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17624 | KRSU (FM) | KRSU (88.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Appleton, Minnesota. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's "Classical Music Network", originating from KSJN in Minneapolis/St. Paul. |
17612 | Western Islands (publisher) | Western Islands is the publishing arm of the John Birch Society; it is located in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, where the society has its headquarters. |
17602 | Gmina Lubrza, Opole Voivodeship | Gmina Lubrza is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border. Its seat is the village of Lubrza, which lies approximately east of Prudnik and south-west of the regional capital Opole. |
17615 | Widuchowa, West Pomeranian Voivodeship | Widuchowa () is a village in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, close to the German border. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Widuchowa. It lies approximately south-west of Gryfino and south of the regional capital Szczecin. |
17612 | Gmina Paczków | Gmina Paczków is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border. Its seat is the town of Paczków, which lies approximately west of Nysa and west of the regional capital Opole. |
17605 | Isla Palenque | Isla Palenque is located off the western Pacific shore of Panama, near the border of Costa Rica, in the Gulf of Chiriquí. Isla Boca Brava is just to the north, connected to Isla Palenque by a tombolo. The island is approximately , with of coastline and over of beaches. Most of the island is covered with mature tropical... |
17611 | Goleszewo | Goleszewo () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Braniewo, within Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It lies approximately east of Braniewo and north-west of the regional capital Olsztyn. |
17611 | J. P. Hayes | Hayes was born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso, where he was a member of the golf team. He majored in marketing and graduated in 1988. In 1989, he turned professional. |
17620 | Pierce Manufacturing | Pierce Manufacturing is an American, Appleton, Wisconsin-based manufacturer of custom fire and rescue apparatus and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation. Pierce was acquired by Oshkosh in 1996 and is currently the largest fire apparatus company in the world. The company was founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierc... |
17624 | Don Werner | Donald Paul Werner (born March 8, 1953 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is a retired Major League Baseball catcher. He played during seven seasons at the major league level, playing for the Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers (baseball). In 1978, the Reds starting catcher, Johnny Bench, sat out 20 plus games with an injury which ... |
17610 | Werner Erhard and Associates | Werner Erhard and Associates, also known as WE&A or as WEA, operated as a commercial entity from February 1981 until early 1991. It replaced Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. as the vehicle for delivering the "est" training, and offered what some people refer to as personal and professional development programs. Initially... |
17611 | Valley New School | Valley New School (VNS) is a charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin operated by the Appleton Area School District. It has a capacity of 68 students in grades 7 through 12. The school operates through a project-based learning model, with the philosophy that 21st century skills and the process of learning is more importan... |
17612 | Gmina Głuchołazy | Gmina Głuchołazy is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border. Its seat is the town of Głuchołazy, which lies approximately south of Nysa and south-west of the regional capital Opole. |
17613 | Zambezi District | Zambezi District is a district of Zambia, located in North-Western Province. The capital lies at Zambezi. As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 64,963 people. |
18575 | Cayman Islands | The Cayman Islands (/ ˈkeɪmən / or / keɪˈmæn /) is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea. The 264 - square - kilometre (102 - square - mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman located south of Cuba, northeast of Costa Rica, north of Panam... |
17615 | Paramun | Paramun () is a village in Tran Municipality, Pernik Province. It is located in western Bulgaria, 66 km from the capital city of Sofia and 14 km from the town of Tran, near the Serbian border. The toponym is of Byzantine Greek origin, from the loanword "paramun" meaning "guard, watch, sentry". It was rendered as παραμο... |
17616 | Gmina Chojna | Gmina Chojna is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the German border. Its seat is the town of Chojna, which lies approximately south of Gryfino and south of the regional capital Szczecin. |
