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Akebono Tarō (曙 太郎 Akebono Tarō, born 8 May 1969 as Chadwick Haheo Rowan) is an American-born professional wrestler and former sumo wrestler from Waimānalo, Hawaii. Joining the professional sport in Japan in 1988, he was trained by pioneering Hawaiian sumo wrestler Takamiyama and rose swiftly up the rankings, reaching the top division in 1990. After two consecutive yusho or tournament championships in November 1992 and January 1993 he made history by becoming the first non-Japanese-born wrestler ever to reach yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. One of the tallest and heaviest wrestlers ever, Akebono's rivalry with the young Japanese hopefuls, Takanohana and Wakanohana, was a big factor in the increased popularity of sumo at tournament venues and on TV in the early 1990s. During his eight years at the yokozuna rank, Akebono won a further eight tournament championships, for a career total of eleven, and was a runner-up on thirteen other occasions, despite suffering several serious injuries. Although his rival yokozuna Takanohana won more tournaments in this period, their individual head-to-heads remained very close. Akebono became a Japanese citizen in 1996, and after retiring in 2001 he worked as a coach at Azumazeki stable before leaving the Sumo Association in 2003. After an unsuccessful period as a K-1 fighter, he is now a professional wrestler. In All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) he has been a two-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, two-time World Tag Team Champion, and two-time All Asia Tag Team Champion. He is currently under contract with Rizin Fighting Federation. | Agent | Wrestler | SumoWrestler |
Meshech Weare (June 16, 1713 – January 14, 1786) was an American farmer, lawyer, and revolutionary statesman from Seabrook and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He served as the first President of New Hampshire from 1776 to 1785. | Agent | Politician | Senator |
Oryzosoma is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae. | Species | Animal | Mollusca |
John Richard \"Dick\" Knight (December 26, 1929 – March 25, 1991) was an American professional golfer. Knight was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He played college golf at Oklahoma A&M. Knight work as a club pro in Hawaii, where he won the Hawaiian Open and Hawaiian PGA Championship in 1952, in San Diego, California, and at Field Club of Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. He also played on the PGA Tour. His best finish in a major was 10th at the 1959 U.S. Open. He opened the tournament with a 69 to tie for the lead with Ben Hogan, Dow Finsterwald, and Gene Littler. Knight died in California of lung cancer. A United States Navy veteran during the Korean War, he was buried in Riverside National Cemetery. | Agent | Athlete | GolfPlayer |
The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) was a NASA space program which resulted in the successful launch in 1970 of the Orbiting Frog Otolith spacecraft (OFO-A mission), sending two bullfrogs into orbit for the study of weightlessness. The name, derived through common use, was a functional description of the biological experiment carried by the satellite. Otolith referred to the frog's inner-ear balance mechanism. The Orbiting Frog Otolith Program was a part of the research program of NASA's Office of Advanced Research and Technology (OART). One of the goals of the OART was to study vestibular organ function in space and on the Earth. The OFO experiment was designed to allow researchers to collect neurophysiological data on the response of the otolith to prolonged periods of weightlessness. The otolith is a part of the inner ear that is associated with equilibrium control: acceleration with respect to gravity as its primary sensory input. The Frog Otolith Experiment (FOE) was developed by Dr. Torquato Gualtierotti of the University of Milan, Italy, when he was assigned to the Ames Research Center as a resident Research Associate sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. The experiment was designed to study the adaptability of the otolith to sustained weightlessness, to provide information for manned space flight. Originally planned in 1966 to be included on an early Apollo mission, the experiment was deferred when that mission was canceled. In late 1967 authorization was given to orbit the FOE when a supporting spacecraft could be designed. The project, part of NASA's Human Factor Systems program, was officially designated \"OFO\" in 1968. After a series of delays, OFO was orbited 9 November 1970. After the successful OFO-A mission in 1970, interest in the research continued. A project called Vestibular Function Research was initiated in 1975 to fly a vestibular experiment in an Earth-orbiting spacecraft. This flight project was eventually discontinued, but a number of ground studies were conducted. The research has given rise to several very useful offshoots, including the ground-based Vestibular Research Facility located at ARC. OFO should not to be confused with similar acronyms describing the Orbiting Observatory series of spacecraft, such as Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO), Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO), and Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO). | Place | Satellite | ArtificialSatellite |
The State Press is the independent, student-operated news publication of Arizona State University. In August 2014, it became an all-digital publication. It published a free newspaper every weekday until January 2013, at which point its print distribution was reduced to once per week. The editorial board announced that ASU Student Media will begin to focus on \"a host of new digital products and special print products.\" | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
Bob Anspach is the current Director of Insurance Services of the PennPRIME Insurance Trusts. He was the director of Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency. He served as Mayor of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
The Tacuarí River is a river in Cerro Largo Department, Uruguay. | Place | Stream | River |
Guilty Gear Xrd (Japanese: ギルティギア イグザード Hepburn: Giruti Gia Iguzādo) is a fighting video game developed by Arc System Works. The 5th main (16th overall) installment in the Guilty Gear series, Guilty Gear Xrd was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of the series traditional hand drawn sprites. Following the storyline of the last game in the series, Guilty Gear 2: Overture, it introduced four new characters. The first Xrd game, Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- was released in arcades on February 20, 2014, and for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan and North America in December of the same year. A digital-only release happened in Europe in June 2015, and it was brought to Microsoft Windows via Steam on December 9, 2015. The game has been praised for its cel-shaded graphics and approachable gameplay, but criticized for its non-interactive story mode and smaller roster of characters. A sequel follow-up, titled Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-, was announced for a Q2 2016 release on consoles. | Work | Software | VideoGame |
The Kenora Thistles were a Canadian Senior ice hockey club from Kenora, Ontario. The club most recently played in the 2015–16 season in the Hockey Northwestern Ontario. Theywere hosts of the 2011 Allan Cup. | Agent | SportsTeam | HockeyTeam |
