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12477 | Battle of Cissa | The Battle of Cissa was part of the Second Punic War. It was fought in the fall of 218 BC, near the Greek town of Tarraco in north-eastern Iberia. A Roman army under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus defeated an outnumbered Carthaginian army under Hanno, thus gaining control of the territory north of the Ebro River that H... |
12140 | Madrasa | The term "Islamic education" means education in the light of Islam itself, which is rooted in the teachings of the Quran - holy book of Muslims. Islamic education and Muslim education are not the same. Because Islamic education has epistemological integration which is founded on Tawhid - Oneness or monotheism. For deta... |
13192 | John "Hannibal" Smith | Colonel John ``Hannibal ''Smith, played by George Peppard, is a fictional character and one of the four protagonists of the 1980s action - adventure television series The A-Team. The producers originally had James Coburn in mind to play the part of Hannibal, but it eventually ended up going to Peppard. |
403 | Hannibal Day | Hannibal Day served as an officer in the regular army before and during the American Civil War, briefly commanding a brigade in the Army of the Potomac. |
18215 | Khong Island | Khong Island or Don Khong is the largest island and the seat of administration in the Si Phan Don riverine archipelago located in the Mekong River, Khong District, Champasak Province, southern Laos. |
405 | Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative | The Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) is an electric distribution cooperative which is headquartered in Hughesville, Maryland. SMECO serves approximately 161,000 customers in Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties of southern Maryland. Under its rules as a nonprofit cooperative, SMECO p... |
406 | Southern California Edison | Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International, is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California, USA. It provides 14 million people with electricity across a service territory of approximately 50,000 square miles. However, the Los Angeles Department of... |
18461 | Menteng, Menteng | Menteng is an administrative village in the Menteng district of Indonesia. It has a postal code of 10310. It is located on the southern area of the Menteng Project. |
10416 | Hylestad | Hylestad is a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The former municipality was located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Valle in the traditional region of Setesdal. It existed from 1915 until its dissolution in 1962. The administrative centre was the village of Rysstad where the Hyle... |
409 | Hughesville, Maryland | Hughesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,197 at the 2010 census. Truman's Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. |
3706 | Campora | Campora is a town and "comune" in the province of Salerno, Campania (southern Italy). It is located in the territory of Cilento and as of 2009 its population was of 810. |
16456 | United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York | The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York is the United States bankruptcy court within the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Southern District of New York is a major venue for bankruptcy, as it has jurisdiction over the corporate headquarters and majo... |
2238 | Ceres Nunataks | The Ceres Nunataks () are a group of three nunataks located immediately east of the base of Shostakovich Peninsula in southern Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation wi... |
413 | Elk Ridge (Maryland) | Elk Ridge is a mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Maryland. The ridge is located to the west of South Mountain and runs roughly parallel to it from Rohrersville, in the north, to the Potomac River across from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in the south. Across the Potomac the ridge continues as Blue Ridge Mou... |
896 | Poum | Poum is a commune in the North Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The town of Poum (Latitude: 20° 13' 59" south, longitude: 164° 1' 23" east) is located in the far northwest, located on the southern part of Banare Bay, with Mouac Island just offshore. |
18278 | Beryslav Raion | Beryslav Raion (, ) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a "district") of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Beryslav. Its population was 55,976 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Current population: |
18564 | WaterColor, Florida | WaterColor is an unincorporated master-planned community located in Seagrove Beach on the Northwest Gulf Coast of Florida, United States near Destin. This Southern resort and residential community was planned by Cooper, Robertson & Partners, under the direction of The St. Joe Company. The St. Joe Company has owned the ... |
