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Emerson Stephen Colaw (November 13, 1921 – October 11, 2016) was an American bishop in the United Methodist Church and theologian specializing in homiletics. He was first elected as bishop in 1980. |
Joshua is the seventh solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. It was released on April 12, 1971, by RCA Victor. The album was produced by Bob Ferguson. It peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 198 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album's single, "Joshua", was nomi... |
() is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January 1837. The formannskaps law, which fulfilled an express requirement of th... |
The Worst of Deja Voodoo is a collection of singles, outtakes and oddities by the Canadian garage rock band Deja Voodoo. |
The Mixed Order () was a tactical formation originally used by demi-brigades of the French Revolutionary Army and then later by Napoleon's Grande Armée to great effect. |
Towelhead is a novel written by Alicia Erian and first published April 6, 2005. Alicia Erian is the first holder of the Newhouse Visiting Professorship of Creative Writing at Wellesley College. |
Jake wanted to join little league. He had asthma and his parents were worried. He convinced them to let him. He had a lot of fun. His parents decided to trust him more. |
Liam Beckett MBE (born 17 July 1951) is a Northern Irish former football manager and player, who now works as a pundit and radio broadcaster. |
Mr. Dream was an American punk rock music group. They released their debut album, Trash Hit, on March 1, 2011. They released Ultimate in Luxury as a "posthumous LP" on July 7, 2014, shortly after their breakup. |
Tom started a new job. He was very excited about his job. He had to attend training for two weeks. Tom fell asleep during training. Tom was fired. |
Cancer root is a common name for several plants in the family Orobanchaceae, particularly genera: |
Cary Guffey (born May 10, 1972) is an American former child actor and financial planner. He is best known for his debut in the role of Barry Guiler in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). |
Fake Peak is a small outcrop on a ridge beside the Ruth Glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, US, 19 miles southeast of the summit of Denali. It has been shown by Robert M. Bryce that the "summit photograph" produced by Frederick Cook as evidence supporting his claim to have made the first ascent of D... |
Melinda is on her way home from the gym. Her car starts to smoke. She pulls over and calls for help. The tow truck arrives to get her car. Melinda lost a lot of money with her car breaking down. |
In mathematics, in the topology of 3-manifolds, the loop theorem is a generalization of Dehn's lemma. The loop theorem was first proven by Christos Papakyriakopoulos in 1956, along with Dehn's lemma and the Sphere theorem. |
Versare Car Company was a bus and trolley bus maker founded in 1925 and originally based in Watervliet, New York. Among their early work were experimental buses that utilized diesel and electric engines that could be run alone or together, a technique that could be seen as a very early ancestor to dual-mode vehicles of... |
The Moneypenny Diaries is a series of novels and short stories chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary in Ian Fleming's James Bond series; it is considered an official spin-off of the Bond books. The diaries are penned by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym Kate Westbrook, who is depicted as t... |
Plärrer station is the only Nuremberg U-Bahn station apart from Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof to have an interchange with all the U-Bahn lines – the U1, U2, and U3. Like Aufseßplatz, Hauptbahnhof and Friedrich Ebert Platz orange tiles indicate its intended use as an interchange station between different subway main lines. The ... |
This page deals with a city in Ukraine. For the film named after this city, see Luboml (film). |
Mikael Johansson (born June 27, 1985) is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre, currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played under contract with the SCL Tigers of the Swiss National League (NL). He was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 9th round (289th overall) of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. |
Człuchów railway station is a railway station serving the town of Człuchów, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station is located on the Chojnice–Runowo Pomorskie railway and Człuchów–Słosinko railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne. |
Susie wanted to open up a convenience store. But she really needed a loan for that. So she went to loan office. She was not sure she would get it. But she was almost instantly approved. |
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group headquartered in New Delhi, India, founded in 1895. |
Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to poor people, today, Boxing Day forms part of Christmas celebrations, with many people choosing to take advantage of Boxing Day sales. It originated in Gr... |
Ibou Faye (born December 13, 1969) is a retired Senegalese athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres hurdles. |
Liam was at the county fair. He ate a sausage link he bought from a booth. The sausage was spicy. It gave Liam heartburn. When he left the fair, he went to the store to get medicine. |