Nemanja Vidić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Видић, Serbian pronunciation: [němaɲa ʋǐːditɕ]; born 21 October 1981) is a retired Serbian professional footballer. He was part of the Serbian national team from 2002 to 2011. After establishing himself at Red Star Belgrade during the early 2000s, Vidić moved to Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2004. He further increased his reputation when he was part of the \"Famous Four\" Serbian national team defence that conceded just one goal during the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. He would later sign for Manchester United for around £7 million in January 2006, before establishing a prominent defensive partnership with Rio Ferdinand the following season, and earning a reputation as one of the world's best centre-backs, due to his defensive consistency and awareness, as well as his strength, leadership, and ability in the air. He left Manchester United at the end of his contract in July 2014, joining Inter on a free transfer. Vidić collected a host of honours in his United career, including three consecutive Premier League titles (five titles in total), the UEFA Champions League, the FIFA World Club Cup, three League Cup medals, as well as being included in three consecutive (four in total) PFA Team of the Year sides from 2007 to 2009. In the 2008–09 season, he helped United to a record-breaking run of 14 consecutive clean sheets and was awarded the Premier League Player of the Season award. He also collected both the club's Fans' and Players' Player of the Year awards. The 2010–11 season would also mark further personal accolades for Vidić, most notably clinching his second Premier League Player of the Season award. A feat, only Thierry Henry and Cristiano Ronaldo had achieved before him. Vidić was eventually selected as the new team captain of Manchester United at the start of the 2010–11 season. His captaincy ran over the course of three seasons, until his departure from Manchester United after the 2013–14 season. Vidic and Inter Milan agreed to a mutual termination of his contract on 18 January 2016 as a result of inactivity due to a hernia operation. Vidić had been linked with a move to the Major League Soccer in North America but announced his retirement on 29 January 2016. | Agent | Athlete | SoccerPlayer |
Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. A 3 km-wide summit caldera tops the volcano and a sample from there yielded a potassium-argon date of 500,000 years ago. Holocene eruptions may have also occurred at Toney Mountain as indicated by 30 kyr ash layers in ice cores from Byrd Station. Toney Mountain was probably among those viewed from a distance by Admiral Byrd and others of the USAS in plane flights from the ship Bear in February 1940. It was mapped in December 1957 by the oversnow traverse party from Byrd Station to the Sentinel Range, 1957–58, led by C.R. Bentley who proposed the name. Named after George R. Toney, scientific leader at Byrd Station in 1957, a participant in several Antarctic and Arctic operations, serving in both field and administrative capacities. | Place | NaturalPlace | Mountain |
Preventing Chronic Disease is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal established by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), covering research on all aspects of chronic diseases. The PCD Collections are articles grouped together that feature a common theme. One example involved publication of articles on Aboriginal populations with the Public Health Agency of Canada journal Chronic Diseases in Canada in 2010. Other collections have focused on veteran's health, community health, and healthy aging. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.123. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
Cyathea hookeri is a species of tree fern endemic to Sri Lanka, where it grows in lowland forest. This plant has a narrow, erect trunk that is usually 1-2 m tall. Fronds are pinnate and approximately 1 m in length. The stipe is dark and covered with blunt spines and scattered scales. These scales are long, glossy, medium brown in colouration, and have fragile edges. Sori are borne on the lowest one or two pairs of veins of fertile pinnules. They are protected by thin indusia. The specific epithet hookeri commemorates botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1841 until his death. | Species | Plant | Fern |
Peters Mountain is a 52-mile (84 km) mountain in the Allegheny ridge, which makes it the longest mountain in the Appalachian Mountain Chain. It is located on the border between Alleghany County, VA, Monroe County, WV, Giles Co.,VA, and Craig Co.,VA. Its elevation ranges from 4,073 feet (1,241 m) on the mountaintop to a low of 2,300 feet (700 m). It produces some of the water supply for Monroe County. There are numerous sandstone outcroppings along the crest of the Peters Mountain and a number of high mountain bogs on Pine Swamp Ridge. The Mountain is primarily forested with upland oak, yellow poplar, red oak, and hickory. The mountain was named for Peter Wright, who settled by the mountain in Covington, Virginia in 1746. The Appalachian Trail traverses part of the crest of Peters Mountain. The Allegheny Trail also reaches its southern terminus here at the state boundary. The Peters Mountain Wilderness, lying on the east slope of Peters Mountain in Virginia and designated in 1984, now has a total of 4,531 acres (18.34 km2). It is managed by Jefferson National Forest. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
Scarlett is a 1970 musical with a score by Harold Rome. The original 1966 Japanese book is by Kazuo Kikuta, and the English version of the book is by Horton Foote. The Tokyo production was directed by American director/choreographer Joe Layton, who later directed a production in the London West End. London producer Harold Fielding cancelled his plans for a 1974 Broadway production, and the musical has never been performed on Broadway. Based on Margaret Mitchell's bestseller Gone with the Wind, it traces the fate of self-centered Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and her passionately turbulent relationship with dashing blockade runner Rhett Butler, from the days prior to the American Civil War through the war itself and the following period of Reconstruction. | Work | MusicalWork | Musical |
William W. Wheaton (April 5, 1833 – November 11, 1891) was a wholesale grocer, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, chair of the Michigan Democratic State Convention, and state representative. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Kalina Todorova (Bulgarian: Калина Тодорова) (born 27 August 1990) is a Bulgarian female artistic gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She participated at world championships, including the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. | Agent | Athlete | Gymnast |
The Himalayan forest thrush (Zoothera salimalii) is a species of bird described in 2016 and separated out from the plain-backed thrush Zoothera mollissima with which they were formerly lumped. The species is separated on the basis of phylogenetic studies that suggest that the population diverged from the common ancestor at least 3 million years ago (estimates vary from 3-6 mya). The alpine thrush (Zoothera mollissima in the restricted sense) breeds above the tree line whereas the Himalayan forest thrush breeds in forested habitats. The species breeds from Sikkim and Darjeeling in India and extends into northwest Yunnan in China. The species differs in its song from that of the alpine thrush. The Himalayan forest thrush has a more musical call while that of the Alpine thrush is raspy and grating. The species name is given in honour of an Indian ornithologist Sálim Ali. The tree-dwelling species has shorter legs, tail and wings but a longer bill than its Alpine counterpart, and uses the shorter legs and tails to help it manoeuvre around in the forest. | Species | Animal | Bird |
Ken Novack, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, is an American lawyer who currently sits on the board of BBN Technologies and is a special advisor to General Catalyst Partners. From 1998 until 2003 he served as Vice Chairman for America Online and then Time-Warner after the two companies merged. Early in his career, from 1966 to 1998, Novack served as an attorney with the firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC (\"Mintz\"). Recently, however, Novack rejoined Mintz as Senior Counsel. | Agent | Person | BusinessPerson |
Marina Anatolyevna Melnikova (Russian: Марина Анатольевна Мельникова; born 5 February 1989 in Perm) is a Russian tennis player. Melnikova has won three singles and 11 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 4 May 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 170. On 13 June 2016, she peaked at world number 81 in the doubles rankings. Melnikova made her WTA tour debut at the 2008 Barcelona KIA – Doubles and also featured in the 2009 Ordina Open – Women's Doubles. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
Alan Henry (1947 – 5 March 2016) was a British Grand Prix reporter and book author. | Agent | Person | Journalist |
Matthew Peter Maynard (born 21 March 1966) is an English former cricketer. He played in four Tests and fourteen ODIs for England. He is currently Director of Cricket at Somerset County Cricket Club. Maynard was a batsman (and, later in his career, wicketkeeper) known for his aggressive and dashing strokeplay. His first-class career with Glamorgan, saw him achieve a batting average of 42.53, take 372 catches and make seven stumpings with the gloves, earned him several caps for England, but he was never able to translate his county form into Test success. He was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1998. | Agent | Athlete | Cricketer |
