏ were the national civil service examinations under the Goryeo (918–1392) and Joseon (1392–1897) periods of Korea. Typically quite demanding, these tests measured candidates' ability of writing composition and knowledge of the Chinese classics. The form of writing varied from literature to proposals on ... |
Gary visited a farm in his town. The first thing he noticed were the cows on the pasture. He timidly approached one. The cow stared at him blankly before moving on. Gary wondered if cattle just didn't find him interesting. |
Duck hepatitis B virus, abbreviated DHBV, is part of the genus Avihepadnavirus of the Hepadnaviridae, and is the causal agent of duck hepatitis B. |
In mathematics, gap theorem may refer to: |
Tanya and her brother hadn't spoken in years. He'd married a woman that Tanya couldn't stand. Just like Tanya predicted, the woman hurt him. He moved back to town, staying with their mom for a while. On Thanksgiving, Tanya and her brother sat and talked for hours. |
Blackburn High School is a public secondary school for both girls and boys in years 7 to 12 in Blackburn North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, founded in 1956. |
Hear It Is is the debut studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on January 21, 1986, by Restless Records. It marked the official debut of Wayne Coyne on vocals after the departure of his brother Mark Coyne. |
Jess loved to grill. It didn't matter what time of year, she loved it. She wanted a large new grill. She shopped online for the best deal. She found the perfect grill and bought it. |
On 30 January 1649, Captain William Hewlett was the officer in charge of the soldiers at the execution of Charles I. |
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is a United States professional society for the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine which includes disorders of circadian rhythms. It was established in 1975. |
HD 90264 is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Carina. It has the Bayer designation of L Carinae, while HD 90264 is the star's identifier in the Henry Draper catalogue. This system has a blue-white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.97. It is located at... |
KSSS (101.5 FM), known as "Rock 101", is a radio station in Bismarck, North Dakota, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station airs mainstream rock and primarily competes against Townsquare Media's classic rock KBYZ "96.5 The Walleye". |
Michelle really wanted to be picked up from school one day. She usually walks home but didn't want to this time. Right after school she called her mom and asked to be picked up. Her mom said she was busy but would do it. Michelle got picked up about 10 minutes after that and she was happy. |
Nickole owes Angelina $20. But Nickole refuses to pay. They are best friends so this hurt Angelina's feelings. Nickole is selfish and used the money to buy makeup. Now Angelina and Nicole are no longer friends. |
Windermere Secondary School is a public secondary school located on the east side of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
Bill was headed to a concert in a new city. Bill was following his gps. He decides to turn down a back alley. Bill see's a very scary looking beast. Bill decides to turn around and get out of there. |
In baseball statistics, strikeouts per nine innings pitched (K/9, SO/9, or SO/9IP) is the mean of strikeouts (or Ks) by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by multiplying the number of strikeouts by nine, and dividing by the number of innings pitched. To qualify, a pitcher must have pitched 1,000 innin... |
Kia pet almost every animal at the petting zoo. But when she got to the chickens, she paused. She thought they might be nasty or mean. Gathering her courage, she bent and stroked one. To her surprise, it was soft and friendly! |
George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, (9 June 1866 – 24 March 1945) was a British politician, soldier, businessman and cricketer. |
Cyfarthfa Castle (; ) is a castellated mansion that was the home of the Crawshay family, ironmasters of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The house commanded a view of the valley and the works, which ‘at night, offer a truly magnificent scene, resembling the fabled Pandemonium, but on which the eye ma... |
There have been many attempts to ban football, from the middle ages through to the modern days. The first such law was passed in England in 1314; it was followed by more than 30 in England alone between 1314 and 1667. Football faced armed opposition in the 18th century when used as a cover for violent protest against ... |
Doheny Drive is a north–south thoroughfare mostly through Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, in Los Angeles County, California. |
Frederic Walker (4 December 1829 – 20 December 1889) was an English cricketer. |
Pontook Reservoir is a impoundment on the Androscoggin River in Coos County in northern New Hampshire, United States. The dam and impoundment are located in the town of Dummer. The reservoir was created for hydroelectric power generation. |
The family was talking in the living room. Gina farted around everyone. They didn't smell anything until a minute later. All of them got up and ran away. Gina found it funny and laughed. |
The Minaean people were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in (Minaean: Maʿīn; modern Arabic Maʿīn) in modern-day Yemen, dating back to the 10th century BCE-150 BCE. It was located along the strip of desert called Ṣayhad by medieval Arab geographers, which is now known as Ramlat Dehem. |
The Presbyter Judaeorum was the chief official of the Jews of England prior to the Edict of Expulsion. The office appears to have been for life, though in two or three instances the incumbent either resigned or was dismissed. Prynne argues that the Presbyter Judaeorum was merely a secular officer in the Exchequer of th... |
The Fondation Pacifique is a Switzerland-based non-profit organisation with the mission to play an innovative role in the conservation of the oceans. The foundation's projects are articulated around its flagship: the sailing boat "Fleur de Passion" which circumnavigates the world exploring its most important and threat... |
