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When I was in 9th grade my Biology teacher was very relaxed. Every day he let people nap in his class if they were tired. He didn't mind that they slept as long as they got good grades. Eventually his students started doing badly on tests. After that happened he no longer allowed sleeping in his class! |
Kwan is a Finnish hip hop and pop music group from Helsinki. Most visible members of the band are the two vocalists Mariko (Mari Liisa Pajalahti) and Tidjan (Ossi Bah Tidiane). The band started as a hip hop act, but nowadays the songs contain more singing than rapping. |
Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF, Korean: 전주국제영화제, Hanja: 全州國際映畵祭) is an Asian film festival. It was launched in 2000 as a non-competitive film festival with partial competition. It introduces independent and experimental films to focus on the alternative course of contemporary film art. |
Peter Collinson (1 April 1936 – 16 December 1980) was a British film director probably best remembered for directing The Italian Job (1969). |
Michael Howard (born 1965) is a software security expert from Microsoft. He is the author of several computer security books, the most famous being Michael Howard is a frequent speaker at security-related conferences and frequently publishes articles on the subject. |
Plantsbrook School, (formerly Riland Bedford High School), is a secondary school with academy status located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. The school achieved an "Outstanding" Ofsted status once in 2012. The most recent rating was “Good” and the preceding one in which it was rated as REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT. T... |
Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, PC (NI), DL (22 November 1864 – 28 November 1944) was a Unionist member of the British House of Commons from Ireland and a Judge of Ireland, and subsequently of Northern Ireland. He was created a Baronet (of Moore Lodge, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) in 1932. |
The TV Land Awards was an American television awards ceremony that generally commemorated shows now off the air, rather than in current production as with the Emmys. Created by Executive Producer Michael Levitt, the awards were hosted and broadcast by the TV Land network from 2003–2012 and then returned to the air in 2... |
Semie Moseley (June 13, 1935 – August 7, 1992) was an American luthier and the founder of guitar manufacturer Mosrite. |
Kendall was getting ready for work. She noticed that her work bag had a very bad smell. She investigated and found an old orange. She remembered putting it in there weeks ago. When she threw it out the smell was immediately better. |
"Fighting in a Sack" is a song by American indie rock band The Shins, and is the sixth track on their second album Chutes Too Narrow. It was released as the second single from the album. |
The Ardmona Football Club is an Australian rules football club from the Goulburn Valley town of Ardmona, Victoria, Australia that plays in the Kyabram & District Football League. |
Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend is the debut mini-LP and the second extended play (EP) by American rock band Fall Out Boy. Recorded in two days around February to September 2002 on a low budget, the rushed schedule left the band discontent and ceasing to call it their debut album. Fall Out Boy's Evening... |
George Latimer (born 1935) was the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's capital city, from 1976 until 1990. A member of the DFL and a labor lawyer by profession, Latimer was known for his redevelopment of St. Paul's downtown core, serving as mayor during a period when St. Paul's population was declining somewhat... |
The discussion of the history of landscape architecture is a complex endeavor as it shares much of its history with that of landscape gardening and architecture, spanning the entirety of man's existence. However, it was not until relatively recent history that the term "landscape architecture" or even "landscape archi... |
Lee's wife annoyed him by talking all the time. In his culture divorce was considered very taboo. He beat his wife to give her a valid reason to leave him. He saved face but ended up in a nice quiet jail cell. Lee's brother took over his restaurant for him. |
Shanta Janardan Shelke (12 October 1922 – 6 June 2002) was an Indian poet and writer in the Marathi language. She was also a noted journalist and academic. Her work included song compositions, stories, translations, and children's literature. She presided over many literary gatherings. Some of her compositions were no... |
Crescent Bridge (also known as the Bridge 6) is a bridge over the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal. It is in Crescent, New York, a hamlet in the town of Halfmoon in southern Saratoga County on the northern side of the Mohawk River. The Crescent Bridge carries U.S Route 9 over the Mohawk River between the towns of Colo... |
