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1179935 | Yi (Cyrillic) | Yi (Ї ї; italics: "Ї ї") is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Yi is derived from the Greek letter iota with diaeresis.
It was the initial variant of the Cyrillic letter Іі, which saw change from two dots to one in 18th century, possibly inspired by similar Latin letter i. Later two variants of the letter separated to be... |
15057312 | Louise Campbell (designer) | Louise Campbell (born 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish furniture and lighting designer. She is a leading figure in contemporary Danish design and experiments with free, unconstrained forms and new technologies. She has won several awards and her products are produced by many renowned producers like Louis Poulse... |
28061408 | Aqaba Archaeological Museum |
Aqaba Archaeological Museum () is the official archaeological museum of the city of Aqaba in Jordan.
Location.
The museum is located in the historical part of Aqaba, adjacent to the historic fort of Aqaba and near the Aqaba Flagpole.
History.
The building that hosts the museum was the palace of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali... |
35892874 | Bushcaddy L-162 Max | The Bushcaddy L-162 Max is a Canadian kit aircraft that was designed by Sean Gilmore and produced by Canadian Light Aircraft Sales and Service and most recently by Bushcaddy. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction.
Design and development.
The L-162 was developed from the Bushcaddy L-160 as a result ... |
13455948 | Precision Talent | Founded in 2007, Precision Talent was a voice over talent management company, audio production house, voice over casting service, and a spoken word record label. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Precision Talent represented a talent pool called "The 100", which is composed of voice over talent based in L... |
28129477 | William Alfred Merchant | William Alfred Merchant (31 July 1919 – 26 May 2001), was an English dwarf clown who performed under the name of "Little Billy" Merchant. Born in a workhouse in Barton Hill, Bristol, Merchant was abandoned by his parents as a young child and brought up in an orphanage in Bristol. As an adult, he was only tall.
Merchant... |
30638320 | Apollinarius (governor) | Apollinarius was a Byzantine governor of the Balearic Islands, appointed in 534. The main source about him is Procopius.
Biography.
Apollinarius was a native of the Italian Peninsula, but apparently settled in the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa while still underage. He grew up to serve King Hilderic (r. 523–530) and wa... |
40422062 | Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari | Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari (Piacenza, February 27, 1813 – Piacenza, October 5, 1896) was an Italian painter, mainly of historic and sacred canvases, as well as portraits.
Biography.
Pollinari began his studies at the Istituto Gazzola in Piacenza, under Giuseppe Gherardi (or Girardi), and then of Antonio Gemmi. Unde... |
15092237 | Christine Horne | Christine Horne (born December 14, 1981, in Aurora, Ontario) is a Canadian actress. She received her BFA in Theatre at York University in 2004 and has since become an established stage actor in Toronto.
She has been nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role... |
23014246 | Musashi-Masuko Station | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Akiruno, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines.
Musashi-Masuko Station is served by the Itsukaichi Line, and is located 8.5 kilometers from the starting point of the line at Haijima Station.
Station layout.
This station consists of o... |
3840490 | Dallas Superstars | Dallas Superstars is a Finnish Electronic music duo of Heikki "Bostik" Liimatainen and Jaakko "JS16" Salovaara, noted for internationally charting dance club hit, "Helium" of 2002. The achievement of this single (which came to #3 on the Finnish move outline) provoked further arrivals of Fast Driving, Ready To Go, I Fee... |
70066737 | Lego Masters (American season 1) | The first season of the American reality competition television series "Lego Masters" premiered on Fox on February 5, 2020. The series is based on the British series of the same name. The season concluded with 10 episodes on April 15, 2020 crowning married couple Tyler and Amy Clites the winners during the finale.
On N... |
42104796 | Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot Farm | The Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot Farm is a subsistence farm located at 880 Carbon Mine Road in Lawrence Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The farm was established in 1889 by Joseph F. and Anna B. Schrot, a stonemason and his wife who immigrated to Clearfield County from Austria in 1883. Stone quarries at nearb... |
41438443 | Stephen Dycus | Stephen Dycus (born 1941) is an American professor of National Security Law at the Vermont Law School.
Biography.
