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André Giroux (April 30, 1801 – November 18, 1879) was a renowned French photographer and painter. His paintings were mostly landscape art and genre painting, one of which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In particular, he restored several genre paintings of medieval ruins and troubadours. Giroux was also a well... |
The East German national men's ice hockey team was a national ice hockey representing the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The first international game was played in East Berlin on 28 January 1951, losing 3–8 to Team Poland. |
Heriberto Herrera Udrizar (24 April 1926 – 26 July 1996) was a footballer and manager who played international football for both Paraguay and Spain as a defender. |
GCZ Stadium or Gymnastic Club Zenon Stadium (; Γ.Σ.Ζ., ) is a multi-purpose stadium in Larnaca, Cyprus. Usually it is referred to as the 'neo GSZ Stadium' to distinguish it from the old GSZ Stadium, which it replaced. It is currently used mostly for football matches and was the home ground of AEK Larnaca FC until 2016.... |
Politics in South India (except Karnataka and Kerala) is typically dominated by regional parties than by the larger national political parties such as the Indian National Congress (INC), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, both the BJP, INC and CPI(M) have had some succ... |
Database security concerns the use of a broad range of information security controls to protect databases (potentially including the data, the database applications or stored functions, the database systems, the database servers and the associated network links) against compromises of their confidentiality, integrity ... |
My boyfriend was diagnosed with Diabetes last year. He got really sick one day and went to the hospital. He was diagnosed during that particular visit. Since then he has been trying his hardest to change his lifestyle. I am proud of how he has taken responsibility for his health. |
The man traveled to Indiana. On his way he saw a sign. He turned left where the sign told him. He parked his car. He recommended following signs in the future. |
Gabby always wanted a doll house. She saved all of her allowance money to buy one. She went to a toy store with her parents. Gabby found the perfect pink and purple doll house. Gabby now spends her afternoons playing with her doll house. |
EcoTalk, formerly TrashTalk, was a radio show on the Air America Radio network, hosted by Betsy Rosenberg. Rosenberg is a long-time radio journalist, she spent much of her career with CBS Radio, specifically the "environmental issues" reporter for CBS's San Francisco station KCBS-AM. |
The RCA Lyceum TV was a commercial monitor/receiver with a large input/output panel on the back, and a long grounded plug. During the mid-80s, RCA released the Colortrak 2000, a television identical to the Dimensia table-top model. Even though the Colortrak was considered the mid-range model, those bearing the name Co... |
Southwood Plantation was a large cotton plantation of located in southern Leon County, Florida, United States and owned by George Taliafero Ward. |
Christine needed a new top for work. As she didn't like shopping, she chose one online. It came through the mail two days later. When she opened the box, she realized it was way too small for her. She returned it and decided to go shop in person instead. |
The Volvo Modular Engine is a family of straight-four, straight-five, and straight-six automobile piston engines that was produced by Volvo Cars in Skövde, Sweden from 1990 until 2016. All engines feature an aluminum engine block and aluminum cylinder head, forged steel connecting rods, aluminum pistons and double over... |
Tim needed to wake up early the next day. Tim set the alarm on his smart phone. Tim set the tone volume too loud. Tim slept through the alarm. Tim was upset the alarm did not wake him up. |
Boyd is an ancient Scottish surname. |
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (born Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands; 1 May 1829 – 25 June 1904), usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British painter, illustrator, and draughtsman, associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He was also associated with the Norwich School of painters. |
The friends drove across the border to buy a bunch of fireworks. They drove home and set them all up. That night, they had a huge party. They lit the sky up with all their fireworks. It was a beautiful sight and a fun time! |
Paul Collins (born January 12, 1969) is an American writer, editor and Chair of English at Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for his work with McSweeney's and The Believer, as editor of the Collins Library imprint for McSweeney's Books, and for his appearances on National Public Radio's ... |
Lily refused to clean her bedroom. She assumed it was clean enough. Her parents disagreed. Lily room became so messy that she lost her favorite ring. She had no other choice but to clean her bedroom. |
David Jarolím (; born 17 May 1979 in Čáslav) is a Czech former footballer and manager of Ústí nad Labem. |
Anna inherited a cousin's fish tank. He had to leave it to go to college. At first Anna did not know how to care for the fish. But then she did some reading. Soon she was an expert on her new aquarium! |
Jack's parents had just retired after working nearly fifty years. They wanted to move to a warmer climate and relax. Because he loved being near them, Jack didn't want his parents to go. Despite how he felt, he wanted his parents to be happy. Jack slowly became depressed after they moved to Florida. |
"All Growed Up" is a special episode of Rugrats that aired on July 21, 2001 to celebrate the series' tenth anniversary. The special serves as the first two episodes of the eighth season of Rugrats, and the 145th and 146th episodes of the series overall. The episode's premise was to focus on what the babies' lives would... |
