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199156 | Viesīte | Viesīte (; ) is a town in the western part of Jēkabpils Municipality in the Selonia region of Latvia. The population in 2020 was 1,500.
Viesīte is a typical Selonia town located in the hills in the centre of the district. Selonia is cultural and historical district, bordering on Latgale, Zemgale (Semigalia), Vidzeme an... |
21263797 | Gilowice, Żywiec County | Gilowice is a village in Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Gilowice. It lies approximately east of Żywiec and south of the regional capital Katowice.
The village has a population of 4,259.
History.
The village was first mentioned ... |
21627602 | Surf Diva | Surf Diva is a surf company from La Jolla, California, United States. They serve surf clinics at La Jolla Shores and provide clothes and equipment for surfing.
Quoted "The Starbucks of surf schools" by Newsweek Magazine, Surf Diva Surf School is considered the pillar of women's surfing in the action sports industry and... |
2865549 | Robert D. Bailey Sr. | Robert Darias Bailey Sr. (July 26, 1883 – October 24, 1961), better known as R. D. Bailey or "Judge Bailey," was a Democratic politician in West Virginia.
Bailey was a lawyer who represented timber and railroad companies before he was elected judge, then a part-time position. He presided over the trials of the coal min... |
65468930 | Little Runaway (song) | "Little Runaway" is a song by British singer Celeste, released on 25 August 2020 through Both Sides and Polydor Records. The song was written by the singer herself with Gary Go and Jamie Hartman, and also features production from TMS and TommyD.
Background.
Talking about the song, Celeste said, "'Little Runaway' is a s... |
5734510 | Ochten | Ochten is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Neder-Betuwe, and lies about 10 km southwest of Wageningen.
Ochten was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was divided into two parts, Echteld and IJzendoorn.
History.
It was first mentioned in the late 9th century as "... |
26371272 | Macrostomidae | Macrostomidae is a family of small basal free-living flatworms, and are found in marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. There are currently about 180 named species in this family.
Description.
Species of the family Macrostomidae are small (~0.5 to 5 mm in length) and generally highly transparent microturbellari... |
33286534 | Sandwich (2011 film) | Sandwich is a 2011 Indian Malayalam comedy film directed by debutant director M. S. Manu, starring Kunchacko Boban, Richa Panai and Ananya in the lead roles. The movie was released on 14 October 2011 to negative response.
Plot.
Sai, a high-profile software engineer who is currently acknowledged as the best in their pay... |
40091536 | William Wrigley Jr. Summer Cottage | The William Wrigley Jr. Summer Cottage, or "Mount Ada", is a historic residence located at 76 Wrigley Road in Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island, California. It was the former summer mansion and gardens of William Wrigley Jr. (1861–1932), the founder of the Wrigley Company. It is on a hill, overlooking the town and Avalo... |
22590839 | Lewis Ballham | Joseph Lewis Ballham (c.1864 – 1948) was an English footballer. He won the Football Alliance title with Stoke in 1890–91, and also played for Burslem Port Vale. His brother Edgar played a friendly for Port Vale in 1890.
Career.
Ballham played for Stoke Locomotive and Stoke, appearing in the FA Cup in 1886–87 and 1887–8... |
9956043 | Lucia Zedner | Lucia Zedner, FBA (born 20 February 1961) is a British legal scholar, who is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Biography.
Zedner was born on 20 February 1961 in Kingston, Surrey, England. She studied at the University of York, graduating with a B... |
12725232 | Saffron Square | Saffron Square (formerly known as Wellesley Square) is a town square and high-rise building in Croydon, United Kingdom. The purple and red Saffron Tower is currently the second-tallest building in Croydon.
Saffron Square is part of the Croydon Vision 2020 regeneration plan for the London Borough of Croydon to add to it... |
53644255 | Hernan Aguilar | Hernan Aguilar is an Argentine film director, writer and producer. He is a prominent figure of cinema in his country, and known for directing "Madraza" (2017) aka "Godmother". Madraza won a Best Film Award at Sitges International Film Festival in 2017.
Life and career.
