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29396953 | College of Printing Arts | Polygraph college No. 56 is an educational institution in Moscow. The College provides professional vocational education in the printing industry.
Training focuses on basic and advanced levels of primary and secondary education. At the end of college, graduates are awarded the qualification and level.
Departments.
Sovk... |
6188180 | Stefanie Böhler | Stefanie Böhler (born 27 February 1981) is a German former cross-country skier who competed between 1999 and 2018. She won a silver medal in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Her best individual finish was 20th in both the individual sprint and the 30 km events at those same games.
Böhler also wo... |
62337669 | Raising Buchanan | Raising Buchanan is a 2019 American comedy film produced by Amanda Melby, Joe Gruberman, Chadwick Struck and Cathy Shim, written and directed by Bruce Dellis. The film stars René Auberjonois in the role of the title character, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, and was his final role released in h... |
61169663 | Florence and John R. Pond House | The Florence and John R. Pond House, at 1875 NM 170 in La Plata, New Mexico, was built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
It was deemed significant "for its connection to the community of La Plata and the La Plata River valley road, the main transportation route connecting north... |
35204728 | Sabarmati (area) | Sabarmati is an area located in Ahmedabad, India.
Sabarmati is located on the bank of the Sabarmati River. Sabarmati is a developed and rich area of the western Ahmedabad. Main areas of Sabarmati are Ramnagar, Dharmnagar, Javaharchowk, Kabirchowk, Ranip, Kaligam, Motera, Janata Nagar, Chandkheda, D-cabin.
Sabarmati is ... |
29129339 | 1988–89 Inter Milan season | Season.
After another disappointing season, Inter retained Giovanni Trapattoni and acquired German footballers: Brehme, a fullback, and Lothar Matthäus, a box-to-box midfielder, signed for the club. For the role of centre-forward, the first choice was Rabah Madjer: when he met physical issues, however, he was replaced ... |
67185735 | Full Hearts & Empty Rooms | Full Hearts & Empty Rooms is the second extended play by Australian recording artist Emma Louise, released independently through Louise's Bandcamp on 31 March 2011.
The EP was later released independently on compact disc on 15 April 2011, with distribution handled by MGM Records.
"Full Hearts & Empty Rooms" ac... |
3216521 | Fort Washakie | Fort Washakie was a U.S. Army fort in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1869 and named Camp Augur after General Christopher C. Augur, commander of the Department of the Platte. In 1870 the camp was renamed Camp Brown in honor of Captain Frederick H. Brown, who was killed in the Fetterma... |
1597545 | Phoebe Knapp | Phoebe Knapp ( Palmer; March 9, 1839 – July 10, 1908) was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist.
Biography.
Knapp was born in New York City. Her parents were Walter C. Palmer and Phoebe (Worrall) Palmer. She married Joseph Fairchild Knapp, one of the founders and the second president of the Metropolit... |
44253566 | Bernard G. Gordon | Bernard G. Gordon (November 16, 1916 – May 4, 1978) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life.
He was born on November 16, 1916, in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, the son of David Gordon (1885–1962) and Rose Gordon (1889–1977). He graduated from Syracuse University and Syracuse University Coll... |
19083359 | Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 | Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4 is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The fourth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was released on September 30, 2008. It was recorded at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, California, on October 21 and 22, 1978.
A third, "bonus" disc was included ... |
29636635 | Luis Campos (musician) | Luis Campos, also known by the stage name Chocs (born June 5), is a Mexican/American Punk rock jazz drummer and member of the band Delux.
Early life.
Luis Campos was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico and started playing drums at the age of sixteen. He performed with several bands for a few years in Culiacan. In 2000 he... |
3623238 | Sex Slaves (film) | Sex Slaves (also "Sex Slave$") is a 2005 documentary film by Ric Esther Bienstock that was produced in association with CBC, Frontline (PBS), Channel 4 and Canal D.
Genesis and Background.
It provides a firsthand account of international human trafficking by exploring the Eastern European countries such as Moldova and ... |
36819529 | Go! (Tones on Tail song) | "Go!" is a song by English post-punk band Tones on Tail.
