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Connor: Spotlight is a comic book series based on the Angel television series starring the eponymous Connor, with cameo appearances by Angel. It is the first comic book in which Connor has appeared, and features covers by artists Bob Gill, David Messina, Steph Stamb and Russell Walks. This title, along with the others... |
Villa Pisani at Stra refers to the monumental, late-Baroque rural palace located along the Brenta Canal (Riviera del Brenta) at Via Doge Pisani 7 near the town of Stra, on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. This villa is one of the largest examples of Villa Veneta located in the Riviera del Brenta, the canal l... |
Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse is a point-and-click adventure video game developed by Nintendo and Capcom and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and licensed from Disney. |
Bekwai Municipal Assembly is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Amansie East District, which it was created from the former Amansie District Council. Later, the western part of the district was split off by a decree... |
The Ultimate Tour was a reunion tour in 2006 by English pop group, Take That. The tour, featuring four of the original members of the group: Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen, ran for a total of 33 shows. Beverley Knight and Sugababes were the supporting acts for the tour. Each member of the band r... |
Bob heard a knocking sound from the vent. He peered inside to see what was the matter with it. Looking back at him was the biggest moth he'd ever seen! Bob got the fly swatter and swung it like a bat. The moth was smashed into a flat bloody splat! |
The , also abbreviated as the was an imperial anthology of Japanese waka; it was compiled somewhere between 1344 and 1346 CE, by Emperor Hanazono, who also wrote its Chinese and Japanese Prefaces. It consists of twenty volumes containing 2,210 poems. This, with the Gyokuyoshu was one of the only two Imperial anthologi... |
Seagull Book, formerly called Seagull Book & Tape, is an American retail chain bookstore focusing on products for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with over two dozen stores in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, and Nevada. It was the second largest LDS bookstore until being acquired in 2006... |
Bill wanted to rebrand himself. He was tired of all his friends calling him uncool. So he decided to head to the mall. He bought all new clothes to make him cool. Bill was very happy about his trip to go shopping. |
Saddle Hills County is a municipal district situated in the central portion of the Peace Country in northwest Alberta, Canada. Located approximately northwest of Edmonton and north of Grande Prairie, its municipal office is located approximately west of the Town of Spirit River at the intersection of Highway 49 and ... |
Ben is playing ball. He is playing hard. His team is losing by one basket. He attempts to make the shot and is pushed down. Ben falls to the ground missing the shot and his loses a tooth. |
Nqwebasaurus (; anglicized as or ) is a basal coelurosaur and is the basal-most member of the coelurosaurian clade Ornithomimosauria from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. The name Nqwebasaurus is derived from the Xhosa word "Nqweba" which is the local name for the Kirkwood district, and "thwazi" is ancient Xhosa ... |
Ellen decided that she really wanted a new tattoo. She asked her friends what they thought would be good ideas. They gave her some joke ideas but none of them appealed to her. She decided on a tribal tattoo and went to go get it. When she showed her friends the new tattoo they all loved it! |
June Mathis (born June Beulah Hughes, January 30, 1887 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter. Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma ... |
Tonny Brogaard (born 10 February 1984), formerly Tonny Nielsen, is a Danish football goalkeeper, who last played at Boldklubben Frem in the Danish 1st Division. At 206 cm (6'9"), he is one of the tallest playing footballers. |
As a kid I try to think of routes to take to trick or treat. Each year I try finding all the rich neighborhoods. Sometimes I get bad luck, but overall everything usually works out. My candy load increases ever since I used this strategy. Every kid in the neighborhood asks me for advice. |
The Treaty of Addis Ababa, signed 23 October 1896, formally ended the First Italo-Ethiopian War on terms mostly favorable to Ethiopia. This treaty superseded a secret agreement between Ethiopia and Italy negotiated days after the decisive Battle of Adwa in March of the same year, in which Ethiopian forces commanded by ... |