Calvin Christian School is a coeducational, independent Kindergarten to Year 12 Christian school located 12 kilometres south of Hobart, Tasmania in Kingston. It is part of Christian Schools of Tasmania, a network of five schools around Hobart. It is owned and managed by an association, whose members are parents and past parents of students. Although initiated and supported by members of the Christian Reformed Churches of Australia, the Church has no controlling influence, and the school community now includes many from other Christian backgrounds. Calvin Christian School was the first Christian parent-controlled school in Australia, founded in 1962 by members of the Dutch Reformed community living in and around Kingston. The founders of the school were a group of Christian parents who shared a desire to educate their children in a Christ-centred environment. The school campus was built without any government funding, with many of the construction workers being parents of future students, who volunteered their time and resources to bring the school into existence. Calvin Christian School is named after the Protestant reformer John Calvin. The school's annual fundraiser, held in September, is the Oliebollen Festival, which is well attended by the local community. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist. She is the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, previously serving as Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014. Previously, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton; and business professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Yellen was nominated by President Obama to succeed Ben Bernanke as Chair of the United States Federal Reserve. On January 6, 2014, the U.S. Senate confirmed Yellen's nomination. She was sworn in on February 3, 2014, making her the first woman to hold the position. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
King's Cove is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 111 in the Canada 2011 Census and 121 in the Canada 2006 Census. In 1940 it had a population of 345. In 1956 it was 262. The Post Office was established in 1851. Its founder was James Aylward from Keels, who was born in Ireland in county Cork in 1690. His direct descendants still live in the community. Population History \n* Population in 2011 - 111 \n* Population in 2006 - 121 \n* Population in 2001 - 159 \n* Population in 1996 - 175 \n* Population in 1991 - 214 \n* Population in 1956 - 262 \n* Population in 1940 - 345 | Place | Settlement | Town |
Kaya Airlines (a JetVision Holdings Company) is an Mozambican airline re-branded from Transairways and Sabin Air. The airline was established on 1991, but ceased operations afterwards. It resumed operations on 29 August 2011, flies within the country of Mozambique. Its head office is at Maputo International Airport. As and from 2016 KAYA Airlines is a JetVision Holdings company, with JetVision entering into a majority stake agreement with KAYA Airlines. | Agent | Company | Airline |
Captain Eric Douglas Cummings (13 April 1896 – 27 October 1979) was an Australian World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories while flying for the Australian Flying Corps. Postwar, he was an integral part of fund-raising campaigns to care for his fellow Australian military veterans. He then served in the Royal Air Force reserves until reactivated for service during World War II. | Agent | Person | MilitaryPerson |
The Galveston Causeway is a set of causeways in Galveston, Texas, United States. Two of the routes carry the southbound and northbound traffic of Interstate 45, while the original causeway is restricted to rail traffic. It is the only free roadway access point to Galveston Island. The causeway carries traffic over Galveston Bay and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The original causeway was built in 1912 and carried both rail and auto traffic. The auto traffic was transferred to new causeways built to the west in 1939, leaving the original bridge for rail traffic. The original route was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
George Adams (August 1, 1784 – August 14, 1844) was an American lawyer and political figure who served in Kentucky and, later, Mississippi state offices and, was later a United States attorney and federal judge. George Adams was born in the Virginia settlement of Lynchburg, two years before its establishment as a chartered community in 1786. He moved to Frankfort, the capital of the neighboring Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he read law and maintained a private practice from 1810 to 1825, while serving in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1810–11 and, again, in 1814. In 1825, he moved south, crossing Virginia and Tennessee, to settle in Mississippi's oldest city, Natchez, which is connected to Tennessee's capital, Nashville, via the region's best-known land transportation route, the Natchez Trace. Following private law practice in Natchez from 1825 to 1827, he served as the state's attorney general in 1828–29, returning to his Natchez practice in 1829–30. In 1830 he was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Mississippi, serving until January 12, 1836, when he received a nomination from President Andrew Jackson to a seat vacated by Powhatan Ellis on the United States District Court for the District of Mississippi. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 20 and received his commission that day. When the District of Mississippi was divided into a Northern District and Southern District on June 18, 1838, Adams was reassigned by operation of law to both districts. Shortly thereafter, on September 30, after having served as judge for two years and eight-and-a-half months, Adams resigned his office and returned to private practice. George Adams practiced law for the last six years (1838–44) in Mississippi's capital, Jackson, where he died two weeks after his 60th birthday. | Agent | Person | Judge |
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB) was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group created music that possessed an eerie, and at times sinister, atmosphere, and contained material that was bluntly political, childlike, and bizarre. Representing different musical backgrounds among band members, the group, at times, resembled a traditional Byrds-esque folk rock ensemble, but the WCPAEB also, within the same body of work, recorded avant-garde music marked by multi-layered vocal harmonies. Aspiring musician and scenester Bob Markley managed to join the group the Laughing Wind in exchange for his connections in the music industry and substantial bankroll. The original five-piece line-up consisted of Michael Lloyd (rhythm guitar, vocals), Shaun Harris (bass guitar, vocals, Danny Harris (lead guitar, vocals), John Ware (drums), and Markley (tambourine, vocals). Although Markley possessed the least musical talent, his expertise in law enabled him to assume control of the group's name and publishing, which generated a divide in the WCPAEB's creative mindset. The band debuted with the album Volume One in 1966 on the small FiFo record label. In the early years of the group, much was made of the WCPAEB's elaborate psychedelic light shows, which became the focal point of their live performances in Los Angeles. Following the release of Volume One, the WCPAEB signed with Reprise Records, recording three albums with the company, including arguably their most accomplished work Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil in 1968. Two additional albums, Where's My Daddy? and Markley A Group, were distributed on independent labels before the group disbanded in 1970. | Agent | Group | Band |
The Peoples Financial Corporation is a registered financial holding company in Biloxi, Mississippi, and operated through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Peoples Bank, under the Bank Holding Company Act at December 31, 2013. The company provides government entities, individuals, and commercial businesses with banking, financial, and trust services. Founded in 1926 and operating 15 branches, the company is the oldest and largest independent automobile finance company in Georgia. A September 2013 report claimed a quarterly revenue of US$8.1 million with a net income of US$886k. | Agent | Company | Bank |