The song was initially a hit in dance clubs but made a number of appearances in popular culture in later years. In 1990, American electronic musician Moby used a sample of it in his 1990 dance hit of the same title. In 1997, it was featured in the film "Grosse Po... |
1258812 | Kaladar | Kaladar is a compact rural community and unincorporated area in the municipality of Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the junction of Ontario Highway 7 and Ontario Highway 41.
To the north is a quaint little town by the name of Northbrook. Further north is Bon... |
6654865 | Khao Kho district | Khao Kho (, ) is a district ("amphoe") of Phetchabun province, northern Thailand.
Etymology.
The name of the district comes from Khao Kho, a peak in the Phetchabun Mountains, named either after "Livistona speciosa", a kind of palm tree, or after the Ceylon oak. Both species are known as "kho" () in Thai and are abundan... |
2001239 | New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company | The New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Company was a company in a series of conglomerations of several companies that eventually laid the first Trans-Atlantic cable.
In 1854 British engineer Charles Bright met an American, Cyrus Field, who had a dream of completing a submarine cable connection between North ... |
49423341 | Gcn4 | Gcn4 is a transcription factor and a “master regulator” for gene expression which regulates close to one tenth of the yeast genome.
In a study by Razaghi et al, amino acid starvation activated the transcription factor Gcn4p, resulting in transcriptional induction of almost all genes involved in amino acid biosynthesis,... |
11769293 | Leo Stan Ekeh | Leonard Stanley Nnamdi Ekeh (born February 22, 1956 in Imo State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Zinox Group. He is also the chairman of Konga.com.
Early life.
Ekeh was born in Ubomiri Mbaitoli, Imo State to a middle-class family with three brothers and two sisters. His mother was... |
53231626 | Fuga (film) | Fuga is a 2006 Chilean-Argentine drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. It is Larraín's directing debut.
Plot.
The story revolves around Eliseo Montalbán (Benjamín Vicuña), who as a child witnesses his sister's rape and murder on a piano while a musical piece is incidentally composed. This event causes him to grow up as... |
53793358 | Michaela Hinds | Michaela Hinds (born 1995) is an Irish-Canadian Irish dancer, the most awarded North American in the history of the An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha's Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (Irish Dancing World Championships). She retired from competition in 2017, after her seventh win.
Biography.
Hinds began Irish dance at age thr... |
28524234 | State Correctional Institution – Muncy | State Correctional Institution – Muncy is a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections prison for women in Clinton Township, Lycoming County, near Muncy. SCI Muncy, a close security prison, has Pennsylvania's death row for women.
In 1920 the Muncy Industrial Home, a training school for imprisoned women between 16 and 30, o... |
65642673 | Almost Monday | Almost Monday (stylized as almost monday) is an American indie pop trio based in San Diego, California. Their debut EP, "Don't Say You're Ordinary", was released on October 9, 2020.
History.
Dawson Daugherty, Cole Clisby, and Luke Fabry met while in high school in San Diego's North County area. Fabry and Daugherty grew... |
13783458 | First National Business Park | First National Business Park is located at 144th & Dodge Streets, just north of Boys Town in West Omaha. CB Richard Ellis regards the park as Omaha's "most prestigious location". It was a significant part of the largest annexation in Omaha's history, which former mayor Hal Daub called for in 1999.
Founded in 1997, ... |
12003447 | Tottleben | Tottleben is a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district of Thuringia, Germany.
Geography.
The municipality Tottleben is 7 km away from the western edge of Bad Tennstedt at an altitude of 210–315 meters. Through the village leads the L 2127, which connects Tottleben with the neighboring Großurleben in the sout... |
47944484 | Mizuki Kitaguchi | Mizuki Kitaguchi (born April 17, 1994) is a Japanese curler. She currently skips a team on the World Curling Tour.
Career.
Youth.
Kitaguchi represented Japan at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, playing third on the team. The team would finish 7th at the event, with a 4-4 record. Kitaguchi also played in the mixed double... |
42385785 | Zhang Yudong | Zhang Yudong (Chinese: 张煜东; born 9 September 1992 in Shanghai) is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Kunshan FC.
Club career.
