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16800 | Mary Anna Custis Lee | Mary Anna Custis Lee was the only surviving child of George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington's step-grandson and adopted son and founder of Arlington House, and Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, daughter of William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh. Her godmother, Mary Randolph, the first person recorded bur... |
16801 | Noël Lee | Born in 1924 in Nanjing, China, Lee studied music in Lafayette, Indiana, then attended Harvard University, studying with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Tillman Merritt and was also a student at the Longy School of Music in the early 1940s. Following World War II, he traveled to Paris where he studied music with Nadia ... |
16802 | Noël-Noël | Noël-Noël (born Lucien Noël, 9 August 1897 – 5 October 1989) was a French actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966. |
16870 | Mann Ranges | The Mann Ranges are a mountain range in central Australia. It is located in the far northwest of South Australia, with a small section running over the border into the Northern Territory. It is part of the geological region known as the Musgrave Block, which also includes the Petermann and Musgrave Ranges. Mountains in... |
16859 | Krasnyi Mak | Krasny Mak (; ; ) is a selo in Bakhchysarai Raion of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine and incorporated by Russia as the Republic of Crimea. It is located in the Crimean Mountains, southerly of Bakhchysarai. The village stretches along the Bystryanka... |
16850 | Keele Peak | Keele Peak, in Yukon, Canada is the highest peak in the Mackenzie Mountains at . With a prominence measure of it is one of Canada's most prominent peaks. It is located about 25 km from the Canol Road not far from the Northwest Territories border. |
16849 | Petriș | Petriș () is a commune in Arad County, Romania, is situated in the contact zone of Mureș Couloir with Metaliferi Mountains. The administrative territory of the commune is approximately 13,100 ha. It is composed of six villages: Corbești ("Maroshollód"), Ilteu ("Iltő"), Obârșia ("Óborsa"), Petriș (situated at 106 km fro... |
16870 | Mount Ginini | The summit of the mountain is located within the ACT, and is the third highest mountain in the Territory. The ACT portion of the mountain is located in Bimberi Nature Reserve and Namadgi National Park and the NSW portion in Kosciuszko National Park. It is often climbed by bushwalkers from Corin Dam, as it is a few hour... |
16870 | Belprahon | Belprahon is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the canton in the Jura mountains. |
16871 | Cortébert | Cortébert is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the canton in the Jura mountains. |
19485 | Halleck Range | The Halleck Range is a small mountain range in southeastern Alaska, United States, located on the Alaskan side of the Portland Canal. It has an area of 127 km and is a subrange of the Boundary Ranges which in turn form part of the Coast Mountains. The range is located within the Misty Fjords National Monument. |
16870 | Portland, Oregon | Though much of downtown Portland is relatively flat, the foothills of the Tualatin Mountains, more commonly referred to locally as the ``West Hills '', pierce through the northwest and southwest reaches of the city. Council Crest Park, commonly thought of as the highest point within city limits, is in the West Hills an... |
16812 | Knob Mountain (Pennsylvania) | Knob Mountain (also known as Nob Mountain) is a ridge in the northeastern part of Columbia County, Pennsylvania and parts of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Its elevation is over 1720 feet above sea level. Knob Mountain can be seen from a considerable distance, and is also visible from Bloomsburg. The peak of the mountai... |
16891 | Socialist Party of Oregon (Columbia County, Oregon) | The Socialist Party of Oregon in Columbia County, Oregon began around the First Red Scare. The first year (1914) it went mainstream, the Socialist party had 27 more registered members than the Prohibition Party, who were some members of the Suffrage movement. The Socialist party was similar to the Progressive Party in ... |
16814 | Oldest people | Since the death of 117 - year - old Nabi Tajima of Japan on 21 April 2018, 117 - year - old Chiyo Miyako of Japan, born 2 May 1901, is the oldest living person in the world whose age has been documented. Since the death of 113 - year - old Francisco Núñez Olivera of Spain on 29 January 2018, 112 - year - old Masazō Non... |
16840 | Short track speed skating at the 2003 Asian Winter Games | Short track speed skating at the 2003 Winter Asian Games took place at the Misawa Ice Arena located in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan from 6 to 7 February 2003 with ten events contested — five each for men and women. |
16816 | Kawasaki disease | Currently, Kawasaki disease is the most commonly diagnosed pediatric vasculitis in the world. By far, the highest incidence of Kawasaki disease occurs in Japan, with the most recent study placing the attack rate at 218.6 per 100,000 children <5 years of age (about one in 450 children). At this present attack rate, mo... |