Aguilar was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He st... |
45644375 | Kollam-Paravur Coastal Road | Kollam-Paravur Coastal Road () is one of the important city roads currently under construction in Kollam city in Kerala, India. The road starts at Chinnakada in the north and ends at Paravur town in the south, via Kollam Beach, Mundakkal Beach, Kakkathoppu, Mukkom, Thanni and Pozhikara. Coastal road is considered one o... |
52140501 | Prayer protest | Prayer has a long history as a means of protesting injustices, appealing both to God to intervene and enact justice in the situation, and to political opponents to rise to a superior moral position. Boston declared a day of fasting and prayer in September 1768 as a protest against a British plan to station troops in th... |
46782211 | Ellyes Skhiri | Ellyes Joris Skhiri (; born 10 May 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt. A dual French-Tunisian national, he plays for the Tunisia national team.
Club career.
Montpellier.
Skhiri is a youth product of Montpellier HSC. He made his Ligue 1 debut on... |
40702175 | Pietro Saporetti | Pietro Saporetti (Bagnacavallo, Emilia-Romagna, 1832 – 1893) was an Italian painter.
In Bagnacavallo his father was a teacher of Physics and mathematics at the Lyceum. He took his first lesson in Bagnacavallo, under Antonio Moni. In 1851, he went to study painting in Florence. In 1854, he studied at the Academy of Fine... |
58303755 | Follow the Rainbow | Follow the Rainbow is the thirteenth studio album by American keyboardist George Duke released in 1979 through Epic Records. The album peaked at No. 3 on the "Billboard" Top Jazz Albums chart and No. 17 on the "Billboard" Top Soul Albums chart.
Overview.
"Follow the Rainbow" was produced by George Duke. Recording sessi... |
72274485 | Ruai | Ruai is a neighbourhood in the city of east Nairobi. It is approximately east of the central business district along Kangundo Road. It is one of the areas located in the far east of Nairobi after Kamulu.
Location.
Ruai is located approximately northeast of Nairobi's central business district. It was formerly part of t... |
4591094 | First Born (TV series) | First Born is a British science fiction television serial produced by the BBC in 1988. Vasco Sabino played the adolescent hybrid, Gor, in episode 3. Other notable cast members included Charles Dance, Jamie Foster, Julie Peasgood, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Madoc, Sharon Duce and Roshan Seth.
Premise.
Charles Dance starred... |
66090632 | Soumitra Bannerjee | Soumitra Bannerjee (1954— 8 January 2000) was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Bengali cinema. Some of his notable films are "Amar Prem", "Troyee", "Guru Dakshina", "IndrajIt", "Bhoy", and "Badnam". He is best known for playing villainous roles. He is famous for the quote "Maaltake Garite Tol" from "Nawab".
Biograp... |
22911834 | Matthew Fox (footballer) | Matthew Christopher Fox (born 13 July 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City and Northampton Town. He played as a centre back.
Fox was born in the Sheldon district of Birmingham. When he left school in 1987, he joined Birmingham City as a YTS trainee, an... |
18536939 | Kotō Station | is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines.
Kotō Station is served by the JR West San'yō Main Line, and is located 478.0 kilometers from the terminus of the line at .
Station layout.
The station consists of o... |
524825 | Voiced bilabial trill | The voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is , a small capital version of the Latin letter b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is codice_1.
Features.
Features of the voiced bilabial trill:
In mos... |
61438897 | Tennessee State Route 328 | State Route 328 (SR 328) is a north–south state highway in Roane and Morgan counties of East Tennessee. It connects the town of Oakdale to the cities of Harriman and Wartburg.
Route description.
SR 328 begins in Roane County in downtown Harriman at an intersection with US 27/SR 61 (Roane Street/SR 29). It goes northwes... |
64241565 | Charybdis (mountain) | Charybdis is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California. Located deep in the backcountry of Kings Canyon National Park, Charybdis sits at the heart of one of the mountain range's least accessible regions. The shortest approach is 16 miles from the Sabrina Lake trailhead, and requires significant cross-country travel... |
8393722 | Volkswagen Type 147 Kleinlieferwagen | The Volkswagen Type 147 (informally Fridolin) was a panel van produced by the German automaker Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles from 1964 until 1974. The van was mainly built for the purposes of the state-owned "Deutsche Bundespost".
History.
In February 1962 the German Postal Services commissioned Volkswagen to design t... |
68365808 | Corydoras fulleri | Corydoras fulleri, formerly identified as C116/115 is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the subfamily Corydoradinae of the family Callichthyidae native to South America where it is found in two tributaries of the río Manuripe and a tributary of the río Madre de Dios, rio Madeira basin, Peru. It lives in a tropica... |
60496952 | David Junior (actor) | David Junior (Nova Iguaçu, December 8, 1985) is a Brazilian actor.