UTV Live is a Northern Irish television news service broadcast and produced by UTV. |
This article lists important figures and events in Malayan public affairs during the year 1957, together with births and deaths of significant Malayans. Malaya became independent from British colonial rule on 31 August 1957. |
Brian and Erica loved going to the park. They planned their next park trip for the weekend. When they got there, they noticed that it was very hot outside. It was too hot for them to enjoy themselves. Brian and Erica decided to visit an indoor garden instead. |
Elwood George English (March 2, 1906 – September 26, 1997) was an American professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1927 and 1938 for the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers. His uncle Paul Carpenter also played professional baseball. |
The United States Navy's Bureau of Ships (BuShips) was established by Congress on 20 June 1940, by a law which consolidated the functions of the Bureau of Construction and Repair (BuC&R) and the Bureau of Engineering (BuEng). The new bureau was to be headed by a chief and deputy-chief, one selected from the Engineerin... |
The Apostolic Prefecture of Mariana Islands was a Roman Catholic apostolic prefecture (early missionary stage of a diocese) in Micronesia, in the South Sea. |
Benedictine High School is a private, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school for boys, located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The school serves grades 9–12 and has an enrollment of over 340 students for the 2017–2018 school year. It is a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Benedictine's sist... |
Morris and Company, was one of several meatpacking companies in Chicago, Illinois, and in South Omaha, Nebraska. |
Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM (6 June 1920 – 29 June 2009) was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor. |
Tom wanted a new pair of tennis shoes for school but he had no money. He worked odd jobs around the neighborhood to earn extra cash. Sometimes he took out trash or mowed someone's yard. His hardest job was to get a cat down from a tree. He was able to earn enough money for two pairs of new shoes. |
Strunz & Farah is a guitar duo with an eclectic sound that has been described as a cross between world fusion and flamenco. |
Will woke up with a pain in his left leg. The pain only worsened as the day went along. Will dropped by the doctor's after work. There he learned that he had a blood clot in his leg. Going to the doctor may have saved Will's life! |
Selendi is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. Its area is 726 km2, and its population is 19,203 (2022). The town lies at an elevation of . |
Petrie Terrace is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Petrie Terrace had a population of 1,124 people. |
"T.N.T." is a song released in 1975 by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, taken from their Australian album T.N.T. and the international version of High Voltage. It was released as a single in 1976 and was written by Bon Scott, Angus Young and Malcolm Young. It peaked at No.19 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles ... |
Arthur Hilary Armstrong, (13 August 1909 – 16 October 1997) was an English educator and author. Armstrong is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the philosophical teachings of Plotinus (ca. 205–270 CE). His multi-volume translation of the philosopher's teachings is regarded as an essential tool of classic... |
Datteln is a town in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on a crossroads of four canals (Datteln-Hamm Canal, Wesel-Datteln Canal, Dortmund-Ems Canal and Rhein-Herne Canal), which makes it the biggest canal junction in the World, approx. 10 km north-east of Recklinghausen a... |
The triangulate cobweb spider (scientific name: Steatoda triangulosa; also called the triangulate bud spider) is a common spider in the genus Steatoda. It is well known for the triangle-shaped pattern on the dorsal side of its abdomen. |
WarCry is a Spanish power metal band led by founder, singer, and songwriter Víctor García. Formed in 2001 when García and drummer Alberto Ardines were ejected from Avalanch, the band has since released seven studio albums and two live albums, with an eighth studio album currently in progress. WarCry has had a fluctuati... |
Lyn was going to the school dance. She decided she needed a new dress. She could not find one anywhere. Her mom said she would make one for her. Lyn had the best dress. |
Reynolda Gardens are located in Reynolda Village, adjacent to the Reynolda campus of Wake Forest University and the Reynolda House, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The gardens are open daily with free admission. |
Chávez High School can refer to several schools in the United States: |
Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel. He was the seventy-sixth United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the twenty-fifth White House chief of staff from 2012 to... |
Casey went skateboarding on the boardwalk. He went too fast and hit a woman. He apologized and she smiled and say it was ok. He asked her for her number. She gave it to him and they agreed to get coffee some time. |
Joe's pregnant wife called him while he was at work. Joe rushed out from behind his desk telling his boss he had to go. Joe sped across the parking peeling rubber behind him. He must have driven through every red light. Joe made it to the hospital just in time to see his son's birth. |
