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39301634 | Jacques-Louis Hénon | Jacques-Louis Hénon (31 May 1802 in Lyon – 28 March 1872 in Montpellier) was a French republican politician. He was member of the Corps législatif in 1852 and from 1857 to 1869. He was the mayor of Lyon from 1870 to 1872.
Earlier in his career he served as a professor at the École vétérinaire de Lyon (1823–1824) and at... |
50765970 | Cigdem Akyol | Cigdem Akyol (born October 1978 in Herne) is German journalist and author of Turkish-Kurdish ancestry.
Life.
Akyols parents moved from Turkey to Germany in 1973 and settled in the Ruhr region in Herne. Akyol grew up in Herne, where she attended the Haranni-Gymnasium (high school). After her graduation in 1998 she studi... |
44854061 | Jefferson Cuero | Jefferson Cuero Castro (born 15 May 1988 - 23 mar 2023) was a Colombian footballer.
Club career.
Cuero made his professional debut for Once Caldas on 6 March 2010 in a 3–0 loss against Deportivo Cali. Cuero started the match but was substituted at half time by Dayro Moreno. In his debut year he helped Once Caldas captu... |
60368649 | The Undersea Environment | The Undersea Environment is a 1983 role-playing game supplement, written by J. Andrew Keith for "Traveller", and published by Gamelords. "The Undersea Environment" is a book that details alien oceans, including factors such as pressure, gravity, temperature, decompression after dives, and undersea communication and com... |
28245505 | John Sartorius | John Sartorius (1700? – 1780?) was an Anglo-German animal painter, the first of four generations of the celebrated Sartorius family of artists. He should not be confused with his great-grandson John Francis Sartorius.
Life and work.
Sartorious was born in Nuremberg in Germany, first of four generations of artists who h... |
11277318 | Olivier N'Siabamfumu | Olivier Muntenau N'Siabamfumu (born 17 March 1986) is a French footballer who plays for Norwegian second division side Kristiansund BK.
Club career.
Born in Meaux, N'Siabamfumu started his professional career at Stade Rennais F.C. without playing. He then caught the eye of Italian side Ascoli. N'Siabamfumu's first seas... |
3524478 | Santa Cruz del Norte |
Santa Cruz del Norte is a town and municipality in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. Before 2011 it was part of La Habana Province. It is located on the north shore, between the cities of Havana and Matanzas, at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River.
Overview.
The town was founded in 1800, being a fishing community at that... |
15160607 | Ponnagyun Township | Ponnagyun Township (), formally known as Urittaung is a township of Sittwe District in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. The principal town is Ponnagyun. There are 94 village groups in this township and about 200 villages. It has an ancient pagoda Uritetawdat Zaydhi which was innovated by King Mengphaloung (1571–1593) of t... |
24454958 | Tom Hoover (basketball) | Thomas Lee Hoover Jr. (born January 23, 1941) is an American former professional basketball player.
Hoover was born in Washington, D.C. A forward/center from Villanova University, Hoover played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1963 to 1967 as a member of the New York Knicks and St. Louis Hawks. He jump... |
66947737 | Khvaja Qivam al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Khvafi | Khvaja Qivam al-Din Nizam al-Mulk Khvafi was a Persian bureaucrat who served the Timurid Empire in the late 15th-century.
His father was a provincial judge from Khwaf in the Khorasan region of eastern Iran. According to the contemporary historian Isfizari, Qivam was a descendant of Fasih Khwafi's great-grandfather Khv... |
13687024 | Stephen Asprinio | Stephen Asprinio (born in Palm Beach County, Florida) is an American restaurateur, sommelier, chef, and former "Top Chef" contestant.
Biography.
Asprinio studied at the Culinary Institute of America. He continued his education after culinary school and earned his bachelor's degree from the Cornell University School of ... |
58090735 | Bhagawatimai Rural Municipality | Bhagawatimai () is a rural municipality located in Dailekh District of Karnali Province of Nepal.