Career.
He began to study theater at the age of 22, after small participations in soap operas, in 2016, through tests, obtained the paper of the slave Saviano in the series "Liberdade, Liberdade" of the Rede Globo. His participation in the plot of the e... |
47963499 | Voortrekker Fort, Elandsfontein | The Voortrekker Fort situated on the farm, Elandsfontein, was constructed by the Voortrekkers under Commandant General A.M. Potgieter in 1842. A commemorative tablet of the former National Monuments Council states that the fort was built "for the protection of families with the view of possible departure of a commando ... |
5727272 | Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh | Don Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh Huitznahuatlailótlac, also known as Motelchiuhtzin, was the ruler of Tenochtitlan (1525–1530).
After the death of Don Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin in Nochixtlan in 1525, Hernán Cortés chose Don Andrés Motelchiuhtzin as the new ruler of Tenochtitlan.
Motelchiuhtzin was not of the upper classes... |
64259527 | Shibuya Scramble Square | Shibuya Scramble Square (Japanese: 渋谷スクランブルスクエア Shibuya Sukuranburu Sukuea) is a mixed-use skyscraper connected to Shibuya Station in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
It is part of a redevelopment of the station area. Located above Shibuya Station, the complex consists of three buildings, including an eastern building, Shibuya ... |
68286240 | Elvira López (actress) | Elvira López Morales (Concepción, Biobío Region, September 13, 1966) is a Chilean film, theater and television actress.
Career.
She made her debut in the successful television series on Canal 13 "Fácil de amar" playing a small role, then emigrated to TVN in the television series "Ámame", which had great success in Chil... |
26995463 | Stefan Kirmaier | Oberleutnant Stefan Kirmaier (28 July 1889 – 22 November 1916) was a World War I German flying ace credited with eleven aerial victories. Kirmaier would succeed Oswald Boelcke as commander of the famed "Jagdstaffel 2" before being killed in action.
Early life.
Stefan Kirmaier was born in Lachen, the German Empire, on 2... |
23556752 | Urtak | Urtak was a free collaborative public opinion website founded in 2008 based in New York City. An urtak survey could be created by any individual for his or her community. The users of an urtak survey can add questions of their own to the survey, as well as answer questions that have been asked by other users. As soon a... |
72751027 | Nurullah Aslan | Nurullah Aslan (born 5 July 1997) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for TFF First League club Gençlerbirliği on loan from Samsunspor.
Career.
Nurullah Aslan began his career in 2007 as a defender for his local club Termespor, later making the switch to goalkeeper. After playing at amateur l... |
36056796 | Líderes | Líderes (English: "Leaders") is the eighth studio album by Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel. The album was released on July 3, 2012. The album features collaborations of artist like Chris Brown, T-Pain, Jennifer Lopez, O’Neill, Franco "El Gorila" and Alberto Stylee, Timbaland. The album's track listing was... |
8787191 | Classic 8 Conference | The Classic 8 Conference, also known as the C8C, is a high school athletic conference made up of 9 teams in southeastern Wisconsin. The Classic 8 Conference is a member of the WIAA. The conference is one of the newer conferences in the WIAA, having been formed in 1997. The conference has schools that participate in suc... |
38018195 | Denise Rutkowski | Denise Lynn Rutkowski is a former American professional female bodybuilder.
Bodybuilding career.
Her professional bodybuilding career was brief, and ended shortly after finishing 2nd in the Ms. Olympia contest in 1993. Her sudden retirement shocked the sport, as she was seen as an easy contender for the Ms. Olympia in ... |
51972884 | Varvara Melnikova | Varvara Melnikova (born 1980) is a Russian business executive and urban planner.
Career.
She is chief executive officer (CEO) of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, a non-profit post-graduate institute in the field of urban studies located in Moscow. Melnikova established the Strlka Institute with... |
31542489 | Schreder HP-20 | The Schreder HP-20 is an American, high-wing, T-tail, single seat glider designed by Richard Schreder.
Design and development.
The HP-20 was designed by Schreder for the FAI 15 Metre Class. The HP-20 prototype was just complete when Schreder lost interest in the project and moved on to work on the HP-21 instead. The so... |
11453878 | Ards (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) | Ards was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
Boundaries.