Abigail Sin Si Ern () (born 1992 in Singapore) is a Singaporean concert pianist. She was hailed by Time Asia magazine as a bona fide prodigy and one of Asia's "Small Wonders" when she was ten years old. |
Plevna is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeastern Knox County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately southeast of Edina on Missouri Route 15. As of the 2020 census, its population was 7. |
1941: Counter Attack is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game by Capcom, released in February 1990. It is the prequel to 1942, and the third game in the 19XX series. It was ported to the SuperGrafx in 1991 and to GameTap. It was released on Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PlayStation Portable and Capcom ... |
Ana was celebrating her 18th birthday. She went to get her ears pierced. But then she decided to get her tongue done, too! For good measure, she also had her left eyebrow pierced. Now Ana really felt like an adult! |
The Studebaker Coupe Express was a passenger car based coupe utility, produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, between 1937 and 1939. Featuring an automobile styled cab and flared rear fenders right off the Studebaker Dictator, it was sold both with a manufacturer supplied pick up style metal bed,... |
Findel is a village in the commune of Sandweiler, in southern Luxembourg. , the village had a population of 103. Findel is dominated by Luxembourg Findel Airport, the only international airport in Luxembourg. |
Bob, Bobby, Robbie, Rob, or Robert Boyd may refer to: |
Robbie got a job as a boat hand. He had no prior experience whatsoever. One day the seas get rough, and Robbie fell into the water. The salty captain rescued him, then rebuked him. Robbie got fired when they got back to shore. |
Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142, was composed in 1972–73. It is dedicated to Sergei Shirinsky, the cellist of the Beethoven Quartet, the ensemble that premiered most of Shostakovich's quartets. The first performance was held in Leningrad on November 12, 1973. |
Theodore Ginn Jr. (born April 12, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints, and Chicago Bears. |
Flügel, Flugel or Fluegel (which means wing in German) may refer to: |
Niels Petersen Vogt (15 April 1817–8 November 1894) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician. He served as the Norwegian Minister of the Interior five times between 1871 and 1884, and member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm four times 1872–1883. He also served as County Governor in three different coun... |
Espers was an American psychedelic folk band from Philadelphia, United States, that was part of the emerging indie folk scene. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena Espvall and Chris Smith. Their music... |
The Dying Gaul is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Craig Lucas, his feature directorial debut. The screenplay is based on his 1998 off-Broadway play of the same name, the title of which was derived from an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture. |
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration... |
The Kuwait National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a seating capacity of 16,000 people. It was the home ground of the Kuwait national football team. |
James Franklin Williams, Jr. (born March 8, 1984) is a former American football cornerback who previously played for the Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Virginia Tech, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was selected by the At... |
Iphigenia () is a 1977 Greek film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who was ordered by the goddess Artemis to be sacrificed. Cacoyannis adapted the film, the third in his "Greek Tragedy" trilogy (after the release of Electra in 1962 and The... |
My dad and I were driving to see my uncle. My dad's cell phone started to ring. He could not find it. I pulled over. It was in my pocket. |
Arnold Schulman (August 11, 1925 – February 4, 2023) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and novelist. He was a stage actor long associated with the American Theatre Wing and the Actors Studio. |
Fès-Boulemane (Berber: ⴼⴰⵙ ⴱⵓⵍⵎⴰⵏ, ) was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It was situated in an agricultural region of northern Morocco, and borders Rif Mountains to the north. It covered an area of 19,795 km² and had a population of 1,808,295 (2014 census). The capital was Fès. In 2015... |
Wear Valley District Council elections were generally held every four years between the council's creation in 1974 and its abolition in 2009. Wear Valley was a non-metropolitan district in County Durham, England. On 1 April 2009 the council's functions passed to Durham County Council, which became a unitary authority. |
Vicky wanted to be top of her class. She was smart, but lazy. She decided to cheat on her math test. Her teacher caught her. She failed the class. |
Today Anne learned how to brush her teeth by herself. She went in big circles all around. She was so excited. Her parents went out that night so she could try it on her own. She was glad she had the new found independence. |
Medusa is the second studio album by Dutch dark wave band Clan of Xymox. It was released on 1 November 1986 by 4AD. Founding member Pieter Nooten re-recorded the songs "After the Call" and "Theme I" on Sleeps with the Fishes, his 1987 collaborative album with Michael Brook, following a brief split from the band. |
The Hindu Sanskriti Ankh in India, are an ancient series of books originally from North India. These books were widely circulated in the early part of 19th century. The series of books highlighted the Bharatiya Sanskriti, that is, the culture of India. Sanskriti is a word of Sanskrit and means "culture", whereas Bharat... |
