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70693925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%20Aerts | Stein Aerts | Stein Aerts is a Belgian bio-engineer and computational biologist. He leads the Laboratory of Computational Biology at VIB and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), and has received several accolades for his research into the workings of the genomic regulatory code.
Early life and education
Aerts was born and raised in H... |
73923023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Warrandyte%20state%20by-election | 2023 Warrandyte state by-election | The 2023 Warrandyte state by-election was held on 26 August 2023 to elect the next member for Warrandyte in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, following the resignation of Liberal MP Ryan Smith.
Background
The electoral district of Warrandyte was established in 1976 and has consistently been a safe seat for the Liber... |
25776534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Weaver | Christopher Weaver | Christopher S. Weaver is an American entrepreneur, software developer, scientist, author, and educator. He is known for founding Bethesda Softworks, where he was one of the creators of The Elder Scrolls role-playing series.
Weaver and Bethesda are credited with developing the first real-time physics engine for sports ... |
12826951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Caballero%20%28company%29 | Miguel Caballero (company) | Miguel Caballero S.A.S. is an international protective clothing company based in Bogotá, Colombia, operating branches in Mexico and Guatemala. The company specialises in fashionable armored clothing. Notable clients include King Felipe VI of Spain, Michael Bloomberg, former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, former Vene... |
68824673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp%20Lake%2C%20Ontario | Harp Lake, Ontario | Harp Lake is an oligotrophic, single basin lake in Ontario, Canada (45º23'N; 79º08'W). The lake covers over 710,000 m2 and has a depth of 37.5 m. Harp Lake does have dimitic stratification and is a temperate lake. Additionally, Harp Lake does not have anaerobic conditions in the water column because it is a relatively ... |
13294956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20de%20Banjul%20FC | Real de Banjul FC | Real de Banjul Football Club is a Gambian professional association football club based in Banjul. The team compete in the GFA League First Division, the top flight of Gambian football league system. Real de Banjul is the most successful club in Gambian football history, having won a record 12 national titles
History
R... |
22787484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th%20Kentucky%20Infantry%20Regiment | 26th Kentucky Infantry Regiment | The 26th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 26th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Owensboro, Kentucky July - November 1861 and mustered in at Nashville, Tennessee, for a three-year enlistment on March 5, 1862.
The reg... |
2586868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Quartz | City of Quartz | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history. The book opens with Davis visiting the ruins of the socialist community of Llano, organized in 1914 in what is now the Antelope Valley nor... |
1360221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloor%20GO%20Station | Bloor GO Station | Bloor GO Station is a railway station on GO Transit's Kitchener line and Union Pearson Express rail services, located in Toronto, Ontario, on Bloor Street east of Dundas Street West. It is near Dundas West station on the TTC's Line 2 Bloor–Danforth, but is not directly connected to it.
Overview
The station is located ... |
35047120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akil%20DeFreitas | Akil DeFreitas | Akil Rondel Dexter DeFreitas (born 7 November 1986) is a Trinidadian footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Iceland third division club KF.
Club career
Early career
DeFreitas graduated from St. Anthony's College in 2006. He then went to the University of North Florida, scoring 7 goals and 3 assists in 17 gam... |
63271905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Standing%20on%20a%20Million%20Lives | I'm Standing on a Million Lives | is a Japanese manga series written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by Akinari Nao. It has been serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine since June 2016. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation produced by Maho Film aired from October... |
69951304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20%C5%BBarnowska | Anna Żarnowska | Anna Maria Żarnowska (née Rozwadowska; 28 June 1931 – 9 June 2007, in Warsaw) was a Polish historian and researcher of the Polish labour movement and women's history at the University of Warsaw. She was invested with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polish Revival in 2003.
