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The Federal Accountability Act (full title: An Act providing for conflict of interest rules, restrictions on election financing and measures respecting administrative transparency, oversight and accountability) (the Act) is a statute introduced as Bill C-2 in the first session of the 39th Canadian Parliament on April 1... |
The Wabasha Street Bridge is a segmental bridge that spans the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was named Wabasha Street Freedom Bridge in 2002, to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. It actually consists of two separate bridges, one for northbound and on... |
Major General Huỳnh Văn Cao (26 September 1927 – 26 February 2013) was a major general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. |
Cape Breton Island (, formerly ; or ; ) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. |
Hassan el-Imam (; March 6, 1919, in Mansoura, Egypt – January 29, 1988) was a prominent Egyptian film director. He was nicknamed the Box-office King. |
Liquid metal embrittlement (also known as LME and liquid metal induced embrittlement) is a phenomenon of practical importance, where certain ductile metals experience drastic loss in tensile ductility or undergo brittle fracture when exposed to specific liquid metals. Generally, a tensile stress, either externally appl... |
In graph theory, a haven is a certain type of function on sets of vertices in an undirected graph. If a haven exists, it can be used by an evader to win a pursuit–evasion game on the graph, by consulting the function at each step of the game to determine a safe set of vertices to move into. Havens were first introduced... |
Cody was a homeschooled child and very smart. He'd often finish his school work very quickly. So he'd quickly move onto his chores but also finished those quickly. His mom offered to give him more schoolwork or additional chores. Cody chose more chores and their house was always spotless. |
Sadler's Mill, also referred to as Saddlers Mill, is a watermill in Romsey, Hampshire, England. It is probably the best known of Romsey's surviving mills and is apparently the only mill to be developed on the main course of the River Test. The existence of Sadler's Mill is first recorded in the 16th century, when it w... |
Last year we got some eggs. We hatched the eggs in an incubator. The chicks that hatched were very cute. Our chicks grew into beautiful birds. When they were six months old, our chickens began laying eggs! |
Coltishall railway station serves the village of Coltishall in Norfolk, and is currently operated by the Bure Valley Railway. |
American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances is the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce. Sin... |
Worsley and Eccles South is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat is currently held by Barbara Keeley MP of the Labour Party. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. |
R v Prosper, [1994] 3 S.C.R. 236 is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the right to duty counsel upon arrest or detainment by police under section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Court found that merely reading the accused his or her rights is insufficient to discharge the right to ... |
Inge Borkh (born Ingeborg Simon, 26 May 1921 – 26 August 2018) was a German operatic dramatic soprano. She was first based in Switzerland, where she received international attention when she appeared in the first performance in German of Menotti's The Consul, in Basel, in 1951. In 1952, Borkh became a member of the Deu... |
Georgia was a runner. One day she passed out after running. Her parents told her to go to the doctor. So she went to the doctor. The doctor told her she had tachycardia. |
Roger Rumface was depressed. He'd gone to college to better himself. Unfortunately, all of his classes were useless to him. Roger became increasingly disillusioned with higher education. Until one day he became an advocate for collegiate reform. |
Christie Park is a football ground in the town of Huntly in the north-east of Scotland. It is the home ground of Highland Football League side Huntly F.C. It is located on East Park Street in the north-east of the town and has a capacity of 2,200 with 270 seated. |
After several weeks in town, the circus was ready to move on. It was hard work packing a circus. Everyone pitched in and took down all the tents. Others secured all the animals. In a matter of hours, the circus was on its way to the next town. |
Poughkeepsie City School District is located in Dutchess County, New York State. Approximately 75 miles north of New York City, the school district is situated on the banks of the Hudson River in an area known as the Mid Hudson Valley. |
Depictions of nudity include all of the representations or portrayals of the unclothed human body in visual media. In a picture-making civilization, pictorial conventions continually reaffirm what is natural in human appearance, which is part of socialization. In Western societies, the contexts for depictions of nudity... |
Ramón Iglesias i Navarri (28 January 1889 in Vall de Boí – 31 March 1972) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. He was the Bishop of Urgell and Episcopal Co-Prince of Andorra from 4 April 1943, until 29 April 1969. During World War II, he helped to keep Andorra neutral and strongly promoted a Spanish influence in the p... |
Walter William "Chip" Hale (born December 2, 1964) is an American professional baseball infielder, coach, and manager. Hale played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1989 through 1997, and managed in MLB from 2015 through 2016. He was named head coach of the Arizona Wildcats of the University of Arizona in July 2021. |