16817 | Over the Garden Wall | The series follows two half - brothers, Wirt and Greg (voiced by Elijah Wood and Collin Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown. In order to find their way home, the two must travel across the seemingly supernatural forest with the occasional help of the wandering, mysterious and elde... |
16818 | Beatrice of Ornacieux | Beatrice was a Carthusian nun who founded a settlement of the order at Eymieux in the department of Drôme. According to her "Vita", written by Marguerite of Oingt, she was especially devoted to the Passion of Christ and is said to have driven a nail through her left hand to help herself to realize the sufferings of the... |
17095 | Guam | The Northern Mariana Islands had become a Japanese protectorate before the war. It was the Chamorros from the Northern Marianas who were brought to Guam to serve as interpreters and in other capacities for the occupying Japanese force. The Guamanian Chamorros were treated as an occupied enemy by the Japanese military. ... |
17093 | Military history of the United States during World War II | The military history of the United States in World War II covers the war against Germany, Italy, Japan and starting with the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. During the first two years of World War II, the United States had maintained formal neutrality as made officially in the Quarantine Speech delivered by U.S... |
16841 | Blumenthal, Texas | Blumenthal is an unincorporated farming and ranching community on the Pedernales River in Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located halfway between Fredericksburg and Stonewall on U.S. Highway 290, approximately at the intersection of Jung Lane. The community was believed to have been settled about 19... |
17097 | Alex MacFarlane | Alex MacFarlane is an intersex person born with XXY sex chromosomes in Victoria, Australia. Alex MacFarlane is believed to be the first holder of an indeterminate birth certificate and passport. |
16841 | American Chamber of Commerce Japan | The American Chamber of Commerce Japan (ACCJ) is a non-profit business organization consisting mainly of executives from American companies. Currently, the ACCJ has members that represent over 1,000 companies with offices located in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Working closely with the governments of the United States and ... |
17095 | History of condoms | In 1932, Margaret Sanger arranged for a shipment of diaphragms to be mailed from Japan to a sympathetic doctor in New York City. When U.S. customs confiscated the package as illegal contraceptive devices, Sanger helped file a lawsuit. In 1936, a federal appeals court ruled in United States v. One Package of Japanese Pe... |
16825 | Lorenz Park, New York | Lorenz Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 2,053 at the 2010 census. |
16826 | Jakar | Jakar is located in Bumthang (Choekhor) Valley within Chhoekhor Gewog in central Bumthang. Administratively, however, Jakar is a separate thromde (municipality) inside the gewog. The administrative office for the Choekhor Gewog is located in the northern suburbs of Jakar. Just north of Jakar lies Wangchuck Centennial P... |
16827 | 2000–01 Japan Figure Skating Championships | The 2000–01 Japan Figure Skating Championships were the 69th Japan Figure Skating Championships to be held. They were held at the Big Hat arena in Nagano on December 8–10, 2000. National Champions were crowned in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. As well as crowning the n... |
17095 | The Twelve Spies | When ten of the twelve spies showed little faith in the doom and gloom report they gave about the land, they were slandering what they believed God had promised them. They did not believe that God could help them, and the people as a whole were persuaded that it was not possible to take the land. As a result, the entir... |
16829 | Pacific War | Towards the end of the war as the role of strategic bombing became more important, a new command for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was created to oversee all U.S. strategic bombing in the hemisphere, under United States Army Air Forces General Curtis LeMay. Japanese industrial production plunged as nearl... |
16839 | Indigenous peoples of the Americas | Various theories for the decline of the Native American populations emphasize epidemic diseases, conflicts with Europeans, and conflicts among warring tribes. Scholars now believe that, among the various contributing factors, epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives.... |
17095 | Prehn's sign | Prehn's sign (named after urologist Douglas T. Prehn) is a medical diagnostic indicator that was once believed to help determine whether the presenting testicular pain is caused by acute epididymitis or from testicular torsion. Although elevation of the scrotum when differentiating epididymitis from testicular torsion ... |