Debora Sacha Menicucci Anzola (born May 24, 1991 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actress, model, fashion designer and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Venezuela World 2014 title. She represented Venezuela in Miss World 2014, in London (England), on December 14, 2014. Menicucci was crowned Miss Venezuela World 2014 during the second edition of Miss Venezuela World pageant, held on August 2, 2014 in Caracas. She was crowned by the outgoing titleholder Karen Soto. Debora previously competed in Miss Venezuela 2013, when she represented Amazonas state. She won the Best Catwalk and Miss Attitude awards. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
St. Patrick Catholic School, also called St. Patrick Parish School, is a private Catholic school located at 3700 Garden Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. It is the parish school for the St. Patrick Catholic Church. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Eva Repková (born 16 January 1975 in Stará Ľubovňa) is a Slovak chess player holding the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was Czechoslovak Women's Champion in 1991 and Slovak Women's Champion in 2003, 2010 and 2013. | Agent | Athlete | ChessPlayer |
Artika Sari Devi Kusmayadi (born September 29, 1979) is the 2004 winner of Puteri Indonesia (Miss Indonesia). She also represented Indonesia in 2005 Miss Universe Pageant. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
Sibley Memorial Hospital is a non-profit hospital located in The Palisades neighborhood of Washington D.C.. It is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and is licensed by the District of Columbia Department of Health and Human Services. The hospital specializes in surgery, orthopedics, and oncology services. It has been part of Johns Hopkins Medicine since 2010. | Place | Building | Hospital |
Brian Arthur Smith (born 15 August 1943) was the Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Smith was born in Edinburgh and educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, Ordained in 1973, he began his ordained ministry with a Curacy at Ripon College Cuddesdon From here he became successively Director of Training within the Diocese of Wakefield, the Archdeacon of Craven and the Bishop of Tonbridge before his translation to the episcopal see of Edinburgh. A keen snorkeller and short-wave radio enthusiast, he is married with two daughters. He retired as Bishop of Edinburgh on Monday, 15 August 2011. | Agent | Cleric | ChristianBishop |
William Henry Meyer (December 29, 1914 – December 16, 1983), was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont. Born in Philadelphia, he attended the public schools of Philadelphia and graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1936. He worked as a timber cruiser, State and Federal forester, and Civilian Conservation Corps technician and supervisor in West Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, and New Jersey from 1936 to 1940. He moved to a farm in Bennington County, Vermont in 1945. He worked with the Soil Conservation Service in Vermont from 1940 to 1950. In 1951 he entered private practice as a consulting forester and became executive director of the Vermont Forest and Farmland Foundation. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961), defeating the Republican candidate, former Governor Harold Arthur. He became the first Democrat to win a statewide election in Vermont since the founding of the Republican party 104 years earlier. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress, when he was defeated by Republican Governor Robert Stafford. He was appointed as a consultant for the Technical Review Staff of the Department of the Interior in May 1961, and served until December 1963. He was the unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1962, 1964, and 1970. He was a delegate to the Vermont State Democratic conventions of 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968. By one measure Representative Meyer was the most left-wing member to serve in Congress during the 1937-2002 period. He was one of the leading founders of the nonviolent socialist Liberty Union Party of Vermont in June 1970. He was their party's nominee for United States Senator after failing to obtain the Democratic nomination that year, receiving 0.91% of the vote. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress. He was a resident of West Rupert, Vermont until his death there December 16, 1983. He was cremated and had his ashes interred at his home in West Rupert. His son Karl Meyer is a noted radical pacifist. | Agent | Politician | Congressman |
Metadiaptomus capensis is a species of crustacean in the family Diaptomidae. It is endemic to South Africa. | Species | Animal | Crustacean |
The Aigiōhashi Bridge (愛岐大橋 Aigi ōhashi) is a truss bridge over the Kiso River in Japan. It is an iron beam bridge which connects Kakamigahara in the Gifu Prefecture with Inuyama in the Aichi Prefecture. The bride is part of Aichi-Gifu Prefectural Route 17, known as the Kōnanseki Route. The bridge is an essential link in the route from Nagoya and Komaki in Aichi Prefecture to Kakamigahara, Seki, and Gujō in Gifu Prefecture. Because there are no other bridges for 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) up- or downstream, the bridge is generally congested all day. The bridge was closed for a time in 1999 for maintenance. The Aigiōhashi Bridge was featured in Eiji Okuda's film A Long Walk (長い散歩 Nagai Sanpo), which was at the Montreal World Film Festival. | Place | RouteOfTransportation | Bridge |
Hillbilly Hot Dogs is a roadside hot dog stand and tourist attraction located near Huntington, West Virginia known for gourmet hot dogs and hamburgers. | Place | Building | Restaurant |
(For other people with the same name, see Alan Simpson (disambiguation).) Alan John Simpson (born 20 September 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham South from 1992 to 2010. | Agent | Politician | MemberOfParliament |
The Arizona Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance-themed amusement park and Renaissance fair in Arizona located in Apache Junction east of the Phoenix metro area near Gold Canyon. The Renaissance Festival usually runs from late winter to mid spring every year, as the winters and springs in the area are actually very mild and pleasant. | Event | SocietalEvent | Convention |
KMTP-TV, channel 32, is an independent, noncommercial television station located in San Francisco, California. Owned and operated by the Minority Television Project, KMTP has its main studio and offices in Palo Alto, California, and transmitter situated atop Mount Sutro. KMTP airs a large amount of multilingual, ethnic programming. The station produces and broadcasts a daily news show, 5 Day News, and also broadcasts programming from Deutsche Welle TV, RT (Russia Today), and the Classic Arts Showcase. KMTP is one of the few non-PBS-affiliated public television stations in the United States, and one of two such stations in the San Francisco Bay Area (The other is KCSM-TV in San Mateo). | Agent | Broadcaster | TelevisionStation |
Russ Abbot (born Russ Roberts on 18 September 1947 in Ellesmere Port) is an English musician, comedian and actor. Abbot first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, along with Leonard 'Lenny' Reynolds, later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television. Continuing his musical career as a solo artist Abbot released several charting singles and albums. Latterly his career has continued with a shift into more mainstream serious acting in television shows, series and stage productions. | Agent | Artist | Comedian |
Nikita Sergeevich Zadorov (born April 16, 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Zadorov was a first round selection, 16th overall in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | IceHockeyPlayer |
The Green Bird is a 1765 commedia dell'arte play by Carlo Gozzi. It is a sequel to The Love of Three Oranges. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
The Kleiner Odenwald (“Little Odenwald”) is the southern part of the central German hill range, the Odenwald, and is up to 567.8 m above sea level (NHN). It is also part of the natural region of Sandstein-Odenwald in the north of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Lying east-southeast of Heidelberg and south of the River Neckar, which separates the Kleiner Odenwald from the rest of the Odenwald, its landscape is shaped by the underlying sandstone that also dominates the northern Odenwald. | Place | NaturalPlace | MountainRange |
