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Miranda needed a new moisturizer. Her skin was always dry. When she found one she scooped it up. She put it on all over. It looked great. |
is an area within the city of Nanto in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. It has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its traditional gasshō-zukuri houses, alongside nearby Shirakawa-gō in Gifu Prefecture. The survival of this traditional architectural style is attributed to the region's secluded location in ... |
In mathematics, a Poisson–Lie group is a Poisson manifold that is also a Lie group, with the group multiplication being compatible with the Poisson algebra structure on the manifold. |
The lacrimal canaliculi, (sing. canaliculus), are the small channels in each eyelid that drain lacrimal fluid, from the lacrimal puncta to the lacrimal sac. This forms part of the lacrimal apparatus that drains lacrimal fluid from the surface of the eye to the nasal cavity. |
Elena Poptodorova () (born August 31, 1951) is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat, who has served two times as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to the United States. |
King loved to listen to music. He listened for hours every single day. One day he decided he was tired of his music. He rushed to the store and bought some new CDs. Now, King listens to his new music. |
Cimei Township (Qimei Township, Chimei Township) () is a rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan. The island is the fifth largest in the Pescadores (Penghu) and the southernmost island in the group. It is the smallest township in Penghu County. |
Sarah was moving her stuff. She packed it up in boxes. One box tipped over. Sarah began to cry. Her new glass cups had broken. |
Jaman North District is one of the twelve districts in Bono Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Jaman District on 10 March 1989, which was created from the former Berekum-Jaman District Council, until part of the district was split off to create Jaman North District on 12 November 2003 (ef... |
Tyler had a very popular facebook account. He had lots of friends and followers. One day while logging in he noticed he couldn't log in. His friends told him someone else was using his account. Tyler had been hacked. |
Danny went to the lake in April. The weather was nice, so he decided to go for a swim. He didn't realize the water was still cool. Danny jumped into the lake. He quickly swam out shivering. |
Aréna Chamber Theatre () is a chamber theatre in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Founded in 1994, it continues in the tradition of the Music Theatre (Divadlo hudby), which had existed since 1951. |
Major General Frederic Godfrey Hughes, (26 January 1858 – 23 August 1944) was an Australian Army general in the First World War. A prominent businessman, and two time mayor of St Kilda, Hughes was also part-time Militia officer, and had served in the artillery forces of the Victorian colonial forces prior to federatio... |
Musicians' Village is a neighborhood located in the Upper Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. Musicians Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis teamed up with Habitat for Humanity International and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to create the village for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane... |
One Night Stand is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis. The film stars Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen and Robert Downey Jr. The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas, who had his name removed from the project following Figgis's rewrite. |
Donald dreamed of becoming a star. He would watch movies and imagine he was the leading man. He quit his job in insurance and moved to LA. One day, whilst waiting tables, he served a well-known casting agent. The agent took a liking to Donald and cast him in his next movie. |
The American television network Fox has aired numerous animated television series. During the more than thirty-year existence of the network, there have been many successful prime time animated series. The first and most famous of these, The Simpsons, was the first such series since the end of The Flintstones in the 19... |
Labour Inspection (Seafarers) Convention, 1996 is an International Labour Organization Convention. |
Fred's son had a baseball game today. He promised him he would be there. But at the end of the day Fred never came. His son was so upset and had been looking forward to him. Fred was simply stuck in bad traffic and it was impossible to come. |
The Atlantic City Diablos were an American soccer team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 2007, the team played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2008, when the franchise folded and the team left th... |
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on squar... |
My brother sent me an email at 5:50 in the morning. He had gotten up to make breakfast for his daughter. She is 36 years old and works. He still gets up early for her. I told him he should really cut the cord. |
DSC Wanne-Eickel is a German association football club that plays in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. |
Joe had heard that if spaghetti stuck to the wall it was cooked. He was making spaghetti himself for the first time. The first piece he threw against the wall didn't stick. It was eight pieces later before one stayed in place. When he tasted his spaghetti he found it perfectly cooked. |
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend () is a 13-minute 1958 film by Franco-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard. It is shot entirely in or from a hotel room, in which Jules (Jean-Paul Belmondo) gives Charlotte (Anne Collette) a seemingly endless and self-indulgent tirade on her faults and his tribulations. Belmondo's voice is in fact... |
Melvyn Charles (14 May 1935 – 24 September 2016) was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half. |
