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Mark was heading to visit an out of state friend. The drive was going to be a long one. He stopped by a gas station halfway through. Mark bought a large cup of coffee. Mark was able to stay alert for the whole drive. |
Toxicodendron pubescens (syn. Rhus pubescens), commonly known as Atlantic poison oak, is an upright shrub that can grow to 1 metre (3 feet) tall. Its leaves are 15 centimetres (6 inches) long, alternate, with three leaflets on each. The leaflets are usually hairy and are variable in size and shape, but most often resem... |
or is a lake located in the municipality of Sørfold in Nordland county, Norway. The lake is located on the east side of the village of Mørsvikbotn. |
The day of the field trip had finally came. Grace was so excited to go to the Zoo. When they got there she ran to see the lions. She stayed with them all day because they were her favorite animal. She went home to tell her parents about the Zoo and the lions. |
Harry wanted to bake cookies at home. His wife wouldn't let him because of the mess. He promised to clean up if she would change her mind. She gave him one chance and he excitedly began baking. When he was done it was still messy but she knew he had tried. |
Waban station is a surface-level light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line D branch, located just south of Beacon Street at Waban Square in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts. The station is located below grade; access to both platforms is via Wyman Street on the outbound... |
Robert Jack Daniel Meier (born August 29, 1977) is a former American football defensive tackle from Canada. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Washington State. |
Jeff was learning to skateboard. He fell while attempting a trick. Jeff landed on his arm. Jeff sprained his wrist. Jeff waited a few months before getting back on the skateboard. |
Dalhousie Station may represent: |
Paquet congo () are Haitian spiritual objects made by vodou priests and priestesses (houngans and mambos) during ceremonies. Their name comes from the ancient Kongo Kingdom in Africa, where similar objects called nikisi wambi are found. |
Clark's Harbour is a town on Cape Sable Island in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located in Shelburne County. The main industry is lobster fishing. Owing to this as well as the town's history as a fishing community, the town is noted as the birthplace of the Cape Islander fishing boat. |
John had a big homework assignment due. He made sure to finish it early. He printed it out and had it ready to go. The morning it was due John couldn't find it. He flunked the assignment. |
George Cheyne Shattuck Choate (March 30, 1827 – June 4, 1896) was an American physician and the founder of Choate House, a psychiatric sanatorium. |
Dooish (Irish: Dubhais (Black hill-base) is a village and townland near Drumquin in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The townland is situated in the historic barony of Omagh West and the civil parish of Longfield West and covers an area of 845 acres. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 93 people. It lies within t... |
Alicia participated in a race. It was for gym class. She hated running however. So finally she ran as fast as she could but it was not enough. She finished dead last. |
The Awesome Again Stakes is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old or older over the distance of one and one-eighth miles on the dirt scheduled annually in September at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The event currently carries a purse of $300,000. |
Sir Philip Montefiore Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet, CBE JP (8 February 1906 – 21 December 1988), was a British biographer. He wrote under the name Philip Magnus. |
Hugh Holmes QC (17 February 1840 – 18 April 1916) was an Irish Conservative Party, then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal in Ireland. |
Jeff was at a red light. All of a sudden it turned green. As he was getting ready to accelerate, a car bumped into him. He got ready to pull over to exchange information and call the cops. However, the car sped off and left Jeff with no information. |
Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. |
Ray Hendrick (April 1, 1929 – September 28, 1990) was an American race car driver. He was known as "Mr. Modified" during his 36-year career in motorsports, mainly in the modified stock car racing class. |
"Moonstone" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 9 March 1964, during the first season. |
swsusp (Software Suspend) is a kernel feature (i.e., program) which is part of power management framework in the Linux kernel. It is the default suspend framework as of kernel 3.8. |
Big Bang: The most important scientific discovery of all time and why you need to know about it is a book written by Simon Singh and published in 2004 by Fourth Estate. |
Taquarussu (also written as Taquaruçu) is a village of the Brazilian state of Tocantins, located 30 km. from the capital of Tocantins, Palmas. |
Plague City: SARS in Toronto is a 2005 medical thriller television movie directed by David Wu, set during the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto. The locations and characters were composite characters or fictionalized versions of actual Toronto medical personnel and facilities. |