Våvatnet is a lake in Orkland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake was dammed in 1910 and is used as the main reservoir for the municipality of Orkdal. The water flows into the lake Songsjøen and then into the lake Gagnåsvatnet. |
Francisco Antonio Camassa (1588–1646) was an Italian Jesuit scholar who taught at the Colegio Imperial de Madrid. |
Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label. |
Mental rotation is the ability to rotate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects as it is related to the visual representation of such rotation within the human mind. There is a relationship between areas of the brain associated with perception and mental rotation. There could also be a ... |
In algebraic geometry, a quartic plane curve is a plane algebraic curve of the fourth degree. It can be defined by a bivariate quartic equation: |
The mastoid part of the temporal bone is the posterior (back) part of the temporal bone, one of the bones of the skull. Its rough surface gives attachment to various muscles (via tendons) and it has openings for blood vessels. From its borders, the mastoid part articulates with two other bones. |
Ytre Storevatnet is a lake in the municipality of Bykle in Agder county, Norway. The lake makes up the northernmost part of the Svartevatnet reservoir that empties into the Sira River system. The lake is located just south of the lake Blåsjø and southwest of Botsvatn. The village of Bykle is about northeast of the... |
The following is a list of National Register of Historic Places listings in Lapeer County, Michigan. Lapeer County was founded in 1822 and has a current estimated population of almost 90,000. It is officially listed as part of Metro Detroit with Lapeer as a county seat. |
Settling Accounts: In at the Death is the last novel of the Settling Accounts tetralogy that presents an alternate history of World War II known as the Second Great War that was released July 27, 2007. It brings to a conclusion the multi-series compilation by author Harry Turtledove, a series sometimes referred to as S... |
The Declaration of Purna Swaraj was a resolution which was passed in 1930 because of the dissatisfaction among the Indian masses regarding the British offer of Dominion status to India. The word Purna Swaraj was derived , or Declaration of the Independence of India, it was promulgated by the Indian National Congress, ... |
The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (commonly known as The Poly) is an educational, cultural and scientific charity, as well as a local arts and cinema venue, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The Society exists to promote innovation in the arts and sciences. |
In geometry, the small dodecahemicosahedron (or great dodecahemiicosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U62. It has 22 faces (12 pentagrams and 10 hexagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral. |
A split album (or split) is a music album that includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There are also singles and EPs of the same variety, which are often called "split singles" and "split EPs" respectively. Split albums differ from "various artists" compilation albums in that they generally include several tr... |
Kelli was looking at saks. She couldn't afford it. But she looked anyway. She found rings on sale. They were only 30 dollars. |
My dog Leila loved to chase my friends Damien around. Although she was playful, he seemed scared of her. One day Leila chased him from the backyard to the front yard. She ran after him down the street and inside his house. She stopped and set next to his grandfather in their living room. |
Last summer was incredibly hot. My friend Dalton spent almost the whole summer in his house. There was one day where he spent all day at my house though. It was the day that his air conditioner broke. I sort of wish his air conditioner had broken more often. |
My sister in law Edwina's daughter smokes. She also does not make a lot of money. My sister in law gives her packs on occasion. Edwina hides the pack in the mailbox. She does not want her daughter's boyfriend to get the cigarettes. |
The 1990 Tippeligaen was the 46th completed season of top division football in Norway. The season began on 28 April 1990 and ended on 7 October 1990. |
Jeff is downtown with his friends. They like to race cars. Jeff challenges his friend to a race. Jeff smokes the challenger. Jeff is happy he won the race. |
Tem was very unhappy. She decided to get a therapist. That did not help her so she got a psychiatrist. She was prescribed some pills. She felt better. |
Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools (or Torah Umesorah ) is an Orthodox Jewish educational charity based in the United States that promotes Torah-based Jewish religious education in North America by supporting and developing a loosely affiliated network independent private Jewish day schools. |
Master's Hammer are a Czech black metal band formed in Prague in 1983. They were active, with several lineup changes, until 1995, and again from 2009 onward. As of , they have released eight studio albums, five demos, one EP, two split albums, one live album, and several compilations. |
This article lists urban areas of New Zealand—as defined by Statistics New Zealand—ranked by population. Only the 150 largest urban areas are listed. |
My niece had three children from her boyfriend. He used to hit her when he got drunk. The police were called in twice for disturbances. One night he almost destroyed her apartment. He got sent to jail and she has not seen him since. |
Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision on compensation for regulatory takings. Penn Central sued New York City after the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission denied its bid to build a large office building on top of Grand Cent... |
