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Donal Davern (4 March 1935 – 2 November 1968) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
Tara put her money in her purse. Later she went to get her money. It was missing. Tara found a hole in her purse. She bought a new purse the next day.
An anode is an electrode of a polarized electrical device through which conventional current enters the device. This contrasts with a cathode, an electrode of the device through which conventional current leaves the device. A common mnemonic is ACID, for "anode current into device". The direction of conventional curr...
"You're the Best" is a song performed by Joe Esposito and written by Bill Conti (music) and Allee Willis (lyrics), which came to prominence as the music to the All-Valley Karate Championships montage in the 1984 movie The Karate Kid in which the protagonist, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), proves a surprisingly formida...
Max had worked a double shift at his job. He was extremely tired when he got home. Max skipped dinner and took a shower. After the shower, he went straight to bed. Max woke up in the morning very hungry.
R.B.I. Baseball 2 is the second game in the R.B.I. Baseball series.
Sergio Arturo Bernal Hernández also known as "El Puma Mayor" (The Eldest Puma) (born 9 February 1970) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Colombian Americans (), are Americans who trace their ancestry to Colombia. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of full or partial Colombian descent or to someone who has immigrated to the United States from Colombia. Colombian Americans are the sixth-largest Latin American group and the largest Sou...
Mahou San Miguel is a Spanish brewing company, founded in Madrid in 1890 under the name of Hijos de Casimiro Mahou, fábrica de hielo y cerveza ().
South Omo Zone is a zone in the Ethiopian Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR). South Omo is bordered on the south by Kenya, on the southwest by the South Sudan, on the west by Bench Maji, on the northwest by Keffa, on the north by Konta, Gamo Gofa and Basketo, on the northeast by Dirashe and Kon...
Alma was cooking dinner. Her daughter called her. She said she was coming over for dinner. Alma added food to her pot. Alma was able to have enough food to serve.
The Kirk Range is a plateau in southwestern Malawi, extending in a north-south direction and skirting the southwestern shore of Lake Malawi and the western border of the Shire River valley. The range includes several peaks higher than 1800 meters in elevation. The northern end of the range overlooks the Central Region ...
Landon loved being outside. He would put his fishing pole in the water and wait for a bite. He caught a huge bluegill and struggled to pull it out of the water. He took it home and fried it up. He was so proud of his catch!
Samuel was a very political person. He decided to attend a local protest march. Samuel unfortunately got arrested at the protest. His parents were not happy about the arrest. Samuel agreed to not do any more protest marches.
Eloína C. Echevarría (born August 23, 1961) is a retired Cuban long jumper and triple jumper.
Tom liked using coupons when he went shopping. He printed a few coupons at home. He went to the store to buy the items. At the counter, he realized that he had left the coupons at home. Tom decided not to buy any of the items that day.
Howard David is an American sportscaster.
Brendan Fowler (born 24 March 1978 in Berkeley, CA) is a Los Angeles-based musician and multi-disciplinary artist who works in photography, sculpture, and performance. He first became known for his music performances and records released under the name of BARR. He is a regular performer at The Smell, a DIY music venue....
Jeanne Elizabeth Pearl Kohl-Welles (née Jean Elizabeth Pearl Kohl; October 19, 1942) is an American politician and academic. Since January 2016 she has served as a member of the King County Council from the 4th district. She previously served as a member of the Washington State Senate from 1994 to 2015 and the Washingt...
Sophiasburgh is an historic township in southern Ontario, Canada, one of the three original townships that formed Prince Edward County. The other two townships were Ameliasburgh and Marysburgh. It was named in 1798 after Princess Sophia, the fifth daughter of George III. The township was amalgamated into the Corporatio...
Ballycarry railway station serves Ballycarry and Islandmagee in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the station was opened on 1 October 1862.
Bradley Ray Nessler (born June 3, 1956) is an American sportscaster, who currently calls college football and college basketball games for CBS Sports.
District Council 37 (also known as DC37) is New York City's largest public sector employee union, representing over 150,000 members.
Julia was competing in a Halloween costume contest. She had the original idea of being a squid. She spent weeks making an elaborate costume. The day came and she paraded on stage. Unsurprisingly, her artful costume won the biggest award.
Starwater Strains is a collection of short stories by American writer Gene Wolfe. While his previous collection, Innocents Aboard, contained fantasy and horror stories, this one largely consists of science fiction.
