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Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת‎ ‎ , ] ) (born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science...
Susumu Tonegawa Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進 "Tonegawa Susumu", born September 6, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987, for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunol...
John Galsworthy John Galsworthy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906–1921) and its sequels, "A Modern Comedy" and "End of the Chapter". He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
One More River One More River is a 1934 American drama film directed by James Whale. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starred Colin Clive, Diana Wynyard and stage actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell in one of her very few films. The film marked Jane Wyatt's screen debut. It is based on a 1933 novel b...
Growth of the Soil Growth of the soil (Norwegian Markens Grøde), is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural Norway. First published in 1917, it has since been translated from Norwegian into languages such as English. The no...
Nobel Prize in Literature Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i litteratur" ) has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "...
List of Danish Nobel laureates This is a list of Danish Nobel laureates. Since the Nobel Prize was established per the will of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, 12 of the prize winners have been from Denmark. The first Danish Nobel laureate was Niels Ryberg Finsen, who won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903 for hi...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Swedish: "Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin" ), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by...
TS postcode area The TS postcode area, also known as the Cleveland postcode area, (or unofficially as the "Teesside postcode area") comprises the postcode districts covering the post towns of Billingham, Guisborough, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Stockton-on-Tees, Trimdon Station, Wingate and ...
RM postcode area The RM postcode area, also known as the Romford postcode area, is a group of 20 postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of nine post towns. The majority of these postcode districts cover part of north east and east London. Inward mail for the RM postcode area is sorted at the Romford Mail...
E postcode area The E (Eastern) postcode area, also known as the London E postcode area, is the part of the London post town covering much of the eastern part of Greater London, England and also Sewardstone in Essex. Since the closure of the East London mail centre during the summer of 2012, inward mail for the E postc...
NG postcode area The NG postcode area, also known as the Nottingham postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Nottingham that covers Nottinghamshire (except for the Bassetlaw district and the far southwest of Rushcliffe borough), south east Derbyshire, south west Lincolnshire and part of north east Leicest...
SY postcode area The SY postcode area, also known as the Shrewsbury postcode area, is a group of postcode districts primarily around Shrewsbury, but also covering Aberystwyth, Bishop's Castle, Borth, Bow Street, Bucknell, Caersws, Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Ellesmere, Llanbrynmair, Llandinam, Llanfechain, Llanfyllin...
Gamston, Rushcliffe Gamston is a ward, civil parish and a suburb of West Bridgford, in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census is 2,164. It is situated approximately 3 mi south-east of Nottingham and is part of the West Bridgford postcode of NG2.
TN postcode area The TN postcode area, also known as the Tonbridge postcode area, is a group of 40 postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of 24 post towns. These postcode districts cover an extensive area from the Greater London border at Westerham to the Sussex coast, including south Kent (including Tun...
LA postcode area The LA postcode area, also known as the Lancaster postcode area, is a group of postcode districts across north Lancashire, south Cumbria and parts of North Yorkshire. It includes Ambleside, Askam-in-Furness, Barrow-in-Furness, Broughton-in-Furness, Carnforth, Coniston, Dalton-in-Furness, Grange-over-Sa...
IG postcode area The IG postcode area, also known as the Ilford postcode area, is a group of 11 postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of six post towns. These postcode districts cover parts of eastern Greater London and southwest Essex. Inward mail for the IG postcode area is sorted at the Romford Mail ...
FY postcode area The FY postcode area, also known as the Blackpool postcode area, is a group of postcode districts around Blackpool, Thornton-Cleveleys, Lytham St Annes, Poulton-le-Fylde and Fleetwood in England. The letters "FY" refer to the Fylde, which includes the whole postcode area.
Baron Melchett Baron Melchett, of Landford in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 June 1928 for Sir Alfred Mond, 1st Baronet, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries and a former First Commissioner of Works and Minister of Health. He had already been created ...
Sunthorn Kongsompong General Sunthorn Kongsompong (1931–1999) was the "de facto" head of government of Thailand from 1991 - 1992, following a military coup d'etat led by Sunthorn and General Suchinda Kraprayoon deposed the government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan on February 23, 1991. The generals accused Chat...
William Bromley-Davenport (British Army officer) Brigadier-General Sir William Bromley-Davenport, (21 January 1862 – 6 February 1949) was a British soldier, footballer and Conservative politician. He fought with distinction in both the Second Boer War and the First World War. An MP from 1886 to 1906, he held political ...
Abd Allah Siraj ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥman Sirāj (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن سراج‎ ‎ ) was an Arab politician and Islamic scholar who held various posts in the Kingdom of Hejaz and later the Emirate of Transjordan, including the office of Prime Minister of both countries. Born in Mecca, he graduated from Madrasa...
Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (Malay: "Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia" ) is the second highest political office in Malaysia. There have been eleven deputy prime ministers since the office was created in 1957. The first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, started ...
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe was a political office in the government of Zimbabwe that existed on two separate occasions. The first person to hold the position was Robert Mugabe from 1980 to 1987 following independence from the United Kingdom. He took office when Southern Rhodesia became th...
Han Myeong-sook Han Myeong-sook (born March 24, 1944; Korean: 한명숙 ] ) was the Prime Minister of South Korea from April 2006 to March 2007. She is South Korea's first female prime minister (second female prime minister overall if the acting premiership of Chang Sang is included). She was from the United New Democratic P...
Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan The office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan (Urdu: ‎ ) was created by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on 25 June 2012. The main coalition party, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q), demanded to make a post of Deputy Prime Minister which was accomplished by the newly elected Prime...
Arthur Balfour Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (usually , but traditionally /bəɫˈfʉr/ in Scottish English; 25 July 184819 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and later Foreign Secretary.
Office of the Prime Minister (Canada) In Canada, the Office of the Prime Minister (more commonly referred to as the Prime Minister's Office and abbreviated as PMO), located in the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council, facing Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, is one of the most powerful parts of the government. It i...
Fifty Shades (film series) Fifty Shades is an American film series that consists of three erotic romantic drama films, based on the " Fifty Shades" trilogy by English author E. L. James. It is distributed by Universal Studios and stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as the lead roles Anastasia Steele and Christian Gre...
Robinne Lee Robinne Lee (born July 16, 1974) is an American actress and author ab. She made her screen debut in the 1997 independent film "Hav Plenty", and later has appeared in films "National Security" (2003), "Deliver Us from Eva" (2003), "Hitch" (2005), "Seven Pounds" (2008), "Fifty Shades Darker" (2017), and the u...
Vault (drink) Vault was a sweetened carbonated beverage that was released by The Coca-Cola Company in June 2005 and marketed until December 2011. It was touted as an artificially flavored hybrid energy drink. Coca-Cola was marketing Vault as a combination with the slogan "Drinks like a soda, kicks like an energy drink,...
Sunkist (soft drink) Sunkist is a brand of primarily orange flavored soft drinks launched in 1979.
Izze Izze (pronounced iz-ee) is the brand name of a line of carbonated juice drinks produced by the IZZE Beverage Company in Boulder, Colorado, which is owned by PepsiCo. The drinks consist of 70% fruit juice from concentrate, and 30% seltzer water. Izze is an all-natural, no-preservatives-added fruit soda.
Soda fountain A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain drinks. They can be found in restaurants, concession stands and other locations such as convenience stores. The device combines flavored syrup or syrup concentrate and carbon dioxide with chilled and purified water to make ...
Grapico Grapico is a caffeine-free, artificially flavored carbonated soft drink with a purple color and a grape taste that is sold in the Southeastern United States. When introduced in 1916, the product quickly became a success, which in part was due to implying that Grapico contained real grape juice even though it di...
National Beverage National Beverage Corp. is an American beverage developer, manufacturer, and distributor based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, focused on flavored soft drinks. National Beverage Corp. is ranked by "Beverage Digest" as the fifth-largest soft drink company in the United States.
Cott The Cott Corporation is a supplier of private label carbonated soft drinks distributing to the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Europe. In addition to producing private-label beverages for retailers, Cott also has portfolio of its own brands, including Cott, RC (excluding the United States, w...
List of soft drinks by country This is a list of soft drinks in order of the brand's country of origin. A soft drink is a beverage that typically contains water (often, but not always, carbonated water), usually a sweetener and usually a flavoring agent. The sweetener may be sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice...
Crazy Cow Crazy Cow was a breakfast cereal produced by General Mills during the 1970s. The cereal was somewhat of a novelty item in that it had an unusual trait. The round, multi-grain cereal pellets were coated with an excipient of a drink mix. When milk was added, it would dissolve the powdered coating, and the resul...
Mamba (candy) Mamba Fruit Chews are a brand of fruit chew candies, made in Germany by August Storck KG. They are artificially flavored in strawberry, orange, lemon, and raspberry. They are vegan. Mamba was launched in 1953 in packs of six. They are most often sold in packages of 18 or 24 soft chews and the flavors with...
Smokey Harris Thomas Wilfred "Smokey, Fred" Harris (October 11, 1890 – June 4, 1974) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Harris played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Harris was born in Port Arthur, Ontario. His bro...
