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The 1998 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1997–98 season. The tournament concluded with the two-time defending NBA champion and Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals. The Bulls achie... |
57th National Board of Review Awards |
Newbury Park High School, opened in 1967, is a co-educational public high school located in Newbury Park, California. |
Richard Philip Byrne (born 24 September 1981) is a former Irish footballer who played as left back. He played for clubs including Shamrock Rovers, Dunfermline Athletic and Aberdeen. |
AutoQ3D Community is a cross-platform CAD software, suited for 3D modeling and texturing. The main objective of this software development is to take away the hassle and complexity for sketching and drawing in 3D. AutoQ3D Community is not a professional CAD program and it is targeted at beginners who want to make rapid ... |
Tim was watching the news. He believed everything he heard. One story was an opinion piece. Tim didn't realize the difference. He repeated it as fact often. |
The Hintze Ribeiro Bridge collapse, also known as the Entre-os-Rios tragedy (Portuguese: Tragédia de Entre-os-Rios), occurred in the evening of 4 March 2001, between Entre-os-Rios, in the municipality of Penafiel, and Castelo de Paiva, in northern Portugal. After days of heavy rain and flooding, one of the pillars of t... |
Tommy was shopping with his mother in the department store. Tommy went to look at a display of remote control cars. When he was done, he turned around, and his mom was nowhere in sight! Tommy was so scared he cried very loudly. His mother heard his crying and rushed to him. |
Greg is an old man. He stays active by walking. One day he decided to walk by an unfamiliar road. During this walk he tripped over a crack in the road. Greg hurt himself badly, but decided not to see a doctor. |
James Mario Brovelli (born April 15, 1942) is the former men's basketball head coach of the University of San Francisco (USF) Dons and hall of fame player. |
The family liked going bowling together. None of them were good at it but they still had fun. One day, they bet to see who could get the best score. The mom won by 30 points! The family all laughed as she celebrated. |
Clem Smith Haskins (born August 11, 1943) is an American former college and professional basketball player and college basketball coach. In the fall of 1963, he and fellow star player Dwight Smith became the first black athletes to integrate the Western Kentucky University (WKU) basketball program. This put Western Ken... |
Graham Cluley (born 8 April 1969) is a British security blogger and the author of grahamcluley.com, a daily blog on the latest computer security news, opinion, and advice. |
Albert J. Smith (born February 28, 1949) is a former American football player, coach, scout, and executive. He served as a part-time scout for several NFL and USFL teams before joining the Buffalo Bills in 1986, serving as a scout and executive for them for 14 years. With the Bills, the team won four AFC Championships.... |
Monumental Possession is the second studio album by Norwegian black metal band Dødheimsgard. It was released in 1996, through the record label Malicious. It is their second and final completely black metal album, before the band incorporated industrial and avant-garde elements into their sound on future releases. Monum... |
Jordan wants to find a way to stay fit. He decides to start running track. At first it is difficult. Over time, he gets better. Jordan is glad he found a way to stay fit. |
Sarah Micklem is the author of the best-selling fantasy novel, Firethorn. She began writing after many years as a graphic designer and spent fourteen years working for Time Warner, designing for a children's magazine in New York City. She wrote Firethorn while working as the art director for the magazine. The second pa... |
Konso is a zone in the South Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia. It was formerly a woreda. Prior to 2011, Konso was not part of any Zone in the SNNPR and was therefore considered a special woreda, an administrative subdivision which is similar to an autonomous area. In 2011, the Segen Area Peoples Zone was established, ... |
Marco Mincoff (1909-1987) Shakespearean scholar and professor of English Studies at the University of Sofia. |
Edgeworks Entertainment is a machinima and new media production company founded by Alexander Winn and cofounded by Lacey Hannan. The company first gained recognition for their machinima series including The Codex Series, Vox Populi, Forsaken and Radical. Edgeworks is also known for hit terraforming game TerraGenesis, w... |
Cayla has always loved animals. She was raised with always having at least one animal in her home. When she grew up she knew that she'd want to work with animals. So she went to veterinary school. Tomorrow Cayla graduates and will officially be a veterinarian! |
"St. Anger" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on June 23, 2003, as the lead single from their eighth studio album of the same name. It won Best Metal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards and was also nominated for Best Rock Video at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost to "Somewher... |
Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical t... |
This list of Indianapolis neighborhoods provides a general overview of neighborhoods, districts, and subdivisions located in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Nine townships form the broadest geographic divisions within Marion County and Indianapolis. For statistical purposes, the consolidated city-coun... |