Dycus obtained his bachelor's degree from the Southern Methodist University in 1963 and two years later got Bachelor of Laws degree at the same place. In 1976 he got his Master of Laws degree from Harvard U... |
65778944 | Pagtingin | "Pagtingin" () is a song by Filipino folk-pop band Ben&Ben, composed by lead vocalist Paolo Benjamin Guico. It was released alongside "Araw-Araw" on May 2, 2019. It was used for the film "LSS (Last Song Syndrome)" released in 2019 under Globe Studios.
Music video.
The music video of the song was directed by Jorel L... |
26576325 | Shankarpur | Shankarpur is a beach village located 14 km east of Digha in West Bengal, India. It is also a regular fishing harbour. Shankarpur contains a number of temples.
Geography.
Location.
Shankarpur is located in the Purba (East) Medinipur District of the state of West Bengal, Shankarpur is a beach destination along the Digha... |
34219465 | Achille Grandi | Achille Grandi (24 August 1883 – 28 September 1946) was an Italian politician and catholic syndicalist.
Grandi was born in Como, Italy. In 1918 he entered the secretariat of the Confederazione Italiana dei Lavoratori CIL being one of its founding members, with Ulisse Carbone. He was elected CIL general secretary from 1... |
61404733 | Greenhouse–Geisser correction | The Greenhouse–Geisser correction formula_1 is a statistical method of adjusting for lack of sphericity in a repeated measures ANOVA. The correction functions as both an estimate of epsilon (sphericity) and a correction for lack of sphericity. The correction was proposed by Samuel Greenhouse and Seymour Geisser in 1959... |
23091750 | JACK Intelligent Agents | JACK Intelligent Agents is a framework in Java for multi-agent system development. JACK Intelligent Agents was built by Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd. (AOS) and is a third generation agent platform building on the experiences of the Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) and Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System (dMAR... |
9273231 | Olive Township, Noble County, Ohio | Olive Township is one of the fifteen townships of Noble County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 5,395 people in the township, 3,429 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.
Geography.
Located in the south central part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Most of the village... |
15736704 | Christian Negouai | Christian Negouai (born 20 January 1978) is a French former professional footballer who played for as a midfielder.
He notably played in the Premier League for Manchester City and spent a spell on loan with Coventry City. He also played in Belgium with UR Namur, Charleroi and Standard Liège, FC Brussels and with Aalesu... |
15775785 | Māngere Lagoon | Māngere Lagoon is a lagoon in the Manukau Harbour, New Zealand. It occupies a volcanic crater or maar which is part of the Auckland volcanic field. Oval and about 600m long, it has a small restored scoria island remaining in the centre.
Geography.
Māngere Lagoon erupted an estimated 59,500 years before the present, pre... |
3152041 | Shearjashub Bourne | Shearjashub Bourne (June 14, 1746 – March 11, 1806) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and United States House of Representatives.
Bourne was born in Barnstable in the Province of Massachusetts Bay on June 14, 1746, the son of Timot... |
49648381 | The Angelou Centre | The Angelou Centre is a charity in the West End of Newcastle in the North East of England, UK. It provides Black, Asian, minority ethnic and refugee women with training, personal development, counselling, legal advice for immigration and domestic violence.
History.
The Angelou Centre was founded by a collective of wome... |
55839898 | Ferdinand Bury | Ferdinand Bury (1740–1795) was a Parisian cabinetmaker ("ébéniste") during the reign of Louis XVI. So renowned was he that until the first part of the nineteenth century, contemporaries and collectors referred to him simply as Ferdinand. He collaborated with the finest cabinetmakers of his age, including Jean-Henri Rie... |
36559613 | Tom Jasper | Thomas D. Jasper (born November 21, 1948) is an American former basketball player notable for his collegiate career at the College of William & Mary. After spending his first two seasons at then-Division II (and now defunct) Frederick College, in which he led them to a Small College National Championship as a sopho... |
21299380 | Commissioner of the Revenue | The Commissioner of the Revenue is one of five locally elected constitutional officers whose authority is specifically conveyed in the Virginia Constitution. The other four are the treasurer, sheriff, Commonwealth's attorney, and clerk.
In general, the local governing body (i.e. City Council, Board of Supervisors) esta... |
72203907 | Wayne Douglas Quinn | Wayne Douglas Quinn (January 31, 1941 – Oct 2, 1987) was an American painter. He is known for photorealist works that explore queer male identity in San Francisco during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Early life and education.
