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Lucio Marineo Siculo (Vizzini, 1444 or 1445 – Spain, 1533) was a Sicilian humanist, historian and poet, known as a prominent figure of the Spanish Renaissance. He first taught Greek and Latin literature in Palermo. He moved to Spain and taught for twelve years at the University of Salamanca. His teaching and books inf...
Club Barcelona Atlético is a Dominican professional football team based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Founded in 1989 as Bancredicard FC, the team changed its name to Club Barcelona Atlético in 2003. It currently plays in the Liga Dominicana de Fútbol. History Club Barcelona Atlético, commonly known as Barcelo...
Matthew Bell, better known as Matt Friction, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Friction's music career began in 1998 as lead singer and songwriter of the band Silent Friction. He later moved on to establish Garage rock band The Pink Spiders with Bob Ferrari and Jon Decious. During a brief hiatus in 2...
Bandgorgi (, also Romanized as Bandgorgī) is a village in Marz Rural District, Chah Dadkhoda District, Qaleh Ganj County, Kerman Province, Iran. As of the 2006 census, its population was 19, among 4 families. References Populated places in Qaleh Ganj County
Yazıcık is a town (belde) in the Niksar District, Tokat Province, Turkey. Its population is 2,728 (2022). References Populated places in Niksar District Town municipalities in Turkey
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen () (11 September 1751, Frankfurt am Main, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire – 25 April 1827, Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia) was a member of the House of Saxe-Meiningen and a Princess of Saxe-Meiningen by birth and a member of the House of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Duche...
Kłodniki () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Maszewo, within Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Maszewo, east of Goleniów, and east of the regional capital Szczecin. For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania. Refer...
```java Updating interfaces by using `default` methods Use `DecimalFormat` class to format numbers Metadata: creating a user-defined file attribute Increase `PermGen` space as to avoid `OutOfMemory` errors Supply `toString()` in all classes ```
Nanshi Cuisine Street is located in Nanshi, the busiest section of the city's downtown area of Tianjin, China. It is a national, classic and palatial architectural complex. Nanshi Cuisine Street looks like an ancient walled city enclosed by a circle of neat three-story buildings. There is a crossroad in the "city," and...
Leonard Edgcombe (died 1696) was a ship's captain with the Hudson's Bay Company who made a number of voyages into Hudson Bay and James Bay on behalf of the company. He had Henry Baley as a chief mate for a time prior to 1692 and this mariner became an important link with the area for the Hudson's Bay Company. External...
The Firefly Gathering is an annual "earthskills" or "primitive skills" gathering in Western North Carolina where people learn nature connection and survival skills like building a fire, identifying edible or poisonous plants, hide tanning, wooden bowl carving, archery and bow making, as well as permaculture and homeste...
Gaurotes virginea is a species of the Lepturinae subfamily in the long-horned beetle family. Subtaxa There are four varietets in species, and four varietets in nominative subspecies: Gaurotes virginea aemula Mannerheim, 1852 Gaurotes virginea kozhevnikovi Plavilstshikov, 1915 Gaurotes virginea thalassina (Schrank,...
Douglas "Doug" Killmer (July 18, 1947 – August 29, 2005) was an American blues and rock bass guitarist active from the 1960s to the late 1990s. He is sometimes credited as Douglas Kilmer or Doug Kilmer. He is best remembered for playing the bass line on Norman Greenbaum's 1970 hit "Spirit in the Sky" (number 333 on Rol...
List of cities in the Americas: List of cities in North America List of cities in South America See also Largest cities in the Americas Americas-related lists
Osečná (; ) is a town in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,200 inhabitants. Lázně Kundratice, a part of Osečná, is known as a spa village. Administrative parts Villages of Chrastná, Druzcov, Kotel, Lázně Kundratice, Vlachové and Zábrdí are administrative parts of Osečná. Ety...
Fountains of Rome (), P 106, is a tone poem in four movements completed in 1916 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. It is the first of his three tone poems about Rome, preceding Pines of Rome (1924) and Roman Festivals (1928). Each movement depicts a setting at one of Rome's fountains at a different time of the ...