Ards was a county constituency comprising the town of Newtownards, the Ards peninsula and the town of Donaghadee. It was created in 1929 when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introdu... |
30875284 | Michael May (racing driver) | Michael May (born 18 August 1934 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a former racing driver and engineer from Switzerland. He participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 May 1961. He scored no championship points.
After a crash during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, May concentrated ... |
35023351 | State Bank of Wisconsin | The State Bank of Wisconsin is a six-story Neoclassical-styled office building built in 1906 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
History.
In 1852 Wisconsin passed a referendum in favor of establishing commercial banks under state charter. With that, the Banking Act... |
29214572 | Kakuri | Kakuri is a residential area in Nigeria. It is a suburb of Kaduna and is under the Kaduna South Local Government.
It has a St. Gerard Hospital and a Gwamna Awan General Hospital. A Government Secondary School, a school of psychiatric nursing and St. Anne's Nursery and Primary School as well Victory Academy, 2nd ECWA s... |
31454394 | Peter Barry (footballer) | Peter Barry (19 October 1937 – 7 June 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Barry was a key position player, who joined Carlton from Bayswater. He broke into the seniors during the second half of the 1958 VFL season and the following year played 19 of a... |
56700211 | George Percy Churchill | George Percy Churchill CBE FSA (1877–1973) was a British historian and diplomat.
Early life.
He was born in 1877 the son of Henry Adrian Churchill, an archaeological explorer and British diplomat. Three of his four brothers, Harry Lionel, Sidney John Alexander William Algernon were also diplomats.
In 1906 he married Mu... |
41336279 | Istanbul Congress Center | Istanbul Congress Center (ICC; ) is a convention center located at Harbiye neighborhood of Şişli district in Istanbul, Turkey. Opened on October 17, 2009, it is owned by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
Situated adjacent to Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage, it is a multi-level complex, which was built to host the 2009 ... |
27756298 | Euschistus ictericus | Euschistus ictericus is a North American species of shield bug. It grows up to long, and lives in damp areas.
Distribution.
In Canada, "E. ictericus" is restricted to Ontario and Quebec. In the United States, its distribution reaches as far south as Texas and Louisiana, and only as far west as Utah, despite previous re... |
62715103 | Esther Borough Johnson | Esther Harriet Borough Johnson née George (1866–1958) was an English painter.
Personal life.
Esther Harriet George was born on 2 April 1866 at Sutton Maddock, Shifnal, Shropshire. Her father was a clergyman, a curate at the time of her birth and later vicar of Pentney, Norfolk. She had a twin sister Lydia. She married ... |
2031177 | Bush at War | Bush at War is a 2002 book by "The Washington Post" reporter Bob Woodward recounting President George W. Bush's responses to the September 11 attacks and his administration's handling of the subsequent War in Afghanistan.
Much of the book recounts events in meetings of the United States National Security Council (NSC),... |
15982077 | Trapped (Colonel Abrams song) | "Trapped" is a song by American musician Colonel Abrams, released in 1985 as the first single from his self-titled debut album. It has since become known as Abrams' signature song and still receives airplay on dance radio stations in the UK and the US.
This song has arguably remained Abrams' biggest hit on both sides o... |
14624477 | Hypochrysops | Hypochrysops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1860. This particular genus is exclusive to the Australian area with only a few species straying into Papua New Guinea.
Food sources.
The mistletoe plant is ambiguously claimed to be a food source for ... |
21514188 | Tattoo the Earth | Tattoo the Earth was a concert tour from 2000 to 2002 in the United States. Scott Alderman, the festival's creator, believed that the tour would help "catch the vibe" between the musical artists and the body artists, saying in a prepared statement, "Nothing represents the counter youth culture like music and body art. ... |
14538879 | Yom Hillula | A Yom Hillula (, day of festivity) is another word for "yahrzeit" (the anniversary of a death). However, it differs from a regular "yahrzeit" in two respects. It refers specifically to the "yahrzeit" of a great "tzaddik" who taught Kabbalah and/or Chassidus, and unlike a regular "yahrzeit", which is marked with sadness... |
3082705 | Wouda pumping station | The ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station () is a pumping station in the Netherlands, and the largest still operational steam-powered pumping station in the world. On October 7, 1920 Queen Wilhelmina opened the pumping station. It was built to pump excess water out of Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherland... |
30974356 | Ed Jordan | Ed Jordan (born Edward Paul Jordan, 2 March 1969, Johannesburg) is a South African musician, composer, singer-songwriter, actor, TV and radio presenter. His most recent work was for "Spud" the Movie starring John Cleese, where he wrote and produced the orchestral score and the theme songs as working as music supervisor... |
26919806 | United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia | The United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) was a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia. It was established in Resolution 866 (1993) and headquartered in the capital Monrovia.