The total area of the rural municipality is and the total population of the rural municipality as of 2011 Nepal census is 18,778 individuals. The rural municipality is divided into total 7 wards.
The rural municipality was... |
4423452 | S10 NBC Respirator | The S10 CBRN Respirator is a military gas mask that was formerly used within all branches of the British Armed Forces. Following the mask's replacement by the General Service Respirator in 2011, the S10 is now widely available to the public on the army surplus market.
History.
The S10 was introduced in 1986 as a replac... |
51512053 | Kakka Kakka | Kakka Kakka () is an Indian soap opera starring Deepa, Jeeva Ravi, Suzane George, Kamal and SVS Kumar. It aired Monday to Friday at 6:30PM IST on Raj TV from 7 September 2016 to 10 January 2017 for 127 episodes. The title song of the serial is sung by the famous Playback Singer and Carnatic Music senior Vocalist Dr. Ni... |
55938807 | Ådalen Aarhus | Ådalen is a green area and event site in Åbyhøj, in Aarhus, Denmark. It is about in size and located along the Aarhus River, two kilometers from the inner city. Ådalen can be reached by Søren Frichs Vej from the nearby Ring 1 ring road or the outer Ring 2 ring road. The area is surrounded by a business park (with light... |
63799523 | Aaruthra | Aaruthra is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by Pa. Vijay, who also produced the film, wrote the songs, and played the lead role with Meghali. S. A. Chandrasekhar and Bhagyaraj portray supporting roles.
Plot.
Avudaiappan (K. Bhagyaraj), a private detective, develops suspicion over Shiva (Pa. Vijay), ... |
44784105 | Afyon Belediye S.K. | Afyon Belediye S.K., commonly known as Afyon Belediye or simply Afyon, for sponsorship reasons HDI Sigorta Afyon Belediye, is a Turkish professional basketball club based in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, which competes in the Turkish Basketball Second League, the third tier. Their home arena is Prof. Dr. Veysel Eroğlu Sports... |
4829003 | Farfallino alphabet | The farfallino alphabet (in Italian: alfabeto farfallino) is a language game used primarily in Italy, which can be regarded as an elementary form of substitution cipher. It is usually used by children for amusement or to converse in (perceived) privacy from adults. The name "farfallino" comes from the word "farfalla" (... |
32062536 | The Perfume Shop | The Perfume Shop is a United Kingdom perfume retailer founded in 1992 and owned by A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Ltd, which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. The A.S. Watson Group acquired The Perfume Shop in 2005. The company is based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with a distribution centre in Dunstable. It... |
35819261 | György Csóti | György Csóti (born November 24, 1940) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Budapest Regional List between 2011 and 2014. Formerly he was also a member of the National Assembly from 1990 to 1998 (1990-94: MDF National List; 1994-98: MP for Budapest I).
Csóti was a founding member of the H... |
43387265 | Kako Senior Secondary School | Kako Senior Secondary School is a government aided, mixed boarding middle and high school (grades 8–13) in Uganda.
Location.
The school campus is situated on Kako Hill, approximately by road east of Masaka, off the road to Bukakata. Kako is situated on the northeastern shores of Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshw... |
12809353 | Vladimir Dimitrovski | Vladimir Dimitrovski (; born 30 November 1988) is a Macedonian footballer, who currently plays for Iceland second-tier side UMF Grindavík. This young hope started his career in the all-time best Macedonian club, Vardar Skopje and then played for Cementarnica, Westerlo in Belgium and NK Croatia Sesvete. He also played f... |
60990270 | Christian Rontini | Christian Mangaron Rontini (born 20 July 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or a defensive midfielder for Liga 1 club Persita Tangerang. Born in Italy, he represents the Philippines national team.
Club career.
Youth.
Rontini is a former youth player of Floria 2000.
Sangiovannese.
In 2018, Ron... |
3437009 | On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates | On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates () is Søren Kierkegaard's 1841 master's thesis under . This thesis is the culmination of three years of extensive study on Socrates, as seen from the view point of Xenophon, Aristophanes, and Plato.