16832 | Peng Pai | Peng Pai went to Japan in 1917 and studied politico-economics after admitted into the Waseda University, Tokyo. There he experienced several historical events of "Aftermath of World War I" that forever changed China and Sino-Japan relations. He witnessed the "Rice Riot" of 1918 in Japan, and was influenced by impact of... |
16833 | Gaston Eduardo Molina | Gaston Eduardo Molina was an Argentine football striker who played for Vietnamese V-League club Bình Dương F.C.. He was found dead in a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on February 26, 2010. The cause was initially believed to be drug overdose. |
16834 | Battle of Luzon | The Battle of Luzon (Filipino: "Labanan sa Luzon"), fought 9 January – 15 August 1945, was a land battle of the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II by the Allied forces of the U.S., its colony the Philippines, and allies against forces of the Empire of Japan. The battle resulted in a U.S. and Filipino victory... |
16835 | Smartphone | Smartphones were still rare outside of Japan until the introduction of the Danger Hiptop in 2002, which saw moderate success among U.S. consumers as the T - Mobile Sidekick. Later, in the mid-2000s, business users in the U.S. started to adopt devices based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile, and then BlackBerry smartphones ... |
16836 | Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum | Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum, located in Warner, Alberta, Canada, is a key historic site in southern Alberta. In 1997, ten fossilized dinosaur eggs, believed to have come from a Hadrosaur, specifically a Hypacrosaurus were found at Devil's Coulee site. These were not the first fossils to be found in what was... |
16837 | 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens | 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens Photograph of the eruption column, May 18, 1980. Volcano Mount St. Helens Date May 18, 1980; 38 years ago (1980 - 05 - 18) Time 8: 32 am PDT Type Plinian, Peléan Location Skamania County, Washington, U.S. 46 ° 12 ′ 1 ''N 122 ° 11 ′ 12'' W / 46.20028 ° N 122.18667 ° W / 46.20028; - ... |
16838 | Anaphylaxis | In those in whom the cause is known and prompt treatment is available, the prognosis is good. Even if the cause is unknown, if appropriate preventative medication is available, the prognosis is generally good. If death occurs, it is usually due to either respiratory (typically asphyxia) or cardiovascular causes (shock)... |
16839 | Rigor mortis | Rigor mortis (Latin: rigor ``stiffness '', mortis`` of death'') or postmortem rigidity, the third stage of death, is one of the recognizable signs of death, caused by chemical changes in the muscles post mortem, which cause the limbs of the corpse to stiffen. In humans, rigor mortis can occur as soon as 4 hours post mo... |
16891 | Coles Creek (Pennsylvania) | Coles Creek (also known as Cole's Creek) is a tributary of Fishing Creek, in Columbia County, Pennsylvania and Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is long and is the first named tributary of Fishing Creek downstream of where East Branch Fishing Creek and West Branch Fishing Creek meet to form Fishin... |
16841 | 1935 Detroit Tigers season | The 1935 World Series featured the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs, with the Tigers winning in six games for their first championship in five World Series appearances. They had lost in 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1934. |
16842 | Jeff Larish | Jeffrey David Larish (born October 11, 1982) is a retired American professional baseball infielder and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics. |
16843 | Clete Thomas | Michael Clete Thomas (born November 14, 1983) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins. |
16844 | 1960–61 NHL season | The 1960–61 NHL season was the 44th season of the National Hockey League. The Chicago Black Hawks defeated the Detroit Red Wings in the 1961 Stanley Cup Final four games to two to win the Stanley Cup. It was the first series since with two American-based teams. It was Chicago's first Cup win since ; they would not win ... |
16845 | 2016 World Series | The 2016 World Series was the 112th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series, a best - of - seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history. The series was played betwe... |
16846 | 2016 World Series | The Cubs defeated the Indians when they won 4 games to 3 to win their first World Series since 1908. Game 7, an 8 -- 7 victory in extra innings, marked the fifth time that a Game 7 had gone past nine innings and the first since 1997 (which, coincidentally, also featured the Indians). It was also the first to have a rai... |
16847 | Hal Newhouser | Harold Newhouser (May 20, 1921 – November 10, 1998), nicknamed "Prince Hal," was an American professional baseball player. In Major League Baseball (MLB), he pitched 17 seasons on the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians, from 1939 through 1955. Newhouser was an All-Star for six seasons, and was considered to be the mo... |
16870 | Cormoret | Cormoret is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the canton in the Jura mountains. |