"Deep" is a song recorded by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the soundtrack to the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). Because this is a promotional single, it has never been featured with its own official halo and the song "Deep" has never been released on any Nine Inch Nails album, or on any halo-n... |
The kids liked playing video games. They got a new Xbox. They bought a bunch of games for it, too. They started to play and had so much fun! They played the games all evening. |
A-C Central Community Unit School District 262 brings together students from Ashland and Chandlerville, Illinois. A small, rural district, A-C Central has an elementary school (K–4) in Chandlerville, a junior high school (5–8) in Ashland, and a high school (9–12) at the same facility as the junior high school in Ashlan... |
Majdanpek (; ) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of the eastern Serbia, and is not far from the border of Romania. According to 2022 census, the municipality of Majdanpek had a population of 14,559 people, while the town of Majdanpek had a population of 8,310. |
Columbus Tower was a planned high-rise development by Commercial Estates Group approved for construction on a site on the Isle of Dogs, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The 63-storey, AOD (Above Ordnance Datum) tower would have been located on a 0.36-hectare site at the western end of the north dock at West India Quay... |
Womb is a nightclub in Tokyo, Japan that is featured in the film Babel. |
Ken hates his old job and wants to quit. Ken tells his boss he quits. While looking for a job in the newspaper he gets a call. His friend tells him he has a great job open for him. Ken smiles as he now has a new job. |
Verden Allen (born Terence Allen, 26 May 1944, Crynant, Neath, Wales) is a British organist and vocalist best known as a founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople. Before that band formed, he had in the mid-1960s been in a rhythm and blues cover band called The Inmates and recorded with Jimmy Cliff. |
Jim was a seafood restaurant. But he was worried about eating too much mercury. So he ordered salmon to eat. But his waiter brought tuna by mistake. And Jim reluctantly ate through the dish. |
The Harley-Davidson Sportster is a line of motorcycles produced continuously since 1957 by Harley-Davidson. Sportster models are designated in Harley-Davidson's product code by beginning with "XL". In 1952, the predecessors to the Sportster, the Model K Sport and Sport Solo motorcycles, were introduced. These models K,... |
Kulich is the Russian name for Easter bread. For the eastern Slavs, festive bread was round and tall, and dough decorations were made on top of it. The cylindrical shape of the cake is associated with the church practice of baking artos. The Paska bread tradition spread in cultures which were connected to the Byzantine... |
Don is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Chandra Barot from a story written by Salim–Javed and produced by Nariman Irani. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan in dual role, alongside Zeenat Aman, Pran, Iftekhar, Om Shivpuri and Satyen Kappu in supporting roles. The music was composed by Kalyanji–... |
"I Don't Wanna Know" is a song by American R&B artist Mario Winans featuring rapper P. Diddy and Irish singer Enya. The song is based on a sample of the Fugees' song "Ready or Not", which in turn samples the synthesizer riff from Enya's song "Boadicea". The drums are sampled from the end of EPMD's "You're a Customer". |
Niall Frossach (or Niall mac Fergaile) (718–778) was an 8th-century Irish king of Ailech, sometimes considered to have been High King of Ireland. Brother of high king Áed Allán (died 743), Niall was the son of high king Fergal mac Máele Dúin (died 722) and a member of the Cenél nEógain, a branch of the Northern Uí Néil... |
Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice o... |
Robert John Collard (born 1 October 1968) is a British auto racing driver from Hampshire, best known for racing in the British Touring Car Championship, winning two races in a West Surrey Racing MG, and claiming the Independent's Cup title in 2003. In 2008, he returned to running the series full-time, driving for the M... |
The northern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) is a semiaquatic pit viper found in the southeastern United States. |
Superman: Shadow of Apokolips is a video game that was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube consoles. It was developed by Infogrames Sheffield House, published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name, and released in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics. It is based on t... |
Lisa let her dogs outside in the backyard. All of a sudden it started raining. Lisa called her dogs back inside. When the dogs came in they started shaking. Lisa was covered in rain water from their fur. |
Lindsay loves music, especially concerts. She worked a boring job, but it paid for concert tickets. One day, Lindsay saw there was a job opening at a radio station. She didn't have experience, but she emphasized her love of music. Lindsay got the job and is now paid to watch concerts! |
Azemiopinae is a monogeneric subfamily created for the genus Azemiops that contains the viper species A. feae and A. kharini. They are commonly known as Fea's vipers. No subspecies are recognized. The first specimen was collected by Italian explorer Leonardo Fea, and was described as a new genus and new species by Boul... |
Dina is a lazy worker and dependable. She always sleeps during work and do not finish her tasks. One day i confronted her because her laziness is too much. I told her that if doesn't like her job she should resign. Until our head officer noticed her and she was terminated. |
Mathematical sociology or the sociology of mathematics is an interdisciplinary field of research concerned both with the use of mathematics within sociological research as well as research into the relationships that exist between maths and society. |
