text
stringlengths
32
2.45k
The Westfield Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Westfield, in Union County, New Jersey, United States.
Dynamic Airlines was a small Dutch charter airline for business, medical and rapid small cargo flights and was founded in 1980, operating mainly from Rotterdam Airport. Their callsign was DYNAMIC, formerly DYNAMITE. In 2006, the airline ceased all operations.
Mindia Matidia, also known as Matidia Minor (Minor being Latin for the younger, 85 – after 161) was a Roman imperial woman in the early second century AD. She was related to several ancient Roman Emperors, as a great-niece to Trajan and half-sister to Vibia Sabina, who was the wife of Hadrian. The modern village of Mat...
Josh grew some vegetables in his backyard. The corn was ready to harvest. He pulled the ears off and brought them inside. He grilled them and put butter on them. The corn was delicious!
al-Khansa was a 7th-century female Arabic poet.
Crew Space Transportation System (CSTS), or Advanced Crew Transportation System (ACTS), was a proposed design for a crewed spacecraft for low Earth orbit operations such as servicing the International Space Station, but also capable of exploration of the Moon and beyond. It was originally a joint project between the Eu...
Koichi was excited to go to Italy. He hoped to see some interesting sights. His luggage was stolen as soon as he arrived in the city! Koichi had to come home early. He was very embarrassed!
Club Atlético Cerro, usually known simply as Cerro, is a Uruguayan professional football club based in Montevideo that currently plays in the Uruguayan Primera División. Founded in 1922, the club plays its home games at Estadio Luis Tróccoli.
Adan bought two dogs or the same breed, a male and a female. They ended up having a litter of puppies. Adam couldn't manage all these dogs alone. He put the puppies up for sale. He found all the puppies great homes and made thousands of dollars.
Dustin Schlatter is an American former folkstyle wrestler. He won the 2006 NCAA wrestling title and was a three-time NCAA All-American at 149 pounds for the University of Minnesota. As a high school wrestler, Schlatter was a NHSCA Senior national title, USA Wrestling Junior and Cadet national titles in freestyle and Gr...
This is an article about Mike Duvall, the major league baseball pitcher. For the former California State Assemblyman, see Michael D. Duvall
Yvonne Jeffries (previously Gregory) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was portrayed by Alison Quigan in a guest stint in 2004, before returning in a regular role the following year. She remained on the show until 2011 and returned as part of the shows 20th anniversary in May ...
God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (; lit. Knight of Gamblers II: Shanghai Beach's Saint of Gamblers) is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film, a sequel to God of Gamblers II (1990). The film is directed by Wong Jing, and stars Stephen Chow and Ng Man-tat. God of Gamblers III continues the story of the Saint of Gamblers (Cho...
The Pennsylvania State Game Lands (SGL) are lands managed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) for hunting, trapping, and fishing. These lands, often not usable for farming or development, are donated to the PGC or purchased by the PGC with hunting license money.
The All Nepal National free Students Union (Unified) () is a students organisation in Nepal. It is the students wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal).
The Battle of Broodseinde was fought on 4 October 1917 near Ypres in Belgium, at the east end of the Gheluvelt plateau, by the British Second and Fifth armies against the German 4th Army. The battle was the most successful Allied attack of the Third Battle of Ypres. Using bite-and-hold tactics, with objectives limited ...
Pleszew (; ) is a town in central Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 90 km southeast of Poznań. It is the capital of Pleszew County (powiat pleszewski). Population is 16,811 (2022).
Sound of Hope (SOH) is an international Chinese-language radio network. Along with New Tang Dynasty Television and The Epoch Times, it is part of a network of media organizations established by practitioners of the Falun Gong new religious movement. SOH serves the Chinese diaspora in US, Europe, Australia, Japan and So...
Record One is a recording studio complex in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally founded in 1979, the studio has been the site of numerous commercially successful and award-winning recordings. Since 2015, Record One has been under the ownership of Dr. Dre and his business partner Larry C...
Ashley had a sleepover at her house one night. They all told ghost stories after lights-out. None of them got scared because they were giggling too much. Then they went to sleep. They all had fun that night.
The Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District is a historic district in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It comprises the Lake McDonald Lodge and surrounding structures on the shores of Lake McDonald. It is centered on the main lodge, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, as well as ...
Brocket Hall is a neo-classical country house set in a large park at the western side of the urban area of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. The estate is equipped with two golf courses and seven smaller listed buildings, apart from the main house. The freehold on the estate is held by the 3rd Baron Brocket...