Kalamata Football Club () is a Greek professional football club based in Kalamata, Messenia. They compete in the Super League Greece 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. The club's home ground is the Kalamata Metropolitan Stadium. |
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet may refer to: |
André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a French playwright. Born in Marseille, he was elected to the Académie française on 12 April 1973. |
Hector has always wanted to mexico. The land where his grandparents were born. So one evening while working he receives news. He and his whole family are visiting mexico next week. Hector takes time off work and visits mexico for the first time ever. |
Blackness is a small village and harbour at Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies east-southeast of Bo'ness, west-northwest of South Queensferry and north-east of Linlithgow, within the council area of Falkirk. It was formerly part of the historic county of West Lothian. |
I woke up way too early. I wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep. My back started hurting, and I couldn't get comfortable. I rolled into every position imaginable. I finally gave up and got out of bed. |
The 54th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1981 and took place on March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (common... |
Paul Agostino (born 9 June 1975) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played the majority of his club football outside Australia, most notably with 1860 Munich in Germany for ten years. He played 18 times for Australia, winning the OFC Nations Cup of the year 2000. |
One day Grace volunteered at the local soup kitchen. One of the homeless women gave her a hug. She hugged her back. That made Grace's day. She was happier from then on. |
Moriah van Norman (born May 30, 1984) is an American water polo player who has played for the University of Southern California and the National team, who won the Peter J. Cutino Award in 2004, recognized as the best female collegiate player in the nation. Her position is two-meter offense (center forward). |
Cannon Park is a suburb in the southwest of the City of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It can be accessed via the major roads Kenpas Highway (A45) or Kenilworth Road. The area has a sizable shopping centre of the same name (considered 'state-of-the-art' when it opened in 1977) which features food stores, shops and e... |
Death of a Ghost is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in February 1934, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It is the sixth novel with the mysterious Albert Campion, aided by his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. |
Tahira Syed (in Punjabi and ) (born 1958, Lahore) is a Pakistani ghazal and folk singer. Her repertoire includes folk songs in Urdu, Punjabi, Dogri and Pahari. |
Alexander McDonell, Esq. (1786 – November 29, 1861) was an immigration agent, military officer and member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada. After immigrating from Scotland to Upper Canada he fought in the War of 1812 with the Canadian fencibles. He later served as a Colonel and assembled a militia to help qu... |
Bailiff Bridge is a village north from Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England, and is from Huddersfield and from Bradford. Bailiff Bridge falls within the Hipperholme and Lightcliffe Ward of Calderdale Council. |
Sakarya Atatürk Stadium () was a multi-purpose stadium in Adapazarı, Turkey. It was currently used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of Sakaryaspor. The stadium used to hold 13,216 spectators. It was named after the Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In 2018, the stadium was demolished. |
The neighbors were listening to music. It was very loud. I knocked on their door. They could not hear me. I put my headphones in my ears. |
Kinwarton is a village in the valley of the River Alne, Warwickshire, to the north-east of the market town of Alcester. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,082. The ground is mostly low-lying, with a maximum altitude of 206 ft. and some of the fields near the river are liable to floods. The road... |
Andreas Fakudze (died 2001) served as acting Prime Minister of Swaziland (now Eswatini) from 25 October 1993 to 4 November 1993. |
The Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (, ) is a Yazidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yazidis in the Nineveh Governorate. It has retained one seat in the Council of Representatives since 2005. |
The large kelpfish (Chironemus marmoratus), the Eastern kelpfish, hiwihiwi, surgefish or kelpfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a kelpfish belonging to the family Chironemidae. It is found in southern Australia, and off the North Island of New Zealand, at depths down to 30 m. |
Brian Reynolds Myers (born 1963), usually cited as B. R. Myers, is an American professor of international studies at Dongseo University in Busan, South Korea, best known for his writings on North Korean propaganda. He is a contributing editor for The Atlantic and an opinion columnist for The New York Times and The Wall... |
The school got new playground equipment. The new soccer goal was huge and heavy. The kids had lots of fun kicking goals into it. They all played soccer at every recess. The new goal had been a great investment! |
