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11012004 | Alberto Heredia (footballer) | Alberto Heredia Ceballos-Zúñiga (born 2 March 1987) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Rota as a forward.
Football career.
Born in Cádiz, Andalusia, Heredia played youth football at Real Madrid, sharing teams with future Spanish international Juan Mata. He made his senior debuts with Sevilla Atlético, appearing rare... |
420818 | Artdink | is a Japanese developer of video games, based in Tsukishima, Tokyo.
By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning "A-Train" (known in Japan as "A Ressha de Ikou", or "Take the A-Train") strategy game released for the PC and Amiga, which was published by "SimCity" creators Maxis. A Family Compute... |
72827297 | Monicca Mochadi | Sekutu Monicca Mochadi is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature since 2019. She was Limpopo's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure from May 2019 to March 2020.
In June 2018, Mochadi was elected... |
37261259 | Riverside Farm (Erwinna, Pennsylvania) | Riverside Farm, also known as Evermay-on-the-Delaware, is an historic, American hotel that is located near Erwinna, Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
History and architectural features.
The house is a three-and-one-half-story, six-bay, frame,... |
46913211 | List of earthquakes in 1948 | This is a list of earthquakes in 1948. Only magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes appear on the list. Lower magnitude events are included if they have caused death, injury or damage. Events which occurred in remote areas will be excluded from the list as they wouldn't have generated significant media interest. All dates... |
1249655 | George Urban | George Robert Urban (born Gyorgy Robert Ungar; 12 April 1921, in Miskolc, Hungary – 3 October 1997) was a Hungarian writer, best known as a broadcaster for Radio Free Europe (RFE).
Early life.
Gyorgy Robert Ungar was born on 12 April 1921 in Miskolc, Hungary. He attended Budapest University and left Hungary for the Uni... |
55524192 | March 1933 lunar eclipse | A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, March 12, 1933. This very subtle penumbral eclipse was essentially invisible to the naked eye; though it lasted 3 hours and 26 minutes, just 59% of the Moon's disc was in partial shadow (with no part of it in complete shadow).
Member.
This is the 19th member of Lunar Saro... |
23829927 | Warburton Pike | Warburton Mayer Pike (1861-1915) was an English explorer of British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic.
Pike was born in Wareham, Dorset. He was named after his grandmother's and mother's maiden names. His father (John William Pike) a ball clay merchant died in 1869, making Warburton and his siblings orphans. His mother ... |
13465802 | List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota | This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. The state ... |
57003200 | Drumacoo | Drumacoo is a medieval ecclesiastical site and National Monument located in County Galway, Ireland.
Location.
Drumacoo is located north of Ballinderreen, to the east of Galway Bay.
History.
The monastic settlement at Drumacoo was founded in the 6th century by Sárnait (Sourney, Sairnait, Surney, Sorney), a female saint ... |
5270884 | Oriental skylark | The Oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula), also known as the small skylark, is a species of skylark found in the southern, central and eastern Palearctic . Like other skylarks, it is found in open grassland where it feeds on seeds and insects.
Taxonomy and systematics.
The Oriental skylark was described by the English sold... |
15630292 | Hop Exchange | The Hop Exchange is a Grade II listed building at No. 24 Southwark Street, London, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Opened in 1867 and designed by R.H. Moore it served as the centre for hop trading for the brewing industry.
Overview.
Hops, introduced to England from the Netherlands, are still us... |
72331547 | Svetlana Sokolovskaya | Svetlana Vladimirovna Sokolovskaya (; born 10 December 1965) is a Russian figure skating coach.
Personal life.
Sokolovskaya was born in Norilsk to a family of doctors. She studied at the Ust-Kamenogorsk Pedagogical Institute in Oskemen.
Together with her husband, she has a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1990. Her grandda... |
15626191 | 1944 Icelandic constitutional referendum | A constitutional referendum was held in Iceland between 20 and 23 May 1944. The 1 December 1918 Danish–Icelandic Act of Union declared Iceland to be a sovereign state separate from Denmark, but maintained the two countries in a personal union, with the King of Denmark also being the King of Iceland. In the two-part ref... |
7122078 | Whittlesea railway station, Melbourne | Whittlesea was the original terminus station on the Whittlesea line, located in Victoria, Australia. It opened in 1889, operating until the closure of the line in 1959.