WHLV-TV (channel 52) is a religious television station licensed to Cocoa, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located adjacent to the Holy Land Experience, a Christian theme park also owned by TBN; its tra... |
The Diocese of Kotor (; ; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Bay of Kotor and Municipality of Budva area in Montenegro. It is centered in the city of Kotor (Cattaro). It was erected as a diocese in the 10th century. |
The moderator decided she would punish the poster for the post. She waited for weeks before she decided what the punishment would be. During that time, she gave no indication of her anger over the post. She waited until the poster was comfortable and posting often. Without warning, she banned the poster and his IP addr... |
James wrote short stories for a living. The hardest part was making interesting characters. When he got stuck he used people he knew. James' roommate noticed that he had been used in a story. He shared this information and many others angrily realized the same. |
TVR Timișoara is one of the six regional branches of Societatea Română de Televiziune (Romanian Television Company). On air since 17 October 1994 from a studio in Cluj, which was built in 1990 and from one in Iași that began broadcasting in 1991. Its initial airing schedule had a weekly duration of 35 minutes, whereas ... |
Kevin Summers (born is an Australian actor and playwright who has worked in theatre, film & television for nearly five decades. |
The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul Nipkow) in Berlin, Germany, was the first public television station in the world. Carrying programming from Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk, it was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of... |
The Gudvanga Tunnel ( or ) is located in the municipality of Aurland in Vestland county, Norway. The tunnel connects the village of Gudvangen, at the head of the Nærøyfjord, with the Undredalen valley and is part of European Route E16. At in length, it is Norway's third longest road tunnel. It was opened on 17 Decem... |
Julia Emma Greville (born 18 February 1979) is an Australian middle-distance freestyle swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. |
Jesse Alexander McDonald, better known by their stage name Jesse Dangerously or The Halifax Rap Legend, is an alternative hip hop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia and operating out of Ottawa, Ontario. Dangerously has released solo projects, provided guest vocals for other local artists, hosted a weekly radio show, writ... |
Promethean: The Created is a role-playing game published by White Wolf, set in the Chronicles of Darkness setting. |
Francesca Hawkins is a television news presenter and public relations specialist in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a frontline presenter for CNC3 Television. She is the current President of the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago. |
This is the list of the Border Guard agencies in different countries. Such agencies may also be known as Border Patrol, Border Police, Border Troops, Frontier Guard or Frontier Police. |
James J. McGovern is an American academic, who served as president of A.T. Still University (ATSU) from 1997 to 2008. He was also a professor in the university's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. |
Christian hedonism is a Christian doctrine believed by some evangelicals. The term was coined by Baptist pastor and Calvinist John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God based on Vernard Eller's earlier use of the term hedonism to describe the same concept. Piper summarizes this philosophy of the Christian life as "God is... |
John bought two tickets to the show tonight. He surprised me today with them. I am so excited to go. I have to find something to wear. It will be a great show. |
Dwight E. Radcliff (September 14, 1932 – May 6, 2020) was Sheriff of Pickaway County, Ohio from 1965 to 2013. He was the longest-serving sheriff in the United States. First elected in 1964 as a Democrat, he was re-elected 12 times. His father, Charles Radcliff, was Sheriff from 1931 to 1961, and his son, Robert B. Radc... |
Victoria Bridge is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is mostly within the townland of Breen (), which is in the civil parish of Ardstraw. It is also part of the historic barony of Strabane Lower, and Derry City and Strabane District Council. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 318 people. In ... |
Balša III () or Balsha III () (1387 – 28 April 1421, in Belgrade) was the fifth and last ruler of Zeta from the Balšić noble family, from April 1403 to April 1421. He was the son of Đurađ II and Jelena Lazarević. |
The Orleans Correctional Facility is a state prison in New York, United States. OCF is a medium security prison for males and is located in the Town of Albion, Orleans County in Western New York. |
State Highway 42 (SH 42) is a state highway located in the northeastern portion of the Texas in Gregg and Rusk Counties. This route was designated on December 12, 1962, over former SH 259 because of the creation of US 259 (which replaced cancelled SH 26) through Kilgore, which it intersected. |
The Solomon Islands Social Credit Party ("Socreds") is a political party in the Solomon Islands that espouses social credit theories of monetary reform. |
Bob was very scared of insects. This stemmed from a severe hornet sting when he was young. One summer, Bob saw a hornet attacking a girl. Rather than run, he helped swipe it away from her. Bob faced his fear and gained a girlfriend in the process. |
Enantiostasis is the ability of an open system, especially a living organism, to maintain and conserve its metabolic and physiological functions in response to variations in an unstable environment. Estuarine organisms typically undergo enantiostasis in order to survive with constantly changing salt concentrations. The... |
The Catholic Church in Eswatini is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. |