His thesis dealt with irony, and in particular, Socratic iro... |
8598302 | Louisa Stanhope | Louisa Sidney Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827) was an English novelist of the early 19th century. She wrote mainly historical and Gothic romances in profusion, counting as Britain's tenth most productive novelist in the 1800–1829 period. Her didactic novels were aimed mainly at younger female readers.
Delicacy and strength.
A ... |
17192632 | Stepan Shchipachev | Stepan Petrovich Schipachev (; 7 January 1898 – 1 January 1980) was a Russian Soviet poet. He is best known for the poem "Lines of Love" and poetry collections "Musings" (1962), "A Man's Hand" (1964), and "Selected Works" (1965).
He was engaged in literary activity from 1919, after he became a member of the Communist P... |
5964778 | USS Caribou | USS "Caribou" (IX-114), an "Armadillo"-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the caribou. Her keel was laid down by the California Shipbuilding Corporation, in Wilmington, California, as "Nathaniel B. Palmer" under a Maritime Commission... |
71694583 | 2021 in Michigan | Events from the year 2021 in Michigan.
Major events in Michigan in 2021 included the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan, the Oxford High School shooting, disruptions in the supply chain slowing the automobile industry, the 2021 Kellogg's strike, and legal proceedings relating to the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.
Major s... |
3017186 | Maurice E. Connolly | Maurice Edward Connolly (June 22, 1880 - November 24, 1935) was the borough president of Queens, New York City, from 1911 to 1928.
Biography.
Born in Corona, Queens, New York, he was the son of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly. He was of Irish ancestry. He married Helen M. Connell and they had one child, Helen. ... |
329284 | Kashihara, Nara | is a city located in Nara Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 124,829, with 52,034 households. Population density is around 3,176.79 persons per km2, and the total area is 39.52 km2.
The city was founded on February 11, 1956. The former mayor was Yutaka Asoda, who was elected to his third term... |
17183174 | John Tamanika | John Tamanika (born 15 November 1984) is a rugby football player who currently plays rugby union for Randwick in the Shute Shield. He plays as a or on the . He formerly played rugby league professionally in the National Rugby League at the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Career.
Tamanika played for the Otahuhu Leopards in the ... |
43204555 | Patrick Miller (politician) | Patrick Miller (died 26 February 1845) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and a politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1790 to 1796.
He was the son of Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, an Edinburgh banker. He was a nephew of Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet and a first cousin of William Mill... |
44660649 | Holovetsko, Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast | Holovetsko (, ) is a village ("selo") in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine. It belongs to Slavske settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Local government is administered by Holovetska village council.
Geography.
The village is situated in the Ukrainian Carpathians along the river Holovchanka ("K... |
9421382 | Elihu Davis | Elihu James Davis (December 2, 1851 – June 18, 1936) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented York North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1888 to 1904.
Davis was born in York Township, Canada West in 1851, the son of Andrew Davis. He entered business with his father... |
66216914 | List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball | This List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball is largely based on the research compiled by the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. The list includes those who played on major Negro league teams prior to integration (and any caliber Negro league team after integration) as well as ... |
19485861 | 1988 British League season | The 1988 British League season was the 54th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the 24th known as the British League.
Summary.
Coventry Bees won the league for the second successive year and again by a 16 point margin. The Bees also reached the Knockout Cup final losing to Cradley Heath. Remark... |
43172672 | Yakbim Sekhaenre | Sekhaenre Yakbim or Yakbmu was a ruler during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. Although his dynastic and temporal collocation is disputed, Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt believes that he likely was the founder of the Levantine-blooded Fourteenth Dynasty, while in older literature he was mainly considered a memb... |
11845904 | 1932 Edmonton municipal election | The 1932 municipal election was held November 9, 1932 to elect a mayor and five aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and three trustees to sit on the public school board, while three trustees were acclaimed to the separate school board.
