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Robert Chapman Turner (July 22, 1913 – July 26, 2005) was an American potter known for his functional pottery, sculptural vessels and inspired teaching. |
Tiretta Bazaar, also known as Chinatown, is a neighborhood near Lalbazar in Central Kolkata. It is usually called Old China Market. The locality was once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese Indian nationals, but now the population has dropped to approximately 2,000. Most of the Hakka Chinese people in the area moved closer t... |
Commissioned is an American urban contemporary gospel group from Detroit, Michigan. Members included Fred Hammond, Keith Staten, Karl Reid, Mitchell Jones, Marvin Sapp, Marcus Cole and Montrell Darrett. |
Mount Eolus is a high mountain summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, northeast by north (bearing 29°) of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. |
Todd Trainer is the drummer for the band Shellac. He also performs as a solo artist under the name Brick Layer Cake. He previously played drums for the bands Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport, and he played drums with Scout Niblett in 2005. |
The Ursuline High School, Wimbledon (“the Ursuline”) is a voluntary-aided, Roman Catholic Secondary School for girls aged 11 to 19. The school is based at Crescent Road and the Downs, Wimbledon, London. It was founded in 1892 by the Ursulines. It is affiliated with The Ursuline Preparatory School, its previous feeder p... |
The Law of Portugal is the legal system that applies to Portugal. It is part of the family of the civil law legal systems, based on Roman law. As such, it has many common features with the legal systems found in most of the countries in Continental Europe. |
The Miss Oklahoma USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oklahoma in the Miss USA pageant. This pageant is directed by Vanbros and Associates, headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. In 1997, Oklahoma joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system. |
Gulam Abbas Moontasir (7 January 1942 – 15 November 2022) was an Indian professional basketball player. |
Llyn Ogwen (; ) is a ribbon lake in north-west Wales. It lies alongside the A5 road between two mountain ranges of Snowdonia, the Carneddau and the Glyderau. Somewhat unusually, the county boundary at this point is drawn so that the lake itself lies in the county of Gwynedd, but all the surrounding land (excluding the... |
Peter Coates (born 13 January 1938) is an English businessman, the co-founder of bet365, and the chairman of Stoke City Football Club. He has been listed as the 25th-richest person in British football. He founded Stadia Catering in the 1960s and Signal Radio in 1983. |
Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved) is an International Labour Organization Convention. |
Lori Cullen is a Canadian pop and jazz singer-songwriter. She has released seven albums as a solo artist, has collaborated with other artists as a guest musician, and is a Juno Award nominee. |
Robert Thomas Cross (born 15 May 1850 in Worstead, d. 1923) was a British astrologer. |
Michael Mallory (born 1955) is a writer on the subjects of animation and post-war pop culture, and the author of the books X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe, Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror The Science Fiction Universe and Beyond, and Essential Horror Movies. As an animation and film historian ... |
Miranda Hobbes is a fictional character on the American HBO television series Sex and the City, its subsequent film spinoffs, and HBO Max revival And Just Like That.... She is played by actress Cynthia Nixon. Nixon received an Emmy Award and has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance. |
Mathilda wanted to learn the language of her forefathers. She watched a lot of Spanish TV after school to learn the language. She also visited her grandma to practice with her. When she was fluent, she took a trip to Mexico. And she visited the place where her ancestors had come from. |
Vivian arrived at the beach very late. The sunset had attracted a lot of people. She joined them and saw the sun disappear. When everyone left, she went for a swim. And then, she saw the moon climb in the sky where it shined. |
Dan loved music from the 80's, especially rap music. His favorite rap song from the 80's was 2 Legit 2 Quit. Dan loved hearing the song, and dancing to the song as well. In addition, Dan was a proud owner of the infamous hammer pants too. Dan laughed at his memories of music from the 80's. |
Levitan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
The Eight honors and Eight Shames () also known as the Eight honors and Disgraces, is a set of moral concepts developed by former General Secretary Hu Jintao for the citizens of the People's Republic of China. It is also known as Eight Virtues and Shames, or Hu Jintao's Eight-Step Programme. Its formal name in China is... |
Sir John Leslie Martin (17 August 1908, in Manchester – 28 July 2000) was an English architect, and a leading advocate of the International Style. Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall. His work was especially influenced by Alvar Aalto. |
The Xpress 3200 is a revision of the Xpress 200 computer chipset released by ATI. The chipset supports AMD64 processors for Socket 939 and Socket AM2. |
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is a Polish-American scholarly institution headquartered in Manhattan (New York City), at 208 East 30th Street. |
The Crémerie-Restaurant Polidor is a historic restaurant in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Its predecessor was founded in 1845, and it has had its present name since the beginning of the 20th century. The interior of the restaurant is basically unchanged for over 100 years, and the style of cooking remains that of th... |