Born in Shanghai, Zhang joined Genbao Football Academy. He was promoted to academy's first team Shanghai East Asia in 2009. In January 2012, Zhang transferred to C... |
11260976 | Philemon Foundation | The Philemon Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to prepare for publication the "Complete Works" of Carl Gustav Jung, beginning with the previously unpublished manuscripts, seminars and correspondences. It is estimated that an additional 30 volumes of work will be published and that the work will take t... |
59817092 | Jessica Fernández | Jessica Fernández (born 19 July 1979) is a former professional tennis player from Mexico.
Biography.
Fernández holds the Mexico Fed Cup record for most ties played, which stands at 29. She started out as a 15-year old in 1995 and on debut played one of the longest Fed Cup matches in history when she defeated Colombia's... |
21631673 | La Salle Coliseum | The La Salle Coliseum (also called the USLS Coliseum) is an indoor sporting arena located in Bacolod, Philippines.
The Coliseum has played host to a number of basketball games including those of Philippine Basketball Association out of town games and the now-defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association, where it served ... |
18750836 | Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979–1984 | Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones – The BBC Sessions 1979-1984, a compilation album by the Comsat Angels, was released in 1992 by BBC Music and reissued by Renascent in 2006. The name of the album was taken from the award-winning science fiction short story of the same name by Samuel R. Delany.
The alb... |
70332603 | Scotch Whisky Research Institute | The Scotch Whisky Research Institute (SWRI) is the main, and only, research institute of the scotch whisky industry in Scotland.
History.
It was founded on 30 September 1974 as Pentlands Scotch Whisky Research, at the North British Distillery.
It changed to its current name in October 1995. It moved to its present site... |
49956032 | Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten | Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten (born 1969) is a contemporary Austrian visual artist.
Biography.
Czerwenka-Wenkstetten was educated in London and Vienna, and is noted for the influence of her natural sciences background on her art, which explores (according to her artist's statement) "inner, exterior, and in-between space... |
1508578 | Liam Fitzgerald |
Liam Joseph Fitzgerald (born 1 September 1949) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.
Fitzgerald was born in Doon, County Limerick and educated at the Christian Brothers school in Doon, St Patrick's College, Dublin and University College Dublin. He worked as a teacher before becoming involved in politics.
He was ... |
62782657 | 2019 Canadian honours | The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2019. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honou... |
55071751 | Dafydd ap Gwilym Society | The Dafydd ap Gwilym Society is the Welsh society at the University of Oxford. It is a Welsh language society, as opposed to a society of Welsh people like its sister-society in Cambridge, the .
History.
The society was established in 1886, making it the oldest society in Oxford after the Union. It is known by its memb... |
2764134 | Cascade River State Park | Cascade River State Park is a state park near the northeastern tip of Minnesota, USA. The park is in a rocky and rugged location where the Cascade River descends to meet Lake Superior. It has many different types of wildlife including various birds and mammals.
Cascade River State Park is also connected to the Superior... |
24549456 | Friso-Saxon languages | Friso-Saxon () is a group of West Germanic dialects found around the North Sea coast of the Netherlands and Germany, in an area historically known as Frisia. They are dialects of Low German/Low Saxon that have experienced strong influence from a Frisian language.
The term was established by the Dutch researcher Johan W... |
22899570 | Stockholmsnatt | Stockholmsnatt (English: "Stockholm Night" or "The King of Kungsan") is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 23 January 1987, directed by Staffan Hildebrand.
Plot.
The film is loosely based on a true story about Paolo Roberto, later a professional boxer and TV presenter. Because of his Italia... |
53723605 | Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer | Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer (14 January 1816, Frauendorf - 27 May 1877, Berlin) often just referred to as Gustav Meyer, was a German landscape architect and garden historian. As director of the gardens in the city of Berlin he designed parks and green areas for the city and use by the citizens. He also wrote a gardens... |
42250034 | Surfacing (film) | Surfacing is a 1981 Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra and starring Kathleen Beller, R. H. Thomson, Joseph Bottoms, Michael Ironside and Margaret Dragu. The film was written by Bernard Gordon as an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel "Surfacing" (1972).