Life and work
She obtained her master's ... |
54905567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uroczysko%20Baran%20killing%20fields | Uroczysko Baran killing fields | The Uroczysko Baran killing fields (), often referred to in Poland as the "Little Katyn" or the "Second Katyn", was the location for secret executions of soldiers and officers of the Polish Underground State, Home Army, and Second Army of Ludowe Wojsko Polskie carried out by Communist forces on behalf of the NKVD, SME... |
15990877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20issues%20in%20Florida | Environmental issues in Florida | There are a number of environmental issues in Florida. A large portion of Florida is a biologically diverse ecosystem, with large wetlands in the Everglades. Management of environmental issues related to the everglades and the larger coastal waters and wetlands have been important to the history of Florida and the deve... |
24972132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll%20W.%20McColpin | Carroll W. McColpin | Major General Carroll W. McColpin (November 15, 1914 – November 28, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer who served during World War II and the Cold War. Prior to the United States entry into World War II, in November 1940, he volunteered for duty with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in November 1940 and was commissio... |
3408335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Hunterdon-Voorhees%20Regional%20High%20School%20District | North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District | The North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District is a regional, four-year public high school district, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from twelve municipalities in northern Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. Students in the district are from Bethlehem Township, Califon Borough,... |
65936179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Tsagrinou | Elena Tsagrinou | Elena Tsagrinou (; born November 16, 1994) is a Greek singer. Tsagrinou began her career as the lead singer of the Greek band OtherView, until beginning a solo career in 2018. She represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "El Diablo", finishing in 16th place.
Life and career
Tsagrinou was ... |
8257266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20Streets%20%28video%20game%29 | Mean Streets (video game) | Mean Streets is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Access Software for MS-DOS in 1989 exclusively in North America. It was ported to the Commodore 64, Atari ST, and Amiga in 1989 and 1990 by The Code Monkeys. Atari ST and Amiga ports were only released in Europe. The game, set in a dystopian cyberpunk ... |
60743783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20J.%20Snell | Roy J. Snell | Roy Judson Snell (November 20, 1878 – September 21, 1959) was an American writer of fiction mainly for young readers.
Biography
Snell was born in Laddonia, Missouri on November 12, 1878 to James and Sarah Knight-Snell.
Snell wrote several juvenile fiction books. While he mostly concentrated on stories for boys there ... |
1256309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vals%C3%B6rarna | Valsörarna | Valsörarna (in Swedish) or Valassaaret (in Finnish) is a small archipelago in Korsholm, Finland, located in the Kvarken region of the Gulf of Bothnia. The islands are the last you see when going by boat or ferry from Vaasa, Finland to Umeå, Sweden. The archipelago is detached from Korsholm's main Replot-Björkö archipe... |
1325738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20School%20of%20Music | Manhattan School of Music | The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in musical theatre.
Founded in 1917, the school is located on Claremont Avenue in th... |
13843782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Markin | Rod Markin | Rodney Smith Markin (born 1956), is an American pathologist and authority in the field of laboratory automation. In 1993, he designed and created one of the world's first automated clinical laboratory specimen, device and analyzer management systems. In the mid-1990s, he chaired a standards group called the Clinical ... |
65427994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20Hammond | Madison Hammond | Madison Guadalupe Hammond (born November 15, 1997), named Shrewaka in the Keres language, is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
Early life
Hammond was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but raised in the San Felipe Pueblo north of Albuq... |
1105762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feargal%20Sharkey | Feargal Sharkey | Seán Feargal Sharkey (born 13 August 1958) is a singer from Northern Ireland most widely known as the lead vocalist of punk band The Undertones in the 1970s and 1980s, and for solo works in the 1980s and 1990s. His 1985 solo single "A Good Heart" was an international success. After becoming less musically active in th... |
284283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think%20aloud%20protocol | Think aloud protocol | A think-aloud (or thinking aloud) protocol is a method used to gather data in usability testing in product design and development, in psychology and a range of social sciences (e.g., reading, writing, translation research, decision making, and process tracing).
Description
Think-aloud protocols involve participants t... |
56615165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Herre | Franz Herre | Franz Herre (born 11 April 1926) is a German biographer, historian and journalist.