Wayne Douglas Quinn was born on January 31, 1941.
Quinn lived and worked in San Francisco, Califo... |
3685387 | Stuart Anderson (Australian footballer) | Stuart Anderson (born 27 June 1974) is an Australian rules footballer. He comes from the Victorian town of Sale. In 1994 he was drafted by North Melbourne where he played 61 games as a midfielder/half-forward, including the 1996 premiership. At the end of the 1997 he was traded to the Fremantle Dockers in return for Wi... |
62807052 | BMO Tower (Milwaukee) | BMO Tower, also known as BMO Harris Financial Center at Market Square, is a 25-story, 328-foot tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was scheduled to be completed in December 2019, but construction delays postponed the opening until April 2020. The building is 281,000 square feet and 328 feet tall.
History.
The d... |
31303493 | 23rd National Hockey League All-Star Game | The 23rd National Hockey League All-Star Game was held in the St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, home of the St. Louis Blues, on January 20, 1970. It was the first time the All-Star Game was held at the St. Louis Arena. The East Division All-Stars defeated the West Division All-Stars 4–1. Bobby Hull was named the game's mos... |
6759528 | Eno River Rugby | Founded in 1991, Eno River Rugby, also called the "Rage," is a rugby union club based in Durham, North Carolina. Eno River players come from in and around Durham, playing other teams in the Carolinas Geographical Union and participating in tournaments and playoffs in bordering states.
Divisions.
Current.
Women - Eno Ri... |
19526493 | Hustis House | The Hustis House is located on Main Street (NY 301) in Nelsonville, New York, United States. It is a small home built sometime in the middle of the 19th century, likely as housing for workers at the West Point Foundry in nearby Cold Spring. It has remained nearly intact since then, and was listed on the National Regist... |
4410078 | Sigismund Albicus | Sigismund Albicus () (c.1360 – July 23, 1427) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague and a Moravian.
Albicus was born at Uničov, Moravia, and entered the University of Prague when quite young, taking his degree in medicine in 1387.
Desiring to pursue the study of civil and canon law with more profit, he went to Ital... |
11318839 | Stewart Valley | Stewart Valley (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Saskatchewan Landing No. 167 and Census Division No. 8. It is on Highway 4, just south of the South Saskatchewan River, approximately north of the City of Swift Current in southern Saskatchewan. It ... |
4319291 | Edward Hunloke | Edward Hunloke (d. ) was deputy governor of West Jersey between 1690 and 1692.
Career.
Hunloke was appointed deputy governor by absentee Governor Daniel Coxe after Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, was deposed and returned to England. Coxe had initially appointed John Tatham, but Tatham, a sus... |
54398146 | Dayenu (organisation) | Dayenu is an LGBTQ+ organisation based in Sydney, Australia. The word Dayenu means "enough" in Hebrew, and the group uses it to mean that they have had "enough" of homophobia.
History.
The group Dayenu began as an idea in 1999 to create a gay and Jewish float for the 2000 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. After the pa... |
17244108 | Algol paradox | In stellar astronomy, the Algol paradox is a paradoxical situation when elements of a binary star seem to evolve in discord with the established theories of stellar evolution. A fundamental feature of these theories is that the rate of evolution of stars depends on their mass: The greater the mass, the faster this evol... |
4199116 | Bone hemostasis | Bone hemostasis is the process of controlling the bleeding from bone.
Bone is a living vascular organ containing channels for blood and bone marrow. When a bone is cut during surgery bleeding can be a difficult problem to control, especially in the highly vascular bones of the spine and sternum. Bleeding from soft tiss... |
7675075 | Zipper storage bag | A zipper storage bag, slider storage bag, zipper bag, zip lock bag, or zippie is an inexpensive flexible rectangular storage bag, usually transparent, made of polyethylene or similar plastic, that can be sealed and opened many times, either by a slider, which works in a similar way to a zip fastener, or by pinching tog... |
68194983 | Václav Zelený | Václav Zelený (August 18, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia – November 3, 2020) was a Czech botanist and university teacher. Václav Zelený was born in 1936 in Prague. In 1959 he graduated from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague. He then worked at the Sugar Research Institute in Prague, Modřany and from 1... |
20324715 | Stoven | Stoven is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Brampton with Stoven, in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located approximately north east of Halesworth and south of Beccles. In 1961 the parish had a population of 110. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged... |
6565623 | Henry Colin Campbell | Henry Colin Campbell (June 23, 1868 – April 18, 1930), aka The Torch Murderer, was executed by the State of New Jersey for the murder of Mildred Mowry, whom he met through a personal ad placed with a "matrimonial agency." A career criminal and bigamist whose previous crimes were non-violent, Campbell married Mowry in 1... |
2638173 | Kraton (Indonesia) | Kraton or keraton () is a type of royal palace in Java, Indonesia. Its name is derived from the Javanese "ka-ratu-an", meaning residence of the "ratu", the traditional honorific title for a monarch. In Java, the palace of a prince is called "pura" or "dalem", while the general word for palace is "istana", identical to ... |
50289435 | The Cloud (painting) | The Cloud () is a 1985 oil painting by the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum. It depicts a nude man in a leather helmet, looking out over a landscape with a compact dark cloud in the sky.
