text
stringlengths
32
2.45k
S40 Racing is a freeware game developed by Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and released in October 1997 for the personal computer. The game was made as part of the promotion for the S40 and was shown at a number of large car exhibitions and motor shows in 1997. It has one selectable car and two tracks on which to race, one...
Sluiskil is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 27 km southeast of Vlissingen.
Stanley Cobb (December 10, 1887 – February 25, 1968) was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States".
I went hiking yesterday in the mountains. As I trekked up the mountain, I started to feel out of breath. I could not believe how I felt. I had to take a long pause. Thankfully after a while I was able to keep going.
My wife is retiring this week. One of her coworkers is in the field. She does see him often. Last week he came into the office. She had a photo taken of them together as a remembrance.
Abando, formerly known as San Vicente de Abando, is one of the eight districts of Bilbao, Basque Country (Spain). It covers most of the city's centre, located on the left bank of the estuary of Bilbao. It is the only district of Bilbao with all of its land completely urbanised. Abando was originally an elizate and also...
Gilten is a lake in the municipality of Steinkjer (with a small part crossing into neighboring Namsos) in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake lies in the northern part of Steinkjer, about northeast of the village of Kvam, about north of the village of Følling (and the European route E6 highway), and about east of th...
Cole was driving home from a game one night. He got pulled over for speeding. The officer issued him a ticket for going so fast. Cole had not realized he had been lost in thought while driving. He now sets his cruise control so he won't speed again.
Liz loved drinking coffee every morning. The hotter the better. For her birthday she got a new coffee maker. It was the best gift she could get. She was excited for days.
The Indira Sagar Dam is the largest dam in India, in terms of volume of water stored in the reservoir. It is located on the Narmada River at the town of Narmada Nagar, Punasa in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh in India. The foundation stone of the project was laid by the prime minister of India Indira Gandhi on ...
The United States Barista Championship (USBC), is an annual American coffee-brewing competition designed to evaluate baristas on their skills in espresso-based drink preparation and service. Competitors prepare and serve three courses of espresso-based beverages consisting of straight espressos, milk beverages, and sig...
Lydford Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lydford, Devon, England. The first castle in Lydford, sometimes termed the Norman fort, was a small ringwork built in a corner of the Anglo-Saxon fortified burh in the years after the Norman conquest of England. It was intended to help control Devon following the wides...
Sidi Bouzid Governorate (; ), sometimes spelt Sidi Bou Zid, is one of the 24 governorates (provinces) of Tunisia. It is in central Tunisia and landlocked. It covers an area of 7405 km2 and has a population of 429,912 (2014 census). The capital is its most populous settlement, Sidi Bouzid.
Evan was dating Rhonda. Evan went to the mall to buy Rhonda a gift. He saw Rhonda walking with another guy. Evan confronted Rhonda and broke up with her. He left without buying her a gift.
Jobat is a city and a nagar parishad municipality in Alirajpur district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam. Mehdi is a variant alternative transliteration.
Camille showed her husband the new dress. Her husband thought she looked great. He grabbed onto Camille's waist for a hug. Camille pushed him away. She didn't want to have the dress wrinkled.
I love to eat potato chips. One day I was eating potato chips out of a bag. When I was eating I noticed a competition entry on the bag. It asks you to submit your flavor for a chance to win. I'm still waiting for my cheeto flavor idea.
Bob is recently divorced. Bob hasn't been happy lately. He decides to go out and meet someone new. He meets a girl at a bar. He falls in love with her and marries her.
Al-Qādisiyyah () is a historical city in southern Mesopotamia, southwest of al-Hillah and al-Kūfah in Iraq. It is most famous as the site of the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in c. 636, which saw a force of Arab-Muslim invaders defeat a larger army sent by the Sasanian Empire.
I went to ride my bike. I put my helmet on my head and went to the park. On the way, I ran over a turtle and it crashed my bike. I landed on my head and it cracked my helmet. The helmet was split in two but my life was spared that day.
John R. Hirschi Math/Science International Baccalaureate Magnet High School, commonly known as Hirschi High School or HHS, is a four-year public high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, located at 3106 Borton Lane. It is an accredited International Baccalaureate (IB) World School offering the Diploma (IBDP) and Middle Year...
This is a list of airports in Maine (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by ...
LT was a Swedish car made by Anders Rudolf Lindström, Gottfrid Hansson and Simon Resare.
Texican Style: Live from Austin was recorded in March 2004 at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin, Texas. It is estimated that more than 25,000 people filled the park that night to hear Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza perform live. While many of these songs are on the 2003 album, "I Am The Man To Beat" and "Suppertime" h...
Circus Caper, known as in Japan, is the title of a side-scrolling Nintendo Entertainment System video game where the player controls a young boy on a quest to save his sister who has been kidnapped by the circus. The game was released in 1989 by Toho and received poor reviews.