Wintrange (, ) is a small town in the commune of Schengen, in southeastern Luxembourg. , the town has a population of 402. In 2006, the Commune de Remerschen was renamed Commune de Schengen. |
The PNC Center is a 108-meter (354 feet) tall office building located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is located primarily in the Central Business District and borders Main Street and East Fifth Street. The building's 27 floors are used for office and commercial use. On the southeast corner of Fifth and Main streets is a publi... |
One of my niece's college roommates has an odd smile. She never shows her teeth. I asked my niece about this. She said her roommate actually has nice teeth. She just thinks it's neat to smile that way. |
After Sex is a 2007 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Eric Amadio. The plot revolves around several couples having conversations after having sex. It looks at the complexity of modern-day relationships told through eight separate couples. Through dialogue and compromising situations, the film ... |
The House of Magnates (; ; ; ) was the upper chamber of the Diet of Hungary. This chamber was operational from 1867 to 1918 and subsequently from 1927 to 1945. |
The Anicuns Microregion is a geographical division in the state of Goiás, Brazil. It is made up of 13 municipalities located around Anicuns, a municipality west of Goiânia. |
Vigdarvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Sveio in Vestland county, Norway. A small arm off the main lake juts to the south and runs along the municipal-county border between Sveio in Vestland county and the town of Haugesund in Rogaland county. The long lake forms a U-shape. It is fed by the nearby lake Stakka... |
I went to try out my college. I met with an advisor. I got to ask questions. They took me on a tour of campus. I went to that school for two years. |
Prince Frederick Henry Albert of Prussia (; 4 October 1809 – 14 October 1872) was the fifth son and youngest child of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His parents had fled to East Prussia after the occupation of Berlin by Napoleon, and Albert was born in Königsberg. Two of Alber... |
Yorkgate railway station serves the north of the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The station opened in 1992, replacing the previous York Road railway station nearby. As at May 2021 there are plans to rebuild Yorkgate. |
Riccia fluitans, the floating crystalwort, is an aquatic floating plant of the liverwort genus Riccia which is popular among aquarists as a retreat for young fry and is used in live-bearing tanks. It can be found floating in ponds, and often forms thick mats on and under the water surface. |
Kate's friends were all coming over. She was having her birthday party! They all brought gifts. Kate couldn't wait to open them. She ripped into the biggest one right away. |
International Fair Plovdiv (), held in Plovdiv, is Bulgaria's largest and oldest international trade fair. |
David Barrett (born December 22, 1977) is a former American football cornerback who played nine seasons in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arkansas. He went to school and graduated from Osceola High School whe... |
Brian Bedford (16 February 1935 – 13 January 2016) was an English actor. He appeared in film and on stage, and was an actor-director of Shakespeare productions. Bedford was nominated for seven Tony Awards for his theatrical work, winning once. |
The SASM/GNC/SRC romanization of Tibetan, commonly known as Tibetan pinyin or ZWPY (Chinese: Zàngwén Pīnyīn 'Tibetan spelling'), is the official transcription system for the Lhasa dialect of the Tibetan language for personal names and place names in China. It is based on the pronunciation used by China National Radio's... |
John loved a metal band. He highly anticipated their new album. When it came out it was a different sound entirely. John felt that they sold out. He stopped liking the band. |
Stephanie lives in a city known to be haunted. In fact her hometown is the most haunted on in the country. Every year she works as a guide on tours of the haunted area. She has never seen a ghost but believes others have. She hopes that one day she will see one too. |
Max had left his bike on his yard after school. When he went to put it away in the garage it was missing. Max's dad went and searched the neighborhood. He spotted the bike in another kid's driveway. Luckily he just took it back and it was fine. |
Parker was driving to work. He didn't see a cat jump into the road. He hit the cat. He went out to take care of it. It died shortly after the accident. |
Big Day Out 05 is a New Zealand compilation album released to coincide with the Big Day Out music festival in 2005. |
The train of thought or track of thought refers to the interconnection in the sequence of ideas expressed during a connected discourse or thought, as well as the sequence itself, especially in discussion how this sequence leads from one idea to another. |
I sat on the bench in front of our building today. My sister-in-law lives in the same building. When she drives home she tries to wave at me on the bench. Today she saw me and waved. I waved back, happily. |
Tom decided to visit Mexico. He heard there were a lot of great beaches there. When Tom got to Mexico he was very confused. He didn't seem to be able to understand what people were saying. Tom thought it was like they were speaking a whole other language. |