Kaya and her dad went to play paintball one afternoon. They suited up and loaded their guns. Then they ran off to shoot and score! To her dad's surprise, Kaya won easily! She was very proud of her speed and great aim! |
The barred lambda ƛ, (in Unicode ), also called running man, is a modified letter of the Greek alphabet used in Americanist phonetic notation to transcribe . It was introduced in American Anthropologist in 1934: |
Making News is a television drama set in the world of journalism produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. |
The City Circle Line () or M3 is a loop line of the Copenhagen Metro. It has been claimed by COWI A/S that the City Circle Line is the largest construction project to have taken place in Copenhagen during the last 400 years. The network's total length is and has 17 stations. The line opened on 29 September 2019. |
Earl of Middleton was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created 1 October 1656 for army officer John Middleton, together with the subsidiary title Lord Clermont and Fettercairn, also in the Peerage of Scotland. In 1674, he was succeeded by his son, Charles, who served in political offices under Charles II an... |
John felt a rumble in his belly. He bought a sandwich. He ate the sandwich. He felt his belly with his hand. His belly felt full. |
is a racing video game developed by Nintendo and Monster Games and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It features malleable environments and tilt-based controls. The game was one of the Wii launch titles in North America. It is the third main game in the Excite series (following Excitebike and Excitebike 64) and the fi... |
James had a fear of flying. But his job required him to take a flight to another country. He talked to a therapist to help him get over his fear. But he knew it wasn't working. He decided to get drunk before boarding the plane. |
John Edgar (ca. 1750–1832) was an Illinois pioneer and politician. He was born in Ireland. In 1776, he was the commander of a British ship in the Great Lakes. He resigned from the British Navy rather than fight against the Americans. |
Sam had a test coming up on Friday. Sam did not study during the week. On Thursday night Sam started to study. When Friday came Sam was still not ready for his test. Sam did not do well on his test. |
Today I decided to go to the market. I went, wanting to buy some produce. When I got there I was greeted by a lovely salesperson. She helped me pick out my produce. I left the market happy. |
The Minor Party, or Amosites, was a Christian group in Bohemia that split from the Unity of the Brethren during the late 1490s. Its members saw themselves as adhering to the original beliefs of the Unity. |
Hank was very insecure and would read into his girlfriend's actions. He began to suspect that she was keeping secrets and sneaking around. This bugged him until he couldn't take it and went on her computer. He found emails about clandestine meetings so he confronted her. She was planning a surprise for him, but felt vi... |
U.S. Route 25W (US 25W) is the western branch of U.S. Route 25 from Newport, Tennessee, where US 25 splits into US 25E and US 25W, to North Corbin, Kentucky, where the two highways rejoin. |
Elizabeth Klarer (née Woollatt; 1 July 1910 – 9 February 1994) was a South African woman who, starting in 1956, publicly claimed to have been contacted by aliens multiple times between 1954 and 1963. Klarer's first visitation supposedly occurred when she was seven and she was one of the first women to claim a sexual re... |
Potassium persulfate is the inorganic compound with the formula K2S2O8. Also known as potassium peroxydisulfate, it is a white solid that is sparingly soluble in cold water, but dissolves better in warm water. This salt is a powerful oxidant, commonly used to initiate polymerizations. |
Sachsenhagen () is a town in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 9 km northeast of Stadthagen, and 33 km west of Hanover. |
American Overseas Airlines (AOA) was an airline that operated between the United States and Europe between 1945 and 1950. It was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. |
The Schomburgk's deer (Rucervus schomburgki) is an extinct species of deer once endemic to central Thailand. It was described by Edward Blyth in 1863 and named after Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, who was the British consul in Bangkok from 1857 to 1864. It is thought to have gone extinct by 1938, when the last records of th... |
Kent Bach (born 1943) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His primary areas of research include the philosophy of language, linguistics and epistemology. He is the author of three books: Exit-existentialism: A philosophy of self-awareness, Linguistic Communication a... |
The Heraion of Argos () is an ancient temple in Argos, Greece. It was part of the greatest sanctuary in the Argolid, dedicated to Hera, whose epithet "Argive Hera" (Ἥρη Ἀργείη Here Argeie) appears in Homer's works. Hera herself claims to be the protector of Argos in Iliad IV, 50–52): "The three towns I love best are Ar... |
