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Marc Déry (born 4 November 1963) a French Canadian singer and guitarist from Quebec. He was a member of the band Zébulon. and also released four albums as a solo artist. |
Silver telluride (Ag2Te) is a chemical compound, a telluride of silver, also known as disilver telluride or silver(I) telluride. It forms a monoclinic crystal. In a wider sense, silver telluride can be used to denote AgTe (silver(II) telluride, a metastable compound) or Ag5Te3. |
Colombian Latin rock singer-songwriter Juanes has sold an estimated 15 million records worldwide. |
InterGalactic Medicine Show (sometimes shortened to IGMS) was an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was founded in 2005 by multiple award-winning author Orson Scott Card and was edited by Edmund R. Schubert from 2006–2016, after which Scott Roberts took over. It was originally biannual, but becam... |
Lars Christer Johansson (born 30 July 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish professional sports bettor and poker player, based in Malmö. |
Xu Jing (late 140s - September or October 222), courtesy name Wenxiu, was a Chinese politician of the state of Shu Han in the early Three Kingdoms period of China. After Liu Zhang announced his submission to Liu Bei, Xu Jing swore his allegiance to Liu Bei. Like his cousin Xu Shao, Xu Jing was famous for being a good c... |
Nigel Plum is a journeyman Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Sydney Roosters, Canberra Raiders and Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He was known for his tackling technique, most notably cutting the ball runner in half. He now works at Murrumbidgee Regional High Scho... |
HD 102964, also known as B Centauri, is a single star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has the identifier HD 102964 in the Henry Draper catalogue; B Centauri is the star's Bayer designation. This object has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.47. T... |
Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is an American retired actor. Rising to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, he starred in the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. |
Valerian Tulgar is a politician from Transnistria. He is a member of parliament and president of the Union of Moldovans in Transnistria. |
Richard Clapton (born 18 May 1948) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" (1975) and "I Am an Island" (1982). He reached the top 20 on the related albums chart with Goodbye Tiger (1977), Hearts on the Nightline (19... |
Eddie Donovan (June 2, 1922 in Elizabeth, New Jersey – January 20, 2001) was a professional basketball coach and executive. |
Clinton Adams (December 11, 1918 – May 13, 2002) was an American artist and art historian. He was known for his contributions to the field of lithography. |
Glastonbury Festival is a greenfield music and performing arts festival on farm land near Pilton, England. It was first held in 1970 and has been held in the majority of years since then in the summer. Its line-up is diverse, including music, comedy, circus and theatre, taking place on many different stages and perform... |
The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters is a 1960 comedy album, performed by Jonathan Winters. |
Jasper had always wanted to learn how to cook. He decided he wanted to try making linguine. Jasper found a recipe and practiced it many times. Finally he had perfected cooking linguine. He was happy that he learned how to cook. |
An archetype is a concept found in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis. |
She didn't understand how it happened. She sat down in a state of shock. She had tried so hard to save him. She burst into tears. She knew she would have to let him go. |
Garden Island is an uninhabited 4,990 acre (20 km²) island located in the Beaver Island archipelago in northern Lake Michigan. It is almost wholly owned by the U.S. state of Michigan and is overseen by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as part of the Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area. It is... |
Whitmore Lake Secondary School is a public secondary school in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. It serves grades 7-12 and is part of Whitmore Lake Public Schools. |
Terrance Roberson (born December 30, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player. At 6'7", he played as a small forward. |
Roger Munby (1945 - 2022) was a British businessman and former chairman of Norwich City Football Club. |
A municipal college is a city-supported institution of higher learning. |
Tanjong Pagar railway station (; ; ), also called Singapore railway station (; ; ) or Keppel Road railway station, is a former railway station located at 30 Keppel Road in Singapore. The station was the southern terminus of the network operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM), the main railway operator in Malaysia, unti... |
The Manitoba Teachers' Society (MTS) is the trade union representing schoolteachers in Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1919, and currently has around 16,000 members. It is an affiliate of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. Originally called the Manitoba Teachers' Federation, the union adopted its current name in 19... |
Jimmy was having difficulty in his history class. He kept failing every test no matter how hard he studied. Jimmy decided to drop his history class. He signed up for a painting class instead. Jimmy was able to get an A in his painting class. |