Vinje Church (Norwegian: Vinje kyrkje) is a parish church in Voss municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vinje. The church is part of the Vinje parish in the Hardanger og Voss deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in 1871 by the architect Ole Vangberg. The church seats about 350 people. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Dubai Golf City is a mixed-use $1.8 billion project covering an area of 55,000,000 square feet (5,100,000 m2). The project was intended for completion in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in late 2009, but has been on hold with only one golf course partly completed. This golf course is being maintained but is not yet operational. The development, when completed, will feature golf courses, a golf academy and convention centres. It is one of the largest projects at Dubailand. | Place | SportFacility | GolfCourse |
Nanyang Siang Pau or Nanyang Business Daily (simplified Chinese: 南洋商报; traditional Chinese: 南洋商報; pinyin: Nányáng Shāngbào) was founded by philanthropist-entrepreneur Tan Kah Kee on 6 September 1923 in Singapore, currently published in Malaysia. Nanyang Siang Pau is currently one of oldest Chinese-language newspapers in the country, with only Kwong Wah Yit Poh being the longest-running Malaysia's Chinese newspaper. It has been published continuously except for four months in 1923 and 1924 and during the World War II between 1942 and 1945, before publication resumed on 8 September 1945. Originally started in Singapore, the newspaper first ventured into Kuala Lumpur in 1958, but the newspaper remains printed in Singapore. In 1962, Nanyang Siang Pau moved to Kuala Lumpur, first with Jalan Travers, Brickfields and followed by Jalan Bangsar in 1972. The Singapore edition of the paper has merged with Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) on March 16, 1983 to form the current Lianhe Zaobao, and has ceased to exist. In August 1932, the Nanyang Daily was separated from Tan's company. The newspaper company name was changed to Nanyang Press in 1975. In 1993, Nanyang Press took over the management of another Chinese daily, China Press and a year later, its office moved to Section 7, Petaling Jaya, its current location. Nanyang had its initial public offering (IPO) in 1989, the first Chinese daily to be listed in Bursa Malaysia. Until the late 1980s, it was Malaysia's highest-selling Chinese newspaper, before being overtaken by Sin Chew Daily, which is also the highest-selling Chinese newspaper outside of Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan. On 28 May 2001, Huaren Holdings, the investment arm of the political party MCA, bought over Nanyang Press, in a controversial transaction that led to mass boycotts of the newspaper by the Chinese community. Huaren now owns 42% of Nanyang Press (June 2005). As at June 2005, Nanyang has raised more than RM240 million for Chinese education in Malaysia, through its Top Ten charity concerts in conjunction with Carlsberg Malaysia. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Newspaper |
Poole won the Miss Utah Teen USA 2002 title in a state pageant held in December 2001, competing as Miss Cache Valley Teen USA. She also won the Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic awards in that pageant. Her first runner up was Jessica Dawn Black, who later won the Miss Utah Teen USA 2003 title. Poole represented Utah in the Miss Teen USA 2002 pageant held in South Padre Island, Texas in August 2002 but did not place. The pageant was won by Vanessa Marie Semrow of Wisconsin. In March 2003, less than six months after passing on her title, Poole won the Miss Cache Valley pageant and competed in the Miss Utah 2004 pageant. She placed fourth runner-up. In late 2004, Poole won the Miss Utah USA 2005 title, becoming the 3rd former teen titleholder to win this crown. She competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore, Maryland in April 2005, and placed in the top fifteen. The pageant was won by Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina. Poole competed alongside fellow Miss Teen USA 2002 delegate Jessica Fjerstad in the pageant, as well as four other former Miss Teen USA delegates. In 2006 Poole won another Miss Utah local title, Miss Salt Lake Valley, and competed in the Miss Utah pageant for a second time, this time hoping to win the Triple Crown, an informal title given to those who have held state titles in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America systems. As of 2006, only six women have achieved this status. Poole placed in the top ten in the Miss Utah state pageant, and won a talent preliminary award. In March 2001, Poole was one of six teenagers named a Youth Advocate Of The Year for her work as a tobacco control advocate. She maintained tobacco prevention education as her platform for both the Miss Utah 2004 and 2006 pageants. She graduated from Logan High School (Utah) and Brigham Young University with Bachelor of Science in Health Science and Master of Public Health degrees. She currently teaches at Brigham Young University. | Agent | Actor | AdultActor |
Renown Regional Medical Center is part of Renown Health, a non-profit hospital in Reno, Nevada. It is Renown Health's flagship hospital and the region's only level II trauma center. Renown Regional facilitates the area's only dedicated children's hospital, Renown Children's Hospital. The hospital was founded in 1876 with the establishment of the Washoe Clinic in 1862. | Place | Building | Hospital |
St. Paul is a Roman Catholic church in the Glenville section of Greenwich, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport. This is one of the only parishes in Connecticut that also serve parishioners who live in New York. | Place | Building | HistoricBuilding |
Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, KA, PC (born March 24, 1937) is a Barbadian politician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Barbados from 1987 to 1994. As of 2010, Sir Lloyd is serving as Barbados' first resident ambassador in Beijing, China. | Agent | Politician | PrimeMinister |
The Lower Andes tree frog, Hypsiboas melanopleura, is a species of frog in the Hylidae family endemic to Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. | Species | Animal | Amphibian |
Abstract and Applied Analysis is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal covering the fields of abstract and applied analysis and traditional forms of analysis such as linear and nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations, optimization theory, and control theory. It is published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. It was established by Athanassios G. Kartsatos (University of South Florida) in 1996, who was editor-in-chief until 2005. Martin Bohner (Missouri S&T) was editor-in-chief from 2006 until 2011 when the journal converted to a model shared by all Hindawi journals of not having an editor-in-chief, with editorial decisions made by editorial board members. The journal has faced delisting from the Journal Citation Reports (thus not receive an impact factor), for anomalous citation patterns. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
The Guys is a play by Anne Nelson about the aftereffects of the collapse of the World Trade Center. In the play, Joan, an editor, helps Nick, an FDNY captain, prepare the eulogies for an unprecedented number of firefighters who died under his command that day. The play debuted off-Broadway at The Flea Theater on December 4, 2001, directed by Jim Simpson and starring Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray. Since 2001, The Guys has been presented in 48 US states and in the Czech Republic, Argentina, Japan, Italy and Poland. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon presented it at the Edinburgh Festival. It enjoyed a commemorative rerun at the Flea Theater in 2006 on the 5th anniversary of 9/11. In parts of the theatrical run the two roles were played by Anthony LaPaglia and Sigourney Weaver. They also star in a 2002 film adaptation, for which Weaver was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for best performance by an actress. The play was published by Dramatists Play Service and Random House in 2002. The audible.com recorded version, which featured Bill Irwin and Swoosie Kurtz, won an Audie Award for best recorded play of the year. | Work | WrittenWork | Play |
Edmund Charles \"Eddie\" Cook ( – ) was an American basketball player and coach. He played for the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team in the 1906-1907 season and returned as a player in the 1907-1908 season. After being declared academically ineligible, he took over as the head basketball coach for the 1907-1908 season, compiling a record of 9–6. He later coached the basketball team at Franklin College for the 1910-1911 and 1911-1912 seasons, compiling a record of 16-9. | Agent | Coach | CollegeCoach |