18561 | Jaʿār | Jaar (Arabic: جعار "Jaʿār") is a small town and capital of Khanfir District in south-western Yemen. One of the largest settlements in the Abyan Governorate, it is located in the south of the Abyan Governorate to the north of Al Kawd and the regional capital of Zinjibar. The town is located about 2 kilometres east of th... |
18522 | Dominican Republic | The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana (reˈpuβliˌka ðoˌminiˈkana)) is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five - eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Ca... |
18401 | Dareton, New South Wales | Dareton is a town in the far west of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located on the Silver City Highway, 1,025 kilometres west of the state capital, Sydney and 20 kilometres from the regional centre, Mildura, across the border in Victoria. Part of the Wentworth Shire local government area, at the , Dareton had ... |
17624 | Orange Bay | Orange Bay is the name of two small bays in Jamaica. One is located at in the parish of Westmoreland, to the north of the resort town of Negril. The other is at in the east, in the parish of Portland, 15 miles west of the capital, Port Antonio. Here the name is shared by a small village on the shore of the bay. |
17624 | Sokoto North | Sokoto North is a Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the state capital of Sokoto. |
17624 | Miller Electric | Miller Electric is an arc welding and cutting equipment manufacturing company based in Appleton, Wisconsin. Miller Electric has grown from a one-man operation selling products in northeastern Wisconsin to what is today one of the world's largest manufacturers of arc welding and cutting equipment. |
17623 | Phoenix (German TV station) | Phoenix (stylised as phoenıx) is a German free-to-air television channel which is operated jointly by public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF. It broadcasts documentaries, news, special events coverage and discussion programmes. Phoenix's headquarters are in Bonn, the former West German capital. |
17624 | CEMIG | CEMIG is a Brazilian power company headquartered in Belo Horizonte capital of the state of Minas Gerais. The company is one of the largest power generators and distributors in Brazil being responsible for 12% of the national distribution. The company is the fourth largest electricity company in Brazil by revenue after ... |
17625 | Sadık Eliyeşil | It is notable that the home of Müftüzade Sadık Pasha, Sadık Eliyeşil's grandfather, in Tarsus was one of the first two houses to be electrified in the Ottoman Empire in 1902, twelve years before electricity was available in Istanbul, the empire's then capital. |
17626 | Krystala | Krystala is a daily fantasy/sci-fi/adventure/soap opera serial (superserye/fantaserye) from the Philippines, where it was produced by and aired on ABS-CBN from October 11, 2004 to April 22, 2005. The show also aired simultaneously on The Filipino Channel and on a one-week delay on International Channel (now AZN-TV) in ... |
17633 | It's Your Move | The show's creators and executive producers were Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt, who just 3 years later would take the harder tone of the "It's Your Move" concept and put it in an entirely different context: Fox's "Married... with Children", in which Garrison starred for four seasons (and was also produced by Embassy ... |
17637 | The Secret Daughter | The Secret Daughter is an Australian television drama series which premiered on the Seven Network on 3 October 2016. The series is written by Justin Monjo, Greg Haddrick, Louise Bowes and Keith Thompson and directed by Leah Purcell, Geoff Bennett and Paul Moloney. The drama centres around part - time country pub singer... |
17630 | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Packaging artwork Developer (s) Retro Studios Publisher (s) Nintendo Director (s) Ryan Harris Vince Joly Producer (s) Kensuke Tanabe Composer (s) David Wise Daisuke Matsuoka Minako Hamano Shinji Ushiroda Series Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Platform (s) Wii U, Nintendo Switch Rele... |
17630 | Palitaw | Palitaw (from "litaw", the Tagalog word for "float" or "rise") is a small, flat, sweet rice cake eaten in the Philippines. They are made from washed, soaked, and ground malagkit (sticky rice). After excess water is let out from the grinding process, scoops of the batter are rolled and flattened to a circular shape and ... |
17637 | Hassanal Bolkiah | The sultan was born on 15 July 1946, in Istana Darussalam, Brunei Town (now called Bandar Seri Begawan) as "Pengiran Muda Mahkota" (Crown Prince) Hassanal Bolkiah. The sultan received high school education at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, after which he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the Unite... |
17632 | Out of the Wild | Out of the Wild (known in the first season solely as The Alaska Experiment) is a Discovery Channel reality television series. The first and second seasons followed volunteers from urbanized backgrounds as they use survival skills in the back-country of Alaska during the fall and winter. The third season saw a relocatio... |