Dan's blue shoes were his favorite. He planned to wear them on a date Friday night. While at work someone spilled coffee on his favorite blue shoes. Dan bought the same shoes in the color brown. He wore his brown shoes on his date and received lots of compliments. |
The boy got pushed. He fell to the ground. He asked who had done it. Nobody confessed to it. The boy got mad at everyone. |
Dean was sleeping one night. He woke up to his stomach growling. He headed down to make a snack. He looked for some bread to make a sandwich. There was no bread and Dean was left hungry. |
Little Sally was three years old. She was with her Mom at a big department store for the first time. Her Mom saw her jumping up and down in front of a mannequin. Her mother asked her what she was doing. Sally said she was trying to get the funny lady to move. |
The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, , which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only and had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner but had recently been re-engined with an unr... |
Branded Man is the fourth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released on Capitol Records in 1967. |
Ronald Harold Edwards (born July 12, 1979) is a former American football defensive tackle. He started 35 consecutive regular season games at nose guard for Texas A&M University, where he recorded 121 tackles with 10 sacks and 23 stops for losses. He was drafted in the 3rd round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bill... |
There are 197 US members of ACCU (Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities) as of 2014. They make up a significant number of the total of Catholic universities and colleges in the world. |
"Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten. The second version was f... |
The Art of Losing is the second studio album by American rock band American Hi-Fi. It was released on February 25, 2003, through Island Records. While touring in support of their eponymous debut studio album (2001), the band wrote new songs on their tour bus. They initially recorded for the album at Sunset Sound Studi... |
The following is a partial list of the "G" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
Kathie fell from her bicycle. She bumped her head pretty hard on the ground. Kathie stood up dazed. A stranger escorted her to a hospital. Kathie was treated for a mild concussion. |
The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, also known as the FFG Act, is an act of the Victorian Parliament designed to protect species, genetic material and habitats, to prevent extinction and allow maximum genetic diversity within the Australian state of Victoria for perpetuity. It was the first Australian legislation t... |
The Freshwater Senior Campus (known locally as Freshie) of Northern Beaches Secondary College is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive senior secondary day school, located in Curl Curl, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
Westbrookville is a hamlet in the town of Deerpark in Orange County, New York, United States, along US 209. Westbrookville was named for Dirck Van Keuren Westbrook, an early settler. Fort Westbrook, dating back to the American Revolution, is extant. The 1900-1940 US Census lists it as part of Mamakating in Sullivan Cou... |
This is a list of newspapers in New York state. For periodicals specific to New York City, see List of New York City newspapers and magazines. |
Terrance is at a party. He takes a few sips of punch. He starts feeling woozy. He needs to sit down. He sits down and falls asleep. |
Kalophrynus is a genus of microhylid frogs. It is the only genus in the subfamily Kalophryninae. The species in this genus are found in southern China, in Southeast Asia to Java and Philippines, and in Assam, India. |
The MS Costa neoRomantica was a cruise ship completed for Costa Cruises in 1993 by Fincantieri in Italy as Costa Romantica, and a sister ship to . She was refurbished in 2003, renamed Costa neoRomantica in 2011, and from 2017 assigned to the Asian market. The ship was sold in 2020 to Celestyal Cruises as Celestyal Expe... |
Acephala, Latin for "without a head", may refer to: |
Lindsey was walking to the grocery store when something fell. She leaned over to pick it up and felt her pants split a bit. She awkwardly continued walking hoping no one could tell. As soon as she was home she stitched the pants up. Soon they were back like new. |
In international law, document legalization is the process of authenticating or certifying a document so it can be accepted in another country. |
Frick Park is the largest municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, covering . It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks. |
Roland joined the theater club this semester. His first play with this weekend. He was extremely worried about getting stage fright. But on the day of the play he performed wonderfully. Roland can't wait for his next play. |
The Wales National Ice Rink (WNIR) was an ice rink in Cardiff, Wales. It was the former home of the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team. The WNIR was opened in September 1986, and was inaugurated by the Duchess of York on 27 April 1987. Meat Loaf performed on 4 December 1993, as part of the Everything Louder tour, to a crow... |
The NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships is the annual golf tournament, typically played in mid-May, to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States. It has been played annually since 1975, when it split-away from the NCAA College Division Men's Golf Champions... |