Daniel Henriksson (born September 4, 1978) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender. During his career he played for Luleå HF, Färjestads BK, and Linköpings HC in Elitserien, for Sibir Novosibirsk in the Russian Super League and for EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Hockey League. He won the Swedish C... |
HyperMemory was a brand for ATI's method of using the motherboard's main system RAM as part of or all of the video card's framebuffer memory on their line of Radeon video cards and motherboard chipsets. It relies on new fast data transfer mechanisms within PCI Express. |
The Bristol Dockers (formerly the Bristol Bears) are an Australian rules football club based in Bristol, England. The club has both men's and ladies teams competing in the 9-a-side format. |
The Oji-Cree are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west. |
Allie loved to stream music. She got a good deal. She only had to pay ten dollars a month. Allie was pretty happy about that. She used it every day. |
Collin Walcott (April 24, 1945 – November 8, 1984) was an American musician who worked on jazz and world music. |
Glee Sides and Sparities is a 2003 compilation album by Australian alternative rock band, Jebediah. The compilation contains eighteen rare tracks and B-sides and the band did not record any further material with the Murmur label following its release. |
Jim was out having fun with his friends. He had visited many bars that night. He was reaching for his wallet to pay his bar tab. He couldn't find it in any of his pockets. Jim looks everywhere but no luck. |
Pavel Curtis is an American software architect at Microsoft who is best known for having founded and managed LambdaMOO, an online community. |
Benno Besson (born René-Benjamin Besson; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains – 16 February 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss actor and director. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949. |
The Higher Technological Institute of Irapuato (In Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Irapuato), popularly known as ITESI, is a public, coeducational university located in the city of Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. |
Nina's friends are at her house for a surprise birthday party. They all hide and wait for Nina to arrive. Nina opens her door with great shock. All of her friends jump out to surprise her. Nina laughs with all of her friends. |
Stop Murder Music is a campaign to oppose Caribbean artists who produce music with lyrics alleged to glorify murder of homosexual men. The campaign was mainly against Jamaican musicians, primarily dancehall and reggae artists such as Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, and the Bobo Ashanti Rastafarians Sizzla and Capleton. |
Bion 8 or Kosmos 1887 (in Russian: Бион 8, Космос 1887) was a Bion satellite. |
Henry Albert White (8 August 1895 – 27 November 1972), sometimes known as Bert White, was an English footballer. |
A control commission is an independent regulatory body. Control commissions are most often found in regulated industries and political organisations. They typically have full authority to operate within the regulations that establish them. |
Wolfgang Linger (born 4 November 1982 in Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian former luger who competed internationally since 2000. As young children, he and his older brother Andreas learned to luge on a former Olympic luge track, and at age 14 began competing as a doubles team for the first time. Linger has won five medals ... |
I adopted a trio of rat brothers a while back. They were very cute and I decided to let them out to play. They ran all around my room, including under the dresser. There was no way to reach them so I had to wait for them. After that I made sure to block off access to tight hiding places. |
The Russian Futurists are a Canadian indie pop band based in Toronto. Their music can be described as lo-fi, indie-electronica fused with a twee-pop temperament. The band started as a solo project of Matthew Adam Hart (born 1978), and later expanded into a band for live performances. |
Aughwick Creek is a tributary of the Juniata River in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. |
Santa Margarita Lake, also called Salinas Reservoir, is a lake several miles southeast of the town of Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County, California. The lake was created by the building of Salinas Dam on the southern end of the Salinas River, very close to the river's origin in the Santa Lucia Range. |
The 2006 Puerto Rico budget crisis was a political, economic, and social crisis that saw much of the government of Puerto Rico shut down after it ran out of funds near the end of the 2005–2006 fiscal year. The shut down lasted for two weeks from 1 May 2006 through 14 May 2006, leaving nearly 100,000 public employees wi... |
Shawn-Douglas "Shawn" and Isabella "Belle" Brady are fictional characters on the American soap opera, Days of Our Lives. Shawn-Douglas Brady has been played by Jason Cook (1999–2006, 2015) and Brandon Beemer (2006–2008, 2016–). Belle Black has been played by Kirsten Storms (1999–2004), Charity Rahmer (2004), and Marth... |
The man liked the flavor. He tried to recreate it at home. He could not get the flavor right. He asked the owner of the recipe for help. The owner of the flavor sold him the recipe. |
Alexander Hamilton Bullock (March 2, 1816 – January 17, 1882) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman from Massachusetts. First a Whig and then a Republican, he served three terms (1866–69) as the 26th Governor of Massachusetts. He was actively opposed to the expansion of slavery before the American Civil... |
Rhythmic movement disorder (RMD) is a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive movements of large muscle groups immediately before and during sleep often involving the head and neck. It was independently described first in 1905 by Zappert as jactatio capitis nocturna and by Cruchet as . The majority of RMD epi... |
Chai Lee is an actress, born in Canton, China. |