My husband bought a pile of sand to go under our pool. The sand didn't work as well as he thought it would. He decided not to use much of it. He left the sand in a large pile in our yard. Now we have the biggest sandbox in the neighborhood! |
Jizz or giss is the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements, size and colouration combined with voice, habitat and location. The concept was popularised in birdwatching, but is so useful that it has since been adopted increasingl... |
Neither Am I is the debut studio album by Irish band Bell X1, released on 13 October 2000. It features a number of songs previously written and recorded with Damien Rice, the lead singer of the band's former incarnation, Juniper, and with producer and Crowded House bassist, Nick Seymour. |
Burslem School of Art was an art school in the centre of the town of Burslem in the Potteries district of England. Students from the school played an important role in the local pottery industry. Pottery was made on the site of the school from the early Middle Ages. The venue was refurbished and re-opened for the art... |
Stanley Alfred James Knowles (9 June 1931 – 30 December 2017), known as Stan Knowles, was an Australian politician elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. |
The 49th Parallel Cup (formerly PanAm Cup) is an annual representative Australian rules football match between the United States and Canada first contested in 1999. Since 2007 the women's teams have also contested the cup. |
Jan Hrdina (born February 5, 1976) is a Czech former professional ice hockey player. |
Ken was entering his house. His key got stuck in the hole. Ken tried to turn it too forcifably. The key broke off in the hole. Ken had to replace the entire doorknob. |
Dave and his family own a nice house on a lake. He loved spending a weekend there when he could. It was scheduled to be extremely rainy on his next planned trip. Dave braved the storm to make it to his lakehouse. He was pleased on his decision when the storm finally passed. |
War in Middle Earth is a real-time strategy game released for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple IIGS, and Atari ST in 1988 by Virgin Mastertronic on the Melbourne House label. |
Laura had always loved to dance. A friend recommended she try Tap Dancing. Laura knew it would be hard, but decided to try. She loved it! Laura was happy to be learning to tap dance. |
Garelochhead railway station () is a railway station serving the village of Garelochhead, on the Gare Loch, in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and is a boundary station for SPT. It is sited from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh, between Arrochar and Tarbet and Helensburgh Upper. ScotRail man... |
The Original Memphis Five was an early jazz quintet founded in 1917 by trumpeter Phil Napoleon and pianist Frank Signorelli. Jimmy Lytell was a member from 1922 to 1925. The group made many recordings between 1921 and 1931, sometimes under different names, including Ladd's Black Aces and The Cotton Pickers. Richard Coo... |
Daniel Bullocks (born February 28, 1983) is an American football coach and former player. He played football professionally as safety in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions from 2006 to 2010. He was drafted by the Lions in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft following his college football pla... |
Stephanie loved the rain. It would bring her comfort. One day she was on her way home from work. It was rainy. She had a great day soon afterwards. |
Francisco Javier Fernández Peláez (born 6 March 1977 in Guadix, Province of Granada, Andalusia), better known as Paquillo Fernández, is a retired Spanish race walker. He specialized in the 20 km race walk. |
The Antigonid dynasty (; ) was a Hellenistic dynasty of Dorian Greek provenance, descended from Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-Eyed") that ruled mainly in Macedonia. |
It was Manny's cousins birthday. Manny did not know what to get his cousin. Manny remembered his cousin loved vodka. So Manny went to the liquor store and bought vodka. It was a Crystal Skull Vodka bottle, Joe's favorite. |
Love of Chair was a recurring sketch on the television program The Electric Company. Written by actor Paul Dooley, it was seen primarily during the 1971–1972 season. The sketch was a parody of classic soap operas, and spoofed numerous aspects of these shows: |
I received a scam email today. A lawyer said he represented a rich uncle who died. The email, full of errors, said I was the sole heir to $32M. I was asked to contact the lawyer. I disregarded the email. |
Illinois Route 130 is a north–south state highway in eastern Illinois. It runs from Illinois Route 1 in Grayville north to Interstate 74 in Urbana. This is a distance of . Illinois 130 is the main north–south highway through Charleston, the home of Eastern Illinois University. |
The ZF Mgcawu District Municipality (; ), known before 1 July 2013 as the Siyanda District Municipality, is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Upington. As of 2011, the majority (76%) of its 236,783 residents speak Afrikaans. The district code is DC8. |
Tracy Donnel White (born April 14, 1981) is a former American football linebacker. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Howard. |
The General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) () is a confederation of 20 national trade union federations. It is politically tied to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist). GEFONT declares its goal to be "Socialism for the dignified working-class and prosperous life". |
The man saluted. His superior saluted back. His superior walked away. The man continues saluting. His superior thought that was strange. |
The Pharos-Tribune is a Monday through Saturday (Weekend Edition) morning newspaper based in Logansport, Indiana, covering Cass County, Indiana. The newspaper and its commercial printing facility in Logansport's Industrial Park are owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