UNOMIL was created as part of the Cotonou Agreement to support the efforts of the Economic Community of West African State... |
40228792 | Axios (acclamation) | "Axios!" (Greek ἄξιος, "worthy of", "deserving of", "suitable") is an acclamation adopted by the early Oriental Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox church and Byzantine Eastern Catholic churches and made by the faithful at the ordination of bishops, priests and deacons. The acclamation may also be made when a bishop pres... |
18159062 | Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2002 |
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by "Billboard" magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical as well as airplay. Throughout a year, "Billboard" will publish an annual list of the 100 ... |
11267880 | Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez | Dr. Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez (September 30, 1915 in Havana, Cuba – October 2, 2005 in Miami, Florida) was a prominent pharmacist and bacteriologist in Cuba.
Dr. Tamargo-Sanchez was the daughter of Domingo Tamargo-Bautista (1883–1947) and Gloria Sanchez-del Monte (1888–1963). She never married but had three siblings, A... |
59921499 | To Øl | To Øl (Danish for "Two Beers") is an international craft brewery based in Denmark.
History.
To Øl was founded by Tore Gynther and Tobias Emil Jensen in 2010 as a gypsy brewer, with brewing primarily taking place at De Proefbrouwerij in Belgium. In 2016, To Øl opened the brewpub "BRUS" in the Nørrebro district of Copenh... |
58966647 | Salinicoccus kunmingensis | Salinicoccus kunmingensis is a standard gram-positive bacteria in the genus Salinicoccus and Staphylococcaceae family. It is moderaly halophilic growing in 0.5-25% NaCl solution, with an optimum at 8-10% NaCl solution.
Genome.
Salinincoccus kunmingensis is partially sequenced and is available at Genebank (accession DQ8... |
198420 | USS Gato (SSN-615) | was a "Thresher/Permit"-class nuclear submarine known as the "Goal Keeper" or the "Black Cat." She was the second United States Navy ship named after the gato, a species of small catshark found in waters along the west coast of Mexico.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dyna... |
22704461 | Crofton School | Crofton School is a coeducational secondary school, located in Stubbington, Hampshire, England. The school has around 1200 students aged between 11 and 16 (years 7 to 11). The school accepts pupils from the areas of: Stubbington, Hill Head, Titchfield, Peel Common, Gosport and Locks Heath.
Crofton opened in 1974 as a p... |
46246521 | Circuito Internacional de Vila Real | The Circuito Internacional de Vila Real is a temporary street circuit in Vila Real, Portugal. This circuit was used for car and moto races.
The circuit.
The circuit layout has suffered several changes through the times. Started as a street circuit in 1931, it was later reduced to a version in the 1950s, which lasted un... |
63907996 | Tarra Simmons | Tarra Denelle Simmons (born 1977) is an American politician, lawyer, and civil rights activist for criminal justice reform.
In 2011 Simmons was sentenced to 30 months in prison for theft and drug crimes. In 2017, she graduated from Seattle University School of Law with honors. After law school, she was not allowed to s... |
17003423 | Nick Wilson (field hockey) | Nicholas Wilson (born 6 August 1990) is a New Zealand field hockey player who plays at striker. He currently plays for New Zealand's Hockey National Team, the Black Stick men's team.
Career.
He attended Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School and then on to Palmerston North Boys' High School, where he represented t... |
38589010 | Sarah Stillman | Sarah Stillman is an American professor and journalist focusing on immigration policy and the criminal justice system. She won a 2012 George Polk Award, and 2012 Hillman Prize. In 2016, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Life.
Stillman graduated from Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Yale Univ... |
32726042 | Body 2 Body | "Body 2 Body" is the third official single from rapper Ace Hood from his third album Blood, Sweat & Tears. The hip hop song features R&B singer Chris Brown and was released July 26, 2011.
Critical reception.
David Jeffries praised the track: "Cool pillow-talk tracks like “Body 2 Body” with Chris Brown and the J... |
70129816 | Sami Clark | Sami Clark (; 19 May 1948 – 20 February 2022) was a Lebanese singer, who had his career peak in the 1980s.
Life and career.