Life
Herre grew up in Augsburg and studied history at the University of Munich, receiving his doctorate in 1949, supervised by Franz Schnabel and with a dissertation on the Augsburg middle-classes during the Age of Enlightenment. He the... |
44943817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pombo%20Musical | Pombo Musical | Pombo Musical is a children's album produced by Colombian recording artist Carlos Vives, as a musical tribute to the Colombian writer and poet Rafael Pombo. It was released on August 13, 2008, under Vives' label Gaira Música Local. The album came into fruition when Rafael Pombo Foundation president Juanita Santos asked... |
1558891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido%20Castelnuovo | Guido Castelnuovo | Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 – 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.
Life
Early life
Castelnuovo was born in Venice. His father, Enr... |
250734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Range | Alaska Range | The Alaska Range is a relatively narrow, 600-mile-long (950 km) mountain range in the southcentral region of the U.S. state of Alaska, from Lake Clark at its southwest end to the White River in Canada's Yukon Territory in the southeast. Denali, the highest mountain in North America, is in the Alaska Range. The range is... |
29296535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers%20of%20Fortune%20%282012%20film%29 | Soldiers of Fortune (2012 film) | Soldiers of Fortune is a 2012 American action film directed by Maksim Korostyshevsky and starring Christian Slater, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Bean, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames. It was shot in Ukraine.
Plot
As the film opens, Captains Craig McCenzie (Christian Slater) and Mike Reed (Freddy Rodriguez) are United States ... |
12014468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caoimh%C3%ADn%20%C3%93%20Raghallaigh | Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh | (born 28 August 1979) is a fiddler, born in Dublin, Ireland, who attended Trinity College Dublin, becoming a scholar in Theoretical Physics (1999) and earning a first-class BA degree (as the top student of his class) in 2001. He is known for developing a drone-based fiddle style heavily influenced by the uilleann pipe... |
8223619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Turner%2C%20Hollywood%20Detective | Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective | Dan Turner, also known as the Hollywood Detective, was a fictional private detective created by Robert Leslie Bellem. His first appearance was in the second issue of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective, dated June 1934, and he continued to appear regularly in that magazine (which was retitled Speed Detective in 1943) unt... |
10730237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Smurfs%20Go%20Pop%21 | The Smurfs Go Pop! | The Smurfs Go Pop! is an album of songs by The Smurfs, released in 1996. Most of the songs are cover versions of existing songs with altered lyrics.
Some of the songs function as simple Smurf sing-a-longs ("Smurfs are Back") while others have more of an apparent satirical intent ("The Noisy Smurf").
"I've Got a Littl... |
73473307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20A.R.%20Webb | Alex A.R. Webb | Professor Alex A.R. Webb is a plant biologist whose computational, genetic, and physiological studies center around plant chronobiology. He currently serves as the head of the Circadian Signal Transduction Group in the University of Cambridge's Department of Plant Sciences researching circadian pathways and what regula... |
2043629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolacion | Consolacion | Consolacion, officially the Municipality of Consolacion (; ), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 148,012 people.
Consolacion is bordered on the north by the town of Liloan, to the west by Cebu City, on the east by the Camotes Sea, and... |
5496982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20board%20school | Birmingham board school |
The Birmingham board schools were set up very rapidly after the Forster Elementary Education Act 1870 was enacted, covering England and Wales. Over forty were created in Birmingham.
Elementary Education Act 1870
George Dixon, Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham, and Joseph Chamberlain, mayor of Birmingham, both... |
4492409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Carapetis | Elena Carapetis | Elena Carapetis is an Australian actress and writer, best known for her role as Jackie Kassis in Heartbreak High, as well as numerous other television series and theatre roles.
Early life
Elena Carapatis graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Performing Arts (Acting) in 1... |
12474583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted%20barbtail | Spotted barbtail | The spotted barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens) is a species of bird in the family Furnariidae. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Taxonomy
The spotted barbtail was described in 1856 from a type specimen collected in Bogota, Colombia. It was previously considered to be the same species ... |
34226241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20de%20J%C3%A9rica | Pablo de Jérica | Pablo de Jérica (1781–1841) was a Spanish writer and journalist.