Keban is a town of Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Keban District. Its population is 4,022 (2021). In the local elections 2019 the independent Fethiye Atlı was elected as Mayor. |
The Hamburg oil field is a remote area in north-western Alberta, Canada, with intensive exploration and production of oil and gas. |
The man rejected the explanation. He convicted the woman. The woman went to prison. The man reconsidered the explanation. He realized that he had made a mistake. |
was a Japanese pop rock band formed in 2003 and signed to Sony Music Japan. Their visual image is oshare kei, and they describe their music as "Harajuku Dance Rock". The group has released six full-length albums, two compilation albums, and four EPs. On September 1, 2009, the band announced that after their live show o... |
Lou loved Elvis Presley. He knew every song by him and every fact about him. When he turned eighteen he decided to move to Vegas. He bought a sparkly suit and some sunglasses. He is now the number one Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas. |
José Armando Ufarte Ventoso (born 17 May 1941) is a Spanish former football right winger and manager. |
The little girl asked Santa for a new doll. She was very specific about how big it should be. She wanted it to have a pink dress. On Christmas morning, she was thrilled to open a box with the doll. It was a dream come true! |
Carla stood on the block nervously. It was her first swim meet! She crouched down and dove in when she heard the beep. She swam as quickly as she could. She ended up with a 3rd place medal. |
Joe was having his girlfriend over. So he cleaned the house. That's when he noticed that his dog peed on his bed sheets. Joe was angry and put the sheets to wash. They were ready before his girlfriend came . |
Lillian Dorothy Miller (May 26, 1897 – April 1, 1990) better known as Miss Miller, was a regular audience member of various American television variety shows from the 1950s to the 1980s. |
Lublewo is a non-operational PKP railway station on the disused PKP rail line 230 in Lublewo (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland, though the station itself lies more than half a kilometre outside the village proper. |
Tom was at the mall. He thought he saw his wife. He went up to pinch her butt. It turned out to be another woman. She was flattered. |
Nerola is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome, Latium, Italy. |
Viktor An (; born Ahn Hyun-soo () on November 23, 1985), is a South Korean-born Russian short-track speed skating coach and retired short-track speed skater. With a total of eight Olympic medals, six gold and two bronze, he is the only short track speed skater in Olympic history to win gold in every distance, and the f... |
The Ndogo are an ethnic group from the South Sudan, part of the Fertit. |
Voacangine (12-methoxyibogamine-18-carboxylic acid methyl ester) is an alkaloid found predominantly in the root bark of the Voacanga africana tree, as well as in other plants such as Tabernanthe iboga, Tabernaemontana africana, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Tabernaemontana divaricata and Ervatamia yunnanensis. It is an ... |
The East Room is an event and reception room in the Executive Residence, which is a building of the White House complex, the home of the president of the United States. The East Room is the largest room in the Executive Residence; it is used for dances, receptions, press conferences, ceremonies, concerts, and banquets.... |
Tanya asked her sister Kim if she could borrow her camera. Kim was very protective of her camera and said no. Tanya decided to sneak into Kim's room and take the camera. While taking a picture, she accidentally dropped it into a lake. Kim was upset that she couldn't find her camera anywhere. |
State Highway 59 (SH 59) is a state highway that runs from Jacksboro to St. Jo in Texas. |
Wall Street is an American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Ralph Ince, Aileen Pringle, Sam De Grasse, Philip Strange, and Freddie Burke Frederick. Released on December 1, 1929, it was produced by Harry Cohn. |
Askrova is an island in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located along the Brufjorden, near the mouth of the Førdefjorden, about northwest of the island of Svanøya. Askrova sits about southwest of the town of Florø and about the same distance southeast of the island of Reksta. The population of t... |
Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) is a global non-profit organization formerly known as Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO). The organization was founded in 1987. |
Christopher of Prague, born 29 June 1953 as Radim Pulec is the Orthodox Metropolitan of the Czech lands and Slovakia since 2006 and Archbishop of Prague. He has participated in numerous theological conferences and has represented the Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in many venues. Fluent in his native language a... |
Rock 'n' Roll Animal is a live album by American musician Lou Reed, released in February 1974 by RCA Records. In its original form, it features five songs, four of which were initially recorded by The Velvet Underground. Reed's band included Pentti Glan (drums), Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wa... |
Minx, MinX or MINX may refer to: |
Andre was at a party. He then lost his phone. The whole party stopped. People are all looking for it. They found it. |
Coney Island Colorado (commonly The Coney Island) in Bailey, Colorado is a 1950s diner shaped like a giant hot dog, with toppings. The building has been called "the best example of roadside architecture in the state". |