In 2005 the painting was selected by the newspaper "Morgenbladet" as one of Norway's twelve most important artworks from the period 1945–... |
64120489 | John Forster (British Army officer) | Major-General John Burton Forster (1856 – 13 June 1938) was a British Army officer.
Military career.
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Forster was commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment on 23 November 1872. After seeing action in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879 and then the Nile Expedition in 1... |
15052692 | Arlequin Mahomet | Arlequin Mahomet () is a one act farce by Alain-René Lesage. It was first performed at the Foire de Saint Laurent in 1714. "Arlequin Mahomet" was performed as the second play in a series consisting of "La Foire de Guibray" and "Le Tombeau de Nostradamus". Between the three works, Lesage created a comedy in three acts.
... |
1237358 | Dave Morgan (racing driver) | David Rowland John Morgan (7 August 1944 in Cranmore, Somerset – 6 November 2018 in Leatherhead, Surrey) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1975 British Grand Prix in which, like several others, he crashed during a storm in the closing laps. H... |
2347575 | Posse cut | A posse cut is a popular form of song in hip hop music that involves successive verses by four or more rappers.
Tracks described as posse cuts by "Rolling Stone" include A Tribe Called Quest's "Scenario", "Tha Shit" by The D.O.C., "Doin' Our Own Dang" by Jungle Brothers, "Monster" and “So Appalled” by Kanye West, and "... |
36499313 | Vietnam women's national futsal team | The Vietnam women's national futsal team () represents Vietnam in international women's futsal competitions and is controlled by the Futsal Commission of the Vietnam Football Federation.
Overview.
Preparing for the 2007 Asian Indoor Games from October 26 to November 3 in Macau, the Vietnamese futsal women's squad assem... |
14991956 | 1912 Cleveland Naps season | The 1912 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The Naps had two of the best hitters in the majors in Shoeless Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoie. Despite this, they ended up back in the second division, finishing in fifth place with a record of 75-78.
Player stats.
Batting.
Starters by position.
"Note: Pos =... |
3527623 | Carville Benson | Carville Dickinson Benson (August 24, 1872 – February 8, 1929) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland from 1918 to 1921.
Early life.
Carville Benson was born near Halethorpe in Baltimore County, Maryland, Benson attended preparatory schools and Lehigh University of Bethlehe... |
45569620 | Stanford DASH | Stanford DASH was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the late 1980s by a group led by Anoop Gupta, John L. Hennessy, Mark Horowitz, and Monica S. Lam at Stanford University. It was based on adding a pair of directory boards designed at Stanford to up to 16 SGI IRIS 4D Power Series machines and then cabling th... |
54081652 | 2017–18 Botola | The 2017–18 Botola, also known as Botola Maroc Telecom for sponsorship reasons, is the 61st season of the Premier League and the 7th under its new format of Moroccan Pro League, the top Moroccan professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1956. The season started on 8 September 2017 a... |
3315878 | Björn Bach | Björn Bach (born 21 June 1976) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2006. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals in the K-4 1000 m (2000, 2004).
Born in Magdeburg he took up the sport at the age of thirteen.
Bach won a dozen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six ... |
65408603 | Miss Jenis | Miss Jenis () is a 2020 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy drama film directed by Susiran De Silva and produced by Walter Abeysundara. It stars late Jayalath Manoratne in lead dual roles along with Giriraj Kaushalya, Jayalal Rohana and Duleeka Marapana in supportive roles. Music composed by Lakshman Wijesekara.