Ike's car was making a loud noise. He was afraid it would be a costly repair. But the mechanic gave him good news. It was just a broken muffler clamp! The repair was fast - and cheap!
Hardwire or hardwired may refer to:
Ephraim Downs (1787–1860) was an early America wooden movement clockmaker. In business from 1810 through 1842, he worked with Eli Terry, Silas Hoadley, and Seth Thomas in the early Connecticut clock trade.
The Harsola copper plates are a set of two 949 CE Indian inscriptions that record the grants of two villages to a Nagar Brahmin father-son duo. The grants were issued by the Paramara king Siyaka II. The copper plates were discovered in Harsol (or Harsola) in present-day Gujarat state.
Christopher Camuto is an American nature writer, scholar and poet. He is the author of three books focused on the southern Appalachians--A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge (Henry Holt, 1990), Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains (Henry Holt, 1997), Hunting from Home: A Year Afield in the Blue Ridge (W. W...
Lee Duncan is an American character actor.
A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under to over in diameter.
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go was an EP by the synthpop/new wave duo group Soft Cell.
is the sixth solo studio album by Japanese hip hop producer DJ Krush. It was released in 2001. It peaked at number 66 on the Oricon Albums Chart.
Area code 712 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the most western part of Iowa, including the cities of Spencer, Le Mars, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Red Oak, Sheldon, Storm Lake, Carroll, Sac City, and Shenandoah.
Messe station is a Nuremberg U-Bahn station, located on the U1 line in Nuremberg, Germany.
Michael William Perry is the host, of the Perry & The Posse show on KSSK-FM in Honolulu, Hawaii. He also hosts the Hawaiian Moving Company television show on KGMB in Honolulu.
or (lit. Reindeer Lake) is a lake in the municipality of Hamarøy in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about east of the village of Mørsvikbotn and less than west of the border with Sweden.
Dukovany is a municipality and village in Třebíč District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants. It is known for the Dukovany Nuclear Power Station.
William Joel "Bucky" Covington III (born November 8, 1977) is an American country music singer. He placed eighth on the 5th season of the Fox Network's talent competition series American Idol. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records. His self-titled debut album, produced by Dale Olive...
Jim "Wales" Walewander (born May 2, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional baseball infielder. Walewander was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 9th round of the 1983 Major League Baseball draft. During his professional career, he played for the Tigers, New York Yankees and California Angels of...
The Botswana Bank Employee's Union (BOBEU) is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana.
The list of ship commissionings in 1960 includes a chronological list of all ships commissioned in 1960.
Trina's husband got signed to the nba. Trina was so happy. So they went and bought a mansion. Then her husband was let go. The couple panicked and the home had to go to the bank.
Boulevard Alexandre-Taché is an east-west road located in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. It is named in honour of former member for the Hull electoral district, Alexandre Taché, who served for 15 years with the Union Nationale when the political party was in power under the leadership of Maurice Duplessis.
SS Amerigo Vespucci (Hull Number 2767) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer for which North America and South America are named.
Delta House is an American sitcom that was adapted from the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House. The series aired from January 18 to April 21, 1979 on ABC.
Tom was driving home from work. He noticed smoke coming out from under his hood. Tom decided to pull over. He got out right as the fire raged. His car was completely consumed within minutes.
The following is a partial list of the "F" codes for Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), as defined by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).
This is a list of members of the 48th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1995 to 1998, as elected at the 1995 state election held on 15 July 1995.
LaChelle thought she was a great singer. She entered the talent show at the local theater. She won a spot in the singing category. LaChelle didn't even practice performing her routine. The audience booed her off the stage before she finished her song.
Biarmosuchus is an extinct genus of biarmosuchian therapsids that lived around 267 mya during the Middle Permian period. Biarmosuchus was discovered in the Perm region of Russia. The first specimen was found in channel sandstone that was deposited by flood waters originating from the young Ural Mountains.
El Salto is a rock climbing area in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, in Northeastern Mexico. The climbing area is near to Ciénega de González village, Santiago municipality, 60 km away from Monterrey. El Salto is one of the few climbing areas in northern Mexico where overhanging limestone full of tufa can be found. Onl...
Becker (also known as Howells Crossing) is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
Stanford-le-Hope railway station is on a loop line of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. It is down the line from London Fenchurch Street via and it is situated between and . Its three-letter station code is SFO.