Fustvatnet is a lake that lies in the municipality of Vefsn in Nordland county, Norway. The lake lies just south of the lake Mjåvatnet, about northeast of the town of Mosjøen. The European route E6 highway follows the northwestern coastline. |
Carl Tadeus Fletcher (born 26 December 1971) is a former professional Canadian soccer defender who played in the Canadian Soccer League, USL A-League, and played at the international level appearing in several CONCACAF Gold Cup tournaments and at the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup. |
Claus Christian Gulmann (born 1942) is a Danish judge who served as Advocate General and Judge at the European Court of Justice. |
Bryant Andrew Johnson (born March 7, 1981) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals 17th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft and also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions, and Houston Texans. He played college football a... |
Spencer didn't like his city mayor. Election season was coming up. He wanted to change it. He signed up to run. He won the vote! |
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s. Young chi... |
Father David O'Hanlon (born 1969) is an Irish Roman Catholic priest and theologian. His attacks on the President of Ireland, members of the Irish hierarchy and fellow priests, and the Irish news media earned him notoriety. His critique of liberalism, drawing on some of the philosophical presuppositions of writers such ... |
The West Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents western India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of players from five first-class Indian teams from western India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Baroda, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Mumbai and Saurashtra. West Zone has the be... |
Corrin had terrible bellyaches. She loved eating greasy cheeseburgers and corn dogs. She took her mom's advice, and got some veggies and fruit. Soon enough, her bellyaches quit and she was regular. She never touched another greasy burger again. |
Richard was trying to get a new job. He was going on an interview. Richard put on a suit to go to the interview. He answered all the questions well. Richard got the job. |
Geochelone is a genus of tortoises. |
Okstindbreen is the eighth-largest glacier in mainland Norway. The glacier lies in the Okstindan mountain range in the municipality of Hemnes in Nordland county. |
Knotts Island is a marshy island and a small unincorporated community. The island is shared by Currituck County, North Carolina and Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, bounded by the Currituck Sound, North Landing River, Back Bay, and Knotts Island Bay. Knotts Island is home to Mackay Island National Wildlife Ref... |
Tom had never had caviar before. He tried it for the first time recently. The consistency was weird and the flavor muted. Tom didn't know why other people liked it. He didn't bother to give it another try. |
This is a list of punk blues musicians and musical groups. |
Jonathan Larmonth Meakins, (born January 8, 1941) is a Canadian surgeon, academic, and expert in immunobiology and surgical infections. |
Sally had just been offered a new job. It paid more and was located closer than her current job. She decided to take the job and informed her present boss. Her boss was upset and pleaded with her to stay with the company. Sally politely declined and apologized. |
The Confraternities of the Cord are pious associations of Christians, the members of which wear a cord, girdle or cincture in honour of a Catholic saint or Angel whom they wish to honour and emulate. |
Natalie had never been in a helicopter before. She decided to take a ride while on vacation. The helicopter took her over waterfalls and mountains. It was an amazing way to see the scenery! Natalie was happy that she had finally experienced a helicopter. |
Schlittschuh Club Bern (Ice-skating Club Bern in English) is a professional ice hockey team based in Bern, Switzerland. They play in the National League (NL), the top tier of the Swiss hockey league system. For the 18th year in a row, the club is the most attended ice hockey team in Europe for the 2018–19 regular seaso... |
EncFS is a Free (LGPL) FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem. It transparently encrypts files, using an arbitrary directory as storage for the encrypted files. |
One day Ashley decided she wanted a new job. She went online and created her resume. She submitted her resume to a few job sites. She got a call from a pizza place for an interview. She went to the interview and got the job. |
In electrical engineering, a load profile is a graph of the variation in the electrical load versus time. A load profile will vary according to customer type (typical examples include residential, commercial and industrial), temperature and holiday seasons. Power producers use this information to plan how much electr... |
"The Diplomat's Club" is the 108th episode of NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This is the 22nd episode for the sixth season. It aired on May 4, 1995. The episode was the final appearance of Mr. Pitt as a recurring character (though he appears as a guest in the series finale), as he comes to suspect Elaine of plotting to kill him ... |
Mora IK (or Mora Ishockeyklubb) is a Swedish professional ice hockey club from Mora in northern Dalarna. After failing the 2019 SHL qualifiers, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously played 25 seasons in the top tier, including four seasons in Elitserien (as t... |