17633 | Jersey Shore (TV series) | Jersey Shore is an American reality television series which ran on MTV from December 3, 2009 to December 20, 2012 in the United States. The series follows the lives of eight housemates spending their summer at the Jersey Shore in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Season 2 followed the cast escaping the cold northeast winte... |
17634 | Da Flippity Flop | "Da Flippity Flop" is the nineteenth episode and ninth season finale of "American Dad!", as well as the 152nd episode of the series. The episode aired in the United States on May 12, 2013, on Fox's Animation Domination lineup. It was written by series co-creator Matt Weitzman and directed by Rodney Clouden. |
17635 | Sarangani Bay | Sarangani Bay is a bay located on the southern tip of Mindanao in the Philippines. It opens up to the Celebes Sea on the Pacific Ocean. General Santos City, one of the Philippines most important cities and ports, is located at the head of the bay, making the bay one of the busiest and often the sight of shipping accide... |
17636 | Altaussee | Altaussee is a municipality and spa town in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria. The small village is nestled on the shores of the Lake Altaussee, beneath the Loser Plateau. Occupying an area of 92 km², Altaussee is home to 1,777 people. The municipality includes two cadastral communities: Altaussee and Lupitsch.... |
17637 | South Cotabato | General Santos, located on the shores of Sarangani Bay, is the most populous city in the region, but is governed independently from the province. The province of Sarangani used to be part of South Cotabato until it was made an independent province in 1992. |
17672 | Revival of the Hebrew language | The revival of the Hebrew language took place in Europe and Israel toward the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, through which the language's usage changed from the sacred language of Judaism to a spoken and written language used for daily life in Israel. The process began as Jews started arriving in Pa... |
17639 | Coptic language | Coptic or Coptic Egyptian (Bohairic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ti. met. rem. ən. k ēmi and Sahidic: ⲧⲙⲛ̄ⲧⲣⲙ̄ⲛ̄ⲕⲏⲙⲉ t. mənt. rəm. ən. kēme) is the latest stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro - Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written in the Coptic alphabet, an adaptat... |
20383 | Yugoslavia at the Olympics | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, formed as a joint state by only Montenegro and Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia, from 1992–2002 (due to UN ban allowed to compete as Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics and was not allowed to compete at 1994 Winter Olympics)Two of the successor nations (Cro... |
17671 | Aleksandar Petrović (film director) | Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (14 January 1929 – 20 August 1994) was a French-born acclaimed Serbian and Yugoslav film director who was one of the leading European directors in the 1960s and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language... |
17642 | And Love Has Vanished | And Love Has Vanished () is a 1961 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. |
17672 | 2004 Summer Olympics | The Games saw 10,625 athletes compete, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries. There were 301 medal events in 28 different sports. Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance. 2004 a... |
17672 | Mali | Mali's official language is French and over 40 African languages also are spoken by the various ethnic groups. About 80% of Mali's population can communicate in Bambara, which serves as an important lingua franca.Mali has 12 national languages beside French and Bambara, namely Bomu, Tieyaxo Bozo, Toro So Dogon, Maasina... |
17645 | Switzerland | Switzerland has four official languages: principally German (63.5% total population share, with foreign residents, in 2013); French (22.5%) in the west; and Italian (8.1%) in the south. The fourth official language, Romansh (0.5%), is a Romance language spoken locally in the southeastern trilingual canton of Graubünden... |
17707 | American Bandstand | "American Bandstand" premiered locally in late March 1950 as Bandstand on Philadelphia television station WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now WPVI-TV), as a replacement for a weekday movie that had shown predominantly British films. Hosted by Bob Horn as a television adjunct to his radio show of the same name on WFIL radio, "Bandst... |
17668 | Silence in Dreamland | Silence in Dreamland () is a 2013 Ecuador drama film directed by Tito Molina. It was selected as the Ecuadorian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. |
17708 | Beautiful Trio | Beautiful Trio (大女人·小女人) is a Chinese language drama broadcast on Singapore's largest television network, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The show was filmed in 2003 but broadcast in 2004. It stars Huang Biren , Ivy Lee , Stella Huang & Zhang Yaodong as the casts of the series. |
