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Joshua John Watson (born 31 July 1977) is an Australian backstroke swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. |
Tasia Valenza is an American actress. She is most known for her various roles in the Star Wars Universe. |
Durağan is a town in Sinop Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is the seat of Durağan District. Its population is 7,494 (2022). |
Barat College of the Sacred Heart was a small Catholic college located in Lake Forest, Illinois, north of Chicago. The college was named after Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart. |
Tim's neighbors had an ugly dog. Nobody like to play with it. Tim felt bad for it. He would play with it often. They became good friends after a while. |
Charles was flying home for the first time ever. He was extremely nervous as the plane took off. Luckily his seat-mate noticed and offered some words of comfort. Soon the two were chatting which distracted Charles from his fear. Luckily in no time the flight was safely completed. |
Blue Is the Colour is a terrace chant associated with Chelsea Football Club. It was performed by players from the Chelsea squad and released in 1972 to coincide with the club's ultimately unsuccessful appearance in that year's League Cup Final against Stoke City. The record was issued by Penny Farthing Records and reac... |
Charles William Mumy Jr. (; born February 1, 1954) is an American actor, writer, and musician and a figure in the science-fiction community/comic book fandom. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor whose work included television appearances on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchc... |
George John Shaw Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley (12 June 1831 – 19 April 1928) was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board. |
The Burnaby Eagles is an Australian Rules Football team playing in the British Columbia Australian Football League, plus various tournaments held in Western Canada and North-West United States. The club fields both a Mens and a Womens team. |
Graham Arthur Charlton Bell (born 3 March 1949) is a British academic, writer, and evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of sexual reproduction and the maintenance of variation. He developed the "tangled bank" theory of evolutionary genetics after observing the asexual and sexual behaviour patterns o... |
Gothelo II (also Gozelo) (1008–1046), variously called the Coward, the Sluggard, the Indolent, or the Lazy (Latin ignavus), has been often said to be Duke of Lower Lorraine after the death of his father Gothelo I, Duke of both Lower and Upper Lorraine (1044) until his own death in 1046. |
Fuzön ( – literal English pronunciation: "fusion") is a pop rock band from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan formed in 2001. The name was derived from fusion, as the former lead vocalist of the band, Shafqat Amanat Ali describes the band as a fusion of Hindustani classical and modern soft rock music blended with the Sufi Style ... |
Janice jumped on the chopper, ready to feel the wind in her hair. Pulling her phone out, she entered the coordinates in the GPS. The familiar voice instructed her to begin her route. Janice revved the engine of the motorcycle. With a final glance behind her, she took off on the open road. |
Cedros is a coastal area that lies on a peninsula at the South-Western end of the island of Trinidad. Named by Spanish sailors due to the once heavy presence of cedar trees, it is located at the tip of the peninsula which lies mere miles off the coast of Venezuela and is the most southern point in the Caribbean. The ma... |
John Astbury (1688–1743) was an English potter credited with innovations and improvements in earthenware associated with Staffordshire figures. |
ITV News Anglia is a British television news service for the East of England, broadcast and produced by ITV Anglia. |
Catherine, Called Birdy is the first children's novel by Karen Cushman. It is a historical novel in diary format, set in 13th-century England. It was published in 1994, and won a Newbery Honor and Golden Kite Award in 1995. |
It was the start of a new school year. We had to go and get our books. This year books was actually new. You can tell the books was updated. The books had that new book smell to it. |
Wonder boy or Wonderboy may refer to: |
Floyd Cooper is a former official in the Canadian Football League, originally from Burlington, Ontario. |
The 20th edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games was held in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The tournament began on July 15 and ended on July 30. |
The West London Methodist Mission was established in 1887 under the leadership of Hugh Price Hughes, a leading voice in Methodism and in Non-Conformity, and has a long track record as a Methodist ministry and as a spiritual home for "good works". Its early days are very much associated with its founder, Price Hughes, a... |
"The Alliance" is the fourth episode of the first season of the American comedy television series The Office. The episode aired on NBC in the United States on April 12, 2005. It was written by Michael Schur and directed by Bryan Gordon, marking their first credits for the show. |
Every morning Ernie reads the newspaper. This was his routine every morning. The paper wasn't at his front door like it always is. He decided to look outside. To his surprise, the neighbors dog had stole the newspaper. |
The New India Assurance Co. Ltd., is an Indian public sector general insurance company based in Mumbai. It is the largest nationalised general insurance company of India on the basis of gross premium collection inclusive of foreign operations. It was founded by Sir Dorabji Tata in 1919, and was nationalised in 1973. |