Turkey competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 43 competitors, 42 men and 1 woman, took part in 43 events in 8 sports. |
Peter has recently been let go from his job. Peter doesn't know what he's going to do for money. So while sitting at his house one day he gets call from his friend. He offers Peter job selling pickles. Peter gladly accepts the offer and starts selling pickles. |
The Second Malaysia Plan (Malay: Rancangan Malaysia Kedua) was an economic development plan introduced by the government of Malaysia with the goal of implementing the Malaysian New Economic Policy (NEP). It lasted from 1971 to 1975 and aimed to "restructure" the society of Malaysia and reduce Malaysian Chinese and fore... |
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of North Dakota, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. |
Faramarz Gharibian (; born 18 November 1941) is an Iranian retired actor. He won three Crystal Simorgh Awards for his performances in The Train (1988), Misty Harbour (1992), and The Rain Man (1998). |
Hans Billian (born Hans Joachim Hubert Backe, 15 April 1918 in Breslau (today, Wrocław, Poland) – 18 December 2007 in Gräfelfing, Bavaria) was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor noted for the "sex comedies" he directed in the 1970s. He was also credited as Hans Billan, Phillip Halliday, and Christian Kessl... |
Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang (1944 — 12 November 2018) was a professor and former chairman of the African Studies Department at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a co-principal investigator of the Project MAPS and also a former deputy ambassador and head of chancery of the Gambia Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Ny... |
This article lists notable families whose members are prominent in the Hindi film industry. For South Indian film families, see List of South Indian film families and for Indian music families, see List of Indian music families. |
It snowed during the night. In the morning the town had to go to work. They did not know how to drive in snow. They drove anyways. There were many wrecks. |
Roccamorice is a town and comune in the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, central Italy. |
The Boeing Model 15 was a United States single-seat open-cockpit biplane fighter aircraft of the 1920s, manufactured by the Boeing company. The Model 15 saw service with the United States Army Air Service (as the PW-9 series) and with the United States Navy as a carrier-based fighter (as the FB series). |
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album released by Fugees. The album was released on March 25, 2003, by the group's former record label, Columbia Records. The album features a range of material from both of the group's studio albums, as well as previously unreleased material. The album's track listing in the Un... |
Jeffrey loved stamps. He loved to collect as many as possible. One day, he went to a stamp store. He saw many expensive stamps there. Jeffrey was able to purchase many stamps to add to his collection. |
Susie was really tightly wound. She liked everything to be just right. Her friend was very messy. Susie would lecture her about getting organized. Finally, the friend said she didn't want to hang out anymore. |
Kendrick Lamar went to Compton. His fans met him at the park. They asked him to do a freestyle. He threw down some sick rhymes. People posted all about it on Facebook. |
A guy on my favorite forum uses pictures of Pusheen. He responds to everything with it. He makes people laugh with his pusheen gifts. He posts red pandas also. He became beloved in the community. |
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJ) are a Roman Catholic congregation of women religious which traces its origins to a group founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France around 1650 by Jean Pierre Medaille, S.J. The design of the congregation was based on the spirituality of the Society of Jesus. The Sisters of St. Jos... |
Skic is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Złotów, within Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Złotów and north of the regional capital Poznań. It is situated on the Skitnica River in the ethnocultural region of Krajna in the historic ... |
Iran Ajr, formerly known as the Arya Rakhsh, was a Japanese-built landing craft used by Iran to lay naval mines during the Iran–Iraq War. Built in 1978, the 614-ton, 54-meter ship was powered by two diesel engines and featured a bow ramp for unloading cargo. She was scuttled in 1987. |
Atticus is an American rock band formed in 1995 in Knoxville, Tennessee, noted for progressive compositions, complex harmonies, innovative cover art, and a small but loyally devoted fan base. The band is named after the Atticus Finch character of To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee which won the Pulitzer Prize... |