St. Vrain State Park, formerly known as Barbour Ponds, is a Colorado state park. The park hosts year-round camping. It is a popular birding destination, hosting the states largest rookery of Blue Heron, it is home to several other bird species as well including migrating waterfowl, songbirds and the occasional bald eag...
Pierre Merlin (1918 - 2000) was a French artist and jazz musician known for designing the cover art of over 150 albums. Life and career Merlin was born in Bordeaux in 1918. He studied at the École Municipale des Beaux Arts before receiving a scholarship to study fine art in Paris in 1942. It was there that Merlin beg...
The Nutrition Foundation of the Philippines, Inc. (NFP) is a Philippine private, non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting good nutrition in Filipino communities. The NFP was founded by National Scientist, Dr. Juan Salcedo Jr. The NFP was founded on December 28, 1959, registered at the Securities and E...
Seven Arts Entertainment Inc. is a British independent film production company founded in 1992. Notable films that were made by Seven Arts are Stander, Asylum, Noise and more recently, Night of the Demons. History Seven Arts Pictures was founded in the early 1990s by former Carolco president and CEO Peter Hoffman as...
Oded Machnes (; born 8 June 1956) is an Israeli retired footballer who was a striker. He is the second-greatest goal-scorer in Israeli history with 196 goals in the Israeli Premier League. Honours National Israeli Premier League (4): 1973–74, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1982–83 State Cup (1): 1977-78 Israeli Supercup (4): 1973...
```powershell <# .SYNOPSIS This is a Powershell script to bootstrap a Cake build. .DESCRIPTION This Powershell script will download NuGet if missing, restore NuGet tools (including Cake) and execute your Cake build script with the parameters you provide. .PARAMETER Script The build script to execute. .PARAMETER Targ...
Eagle Lake is a lake in Carlton County, Minnesota, in the United States. Eagle Lake was named for the bald eagle native to the region. See also List of lakes in Minnesota References Lakes of Minnesota Lakes of Carlton County, Minnesota
In computing, an alien thread in a multi-processor system is a thread of program execution executed by one processor on behalf of a process running on another processor. Alien threads are implemented in the Fiasco.OC/L4 microkernel operating system. References Threads (computing)
Atanu Roy (born 1952) is an Indian illustrator and cartoonist from New Delhi, who has illustrated more than a hundred books for children. Roy studied at the Delhi College of Art, and illustrated his first book while he was still a student, a black and white book about the history of transportation. After graduating, he...
Heinrich Breitinger (11 March 1832, in Ellikon an der Thur – 2 March 1889, in Zürich) was a Swiss literary historian and philologist. He studied medicine in Munich and Zürich, but due to a hand injury as the result of a duel, he was forced to leave the medical field. He then studied modern languages at Zürich, Basel a...
Aravet () is an abandoned village in the Amasia Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia. It was listed as uninhabited in the 2001 census. Population The population of the village since 1886 is as follows: References Former populated places in Shirak Province
The 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II was three international ice hockey tournaments organised by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Division II Group A tournament was played in Gangneung, South Korea, from 2 to 8 April 2017, the Division II Group B tournament was played in Akureyri, Iceland, f...
York Mills Road is an east-west route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada named for the historic village of York Mills that was located on the hill immediately north of today's intersection of York Mills Road and Yonge Street. The village of York Mills is distinguished from the 1920s subdivision to the south known as Hoggs Hol...
Megalopyge inca is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by Walter Hopp in 1935. References Moths described in 1935 Megalopygidae
Rooglaiu (Rannaküla until 2017) is a village in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, in western Estonia. References Villages in Pärnu County
William Brendan Gaughan (born July 10, 1975) is an American professional racing driver who has competed in off-road and stock cars. He is the grandson of Vegas gaming pioneer Jackie Gaughan and son of Michael Gaughan, a hotel and casino magnate. Gaughan began his career racing in off-road and he rose through the ranks...
Bally Sports Oklahoma is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group (a joint-venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel provides statewide coverage of sports events within the state of Oklahoma, namely the Oklahom...
