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Prostitution is illegal in Nepal. The Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act, 2064, Act Number 5 of the Year 2064 (2008), criminalises prostitution and living of the earnings of prostitution by including it in the definition of human trafficking. UNAIDS estimate there to be 67,300 prostitutes in the country... |
Siége Perilous is the third studio album by American power metal band Kamelot. It was released on August 4, 1998, through Noise Records. It is the first album with Roy Khan on vocals and Casey Grillo on drums, and is the final album to feature David Pavlicko on keyboards. |
Tom and Jerry Tales is an American animated television series featuring the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Turner Entertainment Co., it is the seventh installment in the Tom and Jerry franchise as well as the first Tom and Jerry production to emulate the original theatrical shor... |
Tregynon is a small village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales, to the north of Newtown and south west of Welshpool. The population of the community was 892 at the 2011 Census. It rests on the B4389 road which runs from Bettws Cedewain to New Mills. The country house Gregynog is nearby. |
SWF Seeks Same (1990) (later retitled Single White Female) is a thriller novel by John Lutz. The story concerns a woman whose new roommate seems perfect, until the roommate starts copying her and behaving strangely in other ways. The new roommate begins duplicating every life style and behavior of the girl she is rent... |
Castletown R.U.F.C. is a Rugby union football club in Castletown, Isle of Man. |
is a live-action Japanese–American TV series. The third entry of the Super Sentai series franchise, Battle Fever J was a co-production of Toei Company and Marvel Comics. A total of 52 episodes aired on TV Asahi from February 3, 1979, to January 26, 1980, following J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai and being followed by Denshi Sentai... |
House with two rooms or Bing's house is a particular contractible, 2-dimensional simplicial complex that is not collapsible. The name was given by R. H. Bing. |
"Diana" is a song written and first performed by Paul Anka, who recorded it in May 1957 at Don Costa’s studio in New York City. Anka stated in his autobiography that the song was inspired by a girl named Diana Ayoub (13 March 1939 – 1 December 2022), whom he had met at his church and community events, and had developed... |
James Morrison Catchpole (born 13 August 1984) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 2006, his debut single "You Give Me Something" became a hit in Europe, Australia, Japan and Iran, peaking in the top five in the UK and claiming the No. 1 spot in New Zealand. His debut album, Undiscovered (2006), debuted ... |
The rugby sevens at the 2006 Commonwealth Games was the third Commonwealth Games at which rugby sevens was played. It is one of the male-only sports at the Commonwealth Games, the other being boxing. The venue for the rugby competition was the Telstra Dome, on the western edge of Melbourne's Central Business District. ... |
Alice was a careful shopper. She saved money by clipping coupons. She saw an advertisement for energy bars on sale at the supermarket. She printed hundreds of coupons to take to the store. The police arrested Alice for coupon fraud at the store. |
The Upper Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Upper Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. Students from Corbin City, a non-operating district, attend the district's schools as part of a sending/re... |
William Brown Stansbury (March 18, 1923 – April 4, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician who held the office of the Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1977 to 1982. Stansbury's tenure as mayor was embroiled in controversy and scandal, culminating in an attempted impeachment. Though it failed, in its aftermath, St... |
Club Deportivo Villanueva was a Spanish football team based in Villanueva de Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1951 and dissolved in June 2009, it held home matches at Estadio San Miguel, with a capacity of 4,500 seats. |
Montaquila is a town and comune in the province of Isernia, in the Molise region of southern Italy. |
Nils Emanuel Karlsson (25 June 1917 – 16 June 2012), better known as Mora-Nisse, was a Swedish cross-country skier. Karlsson won gold in the 50 km event at the 1948 Winter Olympics and nine Vasaloppet victories. |
The 13th congressional district of Ohio is represented by Representative Emilia Sykes. Due to reapportionment following the 2010 United States census, Ohio lost its 17th and 18th congressional districts, necessitating redrawing of district lines. Following the 2012 elections, the 13th district changed to take in much o... |