417 | Josh LaBove | Joshua Labove (born March 22, 1986 in Manhasset, New York) has often been credited in TV and film performances as a child actor in the late 1980s and 1990s. |
418 | Amulya | Amulya's first film in 2015, "Khushi Khushiyagi", saw her being paired opposite Ganesh for the third time. Critics praised her performance as Nandini; G. S. Kumar of "The Times of India" wrote, "Shades of 'Shravani Subramanya' are visible in Amulya's role, who essays a stellar role..." In "Male", she was cast in tomboy... |
419 | Heavy Rain | Heavy Rain is an interactive drama and action-adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, released for PlayStation 3 in February 2010. The game features four protagonists involved with the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial murderer who uses extended periods of rainfall ... |
420 | Lucilla Andrews | Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (born 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt – d. 3 October 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British writer of 33 romance novels from 1954 to 1996, she signed as Lucilla Andrews specialised in hospital romances, and under the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus published her first myste... |
421 | Religion in ancient Rome | Livy presents these as signs of widespread failure in Roman religio. The major prodigies included the spontaneous combustion of weapons, the apparent shrinking of the sun's disc, two moons in a daylit sky, a cosmic battle between sun and moon, a rain of red-hot stones, a bloody sweat on statues, and blood in fountains ... |
9153 | The Official Story | The film deals with the story of an upper middle class couple who lives in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecido, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976 - 1983), whic... |
423 | Norma K. Hemming | Norma Kathleen Hemming (born September 1928 in Ilford, Essex, London, England – d. 4 July 1960 in Melbourne, Australia) was a British-Australian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was Australia's first significant female science fiction writer. As N. K. Hemming published twenty stories in the 1950s, and ... |
9225 | Catalan language | Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languag... |
425 | Wilson Phillips | Wilson Phillips is an American vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, and Chynna Phillips, the daughters, respectively, of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and of John and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas. |
15157 | Mary's Boy Child | "Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. It is widely performed as a Christmas carol. |
427 | Infection | One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus... |
428 | Catalan language | The ascription of Catalan to the Occitano-Romance branch of Gallo-Romance languages is not shared by all linguists and philologists, particularly among Spanish ones, such as Ramón Menéndez Pidal. |
429 | The Second Hurricane | The Second Hurricane is an opera in two acts by Aaron Copland to a libretto by Edwin Denby. Specifically written for school performances, it lasts just under an hour and premiered on April 21, 1937, at the Henry Street Settlement playhouse in New York City. Set in the United States in the 1930s, the opera tells the sto... |
430 | Medical Center of the Rockies | Medical Center of the Rockies, located in Loveland, Colorado, is the sister hospital of Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Both are operated by UCHealth. The hospital is home to a regional heart center where open heart surgery is performed; a regional neurosciences center that cares for victims of head a... |
18625 | Jesse Bennett | Dr. Jesse Bennett (July 10, 1769 -- July 13, 1842) was the first American physician to perform a successful Caesarean section, which he performed on his own wife at the birth of their only child on January 14, 1794. |
432 | Victim of Romance | Victim of Romance is singer and songwriter Michelle Phillips' first and only solo album, and was released in February 1977 (see 1977 in music). The record was unsuccessful and Phillips (previously with The Mamas & the Papas) then favored her acting career. The front cover photography was by Terry O'Neill. |
16161 | This Child | This Child is the second album by Susan Aglukark, released in 1995. The album was Susan's commercial breakthrough in Canada, spawning chart hits with "O Siem" and "Hina Na Ho (Celebration)", and making Susan the first Inuk performer ever to have a Top 40 hit. |
434 | Age of consent reform | In June 2005, a bill was proposed before the General Assembly of Georgia (USA) to raise the age of consent from 16 to 18. The bill failed, however. The Georgia age of consent was 14 from the Progressive era until 1995, when a bill proposed by state Senator Steve Langford to make 16 the age of consent passed. In 2006, f... |
