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Fort Proctor is a ruined 19th century fort in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. It is also known as Fort Beauregard or Beauregard's Castle (after P.G.T. Beauregard, who supervised its construction with the architect J.G. Totten). The fort is on the shore of Lake Borgne just north of the mouth of Bayou Yscloskey. At t... |
Ivane Kazbegi (; ; , ) (June 11, 1860 — December 2, 1943) was a Georgian soldier, who served, successively, in the Imperial Russian, Georgian and Polish armies. |
Pilidiostigma is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. All species occur in Australia and one, P. papuanum, also occurs in Papua New Guinea. They are not generally known to horticulture. The species P. sessile is rare. |
The single sculls was one of the competitions in the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris. It was held on 25 and 26 August 1900. 12 athletes from 3 nations competed. Four quarterfinals, two semifinals, and a final were held. The event was won by Hermann Barrelet of France; the host nation also took silver... |
Tim couldn't find a pair of shoes. He looked everywhere in the house. Eventually he looked in the back yard. Tim realized his dog had taken them outside. Tim had to get a new pair. |
Area codes 408 and 669 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the U.S. state of California. The numbering plan area comprises most of Santa Clara County and Northern Santa Cruz County, and includes Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara,... |
Events from the year 1967 in Pakistan. |
Anna was dared to try a sea scallop on a dare. She thought the scallop was gross. But she wanted to look cool, so she accepted. She bit a tiny piece off and chewed. The scallop, sadly, was just as yucky as she'd imagined! |
Myeongjang is a dong in Dongnae-gu, Busan, South Korea. It is divided into two administrative dong, Myeongjang 1-dong and Myeongjang 2-dong. The total area is 1.78 km2, with a population of 39,656. It borders Geumjeong-gu on the north. The old site of the Dongnae eupseong site is located in Myeongjang-dong. |
Finnmarksvidda (; ) is Norway's largest plateau, with an area greater than . The plateau lies about above sea level. Approximately 36% of Finnmark lies on the Finnmarksvidda. |
Children's non-fiction literature (also called informational) is the meeting of the genres children's literature and non-fiction. Its primary function is to describe, inform, explain, persuade, and instruct about aspects of the real world, but much non-fiction also entertains. |
Tim has a history test tomorrow. He has not studied. He decided to stay up and pull an allnighter. When he got to school he fell asleep. Tim failed his test. |
The Fédération Nationale des Eclaireurs et Eclaireuses du Luxembourg (National Scout and Guide Federation of Luxembourg, FNEL) is one of Luxembourg's Scouting and Guiding organizations. It is a member of the federation Scouting in Luxembourg. |
Jeff Lumby (born 1956) is a Canadian actor. He is a member of the Lumby family, who created and produced the 1980s Canadian children's television series, Size Small, where he performed as various characters and a puppeteer. Lumby played "Winston Rothschild III", the septic tank and sewer technician character on The Red... |
Cone Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system based in Greensboro, North Carolina. It includes Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Hospital, and Cone Health Behavioral Health Hospital, all located in Greensboro. The Cone Health network also includes Alamance Regional Medical Center (Burli... |
Reflections is a compilation album by American pop group The 5th Dimension, released in 1971. It contains songs from while the band was recording for Soul City Records. It includes four songs that were originally released as A-side singles, although only one was a Top 20 hit ("California Soul", #25; "Blowin' Away", #21... |
"Danny Says" is a ballad written by Joey Ramone. The song was originally released as the third track on the Ramones' 1980 album, End of the Century. The 2002 Expanded Edition CD of the album includes a demo version of "Danny Says" among the bonus tracks. The song has since been covered and released by the Foo Fighters ... |
Alvaiázere () is a municipality in the district of Leiria in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,287, in an area of 160.48 km2. |
John proposed to Sue last night. She was at a party with a bunch of their friends. He got down on one knee in front of everyone. She started to cry. It was a total surprise. |
Illyrius (, Illyriós) is the son of Cadmus and Harmonia, who eventually ruled Illyria and became the eponymous ancestor of the Illyrians. Illyrius/Illyriós/Illyri is a name known in different stories found in ancient Greek mythology. |
The Vadinar refinery is an oil refinery at Vadinar, Gujarat, India. It is owned and operated by Nayara Energy Limited, in which Rosneft owns a 49.13% stake. The refinery is India's second largest single-location refinery, with an annual capacity of 20 million tonnes (405,000 barrels per day) and a complexity of 11.8, ... |
Professional wrestling in Australia makes up a small part of Australian culture. Unlike the North American or Japanese products which have large, globally renowned organisations such as WWE, AEW, New Japan Pro-Wrestling or Impact Wrestling with several hundred smaller promotions, Australia only has approximately 30 sma... |
Area codes 214, 469, 972, and 945 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Dallas, Texas and most of the eastern portion of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The area codes are assigned in an overlay complex to a single numbering plan area that was the core of one of the original area cod... |
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is the first hit single by British rock band Status Quo, then named the Status Quo. It was released on 5 January 1968. |