Portmeirion is a British pottery company based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. They specialise in earthenware tableware. |
My friend got fired from her job. She was a teacher. She was fired for daring a couple kids to kiss each other. It was a boy and a girl. It took her a while to find another job. |
Tom was going to do laundry. He couldn't find his quarters anywhere. He asked his roommate about them. He admitted he used them all at the arcade. Tom made him pay him back. |
BK Tee Vee was Burger King's MTV-inspired advertising campaign from 1991 to 1993. |
Middle temporal gyrus is a gyrus in the brain on the temporal lobe. It is located between the superior temporal gyrus and inferior temporal gyrus. It corresponds largely to Brodmann area 21. |
Club Real Potosí is a Bolivian football club based in Potosí. Founded on 1 April 1988, it plays in the Potosí Football Association Championship, after being relegated from the Bolivian Primera División in 2021, holding home games at Estadio Víctor Agustín Ugarte, with a 32,000-seat capacity. |
Conrad Baker (February 12, 1817 – April 28, 1885) was an American attorney, military officer, and politician who served as state representative, 15th lieutenant governor, and the 15th governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1867 to 1873. Baker had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the... |
Green Lawn Abbey, built in 1927, is a historic mausoleum located at 700 Greenlawn Avenue in South Franklinton in Franklin Township, near Columbus, Ohio. On June 27, 2007, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. |
The Vancouver Cougars are a member of the Australian Football League Canada and compete in the British Columbia Australian Football League (BCAFL). |
WSDP is the student-operated radio station owned by the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park in Canton, Michigan. The station positions itself as 88.1 The Park. WSDP is operated out of Salem High School and has been in operation since February 14, 1972. The station's current manager is Bill Keith (1991–present). |
Tom needed more volunteer hours. He wanted a good impression on his college applications. He looked for options online. Tom found a local soup kitchen that needed help. He went there for a few hours a week.[. |
Lewis Burr Anderson (May 7, 1922 – May 14, 2006) was an American actor and musician. He is widely known by TV fans as the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody between 1954 and 1960. He famously spoke Clarabell's only line on the show's final episode in 1960, with a tear visible in his r... |
Susan E. Dietter, usually credited as Susie Dietter, is an American director, known primarily for her work on television cartoons. She has directed episodes of the popular series Futurama, Baby Blues, The Simpsons, Recess and The Critic. She also worked as an animator for the modern-day Looney Tunes "Museum Scream" an... |
The International Centre is a multi-purpose convention centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, located near Toronto Pearson International Airport. The International Centre is privately owned and hosts over 450 shows and events each year. |
Astola Island () also known as Jezira Haft Talar (, ), Satadip or 'Island of the Seven Hills', is a small uninhabited Pakistani island in the Arabian Sea approximately south of the nearest part of the coast and southeast of the fishing port of Pasni. Astola is Pakistan's largest offshore island at approximately long... |
Jackie's door lock broke again! Jackie asked her friend to come over and help fix it but he couldn't. She called me and asked and I said my dad could come over. Me and my dad came over and fixed her door lock. She was extremely grateful and thanked both of us. |
Story of My Life is a novel published in 1988 by American author Jay McInerney. |
Rajanpur () is a district of the Pakistani province of Punjab, with its administrative headquarters the city of Rajanpur. Lying west of the Indus River, its inhabitants are mostly Saraikis and Baloch. According to the 1998 census, the district had a population of , and 14.27% of these were inhabitants of urban areas. |
Balad Air Base () , is an Iraqi Air Force base located near Balad in the Sunni Triangle north of Baghdad, Iraq. |
Arpad and their mother planted all sorts of squashes in the spring. They took great care of the plants. They were careful to keep them watered as well as keep pests away. What they did not know is how readily squash species hybridize. At the end of the summer they had a bunch of inedible mutants. |
A fleet review or naval review is an event where a gathering of ships from a particular navy is paraded and reviewed by an incumbent head of state and/or other official civilian and military dignitaries. A number of national navies continue to hold fleet reviews. Fleet reviews may also include participants and warships... |