History.
Despite its proximity to Melbourne, the town of Whittlesea had a small population, as did the other settlements served by the line beyond the ... |
47004549 | Black River (Queensland) | The Black River is a river in North Queensland, Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise near Ben Lomond East in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a northeasterly direction. The river flows roughly parallel with the Hervey Range Developmental Road past Mount Cataract and Mount Black on the Bohle Plains. The river... |
30006004 | Eleanor Everest Freer | Eleanor Everest Freer (14 May 1864 – 13 Dec 1942) was an American composer and philanthropist.
Life.
Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia (Clark) Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard. She taught music in... |
10197722 | John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse | John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse (4 April 1741 – 29 May 1834), known as Sir John Wodehouse, 6th Baronet, from 1777 to 1797, was a British landowner, Member of Parliament and peer.
Life.
Wodehouse was the son of Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, and Letitia Bacon. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1777 and... |
6032841 | Hostile Advances | Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story is a 1996 American made-for-television drama film based on "Ellison v. Brady", a landmark sexual harassment case. This lawsuit set the precedent for the "reasonable woman" standard in sexual harassment law which allows for cases to be analyzed from the perspective of the compla... |
23882295 | .gg | .gg is the country code top-level domain for the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The domain is administered by Island Networks, who also administer the .je domain for neighbouring territory Jersey. The domain was chosen as other possible codes — .gu, .gs, and .gy — were already allocated.
Usage in video games.
Multiple video ga... |
60170089 | R.I.P. (Sofía Reyes song) | "R.I.P." is a song by Mexican singer Sofía Reyes featuring British singer Rita Ora and Brazilian singer Anitta. It was released on 15 March 2019 by Warner Music Latina, accompanied by its music video.
Background.
Sofía Reyes announced the collaboration and the song title in a clip posted to her Twitter on 20 February 2... |
59413748 | Pseudorhabdosynochus serrani | Pseudorhabdosynochus serrani is a species of diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of a fish. It was described in 1953 by Satyu Yamaguti as "Diplectanum serrani" and later transferred to the genus "Pseudorhabdosynochus". The species has been redescribed in 2005.
Description.
"Pseudorhabdosynochus serrani" is a... |
2808531 | Shmuel Hasfari | Shmuel Hasfari (Hebrew: שמואל הספרי; b. 26 August 1954) is an Israeli playwright and screenwriter. He was artistic director of the Cameri Theatre.
Biography.
Shmuel Hasfari was born in Ramat Gan to Holocaust survivor parents from Poland; theirs was a religious family. He began theater studies at Tel Aviv University but... |
2323056 | Jimmy Thackery | Jimmy Thackery (born May 19, 1953, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Career.
Thackery spent fourteen years as part of The Nighthawks, the Washington, D.C. based blues and roots rock ensemble. After leaving the Nighthawks in 1986, Thackery toured under his ow... |
17258010 | Capital Crimes | Capital Crimes is the sixth novel in the "Will Lee series" by Stuart Woods. It was first published in 2003 by Putnam Publishing. The novel takes place in Washington D. C., a couple of years after the events in "The Run". The novel continues the story of the Lee family of Delano, Georgia. It is also the first appearance... |
17085635 | 2003 Holiday Bowl | The 2003 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 30 in San Diego, California, part of the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the Washington State Cougars, and the fifth-ranked Texas Longhorns. Washington State pulled off a 28–20 upset, and moved up to ninth in the final ranking... |
43176833 | The Muslim Jesus | The Muslim Jesus is a 2007 British documentary directed and produced by Irshad Ashraf, and commissioned and narrated by Melvyn Bragg. The documentary is about the Islamic view of Jesus. It was broadcast by ITV on 19 August 2007.
Overview.