In the mathematical fields of geometry and topology, a coarse structure on a set X is a collection of subsets of the cartesian product X × X with certain properties which allow the large-scale structure of metric spaces and topological spaces to be defined. |
A viroplasm, sometimes called "virus factory" or "virus inclusion", is an inclusion body in a cell where viral replication and assembly occurs. They may be thought of as viral factories in the cell. There are many viroplasms in one infected cell, where they appear dense to electron microscopy. Very little is understood... |
Colonel Simeon Perkins (February 24, 1735 – May 9, 1812) was a Nova Scotia militia leader, merchant, diarist and politician. Perkins led the defence of Liverpool from attacks during the American Revolution, French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1770s, Liverpool was the second-largest settlement in N... |
The Argentine Agrarian Federation (in Spanish, Federación Agraria Argentina, FAA) is a private institution that serves as a business organization for small and medium agricultural owners of means of production (land, farms, etc.) or rural entrepreneurs in Argentina. It was founded on 15 August 1912 after the first empl... |
Scouting and Guiding in Italy consists of several associations and federations, including more than 225,000 male Scouts and female Guides. |
A raster scan, or raster scanning, is the rectangular pattern of image capture and reconstruction in television. By analogy, the term is used for raster graphics, the pattern of image storage and transmission used in most computer bitmap image systems. The word raster comes from the Latin word rastrum (a rake), which i... |
Abby was experiencing issues with her car starting. Abby quickly realized that her car battery had died. After crying frantically, Abby's coworker came to her rescue. Abby's coworker gave her a jump start, and her car worked. Abby was so glad that her coworker helped her start her car. |
As I walked out of the shed, I closed the door. I slipped on the wooden step. I fell down the steps to the ground. I landed on a rusty saw. It cut open my arm. |
Kurt Wrigley (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian rugby league coach and former player. He played for the Cronulla Sharks, St. George Dragons and the Adelaide Rams and has also been an assistant coach at the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Newcastle Knights. |
Banská Štiavnica District (; ) is a district in the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia. Until 1920, most of the present-day district belonged to the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Hont, apart from Močiar and Podhorie in the north (Tekov) and Kozelník in the east (Zvolen county). |
The friends were frustrated. They had been waiting for their bus for four hours! FInally, they saw the bus driving towards them. When it got to them, the driver said they were full. The girls had to wait longer. |
Lampa province is a province of the Puno Region in Peru. Its population is about 40,856. The capital is Lampa. |
Charles William "C. W." Kimmins (3 August 1856 – 12 January 1948) was an educational psychologist and was appointed chief inspector of the education department of the now defunct London County Council in 1904. He was appointed chief inspector at the education department of the LCC in 1904. |
"No, No, No" is Thalía's sixth single from the re-released edition of her El Sexto Sentido album, El Sexto Sentido Re+Loaded. The song features the Latin singer Anthony "Romeo" Santos, from the Latin group Aventura. The song was written by Anthony "Romeo" Santos, and produced by Archie Peña. The song reached number fou... |
Mad Love is a 1995 American teen romantic drama film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell. It was written by Paula Milne. The original music score is composed by Andy Roberts. |
Maggie loved her iPod. She used it everyday. Thankfully it lasted many years. Then one day she broke it. She dropped it and that was that. |
was a of the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
In set theory, a normal measure is a measure on a measurable cardinal κ such that the equivalence class of the identity function on κ maps to κ itself in the ultrapower construction. Equivalently, if f:κ→κ is such that f(α)<α for most α<κ, then there is a β<κ such that f(α)=β for most α<κ. (Here, "most" means that the ... |
Bob was pushing his old wheelbarrow when something broke. The wheelbarrow tipped to the side and everything fell out. When Bob looked underneath, he saw the wheel had come off. He grabbed his tools and bolted it back on more tightly than before. Bob loaded his wheelbarrow back up and finished the job. |
The Macintosh Quadra 605 (also sold as the Macintosh LC 475 and Macintosh Performa 475) is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from October 1993 to July 1996. The model names reflect a decision made at Apple in 1993 to follow an emerging industry trend of naming product families for t... |
Salat is a village in Kulpahar subdistrict in Uttar Pradesh, India. |
Daniel Greene, born in 1960, is an American actor, best known for his role as Dwayne Cooley in the television series Falcon Crest, and as Paco Queruak in the 1986 action–sci fi movie Vendetta dal futuro. |
Michael Murray (born March 19, 1943 in Kokomo, Indiana) is an American-born organist and writer. |
Ruan Xian (fl. 3rd century), courtesy name Zhongrong, was a Chinese scholar who lived in the Six Dynasties period. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, he was a skilled player of the Chinese lute, an old version of pipa which has been called ruan after his name since the Tang dynasty. His achievement in music re... |
Jane was having a hard time in school. She was partying too much and not giving school much attention. Jane decided she was going to cut out the partying. She tried her hardest to do well on this test. Her grade came back and it was an F. |
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