Aliiroseovarius halocynthiae is a Gram-negative and motile bacterium from the genus of Aliiroseovarius which has been isolated from the sea squirt Halocynthia roretzi from the South Sea in Korea. References External links Type strain of Aliiroseovarius halocynthiae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase ...
Peter Hayes (born Melbourne, 28 September 1957) is a Sydney based, British trained, Australian television, film and theatre actor and director. He is perhaps best known for the role of Dr. Steven Ryan in the long running Australian soap opera, Prisoner. Acting career Hayes started acting while young with the Port Mor...
"In the End" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. It is the eighth track on their debut album, Hybrid Theory (2000), and was released as the album's fourth and final single. "In the End" received positive reviews by music critics, with most reviewers complimenting the song's signature piano riff, as well as no...
Minerva Sanders (February 11, 1837 – March 20, 1912) was the first librarian of the Pawtucket Free Public Library in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Sanders earned a national reputation for innovative library services, including allowing open access to book stacks, opening the library on Sundays to accommodate working people,...
Vernon Caryle Holloway Sr. (September 15, 1919 – January 15, 2000) was a Florida businessman and politician. Biography He was born in Richmond, Virginia. He founded Interstate Electric Company, Inc. (1949) in Dade County, Florida. He served eight years in the Florida House of Representatives and six years in the Flori...
Judas Iscariot was the apostle of Jesus who betrayed him. Judas is also the Greek form of the Hebrew name Judah, and may refer to: People Judah (son of Jacob), a patriarch Judas the Zealot, mentioned in the Epistle of the Apostles (Epistula Apostolorum), written in the 2nd century Judas of Galilee, also Judas of ...
Sven Gali is a Canadian hard rock/heavy metal band which originally started as a cover band in 1987 in Hamilton, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The 2018 line-up includes all three remaining original members: Dave Wanless (vocals), Andy Frank (guitar), Shawn Minden (bass); as well as new members Sean Willi...
The 64 BC Syria earthquake is mentioned in catalogues of historical earthquakes. It affected the region of Syria and may have caused structural damage in the city of Jerusalem. Sources The earthquake is mentioned in an epitome of Liber Historiarum Philippicarum, written by the historian Justin (2nd century). Justin re...
Agbarjin (also spelled Agvarjin and Akbarjin; ; ), (1423–1454) was a claimant to the throne of the Northern Yuan dynasty in 1453. He was the youngest brother of Tayisung Khan Toghtoa Bukha and Manduul Khan. Tayisung Khan appointed Agbarjin jinong over his ulus in 1433. When Toghtoa Bukha attempted to eliminate Esen Ta...
Leslie Zim Wallace (22 May 1894 – 26 December 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Before his football career, he served in World War I. After making a solitary appearance for in 1921, Wallace transferred to Hawthorn in 1922, but never played a sen...
Lexington is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 10,348 at the 2020 census, making it the 16th most populous city in Nebraska. It is the county seat of Dawson County. Lexington is located in southern Nebraska, on the Platte River, southeast of North Platte. It sits along the route of U....
The Australia national cricket team toured India between 10 October to 2 November 2013, playing a Twenty20 International match and seven-match One Day International series against India. Due to an ongoing back injury, Australian captain Michael Clarke was replaced by Callum Ferguson and George Bailey captained the side...
Hussain Imam was a prominent politician of Bihar. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946. One of the key members of the Pakistan Muslim league, Hussain imam played a key role in Pakistan's foundation. One of Jinnah's closest friends, Hussain Imam played an influential role in Pakistani politics us...
Khadia is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. Some species under this genus include: Khadia acutipetala Khadia alticola Khadia beswickii (L.Bolus) N.E.Br. Khadia borealis Khadia carolinensis Khadia media Khadia nationae Khadia nelsonii Aizoaceae Aizoaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Tax...
Sectionalism is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. Sectionalism occurs in many countries, such as in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom Sectionalism occurs most notably in the constituent nation of Scotland, where various sectionalist/separatist polit...