Terry decided to go for a walk. He had walked about a mile when it started to rain. The rain was cold and it made Terry mad. He turned around and started walking fast towards home. He decided to check the forecast from now on before walks.
Today was the longest day ever. It started earlier than usual - 6 in the morning! The chaos began at 7, when I noticed an unusual noise outside the car. It sounded like the car and the road were playing patty-cake. Turns out I didn't just have a flat tire, I had three!
Eddie was singing a song. As he crossed the road, he didn't hear the truck come. He kept singing when the truck stopped inches from his face. The truck driver yelled at him. Eddie shrugged as he resumed his song.
Missing Man Formation was a band put together by former Grateful Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick, featuring Welnick and an ever-changing group of musicians, including Scott Mathews and Steve Kimock on guitar (eventually replaced by John Wedemeyer, Terry Haggerty and Mark Holzinger), Prairie Prince on drums (eventually r...
The infraorbital nerve is a branch of the maxillary nerve (itself a branch of the trigeminal nerve (CN V)). It arises in the pterygopalatine fossa. It passes through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit. It travels through the orbit, then enters and traverses the infraorbital canal, exiting the canal at the ...
Jonas enjoyed growing his own avocados in his backyard. He owned many acres so he had the freedom to plan many. Harvest season came around and he was eager to pick his fruit. When he arrived at his land the whole lot was on fire. Jonas was heartbroken and never planted a tree again.
Tom never paid attention to local elections. One day he was shocked by a new law. It inspired him to get more involved. After some involvement he figured he should run for office too. Tom wound up winning a local seat.
Carl wanted to join a book club. He loved to read but had no one to talk about it with. He arrived at the book club meeting on Thursday. It was all old women and no one his age. He figured it was better than no one so he stayed and loved it.
In the years since World War II there has been a substantial reduction in the number of priests per capita in the Catholic Church, a phenomenon considered by many to constitute a "shortage" in the number of priests. From 1980 to 2012, the ratio of Catholics per priest increased globally, with the number of Catholics pe...
Barry was an avid skateboarder. However, there was never anywhere for him to skateboard freely. As Barry was walking, he say a sign for a new skateboard park. Barry was pleased to see the park would be finished by December. Barry was pleased that he would be able to skateboard freely.
Charles knew Linda was too conceited about her photography. But he influenced his boss to hire Linda as an intern. Linda's first assignment was to photograph a local celebrity. She took his picture by bushes, stains in concrete and off the curb. Linda was shocked and quit when the editor didn't like her photos.
Cutts is a settlement in the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom. It is on the island of Trondra off the west coast of Shetland Mainland. The B9074 crosses the Trondra Bridge at the north-east of Cutts. The bridge, opened on 18 October 1971 by George Younger, has a single carriageway and connects Trondra with Shetland Mai...
Donald Musgrave Lee (August 12, 1880 – August 30, 1934) was the exclusive west coast distributor of Cadillac automobiles in the early 20th century.
Chiara Zanni () is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is known for her roles as Amy Ryan on The N series About a Girl and Maggie Buckman on the CBC series Edgemont.
The General Coordinates Network (GCN), formerly known as the Gamma-ray burst Coordinates Network, is an open-source platform created by NASA to receive and transmit alerts about astronomical transient phenomena. This includes neutrino detections by observatories such as IceCube or Super-Kamiokande, gravitational wave e...
Robert was driving along a country road on autumn night. A sports car sped up behind him and blared the horn. Robert was angry, and stomped on the brakes. The car swerved around Robert and sped off. Robert smiled and floored the gas pedal, ready for the chase.
We were up in my sister-in-law's apartment this Tuesday. Her unit was undergoing an inspection. We went to make coffee and opened her kitchen drawer. It was filled with tarnished silverware. I told her she should sell it on eBay.
Sarah loved sandwiches. Only problem was she had few ingredients. She didn't know what to do. So she went to the grocery store. She then made pbj.
Neuhaeusel () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
The Wheelchair Foundation (WF) is a non-profit organization founded in June 2000 by real estate developer Ken Behring, and based in Danville, California. The foundation partners with donors (individuals, groups and companies) to provide wheelchairs to people who need them but cannot afford them, mostly in developing na...
Sarah-Elizabeth Langford (born September 28, 1981) is the former first lady of Atlanta and a former beauty pageant titleholder. Langford was the wife of the 59th Mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She competed in the Miss America pageant in 2002 and the Miss USA pageant in 200...
Painshill (also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some 19th-century texts), near Cobham, Surrey, England, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by Charles Hamilton. The original house built in the park by Hamilton has since been...
Andrew was invited to his friends party. It was at place where you play laser tag. His mom drove him to the place. He met his friends and they played laser tag. He had a great time.