There were ten aldermen on city council, but five of the positions were already... |
4675605 | Stalybridge (UK Parliament constituency) | Stalybridge officially sometimes written in early years as Staleybridge was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1868 until 1918 by one MP. It comprised the borough of Stalybridge which lay in Lancashire and Cheshire and which is in the east of today's Greater Manchester. On abol... |
63442126 | Marian Klamer | Marian Klamer (born in 1965 in Pirimapun, Papua province, Indonesia) is a linguist who specializes in Austronesian and Papuan languages. Her interests include the documentation of minority languages, Malay language varieties, linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and language contact.
Early life and education.
K... |
73427112 | Never Felt So Alone | "Never Felt So Alone" is a song by British singer-songwriter Labrinth featuring uncredited vocals from American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. It was featured in the second season of "Euphoria" on HBO. It was released with a music video by Columbia Records as the second single from Labrinth's third studio album, "End... |
16346446 | Kedaulatan Rakyat | Kedaulatan Rakyat ("People's Sovereignty", abbreviated as KR) is a daily newspaper in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The paper was founded by H. Soemadi and M. Wonohito. The first edition of the newspaper was published on September 27, 1945.
Initially, "Kedaulatan Rakyat" consisted of 16 pages. Recently, it has become the larg... |
33269214 | Omar Killed Me | Omar Killed Me () is a 2011 drama film directed by Roschdy Zem. The film was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards. On 18 January 2012, the film was named as one of the nine shortlisted entries for the Oscars. Zem, Olivier Gorce, Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorell... |
3190994 | Crimson Lotus | Crimson Lotus is a progressive metal band from Finland. Founded in 1997 as a cover band, the band was disrupted by its members' military service in 2002 to be revived in summer 2003 by Pekka Aalto and Pasi Kainiemi. They make up the core of the current line-up; other contributors are generally considered guest musician... |
55409896 | Castner Medal | The Castner Gold Medal on Industrial Electrochemistry is an biennial award given by the Electrochemical Technology Group of Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) to an authority on applied electrochemistry or electrochemical engineering connected to industrial research. The award is named in honor of Hamilton Castner, a p... |
655703 | Simon I, Duke of Lorraine | Simon I (1076 – 13 or 14 January 1139) was the duke of Lorraine from 1115 to his death, the eldest son and successor of Theodoric II and Hedwig of Formbach and a half-brother of Emperor Lothair III.
Continuing the policy of friendship with the Holy Roman Emperor, he accompanied the Emperor Henry V to the Diet of Worms ... |
32786895 | Guy Mary-Rousselière | Father Guy Mary-Rousselière (1913, Le Mans, France – 1994, Pond Inlet, Canada) was a French anthropologist, missionary priest, and collector of string figures. He trained as a priest at the Séminaire Saint-Sulpice (), Issy-les-Moulineaux, and whilst there passed the exam to train also as a Sergeant in the French Army R... |
35983003 | Jerome Harris | Jerome Harris (born April 5, 1953) is an American jazz musician specializing in electric and acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, voice, and occasionally lap steel and small percussion.
He came to prominence in 1978 playing bass guitar and guitar with tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with whom he would perform and re... |
2111336 | Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos | Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos (, 1875 – 8 July 1956) was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris. He was born in Gortynia and died in Corfu.
Biography.
Paraskevopoulos competed in the discus throw, at the 1896 Summer Olympics an event which the Greek p... |
10904913 | Étude Op. 25, No. 6 (Chopin) | Étude Op. 25, No. 6, in G-sharp minor, is a technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin focusing on thirds, trilling them at a high speed. Also called the Double Thirds Étude, it is considered one of the hardest of Chopin's 24 Études, ranking the highest level of difficulty according to the Henle difficulty rankings.
"... |
10820699 | Mantle Fielding | Mantle Fielding, Jr. (September 30, 1865 – March 27, 1941) was an American architect, art historian, and tennis player.
Career.