A wire from his braces was poking Michael's mouth. It hurt his mouth quite a bit. He put some wax on the wire. The wax felt good against his mouth. Michael's mouth felt better. |
Plantlife is a wild plant conservation charity. , it manages 24 nature reserves around the United Kingdom. HM King Charles III is patron of the charity. |
Barzilla Worth Clark (December 22, 1880 – September 21, 1943) was an American politician from Idaho. He served as the 16th governor of Idaho mayor of Idaho Falls, and was a member of the Idaho Democratic Party. |
MR (Marina and Rainer) is a chamber opera in one act (5 scenes) by the Russian composer Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001). The libretto by Yuri Lourié is in Russian, German, Ancient Greek and Japanese). Commissioned by the Munich Biennial, Germany, it was composed in 1989. |
The Onomasticon of Amenope is an ancient Egyptian text from the late 20th Dynasty to 22nd Dynasty. It is a compilation belonging to a tradition that began in the Middle Kingdom, and which includes the Ramesseum Onomasticon dating from the end of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt, no earlier than the reign of Ramesses IX (... |
"Nth Degree" is a song by New York City band Morningwood from its debut album Morningwood. "Nth Degree" reached No. 30 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was used in a Mercury vehicles ad campaign that featured actress Jill Wagner. It was also included on the soundtrack for the video game Thrillville: ... |
Prestwick Academy is a state secondary school serving the area of Prestwick, South Ayrshire in Scotland. The school is non-denominational and has a capacity of 1400. Its motto is Per Vias Rectas, Latin for By Straight Paths. |
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure is the second in the series of American Girl film series. It is a made-for-television drama film that is based on the American Girl children's books written by Valerie Tripp, and was released in November 29, 2005. The teleplay was written by Anna Sandor. |
The AEC Regent III RT was one of the variants of the AEC Regent III. It was a double-decker bus produced jointly between AEC and London Transport. It was the standard red London bus in the 1950s and continued to outnumber the better-known Routemaster throughout the 1960s. |
Illmo is a former community and neighborhood of Scott City, Missouri. |
Tom loved to joke around. He met many new people because of his hobbies. He would frequent music venues. Tom met someone who was as silly as he was one night. They fell in love and lived happily ever after. |
Platero is the eponymous donkey of the 1914 story Platero and I (English for Platero y yo). The book is one of the most popular works by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, the recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1960, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed a suite of music for guitar with... |
Craig Allen Dingman (born March 12, 1974) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw right-handed. |
Kelly wanted to do a handstand. As soon as she did it however, her pants ripped. Kelley was embarrassed. She immediately ran away. She wanted no one to see that. |
Nieuw Amsterdam ( or ) is the capital of the Commewijne District in Suriname. It is a small coastal town situated at the confluence of the Suriname River and Commewijne River, just across from Paramaribo, the country's capital. Its population at the 2012 census was 5,650, with around 1,200 people living in the main tow... |
Rannoch railway station, on the West Highland Line, serves the area of Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. In 2017, Simon Jenkins reported it to be one of the best 10 stations in Britain. It is situated between Corrour and Bridge of Orchy, from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh. ScotRail manage the station a... |
North Kern State Prison (NKSP) is a medium-security prison located in Delano, Kern County, California. Opened in April 1993, this state prison has a design capacity of 2,694 incarcerated people. North Kern serves as a reception center for incoming inmates. Inmates usually serve two to three months at North Kern while s... |
Lindsey Nelson Stadium is a baseball stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the home field of the University of Tennessee Volunteers college baseball team. The stadium opened on February 23, 1993 and holds 4,387 people. The facility is named after Hall of Fame broadcaster Lindsey Nelson, who attended the university ... |
Mike was walking with his phone in his hand. He wasn't paying any attention to where he was going. His head was down and he mindlessly walked into a tree. His phone fell from his hands landing face down, he hoped it was ok. When he picked it up he realized it had shattered into pieces. |
Sam liked nature photos. He took a drive to a friends home in the country. There were so many animals to take pictures of. He spent the whole day taking photos. He decided to make this a weekly event. |
I was sitting by the lake at night. I wanted to see the full moon. However, it was a cloudy day. I waited for a long time. Finally, the clouds disappeared, making the moon visible. |
Malkara () is a municipality and district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,243 km2 (the largest in Tekirdağ Province), and its population is 50,988 (2022). It is located at 55 km west of Tekirdağ and 190 km from Istanbul. The mayor is Ulaş Yurdakul (CHP). |
Roxy was always a great softball player. She threw the hardest, and caught seemingly impossible balls. But she had one weakness, she could never hit the ball. Until one day she found a bat in the woods. When she hit the ball, the bat split apart from water damage. |