Brian Smith (ice hockey, born 1940) Brian Desmond "Smitty" Smith (September 6, 1940 – August 2, 1995) was a Canadian professional hockey player and sportscaster. Smith was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of former professional ice hockey player Des Smith and brother of former professional hockey goaltender Gary Smith....
Bob Jones (ice hockey) Robert Charles Jones (born November 27, 1945) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played two games in the National Hockey League and 161 games in the World Hockey Association. He played with the New York Rangers, Los Angeles Sharks, New York Golden Blades, New Jersey Knights, New Yor...
Eddie Oatman Edward Cole "Eddie" Oatman (June 10, 1889 – November 5, 1973) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was among the elite goal scorers of his era. Among his 32 years (1907–39) playing professional ice hockey, Oatman was named an all-star for ten consecutive seasons by the Pacific Coast Hockey Ass...
Thomas Westwick Thomas Frederick "Tom" Westwick (June 28, 1887 – December 15, 1963) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played five professional seasons for the Ottawa Senators and the Quebec Bulldogs from 1909 until 1916. His brother Harry was also a professional ice hockey player.
Fred Doherty Frederick "Doc" Doherty (June 15, 1887 – February 12, 1961) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Doherty played hockey for several professional ice hockey teams from 1908 until 1916, including a stint with the Toronto Ontarios in the National Hockey Association (NHA). He also played in the Mariti...
Woody Dumart Woodrow Wilson Clarence "Woody" "Porky" Dumart (December 23, 1916 – October 19, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, most notably for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Dumart's uncle Ezra Dumart was also a professional ice ...
Tie Domi Tahir "Tie" Domi (born November 1, 1969) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player of Albanian origin. Known for his role as an enforcer, he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets over a sixteen-year NHL career. He has more penalty minutes than any other player in the...
Ontario Raiders The Ontario Raiders were a member of the National Lacrosse League during the 1998 NLL season. The franchise was founded as an expansion team in Hamilton, Ontario, and played their home games at Copps Coliseum. Former Buffalo Bandits coach Les Bartley was hired to coach the new team, and he lured former ...
Garnet Sixsmith Garnet Mosgrove Sixsmith (January 15, 1885 – March 12, 1967) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. One of the first professional ice hockey players, he played professionally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1902 until 1910. His brother Arthur Sixsmith also played professional ice hockey.
Darington Hobson Darington O'Neal Hobson (born September 29, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for the Guangxi Weizhuang Rhinos of the Chinese National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Hobson ...
Tyus Jones Tyus Robert Jones (born May 10, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils in his freshman season as part of the 2014–15 National Championship team. He was ranked among ...
Karl-Anthony Towns Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. (born November 15, 1995) is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of Kentucky. Towns was named to the Dominican Republic national basketbal...
Tyler Ulis Tyler Ulis (born January 5, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. At Kentucky in 2015, he led his team in assists, he made the 2015 SEC All-Freshman Team and led the 2014–1...
Zacarías Ferreíra Zacarías Ferreira is a Bachata artist from the Dominican Republic. He was born in the 1970s in the Dominican Republic. He is the uncle of professional basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns, who currently plays on the Minnesota Timberwolves, of the NBA.
Kemba Walker Kemba Hudley Walker (born May 8, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Walker was drafted ninth overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2011 NBA draft. Walker grew up in The Bronx, New York, and graduated from Rice High S...
Josh Carter Joshua Neville Carter (born November 20, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for Limoges CSP of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for Texas A&M. He also played for the Athletes in Action basketball team in 2006 and 2007, helping the team win the William Jones Cup in 2006. In the 20...
Matt Gorman Matt Gorman (born on May 1, 1984) is a former professional basketball player who last played for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers. He played college basketball for Syracuse University during their first National Championship in 2003. He also played three years of professional basketball in Europe. Matt's ...
Victor Oladipo Kehinde Babatunde Victor Oladipo (born May 4, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers where he was named the "Sporting News" Men's College Basketball Player of the Year, ...
Changle District (, Foochow Romanized: Diòng-lŏ̤h) is a district located in eastern Fujian province, China. Administered by Fuzhou, it occupies a land area of 648 km2 and a sea area of 1327 km2 . Changle was established in the sixth year of Emperor Wu-De (623 AD) during the Tang Dynasty, and it became a county-level...
Line 6, Fuzhou Metro Line 6 of the Fuzhou Metro () or Airport Line () runs from Cangshan District to Changle City. It starts at Exhibition Center Station and ends at Fuzhou Changle International Airport Station. The total length is 40.9 km. Line 6's color is pink. The construction is planned to begin by the end of 2016...