435 | Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway | Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway is a 2000 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein arranged by Alan Broadbent and John Oddo. It was Feinstein's third album for the Concord label. |
9023 | Child labour | Child labour has been a consistent struggle for children in Brazil ever since the country was colonized on April 22, 1550 by Pedro Álvares Cabral. Work that many children took part in was not always visible, legal, or paid. Free or slave labour was a common occurrence for many youths and was a part of their everyday li... |
437 | Allison DuBois | Allison DuBois (born January 24, 1972) is an American author and purported medium. DuBois has used her psychic abilities to assist U.S. law enforcement officials in solving crimes, forming the basis of the TV series Medium. |
17765 | Eritrea | In 1922, Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy brought profound changes to the colonial government in Italian Eritrea. After il Duce declared the birth of the Italian Empire in May 1936, Italian Eritrea (enlarged with northern Ethiopia's regions) and Italian Somaliland were merged with the just conquered Ethiopia i... |
439 | Tim DuBois | Tim DuBois (born May 4, 1948 in Southwest City, Missouri) is a Nashville, Tennessee-based music executive. He attended Oklahoma State University and received a B.A. and M.A. in Accounting and in 2016 he was awarded an honorary PHD in Accounting. He then entered into the music business and has taken part in multiple asp... |
440 | Palazzo Corner Spinelli | The Palazzo Corner Spinelli is a palace in Venice, northern Italy, located on the Grand Canal, in the sestiere of San Marco. It stands across the canal from the Palazzo Querini Dubois. |
441 | Dubois (surname) | Dubois (also spelled DuBois or Du Bois, from the French "of the woods/forest") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: |
442 | Southwest City, Missouri | Southwest City is a city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States. The population was 937 at the 2010 census, at which time it was a town. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located in the southwestern corner of the state of Missouri. |
443 | When I Call Your Name (Vince Gill song) | ``When I Call Your Name ''is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in May 1990 as the third single and title track from the album When I Call Your Name. The song reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was written by Gill and Tim DuB... |
444 | All Funked Up | All Funked Up is the "highly elusive on vinyl" third album released by British rock/R&B band Snafu, on the Capitol label in 1975. The band featured keyboardist Brian Chatton, once with the Warriors of Jon Anderson, Flaming Youth with Phil Collins, and finally Jackson Heights with ex-the Nice Lee Jackson. |
445 | Take It All Back | ``Take It All Back ''is a song written and recorded by American folk band Judah & the Lion, released as a single from their second studio album Folk Hop N 'Roll. It was released by the band's label, Cletus the Van Records. |
11271 | For You (Bruce Springsteen song) | "For You" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen in 1972 for his debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.", released in 1973. It was later included on the compilation album "The Essential Bruce Springsteen". The song has been covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Format, and Greg Kihn. |
447 | Golgoth 13 | Golgoth 13 were a French band, formed in 2000 in Bayonne (France) by Sébastien Lasserre (guitar) and Grégory Sentenac (organ). They were soon joined by Sylvain Aubert on scratches and sampling, and they records their first album "Golgoth 13 et leur "fantastic rodéo sound"" in August 2000. They were later joined by Herv... |
448 | Big Swing Face | Big Swing Face is the eighth album by American singer and pianist Bruce Hornsby. It was Hornsby's first studio album with his touring band, the Noisemakers, and his last album for RCA Records . |
449 | Fist of Fury II | Fist of Fury II (, a.k.a. Chinese Connection 2 and Fist of Fury Part II), is a 1977 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by Iksan Lahardi and Tso-nam Lee, and starring Bruce Li and Lo Lieh. It is the sequel to Bruce Lee’s 1972's "Fist of Fury". |
450 | PIAS Recordings | In 2000, the label moved from Brussels to London and was renamed [PIAS] Recordings. [PIAS] Recordings released the first two albums by Icelandic band Sigur Rós. The Scottish band Mogwai signed to PIAS in 2001. |
451 | Bruce Lee, My Brother | Bruce Lee, My Brother (, also known in the United Kingdom as Young Bruce Lee) is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts drama film directed by Raymond Yip, and also written, produced and directed by Manfred Wong, and also storied, produced and narrated by Bruce Lee's real life younger brother Robert Lee. Starring A... |