The Niemeyer–Dolan technique, also called the Dolan technique, angular evaporation, or the shadow evaporation technique, is a thin-film lithographic method to create nanometer-sized overlapping structures. |
The Silvertown Tunnel is a road tunnel under construction beneath the River Thames between the Greenwich Peninsula and west Silvertown. |
Vittorio Mangano (18 August 1940 – 23 July 2000) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra. He was well known as the stable keeper at the villa of Silvio Berlusconi in Arcore in the 1970s, and is known as "The Stable Keeper of Arcore" (lo stalliere di Arcore). Berlusconi later became Prime Minister of Italy. |
Brent Hall (born 7 January 1986) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. |
Jenny walked into her night class. Her professor was going over a new lesson. When he was presenting, the lights went out. No one couldn't see since it was dark. After 10 minutes, he dismissed the class. |
Susy wanted to try out for lacrosse. She was rather nervous about it however. She did not know if she would make it. But to her delight she ended up making it. Susy jumped up and down with joy. |
Supervision is used in counselling, psychotherapy, and other mental health disciplines as well as many other professions engaged in working with people. Supervision may be applied as well to practitioners in somatic disciplines for their preparatory work for patients as well as collateral with patients. Supervision is ... |
We were sitting in the very hot room. It was nearly unbearable. I didn't know what to do. I put the fan on. Then realized it was blowing hot air. |
The Loss of the Golden Silence is a two-person play about domestic tension by Alasdair Gray, first performed at the Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh in 1973, and later broadcast on radio by the Scottish BBC in 1974, under producer Stewart Conn. It is of particular interest to readers of Lanark because part of the dia... |
Ben played drums in the band. His band played a gig at the pub. He forgot to bring his drum sticks. He had to use only brushes. The band was not happy about it. |
Michael Lipsky (born April 13, 1940) is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a public policy institution based in New York with offices in Washington, D.C., and Boston. He was a program officer at the Ford Foundation after serving as a professor of political science at MIT. In 1998, Lipsky was elected as a fellow o... |
Jet Set Records is a French record label owned by Enzo Hamilton, which specialized in Jamaican music reissues. It was most active in the 1990s. |
Arno Klasen (born 1967 in Karlshausen, Germany) is a German racecar driver best known for his long career in VLN endurance racing series on the Nürburgring. He has collected 26 overall wins in the category, ranking fourth after Jürgen Alzen, Olaf Manthey and Ullrich Richter. |
Royal Surrey Gardens were pleasure gardens in Newington, Surrey, London in the Victorian period, slightly east of The Oval. The gardens occupied about to the east side of Kennington Park Road, including a lake of about . It was the site of Surrey Zoological Gardens and Surrey Music Hall. |
Every day Ashley takes her dog Cora for a walk. They go down the alley behind her house and around the block. Cora knows the route very well and doesn't stray. She also knows if she goes potty, she'll get a treat. Since Ashley started walking her, she's stopped pottying in the house. |
Greg F. Anderson (born February 1966) is an American personal trainer, best known for his work with baseball player Barry Bonds, and links with BALCO. |
The Elm River is a tributary of the Little Wabash River in southeastern Illinois in the United States. Via the Little Wabash, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. |
Heather bought a bunch of bananas at the store. She brought them home and set them on the table. A huge tarantula crawled out of them! Heather screamed and hit it with a dictionary. There were tarantula guts all over the table. |
CPD Boded F.C. is a Welsh football team based in the village of Bodedern, Anglesey. They play in the North Wales Coast West Football League which is the fifth tier of Welsh football. |
Exorcise the Demons is a studio album by drum and bass artists Source Direct, released in 1999. The album contains 9 tracks, three of which, "Concealed Identity", "Mind Weaver", and "Technical Warfare", are previously released singles. "Call & Response" and "Capital D" are available on the duo's previous compilation al... |
Yuen Chau Tsai was an island in Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong. It is now connected to land by a causeway after land reclamation. It is part of Tai Po New Town in the Tai Po District. |
Electronic Broking Services (EBS) is a wholesale electronic trading platform used to trade on the foreign exchange market (FX) with market-making banks. It was originally created as a partnership by large banks and then became part of CME Group. |
Night at the Museum is a 2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an ensemble cast of Ben Stiller in the lead role, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, ... |
Danny had some food at a fast-food restaurant. A strange man came into the building. He approached the fountain drink dispensers. He held an empty gallon container near the machine. The dispenser filled up the container. |