Angelina "Helen" de Luna Tan, (born Angelina Beredo de Luna) is a Filipina physician and politician who is the incumbent governor of Quezon. She previously served as a three-time congresswoman of Quezon's 4th district from 2013 to 2022 when she was elected in 2022 to become Quezon's new governor, becoming the first wom...
Valorie Curry is an American actress. Her credits include Veronica Mars (2005–06), The Following (2013–14) and The Tick (2016–19).<ref name=OrangeCountyRegister>Gaede, Susan (December 1, 2010). "AEDE: Sonora grad cast in 'Twilight' movie". Orange County Register. Retrieved on 2013-06-29.</ref> She also starred as the t...
Robert C. Dorn was an American politician from New York. In 1865, he was elected Canal Commissioner on the Republican ticket. In May 1868, he was put on trial by the Senate of New York in the Court of Impeachment, becoming the second person tried by the New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments. Life Robert C. Dorn...
Quade Green (born May 12, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for the Centauros de Portuguesa of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies and the Kentucky Wildcats. High school career Green attended Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Cath...
The 2022 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup was originally to be held as the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-20 nati...
Pieter Wijdekop (13 September 1912 – 1 September 1982), known as "Piet", was a Dutch sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1930s. He won a bronze medal in the folding K-2 10000 m event with his younger brother Kees at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Wijdekop brothers were born in Amsterdam, where they were ...
Ian Horner Hutchinson (7 June 1951) is a nuclear engineer and physicist who is currently Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has made a number of important contributions to the fields of nuclear engineering and nuclear physics and has also written about the phil...
```go // // Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Viper is an application configuration system. // It believes that applications can be configured a variety of ways // via flags, ENVIRONMENT variables, configuration files retrieved // from the file sys...
David James Burrows (born 11 January 1949) is a Canadian retired professional hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Maple Leafs. Career Burrows was born in Toronto, Ontario. Burrows learned to skate at the Pine Point Outdoor Arena in nearby Etobicoke. He won h...
Zigmas Zinkevičius (4 January 1925 – 20 February 2018) was a Lithuanian academician, baltist, linguist, linguistic historian, dialectologist, politician, and the former Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania (1996–1998). Zinkevičius authored over a hundred books, including the popular six-volume "History of the...
The Book of Lies may refer to: The Book of Lies (Crowley), a 1913 title by Aleister Crowley The Book of Lies (Picano novel), a 1999 title by Felice Picano The Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult, a 2003 compilation edited by Richard Metzger The Book of Lies (Moloney novel), a 2004 title...
The list of shipwrecks in December 1941 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1941. 1 December 2 December 3 December 4 December 5 December 6 December 7 December 8 December 9 December 10 December 11 December 12 December 13 December 14 December 15 December 16 Dece...
Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows instead down the bed of a neighbouring stream. This can happen for several reasons, including: Tectonic earth movements, wh...
Petra Moroder (born 3 July 1968) is an Italian freestyle skier. She was born in Bolzano. She competed at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics in women's moguls. References External links 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Bolzano Skiers from South Tyrol Italian female freestyle skiers Olympic freesty...
Twelve referendums were held in Switzerland in 1985. The first four were held on 10 March on abolishing primary school fees (approved), abolishing the government contribution to healthcare spending (approved), a federal resolution on education fees (rejected) and a popular initiative on extending paid leave (rejected)....
Professor Xiaolan Fu () is a British-based Chinese economist, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD). She is a Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University ...
Thomas Kuntz (born January 13, 1965) is an American multi-media artist notable for his contemporary automata. He has devoted a lifetime to acquiring the skills of a designer, sculptor, mechanic, automatist, animator, model-maker, painter and conceptualist. Early life Kuntz was born in Phoenix, Arizona January 13, 196...
The 1992 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 3, 1992. Although nearly 10% of the electorate voted for neither of the two major U.S. political parties, incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Harry Reid won re-election to a second term with over 50% of the vote. Democratic primary Candidates Harry ...