Abby decided to sew cloth diapers for her kids. She picked the cutest fabric! She worked hard and sewed a dozen diapers. The first time she used them with her baby, they leaked all over. Abby decided just to stick to disposable diapers. |
Maëlle Danica Ricker (; born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian retired snowboarder, who specialised in snowboard cross. She won an Olympic gold medal in the snowboard cross event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, to become the first Canadian woman to win a gold medal on home soil at the Olympics. She is also the ... |
In anatomy, a persistent left superior vena cava is the most common variation of the thoracic venous system. It is present in between 0.3% and 0.5% of the population, and is an embryologic remnant that results from a failure to involute. |
R v Stone, [1999] 2 S.C.R. 290 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the use of the defence of automatism in a criminal trial. |
John was invited to attend a political rally. John heard the candidate give a stump speech. John and his friend talked after the event. John told his friend that the candidate is a total moron. Now John and that friend are not speaking to each other. |
Grant William McLennan (12 February 19586 May 2006) was an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter-guitarist. He co-founded the Go-Betweens with Robert Forster in Brisbane in 1977. In addition to his work with the Go-Betweens (1977–89, 2000–06), he issued four solo albums: Watershed (1991), Fireboy (1992), Horseb... |
François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical abstract art and post-conceptual art. |
The Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It served as the home ground for the Azerbaijan national football team until they moved to the Baku Olympic Stadium. It holds 31,200 seats making it the second largest stadium in t... |
Tholey () is a municipality in the district of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately west of Sankt Wendel, and north of Saarbrücken. |
I called the Chinese Restaurant and ordered some orange chicken. I waited a little while, and then left to pick it up. I paid the cashier and took my order. I got home and sat my food on the table. When I opened it, they had given me the wrong order. |
Mally is swimming in the pool. She attempts to do a water trick. She gets a really bad cramp. She cannot swim and starts drowning. A lifeguard jumps in and saves her from drowning. |
Cathy has never been snowboarding before. Cathy decided to take snowboarding lessons. Cathy found an instructor, and took her first lesson. After her first lesson, Cathy knew that snowboarding was not for her. Cathy was glad she got the opportunity to try snowboarding. |
Carter's Army is a 1970 American made-for-television war drama film starring a host of prominent African-American film actors, including Richard Pryor, Rosey Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams and Moses Gunn. The film originally aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on January 27, 1970. |
Dorymyrmex (also known as cone ants) is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. |
Peter Minshall (born 16 July 1941) is a Trinidadian Carnival artist (described colloquially in Trinidad and Tobago as a "mas-man"). |
Eliza was playing a video game. Her dad asked her if she had any studying to do. Eliza told him she didn't. Eliza didn't study and failed her test the next day. Eliza's dad took the video game away from her. |
Ebenezer J. Shields was an American politician that represented Tennessee's tenth district in the United States House of Representatives. |
One afternoon we were having dinner at the table. It begins to thunder and lightning. We continued eating and laughing. We weren't paying much attention to the weather. Suddenly a volt of lightning came through hitting my sister and me. |
The agung is a set of two wide-rimmed, vertically suspended gongs used by the Maguindanao, Maranao, Sama-Bajau and Tausug people of the Philippines as a supportive instrument in kulintang ensembles. The agung is also ubiquitous among other groups found in Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Mindanao, Sabah, Sulawesi, Sarawak and ... |
Edward Fred Knipling (March 20, 1909 – March 17, 2000) was an American entomologist, who along with his longtime colleague Raymond C. Bushland, received the 1992 World Food Prize for their collaborative achievements in developing the sterile insect technique for eradicating or suppressing the threat posed by pests to t... |
The Glenwood B&O Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which carries Allegheny Valley Railroad's W&P Subdivision over the Monongahela River. |