Fielding was born in Manhattan to Mantle Fielding (1837–1890) and Anne Margaret Stone ("maiden"; 1838–1906). He graduated from Germantown Academy in 1883 and went on to study architecture at t... |
4383824 | Wearing the Inside Out | "Wearing the Inside Out" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, "The Division Bell". A collaboration between Richard Wright and Anthony Moore, it is the only song on the album for which David Gilmour receives no writing credit.
The song had the working title "Evrika". Two videos of the band working on this demo versio... |
5829320 | Bloomfield station | Bloomfield is a New Jersey Transit station in Bloomfield, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The station is located in downtown Bloomfield, the second within the municipality, just west of Bloomfield Avenue. This is the second station within the township served on the line after Watsessing Avenue station.
His... |
20693383 | UnFreedom Day | UnFreedom Day is an unofficial annual event that is marked every year on or around 27 April. UnFreedom Day is organised to counter the official South African holiday called Freedom Day, an annual celebration of South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994.
UnFreedom Day was started by Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durb... |
15329883 | Lopagno | Lopagno is a village and former municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.
In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Cagiallo, Roveredo, Sala Capriasca, Tesserete and Vaglio to form a new and larger municipality Capriasca.
History.
Lopagno is first mentioned in 1335 as "Lopa... |
43434789 | Derek Woods | Derek Woods (born August 10, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian composer, living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Biography.
Woods was taking private clarinet and piano lessons in his home city before entering the McGill University in Montreal. He graduated in 2004, being awarded Bachelor of Arts diploma in compo... |
64348790 | Sir Walter Constable-Maxwell-Scott, 1st Baronet | Major-General Sir Walter Joseph Constable-Maxwell-Scott, 1st Baronet (10 April 1875 – 3 April 1954) was a senior British Army officer.
Military career.
Educated at Stonyhurst College, Constable-Maxwell-Scott transferred from the militia into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 11 January 1899. He saw action in the Tir... |
13769866 | Katsuhiko Yokomitsu | is a Japanese actor and politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet (national legislature).
Overviews.
A native of Usa, Ōita and graduate of the University of Kitakyushu, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first tim... |
11513643 | National Independence Party (Ghana) | The National Independence Party (NIP) is a defunct political party in Ghana. It was formed in 1992 in the run up to the inauguration of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. The party came to an end in 1993 following a merger with another Nkrumahist party.
Formation.
The NIP was founded in 1992 after the ban on political parti... |
30771667 | James Hunter Audrain | James Hunter Audrain (December 29, 1781 – November 10, 1831) was a Colonel of Militia who served during the War of 1812. Audrain County, Missouri, was named for him.
Biography.
Audrain was born in 1781 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Elizabeth Wells (1785–1834) on 12 December 1806 in Louisville, Kentucky... |
23702855 | Rugby union in the Gambia | Rugby union in the Gambia is a minor but growing sport.
History.
Rugby union was introduced into the Gambia by the British, who ruled the country for a number of years. However, it was mainly played by the white population, who made little attempt to spread it to the native Gambians, meaning that the game declined when... |
26842307 | Thatcheria mirabilis | Thatcheria mirabilis, common name the Japanese wonder shell or Miraculous thatcheria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Description.
The length of the shell varies between 70 mm and 120 mm.
(Original description) The solid shell is angularly pyriform and yellowish white. T... |
60040447 | Peter Leggett | Peter Robert Leggett (16 December 1943 — 2 November 2016) was an English footballer who played as a right winger.
Career.
Born in Newton-le-Willows, Leggett began his senior career with Weymouth in 1961, making six appearances for the club. In May 1962, Leggett joined Third Division club Swindon Town for £1,000. Legget... |
10767396 | Frank O'Keeffe | Francis Joseph Aloysius O'Keeffe (11 May 1896 – 26 March 1924) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales and Victoria. He was born in Waverley, Sydney.