Erik Fisher (born March 21, 1985) is a World Cup alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team. From Middleton, Idaho, he primarily competes in the speed events of Downhill and Super G. Born in Ontario, Oregon, Fisher learned to ski and race at Bogus Basin near Boise, Idaho, beginning at age 3. While growing up, his family moved to different locations in the western U.S.; he also raced in northern Arizona and Utah before returning to Idaho as a teenager. Following graduation from Eagle High School in 2003, Fisher spent a post-graduate year at the Rowmark ski academy in Salt Lake City, and was named to the national developmental team in 2004. He was the bronze medalist in the downhill at the 2005 Junior World Championships in Bardonecchia, Italy. Fisher made his World Cup debut in November 2005 in a downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta, and finished 44th. An ACL injury in November 2007 kept him out of the rest of the 2008 season. He returned the following season in 2009 and had his best results with a seventh at Val Gardena, Italy, and an 11th at the famed Hahnenkamm downhill race in Kitzbühel, Austria. Fisher qualified for the U.S. team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in late 2009, but did not race in February due to a broken hand. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Skier |
Joe McKenna (born 10 June 1951 in Shinrone, County Offaly) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club South Liberties and with the Limerick senior inter-county team from 1971 until 1985. McKenna later served as manager of the Limerick senior inter-county team. He now operates a successful business, selling tools, machinery and DIY equipment in Limerick city. | Agent | Athlete | GaelicGamesPlayer |
The 2013 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 9th edition, for men, and 12th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $100,000, for men, and $100,000, for women, in prize money. It took place in Vancouver, Canada between July 29 to August 4, 2013. | Event | Tournament | TennisTournament |
Shaun Ontong (born 25 March 1987 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian footballer. His father, Paul Ontong, was born in South Africa and played in the NSL for Mooroolbark SC and Brisbane Lions. | Agent | SportsManager | SoccerManager |
\"Fifteen\" is a country pop song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Swift self-penned the song and co-produced it along with Nathan Chapman. \"Fifteen\" was released on August 30, 2009 by Big Machine Records, as the fourth single from Swift's second studio album, Fearless (2008). The song was inspired by Swift's freshman year of high school at Hendersonville High School, where she first encountered heartbreak, along with her best friend Abigail Anderson. After writing it, Swift asked Anderson for authorization to record the song (due to personal references in the song); Anderson affirmed and it was ultimately included on Fearless. \"Fifteen\" is a ballad, which has Swift reminiscing on events that occurred to her and her best friend at the age of 15 and cautioning teenagers to not fall in love easily. \"Fifteen\" peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million digital downloads in the United States. The music video for \"Fifteen\" was directed by Roman White. It was filmed using a green screen and is heavily accentuated with special effects. The video features Swift walking through a garden, where she relives many memories with Anderson. It received a nomination for the Best Female Video category at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost to Lady Gaga's \"Bad Romance\". \"Fifteen\" was promoted with live performances, including many that were part of Swift's first and second headlining tours, the Fearless Tour (2009—10) and the Speak Now World Tour (2011–12). Swift partnered with electronics retailer Best Buy for @15, a program that allowed teens to help decide how funds would be distributed among various charities. | Work | MusicalWork | Single |
The 1922 Rock Island Independents season was their third in the league. The team matched their previous output of 4–2–1, finishing fifth in the league. | SportsSeason | FootballLeagueSeason | NationalFootballLeagueSeason |
'Weyringeriana' is a hybrid cultivar of the genus Vriesea in the Bromeliad family. | Species | Plant | CultivatedVariety |
The 2012 Montedio Yamagata season sees Montedio Yamagata return to J. League Division 2 after being relegated in the 2011 J. League Division 1. This will be their 16th season overall in the second tier. Montedio Yamagata are also competing in the 2012 Emperor's Cup. | SportsSeason | SportsTeamSeason | SoccerClubSeason |
Hanro Liebenberg (born 10 October 1995 in Brackenfell, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing Super Rugby with the Bulls and Currie Cup rugby with the Blue Bulls. His regular position is number eight. | Agent | Athlete | RugbyPlayer |
The Victorian College for the Deaf (VCD), located on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Australia, is Victoria's oldest deaf school, opening in 1860. The Victorian College for the Deaf is Australia's only Prep to Year 12 Specialist in Deaf Education.Education is provided using a bilingual philosophy of teaching through Auslan, the language of the Australian Deaf community, and English as the second language. It has a significant role in the history of Australian Deaf culture. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa (1868–1903) was Kabaka of Buganda from 1884 until 1888 and from 1889 until 1897. He was the thirty-first (31st) Kabaka of Buganda. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
4949 Akasofu, provisional designation 1988 WE, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Takuo Kojima at the YGCO Chiyoda Station in Japan on 29 November 1988. The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.9–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,251 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.17 and an inclination of 5 degrees with respect to the plane of the ecliptic. The first precovery was obtained at the Purple Mountain Observatory in 1978, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 10 years prior to its discovery. According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 4.5 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.32, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an intermediate albedo of 0.24 – which derives from 8 Flora, the largest member and namesake of this orbital family – and calculates a diameter of 5.7 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 13.4. In October 2005, a rotational light-curve of this asteroid was obtained from photometric observations made by David Higgins at Hunters Hill Observatory, Australia. It showed a rotation period of 2.6798±0.0002 hours with a brightness variation of 0.10 in magnitude (U=3). Observations by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec in March 2007, gave another well-defined and concurring light-curve with a period of 2.6800±0.0003 hours and an amplitude of 0.15 in magnitude (U=3). The minor planet was named in honor of Japanese-born geophysicist Syun-Ichi Akasofu (b. 1930), professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was the director of the International Arctic Research Center from 1998 to 2007, and is known for studies of the aurora borealis. Naming citation was published on 30 March 2010 (M.P.C. 69491). | Place | CelestialBody | Planet |
Nir Barkat was born and raised in Jerusalem. His father, Zalman, was a professor of physics at the Hebrew University. He served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces for six years (1977–1983), as well as reserve duty, and reached the rank of Major. Barkat holds a BA in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied for a master's degree in business administration at the same institution, but hasn't completed it. Barkat and his wife Beverly, an artist, have three daughters. The family lives in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit HaKerem. Nir Barkat was named the 43rd most influential Jewish person in 2013. | Agent | Politician | Mayor |
Fred Jarrett is the Deputy King County Executive and a former Democratic member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 41st district since January 2009. He was first elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 2001 as a Republican, serving four terms. He switched parties in 2007. In 2010 he was appointed as Deputy King County Executive. Bellevue lawyer Randy Gordon was appointed in his place as State Senator. | Agent | Person | OfficeHolder |