It is the debut ... |
58112433 | List of Metro Pictures films | Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in 1915 in the United States. It was, along with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation, one of the forerunners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities... |
24337686 | Samuel Maoz | Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His
2009 film, "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010.
Biography.
Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv.... |
15362336 | 1954 Gold Coast general election | General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 15 June 1954. The result was a victory for Kwame Nkrumah's Convention People's Party, which won 71 of the 104 seats.
Background.
The election was held following the approval of a new constitution on 29 April 1954. The new constitution meant that assembly members were no ... |
45322684 | Carole Lacampagne | Carole Baker Lacampagne is a retired mathematician formerly of George Washington University. She is known for her work in mathematics education and gender equality.
Career.
Lacampagne received her Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1964. She then worked at Northern Illinois University and the National ... |
30353679 | Long Island Beach | Long Island Beach is a former amusement park located in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio.
The property was acquired by John Pope in 1888, and in 1924, John's son and daughter-in-law, Earl and Dolores Pope opened a park on the site. The park, often compared to a miniature Coney Island was in operation from 192... |
2340317 | Sylvia Young Theatre School | Sylvia Young Theatre School is an independent school in Marble Arch, London, England. It is a specialist performing arts school named after its founder and principal, Sylvia Young OBE.
Outline.
The Sylvia Young Theatre School was founded in 1972 with part-time classes in East London. It was established as a full-time s... |
62693047 | Marie Kingué | Marie Kingué (fl. 1785) was a famous midwife, "kaperlata" medicine woman and voodoo priestess active in Saint Domingue.
Marie Kingué was a slave, officially active as a midwife on a plantation outside Cap-Francais during the 1770s and 1780s. She was famous all over the colony as a voodoo priestess and medicine woman. ... |
36547560 | Iris unguicularis | Iris unguicularis (syn. "Iris stylosa"), the Algerian iris, is a rhizomatous flowering plant in the genus "Iris", native to Greece, Turkey, Western Syria, and Tunisia. It grows to , with grassy evergreen leaves, producing pale lilac or purple flowers with a central band of yellow on the falls. The flowers appear in win... |
13000647 | Bishop of Limerick | The Bishop of Limerick is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Limerick in the Province of Munster, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it still continues as a separate title, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.
History.
The diocese of Limerick is one of the twe... |
710363 | Yuri Razuvaev | Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvaev (also Razuvayev; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian chess player and trainer.
Chess career.
Razuvaev became an International Master in 1973, a Grandmaster in 1976 and an Honoured Coach of Russia in 1977.
Razuvaev's tournament wins included Dubna 1978, Polanica-Zdrój 1979, London 19... |
22963937 | Thelwell Pike | Thelwell Mather Pike (17 November 1866 – 21 July 1957) was an English footballer who earned one cap for the national team in 1886. Pike played club football for Cambridge University, Crusaders, Brentwood, Swifts, Thanet Wanderers and Corinthian.
Pike was born in Andover, Hampshire and educated at Malvern College, playi... |
43113071 | James Halyburton (1707 MP) | James Halyburton (or Haliburton) of Pitcur was a Scottish landowner and politician.
Biography.
Halyburton was the only son of David Halyburton of Pitcur and his wife Agnes Wedderburn. The Halyburtons of Pitcur were descended from a younger son of Walter Haliburton of Dirleton, Treasurer of Scotland, and members of the ... |
22484219 | Rudolf Batz | Rudolf Batz (10 November 1903 – 8 February 1961) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From 1 July to 4 November 1941 he was the leader of Einsatzkommando 2 and as such was responsible for the mass murder of Jews and others in the Baltic states. Arrested in 1961, Batz committed suicide while in custody await... |
57149667 | 2018 Maine Black Bears football team | The 2018 Maine Black Bears football team represented the University of Maine in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They played their home games at Alfond Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They were led by third-year head coach Joe Harasymiak. They finished the season 10–4, 7–1... |
25819819 | Rude Kids | Rude Kids is a punk rock band from Hagsätra. Their first single "Raggare Is a Bunch of Motherfuckers", that they recorded themselves, was released by Polydor in 1978. Rude Kids was the first Swedish punk band to release a record through a major record label. The single sold between 5000 and 6000 copies (compared to 600... |
67291379 | AloPeyk | AloPeyk is an on-demand delivery company based in Iran. It was founded in September 2016 by Mehdi Nayebi and Mehrshad Pezeshk who both moved from Europe to Tehran to start the company. Nayebi wanted to offer a solution for Iranian ecommerce companies looking to outsource deliveries and logistics. By 2017, the company w... |
70463590 | 2022 Pokhara municipal election | Municipal election for Pokhara took place on 13 May 2022, with all 167 positions up for election across 33 wards. The electorate elected a mayor, a deputy mayor, 33 ward chairs and 132 ward members. An indirect election will also be held to elect five female members and an additional three female members from the Dalit... |
5000279 | American National Biography | The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Background.