Ethan always dreamed of flying in the sky. As he was colorblind, he couldn't fly a plane. It made him sad every time he saw birds fly. His girlfriend who could feel his pain offered him a gift. She took him parasailing and finally he could fly. |
A dynamite roll is a Makizushi type of Western-style sushi. It usually contains a piece of shrimp tempura, avocado, and cucumber. It can also include proteins like salmon, crab, tuna, hamachi/yellowtail, vegetables like radish sprouts or oshinko, and garnishes like masago/tobiko (fish roe). It is combined together w... |
Shi Hui (165–227 CE), also known by his Vietnamese name Sĩ Huy, was an official of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. |
alt.news 26:46 is a student-run television program from the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale that airs on the University's PBS member station, WSIU. This half hour magazine-style TV program has won national acclaim by capturing thirty-one regional and national awards... |
Route 265 is a two-lane north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its northern terminus is in Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is at the junction of Route 165 in Plessisville. It used to continue up to Black Lake (now part... |
WMPH (91.7 FM, "Super 91.7") is Delaware's first high school radio station, located in Wilmington. The Brandywine School District Board of Education owns the license granted by the FCC. The call letters WMPH stand for Mount Pleasant High and offered several program formats including Top 40, progressive rock, dance and ... |
The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. Network and All the President's Men were the two biggest winners of the ceremony with four Oscars ... |
Pierre de Jarric (1566 – 2 March 1617), also known as Pierre du Jarric, was a French Catholic missionary writer from Toulouse. |
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is a five-line poem by Randall Jarrell published in 1945. The poem is about the death of a gunner in a Sperry ball turret on a World War II American bomber aircraft. |
Tom met a girl he really liked. She was fun and full of energy. Upon meeting her again tom noticed she was acting way different. He realized she would be manic at times and depressed at others. She told him about her bipolar disorder and he understood. |
Matt was a basketball player. His team had their biggest game today. He got the ball several times. When it was his turn to shoot, he got nervous. Matt missed the net and lost the game. |
WNCY-FM (100.3 FM, "Y100") is an American commercial country music formatted radio station licensed to Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin, that serves the Green Bay and Appleton-Oshkosh areas. WNCY is owned and operated by Midwest Communications, which owns six other radio stations in Northeast Wisconsin. WNCY's studios are loc... |
A large tree fell in our back yard. It seemed safer to cut it the rest of the way down. My granddad used a chainsaw. The chainsaw was on the end of a pole. The trimming stabilized the other trees. |
Northowram () is a village lying north-east of the town of Halifax in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the north side of Shibden valley. Southowram stands on the southern side of the valley. |
Apator Toruń, historically KS Toruń, known also in the past as Unibax Toruń due to ownership changes, is a Polish motorcycle speedway team from Toruń. The team currently competes in the Ekstraliga (the highest division) and have won the Team Speedway Polish Championship four times (as of 2022). |
Pippa loved to collect dolls. As a young girl, her favourite doll was Barbie. She thought she lost this Barbie decades ago. After doing some DIY, Pippa spotted something underneath the floor. It was her Barbie doll covered in decades of dust. |
This is an alphabetical list of school districts in Missouri, sorted first by the state supervisors of instruction regions, the counties each region serves, and then alphabetically. |
Daisendorf is a village and a commune with about 1600 inhabitants in south-western Germany. It is part of the Bodensee district, which is part of the Land Baden-Württemberg. |
"Live Together, Die Alone" is the second season finale of the ABC television series Lost, consisting of the 23rd and 24th episodes of the second season. It is also the 48th and 49th episodes overall. The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and directed by Jack Bender. It first aired in the United St... |
Kate was forcing her friends to eat at the taco place. It was the only was she could see her crush. One day her friends refused to go with her. But after 2 weeks she was also tired of eating tacos. She decided she would wait a few weeks before returning. |
I bought a piece of comic page art from eBay. The item was sandwiched between cardboard. The sandwich was placed in a box packed with peanuts. The box was marked do not bend. I gave the seller five stars. |
Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women was a horticultural and agricultural college for women, near Studley in Warwickshire, England, which operated from 1898 until 1969. |
Roy Haynes is an American jazz drummer. |
Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969), was a 1969 United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that police officers arresting a person at his home could not search the entire home without a search warrant, but that police may search the area within immediate reach of the person without a warrant. The ru... |