The one-hour special uses the Quran as its main source, and draws on interviews w... |
47478053 | Jacob Notaras | Jacob Notaras (; ), also erroneously called Isaac, was a Byzantine aristocrat who survived the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Having attracted the Ottoman ruler Mehmed the Conqueror as an adolescent, he was confined to the seraglio until he escaped in 1460. He later became one of the leaders of the Byzantine diaspora ... |
55764880 | Georgianna Kathleen Symonette | Georgianna Kathleen Symonette (4 April 1902 – 14 May 1965) a Bahamian suffragist, was the founding chairwoman of the Women's Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party and founding member of the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 2012, The Bahamian government issued a series of postage stamps to honor the women who campaigned ... |
29039504 | Michael Holt (German footballer) | Michael Holt (born 1 February 1986) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Career.
Holt began his career with SV Meppen, breaking into the first team in 2005. He scored on his debut on the opening day of the 2005–06 season, a 3–2 win over Eintracht Nordhorn. He scored ten goals in the Oberl... |
30614884 | Temple of All Religions | The Temple of All Religions (, ) or the Universal Temple () is an architectural complex in the Staroye Arakchino Microdistrict of Kazan, Russia. It consists of several types of religious architecture including an Orthodox church, a mosque, and a synagogue, among others. It is currently under construction since 1992, st... |
12883884 | Nothing Is Okay | Nothing is Okay is the third album by The Everybodyfields, co-founded and fronted by Sam Quinn and Jill Andrews. The album was released August 21, 2007.
Critical reception.
Hal Horowitz of AllMusic concludes his review with, "Surely this isn't for parties, unless it's a pity party, yet there is a calming poignancy gene... |
5732046 | The End (1998 film) | The End is a 1998 skateboarding film from Birdhouse Skateboards. It was made under the direction of Jamie Mosberg, who also produced and edited it. The original movie was released in 1998, but the movie was re-released in 2001.
Plot.
There is no real plot that runs throughout this documentary. Instead, each skater was ... |
34051815 | Romance of Celluloid | The Romance of Celluloid is a 1937 short black and white documentary film, narrated by Frank Whitbeck, which goes behind the scenes to look at the manufacture of film and the making of motion pictures. The film was the first of the studio's "Romance of Celluloid" series which also included:
Synopsis.
The film starts wi... |
62160310 | Felipe Ferreira (footballer, born 1994) | Felipe de Figueiredo Ferreira commonly known as Felipe Ferreira (born 25 April 1994) is a Brazilian football midfielder who plays for Chapecoense borrowed by Retrô.
Career.
Born in national capital Brasilia, Felipe Ferreira played in youth ranks of Grêmio, having debuted for their first team in the 2014 Campeonato Gaúc... |
16539946 | Jason Deline | Jason Deline is a Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian, and director. He is best known for his role as Ernie in "Ready or Not", and for voicing the character of Drago in "Bakugan Battle Brawlers" and its reboot "Bakugan Battle Planet".
Career.
Deline voiced Benkei in and "", and provided the voice of Glen in Beyblade'... |
10498281 | NGC 5822 | NGC 5822 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Lupus. It was discovered by English Astronomer John Herschel on July 3, 1836, and lies close to another cluster, NGC 5823, which suggests there may be a physical association.
NGC 5822 is an intermediate age cluster, estimated at around 900 million ye... |
44351977 | Trevor Boyns | Trevor Boyns (born 1953) is a British business historian and Professor of Accounting & Business History at the Cardiff University, known for his work in the field of the history of accountancy and business history.
Biography.
Boyns obtained his first class degree in mathematics and economics in 1974 from the Univer... |
60814305 | His Buddy's Wife | His Buddy's Wife is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Glenn Hunter, Edna Murphy, and Gordon Begg.
Plot.
As described in a film magazine reviews, Jim McMorrow and Bill Mullaney, from entirely different walks of life, become buddies during the war. Jim, having no home ties, shares all... |
9129680 | TimesDaily | The TimesDaily is the daily newspaper for Florence, Alabama. "The TimesDaily" covers a four-county region in Alabama including Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, and Lawrence counties, as well as portions of southern Tennessee and northeast Mississippi. In addition to editorial offices in Florence, "The TimesDaily" maintai... |
68837479 | Tolkachyovka, Kursk Oblast | Tolkachyovka () is a rural locality () in Prilepsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Konyshyovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population:
Geography.