A 400-entry supplement appeared in 2002. Additional ... |
33889043 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1886 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1886 was unanimously adopted on 15 September 2009.
Resolution.
The Security Council decided this morning to extend the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) for one year, until 30 September 2010.
By its unanimous adoption of re... |
3832232 | California, Louisville | California is a neighborhood in urban Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is bounded on the north by Broadway, on the east by Ninth Street, on the south by Oak Street, and on the west by Twenty-Sixth Street. There are no written records of the beginning of the neighborhood, but the area was settled by German immigr... |
17017153 | Global Organization for People of Indian Origin | Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) is an international network of people of Indian origin (PIO).
History.
GOPIO was founded at the First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin in New York City in 1989. The name GOPIO was adopted by the Steering Committee formed after the First Global Conventio... |
64175714 | Kan-Thurston theorem | In mathematics, particularly algebraic topology, the Kan-Thurston theorem associates a discrete group formula_1 to every path-connected topological space formula_2 in such a way that the group cohomology of formula_1 is the same as the cohomology of the space formula_2. The group formula_1 might then be regarded as a g... |
40798074 | Jackson Asiku | Jackson "Action" Asiku (*21 October 1978) is a Ugandan-Australian amateur flyweight and professional feather/super featherweight boxer.
Career.
As an amateur, Asiku represented Uganda at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and won a bronze medal, losing to eventual gold medal winner Richard Sunee of M... |
39417558 | St Joseph's Football & Netball Club | St Joseph’s Football & Netball Club Inc, nicknamed the Joeys, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the residential suburb of Herne Hill, Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Geelong Football Netball League, the major regional league in Geelong.
History.
With less than four weeks to... |
72571731 | Giustino Ferri | Giustino Lorenzo Ferri (23 March 1856 - 13 May 1913) was an Italian journalist and writer.
Biography.
He was born in the town of Picinisco. He studied first at the Liceo Tulliano of Arpino, in 1878 she graduated in 1878 as a lawyer from Naples. He moved to Rome in 1880, to work as a contributor for the journal "Capitan... |
24616887 | Kamarajar Lake | Kamarajar Lake is a monsoon-fed water body from Athoor village in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu, which is formed by the Kamarajar Sagar Dam. This lake is a beautiful location with the hills of the Western Ghats overlooking it. Fishermen in their coracles, coconut and banana plantations and cardamom estates are the comm... |
43899557 | Yannick Brauchli | Yannick Brauchli (born 30 July 1988 in Zürich) is a Swiss sailor, who specializes in two-person dinghy (470) class. He represented Switzerland, along with his partner Romuald Hausser, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for Segel Club Enge throughout most of his sporting career under his personal co... |
9279957 | Sullivan High School (Chicago, Illinois) | Sullivan High School is a public four-year high school located in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Sullivan is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Opened in 1926, the school is named for businessman and Illinois politician Roger Charles Sullivan.
History.
Su... |
30642857 | Douglaston Hill Historic District | Douglaston Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Douglaston, Queens, New York. It includes 83 contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings include Zion Episcopal Church (1830), houses and garages, and commercial buildings. The sites are Zion cemetery and public park. It was laid ... |
54655371 | Abdollah Riazi | Abdollah Riazi () was an Iranian politician who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran for almost 15 years during Pahlavi dynasty.