BIT was an information service, publisher, travel guide and social centre founded, in 1968, by John "Hoppy" Hopkins. It pre-dated the Internet as a free service that would try to find any information asked for, but post-dated library reference desks, and derived its name from the smallest unit of computer information. |
Massachusetts's 14th congressional district is an obsolete district that was first active 1795–1820 in the District of Maine, and again active 1903–1963 in eastern Massachusetts. It was most recently eliminated in 1963 after the 1960 U.S. census. Its last congressman was Joseph William Martin Jr., who was redistricted... |
Lil' Chief Records is a New Zealand–based indie pop record label formed in 2002. Operating from the Auckland suburb of Mt. Eden, it was founded on releases by The Tokey Tones and The Brunettes. The label's roster now includes a collective of pop artists such as Jonathan Bree, Princess Chelsea, The Ruby Suns, and Edmun... |
Portrush railway station is the terminus of the Coleraine-Portrush railway line and serves the seaside town of Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. |
The grey tinamou (Tinamus tao) is a type of ground bird native to South America. Four subspecies are recognised. |
The 1st Guards 'Vienna' Order of Lenin Order of Kutuzov Mechanized Corps was a Red Army armoured formation that saw service during World War II on the Eastern Front. After the war it continued to serve with Soviet occupation forces in Central Europe. It was originally the 1st Guards Rifle Division. The unit had approx... |
Ben ordered a carry out pizza. Once it was finished, he drove to get it. The cashier tried to put the pizza in the box. However, it fell out of the box once he handed it to Ben. Luckily, He got a refund on the pizza. |
The coaches gathered for a draft. They were each excited to pick their soccer teams. They tried to get the best players they could. When the draft was over, the coach looked at his roster. He had picked some great players. |
Kalvarija () is a town in southwestern Lithuania, located in the Marijampolė County, close to the border with Poland. |
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey is a poem by William Wordsworth. The title, Lines Written (or Composed) a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, is often abbreviated simply to Tintern Abbey, although that building does not appear within the poem. It... |
Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. Context may be omitted intentionally or accidentally, thinking it to be non-essential. As a fallacy, quoting out... |
Akuapim North Municipal District is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Akuapim North District, which was created from the former Akuapim District Council; until it was elevated to municipal district assembly status... |
Ian Robert Stonebridge (born 30 August 1981) is an English former professional footballer. He played in the Football League for Plymouth Argyle, Wycombe Wanderers and Torquay United. He represented England at Under–18 level. |
Tim got cancer. He started to lose his hair. The therapy made it worse. He decided to get a wig. It looked terrible and he hated himself for it. |
Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 19... |
This is a list of Norwegian literature authors in the order of their year of birth. The century assignment is the period of their most significant works. |
Evansville Central High School, also known as Central High, is a public high school on the north side of Evansville, Indiana. It is the oldest high school in continuous operation west of the Allegheny Mountains. It was established in 1854 as Evansville High School. The name was changed to Central High School in 1918 wh... |
Roger Goode is a South African DJ. |
Francesca Gargallo (25 November 1956 – 3 March 2022) was a Sicilian-born Mexican writer and poet. |
An interception is the catching of a pass by a player on an opposing sports team. |
The ECCW Hardcore Championship is a hardcore wrestling championship in Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion in Vancouver, British Columbia. The title was first awarded 29 November 1999. The title is currently inactive and became so sometime in 2013. |
Tom went out drinking with friends. They picked a small local dive bar. Tom felt uncomfortable there. Some of the regulars talked bad things about him. Tom went home early. |
The black buffalo (Ictiobus niger) is a North American species of freshwater fish in the Catostomidae or sucker family. At 56 years old for one specimen's age, it is one of the longest-lived catostomids. Found in the Mississippi Basin and southern Great Lakes. It was first discovered in Canada in the western end of L... |
Nickolas Andrew Halliwell Grace (born 21 November 1947) is an English actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Grace also played Dorien Green's husband Marcus Green in ... |
My niece bought as guinea pig for her ten year old daughter. She bought another one for company. She thought they were both females. She was mistaken, and a litter was born. She was able to sell the babies to a pet store. |
Susie had a dance coming up. She was afraid of getting asked. She was not sure if anyone would do it. But thankfully her friend Fred asked her. She was happy to have Fred ask her. |