The village is located on the Platavka River (a left tributary of the Svapa River), 56 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 66.5 km north-west of Kursk, 4.5 km south-west of... |
61498979 | 2021 Oman Tri-Nation Series (round 7) | The 2021 Oman Tri-Nation Series was the 7th round of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament that took place in Oman in September and October 2021. It was a tri-nation series between Oman, Papua New Guinea and the Scotland cricket teams, with the matches played as One Day International (ODI) fix... |
25500790 | Canadian Bound | Canadian Bound (April 29, 1975 – 1992) was the first Thoroughbred yearling racehorse ever to be sold for more than US$1 million. He was part of the first crop of foals Secretariat. He proved to be of little use as a racehorse, managing one second-place finish in three starts in France and running unplaced in his only r... |
56406183 | 1955 Meath Senior Football Championship | The 1955 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 63rd edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 11 teams. The championship employs a group stage followed by a final between the group winners.
This season saw Ballinlo... |
13246382 | Abolhassan E'tesami | Abolhassan E'tesami (1903–1978), was an Iranian architect, calligrapher, painter, and novelist.
Biography.
His father Mīrzā Ebrāhīm Khan Mostawfī Eʿteṣām-al-Molk (or Ebrahim E'tesami) was from Ashtian and the head of finance of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan. His brother Yussef E'tesami was the founder of the "Bah... |
33439912 | Hedera rhombea | Hedera rhombea, the Japanese ivy or songak, is a species of ivy in the Araliaceae family native to East Asia. Formerly named Hedera pedunculata, some subspecies could be subsequently classified as a distinct species. It is common on rocky slopes and growing up the trunks of trees, especially in laurel forest, a type of... |
58320213 | Treaty of Trausnitz | The Treaty of Trausnitz, signed at Trausnitz Castle by Frederick the Fair, duke of Austria and Styria, and Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, duke of Upper Bavaria, on March 13, 1325 ended the dispute between the two men over the rule of the Holy Roman Empire.
Background.
Following the death in 1313 of Henry VII, Holy Roman... |
64172026 | Ian Bruce (sailor) | Ian Bruce, (7 June 1933 – 21 March 2016) was a Canadian sailor. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. Along with Bruce Kirby, he invented the laser dinghy, which has been used at the Olympics since 1996.
Biography.
Bruce was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1933, before moving to Nassau, Bah... |
18747444 | Granite Keystone Bridge | The Granite Keystone Bridge is a historic bridge that carries Granite Street (Massachusetts Route 127) over the former railroad that transported granite from Pigeon Hill to Granite Pier in Rockport, Massachusetts. The bridge arch was built in 1872 in eleven weeks. Its single arch spans and is wide. The bridge was added... |
63182474 | George Fox Steedman | George Fox Steedman (1871–1940) was an inventor and businessman. He was the president of Curtis Manufacturing Co., a foundry and machine shop, and built Casa del Herrero.
Life.
Steedman attended the Manual Training School and Washington University in St. Louis, and then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1892. H... |
67337629 | Joe Mack (catcher) | Joseph Allan Mack (born December 27, 2002) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Miami Marlins organization. He was selected by the Marlins in the first round of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft.
Amateur career.
Mack lives in East Amherst, New York, and attended Williamsville East High School. As a s... |
8373212 | Bosniaks of Montenegro | Bosniaks are an ethnic group in Montenegro, first introduced in the 2003 census. According to the last census from 2011, the total number of Bosniaks in Montenegro was 53,605 or 8.6% of the population. Bosniaks are the third largest ethnic group in the country, after Montenegrins and Serbs.
Demographics.
Bosniaks prima... |
68902151 | The Royal Oak, York | The Royal Oak is a pub in the city centre of York, in England.
The pub lies on Goodramgate. The building is believed to date from the 15th-century and is largely timber-framed, although much of it has been rebuilt. The north-eastern section is of three storeys and contains one original internal wall, while the south-we... |
62661971 | Berthold Warnecke | Berthold Warnecke (born 15 February 1971) is a German dramaturge and Opera director in Würzburg.
Career.