Biography
The oldest child in a merchant family, Jérica studied philosophy in the Dominican convent of his native city. While preparing to study law at the University of Oñate, he completed a translation of Ovid's Heroides. In 1804 he printed his Humoro... |
38412834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah%20%28name%29 | Farah (name) | Farah or Farrah is a feminine and occasionally masculine given name in Arabic, Persian or Urdu.
Arabic
Farah (Arabic: فَرَح , faraḥ) is an Arabic female given name and sometimes male given name meaning "happiness, joy, gladness, gleefulness, joyful, joyfulness, merriment, rejoice"
The name is based on the Arabic roo... |
6530654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Caution | La Caution | La Caution is a French hip hop duo consisting of Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie, both of Moroccan descent. They are notable for creating the song "Thé à la Menthe" which is known for appearing (in instrumental form) in the 2004 American film Ocean's Twelve. The phrase "thé à la menthe" is French for "mint tea".
History
La Caut... |
5163405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Gaines%20Goode | Patrick Gaines Goode | Patrick Gaines Goode (May 10, 1798 – October 17, 1862) was a lawyer, legislator, jurist, clergyman, educator and civic leader.
Goode was born in Cornwall parish, Charlotte County, Virginia (several sources give it as adjacent Prince Edward County). He was a descendant of John Goode of Cornwall England who had settled... |
2922221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV21 | KV21 | Tomb KV21 is an ancient Egyptian tomb located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered in 1817 by Giovanni Belzoni and later re-excavated by Donald P. Ryan in 1989. It contains the mummies of two women, thought to be Eighteenth Dynasty queens. In 2010, a team headed by Zahi Hawass used DNA evidence to ten... |
4655521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antara%20Mitra | Antara Mitra | Antara Mitra (born 10 July 1987) is an Indian playback singer. Mitra came to limelight when she became a contestant in the popular singing reality show Indian Idol 2 in 2006. Mitra become more well-known and got recognition after the release of her duets Gerua and Janam Janam with Arijit Singh. She also received signi... |
397016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Walter | Tommy Walter | Thomas Edward Walter (born October 30, 1970) is an American musician, best known for his alternative rock band Abandoned Pools and as the former bassist and one of the founding members of Eels.
Early years and Eels
Tommy Walter was raised in Westlake Village. His father was an airplane pilot; his mother a stewardess.... |
42021666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager%20Estate | Voyager Estate | Voyager Estate is an Australian winery located in the Margaret River wine region of Western Australia. James Halliday gives the winery his highest ranking, five red stars, in his "Halliday Australian Wine Companion". According to Ray Jordan, wine writer for The West Australian, the winery produces excellent wines.
Loc... |
63502994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex%20Market | Essex Market | Essex Market (formerly known as Essex Street Market) is a food market with independent vendors at the intersection of Essex Street and Delancey Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The market is known for its many local shops, including grocery stores, bakeries, butchers, seafood shops, coffee ven... |
1139600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20Robertson | Julian Robertson | Julian Hart Robertson Jr. (June 25, 1932 – August 23, 2022) was an American billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.
Robertson founded Tiger Management, one of the first hedge funds, in 1980. From its inception in 1980 to its 1998 asset peak, his fund returned 31.7% per year after fees, compared to a 12.7%... |
8419649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITF%20World%20Champions | ITF World Champions | The International Tennis Federation (ITF) designates a World Champion each year based on performances throughout the year, emphasising the Grand Slam tournaments, and also considering team events such as the Davis Cup and Fed Cup. Men's and women's singles champions were first named in 1978; the title is now also award... |
44540812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315%20Syracuse%20Silver%20Knights%20season | 2014–15 Syracuse Silver Knights season | The 2014–15 Syracuse Silver Knights season was the fourth season of the Syracuse Silver Knights professional indoor soccer club. The Silver Knights, an Eastern Division team in the Major Arena Soccer League, played their home games at the Oncenter War Memorial Arena in downtown Syracuse, New York.