Ahkal Mo' Nahb I, also known as Chaacal and Akul Anab I, (July 5, 465 – November 29, 524), was an ajaw of the Maya city of Palenque. He ruled from June 5, 501 AD to his death. | Agent | Person | Monarch |
Goli (Persian: گلي, also Romanized as Golī) is a village in Charuymaq-e Jonubegharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Charuymaq County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 348, in 56 families. | Place | Settlement | Village |
Stella Heiß (born 15 January 1993 in Cologne) is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She played lead for Andrea Schöpp when she represented Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Curling. At seventeen years, she was the youngest curler at the Games. She is the daughter of former German ice hockey goaltender Josef Heiß. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | Curler |
Davos Dorf station is located in the municipality of Davos in the district of Prattigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is a station on the Landquart-Davos railway line. Northbound, there is an hourly service towards Landquart. Southbound, there is an hourly service to Davos Platz. The station also serves as a hub for local bus services. Davos Platz station is located about 2.5 km southwest of Davos Dorf. RE2 runs express services along the Landquart-Davos line. R21 runs stopping services along the same line replacing RE2 services during early mornings and late evenings. The station currently has one platform in use, served by trains in both directions. | Place | Station | RailwayStation |
Acantholycosa sayanensis is a species of wolf spider found only in the Western Sayan Mountains in Russia. This dark coloured spider with rather indistinct markings is 8.5 mm in length. It can only be separated from its closest congeners by details of the genitalia. | Species | Animal | Arachnid |
Nomads R.F.C. are a Hong Kong rugby union club, who play in G4S League Divisions 2,5 and 7 and are based in the Tai Hang Tung area in New Kowloon. Between 2008/09 the club has won over 6 different league and 7's trophies. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
Saint Joseph I of Alexandria (Abba Yousab), 52nd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. He was the son of one of the rich nobles of Menouf, Egypt. When his parents departed and left him, some believers raised him. As an adult he went to the desert of St. Macarius the Great and became a monk. When Abba Marcus II became the 49th Pope of Alexandria, he called Yousab, ordained him a priest and sent him back. He stayed in the desert until the departure of Abba Simon II, 51st Pope. The papal throne remained unoccupied, and Abba Yousab was chosen Pope. He bought properties out of his own pocket, and bestowed them on the churches. Abba Yousab condemned actions of bishops of Tanes and Miser (Cairo); they were excommunicated. He died after 19 years in office, having been a monk for 39 years since the age of 20. | Agent | Cleric | Pope |
Saurav Ghosal (born 10 August 1986, in Kolkata, West Bengal) is a professional squash player from India and reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 15 in December 2013. He completed his schooling at Lakshmipat Singhania Academy in Kolkata. | Agent | Athlete | SquashPlayer |
IC 883 (also known as Arp 193, IRAS 13183+3423, PGC 46560 and UGC 8387) is an irregular galaxy that is about 321 million light years away from Earth. It is located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Its largest radius is 1.4 (131 thousand light years), and smallest 0.7 angular minutes (65 thousand light years). It was discovered by Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler on May 1 1891. | Place | CelestialBody | Galaxy |
Noshad A. Shaikh (born 27 October 1958) is Vice-Chancellor of Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Pakistan, the first public sector medical university of the country. Born in an educated family of Shikarpur, his early schooling was done in Shikarpur and Hyderabad. His father, Maqsood Ahmed Shaikh, served in top positions in the Government of Pakistan. Prof. Noshad acquired his MBBS degree from the University of Karachi in 1983, where he did postgraduate work in General Surgery. He was awarded fellowships from the International College of Surgeons USA and College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. His has written several papers in both National and International journals. He has attended and presented papers in several conferences both within the country and abroad. He has been keynote speaker at many conferences and seminars. He has worked as Professor of Surgery at Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi along with various administrative capacities including the coveted posts of Medical Superintendent, Lyari General Hospital and Civil Hospital Karachi. Later, he was appointed as Principal, Sindh Medical College Karachi. He served as Secretary, Health Department, Government of Sindh, from September 2004 to May 2007. As Secretary of Health, he had a pivotal role in drafting and implementing the first Provincial Health Policy. He was the pioneer architect in the development of Safe Blood Transfusion Act 2006, Private Hospitals Regulatory Authority bill and the telemedicine project in the province of Sindh. Under his leadership, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro become the first ever public sector medical institution in the country to introduce Biomedical Ethics and IT as subjects in the undergraduate syllabus. Among his many achievements, He also introduced an Integrated Curriculum and a Semester System, and established a cardiac surgery unit, a minimally invasive surgery unit, and regular public awareness programs. Dr. Noshad is also honorary Director of the Pakistan Medical and Research Council (PMRC) Jamshoro and the Chief Editor of JLUMHS, the official research journal of the University. | Agent | Politician | President |
George Franklin Fort (June 30, 1809 – April 22, 1872) was a physician, politician, judge, and a Democrat who served as the 16th Governor of New Jersey from 1851 to 1854. | Agent | Politician | Governor |
Sufyan ath-Thawri ibn Said (Arabic: سفيان بن سعيد الثوري) (716–778) was a Tābi‘ al-Tābi‘īn Islamic scholar, Hafiz and jurist, founder of the Thawri madhhab. He was also a great hadith compiler (muhaddith). | Agent | Person | Philosopher |
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the Empire of Japan in the South Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of the Pacific Ocean areas which lay south of the Equator between longitude 159° East and 110° West. It included New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, and most of the Solomon Islands. The major USAAF combat organizations in the region was Thirteenth Air Force, which was formed in November 1942 as a command and control organization to organize many widely separated Seventh Air Force and independent units scattered in the South Pacific Area during the Solomon Islands campaign. As the war progressed, Thirteenth Air Force units moved into the South West Pacific theatre and coordinated their activities with Fifth and Seventh Air Force units in New Guinea, the Netherlands East Indies and Philippines during 1944 and 1945. | Event | SocietalEvent | MilitaryConflict |
The Leeds African Studies Bulletin is an annual journal that has been published by Leeds University Centre for African Studies since 1964. Besides recording activities and other news relating to African studies at Leeds, it contains scholarly articles and book reviews. It has published pieces by many distinguished African writers and Africanist scholars over the years, including Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Jack Mapanje, James Currey, Morris Szeftel, Michael Barratt Brown, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Martin Banham, the late Lionel Cliffe, Ray Bush, Femi Osofisan, James Gibbs, and Jane Plastow. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