O'Keeffe played Sydney Grade Cricket for Waverley as a teenager before enlisting in the First Australian Imperial Force and serving for fou... |
68604599 | List of historical reserves in Azerbaijan | This is a list of historical reserves in Azerbaijan, which includes 29 historical reserves in the Republic of Azerbaijan. 14 of these reserves are historical and cultural, 8 - historical and architectural, 2 - historical and artistic. Yanardag functions as a historical, cultural and natural reserve. 3 of them are locat... |
32173453 | Zulu Hart | Zulu Hart is a historical novel by British author Saul David, set in the late Victorian Era, and focussed around the early military career of its eponym, George Hart. It is the first novel in the George Hart series.
Plot.
George Hart is the bastard son of a pillar of the British military establishment and a half Irish,... |
42816424 | Jacqui Cheer | Jacqueline ("Jacqui") Cheer QPM is a former senior police officer in the United Kingdom. She was the Chief Constable of Cleveland Police until retiring from the Police Service in March 2016.
Education.
Cheer studied at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Early career.
Cheer joined Essex Police in 1984. In 2004 she attended... |
47492034 | World Heritage Channel | World Heritage Channel is a documentary channel available in Asia. World Heritage Channel is operated by Warner Bros. Discovery International. It first launched in Philippines through ACCION on April 20, 2015.
World Heritage Channel's programming categories include culture, travel, history, and natural heritage. The ch... |
6319845 | Col du Télégraphe | Col du Télégraphe is a mountain pass in the French Alps situated above the Maurienne valley between the eastern end of the massif d'Arvan-Villards and the massif des Cerces.
The pass links Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne to the north and Valloire to the south, as well as forming an access point to the col du Galibier via its... |
61385913 | Bajramath Temple | Bajramath Temple is a Jain temple located in Gyaraspur town of Vidisha in state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
History.
Bajramath Jain Temple dates back to the 9th century. The temple was earlier a Brahmical temple dedicate to Surya but was transformed to a Jain temple.
About temple.
Bajramath Temple is famous for carvings ... |
56636375 | Memories Unlocked | Memories Unlocked () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean Beaudin and released in 1999. Based on the novel "Homme invisible à la fenêtre" by Monique Proulx, the film stars James Hyndman as Max, a paraplegic artist whose ex-girlfriend Lucie (Pascale Bussières) returns several years after their breakup to accuse hi... |
51443593 | Charlotte Remfry | Charlotte Elizabeth Frederica Remfry Koesler (also known as, Carlota Remfry-Kidd; 1869–1957) was a Spanish writer, born in Linares, Jaén, where she died, being the last person of English ancestry buried in the Cementerio inglés de Linares. She married Thomas Kidd Curry in 1946. The Official Gazette of Junta de Andalucí... |
27687620 | 2010 Chihuahua shootings | On June 10, 2010, at least 19 people were killed in the Mexican state of Chihuahua in shooting attacks due to an ongoing drug war. The attack was on a drug rehabilitation clinic in the state capital Chihuahua. Four other people were wounded.
Shootings.
At least 30 gunmen pulled up in six trucks and entered the second f... |
2125124 | Paul Dresher | Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951, in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Bernar... |
50271899 | German submarine U-3034 | German submarine "U-3034" was a Type XXI U-boat (one of the "Elektroboote") of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine", built for service in World War II. She was ordered on 6 November 1943, and was laid down on 14 November 1944 at AG Weser, Bremen as yard number 1193. She was launched on 21 January 1945, and commissioned under ... |
65203508 | John Smith (Maine politician) | John Gilpatric Smith (June 9, 1874 – February 11, 1936) was an American politician from Maine. Smith was elected mayor of Saco, Maine in 1924 during the peak of electoral success for the Ku Klux Klan in Maine politics. He was appointed Commissioner of Banking by Governor Owen Brewster in 1927. He, along with Governor O... |
1138191 | Manitoba Liberal Party leadership elections | The Manitoba Liberal Party, a political party in the Canadian province of Manitoba, has chosen most of its leaders by delegated leadership conventions. Since 1993, the Manitoba Liberal Party has chosen its leaders by an open vote of party members, weighted by riding.
The party's first leader, Thomas Greenway, does not ... |
28669374 | Willie Long | Willie Long (born March 1, 1950) is an American former professional basketball player.