18179 | Miami | Miami is a major television production center, and the most important city in the U.S. for Spanish language media. Univisión, Telemundo and UniMÁS have their headquarters in Miami, along with their production studios. The Telemundo Television Studios produces much of the original programming for Telemundo, such as thei... |
17668 | Josip Broz Tito | Every year a "Brotherhood and Unity" relay race is organized in Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia which ends at the "House of Flowers" in Belgrade on May 25 – the final resting place of Tito. At the same time, runners in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina set off for Kumrovec, Tito's birthplace in northern Cro... |
17708 | Belgrade (film) | Belgrade (also known as Belgrade with Boris Malagurski) is a 2013 Serbian documentary film directed by Boris Malagurski about Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The documentary film had its world premiere on 19 October 2013 at Sava Centar in Belgrade and was aired on Radio Television Serbia on 20 October 2014. |
17708 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 comput... |
17653 | Ivan Levaï | Ivan Levaï (born 18 March 1937 in Budapest) is a journalist in France. He has occupied many positions in radio, television and press journalism. For several years he presented the review of the press in the morning news show on France Inter radio. As of 2011 he presents a press review on France Inter on Saturday and Su... |
17654 | Josip Broz Tito | Tito was interred in a mausoleum in Belgrade, which forms part of a memorial complex in the grounds of the Museum of Yugoslav History (formerly called "Museum 25 May" and "Museum of the Revolution"). The actual mausoleum is called House of Flowers (Kuća Cveća) and numerous people visit the place as a shrine to "better ... |
20224 | Cash Cab (American game show) | Cash Cab Title card for both Canadian and U.S. versions Genre Game show Created by Adam Wood Presented by Ben Bailey (New York version) Beth Melewski (Chicago version) Country of origin United States Original language (s) English No. of seasons 6 Production Producer (s) Lion Television Running time 24 -- 26 minutes Rel... |
17656 | Hallmark Movies & Mysteries | Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Launched January 20, 2004; 14 years ago (2004 - 01 - 20) Owned by Crown Media Holdings Picture format 1080i (HDTV) (HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs) Country United States Language English Broadcast area Nationwide Headquarters Studio City, Los Angeles, California Formerly ca... |
17707 | Sabaka | Sabaka is a 1954 American adventure film written, directed and co-produced by Frank Ferrin that was shot on location in India. Ferrin also produced and directed the television show "Andy's Gang" where Nino Marcel as Gunga Ram's series of Indian adventures appeared on the show. The film was originally released as The Hi... |
17658 | Béla Linder | Béla Linder (Majs, 10 February 1876 – Belgrade, 15 April 1962), Hungarian colonel of artillery, Secretary of War of Mihály Károlyi government, minister without portfolio of Dénes Berinkey government, military attaché of Hungarian Soviet Republic based in Vienna, finally the mayor of Pécs during the period of Serb occup... |
20379 | Moldova at the 1996 Summer Olympics | Moldova competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Moldovan athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics. |
17669 | The Lost Language of Cranes | The Lost Language of Cranes is a novel by David Leavitt, first published in 1986. A British TV film of the novel was made in 1991. The film was released on DVD in 2009. |
20377 | Kazakhstan at the Olympics | Kazakhstan first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakh athletes competed as part of the Soviet Union at the Olympics, and were also part of the Unified Team in 1992. |
17662 | Vladimir Karalić | Vladimir Karalić (, born 22 March 1984 in Belgrade) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian professional footballer who currently plays for First League of the Republika Srpska club Sloboda Mrkonjić Grad as a forward. |
17663 | KVN | For more than 20 years TV broadcasts of KVN games receive the highest ratings in Russia. The popularity of the game is so high that even politicians use it as an opportunity to gain extra points, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev attended games played before the elections. The game of KVN helps in inter... |
17670 | Olympic Channel (American TV channel) | Olympic Channel Launched July 15, 2017 (2017 - 07 - 15) (as the Olympic Channel) Owned by NBC Olympics United States Olympic Committee NBC Sports Group (NBCUniversal) Picture format 1080i HDTV Slogan Home of Team USA Country United States Language English Broadcast area Nationwide Headquarters New York City, New York C... |
20377 | Languages of India | The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages, which have been referred to as scheduled languages and given recognition, status and official encouragement. In addition, the Government of India has awarded the distinction of classical language to Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu. ... |