G3: Rockin' in the Free World is a double live album by the G3 project that was recorded at The Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, on October 21, 2003. The album featured the touring lineup of the project leader Joe Satriani, frequent member Steve Vai and guest guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. A DVD of ... |
Tom ordered a pizza. It took a long time to arrive. The drive apologized on behalf of the store. Tom was upset but understood. They gave him a discount for the trouble. |
The John Molson School of Business, commonly known as John Molson, is a business school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The John Molson School of Business was established in 1974 by Concordia University. |
The Black Fleet Crisis is a trilogy set in the Star Wars expanded universe. The books take place 16 years after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. All three novels were authored by Michael P. Kube-McDowell and published by Bantam Books under the imprint Bantam Spectra between March 1996 and November 1998. |
The Lorraine 37L or , ("tank supply tractor 1937 L") is a light tracked armoured vehicle developed by the Lorraine company during the interwar period or interbellum, before the Second World War, to an April 1936 French Army requirement for a fully armoured munition and fuel supply carrier to be used by tank units for f... |
The Jazak Monastery () is a Serb Orthodox monastery on the Fruška Gora mountain in the northern Serbia, in the province of Vojvodina. The monastery was founded in 1736. The icons on the baroque iconostasis were painted in 1769 by Dimitrije Bačević and the carved woodwork was attributed to engraver Marko Vujatović. An o... |
WBWZ (93.3 MHz "Z93") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to New Paltz, New York and serving the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York state. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its effective radiated power (ERP) is 330 watts, broadcasting from a transmitter near Illinois Mountain in Marlborough, New York, on a to... |
This is a list of winners of the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture, first awarded in 1921. |
Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS (1896–1979) was an early protein scientist who used osmotic pressure measurements to establish that haemoglobin was a tetramer under physiological conditions. This conclusion led him to be the first to identify cooperative binding, in the context of oxygen binding to haemoglobin. |
Tina was taking a long time. She was with her bridal party. Everyone was waiting on her. Finally she walked down the aisle. But the audience was waiting forever. |
Brian "Chainsaw" Campbell is a Greater Seattle area game developer, author and editor who is credited for working in the role-playing game industry as far back as 1993. Brian's notable work includes Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Changeling: The Dreaming, Ratkin, and other World of Darkness products for... |
Biscayan, sometimes Bizkaian (, ), is a dialect of the Basque language spoken mainly in Biscay, one of the provinces of the Basque Country of Spain. |
Project Catwalk is a competitive reality television show focusing on fashion design. In the UK it is shown on the digital station Sky One. The show follows a group of fashion designers as they compete against each other to avoid being "the next fashion victim" and win the competition. The programme is based upon the US... |
Mitch was the new guy on the construction team. His first day, he sat around with the other guys during lunch. The foreman kept telling racist jokes about black people. Mitch really needed the job, but his wife was black. Finally, he couldn't take it and told the guy off. |
The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid and the liquid changes into a vapor. |
The Onaping Falls Huskies were a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Onaping Falls, Ontario, Canada. This defunct hockey team was a part of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (NOJHL). |
Rhonda had searched for months for the perfect rug. She finally found one on clearance. She was worried she would never see another one again. She bought five of them to be safe. Now, if one got stained, she would have a backup. |
H.M.S. Fable is the third album by Liverpudlian band Shack, released in June 1999 via London Records. It was the band's first album following their reformation after the interest generated by their previous much-delayed album Waterpistol and the album by offshoot band The Strands. H.M.S. Fable was well received by the ... |
Ben went with Andy to see a football game. Ben's parents gave him three tickets. Ben told his parents that Jim went with him. Jim could not come. Ben sold the extra ticket. |
is a major railway station in Chūō-ku, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is in the center of Niigata city, the largest city on the Sea of Japan coast in Honshu. It forms the central station for the railway infrastructure along the Sea of Japan coast, and is also the terminus ... |