The Monster Times was a horror film fan magazine created in 1972. Published by The Monster Times Publishing Co., it was intended as a competitor to Famous Monsters of Filmland. Although the main editorial focus of the magazine was horror media, it also featured articles and reviews of modern and classic science fiction/fantasy movies and television series, as well as comic books. Each issue featured a fold-out centerfold poster usually based on that particular issue's feature story. The Monster Times was edited at various times in its formative years by Chuck R. McNaughton, Allen Asherman, Joe Brancatelli and Tom Rogers. Joe Kane (who later assumed the nom de plume The Phantom of the Movies for newspaper columns and books) took over as editor with Issue # 11 (June 14, 1972), and remained in that capacity until the periodical's demise. The publishers were art directors Larry Brill and Les Waldstein, who were the original designers for the pornographic weekly tabloid Screw, and also for Famous Monsters of Filmland and other Jim Warren publications in the late 1960s. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | Magazine |
Charmaine Chinapen (born 1987) is a beauty pageant contestant from Belize. A student at the University of St. John's University (New York City), USA, she represented Belize in Miss World 2008, held on December 13 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was born in Curaçao, an island in the Netherlands Antilles, and moved to several countries before settling in Belize as her home at the age of nine, and became a citizen along with her immediate family. She has one brother, Kevin; her father is in the banking industry, and her mother returned to university. | Agent | Person | BeautyQueen |
The Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union (RTBU), formerly known as the Public Transport Union or PTU, was formed on 1 March 1993, through the amalgamation of the Australian Railways Union, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association and the National Union of Rail Workers' of Australia. This amalgamation effectively created one transport industry union for the first time in Australia. The RTBU is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Internationally, the RTBU is affiliated with the International Transport Workers' Federation. | Agent | Organisation | TradeUnion |
The School of Ss. Cyril and Methodius is an elementary/primary parochial located in Deer Park, New York. The school was the inspiration of the Father James J. Behan, the first formal pastor of the adjoining church of the same name, Ss. Cyril and Methodius. It opened in September 1962, staffed initially by the Sisters of Saint Joseph from Brentwood, New York. The Sisters were associated with the original mission church in Deer Park when they instructed Sunday school. The Mission of Ss. Cyril and Methodius consecrated its first sanctuary in 1934, receiving its patrons by settlers to the area of Slovak origins. The first graduates of the school who continued their education at Catholic high schools attended Seton Hall High School - Patchogue, St. Anthony's - Smithtown, Chaminade - Uniondale, St. Joseph's - Brentwood and Holy Family - Huntington. Current graduates typically attend parochial secondary school at St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip, NY or St. Anthony's High School (New York) in South Huntington, NY. Famous alumni include LeRoy Homer, the co-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93 and C.J. Ramone. | Agent | EducationalInstitution | School |
The France Amateurs are the amateur national rugby union team of France. They play in the Four Nations Tournament and in the European Amateur Festival. Their players are selected from Fédérale 1, the French rugby union third division. | Agent | SportsTeam | RugbyClub |
The 1988 PGA Championship was the 70th PGA Championship, held August 11–14 at Oak Tree Golf Club in Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb north of Oklahoma City. Jeff Sluman shot a final round 65 (−6) to win his only major title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Paul Azinger, the 36-hole and 54-hole leader and former college teammate. Azinger was the reigning Player of the Year on the PGA Tour. In the penultimate pairing on Sunday, Sluman was three strokes back at the start of the round. After a birdie at the second, he holed out for an eagle on the par-5 fifth, and when Azinger followed with a bogey, the two were tied at nine-under. Sluman had five birdies and an eagle with just one bogey in the final round while Azinger posted a second straight even-par 71. It was also the first of Sluman's six victories on the PGA Tour. In the final pair with Azinger, Dave Rummells shot 75 (+4) and fell to a tie for sixth. Azinger won the title five years later, defeating Greg Norman in a playoff in 1993. | Event | Tournament | GolfTournament |
Irenaeus (/aɪrəˈniːəs/; Greek: Εἰρηναῖος) (early 2nd century – c. AD 202), also referred to as Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire (now Lyon, France). He was an early Church Father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology. A resident of Smyrna, he heard the preaching of St. Polycarp, a disciple of St. John the Evangelist. Irenaeus' best-known book, Adversus Haereses or Against Heresies (c. 180), is a detailed attack on Gnosticism, which was then a serious threat to the Church, and especially on the system of the Gnostic Valentinus. As one of the first great Christian theologians, he emphasized the traditional elements in the Church, especially the episcopate, Scripture, and tradition. Against the Gnostics, who said that they possessed a secret oral tradition from Jesus himself, Irenaeus maintained that the bishops in different cities are known as far back as the Apostles and that the bishops provided the only safe guide to the interpretation of Scripture. His polemical work is credited for laying out the \"orthodoxies of the Christian church, its faith, its preaching and the books that it held as sacred authority.\" His writings, with those of Clement and Ignatius, are taken as among the earliest signs of the doctrine of the primacy of the Roman see. Irenaeus is the earliest witness to recognition of the canonical character of all four gospels Irenaeus is recognized as a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is on June 28 in the General Roman Calendar, where it was inserted for the first time in 1920; in 1960 the Roman Catholic Church transferred it to July 3, leaving June 28 for the Vigil of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, but in 1969 it was returned to June 28, the day of his death. The Lutheran Church commemorates Irenaeus on that same date for his life of exemplary Christian witness. In the Eastern Catholic Church and Orthodox Church his feast day is 23 August. | Agent | Cleric | Saint |
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse run over a distance of 2,000 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the autumn during the ATC Championships series. Prize money in 2013 was A$500,000 and was increased to A$4,000,000 in 2014 to become the richest race of the Sydney Autumn Carnival and the richest WFA race in Australia. | Event | Race | HorseRace |
Nina Mikhailovna Mozer (Russian: Нина Михайловна Мозер; born 28 August 1964) is a Russian pair skating coach based in Moscow. She is best known for coaching Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov, the 2014 Olympic gold and silver medalists. | Agent | WinterSportPlayer | FigureSkater |
Julia Mayr (born 12 August 1991) is an Italian tennis player. She is the younger sister of tennis player Evelyn Mayr. Mayr has won eight singles and 12 doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 20 September 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 215. On 29 August 2011, she peaked at world number 225 in the doubles rankings. | Agent | Athlete | TennisPlayer |
Chris Levis (born March 25, 1976 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian goaltender for the Colorado Mammoth in the National Lacrosse League. Levis was the backup for the Mammoth in the 2006 season behind Gee Nash when they won the NLL Championship. He returned to the Mammoth in the 2010 season, where he ranked 12th in saves. He made 3 key overtime saves in his biggest win as a Mammoth, beating the Boston Bandits 9-8 in overtime to end a home losing streak at Pepsi Center dating back to April 2009, which ended March 25, 2011. He has previously played for Columbus, New York, Buffalo, Edmonton and Calgary. | Agent | Athlete | LacrossePlayer |
The International Journal of Circumpolar Health is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering issues related to the health of indigenous peoples in Arctic and Antarctic environments. It is published by the International Association of Circumpolar Health Publishers. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.707. | Work | PeriodicalLiterature | AcademicJournal |
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