The team was led by ... |
33136263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkCentre%20A%20series | ThinkCentre A series | The A Series desktops are part of Lenovo’s ThinkCentre product line. Formerly an IBM brand, Lenovo acquired the ThinkCentre desktop brand following its purchase of IBM’s Personal Computing Division (PCD) in 2005. The first desktop in the A Series was the ThinkCentre A50p. Lenovo has released A Series desktops in multip... |
31102038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20the%20Philippines%20Baguio | University of the Philippines Baguio | The University of the Philippines Baguio (UPB; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Baguio), also referred to as UP in the North or UP Baguio, is a public research university located in Baguio, Philippines. It was established in 1921 through the initiative of UP alumni in Baguio and Benguet and was inaugurated as the UP ... |
23601497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%20national%20under-17%20football%20team | Brazil national under-17 football team | The Brazil national under-17 football team, also known as Brazil Under-17s or Seleção Sub-17, represents Brazil in association football, at an under-17 age level and is controlled by the Brazilian Football Confederation, the governing body for football in Brazil. Their head coach is Phelipe Leal.
Brazil hosted the 201... |
32393801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araujo%20Estate%20Wines | Araujo Estate Wines | Araujo Estate Wines (renamed Eisele Vineyard Estate in 2016) is a California winegrowing estate founded by Bart and Daphne Araujo. Located in Calistoga, California within both the Calistoga and Napa Valley AVAs, the estate produces a small portfolio of limited-production wines from the organically and Biodynamically fa... |
12846262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Gonzaga%20Mendez%20Jr. | Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. | Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez Jr. (July 14, 1915 – September 19, 2001) was a highly decorated United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division who in June 1944, as commander of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, parachuted behind enemy lines into Normandy and was awarded a ... |
39280221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal%20Akg%C3%BCl | Bilal Akgül | Bilal Akgül (born 13 October 1982 in Adana) is a Turkish professional road cyclist and mountain biker riding for team Brisaspor. He is the first ever Turkish Olympian cyclist participating at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
He became 2005 Turkish mountain biking champion in cross-country at Ankara. The next year, he won the... |
9803805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Joseph%20Township%2C%20Champaign%20County%2C%20Illinois | St. Joseph Township, Champaign County, Illinois | Saint Joseph Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,597 and it contained 2,244 housing units.
Geography
St. Joseph is Township 19 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal Meridian.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of w... |
43730717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown%20Athletics | Youngstown Athletics | The Youngstown Athletics, or Youngstown A's, was the final name of a baseball team in the Mid-Atlantic League that was based in Youngstown, Ohio, between 1939 and 1941 and 1946 and 1951.
Youngstown Browns: 1939–1941
The team was first established as the Youngstown Browns, an affiliate of the St. Louis Browns, in 1939... |
152352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woluwe-Saint-Pierre | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre () or Sint-Pieters-Woluwe () is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the eastern part of the region, it is bordered by Etterbeek, Auderghem and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, as well as the Flemish municipalities of Kraainem and Tervuren. In common with all of Brus... |
16513635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argippo | Argippo | Argippo is an opera libretto by Domenico Lalli, which in Giovanni Porta's setting premiered in Venice in 1717. Claudio Nicola Stampa's reworked version of the libretto was set as L'Argippo by . This opera was performed in Milan in 1722.
Antonio Vivaldi's Argippo, RV 697, based on Stampa's version of the libretto, was ... |
14519754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Civil%20Aviation%20Agency%20of%20Brazil | National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil | The National Civil Aviation Agency (, ANAC), is the Brazilian civil aviation authority, created in 2005. It is headquartered in the Edifício Parque Cidade Corporate in Brasília. A part of the Brazilian Secretariat of Civil Aviation, the agency raised from the former Department of Civil Aviation (DAC) and the Civil Avia... |
51386536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV%20A%20Regina | MV A Regina | MV A. Regina was a Panamanian flagged 330 foot long passenger Ro-Ro car ferry operated by Dominican Ferries, IMO:6702155. The ship, originally named Stena Germanica, was built in 1967 by in Langesund, Norway. The vessel was delivered on April 15, 1967 to Stena AB, and was officially named Stena Germanica on April 21, ... |
62103071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Mielitz | Christine Mielitz | Christine Mielitz (born 23 November 1949) is a German theatre and opera director.