The film received mixed reviews, with criticism of Bot... |
4543497 | Shin Ryu | Shin Ryu (; 1619–1680) was a general of the Joseon dynasty. He was born into a yangban family of the Pyeongsan Shin lineage in modern-day Chilgok County, Gyeongsangbuk-do, near where his shrine now stands in Yangmok-myeon. He passed the military gwageo in 1645, and went on to hold various state positions. In 1654, he w... |
17593616 | Mato Damjanović | Mato Damjanović (23 March 192712 February 2011) was a Croatian chess grandmaster who represented Yugoslavia in international team events. In 1964 he became the second Croatian grandmaster, after Mijo Udovčić.
Damjanović represented Yugoslavia at first reserve board (+6 -2 =2) in the 14th Chess Olympiad at Leipzig 1960,... |
5404185 | Somerby, Leicestershire | Somerby is a village and civil parish in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is south of Melton Mowbray. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 812.
Somerby is a small country village containing a parish church (All Saints), a primary school, a Doctor's surgery, a pub, a... |
20991455 | Coates, Gloucestershire | Coates is a village and civil parish situated in Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England. It is around west of Cirencester and close to Cirencester Park, part of the Bathurst Estate. It is the nearest village to the source of the river Thames at Thames Head, and it is close to the course of the Foss Way or Fosse Wa... |
15832854 | Rongorongo text J | Text J of the rongorongo corpus, also known as (London) "reimiro" 1, is the larger of two inscribed "reimiro" in London and one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts.
Other names.
J is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR20.
Location.
British Museum, London. Catalog # AOA 6... |
38399728 | I.N.R.I. (film) | I.N.R.I. is a 1923 German silent religious epic film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Gregori Chmara, Henny Porten, and Asta Nielsen. The film is a retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was based on a 1905 novel by Peter Rosegger. It was reissued in 1933 in the United States wit... |
9450747 | Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, Ohio | Rush Creek Township is one of the thirteen townships of Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 3,996.
Geography.
Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
The village of Bremen is located in central Rush Creek Township, and part of the... |
55702728 | Miriam Zamparelli | Miriam Medina de Zamparelli (born 1941) is a sculptor of the generation of 1980, renowned for her wood projects. She was an active member of the .
Biography.
Born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, Miriam Medina lived and made her first studies in the Dominican Republic. She then moved to Chicago, where she continued her higher ... |
46851883 | Daniela Davoli | Daniela Davoli ( Annamaria Fiorillo; born 5 August 1957) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter, mainly successful in the second half of the 1970s.
Life and career.
Born in Pisa, after participating to several musical contests Davoli moved to Rome where she was put under contract by the label Aris. She made her record deb... |
1562854 | Treasons Act 1534 | The Treasons Act 1534 (26 Hen. 8. c. 13) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in 1534, during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Background.
This Act was passed after the Act of Supremacy 1534, which made the king the "Only Head of the Church of England on Earth so far as the Law of God allows."
The Act.
The Act m... |
51805757 | HR 4887 | HR 4887 (HD 111904) is a suspected variable star in the open cluster NGC 4755, which is also known as the Kappa Crucis Cluster or Jewel Box Cluster.
Location.
HR 4887 is one of the brightest members of the NGC 4775 open cluster, better known as the Jewel Box Cluster. It forms the apex of the prominent letter "A" asteri... |
36672108 | Vinciane Despret | Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher of science, associate professor, at the University of Liège, Belgium.
Biography.
Vinciane Despret first graduated in philosophy. She then studied psychology and graduated in 1991. She is most known for having provided a reflexive account on ethologists, observing babblers in th... |
23610129 | U.S. Sugar Program | The U.S. Sugar program is the federal commodity support program that maintains a minimum price for sugar, authorized by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 1401–1403) to cover the 2002-2007 crops of sugar beets and sugarcane.
Originally designed to protect the incomes of the sugar industry-growers of sugarcane and s... |
43270826 | South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust | South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust was the National Health Service trust responsible for managing South Tyneside District Hospital.
History.