Mir Ahmad Ali Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi, Nasir Jung, was the son of Nizam-ul-Mulk by his wife Saeed-un-nisa Begum. He was born 26 February 1712. He succeeded his father as the Nizam of Hyderabad State in 1748. He had taken up a title of Humayun Jah, Nizam ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Ahmad Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur, Nasir Jung, Naw... |
Papilio prexaspes, the blue Helen, is a swallowtail butterfly found in Southeast Asia. The race found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Papilio prexaspes andamanicus (earlier placed under Papilio fuscus), is also known as the Andaman Helen. |
Janet was going through chemo therapy. She lost a lot of hair because of it. Her friends chipped in to buy her a fancy wig. Janet really liked the style and was grateful. Her friends were happy to see her smile. |
A wood waste burner, known as a teepee burner or wigwam burner in the United States and a beehive burner in Canada, is a free-standing conical steel structure usually ranging from 30 to 60 feet in height. They are named for their resemblance to beehives, teepees or wigwams. A sawdust burner is cylindrical. They have an... |
Mrs Brawner was a cruel teacher. She was very abusive to the kids. One of the girls in my class was always in trouble. She grabbed her pigtails and yanked them hard. She threatened her if she told anyone. |
Baale of Judah, meaning "lords of Judah" or "citizens of Judah" was a city in the tribe of Judah from which David brought the ark into Jerusalem. In 1 Chronicles 13:6, the city is called Kirjath-jearim. According to Wilhelm Gesenius, the town of Baale of Judah is referred to not only as Kirjath-Jearim but also as Baa... |
The Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries. This Kannadiga dynasty is sometimes called the Kalyani Chalukya after its regal capital at Kalyani, today's Basavakalyan in the modern Bidar District of Karnataka state, and alternatively the Later Chalukya f... |
The regions of the Netherlands provides links to both regions and subregions of the Netherlands. |
Pat saw an ad for a talent show. He thought of what he could do. He practiced a song. He brought his guitar. He performed it to a happy crowd. |
Blue Veins is based in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is a women's health advocacy group that has dedicated itself to providing medical information to poor and rural women in Pakistan. Blue Veins is involved in helping women secure their rights and to be able to contribute to peaceful resolutions of confli... |
Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny (1868–1918) was a French selenographer. |
Gary John Ballman (July 6, 1940 – May 20, 2004) was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). Ballman starred at Michigan State before playing halfback and wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1962 to 1966, making the Pro Bowl the final two seasons. He is among the team’s car... |
Some kids were playing by the creek. One found a large stone tablet in the riverbed. They cleaned it up and took it home. One kid's dad said that it looked like an antique. They took it to their history teacher to find out. |
ݫ (Unicode name: Arabic Letter Reh With Two Dots Vertically Above) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from rāʾ (ر) with the addition of two dots above the letter. It is not used in the Arabic alphabet itself, but is used in Ormuri to represent a voiced alveolo-palatal fricative, ), as well as in Torw... |
The Southern Congregational Methodist Church (SCMC) is a Methodist denomination within the Wesleyan-Holiness movement of Christianity. It reported 29 churches located in the Southern United States as of 2007. |
Ace Books have published hundreds of science fiction titles, starting in 1953. Many of these were Ace Doubles (dos-a-dos format), but they also published many single volumes. Between 1953 and 1968, the books had a letter-series identifier; after that date they were given five-digit numeric serial numbers. There were... |
Padam is a sub-tribe of the Adi tribe of Abotani clan which speaks one of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Padam makes up 30–35% of the Adis and are the strongest sub-tribe of the Adis. They were a nomadic warrior race and used to had a reputation as fierce warrior by pre colonial period, they are believed to have migrated ... |
Stephen Michael Ross (born May 10, 1940) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and sports team owner. Ross is the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, a global real estate development firm he founded in 1972. Related is best known for developing the Deutsche Bank Center, where Ross live... |
Cardenden railway station is a railway station in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, north of . It opened to traffic in 1848, on the Dunfermline Branch of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway. |
The Juno Awards of 2007 were hosted in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on the weekend ending 1 April 2007. These ceremonies honoured music industry achievements in Canada during most of 2006. The event was well known for a possible tape delay by the CTV television network so the network could syndicate The Amazing Race... |
Labour CND (Lab CND) is a 'Specialist Section' of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, specifically relating to CND-supporting members the Labour Party. |
Lucy was searching on YouTube. She found a great song. She listened to it all day. Lucy loved it. She wanted to buy the album. |
"Flesh and Bone" is the eighth episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. |
Talence (, ; , ; , ) is a commune in the Gironde department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. |