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. I... |
"Die, Die My Darling" is a song by the American horror punk band Misfits. It was released in May 1984 on singer Glenn Danzig's label, Plan 9 Records, seven months after the band's breakup. The song is titled after the 1965 horror film Fanatic, which had been released in the United States under the title Die! Die! My Da... |
Provia is a brandname for a pair of daylight-balanced color reversal films (slide film) produced by the Japanese film company Fujifilm. It is currently available in one speed, 100/21°, marketed as Fujichrome Provia 100F Professional [RDP III],. An additional speed of 400/27°, marketed as Fujichrome Provia 400X Professi... |
Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (21 September 1561 – July 1612) was an English nobleman who had a theoretically strong claim to the throne of England through his mother, Lady Katherine Grey, but his legitimacy was questioned. He was an ancestor of the dukes of Somerset. |
I once had a roommate who put a ton of sugar in his coffee. I warned him one day about using so much sugar. He just blew me off. I decided to punish him by putting salt in the sugar shaker. My roommate drank some very sour coffee the next morning! |
Steamboat Rock State Park is a Washington state park located near the north end of Banks Lake in the Grand Coulee. The park takes its name from the landscape's dominating feature, Steamboat Rock, a basalt butte that rises above the lake which nearly completely surrounds it. The butte's plateau covers more than and w... |
The Book of Night With Moon is a 1997 fantasy novel by Diane Duane. Although set in the Young Wizards universe, it was written as an adult novel. It centers on a team of cat-wizards. |
Blairmore is a community in the Rocky Mountains within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in southwest Alberta, Canada. It was formerly incorporated as a town prior to 1979 when it amalgamated with four other municipalities to form Crowsnest Pass. Blairmore is the principal commercial centre of Crowsnest Pass. |
Melekeok () is a town in the State of Melekeok (one of Palau's sixteen states). It is located on the east coast of Palau's largest island, Babeldaob. In October 2006, the settlement of Ngerulmud, located from the village of Melekeok, became the seat of Palau's government, replacing Koror. |
Sir Frank Charles Mears LLD (11 July 1880 – 25 January 1953) was an architect and Scotland's leading planning consultant from the 1930s to the early 1950s. |
The ShoqBox is a flash memory-based MP3 player from Philips with attached speakers. Its name is formed from a portmanteau of "shock" and "boombox". |
Jasper had planned his trip to California carefully. Every day was filled with new exciting things to discover. When he had a chance to changed his schedule, he refused. He continued his trip without changing anything. Once he got back home, he regretted not having taken any chance. |
Podsolisation is an extreme form of leaching which causes the eluviation of iron and aluminium sesquioxides. |
John was buying some pumpkins for his family to carve. He had found his wife the perfect, unmarked pumpkin. Just as we was going to load up the car, he dropped the pumpkin. It broke into pieces. Luckily, John found another pumpkin that was almost as good. |
Hon'ami Kōetsu (; 1558 – 27 February 1637) was a Japanese calligrapher, craftsman, lacquerer, and potter, whose work is generally considered to have inspired the founding of the Rinpa school of painting. |
The Gaffer is an ITV situation comedy series of the early 1980s, that starred Bill Maynard and was written by businessman Graham White. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television. |
Tim worked at a tailor's shop during the summer. His duties included altering dresses. He received one wedding dress to alter that was very beautiful. He worked day and night on this dress to make it just right. The client loved it so much that she invited Tim to the wedding. |
Franchimont Castle () is a medieval castle in the municipality of Theux, Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium. It sits at the western end of a small hill south of the village of Theux, a sub-municipality. |
In theology or the history of religion, heresiology is the study of heresy, and heresiographies are writings about the topic. Heresiographical works were common in both medieval Christianity and Islam. |
Eaton had just gotten braces on his top teeth. At his first football game he went on the field to play. He ran out for the pass and caught it. Another player bumped his mouth. His mouth guard ripped off a piece of his braces bracket. |
Quiero Ser (1981) is Menudo's ninth Spanish album and the second one released in 1981, featuring Ricky Meléndez, René Farrait, Johnny Lozada, Xavier Serbiá and Miguel Cancel. With this album, their popularity started rising all over Latin America. |