16849 | Bongcheon-dong | Bongcheon or Bongcheon-dong is a statutory division of Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea. Its name means "enshrining heaven" which was derived from its location, northern skirt of Mt. Gwanak, stretching to the mountain ridge. It consists 9 administrative neighbourhoods. District office of Gwanak is located in Bongche... |
16873 | Raven Creek | Raven Creek is a tributary of Fishing Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Sugarloaf Township, Benton Township, and Fishing Creek Township. The watershed of the creek has an area of . Numerous bridges, both covered and non-covered, have been built over... |
16886 | Old English | A later literary standard, dating from the later 10th century, arose under the influence of Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester, and was followed by such writers as the prolific Ælfric of Eynsham ("the Grammarian"). This form of the language is known as the "Winchester standard", or more commonly as Late West Saxon. It is c... |
16852 | Iranian languages | The Iranian languages or Iranic languages form a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which in turn are a branch of the Indo-European language family. The speakers of Iranian languages are known as Iranian peoples. Historical Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (4... |
16867 | History of India | The Kushan Empire expanded out of what is now Afghanistan into the northwest of the subcontinent under the leadership of their first emperor, Kujula Kadphises, about the middle of the 1st century CE. They came of an Indo-European language speaking Central Asian tribe called the Yuezhi, a branch of which was known as th... |
16854 | Knobly Mountain | Knobly Mountain is a ridge and part of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, located east of New Creek Mountain in Mineral and Grant counties, West Virginia, in the United States. |
16855 | Surprise Lake (Idaho) | Surprise Lake is a small alpine lake in Elmore County, Idaho, United States, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is accessed from Sawtooth National Forest trail 479 along Timpa Creek Creek. |
19838 | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park | Sugarloaf Ridge State Park is a state park in Northern California, U.S.A.. Located in the Mayacamas Mountains north of Kenwood, the park straddles the boundary between Sonoma and Napa counties. The park contains the Bald Mountain and the headwaters of Sonoma Creek including a tall seasonal waterfall. The park is also h... |
16857 | Alameda Dam | The Alameda Dam is an embankment dam located near Alameda, and Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was constructed in 1994 to control flows on the Moose Mountain Creek, and Souris River. It provides flood protection and irrigation for this area of Saskatchewan, along with protection for Minot, North Dakota. The Alameda res... |
16858 | Menemsha, Massachusetts | Menemsha is a small fishing village located in the town of Chilmark on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the east coast of Menemsha Pond, adjacent to the opening into the Vineyard Sound on the pond's northern end. The village's historic harbor serves as the ... |
16859 | Prescott National Forest | The Prescott National Forest is a 1.25 million acre (510,000 ha) United States National Forest located in north central Arizona in the vicinity of Prescott. The forest is located in the mountains southwest of Flagstaff and north of Phoenix in Yavapai County, with a small portion (about 3.5 percent) extending into south... |
16860 | Osilinka Ranges | The Osilinka Ranges are a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located between Osilinka River and Lay Creek in northern British Columbia, Canada. |
16861 | Cliffside Lake Recreation Area | The Cliffside Lake Recreation Area is located in Nantahala National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. It offers both fishing and swimming and is less than ten miles northwest of Highlands, North Carolina on State Road 28. |
16862 | Baker Creek, British Columbia | Baker Creek is a community located in British Columbia, Canada, west of Quesnel along the Nazko highway, at the south end of Puntataenkut Lake. People in the community enjoy many outdoor activities such as fishing, hunting, boating, camping, and riding horses, ATVs and snowmobiles. |
16863 | McConnell Range | The McConnell Range is a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located east of Moose Valley and west of McConnell Creek in northern British Columbia, Canada. |
16864 | Fishing Creek Confederacy | The Fishing Creek Confederacy was an alleged military uprising in northern Columbia County, Pennsylvania and southern Sullivan County, Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. Residents of Columbia County strongly opposed military drafts that were being conducted there, leading to widespread desertion and draft evas... |
16865 | Feather Lakes (Idaho) | The Feather Lakes are a chain of four small alpine glacial lakes in Boise County, Idaho, United States, located in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lakes are located on Goat Creek which is a tributary of the South Fork Payette River. There are no trails leading to the lakes or the Go... |