Women's association football has long been a largely amateur sport in Mexico, given the greater emphasis of the male competitions. However, rapid growth since 2021 has raised its profile enough to compete for sponsors and professional international talent not only within Mexico but also from Europe, Africa, and the Uni...
Scampston Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in North Yorkshire, England, with a serpentine park designed by Charles Bridgeman and Capability Brown. It is located on the north side of the A64 Leeds/Scarborough road, 4 miles (6 km) east of Malton, in Scampston village. The name of the village was referred to in va...
This is a list of mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Tim Kelly has been the incumbent mayor of Chattanooga since his inauguration on April 19, 2021 at the Tivoli Theatre. Notes[a] From 1840–1882, all mayors served one year terms, with several mayors elected to successive terms. [b] From 1883–1911, all mayors served two...
Spectacle, originally The Cherry Smash, was an alternative indie pop rock band from California during the 1990s fronted by Blake Miller (later of Moving Units). Their sound was characterized as "sunny, melodic, jangling folk-rock." Other Spectacle members included Alex Crain, Brad Laner (formerly of Medicine), and Bre...
Ano, šéfe! (Yes Boss!) was a television entertainment-gastronomy reality show broadcast by Prima televize featuring Zdeněk Pohlreich, as a recognized expert in the field of gastronomy and restaurant management. It was Czech adaptation of British BAFTA and Grammy award-winning show Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (broadcast...
Walnut Hill is a historic neighborhood located in north Omaha, Nebraska. It is bounded by North 40th Street on the east, Cuming Street on the south, Northwest Radial Highway and Saddle Creek Road on the west and Hamilton Street on the north. History Dr. Samuel Mercer constructed a large, private residence at 40th and ...
Impatiens henslowiana is a flowering plant of the Balsaminaceae family, native to the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, as well Sri Lanka. It is a large shrub that grows either terrestrially or epiphytically. Description This woody shrub, also known as Henslow's balsam, grows to and the stems can be either ere...
I, Monarch is the third studio album by Florida death metal band Hate Eternal. It was released June 28, 2005, on Earache Records. Track listing Personnel Hate Eternal Erik Rutan - guitars, vocals Derek Roddy - drums Randy Piro - bass Artwork Paul Romano - art direction, artwork & design References 2005 albums...
F. japonica may refer to: Fagus japonica, the Japanese blue beech, a deciduous tree species native to Japan Fallopia japonica, the Japanese knotweed, a large herbaceous perennial plant species native to Japan, China and Korea Fatsia japonica, the fatsi or Japanese aralia, a plant species native to southern Japan S...
The Maniyani (also known as Kolaya, Ayar, Konar, Iruman, Urali Nair in different area) is a nair sub-caste and Malayalam speaking Yadava community, native to Kerala state of South India. They are mainly distributed in Kozhikode, Palakkad, Kannur, Kasaragod and Wayanad districts. Their traditional occupation is tending ...
Pseudopontia australis is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and eastern Gabon. References Butterflies described in 1923 Pieridae
The Quebec diaspora consists of Quebec immigrants and their descendants dispersed over the North American continent and historically concentrated in the New England region of the United States, Ontario, and the Canadian Prairies. The mass emigration out of Quebec occurred in the period between 1840 and the Great Depres...
Reinmar von Hagenau (also Reinmar der Alte, Reinmar the Elder) was a German Minnesänger of the late twelfth century who composed and performed love-songs in Middle High German. He was regarded by his contemporaries as the greatest Minnesänger before Walther von der Vogelweide, a view widely shared by modern scholars. ...
Wladimir Klitschko vs. Sultan Ibragimov, billed as "The Unification", was a professional boxing match contested on 23 February 2008 for the IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight championship. Background After avenging an earlier defeat when he beat Lamon Brewster after 6 rounds in July 2007, Wladimir Klitschko had made three s...
The Great American Hall of Wonders was an exhibition and catalog organized in 2011 by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibit explored a number of themes pertinent to 19th century United States: clocks, Niagara Falls, guns, buffalos, railroads, and "big trees." Works displayed included patent illustrations, ...