Kenton is a suburb and electoral ward in the north west of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It borders the Town Moor and Gosforth. Kenton also has close road links to Newcastle Airport. The ward population at the 2011 Census was 11,605. |
Stephen Douglas Allan (born 18 October 1973) is an Australian professional golfer. |
B-Side Ourselves is a studio EP by American heavy metal band Skid Row, released on September 22, 1992. It consists of cover versions of songs originally recorded by artists who influenced Skid Row. As the title suggests, most of the tracks had previously featured as B-sides on the band's various singles — "Psycho Thera... |
Neil had been in foster care since he was a baby. At age nine, he was placed with a very loving couple. Soon they decided to adopt Neil and become a real family. Neil was ecstatic when they told him. He was so happy to finally have real parents! |
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in... |
is a junction railway station in the city of Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). |
The 29th American Music Awards were held on January 9, 2002, at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California. The awards recognized the most popular artists and albums from the year 2001. |
Kev F. Sutherland (born 18 October 1961) is a Scottish comedian, caricaturist, and comic strip creator. He has drawn for a variety of publications, including The Beano. He has produced several shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including The Sitcom Trials and The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. |
The Battle of Pharsalus was the decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War fought on 9 August 48 BC near Pharsalus in Central Greece. Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the Roman Republic under the command of Pompey. Pompey had the backing of a majority of Roman senators and his army significantly o... |
Masoud Jafari Jozani (; , born 9 December 1948) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has received an award for the best short film at the Fajr International Film Festival. In the Wind's Eye is one of Jafari Jozani's most notable works, which he directed and wrote. This TV series In the Wind's Eye ... |
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) is the main Iranian government agency responsible for operating nuclear energy and nuclear fuel cycle installations in Iran. AEOI is the primary organization responsible for nuclear technology research and development activities in Iran. AEOI was involved in formerly undecl... |
Lubnia is a PKP railway station in Lubnia (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland. |
Amber told all 3 of her children to be home by 7pm for dinner. Two Of her children arrived 30 minutes before so they could relax before. O arrived at 9 pm, having forgotten about Amber's demand. Amber was very upset and yelled at her child. Amber then grounded her child for 1 week so he would be on time to dinner. |
Point Blank DS is a 2006 lightgun shooter video game developed and published for the Nintendo DS by Namco Bandai Games. It is the fourth entry in the Point Blank series, comprising both new stages and ones taken from the first three games. Players use the touch screen to complete a number of different minigames that va... |
Herräng () is the northernmost locality in Norrtälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 422 inhabitants in 2010. It is located 40 kilometres north of the municipal seat Norrtälje along the coast of Singöfjärden, a bay on Roslagen. |
Pasquale Foggia (; born 3 June 1983) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a left winger or attacking midfielder. A quick and creative player, he was predominantly known for his dribbling skills and his ability to create chances for teammates. |
The Law and Order Party of Rhode Island was a short-lived political party in the U.S. state of Rhode Island in the 1840s, brought into existence as a consequence of the Dorr Rebellion. |
Polygon Man was an early marketing character for Sony's PlayStation in North America. Created in 1995 by advertising company Chiat/Day and then-Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) president Steve Race, the character was meant to be an "edgy" spokesperson for the console and target audiences that they feared woul... |
Presidential elections were held in Chad on 2 June 1996, with a second round on 3 July. They were the first multiparty presidential elections in the history of Chad and occurred at the end of a long transitional process after repeated delays. The elections were won by the incumbent President Idriss Déby, who easily def... |
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