17666 | Silent Sonata | Silent Sonata () is a 2011 Slovenian drama film directed by Janez Burger and has no dialogue. The main producers are the Slovene Stara Gara and the Irish Fastnet Films. "Silent Sonata" is the first official Slovene-Irish-Swedish-Finnish co-production and was shot in 35 days in Slovenia and Ireland. The world premiere t... |
17707 | Slavko Šurdonja | Slavko Šurdonja (1 October 1912 in Sušak – 8 January 1943 in Belgrade) was a Croatian, Yugoslav international, football player. |
17668 | Isaac Ntiamoah | He was a member of the Australian 4 × 100 m relay team that equalled the Australian record when they qualified for the finals at the 2012 London Olympics. In the final the team finished sixth. Ntiamoah also took a fourth place in the relay at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. |
17669 | Petar Trifunović | Dr. Petar Trifunović (31 August 1910, Dubrovnik – 8 December 1980, Belgrade) was an International Grandmaster and five-times Yugoslav Champion of chess. |
17670 | Path of Hope | Path of Hope () is a 1950 Italian language drama film directed by Pietro Germi that belongs to the Italian neorealism film movement. It is based on Nino Di Maria's novel "Cuori negli abissi". Federico Fellini co-wrote the script. |
17671 | Group Portrait with a Lady | Group Portrait with a Lady () is a 1977 German-French drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name. |
17672 | Korean language | The Korean language (South Korean: 한국어 / 韓國語 Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말 / 朝鮮말 Chosŏnmal) is an East Asian language spoken by about 80 million people. It is a member of the Koreanic language family and is the official and national language of both Koreas: North Korea and South Korea, with different standardized officia... |
17706 | Humanes de Madrid | Humanes de Madrid is a town in Spain. It is located in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, in the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 17,379 in 2008. |
17704 | Jacksonville, Florida | Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763 after the French and Indian War, and the British soon constructed the King's Road connecting St. Augustine to Georgia. The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British called the Cow Ford or Cowford; these names os... |
17675 | Charlie Goodrum | Charles Leo Goodrum (born January 11, 1950 in Miami, Florida) was a guard and offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Minnesota Vikings. Goodrum attended Florida A&M University. |
17706 | El Clásico | Real Madrid leads the head to head results in competitive matches with 95 wins to Barcelona's 91, while Barcelona leads in total matches with 111 wins to Real Madrid's 99. Along with Athletic Bilbao, they are the only clubs in La Liga to have never been relegated. |
17703 | Elena Paunero Ruiz | Elena Paunero Ruiz (born 21 September 1906 — 9 March 2009) was a Spanish botanist who specialised in agricultural botany. She worked for many years at the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid). |
17701 | Moritz Geiger | Moritz Geiger (Frankfurt, 26 June 1880 – Seal Harbor, Maine, 9 September 1937) was a German philosopher and a disciple of Edmund Husserl. He was a member of the Munich phenomenological school. Beside phenomenology, he dedicated himself to psychology, epistemology and aesthetics. |
19658 | Paco Godia | Francisco Godia Sales, better known as Paco Godia (21 March 1921 – 28 November 1990) was a racing driver from Barcelona, Spain. He drove intermittently in Formula One between and , participating in 14 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship races. |
17701 | Real Madrid CF | Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfuðβol] (listen), meaning Royal Madrid Football Club), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. |
17705 | FC Barcelona | There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between Barcelona and Real Madrid is known as El Clásico. From the start of national competitions the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain: Catal... |
19654 | Raffaele di Paco | Raffaele di Paco (6 July 1908–21 May 1996) was an Italian road racing cyclist, who won five stages in the 1931 Tour de France four stages in the 1932 Tour de France and two stages in the 1935 Tour de France, and wore the yellow jersey for a total of four days in 1931. One of these, after stage 5, he shared the lead wit... |
17706 | Charles Edmund Nugent | Nugent served in the naval brigade in the invasions of Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Guadaloupe during the French Revolutionary Wars and, when William Cornwallis assumed command of the blockade of Brest, Nugent was selected to serve as his Captain of the Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. He never commanded any fleet or ... |