Xujiacao Changle Station Xujiacao Changle Station () is a station on Line 1 of the Ningbo Rail Transit that started operations on 30May 2014. It is situated over Wangchun Road () and Xinyuan Road () in the Haishu District of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, eastern China.
Longkou Longkou (), formerly Huang County (), is a port city in northeastern Shandong province, China, facing the Bohai Sea to the north and the Laizhou Bay to the west. Longkou, a county-level city, is administered by the prefecture-level city of Yantai. The total population of Longkou is 620,000.
Feng Xingxi Feng Xingxi (馮行襲) (died July 31, 910), courtesy name Zhengchen (正臣), formally Prince Zhongjing of Changle (長樂忠敬王), was a warlord late in the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty who later became a subject of the succeeding Later Liang. He was tall and strong and known as "Green Face Feng" for his green birthmark on...
Inland Feeder The Inland Feeder is a 44 mi high capacity water conveyance system that connects the California State Water Project to the Colorado River Aqueduct and Diamond Valley Lake. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California designed the system to increase Southern California's water supply reliability ...
Sonoma County Water Agency The Sonoma County Water Agency maintains a water transmission system that provides naturally filtered Russian River water to more than 600,000 residents in portions of Sonoma County, California and Marin County, California. The Water Agency is a water wholesaler that sells potable water to ni...
Xia Yunyi Xia Yunyi () (1596–1645) was a Ming dynasty poet. He was born in Songjiang (now a district in Shanghai). He was magistrate of Changle County. An opponent of the Qing dynasty, he supported the Southern Ming dynasty. He committed suicide.
Sleeper dike A sleeper dike (in Dutch "slaperdijk") is a dike which does not normally face water, but serves as a backup if a "front-line" dike in front of it breaks.
Smiley face murder theory The Smiley face murder theory (variations include Smiley face murders, Smiley face killings, Smiley face gang, and others) is a theory advanced by two retired New York City detectives, Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, that a number of young men found dead in bodies of water across several Midw...
Subway Sadie Subway Sadie is a 1926 American comedy-drama silent film directed by Alfred Santell. Adapted from Mildred Cram's 1925 short story "Sadie of the Desert", the film focuses on a relationship between New York salesgirl Sadie Hermann (Dorothy Mackaill) and subway guard Herb McCarthy (Jack Mulhall), who meet on ...
Aloma of the South Seas (1941 film) Aloma of the South Seas is a 1941 American romantic adventure drama film starring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall, directed by Alfred Santell. The film was shot in Technicolor and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Alfred Santell Alfred Allen Santell also known as Al Santell (born September 14, 1895 in San Francisco, California) was an American film director and film producer.
Jack Fincher (screenwriter) Howard Kelly "Jack" Fincher (December 6, 1930 — April 10, 2003) was a screenwriter and journalist who has written for various magazines and periodicals, notably serving as a chief editor of "Life" magazine. He is also the husband of Claire Mae (née Boettcher), a mental health nurse from Sout...
Bluebeard's Seven Wives Bluebeard's Seven Wives was a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and released by First National Pictures. It was directed by Alfred Santell and starred Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson and Blanche Sweet. The film is now considered lost.
That Brennan Girl That Brennan Girl, also known as Tough Girl, is a 1946 drama romance film directed by Alfred Santell starring James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall and June Duprez.
Just Another Blonde Just Another Blonde (also known as The Girl From Coney Island) is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy/adventure film distributed by First National Pictures. Based on the short story "Even Stev'en" by Gerald Beaumont, the film was directed by Alfred Santell and stars Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall...
Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film) Tess of the Storm Country is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film. The movie stars Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, and Dudley Digges, and was directed by Alfred Santell and released by Fox Film Corporation. It is based on the novel of the same name by Grace Miller White and its adapt...
This Is Heaven This Is Heaven (1929) is an American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, and directed by Alfred Santell.
David Fincher David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American director and producer, notably for films, television series and music videos. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) and "The Social Network" (2010). For the latter, he won the...
Alexander F. Whitney Alexander F. Whitney (1873 – 16 July 1949) was an American railway worker who became president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT). He was an influential labor leader during the Great Depression and World War II, and in the years immediately following the war. He was the principal leader ...
Alfred Young Man Alfred Young Man, Ph.D. or Kiyugimah (Eagle Chief) (born 1948) is a Cree artist, writer, educator, and an enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree tribe located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, Montana, US. His Montana birth certificate lists him as being 13/16th Cree by blood-quantum, but one of his f...