The television signal was weak. The family couldn't watch their show. The dad made a makeshift antenna. It worked well enough. The family celebrated their father. |
Keith Eugene Booth (born October 9, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Booth played college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1993 to 1997. He was an assistant coach at his alma mater under Gary Williams from 2004 to 2011. He was also an assistant ... |
Ken forgot to take a bath yesterday, and didn't change his clothes. Since he was waiting for his mom, he stood outside on the couch. As soon as she got out, she noticed the shirt we wore yesterday. She asked why I'm wearing the same clothes and if I took a bath. Although I tried to lie, she wouldn't believe me. |
The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (781,000–30,000 years Before Present). Recovered individuals have reached up to in shoulder height, and an estimated in weight. Like modern elephants, t... |
The Honda CB175 is a standard motorcycle made by Honda from 1969 to 1973. It had a four-stroke, straight-twin engine with a single overhead camshaft, two valves per cylinder, dual slide-valve carburetors, and dual exhausts. It was also equipped with a five-speed gearbox, 12-volt electrics, kick and electric start, fro... |
My daughter was terrible at math. As her teacher, I despaired she would ever learn to multiply. We took a year and did a computer math game to help. She loved the game and played it many times each week. At the end of the year, she knew how to multiply very well! |
Fertőrákos () is a village in the county of Győr-Moson-Sopron in Hungary. In 2001 it had a population of 2,182. |
La Palmyre Zoo (French: Zoo de La Palmyre, ) is a zoo in Les Mathes, Charente-Maritime, near Royan, in southwestern France. It was created in 1966 in the forest of la Coubre by Claude Caillé. Extending over , including 14 of landscape garden, it offers the visitor the opportunity of observing more than 1600 animals of... |
GMV Aramoana (a Māori-language word meaning sea pathway) was a roll-on/roll-off train ferry operating across Cook Strait between 1962 and 1983. |
Hyperimmunoglobulinemia E syndrome (HIES), of which the autosomal dominant form is called Job's syndrome or Buckley syndrome, is a heterogeneous group of immune disorders. Job's is also very rare at about 300 cases currently in the literature. |
The Crawlers (also known as Troll 3, Creepers or Contamination .7) is a 1991 Italian horror film directed by Fabrizio Laurenti under the pseudonym Martin Newlin. Some parts of the film were also directed by producer Joe D'Amato, uncredited. |
Baltia shawi, the Shaw's dwarf, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites. It is found at high altitudes in Central Asia. |
The Objectives Resolution () was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on March 12, 1949. The resolution proclaimed that the future constitution of Pakistan would not be modeled entirely on a European pattern, but on the ideology and democratic faith of Islam. The resolution, in its entirety, has been made pa... |
Ulik is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He usually appears as an adversary of Thor. Ulik was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and first appears in Thor #137 (February 1967). |
Windisch is a municipality in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. |
Rick Roder is an author, editor, consultant, and educator specializing in baseball rules and umpiring. He attended the Joe Brinkman Umpire School in 1987 and was a professional umpire from 1987 to 1996. His umpiring experience included the Pioneer League (1987), Midwest League (1988-1989), Texas League (1990 and 1992),... |
Les Quennevais R.F.C. was a rugby union club based in Jersey in the Channel Islands. |
Władysław Szczepaniak (19 May 1910 – 6 May 1979) was a Polish football player. A defender for his entire career, he played for Polonia Warsaw, where he was the captain. Szczepaniak was one of Polonia's symbols, also he played for the Poland national football team. |
The Basques ( or ; ; ; ) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians. Basques are indigenous to, and primarily inhabit, an area traditionally known as the Basque Country ()—a region that is loca... |
How Will the Wolf Survive? is the first major label album of Los Lobos, released in 1984. |
Hypocholesterolemia is the presence of abnormally low (hypo-) levels of cholesterol in the blood (-emia). A defect in the body's production of cholesterol can lead to adverse consequences as well. Cholesterol is an essential component of mammalian cell membranes and is required to establish proper membrane permeability... |
John Crunk wanted to be the world's first Eskimo rapper. Plenty of people at the village were dubious at his capability. Crunk raised middle fingers to the haters and started penning rhymes. He was picked up by Top Dawg Entertainment and recorded an album. It won a Grammy for incorporating hip hop and Eskimo culture. |