The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004 is a compilation box set by English post-punk band the Fall. It was released in 2005 by record label Castle Music. |
Lettsworth is an unincorporated community located in the northern tip of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the east bank of the Atchafalaya River near its intersection with the Mississippi and Red rivers at the Old River Control Structure. As of 2005, the population is 202. The town's zip code ... |
Concours international de roses nouvelles de Bagatelle (International competition for new roses) is held in June of each year in the rose trial grounds of the Château de Bagatelle in Paris's 16th arrondissement. |
Jinja is a web template engine for the Python programming language. It was created by Armin Ronacher and is licensed under a BSD License. Jinja is similar to the Django template engine but provides Python-like expressions while ensuring that the templates are evaluated in a sandbox. It is a text-based template language... |
All TV () is a Canadian exempt Category B Korean language specialty channel. It is owned by Jang Sung Lee and was launched in September 2001. |
Charles Tonderai Mudede (; born February 8, 1969) is a Zimbabwean writer, filmmaker, and leftwing cultural critic. Though born in Kwekwe (then called Que Que, Rhodesia), he spent much of his childhood in the United States, and returned to Zimbabwe shortly after independence. Between 1982 and 1988, his mother, Tracy Mud... |
Jessie entered the talent show at her school. She was going to recite a poem. Jessie got hoarse and couldn't speak. Jessie backed out of the play. She was upset not to perform in the talent show. |
Paul MacEwan (April 8, 1943 – May 2, 2017) was a politician in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and long-time member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (MLA). |
The Beach is a 2000 adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle, from a screenplay by John Hodge, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island of Ko Phi Phi Le. |
Synetic GmbH was a German video game company specialising in racing games. The company was founded in 1996, in Gütersloh by five former members of Ascaron. All five original members were still working for the company until the company was liquidated on 6 May 2014. Although the company with its team of eight employees w... |
Wheelchair curling at the 2006 Winter Paralympics was played at the Pinerolo Palaghiaccio, in Pinerolo, 30 km southwest of Turin. Wheelchair curling was making its first appearance at the Paralympic Games and took the form of a mixed team event, open to athletes with a physical disability in the lower part of the body ... |
7027 Thornbury Castle was built in August 1949. Its first shed allocation was Plymouth Laira. Its March 1959 shed allocation was Old Oak Common. Its last shed allocation was Reading. It was withdrawn in December 1963 and arrived at Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in May 1964. The locomotive was not scr... |
The Civil Union Act 2004 is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand. It was passed into law on Thursday 9 December 2004 by a final vote of 65–55 in the New Zealand Parliament. The Act makes it legal for those in same-sex as well as heterosexual relationships to enter into a civil-union. |
Imagining the Balkans is a book by the Bulgarian academic Maria Todorova. The book was published by Oxford University Press in United States on May 22, 1997 (), with the second and enlarged edition being published in 2009. It was described as author's magnum opus. |
Funny-Films Oy was a Finnish film production company established by Spede Pasanen. |
Mier might refer to one of the following: |
SN 1986G was a supernova that was observed on May 3, 1986 by Robert Evans. Its host galaxy, Centaurus A, is about 15 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Since Centaurus A is about 15 million light-years away from us, this supernova happened 15 million years ago. |
The County High School, Leftwich, is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, for students between 11 and 16 years of age, in Leftwich, Cheshire, England. |
Rosa developed a rash on her hands and arms. She went to her doctor to get a diagnosis. Rosa's doctor told her that she had poison ivy. He prescribed some medications to help her recover. Rosa was glad she went to the doctor when her rash cleared up. |
William Pike (died 22 December 1591) was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was beatified in 1987. |
Costa Rica competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. |
Aberfoyle Park High School is a large public secondary schools in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Its facilities include the Community Library, Performing Arts Centre, Gymnasium, and the Information and Communication Technology facilities. The school only focuses on extending gifted st... |