16866 | Waldschmidt Hall | Waldschmidt Hall (originally West Hall) is an academic building at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, United States. Constructed in 1891 as West Hall, the building was originally part of the now defunct Portland University located in North Portland overlooking the Willamette River. The Romanesque style str... |
16867 | Iran | It is estimated that in 480 BC, 50 million people lived in the Achaemenid Empire. The empire at its peak ruled over 44% of the world's population, the highest such figure for any empire in history. In Greek history, the Achaemenid Empire is considered as the antagonist of the Greek city states, for the emancipation of ... |
16887 | Germans | The native language of Germans is German, a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch, and sharing many similarities with the North Germanic and Scandinavian languages. Spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and the most wide... |
16869 | Game pie | Game pies were consumed by the wealthy in the days of the Roman Empire. Wilhelm Adolf Becker states that the emperor Augustus consumed pies that contained chicken, pheasants, pigeon, and duck. |
16870 | Fester Hollow | Fester Hollow is a tributary of West Branch Briar Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is long. |
16884 | Czech language | Bohemia (as Czech civilization was known by then) increased in power over the centuries, as its language did in regional importance. This growth was expedited during the fourteenth century by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who founded Charles University in Prague in 1348. Here, early Czech literature (a biblical transl... |
16872 | Kievan Rus' | After the Rus' attack on Constantinople in 860, the Byzantine Patriarch Photius sent missionaries north to convert the Rus' and the Slavs. Prince Rastislav of Moravia had requested the Emperor to provide teachers to interpret the holy scriptures, so in 863 the brothers Cyril and Methodius were sent as missionaries, due... |
16886 | Sprachgitter | Sprachgitter is a 1959 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan, published by S. Fischer Verlag. It was translated to English by Joachim Groschel in 1971 as Speech-Grille, and as Language Mesh by Michael Hamburger in 1988. |
16886 | Father Brown (2013 TV series) | Father Brown Genre Detective Based on Father Brown short stories by G.K. Chesterton Developed by Rachel Flowerday Tahsin Guner Starring Mark Williams Sorcha Cusack Hugo Speer Tom Chambers Nancy Carroll Alex Price Jack Deam John Burton Emer Kenny Theme music composer Debbie Wiseman Opening theme 'Father Brown Theme' Cou... |
16885 | Sevanthi Sevanthi | Sevanthi Sevanthi () is a 2006 Indian Kannada language romance-drama musical film directed and written by S. Narayan. The film stars Vijay Raghavendra and Ramya in the lead roles. The film is presented by Parvathamma Rajkumar and produced by Jayamma Chinne Gowda in association with S. A. Chinne Gowda. The music is comp... |
16885 | Ľudovít Štúr | Ľudovít Velislav Štúr (; ; 28 October 1815, Uhrovec (Zayugróc), near Bánovce nad Bebravou (Bán) – 12 January 1856, Modra (Modor)), known in his era as Ludevít Štúr, was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, and the author of the Slovak language standard, eventually leading to the contemporary S... |
16885 | Harley Quinn Smith | Smith made her acting debut in her father's film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, by portraying the elder Smith's usual character, Silent Bob, as a child. In 2004, she had an uncredited cameo as Tracy Colelli in the drama film Jersey Girl and two years later in the comedy film Clerks II. In 2014, she had a small role in... |
16886 | Kir Fard | Kir Fard was an Armenian Roupenian nobleman who held the fortress of Kalonoros, later known as Alanya, until 1221, when it was besieged by the Seljuq Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I. He surrendered his fortress in exchange for the fief of Akşehir, and gave his daughter Hunat Hatun in marriage to Kayqubad, who later fathered... |
16886 | Flashbacks (book) | Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era is Timothy Leary's autobiography, published in 1983. It was reprinted in 1990 and 1997. The new edition has a foreword by William S. Burroughs, and a new afterword by Leary. |
16880 | G. S. Gai | G. S. Gai (Govind Swamirao Gai) (3 March 1917 – 5 February 1995) was an Indian epigraphist, historical linguist, and historian, known for his expertise in early-medieval Kannada language inscriptions. From 1962 until 1976, Gai was the Chief Epigraphist for the Archaeological Survey of India. |
16889 | Kanni Rasi | Kanni Rasi () is a 1985 Tamil language drama film directed by newcomer Pandiarajan. The film features Prabhu and Revathi in lead roles. The film, produced by S. Shanmugarajan and D. Manickavasagam, had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 15 February 1985. This movie was later remade in Kannada as "Ramakris... |