In mathematics and physics, the spectral asymmetry is the asymmetry in the distribution of the spectrum of eigenvalues of an operator. In mathematics, the spectral asymmetry arises in the study of elliptic operators on compact manifolds, and is given a deep meaning by the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. In physics, it ha... |
In the United States, a Class II railroad, sometimes referred to as a regional railroad, is a railroad company that is not Class I, but still has a substantial amount of traffic or trackage (and is thus not a short line). The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has defined the lower bound as of track or $40 millio... |
Antelope Mine is a village in the Kezi district of the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe. It is located about 114 km south of Bulawayo and 14 km south of Kezi. The village was established in an area once rich in wildlife and was named after a gold mine which started operating in 1913 but closed in 1919. The mine... |
Ho-401 was a Japanese aircraft autocannon that saw limited, if any, use during World War II. It was a large-caliber version of the 37 mm Ho-203 cannon. The cannon was used on the ground attack aircraft, Kawasaki Ki-102. |
Tim was an amateur wrestler. He was in a competition. Another guy beat him easily. Tim complained about the other guy's weight. He was in the wrong class by accident. |
Sarraméa is a landlocked commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It and neighbouring Farino are the only two communes on the island that do not border the sea. With a population of (rounded by the nearest hundred) 500, Sarraméa is the least populous commune ... |
Upham is an inhabited, unincorporated community and place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It has gained recognition for being near the site for the Spaceport America facility being developed by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. This will be Virgin Galactic's world headquarters and mission control locatio... |
The customer walked into the grand opening of a store. The new store had a huge variety of products. While browsing through the store the customer purchased many items. The customer fell in love with the new store. He decided to apply for a job there to be there more often. |
Turnu Roșu Pass (, , , , all of these names meaning Red Tower Pass in the respective languages) is a mountain pass in the Romanian Carpathians, connecting Vâlcea County (Wallachia) and Sibiu County (Transylvania). It is formed by the Olt River flowing southwards from Transylvania to Wallachia through the Southern Carpa... |
The round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum) is a freshwater species of fish that is found in lakes from Alaska to New England, including the Great Lakes. It has an olive-brown back with light silvery sides and underside and its length is generally between . They are bottom feeders, feeding mostly on invertebrates, s... |
Tim needed to buy something at the store. He got there fifteen minutes before they were supposed to close. He tried to go in but the doors were already locked. He wasn't able to get anyone's attention to open up. The next day he called the store to complain to management. |
Oradea Transport Local S.A. () or simply OTL is the municipality-owned public transport company in Oradea. It is one of the successors of the communist-era state-owned transport company, "Intreprinderea Judeţeană de Transport Local" Bihor, or IJTL. |
Brookfield is a rural residential suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Brookfield had a population of 3,640 people. |
I went to a japanese steakhouse for the first time. I sat in front of the cook. He was flinging knives and igniting fire. The entire show was beautiful but made me nervous. I really enjoyed the experience. |
Campbelltown Blues Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Sydney AFL and based out of the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Fields, New South Wales. |
Randy Hahn (born October 21, 1958) is a Canadian-American play-by-play commentator for the San Jose Sharks on NBC Sports California, and has held that position for over 30 seasons. He has over 40 years of broadcast experience, mostly in hockey. He broadcast his 2,000th Sharks game on December 13th, 2022, when the Shark... |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in October 1999 and is still in print. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story, "The Call of Cthulhu". |
Holy Family High School in Broomfield, Colorado, is a Roman Catholic college-preparatory high school located in the technology corridor between Denver and Boulder. The school is operated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver. |
David Adam (1936 – 24 January 2020) was a British Anglican priest and writer. |
Martin Sean Indyk (born July 1, 1951) is an American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East. He was a distinguished fellow in International Diplomacy and later executive vice president at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C from 2001-2018. He took leave from the Brookings Inst... |
Wipeout 3 is a futuristic racing video game developed by Psygnosis exclusively for the PlayStation. The title is the fourth game in the Wipeout series, and was released in Europe and North America in September 1999. Players control anti-gravity ships and use weapons to force other contenders out of the race. |
A woman walked into the store and demanded the clerk's help. She complained about selection and moaned about prices. The woman demanded to talk to the owner of the store. The owner of the store smiled and listened as the woman complained. The owner then politely asked the woman to leave and not return. |