17705 | Charles Torrey Simpson | Charles Torrey Simpson (Tiskilwa, Illinois June 3, 1846 – Lemon City, Miami, Florida December 17, 1932) was an American botanist, malacologist, and conservationist. He retired to Florida where he became known for conservation. |
17704 | 2016 UEFA Champions League Final | The 2016 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2015 -- 16 UEFA Champions League, the 61st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 24th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the San Siro sta... |
17706 | UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award | Year Player Club UEFA Best Player in Europe Award 2010 -- 11 Lionel Messi Barcelona 2011 -- 12 Andrés Iniesta Barcelona 2012 -- 13 Franck Ribéry Bayern Munich 2013 -- 14 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid 2014 -- 15 Lionel Messi Barcelona 2015 -- 16 Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award 2016 -- 1... |
17706 | El Clásico | The rivalry reflected in El Clásico matches comes about as Real Madrid and Barcelona are the most successful football clubs in Spain. As seen below, Barcelona leads Real Madrid 94 -- 91 in terms of official overall trophies. While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is recognised as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, it was not o... |
17688 | Carlos, Duke of Madrid | "Don" Carlos, Duke of Madrid (Spanish: "Carlos María de los Dolores Juan Isidro José Francisco Quirico Antonio Miguel Gabriel Rafael"; 30 March 1848 – 18 July 1909) was the senior member of the House of Bourbon from 1887 until his death. He was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VII from ... |
17689 | Ambrogio Maestri | Ambrogio Maestri (born 1970) is an Italian operatic baritone. He is especially known for his portrayal of the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff". He studied piano and singing in his home town, Pavia. In Italy he has performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in ... |
17690 | Carlos Asensio Cabanillas | Carlos Asensio Cabanillas (14 November 1896, Madrid – 1969, Madrid) was a Spanish soldier and statesman who served during the Spanish Civil War, rising in command from Colonel to General in Franco's Army of Africa. |
17706 | Second Seminole War | The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, was a conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between various groups of Native Americans collectively known as Seminoles and the United States, part of a series of conflicts called the Seminole Wars. The Second Seminole War, often referred to as the Seminole War, is... |
17692 | Supercopa de España | Team Winner Runner - up Years won Years runner - up Barcelona 12 10 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2012, 2015, 2017 Real Madrid 10 5 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2017 1982, 1995, 2007, 2011, 2014 Deportivo La Coru... |
17693 | Sarah Beaumont | Sarah Beaumont (also Hannay) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", played by Nicola Charles. Shortly after Charles moved to Australia, she was encouraged to try out for a part in the serial by a drama coach. The actress received the role of Sarah and made her first screen appearance duri... |
17694 | Antonio Álvarez Jonte | Antonio Álvarez Jonte (Madrid, 1784 – Pisco, Perú, October 18, 1820) was an Argentine politician. He was born in Madrid in 1784 and moved with parents to Córdoba when young. He studied law at Córdoba University and obtained his doctorate at the Real Universidad de San Felipe in Santiago de Chile. He opened a law practi... |
17695 | Flavio Manzoni | Manzoni studied Architecture at University of Florence, specializing in industrial design. In 1993 he joined the Centro Stile Lancia, and three years later he was made responsible for Interior Design of the marque. He worked on various projects such as the interiors of the Lancia Dialogos and the Maserati 3200 GT. In 1... |
17696 | Battle of the Sound | The naval Battle of the Sound took place on 8 November 1658 (29 October O.S.) during the Second Northern War, near the Sound or Øresund, just north of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Sweden had invaded Denmark and an army under Charles X of Sweden had Copenhagen itself under siege. The Dutch fleet was sent to prevent S... |
17697 | Mali | In January 2012, an armed conflict broke out in northern Mali, which Tuareg rebels took control of by April and declared the secession of a new state, Azawad. The conflict was complicated by a military coup that took place in March and later fighting between Tuareg and Islamist rebels. In response to Islamist territori... |
17698 | Alafaya, Florida | Alafaya is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 78,113 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is most known for the Waterford Lakes Town Center, a commercial outlet with various ... |
17699 | Aleran | Aleran was the Count of Barcelona from 848 to 852. He was also Count of Empúries and Roussillon and Margrave of Septimania together with Isembart from 849 or 850 to 852. |
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