452 | All the Years | All the Years is a song that was recorded by the rock band Chicago, released on the 2008 album Stone of Sisyphus. It was written by Robert Lamm and studio session musician Bruce Gaitsch, the guitarist from the "Night & Day Big Band" album. |
453 | The Bruce Lee Band | The Bruce Lee Band (or B. Lee Band) is the name given to the releases of Mike Park and his backing band which has so far included Less Than Jake and the Rx Bandits. |
14537 | Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid | Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid is the debut studio album by the American rock band Collective Soul. It was originally released on an indie label in Atlanta called Rising Storm Records in 1993. The track "Shine" gained the band attention thanks to college radio. They later signed on with Atlantic Records and t... |
455 | Levitate (Bruce Hornsby album) | Levitate is the tenth studio album by Bruce Hornsby. It was Hornsby's third studio album with his touring band, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, and was his first release with Verve Records. |
14567 | I Will Not Bow | "I Will Not Bow" is the first single by American rock band Breaking Benjamin's 2009 album "Dear Agony". It was featured in the ending credits of the Bruce Willis film "Surrogates". The song was not written specifically for the film, but according to drummer Chad Szeliga, "Ben sent a few songs to our record label, Holly... |
457 | Pink Cadillac (song) | ``Pink Cadillac ''Single by Bruce Springsteen A-side`` Dancing in the Dark'' Released May 3, 1984 (1984 - 05 - 03) Format 7 - inch single Recorded Genre Rock Length 3: 33 Label Columbia Songwriter (s) Bruce Springsteen Producer (s) Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau Chuck Plotkin Steven Van Zandt Bruce Springsteen singles ch... |
14875 | Go Down Records | Go Down Records is an independent record label based in Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy. It was founded by Leonardo Cola and Max Ear, also part of the Italian band OJM. |
459 | I Write the Songs | ``I Write the Songs ''Single by David Cassidy from the album The Higher They Climb Released Format 7'' (45 rpm) Recorded Genre Pop Length 4: 07 Label RCA Records Songwriter (s) Bruce Johnston Producer (s) Bruce Johnston David Cassidy singles chronology`` Daydreamer ''(1973) ``I Write the Songs'' (1975)`` Darlin '''(197... |
460 | Birth of the Dragon | Philip Ng as Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do. Xia Yu as Wong Jack Man, the Tai chi and Northern Shaolin Master who Bruce Lee fights. Jin Xing as Auntie Blossom, a gangster. Billy Magnussen as Steve McKee, Bruce Lee's student. Jingjing Qu as Xiulan, McKee's love interest. Simon Yin as Vinnie Wei Ron Yuan as Tony Yu |
6659 | Strange Little Girl | "Strange Little Girl" by the Stranglers was released in the UK in 1982 as their last single while signed to Liberty Records (part of EMI). By the time of release, the band had already decided to leave the label for Epic Records, and this last single was part of the severance deal, along with the compilation album, "The... |
14861 | Asian Man Records | Asian Man Records is a DIY record label run by Mike Park in Monte Sereno, California. Park started a record label and began releasing music in 1989 under the name Dill Records, with the Asian Man label established May 1996. |
14576 | Porno Graffitti | , also known as , are a Japanese rock band from Onomichi (formerly Innoshima), Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The band got their name from the album "Pornograffitti" by the band Extreme. They currently record under the SME Records label, and their agency is Amuse, Inc.. |
464 | (Miss)understood | (Miss)understood is the seventh studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, released January 1, 2006 by Avex Trax. Hamasaki acted as the album's sole lyricist, as she had on all of her preceding albums. "(Miss)understood" marked new musical directions for Hamasaki: she explored new influences such as fun... |
465 | Pendennis | The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848–50) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It is set in 19th-century England, particularly in London. The main hero is a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis, who is born in the country and sets o... |
466 | Prison Break | The second season begins eight hours after the escape, focusing mainly on the eight escapees. Series creator Paul Scheuring describes the second season as "The Fugitive times eight" and likens it to the "second half of The Great Escape." The fugitives split up and journey to locations across the country with the author... |
467 | Jason Sampson | Jason Sampson (born February 21, 1982) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the flyweight division of Legacy FC. A professional competitor since 2009, Sampson has previously competed for Bellator and Shark Fights. |