The Rural Municipality of Lumsden No. 189 (2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 6 and Division No. 2. It is located in the south-east portion of the province.
Søren Hansen (born 21 March 1974) is a Danish professional golfer.
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe. Cryp...
The 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Penn State winning the national championship. Coached by Joe Paterno, they defeated Miami (Fl) 14–10 in the Fiesta Bowl. This Fiesta Bowl was the first in the game's history to decide the national championship, launching it into the top tier of bowls.
Janet was serving an old couple on a Sunday. She did her best to give them good service. The couple seemed pleased with her. At the end of the meal they left a terrible tip. Janet never knew why.
Francesco Traini was an Italian painter who was documented as working from 1321 to ca 1365 in Pisa and Bologna.
Frank and Julia were walking by the river on a lovely sunny afternoon. They walked, hand in hand, falling deeper in love with every step. Suddenly, Julia stopped short and the color drained from her face. Turning to follow her line of vision, Frank saw it. A dead body was floating within a meter of where they stood.
The Schofield Equation is a method of estimating the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of adult men and women published in 1985.
Our 2 year old granddaughter went to her cousin's birthday party. He turned eight. They swam in the pool and had a Mario cake. Then they broke a pinata. Our granddaughter got some candy and was happy.
Di Naye Kapelye is a Hungarian klezmer music group. The band formed in Budapest in 1993, and perform frequently throughout Europe. Their lyrics are primarily in Yiddish and Hungarian.
Cavity Search Records is a record label in Portland, Oregon that was formed in 1992 by Christopher Cooper and Denny Swofford. It is known for producing debut records by Hazel, Heatmiser, The Helio Sequence, King Black Acid, Richmond Fontaine, Danny Barnes, Saul Conrad, Pete Krebs, Korgy, and Elliott Smith.
For schools of similar names, see Valley School (disambiguation)
Jules wanted to cook for her family. She decided to cook spaghetti. She bought all the ingredients. When she got home, she had forgotten the seasoning. Jules had to get creative but it all turned out great.
Anne Lucia Cornelia Maria ("Anneloes") Nieuwenhuizen (born 16 October 1963 in Bussum) is a former Dutch field hockey defender, who won the gold medal with the National Women's Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Accelerated Math is a daily, progress-monitoring software tool that monitors and manages mathematics skills practice, from preschool math through calculus. It is primarily used by primary and secondary schools, and it is published by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Currently, there are five versions: a desktop version and a...
Andrew Fois (born June 16, 1958) is an attorney who serves as the chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States since 2022. He served as the deputy attorney general for public safety in the Office of the Attorney General in Washington, D.C. from April 9, 2012 to March 2015. He was awarded the Edmund Rando...
Chaingang (sometimes listed as CHAINGANG) are a female-fronted punk/rock band from Sydney, Australia.
The Adelaide Superbasin (previously known as the Adelaide Geosyncline and Adelaide Rift Complex) is a major Neoproterozoic to middle Cambrian geological province in central and south-east South Australia, western New South Wales, and western Victoria.
Rafael Addison (born July 22, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and other leagues. He was listed at 6'7" and 215 lbs.
South.Point Tuggeranong (previously Tuggeranong Hyperdome) is a two-storey regional shopping centre located in Greenway, Australian Capital Territory, servicing the district of Tuggeranong.
Allie wanted to get a laser. She wanted it instead of shaving. So she purchased one. But it was painful. She didn't like it.
Syriatel () is a mobile network provider in Syria. It is one of the only two providers in Syria, the other being MTN Syria. In 2022 the Syrian telecommunications authority awarded the third telecom license to Wafa Telecom. It offers LTE with 150 Mb/s speeds, under the brand name Super Surf.
Harmony Islands Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Hotham Sound, which is a side-inlet of the lower reaches of Jervis Inlet, on that inlet's north side roughly opposite the mouth of Sechelt Inlet.
Kentucky Alleyne Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia. The park is located 38 kilometres south of Merritt, British Columbia.
The Declaration of Right, or Declaration of Rights, is a document produced by the English Parliament, following the 1688 Glorious Revolution. It sets out the wrongs committed by the exiled James II, the rights of English citizens, and the obligation of their monarch.
In standardization, a profile is a subset internal to a specification. Aspects of a complex technical specification may necessarily have more than one interpretation, and there are probably many optional features. These aspects constitute a profile of the standard. Two implementations engineered from the same descripti...