Clark began his music career in the late 1960s, a few years after joining the Faculty of Law at the Jesuit University in Beirut without graduating there.
He won several international prizes throug... |
69462471 | 215 Azam Corps | The 215 Azam Corps is one of the eight corps of the Islamic Emirate Army established in October 2021 and headquartered in Helmand. The current Chief of Staff is Maulvi Abdul Aziz "Ansari". The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan-era corps it replaced was known as the 215th 'Maiwand' Corps and was a part of Afghan National ... |
51269183 | 1980 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22 | The 1980 Tour de France was the 67th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Frankfurt with a prologue individual time trial on 26 June and Stage 11 occurred on 8 July with another individual time trial from Damazan. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 20 July.
Stage 1... |
15857505 | Flipside film festival | The Flipside film festival is an international film festival held in Plymouth, England, which focuses on independent and experimental film practice. It is put on by Flipside, a collective which explores participatory modes of film-making and alternatives to the industrial technical obsolescence model. It takes its insp... |
2744312 | Viktor Tolokonsky | Viktor Aleksandrovich Tolokonsky (, born 27 May 1953 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
Biography.
He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management with specialist degree in... |
18978715 | Björgvin Páll Gústavsson | Björgvin Páll Gústavsson (born 24 May 1985) is an Icelandic handball player that plays as a goalkeeper.
Background.
Björgvin grew up in Kópavogur. He has two brothers, Axel Birgir, and Margeir Felix, and two sisters, Berglind Sif, and Helga Lind. Björgvin describes himself as sharing a very special bond with Berglind a... |
43288185 | The Last Dragon (soundtrack) | The Last Dragon: Original Soundtrack Album is a soundtrack album for the 1985 movie "The Last Dragon" starring Taimak, Julius Carry, Vanity and Christopher Murney. The music soundtrack album was supervised by executive producer Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records.
The soundtrack features the DeBarge’s hit song, ... |
55854545 | Laura Schroeder | Laura Schroeder (born 7 June 1980) is a Luxembourg writer and film director. She is best known for her 2017 drama film "Barrage" which was Luxembourg's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
Biography.
Schroedar was born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on 7 June 1980. She earned an master's... |
14932573 | Karl Filiga | Karlos Filiga ("né" McNichol; born 16 October 1988 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played for Cronulla-Sutherland in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. Filiga primarily played at or in
Early life.
Filiga was born in New Zealand. His father is Australian and hi... |
12411666 | Pseudophilautus stictomerus | Pseudophilautus stictomerus (common name: orange-canthal shrub frog) is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. It was first described by Albert Günther (as "Ixalus stictomerus") based on a single individual collected by Colonel Richard Henry Beddome from 'Ceylon'.
Description.
Male "... |
15265237 | Stylonuroides | Stylonuroides is a genus of prehistoric eurypterid. The genus is classified as a stylonurine but more precise classification has proven difficult, with the genus remaining classified as "incertae sedis" within the suborder. The genus contains two species, "S. dolichopteroides" from the Silurian of Ringerike, Norway and... |
6517531 | Susquehanna Radio Corporation | The Susquehanna Radio Corporation was a media corporation which operated from 1941 to 2006 that was headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. The company was a unit of Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff, a conglomerate more widely known for the Pfaltzgraff kitchenware line than its broadcasting pursuits.
History.
Some of the early Sus... |
2782474 | Fort Capon | Fort Capon or Fort Enoch was a stockade fort erected in 1756 by the Virginia colonial militia located at the confluence of the North River and the Cacapon near present-day Forks of Cacapon in Hampshire County, West Virginia. The site of Fort Capon can be reached off of Gaston Road from WV 29 or WV 127 (Bloomery Pike).
... |
102070 | Segeberg | Segeberg (; ) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southwest and clockwise) the districts of Pinneberg, Steinburg and Rendsburg-Eckernförde, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Plön, Ostholstein and Stormarn, and the city state of Hamburg.
History.
The history of the district is... |
14289784 | Storyhill | Storyhill is an American folk duo, composed of Chris Cunningham and John Hermanson. The acoustic songwriting duo formed in Bozeman, Montana in 1989 simply as Chris & Johnny. They did not adopt the name Storyhill until 1996. They started performing together in Montana and later Minnesota, creating a strong grass-roo... |
35277945 | William Patrick Byrne | Sir William Patrick Byrne (12 February 1859 – 11 June 1935) was a senior member of the British Civil Service.