Born in Münster, Warnecke studied musicology, Germanistic and Romance studies at the University of Münster and the Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale in Cremona. He received his doctorate in 1999. Already in... |
65734861 | Lionël Ruzindana | Lionel Ruzindana (born 1987 as Ruzindana Lionel), is a Belgian actor with a Rwandan descent. He is best known for the roles in the films "Earth and Blood", "Third Wedding" and "Red Soil".
Personal life.
He was born in 1987 in Kigali, Rwanda as the eldest of the family and raised in Gikondo until 1994. He completed his ... |
2303068 | Axel Enström (industrialist) | Axel Gustaf Torbjörn Enström (October 25, 1893 - March 9, 1977) was the head of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget in Sundsvall. He was managing director from 1950 to 1960 and chairman of the board from 1960 to 1965.
Biography.
He was born on October 25, 1893, in Sweden.
He married Margit Lisa Magdalena Wahlberg (1900-1984... |
6376891 | Prowler in the Yard | Prowler in the Yard is the second studio album by American grindcore band Pig Destroyer. It was released on July 24, 2001, on Relapse Records. The album follows a dark and twisted story of love, obsession, and gore. The booklet also features an extra page of prose about the protagonist and "Jennifer". The album was rec... |
37726586 | Austrocochlea constellata | Austrocochlea constellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
This is a species inquerenda.
Description.
The height of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 10 mm. The oblique, imperforate shell has an orbiculate-conic shape and is slightly elevated. The base of... |
30891639 | International Playing-Card Society | The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit organisation for those interested in playing cards, their design, and their history. While many of its members are collectors of playing cards, they also include historians of playing cards and their uses, particularly card games and their history.
The IPCS ... |
17147538 | Nofei Nehemia | Nofei Nehemia () is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, in the jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council in the northern West Bank. It is officially within the boundaries of Rehelim, a nearby Israeli settlement. First established in 2002, it is situated adjacent to Rechelim on Route 60, between Kfar Tapuach and Eli... |
3276597 | Lloyd LaBeach | Lloyd Barrington LaBeach (28 June 1922 – 19 February 1999) was a Panamanian sprinter, who won two bronze medals during the 1948 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medals for Panama and for Central America. He also competed in the long jump.
In the 100 meters, he finished behind Harrison Dillard and Barney Ewell for thi... |
49877533 | Montgomery County Jail (Red Oak, Iowa) | The Montgomery County Jail, also known as the Joint Law Enforcement Center, is located in Red Oak, Iowa, United States. Built in 2012, the facility houses administrative offices for the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, the Red Oak Police Department, the Joint Communications Center and a 24-bed jail. The historic... |
59921237 | Thomas Jefferson High School (South Dakota) | Jefferson High School is a public high school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. It opened in the 2021–2022 school year as part of the Sioux Falls School District. Jefferson High School is one of four traditional high schools in the Sioux Falls School District.
History.
In January 2019, the Sioux Falls School... |
1250903 | Abertzale | Abertzale (; English: "patriot", literally "fond of the fatherland") is a Basque term usually referring to people or political groups who are associated with Basque nationalism.
Although the term is synonym of "patriot", its common use in Basque mainly refers to Basque nationalism, whereas in the Spanish language "aber... |
31366054 | Sofie Zamchick | Sofie Zamchick (born April 2, 1994) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and puppeteer. She is best known as the voice of Linny the Guinea Pig on the American animated children's television series, "Wonder Pets!". Zamchick attended the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a versatil... |
34725337 | Robert Emery (songwriter) | Robert Emery (26 September 1794 – 28 March 1871) was a Tyneside songwriter, born in Edinburgh in Scotland. Possibly his best known work is "Hydrophobie" (sometimes called "The Skipper and the Quaker"), an example of Geordie dialect.
Life.
Robert Emery was born in Edinburgh on 26 September 1794. His family moved to Newc... |
49928043 | William Todd Schultz | William Todd Schultz (born 1969) is an American writer specializing in biographies and psychobiographies of artists, based in Portland, Oregon. Schultz received a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Lewis and Clark College in 1985, an MA in Personality Psychology from the University of California in 1987, and a PhD in... |
65600394 | Sunil Thomas | Sunil Thomas (born 10 May 1960) was a judge of Kerala High Court. The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Ernakulam, Kochi.