Devon Morris (born 22 January 1961) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He won this distance at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and his personal best time was 45.49 seconds, achieved during the 1987 World Championships. At the 1988 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal with t...
The Defense Nuclear Weapons School (DNWS) is housed on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is administered by the Combat Support Directorate of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The school teaches courses on Consequence Assessment, Hazard Prediction, Ordnance Disposal, and other WMD-related cours...
Stephen Hickman (April 9, 1949 – July 16, 2021) was an American artist, illustrator, sculptor, and author.
Frank was humiliated by Ron in tether ball the other day in school. Everyone laughed when Ron beat him. So the next day Frank challenged Ron again. At first it looked like Ron was going to win again. But Frank made came back to defeat Ron.
The Loves of Mars and Venus by John Weaver was arguably the first modern ballet, the first dance work to tell a story through dance, gesture and music alone. Its first performance was at London's Drury Lane Theatre on Saturday 2 March 1717.
All Saints Catholic College is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school situated in the North Kensington area of London, England.
The Women's 10,000 metres event featured at the 2005 World Championships in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The final was held on 6 August.
Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and several other cities in the People's Republic of China from 6 to 23 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23 teams to participate. Men's teams were allowed to augment their squad with thre...
The Aeronautics Act R.S. 1985, c. A-2 () is the legislation that governs civil aviation in Canada.
Bob went to the park. He saw the other boys playing basketball. Bob called out next to replace whichever team lost. He finally got onto the court. Bob then promptly broke his leg on the first play.
Esperanza is a city in the center of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It had about 36,000 inhabitants at the and it is the head town of the Las Colonias Department.
In comics, LGBT themes are a relatively new concept, as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) themes and characters were historically omitted from the content of comic books and their comic strip predecessors due to anti-gay censorship. LGBT existence was included only via innuendo, subtext and inference. Howe...
I was talking to my 78 year old neighbor Kyle today. Kyle showed me a Tile attached to his keys. He had recently lost his keys and his daughter bought the Tile. Kyle said he was afraid of getting dementia. I tried to cheer him up.
Tim forgot to put away his leftovers after dinner. And he noticed it in the morning. He didn't want to waste the food. But he became sick after eating it. Tim never forgot to put away leftovers again.
Tom's cat kept scratching itself. Tom realized it had fleas. He tried store medicine for it. It didn't work. Tom had to take it to a veterinarian.
Offensive realism is a structural theory in international relations that belongs to the neorealist school of thought and was put forward by the political scholar John Mearsheimer in response to defensive realism. Offensive realism holds that the anarchic nature of the international system is responsible for the promoti...
Will bought his wife a sweater for Christmas. She thanked him politely. Will thought he scored a homerun with that gift. Will's wife took the sweater to the store where it was bought. She exchanged it for a nice bottle of perfume!
Chi Centauri (χ Cen, χ Centauri) is a star in the constellation Centaurus.
Robert decided to take off of work to spend time with his family. His family was happy that he was around more. This put more strain on Robert's coworkers. Management perceived Robert to be lazy, and they fired him. Now Robert spends all day with his family.
Hofwil is a village in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, part of the municipality of Münchenbuchsee.
Erika Helga Ruth Böhm-Vitense (June 3, 1923 – January 21, 2017) was a German-born American astrophysicist known for her work on Cepheid variables and convection in stellar atmospheres.
Jay Mankita is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His original songs integrate elements of blues, bluegrass, ballads, ragtime, swing, and samba, and he also performs old standards. His work features humor and is often pointed politically, as in his 2004 release "They Lied", which is critical of the George W...
One day, my brother and I went for a walk in the woods. We heard a mewing sound behind one of the trees. We investigated and found a kitten there. The kitten was starving so we took it home to feed it. We decided to keep the kitten as a pet.
Birger Jarls torn (Swedish for Birger Jarl's Tower) is a defensive tower on the northwest corner of Riddarholmen, an islet in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm.
Hector's lanternfish (Lampanyctodes hectoris) is a lanternfish in the family Myctophidae, the only species in the genus Lampanyctodes. It is named after James Hector.
The lateral superior genicular artery is a branch of the popliteal artery that supplies a portion of the knee joint.
Robert Hopkins Hatton (November 2, 1826 – May 31, 1862) was a lawyer and politician from Tennessee. He was a state legislator and US Representative, and a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
The W45 was a multipurpose American nuclear warhead developed in the early 1960s, first built in 1962 and fielded in some applications until 1988. It had a diameter of , a length of and weighed . The yields of different W45 versions were 0.5, 1, 5, 8, 10, and 15 kilotons. The W45 was designed at the Livermore branch o...