Harold Burroughs Rhodes (December 28, 1910 – December 17, 2000) was an American music inventor of the Army Air Corps Piano, the Pre-piano and the Rhodes piano (Fender Rhodes). He started his career by running piano schools around the United States. |
Alex wanted a thrill. He asked Jared what to do. Jared told him to climb the rock face. Alex got prepared to go. He climbed the rock. |
Anna won her school singing contest. But her teacher had an even bigger surprise for her. He had recorded her and submitted the tape to others. Soon she was entered into the state singing championship! Anna was humbled and amazed by her luck! |
The Beretta 8000 (Cougar) is a family of rotating barrel semi-automatic pistols that were designed and manufactured by Beretta of Italy. |
The Venezuelan Popular Union (Unión Popular Venezolana, UPV) was a political party in Venezuela. The UPV was built along 'Browderist' pattern. UPV had its roots in the Municipal Union (UM), which had been legalized in 1941 and had functioned as a legal cover for the underground Communist Party of Venezuela. The party ... |
Grønlundfjellet is a village in the municipality of Gjerdrum, Norway. Its population (2005) was 2,174. |
Vitelline circulation refers to the system of blood flowing from the embryo to the yolk sac and back again. |
Rich Zvosec (born March 13, 1961) is a television broadcaster for ESPN and Fox Sports, motivational speaker and a Telly Award-winning actor, a former American college basketball coach and college administrator. After a 25-year coaching career, he currently serves as the associate athletics director for Arkansas State U... |
Metekhi (Metechi; ) is a historic neighborhood of Tbilisi, Georgia, located (42.92N 44.34E) on the elevated cliff that overlooks the Mtkvari river. The neighborhood is home to the eponymous Metekhi Church of Assumption. |
Haley had just travelled for a day on a bus. She was waiting for her luggage outside of the terminal. When the man brought her bags she saw her guitar case wet. Something had apparently spilled in the luggage trunk. Her guitar was soaking wet and would need to be repaired. |
The 1991 protests in Belgrade happened on the streets of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia when a protest rally turned into a riot featuring vicious clashes between the protesters and police. |
Monte Conero () or Mount Conero, also known as Monte d'Ancona (Mount of Ancona), is a promontory in Italy, situated directly south of the port of Ancona on the Adriatic Sea. |
Julia found a bag filled with notebooks on the sidewalk. On one of the notebooks she found the owner's name and phone number. She called the number and left a message. Even after several calls, the owner never responded. Eventually, Julia threw out all of the notebooks. |
The 2003 Arkansas vs. Kentucky football game was a college football game played on November 1, 2003 between the University of Arkansas Razorbacks and the University of Kentucky Wildcats; at the time, it tied an NCAA record for the longest football game ever played. The game included seven overtime periods. Penn State ... |
Doug was walking his dog early one morning. Before he could get too far from his house, he saw another animal. When he saw several more in the road, Doug realized they were coyotes. He scared the pack off by banging a shovel on the pavement. Doug stopped walking his dog without a shovel after that. |
A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts) and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt hum... |
Quilmesaurus is a genus of carnivorous abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Patagonian Upper Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of Argentina. It was a member of Abelisauridae, closely related to genera such as Carnotaurus. The only known remains of this genus are leg bones which share certain similarities to a variety of a... |
Numa Ayrinhac (5 September 1881 – 23 March 1951) was a French-Argentine artist. He was born in Espalion (France) in 1881 of Joseph Sixte Ayrinhac and Marie Eulalie Durand, and moved with his parents aged five to the new settlement of Pigüé, Saavedra, Argentina. He is famous for painting portraits of Eva and Juan Doming... |
The Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway is a industrial railway from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Waugh on Shoal Lake near Manitoba's eastern boundary. The railway was built between 1914 and 1916 to assist in the construction and maintenance of the aqueduct supplying fresh water to Winnipeg. It is owned by Winnipeg's mu... |
The American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City, New York, was founded in 1972. Earl Blackwell was the first head of the organization's Executive Committee. In an announcement in 1972, he said that the new Theater Hall of Fame would be located in the Uris Theatre (then under construction, now the Gershwin). James M.... |
Jane never paid attention. Her boyfriend asked her to get food. He told her what she wanted. She got everything wrong. Her boyfriend was annoyed. |
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region. |
Vladimir Bodnar (born December 26, 1942 in Stara Ushytsia village, Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a politician and community leader from Transnistria. He is co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission which was formed to oversee the negotiated ceasefire following the 1992 War of Trans... |
Six-Fours-les-Plages (; , Sièis Four in provençal), is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Inhabitants of Six-Fours-les-Plages refer to themselves as "Six-Fournais". |
Simpson loved to play many sports. One day, he broke his hand. It hurt a lot but Simpson did not cry. After many months, his hand stopped hurting. Now, Simpson does not play any sports. |
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