According to Ali Rahnema, Riazi was "one of permanent and trusted figures" in the establishment, thus "experienced and adept at political correctness". Fakhreddin Azimi describes R... |
32090980 | Dolenje Radulje | Dolenje Radulje (; in older sources also "Dolenje Radovlje", ) is a village in the Municipality of Škocjan in southeastern Slovenia. Within the municipality, it belongs to the Local Community of Bučka. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Southeast Sloveni... |
39333522 | Domicilium citandi et executandi | Domicilium citandi et executandi is a Latin legal term meaning the address nominated by a party in a legal contract where legal notices may be sent; the onus usually being upon that party to notify the other signatory of any change in address, especially to be ready to receive any notice that is delivered to that addre... |
43591022 | 1955 Small Club World Cup | The 1955 Small Club World Cup was the fourth edition of the Small Club World Cup, a tournament held in Venezuela between 1952 and 1957, and in 1963 and in 1965. It was played by four participants, half from Europe and half from South America in double round robin format and featured players like Mario Coluna, José Água... |
40807690 | Gustav Hauser | Gustav Hauser (13 July 1856 in Nördlingen – 30 June 1935 in Erlangen) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Munich and Erlangen, where he worked as an assistant in the gynecological clinic under Paul Zweifel and at the pathological institute of Friedrich Albert von Zenk... |
12752482 | AMC-6 | AMC-6, formerly GE-6, is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by SES S.A. Launched on 21 October 2000, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, AMC-6 became the fifth hybrid C-band / Ku-band satellite in the GE Americom fleet. The satellite provides coverage to the continental United States, Canada, the... |
70885634 | Kian Flanagan | Kian Thomas Flanagan (born 29 August 1999) is an English-born Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder, for club Barnet. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2023
Career.
Club.
Flanagan began his youth career with Southend United, moving to Crystal Palace in 2013, aged 13, for a fee of £37,500. In 2016... |
8554258 | Dawn and Dusk Club | The Dawn and Dusk Club, or "Dawn and Duskers", was a Sydney-based Australian Bohemian club of writer friends from the late 19th century who met for drinks and camaraderie. Writer Henry Lawson was a prominent member of the club. The motto was "Roost high and crow low".
History.
The club was formed around 1898 in Sydney,... |
28954703 | Bruno H. Zimm | Bruno Hasbrouck Zimm (October 31, 1920 – November 26, 2005) was an American chemist. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry from University of California, San Diego, and a leading polymer chemist and DNA researcher.
Early life.
Zimm was born an only child in 1920 in Woodstock, New York. His father was the scu... |
65785653 | Eun-Ah Kim | Eun-Ah Kim (born 1975) is a Korean-American condensed matter physicist interested in high-temperature superconductivity, topological order, strange metals, and the use of neural network based machine learning to recognize patterns in these systems. She is a professor of physics at Cornell University.
Education and care... |
51763502 | Up All Night (Beck song) | "Up All Night" is a song by the American musician Beck. It is the third single (fourth worldwide) from his thirteenth studio album "Colors".
Background and release.
Before its official release, the song was included in the soundtrack for the video game "FIFA 17" in September 2016 and was also used in a commercial for t... |
39403036 | Callopistria latreillei | Callopistria latreillei, Latreille's Latin, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species can be found in the Palearctic realm, most parts of Europe, Asia, and in Africa from Egypt to South Africa. The habitat consists of rocky limestone slopes with deciduous woodland.
Technical description and variation.
"E. latreill... |
25445292 | Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir | Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir is a book publishing company in Israel.
History.
The company's oldest imprint, Dvir, was founded in Odessa in 1919 by Hayim Nahman Bialik. After the Russian Revolution, Dvir moved to Berlin and in 1924, to Mandatory Palestine. Machbarot Lesifrut, the company's imprint for world literature in t... |
56124235 | Claude Deschiens | Claude Louis Deschiens de Kerulvay (February 1745 in Lorient – 10 September 1796, "Modeste", Indian Ocean) was a French slave trader and privateer. His ships included the "Boufonne", "Philippine" and "Modeste".
Career.
Born Claude Louis Deschiens to Jean Deschiens and Marie Beauvoir, a merchant family, Deschiens appear... |
13377360 | Bengt Schalin | Bengt Michael Schalin (7 January 1889 – 9 November 1982) was a well-known garden architect and botanist in Finland during the 20th century.
Life.
Schalin obtained his secondary school diploma in 1907 in Turku and went on to study horticulture in Belgium and Germany, where he obtained a degree in gardening in 1912 from ... |
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