Yesterday, I went shopping for shoes. I went to Shoe Carnival, looking for a great pair of running shoes. I found all kinds of colorful options, and it was very hard to choose. I picked a pair with rainbow colors, because it made me feel young. I walked out of the store very happy with my purchase. |
CLAAS is an agricultural machinery manufacturer based in Harsewinkel, Germany, in the federal state of North Rhine Westphalia. Founded in 1913 by August Claas, CLAAS is a family business and one of the market and technology leaders in harvesting technology. It is the European market leader in combine harvesters and con... |
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD or SSDI) is a payroll tax-funded federal insurance program of the United States government. It is managed by the Social Security Administration and designed to provide monthly benefits to people who have a medically determinable disability (physical or mental) that restricts th... |
Helmsley Castle (also known anciently as Hamlake) is a medieval castle situated in the market town of Helmsley, within the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. |
A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium. The first were punched card readers, which read the paper or cardboard punched cards that were used during the first several decades of the computer industry to store information and programs for computer systems. Modern card reader... |
Bob was writing his new novel. Stacks of papers piled high on his desk. He was getting hot, so he decided to open a window. A gust of wind blew into the room. Papers flew everywhere. |
The dog went to its bowl. There was no water in it. The dog whimpered really loudly. The owner saw the bowl. The owner refilled the dog's water bowl. |
Atwima District is a former district that was located in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988. However on 12 November 2003 (effective 18 February 2004), it was split off into two new districts by a decree of president John Agyekum Kufuor: Atwima Nwabiagya District (which it... |
Georgina was in a loveless marriage. She decided to have an affair with her coworker. Georgina then realized the co worker looked very similar to her husband. She told her husband she was cheating on him. He didn't mind because he saw her boyfriend looked like him. |
Victoria National Golf Course (officially Victoria National Golf Club) is located northeast of Newburgh, Indiana, in the southwestern corner of the state, roughly seven miles east of Evansville, Indiana. Victoria is a private 18-hole golf course that was designed by golf course architect Tom Fazio and constructed in 19... |
The black-faced monarch (Monarcha melanopsis) is a passerine songbird in the family Monarchidae found along the eastern seaboard of Australia, and also New Guinea (where most birds migrate to during the austral winter; May to August). |
Steve preordered his laptop. He was excited about the newest technology. When his computer finally arrived, he was so happy. He could not wait to turn it on. However, Steve's laptop arrived broken and he had to return it. |
West Berkeley is generally the area of Berkeley, California, that lies west of San Pablo Avenue (though sometimes it may also refer to the larger area west of Sacramento Street though this includes Westbrae), abutting San Francisco Bay. It includes the area that was once the unincorporated town of Ocean View, as well ... |
Basilicum is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1802. It contains only one known species, Basilicum polystachyon, native to Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia (Saudi Arabia, India, China, Indochina, Borneo, Philippines, etc.), New Guinea, Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and India... |
New York State Route 155 (NY 155) is a state highway located entirely within Albany County in the Capital District of New York. The western terminus of the route is at NY 85A in Voorheesville. The eastern terminus is at NY 32 in Watervliet. NY 155 mainly serves as a connection to the Albany International Airport from ... |
Seve Paeniu (born 11 February 1965) is a Tuvaluan politician. Paeniu was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in the 2019 Tuvaluan general election to represent the Nukulaelae electorate. He was appointed as the Minister of Finance in the Natano Ministry. |
Tom was in a band. They remixed a lot of songs. Unfortunately they made them worse. Tom's band was quickly sued. They had to break apart soon after. |
The Holden Captiva is a crossover SUV that was produced from 2006 to 2018 by GM Korea (previously known as Daewoo). The car was sold in Australia and New Zealand under the Holden brand and derives from either the Chevrolet Captiva or Opel Antara, depending on the variant and year. |
I play and win the lottery all the time. On September the sixth my hunch said play five zero eight. Everyone told me it was a waste of my time and money. I am glad I always listen to my gut and follow my hunches. I won five hundred dollars trusting my gut. |
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