Mistrzejowice is one of the 18 districts of Kraków; known as Dzielnica XV (District 15), located in the northern part of the city. The name Mistrzejowice comes from a village of same name (first mentioned in 1270) that is now a part of the district. According to the Central Statistical Office data, the district's are...
is a community of Loreto Municipality, in Baja California Sur state, Mexico. It is located about 45 km south of the city of Loreto. Population Ensenada Blanca had a 2010 census population of 255 inhabitants. It is the second-largest community in Loreto Municipality, after the municipal seat of Loreto. References ...
Damien Dufour (born October 30, 1981) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for AS Prix-lès-Mézières. Career Dufour was born in Migennes. He played the 2007–08 season for Grenoble Foot on loan from AJ Auxerre. References External links 1981 births Living people French men's footballers Men's associati...
Villaricca (until May 13, 1871 called Panicocoli) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 10 km northwest of Naples. It is the birthplace of popular Italian singer Sergio Bruni and the venerable physician and priest Vittorio De Marino. Geography Vill...
Elizabeth Blanche Cripps is a British political philosopher. She is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her research addresses environmental philosophy, including questions around climate change, population and parenting, environmental ethics, environmental politics, and environmental ...
The blue–white screen is a screening technique that allows for the rapid and convenient detection of recombinant bacteria in vector-based molecular cloning experiments. This method of screening is usually performed using a suitable bacterial strain, but other organisms such as yeast may also be used. DNA of transforma...
McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Comm'n, 411 U.S. 164 (1973), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States holding that Arizona has no jurisdiction to impose a tax on the income of Navajo Indians residing on the Navajo Reservation if their income is wholly derived from reservation sources. Background Rosa...
```java /* * * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license * that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source * tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found * in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may * be found in the AUTHORS file in the ...
Mormidea cubrosa is a species of stink bug in the family Pentatomidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America. References Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1851 Pentatomini Hemiptera of South America
The arrondissement of Basse-Terre is an arrondissement of France in the Guadeloupe department in the Guadeloupe region. It has 18 communes. Its population is 189,210 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Basse-Terre, and their INSEE codes, are: Baie-Mahault (97103) Baillif (97...
Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs, ) are market-oriented public enterprises under the purview of local governments based in townships and villages in China. History Before the Reform and Opening Although Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was reported to have said that TVEs "appear(ed) out of nowhere" in 1987, the in...
Guanacaste can refer to: Guanacaste, the common tropical American tree Enterolobium cyclocarpum Places Belize Guanacaste National Park (Belize), a small national park in Belize Costa Rica Guanacaste Province, a province of Costa Rica Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica), a small national park in Costa Rica Gu...
The UTAS XTR-12 is a semi automatic shotgun manufactured by UTAS Defence of Turkey. Overview The XTR-12 is a gas operated semi-automatic shotgun derived from the AR-10 platform. References Semi-automatic shotguns of Turkey
WWFG (99.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Ocean City, Maryland, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. History Up until 1993, this station had the call letters WKHI and featured a CHR/Top 40 format. The station was once called "100 KHI" even though it broa...
Clarence Leonard Tommerson (April 8, 1915 – January 6, 2000) was an American football halfback in the National Football League. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1938. Tommerson was born on April 8, 1915, in La Crosse, Wisconsin and attended Logan High School. He went on to play football at the collegiate level...
Custard tarts or flan pâtissier/parisien are a baked pastry consisting of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard. History The development of custard is so intimately connected with the custard tart or pie that the word itself comes from Anglo-Norman (unattested), meaning a kind of pie. It is derived from Anglo...
Svartsjö is a smaller locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. See also Svartsjö Palace Svartsjö County References Populated places in Ekerö Municipality Uppland
The Unraveling is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Drive-By Truckers, released on January 31, 2020 on ATO Records. It was produced by long-time collaborator David Barbe, and recorded between 2017 and 2019. The album continues the themes of political angst from their previous album, American Band. In the ...
Wysocki Młyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tuchola, within Tuchola County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Tuchola and north of Bydgoszcz. References Villages in Tuchola County