The trust was authorised as a foundation trust on 1 January 2005. It merged with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust to form South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundati... |
12638800 | Seahampton, New South Wales | Seahampton is a hamlet situated north of West Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, located west of the city of Newcastle's central business district and west of the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. It is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area.
Seahampton's origins are in coal mining. Seaham No. 1 Collie... |
7659823 | Thomas Kinsella (politician) | Thomas Kinsella (December 31, 1832 – February 11, 1884) was an American printer and politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1871 to 1873.
Biography.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland. Brother of Matthew Kinsella born in Kilnahue, Gorey, Co.Wexford 1836. He emigrated to the Unit... |
19822245 | Open Het Dorp | Open het Dorp ("Open the Village") was the first big fundraising TV show in the Netherlands. It aired on Dutch TV on 26 and 27 November 1962.
"Het Dorp" is a special village or community for disabled people. To raise the required funds to build and open the community, a TV show was organized.
The program was at that mo... |
38178242 | Teemu Huhtala | Teemu Huhtala (born April 4, 1991) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player. He currently plays with the Tampereen Ilves team in SM-liiga, the Finnish elite league.
Career.
Club career.
Huhtala has been contracted to Ilves since the beginning of his career. In seasons 2007-08 and 2008-09 he tied for best scorer on B... |
64087752 | Mary Warren (actress) | Mary Warren (born Marie Elizabeth Wierman; November 6, 1893 – August 4, 1956), was an American silent film actress.
Early life.
Marie Elizabeth Wierman was born on November 6, 1893 in Philadelphia, the daughter of Mary E. Wierman (1871–1940).
Career.
In 1912, still using the name Marie Wierman, she was a member of the ... |
63112008 | One Beer (Hardy song) | "One Beer" (stylized in all caps) is a song recorded by American country music singer Hardy, featuring Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson. It was included on Hardy's first mixtape, "Hixtape, Vol. 1," in 2019 and released as the first single from Hardy's debut studio album, "A Rock," released in 2020. The song was written b... |
25560131 | Gerald VI, Count of Armagnac | Gerald VI, (1235–1285), was Viscount Fezensaguet from 1240 to 1285, then Count of Armagnac and Fezensac from 1256 to 1285. He was the son of Roger d'Armagnac, Viscount of Fezensaguet, and Pincelle d'Albret.
Life.
In 1249 he contested the possession of Armagnac and Fézensac which led to war with Arnaud Odon, Viscount Lo... |
27453576 | 2000–01 Honduran Liga Nacional | The 2000–01 Honduran Liga Nacional was the 36th season in the history of the Honduran top division; this was the third tournament under the Apertura and Clausura format; C.D. Olimpia managed to beat C.D. Platense in the Apertura Final and obtained its 15th league title; in the Clausura C.D. Platense took revenge over C... |
8644130 | Pete Donnelly (musician) | Pete Donnelly (born October 11, 1972) is an American bass player, singer, songwriter and founding member of The Figgs. Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Donnelly is based in Philadelphia. In November 2007 Donnelly began playing with keyboardist Terry Adams, a founder of NRBQ, in the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quarte... |
33021665 | Elachista stabilella | Elachista stabilella is a moth of the family Elachistidae found in Asia and Europe.
Description.
The wingspan is . Adults are on wing from April to May and again from June to July.
The larvae feed on bent ("Agrostis" species), common wild oat ("Avena fatua"), tor-gras ("Brachypodium pinnatum"), false-brome ("Brachypodi... |
2341611 | Brush Development Company | Brush Development Company was a manufacturer of audio, phonographic products and magnetic recording technologies located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was absorbed into Clevite in 1952.
History.
The business was founded in 1919 by Alfred L. Williams as Brush Labs to develop products that utilized piezoelectric crystals. Assoc... |
23227262 | 2009–10 Danish 2nd Divisions | The 2009-10 season in Danish 2nd Division was divided in two groups. The two winners, Brønshøj BK and FC Hjørring were promoted to the 2010–11 Danish 1st Division, along with the runner-up from the West-division Hobro IK, after they beat their Eastern counterpart B.93 5–1 on aggregate in a two-legged promotion play-off... |
33557158 | Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg | Rudolf III ( – 11 June 1419), a member of the House of Ascania, was Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Elector of Saxony from 1388 until his death.