The Estadio Gran Parque Central is the stadium of Club Nacional de Football. It is located in Montevideo, Uruguay, near Nacional headquarters (exactly between the streets Carlos Anaya, Jaime Cibils, General Urquiza and Comandante Braga), in the La Blanqueada neighbourhood.
Ron Josiah Taylor, AM (8 March 19349 September 2012) was a prominent Australian shark expert, as is his widow, Valerie Taylor. They were credited with being pioneers in several areas, including being the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage. Their expertise has been called upon for f...
An Article 14 Direction is a term used in British planning law for a directive issued by the British Government which prevents a Local Planning Authority granting planning permission for a specific proposal. It has no time limit, so remains in force until explicitly lifted. It is typically used to allow a regional gove...
Roan Mountain State Park is a Tennessee state park in Carter County, in Northeast Tennessee. It is close to the Tennessee-North Carolina border and near the community of Roan Mountain, Tennessee. Situated in the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, the park preserves of mostly hardwood forest. The park is in cl...
Korzybie is a PKP railway station in Korzybie (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland.
We drove to the hiking trail. It was hard to breathe because of the altitude. I went very slowly up the trail. I stopped to rest at the top. When we were done my legs felt rubbery.
Peter McMullin (born 25 April 1952) is an Australian businessman, lawyer and philanthropist. He was the mayor of Geelong in 2006 and deputy lord mayor of Melbourne between 1996 and 1999. McMullin also held the role of president of VECCI between 2010 and 2013, was chairman of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival ...
The city was gripped with fear. There had been a terrorist attack. The people all hunkered down in their apartments and homes. The FBI swarmed the scene. They were frantic to catch the terrorists.
Yoko Utsumi is a Japanese musical artist. Her solo music is a blend of punk, rock and ska influences, with some blues and jazz thrown in. During her long career, she has also played Japanese traditional music.
Thomas the Slav (,  – October 823) was a 9th-century Byzantine military commander, most notable for leading a wide-scale revolt in 821–23 against Emperor Michael II the Amorian ().
Ross Cullum (born 1957 in Fulham, London, England) is an English composer, record producer, and audio engineer, known for working with Enya, Tears for Fears, Moya Brennan, and several other artists.
Daniel Dimitri Rodriguez (November 10, 1967 – October 6, 1990), alias D-Boy Rodriguez, was a Christian rap artist. He released two albums that received moderate commercial success, before being murdered in 1990. His third album was released posthumously.
Sara has a test tomorrow. She has been studying all week. When she got to the test, she got anxious. She ended up failing. However, Sara was able to talk to her teacher and get a retake.
Nenad Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Кнежевић; born 5 December 1967), better known as Knez, is a Montenegrin singer, based in Belgrade, Serbia. Best known for his 1994 hit "Dal' si ikada mene voljela" (Have You Ever Loved Me), he rose to fame as a 1990s dance-pop singer. Knez also represented Montenegro in the Eurov...
Per Ivar Moe (born 11 November 1944, in Ålesund) is a former speed skater from Norway.
Carry wanted some chocolates. So Carry drove to the store to get chocolate. Carry got lots of chocolate bars. Carry got home and turned on her TV and eat her chocolate. She was so glad she got the chocolate.
Charlie was going deaf. He got some hearing aides to help him. Soon, he could hear everything very clearly. He loved listening to music and watching tv. Charlie was glad he'd gotten the hearing aides.
My daughter is going back to school next week. I am am actually really excited. This has been a very long summer. It has been hard trying to find things to do. It will be a nice break when she goes back.
Water Stories is an album by German andean new age band Cusco. It was released in 1990 as their third album for the Higher Octave music label. The album peaked at #11 on the Billboard Top New Age albums chart in 1991.
In computational complexity theory, the complexity class TFNP is the class of total function problems which can be solved in nondeterministic polynomial time. That is, it is the class of function problems that are guaranteed to have an answer, and this answer can be checked in polynomial time, or equivalently it is the...
Theater drapes and stage curtains are large pieces of cloth that are designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators. They are designed for a variety of specific purposes, moving in different ways (if at all) and constructed from various fabrics. Many are made from black or other darkly colored, light-abs...
Jennifer carried a stack of cash. She took it to the bank to deposit it. The teller counted it carefully. She handed a receipt over to Jennifer. She was happy to have money in her account again.
Jane always drank coffee in the morning. She noticed she was grouchy when she didn't. One time she aggressively snapped at her kids. Jane realized she was addicted to caffeine and decided to quit. It was difficult and took her a long time to get over.
A chicken was walking down the road. It would occasionally stop to peck at a bug. The chicken was lost. He belonged to a farmer down the road. When the farmer saw him, he carried him back home.