Helions Bumpstead is a small village in Essex located near Haverhill and the meeting-point of the Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders. It is 2 miles from Steeple Bumpstead. Helions Bumpstead has "the greens"; Pale Green (), Wiggens Green (), and Drapers Green (). There are four roads into and out of the village; ...
Spec RX-7 is one of many production-based spec classes, originating in the mid-1990s with the Sports Car Club of America. The class was created by Dave Turner and Mark Holland. The main fault of the class is a lack of nationwide compatibility, with each division having slightly different rulesets from one another. Some...
Radox is a brand of personal care products, best known for their range of bubble bath and shower gels. The brand was founded in the United Kingdom in 1908, and is now also available in Ireland, Czech Republic, Australia, Malaysia and South Africa. In September 2009 it was bought by Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever fr...
Lindy Davies (29 August 1946) is an Australian actress, director, actor trainer and performance consultant. She played Ruth Ballinger in the Australian soap opera Prisoner in 1985, and won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film Malcolm. She went on to be the head of drama at the Victorian C...
Frida Leider (18 April 1888 – 4 June 1975) was a German operatic soprano.
Last month, I received an email message on my work account. The email said to click on the enclosed link for an update. I clicked it and a file started to download onto my computer. Then I was suddenly locked out of my computer. I was helpless as my files were stolen in the phishing scam.
Teddy and his friends were playing videogames together. They decided to order pizza. They were all very hungry. They decided that Supreme pizzas offer the best value. They ordered supreme pizzas and were very happy.
Back Home is the fourteenth studio album by Chuck Berry, released in 1970 by Chess Records. The album title refers to his return to Chess after several years with Mercury Records.
eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., 547 U.S. 388 (2006), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously determined that an injunction should not be automatically issued based on a finding of patent infringement, but also that an injunction should not be denied simply on the basis that the plaintif...
Collette is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
The Siege of Sziget or The Peril of Sziget (, , ) is a Hungarian epic poem in fifteen parts, written by Miklós Zrínyi in 1647 and published in 1651, about the final battle of his great-grandfather Nikola IV Zrinski (also Miklós Zrínyi in Hungarian) against the Ottomans in 1566.
Taylor v Caldwell is a landmark English contract law case, with an opinion delivered by Mr Justice Blackburn which established the doctrine of common law impossibility.
This is a list of feature films and documentaries that include mathematicians, scientists who use math or references to mathematicians.
The Mixtón War (1540-1542) was a rebellion by the Caxcan people of northwestern Mexico against the Spanish conquerors. The war was named after Mixtón, a hill in Zacatecas which served as an Indigenous stronghold.
A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, designed by the company or organization to be secret, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily accomplished only wi...
Count Otto Heinrich Igelström (; ; 7 May 1737 – 1823) was a Russian general from the noble Swedish family of Igelström.
Bernard of Bologna (b. Flovitano Toselli in Bologna, Italy on December 17, 1701 – February 19, 1770), also known as Bernardine, was a Friar Minor Capuchin and Scotist theologian and author.
The family was in New York for the first time. The saw Central Park. They explored the entire park. It was a beautiful space! The family couldn't wait to return some day.
The Phrygian alphabet is the script used in the earliest Phrygian texts.
Amr ibn Abd Wadd () (or Amr bin Abdu Wadd was a champion of the Quraish tribe, said to have been worth over one thousand soldiers. He is most well known for his role during the Battle of the Trench in which he was killed in a duel by Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Andromeda X (And 10) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.9 million light-years away from the Sun in the constellation Andromeda. Discovered in 2005 by Zucker et al., And X is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Aided by the application of stellar photometry to data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey simi...
Flint Hill is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
The South Bay Lakers are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2006 as the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the team is owned by the Los Angeles Lakers, who were the first National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise to own a D-League team. At the conclusion of the 2016–...
George was only 5 years old. He was just learning to ride his bike. He told his dad he was ready to go on his own. His dad watched as George began to peddle on his own. George got 5 feet before he fell over and off his bike.
Remote Initial Program Load (RIPL or RPL) is a protocol for starting a computer and loading its operating system from a server via a network. Such a server runs a network operating system such as LAN Manager, LAN Server, Windows NT Server, Novell NetWare, LANtastic, Solaris or Linux.