Life.
He was probably born at the Saxon Wittenberg residence, the eldest son of Duke Wenceslaus I of Saxe-Wittenberg and his wife Cecilia, daughter of Francesco I da Carrara, Lord... |
69020075 | Gloria Purvis | Gloria Purvis is an African-American Catholic speaker, author, podcaster, and Whole Life activist in Washington, D.C. She is best known for her time co-hosting the "Morning Glory" show on EWTN Radio, which ended in December 2020 when the show was abruptly canceled. Purvis was not given a reason for the cancellation, wh... |
38186797 | Jonathan K. Miller | Jonathan Kieser "Poss" Miller (1899 – August 22, 1971) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania as a quarterback, captaining the 1922 Penn Quakers football team. Miller served as the head football coach at Franklin & Marshall College from 1928 to 1930, ... |
6079830 | TC/3.6 and TC/6 mines | The TC/3.6 and TC/6 are round minimum metal Italian anti-tank blast mines. Both mines use the same fuzing system. They have round deep ribbed plastic cases that are either sand colored or olive green. The fuze works on an air pressure system, with the top pressure plate forcing air through a small bleed valve. The air ... |
33682407 | 1990 Winter Pan American Games medal table | The 1990 Winter Pan American Games, officially known as the I Winter Pan American Games, were a continental winter multi-sport event held in Las Leñas, Argentina, from September 16 to September 22, 1990. At the only Winter Games realized, 97 athletes selected from 8 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in ev... |
33023127 | University of Applied Sciences, Kaiserslautern | The Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Kaiserslautern, HS Kaiserslautern) is a Hochschule (University of Applied Sciences) with 3 campuses located in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in Pirmasens, Germany and in Zweibrücken, Germany. With about 6300 students (as of 2018/19), it is one of the larg... |
70269329 | The Lake District Murder | The Lake District Murder is a 1935 detective novel by the British writer John Bude. It is the first in a series of novels featuring Chief Inspector Meredith, promoted at the end of case to Superintendent. Set in the Lake District of Northern England, it shows the influence of Freeman Wills Crofts's Inspector French nov... |
19889697 | The Frogmore Papers | The Frogmore Papers is a quarterly literary magazine published in the United Kingdom. The magazine is published by The Frogmore Press, founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone (once a favourite haunt of H. G. Wells) in 1983. The magazine is based in Lewes, East Sussex and is edited... |
12127843 | Dinaelurus | Dinaelurus is a genus of the Nimravidae, an extinct family of feliform mammalian carnivores, also known as "false saber-toothed cats". Assigned to subfamily Nimravinae, "Dinaelurus" was endemic to North America during the Eocene-Oligocene epochs (30.8—20.6 mya), existing for approximately .
Taxonomy.
"Dinaelurus" was n... |
62661882 | Abu Nafisa fort | Abu Nafisa fort is a ruin located on the left bank of the Nile, in Khartoum Province (Sudan). It was built by the rulers of Alwa.
The enclosure in quadrilateral in layout with internal dimensions measuring 83x78 meters. In three corners in 2018, traces of bastions have survived. In the fourth corner, south-eastern, the... |
46508292 | Revolt (song) | "Revolt" is a song by the English rock band Muse from their seventh studio album, "Drones" (2015). It was released as the third single from the album on 4 November 2015.
Song description.
In his review of the album, Gigwise's Andrew Trendell called the song a "squelchy synth-fuelled call to arms and power ballad for th... |
61201373 | Richard Arthur Ledward | Richard Arthur Ledward (1857 – 28 October 1890), born in the Staffordshire Potteries in England, was a sculptor and teacher of pottery modelling.
Life.
Ledward was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1857; he was a son of Richard Perry Ledward, of the firm Pinder, Bourne & Co. of Burslem. Ledward was employed as mod... |
10507169 | Rana Raslan | Rana Raslan (; ; born ) is an Israeli former model who won Miss Israel in 1999. With the cancellation of the pageant in 2022, she remains the only Arab and Muslim to have won the title. Following her crowning as national beauty queen, Raslan represented Israel at Miss Universe that same year.