Civic Center station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The station is located in San Jose, California, on 1st Street just north of Mission Street. The station is located in and named after the Civic Center area where many city and county government buildings are located, ...
Kathryn Isobel Hay (born 24 November 1975 in Launceston) is an Australian Labor politician and former member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Bass. She was first elected in the 2002 election.
Mike's sister told him a steam train was coming through his town. Mike loves to photograph trains so he went to take pictures. His sister gave him the wrong time so the train was not there. Mike's sister bought tickets for him to ride the train instead. Mike was very happy because he rode the train another day.
Enid was the scrabble champion of her family. So when there was a scrabble competition at camp, she felt confident. She advanced easily to the second round, then the third. In the semi-finals she came up against a kid nicknamed Dictionary. She soon found out why when he beat her soundly.
Diagnosis for Death is the debut album by American horror punk band Dr. Chud's X-Ward, released in 2004 on Dr. Chud's Bloodwork Records label.
The Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes is a Listed American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older at a distance of six furlongs on the dirt run annually in early mid-February at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The event currently offers a purse of $150,000.
The temperature was soaring higher and higher. Idris reached for his bottle of water. He was finding every way to avoid going outside. The forecast was expected to get hotter. Idris laid in a puddle of sweat.
Michael has always adored animals. For as long as he can remember he has always been drawn to them. As he grew up he thought he might want to become a vet. After high school he went to school to become a vet. After his education was complete he opened a successful animal clinic.
Paula Arundell is an Australian actress and singer.
Creepy Canada is a Canadian television series that aired on OLN. It focused on paranormal activities around Canada. The show first premiered on October 23, 2002, and began its third season on May 5, 2006. With the third season, the show's scope was expanded to include paranormal activity reported in the United States. ...
Mark Stephen Waters (born June 30, 1964) is an American director.
Debbie had always dreamed of being a camp counselor. She had applied for a position that year near the end of school. One day she got a letter about her application. She nervously checked it and saw that she had been accepted. She was thrilled and began packing immediately.
Bonnie Fuller (born Bonnie Hurowitz; September 8, 1956) is a Canadian media executive who is the owner and editor-in-chief of Hollywood Life. Fuller previously worked as editor-in-chief for publications such as YM, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Us Weekly.
"Baby Baby" is a pop song by American recording artist Amy Grant and it was issued as the first single from her eighth studio album, Heart in Motion (1991). The song was written by Grant and Keith Thomas, who also produced it. It was released on January 18, 1991, through A&M Records and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 ...
Don had a long drive ahead of him. He turned on his radio station and listened to the radio host. The radio host told funny stories and interesting anecdotes. Don smiled and kept driving. The commute was much easier with the radio keeping him company.
Landis George Scott (June 21, 1919 – November 3, 2014) was an American midget car racing champion. He also served as the President of Badger Midget Auto Racing Association from 1951 to 1959.
The people of Chad speak more than 100 languages and divide themselves into many ethnic groups. However, language and ethnicity are not the same. Moreover, neither element can be tied to a particular physical type.
In 2002 I went to a concert given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I had a beer in the lounge before the concert. During the performance I had to use the restroom. The usher would not let me back into the hall. I listened to the end of the performance through the door.
The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR (chassis code C297) is a GT1 sports car built and produced by Mercedes-Benz in conjunction with their then motorsport partner AMG. Intended for racing in the new FIA GT Championship series in 1997, the CLK GTR was designed primarily as a race car, with the road cars necessary in order to meet ...
John had friends over for a movie night. Nobody could agree on what to watch. Those that claimed not to care complained the hardest. Eventually John picked for everyone else. Nobody liked his choice.
Central Darling Shire is a local government area in the Far West region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Barrier Highway. Central Darling Shire was constituted in 1959 and at , it is the largest incorporated local government area in New South Wales.
Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is a Canadian visual effects and computer animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montréal, Québec, with an additional office on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. SPI is a unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.
Cuba competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. It was the first time in 20 years that Cuban athletes competed at the Olympic Games. 53 competitors, all men, took part in 31 events in 12 sports.
In mathematics, Choi's theorem on completely positive maps is a result that classifies completely positive maps between finite-dimensional (matrix) C*-algebras. An infinite-dimensional algebraic generalization of Choi's theorem is known as Belavkin's "Radon–Nikodym" theorem for completely positive maps.
Chip and Pepper Foster are identical twin businessmen from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They are co-owners of Chip & Pepper California and former hosts of their own NBC series, Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness and owners of KUB Bread in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Cheviot is a locality in Victoria, Australia in the Shire of Murrindindi local government area.
OneWest Bank, a division of First Citizens BancShares, was a regional bank with over 60 retail branches in Southern California. OneWest Bank specialized in consumer deposit and lending including personal checking and savings accounts, Money Market accounts, CDs, and home loan products. OneWest offered small business ch...