Education and career.
Thomas completed his schooling from Rajagiri High ... |
3076949 | NanaOn-Sha | is a Japanese video game developer founded by Masaya Matsuura in 1993.
History.
In 1993, Matsuura founded the Tokyo-based production company, NanaOn-Sha, which began the development of video games. He was mainly involved in the development of the industry but in various sound productions, including his music activitie... |
73515305 | Fred Florusse |
Willem Fredrik "Fred" Florusse (6 February 1938 – 21 March 2023) was a Dutch actor, comedian, stage director and TV and radio presenter, whose career spanned over five decades.
Life and career.
Born in Vlissingen into a working-class family, Florusse studied economics and accountancy and worked in an administration o... |
46400167 | Rod Cedaro | Rod Cedaro is a professional coach and triathlete, primarily competing in long distance events.
Athletic career.
Rod Cedaro was champion at the Australian Ironman Triathlon in 1990 with a time of 08:58:20. In 1991 he placed 5th at the ITU Duathlon World Championships in Palm Springs USA which included a 10 km run, 60 k... |
24843183 | Jack Depler | John Charles Depler (January 6, 1899 – December 5, 1970) was a professional football player and coach. Prior to his professional career, he played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team of the University of Illinois. There he helped lead Illinois to its second national championship in 1919, and... |
17671538 | 2008–09 Olympiacos F.C. season | The 2008–09 season was Olympiacos's 50th consecutive season in the Super League Greece and their 83rd year in existence. The club are competing in the UEFA Cup after an 11-year participation in the UEFA Champions League, as they were eliminated in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round by Anorthosis. In the b... |
67073107 | Partners Life | Partners Life is a New Zealand-based insurance company which provides life and health insurance. it had an annual revenue of $247.5 million NZD. On August 12, 2022, global life insurance specialist Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc announced its acquisition of 100% of the shares in Partners Group Holdings Limited, the parent... |
26339818 | Virtual World (novel) | Virtual World is the sixth young adult novel by the English writer Chris Westwood. It was published in the UK (1996) and in the US (1997) by Viking Penguin. It was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal in 1997.
Synopsis.
"Silicon Sphere" is the new game with everything: dazzling super-real graphics, atmospheric sounds... ... |
1655188 | Induced subgraph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, an induced subgraph of a graph is another graph, formed from a subset of the vertices of the graph and "all" of the edges (from the original graph) connecting pairs of vertices in that subset.
Definition.
Formally, let formula_1 be any graph, and let formula_2 be any subset of... |
31351322 | They Won't Go When I Go | "They Won't Go When I Go" is a song co-written and performed by Stevie Wonder from his 1974 album "Fulfillingness' First Finale".
This song is the only one on the album that Wonder did not write by himself. His co-writer was Yvonne Wright, who co-wrote songs with Wonder for other albums.