Ken looked for his wallet. He asked his wife if she had seen his wallet. His wife helped him to find it. Ken gave his wife five dollars for her help. Ken's wife laughed at that. |
My son-in-law's sister amassed a huge college tuition debt. She owes $200,000. She always posts her woes on Facebook. Today I found out her mother is paying her debt. I refrained from calling this person a hypocrite. |
Beth likes flowers. One day Beth decided to start her own garden. Beth went to the store to buy supplies. Beth planted many seeds. Beth is now patiently waiting for the flowers to grow. |
A database machines or back end processor is a computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for database access and is tightly coupled to the main (front-end) computer(s) by a high-speed channel, whereas a database server is a general-purpose computer that holds ... |
The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was awarded from 2001 to 2009 to live theatrical productions that were not plays or musicals. The category was created after the 2000 controversy of Contact winning Best Musical; the show used pre-recorded music and featured no singing. The category was retired in 2009 a... |
District 5 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that serves Brazos, Freestone, Grimes, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson, Walker and Williamson counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The current Senator from District 5 is Charles Schwertner. |
Kristen Cherie Mann (born August 10, 1983) is a former American professional basketball player who played in the WNBA. |
The Ionising Radiations Regulations (IRR) are statutory instruments which form the main legal requirements for the use and control of ionising radiation in the United Kingdom. There have been several versions of the regulations, the current legislation was introduced in 2017 (IRR17), repealing the 1999 regulations and ... |
David Alexander Edwards (born 3 February 1986) is a former professional football player who played for Wolverhampton wanderers and Shrewsbury town. |
The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) provides prison services for the state of North Dakota. The Division of Field Services supervises parolees through 14 field offices. DOCR also has a Division of Juvenile Services providing supervision and case management of delinquent youth of the st... |
Tire load sensitivity describes the behaviour of tires under load. Conventional pneumatic tires do not behave as classical friction theory would suggest. The load sensitivity of most real tires in their typical operating range is such that the coefficient of friction decreases as the vertical load, Fz, increases. The m... |
Burlington Towne Centre station is a station on the River Line light rail system, located on West Broad Street in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States within the Burlington Historic District. The tracks run in the middle of the street in a thin trench, so while it does run in the middle of the stree... |
Tim didn't like going outdoors much. His friends convinced him to go on a nature hike. Tim reluctantly agreed. Once out there he was soon tired and hated the bugs. He complained so much he was never invited back out again. |
Seriefrämjandet (literally the promotion of comics, but internationally, the name The Swedish Comics Association is generally used) is a Swedish association for everybody with an interest in comics, founded in 1968 by Henri Holmgren, Janne Lundström and Sture Hegerfors. The association acts to promote the status of the... |
Monica wanted to make a quilt for her friend. She thought carefully about her friend's favorite colors. When she visited the fabric store she found the perfect patterns. At home she realized she didn't have enough fabric. She substituted in a bit of her very favorites from her stash. |
The tule perch (Hysterocarpus traskii) is a surfperch (Embiotocidae) native to the rivers and estuaries of central California. It is the sole member of its genus, and the only freshwater surfperch. |
Terry heard a funny noise outside. It was a wild turkey! He watched the weird creature wander around the yard. Finally, it went back into the woods. Terry couldn't believe what he had just seen! |
The man opened the window. The fresh air blew in. The wife enjoyed the fresh air. She opened another window. Over time the air quality continued to improve. |
Back to the Light is the debut solo studio album by English musician Brian May, the guitarist of Queen. It was released on 28 September 1992 by Parlophone Records in the UK, and on 2 February 1993 by Hollywood Records in the US and Canada. May's second solo release following his 1983 EP Star Fleet Project, Back to the ... |
When I was three, someone called the cops on me. She said I kicked her son. I hadn't even seen him that day. Luckily, the cop thought the whole thing was ridiculous. I haven't had a run in with the law, since. |
Dala-Kildala Rivers Estuaries Provincial Park is a provincial park of 452 ha. in British Columbia, Canada. It protects the mouth of the Dala River in Kildala Arm. |
Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium (SNHB) is a multi-purpose stadium in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It is currently used mostly for association football matches. The stadium holds 28,000 and was opened on 23 September 1983. It was named after Bruneian Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. |
A girl went to play with her friends. She went across the street. The parents went over to get her. She was lost. They found her in their home. |
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