Life
Born in Chemnitz, Mielitz was the daughter of a Chemnitz concert master and therefore came into contact with music theatre at an early age. After finishing school, she studied opera directing with Götz Friedrich and Hans-Jochen Irm... |
12381053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Alfred%20Weiss | Paul Alfred Weiss | Paul Alfred Weiss (March 21, 1898 – September 8, 1989) was an Austrian biologist who specialised in morphogenesis, development, differentiation and neurobiology. A teacher, experimenter and theorist, he made a lasting contribution to science in his lengthy career, throughout which he sought to encourage specialists in... |
3946541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20R.%20Ayrton | Edward R. Ayrton | Edward Russell Ayrton (17 December 1882 – 18 May 1914) was an English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
Early life
Ayrton was the son of William Scrope Ayrton (1849-1904), a British consular official in China, and his wife Ellen Louisa McClatchie, and was born in Wuhu, China, on 17 December 1882 (coincidentally, the sam... |
19408960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20trevally | Shadow trevally | The shadow trevally (Carangoides dinema), also known as the shadow kingfish, twothread trevally or Aldabra trevally, is a species of inshore marine fish in the jack family Carangidae. The species is patchily distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and west Pacific Oceans, from South Afr... |
71488428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bitton%20Jermyn | George Bitton Jermyn | George Bitton Jermyn (1789–1857) was an English cleric and antiquarian, known for his topographical and genealogical studies of Suffolk.
Early life
He was born on 2 November 1789, the eldest son of Peter Jermyn the younger (1767–1797), a solicitor, of Halesworth, Suffolk, and his wife Sarah, daughter of George Bitton ... |
248548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi%20Hayashibara | Megumi Hayashibara | {{Infobox person
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10011599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranav%20Mohanlal | Pranav Mohanlal | Pranav Mohanlal (born 13 July 1990) is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam films.
The son of actor Mohanlal, began his acting career as a child artist in Onnaman (2002) with his father in the lead role, and won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist for Punarjani (2003). He later assisted Jeethu Joseph on... |
609371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20muffin | English muffin | An English muffin is a small, round and flat yeast-leavened (sometimes sourdough) bread which is commonly round and tall. It is generally sliced horizontally and served toasted. In North America, Australia and New Zealand, it is frequently eaten with sweet or savoury toppings such as butter, fruit jam, honey, eggs, s... |
51812248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness%20in%20Spain | Homelessness in Spain | The number of people living in dangerous and subpar housing has significantly expanded as a result of the economic and financial crisis. The issue at hand no longer solely affects one nation in the world. The majority of nations are attempting to solve this issue in some form. Because of increased unemployment and decl... |
52252494 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco%20Dipolog | Banco Dipolog | PBCom Rural Bank, formerly Banco Dipolog, Inc., was the 54th rural bank opened in the Philippines after the enactment of the Rural Banking Act of 1952. The late Justice Florentino Saguin, with the strong support of his son, Atty. Augusto “Tuting” Saguin, originally established it as the Rural Bank of Dipolog, Inc. (RBD... |
5283931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauakademie | Bauakademie | The Bauakademie (Building Academy, also known was the Schinkelsche Bauakademie) in Berlin, Germany, was a higher education institution for the art of building to train master builders. Founded on 18 March 1799 by King Frederick William III, the institution originated from the construction department of the Academy of ... |
73769888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Taichung%20crane%20collapse | 2023 Taichung crane collapse | On 10 May 2023, a construction crane fell 30 floors from a construction site of Highwealth Construction Corp onto a moving Taichung Metro Green Line train south of Feng-le Park metro station, Taichung, Taiwan, killing 1 and injuring 10 passengers onboard.