Concurrent Israeli prime m... |
24946358 | Saleel Wagh | Saleel Wagh is a Marathi poet, philosopher based in Pune.
Biography.
Saleel Wagh a leading Marathi poet, was born in 1967 in Rajkot, Gujarat. He has 7 collections of poetry on his credit. His collections include Nivadak Kavita (1996), Sadhyachya Kavita (2005), Aadhichya Kavita (2007) a Marathi translation of a major Hi... |
6870770 | Master of Science in Project Management | The Master of Science in Project Management (M.S.P.M.), also known as Master in Project Management (M.P.M.) is a professional advanced degree in project management. Such degree is not only for future project managers but also offers opportunities in consultancy, evaluation of investment projects, business analysis, bus... |
13405076 | Bangor RFC | Bangor Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Bangor) is a Welsh rugby union team based in Bangor, North Wales. Bangor RFC is a founding member of the Welsh Rugby Union. The club fields a Seniors, Youth, Juniors and Ladies teams.
History.
Bangor RFC was formed in 1876, with three players in the team who would eventuall... |
19831937 | Alivaria Brewery | Olivaria brewery (also known as Olivaria or Alivaria, ) is one of the oldest breweries in Belarus, and is the oldest of presently existent breweries in the country. It was founded in 1864 in Minsk. The brewery has a 29% market share in the beer market in Belarus, and its primary product, Alivaria-brand beer has a marke... |
46905949 | Chant de Linos | Chant de Linos is a work for flute and piano written by French composer André Jolivet in 1944 as a commission for a Conservatoire de Paris competition which was subsequently won by Jean-Pierre Rampal. He transcribed it for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp the same year. The piece has since become a staple of the mo... |
5900466 | John Shumway | John Shumway is an American journalist, working at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Shumway began his broadcasting career as a disc jockey for WLAP Radio in Lexington, Kentucky. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Eastern Kentucky University in 1978. After graduation, he started his news career... |
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History.
The band was formed in Alpena in 2004 and recorded extensively through... |
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Biography.
Born in Brooklyn, Bellamy's family moved to Florida when... |
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Kashmir Smast is known as one of the oldest Hindu universities. The ruins saw the rise and fall of... |
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22927680 | Cattle Drive | Cattle Drive is a 1951 American Western film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills. Much of the film was shot in the Death Valley National Park, California and Paria, Utah.
Plot.
Chester Graham Jr. (Dean Stockwell), the spoiled young son of a wealthy railroad owner, gets lost... |
40704620 | Emeric Tauss Torday | Emeric Tauss Torday (7 April 1897, in Budapest – 27 January 1987, in París) was a Hungarian painter trained in Budapest, Prague and Paris known for a number of paintings on display in museums both in Hungary and abroad.
History.
Emeric Tauss Torday was a disciple of the well-known Hungarian painter Fulop Laszlo. At the... |
45568208 | Palace of the Peacock | Palace of the Peacock (1960) is the first novel by Guyanese writer Wilson Harris. It is considered an important early postcolonial novel and a canonical text in Caribbean literary studies. The novel is the first in Harris's "Guyana Quartet" of novels, which also include "The Far Journey of Oudin" (1961), "The Whole Arm... |
64139820 | David Lang (rugby union) | David Lang (16 August 1852) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at the Forward position.
Rugby Union career.
Amateur career.
Lang played for the rugby union arm of the Paisley Football and Shinty Club, known as Paisley Football Club
Provincial career.
He was one of three Paisley players that made... |
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55424182 | 2018 Pittsburgh Pirates season | The 2018 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the franchise's 137th season overall, 132nd season as a member of the National League, and the 18th season at PNC Park. The Pirates finished the season in 4th place with a record of 82–79 and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the third consecutive season.
Player stats.
Battin... |
1581118 | False Point | False Point is a low headland in the Bay of Bengal. It is located in the Kendrapara district of Odisha, India. The point derives its name from the circumstance that vessels proceeding up the Bay of Bengal frequently mistook it for Point Palmyras, less than a degree farther north.
A lighthouse is situated 2 km inland fr... |
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