Sam told John that Lucy was interested in him. In excitement, John tried to meet up with Lucy. She was confused when John assumed that she likes him. John found out that it was a lie. While crushed, he took his anger out on Sam. |
Chamarajanagar or Chamarajanagara is a town in the southern part of Karnataka, India. Named after Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the erstwhile king of Mysore, previously known as 'Arikottara'. Chamarajanagara is the headquarters of Chamarajanagar district. It is located on the interstate highway linking the neighboring states o... |
Terry was walking to his job. While walking he slips on a banana peel. Terry needs assistance getting up. But no one is there to help him get up. Terry just lays on the ground hoping his bad luck ends soon. |
The Ides of March (the "middle of March") is the 15th day of the Roman month of Martius. |
Mary was on safari in Africa. The group stopped for lunch. A snake crawled up beside her. She was so scared. She dropped her sandwich! |
Varangerbotn () is the administrative centre of Nesseby Municipality, Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located at the innermost part of the large Varangerfjorden. The village is located at the intersection of the European route E6 and European route E75 highways. The villages of Karlebotn and Nesseby lie a shor... |
The North Island takahē () (Porphyrio mantelli) is an extinct rail that was found in the North Island of New Zealand. |
Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648) was an English 17th-century courtier and politician. He is also the purported author of The Court and Character of King James I, although this attribution has been challenged. |
Kraków Army () was one of the Polish armies which took part in the Polish Defensive War of 1939. It was officially created on March 23, 1939 as the main pivot of Polish defence. It was commanded by Gen. Antoni Szylling. Originally, Kraków Army was to be made of seven infantry divisions, two cavalry brigades and one mou... |
Jack and Jill lost their jobs after the stock market crashed. They couldn't find new jobs despite being skilled and talented. Jack and Jill turned to a life of crime to pay the bills. After a long crime spree, they were finally cornered by the police. In a glorious shoot out Jack and Jill were both killed. |
Lea Laven (née Luukinen; after that Marjanen, Forssell and Tulonen; born 19 June 1948, Haukipudas) is a Finnish pop singer. |
Boxing (also known as "western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport and a martial art in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. |
Terra Diablo is a Scottish rock band signed to Nocturnal Records. The band was formed when singers and guitarists Ian Fairclough and Davey McAuley met while working at the same record store. |
Pervari () is a town and seat of the Pervari District of Siirt Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds of the Adiyan and Şakiran tribes and had a population of 6,261 in 2021. |
Aramesh Dustdar (24 May 1931 – 27 October 2021) was an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar, and philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. |
The following is a list of Registered Historic Places in Tuscola County, Michigan. |
Jane wanted to go jogging. She had been indoors too long. Once she stepped out she noticed the intense heat. It was too much. Jane decided to stay indoors. |
Simon, bastard son of Roger II of Sicily, was declared Prince of Taranto by his father in 1148, on the death of Roger III, Duke of Apulia, the eldest legitimate son of Roger II. |
In church history, the term (from Ancient Greek: , "headless", singular from , "without", and , "head") has been applied to several sects that supposedly had no leader. E. Cobham Brewer wrote, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, that acephalites, "properly means men without a head." Jean Cooper wrote, in Dictionar... |
The International Who's Who is a Who's Who series of reference books of notable people worldwide that has been published annually since 1935. |
Oakland City Center is an office, shopping and hotel complex in Downtown Oakland, Oakland, California. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s. It covers twelve city blocks between Broadway on the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the west, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on 14th Street on ... |
The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1976 Summer Olympics took place on July 19 at the Olympic Pool, Montreal. There were 55 competitors from 33 nations, with each nation having up to three swimmers. The medals were swept the United States, the only time there has been a medal sweep in the men's 200 metre freesty... |
Nick was lighting off fireworks with his friends. But then he burned his thumb badly! A lit fuse almost took it right off. Nick had to be rushed to the hospital. He wished he hadn't been so thoughtless. |
World Cinema: Diary of a Day is a 1995 collection of journals from filmmakers around the world. It includes entries from filmmakers as famous as Terry Gilliam to accomplished but little-known independents, such as Jurgen Vsych. |
Philipp Mißfelder (25 August 1979 – 13 July 2015) was a German politician and a member of the German Bundestag. From January through March 2014, he served in the German government as the Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation in the Field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy. |
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