Providence University College and Theological Seminary is an interdenominational Evangelical Christian university college and theological seminary located approximately southeast of Winnipeg in Otterburne, Manitoba. |
Xerotic eczema is a form of eczema that is characterized by changes that occur when skin becomes abnormally dry, red, itchy, and cracked. It tends to occur more often during the winter and in dry conditions. |
Kojak Variety is a 1995 album by Elvis Costello, composed of cover songs written by others. Rhino Records reissued an expanded, double-CD in 2004 containing a bonus disc. |
Andrew Reed (27 November 178725 February 1862) was an English Congregational minister and hymnwriter, who became a prominent philanthropist and social reformer. He was the father of Sir Charles Reed and grandfather of Talbot Baines Reed. |
Beaver Scouts, often shortened to Beavers, is the second youngest official section of Scouting operated by The Scout Association in the United Kingdom. The core age range for Beaver Scouts is six to eight years. Sections of Beaver Scouts are known as Colonies and are run locally by Scout Groups. After reaching the age ... |
Jan basked in the glorious Colorado summer sunshine. She knew that she would miss this very soon. Her and her husband were headed back to Alaska for a year. Even on the warmest days, it was never like this. Jan stood in the sunshine a bit longer, letting it linger on her. |
NFL Challenge is a video game for MS-DOS released in 1985 by XOR Corporation. It uses statistical models for not only the NFL season, but also the outcome of a single football game. |
Sam was a middle aged man. He was going through a midlife crisis. His hair had fallen out at an early age. Sam was playing basketball one day with his friend George. Sam went up for a layup and his wig fell off his head. |
Plossig is a village and a former municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Annaburg. The municipality belonged to the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Annaburg-Prettin. |
The Ala-Archa Nature Park (, ) is an alpine national park in the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, located approximately 35 km south of the capital city of Bishkek. Established in 1976, it currently covers 16,485 hectares. |
The DES Challenges were a series of brute force attack contests created by RSA Security to highlight the lack of security provided by the Data Encryption Standard. |
Abba Siddick (25 December 1924 – 1 December 2017) was a Muslim Chadian politician and revolutionary born in what was the Oubangui-Chari French colony (today Central African Republic). In passing in Chad (also a French colony then), he entered in active politics in the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT), a nationalist and ... |
Liz and Zoot decided to go to dinner across town. Liz drove them to the restaurant. Liz almost ran two red lights. Zoot was worried about the way Liz drove. Zoot always drove when Liz and Zoot went to dinner after that. |
Cationic liposomes are spherical structures that contain positively charged lipids. Cationic liposomes can vary in size between 40 nm and 500 nm, and they can either have one lipid bilayer (monolamellar) or multiple lipid bilayers (multilamellar). The positive charge of the phospholipids allows cationic liposomes to fo... |
Gender segregation in Islamic law, custom, law and traditions refers to the practices and requirements in Islamic countries and communities for the separation of men and boys from women and girls in social and other settings. |
GingerMan Raceway is a road racing course located east of the town of South Haven in southwest Michigan, United States. |
Dan was always afraid of flying. Dan got word that his family across the country needed him. Dan knew he would have to fly to get there in time. Dan boarded the plane, shaking with nerves. Dan arrived in Oregon, safe and sound! |
Samantha lived by herself in a studio apartment. She got a bill in the mail saying her rent would be increased. Her rent would be increased from $800 a month to $1600. Samantha couldn't afford the rent increase. Samantha had to move to a cheaper apartment. |
Moonville is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories. |
Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls (born 9 February 1988) is an Australian rules footballer currently playing with the East Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He previously played for in the Australian Football League (AFL), and was also rookie-listed at . |
The 2006 Italian presidential election was held on 8–10 May 2006. The result was the election of Giorgio Napolitano, the first time a former member of the Italian Communist Party had been elected to the presidency of the Italian Republic. |
Carl was walking down to a grocery store. And he saw a bike left alone. He wished he could reach the grocery store faster. So he grabbed the bike and used it. Carl was happy to find the bike. |
Carl Saltzmann (23 September 1847, Berlin - 14 January 1923, Potsdam) was a German marine and landscape painter. |
Zillebeke (also known as Zellebeck) is a village in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. It is a former municipality which is now part of Ypres. |
George D. Yancopoulos (born 1959) is a Greek-American biomedical scientist who is the co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. |
Al-Marwani Mushalla (, ), or Al-Marwani Mosque, is an underground vaulted prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. It is 600 square yards (500 square metres) in area, and is located under the southeastern corner of the compound, below the courtyard, and features twelve rows of pillars and arches. In De... |
Moana normally had a flat stomach. But for the past few weeks she noticed that she was bloated. She knew something was wrong so she made a Doctors appointment. The Doctor suspected she was pregnant so he ordered an ultrasound. The ultrasound revealed that she was 4 months pregnant. |