16889 | Mayan languages | During the pre-Columbian era of Mesoamerican history, some Mayan languages were written in the logo-syllabic Maya script. Its use was particularly widespread during the Classic period of Maya civilization (c. 250–900). The surviving corpus of over 10,000 known individual Maya inscriptions on buildings, monuments, potte... |
16883 | Copake Lake, New York | Copake Lake is a community (and census-designated place) in southern Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 823 at the 2010 census. |
16884 | Kashinka Hollow | Kashinka Hollow is a tributary of East Branch Briar Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Briar Creek Township. Its watershed has an area of . The median pH of the stream is 7.565. It has the lowest visual assessment score of any stream in the Briar Cre... |
16885 | Alfred Wegener | Wegener obtained a position as a meteorologist at the German Naval Observatory (Deutsche Seewarte) and moved to Hamburg with his wife and their two daughters. In 1921 he was appointed senior lecturer at the new University of Hamburg. From 1919 to 1923 Wegener did pioneering work on reconstructing the climate of past er... |
16886 | David Finckel | Born into a family of cellists, David Finckel began his musical studies with his father, Edwin Finckel, a leading jazz musician of the Big Band Era. Growing up in Madison, New Jersey, he started studying music with his father at the age of five, and at ten took up the cello. |
16887 | Archbishopric of Magdeburg | The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Roman Catholic archdiocese (969–1552) and Prince-Archbishopric (1180–1680) of the Holy Roman Empire centered on the city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River. |
16888 | Alsace | With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during t... |
16889 | X-ray | X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz (3 × 10 Hz to 3 × 10 Hz) and energies in the range 100 eV to 100 keV. X-ray wavelengths are shorter than those of UV ra... |
16890 | Candace Cameron Bure | Candace Cameron Bure Cameron Bure in March 2018 Candace Helaine Cameron (1976 - 04 - 06) April 6, 1976 (age 42) Panorama City, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Occupation Actress, producer, author, talk show panelist Years active 1982 -- present Known for The character D.J. Tanner on Full House and Fuller House Spouse (s)... |
16891 | Norn language | Norse settlement in the islands probably began in the early 9th century. These settlers are believed to have arrived in very substantial numbers and like those who migrated to Iceland and the Faroe Islands it is probable that most came from the west coast of Norway. Shetland toponymy bears some resemblance to that of n... |
16892 | Catalan language | By the 9th century, Catalan had evolved from Vulgar Latin on both sides of the eastern end of the Pyrenees, as well as the territories of the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis to the south. From the 8th century onwards the Catalan counts extended their territory southwards and westwards at the expense of the Mus... |
16893 | Erik Refilsson | Erik Refilsson was a semi-legendary king of Sweden of the House of Munsö, who would have lived in the early 9th century. One of the few surviving Scandinavian sources that deal with Swedish kings from this time is "Hervarar saga". It says: |
16894 | Old English | With the unification of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (outside the Danelaw) by Alfred the Great in the later 9th century, the language of government and literature became standardised around the West Saxon dialect (Early West Saxon). Alfred advocated education in English alongside Latin, and had many works translated into t... |
16895 | Johannine Comma | The Comma Johanneum, also called the Johannine Comma or the Heavenly Witnesses, is a comma (a short clause) found in Latin manuscripts of the First Epistle of John at 5: 7 -- 8. The comma first appeared in the Vulgate manuscripts of the 9th century. The first Greek manuscript that contains the comma dates from the 15th... |
16896 | Paul Georg von Möllendorff | Paul Georg von Möllendorff (17 February 1847 in Zehdenick, Prussia – 20 April 1901 in Ningbo, China) was a German linguist and diplomat. Möllendorff is mostly known for his service as an adviser to the Korean king Gojong in the late nineteenth century and for his contributions to Sinology. Möllendorff is also known for... |
16897 | Annette Richardson Dinwoodey | Annette Richardson Dinwoodey (February 17, 1906 – January 21, 2007) was an American radio singer and centenarian. She sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1971 to 1973. She was a contralto. |
16928 | Francesca Vanini-Boschi | Francesca Vanini-Boschi (died 1744) was an Italian contralto singer of the 18th century. She is best remembered for her association with the composer George Frideric Handel, for whom she sang both in Italy and in London. |
16899 | Sang Divar | Sang Divar (, also Romanized as Sang Dīvār; also known as Sangetown, Sangīfān, and Sangyufan) is a village in Hezarmasjed Rural District, in the Central District of Kalat County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 220, in 50 families. |
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