The Ninth Council of Toledo was a provincial synod of bishops of Carthaginiensis. It began on 2 November 655 under the auspices of King Reccesuinth. It ended on November 24 in the Church of Santa María. |
Shantung Street () is a street in Mong Kok, Kowloon in Hong Kong. It spans from Ferry Street in the west to Yim Po Fong Street in the east. |
My cousin works at a big hotel in NYC. She has a 24 year old daughter, K, who is not working. She tried to get K a job in the hotel. K refused to apply, saying she would surely fail the drug test. K is an avid pot smoker. |
The Clemson–South Carolina football brawl, also known as The Brawl, was an on-field altercation during an NCAA game between football players from the University of South Carolina and Clemson University. The incident took place on November 20, 2004 at the Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. This disturbance led... |
Rollin' with the Nines is a 2006 British film set mainly in South London, about a rap group turned drug dealers. The working film title was Proper Little Charlie. The film stars Vas Blackwood, Robbie Gee, Mark Smith (Gladiator), Simon Webbe and Billy Murray. Small appearances are made by Jason Flemyng, Dizzee Rascal, ... |
Synod of Homberg consisted of the clergy, the nobility, and the representatives of cities, and was held October 20–22, 1526. The synod is remarkable for a premature scheme of democratic church government and discipline, which failed for the time, but contained fruitful germs for the future and for other countries. It w... |
This is a timeline of web browsers from 1990 to the present. Prior to browsers, many technologies and systems existed for information viewing and transmission. For an in-depth history of earlier web browsers, see the web browser article. |
The men's javelin throw was one of six throwing events on the Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme in London. The javelin was required to be held in the middle. The competition was held on 17 July 1908. 16 throwers from six nations competed. NOCs could enter up to 12 athletes. |
Tom was walking home. It was a bit uphill and had recently rained. Tom slipped on a slick area and tumbled down. Tom tried to walk up again and kept slipping. Eventually he took a different route up. |
The Hsuehshan Tunnel () is the longest tunnel in Taiwan, located on the National Freeway 5. It opened on June 16, 2006. |
The Anthi Karagianni Municipal Stadium (), formerly the Kavala National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kavala, Greece. It is the homebase of Kavala F.C. The stadium was built 1970, and currently has a seating capacity of 10,550. It is named after the paralympic athlete, Anthi Karagianni, who won three silver ... |
Michael had his high school reunion scheduled one night. He was very nervous but he decided to try to have fun. At first he wasn't having fun, but then he ran into an old friend. The two struck up a conversation and hung out all night. Michael ended up inviting her out for a date, so he was glad he came. |
Baban () was a Kurdish principality existing from the 16th century to 1850, centered around Sulaymaniyah. The Baban principality played an active role in the Ottoman-Safavid conflict and gave significant military support to the Ottomans. They were in constant rivalry with Ardalan, Bohtan and Soran and its territory wou... |
Stickin' Around is a Canadian animated children's television series produced by Nelvana and created by Robin Steele and Brianne Leary. The series originally aired from August 14, 1996, until April 13, 1998. Stickin' Around, originating as a series of one-minute interstitials on CBS in 1994, centered on two best friends... |
Heidi Zeller-Bähler (born 25 July 1967) is a former Swiss alpine skier. |
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP; ) is a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). It operates large nuclear and hydroelectric plants in South Korea, which are responsible for about 27 percent of the country's electric power. |
The Alice series is a young adult book series written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, consisting of 25 books and three prequels, and it has been frequently challenged, as documented in the American Library Association's lists of the 100 most frequently challenged books from 1990 to 2019. The main character is Alice McKinle... |
Our Delaware is a poem written by George Beswick Hynson, published in 1904. It comprises three verses, each honoring one of Delaware's three counties, with the fourth verse added by Donn Devine commemorating the American Revolution Bicentennial in 1976. It became the state song in 1925 by an act of the General Assembl... |
Alice Beatrice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress. |
Dover City Schools is a school district in Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. |
During my Junior year of college I felt very purposeless. Each day, I felt less and less like I was meant to be in college. One night as I was doing a project, something caught my attention. It was the description for a discipleship school in South Africa. I dropped all of my classes and went to South Africa for three ... |
Chang Tai-shan (; Amis name Ati Masaw; born 31 October 1976 in Taitung, Taiwan), is a Taiwanese former professional baseball player. |
Bojan Adamič a.k.a. Master (; 9 August 1912 – 3 November 1995), Slovene Partisans nom de guerre Gregor, was a well-known Slovene composer of jazz, the Slovenian song festival music, and particularly film scores. He was also an avid photographer, interested particularly in carnival figures from Ptuj. |
Selkirk College is a public community college founded in 1966, with its main campus in Castlegar BC. The college has student housing at its Castlegar and Nelson campuses. Students frequently struggle to find accommodation. The college has seen shrinking enrolment for the past seven years, dropping from 1,987 studen... |