468 | Ivanhoe, North Carolina | Ivanhoe is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sampson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 311 at the 2000 census. |
469 | Dean Sampson | Dean Sampson (born 27 June 1967) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a , and spent his entire professional career at the Castleford Tigers. Sampson made over 400 appearances for Castleford between 1987 and 2005. He also represented England and Great Britain at international level, an... |
470 | Pam Ferris | Pamela E. Ferris (born 11 May 1948) is a British actress. She starred on television as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, and as Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme, and has played parts in family films based on works by British authors, such as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda and as Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prison... |
471 | Kill Rock Stars | Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, but was originally known for its commitment to underground punk rock bands and the Olympia area mus... |
472 | Little Miss Marker (1980 film) | Little Miss Marker is a 1980 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Walter Bernstein, based on a short story by Damon Runyon. It stars Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart and new arrival Sara Stimson. It is a remake of the 1934 film of the same name starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Me... |
473 | Sara Sidner | Sara Sidner (born May 31, 1972) is an American journalist. She is a correspondent for CNN and CNN International based in Jerusalem starting August 2012, formerly in New Delhi. She currently works in CNN's Los Angeles bureau. |
474 | Nərimanabad, Lankaran | Nərimanabad (also, Narimanov, Sara, and Sara-Ostrov) is a village and municipality in the Lankaran Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 4,876. The municipality consists of the villages of Nərimanabad and Üzümçülük. |
7622 | Miss Mousie's Blind Date | Miss Mousie's Blind Date is a book by Canadian children's book author Tim Beiser, illustrated by Canadian painter Rachel Berman. It was published by Tundra Books in October 2012. |
476 | Miss Sara Sampson | Miss Sara Sampson (original spelling "Miß Sara Sampson") is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the author was living in Potsdam, it is seen by many scholars to be one of the first bourgeois tragedies. In the same year it was represented at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder and ... |
477 | Emilia Galotti | Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick ("Braunschweig" in German). The work is a classic example of German "bürgerliches Trauerspiel" (bourgeois tragedy). Other works in this category include Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" and Hebbel's ... |
478 | Mary Ann Sampson | Mary Ann Sampson is an American artist living and working in Ragland, Alabama. Sampson is a book artist, specializing in miniatures and broadsides most of which are "uniques" or "one-of-a-kinds." She explores the book as a means of expressing visual ideas that stem from recollections of personal events and experiences ... |
479 | Radar (song) | "Radar" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her fifth studio album, "Blackout" (2007). It was written and produced by Bloodshy & Avant and The Clutch, with additional writing from Henrik Jonback, as a record that did not relate to any of her personal problems at the time. The recording sessions too... |
13262 | Kamryn Belle | For the most part she was raised in the Netherlands, where she currently lives. Kamryn is the youngest of six children and comes from a musical family. Her dad was a singer in a band and her three brothers all played an instrument. When she was growing up Kamryn started singing more often and gained more experience. Sh... |
481 | The Horse | "The Horse" is an American instrumental song by Cliff Nobles and Company. It was released as the B-side of the single "Love is All Right" and is simply an instrumental version of that song. It peaked at #2 on both the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart (in June 1968) and the US "Billboard" R&B chart. |
482 | The Blitz | The government planned to voluntarily evacuate four million people—mostly women and children—from urban areas, including 1.4 million from London. It expected about 90% of evacuees to stay in private homes, and conducted an extensive survey to determine available space. Detailed preparations for transporting them were d... |
483 | Northeast blackout of 2003 | The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a widespread power outage throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and the Canadian province of Ontario on Thursday, August 14, 2003, just after 4: 10 p.m. EDT. |
484 | Chapman Stick | The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords, or textures. Designed as a fully polypho... |