Naomi Novik (born 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired b... |
Hamman's syndrome, also known as Macklin's syndrome, is a syndrome of spontaneous subcutaneous emphysema (air in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin) and pneumomediastinum (air in the mediastinum, the center of the chest cavity), sometimes associated with pain and, less commonly, dyspnea (difficulty breathing), dyspho... |
Carol Bove (born 1971) is an American artist based in New York City. She lives and works in Brooklyn. |
Christoph Heemann (born 1964 in Aachen, West Germany) is a German musician. |
The Youyi Bridge (, meaning Friendship Bridge, ) is a bridge on the Karakoram Highway at Thakot in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Its inauguration was on August 27, 2004. |
Guelmim-Es Semara () was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of and had a population of 501,921 (2014 census). The regional capital was Guelmim. |
The biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. The 16th edition, and 30th anniversary, of the biannual event took place in Newark, New Jersey, October 20–23, 2016. The next festival will take place in Newark, 20–23 October 2022, as 2020 took place virtually. |
Alex and Jay were on vacation. Alex wanted to go to the beach. Jay wanted to go to the zoo. They decided to split the day going to both the beach and zoo. They both had a great time that day. |
Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian ecological economist and Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Full Member of the Club of Rome. |
Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera, known as Antonio Valencia (; born 4 August 1985), is an Ecuadorian former professional footballer who played primarily as a right-sided player throughout his career, initially as a right winger, before developing into a right-back. He is regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian footballers... |
Keith was working in his yard. The wind began to blow hard. Several limbs fell from the trees in his yard. Keith decided it was dangerous to stay outside. He went inside to wait out the storm. |
Paul Sophus Epstein (; Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire, March 20, 1883 – Pasadena, California, United States, February 8, 1966) was a Russian-American mathematical physicist. He was known for his contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, part of a group that included Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski, Thom... |
Phyllis April King is a British poet. She appears and reads her material on Ivor Cutler's albums Dandruff, Velvet Donkey and Jammy Smears. King designed some of the Ivor Cutler album covers, and has published poetry and children's books. She worked with Cutler on the radio series King Cutler which was broadcast on BBC ... |
The Committee of 19 is a committee of students at Auburn University that direct the War on Hunger efforts on campus and in the local community. In 2004, Auburn University was chosen by the World Food Programme, an agency of the United Nations and the largest humanitarian organization in the world, to lead the first stu... |
Susie decided she was going to sell lemonade to her block. So she made four jugs of lemonade. Got a cardboard box and wrote the prices for lemonade. She put her lemonade stand on the sidewalk near her front yard. Susie sold all the lemonade and made a hundred dollars. |
This is a list of newspapers circulated in Missouri.This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in Missouri. For weekly newspapers, see List of newspapers in Missouri. |
Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership. The park has an area of and has facilities for camping, fishing, boating and picnics. As of 2015, the yearly visitation was 44,502. |
Skeleton Jar is the second album by Australian rock band Youth Group. It was first released in Australia on 22 March 2004, and on 24 May 2005 on Epitaph Records in the United States with a re-arranged track listing and one new song. The US version was released in Australia as a "repackaged" album in July 2004. In 2011... |
Kawasaki police motorcycles have been produced in four series: |
Diodoros or Diodorus ; born Damianos G. Karivalis (14 August 1923 – 20 December 2000) was the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from 1980 to 2000. |
Mary wanted to be a bartender. She briefly considered pursuing a degree in mixology. Instead she watched many online demonstration videos. Mary found an opening in her city and applied. She did not get the job but remained determined to reach her goal. |
A New England hurricane is a tropical cyclone originating in the Atlantic Ocean that affects the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine in the United States. Due to geography and climatology, the vast majority of tropical cyclone strikes to the New England region occur in C... |
Absurd-Ditties is the seventh full-length album by the punk rock band Toy Dolls, recorded in September 1992 and released in January 1993 by Receiver Records. It is considered by many, including vocalist and guitarist Olga, to be one of the band's best albums. The album title is a play on the word "absurdities", as a de... |
George and Martha is a series of children's books written and illustrated by James Marshall between 1972 and 1988. Each book in the series contains five short stories describing interactions between two hippos, George and Martha (named after the first U.S. president and his wife). The books inspired an animated childre... |
Rupert Lisburn Gwynne Davies FRSA (22 May 191622 November 1976) was a British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon's novels. |
Jessica was ecstatic. After years of trying, she finally got on her favorite game show! She got through the first round. She won a lot in the second round, too! Jessica was proud of how she competed. |
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