Juninho, Portuguese for "little Junior", is a common nickname in Brazil for those whose full name includes Júnior. It is often combined with an epithet, sometimes a demonym (a word derived from their place of origin). The following football players are known by some derivation of the name:
I saw a huge bug in my room. I screamed as I ran down the hallway. I got a spoon to throw at the bug. I looked for it everywhere. I then saw that the bug had climbed out of the window.
The couple had worked for ten years to save the money for a home. The hired a builder and broke ground. They oversaw each decision. The home came together beautifully. They moved in on their anniversary and were very happy.
George Thomas Shuba (December 13, 1924 – September 29, 2014) was an American professional baseball utility outfielder and left-handed pinch hitter in Major League Baseball who played seven seasons for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His seven seasons included three World Series as well as a World Series championship in 1955. He...
Electric Circus is a Canadian television program.
"I Get Along" is a song by the English rock band The Libertines, originally released as a B-side to their debut single "What a Waster" and later included as a final track on their debut album Up the Bracket. It was also released as a lead song on USA-only 5-track EP, featuring tracks from the band's various single rele...
Richard Thomas Marshall (born December 12, 1984) is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the second round (58th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Fresno State. Marshall also played for the Arizona Cardinals, Miami Dolphins, and San Diego Chargers...
Claribel Cone (1864–1929) and Etta Cone (1870–1949), collectively known as the Cone sisters, were active as American art collectors, world travelers, and socialites during the first part of the 20th century. Claribel trained as a physician and Etta as a pianist. Their social circle included Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso...
Mathias Erik Tjärnqvist (born April 15, 1979, in Umeå, Sweden) is a former professional ice hockey forward. His older brother, Daniel Tjärnqvist, was a defenceman for Djurgårdens IF. He currently serves as an assistant coach for Malmö Redhawks in the SHL.
glow is a Canadian beauty and health magazine founded in 2002 and published eight times a year.
The X-Files is an American sci-fi/drama television series that aired from 1993 until 2002.
Iddefjord ( or Idde Fjord; ); ) is a classic fjord with a narrow watercourse and steep natural formations on both sides. It runs along the Norwegian-Swedish border from the Singlefjord (). The Iddefjord separates the province of Bohuslän in the county of Västra Götaland in Sweden from the municipality of Halden in the ...
Thad Michael Matta (born July 11, 1967) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team. From 2004 to 2017, Matta led the Ohio State Buckeyes to five Big Ten Conference regular season championships (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012), four Big Ten tournament...
Midtown is an underground metro station in Atlanta, Georgia, serving the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) rail system. Located in Midtown Atlanta, 5,644 daily fares were collected at the gates as of 2013.
Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The series aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967.
The official soundtrack for The Prince of Egypt was released on November 17, 1998. It features songs and scoring from the film, as well as songs not used in the film. The album peaked at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Top Contemporary Christian chart, and No. 25 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Durham School of the Arts (DSA) is a secondary magnet school located in downtown Durham, North Carolina, United States, housing 1,890 students. Its focus is on the visual and performing arts.
William Redgrave (1903–1986) was a British sculptor. His major work The Event was mostly destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire.
Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,700 at the 2020 census and is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bridge 8, known locally as the Rexford Bridge, is a two-lane bridge crossing the Mohawk River (Erie Canal) northeast of the city of Schenectady in New York, United States. It carries New York State Route 146 (NY 146) from Schenectady County to Rexford, a hamlet in the Saratoga County town of Clifton Park. The bridge wa...
The mountains were a scene of unimaginable beauty. In fall everything the light touched shone with colors of the leaves. Riding down the road was like taking a trip into a painting. The leaves of the trees combined into a collage of loveliness. Every year the same beauty returned.
William Rockhill Nelson (March 7, 1841 – April 13, 1915) was an American real estate developer and co-founder of The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri. He donated his estate (and home) for the establishment of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
My wife buys six bananas at a time. She vows to eat them but never eats more than three. The others get brown and dumped. Last week I bought a blender and made smoothies. Now we use up all of the bananas.
The Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate, sometimes referred to as the Democratic Conference, is the formal organization of all senators who are part of the Democratic Party in the United States Senate. For the makeup of the 118th Congress, the caucus additionally includes three independent senators (Bernie Sa...