KELO (1320 kHz, "Newstalk 1320 KELO") is an AM radio station licensed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, airing a news/talk format. It is owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. |
I never seem to have enough money. Recently I turned to Mechanical Turk to earn more. So far I'm happy with the results. I started doing penny batches but then moved on to mostly surveys. I've made nearly $1500. |
Tania Vicent (born January 13, 1976, in Laval, Quebec) is a Canadian short track speed skater, who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On February 22, along with Alanna Kraus, Anouk Leblanc-Boucher and Kalyna Roberge, Vicent won a silver medal for Canada in the 3000m relay. She won the bronze medal in Nagano and at ... |
Jackie had gone to the grocery store. It was raining out. Jackie's pants got soaked. Jackie returned from the store. She put her jeans in the dryer. |
Standing French Navy Deployments is a list of current deployments by the French Navy: |
The Council of States (مجلس الولايات السوداني, Maǧlis al-Wilāyāt) was the upper house of the parliament of Sudan from 2005 to 2019. It was established as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which aimed to end the long-standing civil war between the Sudanese government and rebel groups in southern Sudan. The... |
The Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, and is awarded yearly by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvene... |
Sociologists use the concept of occupational prestige (also known as job prestige) to measure the relative social-class positions people may achieve by practicing a given occupation. Occupational prestige results from the consensual rating of a job - based on the belief of that job's worthiness. The term prestige it... |
Ariarathes IX Eusebes Philopator (, Ariaráthēs Eusebḗs Philopátōr; reigned c. 100–85 BC), was made king of Cappadocia by his father King Mithridates VI of Pontus after the assassination of Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia in c. 100 BC. Since he was only eight years old, he was put under the regency of the Cappadocian Gordi... |
The Islamic Front for Armed Jihad (French name, Front Islamique du Djihad Armé, hence the abbreviation FIDA) was a militant Islamist organization active during the Algerian Civil War. It called for the violent overthrow of the secular Algerian government, and a system of government based on shari'a law. |
Mark was never a good baseball player. He practiced everyday with his dad. No matter how much he tried, he never got better. He went to his Saturday baseball game feeling hopeless. When it was his turn to bat, he knocked it out of the park! |
Al Brown's Tunetoppers was a band led by Al Caca, born May 22, 1934, who had success in 1960 with a dance tune "The Madison" on Amy Records. The dance calls were by Cookie Brown. Although they were successful in record sales, it had to fight off a competing version by Ray Bryant on Columbia Records who titled his, "Mad... |
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1993 British-American animated adventure comedy film directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley. Based on the 1987 Hudson Talbott children's book of the same name, it tells the story of three dinosaurs and one pter... |
The Chilkat Peninsula is a peninsula in Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska that divides the Chilkoot and Chilkat Inlets and divides the Chilkat and Chilkoot watersheds. The peninsula extends into Lynn Canal as well. It was first charted in 1794 by Joseph Whidbey, master of during George Vancouver's 1791–1795 expedition. |
Jeffrey S. Feinstein (born January 29, 1945) is a retired career officer of the United States Air Force (USAF). During the Vietnam War, Feinstein was a weapon systems officer, an integral part of two-man aircrews with the emergence of air-to-air missiles as the primary weapons during aerial combat. Flying aboard F-4 Ph... |
Jane was eating for lunch. She didn't have her purse when she went back to work. Jane thought she left it at the restaurant. She called to verified. They found it and held it for her. |
Malvinas Day (), officially Day of the Veterans and Fallen of the Malvinas War (Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de las Malvinas), is a public holiday in Argentina, observed each year on 2 April. The name refers to the Falkland Islands, known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas. |
The 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 36th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 28 and 29 September 1968 on the Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France. |
Mark French (born 13 October 1984) is a retired Australian sprint track cyclist. He started cycling competitively relatively late, at the age of 15, in 1999. |
Scott Robinson is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours. He was created by Reg Watson as one of the serial's twelve original characters. Originally played by Darius Perkins, he made his debut during the first episode broadcast on 18 March 1985. Perkins was 20 years old when he recei... |
Für Alina (English: For Alina) is a work for piano composed by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. It can be considered as an essential work of his tintinnabuli style. |
John asked Tom to be his best man. They met in grade school. They spent the rest of their school years together. They were always together. They are best friends. |
Founded in 1918, Jit Sin High School (Malay: Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Jit Sin; ) is a co-educational Chinese vernacular secondary school in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. |
Tim's family had a christmas tradition. They would go out and cut down a christmas tree together. They loved looking for the perfect one. Working together as a family to cut it down helped them bond. It was a tradition Tim continues with his own family. |
Corpus Christi Priory was a Roman Catholic Premonstratensian priory in Manchester, England. |
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