Comcomly Comcomly (or Concomly) (1765 – 1830) was a leader of the Native American Chinookan people. Referred to as "Chief" or "'King" Comcomly in contemporaneous journals, he was the principal leader of the Chinook Confederacy, which extended along the Columbia River from the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean.
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation is one of seven American Indian reservations in the U.S. state of Montana. Established by an act of Congress in 1916, it was originally intended for landless Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians in the American West, but has grown to include many Cree (Nēhiyaw) and Mét...
Rocky Boy (Chippewa leader) Asiniiwin, translated Rocky Boy or Stone Child was an important Chippewa leader who became the principal leader of the Montana Chippewa-Cree in the late 19th century and early 20th century. His advocacy for his people led to the creation of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation.
Chippewa Cree The Chippewa-Cree Tribe is a federally recognized tribe on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana who are descendants of Cree who migrated south from Canada and Chippewa (Ojibwe) who moved west from the Turtle Mountains in North Dakota in the late nineteenth century. The two different peoples spoke related ...
Chouteau County, Montana Chouteau County is a county located in the North-Central region of the U.S. state of Montana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,813. Its county seat is Fort Benton. The county was established in 1865 as one of the original nine counties of Montana, and named in 1882 after Pierre Chout...
Choteau, Montana Choteau is a city in and the county seat of Teton County, Montana, United States. It lies along U.S. Routes 89 and 287 (the latter terminating at the former in this city) about 20 mi east of the Rocky Mountains, near Flathead National Forest, the Rocky Mountain Division of Lewis and Clark National Fore...
Imad Mughniyah Imad Fayez Mughniyeh (Arabic: عماد فايز مغنية‎ ‎ ; 7 December 1962 – 12 February 2008), alias al-Hajj Radwan (الحاج رضوان), was a senior member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and Hezbollah. Information about Mughniyeh is limited, but he is generally understood to have been a principal leader and...
Stone Child College Stone Child College is an accredited tribal college of the Chippewa-Cree Tribe located in Box Elder, Montana. SCC is located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in north central Montana. SCC is one of seven Tribal Colleges in Montana. In 2008–09, SCC had an enrollment of 511, of whom 98 percent were...
Conch Republic The Conch Republic is a micronation declared as a tongue-in-cheek secession of the city of Key West, Florida, from the United States on April 23, 1982. It has been maintained as a tourism booster for the city since. Since then, the term "Conch Republic" has been expanded to refer to "all of the Florida K...
BD Bacatá BD Bacatá (abbreviation for "Bogotá Downtown Bacatá") is a skyscraper currently under construction in Bogotá, Colombia, the tallest in the country, surpassing the Torre Colpatria and the second tallest in South America. The building is 67 stories high and covers a total surface area of 1200000 sqft . Developm...
List of tallest buildings in the United States The world's first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1885. Since that time, the United States has been home and still is home to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers. New York City, specifically the borough of Manhattan, notably has the tallest skyline in the country. E...
Skyplex Skyplex 360 is an entertainment complex owned by Wallack Holdings LLC that is scheduled to open in 2020. It will be located on a 14 acre lot at the Northeast corner of Sand Lake Road and International Drive in Orlando, Florida. The complex will include a 570 ft tower, which will feature the world's tallest roll...
Florida's Turnpike Florida's Turnpike, designated as State Road 91 (SR 91) and the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, is a toll road in Florida, maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE). Spanning approximately 309 mi along a north–south axis, the turnpike is in two sections. The SR 91 mainline runs roughly 265 mi , from ...
Florida City, Florida Florida City is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States and is the southernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area. Florida City is primarily a Miami suburb and a major agricultural area.
Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (HEFT), designated as State Road 821 (SR 821) and the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, is the southern extension of Florida's Turnpike, a toll road in Florida operated by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE). Spanning approximately 48 mi alon...
Rivergate Tower The Rivergate Tower is a 454 ft (138m) tall skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. With 31 floors, it is the sixth tallest building in Tampa. Rivergate Tower's principal tenant is Sykes Enterprises, a publicly traded company that operates technical help and customer support centers internationally. The building ...
Skyscraper (roller coaster) Skyscraper is an upcoming roller coaster that will be located at the planned Skyplex complex in Orlando, Florida. Under development by American and Swiss manufacturers US Thrill Rides and Intamin, the attraction will be a Polercoaster model which utilizes an observation tower as its main sup...
List of tallest Buildings in Bradenton, Florida This List of Tallest Buildings in Bradenton ranks skyscrapers and high-rises in Florida City of Bradenton, Florida by height. The tallest building in the city is DeSoto Towers, standing at 146 ft. high.
Frigate A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.