Crewe was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. |
Once my brother dared me to eat an onion stuffed with strawberries. I did not know his friend had put chewing tobacco in it too. I accepted the dare and ate it. It made me throw up. It was a mean trick. |
Josiah McNair Anderson (November 29, 1807 – November 8, 1861) was an American slave owner, politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district. |
La Liberté is a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada based newspaper founded on May 20, 1913 by Archbishop Adélard Langevin of Saint-Boniface. |
Rögnvald Kali Kolsson (Old Norse Rǫgnvaldr or Rögnvaldr; ), also known as Saint Ronald of Orkney (c. 1100 – 1158), was a Norwegian earl of Orkney who came to be regarded as a Christian saint. Two of the Orkney Islands are named after Rögnvald, namely North Ronaldsay and South Ronaldsay. |
James Dixon (August 5, 1814 – March 27, 1873) was a United States representative and Senator from Connecticut. |
Terahertz radiation is electromagnetic waves within the ITU-designated band of frequencies from 0.1 to 30 terahertz. |
The Engineer is a London-based monthly magazine and website covering the latest developments and business news in engineering and technology in the UK and internationally. |
Robert Timms (1908 – 1993) was an Australian entrepreneur and businessman. |
Thomas M. Tigue (August 24, 1945 – February 1, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps Officer and combat veteran, an American politician, a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. |
Watson had always wanted to learn the saxophone. After talking to his parents, they bought him one. At first, he could not play anything. After a lot of hard work, he could play it. Now, Watson is very good at the saxophone. |
On the evening of 4 December 1957, two trains crashed in dense fog on the South Eastern Main Line near Lewisham in south-east London, causing the deaths of 90 people and injuring 173. An electric train to had stopped at a signal under the bridge, and the following steam train to crashed into it, destroying a carriage... |
A Fleaker is a brand of container for liquids used in the laboratory. It can be described as a cross between the Griffin beaker and the Erlenmeyer flask. |
Yandina is the principal town on Mbanika Island in the Russell Islands, located on the east coast of the island, in the Central Province of Solomon Islands. It is a port, and an airport (ICAO code: AGGY, IATA code: XYA). Yandina is the site of a copra and cocoa plantation and has basic services such as a store, post o... |
Marcus McNeill (born November 16, 1983) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for six seasons with the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers football, and was two-time All-American. San Diego selected McNeill ... |
The man filled a jug with water. He went hiking. He brought the jug with him. He left the jug in a spot with no water. Another thirsty hiker drank the water. |
The scientist was concerned with a problem. He conducted many experiments to see what was wrong. He documented his findings in a paper. Other scientists looked at his research. Together, they found a solution to the problem. |
Alp Er Tunga or Alp Er Tonğa (Alp "brave, hero, conqueror, warrior", Er "man, male, soldier, Tom", Tonğa "Siberian tiger") is a mythical Turkic hero who was mentioned in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, Yusuf Balasaguni's Kutadgu Bilig and in the Vatican manuscript of Oghuznama by an unknown writer. |
The tile floor in our bathroom has been slippery lately. This morning I went to use the bathroom. My cane slipped on the floor and I fell. My wife helped me up. We bought a bathroom rug this afternoon. |
"All Seats Taken" is the debut single of Australian actress and singer Bec Cartwright, taken from her first album, Bec Cartwright. The track peaked at number 10 on the Australian Singles Chart in November 2002. The song was originally penned for the female finalists of Popstars 3. However, because none of them won the ... |
Jim was walking home. He lived in a flood warning area. It had been raining for days. Jim noticed the water in front of him seeming violent and high. He decided to go the long way instead. |
We thought the dog might have heartworms. She started panting for no reason. We took her to see the vet. She was tested and it came back negative. We started giving her a monthly pill. |
The family pulled into a parking spot. They were at the drive in to see a new movie. They pulled blankets and pillows out. They piled them all in the bed of the truck. It was great to see the movie under the stars! |
Ken was microwaving some leftovers. He left them in plenty of time. When he took the food out it wasn't edible. The outside was burning and middle was frozen. Ken decided to buy a new microwave. |
Kevin's family owned a farm for generations. When Kevin took over a long drought started. His fields went dry and he could grow anything. Kevin didn't know how he would survive another dry season. Kevin wound up selling land to a developer to avoid bankruptcy. |
The holonephros is the kidney of the larvae of cyclostomes and the Gymnophiona. The entire mass of nephrogenic tissue gives rise to this kidney, which is usually of simple form with a single tubule in each segment. |
Kent City High School is a public high school located in Kent City, Michigan (U.S.). The principal of the school is Jordan Stuhan. The athletic teams are known as the Eagles. They compete in the Central State Activities Association in its Silver Division. |