Doug Richard (born 6 May 1958) is an American entrepreneur best known for his television appearances in the United Kingdom. He appeared as a "Dragon" on the first two series of Dragons' Den and was also a government adviser. |
Robert Lethbridge (born 24 February 1947) is a New York City-born British academic who was Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2013 and Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust from 2010 to 2013. |
I had a blueberry muffin for breakfast today. I broke the muffin in half. Half of the muffin had blueberries. The other had virtually none. I was reminded of a similar episode in the movie Casino. |
Ellen R. Cohn is an associate dean and associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with a secondary faculty appointment at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She is a faculty member of the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine. |
Matt was walking around the forest. He really didn't know the way. After hours, he came back to the same place. Matt realized this and got very scared. So he started to panic. |
Twin Cobra II is a vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed by Takumi Corporation and published in 1995 by Taito in Japan, Asia and Europe. It is the sequel to Twin Cobra from 1987. Taking place after the events of the previous game, players assume the role of two pilots taking control of their respecti... |
Dan had worked hard all week, and decided to relax on Sunday. Dan decided he would catch up on his favorite show Scandal. After binge watching his favorite show, Dan took a nap. Once awake, Dan decided to order a pizza for dinner. Dan was thoroughly enjoying his lazy Sunday at home. |
High Bridge is a railway station in High Bridge, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. The station is the western terminus of the New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line. The next station eastward is Annandale. The parking lot for the station is located one block to the west. The station only uses the southern ... |
Oliver had a dog named Auri. Auri was his best friend since he was very young. She had a heart condition that made it hard for her to play roughly. Oliver was very careful with her as he grew up. Auri lived to the old age of 15, despite the heart condition. |
"The Caddy" is the 122nd episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 12th episode for the seventh season, originally airing on January 25, 1996. In this episode, George takes an unapproved vacation, leading to him being presumed dead, while Kramer, Jerry, and Jackie Chiles launch a lawsuit against Elaine's archenemy S... |
A severe thunderstorm warning was just declared in our area. Heavy winds moved many tall trees across the street from us. I saw small branches falling off. Leaves were swirling in the air. Luckily, there was no lightning or thunder. |
found: quantity of sheep were an Australian experimental rock band based in Perth that formed in 2001 as a collaboration between Trent Barrett and Neil Rabinowitz. Their name was taken out of a lost and found advertisement. The band were a decidedly studio-based project only managing to ever play live once. found: quan... |
June was working when she got a call from her child's school. Apparently her teenage daughter hadn't come to school and was missing. June searched her daughter's room and found a note saying goodbye. She began a long search for her runaway teen. In the end, the teen returned on her own when she couldn't survive. |
I was not nervous my first day of school. I was always around other kids, so I wasn't afraid of them. I was the only kid who didn't cry when my mother left me. I sat at my desk and played with the toys. She gave me a big hug at the end of the day, and said I was pretty. |
Sammy wanted to go ice skating on the frozen lake in town. Thinking it wasn't fully frozen, everyone said it was too early. Sammy didn't listen and went ices skating on the pond anyway. Just when he made it to middle of the lake, the ice gave way. He nearly froze to death before he was rescued. |
Chemins de fer Québec-Gatineau Inc. (CFQG), in English the Quebec Gatineau Railway is a shortline railway operating the long ex-Canadian Pacific Railway line between Quebec City, Trois-Rivières, Laval, Lachute and Gatineau, formerly Hull. It was acquired in 1997 by Genesee & Wyoming Canada Inc., subsidiary of Genesee... |
"...Nor the Battle to the Strong" is the 102nd episode of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fourth episode of the fifth season. |
George P. Skouras (; ; 1896–1964) was an American movie executive and president of United Artists Theatres, born in Skourohorion, Greece. He was one of ten children of a sheep herder and his wife. He and two older brothers emigrated to the United States about 1910 and rose in the new movie industry to become top movie ... |
Marco Marchionni (; born 22 July 1980) is an Italian professional football coach and former Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. |
The North Pacific hake, Pacific hake, Pacific whiting, or jack salmon (Merluccius productus) is a ray-finned fish in the genus Merluccius, found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from northern Vancouver Island to the northern part of the Gulf of California. It is a silver-gray fish with black speckling, growing to a lengt... |
Tim loved ghost hunting shows. He wanted to try it himself. He got some friends together that were interested. They went to locations they found online. They never found anything but had lots of fun. |
Jamileh Sheykhi (, 30 April 1930 – 23 May 2001) was an Iranian actress and the mother of actor Atila Pesyani. |
WPLN-FM (90.3 MHz), is a non-commercial public radio station in Nashville, Tennessee. It airs a news, talk and information radio format and is owned by Nashville Public Radio. The station's studios and offices on Mainstream Drive north of downtown Nashville, considered among the finest radio production facilities in ... |
The Battle Effectiveness Award (formerly the Battle Efficiency Award, commonly known as the Battle "E"), is awarded annually to the small number of United States Navy ships, submarines, aviation, and other units that win their battle effectiveness competition. |
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