Wonder performed this song, alo... |
1394708 | Armed Forces Honor Medal | The Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal () was a military decoration of South Vietnam that was first created on January 7, 1953. The medal was awarded in two classes and reached its height of bestowal during the Vietnam War. It was frequently awarded to members of foreign militaries, including military advisor... |
18461687 | Matfen Hall | Matfen Hall is a 19th-century country mansion in Matfen, Northumberland, England, the seat of the Blackett baronets and now also a hotel and country golf club. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The manor of West Matfen was owned in the 13th century by Philip de Ulcote and passed through his sisters to Felton, by marri... |
27700130 | Eldorado Recording Studios | Eldorado Recording Studios is a recording studio in Burbank, California originally established in 1954 at the corner of Hollywood and Vine as a workshop for Johnny Otis. In 1987, following damage the building sustained from numerous earthquakes, Eldorado moved to the late Marvin Gaye's former studio on Sunset Boulevard... |
50812385 | Techsource | Techsource involves the automation, or conversion of a task or job from a manual task performed by a person, to a job performed entirely by machines. The concept of "techsourcing" has occurred across many industries for many years, however the phrase was coined by George Tosh, Principal Software Engineer for Salesforce... |
41809886 | Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet | Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born January 31, 1968) is an American poet. Stonestreet's second book, "The Greenhouse," was awarded the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Prize and published by Bull City Press in August 2014. Her first book, "Tulips, Water, Ash", was published by Northeastern University Press, and chosen by Jean Val... |
13581656 | Harry Gleason | Harry Gilbert Gleason (March 28, 1875 – October 21, 1961) was a utility infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1901 through 1905 for the Boston Americans (1901–03) and St. Louis Browns (1904–05). Listed at 5' 6", 160 lb., Gleason batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. H... |
45241502 | Academy of Ikalto | The Academy of Ikalto () was an ecclesiastical academy established between the 11th-13th centuries in Kingdom of Georgia. Ikalto was known as one of the most significant cultural-scholastic centers of medieval Georgia, which is confirmed by the ruins of some civil building preserved at the site of the Ikalto monastery.... |
15307545 | American Mime Theatre | The American Mime Theatre is not a pantomime company nor is it a dance company. It is the Performing Company and School of American Mime, an acting medium expressing itself through movement. The American Mime Theatre performs its own original plays culled from its repertory with new works continuously in development.
I... |
46780784 | SC50 bomb | The SC 50 (Sprengbombe Cylindrisch) or "cylindrical explosive bomb" in English was a family of general-purpose bombs used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
Design.
The SC50 bomb has eight variants and multiple ways they were manufactured from one-piece drawn steel bodies to separate steel pieces welded together and... |
12903548 | False orange | The false oranges are a group of flowering plants in the "Citrus" genus, within the family, Rutaceae. They are endemic to New Caledonia.
Though previously viewed as members of "Citrus", Swingle moved the false oranges into their own genus, "Oxanthera". He placed the genus within the Triphasiinae subtribe of Citreae bas... |
10013883 | Marie Calm | Marie Calm (3 April 1832, Bad Arolsen, Waldeck – 22 February 1887, Kassel, German Empire) was a German author, feminist and advocate of women's suffrage.
Life.
Calm was born on 3 April 1832 in Arolsen, Germany.
She early became interested in a career as an educator. In 1853 she accepted a position as teacher in England... |
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Biography.
Rukhshana (born as Hamida) was born in Kabul, the daughter of Assil Khan Waziri, a four star General in the Afghan Army. Sh... |
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Lines.
Kōdo Station was located on the Kabe Line, and was situated b... |
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13743226 | Bedford High School (Massachusetts) | Bedford High School is a public high school in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. It is operated under the authority of the Bedford Public Schools district. Students come primarily from Bedford. Other students that attend Bedford High School come from the neighboring Hanscom Air Force Base or from Boston through th... |
41832040 | (177049) 2003 EE16 | , provisionally known as 2003 EE16, is an Apollo near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object. It was discovered on 8 March 2003 by LPL/Spacewatch II at an apparent magnitude of 20 using a reflecting telescope. It has an estimated diameter of . The asteroid was listed on Sentry Risk Table with a Torino Scale ra... |
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Stock was born in Clifton St Andrew, Gloucestershire, England, a son of Robert Stock and Caroline Stock, née Holland, and christened there on 3 September 1847. Stock was one of five children who w... |
63354419 | Craspedotropis gretathunbergae | Craspedotropis gretathunbergae is a species of snail in the family Cyclophoridae. The species was discovered in Brunei by a team of citizen scientists and subsequently named after climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Taxonomy.
After the discovery of the species, a vote was conducted among the members of the expedition and ... |
51781114 | Framed (Leiber and Stoller song) | Framed is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by The Robins in August, 1954, in Los Angeles and released on Leiber and Stoller's label Spark Records in October of that year as the B side of "Loop De Loop Mambo". Jerry Leiber talks about the song, saying, “Another rap took the for... |
368737 | Jacobite Relics | Jacobite Relics is a two volume collection of songs related to the Jacobite risings, compiled by the Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg on commission from the Highland Society of London in 1817. Most of the songs in the collection are Jacobite, and a minority are Whig. A number of the songs were written or adapted b... |
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