John was working on a project at work. He went to the copier. He started to make copies. The paper ran out. John added more paper. |
Reutov () is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: |
Greg wanted to enter the county fair. He decided to try to grow a very large plum. He overwatered and over-fertilized his plum crop. Most died. A few thrived, including one enormous one that got a blue ribbon. |
Susan's son was getting married. Much of her family was from out of state. Susan made hotel reservations for her family. Her family came down for the wedding. Susan's family stayed in the hotel. |
John was mowing his grass. He saw something move. There was a snake moving quickly away from him. John felt relief that the snake was moving away. He finished mowing the grass. |
Segol (modern , ; formerly , səḡôl) is a Hebrew niqqud vowel sign that is represented by three dots forming an upside down equilateral triangle "ֶ ". As such, it resembles an upside down therefore sign (a because sign) underneath a letter. In modern Hebrew, it indicates the phoneme which is similar to "e" in the Eng... |
A bunker is a defensive military fortification. |
Podvelka () is a village in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Podvelka. It lies in the traditional region of Styria, but belongs to the Carinthia Statistical Region. The settlement is situated on the right bank of the Drava River on the railway line from Maribor to Dravograd. |
"Buy It in Bottles" is a song by English singer-songwriter Richard Ashcroft and is the second track on his 2002 album Human Conditions. The song was also released as the third and final single from that album in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2003, peaking at number 26 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2003 in British music)... |
Stacey was headed to the lake for the weekend. On the way she got a flat tire. She stopped and changed the flat tire. Once the tire was changed she continued on her way. When Stacey arrived at the lake she went swimming. |
The Vata pagan uprising () was a Hungarian rebellion which, in 1046, brought about the overthrow of King Peter Urseolo, the martyrdom of Bishop Gerard of Csanád and the reinstatement of the Árpád dynasty on the Hungarian throne. |
Italian X Rays is the thirteenth studio album by American rock band Steve Miller Band. The album was released in November 1984, by Capitol Records. "Who Do You Love?" and "Out of the Night" were songs co-written by Steve Miller and Tim Davis. Tim Davis had been a co-founder of the Steve Miller Band and had been a drumm... |
Wayne Lin Junjie (born 27 March 1981), professionally known as JJ Lin, is a Singaporean singer, songwriter, record producer, and businessman. Lin launched his musical career with the release of his debut album, Music Voyager, in 2003. Lin has received three Golden Melody Awards, including one Best New Artist and two Be... |
Blencoe v British Columbia (Human Rights Commission), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 307 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the scope of section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and on the administrative law principle of natural justice. |
Trista had a pet bird. She never clipped his wings to prevent him from flying. One day she was cleaning his cage and he flew out. I then opened her door to walk into her apartment. When I opened the door the bird flew away. |
or is a lake that lies in the municipality of Saltdal in Nordland county, Norway. The lake lies about west of the village of Lønsdal. |
The MacArthur Bridge spans the Detroit River in Detroit, Michigan. The bridge, which features nineteen total arches across , provides main access between the city's mainland and Belle Isle. Completed in 1923 for $2.635 million, it replaced an iron bridge with wooden decking that accidentally caught fire and was destroy... |
The Banks Track is a 31 kilometre private walking track on the Banks Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand in the Canterbury region. The track opened in 1989 as the first privately owned track in New Zealand. |
Daina House (born December 30, 1954) is a former model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1976 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. |
Lincoln Andrew Hodgdon (born November 15, 1981) is a former American football offensive lineman for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. |
Sirikot is a village in Haripur District and Ghazi Tehsil, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province at 34°10'60N 73°43'50E. It is the principal settlement of the Union Council. |
This page lists Japan-related articles with romanized titles beginning with the letter N. For names of people, please list by surname (i.e., "Tarō Yamada" should be listed under "Y", not "T"). Please also ignore particles (e.g. "a", "an", "the") when listing articles (i.e., "A City with No People" should be listed unde... |