Early life and education.
The fourth son of John Byrne, of Withington, Manchester, he was educated at Ushaw College and then at St Bede's College, Manchester, from 1876 to 1879, during which time he passed his ... |
61631609 | Methodist Episcopal Church (Bozeman, Montana) | The Methodist Episcopal Church, at 121 S. Willson in Bozeman, Montana, was built in 1873. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Its original Gothic Revival section was started in 1883 during a brief 1882-83 period of prosperity of Bozeman, and was completed in 1884, making it the oldest exi... |
68267340 | 2001 Craigavon Borough Council election | Elections to Craigavon Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 26 councillors.
Districts summary.
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40228550 | Sunil Alagh | Sunil Alagh is an Indian businessman. He regularly appears on Indian television and is on the board of multiple companies, including Prasar Bharati India and United Breweries.
He is a former managing director and chief executive officer of Britannia Industries, an Indian food corporation. He joined Britannia in Decembe... |
35732089 | Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre | Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (BARS) is an international film festival devoted to the genres of science fiction, horror and fantasy. It began in 2000 with a focus on independent films in those genres, and since 2004 in the form of a competitive festival, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre is well attended with over 200 films shown an... |
51408654 | Ksenia Polikarpova | Ksenia Olegovna Polikarpova (, ; born 11 March 1990) is Russian-Israeli Olympic badminton player.
In 2009, she won a bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in Milan, Italy. She also won bronze medals at the European Mixed Team Badminton Championships in 2011, 2013, and 2015 with Russian national badminton t... |
57487122 | Media and Entertainment International | The Media and Entertainment International (MEI) was a global union federation representing workers in the arts.
The federation was founded in 1993 with the merger of the International Secretariat of Arts, Communications, Media and Entertainment Trade Unions and the International Federation of Trade Unions of Audio-Visu... |
37710580 | NOWSA | The NOWSA (Network Of Women Students Australia) is an Australian feminist student organisation founded on ideals of creating a grassroots, autonomous network concerned with issues that impact women and women students.
Established in 1987, NOWSA provides a platform for women's organising across universities and in the w... |
66496654 | On Earth, and in Heaven | On Earth, and in Heaven is the eighth studio album by American singer Robin Thicke. The album was released on February 12, 2021, on Lucky Music and Empire.
Background.
The single "That's What Love Can Do" reached number 1 on the "Billboard" Adult R&B Songs chart in 2019. On January 4, 2021, Thicke announced the upc... |
64715501 | Charles Kruger (politician) | Charles Kruger (born July 2, 1950) is an American politician, businessman, and former musician who served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives for the 48th district from 2008 to 2016.
Early life and education.
Kruger was born in Morristown, New Jersey. He attended boarding school in New Hope, Pennsylvania,... |
11661976 | Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study | The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) is a long-term oceanographic study by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). Based on regular (monthly or better) research cruises, it samples an area of the western Atlantic Ocean nominally at the coordinates . The cruise programme routinely samples physical prope... |
31509995 | Marcel Colomb First Nation | Marcel Colomb First Nation (MCFN) (), Band #328, is a First Nations Band of approximately 449 Registered Swampy Cree (Maškēkowak / nēhinawak) and Rocky Cree (Asinīskāwiyiniwak) located in the area of Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Canada. Marcel Colomb First Nation is affiliated with the Swampy Cree Tribal Council.
The reserve o... |
149930 | George Linnaeus Banks | George Linnaeus Banks (2 March 1821 – 3 May 1881) was a British journalist, editor, poet, playwright, amateur actor, orator, and Methodist. His wife was the author Isabella Banks.
George was born in Birmingham, the son of a seedsman familiar with the plant nomenclature of Linnaeus.
Career.
After a brief experience in a... |
11881672 | Cold Cold Heart (band) | Cold Cold Heart is the name of an alternative country band from Massachusetts. Their first CD, "Prides Crossing", was released in 1997 with a follow-up, "Blue Collar Attitude", released in 2007. They are named in tribute to the Hank Williams song "Cold, Cold Heart".
History.
Cold Cold Heart was formed in 1996 by Joe Ha... |
30624064 | Perizoma affinitata | Perizoma affinitata, the rivulet, is a species of moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by James Francis Stephens in 1831 and it is found in most of Europe.
Its wingspan is 24–30 mm and is characterized by the narrow white postmedian band of the forewing and especially by the dark hindwing, with only a... |
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