485 | The Stars and Stripes Forever | The Stars and Stripes Forever National march of the United States Lyrics John Philip Sousa, May 1897 (1897 - 05) Music John Philip Sousa, December 1896 (1896 - 12) Adopted 1987; 31 years ago (1987) Audio sample ``The Stars and Stripes Forever ''(instrumental) file help |
486 | Transformers (film) | In the present, Blackout attacks and destroys a United States military base in Qatar in a failed attempt to hack the military network to find information on Megatron and the AllSpark. A surviving team of Army Rangers led by Captain William Lennox escape across the desert, pursued by Blackout's drone Scorponok. They fig... |
487 | Miami Vice Theme | ``Miami Vice Theme ''is a musical piece composed and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series Miami Vice. It was first presented as part of the television broadcast of the show in September 1984, was released as a single in 1985, and peaked at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. It was th... |
488 | Landkjenning | Landkjenning () is the second full-length album by the Norwegian folk rock band Glittertind, released on May 27, 2009 through Napalm Records. All instruments and vocals were done by Torbjørn Sandvik and Geirmund Simonsen except the following instruments handled by session members: Harding fiddle by Erlend Viken, flutes... |
489 | Galactic Center | Harlow Shapley stated in 1918 that the halo of globular clusters surrounding the Milky Way seemed to be centered on the star swarms in the constellation of Sagittarius, but the dark molecular clouds in the area blocked the view for optical astronomers. In the early 1940s Walter Baade at Mount Wilson Observatory took ad... |
490 | Don't Worry, Be Happy | ``Do n't Worry, Be Happy ''is a popular worldwide hit song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. The song's title is taken from a famous quotation by Meher Baba. The`` instruments'... |
491 | The Blackout All-Stars | The Blackout All-Stars was a one-off 1994 Latin supergroup consisting of Ray Barretto, Sheila E., Tito Puente, Tito Nieves, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Valentin, Grover Washington, Jr., and Tony Pabon. |
14438 | Dog Star Man | Dog Star Man is a series of short experimental films, all directed by Stan Brakhage, featuring Jane Wodening. It was released during 1961 to 1964 and comprises a prelude and four parts. |
3135 | Phonograph record | Contrary to popular belief, if placed properly and prepared-for, drums could be effectively used and heard on even the earliest jazz and military band recordings. The loudest instruments such as the drums and trumpets were positioned the farthest away from the collecting horn. Lillian Hardin Armstrong, a member of King... |
494 | Messiah (Handel) | The three - part structure of the work approximates to that of Handel's three - act operas, with the ``parts ''subdivided by Jennens into`` scenes''. Each scene is a collection of individual numbers or ``movements ''which take the form of recitatives, arias and choruses. There are two instrumental numbers, the opening ... |
495 | Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album) | Midnight Blue is a 1963 album by Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga, and is one of Burrell's best-known works for Blue Note. "Jazz Improv" magazine lists the album among its top five recommended recor... |
496 | Fizeau–Foucault apparatus | Fizeau -- Foucault apparatus is a term sometimes used to refer to two types of instrument historically used to measure the speed of light. The conflation of the two instrument types arises in part because Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault had originally been friends and collaborators. They worked together on such proj... |
8683 | Don't Ask Me Why (Billy Joel song) | "Don't Ask Me Why" is a Billy Joel song released in 1980. The track contains all acoustic and Latin percussion instruments performing in an Afro-Cuban rhythmic style. An eclectic, instrumental "Latin Ballroom" piano solo, played over the bridge section after the second verse, is also featured in part of the song; Joel ... |
498 | A cappella | In addition to singing words, some a cappella singers also emulate instrumentation by reproducing instrumental sounds with their vocal cords and mouth. One of the earliest 20th century practitioners of this method were The Mills Brothers whose early recordings of the 1930s clearly stated on the label that all instrumen... |
499 | Mountrail County Courthouse | The Mountrail County Courthouse in Stanley, North Dakota was built in 1914 and served Mountrail County as its courthouse continuously since then. It was designed by architects Buechner & Orth in what can be termed Academic Revival architecture and/or Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture. It was listed on th... |
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