The Hudson Jet is a compact automobile that was produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, during the 1953 and 1954 model years. The Jet was the automaker's response to the popular Nash Rambler and the costs of developing and marketing the Jet ultimately led to Hudson's merger with Nash. |
Villetelle (; ) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. |
Jendouba Governorate ( ; ) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is predominantly in the high hills of the Tell Atlas north-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea. It covers an area of 3,102 km2 and has a population of 401,477 (2014 census). The capital is Jendouba. |
Lucy wanted to cook spaghetti. As she was cooking, she got distracted. She realized she overcooked the noodles. Lucy's family ate them anyway. She was happy they did not complain. |
Baron Harington of Exton was a title in the Peerage of England, created on 21 July 1603 for John Harington (d. 1613) of Exton Hall, Rutland. It became extinct on the death of his son John Harington in 1614. |
Miranda was swinging on a rope swing hanging from an old tree. The wooden seat broke in half! Miranda held onto the ropes as she slid down to the ground. Miranda got a bad friction burn on both hands. Her mom brought her two ice packs to place on her hands. |
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be collectionwise Hausdorff if given any closed discrete subset of , there is a pairwise disjoint family of open sets with each point of the discrete subset contained in exactly one of the open sets. |
The Zhizdra () is a river in Kaluga Oblast in Russia, a left tributary of the Oka. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . The Zhizdra freezes up in late November and stays icebound until early April. Its main tributaries are the Resseta, Vytebet, and Seryona. The towns of Kozelsk and Zhizdra are locate... |
The Richmond Art Museum was founded in 1898 as the Art Association of Richmond, Indiana. Artist John Elwood Bundy and author and attorney William Dudley Foulke were instrumental in the founding. |
Dan dreamed of the day he would be a homeowner. Recently, Dan was about to make this dream come true. Dan purchased a lot near the beach in Florida to build his house. Dan was told construction would begin during the winter season. Dan was proud of that he finally would attain home ownership. |
The Brooklyn Hispano was an American soccer club based in Brooklyn, New York that was an inaugural member of the reformed American Soccer League. The club was named the Brooklyn Giants for the 1942/43 season only. |
John ( – 13 December 1277), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1252 until his death. He initially reigned jointly with his brother, Albert the Tall, until the partition of the duchy in 1269, when John became the first ruler of the newly created Principality of Lüneburg. |
Scheels () is an American privately held, employee-owned and operated sporting goods and entertainment chain store headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. Scheels operates thirty-two store locations in fifteen U.S. states. Its slogan is "Gear. Passion. Sports." |
In geometry, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. It has 10 faces (6 squares and 4 regular hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. |
A list of prominent tourist attractions in York, England. |
My coach said we wanted to be invited again. She told us not to run our hardest. Most of the teams did not have an important race so soon. We had an important race next week. This was a cross country race. |
Ibrahimzai are a subgroup of the Gandapur tribe living in Kulachi Dera Ismail Khan. They reside in Kulachi town and Maddi and Looni villages. Naurang Khan was a famous Ibrahimzai in the 19th century. He was awarded a jagir by British Empire in Bannu District for his help in Multan in 1857. Tehsil Sarai Naurang bears hi... |
Themaat is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Utrecht, and lies about 7 km west of Utrecht. |
Velika Plana (, pronounced ) is a town and municipality located in the Podunavlje District of Serbia. As of 2011, the town has 16,088 inhabitants, while the municipality has 40,902. Velika Plana lies on the left bank of Velika Morava. |
Luke 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. This chapter records three parables of Je... |
Rick was driving and stopped at an intersection. And he saw his friend next to him. They decided to race for fun. But Rick lost control and got into a car accident. And his friend felt guilty for the rest of his life. |
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II is a novel by writer Sloan Wilson. A sequel to The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), it was published in 1984, nearly thirty years after its original. |
Maryland Route 193 (MD 193) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as University Boulevard and Greenbelt Road, the state highway runs from MD 185 in Kensington east to MD 202 north of Upper Marlboro. MD 193 serves as a major east-west commuter route in eastern Montgomery Count... |
Hugh Reynolds Rathbone (4 April 1862 – 19 January 1940) was a British merchant and politician, who sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) and was a member of the noted Rathbone family. |
Leslie Cameron Harvey (13 September 1944 – 3 May 1972) was a Scottish guitarist in several bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Stone the Crows. He was the brother of Alex Harvey. |
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