Achim (; Northern Low Saxon: Achem), commonly Achim bei Bremen, is a municipality and the largest town (population 30,059 in December 2006) in the district of Verden, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Weser, approx. 17 km northwest of Verden, and 16 km southeast of Bremen. |
Late is the title of The 77s' eleventh album, released in 2000 on the band's own Fools of the World label. |
Valerie wanted to play video games with me. I challenged her in a basketball game. She told me to play seriously. When I did, the score was 98 to 32 in my favor. She unplugged my controller and tried to score easy points. |
This list of medical schools in the United States includes current and developing academic institutions which award the Doctor of Medicine (MD) or the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degrees, either of which is required for comprehensive practice as a physician in the United States. MD-granting medical schools are ... |
Rites of Passage is the third album by Roger Hodgson, recorded in August 1996 near Hodgson's home in Nevada City, California and his first live album. It was the last gig of several Californian dates in the summer of 1996. |
Tiran (, also Romanized as Tīrān; also known as Tehrān, Tihrān, and Tirūn) is a city in the Central District of Tiran and Karvan County, Isfahan province, Iran, and serves as both capital of the county and of the district. |
Tim was a wrestler his entire life. He decided to get into mixed martial arts. He had to train more than just wrestling. After a while he liked striking more and more. He started knocking people out. |
Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan is an Indian track and field athlete. He won the bronze medal in the Men's Seated Discus Throw EAD at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, with a throw of 29.88 meters. |
Monte San Biagio (Southern Laziale: Muntciegl) is a town and comune in the province of Latina, in southern Lazio (Italy). It is located on the slope of a hill part of the Monti Ausoni. Until 1862 it was known as Monticello. |
Years ago, I visited my boyfriend at his house in the country. After our visit, we both left and I followed his truck in my car. My boyfriend lost control of his truck on the gravel road. I could not stop my car in time so I ran into his truck. Despite being injured in our crash, he proposed to me that night. |
The man saved a fellow soldier. He was given a special medal. He always wore the medal. He was mugged at gunpoint. The thief took his medal. |
St Charles Borromeo is a parish in the Diocese of Middlesbrough and is the oldest post-reformation Catholic parish church in the city of Kingston upon Hull, England. The church is a Grade I listed building, having been upgraded from a Grade II* in March 2016. |
Vadvetjåkka is a Swedish national park in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. |
Caleb August Southern (December 26, 1969 – July 6, 2023) was an American musician, record producer and computer science lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was referred to as the "fourth member" of Ben Folds Five. |
Kay was taking piano lessons. Her teacher was an accomplished musician. Kay was working on a piece to perform at the annual recital. She learned a lot from her teacher. Soon she was totally prepared! |
See Vissarion (given name) for other people called Vissarion. |
Dariush Mehrjui (; 8 December 1939 – 14 October 2023) was an Iranian filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Academy of the Arts. |
Realitatea TV (, meaning "The Reality TV") is the former name of the Romanian news television channel Realitatea Plus. The channel began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television and became the first Romanian news television in 2002. Its owners are Romanian politician Cozmin Guşă and businessman Maricel Păcu... |
Nikita Bergenström (formerly Juha Veikko Valjakkala, Aslak Valdemar Ahonen, and Nikita Joakim Fouganthine; 13 June 1965 – 27 February 2023) was a Finnish murderer convicted of the triple murder of a family in the northern Swedish community of Åmsele. |
Tom went to Las Vegas. It was his first time there. He told himself he wouldn't gamble much. Before he knew it he lost thousands of dollars. Tom didn't let himself go back. |
Honus & Me is a children's novel by Dan Gutman, published in 1997, and the first in the Baseball Card Adventures series. It was rejected by many publishers before HarperCollins finally accepted. It became a bestseller and was adapted into the made-for-television movie The Winning Season, starring Matthew Modine. |
The reliability theory of aging is an attempt to apply the principles of reliability theory to create a mathematical model of senescence. The theory was published in Russian by Leonid A. Gavrilov and Natalia S. Gavrilova as Biologiia prodolzhitelʹnosti zhizni in 1986, and in English translation as The Biology of Life S... |
Orphan structure or Orphan SPV or orphaning are terms used in structured finance closely associated with creating SPVs ("Special Purpose Vehicles") for securitisation transactions where the notional equity of the SPV is deliberately handed over to an unconnected 3rd party who themselves have no control over the SPV; th... |
Florin High School is a high school in Sacramento, California. It is part of the Elk Grove Unified School District and serves the portion of southern Sacramento that is to the east of California State Route 99. |
Kennebunk may refer to multiple things located in the U.S. state of Maine: |
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