The deceased passenger, legal scholar , 52, was ejected out of ... |
1719011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20IV%20of%20Morocco | Muhammad IV of Morocco | Mawlay Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman (), known as Muhammad IV (), born in Fes in 1803 and died in Marrakesh in 1873, was the Sultan of Morocco from 28 August 1859 to 16 September 1873 as a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty. He was proclaimed sultan after the death of his father, Abd al-Rahman. His reign marked a series of refor... |
57069378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318%20BC%20Prienai%20season | 2017–18 BC Prienai season | The 2017–18 BC Prienai season is the 23rd season in the existence of the club, which was known as Vytautas Prienai–Birštonas for sponsorship reasons (which was their last year under that name). The team played in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) but also briefly participated in the Baltic Basketball League (BBL) ... |
9960872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attilio%20Ariosti | Attilio Ariosti | Attilio Malachia Ariosti (or Frate Ottavio) (5 November 1666 – 1729) was a Servite Friar and Italian composer in the Baroque style, born in Bologna. He produced more than 30 operas and oratorios, numerous cantatas and instrumental works.
Life
Ariosti was born into the middle class. He became a monk in 1688 at age 22, ... |
10544273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Guterres | Francisco Guterres | Francisco Guterres, popularly known as Lú-Olo (born 7 September 1954), is an East Timorese politician who served as 6th president of East Timor from 2017 to 2022. He is also the president of the political party Fretilin, and he was the first president of the National Parliament of East Timor from 2002 to 2007.
As the ... |
1633425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20O.%20C.%20Darley | F. O. C. Darley | Felix Octavius Carr Darley (June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888), often credited as F. O. C. Darley, was an American illustrator, known for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th-century authors, including James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, George Lippard... |
2104218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Kansas%20City%2C%20Missouri | Media in Kansas City, Missouri | The following media outlets serve Kansas City, Missouri and the surrounding Kansas City metropolitan area.
Print
Magazines
Camp Magazine, local LGBT news, monthly
The Independent (1899—present), Kansas City, Kansas magazine
Ingram's Magazine, local business news, monthly
Our Health Matters, health and wellness, bi-mo... |
11368683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn | Reid Turner Blackburn (August 11, 1952 – May 18, 1980) was an American photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. A photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington Columbian—as well as National Geographic magazine and the United States Geological Survey,... |
5958282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20of%20Pomerania | Elizabeth of Pomerania | Elizabeth of Pomerania (, ; – 15 April 1393) was the fourth and last wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia.
Life
Elizabeth was the daughter of Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania and Elisabeth of Poland. Her maternal grandparents were Casimir III, King of Poland, and Aldona of Lithuania. Elizabeth marr... |
32131823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrera%20%28surname%29 | Cabrera (surname) |
Cabrera is a Spanish surname. It is the feminine form of "cabrero", meaning goatherd. Notable people with the surname include:
A
Al Cabrera (1881–1964), Spanish baseball player
Alex Cabrera (born 1971), Venezuelan baseball player
Ana Cabrera (born 1982), American journalist and television news anchor
Analí Cabr... |
1533128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2%20%28storage%20media%29 | P2 (storage media) | P2 (P2 is a short form for "Professional Plug-In") is a professional digital recording solid-state memory storage media format introduced by Panasonic in 2004. The P2 card is essentially a RAID of Secure Digital (SD) memory cards with an LSI controller tightly packaged in a die-cast PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) enclosure... |
15861814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel%20Stebbins | Nathaniel Stebbins | Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins (January 9, 1847 - July 10, 1922) was a noted American marine photographer, whose surviving photographs document an important era in the development of American maritime activities, as sweeping technological and social changed revolutionized activity on the water, in military, commercial an... |
29571116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salom%C3%B3n%20Hakim | Salomón Hakim | Salomón Hakim Dow (4 June 1922 – 5 May 2011) was a Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher, and inventor. A descendant of Lebanese immigrants, he is known for his work on neurosurgery and for the precursor of the modern valve treatment for hydrocephalus.