Shortbus is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in an early 2000s New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspir... |
My great grandmother was sick. It depressed me to sit at her house. My grandmother drove me to a nearby park. For a moment I forgot about everything. Then we drove back to the house. |
The following are the association football events of the year 1955 throughout the world. |
Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), is a civil case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that, under the Fourth Amendment, when a law enforcement officer is pursuing a fleeing suspect, the officer may not use deadly force to prevent escape unless "the officer has probable cause to believe that the s... |
Douglas Morley Kirkland (August 16, 1934 – October 2, 2022) was a Canadian-born American photographer. He was noted for his photographs of celebrities, especially the ones he took of Marilyn Monroe several months before her death. |
Swedish military bicycles (), or Swedish army bicycles, have been used in the Swedish military for over a century. |
Helio, Inc. (stylized as HΞLIO) is a former, mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) using Sprint's network that offered wireless voice, messaging and data products and services to customers in the continental United States beginning on May 2, 2006. Originally a 50/50 joint venture founded in January, 2005 between South... |
Jane won a free cruise. She had never been on one before. She was excited throughout the whole trip. It was one of her best experiences. Jane decided to book another one. |
West Bay Centre is a small community on the Western coast of Newfoundland. The population is about 300. |
Gameleira de Goiás is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. The population in 2020 was 3,880 in a total area of 595 square kilometers. |
"What's Left of Me" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Nick Lachey. It was released on February 21, 2006, as the lead single from his second album, What's Left of Me. To date, it is Lachey's most successful single as a solo artist, reaching number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. |
Bonamargy Friary is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, off the Cushendall Road on the approach to Ballycastle. The name Bonamargy means ‘foot of the Margy River’, the river formed by the joining of the Cary River and Shesk Rivers. |
Jodie was a very active person. She was feeling short of breath lately. She scheduled an appointment on Monday to see a doctor. Jodie couldn't wait until Monday and called an ambulance. Jodie luckily survived a blood clot in her lungs. |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA), a paramilitary group seeking to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and unify Ireland, shared intelligence with the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. |
Jamawar, or grown piece, is a special type of shawl made in Kashmir, India. "Jama" means robe and "war/var" is chest and metaphorically body. The best quality of Jamawar is built with Pashmina. The brocaded parts are woven in similar threads of silk or polyester. Most of the designs seen today are floral, with the kair... |
Pendekanti Law College was founded in 1991 by Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah, former Governor to the state of Bihar and Karnataka. It is affiliated with Osmania University, India's 7th oldest university (1918). The school initially occupied a three-floor building in Himayatnagar. |
The Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) was a publicly funded body in the United Kingdom that supported further education in England. At the end of March 2006 its functions were divided into the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) and its trading subsidiary, Inspire Lear... |
Cardiovascular physiology is the study of the cardiovascular system, specifically addressing the physiology of the heart ("cardio") and blood vessels ("vascular"). |
Nicolls is a surname, and may refer to |
Karen was going to a concert. She drove to the auditorium. Karen stood in line with all the other people. She showed her ticket to the man at the door. Karen walked in and found her seat in the arena. |
Tony was lifting weights. He dropped the weight on his toe. Tony screamed in pain. He took off his toe. Tony's toe was purple and swollen. |
Todd wondered why he kept having the same negative repeating thoughts. He questioned if he was a bad person because of the thoughts. He went to go see a therapist who told him about OCD. He learned various techniques in combating the disorder. Since then, his OCD is very manageable. |
Sündersbühl station is a Nuremberg U-Bahn station, located on the U3. |
Jess needed new clothes. She told her mom. They went on a shopping spree. Jess was able to get new outfits. She was glad her mom took her. |
Kin Beach Provincial Park is a Class C provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located just northwest of Kye Bay, to the north of Comox, British Columbia. As a Class "C" park, it is managed locally by a park board. |
Todd was mowing his lawn. His neighbors had been out of town for a week. Todd noticed their lawn was getting long. Todd decided to mow his neighbor's' lawn. His neighbors were very grateful when they returned. |
Louis Albert Necker de Saussure FRSE MWS FGS (10 April 1786 – 20 November 1861) was a Swiss crystallographer and geographer. |
Paradise is a 2006 adventure game by White Birds Productions, a company formed by Benoît Sokal, based on a novel by Sokal. |
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