Bigadiç is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,108 km2, and its population is 48,917 (2022). As former Ancient bishopric of Achyraus, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see. |
Stabilisation Tracking Mechanism is the mirror instrument of the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP) for Kosovo. Kosovo, a disputed province of Serbia under international administration that in 2008 unilaterally declared independence and received partial recognition, still not having a final status, was not abl... |
My friends took a ferry to Nova Scotia. They went to tell people about Jesus. They said that the people had heard of God. But they had never heard about Jesus. Bad weather prevented a second trip there. |
Molly was taking a vacation. Her family was planning a vacation at the same time. Molly and her family decided to plan their vacation together. They rented a big house on the beach. It was cheaper than taking separate vacations. |
Tom loved baseball. He was taken to a game for his birthday. It started to rain. The game was cancelled. Tom still enjoyed the part he watched. |
Jerry likes to race. Jerry challenges his friend to a race. Jerry tells his friend he is going to lose so bad. The race begins and Jerry is beaten badly. Jerry is not as fast as he thought. |
Sorapong Chatree (; born Pittaya Tiamswate; 8 December 1950 – 10 March 2022) was a Thai film actor. He had frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao. |
Tommy got the phone call that no one ever wants to get. He was told that his father was involved in a serious car accident. Tommy rushed to the hospital to see how his father was doing. The doctor told Tommy that the emergency surgery was successful. Tommy visited his dad every day for a week before taking him home. |
Cassie was reporting live on TV. She addressed several climate problems in the northeast. A bird flew behind her. It smashed the camera that was recording. As a result, there was a short delay on TV. |
Ben was excited to get baptized. He went to the preacher to ask. He was the only one to get baptized that day. He went under the water. He wanted to show people he was a Christ follower. |
Elections to Brentwood Borough Council were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election, all seats last being elected in 2002 following boundary changes. The Conservative Party took control of the council. |
Jan has a test in the morning. She decided to pull an all nighter to study. When she got to class, she was sleepy as could be. Luckily, her teacher postponed the test. Jennifer could not have been happier. |
Velvet Empire was a Canadian pop music group that was formed through the second edition of the Global TV show Popstars, entitled "Boy Meets Girl". The group was formed in Spring 2002. They recorded their first and only album in Toronto at Metalworks Recording Studio. |
The Goal of the Year in Germany is, like the Goal of the Month (Tor des Monats), the Goal of the Decade and Goal of the Century, an individual football award selected by spectators of the Sportschau (ARD German TV), among spectacular or important football goals scored in or for Germany. |
Maxdorf is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 11 km west of Ludwigshafen. |
Lummi (Xwlemi Chosen, ) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish language traditionally spoken by the Lummi people of northwest Washington, in the United States. Although traditionally referred to as a language, it is mutually intelligible with the other dialects of North Straits. |
Pietro Crinito (22 May 1474 – 5 July 1507), known as Crinitus, or Pietro Del Riccio Baldi (derived from Riccio, 'curly', translated into Latin as crinitus), was a Florentine humanist scholar and poet who was a disciple of Poliziano. |
Thomas Creighton was a prospector who found mineral deposits in Saskatchewan. |
"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" is the 69th episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos, and the fourth of the show's sixth season. Written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, and directed by Alan Taylor, it originally aired on April 2, 2006. |
"Chocolate" is the fifth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on November 25, 2005. It was directed by Mick Garris and based on his short story. |
A police officer stopped Cleveland in the middle of the street. Although he was only caught for speeding, the officer attacked him. He also used pepper spray on his eyes. Cleveland was irritated and filed several charges. The police officer lost his job. |
In Socks Mode is the debut album by American band The Visible Men, released in 2002 on Leisure King Productions. |
Mcluskyism is the final release by Welsh rock band Mclusky. A singles and rarities package, it is released in two formats, a one disc singles only package, and a three disc format. On April 18, 2015 it was released as a one disc vinyl edition that was limited to 2000 pressings. |
Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery, illness, and death. Similar ... |
Henry Archer (1799 – 2 March 1863) was the son of an Irish landowner. He attended Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar and spent most of his time between North Wales and London. |
My son and I have been planning a camping trip for sometime. We got a new tent and new sleeping bags and are ready. The weather is supposed to be perfect this weekend for camping. We started packing today and made a grocery list. 1 more day of work and we will be out, under the stars. |
Evan Michael Tanner, or simply Tanner, is a fictional character created by American author Lawrence Block. Tanner appears in eight novels. Seven of those were published in the 5-year period 1966–1970; the eighth appeared in 1986 after a 28-year gap. |
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