Early life
Although his parents wanted him to learn how to play any ... |
49895664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Theodore | Jordan Theodore | Jordan Theodore (born December 11, 1989) is an American-born naturalized Macedonian professional basketball player for Metropolitans 92 of the French LNB Pro A. He also represents the senior North Macedonia national team. He played college basketball at Seton Hall.
High school career
Theodore grew up in Englewood, New... |
2960622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming%20Prize | Deming Prize | The Deming Prize is the longest-running and one of the highest awards in the world. It recognizes both individuals for their contributions to the field of quality and businesses that have successfully implemented exemplary systems that promote quality of goods and services. It was established in 1951 to honor W. Edward... |
1915374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland%20Fling | Highland Fling | The Highland Fling is a solo Highland dance that gained popularity in the early 19th century. The word 'Fling' means literally a movement in dancing. In John Jamieson's 1808 Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, the Highland Fling was defined as 'one species of movement' in dancing, not as one particular mo... |
30587637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20J.%20Strikwerda | Carl J. Strikwerda | Carl J. Strikwerda (born 1952) is an American historian. He was the president of Elizabethtown College until 2019. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Biography
Strikwerda is the former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has also previously worked... |
5711601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakdaha | Chakdaha | Chakdaha is a town and a municipality in the Kalyani subdivision of the Nadia district, located in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Chakdaha is a prominent urban local body in the district of Nadia, one of the southern districts of West Bengal. Chakdaha's location is . It has an average elevation o... |
1578779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreontic%20Society | Anacreontic Society | The Anacreontic Society was a popular gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London founded in the mid-18th century. These barristers, doctors, and other professional men named their club after the Greek court poet Anacreon, who lived in the 6th century B.C. and whose poems, "anacreontics", were used to entertain pat... |
28312270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Norwegian%20Third%20Division | 1998 Norwegian Third Division | The 1998 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.
Between 20 and 22 games (depending on group size) were played in 19 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. All group winners were promoted to the 2. divisjon, as well as some of the best runners-up.
Ta... |
65528475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Abella | Benjamin Abella | Benjamin S. Abella is an American physician, emergency medicine practitioner, internist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor and Vice Chair of Research at University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He directs the Center for Resuscitation Science and the Penn Acute Research Collaboration at th... |
67768739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20B%C3%B6siger | André Bösiger | André Bösiger (born July 22, 1913 in Perrefitte; died in Geneva on April 13, 2005) was a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist. An activist of the Building Action League in Geneva, he collaborated with the Réveil anarchiste and the International Center for Research on Anarchism (Lausanne).
Biography
A construction worker, he join... |
3574815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick%20Cornelisz%20Vroom | Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom | Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (c.1562 – February 4, 1640 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter credited with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting. Beginning with the "birds-eye" viewpoint of earlier Netherlandish marine art, his later works show a view from lower down, and more realistic depiction ... |
27369915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-As-School%20High%20School | City-As-School High School | City-As-School (CAS) is a public high school located at 16 Clarkson Street between Hudson Street and Seventh Avenue South in the West Village of Manhattan, New York City which was established in 1972. It is one of the oldest alternative public high schools in the United States.
History
CAS was founded by Frederick J. ... |
63303645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321%20Premiership%20Rugby | 2020–21 Premiership Rugby | | tries = {{#expr:
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51418968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIVB%20Volleyball%20Men%27s%20World%20Cup | FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup | The FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. Initially the tournament was played in the year following the Olympic Games, except for 1973 when no tournament was held, but since 19... |
14328952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohod%20Club | Ohod Club | Ohod Club () is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Medina, which competes in the First Division League, the second tier of Saudi football.
Ohod was named after Mount Uhud, hence the nickname "Al-Jabal". Ohod have won the Saudi First Division three times and have finished runners-up five times. They p... |
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