Long starred at South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he earned Indiana Mr. Basketball honors in 1967 after averaging 25.6 points per game. He led the Archers to the state finals, losing in the semi-finals to tradition... |
30130665 | Xenodiagnosis | Xenodiagnosis is a diagnostic method used to document the presence of infectious disease microorganisms or pathogens by exposing possibly infected tissue to a vector and then examining the vector for the presence of the microorganisms or pathogens it may have ingested.
Uses.
Xenodiagnosis has not been commonly used in ... |
38636555 | Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 251 | Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 251 (P. Oxy. 251 or P. Oxy. II 251) is a fragment of a notice of removal, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to 8 January 44. Currently it is housed in the British Library (Department of Manuscripts, 1186) in London.
... |
15295362 | Le Miracle de Théophile | Le Miracle de Théophile (The Miracle of Theophilus) is a thirteenth-century miracle play written in Langues d'oïl, circa 1261 by the trouvère Rutebeuf.
The play is a religious drama, drawn from traditional accounts of the lives of the Saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the play, Théophile sells his soul to the Devi... |
13090427 | Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology | Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology (UCH; ) is a university in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. UCH is also known as Chien Hsin Tech ().
Present situation.
UCH is noted for teaching and research in the science and engineering, especially energy engineering. Starting from 2003, the university comprise... |
57012406 | Janko Vučinić | Janko Vucinic (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Вучинић; 13 May 1966 – 25 October 2019) was a Montenegrin professional boxer, union leader and politician, member of the Parliament of Montenegro. He was the president of the Workers' Party (RP), a constituent member of the opposition political alliance Democratic Front parliament... |
760866 | Stephen Singer-Brewster | Stephen C. Singer-Brewster (b. 1945) also known as Stephen C. Brewster is an American astronomer.
He is a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. He participated in the Palomar Planet Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) as an observer and astrometrist under the direction of American astronomer Eleano... |
5710044 | Machanaim | Machanaim is an organization dealing with the spiritual absorption of Jewish people from the former USSR in Israel. The movement's work and its goals spawned its name, the Hebrew word from meaning "two camps", in this case referring to Jerusalem and Moscow.
Machanaim's founders are Rabbi Dr. Zeev Dashevsky, Dr. Pincha... |
53030655 | Khairu Azrin Khazali | Muhammad Khairu Azrin bin Khazali (born 13 July 1991) is a Malaysian footballer who plays for Malaysia Super League club Kelantan United in Malaysia Super League. Khairu Azrin mainly plays as a defensive midfielder but can also play as an attacking midfielder and central midfielder.
Club career.
Melaka United.
In Novem... |
46567882 | Robert Blair (musician) | Robert Earl Blair (August 6, 1930 – March 19, 2001), was an American gospel musician and leader of The Fantastic Violinaires originating from Detroit, Michigan from 1965 until his death. He started his music career, in 1965, with the release of "Stand by Me" by Checker Records. His album, "The Pink Tornado", was releas... |
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Family.
His brother was John, who was father to Gideon Ouseley and grandfather to major-general Ralph Ouseley.
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By his first w... |
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At the 1929 French Championships... |
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Biography.
Rikard Gjermundsen Berge was born in Rauland in Vinje, Telemark, Norway.
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Berge started ... |
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Geography.
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26037014 | William York Macgregor | William York Macgregor (14 October 1855 Finnart House, Loch Long, Dunbartonshire – 28 September 1923 Oban) was a Scottish landscape painter, and leading figure of the Glasgow Boys.
Life.
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Career.
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Education and career.
Born in Dodge County, Wisconsin, LaBuy received a Bachelor of Laws from DePaul University College of Law in 1912. He was in private pra... |
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Biography.
Motti Aroesti was born in Givatayim.
Basketball career.
Aroesti played club basketball with Maccabi Tel Aviv, from 1973 to 1988.
Aroesti wore the Maccabi jersey for 15 consecutive seasons, and won an Israeli Le... |
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