Christopher Robert Richard (born June 7, 1974) is a former American Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman. He is an alumnus of University of San Diego High School in San Diego and of Oklahoma State University. He last played in the majors in for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Goh Soon Tioe () is known in Singapore musical history as a key player in the development of classical music for the post-war Singapore. He is also the father of Singaporean violinist-conductor Vivien Goh.
Benapole () is a township in Sharsha Upazila in the Jessore District of Bangladesh. The Petrapole Customs station of India is situated across the border and since 1971 (some sources say 1947), many people have travelled between Bangladesh and India through Benapole Customs / Land port station. The railway link between ...
No. 695 Squadron RAF was an anti-aircraft co-operation squadron of the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1949.
Kenneth Ambrose Walsh (November 24, 1916 – July 30, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and a Medal of Honor recipient who was the fourth ranking USMC fighter ace in World War II with a record of 21 enemy planes destroyed. He also served in Korea during the first year of the Korean War and retired...
Ron Stonitsch was the 1969 NCAA Division II Cross-Country National Champion, a multiple All-American in Cross-Country and Track, a 4:01 miler and the C. W. Post College record holder in the one, two, and three-mile events. He also holds the Penn Relays 2 mile record (8:38). Since 1982, Stonitsch has coached cross-count...
At Christian High School the head coach quit his job in 1970. In the middle of the season the school could not replace him. The assistant coach took his place hoping to obtain victory. Everyone was skeptical because of the man's color. Against odds and mockery, the man came out on top and won the season.
I told Ben to wait until our first class before purchasing anything. He didn't listen and purchased a class textbook from the store. The teacher made several announcements in class. When he mentioned that textbooks were not required, Benny got mad. However, he used the book for the class.
Hunk is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Lawrence Bassoff, and starring John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, James Coco and Deborah Shelton. The plot concerns a man, Bradley Brinkman, who signs an agreement with an agent of the devil, which grants him a transformed body and a new identity, Hunk Golden. He must decid...
Ava was nervous to sing such a well known song. Matt told her she'd do amazing if she'd just try. Ava got behind the mic and faced her fear. As the music started she began to sing. Ava's version of the song hit the top of the Itunes chart.
Carter was in her school assembly. She had stayed up late to do homework and was so tired. She tried her best to stay awake but the assembly lulled her to sleep. Suddenly, she was awoken to everyone staring at her. She was so embarrassed that her teacher had called her out.
Jenny and her sisters were happy it was Easter. They had already eaten all of their candy. The whole family went into the yard to hunt for Easter eggs. They spent most of the morning finding eggs. The entire family had a great time that Easter day.
The Meligrove Band is a Canadian indie rock band, based in Toronto, and consisting of Jason Nunes on vocals, guitar and piano, Darcy Rego on vocals and drums, Brian O'Reilly on guitar and synthesizer, and Michael Small on bass guitar.
As polytheistic religions evolve, there is a tendency for one deity to achieve preeminence as king of the gods. This tendency can parallel the growth of hierarchical systems of political power in which a monarch eventually comes to assume ultimate authority for human affairs. Other gods come to serve in a Divine Counci...
Kathryn Jane Calder (born June 17, 1982) is a Canadian indie rock musician, who performs as a solo artist, and is a member of the bands The New Pornographers and Frontperson. She is a former member of Immaculate Machine. Calder started with The New Pornographers by filling in for Neko Case for live performances and wa...
A new park opened in the neighborhood. Ian begged his mother to take him there to play with his friends. Every day, she told him she was busy. After a week, Ian disappointingly stop asking. The next day his mother surprised him by taking him to the park.
Joe was falling behind on his bills. He decided to get a second job. He started to work bussing tables on the weekend. Joe started to pay off his bills. Eventually Joe was able to stop working his second job.
Cintra Wilson (born 1967) is an American writer, performer and cultural critic. Dubbed "the Dorothy Parker of the cyber age", she is best known for her commentary on popular culture which is often humorous and irreverent in tone. She contributed to the New York Times for its "Critical Shopper" series and is considered ...
Aukrug is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 13 km west of Neumünster, and 35 km southwest of Kiel.
Arumana no Kiseki is a platform game by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System. It was released in Japan on August 11, 1987. In 2012, reproduction cartridges of the game were created for the NES under the title of 'Miracle of Almana'.