William David Dameshek (born June 11, 1970) is an American television writer and radio personality. Dameshek is a football analyst, writer and podcaster. |
The College of the Holy Spirit of Tarlac (also referred to by its acronym CHST; colloquially, "Pirit") is a private, Catholic basic and higher education institution run by the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit in Tarlac, Philippines. It was established in 1939 as the Catholic Academy of Tarlac. |
The Istrian–Dalmatian exodus (; ; ) was the post-World War II exodus and departure of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) as well as ethnic Slovenes, Croats, and Istro-Romanians from Yugoslavia. The emigrants, who had lived in the now Yugoslav territories of the Julian March (Karst Region an... |
Kyle was good at writing elaborate stories. He would sometimes use his friends' names in his stories. Kyle's friends felt honored to be named in Kyle's stories. In one story, Kyle named a prison escapee after his nerdy friend Tom. Due to that story, everybody now considers Tom to be a wily tough guy. |
Abby was about to relocate from DC to Florida. Abby will miss DC, but miss the cherry blossoms most. Abby decided to visit the capital and take pictures of the blossoms. Abby also got a picture of her with the cherry blossoms as well. Abby was glad she got one more look at the blossoms before leaving. |
Alice had a bad cough at school. She would cough so much is would interrupt class. She was asked if she wants a cough drop. She said yes and put it in her mouth. They had to call 911 because she choked on the cough drop. |
The Malagasy Football Federation () is the governing body of football in Madagascar. It was founded in 1961, affiliated to FIFA in 1964 and to CAF in 1963. It organizes the national football league and the national team. |
Bavigne (, ) is a village in the commune of Lac de la Haute-Sûre, in north-western Luxembourg. , the village had a population of 125. It is the administrative centre of the commune of Lac de la Haute-Sûre. |
All Kay's friends had laptops. She wanted one, but couldn't afford it. Then on her first day of senior year, her dad gave her a gift. He had saved all summer to buy her a laptop! Kay was so happy she almost cried. |
Pickled punks is the carny term for human babies preserved in jars of preservative such as formaldehyde, which are used as sideshow attractions. Most pickled punks display some sort of anatomical abnormality, such as conjoined twins or polycephaly; however, the deformities present are as varied as the nature of human a... |
Carter had just started sleeping in a big boy bed. One night, he rolled out of bed onto the floor. Carter bumped his head and began to cry. The next day, his parents installed a rail on his bed. Carter never fell out of bed again. |
Fabio Frizzi (born 2 July 1951) is an Italian musician and composer. Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, he is best known for his film scores and was a frequent collaborator with horror director Lucio Fulci. |
House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives. |
Jon went with a friend to a bar. The bar was rowdier than any others that he had been to. Jon's friends got into a fight at the bar. Jon and his friends all got arrested. Jon never went to the bar again. |
The John Trigg Ester Library is a small nonprofit library, located in Ester in the U.S. state of Alaska. The library has approximately 8,000 volumes on its shelves with more than 10,000 in storage, and is constructing a new library building. The library design is for the farthest-north Passive house structure in North ... |
Bally Sports Great Lakes is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel, which is a sister network to Bally Sports Ohio, broadcasts statewide coverage of professional, collegiate and high school sports events throughout northern Ohio, incl... |
Jeff was usually a very healthy man. He caught a cold one day from his neighbor. Jeff wasn't used to feeling so ill so he had a bad time. His neighbor suggested hot lemon tea to soothe his cold. Jeff tried it and felt better right away. |
In Māori mythology, Toto was a chief in Hawaiki. He had two daughters, Kuramarotini, the wife of Hoturapa, and Rongorongo, the wife of Turi. Toto felled a tree and made two canoes. One of these, the Aotea, was given to Turi, and was sailed by him to New Zealand. The other canoe, the Matahourua, was later commandeered b... |
In geometry, the small stellated truncated dodecahedron (or quasitruncated small stellated dodecahedron or small stellatruncated dodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U58. It has 24 faces (12 pentagons and 12 decagrams), 90 edges, and 60 vertices. It is given a Schläfli symbol t{,5}, and Coxeter d... |
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